skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is NOT a big issue for consumers. Apple is great at keeping customers happy, their 4 year warranty extension for replacing the keyboard shows this.

This IS a business issue. It has a quantifiable effect on profit margins for Apple's macbook, and I would look at it as an investor and see if it effects Apple's valuation in the short and long run.

The Note 7 is a fantastic comparison - the complete recall did not have to happen but did because of design choices from Samsung engineers. It could have been a $200 million dollar issue instead of a $5 billion dollar one.

Similarly, these keyboards did not have to be that expensive to repair or be so prone to damage, but being that way has a snowball effect on repair/maintenance/warranty.

It's also a design decision that they're kind of stuck with. They are not going to go back to their original keyboards (unless they release a mac book pro classic, which I would personally be estatic about) - and so the increase repair costs cutting into their margins is a challenge for them to solve going forward (especially since the brittle-ness is because of the thin design).
Dude, this is the only site that loads when I hit my data cap on my phone, and my 4G LTE "unlimited" data plan slows down to something akin to a 56k modem from 1995.

Literally almost no other site loads in under a whopping minute, because all of them slam 10MB of transpiled javascript, and another 20MB of CSS, background images and high resolution sprite sheets for widgets I'll never even click on. Not to mention the pixels and third-party ad-tech, which may or may not be baked into the initial JS payload.

Then the document.ready() kicks in, and maybe a hundred other resources are invited to the party, and the videos try to autoplay with sound, while all the gifs start their loops.

You say old fashioned, but even wikipedia is bloated and horrible when my bandwidth allowance gets throttled by my mobile carrier. If HN didn't load, I'd either have to find a hobby and talk to people (The Horror), or cough up like $90 a week (what would actually happen) because every other web page tries to show me 2GB of video in ads alone, as if I'm going to patronize any business that blasts a cacaphony of unwanted sound in my face when I'm trying to read, all of which I suspect might be a concerted effort orchestrated as part of a conspiracy between advertisers and ISP's to poison net neutral rate plans and price gouge the hell out of anyone using their phone for internet related things, aka: everyone.
MacBook Pro users and MacBook users generally don't overlap. It's fine if you want a super-light, super-thin ultramobiles, but it makes little sense to compromise the Pro's usability in the name of thinness. I've been a Mac user for the last 7 years and for the first time I'm getting a non-Mac computer because the MacBook Pro is no longer attractive. It's a shame, because I have invested a significant amount of time and money on my current setup.
It can be both, and often is. Honestly, I'd be surprised if Apple's continued push for thinness comes from just a single team. Design pushes for thinness, because hey, it looks pretty damned impressive. Engineering eventually figures out a way to make it work after (I presume) screaming a bit. Which is impressive.

Marketing and the business side love it because it's a concrete metric they can point to in order to justify it to consumers and it doesn't require any specialized knowledge for consumers to understand. Thickness is simple. Everyone can understand it, and some people can even use a ruler to measure it themselves.

And consumers continue to choose to reward them by buying thinner devices. After all, if we can't have flying cars, personal jetpacks, and live like The Jetsons right now, we damned sure can have thin devices as a consolation prize. Consumers would probably buy these devices even if they weren't thinner than the generation they replace, but it all gets tied together. Not to mention the pesky problem that the biggest problems (lack of repairability, keyboard switches that are deathly allergic to dust, etc.) aren't really noticeable until something goes wrong. And then, it's "my MacBook is broken" and not "my Macbook is broken and the ultimate cause is a zealous focus on thinner and thinner devices."

So here we are.
How did you validate the idea?

By signing 40+ Fortune 100 companies and increasing engagement and activation exponentially, we took our platform from idea to proven success.

Oh, okay. Just go sign up 40 of the largest companies in America. That's how you validate your idea, duh.
I don't think that's fair to say. Their hardware is consistently top of the line. They make mistakes like this, but they've been doing it since _forever_ once they get cocky (remember the cube? the puck?). But usually they get back on track after a while.

