skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any more insight into what went wrong with the non rectangular (presumably higher volume) battery that they wanted? Just hard to manufacture the shape? The bad battery life on the new ones is a big challenge for their marketing group.
Great point, I wasn't thinking about embedded systems.
> Chromebook

It's amazing how much of a good quality machine with great battery life you get today for $299, especially compared to what you used to get with a netbook just a few years ago - my son was using my old laptop and installing things left and right on it including adware some times and I let him go crazy because I don't want him growing up just knowing about the web and the browser. I still let him use that as a tinkering machine after a bit of security 101 but I got him a Acer 14" Chromebook recently and I was seriously blown away how good it felt, how decent the screen was and just how long it lasts!
I know apps cause my ipad to reboot all the time.
Ask HN: What is your ideal note-taking software and/or hardware?
TL:DR Share with me your vision for a perfect note-taking system or software, online, offline, and physical

I've struggled with note-taking for years. From college where notes were used for studying to my professional life where notes are used for reference, I've never found a note-taking solution I like. I've used binders, notebooks, large software (Evernote, OneNote), light software (Google Keep), and nothing has ever met all of my needs.

I've realized that my needs for the perfect note-taking software are as follows:

* When given a note, auto-tag and sort.

* A note can be 1) a saved web-page, 2) an image of my physical notebook [should be OCR'd], 3) text I type into the software itself, or 4) a mixture of the above.

* Notes should be indexed and searchable by content and title.

* Notes should be synced across devices

* Notes should be accessible off-line

I'd be willing to pay around $20 per month for a service like this.

What's your ideal note-taking software or system look like?
There’s a gap in the middle of your timeline that was filled by DOMi and Venkman. I seem to recall those being built in at one point, although I might be wrong (I wasn’t doing professional front-end dev at that point).
It wasn't hard to do. Endless coy secrecy on platform refreshes, deciding what tech to use based on form factor and coolness instead of utility, and an operating system that got more bloated and unstable with each version were more than enough to drive me off.
The touch screen on the Surface has one killer application: scrolling while reading. It's very natural to scroll content with a thumb on the edge of the screen.
Calendar on Mac, and I'm pretty sure on iOS too, lets you show the Islamic, Chinese, or Hebrew calendar along with the Gregorian calendar
Yeah, I don't want to switch for the same reasons, but this will be the first time I've actively resented buying a Mac. I've always understood that I'd pay premium prices for premium quality, but with the new MacBook Pro, I feel like my allegiance to MacOS is being exploited. They're simply too expensive, especially if, like me, you like in the U.K. or Europe.
Agreed - they still make the best computers, we just wish they were as good as last year's.
You see that little dot to the left of the Dell logo? That's the camera.
> run Vagrant on one

I'm running Arch on a Chromebook (an Acer one).
It's only just shipped, hasn't it?

The main obstacle there is finding an "updated" suitably open main processor, that's why it uses an iMX6 in the first place.

It's also not really a suitable device for anyone who isn't an electronics engineer. The basic configuration doesn't even come with a case.
The Apple Switch.
I agree, and for me it all comes down to the OS. I've tried using other computers and operating systems, but as a software developer, my income and livelihood depend on me being able to produce code and do so efficiently. I'm more than willing to spend $2500 on a computer, one that I will one day be able to sell for ~$1000 if my past experiences hold true in the future, that works smoothly without hiccups and has a pristine top of the line OS that works seamlessly with all of the programs I run.
I've tried Linux and like it, but some things just do not run the same as on my Mac.
I've also tried Windows recently and the OS just feels gross, slow, and buggy after working with macOS and Linux.
It's essentially a Precision 5510, which is what I have. I have no complaints about mine at all: Ubuntu 16.04.1 works perfectly.
Install Spectacle. [cmd]+[alt]+[f] for actual maximize (NOT fullscreen). Replace the f with left arrow and you get half pane left, same with right, or up... you get the idea.

Switch alt for ctrl with the same commands to send to the top quarters of the screen, add a shift to that to send it to the bottom quarters.

