skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I think just sticking a phone screen in there instead of the poor excuses for touchpads we normally get would be better.

It's super easy to get a great phone touchscreen, maybe just grab the glass and touch matrix or whatever, but that would surely be better than the sorry state of affairs of current touchpads.
> Elixir has been mostly selling itself: it works, it sits on a rock-solid platform, code is very understandable as the community has a healthy aversion towards the sort of “magic” that makes Rails tick, and it’s quite simple to pick up as it has a small surface area

I was a huge Rails fan back in '07 and built a number of apps with it successfully, but I can't help feel like it's transition to a legacy framework has already begun.

While Rails was never top in the performance category, languages are catching up in tooling and readability. So, now you can get performance and a great developer experience with multiple other languages like Elixir, Crystal, Go and more.
The interface is anything that sends SMS (well or a google spreadsheet, which can be viewed on many devices), and all party members can get an alert on spending.

I like it
I don't know about "undercover", but both my work office and my home office are underground, thus, to some, I am known as "codevark".
+1, I use the syncing but originally YNAB didn't have that feature and you entered things by hand. Either works.
> Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms.

Since when? Every person I know in these industries still use Macs.
I'm just trying this (free and open source): https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

I dislike giving all my data to (cloud)services like Ynab, who sell all your data/profile to others...
They should kill the Mac Mini. Until they do, I'll keep waiting and hoping for a Mac Mini with USB-C that can drive external monitors well.

The iMac Pro is awesome, but the lack of target display mode makes it use a lot of space that can't be used with anything else. Older 27in iMacs were awesome for that - personal Mac for home, use as an external screen for work when working from home, or as an external display for a gaming PC.

Where are we supposed to place the sacrifices to the gods who will keep all of our 5-7 year old Macs alive until the new ones come out?
DreamGlass is an interesting Augmented Reality glass that costs only $399
What does Apple expect their own, internal developers to use? Don't they have a self-interest in their own consumption of their own product.
I didn't think it would drag out this long.
yeah man like I said my experience is that macbooks these days are anything but polished - in the sense that even when everything works, the experience has some fundamental flaws (sub-par keyboard, unnecessary smartbar, dongle bonanza). That's not polished.

IMO both Dell and Lenovo make machines that are either as good or better visually than current gen macbooks, and they absolutely stomp Apple on performance.
You can download the app for YNAB and input the expenses as you incur them in "real time" as you say.
Bringing things full circle in this thread, this is absolutely why it is a big deal that emoji have become so popular and that people care about them, and that they are mostly homed in the Astral Plane. Now there's a giant corpus of UTF-16 data people are interacting with daily that absolutely makes it clear that you can't treat UTF-16 like UCS-2, and if you are still doing bad string operations in 2018 you have fewer excuses and more unhappy users ("why is my emoji broken?!").
Thanks, that is the unit I intended to mention above (the one with the integrated AMD GPU), but I mixed up the name. Corrected it above.
I'm trying YNAB as well. Support was superb giving me a longer period for trying it, since its kinda expensive for me.
The web version is great - the Android is meh but ok for saving transactions.
I have seen this abused on sites like Twitter, where images with purely political content have been marked age-inappropriate.
I just recently bought a Hades Canyon specifically because Apple doesn't upgrade the Mac mini, won't drop the price, and made it less user-serviceable. I would have dropped the cash on a Mac mini if it had the Kaby Lake G and could at least be upgraded to 32GB of ram. But instead Intel got my $1k. It's a shame, since now I'm back on Ubuntu and probably won't look back. I can use my wife's MBA to compile and distribute my iOS apps when I need to.
I very much hope you are right and I am wrong. The iPad Pro seems to be trying to mitigate some of those issues—at least for the growing segment of the populace who’d prefer to do everything on their phone.

