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Mac sales...

Q1 2016 5312 units, revenue $6,746m
Q4 2016 4886 units, revenue $5,739m
Q1 2017 5374 units, revenue $7,244m

So people are buying more new Macs despite what the press, HN, Reddit crowds are saying?
> Perhaps they should create an exception that allows immigrant student to work for entry-level market wages for a few years after they graduate.

They have something like this, it's called Optional Practical Training (OPT).
check out feinternational.com (OP mentioned them as well). I've been subscribed to their "Buyers list" for over a year and I've seen many nice saas businesses listed.
Being a parent is not babysitting.
How information overload kills our productivity
When it comes to HUNL specialists the best have to be public because there isn't as much action offline as in full ring and MTTs.

They aren't the best since I think that probably is safely in Polks hands but they are near the best.
I've done the same, in smaller quantity (12x 2TB drives.) I wouldn't buy any other brand, after having been burned by Seagate and WD too many times. These all run 24x7 on my home network.
hmmm interesting way to put things. I often held such cynicisms about "intelligent" and "professionals". At the end of the day it's still labor, white collared, but none the less value is trapped in the blackbox which are humans.

Now it appears the essence of that is being distilled into parameters for AI algorithms which can produce superior output by teaching it with decades of professional human knowledge which maybe dumbed down with simple machine learning.
Sounds like you might be able to benefit from a cloud backup solution....

In all seriousness though, I use backblaze and while I haven't had any HDD failures I have gone back to check on the backup from time to time and it's always looking good.
One was quoted, saying "The paper shortage due to Apple's enormous cash reserves are overblown; that's why they have Apple Pay."
Thank you! The team has been hard at work on this and I'm happy you had a chance to try us out :)
Look people, this is a problem [1]. We all need to stand together and not only for ourselves.

[1] http://www.phillytrib.com/news/black-voter-turnout-a-look-at...
Yup, it got fixed on some devices, but the Nexus 5, for example, never got the fix.

This leads to the problem that you, as a dev, either have to leave a huge amount of users without working push notifications, or use GCM anyway.
I'm guessing the pent up demand for a new Macbook Pro contributed greatly.
ASF have had IP and governance problems with Open Office (wrt Libre Office), Cassandra (wrt DataStax), and Apache Groovy (wrt OCI, IP).
I would say the ACLU is by definition anti-government, though. Not in the sense that they want it destroyed, just in the sense that they'll always be the opposition to the executive branch. So they're "anti-Trump," but not in a way that's easily politicized; if any Democratic executives tried to punish people for being pro-Trump, the ACLU would be against them too.
The back of my envelope says that a shipping container full of Li-on batteries would weight 192.5 tons at 2.5 kg/L compared to the maximum standard load of 30.5 tons. So it would have to be mostly empty. I don't think that makes it infeasible, though.
One suggestion, please improve your search. Results are highly irrelevant. I tried "product manager" and 35 results came up with almost 34 of them as completely irrelevant!

If there are not many product manager jobs currently available, then you may try to mention it clearly somewhere and then display other jobs below it.
Sure it is. Much like most developers don't spend their time reading on computing science papers to do their job, I question why such academic rigour is to be demanded from somebody trying to capitalize on the arbitrage opportunity.

Math is good but my time won't be best used if I have to learn calculus all over again just to begin understanding the linguo. Rather have a generic model of what to use and when, hire those that have that capacity to dive deep when needed and implement the expected business outcome.
This is going to go badly without education, mental health, and other services being govt subsidized as well. You need to not only take care of basic survival but also provide resources for self actualization.
Otherwise people will just sit around.
Draft text of the bill: https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sx...
I went to my doctor a decade ago for sleeping problems. He didn't take me seriously. It wasn't until a random chance orthodontics evaluation that I learned I had sleep apnea.

That was exactly what I wanted my doctor to diagnose. If he had asked the basic questions about sleep apnea, (which I didn't know about,) then I would have been treated much sooner.
Of the top 100 websites (I got tired of counting) in the USA, the obvious open source ones from a quick review are,

4. Wikipedia
6. Reddit
33. Wikia
37. Wordpress
40. Twitch
60. Github
61. Reddit Uploads

I'm not counting Craigslist, though its infrastructure is documented and open source, because you can't just download the engine and run it yourself without a lot of glue. Likewise Pirate Bay. There are probably more marginal cases like that among the top.

And there are open data projects like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow that essentially publish all their content on open source licenses and offer free download dumps. Both are top 100 sites.

Then there are the news sites available without paywall. Those are just basic blogs with photos, video, and text accessible to the public. They aren't open source; you have to pay to republish their content. But there is essentially no special software you can't match with any open source CMS at CNN or the Washington Post or HuffPo or many, many other top sites.

