skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last night, my Uber driver told me the reason he does it is that it's safe - way safer than taxi driving. He says there is no cash, the users are all tracked, and they already have their trip sorted.

He was never a taxi driver - he's a retired teacher.
http://imgur.com/a/mO8KQ

The paid "pro" plan has no 2FA. "standard" does, but is a few extra dollars a month.

Beside the poorly named accounts, the idea of paying for security is a good one, but not when it affects the customer experience of securing their own passwords. Security in the infrastructure is an option. Optionally securing my account using 2FA is not.

Dropbox, you are being dorks.
I have always noticed contradictions within the history of booze. I can't understand how anyone who has ever tried well-water can believe that misconception about choosing beer over water. Also, an old U.S. History textbook in high school suggesting to us that the Temperance Movement was a reaction to people suddenly discovering strong alcohol. This article confirmed my suspicions on both of those events.
> By all accounts Apple is just getting started with services ... so we can expect this to grow even more.

That's a very ... charitable way to put it. Another take would be that Apple, whose former CEO, over a decade ago, simultaneously oversaw Pixar and sat on the board of Disney, complete and totally missed the boat on streaming, original content, and cloud services. Think back to 2006: Netflix was a service that mailed DVDs, Amazon Prime was a year old, Dropbox was not around, Spotify was not around, Google was still focused on core services like maps and mail. Considering who their CEO was at the time, his connections, and their first mover advantage on digital entertainment and cloud, it absolutely amazes me that every single one of these companies was allowed to come in and eat Apple's lunch in some form or another.
It's also a 92% increase in price for Business plans, for a decrease in storage. Ridiculous.
They upgraded "Pro" accounts to "Advanced" accounts without cost changes for ~1 year. After that you will have to pay $4.25 more per month for the "Standard" plan in order to keep MFA.

"To give you the most powerful admin control and security features, we’ve upgraded you to Advanced at no extra charge. You’ll keep your original pricing until January 6, 2018. After that, your account will adopt our new storage plans and pricing. If you want to downgrade to Standard, you’ll have until January 6, 2018 to do so."
For some definition of high-skill, anyway.
There are several of those types of comments here where we are discussing Apple's record quarter. You really think people weren't saying Apple is doomed after what HN thought was a weak release of new MacBook Pros?
> The idea of paying for security is a good one

But the Pro account is a paid service, and still does not include 2FA. Which makes absolutely zero sense for users in today's world.
Considering this is the first real upgrade since 2014, I really would have expected Q1 2017 sales to stomp all over Q1 2016. Sales are up but just barely.
With such a small market share, my bet is the publicity from the complaints probably helped gain visibility more than anything. Combine that with users waiting to upgrade for 2-3 years and a price increase, then you will have record sales.
The most economically productive businesses are located in the most expensive areas, because they get the highest ROI from hiring top employees. Skilled workers get paid less in MS because the national economy needs skilled workers less in MS.
> Everyone on the planet … thinks abortion is a bad thing

I think it's a pretty damn good thing when it's needed, so let's cool it with the "everyone on the planet thinks" business.
Thrun's course was offered earlier* and Udacity launched earlier. What's funny?

* edit: I just learned the courses were simultaneous.

Udacity launched June 2011, Coursera April 2012, according to Wikipedia.
I can see why that'd make someone cross, but it seems in line with how localstorage works + how browsers define their "private browsing" features. On Chrome, for example, when in Incognito mode, you can't undo-close-tab a tab after closing it. Effectively, every tab you open in these "private browsing" modes will sooner-or-later "self-destruct", including all its cookies, localstorage, etc. (iOS?) Safari just chooses "sooner" rather than "later."

If your site relies on using localstorage during the lifecycle of an individual page, you can always replace it with an in-memory mock polyfill if you notice it's missing. There's probably an NPM package for that.
Supposedly in the old British Royal Navy, watering down the daily rum ration was a common punishment for minor infractions. The offending sailor still received the same quantity of rum, just with twice as much water added. I can't imagine what the captains thought they were accomplishing.
Oh well, as someone who is currently enrolled into Udacity's Self-driving car and AI nanodegrees, watching ongoing MIT's self-driving course, considering taking GATech's online M.S. degree for ML, I should probably start planning budget for this Stanford offering...
I think this article misses the biggest reason Sales exists as a profession: because customers need help understanding what they're buying!

It costs money to hire Sales people, and if a company were able to sell its products entirely as a self-service option, that would help them improve margins. So people in the Sales profession have to justify their existence every single day - what have you done for me lately etc.

The only way to succeed in the profession is to show results, to help customers understand and extract the value of what they're buying so they can come back to buy more and tell their friends.

