skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, sounds like it won't be until the end of the year for the deal to have a chance to succeed, and only then will Microsoft get the LinkedIn keys. So I think I will wait until the deal has a better chance of closing.
Most consider flying first class a luxury reserved for the wealthy or those who don't fly very often. The majority of flyers could never consider a first class ticket a responsible purchase.
How big companies scale dnn as Google Photos or Siri? Any approach? you need to train big networks for different users?
Former Academic System's Librarian:

The BIGGEST Scam running over a decade now. The digital subscriptions are for back ordered journals. These journals sat in boxes behind the current issue and you had to look up an index to find what you needed.

So instead of making 100% of their money on current issues they have now made it where they make 90% of their money on old content that was making them nothing but they get to charge 10 times more and obscure journals get a larger paid audience.

Research issues are mostly paid with tax payer money or non-profits and the profits go to delivery companies. This reminds me of Apple Apps and Google Play's 30% profits.

LOCKED OUT are the paying public. I no longer am in academic work anymore (Gladly) and I no longer can look up research. Really sucked when my son had cancer.
Totally agree on the UX. Example: 99.8% of the openings I've seen on their job board in the past 4 months all redirect to an outside board, usually Indeed. Actually, I only remember finishing an application inside LI once, which begs the question: why aren't companies posting their jobs inside LI? It almost looks like they scrape posts from Indeed. Besides, one of the Premium features is "Featured Applicant: Move to the top of recruiters' applicant lists", which is basically worthless if no one actually applies through LI.

There are many holes in LI's UX which I'm hoping will get fixed after the purchase is complete. I just hope it doesn't break as Skype did (you're not the only one to feel that). Even though it's Microsoft, it's not Ballmer's MSFT anymore, so I'm hopeful. And if it does, there'll be a big gap for some other company to fill.
That is a reasonable way of looking at this, but the question is which concept belongs on your documents. The corresponding field on my (EU-based) passport says sex not gender - don't know how it is in the US.

Your sex is something that is fixed and can be verified (as noted, with very rare exceptions). By this logic, your gender is your own decision. So I think sex has a better place in ID documents. Also I think having the biological sex on your documents can be useful medically - surely you want emergency responders / doctors to be able to tell your biological sex, for medical reasons.
The "Optimized storage" made me laugh.

How about making physical storage devices exchangeable again?
Is it open to all app developers or just the selected apps they mentioned? Wasn't clear in the demo.
Continuity is really a crutch for identity, and to reduce risk. My bet is once - Apple Pay on Safari on macOS & iOS via iPhone/watch - qualifies for a lower rate, Apple could open up Apple Pay to other browsers, cross platform - on both desktop and mobile.
What3Words is free for writes (presumably it's generated from an algorithm and there aren't really "writes") and you pay for reads.

Kind of a big difference. With DNS you only have to pay if you want a domain. I can freely do a DNS query to resolve "flamingmongoosefarts.com", but with What3Words I (might not) be able to freely determine where flaming.mongoose.farts is.
the TPP is good (great) for entities made out of humans and their tools, but it's pretty bad for entities comprised of (mostly) human cells, i.e. individual humans.
Creating professional directory websites (the Joomla! way)
Facebook looks like something from 2005. It's outdated and has low usability.
Do you believe a person has the right to change it? Some people are born with both male and female genitalia - as many as 1 in 2000. There are also chromosomal differences that show up - not XX or XY. Here are some of the frequencies of this:

http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency

I agree with you that biologically, the majority of people are born with a well-definite biological sex. But the fact that there is an actual biological set of people that aren't XX or XY, however, means not even in birth is gender guaranteed to be deterministic.

"I think, therefore I am" lends itself to gender identity, for me, anyway. Biology isn't 100%, and identity is even less so. Let people be what they want. I don't see where non-sex-identifying is really troubling.

Edit: thinking about it more, is gender on documents used as one measure against fraud? Or as a way of protecting against potential sexual crimes? We have sexually separated things like bathrooms and prisons, and I wouldn't advocate for mixed-sex prisons (is there an argument for that I don't know?) so sexual identity and gender can't go away completely, right?
> Will we really be any less wrong than our ancestors?

Absolutely. 1966 was terrible in many ways compared to today, but it was a much better world to live in than 1916.
Even if they solve the quality problem, I would much rather have a cable than have to charge my headphones.
> Musn't SM be either incomplete or inconsistent, per Gödel's results?

No. The point of physical models is not to be able to answer all possible questions that you can ask about the models, that as you point out, is not possible.

However, the point of a physical model is to simulate reality. This does not entail being able to answer arbitrary questions (in finite time) about it.

Consider building something like a Nintendo Emulator. As a first pass, you might simply say "I just need to specify the registers and assembly instructions." You might miss out some assembly instructions, and when you pass in a program that uses them, your emulator would crash. You then add that in, and might find out that in order to do faithful reproduction, you need to model instruction execution time and so forth.

