skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty confident that donors won't touch this with a ten foot pole unless they're paid.

The only reason why I'm willing to part with my supposedly-precious O- blood is because I'm reasonably confident that the blood will be going to people who actually need it. Otherwise-healthy old people using my blood as some kind of sick fountain of youth completely throws that dynamic out of the window. That's my blood, and I will be paid for both the blood itself and the time out of my day, and I will be paid very handsomely, or the old rich people will be out of luck.

This is especially true during clinical trials.
In addition to math and physics, you also trust the durability of infrastructure, the correctness of the software, the moral compass and cohesion of the developers, that there will be no 51%+ mining coalitions, that if there are they'll be benevolent, and probably believe in relative global peace.

You also trust totally mundane things like internet resilience against phishing attacks, web browsers and other basic tools, the https standard, dns and certificate authorities, etc. etc.
> A skill could be highly paid, but only useful in a narrow range of jobs, giving you few options if you change your mind about what to do.

Makes sense. If you focus on coding there isn't much it applies to (in terms of employment) other than coding for a living or working near coding-related things (CTO, manager, etc.) That being said, accounting also only really applies to a handful of jobs and nobody has ever said being an accountant is risky.

Unrelated, but jbreckmckye your email is in the URL.
Why can't we have a choice instead, for both 13" and 15" models?

IMO, the cheaper models still exist so they still have some chance of selling into education.
> The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

Have you ever tried to type on a touch keyboard without looking at it?
If a single bitcoin transaction uses enough energy to power 5 households for a day, that certainly makes me not want to do any bitcoin transactions anymore.

I knew it was wasteful, but this article is really putting it into perspective. And because of the proof-of-work system, the wastefulness is intentional; you have to prove you've wasted enough time and energy to be allowed to mine a bitcoin.
Unlike the author, I have a long passphrase on 1password and find the ability to use the fingerprint sensor a godsend.

I've found that the Touch Bar will freeze up sometimes and make it impossible to regulate volume (though muting still works). But this seems to be part of the general neglect of OS X rather than a drawback of the hardware.
God, I hope not.
Is it really true that in most cases people can find a day job that isn't a necessary evil? People usually work because they need money to live, and employers usually pay money because they want stuff done that is not interesting or enjoyable enough for anyone to do as a volunteer. Most jobs in developed countries are service jobs, and few of these are things people love to do, they're just things that need doing, and someone is willing to pay for them to be done: working restaurants, inserting IVs in hospitals, caring for elderly, picking up trash, cleaning offices, staffing call centers, answering email on behalf of the CEO, processing insurance claims, driving Ubers, etc.

So there is some amount of needing to do something you don't necessarily love for a job, but it's perfectly reasonable for you to also not want this to consume your life 24/7. I mean, if you can achieve the feat of the photo at the top of this article—getting paid to surf—that might be great, but that's not really the norm for jobs.
It's fairly obvious by now that nobody wants a Touch Bar.

Pro users that I know want:

- A great keyboard (yes with an actual physical Escape key)

- 32 GB RAM, with 64 GB optional

- Common ports including boring old USB and HDMI, and a headphone jack

- Good battery life at a reasonable weight compromise

I hope Apple realizes the current MacBook Pro is a flop and backtracks on the many poor decisions that went into it.
I've been looking at Nashville, I loved visiting there! I'm glad to know you like living there!
I agree with everything that has been said by the other two. I find that all the politics I engage in are for the benefit of my people. You will have two major types of peers. Those who want to build an empire, or those who want to help people grow.

You can easily find out those that empire build because they will throw you and even their own team under the bus.

If you are growing your employees, look for others that do so. Follow what they do.

There are a lot of professional development courses that you can take to learn more, but a lot of it is on the job training.

I love tech, but I found the fact that people are always changing a much more fulfilling role to me.
And of course you trust your own skills keeping your devices, passwords, keys, totally secured from outside access, and not making the zillion tiny userland mistakes that get your Bitcoin lost or stolen.
I don't know know where you live, but Nokia has released a new version of the Nokia 3310 in some places (not the USA yet, though).
Sounds like... Karl Marx, to be honest.

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital … Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by … the sense of having.

You see this everywhere. Rich people who don't have time to be home buying up vast swathes of land, locking up public gardens for personal perusal.
There's a path to RLS, and eventually Clippy, both working on stable, and to be distributed via rustup. The work isn't quite done yet. I'm guessing ~3 releases for RLS, counting the release next week.
photons don't freeze in time in their own reference frame, and one doesnt get to priviledge any particular reference frame including those that are different from the photon's
The title is actually a quote of a wire from MacArthur to D.C.
On the contrary, Apple should make the "Touch Bar" a build-to-order option and let people opt out of it.

