skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I understand the hard sale, with "feels" and such. However watching Christie running and checking her watch looked so awkward. If anything I would wear it with the face on the inside so that I would not need arm contortions just to view it.

However the video was a bit cringe worthy, wearing a display of wealth while "helping" the poor and downtrodden. Combined with the worst of over night advertising phrasing.

Yeah, I am not a fan, but this came off way too much late night TV ad style than I what I normally associate with Apple.
Get paid $2000,just for generating Lead..It's fun and you get Paid Wow
A big part of Apple's marketing strategy is to create an entire experience around their brand. If you don't have Apple products, you're on the "outside". This plays perfectly into that strategy.
226 ppi, apparently. Straight pixel doubling would be a pretty small screen in terms of logical pixels, to be sure.
"ohmygodthelistgoeson"!
I'm surprised that CNN didn't get O'Brien out of the Philippines for the fasciotomy attempt. Sure, any surgery anywhere can have bad results, but an organization like that should do the best it can rather than rolling the dice with the locals. I wouldn't have recommended flying back to the USA, but at some point in the couple of days between the injury and the surgery, he could have flown to world-class health care in Singapore. It sounds as if they sort of left it up to him, which reflects quite poorly on the organization. There are people in CNN HR who are paid to deal with this kind of thing.

Of course, I say this as someone who waited a week to get an X-ray of my broken arm. Fortunately the only treatment indicated for my particular break is "stop using your arm", which I had already done. b^)
I'm disappointed that this has only one port. I shouldn't have to choose between charging my laptop and using my USB port for something.

Having said that, battery power is my number 1 priority when buying a laptop. My 2013 Macbook Air is great in this regard, it charges to full in 40 minutes and lasts for a long ass time. If this new model has even better battery tech, I'm all for it.
memtest86 etc should add tests for this if they didn't already, as this is the best place for such tests.
The obvious end game for USB 3.1 type C is replacing your laptop with a phone. USB 3.1 type C is the "universal docking station", providing power, data & display over a single cable. Obviously useful for a laptop, but even more useful to a phone. Apple obviously could merge OSX & iOS into a single OS, but I have real difficulty seeing them doing that. (It also seems unlikely that they'll replace Lightning with USB 3.1 type C). It seems much more likely that Ubuntu, Microsoft and possibly Google are going to go there first. By pushing USB 3.1 type C, Apple really seems to be opening doors for their competitors...
right - if the charging brick has a conventional USB port and a displayport out on it, a lot of people's concerns go away.
This is actually called simply MacBook (no Air). The Air remains a lower cost alternative.
It's not "usually". More like "rarely". Papers without code are very common.
You can also check out this repo for remote friendly companies: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/
USB-C has a new connector and specifies voltages up to 20V, which will cut the amperage vs. old 5V USB chargers by a factor of four.
You can use an adapter to run MVS games on the home console as well: http://www.jamma-nation-x.com/jammax/supermvsconverter2.html
Aluminum is not best material either, it bends too easily.

EDIT: aluminium bends too easily compared to other material. It does not have best structural integrity for its weight. Magnesium alloy, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or titanium composite usually has better parameters for weight.

But I am not saying that polished aluminium is bad or looks bad.
USB-C and Modular Smartphones Are the End-Game for Convergence
They actually introduced a new line of laptops called the MacBook (so the title is technically incorrect). The existing MacBook Airs and 13" MacBook Pro got minor refreshes. Interestingly no refreshes on the 15" Pros.
> I with IPython Notebook had spell check, but it doesn't seem to.

I got a chuckle out of this. :)
PS, I love the presentation thus far.
I think the single port is a deal breaker for me-I really like the 12 inch form factor (finally!) but this is too. But at least it starts out with 8GB of RAM-I wouldn't have put it past Apple to put only 4 in the base model.
for examples pls. There are really some, but very few.
The Verge liveblog, while having hilarious commentary, mimics your sentiment:

> Christy Turlington Burns is running by a giraffe in this video, but she can't see it because she's staring at the coach on her wrist.

> Apple has reached the "forced fake Q&A with celebrities" portion of its keynote lifecycle.

> I'm just saying that you could put this part of the event directly into any Samsung event, and it would be exactly the same.
Personally, I agree with you, Twitter is very much like an economy... currently, some much of the Supply (publishing) is being manufactured, it's exceeding Demand, so now the Demand (real human readership) has to be manufactured with more bots... Vicious cycle. All this results in a bad experience for the average user. Twitter is a fantastic platform, it just has certain qualities that are now becoming more of a problem than before.

