skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In grad school i was one of those TAs teaching science to 1st/2nd year university kids. Let me tell you, i was horrified and could not believe these kids paid $50k/year to attend these essentially "baby sitting" classes with high school level information.. at most. 95% kids knew nothing IMO and were planning to go to med schools, i pissed off many of them (as i later discovered) by not giving them anything higher than a C (honestly they deserved to fail). They thought i was too hard one them, but all i was looking for is understanding of the subject and they clearly had very over the surface level of understanding .. Where i come from they would not even be able to enter the university at all...

To me the educational system is clearly broken, most schools in USA are unable to produce quality talent. One of the things that annoyed me was the love of multiple choice tests .. i never encountered one in academia until i came to the USA. What, they tell you the answer when you take the test? Whats the point of the test?

Until USA fixes education system ground up starting from the elementary school to high school to college there will continue to be a need for talent from outside of the country. Until teaching becomes a highly respected and competitive profession (see Japan) - things will not change.

There is a lot of demand for smart well educated people in this country and Since America does not have enough of these people inside (see last election results lol) there will continue to be a flow of brains from the outside of the country.
No worries, thanks for taking the time to listen. Have a great day
They do care; Apple has shut down (or restricted) several apps over the years that have tried this. But I ultimately agree with you, it's really more about how it's presented rather than how it works under the hood. This might have a lot to do with the review process.

The subject we're talking about here would not fly under their radar.
I've had a similar experience. I will now decline all online take-home coding evaluations. I want the process to require a symmetric amount of effort from both sides.
Unfortunately without putting randomly assigned teams into controlled settings to test this, how else can we figure that out? I want to know too, but this seems expensive to test to any high level of certainty for the causation.
Silicon Valley is losing their source of cheap labor and are now avoiding the law by going to another country.

How is this any different than a company avoiding tax laws by moving its base?
forcing interaction doesn't remove that pre-existing hate though (I'd prefer the term prejudice because I know many christians don't hate gays). Forcing a christian bakery or a muslim pizzeria to cater to a gay wedding would just foster resentment at being compelled by the government to perform an action against their will. Freedom of association means that groups that don't want to interact, don't have to. For someone with an egalitarian mindset that might seem abhorrent but some beliefs or characteristics can't necessarily be reconciled.
Not only do they make you talk to a salesperson before buying their software... a lot of these places make you talk to a "salesperson" (i.e. an internal recruiter) before even referring your resume to someone who can actually evaluate it. Which is sad because I find these "buffer" discussions to be a waste of time, and all-around drag coefficient in the process, generally.

(Though I understand also what secondary functions they serve -- or at least appear to serve -- for some companies).
Yeah it is much better of a system.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/images/bothaxes.gif

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
It does matter. If unhappy developers cause bad software then the solution is to make the developer happy and the software will fix itself. If it's the other way then the process is the one that needs fixing.
Obama had veto power. How did republicans force it through?

What happened was Obama signed the bill imposing exceptions to the Visa Waiver Program in December 2015, and then his own DHS added the current list of middle eastern nations in February 2016.

It is the most tenuous argument to act like that was the work of the GOP.
The interesting takeaway for me is that services is now the equal second biggest revenue centre at 9%. It is still way behind iPhone, but it is growing at a phenomenal rate. By all accounts Apple is just getting started with services (e.g.: rumoured original video content, video streaming service) so we can expect this to grow even more.

Finally Apple is capitalising on its install base to sell more addons after sale. This offsets slowing hardware upgrade rates, although not sure if it is enough to offset iPad declines.

The narrative often heard is that if they want to shift to being a services company, Apple would need to dramatically change its org structure. I may be wrong, but no one has ever monetised consumers with recurring monthly revenue as successfully as Apple has (utility companies and mortgage brokers excluded!). And it didn't even need an org restructure!
I didn't mean to imply that the ACLU sees its mission as a partisan, or that they follow partisan lines on pursuing cases; just that they have predominantly pursued leftist cases (because that's where civil rights were historically most seriously infringed) and that therefore that support for it is seen as a partisan act.

Says something about the as state of (particularly right-wing) American politics, IMO.
How an Ancient Chinese War General Would Run Your Startup Better
People are definitely on a spectrum when it comes to this. I've talked with people who really want to read news on both sides, and are in fact already doing so manually. They're looking forward to having something automated to help them track their progress and remind them.

There are also folks on the other end of the spectrum, for whom this isn't something they can stomach. In some cases this is because it reminds them of painful conversations with family members or others, or just because they feel marginalized at a personal level when they read certain news from the other side.

This app is designed for folks in the first camp, who are looking for ways to have a more balanced "news diet", so to speak.

