skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will this make the OS suck less? Seriously, at least for my use case, and in my opinion, OS X has been on a downward trend for a while (since 10.6). They need to fix the bugs, and get back to a nice stable OS that "just works." That's all I'm interested in.
I have the same issue. I also recommend using mbasic to browse facebook and messages.

I believe that they made that move in preparation to Android Instant Apps. (https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html)

In the future this button will most likely open the instant version of the messaging app instead of redirecting you to the store.
Well, a FIFO queue respects causality, whether breaking it is OK depends on the application.
Just by breathing you can also say I support Climate Change, illicit businesses and stinky speculation.

Where are ethereums killer apps? Something so groundbreaking that it takes the world by storm. The browser, or bittorrent for example. Or is it just another chain in the centipede of cryptocurrency "innovation"?
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I don't know any more than you, mate.
How many waterproof devices are out there?
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7946024.
What do BSD distros use?
Agreed, but logic doesn't sell newspapers or help politicians win votes.
I agree with jessriedel. I don't think the implication is there.

I also think it's generally bad for discussion to do what you are doing, which is to latch on to a very specific interpretation of a single phrase, and pushing to get everyone else accept that interpretation, instead of taking other comments as additional information about how the words can be interpreted and allowing for those different interpretations to coexist.
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At this price point, it's time to start looking at alternative approaches. The original iterative optimization approach is not the only, nor is it remotely the fastest. (There's an upscaling CNN version which runs at like 20FPS but I can't seem to refind the citation at the moment.)
We replaced the baity title with the less baity subtitle.
It sounds like your biggest annoyance is the fire-fighting. These kinds of fires don't just "happen". They're not forces of nature, they're forces of man. Either directly or indirectly, but always the source of it.

Usually a failure of process, expectations management, or both.

You've mentioned feeling a lack of control. Is that lack of control over the fires being set in the first place or a lack of control over being able to appropriately handle the arsonists? Have you clearly identified the arsonists in your case?

Is the arsonist the CEO; by making insane external sales or Board promises?

Are the arsonists your customers; by making product/pricing/support demands that render the overall value proposition of your company moot; i.e. getting you to focus too many resources on basically charity work to "get their logo"?

Are the arsonists your team members; by having a strained relationship with best-practices, consistency, reliability, velocity, productivity, etc.?
Wouldn't retractions need to be issued and explanations given?
Thanks - this is very informative, and from my previous experience at VMW I can confirm this is absolutely right.
p.s. Is there a way to know who you are? Cannot recongnize your username and I would be interested in knowing who you are and if we can get in touch.
They meant all apps made by Apple, not random apps, as far as I could tell.
Careful, please. If the business has been involved in potentially illegal actions, and OP is or has been involved with the business in ways that aren't necessarily entirely clear or documented, then OP might have all sorts of reporting requirements and/or responsibilities in relation to those actions.

This is the kind of situation where you really do need at least an initial consultation with a suitable lawyer to know where you stand. It might well be best to have the lawyer also write the appropriate letters to notify the appropriate people of appropriate things in the appropriate ways and without saying anything inappropriate that will get OP in trouble unnecessarily.
Well, if we believe the Fred Wilson post that someone linked to above [0], what you're looking for is a VP of Engineering position, not a CTO role.

[0] http://avc.com/2011/10/vp-engineering-vs-cto/
Thanks for the nice write up. I have a prompt spanned over two lines, with just a '$ ' on the second line so that you can have a very long first line (deep nested dir, long git branch name, timestamps, etc) without filling room for the actual command.

Another nice tip, which is not really related to this, is getting used to use `fc` (or CTRL+X E) to edit a command.
homebrew is your friend. They are not going to upgrade anything that has gone to GPL3.
> Looking at their buy-sell margins, Twilio has successfully changed the telecom paradigm, or at the least the vanguard of it. That is Big. APIs instead of circuits. Microservices instead of canned products.

Telecom had already been headed that way for the better part of the last decade. Twilio doesn't own any infrastructure, and the expensive part of telecom has always been operating the legacy infrastructure.
Who knew? If you work a good trainer/mentor, you can get better at what you do.
>I just select for January.

So, you have a time-series database model? Because that's pretty cool. Especially if you're running mentalSQL queries.

SELECT '*' from MEMORIES where MONTH = 'January';
It seems to be one of those deals where the deal-makers (i.e. the finance professionals and lawyers involved in the deal) are doing it for the fees they stand to earn from it. A bunch of nameless faceless people who will never be held responsible for the deal.
Eat up Martha.
You can unplug it.

