skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, doesn't solve any of my current problems (eg. reverting the touch bar would be one fix). Had they offered a 17" version, I would have been all over it.
> Of course i believe in evolution, i went to a school where they told me to believe it.

Can I ask in what country you went to school? Sounds like a strange approach to teaching biology.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. -Oscar Wilde

A witty saying proves nothing -Voltaire
Even without the Touchbar, using the T1 for securing the TouchID sensor (amongst the other duties it fulfills) would've been justification enough. So no, that's no excuse for the Touchbar.
You do five requests for resources that are in total 2 KB. Just inline them (including those tiny images).
Now that is irony.
But would people really try to share / bookmark a page that at that very moment doesn't show the content they want to share?

I think it is a beautiful, simple solution that just works (and also did work perfectly in the past when we didn't have JS)
B.E. is a subject I'm incredibly excited about. I'm glad to see this at the top of YC today.

Every (somewhat major) decision I'm making now, I'm constantly reminding myself of various biases and silliness that I participate in unwillingly (or even sometimes willingly).

I would say this study has been immensely helpful, and Thaler is a huge contributor to this for me. (Freakonomics, also, has been a great learning resource.)

For anyone interested in this subject, I recommend Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. (You'd think I should get a referral bonus as often as I talk about this book.) It quite literally changed my life. Of course, Nudge is the other juggernaut in the field.

In fact, if anyone is particularly interested, I'd love to chat. Profile has contact details.
Some states (Florida and California, I believe) have laws prohibiting release of photos of corpses -- granting the dead a limited right to privacy. Laws prohibiting the disturbance/mistreatment/abuse of corpses are common, but not universal.
Apple no longer sells the 2015 MacBook Pro
Is that your project? You seem to do a decent amount of promotion of it and Chronon Systems.

For what it's worth, I'd imagine most people would be hesitant to use a free service for something as critical as their monitoring. Especially since the first term in the terms of service says the service can terminate at any time, without notice.
I believe this is a case of a disparity between who they say their products are for (power users), and who they are actually for (people who want to think of themselves as power users).

This would be similar to, for example, many sportswear brands who say they are for professional athletes, but whose primary consumer base is... not.

In both cases, they may still attract the audience they claim to target, but in practice, that niche market makes up only a small fraction of their total sales.
For all the talk about the keyboard and Touch Bar, isn't this the first MBP to offer 32gb of ram and an i9 processor? I can live with the keyboard, I don't care about the touch bar, but the ram and processor are the main reasons I've been holding out buying a new one.
That’s good to hear. My intuition is random failure like that resulted from inability to find your instances, or a belief in their non-existence or ill health.
First, Tesla is not running out of cash. Tesla has a very attractive margin on every car it sells (and now it produces 7,000 of them weekly). The only reason they are losing money is large spending on R&D, SG&A, and in production capacity to satisfy a huge demand. Those are investments any tech company in their shoes would keep high while scaling up.

Second, most competitors are years away. Tesla is producing and shipping their mid priced car already, while most others are merely announcing, planning and developing theirs. If you want a 200 mile range, Nissan Leaf is already a decent competitor, though.

Most of us would like longer ranges (300 miles or more), and there is literally no other company than Tesla with EVs of that range. The EVs from VW, BMW, Daimler etc. are not on the market until maybe 2020, and with shorter range. Their second attempt will be ready 2-3 years after given the usual production cycle. By mid 2020, Tesla likely has substantially longer range than 300 miles and lower prices than $54,000, and they may very well be close to producing 1,000,000 EVs yearly (they just need to double current production rate once per year to achieve that).

By 2022-2023, when the competitors are finally ready with cars that can compete with the 2018 Tesla model 3, I bet Tesla is already down in the upper end of the low priced segment or the lower end of the mid priced segment and that they produce several millions of EVs yearly.

Like you, I would love for the others to catch up. Competition is good. But I increasingly doubt it will happen.

Tesla can literally just copy their current production lines a number of times at different places in the world, wait for the battery efficiency to improve as it has done every year, wait for battery price to drop, as it has done every year, while expanding their charging networks. Not that I think they won't keep innovating. It's just that they are so far ahead already.
Random Points on a Sphere (Part 2)
Thank you for this lucid description of the authoritarian position.
What if they are armed? I'm not sure if it's recommended to play a hero.
At some point it boils down to who applies.

Example: Women are GENERALLY more petite, they struggle carrying firefighter gear (45-75lbs depending on your load out) and aren't interested or can't pass the necessary requirements to ensure their safety, they get fewer female applicants and thus more men are firefighters type of thing.

