skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've travelled a lot and I'd trade a half pound for (15% or so?) for a 60% faster processor!
in machine learning, as soon as you stop using linear models which are normally quite fast to compute, models will be as slow as you can tolerate.

for example: random forest, gradient boosting, gam, etc -- you will typically do parameter searches and the models you get are as good as your willingness to wait. Good software will run at a significant fraction of memory bus speed and the faster that bus goes the better your models will be.
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Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 4 of 5: Models by Instance Introspection
I'm happy to hear this. It was nice of Bjørn to build the node API in the first place. It's great that this became the official API, congrats all around.
The future for the Air is Apple getting serious about keyboard support in iOS.

The MBA is a product that exists largely because tablets didn't (at the time). If you had a light workload and wanted an "all day" battery, that was your choice. Today, people buy it because keyboard support on tablets is dodgy and maybe you need one or two apps that don't have a mobile or web alternative.

But in the time it would take for Apple to roll out an Atom or ARM switch, they could have much more easily and cleanly expanded the iPad up into the MBA's niche.

I think the iPad Air name is foreshadowing.
Why does criticism of Apple products bring out rage in people as if they're being personally attacked?

Why do users need to 'get' or furthermore 'approve' of how Apple works?

> As a developer, I would take the 13" MBA over the MBP

Weird thing to say considering the decrease in specs with the MBA. Are you the type of developer that compiles code and wants to do so quickly?
In rural areas in Peru I've seen natives dunking closed beer bottles on water, then add nitrogen based fertilizer to get them chilled really fast! (A strong endotermic reacion happens)
Read the article, it's not about computing derivatives of real world data (using finite differences or whatever), it's about exact derivatives of rational functions specified by a computer program. While what you wrote is interesting, none of it applies to this article.
A few years ago mine was a 10" tablet with the apple bluetooth keyboard in an origami stand.

> That I can be hacking within moments wherever I am is too appealing for me to consider anything else.

This is more attractive to me than other specs, and I suppose there is a lot of intrinsic value in a device that makes me want to code more often and in more places.
Apps on your phone (that have the right permissions) already have the ability to do everything that this app does. Did you personally audit the source code/reverse engineer every app to find out whether it is abusing these privileges? Do you trust the author of every privileged app on your phone?

This is the reality of smart phones. The only difference with this app is that it is upfront about profiling you. Coverscreen has a lot to lose if it anyone finds out they are misusing your data. You should be more worried about apps that aren't telling you how you're being profiled/monitored.
IMHO the "real" MBA, from the point of view of what happens when you use it as your main computer, is the 11" version, and there is a huge difference between that computer and the MBP 13".

The MBA11 means that your computer is from the point of view of portability no much more than an iPad with a keyboard. It has a minimal weight, minimal impact even on a very small table, and when you close it you can walk with it in your hand like if it was a tablet.

Also it is a computer comfortable to stay near the couch if you want to grab it and quickly search for something. It has impressive battery life.

Basically the MBA is a different computing experience, IMHO. I use solely that and in my normal business I just attach it to a big screen, keyboard, wireless mouse, external backup disk, and so forth (everything except the screen is just a single USB cable that goes to the Hub).

When I grab it, I restart working from the bathroom or while waiting for my son music lesson, exactly from where I left.
Actually the site does not claim to build open-source products. They want to use open-source methodology to collectively build and commercialize SaaS products/apps.
There was no "One more thing..." or anything more surprising than them making all of their consumer software free.

But that was a huge one more thing, yet somehow they managed to deflate giving an enormous quantity of top quality software away for free. I completely agree that in the end it was very ho hum, but I still can't even place why that is.

Similarly, the Mini announcement had a real potential of being huge...everyone expected a new screen, but few expected the new processor. To have pinnacle gear in a minuscule, big-pocketable, relatively inexpensive device...killer....or ho hum blah.

The MBP updates are fantastic. Maybe expected, but geez that's a killer bit of kit in an amazing form factor at a remarkable price.

They really did have amazing things to announce. Somehow the presentation (and perhaps the endless leaks) managed to suck the life out of it. As Marco mentioned the scripted commentary (and complete inability to adlib on a mistake, making it just painful to watch) and the already-seen videos were just really bad decisions. This could have been a soft web release.