I'm sure they'll allow you to disable Siri though (or maybe even disable the "hey Siri" crap and just use a button or something).
Doubt it. But should be able to get a decent experience with redirects.
Having been picked as an "expert" in my field several times in the past, the cited expert is usually the first person they talk to that isn't already busy.
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Probably, but It's Complicated
`brew install bash`
Mostly not, due to licensing. The GNU utils that transitioned to GPL v3 (eg Bash) are kind of stuck there in 2007.
The shittiest thing Microsoft has done with W10 is the way they handled upgrades. Nobody should be tricked into upgrading. Opting out should be easy and clear. The upgrade should never happen without the user affirmatively starting it. If the user has software already installed that will be disabled by the W10 upgrade, they should be asked to acknowledge that before the upgrade starts.
>>And the last time I tried to load my multi-million-edge dataset into Neo4j through its documented API, I estimated that it would have taken several weeks to finish.

Use the Import tool, it can do a million writes a second. Here is how to import hacker news into Neo4j using it: https://maxdemarzi.com/2015/04/14/importing-the-hacker-news-...
Andreas Stefik, Susanna Siebert, Melissa Stefik, and Kim Slattery: An Empirical Comparison of the Accuracy Rates of Novices using the Quorum, Perl, and Randomo Programming Languages. PLATEAU 2011.
Drag in supersonic flight is not nearly as big an issue as you would think. The Concorde was inefficient mostly because it used afterburning turbojets that had poor efficiency at low speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qualitive_variation_of_cd...
Still no mention of Vulkan support on macOS or iOS. The dream of one 3D API to rule them all remains a dream :(
What exactly is an open source graph?
Why is it a cult? What's your definition of a cult?
> The "liberal" position on LGBT rights was "don't ask, don't tell."

No, it wasn't. It was the Clinton Administration policy on LGB (but not actually T, which the policy didn't recognize at all, though this obviously had impacts on bi- and hetero-sexual transgender individuals in addition to the other specific issues they faced as transgender individuals) conditions of service in the military, which that administration took after being elected on a promise of taking the actual liberal position in that domain, which was full acceptance without qualification.
Looks like you have to press a button for it to start listening.
I could be wrong but I think he said all apps without any developer changes..
I don't think the comment should be deleted, but its a naive point and one I think HN should be above. This whole debate isn't a question of biological sex, but gender identity. The comment isn't worthy of discussion because we all know, outside of some very rare cases, that people are born with one biological sex.
Oh come on. Amplitude, envelopes, equalizing, balancing the audio.

If this were a professional production that needed to be matched up with two voice tracks and background music, the sound designer will use the AI to create the sound for the background events... but still needs to balance the various audio tracks so that the audience knows what to focus on.

https://youtu.be/kSQqv2UuvC0?t=4m8s

The abstract subway sound in the background may be chosen by an AI rather than a human. But the human will still need to determine the amplitude of the various voice tracks, the background music. Its not like these films make themselves.

Even IF somehow an AI became good enough to make all those decisions (and most of those decisions are more "style" and "art" rather than hard-and-fast rules)... the video editor needs to choose the cuts, the order of the scenes and more.

No jobs will be at risk by this tool. If successful, it'd only become one more tool in the MASSIVE toolbox that video editors / sound designers are expected to master.

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Anyway, "Tweening" AI completely eradicated one form of work for cartoonists. Humans aren't doing "tweening" work anymore. Big studios are making 3d productions where AIs can "tween" everything for you. Even 2d anime are using 3d animation techniques to cut down on the work and to leverage the AI.

It takes no work to command the AI to "tween" frames. But picking the right algorithm, deciding when to use "smear" animation style (stylized tweening) or changes to algorithms to switch things up for the audience?

Yeah, those things will always just be straight up work.
Every time I see a new version of OS X released, I'm tired just thinking about all the dev incoming to support the new issues / crashes / incompatibilities / XCode things to download again and other so called "features" support...
Sex and gender are separate concepts. Sex is a basic biological function that is no longer relevant to ascribe anything to beyond that. Gender, a social construct, has been tightly wound up with sex for so long now that breaking down the binary is important to moving forward. Male and female in a pure sex perspective are no longer relevant to gender identity in progressive society.
Cult of DJB
And our descendants will call us bigots. And when they explain why we will be filled with revulsion. Will we really be any less wrong than our ancestors?
There's a sysconfig to turn off nearly everything in OS X if you're comfy with the CLI, I doubt Siri would be any different. It will probably be a usual GUI switch though, due to privacy laws.
I think clipboard permissions for applications is going to become an issue with features like this. I may be incorrect but I'm pretty sure that clipboard access is unrestricted on both OS X (ugh, macOS) and iOS.
If you're going to look at this and figure out which companies get what share of the money, one thing to note is that there are some large subscription agents in here. Ebsco is the third largest receiver of funds, but they're just a subscription agent that processes subscriptions for the publishers, so that money really just represents various journals from other publishers. I think there are others within the top 20 list there too, but Ebsco is the most obvious. That probably doesn't change the overall distribution among the top publishers (which in this case is Elsevier, Wiley, Springer as the top 3), but it does obscure some of the data.
It's like Corel for B2B.
Will they likely be moving to major version increments for each named release? Since it's no longer "OS 10," will Sierra be macOS 11, and the named release after it macOS12, and so on?
Get out of here with your reasonable requests, this is a DEVELOPER conference, not a design conf... oh - wait.
From your linked post:

> https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~eir/papers/2013/ironclad/paper.pd...

