skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can literally set the Touchbar to just show the function keys.

I keep mine dynamic, have been using the laptop for a month now, and can say there has not been one occasion when the escape key wasn't there when i wanted it.

And having TouchID sensor more than makes up for it.

Of all you criticism not one has been a problem to me except battery life which is quite bad on mine.
Yeah, I can access the URL from Austria, but I'm not sure I'm actually seeing info about the new XPS. There don't seem to be any specs anywhere, so it's hard to be sure.
The way I find side project ideas easily (and get swamped by them) is by:

1. Getting involved in multiple activities - I am part of a choir, I play board games with my friends, I read a lot of books, I take photos of the night sky and I like to do my own statistical research on various topics (e.g. politics).

2. Figure out the problems you face in all of these activities - I have found plenty, such as choir members who can't read music, lack of strategy analysis for various board games, lack of pretty astronomical software, lack of graphical representations of ideas presented in books and vast lack of graphics representing the effect of political policies.

3. Figure out which of the problems can be solved with software.

4. Pick the languages/frameworks/tools you want to learn to use and that will help you with the project.

5. Build an MVP.

6. Invest more into the project, or otherwise repeat 1-5.

You can see some of my projects on http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk to get a gist of the weird things I end up doing.

Edit - wth is up with the formatting here
The Anatomy of a Web Request
malloc and free are indeed far more expensive than allocation in a runtime system with copying GC.
Context: I own a CrossFit gym with my wife which happens to be the largest (both in physical size and active membership) in an ~80-100 mile radius. I also have a full-time job developing applications for enterprise and government clients and I used to be a full-time freelancer focusing on custom websites and custom WordPress plugins.

Our website is invaluable. We have all our ad landing pages there so it's a constant source of warm local leads. I think it's grown in importance since we tightened the integration with Facebook and Instagram. We don't really do much search/display advertising, it's all social proof, boosted posts, ads to get people to our events, "people whose friends have liked our page," etc.

If the website's importance is 10/10 I'd put Facebook at an 8 and Instagram at a 5. I'd take simple website + solid FB ad strategy over flashy website + leaky bucket ad strategy 100% of the time.
Why not both? London School is much closer to functional or integration testing. And while the article addresses this at the end, it doesn't address the why, which is that London School is testing something completely different than the Unit Testing (Classic) TDD.

It would be like asking about exercising and wanting to only focus on cardio or weight training; the right answer is 'why not both'?
Windows is approachable. MacOS isn't significantly different, in terms of usability, for the majority of the non-computerate public.

And however you define it, the fact is that Windows did bring computing to the masses and Apple didn't.
> That’s bad for employers but good news for cybersecurity workers, who can command an average salary premium of nearly $6,500 per year, or 9% more than other IT workers.

$6,500 / year? Am I misunderstanding the term "salary premium"?

Also the bar graph confuses me. Shouldn't cybersecurity positions be included in "all IT positions"?
> Declassified intelligence has shown that he did.

You can't be serious. George Bush himself has admitted that there were no WMDs.
ACA repeal could cost California more than 200,000 jobs
Python in 2017 – Whats next?
Your imagination, my friend, scares me.
I doubt it. Did you read the article? They badly _need_ funding and are having a tough time keeping it afloat. I see no evidence to suggest foreign interests at play.
Maybe the time is right for SGI to get back into making workstations again now that Apple doesn't seem to care as much as before.
If you really want to put a dent in things, search for medical issues and click the law firm ads. I've seen clicks costing in the high hundreds.
Mosho. You know bitly? Like that but with emojis...
I presume this is because you actually click the trackpad rather than turn on tap-to-click. Gotta turn on that tap-to-click. It doesn't take too long for my wrist to start hurting whenever I used someone's MB without tap to click.
This is sharp written, voice of truth and reality.
I know of on my own, running Reblaze for the last five and a half years.

Almost nothing comes in easily, and you end up every day with more open tasks that you have started with.

Teams, Dev, Ops, BusDev, partners, legal, HR, taxes, you name it.
And all in all, you got to keep the product and production in their path, keep your customers and employees extremely happy, and the cash flow!

As we all know:

Cash-flow does not matter, until it is matters,
and when it is matter, it is the only thing that matters!

I guess we could have take Reblaze to the VC path at start, but hey! Would they ever let keep the product the way we believe it should [1]

[1] https://www.reblaze.com/using-the-cloud-for-web-security-wha...
i was watching a laptop review on linustechtips and i think he said it. this is why i said i heard it instead of stating it like fact!

e - i think that limit comes from airlines limiting the size of individual batteries they transport. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
That's a function of how well calibrated are those judgement calls with well-being of the baby.

