skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of comments that say something along the lines of "Apple knows best about what its customers want. The fact that we would prefer to keep the headphone jack doesn't matter because we don't necessarily represent the average customer."

However, I think that's giving them too much credit.

It's not that Apple "knows what the people actually want", it's that Apple knows how far it can "push" the customers to extract the most amount of money possible. It is a business afterall. Also, they want to lock people into proprietary protocols. The headphone jack isn’t proprietary. Apple probably hates the fact that you can plug a pair of Sony headphones into an iPhone.

They know that they have a large enough market share to be able to “drive” things they way they want. As for the other manufacturers ditching the jack as well, they are just following Apple.

If Moto was the only company doing this, no one would care. The people who want the jack would simply buy another phone. However, in the case of the iPhone, the barriers of simply switching to another phone are much larger. It's unlikely that someone who wishes they had the headphone jack is going to switch to Android just because of that. They will probably just end up biting the bullet and buying whatever adapter is required by Apple.
He's the uri geller of cryptocurrency
What specifically have you tried to do on an OS X computer that you couldn't?
maybe you're aware, but not able to do something. Backpack with Macbook, Watch and Phone stolen. What would you do?
The US military uses the river that runs behind my rural property as kind of a track for some kind of supersonic flight.

I've heard them for years, with periods of daily activity, but never seen one, for by the time I hear the sonic boom they are gone from view.

I don't understand why the military is allowed to do this but nobody else.
First, the phrase you're looking for is sexually deterministic.

6 out of 10,000 babies are born without fully formed limbs. Is describing homo-sapiens as bipeds with four limbs no longer correct then? Where is the brink of acceptability for you?

I find disputing the notion that human beings are sexually dimorphic to be an overreach.

There are in fact arguments that transgender inmates should go to the prison that matches the gender that they identify with. This has (obviously) gone poorly a number of times so far. Another argument you can make is that self identification of gender skews statistics regarding violence by sex. For instance, even if 0.3% of men are transgender, given the huge disparity in violence by sex, you will see the differences start to narrow.
Advising people on more-relevant queries like this is super useful and I wish I saw it more often.
Well the tools are 'stand-alone' for the most part, and they do provide the code for them, I believe the issue would be if they integrated any tools into BSD licensed software that it would have to be GPL licensed. I was hoping BSD to some degree maintained their own versions, that could of been useful for Apple, not saying they can't maintain their own, but at least they could help fund BSD and maintain their OS' CLI toolset.
The thing about "heuristics" in this case is that it's a fifty-cent word for "generalizations" and generalizations are almost universally insufficient. Especially when it comes to a legal system.
It's not down for me.
It was not sarcastic. Maybe I am living in a bubble.
The new clauses in the GPLv3 bring up legal questions that some teams would rather just not deal with, even as user space tools. As such, Apple has decided to avoid potential legal headaches and stick with tools under better understood licenses. Most of the BSDs have stuck with GPLv2 stuff, with FreeBSD actively working to replace the few bits and pieces of GPLed code in their base system with code that is under the BSD or other liberal licenses.
I dont own one. Does it look when removed? Is unlocking required for all, or can i disable it?
> And last I checked, the president of South Korea was female.

To be fair, we have an African-American in the White House, and his people are still having a lot of trouble in the US.

That's not a good metric.
> isn't a situation where something that has been going on for several decades suddenly changes the very definition of 'disruptive'?

Not if the sudden change is exactly the one that everyone in the field has been working for and hoping for.
Just a note: Having XXY chromosomes does not make you without sex. You'd be male, unless there is something else wrong.
Agreed for the most part, but if sex is something that can be verified, why would having sex on your ID be all that useful to emergency responders and doctors? Can't they...verify it?
There are also people who simply don't have access to sufficient bandwidth to make use of cloud storage. Forcing it on would make the OS and my internet connection useless to me.
Thanks, I'll put that on my list of things to try, although I've spent more than enough time banging my head against graph DBs for today.

