skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there were a better way to find the results that users are actually looking for, then Bing and Google would be working their assess off to find it.

That you presume they have any other goal in mind is frankly bizarre to me.

Through experimentation they have arrived at these algorithms to maximize the probability that you find what YOU were looking for. Based on who you are, what you've searched in the past, what context they think you're in, what's happening recently, what's happening nearby, etc.

If you want the search engines to ignore the context of the individual, then most people will get what they are looking for far, far less often than they currently do.

That's what Google and Bing are experts at optimizing.

There are search engines that don't try to optimize based on your personalized context. You and everyone else are free to use them and you don't because they're not as good at what you want. Statistically speaking. I admit there are edge cases.
sounds like it was this: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a
PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(
The node package ecosystem is not "designed" to work this way. Everybody is encouraged to use many single purpose packages. The production app I work on at work has over 1000 dependencies. Almost all of them are transitive. (We have maybe 20-30 specified dependencies.)
I'm not a huge fan of the fact that when I want to drag a component, if I initiate the click&drag on the little "i" information button, it lets me drag the component but when I release it snaps back to the previous location and opens the info.

Perhaps a toggle for the info boxes on components?

Overall, I love this though.
If you're smart enough to make money as a con artist, then you're smart enough not to fall for the con.
Unique? I specifically used the word mostly and not unique. And the scale is vastly different. Also "killing" was just an over-encompassing metaphor.

I'm not implying that needless killing is the only, or the main thing that sets us apart from animals, except in the context of the comment I was replying to (about lions feeding on an impala). But it's taking this kind of actions despite having the ability to be aware consequences that makes us special. You would expect the threshold for some of these actions to increase with these newfound abilities but it went the other way around. A person is willing to kill a last member of a species not for survival but for little more than a trophy on a wall.

There are probably far more things that set us apart from animals than instinct or awareness of consequence. Most children actually lack these abilities because they are partly taught, they have to be groomed. So the main difference might be that we are able to learn up to a point that no animal can rival us.
This is the perfect example of what a human can be without "learning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxana_Malaya
Who’s saying anything about believing?

Just stating facts based on eye witness accounts from 900 years ago.
I don't disagree - but with an "enterprise worth"† of money to burn, you can hire someone like you to suffer through it!

†: Now that I've used it twice, I move that we make an "enterprise worth" a unit of measurement of money, like a "Library of Congress" is a unit of measurement of storage.
BDFL? PEP?
Wow, this is the end of an era! Guido has had an extraordinary impact on the direction of Python and software engineering more generally, and I thank him for his contributions.
That niche of developer/macrumors posters USED to be happy with everything Apple did. Under Steve Jobs, it seemed like Macbooks got cheaper every year, with more value. Now, every year the price goes up, but less value.
Lower right for me is Mission Control, and has been for years. It would be a tough unlearning experience on your computer ;)
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> Yeah, but as soon as they connect to apple for registration/updates/etc they could (theoretically) be blocked again.

But it's probably won't be the thief that will be left holding the bag, but rather sucker who buys the loot off of them.
Doesn't communication require intent?

The truck example is weird, cause it isn't trying to communicate. The person who made it may be trying to communicate something, but the truck would be a use of language, not using a language itself.
A aluminium body adds significant weight when compared to composite materials; it can also attenuate radio and be prone to warping. IMHO, it is not an obvious choice for a laptop casing. The X1 Carbon is significantly lighter than a MacBook Pro, despite having a better (deeper) keyboard and a removeable battery.
Mid 20s. The only social media I have is IG but I only follow people I know in real life. I don't find FB worthwhile because it made me dislike many people I know after seeing how they express some of their political opinions (on both the left and right). The other ones just seem like wastes of time.

I still use Google regularly and I have a smartphone, but I would give up a smartphone if there were a decent phone with email and google maps as built in applications.

I agree that giving up personal data can be concerning for many people, but at the same time, people don't want to pay for the services, so it's a catch-22.
Not sure where i ran into the claim (may have been the Oliver Stones series), but it went something like this:

While on patrol one of the soldiers shoots a elderly woman holding a bicycle in a village. By the time the report reached the DC it had become an ageless, genderless, Vietcong with a grenade.
Developers are more likely to use software that's designed for multiple platforms, without priority given to the Mac. (I guess if you assume not all developers live their life in Xcode.)

This means that developers are more likely to be regularly using software that actually depends on the keys they stripped off to make the touchbar, and/or software with sub-par to nonexistent touchbar support.
BITW ("bump in the wire") is easy to use. Trivial. It's just devices you insert in a point-to-point link to encrypt it. You don't even need IPsec for that, but whatever.

