skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the Visual Interface Dialect (VID) that is part of Rebol/View - http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html

Here's the buttons examples in VID...

Rebol []

shrink: does []
grow: does []

view layout [
text "Hello Brave New World"

below ; not really needed as this is the default behaviour
button "Press Me" [shrink]
button "No, press me" [grow]

; row
across
button "Press Me" [shrink]
button "No, press me" [grow]
return
]

VID runs on Rebol 2. Its successor (still in beta) is R3GUI which runs on Rebol 3 - http://www.r3gui.com/

This is how the buttons work in R3GUI...

button "Press Me" on-action [shrink]
button "No, press me" on-action [grow]

... which is even more similar to posted article.

Below is a basic (ie. naive!) boilerplate of the Todos example code in VID:

todos: ["todo 1" "todo 2" "todo 3"]

;; To be defined!
nothing: []
controls: []
input-zone: []

todo-list: does [
compose [text-list (todos)]
]

footer: does [
either empty? todos [nothing] [controls]
]

view layout compose [
label "todos"
(input-zone)
(todo-list)
(footer)
]

NB. Disclaimer - my VID experience is very limited :)
The first available Force Touch trackpad shipped on the new MacBook which was announced on March 9th and released on April 10th. Unless you have access to Apple's prerelease testing hardware, you haven't been using a Force Touch trackpad for a few months.
hey thanks. I sure will add additional details along the road and probably write something else about manufacturing. Since it appears that it can be a very complicated (and costly) adventure, I contacted a local start-up incubator hoping to benefit form their expertise.
Did Apple really just enable a "smash the button" interaction? I can't wait to see what kind of damage people start inflicting.
Sometimes, science fiction is not about trying to predict the future as much as trying to avoid it.
Well what are they waiting for? It's not like touchscreens on laptops are exactly a new feature.
"Uber is mercilessly commoditizing drivers and squeezing every last drop of blood from their veins." Hyperbole much? Reading the article it's pretty obvious that Uber is trying to solve for a particular problem: Drivers who sign up and only work a few and the best hours to maximize their income. Uber is indicating they want to reward loyal longer hour drivers over the Friday and Saturday night 4 hour prime time put $200 in their pocket driver.
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Minor note, your Twitter handle is wrong in your CV (I found your account at @Haakathon however). I imagine I'm in the minority who look at Twitter accounts first though :-D
Yeah but usually when two trains collide, you don't have the time to see it coming.
Awesome. Thanks for the tip!

One in return: I've found that vacuum sealing meat when it's somewhat frozen helps maintain its shape.
Perhaps I missed something, but is the author conflating the idea of using english language from the domain as function/variable names with having a real DSL?

DSLs are parsed/compiled/interpreted. If you're doing one of those things, and the words represent concepts in the problem domain? You've got a DSL. Otherwise you just have a well-named API.

But I may have missed it. I failed to see the point of this article -- perhaps I am in violent agreement and do not realize it!
Slate puts rather a different spin on this than other articles I've read. Slate:

> The FTC is so displeased that Jessica Rich, its consumer protection director, has written to the bankruptcy court handling RadioShack’s case, asking that consumers' personal data be protected.

Ars Technica:

> The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to the bankruptcy court presiding over RadioShack's supervised asset sell-off suggesting a compromise that would allow RadioShack to sell its database of information from 117 million customers.

Previous coverage portrayed Apple as intervening to protect customers (although it seems to have more to do with enforcing their reseller agreement):

http://www.imore.com/apple-wades-radioshack-sale-protect-cus...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/05/14/apple-radioshack...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/apple-asks-court-...
Exactly. Free is on the competitive battlefield with paid, just as nonmonitized (open source, volunteer and nonprofits) can be competitive to monetized endeavors. It's a continuum along the axis of price, which does not necessarily have to be a positive number.

Content distributors are at liberty to uniquely watermark all content and hunt down every last pirate with massive penalties AND/OR threaten to stop producing content, if they so choose. Content viewers can also make choices, one of which could be to organize collective negotiation.
You're not missing a thing. Inequity in opportunity and segregation live on through ignorance and a cultural lack of empathy. Pleasant white and native English-speaking staff in the front of the house, brown and struggling to get a foothold types washing dishes in the back, because that's what makes customers feel better. The privileged get more privilege, and the poor get poorer.
> You know the traditional business model of Hollywood is well and truly broken

It isn't just Hollywood, even HBO Go/HBO Now is so fenced in I can't just pay them to get streaming access but have to go through Apple which won't allow me to sort it out unless I actually have an iDevice

None of these companies make it easy besides Netflix. And for what? It doesn't even help them substantially [even tho they clearly think it does] it just drives me to wonder why I ever talked myself out of pirating things on moral grounds.
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Such a good show. I wish there were more episodes.
> Anyone who would pursue IBM in hopes of 'incubating a startup scene' is, not to put too fine a point on it, grossly incompetent.