We're also considering adding some gamification techniques to make this stickier for people. This could operate at the individual level (letting people level-up based on their track record) or at a team level. It's a work in progress!
I think people are just saying that if you don't undertstand the technology a little bit yourself you'll never know who to hire. Maybe somebody looks like they know what they're talking about, but they don't. Maybe somebody really knows what they're talking about but they can't put that across very well. Maybe someome is simply unscrupulous and wants to milk you dry and will dazzle you with charts and graphs that they know you don't quite understand.

It's, like, inadvisable, to leave yourself vulnerable like that.
For current issues yes, it doesn't matter you just fix it and get the results. If you want to prevent it in the future it helps to know which one causes the other. Then you can focus preventative efforts on the factor that causes the issue.
Wow, that's a very cogent and intelligent response.

What does the superhi...way have to do with online learning specifically? Even if you paid a consultant to tell you otherwise, it's still not the greatest name ..
> Why do so many prefer the walled garden?

I'd first ask: do people actually prefer the walled garden?

In my opinion, the walled garden has very little impact on the day-to-day experience of most users. Partly, this is because the most popular apps were historically available on iOS first (and perhaps exclusively). More apps gives the impression of more freedom, not less.

This makes the walled garden a non-factor for most people, so purchasing decisions are made based on other qualities: design, hardware, user experience, app selection, familiarity with the platform, brand perception, ecosystem lock-in, etc.
I provided a source that says there were more considerations than slavery. Can you please provide a legitimate source that proves otherwise?
Except that it was us "nerds that piss and moan" that actually waited for a refresh and ordered them in batches.

Funny how some of you make the quintessential part of the free market - customer feedback - sound like a bad thing.
In what sense? Why are they entitled to a PhD?
My description is a rebuttal of an "all" claim, and is expressly a "much" not an "all" claim itself. So that not all Trump acts.meet it is acknowledged from the beginning and not relevant to its accuracy or its point.

The things that are receiving the heavy protests, however, are the things that do match it.
Banning Iran, Boeing will probably lose a $16 billion contract over it. Ban doesn't seem to be well thought out.
The First Blockchain-Based Augmented Reality Game Announced an ICO
India freaks out over U.S. plans to change H-1B high-skilled visas
It's a 'Pro' laptop and it's people who use their Macs to earn a living that that particular line has typically catered to. So yes, geeks.
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These three shortcuts are the reason I never use Safari on my iphone.
Unit growth was 1.2% - but Apple expanded significantly in other non-US markets.
What is growth in number of Apple Stores?
Trump is NOT president because some people get more electors than others.

If you're talking about the slight disproportion in the electoral college, that didn't matter. Trump was 74 electoral votes ahead his closest opponent. Removing two electoral votes for Trump's extra 10ish states doesn't matter. Theoretically it could matter, but 2016 wasn't close enough.

Trump won because some states have chosen to elect their electors so that they all vote for one candidate.
No offense, but looking at your website, you've solved the problem of fake news by not showing any news. Unless you're talking about no bias in UFC news specifically.
I bought into apple after falling for osx during college right around the financial crisis. I've been a fan of their approach to products since then.

But the new macbook pro's are pretty revolting to me -- I used one at the apple store for a few minutes and could barely type on the (horrible) keyboard. I played with the touchbar and immediately found myself trying to touch the screen -- something that as a fan I definitely knew would not work.

Even with just a few moments use, it was immediately utterly clear to me that to the extent that the touchbar is a good idea, a touchscreen would have been a better idea ... The good idea within the touchbar is the attempt to 'augment' the keyboard/mouse user interface with touch -- augment, not replace. Microsoft tried to make touch/keyboard-mouse interchangeable but in real-life not all elements on the screen should be touchable -- the touchbar realizes this and deserves props for getting that much right. But even after acknowledging that success, the touchbar is just ... wrong -- its not any easier to lift your hands from the keyboard and use the touchbar than it would be to touch the screen -- its actually harder because you have to take your eyes from the screen and look somewhere you would not normally look to aim your fingers.

I hope the idea of 'augmenting' the macOS user interface introduced with touchbar evolves to the main display -- where it might be a good idea ... I don't know how this would be accomplished though -- maybe the api's created for touchbar could be re-targeted towards user interface elements on the main touch display ...
No one has called for a ban of all Muslims, citizens or otherwise and no fundamental rights of U.S. citizens have been threatened as far as I know.

We are talking about which non-citizens we allow into our country.
There isn't really a compelling reason to run significant storage off 2.5" HDDs anymore -- before SSDs 10k or 15k 2.5" HDDs made sense (access time), but nowadays...
How old was your old one. Recent macbooks had HDMI and USB magsafe - you lose all 3 with the USB-C macbook.

