skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You talk specs I know little about. But I got to say I'm just surprised they actually even released the damn thing. Many seem convinced (me included) that Apple would go the way of Sony, producing pithy consumer electronics and diluting their brand values of being 'forward-thinking'. I thought VFX world was mostly PC/Hackintosh based?
Glenn Beck? Yuk, I feel dirty now! That's like reading the Daily Mail here in the UK!!

That said, seems like a reasonable fair enough article.
You mean you can't figure it out from an alphabetical list of command line flags? Oh, wait, neither can I.
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Well, he was one of the most successful journalists of his age; he previously destroyed a former CIA general with his writings; he claimed one year ago to have lots of sources in governmental agencies ( http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/uaha0/iam_michael_... ); he recently wrote messages saying he was onto something big re: NSA; he was, basically, at the apex of his career. Why would he go "yeah, let's see how fast this car can go now!" all of a sudden? I am not saying he was killed but I would not find hard at all to believe TBH.
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There's also a very interesting novel where the Voynich manuscript plays a central role: PopCo by Scarlett Thomas [0]

Another central theme that will probably appeal to this audience is underground resistance against global commercialisation.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/PopCo-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/B000I2J20E/re...
This is incredible! Here's my site:
http://andy.neocities.org
Oh, I like it! I don't see a way to beat it :)
I'm under the impression that computer controlled brakes, like power steering, default to mechanical control. So if the engine starts revving without his consent the driver should still be able to apply the brakes enough to disable or slow down the car.
Who said it is legal or illegal?

If some law contravenes the constitution that law is not legal therefore whatever the law says should not be done is legal.
Why would he go "yeah, let's see how fast this car can go now!" all of a sudden?

Maybe he was drunk.
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See, you don't get it. IT'S ROUND, FOR FUCK'S SAKE! That means that Apple is amazing and once more advances the state of personal computing.

Somehow.

In some way.
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Ergo, you just made it up.
>If you really need mac software then why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh

I don't think it should make you mad. Different strokes for different folks.

If I go to a car forum I bet I can find a lot of people who love BMW, and more still who love Mercedes Benz. They'll probably happily argue with each other about who makes the better cars, and why one brand is far superior to the other. And then there's probably also some people who are happy with either car.

For you, there's no software on OS X that doesn't have an equivalent on Linux or Windows. But that might not be true for others (for example, I don't consider GIMP to be 'equivalent' to Photoshop...but you might). Another example - I used to work in live events, and used Mac Pros to drive video rigs. Could I have built a more powerful and cheaper hackintosh? Probably. But I doubt the build quality of what I'd put together would be superior. The cheese-grater Mac Pro could take a beating.

Again, my needs are very different to yours. Please don't get angry on my account!
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> Users can't and won't securely store key material, even their own.

I believe it is an interface problem. I am surprised Mozilla isn't re-activating Thunderbird with an easier to use encryption procedure and an educational campaign to raise awareness in users instead of making petitions around Firefox.
Arguably the whole programme is illegal.
Again, always be careful with buying the first iteration of any hardware. Especially at that price.
Coreutils come from the GNU project so I wouldn't really count it. :p
I stand corrected. It appears that the n95 was an omap2420 http://www.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?c...
OSX has been moving progressively further from desktop beasts and towards tablet/phone fusion. The hardware for the mac pro does have a striking design, but I suspect it will wind up being the same red-haired step-child Mac Pro's have been for years unless Apple does a huge about-face on the development of OSX. This certainly wouldn't be the first time Apple produced a cool-looking desktop machine that turned out to be a sales-dud (see G4 cube).
Especially given that that proscribed model is car dealerships, one of the most universally despised methods of buying something.
How do you know he was going 80+ mph? That second video looks really sped up.
Why does that make you mad? I don't understand that. Different people have different priorities and tastes.
I hope this will enable all of you to create your own Bitcoin eshops and/or crowdfunding pages.
I'd hope that by the time there's attempts at a major colony on Mars, we'd be smart enough to set up multiple redundant systems for everything even if it costs more...
Well it's more innovation than the 30 years of beige box we had.

The shape and style is nice, and I think innovative in how it allows for better cooling of the system. But what do I know, I still run xp :P
Naa, hackintoshes are far to hard to maintain. Its either real Macs, Dell optiplexes (although I've seen a few of those hackitoshed) and HP z series(win/linux) Most of london is HP.

Macs are still needed because of quicktime, and final cut (plus a few other niche products)

People use the Laptops a lot, because they are actually quite good. Certainly longer lasting than anything from Sony or Toshiba.
What about maintenance and personnel? Are those included in the price? If not, maybe there are 2nd order savings we don't see...
Especially since the main reason for spraying are the aphids. Which they could keep low if there were more ladybirds. But alas! The ladybirds are being killed too.
Since 1917? I'd think quite a few
In his book he claimed he had his last drink when he was 20 yo.
Working on an app in the office. Nice and quiet.
> why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh

Because I have better things to do with my time than assemble a poor substitute for a cohesive just-works experience.

