skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit disappointed as my questions are more "what is important about a deeplearning box?" How much DRAM should I get ? What should I do about disks?

We built one recently, I got a big lump of dram (256GB), a 12 core processor 6 cards and a 2TB ssd on pci + some ssd's as a backend. We then mapped it onto HDFS, and our pipeline is from HDFS to the ssds for project work and then when the data's ready you can map it onto the pci disc for the actual run - hopefully the cpu has enough cores to run the discs and the GPUs at once.
I don't think you can do, or have time to do, a genetic test as an emergency responder, if that's what you mean. But is that really why we put it on documents anyway?
It fails to account for edge cases, and much like software engineering, in law edge cases are 90% of the work.
Huh. I suppose it could be Synology? Either way it's hella annoying.
Do all these performance improvements require the new Apple Watch 2 hardware?
It's like in the olden 80s and early 90s when workstations/minis cost a similar amount. And that's in unadjusted dollars.
I feel like it could definitely be made more user-friendly, though. Like instead of a random assortment of 3-word combinations, is there no way to assign them in an ordered fashion, so that "hill.stevedore.borg" is west of "hall.stevedore.bar". Or use a larger grid with an inset numeric system, like instead of blocking in 3 square meter chunks, use 30 square meter chunks with a 2-digit number next to it, like "hambone.impish.doorframe-3,3".

I kinda feel like any arbitrarily-ordered locational identifier will always feel clunky compared to an ordered grid system.
An OS with mandatory SIP will be the point I stop upgrading. I'm fine with optional features like this, but the instant it becomes mandatory and can't be bypassed I'm gone.
> As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices

My guess is that most of Mac users do want/use Apple mobile devices, and that in fact the majority of their computing time is now on those devices so it makes sense that the team would focus heavily on the interface and overlap between iOS / MacOS.
> Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful.

I don't use a Mac or an iPhone, but I applaud this sort of device harmony.

That said, I am worried that it would unnecessarily leverage the cloud. My guess is that instead of the two devices directly communicating with one another—that is, instead of leveraging the fact that they are probably on the same local network and should just work in concert—the clipboard data will be sent via a cloud intermediary. That is, it will be exfiltrated from the local network, sent through Apple, and then back into the local network.

If I am wrong about that, I am happy to hear it.
It's a pain but autofs can help: http://blog.grapii.com/2015/06/keep-network-drives-mounted-o...
Annualized over 10 years. One of the ways you value a company is by discounting the future cashflows.
I have a 3.5mm cable that originally came with my Sega Genesis that still works fine. I've used it for all sorts of things throughout my life.

If you are going through six cables per year, you are doing something wrong. Even the cheapest cable from eBay should last longer than that provided you aren't also using it as a jump rope.
Why fork? In 2016 Microsoft will be shipping a Windows extension that will allow running GPLv3 bash. Heck, if Microsoft is not afraid of the legal consequences, surely Apple shouldn't be, either?
As someone who uses KDE Connect for copy/paste between my Android phone and my Linux desktop I can say that this feature is _amazing_.
Address is pretty separate from directions in both the old and new system. The fact that I'm on Maple st. doesn't tell me anything about how close I am to Pine st., except in a small number of cities that have a useful naming system. So I say "Turn left on Maple, then right on Pine, then...". Likewise, here you say "turn right at maple.big.grumpy, then left at green.thick.rat".

This system is an improvement for locations with no road names (so it's not any harder to give directions) or with ubiquitous GPS (where you can directly convert). The number of places with road names but not ubiquitous GPS is on the fast decline.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll amend my plan to include flying back to Perth.
Apple and Microsoft have different legal departments. Apple's still has questions over GPLv3, for better or for worse.
Ironically, the article manages to mess this up.

> the Stade de France is at reporter.smoked.received

The phrase they mention goes to some place in Trenton, Missouri[1]. It seems they meant reporter.smoker.received[2].

[1] https://map.what3words.com/reporter.smoked.received

[2] https://map.what3words.com/reporter.smoker.received
You can always hard wire it and hide it behind the dash board.
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Sorry, I indeed misunderstood you!
Really? That notion seems alive and well to me. Maybe it's not important to you.
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Can you talk more about this sneaked-in subscription? That's really concerning.
Thanks for the clarifications.

> you'd want to expose all of this info in the types

This is a just a generic idea.

I meant the type system would let you express some property; and it would carry it to the rest of the program. In an IDE, you would have several views that would inform you of those properties. The "blocking" view would have color hints for: non_blocking, blocking_wait_IO, blocking_mutex, contention_on_X, etc; when this information is only in the documentation of the called elements.

