skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because the H1Bs are the reason people in rural West Virginia are suffering. People are suffering because the labor movement in this country was effectively killed. Trump and his policies are anti-labor and will not do anything to improve their position in life.
> in my experience apple software is flat out inferior and OSX is the worst

It is almost absurdly bad. The only OS that still hangs, freezes, and crashes regularly. It is like Windows 98 quality wise and seems to get worse instead of better.

The whole UX is also insane. Every feature is hidden behind some obscure keyboard shortcut that you have to google or you just get used to working with this useless toy os.

The terminal is garbage. Everything is slooooow as fk (typing, mouse, etc).

It is shocking that the internet industry has standardized on working on this garbage when they run Linux on their servers and would be far better off developing on the software they actually use.

It just demonstrates the cult mindset and horrible lack of real technical proficiency in the industry.
I agree that the messaging and story are the most important components. But you still need to have a clean and elegant design to get people to consume the story and message. You can make the content more digestible by making use of white spaces, having adequate line height and line width, including appropriate imageries and graphics, and using lots of bullets. If the page is too ugly or too overwhelming with texts, more readers will bounce.
C# does have a feature called Code Contracts [0][1]. I haven't used them, and in my experience they aren't super popular. They look like mostly convenience for specifying when to throw, rather than as an alternative to throwing. There is some static capability, but I'm not sure what the extent of it is.

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/CodeContracts

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-trac...
> Bitcoin ... show that its a gold replacement by performing well when the market goes to shit

I think it should be pretty clear that Bitcoin is not a gold replacement.

Neither have any intrinsic value (unlike property), except that gold has been in use for thousands of years. If the market goes to shit, then so does Bitcoin, because it's a bubble.
There are as many reasons people vote for someone as there are people voting.

But you can definitely find a contingent of Trump voters who are voting out of ignorance. It’s a whole theme of people saying they support the man for X while you can prove he’s anti-x.

That bothers me a lot less than his voting bloc that votes for him because he emboldens racist actions.

That said, I agree this is off topic & on the point of tariffs Trump has been quite transparent & consistent.
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You can install GCC from Homebrew if desired. Personally I don't bother because, well, Apple's clang works just fine!
I don't think it matters to Apple since they will be using their own chips. Intel will simply sell less, and AMD will not change at all.

By the way, don't forget Broadcom, Marvell, Cavium, IBM etc. as they are doing big bucks with CPU's and SoC's as well.
I'm also surprised that no one (of significant voice) has voiced enough to pressure Apple to think about their developer user population. Everywhere I go I see devs using mac. I'm sure the reason behind this is 2 folds: supported hardware, x64 + Unix platform. So if they make the transition, say, in 2020, the dev world must be prepared by the end of 2019, I mean, from every toolchain to dev Apps. And this would seem quite a big endeavour, not that devs world moves slowly but the amount of work...

Is my anecdotal too far off?
It's funny that it's an HP (they have a history of over-heating).
However, while batteries combusting are never nice, this is hardly an explosion.
It might be a reference to increased privacy and internet regulations shutting out American tech companies. Which is probably a good thing.
Not OP, but chewing normal non-nic gum is commonly used as in combination with other quitting methods to help appeal to the physical oral sensations associate with smoking (obviously it's not a perfect proxy, but just "something to do with your mouth).

Ultimately, all cessation methods are aiming to require 0 nicotine at their conclusion. As for the "best thing" to do when trying to quit, financial loss seems to be a good incentive. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414293
You probably still could, if they ignored you then chances are they never fixed it.
I will argue that WhatsApp has a higher potential of spreading rumours than facebook.

1. You can easily broadcast a WhatsApp message to multiple groups. Most people I know are members of 3-4 groups.

2. WhatsApp messages are transmitted instantaneously, and you will surely receive them, unlike facebook where what you see in your timeline is not deterministic.

Morever, even if a friend of your sent you some link even without reading, it is nonetheless treated as a personal message from someone trusted.

Also, WhatsApp is always on, always checked by people, and atleast where I am, people use WhatsApp a lot more than facebook. It has truly replaced SMS.
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Yes, sure, everybody is lying, only Saint Elon tells the truth.

To go straight to the source, http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/50/1/1

And we are talking about older cars that might not even have all the supposed safety features a "luxury" (not that it really were one) golf cart like Tesla supposedly has.

