skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Apple tries to do a lot of firsts when they release a new product category, but most of their updates are about putting the effort into the smallest details that matter to users, even if the users don't know about it.

They are better than anyone else at that simply because nobody else really sees the whole product as their own problem. I.e. each hardware/software/service maker is just optimizing their part.
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In the more hardcore-about-code-review job I had, the code reviewer was as responsible for bugs / broken stuff that came out as the person who wrote the code. And in that job we didn't just read the code briefly, you'd load up the branch and test their code. I'm not sure that it was the best practice, it slowed everything down and led to a more formal culture.

If you do this, in order to incentivize the code reviewer you might actually make 10% of the grade based on the code submitted by the person they reviewed. (Granted that could be kind of harsh, and I always hated group projects in school.)
> Yes, when Dan Rissio says "we manufactured this screen' he is LYING TO YOU. They bought whole thing from LG or Sharp.

It's not a lie if "we" refers to Apple together with its partners or "manufacture this screen" refers to the combination of LG/Sharp's screen with Apple technology.

Is it a lie when Google says it created Android without mentioning the creators of Linux or Java? Is it a lie if Intel says it manufactures a CPU without mentioning the manufacturers of the silicon wafers?

Dude, it's marketing, which I'm not a fan of. But be fair.
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Did I write "mark unread"? Well, that was nutty.

I meant "mark as read". I have a browser plugin that does this (LinkVisitor), but it does it either for all links on a page or individually selected links.

It would be handy if skimfeed could mark a section as read (visited) in my browser history; then the link would grey out in other sections as well, making my skimming more efficient.
It's often the opposite. In order to prevent the Internet from melting, TCP does an elaborate dance with all the TCP speakers to back off and avoid congesting the network. UDP does no such dance, and so can monopolize traffic at the expense of TCP.

Obviously this presumes that the UDP protocol in question has some mechanism for handling lost packets. But, for instance, if you're doing lossy video or forward error correction, end users do not deal directly with lost packets.
Think about the user experience.

If switching, a user no longer has to wait on delivery of a small physical item from the new carrier. The user doesn't have to fiddle with a paperclip to pop out the SIM. (Average user could be scared to do so, or could scratch/bend the rather fragile SIM tray). It could all theoretically be done from a settings menu.
> It's totally unscientific to use LDL given it includes HDL

I agree that total LDL is not a good indicator unless you do subfractioning, but I think you meant total cholesterol here, as LDL does not include HDL (that wouldn't even make sense!).
I use Tweetbot as my client. When an OSX Twitter notification comes in and I click it, it takes me to Chrome, where I'm not logged in because I never use their web interface.

I wonder what your next goalpost move will be.
Apparently Italians have more Neanderthal DNA than most...

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
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as I said else where small mac shops when they get to 10-15 people start to need a mac midi if they want to stay in the mac ecosystem
> Smoking marihuana, however, does impart some of the risks of smoking, but not nearly the same. I don't know if it's possible to reach the same level of damage to your lungs with pot as you would with cigarettes.

Why not? Also, aren't marijuana cigarettes unfiltered, unlike tobacco?
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I am happy to see this happen but broadband quota limits could become a limiting factor as more and more video is consumed this way.
If I had a friend tell me that his free storage locker chucked his stuff, I'd tell him thats what he gets for using a free storage locker.
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Not sure. I mean...I've swapped cards to switch carriers before but I never thought buying or swapping to another SIM was enough trouble that I'd need a programmable or multi-profile SIM.

I'm sure it's technically possible but the carriers could just as easily make it only work with certain plans. I remember needing a SIM activation kit to get on that $30 plan when I first got it. You couldn't just use any TMo SIM without some code from the kit and you couldn't get it in any TMo store. No idea if the adding of the code needed to activate the SIM would work with this new thing.
Yeah, I was imagining a situation where with "a little more software" Apple products could automatically detect which networks are available, their relative speeds, etc, and automatically use the right one all the time. And they could buy in sufficiently large bulk to get a good deal on the data rates.
The institute seems to have a political agenda/bias.

[0] http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/manhattan-institute-po...

[1] http://www.manhattan-institute.org/southparkconservatives/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Manhattan_Institute_for_Po...
Bugger I hope not
ATP talked about the Dell 5K for several episodes - but they couldn't figure out how they could drive that many pixels from any of their systems (including Marco's Mac Pro) - Apple just solved that problem today, and is the first company to do so - which is what's getting so much attention. It's a real technological/integration leap forward. Credit where it's due.
Below is a link to a very readable review:

https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/DD08Survey.pdf
Wait, so I need to reinstall XCode after an upgrade?
> If you want a new SIM card, and you don't have a contract, just buy a new SIM card and put it in your phone / tablet.