And they've played the Mac Pro for too long already. They've spent too much time on it. And really, of all of Apple's recent products that one is by far the most dubious of them all. The value proposition isn't there, and the potential base is tiny compared to the other products.
The simulated 1440x900 mode on the 13" rMBP is very nice.
I'm sure this makes DuckDuckGo happy.
huh? the pro has more pixels, and you can scale the ui up/down as you prefer. i'm pretty sure you get way more effective screen space at the highest density setting.
I think you sort of missed what I'm saying - we're talking about a MBP that has better battery life already than your 2010 MBA. The 2013 MBP has a 9-hour battery life compared to the 12-hour 2013 MBA battery life. That's a "difference" but is that extra three hours of battery life worth trading for a 60% faster processor? I don't see that as a good trade off.
What goes into designing a haunted house
Everything in the history of Apple has been "30%" more expensive or more outside the US than inside. This is completely no surprise and in line with every other pricing strategy of Apple before.
See, my theory is that the Air is going to further be cannibalized by the iPad Air. I agree, it'll go the way of ARM and run some sort of iOS/OSX hybrid. Think Surface 2. I can't foresee the Macbook Air surviving as a laptop.
Just curious, would the original author be compensated for this? How does that work?
I agree. Wouldn't an optimal solution (from both consumer and business viewpoints) be to have 3 "chips" that use NFC or some other touch enabled technology - home, car, work. You stick them wherever you want actually.
As an owner of the Air, I really do not see why would I want to upgrade to the Pro. It is heavier(marginally,but still!), and the Retina screen is something I would really struggle with. I have the 15" Retina as well,and it's only usable in either the native mode,or at half the resolution. Any resolution in between introduces blur which drives me crazy. The problem with the 13" Retina is, that at half the resolution, you end up with....less workspace than on the 13" Air! And the native resolution is way too small. So why would I swap my Air for the Retina Pro? I really don't know.
There is a difference between recognizing the current state of reality, and embracing it.
Why not? If you're being so paranoid about the origin of a binary, you have to at least acknowledge the fact that you're trusting the compiler in making this comparison.

So let me throw out an idea that might help justify this trust too. Compile the same TrueCrypt sources with a totally different compiler, then use both binaries in a deterministic way and compare the raw encrypted result. (I'm assuming here that the same encryption keys and data will give the same result, but don't know for sure if that's true.)
Nope, got the new 13inch retina today, and it has 1680x1050 resolution. It astonishingly usable in that resolution, although I was sceptical before, my doubts are gone. Only thing: When working with my 17inch macbook, suddenly everything looks so freakishly large!
As someone who is a designer I've always wanted an environment of collaboration to learn programming together with an expert. I've tried books and other things but bridging the gap from Hello World to doing something more complicated than just mad libs is difficult for me. I've signed up for an invite. I hope this happens :)
Bitcoin has a market cap around $2 billion. To be a major currency, it needs a much larger cap, maybe a hundred billion. A major price increase would count as volatility but it's the only path from here to there.
Start date for YC winter 2014 classes?
The yc page says it is from January through March 2014. What is the exact date in January?
The ads that get results won't be a subtle as this, and without that subtly you'll start to hurt positive metrics - it's the game where users expect 100% value towards them, and you must play it to win otherwise they are mobile and will simply use a new service.
I don't believe in team decisions anymore. I've gotten too jaded. I'll suggest what I think/know is good, and that's it. I won't argument for it.

One person, one vision, hopefully that person with the vision is part of implementation as well so hen can drive it.

Group think or committees don't work.
Apparently it has also been used as a platform for selling guns: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/people-are-....
Apple customers are a self-selected bunch who, almost by definition, are more interested in "new stuff to do" than "$100 cheaper".

So whereas the pricing may have been big news, the audience that watched that presentation is nearly orthogonal to one that would care about it.
My word, please at least attempt to add space after the periods ending your sentence and perhaps even using a couple of newlines to create paragraphs.

I hope your marketing copy isn't as hard to read as this post.
The command line navigation commands are just what any Emacs user would expect. vi users can set their $EDITOR to 'vi' to get those commands.

What do you mean you've never used Emacs? mumble whippersnappers mumble
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He only uses vi.
So SWA is a pretty specific example, but what about Apple? What about when you are searching for, well, information about apples? And can SWA ever own the term "Southwest"? When you think it out, it's not as cut and dry as it first seems.
Developer bootcamps are expensive, but offer more than just knowledge. If you're looking to get a job as a software developer, paying for a bootcamp allows you access to experts but also to a network typically geared towards getting you a first job. Access to a network is an invaluable boost in any career, but especially for individuals trying to bootstrap their way into it.

With that said, I'd totally do this because learning Python online while being able to ask questions seems pretty sweet. But I don't know if I would substitute this for an initial education.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, teovall. I love the analogy! I think in the age of awards and accolades many have forgotten the value of an honest day's work.
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> Secondly, why would you care?

Where have you been the past months, under a rock?

Privacy and trust are very valuable concepts these days, after months of NSA spying and companies trying to monetize every byte of your personal(and public) data..

Its just a bad time for this, everybody is pretty sensitive over this sort of things right now, and we cant blame them
"The real question is will I be seeing a banner for Southwest when I search for JetBlue."

