skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Removal of the headphone jack on the iphone is an idiot test. Idiots will buy apple products no matter how functional or not functional they are, simply because they're named iProduct.

Anyone with any sense will see this as a good opportunity to give Android a spin.
See also, previously, with lively discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12442048
> This benefit is lost very quickly so there's only an advantage
> for large numbers of very tiny individual images.

In which case maybe it would be better to use sprites?
Yes, please do send activation emails (or perhaps a personal confirmation email if you are establishing contact with someone that wrote down an address for you).

Those of us with firstnamelastname@commonhost will appreciate not getting bills and job offers and such.
DSSD D5 doesn't count too, I guess? And I'm personally working on a new product line that will have an all-flash version as well ("Nitro": http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2016/05/emc-worl... ).
The Apple Airpod headphones cost 15 times as much. They're $150USD. It's absolute madness.
It doesn't matter. If they have typed an @, they probably understand that it's an email field. Trying to validate to the spec beyond that is pointless, for reasons thoroughly covered in the article.
Bill Gates talked Microsoft out of trying to buy Slack
Ask HN: What's the fastest way to deploy a blog?
I'm talking like seconds fast. I know it currently takes me 15 minutes to deploy a blog via Github Pages and Jekyll but someone's probably found a way to do it in seconds.
It's probably in vain but I keep hoping that Apple will decide to enter the two-factor auth market with something like the U2F design where the Secure Enclave could sign challenges. It'd be really nice if there was an Apple ID-for-the-web to go along with Apple Pay.
You instantly brought me back to the "You suck at photoshop" series.

Enjoy and you're welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M&list=ELME28FkTdZ...
You can also use $F$7.

Or if you do just F$7, only the column changes when pasting. Or $F7, only the row changes.
They meant that you said your headphones don't last long and it could be because they were so cheap in the first place (not saying I agree or disagree without knowing which model you mean)
While this is a fine workflow if you're more familiar with command line tools than Excel, bulk changes are usually easily doable in Excel with judicious use of cell formulas and copy-pasting of values.

On a lark, I did a couple dozen Euler problems in Excel a couple years ago and found it was actually quicker and easier than doing it in a 'real' programming language; at least part of that is that loops and recursions are easy to visualize and debug in Excel because you can just break intermediate calculations into cells.
Potentially because of having more free time, and a harder time doing physical activities?
Woah, the introduction is exactly the same
I'm really curious about these. I wear hearing aids and these things seem damn close in a lot of respects, except about $5000 cheaper. The hearing aid industry has seen a lot of pressure from consumer electronics (which is great) and I hope this only increases that pressure.

I could totally envision v2 of these having better battery life and being able to "enhance" hearing the same way a hearing aid does. Also, more people using these will hopefully reduce the stigma some see with wearing hearing aids.
Yes, if your training data excludes relevant features then you can't use them. No one disputes this.

However, once you start including such people in your training data, these issues are not hard to prevent. In fact, ML systems will often do this accidentally even when you don't want them to (when the sign of the bias has the politically incorrect direction). It's called redundant encoding.

See the section of my blog post "What if we scrub race, but redundantly encode it?" where I do calculations to show the effect of this: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_...

In short, if your data is biased against a group, but you include group membership either directly or via redundant encoding, your algorithm will fix the bias as best it can.

The entire purpose of machine learning is to discover hidden features and correlations in messy data, so I fail to see why this is considered surprising.

I generally consider the "right to explanation" to be a fairly transparent attempt by the EU to keep American tech companies out of Europe. The entire purpose of ML is that it can uncover true facts that humans can't. The right to explanation is just an attempt to hobble this power, probably because few Euro companies can do it.
What are some examples of software that are getting spun out?

I would assume stuff like HP-UX will stay at HPE?
> Good teaching, blogging, and sharing software probably hurts you.

Karpathy is pretty famous for his blogging and open software. His code and blog post about recurrent neural networks practically got him a language model named after him.

