skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, we could use some more window dressing!

Okay, I could get on board with that. Though I'm not one of those loading every window manager out there in search of perfection, Mac OS is looking a bit dated. I'm not even sure what I'm looking for (well, except I've figure out that I'm not a tiling WM kind of guy), but some sprucing up would be appreciated.
If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
Hi - a few things...

First, URL shortening is not what this tool is for.

It will function as a URL shortener if you put in a URL and tell it to, but again - that's not what it was built for.

Second, I tend to agree with the notion that URL shorteners are "bad for the web". So, since we happen to have a (secondary) URL shortening function, I did two things:

1. Made a commitment with actual resources to keep 0x.co running forever.[1]

2. Had a short discussion with my friend Jason Scott[2][3] about giving Internet Archive and Archive Team an easy port for download/archiving. In our conversation he reiterated his (well known) position that URL shorteners are bad in general, but less terrible if there is a published (and maintained) spec for data exfiltration.

But again ... URL shortening is NOT what this tool is for.

[1] simple, lightweight pages combined with massive, leftover rsync.net bandwidth/hosting resources make this trivial.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott

[3] http://ascii.textfiles.com/
P.S. Another thing I've had in mind was the ability to connect MIDI keyboards and have them mimic EMS DK keyboard behavior within SYNTHI-JS. I wasn't sure if it was possible to work directly with MIDI devices in JavaScript, but it appears that this library could do the trick: https://github.com/cwilso/WebMIDIAPIShim

It's worth a try, at least.
All the other replies are misinterpreting this: There was once hope that this would democratize/commoditize medical testing.

Sad that it did not come true.
If it's about thinness, why not just go with 2.5mm? Maybe there's a more technical reason like VGA. I recall reading a primary reason to get rid of the VGA connector had to do with it being an analog signal and the extra electronics required to convert the digital to analog, while a digital connection like HDMI and DisplayPort was simpler.
Huh, this is true. Now this is super exciting.

> Session 701 Introducing Apple File System

> The Apple File System (APFS) is the next-generation file system designed to scale from an Apple Watch to a Mac Pro. APFS is optimized for Flash/SSD storage, and engineered with encryption as a primary feature. Learn about APFS benefits versus HFS+ and how to make sure your file system code is compatible.
But it didn't back then, and it's only called Skype because MS acquired Skype, not the other way around. At the time of the acquisition, comparing Skype to Office Communicator (as it was called before Lync) was a stretch at best.
Yes! So that's why I'm so disappointed I couldn't find a warning discouraging all use of pointer arithmetic.
Fair enough. My point was that there's a difference between a valuation mistake and a calculated risk that doesn't work out - and it can be very difficult to tell which one's which, especially from the outside. Any acquisition can end up a failure because of integration issues, changing market conditions, failure to execute new products, etc. - it doesn't necessarily mean the original valuation was wrong.
Mmm. I moved the goalposts in my second reply to 'where sexual dimorphism is insufficient'. Sorry if that created confusion.

I still maintain that genitalia are a very good heuristic for determining someone's sex.
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The person I replied to is a Haskell developer, talking about Haskell developers. A member of the community, talking about how smart people in the community are .
:O I hope that's real. I didn't see any mention in the keynote and it seems weird they'd be on the App Store now and they wouldn't wait until iOS 10 is released.
Portable lighting is a thing. Cars have lights on them. I carry a flashlight when I go out at night.

The light I carry is under 1x4" in size and can provide enough light to see well enough to walk comfortably and to be seen by cars (70 lumens) for 15 hours on a single charge of its rechargeable battery. Should I want more light, it can match the output of a car headlight (1000 lumens) for an hour.

Lights with this kind of performance can be had for $15, plus another $10 or so for the battery and charger. It's not a binary choice between life in the dark and illuminating a bunch of mostly-unused space.
You realize this post has no mention of WWDC right? I just read the link and commented on the lack of info.
There was also the case that admins routinely blocked all ports on the company firewall, except for 80 (http). Thus funneling anything and everything through the browser became the easiest way.
I really want to get my hands on some flexible Color ePaper displays whenever those come out :D
Appears there is one: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#/details/701
It doesn't depend on sparsely population regions, which is why it is also being used for Ulaanbataar.

It depends on being better than the current system (which is description based), and better than the alternatives (like putting up street signs everywhere).
Just one example => https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2015-May/0...
While I've been pointing out the problems I've encountered with Neo4J and OrientDB, I should say as a counterpoint that I just tried Blazegraph based on this recommendation, and so far, it works.