SG ("security gateway", aka VPN) is reasonably easy to use, especially if you assign users /32s (for IPv4) and inject those into you IGP -- then you cannot have the attack I mentioned.

Transport mode is very difficult to use correctly and safely, or even at all, in any network with more than a few nodes or with fluid IP address assignments.

For transport mode, the best answer, really, would be to use BTNS [0] and connection latching [1] so that you can just use IPsec from the application (via socket options or moral equivalent), performing channel binding to application-layer authentication, or else certificate chain validation and authorization at the application layer. But this hasn't been implemented. Solaris/Illumos has some IPsec-related socket options, and it will create and/or latch SPD entries (what traffic to protect and how) policy, but not SAD entries (how to authenticate peers) nor PAD entries (how to authorize peers) -- i.e., half-way to RFC5660 :(

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5386
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5660
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Awesome. Have you consider [3] set (red car in 3 square, AAA) for primary row? The article state you only consider [2] set and I checked the database doesn't have element in [3] set. I ask it out of curiosity because some variant include 3-square red car.
>Do you speak on behalf of all "developers?" The 2016 revision is Apple's fastest-selling iteration of the MBP.

Isn't that mostly because they let the Macbook Air languish, rather than either upgrading it or letting it drop to netbook-level pricing.

So lots of people (myself included) who wanted a Mac laptop bought the Pro one instead.
the important people in the office both get to dictate what's allowed, and are in my experience more likely to be extroverted/sports-watchy types. Thus they exploit their position to watch sports with the other important people and who cares what the nerds think/want.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this other than the keyboard?

I thought most people use their MacBook the same way I do — docked to a full size keyboard and big monitor 95% of the time.

So I don’t really care much about the keyboard. I almost never use it.

What do you guys thing about the other upgrades? Would you get this assuming you didn’t care about the keyboard?
The nytimes publishes an article like this every few months. It's not like they're impartial in this area -- tech took news's audience. Don't give this attention it doesn't deserve.
Yeah, I don't think that's because you're a tech person. To most parents, their children may as well be tech experts because their bar for that is simply "they know more about computers than I do." I'm sure most people could probably convince their parents to buy a Macbook, or any other brand of computer, for even arbitrary reasons.

I may be wrong, but I'm highly skeptical that your parents had to be convinced to be a Macbook on the merits of it's technical prowess in relation to other competition. They probably just respect your opinion on technology regardless of what it is.
We used flexible desks for years as a consultant shop, but where given actual offices and could easily reserve meeting rooms. That's a much better cost / productivity trade-off.

Really though the cost of office space vs people making 100k/year means you don't actually need top optimize it that hard. The core problem is they tend to come out of separate budgets, so some middle manager can write down they saved x million on a review / resume while costing the company 3x that indirectly.

PS: Used Model S's are also something to keep an eye on.
Er, I humbly think you're the one "rewriting history" (at least to as much of a degree as you claim the parent is, frankly it seems hyperbolic in either case for a simple historical debate.) Disclaimer: What follows is the ramblings of an armchair historian who has watched way too much ken burns.

The transcontinental railway was chartered in 1862 and completed in 1869. During that period BOTH companies (Union Pacific and Central Pacific) significantly influenced public policy in order to extract the most money from the deal. (everything from disingenuous surveying and geology to lobbying). That was almost 150 years ago, and ~80 years after the establishment of the bill of rights, the vast majority of american history.

I'd say America has our history inexorably linked with abuses by powerful corporations. From the treatment of the chinese by the railroads, to the steel/coal worker strikes (pinkertons/ludlow massacre), to the robber barons, and the impact left by Carnegie and Rockefeller and their ilk.

While I'd agree that there was certainly an upper class (aristocracy) in America around and after the founding, I think there are fair complaints in calling it as such when compared to "Traditional" aristocracies of the time (in England), with a much more significant wealth delta and a history of generational wealth/power/landholdings outside of business.

Finally, the civil war really only devastated the south economically, the north was pretty much untouched and served as the industrial power base eventually leading to the examples I cite above. So while the southern planting aristocracy may have been "hard reset" I've heard nothing but that the north prospered afterwards in their relative position of newfound power and intactness. (I've similarly never heard the connection drawn to WW1 where the british aristocracy was gutted due to the casualty levels of this war coupled with their tradition of military service)

Actually, I'm pretty sure that a large part of the civil war/southern resistance on the anti slavery front was motivated by the largest planters, who could be considered the "business powerhouses" of that space and time.

So while this turned into a bit of a wall of text, I'd tie it up with a polite disagreement. America and corporate power have almost always gone hand in hand, for better and (very often) for worse.
Ice storage seems uneconomical. But chilled water (40F / 5C) is reasonable.

