skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of invoking the genetic fallacy, beware of far-left and far-right sources of information: http://www.allsides.com/news-source/intercept
I'd just like to point out the requirement for a family sponsor visa is 5x the poverty rate. At a minimum you currently need to make $100k annual salary.

I've never heard about this. Where did you get it from?
Rappers? Seriously though, nowhere does it say which Mac. For all we know it might not be laptops at all, it could be an iMac, a Pro, Macbook, cheapest Pro... who knows. It comes about $1350 per sale.
There's no great profit in their services division, compared to their historically incredible margins and sales scale in hardware. Which is why their net income is contracting. You could double their services sales and it'll only just move the needle on that $17.x billion in net income.

Apple is also going to need very substantial device sales growth to keep moving services growth over time at that pace (a given user is only going to consume so much, you need a lot more of them) - I don't see where the device growth is going to come from (China's boom days are long over in that regard; India could maybe pick up some of that slack).

If you're melting off 3 million iPad units year over year, at an asp of $400 to $450, that becomes a large hole for services growth to fill. Worse yet, it's very likely China is going to become more hostile as a market for the iPhone / Apple in the next few years (both politically and in terms of the domestic competition that is shrinking the iPhone's position there). Total device contraction, which is pretty likely over the next few years, will put pressure on services growth.

Cook is doing a great job at managing the spigots of sales and profit that Jobs left for him to operate. The sooner Apple can move to its post Ballmer era and stop being a sales collections company (surfing the past until the wave's energy dissipates), the better.
I grew up in the Midwest and still visit sometimes. Many people I know think Democrats have lost their minds with this issue (and the bathroom debate).
It appears to be the Ghostery extension in my Chrome blocking requests to Google Analytics.

(If I disable it, it works fine).
Trump just killed an American kid this past Sunday: http://www.businessinsider.com/awlaki-killed-seal-team-6-rai... and a member of Seal Team 6, and many additional non-combatants while attempting to capture al Qaeda computers.
Carter was able to shrink the intelligence budget because the 1975-1976 Church Committee hearings publicized bad practices by US intelligence agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
>To connect all this together, our proxy hosts periodically query CertService for a list of recently modified custom domains. Each host then 1) fetches the new certificates from CertService, 2) writes them to disk, 3) regenerates a config like the one above, and 4) does a graceful restart of Apache. These restarts are staggered across our proxy pool so all but one of the hosts is available and receiving requests from the load balancer at any give time (fingers crossed).

How many pools are there? If you're having to restart apache every time you renew a cert, are they renewing certs in the background and then only restart apache when they have around a thousand renewed? If so, wouldn't the current running certs be revoked in that time? It seems like on-the-fly cert usage is something that could be made, if not already.
Well, as a terrorist, wasn't that his goal?
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Are you really surprised that HN and Reddit don't represent the majority? In my experience, most people don't pay a lot of attention to what's inside their laptop and wouldn't mourn the loss of function keys. Brand loyalty, whether it works, is aesthetically pleasing and the learning curve of alternative options are probably more important factors.
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They were most certainly tossed off their butts in the antebellum US at least: "Drink was everywhere in early America. “Liquor at that time,” recalled the Massachusetts carpenter Elbridge Boyden, “was used as commonly as the food we ate.” Americans drank in enormous quantities. Their yearly consumption at the time of the Revolution has been estimated at the equivalent of three-and-a-half gallons of pure, two-hundred proof alcohol for each person. After 1790 American men began to drink even more. By the late 1820s imbibing had risen to an all-time high of almost four gallons per capita."[0]

That 1820s number, if you do the math, was ~1.4 shots of Everclear or 3.5 shots of modern 80 proof whiskey per day for the average citizen. Wikipedia [1] has some more info on the boozing of people in those antebellum days. Suffice to say, it was a lot of booze. You can debate the strengths of these particular spirits and beers and people's drinking habits, but form what written evidence we have, the US was a nation populated by either a lot of very tipsy people, or a lot of sober people and some very drunk people.

[0] http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-ref...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Antebellum_America#...
Who the hell is "Bob Barr"? Was he married to Roseanne?
> I just want to keep sustaining it till I die.

Do you? Will you?
As far as truth is concerned, there can be no algorithm that can take care of that for a very simple reason. Media has an inherent bias all the time, be it geographical, cultural, political, etc.

Read an article in the BBC about the Russian Federation or China, and it will always have some sort of, oh but check this bad thing these guys are doing, or they are weird in some way.

Do the same with Fox News and you will come out with a view that Democrats are ruining the country.

