skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Apple Store guy tried to accuse me of getting water on the keyboard,

They pulled the exact same bullshit with the first iPhone I ever bought (3s at the time) and refused to fix it for free even though it was under warranty as the screen stoped working, asking the equivalent of more than $200 for something I paid like $300 new, claiming water caused damages. I ended up buying a spare screen $10 online and change it myself.

It was the last time I ever bought something from Apple.
I commute via public transit, my employer doesn’t offer parking.
Perhaps this will become a new joke. Sort of like the ones about being an atheist, vegan, or being into CrossFit. Yogi Berra's quote comes to mind. I'll paraphrase. No one goes on Facebook anymore because there's too many posts being made.
This is very tired attempt at humor.
I have this notion that surrounding a subject with basket case conspiracy theories would be a good way to get people not to take it seriously :) Of course, there's many feedback loops that allow believers to have their beliefs bolstered by negations.
I wonder what the training data would look like to accomplish this task? Hide a bunch of objects and people in the wilderness and take drone photos?

It would be interested to put a thermal camera on the drone and fly at night.
If you found a startup, could you apply your product to it and make it twice as productive, then apply the new more effective product to your startup again, over and over until your startup is infinitely productive?
Who pays for the power? What % of spots are electrified? If we hit an inflection point how fast can they change that % and how does the answer to the question about payment change?
I tried the 13-inch touchbar model for work and I despise the touchbar in every way. I realized quickly that I have to have a physical Escape key... but more importantly, I never want to have to look at the keyboard for information, that's why I learned to type in the first place!

I exchanged it for the non-touchbar model (despite having two fewer USB-C ports for some unfathomable reason, fuck you very much Apple for that) and I've been much more satisfied with having the physical keys back.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip. That's a very special era to me personally, and shaped my entire life and career since then.

I'm a very nostalgic person in general (due to health issues now making me face mortality etc) and I think the late 90s online scene was the most incredible "scenes" I've ever experienced. Everyone was a hacker, and everything was customised and modified and tweaked to within an inch of its life. These days it's a mission to even theme your OS to how you want it, but in those days running anything "stock" was almost a crime.

It's a real shame to look at where our interfaces with technology went. From the modern web to modern OS design to modern app design, it's all just so illogical and... shallow? Like a celebrity's fake face and smile. I'm not sure what the word is.

Linux seems to be one of the last places where you can find efficient and intelligent design (most of the time :P), and an encouragement to customise and modify to your liking.
Clinical social anxiety is much more than shyness.

Shyness and/or fear around strange adults is a healthy biological response. Even children raised in isolation and who show immediate fear of other new children are still quick to make friends when introduced to pre-school (a terrifying experience altogether).

Children who cannot be socialized effectively by around age four (5% of boys, a much smaller % of girls) usually end up punished explicitly by society in their later youth and early adulthood.
> critics of Go aren't even Go developers

This doesn't make the criticism invalid. I tried Go, found the lack of genetics / gopath / depends management too annoying, went back to other languages. I'm going to try it again after V2 is released.

If only people continuing to use X could criticise X, we wouldn't get much progress.
Which of course is added complexity and a source of incompatibility between playback devices and screens. Can't count the number of times in the early years of HDMI that I couldn't play a DVD because my projector didn't support it.

On the other hand, the pirated copy still worked great.
Did government pass laws to force migrating to digital camera back then?
I used OS X for many years, starting shortly before the transition to Intel.

I disagree with the fact that the UI experience of macOS vs Linux is a joy vs pretty good.

That's only true if you compare macOS vs GNOME/KDE. But that's a false dichotomy. IMHO, Linux truly shines on minimal setups without a desktop environment. Of course this is not suitable for everyone. But if you are a programmer, there are good chances that it is suitable for you.

I would never ever switch back from an environment with StumpWM, Emacs, Firefox and xterm to macOS. And that still doesn't factor in the biggest advantage of Linux, openness and a first-class package manager.