To me, other than raw specs (like, say, screen density), they're still winning more frq8 then not.

(And I say this as someone who avoids Apple like the plague).
How about thinner is lighter, which generally makes the consumer happier?
This is my understanding as well. Even if something has permissions granted to it by default as the system apps do, they’ll still show usage.
Did you have to get up to speed on al the details of fraud, risk, and FinTech? If so how, what resources did you use to figure it out? If not, did you hire expertise, bring it in-house, and only have to implement bits of it into Gusto?

Second question: how did you determine to shift development from SF to Denver? What criteria went into selecting Denver over other areas? How did you figure out what to move their and keep in SF?

Third question: how are you doing? I remember in S08 when you were working on PicWing. We’re still working on Poll Ev!
I'm not exactly sure why a new tool is needed. Everything necessary is found from the referenced Crowdstrike code at https://github.com/CrowdStrike/Forensics/tree/master/O365-Ou...
I have no idea about the inner workings of apple, but is it possible the design team is being driven by the marketing team's requirements?

Once again, I have 0 knowledge of the inner workings of apple, rather I am asking if this is a possibility.
> Absence of explicit type info is an inherently bad thing.

Let me reiterate: It is your opinion which many people here do not agree with in the context of types obvious from context. Your opinion is definitely not a popular coding standard and definitely not a fact. Most of the coding standards are in favor of using auto for simple code where the type is immediately obvious from the context.

The auto keyword is available to help people who do not share your opinion. The auto keyword is present for teams which agree that absence of explicit type info is a good thing for simple code with obvious types (obvious from the context).

Teams that believe that absence of explicit type info is an inherently bad thing don't have to use the auto keyword. But that belief does not become a fact no matter how many times you reiterate that belief.

> paying the penalty of giving up valuable explicit info

That's your opinion. My opinion which many coding standards agree with: There is no penalty in giving up explicit type info in a local loop variable. The typo info is not valuable in that case.
That seems like a great project
My 2015 MBP is affected by an earlier production issue where interactions with the keyboard when opening / closing the lid damages the coating of the display (just lookup “Staingate” to see pics).

Maybe the thinner keys were ironically meant as a fix for this production issue in order to save them money on screen replacements.
Have you had issues with OS X? My fiancée's laptop needs to be rebooted every time it goes to sleep, and both her and my own older (2015) MacBook Pro want to boot from the recovery partition every time. It's a pain in the ass and a terrible degradation of experience.
"Billionaire uses art without permission or compensation in the luxury cars he sells; tells artist to be grateful for the 'attention'."

What a jerk.
They’d get a lot less cynicism and a lot more kudos if they didn’t outright deny the problem exists until PR is so against them that they have no choice. They did it with the classic iPhone 4 antenna issue, they did it with the battery throttling, they did it with the keyboards. It’s a pattern by now.
I'm jealous sometimes of my girlfriend's Samsung ultrabook for this same reason. I think it's Samsung's answer to the LG Gram and wow, it's light.

If you want a really light machine, don't you have to ditch the aluminum? My 2017 MacBook Pro gets heavy, esp once you add the charger. I take it everywhere.
There needs to be a renaissance of non-glossy (matte) screens, for the sake of the eyesight of us all.
Are you sure about that? When I work at my desk I use a dock and some monitors, and all the heavy lifting is on a remote server. I suppose there could be a selection effect for workers whose employers force them to work solely on their laptop, but is that common?

If you look at derefr's comment, he appears to work like I do.
"Separate but equal" gender segregated bathrooms.
TrueOS Doesn’t Want to Be ‘BSD for Desktop’ Anymore
The Riemann zeta function is the function

zeta(s) = 1 + 1/2^s + 1/3^s + 1/4^s + 1/5^s + 1/6^s + ....

For example,

zeta(2) = 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + 1/25 + 1/36 + ... = pi^2/6.