You might see Sales people succeed in the short-term by lying or cheating their customers but that doesn't last. Your reputation catches up to you. Depending on the industry, every one knows everyone else, and the only way to truly succeed in the long term is to make sure you create a win-win for both the customer and your employer, every time, on every sale.
A lot of fly in fly out workers too. They make good salaries but have to spend a massive chunk of it "renting" accommodation off their employer.
That's the kicker to me as well. It suggests that Dropbox doesn't appreciate their self-employed customers.

That and showing prices "per month" on the billed annually plan just suggests deceit and greed. All of this confusion for an extra ~$25 per year per user.
صور+بروفايل+للبنات+2017+اجمل+صور+بنات+للبروفايل
It's still showing for me [0]. I just cancelled my account.
[0] http://imgur.com/v150a7w
except there's already a bunch of different usb-c cables looking identical but being incompatible in subtle ways, including official Apple ones?
My account still shows Pro, not Advanced. Also, why didn't I get any emails from DB about this? Maybe they are rolling things out gradually and my account is not affected yet.
I..... don't think that's a fair argument to make though. The leaf can't go anywhere when it's out of battery power AND the battery range is short. The Prius PHEV has a very short electric range so you'll mostly drive it on gas (and as far as I've heard, there are speed limitations on battery power). The i3 goes pretty far on battery power, farther than the leaf on battery, but as well you can add gas to get to the next charger and get back to battery power.

Arguably, I'd say the i3 is closer to the bolt than any other EV.
Talk about setting expectations low so that they can beat the street again.

>Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2017 second quarter:
revenue between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion
For me the screen almost made me impulse buy in-store, it's so much more vivid than my 2015
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It's funny how companies / hiring managers always say they have trouble finding good candidates, and the people looking for jobs always say they are no jobs.

It's probably an axiom of some sort.
They's weird, I just clicked on the link and it was there...
Pro does not only mean "for professionals." In the average person's mind it just means "better." Nobody says "oh I'm using this at home, can't get the pro."
Yes but they've just switched to a universal USB-C charging standard. Jeeze it's like they can't win no matter what they do.
Oh I feel your pain. We renovated our basement and did a polished concrete floor. Brutal dust, it's just everywhere and I've tried to clean so many times but a few days later I look under something and BOOM missed a spot, it got everywhere! Masonary dust is a special kind of horrible.
Before USB Type C there were already at least four very common USB connectors I can think of off the top of my head. "Universal" was never intended to indicate that only one connector exists.
I opened a support ticket to give my opinion, I suggest you all do the same.
That's kinda what uber 'pool' and lyft 'line' are. Continual on/off of passengers, but without set routes - you join people close to the car's current route.

Pre-set routes seem distinctly worse. By definition they don't flex to handle new / temporary traffic patterns. Though they do have a super-huge benefit of not needing an app / real-time requests - in some cases that's a requirement.
No, your compensation won't shoot up. Tech companies will move to cheaper areas like Philippines, Eastern Europe etc. India is already becoming expensive and companies like Infosys have already moved to China:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/infosys-to-ope...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703509104576328... (Infosys China Plans to Triple Staff to 10,000)

It's harder to outsource doctors because of multitude of reasons (Healthcare is country dependent, patients can't be transported, medicines are different in each country)

I am on H1b and I have noticed the body shops too, even worked for one. Bills like this doesn't address the core issue of H1b abuse and only exacerbates the issues.
I think companies will just outsource crud jobs. There's enough talent outside the US. Until now, they were being brought in with H1b. Now they'll just do if from across the world.
Depending on the stakes, of course.
You're conflating a few different plans here -- "Standard" and "Advanced" are for teams only (minimum of 5 people). The only paid plan available for individuals is "Pro", which no longer offers TFA.
One person can pervert the system if the system itself is based on broken consensus. The approach to everything being objective in this reality needs to come to an end now. There is ONE person making this a subjective reality manifest and he's doing so by spreading dissonance within the populations you list here. As long as we keep on keeping on with the current system, we're going to keep getting Trumped.
Actually, Thrun's AI course, Ng's ML course, and Widom's Databases course were announced and ran pretty much simultaneously. They were all successful, but only Thrun decided to split off because of it.
Thrun & Norvig did Intro to AI, Ng did Machine Learning, Koller did PGM (another course related to AI/ML) and Widom did DB/SQL, which is how it all started. Thrun then started Udacity, Ng & Koller started Coursera.
Odd they would do this considering all their competitors offer 2FA for free...
The main difference is that you are always one click away from switching between the "nfs mode" (so to speak) and the fully cached offline mode, which is the default for Dropbox and is unavailable with network filesystems. And I mean switch file-by-file or directory-by-directory.
It was not.
Is there no more free-tier? I thought pricing pages usually included the free tier in it to demonstrate what money buys.
I'm sure Dropbox is going to get a lot of flak for this. 2FA based on the provider that they use may not have been cheap. Authy is $0.09 an auth, if you integrate with Twilio, you get SMS charges that vary on price based on country / provider.