I'd say the solid majority of the top 100 sites don't have any special closed source software, except for the proprietary search engine projects: Google, Bing, Yahoo, their respective mail and document suite projects, and the like.
People where just hungry (read: starving) for any kind of update. That's why.
Aren't the people complaining about the new Macs mostly geeks?

That's a very vocal but ultimately tiny sliver of their customer base.
(filched from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=josefresco 's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13521192 - most interesting thing all day.)
The good news is that the Irish government uses Euros, which are made of cotton fiber, not wood pulp.
Agreed, sentiment can be down with sales still going strong. I suspect had Microsoft been able to produce something and strongly market it in Dec/Jan the numbers might be a little different.
Related topic: I'd like to see an update on the enterprise vs commodity hard drives.

A few years ago, the consensus (and data) was that they were mostly the same thing and it was arguable to pay double for the enterprise one.

But... in recent years, the consumer market have moved toward ever cheaper, slower and power savings hard drives (e.g. reduced RPM and stop the disk when unused for 30s).

That calls for a re evaluation of the situation.
This was my thought too. Poker is quite "solvable" meaning, whenever you're confronted with a decisions -- there is always a "correct" answer which does not have to depend on the other players' behavior or style. And you can find that answer by simulation, or game trees, and other methods.

It's also important to keep in mind that the best AI can still lose, and the worst AI can still win (and everything in between). Poker involves randomness, obviously whereas chess/go/etc does not.
I never supported Trump, but I can't find it in myself to join the opposition specifically because I don't understand them. When someone says "Why are you protesting Trump doing X, but not Obama doing X?" it's not a valid argument, and it's not a convincing argument, but that's not the point.

If your answer is "well, when Obama did X he mitigated the negative effects by also doing Y, and did X in political climate where it made more sense and yadda yadda" then I have something tangible to understand your motives. I can feel like I'm donating to an organization or protesting alongside people I understand the motives of. But by treating it as an insider secret only the smarter half of Americans will figure out, regardless of the issue or question, I'm left in the dark alongside the unenlightened Republicans.

Worse, Republicans, who will soon control 3 branches of government, get to say people are just predisposed to hating Trump and have no incentive to listen to protesters. My personal take has been the left has been thrown into chaos by Trump's unexpected victory and don't have a unified voice or reasoning. People won't speak because their afraid their reasoning might step on the toes of someone else's, so everyone just pretends its obvious and gathers immense support without saying anything.
Now that's true innovation!
Here is the code for my Javascript 303 emulation: https://github.com/errozero/js-303-instrument/blob/master/ac...

It definitely needs some improvement.

Try it out live here: http://errozero.co.uk/acid-machine/
Here's something to keep in mind with all of this, though: These are ways to keep developers/IT happy. They are NOT to be implemented in lieu of pay, though. If we're not getting pay raises, we will jump ship.
I created this website.

The thing I am exploring is recursively expanding a rectangular region.

The area on the left allows you to enter text that defines an image. If I wanted to define a tower, I might start by typing:

define tower

x
x
xxx
xxx xxx

The x's get treated as black pixels, and the spaces are transparent.

The image is saved to a variable taken from the first letter of the word. So for tower, it is 't'

That allows you define something else in terms of towers. For example, a city:

define tower

x
x
xxx
xxx xxx

define city

ttt

(That would create 'tower' and a 'city' with three towers)

By itself, that is not very interesting. Slightly more interesting is allowing recursion in a definition.

That is done by following a definition by parens, and saying how many times to recur.

EG:

define tower(6 times)

For this to be work, tower must be defined in terms of itself. So instead defining a tower entirely in terms of x, you can put some t's inside, so it will recursively expand.

define tower(6 times)

x
t
xtx
xxx xxx

There are many limitations to this implementation.
- It is easy to define a scene that crashes the browser.
- It can get annoying using keeping track of single letter variable names
- recursion is limited to 9 times.

It was in Haxe and compiled to JS. It is not efficient or performant. It is entirely computed client side in JS. PNGs images are base64 encoded, and can be downloaded and saved.

Thanks for taking a look.
helps me rid my brain of all the things I may want to look up later... at a spot I would guess I once left them ...neatly interwoven, automagically related through some smart templating
I like this feature, it's very reminiscent of StackOverflow's tags. I do however think this would be better used as a menu or at the bottom of the page, out of the way, as this information will not be relevant on most repository visits. It adds unneeded complexity to the top and most important part of the page where before it felt simple.
Wonder how much of that is enterprises refreshing their Macbook lineups. And compared to Q1 2016, it is just 1% increase.
Problems. We have more things that need to be done than we can ever possibly do. So we get to pick the problems we feel are the most important and simply have to solve them - however we want :)

There is not a lot of money to throw around so we can't go crazy, but that is what makes it such a challenge

Some things fail, some things work but don't amount to much but we have enough hits to keep the business ticking over.

