skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stoicism is fundamentally subversive to the Hobbesian leviathan that has been constructed from within the post-enlightenment university system. It is the foundation of western morality and ethics, (the Bible borrows heavily from it).

Stoicism is not taught in public schools because it would make citizens ungovernable. Most education today is about training dependents, where stoicism teaches a kind of spiritual freedom. No grand conspiracy or anything. When education was elite, students learned elite ideas. Now that it is common, for cohesion they must learn common ones instead. Universities wouldn't have survived centuries if they produced graduates who would overthrow their governments, or obviate them entirely.

To cosmopolitanism, great and principled men are dangerous and anathema. Irony is that its most prominent works were by the rulers and elites of city states. Some people on the alt-right spectrum have taken that strain and created a kind of genre-philosophy out of it, like what John Williams is to classical music, some alt right thinkers are to classical philosophy.
> What is a white nationalist?

Curious, isn't it?

I first saw this term in the establishment press -- White Nationalist -- last week. To me, it seems to be an attempt to conflate White Supremacists with Nationalists. It is possibly an amusing pastime to substitute various candidate Xs into "<X> Nationalist" and consider the possibilities.

As for Bannon, that guy looks like he walked out of CIA central casting, with patrons in Goldman Sachs. Such wonderful straw(wo)men to co-opt genuine grievances of people.
I had one of those too. I was telling my 13 year old and 9 year old son about it last week. They looked at me like I was insane, then went back to their tablets.
> New documents came out after the book was published... and for manner of death (natural causes, suicide, death by gas chamber).

Do you have a citation for that?
When someone takes an idea as a core part of their identity, it gains power over them. An attack upon that idea becomes an attack upon themselves personally. A validation of that idea becomes a validation of themselves personally. This creates a perverse incentive to validate the idea wherever possible, even when the explanation makes no sense. Your thought patterns short-circuit, and you become unable to see the incongruity in your own arguments. In fact, this human failing is exactly why we developed the Scientific Method in the first place.

What I'm saying is: This person isn't actually a troll. He's not doing it to mess with you. He really does believe what he's saying, and you cannot convince him otherwise until he relinquishes the core idea that led to it, which in this case is his religion.
DraftKings, FanDuel reach agreement to merge
How much does it cost you for a typical run?
>Person. Respectfully, I reject the question, which implies that anyone can or should be labeled by a single word.

Oh my god, you know what the question meant. Describe his views related to race.
You might be surprised. It wouldn't be ideal but you can do some amazing stuff these days with low enough latency to the data center.
Look up the Bayh-Dole act. The researcher who receives the NIH funding is free to patent it and sell that patent to a drug company.
> We agree on that, my point is that C++ does it via libraries, Rust does it by hiding unsafe blocks behind interfaces (aka libraries).

That's a false equivalency and completely ignores the fact that C++ is one giant `unsafe` block.

> but until the it isn't clear that the Rust approach is statistically better than the C++ approach

Could you please explain what kind of evidence would convince you?
Those down-voting may want to read Gibson's work for context.
Apple should actually make a mac mini (again)
Yes, on-site constructions seem to be among those I left out. The locomotion, weight-balancing, sensory, and reasoning skills required are close to or at AGI level as well. It could probably be grouped with category 4 above.
For those unwilling to google:

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> to say that all of life is proven to have undergone both biological and chemical evolution because some microbes were seen evolving in a lab is a bit optimistic in my view.

You're ignoring a huge body of evidence: the fact that all living organisms on Earth use the same genetic material and the same genetic code. This is strong evidence for common descent, and common descent is an obvious prediction of the theory of evolution and requires highly implausible ad hoc hypotheses on any other assumption.

> how do entirely new species form if embryonic development is basically impossible?

It isn't impossible; it's just unlikely, because beneficial mutations are rare. But this is part of evolutionary theory.

> Many people have computed the approximate probabilities required to get a functioning protein from random mutations

These computations ignore the fact that natural selection is not random. That means the sequence of events from one functioning protein to another is not a random walk through the space of all possible proteins, as the computations assume.

(Computations based on permutations and combinations of atoms also ignore the fact that chemical reactions are not random; only a vanishingly small fraction of all possible mathematical combinations of atoms actually occur, the rest are chemically impossible.)
I'm not saying you guys who would go for a 32 gb / 5 hrs battery life version aren't out there and there are probably comparatively quite many on hn. You are, as much as it sucks, probably just not worth the hassle. I just don't see a way to market / communicate it without all that hassle.

And something you should never forget. Those 5 hrs are 5 hrs when you buy the device. 1,5 - 2 years later you may end up with 3-3,5 hrs. If those 5 hrs were what you need, you'll already need your first battery replacement.