He also recommend you to release code in this article, so I'm not really sure what you are getting at.
Connecting images and natural language: Andrej Karpathy's PhD thesis [pdf]
I bought these to run with:

https://www.plantronics.com/us/product/backbeat-fit

But now I just wear them all the time, as they're so convenient. Can take calls on them, they have a remote on them, they also just scrunch up in to a pocket. Battery lasts at least all day, for me, anyway.
Last restaurant i went to was playing music from an iphone for example.
If it sounds like something you'd enjoy and the pay is right, I don't see any reason not to.
People don't like ads. Necessity is the mother of invention.

That said, any anti-ad features need to avoid breaking things for users, and it'd be entirely too easy to break a simplistic DNS-based ad-blocker in ways that would end up hurting users. Client-side ad blocking can take more sophisticated steps, both to deal with anti-adblocking technologies, and to give users feedback and recourses if something goes wrong.
Airpods will get lost within days
I forget the syntax but you can also write cell references that shouldn't change as $A$5 ; that fixes both row and column. Just put a $ in front of the dimension fixed.
It is relevant for resource limited IoT devices. It can be a struggle to get embedded web sites running fast using modern frameworks. Throw in TLS with large keys and you enter a whole new world of slow where it pays to shave off every byte possible.
Nice to see your post here. I've been repeatedly reading that transcript and sharing to my peers. Thank you
In Dada Mail [0], there's quite a few steps to figuring out if the email address submitted for a mailing list subscription is valid, but most of it can really be organized under sanitizing the data you receive, which you should be doing anyways. Yes, we do validation for form of an address client side (which helps with hitting the server side so much), but we'll do it again server side. We also look at stats on how many times an address was submitted before, as well as per ip address over time across all fuctions of the app (as well as specifically for subscribing). Oh, and even if it's valid, and "real", sometimes we don't want to work with it either, ie: it shows up on something like StopFormSpam. It's actually a ton of work and much to orchestrate.

[0] http://dadamailproject.com
I do a lot of optin email. Here are some examples of bounced emails that people use to sign up:

* somename@gmail.co

* anothername@yhoo.com

* myemail@hotmial.com

These are very common errors that occur nearly every day. A regex isn't going to help here. What does help, is a notification that asks people to verify what they typed –– if the email contains an obvious, common error, such as one listed above.
http://www.gnumeric.org/ is pretty good.
Don't you have to provide a CC to sign up for even the free tier? (That's how it was when I was trying it out a couple of years back.) It was really cute too, Google would send me a $0.00 invoice each month.
Satirical page by design firm Nicer. Advertises an audiojack plug to make contemporary iphones as smooth in that spot as the iphone7
> However, having increased dust and water protection are something I'm very happy to get if it improves the longevity of the device.

Really? How long do you keep your phones for? 2 years, tops? I've never damaged a phone I've owned, let alone rendered one unusable because of either dust or water.

This will have no appreciable effect on the life of the product for me.
It's been available for a few years on several Android phones:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-phones-with-front-stereo...
Skype teams-Microsoft working on slack competitor
I started in the field just before the crash and left the field in 2013 after realizing it wasn't what I wanted in my life. Great experience, but the career wasn't what I wanted to do every day.

> An information gap? These days? Seems dubious.

I've often thought this too, but I've been surprised how many people still aren't great with consuming information with tech. Even thinking about my users (we have a bunch of internal apps we develop) - I am often blown away with how they can hardly use a computer beyond the basic few things (Facebook and, to a small extent, their email).

I enjoy hearing your experience too, thanks for commenting on it :)
Japan home to 541,000 young recluses
My Nokia N900 from 2009 had decent depth of field and a decent lens. It's nothing really to write home about.
Relevant article: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-phones-with-front-stereo...
I walked this path. Think about where you want to be when you're done. Are you married? Do you have kids? Do you want to do those things? If you want to be an academic, you have at least a decade of grueling work ahead. That's 4 years to do the Ph.D., and another 6 to get tenure, which is like doing three more dissertations worth of research while trying to manage a small group of young, inexperienced engineers. And that's if everything goes well. Precious little time for a spouse and kids. Ignore this ridiculous talk about learning to golf and taking vacations abroad. Nobody I know did that.

