skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly that ad campaign did such a great job burning into your mind you can't stop thinking about it. You really need to consider what's not paying rent in your thoughts that takes away from your active attention.

Good on Apple marketing though, it stuck hard and each time someone makes a cute comment like OP's, it's just free advertising for Apple.
It's a principle most people don't understand. You have the right to say what you want, in public, and not be put in prison. You don't have the right to an audience or to accessing private infrastructure. There's a whole public Internet that you can do whatever you want on. Say whatever you want. Build your own Twitter, spout whatever nonsense you want. No one will censor you!
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> I can imagine the horror people in the 90s would have experienced if they new what JS was going to be used for

We understood the horror no less than we do now. Javascript in the 90s gave us infinite pop-ups, pop-unders, evasive controls, drive-by downloads and otherwise hijacked your browser and/or computer. There's a reason Proxomitron and other content blockers hit the scene by the early 2000s-- the need to shut that shit off was clear.
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Today I was able to enter negative year in an Apple Search Ads form. I refuse to believe they sit on as much cash as they claim to.
I can confirm this works, I have been using brown noise for years in crowded open offices as well as in busesand trains and I find it a more predictable help to focus than ambient or classical music.

An effective principle: It does not block sounds, but rather help the brain to ignore them. Individual sounds lose their specifics in an ocean of randomness, and after a few minutes you don't hear them anymore. Privacy through obscurity.
I've always felt a little apprehensive about things Krugman has said, but I'm not an economist and he seems to be held in pretty high regard generally so I've tried to struggle to listen to his viewpoint.

This quote pretty much seals the deal that I was right all along and he's not worth paying attention to.
All the cool kids rebind capslock to control and then use Karabiner to set tapping control on its own as escape
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> I’ve been stuck in edit mode for months now, I’ve been finding editing much harder than writing. A common feeling. One writer told me that writing is like a party, editing is cleaning up the next day. Some of my published friends and colleagues tell me it takes a few drafts of editing before it’s even good enough to send to an agent or editor.

It’s a relief to read this. I’ve written about 135k words an only managed to edit about 15k so far.
As I understand it, the reason Tesla isn't in those stats is because they come from a California mandate for certain kinds of self driving car tests, and Tesla isn't doing those kinds of tests. (disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to any of this, just follow SDC stuff as a hobby)
I still haven't seen a suggestion engine (including the image search verity) nor chat system (in terms of utility) that could compete with what Taobao had a couple of years ago. (It does probably exist in China though). I think people confuse Taobao with AliExpress. The latter being about as useless as eBay. Once you build some history on Taobao, you can spend days just browsing.
Awesome to see the creator of Sails here! And awesome that you have such a positive and constructive response to criticisms! I see that Sails is also a company and not just an open source project, are you a full time company living off of using your open source work? If so can you give any advice to someone who is trying to learn how to make a living with open source? I am full of energy and passion for software and want to put that towards open source, but it would be much nicer to also get paid while doing so!
XGen Studios the studio behind MotherLoad actually released a remaster of the game a couple of years ago http://www.xgenstudios.com/super-motherload/
IP should really be protected before publishing because publishing counts as a public disclosure and in the U.S. starts the clock ticking.
The future of search-and-rescue robots might be centaur, not human – The Verge
It's fine for currencies with responsible governance. In some countries like Venezuela, cryptocoins would be useful. But oppressive regimes with currency controls are also likely to control access to the internet and/or block chain networks. So, in practice does it make up for an irresponsible central bank? Hard to say.
On the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, the days when it really mattered are arguably in the past. I have a big physical music collection on iTunes and even I don't touch my collection in iTunes much any longer.
It is, because your talking about Twitter as if it's somehow analogous to a town square, and that's bullshit. It's not a public space and you have no rights to it or on it.
I'm surprised noone mentioned Gucci Mane yet... while he was incarcerated he released a new album every month!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gucci_Mane#2014%E2%80%932016:_...
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This happened to a Firefox extension I wote. I wrote the extension and published it to the FF extension store and got valid criticism in reviews pretty quickly. I addressed the issues and uploaded a new version of the extension. There was nothing I could do other than reply to the reviews to show I had addressed the issue. This doesn't get reflected in the overall rating. After the reviews nobody seemed to want to try the extension. Maybe it was because of the bad reviews, maybe not.

I was doing this for free, so I just shrugged my shoulders and moved on. I'm not gonna fight the system, but there is money involved I could see how someone would.
You have an odd definition of "fail" when these large communities have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users every day.
My pet comparisons for everything being too big nowadays are Mario 64 (8mb!), Super Mario World (512kb!), and Super Mario (32kb!!).
> a Microsoft employee discovered a way to make virtualization work with their ongoing Windows 3.x design instead of having to go with OS/2.

