skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have analog personal laptop and force touch work laptop. Force touch is _so much better_. The click feels natural and works and feels identical on whole touchpad surface. Definitely a huge leap in right direction.
We did it, all by ourselves
Can confirm this is a thing.
Pretty sure the hundreds of millions of people using untethered smartphones negates your argument that the battery life is "unusable".

I would guess most people are okay using their phone during the day and charging at night.
I wish I could upvote this remark twice (or more.)

This is pretty much the only important concept for figuring out how we will use this tech politically.

Because it takes genius-level intelligence to be able to figure out whether you're just telling yourself what you want to hear, and incredibly rare responsibility to remember to [keep on trying to] do so, individuals and tiny groups may be able to use AI for these sorts of things, but large groups, municipalities, states, corps, etc. never will.

The systems we can understand and manage as a group are vastly simpler than those which you can understand and manage as an individual.
Apple Reveals the iPhone 7
Eh, having Chromebooks really does imply using Google Classroom.

If for no other reason, that Google Apps is the default office suite on Chromebooks, Google Apps for Education is free, and Google Classroom is included with that. Most schools don't have much in the way of a technology budget, so they win by default.
You mean a DAC, like the iPhone already had built-in to provide you with sound out through the 3.5mm jack?
"Properties you find appealing..."

* Freedom
* Ownership
* Personal freedom
...

<Later...>

* Getting into a PhD program: references, references, references
* Student adviser relationship
* Pre-vs-post tenure
* Impressing an adviser
* (Topic) Plays to your adviser’s interests and strengths

Much of your freedom goes to learning to play politics and manage up to a level employees never have to. Reading this, I'm so thankful I didn't enter academia. I still pursue my academic interests on my own.

Edit: A few people insist on casting a float into a bool. Every job has politics, ranging from 0.01% (anonymous author of 1-man SaaS) to 99% (politician). It's not very informative to note that both are non-zero.
Using the relative translation from above, that must mean they are sorry if you lose the one included in the box ;)
Yeah, Bose QuietComfort 35.
Let me guess you are an iPhone user ;-)

iPhone users will always prefer iPhones for something.
The bulge isn't as noticeable when you have the phone in a case. I think they just considered the 3.5mm jack a waste of space since it's primary use was doing something you could do with the lightning port.
Wow. How do you track that someone mentioned Rust. You are a machine Sir. :)
I was "student one". AMA. I dislike that the title of this article conflates intelligence and genius. Genius is impact, not talent. The one thing I've learned is that intelligence is highly overrated. Especially in the thing I know the most about: programming.
Lack of awareness? How about having a radio in the car or, worse, (hands free) calling? Or even having excited conversations with three others in the car, that surely gets your attentiveness down way more than music on a bike.
System-wide maybe it's late, but many education apps already had multi-user login support baked in. I guess it depends how you use the iPads.
"Nope" is not a strategy.
Android doesn't have three-clicks on headphones for going back one track. That's not superior by any means. I use both (Android for personal, iPhone for work) and I definitely prefer iOS. Android is cool, I can do a lot with it, but it's always buggier.
The Motorola S305's are some of the best Bluetooth headphones I've ever owned and they're usually ~$20-25. Comfortable, good battery life, decent enough audio quality, build quality that lasted 3 years. After that time the foam pads started falling apart, so I ordered another pair a few weeks ago.

There are other similar models around the same price. You don't have to spend $100+ to get similar audio quality to $20 headphones that happen to have Bluetooth as well. Bluetooth chips are stupid cheap these days, pairing that with a small battery really doesn't add much to the cost of normal cheap headphone equipment and you'll find plenty of pairs <$40.
> a digital cable means you no longer have to rely on the form factor/budget constrained DAC included in the device itself and can go for DACs of your own choice. That doesn't necessarily imply improved audio quality, but it means you have more control over your audio quality.

That's nothing new though. Those have been available for years. Some quick examples:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/IK-Multimedia/iRig-HD-Studio-Qua...

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Apogee/Duet-for-Mac-and-iOS.gc
It's clear that a lot of thought went into this write-up, but this is not a design that I would use or recommend.

(Because you probably don't anything about me: I have background in both circuit design and applied crypto, and I have published research on hardware random number generators. I'm not saying this to bully you into believing me, but rather to give you some motivation to think critically.)

The main problem is that the noise sources are implicit: the designer has no control over the spectrum or the relative magnitude of the various noise sources, and there's no attempt at rejecting power supply ripple or RF disturbances. (The claim that "it naturally defends against influence from outside signals" is not substantiated, and as I argue below, there is a strong possibility that it is false.)

It's also worrisome that the author doesn't bother to distinguish between "noise" in the technical sense and "noise" in the some-arbitrary-signal sense (e.g., power supply ripple). Only the former has useful statistical properties. The latter is useless at best, and an attack vector at worst.

