skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in seeing the fuel usage per passenger for one of these flights, verses one with an optimal number of stops.
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The touchbar makes more sense if you don't consider it a modal part of the keyboard, but rather a touchable part of the screen. Like the bottom screen of a Nintendo DS.
Good question, no idea about the answer other than that it could involve some kind of bonus for achievement rather than abuse.
"with CVS there's the expectation that OpenCVS might get finished."

Good lord. Surely, no one is working on reimplementing CVS in 2017?

The CVS repository (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/cvs/) seems to actually have quite a bit of recent activity, so it seems to be a serious project that someone intends to deploy in the real world. There are a handful of things that the OpenBSD project does that I feel are quixotic (continuing to use CVS for everything, in general, is one of them), but this one takes the cake. CVS was good when compared to what came before (and in some regards even compared to Subversion), but there's no comparison with git (or any of the modern DVCS, really).
I really disagree with you about the keyboard. I was nervous that this keyboard would be annoying but I quite like it. Maybe even more than the old keyboard. Yes, they have way less key travel, but the extra click that they added more than makes up for it. I don’t have any troubles now at all with the main keyboard.

The thing I don’t like about it is the new arrow layout. The full sized left and right keys make it really hard to find the arrows by feel. It’s been months and months and I still can’t reliably find the arrows without looking, and I had no problems with the previous MacBook keyboard.
Leadership skills are harder to prove.

There are some terrible leaders that somehow get into leadership positions
Wow, i don't even.. this is the kind of article that, after several years, is making me wonder if HN is even worth reading anymore.
I've reached app saturation. I already have apps to do all the things I use my phone for. Really new use cases don't come around often.
Nobody is denying that nuclear is less harmful than coal. But for future investments, the comparison should be with solar and wind.
Wait, people lock all their passwords behind their fingerprint? Why would you turn a good idea like a password manager into the safety equivalent of a wet towel?
The touch bar is useless - worse than useless

1) No haptic feedback if I hit a key - did I hit it? just terrible for touch typists

2) Context switching according to an app - now you expect me to remember another whole new way to interact in addition to on-screen and keyboard short cuts - WHY?

3) Should I look at the keyboard or not - if not then why do the glowy keys on the keyboard keep distracting me? If yes then WTF is the screen for?

4)Do all Apple products have this or not? Why is there no external keyboard with TouchBar?

Complete misfire on Apple's part
(Reference : Currently use MBP 15 latest version for work)
Not only does Apple not care about repairability, they actively fight against the ability for users to repair their own devices. In my mind that's probably the biggest "innovation" that Apple has pushed forward in the industry -- making it effectively impossible for users to fix and replace parts of their own devices and appliances.

For example, it is currently not possible for anyone other than Apple to replace any part of the Touch Bar. And I've not seen a disassembly of the new MacBook which didn't result in damage to the Touch Bar -- requiring it to be replaced.
exactly, my point being whether one can say the photon is frozen in time or not is relative
It's surprising to me that so few recognize the touch bar for its real purpose: trusted path I/O. Imagine a password manager interacting with the secure element using the touch bar. Or a U2F device. Or a document signing applet. Or access control for iOS device backups. Or purchasing.
The DJ that played his track on the MacBook Pro with touch bar at the introduction event seemed happy about it. But scrubbing on the touch bar seems wrong . That is what the touchpad should be for.
I don't understand. (No joke intended. I'd like to reply to you but I don't understand what you're saying.)
It might be easier to just write a permissively licensed 'gitlite' that can checkout sources (and maybe even update a clean tree). That is the potential solution I've heard discussed in BSD land.
I don't use the TouchID. The last thing I want is my authentication to be coerced by just knocking me out and using my finger. My pass phrase may also be able to be coerced but not by law abiding people and government agents.
It's hardly justifiable to imply that the entire military defense of the United States is simply to protect "$70 billion in assets."