If you see it from a total-cost-of-ownership, the chilled-water + air conditioning unit is overall cheaper than you'd expect. The air conditioner doesn't need to be rated for the peak-loads anymore, but can run more continuously at lower temperatures (ie: at night to store chilled energy into the water).

So you downsize your air conditioner, as you aim for average-loads... compared to everyone else who has to buy an air-conditioner sized for peak loads.

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You seem correct about utilization. Now I wonder if a dual-use heat-pump / cooling system would be best. Heat up your house in the winter, cool down your house in the summer to double-duty the water-tank thermal energy storage.

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The "Earthships" discussed elsewhere in this topic effectively use thermal energy storage in dirt itself to heat and/or cool the entire house. It seems to use a lot of land, but single-family home owners generally have a large-ish yard where the earth can serve as the energy storage mechanism.
Being on the internet in 2018.
Absolutely disagree. There were innocent bystanders that would have been put in jeopardy. Let them leave, it's just stuff. (and as other posters have mentioned, there are better ways of dealing with this - bricking the items, etc)
My open office of about 15 people per 350 square feet, row after row after row, is silent and without interaction almost completely. It makes me crawl out of my skin to wanting to leave. I can typically spend no more than about 5 hours there before I escape to home where I can actually get work done. I'd love my job if I didn't have to go to that place.
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I'm management (and a dev). I have to manage health insurance, payroll, accounting, and interface with our lawyer. My screen is shielded, and I wish I had an office where I could take sensitive calls, and where I could have open a notice of wage garnishment on my desk without worrying that someone will see it, etc. Sorry, it's not because I want to look down on the plebs, I just have things I have to do that require privacy.

That being said, I wish everyone could have their own. But, as the person who writes the rent check and the salaries, I can't afford to go from $6k a month to $15k a month, plus $100k outlay to build out an office where everyone gets a private space. It's just incredibly expensive.

I'll do it if everyone would take a paycut though!
I think what OP is saying is: I'm not picky about the keyboard. I can relate -- I actually prefer the new keyboard -- but also still like the old one (my work laptop), as well as two other external keyboards I switch between (a mechanical keyboard and another wireless keyboard). There's keyboards out there I don't like -- but there's plenty more that I do. So I think overall, Macbook could probably ship with any of these keyboards and it wouldn't be a factor affecting my purchasing decision. That's probably what OP means.
I believe my dad’s old Osborne luggable was heavier than a 27” iMac. Of course, it came in it’s own case and a whopping 4” monochrome text only monitor.
I got to say, HN has become much looser with the titles since dang took over. It could be for the better (or not), but I definitely see at least 5 top posts a week with an editorialized title now, compared to a lot less before.

Edit: Everyone is saying it is fine. Again I'm not saying it is not, but if it is, can you please update this part of the guidelines:

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize.
How is “I took a WP theme designed as a minimalist starting point for building your own theme and cut out a lot of stuff I considered to be cruft” not Wordpress? It’s still WP behind the scenes.

(Maybe you think that Underscores is another CMS? It’s not, it’s a WP theme. https://underscores.me)
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Every time one of the big boys screws up, we all hope for this. Then the relevant players in the Linux community fail to get their shit together and the cycle repeats itself.
I felt like I arrived in the future when I spoke into my phone, "George Clooney movie with the penis chair," and "Burn After Reading (2008)" was the top result.
I may be wrong but I was under the impression the difficulty in replacing the keyboard is due to it being fused to the battery. You pretty much have to replace both when attempting to replace one or the other.
Faster CPU and more memory while still running OSX? My only complaint is it doesn't come with a GPU upgrade.

I love the touchpad, the os, and the thunderbolt ports. The 10% of the time I have my computer undocked the keyboard doesn't bother me and interacting with the touchbar never was a problem. I'll buy one with the i9 and 2TB SSD within the next 72 hours to replace my 2016 MBP.
> The 2016 revision is Apple's fastest-selling iteration of the MBP.

This is after an (at the time) abnormally long period of little to no substantial updates to the laptops. If you remember at the time, people were worrying about the lack of a new laptop the way they worry now about the Mac Pro. It's really not completely fair to state this metric without the realization that there was a lot of pent up demand for modern components, which would probably overrule any other issues. I was one of the people that bought the 2016 model -- and I'm not happy (not least of which because one of the keys literally fell off), so "fastest selling" != "well received". As it stands now, for me the defining quality of the hardware is that it is the easiest way to run macOS. The fact that the 2015 model and the Air keep selling so well is in my opinion a better demonstration of the "reception" of this new MacBook.