As for immediate automatic termination for thousands of messages per day - that's a gray area, because Automation (IFTTT etc).

There are also people making living off Twitter, some of the top "influencers" or "internet marketers" post hundreds times a day. You look at someone like Marc Andreessen (I can't see @pmarca, he blocked me on Twitter:)), his total tweet count is approaching 50,000 - some may argue even this isn't possible for a typical person with a job. He pulls it off though.

Going back to the topic of bots: thousands of messages per day is extreme, and that's not what most smart bots do. The biggest effect is resulting from ones that have learned to live and act well within Twitter guidelines, which doesn't just make them harder to detect, it makes them harder to ban.

Here's a random account, it posts a million times a year, or 2,700 times per day:

https://twitter.com/toohsuite
Could this be solved by only uploading resumes with unique/temporary email addresses that can be deleted if you get recruiter spam?
Displayport != Thunderbolt.

Displayport is a protocol that can run over a thunderbolt port, but the thunderbolt spec includes much more than that.

I don' believe we'll be seeing the 40Gbps PCI extension that is today's thunderbolt over USB 3.1.
Between 3D printing and perhaps a "part donor" program similar to real-world organ donor programs, I imagine there's a possibility to reduce the robodog mortality rate by quite a bit.
This is the new laptop for the casual user who's browsing Facebook, maybe typing something up in Word/Pages, and listening to iTunes. I was pretty interested until I saw that it's a Core M, and won't replace my I7 anytime soon for web development with multiple virtualmachines and light video editing.
Exactly. And modular smartphones as well (see this submission) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9172605
I don't think anyone else has done a terraced battery. Apple was also one of the first companies to move to moldable Li-Po cells to fit more capacity in smaller form factors.
It does have a USB-C port.
> Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?

I haven't heard of many people who have gotten that where I live. So maybe it isn't.
When computing resources were expensive and local (no WiFi) distribution made sense, now computing resources are comparably cheap to bandwidth. I don't see a motivation for such a system, at the level of OS integration.
Isn't the Philippines one of those medical tourism countries? He probably wasn't any worse off staying where he was than going somewhere else.
HealthKit is a glorified database. Would definitely like to see it open sourced, though.
Airs are for people who need a full keyboard but don't need a lot of power, and do a lot of commuting/running around (possibly with a bag already packed with other stuff).

Come to think, it's probably great for most students. Plenty fast enough to browse and write papers, and it doesn't add to the volume or burden of your already-overstuffed bookbag.

It doesn't fit my needs, but that's okay.
"designed for a world where your primary computing device is your smartphone, not your laptop."

So it's a laptop for people who don't do any real computing on their laptop?
I have to admit that, even as a "no Windows" person at this point, I'm a little on the fence about this vs. waiting for the Ubuntu version of the New XPS 13. So Dell's got at least that much going for them.
Maybe I should go work at ask.com if I could make it suck less this wouldn't be so bad...
This seems like the fix for dongle hell to me. You plug everything into your monitor, tucking your cables away nicely, and then you have a single cable going from your monitor into your laptop.
I see now, and this is a good point. But I'm not certain that production value is a single variable in this case---there's production value that encourages experimentation, and production value that discourages it.
I really like the innovative funding model, although intuitively it seems pretty high risk?
I agree. I bought a new MBA about 5 months ago and I was a little worried I was going to regret that. But after seeing this, I'm glad I didn't wait. I also really don't want to buy yet another whole new set of dongles and adapters.
They also don't want to say "DellappLenoHP" laptops could not be attacked and turn out to be wrong. Or maybe they're right but only with factory 2GB modules used between May '11 and July '13.

Way too many variables to make any claims that is ethically defensible.
I am not able to watch the actual stream right now, and maybe they covered it there, but I haven't seen mention of a fanless MBP. Apple seems to be rather specific about the way the do everything and what they say. I believe they will begin offering a regular MacBook once again.

To make the MacBook fanless, it seems that they have put in a slower processor, ditched spindle drives all together, and most likely opted for integrated graphics. Again, these are just guesses. :)
The GTX 980 outperforms the K80 ?
Do you have a source for the "no fan" bit? If the Core M processor can deliver the same performance as a Haswell ultrabook processor (i.e. the previous Air) without requiring a fan or getting unreasonably hot, I think that's a pretty nice feature.
On the other hand, servers tend to use ECC memory.
My only regret is that MagSafe is actually really cool.