Personally, I finished the PhD in May and moved on to a really fantastic job in my field. I have time and money that I wouldn't have as an academic.

I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions I had about the academic lifestyle going in. This is about the professor job, not grad school.

1. Being a professor is not about teaching. I went into grad school thinking I could make a difference. Address the rampant gaps in my colleagues' education. It turns out that professors generally abhor teaching, and that departments actually use teaching assignments to punish underperforming faculty. Performance means papers and even more importantly grant money. Teaching doesn't enter into it.

2. Professors do not have any free time. Even tenured ones. That appealing academic calendar is a mirage. If you are a professor, you're a professor every waking minute. You spend your vacations at conferences, your summers trying to get ahead on research. You read papers before breakfast and after dinner. Or you burn out after getting tenure, get a heavy teaching load as punishment for your lack of productivity, and turn into the kind of professor everybody has an anecdote about. The one with nutjob politics who never turns up for office hours, or the one who lectures while hung over or still drunk.

Sorry to rant, grad school is no picnic and I wish I'd gone into it with my eyes wider open. I'm happy with the end result, personal growth, seeing things on a higher level, being "doctor" so-and-so, having an awesome job, but it's not at all an easy way out if you're tired of what you're doing now.
I really don't see it. People can still buy Bluetooth headphones from any company and there's no Apple tax on those. I realize a lot of people here have different experiences, but among my friends, virtually everyone has switched to Bluetooth anyway except for listening at home or in the office. Not having a cord is just so freeing.

Not to mention the point made elsewhere in this thread that they bundle the adapter for people who still prefer wired.
Very modest bonus in the trenches. RSUs granted before October 2015 vest early (today). You could buy a nice new car, but not a yacht. (I couldn't buy a Model S with my buyout bump, for example, although I'm sure some others are seeing bigger bonuses.)
First, I learned a lot from this. But, here's some light criticism:

1. Joel saying "I didn't understand that question" and then moving on might have been succinct and practical, but it was just not a good reflection of him.

2. He acts like R1C1 mode is the only way handle relative references for the first 13 minutes. One of the first things I learned in Excel was $ to pin a reference to row or column in what he calls "baby mode". I think it's not babyish to use $ which is more succinct; you can edit the formula and see the calculated value right away. It seemed like he waited a long time to talk about that.

3. "Almost none of which you can do in Google spreadsheets" at 18:15. Sounds so pro-Microsoft, right? Yet, if you look, he's obviously using OS X, which is surprising to me, because MS Office has historically sucked on OS X compared to its Windows counterpart, and it's been incomplete: https://9to5mac.com/2016/01/21/windows-mac-ipad-microsoft-of... even though, yes, it's a lot better than it used to be. Also, Google docs is free.
Rating things
VMS was supposed to die, but got transitioned to a new company called VMS Software Inc.
Is there a standardized excel knowledge test and or certification? As a senior analyst excel expertise is requisite, but is very hard to interview for...I had to make an excel test just to empirically rate our analyst candidates. I know there are the excel competitions (http://www.modeloff.com/) and great resources (http://www.chandoo.com/wp), but no rating system for knowledge (even basic) of excel. Think the big investment banks would be interested in "testing" their analysts empirically before hiring them?
It will perform better than f/2.2 of the old phone. I know several professional photographers who often carry the iPhone when they don't need all their equipment. Its not that hard to take good photos with it, especially with enough light
Hmm, sorry but I don't buy that the "correct way to validate" is not to validate the input.

Email addresses aren't a special enough case to be handled differently than any other user input, which we always validate to both sanitize and show client-side errors, if nothing else.

