skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the conspiracy minded, HN quickly moved that story off the front page while this Apple press release remains. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680597
It is also recommended to go through the material of Intermediate Statistics[0] prior to 10-702.

[0] http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/=stat705/
When diagnostic medicine was being conducted with technology she knew wasn't what it was claimed to be. We threw the Enron guys in prison and they only hurt people's wallets, not their health. I don't think she gets off the hook because she's a Sillicon Valley sweetheart.
So what, they're telling customers to go without a smartphone while they figure out what to do? I doubt many of them will be willing to pick up a different Samsung phone in the meantime. Looks like a boon for LG HTC and Apple.

You could tell it would get really bad when they stopped issuing replacement phones. Not being able to find a big bad problem twice is a huge mistake for a hardware company in a very competitive market.
(...)
Anderson: We’d like to remind the audience to stop being a piece of shit.

Martha: But really, Hillary—what’s up with the emails you sneaky fuck.

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Trump: Of course—anything to divert from this question, you crooked shrew.

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"This is the way Apple conducts business" is not a justification for conducting business that way.

Kapeli is in Romania where credit card ownership is less common, and the "legal entity link" we're talking about is just a nominal $99/fee and some older devices. Moreover, Apple is admitting they they see them as distinct accounts, only notified one of them, and completely ignored the fact that Kapeli's side of the linked accounts had high credibility.

It sounds like Apple is desperately trying to justify the not-very-smart algorithm of an automated "booter" program rather than giving Kapeli the respect and due diligence that he deserves as a top developer.
I addressed someone's implication, I didn't offer one of my own.
The amount of state that I need to keep in front of me requires 4 monitors. Working on a laptop is not an option for me.
How do you know that Madoff was malicious from the outset, I wonder? The guy had a 30 year career, have you studied his beginnings? Maybe you did, but knowing nothing I'd find it more plausible that the guy started small fudging a couple of numbers hoping the next year would be better and eventually snowballed out of control.
I bookmarked three weeks ago (busy with a few other edX and Coursera courses), and the page has a link to a free PDF book "An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R":

Stanford Online: Statistical Learning

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

Quote: "This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The syllabus includes: linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection and regularization methods (ridge and lasso); nonlinear models, splines and generalized additive models; tree-based methods, random forests and boosting; support-vector machines. Some unsupervised learning methods are discussed: principal components and clustering (k-means and hierarchical)."

"This is not a math-heavy class, so we try and describe the methods without heavy reliance on formulas and complex mathematics. We focus on what we consider to be the important elements of modern data analysis. Computing is done in R. There are lectures devoted to R, giving tutorials from the ground up, and progressing with more detailed sessions that implement the techniques in each chapter."

List of courses: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/
Noise canceling headphones are much more effective on constant noise like an airplane engine than transient noises like speech or phones ringing.
The Takata airbag recall as well as the Note 7 are two of the most high profile recalls I can think of in recent history. Can anyone think of any other recalls that affected so many consumers and received so much press coverage?
People are being forced to go to an expensive doctor and pay for things that should be free or extremely cheap.

A few things I've personally witnessed: going to the doctor for a sick note, going to the doctor for routine travel immunizations, going to the doctor for a birth control prescription, going to an optometrist for routine eye correction prescriptions.
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Lazarus Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE
Acknowledging this is somewhat inflammatory, both of those companies are absent and incompetent when it comes to open source interaction when compared to others like EMC Isilon and Netflix.

NetApp does tend to be one of the higher financial contributors to the FreeBSD Foundation but this amounts to the salary of one full time engineer. I think the bhyve code drop was a fluke, but a very fortunate one, and the two developers left NetApp quickly after that happened. Outside of that, especially during the formative '90s and '00 where it could have been politically influential, continuing today there is almost no code reintegration. It's hard to find business justification because NetApp is a prime contributor to Linux, including the NFS server which could be argued has allowed companies like PureStorage to eat their lunch.

Juniper has some storied history of many many-year projects to resync their branch. They have their own TCP stack. Many of the influential FreeBSD devs I know there have fled recently. I heard something about switching to Linux. Sounds like a rudderless company, following a nice anti-pattern example set by Yahoo. It is sad because JunOS and the HW was and is for now quite nice.

