skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As I listed above there are at least 100+ more companies supporting H.265 than AoM.

AV1 isn't finalized yet. Of course HEVC is being shipped in more stuff, it's being shipped at all. I'm not debating this, there's no debate. At present HEVC has more support than a codec that isn't yet finished. H.264 had more support when VP9 was being developed too, that doesn't make VP9 inferior to H.264.

> broadcast standard for terrestrial TV which is still hugely popular in many countries

Broadcast TV is a different world to the web and has very different concerns.

> 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).

This is demonstrably not true as YouTube and Netflix both currently and successfully utilize VP9, which Apple doesn't support. Apple users just get the inferior H.264 codec.

The question is really whether the browser and other OS vendors are going to start supporting HEVC and given the current patent situation, that seems impossible, so we're going to end up in a fragmented world where for web streaming, most users get AV1 while Apple users and anyone else who doesn't support AV1 gets H.264.
Why not use Google's Guetzli to compress JPEGs?
This is the standard rebuttal to the standard Apple argument.

"Why not just build a machine out of individual parts X Y and Z for $nnn less than Apple's price"?

It completely ignores, at a minimum:

- Apple vertical integration

- All-in-one support/replacement

- The OS

Yes, you can technically build a machine with equivalent hardware specs for some $dollars less. The target market is probably not interested in doing so, and they wouldn't get OS X anyways without hacking, which is half of the freakin' point.

Someone editing 4K+ video on Final Cut professionally wants a machine that runs Final Cut (which eliminates non-Macs), has the hardware to meet that use case, and that they don't have to screw with or have randomly break with updates (which eliminates Hackintoshes). We all agree with this yes?

Has Mac hardware carried a premium over equivalent specced individual parts since forever? You know the answer. The target market for the computer does. not. care.

Can we please not relitigate tired Mac-vs-PC arguments that are old enough to drink? They've never been relevant or interesting.
> how much you earn is based on how much value you provide.

Sadly, 20+ years in the tech industry has cured me of this belief.

I was at Yahoo at one time. There were quite a few "Friends of Jerry" floating around, making 6 figures, doing absolutely nothing (no offense to Jerry). Eventually they all drifted away, but not before they had accumulated a good amount of cash.

I have an acquaintance who befriended a founder of a major company that went public, now valued into the 10s of Bs of dollars. For 5 years he worked there, from the beginning. No one knew what the hell he did there, but he was just floating around the CEO. He left the company recently, and bought a 5M+ pad in SF. Till today, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who can describe what he did there for 5 years.

Look at many of the CEOs of companies. I could argue that for many of them, what value they provide to the company is negligible. The company runs mostly by itself, and they just hang around playing golf, collecting multi-million dollar paychecks. Terry Semel of Yahoo collected 100s of millions of dollars in stocks, but fumbled the Google deal, Facebook, etc. The man couldn't even use the Yahoo search engine properly!
Haha yea totally. How might we make tracking CO2 profitable? One of those betting sites like the presidential election?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/writeup/us_president...!
> VP9 versus H.265

AV1 it's not same thing as VP9
Until we fix the public transit situation we're over-provisioned, not under.
What is misleading about that? I merely stated that they are the same chip at the start, but Intel deactivates features on the extreme series to segregate the market (nothing wrong with that).

Also see my edit of my original post where I mistakenly misread "line" as "chip" as stated.

> They bin things for a reason.

Yes, of course, so that the extreme series doesn't cut into the margins of the server market. If you could run RAID 5 and 10 without hardware dongles and ECC on the extreme series some smaller companies would probably prefer the i9 18 core for 2000$ to the 3000-4000$ 18 core Xeons. Again, this is fine, but Xeons and extreme series start of as the same chip. That's all I wanted to say on top of my correction of my original post.
How does this compare to iMacros or other in-browser solutions?
After "5" I figure it's got momentum and/or reflects a structural problem with recruiting, and either way it is going to become much harder to fix in the future.
but those are not two mutually exclusive options. There is a difference between suppressing a minority voice (perspective) away from editing an article as opposed to INCLUDING a minority reference or fact in the article itself.
You won't see > 16GB till cannon lake, probably some time in 2018. Kaby lake nor coffee lack support LPDDR4 and LPDDR3 is limited to 16GB.

This is an Intel problem, not an Apple problem really, the only thing Apple could do about it is use DDR4L which would cut battery like quite a bit and require a whole new motherboard (and probably battery) design.
> I fear that this is the future of the country: vast majority of the people barely getting by

This entire thread is filled with emotion, feelings instead of facts.

