skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mid-2015 model (which I still use and think is way better) is over 3 years old now. It was always bound to be discontinued eventually.

There are still some available in the Apple Store under the clearance section (https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/clearanc...). Definitely your last chance to get this model new from Apple.
Big companies are on the stock market with CEO’s who want to turn in a profit so market share goes higher. If they don’t do that, they get replaced.

Tech is especially dangerous since it can automate vast amounts of things with very few people if capital is there.

It just makes me really sad how non-existent Seattle startup industry is compared to the valley. Almost everyone here works at the Big Cos Microsoft and Amazon.
I really hope there's going to be a 15' MacBook Pro without Touch Bar.

edit: clarify I was talking about the 15' model.
Ahh yes, who can forget the extremely polished Snow Leopard bug that just flat out deleted people's user accounts https://gizmodo.com/5379817/reports-snow-leopard-bug-eats-us...
If restaurants offered meals for free, people wouldn't complain about the ads on the menu. No restaurant offers free meals though.

Should we start charging for everything we see online?
Not even surprised. Gmail, Google in general was always shady in terms of privacy. Moreover, you need to pay attention what you let other apps do with your phone and etc., what kind of access you grant them. People mostly don't even read, just click "skip" and "allow"
I'm looking forward to the very first "real development takes 64GB RAM, 32 just isn't enough" complaints.

Honestly, this looks like a good revision. I've been wanting a quad core 13 inch for a while.

Hopefully the keyboard revision helps with all of the issues people have had.
Excellent work. Keep it up !!
npm is distributing this credential tracker?
The dude who started the org made up the "Hitlery" nickname. Conclusion: not honorable.
Is the api access free ?
Ask HN: In what way you're trying to make your dent in the universe?
(Just got back from Googling.) So basically, if the content can be sent within the window then you save a roundtrip?
Yes, and this is even worse:

> Haskell points out that throughout literary and musical history there are references to the songs of trees, and the way they speak: whispering pines, falling branches, crackling leaves, the steady hum buzzing through the forest. Human artists have always known on a fundamental level that trees talk, even if they don’t quite say they have a “language.”

All of these "songs of trees" are purely physical phenomena, which don't have any connection even to the biological communication of trees, let alone any mystic "language". This kind of argumentation is incredibly unscientific. ("Proving" biology from poetry? As in seriously?!)
It's human instinct to be on high alert if you're under scrutiny or observation. There are all sorts of studies indicating people do worse on tasks when they know they're being watched. Part of your brain ends up focused on what other people are thinking of you instead of on the task at hand - even if it's only subconscious.
Yes, so you’re technically correct. :) What’s interesting is that there actually is a distinction between the “org” and the “customer” in the SWIP process, but IME the “customer” reallocation is rarely used, and certainly not for cases of a single IP. So yeah, if you’re renting a VPS or a dedicated server with anything less than a /24, you have basically no control over your IP reputation.

That said, providers generally do keep records of which IP is associated with which customer at which time. That information is just not publicly available in real time.
I hear all the complaints about keyboard and touchbar, but we use these with external keyboards and never use the touchbar.

32GB DDR4 Ram and 6 Core processors honestly is making this a no-brainer here. We have been waiting on the ram for years. Price is the big question. At this time, the Select on the apple store is disabled so no idea what this will cost.
They did
Catholics have know this truth about God’s creations for a very long time :)

http://blog.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-spirit/saint-fran...
Valiant effort. Slightly arbitrary in the finer details but the underlining message is good.

Removing the main menu (which is very small) while also having twitter meta info in the head and other unnecessary tags is an odd choice.

One slightly amusing thing is that in the web 1.0 era we had menu's as separate pages as our pages were built out of 'frames' and the menu frame simply targeted the main frame. So no we've come full circle again. The more screen real estate I have the more designers intend to put less information in it I've noticed.
32GB RAM only for 15" :-(.
Good to point out that iOS developers want a good solid laptop. It is definitely the case though that there are developers who don't/won't do iOS development but want a solid, well-built laptop with good components, good support, and good drivers. I have no idea if the Surface laptops fit that bill, but I assume they have lots of support from Microsoft.