I could go on and on, but the most effective way to get your daily fix is, read both sides of an issue by their promoters. Read what the bigot and the gay guy are saying. What the jew and the muslim are saying. What the Chinese and Japanese are saying.

Make up your mind, choose sides, but at least you will have tiny pieces of info that were conveniently left out by the other side.
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As one of the people who penned an article slamming Apple, I also wouldn't trade my 2016 Fn-key MBP for anything. But what concerns me more is where this Mac ship is headed, and if the Touch Bar is any indication, I hope Apple course-corrects soon.

The non-Touch Bar laptop with four TB3 ports and Touch ID would've been the _absolute_ best Mac for pretty much everyone who was waiting for a new one (battery life sacrifices for weight/size savings aside).

That 15" users _have_ to get a Touch Bar is a slap in the face to those users, imo.
"President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world,"

We are a nation of immigrants. Trump didn't institute a Muslim ban. He instituted a temporary ban from 7 specific countries for 90 days. This is only until we have a better vetting system.

Obama did something similar in 2009 when he temporarily banned Iraqi citizens for 6 months. I didn't hear a peep out of anyone. Why?

The only flaw I see in his executive order is the fact that he didn't give anyone enough time to implement it and it caused compete chaos. There also should have been some exemptions for travelers or green card holders.

I have many friends that are legal, US citizens and came to the US through legitimate means. Glorifying illegal immigration is a slap in the face to all the people that went through all of the proper channels to get citizenship.

"Right now, Lady Liberty’s lamp is dimming"

It's not. It's getting brighter. We finally have a president that cares about the citizens of this country. I feel like many immigrants that do come here don't really love the country that they are calling their new home.

If I wore a "Make America Great Again" hat in public, I would risk getting spit on and beat up. The real brown-shirt fascists are the anti-trump fanatics that won't actually have a civil debate and use violence towards people they don't like.

When there is a seemingly civil debate, fascists on social media will attempt to destroy the person's personal life and get them fired from their job or boycott their company and put them out of business.
What, exactly, is the problem with that? Everyone should have the right to refuse service to whomever they please. Should I be forced to cater to a nazi wedding? I think I should be allowed to deny service to whomever I please. And if people don't like it (as in the case of denying service to certain races) then they should stop going to that business.
In my case I started developing websites for friends, who brought their friends and so on, so now I can decide when to work and when to take some time off.

The challengue is to realise that is ok to get less money in exchange of having the freedom to work whenever you want.
It's actually the other way around. ACLU didn't change their positions in any significant way in several decades now. But the parties and their platforms have changed such that the set of rights and liberties that ACLU promotes now has a "liberal bias", in a sense that it coincides more with the Democratic party platform than it does with the Republican party platform.

But what this tells you is that GOP platform is hostile to civil rights, not that ACLU became partisan.
I've always had an internal issue here.

On one hand, I believe heavily in free speech to the point where as a principle (but not a constitutional thing) I find a lot of twitter and facebook's recent behavior awful.

On a personal level, I think religion is stupid and people who refuse to give service to anyone over it equally stupid(especially since if they were actually following Jesus's word they wouldn't be doing it. There's a lot about not judging and jesus hanging out with sinners in the new testament). I try not to let this affect my policy opinions since I try to be logical not emotional about them but I'm not sure how well I succeed. Religious beliefs do seem to be about the only reason people are trying to push for these sorts of things too.

Another point on a personal level is I would not want to work with someone on something like my wedding with someone who secretly hated who I am. Especially if they were being coerced by the government to do it.

So overall I'm altogether confused about the whole issue.

One thing I am sure of is that I am absolutely against any kind of religious exemption to any law whatsoever. Make the law one way or another.
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Lighter, tighter, better screen, fantastic keyboard, better speakers --- and is this really the MBP without a "real" touchpad? Like, this is simulated clicking?
> For development, sure

As a developer, I say give me more cores and more ram! Faster build and test times means more development time.
To be fair to me, I wasn't trying to lie or mislead about the thoroughness of my experience ... I suppose I was talking into a void but I at least was conveying the truth of my experience.

My use at the apple store was enough to know I didn't want one -- which made me glad because I sort of need a new macbook and was worried I'd buy one on impulse.

I immediately did not like the keyboard (never happened on an apple laptop for me before the one port Macbook which I bought for my girlfriend right when it was announced sight unseen -- when using it I tried my best not to voice my (immediate) criticism of the keyboard hoping that she would like my present ... She came from an old dell so anything was better than that monstrosity. But at some point after having the macbook one for awhile she used my macbook pro and commented how much easier the keyboard on my machine was to type on ...). I found myself unconsciously touching the display while playing around with touchbar. Attempting to use the display as a touchscreen is something I've never done before - even when playing with a microsoft laptop that had a touchscreen on it.