Today, composing elements loses this information, when it could be carried with static analysis and sometimes some help.
Oh nifty. Thanks!
this pcworld article claims that better cortana is the key driver: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3083016/software-productivity...
All it would take is for someone in on the deal to be having dinner with an associate and saying just a little bit too much. The walls have ears when you're dealing with stuff like this.
We have to come to terms that we have built an abstraction on nature and it has leaks. Let's move away for a moment from this issue and consider the issue of some animal being of a given species. A highly scientific classification with little political nature (at least if we stay away from our own species).

Reality is that species as a concept is an abstraction placed on nature. It works well for most cases. A cat is not a dog. A cat is not a lion. Pretty clear. But even without considering past species, we see instances such as ring species. Are they one species or not? And we see animals that can breed but who almost always have infertile offsprings.

In the same way, sex is an abstraction we place on our world. It works in most cases with a few errors. Incorrectly classifying a testosterone immune man as a woman, failing to classify someone born intersexed, failing to differ the XX from the XXX or the XY from the XYY, and sometimes failing to account for cases where the brain might not match the phenotype.

Sticking to our abstractions even in these cases is as I'll advised as sticking to programming abstractions when they leak, if not even more so.

(Bonus round: are there X and Y chromosomes or are those an abstraction as well?)
Huh, in most of the world the mapping between iOS and macOS users is nowhere 1-to-1. There's huge amount of users who use either one or the other.

Which doesn't really change the fact that even Windows 10 has been starting to pass them by with significant new features.
Assuming you know what you want of course. But the recommender system could have a mode where it learns which taste you like based on time, number of unread mails in your inbox, skipped songs and moon cycle. :)
For stuff in ports, GPLv3 code, because they don't have Apple's legal team that's worried about GPLv3. FreeBSD ports' bash is at 4.3.

titan:~/src/bsd/freebsd-ports geofft$ find . -name Makefile -exec grep LICENSE.*=.*GPLv3 {} + | wc -l
1456
Which have been vetted in their propietary algorithm, according to the wikipedia page. Dont know how well it works, though.
Which edge cases? Providing a specific example would be enlightening, because as I see it the denial of sexual dimorphism typically co-opts the lives and lived experiences of intersex people or people with AIS to further the goal of a completely distinct group.

There have been legal issues regarding intersex people being mutilated at birth, but that "edge case" has been sorted out.
Spoiler alert for anybody without access to a mac right now: $ say "OS X" pronounces it as "OS Ten".
Genetic tests are unnecessary for emergency responders, as physiological sex is what matters to them, and if physiological sex is easily verified, then they can verify it on the spot.
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The only thing I have found that couldn't be done on an OS X device was run a custom kernel without breaking power management. Do you have any other examples of things that you can't do?
Consider applying for a job with Twilio.
I'm pretty sure they have a "real" hiring channel that bypasses this; there's no way they could function if everyone had to go through that without error.
Yes you can do. use "brew install coreutils"
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Just curious, how would you describe a bad Java developer, a good one, and how can one test this ?
MS does have a 1-2% stake in Facebook lest we forget
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Maybe you can answer one persistent question I've had about Ethereum contracts. My understanding is that you can encode logic in the contract so that you and I can, for example, gamble on the outcome of the Superbowl and the contract ''knows'' to ask some trusted authority for the result of the game and then pay out accordingly. Isn't this only decentralized insofar as you and I both trust the trusted authority and that authority isn't ever compromised? Doesn't that authority become the point of attack for hackers? Such that if I lose the Superbowl bet but I can hack the ESPN API at the right point in time, then I can trigger the wrong payout on all contracts and there is no recourse.
I think this is on Synology issue, my Samsung TV routinely loses the NAS drive while streaming media. Not constantly but randomly once or twice a day; I have to power my TV off/on to get it to see the drive again. Meanwhile the same NAS connect to my Macbook Air, iPads and iPhones (for the kids) never drops the NAS.
Accessing everything on lock screen? So, my GF can see my app activity and pretty do all the things without my authentication?

Craig touts specifically that we don't need to press the home button for all this to work...
Wow, uh. Want me to spoon feed you reasons?

I'm kicking a bee's nest and finding information through ways that Chicago's mayor's office very clearly didn't think was possible. There is very interesting information in there, and their year and a half long resistance (still ongoing) only makes me think there's more to be found. If one person is angry enough at me for doing this work, then that's all it takes to put me in a dangerous position. Considering how corrupt Illinois and Chicago are, it wouldn't a stretch of the imagination to think that it's possible. The paranoia has nothing to do with "conspiracies", but everything to do with single individuals who don't want to be called out.

Over a week, three very, very strange things happened, and I've only mentioned one online. I've talked to my psychiatrist about it. He agrees that what I'm feeling isn't irrational paranoia.

