skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand what's wrong with the article headline.

The issue to me with clickbait headlines in general is that they have zero information content. Think about how a decent scientific paper is structured - the title gives the broadest possible overview of the content, then the abstract gives a summary of the content, then the paper itself gives the details.

To me, the ridiculously overstated nature of most clickbait headlines is the lesser problem.
Surely you'll be able to disable it in settings.
I don't think they are that rare or expensive so long as you don't insist on hi-fi brand names. My Awei earbuds pair with two devices and they cost under NOK 150 (about USD 18) including shipping from China to Norway. They are not as good as my wired Sennheiser HD 595s but are plenty good enough for casual listening while on the move or working, considerably more portable, and about a tenth of the price!
They have a point, the article doesn't half go around the block to make its point.
Did we read the same article?

> When I spoke with Ericsson by phone in May, he told me that people who think practice can only get you so far aren't talking about the same kind of practice as he is.

> As for whether genetic differences - say, in cognitive or physical ability - account for variations in achievement, Ericsson is skeptical.

The whole article, Ericsson sticks to "deliberate practice" (as defined by him) as being the sole determiner of mastery of a skill. Other researchers claim to debunk his findings. He claims that they conflate "practice" with "deliberate practice" and therefore didn't debunk him.

I don't know enough to judge which is correct (Ericsson or his detractors), but your comment isn't how I'd summarize the article, or the conclusions I'd draw from it.
When I was a kid air travel was great fun! I got to visit the cockpit in every plane we flew in, including the Concorde. As a curious child, this was absolutely wonderful.

Ah well, it seems that those days will never return.
"a grue" - that should read. Thanks autocorrect.
When do insider trader laws kick in? I seem to remember that acting on information you overheard is legal; is being told info directly from the insider (if they don't benefit) also illegal?
I use O'Hare airport, one of the ten worst airports in the US. I never take a whole 45 minutes to get to my gate. Nor do I have any precheck or anything. I just pack light and check in online. Baggage dropoff and claim is what kills you.
I know you have already bought the MacBook but for everything your wife wants you could have easily got away with a Chromebook for far less money and it would require no effort to maintain.
MacOS Sierra – Apple
I've used Apple sync between my laptop and phone for my calendars for over a year with no issues. I have several friends with Apple devices who depend on reliable calendars and none have complained about this aspect. YMMV.
I really doubt it's someone in the banking or tech sector. Anyone with the a glancing familiarity with the stock market knows that's the easiest way to get caught.
My understanding from dealing with this in a prior life is that the SEC will investigate these outliers as standard practice and 1) try to connect the dots between the buyers and any LNKD insiders, and 2) ask the buyers to show all of the due diligence and work product that went into deciding to make the trades. If you were the buyers and knew anyone with prior knowledge of the deal and couldn't document #2 in great depth then you are likely screwed. Presumably, anyone working in law or finance would know that this is standard practice and stay far away. Given how volatile LNKD's price has been over the last year, I could see these being legitimate trades (on the other hand, I actually took the other side of some Nov $160 covered calls and felt great about the hedge until this morning). Also keep in mind that these kinds of ''crazy'' trades are frequently placed as part of a larger more complex hedging strategy with net upside much lower than the numbers mentioned in the article.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks_advance-k...
Appreciate insight on first link. Far as other, that's my mistake given I only read parts on anslysis, diagnostic, and performance. It was in a list of static anslysis stuff I found. So, I wrongly assumed it was static analysis instead of verifying it myself as I did first one on that page [that worked but had limitations].
I thought there was a way to pass an MP3 stream directly over Bluetooth without modifying (transcoding) it? I could be wrong.
The comment I replied to is an example of this.
As someone who is unfamiliar with clojure -- is there any particular reason a function which doesn't actually work with sets allows non-sets to be passed to it in the first place? Or this a deficiency in the type-checking? I mean, truly, this kind of thing seems like a solved problem...
The quick and easy (-ish) solution is end-to-end encryption and anonymization networks (Tor, I2P). Not complete, but better than nothing.
You do it through comparisons.