There's a reason the 13" two port weaker version is so popular.
Makes me wonder if the author of Cryptonomicon had heard of Parsons while researching for his book.
And maybe 1mm thicker in exchange for repairability
The thing I like about 1Password is that it integrates with all the major browsers, but it doesn't require a browser to work. And the app on iOS is full-featured.

I don't know if they support Linux, however.
Folks, the touchbar is 1000x more useful if you have a BetterTouchTool license. I have mine customized completely, with app-specific shortcuts. It's amazing. Without BTT, the touchbar is kinda silly. But with it? You can do some rad stuff with it. I urge you to try it out and see what you can do with it.

You can even execute a shell script and put the results in there.
> These are mostly solved problems (minus omniscience or scale) with just handfuls of books that represent most parts of the solution.

Could you list some of those books? Would love to add them to my reading queue.
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First off, managing people is not a 'promotion', it is a complete job change. It is not a incremental increase on previous skills or job expectations; it is radically different and you must be aware of that if you want to succeed.

If the company considers a move from a individual contributor to a people manager a promotion then it is disfunctional.

Ignore this whole concept you have of 'playing politics right', you have wayyyyyyyyyyyy more important things to deal with. 8 devs will keep you very busy with 1:1's, career guidance, mentorship along with day to day running and long term more strategic less tactical planning.

Reset your expectations on the problems you will face and have to consider; your entire world is about to change (if you want to be a decent manager).
I always thought it was purely ridiculous that bitcoin requires mining which eats energy. So freaking ugly. The genius that created bitcoin could not see that the cheapest form of energy is coal and that his idea will just spew more CO2 into the atmosphere. Or somehow this genius could not see that? OK, yes... Iceland's geothermal energy.
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You ever typed on an iPad or Fire keyboard? Good luck!
Yes. And Bitcoin, or another digital currency can do better. And will do better.
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God I hope not. We just bought a 13" non touch bar MacBook pro and it's been simply awesome. The touch bar looked like a total waste of $300 extra, so we instead put that into memory upgrades and Apple care.

I'm fine with the touch bar being a premium feature, I just don't want to pay that premium.
How do I know you are a real person and not a figment of my imagination?

Can you prove that you exist?
I agree with your point about physical keys, just a quick aside about:

> no need to make a NASA pen

The "NASA pen" urban legend (often used to comment on the contrast between American over-spending on innovation and Russian common-sense) is actually a myth. Both NASA and the Soviets used pencil-based technology originally -- NASA used ordinary sharpening-based pencils (later moving to mechanical pencils), while Soviets used more crayon-like "grease pencils". There were flaws with both technologies, and a private American company (Fisher) created a pen they claimed could work in space which was later adopted by both NASA and the Soviets. NASA only paid $4.00 per pen, nowhere near the "millions of dollars" often cited as the cost of development.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
The real HL3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRUjjuUl7U
As much as I love the engineering behind the touch bar I never saw a good reason for it.

I think context switching buttons is poor UX, you shouldn't need to look at the keyboard when you're using it.

I miss the days I could quickly adjust the volume or brightness of my MacBook with the touch of a physical key who's position doesn't move (navigating a touchscreen for these controls is wholly unnecessary).
Example of the latter: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probabili...

I don't know if any youngsters have learned probability from there first. Would be interesting to hear.
The reason this isn't paradoxical is because expansion doesn't have a speed, and the phrase "X is expanding faster than Y" doesn't have a proper meaning.
I'm totally with you. I think the problem is AMQP itself. It just doesn't lend itself well to fully managed reliable message passing across network partitions because it was engineered (some say overengineered) to be "zero overhead" and have "delivery guarantees". If you need message passing across network partitions you really need to ask yourself if RabbitMQ is the right tool for the job. As services like Pubnub get cheaper and gain more acceptance from developers I think they will eliminate many of the things RabbitMQ is currently being used for. If you need message passing features that aren't either in RabbitMQ, Redis, or hosted services like Pubnub, then you're probably doing something sophisticated and probably want to build your infrastructure from the ground up.
How about ECC RAM too.
But "socially useful" does not imply saleable (to the bane of venture capitalists everywhere).

It's possible for something to provide a social benefit but not make sense for anyone to pay for as a for-profit business because others would get the same benefit and free ride off them. (Hence the problem of public goods in economics.)

So if the proof of work is only solving some general research problem, then it might not be feasible to double dip like you've described. That's why primecoin was able to avoid the problem.
To say that one transaction costs that much power is a misunderstanding of what the power is useful for. The amount of electricity spent mining a block is a function of the block reward, which is a function of the value of the total system. A block doesn't just protect the transactions inside of it, it also protects every single transaction in the whole history of bitcoin.