Its importer was not the most intuitive thing to use -- I had to dig up configuration items that were scattered across its documentation and Stack Overflow -- but I got it to work, it imported 25 million edges in less than 8 minutes, and it's providing reasonably quick access to those edges now.
There are also cases, like with larger phones, where every manufacturer starts making bigger and bigger phones because "that's what customers want", without providing any options for customers that would prefer smaller phones. Customers then buy the big phones but are unhappy with them because that's all that was available.

I'm glad Apple didn't go in the same direction and released the iPhone SE, but even they were surprised by the demand for it:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/26/apple-faces-constr...
Here's why I want physical ports.

If I can plug in my earphones and microphone, I can unplug them.

And unplugged, they're dead.

No non-wired alternative offers that simple, visually-confirmable affordance.

And if you want to kill something on the device, kill the onboard mic.
How does that distinction matter? Wasn't it LinkedIn's goal from the very beginning to make one interact with people who are not one's friends? (Otherwise how does one expand one's network if one merely interacts with the people one knows well?)
You seem to be proving my point.
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Excellent news! at a developer conference I would expect this to be the headline announcement.
It indeed is. Now dare I hope for PowerNap APIs? ;)
Fairly certain neither Mongolia nor Britain are involved in the TPP
>> "Why? There's no auth mechanism on my credit card, I just autofill from 1Password and hit enter."

I'm saying this as someone in the UK but to checkout online with my debit card I use autofill, look up my CVC number as autofill doesn't hold that, then I have to enter 3 characters from my password to pass the 'verified by Visa' thing. With this I don't need to do any of that. It's much, much more convenient as I always have my iPhone next to me anyway.
Won't there come a time when 1000x speed increase will still be slow?

The applications will mostly be on heavy data side like medical research and weather patterns, but it could also involve 3D photogrammetry taking in a trillion points.
If MS can disconnect LinkedIn from having to monetise its social graph directly, they might actually be able to turn it into something likeable.
All caps.
What I don't understand though is why people (specifically on this forum) seem to hate these prompts so much. Sure, they're annoying, but I've always ignored them, and they never bothered me. Do you people automatically do what the talking head on television tells you to? Of course not. So why so much vicious sarcasm directed towards LinkedIn?
There are many barriers to purchase on mobile web, such as users being less likely to have enough time to complete the purchase, user distrust of mobile web sites / card forms, potential network disconnect during transaction, difficulty typing the card number (and I bet near 0% of potential customers know about the scan card feature), small screen makes it hard to know if you're really on the right product for you, etc.

This might reduce barriers but there will still be some. Also, I doubt that Safari's credit card autofill had much impact on conversion overall - is there any data about this?
Anecdotal, but I've found Siri to be quite helpful with Car Play, along with Google's equivalent (can't remember its marketing name) in Android Auto.

Just drive along, push to issue command, and "Siri navigate me to <address> in <city>" and boom. This might have existed in luxury cars for years, but its coming down into the mainstream ~$30k cars recently and I'm loving it.

I'm thankful for technologies like Siri in the context of driving at least.
Uber is progress, so why aren't progressives on board?
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Hey, one less reason for me to use FB Messenger. In complete honesty, I prefer FB Messenger because it seems a lot more expressive and it's way easier to access your photos.

FB is really stomping on iMessage in the chat realm, and I'm sad I have to wait for iOS 10.
Just addressing your last point in this comment :

­>looking at what an app wants in order to install.

I believe they request the same things in iOS as they do in Android in the case of multi-Platform apps like Facebook, but Google decided to show them in a different way that looks like it is worse than how Apple does it.
This will change deeply how we make desktop applications, as well as database management systems.
I think one of the most interesting parts of this project is that the query language is actually Monet Assembly Language, and their SQL implementation just compiles down to that. There's enough documentation to write your own query language for it—including other paradigms like K and Datalog.
They're more closely related to the Fourier transforms. That's how somebody calculated the actual values that would yield Homer.
As lift is also proportional to density, area and square of velocity, that whole term cancels out from the equation of fuel usage per distance, basically only L/D or cL/cD matters.

In practice it might be a bit more complicated.

EDIT: indeed here we can see that Concorde had lift to drag ratio of only 7.5 at Mach 2, while Boeing 747 has 17.7 at Mach 0.9 or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio
Isn't fiber being rolled out across the US?
Is there anything special about the 'store' part of column stores? As in, is their store better in some way than for example splitting your PgSQL tables into key-value tables?

