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There's been plenty of pressure for Apple to show it's not on the decline. Meanwhile, I haven't noticed increased enthusiasm from consumers or reviewers to explain why Apple's products would be selling better now than ever before.

I wouldn't rule out creative accounting, or actual fraud. The leaks, the analysts, the press, all said Apple was moving less product. Now Apple self-reports "all-time records" left and right.
For development, sure. For VR, yeah I need to basically be at the bleeding edge right now.
I think just read the Wikipedia articles about it. Also, the Microsoft documentation on Azure Machine Learning and the Amazon one on AML are good high level overview.

That should be enough for you to have an idea what expertise you'd want to hire for.

Granted, it sounds you're just looking for ML scientists or ML engineers. Data Scientist might also be able to help you out, so that's what you want to hire.
Some good points here, but doesn't help the frustration as a potential customer.

The old adage when the price listed says '$ call us', it's a big number. For a certain class of application (ERPs, CMS, etc), sure does make sense, because pricing is very complex. At the opposite end of the spectrum, I would be baffled by a company that tells me the cost is tens or hundreds of dollars, but this doesn't exist.

The middle ground is products that are in the low hundreds to several thousands of dollars. There's a number of times where I have come across something that appears to fulfill a need I have, but that I could also do myself (whether by spending a week or because there's an open-source version that does 80% to base on).

Keep in mind there's always extra friction and admin overhead to dealing with commercial software, which has to be considered as part of purchasing: does it need a license to run on my build server? Does it have any kind of per-user charge, requiring extra system work to track? Are there redistribution licensing problems? Is there some stupid DRM that's going to cause me grief? Are you capable of dealing with a separate technical user (me) and paying user (my accounting department)? Am I going to have to deal with annual renewals? etc..

So if it turns out the direct cost is less than building it myself, it's a much easier decision. If it's significantly higher, now I have to really weigh the above against the opportunity cost and risk.

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.

I tend to move on to the next one, and only come back if there are no remotely similar options. It makes me sad a bit because there's no way this company can know they lost me as a customer merely by putting '$ call us' (even if the price would have been acceptable).
Then again, it's not like Apple laptops have a dominant market share either, people who complained probably just didn't buy them.
I'm impressed by your awk sir!

I wanted to also mention that someone has built a handy web app for this kind of accounting that I use for similar trips at https://kittysplit.com/
That's interesting. So the laws aren't being taken literally?
> I provided a source that says there were more considerations than slavery.

You provided a source that does not address the motivations for the particular feature at issue at all, much less ascribe them to "more considerations than slavery".
"constitutional" is different from "constitutionally protected civil liberty".

Almost all laws are constitutional, but very few pertain to civil liberties.

It isn't a matter of civil liberty.
Serving drinks is not protected speech; taking a photograph is.
I would argue that it is significantly harder. In heads up, you can call a bet and see the flop and go from there. In a full table, calling early means you may have to fold to a raise. There is also a much more complicated analysis of the possibility that you are beat. Lots of times I may be in a hand and think I have the original raiser beat but when two other people call before me, the odds are much less that I have all of them beat.

I still think the hardest part of poker is the grind. The computer doesn't get bored or tired and play hands it doesn't have a reason too just because they are stuck in a dead streak. Taking a mostly conservative style, you'd expect the computer to out perform over time.

It would be curious to know what percentage of the time the players bluffed the AI successfully and vice versa.
Personally, I think if Android had a better permissions setup then I'd be happier with being able to control those options, but I agree.
Vision and mission have any significance if they reflect how the company owner
wants to live. If a company grows large enough to get the middle management
caste, vision and mission become meaningless.
For the record, we do not refuse to see npm as the "best way to win", we just have work to do to get there without abandoning out current users. We are currently working on npm support, and have kept the github issue up-to-date with developments.
It's not only to influence the people directly affected, it's also to generate news coverage which will get the greater population talking about the cause of the protest. Which is what is currently happening obviously.
I've not tried the technique linked to yet but it makes it sound like you don't need to make any calculations yourself if you connect a gain node to the filter input and adjust that instead of directly adjusting the filter. I'm guessing it takes that input and adds it to the current value of the envelope.
The left only started pretending like the world was ending in the past few weeks...
Trump’s subconscious appropriation of the American dream
Agnostic here so ideology means religion to me to some extent. Muslim is banned not because of its religion, but because of the terrorism it incurred,yes many of them are nice guys, but you do not need a lot to cause massive damages here, no safety, no democracy, it is that simple.

I do not save a snake from frozen for the purpose to show my great love to all beings, as it might kill me afterwards, very old story. Now let us save those inner cities innocent people in this land, and those homeless people first, be it a Muslim or not.