If the entire monetary system of the US were replaced by BitCoin, do you think there would be no need for an army? Would the block ledger be "protecting" all the actual physical assets, land, and people?

You can argue over whether the US should have a military, or its size, but to imply that it's just to protect the dollars isn't going to sway anyone in an argument.
I just recently bought a new MBP. Normally I would get the fastest CPU and biggest SSD as as a custom build. But this time I did not. Because that's only available with the touch bar.
Can one actually stack nuclear waste like that? It's my impression that some nuclear material cannot be stored too densely, otherwise it "goes critical" i.e. sustains an ongoing nuclear reaction.
51% coalitions can also create alternate histories in PoW by agreeing to run a modified version of the client. There is negligible thermodynamic cost to rewriting history when you control a majority of the nodes.

Pow is really an incentive system to keep selfish miners flocking to one chain, by making betting on one chain more profitable than betting on lots of chains at the same time.

The PoS challenge is to do the same without the egregious amounts of wasted energy, by making miners bet their money directly, instead of indirectly through their computers and electricity.
It's fine to be confused, because the idea that "photons don't experience time" is physically meaningless.

If you plug c into the Lorentz transformation you get an infinity, which doesn't tell you anything particularly useful.

There's no physical way to accelerate to light speed, so it's meaningless to make assertions about how the "experience" of travelling at light speed would be different to the (presumably simpler) experience of travelling at < c.

The problem is that relativity is a classical theory, and it says nothing about the underlying physical processes of photon creation/destruction and propagation.

Maybe one day a Theory of Quantum Gravity will fix that problem and provide a detailed low-level picture of what actually happens when things move through spacetime. But we're not going to get there for a while.

In the meantime, we'll carry on using concepts like "position" and "time" without really understanding the mechanisms that generate them.

And if that sounds obvious, it really isn't. It's astounding that the universe knows where everything is and where it's going. Not only does it somehow keep track of all those changing spacetime relationships within a self-consistent system, but it also generates the counterintuitive geometry described by relativity.

How does it do that? No one knows.
You do have the strongest experiences and form the strongest memories (both good and bad) when you are at your most unbalanced.

But it's also unsustainable to stay unbalanced for too long.
Honestly this whole situation is so frustrating as a user.

I now have a 2017 MBP and every day I try to hate it a little less but it's hard work. I miss the old keyboard. Touch Bar is gimmicky and I'd be happier without it. Only USB-C is idiotic. No more Magsafe stil kills me. The old trackpad was better.

For years I just wanted a better Macbook Air (ie upgraded display and specs). The 13" MBA was about perfect IMHO. Reasonably cheap and a great form factor. Yet even Apple succumbed to the fatal disease of "adding value" by changing a winning formula. Force Touch lack discovery and is terrible (this is particularly the case for the phones).

Sadly, the alternative (non-Apple laptops) is just so much worse. I have a Dell XPS 15 and it's fine I guess but it's STILL much worse than MBP/OSX.

Why does everything suck?
Do either of you use vim?
The electronic systems in an F1 car are heavily regulated, because teams were using ECU tricks to sneakily add traction control. The teams have no choice but to use the limited number of inputs available, because the ECU is a sealed box.

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/red-bull-f1-traction-control/
Suffice to say, FreeBSD's current stance on licensing is that new GPL2 software in base is unacceptable, and the goal is to get to no GPL2 software in base.
There's probably a lot people who also put in a lot effort and failed. They're not going to write about it.
I will never buy a notebook with touch bar and regretting getting this one. As a vim user I would vote for Esc any day. Same issue on the iPad keyboard cover.
What would you say are the good aspects?
First thing I do is turn off 3D touch. Too complicated and too much mental load to distinguish a normal touch, a force touch, and a long touch.
Someone has to supply steampunk themed items for those not crafty enough to do it themselves...
The 'add your website' button is if you have an apartment complex website, housing startup website, or a craigslist/facebook posting you'd like for us to index.

