skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're both "developer marketing materials." And Apple's marketing materials aren't "utopian." They're how developer marketing materials have always been written--in a user-centric way because the point of computers is to help humans do things.

Even Balmer-era Microsoft never put out developer materials with anything as user-hostile as saying that a feature "drives engagement." It's a Freudian slip revealing that in the Google ecosystem, the user is the product, not the customer.
Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female
> Public opinion

As events in 2000-2003 have taught us, it's quite easy to sway public opinion in favor of war, even more so when it's largely not on your own soil.
> We know this is possible, because the USA used to have it in living memory.

If you look back at your history, you'll see that this only applied to the already wealthy part of the US for the most part, and for the most part the white people only.
Great stuff. However, while I'm happy that they're limiting third-party access to this data, given Google's business model, I still wouldn't trust them with it.
I'm sorry but what the heck does this have to do with YouTubers reporting issues with their favorite daily driver phones? They aren't being paid by Samsung to say the Pixel is shit. I'm talking about MKBHD and his slowdowns specifically.

Also I wanted to ask you about a previous comment you left. What really upset me was you saying Samsung Software is somehow not a feature because it's made by an OEM. Do you think Samsung should not be making features because it fragments the market? Because to me they've really done a good faith effort to be apple in quality of features and ecosystem of products. I really enjoy the care they have put into the user's quality of life. I could not see myself using anything but a Samsung Galaxy.
We're experiencing the effect of the Earth's medical doctor saying "Hrm, that doesn't look good" over the past decade, in slow motion. Each person is free to talk about it endlessly, or stick their head in the sand, but all of us are in some way expressing anxiety over the situation we're increasingly realizing we're in. Oh, but how lovely it would be to learn we're just dopes and nothing was wrong at all!
That's why I only use Android with ROMs like LineageOS where I can block apps from opening on startup and running in the background (you also get more granular permissions for free).
To preserve a tolerant society, you need to be intolerant of intolerance. And yes, that's a paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Germany obviously has had a troubled past in this area. Another concept that may be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie
My recollection is that Google used to have two completely different account types. There was the external @gmail.com account type, and then there was the internal @domain.com account type. The latter used an accounting system that was originally designed for internal (employee) accounts, but then became the basis of what was called "Google Apps" which I guess is now GSuite. Apparently there were (and still are?) all sorts of bizarre issues due to the fact that they originally had these two distinct account types.

Anyway, I have both an @gmail.com address and my own domain, the latter of which I had with Google Apps for a while back when it was free. I remember having no end of trouble accessing various Google services when I had both account types. I eventually moved my domain away from Google (I moved email to FastMail). But one thing that broke when I moved my domain away was that my wife lost her blogger account... there was no way (at the time) to transfer everything she'd blogged to an @gmail.com account.

What a terribly confusing mess. My complaint about these sorts of things is the same complaint I have whenever an Apple product breaks on me in a really stupid way: you'd hope the richest tech companies in the world could do better.
> It's perfectly legal since the American 1st amendment only binds the government.

Again: the fact that something is legal doesn't make it moral.

> I believe it's perfectly acceptable for Apple to say they want no part in some form of speech.

You haven't actually engaged with my argument about the morality of this action, just stated you believe the opposite.
I read that comment as massive sarcasm.
This can be a well-reasoned strategy for some. Arbitrage between the (assumed fixed) mortgage rate and the return on investment elsewhere can lead to an advantage if you simply leverage your equity in the house rather than locking it away.

This has been a workable strategy for a number of decades, although it isn't historically so.
I was going to pipe up about robotics startups around Boston but we're just around $250M. Very small compared to pharma but we're still pretty significant for any region that isn't The Bay.
I dunno. I am not a fan of conspiracy theorists who continuously spread information known to be false; however, the reason posted is problematic: “we want everyone using facebook to feel safe”. Sorry, but feeling safe is very contextual, imprecise and can change from setting to setting. Insofar as “glorifying violence”. Let’s see how they come down on censoring holywood blockbuster movies. Let’s see how sincere they are about that.
You raise a great point. Everybody is freaking out about this censorship, but these platforms have always been censored. Why is censoring sex perfectly reasonable and nobody cares, but censoring a violent nutcase is suddenly a massive free speech issue?
Two major reasons:

The first being that Dota is a team game which requires teamwork to win. This presents a new challenge of having actors work towards both personal and team goals in a balance (much like real players) to be able to win, which is very difficult to train.

The next is that Dota and Go are two very different kinds of games. Go is an "information complete" game, where all players have access to the entire game state at any given time. Dota, on the other hand, is an "information incomplete" game, as teams are vision restricted: there's no guarantee on the state of anything out of vision, meaning that the AI has to develop what most players call "game sense" in order to be effective.

