skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, the fact that historians have revised downwards how nasty the early middle ages were as they've learnt more about it does not mean the label "dark ages" has lost its utility. For one it does somewhat convey the decline in trade and population in a way "early middle ages" does not, which is useful when exemplifying periods of decay in history for a popular audience.
There were slaves in civ 4.
I agree with you too. I've never seen a job in tech where it was clear what it took to get to the next level (either salary-wise, responsibility-wise, move-into-management-wise, etc.). It's always hand-wavey "do better and who knows!" or "you'll be senior engineer after a few years!" type guidance. Sometimes I'm jealous of folks like salespeople who have clear metrics. Pull in $X in sales and your bonus is $Y. Bam! That would be awesome.
wait. since when is 24-48MB trivial?

I would have hoped to see it sub 5MB.
Let me venture a guess: that expression comes exactly from observing animals keeping one eye open.
I'm personally looking forward to cheap $2 USB-C cables catching fire with 87W firing down them. Seems most likely it will be running at 20V and thus approx. 4.3A - so may not happen as much as I hope but I'm sure we'll fine some xD
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I think a few people in this thread seem to be confusing salary transparency with "everyone makes the same salary". Don't think anyone is arguing for the latter.
A metabolic switch to turn off obesity
Hm. Didn't get that. It's not that you've had USB->VGA or Thunderbolt->VGA etc adapters and you were confused which to buy. There was always 1 VGA adapter for projectors, 1 HDMI adapter for TV etc. (exception confirms the rule: there's combo Thunderbolt->VGA/USB-C/Lightning port) This won't change. It's basically the same now: you need all those adapters. So I'm going to throw away >= $100 of adapters to buy new >= $100 of adapters or more.

I feel like I'd dislike Apple less if there was cable and adapter buyback program.
Hey, you guys found my old website! It's in sore need of some upkeep, I haven't touched it since the week I built it when I was in school :(

I understand what you're getting at re:scan-nability and info denseness, but I believe that is what a resume for. I'm not trying to use my website as a resume, I'm trying to establish a digital presence and show off my work. If I weren't a designer and front end person, having an online resume might be the goal, but this is a portfolio.

It has many problems that I hope to fix, but using visual aides are not one of them :) Anyways, thanks for taking the time to look at it. I adore Sarah Drasner's work too, she's one of my favorite people!
> I think it's been widely speculated about before but it seems like they're exploring new technologies (e.g. Wireless) that are more cost-effective

And also way lower quality and limited potential in comparison with fiber. I'm basically wondering is it simply usual move for more profits, or fiber itself isn't profitable?
And Google is zooming past at an incredible 20% YoY growth rate while MSFT is basically stagnant.
https://juokaz.com/

Mine has switchable backgrounds ("Don't like the speaker look? Go with serious, punk, scottish or racing driver."). Many people have commented about this when meeting in person.
>There's nothing wrong with your thinking. In my humble opinion it shows your personal desires without much concern for everyone else.

Oh shush. You know, I've got a 93-year-old grandmother with a damned sharp wit who should not fucking need assisted living and should be able to remember what we were talking about five minutes ago. I've also got a 68-or-so uncle who came down with Parkinson's Disease almost instantly upon his retirement from a lifetime of practicing medicine.

That's not to mention the in-laws with fibromyalgia and the step-father with several "bad lifestyle" diseases.

If your argument in favor of aging and death is, "Indiscriminately inflicting extreme suffering to randomly-selected people for every moment of their lives really helps to freshen up the world", you should reconsider. The problems I mentioned are not unique and special things that happened like a car accident happens. They're just what happens to everyone from living long enough. The bit at the end where you go to sleep and never wake up is nothing; the problem is the decades of suffering followed by that.
I think we agree up to "a 'loss' implies the lack of ability to use something you once were able to use". Since a dead person is unable to do anything, being a billionaire or not leads to the same conclusion.

Where we differ is on the feeling that comes from that lacking. A dead person feels nothing and by your definition is not losing anything since they can't feel it.

this is all very true and I agree, however as humans we can sense impending events and a since death is an indisputable fact the feeling of this eventual loss can begin to haunt one before it actually sets in. So technically we can argue that a billionaire begins to feel the cost of losing it when she becomes a billionaire. (since she knows she will die and lose it).
Anecdotally, I have a friend who is a designer who did a lot of Quartz Composer prototyping and eventually learned ObjC to implement some of his designs. Seems like once you get the idea of building out gestures and animations it transfers across the specifics of Patches / textual code / etc. Now he writes c++, swift, etc :D
General Montgomery: I neither drink nor smoke and I am 100 percent fit.

