skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison, here's how HN reacted to some previous iPhone launches:

iPhone 6s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193201

iPhone 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292029

iPhone 5s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361558

iPhone 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512316
The goroutine panics. Nil dereferences are recoverable from[1], but I'm not sure how many people expect standard library code to panic.

[1]: https://play.golang.org/p/hjfaNQbOBO
hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Which Google applications are actually used on the iOS? The only one I have installed is Youtube and only because the mobile version of the website is even worse than the app.

I don't think the disappearance of Youtube app in it's current form would make any difference.
"They're portraying the negligent company as the victim!"

While I agree that things like sql injection are negligent, there were also credit card hacks/leaks(and an nsa leak) that were the result of malicious contractors. Saying "dont hire bad people" is easy, but how do you do that?

And the standard for best practices is constantly moving in our industry, how do we decide when it is negligence, and when there was nothing that could be done.

Not saying people are being harmed by this, Im just saying its not so black and white. In some cases the companies that were hacked couldnt have reasonably stopped it. I mean, how do you prevent contractors from setting up something that steals credit card numbers? You hired the contractors because you dont have those skills in house.
By "fundamentally different", I mean that the most accurate model will be something like this:

repayment_probability = 1 x downpayment_frac + 0.5 x credit_score + A x isBlack

for some A != 0. I.e., if A = -0.2, then a black borrower with a 60% downpayment is as likely to pay back a loan as a white borrower with a 40% downpayment.

If A = 0, then the bias described by tlb and danso won't occur.

What you describe with hidden variables is called "redundant encoding", and it's just a way of recovering the `A x isBlack` term if you remove `isBlack` from your input set. But if blacks and whites repay their loans at the same rate (holding all else equal), redundant encoding won't happen - it doesn't actually improve accuracy.

I describe this in more detail here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_...

I agree with you that the core issue is an unspecified true goal. Folks are unwilling to publicly and explicitly state how many bad loans should be issued for fairness or how many unqualified students should be allowed into college for diversity.

Or for an example closer to home, how much we should lower the bar in order to hire more non-Asian minorities in tech? Daring to ask that question gets you some pretty hostile responses.
Previously I worked in a place where it wasn't the case that deploys of new code often brought down the service (a webapp). If the service went down it was usually because some random DB or Kafka topic or something else I don't understand at all took a shit in the middle of the night.

So we just kept deployments on weekdays before about 4pm and if the site went down outside of that, well, it wasn't because of a deploy. And if it was, we were there to fix.
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/04/gitlab-is-part-of-the-y-...
Hard work is overrated. What you really want is curiosity. You can refine something with hard work, but broadening your horizons comes from a desire to see what can be done. Basically, do you want to create a refined version of what's already been done, or do you want to explore what's possible. You can alternate between them to push in both directions, but the mindset is different.
A lot of early android phones had this, it was much nicer. If your holding the phone in your hand you just put your arm down and slide it in your pocket. With the headphone jack on top you have to turn the phone around every time you put it in/take it out.

Of course apple and their legion will claim it as an innovation.
My original post was all about the distribution and rarity of people with different IQ results and how the article confuses the three different cohorts. Those three cohorts are defined by IQ. The terms "above average," "gifted" and "genius" all refer to IQ scores.

I agree with you that using these terms in the colloquial sense is undefined, and therefore useless to discuss. Hence, why I wasn't using that meaning of the word "intelligent."

If my argument was that HN commenters had higher intelligence and I was referring to an amorphous concept, then yes, my position would not be possible to defend.

However, my position was that the majority of commenters on here would be in the top 10%, as defined by IQ tests, since that is what the original article was talking about.

[Edit: I mean, what would I even be saying to say someone is in the top 10%, 1% or .01% of a subjective, poorly defined quality? It would be nonsense. I would have to be referring to something measurable to even try to divide people into cohorts by such measure.

Unless you actually think I am sitting there looking at people and saying hmm, I think, yes, you are better than 99 out of 100 people I know in terms of intelligence. And you, yes, you, you are better than 9,999 out of 10,000 people. You are just that smart. That's just silly.

And come to think of it, if I was referring to a subjective quality, then I could decide who is the best, and I could just declare that HN commentators are in the top 10%, because well, that's the the way I feel about it]
Why do they always focus on the daylight after work? I need daylight to get going in the morning. I've hated moving daylight-savings earlier. Now I have to wake up for an extra month in the dark. Waking up in the dark makes me damn grumpy.
I wonder if you'll be able to buy just one, or if you'll have to buy a whole new pair.
Don't you think this move isn't anything other than Apple now has another set of accessories to sell at a premium? Dongle lost: buy another one. Tons of headphones obsolete: no problem, Apple and Beats are going to be rolling out dozens that are compatible. $$$
I wonder how much the publicity angle plays into their decisions on retiring interfaces? Looking at this one, they've had thousands of articles and comments written over a headphone jack. Would the phone's release receive quite the same level of coverage had they left it unchanged?
I am troubled too but here's why I think this makes sense.

