skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish google now could discern between myself and other 'john' + 'smith''s. I get one johns son's report cards, another john is a hockey coach and they travel a lot so my google now is littered with his stuff. Another john is a realtor so I get a lot of his stuff... another john is in a band and places a bass. I shouldn't of registered my real name as my email address on gmail - whilst I was lucky I get so much more iterated in the amount of real mail that was meant for someone else... and since systems like google now and the like use that information my entire experience is ruined.
Right, but this submission is about the iPad Pro announcement, not iPads in general. I have an iPad. It gets used for exactly what you describe. Work gets done on my Macbook.

I like iOS on my iPhone. I like OSX on my Macbook. The only thing I'm pushing back on is the idea that iOS (via the iPad Pro) is set to consume my Macbook.
this is the correct factual response here.
This is the tradeoff WSJ opted for, and it really doesn't make sense for it to work both ways. Web crawlers can't index content behind a paywall, end of story.

Where WSJ has a big advantage is that they already have brand name recognition. From the stats in the article it appears that this was a profitable choice for them, however, a lesser know content publisher seeking to monetize using paywalls is bound to have a much more significant challenge attracting users without decent search result rankings.
Meanwhile there's a much larger and far more diverse distribution market for the Amazon, MS and Google offerings. All of which have a much better track record for creating genuinely open systems. Certainly not open-source level of free, but quite a bit more so than Apple's despicable walled garden approach.
I can't imagine this little HomePod scan touch the Play-5 2nd Gen, which is a extraordinary speaker.

We'll see. I'm expecting it to be Play-3 category. There isn't much to separate the Play-1 and Play-3 IMO. Play-5 is a different thing altogether.
HFS+ was already case-sensitive on iOS.
Its not free, but it could be less not free... there was a time you paid for new versions of OSX.
> - The Art of Unix Programming by ESR

Yes. TAOUP has a lot of good content about Unix programming styles and traditions, much of it useful generally. ESR's writing style is a bit heavy / verbose / uses verbal flourishes, but if you can let that not put you off, the book is worth reading. I've read most of it. One of the good sections is about Rules (of programming in Unix, which are not really rules, of course, but informal guidelines developed over many years of experience by many people - ESR has sort of codified them, a thing he tends to do a lot :)

The Rule about separating the interface from the implementation is a good one. I've seen developers at even enterprise companies sometimes not follow it in practice.

> - Parsing Techniques by Grune and Jacobs

Just saw that there is a new edition of this book:

https://dickgrune.com/Books/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/
Agreed. Seems simple to me; if you stop providing the content those users are coming for, they stop coming. Why is this hard for NYT to understand?
Just like Amazon, they'll probably learn that soon enough.
Why two separate devices when you can do it all on one? Right, so Apple can sell you more over priced hardware.
I feel like you're grasping at anything you can right now. Would you like to be more forthcoming with your opinion here without the required song and dance?
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Yes, I run all kinds of distros; Manjaro, Xubuntu, Mint and even Fedora. Fedora is especially stable, but some fiddling is required, and personally, I cannot get stable WiFi. Others can, though, so maybe you might want to read a bit more. There is also the famous /r/surfacelinux subreddit.
Non-binary queer woman here. I can usually get a vibe at interviews about the company culture, from the people I talk to (my questions and their general personalities).

The only team I've ever felt "normal" at was one where one of the interviewers was gay. My boss there had hired a bunch of really talented queer developers from his network, so half the team was queer. I guess I really liked the personalities of the people I interviewed with (it was a full-day pairing interview, which is a lot better for getting a feel for a company than just whiteboarding), so I figured it'd be a good group of people to work with.

The challenge is that if you're interviewing for a larger company, you might not know which team you'll end up in if you accept an offer. Try to avoid this situation, and get a feel for the people you'd be working closely with.

I think if I were to interview for a new company now, I'd reach through my network and try to work with a friend (or former co-worker). I still have never had another woman on my team (after about 5 years in tech), so in the future I'd probably look for a company that has female engineers and high-ranking women within the company.

I've also found that companies that use pair programming tend to value empathy and teamwork, because when you're working that closely with your coworkers every day, no one wants to work with a jerk.

