skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I think this behavior is nothing new.

And neither is schools denying access for those they deem undesirable. Fifty years ago, if information about a candidate participating in unsavory activities reached the admissions office in some manner and they were able to verify it (or not, it's really up to them whether the rumors themselves are bad enough), they could, and I'm sure did, use that to deny admission to candidates.

> But that's a pretty huge penalty.

That happens all the time. Life isn't fair, and Harvard admissions certainly aren't "fair", by whatever standard you can come up with. They specifically admit candidates on a very diverse set of criteria, which includes things such as the promotion of multiculturalism, because it's believed that exposure to different types of people provides an overall benefit to the student body. It should come as no surprise that if they are willing to admit otherwise lesser scholastically qualified candidates to promote this facet of the Harvard experience, they would be just as willing to reject people on the same grounds. Put simple, grades and SAT scores are not all that matters, and just as a college may reject you after admission has been granted if your last semester of High School has horrible grades, they may reject you if they discover evidence that they think you are not the type of student they want attending.

> There are some people there who lost their admission who probably were very lucky to get into Harvard, who don't have 10 other ivy league schools to go to.

Nobody has to go to an Ivy league school. In the same way you can screw up a big test and get a bad grade in High School, you can screw up your image and how you are perceived morally. They screwed up, and at least one avenue was closed to them. Their life may be different, but it's not like they are being jailed. They can go to some other school. I'm positive people have been rejected and even expelled for Harvard with less evidence. Their life will go on, and if they were able to get accepted to Harvard I'm sure they'll do okay going somewhere else, as long as they can curb whatever impulse caused this incident (whether it be ignorance of how it would be perceived, too much acceptance of peer pressure, or actual racism. I'm sure it was slightly different for each of them).
> restricting the rest to its 2.2 million subscribers or people who arrive via social media.

So they're fine with people from "social media" getting a 'free ride' ?
My thoughts exactly. If WSJ wants to increase monetization through paywalls, it has every right to do so, but should suffer in SERP accordingly as a paywalled-article is generally not what users are looking for.
Yep, that's literally https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking . If they were a smaller site, they'd probably get outright banned by google.
I was hoping for an announcement like this as well. Maybe next time?
Some interesting things to note from the specs[0]:

1. An 18-core processor option, 4TB of storage (hopefully NVMe) and 128GB of RAM. That's crazy for an iMac form factor. I'm surprised Apple is even continuing the traditional Mac Pro form factor, considering.

2. Specific details on AMD Vega's pro models:

Radeon Pro Vega 56 graphics processor with 8GB of HBM2 memory | Configurable to Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics processor with 16GB of HBM2 memory

Having a GPU with 16GB of HBM2 doesn't necessitate an external graphics card in the vast majority of cases. It'll be interesting if you can then hook up additional external graphics cards to augment its GPU power for either high-end 3D work or deep learning applications.

I'm guessing we may see people hooking up external Nvidia GPUs just so they can take advantage of CUDA, which is kind of a shame considering the specs of the onboard Vega hardware.

Metal 2 introduces compute shaders however, so I'm not sure if Apple intends to challenge CUDA primacy. Considering their reliance on AMD GPUs, it would be in their interest to do so—or at least somehow convince Nvidia to discontinue their anti-competitive practice of locking CUDA to Nvidia GPUs.

[0] https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/specs/

EDIT: As other commenters pointed out, I incorrectly speculated the Mac Pro form factor was done for. On the contrary, its continuation is officially confirmed. My comment has been updated accordingly. Thanks!
Thanks!

Your feedback is basically describing our exact discussions about what absolutely has to make it into the 1.0 release.

We got away without implementing OCR yet. We'll add it pretty soon in order to make the posts searchable.

Having our own comment system would be nice. We did write our own annotation system (modeled after Google Docs UX). The Disqus comments were one of the few instances where we managed to force ourselves not to scope creep the 1.0 :) we couldn't help spending a couple hours to integrate their SSO feature though.
It's also stretching the truth a little bit. Dumas had 45 employees who worked with him to write the novels. So, he was more running a studio with a process to create great novels rather than actually writing each novel.
> Our country and most of the western world has a long history of the whole of society oppressing groups largely through such non-government oppression.

> people read the posted sign or subtly got the funny vibe

Or the bigoted meme? It's a great argument; you might consider exactly which point it's a great argument in favor of.

