skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has arguably been living (and thriving) in a present of inequality for its entire modern existence. It is, after all, a company of 30% unit margins and a persistent unwillingness to price-compete. It's never been "products for everyone," it's always been "products for the top quintile or so (of Americans)."

But the idea that the $10k aWatch is some kind of new strategy of abandoning the middle and selling only at the extreme upper end doesn't take the realities of the consumer electronics world into account.

Apple Watch is going to live and die based on the success of the $350 and $400 models, because only those models can generate enough population for app developers to actually care about the aWatch, and only apps can turn the aWatch from "a really bad traditional watch" to, potentially, "a good smart watch."

If every Edition edition of the aWatch sells immediately, but the $350 edition doesn't sell to expectations, the aWatch will be a failure. If not a single Edition edition sells, but the $350 edition is a hit, then Apple will have another hit product on its hands.

The high-end versions of the watch are, clearly, a reliable way to get people talking about the watch, and perhaps a low-volume, high-margin product that will serve as price-discrimination, but the bread and butter of the aWatch is going to be the Sport edition.
I thought this was really odd. A lot of engineering went into getting 30% more battery storage inside the laptop, but then you trap all the heat in there! You'll easily lose that 30% extra storage to loss of battery performance due to the latent heat.
> There are also deep paradoxes which arise when one character with this power runs into another character with the same power. What does this person perceive when you rewind time, and vice versa? In a fight between you, who wins? How far back can you go? How much of your life are you willing to unravel and experience again just for the sake of a particular confrontation? How much of your life would you simply go back and re-experience over and over again?

This reminds me of the plot of the movie "Primer" (which, if you haven't seen, you owe it to yourself to go watch).
> "... if you ask people to follow the honor system, they tend to do it!"

This is great but I think the stakes are somewhat different if it's ostensibly about jobs/hiring. I don't recall the crypto challenges being promoted as a hiring mechanism (though they may have been useful for that).
Yes, I acknowledge in the article that Grunt is not designed for this, and if you use Grunt for what it is designed for, it works pretty well. However, it wasn't obvious to me the using Grunt to build an SDK was outside of its scope when I started the project, so I figured it may not be obvious to other people as well.
Right. Are VC's normally using public money?
> 1) Massive earthquake 2) Massive tsunami 3) Devastating fire 4) Complete loss of power to all control circuitry

> An extreme worst-case scenario if there ever was one, and yet no one died.

I don't know that it was extreme. If the earthquake was a significant risk, and the tsunami was a likely result of the earthquake, the rest is no surprise.

Does anyone know how likely the earthquake and following tsunami were?
I am excited to look into gulp!
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> Does it make application programming easier, less error prone, more accessible?

If you want to write systems that improve the safety of application programming, it helps to have a lower-level understanding of what is happening.

As for Mars, if articles like this (http://spinroot.com/dcas/) are any indication, there will need to be a lot of systems programming and especially tool building that requires deep systems understanding.
Yep, my article is aimed at people with a very specific use case, and if that's not your use case, the article will not be as relevant to you.
The main problem with such a certification is getting everyone to use it, and making sure it's good.

If there's one dominant certification, that's subject to abuse almost as bad as the situation now.

If there's 10+ certifications and everyone is using a different one, then what's the point of getting the certification?

Licensing works with doctors and lawyers and accountants because IT'S ILLEGAL TO DO THE JOB AT ALL without the certification.
I find a blank project slightly nerve wracking, so something like this is great.
>But since the first two actually did it...

Did what?
Gah, how many different times has unit incompatibility hit our space program now?
You guys wanna make sure it crashes at run-time?
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While I am skeptical of psi, I'm not 100% sure the drop off of that interest is progress. You can count me among those who believe that fundamental ground-breaking innovation has declined considerably since the late 70s. One potential cause that I see is a narrowing of acceptable interests and lines of inquiry, especially in academia, and the rise of a kind of hidebound dogmatic skepticism.

If we don't already know it, it doesn't exist. If it hasn't already been done, it can't be done.

That's gonna cut out a certain amount of possibly-silly stuff like psi, but it's also going to eliminate a lot of potentially very fruitful "out there" lines of inquiry. I am not sure you can have one without the other. How do you a priori determine what's "silly" without actually investigating things? I feel like that's analogous to solving the halting problem -- you are claiming to know whether an avenue of research will be fruitful without actually pursuing it.

As far as I can see the same establishment skeptical science that no longer takes psi seriously also no longer takes any hopeful, visionary vision of the future seriously. Space colonization? Life extension? Really solving our socioeconomic problems? Meh. Hell, a huge chunk of this crowd thinks that industrial civilization itself is doomed to collapse because we've already discovered all potential sources of energy and none of them are sustainable. To these guys even suggesting visionary futures that are wholly within known physics and even known technology is too "woo woo" for them if it involves steps that have not already been taken.