It's not so much what you are going to see, as what you're not going to see. I'm sure BP is happy to buy a shiny image ad and take traffic away from wikipedias article on the deepwater horizon oil spill.
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Stuff I expected, under "one more thing ..." (or earlier):

The Mac Pro ships with enough bandwidth to drive three 4K desktop monitors, yet Apple's most recent monitor -- the 27" Thunderbolt Display -- dates to 2011 and has the same resolution as the current 15" Macbook Pro. Bluntly, this is disgraceful. Serious video folks are going to be buying Mac Pros and then paying ASUS three times as much for the monitors! Where's the Apple 4K Thunderbolt Display?

A keyboard cover -- like the Logitech Ultra-thin Keyboard Cover, or Microsoft's Surface keyboards -- would be nice. (I suppose Apple are relying on the after-market, as witness the startlingly fast announcements by Belkin et al.)

Finally, the "software is free" announcement ... yes, they're taking aim at Microsoft, but iWork 5 on OSX turns out to be a mixed blessing; there are regressions all over, especially in scripting (they've virtually dropped AppleScript from their office apps). What is this, an attempt to build market share for MS Office? (The mind boggles.) What other power user features have they planed away in the pursuit of a clean and consistent user interface across all platforms? (Which in practice seems to mean dumbing down the apps on the Pro platform -- OSX -- for compatibility with the mass market platform -- iOS.)
All fair points. I would say that this is a great way to get your feet wet with coding before you decide to take the HUGE life leap of a bootcamp. They're expensive in not only $ terms but also your time.

This way, you can see if you enjoying both coding and conversing about code (which is half of your job as a developer)
Because to check-in for a flight or lookup my reservation I have to 1) search Google for the airline and pick the official site out of the list of all similarly styled links and 2) navigate the airline's site for the exact page I need.

This makes it much, much easier now that all I have to do is search for the airline and click the section I want from the box at the top that signifies that what I'm about to click is the exact official site I'm looking for.
I would gladly pay some yearly fee to be able to use Instagram (and most of the services I use often, really) ad-free. I really wish this was an option.

I assume either a) it's prohibitively expensive to implement such an ability based on how much revenue they expect vs. lost ad revenue vs. lower user engagement due to ads lessening the user experience, b) people are less willing to pay to put ads on your service at a given price if there is a segment of your user base that is guaranteed not to see them.
That's not it at all, this is not the first post-Jobs press release. The presentation lacked modern salesmanship. Perhaps, they don't really want to sell a lot of these products. Why would they want that? I bet the mini iPad is being sold below cost, thus Woz's comment that the 128GB iPad isn't a big enough premium price for his tastes, he's trying to pull the market away from the low-end offerings by popularized consumer fads, preserving some of the value of his AAPL holdings.
To ensure collaboration is easy the code is open-source. To ensure contributors get paid for their work we'll run a hosted version and allow companies to run it themselves with a commercial license.
If this was the first event after Jobs' death, your point would be more valid.
This is a common generational worry, right? We learned X a certain way, that pedagogy was necessarily linked to the technology at the time, we worry in retrospect that that specific technology was a necessary condition for ever learning X.

I'm only 28, and I do it, too-- e.g., how will kids expand their imagination and learn about the world without only having paper books to immerse themselves in for hours at a time? How will anyone learn the basics of programming without finding QuickBASIC on an old Packard-Bell 386, playing around with Gorillas or Snakes, or entering their own code from books in the library?

I think there will be a sufficient number of hacker types around for the cynical and simple reason that corporations need to inspire kids to learn how to code so that they can hire folks in two decades. This ought to inspire a token amount of educational support and tool building so that entry-level development will always be accessible to kids.
Sorry, PC Industry: You’ve Apparently Managed to Perfect the PC
Just because its fun to play "worst case scenario"...

An actuary finds a link between late night cell phone usage and mental illness X. They determine that given your cell phone usage pattern, you have an 50% chance of illness X. Such information is sold to insurance companies, employment background check companies, yada yada
They pre-announce things that have no chance of cannabalizing things they care about. The Mac Pro announcement is probably meant to slow sales of Wintel pro boxes. The current Mac Pro line is already way out of date.
Maybe I'm just a consumer whore, but this update hit it out of the park for me:

- I was waiting for the rMBP Haswell update.

- I love my mini, but the shitty screen is the worst thing about it.

- My wife loves the 10" form factor of her iPad, but it's heavy and the half pound weight reduction is substantial.

