skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting!

I agree about some services businesses. Hell, I'm running my second successful consultancy, and have been known to recommend to people not to pursue the standard startup route.

Still, considering the sheer number of e.g. restaurant openings, small store openings, etc, which I assume have a relatively high 5-year failure rate, made me suspect the number was high.

I do wonder how your reference counts an establishment surviving after 5 years. E.g. if I start a company of 1 person (myself), and I keep it around after 4 years, but I'm working a full-time job besides, I understand from the reference that it would be counted as a firm that is still going after 5 years, although I wouldn't classify it as such. But I might be reading this wrong.
OTOH it's a lot more of a headache to maintain the complete Mac lineup than a few iPad models.
This is pretty cool. If you couldn't tell, he is using a dual trace oscilloscope in X-Y Mode [1]. The left audio channel is driving the horizontal deflection. You can usually pick up one of these old analog scopes for under 100 bucks if you look around!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope#X-Y_mode
They don't seem to be arguing a lot about performance in the article. The main complaint seems to be that the hardware released in the past few years has had significant flaws that haven't been addressed and the rest of their lineup hasn't been updated at all. When a 4 year old computer breaks they're either paying full price for hardware that's years old or buying into flawed hardware.

A lot of these big changes have v1 compromises (higher failure rate in keyboards, fewer USB-C ports, etc). The expectation is that these are fixed in v2. Years later USB-C is still quite hard to find, way more expensive, and many of their laptops only have 1 port that has to be used for charging (and wireless tech hasn't reduced the need enough). The keyboards still have problems and a high failure rate. Apple seems to either be dragging out v2 for too many years or just skipping it and coming out with a new v1 (like the Mac Pro).
Someone has. It's in MacBooks.
Yeah that part is silly. It's not like socially signaling the need for privacy/focus began with the proliferation of earbuds. We have other cues. They'll vanish too. New cues will emerge.
Meet Apple’s Security Headache: The GrayKey, a Startup’s iPhone-Hacking Box
I see what you mean.

Yes, the exploit won't work if the payload is read by the attacker's shell, rather than the root shell. But it's easy to ensure that this won't happen. The laziest way is to kill the shell before issuing TIOCSTI ioctls. :-)
I considered, for a very short while, trying to do some sort of OCR on the image to pull out the thermometer temperature and graph it over time. But that seemed a bit crazy. My first thought was https://xkcd.com/1425/.
Check out Wox for a Spotlight replacement on Windows: https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
If you create it in Ruby, you're going to have a bad time. The reason I love Hugo is that it is fast and compiles. I'd love to see an optimized implementation of a markdown language and template engine in C, but Hugo is next best.
I don't think any hardware manufacturer will touch Hackintoshing; previous company in that space (Psystar) was sued out of existence.

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

Obviously if a company isn't selling product with OSX installed it's different, but any marketing that suggests it would likely be problematic. Besides, the community has done a pretty good job of identifying compatible hardware

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I think it’s because Apple has the patent on glass on metal trackpads

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/210380/apple-...
Unfortunately it was nerfed in late 2014 by going to 15W CPU's. No more real quad-core i7's...
Ditto; besides Final Cut Pro, Photos, and Sequel Pro, most apps I use on macOS work as well (or nearly so) under Windows.

Agreed that the worst thing is the muscle memory for shortcuts; my pinkie always needs a few hours before it starts to remember which keyboard layout I'm using.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. The sea change at reddit is obvious to any long time user. Rational, objective, fact based unemotional comments that don't mesh with the prevailing narrative will be met with insults and a downvote brigade. I used to spend all day on reddit and now I visit maybe once a week to check a TV show subreddit.
This sounds a little like a lab I was once part of. I’m now in an entirely different field of research.
I'm the sysadmin in my company, and as noted in previous posts we have a lot of these USB-C MBPs. They're a logistical pain trying to keep up with adapters and I find the keyboards AND trackpads to be unusable - I was trying to click-and-drag on a colleague's computer earlier and just couldn't manage it, it kept registering a double-click. Apple also have incredible spite for soldering the RAM and SSDs to the logic boards to prevent anyone upgrading. I recently had the displeasure of trying to rescue a file off a non-booting MBP. It took me a multitude of hours and Target Disk Mode didn't even work. If one of these machines outright failed, I would have to write off the hardware and all the data on it.

I just sold a 2011 13" MBP I got from an office clearance on eBay. Despite being 7 years old, I got the equivalent of a couple of Chromebooks for it, with the new owner extremely eager to get their hands on it. I upped the disk to an SSD before I sold it and installed High Sierra, and it ran great.