This isn't scientific. It's rebranded medieval scholasticism with already-known scientific theory taking the place of Vatican dogma.

I'll take my psi-researching acid-dropping 50s-70s woo-woo nuts over today's boring hidebound curmudgeons any day.
First the build tool needs to load the build files that declare the dependencies, so it knows which dependencies to check. For big, distributed projects, this step can be slow.
In my experience, the gap from 7k to 3k actually is mostly about the sense of the game, rather than skill and technique. To be precise, I don't think reading skill is that much difference, but 3k know better what to read, what constitutes weak or strong group. Joseki definitely isn't an issue well into dan level.
you are missing out! check out these unrelated CTF type ventures:
- http://smashthestack.org/
- http://overthewire.org/wargames/
- NetWars @ SANS

Actually on further research, here's a nice reference: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3592/what-hackin...
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The crypto challenges were how we (for instance) hired Alex:

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

I think we plan on making minimal demands of our users, and none of them involve grooming them for prospective employers.

Look, the reality is, most of the people who participate aren't going to be looking for a job when they do. So all our incentives are to make the experience itself rewarding to participants.

I'm weird about typing those words because very very soon we're going to actually ship the first rev and levels of this thing, and as anyone who ships software knows: right now, at this point in the release calendar, my instincts are to be LOWERING the bar, not raising it. :)
It isn't biased. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
holly hell ! How can this be an official solution ?
Ok, Android devices upgrade cycle could use improvements, but as far as back compatibility goes, it gets it right. You can publish different versions of your app, so even if you drop an old OS version with 1% of marketshare, you can still let users download the last version of the app for their OS.
From an user point of view, it is transparent, you click install and get the last compatible version, period.
As someone about to start a medical residency in the Bay Area who is interested in developing projects to work on a research platform like this, could the HN braintrust recommend a resource for learning the basics of whatever developer tools or frameworks that would be required to work with ResearchKit?
ThinkPad loyalists would kill for a modern ThinkPad with a high-res 4:3 display. This is how they used to be sold, and the extra vertical screen real estate (16:12) was great for work.

Lenovo's blog post at the time:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111030050311/http://www.lenovob...

> PC vendors have almost zero say in this change. We simply have to adapt. As much as I would like it to be so, 4:3 is not coming back.

Apple has since gone on to sell hundreds of millions of 4:3 iPads, so this argument doesn't hold much water. Where there's a will, there's a way. Further dilution of the ThinkPad from a pure "business" machine.
Small sample size and all, but I find USB microphones to be rather susceptible to electrical noise from stuff like USB hubs. I have to plug them directly into my machines to get a clean signal.
I as a male sympathize with the anger, not the targets of the anger

Good luck being happy in life. Victims deserve your empathy, not the angry. Anger rarely leads good things, whether it be at a personal level, or at a macro level.
"Casual murders over drug turf"

Still see no evidence of that.
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> I’m curious as to how much this will select for people with free time.

There are very few hiring mechanisms (including, you know, the whole application and interview process) that don't select for people with free time.
Lots of good info about ThinkPad's switch to 16:9 here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111030050311/http://www.lenovob...
This is neat, but is it really that hard for people to tell who has the skills they're looking for and who doesn't? Every developer I've interviewed it's been really obvious to me what they know and what they're bullshitting about.

I guess there's value is all in assembling a pre-qualified pool for employers to recruit from, though.

But in that way this is kind of like the 2015 version of CNE. Except it's free, which is good. And hopefully less miserable.
Have you tried Dolphin on Linux? It's absolutely the best graphical file shell I've ever used:

- integrated command line whose PWD matches the directory shown in the graphic view. This is killer.

- automatic numbering if you rename a bunch of files.

- a tab-completeable navigation bar.

- integrated context menu items (e.g. send via email, compress, encrypt, convert file type).

- pretty, Apple-style image previews.

I really think it has it all.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_%28file_manager%29>
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Yes, that sounds very much like the scenario we see ourselves in. For us, we have too many projects for copy/pasting the Gruntfile between them to be a viable option, and the Gruntfiles themselves would have been too complex.

I'm not convinced the shell scripts are a good alternative, though. (Maybe they are for your scenario.) I would like to write a follow-up post talking about this.
I agree in general, but I think there are simple things that even non power users should have. The column interface is one that could drive anyone crazy, especially with the unintelligent defaults for sizing the windows and columns. It's damn near impossible to get around a filesystem with finder as is.