I've been running a ZBook G3 with Debian 9 and have been having a pretty good experience so far. The laptop feels pretty good but I'm sure a MacBook Pro would be a step up in terms of hardware quality.
Apple worked with Blackmagic on a new external GPU
The argument of "increased collaboration" that I keep hearing is kind of negated when people have the soccer game on and you're bombarded with constant cheering, which is my current situation.

Even when soccer is over, you have to contend with people playing grab-ass all over the office, or jerks (like me) with annoyingly loud keyboards. The modicum of utility of me "jumping into a conversation" really goes out the window when I'm forced to wear headphones all day.

I really don't have a good way of measuring or fully quantifying how much less productive I am personally, but haven't there been a ton of studies that indicate anywhere between 1-1.5 hours a day is wasted per employee due to the open office? I assume that labor is the most expensive part of any big-ish company, so it feels like the "offices are cheaper" argument shouldn't work.
> • I need more than one tap to change the brightness,

For what it's worth, if you tap and hold the brightness and volume buttons, it turns into a slider under your finger that you can immediately use. One tap + drag.

It's the one thing I miss about the Touch Bar after leaving it for the MacBook Escape.
Rights exist only so far as they are granted. If we, as a society, choose to grants rights to the dead then the dead shall have rights.

Right are a completely arbitrary construction of organized society so it's strange to suggest there are any absolute rules that govern 'rights.'
You really can just put in the headphones and ignore distractions for a few hours. And then, leave. You don’t have to sit there for 8+ hours. Go in in the morning, talk to a few people face to face, sit there with headphones for ~2 hours, and then maybe after lunch, go elsewhere and work from another location you like.
Wasn't the Touch Bar-less model 13" only? That's hardly a Pro machine anyway, since it has no discrete graphics.
It's still a person's private information, no matter is he dead or not. If she wanted people to know that this was not an accident then she would have left a note or something. I know that she is dead, but still from my perspective is not nice to give out access to accounts even after death, accounts should be just deleted together with all the information and data.
I want a thicker laptop.

Apple is oblivious that Pros want _more_ functionality, not less. Editions that would frustrate their supply line but be incredible:

- MBP Engineer: 32GB+ RAM, 2+ NVMe SSD, 10gbe, dedicated real A12 ARM chip for simulating iOS

- MBP Scientist: 32GB+ RAM, an FPGA with fun Apple SDK, dedicated GPU

- MBP Video: 4 SDI ports (integrated BMD DeckLink Duo 2), timecode BNC, dedicated GPU, 10gbe

- MBP Audio: MADI and AES50 ports, 8 mini TRS inputs and outputs designed by Lynx or Apogee

Across board: fast SD card reader, HDMI even if mini.

Releasing even one of these sure would indicate that they're with the times. I'll admit to being an odd user though, my dream laptop would have a 16x PCIe slot exposed on one side.

aside: It's good to see Blackmagic Design get such a loud shout-out from Apple. Since dabbling in the live production world I've been consistently impressed by their FPGA and industrial design chops. possible acquisition? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HM8Y2VC/A/blackmagic-egpu
Why not just get an iMac if you're not going to use it as a laptop?
The situation with emacs isn't much better!
> I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song.

I discovered recently that you could just do a "quick swipe" (very fast) on the button in the right direction on both the volume and brightness virtual button to apply the expected effect. Good enough for my usage.
This smacks to me of an "If you have nothing to hide why do you care about your privacy?" argument. Which we should all know is a major fallacy.

There's plenty of reasons to not want others looking over your shoulder that have nothing to do with goofing off. Private emails, even totally business related ones are just that, private. If you're struggling with a problem, having an audience can make it that much worse. Et cetera, et cetera.

The nature of software development makes it hard for a lot of people to do with lots of distractions around them.