I am amazingly uninterested in arguments for why it's important to support racism and sexism, or in attempts to paint racists and sexists as an oppressed group that needs protection, or in attempts to equate freedom of association as equivalent to violence, or in attempts to call it "your particular ideas of what's right and wrong". Enjoy beating up that strawman as long as you like, but it has little to do with any actual position I'm advocating.
Except our motto has never been "Do no evil".
It's "Don't BE evil".
Agreed. I just downloaded an extension so I don't even have to bother with searching Google anymore.
Mavericks was a work-in-progress shitshow of a release, that's probably why it never got a "tock". Apple was keen to let people forget.
Any news on Web Workers?
You can bypass the Quora login screen by appending ?share=1 to the URL. There's also an userscript which does this automatically: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker-userscript
I'm really interested in this, but at roughly £950 for the 256GB model including keyboard and pencil, can I use it for full time web development?
So they're the same apart from all the features they don't have. What a deeply insightful observation.
I downloaded two. One had no watermark at all the other has the manualslib URL on the bottom left not blocking any content.
At $4999 for the base model they can keep it.
How We Deal with Technical Debt on BBC Bitesize
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/micro...

There were earlier articles that talked about the frequency of audio dumps (every 30 minutes) but I wouldn't call them as reliable sources as Ars or Microsoft.
Did you see the correction at the bottom?

Subversion of E2E encryption would likely be in conflict with the GDPR: https://tresorit.com/blog/encryption-gdpr-compliance/
Due to naming parity, this all but confirms an 'iPhone Pro' this fall.
Not the first-class solution you're looking for, but I've found running https://github.com/stephen/airsonos on a local server reliable.
I think they made the wrong product. This is positioned as a Sonos killer.

What I hoped to see was a integrated home assistant, this is a really nice speaker no one is going to integrate with. Unfortunately whatever ecosystem people buy into for home assistant is probably going to tie them to that ecosystem for a long time, google and amazon are getting off to a early start that may be hard for apple to catch up to.

I really wanted to see any one of the following today:

The HomePod we saw, but showing off some slick home integrations (and audio out! - those integrations seemed like an after thought)

A Complimentary apple tv experience. Either new hardware that also had a speaker or some helper hardware (think more expensive echo dot)

A possible answer to the amazon show (an input in to the apple tv making it a video gateway - ie last thing before your tv) which allows on screen overlay (ie: siri show me traffic right now and have it pop up, siri is my wife at work still (shows location)?, siri web search for better HomePod)

None of those happened and anyone of those ideas would be a great start breaking me away from amazon/echo.
> which may be delayed now apparently

I'm curious, what have you read/seen that makes you think this unknown product is delayed before being announced?
> Firstly, even if you like beer, it's bad for your health to have daily, unfettered access to it.

Only if you lack the maturity and self control to handle that.

In my home, I have daily, unfettered access to bourbon, gin, beer, wine, tequila, and more. And, yet I am as healthy as I have ever been. Because I'm an adult and don't choose to get wasted every day simply because I can.
The problem is that you made a very broad and sweeping claim and then picked a very weak supporting point for it. Web Assembly may not change the game for every or even most sites but for sites which are performance sensitive it's an extremely user-visible improvement.

> Stop trying to prove me wrong and understand my point.

I think you should focus on making your point more clearly rather than defending what was clearly a. For example, you cite modules as something which is apparently a big deal for web developers but not shipped by Firefox. Sounds like Mozilla needs to get cracking … unless you know that only Safari has shipped it and the Chrome, Firefox, and Edge teams all have it available but behind a feature flag for testing:

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5365692190687232

That doesn't support your narrative that the Firefox team is ignoring this or that they're behind the market — and since anyone who isn't targeting only the latest version of Safari is either polyfilling or continuing to use their existing strategy, so there's an upper bound on how bad that can be, too.

Similarly, with Intersection Observer you can see that it was enabled in FF50 but had stability issues which lead to it being disabled and is likely to be re-enabled in FF54 based on testing. Unless you have some evidence that the developers who were working on that were pulled off to work on WebAssembly it doesn't seem like an especially compelling argument.

Again, I'm not saying that any of these things are useless — only that the narrative you're insisting on where Mozilla is ignoring web developers doesn't seem to be well supported by the evidence. At least for the projects I work on, I'd level that criticism at Safari or Edge first and in the much fewer cases where either Chrome or Firefox has a bug or limitation I need to work around it's about as likely to be Chrome as Firefox requiring extra work.
That Matias keyboard, quite frankly, looks like a piece of junk from the G3 iMac era.

Apple could build a mechanical keyboard with their characteristic design and build quality.