Churchill: I drink and smoke and I am 200 percent fit.
So what? This is happened to every successful startup in existence. A company can't be a startup forever. What it needs to find is a niche which can continue churning out successful products even when the majority of employees are concentrated in the range of 35-50. This is what Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm do and they're still largely profitable companies.
You got that all wrong. The least powerful machine is for grownups. The more powerful ones are for kids who like colorful glowing bar that flashes from time to time to provide entertainment and distract them from facebook and twitter posting.
The all-new MacBook Pro. 32 GB of RAM, Bootcamp for Linux and BSD, a release mechanism to clean your keyboard and trackpad, new powerful NVIDIA graphics, and we brought back the backlit Apple logo. Sike. But we did remove the escape key!
I love my iPad Pro and keyboard, use it all the time, but not a laptop replacement for strenuous programming.
Why is it fair to expect this? On what grounds is the universe obligated to provide this?

I fully agree the world would be a better place if websites that primarily deliver text did do so. But I'm not convinced it is reasonable to expect it.

As a demographic, javascript disablers are a small minority. Additionally, they have other options for meeting many of their needs (ad blockers, privacy extensions, etc).
Let me rephrase that, many of these devices have a wise open port 23 and other ports through which Mirai accessed a backdoor.
Much less work than what?
> "orators argued that the dragon has its place in the natural order and a moral right to be fed. They said that it was part of the very meaning of being human to end up in the dragon’s stomach. Others still maintained that the dragon was good for the human species because it kept the population size down"
The word "naturalism" means something else.
I want desperately to live longer, or even to recapture youth, and yet, my worry:

When finally science unlocks the secret of immortality, they'll just raise the retirement age correspondingly.
Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need
Depends on if their top employees get poached by some of the other companies. In that way, it could happen.
Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment
Are you that guy from reddit?
I have a laptop/tablet hybrid. My next device will not have a touchscreen, it's a waste of time on the windows ecosystem where most apps aren't touch friendly.
Ideally, we could have a magical box that you could feed the sum of all of an employee's achievements and out would pop their objectively-determined market-competitive title and salary. Things like negotiation and seniority and popularity contests and office politics and whether your manager likes you would have nothing to do with it. I'll concede we don't have such a box, so companies have to make due with a combination of these other imperfect systems. I argue that "individual negotiation skill" is a pretty terrible choice among those systems--unless your job role actually involves negotiation.
A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer at Yelp
My doctors in the US, were hesitant to give me an MRI for my knee because of costs (~$1000 per MRI). Something about the insurance company needing some prerequisites. Fair enough. My knee really wasn't that bad, and I lived my life. 3 months later I was in India for other reasons. I walked into a clinic, spent $96, two days later I had the results of my MRI. I was handed a CD with the raw image files they collected (MRI specific file format). I had "printouts" of those images. I even had a note in english for a layperson like myself to understand. Later, I took those MRI files to my doctors in the US. They confirmed all the findings, and suggested the same things as the doctors in India and I went along my way. Unprovoked the Ortho looking at my knee and the MRI even exclaimed, "thats the best $100 MRI I've ever seen".

In this case, the total costs of production/shipping were higher than they would have been in the US. But that is because I had to ship myself (i.e. ~$2000 round trip). However, I built it into my vacation, so the MRI essentially cost me the ~$100 for "production". I've had single dinners which are more expensive.

Taking pictures of your body is relatively innocent. Medication is a little more tricky. You need to be able to trust the source. However, if layperson B can trust the source of the Heroin they consistently buy on Silk Road, I have no doubts that the trust issues for medication will be solved far before we have compound "eternal youth".

For what its worth, we just happen to have insurance so we tend to think everyone buys drugs legally like we do. Do some research about what people without options actually do. Did you watch the "Dallas Buyers Club"? Where do you think poor diabetics get Insulin, or Metaformin? Even today, Metaformin being an "anti-aging" drug, is even imported from China and sold without prescription.

If you're still not convinced: Think about the risk reward calculation for a second. Importing illegal drugs, risk (aside from eating bad pills): 50 years in prison. Reward: You're now eternally young. Endure a really poor 50 years, then a long long time from now, watch the universe slowly end as you eat at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, fondly looking back at the last bajillion years.
Apparently we have very different ideas of showing off products meant for developers. That's not the same thing as making things developers can use for consumer-focused applications. When is the last time WWDC featured developer-focused hardware, meant to improve developer productivity—or even something as subjective as happiness?
The emotional reference needs to go. Swastikas were around long before nazis and they'll be around long after. It's a pretty fundamental shape.
Useful resource to review. There is always time to think about how we think. I know from experience that always underestimate by 30% the time it takes to do things - being it gardening or coding. I measure it to find out. Cognitive bias is something that we all need to be aware of. Just give yourself a 30sec "CB Check" before any decision and see what happens.
This isn't anonymous messaging, but pseudonymous messaging.
> He's saying that fewer people will form relationships if that policy is in place[...]They minimize the incidence of the undesirable activity.