> what software is there for mac OS that there is a not an equivalent to for linux or windows

As a developer, most of the exact same software I use every day on OS X runs on Linux just fine. And yet, Linux doesn't provide me with a good user experience, and it doesn't just work[1].

But fundamentally, you are just mad because other people like something you don't. Dwell on that for a while.

[1] If you're going to try and argue with me about how great Ubuntu or Mint or whatever else are these days, let me save you the time: You're wrong, and there is absolutely nothing at all that you can say that will convince me otherwise, because I do use them, but they continue to fail me as primary desktops. Your words conflict with reality, and more words won't change that.
Take a look at the paper I referenced above. Their tests show the ability to disable braking while manual override isn't possible.

While that doesn't address this specific car, it shows that it's possible on at least one type of car.
Wait, Guy English is very ignorant and doesn't know what he is talking about? That's a hilariously ironic comment.
Most pros I know will happily swap software if it will give them access to new features they need or will make them more efficient and productive. They won't switch just to save a few bucks. Even saving $10000 on hardware isn't enough to compensate for even a small drop in productivity.
Considering its shape, location of its fan, I see no reason why Dyson cannot come out with a air multiplier extension that mounts to the top.

Silly aside.

I don't care what the hardware inside the Mac Pro is because I cannot upgrade it from what we have seen already. If I am bound by what I buy then its not a traditional "Pro" machine. Its a design statement and nothing more.

Let alone I don't want a family of these enclosures on my desk, I do fully expect the after market to come up with matching towers you can tbolt connect all across your desk. Perhaps one or two will double as monitor stands.
You think a Mac is a bad choice?

You probably do very little dev. Of all the development environments I have seen so far, nothing beats the Mac. Even Emacs for Mac is light years better than plain old Emacs.

http://aquamacs.org/
I've been thinking about this (and the more general keychain problem) recently. Wouldn't it make sense to have your keychain stored on your smartphone, and allow applications access over a standard protocol using NFC/USB/Bluetooth?

Better still, let the phone do the public key cryptography (as in plan9's factotum), so that your private keys never leave your phone.
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> It sounds entirely implausible that a company renowned for its design would decide on the form factor first, and then try to fit stuff in there as well as possible...

Design has nothing to do with specs, and something to do with form factor. So yes, it sounds plausible that a company renowned for its design would focus on the design over the specs.
I followed these instructions to install Mountain Lion on my 2007 Mac Pro 2,1: http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47

Note: For a Mac Pro 1,1 (2006), you may also want to update to the 2,1 firmware depending on what CPU you are using (have to create an account and login on these forums to download the file): http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1094.0.html
(The 1,1 and 2,1 are identical hardware except for firmware)
I hope this will enable all of you to create your own tipping platforms, eshops and crowdfunding pages. (Most of the software dealing with deterministic wallets was written in Python up to now).
I thought that was incredible too, so I had a look and refactored the ember example. It's now near line-for-line equivalent in both the JS and templating:

https://github.com/gunn/insanely-big-tables/blob/master/cand...

Ember's requirement for .get and .set calls does add a bit of line noise though.
Small editorial detail, intuit.css should be inuit.css.

Otherwise good list :)
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Like I said, it's improbable somebody would go trough the trouble. But that doesn't mean it'd be impossible.

Regarding oldskool sabotage, those aren't quite reliable to produce freak accidents. Too much chance and user behavior involved.

Regarding breaking: Anti-blocking systems can release the breaks all by themselves. They do this by computer input issued after evaluating the sensors for each wheel when they're working. If hacked, they could do this on pretty much any condition.

Regarding steering: assisted steering uses an acctuator to amplify your input. This can be circumvented to steer by itself. Self parking systems make use of this, there's no separate system to make the steering wheel turn for self parking, it reuses the mechanics of assisted steering to do the job.
The Mac pro only has one CPU because that's all they could fit in.

I suspect the real reason is that Apple still {can't be bothered|can't figure out how} to add NUMA support to OS X. The existing 2-socket Mac Pros have been crippled by the interleaved-mode NUMA. (which, interestingly enough, is even hardcoded in the firmware, so when running OSes that support NUMA on a Mac Pro, you can't benefit from that support, presumably so the benchmarks don't shine a bad light on OS X - of course it's blindingly obvious when compared to a same-spec workstation from HP, Dell, etc.)