It's not religion, it is about safety.
Question: given that, would it make sense for HK's government to claim that it cooperated for the removal, or was even the instigator who requested the PRC take action?

Allows them to save their gunpowder of calling out the violation of HK autonomy for someone much more sympathetic.
They had to throw in the "high-skilled" talking-point...media at its finest.
They keyboard is pretty nice to type on, even when you are typing a lot. That surprised me, because I thought the low travel would present a serious problem, but for me at least, it does not. I think it has changed the way I type a bit so that I'm not hitting the keys quite as hard as I do with other keyboards, which certainly would help.

The Touch bar I'm less enthusiastic about. There are times when it comes in handy, but I rarely use it and accidentally interact with it quite a bit while typing.
WebRTC and many other major features are still missing from Webkit on iOS, whereas in Chrome & Firefox I can have a full WebRTC client on mobile.
Not only that, but no candidate got a majority of the popular vote in 2016. If you wanted to elect by majority vote (as is currently done with the electoral college), we'd have to do a run-off to determine the actual popular vote winner.
There is this country called Indonesia. It has the largest population of Muslims on earth, at 200+ million. Not one of them is banned from America. Only immigrants from countries with direct ties to terrorism are banned, temporarily.

Once gain, it has nothing to do with religion. It's geographical. You can be a Christian in Iraq, and you would be ban too.
Trump & co. have gone 0/5 in the federal lawsuits that have been brought already stating that this is unconstitutional.
> So, imho, the iphone 6s is the absolute best seller ever at Apple

I know it's 2017, but "best selling" is really more a matter of fact than opinion.
Are you angry about wasting 2 hours of your time or not getting the job?

Keep in mind that a lot of companies use automated tests to filter candidates, not necessarily in the most fair way.
They're simply not able to do a whole interview with everyone as it's extremely time consuming.

I'd say don't worry about it too much. If you have the skills you'll find plenty of good companies that will want to work with you.

Unfortunately, job interviews are not as predictable as how code works. Even the best devs I know get rejected once in a while. :)

Think about it - there's 2-3 people (interviewers) trying to asses whether a person has the skills for a job and is a cultural fit for the company.
All of these during an 1-2 hour long chat. That's virtually impossible to do right, they can only guess.
GitHub is also very much closed source.
Really happy to see new jobs on this list. UBI seemed like a lazy way of addressing job loss
There were more than a few comments that Apple is doomed, doomed I say, because nobody will ever buy even a single one of these broken toys.
Oh yes, my 15" tMBP is the same - not as much monitor issues, but TouchBar is buggy as heck. Randomly not waking up after sleep, buttons not being properly repainted, it froze a few times....

Before 10.12.2 I also got random kernel panics and graphical corruption. By far one of the most buggy laptops I've owned - it seems that Apple really rushed the software part.

10.12.3 did fix most of the issues though.
> It's almost like we've uncovered ways to automate our intelligence

I wonder if humankind will be the creator of a new form of life. One that is not bound by chemical processes. One that moves at the speed of light and spans the whole planet. This being, or these beings, with access to billions of sensors, will know everything, see everything, hear everything. They won’t be limited to visible light, nor to the frequencies we can hear. There are no limitations except for what sensors can record. They will be able to interpret, predict, plan. They are not bound by time as they themselves don’t physically age. They will use vessels to carry out tasks and build the infrastructure they need to live. In comparison, we will look like single-celled organisms. So dumb. Until we disappear.
While I agree with you, people would often water down their beer and liquor, so the brewed strength is not necessarily what people drank.
Some great points here!

In terms of it making you a bit said that companies don't know they're losing your money, I would say that they actually probably do know. They may or may not care about that missed opportunity, but in most cases, I bet it hurts them to know that they can't serve you. The ideal case for a company is to be able to serve the customers who want their product. In reality, every company has to make a number of tradeoffs, many of which are directly related to the stage and size of the company, and in some cases that means they'll never be able to serve everyone.

I think it's also interesting to think about why some companies won't just put a pricepoint on their pricing page. In most cases, this is seen as a strategic decision, for one reason or another. I think putting something like "starting at $10,000/year" or something like that is a good place to start, though. What do you think?
Green card holding permanent residents of the US who were denied entry without due process are having their civil liberties violated. Everyone who was detained by CBP explicitly in illegal violation of the order of a federal judge had their civil liberties violated. Those parts of the order were rescinded because it was obviously illegal, but their rights were still denied.

That's the easiest, inarguable example.
All worthy suggestions.