That's sort of right. Larry Osterman goes into more detail here, but the gist is that Microsoft figured out how to run (mostly) unchanged Win16 apps in protected mode. This was released to market in 1990 and immediately turned into the best solution to get at more than 640K RAM.... which had been a latent and mostly unresolved issue for over five years. (So lots of pent-up demand.)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/02/02/fa...

(V86 Virtualization happened with Windows/386... another good product, but not nearly as compelling as Windows 3.0 was.)
Yeah, this is not necessarily true. I've had papers change dramatically (and in a positive way) due to reviewer comments.
Not sure about the glasses. But Niantic's new state-of-the-art AR title will be massive ;)

https://www.harrypotterwizardsunite.com/en/
And that's before you even get into the issue of defining the market (a necessary step for any analysis of monopoly power): what is social media?
>But if you want to argue that I’m wrong, please answer the question, what problem does cryptocurrency solve? Don’t just try to shout down the skeptics with a mixture of technobabble and libertarian derp.

"Technobabble" and "libertarian derp" are pejoratives clearly designed to shut down the conversation in certain places. He can use those terms to disregard basically any argument, as Bitcoin is both technical and libertarian in nature.
This is a fair point. At the same time, though, they have very few exits for hot air and could improve passive cooling by making the MBP slightly thicker (gasp!) and adding larger heat sinks.

Alternatively, they could add first-party support for fan-profile configuration. The needs of a dev or designer or video editor do not match the needs of an accountant or an executive. The ability to easily switch between profiles to match task would be extremely useful, I think.
Let's say we all write one book in our lives, and live for one hundred years. Further, let's say we read ten books per year throughout our lives. Out of every thousand people, every year, ten thousand books will get read, and ten will get written, which means each book will be read by about a thousand people. Which is not a problem, unless you thought you were going to make a living at it.
I don't understand the down voting of comments like this. Is there something controversial here?
I've also had some experiences with alternative medicine where it seemed like practitioners could determine surprising things about me, but it's also easy to get fooled about this (including patients, practitioners, or both fooling themselves). It would be great to subject this kind of thing to blinded testing.
Dell offer a choice of local or US keyboard:

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptops/xps-13-9370-lap...

This is probably a better plan than importing something without paying taxes. If Brexit happens, there's still Ireland for an English Dell website in the EU.

(Like most other European layouts, the British/Irish one will mean the ISO layout rather than the American (ANSI) layout. Other than the additional key giving space for £ and ¬, there's not much difference; so you might prefer that if you want to keep a vertical-shape enter key.)
> And putting "simple" before Fokker-Plank equation and "in one dimension" after it is a classic trick straight out of the bluffers guide to sounding like a scientist.

Relative to many mathematical tools we touch on a daily basis (NNs and general spin glasses such as Hopfield models, etc, are probably the biggest cases here), the FP equation (more generally, Langevin dynamics[0]) are relatively well-understood and are basic tools in the study of continuous processes. Additionally, solutions of these dynamics in 1D are nice and interpretable (it's easy to write down the equilibrium distribution, all quantities of interest are easy to compute, we can visualize the results quite easily, etc[1]).

Of course, I do work in this area (dynamical systems theory, along with thermodynamics of these systems) so such a claim is not so surprising, but I think there are several model dynamics that we take for granted that are much more complicated than overdamped Langevin dynamics.

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[0] The FP equation being the evolution equation for the overdamped case of Langevin dynamics.

[1] For more info, the classic reference is Risken's The Fokker-Planck Equation.
Because Apple's premier software play is learning from other people's code running via the app store (not competing it down), and their content IP play is running too rich to alter in motion.
He just built the machine from scratch. I don't think the very first bit of video rendered from after effects was something that made it on the criterion collection either, but you learn to use a new tool to do things of increasing sophistication as you go.

I do think he could probably use a bit more rigidity on the long thing that holds the end of the light tube since it appears to have a bit of wobble, but I'm sure that somebody with this level of competence is already on that issue for the next revision.

For the proper application, you could do stuff with this which would absolutely make a raytracing renderer vomit its bytes in anguish. All my motion design buddies are very excited about this video.
So, we should revert all websites to plaintext because the content/garbage ratio is higher?

I am the developer of an Angular business application. It's about 7mb uncompressed javascript.

If I create a new angular app that just say "Hello world" it will also be about 7mb. By your standards 99.99%+ of the data transferred is "crap". Afterall, you just downloaded 7 megabytes to see hello world. Well now let's increase that by maybe 5-10k. Now you have a fully tabbed web-based application which can connect to a server and give you real-time information on blah blah blah whatever.

But.. only 0.01% is "useful content", the rest is just "crap".

