skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying customers aren't a trend, but only allowing customers to pay on a monthly subscription for service model does seem like one to me. And I agree it may often be a rational decision for the service provider, but I think it's not as often a rational choice for the customer.

Price isn't my main requirement, I'm perfectly willing to invest some cash in a better tool when it exists. I do have some ideological and practical leanings towards open source, but I'm also pragmatic about it and willing to purchase commercial software that provides enough value.

My concern here is about my ongoing right and ability to continue using a tool. Beyond any price I might pay to license it, I am also going to invest time and effort incorporating it into my development process, and would incur significant switching costs to undo, replace, and repeat that when a service provider goes out of business, pivots to a new product, removes features I depend on, raises prices to a point I can't afford, etc...

Open source avoids some of those concerns, and provides me with another option if the others happen; So does a commercial product that I operate myself; But with a hosted service any one of those things can become a "my way or the highway" decision that is forced on me, often with little warning or planning.

"GitHub offered an easy-to-use alternative with a nice UI. That's why teams paid for GitHub....The "notable benefit from being a service" that made GitHub a compelling purchase (i.e. backups, stability, availability etc.) is the same core benefit that any SAAS product offers."

It's an interesting take on our different perspectives that those weren't the things I had in mind at all when I brought up GitHub. I agree those were the draws that got users initially, but as you mention, they have been devalued by technical improvements in their competitors and infrastructure in general. I see GitHub's value now in their huge base of users and "social" features, and the network effects that creates. You can't easily replicate that in a free alternative, even if you were to perfectly clone (or even improve) GitHub's features.
Given that I was able to consistently see this issue when I was using Sublime Text 3, I'll see if I can come up with something more concrete to show/report this issue, over some weekend.
> failed Utopiasm

How can it be failed when it's never been implemented?
The day Apple makes a power cord that doesn't have a cable sheath with the consistency and durability of silly putty is the day I will recognize them as back on track.

That's a really strange thing, because it's such a well-understood problem and the solution is known. I don't know why Apple makes such lousy power cables, even if they messed up a decade ago, you'd think they'd have fixed it by now.
That's a separate issue than keeping people alive. But yes, I agree that torture is a bad thing.

But I also have a healthy skepticism for potentially self-serving claims made by people facing criminal charges.
Pretty sure the Pro stands for Profitable, Problematic or Prohibiting; could be all three
I am using VS code from quite a while and enjoying it a lot. feels much faster than Atom.

I am wondering what Servo will bring to table. Will it bring close to native performance to browser and whether electron will ever migrate to Servo.
What other data do we discard? Who gets to decide which data to discard? There is no point in doing data analysis if you then discard uncomfortable data anyways.
Majority of those who have been chosen to the study seem to be unemployed or at least not fully employed. Currently many here in Finland seem to consider that working even some odd hours is not beneficial because it would cut down their benefits. With basic income, one gets that benefit + it encourages people to find even temp jobs because it means more money which hopefully will cut down long term unemployment.
I'm quite excited about this, as a concept a decentralised twitter meets diaspora is something that I'd love to see popularised.
I feel like it's less about coming up with good ideas/questions and more about having the "idealized user." A user with extremely good taste that can guide development. And put that user in charge of everything.
Actually, churning out better horses is what Apple does best. We are at a point where every other company has figured out how to make a good/great horse, and hence the Apple advantage is diminished.
Sure, but I didn't find your email id in your profile.
It seems like an obvious result of the law of supply & demand that immigration will drive the price of labor down for jobs which those immigrants do: more (un-unionized) labor = lower wages.
> If you check the specs for the Node, you'll see that Macs are listed as unsupported. Does this mean OSX-only or BootCamp as well? Who knows?

BootCamp is fine. Watch this review by Linus for more details: https://youtu.be/JirCwapScUs?t=5m54s
These days all apple will give you is a thinner horse with less features.
Notice that the author doesn't say "do what your users tell you to do", but "find out what they need and what they experience as problematic".

Any user research will involve interacting with users, but it's not to gather their opinions, which is almost always irrelevant, but to document their behavior, needs and drives.

Users will offer solutions, because that comes naturally, but these need to be turned back into problems before being used. For example,

User: "I want a big button in the middle of the screen that says 'print' and then prints my stuff immediately!"

Researcher:"So you print a lot during your day?"

User: "Yeah, and each time I have to go down a long list of menus, and then I have to reselect the printer each time."

