skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specific report isn't linked to in the article you posted, but I wonder how closely the first year grad curiculi resembled GRE tests and why the tests were apparently not predictive beyond a single academic year.
Don't argue. This poster is of the mind that his opinion is the only right one.
This is the problem I have as well. It doesn't matter how fancy they are if they don't fit in your ears. For this reason, I can only wear ear clip headphones, not ear buds.
> The port is data and charge. So I recon it's only a matter of time before there's a split plug for charge and audio.

When your[1] answer to a dongle problem is "add more dongles", you really need to rethink the situation.

1. The generic "you", not specifically you, Phillip.
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So disappointing they just decided to ignore "touch disease". Bad form.
Did you use C or JavaScript? I tried using C once, but I gave up.
As for the AirPods: $159 for something that i will most likely lose within the first 3 months? Nope, not buying it. Also, the battery life will be probably be cut in half after 2 years usage or so.
Riding a bicycle with ear buds is really dangerous to yourself and others (Lack of awareness). It's illegal in a lot of places too.

Get one of these instead:
https://www.amazon.com/Aftershokz-Wireless-Stereo-Headphones...
There are far too many ToSes for any person to be able to read them, let alone negotiate each.

This problem was solved in an earlier age of commerce through a Uniform Commercial Code (throughout most of the US), or equivalent statutory or case law in other domains. Essentially, contracts were reduced to a common set of standard components. Exceptions might be allowed for specific cases, including unilateral "contracts of adhesion", but these too were generally limited.

In particular, ordinary transactional terms are limited by:

1. The scope and extent of the transaction. The term is for a single purchase or transaction, not an ongoing "relationship", with few exceptions (utilities, rental agreements, subscriptions).

2. There's a limit to the data exchanged. In general, the minimum amount of data required for a transaction is what's provided. Even where personal information was taken down, it was recorded on and remained on paper forms, rarely being converted to electronic form. This is no longer the case, where, say, a license number (or a license held as surity) for, say, an hourly boat or bicycle hire might be scanned electronically, OCRd, entered into a database, and matched with other records.

3. As noted above, information one organisation gathered on you was only rarely shared with others. This is no longer the case. As my awareness of such practices has spread, I've become vastlty less interested in transactions in which I'm aware my information is being exchanged: magazine subscriptions, credit or debit card purchases, anything with an email or postal code, etc. For a good decade or more, I refused to sign electronic signature pads. I still generally balk at this.

But until terms of service are both standardised and codified with users' interests in mind, the present situation will only get worse.
Ask HN: Any special growth hacking tricks for B2N?
Selling to nonprofit orgs seems to be much tougher than selling to businesses. I could virtually find no resource on this. Any help is appreciated. Maher at CauseSquare
>So instead of engaging or debating with the ideas presented in the piece, you immediately dig into the author's personal life as a way of disagreeing with it?

Parent commenter did exactly what you requested, before digging into the author. Noting that people don't have the wealth this article presumes, is a valid debate against the piece.

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The article mentions that hobbies arise out of disposable income and free time gained from economic prosperity, and then was lost when the economy faltered. But the article then claims "The American economy has fared better in recent years" -- I'm not convinced that's an accurate picture.

Americans (as people) are not necessarily better off if America (the economy) does better. Today, most Americans (people) are still struggling financially, now often more than before, despite the fact that "the economy" has "recovered". But you can't see that from a desk in Manhattan, it's not visible if your only looking at census statistics or property values.

Which has created a weird disconnect where people who can sustainable (but only barely) afford housing / food / medical are routinely described as "middle class", even though they have far less disposable income and/or leisure time than their counterparts from the 1970's, or 1990's.

The recent explosion in ultra-high costs of housing, medical, and education likely play a role in this, absorbing money that previously would have become "leisure" spending. And the cash necessary to cover those costs seems to come by additional working through what used to be people's leisure time.
Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps? On the Mac at least there is none in Office.
I didn't down vote you but this comment is like someone complaining that their iPhone only gets 36 hours battery life when their Nokia 3210 got them through a couple of weeks. I'm not sure if you've used an Apple Watch but battery life just isn't a concern at all. You take it off at night, put it on the magnetic charger next to your bed and put it back on in the morning. Unless you want sleep tracking there's no need to wear it at night and the battery easily gets through an entire day with 20-30% charge left. In other words there's a reason they didn't seem to even mention battery in this keynote - people have found it's not really an issue. Of course there are extreme use cases where it is (what if I go camping for a few days) but these hold true for an electronic device.
Does anyone know if aptX support has arrived in the iPhone for bluetooth devices? I have been increasingly using devices like the Sony SBH80, or SBH54 and they work seamlessly for the most part already between my phone and laptop. I don't think the headphone thing has been thought thru but their wireless jump to the W1 seems to be at least in part bluetooth 4.x based which itself is a far superior technology to even BT 3.0 that many devices today have.