From the same clearance, I got myself a 2014 Retina. Can't deny, the screen is gorgeous, the trackpad is great and the keyboard is very usable. It was already maxxed out with RAM, but despite having an upgradeable SSD, my upgrade options are limited because Apple use a proprietary form factor. I absolutely loved my old Discrete MBP, which I used daily for 5 years and took around the world with me, but I hold the Retina at arm's length. My other laptop is a custom-built gaming machine where I can push the RAM up to 64GB if I want to, as well as fitting SATA and NVMe SSDs. The lack of upgradeability is a real limit to the range.

We also have XPS 13's, which despite copying Apple on soldering in the RAM, have standard m.2 SSDs. I got an enclosure to drop the disks into if necessary.

As best I can tell with everything in Apple's current lineup, if it breaks or is outclassed, even within months of its release, you just throw it away and buy a new one.

I can't help but remember Tim Cook commenting how he noticed Windows users switching to Mac were coming from hardware that was 5 or more years old. His comment was how 'sad' this was. This was startling because it shows how long non-Apple hardware lasts, and how fundamentally Apple does not understand this. They would much rather you renewed your computer as often as you renewed your iPhone.
Agreed, and I also cannot even fathom how the author implies that AirPods are less of a signaling device.

They are white. They stand out at odd angles. They break up the silhouette of the face. I literally notice people on the street wearing them because they look so odd.

I've met people and only noticed on the third glance that they were wearing wired black earphones because they were so well-fitted and the wire snaked directly out of the ear.
How exactly would you propose a settlement of a criminal proceeding be paid out to a large number of victims? This is what class-action is designed for: it qualifies claimants, unifies proceedings and operates in civil court where the barrier is much lower. I'm probably like most in that I think most class-action suits are ambulance chasing lawyers cashing in vs. justice for the true victims, but this seems to be a textbook scenario for class action.
I see opportunity for niche search engines, there are several areas that google does not do well in on purpose it seems.

I think the truly hard part is that so many people accept whatever default is already there. If they get an android phone - they use the search box there. If they are using chrome browser, whatever input box is there on the first screen is obviously the url bar and use that (you and I may know the difference, the average user doesn't care, it's one less click to just type 'google' into the url box in the center of the page, of fbook or whatever, then google brings up the url you were going to (not searching).

This is why I think there is much less hype about competing in this space. Unless there is a thing forcing companies to put other browsers and search boxes on phones, tablets and chromebooks like the microsoft IE debacle so long ago.. then trying to be the next google is impossible, even if you had better results, better tech, etc.

Regardless of that, I think it's quite possible to make much better niche search engines and get them used. If ten micro engines could make 1% of googles revenues each, that would be a decent amount of money in my neck of the woods.

I'd like to see other people post more sources about search tech in general, several searches last year only brought a few info bits on what it may cost to create an index of the net - someone posted some numbers using servers bought off ebay and a rack at hurricane I think - had some numbers for the cost of servers to pull a new index every month or so?

Certainly the tech and costs have changed since that was published, but not much I've seen.

I'm pretty excited at this project posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16976941
( Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results (github.com) )

I am hoping to get some people together to make a less persnickety and fussbudgety search option for people who don't want to be babysit with censoring kids gloves when looking for fun things.

If anyone wants to make a couple adults only engines, or ones that are more fun, let me know.

Average people talk in slang and cut up about less high brow things, the big G gives rank to the college papers and deranks for so many things, it's on the road to being the next yellow pages and sciences journal, but not the place to go when you want fun things anymore.
Nice vs. Kind
> Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms.

I agree for 3D, but for video, photography, graphic design, audio, etc, the Mac is still going strong from what I've seen.
I used Linux for everything in college, only switching to Mac when it became clear to me that it was a nicer laptop that had enough Unix for me to get by. Going back the other way, there are a few things Mac OS has that I like, but my day-to-day is IntelliJ, Emacs, Firefox and a terminal, so it's not that big of a problem.

I'll probably never be totally Apple-free. I leave the door open for them to make a decent developer laptop again. And I don't have compelling replacements for, or the money to go down the rabbit hole all at once, for the iPhones, Apple TV, iPads etc. and figure out what to do about my photos and music. But Apple got me by wooing me as a developer. Now that I'm on Linux full-time at home, I can start thinking about how I'd like to solve those problems, where before I wasn't really giving it any thought. Apple should be worried, because we are a bell weather, and you can't expect a platform to thrive that developers despise.
That's a philosophical difference. I don't disagree, but given the various constraints involved what you're asking isn't possible. Additionally, I'd note that it sounds like they are practicing Lean methodology - which is justifiable.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/#MetPra
Child pornography and homeless people are not comparable. Homeless people have a right to shelter, whereas pictures do not have rights. We take down child pornography not because we wish to "sweep it under the rug", but because the pictures are inherently and irredeemably harmful.
This is getting downvoted and it makes sense, but I think that the source of this article does sort of taint the sentimentality of what's being said. It comes across differently, and this post (while definitely not 100% on topic) helped to inform my take on the submission. So maybe it's not dead-worthy?
Solid hardware review but I'm more interested in the software user experience. I'm wanting to transition away for Mac for Node / React development and professional photography. Unfortunately the lack of Unix and weird things like backslash in folder paths is holding me back.