> Non power users are going to be happy with 16GB of RAM

That hurts btw. :( Let's agree on "non ram power users", because I would probably consider myself a power user but i'm quite fine with the 16 gb of my MBPr 13 from last year.
Hmm, relativistic velocity under constant acceleration is

v(t) = a t / sqrt(1 + a^2 t^2)

and relativistic kinetic energy is

Ek = m c^2 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) - m c^2

Leave out the constant -mc^ and for simplicity put m=1, v=1, c=1, and
we get

Ek = (1 - t^2/(1+t^2))^(-1/2)

which is linear in larger values of t, not square.

Proof:

d/dt Ek = t sqrt(1 / (1 + t^2))
= sqrt(t^2 / (1 + t^2))

which is always < 1.
Does Apple not have enough pull to get that already-existing feature on the chips they're buying?

My ivy bridge laptop supports 32GB of DDR3, for what it's worth.
Of course the computer can always be improved. But the point is Apple is improved it the best they can, and certainly better than any competing manufacturer.
I don't understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life.

I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I'm going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something better than the new MBP comes along.

I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.
Depends on how the workload is split and such. Using AWS for video encoding is actually quite viable as long as Amazon don't charge for incoming bandwidth and dirt cheap spot instances could be found at the right time of the day.
All simulation theories of the universe require an entity beyond our universe.
Can the new MBPro run off of one of those external USB batteries? I think it uses USB-C for charging, right?
Working on a mesh net, a penny for your thoughts
> ... mail the hard drive to the data center.

> no latency at all

Um...
You call always get a NUC or whatever they're called and Hackintosh it
> 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

I agree that this would conserve momentum if if were what was happening in the EmDrive. But all of the papers I have read insist that it is not what is happening; no particles are being ejected from the test device; there is no "rocket exhaust".
You could get a dedicated Xeon with 16GB ECC for $36 a month, that's less than $1000 for two years.

You would also be able to forego the VMs since you can run your containers on the metal.
Not there yet. Smaller battery capacities also charge faster.
Come on, are we really blaming the RAM for battery life? Apple chose to put a much smaller battery in this model (75 watt) compared to last year (100 watt) for the purpose of thinness.

Find me a single review that laments the thickness and bulkiness of the 2015 model.

This is plain and simple industrial design gone amuck. Apple has beautiful hardware, but day to day use is important too (performance, ram, battery). Shaving millimeters and ounces hits the point of diminishing returns, especially when you focus on it to the exclusion of all else.
It's actually not at all clear if they couldn't be used. Things like Google's word2vec model are derived from copyrighted data and seem to be fine.

Perhaps distribution of the subtitles is illegal under copyright law, but I suspect the trained model would be fine.

It would be an interesting case anyway.
I wonder if it would be possible to design a system which would power down some of the memory when not plugged to a power source. I do all my dev on an MBP and would be more or less fine if the memory-intensive things were only available when plugged in.
That said, I don't really feel like 16gb limits me in any way except for doing data processing, but that should be happening on the cluster anyways.
> What are the reasons behind such prohibitive cost? Rare expertise, advanced factories, amount of time required, lack of economy-of-scale, monopoly, something else?

The first 3. Monopoly doesn't help I'm sure, but this drug class in inherently very expensive to produce, there's a reason there is little outcry over the prices charged.

It's extremely labor intensive, and very hard to scale up. They are also inherently dangerous, so there is a need for extreme purity. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412 for what a monoclonal antibody can do, you would not want that to happen by accident.)

As of right now this drug class remains the most expensive of all drugs, I would assume if it were possible to make it cheaper they would have.

But we'll only really know once the first generics enter the market.
I didn't downvote you, I actually agree with you. Fortunately there are laptop makers serving our needs. Let the fanboys enjoy their toys.
>police officer Michael English said the victim had not been the aggressor. A bystander who witnessed the attack told WTOP, "they jumped him and beat him up pretty bad,"

Today this is less serious a crime than:

>man in a car yelling "fag" as he drove by a gay couple

Obviously neither is appropriate, but I don't feel great about the pressure against free speech. The Obama administration is also engaged in the longest-lasting and most extreme battle against journalists in the history of the country, which makes the fact that saying something inappropriate is worse than violently attacking someone seem an even worse state of affairs.
A sith actually.
It's also important to have a bit of travel for the keyboard - I for one don't like tapping on a hard surface to type.
I have a laptop purely because it's portable. It has to strike the right balance between performance and portability of course. To counter your vocal opposition, I think the new macbook strikes that balance perfectly.

Longer battery life, and smaller battery also have benefits. Particularly, a smaller battery can be charged faster. Lower power consumption allows this, and their design decisions such as limiting RAM to 16 was made to achieve this.