Apple has apparently been able to get by with user studies done on a target group of one (Jobs). However, he's not there any more, and the more time that passes, the more it seems that they haven't been able to fill his shoes.
Steve was a notoriously hard person to work with. Realistically, anyone who Steve was likely to name as his successor would be a follower, someone who went along with whatever Steve said and told him what he wanted to hear. What Apple needed was another person like Steve, but unfortunately, by letting Steve select that person, they ended up with someone completely unlike Steve.
It is unlikely, although possible, that this quote is correctly attributed.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/
Okay I'll pretend to give a benefit of the doubt here.. what's the possible upside or positives for doing this? I'm having a very hard time conceiving of them.
I said this when the first article was posted here, and I'll say it again:

This is journalistic ethics in action.

Greenwald spoke, you spoke, and The WaPo listened. They've done exactly what they should do in this situation, and a certain contingent will find fault regardless.
The new MacBooks outsold all their competitors, so I glean that they still know how to compete:

https://intelligence.slice.com/apples-macbook-pro-launch/
Thanks for this summation of small town living. I find it pretty inspiring actually.

One question, do you honestly ever feel like you're "missing out" or feel a sense of isolation by being so far away from a denser place? While I think cities are over-rated, I do feel that there is a variety to my immediate environment that I'd be missing if I moved to a small town and had a family. I strongly suspect this could be a false perception though.
What does this have to do with the topic at hand other than a common sequence of five letters?
My solution was to get one for work and another for home, and the only time I ever wrapped up the cable is when I am traveling.
Selling loose cigarettes provides convenience for folks who smoke rarely and don't want to carry a full pack. So does making tacos, cleaning houses, etc. We all become richer because we have more tacos, cleaner houses, etc. Wealth is goods and services.

You seem to disagree with me about shared obligations; you think that some folks deserve to be able to live off the productive output of others and provide nothing in return. I think all people should contribute to society as best they are able - "from each according to his abilities" was an important part of Marxism.

That's fine - just recognize that "I don't want people to work" is a very different claim from "there already aren't enough jobs to go around".
You started talking about hardware, but somehow switched to OSes. PC hardware is not tied to Windows and MacOS.
MCQs on Data Communication Services Part-1 – InfoTechSite
Everyday should be a downvote dang day

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

He's using multiple accounts to downvote threads he doesn't like, then detaching them.
The text developed from approximately six lectures' worth of the MMath-level 24-lecture Part III Introduction to Category Theory at Cambridge, I believe. (Source: I took that course last year, and was part of a small reading group studying Leinster's Basic Category Theory at that time. We found that book really, really helpful.)
Upside (for Republicans): the ethics office no longer investigates Republicans.
Apple is the world's most profitable business - twice the profits of #2 (JP Morgan Chase) and almost a 4x magnitude over Google.(1)

I agree with the author's final assessment - "meets expectations with some areas that need improvement" - and I think this is the key.

They are stoking the fire, keeping it burning, but clearly their focus seems to be diminished on their core business.

And even companies of this scale need hyper focus to drive what seem like small but obvious improvements, usually executives are faced with two choices:

(a) Focus on today's business and unlock maximum value in your product line / distribution.

(b) Innovate to turn a corner and plan for tomorrow.

I am surprised at how few people attribute the current challenges at Apple to what I suspect is an internal focus on planning for tomorrow.

How much more profitable is the iPhone going to get? The smartphone market is approaching saturation (2)

So what does the leadership do?

Are laptops, imacs, and apple pro's the future?

No, they barely represent 9% of Apples sales and have been FLAT for years (3)

What about Apple TV & Apple Watch (the "other" category) - those have already grown to 6% of sales - and moving in the right direction.

But is that it?

My suspicion is that Apple / Tim Cook knows something BIG that we don't that they are going to get PERFECT while they still have the cash fire hose of the iPhone to drive the engine.

(1) http://fortune.com/2016/06/08/fortune-500-most-profitable-co...

(2) https://www.cnet.com/news/smartphone-markets-glory-days-are-...

(3) http://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/26/q1-2016-results/
Really? I have a lot of hay, and it grows in my field for free. Horse manure goes well on my roses. I don't have petrol. I really did want a faster horse.
> I reject the idea that working any deadend awful job just to get by is somehow virtuous.

It is, because being alive is somehow virtuous.
Followed by the cost of the government paying for their children (who will be citizens), because they certainly won't be able to afford to take care of several children on those low wage jobs. School, and welfare programs will add up, even if the parents themselves don't get much. The average cost per student in public school is $10,615 per year alone With Utah being on the low end with $6,000 per year.
This is correct: "ring" is a concept that will be taught to all maths undergraduates by the end of the second year at latest.
If you think MBPs have problems, it's nothing compared to the issues I've had with Surface. Microsoft really needs to execute much better in addition to creating innovative experiences, firmware and driver meltdowns aren't fun.