You can give us the URL and we will include it in our results after verification of its validity and availability.
It seems like they must be, as that'd be the obvious solution. I wonder what the motivation for that rule is, and how soon it'll change.
Yes, but most of nuclear waste is metal and plastics. Screwdriver and stuff. The guy that wrote the article either don't know anything about nuclear plants (well, less than me so almost nothing) or is misleading everybody on purpose. Either way, wait until someone reliable and knowledgable talk about this to forge an opinion, this is bullshit to me (and im a pro-nuclear guy)
FreeBSD sees this as a necessary evil and aims to move to zero GPL code in base, eventually (when ports GCC works well enough for 2nd tier architectures and Clang/ias / elftoolchain works well enough for 1st tier architectures).
I actually enjoy the similarly priced dell laptops with USB-c and the dell dock.

I also do hate the touch bar especially when it crashes.
>There aren't a lot of enterprises where humans deal with uncertainty in any significant way that you can't level that Taleb quote at

Well, the quote is only applicable to enterprises where the uncertainty concerns a huge toll.

So, if anything, it's the opposite of being applicable to all "enterprises where humans deal with uncertainty" -- it only applies to a handful of them.
This picture is incorrect: the electromagnetic wave has a mechanical momentum in the direction of its propagation, which means that something is moving in that direction.
I am desperately waiting for a No-Touch-Bar version of MBP 15. If not, I may have to settle with the 13 version. I am not ready to part with a physical ESC just yet.
No need to rebuild everything. Simply having the "DLLs" or equivalent checked in or in a maven/NuGet folder backed up would do the trick.

Your not just saving developer downtime. Remember that non incident a few months ago? Could be a security issue too.
The “Data Producer’s Right”: Unwelcome Guest in the House of IP
I frequently lock my computer (set the lock button on the touch bar so it's my fault, but in line with no haptic feedback) when I try to hit other buttons.
>Much as I love the TouchID sensor, what keeps me from missing it much is 1Password. It’s marginally more work for me to type in my password to open 1Password than use my fingerprint, but not much. My Apple Watch unlocks the Mac, and so I don’t need the TouchID sensor for that, and when I use Apple Pay on the iMac, the Watch makes that quite painless, too. So having lived with the Touch Bar and Touch ID sensor for months and then migrated away from them again, I’ve found they seem to be solving problems I don’t really have.

The touch strip maybe. Touch ID not at all -- you only missed it "a little" because you already have an Apple Watch to automatically unlock your Mac.
Somebody probably flagged it. It's a new account, so it's likely it could quickly be flagged into oblivion.
I think discoverability is the main problem. Nobody knows what it can do. I use the quick cursor placement (push and slide when editing text) and fast app switching (push left edge and swipe to middle to switch to previous app) many many times per day. A few games, like Pixel Gun 3d, use it fantastically, since it's actually multi finger 3d touch. It's a first person shooter with standard move with left finger and look with right, with the addition of jump by pushing left and shoot by pushing right.
Indeed. I bought a 2015 pro. I needed it then, but was prepared to upgrade as soon as a new one came out.

Kept the 2015 version. Am waiting to see what comes next. I don't want a touch bar, and I don't relish getting a half/dozen dongles for all my peripherals.

So I'm an invisible sale they should have had, but didn't.
PoW needs to die.

PoS can be superior to PoW in every way except the problem of initial wealth distribution. PoW solves this problem elegantly. PoS currently has no meaningful alternative to this distribution method.

What Ethereum is doing with using PoW to bootstrap wealth and then transition to PoS looks like a winning combination.
Agree wholreheartedly. I am still savage that I cannot buy the 15" without paying an extra $300 premium for a touch bar that serves to do nothing but constantly annoy me.
There was an iPod Shuffle model with buttons only on the headphone cable, and voice control. I believe the subsequent models were more conventional.
Don't forget people with the touch bar who might also use an external keyboard!
There are no good aspects here, this pardon is dispicable and undermines the rule of law and is directly an expression of racism from the POTUS. Arpaio was an awful sheriff, a bigot who abused his power and put innocent people on chain gangs in the AZ heat and made innocent people sleep in tents in the AZ heat and abused them in many many ways. He was my sheriff for many years, he defied court orders to stop violating people's 4th amendment rights because he was running around demanding hispanics prove their citizenship in place that is largely hispanic, in other words abusing actual natural born citizens due to his racist profiling, he belongs in jail. This isn't a country where it's OK for the Gestapo to demand we show our papers because we look like a Jew.