My parents couldn't change a SIM card to save their lives - they couldn't open the phone to get the card out, they'd have trouble holding the micro SIM card if they did get it open, and they'd probably put it in backwards and just scratch the hell out of the contacts if they made it that far. Why should they have to? Oh, sure, they can go to a store. That works if switching networks is something you only want to do very occasionally with plenty of time to plan, but if you can make it easier why not? It's all software, why are we authenticating it by a tiny fiddly piece of plastic? I mean, I do this often enough myself that I carry a little Nokia pin for the tiny hole that triggers the SIM card slot to open on my Nexus, but why should I have to?
I'm just saying the mini2 should have been priced higher, in comparison to the mini3 and mini1.
So, the original purpose of copyright was to ensure that content creators were encouraged to release things for the public at large. This in turn is a two-part process: first, creating content for consumption, and second, distributing that content.

I don't think it should be even slightly controversial to suggest that we've democratized and solved the second part of that problem (provided things like net neutrality pass, but that's a larger issue). There is no reason that a creator who wants to put out content into the public domain can't do so (again, barring government censorship or what have you--arguably not even then) in a way that is likely to be preserved into perpituity.

It's the first part of the problem which is what people will wring hands about, refusing to believe that creators would ever spontaneously decide to make something for no apparent and immediate payoff (fanfiction and deviant artists and HN commentators clearly notwithstanding) and put it out there.

With things like DA, with Patreon, with Kickstarter, with Steam Greenlight, with Amazon and everything else, it's clear that we're almost done solving the first issue--again, if you believe it's an issue at all.
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> includes The Intel Math Kernel Libraries, which bring multi-threaded computations to R.

Say no more, I'm sold!

Now that I can use multiple threads, please let me distribute my calculations over multiple machines and I can drop python.

I used to be the compiler developer for a proprietary language that was vectorized like Matlab and R. If R was where it is today in 2000, we probably wouldn't have created a new language(Quicscript) for quants to use.

I can't recommend R enough to anyone doing modelling. It's almost replaced excel for me and, in finance, that's pretty high praise :)
And that's why you get a SIM pick tool.

In US you just get a phone with everything pre installed and sim tool :). So this thing does make it easier for Apple and a bit more convenient for users
Except that this is an all in one computer, not just a monitor. There's a miniscule amount of people that have the hardware to power that dell monitor.

Plus the iMac costs the same and is an actual computer.
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Similar sized 4K UHD 60hz monitors have been available between $500-$600 for a while now, Monoprice for example: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=...
So poor software doesn't directly endanger other people? This is why I'm so nervous about a generation of "coders" - they just don't know what they don't know. Software can get people killed. Or (far more likely) can get peoples' bank accounts wiped clean.
This would require AirDrop to be an open standard. I would be very happy if Apple started opening their standards. AirDrop, iMessage, Facetime, etc. would be much more useful as cross-platform standards.
Congrats on the launch! It's getting to be a pretty crowded space, but hopefully you can bring something new to the table!

-Matt @ https://www.wfh.io
Typing this from my Lenovo W540. High DPI is good and all, but holy shit do programs vary between regular, tiny font, and large font. VMWare's remote desktop client (vmrc.exe) triggered via VCloud in browser renders at native, which requires me to squint and put my face 2 inches away from the screen.
...and? Don't leave us hanging, what happened?
Here's a grauniad article with a few more details of the research that is driving the changing attitudes.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/23/neanderthals-...
Arguing with communists is a waste of time. Predator species always existed and will always exist. The whole "inequality" debate is beating around the bush. It is the classical grasshopper-ant situation. They simply want your stuff.
That’s part of the reason I really like control and data flow combinators (map, filter, fold, zip, compose, duplicate, both, …), because they let me avoid a lot of names for intermediate values.

But I still can’t make a directory for the project without first thinking of a name…
Apple doing this does solve the issue for some people. However, as the parent poster mentioned, it is not as revolutionary as some make it out to be.

They are not solving a problem that has been unsolved before. Instead, they are providing a more streamlined and hassle-free solution.
What do you think are better anonymity technologies than TOR?
Same in Israel.
The babylonians where into base 60 doesn't everyone know that?
User namespaces will come. Patches are in progress and you can refer to github for the status of that effort.