A typical SF Bay Area core house is running close to $1 million these days.

A thousand such homes would be a billion. That's a small town, or a particular (upscale) San Francisco neighborhood, say, PacHeights or Cole Valley. Home to about 3,000 - 4,000 people.

Twenty six neighborhoods would be the full LinkedIn value. Call it 26,000 homes in the San Francisco or Peninsula area. Most of Palo Alto, and a neighboring town, say, Menlo Park, or Redwood City. About 75,000 - 100,000 people. One eighth of San Francisco.

The typical new car is, roughly, $26,000. A thousand of them them is $26 million. A typical freeway lane can see 2,000 cars an hour per lane, or, say for a large 10-lane freeway, 20,000 cars per hour. If you filled that highway to capacity for just over 2 days, you'd see $26 billion worth of (new) cars flowing past.

A 150,000 square foot school at $300/sqft construction costs (via random DDGing) runs about $45 million. You could build about 570 such schools.

Annual operating expenses of a large high school might run about $30 million. You could fund ~870 such schools for a year (or one school for 870 years).

Annual petroleum consumption in the US is about 19.6 million barrels per day. The LinkedIn purchase prices would cover 26 days of $50/bbl oil for the US.
I thought I had at least 20 years before being scared of new technology. Still sitting on OS X 10.10 scared to update, and completely disinterested in most cloud stuff except for my OneDrive folder.

Time to look into Linux, I suppose, since I'm about to become one of those people.
Simple fix. Will not be buying such phone.
> Not even a feature like telling software that you're on a metered connection and it shouldn't run backups!

This is a keynote for the entire conference. They wouldn't mention something as trivial as this. Only major items get mentioned.

The small features are mentioned throughout the week in the conference sessions.
That's what I mean, sorry. You can't configure Apple Pay without having set up a passcode; wrist detection allows you to skip entering the passcode so long as the watch hasn't been removed.
Consider what it does have that you dont want it to have (iTunes Syncing, locked filedrive, etc).
Is this the world's favourite second-hand tractor?
The problem lies that nobody thought the lawsuit against Gawker was a miscarrage of justice until they learned a billionaire was involved. Its become more about fear of rich people than the facts of this specific case and this specific company.
A good pitch deck is like a prospectus summary. So yes, there should be similarities.
IMHO if you're going to segregate prison populations in order to reduce violence, segregate prisoners by aggressiveness and violent tendencies, not by sex. Putting dominant, aggressive men together with passive men just because of their gender makes less sense than putting together men and women in the same prison.
Detroit's Wayne State University drops math requirement for graduation
Hi Tia, you are welcome. It's really well done. I was trying to read the report and it was too long. You did an awesome job. Following you right away on Medium
Metal is basically their proprietary version of Vulkan isn't it?
Apple launches Swift Playgrounds for iPad to teach kids to code
It's not the length, it's the length to content ratio.
I do precisely this. I got a $20 BT to 3.5mm adapter on Amazon and have a 3.5mm to cassette adapter to bring BT to my old car.
Nice article. Although at some points I disagree with the author.

The part on errors is mostly "some guys use error but don't mention it". Partial functions are not nice, that's true. In some cases tools like hlint may help. Actually I'm wondering there's no tool / hackage functionality around, that flags modules / (pure) functions that are partial.

For documentation: Starting with Haskell I felt the same, some more examples and more documentation would be nice. But in the meantime I've come to like the concise documentation most often used. When searching for a certain function I don't want to read screenpages of text, but find that function fast. If, however, I need more detail or want to be really sure what the function does I need to read the source anyway.

However, true is that some libraries lack _any_ documentation and it seems you should be grateful to have the typesignatures.

