skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a rhetorical question, with the article's answer being something along the lines of "Cities are possibly too complicated for humans to understand at a holistic level," which seems almost obvious.
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They generally don't market the amount of RAM; I had to scour blogs after the SE launch.

It seems very unlikely they'd go from 2GB (in the 6S and SE) to 1GB though. Most likely 2GB. I could see 4, but that seems quick on them to increase it compared to usual.
"If you believe you have a right to access all the free content on the Internet while blocking the ads which fund it, you continue to believe that [..]"

Thanks, I will. I've been using the Internet since before online advertising became a big deal. I've run web sites of varying scales, often with original content, sometimes with original content that cost a lot of time and/or money to produce. I've also contributed widely to many more web sites and other online forums. I've paid for things online. I've charged for things online.

And I've never once, in all that time, relied on ads to fund any of my or my various businesses' contributions.

Online advertising has served a useful purpose in some cases, and I sympathise with those who have chosen to rely on it as a funding model and are now losing out because of ad blockers and the like. But online advertising has also led to huge amounts of ad-ridden junk clogging up any forum it can invade. It has led to serious degradation in both the performance and the security of the greatest information-sharing medium in the history of the world. Perhaps worst of all, it has led to a culture where other ways of compensating those whose work we truly value and of discovering new material of interest are a lot harder than they might have been. None of those are positive influences, and I'm not at all sure that online advertising hasn't done far more harm than good overall, even taking into account the great value that some ad-funded content and services have offered to some people.
Regarding cable integrity. Am I the only person to have had headphones pop in my ears due to (un)plugging the cable or causing some kind of friction at the connector?

I assume that issue disappears with the new plug.

Oh, and your complaint about charging the phone while listening, that's the Apple way they've always removed options to have a cleaner design. The superior Apple solution is to buy their pricey iPhone dock with headphone jack hidden in the back and charge and listen at the same time. Not a fanboy, just adding that Apple has addressed your complaint by making more money off of you ;)
My guess is rajacombinator might have bought some knock-off "earpods" from Amazon or Alibaba. Those are truly horrible.
You'd be surprised, many contracts have an auto-renew clause and you absolutely go to collections. If you are lucky they just cancel you.
iPads for education support multiuser login
How about +X% battery for a phone with a flat back?
Having them chargeable over the phone's lightning port (like the iPad stylus) seems like such an obvious option. No silly carry case required. I wonder if they looked into this.
Open back headphones are the solution to your ears getting hot.

It was a big discovery for me, as 16 hour days in the lab with studio headphones once resulted in a blocked ear canal, from ear wax melting & reflowing! Weird & gross, I know.
Is it acceptable to dispatch inside your action creators? I'm somewhat new to redux but I got the impression that dispatch should be used inside mapDispatchToProps.
I don't know what argument you were making and apparently neither does anyone else in this thread.

Revisit your assumptions and use clarity.

Also take your own advice and research memory compression and probability densities.

It is very possible to write a VM that exposes 20 Gb of "memory" to an application in a host machine with only 10 Gb of physical memory by using cache which would introduce latency to the simulation.

Here is an implementation for you to study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap
Weird, my nexus 6p has stereo speakers and a headphone jack.

Must be magic, if Apple hasn't trademarked that already.
City as a Service
> form of functional reactive programming

I worked there for almost three years before I realized that we were playing around with FRP.

> in an ORM layer

... and I didn't realize that I was using an ORM for a good six months.

Life at Goldman was good as a developer. Retinal scarring from those damned blue windows aside, I kinda miss it sometimes.
It might have been reasonable to maintain backup paper workflows years ago when those paper workflows already existed and institutions were just starting to offer digital alternatives. But new institutions and workflows have arisen that never had paper alternatives in the first place. And it's unreasonable to expect institutions to build and test paper alternatives just as a backup. No one's going to pay for that, regardless of potential consequences.
Where WoSign have demonstrated glaring incompetence and utter ignorance of security practices as an CA, I doubt these issues aren't violated at quite a few dozens of other CAs. These are good lessons for other CAs.

To me, the ultimate question is this: if we are trusting CAs as the 3rd party entity in order to make PKI schemes work, then who's going to be auditing the "supposedly trustworthy" party?
So UHD BlueRays, they don't use DCP correct? But those haven't been broken as well (as far as we know), and that seems like the media to target to create 4k torrents.