I don’t like where Apple is going, but I can easily see a Macbook a generation or two out whose software is more iOS than macOS, and whose character is pretty locked-down / appified.
Mint for budgeting, Personal Capital for overview of finances and investments.
this flat touch screen business is making things just horrible. i have ten fingers, and i actually like to feel the pressure and feedback from a real physical keyboard when i type things. seems natural. are we going to write the code of the future on our smartwatches in binary or what? we need more humane devices and more humane interfaces!
Their new system is SAAS but still doesn't require that you sync your accounts. You can still enter transactions manually.

I thought the new version was a great update compared to the older version (including the desktop software non-SAAS one).
Same thing I said above except even more so. What’s the most used language that can’t be represented with the BMP? Bengali is one possibility but AFAIK there’s a widely used Arabic form in use as well as the traditional script.
While I like badge notification, they can be distracting. I sometimes find myself opening apps just to remove the badge icon.
Many Apple people are stuck in a bubble and they don't see the impact Chromebooks and Windows 10 PCs (including Microsoft's own Surface line) have in the "real world". I was an Apple user for years buy my last two laptops have been Microsoft Surfaces.
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I trust google and I have much more exciting things to do than following questionable dieting restrictions. Life is too short, you know :)
My Mom’s Suicide Was Preventable
I'm honestly blown away by how many hardware problems I've experienced with my 2017 macbook pro after barely a year :

* the top 5% of the screen is nothing but horizontal flickering lines
* there's a similar vertical line down the middle of the screen, but much smaller
* when the machine heats up, the T and U keys sound like a static discharge
* my left speaker basically doesn't work and just makes popping sounds

I was already sort of on the fence at the weird 16gb limit on a so-called "pro" machine, but now I'm definitely committed to going in a different direction next time I get new gear.
This makes me want to retry YNAB. I tried it about 2 years ago and I couldn't get in the habit of pre-allocating everything and I don't think they had account syncing to managing where my money was going was more work than something like Personal Capital or Empower.

I will definitely give it a try now :)
Yes. I am involved in one privately funded metro project where the civil work contractor in charge of building the stations just went under. So, they rebid, and in the meantime other part of the project like mine have to standby :b
I just want to make a point about the analogy (because it is a very commonly used one) given the additional and often overlooked aspects of what also powers casinos, namely social interaction. If you go to a casino today (almost anywhere but the few very touristy ones on the strip) you'll see a lot of folks who are just lonely and for whom gambling fills an emotional void. The dopamine hits from winning are nice, but the power of having someone who knows your name and your drink order and has a conversation with you shouldn't be overlooked as a motivating factor for why people are at those machines day after day hour after hour.

Source: Working as a bank teller near the Reno strip and having people of all walks of life come by day after day to get cash before going to the casino

edited last sentence for clarity
As the other person mentioned, since 2012, as they've gotten anti-consumer and anti-repair, and anti-developer, I'm in a holding pattern. I would only buy new MacBook Pro in a dire emergency.

Upgrading is now something you do to avoid disaster, not to achieve delight/happiness.
I'm not up to speed with GPLv3 vs GPLv2, but with GPLv2 you could technically develop the smallest possible functionality around the library, and make that part open source. At the end of the day, with any ML product it's gathering and labeling the training data that is the biggest differentiator.
Oh, I know! I was just thinking of just how horribly and disgustingly wrong my games with adults have been. Such a great game. I do think you'd need to simplify some of the setup and game dynamics. Even with first time adult players, it usually takes about an hour for me to get everyone grokking the rules.
No. They really do use PCs and have been for years! Professionals who need calibrated color monitors and 10-bit-channel color have never used Macs.
Sarcasm?

I'd take a MacBook Pro a pound heavier and several mm thicker in order to have more RAM.

I'd also gladly accept 5 hours of battery instead of 10 (or 2 instead of 4) when 95% of the reason I want a laptop instead of a desktop is not to unplug entirely but to shuttle it between home, work, the coffee shop, my desk, the couch, etc.