I don't move windows with the mouse on OSX/MacOS anymore.
The US has higher absolute and effective corporate tax rates than EU countries and almost every country in the OECD.

Tax treatment of equity compensation varies among European nations though.
Been an Apple customer for the last 20+ years. Never have been so happy as a PRO user. (Really don't get all the „beginning of the end“ blabla)
This is probably a display/input change more than anything. There are probably some systems using the lunar calendar internally, but most are probably storing UTC timestamps and converting on the way in and out.
If you want a computer with capability that you don't have to carry around, why not get a desktop?
I support free choice in education because it's fair and gives poor students with dedicated parents a chance to get a great education.

I oppose private, for profit charter schools because they are notorious for corruption and poor education in both the college and K-12 sectors.

There are regions where parents can choose the public school their kids attend. My home city does exactly that and is home to some top-notch magnet schools which have graduated several famous individuals.
Yep, when work asked what laptop I wanted a while back, I was embarrassed to send them a list of these "gamer" laptops, because they were the most powerful and adequate for what I need. Hate the bling and gamer tag.
So the reason the replacement is so expensive is because you've coupled yourself to a particular OS and so your replacing a macbook with another macbook. Even though there being other cheaper and more powerful options.
Thanks for being a customer of GitLab EE and great to hear you enjoy the CD/CD stuff.

Sounds like you really need the possibility to run job with a periodic interval. Does https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2989 that I mentioned before address all you need?

Chatops sounds cool, it would be nice to have a slash command to trigger a build. I've created a feature proposal for it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25866
SystemVerilog UVM models/protocol checkers for the TileLink buses.
Sure but that's a different point.
Jenkins isn't really CD either. I'd suggest looking at GoCD or spinnaker, though you'd have to host both yourself.

You can get away with using any of the CI tools to just run through pipelines (heck, you can do this with fancy bash scripts if you're a real masochist ;), so I guess you could use any of jenkins, CircleCI or Travis to run a pipeline. I guess it'll depend on how much you really don't want to manage a CD server yourself.
A maxed out current iMac is a pretty competitive workstation machine imo. Not especially cheap, but not prohibitive for a company. The top of the line is currently a 4.0 GHz quad-core i7 w/ 32 GB RAM (27" model w/ the memory and CPU upgrades). I have that on my desk at work and am quite happy with it.
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I have this on my home since 2014 and made by me. I offer this solution to clients in my city with a startup I founded called Hivee https://hivee.io

No magic needed.
Without knowing too much about LightSail, the answer is likely due to cost. It is probably much cheaper to buy a bunch of lead-acid or li-ion batteries and put those in your backyard. It is not trivial to put huge steel tanks in the ground and keep air compressors and generators running smoothly over many years. This can change with time though.
I wasn't saying they couldn't, I was saying that they're not the only thing in play here because removing the bottom line doesn't suddenly make you able to avoid putting effort into coordination.
The Programmer's Guide to Booking a Concert
The most moving and informed coverage of the US education system I've heard have all been through This American Life

What makes you think it is the most informed coverage? These episodes only give you one side of the argument. If you want the other side try reading The Long Crusade and/or The Burden of Brown by Professor Raymond Wolters. I also myself wrote a long blog post about integration/desegregation as it happened in Boston, a post based on very credible academic histories, which gives a very different take than the NPR/PBS take: https://devinhelton.com/busing-in-boston
Facebook uids based on email address, WhatsApp on phone number. Please show me the SQL one-liner to join those tables...
Will Bitcoin Hit 2k USD?
This is an example of the engineering "genius" within crapchat. Only yesterday we read an article about how the but chief keeps everyone apart and in the dark, lest they should discuss precious stuff, like maybe code reviews where spamming NTP is deemed OK.
Those apartments are high-rent compared to areas near districts with lesser schools. I guarantee, every realtor factors the local school quality into house valuations.
Admittedly, for my needs the 15" models are not great. Writing and some computer programming/big data. I prefer longer battery life and a lighter/smaller 15" unit. The new unit claims to have about 2 hours more battery life than the 2015 model (see tables of battery life near end) [1].