As a partially tongue-in-cheek example,

zeta(-1) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + ... = -1/12.

Obviously it doesn't make sense to add all the positive integers (the series doesn't converge), but if you squint and ignore this, and just do the arithmetic a certain way, you get -1/12.

The original definition I gave is valid when s is a complex number with real part greater than 1. But the Riemann zeta function can be proved to have analytic continuation: zeta(s) makes sense for any complex number s, other than 1. For example, zeta(-1) really equals -1/12.

The zeta function is easy to understand when the real part is greater than 1: the formula I described is enough. Because of the so-called functional equation, it is also easy to understand when the real part is less than 0. But it is in the middle that all of its secrets lie. For example, the notoriously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis stipulates that the "nontrivial" zeroes all have real part 1/2.

The Lindelof Hypothesis stipulates that the zeta function grows very slowly along this line (real part = 1/2). It is very closely related to the Riemann Hypothesis. More technical, and of less direct interest to nonspecialists, but in the same family of problems.

As an example of how much mathematicians care about this, here are the Google search results for "subconvexity bound":

https://www.google.com/search?q=subconvexity+bound

A "subconvexity bound" is any result which approaches the Lindelof Hypothesis, for either the Riemann zeta function or a more general "L-function". A lot of ink has been spilled on proving results weaker than what Fokas is claiming.
I think the story of Coach (now Tapestry, ticker TPR) should be the ghost story they tell at every Apple corporate retreat. What do they say, "years to build and seconds to destroy"?
I guess you should stay away from North Korea's Red Star Linux, in that case.
Apple, Samsung Declare Peace in Biggest Modern Tech Patent Fight
NB: I finished the movie and ultimately left a thumbsdown. It is informative of how horrible people can be to eachother, but IMO overall a biased documentary that isnt worth anyone's time.
> This is NOT a big issue for consumers. Apple is great at keeping customers happy

I'm not happy if my laptop is out of commission for a week once every 6-12 months
Just know you are not alone.
In the modern era, you should expect that the privacy policy contains the details of everything that's logged. You need to know that so you can tell your customers what is logged by your subs.
Dude.

...a pro version ...of the current macbook pro?
Only thing I'm considering is a thinkpad x1 carbon. But the last time I tried putting linux on a laptop I had a few issues submitted to the linux kernel and still didn't have the laptop working perfectly (Asus zenbook) within a week I returned it and bought a MacBook pro. Might be time for another go.
Interesting that he would do this before the midterms rather than after. I'm not sure what "...while continuing to serve in a senior status..." means but if it effectively forces Trump to choose a replacement before the midterms then the timing has been pretty carefully planned.
How carbide inserts are made by Sandvik Coromant
System 76 (the small linux-only hardware manufacturer) just refreshed their Oryx Pro last month, which looks pretty capable and looks from afar to be really good build quality. https://system76.com/laptops/oryx

I haven't found many/any reviews of it since the refresh -- does anyone on HN have one who can attest?
I'm not a python dev, but isn't less dependencies generally better? Or is attrs in Python natively already?
Interesting, I actually like the half arrow key thing, I often use the arrow key with my pinkie, makes it easy to switch between up and down. To each their own I guess.
It took 4 business days from drop off to pick up, but fortunately I got in just before the extended warranty was announced. I imagine now it will take longer, but that’s speculation.
Right but the thing is, people should be complaining about equations lacking explanations. Not about math notation in general.
It's actually Latin. But yes.
Serious question: Why didn't you mention the genders of the the people from "the "good old days"" but had to say over and over again that you were dealing with "Middle manager woman"
Warranty and free repairs do not mean that it doesn't take time and effort to actually get done. Consumers would very much prefer to not have problems than to constantly get them fixed, even if free.
idk - do consumers really notice if a laptop is 30grams lighter or if it will get them through a full day of work and won't hurt the joints in their fingers after a marathon of typing.

