skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've hit the nail on the head with the trust and responsibility. There does need to be overall planning and co-ordination; but solutions cannot be dictated at a large scale. Instead /goals/ must be dictated, strive for X, prevent Y, co-operate with Z to prevent unwanted unintended consequences.

Larger governing bodies need to provide a basic framework, the minimum standard and boundary for the system's operation. Possibly a framework for re-adjusting or outright re-initiating failed layers they contain.

They should then provide both the goals and responsibilities to their contained units, but not an express direction on how the task is to be handled. This allows for adjusting and reacting at a more finely grained level which also reduces the time needed to reach consensus and adjust.

I would like to provide an example. It's true of the metro area that I live in, and I suspect it is true of others as well. There appears to be a complete disconnect between landing sources of jobs, providing places for workers to live, and reliable transit to/from jobs. In particular suburban sprawl from hell exists (yet is confined vaguely within outlying urban growth boundaries); a result that is a misuse of resources and ensures that traffic is a nightmare. What's worse, departments of the government, such as the DoT, are so focused that they can only see trying to use their own specific hammer on the problem, instead of working with other departments to reach an actual solution.

In the containers system, the DoT would work with some urban planning / their own measurement to show current and projected traffic needs, as well as the budget required for tolerating them. Their containing layer, reacting to the massive budget shortfall properly, would pass directives that require localities to increase the density of 'quality' housing and lower the housing prices, and 'make the housing attractive to families'. The localities would then react and modify the environment, leading to an actual solution to the issue.

Government is a complex system, just like an engineer of any discipline should recognize, and it needs a massive overhaul.
had one of those, it broke, had a moto G 3rd gen, but I kind of like my security and outside of Nexus or a load of hassle, I'm not getting that on android.
> Samsung Galaxy S7

> Android Kit-Kat is solid

The S7 doesn't ship with Kit-Kat, does it? I think it has always shipped with at least Marshmallow
Try uMatrix, which combines many of those functions into one extension. It's by the same person as uBlock Origin.
lol not very practical out on the hills...
"If you want to opt out that is fine. You can just toil in the hinterlands, and die young"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY
Wow that's pretty sad. Knowing the low price of (effectively) indestructible cloud store (S3) and the near zero bandwidth cost of something like this (I mean seriously how much traffic do you really expect per site?), that's particularly sad.
I find it interesting how hard people are trying to find some reason for Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack, aside from the very obvious one: they're going to make a shitload of money by forcing everyone to buy new headphones.

Apple gets royalties from the production of Lightning connectors, which they certainly don't from standard 1/8th-inch TRS jacks. So therefore, they have a very obvious and vested interest in killing off standardized connectors and pushing everything to proprietary connectors, for which they receive royalties, whenever possible.
Apple's profits are on the downward slope, and their new acquisition of Beats along with them changing the headphone interface that's been in use for decades gives them great opportunity for revenue -- selling people premium upgraded headphones while instantly forcing all their devoted fans to upgrade. That has got to be worth $50-200 a user.

As far as traditional headphones go, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Unfortunately, Apple knows we've hit Peak Smartphone, and they are running out of grown opportunities, so this is simply an attempt to create more growth where it doesn't otherwise exist.

It's mostly milking their customers and the industry.
Yet solutions emerge, even if individual agents have zero intelligence

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/Gode%20and%20Sunder-JP...

Your lack of belief in the force of the free hand is troubling, especially when it can be proved by computer models and reality.
To be honest, if you walk off an airplane, almost anywhere you will be able to buy a missing cable you may have misplaced to charge any popular hardware at most for the price of a lunch or two.

Also, hotels have cables.

Yes, there are parts of the world where the above does not hold, but did you really mean ANY country in the world?
my wife has a dock that does this with her iphone SE. it doesn't use the 3.5mm jack, just lightning. So I'm speculating it's not a limitation of the lightning connector per se, but that of the dongle.
This may be a case where the European Union antitrust authorities mandate that Apple do something different. This seems to be a textbook case of monopoly status in one domain being used to exert a monopoly in another (headphones).
yeah the moto G 3rd edition I've got isn't terrible. A bit slow though.

That said I'm very much not a fan of Motorola's attitude to security patching http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/07/motorola-moto-g-z-m... which is one reason for me to want to move off the platform.
I found the WhatsApp integration the most intriguing part of the announcement. By allowing calls from WhatsApp to also be received, I am assuming they are making the native calling/iMessaging API available to any iOS application.

While messaging with iMessage, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp, etc. can be done over WiFi only, calling is traditionally reliant on a cellular provider. The new iPhone only requires a WiFi network, and with the proliferation of WiFi and the first city-wide networks (e.g. Barcelona), it is possible that in the next decade all communication will be done over the Internet.

