skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all sounds more like an opinion that you're stating as fact. I own an SP3. It has it's problems: sucky trackpad, average battery life etc. But touchscreens are invaluable. They save me minor inconveniences so many times, that I will refuse to buy a laptop without it. Also, I really like Windows 8.1. Power users are perfectly capable of customizing the machine to get rid of Metro, and have shortcut keys etc., and once you do these things, there are simply more Windows software than Mac software in my line of work (mechanical engineering).
What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
I think this article is being somewhat selective in it's evidence. Several great mathematicians were highly selective in what they published, e.g., Gauss and Riemann. I don't think Einstein published that many papers. Though it might be the case that gauging quality is easier in math and physics, so being prolific is less important.
Depends what you're using it for. If it's mostly tablet-y things (consuming stuff, casual infront-of-TV use), iOS is clearly superior. You can try and tear the iPads from my parents' cold dead hands.

If you want to 'get work done', sure you'd have to take Windows over iOS. But then Apple users would be reaching for a Macbook instead.

I get why people want 'both' from the Surface, but to an Apple user like me, Windows doesn't appeal for either use-case. I'll take macOS for work and iOS for casual use, and put up with separate devices for now.
>If you take away the 2% return, you've basically said that only super rich people that can afford not getting paid for 5-10 years should be VCs. Do you think that all the best investors in the world are super rich people?

You can take away the 2% and leave some value value that still pays the investors. The problem with 2% is that the fund managers often taken home %1 type wages without actually performing. A %1 fee with a clause that caps all fund managers salaries at $60k (or some livable wage) ensures that the investors can live, but puts all of the income incentive on their bonuses which is tied to fund performance.
Whatever they are, there will be some other materials that will let get lower....

Until we are building on a single atom, and even then maybe we can go smaller.
Makes sense from Google's point of view.

You are no longer providing value to our users. You will be quickly replaced with something that provides more value to our users.
But, as I already implied, if we can safely run arbitrary "binary" code of the internet (see WASM), why can't we run arbitrary code of a decoder?
you can't install fonts on iOS.

Custom fonts can be installed via custom configuration profiles[0], which is what some font applications do[1]

I'm not sure if this is exposed via Safari or not, so it could still be a moot point.

[0] - https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...

[1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anyfont/id821560738
The specs don't include the most important one for speakers: frequency response. Strange omission.
What's the point of your comment?
especially when you look at the dates.
If Apples solution is opt-in, Microsofts is in. For many things there just is no opting out.
https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html
Apple's own product page is online now with a lot more information https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/
IT is a high-pressure environment. If you find that it's a toxic environment, maybe you should seek employment in a low-pressure environment like a non-profit.

This victim mentality BS is just another way for people to insert politics into the conversation. Every dev I have ever met has a horror story about an entry-level job where they were subjected to inordinate amounts of stress due to a number of factors.

Grow up already, no one cares about the feelings of an employee when there is money on the line and deadlines to meet. This OP sounds like a toxic candidate.
Agreed, I bought an Echo because of Alexa, the speaker functionality is just a really nice bonus. I bought one of the original Apple Hi-Fi's, and still remember that being one of the most disappointing Apple products I bought. As a speaker, it wasn't bad, just so many other companies soon flooded that space with better offerings.
Judging from context, it's the act of relentlessly and consummately bullshitting.
It's really sad that Apple decided to support the proprietary H.265 and this image format instead of the royalty-free WebP and WebM.
Siri's behind on a lot of stuff. They have issues gathering all parts of their organization and centralizing efforts for A.I. due to their org. structure, so it's going to be a while before Siri can catch.

On the pricing front – I'm not very surprised that there's a bump. They've always been on the high-end of everything they release (Apple TV is 2.5x-3.X other competitors from Google/Amazon).

I think the main reason they played down the "smart" part is because they know Siri is behind.

Sonos will have Alexa in it and most people can't tell the difference between a better speaker over another in terms of sound.

It just ...looks better.
Most trackers use cookies or other client-side state to track you across the web. There's also various fingerprinting techniques but they are less reliable.
I'm thinking it's because there's so much active equalization happening that it becomes meaningless.
As it should.

Paywalls present a worse user experience than say Bloomberg.com which shows its content for free.
I'm a white dude, but I feel the same way. I have experienced first-hand that the attitude and vibes that make a workplace toxic for women or others will also make my time there unpleasant. For instance, frequent sharing of risque videos and lecherous comments about women are fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

For the specific situation I experienced, interviewer ego would not have been a tip-off. Some of the other posts suggest asking questions that I wouldn't dream of asking in an interview - they border on accusatory.