- There's also way too much stigma against "time wasting." Your brain needs breaks and distractions to work through problems. Spending some time on a goof off site each day is not a bad thing in and of itself. If your productivity suffers, that's a problem that needs to be addressed. But it can happen via burn out just as easily as via spending too much time reading fan theories on Infinity War Pt. 2.
The Touch Bar has a soft escape key in the same position. It takes a bit to get used to, but I found it find as a non-frequent vim/ESC-key user.
“Hey Siri” is available because a T2 chip is included.

We’re slowly crawling towards Voice as a User Interface on the personal computer.

Hope this happens in my lifetime. I’ve been waiting several decades.
>I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song.

this is the dealbreaker for me. :( i hope they release a model without the touch bar in the future
The new XPS 13. It's fine. My disappointment is 98% software. The XPS has poor camera placement (but you know that going in), the buying experience is awful (here in Asia anyways). I see myself sticking with Linux, but no loyalty to hardware vendors. I'm hoping the MateBook or Chromebook become [relatively] cheap and powerful first class linux options.
How new Xeon-E series CPUs could boost performance of legacy business apps
Count me in, for one. My main machine is still the 2013 MBP (2015 MBP at work). But every laptop / portable / desktop I've bought since then has been a Windows machine, because they offer either 1) similar value at a cheaper price, or 2) greater flexibility and usability at the same price. The Surfaces are the best laptops a non-Apple-dev "Pro" can get right now, in my experience. They've got ports, they've got portability, their hardware is now up to par with the best of the Macs.

I still love my 2013 Macbook Pro, but I'm probably not going to be buying a Mac again until they make something of similar usability and flexibility (mostly the keyboard and the ports).
To put things into perspective, nweb is a webserver written in C which can serve static webpages, and its smallest executable is just 12kb in size:

https://github.com/ankushagarwal/nweb
France has just won the World Cup but I hate my TV and Internet providers now
Managing up is the most important thing a project manager can do ("shit umbrella vs shit funnel") - if they haven't been communicating the actual status of the project then they haven't been doing their job.

If they don't know the actual status of the project then they haven't been doing their job either.
Bought a 2016, then returned it and got a refurb 2015. My only regret was getting the 500g SSD vs waiting for a 1tb model (which my friend got). The refurb levels were changing daily, and I kept missing the 1tb models, so I pulled the trigger on a 500g.

Didn't care for the touch bar - yes, hey, apparently all the cool kids 'remap' their ESC key, and many did it I guess 20 years ago(!), but I've got decades of muscle memory to overcome. But beyond that, yeah sure it was thinner and sexier, but had a 20% smaller battery, and for the work I do, I guess I'm not 'pro' enough, but never managed more than about 4 hours max of real work.

The 2015 model was 'good enough' in most respects, and better in others (keyboard, battery), and... cheaper.

Always interested to see and try the newer models, but probably won't upgrade in 2018 or 2019 without some massive reason to do so.

EDIT - well, the 32g option might be a worthwhile reason to upgrade. And the battery looks slightly larger than the 2016 model.
you can bind for example caps lock globally on mac to esc, thats what i did
Why wasn't this obvious to Facebook that they should give away a minor's account to their next of kin? Unless there was a will written saying to the contrary?

And it SO ARROGANT of Facebook to think they own the data to such an extent where they can effectively deny access to the data from the person who produced it, or in the case of death, to the next of kin.
As an expression, the legacy of your actions. Practically anything you give back to the world. E.g open source, starting a startup.
I ended up buying a used mid-2012 model, hopefully the 16GB RAM upgrade I got makes it nice and snappy. Kicking myself for giving away my 2014 Air.
I think choosing to exclude exceptions is a totally fine decision, and I actually think it's the right thing to do in embedded systems where you _cant't_ afford to let an uncaught exception bubble up
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Second comment about buying experience. I got a Dell XPS which is great, though I would never buy anything again from Dell due to their horrible customer service. By which I mean pathetically rude and unprofessional (German store).