In fairness, adding NUMA to xnu is probably quite an undertaking. I wouldn't be surprised if they've previously tried and got in a terrible mess. The task/thread management is scattered across the Mach and BSD subsystems, and the virtual memory system handles some conditions (such as low memory) terribly, and seems to scale badly to large amounts of RAM and 64 bits.
The fanboyism in the article is just ridiculous, but I think new chasis deserves more credit than just being a "funny shape", I think it is genuinely innovative in a space that hasn't seen much innovation for a long time. Just like the MacBook finally shook up the "ugly grex box" status quo of laptops the new MacBook Pro finally shakes up the "big ugly grey box" status quo of workstation computers. I am curious how many watts/m^3/dB will Apple be able to pack with this approach, it seems to a be a very interesting direction.
http://www.apple.com/uk/imac/design/

I'll cite apple's own website in this:

One of the biggest challenges our engineers faced with this new design was how to join the front to the back. The enclosure is so thin, it’s not possible to weld the pieces using traditional methods.

Formfactor first, everything else second. Hence why apple makes the products they do.

I am of course willing to be convinced otherwise, perhaps you have some sources to backup your claim?

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You are naive if you think high-end professionals value their money more than their time.
A private contract can not make you guilty of criminal offences.
Eh, not really. That's just a popular delusion. Mavericks just further cements that Apple has no plans whatsoever of unifying OS X and iOS on a UI level. To me it even looks like OS X and iOS are moving further apart.
Linux is grand if you have a sysadmin to set it up for you.

otherwise, it's going to take a while.
Political egofagging at its best. Just ignore this.
> Second, understanding text requires knowing how the
> information it contains is encoded (what language it
> is written in). Drawings are far more universal.

So you're saying that you can look at those old drawings and understand what they mean?
I think he's right. There's something terrible, here. Google services let us search/share/store data with an efficiency yet unseen at this scale. It's probably not that much of an exaggeration to say google is empowering humanity.

But doing so, it handles so much data about so much people that even with good will, it's a danger. How secret services and cops could not be interested in the huge amount of data magically made available by google services ? The aggregation itself is the danger - and the feature we all love.
Well, I just read that article. And based on what he has written there. Yes.
It's like Linux, only, it:

* Runs Office, which means it runs Excel (and Word). Gotta love Excel. I'm sure there are unholy combinations of calendering software that mean I can interact sort-of sometimes with the Exchange server in the office, but Outlook Just Works too, on a Mac.

* I never ever ever ever have to interact with XF86Config. Literally days of my life wasted on that.

* Runs Omni(Outliner|Graffle|Plan|Focus). I guess I could cobble together something from org-mode, some terrible Visio clone, etc.

* It does sleeping properly when I close my laptop. Always. Reliably.

I just don't have time to run Linux on my laptop.
this strategy doesn't work if you block a won game instead of a full game which is what OP's game does
I find it easier to think of it as an upper mid class workstation. It's not a high end workstation. Exciting and weird thing about is that all extensions to it are planned to be external, we'll see how that works out. Also, my concern is about the cooling design, looks like it will suck dust from below, like a really inefficient vacuum cleaner. Doesn't matter it's supposed to go on desk and not on the floor. Dust is always an issue, no matter where you are. Also, ATI graphics is not something I am excited about.
Unix + it just works + good-looking and usable UI, only OS X has all three.
The Blaze. Glenn Beck's site. Really?
Preaching to the wrong crowd. I love science, but I can't stand it when people try to apply 'logic and reeeason' to social concepts like this one. It's pseudoscience at best. We're human, not vulcan, after all...
Getting rid of user-accessible PCI has a similar benefit for Apple - no more hassle having to support a zoo of PCI cards.
Except there are Thunderbolt-to-PCIe enclosures, which come with their own set of problems (latency, hotplugging, I/O memory range allocation, bandwidth, not to mention cost). But I guess Apple can just say "we don't support those, take it up with the enclosure manufacturer".

Drivers for Thunderbolt devices still are necessarily kexts and can thus take down the system without an obvious culprit. For this reason alone I'm surprised they went with it rather than supporting USB3 early on or that they didn't come up with something similar but altogether new, like they did with Lightning. They seem to be trying to cut down third party kext development, and aren't opening the sources for most of their own new kexts. Of course, with IOMMUs available in all Thunderbolt systems, they could have brought back the microkernel aspect of Mach for device drivers, but that would have been even more work.
Developer is a very broad term. What kind of developer are you? I'm a games developer.
Emacs is great but it is essentially a text editor. there are literally 1000's of similar things of varying complexity depending on your preferences available for linux and windows.
My problem isn't with people needing advice to get laid, god knows I was terrible with women in my youth. What I don't appreciate is guides that focus entirely on how to get women into bed via what is effectively trickery and misogyny. It should be teaching fundamental respect, social awareness, equality, consent, self-appreciation - these are the qualities that will allow you to form lasting connections with people (and not just women). Yeah, these tricks might help you get a drunk girl into bed but she'll probably regret it afterwards and so will you!
> Formfactor first, everything else second. Hence why apple makes the products they do.