Indeed -- and just one of the most painfully obvious illustrations of why the "high taxes with favored big companies getting tax breaks" strategy is a lot less fair and efficient than the "medium-low taxes for everybody" strategy. (Of course, the latter doesn't give the politicians any chances to dole out favors and toot his own horn for getting his constituents jobs!!!, so expect ongoing cronyism well into the future. why capitalism gets a bad name...)
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It's been awhile since I first posted on here and I just wanted to let you guys know my App Tag A Cat has now passed well over 10,000 photos shared on the network. This is an awesome milestone for me and the app so I thought id share.

If you missed the old news. Tag A Cat is a social image sharing app where cat owners and cat lovers can post/view photos of cats. You can tag photos by location and even browse a world map of cats. Check it out at http://www.TagACat.net and forward the link any cat lovers you might know.
While it is true that a startup culture is very valuable in the IT-section, it's not that true that one needs a startup culture.

I am an engaged computer gamer and we Germans have many successful e-sport stars, E-Sports are not officially recognized in Germany.

Same goes for startups, I can list you 20 Industry leading Game startups and multiple hundred exceptional well doing tech startups in Germany.

Whatever people think about you does not matter as long as you have a great product to sell.

Also the author has a slight notion of american exceptionalism, that something works in the USA is by no means a measurement to go by and say: "Hey you should do this also, it will be working great!"
Some detailed research about markets, employees, laws and how to adapt them would do every European government better than simply trying to copy America.
> saying "don't yell racial epithets" and "don't tell women to make you a sandwich" is not even close to censorship. That's called being a decent person

On paper, diversity and sensitivity is great. I'm a free market capitalist, but the communist manifesto is still the most just draft I've ever read.

However, we don't live in a vacuum.

BSD, perl, c, linux, python, you name it. These projects welcome all and always have. We dont need a code of conduct. We hate how you jinx our cooperation and success.

By the way: Frankly my own black girlfriend loves cooking. I eat together with her family, and we tease each other all the time at the dinner table. Chicken, collared greens, Pepsi.

I've never felt so loved. Instead of tucking my balls between my legs, we laughed like hyenas over wars between our races. Dad was like "gimme my damn food woman!!"

Our dinner was on paper, racist. But our expression brought us closer, and its worth more than 160 characters. Political correctness is a pressure cooker strangling both our families' necks.
Presumably this means there won't be a major refresh to the 15" model announced at WWDC and available immediately or shortly, something Apple likes to do. I guess this is no surprise due to the lack of high-end Broadwell... Personally, I'm still hoping for a slightly higher resolution screen eventually.
Yup, I've had my 13 inch MacBook Pro for a month now and it has the force touch touchpad, although, I'm not entirely convinced it's revolutionary. I'm having issue with it when I drop and drag. It will loose the finger pressure info and un-click which typically leaves me searching for where my file landed.
I read GP's comment as "Popcorn Time is popular because it's free. They have no business model." I tend to agree with that. If I started giving away $5 bills for only a $1 each, my "business" would be popular too. That doesn't mean it's a good business to be in, or that it would last any length of time.

I am in no way in favor of our current system, and I agree Hollywood needs to find a new model or die, but Popcorn Time is not that business model, which is what I believe GP is saying.
Seriously HN, that is fully on topic and did not deserve a down vote.
Indeed. They were the first company I ever gave a fake name to.
I don't see anything unreasonable about asking the studios to provide their product in a particular format.

So if I hand built my own codec I could then ask Netflix to provide videos to me using it?

Of course, that's an extreme example. But they're not obliged to cater to your every whim - they're a business that makes business decisions, like losing X% of customers because they don't want to support Y codec/platform/whatever.
In the case of Radio Shack, you typically handed over information as part of a purchase, so money definitely changed hands. For startups following the model of "we'll give the product away for free and make it up in volume" it's less clear, but giving info in exchange for access to a service seems like it could be consideration.
That's basically the same graphics card. AMD recently did an "OEM refresh", which didn't do much more than put new numbers on the old cards. They fiddled with frequencies, but they're basically the same old cards. Manufacturers demand this, and unlike Intel & nVidia, AMD doesn't have the clout to say no to stupid requests like this.