What tech is used on UHD consumer Bluerays?
Looks like these are indeed Bluetooth
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods

Connections
AirPods: Bluetooth

And then further down
Compatibility:
iPhone 5 and up

iPhone 5 has Bluetooth 4.0
So I'm guessing the pairing information is shared via iCloud
I've repaired dozens of laptops and the one thing the broken power connectors had in common was being soldered directly to the motherboard instead of using a separate assembly.
PPTP was probably blocked because it needs the GRE port. And I think xfinitywifi only allows UDP/TCP.

I use OpenVPN over TCP and UDP on xfinitywifi all the time. In fact, I have a wallwart router configured for it. Plug it in, ssh in, set the wifi, and I have a relatively secure SSID I can use.

One day the UDP VPN stopped working. I found out it was because the MTU on xfinitywifi changed to ~1300. Sending a packet with a larger size would result in dropped packets which would cause some stuff to work, but not all. Setting the mssfix parameter to something lower in OpenVPN fixed it.

You can test this by varying the payload size in ping.

TCP worked fine the whole time.
from the linked page:

>... thanks to a charging case that holds multiple additional charges for more than 24 hours of listening time.5 Need a quick charge? Just 15 minutes in the case gives you 3 hours of listening time.

Your wish #1 has come true!
> Eventually, some lawyer is going to convince a judge that, say, 1% the victims of a deep-pocketed company’s breach will end up losing their houses to identity thieves as a result of the data that the company has leaked, and that the damages should be equal to 1% of all the property owned by a 53 million (or 500 million!) customers whom the company has wronged. It will take down a Fortune 100 company, and transfer billions from investors and insurers to lawyers and their clients.

This highlights a major problem with tort law: It's monetary damages or GTFO. In other words, it's nearly impossible to make a case for damages when there is no obvious monetary aspect of the harm done. I can't sue Home Depot for giving up my credit card info to hackers unless I can prove that it led to someone running up my credit card bill. Either this needs to change, or it should be a crime for companies to release customers' personal information to unauthorized third parties.

Part of the problem is how these data breaches are framed in the media. It's always "Company X was HACKED!" and "Company Y SUFFERED a major data breach!". They're portraying the negligent company as the victim! It should be "Company A carelessly released their customers' data." or "Company B failed to protect 10 million credit card numbers." Once we stop pretending these companies are victims, we can start making and enforcing tougher privacy laws.
whamlastxmas>> You must be a modern day version of one of Aesops Fables.
It's a valid answer provided that on-call was part of the conditions known during hiring and salary negotiations. If we've negotiated a salary of $X for doing Y, but then you suddenly want Y+on-call, then you're going to either pay more or find another employee, because $X is simply too little for that.
The new rumor is that sensors like blood glucose and pulse Ox is going to be a separate device - so FDA regulations wouldn't impede the rollout of the core Apple Watch
Let's see if you still think my .IN "vanity" domain is a mistake come November 9. I'm putting my chips on the world's biggest democracy!
> Coiling the cord by hand causes the wire to twist, which in turn causes fraying.

Not if you know how to coil it properly - yet the sheath on the cable of my MBP PSU has split, despite not using the fold-up cable storage arms that would encourage bending the cable at an awkward angle.
Nobody ever mentions the counterexample, assuming it exists - the person who spends thousands of hours practicing but never gets anywhere. How many Salieris are there for each Mozart?

There's definitely a need for hard work in order to have success, but perhaps there's something necessary that has to be present for the hard work to build upon. Maybe that something is "genius".
How to Teach Computational Thinking
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Remote: Potentially

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Easily Schiller's most tone-deaf line since "Some people are using five-year-old computers!"
I'm sure they tried to do something fancier with computational photography but probably ran out of time for the release. I'm confident they are going to deliver this in the typical S update next year or even as an OTA.
Isn't being selective with what you lie about the answer to this? If you don't care that Google know about a purchase then use your normal email/credit card etc. If you want additional privacy then use methods that allow this. Privacy can be a continuum.

Given that it can probably be traced back to a mailing address and credit card these measures may be worthless anyway.
Hence the HD-DVD which packed the 1080p and 720p videos onto the older media standard.
i don't take pictures or live a gregarious life of the people in the promo.
> Metal pre-dates Vulkan

Vulkan was announced first. Apple was even a part of the effort. Then they went off and did their own thing and withdrew from Vulkan and announced Metal.

As I see it, Apple took Vulkan ideas. Of course it was faster for them to create Metal because they didn't have to care about cross-platform and multi-party support.
It's a very reasonable price point and completely in line with the competition like Jaybird, Beats or similar. I was in the market for good wireless earbud-style headphones recently to use in the gym and all of the decent options were between $120 and $200.

