skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome extension that makes tiny (but worthwhile!) usability improvements to the already great site:

https://github.com/nishanths/thin-npr

* Opens stories in expanded mode upon opening. No need to click
on the "Read more..." link each time.
* Clicking the "text-only" footer link from regular npr.org
attempts to go to the corresponding thin page, instead of the
thin.npr.org front page.
* Articles have smaller line-widths for easier reading.
Google and Amazon in a YouTube fight
Twitter has no vision under Jack Dorsey.
Wish there were more like that. It’s really obnoxious the other way.
I also hate the touch bar, but far worse is how they ruined all the other keys with the new, super loud low travel design.

I want the keyboard from my 2013 model back. It was nearly perfect.
More ram.
nvidia gpu for ML training
Well, their idea is to increase the amount of communication _per tweet_.
Snapchat [1][2].

Streak [3][4][5].

Various apps from Floreysoft [6].

Google Cloud Platform has a customer showcase at https://cloud.google.com/customers/ [7] and issuing a site-limited search with the terms 'java' and 'app engine' finds good results.

[1] https://gigaom.com/2013/05/07/snapchats-act-of-faith-in-buil...
[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/19/magnusson_snapchat/
[3] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/10/streak-brings-cr...
[4] https://cloud.google.com/customers/streak/
[5] https://www.streak.com/
[6] https://cloud.google.com/customers/floreysoft/
[7] https://cloud.google.com/customers/
Before seeing your post, and at the risk of possibly garnering snark-downvotes, I was going to write "a real keyboard".

Much as I find OS X (OK macOS if we must) the best balanced OS for my purposes, and am attached to so much of the great software it has available, I'm never going to have imposed on me a keyboard I can't touch type on.

Assuming Apple remains stubborn on the fake function keys, my current ageing MBPro will absolutely be my last.
> But does MIT license really solve all patent issues?

Close enough, I'd say.

> FB could still enforce patents regardless of license

It is widely accepted that the MIT license has an implicit patent grant.
Google Cloud ups game against Amazon, buys cloud-services firm Bitium
Oracle corrals and patches Struts 2 vulnerabilities
> There's long been a hope that integration into the wider economy prevents war - the idea being that countries that trade deeply won't fight each other.

There was a guy by the name of Norman Angell, who wrote a book called "The Great Illusion" about that exact thing. The premise, to quote Wikipedia, was that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous", on the basis of considerable economic interdependence of major powers.

The book was published in 1909.
Considered and rejected for a few reasons: crowdfunding was a super negative experience for me on the one i was a part of. KS takes a pretty big chunk, one of the founders blew nearly 1/3 of our ask having to pay for all the stupid mother flipping TShirts and chotchkies for each different bracket of funding level, not to mention paying back all the bands and "artists" for their various contributions to the events that he ran to get the funding (the ultimate irony was that it was friends and family that contributed the most anyway, and that was in the final hours of the campaign).

I know that these problems reside with our poor choice in founder(s), and it was for a film project, not a tangible product, but the whole affair left a bad taste and i would go with Indy Go Go if there was a next time.

This may be conceited, but when it comes to film, i only want informed, intelligent investors and i want them to give a maximum so they have a stake, not a minimum so they have a badge of involvement. In my opinion, creators and producers need to be held accountable by investors. Getting 5,000 people to chip in $10 bucks feels like a bad thing in the long run for the world of indy film, but besides my previously articulated sentiments i don't know exactly why, i just have a negative gut reaction.

Also, i want to be paid for something created, not rewarded for good marketing (which is probably why the Company keeps me chained up in the basement whenever investors are remotely close by ;) ).
I'm a chef/English teacher and taught myself to code. Reading the articles on here(actually mostly the comments), helps me learn about things I haven't heard of yet.
You don't. The more you try to stamp something out, the more legitimacy you give it.
The ISA is going to have close to zero impact on a processor's performance. I actually wrote up another tech report on this topic (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318).

In short, you can rely on macro-op fusion to dynamically fuse some idioms that show up as instructions in other ISAs, like load-pair.
32GB RAM - absolute must

Standard, full size HDMI - main factor making me hang onto my current one now is actually this!
The idea seems extremely useful for the mentees.

However, i'm curious how you convinced YC, as this seems to be against what YC normally wants:

- Your market seems very small: only software engineers, and only at specific career stage.