I'd be curious to hear stories of any React / Node developers making the switch and their recommendations. Do you just run an Ubuntu image in a VM for running all your Node stuff?
5510 Work Computer - the keyboard is complete trash. The XPS 13's we have laying around have a slightly better feel to them, but they're still trash compared to my 2011 Macbook Air.

Its really frustrating, and has basically turned my "laptop" into a desktop
I can’t wait for this. A (hopefully) significantly lighter-weight and cross-platform Office installation that supports VBA and shares DNA with its web and mobile offerings?

Sign me up!
Netflix is now almost THREE TIMES what it was a year ago – Analysis
Ah, this reminds me of fond memories of watching The Matrix converted to ASCII.
Windows phone and google chrome book.
I also just switched to XPS 13 but with a 4K display. My main problem is the touchpad. I could not type without accidentally touching touchpad which causes random actions like deleting chunks of text, sending unfinished emails or just jumping around the document. I never had such problem on ThinkPad I had before. Perhaps it is Dell touchpad calibration issue under Linux.
As an Erlang developer for the past couple years now, I love seeing the adoption and excitement around Elixir and the BEAM. I will admit I always shudder when people very quickly call out on Erlang's syntax as a reason not to use it. Feels like a pretty lame excuse...

All that said however, it kind of bugs me when I see posts like this (no matter the language) that go somewhere along the lines of "I managed to introduce language X and it was all rainbows and unicorns! Everybody loves it and work is fun again". Like, you had absolutely no problems with it? In my experience, people don't immediately grasp the actor model or how to manage processes (i.e. should I spawn a process for a short-lived task? should this monitor another process? should I link? should it need supervision?).

Given that you're basically changing a methodology amongst your devs, it can be expected that things won't get written "right" the first time. I'm not referring to little idiosyncrasies like coding convention or best practices but literally misunderstanding of gen_servers and supervisors. Sure, perhaps transferring from Ruby to Scala to Elixir helped made the transfer less painful given their similarities but surely there were complications?
Maybe you're right, but for me it was a little jarring at first.

Little things like that add up - and it's nice when they are just completely out of the way. FWIW I don't have the issue you reported, I can click anywhere on the trackpad, even the very edge. Mostly useful when you're dragging and dropping or selecting text etc.
I'd recommend something like this:

http://www.npower.org/Our-Programs/Community-Corps.aspx
Gene therapy reverses rat's paralysis
Google Docs is great until you want to use it in a low-netowork bandwidth or resource-constrained environment. That’s when you see how much of a resource hog it can be. (Offline Google Docs doesn’t really compare.)
>If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference as NASA and modern astronomy claim, spherical trigonometry dictates the surface of all standing water must curve downward an easily measurable 8 inches per mile multiplied by the square of the distance. This means along a 6 mile channel of standing water, the Earth would dip 6 feet on either end from the central peak. Every time such experiments have been conducted, however, standing water has proven to be perfectly level.

In fact I remember an old story of someone doing exactly that, taking up the challenge of a flat-earther. They set up surveying equipment with a scope at one end of a long placid lake, a pole at the other and one midway. When they looked through the scope at the far pole, the middle pole was clearly higher. "That doesn't prove anything," said the flat-earther, "level the transit." So they leveled the transit, and the middle pole appeared some distance below level, and the far pole some distance below that. The flat-earther declared this conclusively proved the earth was flat. You really cannot win in this situation.
It’s definitely apparent to those in the field. All the good scientists know who publishes junk, even if the junk publishers are unaware. Arjun Raj has a great and relevant blog post on playing the long game in science: http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.com/2016/06/reproducibility-re.... Worth a read.
This is stupid :)
EU Court supports trademark protection for red-soled shoes (Louboutins)
How does one specialize in both copyright _and_ securities law? I could understand copyright and real estate or securities and corporate law, but that seems to be a novel pairing.
it is all about their online reputation... if you type in semalt, there are many articles talk about their spamming behavior back in 2014, and most analytics block them.. they just want to remove those articles/comments as many as possible...and to be forgotten/"privacy". i did search.. their trademark is Estonian Trademark, and still in pending(date of filing: 16.05.2018).. so they are part of Europe.
Well it’s possible that AirPods or other earbuds will eventually have capabilities that allow you to hear much better than normally, like a conversation 50 feet away or sounding an alarm when a relatively silent electric car is approaching. In that case there may be a 16/7 use case for them.
Apple kind of said this about the trash can Mac Pro. They designed themselves into the wrong limitations which prevented them from releasing spec upgrades (physical and thermal limitations). The annoying thing is that they have seemed to have done this on multiple fronts and the compromises were never for the things people were clamoring for.