What happens when you trip on your charging cord and destroy a USB-C port?
9/11 was 16 years ago. Threats change. US domestic security has changed, and so has Saudi Arabia's. There is no reason to believe they are a current threat.
These pages are both grossly biased and intellectually dishonest. While I wouldn't go so far as to say it's impossible to impute motive from action, it's irresponsible to call defending borders racist when there are other reasonable and less incendiary explanations.

I've historically supported the ACLU's mission, but right now they are showboating for donations and that plan is working out great for them which means we can expect them to double down on the strategy. It's no secret that a significant portion of political activism and fund-raising is just skinning suckers. The right ran the same scam on its constituents during the Obama years.
What makes it the best Macbook you've ever owned?
Why are they calling tags, "topics"?
The funny thing is assuming as normal using %17 of the national income in wars
... specially since most of them have been a net negative
I've been very pleased with my iPhone 7 - yes requiring the headphone adapter is mildly annoying but that's all. I tried my previous iPhone, a 5S which I had donated to a relative, again recently and thought my 7 was well worth the upgrade.
I tagged a few of my repos. What I'd be excited for is topics that are not simply languages or frameworks but concepts. As an example my feature toggle library in elixir should be tagged with feature-toggle which if you are looking for that kind of tool in that language here it is. I could see this being really helpful for "how have others solved X problem in Y language so I don't have to?"
> Well, and given that the premise of H1-B visas is that "we literally couldn't find a local who could do this", I'm OK with that.

H-1B visa does not have such a premise. Green card applications do though - are you confusing the two?
Dr. Robert Zubrin on the radiation on the way to Mars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UChuIqIKF4&t=1031
Indeed. There was nothing special about the Mac line-up in Q1 2016.

Q1 2017 should have seen the release of huge pent-up demand with the new MacBook Pro.
Great if you know that "Club Penguin" has any thing to do with Disney. Personally, I've never heard of it before (nor did I linger on the article long enough to find that out about any association with Disney). Given the start up community's penchant for... unorthodox... company names, for me it could have been an 'Uber' for dry cleaning for as much as I could glean from the title (Uber for dry cleaning... hey.... never mind).

Again: completely accurate title, not as informative as it could be to anyone not already in the know.

[edit for clarity of point]
What's the difference between the wedding photographer who won't take a picture of a gay couple, and a bar/shop owner with "no dogs, no blacks, no Irish" policy?
I own one and I agree it is great. These seem to be the issues others have with it:

1. The price - Personally I don't think it is justified to essentially bump the "actual" MBP (meaning touchbar and 29w processor) by $500 for what we get. The original retina 13" were similar price wise at release, but the display was a massive upgrade. The touchbar not so much.

2. No kaby lake - this is an intel release timing issue, if you want Kaby Lake wait a few more months.

3. Questionable utility of the touchbar - I own one and it is useful for anything with linear editing...so audio or video. Otherwise I just use it for media functions just like I would with physical keys (I don't use the function keys.) It could be more useful in the future given more software support.

4. Dongles - This is another temporary problem until devices are all USB-C.

5. No magsafe - Sad, but there is one advantage in that you can now do power/display/connectivity all over one port...and I can't go back from that. I have an LG 4k monitor with USB-C so I just plug in one cable and get my 4k display, mechanical keyboard, and speakers just from that. And I can rearrange my desk to put my laptop on either side of the screen. For me I'm either plugged in at my desk or wireless elsewhere, so tripping over a cable was never really an issue for me once we hit the 5+ hour battery mark.

6. The keyboard - I love it, and switch off from my Whitefox with Cherry mx blues on my desk. Most mobile keyboards feel squishy to me but the new switches they are using give a lot of stability and a pretty solid click as well, even though they have such little travel.
> The majority of the reactions I have seen focus almost exclusively on the restrictions themselves rather than the way they were implemented.

That's because the problem is with the restrictions themselves. Banning people, en masse, including existing lawful visa holders and permanent residents is a huge problem.

The fact that you haven't seen this information or reaction before says more about you than the facts of the case. If you follow the NYT, Atlantic, or even the Twitter feeds of many people reacting to this (including from YC) you'll see that much of the consternation is about how broad this ban is—not with the specific idea of tightening immigration rules.

In a democracy, we don't ban thousands of people from our country overnight. Changes like this, regardless of their merits, should be debated and approved by the legislature—not made by executive fiat.
Worse shape? Apple had a record number of phones sold. Mac sales are important but not that important.

How many other companies sold 18,455,000 PCs and tablets last quarter? Sales of PCs and tablets are declining everywhere, not just at Apple. These results look pretty good in that environment. Microsoft Surface revenue was actually down 2% last quarter YOY.
Especially now, it is very important to voice our concerns to our representatives. I've found https://www.mailyourrep.io/ to be really good at letting me do just that.
If you get this enraged over temporary travel bans from nations that sponsor terrorism against the US, what are you going to do if Trump starts droning American kids with the precedent Obama set? It's a bit like the boy who cries wolf. Blowing something small out of proportion is stupid, because nobody is going to listen when the big stuff starts happening.