TLDR: Replace current campaign managers, consultants, fund raisers, etc.

Which I totally support. But how?

Please ask candidates (past, present and future) about running for office. Better yet, run for office. See what it's like. I highly recommend the training from http://wellstone.org and http://democraticfuture.org. I'm sure there's others.

Also, join some local campaigns and do the grunt work. See how the game is played. Especially fund raising and endorsements.

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This is not a technical problem.

Like the nerdtopian legislative information systems (https://www.govtrack.us) before, geeks making fascinating tools without deep knowledge won't make a dent.

Source: ran for office, activist/lobbyist.
The last election clearly showed that dollars are not as important as they once were. Mobilizing individuals is now becoming more and more powerful and YC surely understands it.

I do appreciate your comment
I assume the same rules apply.. have to move to SF..

I can't help but comment that we did have a great democracy machine (& education) with something called Television. Virtually free. So much potential. I guess before that - radio. Even newspapers. Before that word of mouth. Each machine had it's masters who rose to the top.

We are in the beginning of phase 2 ( my def.) of social media. We are all in the middle of the 5 layer cake while it's cooking and because of Donald Trump we already don't like the recipe.

This phase of social media too will deform into something less than we thought it was going to be. Just like television. It is fun to watch but clearly it is too late to save it.

I doubt the next 'newspaper,radio,tv,social media' will be created by those inside of it.
you are in luck they are available soon as I get the labels in also many other new TI-99/4a games, expansions etc including 32k if you don't already have it
$0.03/kWh delivered is an order of magnitude less than current lithium ion systems which ranges $0.285/kWh - $0.581/kWh delivered to the grid after storage. [1].

Since the data going into Lazard's models are probably at least more than a year old, I wouldn't be surprised if its currently $0.15-$0.30/kWh to store and then deliver a kWh of electricity.

The largest price difference in Southern California Edison's time-of-use tiers is from $0.11/kWh to $0.47/kWh, so I expect that the systems that Southern California Edison is currently installing are fairly cost efficient for them.

If Alevo can actually deliver at $0.03/kWh at scale (and personally I'm skeptical of something that sounds so good), then that's game over for all fossil fuels and nuclear on the electrical grid.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of...
Regarding voter ID. "All those other countries" generally uniformly issue IDs to everyone, so there's no issue like there is here in US, where there are significant minorities that don't have any form of ID. For example, I'm from Russia, and I have the government-issued ID that I need to show to vote; but that ID was issued to me for free (and is in fact mandatory to have).

A voter ID is not discriminatory in principle, provided that it's free (since otherwise it'd be a poll tax), and does not place undue burden on the citizen to obtain - like, say, traveling several hours to the only nearby place that issues them, and then waiting for several more hours in a line because it's understaffed to serve all the people that need to get their IDs from it.

The problem is that pretty much all voter ID laws promoted or passed in US to date fail these requirements, and thus effectively constitute voter suppression.
And then there are probably quite a few people like me who essentially have no peripheral.
"Making features in order to have happy customers and so drive sales" is not exactly the same as "Making features to make money".
As a software developer and a US citizen, this is to my advantage. I hope it quickly becomes the law of the land.
You would be completely wrong. This is evidence by the ASP, which was over expectations, which means it was mainly iPhone 7s.
From a legal standpoint. From a moral standpoint, denying entry to previously vetted residents with green cards who may have lived here legally for many years, purely on the basis of where they were born, is abhorrent. It's also the kind of thing that authoritarians don't mind at all because of their natural tendency to side with daddy over "those people".
How did anyone ever think that it was serious? It's so obviously satire.
They are telling people to fight back against Trump's executive orders that threaten civil liberties.

They are not anti-Trump, in that if Trump rescinded his problematic EOs, the ACLU would stop fighting him. The issue is not the man, it's the policy.
See, I hear techies grumble about education constantly. Our education system is teaching the wrong skills or not challenging students or just an elaborate babysitting racket.

I hear teachers, on the other hand, complain that after decades of trying everything they can, they've realized that they cannot help students unless those students have safe, stable, supportive home lives.

It's easy to say we should introduce children to programming early, even easy to do. It is easy to complain about critical thinking skills and kids these days. It is easy to see that overtesting schools and overreacting to those test scores wastes resources and the time of children and teachers.

It's hard to find a way to ensure one in six children in the US subject to food insecurity always get three good meals a day. It is hard to figure out how to provide stability in a single family, let alone all families. It is hard to say a child shouldn't drop out of school and work whatever job they can when their parents have been unable or unwilling to provide for them.

