skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go for the ThinkPad. For browser and Web stuff, your bottleneck is going to be memory (and I/O throughput, i.e., get an SSD), not CPU speed. For $250 you'd be getting a durable machine that runs Linux beautifully and has enough memory to handle your dev tasks.
Buy a really cheap laptop and remote desktop (assuming it's Windows) into your your PC. Desktop PCs are way way way way more powerful than those shiny MacBook Pros. I have 2 desktops (3930k, Threadripper), a 13 macbook pro, a 15" XPS (2017) and the original retina iMac 27" and hands down the desktop machines (even the 3930k which is from 2011) beat the laptops in performance (yes they all have SSDs, save the macbook pro, they all have 32gb of RAM.)

I don't get the appeal of doing development on hardware that's optimized for mobility, especially if you spend 99% of the time working in the same place (like me.)
Be aware, you are not going to be able to put a generic SSD into any kind of MacBook. They all use special custom Apple SSDs and third-party replacements are few and far between.

MacBooks are fantastic but if you're not already an OS X user and you have a tight budget, it may not be a good choice for you. A second-hand Air should be way less than $1000, though (but maybe not in India).
I think the only way to really prevent that is strong and disruptive competition that will spook all the current slumbering monopolists. Google Fiber pretended to aim at that, but now it slowed to a crawl (it did cause some good ripple effects).

Will Starlink from SpaceX fix it? Who knows, but I have little expectation from the Congress to do anything of value about it. When was the last time they did something good about technology polices? DMCA-1201 and CFAA aren't repealed. There is no meaningful copyright reform on the horizon, and so on. Net Neutrality will be another victim of this dysfunction.
It all works out if you do moving notification with them. Which everybody should be doing, as things from the IRS or old utility bills sometimes tend to not make it to new address you give them.

Plus some of the moving coupons they mail you are pretty good deals. Win-win.
I second this as a owner of a bricked 2013 MBA with a dead logic board. Bought a Lenovo T430S for $450 a few years back and couldn't be happier with it. Never buying Macbook again.
I also think another factor is over the past 10 years, there has more investor money thrown at early stage startups. That just means that it harder for companies to break out. Due to that fact I am not sure accelerators even YC will provide much more advantages.
Well, it's been happening since the '80s when several OSes were written in ostensibly garbage-collected languages. So it might be a little late to complain.
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Miata Is Always The Answer, à la GNU.
I did Django dev work for 6 years... I'd lean towards the Lenovo, but it depends on a few things:

1. Are you going to do any photoshop work, or other design tasks?

2. Do you want to use an external monitor? If so, does the T420 have good specs?

One final thought: We've been moving towards using docker for most development, and Apple is behind the curve on this one, mainly due to the crazy workaround required to get adequate filesystem support. If that's at all in your future, stick with linux.
> 1. I don't think I need to provide evidence that black culture does not value education. Call me racist, whatever you want - but this is an obvious truth.

I don't think calling you racist will be productive. But I am perfectly happy to call you uninterested in reasoned debate if you cannot produce even the slightest shred at evidence here.

> 2. This is difficult to quantify, maybe it's gotten worse - the underlying issue remains.

So you have no reason why representation would worsen other than "maybe."

> You will not see black kids from double-educated-parent households from the suburbs struggling in academia or the workforce.

Again, can you provide evidence here? One form of evidence is looking at the number of students from such households who go to college for CS, and what the proportions are by race of people who get hired and promoted in tech. If those proportions are on par with the number who graduate college, then you'll have demonstrated your claim.
Ah, I had forgotten that Turbo Pascal let you drop into assembly.

But could you write directly to a hardware address? I don't know, but I doubt it - Turbo Pascal ran on the PC, which didn't have memory-mapped hardware. You could do an outp. But in C, you could do

*(unsigned long*)0xFFFE0004 = 0x8000FF2C;

which was either absolutely necessary or absolutely stupid, depending on whether or not you had custom memory-mapped hardware at the specified address. Could you do that in Turbo Pascal?