This fucktard of a president just endorsed this behavior, which means we're now going to see more of this. This is more flame on the fire of the clearly upcoming race war.
My Macbook Pro is 4 years old and in good nick but I won't fork out for another when it dies. Not because of the Touch Bar but the general build quality. I looked at the latest Macbook Pro in the Apple Store and the screen hinge feels so fragile compared with its predecessor. Apple seem to be obsessed with thin and lightweight but that's not what everyone wants. Their marketing has never been aimed at what pro users really want. Why make a laptop which can last 6 years or more instead of a flimsy, lightweight version at the same price which is guaranteed to break in half the time?
Why Apache Pulsar?
Was the comment ever alive? If the commenter has had other accounts banned, HN sometimes has more thorough methods of banning a user (I suspect by IP, but I'm not sure the details of the implementation). If you think the comment is worthwhile and have enough karma, you can vouch for it.
> Here in DC we have interns working for free or cheap on good causes they hope will lead somewhere. I would think many software devs not raising families would take lower steadier rate for work they can talk about and be proud of.

It sounds like they made a bargain[0] with "Phil, the Ruler of Heck and the Prince of Insufficient Light."

[0] https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/icon_uk/11800056/855574/8555...
You can now download Google Assistant in iOS devices
Add automatic fire suppression system. Which one day turned on for whatever reason .
Ages ago, they had GPS/INS systems and active suspension that would pick the car's tires up over known bumps in the road. They also had a few spectacular accidents possibly related to misbehaving tech of that sort and it also represented a disproportionate chance to spend money in an arms race, so F1 banned much of that. I don't see them likely going back on it.
Not the parent, but ReasonML's syntax is actually not great. They fixed a bunch of pain points with OCaml but then added their own idiosyncrasies to make it look more like JS
I have the same quandary while traveling abroad. Giving your fingerprints while entering a country means you're giving the country your passwords.
For a counter opinion, I could not care less about Magsafe (I thought I would, but I don't miss it). I really do appreciate that I can now hook the MBP into power from any side and port.

I also like the USB-C: bought a few $80 total cables for everything (USB-C HDMI, USB-C to hard disk, USB-C to printer etc) and I no longer need any dongles either (just the respective USB-C to X cable, as I would have used a USB-A to X cable before). $80 is not much when one is talking of a $2000 / $3000 laptop. And increasingly new peripherals will come with direct USB-C support anyway.

The display and brightness and colors is also killer.

And I appreciate the Touch ID very much (1Password, lock screen, payments).

That said: new trackpad is a problem for me, because I tend to touch it as I type (since it's bigger).

And the touch strip I don't care about. I would prefer if it was individual strip of actual buttons (physical) that would light up with images and be customizable (like the Optimus Prime keyboard).
Lightning Rods can prevent this.
I use it, and have a mb with touch bar.

Using solely the laptop keyboard was fine. Transitioning between the laptop keyboard and an external was not.

I ended up adding a binding for "jk" to exit editing mode. Very pleased
Can we know what humans are thinking?
How is it more difficult to rewrite history in pow? Maybe only if you want to stick to the same exact algorithm going forward. But a modified node can do whatever it wants, including rewriting the blockchain from the beginning to use a different hashing scheme, making custom exceptions for individual block numbers, etc. It all depends on how the modifications align with the incentives of the coalition and user base.
> How would you quantify "Judgment and Decision Making" in a generic sense?