There are some bad companies here in the sf bay area, but there are also some really great places to work. Glassdoor has saved me a few times early in the interview process.
As far as I remember, that's the first time I saw Apple introducing a brand new product by saying it's cheaper than equivalent competitors. I guess they had so little else to say...
Is this like http://www.evolveapp.com/ (Techstars Boston '17.)
The article says (my emphasis):

> segregate the _cross-site_ scripting data

So if you "just want to quantify your traffic", use self-hosted Piwik (i.e. not cross-site), as many of us do already.
If you click a search result and end up seeing something completely different than what you expected based on the search result snippet, it shouldn't matter if you're the WSJ or a scam site trying to hack your Google rank. It's deceiving the user and inflating your search ranking at the expense of more deserving listings.
They actually changed their motto a little while back, not sure what it is now.
Watching this very closely, I pay for a WSJ subscription because I think their content is better than most, and also because I get sent alot of links to their content.
Something about this later point feels like the argument people make about using Office because people still send them Excel and Word docs.

Similar to how software companies release free software to augment what makes them money, Bloomberg is able to spend a lot of money on producing content that is sponsored by their terminal subscriptions.

The WSJ might be in a unique situation where their primary audience will pay, often due to companies footing the bill for employee's, so perhaps they can be one of the few news producing companies that doesn't have to depend on Google for traffic in that their primary audience loads up their front page multiple times a day just to see what's there.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did a deal with Bloomberg to provide their content on terminals to further strengthen their ties to their core audience.
That doesn't seem like as big a deal. Ad blocker users are not uncommon, but not the majority either. "Google users" is quite possibly the broadest demographic you could possibly lose.
Interesting, it wasn't in the coverage I read on the announcement in May but I see on the web site they have added : "We wanted to ensure Surface Pro was a transformative device – so we also have added LTE Advanced, available in units shipping later this year." Makes me wonder how much later, later is?

Thanks for pointing that out!
Well, I guess that the burden is on you to present sources to your claim :)
What are the privacy advantages of HomePod vs Google/Amazon?
the only thing Russia hacked was how stupid Americans are and how addicted they are to using quick quotes to signal a false intelligence... so that's on us. As far as the DNC... those emails should be public from the moment they are sent. All government emails should reside on a public searchable database... content is king.
The problem is, content delivered over the web "leaks out" in standard usage and interfaces with the overworld, unless prevented by DRM. People save files, sometimes using contrived workflows, and content that was transferred to a browser for display (such as WebP) will eventually be downloaded, shared, and reposted somewhere else. Facebook once famously migrated serving most images as WebP and had to back out because people were downloading images, only to end up with .webp files that are unsupported in other programs [1].

In the past, I articulated, on the topic of 'Ask HN: Software for writing a diary that will be around in 20 years from now' [2]:

I'd be wary of the archival potential of formats that are solely used on the Web with little usage on tangible physical hardware by major commercial publishers -- the Web of today moves very fast and technologies come and go. Google is pushing WebP, WebM, but work is already under way on a big consensus format called AV1. When AV1 comes out, new VP8/VP9 content will likely no longer be produced. Browsers periodically prune older features, 20 years is almost as long as the web has been around, and given enough time support for the format may only be available in software that make format coverage an explicit goal (ffmpeg, libav, VLC). Opus is being made a mandatory audio codec for WebRTC, teleconferencing is usually ephemeral -- will there be lots of .opus files sitting on disks in the future? Too early to tell, not worth gambling on.

The context of this was choosing formats for the express purpose of long-term archival, but our incidental usage of formats today will shape the sort of files that will be naturally around in our future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5589206
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12979854#12980359
That's the rub though, isn't it?

I saw the movie "Her" and loved it. I want an AI assistant like that in my life. The movie did a fantastic job of showcasing how a near-future reality might be with that assistant.

What the movie did NOT do a great job of was highlighting the role of the company who produced and offers the assistant. What is data privacy like in that universe? Is the company an advertising company? What level of access does the government in that universe have to assistant-collected data? These are all important questions that need to be addressed before there is true acceptance.

So I want an assistant like in the movie--but I don't know how I'd feel if that was offered by Google or Facebook. I'm an Android user using the latest Assistant on my Pixel today, and it is pretty nice. But right now it isn't inserting itself into my life like the movie Assistant was. I'm not sure how I'd feel about Google doing that, or what additional data they might need to do so.
Cookies are one way to track users. They are not the only one. Google Analytics is so ubiquitous...I can't see Google missing the opportunity to leverage it.
I'm not a minority, but I think you should be asking this question to everyone, not just minorities. Everyone deserves a non-toxic environment and it's an issue everyone has to deal with.

Here's my strategy: Read the glassdoor reviews - If it mentions "people crying at their desks", that's a bad sign - actually any kind of crying in a professional environment is a bad sign. Also, words like "high energy" and "passion" often reflect poorly as well.

