skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great write up. I wonder, whether Apple just has gotten a bit to large for their current organizational structure. It worked, when Apple had no iOS devices to care for and the attention was divided across much less products. Especially the signs of "sloppiness" point in that direction. At minimum, Apple should create senior positions overlooking individual product categories. Even the rather forgotten iPod business could be larger, if there was a small team focussed on the question: what can we do to make new products people want to buy? A friend was just missing a small (waterproof) iPod which works seamlessly with Apple Music for example

The same with the Mac. It is understandable from the view of the company, that iOS is the bigger thing. But, as the article mentions, the Mac is a vital part of the Apple eco system. And the Mac Pro is a vital part of the Mac eco system. You need to support the professional developers to have all the applications for your "non-professional" customers. The best sign, that Apple was surprised by the public reaction to the new MacBook Pro was, that they reacted by reducing the dongle prices. It didn't seem to have thought that people would object at buying a collection of them at full prices. When I bought my G3 iBook, it came with the necessary dongles included.

Besides the obvious conceptual issues with the current Mac Pro, the biggest sin was not to update its hardware regularly. Same for the Mac Mini. So there needs to be two things done:

- set up senior people for each product to make sure that issues/development for that product/category gets the necessary attention, e.g. people who only care about the mac.

- these people need to make sure that each product is updated in set cycles. The iOS devices as well as the operating systems are updated in a yearly cycle. Maybe not as strict as with the iPhone, this should be applied to all products. The releases might shift a bit on parts availability, but the Mac Pro and the Mini have missed several updates of CPUs/GPUs/other hardware.

One more thing: while it is understandable that the retina MacBook only has soldered on parts, this is less understandable for the MacBook Pro, and not at all for the Mini, iMac or the Mac Pro. How can you design desktop machines like the iMac, where you have to unglue the screen to get to its internals? I still have my G5 iMac, and that was a nicely designed machine. A mac czar could tell upper management, where clever and efficient production methods stop and making a bad product starts...
Apple is a company that is following the process they learned when Steve ran the show, without any clear understanding of why that process exists. As a result, they are unable to adapt to adapt that process to the external world while remaining true to the underlying principles.

What you see is the predictable result: ossified thinking couple with a rigid adherence to "what makes them great". all criticism falls on deaf ears and they'll just continue like this until Tim Cook is gone and they get a product guy back in the heal who can give Apple direction and heart.
I read somewhere that the problem is two-fold: the design department's hesitation to use any sort of strain relief and the softer type of coating that is supposedly more eco-friendly.
Easy solution: stop social services for everybody.
I'm interested, however, I fall into the jr. category.
The power cord -- by which I mean the USB 2.0 cable for using with the power brick -- that comes with the MBP 2016 is actually surprisingly thick and rigid. It also feels weirdly unpleasant; the rigidity is not good for a cable intended to be slung over the edge of a table. But it probably lasts longer than the old MagSafe cables. (I wouldn't know; I returned mine and went back to my old 2015 model.)
The job description above is for internal user-facing tools. Mission-critical systems are done in C++.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/slug/c8bpr00
This may be rather ignorant of how the motivational structure of a large company works, but is it possible that some of these issues, like missed ship dates, is caused by a lessening of the amount of fear that trickles down the hierarchy?

Wasn't Jobs the kind of person you were terrified of letting down and doesn't that kind of thing trickle downward?
This is an interesting read, a perspective on expectations vs reality and possibly upbringing.

I always loved science as a kid. I studied physics because it is fun. I did not think about the future then. I went for a PhD somewhere between theory, experiment and computer simulation because it was fun. I did not think about the future then either.

I knew that I was average+ in Physics and knew that I would never get a Nobel Prize but the pleasure of doing Physics was important to me. Then I quit, right after my PhD to pursue other fun things in IT. I am still there because it is fun. I still do not think about the future and the fact that I will be the next Gates or Zuckerberg.

I strongly believe that one should be driven by the CAPACITY to make CHOICES and that this is what makes someone happy. This is also what I tell my ~11 yo children.
It is not "you can do what you want" but "I will torture you into getting the right marks and schools to enable you to make a choice when you choose your university. You can be an artist, a physicist, a doctor, an accountant or a baker. The important part is that you will be armored to be able to use the word CAN. So get back to homework."
Passive income is already 30% of income, with the majority going to the "productive class" via capital income [0]. These people still find ways to be productive and contribute despite their free time. People become addicted to things precisely when they don't have meaning in their lives. If you remove the obligation of their time to meaningless work, you give them an opportunity to find meaningful productivity which can be of greater benefit.