It's not a Muslim ban. People who say that are only burning their own credibility. Indonesia isn't banned. Bangladesh isn't banned.

Libya, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, and Syria. Somalia is infamous for its pirates, Libya for Benghazi, Iran for its nuclear program, do I even need to continue?
Combining the BuzzFeed Trumpworld Graph with Government Contract Data in Neo4j
From the article:

> A poker-playing AI has beaten four human players in a marathon match lasting 20 days.

20 days seems like plenty of time. No ?
https://blog.golang.org/c-go-cgo

Say you call foo() in foo.c and foo() calls getenv() and setenv() with your mutex in the safeenv.go approach you described, all those calls from foo.c don't have the mutex around them that your foo.go uses. Worse yet it might not be your foo.c but part of libfoo in your OS.
They have updated for a while. The demand was accumulating before that. One time thing.
Have the HN and Reddit crowds been claiming anything about low sales? Disliking a product change and accepting that the product will sell well are not mutually exclusive.
So Lena in image processing has more history to it than I might have thought.

edit: more than just the USC origin story, I mean - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml
Technically not a circle
I'm surprised you're downvoted.
Get a magnet USB-C charging cable.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CQTK6GU/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
I could see this being useful for all sorts of generated-code projects with some tweaking (naming variables, labelling sections in reverse engineering) - do you have any plans to release it?
Labels are the problem. Democrats and Republicans, liberals, conservatives ect is creating a false sense of choice.

The problem has a solution: states right. ~400 million people will never agree on a leader or have their beliefs encapsulated by 1 person/party.

More choice, more parties, more power distribution
There are enough unscrupulous actors that will pay 130k on paper and have ways of paying much less in reality. Enforcement and audits will also have to increase correspondingly, and penalties must be severe.
I tagged my library as SuperAwesomeUltraJavaScriptLibrary. I hope it helps my discoverability :)

In all seriousness I thought tags were like the "old" thing going away. I'm curious how this will help discoverability, if at all.
This has been my concern, but you can find magnetic detach USB-C cables.

https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-BreakSafe-Magnetic-Breakaway-...
I don't think this is correct and the other person who responded to you seems to have the right idea.

Look at San Francisco, my friends and coworkers are renting/buying crappy 1943-built, non-renovated 1br units that cost $3k to rent or $700k to buy. They could afford to throw out some more money for something slightly better but it's already a lot of money and pricing everyone out.
Oh boy, fake news is just getting started! People are scared now? Wait until an entity can generate your voice saying whatever they want it to say, generate your body doing whatever they want it to do, generate scenes and events which never happened.

Fake news now is less effective against well-educated, smart, skeptical, scientific people. It just so happens that fake news is dumb enough to only fool 80% of us. As the methods for generating false information ("fake news" is not a general term) get more advanced, people will need to be more and more educated to resist falling into machine dependency.

If you're gonna get on the fake news train, do it now, as fake news is easy right now. Bots are still dumb, etc. In the future it won't be so easy to combat fake news. It will be a much, much more grave problem. If there are people who are uneducated enough to be influenced by fake news now, they will be sheep in the future even more so, when they are told lies of events, audio clips, video clips, etc. that never even happened.

Fake news, or more generally, false information, is going to be a big problem in the 22nd century. As our machines get smarter, so do our deception methods. At some point, humans will begin to place trust in machines because we will no longer be smart enough to figure it out ourselves. Currently the non-savvy population (maybe, ~80%?) has begun to do this already. At what point will our scientists begin to fall on the same side of that partition, until only a few scientists in the top of their field actually get it. We have already observed this God-Effect in esoteric fields.

God-Effect: Where a piece of technology, mathematics, or code becomes so complicated, eventually only a few people (or zero) actually understand it. E.g. complicated edge-physics, library implementations, encrypted data, etc.
Preferring non-whites to whites is not discrimination?
To fix education, our first priority should be to empower teachers. They're the ones who care the most about kids' learning and know the best how to make it happen. Teaching shouldn't be a low-paying, low-status profession. I'm not sure how you could change that with a YC startup.
Interesting how these techniques translate over to recruiting too!
I think the most interesting category to watch is going to be services: 2 straight years of 20% growth, and it's now virtually tied for second largest revenue source with Mac.
It is possible for one's utility function on web browsers to weight speed and power consumption more than standards compliance.
Well, yes 5374 is more than 5312, but it's a slower growth rate than boring markets like baking powder, toilet paper or McDonalds meals.

Apple has lost everything that made them special, just as Microsoft did a decade and a half earlier. They'll probably remain quite profitable for the mid-term, though... just like MS did under Balmer.