Desktop experience of clean uninterrupted GNOME is great for me. Move from Ubuntu to fedora. Ubuntu really messes up GNOME with their BS ideas of usability. I.e horrible terrible ugly Unity, RIP.
Identical desk setups at home and work. Carry it back and forth. Awesome setup actually.
Ugh, I'm cringing a little that they consider adjunctions 'advanced mathematics'. Adjunctions are ubiquitous even in elementary math. For example, in linear algebra whenever one writes down a matrix to represent a operator in some basis, this is using the tensor-hom adjunctions for modules.
Chiming in with more annecdata - I love the feel of the new-style keyboards. Sure, it took a little bit to get used to, but now I can't stand the old keyboards - they feel so soft, mushy and inprecise.

The part where they're completely unreliable though, I hate.
Around when they introduced the first touchbar models, they finally made it so you can remap caps lock to escape which I'd been wanting for years. So at least there's that option.
Ruby on rails. /trolling
Yeah, let's spend a kidney on crappy things...
I also like to read random wikipedia articles in different languages to compare information
There are a huge number of pro users that don't require integrated graphics. Most developers don't need them.
You can use Ctrl+[
I’m glad to see that Apple has finally updated its MacBook Pro line, but it’s a little too late for me. After using Macs for nearly 12 years, I bought a Dell XPS 15 9570 a week after WWDC 2018 (I couldn’t put off a new computer purchase any longer), and I couldn’t be happier. It turns out that Windows 10 really shines on a computer with six processor cores, a 4K display, and a NVMe SSD, a dramatic improvement from the refurbished ThinkPad T430 I used with a spinning hard disk and a 1366x768 display. Windows 10 shines on top-of-the-line hardware, and I’ve found the experience to be quite competitive to macOS so far for my needs. Granted, I’m still getting used to the Windows ecosystem again after being away from it for 12 years, and there are still some aspects of Windows 10 that annoy me (namely the prevelance of ads), but other than that it’s quite an improvement from my Windows XP days.

Anyway, I’m pleased that Apple updated its MacBook Pro lineup today, and I hope that Apple will start regularly updating its Macs again. Competition is very important in the personal computing marketplace. I’m glad that Windows 10 is working well for me, and I hope that Apple will still be a force in computing so that way Microsoft won’t get lazy again like they did in the dark ages of Internet Explorer 6. I have a Mac Pro I still use regularly as a desktop at home, and so I still have one foot in the Mac ecosystem.
No need to "quick swipe," you can just tap-and(-hold-and)-swipe. This is really easy and allows for fine-grained control
It’s also a function of the job - people don’t hate them because the vast majority of their work is non-confrontational and they don’t pose a risk to citizens (write tickets, arrest people etc) so most people are happy to see them when they arrive somewhere they are needed. Put it another way - I’m willing to guess that a large percentage of people here have had or witnessed a negative interaction with a police officer, and far fewer could say the same of a firefighter or EMT...
The Macbook Pro has been the go-to software developer machine for years now, and that segment is seeing a massive exodus after the touch bar launch. I don't know how big a percentage that is of total sales, but it can't just be a trivial niche.
>As a civilian I suppose I'm not a target

That's a very poor assumption. One very common method is to get some dirt on someone, then blackmail them into getting a job with access to data they want. That doesn't have to be classified data, they're also interested (probably more so) in corporate espionage so they can make products better and cheaper.

Then there's economic disruption. Where you're not a target as an individual, but as a group. E.g. everyone using their device with Verizon's service might have their service go funky, people think it's Verizon and switch. Or certain websites appear slow/unavailable so you buy something from a different one.

Of course there's lots of other ways they could use it to their advantage, but the point is, civilians are very likely to be targets too, for a multitude of reasons.
Do you have a link? Haven't spotted that yet.
Awesome for me would be two iMacs and no carrying.
At least there's some movement but this upgrade still falls far short of what I'm hoping for. The 13" model is still limited to 16 GB. And the model without touch bar only has 2 USB-C ports. Why, Apple, why?!
I'd definitely agree:
-Buy your kids a simple dumbphone for emergencies (Nokia et al)
-Let them work part time for their own smartphone
depends what your definition of "pro" is, even if it's 50% of all users who do pro work that need a GPU (Video, photo, CAD) there's at least as many who need a lot of memory/CPU for various other things.