I run a linux VM and do dev work and even on 8GB is fine. I'm a programmer, and technical guy, but I understand that Apple can still make better computer building decisions than me, or any other nerds who just like to ramp up spec numbers in their custom build PC.
Not residential street - suburban thoroughfare - as in 4-6 lanes wide.
Autoplay videos with audio should result in an instant and permanent ban of the source website.
The real dream is a user-serviceable MacBook, positioned towards power users - a "PowerBook", if you will.

If Apple doesn't want battery life sacrificed, they don't offer the option to put 32GB of RAM in. Then if the user makes the choice to put in more RAM (because the PowerBook lets you put in more RAM as it does not have it soldered), it's their responsibility that battery life suffered.
>"However, LPDDR3 only goes up to 1600 megahertz in speed, but Apple uses 1866Mhz RAM. How is this possible? That is because there yet another RAM standard, known as LPDDR3E (E for enhanced) RAM, that does go up to 1866Mhz."

Why does apple claim 2133Mhz?
Neighborhood A: You stroll down the sidewalk under a canopy of trees and wave to your neighbors on their porch.

Neighborhood B: You walk behind people's houses completely isolated from everything.
Seriously. Who are these people that need 10hr battery lives? Biologists working in the field? Frequent business travelers?
I would guess that it would require more than one vendor, even one as large as Apple, to request it aggressively earlier in the dev process for something like that to get done, because of the amounts of QA required.

I would further guess that 4 DIMMs, more than just memory controller support, might have required too much precious board space - which, when combined with the power requirements and additional feature enhancement requirements for Intel, might have made it a nonstarter.
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."

Seldom Smith, from The Monkey-Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
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The claim that the new macbook will have issues with day to day performance is insane.

I run a browser with 20 tabs, linux VM in the background, and webpack and gulp in the background. I do all this on 8GB ram on a macbook from 2012 and it runs fast and smoothly, even with up to 4 hours of battery life. I can't imagine the new one would be less performant in any way.

It's completely understandable that now they can optimize for other things, since performance is generally a nonissue now.

Apple is not blaming anything. They've designed a computer for a purpose instead of pumping specs and numbers to gratify a bunch of vocal geeks. I'd rather much trust in Apple's design than a collaboratively designed PC by technical dilettantes with maximum performance everything. It's not just a about specs, especially in a laptop. Versatility, weight, battery, ease of use. These all come into play aside from raw technical component power.
I found the color and graphics garish and jarring. As a result, I did not read about your mesh net.
> Yeah, so when we will have vacuum cooled below 0K, it will confirm existence of ether.

I think you will face great difficulties in convincing anyone that works in the topic area of this.

> Yes, I asserting very minority view in physics, but I'm able to back it with video of real experiment. It is not a hand waving.

It's clear you do not understand the propagation of acoustically excited droplets are a limited analogy, not a perfect model of QM/QFT. The people doing those experiments would not agree with your statements or characterizations.

> Let be honest. The quick way to check understanding of something is to ask "why?" few times. People, who dedicates their entire lives to relativistic and/or quantum physics, are not able to answer even to single "why?". It's because of orthodox education.

This is willful arrogant ignorance and a gross mischaracterization of the world of physicists. They absolutely address more than "a single why?". You have not put forth the effort necessary to understand the broadly accepted answer, let alone invalidate it.
Agreed. Poor wrap up of the article, although some of his previous points were still valid despite this statement.
I'm not sure what they're optimizing for. If they had some bad ass machine that wasn't the thinnest machine in existence I'd still buy it. I own a pro and an air from the last generation and I think they suck. Give me something worth the bucks and tack on a few millimeters to make it happen. I absolutely will not pay for their current trajectory of lackluster stats and a small physical footprint. I need better. If that means bigger, they should get over it and deliver.
With the size/weight you saved, you can now carry a much nicer external keyboard if you really care. Personally I think the new keyboard is marginally nicer than the old one: more snap, but less travel. In that case, I’d rather have the thinner one.

But then again, in my opinion laptop keyboards have been crap ever since they decided laptops needed to be usable on a lap and couldn’t be 3 inches thick or weigh 10 pounds, sometime in the early 1990s. ;-)

(The IBM P70 and 5140, the Macintosh Portable, and the NEC Powermate Portable all had amazing keyboards. Toshiba and Zenith luggables of the same era also had nice enough keyboards. Of course, those machines aren’t exactly “laptops” by any reasonable standard.)
History tells us that many, many...probably most...people throughout history lived entire lives without what I assume you mean by "self-determination." This goes for the common defintion of "future" as it applies to people's lives. They had kids, wives, all that.

