skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I easily expect monitors to start supporting Type C input, where they feed the host machine power and do USB passthrough to a classic USB interface hub with maybe a daisychained type C port on there as well.

Its temporary. In five years everything will have these ports and adapters will not be necessary. In the same way today you can get a DP to VGA adapter instead of having a bulky analog video output, even if it costs $15.
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Apple watch is not required.

I think having millions of participants in most cases is very worth having the bias that it will introduce. It'll be better than the middle class white kid bias that already exists in a lot of this research.
And don't forget the "premium milk"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/03/coca-cola-cok...
While I agree with regards to iLife, the software overall just seems to have gone down in quality. Since upgrading to Yosemite I've had a ton of issues with Apple Mail (which is a staple for me) and wifi in general. Having to toggle your wifi on & off throughout the day gets pretty old pretty fast.

Still a tough sell to go outside apple simply due to the hardware quality & resale value, but at least we have some contenders today where a few years back there were none.
You would think Apple would have little problem assembling some high quality teams (and cash) to make these products much, much better.
In the end it did, we hoped it would be done sooner :) So we wrote the article to make sure other people that need it done fast can do so.
3 biggest Apple Watch revelations
I just had one of my first exposures to OS X, helping a friend get rid of particularly nasty adware called Downlite. It was nastier than anything I've ever seen since Windows 98, and obviously I've never seen anything like it on Linux. Stunning, really. I'm still considering getting my first Macbook though after this announcement, so I do hope they'll build a better security model.
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Open? Like Facetime was supposed to be?
Do you have some proof of what you are saying or that's just an opinion?
Very interesting device overall, might replace my Air.

The resolution seems quite low though. 2304x1440 at 226 ppi might sound not too bad, but straight pixel doubling would yield a pretty small screen real estate of 1152x720 in terms of logical pixels.
Still better than sifting through hoards of mediocre Java programmers.
Battery charging is asymptotical. In the beginning, they accept quite a bit of charge current, and thus can charge quickly. As you get closer to fully charged, the battery cannot safely have as much current pumped into it, so you have to back off on the current as you get closer and closer to fully charged. Bigger batteries, like in laptops, have multiple cells, to attain higher voltages, so that extra current can be directed to each cell. So, in short, no, USB-C won't let you charge phones all that much faster than at 2A
$100k competition for technical content blogging based on Git - wow
Guys have you seen this? seems worthwhile to put a few blog posts up.
It might be that 'making delivery the default way to get food' is just an uninteresting goal to dedicate your life to working on.

I'm unconvinced Quora is much better.
> We have students in debt because they MAJOR in areas where they end up with no marketable skills.

I disagree. I've never hired someone based on their undergraduate major; I rarely know what they are. The skills imparted by an undergraduate educational institution are very valuable, but not directly applicable to professional work, and that even applies to graduate schools such as law, for example -- no law firm cares what classes you took or believes those skills qualify you to do that kind of work; they care you learned to write, think, and work like an attorney well enough to apprentice you to a real one. Professional learning, in every field I can think of, starts with your first job as an apprentice. Most fields consider a graduate degree to be the minimum serious credential.

And after a few years in the professional world, nobody even considers your undergraduate major. Name your co-workers' or any tech leaders'. Does anyone mention it in their HN profile? Could you imagine being asked about it in an interview?

> Can you get well-rounded on your own? Depends. If you only read what people in your bubble tell you to, maybe not so much. Having someone else curate things for you to read, reflect on, discuss, and do has great value in my opinion.

I'd take it much further. I think people underestimate the value of a college environment. You get a cirriculum designed by an expert in the field, and then their personal tutoring. You are surrounded by resources unmatched elsewhere, from research libraries, to a room full of peers, to labs (if applicable), to a department full of experts available to talk to you. Want to learn about a subject? Try going to the office hours of a professor who spent their life studying it, and see if they have time for you. How do you even know which books to read? Which are respected in their field? What are their strengths and weaknesses and who will contextualize them for you?
There seems to be a pervasive sentiment that developers can't learn erlang.

There is a learning curve, and you're going to want to seed your staff with expertise (it sounds like bet365 did this), but there's no reason that a competent developer can't learn this or any other functional language.

And given the increasing usage of Erlang, it's a good skill to pick up - so if you have the opportunity to learn it as part of a job you already have, so much the better.
The other solution is to buy used phone. Premium phones are outdated so quickly, you can easily find a good deal on swappa or similar websites. I'm on my third smartphone since I left my flip-phone in 2009 and I never paid more than $200.
A few things have changed (I use them daily for 6 years):

1) I has more bugs (for instance, drag and dropping an image from a browser makes it crash).

2) The format has changed, it's now incompatible with computers running last year OS, Mavericks.

