skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you'd want to use such a wireless mouse receiver with a computer that has bluetooth built in?

Also, I haven't plugged in a printer in years. Many printers have Wifi built in, and if not, you can always attach it to an Airport base station.

External storage? Use Apple's Time Capsule or any other NAS to back up your data wirelessly.

I've even seen companies use Apple TVs connected to a projector for wireless presentations.

Sure, a USB thumb drive is invaluable when you need to copy some files to your uncles 10 year old laptop with broken wifi; but you can get pretty far without wires if you want.
They're supported actually, Type C allows hubs and chaining, and Apple already has two splitters (HDMI/Type C/Type A and VGA/Type C/Type A) for sale.

They're way too expensive ($80), but give Type C is a standard port I expect Amazon Essentials or Monoprice will fix that pretty soon.
NDAs are very difficult to enforce, which makes them almost useless, and which indicates that the people who ask you to sign them don't know what they're doing.

If the investor is a large strategic, an NDA may be a simple formality required by their legal department, which you'll need to sign for them to discuss strategy with you.

If you don't trust someone, you shouldn't share with them information that requires an NDA. If, in addition to that, you fear that a signed agreement would be wrongly leveraged, then I would suggest not doing further business with them.

If you do sign the agreement, then you should try to minimize the legal costs you could incur due to a breach of the agreement. This will probably involve making arbitration the sole legal remedy. These clauses can be added to your contract:

http://pastebin.com/1YardRRu
I've been at this for over 20 years and have zero programming experience. So, your blanket statement isn't true - most of the best admins I've worked with have had no programming experience but deep systems understanding.
And specs don't capture the OS UX differences (do you love metro on a non-touch device?), bloatware/spyware/adware pre-installed, activation headaches, app ecosystem...

It's like comparing the value of two watches using the slag value of melting them down. If that's how you shop, the device isn't for you.
Apple does seem to have replicated that experience in their brick-and-mortar stores, though.
That's a very good point - Apple's desktop software is definitely not a highlight in the last few years.

What's not clear is: (i) how much it matters - the core desktop experience is very solid, and between web browsers and MS Office it's not clear how much the iLife(?) apps actually get run.

And (ii) whether it's a symptom of some deeper malaise - Apple still seems to be killing it in other areas so perhaps it's just a weak or resource-starved group within the company.
I got a new fully specced XPS 13" from work. More than being small it's one of the worst computers I ever had. Battery life suck, fans constantly spinning in idle. The only thing I like is the charger and screen. The keyboard is somewhat nice. Other than that, totally crappy PC.
Ouch that sounds harsh, but thats what take from it and for 999-1200usd you can find so much better.
I'm not sure. There were several medical crowd sourcing sites, with patients like me quite successful, but only small incremental advances. Not sure if it's because real research needs more than patient symptoms - it also needs objective stuff like blood tests.

We'll see.
How the FBI ignores Congress's mandate to report on the use of the Patriot Act
It makes sense to date dystopian science fiction in the near future for the reader's benefit: the sense that 'this could yet happen to us' is a compelling part of the work.

Space operas and utopian themes are abstracted by setting them further into the future.

(Cite: The Algebraist, 4034AD; Star Trek TNG 2364AD; The Jetsons 2062AD; Futurama 3000AD)

Partially relevant xkcd comic:
http://xkcd.com/1491/large/
Its not necessarially that I "need" a skeleton. If I needed to, I know I could do it all manually. I have manually configured a Node.js app before. But wouldn't it be a lot more prudent use of my time to start programming instead of doing project set-up, when I'm learning a new programming paradigm? Why do you think we fork repos?
Heck, if you are buying a non-K series i7, the equivalent Xeon E3 will probably be cheaper by a few dollars.
Because Apple is systematically downvoting negative comments. Most tech companies do some form of damage control on HN because they know a prominent portion of their userbase comes here frequently.
I for one still miss the 4:3 on the thinkpads. 16:10 sounds good.
Meh, the Android laptop stuff was long dead before Pichai. Rubin was even stonewalling extending Android into tablets back in the day by insisting that Android was for phones.

