skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tokenism is definitely an ass. I happen to come with a baggage of other labels (minority within minority within minority...) and even in so-called open environments, I often find myself on this super awkward scale:

- Ignored (only for the same idea to be suggested by another, receiving whoop-whoop, pat on the back)

- Disdained (do your job yeah but you're not supposed to do it so well it makes your colleagues inferior)

- Tokenistic photo add-on

I ain't taking that crap anymore so I'm flying solo now.
From the notifications screen itself I've managed to find that you can partially swipe right on a notification to reveal a gear icon that allows one to mute all notifications from that app, but I've yet to find anything more fine-grained.

By "tap on one and look at the bottom of the screen", do you mean the notifications screen or in the Maps app itself? I'd expect tapping the notification itself to perform some action, which is why I've never done it. I don't have one to experiment with right now, maybe I should take some photos...
Why should people owning investment properties be given huge tax breaks that wouldn't apply to someone buying the same home in the present day in order to live in it?

Basing property taxes on the current value of the property makes sense, and is how it is done essentially everywhere else in the world. Basing property taxes on what the property cost the last time it was sold, even if that was decades ago and is some tiny fraction of the current value, is very unusual, and has all sorts of negative repercussions.
Yes it is exactly that, and says so on the macOS High Sierra page. :)
Even more damaging is when housing prices go up much faster than 2%; then there is a disincentive to move or enlarge your unit, because doing so would increase your tax liability by oftentimes staggering amounts.
Is that a real problem? I guess I have a unique-enough name (but, surprisingly, not completely unique as it turns out there's another guy with exactly the same name in San Francisco) that it's never been a thing for me.
You can see lots of people’s (video editors, etc.) workstations when they make an Instagram story or vlog in their apartment. Besides MacBook Pros, I see iMacs the most often.
When someone buys a property today, it is subject to the same 2% a year rule. I don't see how this is not a level field.
Does this mean that the "Zoom" menu item on the desktop App Store app will actually, um, zoom the content rather than just making the window fill the screen?
Aha, Twitch to our Genius :) Emailed you.
In my studio with 12 or so creatives, none have shown any interest in trading out their Cintiqs for an iPad Pro + Pencil + Duet (or some other screen sharing app), despite having a few around the office and many of them having played around with them. That said, I could see many artists that don't like to tether themselves to an office liking the iPad Pro very much.
This would save me tons of time scrolling the web. But would you consider integrating this with Telegram or Slack? Would be nice to have a message on Telegram or Slack every Monday.
Why can the NSA influence the decision making process at NIST but they can't influence the design and implementation of a safe and verifiable voting system if it's going to be electronic?

Like this really is one of those "What would you say ya do, here?" moments because it sure as hell doesn't look like the NSA does anything preventative that is effective.
I would like it to be easier. I also know that I am not entitled to that. This isn't difficult to grasp for most of HN based on the comments...
This is big. They are leveraging the convenience of Apple Pay to steer people to spending received money in a way that earns them interchange fees. This allows them to support sending money via cards without losing money on it.

The trick with P2P has always been how to make it free, easy to use AND not lose money doing it. No one has done all three. Square Cash supports cards but loses money (debit interchange is at least 22 cents). Venmo uses cheap ACH transfers but requires linking bank accounts.

Apple Pay is going to let you send money from cards just like Square Cash, yet it looks like they (or rather their partner Green Dot) are not going to lose money doing it. The trick is, while you can transfer it out to a bank account the easiest thing is to just spend it with Apple Pay. Looks like whenever you pay with Apple Pay and have an Apple Cash balance it will steer you to spending that. Apple / Green Dot then earns interchange on that transaction, offsetting their initial cost.

In fact if there are on average >1 Apple Cash transactions per P2P transfer, they actually MAKE money on the system! Brilliant.
Thank goodness there's one good use for AMP pages then, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389986
But Apple Watch is by far the best selling smart watch... ?
> but gbot and anyone coming from the google homepage.

This how they were originally handling it, before February. It would display if you visit the link from Google, or set your refer to it looks like it (this is why HN has the "web" link under articles), even if you weren't a subscriber. It's allowed, because regular users coming from Google do see the same thing as Googlebot.

WSJ have since changed that, so only subscribers can view articles, and you no longer get a "free click" coming from Google Search as Google calls it. They now show a short snippet, and are following guidelines to be labeled a “subscription” service by Google Search. This caused their rankings to drop below being a "free" news source though. But it's not nearly as bad as if they had cloaked Google.
Broadwell ones are. Apple are probably using the newer Skylake-based Xeon Gold line with higher price and much higher clock speeds.
Disclaimer: I support equality, and believe any inequality in policing should be promptly corrected. I shouldn't have to make this kind of disclaimer, but it cuts down on the harassment for violating orthodoxy.