And, the high value transactions tend to dictate the value of the whole system. Not every transaction is equal in that regard. If all the high value transactions were to move to another system, the coin price would plummet, and so would the amount of energy required to mine blocks, and thus the 'per transaction' cost for low value transactions would plummet.

The right way to think about it is that we spend around a billion dollars per year protecting $70 billion in assets. Put that way, it doesn't seem so bad.

If you look at the percent of the US GDP spent on military defense, you'll see that bitcoin is quite attractive by comparison.
I feel like there has to be a better link for this. A paper somewhere?
After a couple of months I have actually come to like the typing experience of the new keyboard - when it works.

The keys need constant cleaning. Simple dust/dirt particles that don't really affect the old keyboards are the nemesis of this keyboard.

I have to literally blow into keys to get rid of dust/dirt particles every single day.

Just recently the smaller up/down keys have simply stopped registering presses (unless you press they keys quite firmly). Many other people have this issue too; here is one thread discussing it:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7769526

It's so bizarre to have to remap some unused modifier keys to up/down because of a likely design flaw on a flagship product like this.
That's considered a "big" problem for Mac app developers?
Deleting such an app seems like a reasonable solution.

The iPhone has a built-in Weather app, why bother with another that is sharing location data?
Current longest non-stop commercial flight, Air India DEL to SFO, has been very popular and often operate at 85% capacity 6 times a week[0][1]. Air India is adding DEL to LAX non-stop next month. It's especially popular with elderly travellers, as there's no hassle of transit.

[0] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/A...

[1] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/10/18/air-india-...
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Did you mean a solution looking for a problem? I can't think of a single problem that is solved by the touchbar.
As I said, you can call it whatever you want, "driver", "kernel" or "linux" even. The point of "going into the driver" being expensive only makes sense if it's a syscall, which it is not as we both seem to agree.
Believe it. They confirmed it last night when I spoke to them, they changed my plan without permission - tried to swindle me, but I got them to revert my data plan... too much to type on mobile, I'll come back and post more.
> I think Apple should kill the MacBook Air (not sure why it wasn't killed a long time ago when the new 12 inch MacBook launched).

Because the MacBook is substantially slower than the MBA, has fewer ports, and a higher starting price?

I'd love to replace my aging MBA, but the MacBook is too much money for not enough machine. (And I don't love the expensive new MBPs.)
You ever typed on an iPhone keyboard? BlackBerry's physical keyboard was far better. It didn't matter.
Yes I can, but don't care to do so here.
> The touchbar is a problem looking for a solution. For the premium they charge for it I fail to see how it returns its value. Perhaps this was innovation for the sake of innovation, but I don't see the touchbar having a prolonged lifespan. Sooner or later Apple is going to come to the realization that they need a touchscreen on the MacBook.

IMHO the Surface Book from Microsoft is a great idea with a beautiful design but poorly executed [1]

I would have expected Apple to come up with this kind of product and phase out both the Macbook Air and the ipad. The Macbook + touchbar seems so half baked I'm not sure why Apple thought it was a good idea.

1: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/life/features/mesquite/2017...
Takes courage to make such statements on HN. Kudos to you for that.

Humans are biased to view themselves as the most evolved, sophisticated and important species. A glance at the history of science shows this.

Slowly, we become aware of our bias and notice how damn lucky we are to survive to this day.

Ages ago, nature almost killed us off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...

And in modern times, we almost wiped out our civilization many times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

We are lucky to be here. Gotta make the most of it. IMO a good place to start: to value the other surviving animals on this planet. You could travel 10,000 light years but you will find them only on Earth.
How many treatments and cures for countless diseases and conditions are floating around in nature undiscovered? And how many of those helpful organisms, plants, microbes, are being destroyed by human activity? It is probably staggering.
Very click-baity title. The most employable skills for a human to have are the ones that are hardest to automate away.
Created a throwaway just for this as I'd like to remain anonymous. I'm currently in high school, though I picked up programming early. My school decided to purchase a bunch of "educational" tablets for the student populace a while back (wasting a million or so in the process). All in all, they were a disaster. Not only were they not used for their intended purpose, they were a huge distraction in the classroom. Kids would be watching youtube videos, and worse, through the various proxy sites the school could never seem to block, all when they should have been paying attention. I wouldn't be surprised if performance dropped as a result.