In short, your building an emulator requires you to figure out

1) What the state of the Nintendo system needs to be (this may include a time variable).

2) How to correctly handle state transitions.

However, even after you get a complete model of the Nintendo, this obviously doesn't let you answer questions like "If I were to pass in an arbitrary program to my emulator, would it halt on arbitrary inputs?"

Physics is the same. We want to figure out how to specify the "state" of the system, and how that state evolves with time. When we say that a model is incomplete, it means that we're missing some assembler instructions, a register, or something else that doesn't allow us to faithfully simulate reality.

Discovering a new particle is like discovering that there are a bunch of new registers and associated instructions that we need to account for.
> Sex is a basic biological function that is no longer relevant to ascribe anything to beyond that.

No longer? Was it previously but isn't any more? What happened to make this so?

And why would gender have any function? Can't we just disregard it?
Hi HN.

Just wanted to share my little side-project that I've been having some fun with over the last 6 months. Was tired of how the Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) sites have handled golf. It doesn't really "fit" well into the draft model.

Anyhow, I'm a huge golf nut and came up with a new idea for a golf fantasy game. I've been the solo coder on the project. It's using Django on the backend along with Celery/Postgres and a myriad of libraries and other technologies.

Would certainly appreciate any feedback the community has. It's currently alpha-quality. Oh, and you don't need to pay a dime to play. That's only for folks who want to be eligible for the weekly prize pool.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
An even better question is, would they ever print an article about the misandry (hatred of men) here in the U.S.?
He was clearly joking.
By default, FreeBSD uses Almquist Shell for root, and Tenex C Shell for users. OpenBSD uses a modified pdksh for users, which is simlinked to /bin/sh for root, and NetBSD uses Almquist shell for users and root.
Great story. It's a sure sign that a strong bureaucracy has set in when one sees this. It's common in government organizations, but becoming more common in non-government (especially large) organizations.
I'd sort by legroom if the flight search engines offered that information, but it is not available: price is the only discriminator.
(Minor nitpick. Presburger arithmetic can represent integers and is decidable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presburger_arithmetic You were probably looking for Peano arithmetic.)
This would be interesting. I'm looking to create a MVP for a game like app and am researching ways to make it cross-platform compatible without sacrificing performance.
We must not let the Orlando nightclub terror further strangle our liberties
> our society manages to function quite well, roughly.

I don't think that's true at all. It's only true if "roughly" means "for specific kinds of people". I think that clause is necessary for the sentence to be true. And with it, we've contradicted the statement "our society generally functions well".
> If he's an employee there ought to be an employee contract somewhere

The existence of an employment contract, in many jurisdictions, doesn't require that contract to have been reduced to writing or other physical form. Contracts exist in law, documents just provide evidence of the existence of contracts and their specific terms.

> and employer taxes paid.

Once the employment contract exists, wages are due on the terms in the contract and employer taxes are due under the conditions set in law (often, based on wages paid), and failure to pay those things may be (in the first case) a breach of contract and (in both cases) a violation of the law for which state action is warranted, but is probably irrelevant to whether a contract exists in the first place.

> Since he's not being paid, a contract never got signed

Contracts often, as noted previously, don't need to be either reduced to writing or signed to exist, and, in any case, its quite possible for one to exist (and even be in writing and signed) without required payment under the contract taking place (that's a breach of contract, of course, but the main point of contract law is to deal with breaches.)

> and likely the taxes did not get paid OP can either go and enforce his position as an employee or opt to be treated as a freelancer

I am aware of no jurisdiction where failure to pay required wages or employer taxes would give a worker to option to elect to be treated as an employee or a contractor (and certainly, if, as you suggest, no contract for their work exists, then they don't have that option as they are neither an employee nor a freelancer.)
>Let's be honest though, did anyone actually like megatextures?

Phrased this way, this question makes no sense to me. Perhaps you mean specifically the art in Rage. Virtual texture memory strictly increases the capacity for detail, realism, and/or expression.
Apple really needs to improve OpenGL support at least. Bump version to 4.4. They should also fix any OpenGL bugs in a timely manner.

Windows file sharing (at least with Windows 10 Pro) is pretty broken as well. Transferring multiple large files (especially 2 GB+) from OS X to a win10 file share seems to fail every time.
If only we could attach the EVM to an even more convoluted metacoin.
This is big news, conversions on mobile web have always been much lower than on desktop. I hope having a little less friction along the way will help improve things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11873806
Canonical was surely onto something, they just failed to deliver. Apple probably will however.
Just install all the formulae from that repository, I'd assume. They all replace some system-provided tool. I believe they install the binaries to a separate directory that you need to prepend to your $PATH in order to get your shell to default to the updated versions.
A few reasons:

- There's one widely accessible database where resumes can be found. Since many people want to be found by prospective employers, this gives them an obvious place to put it.