Now, you could even take things further and ask for a purely functional package manager and OS. That would be NixOS. Such a setup has many advantages over traditional UNIX userlands worth investigating.

If you are considering macOS, you should at least also consider this kind of Linux setup. All that said, macOS is terrific and a great option for many developer usecases.
The linked webpage in the article detailing Wil Wheaton's account of the incident is a thought-provoking read of online mob behavior. http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-...
Whether this is illegal depends on your jurisdiction. In the US, running a prediction market on US-listed stocks is very illegal. I'm not clear whether it's illegal to participate in one, even as an insider (this is not legal advice). In Europe you can run a shadow stock market like this - currently CFDs are the popular way to do it - but it's generally illegal to insider trade on one.
you "should have" gotten the macbook air but apple isn't planning on updating them so its a stale buy. really the lineup of apple is quite confusing. What you're getting other than a mainstream Unix OS is a few hw bells and whistles.
One more tool I would like for my future garage microfactory!
What is CCPA? I haven’t been able to find an entity with those initials besides [0], and I feel like that can’t be what you’re going for.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Centre_for_Policy_A...
If you want to say something changes at a certain rate, you need to introduce a dependent variable under which it changes. If you look at landscape, and saying elevation changes, you don't need the coordinates as variables to associate height with and compare the different (x,y,height) data points -- only a set of {height1,height2,...} would be sufficient. But to do calculus by taking the small differenes (x-x',y-y',height-height'), i.e. looking at rate of changes of height w.r.t. something , you obviously need something (e.g. coordinates).

Ultimately as with most physical phenomena the most profound explanation is that "It's a simple way to describe how things work". That and anthropic necessities.

Relationships between events are almost certainly an anthropic necessity. First without change at all, of course there would be nothing of interest. Second an universe that's simply a random-looking collection of events {A,B,C,...} without some close functional relationship (e.g. {A,B=f(A),C=f(B),...}) also cannot allow a conscious subsystem (because conscious subsystems are defined as a particular kind of changing system, i.e. with close functional connections between the events that temporally evolve). There's an infinitude of mathematical constructions that may harbor consciousness, so some things are arbitrary.

Our arbitrariness is that there appears to be this continuous dependant real variable (time) which permits localizing events in a complicated way described by general relativity and quantum mechanics, and describing relationships between them (temporal evolution).
It might interest some of you to know that youtube-dl has an awesome archive feature which will allow you to scrape a playlist periodically and only download new additions to that playlist.

So when I stumble across a track I like, I just add it to my “favourites” playlist, and my PC at home will automatically download it, convert it to MP3, trim any silence from the beginning and end of the track, attempt to tag it (although that fails more often than not), and it’ll be there waiting for me the next time I feel like sorting through my music download folder.
ITT people who haven’t heard of Tesla’s supercharger network.
Dependency management was always my pain point, but that has suddenly gotten crazy better with Go 1.11, for what it’s worth.
Honestly the MacBook Air is still an amazing value. I just bought another one before they discontinue it. It was just over $1k, keyboard is still the old pseudo mechanical kind before they switched to butterfly, 8gb ram and 512 ssd. 12 hours+ battery life means I only charge mine maybe twice a week between programming and browsing.

The ONLY thing I would change would be retina but I value more battery life than a better display.
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The daughter Steve Jobs denied: ‘Clearly I was not compelling enough for him'
Indeed:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/cuba-mass-hyst...

But that doesn't make it neccesarily true, see my other comment here, in context with the comment I responded to there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894909
it's paid off handsomely and cut off apples prospects of expanding beyond the 15% market share they currently enjoy. sure owning 15% of the global smartphone market makes them money but androids 85% share ensures googles dominance in the sector unless apple lowers some of its hardware walls and turns them into bridges.

#buildbridgesnotwalls
I've thought about this a lot vis a vis "What kind of company do I want to work for."