We have been talking about and trying to fix "education" my entire life; maybe we should try fixing some of the underlying problems first, even if they are hard.
Probably to avoid confusion, as git (and github) already had a concept of tags

https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-tags/
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Depending on how the interaction plays out, there is a chance that prejudice would be reduced due to contact hypothesis, but it seems unlikely that the criteria would be met for most services. For some services like wedding photography, however, it seems likely that the criteria would be met and prejudice might be reduced.
Were there? I don't remember any of those, but I do remember a lot of people giving their opinion on changes.
Yes it matters. You have to know the direction of causality.

Consider it in different words. "Tired people are bad for themselves, for process, and for projects." To many, this will read as "hire folks that aren't tired." Worse, it will be "your folks are tired, so they will make things bad for themselves, their processes, and their projects."

At best, you will get people who will see it and victim blame in a way that won't help. "You are jeopardizing our ability to succeed with your tiredness. In addition to your current tasks, I'm assigning you the job of getting less tired." So... odds of increasing wakefulness, slim.

Now, it could turn out that it is something you can fix in this way. I don't know and that is my point.
fscomeau has been a fake for several years. He accidentally revealed his IB account, which was a demo numbered one, so yes even this was fake. It was expected. But the live stream was funny as hell.
Who are the other people that buy 4000EUR laptops then?
And yet the people who made fortunes in the auto industry were all car makers? What an odd coincidence.

But let's indulge your point of view for the sake of the argument. So you've got a black box AI that does something. You know what inputs it needs and what outputs it produces. How do you arbitrage it? What creates the price discrepancy that allows you to arbitrage at all, given that your incapacity to understand the black box renders you unable to gauge its value beyond what the market is telling you?

In that case, why not trade any random commodity?
Trust me the people who spent all their time focused on the GRE don't make it to decent grad programs.

The elephant in the room isn't why aren't more universities accepting 'local' students. No department would choose a foreigner over a local. You wanna know why? How much the student is going to cost them. Foreign students never qualify for in-state tuition (well at a state school anyways) and right off the bat are much more expensive to their advisor's budget. Local students can also apply for NSF Graduate Fellowship, and bring in their own funding, something most foreign students can't. Both of these factors make it so that the first preference is to hire local.

That said, in a large number of departments (especially in CS, and other sciences) you see a burgeoning international student population. Why? There just weren't enough decent local applicants to go around and science needs its foot-soldiers.
You think that the FBI acquired these powers (under both Bush and Obama) because of Trump voters? Seriously?
Fascinating. The term most likely had nothing to do with the Bowie song (which apparently was inspired by one of Iggy Pop's romantic interests, who was Vietnamese). But it does suggest some interesting (unintended) interpretations of the lyrics: the "China Girl" not a fetish object, or even simply an unattainable romantic partner -- but rather a talisman, or a blank slate; which, the more you look at, the more you project into.

Or in Bowie's words,

When I look at my China girl /
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much /
When I look at my China girl /
I stumble into town just like a sacred cow /
Visions of swastikas in my head /
Plans for everyone /
It's in the whites of my eyes
Why leave it to interpretation?
I dont think it's "cheating", but it's not just AI that's beating the humans. If operators are allowed to change/tune the AI's algorithm, the human opponent should get to replace himself with another player.

or conversely, operators shouldn't be allowed to tweak the AI logic, but if they program the AI to tweak itself, like review its moves and adjust its algorithm automatically, that would be reasonable, then the AI and nothing but the AI is responsible for the victory.
So unfortunately, that means further postponing of a substantial upgrade to the Mac Mini and Mac Pro.
Implicitly attributed to user error probably.
The rules to naturalize are separate and more stringent than the rules to maintain the green card. Talking about granting citizenship is a separate issue.
During the negative press following the touchbar Macbook announcement Apple themselves said they were receiving record pre-orders on those models. Apple seeing good sales despite vocal complaints isn't anything new.
Yes, but fortunately it's a bit easier to deal with than natural gas.
For a modern take on this style of thing, see Calca http://calca.io/
All good suggestions.

Legislating is an information processing task. They're just doing triage. It's your job to get their attention. The only way I've ever gotten my way is when I show up with a crowd. Then whoever's sitting in the chair will do whatever it takes to make you go away.

Politics of Attention
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Attention-Government-Priorit...
yeah man, imagine people with specialized skills having salary increases that once again keep up with housing prices

whaaaat?
USENIX objects to Trump migration EO
"The dole" didn't save the Roman Republic.
Another nice thing about the SO implementation is that the number of questions with a given tag is given while tagging. This avoids people creating tags which are essential synonyms. I already see this as a problem on GitHub based on the suggested tags.