I think the new butterfly switch is useable, but I don't share your enthusiasm. I have not been able to fully adjust to them and I still make typing errors from my fingers sliding off more than I'd like.
The HomePod is $349. Amazon frequently has the Echo and Echo Dot on sale. For the same price as the HomePod you can buy two full sized Echos and a Dot. For me, Alexa has been exponentially more reliable than Siri. I do not understand this pricing at all.
Would definitely choose iOS over Windows any day of the week. Luckily, I can get both macOS and iOS so no worries.
Free speech means exactly freedom from consequences. You're confusing the value of free speech with the specific contractual guarantee provided by the government. In other words, a university that commits itself to free speech contradicts that commitment by unaccepting students based on their speech.
For comparison, expendable payload of Falcon 9 more than doubled between the first launch and the current version. (Reusable payload of the current version is less, but still exceeds the expendable payload of the original Falcon 9 1.0.) That Falcon 9 increase includes the significant engine upgrade to Merlin-1D, but ISRO is already planning to replace the core stage of its GPSV with a larger stage taking different fuels, which should boost capability significantly.
I don't know how it worked out for them but I will usually disable my adblocker for sites I like that ask nicely and their adds are not too obnoxious.
A lot of the items on that table really aren't very self-explanatory (Derived image, for example, obviously has a clearly defined meaning in this context, and it appears to be contrary to what I expect it to be). They assume a background that I don't have, and at the moment I don't feel that I have the time to spend obtaining it. I was asking for more of a layperson's comparison of the differences. Read it as "Why should I prefer HEVC over PNG, when they appear to be mostly identical".
Wow, this is amazing. How will you scale it past the initial founder experts?
I believe Curb's argument is that the sprawl was to some degree caused by the zoning, as it made high-density housing difficult to build.

A lot of it, though, is just down to geography.
I compared 2 chrome versions and it seems that most of the version numbers there are static.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2979.0 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.10 Safari/537.36

As for iOS 10 it's pretty sparse as well.

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A403 Safari/602.1

It's slightly worse than windows because it probably discloses your device type, but there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of users for each iphone variant.
Codewars provides (mostly) bite-sized coding challenges in a wide range of programming languages. Each challenge is ranked by difficulty, and, once completed, you can view other user solutions for learning and comparison (which other similarly-designed sites do not allow).

Link: https://www.codewars.com/r/F4g9Rg
Wonder if Apple is making a conscious choice to market this as a speaker vs. a Home Assistant. A speaker seems far less creepy to the commoner (no ads, supposedly not listening to every command you request, etc.) and is something everyone can already understand the functionality of. With the nice processor, they clearly are thinking about this as something more than just a speaker that they can upgrade in the future.
> The things that make it safe to run that code will significantly negatively impact image decoding speed right now.

Okay, but as I said before, for specific cases we can still do things the old way. I.e., upon decoding we detect that the url points to a known format, and we run the fast+safe decoder. For unknown formats, we download the slow decoder and use that. This way, we have more than what we would otherwise have (flexibility). And in the future, WASM will be faster anyway. I only see benefits. Of course, the sandbox should be formally proved correct first.
Good point -- that's one of the reasons why I think it's "just" a red flag. The one place that I mentioned what exactly like that -- small company, couldn't afford too much wage, hiring mostly students or fresh graduates, often based on recommendations. The structure of the team was largely a reflection of our own social networks and of the bias inherent in hiring third-year students. For almost an year, it was a six-man effort. There was only one woman in our team.
At what point would nation-state sponsored hacking be considered as an act of war? From this article it doesn't seem like the hacking effort had significant result, but if, let's say if, Donald Trump was elected due to direct hacking attempt by Russian military intelligence, then what is the correct course of action?
They are completely different beasts. Internet Explorer merely offers the option to enable[1] "Do Not Track", which websites and advertisers are free to ignore[2], while Safari's new ad tracker blocker "uses machine learning to identify trackers, segregate the cross-site scripting data, put it away so now your privacy — your browsing history — is your own"[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Effectiveness

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-adds-a-tracker-block...
Hm, there might be something on this. Best workplace I was at had dudes working 4 days out of five because of personal activities that fifth day - no repercussions. People tended to do their own thing in a lot of ways.
> If a developer/pro/etc. need 18 cores, most of the time they'll be OK with a top-end i7 -- I think.

Not if they need ECC RAM - and if you've got enough professional stuff to fill 128GB of RAM, you really, really need ECC RAM.
Hm, looks like they're building a CRM to track your dates, while we're giving you advice about how to date better.
I think WSJ is wrong in saying that they are being punished by Google for their paywalled articles appearing last in search results.

Google has algorithms that would need to actually crawl the entire content, to ensure that it will provide the most relevant result. If it is unable to crawl the entire content, then it becomes just as hard to rank the same in the result.

Changing the algorithms to rank simply on the title and the first few (free introductory) paragraphs of articles behind paid subscription can lead to more bogus results. Google knows that invalid search results in turn disengages their users from perusing their search engine.
I use my 12" iPad Pro flat a lot, mostly for taking notes in meetings using the pencil or drawing diagrams. It's no different to using pen and paper in terms of neck angles and the like.