The full quote is:
"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need!"[2]-Marx

[0]https://medium.com/@MattBruenig/the-ubi-already-exists-for-the-1-d3a49fad0580#.ht5wz4ecy
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303420
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_needs#Origin_of_the_phrase
Becoming Michael Lewis
I was interested in the job until I visited the careers page, this reminds me of a 2000s restaurant job application form and was immediately put off.
You just described the entire American Economy.
پکیج ویژه تور تایلند در هتل های پوکت ورود ۲۳ ژانویه ۲۰۱۷
> Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, spoke out during the meeting to oppose the measure, aides said on Monday night.

Let's not take this at face value. It's an easy way for them to keep their cover as serious people and blame the insurgents.
I remember feeling the same way about Apple back in late 2012/early 2013. I was ready to replace my iPhone 4, and Apple was only making phones with small screens, while the market trend was for larger screens. Then Apple Maps came out, and it was the worst release I can remember Apple ever doing. Android seemed to be pulling ahead in a lot of ways. A lot of people were saying that Tim Cook wasn't capable of running the company, and that the magic died with Steve Jobs. The stock price started to slide.

As we all know, Apple recovered from its bad release of Maps and revamped iOS, the stock price recovered, and there was much rejoicing. So, it's important to have a sense of perspective about these things.

Apple certainly seems like it has slowed down lately, but they have more resources available to improve the situation than any other company in the world. I suspect the current issues are caused by internal organizational problems rather than a lack of product vision.
Funny github doesn't recognise swift as an language, but shows it as c++. Same for PHP, that is shown as C.

Anyone know why ?
I would guess it is probably a Sublime plugin trying to syntax highlight or lint your 20MB file. What is the extension of the file?
NIPS 2016 Tutorial: Generative Adversarial Networks
According to https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/... it's 285bn USD over 5 years to deport them, and GDP would decrease by 1.45% over 10 years without undocumented/illegal immigrant participation (i.e. 0.145% drag every year---assuming this includes the relevant GDP multipliers).
I really hoped this would be good but in it's current form it just seems too unstable and small incompatibilities that screw you. I ended up going nix vm on my work issued XPS 15 and things are going great.
> Setting up a Rails environment on it has plenty of quirks,

I thought that was true on any OS... :/
Unic AG | PHP Magento Akeneo Symfony | Zurich, Switzerland | Full-time, ONSITE

At Unic, you will help national and international customers to realise sophisticated e-business projects. And you will work with 200 experts, professionals and top specialists from across all the Unic sites: these people are the reason why Unic is the leading independent provider of e-business solutions.

I'm afraid but job description is in German
https://www.unic.com/en/about/career/jobs/
Can you elaborate on this? How do you implement "kindness" into the prisoner's dilemma? Got any links to the relevant studies?
I have a Samsung ARM (2 core, 2G RAM, 16G Flash) based ChromeBook, Model XE303C12. It's rather simple to get Linux to work on it. You first enable developer mode and then install Crouton (which basically runs a full fledged Linux in chroot jail - to satisfy the based Linux install.

It works exceptionally well and I generally get about 10 hours of use on each battery charge. I store my work in progress on a USB3 USB flash drive.

The screen is only 1366 x 768 and the touchpad is rather lousy. So given the shortcomings, I've gone back to using an old MBP. Maybe buying a second-hand MBA and installing Linux on that is the better option.
You probably may be right. ;-)
How can I check whether my phone is 4G compatible or not
How is he a tool? I didn't get that impression based on his demos and interviews I've heard
Well considering US nuclear weapons still rely on 5" floppy disks it might be a correct illustration for some edge cases...
This is a pretty good critique of how the 'story' developed: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-new.... It's forbes, though, so expect annoyance and don't dare read it with an adblocker.
- Overengineering. Developed a cool abstract and highly configurable three-tier monster when all was needed was a good lookin' excel sheet. Very useful humbling experience. The boss knew I was all wrong but let me hit the wall so that I learn my lesson. I did! Ouch!
The statute - 18 U.S.C. Section 793(f) - says nothing about intent. Comey read it in as a requirement for launching a prosecution. The intent he thought was required was as I described, not intent to harm the United States.
Try rebinding your shortcuts. These made OSX usable for me without resorting to a full blown tiling wm. It's not as fun as xmonad, but it speeds things up. There's a tweak for decreasing the animation time, I believe it's toggleable via in Prefrences.

Cmd-j/k for next/prev space, cmd-h/k for switching windows. Cmd-H/J/K/L for desktops 1-4. I spend most days in vim/screen anyway so it feels natural.
A man who's been on the road for 9 years. With no money
It's showing what language most of the implementation is in.
Except when people look for third party reviews of said products, and find threads upon threads of cryptographers calling out SpiderOak for misleading advertisement. Surely that's just bad PR?
Precisely. Continuing Steve's vision as best they can imagine it (not well). Don't forget when he used the post-PC phrase he was very clear PCs are still going to be needed and valued. It wasn't supposed to be either-or.