Despite not being proud of the product, I think I would still be excited to work with/learn from other programmers that are at the top of their field.

For a few years at least :)
Agree with others - some more details or examples would be great. As someone who's been in exactly that kind of rut for years, I would seriously consider dropping everything and moving somewhere like this.
This is a personal preference, but I wouldn't. With a terminal it's clear I have to type something in to use it and I can use knowledge of other systems to start trying things and learn what's going on.

And not all GUIs are tailored for novice users. I use StumpWM, and despite being a GUI system, it'd be very difficult for a new user without some instruction.
So I guess the new membrane they put into the 2018 MacBook Pros didn’t solve the problem? I had keyboard issues on my 2015 MacBook which I think is the first time they introduced the butterfly switches. I got a 2016 MacBook Pro 15 and the keyboard has worked flawlessly. I’ve gotten 2 2017 MacBook Pro 15s for work. The first one had keyboard issues and the second hasn’t but I’ve only had it for like 4 months.

I’ve been lucky support-wise, but maybe you would get better service from your local Apple Business team if thats an option?
Video2css – Convert videos to CSS animations
The big difference in traditional diets is enough plant fibre to support the biota that lets us absorb choline:
https://medium.com/@russjj/choline-is-it-the-key-to-modern-i...
I'd love to make this. I wonder if they'll publish the code and plans.
Wouldn't surprise me that a British publication would note that loneliness is on the rise as American culture norms are being spread around the world through our media and technology.

There are thousands and thousands of books and papers written on American individualism at the root of our very superficial friendships since the early 20th century. A quick Google search returns books that date to the 1970s on the very topic.

How many of your friends have only been along for a part of your life journey and then you lose touch and grow apart? We are driven to pursue our dreams and passions and become as successful as we can in whatever we think that means for us.

I mean, we're the country that invented the nursing home, complete with the expression, "you're born alone and you die alone."
I recently purchased a used 2013 model max specced. Definitely worth it. Loads of ports. Great retina screen. 16gb of ram. Fast CPU.

On the other hand I was not going to pay the prices for a current model, which lack the ports I like (hdmi, sd card, usb a).
What is your "circle of happiness?"
The approach I’m trying now is to start at the destination and work my way backwards. It’s similar to how some people prep for test by starting with a test and then focusing on the weak areas.

It feels similar to how I learn in the course of working in a professional environment. Try to do something, get stuck and then go understand the thing you’re stuck on. The idea is that if I start at the destination the necessity for and application of the missing knowledge is much clearer to me. Of course you can go back multiple levels to gain a understanding of something, I tend to stop at the point where I have a practical understanding but I find as I progress the areas I get stuck on tend to have some root base of knowledge that’s further back, perhaps theoretical in nature, learning that makes everything just “click.” (I’m currently doing this to understand deep learning and music composition).
At which point making a better product at lower prices stopped being a moat?

SolarCity was a totally different business (installing traditional solar panels but mostly the business was financing those installation) and Tesla is winding it down.

The future of energy in Tesla is Solar Roof, Powerwalls (residential storage) and Powerpacks (utility-scale storage).

In storage Tesla has significant advantages on cost because of scale. Battery cell production is a Joint Venture with Panasonic (so I'm sure they get them cheaper than anyone else) and they have greater scale than all non-Panasonic cells and the batteries involve lots more components (and cost) that just cells and Tesla makes that, at scale.

Powerwall is significantly better looking than the competition I could find (LG Chem RESU and Pika Harbor are plain ugly, Sonnen eco looks decent).

Tesla has superior marketing and distribution (all those people buying Teslas are exposed to Solar Roof and Powerwalls and can order online).

Solar Roof looks like a product without the competitor.

Both Powerwall and Solar Roof are sold out a year in advance.

I'm less versed in utility storage business but based on headlines Tesla is killing there as well, breaking size records one after another, doubling the size of the business YoY, which is a crazy growth.

