skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transistors (semiconductors) work because of quantum mechanics. If it didn't work the way we expect, the CPU would be a useless piece of rock.

The GPS receiver only works properly because we understand and account for general relativity.

The radio relies on a lot of stuff related to information theory. Which might be science, depending on how you think of applied math.

The screen and battery are built on a lot of materials science, which I don't know much of anything about.

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What failure means when you try to consider your phone as an experiment is very unclear to me

A phone is far to complex and intertwingled to be a proper experiment; if it works it proves a lot of things, but because of that if it doesn't work it doesn't disprove much of anything.

If the phone works, it says "all of these things are true", which is a lot of information.

If the phone doesn't work, it says "at least one of these things is not true", which is correspondingly less information.

Those things are tied together. Someone who knows more about statistics and information theory could probably explain how a lot better than I can.
There are that many people, but I suspect a much, much smaller number of people actually benefit. The overall population probably isn't all that applicable.
Sometimes, it's just not possible nor reasonably doable. As seen above, with proprietary drivers...
I often use HN to practice writing. Good writing resonates with people. A post that is well thought out, well researched, communicates clearly and doesn't assume anything of the reader will often get up votes in my experience.

For me, the vast majority of down votes come from me being wrong (that is, I post something that I think is correct; I get down votes; I do more research and discover that I am, indeed, incorrect). In fact, this is such a good flag for my writing that when I get a down vote I immediately assume I must have made a mistake somewhere and start looking for it.

The next most common source of down votes (for me) is being argumentative. If I get a down vote, but decide that I am correct, I often discover that the tone of my writing is derisive. In all honesty, I never intend to have this tone of writing, but I am human and sometimes (either through lack of writing skill, or by unconsciously being an ass) it happens. My guess is that the person I'm responding too gets pissed off and down votes me. This has led me to have a kind of rule to try very hard never to piss off the parent poster, even if I think they are wrong. If I can't think of a way to comment without pissing off the parent, I try not to post. As a huge bonus, this avoids me getting dragged into >90% of trolling efforts (a statistic that I made up).

The next most common cause of down votes for me is lack of coherency in the comment. Sometimes people simply don't understand what I'm saying. It is important to realise that as a writer, you can't assume the readers understand what you are thinking, so this is completely down to you. Trying to put yourself into the role of a random reader and figuring out what they might think when they read your post is hard. However, this is what being a good writer is about. Again, if I write a post and upon reviewing it, I don't think most people will understand, I don't submit it.

Related to the last point, there are lots of times where I have relatively unique ideas. Very frequently people will not know what to think about them because they have never really explored that way of thinking. If I write in a way that makes it clear that I assume that the reader will find what I'm saying is obvious, I will get down votes. In a way it's insulting to say something that is not mainstream and assume that others will instantly understand/agree. Sometimes, if I feel the idea is interesting, I'll still post, but I'll try to broach the subject gently/apologetically. People are doing me a favour by getting out of their comfort zone and considering a different way of thinking.

Finally, when I'm posting, I often pick someone to respond to and try my best to help them. If I am successful, I find that the post is usually highly regarded by many people, even though my focus is only on helping one person. YMMV!
Video originals, soundclips, text, edited versions, become a tangled pipeline without experience (in the form of seeing it work in a large project context).

I backup my multiple TB of data on Dropbox, some on Github (the code and production assets are committed to it), and external drives at least once a month. I think people have a tough time determining what's important (obviously) and are bad at organizing large amounts of data, conceptually more than technically. That being said, if you are going to generate a lot of data worth anything, even your publishing platform gives you an idea to how to structure it.
Yeah, but there's not much point in having a passcode if it gets compromised on every use.
the reason for the name of the slashs is: if they'd fall, do they fall forward or backward?

/ forward slash

\ backward slash
But they will use the obscured portion irrationally.
This is very creative! Though, the ownership of a patent shouldn't be a factor in deciding the validity.
The videos are widely available. Google isn't trying to hide the videos, they're trying to keep them off the platform.
Everyone busy with iPhone X bad day for such important post
If you want to argue that IDEs come with more features than text editors "out of the box", I'll happily 100% agree. But I've spent many hours configuring Sublime, Jetbrains IDEs (CLion, WebStorm, PHPStorm, and PyCharm) in particular, and also maybe a grand total of an hour configuring Visual Studio. Yes, I install more plugins in Sublime to get the same functionality as an IDE. No, that's not what my original comment was about.

