skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my guess is ... < 1% of African population directly affected

I have done some research into the proportion of the population affected. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 1% of the population of Africa is a "person of concern" originating from just five of the ongoing conflicts in Africa: Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, DRC, and Somalia. All in all, it appears that about 1.6% of the population of Africa is a "person of concern" of the UNHCR. The majority of this population is in the class "internally displaced persons (IDPs) protected/assisted by UNHCR, including people in IDP-like situations".

See http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/overview for numbers from the end of 2015 on a map, or
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/statistics/unhcrstats/58aa8f247/m... for numbers from mid-2016 in table form (with a downloadable attachment).
Note regarding Apple Pay: due to the way credit card networks implement network tokenization, online merchants can actually track you across multiple transactions. You get a per-device ID, of which you can have at most 10 per card (for Visa). Ideally, unique payment tokens would be derived from these IDs for each transaction. In reality, the ID is sent along with a random cryptogram for each transaction, leaving tracking possible (on the same device only). This is because these tokens have to be in the same format as card numbers, and the ranges available to issuers are rather limited.
Yes, most suspicious motto ever. I'm wondering how it would translate over to other companies.

Google -- do no evil.

Disney -- we won't kill your children (?)
relevant for people who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWFzWRoVNnE

the funnier version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xah84cJwdxE

http://i.imgur.com/EZ6LyI1.png

http://i.imgur.com/tbwNbdh.png

EDIT: by mistake I originally linked this video I had in my clipboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5scez5dqtAc
This isn't Apple's first speaker, and the last one was announced by Jobs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi
I think I just explained why I prefer two separate devices, but to clarify further: I don't like Windows, I prefer a unix-based OS for work, and iOS is a much better tablet OS in my opinion.

Also I don't agree with 'over priced hardware'. I tend to find if you look for comparable hardware from other manufacturers the prices are similar (e.g. Samsung S8 vs iPhone, Dell XPS vs Macbook).
They discussed multi-room audio during iOS Homekit updates and Airplay-2. The HomePod is listed as supporting Airplay-2 at bottom of page. Maybe I missed it, but there was less about multi-zone and grouping different speakers to different zones.
Love it. Thanks
Disclaimer: I am women, but never stepped the foot in CA. Geography matters.

I see ping pong tables and free beer as a red flag of sorts and seek workplace that is more formal. The idea is that the less it attempts to be personal/cool/cultural the less personal things (e.g. gender or peoples attitudes/biases or who-likes-who) matters and the more actual work matters. I have no stats to support this, just my guess and some experience.

I also try to find what exactly am I going to do, whether there are clear responsibilities etc. It is easier to prove what you can do if responsibilities are clear and if you can work autonomously so your work is clearly your work. (I don't like true agile partly because then too much depends on impressions and politics and assumptions.) Moreover, clear responsibilities mean people have harder time to act on "women are not technical" assumption. Plus, fluid team structure pretty much guarantees a random collegue will try to micromanage me (like when they have ambition to be leader they tend to think I am good place to start) - then I had to fight for having normal work. Although I am usually able to get rid of that collegue, it is way more pleasant when I dont have to go through it.

On interviews: if it is technically and business oriented, then it is good flag. If they are too cool or personal or seem to be reacting to my gender (includes also being more friendly then I would expect on interview) then it is bad flag.
What a joke misapplication of that phrase. Apple doesn't shirk from making its users "the product" any more than the other big corps.
I work at Google in the Seattle office which is, as you say, in a city close to mass transit in a very walkable area. (My walk to work is about 25 minutes if I don't take a bus.)

Instead of accolades, many many Seattle residents complain now that we are driving up real estate prices and pushing people out of the cite because we all want to live close to where we work.

You can't win.
This isn't an assessment of content quality, it's of a user's experience.

All Google needs to do is optimize for things like time on page, CTRs, etc to see users abandoning those with paywalls and not those without to decide one is a better experience overall than another.
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>The Journal decided to stop letting people read articles free from Google after discovering nearly 1 million people each month were abusing the three-article limit. They would copy and paste Journal headlines into Google and read the articles for free, then clear their cookies to reset the meter and read more, Watford said.

After the harder paywall, what's the best guess of the percentage of those google-copy-pasters will convert[1] to subscribers paying $278 or $296.94 or $308.91 per year? My guess is less than 1/10th of 1%. I assume the vast majority of the 1 million are casual readers who don't have $300 discretionary income to splurge on a subscription. If they can't read for free with a workaround, they'll do without it.

In related trivia, I just read that The Economist's strategy is to allow the google-copy-pasters.

