skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this has something to do with why certain comedians are so good (e.g., Carlin and Louis CK).

"...[Louis] wished he could be like Carlin and do new albums and specials every year — all of them brilliant. It wasn’t until much later in his career that C.K. would get the important advice from Carlin to throw out all of his material every year and start fresh..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/06/louis-ck-honors-geo...
So you're saying that privacy is impossible?

If that's true, then I'd rather go down fighting (no matter how futile that is) than willingly give up any more private information to Google. I think the time for pragmatism when it comes to privacy is long over.
Absolutely - and OSX is still the king of HiDPI compatibility, along with some other niceties. That's why I think a Hackintosh is the way to go - though it's a lot of work to build your own machine. If I had the skill and time I'd start selling compact PCs with hardware that just happened to be compatible with OSX. Might be a small market, but I think it's there.
@damn - Could you followup on your comment that you might disallow WSJ if they ever did this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620821
Wow, yes, could be very true!! Could be related to higher crime rates by certain minority groups that may tend to live in old homes with lead paint.

Historically, the great great great painter Caravaggio was quite violent/irritable and died sadly so so young (30 something) and many theories are that he was quite irritable/violent because of lead poisoning (he was prolific, working all the time with lead points).
TL;DR build your trusted network, ask friends, consider freelancing

There is no place or social group free of toxicity. There is always a chance you meet some bad guy or gal in the hierarchy, especially with some overwhelming majority. Unfortunately mostly you will find one by experiencing that yourself. What may save you from these issues may be peers selection and workplace flexibility.

Regarding the employment, the interviews I had most of the time were some kind of PR farse. No way the interviewer is going share to candidate the team's dirty secrets and company taboos, especially abuse issues. So far for me the good source of information with very low B/S levels are my trusted friends and their friends. Before joining a new place I usually do private research with them.

Therefore what I would suggest is to build your professional network, participate in local interest groups, meetups etc with people who share or accept your POV. Just e.g. in my nearby city (smaller than STL) there are several dev groups built by women who work for variety of companies. Activity in such groups may open you to new ideas, friendly opportunities, referrals. I believe even some successful start-ups were born from such gigs.

Also, have you considered freelancing? Being your own employer may make you professionally independent and significantly shield you from people who trespass into your private life. Similarly to the interest groups you can keep portfolio of clients who accept you as you are.
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iOS 11 brings peer-to-peer payments right into iMessage
I don't know if I am pro-choice anymore
The problem is that if you're 30 and "average" in America, you're probably barely scraping by, don't own a house, and have a mountain of debt. It's not a great life if you have to worry whether you're going to make rent on a monthly basis.

If you have a job that makes enough to afford the trappings of a comfortable life (place to live, enough left over to save, emergency account for if you get sick/injured, invest in retirement, etc.) and work 40 hours a week, you're in the minority.

Outside of HN, people aren't working 80 hour weeks because they're trying to be a millionaire, they're doing it because they need to pay rent. Anyone reading this site is almost by definition in the top 10%.
What do they do for income?
I don't think this is right. IE9 renders progressive JPEGs progressively. https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2012/progressive-jpegs-a-new...
> There was an interesting study

Source please.
I ctrl-f'd for the posts you mentioned and found all of them to be downvoted and/or flagged.

There's going to be hostility on the internet. That's why some users can downvote or flag posts that don't add anything to the discussion.

I can see maybe one or two comments that I don't feel contribute anything near the top of the page, and that's because they were posted so recently it would be wrong to kill them immediately.

HN is not perfect, but it's damn good, especially when you give it time (as 'dang mentioned above).
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But what I want is an upgradable / self-servicable machine that costs under $3k.

I would not hold my breath. If Apple are going to give you something serviceable and upgradable, expect whatever you would have spent servicing and upgrading (at the time of purchase) a "normal" machine through them to be added to the price.
Not necessarily mutually exclusive
> company has to really push for women-friendly policies to be a great place for women to work, which I happen to completely disagree with.

Could you elaborate a little bit more please, beyond the cringey paper-scissor activities?
Vaguely worded nostalgia
I would suggest listing the location / onsite / remote
I remember that movie. Her name is Samantha instead of Alexa and his name is Ted and they have long and elaborate human like conversations and fall in love and have phone sex.

I wonder how medical records would be handled. Surely Samantha has some opinion on Theodore's mental state. In the movie he was pretty normal. Which is boring, because so many people are not normal.

I'm old enough to have survived the GTA3 media firestorm. I'm pretty sure digital assistants will have their GTA3 media firestorm soon enough.