If you honestly think there's something an IDE can do that can't be done in a text editor with plugins, then just consider this: an IDE at its core is a text editor, and all the rest is just "plugins"
Resolved.

https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265
Dry eye is an interest of mine. I saw this in the news on Friday I think, and the resulting statements from Allergan and the Native American Tribe (Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe). It's really a brilliant move by their patent lawyer. Native American tribes have sovereign immunity to IP challenges. This helps extend the monopoly on a drug that makes up a very large part of Allergan's profit (besides Botox).
That would be fine if they didn't insist that the automation simply flagged it so humans could review it for the final decision.
Thinline misposted response to the inc.com article:

Interesting last comment (from November 2016) to the original article:
"Important Update *
I am currently employed at Pluralsight, and I feel obligated to point out that the author of this article, our CEO, no longer believes or stands behind any of the content in this article. Pluralsight does not operate under the Deming philosophy. As of January 2017, Pluralsight will be implementing sales commissions again. We have reverted to the typical high-pressure, high-stress quota models found in most companies.
Empirically, this does not seem to be the case. Labov at UPenn has been studying American dialect formation for the past ~50 years, and has found several ongoing changes. In some ways the Midwest is getting more divergent, with the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.

Many small dialects are disappearing, but others are becoming more divergent (out west). It's a mixed bag.
Surprising, considering it's origin from web tech.
The answer is probably no.

Requiring a person to unlock a device is not prohibited by the Fifth Amendment simply because the device contains incriminating information that would otherwise be inaccessible to police.

If the police have a valid warrant to search your safe, you are generally required to unlock it for them, even if the safe contains evidence that incriminates you. If you are issued a valid subpoena to produce certain documents in your possession, you are generally required to produce those documents, even if they incriminate you. Compelled decryption of hard drives is fundamentally no different.

It is true that the act of unlocking the safe or producing those documents is itself testimonial in the sense that you are conveying the fact that you know the combination or possess those documents. But under the "foregone conclusion" doctrine, if the state already knows that implicit testimony, then it is not protected by the Fifth Amendment. It's obvious that Rawls knows the password to the drives.

There are legitimate concerns about how search warrants should apply to electronic devices. However, these are Fourth Amendment issues, not Fifth Amendment ones.

If you're interested, Orin Kerr from the Volokh Conspiracy has written several articles about compelled decryption, including with respect to this particular case [1, 2, 3].

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
> I know WAP looked great then,

You sure about that? I don't really have fond memories of WAP...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206796

There's a couple other discussions too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=allergan&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
Google Offers Olive Branch by Relaxing Policy on Subscription Sites
That's like saying "lightning is much more dangerous than thought, because what matters is not your risk of dying, but the risk of any one of 30,000 people dying".

If the risk is "1 in 1,000,000" that means it's 1 in 1,000,000. People understand that doesn't mean it never happens. But it's orders of magnitude lower than their risk of dying in any given year, so it's factually negligible.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."; whether Henry Ford truly said that or not is immaterial as the quote itself is the point I was trying to make.

And your comment really rather touches on it.

Peoples' needs aren't as profitable -- not until what they need also becomes what they want.
Feel sad, don't like things goto Eclipse. Eclipse makes me feel less techs, maybe the bad impression from eclipse, these bad impression last for at least five years, most of time someone get into the trouble is caused by eclipse, feel more worse.
This is a great point, because I think it shows that people who are trying to redefine the contours of the standard free speech conversation (which had historically been about freedom from government imposed limits) are attempting to solve the wrong problem.

The problem is dependence on huge monolithic tech platforms, such that we feel that the societal value of free expression is threatened by the standard forms moderation that we had accepted as normal for most of the history of the internet.