Sorry, but you really should lay off the Kool-Aid. Not to say that Tesla were a death trap, but it is fart from being a safest car on the road, no matter what electric fanboys might want to believe.
I imagine the answer is relatively uninteresting, and consists of "many ordinary people from the respective ethnic groups who have Facebook accounts, who are in turn influenced by decades of ethnic tension, rumours, actual news and explicit messages from organised groups mostly within the country"

The only real question is whether Facebook is a more effective vector for such messages than offline rumour mills, and I'm not sure it necessarily is. (If anything I'd say social media has added an awareness the outside world has rather lost its admiration for Aung Sung Suu Kyi and been a lot more sympathetic to the Rohingya than the average Burmese person might expect, but I'm not convinced that's helping much either)
And I still disagree. Deciding you want a way to short paper currencies can, at times, be very rational. Does gold fulfill that function reasonably well? Yes, I think history shows that it does. So it can be very rational to buy gold.

(Perhaps "short" was the wrong word. But it is where people go - with reason - when they're losing confidence in fiat currencies.)
Unlike Reagan, Trump didn't inherit an economy already in recession. Unemployment started to spike in 1980 and the economy was a significant factor in the election.
Apple has been gaining on Intel while both have been improving. He’s projecting where those lines cross.
[I am going to respond to thrillgore and dragontamer in this post because the HackerNews software won't let me respond to both posts]

> "There are laws in place" is literally dismissing anything he can do; because its clear he's gone over the law before (the travel ban), he'll do it again, and again, and again, until the law has no foundation left to stand on.

And he lost on the travel ban, twice. In fact, when you look at what he has done that are against the law, he gets smacked down. He does not win on such things.

> Hint: absolutely nothing. Mr. Trump can destroy the USPS's revenue AND hurt Amazon at the same time if he so wished. I guess destroying the contract will take 30 days, but in any case, Mr. Trump can make "Sunday USPS deliveries" of Amazon goods incredibly more expensive in just one month.

There would be complete shitstorm if he did that since USPS makes money on the Amazon contract. Trump does not rule in a vacuum and even his shills in Congress would come down on him if Amazon packages stopped being delivered. Plus, Jeff Bezos can put messages at the start of every Amazon Prime Moive/Show asking for Amazon customers to call their Congress person to complain. Little message on Amazon.com on why there is no Sunday delivery would be a shitstorm to Congress. Trump might be the President but Jeff Bezos has millions of US voters using his website every day. I also guarantee that more people like Amazon.com than Trump.
I have a neat idea for a blockchain-based system. Does anybody want to help?
Ergonomic sum-types, ergonomic pattern matching, hygienic macros, the ability to track the lifetime of every object, generics that have nicer (can still get messy) error messages than templates, immutability-by-default, an insanely good package manager, builitin unit and integration testing, iterators that aren't terrible, easier cross-compilation, a smaller standard library surface so everyone on your team isn't using different corners of the language, and a wonderful zero-cost implementation of linear types are just what I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, and you have complete memory safety if you don't use unsafe, and much stronger guarantees of memory safety than C++ even if you do use unsafe. Adding all this to C++ is just adding noise to an immensely bloated system, and it wouldn't be half as good as a new language, for all the simplicity and compat-breaking reasons mentioned above.

Edit: And move and copy semantics that are unarguably better than those of C++.
A possible explanation for the sudden change in mindset:

Until recently, data was considered "the new oil." Those who sit on vast amounts of it were considered rich.

Now, after the Equifax hack, the FaceBook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and other revelations (such as Grindr freely sharing highly personal data), it seems that data is increasingly being viewed as "the new uranium."

Data, it seems, is becoming radioactive and must be carefully controlled and safeguarded to prevent leaks. Those who sit on vast amounts of it must now handle it with care to avoid societal, political, regulatory, and legal backlash.

The stock market seems to be reflecting data's transition from asset to liability.
JPMorgan's Top Blockchain Executive Is Leaving to Start Her Own Startup
It doesn’t seem likely that this would happen before the midterms. Also, Trump is having a direct effect on the economy through his words (tweets) and actions (tariffs), Reagan was more of a bystander.
Yes it's always just those ignorant Trump voters.

Latest figures show a $13B trade deficit with the EU for January of 2018. One month.

Of course, this doesn't account for the several billion we shove into their economy with the tens of thousands of troops and contractors stationed throughout the continent, paying dearly for the privilege of being there.