If you claim competition then name names and provide data that shows that they are actually doing better than Tesla on some reasonable metric like revenue.
Is the reason this is on the front page because he’s an investor? Can HN not feature these “I am quitting facebook” every month? Let’s get back to real news and real thoughts. Oh btw, I have quit facebook too because I was mentally unstable. AMA time but I bet no one would because I ain’t Om.
Did he say certain companies? The part I remember was just that people who have been employees for 20 years probably wouldnt be good founders. I assumed the implication is that a founder is someone with too much angst, ambition, or arrogance to be comfortable working for other people for 20 years.
We didn’t get our first TV until 1960. It had that space command. As a child, I could hear that ping, but it wasn’t unpleasant. When you pinged it, the predecessor of a stepping motor actually rotated the mechanical channel selector. Or, a relay cut off the sound. The TV was black and white, and it was horrible. The humidity of NYC soon rendered the TV tuner very touchy: it was an art to fine- tune channels manually at the TV and this rendered the channel clicker useless. The synch circuit was also unreliable and given to long bouts of screen rolling. But on that TV, I watched the 1960, 61, and 62 World Series, which included Bill Mazeroski’s home run which beat the Yankees, and the whole drama surrounding the Kennedy asassination. And most of the Mercury and Gemini launches.
I’ve enjoyed or appreciated this kind joinery, but never could do the job right (given limited tools, though that doesnt stop a craftsman).

This is Very cool. Hope they Kickstart it or something.
That's really fascinating to me. I live in LA (for over 3 years now) and literally no one on the street, in a restaurant, or a store has ever just started talking to me. I would be startled and probably expect you to ask me for money if you did that to me here. Is the Bay really that different?
Compared to learning from an expert tutor/mentor 1-on-1, or even getting expert advice about where to find resources, it is (a) pretty inefficient, and (b) tends to leave gaps in basic knowledge.
Back in (one of?) the very first paper(s?) on this stuff, Frey actually pointed out that a 2x2 piece of flyscreen (of some density, I forgot which) on the temporal lobes blocks the EM/RF hearing effect. But, as I pointed out in another comment, two distinct effects exist:

One that induces EM/RF hearing, and one that induces tissue damage.
skytorrents shutdown last year.
What type of rig do you need to run this? Would a Chromebook be good enough?
That's really not how it works, though. Even fast food workers get training on the software and tools they have to use.
Energy is actually deeply connected with time, as it’s the measurable quantity that’s conserved because of the time-symmetric nature of the laws of physics.
I've never heard of routers using the ttl field for hashing, why would that ever be useful?

Also it seems an incorrect use of anycast to terminate the same flow at different machines. At Google, anycast traffic goes through clusters of maglevs that directs individual flows to the same endpoint consistently.

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub44824

Also I'd like to echo that Fastly's NOC is great. Super responsive and smart.

Disclaimer: I work at Google
Germany, Japan, and every other country that's been on the losing end of a fight would probably disagree.

Heck, Britain burned down America's White House, and they became best friends and important trading partners again in just a few years.

I think it's time to move on and stop blaming other countries for China's problems.
amen to that its always easier to fix it yourself when the part is the only problem.