Touching the little bar just 'felt wrong' to me ... This is certainly an unfair assessment -- but I'm not used to that feeling with apple products - the experience just legitimately felt bad to me.

I'm open to having changing my mind in the future or having it changed -- I'm not really a cargo cult'er.
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I like the idea of someone looking at my Twitter feed lately and coming to the conclusion that I'm a Trump supporter.
Except that it's yet another loophole that will be abused to continue business as usual.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530318
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As with the bookstore employees, there won't be a thorough investigation and the "truth" will always be in doubt because that is how China likes it. Instead, we have to rely on rumors and such, again, because China.

It is pretty obvious what happened, and again, HK has been going in this direction now for a couple of years.
Also having to have a phone number thing to set up an account sucks (same with Signal, WhatsApp etc.).
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* But even if they couldn't hit the high ABV numbers, they were still drinking at least 3% beer pretty much all day long.

From what I've read, this behavior pretty much continued straight through until prohibition in the States. Usually a cider before about lunch, then beer and spirits.
"desi consulting shops" might even run fake payrolls to bypass(break) the laws. As someone who has seen them closely, it is common practice for them to pay an employee $110K on paper but $60K in real.
Complex bureaucracies allow people to avoid personal responsibility for the outcome - the smaller your percentage contribution to the final decision the easier it is to disown the result emotionally (look at general elections to see this effect in action).

The other major factor is that many small steps are required to turn average people into killers. The military know this hence all the training to get soldiers to kill - it doesn’t take many months to train someone to pull a trigger, but it does take many months to get them to point a gun a person and pull the trigger. There is a fantastic book on this topic On Killing [1].

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90F8W2/
> My impression is that Apple is overall committed to pushing the envelope and adding compelling features.

Have you used WebKit? I'm running into issues with bugs that were reported 2+ years ago.
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That's consistent with the parent comment. They're working on WebRTC.[1] Possibly they're making it power efficient first and then shipping, as opposed to shipping and then making it efficient.

[1] https://webkit.org/status/#specification-webrtc
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XSL was not envisioned as a middle layer between HTML and CSS. Plus, it was a quintessential design by committee, trying to cater to a bunch of conflicting use cases with no overall vision or conceptual elegance.
Sounds like the end of online poker is very near. This version required a supercomputer and took a long time to decide its actions but those type of things tend to be quickly improved given enough motivation.

Even if poker sites could somehow perfectly detect automated players(which they can't of course), highly skilled poker is profitable enough that some people would be willing to manually execute the actions themselves as directed by the AI.
The meltdown is about the HN audience in particular. From my perspective, the new MBP is not very compelling from a hardware perspective. It's high price is not reflective of the computing power (in my mind). The lack of physical buttons (15" is my preferred size) is annoying to scary considering how many shortcuts I rely on use fn keys or esc (Emacs man myself).
I think it's more of a case of politics affecting the industry significantly.

You can't really fully isolate business from politics, because politics, by definition, affects business. Businesses can tolerate that to some degree, but when the disruption becomes too severe, straightforward pragmatic business decisions start being inherently political.
> The fact that you haven't seen this information or reaction before says more about you than the facts of the case.

And there we have it.
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I also find this strange. My switch (Ethernet) is 10 years old. My DAC (SPDIF) is 7 years old. My monitor (DisplayPort) is 5 years old. My hard drives (USB Type-A) are 3-5 years old. My thumb drives (USB Type-A) are 2-3 years old. My phone (USB Type-A) is 2 years old.

None of them are USB-C and I don't plan on replacing any of them soon.

With the possible exception of external hard drives, USB-C doesn't offer any benefits over my existing interfaces.
Would love to know how! Our company just move one of our department to Pune because it was hard to get H1Bs. With that I think at least 4 Americans lost their jobs.
It wasn't cutting edge at the time. I started doing pro VFX about that time. What was revolutionary with their VFX though was that they were using Lightwave (and Amigas, presumably PCs later too) which cheapened their VFX workflow by a significant margin. Workstations and software at the time were a significant cost. Like, REAL SIGNIFICANT.
> Personally, I greatly respect her differentiation between "constitutional" and "right".

Very good point. I hate that it can be taken as taking a political stand whereas it appears to be more of a humanitarian one.
Agree 100%!
I've been thinking about this for a few years. It's one reason that I don't care for online gaming; it's always in the back of my mind that the thing will disappear someday. That's one thing that draws me into retro games; they tend not to have external requirements like internet services, update patches, and so on.
> Dowries will also likely go down

I can't help wondering, how does being in IT and travelling to USA affect female Indians' marriage prospects? There's definitely quite a few Indian women in american IT, expecially project management.

