skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that connection.
I'd argue that Vox is closer to MSM than it's viewer's would like to believe. They're fact-lite and heavy on opinion; every party has 'em.

That being said I watch everything they put out on YouTube. Some of it's really good.
Er isn't AFS still essentially vapor ware at this point?
My dog doesn't care that my factory job vanished.
The live stream I found only went up to 1:20:00 or so - is there a longer one?
For France, can't be evicted during winter months, need a judge to decide to evict (so can take a a really long time).
Funds flow to winning strategies in the investment world so a repeatable strategy will grow their assets very very quickly. Liquidity of markets is the limiting factor.
The tragicomic history of CSS color names (2015)
Well, not everybody has a taste for abstract art, it is understandable.

But did you see his actual photostream (beyond the article)? Like [0], which is at least interesting in its similarity to some crude computer graphics experiment.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/wouterrietberg/26614536032
I don't understand, why owners buy such vacant homes, which they use twice a year. Renting the same house for two days would be much cheaper.

My wife and I own a condo in the Philippines which we use 1 month out of the year. Why buy when we could just rent or get a timeshare? This place is ours forever, it has already appreciated 50% over what we paid 4 years ago, it is always available when we need it, and we got to decorate it the way we wanted.
>Forcing phone features into a desktop and slowly turning the desktop into iOS is not a good thing.

Siri, maybe, but there's nothing about an FS or a programming language like Swift that makes them a "phone feature". Same for memory compression (which only exists on the Mac IIRC) and continuity (which would be useful even if it only worked from Mac to Mac).

If anything Apple has adamantly refused to "force phone features into a desktop", and only ports stuff that makes sense -- that's sort of what Microsoft did, trying to merge e.g. tablet and desktop platforms in the same UI.

>We were just fine without an app store. Just fine.

Well, I'm much much better WITH an app store. Why wouldn't I want one? I might want some more features out of the Mac App Store (like the ability to demo an app) but I very much want to have it.

And in no way is an app store a "mobile feature". App stores, (and app repos) existed way before they appeared on mobile phones, for one.
Vox and all its sibling outlets (Polygon, the Verge, etc.) have devolved into poison. They've surpassed Mother Jones as the Internet's premiere outraged bleeding liberal rag. Their headlines are physically painful to read. They are unabashed smug coastal liberalism.

Their videos are consistently high quality though. I'll go there probably once a month and watch a handful.
Totally agree. I'm just pointing out that their self-stated motivation behind news coverage is why some people dislike their format.
> A cynical but not unrealistic view is that humans tend to display loyalty to performed roles in relationships, not to individuals.

>If one individual stops performing their assigned role, the relationship ends.

This is a very succinct way to describe reality.

Thank you for stating it so clearly.
> They're really not. What's true is the experiences that led you to feel the way you do and the fact that you feel that way.

But I didn't name a single experience or anecdote. These are all googleable facts..
manually: netbox
https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox

automatically: netdisco
https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Netdisco
Assuming this was paid off in 10 years, you'd pay 250k in interest. A 500k return is 10% annual. Still good, but not world beating. Also property ownership comes with its own costs (taxes, upkeep, time, etc). A worthy investment all the same, but its not all rainbows and butterflies.
In popular American culture in our time, there is not an emphasis on what the partner brings to the relationship financially. I also did not think much about my wife's earning power (or at least, not explicitly, although we met in college so there is some same-class-ness happening there).

But I think that is not typical of cultures across space and time. Just ask Jane Austen. :-)
If large stakeholders in Snap also had large stakes in all these media outlets praising the Snap IPO, would you say the same?

It's not really about what everyone else is reporting; it's the fact that no matter what the spin, they should disclose their ties to Snap's success so the reader is fully aware that this piece could come across as a back-scratch type of move on Vox's part.
Facts are data points. There are infinitely many, and they don't select themselves. Humans do that. You could as easily construct an opposite generality by picking different facts.

The energy behind comments like this isn't intellectual curiosity. It's pain left over from painful experiences. That's important, maybe more important than intellectual curiosity. Almost certainly more important. But we don't get anywhere when we argue about this through the armor of ideological categories, because that's not really what it's about. All that happens is that those with similar pain line up on one side and those with opposite pain line up on the other, each seeing the other as the culprit. What dialog is possible then? None.
>But it also indicates that Apple isn't really designing for the Mac as the author points out.

Maybe they don't but I don't see them doing anything major on the iOS side either. Both platforms are quite mature by now anyway.

(And Apple was never about revolutionary new designs and jumps. Back in the day of the iPod and early MBPs etc, we cheered and waited anxiously for at best incremental changes -- now it has USB, now it has a different touch wheel, now it has a color screen, now it has wifi, now it does video, etc, year over year).