I ended up going for the Jaybird X2 which is about $150.
HE'S NOT GOING TO WIN EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE SHUT UP
You might enjoy reading some of the discussions of free will (or the lack thereof) in the face of a material universe. A good starting point might be searching for "free will" on Jerry Coyne's blog: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:whyevolutionistrue.word...
It's a great point from a marketing perspective. Something users don't understand but can pretend too - I need this because it's got a f/1.8 camera, way better than the Samsung f/5.6 [I made that up]. What's super good is that it looks so technical, it looks like something that real cameras have about them too. Marketing fluff, yay.
> When not in use, then it becomes an extra item to carry / keep around.

When not in use, why not just keep it attached to the headphones?

> Citation needed.

Uhh, personal experience? I've certainly bent my share of 3.5mm plugs, but I've yet to hear of anyone actually bending their lightning cable plug.

> […] physics says the same amount of force would be better spread out via 3.5 connections […]

This is a specious argument. Physics does not say this at all, because you haven't defined the materials you're working with. If the lightning connector and the 3.5mm plug are made out of the same material, and the 3.5mm plug is completely solid, then you could make this argument. But in my experience 3.5mm plugs are not made out of material that's as durable as the material lightning cable plugs are made from, and 3.5mm plugs also often give the impression of being hollow inside. Sure, you can probably make an extremely durable plug, and I'd guess that more expensive headphones probably have more durable plugs than cheaper headphones, but regardless I don't think you really have to worry about bending your lightning connectors.
Nearly 10,000 Workers Are Suing Chipotle for ‘Wage Theft’
That's hogwash--no one cares about that. If anything, the move was done to expand room within the internals of the phone.
Ubuntu/ROS powered camera/sensor kit adds obstacle avoidance to drones
Note that object spreading is neither an ES6 nor an ES7 feature. It is currently at stage 2 - https://github.com/tc39/proposals#active-proposals "Rest/Spread Properties"
It should be emphasized that they've ignored iWorks for a long time.....it's hard to trust that it won't regress again after the renewed emphasis.

If they had spent the last decade making iWorks a replacement for Office (making it handle Excel, for example), they would be in a really good place right now. Instead, it's hard to take them seriously.
I've had this setup in my travel kit for years. I use it in every rental car so I can listen to music and charge my phone / use GPS at the same time.

Y-Cable (dock connector to audio & USB): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LUKCX4

Dock to Lightning adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014854UWG

For a cleaner solution (and if you also need a cigarette lighter to USB adapter), there's this from Griffin, but it's out of stock and unclear whether it's discontinued: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NCF0LHC

I've never had anything but a terrible experience with Bluetooth, and I'm definitely never using Bluetooth to connect my phone to a rental car, so I imagine I'll be using the above system for a long time to come.
The real problem then is engineers being unwilling to vote with their two feet.

In a market as friendly to software developers as we're currently in, the correct response to that is totally "great, consider this my two week's notice, I'll go to this other company across the road that pays the same salary but doesn't demand I have on-time call".

(No, the response to every problem with your work environment should be to get a new job, nor is that even a realistic possibility for many. The economic argument still stands.)
They mentioned in the keynote that you can use just one earpod (eg for a call) and it will route full stereo audio through only that earpod automatically.
Several other limits as well:

Extending to the 19th century and you'll find a few more limits to knowledge and capabilities.

1. Einstein, general reletivity, and the speed of light as an absolute limit.

2. Thermodynamics, and the limits imposed by entropy.

3. Rankine and Carnot expressing the limits of efficiency of heat engines.

4. Claude Shannon and the limits of information density over a communications channel.

5. Hubbel's expansion constant and the size of the observable Universe.

6. Moore and Wright with (empirically-derived) principles of production efficiencies.

7. M. King Hubbert, and limits to the total amount of petroleum in the US and world.

8. Meadows, et al, and the potential limits to human growth. Somewhat rough, but clearly finite.

9. Keeling and limits to atmospheric absorption of CO2 without producing significant climate change.

(Not all of these limits are fully accepted, though I've strong reasons to believe they're well founded.)
I don't think it matters too much that most institutions no longer accept paper since paper is just the external interface. You get no more reliability if they did when all critical processes rely on technology.

