skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not it actually works is irrelevant. There is no commercial Vive software on Mac and there probably never will be any significant amount. VR is niche as it is and Apple has been completely absent until today; as a result high-end VR (i.e. Vive and Rift) are Windows platforms exclusively. All VR software for these platforms is built for Windows only. Add to that that the number of Macs currently out there capable of running a Vive is practically nil and you have just no incentive for devs to write VR software for Mac.
I think you're confused. WebM is a container not a codec.

And either way VP9 and AV1 are simply inferior codecs to H.265 in almost every way. And as for royalty free well that's because MPEG-LA has't ever sued but they did give a royalty free license to Google for patents infringed by VP9. And since Google accepted it does indicate that AV1 is likely to also be patent encumbered.

We would all like a royalty free codec but it isn't happening anytime soon. And so failing that I would prefer to go with the codec with the best support which by far is H.265.
Everything is something you can do yourself. The value is in not having to.
If you need "real engineering work" done, why use middling desktop PCs? Why not move to server farms in the cloud?
That's actually not how ApplePay works. You get a new randomized credit card number, but only once. Shops can still track you by checking for the number. You can check that yourself by looking at receipts when you pay with ApplePay - each receipt features the same numbers (most receipt only show the last 4 digits, but they are always the same when you pay with ApplePay).
I actually think its a better approach than try to tack on two OSes to one piece of hardware.
It seems that the test was 'average' value in 1 x B against 'maximum' value in 50 x A. Different measures (and not totally fair game). There is a bigger probability of doing something well just by chance if you repeat the test more times.
> "What did that box say. I dont know. Why did you close it. Because I didnt want it."

That's right, because all these unsolicited prompts and notifications are a waste of people's valuable time. A well-designed OS should aggressively keep quiet, stay out of the way, and err on the side of user privacy.

Your Windows crashing is an issue strictly between you, Microsoft, and the makers of whatever software and hardware you were using when the crash occurred. Absolutely nothing to do with anybody else.
It's funny to look back on that now. Only makes the finding that much more poignant.
No, I mean the myriad of other connections that Apple processes do. For the sibling thread, I made this screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/tBDrt

Which of these are diagnostic (I said no to that dialog box on install) or iCloud syncing (which I don't use)?
If you wanted a swing in the opposite direction, Iceland has the best privacy and data laws. I get the impression their economy will increasingly reflect this.

However, it also has plenty of challenges, from population/talent size, costs, weather, etc. From a cursory look, immigration looks relatively easy if you have a job.
I don't use Facebook, but Google absolutely does - Personally and professionally. Search is so fundamental to everything I do. Also stock.
(not being so is considered a mental illness)

It absolutely is not. Here's just one example, and note that the defendants did not plead insanity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

I can find many, many more examples of both overt and subtle rejections of moralities you appear to think is a requirement for a functional life in society, but even without that we can find capitalist amorality all day every day in the form of fraud.
The Thunderbolt 3 ports are each somewhere in the neighborhood of the bandwidth of a PCIe 8x slot, arguably giving this about the approximately the expandability of an HP or Dell single socket workstation.

I'm not saying this should be preferred to a traditional tower, just that it isn't fair to say it has no expandability.
Maybe WebP has some scary patent grant a la Facebook React that made Apple conclude paying MPEG licenses is cheaper than a potential Google suit.
When this happened with radio we created NPR. Now we need NPN.

It's a public good, not a private one, and so should be funded publicly.
According to https://webkit.org/status/?, they're still under consideration (search `Service Workers`)
I wonder why the down vote. my comment was totally on topic about the hardware and my experience with it.
OMG, what happened to the superb Apple product pages? This is just ugly!
Note that the Twitter workaround still works:

https://t.co/2t073JIAWe

https://www.wsj.com/articles/british-police-identify-london-...

