skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's new about this is that Apple is FINALLY listening to its power iPad users!

Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac. Moreover it even allows you to sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. Lastly, it's putting in an actual dock, multiple window layouts, easy copy paste.

I think it's a real game changer and all of these are features that I've been truly looking forward to. It's almost like a turning point in my mind. It's crossed the threshold to where iOS can indeed act as a laptop/desktop replacement for a huge number of people.

Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; I don't think it'll be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.
This lazy out-of-context meme needs to die

https://www.quora.com/Was-Steve-Jobs-right-when-he-said-that...
To put that into perspective, India's last Mars satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission weighed 1.3 metric tons, and was launched on PSLV-XL.
Useless OS. Will be getting a Surface.
I am absolutely preordering the HomePod.
The Reasoned Schemer: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer

Learning more and more about imperative programming, OOP, design patterns, etc is good, but branching out into declarative programming and the functional and logic paradigms will stretch your mind for the better.

The great thing, I think, about The Reasoned Schemer is that it tackles a complex topic with almost no prose. The whole book is basically one code example after another, in a Q/A style. "What does this do?" <allow you to think about it> "Here is what it does, and here's why." Rinse and repeat. I think more technical books should try this.
Nice, I like Google Map solution. However graphic design is poor
because desktop linux is god awful.
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I'm told Apple laptops are too expensive, so I ask which Windows laptop I should get and I'm told a Surface, a Thinkpad X1 Carbon, an XPS 13... all of which are exactly comparable in price with a Macbook.

My ThinkPad is easy to repair (already did a small repair myself), has support for a docking station (currently I don't need it, but a friend loves it), has an ethernet port (I won't buy a laptop that has no ethernet ports), allows one to buy a battery (or even buy a larger battery if I prefer one), allows me to add additional RAM myself if I conclude that I need more, ...
Interesting...I'd rate these no more offensive than Sarah Silverman stand up.
I'm using Surface Ergonomic keyboards at home and at work, can confirm good build quality.

I won't weigh in on quality of typing experience. Everybody I know says that I type like I'm trying to beat my keyboard to death, so while I like typing on them quite a lot, I don't know if that'd transfer to someone else.

Only hiccup I've found is that you need Bluetooth 4.0 for the new low-power state, so you'll probably have to buy a dongle even if you have a brand-new fancy laptop.
How does the keyboard you linked to help reduce repetitive stress injuries?
GSLV Mk III is a brand new launch vehicle. Usually, ISRO starts with conservative payload numbers for all their launch vehicles, and keep improving them iteratively. We have seen this happening with PSLV and GSLV Mk II as well. We can expect ISRO to bump up GSLV Mk III payload capacity in subsequent launches.
> Why don't we store a url to the decoder inside images and other compressed files for maximum flexibility?

Image formats are already some of the biggest attack surface of modern systems, "executable" image formats (hello PDF) have an absolutely ghastly track record there.

And not being able to open an image if you don't have an internet connection sounds dreadful.
Here’s the example case: https://www.out-law.com/page-8457

But EURid also de-registers almost all other domain squatters, as they actually wrote that into the contract.

> And the simplest answer is contracts.

Contracts are simply something enforced by law. Law can be changed. If not, law is simply something enforced by society and constitutions, constitutions can be changed.

The German constitution, for example, says that the right to own property only exists as long as that property is used for public good. In any other case, it can be seized.

Seizing the TLDs, or requiring DNS servers in your country to redirect the TLDs to other operators, would be an option.

And, as drastic as this sounds, it’s preferable over the current situation. Corporate squatting is inacceptable.
L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much
A decent overview: https://panopticlick.eff.org/about

Test your browser: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Which has what to do with modern windows?
Well the downside of it is that you can use iPad pro without keyboard because its optimized for a touch, while with Surface pro you can't do much without a keyboard, windows is nowhere near as touch friendly as iOS. So you end up with a flimsy laptop like tablet that you can't even put on your laps without it collapsing...
Apple unveils HomePod smart speaker at $349
There was an interesting study I remember reading along these lines.