I think I'd have to say it's worth it for full standards-compliance, though.
Why would that be unexpected? Apple does plenty of things open source, just not GPL.
This is exactly what I'm wondering. I only have one Thunderbolt display, but I want another, and am curious if I should hold out for a bit.
I imagine it was less like them acting as hired guns and more like "someone" convincing them that if they didn't act they'd look like idiots who have no power to uphold "the law."... the end game is the same, but the politics that got it there were a lot muddier I'm sure.
Air 13", yeah. Sounds about on par with the Air 11".
Seems like Dropwizard makes it possible to follow the twelve factor app approach in a Java application.

http://12factor.net/

Especially the "Processes" factor.

"Execute the app as one or more stateless processes"

http://12factor.net/processes

You need something like Jetty, running in the same process as the app (as opposed to an application container like Tomcat) to make this approach work.
Who cares? It is COMPATIBLE with Mac OS :-)
USB Type C to USB Standard A Receptacle adapters are supported by the USB specification.

As I understand things, the desire from the USB-IF is to basically have USB Type A and Type B start to disappear.

Until we get to that critical mass point... Yeah. It'll be annoying. But hopefully we will get to enjoy this standard for at least a few years before it is replaced.
Didn't mean to bash Apple, just comment on how the times seem to have changed. Who the hell knows what that other "organization doing the study" does with that data, though. When it will be leaked? How will the future be, will everything be transparent to everyone or will there be the data-haves and the data-have-nots?

Instead of "access to my own data" (haha, thanks!), how about "control over my data"?

Systems would be designed (on a super low level) so that:

- There is a reliable way to delete data from all systems, including caches, backups etc.

- People get notified and asked for permission if their data is part of the tupel that could be returned as part of a specific query.

Working with personal data would feel like working in a chemical weapons factory.

How about that?
Sure, it's their party, they can invite who they want. Most companies would try to cater to everyone. Apple knows people will jump through hoops to see their stuff.
Thanks, I also refuse to use linkedin but would like to use this service. Also +1ing a geography filter request.
I have found my pebble watch to be surprisingly useful. And given its cost a reasonable value. The big 'win' for me was simple vibrating notifications, as I don't hear high pitches any more it is the first watch with a timer/alarm function that I always notice. The ability to change watch faces is also fun, and that it always has the time displayed is, for me, critical in a watch.

That said, when v2.0 of the firmware pushed with additional notification/services my ability to recharge once a week dropped to I must recharge it every 3 days or so. Not a win for me.
Wow - MAJOR improvement. This is awesome.
Technically, SECDED cannot reliably detect errors involving more then 3 bits since they might generate a valid code, they might not however and in that case they might be detected as single or double bit error or possible something else.
I have been in your shoes and it is how I started 2 consulting companies now. We lost a number of people to two different product acquisitions and then gained a few etc. Always a bit of an ebb and flow, but it has generally worked well for me since 1999. BTW I am also in Florida.

It sounds to me as if you are missing the key ingredient to the mix, you need marketing and business management/development of some sort. My bet is the team as a whole has a good sized network to pull from, you just may lack the experience and knowledge of using it to get deal flow.

Not that you asked, but for 10-15 guys, you need significant project flow to keep everyone employed and happy at fair wages. It will equate to a bare minimum of $140k or so per month in revenue, personally, I'd be more comfortable near $200-210k as a minimum target for the whole team. If you assume you take minimum agreements of $30k or so, you need roughly 5-7 new deals a month to keep cash flow moving or work towards getting larger deals but those generally take time. Additionally you have to see how the mix of your team fits projects to see how that would work, e.g. you may have to support a devops (just an example) person for a few months when there is little devops work coming through.

If you want to chat I am in Central Florida too, happy to met up or chat via email etc. We may have some complementary skills that would benefit both our teams.
He totally is, I wonder what kind of car he's driving :P
The value of the spam bots in that article is really small. The only benefit I can think of is to sell them as followers.
I'm surprised it doesn't support wireless charging. Now that Starbucks does, I'd expect all new laptop designs to include Starbucks compatibility.
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Almost every online marketer does this type of automation. As you said, they goal is to get real people to look at their account, and to hopefully follow them.

This is mild, comparing to some of the other activity that goes on.
Indeed. Developers will keep chosing JVM for technical reasons, managers will keep choosing Java for business reasons, and the end-user doesn't have any choice. Want the application to run? Install Java.
The CPU is a little worrisome for me too.

I don't do a lot that stresses the i7 in my 2011 Air, but I don't have a sense of how much slower a Core M is and what that'll mean day to day.