I more or less understand how for a male this is very desirable, can you fill me in what's in it for females?
Currently paying someone to do the work and waiting and building a bit of evidence that it can now be successful without me before testing a sale.
I think my ears must be a weird shape - it takes me ages to find ones that will be comfortable and stay in place and none of the Apple ones I've tried seem to work.
>When I can't even see where in the spectrum the software lies, but I'm going to have to spend at least 30 minutes on the phone with some sales person to figure that out (plus probably deal with them periodically harassing me for the next year), the whole thing is that much less appealing.

Just went through this exact process with Bomgar. Our company was debating between TeamViewer and Bomgar. TV = All pricing on page. BG = Can't see anything, must call in and 'speak to salesman'.

The sales process with BG was so long and drawn out - multiple emails to setup calls, wouldn't provide basic info in writing, etc. In the end we just went with TeamViewer highest end edition.

Came to find out about a month later that Bomgar pricing may've been the cheaper option for our use case. Oh well...
Is your LG monitor the new 5K display? If so, you'll probably want to read about the shielding problems[0]

[0]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/apple-lg-5k-display-...
Kind of. All our cultured yeasts were once wild. Brewers cultivate their own yeast or use others. The most common way is to keep some after an especially good batch, and use it until it 'ages' and enough generations of yeast have passed to change the flavor. I actually brewed my second beer this way, saving the yeast from a bottle fermented chimay.
Wow. I thought it was a joke but reading the docs and even your workarounds for keyboard layout issues for Mac/Linux/Windows does make it seem real, or else why put in so much effort.

The website girls are hilarious in a ridiculous kind of way.

Very original project :)

How can you even afford manufacturing? I'm guessing the market for these little utility-keyboards aren't really big. And most factories require a certain minimum order quantity.

This'll be a fun gift for our network engineer next christmas :)
And USB? You don't use normal USB ports? Yubikey nano?
That's sickening and truly worthy of protests.

Edit: This story was [flagged] in 10 minutes after I submitted it. Fake news? Explanations of flagging would be nice.
I'm not sure which would be the lesser evil - permitted self-segregation or forced interaction. I also don't see why separation and segregation would cause hate - usually it's groups that are in conflict living in close proximity that causes real problems. See: Apartheid, pre-civil-war America, Israel and Muslims in the Middle East, and so on.

Association certainly breeds empathy, but what if that association is forced by a third party? If I didn't want to interact with a member of group X, and the government decided I had to interact with them or face some arbitrary punishment, initial interactions would be stained by that use of implied force. When you add religion into the mix, tensions are even worse because you might find yourself stuck between blasphemy and judicial punishment.
Yet almost all apps that I use are open source. OsmAnd, Firefox, Telegram, RedditIsFun, Linux Deploy, AFWall+, AdAway, Barcode Scanner, ConnectBot, Quasseldroid, some games like Lichess and Anuto TD, and a bunch of other tools that I use less frequently. Closed source is what I paid for, so fairly trustworthy as well (Spotify; Es File Explorer and Smart Audiobook Player). There are of course a few remaining ones like Google Play Store (I have F-Droid next to it) and Google Maps for traffic (use it 2-3x a month maybe).

Why don't more people use open source apps? I don't know, it's kind of weird since Android is a much bigger audience than, say, a Linux desktop. (On my laptop I don't think I use a single closed source thing anymore, at least not regularly.) I guess Android has a similar market environment as Windows instead of the open source ecosystem that surrounds Linux desktops.

I suppose it's like asking why websites are almost never open source. Why indeed?
I honestly wasn't too concerned with the touchpad issue as others. But I recently got a chance to play with one and man did I hate that keyboard.

It feels cheap and wasn't as productive on it. I played with it for 5 minutes so take this with a grain of salt
This sounds like a particularly bad implementation. Not much you can do there.
Curious, was the marriage specifically for the purpose of getting out of that rat race?
> What if the conservative hasn't been born yet?

What if they haven't been conceived yet?

> See, you're ignoring a person's rights. There is more than one person involved

That's only true if you believe that a fetus is a person. That's the actual point of contention here: it's not when life begins, it's when personhood begins. Most people who are pro-choice don't believe that a fertilized egg is a person (if only because it is not, and cannot be, self-aware), and thus it cannot have any natural rights of a person. Most people who are pro-life believe that a fertilized egg is a person, and thus all natural rights apply, including the right to life.
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