Just append site:twitter.com to your Google search, click through, and voila.
Besides both being a rounded cylinder, they look nothing alike.
+1 direct manager importance
I have two sisters - one is an engineer and the other holds a degree in romance philology. From their accounts I can tell, that the sexism is real regardless of the type of industry, but its source is usually this one person in the team who either:
a) Is the owner of the company and also a pig.
b) Disregards any warnings directed to him which are toothless anyway, because the company cannot afford to fire him(Über much?).
I went through the whole thing and it seems, from the video, that they could avoid cloaking by redirecting non-paid users to the sing-up page.

This way WSJ would be showing the same (www.wsj.com/Bezos-with-hair) to every user.

*based on the video
Thanks. Yeah, pretty much a lot of CAP related problems are about choosing right trade offs..
As another reply said, their own website[0] says there's no decertification process: "No, projects will not be decertified for performance."

There's the fact that many LEED certified buildings are less energy efficient than other buildings, even after spending hundreds of thousands or more to get their LEED certification[1][2].

There's even a LEED Exposed website dedicated to calling out their organization[3]. Primarily, the fact that they are a non-government organization whose rules many governments say buildings must follow.

There's lots of reasons to be suspicious of LEED, and I'd love to hear counter-arguments.

[0] http://www.usgbc.org/help/will-my-project-be-decertified-if-...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/04/30/leed-certif...
[2]http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/exography-worst-of-the-wor...
[3]http://www.leedexposed.com/what-is-leed/
No, in the US it was 4 trillion dollars of money printed and transferred to banks. I know, it seems ridiculous.
All proprietary third party libraries which one might depend on. And depending on the domain that could be at lot.
Yeah, if the company is less than ten people, I'd say that's probably fine. Even though it hasn't been all too difficult for our team (<5 people) to find women and people of color as interns or employees, I'm certain it can be more difficult for teams that aren't as lucky as we are.

I think the parent poster meant companies that have had a chance to choose from a large and diverse group of people; but have ended up hiring people of only one, less diverse group anyway; whether by making poor choices or by driving away the other groups of people.
I love how often this comment gets upvoted because it's the perfect opportunity to point out usually 1% or so of any given cohort will have inherent talent that can be recognized as "Above Average" or maybe even "Exceptional." Throw a bunch of practice in, and yup, this is inherently a reasonable consideration.

Point being, most people don't have what it takes to cut it, so might as well aim for a really high investment of time and effort, and eventually plenty of walls will arise. For me, it took somewhere in the neighborhood of "5 Walls" before I could become cross-genre competent, and I've still got Wall #6 I'm kind of reluctantly ignoring (sweep picking, FWIW).

Most people give up around Wall #3, playing through extremely painful finger tips to the point of growing useful callouses (the kind you can stick a safety pin through and not draw blood).

A lot of this discussion tends to have trouble differentiating between "Imaginative Genius" and "Craft Expertise" and basically what we call "Success" is a labor of love, passion, or lunacy somewhere in the middle.
When you are making rough drafts I agree. However once a rough draft has promise you need to spend a lot of time on it to make it good.

I have observed that authors tend to go downhill once they are known. The pressure to publish (more money I guess), along with name recognition meaning they don't have to put out quality work is my theory.
VP9 only really compares with H.264.

It's more like HEIF is for HEVC what WebP is for AV1.
I think this applies to all levels of life and career. As a millennial working for a boss that knows only the stick and never ever picks the carrot, I wish you could give him some advice. I can do everything right for 6-12 months and never hear from him...then make one mistake and here comes HR with threats of termination.
They claim that to build your own workstation comparable to their $5k base model would cost at least $7k. I would be interested to see a breakdown of this cost; it seems a bit implausible on the surface, but I don't really have experience with these kind of workstations.
True, but terrible defaults are terrible defaults. And when I find myself using someone else's machine, rather than the comforting glow of a familiar terminal I'm thrust back into the harsh reality of Microsoft's poor design decisions :/.
That's WSJ's job to figure out, not search providers. From google's perspective, a search which leads users to a page that doesn't load, which the user immediately abandons, is a bad result. WSJ isn't entitle to traffic because they're an old organization.
Um, they were already tracking people, and now they can't (presumably). If ethics were a priority why were they working that job in the first place?
It sucks out of the box though, which is true of so many things in the Dev experience on Windows. It takes so long to tweak every little thing and download every missing utility.
I strongly disagree, NoSQL databases are almost never ACID but they are almost always a database in how the term is used.
I thought that seemed terrible, but then when I tried configuring a Dell and HP with 8 cores, 32 gigs of ram, 1TB flash, and a good display, I kept hitting similar numbers.
This is basically an ad for their course. I'm not very impresseed with the article.