The other problem I've run into is having a phone and headset with the same version of bluetooth.

Bluetooth audio, once high quality enough through codecs like aptX will become like wifi, we will wonder why we were tethered with wires to begin with. Bluetooth 5.0 appears to have taken a big step towards the audio quality issue resolution. I've previously owned the Sony MW600 and SBH52 bluetooth receivers for the past 5-7 years. As the tech improves it's going to become more viable and is in line with Apple's generally wireless strategy between Macbook, iPad, iPhone, etc.
That's because it didn't have a 2.5mm audio jack. How can it usher in the era of something it isn't a part of?
Not really; after 2 years you're done paying for it, and it's yours.
If you look at how old Bluetooth is, it wouldn't be surprising if a new system could be much more efficient. Uncompressed audio isn't high bandwidth by today's standards.
I generally need to charge while listening though.
For me i estimate my iphone use as:
80% Music 8% Calling 8% email 2% browsing 2% other stuff

With that in mind removing the 3.5 jack does not make the phone sleeker you need to see the adapter as a part of the iPhone as the phone is mostly useless without it.
Nice opportunity there for 3rd party app makers. Presuming the RAW API or whatever it is called will let apps access the separate sensors.

That said how would the phone display the 3D image? One of those cardboard VR things? Not very Appley.
Yep, and everyone else will drop the headphone jack for USB-C. The headphone jack is dead.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/27/11516410/intel-usb-c-audio...

Apple really can't change ports again. I think they're really going to push for wireless. When they get wireless charging they'll remove the lightening port.
If they'd made metal an open standard, they wouldn't have found themselves sidelined again.
Yes. The paper's abstract only notes an 'association', not a causal arrow. Readers simply infer the causal arrow.
Well, intelligence is a meaningless term as in "playing chess is intelligent" or sitting on a stool and answering questions about arithmetic is intelligent. Don't even get me started on creative or consciousness.

Oddly I feel that emotion is well defined as "behavioral modifications generated by reactions to circumstances", which is what John Maynard Smith told me it was.

He was an intelligent fella.
What about Bluetooth audio? That is an open standard.
The lenses are very close together, so any 3D effect would be very subtle except perhaps in close-up/macro situations.
> Is a Minecraft world aware it's was rebooted or restored from a previous state?

That's an excellent point, we wouldn't know or be aware of that. For all we know the system is offline everyday as our reality stops for a thousand year for maintenance.
It was always possible to send PRs into other PRs, because a pull request is just a branch attached to an issue tracker. I've done it before, but not with newbies. This looks like a nice improvement to the interface, though.
Yes, it will have some lossless compression and encryption for sure. But I'm pretty sure it's a much simpler stack than bluetooth. Even the use case is different, they just want to send audio from your pocket to your ears and I trust their engineers to do that the smart way.
damn! here I was thinking that A10 is a big jump. I guess A10X Fusion will be a hell of a chip in the next iPads.
That's a good point, thank you.
"What if the company will die if the problem isn't handled?"

Then they should be paying huge bonuses to be on call, or simply hiring for multiple shifts. It's pretty easy.
What I read a while ago is the removal of the headphone jack lets them put in another speaker there. I bet that's a big part of how they're able to get 2x louder speakers with higher dynamic range, and, while they didn't mention this, it's possible they might get a bit of stereo when the phone is held in portrait this way.

Edit: Why the heck am I being downvoted for this? I'm not even expressing an opinion as to whether I think the jack should have been removed or not.
To be fair to Apple, I think they have a good point. Digital connectors are superior in almost every way (space use, port flexibility, sound quality, even cable integrity). I admire them for ripping off the bandaid, like they did previously with disk drives and parrallel ports. Someone needs to lead the way to abandon legacy, and Apple can do that far more effectively than others (e.g. Motorola has also abandoned headphone jacks with their Moto Z line).

One thing I cannot get over though, is that they chose their own propietary, you-have-to-pay-Apple-for-a-license, cannot-use-them-with-anything-else Lightning 'standard'. USB Type C is the standard for this stuff now, and any trivial technical merits Lightning might have over USB Type C don't weigh up against the universal nature of USB Type C. The sheer arrogance.

Digital connectors the future? I'm on board with that. Propietary connectors? Fuck that.
When I was a physics undergrad, I loved discussing (both offline and online) about the arbitrary nature of math and also the logical holes in the scientific method.

Despite providing reputable sources to my claims, I got called out for being anti-scientific, a creationist maybe.

I felt disheartened not for the lack of knowledge, but because the refusal from some "skeptics" to challenge their beliefs.