This isn't insurmountable, but I'm just going to gripe about it: I'm annoyed by the idea that I need to make a table of nodes and load it in first. Every graph DB tutorial seems to do this, because it looks like what you'd do if you were moving your relational data into a graph DB. But I have RDF-like data where nodes are just inconsequential string IDs.

Hm, this indicates that I should definitely be looking at Cayley, which directly supports loading RDF quads.
By the way, I have some openings for Blub3.0 developers, if you're interested! Two years experience minimum required.
Between versions 7 and 10 it was officially MacOS [VERSION], before that it was referred to as system [VERSION], as in System 6 and so on. That was not an official name, it was the version number of the file `system` and was simply the system that ran on a Mac, because there was only one.

It got the official name MacOS when they allowed the selling of clones.
Seriously, did Apple fire their OSX / macOS team? Pretty much all new features are spinoffs of their iOS infrastructure (Siri, handover, etc.) and the main OS development and innovation seems to have stalled. Not even a feature like telling software that you're on a metered connection and it shouldn't run backups!

Is there anyone at Apple still working on innovating / improving OS X? Like people that tried to bring in ZFS, improve the Unix layer, work on Vulkan/3D/VR or something like that? O.o
No need to wait until tomorrow. ALL of Twilio's existing competitors (and there are many, and many more coming especially from the big telcos) will save you much more than 10% for essentially the same range of services.
Red eye flights at Long Beach. Went through TSA in like 5 minutes. Seriously.
A certain irony that the "language barrier" for most people will be C# and not French.
Yes he is :) Here are some of my chief complaints about Ethereum atm: http://www.coindesk.com/turing-complete-smart-contracts/ (There are others.)
You are looking at this from such as simplistic perspective.

We are not at the limits of what machine learning can do, We are barely at the beginning.

Tweening or "make sound that can fool humans" is not what's important here it's the underlying "mechanics" that allow them to do these things which can be applied to so many other areas.

What make humans extraordinary is that we can combine our various mechanical and intellektuel abilities to adapt to our surroundings. What we are witnessing is another "species" who can do this and is only at the beginning.
The live demo was literally of Safari on macOS.
What would the effects be if the data reported quarterly were instead reported continually?
Dual Core Thinkpad from ebay delivered to local Argos for less than a ton. Pop Linux of your choice on it. Does 99% of what I need.

Confession: I still use my Blackberry Bold 9000 but I have to admit attempting to listen to music on the thing flattens the battery (always has done).
You cannot get a 1BR+den for $3000 in SF. It'll be just over $4k since it'll be similar square footage to a 2BR but discounted for not having the proper second bedroom.
This is appreciated; unfortunately, we have no way of getting Scientific American to do the same.
They were able to identify you?
Hey, congratulations on launching. Some feedback:

- If there are no search results for a movie, let me add it from IMDB/TMDb/etc.

- Let me create personal lists (a la Letterboxd)

- The rendering on search autocomplete looks... off. (Chrome Version 50.0.2661.102 (64-bit))
BeOS lives.
It's called the "Greater Toronto Area" for a reason.
I think the whole situation is ugly and none of us want a future defined by how these two parties have acted.

I do know both parties, but certainly not astroturfing for Peter
It wasn't clear to me either. In the developer extensions slide, I see a reference to "SiriKit" which might mean it's totally open?
> it's pretty easy to figure out exactly what the expression builder is doing

I don't know about that. I touched SQLAlchemy again this very morning for the first time in several months. I was just trying to get the count of a table with several rows, so I ran `table.count()`, but it kept returning 0. The problem happened on MySQL and Postgres. It turns out that this doesn't compile to `select count()`, but instead it returns the count of the first column in the SQLAlchemy table object's column list. In my case, that column was all NULL, so the count was coming back as zero.