It still relies on dynamic checks. So you still have the same problem as in Java: just because you have a reference, it doesn't mean you actually have a valid object. You can make any language trivially safe by checking absolutely everything at runtime, but the whole point to using a language like C++ is to not incur in unnecessary performance overheads.

> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/marron/selectp...

Have you actually read the paper? This isn't a static analysis at all. It just makes a dynamic analysis more eager and precise.
> When the headline is a question, the answer is always no.

People keep saying this, but it's so obviously false to me I don't understand how a thinking person could believe it.
Is there a way to replace all of them in one move?
Lower power reqs too on 1080/1070. but 12gb ram on titan X, if you need that. But yeah this devbox is overpriced
You got to be a bit more specific.

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They all have their own version of the "GNU core utilities". BSD make instead of GNU make. less(1) is dual-licensed (I think) so everybody uses the same (OpenBSD has forked it recently though). FreeBSD's default shell is tcsh, OpenBSD uses a fork of pdksh. If you want bash then you have to install it from ports.

Most of OS X's userland comes from FreeBSD (except for bash and make) and I think they keep it reasonably up to date.
This will finally alleviate the awkward pronunciation ambiguity. To this day, I'm not sure whether to say "OS ex" or "OS ten".
I definitely feel this pain too, but:

They can't upgrade to recent GNU tools (bash is the one most people complain about) because of the GPLv3. And I feel their developer manpower is better spent on fixing OS bugs at this point. These issues are better fixed by developers less encumbered by the closed-sourceness of OS X.
The good news is that I might not have to listen to people call it "Mac OS Ex" anymore.

I'm hoping there's a bunch of new APIs hiding in there allowing ISVs to do cool stuff. Because the new version, meh, don't care about Siri much and the rest of the stuff is window dressing, IMO. Maybe some improvements for Xcode, testing tools?
While streaming music currently gives lots of music for cheap, it is doing because it is competing with piracy. And efforts to control piracy are a bit hampered because of the potential to use the "analog hole" (if you could only get a given song with analog recording of Spotify, then people would do it).

Further, a lot of the anti-piracy impulse is not simply a desire to charge get more money from everyone but a desire for control. Essentially, the music industry is reconciled to most people paying little for their music (or better yet, most people forced to hear advertising mixed with their music) but the industry want to have the ability to sell to people at a variety of levels. Perhaps charge more for just released music or certain artists or music connected to movie sound-tracks or for "audiophile level" audio or whatever.

For a commodity that's infinitely reproducible, the ideal position is being able to separately charge each consumer exactly what they're willing to pay. Maximum utility for the owner, which would imply minimum utility for the buyer.
Apple Pay on Web is not even out yet!

Stripe started supporting mobile Apple Pay in 2014 (or, announced, at least): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292026
Am I the only one who was really disappointed when the were talking about 'getting back disk space' and by the meant 'move stuff to the cloud' and not 'LZ4 in HFS+'? (I've given up on ZFS on OS X by default.)

Edit: Oh, wow! Apple File System! (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896785 for discussion)
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Fair enough, I interpreted it differently. Good luck on the search, in both respects. :)
Project Scorpio : The Next Xbox
Chrome, FireFox etc. :/ I don't see this being on other browsers which is too bad.
only support for Safari on touch-id enabled devices. doubt Apple will provide API or any other x-platform support. most impactful for mobile commerce sites without strong App or App traffic.
I foresee a lot of trouble as a MBP user with no other Apple products (MBP=work machine). Interoperability with Android phones is already sucky and they seem to bundle their product line even more.

Siri for MBP will be annoying, hope it can be disabled completely...which of course won't stop my co-workers from using it all day :(

It also sounds like there will be a few new attack vectors. The log in when close by sounds like a pretty horrible idea and I have a feeling the copy/paste feature will turn out to cause some issues as well.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd

They are able to distribute GPL v3 code because they way it is packaged complies with the terms of the license.
What I end up with is a 4 GB index, whose contents are byte offsets into an 8 GB file containing the properties of the edges.