3) It automatically uploads new document or documents you open in the cloud.

4) I have lost my iCloud contents twice (each time when syncing from an iPad under poor network conditions, but that case should be handled).
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Don't touch it.

Any decent investor would give the intro to the other company in any case if they thought there was mutual benefit to both parties.

I'm assuming the investor is not a regular tech investor given their behaviour, but if you really want the intro you can always say you'd be happy to take the intro after they've invested in you (i.e. at which point they'd be included in the upside anyway). But you might want to think twice about including an inexperienced (or possibly shady) investor in your round.
You should expect USB-C native displays to also power the connected device, and they will easily begin showing up this year.
There's also http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/with-1-8m-from-andreessen-c...
I recently bought one of these from the Microsoft store. Zero complaints. $1300 for the 3200x1800(double 1600x900) touch, 256gb ssd, and 8gb of ram. The dell has a 15w cpu instead of the 5w in the new Mac but it weighs about a pound more. Having a headphone w mic port and 2 usb 3 ports is more useful than a type C port for me.
There's nothing saying you can't have a breakaway cable, but the cable it comes with does not appear to break away.
These manuscripts, which had been labeled "not fit to be printed" upon Newton's death in 1727 ...

To me it's unclear whether it's saying they were found labeled that way, or someone upon his death decided as such. I think the latter is more likely, but I'm not sure how common it was for people of the period, or more importantly Newton himself, to label papers as such.
Really? My experience in their bricks and mortar stores is that I can barely get someone to talk to me when I I want to buy something. Kind of the opposite problem, but almost as frustrating.
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Pi Day has been submitted before, but this year is a little special since Pi Day has extra significant digits this year: 3/14/15 9:26.

Although I guess this does not fit in all date formats.
I don't want to install Lua or Python just to test how long an Hello World takes, hence my "maybe".

Even if I am wrong, 6x here means 130ms, whereas Clojure time is in the order of seconds.

Big enough to warrant a few entries on their roadmap.

http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/%27Lean%27+Runtime

http://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/2014/02/25/clojure-bootst...
With Bluetooth, the cloud and AirPlay, who even needs those ports? People are up in arms every time Apple changes/deletes ports and are almost always wrong.

Go ahead and stick with your thinkpad.
I was using a few different cards a few years back, to work on deep learning. Including 2 x GTX 580 and a few others. A checklist:

1. motherboard form factor.
2. cooling.
3. power supply.
0. memory.

It is important to choose a motherboard with the right form factor which would actually fit your cards physically. A fact that the motherboard has 3xPCIe 16 doesn't necessarily mean that it would fit your two(!) cards. Nothing is more frustrating than not being able to fit the cards. Cooling. Can not be overstated. Also note that the box makes a lot of noise during its operation. Ideally you'd want to put it far away from your workplace. Power supply. Note that the spec that you read on the power supply is usually overrated. If you have 4x200W cards an advise is a 2kW PSU. And GPU memory, if you can fit your dataset in, rather than loading/unloading it in batches that will save you a lot of time and efforts. Well worth the money.
Yap, beware of the person who can't type a "." instead of a ";"

If syntax is their main complaint, chances are, they'll fall face first handling distributed code or supervision hierarchies.
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I have to expect that the TOS of Github supersedes default copyright, since you are intentionally uploading your files to the service. You have to agree to that TOS to do so, and that TOS forfeits presumed copyright assumptions for public repositories.
The expression of technology – AppleWatch
Related paper:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr5AHufBN4
Is this really the case? They certainly seemed to stick with the 30 pin connector for far longer than they had any reason to other than the massive third party accessory/dock/speaker market.
No. I hardly even wear my other watches. Simple as that.
I don't know if it was intentional, but this comes off as an incredibly arrogant comment.
By "inside the build" do you mean in the git repo?

Because there isn't really a such thing as a "build" for a Python web app, it's a dynamic language. It's not like Java where you'd have to recompile the whole app if you packaged your config inside the compiled jar.

In Django apps, there's an env var called DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE that points to one of multiple settings.py files, and you change that var depending on which environment you're working in. Then typically you also would want to store individual variables that need to be secure (stuff like any secret keys and database credentials) in env vars, but the overall structure of your config is just a python dict in settings.py.

For reasons that Yegge touches on in the blog post I linked above, you really want a tree structure for configuration of any complexity, and env vars don't provide that.
There were a number of high-performance < 3 Pound laptops without CD drives prior to the MacBook Air, so Apple wasn't the first one. I don't recall it being controversial that they didn't have a CD drive in the MBA.