They took two equivalent classes of pottery students. Group A was told that they'd be graded based on the number of pieces made, while group B was based off the quality of a single submitted piece. Following the given incentives involved, group A made a bunch of pottery, while group B tried really hard at making good pottery.

What's interesting is at the end of the class, group A's pottery was better than group B's. Making a lot of pottery without caring about the quality of any individual piece is better at making high quality pottery.

The key takeaway I got is that you're generally able to magically become better at things you do a lot of. So if you want to get good at something, just do it more, and results will generally follow.
I just got a Surface and it's unsettling how nice it feels and works. Like it shouldn't be a MS product.
> The only people using Python 2 are now people stuck with legacy code base

Like tensorflow - https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1
The core idea does, but according to the comparison table HEIF seems to go quite a bit beyond BPG.
Ah, have fun over there
Apple announces HomePod speaker
This seems conceptually most similar to Fabrice Bellard's proposal 'BPG' [1], which was essentially a lightweight wrapper around an HEVC I-frame. The format got small amounts of attention in encoding circles, but didn't pick up mainstream traction.

The image encoding layer of HEIF is the same HEVC, but the container is MPEG-4 Part 12 (the Quicktime-descendant ISO Base Media Format; the core behind .mp4, .3gp, etc.), which theoretically gives it wide support. In this structure, HEIF supports image sequences, which will help it compete with animated GIF, GIFV (which is really just a short MPEG-4 Part 14 file containing usually an H.264 video track), animated WebP (who uses these?), and WebM.

This format doesn't really blaze new ground (EDIT: it does in the sense that it defines a container format to express image-y constructs like still images and sequences of images in an ISO media container, but see my other comment that asks how this is similar but different to video [3]), but if this repackaging and the resulting code donation and political clout helps it gain traction, we still would gain a lot.

The problem, of course, is always with backwards-compatibility. WebP was aggressively promoted by Google the same way Microsoft used to promote its quirky Windows Media formats back in the early 2000s, but the WebP and non-WebP camps are still largely separate. This is unfortunate, because WebP in my opinion really isn't very good, and a backwards-compatible compressor on top of JPEG, such as Dropbox's Lepton [2] achieves similar results. Any HEVC-based image compressor is necessarily incompatible with JPEG; so broad buy-in would be required from makers of software and hardware products, from operating systems, file managers, image viewers, image editors, cameras, and the like, to really enjoy its improved compression rates, vs. being just another incompatible format that only functions inside controlled ecosystems.

The video codec AV1 currently in development was supposed to be a grand alliance of disparate companies to agree on a common format for the future, and rectify the WebM vs. non-WebM split, but continuing to promulgate sophisticated formats based on work outside of this scope (such as MPEG- or ITU-derived custom formats) just muddies this further.

[1] https://bellard.org/bpg/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230805
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14490734
iOS 11 brings drag-and-drop, windows and a file system to iPad
ARKit was one of the most interesting features announced this WWDC. Can't wait to play around with some demo code and see what it's like.
Quantity trumps quality.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
Did the VCs make money?
Well, avoiding people like you is a solid first step towards finding a good environment.
I'm not a woman but I have a few ideas that might help:

* Check glassdoor.com to see what current and former employees have said about the company and how they rate it. While the feedback may not be specific to gender / diversity concerns, you can probably get a good feel for whether or not it's a happy place or a disgruntled place.

* Ask how many women work there in developer roles.