The number of women working is probably the biggest single indicator I can think of. Even if the problematic attitudes exist, they tend to stay hidden when women holding the same/higher rank are omnipresent.
Due to how the site takes into account ALL user-agent strings ever collected, it overestimates how unique an user-agent string is. Realistically in a given point in time, there are only a few dozen user-agent strings in widespread use (due to how few bits of information actually gets put into it). Unless you're using a special snowflake browser/operating system you should be fine.
They have an A8 in the thing though. It sounds like it will have enough processing snort inside that I imagine they can roll out new functionality pretty regularly.

It also sounds like there is a companion app of some kind (or maybe just for setup?), which could provide an alternative interface on a "pane of glass" that you already have -- your phone.
Only a limited subset is free. More advanced types of tracking requires the pro subscription.
And News. Surely they could do the News app for Canada.
It's hard to believe that there won't be some sort of reconvergence between laptops and tablets. The trick is to do so without compromising either the laptop or the tablet. One could argue that the Surface Pro comes closest, but not really.

It really doesn't make sense for me to travel with both a tablet and a laptop/Chromebook given that they're mostly similar hardware. Their sweet spots are different enough today that I carry both--and consider that, if I only carried one, I'd probably be carrying more batteries as well.

On the other hand, for the same reasons, it's not really in Apple's interests to discourage you from buying two separate devices. I do think we'll get to that point though.
Could you ask this question directly in an interview? If you have to assume the response is actually talking about "white males" or that the respondent is confusing bias with ping-pong tables, perhaps you are not being direct enough or are speaking to HR instead of a manager?

Maybe it'd work best asked in an abstract, impersonal way: "I've had friends whose contributions have been dismissed because of their gender; what kinds of strategies can combat bias and create a positive environment for all employees?" Ideally this would lead into a nice 5 minute discussion where you could get a feel for their thinking.
I think that's spinning the comment as much as the rest of us, just in the opposite direction.
I get that they want a common design language and to simplify supply chain/manufacturing, but why take those compromised butterfly switches and make a desktop keyboard out of them?

The previous scissor switch keys were OK. A big improvement over their previous garbage membrane keyboards in fact. But the new keys are really a necessary evil to make thinner laptops - why hamper the desktop experience with them?

On the desktops they have the luxury of non-portability, so why not a new mechanical keyboard design for the iMac and Mac Pro?
They've also updated graphics cards to Radeon pro 500 series. The top model can have a Radeon pro 560 now
I'd be interested to know if this is true generally, or just for people learning a new skill.

I.e., Making a lot of pottery without caring about the individual quality leads to more learning (possibly because you can try lots of new stuff without fear of failure, possibly because when you find something that works you can keep practicing it, etc, etc).

Once you know what you're doing I can't imagine that blasting through something in a half-assed fashion produces better results than carefully doing a thoughtful job.
- The Practice of Programming ; Kernighan and Pike

- The Advent of the Algorithm ; Berlinski

- Engineering a Compiler ; Torczon and Cooper

- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment ; Stevens and Rago

- Databases, Types, and the Relational Model ; Date

- Code ; Petzold
Budget cuts? :)
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Group
it looks like it was a class https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
My concern is that in the long term you'll see more and more consolidation of mining power, because economic forces will tend to push things in that direction. (That's what the articles I linked to above are saying.)

At some point, it might not take "collusion" to manipulate the currency because somebody will be able to do it unilaterally.
Wanting to make a contribution to something larger then themselves. Wanting to accomplish something meaningful. Wanting to test themselves. There are a lot of different reasons completely unrelated to happiness that someone might have for being ambitious.

On the whole, being ambitious and being happy are likely going to be in opposition to each other before the ambition is accomplished. A lot of things worthy of being described as ambitious are extremely hard by definition. There are likely to be many failures on the way. Perhaps years worth of failure. Perhaps someone's ambition will leave them crying themselves to sleep at night because they may never accomplish the goal and they hate that. Or perhaps their entire body is a mass of bruises or every muscle is sore because of how hard they are pushing their body.
it is on the page:

"Combine two in one room.

Put another HomePod in the same room, and the two automatically detect and balance each other — for sound that’s even more lifelike.

AirPlay 2.

Add HomePod to more rooms.
When you add HomePod to multiple rooms, the speakers communicate with each other through AirPlay 2 — so you can play your music all around the house. You can also control any other AirPlay 2‑compatible speakers."
When selling a company or taking a company public, the sale price factors in future growth and earnings, so it's not like you're "missing out" on that growth (assuming you get a fair price).

It's easy to conclude that 'All companies should hold out on selling' because if you look at the data for companies that held out, they outperform.

However, there's extreme selection bias. When your true value is in the tens of billions (FB/GOOG), you're never going to get acquired for a fair price because no company can afford you, so you are always going to be in the 'held out' cohort.

