skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the reasons andre provided, i think the biggest driver is ads. I block ads for most sites, but without a lot of work i can't block ads using the site-specific app.

Although i wonder how many app users only real benefit from the app is a button to launch the site from the home screen, and how many of those users would switch if they were aware of how to add a browser bookmark to their home screen. Anecdotal data, but I have had several friends with this problem, two specifically complaining about the reddit app being less readable than a browser but wanting a single button to press to launch the site.
(I assume that you meant uncomfortable instead of comfortable based on context.)

Counterpoint: I'm also a developer, and I love the 2017 MBP keyboard. I'm of course disappointed to hear that they fail so regularly and that the repair process is so absurdly sledgehammery, but I think they feel amazing to type on and the recall replacement program satisfies my failure concerns.
> And for what? Because a minority of people kinda like that configuration? Because it’ll look good in a few photos? Because it’ll impress strangers who visit the office?

Somehow the author missed the primary reason for the open office configuration: "Because it cuts the costs of office space by a HUGE amount (certainly more than half)."

I suppose "Because it makes it easier for managers to keep an eye on their employees and see when they are slacking off." figures in also. Although it's probably a sign of poor management.
> If only it were that easy to completely rule out third-party risk! For one thing, some ecosystems are so complex that it is far from clear who is responsible for what.

Bullshit. Nobody forced you to use sub-sub-subcontractors.

And the idea that some ecosystem is too complex for Facebook is laughable!

If an ecosystem is too complex for you, a smaller company, stay away! I don‘t do deep-sea diving. So you don‘t have to engage in ethically problematic deals.
They didn't do that because it is not what most people want. Apple has to make changes that will sell more laptops to the masses to maximize shareholder value.

The niche developer/macrumors posters will never be happy regardless of what Apple does. Better to focus on the 90% of customers who buy products and make up 10% of the complaints then to focus on the 10% of customers who make up 90% of the complaints.
Apparently not! From the press release:

15-Inch MacBook Pro Highlights

6-core Intel Core i7 and Core i9 processors up to 2.9 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 4.8 GHz

Up to 32GB of DDR4 memory

Powerful Radeon Pro discrete graphics with 4GB of video memory in every configuration

Up to 4TB of SSD storage2

True Tone display technology

Apple T2 Chip

Touch Bar and Touch ID
Why do you think she "surely wrote messages to people that she didn't want to share with her parents"? Seems like a pretty big assumption.

>On the other hand, it's their daughter's privacy.

No, the daughter is dead, according to the title.
What could you expect from a free service? They do whatever they can do have a lot of customers but also get a lot of money. Who doesn't want a free product, but doesn't know that their data is collected and sold. Selling data is not that bad in this situation, but losing it to hackers, that's some pretty bad stuff. Thanks for sharing it, maybe people will understand to stay away from free stuff.
They are powerful for sure, but I wouldn't say they are too powerful. When the media or politicians can brow-beat tech giants into submitting to their demands, you really can't say tech giants are too powerful. I'd say "too big to [f|j]ail" banks or "too big to [f|j]ail" oil companies are too powerful right now.

But tech giants have the potential of becoming too powerful as they "collude/merge" with media and government. It's worrisome that giant techs are now moving into news media and working so much government.
If you're used to MacBooks, check out the Surface Laptop or Surface Book.

- The hardware (particularly the keyboard and massive trackpad) is great

- apt-get on WSL is better than homebrew will ever be (powershell too if you have the time to learn it)

- Windows 10 has a dedicated team working on it (Apple has merged iOS and macOS teams since a few years ago, which may be because iOS makes a lot more money).
What hardware did you settle on?
Firefox users who either dislike the requirement for permission on all sites, or don't want an additional extension: know that you can achieve about the same with a few lines in your userContent.css [1]