And with regards to the constructing of SQL queries over the column stores as MonetDB/SQL does, is it more performant than what I described on PgSQL and doing the query with a bunch of JOINs between the various attribute tables?

I know there's a lot been written about column stores and there's some very interesting stuff out there (I particularly like MonetDB/XQuery, but sadly it was discontinued), perhaps a short answer to those questions might inspire some more interest in them.
> There's no auth mechanism on my credit card

Yes I believe that is a large part of the problem that things like Apple Pay and Google Wallet are aiming to fix.
I want to know one thing:

DID APPLE FINALLY MAKE WEB PUSH AVAILABLE IN iOS THE WAY THEY HAVE IN MacOS?
Did the video explain why poking one value, N, resulted in a peek of the value 240+N? Did I miss it? Is it just a property of the memory location on the VIC chip?
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Door location is how you can tell if a house is in the Netherlands or in Belgium, for Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. Move the door and you move countries.

Outline is not time invariant. If I turn a duplex into a single family, or build out, then the shape changes. If I live in Coober Pedy and build out underground, then do I use the surface outline or the underground outline?

If I relocate the house a few meters away, the address definitely changes.

Really, this is best for the billions of people who have no address. Most likely it will boot-strap, so in 100 years the name "X.Y.Z" will refer to the ghost of the place that once was, but everybody local knows what it now means, as will the databases. With a layer of apt. #1, #2, etc. on top of that.
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I just want to know one thing:

DID APPLE FINALLY MAKE WEB PUSH AVAILABLE IN iOS THE WAY THEY HAVE IN MacOS?

Anyone know?
There's so much good stuff I can watch on Netflix and YouTube that it's not worth it to me to spend the time and effort going to a movie theater, buying a ticket, then watching a movie. Besides, I'm pretty patient, and I can usually wait until a movie I want to see is available for streaming or download.

I make exceptions for cultural phenomenons like Star Wars, where I think that there's a social advantage to being able to talk about it when everyone else is talking about it.
Except on mobile where it is dominant. Apple Pay will be coming to mobile safari too and that's were the true advantage is.

I run an online store, about 45% of transactions happen on a iOS devices. I will absolutely be implementing Apple Pay.
That will happen in the Dev SOTU later in the day.
The 1,000x speed is so ridiculously misleading. It's basically comparing it to the slowest microSD on Earth...from a few years ago. I doubt the speed will be more than a few times faster than the current fastest NVMe SSDs (if that), and it will probably be even more expensive per Gbps (and per GB, too) than SSDs are. But it could still find some success in niche markets initially, if it has much better endurance and other features that may be interesting to some enterprise customers.
If this could act as a mix between a Chromecast with screen (remote controlled browser) and a bigger smartwatch, it could be fairly useful. Pretty much an energy efficient "thin client" with some degree of autonomy.
I think you are grossly underestimating young people. Learning || to mean OR or String to mean "a series of characters" is by no means beyond the capability of kids.
It could be intentional, there's already siri commands for Apple Music.
Is remote a possibility?
Well said. There are lots of reasons for skilled software engineers to despise LinkedIn. They don't need its version of networking, and they find recruiters' endless serenades tiresome.

But in most other lines of work, the recruiters don't knock so often (or so cluelessly) ... and the access to other people's profiles actually is quite handy. Sales. Finance. Media. Education. Law. Non-profits. It's a long list.

It's anyone's guess whether Microsoft can execute the bulk of its strategic plan for LinkedIn. But the plan is not foolish.
Usually because it's ridiculously expensive. Would I pay 20-50% more for a first class seat? Probably. Would I spend 2-3x more? No. I'm still going to be miserable, the flight is still going to take just as long, and once it's over I'll be out all that extra money.
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It did not explain why, I'm assuming it's a property of the VIC, but I haven't looked into it yet.
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iOS 10. 10 Features that I think they had a hard time to convince the audience that were so important.

I've been using iOS since v3 and it's going ^2 complicated every year. Come on guys, nobody expects that you can deliver a revolution with every WWDC. Just don't make the interface more complicated.

Siri, 3d touch, home kit? I barely know anyone using those and everyone these days has an iPhone. The focus is shifted from usability to features. So sad.
Thanks!