There are plenty of businesses whose true value (future discounted cash flow) is in the hundreds of millions or low single digit billions. At this price, many of these companies could find a suitable buyer at a fair price. Since liquidity is a good thing, there's no reason not to.

> If a company blows up, the vast majority of the returns are coming after 4-5 years. I mean, look at GOOG, and only returns since it went public (~6 years after founding)

Using GOOG as an example of expected returns is an absurd generalization. By definition, the expected return on a public stock following an IPO roughly aligns with the rest of the public market (4-8%).
Tactical omission. It wouldn't show any differentiation (not that there's much in the product overall).
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Audio enthusiasts tend to already own speakers presumably changing speakers unless its truly phenomenal may not be a feature valuable to audio enthusiasts.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Safari-5-1-Protects-Users-wit...
Probably encroaching on the Sonos Play-1 and Play-3 space.

I have a hard time seeing this touching the Play-5 and the other Sonos products that stand out, the Sonos-Sub in particular.

That said, Airplay over Sonos is a massive pain, even with the Play-5 analog line-in, which requires an Apple Express router.

I hope this pushes Sonos to improve their interoperability.
From the context, I think it means that the 51 volumes (the ocean) contains very little content (the cup). I also don't think the grandparent comment reflects the intent of the original post -- prolificness is the number of attempted works, not the length of any single work.
Is it possible to run Linux on a Surface Book? I'd really love to have the large detachable screen to read PDFs, but I'd really prefer to be able to use actual Linux as opposed to WSL Linux.

Alternatively, are there any other laptops like the Surface Book (i.e., have a detachable touch screen) that work with Linux?
Happy to answer any questions about BlastEm or the Genesis/Mega Drive more generally
Yeah :/ And I can continue to be disappointed w/ no 32G MBP and having to say "HomePod" :(
Only Apple Music. It can create a stereo pair. It's not going to be anywhere close to Sonos in terms of audio quality. 7 tweeters and one 4-inch sub?
San Francisco has something like this. Conservatives are constantly trying to kill it because they perceive it as a barrier to new construction and therefore an artificial constraint on supply. Of course, these same politicians also vote for stricter zoning regulations, so they might not actually be interested in increasing supply.
This really just reveals a narrowness of experience, if you don't mind me saying. Desktop PCs are where real engineering work gets done. CAD, FEA, CFD, simulations etc, they arent going to be running on middling mobile CPUs anytime soon.
Apple is slowly becoming pre Steve Jobs delving into miscellaneous hardware devices and losing focus.
If possible, I’d much prefer having a single format that is widely supported, hardware accelerated, and with a state-of-the-art codec. Making content authors create multiple different files in different formats—some with deficient feature support—sounds like a pain in the butt for everyone.

If we can get everyone to agree on a format that handles layers, exposure bracketing, transparency, animation, high bit depth, different color models, both lossy and lossless compression, every common type of metadata, etc., that would be great.
They've already specified three different codec mappings - JPEG, AVC, and HEVC - so to open all HEIF files, you presumably need to implement all of the decoders.

Worse, there is a financial incentive to implement only a subset of the decoders - HEVC is more expensive than AVC which is more expensive than JPEG. Even things like 4:4:4 color are more expensive than 4:2:0 color for HEVC.
Your Apps (such as Java) are user-level programs. Its irrelevant if you can run Interpreted Brainfuck or Python on Crutches.
Read this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14488427
This is also really a zoning story. L.A. used to be zoned for 10 million people in the late 60s and decreased that tremendously in the early 70s: https://la.curbed.com/2015/4/8/9972362/everything-wrong-with....

Today we have improved technology along almost every dimension yet the city is zoned for less than half as many people.

We are paying zoning's steep price: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/r... (that's a link to a PDF).
Safari 11.0
Without Spotify support the HomePod is a non-starter (for me at least). Here's hoping for BT speaker mode.
Definitely the latter, sorry if the story wasn't clear about that. Spending more time on an individual piece means that within the band of results your current skill is capable of delivering, you get a better result. Repetition, on the other hand, does a much better job of improving your skill.
WebRTC is finally arriving!
There's gotta be a way around this method...maybe letting bots view the whole article.
This post is about the new iPad Pro release, though. The iPad Pro itself isn't that different from a regular iPad - it has a keyboard and stylus, but the same OS and mostly the same apps. In that regard, Apple was already cannibalizing its laptops with the iPad for a certain set of use cases. The iPad Pro doesn't go much beyond that.