I thought maybe this was an accident, but here's the body of the count() function from SQLAlchemy's source:

```
if self.primary_key:
col = list(self.primary_key)[0]
else:
col = list(self.columns)[0]
return Select(
[functions.func.count(col).label('tbl_row_count')],
whereclause,
from_obj=[self],
*params)
```

I run into this sort of unintuitive behavior every time I touch this library. :(
What I see in their main image at the top is "Find Good Movies to Watch on Prime, Netflix, Hulu, & more."
What regarding the "generalization" of sexual dimorphism causes legal issues, in your estimation?
I think Ethereum has the potential to be the BitTorrent to Bitcoin's Napster.

A lot of the killer Bitcoin apps (gambling, drugs, etc.) make it too easy for law enforcement or site operators to steal everyone's money due to their centralization. It's a long shot, but if Ethereum gets really big really fast it's going to be much, much harder to shut down these apps.
I lived under concord fought path and the double sonic boom was very annoying.
Note: the headline here on HN is no longer linkbait as the moderators have toned it down. But the Scientific American one still is.
Good. The last thing needed here is a town full of jackasses creating the next unicorns.
No, I'm Chris Derose.
I'll deal with anyone except stripe.

Shopify is promoting drop shipping. They even push their shopify payments powered by stripe: https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways

Only one problem. Their terms and conditions strictly prohibit drop shopping. https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses

It's there number - 45. Shipping or forwarding brokers.

When emailed, they say of course it's not allowed you must choose another payment processor. But having quizzed my local circle, I know of many drop shippers who are using shopify payments.

I even emailed stripe and they said, sadly drop shipping is not accepted. But they did not say why.

Drop shipping with Shopify is being heavily promoted right now in Internet Marketing circles. Here is one such product that was launched recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnp4TnFaVJM

It's all about Shopify and Drop shipping and he's using their own payment processor. You guessed it, powered by stripe.

So what's going on here then?

Are stripe allowing drop shipping when they turn a blind eye to it?

I really wanted to use them, now using a competitor.
I've been Tech Evangelist, Chief Technologist, and CTO in the past few years, both at large and small companies.

I think it's wrong to generalize - a CTO experience can be good or bad depending on several factors. It is entirely possible that you could be VERY happy in a similar situation, but with a different company.

Usually CTOs can be divided into engineering types, and outward-facing types. The former is hands on, codes, handles the engineering team, or at least has a strong bond/influence with the VP of Engineering. The latter is more in touch with customers, does more public speaking activities, and tries to condense feedback and requests in a way that the VP of Engineering can translate it into the product.
Right now I'm the outward-facing type. I am enjoying it, mostly because the two co-founders are great individuals and leaders.

Let me know if you have questions - I would be happy to try to answer.
Lots of cars have a cigarette lighter in the center console away from view.
> Emphasizing that being nonbinary is rare only serves to legitimize labelling it as other as something that's not normal

Is it normal?
This guy pretty much killed it:

http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/
If this is an area of interest to work in professionally, send me an email. We're looking at a lot of the same things.
Regarding the pairing, there ARE headphones out on the market that support being paired to two devices (maybe some support more). I think this is specifically to address your concerns, and it seemed to be a pretty common feature in any $50+ Bluetooth headphone I looked at the other day while shopping.
Wouldn't there need to be some consideration for an implied contract to be legal though?
It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices, it's been hard to get excited about these last few releases.
Huge is putting it mildly. This is a pretty major campus.
What were your biggest challenges with standard post solutions?
Honestly the name switch is the most interesting thing. And it's marginally interesting.
I don't care about anything. I hate myself.
Erratum to “Correlation Not Causation:Personality and Political Ideologies”
Nothing prevents them, they chose not to. It would restrict them from shipping GPLv3 versions in the future if they tivoize the platform further, which they almost certainly intend to do, its kind of Apple's thing nowadays.
> I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work