@-moz-document domain(medium.com), domain(backchannel.com), domain(hackernoon.com), domain(mondaynote.com), domain(artplusmarketing.com), domain(codeburst.io), domain(logrocket.com), domain(slack.engineering), regexp("https?://medium\..*") {.js-postShareWidget, .overlay, .overlay--lighter, .postActionsBar, .js-postActionsBar, .metabar, .js-metabar, .postMeterBar, .js-meterBanner, .highlightMenu, .highlightMenu--active, .popover, .js-popover, .popover--dark, .butterBar--privacy, .js-stickyFooter {display: none !important;}}

Obvious gotcha: incomplete list of domains, now you have to add medium domains when you meet them and restart Firefox.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css
No! Nooo God No! No! :(
This advice is a good first read on the political elements before you make a real move, but it’s not a plan, and it sounds like a recipe for mediocrity. (Not that there is anything wrong with that)

If you actually want to have some integrity when you talk about deadlines before it eats up your insides and you lose sleep you will need to have these beer / lunch conversations to gauge the level of appetite for change and then start talking about how to get something shipped on time as well as the consequences for not shipping on time.

Sounds like you already have this dialog with your manager. Keep talking about how best to manage expectations up the chain.

You’ll want to get buy-in to reduce scope or make whatever other changes you need, otherwise you’ll have to lie to keep up the facade that things will ship on time. It will burn you out.

If the read in the parent comment is bad for your org and it’s NOT normal to BS deadlines and ship late then no paper trail or written warnings, risks, and issues brings with it some badness as well - judge for your organization. I’m guessing you may already know the answer.

This is probably not the best career ladder advice at some firms, but at all costs make sure you never lie for anybody. Keep your integrity. Be honest. Sleep at night.

Of course sometimes “honest” is an excuse to be pessimistic. Look hard to make sure your dire warnings are not “chicken little” pessimism, then talk it out with your management, but don’t lie for them and be honest about your engineering and your team.
Maybe because the iPad is a productivity machine and chocolate is a fat machine?
Oh nice, I grew up with the NES but I think someone from my friends still had the Famicom
Constitutional changes are difficult.

States are sovereign, it's more likely that when the shit hits the fan with state/local debt and broader economic conditions that the states will just stop paying and renegotiate general obligations. Look at what is happening with puerto rico, and think about how it would play out in a scenario where the Federal government has more limited ability to drive anything.
It's a mistake to say all flat-earthers believe any particular explanation. The bit about "dark energy" is something I've never seen in the year or two I've been reading flat earth social media. One of the more common arguments I see from them is that humans should be able to feel the earth spinning and that the oceans should be flung off the globe, so claiming that earth is accelerating upwards would be problematic.

Not that their ideas are always internally consistent.
The keyboard still has the same design. It's just a third revision of the same basic flat design. They are not going to be making a completely different keyboard design unless they change the design of the computer itself.
The OP may not have realized it but “the dignity of animals” is really a parsed reflection of how we treat and see ourselves. In a sense, It’s not about the animals.
Walmart must have thought the same thing. Then along came Amazon. In a decade every company will need to be a tech company.
15 inch can have 32 gigs of ram
They can't because the body is too shallow for it.
The 15" models go up to 32GB and have 4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports on them.
Cool, good to know, thanks!
>Trees exchange chemicals with fungus, and send seeds—essentially information packets—with wind, birds, bats, and other visitors for delivery around the world. Simard specializes in the underground relationships of trees. Her research shows that below the earth are vast networks of roots working with fungi to move water, carbon, and nutrients among trees of all species. These complex, symbiotic networks mimic human neural and social networks. They even have mother trees at various centers, managing information flow, and the interconnectedness helps a slew of live things fight disease and survive together.

>Simard argues that this exchange is communication

That's pretty much the gist of the article without the fluff. I think the term "language" is an extreme hyperbole here, but it's interesting that rudimentary information can be passed between different trees.
Appreciate the detailed response, I was curious if they did it in house and seems like they don't and Salesforce is pretty prevalent.

