skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use my Windows 10 2-in-1 device in tablet mode at least 75% of the time. It absolutely is touch friendly.
MacOS High Sierra – Apple
These 27 Boston Startups Raised More Than $211M in May
Keeping in mind that that outlook generally includes things like "all meaning comes from christ" or similar platitudes.
It sure looks like a gamechanger to me. I have an Echo at home, and I've gotta say it's a bit limiting to converse with. At $349, though, they're clearly going for a smaller market than Amazon & Google.
How is this related to programming?
If you make a "pro" device, well, graphics designers require the precision, and they are a big part of pro users. They aren't forcing you to use it, it supports touch too, so the only drawback is increased cost to support the option, really.
Like many people, I would much prefer an Apple based OS to MS. Feature-parity is not the point. Welcome to Apple in general: Feature parity has never been the point.
Presumably the noisiest PNGs were they ones that they converted to JPG in the section "Large PNG Detection."
slightly off topic but we should have alternates lik puri.sm guys.
if the privacy is quite important at this age, their slick linux hardware woth to look at it.
This is great, but unfortunately, until Apple ups its browser security game, Safari is a non-starter. On macOS, switching from any other browser to Chrome is in the top 3 things you can do to materially improve your security in ways that actually matter in the real world.
I don't think that's even theoretically possible. How do you block JS font enumeration without crippling the browser font API?
> I can deeply respect anyone who would refuse to aid the current government's immigration policies in any way, and I would refuse to do so myself.

Not paying taxes would help.
They also showed off AR working with iOS 11, and I was a little surprised that they didn't have any head-mount options.
> So the core part of the message that VC is broken because most of them don't beat the public markets doesn't really matter.

No, it matters. Investors want investments that are not closely correlated with the public markets, but they still want something that is going to have a decent Sharpe ratio (~return/risk).

Furthermore, is it even true that VC returns are not well correlated with the public equity markets? My guess is that they would be pretty closely correlated.
I hope any of those aren't needed.
Swift Playgrounds looks great, so why still the need to export to Xcode to build and publish?

I'd love for this to actually happen, I'm just not yet sold that it will.
But then sites could easily identify and choose to react to that fingerprint. (But maybe that's OK)
Make sure you will be a valuable and highly respected member of the team, and not "quoted in" (men/women quota).
Most people don't know nor care about the issue.
This would help white guys, too. It's not like we're immune to toxicity. IME it's usually one bad manager and/or one genius on the team that makes things so bad for everyone else. Maybe it's just been blind luck that I haven't worked on a whole team of sexist people. Here's what I would ask to mitigate these problems (keeping in mind I haven't necessarily asked these myself):

In what ways does your manager make your life easier?
How blame oriented is the team?
How big are the egos on the team?
What things about the culture or technical processes will surprise me here?
How would you compare your team, manager, and coworkers to the others?
Are they more fun or experienced or do they have team events more?
How many people have left in the past year and why do you think they really left?

> but ping pong tables and free beer doesn't mean shit to me if I'm going to be underpaid

It's not like you can't tell if you're going to be underpaid before you agree to a salary, is it?
It mentions that it supports not only sequences but inter-frame prediction (so P- and possibly B- frames I assume), which is sort of surprising to me but of course makes sense especially given Apple's "image burst" usage. I'm also suprised to learn that WebP apparently supports P-frames in its animations.

What's really different between this and the existing usages of the MP4 container for images, though? Is it just the packaging as an "image" format, or specification of more image-y metadata?
Bitcoin startup Coinbase aims for $1B valuation
I totally agree with this. I hate auto-playing videos too. But I am curious what people's opinions are on youtube auto-playing. when I go to youtube or click on a youtube video, I kind of have the expectation that it will start playing for me when the page loads. What does everyone else think?
I wonder what the pencil means for Wacom? It looks fantastic, and from my naive perspective looks like it'd be just as capable as a high end Wacom tablet. Any artists here who can chime in?
What's the difference between this newer iPad pro and the original iPad pro?
They're paving the way for their revolutionary consumer AR eyewear (which may be delayed now apparently). Although maybe we'll see tech from some of their recent AR acquisitions (PrimeSense/Metaio) integrated into the upcoming iPhone, possibly in the form of an advanced depth/surface mapping sensor of sorts.

What's fascinating is Apple has a large team focusing on HCI & AR - what "pinch-to-zoom" and multitouch did for smartphones is what Apple will need to successfully pull off the "big bang" for consumer AR.
But yeah, original poster, totally don't worry that the culture you're considering moving into might be hostile to your presence.
And because it's very functional and easy at the same time.
External ethernet over TB3 is also a thing. Honestly, all these "what about" things are doable over TB3, with the exception of a CPU upgrade and Optane (I'm assuming TB3 doesn't quite give you that level of latency). So, as far as expandability I don't think it is that bad. The only question is whether you want a carefully designed machine like the iMac surrounded by a sea of dongles and enclosures.
And if this is true, this is a huge plus, because nobody else is doing it. Because Windows is cloud-based for this stuff, just like Google. None of the 'smart' features of Windows 10 work unless you enable what amounts to a keylogger and the ability to send a lot of extra data about what you do to their cloud service. (Well above and beyond the telemetry most people worry about here.)
Woman: "Women in tech, I'm looking for help navigating X issues that are specific to my gender's well publicized challenges in the industry."