Edit: chased down some benchmarks, and it's quite a bit slower than any current i-series combo, though the turbo makes up for it some (probably at steep cost to battery life).
25% of your salary for 2 years is not a crapload of debt?
It's small, but it's not as small. That thing's huge in comparison.
> Stay tuned for multiprocessor support!

The dump below that statement appears to verify that only one of the 4 cores is operational.

I'm surprised that multiprocessor support would be a big deal to implement.
Ask HN: What is required to hire myself as a contractor in the US?
I wonder what is required to hire myself as a contractor in the US?

Background:
I live in the UK and very recently I started contracting.

I have my own limited company, bank account, accountant and annual tax returns to fill.

If I'm doing this in the UK, I wonder if it is possible to do the same in the US?

Say - establish Delaware corporation and offer services to businesses located in the US...

I already have a tourist visa allowing me to stay for 6 months at a time...

Has anyone got any idea? (all the feedback appreaciated)

---

I was in the US twice already and I envy the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. And obviously the weather in California is much better than in London :)

Getting H1-B (official working visa) is a real hassle, but maybe the is a loophole allowing me to overcome it...

Thank you in advance!
College student here, and college has not been so amazing. I wish that the whole e-learning/computer science oriented college alternatives thing took off when I was still in high school. My tuition amounts to ~$30k a year (without grants), which is pretty ridiculous - especially considering the "quality" of the classes. Granted, the social life is nice, but it's hard to maintain that social life when I'm busy making up what school should be teaching me (namely undertaking a bunch of side projects).

Maybe I'm just an angsty young adult, but I am really unhappy with the higher education model in the modern world.
Probably in much the same way as other hardware/software systems that weren't intended to be user-serviceable. The obvious comparison is old Arcade Games. There's a fine talk from 31C3[1] about it. You need to extract firmware from working systems, reverse engineer any custom chips & hardware, and duplicate/emulate it with sufficient fidelity to work with the rest of the system.

One difference here is that the critters have 'personality' which is developed over time and stored onboard somewhere in flash or eeprom. You'd need to find a way to back up or dump that data easily enough that everyone could do it regularly, because once it breaks it might be too late.

It's akin to preserving not only the arcade game, but also the high-scores table from your particular cabinet.

[1] http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_5997_-_en_-_...
That's a nice ideal. Have you considered that people will tend to do the former part and not the latter, leaving us with a population of people with obsolete skills and lacking the foundation to easily learn new ones?
Or quad-core CPUs
> If a task involves "clicking next", then that task should not require any specialized knowledge to do

I would disagree with this point. If you're installing anything on a production box you really should know what that installer is going to do to your environment. Have you walked through the MS SQL Server installer wizard? You absolutely do need specialised knowledge if you're running that on a client's server.
If you require so many peripherals concurrently, why would you consider a notebook?
"Too easily"? What are you doing to your notebooks?
I'm really sorry to see magsafe go. Between my dogs and kids I would have gone though a dozen macbooks without magsafe.

I sincerely hope this no magsafe or single port thing goes into the MBPs as well.
Not to denigrate their work, but this happened very very late in the type-C game.

(Look at who attended what meetings, and where it was proposed, how far it was along when it was proposed, and then when apple started showing up. It looks like they saw the writing on the wall, and joined in to make sure they weren't going to get left behind)
Man, there's something about a gold laptop that just makes me want to never give money to a company again.
More like:

$ real-pkg-manager install jre-openjdk
==> Downloading http://trustedmirror.somerealdistrib.org/openjdk.tgz
==> Checking openjdk.tgz signature
==> Installing
==> Done

You just need the right tools and community.
Visit /r/sysadmin and ask how well that works. Oracle makes undocumented changes and breaks things all the time. So you can have the proper settings to ignore toolbars, but randomly they'll install. Whoops. Who at Oracle do you complain to?

MSI's are just safer/simpler/easier to test/easier to deploy. The fact that they hide it is pretty unforgivable.
Except the new XPS 13 is made out of aluminium and carbon fibre. And the $1299 model has a 13" screen with touch and a higher resolution. And it has an i5 processor versus a Core M.

It will be interesting to see how much RAM the base configuration of the new Macbook will ship with, because the XPS 13 at $1299 comes with 8 GB.
I just tossed my Macbook Pro across the room the other day by accident (didn't check that my backpack was closed...). It did indeed bend the metal a bit, and the display cracked in the corner, but having seen plastic machines make the same tumble I think it would have fared significantly worse if it weren't aluminum. The force that bent the metal would have surely cracked the plastic into pieces and the display would have taken more of the shock and cracked way worse than it did.