Edit: it's also worth noting that nobody else has been able to get this before, and for good reason.
That is coefficient of drag. You have to remember that goes into the drag equation which includes velocity squared.

force_of_drag = .5 * mass_density * (velocity^2) * coefficient_drag * area.

As that coefficient starts tapering off after transonic drag decreases velocity squared is there to ramp up the drag.
That's basically the string theory multiverse hypothesis. Why these physical constants? Because there's at least one universe each for all of them, and you're just in one of them.
In the legal system, what is the relevance of one's sex? Are there laws that apply to a specific sex, or apply differently based on the person's sex?
See, the thing is - I use sync across multiple Apple devices. I have had zero problems with duplicated or missing entries, and it's one of the absolute killer features of the ecosystem for me.

It's hard to get a real impression of what problems may or may not exist, unfortunately.
>> "- a passcode is required to use features like Apple Pay"

Not true. You just double tap the side button and can use Apple Pay. The way it secures itself is that as soon as you remove it from your wrist it locks and requires a passcode. You can't do anything with it until you enter the passcode.
It's not hard, but it's unsurprisingly against the ToS (http://developer.what3words.com/api/licence/)

"You shall not use the API for any application that replicates or attempts to replace the essential user experience of the Service or use the API to create a Product which functions substantially the same as the API and offer it for use by third parties. You must not pre-fetch, cache, index, copy, re-utilise, extract or store any what3words Data"
Exactly.

Want +3in legroom? For each flight, go to a flight forum and punch in the route to figure out what plane they're flying. Google the airline and that plane to figure out how much legroom is available.

Give up and just fly jetblue and/or southwest, and if they don't go, decline to travel.
Anybody curious about this, especially as it pertains to production systems and the JVM, should join the Deeplearning4j gitter channel. We deal with those issues from time to time. https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
That seems a little unfair. They did a bit of this in the last couple of rounds - introducing Metal, for example, or all the energy work they did a couple of releases ago.

Baby steps :)
I've been using Apple operating systems for most of my computing, since the Apple IIe. I started using OS X in 2001. Every since the release of 10.7, I have just been disappointed with their releases. Now that they are releasing major updates on a yearly press-release driven schedule, their quality has suffered. And their drive towards making the desktop more like iOS seems to cater more to non-technical consumers than developers. I have been happily exploring Linux the past year, mostly in VMs trying out different distros. I kinda doubt I will upgrade to macOS.
Apple Announces Swift Playgrounds for iPad at WWDC
Flyers routinely pay more for direct flights. International travelers often pay much more to avoid transiting unpleasant countries like the USA with its awful security procedures. Lots of people want to pay more for more width and recline in seats on long haul flights; no US carrier offers those but W class on foreign carriers is often their most profitable space.

But few want to pay more for leg room. It's just not much of a benefit compared to the five things I mentioned (and several others like comfortable lounges at hubs -- but not apparently decent food). The airlines want to sell leg room because it's very easy to adjust.
Because the robber said "your Apple gadgets or your life!", and carried them away in the bag.

Or, perhaps because you put in in the bag to go through airport security, and the bag was handed to someone else.
The Olympics actually gave up on sex testing once (not sure if they started again or not) because it turns out trying to lump people into two categories is an exercise nonsensical exclusion. Also both historically and currently there have been various category beyond "two" that have had legal distinctions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

And of course we've got shit going on right now in the USA like http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-north-carolina-bathrooms... where that sexual dimorphism (thanks in some cases to modern science and in some cases to the the non-binary nature of human genetics) where that "di"-morphism (morphism meaning shape or appearance) directly contradicts the theoretical intent of some law or another.
tldr

How about the author lays off the flowery language and pseudo philosophy, and gets down to the actual issues instead?
Can you modify system files and resign them so you can keep SIP working?
I don't think I should have to disable security to do things that are not security concerns. I also doubt the average user regards root as a solution. I am not hopeful given what was said during the prior beta, that disabling SIP will always be an option.

> I feel like you just wanted to take the opportunity to rant.

Was this line necessary?
> It basically states that any "true" statement is provable.

It states that every statement that is true in all models of a first-order theory is provable within the theory.
Wow.

In terms of data mining this is still a huge price-point, but obviously some team at MS projected the benefits vs expense.
For those of you have heard about this back in December, there is no new data at the moment. The only update is that CERN is firing up again; hopefully we'll hear an update in the next several months or so.
See Boom (YC 2016) http://boom.aero/
I thought they were better on mobile because it was easy with Safari to scan your credit card and have it auto-fill the fields
Bill Gates was a drop-out, not an MBA. Steve Jobs was a ... wait for it ... drop-out but also not technical. Steve Wozniack was the technical founder of Apple.