It used to be that enough of Apple's customers were using their computers for workstation-class workloads (photo and video editing, software compilation, data processing) that there was good reason to provide us a workstation-class portable, not just a notebook-class ultra-light (which even the MBP counts as by my standards).

You'd think that now that Apple is making such inroads in enterprise and needs developers on their platform to support the iOS App Store that they'd see the value in continuing to make such a machine available.
> It's all in the marketing.

But it's not:

> simply labeling a digital asset a “utility token” does not turn the asset into something that is not a security.

Your point only works in one direction: of course if something is marketed promising returns then it is a security. The lack of such marketing does not imply anything in either direction.

That said, I do believe that Ether is a utility token.
There is a huge backstory, but there was a point when a lot of tiny problems that I had ignored for decades as "part of life", "stress", "everybody has small problems", "too much computer work" or attributed to external factors like "the cold viruses have gotten worse over the last twenty years" reached a crisis point in the form of problems with the digestive system so bad I had it checked out, from both above and from below. At the end of it all was the prediction by the professor of gastroenterology whom I had consulted (yeah, I thought the grand title would not hurt and it was almost within waling distance from where I live) that I would have to take PPIs for the rest of my life.

I looked it all up and read a lot online afterwards, his procedures were immaculate and complete including all the blood work he had ordered, beyond a normal checkup, left nothing left to ask for given the symptoms I had presented. His diagnoses was 100% correct and according to all guidelines in the modern medical world, whether you are in Europe or the US.

Except that nothing made sense.

He completely ignored when I told him that I had never in my life had so many issues as with the PPIs. He asked me to be patient, just a few more weeks and we could lower the dose. But in addition, I felt that 99.9% of all my problems were "unaccounted for" in that diagnosis, that it only was about one tiny issue, but I felt it was much more systemic and that the recommendations would do nothing whatsoever towards finding a solution. It was putting buckets under the leak instead of finding the leak in the roof and fixing it. But I found that it was perfectly normal not to look for the deeper explanation, the cause of problems such as I had had!

First thing I found after a few weeks was that I had a huge candida outbreak. The professor had ignored the symptoms, I found the description on some website that I thought was entirely bonkers and esoteric, which is why I ignored it at first. But after weeks of no solution, and it got worse, I went back to that website and checked other ones too. I thought, it must be candida! I got an oral anti-fungal (cheap, no recipe required) - and within 15 minutes I had confirmation that it was a fungal infection. I went to a doctor with the diagnosis and got it confirmed, and I even got systemic anti-fungals (fluconazole based), all of it with huge success.

HOWEVER - I soon learned that a fungal infection isn't a cause, it is itself only a symptom. The only thing I found that was a remote possibility was: heavy metal poisoning. I did a test, I searched for specialists, I had to go travel a few hundred kilometers to an environmental medicine doctor at a university clinic, he said I'm a gray area case and I must have something else but that I should start chelation. He never found anything else, and ALL problems I ever had slowly disappeared, including miracles such as the thyroid thing. The prediction about "PPIs forever"? I have not taken one since 5 weeks after the professors prediction and my gut health now is PERFECT, like I never knew it, not even in childhood.
It depends. The actual fiber is probably good for decades. But a lot of the active infrastructure requires upgrades in a 10 year or so cycle. FiOS started out in 2005 with BPON. Then they upgraded to GPON. Now they’re working on NGPON-2. This requires upgrading ONTs, (very expensive) OLTs, switches, not to mention adding capacity out from the COs to handle the additional traffic.
Hardware-wise, my ASUS 15" Zenbook Pro (UX501VW) is about as polished as my old 2011 15" Macbook Pro (the 15" unibodies were my favorite Apple form factor ever). And I paid less than half of what I paid for my old MBP. Sure, you can get nitpicky, but for the stuff I care about and notice, they're pretty much the same.