I guess we should go back to the web 10+ years ago. Wow the data transfer is so small, this must be the best! I sure hope I don't need to ever change this website because the jumbled shit of unmanaged code that only the Messiah could hope to decipher a few months after it was written.

Just showing you how silly this entire argument is. There is obviously lots of overhead for many things these days- but so what? Data transfer and computing is cheap. Everyone's time is not. If someone is able to develop a website and have crazy flexibility to maintain it and the only tradeoff is some data overhead.. what in the hell is the problem with that?
They tend to require they not be sent elsewhere for publication. That usually doesn't include archiving them on the lab's website, sending via email, etc. They're just not interested in double-publishing.
Neither. I was actually trying to make a joke to relate this to a typical HN article. I suppose it didn't come out right.
What's wrong with iTunes?
While somewhat dated, I highly recommend the Dale Carnegie book:

How to stop worrying and start living
https://amzn.to/2OyxSTh

It gives lots of practical steps on how to deal with worst case scenarios in your mind and then prepare for it.

My favorite example from the book: a man who was in charge of loading explosives onto cargo ships during one of the world wars was paralysed by the thought of the explosives detonating. The book outlines how he overcame that fear essentially by putting the worst possible scenario in perspective.

Highly recommend it.
Well, if you inflation-adjust, there probably were $1 trillion companies.
Figured there had to be something like that to get someone interested. Sounds fun thanks
I care a lot about the Mac, and I'm not sure what to think about the fact that Mac unit sales are down again.

Well, what do you expect people to buy? I'm sitting on a six year old MBP, having gotten rid of my 2009 iMac. New iMac? Meh, it might come to that, but I already have enough displays. Mac Mini to go with the display I already have? Surely you jest to suggest a four-year old model. Mac Pro? See: Mac Mini. Current laptops aren't an option unless I get desperate (i. e., current MBP dies tomorrow). I mean, I want a new Mac, there just isn't anything out there that makes me feel like I'd be getting an upgrade.

So my theory is that a lot of people are in the cycle I've been in for the last three years: "Meh, I'll wait to see what they have next year...<year passes>...Meh, I'll wait until...holy shit, is this thing really six years old?...<year passes>"
The statement "closed systems cannot create randomness" is only true if you assume those closed systems don't feature random collapse. But if the collapse itself is the source of randomness, then no external input is required, and the system is closed.
What's the value of the bitcoin network itself (its computing power?), and how does the holding of bitcoins give any right on this value?
IIRC, it was called Zinio, and didn't work very well. Crashtastic.

If Apple can do it right, something could happen here.

Especially if it makes it cheap and easy for independent publishers to climb on board.
cool tip. Didnt know that. thanks
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I am advancing the notion that there may be a threshold beyond which sites like Twitter are in practice precisely digital public townsquares. I am aware of what the laws are right now -- we are discussing here a hypothetical change of precedent or law in the future to better reflect how Americans communicate in 2018 and beyond.
True - Pubs care because they lose revenue, user use adblock to block ads. I don't know anyone who uses an adblocker to improve load speeds.
Because these smart and brave people need to keep their positions to push the boundaries of human understanding and knowledge.

Especially for junior faculty, making a principled stand is a good way to kill their career.
That's the problem with making bold predictions. You're sometimes wrong. He's also made some very prescient predictions.

Another thing people pull out is his dire predictions on the eve of Trump's election. He was quick to point out his error (I think the next day, maybe).

He does seem to admit when he's wrong and adapt his views.
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Apple’s ecosystem just works. I’ve used this example before, but when I needed to buy my great grandma who lives in a poor country who never learned English or went to school, a device to video chat with all her (grand)children, it was a no brained to get an iPad mini.

It works every time she uses Facetime and there is no problem other than turning it off and on. Similarly, all the grandparents, uncles, aunts, they don’t want to spend time learning how to sign into various google accounts and services. They want to press a button and see their loved ones. So everyone has an iOS device. Because google couldn’t get it together and offer something that worked, and didn’t change names every two weeks.

Similarly, WhatsApp took instant messaging. It just worked, sharing contacts, pictures, video is dead simple.

Not to mention iOS devices last the longest by far and get security updates quickly and for a longer period of time. And the resell prices prove it. And you can quickly go to an a Apple store and get it fixed or replaced. Who cares if it’s specs are not the best, it just works for 90% of people.
The air starts at $1000 and is equipped with an i5. That's your $1000 laptop.
AWS owns 45% of LATAM cloud market
In 2008 I bought a high end Dell laptop. It ended up running way too hot and it would freeze up playing some games. I got fed up with the Windows ecosystem and tried out a MacBook Air. It was easy to setup out of the box. No crap Ware was on the computer. For the first time I actually used a trackpad and it was good enough that I no longer use a mouse with Mac laptops. When I bought my next computer it was a breeze transferring over my settings and programs. Whenever I use a Windows machine the workflow is way worse from my perspective. I remember well the frustrations with using Windows that disappeared with using Mac OS. I won’t go back.