Writing comes really easily to me (many of you would say a bit too easily, considering my tendency to drop 1000 word comments on HN). I really don't think the route to quality is just churning out as much as possible; if anything, you run the risk of getting some small success and then churning out that lowish-level of quality for as long as the money keeps flowing. It's very obvious from a day reading blogs or magazines that there is a flourishing market for bad writing. In my view, the best way to improve your writing is to read. Read a lot, be snobbish about the quality of what you read, invest effort in reading stuff you find difficult to understand. Many people pursue style at the expense of learning how to write substantively; this is the literary equivalent of painting pictures with glitter. You might produce a masterpiece after a while, but more likely whatever you do is going to look really tacky.

It's easier to get paid if you're prolific and can churn out lots of material on demand. But you're also putting a ceiling on the quality of your output and probably your earning power. If you want to go good work, learn to work slowly and without the validation (and dopamine hit) that comes from a quick turnaround. I paint now and have a mix of simple things that I know out quickly and large difficult pieces that I labor over for months at a time and that are likely not that interesting or easy to appreciate to the casual glance. I like both kinds, but guess which ones have priority if the house catches fire.
Normally I would agree... but my Apple TV sits there pretty much the same as it did a year or two ago.
It seemed quite mature for a v1 release. Then again it is hard to judge from an Apple demo but it did look nice.
New in Libguestfs: Rewriting Bits of the Daemon in OCaml
The compromise is that with lossy compression, you can significantly shear the filesize used for retrieval, which granted isn't an issue of speed (but still is for bandwidth consumption).
> 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.

Apple is just blatantly not interested in cooperating with the rest of the market. Mozilla, Google and Microsoft are all part of AoM, along with a bunch of hardware companies and distributors yet Apple is absent and apparently pursuing HEVC instead.

This isn't new either, Apple pushed HLS when others were pushing DASH and MPEG-TS when others were pushing fragmented MP4.

They seem really determined to go their own way and ignore everyone else for some reason.
Some of those names I recognise from other IT-related products (Mendocino, Catalina, Monterey...). Generally speaking, naming products after CA landmarks has been done for 30+ years in this industry, it just feels very unoriginal. I think it's a desperate attempt from Apple to remind you (or themselves) that they "design in California", despite manufacturing in China, selling in Europe, and stashing profits in Bermuda; and to suggest the OS is "hard as a rock", as opposed to the wobbly and airy "windows".

I very much preferred the big-cats theme. It humanised the OS in powerful ways, making it an extremely powerful and very intelligent animal that dominates through speed and elegance. Rocks are just dumb and static.
It's really just in-demand coastal metropolises. Almost everything inland is cheap. Hell, even the more expensive inland places like Austin are cheaper than coastal cities like NY and SF.

I'm planning on moving next year, and the top metros I'm considering are LA and Las Vegas. I have a slight preference towards SoCal, but Vegas's dirt cheap cost of living is really, really tempting. Looking at Zillow listings, I can get a house in Vegas (well, Spring Valley technically) that's considerably bigger than my place in Dallas for the same amount for rent.
There's a reason there are 17,000 boarded up homes. It's not a desirable place to live. Housing follows jobs market, not the other way around.
It used to be, let me see if I can dig it up.

Grr, nope :( That sucks.