In other words, you aren't walking your check to the IRS, the postal service couldn't deliver it, your bank couldn't cash it even if they did, and WTF would the IRS do with a billion checks?
I think they meant you have to be brave to buy it.
Double 2 Review: Trying Stuff You Maybe Shouldn't with a Telepresence Robot
Can you elaborate at what you mean here? I don't see where this interpreter is implemented.
Haha! So random.txt! In that case you could have generated it via /dev/urandom on a laptop and copied it over :D
That's actually exactly what "standard" means in a discussion where people know we're likely referencing ISO and IEEE.
There are no bad DACs anymore and there haven't been for a decade. You'll probably be getting slightly better analog environment since the DAC isn't near the antenna and CPU as well!
Apple warns that its jet black iPhone 7 scratches easily
My favorite Edison quote:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
It's a stretch to call that a "marginal existence". If that were true, most of us were living a marginal existence 30 years ago. Almost nobody was "online" or used E-mail, yet somehow, by some great miracle, we all kept contact with friends and family, had social connections and lives, talked to our neighbors, etc. You don't need Facebook to have a social life.
Very valid point. People already have plenty of wired headphones.
I do hope that this will push Bluetooth technology forwards - on my android devices bluetooth audio sound-quality is poor and skips when you launch resource-intensive applications. Also, the UI for syncing and selecting bluetooth devices is generally mediocre and confusing.
I already pay my fair share, they should too.
Launch of Sequencing.com: Apps powered by the app user's genes
That is pretty much exactly what's happening, minus the manual brushing.

A depth map and face recognition is used to locate the foreground subject and a heavy blur filter is applied to the background layer. For the same reason we don't have software today that does perfect (or even halfway decent) automatic masking of faces, the edges become a blurry mess. You don't get any of the beautiful out-of-focus point of light scattering, because the lenses are incapable of capturing it.
Maybe you'd need an multi-armed bandit algorithm [1] to allow for some exploration of the dataset?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Changed my mind, I agree with the window manager thing and that dev tools should be separate. However, ubiquitous dev tools are really nice when, as a developer, you're trying to figure out why a page doesn't work for that one user that has 20 extensions and 5 viruses and you don't have to ask them to install anything extra.
The problem is social. A technological solution will not suffice.

But technological solutions are probably necessary to some extent even if not sufficient, particularly when we're talking about communications channels where you're sharing something deliberately with one party but other parties are involved along the way.
You can't change it from one day to another, but Apple has all the power to add Vulkan as alternative interface to the same hardware, in addition to the Metal API. They can do this at any time, now or in the future, without inflicting pain on anyone.

Eventually Metal won't be used anymore since there's no point in using the less portable API with the same capabilities. Finally, once use of Metal is low enough, discontinue it in a new iOS/macOS update.

Upgrades with parallel maintenance and deprecation timelines are well understood, and very feasible for a company with Apple's engineering prowess. There's really no argument other than continued lock-in to stick with Metal only.
Burn!!
Nice external DACs connected to phones is nothing new - USB OTG has been around forever, and even back in the "iPod Connector" days digital IO pins were available. Lightning does not provide anything new in this regard - and certainly nothing more than Lightning + 3.5mm ever did.
I appreciate the effort and enjoyed this paper. One small remark: the first example is ridiculous. You don't need such a low level tool to find out someone is doing crazy database queries, just analyze your slow log!
exactly same concern.

AirPods is certainly not for running bc it's loose and no water resist at all. But you are right even in daily usage, it could fall off and go no where.
> Besides, no BT headset would relieve the battery problems.

Two BT headsets will. I buy cheap Chinese ones for $20.
The yellow Sony? I had it too. Was so cool for the day.
https://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/css-animation/animation-pro...
With a phone in the other hand...
> If you are a software developer, the risk of committing to one year (three months at least partially in Mountain View) doesn't sound that scary to me.

That assumes that they have enough savings to look after their family until they're making enough profit to take a reasonable salary.
GraphJet: a real-time graph processing library
As gsnedders pointed out it is actually a template compiler rather than an interpreter at the moment.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12447554
Ok, so now we have all acknowledged that we are "race realists" or "scientific racists" in this conversation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism )

Anyway we've now accepted blacks and whites may behave differently. For example, lets suppose we have all the training data we need to accurately recognize that one race doesn't pay back their loans as much as others, all else held equal.

What should we do about it? Concretely, how many bad loans should we issue in the name of "fairness"? How large a subsidy must the responsible races pay to the deadbeat ones?
I always use the arms, like this: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2013/12/131213_...

Works fine over about 1000 (?) repetitions so far.
I think it's fair to say that you're just ops since you have the exact same functional role. And you can suffer from the same organizational issues that prompted the creation of the devops movement.

That said, there's a need for a way to divide the industry between traditional ops people and those with the ability to handle modern infrastructure and develop custom tooling where needed. And for better or worse the industry has decided that "devops" is going to be the way to determine that. Now the problem is all of the fakers (both individuals and teams) adopting the moniker. So now we're back to square one and we actually need to evaluate people and teams based on their knowledge and skill.