I'd hesitate before calling it a "security problem" with Docker. It's a highly-requested security feature. The absence of it makes containers less secure, but does not make them vulnerable. There are use-cases for Docker without user namespaces, but user namespaces will make Docker better and will make containers more secure.

We do distinguish between the security of the Docker engine and the pieces of our ecosystem and the security of containers themselves. We seek to improve both.

Vulnerabilities such as the one fixed today in boot2docker 1.3 whereby either web browsers or containers may control the Docker daemon and perform remote code execution are serious issues in Docker itself and/or its ecosystem of products. Resolving such vulnerabilities is not, for me, less important than adding user namespaces.
VirtualBox is really good, and free.
You can, but most laptops being sold are still 1366 x 768.
In my experience, for a 2560x1600 samsung monitor, DisplayPort works well. Admittedly, the cable seems to stop working after about 6 months, since I plug and unplug from my laptop twice every day, but a cable replacement works.
So we shouldn't attempt to disincentivize countries from building up a nuclear arsenal, as long as they haven't nuked anyone yet?
That's totally weird to me.

I don't want to say it from a position of superiority or anything, just different mobile culture, but in here, changing SIM cards is normal. It's what you do when you buy a new phone, because - as I said below - you get a SIM card separately, even when you buy it right with the operator with the contract.

But I guess it's a different culture
Considering the lack of games on the mac paltform, this should not be too much of a problem eh ?
Isn't that exactly what they did when they released the original iPhone? Isn't that basically their entire existence?
Monoprice is selling UHD 4K 3840x2160 60hz for $500-600... I've seen similar ones from Samsung on Amazon. http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=...
Mine crashes a lot. Usually after I send it to sleep when I go home. Next time when I wake it up, it starts up from crashed state. It might have something to do with some app I installed but I didn't spend time to figure that out yet.
Intersting, animated gravatar is one way that I've described it in the past. Thanks for your comments!
I think the real issue is that US customers (at least) have been conditioned to think of a smart phone as something that costs between $0 and $300 due to the common use of contracts and subsidies. Even if a carrier offers a non-contract plan, they are often not that much better as far as price (with some exceptions like TMobile and some MVNOs), so they balk at paying $650-850 for a handset.

That was one of the things I liked most about the Nexus 5 when it came out. Even unlocked you were getting a current gen phone, unlocked, worked with three major carriers and many MVNOs, and only cost $350. At that point, it's not as tough to make the jump and ditch the contract. Without the contract, you can just leave if a competitor offers a better deal or if your carrier screws you over.

Even with this new SIM, I imagine you're still either gonna pay full price or you're gonna get it subsidized with a contract and then have the option of flipping over to some secondary plan when needed. Might be good for smaller carriers with good rates but less coverage. Phone works great at home but drops off when you go to another town? Just flip to a prepaid SIM from a cheap prepaid carrier with service in the area.
A typical generous estimate of human visual acuity is 0.3 arcminutes. As in, any pixel density beyond that is probably not visible to us. It's not an exact measurement since there's disagreement over how to properly measure it. But regardless, most estimates are in the 0.3-0.4 range.

Then simple trig tells us that we are maxed out when:

(distance to screen) * sin(0.3 arcminutes) = pixel size

The new iMac has a 27 inch diagonal, and 5874 pixel diagonal, so its pixel size is 0.004596 inches. Plug that in above, and you can see that you would have to be 53 inches from the screen to be maxing out your visual abilities. Anything closer (like normal) and you actually could still benefit from higher resolution.
Not even for its retro appeal? :)
How might I increase my HDL (good cholesterol)?
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I tend to look when I run into an issue. So its not "I never look" it is more "I only look when I feel I have to."

If you get enough people doing that...well, imo, you'd probably have most "issues" surface as quickly as it would in commercial software ... and you'd have the added advantage of not everyone having a vested interest in obscuring any potential 'issues' that might negatively affect the company. [e.g. A privacy centric company that records addresses? Ouch]

The other issue is if you don't own the network, you can't trust the network.
I installed the developer betas - I'm updated to the most recent. Is the release today different and more stable, and is there a way I can switch to today's release?
Here is one for the books.
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I think that the main cause of heart attacks is high blood pressure. Therefore smoking weed might be beneficial for people with heart attack risks.