Phones will continue to get thinner and thinner. Apple have looked ahead and said, in the future when this thing gets thin enough there won't be any space for any adapters. The main competitor for use of the Lightning port is charging (as we can see from all the comments), but what if come iPhone 8 they will introduced simple wireless charging. Suddenly the need for any port then would come into question and pave the way for a significant further reductions in phone thickness.
I wasn't worried; I was making the argument that the lightning connector is more durable (in my experience) than 3.5mm, hence anyone who's satisfied with the durability of a 3.5mm plug (as you seem to be) would have no problems with the durability of the lightning plug. If you're not worried about this, why did you try and argue against it?
Economies of scale. Everyone wanted a high def 16:9 display, so the dyes for 4:3 became too expensive. I also miss my visually perfect 16:10, but alias time marches on.
Eh, not really. Try listening to music while you charge today and watch how slow it is to charge.
Additionally, and more importantly, the governments of EU countries themselves do not respect any of the supposed privacy laws.

All EU countries have their own intelligence services that are doing substantially the same thing as the NSA does, every day.
The point isn't really that paper is better. It's that we had systems that worked for a long time and we removed them. We shouldn't need to walk lots of checks to the IRS, that's the point of modern tech.

However, the IRS maintaining the capability of using old, simpler methods should be retained because it serves as a backup for (hopefully rare) situations where the primary infrastructure fails.
As having a large DB and a slew of analytics built and tested...just to start with...we are aligned in many ways (competition???, maybe from a surface perception). We are launching our "Core" and various "Interaction Points" sooner than later..but I'd Like to converse one, by asking you, since in general the way one would perceive your company via your site, your a "SILO" for collecting and holding and protecting some of the most valuable data that could exist (We understand the levity of that), so the "ask" is: Opensource? Do you own your entire physical data servers and it's backups and locations in which the reside, and mostly...how do you verify the data to the owner? A 23&ME report and raw data etc...would be easier by some to submit under false identification to "sway" results for a variety of reasons and outcomes. This has been one of our largest targets to nail down and after 3 years of being a brain cancer survivor, genetic tested on many different levels (whole, exome, specific, etc) and ran this along with the 100, we like where we are...

this is purely a curious mind talking here with something very dear to me and after looking at your site I see alot of momentum and great things.

to the gen audience...I believe, bc I too created a company that (in a broader way) has added this component to our project...this @ Sequence.com is a good thing, and in basic principle we all need to contribute (FYI, the world needs a large sample of "Healthy" DNA contributions to have a better end result) - - long winded me today,

what would you need to contribute?:
monetization? control? real-time sharing/use of notification? level of security?

what would make you absolutely say no? never!
Neckbands look ugly and unwieldy, not saying people don't like them just that Apple would never make them.
I share this sentiment. Per their own Release page [1], this one is considered a minor version with no major features, so I don't particularly find it notable, whereas a major version would probably stimulate more discussion about the new features.

I'm not sure where the line is between 'I don't find this notable' vs. 'I find this explicitly off-topic', the latter of which would warrant a flag.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html
Numbers, for example, is surprisingly capable & way nicer to use than Excel or Google Docs for a home user.
Using GitHub issues as a CMS
Interferometric arrays come to mind. An 8x8 array of small, flat lenses will eventually be just as good as one big one.
I go a solid week on mine with no real issues. That said I don't push it too often. It's more about not NEEDING to charge it daily. So I forget for 3 or 4 days then I go "Oh, right..." and plug it in. In no time it's good for another week of my bad memory. I would often leave the others home sometimes when I left it in the kitchen over night.
Does anyone have a link to his phd thesis btw?
You can always buy a new iPhone 7 for another free adapter.

Joking aside, I think most people won't notice as the new EarPods connect to the Lightning. That is what I mostly see people with iPhones around having.
>Increasingly, Google is treating the mobile devices as just a conduit to access their cloud services

While this is a usage pattern familiar to HN'ers the average user doesn't care too much about cloud services.

Average users care more about things like camera, battery, music, playing games and overall ease of use.

The only critical Google service for iPhone users is search (and maybe Youtube). Both are available from the browser.
It is not. The purpose of a PHD is to advance the sphere of human knowledge as it applies to a subset of existing data in a unique way. Getting the PHD by proving something empirically is the point of a PHD. This does not require a great deal of intelligence. Not enough to warrant more than a participation badge, anyway. e.g. Computer Science, where there's tons of data and few people have done the grunt work of organizing it for a statistician.
cool. Will try it.
He's probably referring to the iPhone Upgrade Program, which is $32/month and gets you a new iPhone every year.
YC owns 6% of the company when they go through their program. This stake is diluted further in future rounds of financing.