I imagine there are still fewer qualified female applicants than male. I imagine there are far fewer female applicants for entry-level construction jobs than male applicants too, doesn't mean a construction company is dropping the ball or being discriminatory by default.
Mobile-gaming titans keep ripping off indies
This is your brain on caffeine vs. alcohol
You are not wrong. It's just that Bloomberg requires their journalists to push out fluff everyday.

Whenever you see a headline posed as a question, it's certain to be nonsense. News should be factual, not rhetorical or philosophical.

Will an asteroid strike the earth? Are aliens hiding from us?

I really hope the news business model changes in the near future because it's getting so clickbaity and useless. Today's news is to real news what junk food is to real food. For joyous few years, the internet and social media was a refuge from news. Now, we are inundated with news.

Would be nice if the news stuck to facts, events or data.
here's a little supporting evidence, but, I freely admit, it's from a mostly rural country many people consider barbaric: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1969-montreals-night-of-ter...
Is anyone aware of any upgrade options for a machine that's older but still quite new (end of Jan this year) - highest MBP spec at the time?

I did see one Apple trade-in programme, but it seems oriented towards much older models with a max trade-in value to match.
The hardware registers in our designs are all defined and used in upper case.

The file names in our code base have a lot of upper case in them as well.

But the real reason is tbat I learned speed typing in high school on an IBM Selectrix typewriter. I use CAPS LOCK even for FBI and NASA. It comes totally natural to me.
I barely trust Facebook/Microsoft/et al. at an arms length. The last thing I want is them aggressively making choices about what kind of content is ok or not - it seems easy to censor Nazi's but what about brexitors or pro-firearms talk?

Add in a government compulsion to crack down on "bad speech" and we've circumvented free speech. Facebook has a right to not allow some content, but when Governments start setting standards across companies, what then?

In the UK, firearms talk is basically verboten. In the US, that's protected speech. Whose rules does Facebook follow? Or do we have a separate UK facebook?
Any passive, over-ear firearm hearing protection also works (and most are cheaper than $40).
That got me, too. It's from the Ars piece on today's news: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/apples-new-2018-macb...
"...Sometimes that is the only way to stop individuals bent on illegally benefiting themselves at the expense of others...."

Not just "sometimes", it takes the threat of violent people in uniforms ALL of the time when dealing with people bent on illegally benefiting themselves at the expense of others.

The issue is that the violent people in uniforms, (and even the people controlling them for that matter), can ALSO be bent on benefiting themselves at the expense of others.

It's not only grassroots organizations that can be corrupt, the government itself is actually even more likely to be corrupt. So you almost have to solve corruption before you try to solve the other structural issues. And corruption is just a very hard problem to solve.
won't it infrige on amazon's surveillance of clients for their workerless shop full of microphones and cameras?
I suspect some of this has changed at some point, right around when they switched to material design. Scrolling became laggy on some machines and the page would often become unresponsive. When Google Photos first came out it was wonderfully responsive but I have since switched away.
I don't understand your argument from that point of view... with the same argument, I could tell you that adding 15 new keys to the middle of the keyboard would be good, because those keys may have esoteric function for a small number of users, and if you complain about their addition, I'd just remind you that this is a tool, not a piece of art.

Look at how many people here recommend rebinding caps lock to "esc" and control to caps lock and all other sorts of editing to the keys... should you remind them that rebinding keys is unnatural and the tool should be used the same way it's always been?

I guess it stems from the fact that I've never understood the argument that the touch bar took away the "esc" key... but on every touch bar MBP I see at the Apple Store, the esc key is still there, still right where it was, and still has the same functionality. The only difference is now if you don't use the esc key, you have the ability to remove it and put a more useful key there instead. But somehow this is a bad thing. I don't understand it.

If it's a tool, like you claim, it should be useful for getting work done. But instead you seem to actually want it to be made according to your exact design and visual preferences, which to me sounds more like you're actually looking for a piece of art.
Maybe the Touchbar was just a "clever" way to prepare all of us for sole touch-based input, which is going to be included in the MBP in 2020. ;-)

P.S.: I don't even think touch-only input is neccessarily a bad idea. All Apple has to do to make it work is to implement some kind of really good haptic feedback which also allows to feel individual keys. I even expected that for this iteration of the MBP for the Touchbar.
Apple has notoriously aggressively focused on a future-facing scalable way. I.e. where they see enough of the market in say 5 years (i.e. firewire, USB-C). However, they have been wrong before, AND I don't think anyone can argue that they aren't focusing on non-mobile hardware right now.

While it's easy to say "just trust apple, they're doing it for the shareholders," I think it's also fair to say that they're losing their touch in this venue.