But the world (particularly our corner of it) is full of smarter people saying more interesting things. I feel like the best way I can contribute is not distracting readers from doing.
> Aside from the learning curve, there were several bugs in one of the Haskell libraries that caused frequent outages (until we were able to pinpoint what was wrong),

What was the bug and what was the library?
Anecdotal counterpoint: Siri is horrible at recognizing my speech if it is anything that it doesn't expect. I can ask it to define a word all day long but I doubt it will get any better. It just keeps giving me the same (incorrect) response repeatedly. Google Now does a very good job at recognizing voice including words I may mispronounce when I say "define X"

I can sort of imagine why. Google "knows" me better. What is awesome/scary is that I have tried this on other people's iPhones and Google Now still does better than Siri.
Why remove the SD socket? It makes sense to get rid of the NAND to cut down on power but it seems like the SD socket could be useful and that STM32 has a built-in SDIO controller.
10-12 years ago (wow...), stories like that were a lot more common. I lost thousands of MP3s to iTunes on my first Mac, a PowerBook 17.
Here, the are spec'd as unused bits returning 1: http://www.antimon.org/code/vic2.html
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40,000 words gives 15.29 bits per word, for a 45.86 bit locator. log2(area of earth / 9m^2) is 45.7.

Packing bits into phrases is also useful for passwords (https://rmmh.github.io/abbrase/), but in my experience the increased difficulty of correctly remembering phrases from a large wordlist outweighs the additional entropy.

4 words chosen from a 2800-word list would convey the same amount of information, and be less prone to confusion.

It looks like they're not attempting to make the triplets have consistent meanings between languages, which makes sense -- 40,000 word correspondences between 10 languages would be exceedingly difficult! logs.broker.remote is sweight.saum.zulässige is lodos.pasado.ninguno, none of which are the same meanings.

Another improvement would be a hierarchical system-- you can specify a more coarse location using more common words -- picking from a wordlist of 500 for a 4km^2 specifier, 2000 for for a 16 acre plot, 10000 for a 500m^2 area.
I would be, because most of the workplaces and other places didn't confirm your observation. With perhaps the exception of SV, which is filled with Apple hardware. Can we conjure any statistics from somewhere to confirm / deny our observations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyidi2HaMY

this unauthorized repairman explains how apple and others prevent people from hacking/repairing devices, including both owners and pretty much anyone who is not restricted legally by signing an authorization.
Good idea to buy LinkedIn, but for $26 BILLION!

Isn't that a million times earnings? Way, way over valued. You could hire a team and ad agency to make a better LinkedIn for $10 million...
The codes in your FAQs (0x7DBZ3G, 0xDY34NK) don't actually lead anywhere -- that might get confusing if they get handed out (e.g. start linking to malware) later.
Designer here. I and a lot of my colleagues love open source and what it stands for, but, the truth is, it is going to be very difficult to convert designers into hardcore open source advocates like coders/engineers can be when the tools we rely on every day are all closed source. Adobe creative suite, Rhino, proprietary render engines, and a bunch of other platforms designers use simply don't have open source alternatives competitive with market leaders, making conversion to open source very difficult for working professionals.

The majority of the professional community for creating UX/UI do not have the tools to work in FOSS, so you aren't going to see many designers working for FOSS projects as result
Not announced. If it's reality it will come out this week when more information on Safari iOS.
I'm almost afraid to see what hardware will look like in 10 years.
I genuinely can't tell if that's an honest attempt at competition, or a parody.
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> Linux, please take off.

Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that's done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch again.
But it might matter if you're delivering five packages, and your system lists five addresses, even though they're all going to the same building.
Mea culpa, thanks.
He still puts up new stuff, doesn't he? I thought he was just very slow.
The doc https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...
What are the other major first languages for kids? I'm not sure if Swift is worse than JavaScript.
Out of curiosity, what scared you away from 10.11?
The problem is that revenue is not profit. If expenses are greater than revenue and the trends don't show that changing soon (i.e. "default dead") then it is extremely hard to justify such a high valuation. There are the employees, the physical infrastructure, the code they've written, the brand name, and maybe the marketing value of the users, but granting a valuation based on consistently negative profit is somewhat silly.
I'm thinking about getting a new TV soon, and I plan to order one online sight-unseen based solely on reviews. I don't want to sway myself by what they look like in a bright showroom with the brightness and contrast cranked up to the max.
To be fair, it's probably stomping iMessage because you can also talk to people who didn't buy the same electronics brand.
Kids need to start with small, quick successes before they are willing to invest more time. The Playground weighs in Swift's favor because they can get immediate feedback.

As for the language itself, it seems to have decent type-inferencing. So, kids won't get bogged down on a compiler not liking "String" vs. "string".

To really capture kids' imaginations, Apple needs to visual and auditory libraries loaded and ready to go in the Playground. Kids will immediate want to build something graphical or auditory.

It's an interesting experiment.