On a tangental note, it's also an interesting problem from a state space perspective. Go is technically "solvable" to a point where you could (with a currently unobtainable amount of computing power) find an optimal move, but Dota is almost unfathomably more complex: 10 heroes picked from 115, each with the ability to hold any combination of 9 items from about 150, with abitrary health and mana values, at abitrary positions on a large map, not even mentioning the non player units (creeps and neutrals). If Go's state space is our solar system, already a difficult scale to comprehend, Dota's is the whole galaxy.

[Typed on mobile, apologies for any typos.]
Are we talking personal transactions on behalf of the exec that happened to be in scope because they were also a user of the software/in the data set?
Or are we talking about business transactions by this exec that were professionally embarrassing?
Section 230 coverage made (and still makes) a ton of sense for passive hosting of content—it really would be unduly burdensome to require neutral hosts or search indexers to review every piece of content.

What wasn't foreseeable 20 years ago is that protection shouldn't really apply to recommended content that the platforms' algorithms push forward onto users, especially in the case of something like YouTube where they auto-play. Those are editorial decisions made in the company's own voice, and you shouldn't be allowed to disclaim all responsibility for what your platform actively recommends.
some local politics? I am very curious please could you explain for an "English"?
Why is it tone deaf, exactly?
I find it baffling how people think about this. In this case, money really, really, really does represent work.

You might be complaining the state doesn't pay for the elderly to retire easily ? Ok, let's do some basic calculations to sketch that out.

Right now there's a little over 12% elderly in the US (and really more like 10% once you take out the ones still working). That number is just about to rise rapidly to 15% by 2021 or so, then a little slower to ~25% by 2050. The under 18's will likely stay constant at ~25%. That means that the government, just for elderly care and schools (NOT including health care, the military, roads and harbors and other infrastructure ...) needs half your pay. 50%. Currently it needs ~25-30% for that. This is totally independent of the actual spending, it's amount of headcount that needs to go to elderly care.

So in order to simply provide current level care, and without considering health care for elderly, or increased longevity, your take home pay, just considering elderly taxes, needs to reduce from ~75% to under 50%. Or, how this will appear from the perspective of someone who works, your taxes need to rise by half. Every tax. For California, income tax needs to rise from 40% to 60% (and it's a progressive tax, and this means the income from that tax needs to rise, so it's not just higher rates for the rich. It's mostly higher rates for the poor, not because of corruption, but because that's where the money is), average. Sales tax from 10% to 15%. And so on. A little under half that tax raise will need to happen in the next president's term (or, God forbid, Trump's second). Just so we're clear, that's a few years away.

If, as many suggest here, care needs to be increased and more broadly available ... well that costs more, of course. That means a little under half the total economic activity in the US needs to be focused exclusively on taking care of others (again, not including health care, that needs to be added on top after that).

We all know that current workers are not prepared to pay this. So why are we wining that "government will not take my elders off of me" ? It cannot do so ...

And the truly scary part is ... compared to Europe, the US is not doing too bad. Europe is a disaster waiting to happen, and will fail sooner than the US. Compared to Japan, Europe looks fine. And compared to China, Japan barely has a problem.

It's weird to realize this, but longer term things are pretty obvious: the US will open up it's borders like never before (because in the US case, that might, just might, actually fix things). The EU will ... uh ... I'd say "die", but politicians never let something die : they go to war. Against whom ? It won't be very hard at all to start a war with China in a decade, potentially sooner. It's weird but WW3 between "the EU" (Germany) and China, in 10-15 years would make sense.
It's not hard to imagine using the hydrogen position as a state, rather than presence. if it's in the left cell, on, if it's in the right cell off.
if you've got that then it's not hard to imagine, rather than one single probe pointing down, v, but instead a whole array vvvvvvvv. if the array of probes can be fabricated on a wafer, you can have massive parallelism.

the memory would have cycles, a read 0 phase, any bit that needed to be flipped to one would be picked up, the array shifts to the left, any probe holding an hydrogen would then write. then a read 1 phase, which prepares for the zero writes.

Obviously this depends critically on arrays of probes, which might not be possible. If it is, there's no reason to think this can't be massively parallel.
Wait, are we speaking of modern liberal/left values or libertarian views? These are not the same, are they? I don't quite understand the evolution of these words but it seems Alex Jones is first and foremost for personal liberty. Note: do not take my understanding of Alex Jones as me backing or supporting him, he's a nutcase.
It's going to wind up as a targeting option. You can sell a million impressions by people with a household income over $100k for far more than the untargeted impression.

