skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some pics and prices of similar devices here (form £95+vat) http://actionforswifts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/new-light-weig...

And some technical description in the paper, page 12 http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(1...

I think they have a microprocessor, a battery, some sensors and flash memory. To get the data out you have to find/catch the swift and remove the device. The device wakes every 5 mins and records briefly.
16gb limit is bullshit
and the macro-nutrient focused approach of the last decades is scientistic fallacy.

Mindfully listening to the body will lead to better adaptation than formulaic consumption.
On Tokens and Crowdsales: 4 Challenges and How to Tackle Them
> Our company is seed funded and have beta launched. Idea/direction wise it's going quite well.

The truth is-- successful, growing companies are very often lead by total jerks. Those personalities drive performance.

If you can still deal with him-- profile your new hires for ability to manage ambiguity, thick skin, and superior emotional intelligence.
exactly. twitter SHOULD be a fairly cheap company to run if it focused on its main platform and not its profit platform.

plus, if Apple bought twitter, twitter could go back to what it was, before it closed access to its apis/firehose. Twitter was the developers, developers, developers haven, that Apple/TheAppstore should LOVE to have. Everyone and their mom wanted to write an app ontop of the twitter datastream.

In my crazy delusional mind, Apple should buy Twitter, strip it of everything that is not communication (such as growth strategy, marketing, sales, ads) and merge it into the AppStore as a api/service provided by Apple. Similar to Microsoft's Azure/Cognitive AI type stuff. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

Obviously they would need to keep the API open to Android apps as well, but I think it would be a good first shot at Google/Facebooks/Microsofts recognition that you have to cater to other platforms, and it would be a way to ensure iOS apps continue to be first class citizens compared to Android. Twitter would be available to Android devs, but it would always be more tightly integrated to iOS.

At some point, if Apple wants to continue to be a software player, they might need to buy a marketing company, like say Adobe Marketing Cloud. Owning twitter would make them lucratively competitive against Salesforce/Dynamics etc.

The reason I think Apple cant buy twitter is harassment. Twitters free speech values conflict with Apple's happy image.
You are absolutely on the money here, however, as a rule it seems companies and their management feel that more data equals more power and potential income and so they are loathe to discard anything, even long after it has lost all value except to an attacker.
This is less about cryptography and very much about neural networks making stuff.
Given that they dropped space grey for black, one could argue that apple actually used darkening on the iPhone 7.

Thankyou thankyou.
Right? That's such crap.
Edit to add disclaimer: Re-reading the parent and GP, I'm likely misreading the disconnect to mean Lightning -> USB-A cables on iPhones with MacBooks having only USB-C ports. I think they likely meant the lack of 3.5mm plug on the iPhone while still having the plug on the MacBook. I'm leaving the comment as the former is still an interesting question, even if it's not the one originally intended.

Here are the alternatives that I see:

a. Don't switch to USB-C.

This isn't realistic. The change was going to happen sometime, to USB-C or some other improvement. USB-C is a better port, if only that it's smaller and are reversible.

b. Include both USB-A and USB-C ports with the new MacBooks.

I think a lot of people would like to see this. Drawbacks for Apple is that USB-A is larger (impacting design considerations), and removing USB-A entirely puts more pressure on manufacturers to support USB-C.

c. Start shipping the iPhone with both USB-A and USB-C cables prior to the MacBook announcement.

This isn't consistent with Apple's typical secrecy. It's also arguably wasteful.

d. Ship the iPhone with Lightning->USB C cables prior to announcing the new MacBooks.

iPhones wouldn't be able to connect to existing machines without an adapter. Also telegraphs the upcoming change prior to the announcement.

e. After announcing MacBooks with USB-C connectors, provide USB-C connectors for free, or some kind of exchange/buyback program.

While I'm sure this would be popular, it's not very typical of the industry as a whole, not just Apple.