It's also kind of a bummer that BLM started with the "white cops killing black kids" narrative, then when the data showed that black cops are much more likely to shoot a black kid than are white cops, they transitioned to "cops are disproportionately killing black kids", then that was disproven and their issue became the more nebulous "systemic inequalities in policing", but not before a lot of criminal veneration (Michael Brown) and hand waving about how rioting may or may not be justified.

The moral of the story is they may have had a valid point, but they've totally discredited themselves and probably made policing less effective for the most vulnerable communities.
> Posting racist memes is wrong, saying racist things is wrong, thinking racist thoughts is wrong. How did we get here, that racism falls under the scare-quotes version of "wrong speech" and not actually wrong speech??

There has never been, there never should be, and most likely there never will be (no matter how your crowd fights for it) such a thing as wrong speech. At least not outside of totalitarian states.

As long as anyone accepts the concept of wrong speech, anything can be labelled that, and wars can explode over the littlest thing.
Bing is a lot better than Google for searching images. It also has better tools built in to the results page (similar images, different sizes, multiple source pages).
a) People have meetings with clients in their offices.

b) Big execs want to have the best and show it off to staff as well
I thought it did, sorry, I stand corrected. But that's even more to more my point though in that he city can now continue handing out these zoning modifications.
>Detect NFC tags and read messages that contain NDEF data.

Looks like it just allows the iPhone to read other tags.

>Reading NFC NDEF tags is supported on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

I wonder why the iPhone 6/6S and Watch aren't supported?
> Detect NFC tags and read messages that contain NDEF data.

Sadly it looks like this is read-only, which would eliminate companies like Clipper from implementing it?
I think you meant Henry Ford
Do you have any data to suggest machined aluminium isn't better?
I subscribe to The Economist and WSJ and have pretty much stopped visiting Google News, except when there is important breaking news. Google News really isn't for someone who subscribes to news journals. Apple News is much better for this purpose.
Wasn't Pokemon GO more like pseudo-AR? Like it just superimposed an animation with an alpha channel shadow but which otherwise had nothing to do with whatever the camera was looking at?
A bit odd that they don't call it ES2015.
I meant it (well, they did...I'm just passing along conclusions) the other way around - having a boss where the wife has a career equal to his is a positive indication, while having one with a stay-at-home wife is a negative indication. The idea is that someone who has chosen to marry and stay married to a career woman is quite literally putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to women's equality: he's making concrete sacrifices with his time to ensure that housework & childcare is split between partners, because otherwise it just wouldn't get done. And because of this, he's more likely to be understanding & empathetic when faced with employees who have to make the same trade-offs.
So when corporation lobbies the government to eminent domain your property, how does one opt out of that transaction? Ultimate power is money as it buys anything.
I don't know why this has been downvoted. Tracking Protection Lists are one of the best and unsung features of IE. People don't realize that they're different from Do Not Track.
I've been wondering… Could this allow an iPhone to take Apple Pay from another iPhone?

It seems to me like apple should be able to make it possible to accept Apple Pay when someone is using an iPad (for example) as a terminal.
He's actually an HN user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross

[NB As long as the events in his "Laundry" series don't start happening then we're probably fine]
That's exactly one of the reasons I use Safari as my daily driver. Not everybody likes the shiny colorful icons. I think it looks better without it.
In the Maps app. Android itself doesn't currently provide a way to separately control fine-grained notification categories, but they're adding it in the next version.
Are you suggesting another city? The problem is that if your support network is in LA then moving somewhere else might not be feasible (or might not save you any money if you now have to pay for care).
Been waiting a few years for this. I wanted to start something back in 2013 which detects NFC tags for ID but had to introduce QR scanning to get around the iOS issue.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-contractor-reality...
Somebody also has to be the first strong female employee in any given company. Obviously headcount is a huge factor here, but in isolation I honestly think that kind of reasoning can be misleading.

If you are interviewing and discount an otherwise promising potential employer out of hand for not having enough women onboard already, what can they do to rebalance the situation beyond continuing to bring a diverse range of solid candidates in for interview?
If you're willing work with Republicans and/or non-drug users (most tech people are super far left and absolutely will not)

The vast majority of tech workers either do not care or would dislike it if their co-workers did drugs. To say that they would only work with people who use drugs is preposterous.

Also, even at the Silicon Valley companies whose workers you are presumably referring to, political ideologies are, in my own experience, much more diverse than you may expect.
XIX century... you pretentious knob, really?
> Should scientists not be paid because there are people who are curious about that natural world who would do it for free?