It used to be the only reason you didn't buy a Mac for pro creative-type work was the price. Now there are many great reasons from ergonomics to computing power.
Nice, I haven't used the Profiler yet, will check that out soon. What languages have you used it with? I'm looking to use it with the JVM profiler.
I think someone needs to audit all versions of all packages on npm. The original eslint maintainer's credentials could have been compromised days ago, via an older version of another module; then the credential stealing code could have been removed in a more recent update.

I've grepped my entire local code base for 'eval' and 'pastebin'; I seem to be fine. But was I fine yesterday? The "^" wildcard is just evil.

And the fallout from this could be incredibly complex. What do you think the original hackers will do with the stolen npm credentials? The paranoid side of me says they are inserting different hacks in any module they can.

Ugh... npm is insanely broken.
The Zoe (the new 41 kWh) goes around 250 km and the battery hire is not mandatory, but pretty smart in IMO, Renault replaces the battery if its breaks or goes below 75% charge, when you sell the car the status of the battery is a non-issue, there is a road assistance insurance baked into it as well.

The fact that you do not own the battery is also reflected in the price of the vehicle, it would take us 8 years to reach a break even, I have not yet owned a car for 8 years.

A nice bonus is that the Zoe got the highest possible score on a corrosion test, a big thing where I live since roads are frequently sprayed with salt winter time.
> Funny that I only ever hear of this when talking about security aspects, not when discussing available software. In the latter case I always hear how many things are there in AUR, especially comparing to Debian. AUR must have failed miserably in not trying to pass false sense of security.

One argument does not invalidate the other. It is true that tons of software are available in AUR that is not easily available in other distros. It is also true that AUR is not supported.

A similar thing happens with PPAs in Ubuntu or even with Flatpak/Snaps: they brings tons of additional software to the distro, however they're unsupported and can be security nightmares [1].

[1]:Yeah, even when Flatpak/Snaps are properly sandbox (since some apps are not), they can include software to mine cryptocurrencies for example.
Snowflake-Microsoft deal shows retailers prefer Azure over Amazon Web Services
Facebook releases new research dataset to help AI communicate better
I haven't noticed that's but it's hilarious. "OK" is how you boss Google tech, so "OK" is how it bosses you too.
IBM Selectrix typewriter trainee. It’s just how we learned to speed type in high school. :-)
Yes the issue with Linux terminals using different shortcuts than the rest of the system drives me absolutely bonkers, probably more than any of the hundreds of small cuts found in the desktop Linux experience.
> Besides, my understanding was that Escape wasn't an option on Mac until a couple years ago.

Indeed, Mac keyboards didn't originally have Escape or Control keys; they weren't added until 1987.
What we basically need is universities taking the lead in developing a variety of search algorithms for different purposes, and publishing them.
> I didn't know that a single request can actually have multiple round trips!

If you load something from a third-party origin (e.g. 23789dz89asd789s.cloudfront.something), then it can actually be a lot worse than that. DNS needs resolving, which can take quite a while, depending on if and where things are cached. Then you get a full TCP handshake (since TFO doesn't work for the first connection), a full TLS handshake and then you get to roundtrip your request(s).
The New 15inch maxed out ram and cpu + the blackmagic eGPU + the new ultrawide from LG at 5k2k and you have a perfect setup.
Confession: I don’t unit test React/Redux code
I think that post title is a bit sensationalist.

The researchers concede, however, that their technique would require a detailed measurement or digital scan of a the face of the target iPhone's owner. That puts their spoofing method in the realm of highly targeted espionage, rather than the sort of run-of-the-mill hacking most iPhone X owners might face.

Yes, if you have precise enough tools and can print a face that resembles the owner's, and you wear that face, you're going to 'bypass' the recognition software, but are you really 'breaking' it?

You can really see the researcher playing hard to the validity and value of the work here;

Bkav, meanwhile, didn't mince words in its blog post and FAQ on the research. "Apple has done this not so well," writes the company. "Face ID can be fooled by mask, which means it is not an effective security measure."

I don't know, it's not 'hacking' or even 'breaking' enough to concern me.
Intelligence is apparently correlated with depression and anxiety, as the more intelligent one is the more likely they are to question themselves and their world.
Does the private citizen owe social good?

Unless you have a clear argument that all people have a prima facie duty to always do social good (mandatory volunteering?) then it seems very difficult to claim there's a special duty when multiple people group together. Does that duty affect the bake shop up the road? The bookshop that employs 20 people?
Apple discontinues its own photo printing service
So how would he estimate 1 year project?
But as a criticism against the already collected power of corporations and oligarchs that wariness just means individuals stay unfocused and weak vs concentrated and powerful interests.