- Your mentor side doesn't seem scaleble: top mentors won't be willing to handle unlimited number of calls as the number of mentees grows, the number potential high caliber mentors is very limited, and if you get lower caliber mentors then the service won't be that valuable.
Remove the touch bar and reintroduce the magnetic power connector - it was such a great thing. And then please make the arrow up and down keys larger - I find myself hitting the wrong key several times every day.
The subject here is women not being allowed to drive, which I submit is quite similar to women not being allowed to vote.
It looks like this is also true for mpv. Honestly, having to deal with codecs is a waste of time from the user's perspective. I seriously love how players like mpv and VLC can play pretty much every format under the sun without additional configuration.
The Linux FPGA
> majority of people view the complexity of modern design on the web as an extension of design in magazines...

Yes, because that's sort-of what it is!

There's a reason for styling. It makes things more legible, aesthetically pleasing and more fully expresses the intent of the content creator. We have different fonts and layouts for the same reason that buildings vary in design and materials. All buildings could be made of cinderblock and in the shape of rectangles but they're not, why do you think that is?
Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that all of these countries support two-way messaging? It's my impression after signing up and looking at pricing pages that many of these countries only support outbound messaging.
Since abseil doesn't promise ABI compatibility over time, I think the notion is you don't ship libabseil.so.0 as part of a distro.

(I'm a Googler, but this is not my project.)
As a government, the need for instantaneous communication is pretty much confined to secure channels. The need to respond immediately was a sloped we slipped down by racing to the bottom.
You can remove Siri in preferences.
World's Largest Aircraft Starts Engine Tests
iPhone 8's glass back costs more than screen to replace
Drone delivers coffee in Dubai
I personally don’t miss MagSafe like I thought I would. I’d rather have charging ports on both sides like the current MBP.
Why the Future Looks Like Pittsburgh
Wouldn't relying on macro op fusion increase i$ pressure?
I find it interesting that some would take the position that "dire dangers" don't require facts. Without facts, how does one determine if one is facing a dire danger?

We have a low-level debate (at present, but is getting bigger) going on here in relation to a anti-bullying program being introduced into schools called the "Safe Schools" program. The premise that underlies the entire program is that the only significant bullying that occurs in schools is against LGBTI... individuals. The premise says that there is no other bullying.

As a parent, you are given no opportunity to actually see the materials to be used. In other words, one cannot see the "facts" the program is presenting to the children. The material is required to be taught in every class and if a teacher disagrees with it and won't teach it, they will be sacked.

One reason some teachers don't want a bar of it is that the material comes with strong warnings about how to deal with the psychological problems the children will have when they do their sexual role playing.

Bullying has a broad range of targets and reasons. Some of it has a sexual orientation, much of it doesn't. I was a nerd, but in my case, I suffered little bullying for the simple fact that I was of the attitude that that you attack me, I attacked right back with a bigger stick. I was generally not a target as I was considered too dangerous and unpredictable. It took a very calm father to train me not to do such.

I saw others who were also bullied and where I intervened that ceased to be a problem, again because I was too dangerous and unpredictable.

This is another area where the facts are not important only the agenda of a specific group.
We don't look back harshly at steam trains. They did the best they could with what they had. (If anything, there's strong nostalgia!)

Why do you think petrol will be different? Electric is only marginally viable now, more than a century after internal combustion's invention.
I'd suggest since sometime before he entered politics and immediately ran a successful campaign to become president despite no prior political experience. Probably before he went into television and became highly highly successful there without prior experience. I'd probably go all the way back to sometime before he became a billionaire in real estate.
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This situation is a non issue in real life. Computers have no issue distinguishing them and people don't create them.
Microsoft announces quantum computing programming language – Microsoft Quantum
I'm a freelance writer. I joined HN hoping to learn to code. It hasn't yet happened.

Lots of people here are not programmers.
Yup, completely.

It's a really nasty problem too because power usage isn't linear. Chips tend to have voltage steps[1] as they increase in frequency so if you can do something longer and at lower frequency it uses less power than the same workload at a higher frequency for shorter time.

Compound that with the fact that you really want to bring the whole SoC to a low power state and just keep the display lit since 90% of the time users aren't actually moving something.

Arm has tried to solve this with big.LITTLE[2] to mixed results. It turns out that it's hard to build a general purpose scheduler that's power aware much like it's hard to build a general purpose memory allocator that's fast in every case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_voltage_scaling

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE
More ports. The new version only has four, and one is for power. My 2015 model has power, two thunderbolt, two usb, hdmi, sd card, audio in. I use all of them most days.

I'd also want an option with the higher travel keyboard and function keys. I use those frequently. I tried the lower travel keyboard on a macbook, and it hurt my arms.
How Nobel Prize favorites have fared during nomination
Headphone jack. Escape key. MagSafe charger.
Huh. Indeed, that "Next Steps" page never has been created. That's an excellent suggestion, thank you. I just opened up https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2626 to cover adding that docs page.