Am I missing any options? Given these, I think the disconnect is inevitable. And given the machines people currently have, I don't think Apple will immediately switch to shipping Lightning->USB-C with iPhones (and iPads). I expect that transition will happen sometime over the next year.
> There will come a time when basic income of some sort will need to be considered by advanced economies, or else expect unemployment, unrest and the rise of populist demagogues...

Hard to imagine that basic income will be politically possible in the near or medium term. Our culture is so wrapped up in the idea of the necessity of jobs that I predict we will see government programs to pay 1/2 of the people to dig holes and the other 1/2 to fill them in, before we see basic income.
A lot of our digestive flora actually uses "non-digestible" components for sustenance, we're finding. There can be surprising and unexpected side effects to eliminating food components we thought we just excreted. Fiber, for instance, is technically not all digested -- much just passes through -- but it's really important! Other types of fiber are fermented in the gut depending on what bacteria you've got.
Since it seems that both adversaries in the network are training in parallel, is it possible that the encryption is only exploiting a weakness in that particular Eve? Would it change anything to have more Eves challenging Alice and Bob?

Also-- being able to generate crypto-algorithms on the fly seems like it would be ideal for small cells of people who want to keep their communications secret from something like the NSA, who might be looking for something like RSA or GPG, but not some ai generated by a neural network that nobody else in the world is using.

Oh- and how susceptible is the generated ciphertext to standard cryptographic techniques like letter frequency analysis and so on.
Well, then you're most likely part of minority. And even in that minority I'm willing to bet that a lot of the time is spent in things that have little to do with Computer Science.

Be honest and think of all the time you've spent fiddling with build systems, various random tools (compilers, scripts, databases, version control, etc.).
By the time we finally realize we're not as smart as we think we are, it's going to be too late.
Ah, you are right. I think I'm misremembering. I'm basing most of what I wrote on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM but I watched it years ago and my memory isn't the greatest. (I also didn't fact check the video's content, so... grain of salt and all that, it does seem well sourced though)
7 Principles of Software Assurance
Again? [1]

Ex-VAT the difference is just 3% (40 eur) for the entry model.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12808053
Home field advantage by year, team, and park over 145 years and 210,719 games
Here you go: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?3x_n...

You have to use the normal XPS 13 page and choose Ubuntu from the OS filter.
In theory, you have to "declare" the phone at the Customs Office when you leave Buenos Aires so that you can enter it back. They give you some kind of evidence that you can present when returning. Since I have never done it, I don't know if it is a sticker on the phone, or just an official form with the phone's serial number.

In practice, your pockets are generally not checked when you enter the country.
I would be very surprised if HN didn't also a large number of people of Asian descent who are much less likely to tolerate lactose.
How to Speak to Your Non-Techie Client
> The only “innovation” Soylent has brought to the table was being the first company to market MRPs to geeks and hipsters -- and that's it.

That's not true though. Look at the nutritional information for MRPs compared to soylent. 3 meals on an MRP will give you 21% of your daily value of potassium; Soylent will give you 100%. 3 meals will give you 12% of your dietary fiber from MRPs, 96% from MRPs.

The goal of Soylent is to provide you with all the nutrients you need if you eat it 3 times a day. You can argue whether or not it achieves this goal, but it's not even the aim of the MRPs. You can find some examples of people who tried an MRP only diet online; they're pretty good examples of why MRPs are not the same as Soylent at all.
For anyone that is interested in easily using WebWorkers for this sort of work please check out task.js (https://github.com/icodeforlove/task.js).

It allows you to send a pure function with provided arguments to a autoscaling WebWorker pool.