apple is a full service shop that will quote you a price and then get it done. they wont ask any questions and just let it all happen.
People often complain about being downvoted but your post actually adds nothing to the discussion. In fact, you just reframed everything Om said negatively.
If it is confirmed, can we please black-bar HN? Terry was one-of-a-kind.
I'm looking forward to the research that will come out of Canada after the upcoming legalisation :)
Ask HN: Reading recommendations for understanding food allergies?
The prevalence of food allergies is increasing in the USA, at least, if not around the world. In my case, I have two daughters with serious food allergies and sensitivities. I’d like to educate myself on this issue, and I’d be grateful for some recommendations about where to start. Thanks!
Actually Nissan or GM actually are well equipped to build cars, their production pipeline is time tested, you must have heard that TESLA was finding it difficult to assemble a efficient assembly line to meet the demand. It still is way behind on its schedule for delivery and unable to meet the demand. If only GM or Nissan actually produce a compelling enough car i am sure they can beat TESLA on prices, simply because they have yrs on investment already paid off on their assembly lines. TESLA would take many many yrs to get paid on the new assembly line they are putting in place that too with the inflation of 2018.
I wish they would make a JS/TS-based version of the Closure compiler. I suspect a lot of apps would benefit from the compilation and we'd see much smaller bundle sizes. But the Java dependency is a burden to bear.
There's about 10K supercharging stations in the US. There's amount 168K gas stations. The amount of super chargers is probably about the same as the measurement error for the 168K estimate.
That... shouldn't break? Let me try:

http://www.beperkdestraling.org/images/stories/Wetenschap/Ti...

Edit:
Link seems to work. :)
Instead of the ‘collapse of a wave function’ think of it as entanglement of the wave function with the observer. The point at which the future evolution of the wave function and the observer become connected with each other.
Is Alpine still getting security updates? UW doesn't maintain it anymore, like at all. It exists as git repo out in the ether [1]

I'd probably run it in a non-privileged container.

Infact, I should be doing that for Mutt ...

[1] http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
Apple forgot how to manufacture macbooks since 2015. Keyboards are absolute garbage and touchbar is a marketing gimmick that rarely anyone uses, even video editors as well since you can go with a MX Master 2S mouse for that. You aren't going to care about touchID, disk encryption, camera and microphone processing as much as you think you will. Because a shit keyboard is going to be painful on your wrists for prolong periods of typing / coding. Trust me it is an AWFUL keyboard, I've touched and felt them before. 2015 feels like a solid mechanical keyboard, 2018 is like the worst nonmechanical keyboard you can buy off amazon. Plus you lose the slick cool lightup apple icon in the back.

Buy a "used" 2015 Macbook pro one on amazon here. Better keyboard, legacy ports (its got USB and HDMI). Look for listings with good images and ratings. Good sellers will tell you the exact battery cycle on the used ones. I've done the homework for you, just bought a 15" macbook pro after 5-10 hours of researching GPU / CPU spec benchmark, thunderbolt2 eGPU compatability, getting opinions from many experts both on reddit forums and youtube, etc. I built my own windows computers since I was 13 so I know what to look for. This is the best spot to buy one since you get Amazon's return policy.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00XZGUL8W/ref=dp_ol...

You might want to look at these listings every so often to find a used one you really want. The only trustworthy alternative location IMO is ebay, because that's where the sellers are at.

Its the last good one from apple. You'll spend ~$1500 for a 15". Don't buy a 13" IMO, screen real estate is already small as it is. You may or may not need a built in graphics card, its only about 30% better than the dedicated GPU around that time.

I bought mine for $1500. It was "used". Only had 21 battery cycles, for all intents and purposes it was brand new to me. I chose not to get a built in GPU because of potential issues it might have using an external GPU.

Peripheal accessories, I use a 2nd monitor from Gechic. You need an HDMI based portable monitor, they are the only ones that make it. Because if its not HDMI it causes the CPU fan to spin really loudly.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M9CXOTV/ref=oh_aui_sear...

For backpacks to carry macbook, I use this personally, after researching every backpack in the market. Its designed specifically for most HN'ers in mind, IMO

https://www.amazon.com/eBags-Professional-Laptop-Backpack-So...

If I need a more powerful PC I use my windows computer
I love this idea. With one problem. It doesn’t capture the externalities of living in the sub/ex urbs correctly. Precisely where it’s hard to park is where people are living most environmentally friendly (density).

Paired with a dramatic energy tax I’m good with it.
It was growing exponentially.
Isn't there already one? I seem to recall that it mostly works, just much more slowly than the java version

Edit: here you go:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-closure-compiler