skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many people 16GB of ram is just to low to be useful. Forcing them to buy a different machine. 5hour battery life is quite a bit for someone that mostly leaves it plugged in. Worst case just use an external battery if you really cant't find an outlet.

Really, it feels like a MacBook not a MacBook Pro. Non power users are going to be happy with 16GB of RAM and get a lot more from extra battery life.

PS: And yea, I was one of those people ready to upgrade who kind of scratched their head and decided to skip this release. I was thinking of getting a new Mac Pro, but they did not upgrade that at all even though the current model is over 2 and a half years old.
I assume they meant to say virtue signaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

In short, it implies that we're not sincere when we make fun of far-out conspiracy theories, but rather that we're only doing it to enhance our social standing.
Some things make us feel much safer, but don't actually increase safety much (wide streets).

Some things make us much more safe, but don't actually increase safety much (seatbelts).

The latter increase safety (for drivers, at least--they could conceivably decrease safety for pedestrians). The former do not.
> Momentum is mass x velocity.

Only for objects with nonzero rest mass traveling at speeds much slower than the speed of light. Which obviously doesn't apply to light itself. When you are talking about light (or about massive particles like electrons traveling at speeds close to the speed of light), you have to use the correct relativistic equations. When you do that, you find that energy and momentum are conserved for light just like anything else.

> Maybe with light, only energy conservation matters and momentum can be changed via redshift/blueshift relative to the container.

Not according to our best current theories, no. See above.
Funny because I worked at Inmos at the time and we like "ATW, WTF??"
I've never experienced cabal hell since stack came around.
I looked up that location based on the street signage there, some business that has apparently gone under, and got to see a street view of where they were. It looked like some interesting CGI but there it was, in the real world.

Life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Personally, I would've went for the model with 32 GB of RAM.

I've got a MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM sitting here on my desk right now, the same spot it's in 95% of the time. Sitting right next to it is a 3.5 year old ThinkPad with 32 GB of RAM.
T212s I seem to remember.
I don't understand the author's point about the two heaps. Clearly there are two separate propositions at play -- the "heapness" of either pile, and whether or not the two heap-like entities are identical. The first requires fuzzy logic because the definition of "heap" is vague. The second does not because the rules (take a grain off one for each grain removed from the other) are precisely defined. There is no inherent contradiction just because two different systems are in use at once.
AIUI Intel's non-Xeon chipsets won't go over 16GB for DDR3 in most cases.
> dehumanizing tech terms like “user.”

Wha...?
That is a "medium duty" ambulance, and those aren't especially common (some areas use them quite heavily, but most don't).

Ambulances are generally built on pickup truck or van chassis (the Ford F350/E350 lines are popular).

Here is the model lineup of a popular ambulance manufacturer:

http://www.braunambulances.com/models/
About your first question:hugely profitable
> Momentum and energy are two different things, even with mass-energy equivalence. In particular, momentum is a vector while energy is a scalar, and their mass-energy equivalent units (impulse vs energy) are also different.

None of this is correct when you take relativity into account. In relativity, momentum and energy are both parts of a 4-vector, and that 4-vector is conserved. And in natural units, in which c = 1, energy and momentum have the same units. Particle physicists use these units all the time.
Why not rent a supercomputer on the cloud just for the time of such an experiment?

I rent a 16 core/128GB machine at a cloud provider. I use it for heavy database treatments.
And my laptop merely became a tmux terminal ever since.
nginx is cool and all, but IMO the best way to host an HTTPS site (with Docker or otherwise) is to use Caddy (https://caddyserver.com)
I wish Apple would do a portable computer without a battery. I work on power 99% of the time, and would love e.g. A portable iMac.
The "10' wide" fire engine there supposedly conforms to the AASHTO BUS-14 standard... which means 2.6m wide. (This is the widest type of vehicle in the list.) 2.6m = 102"; 102" = 8.5'.

Go figure, as they say.

Please allow me, not that you have the option or anything, to link to a previous comment of mine, which is probably appropriate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12472990

(Maybe 10' includes the wing mirrors? 1.5' = 45cm. 22.5cm per side. Not unreasonable for lorry-size wing mirrors.)
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I think you meant "on-demand", not "spot". Spot is hands down cheaper. Reserved saves you 30-75% depending on instance type and duration. Spot instances save 85-90%.

As for on-demand, AFAIK the only time a discount came close to 30%/year was in 2014 when Google Cloud slashed their prices. So...yeah, it might be possible, but I doubt it.
A major point of containerization is more efficient resource utilization, memory in particular.