Samantha in the movie more or less did whatever Theodore wanted to befriend him. And luckily the weirdest thing Theodore wanted was phone sex, more or less. But hows this going to work with truly insane people? Should Samantha the digital assistant befriend and encourage and motivate a school shooter, for example? And what happens to PR when its found out she encouraged him? At what point is Samantha the digital personality or her programmer or employer liable for entrapment or encouraging some anti-social behavior? Who has the liability to maintain an API over the internet to the FBI to report enormous amounts of telescreen observed misbehavior? If the user is in fact insane and the digital assistant is unable to work with a crazy person does the owner get a refund or does the crazy person get shamed in public for not having an assistant or ...

I'm curious if there's already been court cases. As the assistants gain in ability and processing power there will be cases.
Speaking about requests to upload photos to Google Maps. I live in historic and very touristic area of Barcelona. For some reason, the building I live in is a thing in Google Maps. So, very often when I take a photo in my flat, Google encourage me to share it and I don't feel well thinking about a possibility that one of my selfies will end up Google Maps, promoting a tenement from XIX century.
I think your comment reveals a narrowness of perspective on how much things can change. I didn't claim you can do that kind of work on an iPad now.

You will be able to do that kind of work on something running iOS (or its successor) in 5 years.
its hilarious that people both expect google to read your gmail to enrich gmaps AND demonize it when they actually do just that.

poor google cant please anyone.
This suggests that Google/Facebook/Twitter will still be able to track you, assuming you use their websites regularly, but advertising companies that don't have pages frequented by the average internet user won't.
The frame they're using is very similar in shape to the Snap spectacles. I expect them to have a more classic design treatment than Snap's bold colours. The frame design has little accents at the upper-left most and upper-right most aspect of the frame, as you look at them (where the arms connect) which is one of the very few ways you can imagine integrating the two cameras which will be required for depth perception without bulkily clipping them on.
I'm presuming you want a candid, honest response as opposed to a look-how-inclusive-I-am one, hence the throwaway, so here's what I think you should be asking:

1. How frequently and for what reasons do people there work unpaid overtime? Does management plan it formally (e.g. "crunch time") or is it limited to emergencies like hacking attempts or vendor outages? Does this company think that asking people to put in 'extra effort' is a failure of management, or a regrettable but necessary part of doing business?

2. What's the policy on conferences? If they say they support them and send people, ask if at least half the team has been to one (with travel and lodging paid) in the last year or two.

3. How do they support professional development? You're not looking for little stuff like "we pay for Pluralsight!", you're looking for things like hackathons, paid time for professional development, a formal mentorship program, a developer book club, or other evidence of a genuine culture of improvement within the dev teams.

4. How much freedom do the dev teams have to choose their own stack and tools? If they currently use React, did a Director choose it or did the devs who had to build the UI choose it? If a dev team wanted to experiment with something (e.g. TDD, or pairing/mobbing, or switching from sprints to scrumban), could they just do it and see how it goes? Or would they need their boss's boss's signature first?

You may notice there's nothing on that list about gender, race, diversity, etc. I put it to you that:

a) Diversity is no indicator that you will not be underpaid, mistreated, lied to, etc

b) Few teams will be able to give satisfactory answers to all of those questions

c) Of those teams that can give good answers to all four questions, the proportion that suffer from a miasma of gender/race/etc toxicity will be approximately zero

That said, "good team culture" is extremely subjective, and people here can't tell you how to find a company you'll like any more than we can tell you how to find a bar you'll like. You should figure out what you value (e.g. interuption-free focus time vs. frequent informal collaboration, remote distributed team vs. everyone-is-in-the-same-room, "bust ass to get rich" startup vs "eveyone leaves at 5pm" established company, etc) and treat those as just as important as the four questions I listed.

Best of luck in your search.
I haven't tried iPad Pro nor Microsoft Surface, but Wacom has a texture on the surface which makes a lot of difference when drawing and painting. Even Cintiq has a layer of that on it. Even if they've solved 'drawing on glass' (which should be shit compared to textured surface), there's still that whole issue of proper apps to draw in compared to iOS.
Scary that airplanes are still allowed to use leaded fuel.

Somehow society is stuck between the information age and the stupid age.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lead-in-aviation-...
H.265 is already in shipping hardware from Sony, LG, Samsung, Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia etc. As I listed above there are at least 100+ more companies supporting H.265 than AoM. Including the most important of all the broadcast standard for terrestrial TV which is still hugely popular in many countries.

Also without Apple it's over. YouTube and Netflix will be forced to support H.265 or give up on iOS/OSX users (350 million users).
Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for webmasters to whitelist. This is because these IP address ranges can change, causing problems for any webmasters who have hard-coded them, so you must run a DNS lookup as described next.