The easiest/cheapest solution is to roll your own TOTP and build an app. This is useful for web, but may be pointless on mobile (if the mobile device is unlocked, then you have access to the TOTP app or SMS).

Business people probably looked at the cost per user and couldn't offer it at a lower rate.
gov't is currently optimized with only two of three core primitives (literacy+numeracy). Gov't like all institutions will be re-developed with the relatively (50years) new primitive, computeracy. Nothing like automation and disagregated decision making exists in the corporate bureaucracy of government today. If you want more outcome, you literally have to hire more ppl. There is no software leverage in government. Changing that changes everything. Our problem is we are alive at a time similar to when literacy became possible for everyone. It's very obvious that institutions not built on literacy would change, but it took nearly 100 years.
Some day we're going to have flying cars. There, now when we actually get flying cars, no one is allowed to talk about it.

You see the point there? Lots of crazy people run for president and say crazy things, that doesn't mean you panic about it right then, because the odds of them getting elected is so slim. And lots of people say crazy things to get elected, then never do those things because those things would be crazy. What we have here is a crazy person who got elected by promising crazy things, and is now following through on those crazy things.

That's why this is novel even though he's been saying these things for over a year.
The $25/user/year increase is if you downgrade to "Standard". To keep the existing features, you need to select the "Advanced" plan, which is a $115/user/year increase!
Nope, just got lucky. :)
If you look at pricing, it's below their Master level so I guess is more undergrad-style.
A computer program that learns how to save fuel
Certainly the latter, getting published in top journals or conferences is several orders of magnitude more difficult.
I've read about situations like this, and it's frustrating to think that something like this can occur.

I think it's reasonable to wonder how often this is actually in issue in practice. I don't have a new MBP (or any peripherals for that matter), so I can't speak to this directly.

Do you have a new MBP or know anyone personally who does? Have you or they had any issues with cable incompatibility?
"wook"? I tried googling for it but all I found was "dirty hippy".
It'd make for a great marijuana startup company though ;)
Who's "that dude on reddit"?
It also seem likely that opening an office outside of the USA may become an interesting alternative. Then your wage and your job may be at risk. If impact to you is how you evaluate things, it would seem like there's room for worries.
No, the actions of players are not independent. For example, if 3 are in the hand and the 1st to act bets the 2nd is less likely to call because of the risk of the 3rd raising. Or was the 2nd only calling instead of raising because they expected the 3rd to raise based on recent aggression?!
It's really rather decent, but I grow to hate the HomeKit protocol more every day (slow, buggy and not something I can mess around with) probably a wise move not going with something apple powered.
A chart’s ability to mislead is off the scale
Hard to say without having taken these classes. GT isn't Stanford but a top 10 MSCS that offers an ML specialization for ~$8k-$10k.

Whether that provides more value or employment opportunity I cannot say, but it is encouraging to see more to universities offering an alternative to traditional degree programs.

I think there's a path for non-MS, non-PhD backgrounds, but probably not now. Outside of the big companies, ML/AI is often a solution without a problem. So until they learn practical application I think supply will outnumber demand and most of the jobs will go to PhD AI/statistics backgrounds.
You wouldn't need to roll your own app. Just use the Microsoft Authenticator app or the Google Authenticator app, they're the same thing and don't require a direct connection to the user account. Lots of articles on the net on how to accomplish this kind of thing for $0 in extra services.
As an employee of an old world charity trying desperately to connect with younger generations, I completely agree with you.

Our organization struggles to unsubscribe people from mailing lists. It's kind of ridiculous.
We kind of already do that with the Civil Rights act of 1964, and it has seemed to work okay.
But it's also distinct from making "features" to control your monopoly.
Yes it's possible, but it's also possible that a terrible chess AI could get lucky and win by the opponent getting a heart attack in the middle of a game.
I've never used it so all I could say you can find in the documentation.
Wow tough call. The certificate would represent a baseline of understanding which can be then further trained, a good publication history in NIPS/ICML Etc. would represent a solid contribution to the field. I would not be surprised if those were, to a first approximation, equivalent.
I totally agree, but from a perspective, that doesn't really sound like a win.
Not always. We charge everyone exactly the same price (no discounting ever for anyone), yet we have to sell through sales staff because most customers don’t know what they want. The sales people have to work out what the customer really wants (very rarely is it what they first say) and then guide them towards the right product.
Well, the quality of the water (as well as provisions) on a ship starts declining drastically once you're at sea for an extended period. I can't imagine any sailor actually wanting to drink the water, except out of pure necessity.
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It's a no-reply email. Here's what the actual email said:

"Thank you for your interest in Company. We have reviewed your resume, experience, and responses to the Code Challenge. At this time, we have decided to move forward with other candidates in the process. We wish you success in your job search."