Sure, the complete regex is complex, but it is defined and is hardly unconquerable. Look at Django's `EmailValidator` implementation for example [0] that is mature and well tested [1].

The author has not convinced me that ignoring validation is the right choice when options with a scope so thorough exist.

[0]: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/val...

[1]: https://github.com/django/django/blob/a9215b7c36bff232bcc941...
Bootstrap was just an example. It could Bootstrap, Materialize, W3.CSS, etc.

The point is that it's much more convenient to reuse code from a framework, because it's better to sacrifice file size for fast iteration and functionality.
Asking to retype though being a simple solution IMHO is asking for a lot. Consider a user who uses mobile phone, even copy paste is annoying. Validating if the mail box exists and that it does not belong to a provider like mailinator and then sending a confirmation link to them works. While its not perfect, it does address lot of other concerns without sacrificing user experience.
I think it's a case of self-selection bias at work here. People who avoid proprietary formats are more likely to simply avoid iPhone/Apple threads altogether, so you simply won't hear them chiming in as much.
Fascinating article, but there's NO WAY that Reuters had that much contact with state public health folks without being aware that they track lab results. Misleading!

This shouldn't be surprising. Imagine if Reuters wrote an article that said:

- Everyone acknowledges that superbugs are an issue

- Hospitals are doing their best with their limited resources, but overall are capturing a good deal of data

- The data systems are old, but the CDC can get the data and with some manual work process it, but it takes time

- Everyone agrees that more could be done, but they also agree it's complex and nothing is perfect.

No one would read the article!!
It's not a matter of percent. If a very corrupted country decided to get rid of all mafia at once, it could mean a high percentage of the countrymen tried. However getting rid of an ethnic minority, or of the homosexuals, is not ok. The limit is very hard to draw precisely。
Unfortunately many only prolong their dying, not avoid it.
Such bad timing :-) Not ten minutes ago, I just ordered a USB keyboard to setup my new Raspberry Pi 3! Let me add to the others that this is a great idea.
They ended up writing off 9 billion or so of that purchase.
Likely also related to the fact that this is arguably the first time than an iPhone release has removed a feature. The highest top-level comment in this thread is about the removal of the headphone jack, and that subthread alone has 644 comments.
Sony Xperia Z2
HTC ONE (M8,M9, etc)
Nexus 6, 6P

I'm sure many others.

I can almost see that distortion field works...
Courage.

/straight face
Yes. It is incredibly hard to believe, considering sexual orientation isn't a matter of like (as in liking math, or strawberries, or the color blue) but as far as I know is innate.

Preference outside of sexuality is attained through experimentation and learning. A lot of people are deeply suspicious to the point of hatred of cultures and ways of thought they don't understand well or have a misunderstanding of. I believe dislike of mathematics falls into the misunderstanding category. Being a gay man versus a straight man isn't a misunderstanding, it's part of who a person is. Obviously it took some self discovery for an individual to determine their sexual identity, but whether you like or dislike math isn't on the same level. Some people are more spatially inclined and have an easier time grasping higher math (I am not included in this group) but some people have to work their ass off for every shred of mathematical understanding (I am in this group). Some people don't understand why this work would or could be worth it. Some people never even get to the point where they have to do anything other than 'plug and chug' to get the right answer for the worksheet, and so see nothing valid or useful in the stuff we teach in most math classes before upper division college level.
Slowed down whale song.
It could be related to increased moderator diligence in culling Apple threads today. Previously, the front page would become clogged the days new models were announced. # of upvotes on single threads is not particularly useful absent more context/ information.
Seems like a pretty accurate estimation, to me. The phone itself is 7.3mm thick, which means the case would be at least 1+mm on each side. Let's be generous and say the battery's 3mm thick now. Adding another 1mm would be a 33% capacity improvement.
IIRC, with the 6 the unlocked model wasn't available for a couple months but the 6S was available immediately. It was enough that I didn't bother with the 6 because by the time it was available and in stock it was close enough to wait until September.
Stanislaw Ulam, Louis de Broglie
True but I'm not actually sure the smaller SE size is so bad--I'm not sure I actually need all this real estate. In fact, as I look to switch to an android phone because of this headphone nonsense, I'm actually finding my new problem is not being able to find a phone small enough!