What about your disabled colleague?
No, this was anti-Semitic regardless of the target, just as misogynistic insults hurled at me remain misogynistic (I identify as male). For that matter, there are plenty of people who consider accepting abuse on the internet to be passé. Maybe trolls do want people to get mad, and this counts as "feeding them," but trying to shine a light on the problem at least has the potential to make it clear those who have been bullied into submission that somebody cares. Being silent and ceding ground in the name of Don't Feed the Trolls normalizes these people's destructive behavior.
Doesn't SIP cause issues with the TiVoization clause? I guess I'm not an expert on this, but it's possible Apple wants to leave the possibility open of making SIP mandatory.
Because it's the military, obviously /s
I think the difference between line of business software and companies that are actual software companies is so huge that it starts to make no sense to compare them.

I've worked on technology that goes out the door and contributes to the company's revenue stream, and I'd have been insulted if someone said I was in "IT". The cultural differences between that and truly working in the IT cost center is massive.

Most people who spend the careers working for banks and insurance companies never see the other side of the chasm.
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The SLI bridge is quite slow though, even the updated SLI bridge is just 2GB/s.
Any reason why they can't fork it and port all the new stuff? I'd imagine for legal reasons they will have to hire devs who haven't looked at the GNU source code.
Yea, they needed to use plural and other modifiers to get sufficient bits. I would have gone with 4 words, and make them shorter on average.
I would settle for fixing the bug where I have to restart Finder to rebuild the connection every time my NAS drive spins down.

Also the combination of screensharing to a headless MacMini and then AirPlaying to an Apple TV produces some fairly loathsome results.
We are past the point where reproduction is the goal of our identity and existence.
I second this! I would love to read a blog post - or a series of them - where you explain your thoughts in more depth.
> But the fact that there is an actual biological set of people that aren't XX or XY

And that, e.g., people who have Swyer syndrome (missing sex-determining-region-Y on the Y chromosome) are XY but more "female" in phenotype (and in development, with the usual course of treatment.)

> I wouldn't advocate for mixed-sex prisons (is there an argument for that I don't know?)

I'm not sure what the case against it is supposed to be; AFAICT, the main basis for segregation is implicitly (no one ever comes right out explicitly and makes this argument in full, but usually just makes vague handwaving toward sexual interaction and power dynamics that implies it without actually making an argument) based in the presumption that everyone is a cisgendered heterosexual, and that sexual drive and activity only occur with the availability of members of one's normally preferred sex, so that if you segregate by sex you avoid temptation for sexual interaction and associated power dynamics, violence, etc.
Macbook sure, phone maybe, but why would your watch be in your backpack?

Also, the watch automatically enters a locked state when its off your wrist.
I had a Moto droid. It has a physical keyboard. It was fking terrible. Keys are so small as to be nearly unuseable. The onscreen keyboard was so much better... error rate was about the same but correction made it much better in practice.
What's the motivation for this? I've seen a few HDLs recently similar to this[1][2].

I'd love to know why someone would develop one of these HDLs rather than work with one of the "mainstream" HDLs (i.e. system verilog, VHDL, System C)?

[1] - http://www.clash-lang.org

[2] - https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
The WSJ is probably thinking about the supersonic bizjets being proposed for the 1%.[1] Bizjet passengers get to bypass the main TSA lines.

(Well, more like the 0.01%. Aereon's proposed price is $110 million for a 12 passenger supersonic aircraft. It's only Mach 1.6, while Concorde was over Mach 2. If you have to ask about operating cost, you can't afford it.)

[1] http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/
One way that you can deal with an 'externality' like this is to internalize it: rather than an outright ban, have the airline pay some money to those affected. Maybe that makes it too expensive to be worthwhile, maybe not, but at least it's no longer impossible.
iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Public Betas
But if you have family you left in the US, you're almost certainly gonna have financial contact with them.
> if you use multiple macOS machines, Apple will now sync your desktops between them, too

Oh No. Please no.