I work at a small but highly traditional/bureaucratic company and was able to build a 4 person full time upstream BSD team in 2 years. I cannot fathom why NetApp and Juniper would not have a 10-40 people upstream team.
Basically, when she said "our machines, which we have already deployed in production and doctors are using them to make potentially life/death decisions, can do X". At that point.
I don't use twitter, but here is a tweet that suggests it isn't just about the credit card:
https://twitter.com/JamesNnnn/status/785645305396027392
We've now switched to use Auth0 as our login system and added support for Google and GitHub OAuth login
How does the price of honey relate to fake honey? Like does honey cost more because people cracked down on fake honey, or is fake honey on the rise because of increased demand, or what?
Well, now we have 10-715 as the ML PhD-level course that corresponds to 701. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10715/
Simple Swift AI
Completely, 100% agree with galacticpony. This whole story sounds suspect and I'm falling square on Apple's side here. Kapeli set up a relative with a developer account AND that relative was involved in fraudulent activity that benefits Kapeli and/or damages his competitors? Either Kapeli is lying and did set up his relative to help him out with fraudulent reviews, or he was so negligible so as to risk damage to his status with Apple by hooking up an untrustworthy relative and then felt like he had every right to act indignant when Apple called him out on it AND gave him a chance to make it right?

Sorry, not buying it.
But it does. We (readers here, you, me, etc) are far outside of mainstream at this news site, HN, and journalistic standards are much higher. When you go from default subreddits to niche ones, the journalidtic integrity improves substantially. Yes, yes, once outside the mainstream, integrity suddenly improves, across the board.
Eh.. there are 4 of them. Were you just not interested in the Radio One podcast, or you just forgot it existed?
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Even if they're at 10%, the actual volume of your earphones is more dependant on the drivers themselves and the amperage rather than the arbitrary 'volume percentage' on the device you're driving them with.
Don't assume the fraudulent reviews were intentional by either party. Spam systems are well-known to post reviews of completely unrelated products in order to make their intentional fraudulent activity appear more legitimate. It happens on Amazon, Yelp, basically everywhere.

It's the same tactic that makes Facebook advertising so useless. You have millions of fake people posting regular fake "updates" complete with fake GPS locations just so that some of them can provide fake traffic for pages when someone pays.

I want to see the proof that the reviews were fake in the first place and I want to see all the reviews posted by these supposedly fake users.

It probably won't happen but here's to hoping. Maybe some public visibility into these sorts of things will breed sympathy for Apple's position because it's a real problem and it's very difficult to solve.
The problem with anecdotes in this case is that the libido fluctuates a lot anyway, and a sample size of "1 person" is just not going to tell us much. To the best of anyone's ability to rigorously test though, there are no aphrodisiacs. That should honestly make sense, since if there were any, they would be the subject of intense scrutiny and attempts to synthesize a version you could stick in a pill; it would be a gold mine like no other.
> Again, it all depends on the details. Could you make ends meet with $10m when your $20m debt comes due in the same year?

Can you describe a realistic situation in which you receive a personal loan for $20 million that comes due at once that you cannot pay for by liquidating other assets? This isn't a real scenario. No one will give you this kind of personal loan without collateral or proof of significant unencumbered assets. And at minimum, you'd be doing this through a corporation, or again, you are incompetent.

> The alternative is, one, we keep the top rate reasonable. Nobody should have to pay 70% or 90% or whatever on his income, no matter how large. And everybody should pay income taxes, even if it's just a token amount.

No one in this comment thread said anything about raising taxes to 70 or 90 percent for anyone. You're taking against a nonexistent point.

Nor is this "alternative" an alternative. In no way does this address the fact that a specific income does not guarantee an ability to pay a specific tax rate.

> And two, we should get more of the national income from consumption taxes. If you can run out and buy a bunch of stuff you can then I know you can afford it. I'd have a national system like California's, where things like food and clothing are exempt.

Consumption taxes are effectively regressive. Exempting clothing and food is a decent idea but it's still regressive and I'm not sure foie gras and mink coats should be tax free.

> Don't be an ass. Seriously.

You're arguing against points I never made and you never even stated. You're making appeals to consider imaginary millionaires who can't pay basic taxes. It honestly feels like you're being intentionally argumentative.

> When I "no money" I don't actually mean zero money, though I'm sure there are people who keep large amounts of money in their checking accounts. I mean no money compared to assets. What is a few tens of thousands for someone who has millions in the bank?

The money you have in the bank isn't relevant to your taxes except to the extent that it produces income for you. If you are insanely wealthy and have almost no income, you'll have no trouble paying your taxes.

Are you imagining that I at some point proposed a tax on wealth?
It really depends on the system.