- The resume format can be standardized, so you can focus on meaningful differences instead of the cognitive challenges of extracting meaning from a heavily stylized document.

- There can be a commonly available API for exposing this information e.g. in job applications (see "Apply with LinkedIn", which does exist).

- Because it's a centralized database, it's more up-to-date with professional developments and changes of contact information.

Not to say that it has to be a single company, let alone a linkedin-style company, maintaining all that infrastructure. But there is definitely value to a standardized infrastructure, and a company like LinkedIn seems to be a pretty successful way to build that.
The answer is "Yes" and Google is your friend here. Highly relevant queries with high quality top hits are:

[software engineering research]
[psychology of programming]
[empirical research on computer language productivity]
[empirical research on programming methodology effectiveness]
First off, it's likely that "sex" is much harder to define than you'd think. Human genitals all develop from the same proto-bits, creating more of a spectrum of configurations than a stark "clearly this one" or "clearly that one" binary. And chromosomes are not super useful either; just taking stats for two conditions off the top of my head, there are probably at least 1.75 million people walking around who are genitally "male" but chromosomally "female" -- the difficulty of detection (you have to literally look at someone's DNA) masks a lot of that stuff, and probably it's even more common than we currently estimate.

Second, "sex" in legal terms (for identity documents, etc.) is rarely necessarily tied to genitals or chromosomes, and more often is tied to a set of expectations about how the designated person will appear or behave. So even though the legal system uses "sex", what they're really describing is "gender".
I've read many complaints about how linkedin is a tool that has so much potential if it was just done right... and no one here is entertaining the possibility that MS is thinking the same way? I know MS has a bad track record for acquisitions but I think this one has a lot of potential.
Home is Apple’s solution to consolidate IoT devices into a single app
It's not exactly rural Wisconsin. It's effectively in a suburb on the the southwest side of Madison. Rural Wisconsin is at least a 15 minute walk from the parking lot.

The Epic campus is very close to the epicenter of the best place for a typical HN reader in Wisconsin. Since the UW-Madison campus is on the west side of town, the geometry of the lakes almost assures that people who work in high tech businesses or academia commute in from the southwest quadrant, if they don't live in the city proper: Cross Plains, Middleton, Verona, Fitchburg, Oregon.

I loved living in/near Madison for the 6 months of the year that it wasn't either winter or unsubtly hinting that Mr. Winter had only just stepped out for a moment, and would likely be back any minute now to finish hitting my other kneecap with a lead-free pipe and then drag me around on a chain behind his Prius for a bit.

The immediate environs are great. But I had to leave for financial reasons.

If you have the opportunity to take a job in Madison, Wisconsin, that is not with Epic, do consider it.
Those are not the only reasons to want the cloud features turned off. I don't want my phone and computer tied together, and it already annoys me how integrated the iPhone is to iTunes. I also don't want Apple cloud data storage. It's not a feature I need very often, and for the times I do, I have dropbox. I am not interested in having cloud storage integrated into the operating system like that.

I will not be upgrading to this version until it has been verified that all of this crap can be turned off completely.
The decentralization vision does not require blind faith in Vitalik. The tools are already available. It's up to developers to pick them up and use them.

Solving the scalability problem and moving to proof-of-stake requires some faith in Vitalik, but that's only if you care about the value of ether, Ethereum's currency. I hold ether, but if Ethereum fails to solve these problems, someone else will solve them and I will be glad.

Personally, I have no desire to replace capitalism or democracy. But they are clearly broken. I intend to fix them, and I hope the decentralization community gains enough developers, designers, and economists to make it happen. We need your help.
That's such a "politician's statment". Nothing of that is the contested point. The very question is whether the official system should care about genders at all or just stick to regular old sex.
I don't think HBS would be the best dataset to use though:

1. The CTO position probably didn't exist until the 90s so you'd need to restrict your dataset to something more recent

2. HBS doesn't generally attract tech people. All of the people that I know that went to HBS(~20) work in finance/consulting/non-profit. Some came from a tech background. Stanford may be a better choice. That was the vibe I got when I attended MBA info sessions at HBS and Stanford. Columbia had sort of a mix.
In Salt Lake City I recently saw on the local news that our airport recommended arriving 3 hours early for your flight. At the end of the report the news-caster said that SLC airport had below average wait times, as if that was suppose to make me feel better. It didn't.