Also, as a practical matter, I like that Apple realizes what their products' pain points are and appreciate incremental updates like these to address them. This is something you really don't see in PC space where each new product iteration can have totally different flaws. E.g. with the Vaio Pro 13, Sony did a great job with battery life. But then its bigger, heavier Flip PCs have worse battery life! Huh?
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Did the flamewar mechanism of HN kick in for that article :-) ?
This article makes a similar point: http://techland.time.com/2013/04/11/sorry-pc-industry-youve-... (I think it's been posted on HN before, but I couldn't find the post).
And empirical data suggests that that fight tends to be fairly successful, too. This is why deflation is poison for economic activity.

I suspect that demanding constantly increasing income would be rather less successful if the system weren't rigged to make expenses never decrease.
Patent filing reveals Samsung’s eyewear plans
I have a 50Mbps/5Mpbs connection that I upgraded to recently. I do have to download large code bases and upload large .war files, but I've noticed that it's not really my connection speed that's limiting. Often I'm on my work VPN or if I'm doing work on a customer site I'll be on their VPN. Most of the time, at least for me, the VPN severely limits my upload/download speeds.

Since that's the case, I'm considering downgrading my plan. YMMV, but my take home message is do what works for you and make sure that you are able to utilize all of your bandwidth if you go with a more expensive plan.

Also, what would be nice (for me) is if the upload speeds would match the download speeds. I would settle for a 5Mbps/5Mbps connection because more often than not upload speed is my bottleneck.
The problem with that process is that it ends up being half-assed.

"Yeah I value your opinion, all of your opinions, I'd like to hear your ideas... but we're not going to implement any of them. I like to feel good about being a good leader who listens to my minions. "

or

"Yeah I listened to one of your ten ideas, and it ended up sucking, lets ignore the facts that that idea had dependencies and contingencies on the other nine ideas in order to be amazing"

I rather prefer that the leader took a role that dictated the vision of the product and these days I prefer that particular leader to be the founder and/or CEO. Also hopefully someone who is part of the implementation (preferably code).
Define "need".

Ok, since you didn't... IMO, we need:
- to exercise more
- spend more time with your family
- spend less time checking our email and twitter.
As the owner of a 2012 Air, I don't see why would I upgrade to the Retina Pro. Heavier(yes, marginally,but still, and no, half a pound is not non-noticable), and the retina screen is a disaster from a usability perspective. The only modes which work well are either native res(which makes everything way too small) or half res, which means you end up with less usable space than on the Air. Anything in between is horrible thanks to blur(I have a uni-issued 15" Retina,and would not want to have that effect on my Air,thank you very much).

I don't think I will ever upgrade to the 13" Retina, unless something happens that I will absolutely need the faster cpu, but right now, I am planning on updating to the 2013 Air model, Retina Pro is not even something I would consider.
I love it! Now I just have to figure out how to generate a temperature cold enough to do it.
Exactly how I feel.

My wife has MBP 15' Retina and I simply don't find its screen better than my MBA.

I only use applications in maximized screen mode (but have 7 desktops that I switch between). So the whole 'Retina is better' mantra is lost on me.
Some advantages:

- Yes, built-in async support is very important

- Everyone has to write JS at some point anyways -- it helps to take advantage of what everyone already knows

- You can easily share code between the client and the server

- There are tons of modules available on NPM already

- The compile-to-JS languages are getting more practical every day, and you can integrate them with existing JS code

If you consider time spent learning a platform compared to what you get out of it, Node.js is probably the best bang for your buck today.
Im with you.

Lets all just stop right here. No, dont mention that cross-compile with different compilers and compare. Just everyone stop.
Everything you ever wanted to know about SSH keys but were afraid to ask:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/l-keyc/...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n5M47jV...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BzFiI_7...

(pt2/pt3 borked on IBMs site)
These days, everyone has access to an excellent cross platform learning platform for programming: the browser. So yeah, I think if anything programming is more accessible then ever.
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Whoa, I just had a flash forward to 2030.

First, probe the outrage machine for banners for particular brands. Then for a huge price tag, add lightweight widgets to the SERP for brands so searchers can e.g. buy tickets from the Google Search page. This is hailed by the brands as increasing sales dramatically. Demand for this feature grows.

Once significant numbers are using the SERP widgets, make the banners/widgets part of general non-brand search. Natural next step. A little bit of outrage, but at this point it just gets muffled by the masses. Life goes on.

All of these brands are getting increasingly dependent on Google's SERP widgets, which give Google huge leverage power. One deal leads to another and before you know it Google starts buying up airlnes to streamline everything.

So in 2030 we're flying Google Air using a Google phone to buy tickets to the Google Movies, to see a film made by a studio wholly owned by Google.

I'm not even saying this is a Bad Thing (tm). Just that if I were heading Google this would totally be my game plan.
The trackpad on the 11" is smaller.
I should blog about this,
but I spent 3.5 years in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Doing a bit of freelancing in London during the summers.

Currently back in London, thinking what to do next.