Looking into sendgrid. It's not super important that they all make it there and if it takes a few hours that's not an issue either. Trying to do a monthly newsletter but to a large list that I have broken up between groups. My biggest fear even after doing a mailchimp campaign was being flagged for spam and that then the domain would have problems sending actual emails to business contacts, partners, clients, etc and working with blacklists. Even worse if the IP is flagged for issues.

Sendgrid pricing looks fair but mailchimp was super slick as far as platform goes. Maybe the route is to buy a new domain that's similar like a previous commenter suggested and sign up with this to blast the 200k. I actually have a domain name that is very similar I'm not not using and that domain redirects to the main site + all those emails get forwarded to the real emails (some people make the mistake of sending to it). It simply has another word at the end.
It's interesting google maps came out with a new pricing model as mapbox gained popularity. It became more expensive and made the market easier for mapbox. Usually google would offer a cheaper, more competitive product but this wasn't the case.
> The niche developer/macrumors posters

It's not just developers and MacRumors posters. Joe Rogan - the comedian and MMA commentator - did a massive unprompted rant on how poor (and he didn't use the word 'poor') the Apple keyboard was on his recent podcast (3rd most popular podcast in the world http://www.itunescharts.net/us/charts/podcasts/).

The keyboard affects anyone who types. It's not a niche group of obsessives at all.
I've always made my own themes, and even those can be fairly slow without the standard caching plugins. Optimizing Craft CMS sites was a breeze by comparison.
Disclaimer, I work with SendGrid. That is what the whole ESP space is about. Check out some of the players, and pick one you like. You should spend dramatically less on a service such as SendGrid than you would spend on personnel to handle all the ins and outs of email deliverability.
It's not possible to buy it without the TouchBar any more :(

I really wanted to like it, and the concept could perhaps eventually be good, but the current implementation is infuriatingly bad:

• I need more than one tap to change the brightness, volume or skip to the next song.

• The buttons are in different locations depending on context, so it's not possible to use it by muscle memory.

• TouchBar automatically goes to sleep, making the previous two points worse.

• It's not even that good for its intended purpose. Previews of things on it are too tiny. Most actions still require multiple taps, and it's in the uncanny valley between direct and indirect manipulation.

Fingerprint sensor is convenient, but the TouchBar ended up being a gimmick, not a pro feature.
I think it's great that there are more and more indie games coming out, someone has to start somewhere and when you are interested in indie games providers, you can find genuinely good games that don't cost that much
Can you develop for iOS on a Surface?
Apple Launching Face ID iPad Pro, New Mac Mini, and Updated MacBook This Fall
This is a good decision. Letters and journals of dead children also go to the parents. I fail to see why online accounts should make a difference.
32 GB available on the 15" touchbar model.

Personally holding out for a 32GB 13", if my 2012 makes it that long.
I always want to read The Elements of Computing Systems, but never finish it. Playing this game for a few minutes let me pick up the book again.
Hash-based cache-busting is pretty much CAS, and a widespread practice. Using CAS for user uploaded content is somewhat common, too.
Well if you're comparing it to Leopard / Snow Leopard no wonder. That's probably the most neat and polished a desktop operating system has ever been.

edit: To clarify, I think current macOS is a better OS, its features are worth less neatness, but Snow Leopard did a smaller amount of things in a neater and more polished way.
FWIW, grocery chains in the US have low single digit margins. I don’t think they’re gouging anybody. Also, prices at my local grocery store are frequently lower than at Costco (a warehouse-style store).
I really don't understand the self destructive desire to domestically pile on our tech firms while they are being shutout of the Chinese market by the government there which apparently appreciates the importance of these firms so much as to support their local companies financially, politically, and intellectually and on the other front the EU is using every tool at its disposal to hamstring US tech firms.

Some comments here and elsewhere indicate that some pitchforks wielding folks are conflating this issue with the outcomes of recent political contests, the source of this confusion is poor-old media companies that keep feigning powerlessness while conveniently pointing the finger at business rivals.
Reducing the amount of requests and roundtrips required to render the page, and reducing the latency on those requests is key.