* Try to find a publicly traded company to work at verses a startup. A publicly traded company has a real HR department and potentially a lot to lose if they get sued. In a startup, there typically is no HR department. There might be one person who is in charge of some HR-related things like benefit administration, but that person is not equipped to deal with things like handling sexual harassment allegations. That person is also likely be friends with the founders.
Of course not, but it shows that transparent in-place update should be possible.
You can completely use a Surface Pro without a keyboard. It has a touch screen, on-screen keyboard and a stylus. I use it frequently without a keyboard.
The CFA doesn't cover settlements at all, nor does it have anything to do with gov bond structuring, and very, very little on compliance. (Basically the bare minimum you need to know on ethics and asset manager code of conduct/GIPS).

The vast majority of the CFA curriculum covers investing fundamentals, including accounting (100% necessary for building models), quant (obviously necessary), econ (pretty important).
Historically, Apple has been verrrrrry anal about making their x-ray marketing images reflect the real design that is hiding inside their units...and I definitely saw RAM sticks in slots when they were showing off the fans. So maybe they have changed course just a little?
Thumbs up for Apple distinguishing themselves by their pro-privacy stance, as opposed to MS, who don't have anything to win by Win10's excessive "telemetry" IMHO.
i'm not sure why anyone would assume this was the only piece of evidence presented in the trial of this person.
Webpack v3.0.0-rc.0 released
The other factor being that colleges want to boast about their 99% four year graduation rate.
I also belong to the poor-but-educated-parents so I know what you're saying. I would assume the explanation for people with poor parents doing worse is because the parents have less time to be involved. But if you want to know more there are numerous studies. :)
Never, ever. There is a vast interest in running sanctioned apps only on the iPad Pro.
> As for culture, I'd say just ask. Ask what the team does for fun. That will more or less tell you if you will fit in or not.

How will that tell you if they are accepting of e.g. non-binary people?
SSIM being a global metric is not sufficient for many cases. Images with soft gradient tend to be overcompressed.

MozJPEG is a good improvement. But its trellis cost model causes noticeable blurriness on fine details [1]. Compare with the original [2], Guetzli [3] or my Optimage [4].

So, 'Without (Visual) Quality Loss' is such a stretch.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/6naOWSf.jpg
[2] http://i.imgur.com/jny5miJ.jpg
[3] http://i.imgur.com/gkO2HsP.jpg
[4] http://i.imgur.com/GEshKJD.jpg
It's easy to dump on the management fee, especially seeing the world through the underfunded entrepreneur's eyes.

But the VC fee structure is probably among the most honest and legit setups in all of finance.

Look at Private Equity (PE) fees. In addition to whatever the LPs are directly paying, portfolio companies themselves are posting up huge fees back to the PE firm. Plus dividends, director fees, you name it. "Promotes" for putting a deal together with a syndicate. Etc. etc.

Look at lending. You've got stated rates but all kinds of extra fees, origination expenses, etc. baked in. When your lender gives you an APR, he is looking at a projected IRR that is way higher, I guarantee.

Early stage VCs -- with few exceptions, and those mainly during weird downturn / recap scenarios -- are generally getting plain vanilla convertible preferred stock. No management fees. No origination / finder's fees. No director fees. No promotes.

There are, by the way, some mechanisms for dealing with absurd fees (in VC and other asset classes). They're well known, and already practiced by savvy LPs with leverage.
Apple announces the HomePod
The Evolution of Cloud Computing
No mention (nor on macrumors) as to whether or not this means that the MBP would support >16GB of RAM (the previous claim, IIUC, is that Kaby Lake would handle this for the low-powered DIMMs Apple prefers).
Amazon Prime is available on all nVidia Shield TVs.
The big question to me is whether it's enabled by default, and whether it blocks requests to Google Analytics. If so, that's an interesting shot across the bow.
Anything proprietary? Trivial example: Windows or MacOS system headers.
The point was that a stylus isn't required. It still isn't required.
Worth dropping this article here, too. https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/11/hands-on-powering-the-macbook...
I think this is the first time Apple has advertised the specific GPU vendor and product line in their product since... the powerbook maybe? I might have missed out on a few examples. Vega must be really something.
> Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac, and even allows it to now sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. I think it's a real gamechanger and something I've been personally waiting on.