Nor the trillions of dollars we spend to keep the Russians out, and the Germans from misbehaving. Funny how much thanks we now get from younger Europeans for keeping Europe (mostly) at peace for the longest period in its history, along with rebuilding it.

But I don't even need to show more facts and figures. As an American who has lived in the EU several times, let me tell you just one example of what you'll see in, say, Germany:

About 90% of the cars there are made by them (VW, BMW, Opel, Mercedes, etc), with a few Fords and Peugeot, some Fords and maybe some Toyotas rounding out the other 10%.

I'm looking into my US parking lot right now - I see about 90% foreign cars, and a few US SUVs.

Don't even get me started with China ...

*https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0003.html
No worries, just keep buying. Unless you're trying to become a day trader, you were never trying to time the market anyway, just have a nest egg.

If all your stocks zero out, liquid capital will be worthless anyway. Raise chickens.
BMaaS
Paul Bettany (Jarvis from Iron man) claimed he did not watch the iron Man movies either. [0]

[0]: https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Paul-Bettany-Says-He-Never-S...
If Apple really moves to custom chips in Macs, it's going to be about one thing only: independence. Apple wants to control the entire stack; and relying on a single vendor is too big of a risk.

It's not a question of price; it's about getting the chips they need.

Intel has missed a lot of targets in recent years, and (according to rumors) more than one recent Mac model has been delayed because Intel did not have the next chip generation ready in time.

Current Macbook Pros max out at 16GB RAM because the Intel chips don't support LPDDR4 RAM.

On iOS, Apple can control everything. They can plan ahead, and know that in 3 years they'll have the chips they need.

On the Mac side, they can only hope that Intel doesn't delay their roadmap longer than usual.

(The story about Marcipan (a shared iOS / macOS UI framework) seems unrelated to the chip issue. Sounds like they included it in this article only to make it look a bit more substantial. There is already a lot of shared code between macOS and iOS, and the CPU architecture isn't holding anything back in that regard.)
This "globalism" you're quick to demonize is one of the greatest forces for progress the world has seen. The world's poverty rates, starvation rates, sicknesses, childhood death rates, illiteracy rates, etc. have dropped like a sack of potatoes as a result of global trade. Nationalism and xenophobia, while definitely common in the 1950's, aren't the tools to bring back the middle class of that era.
"A Linux container is a way to run multiple distros on the same kernel at once."

Then define distro to be all of the user-space stuff in a Linux system: The init system, the libraries, the user-visible applications, and the data.

Then get into how it works, which is all namespaces: A namespace for the filesystem, a namespace for the networking stuff, and so on, including a namespace for RAM... which we don't usually think of as a namespace, but it's what the MMU does, and the kernel uses the MMU.

In short, separate what from how, and ensure they understand the what first.
> In his four years at Cape Elizabeth, Mr. Carpenter says he can’t recall seeing a single student smoke a cigarette.

Golden age syndrome. It happened, you just forget about the negative parts.

Anecdote: when I was in highschool quite recently (2004-2008), many students were regular smokers or dippers (chew tobacco). At this point, the health effects of smoking (and to a lesser extent, chew tobacco) were obviously well understood. Nevertheless, students picked up smoking etc.

Picking up vaping nicotine probably isn't great, but it beats cigarettes (and probably chew tobacco).

The important thing to remember is that overall drug and alcohol use among American teens is down, and trending down. "According to a major longitudinal study of teenagers called Monitoring the Future, high schoolers’ use of alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs (other than marijuana and vaping) have dropped to the lowest levels since the survey began in 1976."[0]

Notably, from the above December 2016 article:

> E-Cigarettes (Vaporizers): The rate for e-cigarettes among high school seniors dropped to 12.4 percent from last year’s 16.2 percent. Of note: only 24.9 percent of 12th graders report that their e-cigarettes contained nicotine (the addictive ingredient in tobacco) the last time they used, with 62.8 percent claiming they contain "just flavoring." (emphasis added)

> Attitudes and Availability: This year, more 10th graders disapprove of regular use of e-cigarettes than last year. For example, 65 percent of 10th graders say they disapprove, up from last year’s 59.9 percent. In addition, more 10th graders think it is harder to get regular cigarettes than last year; 62.9 percent said they are easy to get, compared to 66.6 percent last year. This represents a dramatic shift from survey findings two decades ago, when 91.3 percent of 10th graders thought it was easy to get cigarettes.