And Atrix ended up going nowhere, because Motorola could not keep their designers in check. end result was that no two phones could share a dock, as the ports where spaced differently. their last, "universal", dock basically had two rubberized wires that the user had to manually fit each time.

As for Ara being locked down, you may be right. So far it seems that modules goes through a Google storefront, and they have yet to confirm or deny that trading used modules will be an option. Never mind that it seems Google will the lone provider of the endoskeletons. I find myself somewhat reminded of the early days of the PC, back when it was the IBM PC. I wonder if there will be a clean room endo firmware offered...
It's the top comment.
The GNU lawyers advise:

This license does have an unfortunate wording choice: it
provides recipients with "Permission to use, copy,
modify, and/or distribute this software…" This is roughly
the same language from the license of Pine that the
University of Washington later claimed prohibited people
from distributing modified versions of the software.
[...] to help make sure this language cannot cause any
trouble in the future, we encourage developers to choose
a different license for their own works. The Expat
License and FreeBSD License are similarly permissive and
brief.

-- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#ISC
Smells a lot like Adobe... Stupid move killing credibility of their software.
It comes from humoring a family of grammatical valid but semantically ill-formed questions:

What is the purpose of the universe?
What is the meaning of life?
They have (or soon will have) a 512 GB version[1]. You can upgrade any model to 256 GB now.

1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8983/dell-xps-13-review
Hmm. In retrospect, my phrasing was confrontational. Sorry about that.

It still seems as if you're calling her a liar, though, if you're saying her account was exaggerated and biased.
Appears as if the new Macbook is sitting in between the Air and the Pro...

Air < Macbook < Pro
I'm sorry but when you ship a machine with ONE PORT for the purposes of charging and peripherals, this absolutely needs to be in the box.

Nickel and $80'ering me on a $1400 computer is ridiculous. I'll stick with my thinkpad.
My general reaction to this perspective is not that it's wrong, but that it's insufficient. Obviously, great teachers are going to be more effective than lazy/inexperienced/incompetent teachers. What a great online teacher can't do is help a child who doesn't fit the mold (which, suprise!, a great many don't).

If a child isn't physically, cognitively, or emotionally prepared to learn they will just shut down when confronted with an online teacher (no matter how great that teacher may be). They will check Facebook, play games, or simply walk away from the computer. A flesh-and-blood teacher can intervene and redirect a student. Perhaps, they can substitute an element of the lesson to more closely align with the needs of that student (and often those needs may not always seem strictly rational).

It would be great if the full impacts of that great teacher could be distributed over audio-video - but there is no substitute for personal interaction. Concordantly, The answer should not be to substitute a bad teacher with a great digital lecturer - it should be to turn that bad teacher into a great one (or replace them if it's not possible).
Just fyi: Notebook Check is very reliable. They're arguably the leading laptop review site and have been for quite a few years. They're located in Austria and are ad funded, but I've always found their editorials and reviews to be pretty darn good.
IDK the description seems to fit. What's wrong with terms of art?
Exchange workloads are trivial, but sports betting requires a lot more work per transaction. This is mostly to do with liability management. I talk a little about this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUPmmUU3yY
Probably so that s/he can carry it around with him.
RHEV is a pretty nice product, and the licensing is a lot less costly than VMWare. $999/yr per socket pair.
80% of the problems I had to deal with (in a live, real-life Clojure system that had to be maintained and supported, not a hobby-happy-slappy-project-thing) were caused by putting square pegs in a round hole. You're telling me I need to get a macro-based library and add :pre and :post conditions that check the structure of a map, as opposed to using a language with types?! Really??? Oh, and guess what, I am sure there is a Javascript library that does that too...
Intel is marking up sand at a couple orders of magnitude greater than this.
Metal dust is a problem in "any environment other than a sterile coffee shop"?