How has it come to this?
However, the robots were doomed by their limited intelligence and their fervor to produce additional robots. The robots eventually depleted all available resources, thus making the planet uninhabitable for themselves.
I don't know of a cloud provider that rents OS X machines do you? OS X is needed for Final Cut Pro, etc. If you're using Adobe Premier then you could use Microsoft Azure or another cloud provider that supports Windows.
You mean AppCache?
Please don't read 1984 to your children.

The message of that book is 'resistance is futile'. Nothing, not even love (per Mr. Blair) is strong enough to resist the power structure. It is propaganda designed to completely crush the spirit without offering even a single remedy.
How well does this[1] fit the bill (tearing down an iPhone)?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
> Autonomous irrigation drones will happen at one point.

Will that be cost effective? Water seems enormously heavy for what it is. Or will they be automated land irrigators?
That reminds me of the trend of switching from a laptop to a tablet.
cf:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/six-weeks-working-android/
http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...

I know some of these people switched back to a laptop. And I wonder why they did.
The first picture is exactly what it looks like.
Whoa whoa whoa. You are getting it wrong. The size reported by your Amherst document is the maximum width, not the body width.

I have an idea of the importance of this distinction, and I could go at great length explaining it. But the linked document reference the AASHTO's Green book as a reference. And if that manual says that 10-foot road are ok in one chapter, and acknowledge the vehicles dimension in another, chance are that is ok. Obviously, if you think it is not, you have to demonstrate they are wrong.

Full disclosure, I know nothing about traffic engineering and I'm an average driver. This is the reason why I check expert sources and not the first document found on the internet...
Yes exactly. The most expensive car is the one most likely to be self driven. I have no doubt people in my hometown will gladly cut them off at every opportunity. Lol.
In my observation, the thing that big idea decentralist utopias always forget around manufacturing is supply-chain. Who wants to buy this stuff? Mostly other factories. Where are they located? Mostly in China. Why? Because they're in the same position. The only exceptions seem to be highly skilled design-heavy work where secrecy and control may be priorities (ie. military/space) and very low skilled manual labor pools (ie. many clothing factories) which are now migrating elsewhere (especially Vietnam) due to mainland Chinese wage increases.

You can decentralize 'til the cows come home but if there's no local demand for your product, you're wasting your time.
Wikileaks is propaganda, NPR is not:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/08/19/490515026/i...

Edit. Another source (of many):

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/13/politics/russia-us-electio...
I once hit black ice at 10 MPH, just as an old man was crossing. Luckily for me, the black ice ended 12 feet before I'd have hit him.

At that speed, I'd rather have hit a tree.

Point is, when the roads are narrow, and you know that any mistake will cost you money at the body shop, you don't travel at dangerous speeds.
It is basically a big CO. It only has 29 floors, each 18 ft high for the equipment racks.
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If anything, it should increase your inertia, since you're not sacrificing mass for ∆v.
Isn't that the mac mini?
The Democrats and Obama had eight long years to do something so that we wouldn't be in a situation where a fanatic like Trump would have this at his disposal and ... nothing. That's what I'm really upset about.

Neither party is for us anymore.
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I doubt video editing would go very smoothly over an RDP connection to a Windows VM in the cloud ;)
Could have sworn that had already happens, via OCR and packets printed in hex.
Far from defunct, these flags (and some others) are the only way you will receive communication from officials during most sailboat races.

Some key ones are here: http://abyc.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ISAF_RRS_2013-2...

If you know these well you may pick up a win from time to time when your competitor fails to read the flags and does something wrong.

But do note the context dependence as mentioned in TFA. The "L" flag on a race course may mean "Follow this boat" or "There is a notice posted here," but on the open sea it means "Stop immediately," and in port it means "We are diseased."

Ain't nobody got time to spell things out.
I think if you'd asked me a few years ago I might have agreed. But the Python REPL is a terrible shell.

If you have a lot of experience with something like bash and you can run circles with it PowerShell probably doesn't add a lot of short term value.
Wish there was something like this around today.

Tape drives these days are not priced into consumer range.
2001 is a much better movie than book.

2010 is a much better book than movie.

The rest of the sequels are not great in any medium IMO.
On holidays and other special occasions, Navy ships will hoist a rainbow array of signal flags up and over the mast to look pretty. (Full dress ship, [0])

The flags for full dress ship are not chosen by the ship, however. They are mandated by an instruction and all ships have to use the same flags. ([1], paragraph 705)

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to discern why this is so.

[0]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NCQZv5iFk-4/maxresdefault.jpg

[1]http://www.ushistory.org/Betsy/images/ntp13b.pdf
I'd imagine the latency of running a video editor in the cloud would be a pain, also transferring hundreds of gigabytes of raw video information into the cloud isn't insignificant.
Are you talking about beg buttons?
> A major point of containerization is more efficient resource utilization

It's actually "more efficient resource utilization per instance". Perhaps, with increased capability comes increased utilization. While before one would run only one or two VMs and try to run all their apps within that, now one can run many containers.