What's more, Turbo Pascal was PC-only, at least initially. If you had to work on a 68000-based embedded system running PDOS (not PC-DOS), and you had to use Pascal, it wasn't Turbo Pascal. It was just bog-standard Pascal. Inline assembler? No way. Pointer to a variable-sized array? Can't do it (you cannot give it a type). It was painful to work in that environment. And that environment was Pascal as specified by the language standard. Turbo Pascal fixed most of the problems, but it trampled all over the standard to do it. (At least it did have separate compilation.)

Why was it painful to work in that environment? First, we couldn't access our custom hardware without having to link to an assembly-language subroutine. In doing so, we lost type safety, which led to at least one hard-to-find crash. It also was just much more difficult and error-prone to write those routines. Second, we wanted to have a user-specified variable-sized array. We wound up having to create the largest array we could given the memory the machine had, and only using the part that the user specified, which was a pretty ugly kludge. Third, Pascal was just clumsier to use than C. It was more verbose and more finicky. (One part I remember in particular was the semicolons. You couldn't have a semicolon on the last statement in a block. As you added or removed statements, you kept having to fiddle with the semicolons, including on lines other than the ones you were changing.)
They also are testing in Phoenix. No reason they couldn't do all their testing there.
Black people don't have a homogenous culture, don't be surprised by the accusations of racism when you literally castigate a culture based on race.
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It's also similarly bad on iPad mobile Safari, actually making me feel a bit sick...
> MacBook air.

Still on my first 13" 2012, i5 cpu, 4 gb mem, 128 gb ssd model. The battery is shot, but otherwise it took a beating and is still running like a champ.

Hopefully next year they will still be selling these puppies. Because I can not find something with similar price, spec and build quality. Air is really one of your best priced ultrabooks.

Otherwise I recommend you don't settle for a i3, you are going to regret it. Had to give my brother-in-law advice on buying a notebook for writing docs and surfing, etc. Said a i3 should be fine for his needs... did I regret that at our next "free technical support session" :/ get a i5 atleast!

> It's 'nix but it's really not Linux.

Also, macOS is a Unix[0]. gnu/linux is the 'nix like os around here ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#macO...
Rec Room is amazing! really solid experience ... could easily be expanded upon to really capitalize on this idea of a shared virtual world IMO
This reinforces what people have been suggesting for a while: That if you travel internationally, you should probably travel with a sufficiently-wiped blank computer if any.
>It's a myth that a brand new car is a bad deal.

that's not really what I was trying to argue. I'm trying to point out the mindset of someone in her position purely thinking of monthly payments.

An "extra" $100 a month doesn't sound like a lot of money and the sales people push this hard because it obfuscates the true cost of the purchase. For example my real estate agent kept trying to do this when I was buying a house, an "extra $200 a month is a small price to pay for the house you love".
Studies, data, conversation, and thoughtfulness around these issues are welcome and needed but this news article is, frankly, junk.

I always like to look at data from the source, so I downloaded the original report, which The Guadian couldn't be bothered to link to.

Let's start with the title of the article:

> Black and Latino representation in Silicon Valley has declined, study shows

However the report is about Asian representation, and although it includes some data on other groups it states:

> Although we include the figures for black and Hispanic men and women, we do not use them for comparative purposes because EPI figures for those cohorts are highly sensitive to small changes.

This is right in the executive summary.

The next problem is that the article represents the study as being of "Silicon Valley" and the "tech industry", but the study is of just five companies: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. These are all large corporations and there is no evidence given to suggest that this is a "Silicon Valley" problem and not a "Corporate America" problem. That's not to say that you can't draw conclusions from studying these companies, but you can't make sweeping statements about the tech industry based on them. Especially when so much of Silicon Valley is made up of startups. The valley is a dynamic place: two of those corporations no longer exist.

Obviously problems exist, but I see no reason here to single out the tech industry for special blame, especially when no attempt is made to compare tech with other industries and "tech" is taken to mean a handful of large corporations. Worse still, by misrepresenting the nature and origins of these problems, we set ourselves up to fail when we try to address them. Uber's appalling culture, for example is firmly rooted in that of finance, why don't we talk about that? What do the finance industry's diversity statistics look like?
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> The ‘technical interviews’ made sure of that, I presumably suck at them but I can’t be sure because no constructive feedback ...

such a good point. i've heard that companies have rules expressly forbidding offering constructive feedback to candidates, because liability (or something). but it's a wasteful/destructive system. many companies seem to think working for them is the summation of earthly existence. but they still have churn.

it reminds me of the fact that the two WhatsApp founders had applied to Facebook but were rejected.
https://medium.com/the-story-of-grip/5-things-every-founder-...

i wish you extreme success in your independent venture.
I certainly don't believe it's asking for a lot. It's racist to assert that minorities don't have any self control.