I guess I'll come to the rescue of that strawman you're torching... Scientists are free to work for money or passion, as people are free to fund research or not. Whatever the balance of pay vs passion, science will continue to happen.
An opt-in feature is a mostly dead feature. Your average users just uses the defaults. Opt-ins only make sense for power user features or ones where there is some really strong motivation for people to turn it on.
It is a positive place for people who value being able to discriminate.
I'd be happy with average if average in America meant I could afford healthcare, a mediocre home, and a mediocre car. I almost make the average salary in my city (after 2 STEM degrees) and I can't afford 2/3 of the things I just listed and I'm almost 30.

Most people, not me, would also want to be able to afford a family/children.
Tablet "mode" does not make a seamless tablet experience.

Case in point: I'm an IT guy meeting another vendor in the field mid-day. He pulls a dead surface from his bag and is now looking for an outlet, I pull my iPad, which hasn't been charged in a week, and it's at %20 but still good for the rest of the day.

What good is a mobile computer with a dead battery?
Again, you are purposely misrepresenting things so as to paint Google in the most negative possible light. Here is, I believe, what you are referring to: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3191539/security/phishing-att...

It's about keeping web users safe by preventing certain types of phishing attacks. Support isn't "yanked"; the affected domain names are simply rendered in punycode (which isn't nearly as bad as yanking said domain names from the Internet entirely). There are lots of very real security issues around IDNs.
Hopefully it improves the Bluetooth support as on my 2013 rMBP it's really flaky. Unable to use my Magic Mouse and keyboard without getting annoyed by the constant disconnects.
You're commenting in a thread about the UK. Bringing up the specifics of US gun control law is completely irrelevant.

Yes of course any country trying to cell hydrogen bombs or chemical weapons to its citizens couldn't do so without international sanctions. The example is clearly ridiculous, but it's brought up in the context of illustrating that your argument is equally outlandish.
Serious question: if better intelligence is what you want, why did you choose echo over home to begin with?
I'm saying that "suppressing its students' freedom of speech" is a category error in the first place. There's never been in the United States or elsewhere a widespread norm that offensive speech should not come with any consequences from fellow private citizens and from private organizations. When you said "Free speech has historically been considered an extremely important right" that's simply inaccurate with respect to the private context. It was never so considered. Certainly not as any sort of right, but not even as a general norm.

If you want to advocate for the desirability of adopting a new norm, from here forward -- fine go ahead and do it. But simply repeating the words "free speech" over and over again isn't convincing.
If you're interested, I created and maintain a tracking protection list based on the Ghostery and Disconnect filter lists. It's concise, fast, and better than anything in the IE gallery. https://amtopel.github.io/tpl/
Worth noting that Safari Technology Preview was the first browser to support all of ECMAScript 2016+ features.

* http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/
There used to be a lot of sites that did that, and the result was that people would set their user-agents to match google's and get all the paywalled content for free.
Oh, I know which way you meant it. I was agreeing with you and saying "Men with old fashioned marriages are often incapable of putting their money where their mouth is, no matter how much they would like to see themselves as enlightened and egalitarian. It is a dance they may have zero experience with. Imagining they can do this dance and actually practicing the dance steps is where their ideals and their choices part company."
Citation? I have tried Googling it, but came up short.
Building a knowledge base in the open (source)
You actually did make a claim that Safari's sandbox was in particular worse than Chrome's, in the post I directly replied to. That is what got my dander up. Elsewhere you implied that the Safari sandbox comparable to the Java sandbox. I hope you will now agree that the Safari sandbox is closer to Chrome's than to Java's.

I don't know enough about the full spectrum of security technologies in all the browsers to have an informed opinion on your rating scorecard, but some thoughts:

Your assumption is that browser security is (only) a platform problem for Apple is wrong. If that was true, we wouldn't have dedicated sandbox profiles for the WebKit content process and its various helpers, which are much tighter than the system default app sandbox on both macOS and iOS. All, macOS has significant system-level defenses, though obviously not as strong as iOS.

Safari and Chrome both use the same underlying OS facilities on macOS to implement their respective sandboxes, so I don't think it's right that "Chrome's sandboxing is specific to Chrome itself" to any greater than Safari's (or really, WebKit's). It's also not more fine-grained. My understanding of the Chrome sandbox model is that their ideal is to deny everything, based on designing around the very coarse grained mechanisms in Windows. The macOS/iOS sandbox model is intrinsically built around fine-grained permissions, and Safari grants more of them to our content process. So if anything Safari's sandbox is more fine-grained (but I am not sure this is an advantage).

On the scorecard itself:

- It's really hard to compare sandboxing technologies across platforms. My vague impression is that Safari's is stronger than Edge's and macOS Chrome has perhaps a small overall edge over macOS Safari in terms of effectiveness. I'm also not totally sure you can even do a linear ranking. For instance, only Edge puts their JIT outside the content process, but I am not sure this means they have the strongest sandbox overall.

- Anti-exploit: agree with the top two, not sure I'd put Firefox over Safari.