I do find myself using the pencil for stuff you'd do with a finger (clicking buttons etc.) as well as writing/drawing though, maybe in subconscious deference to those ergonomic issues.
Similarly at Flickr a couple years ago:

http://code.flickr.net/2015/09/25/perceptual-image-compressi...

As well as other changes to reduce storage costs:

https://code.flickr.net/2017/01/05/a-year-without-a-byte/
In my opinion, the best news sources I read regularly are ones I pay for directly, with content hidden behind a paywall. This kind of reporting and investigating costs money to produce and is worth paying money for (and not just advertising views).
Thank you for creating something and trying to help people in one of life's most important activities. I want you to know that everything after this is coming from a place of genuine respect and support. My preemptive apologies for being blunt.

"The two of us had that sinking feeling in our early 20s that we’d missed our best opportunity to date," is a bad sign.

First, you were in your early 20's! Grow, learn, break a heart, get your heart broken, travel, read, get fired, start a nonprofit, experience life. Why were you so caught up in finding your optimal date while some of the best (i.e. most painful) growth opportunities were passing you by? I am not sure you have the perspective or life experience to be counseling people on something like dating.

Second, dating is not a game you can "win." One of my favorite professors ever, a statistics genius with possibly a touch of Aspergers, explained to our class one time how dating is like science. A "failed" experiment is knowledge gained about the world! A "failed" relationship is a chance to learn about yourself, others and relationships. The only way is to try.

Third, this is creating an arms race of banter instead of allowing people to genuinely connect. There's a famous OK Cupid article demonstrating why being your most authentic self is actually beneficial to your dating life (https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-mathematics-of-beauty-51bd25...).

There are a number of other reasons I think this is not a good way to spend your time, as a business, as a life pursuit and as a thing that detracts from the world, but I'll stop here so I don't sound like a complete jerk. I would strongly urge you to reconsider. Mostly, I think you just need time. Again, kudos on making a thing.
Just replace "code" with "valuable resource", and "founders" with "interested actors", and your comment is much more broadly applicable, if not universal.
On youtube.com sure. But most people's issue is with auto-playing embedded videos.
Digital Privacy Is Making Antitrust Exciting Again
Three pencils for one iPad pro?
Gauss and Riemann may have been selective publishers, but they produced and thought about topics constantly. We can see this in their correspondence and private notes.

They probably weren't making lists of topics they wanted to study one day and getting stuck not even starting.
Just allow access from all of Google's IP space, as long as the user-agent contains "googlebot'. It's pretty trivial to do...

Sure, some people could set up GCP instances and proxy it, but that's a very tiny percentage of people.
Have you tried uBlock Protector? https://jspenguin2017.github.io/uBlockProtector/
The irony may be that the best way to get paid is to be biased.
I don't think any of his reservations have to do with the technical aspects so much as ones which you'd likely be biased [1] against; and there's no point privileging a pro-corporate counterargument by bring them up here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
It seems like "They're building an ad blocker into Chrome?! Ooh yeah????!!! We'll show them!" happened internally.

Taking bets on them being out of business or sold at a greatly diminished value in 3 years or less.
And yet, they're young enough that many, probably the majority, require co-signers on their student loans.

If we set out to send mixed signals about maturation to college students we couldn't have done a better job
I assume his point is that several people (judging on your comments being downvoted) think you are just bashing surface with no good reason.

First you respond saying that the problem with the Surface is it's not touch-friendly, then when pointed out that it apparently is you reply saying that if it's used in touch mode then its power is irrelevant, and you seem to be missing the point that being able to operate as a powerful machine OR a touch-friendly machine, with the user being able to choose between them, is a double win, not a double loss.

Basically, your comments on this subject come across as biased in favour of iPad over Surface. And I say that as somebody who has never owned a Surface and who hasn't owned an iPad for several years.
Austin's Mike Maples and Scott Harmon Form Swivel, a WeWork Competitor
It will be awesome if the Space Gray keyboard/mouse are only available with the iMac Pro and not independently. Then they'll be must-haves :-)
Wow. Those are some remarkable results.

I've hypothesized for a while now that the Black Lives Matter movement might be distracting us from what might be the true cause of the problems they seek to address. Blaming the problem on "racist" cops by default instead of performing a root cause analysis is leading us to overlook the likelihood that poorer communities, that are often predominantly black, are more likely to be exposed to lead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/13/black-children-at-r...
This feature will surely show up in iOS Safari, which would have a big impact.
They're the same chip, but one of them has ‎artificially deactivated features and is a different line, yes. Misread the line part as chip.
I dont think its a stretch to see that it is nice to have a tablet device for things like note taking and web browsing on the same device that I can do things like run Matlab simulations
Pythonista comes pretty close without being "Xcode for iPad". You can develop apps using it, which can have icons on the home screen.