Pretty sure in 6 years Jobs would have picked up some new trends, details and directions. Pretty sure we'd not be stuck in some infinte repeat loop. Thinner. Groundhog Day. Repeat.
I'm thinking about trying it, but a friend of mine said that he could crash it easily by just doing the examples from Mastering the Linux Command Line. I think a Surface might make a decent piece of hardware but either WSL (i.e. the horrendously named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) has to get a lot more stable or Linux support will have to improve. I hear Linux support for the Surface Pro 3 is basically there, but SP4 still needs some work.

All word-of-mouth, of course.
Yes, this is right
Do you know how much America hate poor people, women, and minorites? Of course they will vote for the party that more openly enables their hate. Like, they really hate them. And decades of worship of capital ensures that progress will be slow to come. Both parties are complicit in this, but one is definitely less afraid of being open about it.
> Want us to think you’re still serious about the Mac, Apple? Show us parity of capabilities between the two platforms, at least on your core product sets...

Be careful what you wish for.

The primary problem with Sierra with respect to PDFs is that Apple chose to
rewrite the PDFKit framework in macOS 10.12 and it broke a number of things
that PDF-related developers relied upon...

Apple wants to use a common foundation for both iOS and macOS. However, it was
released way too early, and for the first time (at least in my experience)
Apple deprecated several features without caring about compatibility. And to
make things worse, lots of former features are now broken or not implemented at
all, meaning that we had to add lots of workarounds or implement stuff on our
own. And there’s still work left to be done.

10.12.2 introduces new issues (it seems that Apple wants to fix at least the
broken compatibility now) and of course fixed almost none of the other issues.

http://tidbits.com/article/16966
Also the reunification of Berlin: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v67YSxB224
Here in Europe people often enter roundabouts and junctions before the exits are clear and it is against traffic law, the reason given for it being a wrong thing to do is that there should be a clear path through for emergency vehicles. Surely that is reason enough to implement a law in US states?
Do you know how much Americans hate poor people, women, and minorites?

Please do not generalize over an entire population like this. There's overwhelming evidence that the country is not by any means in agreement on a great many issues. Discussions on HN itself show this to be true.
C++ Memory Mapped STL Containers
Even if Apple hardware is a feat of mechanical engineering and precision, I don't want to upgrade my Macbook Air or iPhone 6 with an Apple product right now because nothing fits my needs.

I want a phone with a flat back that won't rock on a desk without a case. I want a desktop with modern specs. I want a laptop with great battery life.
> - There are tools for compiling your trained models as static C++ binaries on mobile devices

I'm looking for such tool but I haven't found anything apart from C++ libraries that also focus on training. Can you give me some pointers? Thanks.
I'm on a Mac but at this point I could probably take it or leave it. Most of my life is shell + Firefox + Emacs + IntelliJ, and those all run basically the same regardless of OS.

If anything, my plan would be to move more of my life into Emacs so that I'm even less exposed to stupid ideas from my OS/laptop vendor.

I have been using i3 on a netbook for the last two days and I can definitely see how it would be lovely. But then again, Linux has changed a lot since I was into it seriously and I'm sure I will experience pain if I have to do anything substantial to tweak it, like symlink timezone files.
>> Did you see something at that link that contradicted anything at my link?

Didn't say it would, but that HP link was a total disgrace, in no way shape or form productive or balanced.

And my link directly contradicts your comment which was totally untrue -

> A fundraising campaign was inconvenienced.

Even in crappy HP the hacker directly says

"Almost unbelievably, they kept their donation page on the same public network as the rest of their stuff. Rookie mistake. To take it down, I’d have to knock the whole hospital off the Internet." [1]

If you think during DoSS companies (rightly or wrongly) don't shut down services, you need to look at more real world examples- This for instance also happened during the Australian census ddos [2] and has specifically caused data to leak during people trying to fix the issue which was maybe Sony?

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-i-knocked-boston-chi...

[2] http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/census-hack...
The shift is the pure neglect towards the dev community. Something that most likely would not have happened so blatant and fast under Jobs. It is also completely not necessary that making great phones excludes a company from making at least decent upgrade cycles in their computer hardware.

Why should one exclude the other?
Always good to cite your sources. (=

* Education Spending Per Student by State || http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...

I find this really interesting -- I wasn't able to figure out how to subtract transportation costs from the spend per pupil, probably good to also normalize school building maintenance costs where labor is more expensive. So this is certainly from the hip...

If we assume the folks at US News did an OK job of ranking education performance...

* How States Compare in the 2016 Best High Schools Rankings | Best High Schools | US News || http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/h...

Then we see that the states that were able to get the most bang for their buck were:

1) Utah

2) Florida

3) California

4) Nevada

5) Colorado

6) Arizona

7) Oklahoma

8) Georgia

9) Texas

10) Kentucky

It'd be curious to look for similarities between these states. I suspect America is too diverse of a place that we won't find a one-size-fits-all answer to education. Vouchers may help some states, hurt others. Religious participation and divorce rates may help some states but not matter at all in others. Raw spend may matter (seems to help CT and DC), or not at all (seems to not matter much in AK or WY -- this is where factoring out transportation and school maintenance seems like it'd be important).