Heres a similar demo (http://s.codepen.io/icodeforlove/debug/ZOjBBB , you can bring all cores to 100% usage)

But for this specific scenario it could have been coded like this using task.js (vs http://afshinm.github.io/50k/worker.js which is not reusable)

// mentioned sort function (close to exact code from site)
function bubbleSort(a) {
var swapped;

do {
swapped = false;
for (var i=0; i < a.length-1; i++) {
if (a[i] > a[i+1]) {
var temp = a[i];
a[i] = a[i+1];
a[i+1] = temp;
swapped = true;
}
}
} while (swapped);

return a;
}

// turn the function into a worker task
const bubbleSortAsync = task.wrap(bubbleSort);

// this now runs in a autoscaling worker pool (first run includes worker initialization time)
console.time('BubbleSort Worker');
bubbleSortAsync([9,1,2,3]).then(sortedArray => {
console.timeEnd('BubbleSort Worker');
}, error => { /* this is extra credit, yes we can handle worker errors */ });

Also when dealing with large messages you can use transferables (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferabl...).

The web has really came a long way, this kind of stuff is extremely useful, for instance you could use it when processing pixel data for a 10MP image with a RGBA array of 40M. In that scenario the work can be spread across all cores, and blows away the alternate approach of just locking the UI. In that case if you were using task.js you would just chunk the work, and use a async control flow library like bluebird.

// in this situation all cores would be at 100% without locking the UI
let processedPixels = await Promise.map(chunks, processPixelChunkAsync);
Was it, though? The Macbook Pro was never marketed as a developer's machine. Its popularity among people who code was mostly due to the factors that made it popular with people who don't code, plus the coincidence of being Unix under the hood (a choice they didn't make in order to win software developers as hardware customers).
But it's not due to Brexit because the prices rose in every country.

I'm unsure why people are unable to grasp this simple fact.

You political opinion is that the UK has an inflation shock coming, but it has no basis in facts in terms of Macbook Pro pricing.
It's not that I disagree with you because I think this is probably correct but... I mean do we know that? As a sure thing?
The former philosophy major in my says there is no "why" to look at in this situation.
I didn't have any of that issue with the one case I purchased to try a few months ago. Rather, it was just so weird tasting I had to mix the last 6 with chocolate milk to be able to choke them down. They just don't taste good, and I didn't feel full after drinking them. There's something mental about eating food for me where part of getting to feeling full is the effort it takes (manipulating with utensils, chewing) to consume it.
I hope I'm not sounding too milton friedman-y here, but even if Uber's business model is dependent on circumventing labor laws to depress wages, in the case it goes under it won't be Uber drivers to benefit the most from it, but medallion owning companies and cab drivers.
I whole-heartedly disagree with this.

A.) For the obvious not everyone learns the same way

B.)Drills and practice are important, but being able to actually apply your math skills is also important. I remember in high school when there were math word problems so many people HATED them. These were people in honors/college level classes and they struggled to actually apply the math to situations. Find how fast the train is moving, how long the ladder is, and Geometry proofs all made many of them get confused. They didn't understand the point of the math they knew.

Personally, I got SO bored with drills/memorization. And personally for me, that if that's the -only- method of learning used it's awful for long term retention. The math skills that I've retained the longest were taught in several different ways-- a mix of drills/practice, visualization, mixing it with other types of problems so that I could see how the puzzle pieces fit together, etc. I understand the point of what I'm doing, it's not just some abstracted concept that I happened to write 50 times.

I agree that past a certain point you'll have to accept abstraction, but especially in early years up until probably Algebra, it's a useful skill to be able to use math in the real world. Seriously, I've met so many people who can't calculate a tip, understand fractions enough for simple cooking, do their budgeting, or begin to understand economics and taxes enough to be even decently informed citizens.
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> Otherwise, the future is bleak for your smart toaster

Well, no. Smart toaster is going to be just fine. And that's the core of the problem here. Much like it is the case with polluting diesel cars, owners are reasonable happy with their purchase and simply unaware of any problem (until/unless product is recalled). And even being aware, there is very little incentive for owners to address the issue of their property subtly contributing to harming somebody else.

And same again with much-needed BCP-38. It adds very, very little value to the ISP who implements it, so many never bother to. Yet less-then-universal roll-out of BCP-38 hurts Internet as a whole.
Swiss rail operator to sell bitcoins at its ticket machines
Which is why those features should be put in the non-pro models. Your parents can buy a Macbook or even an iPad. The main complaint I'm seeing, and the reason I'm likely moving back to Windows for my primary device is that there is no Pro model of the Macbook anymore.
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>. Why should Uber be allowed to skirt around these laws? What makes them special?