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/news-releases/2016/12/...
You’re not addressing the issue. The cheap labor you speak was jobs to millions of Chinese which in the beginning was a very very poor country. Because China was so successful selling goods to America they found themselves with huge surpluses of capital. They couldn’t bring it home because it would drive up inflation and make their exports expensive, so instead they bought American bonds which made it easier for America’s to buy Chinese goods. This wasn’t good will on their part. All the while, China limited market access to foreign companies. Where they were invited in, it was only to boot them out later once they either took the technology or decided that they wanted a local player dominating the market.
> I also don't get what's missing from a modern Linux desktop

A user interface that isn't ugly and laggy.
> The home computer market isn't even a market that exists in many parts of the world.

That doesn't make GP's statement demonstrably wrong. The home computer market isn't a market that exists in many parts of the world because it never existed there in the first place.

The smart device market may have affected the growth of the home computer market, but I also believe that it hasn't supplanted its existing users by any meaningful measure. At least, not yet.
Lawmakers press Linux Foundation on security of open-source software
Considering this is only the second or third month that I recall it being advertised here, that makes some sense.

However, what's the reasoning behind waiting for "really well" instead of just "better than the alternative" before opening it up to the minorities (at least the technical ones)?
I should have included this in my first comment: this is a requirement from AMP to include the animation[1]:

AMP HTML documents must contain the following boilerplate in their head tag. [...]
<style amp-boilerplate>body{-webkit-animation: ...

[1] https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec/amp-boiler...
Do we know yet if CloudFlare has similar rate limits?
That makes no sense at all. High volatility for the SPX means +-2% a day. High volatility for crypto currencies means > 20%. Why would you try to secure your capital by moving it to something that is orders of magnitude more volatile? A store of value is by definition something that moves as little as possible.
I think the existing intelligences and organizations won't matter, the super intelligence will be a step change like the difference between a human and an ant. If the goals are not aligned up front it'll be a problem.

To put it into perspective if you can run the human architecture on an AGI at a billion operations per second it's like compressing a historical human civilization of learning into a couple hours.

Maybe for some reason this learning process will be slow or maybe there's some reason why it can't scale up quickly, but based on the learning speed in narrow areas that seems unlikely.

There's also the fact that natural selection which is a relatively brute force sexual selection mechanism still results in general problem solving brains being everywhere - it doesn't seem like something particularly rare.
There's been Apple-bashing "feedback out on the net" since Apple was founded.

Most of it has been laughable. The stuff you're talking about is firmly within that laughable camp.

If Apple's QC were "crap" you'd see that in customer satisfaction ratings for their #1 product: the iPhone. But guess what? You don't see that. And there is no downward trend.
Cigarettes cause high rates of lung cancer, killing tons of people. It makes sense to heavily discourage teenagers from using them. As far as I am aware (I am not an expert about or user of any of these products) the risks from vaping are much less severe.

Is the concern just that the activity is nominally unlawful? Or that it will be a “gateway drug” (is there any evidence of that)? Or that it is a waste of students’ time? Or ...

Or are we worried about stimulants in general? Or is there still some significant cancer risk from vaping? (Are people freaking out about high school students drinking too much coffee?)

If students are just replacing cigarettes with vaping, that seems like an unambiguously positive development.
> people not be allowed to communicate with each other

People should not be allowed to communicate certain things which lead to harm to other people, no. I don't understand why this gets turned into "people not be allowed to communicate" (implying "at all"?).
Desperate is why you'll pay a high price to get even a small increase in the chance of a good result.

Ignorant is why you'll choose an option with a worse chance of a better result on the axis of concern.

I think in many cases people ignored the things they couldn't deny that they didn't like about Trump out of desperation, but I think that in many cases they also voted for him out of ignorant belief that he offered a better chance for change they wanted in other dimensions (either ignorance of his likely policies or ignorance of the likely impacts of those policies on things they really wanted out of them.)
Nah, more like the market has run out of reasons to buy for the moment and will happily use any excuse to sell.
If you can build an iOS app, you can build a macOS app too.

Electron apps are not built by iOS developers, but by developers like myself who would rather hit 3 birds with one stone ;-)

And no, nothing would change, except the MacBook will get to be even more shitty. We'll remember fondly the MacBook Pro of year 2015 as the last model that didn't suck.