I'm not judging either company as right. It's interesting they go about it differently.

[1] 1 year costs must include full rate to the teaser introductory rates: https://buy.wsj.com/wsjusjune17/
Why would Apple make a "mechanical" keyboard when there's already multiple vendors like Matias (http://matias.ca/tactilepro/) that make several models of that exact thing?

Personally I think the new keyboards are really good, there's a lot less travel on each key which makes typing more efficient. Going back to an old keyboard with full travel feels like hammering on a typewriter.
I don't know about geography but High Sierra was also the name of the 1985-era CD ROM data specification. Apple was a participant. Named (if Wikipedia is to be believed) after the High Sierra Hotel and Casino that hosted the working group.
Yup. We used to call it "cloaking", I don't know if that's still a term in use in the SEO world.
You mean the diagnostic info which has a yes/no dialog box on every install? Or the iCloud syncing which is specifically opt-in?
If they build a better engine, do you get the new motor in a crate, or do you have to go to the vendor? You don't get it at all? So not the same way then.
But you still have to wait 6 months to get an iMac Pro.

Releasing the iMac Pro in December 2017 may as well be considered a 2018 release.
So why in US you can't buy anthelmintic drugs over the counter, without prescription. Or can you?
Wait wait wait... the last thing I want as a "Pro" is a single monitor. Feels like Apple is just repeatedly telling me to go somewhere else.
The one big question on my mind: have they fixed the "problem" of an app's rating (and reviews) only being that of the newest version?

I get that sometimes a version has severe bugs, and it's good that the negative ratings/reviews don't drag down the app's newer versions that fix the bugs.

But it's horrible that I can't tell whether a newly-released app has a history of being something more like a five-star app, or a one-star app—or whether it has no rating history at all. It incentivizes developers with shit apps to just constantly put out little tweak versions to suppress their rating.
The Reasoned Schemer sounds like it was part of a series, is that right? I remember reading about The Little Schemer and maybe The Seasoned Schemer. Are those all parts of the same series? Haven't read any of them yet, but hope to do so some day.

I like reading the classics of the field. Not only because they are classics, but also because they tend be well-written and hence more readable as well (than your average text). But maybe that is a tautology :) - they are classics because they are well-written ...

Update: Answering my own question - I saw here:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer

that it is part of a series, which includes the books I mentioned above.
Once a week? I think once a month is max for "organized" (as opposed to casual invites) team activities outside of 9-5. We do have fun offsites every few months though.
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I think that's just marketing bait trying to get to amateurs' ego for them to become self declared audio enthusiasts.
As a developer, this was the most exciting thing for me from today's WWDC opening speech. Can't wait to try this out myself. The demo they did with the AR game was really neat.
This reminds me of when Roger Ebert dismissed video games of being incapable of becoming art. Anything that requires creativity to make is art. Different mediums offer different avenues for creative expression as well as different ways of interacting with an audience.
So what happens to the "world's first HomePod"?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keecker/keecker-the-wor...

Looks like it just started production in December, too...
I wonder if Google will be very helpful toward WSJ after they convinced a lot of companies to stop advertising on YouTube.
I reluctantly recognize that in order to have an unbiased press, we need news readers to pay the costs of operating a newspaper. I'm happy to pay for my news, because I want news to be truth, not propaganda.

Maybe the moral of the story is that Google News isn't the best source of news -- just the cheapest.

Though I do think it would make sense for historical articles (i.e. articles older than some arbitrary time period) should be removed from the paywall so as to be searchable and able to be referenced.
Why do they need fingerprinting? They can just give you an identifier and combine it with your login on the Google sites to connect it to your identity.
SQLite has interesting papers about its internals: https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html
The road to power is paved with hypocrisy and casualties

source - Their own original series
We replaced the name Hermes with WittyThumbs above. The OP asked us to do it right after posting but I didn't see the email till now.

Using an older internal name can be a hard habit to break :)
This. I installed the personal blacklist extension for Chrome just to blacklist Quora results because of this. I wish Google would actually punish them more. I click through on something which looks relevant, and the result is a useless login screen. LinkedIn is the same.
I guess it worked ok for them, given that they are still doing it. I can never open a Forbes link. Not in a 'disable ad blocker pop-up' sort of way, but it just redirects to the home page. Sometimes it would work after a couple of tries. The upshot is that I never open Forbes links any more.
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I had my fingers crossed for this as well. I don't want to have to choose between an Esc key and performance.
Love seeing WebRTC and WebAssembly in the new version!