Men of HN: "None of this is real, stop making stuff up."

...

I dunno; I've found metafilter has some folks in tech who might be more useful to you. Maybe this thread will become less of a clusterfuck as time goes on.

My experience has been that asking to talk to a woman on the team has been helpful. If HR / the manager think that's weird, they'll probably not be terribly good allies anyway.
What are the other two (for macOS)?
I don't have much experience here as I'm a white dude, but my wife asks "What percentage of your team is female?". I think this is a good question, it's straightforward and quantitative. If they are above the industry average that's probably a good sign. If they're below, but they pay lip service to the fact that they'd like to improve that's ok. And if they're below the industry standard and don't care that's bad.

Recently on a phone screen she asked the manager this and his response was "that's something you need to bring up with HR". That's a giant red flag and she saved everyone's time by not pursing the job further.
Disclaimer/warning: Straight white male responding.

But it seems to me that an environment that is toxic for women is also an environment that I would find at least somewhat toxic - not because the crap is hitting me, but because there's a bunch of crap. So what I look for might be useful to you.

I'm older - 55 - and some of what I have is just "hey, this feels like that place that I worked, and it was pretty crummy". But I think there are some specific things you can try to look for.

Look for ego in the interviewing process. If the interviewer (even one of them) is trying to show how smart he/she is, that's a red flag. If one of them can't handle it if you disagree, that's a red flag.

Look for what they say about their culture. Or maybe, look for how they say it. It's fine if they have a ping pong table. At least, it's fine if that's an "oh, by the way". If it's a big part of what they have to say about themselves, that's more of a red flag.

Beer is a bigger red flag. The more their description of their culture sounds like a recruiting pitch for a frat house, the more it's probably toxic to someone who doesn't want to live in a frat house. ("We like to party together after work" is also a red flag.)

I don't know your age. I don't know how much of this is just "Get off my lawn!" But you might find some of it useful.
$349 for a home speaker? For comparison, Google Home is $129 and Amazon Echo is $179.
Containerized Jupyter Notebooks on GPU on Google Cloud
interesting no one pays attention to this great deal.
At first you could track clicks to each weeks links and show the X most clicked. It might be an easy feature to add.
They mentioned you can share the photos like normal so I assume they'll do on the fly conversion.
That's isometric projection. Dribbble is full of it.
Winston Churchill produced 51 volumes of history and is generally regarded, in this pursuit, as having drank a cup and pissed an Ocean. I doubt they will continue to be read much once his personal historical aura has sufficiently faded.

Gibbon on the other hand in 6 volumes wrote a work that will probably be in print until Western Civilisation sinks into the dust.

So - kinda depends I would say.
And it pains you that the mine isn't privatized so that the new CEO can fire your father and buy himself an extra yacht?
Can you give specific examples why Chrome is significantly better than other browsers, including Firefox, Opera? Chrome is a non starter for me because of its resource usage and battery hunger.

One specific area where Safari is better than Chrome is in private browsing mode. In Safari, each tab is completely separate, and the cookies aren't shared (as far as I can tell) whereas in Chrome, it's only separate as a whole "private browsing session." They each have their pros/cons but I prefer Safari's model.
I didn't know that. What are the specific security problems with Safari?
9 Logging Sins in Your Java Applications
"If you feel you're underpaid, I encourage you to negotiate aggressively for what you feel you're worth. "

You don't even have to negotiate aggressively. Most people don't even ask.
Do you have any examples of such projects?
I think you're conflating "documenting disproved conspiracy theories" with "presenting disproved conspiracy theories as alternative theories".

The vaccine controversies page, for example, notes that some people think vaccines cause autism, but also prominently quotes someone calling the vaccine-autism connection "perhaps, the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". At no point does either the vaccine or vaccine controversies article deviate from the dominant viewpoint that vaccines do not cause autism.