We'll see how well it works, I suppose. Remember that Apple thought this was a dumb, backwards feature (paraphrasing) when people were asking for it years ago.

> Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; it won't be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.

What are you basing the "won't be long" sentiment on?

I don't mean to get on you, but there's a lot of optimism in your post, and I'm not sure that's entirely warranted just yet. Yeah the hardware is a lot better, but it's yet to be seen if it's still just a giant iPhone from a software perspective. Of course, you may think my cynicism is unwarranted, that's fair too.
Something just feels so off when their closing announcement is a glorified speaker.

There's an underwhelming feeling to this that is accentuated by the fact that isn't a novel breakthrough in the slightest. Literally introducing a speaker that does, more or less, what Amazon's echo has done for over a year.
I mean, if you were trying to be ambitious only to serve your own happiness, then I'd say you were doing it for the wrong reasons in the first place. If that isn't you goal, a promise of tranquility and joy is hardly a sufficient reason to give up your ambitions.
That, to me, is one of the defining features of a general-purpose computer. Can I develop software for it, with it?

Perhaps it might not be pleasant, if the hardware isn't very powerful - looking at 20 lines of code on a netbook screen, or waiting for the serial communication to catch up to my terminal on the embedded board - but it makes it a tool with which you can do real work. Tablets and phones don't count yet.

Edit: Yes, I am aware of the SSH clients, with which you can connect to a remote server, do the development there, and download the resulting app. But the remote server is the general-like computer there, just as the PC running the terminal is not the primary machine in some embedded development.
It's funny how almost all announced pencil features have been available on Galaxy Note devices for years (Apple even copied the lock-screen note feature. It seems that somebody at Apple got to use a Galaxy Note.
Wow, give them 5 more years and they will catch up to where the Surface is now!
Apple Pay peer to peer payments
SteamVR and External GPUs Are Coming to Mac
Crime and violence has been falling steadily over the past century too. Makes you wonder if this significant social change isn't because of better education, social programs, etc., but simply because of other factors like this that we're simply unaware of.
Are there any resources more informed readers might suggest for building a "toy" EVM language? Say based on racket? Thought it might be a good way to understand things deeply.
Data Scientists Are Analysts Are Software Engineers [video]
Except ISRO's margin can't be as good on the materials (although it's probably better on the staff costs). Th F9 FT has a take off mass of 549 metric tons and can put just under 23 metric tons into LEO, the GSLV-III has a mass of 640 metric tons and can put 10 metric tons into LEO. The combined propellent mass for the F9FT is approx 508 metric tons, the GSLV-III is 554 metric tons. So the non propellent mass for the F9FT is 41 metric tons, and the GSLV-III is 86 metric tons. What's more I'm fairly certain that the solid booster propellent costs more per ton, they are much much simpler to manufacture than liquid fuelled engines. F9 however is reusable and is almost completely assembled if not manufactured in house.

So I strongly suspect that SpaceX's margins are much better than ISRO's and that the development costs have been viewed as sunk cost by the Indian government.

Still it is a huge (100% plus) leap for ISRO; I'm sure as they launch more as well as more often their costs and mass fractions will improve.
The FCC auctions exclusive-use spectrum. That doesn't make them a government monopoly any more than an exclusive-use lease on a piece of land from the Department of the Interior.
$349 for an Alexa/Google Home clone? That's pricey.
Why would it give you RSI? I'm struggling to see what's wrong with that keyboard. It looks the exact same as the other Apple keyboards I've always used, just black. And by "the other Apple keyboards I've always used" I do indeed mean the keyboards I've used at my full time jobs and as my keyboard to hack with at home on top of that...

Am I missing something?
This kind of "sky is falling" post just seems histrionic and ill informed.