You don't. You listen to someone trustworthy vouching for the person having good judgement.
Driver aids are banned in F1 to maximise the importance of driver skill. There are no anti-lock brakes or traction control. To maintain the integrity of this rule, F1 car electronics are heavily regulated.

The ECU is a sealed unit made by a single supplier. It has a finite number of sensor inputs and can only use relatively simple algorithms to control the power output. Mechanics can pre-program throttle curves for a particular track, drivers can tweak the throttle mapping mid-lap using their steering wheel controls, but the ECU can't do anything that could be regarded as "intelligent".
This is a +19k -8k line pull request. That is dumbest thing I have ever seen. For having written something that interfaces with git, this person obviously doesn't know how to use it effectively.
This is a fairly silly list.

Consider: "Reading comprehension": at a moderate level that's basically everyone in the industrialized world. At a high level, what are the jobs where this is going to be the skill that makes a difference, as opposed to prior training and learning ability re: the things you've read?

Consider: "Management of personnel": in a world in which middle management are the first to be laid off, it's hard not to think that the allegedly high incomes are unstable and/or only for the best performers.

Consider: "Service orientation." Uh, like in the service industry? Sure, that's "employable," for a can't-make-rent sense of the term.

Generally, the list seemingly fails to take into account the extent to which a skill is already saturated. It's striking, for example, that the top few are skills characteristically developed in advanced degree training in the humanities, law, etc., who haven't, shall way say, had the best few years in the job market lately, due to rampant overproduction...
Is this still true in 2017?

My understanding is that the newer version is looking within your finger, rather than surface fingerprints, which could be lifted. From their presentation "scans sub epidermal skin layer".
I could not agree more. Programming isn't an employable d skill by itself. What you're actually doing for the business is problem solving, and in order to be good at that, you need to have people skills to a certain degree.

You listen to the managers, or are otherwise invested in the inner workings of the company. Using those skills of intuition, you gather the business objectives, and then write code to solve those needs in the manner most appropriate to the environment in which you work. Of course, often you're writing more than just code, and will contribute to documentation, and test with your users to gather feedback and improve your solution.

Good programmers spend less of their time writing actual code, and much more of their time understanding the problems their code is meant to solve.
I agree that it would be nice to see what the command line entry would be for an application.
> we're slowly narrowing in on C in measurements

Interesting... I thought that c = 299,792,458 m/s exactly. So what are we are actually measuring here? The meter and/or the second?
What I learnt from coding a text editor in C as a React developer
This seems like a terrible way to do odometry. Does FIA disallow teams from using the odometry information from the wheels ?
God no! I love my MacBook Air. Plus it's all I can afford.
Ive been looking for more 'technical skeptic' posts about cash-grab cryptos, so this author better post more articles like this.

Got tired of hearing about some new amazing, world changing crypto coming out and then spending hours researching only to end up with a bad taste in my mouth. Both for the community and the tech itself.
I work in edtech and have been surprised to learn how few edtech companies care about efficacy.

Some popular apps/platforms have millions of users and tens of millions in venture funding, yet they haven't done any efficacy research. Or perhaps they've done it privately and gotten results that they didn't want to publicize...
With comments here, I try to maintain an assumption of good faith as often as possible. Meaning I have to allow and even assume that you're sharing these concerns because you honestly think that the risks are serious enough to justify discouraging any use of this technology.

But even though I will assume this, I still think that your information comes from a pipeline with a bad actor somewhere. The omissions and the hyperbole are just too consistent.

A while ago I realized that these bad actors have (consciously or unconsciously) stopped arguing as engineers, and that this might be because the "fission answer" is simply one that they do not want to hear. It's a classic case of begging the question - either the answer is a combination of windmills and solar panels, or it can't possibly be an answer.

Seeing the same reaction to a random post about an idea for super-tall chimneys really cemented this idea for me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14933317
> How would you quantify "Judgment and Decision Making" in a generic sense?

The fact that you raised this issue demonstrates good judgement. You pass.