As an concrete example of what worries me: this is a discrete time, positive feedback loop. We are presented with evidence that it has a mode of operation in which its output looks random. Critically, this does not eliminate the possibility that it has another mode that's essentially a limit cycle. My intuition tells me there's a very good possibility that if the output of the circuit has a heavy enough capacitive load, and the circuit's power supply is sufficiently high impedance, the whole thing would lock up into a steady-state oscillation. This is related to the analog design adage: oscillators don't, everything else does :)

So what's the "right" approach (at least, in my opinion)? First, simplicity: fewer moving parts means there's less that can go wrong. Second, pick an explicit noise source; the best choice is a diode in avalanche breakdown (this is sometimes conflated with Zener breakdown; they're different phenomena, and avalanche is louder). Avalanche generates enough noise that it requires very little amplification, and unlike thermal noise, avalanche is quite insensitive to temperature. Third, make it insensitive to external influences by design: shield it from RF, take special care to ensure power supply insensitivity, etc. Fourth, run wellness tests whenever you sample from the RNG. Intel's procedures are a good example [1].

Finally, a lot of other comments in this thread have covered this, but under standard cryptographic assumptions there is no reason to run this RNG continuously. Sample a few thousand bits, hash them into a key, and use AES-256 as your PRNG. For a really nice take on randomness mythbusting, see "Recommendations for randomness in the operating system" by Corrigan-Gibbs and Jana [2].

[1] http://www.rambus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Intel_TRNG_...

[2] https://www.henrycg.com/pubs/hotos15recommendations/
How is this product any different than earbuds?
That's not even the tone-deafest part though. What really made me cringe is his heartfelt follow-up, "that's really really sad!"
No, that's bad math. Math to do it right is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis
Agreed completely. I did a PhD knowing that I had zero interest in going into academia, and it provided a major boost to my professional career. I find it surprising when people talk about doing a PhD as exclusively useful for academics.
It's an example of the thunk pattern. Thunks are used when you have an async call, e.g. getFoos. Then your action creator would be

function requestFoos() {
return { type: REQ_FOOS }
}

function gotFoos(foos) {
return { type: GOT_FOOS, foos }
}

export function getFoos() {
return function(dispatch) {
dispatch(requestFoos());
myFooProvider
.getFoos()
.then(function(foos) { dispatch(gotFoos(foos)); });
}
}

Really useful for writing reducers that want to keep track of when you're fetching data from the server.
Or (perhaps more likely) Medicare/Medicaid and/or private insurers might start penalizing the ones that are screwing it up (by renegotiating contracts and reimbursements). I know of one center where executive laziness led to a $2 million fine (completely unjustified) for a line infection in an immunosuppressed patient. Which was cleared up in hours, probably didn't come from the line to begin with, and got said executive fired (because if there's one thing hospital "leadership" understands, it's money).

Actually I have all sorts of examples of the above, but the point is that oftentimes the data is "corrupted" on the way to the collection point(s). Anyways, the executive (VP of some bullshit) got his walking papers and funnily enough, no more reportable line infections that didn't come from lines.

So at least sometimes there are happy endings, sort of...
From my super-limited experience in academia, I found politics is more important at top schools and much less important when you get to ~40-80 ranked US schools for PhD programs.
Your comment reminded me of a 5 years old blogpost of mine: https://shebang.ws/startup-or-research.html.

Eventually I decided that I wanted to do research and I couldn't be more happy about it. My experience as a PhD student was awesome, I did a postdoc on a topic that interested me very much but quite different than what I did during my PhD, and I've just landed a permanent position in academia as an associate professor!
I think it is absolutely valuable to talk about products in the context of their environment. It happens all the time with software products here; someone will say "Slack makes this change" and people will say, "oh we use X because of Y feature".
Give em all the bad info they deserve!

I've been giving city park addresses, lottery hotlines and/or obscure character names to everyone but the essentials & the guv. My first lesson in guerrilla counter-marketing came when my book club mis-typed my middle initial and I was flooded with pre-approved credit cards with said typo. My twelve year old brain was alive with all the possibilities I could buy with free cash! Apparently, without a job, a SS# and that particular middle initial, I wasn't really pre-approved. Meh.
This is why I have the AMC MoviePass and go to theaters which don't care if I bring in a can of my own soda. Even the cheaper theaters want $5+ for the smallest soda. That's just ridiculous!
A headphone jack can't make much of a difference, I have a Galaxy S5 which is rated IP67, the same rating as the iPhone 7. It has a flap that covers the microUSB connector, the back panel has rubber seams, yet the headphone jack looks like any other.
They moved the headphone jack to the bottom of the phone because most people put their phone in their pocket upside down, so it's a more natural place to put it.
People are such dicks on the internet.
If I understand your model right, you are saying that Idahoans don't repay loans and your model accurately reflects this. This isn't a bias at all. The model is issuing fewer loans to green people not because they are green but because they live in Idaho and are unlikely to pay back said loans.