Heck, Apple has become the "conservative" choice for a computer that is boring but will work with fewer problems. How we got here I have no idea.
A land value tax is a tax on the unimproved value of the land itself. If you improve it (build a house for example) you've created value, and that isn't included. The value added by the landowner is a small portion of the amount of rent you pay in San Francisco.
I think this is a fair article and it echoes a lot of my sentiments. Something is going wrong over at Apple. No, they're not going to go out of business soon, but I think the sheer volume of criticism they've been receiving (not just from users, but also from noted Apple advocates) is troubling, and they need to do something about it.

My standout is the battery case they released a few years ago. The design of that case is just unspeakably hideous. They need somebody with a Jobsian level of ruthlessness, attention to detail and unified vision to steer the ship back in the right direction. Another example here would be the fact (mentioned in this article) that they effectively copied the rest of the market by providing a larger phone. The Apple of old didn't do this. They didn't really follow market trends, they started them. And then to be flummoxed by demand when people responded so positively to smaller phones is baffling to me.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see some C level leadership changes some time this year.
CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things
Combinatorial testing is an important area to apply combinatorial algorithms. [0] is a website to start with Combinatorial Test Case Generation.

[0]http://www.pairwise.org/index.asp
PureScript is open as well.
I'm in the middle of writing https://arbital.com/p/universal_property_outline/ which is precisely an Intro to the Universal Property - comments, feedback and assistance welcome, if you care to help :)
It remains very popular amongst Ruby/Rails users, presumably due to less switching overhead between Ruby and CoffeeScript vs JavaScript.

ES6 has provided a lot of the features that people were hoping for in JS, and CoffeeScript doesn't seem to be worth the effort transpiling from anymore. It used to be the game in town for "better" JS, but TypeScript seems to have taken that position firmly.
Same thinking here! Behind the scenes engineering in Windows in recent years has been impressive. The whole DLL adaption method started sometime when W7 was released is a pretty impressive piece of engineering. Followed by WSL now.

The WSL has potential to become a very useful tool. So much so I'm considering switching from macOS on my next laptop or so. Unfortunately unlike your case, my workflow depends on a lot of networking code. WSL still has many gaps in the socket emulation pieces. It'll likely mature over time, and it's impressive that some people are already able to switch from a Linux VM!
First of all, it looks like it's not a done deal quite yet:

>The full House is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on the rules, which would last for two years, until the next congressional elections.

That said, I'm absolutely baffled about how anyone can support the Republican Party these days. I'm not talking about tax policy or spending or surveillance or any of the big issues -- I disagree with their positions in many cases, but I can understand them.

What I can't understand is the bizarre, nightmarish attacks on what seems to be... well, democracy. Regardless of how you feel about abortion or foreign policy or the social safety net, there's a party that:

* Advocated the invalidation of big chunks of the Voting Rights Act, then passed voter suppression efforts (North Carolina, among several others) so brazenly targeted at minorities that even red-state courts stepped in to stop them.

* Pushed gerrymandering to an almost comical conclusion in states like Wisconsin, where legislators aren't even pretending to have a reason for doing it other than to disenfranchise Democrats. They're adamant enough that it's probably going to end up in the Supreme Court.[0]

* Holds an unannounced vote, with no debate, by secret ballot, on a day federal offices are closed, to gut the congressional office assigned to hold them accountable for corrupt behavior. If you didn't read the linked story, the move basically puts the House Ethics Committee in charge of the investigations, which means Congress is voting to put itself in charge of monitoring the ethics of... Congress.

Republicans are whining about how the current system can be abusive, so their answer is to give a House committee more power over the process? The same House that spent years investigating Hillary Clinton over anything they could think of, insisting it had nothing to do with her running for president? The same House that then dropped all the investigations immediately after the election? More importantly than that, the same House that has had more than a dozen[1] members convicted of federal crimes since 2000?

This whole thing is already waaay into "inappropriate rant" territory, but I'm so, so saddened by these developments. This isn't a question of political opinions coming into conflict, like with health care or climate policy or banking regulation. This is breaking the system.

0 - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/wisconsin-redistricting...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_polit...
I think you're being willfully ignorant.

The point is that every lunch is non-free to some people, even if it is free to others.

You might thing it trite or a truism, but very many people forget that the billions/trillions for UBI is going to be very expensive for a lot of people.
This is nauseating, and the fact that it was done with a secret ballot [1] is indication that those behind it are entirely aware of its repulsiveness.

[1]: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-republicans-gut-...
the brand new Macbook Pro has last-generation Intel CPUs. I remember when Jobs announced one of the first Intel Macbook Pros with chips that no other manufacturer had even been given the chance to ship yet.
> We have a 1–2 year average retention span of developers in companies. This is not sustainable.