Apple has its own set of frustrations but none of them, in my experience, compare to the hell of dealing with Dell and Windows. Never again for me. I recommend to people to use Macs. I think it’s rational to use Apple products. My iPhone 6 Plus still gets updates and works well. My iPad Pro is better than any other tablet I’ve looked at.
> There have always been appliances in IT.

Indeed, and, as a general rule, they were astonishingly expensive, especially in up-front purchase cost.

> The only difference with public cloud solutions

I posit that another difference is that the up-front cost is approximately zero. That makes the adoption decision much easier (even possible in the first place) for much smaller companies, especially startups.

That also means what would otherwise have been an up-front cost is hidden in the pay-as-you-go cost.

That cost-hiding does create a new problem, albeit a sublte on. A startup faced with having to buy a $300k appliance might think nothing of it if there were a smaller/dev version available for $30k for that environment. However, if that appliance actually needed to be duplicated in the full $300k form [1] in both (or maybe more, if they have stage/qa/integration, research, and/or multiple dev envs), that startup would take a serious look at alternatives. Those relative costs aren't as stark with the cloud version of applicances, until well after the choice has been made.

[1] Or, worse, an even more expensive version, if dev, testing and/or research use of the appliance is heavier than production. I expect that's a rare, outside of storage.
Summer camp for the poor teaches the glory of revolution against inherited wealth. /s

This headline is a microcosm of what's wrong in America today.
For buying music, Amazon. It does a surprisingly good job on the Mac.

For streaming, Apple is still an also-ran, even on the iPhone, and even with 40 million subs.
Another funny argument a lot of programmers use is that why don't tolerant people tolerate intolerance.

They understand definition of tolerance and intolerance but never took any philosophy or history classes and don't understand development of tolerance as a philosophy or movement.

They see everything as binary data types instead of more complex classes.
FYI: 6% per year
The pharma companies still do, at least at the conferences I go to.
the problem is that it looks like growth has stalled.
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Dell precision 7530 I think has that config. You can get Xeon m with no Nvidia. There are others in the precision line too.
> "You're holding it wrong"

Many people select text using the mouse, then reposition the cursor using the mouse. It's convenient to then insert the selected text using the mouse — the entire operation is done without touching the keyboard.
I love how Microsoft does charges for their Office/Onedrive package: they notify me about a week in advance to let me know they're planning on charging me.

I wish every service would give me days notice before a scheduled fee hits. No surprise auto-renewal would even be possible that way, no undesired continuation of subscription, all it would take is a courtesy email days in advance.
Correct. The 2.3B in funding (according to Crunchbase) was for something completely different.
I think it’s a pretty normal definition of Personal Use, that was necessarily screwed up by the fact that many tenants of a system can use a hypervisor installed on one machine. So, even if you’ve installed that software for personal use, you can’t be letting all your friends in the office SSH in and use it under your same license.
> Bernie Bros

I think this (blatantly sexist) term is just as divisive as anything the Russians did.
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This nonsense goes on every year and these people just don't get Apple.

They are a company that resolves entirely around their culture and their ways of doing things. They even have their own internal university that teaches it to their managers. Apple makes a dozen or so acquisitions every year but they are almost always small companies whose cultures typically ends up being eliminated over time.

Buying a large company would make it impossible for this to happen and so I just don't see any of this happening. Not to mention the companies you listed there are completely ridiculous.
In the case of extreme outliers, I think you might be right. In the case of "regular" top performers, I think nurturing is underestimated by many (perhaps not us on HN).
The important thing to know is what the heading should be to that road, when you’re lost. Knowing one is no more than 17miles from you max, when under weather stress, does little good and offers little comfort.
Sept 11 hijackers possibly ate at McDonald's. So?

You can also listen to ATC with a handheld radio.
Server logs just aren't sufficient, no matter how many times hn says so. You don't get enough data to make data-driven decisions. Thats like giving a data scientist 1/3rd of the available data, and saying "thats good enough".

You'd expect ux to be a small unit, but that includes everyone who works on revenue-generating ads. Moving one tiny thing has a direct impact on revenue, which affects every person employed by nyt.
Very cool. My version of base64 wants -d, not -D, though.
It's heartbreaking.
Need to update my wife's Mac but she doesn't need a $1,800 machine.
I used to put two drug store ice backs underneath my 17" MBP so I could use it without the heat turning my legs red through my pants.

I don't think today's MBP's run quite that hot.
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