This is a case like what is described in the article - when a perfect predictor (another word for this is "reality" or "hindsight") will still exhibit disparate impact.
The Verge is not a source to be taken seriously on any Apple matters. Remember, this is a news website who's Editor-In-Chief had a temper tantrum on twitter after being called out on his poor criticism [1].

[1] http://nextshark.com/nilay-patel-apple-watch-review-bracelet...
I don't think so:

We know that the risks of C-sections are greater than risks of vaginal birth, at least with your first pregnancy. So why are women opting for C-sections, even for their first birth? Some theorize that the combination of improved C-section safety, along with increased maternal age, has lead to women being able to control when and how they are going to give birth. This type of control is attractive to women who are balancing family and career -- they can perfectly plan maternity leave, right down to the date of the last conference call. Another popular theory is that some women, fearing the pain of vaginal delivery and wanting to avoid urinary incontinence, jump at the chance to give birth via C-section.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/preg...

I do know of cases where women are genuinely terrified of giving birth, as the GP suggests, and will opt for a C-section for that reason. But I think a more common reason is that women increasingly have careers.

I had both my children vaginally. I was a full-time wife and mom for many years. Two career couples have a much greater need to control the timing of things, including processes that, organically, cannot be relied upon to happen at a set time. The slack in my family was generally provided by the fact that I was a full-time wife and mom, so only my husband really needed to have a highly scheduled life. I was relatively free to be available as needed. Two career couples have no one in that position.

(Also:

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, about 33 percent of American women who gave birth in 2011 had a cesarean delivery. (The c-section rate in the United States has risen nearly 60 percent since 1996.)

http://www.babycenter.com/0_c-sections-giving-birth-by-cesar...)
I think it would have been a better transition if they had shipped the AirPods a year before removing it from the phone. Many people have been using bluetooth headphones for awhile, but Apple didn't offer anything until today.

Let's say I go with AirPods. The presentation just showed initial pairing and focused on the phone. It seems to work with iphone 5 and forward, which is great, but does it work with my older laptop? What about non-Apple bluetooth devices? It would be also be a nice little perk to have it work with AppleTV for watching TV at night. Traditional bluetooth sucks when switching between devices (in addition to pairing). It would be nice if they could prove to everyone that was a solved problem (and prove the lighting earpods aren't just a stopgap) before ditching the headphone jack.
The AirPods are Bluetooth so they should work with the MacBook too.
This cannot be stressed enough. I can't tell you how many useless things websites have suggested I would be interested in because I purchased a gift for someone's kid 5 years ago, or whatever.

Also, consider that data isn't necessarily properly associated with who you think it is. I often see suggestions that are clearly due to my wife's browsing on her own computer (which is nearly identical to mine in terms of browser fingerprinting). Obviously we have the same IP to the outside world and we share some interests, but not everything!
Ex-Apple Engineer Rejected for Genius Bar Job Adds Fuel to Ageism Debate
Apple says they are bluetooth here:

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
Mine is. IP something something. Can shoot photos under water.

Just because iPhone isn't doesn't mean no other can be ;-)
Same! I was super-interested in research and that's why I pursued a PhD. I never thought of running a lab or teaching classes.
This technology is simple, relatively easy to work with, and only secure against the simplest attacks. The two major problems are that it lacks any sort of authentication and that it doesn't even attempt to protect CPU state. I'll quote myself [1]:

Someone will break it by replaying old data through the VM, either to
confuse control flow or to use some part of the VM code as an oracle
with which to attack another part.

Someone else will break it by installing a #UD / #PF handler and using
the resulting exceptions as an oracle.

A third clever person will break it by carefully constructing a
scenario in which randomizing 16 bytes of data has a high probability
of letting then pwn your system. (For example, what if the secured VM
creates an RSA key and you can carefully interrupt it right aftergenerating p and q. Replace 16 bytes from the middle of both p and q (32 bytes total) with random garbage. With reasonably high probability, the resulting p and q will no longer be prime.)

Depending on how strong [AMD's] ASID protection is, a fourth clever person will break it by replacing a bunch of the VM out from under the target while leaving the sensitive data in place and then will use some existing exploit or design issue to gain code execution in the modified VM.

Also, I really hope that [AMD's] tweakable cipher mode is at least CCA2 secure, because attackers can absolutely hit it with adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks. (Actually, attackers can alternate between adaptive chosen ciphertext and adaptive chosen plaintext.)

And did the SEV implementation remember to encrypt the guest register state? Because, if not, everything of importance will leak out through the VMCB and/or GPRs.