- UX: I'm not totally sure how you are grading, but you should be aware that Safari has a really good built-in password manager. Passwords are securely stored in Keychain and we offer to generate random per-site passwords at account creation or password change time. I don't even know the vast majority of my website passwords. With iOS 11 this will be expanded to sharing website passwords with corresponding native apps for those sites, removing the main remaining reason to have a simple password.

- TLS: Not knowledgable enough here but note that we're moving to boingssl in the upcoming OSes and have cert pinning and HSTS and all that good stuff.

- Library security: not entirely sure what you mean by that.

I broadly agree with Justin Schuch's point in the post you linked that isolation technologies are more important on a philosophical level. Also I would give kudos to Chrome and Edge for having excellent overall security.
probably needs to be picked from the env, rather than hardcoded.
Apparently they're doing beamforming, which lets them have electronic control of the radiation direction and pattern. So the 7 tweeters makes sense for that.

I'm not sure precisely what they're actually doing, but if they wanted to, they could create a feeling of it being more than just mono by pointing some relatively narrow beams in different directions. For example, if you put it on a table or desk with a reflective wall behind you, they could point two beams backward and basically get something like stereo sound. It probably would not feel precise where you can tell exactly where every instrument is in the stereo image, but it would give the sound a sense of space. If that's what they did, it would be a similar trick to what the old Bose 901 speakers did, but with just one box.

And they can go beyond that with 7 tweeters and DSP trickery.
> That leaves me to wonder who exactly this iMac Pro is targeted at.

CG artists, graphic workers and everyone that require a fast computer with a great screen but is not interested in being an hardware hobbyist. There's life beyond HN.
Is there any actual evidence of this?
I don't understand why people would want to be told what to do by Google or Facebook. How can you become enriched by behaving predictably? Enrichment is about stepping out of your comfort zone.
> Means you have a damn good product. No one is claiming you can't get something better, but come on, I'd love to have software that's consistent, predictable, cheap, generic, and ubiquitous.

Note that I never said "consistently good" or "predictably reliable". There are a lot of things in the world that are known to be low-quality, single-use crap that are still everywhere.

> If it hadn't been for the last sentence:[...]

I think it depends on their idea of where "at some point" lies.
Another great reason to migrate Electron to WebKit. With WebKit and JSC Electron will be faster and will use a zero amount of RAM and battery!
So basically a music speaker that doesn't support Spotify?

Seems like a risky decision.
You can hide messages in whitespace. Think badly formatted MS Word documents of The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoyevsky.
How about the weather? Or the geography?
Could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE link to this extension so I can install it to, I used to have one but lost it and couldn't find one that worked last time I checked. (Would love one for both Chrome and FF if it isn't cross platform).

Would also love to have one that rewrites URL's in search results to avoid the frequent 5 second pause when Google's redirector gets it's head stuck up its ass or whatever the problem is.
> The context any statement is made in is very important and can't be ignored

The fact that Jobs said this can't be ignored: he would diss anything Apple did not (yet) have without needing a better reason than making Apple look good. He's the man who said "No one wants 'Hummer' 5-inch phones" (remember when that counted as huge?) and "You will need to file down your fingers to use 7-inch tablets" yet 3.5-inch iPhones could handle full-sized fingers just fine. I still remember the bogus[1] comparison shared by Apple fans that showed 3.5 inches as the perfect size for thumb reachability.

As you know Apple later entered those product categories without Apple adding anything significant to the formula.

1. Bogus because the phone sizes were not to scale. The thumb radius was larger on the smaller iPhone.
Most developers use Windows. [1] The second most popular OS is Linux on Stack Overflow, and some of those may be running Macs.

There are certainly groups where Macs are popular. Startups use a lot of Macs; when I go to a coworking space in Boulder mostly everyone has a Mac. They're super common in cafes as well.

But not everyone uses a Mac. Not everyone likes Macs (myself included).

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-pl...
Meanwhile in the UK...

>As I made my own way to the tram, I wrote in my Apple Notes app, "Helicopter hovering overhead," which to me signified that the fans were being watched over. Then two policemen stopped me and asked me who I was with and whether I'd written anything about a helicopter into my phone, without explaining the technology of how they'd read my Notes app. After a friendly back-and-forth, they looked through my bag, checked my ID and business card and determined I wasn't a threat. "You have to understand, tensions are running high," one of the men said with a smile and a handshake, allowing me through the gate. Manchester was secure tonight.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/ariana-grande...
It means that if you average together the motion of all of the mass of the planet, it revolves once per orbit around the star. Which is the same as what it means for a rocky planet, if you think about it, it's just a little less obvious.

Another way to think about it is that the gas giant moves such that tidal friction caused by the gravity of the star is minimized... because that's why it's moving like that.