Soldiers who make quick judgement calls are better than ones who don't; but they're trained to have their judgement properly calibrated with the task at hand.
One of the most memorable I have read about is the recently found Tel Dan inscription: some writing on a 9th-century-B.C. stone slab about King David. Archaeologists say it is particularly strong because it was by an enemy. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/...
Pro users are a more diverse group than just app developers. My impression is that app developers are not the ones who feel poorly served by Apple's current hardware lineup[1]. Which is not to say that app developers don't have other legitimate grievances with Apple.

[1] I know, I know; the disappearing of the escape key and the function keys affects everyone! Whatever will we all do?
Well I've migrated back to Windows for my latest computer, but part of that was also because I already had a reasonably functioning mac ( although starting to stumble) and ubuntu installation.
I plan on buying another mac later next year - however that is because my wife is a mac loyalist.

to say that losing developers is losing mac loyalists is pretty weird actually, traditionally developers have not been the core mac loyalist profile.
The time-crunch is a given, but the c-level meddling... you could have done with a cocktail or two!

Best of luck with Brave!
Esoteric use case from someone in AI: Jenkins is the only CI we've been able to use even as an open source project due to needing gpus. CI and things like special hardware is a "semi-common" edge case and a big reason to have something self hosted.

Referencing other comments here: We've also found periodic builds and arbitrary jobs to be a must as well.

A lot of providers out there support most of the basic stuff out of the box, and I understand why they won't go after an edge case like that. It's great to see improvements in the UX on the horizon, that has been our biggest pain point.

If anyone's curious, our CI setup involves a multi OS cluster: Mac,windows,linux for power,linux x86 (with cross building for android) with 1 linux master running a gpu for gpu tests.
For what it's worth, I got a new MacBook pro(15", touch bar) from work last week. The keyboard stinks for me as a touch typer at around ~115 wpm. My previous laptop was a thinkpad t430, and it's the lack of travel I think that makes it so painful to use. I end up using the "normal" amount of force to touch a key on any keyboard, which seems to be way too much for the MBP's new keyboard.

The trackpad I haven't noticed any problems with while typing...but it does make a really annoying and hollow sounding "pong" sound with each click. I thought it was just me, but apparently the sound is something all the other users experience also. Maybe I'm picky, but I expect really expensive kit to not feel cheap.

The ports are a pain, but work bought me the usual type-a-to-c adapters, and an LG monitor that uses usb type C by default.

All in all..I want my thinkpad back, but some people might like this new machine, who knows? I think if they buy it with their own money, they are a lot more likely to tell themselves they like it, even if they do not.
or at least RFC 3921

RFC 3921 was superceded by RFC 6121 in 2011. You might want to update your facts before you criticize the protocol.

The message routing rules leave many things to the server implementation, adding a bit of fuzzyness, but all of this has been addressed in Carbons, and really, in the last years there was significant progress in how mobile XMPP works and feels.

as soon as I want to have a three-way conversation we have to pick a server and a room name and...

The modern mobile XMPP apps like Conversations already have a seamless 1:1 to group-chat upgrade mechanism, and people are working on writing down according specifications.
> Can we have a spamhaus for ad fraud?

There are a lot of vendors in this space now, offering various kinds of "spamhaus"-type solutions. They're all crap because they operate blacklists of various kinds to keep their customers dependent.

The ideal scenario is for ad networks/SSPs to implement the anti-fraud technology themselves, however getting there from here is difficult: The first ad network to go clean will be at a significant (fiscal) disadvantage.

I'd like to get in touch with anyone ad network/SSP that wants to go first.

> lists of botnet infected IPs participating in ad fraud

This won't be enough.

A popular "audience extender" is to use an iframe containing your site as an ad tag, and run it on your display network. Unless you have been using an ad blocker for the last ten years (and maybe even then), it's very likely your IP address has been used in ad fraud.

> lists of offending/incompetent SSP blindly accepting forged requests

Google facilitates an enormous amount of ad fraud, but media buyers have to buy from Google because nobody else sells Google search ads (except, I suppose, the injection people...)

Yahoo purchased a company who was selling video ads that were muted using uncommon AS3 mixer controls.

I think a much shorter list would be the media suppliers that don't have ad fraud on them and don't facilitate ad fraud. You'll find such a list below.
I find it remarkable that a company the size and profitability of Apple seems unable to do more than one thing at a time. Simply not enough engineers?
tap to click sometimes isn't accurate enough, especially when it comes to copying and pasting. Also the force click thing.
Use Alexa professionally and although we can do some fun stuff with it, the interaction model is totally unnatural - invocation words only work if really short, dealing with multiple devices of the same sort (eg fireplace) without any location or contextual knowledge.