This is not enough stake in the preferred shares to dictate anything.
Its our pets too ...

My dog was recently diagnosed with MRSP (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius) urinary track infection.

Having mostly avoided the vet for the duration of his life (being that he was healthy) I have no idea how this happened.
The lens cover on the iPhone is sapphire. Not unbreakable, but.l not quite glass either. That should help.
Water resistant sounds like break resistant. It doesn't make any promises.
You have not offended this Portuguese. However, if one was to go exclusively by your account, one would come out with the understanding that is a country of incompetent slackers, and I'm sorry, but that simply isn't true. I do however concede that most of management in here is fairly amateurish and incompetent.
The "issue for some future design" is that the traditional headphone jack doesn't let them sell premium and proprietary headphones.
Well if I can buy good $2 Lightning cables from daiso, I bet someone will do it in a few months/years.
> They could easily extend the battery by a good 30% or more by making it as thick as the camera bump.

The camera bump on the 6S is ~1mm high. 30% more battery capacity in that amount of space seems optimistic.
I'm not sure why everyone is getting hung up on the fact that this is implemented with strings and a switch statement. Who cares? Use constants. If JS had enums we would use them, but it doesn't.

The point is that there are a finite, well-enumerated set of possible state changes, which are all localized in one place: the reducer. Whether you call them "DO_THING" vs. constants.actions.DO_THING (which could be an integer or whatever you want) or whether you use a switch statement vs. if block vs. dictionary lookup is entirely up to you.
"at least two people that are unquestionably in the top 0.01% of math ability."

To whom are you referring to, if I may ask, and what do they do? (I would just like to learn about them)
> Top notch waterproof

You mean those stupid plastic flaps with the gaskets that came unglued and prevented the flaps from even closing properly?

http://stellatech.com/pubs/uploads/54c8de18efd94.jpg

And after marketing it as an underwater camera, they later backpedaled and said "waterproofing was tested in a standby state under laboratory conditions, do not attempt to use the phone underwater"?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sony-don-t-use-waterproof...

Waterproofing, maybe. Top notch waterproofing, absolutely not.
> writing on my Thunderbolt display

I really hope you aren't actually writing this on the display.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281469
Thanks. I relate to what you said.
Having the camera bulge sells more cases. (Who wants to lay their lens directly on a dirty surface when it sticks out more than the rest of the phone?)
" Kennedy then supported the Bay of Pigs assault, but pulled back at the crucial moment when the rebels needed support, and the whole affair was a disaster."

Kennedy was handed the Bay of Pigs by Ike. I've wrote up a timeline of the Bay of Pigs (citations included) about 3 weeks ago ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12324273

"Castro was also a troubled character who actually advocated using nuclear weapons against the USA, and had to be persuaded that it was a bad idea because the fallout would hit Cuba."

Maybe, the decision to use tactical nukes in the battlefield was left to commanders in the field.
The tavern arrangement described has a vestigial remnant in Australia where pubs are called "hotels" (not that they aren't also called pubs). Drinking establishments were required to provide food and a place to stay.

My dad described motorbike trips he and his brother took in the 50s when they would pull up at a pub and ask for something to eat and a place to stay -- on more than a few occasions he'd be offered basically to share the publican's dinner and then told they could sleep in their swag in the yard. So technically meeting the requirements.

Since I've been old enough to drink I've been in plenty of pubs that couldn't supply a meal much less a place to stay. I assume those laws are off the books by now.
That's where I've ended up too. Were the others cool? No doubt. But realistically I RARELY opened the other fun apps that benefited from the touch screen. 99% of the time it was Reminders, Notifications, Email previews, Voice Text replies, step counting, and of course... the time. All of which the Pebble does like a charm. And not having to squint at it in the sun is just pure joy.
WAKE UP Your ENEMY ;)
GOING ON WAKEUPYOURENEMY.COM
I also suspect that's one of two reasons that Apple hasn't shown an inclination to move to USB-C for devices that currently have Lightning ports -- the switch from the 30-pin dock connector to Lightning caused an awful lot of screaming. It's kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation from a PR perspective: people are beating them up here on HN for pushing Lightning audio, but if they'd announced they were moving from Lightning to USB-C and dropping the analog headphone jack? They don't have that much Courage™.

The second reason is that the physical USB-C connector is thicker than the Lightning connector. Not by much, but it really is; in fact, it's about as thick as...a 3.5mm headphone jack. Right then. (This is also why the wildcard option of putting both a Lightning connector and a USB connector on the phone was a non-starter.)