If you or anyone else reading would like to contribute writing that page, please leave a comment and let me know!

And yes, it's always tough to balance the various audiences and use cases when writing docs. Minimal examples like a TodoMVC can be helpful for showing off basic concepts and keeping a learner from getting too lost, but then those don't cover the complexities of a real-world app.
Ditto. And this new release seems to have been characteristically well-handled. I love http://isfiberreadyyet.com, the engineering team's blog, their responses to github issues etc.

My level of genuine respect for the way they do open source makes me feel a bit awkward about the fact that I dislike FB's primary product and mission. Especially given I make quite a bit of use of their code.
C++ has never been OOP only. You're confusing it with Java.
alter table messages modify message_body bigtext; -- thanks for the feature enhancement twitter! it only took eleven years!
Quadcore with HT 13inch. With Intel 8th generation CPUs, i5 and i7 will become quadcore. Now the question is will Apple use i3 or older generation CPUs for the 13inch or give the 13inch quadcore+ht like the current 15inch.
Though, if the mentors poach mentees, then the company of the mentee won't be happy paying for the service.
Oh nice, I'm assuming that's new, everything I read when it first came out said there was no way to get rid of it.
These are all obvious fixes.
1. 32+gb ram, don't be stupid
2. 2+ usb-c, plus at least one legacy usb-a
3. hdmi
4. either drop touch bar or make it easily support normal top row buttons
iTerm gives you a warning if it thinks you just pasted in something malicious
Good design is having the users mental model of how a thing works and the mechanics be as close as possible so that users aren't confused. Having afile and aFile be different files is clear and unambiguous. In languages other than english case insensitive characters aren't nearly as clear.

Case insensitivity is bad design by the standards established by Norman whose book I have also read.
I have The Fuck because I think the premise is hilarious, though I don't use it as much as I'd like since it's kind of slow for me...
I didn't pass that one.

Sounds like they're the ones who messed that one up - not you.
No. The beauty of RISC-V is it has a compressed extension with 2-byte forms of the most common instructions. The average instruction size is 3.0 bytes on SPECint workloads. That's even better than x86.

So instead of creating a 4-byte "load-pair" instruction (or having to fuse two 4-byte loads), you can fuse two 2-byte loads into a single "load-pair" micro-op. Same performance, same code density, but a cleaner ISA (since not everybody wants the complexity of implementing load-pair).
17 inch >4k retina display (>300PPI) with GTX1070m or better.
Wasn't that comparison totally rigged by omitting a bunch of stuff (e.g. SIMD) from the BOOM core that wasn't used by a particular benchmark?
I believe DNA research has traced human origins down to 50,000 people living in the Levant, near the Black Sea, many thousands of years ago. So, the flood myth later manifested by many cultures could have a common source.
Sleak? Pronounced like leak, or like steak?
If you want to be taken seriously, learn to spell.
Ask: Your Favorite Machine Learning Blog?
I'm looking for good Machine Learning Blogs to follow.
I know you say "apart from the obvious 32 GB ram", but I'm gonna say it anyway. On the off chance anyone from Apple reads this, I want to signal boost that as much as I can. It gets in the way daily, and as more places adopt docker (and Mac not having a native docker layer worth using), the RAM limit is stifling.

A keyboard nobody complains about again.

Better battery life.

A return to Magsafe.
If I am interpreting the parents position correctly: desirable for the majority of interested parties on both sides of the particular issue(s). Certainly in the situations where "the side that wins the election be the side that would have won the civil war.", resolving the conflict in a civil, structured, non-violent and non-destructive fashion is desirable to most.

Typically when the side that would have won the civil war is unclear, it's also desirable to most.

Even when the (civil war favorite) party loses the political battle (election), usually the issue is not deemed important enough to accept the consequences of civil war, and a structured political/governmental/legestative resolution is the desirable outcome (for most) when weighed against engaging in a violent community/nation-wide conflict.
To take from javascript, this is a mix of underscore (utility) and, uhh, babel(?) for essentially polyfilling certain runtime features slated for future (hypothetical) approval.
Touch screen? I don't have any complaints.

actually, easier way of switching between screen resolutions. I find night time with my contact on, the highest resolution on my 15" is very hard to navigate and read; I'd like instant resolution switch-ups or downs
I'm confused; I have an 8 and I have High Efficiency selected, but it appears I can take a photo and see it and open it on my work Win7 PC. It's a .jpg file format and seems to work just fine.