That aside, I couldn't agree more with the issues in the report. There was no opt-out: no tablet meant no grades. You'd be a fool to expect any privacy. It was obvious school officials had some form of remote access: they could in theory lock the screen (this was easily circumvented by going offline), but to what degree, we couldn't be sure. For all I knew, they could have live access to the camera and microphone.

From this experience, it seems pretty clear that just throwing technology at students in hopes it helps them "learn" isn't going to work. The money wasted on this program could have been put to much better use, training teachers and actually buying books.
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Why do you think Japan is less of a consumption based society? Not saying you are wrong, but would like to hear why. I have heard things like they buy new cars every five years and don't like "used" houses and instead opt to tear down and rebuild houses when they buy them, not to mention there fascination with new technology. So I have never thought of Japan as being less consumption based.
If you hate this stuff try dmenu... although it's not really target at DE people.
Ugh, you are right and that makes me sad.

But it works for iPhone thanks to a combination of changes in habit and autocorrect and plenty of typos, whereas no matter how much I have tried I have never made typing work on a tablet.
"you might end up spending more than what several of the artisans out there charge for a single cable"

Artisanal USB cables? Seriously?
Is there any evidence it's a sales flop? Seems like Mac sales are up, but they don't break the numbers down by device type. I want the same things you do, but unfortunately it seems pretty unlikely to happen (except for 32GB I suppose).
I don't understand the "Add Your Website" thing, considering the mention of "see ads from Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and other home-share/roommate startups." Do we provide the URL of a Craigslist search that we want to watch?

I'm in Sacramento and would love to use this.
> Key for me is to shower at the lounge before departure. That makes a big difference in comfort.

I can confirm that. A shower before a long flight, even in economy, can make a huge difference.

I almost never fly business, but I have a Priority Pass membership which gets me into airline lounges to shower. Best thing ever.
I don't think people comprehend the magnitude of the catastrophe we are facing from climate change. Even if nuclear is just as bad as the most hysterical critics say, it is peanuts compared to the alternative. We need to invest heavily in it, now.

Unfortunately I don't see the public changing its mind, so we will probably have to work with alternatives like wind and solar. But if the public embraced nuclear when it should have, we would be much further along.
I've had to do some data recovery during the course of my personal life. If the data is valuable, the #1 rule is "always run a dd backup to another device first" IMO. Then you can play around on a device that you know isn't on the brink of failing.
>According to this analysis, the most valuable skills could be summed up as “leadership” skills

>What are the most valuable combinations of job skills?
>David Deming found that the jobs with the greatest growth in employment were those that required both social and mathematical skills.

I think these are the key takeaways. STEM is very important, but it appears the market is saying we have a lack of leadership skills, which are not really emphasized in a typical education.
I guess there's two reasons - the first is when they started this process it was before we had full electric vehicles and it wasn't clear what the best technology would be, at the time hybrid vehicles were very popular.

The second is that F1 has been carbon neutral for at least two decades with the FIA planting trees to offset the extraordinary amount of pollution that flying the F1 circus around the world generates. Even though reducing fuel does nothing to make F1 greener when you take into account the carbon generated by transportation it is important that the actual show is as green as possible.
You might wanna take the query string off this link...
He didn't say sales flop.
I like the features they've expanded since release - even chrome works really nice with video controls.
It's attractive to the manufacturers. F1 is stupendously expensive, so manufacturers want to get maximum bang for their buck in terms of marketing. Trickle-down technology is a major marketing hook, particularly for McLaren and Ferrari. Both companies introduced KERS- and DRS-inspired systems on their road cars when they were added to the F1 rules.

This is much clearer in other racing formulae, where the cars being raced may be modified versions of commercially-available road cars. Audi, Subaru and Mitsubishi built their reputation for performance almost entirely off the back of the World Rally Championship.
Yeah, one of our favorite things was to walk around on gomi day and pick up all the lightly used kitchen appliances thrown out.
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Yes, 2 out of us 3 complained about it during lunch.
I know you're being facetious, but..

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
"Coding" is mechanical. "Judgement and decision making", "Critical thinking", "Complex problem solving", the actually difficult parts of doing long-term programming work, are at the top of the list.
I want it and enjoy it quite a bit.
As for tabs 2) I only see a mish-mash of pixels — How does this work for you?
> Yeah they are called physical keys, no need to make a NASA pen

The Touchbar has many clear benefits over physical keys (in addition to drawbacks). Adding haptic feedback doesn't make the TouchBar equivalent to hardware keys. It makes it a better Touchbar. The fictitious NASA pen had no benefits over a pencil. Touchbar has benefits.
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Is unpleasant existence always better than nonexistence?

Put another way, would you make the same argument if the creatures in question were people?
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I would be more worried about blood clots and other physical complications from the terrible seats.