I know there's an argument to be made that it's all about the Benjamins, that Apple just wants licensing money and maybe to wave around the DRM boogeyman. Maybe, but I honestly think that's more of a happy bonus for them than an overriding consideration. They're control freaks who don't like to share with others, but they're regularly on board with non-proprietary standards when they think that's what makes a better product. Remember, they were one of the first major companies out of the gate with a USB-C (only!) computer, and Apple was involved with the design of the USB-C connector.
> That said, the arguments against OpenSSL seem to be largely theoretical at this point

I would disagree. This is a recent paper on the state of OpenSSL's userspace PRNG, for example, finding several issues: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/367.pdf
It is much nicer. That may be why Apple copied it, which is something I've observed them to do on a fairly regular basis. I really appreciate the efforts of Android users in vetting stuff like that; it's a lot nicer as an iPhone owner not to have to worry quite so much about new ideas turning out bad, because a lot of the time they've been well put through their paces before Apple takes a look at them.

Do we really need that last sentence? Is this perhaps not already divisive enough a subject for anyone?
Yeah, that the unit is more attractive than the parent is listed in the press release: Accelerates HPE's strategy to unlock faster-growing, higher-margin and stronger free cash flow company.

There is also the consolidation and cash payment to consider. All told the spinoff is probably cheaper than trying to buy the competitor.
Thanks! Anyone know more about the following fascinating theorem? I'm guessing it's Cook's Theorem (I vaguely recollect from Ullman's Automata course), but I don't recall it the way Knuth puts it:

> Steve Cook had proved a very amazing theorem. He said that if you could, if you took a certain kind of computer that's very limited in its capability, and if you could write a program for that dumb kind of computer to solve a problem, no matter how slow that program was then there was a fast way to write a program for a real computer.

[92 - The Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm]
Only in western democracies. In Russia and China, for example, the government has the legal right to monitor any communication whatsoever, and always has.
Having spent time at schools of various "ranks" (whatever that means), "politics" (whatever that means ... that's super vague) is everywhere. It's what you make of it. Whenever you have people, money, and status mixing, there is politics. That's not exclusive to academia. Every company I've worked at also had those dynamics. Want to eliminate politics? Be independently wealthy and work alone :) Otherwise everyone needs to learn to work with and transcend the system in their own unique way.
The Thinkpad's are $400 devices (11e is the model), and they are indeed junk. The battery lasts around 3-4 hours which means kids have to find an outlet to work. The charging circuit makes an intermittent high pitched whine that many kids are complaining about (I can't hear it). When my daughter's is plugged in, the time until charged is always "UNKNOWN". Apparently, that's a common problem.

There have been issues with the touchpad as well, although my daughter's has been fine.

So, yes I wish they used Chromebooks. We could at least just buy a new one, log in, and have everything there ready to go.
Can we also take a minute to notice that this is also closing the analog hole?
Sure honor killing is an exception, but tiger mothers will tell you that they work hard to make sure their kids will be happy in their adult life. Maybe I wouldn't agree with their definition of happiness, because to me bring the best is very far from it. Being able to ensure high pressure, however, is a condition of happiness in many places.
Hopefully one day we will replace CAs with something decentralized(i.e based on DNSSEC). CAs make sense only if you need an EV certificate.
Historically isn't the issue. The issue is a simple factual question of whether, all else held equal, black people repay their loans at the same rate as whites in identical financial circumstances. The fact that in aggregate financial circumstances might be different isn't important to this question.

If they do, then you don't need to worry about algorithms discriminating. Insofar as they do it's merely a sampling error (i.e. shrinks like O(1/sqrt(N)), where N = Nwhite + Nblack) and they are just as likely to discriminate in favor as against.

If they don't, then you subscribe to scientific racism, or the belief that blacks and whites in identical circumstances behave fundamentally differently.

(I describe these different cases in explicit detail here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_... )

So do you believe race affects reality independent of other factors? And assuming you do subscribe to scientific racism, what should we do about it?
Can you flatten a sphere?
Version 1 came out a decade ago. They've had 10 years to get to version 2. Collaborative editing is so old hat by now it's not even a thing anymore.
They shipped with a double firewire/USB cord for one of the iPod generations!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6FT-Genuine-Apple-iPod-Dual-USB-Fire...
How I used a / B testing to hack my kids
>I question whether people will think to use them if they go into their phone for a specific task.

IMO, they will not. I know 8-10 people with 6S/6S+ iPhones and _none_ of those people use force touch.
>I find it to be a problem.

Why?
> a spin-off and merger of its non-core software assets

Does anyone know HP well enough to summarize what the "core" business is?
I don't think many women fit the image you have created. You seem to me unduly judgmental of people you don't actually know very well, if at all. I'll leave it at that.
Story discussed at considerable length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432079

Also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432031
Apple dévoile officiellement l'iPhone 7 et iPhone 7 Plus
What miserable trash. Apple id dead to me.

It already was, even more so now. Why am I even here.