But truth be told, the only thing I really want from Safari is favicons on tabs along with page title. Kills usability for me otherwise.
Imagine you were a police officer with this mentality.

"As someone who investigates lots of crimes, it's totally fine if someone invokes the fifth amendment, I don't have the right to compel them to answer."

"I mean if you don't care about something prevents you from doing your job, why even join the force?"
Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books in his 72 years of life.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#cite_note-3)
As a former Apple fanboy that is also a Sonos lover, I'm starting to get annoyed by the fragmentation caused by the multiple product offerings in this category.

I have an Echo, 4 Echo Dots, one of every Apple Device, and a mix of other tech sprinkled throughout the house. I have already committed both my home and business to Sonos, and have zero desire to decommission those so that I can more easily play music from my Apple music library.

Do I wish that Sonos had a better/tighter integration with Amazon Prime or iTunes? Absolutely. However, I like the fact that it's platform agnostic. Apple could've solved a much bigger problem here, but instead chose to create a new one and solve that instead.
It's not clear if it'll start at $5K. The iMac Pro is a top-tier offering that goes beyond what the already expensive 27" iMac does, and it comes with a screen built-in. The Mac Pro today starts at $3K, so you'll probably see something at the same mark when it does get launched.
Sonos also does auto tuning now. The speaker plays a test tone as you walk around the room with an iOS or Android device with the Sonos app listening.
I think that is part of their goal / style. They are meant to be lightweight and fun and easy-to-read intros to topics for beginners, who would get put off by more formal / less joke-y prose.
The iMac pro will fit in a big pelican case and be good for on-site video workloads. this is a real need, and probably accounts for a lot of the mac pro trashcan use now.
The whole purpose of making a webcrawler for a search engine is that you are crawling the content that a user will see upon clicking a link in search results.
That does seem like an issue with the study, from the pdf:

"Two primary channels emerge through which intervention affects antisocial behavior and cognitive outcomes. First, intervention may dramatically reduce the amount of continued childhood exposure to the dangerous neurotoxin by directly reducing exposure risks within the home environment. Second, long-term benefits may occur through improvements in early-life health unrelated to any changes in lead exposure. [11] ...

[11] The elevated BLL intervention package includes treatments previously demonstrated to impact later-life outcomes such as: visits from health workers; increased medical care; nutritional assessments and dietary modifications; and referral to the Special Supplemental, Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Prior research documents long-term benefits from programs similar to each of these elements ..."

Why didn't they control for the other intervention treatments? One where they reduce BLL + other treatments, and one where they didn't reduce BLL but still gave the other treatments?
Possible, but seems unlikely. To set that up the WSJ website would have to allow Googlebot access while denying others. Any filtering based on the url or HTTP headers would be discovered and abused by others. An approach based on a security token or IP filter could work, but would be un-managable on Google's side because of the scale of their spidering operation. It would be much more effective for them to use their position to force the WSJ to be an open website, or to accept that their paywalled content does not get indexed.
That's a no-no. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en
They specifically mentioned that they have PNGs of logos that they avoid converting if they're <300kb. Optipng would work well on the images that they keep in PNG format.
Missing: links from Facebook increased significantly. (I imagine)
They're pretty stable, with the high alcohol content they don't really need to be refrigerated, but doing so will extend their life.
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"Private equity" is any investment position, including VC, in a private company. What you are describing is specifically distressed investments. There are plenty of firms who make growth or mezzanine investments in established companies that need a quick infusion of capital.
Yeah, you can pair an Echo Dot with a nice speaker like a Sonos Play 5, it'll probably sound even better.

Of course, at that point you're paying $549 instead of $349, so that's not really the same thing at all.
> Sexism on HN is prevalent

Sexism on HN is prevalent amongst the most downvoted comments on the page perhaps...

I wouldn't say this community has a sexism problem any more than "real life has a sexism problem", the same - or worse, heavily upvoted sexist comments can be found in just about any other online community, so making it out like HN in particular has a problem when quite clearly the majority around here do not exhibit that is quite a stretch.
Why is that a red flag? Some people just want a career, not a new set of friends.
What makes you think that? A large part of the cost of the iMac is the screen & design. I would expect an entry level new Mac Pro to cost exactly the same or less than every other Mac Pro, so around 3K.
No, they are not. All extreme edition CPU's from Intel are cut down Xeons with deactivated features (like ECC support), and the need to buy hardware dongles to make RAID 5 and RAID 10 work.