Also, I think more libraries should have examples/ directories so one can get at quick glance how the library is designed to be used. Perhaps even have hackage emphasize the existence of these examples more.
That last video was inspiring. We the Developers.
As soon as the Apple Watch is taken off your wrist it has to be unlocked with the passcode again, I believe.
I was really hoping for a Macbook pro with a more up-to-date CPU. Or an upgrade of the non-pro iPad. Really disappointed.
I don't have a problem with syncing, so long as it is not turned on by default. I also wouldn't use it if it depends on iCloud.
I'm not sure how this would be avoidable anywhere, without heavy moderation by mods (who are, on reddit, volunteers) that had to read every single comment and consider its place on the line between 'shilling' and 'talking about products they like'.

Reddit isn't dead, it's a place where people talk, and on the modern internet, that means that companies send people to talk, too.
My experience is the same: static analysis tools like Coverity, PVS-Studio, etc. find just a small fraction of memory safety errors, mostly the ones that can be found by just looking at a single function with not overly complex control flow.
Classification-Based Financial Markets Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks
Urgh, I feel like I just ate a second lunch reading that. The author is in dire need of an editor.

Either way, this piece is nothing new: shilling has been around for as long as time, and the bedrock of propaganda has always been guiding people into drawing conclusions that they believed they came to on their own. The Internet has only sped up and quantified the process.

The solution (which the author leaves the reader to determine) is obvious: spend less time on the Internet, don't get caught up in pointless debates (and don't let them dwell on you when you're offline), and read more books, preferably by people who are long dead.

EDIT: Speaking of books, I am reminded of the space-Rastas from (the very much alive) William Gibson's Neuromancer. Since they lived in their isolated space station, they avoided the Sprawl's relentless homogenization and retained their own identity. The same holds true for online communities: the bigger they get, the more valuable they become to marketers, who inevitably bring corporate-culture-crushing with them.
(For those who didn't get the joke... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_eat_up_martha.jpg)

Wouldn't it be strangely ironic if they chose to use the Palm Grafitti glyphs? (explained, below) If so, I'd say we're circling right back around to Newton Messagepad days!

---Quick bit of background---
The original MP100 went to market with a text recognizer that was initially marginal in accuracy (and therefore, of limited usefulness) but in later releases became quite good (especially the MP2000/2100). However, in that period of years between marginal->good, a little package called Grafitti came about to provide an alternative text-entry system to supplement/replace Apple's digitizer. Grafitti had a peculiar system of entering one-"character"-at-a-time, one over top of another in a little corner of the screen. It was enormously popular because it increase recognition accuracy to near-100%, but the tradeoff was these glyphs were modified latin characters -- easy for a computer to recognize, quick for a human to learn, but not quite ordinary letters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)

Grafitti was written by a little company called Palm. They poured their earnings from Grafitti into creating a device to challenge Apple's Newton. The PalmPilot PDA dominated the market due to two features: great battery life (1 week per charge) and form factor -- it fit in a man's jacket pocket. The Apple Newton Messagepad was much more sophisticated but was physically 2x-3x the size and weight of the PalmPilot. Overall the PalmPilot was clunky but those two features were so compelling the rest didn't matter. It was "good enough" to challenge Apple (and win) in the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market, which Apple invented.

So, Palm created software to address the shortcomings of the Newton text entry, went on to address the shortcomings of the Newton hardware, and eventually owned the PDA market. A technology David vs. Goliath story.
--history lesson over--
Nope! Siri now screams at you when you miss an argument to an endpoint. It's pretty intense.
I would assume it is all. But limited to the few example categories of queries the demonstrated.

Interestingly, they did not demonstrate a media query (i.e. Play Metallica on Spotify). If they don't open up for that, it is a pretty significant limitation of the API.
Probably, if you boot the kernel with boot flags that tell it to accept any signature. I haven't tested this.
Can I have Siri answer with the speaker yet?
A lot of iOS 10 features are Google inspired.
According Wikipedia, the firms advising on the deal, Qatalyst and Allen & Co, have about 50 and 175 employees respectively. It's far, far easier to keep things under wraps at places like that.
I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't buy Stripe soon.
Intel Needs to Keep Its Server Chip Release Cadence on Track
I think this is really cool. It is like a really pretty Scratch-type environment but teaches actual Swift rather than puzzle blocks.