I am sorry, but I just don't know where to start. That's not how industrial designers work, it's a caricature.
Saturday? Today is Saturday?

That explains no one else is here...
This is not my work, I tried contacting dypsilon but couldn't find contact details to let him know he should stop by here.

EDIT: found him on twitter and contacted him
For a pro computer, where performance is absolutely the most important consideration, do you really care about the shape of the case?

Another thing most of people are not bringing up and driving me nuts, is for pro computer, being able to upgrade components at will is one of the most important considerations. From the looks of it, this looks like its not going to be possible with the macpro. With the old Macpro, it was possible to upgrade components. As a matter of fact, being able to upgrade was a big part of the design.
Yes. It's strong in GPU terms, but no stronger than (some) currently-available PC workstations. At the same time it's irremediably weaker than (some) currently available PC workstations in terms of CPU, RAM and bandwidth to specialised hardware. Presenting this as a new paradigm of GPU computing seems a bit spinny.

EDIT: However, if the Mac Pro (despite the name and the heritage) is really priced and sold as something more like a high-end desktop than a full-blown workstation, then the new-GPU-centric-paradigm thing might be borne out to an extent - it would be an unusually GPU-heavy machine compared to PC desktops, if not to the workstations of VFX professionals.
Economies of scale work both ways. If the infrastructure that you need for 100 widgets will get you to 200 widgets with only a little additional work, then don't be surprised when downsizing from 200 to 100 only saves you a little on infrastructure.
Yeah well, the hole in the Pentagon on 9/11 was too small for the airplace too, and the engines magically disappeared. Regardless, today's "truth" is the official version.
Well that was eye-opening.
Why is programming an art
In the office. Procrastinating... Reading HN :)
That might've been true in the mid-1990s, but the various modern Linux distributions are quite straightforward to install, especially if it'll be the only OS running on the system.
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Is this a Mac fanboi's idea of writeen(1) porn? It reads like a diary of a boy about to go out on a first date, while already dating... Actually, it's kinda cute. Or is it creepy? Lets hope the writer doesn't end up, er, "injuring" his or her self on this new computing phallus.

Anyway, I think the writer needs a cuddle.

(1) Well, yes, initially it was a typo, but on second thoughts I like how it worked out.
I can't believe what I just witnessed. Something expressing a valid concern in a somewhat uncivilized manner, the developer answering in a nice way, the original poster apologizing and the developer linking to the source code to quench other similar concerns. WHAT HAS THE INTERNET COME TO?

Cheers to you, fine folks!
Fantastic compilation. Thank you!
I made the assumption that we would still have access to the original source code. So it wouldn't be so hard to translate Java to another modern language, e.g. one of the most modern being Go. On the other hand, so few people know COBOL these days that even with source code, translating those systems would take considerably longer.
At our temporary home in Thailand. Working on a new iteration of http://pinegrow.com.
Well one thing they hate probaply is blowfish encryption.
Dont use triple DES, as they where involved in it forcing it as a standard.
Prism, meet Tempora
pointless and tasteless
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Trying to consolidate all the red flags in one place:

1. "How is another question." No it isn't. Gasoline is how cars blow up when they hit trees.

2. "Video dissolves moments later (something was cut from it)" This is called editing; it's used when interesting things stop happening.

3. " over 200 feet" Or, as some reports have it, 'over 100 feet'. Shouldn't be hard to measure the exact distance from Google maps or someone can go there.

4. "not sure a C-250 fuel tank (17.4 gallons) could create that big of a fireball?" This is random FUD. It's not hard to find images of similar sized cars exploding on Google.

5. "All electrical systems, fuel, combustion, etc. would be disconnected for this reason." The fuel tank isn't made of adamantium.
How about you start with a simple proof and then write "Similarly, we can show"
Not being a sci-fi fan, and going immediately to the original sources instead of wading through this (very) long editorial, what I see is this:

1. Major sci-fi zine runs article suggesting that Barbie is the epitome of a "nice" girl because of her perfect good looks and demeanor and "sweater fillers" (ick).

2. The expected online protests occur.

3. Major sci-fi zine runs an issue with a half-naked bikini-clad "warrior" on the cover.

4. The expected online protests occur.

5. Major sci-fi zine runs a followup in which its aggrieved authors compare protesters to "liberal fascists" and approvingly quote Sean Hannity.

6. The expected online protests occur.

7. This article, on "swarm shaming", which now looks somewhat disingenuous in context.
Future damnation
Maybe time was a factor, perhaps he was ready to publish his story or close to doing so. Then there is also the tactic of hiding in plain sight.

All of what you mentioned could however be a coincidence, but that doesn't seem to be the simplest explanation.