They've tried to get around this awkwardness by special casing home automation type devices (thermostat, etc.), but it's still only a stop gap.
Try a recent premium dell (precision/xps) s I think you will find them OK. I can't tell any major difference between my 2014 precision M3300 and my 2011 Macbook Pro trackpads at least.
Maybe it's because of the low cost of entry for competitors? If people get upset with what Facebook does to WhatsApp, many other services will spring up and people will migrate to them.

When it comes to thing like Internet service, it's not really the same situation.
If Apple was really committed to the Mac, they'd be committed to the Mac.

* iPhone, iPad, Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy || http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

iMac - 2nd longest stretch since update (434 days as of today)

Mac Mini - longest stretch since update (796)

Mac Pro - longest stretch since update (1,097)

The Mac Pro is especially out of date... with $1,500 home-build PCs running circles around it.
Not to mention the added benefit of being able to say "Take it the Apple store".
I have the same feeling about iPhone in general as I do for my Mac, as I do for my (gathering dust) Apple Watch. Maybe we are experiencing the beginning of the decline of this system class. The question could be: what could Apple do to re-energize this ecosystem and take it to its next level? Or to invent the next class of systems?
Ah sorry, I missed a key phrase out - _pre-tax_ UK prices are the highest, and they are by a long way. Post-tax they're nearer the middle as the UK has by far the lowest energy taxes.

Unfortunately it's too late to edit my comment for clarification.
I can't listen to this at work unfortunately, but if it's not referenced in the podcast, let me recommend the book "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" by Clark Blaise. It's an interesting read about how he came up with the idea of standardizing time (within bounds) and how he managed to pursuade the world to go along with it.
And you think finder is less hostile than file manger on windows?
iOS Location Tracking – a few caveats which might save you some time
You wouldn't have the sheer number of wells operating is all that would occur with the majority of power being generated from non-petrol sources. If anything, this would extend the lifetime of such fields beyond mere decades which is a good thing IMO. Plus, aircraft will still use some kind of petrol fuel since electric "turbofans" are just garbage right now and probably for the foreseeable future.
Do research methodologies exist that can document subtle personality changes? This seems highly subjective.
There are different models, you can check a given laptop model under XPS logo under the keyboard.
For what it's worth: I've been doing gaming on my 2012 MBA using Steam's in-home streaming from my Desktop. It works really well for gaming casually on the couch, though it only works on my home LAN.
Wasn't it microsoft that fired a bunch of QA engineers?
I would argue that the fact you are solving problems outweighs what skills you have used to build your projects. Obviously a showcase of skills is great, but most side projects are old and not a good representation of the creators' current skills. However, the fact that they are actively going out of their way to solve problems they face via software tells you a lot about the person.
Reversing C++ Virtual Functions: Part 1
> I am reminded of Fulton Sheen's comments on Jesus - a man that claimed to be God is either a liar, a lunatic, or God; to say such a man is a great teacher but not God stretches the limit of rationality.

That always sounded like an unimaginative argument. Another possibility is that his followers exaggerated his words and deeds after his death.
where do you work, and more importantly, why do you still work there?
If a cached DNS record expired it would not be a problem. If a bad or old record was cached before TTL, clearing your cache works to update it. Maybe ITs ego didn't like your terminology of DNS cache being expired, and telling them theirs is- by definition expired records get looked up again because they no longer exist locally. As former IT it was mildly irritating to get unsolicited advice, But still it sounds like a redicilous over reaction on ITs part. I'm assuming you didn't actually clear a local IT managed server's local DNS cache.
And a mobile app. And, at least for me personally, ideally, nested folders.
It's a decent laptop; however, having the camera at the bottom of the screen is a bit annoying :/ - ppl will be looking into your nose :)
> I believe the high-res displays (think 4k-ish/Retina) are still super expensive

It's not so bad these days. If you want a comparison, you can look at Dell displays. On the 5510 and probably a couple other models, you can upgrade from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160 for $299.

Comparatively, this is a better screen to the one provided by Apple. Apple's 13" MBP comes in at a lower 2560x1600 resolution, or 4.1m pixels to Dell's 8.3m, or for the 15" MBP you get 2880x1800 at 5.2m.
I might argue that children are the responsibility of the parents. As far as equal resources, DC schools spend among the highest per student in the country and yet have some of the worst outcomes.

The problem isn't financial, it's political. There isn't a correlation of budget per student and outcomes. Successful schools aren't the richest schools -- they are the ones with the most involved parents. The problem is cultural as wel as political.

When black kids who like to read and study are bullied because they are accused of 'acting white' -- no amount of money solves that. Look at the academic success of poor Asian kids by comparison. Asian cultures and families prioritize education almost to an obsessive degree. Consider the proportion of Asians in the Ivy League compared to their proportion of the population (even when excluding international students.)
Most of the people I work with use Python, Swift/Obj-C, Sketch, and Ruby. Every single one has a Mac laptop. I don't see any of these people switching soon.