Also, during a recent trip to Japan I saw an $120 SIM card that gives unlimited Internet access for a year. This works out to $10/month, which is far less than what I pay for Verizon. So in a way this new iPhone may eventually cause cellular networks to primarily become providers of remote Internet access, as telephony shifts to the apps that the local people use to connect with each other.
The DAC in the iPhone is as good as any external DAC you can buy, when it comes to human perceivable sound quality. Any other claims are audiophile BS and placebo.

There are valid product reasons for moving away from the 3.5mm jack though, like adding a power line that allows you to make active noise-canceling headphones that don't require their own battery, or outputting to more than two (stereo) speakers over a single cable.
But a paper system which uses mail also has huge dependencies. You rely on a transportation and post office infrastructure that can also have problems.

In fact, the internet was funded by DARPA to deal with disruption of the conventional communication network.
Considering, what, 90% of start-ups fail in the first 5 years (80% in the first year)* I'm actually surprised a lot more are not dead. Though 5 years haven't passed for most of these so maybe there will be significantly more dead soon.

*if I remember the statistic correctly
Yep: https://webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/
Just being helpful: http://medium.com/city-as-a-service/
How Edward Snowden Escaped
Maybe.

The thing is the baby is incapable of reasoning. They're not capable of asking for food. They're not capable, often, of picking it up to eat it themselves. They need help but can't ask for it. They don't know what's good for them or the balance of foods to consume. They'll be hungry and throw the food on the floor .. they can't tell you "oh, sorry, I didn't mean to do that I was actually trying hard to eat it but, you know, 9 month old motor-control". Sometimes you have to just shove it in there, then watch them chew, swallow and smile and open their mouth for more.

A web browser user that wants to do video calling can use a search engine, or look up add-ons. They can respond to their browser maker putting a "we recommend SuperDoublePlusGood add-on for communicating with your friends" advert alongside the new release information. A browser add-on isn't essential to life, nor essential to using the browser.

When the baby is already eating I don't shove something else in their mouth because it's a different brand and I think that brand is better despite it doing the same thing.

Pushing analogies too far sucks.
Thnx ;)
http://lwn.net/Articles/686811/
That iMac supported USB thumbdrives or any other USB drive. Like a MacBook Air or other ultrabook format machine today.

> Are AirPods the most advanced headphones ever to come with a music device?

They don't come with it. They are optional accessories. The new phone comes with Thunderbolt wired headphones.
33% is way too low as a failure rate for pre-seed startups. I think that number may be around what you would expect for Series A startups. The data is skewed because class sizes have grown over time so the data is skewed towards younger companies.
Selflessness and Startups
>1. "I have kids that I can use my vacation time for". If you think this way, you shouldn't apply for a job at a startup. You need to be prepared that there is a good chance for you to not spend a minute with your family, nor to have a vacation, over next months/years.

This is 100% a ridiculous belief that investors try to cram into founders' heads so they can get more free labor (on top of the already-depressed salaries many investors already mandate). It is not good for your company to overwork its employees, even when the company is a startup.

Some flexibility re: crunch time or emergency changes is reasonable, some expectation of working some evenings here or there, but this belief that someone should go weeks, months, or years with minimal family or vacation time is bonkers. Only the desperate fall for it, and only the naive manager tries to enforce it.

Investors may promote it because they're effectively running the equivalent of a shiny sweatshop. Neither founders nor employees should accept this type of abuse.

My advice is to never take a job that even hints these are the expected working conditions.

>2. From what I learned, startups don't necessarily hire the best technical person. The are looking for the best motivated one. From what you write, it may appear that you are not really motivated/interested.

Again, this is a red flag for an employer you don't want to work for. Not everyone hires strictly based on technical merit, and that's fine -- culture fit is important. But if that culture's demands are that you work 65 hours a week for them and smile while doing it, you must run. These guys are not attracting real technical talent. They are attracting desperate collegiates looking for lottery tickets. Once you're no longer a desperate collegiate, you don't want those people to be your colleagues.

> Got rejected by, probably, 100 companies, and got only two offers. And not because I am a jerk or technically incompetent. It's just in most cases I was not really interested, and I believe people saw that. So, it looked really strange and unfortunate to me, but I totally understand why it happened, and don't blame anyone except for myself.

That you went to 100 interviews and got only 2 offers is a big red flag also. My experience is that good help will get an offer on a much higher portion of their interviews than that, maybe something between 30-50%? As stated previously perhaps you're just targeting the wrong companies, but if you're a skilled developer and you have a 2% offer rate, you are doing something seriously wrong. Maybe it's asking for too much for your skill level, maybe it's not washing well enough before the interview, I don't know what it is, but that's way low.