The optimism is in framing the above as "not yet" and that's fine, but that is optimism.
Yeah, probably the biggest reason. Maybe this will change when Thunderbolt will be royalty-free next year. AMD has the advantage of being the only company on this planet which can combine a high performance x86 CPU and high performance GPU.
Excellent, seems like ALL new devices should have that built in as an option. Along with SMS and Voice!
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I think the significance of compatibility is increasingly diminishing due the effect of "clouds" and other walled gardens that handle your data in a more integrated manner. With the advent of wasm etc it is not completely unreasonable to ship your own image decoder with the application, and optionally a JPEG encoder for on-demand client side re-encoding for exporting images.

There is just less expectations to be able to interoperate via "dumb files" in the "app ecosystem" where the apps run in their own isolated sandboxes and import/export are explicit actions.

Not saying that this is the best thing, but the situation is different enough from the time when WebP/WMP were introduced that HEIF actually might have a fighting chance. The fact that HEIF appears to be far bigger improvement over JPEG than previous efforts of course also helps.
I'm sure it will end up being reasonably flat from 120Hz to 15kHz or so, but outside that range, the physical characteristics of the drivers take on primary importance.
"As you’d expect from a pro machine, there are plenty of high-speed ports to create a high-performance workstation."

haha, just like my Macbook Pro!
I can't speak for Chrome or Safari, but Firefox's UA is pretty sparse:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0

This a totally custom, self-compiled build--and there is absolutely no reflection of that in the UA. Also note that the Mozilla/5.0 and Gecko/20100101 fields are frozen and are only there because sites break if they're not there.
Agreed; too little too late.
It makes a lot of sense for Apple to use H.265 as a base for the format. It's much more efficient than all the other JPEG-killers (easily beats WebP by a wide margin). Apple already pays for the patents, and has invested in H.265 hardware and software for H.265 video.

However, the HEIF wrapper for H.265 strikes me as quite complex. It brings baggage of ISO wrapper formats and tries to support everything ever crammed into any image-ish format. That, in addition to patent licensing, may be another difficulty in widespread support for the format. It will be hard to implement robust, secure and fully-featured players.
Huh? These days I rarely check Facebook, but back when I lived in NYC, Facebook was hugely helpful in finding and making friends and organizing events. That was years ago, today Facebook seems to be much more active in making recommendations, and notifying you of what your friends are doing/liking. The OP is basically asking for FB/Google to be even more direct in making recommendations, independent of friend network. But I don't see the point. One of the bottlenecks in going to cultural events is finding likeminded friends who have time in their schedule. By seeing that a friend is going or is a "maybe" for something makes it much easier to coordinate going out together. Nevermind the fact that I generally am more interested in things by way of friend recommendation.
surprises me, since LA has so much sprawl
Will the Apple Files app support open protocols like SFTP, SSH and WebDAV?

Currently, Transmit for iOS does file management, including attaching files to emails, https://panic.com/transmit-ios/
Networking software: Go back to move forward
It appears in the book "Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles and Ted Orland.

PROTIP: Google will often tell you these things!
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Hermes was our temporary name, we're going under the name WittyThumbs now.
Just because both features are named "sandbox" doesn't make them equivalent; the exact same argument says you should also be happy to run hostile Java applets, which, after all, are sandboxed.
That's so racist. And why are you even answering, you're a fucking white male.
Bloomberg.com is great at giving you rubbish quickly. The WSJ is better at giving you good information for a fee. Depends on what you want to optimize for, I suppose.
I talk to OSX users all the time aboud OSX vs Win 10, and where they really like OSX?? Is at the command line!
> Why aren’t Google and Facebook enriching our lives?

They're too busy trying to do no evil.
The Student Loan System Is Failing
Well, if don't care about things that prevent you from doing your job, then what exactly is the point of working in that field?
In the screenshot for iOS 11 there was "WebRTC support"
At what scale does this advice start? I worked for and with a few almost-all-male startups that just hadn't run into female hires in their first year / ±10 employees. Great work environments, ended up hiring women in the following years.
OpenStreetMap Public Data Set Now Available on AWS
Agreed. I can't find any reference to it on the iPhone. I'd also like that new dock on the iPhone. I like things to match.
The things that make it safe to run that code will significantly negatively impact image decoding speed right now. That's not necessarily a fundamental problem with the universe, but it's a true statement at the moment.

And that's accepting that WASM is safe, which I do not axiomatically accept. History suggests that I am very safe in claiming that most implementations will end up with some catastrophic-level security vulnerabilities in them before all's said and done.
As far as I know showing different content to different visitors (google bot vs. users) is penalizable.
I'm not saying it doesn't suck. But it's going to keep sucking as long as people are willing to pretend that Safari already has comparable security to Chrome.
"the sample sizes are fairly modest" -> large variance?

Plus, obvious results don't make the news https://www.xkcd.com/882/
You're also overlooking the fact that they did some relatively interesting things to notice when someone posts a PNG-of-something-that-could-be-a-JPEG, and can then use a lossy image instead of the larger PNG.