"Things are bad here, but the good news is it's worse everywhere else." \s
Except the alternative is probably even worse, so it might be a net reduction in confusion - here in Costa Rica my address is a lengthy sentence of directions from a locally well known school nearby!
Ask HN: Bought a new Macbook for my wife – what's the best setup?
I just bought a new Macbook for my wife. She uses it for doc editing, photo editing, browsing, email, listening to music, and a few other very light uses.
I'd like to set her up so it's easy for her to "maintain" the machine and keep it secure.
Suggestions?
I'm not sure if it isn't the majority of leaders of major tech companies aren't technical. Rometty at IBM also did computer science, Zuckerberg was writing networking and ML software at school. Tim Cook might be an exception.
Probably. The Apple Watch locks when removed from the wrist, and required subsequent authentication before it can be used for payments. There's minimal risk here.
You can't really replace the underlying tools, you'd want to install the new versions in a different folder and update your Environment to point to those executables.

EDIT: I'm wrong, didn't realize homebrew-dupes actually is meant to replace the OS X utils.
Interactive Timeline of All Microsoft Acquisitions – Forethought Up to LinkedIn
At the moment, if you are born with abnormal chromosones your genitals can be ambigous at birth, doctors to this day will perform a "corrective" surgery to make you "right"

Intersex people are not a fan of it for the most part and are calling for the practice to be illegal.

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

What you are describing is transgender people which is not intersex people, however both could have an ambigous gender.
> They can't upgrade to recent GNU tools because of the GPLv3.

They can but it is their choice not to use GPLv3 tools.
- 8 cpu cores
- 320 gb bandwith
- 4k and vr ready
- 6 tflops (about 980Ti level)

I wouldn't expect a low price point. Probably 1k-2k range?
I think this is fair but I also struggle to think of a situation where my Mac and my Apple Watch get stolen and I'm not aware of it in time to lock my accounts.
If I'm flying long distance it's already a day where I'm not going to get anything else done. Might as well chill out at the airport with a book and the free drinks in the lounge.
I wonder why macOS, and not Mac OS? Do you have a mac or a Mac? Majority of posters here capitalize. Why glue an abbreviation to a product name?
Hello graycat - I would be interested in a copy of your paper and/or the article name/publication date/etc. Regards
I'd imagine you would need to unlock the Apple watch before it would unlock the computer.
Personally, I think that what is bad for discussion is to do what Scientific American did, which is to talk about a scientific discovery in terms that make it seem much more radical than it really is, for no reason that I can see beyond trying to attract readers. The headline is only one aspect of that, as my other comments in this discussion (not just this subthread) should make clear.
Hi Mark, then you might like Scott Meyers' talk: The Last Thing D Needs, at DConf 2014:

https://youtu.be/48kP_Ssg2eY
I'm not sure if they're planning this or not, but one thing a new exchange could do is quantize the trading. I have seen serious suggestions that having trades execute only on the hour, or even as radically as once per day, could perhaps significantly reduce the short-term focus of the stock. The idea here is to greatly reduce the influence of the stock's price movement on its own price. Since that sentence probably looks like a typo, let me say it another way: Stock prices react to information, and one of the loudest and most continuous bits of information is the stock's own minute-by-minute motion, far dominating things like "press releases", actual news, or quarterly reports for which it is sensible to see significant motion on the stock price.

Even if people set up the inevitable backchannels or side markets, the fact that shares can only change hands once per day may still have a significant impact on the shape of the market, even if it isn't perfect.
So the new version isn't called 10.12 at all? Is there no version number at all?
> Also new is what Apple calls the universal clipboard. This gives users access to a single clipboard that works across iOS and macOS

I hope this only works when the 2 devices are on the same wifi network or have bluetooth enabled, rather than by sending every single thing I copy to an Apple server...
Up until recently, it was Mac OS X.
Will all change be for the better? Who determines what is better?
Intersex people do not have an ambiguous gender, they have an ambiguous sex based on genitalia. However, "In humans, biological sex is determined by five factors present at birth: the presence or absence of a Y chromosome, the type of gonads, the sex hormones, the internal reproductive anatomy (such as the uterus in females), and the external genitalia".

So really none of it is that ambiguous.
You can be sick of that if you want, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the point I was making, which is that it should be possible to disable cloud storage on your Mac, since you can do anything on your own device.

Whether you can do that with a reboot or not, whether you need to disable SIP, etc., isn't really germane to what I was talking about and I feel like you just wanted to take the opportunity to rant.
The problem with full follow-the-sun work is that it assumes the work can be performed in discrete quantities that are independent from one another. If you have overlap in tasks, then the coordination overhead becomes higher and more costly.
No. Intersex means born with genitalia that aren't formed in a way that's clearly identifiable as either male or female, but rather somewhere developmentally in between.
> You are root and can do anything you want on your machine.

That was never my experience on an Apple device. Now my Linux boxes yes, but Apple and Windows no way. Especially with the Mac App Store and the user Interface being so locked down by Apple. Many things are hidden by Apple.
To match iOS, tvOS and watchOS.