But I guess it's better than nothing.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALCETrWAP5hxQeVSwNx-XkO53-X3bX0La...
Or the 4 engines that most games are made in will just add a metal layer. Or you use something like https://moltengl.com/ to make a direct opengl -> metal wrapper.

And sales is what will drive ports.
You jest, but only the first adapter is free. Subsequent adapters will be $9.99.
Cheap may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Personally, I could never run with corded headphones again. I've used Motorola S8/S9 forever. Get last gen for $30-40, and they've held up to years of sweat.
Well the haptics engine was already there, so I don't consider it an additional moving part.
> No more listening to music/audiobooks as I fall asleep because in the morning the iPhone won't be charged for my desk usage the next day unless I wake up and plug it back in during my sleep.

Well you could get a standalone charger and a spare battery-- oh wait, no, they got rid of that too.
>I saw an $120 SIM card that gives unlimited Internet access for a year

Do you remember which telecom this was?
> nil pointer dereference in closeConnIfStillIdle

What happens here? Does Go suffer from boundary access issues that C has? You know, in Rust, you don't have to worry about that, but is it the same for GO?
It can do anything Firefox can, it's just a shortcut using Javascript, nothing Vimperator-specific.
I agree with you here. If the goal was to get people moving to wireless, including the AirPods with the iPhone would have been real 'courage'.
I didn't interview said candidate but I am under the impression that web-based integration tests were their specialty. Still no excuse to not at least be familiar with the concept of unit tests.
You really beleive that was intentional? Like there's some code there that says if running on 4S then run slow? I feel sorry for you.
> And VMWare owns SpringSource

VMware hasn't owned SpringSource since Pivotal was created in 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringSource (i.e. "the Spring framework is owned by Dell" is still accurate, but not through Dell owning VMware)
> eternal goodness of the company

Who's talking about goodness? I'm talking about the values that Apple has, and how your claim is a gross violation of those values. I didn't say Apple was "good", however you want to define that. User experience is but one facet of the whole, though it's an important one. And if you're trying to dismiss my arguments on the ground that I'm a "random internet user", then you have to dismiss literally every single comment made in this thread, or any HN thread, including yours.
At the time I was using it (about a year ago) it was essentially a 64 bit build of Firefox.
It's not so bad if you keep your exported consts in a file with JsDoc comments.
I've put multiple pairs of earbuds through the washer and the dryer and they work just as well (and are cleaner!) as they did before. I don't see that happening with AirPods.
Also, Siri is a real name used by real people.

I would object less if the phrase was 'hey Apple-bot'.
That's good to hear. I have the hankering to return to school at some point, and I really just want to learn and contribute.
Understood, but the topic here is iWork-vs-gDocs and the collaborative applications (word processing, presentations, spreadsheets) in an education setting.

iPads are great for certain purposes like the Osmo. They're a relative failure when it comes to typing up a book report or creating a group slide presentation.
Ways to dismiss notifications haven't changed much. Banner notification? Swipe up on it. Lock screen notifications? Swipe one way to open and the other to clear. Notification centre? Use 'x' to clear by day or force press 'x' to get 'clear all' option. If anything it's slightly easier to get rid of them than before.
More like, reading HN to alleviate the boredom?
My first smartphone was a no-name LG model that ran Android. I upgraded from it to the iPhone and didn't like it. Tried the S2 and reverted and so on.
>>Can't charge while listening.

This is huge.
They called it "radical acceleration", but they don't do it anymore. There were some mixed outcomes, like mine. These days it would be considered unethical experimentation on human subjects.
I'm curious why they choose this method of majority owned spinoffs. What's the rationale behind this financial engineering? Is it that the parts have better multiples than the parent? That they can claim better optics by consolidating the Earnings Per Share?
Well, the biblical crucifixion was for blasphemy, so it's kind of a usual reason to do it.
You rather have a sub 300$ device than a premium above 1000$ product? I know the Thinkpad brand is being abused with Ideapads and their similarity but to say Chromebooks are better is a lie.
A site can very reliably identify you (across browsers, even) if it knows your public and private IP addresses. Your public IP address identifies which organization or network you're in and your private IP address identifies which machine within that organization or network you are using.
Powering the bluetooth radio takes some power (more than driving the DAC and amplifier for headphones).
I don't want a Jaybird so that's not a winning argument for why I would want these.

I'm comparing them to my $90 noise cancelling over ear headphones that, while yes no exactly top tier, don't require their own charging infrastructure and have much better audio quality than stock apple.

I may as well have an entirely separate MP3 player that costs me a good bit less than $160 than deal with this BS.
My S2 was amazing. One of a few phones I actually somehow liked if memory serves me right.
Yes! Saves the PRs on PRs...
Great tool. Would be cool to see where these companies are now. Perhaps adding another columns and filter to get Status info: Acquired/Dead/IPO/Active.