skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was actually a question I had. I'd love to know: If a company uploads a project minus a license, and I fork that project, do I have free use of that project? If so, would it be point-in-time of the fork?
With the limited number of charge-discharge cycles that even LiPo batteries have (typically estimated at ~500), that means you'd be replacing the machine within its depreciation lifetime if you fully — or even mostly — discharged it daily.

Oh, wait. That benefits Apple, too...
it's be interesting to know how a situation where student takes school, then starts their own company and pays themselves ramen salary is handled

seems like a good portion of their target market might have something like that in mind

also (opportunity cost of two years and having to live in one of the more expensive real estate markets in the US isn't exactly risk free for the student either)
Sort of, at least in the sense that you can eval JSON from JS code rather than having to parse it yourself. This is one of many language concepts that JavaScript cribbed from the Lisp/Scheme family of functional languages.
One of the features Meerkat should also add is "screen sharing" .. So, I can potentially start a conversation (a video stream) sharing my screen and streaming it.

Opens up more possibilities for communication and sharing.
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The "thinner" is a thing that tempts me to upgrade.

Thinner means lighter: I live in the middle of a very walkable area. So I walk a lot. It is great to be able to throw my computer into my bag and go out to work in the middle of a park or wherever; my computer plus my drawing tablet is only slightly more weight to haul then a hardbound sketchbook. I think the new machine would cut it down to about as much weight. It is pretty cool to go out carrying everything I need to do my job and only carry about six pounds of stuff on my shoulder. And that's including the bag I keep the laptop in, plus wallet and suchlike.

Thinner means style: In general, things that are slim are also things people see as "elegant". Back around 2000 I carried a Handspring Visor Edge in my pocket rather than a clunky plastic Palm Pilot, not because it was any more powerful, but because it was a sleek little piece of shiny metal that made me happy to hold in my hand.

There's a point where there is Enough Battery. I can take my 2013 Air out for a day of rambling around the city and drawing wherever I feel like stopping, and not worry about it running out of power as long as I charged it last night. I think the new Macbook has a lower estimated battery life than my current machine, so that's a downside of it.
Neat. Would be interesting to see a more detailed syllabus of what is covered when. Also is the 25% rake net or gross? It is two years full time (well 1.5 if you consider internship) so I don't think it is really fair to compare it to a 3 month program.

At my local university doing 3x semesters of just CS classes leaves you 1 course short of the required CS courses for a degree. Mind you I'm not including the math requirements. But on the other hand this is probably more intensive and with a better student/teacher ratio arguably you will be learning stuff quicker. Not to say they are equivalent... but I'm not sure its fair to write it off as being "code monkey" school.

Not a fan of the location choice though. I get that SF has a lot of really good networking opportunities but for a two year program it is crazy expensive. The difference in rent compared to where I live makes this more expensive than attending university. If I was to get an apartment with equivalent square footage to what I have now the cost of this would actually be pretty close to doing a 4 year degree. That's before factoring in the 25% rake. Mind you I'm in a relatively inexpensive Canadian city.
FirefoxOS could be the perfect ShitOS for this generation of shitphones.
It amazes me how blind people who consider the web browser a great platform for simple, fun teaching software are to the fact that the browser itself and typical operating systems aren't simple and fun at all and cannot be easily hidden from the user. They hit you in the face with a multitude of icons, windows, menus, annoying animated effects in various tool- and menu bars. It's in stark contrast to tablets and smartphones, where users just need to unlock and press an icon to use an app (that will take over the whole display). The (desktop and to some extent mobile) browser is just a terrible platform for the user.
You have not even come close to defending your point that 'academia is the only place that true learning happens'.

All you did was give a justification that academia is a place that learning happens. In fact all that is needed to prove you incorrect is ONE counterexample.
Sal Khan actually has some predictions on how education will change in the future:

Year 2060: Education Predictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiKrFcgVSIU

Even Sal Khan doesn't think lectures-in-digital-form is the solution or the endgame.
I can't wait for Audioquest USB Type-C cables!
These are some good points. I heard from another person that he had problems with the form factor and I will add that to the post tomorrow. I think a 2kW PSU is overkill, but you are right that more is better for PSUs.

If you want memory a good option will be to wait for the GTX Titan X which will be released in the next weeks: 12 GB RAM and it will be the fastest card by far. Overall however, I think the GTX 980 will be better for many cases still – it is just very cost effective.
What's strange to me is that Apple used to have extremely thin bezels. The Titanium Powerbooks barely had any bezel and the display was just as thin (though, this was before LED backlights).
Seems like you'd need to run that "benchmark" on windows. My 2014 MBP gets like 4 hours on a full charge while running windows.
I'm all, involved? and stuff? You can, like, ask us stuff, I guess.