It seems as though apple is pushing non power users away from the finder altogether via apps that hide any notion of a filesystem from the user. Just try copying a movie project file from Final Cut - it's maddening. If they're going to continue down this road, then why not provide some additional features in finder for people who could use them (like breadcrumbs and the ability to type a file path like in windows, any IDE, etc).
From the world of economics are Veblen and Giffin goods - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

Both are examples where normal pricing and demand doesn't match (normal meaning demand goes down as price increases). It also explains why people don't just buy the cheapest product that meets most of their needs.
And then there were four.

This theme (test your coders, don't interview them) is spreading about, I keep getting spammed by them as a way to "only hire top talent!" its an interesting proposition and I can't wait to see a bit of history behind it. At the very least it will weed out people who think they are programmers when they are not.
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Could this not be cached? If deps aren't changing, why do them all from scratch?
I know, but why should this have to be a tack-on. These are things that can drive anyone crazy and have for the last six versions of OS X. They're willing to completely overhaul interfaces elsewhere (iTunes, iOS), why not add some unambiguously useful features here?
You do realize that

a) that marketing page compares against a processor that is 4 years old, i.e. the processor in the 2011 MBA?

b) Intel has made new core i5's in the last 4 years (or even 3 years, 2 years, last year...)

c) we're not at a point where physics allows us to make hardware that consumes < 1/3 the power, but performs better, using the same manufacturing processes.
Probably being way ahead of things, but is the instruction set defined at this point? I would love to play around on an emulator. I browsed around their website a bit, but saw only youtube videos explaining general information, same for the white paper.
Throwing in my anectodata point.

Graduated with Masters. 1) Even after shopping multiple offers I earned less at the start than my friends who went straight to work. 2) Hard to catch up because they were ahead on industry experience and professional connections.

Edit: At least I didn't get a PhD. I've had multiple PhD grads tell me I was smart for getting out early. Most of the time, an advanced degree just does not pay off.
The surface pro also has a separate charging port.

With this new macbook, one cannot charge and use a mouse at the same time without an $80 addon.
your comment highlights that we all perceive "risk" now to upgrading. I used to not worry about this, but it seems that new OS X releases are broken enough to warrant not upgrading
Now that Interstellar brought this image of a black hole into popular culture, I expect many other movies and games adopting it.
No tell them you have other offers once they make you an offer. Then you have negotiation power.
~9 hours for a machine with a 2304*1440 display is pretty impressive even if you don't consider the smallness of the new Macbook.
I'm not Russian, I'm Bulgarian :-)

I really wish TC was open source so it was more actively developed.
People that buy Macbook Pro's?
> On the flip side, if you sell a virtual appliance that includes the GNU userspace (GPL) and some proprietary binaries, is that considered distribution "as part of a whole" (the appliance), and are you obligated to make your code available under the GPL? Even though there's no linking involved, it's not clear to me whether your code can be "reasonably considered independent and separate" if it's only distributed as part of the appliance.

There is already legal precedent separating software licenses at process boundaries. This is why every piece of software in a Linux distribution doesn't need to be GPL'ed.
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But get this, he said Java was HARD. Compared to C?
Your comment inspired me to check out what happens on Google Drive with js disabled - it just never loads and says "Your browser must support JavaScript to display the Google Drive web user interface."
Worth noting that F# has language-support for Units of Measures and countless new languages have come since 2008 without that in mind.
Take your well-visited paths and drag them to the left (where Apps, Documents, etc… are).

Then just click on those labels. It's even faster than typing the path in Window's location bar.
I took his class last semester called "Einstein for Everyone" at the University of Pittsburgh. I'd call him a fanatic
I just bought a 32GB iMac because my Air with 8GB was sluggish with Unity3d and Flash (needed for work). I'm glad I did. This is the best system I've ever owned.
Since nobody else mentioned it: Directory Opus. Looks big and clunky at first look but it's actually very fast and 100% customizable. You could strip it down to a dual list view and operate it purely by keyboard shortcuts. Buttons are defined in a copy pasteable xml format, are scriptable, come in various forms and let you bind events for left/right/middle click. The only caveat is: windows only. I would kill for a Linux version.
> We are not taking our clients problems and reframing them as games. How boring would that be?

Not that boring, if your clients have interesting problems.
I second the recommendation. Also, if after seeing it you don't understand the movie and think it sucks, watch it again. With a pen and a piece of paper.
To be fair the average user doesn't ever need to see hidden folders. Who cares what the defaults are, set your Mac up however you want, I'm sure everyone here is plenty capable.