I recently got my hands on a Acer Aspire E-571 (Haswell i3-4030U) and suspend/resume in X with i915kms literally just worked installing FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 from installer and xorg/xdm/openbox from packages, no config file touched (apart from adjusting the keyboard layout and setting the lid_close_state sysctl to S3).

What does not work on it yet is the Elan trackpad, since it is the version that is connected via i2c.
Ford Pinto, Intel Pentium
Not exactly recent history, but perhaps still the highest profile to date? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
This is trivia compared to the Ford tire recalls or the Toyota brakes recall.
The original title was "by hand" which is much better because the main thing that distinguishes this from hundreds of other build logs is that the switch plate was not cut with a laser or waterjet, but with hand tools.
It doesn't strike me as unusual. I've paid for tools and training for relatives and friends. A membership seems no more unusual.

[edit: given the down votes, I guess the HN crowd has rich friends or doesn't do mentoring. Sometimes the people you sponsor don't get it right]
Maybe you could just take the battery out...

Oh, yea, about that.

I'll stick with my S5 till it falls apart.
It is not impossible. But you're really in the "look for another job in your spare time" range here. I can't guarantee anything, really, but you're almost certainly being grotesquely underpaid. That's intern levels of pay... and I write to you from the Midwest, not NYC!

Bear in mind that interviewing when you already have a job is intrinsically less stressful, because your worst-case is way less bad, and that comes out in the interview itself because you'll be more relaxed. It's not as bad as you may remember it. It's part of why you should always interview while you still have a job if you can.
Yep, that reminds me – :slack: actually comes with the :neckbeard: emoji. While I like Slack's quirky emojis I think it illustrates the point!
And people are still making exploding Pinto jokes, almost 40 years later, so don't hold your breath on some relief from the Samsung wisecracking.
Depends on the state. Most states are "one party" where only one party (i.e. a person making or receiving a call has to know about it).

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...

Federal law is "one party" as well.
This looks great. If they nail the UI and perhaps also let you supply different voltages it could save a ton of time and become the defacto breadboard for hobbyists, such as Arduino hackers.
Cybathlon: Battle of the bionic athletes
In the UK about ten years ago Coke launched Dasani Water only to have a complete PR disaster when two things happened

1. The UK isn't used to the idea of bottled water from the tap, versus a spring, which caused some mockery which may have been survivable except...

2. After testing by food standards agencies the water was found to have elevated levels of bromate causing all stock to be recalled.

The upshot was the brand was completely tainted in the UK and was never relaunched by Coke there.
I just wanted to say thanks.

A Vim with intellisense that I can step through with the debugger. I've been waiting 15 years for this.
I'd be willing to bet that Apple's call start with a statement that they are recording the call, that means you can record the call to because they know it's being recorded.
This may be hard to relate to from a First World context, but Kapeli lives in Romania where only 27% of the population owns bank accounts yet alone credit cards.[1] In many parts of the world, financial products are shared by families, even extended families.

This does not completely absolve Kapeli, but the bigger problem here is that Kapeli is (was) a top developer on Apple's platform and had oodles of credibility. He deserved a better investigation than Apple gave him, and to at least have his own ("linked") account notified of the problem before getting banned.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_373_en.p...
Calling someone a shill is a personal attack.
There is reuse, for example iwm(4) is based on the Linux driver and pulls from it. But the process is manual, not like the Linux-KPI graphics and OFED stuff.

It would be great if Intel stepped up to the plate and helped.
There is a fix. Legislate the minimum thickness of lithium batteries. This will stop the idiocy of smaller/lighter right in its tracks. The thinner the battery, the closer the positive and negative terminals are, and the greater the risk of bending or pressure causing them to contact.
In case you didn't notice there are lots and lots of people buying bigger devices these days. Bigger phones, bigger tablets. Samsung even sells a tablet with an 18.4 inch screen, the Galaxy View.
There is a market for all kinds of devices and there is no need to compromise public safety for the sake of fashion.
For that matter, you don't even need to legislate it. The airlines just have to start demanding that all tablets and phones are measured against a thickness scale. If your device does not fit through the slot, you can't take it on board. You either don't fly or you pay a mandatory fee for safekeeping until you return.
"two-party consent" laws have been adopted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.
I agree with with{}, less so with try/finally. First of all, I think exceptions are at least as easy to get wrong in your application (or worse system) design as goto. And if you get them wrong, it's probably even harder to debug. Second of all, the resulting code is IMO far less readable.