>And as you point out, it's something that doesn't even make all that much sense on the Mac.

Yes, but people (and pundits) have been asking for it all the same to appear on the Mac anyway.

And "talking to your computer" has been a thing from the times of 50's sci-fi stories even.
What I'd do is this:

1) Vote for politicians who are going to create real structural change in society, e.g. Bernie, not just systems maintainers like Hillary, or rich guys who want to rip us off, like the guy who won. (And really work at a local level to enact structural systems changes!)

2) Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a career. (And again, work at a local level to make it OK not to have a big thriving career, since it's not gonna happen for a lot of folks.)

That's what I'd do. The system of "men are worth something because of their career" is broken, and will never come back. I wouldn't even try to resuscitate it.
No? Pretty sure with the initial release they specifically said that they were taking their time in testing it thoroughly, but that they wanted some initial feedback from people. It's been in a preview mode available in MacOS for just shy of two years if I remember correctly, but they explicitly said from the beginning that they didn't advise people to use it for their main OS partitions or anything important for a while.
* Actual UNIX, as opposed to a hacky compatibility layer.

* Generally nicer hardware even compared to things at the same price point. Don't forget that hardware is more than RAM and CPU specs. There are some notable exceptions with pretty nice hardware, like the surface pro tablets.

* More friendly UX all around. This is somewhat subjective, of course, but if you'll recall a while back there were some big corporate IT departments who explained that IT costs were much lower for Mac users. They chalked this up to a combination of increased user friendliness, lower virus risk, and increased reliability.

The only activity in my life where I actually choose to use Windows is for FPS games. However, that advantage is disappearing; over half my steam games support mac now.
I'm in the same boat (with everyone, it seems). One remaining big differentiator, for me, is the resell value and service support of Macs. I can use a Mac for three full years, under warranty, and then turn around and sell it used the day AppleCare expires. And, I can regularly get 50-60% of original sale price (realizing that I've also sunk $300 for AppleCare and taxes). After three years, you'd be hard pressed to give away a Windows machine. This means, all things considered, the Mac premium isn't really a premium, but actually great value.
Julia is great, but IMO, it needs to reach 1.0 first before making a splash. It would be frustrating if you found your tools developed on v0.4 stopped working on v0.5 released a year later. API/ABI stability is critical to the adoption of new programming languages/libraries.
On iOS Apple switched it to being the default update quietly in a point release: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apple...

It actually shows marked performance improvements, but that's because it focuses on performance on the type of storage an iPhone uses.
No, it's almost ready. It's already in use in iOS 10.3, and signs point to a full rollout this year.
> If you want a decent dialog you need to practice decent dialog yourself. That begins with dropping weaponized generalities like "feminist outrage" ...

If you want a decent dialog on HN, you should drop weaponized generalities such as saying that "feminist outrage" is a weaponized generality. Weaponized how? Generality how? The "feminist outrage" is a clearly defined phenomenon that is abundant, and in no way it is a "generality" or "weaponized".

> "Women of the West have succeeded in perpetually shaming men"

okay that one may be a "weaponized generality". I guess you're right on this one. But you get startingly closer to truth if you change "women" to "feminists". As for the "shaming of men" by someone, that certainly isn't a generality, and while I'm not going to post a barrage of links just to prove me right (on my newly created account), I vehemently believe you can find abundant amount of examples just by searching the internet.

> Every side in divisive arguments lobs such weapons at each other. We all know exactly what those leads to on the internet: more of the same, only worse. We don't want that kind of war on HN. We want thoughtful discussion, which means dropping preconceived formulations and really engaging with each other.

Agreed. Discussion typically happens when participants drop feelings from arguments and try to engage each other rationally. (Or at least, that's one way to look at it). So why are you putting the guy down for expressing his opinion (while not insulting others)?
Indeed, it's a pretty strong argument that the most prudent (in the context of the continuing survival of your own civilization) reaction to discovering a developing civilization in another solar system is to preemptively destroy it. Also, The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks. :)
Maslow's hierarchy is bunk nonsense.
This is definitely an issue. Even I who is left leaning think it shouldn't be the case.It makes things hard for both the owners and those who seek an accommodation, especially minorities. Owners now ask for crazy guarantees. Imagine you're 40 with an IT job and house owners still ask for your parents to guarantee the rent will be paid!

Bad tenants should definitely be easier to evict. In some parts of the world, if you're 24 hours late paying the rent you can get evicted manu militari, in France, it can take years.