How it currently works is that Chase etc knows how much money you make and other banking information, so they can upload your contact info and run targeted campaigns with a combination of Chase's information on your banking & credit card info and Facebook's targeting. The change would allow Facebook to categorize you based off your Chase financial info and let other companies start paying a premium to advertise to you as well.

In practice, it means that when you get approved for an auto loan and start shopping around, you'll magically start getting advertisements for cars and dealerships, since there's now something like an "approved for an Auto loan in the last 30 days" category that these businesses can target with their advertising. Or when you open a business checking account you'll start getting advertisements for point-of-sale systems.
they should be neutral. I find it funny how people go up in arms about net neutrality but do a 180 about the information platform providers in the level above ISPs.
Back when I was eating meat, I was probably still aware that it was harmful, but in a kind of cynical denial about it.

I've heard that one about "the annual crops" before, and it's simply not true that it's "the" alternative. It's claimed in this one study that's echoed in loads of articles[0][1][2][3] that assumes that vegans don't eat perennials, which is kind of ignoring the existence of apples, apricots, asparagus, artichoke, avocados, broccoli, currants, basil, blue- and blackberry, chives, fennel, garlic, ginger, grapes, kale, kiwis, leek, mint, onions, oregano, pears, persimmons, pineapples, plums, pomegranates, potato, rasp- and strawberries, radish, rhubarb, rosemary, sage, thyme, tomatoes for a start.

This view about animal husbandry being harmless for the environment has been disproven[4][5][6], and is on the line with global warming denialism.

[0]: http://qz.com/749443/being-vegan-isnt-as-environmentally-fri...

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/going-vegan-isnt-act...

[2]: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/08/11/new-study-reveals-v...

[3]: https://quietkinetic.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/global-veganis...

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foo...

[5]: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

[6]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/03/eating-l...
He's only ever married Jews... all of his children are Jews.
that seems to be a recurrent problem in the software industry, my suggestion here is to check "discipline beats motivation" ( http://iheartintelligence.com/2016/11/17/discipline-beats-mo... ).

You don't need motivation, just discipline to build habits... everywhere will be a challenge if you lean on motivation.

( i also struggle a lot forcing myself to build discipline... )
>I love for loops because in one line I can grasp what the loop intends to compute and usually leads me towards what I should pay attention to when debugging.

C++ programmer here.

In my team I've actively pushed not to have for loops when something from the algorithms library will do (transform, copy_if, find_if, etc). The reason: Because I usually cannot quickly grasp what the for loop intends to compute - I'm quite surprised you're saying the opposite.

I met with some resistance, as people aren't used to thinking in terms of algorithms. So I was slowly browsing our code base, finding for loops, and converting the trivial ones to calls to the algorithms library. Then I came across one for loop that was, frankly, a pointless loop. It didn't seem to do anything useful. I was sure it was a bug, but I couldn't tell from the context what the code was supposed to do. I emailed the committer, and he fixed it. Then I took the fixed version and converted it to an algorithms call.

Then I made a presentation to the team showing some of my examples, including the one with the bug. That bug convinced many to start using other constructs. Every time you write a for loop for which there is an algorithm in the library, you are reinventing the wheel, and have a good chance of introducing a bug.

(Sorry, probably a bit of a tangent to the whole thread).
> I highly doubt reusing a booster has been more expensive to SpaceX than building new boosters

Well, they are. Which is natural, because the program is still R&D more than mass production.

> This is basically the design that SpaceX hopes will enable that zero or little retrofitting reuse

When that rapid re-use is demonstrated, it will mark the epoch. We could retcon to the original re-use, or even booster recovery. But that's premature.

(I'm still super excited about everything SpaceX does.)
No they don't. A monetarily sovereign government with a productive economy, such as the USA, can roll over its debt indefinitely. In fact, the global financial system relies on US debt. Foreign countries call it "reserves."

Also, remember that the size of the public sector's balance sheet isn't what controls inflation, it's too much money chasing too few goods and services. Most money isn't even created by the government, it's created by banks with keystrokes.
Non standard devices? Who makes those standards and why? I had a “standard” Windows computer for many years and it was driver hell. For almost any reasonably modern peripheral, I can plug it into my Mac and it works. Macs use “standard” USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports. Some other laptops still require dedicated and proprietary chargers. Lightning is proprietary, however, it’s only used for Apple devices, so that doesn’t make much difference. It isn’t like Apple requires lightning for third party external drives.

Internet Explorer was standard. Chrome has become a standard — both browsers got downright proprietary with all of their “standards.”

Have to buy a Mac to build your Mac/iOS apps? I don’t see what is so tragic about having to actually use the device for which you are developing. How can you run a Mac App on Windows or Linux? It seems like to even do basic testing you should be testing on Mac Harware. You can buy a brand new Mini for $499. Seems like a small price if you are a “professional” developer.