Every race in the world has been enslaved at some point. We are just animals, transcend this.

Let's start here: is it too much of a stretch to say that I think it's ridiculous that the most commonly understood career path for black youth is drug dealer -> gangster rapper, or athlete? These kids deserve better role models, for one. This is an obvious truth and should not require citation.
Docker is flawed in a way that by definition it expects to run Linux code. If you run docker on Mac or Windows it actually starts it in a VM.

So with these requirements you can't run it on anything but Linux.

FreeBSD actually has compatibility mode and can run Linux binaries, but why would I want that instead of running a native code?
> 2) It's fast. It's just direct memory access, direct and explicit hardware manipulation

I also find C really handy for parsing binary formats (ASN1, Ms EMF...), parsing binary stuff in Python for example feels miserable. However, for manipulation string based formats (xml, json, yaml), C is quite miserable, even with the help of libs like libjson-c or libxml2.

And to be fair, even for parsing binary formats, C can be quite unforgiving. I still have some traumatic souvenirs from the first time I ran American Fuzzy Lop on my EMF to SVG converter... (by the way, I love the afl logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/AFL_Fuzz...)
This needs more attention. Organizations often respond to public outcry by stopping whatever triggered the outcry, and voting with our wallets only works if all consumers are aware of issues like this.
I'm sure there's a lot of truth in the given explanation: the terms that were returning this 4Chan result had basically no search history beforehand, and all of a sudden this post was probably getting a lot of links, traffic, whatever. That's not exculpatory in the least, but it does make sense to me.
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Woooo.. Interesting. I'm going to download it now and give it a whirl. Will get back to you with feedback (if you're interested).
But where exactly is the image data stored?
Do the correct marketing and some of these flaws can become features for some specific public who want... hum... different experiences.
I'd have to dig it up, but it's the warranty that makes the difference.
Not only that, it's much more legal to be racially biased in who you choose as your customers. The laws in the US that require nondiscrimination in hiring, regardless of how effective they may or may not be, don't apply at all to choosing a NoSQL vendor or whatever.
> It's entirely possible that the further drop could be due to Australia's 1996 gun law.

Since the trendline is basically the same until it tapers off around 2003, it's hard to say; but since the trend is identical (and identically noisy) before and after 1996, it is unlikely it had any effect. You would expect an increase in the trend if it did.

Especially when you compare this to the identical trend in the U.S.[0] and Canada[1] at the time, it's hard to make a case that any effect was experienced.

Homicide in western countries just sorta trended downward since the mid '80s until the early 0ughts.

See:

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_gu...

Or more importantly, see:

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_ho...

[0]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/194/rate_of_h...

[1]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/31/rate_of_ho...
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The entirety of your post is baseless, so I won't address every point, but:

Camille Claudel was intricately part of Rodin's success and artistic breakthroughs

Nonsense. His strongest work had nothing to do with her, and was conceived, commissioned, and started before he had ever met her.

But I and others would argue that Rodin stole techniques and inspiration from Camille Claudel

This is so patently false and salacious that it's infuriating. Citations please. Rodin's technique was revolutionary, original, and is now firmly grounded in the cannon - what are your qualifications to make this judgement? Can you please cite these historians or provide some sort of literature?

She was never in her lifetime recognized as a great artist (or at the least, Rodin's equal)

Because she was not a great artist, nor his equal. Her works are fine, but they are utterly derivative of his. One cursory glance at any of her pieces proves this, and of course the critics of her time, and those after, have all made this same observation.
I cannot stand these articles. It's time for the whole suburban-liberal "follow your dreams and go to college" attitude to abruptly implode.