> The reaction is mixed, even among people who compare laptops to each other for a living. But you make it sound like anybody who knows what they're doing would prefer the old model.

This is also just not a fair representation of the actual state of affairs. Regardless of whether the keyboards are enjoyable when functional, the reality is that they have quality issues. Apple having to create a program for replacing the keyboards since they break so often is just a fact. Interestingly enough, I'm in this camp: I really have no issue with the new keyboard except for the fact that the keys break. Well, that and the Touch Bar which is a separate topic.
With experience you can account for this. What's hard to account for is some 3rd party vendor blowing you off, or slow rolling you, for weeks. Or management pulling you into another project.

Each integration point with a 3rd party automatically adds an extra 1 week+ to my estimates, depending upon the complexity.
I agree. It feels like a 'if you repeat a lie often enough' kind of statements. I'll never buy into it, there is no evidence that anyone can show me. Open offices are terrible.
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My fiancee is a talented cosplayer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay), but she is also one of the most disorganised persons I know. I decided to try and develop a SaaS web application that would be useful to her and other cosplayers - as well as giving a shot at developing something more ambitious than my usual side projects.

You can find the result at https://cosflowy.com/

I used the Meteor JS framework (https://www.meteor.com/) - I had a great experience with it and I don't think it gets enough love - I know it might not scale as well as other, lower-level solutions but it got a beginner web developer like me to put together and ship a usable product, which I think is no small feat.

I used Meteor's proprietary hosting service, Galaxy, which is pricier than something like Digital Ocean with the same specs but I didn't want to spend too much time on devops, so I'm willing to pay the extra for one-click deployment out of the box.
I also used Mlab to host the mongo database, Google Cloud to host user-uploaded files, and Stripe to process the subscription flow.
Blocked in Europe. Can someone copy paste the article?
So, they didn't seem to have fixed the horrible keyboard problems that all their newer model of laptops have.

Why would anyone spend this much money on a laptop, with 2 class actions in the going and Apple not even seriously acknowledging the problem?
Most developers I know use rarely touch the laptop keyboard. On my desk I have a bunch of monitors and an awesome mechanical keyboard. The only time I need the built-in keyboard is when I'm away from my desk.
Not surprising. They have indicated want to partner with Waymo.
Supposedly, Amazon employees watch the cameras in their stores, to know which Prime account to charge for which item. It sounds like a step between self-check and scan-bag-go, with a "mechanical Turk" to bridge the gap - turn Loss Prevention into legitimate checkout and a profit center.
Nice try, but Apple's international press release pages also show English graphics https://www.apple.com/jp/newsroom/2018/06/football-fans-can-...
I'm on a weird cycle of switching every 10 years or so.

Mid 80s to mid 90s: Apple 2 and Mac

Mid 90s to mid 00's: Windows

Mid 00s to Mid 10s: OSX

Mid 10s to Present: Windows 8/10
Sorry Guido but it’s BDFL — for LIFE! Just kidding and Thanks Guido for all you’ve done for the Python community.
It's a direct quote from the email. Do you think it was taken out of context in a way that communicates editorial intent? Seems pretty directly connected to the contents of the message to me.
The python idea mailing list scaled very poorly for getting proposals into python.

It's a harsh confusing place and the absence of tooling and structure doesn't help.
When you see them, let the mods know via the Contact link in the footer. They don't see everything and update the ones they know about.
Yeah but if someone comes along, cuts open your dumb pipe and redirects the flow somewhere else you obviously have a right to go after them.

As others have stated this isn't about blocking content, this is about cutting off an entity that was actively damaging infrastructure.
My previous employer and I had a conversation about the open office he wanted to set up in our new office space. I kept telling him it was a bad idea. He really wanted to encourage a "vibrant and collaborative environment!" I kept trying to tell him that what he perceived as vibrant and collaborative was his employees not getting any work done. Those generally weren't work conversations. They were jokes, catching up with life events, etc... Of course, he won. I wish I had this study to point to at the time.

Since then I've heard they have installed what can only be described as rows of tables. They're not really desks. Just long rows of white tables where one row of employees faces another with an 8" glass divider between the two employees. You know; for privacy.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/long-term-price-trends-for...

Are you sure about that?
Finding over-ear gear that works well with glasses can be problematic, tho
I've been jumping between AWS and Google Cloud ( with a bit of Digital Ocean sprinkled in ) for the last several years. I chose Google as our cloud platform when we founded our company last August. I could War and Peace a bunch of things but that article does a very nice job in the details. Instead, I'll give a one liner:

AWS is to Linux as Google Cloud is to FreeBSD. "Rock solid performance and everything is exactly where you think it should be"