It must be tough having one of the highest median incomes on the planet, with ~330 million people. A median income so high, the British median income by comparison barely qualifies as equivalent to the 50th poorest state.

In the last ~15/30/50 years more middle class people have moved up into the the upper classes economically, than have moved down. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-middle-class-...

[1a] http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-cl...

[1b] http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-americas-middle-class-has...
Earlier discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446204

I asked:
"How many FVB/N zygotes were injected to generate those 11 original mice?"
Missing: Service Workers and web.bluetooth!
An yubikey is certainly better and simpler.

Maybe if modern phones have special hardware features where key material can be stored, so that it can't be duplicated.
Isle of Man? Not subject to UK law, 0% Corporation Tax, still physically very close.
> KELT-9b is 2.8 times more massive than Jupiter, but only half as dense.

> Because the planet is tidally locked to its star

What does it mean for a gas giant to be tidally locked?
Yea totally, cheap energy = cheap compute = cheap mining
This probably should have a "(2014)" on the end of the title.
Isn't a silicon atom only like .2 nm wide? My guess is that a gate needs to be at least a few atoms wide so 1nm would seem to be decently close to the literal limit for silicon.
It generally seems to be a lot easier to generate political action around certain types of issues than others. It's hard to get hundreds of people into the streets to demand better transportation and sewer system repair, even if those issues are measurably more impactful than something like police violence.
Is this "you" "anybody on HN" or "you WittyThumbs"? Because it sounds cool as heck, but I'm not associated with WittyThumbs
Which is one of the reasons I'm considering an XPS 13 over a Surface.

I actually like touch screens, but they do not work well in Linux. I didn't 'get' Windows 8 until I got my Surface, and I really enjoy using the touch screen when browsing the web and just screwing around with my computer. Touch/pen is a lot more convenient than any other mouse replacement while on the go.

I will be surprised if the Linux community does anything meaningful with touch in the next 5 years though.

As for WiFi, I hate how finicky it is, but it isn't really the developers fault. I spent an entire week trying to get a "Linux compatible" WiFi dongle working before I gave up and returned it. The drivers had been written for Linux 4.1 or maybe even 3.xx. Once I took care of all of the errors and got the driver to compile, I learned that the USB 3.0 version never worked on Linux, despite the fact that the manufacturer had compiled a driver.

At least every new install of Linux doesn't start from the command line, unless you are looking for a distro like that.
I hope you remember your comment when you're 72 years old collecting those shopping carts.
> I can't agree with you. If you work for a company that makes negative assumptions about you because of your gender/race, you'll have a worse experience that when they make positive assumptions.

The parent's assertion is trivially rebuttable. Here's an article written by the first woman partner at a major New York law firm: https://www.ou.org/jewish_action/11/2012/striking-a-balance-.... The firm in question has cultivated a reputation for its politeness and professionalism over 168 years.

The culture was great for favored people, even back in the 1960s. Ms. Kess speaks highly of her colleagues: "My colleagues were ethical, brilliant, helpful people." But not so for disfavored people. She writes of what happened after she got pregnant: "In those days, the firm did not offer maternity leave and I was afraid to say anything. I knew that secretaries who became pregnant were dismissed, but I was the first woman attorney at the firm to have a baby."

In the end, the firm was accommodating, and Ms. Kess went on to become the first woman partner at the firm. But hey, whatever happened to those secretaries?
As another straight white man, let me suggest that we are generally the last people to notice discriminatory environments. We are all much more likely to notice things that harm us than things that work in our favor. The way to find out the extent of this problem is to listen to the people most likely to experience it.
It would be very interesting if Search could differentiate between the three users:

- WSJ subscriber, where WSJ results should be present and maybe even get a ranking boost.

- User happy with paywall results, these results could be surfaced, with UI treatment indicating paywall.

- User uninterested in paywall results, where these results would be essentially removed.

The ranking between the latter 2 of these users could be a bit of a sliding scale too, rather than two distinct groups.
I caught a snippet of his comments, complaining about managing "thousands of flights" using "slips of paper".

It's been a few years, but I recall reading at least one article wherein was described how those slips of paper actually made a lot of sense. (It may have been one of the articles that made the rounds, describing the surprising endurance and resilience of paper-based work.)

The slips of paper supported both regular and immediate, ad hoc workflows as they were needed. Also, paper is immune to systems failures. Your electronic board goes down -- you still have all your flights at hand. Start spacing them and shoving incoming traffic into wider holding patterns.
Is it a randomized number per card per merchant, or just a randomized number per card?
Looks like the iOS 11 site it totally broken though:
https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-11-preview/

The images make little sense. And then I got to the point where paragraphs referenced photo animations and the images were still, and realized they probably wanted to make some fancy animation that's not working on firefox.