(However if someone already have low blood pressure it might be dangerous for them)
And you would be wrong, because no one deserves to have their stuff chucked and it's actually illegal. Your friend has recourse in that situation.
Apparently they use IP address and geolocation in that case, not GPS.
I know great, long time and successful bridge engineers who have never studied math and physics. I think this really depends on your goals, and the complexity of what you hope to be building. If you want to be at the top of the civil engineering field you may be correct, but if you want to be a really strong bridge developer working at construction startups, building your own light weight bridges and other buildings, or freelancing as an engineering nomad and building small private bridges? You don't need any of that.

See how ridiculous that sounds when you take another complex field and substitute it in? It should sound just as ridiculous for software development.
I'd be willing to bet that most people wherever you're from also can't change their own SIM and have the store employees do it (which is how it worked when I bought a SIM card in both London and Seattle in the last two months).
I think it's a supply issue. Once that's worked out, I'm sure they will release just the 5k monitor. I don't think they like telling customers who ask for a 5k monitor to go buy dell for too long.
Can someone please provide some context to the submission? Is this something new?

edit: politeness.
Not Duncan "Ebola Tourist" cases. In those two countries, plus Norway and Spain, they are all medevacs, along with 4 of the US cases. I.e. the hospitals knew ahead of time they'd be receiving a case and the people were sent to specialist wards.

And yet Spain's isolation failed, perhaps because the government closed the infectious disease ward some months earlier, and only restarted it on an emergency basis when the first missionary became sick. All we know is that their PPE protocols were not up to snuff if the stories about closing gaps with adhesive tape were correct.

I also just notice on Wikipedia as of today there's a nurse who treated the French patient who "developed a high fever and was transported to the same hospital for treatment for suspected Ebola" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_A...).

"expensive, oppressive and ineffective policy decisions"

Specifically what? I'm not aware of any that would be "ineffective", or ones that would necessarily be "expensive" to the US. This is of course assuming "panic" enhanced by more Dallas failures, or other imports from West Africa does not grow massively.

How many Americans have to get and die of Ebola before "oppressive" policy decisions happen---as if the current clowns running the show at the national level would continence them?
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I'm mostly thinking it would be interesting for mobile data competition. Though so many people are tied up in complicated family plans that maybe it doesn't matter much.

If my AT&T 2-year commitment ran out and I could just press a button, put in a code from a card I bought at Wal-Mart, and take T-Mobile for a 1-month test, there'd be more pressure on AT&T to keep their prices sane.
With a regular SIM, I can put any SIM from any carrier, and they don't have to be blessed by Apple.

I'm not going to let go this freedom, thank you. I'd rather have a physical operation to do than give even more control to Apple.
Edit: Just realized I commented twice to this thread, but I like this response (my second one) better so I'll leave it!

We take this approach in our company, but its a risky cultural move for a startup who needs to progress fast, and a lot of corporations don't want to take the time/risk that you'll end up being a flop--generally because they're less connected to individuals as they are teams.

There is currently a huge movement, however, of "investing in people" as an ideology for entrepreneurship, investment and HR. Gary V. has been making a lot of noise about it recently. Subject of his next book? I'm not telling. ;-)

Inhouse and education and training is slowly getting trend again, and cool companies like friends of ours in Amsterdam (Acheived) and SF (Degreed) are starting to make it sexy again as well!
The problem with golden ages like this is that they commit suicide.

Alberto Santos-Dumont could get away with flying his personal dirigible to Maxim's because he was the only one doing so. There were no other aeronauts dashing off for espresso for him to crash into, or to crowd him out from being able to tie his flying machine to the horse hitch in front.

Which is great for the first person to do something. But if the "something" is sufficiently cool -- and I think we can all agree that having a personal blimp would be pretty cool even today, never mind 100 years ago -- other people look at it and think "man, I wish I were able to do that."

So they go off and build their own flying machines, and before long there isn't one aeronaut trying to tie up in front of Maxim's, there's ten or a hundred or a thousand. And, inevitably, because the followers of the genius usually as bright as the genius is, they start crashing into each other or into things and people on the ground.

All of which creates demand for bring order to the chaos in the skies, both from people on the ground and the aeronauts themselves. (The people on the ground are tired of having daring aeronauts fall on their heads; the aeronauts are tired of having to argue every question of who has right of way when two dirigibles meet from first principles.) Which means regulation and licenses and safety requirements. Which closes out the backyard tinkerers.

It's all very sad, if you're a backyard tinkerer. The very thing that made what you were tinkering on so cool eventually makes it impossible for you to keep tinkering on it; you either have to scale up or shut down. But whaddayagonnado? Such is life.