Worth noting, I consider ASUS to be a second tier PC brand, generally a notch below the likes of a Lenovo, Dell or HP business laptop.
>The primary use of ether in its purest abstraction (ie not packaged in an index fund), is in the form of gas to power the individual steps of the computer. It is no more a security than the gasoline in your car.

I’m sure if you compared the number of people who bought ETH to actually use as gas to facilitate a transaction vs simply investing for profit compared to the number of people who bought gas to fuel their cars vs resell for profit...you might not get so wrapped up in you analogy
YNAB4 used Dropbox anyway...
Didn't realise that there was a refresh, I'll take a look.
I think it's disingenuous to think every Flat Earther is just trolling. People are donating money to the cause, probably by someone scamming them rather than people genuinely interested in science. I think it's important to at least give those people a starting point to find the truth rather than blowing them off completely.
I don't think that's true. Those parks aren't big and they're still expensive because the property itself is expensive.

Most of the poverty number is due to all the college students - there are 33k of them in a town of 108k.
FTFA:

> And putting aside the fundraising that accompanied the creation of Ether, based on my understanding of the present state of Ether, the Ethereum network and its decentralized structure, current offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions.

Wouldn't the hard forks seem to go against this?
YNAB (You Need a Budget) is fantastic
PhD in Quantum Information/Mathematical Physics in Warsaw – Quantiki
There are two different sorts of promotion. The first is a promotion in rank, where the job you do is fundamentally the same, but you are paid more for it because you're better at it.

The second is a promotion in office, where the job you do is fundamentally different, but you are paid more for it because your responsibilities are wider.

We get in trouble when we try to use the same mechanism for both. Promotions as incentive in the first case are fine. Promotions in the second are what this paper deals with, and are where the incentive aspect is more problematic.
FWIW https://www.youneedabudget.com/privacy-policy/

"We do not sell users’ data. (And we never have!)"

They make money by charging $5/mo and having a large cult following.
I want a thing that can plot a numerical array as a line graph of data points. A histogram and a scatter plot would be nice, too.

And I don't mean for computational/data science exploring, I've got numpy/matplotlib for that. But really as a debugging tool in the browser's dev console. It's not uncommon that I have an array of numbers (or something that looks like one), a few hundred or more. Finding the bug or unexpected behaviour in my program is often about finding the numbers in such a list that "stand out" in some way. Now I could specify and filter those elements that "stand out", but I could also plot a graph and grasp its behaviour in a single glance. Just dumping the numbers to the console and hunting for aberrant behaviour likely takes me out of my flow, where a graph would not.
ledger https://ledger-cli.org
That is not how attribution works. If tomorrow Sundar Pichai says he loves crypto currency it doesn't mean Google is going to start competing with Bitmain. News will still say - Google's Sundar Pichai says etc. But if it happens in an official forum like Google I/O then it means something else.

This didn't happen in any official capacity like say a Senate hearing or a ruling. The guy was a guest speaker at a Yahoo forum. So while he is entitled to his view it is not official position.
I just bought a G4 iMac on eBay to play around with. Apart from anything to do with the internet it's quite usable.
It’s not common but isn’t completely unusual. It can be structured in different ways but is often referred to as a “breakup fee”. My sense is it’s much more common on larger deals than smaller ones, though.
Thanks to those removable screws, I upgraded my mid-2012 with an SSD and it boots blindingly fast. Only when I do particularly complicated graphics work do I notice any lag - other than that, this laptop is a champion and I see no laptop on the market I would rather use
It also occurs to me that there's an interesting meta-commentary here, which is that an outlet like Quillette can publish an article like this with such obvious counterarguments. They don't even have sufficient editorial feedback to understand that they don't understand.
Right. The ‘Thin Wars’ have been killing us from the start, and I’m not even sure anyone is fighting in them besides Apple.
Made the switch to a thinkpad running linux last November and couldn't be happier.
I know how often I interact with such people precisely: 0.17% of the people I interact with have this, whether online or in real life.
I'm typing this comment on a Late 2011 MBP right now, with upgraded ram and an SSD. Works great! I agree with you though, 2012 was peak MacBook.
> Sad fact is that Mac sales are now 10% of Apples revenue. I think the only reason Macs receive any attention at all within Apple is because you need Macs to build iphone/ipad apps. Another way of framing this is - how much effort do you put on the bottom 10 percent of your TODO list.