If I had to come up with a list of 5 things Apple is really bad at, sync would be one of them.

I've basically stopped syncing my phone and desktop because of all the duplicated calendar entries syncing creates.

It's something I have absolutely zero trust in them to do properly.
It locks automatically when you remove it from your wrist.
Humans are sexually multimorphic, although a two-component principal component analysis takes care of most of the variance.
Its possible to disagree with someone without being rude. Whatever your criticisms are of another person, I hope you take some time and write them out rather than engaging in mudslinging.
No it replaces city, state, country too. (Yes, you might need to include some of those to be backwards compatible with the current mailing system, but that's not how this system would work.)
There's a simple answer here: gender is a social construct, and trying to define yourself with any of these categories just doesn't make sense.

Do you think that none of this has to do with socialization? Should we avoid any potentially gendered toys/activities (that are masculine or feminine) lest we ruin the child's natural, inborn gender?

Or should we take the much saner approach and not try to categorize children based on ridiculous buckets of traits?

All that self-identifying with a gender does is perpetuate the harmful stereotypes that surround the socialization for children of that sex.
Oh that's a Finder bug? I was blaming Synology but I'm basing that on nothing.
I also don't own one, but my understanding is that:

- a passcode is required to use features like Apple Pay

- the watch can be configured such that it only has to be unlocked once, until it is removed from the wrist/rebooted/manually locked
If Microsoft is willing to ship GNU tools as a officially sanctioned extension to Windows, then Apple definitely has no valid excuse to avoid GPL v3.
Most of it is BSD-style licensed, some (less and ssh for example) are dual-licensed, and very few are GPLv2 (the old versions of make, bash, and emacs; but also current git). vim is licensed under a custom GPLv2-style license.

A lot of GPLv2 code now uses GPLv3 (all the GNU tools obviously) and Apple (and others too) doesn't want to ship GPLv3 code.

Almost all of the userland comes from FreeBSD. Even stuff that Apple could take directly from OpenBSD for example.
You can also look at the CTO role as slightly different style of hacking; you program with teams, training, and planning in addition to setting technical direction and leadership. Many CTOs design and code as well (I do) as a senior-senior designer or architect, but you should think about the meta-programming as exciting on its own. Many senior level architects love to train and lead teams technically, and a CTO often focuses on these things. Senior level architects also curate the technology and design, which CTOs also often own. It's a great role, though it sounds like you may need to grow into parts of it. I suggest that it's totally worth it.

There are various ways to cast the role too; many organizations also have a VPE (or VPD) and other mid-level leaders. These roles can allow some flex in what a CTO is responsible for, though ultimately the role is responsible for direction in technology.
Maybe, but the commenters on this post are excelling at it.
How about the bug where you need to force quit coreaudiod to restore sound to the speakers after resuming from sleep?
I'm not sure how this isn't considered spam. Unless you've expressly told them that the other account is yours, there's no way to ensure they aren't sending unsolicited email,as "we thought they would want to know" is not a valid defense against the laws that exist.
Also, I usually read "Mac OS" as Mac OS 9 and earlier. Ancient.
Agreed - we're a Haskell-based startup in London and have been utterly impressed at the developers we've met - not just in terms of their programming ability but also as engineers who are able to contribute as a team and work with us to build product according to specs/deadlines.
Suicide Mortgages for the Digitized Self
A plethora of data science related books
It only shows listings for companies with verified profiles.
> Intersex people do not have an ambiguous gender, they have an ambiguous sex.

Intersex people may have an ambiguous socially ascribed gender, and are probably more likely than most to have unclear gender identity. (Given that gender identity, while obviously highly personal, is also clearly influenced by social cues, including both ascribed gender and social expectations about the relation between gender and physical sex traits.)
What does it not have that you want (and think a lot of other people also want)?
Corruption and allegations of insider trading amongst the banking sector? Surely not! Who would have thought?