It's a bit of a dubious rhetorical move to cast anybody who works in an environment that doesn't contain a lot of ferrous dust as some sort of freakish outlier. You might be ever so slightly guilty of overgeneralizing your experience...
There are several entire communities of projects, such as Ruby or node.js, which by policy put all of their myriad projects on GitHub. Those communities have thousands or tens of thousands of repositories each, which make up a significant part of the 80000 repositories shown in the main graph in this article, and they're almost all MIT. So I'm wondering how much of the huge set of MIT repositories on GitHub all come from that handful of communities, and how much is random contributors.

I'd also suggest that there's a significant overlap between people who choose copyleft licenses and people who avoid proprietary hosting services.

So while I do think this data is significant, I think it represents the GitHub community, not the broader FOSS community.
Any end goal. The fact that there are no distractions to purely pursue a specific goal is what makes an academic setting special. There are no managers and business specialists hovering over every single decision being made.
The ColombianChemicals timeline is fascinating.

Just the effort put into the long play there is interesting. A lot of mentions of "Russian" bots. Does it mean these are all Russian or just that Russians have good quality BaaS (Bots As A Service).

Clearly it showed the effort didn't work as well. I wonder if that is just a call to action for bot operators. Enlist AI experts to create an army of intelligent sock puppets. That can actually have personalities, interests, can harvest pictures and modify or crop them to make them unique.

It would be ironic if a more advanced AI evolved from collaborating Twitter socket puppet accounts instead of from universities or self driving cars.
If your environment contains ferro-magnetic dust you should probably be more concerned about inhaling that stuff.
You would move selection bias towards users who can afford the Apple Watch. This will not be inherently worthless data, but will be biased nonetheless.
I don't understand people who complain about dongles. What is the difference between carrying around a corded peripheral, and a corded peripheral with a two-inch extension that solves your legacy connector problems?
I'm pleasantly surprised to see that AGPLv3 is at least in the 10th spot.
USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
I checked Licensee, and it does look in COPYING: https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licens...
there's so much more then a CPU though. You still need some storage, radios (bluetooth/wifi/4g), connections for the radios etc.

Plus, if as technology gets better you have to upgrade each device independently. Wouldn't it be nice if every two years you could upgrade your phone AND your laptop for the price of one device?
No worries. I think it belongs here, just that "historical post" seems to imply posts which have historical context (as opposed to modern pages that refer to something historical).
I agree but here is some idle speculation: perhaps this laptop is so light that the force needed to effectively hold the magsafe onto the laptop is large enough that it wouldn't really release without pulling the laptop over anyhow.
I know that at least AT&T isn't charging for this right now. In fact, my bill went DOWN when I switched from a 250mb/450minute/limited texts plan to a 1gb/unlimited talk/texts plan that included tethering. The tethering isn't a separate item on the bill. But it's possible that older plans won't "support" it - I think that was the case with mine.
The Lytro example seems very dubious. Their solution has a lot of additional hardware in it - you wouldn't be able to package it into a Project Ara type device without having some kind of backpack anyway. From their point of view, it'd then be cheaper to also include the CPU, screen etc - a more unified hardware base to build software for.
Ok I see, good point. Made me thinking: how did Apple got into this position where they could pull such tricks without customers going completely mental but sometimes even rather the opposite: craving for the newer device? I mean, imagine it's the year 2000 and a company like Dell or HP says: 'we drop the parallel port'. Hell would brake loose.
I'm suspicious for two reasons:

1. I struggle to believe that a well-rounded CS and engineering education can be squeezed into two years. Describing this as "the future of computer science education" (their words)—when it appears to be a trade school which teaches CS basics followed by Rails, Python and iOS development—is doing CS a massive dis-service.

There's nothing wrong with this kind of trade school, but it is emphatically not "The future of computer science education".