For example, you use Google Fonts. For that you need to load CSS. So that's three roundtrips for rendering your page: 1) your page, 2) the Google Fonts CSS, 3) the font files.

We've build a WordPress plugin called PhastPress (fast press) that helps you reduce the request count and those roundtrips without building your own theme. https://wordpress.org/plugins/phastpress/

Among other things, it inlines the critical CSS needed for rendering the page, defers all script loads, and optimizes images. Cuts page size by ½ on the stock theme, and the amount of additional roundtrips to 0.
Her diary and received letters would be owned and accessible by her parents, as the court pointed out.

Why should her Facebook account be treated differently?
It's consistent with former practice with letters and such, that unless one makes arrangements to the contrary that the family/next of kin inherit private letters, writings, and effects.
People are tracking ROI, and constantly testing new targeting parameters to keep eking out a few more points of ROI. A lot of Facebook Ad spend is experimental (especially at that low of a price). There used to be a time when you could get real engagement for pennies each and build up a following of real people based on a few ads then not have to spend anymore and go off your organic growth and audience.

Now the second you stop the ad spend your engagement drops to nothing.
Blackwater.
Ask HN: Mass department walkout
It's looking like our very small development department will soon be just 1 person from 5.

Just wondering if anybody has any interesting stories of how a company carried on after the majority of their technical talent left.
I work as a consultant and I find that for “problem solving” in person communication with colleagues and clients is fundamental.

When I’m working on a model I just put my headphones and I know people will disturb me only if they really need to. Which is fine, I’m here to help in the first place.
"Facebook did it, and we want to be like Facebook..."
Twist the example in the paper a bit, to create a shape of Waldo's face and show only Waldo's face.

Do note, the information we are concealing is where Waldo is, and not how he looks.
Why? I think the real issue is that historically small VCs don’t make enough in management fees to support engineers, no one wants to sell part of the GP to invest in growth and scale, and large VCs make so much money from management fee and carry that they don’t care about the complexity. I’d be surprised if a16z didn’t have a few engineers in staff, but I know several of the big firms definetly don’t. It’s going to take a new commer stealing away their LPs to get them to change.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513828.
It's not as clear cut as you're making it sound, there are a wide variety of opinions about how much a person's right to privacy extends beyond their death.
Building an Animated Slider with JavaScript, CSS, and Vue
Goodwall gets $10.8M to expand its ‘LinkedIn for students’
Ultimate kek, this is just super bad.
What's the minimum effect this has? Millions?
It is well known that Ubuntu is going through a phase of rapid change at the moment. I understand how you feel but I'm pretty sure the quality and consistency will only increase from here on. Otherwise, try a Plasma desktop or Mate (if you feel like a minimalist).
Literally any other blogging platform
There is definitely a market for betting on weather. One of the principal components of changes in natural gas and power prices is unexpected changes in weather.
Given that it’s a foreign protein, I’d expect a potential autoimmune/allergic response in some part of the population.
Pittsburgh is kind of like that. It wants to be grid based, but it just can't with the geography it's given. There's lots of small areas that have only a few ways in and out, due to it being on the top/bottom/side of a hill.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.439071,-80,13z
The Greatest World Cup Fairy Tale of All Time
Right on. When my keyboard fails I'll get a nice little upgrade. Thanks Apple!
Burglar breaks into escape room business, calls 911 when he can't get out
There is no way that would work in the service industry.
wööw. the comment section under that article though...that deserves some sort of internet equivalent of the Nobel's Literature prize!
Absolutely. I study ecology, and I have to say this article sounds like quite a lot of hogwash to me.

Of course, trees do communicate - but obsessively trying to frame mindless chemical ecological processes in such extreme anthropomorphic terms is dangerously close to the border between extreme oversimplification and rank pseudoscience.
Not for Swift/Objective C - you'll need a Mac device to run the simulator. I mainly used my Macbooks for Python, node.js, some C and bash.