They have an app and are cheaper. Same reason why airbnb obviously should be allowed to skirt around these laws.
It's bad, but I've seen worse. Much worse.
The Duff's device example is incorrect. In n%4, the value of n before n=(n+3)/4 should be used, not after that.
> What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key?

They have the pleasure to install an additional ESC server which simulates the ESC key with an ios device :-)

https://github.com/brianmichel/ESCapey

It's amazing that Apple considers the backquote/tilde key so much more important than the ESC key.
- Dell XPS 13

- Thinkpad x250 (x260 has PWM issues)

- 4th Gen Thinkpad x1 Carbon (FHD model to avoid screen lottery)

- Thinkpad x1 Carbon Yoga (OLED)

- Refurbished 2015 Macbook Pro
Top Tomcat Performance Problems 2: Bad Coding, Inefficient Logging and Exceptions
Fast food is designed to be addictive (salt/fat/sugar triangle), so the dichotomy is not really false. Its possible to be addicted to fast food. I point to obesity in America and draw some supporting evidence there.
>What's wrong with skipping a meal?

Absolutely nothing. But it's not uncommon, if you skip a meal, to feel a bit low energy and/or to snack instead. When I'm out doing things, I'll often skip lunch but I may have a granola bar, fruit, some nuts, or something along those lines.
First computer developed by the end users. Eve V
It seems to me that there will be a fair amount of consumer inertia. Uber may be able to benefit for a number of years from people thinking of this as the app to go to to get a ride, automated or otherwise.

Of course in the long run (or even the medium run) that seems basically moot. There will be a zillion different ways to get essentially the same thing anyone else, I don't see any way for Uber to maintain a long-term advantage.
The Great Election Roller Coaster Ride of 2016
It's not even that, Uber were just first to get a verdict. There's quite a few "fake self-employment" cases going through the system at the moment. Hermes and Deliveroo for certain, and I think Yodel too.
Nope, target country enforces this. Which is a lot worse, because you usually have to live there.

> Bringing anything into my country is taxable also. See that nice outfit in your suitcase? It's taxable

Admitting to TAX EVASION on the net with a somewhat traceable account is probably a bad idea if you are living in a Country that actually operates on tax income (which some countries do not, Brunei comes to mind...)

> If you did not declare it and they find it they levy an additional charge on top of the taxes.

Actually, in the western world, you get put into prison for a few years.
Surfer's CT prediction models
I might be reading your comment incorrectly, but it sounds like you're interpreting that phrase to mean that no one knows how training the neural network works.

I think, instead, it's in reference to the resulting function not having been analyzed. From the article:

The researchers didn't perform an exhaustive analysis of the encryption methods devised by Alice and Bob...
Note that the version with function keys has a 2.0 GHz processor and 1866 MHz RAM, compared to the base touchbar configuration with 2.9 GHz and 2133 MHz.

You can configure it up to a 2.4 GHz i7 for $300, bringing it to the same price as the 2.9 GHz i5 and touch bar. I don't know how those two processors compare.
How open sourcing magically improved our code
Always bet on text
You can find it on this page:

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd

The most straightforward way is to select "Ubuntu" as the "Operating System" filter at the top of the models list.

Outside the US you should follow the links in this article:

https://bartongeorge.io/2016/10/04/the-new-xps-13-developer-...
For me, an omelette roulée. Quick, fun to make, doesn't need much cleanup, and infinite versatility.
The problem is whether the media responds to the angling and provides good coverage while reducing negative coverage. The operatives doing this and the news media responding positively has almost certainly been happening since the beginning of news, but that doesn't excuse the behavior.
Put it the other way: what would be the benefit of publicly disclosing their secret sauce? Perhaps to help fuel their recruiting pipeline, but I can't think of any other good reasons to do so.