EDIT: read the children posts. I mistakenly read "chip" instead of "line". Of course Xeons are a different line compared to Intels extreme line. The above about the extreme series CPU's being cut down Xeons is still true but in this context wrong and irrelevant.
Can you name a major political group or politician in SF that takes that stance? I'm not super integrated into SF politics, but everyone I know who's against restrictive measures like the OP suggests aren't voting for stricter supply (and if they are I don't want to support them).
This is great, for a while it seemed 80% of the top 5's were WSJ, I got really tired of clicking to read a headline and getting the pop up saying something like "Wow, you clicks us a lot, you must like us, how about you pay?", Well no, actually you are just over ranked on so many topics...
I am pretty sure ton in India means metric ton, not [US] ton.
There are also no jobs. Relative to median income housing is actually kind of expensive in many of those places.

Jobs, affordable housing -- pick one.

There are a few bargain markets like Detroit, but not many.
It's like people think that FSF is a completely dogmatic and uncompromising organization. In fact, they're interested in whatever serves their mission, including compromising when they feel it's worthwhile. This is nothing new. It's just that most of the compromises that other people wish they would make they feel do not serve their free software mission.
to my understanding, if someone can receive your sms, then he can use it to login your gmail (recovery gmail account by sms)
> a lossless format [is] pretty much pointless for photos

Why is that? Every edit you make to that photo means that the photo will degrade in quality. I always thought JPEG artifacts and compression lossage was a bad thing for photos, not a good thing?
I would ask you to reconsider your attitude here. There is a strong element of unfair and unfounded accusation in this thread that has basically created bad-faith dialogue here. While there may be insensitive or even overtly sexist people that comment here, your own minimization of unfair attitudes w.r.t the presence of good men with your snide hashtag reference is a serious part of the problem too.
They have deprecated the whole idea of RAM as a spec. At https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/, they only list "capacity" (of 64GB, 256GB, 512GB), and have no mention of RAM anywhere. Interesting. I guess they are viewing RAM versus persistent flash memory as just another level of tiering/caching, and believe their swap is so good that it all blends together.
I believe the phrase is often used to define companies that sell users information to advertisers to generate the majority of their profit. How does Apple engage in this practice?
>> that no matter how good the argument is, it won't beat a bad one.

What kind of absurd, nihilist nonsense is this? Sounds like yet another example of Trump's opponents being unable to think critically and assuming their attempt at forcing terrible policy down the throats of common people is a "good argument" against the threat of facism.

Trump is winning precisely because there's no "good alternative", 99% of all "alternatives" are just less shitty, and even then only less shitty for certain segments of the population. People never resort to facism with good alternatives, yet strangely it's the default whenever they're stuck with a shit sandwich.

But I mean only all of history repeats this lesson, not like we'd expect anyone to understand that or anything.
Apple is trying to made ipad become a laptop by adding keyboard, pen, upgrading iOS (files app, drop-n-drag).
It is funny because most people will go to work with a Mac/PC. Why should Apple try to make iPad become a Pc?

It is so late because Microsoft has Surface pro which runs windows long time ago. It is funny to see Apple adding file app, drag-n-drop features as improvements.
12 inch macbooks now have upto 16 gb memory
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook
> Authorities, especially institutions of higher learning, shouldn't be in the business of policing their student's speech. That's not "culture." That's oppression.

I considered that to be an absolutist argument

That item just on happens to be on the other side of my "line." By your logic, anyone who has a position on the wrong side of your "line" is "absolutist." I don't think that word means what you think it means.

I think there are contexts in which authorities (EDIT: non-governmental authorities) can police speech in a way that is not oppressive.

Sure. There's definitely a line. The point at which authority, even non-violence based non-governmental authority, can be used to suppress dissent through societal and/or economic coercion, there is a moral line which has been crossed. It's even built into human psychology. The psychological threat of exclusion from a group is very strong, because in the prehistoric past, exclusion from the group was tantamount to a sentence of slow, lingering death. An organization using such a fear to enforce a political view is crossing a moral line parallel and nearby the moral line crossed by an organization (or an informal association of "activists") using the fear of violence to do the same.

So if Harvard had put these students on academic probation or something instead, you wouldn't necessarily have a problem? That's something I can get behind. I thought you were opposed to any action being taken against these students of any kind.

Sure. I wouldn't be "getting behind" that, but I wouldn't be "up in arms" against something like that, since it is temporary and non-exclusionary.
While this is true, the i9 18-core part is the first they've launched after AMD made their big move with their new 8 and 16 core parts.

It's possible that Intel might have to claw back Xeon pricing accordingly to defend their market share.
I agree that that's super interesting, but it's not "without quality loss".