Edit: changed emulator to simulator (which is true, it's x64 iOS).
I'd be interested in knowing how many people switched from the MBP to the Surface(Book) due to delays and changes/issues in the MBP range.

I bought a first generation Surfacebook a few years ago because I couldn't wait any longer for Apple to release their new MBP range, and I'm glad I didn't wait. It's the best laptop I've ever owned.

Even though I've moved away from .NET dev and work mostly with Ruby and Node it's still my favourite machine to use. I run Debian with minimal problems, and I'm started to get more into WSL, which seems to work brilliantly for all the use cases I've thrown at it.

If the numbers are strong on people moving from MBP to the Surfacebook, then it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for it to become a real option for developers, regardless of whether they want to use Windows or not.
The keyboard and the touch bar are deal breakers for me. For the first time in a while I've been considering buying a new laptop, but the touch bar is basically zero utility and the keyboard is negative utility. I can't spend $2400+ on a laptop and feel good about it.
Fortnite hackers get hacked
Seriously, how do you exit vim insert mode without an ESC key?
Introducing Unobstruct – Troy Gaul – Medium
They're not all that great in the software field, either. 75% of them are just content marketing.
Although the upgrades are pretty neat, doubling down on the touchbar and keyboard means my current 2017 13” MBP will mostly be my last. There are good options these days and the Apple premium price isn’t worth it IMO!
> We were already working from in open office, but at least I had a desk facing the wall behind me, so there was a modicum of privacy and psychological safety. Then management decided that it would “look better” if we went to circular desks where several of us would be sitting with our backs to the hallway, so everyone walking past would be looking at our screen as they passed.

This seems dishonest to me. Can some body explain if I'm missing something?

I understand the argument that open-plan offices increase distractions in general, and the damage that loud people do in particular. But if you really intend on being super focused and productive, I don't understand why it would bother you that someone would look at your screen.

I have worked in an open-plan office and the only times when I was embarrassed that someone saw my screen was because I was wasting my time on reddit/HN, which I shouldn't because that's not what they're paying me for... Once I managed to force upon myself the discipline of just don't open reddit/HN, I was happy to accept one of the desks with the back to the center of the room, because I no longer cared that someone was looking at my screen.

Am I missing something?
If you're interested in trying the same approach that Cloudflare took with Rocket Loader as a WordPress plugin, check out PhastPress. https://wordpress.org/plugins/phastpress/

This plugin also defers all scripts and tries to simulate all the events that occur during a normal pageload so that the scripts still run as they normally do.
After a person dies, they don't exist. It is counterfactual to posit that they have 'rights'.
That's like saying that milk is free because if you visit a farm the farmer will let you milk a glass out of his cows
Phillip Morris
The biggest loss to newspapers imo is the fact that they got just 1 chance every day to publish their articles.

It was harder to spy on what the other was doing, unless you wanted to be a day behind them. This allowed people to come up with more original opinions, and less hivemind behavior that you see with the constantly updating/mutating articles online.
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/300/other-ways-to-exi...
You're mistaken: they got bumped to 32 for this model, which is now DDR4.
The industrial revolution began before the civil war; export-driven growth began taking off in the 1840s. More broadly, industrialization weakened an artisan middle class - wages fell during early industrialization. This power was always concentrated in the hands of a bourgeois owning class; the limited liability corporation was one of the key early innovations of American government in promoting this economic form.

The modern corporate form did not develop until later - a managerial class emerged starting around World War II (see: James Burnham) and is, I think, a big explanation for why the previous Gilded Age saw massive labor organizing that eventually drove American policy change, but this era has not - the ruling class bought their own organizers this time.
Nobody pays for content. Let's stop pretending it's a usable business model. Even paywalls are hated by most, and banned by some communities.

If you block ads, they'll simply make the content an ad.