Do you know which president was the first to be pro-gay marriage at the time of his election? Have you ever heard of President Wilson? Are you aware of the recently unearthed record of the NSA's violations of the protections put in place to preserve Americans privacy? Do you know which president prosecuted more leakers than all others combined?
> Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac

Gosh, I hope. Seems very much tied to "cloud," though. I hope I don't have to turn on iCloud Drive to use it.
I don't know about quality not being comparative, the LG panels are great, the real difference is they're not in an Apple aluminum package.
Please just make a 15" model with a full keyboard! I can live with the rest of it but it's going to be miserable trying to program missing all those keys.
I might be wrong but it sounds like 3rd party devs can build those things using ARKit.
I haven't had that problem. Regularly cleaning the keys with isopropyl alchohol seems to work just fine.
As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, different countries phased out tetraethyl lead in gasoline at different times, and their respective drops in crime correlate well with those dates.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science..
This update in combination with all their efforts going towards Swift Playgrounds. All signs point to it.
iOS 11 – Apple
Homepod is Apple’s first “breakthrough home speaker,” coming in 2018
HomePod – Apple
You can, but it's not convenient with a bad windows touch support.
Their demo showed integration with Box, Google Drive and a few others.
Go away...
I do think that you should change your attitude first, and try to expect best from people, not the worst.

I worked in 3 of big4 (Google/Microsoft/Amazon) and you need to try hard to find any harassing environment. Usually, if it's bad, it's bad for everyone, due to project/managerial conditions. All companies have trainings that teach you to prevent harrasment and give ways to report it.

Especially now, when woman can tweet picture of 2 dudes with remark on a convefence and they will have hard time, even if they're guilty in nothing.

After further thought, I think that you're just troll. At least in the places/teams where I've worked, white dudes aren't majority. Wast majority were chinese/indian folks. Also, don't expect to hear anything on non-work related stuff from interviewers - their goal is to evaluate your skills, not your sexual orientation, that doesn't matter in workplace.
Check https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I did deliberately leave that there in the hope someone might take it using what they'd learnt from the article. there's a short note about this in the conclusion to the article. From the "non whole" fee amount it looks as though someone might have just used some sort of wallet software to take it though, which is a shame.
LG's 5K display costs $1299.
I have been using Linux as my primary OS for probably 10 years now, and I still love the Surface Pro. I bought a Surface Pro 1 the week they came out. I think the Surface lineup is one of the best lines of computers ever.

I'm incredibly conflicted, because I need a new portable computer, and I love the Surface, but I do not love Microsoft.
> Remember that Apple thought this was a dumb, backwards feature (paraphrasing) when people were asking for it years ago

They also (rightly) saw that iOS, and the devices it runs on, weren't even close to replacing a desktop-class device. Now, we're about to cross that line.
It is available earlier, and perhaps, with those "power" upgrades, it does the job for a large part of the audience. The iMac is a really great computer for all, who don't need to exchange components. Now with real workstation class power.
Apple HomePod
Generally, good companies won't hire people with mental disorders.
I'm having trouble following your logic. In my original comment, I stated that Harvard should have a right to choose who they want to admit or not admit to their school, unless they wanted to discriminate on illegal grounds.

Everyone here is exercising their rights. The kids have a right to exercise their rights to free speech, and Harvard has a right to run a business the way they want to run it.

Harvard is not a public institution run by the state, so it is not obligated to respect rights that public schools have to. This creates more diversity in the marketplace rather than less.

Everybody can make the kinds of statements they want to make, and everybody can run the kinds of businesses they want to run, until those statements or businesses run afoul of laws. That's how America works.

You can tell Harvard that they should respect student's rights the way you want them to. They can in turn ignore you. You can in turn choose a different university.

The reason we have anti-discrimination laws is because without them, minorities would have no other options.

You seem to want blanket and blind enforcement of your idea of what rights are, without regard to the reasons why we have free speech and discrimination laws in the first place. It's for greater diversification and opportunities.
Oops, you are correct. Good pick up, I'll get to changing that!