This, and the twisted incentives around targeting advertisements, seem to be at the heart of the problem. I think we need an industry of people with more 10-year problems, so one-month solutions aren't given so much weight.
This book also has the [backing of Peter Smith][1], who is basically the king of logic-related reading materials (logicmatters.net). I was part of a student reading group studying BCT last year with him, and I found it extremely helpful in the context of people studying for the MMath. One of the most important parts of basic category theory is seeing how adjunctions, limits and universal properties play with each other; this book is about exactly that, and goes into it in a depth I haven't seen very well elsewhere.

[1]: http://www.logicmatters.net/2017/01/02/tom-leinsters-basic-c...
Thinkpad X1 Yoga 2017 with Optional Iris Plus Graphics and OLED
This is generally good advice for all maths study, of course: "mathematics is not a spectator sport".
Yes and I don't disbelieve you either, I'm just wondering if it's perhaps something like interaction with a specific file system or disk scheduler that might be causing a block level locking issue, it's a bit of a stab in the dark without knowing anything about your setup but I build quite a few storage systems and have experienced some fun interactions with IO blocking.
There is a huge difference between "evidence shows that there is no link" and "we were mistaken, there actually was never any evidence of a link"
Thanks bep. I'm really looking forward to that. With a plugin system the Hugo community will also grow IMHO. Looking forward to it. I agree that CMS like editing should not necessarily be inside of Hugo.
You may be right. I don't see those guys ten years downstream with hundreds of RetroDrive installation shops and a factory turning out many models of steering box adapters. On the other hand, they're not MobilEye, which has innovative vision processing technology. They're just a camera sales operation.
Yep. I imagine this is (at least in part) why Blackberry and Palm didn't invent the iPhone. Prior to Apple's entry, how many people were saying what they wanted in a smartphone was to remove all those buttons?
That's not what "disruption" is. That's just competition.
Well, scriptcs sounds somewhat analogous. Similar REPL for C#, allows for packaged scripts, plays nicer with the filesystem than an IDE (which you'd expect for command-line apps). http://scriptcs.net/

Note: I've tried to use scriptcs, but the extent of my C# knowledge consists of pretending it's Java. But people do seem to compare it to LINQPad, so maybe it fits.
The only solution is to not use external builders then. But given this is a "community" project, I doubt they can currently bear the cost for fully internal build hosts.
It's not a rumour -- Apple has dissolved their internal router/networking group.
In the U.S., the top 0.001% already have UBI by virtue of the corrupting taint of lobbyists / super PACs influence greatly expanded corporate (capitalist) welfare using legitimized legal trickery (ie tax code, commercial&civil law), while the rest of the people subsidize trickle-down deception, massive tax-breaks, offshoring and so on (likely because they lack the political connections and grassroots organization+leadership to mount an effective opposition). The American Dream has withered for many whom feel diffusely angry for sliding into desperate, meaningless, retail, part-time jobs or idleness... drugs, alcohol, crime and Trumpistan are just the unfortunate symptoms of oversupply of labor and the need for many more businesses to find sustainable, good-paying jobs that add value so people can choose to have some purpose and self-confidence.

What has worked:

- Stronger (ie sans "right-to-work")/more-effective/less-corrupt unions

- Much higher, graduated corporate tax rates

- Simplified, progressive personal & corporate income taxes (ie Norway's personal tax system by SMS is often quite user-friendly)

See also:

- Robert Reich's "Inequality for All"

- Michael Moore's "Where to Invade Next?"

- Basically every day on Thom Hartmann
I would love to read a concrete example about these two:

> Think like a tree: ignore the book-keeping details and find the cleanest representation.

> Think like a stack: zoom in to the book-keeping details and ignore the structure.
duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306964
I've destroyed the adapter by carrying it twice a day in my backpack. Who could have guessed Macbook Pro users are on the go. It's not a door, it's not jamming it between tables, but it's an inevitable place where it ends up being.
According to Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, this will "better safeguard the exercise of due process rights of both subject and witness". Have not seen this explained.
"Sure there is. Domestic labor (maid, cook, driver, servant) for more productive people. Mechanical turk. Selling loose cigarettes. Making tacos for people and selling them by the side of the road."

buddy, all these things are heavily licensed and regulated. selling loose cigarettes or tacos on a side of the road... that is jail time you are talking about. it is a lot safer to sit at home and collect government checks than to sell tacos without FDA approval. /sarc
I have no problems with that guy. I have problems with all those guys who signed the key.

And, again, as you mentioned, those were security experts.

You think that your neighbor won't fall for that?
Somehow despite leading the charge Apple has missed the boat on voice.
What do online learning platforms actually provide? A simple analogy
This is an opportunity for a cloud provider to just donate the lineage team with the needed hardware, which isn't much.

Even assuming 100 supported devices, with 24 builds/day, and a 4x buffer, the project only need ~16 reserved build machines.