To illustrate - which would you prefer:

a = None
try:
a = get_ressource_a()
b = None
try:
b = get_ressource_b(a)
process(a,b)
except BException as e:
handle_errors(e)
finally:
cleanup_b(b)
except AException as e:
handle_errors(e)
finally:
cleanup_a(a)

or

a = get_ressource_a()
if not a:
handle_errors()
return
b = get_ressource_b(a)
if not b:
handle_errors()
goto cleanup_a
process(a,b)
cleanup_b:
#do the cleanup
cleanup_a:
#do the cleanup

My dream language would have more or less Python's syntax, with dynamic, inferred, but strong types, no exception handling, and instead Swift's "optional" baked into the language and a very smart logging that I can peak into with the error handler. The error handler could be the only sideeffect allowed when a function is declared pure. I don't need goto if with{} works well with such a system.
> according Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork

Not exactly an independent authority on the subject.
It appears there are indeed drugs that have libido enhancing qualities. These include bremelanotide, and phenethylamines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisiac
Lumi (YC W15) is hiring to reinvent packaging for online brands. Los Angeles/Remote
So basically a recall without the hassle of having to replace all of these phones?
Going to keep this neutral, but I don't believe Donald Trump's conduct either historical or current would support an expectation of his having donated almost 3B to charity last year. Or a plan to give the majority of his wealth to charity in his lifetime.

Tax payments aside, those are very different results for me.
I agree. If FB did such a thing it would end whatever enterprise business they hoped to gain.
The linked article says that German scientists "pinched" methamphetamine from Japan; does that mean it was originally invented there?

Wikipedia says it was "first synthesized in 1887 in Germany" by a Romanian scientist and then "in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#History.2C_soc...

Maybe the Germans learned the synthesis that they ended up using from Japanese research, despite being familiar with the substance before?
...And with all of the risks that someone won't get the message, and really hurt themselves. As it stands, this is going to be a nightmare for Samsung to recover from, just in terms of PR.
> The last feral North American honey bees were wiped out in the 1980s, by the Varroa mite.

This is likely overstated a bit, though I can't find any recent definitive surveys of persistent feral honeybee hives. The best I can do is this:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

but they don't actually test any feral hives, just attempt to determine factors that could lead to survival with varroa infestation. Anecdotally I know of a few feral hives that have survived multiple years in trees and barns, but I can't rule out the possibility that they're "seeded" by swarms from managed hives every spring (they're too far away for me to inspect regularly). Also, Youtube has a few folks doing cutouts of wild hives that have taken up residence in houses and sheds, and there's clear evidence of multiple years of work in some of these hives.

A bit of a nitpick, I admit, but I'd go with "mostly wiped out" personally.
Awesome! But, "recorded using authentic 18th century devices"? How does that help?
Seriously... people will forgive and forget a lot, but something they don't expect to explode, exploding on them? Memorable.
If you read the interviews of a lot of investors, many of them mention they invested because they believed so strongly in the founder. Afterwards, when their crazy concept works (example: Musk with SpaceX), these founders are lauded a visionary. When their concept fails (as is the case with Homles and Theranos), these founders are branded a fraudster.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12681222.
I don't work in SF, but the last time I visited and was walking down the streets of SF with my friend (both Asian American), I had someone tell us to go back to our home countries. I haven't experienced that in Seattle, so I chalked it up to high economic tensions in SF (this was back when the Google Bus protests were a thing).

> Yet somehow I still often feel like an outsider.

As I've started becoming more aware of how race affects how you get treated in America, I've given up on identifying as American, despite growing up here, being a citizen, and not speaking my parent's native language very well.

I find it much easier to identify as Asian-American now, and there is a sense of comradery, especially in cities with smaller AA populations. A nice side effect is that I no longer get bothered when someone asks me that oh-so-annoying question "where are you from" meaning "what ethnicity are you".
Awesome, thanks!

Some inspiration:

- As a prototype... I'm wondering if the MS Ergo Sculpt keyboard could be cut in half and rewired.

- Maybe two keyboards with two sets of wireless dongles could communicate via the same 2.4 ghz wireless dongle from "their half".

- Maybe even 1 battery each.

That's a great link, thanks I'll see what might be possible.
S5 Active here... I plan to use it until it literally dies, and I'm not sure that there's a force on Earth that can kill it.
Yahoo disables automatic email forwarding feature
The brighter side is that FB could now be a trustworthy source of information about corporates.

Some of that information might also be useful for making informed decisions on whether to buy/sell a given security.

Oh actually, the possibilities are infinite.