This is very different from the numerous attempts to edit the page vaccines to say that vaccines cause autism. That is what we'd be allowing if we say that articles must present opposing viewpoints when there is controversy. Do you really want the vaccines page to present that as a valid viewpoint?
Its all in the JavaScript.
This is actually really concerning to me. If they blocked Google Analytics, it would severely damage that data. It'd be bad news for site owners who just want to quantify their traffic.
It would be a red flag if the team never did anything together, like their team events were solely an outing every 6 months.
Really? I wonder if this is some sort of optical illusion like the dress? I can't imagine Apple releasing a skewed product photo, but I can't see anything but a trapezoid when I look at that iPad on the left...
I am curious to know why you say this considering Safari is just as sandboxed as Chrome?
My favorite is Bob...everyone wants to forget about Bob.
After I got an iPad pro, I bought three pencils and gave away my Wacom tablet.
I'd throw out testing on prisoners as a possibility.
Yeah totally noticed this too.
I would imagine that you could save locally too (don't know for sure), but I mean, they upped the space for both models and have a high-end model with 512GB of space. I'm guessing that's not for simply storing more Photos and Video.
But what's the underlying electrical and signal interface?
It's not, I'm surprised you don't see it.
Pillow is a fork of PIL -- the Python Imaging Library -- which had become unmaintained ('PIL' is in 'pillow'). It's the go-to image manipulation library on Python.
Alexander Dumas wrote a total of 277 novels over his lifetime – six every year of his working life

Woah, that is insane.
Was just reading a vulnerability disclosure of an example of this at Hackerone last night (for Hackerone).

https://hackerone.com/reports/72785

They cited this link in their report.
My wife is a 3D print-designer, who takes her prints to craft shows. We've quickly learned that the best way to increase sales is to have a large variety of designs rather than a smaller selection of high-quality designs. She can make $30 selling one high-quality replica of a historic landmark that took her weeks of painstaking modeling time, but she has to find the one person who wants that print. Alternatively, she can mass-produce refrigerator magnets of birds, flowers, and animals that take just a few hours of modeling time and output them in such a variety that she can easily sell dozens in a day at $5 each.

It's what makes Amazon so profitable and AliBaba such a threat. It's the "longtail" business model, but for ideas. Like Linus Pauling said, "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
Yes, that case is an example of a qualitative difference between TLDs and SLDs. .eu, as a ccTLD for the European Union, has a TLD-wide policy that all registrants must be based in the European Economic Area. Those 10K domain names were all registered by a Chinese woman who used a fake address in London to register the domain names. So they are being fought over in court not because of "squatting", but because she violated the registry policy.

Note that it is up to the registry operator to set said policy (which ICANN must approve). So that mechanism does not even exist to take away a TLD.

Good luck in getting international law passed to take away TLDs from corporations. I just don't see it happening.

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

This would break the Internet. Domain names have to work the same everywhere. You cannot have domain names pointing to different DNS zones entirely depending on where you access them from.
No kidding, but my first thought when I saw the photo was "how am I going to stop my cats treating it as a scratching post"
> There’s just no place for “average” companies looking to be worth and sell less than $500 million. At least not with VCs.

Ummm, yeah, that's right because those investors are called growth equity investors. They don't get the attention VCs do but they are out there.
Finally, I hope this becomes a common practice from other vendors as well.
10.5" screen, better screen, new chip, configurations start with more ram.
Well, back to log files. Which may no longer work with the latest and greatest JS framework :(
Crooks leverages a new technique to deliver Malware via PowerPoint presentations
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/6fe3hh/avoid_these_9_...
> Finally: McDonalds IS good. I don't eat there often, but they provide a consistently satisfactory experience for their customers. There's a reason you can find McDonalds nearly everywhere on the planet.

McDonald's is consistent, predictable, cheap, generic, and ubiquitous. Sometimes those are good qualities. "Good enough" is usually good enough, after all.

Regionally, there are a half-dozen choices that I'll take over McD's: Less iconic world-wide, but as cheap or cheaper, just as consistent, and more pleasing to the palate. I think that's closer to what they were advocating: Not necessarily building it in-house, but also not taking popularity as a reliable indicator of code quality (beyond a bar of minimum acceptability).
They wouldn't need this rushed excuse for a 'Pro' machine if they hadn't totally taken their eyes off the MacPro for the last 3+ years!

It's like they woke up one day and realised 'oh crap people are pissed and when we asked them why we were surprised that we have upset customers because we haven't updated this MacPro thingy in a few years' and then Tim Cook must have decreed 'let's get SOMETHING out there to stop the masses turning out with pitchforks!'

Really should never have come to this.
My intention in using "hand crafted"/memorable private keys was just to make the article and what I was doing easier to follow.