Now, the ability to moderate carries a significant amount of power in a way that didn't use to be the case. And some people, looking over the available options and the effort required to pursue them, would now prefer to resign themselves to permanent dependence on huge monolithic platforms and just focus on making sure those platforms are not engaging in moderation.

But this is hugely problematic for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that moderation at least sometimes offers a genuine good to users because toxic, manipulative, illegal behaviors that undermine the platform are removed. There's a "societal value" in having flourishing discourse that isn't compromised by the toxicity that would naturally occur without moderation. And there is good reason to not want to make that sacrifice.

Either side offers a distasteful sacrifice. So maybe the answer is to try and bypass the dilemma by making non-centralized communication more accessible, so that people like your wife (or my mom, or my dad's entire side of the family) don't have to make that kind of choice.
The reason I say those words is that when given the opportunity to choose what plugins you want, you don't install all the same things as an IDE comes with because you don't need all of it. Sure, an IDE with enough "off" switches would achieve the same effect, but that doesn't happen a whole lot

I'm aware that text editors with plugins have more overhead than an IDE, but at least in my experience, I don't need enough plugins to make the plugins take as big of a toll as everything that comes with a text editor. I should have been more clear about this in my original comment
As always, the best way to get a big company to help you is to make it a public relations problem.
what does your startup do?
There is a 100% chance I'll end up referencing this article in the future.

For most needs personally after having learned the ins and outs I still have a soft spot for sphinx so was happy to see honorable mention in there. It can scale really cheap and is a tank that never has downtime. It is closer to metal but if you look at how Craigslist does it you can do the fancy scaling things still
You are making an incorrect assumption. When Tesla released their original Autopilot, it was a no-charge SW update for all cars equipped with the necessary hardware (which was all cars built within the previous xx months). Thus, the drivers with Autopilot capability were driving the same commute in non-Autopilot capable cars the day before. There was no customer selection based on perceived utility of Autopilot.
But but that doesn't fit the narrative the IRS is peddling.
For android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.armis.blue...
> Apple wants YOU to buy accessories, which are the meat of their business with ridiculous margins.

This is laughably false. Accessories are a tiny percentage of Apple's revenue.
> Francis Rawls has been in prison for two years now over refusing to decrypt a hard drive.

People have got to stop martyrizing this guy. He's in jail because the prosecution got a fortuitous decision that says they can hold him as long as they want until he coughs up a password. They aren't fishing for evidence, nor have they used this trick on anyone else. If he went to trial on the evidence already in public, the guy would hang (metaphorically). There is no significant doubt in anyone's mind that this drive contains CP.

But the principle is the important part you say? Sure. Make a principled argument. Don't cite this guy.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/using_wi-fi_t...

Pins are basically useless to anyone determined, no matter how much you try to hide it. There's no real bullet-proof security except for a really long password, but how many people are going to do that realistically?
My garmin 735 has a one week charge. Works well for me. Missing about 80% of the apple watch features though.
They need to add more Apple-branded app/support in third-party IoT/connected consumer devices beyond HomeKit and charge a subscription for extra features: walled-garden beachheads in other gardens.

Also, Apple needs more third-party integrations like replacing the browser, email and so on.

Finally, there needs to be more ways for third-parties to add jailbroken-like changes to the system in a nuanced, safe, trusted manner.
This is guaranteed to cause a banking system and currency meltdown in the long run, not to mention the negative effect of rampant malinvestment in the economy. Since banks everywhere are free to issue unlimited "Bank money" through credit cards and other means and have nothing holding them back except the risk of the ATM's being unable to service the demand for real currency. The lower the demand for real currency the more "Bank money" can be created. Now lets see with 0% demand for real currency how much "Bank money" will be created.
I think the difficulty of making that 3d model is a bigger barrier than the lower visibility of a passcode. On my Android phone, it even helpfully highlights each digit as I'm entering it on the lock screen.
I don't agree with Google's actions here, but this has to be somewhat expected. If your day-to-day is closely entwined with terrorism, extremism, etc. you have to know that some of your content or actions aren't going to be welcome everywhere. I mean, people in the porn industry surely take precautions because they know they're content isn't welcome everywhere, why wouldn't the author?