As far as intentionally breaking code, have you thought about why that happens? I assure you that there isn’t some secret group at Cupertino trying to figure out how best to annoy developers.

As far as “why Apple” — as an example, I have a 2010 iMac with 16GB RAM running High Sierra that is far more stable and reliable than a 2010 Dell running the latest Windows. That’s subjective, but the point is that Macs have a long lifespan and thus a high resale value.

Also privacy and security — Apple cares about it. They don’t always get it right, but how often have Macs or iOS been infected with malware compared to other platforms?

And there is UX. Macs are easier to use for most people that have tried them. iPhone satisfaction ratings are over 95%. That means something.

Of course Apple isn’t perfect, but find a piece of software or hardware that is — Apple gets things right far more than they get things wrong. Look at the various incarnations of Windows as a comparison and all the controversy they have generated.

Don’t like Apple? Don’t buy their stuff and stop trying to sell to people that do. You are free to go and sell wherever you want. As far as the Apple developer fee — if $99 per year is too expensive, then don’t pay it and go somewhere else. There are enough generic me-too apps on the store already. If you had something unique and valuable, you’d make plenty of money so that $99 would be insignificant anyway.
The promise that we will retain a healthy divide between the rich and poor is one of the keys to global trade.

That and our hilariously large military.
Just out of curiosity what do you use to capitalises your PayPal account? For me it’s linked directly to my credit card so it’s basically a shell of convenience above that. What do you use when a vendor doesn’t support PayPal? I still encounter these regulalarly
Fundraising and celebration is a related phenomena. I've sometimes noticed a lot of young first-time founders throw parties and celebrate having (investor) cash in the bank. Seems like folks with more experience tend to treat a successful fundraise as more of somebody else's money that you have to give back, and instead celebrate what they get done with that cash.
I trust them more after that move.
Think of this experience next time someone tries to convince you that customers in this market get to "vote with their wallets".
Many western countries have always known that and incorporated that knowledge into their legal systems[1].

America is pretty alone in the lunacy that is the First Amendment.

The worst part is when Americans claim that without all the extreme extent of the First Amendment there cannot be Free Speech.

Many free western countries would disagree. Most of them are quite a bit higher in the Press Freedom Index (with press freedom as one part of free speech) than America.

[1] the foremost idea other legal systems could borrow from the German constitution is that of "practical concordance", where no basic right is paramount to the others, but the legal system recognizes that there is a natural tension between all those basic rights and the goal should be to interpret them in such a way that a "global maximum" is reached. So no "free speech above all", but let's see where we can keep most of what free speech could maximally mean and still keep most of all the other basic rights.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/120928062309-chart...
This is a grossly unfair reading of what has happened in the economy over the last 40 years, and how it got that way. Unfair enough to be simply a lie. Please stop with the inter-generational warfare rhetoric - we have enough things dividing us as a people, by folks who want us divided.
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Seems reasonable. "People" who make far less than that pay over 50%
Noone is purposefully hiding anything. If you need advanced battery data, you can use Battery Historian even on non-modified phones and you'll get all the battery stats your heart desires, down to reason for each CPU wakeup.

https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/battery-histori...
60 people shot in Chicago over the weekend
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700590
Do you need a precise definition to know that a lunatic who incites harassment and death threats toward shooting victims is on the wrong side of the line?
Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit
How about snailgram?
> why would anyone be a fan of such an aggressive company?

For all their faults, they brought personal computing quality out of the gutter and actually gave a fuck about UX.

To this day, you can't even reliably search for local files on a win10 system. They literally laid off their QA department.
Change your setting either with people or places. You're likely sitting at home or always on your computer doing the same thing. That's not helping anyone. If you change your setting it'll also change you personally. I echo everything else related to sleep, exercise, and diet, but besides that just go meet people or work out of different places. It'll work odd wonders because biologically you're predisposed that way.
I'm not sure housing is more affordable in Canada than in the US.
Agreed it is much cheaper than something like Cadence, but it is still a no go for most people doing solo work.
Isn't that a bit like asking why the Christians are still talking about Jesus every Sunday instead of looking to the future?
You don't get to put up such a farcical claim without proof. Please prove to me that Alex Jones was liberal for an entire episode any single day this millennium.
> To keep investment rates high, the Fed coordinated changes to regulations so that private mortages could be sold as investments.

This is just factually wrong. Private mortgage securitization has been legal in the U.S. since at least the 1970s. Most of the subprime-mortgage-backed securities that failed in the crisis were not even subject to regulation by the Fed because they were funded and securitized by private funds and investment banks (the Fed only had jurisdiction over commercial banks at that time).