I tried on chromium, and then on Safari on my iPhone. Same results. Not sure if they screwed up or what, but even the "Live Photos" images are stills that make no sense.
The market is properly weighted by dollars, not by number of people. A 100,000 people each willing to pay $200 a year for a subscription is a larger part of the market than 5 million people that will collectively click on 20 million ads in a year that generate an average of $0.001 for each click.
Presumably they will have software allowing you to search their private archive. Why would Google want to be this software?
It's far better than that. The US median has done extremely well, with substantial progression upward instead of what this thread would have you believe (downward).

A few minutes researching the matter makes it rather blatant.

eg:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/27/myth-of-the-declining-midd...

http://reason.com/blog/2015/12/10/the-middle-class-is-shrink...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/06/21/sure-the...

http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-americas-middle-class-has...

And a few dozen other media stories on this fact from the last few years.
As you have considered the cost of financing for your tuition you should consider the cost of financing for invest in the stock market.
The "Foxconn Insider" on Reddit claimed the original designs were using the P3 style frames[0] (in colors Clear, Champagne, and Black). In my humble opinion, this is a savvy choice – while maybe not as "iconic" as your average Wayfarer-style glasses, the P3 style speaks to many demographics. They are quite in style these days.

The same leaker said there were also plans to release new styles seasonally (presumably in order to stay in style) – which begs the question: would the projection apparatus be modular?

FWIW the "leaker" claimed the project was postponed indefinitely due to battery manufacturing feasibilities.

0. http://www.bensilver.com/The-P3-Shape.html
You don't know a single iOS or MacOS developer?
> I wish google now could discern between myself and other 'john' + 'smith''s. I get one johns son's report cards...

> I shouldn't of registered my real name as my email address on gmail...

Is that Google's problem, or the problem of the people sending you mail? I don't think you can really fault Google for letting people mistakenly send email to your valid address.

I managed to grab the first initial + lastname gmail address for my fairly uncommon name. I regularly get a small amount of mail indented for other people, but it's clear it's all the result of typos or other mistakes.
"It's lit."

I love Apple trying to relate to young people
> I always thought JPEG artifacts and compression lossage was a bad thing for photos, not a good thing?

Sure JPEG artefacts are bad, but that can be mitigated (stop compressing so much). Your photos being an order of magnitude larger is worse, and inherent to the way PNG works.
On the Surface side, there's Gabe from Penny Arcade, who's kind of informally become their artist advocate. If the Pencil's fidelity is as good as the Surface's -- and I wouldn't expect it not to be -- it seems like it would be perfectly capable.

That said, the Surface also works because it can run full versions of programs like Photoshop. I don't know how that plays out on iOS.
> [...] and having to take it with her to the bathroom (feeling somewhat self conscious about how her more frequent trips appeared to her younger, generally male coworkers)

Get one of these kitchen timers [1].

Set it to about 25 minutes.

When it goes off get up from your desk and spend a few minutes walking around the office.

Return to your desk, reset the timer, and go to prior step.

When you wish to visit the bathroom do so on one of your strolls around the office.

Coworkers will ask what you are doing (this is one of the reasons to use a physical timer instead of something running on your computer...it will be noticeable). Here are three reasonable explanations for why you go on a stroll around the office every 25 minutes or so.

1. It is unhealthy to sit for extended periods. If you get up and move around every 25 or 30 minutes or so most of the bad effects of sitting can be eliminated or greatly reduced [2].

2. When solving problems it is best to have a mix of "focused mode" and "diffuse mode" thinking. Get into focused mode and then when the timer goes off you can take a break and let diffuse mode take over. That walk around the office is perfect for some diffuse mode thinking. There is much more about this in the "Learning How To Learn" course available at Coursera.

3. There is a time management technique called the Pomodoro Technique [3] built around breaking tasks into 25 minute chunks paced using a timer.

Once people see you doing this I'd not be surprised if several other coworkers start doing the same. Reason #1 alone will get a lot of people.

Once several people are doing this no one will have any idea how often you visit the bathroom (well, except for those people whose can see the bathroom from their desks). And as a side effect you'll have better health and productivity.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/60-Minute-Kitcher-Timer-Tomato/dp/B00...

[2] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/cuesitstand.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Lol. Phishing automation tool?
>If you see a space gray iMac [...]

I'm not sure how that matters? This iMac in most cases won't be portable, so the only people who see it will be the ones using it or at least working with those who do.