Also important to me is nearby Apple stores to get my Mac problems looked into if I need it.

Could somebody please be specific as to what the new 15" rMBP is not doing for them?

[1] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-Late-2016-...
There are more useful attributes to a well-made desktop system than "shiny".

"Quiet" is a big one.
You'd be surprised - it often implies the lifetime value of the potential customer is exceptionally high, despite low conversion rates (a medical lawyer is a good example, as are insurance products with high stickiness).
> But his followers were all willing to die because they believed Jesus rose from the dead and they saw it.

There is very little objective reason to believe that to be the case. There are (themselves mostly unsubstantiated) stories that a number of the inner circle of contemporaries, some of whom are also identified as witnesses of the resurrection, died for the faith, which is both considerably less than "all of his followers", and considerably less established as objective historical fact rather than part of the same system of mythology.

It's certainly a fact that a little later, a lot of people who could not have been witnesses to the resurrection at the time it is held to have happened died for the faith (whether willing or not), but they obviously don't support the argument you are making.

You can't rest a claim that one element of myth is objective fact on the argument that other elements of the same myth -- with no more objective support -- seem more likely if the first element is true.
>My main computer is a five year old 17" MBP. I've upgraded it to the max and done repairs to maintain it. I need the computational power - I use it for programming, photo editing at scale, and recording/mixing music. It would cost me $3000 to replace it with a computer that is not significantly more powerful

Compared to a five year old 17"? More like double the power. And unbelievably faster SSD (even if you have an aftermarket SSD on your 17", it will be nowhere near as fast as the ones in current MPBr unless you pay top dollar).

>has a smaller screen

Smaller but hi-dpi, and with far greater color accuracy and brightness. Also, you can hook up an external monitor, apparently lugging 17" beasts around wasn't popular enough to carry the models forward.

>and less I/O functionality

Actually way way more. Less varied ports (basically 2 types: 4 USB-C and 1 headphone), but way way more I/O power and connectivity.

>and would be incompatible with my audio interface unless I daisy-chain multiple adapters to get Firewire.

Or just get a USB-C to Firewire adapter of hub. Daisy chain multiple adapters? Huh?
Many of the new, slightly chunky gaming laptops with the 1060 will let you drive three 4K monitors without a dongle.
look at all of the official android SDK developers who work at Google. it's Macintosh all the way down.
Open Source Alternative to kdb?
If you're on a Linux/MacOS/BSD machine, "ncal -p" on the command line gives you a nifty list of when various countries switched to Gregorian.

Interesting factoid: Russia's "October Revolution" actually took place in November in most of the rest of the world!

(edit: I had originally said ncal works on all "POSIX" systems but that turned out to be incorrect)
most you can get to on a normal unlocked linux machine in normal use is the see browsing history.

you cant even copy files to a usb stick because mounting it requires a password.

that is very different to making the machine yours via remote access.

and very very different than letting browser plugins create user accounts that can be accessed remotely (that have root access by default).
then theres the fact that
selinux seems to be a right state on ubuntu

plus what everybody else said. basically put there are several nicer and more secure distributions of linux i would choose before ubuntu.
Show HN: My blog posts about a Lisp interpreter in OCaml. What can I improve?
What you might be missing is that modules names are just atoms, and thats how you get to erlang libraries/applications in elixir. In "MyApp.whatever" MyApp is also an atom. It's not any kind of overloading or object fakeout at all. The use of __MODULE__ just refers to the current module, and its use is quite common.

It's perfectly idiomatic and straightforward to read if you've written enough erlang or elixir to recognize the syntactic elements without the translation hiccup. At this point I find Elixir code a great deal easier to read than a lot of ruby, php, or C++ code I've had to work with in the past. While it may not really be your cup of tea, you can't fairly accuse it of something that has more to go with the reader than the writer.
Never saw something like this before… It looks kinda nice on HN though.
I spent a good amount of time working on Firebug before the decision to rewrite it as DevTools was made. After that, it was hard to justify time on a EOL project and I had just started as employee 7 at Weebly.