----

That, and shareable memory across host and guests.

But I guess that works only if the host and guest run the same kernel. Docker and vagrant on OS X still have to dedicate some RAM to the Linux VM running as docker host, and I don't know how efficient other facets of docker on OS X are; but on Linux, I find containerization's memory usage almost at par with running the apps directly on the host.
Mining has always been hazardous, both in terms of the materials themselves and the industrial processes involved.

Likewise, most resource extraction creates significant waste problems, whether that is just mountains of tailings or giant pools of arsenic or whatever.

I don't really see any difference (modulo surprising technology of the future). For purposes of discussion, imagine that the waste processing plant is out in the desert, and the waste is run through multiple extraction passes, where it might get dug up and put back in the ground again several times.

Of course, a lot of ore just gets shipped offshore to where processing is cheaper so that could be an option too.
> when you're first getting started with AWS

Then I respectfully submit that you are not (yet) a serious user of AWS.

> It's impossible to predict the kind of usage you're going to need over the next 1-3 years

I call BS. Office 365, JIRA, Slack, Loggly...these all have monthly price plans, and discounted yearly plans. People managed to predict needs, despite a uncertain future of their needs. In the case they underestimate, they just purchase more at anytime. In case they overestimate...I don't know; I just know that a price comparison would very likely use JIRA's yearly prices, not its monthly ones.

Unlike those examples, reserved instances can be bought and sold on the AWS marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...).

I understand (and agree) if people criticize the complexity of AWS EC2 pricing. But if you're not going to use reserved instances for your non-trivial stuff...you're flushing money; go with another provider already.
> it wouldn't last on a flight from East/West coast flight or across the pond.

Anyone making that flight on a regular basis is going to have access to a power outlet.

Any run-of-the-mill consumer isn't going to be working and will be just fine with a tablet or a book.
> Most often encrypted archives contain more than one file

The whole cablegate archive was a single 7z file.
If you have really lost hope, you are worthless to America.

In this country we fight. Our rhetoric is one of hard-fought victory. Not capitulation.
Seems like having the preeminent researchers in a field be the ones to do the weirdest research while teaching students on the foundations and established research is a pretty solid decision.
Jar jar! I like the fan theory about jar jar being a Jedi. It's great
So the blame is on Intel, not Apple. What does it matter? Apple is a big enough customer of Intel's that their needs should have been accommodated in the chip requirements before they were designed. Either way it makes no difference to the pro customers who need >16GB.
Since when did they care about National Security Letters?
How much does the doubling the distance of shipping on massive container ships increase the price of a product?
The Emdrive takes energy, though, doesn't it? It's not like you can plug it in and have it run, unless I misunderstand a lot of claims.
Used it here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityIAPProcessingPurchases....
"The Expanse" gives what I consider a much more realistic view of the future.
Upon reading that again maybe I should have said it's weakness is that it's easy for everyone involved to create objects that use a lot of memory. I'm not sure it's fair to say PowerShell itself is bad at utilizing or managing memory. It's more of a possible negative side effect of one of its great strengths.
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I think he means one with a screen.
Fairly well, actually- thanks for pointing that out. I'd be curious to see if this actually gets rolled out in force!

I mentioned iPhones as a random example, of course, since while they probably represent a disproportionate amount of recycled-electronics' value they're still a small fraction of the whole. Ideally, a robot would be capable of figuring out how to break down an unfamiliar device autonomously, without the specialized movements and programming that seems to have gone into that particular example.
I hadn't seen that before either, and didn't see it in this image until I checked on my mobile where it loaded slower.

Nice observation.
Ok, this home remedy has worked for me and my family - Dip your hands in Hot water + Mustard oil + salt. A few times and the paid is gone for 1-3 months based on how frequently you keep up with bad posture (working with laptop in bed etc).
Good point. Any ideas come to mind how to solve this with technology or UX improvements?