2. It's rather expensive. What'a a starting salary for a developer in SV - maybe $70k? AT 25% over two years, that's $35k – which is comparable to college debt. It's great that this prevents the broken US higher education funding system, I suppose, but it's not cheap.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I've seen too many graduates of similar trade school programs who have a couple of years of experience on paper, but are woefully under qualified for the development and deployment of computer systems in the real world. Given the sort of attendees this program will see, I don't imagine it'll be the case here, however.
I hate stacked area charts
yes, with the caveat that i'm an iOS developer making apps for it. I probably would anyways, but it's a no brainer for me. The price is rough though. not sure if I'll get the cheap one or the one i actually want (not talking about gold obviously, just steel+sapphire vs aluminum+glass)
Motif putting ETFs in human language
How to Build and Use a Multi GPU System for Deep Learning – Deep Learning
9.33 days worth of driving time -- that's a fair bit!

You'll want to do this in a car. Some of the cities and routes will not allow an RV. For example, Washington DC and NYC don't allow RVs on their streets (just too congested for a 45 foot Class A, with or without a towed car). Getting into NYC in an RV would be difficult anyway, as the Port Authority doesn't allow them through the tunnels because of the on-board propane commonly carried.
Apple is primarily a profit-driven company. They front noble reasons for "optimizing" down to 1 port for everything, but the reality is they're mandating that you buy their $79 adapter.
I have a radio brick: http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/global-en/products/mobile_bro...

It doesn't work very well, but I think that's mostly A. bad indoor service on the network band I'm using it on, and B. lack of 4G.

When it does work, though, it basically does the same thing a smartphone does: serves a wi-fi hotspot, and acts as a 3G modem over USB.
How to Parallelize Deep Learning on GPUs Part 1/2: Data Parallelism
i think the idea is not to have it plugged in to power while using it, only charge overnight
Maybe overlooked rather than resource-starved. Apple's sitting on $100B in cash. Resources shouldn't be an issue in any department.
Yep, I was saying that too!
Obama to fund “coding bootcamps” to help citizens into tech jobs
I think you can make up the difference when you are pitching to non-technologists by bridging your current gap in your pitch with research on the company you are pitching to. What I would do in that instance is get a feel for their product and what their market is, and in the pitch relate everything to graphs of what their trajectory might look like and what their trajectory could be using your technology. Show the curve of their current growth and a curve that breaks up much sooner which represents what their growth rate could be. Back that up with data and solutions about how you're going to increase their revenue.

I think what impresses non-technologists the most is if you have a full and utter grasp of their business, not just their product offerings. You can show great prescience if you can thoroughly research their products and say things like "I bet your customers have said that they wish they had x feature", or "Have you considered y alternate method to monetizing your core product?". Chances are, all the ideas you toss out they will have thought of, but it will show that you're in the business of helping them get to business solutions and not just build them some cool software. This will make them feel like you're on their team, and greatly increase the chance of landing a contract.

Consequently, if you find this part to be difficult (extracting the core business that someone is in from their product offerings) then it becomes more and more difficult to pitch technology solutions, since you're basically missing the whole point of their company and just attacking their pain points from the outside->in. Whoever is in the role of gathering contracts should be able to direct all of your technological forces into a business solutions package, instead of a technological solutions package.
It depends on the carrier. No issues doing this with Verizon.
This is cool, but I'm wondering about how the prices compare to EC2 (including spot prices and depreciation of personal hardware). How much training do you need to do before EC2 becomes too expensive?
I was thinking long and hard about maybe getting a refurbished 15.6in MBP. I ended up with a HP Omen gaming laptop instead, because I could get it with a 512GB SSD and 16GB of RAM for $1700, instead of about $2500. I'm giving up battery life of course, and then there's the issue that it runs Windows...

However, I've been pleased so far. The keyboard takes a little getting used to (because it is in the exact center of the laptop), but is good for typing overall. Good feel, no flex. The display is good too, with a wide viewing angle.
Do you really enjoy getting a separate phone bill for your laptop? I always thought that was pretty dumb.