Don't waste your time reading this article. I can sum it up for you:

1.) The first subject in this article is a theater major who has been in college for over six years.
2.) The second subject is paying a lease on a new vehicle and had studied abroad in Italy, despite barely earning above minimum wage.

There's no beating around the bush; you can't fix stupid. I have very little sympathy for people who effectively squandered what little they had instead of at least making an attempt at good decision making. To fight and lose is one thing. To say you were doomed from the start and that fighting would be a waste of your time is another.
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Please stop creating accounts to violate the guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If this moves forward it would be unprecedented in the US:

> If the U.S. District Court Judge adopts this recommendation, it would mean that Internet providers such as Comcast could be ordered to block users from accessing Sci-Hub. That’s a big deal since pirate site blockades are not common in the United States.

This isn't just routine domain name forfeiture, this could escalate to an order requiring ISPs to block IP addresses, which is far more troubling.

Am I missing something?
not wrong, top comment deleted twice - and now i magically can't make root level posts
I'm honestly surprised it's not ridden with ICOs like my Facebook sponsored post feed these days.
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That assumption doesn't work for a big chunk of rural and small town America. I make the once-a-week trek to the post office to pick up my mail.

I tried to sign up for the informed delivery service, since it would be nice to know if it's worth my while to make the weekly trip into town, but those stupid KBA questions would never let me through. Verifying you by random, incorrect, data that they somehow scrapped out of the ether seems much less reliable then just letting me show up at the post office with ID in hand to sign up for it.
> uses

I am not sure if the discovery of gravitation waves can be of any use to us (other than perhaps stimulate funding for further astrophysics research, that is).
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Financial counseling should be required in high school. It would benefit the poorest the most.

I'm not surprised about the new Elantra. People who grow up poor are not socialized to make good financial decisions. (People who grow up rich often make bad decisions too, but they don't suffer as much from them.)

Unfortunately, we have a system where poor college students are able to dig themselves into massive debt. Huge student loans are given to people who have no chance of repaying them, and it's possible for someone in dire financial straits to finance a new car. It's a miracle we haven't had a mass default bring down the entire student loan system yet.
The one that drives me crazy is comparing an ongoing expense to the price of a latte each day.
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You're right to some degree but not entirely, because of how early cryptoeconomics are in their stage.

When people pump money into a currency, they're not just "taking risks", but also using their authority in the community to generate hype, which brings in uneducated and uninformed people into the equation.

If you look around the Internet you quickly realize how "uneducated and uninformed" most of these investors are.

This is different from traditional family/friends => Angel => VC => public model because the public is protected from making any foolish investments until the org shows tangible traction.

So TLDR: they're taking risks, so at the same time they try to minimize their risks. This is why they exit very quickly. This isn't possible with traditional investment model where your money is locked in until an IPO or an M&A, which is why it is unfair to say these people are "taking risks". They have the ability to manipulate their risk and that makes a lot of difference.
Nice the author created this based on tatoeba.org data, I used to be the main developer and for tatoeba I created a language detector (because it's was painful for people to have to input a sentence AND the language, especially for polyglots), so it's more likely the language data used for this language detector was made itself by a language detector, funny when you think about it :)

https://github.com/allan-simon/Tatodetect (I should rewrite it in Rust some days) , it's a simple N-gram detector.
Simon Baron-Cohen has been pushing that idea for a long time but while they’ve gotten a lot of attention for his career, his conclusions are far from definitive. There are various papers contesting his conclusions and review articles have failed to support the bold claims – e.g. https://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/lds/wp-content/uploads/2...

That doesn’t mean that there’s nothing here but I find it telling that the neuroscientists I used to support were far more skeptical than, say, the Damore fans here. This topic came up a bit and there was a strong consensus that the science was still too early to say anything — there are low level biological differences (e.g. percentages of white matter) but that hadn’t been linked to high-level skills, and the few low-level differences were still being studied to identify the cause. This is all complicated by the plasticity of the brain based on usage so answering even simple-sounding questions is usually a significant percentage of multiple people’s research careers.
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That sounds like an argument for the "slow pace" that you bemoan as a trait of the acquiring company. Slow growth and low risk go together. It's not a bad thing.
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hey Chad, I think you're better off posting in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384264

Best of luck in your job search!!
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