Apple makes the best laptop, no doubt but this laptop sucks and the direction they are going means it's just going to get worst.
That sounds awful, but no, I haven't had that kind of problem before. Sounds like you might want to think of reinstalling/upgrading the OS? I've never heard of that issue though, sorry.
Short of fitting a keyboard condom, or iPad (no doubt called TouchBoard) where the keyboard used to be, what can they do? Make the battery thinner so they can get sane key travel back within the case without increasing overall thickness?

So I expect to see a couple more releases of ultra thin keyboards with various fix mechanisms before they accept that rules of physics and dust apply to them too. :)
Data classes look cool. Maybe replacing named tuples in my future code? They always felt awkward to work with.

Will data classes save a ton of memory since you’re specifying the types?
The psychological scheming behind free to play games have nothing on mileage programs
What enterprise security tools do these systems run? What Anti-virus? Systems management? Logging? Hardware diagnostics? What group policies have you set?

Windows is far from perfect, but these other tools that are supposed to help you are more often the source of site-wide problems like what you've described.
Your "extinct from inbreeding" theory is not likely. There are many examples of animals coming back from groups well under 100, and doing fine. Such as the sea otter of California which was down to somewhere between 25 and 50 and is now over 3000, with no signs of deformities or other problems.
There are earlier revisions of that arxiv submission from 2017. I think if it had introduced an idea that can prove a problem this hard, it would have already been creating buzz. Otherwise I don't know what to make of its submission history.
Yeah, if anything it's his mother who's to blame.
Unusually for WSJ, I find the title of the article fairly misleading. It seems to imply that there is an extra charge being levied, whereas it's actually talking about a complicated price structure designed to disadvantage frequent fliers and corporate customers.

Still shady, but not obviously implied by the title.
Missing /s, I think ;)

Or rename Macbook Pro as Macbook Lite or whatever.
When I first got my new computer back in late 2016, the keys had a distinctively inconsistent “clack” that would sorta come and go, and it felt inconsistent, maybe a subtly different amount of pressure required for different keys in different parts of the key. It’s hard for me to pinpoint it, but I’d say that the keyboard feels more consistent across the board. I’m all of 12 hours in on it, but I’m very hopeful. If anything, there is defiantly an improvement to the finger-feel with this new keyboard.
And if it was massively affordable, portable, etc.

(On a lighter note I just can't help but think of a few scenes from a particular movie when we approach new automation fields... "This one goes in your mouth, this one goes in your ear, this one goes in your butt. No wait...")
I'm using Ryzen 2700X with Debian testing just fine. That lock-up bug[1][2] was common in previous line (1700X for instance). It's way less common in Ryzen 2.

1. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683

2. https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/55449_1.12.pd...
They will fix it. They have 100 billion dollars (!!!) in the bank to fix this issue, even if it takes next 100 years.
I initially thought the article was going to describe someone's OnStar caused the airbags to deploy in their Malibu when they dropped their iPhone.

I was moderately dismayed this was not what happened, but the device is nevertheless really cool and may have some practical applications.
Apple biggest UX failures always stem from putting form before function. There is a lower limit to thinness/lightness before consumers just don't care, and it was passed long ago.

There was great progress made with the unibody Macbook Pros and the Macbook Airs but these latest models are so thin that it's actually annoying and leads to issues like poor battery life, lack of repair-ability, and malfunctioning keyboards. Isn't better usability actually more of a luxury then simple aesthetics?

Based on the timing, this seems like a train set in motion by Steve Jobs but he passed away and now nobody wants to recognize that it's way off course and needs a correction.
Yes! I’ve never been able to convince anyone to use pdb.settrace. I think they see the pdb and assume there’s a whole new thing they’d have to learn.

If I tell them you just call breakpoint() they might be willing to try it out.
GitHub-Fecther: Checking New Repos from GitHub with Go
Not mentioned in this article is how many people also dislike the feel of the keyboard. Add that to risking an out of commission work machine and it’s a big deal for consumers.
There are something like 50,000 mountain lions in California alone (and many more throughout North America) yet they never end up as roadkill..unheard of. Some animals are smarter than others.
I recommend Un Homme qui dort by Perec. Really interesting use of 2nd person narration.