Nowdays I still love discussing about this stuff but only for amusement and with a somewhat trollish approach.
I play tons of games on my phone but it's usually only games like Solitaire and similar 2d games.
Garmin makes GPS smart watches with a battery life of 5 to 10 days. I would never dream of downgrading to an apple watch or android gear.
Amazing line, and the next one too: "The best way to attack a competitor is to find their soft underbelly and tear it to shreds with tooth and claw."

I'm kind of tired of every company trying to present themselves as the nicest guys in town. This is much better.
I don't see how this is related to my comment.

My concern was basically about Apple being able to prohibit manufacturers from making hardware that they don't explicitly approve. (I don't know if they can or can't.)
The problem with studies like these is that, in almost all fields, we find that the average is much better than the average of 50-100 years ago while the top is only slightly better.

This holds across things that even have physical components like athletics or music. The virtuosos of yesteryear may be as good as the virtuosos of today (and I dispute that) but the average orchestra player is WAY better today than even some of the best players of 100 years ago. Similarly, the average athlete today is WAY better than the average athlete of 50 years ago.

Training and education matter.
There is no way I am going to be sitting on that hard plastic case.
I saw it more as a push to eliminate the cord from headphones entirely. I personally hate the cord, but I hate charging bluetooth headphones even more. I hope eliminating the jack will result in better wireless headphones, but I'm not super confident that it will.
I think it's 'switch' only, which is unfortunate. It would be nice to have the zoom slider and depth of field feature when shooting video.
Does the survey account for the number of phones that are sold with audio jack headphones?

It could be that the only reason bluetooths outsells jacks, is because people get jacks anyway for free.
Yeah. I love my Pebble Time Round, I've worn it (almost) every day since I got it (last December). People who don't care about smart watches love it and come up to me and ask what kind of a watch it is.
because most will use stock earbuds anyway.
Unless it's locked down through the DMCA
It did pass my, "oh shit, the phone slipped out of my hand and into the dish sink" test, though.
The open standard is Bluetooth...
Actually devops is supposed to be a culture where the dev team and ops team work together. What people seem to want it to mean is you're an ops team with automation skills. I've yet to see this be a dev team doing ops.
Yes, but is it able to "simulate" depth of field like the software of the new iPhone by combining the image captured by the two lenses?
> It seems recently like anything inbound to Google goes into /dev/null!

Google Express seems to have very good and responsive customer service, so to the extent that this is a real problem at Google, its not everywhere at Google.
True. Maybe working out would be a better example.
Weirdly the normal S7 and edge version passed the test
There is always a bell curve. It's more obvious in fields where people start practicing from a tender age, like chess or music, where you start learning when you're around 4. There are many who dedicate their lives to such pursuits, but very few become Kasparov or Mozart. The others still become extremely good, but not the best, and most are forgotten by history.
Maybe they "should" do one of those, but it seems unrealistic to expect a small 10 - 30 person company to do either.

And when the company grows large enough that they can support 24x7 engineering staffing, they usually do it by having an overseas team.
Nah, I wouldn't say a drop in teleconverter in a lens makes it a zoom lens, the zoom bit is the continuous movement between focal lengths.

I suppose even with just two focal lengths, the focal length can be "varied" which is the normal definition of zoom, but I have never heard the term used that way.
One word: "Courage".
Yes, because every company introduces new flagman by talking about some diseases. That's a good form.
The "store" is purely data that is on the client. What data you put in the store is up to you. It may be a mixture of domain data from the server ("what items do I have in cache"), application-specific data ("the current selected item is #42"), and UI state ("there is a modal that is visible, of type ItemEditor"). It's certainly possible to put every single bit of data in your app into Redux, but there are definitely reasons to want to keep some of it in local component state. The classic example is "a dropdown is open" - other components probably wouldn't care about that, and it's not something you'd want to persist or toggle during time-traveling. It's up to you as a developer to decide what state should live where.

There's a couple recent articles that cover this topic: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/where-do-i-belong-a-guide-to... and http://jamesknelson.com/5-types-react-application-state/ . The Redux FAQ also discusses this: http://redux.js.org/docs/FAQ.html#organizing-state-only-redu... .
My hope is that this will help push towards a better bluetooth. If a lot more people are paring headphones daily the market will demand better pairing. (I hope)
> With Google, you're not the customer. You're the product.

No, though with many free Google services, each user is a low-volume supplier in a crowded field of similar low-volume suppliers.
It shouldn't matter to the customer, but at its best, serverless can reduce ops and reduce cost.