The broad correlation (and correlation isn't necessarily causation) is that as union power decreased, so did real wage growth.
Do you think you would be happy in an environment where all business and technical communication was text? Do you think that could even be productive? Or is some amount of spoken communication practically necessary?

This whole exchange has been interesting. Thanks again.
How many such situations don't happen despite an open office, because the person who could have solved it was wearing noise blocking headphones? Most discussions near me don't require my attention, so none of them get my attention.
State of Mutation Testing at Google (2017)
A lot of people ask techie friends for advice on what computer to buy.

The number of people with HN-grade "techie" friends is a rounding error.
Well, it's a limitation of Intel's processors. Either you use LPDDR3 which maxes out at 16GB or you go with DDR4, which is more power hungry, but allows more than 16GB.
Well (on a relative scale), won't most startups or smaller companies be more in the phase of "writing" as opposed to "re-writing"? I think the advice above would in theory apply to companies big enough to have legacy codebases.
This is to push you towards CDNs. The main data centers cannot scale appropriately to serve high bandwidth applications, and aren't meant to.
There are English names for all of the special APL symbols so speaking in APL was both possible and common.
article needs a date
If anyone out there wants a massive dataset to train these things, the entirety of Spain's LiDAR scan is freely available under CC-BY 4.0 license: http://pnoa.ign.es/presentacion
FWIW https://neilonsoftware.com/2018/07/12/my-response-to-as-a-te...
> three roundtrips

Well, before we get to the Google Fonts CSS, we first have to open another connection there, do a TLS handshake, and maybe we even need to look that host up first before any of that.
The renault zoe has a range of 200 real miles, if only car dealers knew how to sell them...
Why SMS should never be used as second factor
Not a toddler, but I did take my 4 year old to work for a half day once when childcare fell through. I have my own office though and she was quiet, playing with blocks in a corner.
The 13" only gets 16G of RAM though.

That's really sad, the 13" would be the best machine for my case if it had parity on the memory side (dealing with a lot of VMs, it really makes a difference)
please please make this! Apple notes with markdown and git!
Politicians and civil servants are subject to behavioral concerns too. Who will watch the watchmen?
I went back to use the filesystem as I was used to do before.

Editing via Paint.NET and exporting to the Web via jAlbum.

Requiring a G+ account didn't help to gain my love.
How can the exploiter write buggy code? By... writing buggy code?

From what I gather, they wrote some code that downloads a script, which might (or not) get downloaded in chunks. But their code only executes the first chunk. So if the whole script is not in the first chunk, you get a syntax error because it is incomplete.

That exploited code was not in Github, it was added to the ESLint code the exploiter had, which he then published to npm using stolen credentials, bypassing the normal CI process. How would unit tests and linting help with that?
The tech giants have grown too profitable, at the expense of stuff they should be doing like paying taxes, or hiring enough people to oversee click fraud, or hire enough people to oversee counterfeit fraud, or hire enough people to oversee how companies use highly personal data. They hire just enough people to dodge taxes and somehow not be complicit in anything they directly profit from.
I mention this every time open offices come up, but it bears repeating. The "collaboration" excuse is nonsense. Companies choose open offices because they're cheaper. You can fit more people in less square feet which means cheaper rent.

I'm pretty damn sure that if private offices were somehow cheaper they would do that instead and figure out some other way to handle collaboration.
What people on HN don't seem to understand is that developers are a tiny fraction of the professionals who use a MacBook Pro.

The "Pro" doesn't mean "developer."
Koa/Express middleware for form, query, param validation and filtering
Apple doesn't care because people (including myself) will continue to throw money at them even if they make something that sucks. All of their competitors' laptops simply suck more. Freed from market pressures, Apple's hardware designers have free reign to pursue form over function, a dream situation for any designer to be in.
> "real development takes 64GB RAM, 32 just isn't enough"

cough kubernetes cough
It isn't a big event though. They kick a ball into a rectangular volume.
Was this written by a bot or something? Because this is simply a mix of multiple articles instead of sticking to Lightspeed's investment. The quoted a16zcrypto.com is not even real.

And it's even more baffling - How did this even get promoted to 15 votes?

For people who want to read about this investment, here's the original article:

https://www.recode.net/2018/5/17/17359394/lightspeed-cryptoc...
Pro models will probably not have amazing battery life, especially if you're saturating the GPU (i.e. gaming).

However, Apple has previously led the market in power optimizations. I'm not confident they'll do that this time.
Agreed. Poor writing and superficial (at best) thinking seem to be all too common in the vast majority of Medium articles focused on crypto.