There's also an interesting film adaptation available on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhaT-zjIFA
Ethereum – Smart Contracts and Blockchain Principles
Interested to know why the gender of the manager matters?
> what can they do?

Make the case thicker.
Cool Retro Terminal
This. What does it matter what OS you are running if you want nothing to leak unless you do complete vetting of the hardware as well. Preferably by ordering many in the same configuration and dismantling one to see it does not have anything extra. And if you do that, there is still the case of the firmware of oh so many components that are integrated to a modern pc. How do you know your network stack is not spying on you.

To be dogmatic, either you have to have enormous amount of resources to create your own secure hardware, or abandon all computing devices.

I prefer using off the shelf computing devices. The only level of security I excpect of them is that no-one will abuse my credit card if I don't act stupid.
Maybe if it worked with the Apple Pencil and the taptic feedback was good enough I could see being curious about it. It’d probably just be a good way to incite a riot though.
I'm sorry if the post came across as assuming. I just wanted to spread awareness, not necessarily aimed at you.

There are good and trustworthy projects out there IMO. I use GuixSD and OpenBSD for all my computing needs and have 0 reason not to trust them. Curious to hear any arguments against either.

To paraphrase the venerable Mutt email client: All operating systems suck. These ones just sucks less...
Oh yes, I'm happy to see others mentioning the half size up and down. Even after a year with this keyboard this still trips me up.
The downfall seems to refer to downfall in iFixit Repair-ability score.
A "keyboard condom" isn't a joke or insane. It would be a membrane layer between the operating mechanism of the keyswitches and the keycaps. They haven't done it because it adds thickness to the design.
The Gell-Mann Dunning Kruger Betteridge Godwin Effect.

Did I miss any?
SOA/MSA Backward Compatibility
I give a lot of references and as far as I can tell, the norm is for offers to be contingent on references; that is: references don't gate offers.

I think it's reasonable, and would personally recommend, that you demand at least a verbal agreement that an offer is forthcoming before offering a reference.
SOA, Microservices and Isolation Evolution
In the first image why are all the flights from Madagascar stopping at an intermediate island between it and mainland Africa?
The touch bar is another example of this.

I always hit the wrong keys, even after a year I'll end up hitting ~/` instead of the escape key, I routing hit "mute" instead of volume down (or I'll hit up instead).
The Magic Keyboard actually doesn't use the same butterfly key mechanism: it's a scissor switch, albeit one that attempts to emulate some of the feel of the butterfly key keyboards (but with more travel).
Ha you got downvoted but I admit that I sincerely want this computer to be fixed, having invested deeply in the Apple ecosystem. No question there is bias, but my experience also covers Acer and HP computers at work, which have real shortcomings, incomparable to my mbp. For what it’s worth to your snark, I used a Linux system as a pinch hitter while mine was in the shop, and very much enjoyed Linux but for the crappy machine. A comparable i7, SSD, longBattLife,retina quality laptop is always going to be $$$, so go with what you know, right? I’ve been tempted by the Surface Book 2, but since it costs about the same for comparable systems, go with what you know!
They reserve the right to alter the deal. Pray they don't alter it further.
Loved my 2012 Retina. It served me all through a Comp Sci degree, and has now gone to friend who is still studying.
The solution to this while keeping the same form factor is to create a macbook pro that is waterproof so that a keyboard can be washed out if any dust has accumulated below the keys.
Recent patents granted to or filed by Apple:

1. Touchscreen keyboard with haptic feedback: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/15/apple-seeks-paten...
2. Protection against duct/crumbles/liquid for their keyboard: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/03/a-new-ap...
Maglev keyboard: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/9/16826146/ne...
I had to laugh at the line "still use shitty perl" in the video...