They don't have a product out, their secret sauce might change, Google/MSR might be working on something similar and just need a few hints in the right direction to get there, they get to keep a big first-mover advantage in whatever area their tech enables them to move into, and there's no opportunity for possible early adopters like yourself to get in on the action yet.

I'm guessing their tech isn't so much "critically secret" as there just isn't a benefit to their business case for publicizing what they are doing
Ask HN: Is There a Spot for a “Pre Product Hunt”?
It happens a lot... You have an idea per day. You write it down , you sketch, you share it with a couple of friends. You share it with a couple of "potential customers". You get a bit of feedback but you would really like to accelerate and receive way more feedback before investing time and energy to make a prototype or a product. Do you think there is a sweet spot for a platform where people go, submit their shitty idea and people vote, ask questions and share their feedback ? Your shitty idea would get killed or get cured. What do you think about this idea ? Damn it, we need that platform.
I've had 2 situations where the Knowledge of black cab drivers has been hopelessly outclassed by the smarts of smartphone sat-nav.

The cab drivers sat in traffic, the Uber drivers were alerted and rerouted. I arrived on time and with a smaller bill. Sure a black cab driver could have done that with smartphone alerts but none of them seem to make use of them - perhaps it's due to professional pride derived from passing the famously difficult "Knowledge" exams.

Finally, black cabs are horrible if you're a cyclist, whereas Uber drivers are by-and-large no different from any other driver.

I'm glad the Uber drivers have better employment status now but aside from the horrible misfortune of having bought a hackney license, I don't really have too much sympathy for Black Cab drivers.
So, a malicious actor could spoof the vehicle of somebody they dislike, and cause their insurance to go up, or pave the path for a later incident, where when police/emergency are contacted, the person is ignored?
high fructose corn syrup:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337798/Are-sugar-ad...
Comma.ai cancels the Comma One following NHTSA letter
Well, to belabor the point, not walking out into traffic without looking is evidence of self-preserving instincts. Again from there its a matter of degree.

Admittedly I am also of the school of 'be safe as long as it doesn't take too much mental stress'. I'll live as long as I live, given flu shots and careful driving. But I'm not going to obsess about it either.
Touch Bar Will Display Function Keys When Running Windows with Boot Camp
If it is easily duplicatable this strategy allows them to build up tonnes of labour that would take a copier a lot of time to replicate. So there's a bit of time to capture up profits and evolve to the next iteration.
How Might Quantum Information Transform Our Future? (2014)
This year I started predicting professional surfers CT based on the WSL Fantasy Game. That is how far I got, there is still one event ahead. My best model could be in 30th position in a game played by more than 100k users.
>Look at it this way: you're starting a new job. A very stressful one, where you have to learn a bunch of new things, long days, and not just learning one thing - you're learning dozens of subject every day.

I think that's the problem right there. When I was in school, the day was not long nor was it stressful. I suppose I'm inclined to agree with you that if the above circumstances are true, a parent should not behave that way. However, if those circumstances are true, and my kid seems at least average or above, I'd as a parent do some hard thinking and consider finding another school for him.

One thing I learned in all of my education: You may learn a lot when you are overloaded, but you learn nothing well. Not just at their level, but at university.

I'm good at a bunch of subjects - likely much better than the teacher (math, physics, etc). If school is so stressful that my kid cannot learn these well, and there is no room for help from me, then it's a bad school.
Yup. Microsoft just increased them by 22%. I guess pretty much all tech companies will do that in the UK soon - or just leave altogether.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/24/microsoft-price-increase...
Copernicus Explores the Science of Star Wars (2014)
Does the vi crowd care? Haven't they all mapped escape to caps-lock ages ago?
The repeal of Glass Steagall had a great deal to do with our current predicament. That occurred during Bill Clinton's Presidency.

The whole finance industry has much to atone for. Their greed has brought this nation to its knees. I don't need a chart to tell me that.