Where they were first (to the best of my knowledge), and were a bit controversial, was removing them as an option for their Desktops. That raised a few eyebrows.
Yeah, this wouldn't work for my dad who has Parkinsons. The watch would be dead and he'd still need reminders for pills...
About 70% of the wireless mice on Newegg are not bluetooth mice. Non-bluetooth mice can have longer range or less lag for example.
About magsafe - I wonder why they didn't move it to the charger side? Any thoughts? It could work for what concerns most people who like it.
Where do you even get a job being a Click Admin? I mean, I could use a hobby that pays about now...
Not dust, just macro-scale but small bits of crap.

I think some of it in my bag is from a black sand beach. That stuff kills headphones as well as wonkifying magsafe sockets.
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This text from [2] was one of the most heart-breaking pieces I read recently. I knew the situation was bad, having a friend who used to work in restaurants - but the article has really driven the point home for me.

> When many people start observing that "rule of law" and "meeting of the minds" as used by everyday business interactions have become a double-standard that will be enforced in only one direction, the rational conclusion[1] is to respond with the same lack of trust and respect.

I've been thinking about the names we use in law and economics and I realized many have become just misleading labels. It's like a variable named m_iNameCount that points to a global array of instances of Thread class. And this leads to the common trick of those "collaborators" you described, the "motte-and-bailey"[0]-like argument. They will defend bad practices by saying, e.g. "it's value-added; surely adding value is good?", where everyone knows that value-added doesn't actually mean adding any real value for your customer.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word...
I actually really like this concept except for one important detail--the name. "Gilded" sounds elitist. Please don't make people hate me even more than they already will when someone I forgot to add to my VIP list starts getting asked to pay for the privilege of emailing my "gilded" account.

The name here is obv. more important to users than with other apps because it's embedded into the email address. I'd even rather have a nonsensical name than something that makes me sound elitist.
And if you built it on Solr or Elasticsearch, you would have facets for free as well. E.g. I'd be able to see which countries have more demand for a particular skills I have.

Just a thought, not a critique as such.
Your hackerspace sounds like a hazardous work environment. Do they have HEPA air filters? A vacuum cleaner, even?
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All those Linux "dot-files" and similar stuff take up quite a lot of space on GitHub.
No.

My reasoning is:

- This is not the best smartwatch around. If I was going to buy a smart watch I'd buy the Moto 360. That thing actually looks like a regular watch, Apple's attempt is fugly, and looks like what everyone else was making a year ago. It might actually look worse than Samsung's attempts, and that is saying something... LG and Motorola are ahead.

- It is expensive, starting at $350, the Moto 360 is $250 (both plastic straps). Most other manufacturer's are cheaper than Apple's Watch too.

- I am not convinced that the software on smart watches is "there" yet. Either on iOS or Android. Both seem to be more novelty than actual use. However my mind on this can be changed, it just hasn't happened yet. Right now smart watches seem to be really expensive fitness trackers. Most other functionality requires you to use your smartphone anyway (therefore why have a watch? Is removing something from your pocket REALLY that time consuming?).
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Charging this thing every day will be it's achilles heel.

I don't have to charge my phone everyday.
As an Android user, it would be completely useless for me to buy one; I couldn't use it!

However, even if I did have an iPhone, I'd still prefer the Pebble Time, just for the battery life alone. I currently have a Moto 360, and it lasts about 2 days on a single charge (depending on how often I'm checking it/how often my girlfriend texts me). While that's over twice as long as the Apple Watch, it still doesn't hold a candle to the longevity of the Pebble.
If you have no desktop PC or no money for a GPU, it might be a better choice to use a EC2 instance instead of buying the hardware. You pay about $11 a week for a EC2, which is quite good once you compare it against the electricity costs that come on top of running a personal computer.

The downside is that you have a slow EC2 GPU with 4 GB RAM. Conv nets that take 3 weeks on a EC2, will take less than 2 weeks on a GTX980. If you run large conv nets, the 4 GB can be limiting (for example on ImageNet or similarly sized data sets).

Another point is that is more convenient to work on your own desktop and you can run multi-GPU nets, which is not possible on EC2 because the virtualization kills the memory bandwidth between GPUs.

If you think about it, over the long term a personal system will just be more cost efficient (you can keep a good system for years). So for deep learning researcher and those that apply deep learning this is just the most cost effective option.

A example calculation: You can buy a faster system than a EC2 for roughly $400 (GTX 580 + other parts from eBay). Together with electricity costs thats about 1 year worth of EC2, or 2 years worth if you use deep learning sporadically. A high end deep learning system will be about $1000-1400, which is about 3 years worth of EC2. So a EC2 makes good sense, if you use deep learning only sporadically and work with small data sets. If you use deep learning heavily, want a faster system or want to use multiple GPUs, a personal system will be better.
I don't like the gold color, everything else seems nice.
Thanks. So a weighted index of USD vs a handful of other currencies - that's a useful measurement I never really knew existed.
Kickstarter for magsafe type c connector in 3...2...1..
A dive into the past.
TBH, after spending about three months with a Pebble, I'd ask the inverse (not that sales of the Apple Watch won't eclipse the Pebble, event at 17 mil for the Time's kickstarter). I just have some pretty big issues with the app architecture for the Apple Watch.