Programming/compiling not-withstanding there are many tasks today that are CPU intensive.

Plus, real professionals use slack, so that extra memory is needed.
I don't buy this argument.

The internet providers are de facto pretty close to the common carrier status (except maybe in cases of huge scale, like Netflix or google, where explicit net neutrality might be desirable). There are no huge technical or financial barriers to entry if you want to build a platform for communication over the internet, nothing comparable to e.g. telecom networks (either in 1950s or now).

The cost of acquiring a millions-strong audience, operating at that scale, and becoming essential for large swaths of society can be pretty low, both in financing and manpower; if Instagram is not a good example for you, take more extreme examples of Wikipedia or SciHub.

Would you like newspapers (e.g. that very NYT) be governmentally regulated because they are "too important for society"? It's dangerously close to the late Soviet Union. How effective NYT would be e.g. in uncovering the Watergate case were they regulated "for the common good"?

There's a particular fallacy that makes people think that some centralized regulation would be more efficient and lead to better outcomes than self-regulation on a level playing field. The efficiency is there in very few cases, mostly those that seriously defy common sense (e.g. control over antibiotics), or set safety guidelines against mass illness (e.g. food safety control). In most other cases, a bureaucratic body has as skewed incentives as a for-profit corporation, but much fewer reasons to improve anything.
you can configure it now.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MR942...

Fully specced out = $6,699.00
Because Zuckerburg structured it that way so FB owns the account and content.

Imagine a world where children don’t buy diaries and journals but some unscrupulous corporation gives them to children for free...now go ahead and write all your personal secrets in there and the corporation will own the rights to those secrets and use them to sell to other unscrupulous corporations to decide if the children are a good fit for their product advertising.

If it sounds far fetheched it’s not, if it sounds deeply disturbing it is...not only because it is real and happening, but because everyday Facebook (and other tech companies) are entering into contracts with minors, which these kings of data know or should know are illegal contracts to begin with (in the US minors can not enter into contracts unless necessary)
This complaint always strikes me as trolling of the highest order. As though a 2018 laptop should definitely be designed to accommodate software structured for the limitations of 1970. In 2050, when the world has moved to direct neural interfaces, vi trolls on HN will still be saying "but my escape key!"

I've never failed to hit the software escape key on my 15. Not one time since the past rev was released. What is that, six months? Not once in six months. I just put my finger in exactly the same place as I would on any other keyboard and it always works.
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As I have though that, in science, causal explanation is the ultimate goal, and the ability to predict is the gold standard measure of a theory's ability to explain, I was surprised by the statement "predictive modeling is nearly absent in many scientific fields as a tool for developing theory." To me, it also seems odd that explanatory modeling is distinct from predictive modeling, though I gather that the use of 'explanatory' here is a term of art that does not necessarily mean what it does in general usage.

This is from 2010, so perhaps attitudes are changing now that concerns about reproducibility have come to the fore.
i suppose one could argue that change should have gone in the other direction. but that's academical.

at least now we have consistency, this is of course good
I'm yet to see a serious VIM user who didn't remap ESC to caps lock yet. Regardless of keyboard configuration.
Sorry, but Windows 10 is godawful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. If you want to sell the surface laptop to power users and developers, you're better off mentioning that you can install Ubuntu (as an actual host OS, not WSL bullshit with Microsoft's spyware still running in the background) just fine on certain models.
Never used a Macbook before; always been a Windows user until my switch a few years ago to Ubuntu Gnome. Gotta say Gnome was the most counter-intuitive DE coming from a Windows background, making the switch brutal.

Several years later, loving and still using the Gnome look. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
Tap and hold brightness/volume icons then drag to change. Don't know how I figured this one out.
Better Touch Tool addresses almost all of your concerns