Significantly, they didn't refresh their retail range of cards, so there is still some hope that AMD has a significant refresh coming soon; AMD still doesn't have an answer for nVidia Maxwell, which was first released over a year ago.
And for whatever numbers they typed in when I refused to even make up one myself.
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Completely agree. Why would you trust these guys again? I won't. I didn't sign up to be a system administrator for my truck, and they see no problem with shipping hardware that can't do the ONE THING that they claim to sell it for. Track trips - maybe!
It might work like that in the bay area, but in most cities and countries across the world it definitely does not.
For anyone else who was confused by this, it's a bump on the 15" Macbook Pro. The 13" model was updated at the same time as the Macbook launch.
New standards take time to gain traction. Apple putting at least one USB-C on each "new" device would go a long way towards helping USB-C gain adoption.
I was not speculating. I've been working in one of the contractors. The same situation applies to Railway Control Systems and other Telecommunication Infrastructures.
I went over this and I feel like I need a little context to understand exactly what this is besides some guys ramblings about Verizon. Or is this an official document "leaked" from Verizon?
Some movies care, some don't. It's very hit or miss.

When The Internship was being filmed, I got asked numerous times for appropriately licensed code for a given scene. They would tell me what the scene was about, i would go and find code that made sense for it. You would think nobody would care about that in a comedy.

Some of the bug fixing people are doing here and there (some was cut, some was not) is actually me fixing bugs in the same code in vim. They wanted it to look completely real.

Interestingly, the people i've worked with who have cared the most about getting stuff right are actually the Silicon Valley (TV show) folks.
Does this mean MBPs with 5th gen Intel Boradwell chips won't be available till next year?
Hi Kolev,

It depends on what type of online retailer you are. We developed esell.io for people who are occasionally selling something they create on their own websites, blogs or social media sites.

Considering these small online retailers it really is "only 5%" compared to the fees of eBay or Amazon or most of the marketplaces. It's "only 5%" if you compare it to the cost of developing and opening your own e-commerce website. Or even if you compare it to a monthly subscription fee of some other e-commerce platforms.

And you're right - this will not work for high-volume low-margin online retailers.
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The last gen MBP was also the same price in Germany a few months back, so it wasn't changed just now.
It's funny, I guess, to read about the WSJ referring to European culture. There is no European culture that I know of. Maybe if you look across from the other side of the ocean, contrast your own culture with Europe as a whole, you note the differences and contrasts and then conclude that what you are looking at is tight-knit enough to be called a culture. Maybe like someone travelling from one part of Eurasia to another side, noting how people look and behave and contrast them with the things that are different to their own, and then concluding "this is a distinct culture/group".

Now watch a European disagree with me just to be contrarian.
Let me see if I understand... You want to be able to say anything you want without repercussions. However, if someone else decides to say what they want in response, that is "blast your pic around the world", you are offended.

So your definition of censorship seems to be: "leting others call me on my bullshit". That is an odd definition.
That just sounds completely useless
They also cut the price on the iMac Retina by $200.
I would sit down with the two guys and ask them the following questions

- Who is our target market? Who are we building the chat app for?

- How do we get traction in this market?

- Who are our competitors? What is our differentiator / unfair advantage over them?

- What are the monetization plans?

- What is the end goal? Being acquired by a big company, IPO, lifestyle business etc

- What are the responsibilities for each of the three founders? How would each of them add value to the business?

- How would we know if we are on the right path? e.g. x% per month increase in number of users/messages/revenue etc

At the end of this, you will either be sold on the idea or you will not. I'd advise you to join only if the two guys are able to convince you of the idea.
> Anyone who would pursue IBM in hopes of 'incubating a startup scene' is, not to put too fine a point on it, grossly incompetent

Could be they are geniuses: banking on IBM laying off tech workers in order to get the startup scene going in the wake. Scratch that. Having seen some of these legislative bodies at work, that's too advanced.
https://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/ is a blog dedicated to fictional computer interfaces.
The data is still valuable as a point-in-time snapshot. Remember, marketers are as interested in your past as your present, because there's still value in knowing that you lived in California in 2004 and that you now live in Chicago.

And this is why privacy is dead: so long as there is a financial incentive to having this data, it will be bought and sold like any other commodity.
Amazon instant has damn near everything. Hollywood does provide it. They just can't compete with free.

PC game piracy proves this. Games on steam get pirated in large numbers even when the pirate copy is harder to download, install and use. And often it has reduced functionality.
Interesting that they're shifting towards AMD GPUs. Was actually hoping for a major update of the MBPR with the availability of NVIDIA's new maxwell architecture and broadwell based quad cores.

Anyone knows why AMD? Is it a margin/profitibility or performance thing?
They probably jump straight to Skylake. Maybe in Q4.
That's very true. And with full time staff there's also all the NI stuff to deal with (in the UK).

Having said that, there's a general attitude from employers (at least everywhere I've worked) of "I'm paying this person £400 a day, they'd better be good."

I've been on both sides, and from the employers side you're definitely willing to cut staff a lot more slack than contractors (though that may be totally irrational).
> so no more CLICK! at night when you use laptop near someone else

> But nothing I couldn't live without.