Also the new coding keyboard looks interesting. A nice surprise from Apple.
No New Macbook Pro For 391 Days
Looking at /r/all on any given day shows an interesting combination of meme's, astroturfing and what I would describe as 4chan leaking. Except for some very specific subreddits around some niche hobbies, the site has lost any value to me. Even then, I feel like those hobbies would be better going back to the pre-reddit days of one off phpbb forums etc.
Virus in position (x,y,z). It's f'n cold around it. It freezes. 30k years pass. Some scientist grabs ice and melts it. Virus is back.

I know it was quite hard to wrap one's head around this. Sorry that I didn't explain it more indepth to non initiated. That was so elitist of me.

(PS: I know what you want to say, but it's your own fault for arguing that way.)
> And, if you are disconnecting the source side first, that is your problem

Sadly, people don't care..

Also, my jack is connected to my speakers from behind. I don't want to bend my arm in strange positions every time I want to disconnect the jack.
Half the people here are complaining about too many new features and not enough stability, and the other half are complaining that there aren't enough new features. This is why Apple doesn't listen to consumers and instead just puts out whatever they want to.
But he hadn't been a practicing engineer, and never worked in an engineering or technical capacity at Microsoft.
In the presentation they said that it used Handoff, which is direct device to device communication.
Why not just work "remotely?" Everyone meets up at coffee shop or something at the start of the day and at the end of the day to discuss and review action items, and then communicates via tools like Slack and Google Hangouts. As a bonus, you also start a culture where you can hire employees from anywhere in the U.S. (or "world", if you decide to go the global route) since working remotely becomes the norm.
Model S and Honda 240v Generator = Unlimited range?
I had kept my Macs at 10.6 for a long time but had to "upgrade" one of them to help my daughter with an iPhone problem (really annoying that you have to update your Mac just to copy files to a phone, but whatever). Everything was worse. Search was terrible. Mail was in the crapper. The weirdest shock was when I was using Apple apps and discovered they'd changed Shift-Command-S from "Save As" to "Duplicate." That move is really emblematic of Apple's direction with the Mac — arbitrary changes that either eliminate features or make everyday workflow more cumbersome.

I bought my first Mac in 1989. I bought my first non-Mac PC in 2015 and stopped using Mac altogether.
WWDC is about software. Hardware updates mostly happen later in the year.
"My guess is that most of Mac users do want/use Apple mobile device"

That's what it is... a guess. Unless you can produce some data to back it up.

There's a huge community (especially outside of US) who use Macs for day-to-day work but use android mobile devices as that's the most sensible choice for a majority of the world.
I spent two years of my life writing an automated logic system for a professor. Trust me, I know what AI can and can't do.

In my experience, when AI reaches the critical mass of usefulness, it becomes a tool within the industry. Automatic solving of logical puzzles? Yeah, electrical engineers use PSpice to optimally lay out logic gates in CPU Chips.

Automated logic can be used to verify extremely complicated mathematical proofs, or even search for new mathematical truths! So what happens? Well... some company creates a product with the AI, then sells it as a tool.

We exist in an age where AIs are responsible for searching and coalescing information. (Erm, how often do you use Google's database?) It wasn't very long ago when search was considered an AI problem... but as soon as computers successfully do it better than humans, its a "tool" and "not AI" anymore.

The last 50 years of AI history has taught me one thing: when AIs are successful, humans change and stop thinking that the task was "intelligent". Chess as a measure of intelligence? No longer, once Chess AIs got good.

Database search? No longer, now that Google is faster than humans.

Automated driving? Was an AI task, now it isn't one. People are already discussing how its a tool for Truckers or Uber to use to make more money.

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"Intelligent tasks" become "tasks for tools" because thats how stuff sells on the market. You wouldn't believe what people thought was "intelligence" in the 80s. Chess, Databases Search / Natural Language Processing, automated logic, symbolic mathematical solvers, chip layouts, compiler optimizations... and everything that we just take for granted today.