#2) Ask the company about their employee retention rate or research it online. If you can get an accurate picture of their retention rate, then you can find out how toxic it is. The greater the number of people leaving, the worse the place is.
Probably Berlin. Vilnius or Tallinn could be interesting choices because of friendly business climate, lower taxes, competent and cheap talent, not far away, good tech culture and basically 0% chance that someone would try to outlaw your business (Germany probably has a bit higher chance but I guess it's also not that high). I think US do have some restrictions about exporting encryption to some (all?) foreign countries so you better look closer into that before making a decision.
P.S. Stockholm also could be a good place. It's just quite expensive.
it's a luxury goods company and it admitted it when it renamed from apple computer to just apple. it all makes perfect sense from that perspective.
On the whole, an all-in-one design for what is purportedly a professional-grade machine isn't exactly enticing (no expandability, impossibility of having multiple identical monitors, & cetera).

But on second thoughts the hardware support this will bring to macOS will enable the construction of some really powerful, up-to-date hackintosh systems at very reasonable price-points.
The net result is the same regardless of whether it's an expectation in one case versus an outrage in the other.
it isn't just LA that's suffering in this way... it's the entire country.

the rent is too high. the pay is too low. the costs of essentials are rising.

nobody will do anything.

we're on track for self-destruction.
Michael Parker writes: "There’s quite a bit of usefulness to be found in evaluating code during compilation. The coolness (of which there is much) arises from the possibilities that come along with it. Starting from Björn’s example, this post sets out to teach a few interesting aspects of compile-time evaluation in the D programming language."
That's a great question: They're still a company that I read articles from every now and then, so I personally assume they're doing well enough to still exist. How did it work out for them? Not trying to be a snarky bastard here, I genuinely want to know how it worked out for them, because I don't know this story and am too lazy to do research on it right now, and given the tone of your comment, I'd imagine it'll be easier for you to provide me some starting material to give me a head start.
It also makes sense because they can't crawl a page that is behind a paywall.
"I wish Google could track me more perfectly"
Bloomberg News is subsidized by the terminal business. It's free and public so terminal users can send non-payers links. I guess if you want your news funded entirely by a small group of people in the financial sector, that's fine. But for those of us grateful for the work the Wall Street Journal did to uncover e.g. the Theranos scandal, paying for good journalism is the way to go.
Are you really going to argue that Bloomberg, the one which is able to make Bloomberg Terminal[1] a good value proposition, is worse in terms of quality of information than the Washington Post?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/bloomberg-te...
I have Little Snitch, and there aren't any. Do you just assume this to be the case?
I'd rather have 2 devices made for dedicated form factors that play to the pros and cons of said form factor, than a jack of all trades, master of none.
Few questions:

* What's your traction like? How many active users and what's the weekly growth rate like?

* When did you launch this product?

* What are your monetization plans?

* How has the YC experience been so far?

Good luck!
"As you’d expect from a pro machine, there are plenty of high-speed ports to create a high-performance workstation."

haha, except for your Macbook Pro.
Isn't it like this that all data is gathered anyway, but site owner can access the more advanced tracers with paid subscriptions?

I don't intent to provoke FUD, I seriously don't know. This would sound like rational choice for Google since they need this data to run their business.
> 2/3's of the total amount was owned by Ethdevs

Source?
looks at prices in upstate NY and the South, and then Midwest

ehhhhh seems pretty damn cheap
The 12.9" iPad Pro + Pencil + 60hz app works very well with no behavior like that. My guess is that it's a beta iOS issue because there seems to be a lot of churn with major iOS versions when it comes to the pencil. Apps usually have to do some kind of update to address whatever Apple has done each time around.
I also hope it pushes Sonos to improve their app. It's been clunky and slow for years now and the primary reason I'll be swapping my Play 1 devices with HomePods as soon as they're available where I live.
"it's gonna make a huge dent in Google Analytics' numbers".

Very unlikely, since almost nobody uses desktop Safari.
It would be interesting to know how they will distinguish between trackers and externally loaded libraries like jQuery. A blocked ajax.googleapis.com host or the like could potentially break a lot of sites.
So you've never actually installed Windows 10 then? Because from the beginning it's asked for permission to share your data for things like Cortona, the touch keyboard, ink, voice, etc. Based on user response they've evolved the interface and made it clearer removing anti-patterns.

This is the same stuff Apple asks for permissions on.

Microsoft doesn't let you turn off telemetry data entirely. Things like hardware configurations and installed drivers are still send, albeit anonymously so that Microsoft can better support the OS.