Hmm, less grumbling from the wife when I play Minecraft in bed? "It's not for me, hon--it's for us."
Yes, it's pretty common to call it that. Mainly because it's pretty common for
programmers to be undereducated, so they misapply terms or unnecessarily
reinvent terminology.

Let's call the "smart interface with domain-specific verbs" a domain-specific
interface, it would be just fine. But calling it a language is simply a term
abuse.
I think they're waiting for Skylake. Wireless charging, 4K/5K external displays at 60hz, better battery, etc.

Skylake is the "major refresh" everyone that knows anything is waiting for.
> Also, you might think of it as thousands of sellers but only two buyers.

The relevant terms are Oligopsony and Monopsony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopsony
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There's a multitude of interpretations there, but to me the obvious(TM) takeaway is that corporate taxes should be zeroed out for everyone, and income/consumption/environmental taxes (take your pick of weighting) increased to make up for it.
Still if you actually stop using the service (aka not longer subscribing or logging in) that shouldn't grant them any more rights on data from the past.

However IANAL so I might be wrong here.
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Force touch user here! Contrary to what many people here seem to believe, the 13 inch retina MBPR has had force touch since its release in early 2015, when it was first announced. They have only just put them into the 15 inch, and I imagine they left the "big announcement" until all MBPR users could get it so they didn't waste all the novelty before it was ripe for media excitement.

There's a good list of things you can do with force touch here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204352

Some personal opinions about force touch:

My favourite thing about it is that the trackpad is automatically more clickable. The clickable surface area is larger than on my previous Mac (13" Air late 2013), and since I turned off right click (opting for two-finger click instead) I am far more causal about clicking things. This was really, really noticeable when going back to my Air briefly while I was giving it some TLC, and finding I couldn't use the top-left corner to click.

About the "force" aspect of it though... the sensation of pressing it down and watching some on-screen element change in size (which is the case for the dictionary lookup feature) is pretty fun. That's one of my favourite things to show people. It's like watching people use an analogue stick for the first time. At first it's confusing and hard to get the balance of, but soon you become quite proficient with it.

Unfortunately support outside of stock OSX applications is quite limited at the moment. The features that are supported in Safari have not yet made their way to Chrome, and features in Quicktime (changing fast forward speed, mainly) are not in VLC. Stuff like that. Having buttons on the screen which act differently depending on how hard you click them could be quite powerful.

With time, however, I think we'll see developers doing more interesting things with this. It could be quite useful in artistic applications for instance, doing exactly what Wacom tablets (and their ilk) have been doing to simulate the pressure of a brush or pen.

Another good use is as a replacement for right click or CTRL+click, i.e. to open a context menu. This is how it works on the dock, and it's quite nice to use too.

One thing I find wrong with it is that all of a sudden, holding onto a draggable element while scrolling with two fingers (e.g., try moving a playlist around in Spotify when you have lots of playlists) appears to not longer be possible. This might be a software issue with whomever is responsible for the software in question, though.

Finally, the myth that the trackpad doesn't move at all is not true. It moves a little, and if you press hard (as one Apple store employee did when I took it in to get looked at last week, insisting that it "wasn't force touch") it will move down noticeably - so don't overdo it.

This, IMO, is the killer feature of the new MBPR.
> Well what are they waiting for?

A good reason to do it?
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I think that it has something to do with distribution. Most of the business was about distribution. Before it was dificult to distribute the information (music, movies etc) so you needed to hire someone to distribute your product and you paid a company which had the infrastructure to do so. This middle man soon became a cartel controlling distribution. Now distribution is easy and abundant so obviously it changes everything. They were selling a solution for something that used to be dificult that now is easy. Its like if your business was selling water in the desert and one day someone finds easy acces abundant water. Lets remember that most of the money is going to distributors not creators.
If I had a duplicate me, it would be spending time campaigning for a change in exactly this type of disclaimer.

The default setting of anything like this should opt you out and seek re-confirmation.

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For people who have problems with innumeracy (and lacking a tax advisor's phone number, I guess) this can be a real problem. For the rest of us, it's not that hard to figure out what those things cost, add it to how much you want to make, and then divide by 2000 to figure out an hourly rate.

The real price of contracting isn't the loss of benefits, but the increased burden of providing those things for yourself (if they were that important to you in the first place). The real reward is: freedom. You can provide any/all/none of those things for yourself as you see fit.

All presuming you have work, of course ;-)
It's likely. I feel there's much more to it than meets the eye.
Have you sorted out internet connection onboard? That is often a problem / very expensive on cruises.
> who here would choose an IBM cloud solution over AWS, Google, DigitalOcean or Linode?

Why do you think IBM bought Softlayer?
I'm not sure calling it a language does, either.
>> I consider piracy to be a form of protest.

That is a moronic attitude.

>> I'm happy to pay, as long as the terms are reasonable.

Wrong can't be rationalized.