I don't think there's any harm in people copying and pasting examples, it only becomes an issue if they start depositing money to either of the addresses that I listed the private keys for. I hope that's an obvious enough mistake not to make! Thanks for the feedback anyway, I'll keep an eye on those addresses and if they start getting mysterious deposits change the article to include more cryptographically secure keys.
You are probably right but I think that's pretty shortsighted. I think one of the main reasons for the rise of the Macbooks was the fact that suddenly a lot of developers started using them. Once developers start moving away from Mac their ecosystem will hurt a lot.
What's the support for popular image process libs?
I probably could wrap in the `unsafe` block just the invocations to the system calls. I'm learning Rust and I wanted to give the post some freshness. There are already a plethora of examples in C.
I meant to link to another piece that described how it looked like Apple explicitly disabled eGPU support in TB3 on Macs, instead of merely not-supporting it.
This. Changed my coder life forever...
Ah, the resemblance I meant was more from a user's side, it's a smooth 2FA sign on solution with a single password.
Me too, I only use chrome for its built-in Flash support when a site requires it.
Speaking of shots across the bow, I'm surprised they've never put an ad-blocker in Safari.
Let's fact check the post:

LEED is a private entity...
true

that you pay to get LEED certification...
true

based on your planned designs...
true

Once you have certification, you could build literally anything else...
true

If you buy a LEED certified building, you could convert it to be heated and powered by burning tires and endangered animals- still LEED Certified...
speculative

There is no decertification process,...
true

because that would mean spending money to reduce the number of buildings with the very-public name on it....
speculative
OSX compared to Windows, sure. But iOS over Windows? Come on now.
There's an AR fray? Google threw their weight behind VR on mobile, who else is in the AR space?
I'm glad I got to see this as I worked through Operation Overflight (book of Francis Gary Powers) as a kid but never followed up on the technical details and development. I started with the ending instead of the beginning!
I am a woman and work in Boston as an engineer currently programming web apps for a consulting company. I had plenty of good experiences but also had a couple of bad ones. I could always catch something during the interview and or when you walk in. I would first evaluate the employer before I evaluate the team. You will need to find an employer that think highly of women. The founder of my company relies heavily on another female leader. Half of his staff are women Another CTO that I work with only has one full time staff female support person and he relies heavily on her. On the other hand I went for an interview where there are no female engineers and the vp of engineer was suffering from unconscious bias. I later heard that other male employees actually disagreed with him for not hiring me. There was another guy that changed his mind half way through during the interview. You will catch it but if there are no strong female leaders/female staff that are heavily relied on then you probably shouldn't work there.
Correction: I wish Apple would make it possible for Roku to support iTunes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6exr2r/bitcoin_sta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6fdny8/coinbase_ex...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6fca7k/coinbase_to...
I mean, macOS is free, so long as you are putting it on Apple hardware.
There was an "On My iPad" item in the sidebar. Seems promising.
Phishing for Answers: A Chat on Cybersecurity Startups
Man, what a bummer it'll be if this is restricted to cloud drives. Given the app sand boxing in iOS I wouldn't be surprised if that is it the case. I didn't find any aspect of the demo which showcased a local filesystem.
Internet Explorer has tracking protection since IE9.
And the Echo Dot is $49, frequently on sale for $39. Plus you get to choose your own speakers that will definitely sound better than the HomePod.

Interesting they are trying to sell this for music enthusiasts. It'll only appeal to Apple enthusiasts.
Why men act like men (violence, competitiveness)?
The file system on iOS is a bit weird, since apps are all sandboxed. But it looks like it can access the public files of apps on your device, and I think there was an "On this iPad" tab in sidebar.
While I'm not sure how effective they are on OS X, I have a hard time agreeing with any suggestion that Chrome is anything but the worst possible option for browser security right now. Chrome's official extension store is full of malware which collect not just your browsing data, but the contents of every page you view, and Google has shown almost zero interest in policing it. And a large percentage of malicious websites are designed to get users to install these malicious extensions.

Chrome may be relatively decent at preventing a webpage from compromising your OS, but in the modern era, a compromised browser is as bad or worse anyways, since that's where most of your sensitive activity goes.

While many HN readers will know to avoid the perils of this crud, I don't feel Chrome can be recommended over IE6 to the wider Internet while this remains so commonplace. Safe use of Chrome requires constant vigilance.

In light of Chrome's issues, I feel like a claim that switching to Chrome is important for security to require an exceptional evidence of vulnerability in the other browser.
WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results
'tptacek is using the term "white" in its US Sociology definition of "belonging to the dominant class".
That site is interesting, and it shows you that 1 of X browsers resemble a particular fingerprint ingredient.

I found this one rather interesting, it was the most unique of the ones listed:

HTTP_ACCEPT Headers

One in several thousand have the same headers as me. But the headers themselves are quite a small little string, I'm surprised it is that unique.
Sorry-- context matters.

I think this is a fun workaround for some of Lambda's limitations. The Terrible Ideas themselves are far more blatant than that.
Would be nice if this translated into real world apps and Apple allowed embedding new WebKit into native apps.

WKWebKit doesn't even support printing properly from 3rd party code.
Maybe it will be possible to whitelist certain sites like Youtube, that would be useful. Even more useful if it did figure out that by itself.
While a nice story, I have been unable to find any citations that would indicate that this was ever an actual study.