Utah spends less than any state and still has exceptional performance... wonder if it scales... can you add more money to improve or does money not even matter?
Most of the tech people I know working in finance are very disillusioned.

The common complaint is that regardless of performance, their pay increases and bonuses end up being shit YOY and that the only way to make serious money is to hop from company to company every year.

One friend who builds trading infrastructure has increased his pay from $180k to north of $480k just by doing this and is about to go to his 5th or 6th fund (in roughly as many years). He kills it, ends up getting the token bonus they give tech people, waits out his non-compete and leaves.

They treat tech talent as commodity just as much as anywhere else. The other downsides being you usually can't trade your own account while employed.

Said friend would prefer to start a fund soon rather than keep this up as he'd rather be able to trade.
>As humans, we are inherently Lazy.

We're also greedy and want comfort. There's bound to be some people that will use a basic income scheme to not work, just like there's already people in European welfare states that take advantage of the system and avoids work.

Politicians keep trying to tighten the law that regulates unemployment benefits, pensions and other welfare benefits. It only hurt those that who are in actual need, those that try to scam the system are still doing fine. The Danish politicians change the rules for some benefits last year, claiming that it would force people to take jobs. The new law affected more than 30.000 people and managed to get only 400 people to take a job. Most of the people simply aren't able to find jobs or aren't physically able to.

My point is that most people will work, even if it's not fulltime employment. People want nice things, and they aren't going to get that on basic income. That amount of people who will not work don't change, at least not much, and there aren't enough of them that it's worth the effort and cost to try to force them to work.
2017 is also a (re)Prime Number
Do you have experience teaching both or are you just speculating?
> But here’s the problem: sitting in this niche of excluded users are some of Apple’s strongest supporters, the influencers that create word of mouth...

I see this point made a lot, especially on Hacker News whenever this general topic comes up. I'm just curious: what evidence is there to support this point of view?

I'm as frustrated as the next software engineer that the new Macbook Pros aren't targeted at me or users like me (and that there hasn't been a new Mac Pro in a long time), and my next primary machine may well not be an Apple product when my current Macbook Pro ages out. But I don't really see an argument that draws a line between that fact and a future perception issue for Apple - and that seems to be accepted as gospel whenever the topic of Apple comes up in developer circles. Who are these "influencers" whose opinions purportedly closely align with software engineers' and why do consumers care about them?
The university as a “total institution”
With the amount, it might be possible to survive, not to decently live long-term.

Personally, the lowest I was able to achieve in practice was about 650€. Gotchas:

1. It was over 10 years ago

2. I had student discounts on housing, lunches, public transport etc.

I suppose I could still have squeezed that down if I really had to, fortunately I didn't.
Look around your office. Do you see anyone over 40? No?

Yes. A couple people on my team now, most of management (including our immediate supervisor, who just recently moved up from being a normal team member), whoever's in the cubes I saw those black "40" balloons on, the people who first built some of the corporate systems (well, the ones who haven't retired yet), etc.

Tech is a growing field. How big was it in 1995, compared to today? That's a decent approximation of what ratio of over 40 / under 40 you'd expect, assuming career changes aren't common enough to mess up the numbers too badly.
Memory is an expendable resource and on average, we tend to spend it on three to four most urgent things in a day, but that doesn’t mean little things aren’t important.
Apple has a large enough hardware footprint.

They now need to compete on AI. I imagine a lot of their resources are being put in the catch-up-to-Google bucket.

There have been a lot of blog posts saying Apple doesn't know who their customers are. But their products are already accepted by everyone (every group). Their customers are everyone.
More like Jeff Bezos maybe realized a newspaper is only effective as a propaganda tool if people don't regularly ridicule what you publish.
Dont think there is any doubt Russian (and Chinese) hackers completely own most US infrastructure. Only need visit a few Russian hacking forums to see that. It "was easy" because the NSA put so much effort into making systems insecure. (Have the US government replaced those Juniper routers yet?)

The only "doubt" is whether or not they are working for their state or just condoned by their state.

Plus a big chunk of playing to public opinion because it's heresy to imply let alone state as fact that Russian or Chinese offensive comp sci is better than US defensive comp sci. Even though, in your hearts, you all know it to be true.
Until recently, a Hackintosh was a time-consuming way of producing a somewhat worse Mac. As Apple is starting to drive us away, I bet the phenomenon will grow, and then Apple's interest in squishing it will too. And the fact is, Apple could shut this phenomenon down in a matter of hours if they wanted to.

This level of risk is fun but not for the faint of heart.