Lambda doesn't make it easier to use SES. It does make it easier to not rely on ec2 for the same workload.
I have a Pebble Time Round and I have to charge mine every day. It's not an issue, as it charges in about half an hour.
You know I was annoyed the audio port being missing but after seeing the new airpods, I'm sold. They look amazing, and will be fantastic to use in the gym. I'm sold. Take my money!
Your steps are not even close to enough to mitigate tracking.
I had an old iPod that was unlistenable while it was charging, because noise from the charger leaked into the audio. I tried again recently with an Android phone and found the same problem to a lesser degree. Nice to hear that people are able to do this without trouble.
Nit-pick: more exit pupil than sensor size, but they're a rough approximation anyhow.

But you're correct that the short (actual, not equivalent) focal length of camera phones makes an f/1.8 completely irrelevant.
> 1. Google account - I have one because it's required for Android, but I have never used Gmail, do not search from my Google account or ever log into it from my browser.

I haven't run stock Android in a while (and instead just CyanogenMod), but I'm pretty sure that it's not actually required, i.e. you can skip account creation during setup and then install alternative app stores like F-Droid, Aptoide or Amazon.

If we include CyanogenMod or other ROMs, then it's definitely possible, though. I do own and use an Android phone and deleted my Google-account probably half a year ago...
I was just thinking that this is tantalizingly similar to, but not quite the same as, PICO-8 on on a Pocket CHIP. It seems a shame to split such an interesting market like this. Pocket CHIP has the advantage of letting you code right on the device, of course, but how much value does that really have? Even on PC, some devs prefer to use a separate text editor rather than deal with text at PICO-8's resolution, and the dinky keyboard doesn't help.
Thanks for the recommendation. However, pretty much anything over the ear is prone to slipping out for me. Probably has to do with the way my ears are anatomically constructed combined with excessive sweating. Gross, I know, but that's how it is.

Besides, no BT headset would relieve the battery problems.

For me something like this works really well: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QHOCTG6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_goh0...

Just put my hat over them and they are firmly held in place.
If you have to include an adapter in the box...

But seriously, how hard would it have been to do a generation of keeping the jack with the Lightning headphones (and putting Lightning on Macs)?
Come on. There are plenty of phones with two speakers and a headphone jack. This is the cry of people who desperately want to love a company unconditionally, even when they screw up.
You can already do #1. I've been using one of these [1] plus an Apple 30-pin dock to lightning converter for years. It's been worth it just because there's only one thing to plug into the phone, and it allows you to route your cables nicely if you want.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/SunbowStar-Universal-Charger-Adapter-...
Reminds me of the first iPod Touch generations with the mirror finish metallic backs. They would get scratched the moment you took the device out of the box.
I look forward to measuring graphics performance in FMPF (Flying Monkeys Per Frame)
Taxes may be the worst way to recycle money but in the absence of anything else it's a really good way. Apple's revenue far outweigh its costs. They have one of the largest cash reserves of any corporation in the world.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/22/investing/apple-stock-cash-e...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/13/fun-numbe...
Don't buy one then. Seriously people, what's wrong with you?
If the only thing you know is complain about things that are not even relevant to you, why not just shut the fuck up and make a world a better place?
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Why not? Anyone could if the pursuit was worth it to them.

All it takes is being able to look at things and wonder "how could I apply this along with what I already know to achieve that goal?" Eventually you'll have some permutation of ideas that work. Even if you put it down and come back to it many years later. Maybe the goal isn't obvious until one day all the ideas come together to solve a problem that you need solved right now that yesterday you'd never even had cause to think about. That doesn't negate the work you did learning those things.

"Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid." - Einstein
Yes, your new phone has a better camera than your three year old phone.
Based on LHC data, scientists predict new boson that interacts with dark matter
Surprisingly good for what they are...
> I forget it's even e-ink ... looks like any other screen to me.

That'll be because it isn't e-ink :)

It's an LCD, specifically this[0] Sharp 'memory LCD'. Pebble brand it as "e-paper", but that's just marketing fluff, the technology is unrelated to e-ink (what kindles use).

[0] http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html
everyone: "This does not perfectly fit my current unique use case, so damn it to hell"
Woah, you don't read something like that every day.
> As a result, the advertiser might have a much better understanding of who to target in the majority group, while essentially random guessing within the minority.

If this is the case, then it should be detected and ML should NOT be used for the minority class. There are many classifiers out there which work on one-class problems.
Posted above: http://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s7....

Too afraid to test it myself though.
The standard barrel connector protects against short-circuiting with a simple plastic ring. The magsafe connector requires a fucking microcontroller.
The telling thing for me was Phil had to defend the idea with three different arguments, along with an inflammatory photo of a switchboard. When Steve Jobs deleted the floppy drive, he simply declared that floppies had no future.
Instead of on call, have coverage.

Rotate through different employees and give them times when they are responsible for //being awake and ready to work on short notice//: IE this is a normal hourly wage with the bonus that you don't have to be at work.

For both the above and 'on call', you also charge the 'department' with the failure's root cause (as determined later) the penalty and pay out a bonus for those needed to respond to the incident.