I'm not trying to take away from the sentiment that job seekers be prepared, good candidates, but it sounds like there's a lot about your approach that could do with some tweaking.
Millennials are more conservative than you may think
What's important is a familiarity and a comfort with rigor.

You don't have to be a genius to gain that. It might even be a liability - you don't have to follow the formula to get the right answer ( because you're impatient and want to go play outside ) ; you can just see the answer. This happened to me, and I spent a couple or four years as an undergrad undoing damage I'd done to myself that way.

I'd buy a lot more about what we think we know of human capability if there was even the most modest attempt to control for this factor.

I went to what used to be a "normal" school that had risen to university status. It still mainly taught teachers although I pursued a BSCS.

I asked the department chairman of the department why math was taught "from the wrong end of the telescope" and even he didn't really know why. I suppose the proofs course is no way to get buy in, but had I started with proofs rather than what they taught as algebra, I'd have had an easier time of it. I'd taken geometry but even algebra was still a morass, until I'd gotten a grounding in proofs.
you sleep with headphones? Not trying to be a dick here... I would like to do the same, but I'd fall asleep with headphones and roll over or something and send my phone flying.
But then you have to rely on the car's data USB port supplying enough current to charge the phone while the audio + GPS are draining the battery. That's not always a sure bet, depending on the particular car's specs.
Black matter and finiteness come back on a regular basis in my mind.
Mark my words : Won't sell more than the first one.
I'm sure some accessory makers will start selling lanyards and whatnot that can be attached to the earphones so they are harder to lose.
> They're packaging Lightning headphones in the box and announced their own wireless earbuds that are not Bluetooth.

Have a source for that? That they claim it works with existing Macs kind of implies that it uses Bluetooth.
What?

Why would Verizon want to connect anything to your mom's car?

That's very strange. Could it be that they want to monitor cellphone coverage maybe? Or even monitor their competitors' coverage?

It just creeps me the hell out thinking that my telecom would like to connect something to unrelated stuff...
The thing is, we already have a lightning port. It's a thing that exists. We could already have lightning headphones and the current headphone jack. Together.

Digital doesn't make up for the fact that we're moving from a near-universal standard headphone jack to a proprietary port. One that, mind you, is flat vs. round. The design of the headphone jack is superior. You can plug it in at any angle, and rotate it while plugged in. Now people are stuck with a flat cable that will just twist up during movement.
Same here. The first phase can lead you to BIG psychological pain. Recovering is hard.
No, it's generally taken as a proof of vacuum energy. However, it's arguably just the van der Waals force in disguise.
+1.

It's mostly the fact that it was replaced with the lightning port that gets to me more than anything else. If it was something like USB-C, I'd feel more comfortable since that should be more widely available in time.
I don't think removing the headphone jack is going to be as big a deal as everyone here makes it out to be. I have a pair of bluetooth headphones I use for the gym and I love them. In fact all the headphones I see at the gym anymore are wireless. The only thing I hate is having to charge them. If battery technology keeps improving there will be no advantage to wired headphones. Even from a sound quality perspective there are some very nice sounding bluetooth headphones out there, and I suspect that will only continue to improve. The only thing I really use wired headphones for anymore is as monitors when I'm playing in the band, and that's only because our monitor setup is wired. If I could find a good wireless IEM setup I would be in heaven.

I see this as the direction the market is headed anyway. Apple has just moved to embrace it early.
RE: universal replacement, agreed. I can't see them going to USB-C though, which is a real bummer.
I hope Dell does not screw up EMC Isilon, because Isilon is a big contributor to the FreeBSD project and it would suck to lose their contributions. The link below shows the over 3,000 commits they have made to the FreeBSD project over the years.

https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd&q=emc
Huh, path dependance. By virtue of existence and being big enough, they are worth sticking to.
> sounds a lot like a higher power in the more traditional sense.

I would say it sounds like a higher power in the more technical sense. From my experience, at least in western philosophy and religion "higher power" traditionally implies intelligence or direction, which is a leap that I don't think is required to believe there are things we just won't be able to figure out.
I accidentally downvoted :( (really wish that could be fixed)
Sounds like you may need a ground loop isolator.
You are definitively not alone.

This race to thin phones with unusable battery life reminds me to the race to more and more mega pixels in digital cameras with unusable low exposition quality some years ago. It's just about the buzz, it just hinders the technology in order to be able to tell a more catchy number to consumers.

I would happily go with a 33% thicker iPhone with great battery life and a headphone jack and I doubt that most of the people would notice the difference in size.
I agree with jnordwick that "Quartz and Athena are both failed projects." For example, Mike Dubno, Kirat Singh, and three other managing directors on the Quartz project are all gone [1].