If you really want to understand Jobs' talent, think about what Apple did when he left and how they changed when he came back. The technology didn't change that much (sure, Unix, but that wasn't _that_ big of a deal). The key difference is how they sold computers. After Jobs' was forced out, Apple started to copy the MicroSoft strategy: make computers highly customizable. Needless to say, that didn't work for Apple. After Jobs' came back, Apple stopped that strategy and started selling 3 options: good, better, and best. IMO, that's the real key of Jobs' Apple turn-around. He made it easy for people to buy computers.

Anyway, from that perspective, Jobs was all sales/marketing and not even close to what you'd consider a CTO.
Apple launches Swift Playgrounds app for iPad to teach kids to code
Have you ever been on the ground floor of a synergistic acquisition? In theory it should be easy to integrate data sources and reap the benefits. In practice what happens are year long efforts and organizational re-structurings every 3-6 months depending on what the cadence is with the end result being people being shuffled around and no benefits being reaped.
If this article is too long to read for you, HackerNews might not be delivering the kind of content you would be interested in.
When they make you write reviews, the trick is to write a very glowing one, including several perks that you wish you had but don't. e.g. "Great company, love the 20% own-projects time and work-from-home Fridays." This has all kinds of good effects:

1) It subtly anchors execs and HR to accept your perk as reasonable, especially because the people paying attention to Glassdoor are far removed from your manager and don't actually know if you have those perks or not. "Since our company already does it, it must be a good idea," thinks the exec.

2) Your coworkers see the reviews and assume the perks are true but unevenly distributed, thereby further ingraining the perks in the company zeitgeist.

3) If you are eventually found out, nobody will ask you to write reviews any more.

and 4) Candidates, including good candidates, will come to interviews and say things like "I've heard you have 20% time, that's a great idea, tell me more about it." This fans the flames in favor of your perks.

I used this technique as part of a wildly successful give-us-more-perks agitation campaign in my previous job.
Always wondered if they'd stall at iOS 10 and just start moving up minor versions like macOS. 10.1 etc. Another change that doesn't make a ton of sense but I guess looks nice.
I have to dispute that changing core system files is something that 'shouldn't be covered by the security'. It's exactly what this sort of feature is for.
It functions at least as well as it did 50 years ago.
The linked in 2012 breach started getting posted everywhere in weeks previous with high visibility. I don't believe it to be related, but I am sure someone may.
He say free as if they almost made it paid
>Intersex people may have an ambiguous socially ascribed gender, and are probably more likely than most to have unclear gender identity.

That's interesting, because of the numerous population studies in intersex people, this has never been one of the conclusions. Same sex attraction is more likely, however.

I think you have a misconception regarding intersex people -- their presentation aligns with their birth sex. I.e. if they are a female, they will have female secondary sex characteristics.
It works great - until it doesn't, and then you find all your music is deleted or something [0]

They don't exactly have a stellar record on this sort of thing.

0 - http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/13/apple-officially-acknowledges-...
Skype for Business (and it's predecessor Lync) owns corporate voice and collaboration market
One problem I see is that one particular address may end up with several 3-word addresses. Since physical distance doesn't affect the similarity of the combinations, how is one to determine the 'correct' combination for a particular location? This seems to compound the inherent problem of all 3-word combinations sharing the same namespace - I have no idea if two addresses are actually the same building, or on opposite sides of the planet.
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There needs to be consideration in the contract (that is, what is agreed to.) Actually providing the agreed payment is performance of the contract (or, if it fails, breach of the contract), not a prerequisite for the existence of the contract (unless its a contract, that, by its terms, is accepted by performance.)
I had quite the opposite experience, actually. Yeah, the keys were small and took some getting used to. I'd imagine if my fingers were bigger it may have become a problem. I felt lightning fast on that thing, though, and rarely needed to correct anything, which really added to my effective typing speed.
You can do cardholder verification offline with PIN.
Nnnnnnnnnn-maybe.

Seems more like a partial swing towards enterprise-emphasis.
Most people are also pretty hardwired to suspect that someone regarded as an beatific genius with unearthly powers by his friends might just be a weirdo with a few savant-like abilities surrounded by sycophants though. Which might be a hugely unfair characterisation of Buterin, but the article is much less a story about how he came about to create something, or how people are starting to benefit from stuff he's done, and much more a collection of testimony from people throwing the word genius around rather liberally. I almost burst out laughing when the author put the bit about losing millions of dollars in parentheses, as if they were worried that giving it full paragraph status might damage the financial whizzkid narrative.
The iPhone 6 Plus is selling huge volumes with a bigger battery and a heavier phone for $100 more.