I think it's wrong to analogize a large corporation to an individual like that. An individual only has a limited capacity to divide its productive capacity, but a corporation almost has an infinite amount.

One of Apple's problems is that they often take what are probably good ideas too far. Some focus is good, but too much can be bad. Back when Steve Jobs took over, it was probably right for them to hyperfocus on a small number of models and software products, but the situation is different now. There's no good reason for a company as successful as they are now to not give the Mac division the resources and leadership it needs to be successful. Unfortunately, they seem to be neglecting it instead.
Wave Apps. It’s free with some helpful paid tools for businesses.
I built my own, using daily since 2010. Finally getting serious about offering it up as a product.
I love refurbishing these models. You can upgrade the RAM to 16 GB ($110), Install an SSD ($150), and replace the battery ($65) in 15 mins. Your biggest hurdle is having a $1 tri-wing bit for the battery and it will run MacOS as well as any current model.
It's not true, they do know how to install a bunch of extensions and stuff. Happened to a family member. Fake search bars, etc.

It was easy enough to wipe though.
Yes, that's a good feature to have. IIRC, IPython does not have it either, so, for example, if you do a dir(object_name) for some object, like a module, class, function, etc., if it has too many attributes, they scroll off the screen, more so since IPython prints the attributes one per line. The CPython shell is better for this, since it prints multiple attributes per line. For IPython, I have to do this:

for at in dir(object_name):
print at,

and that will still scroll off if it is too long (although in that case it would scroll off in Python too). So a built-in pager would be useful for many such apps, since it will allow you to stay in the app; if you pipe the app's output to less, you cannot interact with the app via the keyboard, until you quit the less invocation.
My doctor said there was a case of a lady who removed her flap when she woke up at night and tried to remove her contacts out of habit :|
I think Linux has been the best developer platform for a long time.
Apple is so shameless that it sells old hardware for the same prices it released them at several years ago. The profit margins on selling the Mac Pro and Mac mini must be at least 70-80%. If that’s not eye gouging, nothing else is.

At least reduce the prices and be honest instead of following this dirty and unethical practice.

What was even the point of talking about changes to the Mac App Store during WWDC with this poor state of affairs?!
Hardware requirements probably have plateaued for the 85th percentile of users. I think you've touched on something important, but I'd say it actually goes in reverse.

One of the deprecated pieces of hardware in Mohave is the 2011 27" iMac which ought to be more than capable of handling Mohave. Sure it doesn't support handoff, night shift, or some other minor features but I can accept that. It's frustrating to buy a piece of hardware and having it deprecated by the software less than a decade later when the chipset is more than capable of handling said software. Mohave will presumably run on the 2016 12" MacBook which is far, far less powerful than my iMac.

Let me choose to live without minor features but continue to be able to use contemporary software if it can run on the hardware.
Thanks for the clarification. I never really know how much (accuracy) to put in a post. I'm assuming that part of it is what turned some folk away from learning complexity in the first place. (I have intuition but not a firm grasp of what turns people away either.)

The implicit default of "worst-case running time" (in the context of algorithm) may actually be the source of errors like the one made in the video. For what its worth, I actually think the lim sup definition is easier because its fewer things to memorize.
Another way to look at that is the company risks up to 10% of its top line if it doesn't support the product line. Everyone's priorities may differ but if I'm running a business I don't casually give up 10% of my revenue. That's a lot!
Volvo’s self-driving cars are getting new laser sensors to see the world
Cool. Would you say the SMS plays an important part? Or would e.g. a Telegram bot work as well for those of us who do not work at Twilio?