Frankly anybody who is airbnb'ing his house or apartment in France is playing with fire. He could be stuck with squatters for years, there is nothing he could do about it.
> A woman is working for the money and whatever satisfaction she derives from the job itself. A man is working for his ability to attract a girlfriend, his status in society, his entire sense of "value". It's hardly surprising that men are motivated to choose riskier and higher earning careers.

I don't mean to go all PC police on you, especially since I agree with the first part of your comment, but this is most certainly not the case with most millennials (and even many women of the generation before). Most of the young women I meet today very much subscribe to the same notion of getting their sense of worth through their jobs, independence etc. So I would argue they are playing the same "game" in the employment market. However, our (US) society continues to propagate certain gender-stereotypes about careers which seep into all other aspects of our culture as well. e.g. its much more acceptable/common to be a female engineer in China and India. Now once these stereotypes are removed, you would see a lot more cross-participation which would be REALLY good for the US economy.
If you work in a team mixing data engineers and data scientists then python has been a superior choice for a decade as the different team members are all using the same language to build the platform and to use it.

We've had a lot of success weaning people of R and MATLAB in finance (so replace "data scientist" with "quant"). Of course if you work in a field that doesn't have the libraries and can't build them in house then your mileage will certainly vary.
Very true - when I sold my Mac I was blown away that it had retained 60% of the resell value, and that Apple would still help me with support. I agree that the misnomer that Apple's "premiums" are ridiculous is far too out there - the amount of benefit I received from being able to take a Mac to the store and get it fixed on the spot can't be calculated.
The author laments the lack of Sketch app on Windows: I'd recommend trying out Adobe XD. On the Mac it is at least as good as Sketch these days, and while the Windows app is way behind still, it is developing fast.
#wattvision
can I ask what is your view on the no-mixing philosophy?

http://www.waterlilyacoustics.com/techspecs.htm
> Whatever the city charges, the wealthy will pay.

Just a thought... Make the annual penalties rise exponentially with each passing year for any home with sub-50% annual occupancy. At the very least, the ratcheting will provide extremely high tax revenues after a few years, so that absentee owners can subsidize govt affordable housing efforts.
> They most certainly are not being kept out of those jobs.

What about college graduation rates? New college grads are heavily biased in favor of women, and women earn more money than male counterparts on average(until some decide to take off in their career to have/raise kids).
That's a great goal, and one which they don't actually pursue. For every great thing I've read on Vox, there seem to be 99 pieces of pure, unadulterated noise.
Don't take the bait! Otherwise this thread will devolve into a petty OS war.
Not to be glib, but why not both? Are you a recording engineer and capable of speaking to the points he makes, or is your entire counter-argument "I don't believe that"?
Many of these thing are deep atavistic behaviours well rooted in our evolutionary past.

Very difficult to change in any meaningful way.

You'll have outliers, but statistically it will be insignificant.
I'm not 100% happy with where Apple is at, but I don't think I ever was. But I'm not going to switch.

I get the slickest hardware, great battery life, the best touchpad and keyboard, and a hi-resolution screen that doesn't have battery life, flicker, tint, or scaling issues.

Windows is still...Windows. The bash subsystem is half-baked. Windows itself is still the same mess. Docking is still a joke. Performance is terrible, laptop hardware is still 'almost-as-good', display scaling is a joke, and the ecosystem is still fragmented beyond belief.

Linux is still as bad as it ever was. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I've been using Linux on laptops since Redhat 7 (the first one from 2000) and a Dell Latitude C-series.

Somehow I shut my laptop off and it booted backup to a failure message, I had to make another bootable USB and go online to find out how to do a fsck. I was using external monitors without issue for a month, and then one day the configuration changed to a point where I couldn't even use the laptop with it's built-in display. The sound and volume controls are a joke. I was prevented from installing any packages because of an issue with a package from Google.

All fairly minor, fixable issues, but I forgot all about them because I haven't had to deal with crap like that since I switched to a Mac back in 2010.
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The main downside is for the children. Believe me, you would not want to be the child of such a man or such a woman.[0] This is worse than lack of iodine, lead in the pipes, or congenital deformities from pregnant drug abuse. It's a societal time-bomb.

[0]: http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequen...

Some statistics:

> Children living in female headed families with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6 percent, over 4 times the rate in married-couple families.

> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states, “Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse.”

> Children of single-parent homes are more than twice as likely to commit suicide.

> Children age 10 to 17 living with two biological or adoptive parents were significantly less likely to experience sexual assault, child maltreatment, other types of major violence, and non-victimization type of adversity, and were less likely to witness violence in their families compared to peers living in single-parent families and stepfamilies.