Again Apple does something similar. Spotlight and Safari send data back to Apple even when you're making queries against other services (e.g. DuckDuckGo Searches). And like Microsoft, there's no UI to disabled it.
I wish apple would rerelease their old ALPS SKCM keyboards. They were amazing. I really do not like the butterfly switches. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_SKCM_Salmon
Companies look like Dirac and Audyssey do this, but require you to move a microphone around a room while a test signal plays (from speakers that are usually spaced throughout a room). The big mystery to me would be how effective such room processing can be, when you're limited to measuring from the point where the sound is generated. (My personal experience would say not very. It'd make more sense to me if the user maybe held up their iPhone as a microphone and the system calibrated itself as they moved throughout the listening space.
Of course they let in google's crawler.
Is there way to do a dual screen setup with this?
Apple is nothing like pre-Jobs Apple today. Today, they have the money and manpower to have many focuses and do very well at them. The power of Apple is in their ecosystem, and the wider reaching that ecosystem becomes, the larger and more unmovable they will become.
I think people are unfairly calling this a Google Home for $350 when it's a Sonos that has Siri instead. But I also think the real trouble will come when 3rd parties start making speakers just as good with Google Assistant for much less. For instance when Anker starts shipping a Google Assistant speaker, or a huge JBL extreme, etc.
It seems like its straight out of their playbook. They've laid some groundwork, perhaps collect some data on things the device gets asked and next year release massive upgrades.
I feel its a bit of too little to late, but it is their way.
About a year ago I made myself a little browser plug-in to remove all links to sites I never want to visit again, wsj.com was the first one I added.
Hey, I seconded this, the Dragons Book is not the best textbook or introduction to the topic, there are a lot of better ones. The Dragons Book is more of a classic. If you want to read a good book on compilers construction then you're better off reading "Engineering a Compiler" by K. Cooper and L. Torczon or "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" by A. Appel.

If you want more resources on Compilers other than books, such as tutorials, guides, talks and papers, then go ahead and check the Awesome Compilers vertical I compiled a while ago: https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers

Cheers!
I think there a VERY small subset for users that need anything that the current line of iMac can't deliver. At my previous employer I had a 2012 iMac as a developer workstation. It would still be more than sufficient today. Even my 2011 MacBook Air would still be fine, if it wasn't for me wanting a better screen and more than 128GB of storage.

People buy Macs for the operating system, not the hardware. The hardware has been sufficient for at least five years in a row, for all but a very small subset of consumers.

I would agree with you that the Mac isn't a particular cost efficient way of getting high performance hardware, it's just that I don't think that matter any more. Windows is still a bastard operating system and Linux is not nearly as polished as MacOS. Personally I'm not sure that I'll necessarily get a Mac next time, but there's also not a whole lot of other options out there. Maybe I'll built an OpenBSD box, at least that OS is consistent.
While these are all important questions, I wonder if there's a different way to word them. My first reaction if I was looking to hire would be "this candidate is looking to make waves, better find someone else that won't be constantly emailing HR." And I know that's not what you're meaning.
Think of a small case with a power supply unit and a single PCEe slot inside. You plug any regular (internal) video card of your choice in it, and connect the case to the main computer via TB3, making the video card available as an external video card. That's a TB enclosure. These things has been for awhile, at least since TB came out.

It's not called eGPU enclosure because technically it can contain any other PCIe card, though it is almost exclusively used for video cards as other devices usually can be powered by TB cable itself.
It supports Airplay 2, so you can stream music from other devices that you own to it... so even if there is no native support for Spotify, you can still use as an Airplay 2 speaker.
Full disclosure: white dude

I would just add make sure you specify that they actually do technical work, and you would be working with them. One job I got I would say 80% of the cube farm were women. The only down side was they were all data entry people, and not treated well. The turn over rate was amazing. The 2 females on my team weren't actually doing technical work and was more or less just adopted into the team because they sat near us. I stayed for as long as my contract stated and left asap.
Congrats on the launch guys! I've been tinkering around with similar ideas for some time now, and I gotta admit your guys' execution is awesome. Feels like Tinder meets Genius.

I assume you guys are running OCR on the uploaded screenshots? Do you plan to expand this to a dating coaching service?

One last nit-pick: Your website looks rad, but the Disqus style comments kinda kills the vibe for me. Makes it feel a little tacky or spammy... Is that just me? I think a custom commenting system would be best, but even the Facebook comments plugin would be a step above this.
I'm skeptical about the tablet.

I went on a trip last week and left my workhorse macbook pro at home for the first time on a trip and brought my iPad mini.

It just isn't that useful for dealing with photos taken with a separate camera. It was nice for browsing the web but that was pretty much it. I couldn't work on my learning new graphical js on my downtime, not beat making (ableton). The iphone was great on the trip while on the go.

It just doesn't feel like a creative device. Even though the pencil is amazing, I just don't see it.