No, I said people will hide those relationships if they choose to pursue them not that fewer will happen. Attraction is a very natural thing and while such rules may be lower the amount I'm unconvinced it'll be anything significant (just look at our history of prohibition for multiple things that just doesn't work overall).

To me it's not an "undesirable activity". That's similar, in my mind, to making a rule that gay people shouldn't be gay at your place of work. You're not going to stop it. You'll likely make someone choose work over their social life but ultimately it's just going to make people sneak around and if there are clear issues with a subordinate dating a manager being closed about it will make it more difficult to find out about it and who knows what type of damage that could do to your organization.

> Believe it or not, there are some people with discipline and emotional control out there. Romance is not an unstoppable force

The problem is falling for someone isn't something within your control. You can repress it and you can choose not to act on it but you can't tell your brain to just not feel attraction (at least not in any direct, quick way). It's part of our biology and it's natural to want to be with someone that you're drawn to.

> "Telling people they're not allowed to do something just makes them hide it" is a tired and frankly juvenile argument. Yes, it's true that in some cases, which, generally speaking, are fairly rare

The prohibition of alcohol, the "war" on drugs and countless other times in history disagrees with your assessment. When you are dealing with a natural biological process banning it just ends up causing more problems. Banning alcohol and drugs still caused people to crave and want it due to the way it affects our brain's chemistry in desirable ways. Trying to ban gay people from various aspects of our lives didn't stop them from being gay because, again, it's a natural part of their biology.

So if you have sources which state that banning something that is part of a natural, biological process actually causes the majority to no longer do it I would absolutely love to read them. I haven't seen anything like that.
The concept of retiring will disappear relatively soon. I don't even think we will be working 8 or 10 hours every day. I think society will make a shift when it comes to work.
Not sure you understand their marketing plan. Why build a cheap laptop when you can just get people to pay more?

But seriously, they make good hardware. They've never tried to win on price.
Ask HN: How to limit devs access to prod servers without impeding their work?
We are a small team in our startup and our product is a SaaS application that our clients can use to pay their vendors. Using proper integrations with 3rd parties we accommodate such payments via ACH and Check. Currently we're small enough (3 founders) that we don't worry about rouge employees going in and sending ACH payments to their own bank account, but as we grow that'll certainly be a larger issue that'll keep me up at night. What are some of the best practices to limit such access to production databases, database dumps, and safe storage of API tokens when your company grows to 10 or 50 engineers. We find ourselves (as much as I hate) restoring database dumps locally to reproduce issues or going into production to troubleshoot (checking load, looking at logs, running tests) where all the sensitive data also lives.

Any blog posts, ideas or suggestions are appreciated!
Show HN: Geochat – You are your city. Speak to the world
I feel similarly, yet opposite, to you:

Perhaps companies shouldn't care at all what people do with their lives outside of work. Perhaps. But, given that we have to hitch ourselves to one to make a living, they damn well better allow people lives outside of work. Let's all be allowed 3 months off each year to do whatever we wish with.
The hardware usually isn't amazing and definitely sub par considering the price, except for the screens, which are always top notch.

That Apple products have BIG margins can clearly be seen in their profits.

People are willing to pay the addition for the ego boost and great design (MacBook is still the nicest looking Laptop imo, iPhones always look great).

But it's not because they use the best, super expensive hardware.
> True, but every time I've seen linear keys used, it was for "parody" accompaniment.

Then you can't have been paying much attention.
Scam Phone Calls Continue; IRS Identifies Five Easy Ways to Spot Suspicious Calls

https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/scam-phone-calls-continue-i...

Things the IRS will never do:

1. Call to demand immediate payment, nor will we call about taxes owed without first having mailed you a bill..

2. Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe.

3. Require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card.

4. Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone.

5. Threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying.
Wait, why are they talking about "Thunderbolt 3"? Hadn't Apple finally decided to use a standardised protocol for its ports (USB C) rather than creating a new proprietary thing? Or was the Macbook 2015 just an interim design while they worked on some new bullshit proprietary connector? Goddammit.
There are undoubtedly other efforts that could benefit from parent's CS skills -- much more than just at this company: university labs, startups, non-profits, etc. We need more people to combine CS with other fields to make this world a better place -- not just CS for CS' sake (or fintech, apps, web, etc).

meerkats1, I assure you: The "work to donate" mantra commonly touted for charities does not apply. There are plenty of organizations looking for top CS talent, and they're willing to pay real salaries. Get out there and ask friends for introductions, send emails to biotech people in your area, etc.
New OS for Raspberry Pi turns it into a social robot
> creating a reporting relationship between people who are romantically involved is usually a bad idea -- even if both people are perfectly objective about it, no one else will believe they are, and it will cause contention and suspicion in the ranks. No employer wants to deal with that.