I agree with the grandparent post that "Goldman's position in the crash truly had nothing at all to do with superior risk management systems and was a mixture of political favors and luck"

The snake oil in this case is what p4wnc6 (who's spot on) highlighted: "The team within Goldman that had architected and developed this years ago had spun out into a consulting group that essentially reimplemented the same thing" [at other banks].

The product that they sold (a SecDB clone) is pure snake oil, and the projects (which were massively expensive) delivered very little value.

Consider: If SecDB really lives up to the hype, then why would Goldman let all these other banks steal Goldman developers and straight-up copy it?

[1] http://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/253040/three-bank-of...
Free isn't freedom
I don't know if I nor Dr. King Jr. have to subscribe to scientific racism just because we subscribe to the reality that folks with of different racial backgrounds have a higher probability of being shortchanged historically. And thus, that any machine learning approach that doesn't factor this in will risk perpetuating such disadvantages, which kind of defeats the ostensible purpose for using machine learning to apply public policy in the first place.
Not a Ph.D but reports from (UK) doctorate holders suggest there's sometimes a lot of backstabbery, often deadlines (funding), very often lab/department politics.
That'd be like having to use USB floppies. or USB dvd drives. Crazy!
Designed in California.
Seems like a very low number IMO. Well over the majority of start-ups fail in the first 5 years. Perhaps when the largest batches make it to 5+ years the percentage will increase? Though at the rate they're adding new companies maybe it'll just continue to feed the monster.
Sequencing.com apps analyze genes and provide valuable information that can be used to protect your health and longevity.

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Are you a developer? Sequencing.com's Real-Time Personalization API allows your app to provide each app user with a genetically-tailored user experience.
U.S. appeals court deals setback to Uber drivers' cases
And now there are more and more cases of Dengue and W. Nile and Yellow Fever in the US, mostly because the CDC stopped doing national mosquito control and its near powerless to resume that since NIMBY is more important than not catching tropical diseases apparently.
I am curious what you think of math.andrej.com/2016/08/30/formal-proofs-are-not-just-deduction-steps/
Well, emails are not exactly deterrence against people using the leaked "build": being an internet service company, that part is usually achieved by shutting down the server.

Emails are supposed to be deterrence against further leaks by reinforcing the "company culture". (Whether they work, I have no idea.)
The biggest issues of bias/fairness in ML are not to do with the algorithms or results, but the underlying data.

A trivial example would be: what if you trained a classifier to predict whether a person would be re-arrested before they went to trial? Some communities are policed more heavily so you would tend towards reinforcing the bias that exists and provide more ammunition to those arguing for further bias in the system, a feedback loop if you would.

Or what if some protected group needs a higher down payment because the group is not well understood enough so that you can't distinguish between those who will repay your loans and who won't? Maybe educational achievement is a really good predictor on one group, but less effective on another. Is it fair to use the protected class (or any information correlated with it) when it is essentially machine-enabled stereotyping?

Recently it has been noted that NLP systems trained on large corpuses of text tend to exhibit society's biases where they assume that nurses are women and programmers are men. From a statistical perspective this correlation is there, but we tend to be more careful about how we use this information than a machine. We wouldn't want to use this information to constrain our search for people to hire to just those that fulfil our stereotypes, but a machine would. This paper has some details on such issues: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06121

I don't think there are any easy solutions here, but I think it's important to be aware that data is only a proxy for reality and fitting the data perfectly doesn't mean you have achieved fair outcomes.
And that overseas team often has little-to-no ownership so they call people while they're sleeping or half ass everything. This problem is magnified if they're contracted and not actually employees.
Fujitsu licenses Nantero technology to produce NRAM
Is this website a terrible viewing experience for anyone else? The videos don't work, and I can't scroll the slideshows unless I flick super fast. I'm on Chrome desktop.
I only just got a car that has an AUX jack. Cars are expensive. I pay mine off and keep it for 10 or more years.
Same here, but every BT headset I've owned only lasts 4-6 hours on a full charge
Cesarean birth in the US is something mothers push for because they don't want the cosmetic consequences of a natural birth. I think technically they need a medical reason for it, but I'm guessing it's not too tough to qualify for it.

I have a guess here, in that children who don't travel down the birth canal aren't inoculated with certain bacteria from the mother that may be important in digestive and possible immune function. Just a guess assuming causation, but the mother's birth canal bacteria may play a role in child development.
One of the interesting things about the announcement was that they specifically said you pay for the game up front and play as much as you want (i.e.: not freemium / in-app purchases).

I'm so happy to see that! I also expect that the game will be able to command a pretty decent price in the app store. Maybe even something like $20? With any luck it can lead the charge on a re-normalization of expectations about app prices.