For the record I also think a camera with its own GPS is dumb.
I use my Air and used my old Macbook (the white plastic one) in my workshop, where we make shoes by hand. So I have lots of nails (and thus, lots of tiny metal scraps from the nail boxes, as well as nail pieces when we need to cut some down) lying around and lots of knife-sharpening dust around our (unplugged, since we usually keep the computer away when hammering/sharpening, but we just leave the connector in his usual place) Magsafes and have seen no problem in the connector.
It is rare to get one infinitesimal chance (CMU), then another (Thiel Fellowship), and move on from both. She is either a genius or squandering opportunity.

Opportunities can become what you make them if you go all in, hopefully she is doing that at Quora, there are only so many opportunities in life.
I don't disagree with you but your argument seems to promote the idea that 4:3 would be even more ideal for the same screen size because it has more vertical screen real-estate. I don't think you answered the question at all.
Never sign such sweeping NDAs like this. I've had jobs try to get me to sign such and I won't sign them in a direct hire scenario either. As it is written if you talk about an idea with them and think of something good in the process, they could claim that you cannot leave them and pursue that idea on your own.

Also beware the "this negates all previous agreements". Anything they have said to you so far would be nullified by this agreement. This is, imo, a trick to try to escape from previous claims of what is acceptable.
I love these kinds of write-ups, because I always learn new techniques and tools.

I've done this sort of thing with rsync, and with ZFS send/receive.

And of course, mailing hard disks.
Mozilla Resolved Wontfix: Master Password Prompt/dialog Needs a Redesign
I have one, and I actually don't like the week long battery, or at least it isn't actually helpful for me. It's silly really, as I could just as easily charge it every night, but since I don't have to I don't. Then I forget and it eventually runs out. Charging the Apple Watch every night won't be a problem for me. It'll just be a thing I do alongside my phone.
If I start a project on GitHub, I generally put a license in the LICENSE file (at their repo creation). If I don't start it on GitHub and later add it, I generally just put the license in the README(.md, 'cause GitHub).

This should definitely crawl the README as well.
Qualcomm’s Next Chip Lets Phones Recognize the World
Time travel in Braid
One thing I'd love to see Apple do is waterproof their laptops. There are coatings available, such as liquipel, that can make laptops highly water resistant, so why doesn't Apple use such a coating? A coffee spill is probably the most likely cause of early death for a laptop, and all Apple has done is put water sensors inside their laptops so they can deny warranty coverage.
> Think about it. Eighty dollars just to get less than you had before (with the 11-inch Air)

or: $70-odd additional margin for Apple that people will be happy to pay once they notice they need it regularly. Clever.
Most other laptop manufacturers are still using cylindrical off-the-shelf cell designs.
Fortunately, the market overlap between MacBook users and malnourished 6-year-old children for whom an extra 1.5 lbs is a deal breaker is minimal.
Is that even true any more with iOS 8? I don't pay anything on AT&T to use my phone as a personal hotspot, whether connecting via BT or Wifi.
"Everyone else is jumping off the cliff. Just go with it."

Just because other people agree to such ridiculous conditions, and they are not typically abused, does not mean that it doesn't happen.
oops! silly me.

sorry, lesson learned.

> Never comment on HN when it's already 2 AM, you must be sleepy.

By the way, let's be more pedantic.
It lakes the termination condition for recursion.
Haha you're right of course. I'm not saying the illegible garish mess that McD's has for a menu is the wrong thing for them, but I do see why more footprint-growth-focused chains don't have that.
My Dell Venue 8 Pro comes with a single micro USB port that is used for both charging and data.

I don't really consider it to be a competitor though because Apple doesn't offer anything that can compete with a touchscreen device that can be used as a tablet and also a full general purpose computer.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I personally haven't any issues with OS X Yosemite.