Let me answer the most frequent questions we're getting right here:

"CTF" stands for "Capture The Flag". Conventionally, it's a contest with a collection of "flags" each of which is guarded by a programming puzzle; teams of people compete to collect flags. What we're doing is not a conventional CTF, but if you want to get the flavor of what we're doing (without the whole game dynamic), check out MICROCORRUPTION.COM, which is a more conventional CTF we ran last year.

Security is one of two problem domains we're starting with. But this isn't a "security recruiting" service, and our take on security uses it as a venue for systems and network programming, not for the minutia of SQL query quoting rules.
After reading the explanation I went back and watched this youtube video again and it made more sense to me:

http://youtu.be/vvr9AMWEU-c
Episode Twelve: Break the Internet
Is there a USB-C to thunderbolt adapter/hub that would work with existing Cinema displays as well as power the laptop? Or a similar adapter/hub for HDMI?
I remember in collage (2000's) when everyone just started to get laptop and before magsafe macbooks the broken power ports were THE cause for people breaking their laptops. Sometimes repair shops could fix this but usually the motherboard was damaged and you just had to get a new machine. Sad to see it go, it was a brilliant idea.
Have you tried conda, the package manager by continuum analytics? It stores pre compiled instances of packages for easy install cross platform and does some virtual env stuff.

Much easier and more robust than pip:

http://www.continuum.io/blog/conda
>Here at GitHub, we're big fans of open source,

When will GitHub be open sourced?
Most people I know, many times.
A vulnerability in the Windows kernel is going to exist in all Windows kernels of the same version. One laptop with bad RAM doesn't mean all similar models have bad RAM.
Na... look for an app that doesn't need it. Haven't had Java on any of my machines for 5 years and i don't miss it one bit.
Not surprising and probably a good idea for anyone with a penchant for writing obnoxious things off-the-cuff. I'm sure his staffers send LOTS of email, however. Having a campaign website, lindsaygraham.com, means that there's tons of email flying around him-- it just terminates with a written report from a staffer or a piece of paper on his desk.
As someone who travels regularly for work, I am absolutely OK with Apple trimming as much as they can from their laptops.
I don't think so, Apple has made Macs in multiple colors before. Once the iMac and iBook were available in four or more colors, but that was way back in 2000.
Even more terse, there's the "0-clause BSD" (Toybox) license [1] and the Fair License [2].

The first one is essentially akin to releasing in the public domain, whereas the second is the MIT/ISC license distilled down to its very core.

[1] http://landley.net/toybox/license.html

[2] http://opensource.org/licenses/fair
I really wish someone made a Windows notebook with this kind of hardware build quality. I realize mobile is the new sexiness, but people still buy notebooks. There were a few hundred million PCs sold last year.

I have to believe Dell could at least come close. I have an XPS13 and it just doesn't.
$ man xargs

--max-args=max-args

-n max-args

Use at most max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is exceeded, unless the -x option is given, in which case xargs will exit.

...

--max-procs=max-procs

-P max-procs

Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1. If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as possible at a time. Use the -n option with -P; otherwise chances are that only one exec will be done.
I'm excited; tptacek seems to have put a lot of thought into the hiring process and approaches to improve it. I'm in.
I would ordinarily suggest steering clear of an odd situation like this but if the money's good, the downside seems limited since I can't see any reason for you to need/want to disclose information they provide to you. It doesn't sound like you are entering a "non-compete". Obviously, talk to a lawyer.
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Thanks for the links! Both of those are quite 'ewww' of course.

So we have the "USB-C Charge Cable" $29 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cab...) -- I wonder if that is proprietary or if any cable would work. Then there's the "USB-C Power Adapter" $49 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...).

Too bad they can't fit 29W into the smaller cube form factor which charges my phone. That would be incredible powering a laptop off of that.

Someone needs to create a much sleeker implementaion of a in-line 1-port hub. So basically something that looks like USB-C on both ends, but 4" from one side of the cable there's a quarter-sized circle of hard plastic that has the USB-C cable going through it, with another USB-C port available on the side.

I hope we will see USB-C to HDMI and USB-C to DisplayPort "cables" which are not big fat massive dongles but really function more like just a cable.
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Is this an old grandfathered plan or could anyone get something like that right now? Sounds really awesome.
I'm confused: did someone dislike MagSafe? It's gotta be one of my favorite parts of my MacBook. I hear the guys complaining about iron build-up in the port, but they've gotta be in the minority, and a far smaller demographic than, say, parents.

Somebody should make a low profile magsafe charger adapter. That would solve both problems: easy to replace the rare-earth magnet and preserves the utility of magsafe. If you want to charge and use multiple ports, stick the adapter in.