You sort of make it sound equivalent to the old thing about how Macbooks had lit-up Apple logos on the shell and people would know "oh this person spent thousands on their Apple laptop..." But I don't think it's the same situation here.
It still must be nice to be able to pull out your tablet-esque tablet and be connected to the internet anywhere you go. Especially as CAT-6 LTE is being rolled out in my city (Toronto) with comparable speeds as my home interest in recent years.

This will definitely become a must-have feature in future machines for me. I would no longer have to worry whether or not my local coffeeshop's internet is running slow or takes 5 minutes to properly connect to some random public wifi at a new place.

Public WIFI is prevelant but still very hit/miss. A consitent fast LTE connection would be quite the luxury.

It'd also totally kill SMS and telephone plans which I'm looking forward to the most. Encrypted E2E crypto for both voice/text will be a great incentive for this too.
Adam Grant whose book "Originals" is a main topic in this this article gave a great Ted Talk on "Originals" here:

"The surprising habits of original thinkers"

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_o...
Yeah basically until now if you wanted to do AR you would need to role your own or use a third party library. Having ARKit as part of iOS will make building an AR app much easier.
You get fired for complaining? (I'm only half in jest, here.)
Yes - thanks. :)
This "discrimination" is by design, they should quit crying
That would require Google to be in the business of knowing every site that you have a membership in.

It is not possible for Google to get access to cookies for other sites, anyway. This is a pretty fundamentally important security restriction that browsers implement to protect you from nefarious sites. So it isn't possible for Google to know which sites you have paid accounts with unless you explicitly tell it.
Interesting to see GreenDot as their operating partner here
I really don't think it's insidious - the negative effects are obvious. The issue is that open offices are cheaper and you can put a lot more people per square foot in them. They also often look visually more appealing.
lol at "creating drama and magnifying issues" being just as bad as racism and sexism, and also somehow "on the other hand". Groups I've worked in that are all dudes are the most f'king dramatic I've been involved in. No meeting I've been in with multiple women has ever descended into a screaming match.

I fully admit women may be just as capable of being dramatic ego-driven shits as men, and my sample size is just too small, but your dichotomy is dumb.

Besides, "magnifying issues" is a key component of kanban. If you aren't welcome to magnify issues, the culture is probably going to deevolve over time.
Design is urinal. Art is fountain
I bought a new Thinkpad last fall and it has a slot for a SIM card. What I don't know is where on earth I can get a good cellular internet plan I can use with this! Just something for occasional light use (emergency SSH sessions, etc).
Same. As an example of how Google enriches lives, my mom (age 66) just sent an amazing video of photos and video clips from the first year of my son's life, set to an amazing score. Google made that for her automatically, without prompting.
Measure S did NOT pass https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/7/14850898/live-election-result...
Yes please. Now to find the design files..
Still no favicons in tabs ? Damn it Apple.. it's 2017.
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The cynic in me sees this as cutting off Google, and then tracking within the browser so they become the source of cross-internet tracking. I'd be on the lookout for any new 'personalization' feature that comes in to the browser. E.g. WWDC 2018: 'Today we're happy to announce Siri integration with safari! She will provide personalized recommendations and results by applying machine learning to your documents and data!'
In the military we work with all sorts of people, at least with respect to gender, race, religion, and to a lesser extent sexuality. At the same time, admittedly most were Republican and none of us did drugs.

If you're willing work with Republicans and/or non-drug users (most tech people are super far left and absolutely will not) then working for an ex-mil manager or with ex-mil coworkers will likely be an extremely pleasant experience as they're very comfortable around people of color and women. On the other hand, if weed smoking on duty and membership in Antifa is also required (why?), the ex-mil department might not be as good of a fit.

On a larger scale piece of advice, even if you don't apply this specific match, it is useful to consider that its highly unlikely that your definition of the progressive stack perfectly and precisely matches everyone else on the planets individual definition of the progressive stack, so hopefully inspired by this post, you'll pay close attention to variations in progressive stack composition, assuming you pick your next job solely on political compatibility.
I believe it was briefly mentioned that it wouldn't be available until this fall.
I prefer my parents to have iOS over Windows. Do you think the folks who prefer Chromebooks really value feature parity?
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I would view that more as people living outside their means than "barely getting by".

I know I was in this situation post-university: earning a good salary but with low savings because it took time for me to learn how to budget/control spending.
2 reasons come to mind. 1) it costs a fair bit of money to move. Especially half way across the US. Saving up the necessary money for a bus ticket may be impossible (no bank account, don't want to keep that money on you for fear of theft, you won't have a credit card so it must be cash, etc). 2) Support networks. Generally homeless people either have relatives, friends or at least case workers who can help them if they get into trouble. Not everyone knows someone in another city to help them land on their feet.
Double plus good point.