This does relate to one of my points in the blog post. The current experience is not conversational, and instead ends up with the speaker "presenting" much more than just talking.
Mindset computer
Ah, that's what I was missing. That said, regardless of how often these events are occurring, we shouldn't be all that surprised by a 1/5 event.
Of course it's a .ca
geo-blocked for copyright because why?? Geez did we ever fail at this whole internet thing. Copyright is absolutely ridiculous.
You're right. That detail was left out of another article I read about the case, which must have been what I used as my source.
It seems strange that attorneys would waive fees in a suit against a billionaire that has dragged out for nearly 4 years now. That's a lot of goodwill.
"X argument is trash, and just in case you try Y, it's also trash" is not a trap, it's an attempt at efficiency.
Dem's Strategy After Loss Not Inclusive of Introspection
Right, most people think of mass energy equivalence which is E=mc^2 but this only describes energy for a mass at rest, with a momentum of zero. The full equation relating energy to intrinsic mass and momentum is E^2=(pc)^2+(mc^2)^2 which is why smashing particles in a collider works. The momentum of two particles colliding at relativistic speeds is "conserved" in the classical sense but it is really converted to photons and massive particles, among other things.

What I meant in my original post was that intuition regarding conservation of momentum in classical mechanics may not apply here because as long as the total energy of the system is conserved, the EM drive is free to convert energy to particles and motion because momentum will still be conserved between the drive and the new particles (which is how regular chemical propulsion works). The system experiences a net change in momentum of zero but what matters is that the total energy of the EM drive slowly falls as energy is converted to particles that provide propulsion.
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If you think of mass as the deformation of spacetime, mass reaction engines push off the wake from expelling mass rapidly in one direction to go in the other direction.

The EM Drive is an energy reaction engine, rather than a mass reaction engine (if it works as described), so instead of pushing off wake, it uses energy itself to "deepen the fold", as it were, and increase speed (and mass, since the two are exchanged).

That's interesting. I've never considered that the very act of increasing the velocity of the EM Drive would actually increase its mass. Hrm.
To run the whole system need multiple VMs. It's not enough to just run the app container anymore. There are a bunch of support containers and if you want to experiment with failure then there are even more VMs & containers to run. sure we could just dump $1,000 into a cloud provider for a couple months usage, for me I'd rather put that $1,000 into my laptop (i7 3.8GHz, 64GB RAM, 2x SSD, 1x2TB HDD) and be able to experiment at my leisure. Plus it's quicker to iterate if the experiment is running all the time, cloud is expensive to run stuff that doesn't generate income.
What if it's moving dark matter or some other kind of unknown substrate?
Servers used to be beautiful snowflakes. That's not so true anymore, especially at EC2 or GCE.
transfer hundreds of gigabytes of raw video, or mail the hard drive to the data center.

use proxy videos in your project, transfer the split instructions and composites, and let the server do the rendering

no latency at all
Until they learned to explore the cosmos and do this on planet after planet leading to the Grey Goo[1]. Or the flipside, in that they create a Big Bang to reverse it like the multivac did in Asimov's The Last Question when they finally have sufficient information to process it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
As a person who liked Homestuck and read it entirely on his own time and wasn't aware of any of the community stuff:

Saying things like this is narrow-minded as hell and i don't understand why you would even say something like that. All it seems to do is prop yourself up to be higher than someone who comes in later.

Will a person who didn't read it in realtime get a different experience? Sure. Does it mean it's pointless to do so? No. Why would it? In some aspects it may even be a better experience.

Trying to claim "you can't become a beatles fan anymore" is just nonsensical. It sounds like something an _ebooks twitter account would generate and less like a coherent human thought.

It feels like you wear the "be a fan" thing as a badge of honor, instead of just meaning "i like something".
I'm hoping I come across more real-world explorations of using the new MBP with multiple dockers/vms and showing exactly when/how it falls down.

I feel like I'm tired of being on a machine with a centralized system anyway. I want something basic with OSX images - an OS X just for work, and OS X just for finances, and OS X just for music work, etc. As it is I have multiple user accounts for different clients - I get some isolation that way but things still get in the way in a few ways. Strange IntelliJ bugs, occasional homebrew permission conflicts, etc. When I find myself considering buying multiple laptops to be free of all that, it's reached a ridiculous point.
Human drivers are bad for safety[1] and should be replaced. Good news is that we're already on track to solve the real problem.

[1] 1.25 million deaths per year: http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/
The article covers that in the final paragraph.

"For all the powerful machinery available to government surveillance programs, they are subject to some court jurisdiction. That is not the case for commercial surveillance: Every aspect of daily life is tracked by smartphone apps, social media and websites. Whatever spying may go on at 33 Thomas Street would at least still be subject to legal oversight. The building really may be a monument to quaint ideas about privacy."
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Sorry for my poor English. I meant it as implementing Scheme or some such interpreter with first-class continuation in FORTRAN77 by the method. One will be able to write mapcar in FORTRAN77, but in the same way as one write the IF special form of the interpreter.
Matlab has some optional distributed features. You can farm it out to an EC2 instance among other things.
Brand new workout app for 7 minute HIIT workout.
Great for busy ppl to have workout with greatest result with shortest time. (7 minute or 21 minute)