Love it!
A big factor in profitability is normal swing in grid price which is going to tend to be pretty pretty big in California with it's high baseline energy prices and extensive use of renewables which come on and off line according to their own schedules.
From the first paragraph, record results mean the company keeps growing. How does the YoY growth compare to other years, and to other tech companies?
Eat yourself Thin
They don't defend the individual right interpretation of the Second Amendment, but they don't argue against it, either

I hear what you're saying, but it's clearly at odds with the position described at https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/heller-decision-and-seco... .

They explicitly interpret 2A as a "collective right," whatever that is. They also state their disagreement with Heller and presumably any number of lower court decisions in line with it.

Organizations like the EFF never claimed to be broad-based "civil liberties unions," so that's why I feel it's appropriate to hold them to different standards.
You'll be flagged as someone who has something to hide because you had no phone. Just get a travel phone and another set of accounts (email/fb), use them occasionally, take some silly instagram photos of dogs/face swaps/food and you're done.
Probably already been done, but free idea?

An internet "dating site" for startup co-founders to meet on (you could have the whole shebang - ratings, chat, profiles).

Maybe something like LinkedIn meets Match.com, with a sprinkle of YC thrown in?
Exactly -- and this is a distinction that journalistic integrity is supposed to clarify. According to Wikipedia there are at least 22 majority Muslim countries[1]. If this were a "Muslim Ban", then much more than 7 (one third) would be listed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world#Countries_with_th...
The majority of people do not care about the same things we (HN) do. My friends will by Macs regardless because they are scared of something different.
Anyone that's interested in reading a more detailed account of the experiment can do so here:

http://www.pokerlistings.com/libratus-poker-ai-smokes-humans...

The above article spells out some of the details of the competition. The winrate (14.72bb/100) that the AI achieved over the 120k hand sample is almost certainly not due to luck. It is a huge winrate that most pros have to employ strong game selection techniques to achieve (only play against bad players).

Here's a layman's explanation of how a poker AI can be trained:
http://www.pokersnowie.com/about/technology-training.html

And some details about the weaknesses resulting from how they've abstracted the game:
http://www.pokersnowie.com/about/weaknesses.html
To me? No, to everyone.

Lets say GNU/Linux does that, what you would do for other UNIX flavours, #ifdef soup?

The goal of standards is exactly to minimize that.
> paying for the order with someone who can barely stand to look at me, much less tell me to have a nice day!

My experience too in lots of places where there's "customer service" involved. I always blame management when I come across employees that obviously can't handle working with the public.

A looong time ago, I use to work retail and there was always a couple of people who would have a single bad experience with a customer and then spend the rest of the week taking it out on everyone else. They essentially created the hostility they faced everyday. Management always looked the other way as long as they had the positions filled.
I think this answer kind of puts the cart before the horse.

I've been doing backend dev for many years and my perspective is that it's better to dive in and learn things as you go along.

Yes, all of these pieces listed above are important, BUT if you focus on learning each one well, it'll be a long time before you actually ship backend code. You don't need to understand things like containers, deployment, queues, distributed systems, etc to just start.

I'm going to take an opposite approach and say that the best way to get started in backend is from the top of the stack. Build a simple web app or API, for example a journal or bookmarking service.

Language and framework choice don't really matter at this point. Fundamentals are not radically different across them aside from the biggest difference being asynchronous vs synchronous paradigms. Start simple.
You mean technical people who generally know the topic they are speaking about?

Of course the average person is not complaining, in reality the average person can use a 10 year old PC for what they do with it. Facebook, stream music, maybe email....
Apple sets a new record for iPhone sales
They've been wrong on a number facts, and have been shown to largely ignore any corrections or feedback + they've also shown a fairly clear political agenda in the last 12 months and have been creating 'facts' that simply aren't true to support that agenda.
Some day, perhaps, but the code is MIT license and anyone is welcome to collaborate. (FWIW, @pcgregory turned my fasttracker 2 player into a full fledged tracker: https://wetracker.herokuapp.com/) I'm busy with other projects now; this is something I keep coming back to once in a while, and if I do it'll be to improve the fidelity before I make a pretty frontend...

It still needs accent emulation which is a bit of work, high pass output filter (it's bassier than a real 303 because there's some capacitors between the filter output and the amplifier I'm not emulating), the knob ranges / nonlinearities aren't quite right...

edit: And it also needs the square wave, which is super weird on the 303, as you're aware (yours has a sample for it I think)
Sweet. What are the names you mentioned in capital after the quotes? Are they HN usernames?
>"children belong to the collective"

I grew up in post-communist Europe. In the past, we had state propaganda that told children to turn in their parents[1], among other wonderful products of that line of thinking. So I'd be very careful with ideas like this one. (I still support mandatory vaccinations and/or sane defaults.)