DNS lookups are far more expensive to perform than an IP filter, and couldn't be done in realtime. So WSJ would have to set up a system where they regularly find all Googlebot referers in their logs that were rejected, do DNS lookups on the IPs, and add any that were valid to a whitelist so that they won't get rejected again. This will cause new Googlebot IPs to get rejected until the whitelist is updated, hurting indexing and ranking. The WSJ would also have to go through their whitelist regularly and do DNS lookups to verify that all of those IPs are still valid Googlebot IPs, and remove any that aren't valid anymore. That opens a window for invalid IPs to continue to get access, which may or may not be a problem depending on how often IPs change and where they get reassigned to.

The IP whitelist would need to be distributed to WSJ's webserver farms and used to update firewall rules, in an automated way that may or may not integrate with how that stuff is currently managed. (Generally, those rules would be tightly controlled in a big org like the WSJ.) The HTTP access log gathering from the farms and their analysis would also need to be automated, which again might be a management issue if the logs contain anything sensitive. (Like, I don't know, records of particular individuals reading particular stories which certain government agencies might be interested in acquiring without the hassle of a warrant.)

So yeah, there's a way to find out if an IP belongs to Googlebot. That's a long way from a manageable filtering solution at the WSJ's scale, even if Google wouldn't penalize them for doing it, which they would.
No one gives a fuck about Climate Change
Then the WSJ shouldn't cloak content like a scam site.
@dang @sctb Dupe detection just killed my iMac Pro submission with an Apple URL after it reached over 60 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491068

Perhaps a thread merge is in order? Official links tend to always be preferred for Apple announcements, hence my posting it. Sorry if I caused any extra work! :)

It's worth noting that dupe detection also killed off salimmadjd's submission linking to the hyphenated product URL (mine is just the non-hyphenated Apple redirect to that same URL).
And I don't know a developer who develops on a Mac. Seriously, the number is 0. I know a number of artists and designers with them though.

Ahhh, anecdotes.
You know, it would explain a lot of things if, over the last 10 or 20 years, something were slowly driving more and more people crazy...
Or just turn off Javascript. Makes lots of sites better.
I was guessing that the reason that you did not feel entitled onthe data was for ethical reasons (at least that's how I feel). I also feel it's ethical to use the data, as long as it's freely given.
I'm saying what I said: if your browser isn't adequately secure, all the anti-tracking features don't much matter, because the people you really need to worry about will be able to own up your entire machine and quietly persist themselves into it.
The majority of my tablet usage is browsing the web with Edge, which has such good touch support that I now use it as my daily browser even when I'm not in tablet mode. Other than that I:

- check my emails;

- manage my todo lists (previously with Wunderlist, now with Microsoft To-Do);

- watch Twitch with Livebeard or Unstream;

- watch YouTube with TubeCast (could use a better app for this, but I haven't looked in a long time);

- rent and watch movies from the Store app;

- read and manage my notes with OneNote;

- listen to music with Groove;

- use Twitter with Aeries or Tweetium;

- read my Pocket articles with Latermark;

- listen to podcasts with Grover Pro;

I make liberal use of the window snapping feature to do most of those things side-by-side with my browser open.

When in tablet mode I'm primary consuming content, and I've found that my Windows device is just as good at that as an iPad or Android tablet. If I'm in tablet mode I'm sticking to the apps that were built for touch, i.e. apps from the store and Edge, not poking around in VSCode or other apps meant for a mouse or keyboard.

What really sold it for me was that I can just flip it over into full laptop mode whenever I want and have 16gb, core i7 dev laptop ready to go instantly.

For reading PDFs, I'd recommend taking a look at Edge again. It's pretty great for reading PDFs and ebooks with the new Creator's Update.
> I've hypothesized for a while now that the Black Lives Matter movement might be distracting us from what might be the true cause of the problems they seek to address. Blaming the problem on "racist" cops by default

Since BLM focuses on a wide array of social, political, and economic, and environmental issues (including interplay between issues in the various domains) involved in the social dismissal of the value of black lives, and not "racist cops by default" (indeed, the motivating event for BLM's formation wasn't even a law-enforcement killing), I think your complaint is misdirected and should instead be directed at whatever media channels you consume that give you this distorted view of BLM.
Those people are trying to sell you something, too.
I look for existing diversity, and of underrepresented minorities not just gender diversity (IME this is often a better signal.) Especially in upper levels: the % of Software Engineer 1s matters a lot less than the % of architects and tech leads.

Second (and I kind of hate to give this one away), I ask "what do you sacrifice when recruiting to ensure diversity?" The answer should be either "it takes us longer to recruit, because we ensure a balanced pool" or "we have changed our process to allow many types of candidates to shine". If the answer is just "we spend lots of money on sending people to Grace Hopper!" it means they aren't willing to inconvenience or piss off overrepresented engineers. You can't fix culture problems by spending money, and when "diversity" is seen as separate from "recruiting" in general it's a clear sign of a problem.