Also, people will spend days customizing their Linux systems, but think OS X needs to be exactly the way they want it out of the box. Why is that? I agree the software quality has declined over the past few years, but many people here seem to be nitpicking.
Midwest pays about 80 to 95K for a decent sysadmin (Unix/Linux w/ 10+ years of experience), only the specialized shops (trading firms, any place with a lot of money flowing through them) will go 120K or more.

If you know of any place north of Chicago that pays 120K or more for a 20-year Unix/Linux engineer with C systems level programming talent, and won't burn you out in 2 years like the trading firms downtown, I'd be interested.
Will you get me above £100k in London?
Hi kumarm - Michael from AppLovin here. Thanks for the comment, it's an important concern. Here is a blog post outlining the problem and corrective actions that were taken: http://blog.applovin.com/applovin-security-notice/
Thanks for mentioning GitLab! Giving away the core of your business is harder than giving away the fringes. At GitLab we would love to have only one free version. But we need an open-core business model (with a proprietary Enterprise Edition) so that the enterprises pay for licensing. Making money only on support is very hard, especially when you ship a stable and easy-to-use product.
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I think you may be misconstruing and applying intent that isn't there.
Probably better to use a USB microphone instead of integrated sound card A/D anyway...
Some do. They're called MD/PhDs. While they're somewhat rare, they do indeed exist.
Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DDBINgo...
> Worth noting that F# has language-support for Units of Measures

I had no idea. That is crazy cool. Do you have any recommended resources for learning how this works behind the scenes?

(I tried implementing something similar in Swift, without knowledge of prior examples, so probably ended up doing it in a really dumb way. I tried using structs ('Quantities') containing the underlying value and also dimensional information, and then enabling mathematical operations using operator overloading and generics. I'd love to know of a better/"proper" way of implementing it though. The big unknown for me was the best underlying type/data structure to use to represent SI dimensions, including fractional dimensions, and that would allow them to be combined algebraically. Might just have to have another go this weekend following F#'s example!)

Edit: found this paper if anyone's interested http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/akenn/units/CE...
In addition to the original info about the Moscow-Nice flight there (http://content.knightfrank.com/research/83/documents/en/weal...) are some more curious stats about Russians: the percentage of Russians of all UHNWIs willing to emigrate (33%), and the percentage of them who send their children to study abroad (61%). Not that the tendency was not known before though.
Good question. There is quite a lot of software (dev tools) that are trivially installed with aptget, but not so easy (if possible) with homebrew.

I am mostly retired now, but I am working on a commercial product, and still write the occasional book, and advise consulting customers - that is my excuse for experimenting with LOTS of open source projects. If it is easier to check something out on Linux, then I take the minute to reboot.

That said, when developing I mostly "live" in IntelliJ (mostly for Clojure and ClojureScript, a little for Java and Javascript) and running IntelliJ on OS X (or even Windows 8.1) is nicer than on Ubuntu(because of trackpad issues).
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The other trick is to point inotify at the partition where everything is mounted so you have a list of every file that is changed [1].

That way instead of scanning the whole file system you just rsync the files that have changed.

[1] Assuming you can't hook into the app(s) making the changed directly. You can even just look for new/changed files if deletions are not a priority.
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Cars do not come with child seats included as a core feature. Would you say that transporting under-10s is not a common use case of a family car?
A lot of lines here in Australia will still support it (some at only ~31.2kbit due to copper quality) but when you sign up to ADSL you can order a "naked" service with no dialtone, which can be cheaper in some cases - there'll be no dialup fallback if you do that, though.
There's a Safari for Windows though isn't there?
For it to be nasty and hard to get rid of, your friend must have given it admin access when he installed it? No security model that I'm aware of can stop that; OS X out of the box stops you from being able to run unsigned code, which would've stopped that entirely.
I'd rather have total complete free rein to pick the most interesting problems I can find. :)
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://fortune.com/2015/03/09/private-jet-routes/, and the title from "Private Jet: Moscow to Nice Is Most Popular Route for Private Planes".
This conversation has a few misunderstandings (all of which, I think, have been resolved through polite clarification) and a number of clear examples of misogyny, which are more difficult to resolve through mere clarification.
No one actually cared that a laptop needed a fan, though. Apple could have put a fan in this and no one would have seen it as a huge deficiency.
thanks... examples are useful...
And a Mini Display port. External monitor(s) on the one and USB hub the other. Surface can drive 1 4k or 2 1080p monitors from that port. Will be interesting to see if you can get the daisy-chain of monitors off that AND have a spot to set up a hub or charge another device.
It's not unfair. It it is informative because it expresses that open web standards are not among Apple's core commitments despite its making tactical business decisions promoting standards from time to time.

It's probably good business to make owners of its products feel special. That it disappoints non consumers of its products is irrelevant for its bottom line.