When I mmap these, an in-memory lookup takes about 1 ms, but I can have unfortunate delays of like 100 ms per lookup if I'm starting cold or hitting things that are swapped out of memory.
I believe I may have commented on this before, but it's my opinion that artificial (especially electric) lighting is a cause of huge health and psychological problems. Not long ago the power was out in my neighborhood for about five hours at the end of the day. When the sun went down, it actually got dark. People came out on their porches to catch the last rays of sunlight, creating a sense of community as neighbors saw each other for the first time. With the neighborhood getting dark at the end of the day, I actually started to feel sleepy. It felt _good_ for the day to feel like it was ending.

Something really is lost with pervasive, always-on electric lighting.

I haven't read it yet, but this book on the topic looks intriguing: https://www.amazon.com/End-Night-Searching-Darkness-Artifici...

For my part I've blacked out my window as much as possible to exclude the light from street lights and neighbors, and I've introduced a smart light in my bedroom which I use to simulate the rise and setting of the sun. It's really helped me get a sense of the days' start and end which I've been missing, though I hadn't realized it until that power outage.
That's always been the case with the media, any time they talk about something you are knowledgeable about you will find inaccuracies.
Could be in the dev sessions. Seems to be that the keynote hasn't been direct at devs in quite a few years. So the stuff you, as a developer, care about won't be shown in the big show.
homebrew-dupes: System duplicate formulae for the Homebrew
It'd be great if someone collated the data for the reviews and pointed out which companies tend to have the most "fake" reviews. It'd be a bit difficult to do so, but I can think of at least a few ways to try (date and frequency of reviews, "corporate speak," median length of reviews, distribution of "stars", distribution "helpfulness", writing style analysis, etc.)
If you're in/willing to relocate to San Francisco, feel free to message me–I definitely can relate to your experience about dramatically different Scala cultures, and could recommend some companies that will likely value your experience while being willing to train you in Functional Scala (including my current employer, where I lead a Scala study group.)
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The NYT are in favor of 'diversity', as long as it's 'diversity' as practiced by white Western liberals.

Otherwise, it's all 'misogyny', or 'racism', or 'homophobia', or what-have-you.

Kind of sounds like homogeneity to me.

And last I checked, the president of South Korea was female.
I wish people would read company's quarterly performance reports before making claims about whether we're in a bubble and whether company x is worth y. LinkedIn generates a ton of revenue and is very arguably worth its valuation. Just because you don't use LinkedIn or SnapChat or whatever else has a ridiculous valuation these days doesn't mean its valuation is not justified in some way.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893923. This post was first, but that one ended up getting more attention. Sorry—there's a lot of randomness in which submission of a story gets traction. It does even out in the long run.
This is all shockingly "meh."
Yes, that's an astute observation.
- You can unlock your mac using you apple watch.
- You can confirm payments using your apple watch.

A thief having your mac and watch can do/buy everything?
Is it just me thinging about it?
I wonder if this will work similarly to pressing Fn twice to get to get the speech-to-text dialog in OSX.
MS bought skype just to stop google from buying they. Google made a big for skype and MS swooped in and outbid them. They never had any real plans for skype they just dont want to allow google to gain near monopoly in the consumer VOIP market. Which seems strange for MS to care about since they were not in this sector previously but Ballmer just held such a huge grudge with google and did it out of spite. Really shows what kind of CEO Ballmer was and why MS is so much better off without him
Isn't someone being defined as being intersex someone who is transitioning to another sex?

Wouldn't it just make sense to let the person choose if they would like to be defined as their current sex or what they are transitioning to? So for example, if the person is MtF and they want the government to call them F, they can just ask the government to switch their sex status.

Having a "T" class doesn't make much sense since it doesn't really model what is happening. T is not in itself a sex, it's the representation of people transitioning from one sex to another. That inherently means it is not a state but instead it's a mutation.
Some may prefer Nix: http://nixos.org/nix/
Oh wow, my bad. I had no idea ALAC went open. Very interesting, thank you for bringing this up. Time to burn half the work day poking around ALAC now and learning more!
Uh, isn't a situation where something that has been going on for several decades suddenly changes the very definition of 'disruptive'? :)
Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I had in mind!
My take is that, at certain scale, the biggest problem is getting all the people to pull in the same direction. Technical leadership can define /how/ to pull, which can have a 10x multiplier if correctly implemented in the organization, but that implementation is a number of battles with messy human wills, which require psychology, not technology.
As a CTO you may be able to hire directors who are good people pushers, to delegate most of that, or even perhaps a VP Eng if your company is big enough.
You still need human beings at companies who do HR, at least at decent sized companies. Someone needs to set up the interviews, walk people around, be the recipient of questions about payroll, PTO etc., and that is work nobody else wants to do.
I meant with SIP, root is not the all powerful account it is traditionally. I'm also sick of the idea of disabling security to do simple things that shouldn't be covered by the security.
"Siri, a coworker is complaining next to me. What should I do?"
Your legal sex (gender is a much more appropriate term) is whatever your legal documents say you are, regardless of whatever sexual indicators (anatomical and genetic) you have.