Ok, so try this instead:

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

Not quite as satisfying but it gives you the general idea, his whole approach is elegant and super direct.
Are there many people who will want the 18-core option, but not have multiple GPUs without a bottleneck of thunderbolt?
Ah, 2005 and the days of WinCE, with a start menu on the HTC Apache. How we've progressed.
Yes. GSLV Mk III first stage is made up of two S200 solid boosters, with 200 ton propellant in each. S200 is the third largest solid boosters in the world (after Shuttle SRB, and P230 of Ariane-5).
That's a really good point. Maybe the future of news survival is to pair it with a company that makes money, to support the journalism. Then again I feel like that's how we got CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, etc. Maybe not a great idea. I really like Blomberg and to some extent WSJ. I hope they can maintain their integrity.
It's a different part and it has different features. Not having ECC memory support is a big deal for some people, so it's misleading to suggest they're basically the same.

They bin things for a reason. If you're happy using a less expensive part with fewer features, great, you can save money. If you're making a top-tier "Pro" product you'll want to avoid cutting corners like that.
Just for context, the old "two and twenty" is the fee structure for most (still? many?) hedge funds. Who I assume VCs are competing with for investor money.
They don't prevent me from doing my job. It makes it harder. Oh no, I have to work harder.
Yes, and I think the ISRO has great vision for the future; its second stage engine is its first truly home grown engine and it performed admirably. Once it gets its own home designed and built engine to replace the Vikas (which is based on the French Viking 4A engine from the 70s) it will greatly boost the GSLV's lift capability.
Yep, ideas quickly noted down, not suggestions for wording or approach to communication!
When people are arguing whether or not the ramifications would be significant, you can't point to ink and call it blood.

Laws can be overturned, the legality of contracts overruled, recompenses rewarded. There's nothing "irrevocable" here, aside from the dangerous precedents people try and establish and sit on ("it's always been this way!!1") hoping to "run out the clock" and get away with moves that would never have flown in a later world.
Since the Surface Studio gets nearly this expensive, it'll be interesting to see where Microsoft takes it in the future.
Why is someone's age relevant? Whether you are 25 or 72, how much you earn is based on how much value you provide. A 72 year old has 47 more years of life to have potentially capitalized on.
My 2 moneys.

I worked in construction a while ago. I was always slow, pedantic, and the work i did usually reflected that (usually, some things benefit from being done fast). Everybody kept telling me that i was slow so one day i said "f it" and started working faster. The quality of work went down, for obvious reasons, and never got to the quality that was before (for most of it, some work like cutting things to size stayed precise). But if you, for example, paint a hundred windows really fast, you will probably not find many windows painted nicely. (mind you that nobody notices the little imperfections in construction, like, for example, a drop of white wall paint on the white radiator pipe)

Of course doing more means learning more, but so does thinking and experimenting.

Pottery, i never tried, but i assume it is more about the "feel" then anything else. While programming benefits a lot more from learning random stuff. It's easier to write a huge mess of code that works fine then it is to make a huge pot that doesn't fall apart.

All in all, why not bout ? Hack some 100 programs quickly, and write a couple programs with lots of preparation and research.
No matter what apple does it will not satisfy "pro" users. Computers either not fast enough, too expensive, not upgradable enough.
There are simple enough statistical tests that could provide hints (or not) of tampering activities: risk limited audits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_audit
The parent is right to call me out, I'm a bit of a dickhead when I get onto topics like this. And you're also right in that some of my claims are speculative.

I don't think anyone has tried the 'burning tires and endangered animals' move quite yet. I should give it a try!
I doubt the next Safari also addresses browser fingerprinting. Otherwise, Apple would have mentioned it. Most likely, ad networks will adopt browser fingerprinting over the next few months, and then Apple will introduce some solution to that in a year or two.
No, it's slightly different from SHA3-256. There was a tweak for standardization.
there are lots of kinds of pros, not only sw dev, you know. Then again, I'm a sw dev and I'd like to develop software on it, so maybe one day
Have you looked into the price of a Sonos speaker? Good speakers cost money, frequently a lot more than $500.