Frankly, I think the one-port decision was wrong, but I doubt Ive and company care.
Sigh, there is no "tech talent shortage". There is just a shortage of employers willing to pay market rate.
except with top intel cpu which no ARM comes close to.
Yeah, no kidding. And not just children. I've had adults walk through it too. I hope this doesn't ever make it to the pro line. It's fine I suppose if you really only plug the device in to charge it once a day, like a phone, but I don't expect the battery to last all day if I'm doing really processor-intensive things, which I often do.
Did you guys just drop sugar (i.e. sugar, honey, cake, biscuits, candy etc), all high-GI carbs or all carbs?
Yeah, I'm coming from a 2011 MBA with an i7 2677M.

The Core M *71 isn't that far off--3DMark is notably lower, but most others are pretty close.

But what concerns me is that reviews of other systems with the chip mention that it throttles itself pretty aggressively when hot. I have no idea how much that would or wouldn't hit these benchmarks. This might be best-case performance on a cool day, for the first 30 minutes.
1.Investing is not just a monetary transaction.
2.Is he trying to evaluate, how despirate/aspiring you are by just asking you to sign NDA (verbally)
3. When you say, one of potential investors, you are not in dearth of investors, without knowing what is the market opportunity (percieved or real) its hard to say if you should go ahead.
4. I won't do it.
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I think he switched to the Pixel: http://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebooks-biggest-fan-linus-t...
You think the end game is "We'll improve the hardwire connection to the project so it can backfeed power" rather than "We'll just get rid of the wire"?
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Before I got a Mac my first child knocked my old laptop over and the power cord ripped the power socket apart. I will not buy anything other than a child proof power connector. Sadly, nobody makes a serviceable laptop with one with easily replaceable/upgradeable battery, RAM and HDD anymore so I am using my old MBP until it dies.

I understand there is a market for these paper thin, disposable machines but Apple has lost the sensible buyer who wants a solid upgradable dev machine.
at least that one's not the fault of osx or apple though.
Show up to give a presentation anywhere in the world. Standard plug-in? VGA. Maybe HDMI. You can't count on an AirPlay connection being present and I wouldn't want to rely on wireless video for important presentations with 20 seconds set up time anyway.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions! Would love to hear from anyone you know in Missouri that's interested.

> Insurance

Insurance is a huge pain for equipment. Most of the contractors we've encountered have an insurance policy that covers rental. Those that do not must pay ~15% to be added to a 3rd party insurance policy. We do not allow uninsured rentals to occur through our site.

> Maintenance

We work with mechanics in the area to have equipment automatically serviced when it's needed

> Mobilization

If you need the equipment delivered, we have agreements with towing companies. There is a fee for this (depends on weight, distance, etc).

> Fees per what?

We charge per day, for the very reason you pointed out (complexity). We haven't had any pushback about this so far, but if we do we'll look at it.

> Find the right model for older equipment

We don't have an official policy on what can be listed and what cant, but "don't allow old junk" isn't far from the mark. We're also collecting reviews and rating information, which will help us filter out equipment that gives a bad experience.
The trackpad on my thinkpad broke. I spent 10 minutes on the phone with technical support that actually knew what I was talking about and they mailed me a whole new part. I replaced it and went on my way as happy as could be.

In contrast:
By friend who owns a mac tried to set up a appointment because her hard drive was making the sound of a grinder. They told her that they could not make an appointment on the phone, she needed to use the iPhone app to do that. Well, she doesn't have an iPhone so the only option she had was to stand in line at the apple store 40 minutes away and wait. She spend two days doing this since it closed before they got to her on the first day and then the took her hard drive and replaced it while erasing all her personal data. It's a good thing I made a backup first.

Great Customer Service for sure almost as good as Comcast.
6 of 1, half a dozen of the other? I agree there are things about the new software that are not as good as the old. OTH, it's really hard to maintain feature-parity on launching a new rewrite. I think a lot of this stuff will eventually get there. For the most part I'm liking the new Photos app.

Also, OS X has only been getting better IMO. They just need to do a release cycle where they work on polish, which I believe they intend to do.
Thank you all for your replies which I'll go on an study further. I'm honoured you all took the part of your busy schedule to suggest us what to do.

To clarify: They are not our only "investing option", but they are the first to introduce us to this market which we haven't considered before.

The "investor" is probably (we are not sure) going to ask to create a new-co, rather than investing money and getting shares of the company. They plan to access funds from other investors or grants.

To their excuse there actually was some information which understandably they wish to keep confidential, mainly names of peoples and charges and relationships.
I don't want to give more clues about this as I wish to maintain that "hi-confidentiality" intact; which is why I also created this new account on HN

On one side, I think they want to ensure that we don't develop the project without them.
I also think they fear there might be consequences (legal? political? of image? ) for them if we were to disclose their names, charges and some of the things they told us. But I'm not sure.