>Lets send a clear message: If your children are your own and do not belong to the society, then you can raise them by yourself. If you can't afford to do so, we'll simply put you in a debtor's prison.

This would undo a lot of progress that has been made on the human rights front in the past century.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov
This is extremely inaccurate and misleading.

First there was lots of international actors in the Spanish civil war and England was probably the least important of all those.

Of course UK media like the guardian will grossly exaggerate the England importance over it.

Countries like the Soviet Union had much more importance as they were the main supporters of 1934 "Asturias' revolution"
that tried to make Spain a proletarian dictatorship and URSS satellite. Stalin will influence the war removing Largo Caballero and putting his lackey Negrin as leader of the republicans.

Germany also had great influence as they considered essential not letting his enemy URSS get more power in Spain.

England and France mainly remained neutral. There were socialist, anarchist and Communist on those countries that supported republicans as well as entities that supported Nationalists.

This article try to mislead people talking about Franco as he was the leader of the revolt in Spain, but he was not. He was a very good general but totally lacking charisma over the masses and there were several people over him at the start of the revolt.

Most of those people died over the war or just were too old to leader and Franco was elected as leader four months after starting the war.
Because this is the language of the domain. Much like code is the language of programming. This isn't academic rigor or lingo. This is how things work.

To me, your comment reads similarly to "Much like most business people don't spend their time reading code to do the job, I question why such academic rigor is to be demanded by someone who is translating business requirements into database operations".
It built most of its decision model by playing itself over "trillions of hands", according to Prof. Sandholm. You could almost think of the nightly reviews as a similar process to a human sleeping: we benefit from memory consolidation, pruning, time to reflect, etc. I don't see giving the computer 12 hours a night to do something close to reflection and self-analysis as "cheating," or even very different from what its opponents did over Mexican food each night.
This really confused me at first, but upon looking at the data sheet from Apple [1] it's much more clear -- the units are in thousands and the revenue is in millions.

So for this quarter 5,374,000 Macs were sold generating a revenue of $7,244,000,000.

[1] http://images.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q1FY17DataSummary.pdf
So what's your point?
I like your posts, but you're misinformed on this topic. The pros selected are among the best HUNL players in the world right now. Offering the top winners in a separate variant not only misinterprets how different the games are but also falsely equivocates being the best with making the most money.

If someone asked you who the best mobile app developers were in the world, your list should comprise solely of mobile app developers.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was not aware of that acronym. I guess it depends on what world you move in. Those in law enforcement or counselling, I guess it would be an every day thing, but for the rest of us, it is completely meaningless...
Even the 2.5" ones inside laptops that are basically desktop replacements and run cool enough seem to fail a lot compared to their 3.5" brothers.

Good thing SSDs exist now.
handouts.
"There is no reasoning with people who don't use reason. Banning slavery causes a lot of problems. Where are all these slaves going to live? Where are they going to work? Where are the 40 acres and a mule going to come from? What if they want to return to Africa? Educate yourself before you ban obviously immoral practices. Downvotes are indeed required."

This is why you lost btw.
oh right, you wrote the other 303 web app! I was kinda mad because you stole my thunder while I was working on this one. :)
probably not going to get any details out of you but worth trying: can you give any pointers to implement such strategies and the minimum capital involved?
The market will solve it if the number of housing units is large enough compared to the number of families, provided no one vendor owns too large a fraction of them.

It seems pretty wasteful, though.
I think the elephant in the room is that the Q1 2017 number reflects a quarter when they refreshed the Macbook product line for the first time in years. That should have resulted in a big infusion of growth.
Macbooks are still considered 'cool' by most and they dont care about the same thing as the HN crowd
That's why it's dangerous to assume the opinion of a particular community is the dominant one.

See also the Brexit and Trump victories nobody saw coming (except everyone who voted for them).
All of those people would get absolutely crushed at heads up no limit by any of the four players.

Jamie Gold won the WSOP, but he's a pretty bad player.
Ask HN: Am I right to be angry about the interview process?
I was given seven problems to submit via an online coding service called remoteinterview.io. Three problems included HackerRank style challenges. I was able to solve everything within an hour (though, it take me closer to two hours to code the edge cases for the third one), and the time limit was eight hours. Everything was green; all tests cases were solved, minus any hidden cases I didn't know about. Next day, auto rejection.

How common is this? It's not my first time dealing with this. I find the interview process such bull crap, at the moment.

Note: I did document my entire code, which included my plan of action before writing anything and any necessary comments.
Nautilus Cosmos is a special project exploring astrobiology, fine tuning, the multiverse and dark matter. That is the reason for the amount of focused content.
you know you are in trouble when we start having electron shortages resulting in not enough electrons to erase flash chips so we can program in the large bank balances :-)