The "gender roles" crowd is deeply dogmatic and misguided, and it's having incredible consequences.
Death throes, not death throws, fwiw.
What makes Windows 10 better than macOS Sierra, in your opinion? I use both every day for similar projects and find that Windows 10 is lacking compared to Sierra overall.
Unlike the article, I'm not as interested in new features. I really want to stop having to type killall Finder because I dragged too many files. Its like Apple doesn't actually use its own products for day to day work. The whole "Save As" fiasco really screwed a lot of workflows which they sort of fixed later but not for Preview. Networking has also been a constant issue. I just wish I didn't keep putting in radars "still an issue".

They need Snow Leopard 2, and someone who cares about PC hardware.
> "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop."

This puritanical belief makes the idea of Basic Income politically un-doable through most of the world, along with the belief that a living is something that must be earned through productive work.
It seems to have been stuck in early stages for quite a while now. I keep meaning to try it but I've been put off by the thought that it might never develop any further.

Time to look again.
Even Apple's current leadership can't be stupid enough to do that. If they kill the Mac/MacBook, who is gonna write the apps for their mobile platforms?

Or maybe they can, judging by the last MBP release. Hopefully they turn it around.
My dad ordered it when it hit the States for, I think, $300. He was an English teacher and suppressed gadget freak (we weren't rich). He returned it because he couldn't see a practical use for it. I wasn't interested in computers. He died two years later. I went on to become a successful programmer and very successful businessdude. I deeply regret not being able to buy him every single PC, Mac, iPhone, and iPad that came out those many years later.
No, it has essentially already shipped with Sierra (only in demo mode for developers), and it's already on route with the final 10.3 iOS version (currently in beta) to become the official iOS FS.
> a perfect circle has never been observed in the universe

Yeah, that's not true. Many things in the universe have perfectly spherical or spheroid shapes, cross sections, or propagation patterns, like black holes or isotropic EM emissions or (more abstractly) light cones.

Pi is baked into the laws of physics in many locations as a consequence of the geometric behavior of our spacetime. It would also be baked into a lot of other plausible spacetimes. It's hard to quantify exactly what causes it to come up so much, but it's probably the fact that our universe is locally Euclidean and therefore uses the L2-norm for distance, which gives rise to circles/spheres as the unit shape and the extrema of a number of optimization problems.
In many languages conjugations are defined by the fixed template (the template itself can be large). In Korean, Japanese and other agglutinative languages the template is virtually non-existent (Wikipedia seems to give a 7-part template [1] which looks quite absurd for native Koreans---it should be considered a "common" regularizable subset of what people actually say).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_verbs#Finite_verb_endin...
You needn't bother because it is an outmoded biological theory that holds more sway amongst white supremacists than actual biologists.
>but that's because it focuses on performance on the type of storage an iPhone uses.

If that's solid state storage, then it's the same storage all Macs will also use in the future (and most models now).
I once worked on a piece of software communicating with a SAS instance (doing live decision management), but everything about it seemed sketchy. No one using it really liked it, and its internals always appeared like a blackbox to me. Also, either it is terribly engineered or the devs working with it were just bad - we wanted a JSON-based REST API, but they said that it's "not possible with SAS", so we fell back to badly organized HTTP calls with XML.

Does anybody have some insights about internal quality and code "health" in SAS?
Isn't that just what PUA types describe as alpha? More and more female attention going towards a smaller pool of males?
Looking through my dock, I would miss the following:
Spark, Safari, Terminal (no, Hyper is no proper terminal compared to the native one), Paw, Sketch, Postico, Transmit, Bear, Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Textual.

I think I would even miss small things like the Finder listing options, it's just that macOS was may many years ahead and Microsoft is playing catch up just now but has too much to catch up too, so I will wait at least several more years to even consider Windows viable.

Even if macOS stagnates for the following years, it's still the better OS for me. I am on a Hackintosh btw, so the hardware advantages are non existent.
France requires that you register with the municipality for your identity card anyway.
Are you implying that the nuclear family is a result of natural selection?

Do you have any idea what the social structures of paleolithic humans were?
> But increasing number of single mothers reduce the stigma of being a single mother, and allowing single mothers to "soldier on".

Is that a good thing? Is it something we should pursue?

http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-consequen...

It's much more complex than "we need to accept everybody! Every arrangement is just as good as any other!"
Creators update is not even released, what are you talking about??
I totally think that when a Vox Media publication writes about Comcast that they should disclose the fact that Comcast Ventures owns a minority stake in Vox Media. However, I think it's a bit ridiculous to expect them to disclose this every time they cover one of their investor's portfolio companies. According to Crunchbase [1], there are 1,124 companies that share at least one investor with Vox Media. That's a pretty large list for editors to keep track of. I'm not aware of any publication that provide disclosure statements when they cover one of their investor's portfolio companies.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vox-media/insights/i...