But I loved working on it. The team was great, and special kudos to Honza for staying with it through all the years. We had so many ideas, to help in debugging and to help in learning. Many yet to come, I'm sure. So much left to be done in all the developer tools on all the platforms.
Greece here, both URLs work fine.
An Apple a day keeps the productivity away!
That doesn't list a lot of people who would have known him. Not hard to imagine people being committed to a cause while the lore is still being built.
No, if he wants to be a replacement, one has to assume he wants to be compatible and keep using the applications he currently uses. Any non-Mac system might be an "alternative" but not a "replacement".
lack of time is the single biggest factor for me. I need to make working out and eating better a priority
It would help your argument tremendously if you wrote a full sentence, preferably with a verb somewhere.
Unfortunately we're not there yet.
It's doable if you negociate it with your local small-midsized company.
>There are gamer targeted systems that are better specs than anything apple ever made

Which is irrelevant. I don't a "gamer system". I want thin, light, excellent construction, and good battery life, great trackpad, and a good enough CPU/GPU to achieve all that.

Comparable Mac and PC systems for that cost $2000 and way up...
There was no need to standardize time until it became possible and common to travel fast enough that regular old sidereal time was insufficient and even dangerous; i.e., until rail travel became common. It's only been 130 years since we all got pushed into the artificial noon most of us have today. (Some fortunate souls live on the line where it's actually noon when the clock says it is.)
AFAIK Asus doesn't yet have the Kaby Lake - Pascal combo out but they are coming https://www.nextpowerup.com/news/32428/list-of-asus-laptops-... in droves and soon. Some Belgian retailer already has some of them listed http://www.2compute.org/Product_Detail.aspx?prod=ASUS694149 http://www.2compute.org/Product_Detail.aspx?prod=ASUS695109 etc
I can appreciate, and respect, a user who is honest about a preference. People who throw out "it just works" give you guys a bad name.
> Simply not enough engineers?

I was wondering the same thing about Windows back in 2004, when I switched to mac.
pjc50 gets the large scale answer correct.

On the individual scale a company in a >1 ratio line of business sells energy, which incidentally happens to be in the form of Jet-A or 93 octane but what really matters is they sell energy that runs the other economic sectors. Whereas a company in the <1 ratio line of business sells fascinating petrochemical feedstocks, which incidentally happen to be flammable and could be used as expensive fuels and they compete for needed energy with the rest of the economy.

The ethanol debacle shows how important that is. Certainly aged 12 year crown royal is not energetically feasible as engine fuel and that doesn't matter as long as its affordable for drinking. The distillery produces human fuel, but not energy, in fact its a net sink of energy. Likewise you can build a plant to produce ethanol, and it will produce fuel, and as long as you don't worry about energy or CO2 that's OK. Inevitably after its built someone will point out that rather than importing 30 million barrels of crude oil energy per day, if you want to run cars on ethanol we'll have to import and burn 60 million barrels of crude oil energy per day and there will be freakouts.