The mystery deepends with video: when I do a 4k60 video, MPC-HC is listing it as still using H264 but I thought 4k60 required H265:

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 3840x2160 60fps 90829kbps [V: Core Media Data Handler (h264 high L5.1, yuv420p, 3840x2160, 90829 kb/s)]

Audio: AAC 44100Hz mono 92kbps [A: Core Media Data Handler (aac lc, 44100 Hz, mono, 92 kb/s)]

What am I missing?
Part of the problem is that APIs that are good for extensions are by definition bad for performance (because they allow the extension to hook into important places and do a lot of things). So there is an inherent tradeoff between extension functionality and browser performance. It's easy to ask for powerful extension APIs because the ask is free. Would you still ask for it if you had to sacrifice performance? (The answer writ large, as evidenced by hordes of Chrome users, is no).
As a Catholic nerd, I had to check. Yes. :)

echo -n 'Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' \
| wc -c

210
Twitter with no character limit is just a blog site. There are plenty of blog sites, none of them close to as successful as Twitter. The character limit is key to holding on to the modern zero-attention-span user.

The exact number 140 is legacy, but the super-brief "microblogging" format is vital.
Sonic data breach leads to fire sale of credit cards on the dark web, $25 and up
Why does a blockchain need to be used here? A database would be sufficient. Why restrict the service to a single currency? Just seems like a cover to hold an ICO and make some money.

The concept seems odd too. Contiguous property owners will probably not all participate so the drones will be forced to fly nonlinear routes.
Wouldn't the same argument apply to Lisp code? Parens make it easier to read than whitespace.

I'm not convinced at all that's the case, as whitespace has never bothered me and it's less tokens to look at. But this is likely one of those subjective things. Some people prefer more syntax, some longer names. Some like duplicated code and some prefer it DRY.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification!
Not sure if we, Streak, are famous but yes we are on Java app engine. Happy to answer any questions....
After some research for my next anticipated laptop, a lot of people in the Mac community seem to want a 14" MacBook Pro that combines the portability of the 13" with the power of the 15". Personally, I would like Apple to match the amount of ports in the lower spec MacBooks as there are in higher spec ones; seriously, why do the non-touch bar 13" MacBooks have only two thunderbolt ports while the touch bar model has four!?
You do realize the credit card processing fee on a $1 purchase is ~$0.40?
Trump leveraged a TV show and a Twitter account into the presidency beating two most powerful American political dynasties in the process. Why would you believe that his current tweets are caused by lack of self control?
I’m glad Twitter is changing things up. Technically this means doubling everything (database, cache, etc) which I imagine was an undertaking.

But...

Is this really what’s preventing Twitter from growing? I don’t think so.

I use twitter for both personal and company reasons and I can see how it’d help the latter. I don’t see how it helps the former. To me, the whole purpose of the feed is to get the “gist”. 280 characters is wayyy more than that.

I wish they spent their efforts on improving/building useful things (including better targeting for ads) or bring back the tweet counts.

So congrats, but to me it’s a sign things aren’t chirping anymore.
I can see the value in having programmable buttons...but why they put that bar there instead of little OLED screens on all the Function keys amazes me.
The 2013 MBP was perfect, regret selling it when thinking the new 16 model would be reasonably priced.
Almost every SQL database has arbitrary limits on text. Personally I find it ludicrously anachronistic.
Your sources are fine, it's the sentiment.

You could have focussed on how Spanish democracy is broken and that Cataluña no longer wants to be part of that - e.g. the 2015-6 elections where no clear winner emerged and the rise of Podemos suggested people were fed up with both PP and PSOE.

But you seem to base your argument on fuelling historical ethnic tensions. I've given you a counterview.
or perhaps camera makers

It would be nice to see camera maker support, but camera makers have been more than a bit retrograde in the software department for a long time: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/09/22/if-i-were-a-camera-compan...
I was using Coremark in that report, which is what ARM used to market their cores. The 32b ARMv7 cores have NEON SIMD, but I believe no FMAs, whereas BOOM is 64b and includes double-precision FMA units.

Also there's no current RISC-V extension for SIMD or vector ops, so I didn't maliciously "omit" things to "totally rig" the comparison. But even running SPECint is not going to fire up the SIMD unit.
Did you read the article? There are specific examples of souring relations. Calls to dismiss Cuban diplomats.
It’s hard to see the value here of dynamic linking vs static linking, especially when it seems like a lot of the value is compile-time selection of implementations and lightweight utility code—not exactly a huge attack vector you’d want to be able to upgrade independently.

And of course it introduces dependency hell, which seems like a poor fit for a library without a consistent ABI.
Latin-derived languages are getting longer, but Asian ones aren't? It sounds like they're switching to utf-8.

I know that's not really what's happening, but that's what it sounds like.