From a legal point of view I'm not sure if the NDA doesn't define who is the "disclosing" or "receiving" party, nor what were the contents that have been discussed, there might not be any basis to take legal action. Or is there?
Yeah, what are you supposed to do if you want to charge it at the same time as you are using a usb-device? I guess a USB hub, but that is not preferable. :/

However, fewer ports is the future and most devices are available wireless. Furthermore the MBA is not really supposed to be a stationary computer.
> But the whole idea that any high level language could be even close to competitive with assembly was a very radical idea considered laughable by the mainstream, for many years, which I think is the underlying idea here.

From the papers I used to dig during my degree, I would assume Algol derivatives were already quite competitive, given that quite a few OS were implemented in them.

> I wasn't a Turbo Pascal user, but wasn't it, too, tied to the one platform?

Yes, to the PC. I eventually moved into C++ as time came to move along to more portable languages, as C was too primitive for my taste and I had just got hold of Turbo C++.

> Wirth's languages after Pascal, I dunno; everyone heard of them but they were never that widely adopted. I guess I'm unclear on why.

I was lucky to discover Oberon, and to use the Native PC version.

It opened my eyes that is it possible to have workstation OS done in GC enabled systems programming languages.

It also made me research Modula-3, Component Pascal, Oberon-2 and Active Oberon.

Coming back to the original point, back when coding for home computers, if performance was an issue, Assembly was the only option (Z80, 68000, x86).

For me, C was something I would see mentioned in some computer magazines about those new expensive UNIX workstations.
I do see a lot of potential applications of the idea:

- remote storage. Instead of having some files here, some files there, I'd rather have all my files live somewhere (possibly my NAS at home, replicated on some servers out there) and have my smartphone/laptop remotely fetch data into it. Of course, with a local cache for frequently accessed files. 9P allows that.

- I'd like to proxy all my connexions through a machine I know and control. 9P allows that.

- I'd like to print from anywhere to my printer. 9P allows that.

While it is easy to think Plan 9 is about having the CPU on a remote machine and the display on the local machine, the true killer-feature of Plan 9 is 9P; the protocol that actually allows a user to say everything is a file.
> 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

You can still scale the screen resolution and get a higher resolution than the Air's 1440x900.
Gee, and if you're one of the <20% in the US with access to fiber, you can even upload to the cloud at greater than 10 Mbps
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As someone who took their online gaming course I wouldn't have anything to do with these guys.

They abandoned Make games with us and have been spamming my inbox with at least 3 different business models since then, this being their latest one.

The online gaming course had buggy code and horrible stumbling lessons. I heard about them on here and was conned out of $100. Stay away from these scammers.
The problem here is confusing something that might be "standard fair in the business world" with something that is very much out of market in the startup investor world.

If OP is entertaining a commercial relationship with an established, larger company -- and there might be an investment component alongside that (a "strategic" investor) -- then it generally makes sense to play normal commercial relationship rules. And one of those is that a BigCo generally gets what it wants in terms of NDAs, within reason, before it opens up.

But if OP's investor purports to be a "real" investor (financial and serial) then there are serious yellow/red flags.

(A "real" investor is one who is financially motivated but also has interest in doing several deals in the community into the future -- hence, they have a reputation to protect and they will tend to hew closer to market norms.)

From the VC perspective, if I had a good customer lead (in my portfolio or otherwise) for a new application of an unfunded startup's technology, I would unhesitatingly make the intro. It benefits me several ways: 1. it may help the customer; 2. seeing how the customer responds is extra diligence information to help me form an investment perspective; 3. if it works out, I am viewed favorably by the startup and more likely to have my term sheet accepted going forward. (This is not speculation; in fact, I am a VC and we do this sort of thing all the time.)

It would be a strange situation, indeed, where I would feel the need to forgo those benefits because of needing an NDA.

(Now, if it's the end customer who wants the NDA, then the normal "commercial relationship" rules, above, apply.)
Well, first of all, just to clarify, I was asking a question, not a statement. I recently ordered a HPC server for my company, we're using caffe to train/detect very large sets.

I went with the K80, the company we ordered it from charged us $4400 for the card, so there must be a good amount of markup that can be negotiated out of it.

I have since read some material comparing the K40 to the 980, giving a slight edge to the 980, which is surprising considering the price points, but I have not yet found any good benchmarks/posts about the K80 vs the 980. The K80 is not just two K40's glued together, as it uses the GK210 tesla chips rather than the GK110. The GK210 is a more advanced chip with more cache and better energy efficiency but I'm really not too sure how it translate into real world performance.

If anybody has any data or perspective on this, I would appreciate it.
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I really like it, it is going directly to my bookmarks, I would like to see how it grows, and also maybe one day I will find something in Houston. I'm wondering how are you getting the job posts?? Copy and paste from other websites? Sending emails to companies to let them know about your website? Maybe some API?
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