Part of the confusion is in the old days it was only possible to simultaneously produce both energy and fuel whereas we've burned the cheap oil such that now we're going to be deciding to make industrial plants and processes that produce energy OR fuel but often not both at the same time. In the old days it was impossible for a refinery not to produce and sell both fuel and energy at the same time...
Yes, but you have to lift your arm up. It is far far faster to scroll through a web page with the touchpad.
In my experience, I had an issue and they showed up at my door next day and replaced the motherboard. This was about 7 years ago though.
Ooh, fondleslab is a good one.
$ ncal -p
AL Albania 1912-11-30 IT Italy 1582-10-04
AT Austria 1583-10-05 JP Japan 1918-12-18
AU Australia 1752-09-02 LI Lithuania 1918-02-01
BE Belgium 1582-12-14 LN Latin 9999-05-31
BG Bulgaria 1916-03-18 LU Luxembourg 1582-12-14
CA Canada 1752-09-02 LV Latvia 1918-02-01
CH Switzerland 1655-02-28 NL Netherlands 1582-12-14
CN China 1911-12-18 NO Norway 1700-02-18
CZ Czech Republic 1584-01-06 PL Poland 1582-10-04
DE Germany 1700-02-18 PT Portugal 1582-10-04
DK Denmark 1700-02-18 RO Romania 1919-03-31
ES Spain 1582-10-04 RU Russia 1918-01-31
FI Finland 1753-02-17 SI Slovenia 1919-03-04
FR France 1582-12-09 SW Sweden 1753-02-17
GB United Kingdom 1752-09-02 TR Turkey 1926-12-18
GR Greece 1924-03-09 *US United States 1752-09-02
HU Hungary 1587-10-21 YU Yugoslavia 1919-03-04
IS Iceland 1700-11-16
> This week, my mother's crappy Windows computer died, and I bought her a Chromebook. It was great!

Yeah, no kidding. I have a $160 Toshiba Chromebook that is great for most tasks.

Apple's risk in dropping the Premiere/FCP crowd is that the mass audience they are seeking will discover how good Chromebooks are, and the price tradeoff, and use them with Google cloud services for pretty much everything.
I wish the various linux WMs/DEs took inspiration from the Mac on this, vs the Windows ctrl-combo method. In addition to avoiding key combo collisions in the terminal, I like how in Mac OS X all the control keys for line editing work everywhere. It messes me up when I go to a Windows machine and find that ctrl-w closes my window when I just wanted to delete a word.
XCode is the #1 reason I was never able to fully commit to a Mac. Hell, I was a Mac beta tester back in '83! (At age 17.) I've owned one, and used them as my main email machine for decades, but I never could wrap my head around the IDE poverty that is XCode. Even when I wrote Mac software, I did not use XCode, or whatever they called it back then. These days, I still have a Mac for email and it is my main system for personal web surfing, but any and all technology development takes place on some flavor of Windows or Linux. Plus, my $350 gaming desktop PC was easily upgraded to 32GB RAM and 3 4K displays - Apple can't touch that, and the entire system, counting monitors, was under $2K.
Committed to the Mac sounds great, but it's not just hardware updates that are lagging. macOS software applications aren't updated/maintained as much as they should be.
Sure. I'm on my iPhone right now. But I'll add to this.

Back in the 80s everyone called everything RISC. Check the Bulldog compiler book; the VLIW people were calling VLIW a RISC. Odd since Fisher had worked on microgramming but RISC was very much in vogue.

Before there was RISC there was micro programming, horizontal wide microprogramming. The VAX 11/780 was microprogrammed.

I think what people are saying when they say Haswell is a RISC is it's microprogrammed.

With the Pentium III the uop was 118 bits wide. Bandwidth not an issue. Latency always an issue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel,264-6.html

With Haswell, the scheduler can Macro Fuse a test and conditional branch.

I've never been happy with the shape shifting definitions of RISC over the years but that just doesn't fit any definition of RISC I've seen.

Lastly RISC started out as a critique of complex ISAs at a time when the VAX ISA was interpreted with microprogramming loops. Not with RISC loops.

So I think history has conflated the terms RISC and horizontal microcode and really they're different.

Lastly lastly, there is a difference between the interpreter loop approach VAX took and the translate approach Haswell takes. Also Transmeta compiled x86. But this does not a RISC make. All that's really going on is that Haswell is decoding an x86 instruction and caching the decoding step. The uop cache is relatively more recent (2000?) and long after RISC. But it saves decoding power and latency. The micro architecture wasn't that different before the cache was added.
I thought this was about videos on YouTube. Maybe this isn't new but my suggestion box gets flooded by videos that are segments of longer content (Louis ck shows/appearances, Zizek lectures). Maybe this is hand-curated stuff by a bunch of independent channels but I'd be curious if this is done algorithmically. At least the video segmentation part.