Every interaction with the Apple Watch apps has to make a round trip to the phone and the workflow for what can happen on the watch has to be figured out design/build time, which kind of limits the things you can do and gives me concerns about latency. These things might not end up being issues, but IMHO, I think Pebble has a lot more potential to do interesting things.
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the root of the problem (the idea that sysadmins can't program) might come from the fact that every company whether furniture/clothing store or any other sizable non-tech business needs sysadmins.
But only if technology is your core business you need good developers. This probably leads to generalization of sysadmins not knowing their bits/bytes. Sure guys working for ISP's and in datacenters are a different breed but they still get thrown into the same category because of the job-title.
Looks like apple has finally introduced a netbook or iPad with a keyboard. Frankly, I'm disappointed with this macbook as I was expecting a full scale retina macbook air. After seeing the Dell XPS 13, I was hoping apple will take the retinafy the regular air. Ah well, the wait continues. Let's see --

1. Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop.

2. single port might be cool, but I suspect everyone will have to pony up for a usb multi-port dongle to make this work. everyone is saying single port will suffice -- battery will last 9 hours but try driving a monitor and doing some work. Don't be surprised if you get 3-4 hours. Then what do you do. Plug it off and wait for 1 hour to recharge? What if you need to do development, how do you plug your device. Yeah the usb dongle will be needed which kind of defeats the point of having a single port.
well, yeah. I tend to check Hacker News in the morning, while I'm making my espresso, and my precision sometimes suffers accordingly.

sorry, I'd probably get a lot more upvotes if that weren't the case.
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i5 is faster and better than core m.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...

No hub.
That's a fine intention, but I sometimes like to compile code or use Chrome.
Hardware brings the $, hardware gets budget increased. Typical corporate strategy. The only way someone in power could adjust the focus is if, say, the company failed while they were on leave or something.
This is great. I've always thought that the reaction to Fukushima should not have been "get rid of nuclear power generation because it's too dangerous", but rather: "using a handful of giant reactors is too dangerous, scale them down and spread them out so that a local disaster has limited ability to cause catastrophic harm".
Disregarding for the moment subjective issues like design and operating system, I would ask two important questions. How is the battery life, and how is the build quality? That's usually where Windows PCs quickly lose any desirability (to me) compared to Macs.

Also, I notice that this XPS is 0.6-0.8 pounds heavier than the new MacBook, and as far as I can tell the XPS has a fan.
What is the deal with this?:

You'll need a mac laptop purchased in the last 2 years running the latest version of OS X and an iPhone or iPod touch running the latest version of iOS. We provide need-based hardware assistance for students who can't afford a mac or iPod.
There's also sort of an iron-curtain mentality emergent in telling people, "you can't come to the West to work on these tech jobs: your home country needs you to work on something you will probably find to be much less lucrative, technologically advanced, and fulfilling."

People do not exist to be slaves exploited by their homeland any more than they exist to be slaves exploited by a colonial power.
If somebody is running their ramhammer exploit on your insulin pump, it's probably a bit late.
That’s interesting indeed! I get the feeling that the GPL has lost a lot of mindshare over the last fifteen years or so.
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Are you able to explain why? I legitimately don't see what this has over the Pebble or the dozen of other smart watches that came out before it.
The living owe nothing to the dead.
Sometimes it is useful, sometimes it is not. It's pretty obviously true that middle class white males often have the hardest time recognizing their privilege, as it is most easily invisible to us. I made it to middle age with almost zero awareness of my privilege, despite always considering myself anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobia.

But, in this case, gender plays a dominant role and race is almost inconsequential; a few of the highest profile sexual harassment cases of the past couple of years in the tech and startup world have involved men of a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds. So, I corrected it before posting it.

I was trying to convey meaning without making it a fight over semantics or word choice. I genuinely did not intend to cause upset over my word choices; the content of my language I expected would elicit reactionary responses from folks who haven't quite confronted or even acknowledged their privilege.

So, again, I apologize for using the word "male" in a paragraph with "women". It was not intended to be a dog whistle for radical feminists or something, as it seems you believe it is. I was trying to communicate with the community that is a big part of my life, as best I know how.
>I'd also suggest that there's a significant overlap between people who choose copyleft licenses and people who avoid proprietary hosting services.

Very true, I quite like that some have adopted the "Don't Fork Me"[1] flag for the corner of their software pages. Nice cheeky little stab

[1] http://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=github