Most employers I've worked at when this happened simply shifted responsibilities. So even if the person was "technically" under the other person, they would now report to someone else and their partner would have zero input into any performance processes.

Granted now perfect especially in small companies but most companies I've worked at seem pretty understanding that this type of thing happens and there are ways to work around it. Surely not all places are like this but I'd like to think a fair amount are and I'd also like to think this is a good way to handle the situation.
> We have about 150+ engineers with Macs - and precisely zero of them asked for a desktop versus a MacBook Pro.

Given that they're using glossy-screened laptops — maybe they care more about looks and hipness than about getting the job done?
Weren't some persons there against their will?
The hardest part about writing software
Because movie studios haven't fully embraced the economics of merchandise and DLC markets yet.
I agree; it's terrible that journalists expect to be compensated for their labor.
The Vital Question. As a layman -- and an audio book listener -- this wasn't an easy book to get through! Still, it caused me to sit and think a little, and that was the whole point.
Roll Your Own Political Poll on Mechanical Turk
Introducing Watching, a New TV and Film Website
B2B and B2G are a whole different ball-game. In B2B scenario they are exposed to class-action lawsuit for bad-behavior or government fine. In B2G scenario really only thing individual citizen can do is take it to the supreme court.
My experience with multiple large monitors is my eyes got drier, the room got hotter and I never found anything useful to put on them.
FYI - The Google cache has been updated. Archive.org has a better archived copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20161027182455/http://www.apple.c...
Our US-based e-commerce site went down during the DDoS despite being behind Cloudflare, since we needed to use a CNAME for our origin. "Serve stale while revalidating" would have completely solved the problem, and I'm incredibly excited that Cloudflare is rolling it out soon - hopefully before the next big attack!

Nobody intentionally discontinues a subdomain they own by forcing their origin server's DNS to timeout on responding to the CNAME. (And Cloudflare could always make serve-stale-while-revalidating optional if a user truly does want to have that option.) So "serve stale while revalidating" seems like an unequivocal improvement on the current system.
Works in the Tor Browser.
Low fidelity prototyping is indeed a fantastic tool! It can also go way beyond index cards. See for instance http://prototyping.club
This is my experience too. This sort of open company (from appearances in the original article) is pushing the salary negotiation as part of broader openness. Once you have buy in with the broader financials the negotiation can take place within a consensus and many of the arguments about what someone personally believes can be brushed aside by the majority views and the actual financials. From my experience, people who really deliver things end up reaping a lot more because they can argue from what they are actually worth on the bottom line and their value as multipliers.
People of the present come from the people of the past. If society does terrible things to one person's grandparents and good things to another person's grandparents, one of those people is going to have more difficulties growing up. If this was condoned by society, perhaps society should take steps to fix it, otherwise the cycle may continue.
It's the "across platforms" part that matters here. Microsoft lost the battle in their core business (OS and Apps) when platforms switched to, first Web then Mobile. Google started with Web on desktop and successfully continued their dominance to Mobile web and apps. To add insult to injury, Google added the dominant mobile OS to their arsenal right under Microsoft's nose.
HTTPS would avoid this. Though it's actually a perverse incentive for websites that want your phone number to not provide HTTPS services.
They removed the escape key.

Wait, what? Holy crap, that's amazingly stupid.
Is there any policy to prevent apps displaying ads in the touch bar?
Maybe it would work for you but it alienated all vim users out there... Now we replace the esc button with a slower softbutton for the sake of... beauty??? I am not impressed at all.
Do you own a touch-screen laptop? I have one (a Razer Blade) and I actually love it. I thought it would be a gimmick that I never used, but now when I use my work computer (a Macbook) I find myself poking the screen and being irritated that it's not working. For UIs that are designed for it (like 50% of Windows 10) it's really nice to just poke at the screen.
Yep. I bought a 13" (512GB, 16GB) the instant the Store would let me.

Maybe I don't qualify as a 'Pro', but I work in IT, I regularly have more things open than comfortably fit across the Cmd-Tab HUD, I reboot about once a month, I open close sleep move charge monitor on, off, edit podcasts, blaaaah blah, and I do all of that today on my mid-2011 MBA.

And it's fine. So fine I almost don't need to update, really, I just want to. Oh, and that screen. I want the screen. Oh and the battery life! Ten hours. Yo mamma!

So this thing, this is going to be a screaming powerhorse compared to what I'm using. The ports? I'll get used to it. I'd prefer someone push us towards The Future. Can I run six hundred VMs on it while I'm rendering the next Toy Story movie from seat 4A on my flight to Caracas? Nope! But I wonder, who is doing that?

This is a fine update that should last me until whatever they release in 2021. Which is ridiculous, when you think about it.