Similarly, the tasks we consider "intelligence" today will simply turn into tools for the next generation once the AIs are written that solve that problem.
Does that matter for some reason?
This seems like a moot point to me though. In one scenario, you have a 3.5mm cable from headphone to phone. In the other scenario you have a USB charging cable going from headphone to phone (which you can keep connected 24/7 if you really don't want to worry about draining it). So if the quality problem is solved, what's the difference?
Apple's new film about coding
Maybe audiophile quality sound when driving the high impedance input of an amplifier, but certainly not when driving headphones directly, IMO.

The best portable music players I've listened to (in terms of headphone driving capabilities) were the portable CD players from back in the day.

My experience from way back in the early iPod days was that it simply did not have the power to drive my headphones hard enough to provide good sounding bass, where as my old CD player (which could play MP3s on a CD), sounded much better.

I always thought it was a result of some law which limited the power of headphone ports to prevent hearing loss in kids, but this could be all BS.
I'm disappointed. After them announcing the subscription pricing changes, paid search results, etc. in a press conference because "we can't fit all into the keynote" I expected more. Instead we got 20 minutes of adults playing with emojis.

Not what I would expect from a developer conference keynote.

/edit: Thanks for the hint to watch the State of the Union video.
My bet would be on a version of xCode for iPad being released at WWDC 2017.

This seems like a perfect way to get some wide testing of the compiler, coding keyboard, etc. I wonder what IDE enhancements we can expect from a touch interface.
You are aware that most people on this planet, even in highly developed countries, earn less pre tax than $3200, right?
Yes, I got a guy in trouble for selling me a password-protected system board and not replying when I asked him whats going on (he took it from his boss' laptop, wrote it off as defective or something). Heh
You might enjoy the Kyocera Rise (but it is CDMA only AFAICT, so only if you are in USA). It's slow and outdated but it's the best emailing phone I've ever used.
most "private jets" are "fractional" timeshares, so you don't have to pay the full $110 million. See http://NetJets.com/

still, it's also "fractional" 1% anyway, 1% doesn't get you in a private plane. Evidence that we live in the time of oligarchs, they call the fast plane they want to get noise approval for BOOM

and BTW, for those thinking about it, even when you "own" it, the cost of every flight is much more than 1st class tickets.
I'd love to meet one, or see a job description for such a role.
Developer Jobs
Is this really what getting a job as a developer is coming to?

Just started looking at job listings and this is common (actual quotes):
"Ideally someone who lives and breathes code",
"does development side work",
"practices new technologies at home",
"likes to code all day everyday",
"attend and present at meetups",
"commits to open source"

On top of that a majority of listings have something like this one:
"Experience with many of the following: Eclipse, Pig, Hive, SVN, Git, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Linux, SBT, JUnit, Maven, ANT,
Hudson/Jenkins, JMeter, JProfiler, JIRA, Bugzilla, Agile, Java, Android, Scala, Groovy, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Akka, J2EE, EJB3, JPA, Hibernate, Struts2, Play Framework, Spray Framework, Grails, Spring, XML, JSON, XStream,
Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript"
Maybe there is. I've seen references to the ability to encapsulate a compressed stream directly. That said, support for it varies widely. However, uncompressed 24-bit audio is not gonna happen.
MacOS Sierra Preview
“Oh By” Is the Universal Shortener
An exercise in nonsensical exclusion? Men taking testosterone blockers still have more testosterone than women at the third standard deviation. There are skeletal differences in men that create an advantage in a number of high-impact sports.

"Third gender" is bullshit precisely because it tries to create a preexisting dichotomy that doesn't exist. I'm not a masculine caricature. My wife is not a feminine caricature. The people you meet day to day aren't walking gendered cliches.
Kotlin Basics: Create Executable Kotlin JARs, Using Gradle
Holy moly, Apple is very aware of the competing chat apps. iMessage looks amazing and they packed a lot of features in there, but I wonder how they're going to make it all easily discoverable.