Maybe I'll regret it but my next phone (and last iPhone) might be an SE.
I would guess a lot of the Hacker News crowd has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Enterprise software utilization. A lot of the stuff, you only see if you're in the IT department at an older company larger than a certain size.
Small/Medium sized companies that are rapidly growing right now
Oh absolutely. The other side isn't necessarily better, it just comes with a different set of risks/costs/benefits. You have to weigh those against each other to see which makes more sense for your situation.

But if you take the less safe/secure option, you can't expect much sympathy.
the guy says he's not an idiot then brags about spending $30 per month on a VPS (idiot), for a single-page static HTML website with all inline-code (idiot+1).

It's not being negative to point out the glaring flaws in a person's statements. My assumption is the entire thing is an advertisement for that hosting service.
I will not deign
To now refrain
From laying bear the nudity of scholars
Who think their robes
Befitting clothes
And prove it to themselves in words and dollars
The fittest minds
In all mankind
Regret now all they ever took for granted
Remove your blinds
And see the signs;
There's more to all than said will be recanted.
I think the gem in all of this is HavenOnDemand but absolutely NO ONE has even heard of it ... https://www.havenondemand.com ... it can clearly compete w/ Bluemix ...
Only for problems that were just out of reach for your normal mindset but still ultimately within your capability to handle. At a certain point, you need someone better than yourself to get better.
EURGBP: Puts in Temporary Bottom, Recovers Higher
I don't know, I hate dealing with sprites, it just not worth it in my opinion, the time you spent on every edit...
Except where the iPad Pro actually has _more_ ports than the Macbook (Lightning, 3.5mm, whatever-that-pro-keyboard-magnetic-port-contacts-thingy-is.
Fastmail here. Migrated a couple of years ago, never looked back.
"While this is a usage pattern familiar to HN'ers the average user doesn't care too much about cloud services"

Umm don't know which world you're living in but Google Now/Search, Photos, Maps/Waze, Youtube, Gmail, Calendar, Hangouts, Drive.. etc. Pretty much every smartphone in the world is running one or more of those services on a daily basis.

Care to name one Apple cloud service that's so indispensable to that many users? Or perhaps, even just to iOS users?
I genuinely thought this comment was sarcastic at first. I completely agree that Apple is highly focused on user experience and keeping you as a customer long term rather than making a quick buck, but I have to say, I hope I don't come across as this fanatical when talking about Apple with my friends. :p
I'm not sure how you got that idea from the post you are responding to.
It's also a security issue and you should set up CSP to prohibit online CSS.
See a random Google search result http://dontkry.com/posts/code/disable-inline-styles.html or like I did read "The Tangled Web"

Edit: that's obviously a non-issue in this particular case since everything is static. But as a best practice this needs to be considered and inline CSS doesn't make you a boss.
> undoubtedly we'll soon have a breakout device like the MacBook has for having HDMI, audio in/out, and power all through the one port.

The Dell XPS 13 has a USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) port, which can do display, audio, and AC power all in the same port.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd
Im actually fine with that. The leather apple case doesn't add too much weight as it is but I feel the phone is way too light and slippery without it.
On the Media had a podcast that talked about this: http://www.wnyc.org/story/challenge-fighting-terrorism-onlin...

Essentially experts agree that this will do next to nothing to stop individuals from radicalizing.

However, I bet that this program will prove to be a useful propaganda tool to be used on everyone else though.
"If google disappeared, you would basically get china and other companies would fill in the gap."

The incoherence of that response (China is not a company) should be a clue.