Beyond that you're going to have to define your terms, because I don't speak whatever subculture you're representing. As I understand you, almost all of us are here today because of people with "no future."
> "Find me a single review that laments the thickness and bulkiness of the 2015 model."

There are plenty of reviews that blame Apple for not updating their design and only improving internals, and I don't really see how you can change a perfect (imo) laptop design unless you make it thinner. Nevertheless I agree with your points here, I would want to keep old design for 32gb ram and bigger battery
As far as i could tell there is also nothing written about it.
Lets be honest; If you want 'Pro' you just gotta build a tower yourself.

IMO there is no such thing as a 'Pro' laptop. I've owned MBPs, XPSs, MSI Gaming Laptops, and they all fall short. Especially 6ish months later when I want some extra oomph but NO; Laptop; At best you can maybe upgrade RAM / Disk but thats about it.

For me, 'Pro' is being able to max out anything, swap parts/upgrade when I want or need to. And this is only possible with a tower, hell even a mini atx build can kick anything Apple is selling out of the water. And you will always be able to upgrade at your own pace / price point.

For portable, I like my Chromebooks and do like the Macbook Air. But for the Air you gotta buy it maxed out, and with the Apple extended warranty.
FWIW, a lot of vehicles nowadays have inverters. Both my car and my truck have one, with a standard "plug-in" that you can plug any normal AC device into. I've run my laptop off of my truck's power many times.
Choosing a Linux Tracer (2015)
That's just the second group. The standards and perceptions of what is deemed comfortable, secure, or happy is itself a determinate of social control.
what are you arguing against then? no body even came near the topic of banning cars, other than you?
That's within the weight limit, but for a post focused so much on battery life it's a bit odd to suggest something with 0 minutes.
The Last Steps on the Moon
Also related:
https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sh...

This talk takes an interesting historical dive into how democracy arrived and how it may be destroyed by the machines and weapons we're building. Fun stuff!
I'm sure they've focus grouped this to death. Everyone wants battery life. It differentiates the product and sells computers.

Many people claim to need >16GB, but many of those folks really don't. The folks who need to run VMs (the biggest group, IMO) have workarounds.

The folks left are a small number and have alternatives, mostly in the cloud. And they make the Mac Pro to address those folks, although obviously that's a flawed product as well.
This is supposedly the Pro model. Until my video processing and compile times are instantaneous, there's always room for performance increases.

Phil Schiller specially blamed RAM battery drain for it being limited to 16GB. http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13460496/apple-macbook-pr...
All four features of the Web Components Spec (Shadow DOM, Custom Elements, HTML Import and Template Element) are the top most requested features in the MSEdge Developer Uservoice. <template> has already been implemented while the remaining three are on their backlog.

https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...
Some custom elements I worked on this week:
https://mrdoob.github.io/model-tag/
Creating MilksFriends; a fascinating peek into the creative process
He made the situation far worse. Under Obama we have increased police militarization, expansion of the surveillance state, unchecked abuse at CIA black sites, consolidation of executive power, new undeclared wars, and more. No one even made a peep when Obama signed the 2012 NDAA that allows for indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. And now there is a precedent, ripe for abuse under fascist Donald Trump, of killing American citizens without trial (Obama signed off on the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16 year old grandson by drone).

To be clear, I find it just as horrific when non-American citizens are jailed indefinitely and killed extra-judicially, but to me those last two examples reveal that Obama doesn't even follow the moral code that he pays lip service to. He's empty, a badly disguised wolf in sheep's clothing, but nearly everyone fell for it.
Because it's a MacBook; with batteries in it. The value is in the mobility. If you don't need the batteries and mobility, you could buy a Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro.
> "I do all this on 8GB ram on a macbook from 2012 and it runs fast and smoothl"

Either you found a marmaid MacBook or your idea of "fast" is different from mine. I had to upgrade my maxed out 2012 rMBP because even when I have only photoshop/sketch and chrome browser open it will struggle. Now I have the 2015 maxed out rMBP and whenever I watch YouTube, use photoshop/sketch, mamp and browser tabs with dev console open it just strugglea...
I'm in Sydney and heard of the men's sheds. I heard they are aimed at older guys and a provide a community as well as tools. There are quite a few makers clubs here too.
actually a java 1.6 admin.jar
Because Intel only support four x32 chips (two per channel).
I'm confused about what you want. What would you change about an iMac to make it 'portable'? It's already easy to carry. Do you want a laptop form factor? In that case what distinguishes it from a macbook with a dead battery?
The problem here is Chrome. Much more resource use than Safari. (In particular, Safari is great at throttling CPU to background tabs.)
“I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?”
~Donald Trump

I can't imagine anything Trump decides to "do about" the surveillance state being considered an improvement by the average HNer