I also use the Internet: I look on LinkedIn for people who have left the company, see how long women stayed and reach out to find out why they left if they did. Backchannel mailing lists are great ways to find a vouch. I check the social media profiles of their prominent engineers and search with keywords like "feminism", "women" and "she". See how they talk about women in the field, whether they follow women on Twitter, whether they posted angry anti-Hillary memes. I've found that a lot more effective than relying on direct questioning, because there are companies out there that will say whatever they think will let them add you as a shield against the accusations of sexism they are facing. Especially my boss: if my boss is going to be a white dude, he had better have publicly condemned sexism in a way that feels constructive and genuine to me.

One other internet trick is to look at where the women you respect are working and apply there. At the very least, you would get to work with technical mentors you admire and can learn from.

You can find good spots here. Seriously, though, trust your instincts, don't be afraid to walk away and don't be afraid to take an "unsexy" job at an old-school company with an HR department.
Learning when you can go fast and when you should go slower, with more care, seems like a valuable thing to learn (not just in construction, I'd think)
Well, I am waiting for both to realise it is a much better UX when the pen is stored inside the tablet as opposed to being lost in a bag and never available when needed.
(a) I do not work for Google or on Chrome.

(b) I do not disagree about Chrome's energy usage. It sucks.
In the past I've been adamant on buying the LTE+Wifi iPads (because more options right?). In hindsight however, the cellular feature was barely used.

Have you considered an LTE mobile hotspot? It can be left charged (but off) in your laptop bag for days/weeks and only used for travel or as needed. I found it to be super useful and not much hassle at all. Also multiple devices can connect rather simply.

Lastly, a benefit of this sort of decoupling, is it allows for using a different network carrier to the mobile phone, thus effectively increasing one's LTE coverage.
The problem with your assumption there is that both of those things cost money. The benefit ratio for a cheap, but crappy camera to an expensive one might be $250 to $1000, about a 4x ratio, that's a fairly low, finite and often measurable improvement on that camera. That ratio might be acceptable for someone who wants a high quality camera.

With news content it's free vs a few hundred dollars a year, more if you want multiple paid sources, unless you find that all of those free sources including BBC, AP, etc are so bad that they provide negative value and just waste your time then it's in your best interest (infinite ratio) to try to get by with those free sources, ultimately the information from most news articles is by and large equivalent. If Google is able to raise those higher quality free sources to the top of results, that provides much better value to users than suggesting paid sources - most users on finding a paid source will just click the back button and pick another source, the paid source having just wasted their time completely.
Frankly I'd love Google to turn Google Images into much more of a true Pinterest competitor. Image search volume is pretty large, and they are already testing monetizing it. Now they just need to add in features that let you store and organize that information (and build a better profile of you in the process while also crowdsourcing tagging).

Pinterest needs more competition.
> I'm not a minority, but I think you should be asking this question to everyone, not just minorities. Everyone deserves a non-toxic environment and it's an issue everyone has to deal with.

Hey OP, these are exactly the kind of red flags you should be looking for.
I'm not sure this is an indictment for DNSSEC; if DNSSEC were widely deployed, it would actually address one aspect of this: you wouldn't be able to takeover a latent glue record, because you couldn't provide properly signed answers.

If you takeover email domains, and ask IANA to change the signing keys, or take over the servers and recover the signing secrets; DNSSEC wouldn't help, and might provide some air of legitimacy though. And, of course, then you could provide false keys for whatever subdomains you hijacked. On the other hand, if you control DNS, it's not hard to get a domain validated certificate, although some CAs will run your domain through a list of high value names before they will issue a fully automated cert.

In a world with domain validated certificates being very common, it doesn't seem like we gain much by declaring that TLD operators are untrustworthy, so we can't explicitly trust them to provide DNSSEC signatures and enable DANE, when we are implicitly trusting them to provide correct information when CAs do domain validation.

There's certainly an argument that we don't gain very much by knowing an untrustworthy entity has certified something, though.
Machrone's Law, still in effect!
I read https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... which details this.

They're just being a little sophisticated in how they block third-party cookies. This will hardly stop other tracking scripts, tracking images, widely-used fingerprinting techniques and related js calls. So nothing remotely close to even Brave let alone a TOR or the Epic Privacy Browser.
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Even if you're not wrong about OP in particular, there are real places that inspired that stereotype, and avoiding them is a valid concern.
I'm kind of exhausted on Surface after using it for a couple of years. It just isn't that reliable yet, it isn't something I can depend on like an iPad, and often when I turn it on it wants to spend a couple of hours updating. I really want to like it, but...I might give an iPad Pro a try to play in the stylus space.
8 core Xeons are ~$450 bucks.

E5-2620v4 owner. 8c/16HT it isn't a $700 processor.

A $700 Xeon is the 10c/20HT