I've played around with Linux (Elementary and Fedora) and it's usable for most of the Ruby and Python guys, but it's just not the same. Not the same attention to detail (even with macOS shortcomings) and not the same apps.

Windows 10, similar thing. It's getting better, but it still feels overly complicated and kludgy.

macOS isn't the be all end all - it still has its issues, but I don't see anyone but the hardcore crowd defecting anytime soon. I think a lot would have to change at Apple in order for this to happen. Like, several cpu series behind or just blatant massive missteps. (Some would argue these have happened, but I don't think so yet.)
This response would've been exactly what I'd say like a year ago. The thing is that while a mac has in history delivered a better experience I'm not quite sure that's still the case. If you're buying premium hardware for a windows machine you'll still get a very stabile workstation.

I think it's just a tool in a toolbox and that your personal choice should depends on what you're using it for. Actually, hadn't it been for xcode being macOS only, i'd probably be on a linux machine right now, and if I worked more with 3D modelling I'd be on a windows machine due to the better availability of hardware/software.
I still think macOS/OSX provides the best user experience for personal computing. It's the lack of substantial hardware updates which is driving users away.

If creatives are going to pay a premium for a Mac, there should be something to differentiate it between the competition besides the privilege to run macOS. Heck, it should have something to differentiate it from the last model!

I'll still recommend Macs for my friends and family, but will likely look towards something which is cheaper, has better hardware, and has a fucking escape key for my next purchase.

Since I'll be departing from macOS and Messenger.app, I'll be opening the door to Android for my mobile when I make this switch too.
I think you're answering different quesitons. Solving for "which method is most efficient" is different than solving for "which method provides the best long-term source of energy.

Obviously solving for the former is simplifying issues like diminishing returns, external costs, available energy reserves, means of extraction, and methods of accounting for ERoI, but he does raise a point which is "as long as we're in the black, doesn't J/$ matter more than of J/J?"

When solving for "which method is most efficient" then you could argue yes. When solving for "which method provides the best long-term spirce of energy" it becomes a different question.
Is this a recent version of Firefox? Are you using the embedded dev tools, or are you trying to use Firebug?

Chances are your issue comes from a buggy plugin. I've filled my share of Firefox bug reports, but lately most problems I run into are due to buggy plugins.
It's a bit surprising that a Nature Neuro paper didn't have more control groups. But on the other hand, it's trickier to get ahold of first time adoptive mothers etc. And on the third hand, there's always somebody requesting increasingly specific control groups and one just has to stop and publish at some point.
> Once they figured out it was me, they made me start a computer club with the IT manager as the supervisor of the club. First order of business was locking down .bat execution.

That seems like a great way to handle this situation. Some ignorant other schools might have kicked you to the curb because you were spreading "malware".
I work for a $40B company, albeit smaller than Apple.. it even seems like we can't do more than one thing.
I've been using the new firefox developer edition. Pretty nice, although I should probably figure out how to theme it because the default bugs me.

The only problem is about once per day it gets really sluggish and I have to shut it down because nothing is working - after I restart it updates with the latest build. Seems like a connection there. :)
Google does have a much simplified version of AdWords tailored to small/local businesses. I'm not sure how keywords work in there as I've only seen it a handful of times and don't remember.

I'd think broad match modifier works how someone new to search ads would expect normal broad match to work.
Funnily, I'd be okay with that. I guess I'm just an old fogey though.
Author here. This is a pretty introductory post, but I wanted to do something basic before going more in-depth. The next part (hopefully!) will contain a tool release (in the form of an IDA plugin) for automating things.
is that OO is bad for most stuff except games

Mike Acton would disagree with you, I think. At least, if you want the kind of performance that graphics-heavy AAA titles demand.
The lost history of the Freemasons
Every major ad publisher knows or should know that a large portion of their ad clicks are fraud. I knew this when getting into affiliate networks, it's just cost of being in this business. The actual problem has been around since web advertising's early days it's just that this particular case has been discovered.
Sacrificing the keyboard and battery for a thinner housing was a mistake.

I upgraded my Macbook Pro 13" with 16GB of memory, a 250GB SSD, a 1TB HDD and a Bluetooth 4.0 internal card. I'll keep this for a few years.
Visitors and Permanent Residents.

I would love to know the rationale of greater scrutiny of PR's - I suspect it would be quite hard for someone to forge a "green card" (it has a lot of obvious security features built in) and it needs to match your passport anyway. It's not a big deal but it always stuck me as a waste of time.