This for people who care about sound quality.
Last days of Boston as an industrial town: The Boston Globe printing press stops
Good to see Nokia.
Plus Apple is pretty user friendly... edit: lets add the rest of the quote here so it is obvious why this comment is harmful: ", something Windows never really got."

for some users.

For this user, who was enthusiastic to finally get a Mac it was tragic.

I have used and liked

Gnome and Mate in a number of configurations including Gnome 2 and 3.

KDE 3 and 5.

Elementary.

Windows 3.1, 95, 98, xp, 7, 8.1 and 10.

Mac OS X was a productivity nightmare to me for three years.

I still belive that others like it and are more efficient with it but

... please stop talking like this is generally established facts.
That was not at all clear from your comment.
so say for the imac pro which comes with 32GB ddr4 standard and a 1TB nvme ssd, an 8 core chip, and the higher end panel: 1k for the panel, 750 for the cpu, 200 for the ram, 650 for the ssd (samsung 960 pro?) comes to: 2600 before labor and other overhead. Solid margins there for sure, but I maintain still not a ripoff. As I have earned more in my career (I'm still not wealthy by any means, but I like nice things -- those things are probably related...but beside the point) I have tended to opt for nicer more upscale things and Apple usually fits the bill. Again the iMac for me is the non-pro line, but I want a pro iMac.
The thing is, spending few months in an environment where they underestimate you every time it matters or pick on you daily is quite a hit and it is good idea to avoid it. Among other things, the way you need to behave there is different (don't speak unless 150% sure, don't brainstorm, don't be creative, don't problem solve) and then it takes effort to unlearn those habits - that affects you even more then it being unpleasant.

Especially if you are young and should be learning from seniors. While it can happen to anyone (including proverbial white dudes - really I have seen that) a women is more at risk.
It might start out as a tiny percentage, but all it takes is one person setting it up and letting the world know about it. Then pretty soon the WSJ is faced with millions of people getting free content again. They're complaining about people accessing their articles via a Google search and then clearing cookies to reset their counters. That's hardly mainstream; browsers have been burying the clear-cookies functionality deeper and deeper over the years because it's seen as an advanced-user-only kind of thing. And yet the WSJ has millions of people doing it, enough to make an impact on their bottom line.
So the implication then, is that real & substantial content comes from those who get paid, and ideology-reinforcing propaganda and clickbait come from those who don't?

Are you sure it's true?
Are you sure it's not the opposite?
Could either or both be true?
That profile view on the apple page looks like it is really fat, the fattest iMac since the translucent plastic CRT monitor days.

Where is the new expandable Mac Pro Tim has been telling us about for several months, the machine that would get us to stop needing to make Hackintoshes? No where to be seen.

> four Thunderbolt 3 ports with support for up to two 5K displays, a 1080p FaceTime camera, realtime 3D rendering, and much more. Other specs start at a 5K built-in display, 8-core Xeon processors, Radeon Vega graphics, 32GB ECC memory, and 10GB Ethernet. The new iMac Pro will start at $4999.

Only 4 ports and none of them USB 3. No USB for keyboard or mouse, so heavy battery laden wireless mouse only. Great, more carpal tunnel fun, plus the joy of recharging batteries when there is no real need.

I don't need two 5k monitors. I need a development machine I can add hard drives and dual reasonable sized monitors to. In the non-expandible limited port iMac range of machine for grandma I need practical ports and a price about 1/5 the stated price.

Fortunately I have found all I need in the Hackintosh world for Mac compatible stuff, and Linux for everything else.
There is nothing unethical about using Google Analytics. I also am not entitled to this access, by the very nature of how it works.
Where's the metal loop to connect the chain so I can use it as a Boat Anchor in 8 years after forced obsolescence? It's not a bug, it's a feature!