Sounds to me like they read my resume AFTER I passed the coding challenge. Seems to me like a waste of terrible time if I'm spending my time just to get rejected by my resume.
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The interesting part of all this is $7.2B in revenue on 5.37M Macs giving an ASP of $1347 (compared to $1174 for Q4 and $1269 for Q1 for the two other numbers you mention).

Let's look at the models below that ASP:

- 13" Macbook Air for $999/1199 for 128/256GB

- 12" 256GB Macbook for $1299

- 21.5" iMac for $1099/1299 for 1.6/2.8GHz and 1/2TB HD

- Mac mini for $499/699/999

So, the only current generation Mac on that list is the 12" Macbook and the entry level model barely makes it in. So assuming the ASP here isn't too far from the median it seems to suggest the majority of Mac sales are last generation tech.

Also bear in mind that we don't precisely know what this number includes. Does it include peripherals for Macs? Possibly not. It probably includes AppleCare though you'd think. So the hardware ASP is likely lower.

I honestly don't think these numbers are as good for Apple and a testament to the success of the latest refresh as some would suggest.

Probably by this time next year the Macbook Air will probably be gone. The USB-C landscape will be better no doubt. I really wonder how those numbers will look.
Could it be explained with the same imbalance as we currently have, assuming this is accurate? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...

tl;dr: the top three 10% brackets consume ~1 "drink" per day, then ~2/day, and the top consumes ~10/day. That top bracket they summarize as consuming "a little more than four-and-a-half 750 ml bottles of Jack Daniels" each week.

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edit: Which is (750x4.5x0.4)/7=193ml of pure alcohol per day, or ((750x4.5)/7)/(44ml per shot)=11 shots per day. So it doesn't quite, but if you raise the ground floor of half the population to one or two per day instead of zero, it might balance out.

750: ml/jack daniels bottle. 4.5: bottles/week. 0.4: 80 proof = 0.4 alcohol content. 44ml = 1.5floz
Yeah, but thats what their message tells me...

http://imgur.com/a/O8B1q

[Edit: fixed link]
Except, you know, they're a bunch of lawyers so any abuse of their own privacy policy is not really going to fly with them, especially from an optics perspective. It's far more likely that you did, in fact, click the checkbox, and just forgot about it than the ACLU deciding to ignore your request and forward your information anyway.
You say that as if that's some easy, cheap thing to achieve. Those words are also not concrete at all as to what they mean, exactly. All of these things are designed with purpose and are extremely difficult.
The available classes align with graduate level one's for their MSCS.

If nothing else it's markedly worse because it's 1/3 the classes :). Beyond that I'd expect rigor ... it's Stanford after all.
It's pretty funny doing it the other way, where your customers expect a huge sales process and you built out self-serve first.

You hear things like: "We'd like to set up a meeting to plan a trial in Q1 and a full deployment in Q3"

Well, how I would do it is go to the form on the front page, add a credit card and do the trial. When Q3 comes I'd go the plan page and slide it all the way to the right.

Of course, that's not how their purchasing works, so you hold extra meetings and add extra cost. But it's funny when someone tries to jump through hoops and you have to hold them up for them.
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...the FBI’s so-called Type 5 assessments — through which federal agents have authority to investigate people in the United States who are not suspected of having committed crimes, but who, in a federal agent’s opinion, could be recruited as informants.

In light of this, is anyone who has confidently declared "my personal threat model doesn't include nation-states" reconsidering?
I wonder how a person in the West can connect with people in Shenzen to import products, or even to collaborate. There are niches I think are ripe for targeting here, if they only knew there. Can anyone recommend a meeting place online?
This. Outsourcing to India had slowed down in the last few years because wages in India shot up and it didn't make sense to outsource.

See: http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/29/mitra-india-outsourcing-tec...

The wages for IT workers rose insanely in India. In places like Salt Lake (where IBM, CTS and other bigwigs are established) they drove the real estate prices by more than 10x in few years.

The decline started few years back when the cost to outsource was nearly equal to paying an H1b person or hiring a local.

Most tech companies including Apple & Google hardly pay any tax, would you really expect them to pay artificial rates for labor?
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I upgraded to conductive wireless headphones and really really like my iPhone 7 now. I won't miss the headphone jack at all.
Have you tried the "web" link under the submission title? It worked for me.

Also, please note that paywalled articles are okay on HN as long as there's a workaround (which is what the "web" link is for). Same goes for popups. Yes, they're annoying. Some people avoid them with scripts.

From the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

More discussion if you're interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
>How many Macbook Pro users fit that profile?

The vast majority.