One of the disappointing things personally, and why I complain instead of switching to PC hardware, is that on the PC side the laptops just aren't as good, either.
Because Markdown works really well for content creators, but it could use a few extra features. I am not a fan of the examples they used, but believe Markdown could use some revamping.

`##### test` for example is not as efficient and easy to read as `#5 test`.
I think people are very familiar with "foot gun" which is quite common, and are inferring that since a cannon is a really big gun, a foot cannon is a really big foot gun.
Snapchat Launches Snap Kit: Developer Platform
Abductme demo is on html5 so hit play and let us know your feedback
Pulled pork is too time consuming to do properly for pretty much everybody. And with a couple of tricks to add texture and smoke you can create a very close copy with very little effort.
They moved it from under the screen on the left side, to under the screen in the middle. Everyone who reviews the new model still agrees the placement is ridiculous:

> Despite an all-around makeover of the physical design of the system, the camera remains stubbornly anchored to the blank expanse below the screen. That means any attempt to use it results in a less-than-flattering view, emphasising one's neck, chin and nostrils.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-xps-13-2018/review/
I'm still using my 4-core, mid-2011 Mini. Aside from the poorly supported graphics hardware--video playback in Chrome, etc has inexplicably taken up more CPU over the years, I guess because lazy developers increasingly depend on more modern CPU and GPU features--I have no reason to upgrade and nothing enticing to upgrade to. It seems my mini won't be supported for macOS 10.14, and I have no idea what I'll do.

I'm also still hanging onto my Macbook Air, which to me is the epitome of laptop design.
If you aim to replace office productivity apps you're going to run into the exact same problem
It's surprising that Apple hasn't switched to AMD processors though.
I mean Apple developers / engineers, either being assigned to work on the iPhone hardware & iOS software, or the Mac hardware & macOs software.
I'm sorry, what am I asking?
I'm disappointed they didn't demonstrate what happens when they take this system and expose it to a few real-world photos. Can it handle that, or has it been very much fitted to these shapes?
“Barbaric” is largely a matter of opinion. What I find barbaric is that someone press on some of the most vulnerable people in society, ruins their lives, and is allowed to proceed with just a library fine. It doesn’t create any negative incentive for the next person thinking about doing this, which the needle certainly would.
I have had limited success using the Windows Subsystem for Linux on my current project which is mostly FaaS on AWS with ES6/Typescript. It's not perfect but I would recommend giving it a shot, it's pretty darn close.
Europe's New Copyright Rules Are Like YouTube Content ID System–for the Internet
Agreed. I've seen this more and more where people link to incomplete proposals on GitHub, but have very misleading titles. At least they know how to work the system to get their content on the front page.
Well, also this claim is definitely something that would represent an extraordinary advance. Any detailed correspondence between machine learning neural nets and actual neurology would be quite a step and not something neurologist or machine learning experts expect.
google wifi might give you some security and ease of use but you also give up privacy. not a good tradeoff considering the alternatives.
Thanks for the response!

I agree, having queries live in the client is a great goal for DX on the frontend. The ideal being to have them co-located right with the components that need the data. But the issue is that these kinds of solutions are often presented without discussing their tradeoffs. From the article:

> Because persisted queries are static by definition, they also give you the possibility of optimizing execution on the server for specific queries, for example by hand-crafting a highly efficient database query.

Well, that's a bit harder when the client controls the queries and they're automatically "recompiled" on each new deploy, because now you're optimizing a moving target that could change dramatically with little notice. It's not really a benefit, since it's such a fragile situation to be relying on in the first place.

Persisted queries also kind of make co-location of queries with components a non-starter. Maybe Apollo doesn't want to allow co-located queries, which could be an okay decision, but isn't really discussed much as a tradeoff.

And then it doesn't solve the larger issue that these solutions don't work for public-facing APIs. So you end up having to solve the same issues (eg. bandwidth, security, caching) again in an entirely new way.

I think it's something the community will need to address if public-facing GraphQL APIs are going to flourish.
Your first comment is kind of funny, because while Elixir's syntax may appear more "esthetic", I find Erlang's way more consistent and logical.
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"Our method still has many limitations when compared to more traditional computer vision techniques, and has currently only been trained to work on synthetic scenes. However, as new sources of data become available and advances are made in our hardware capabilities, we expect to be able to investigate the application of the GQN framework to higher resolution images of real scenes."