IMO google is going too far, but I'd bet thats an automated system and this article will get enough press to stop it.
Ask HN: How / Why Does Ron Conway Get into Apple Keynote B-rolls? :)
I spotted Ron Conway 3 times in Apple Keynote today.

I spotted him few more times in the previous keynotes.

and few times before.

How and Why?
demo/demo
Thinline responded to that article in another post:

Interesting last comment (from November 2016) to the original article:
"Important Update *
I am currently employed at Pluralsight, and I feel obligated to point out that the author of this article, our CEO, no longer believes or stands behind any of the content in this article. Pluralsight does not operate under the Deming philosophy. As of January 2017, Pluralsight will be implementing sales commissions again. We have reverted to the typical high-pressure, high-stress quota models found in most companies.
If the test is adequate for the job I don't think most people would mind. For example nobody says that short whites, latinos and asians are victims of discrimination because there's so few of them in NBA.

Discrimination is suspected if the test has little to do with actual job requirements.
Tell that to an oil or pharmaceutical company.
A couple of years ago I picked up a used copy of Ullman's Elements of ML Programming for about $5US. I found it more accessible.
All they're doing is retargeting people, which is no different than what the rest of the online ad industry does.
>Heroin is big business, but not for the Mexican immigrant Reagan is tailing today. He’s just a suspected courier who might make $500 or so. The real money flows to the gangs that control distribution, and to the drug cartels back in Mexico.

>When they finally pull him over, police rip up the floor boards and dig through the driver’s back pack. They check the bumpers and the trunk and look for secret compartments in the doors.

>Nothing.

>Reagan is frustrated. There have to be drugs in that car, he thinks.

Wait, they pulled someone over and destroyed their car over nothing? I hope they had some really solid evidence, but the article didn't say.

>The agents don’t have time to dwell on what went wrong. About 7,000 kilograms of heroin are seized in the United States every year, three times as much as a decade ago. They will be hunting someone new tomorrow.

Oh, okay then. They don't have time to dwell on what went wrong.
"Our vision has always been to create an iPhone that is entirely screen"

so the iPhone 2x will have no speaker or camera in the front... or they will be behind the screen.
Don't waste your breath complaining to Equifax about data breach
I'm really surprised he said that. It flies in the face of diversified risk and everything it affects, like Sharpe ratios.
Even worse, your ex probably knows your passcode if you've ever opened your phone in front of them.
This is tangential, but the IntelliJ Rust plugin is fantastic, and just got officially supported! (http://intellij-rust.github.io)
JEE is fundamentally a component container spec. The core APIs are sound. Servlets, for example, is a little gem of coherent abstraction.

A rethink of the provider/deployment end of the equation for the world of k8 mesos etc. could resurrect it.
Done. I’m out. I’ve bought every top level upgrade for the last 10 years of upgrade cycles. But now I am out. No new “rose gold” status for me. :(
No! It turns out this is something they have a history of doing!

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/16/6209759/apple-has-an-emba...

In the exact same way! I'm very surprised, I did not think Apple of all companies would deliberately do such a thing.
This code could take advantage of the fact that the type is a union.

One can bend the rules of prim-and-proper well-defined ISO C just a little bit and assign to the simplest function pointer, taking advantage of all function pointers having the same representation on every machine known to mortal hacker, and all being overlaid by the union. Thus all the cases collapse down to this:

mv->val.u.f0 = (void (*)(void)) func;

done. Now if this is 13 arguments, then strictly speaking, accessing mv->val.uf13 is not well-defined behavior. That's only going to be problem when it actually doesn't work, though. A big problem, then. :)
Yes, this is stupid. One thing to note thou, DNI is not supposed to be secret or used as a secret in practice.
True, but if it lasts all day I don't see the problem with charging it when I'm not using it. Also, should they not produce the device because of this pain point? With new technology there will be pain points. This is to be expected.
It is not valid, most people who will buy the iPhone 8 will have USB-A.

That said, they should give you a choice of cables.
"but it definitely slants center-left with a hint of corporatism"

Oh, I notice it. I think it's a fun game to root out the bias in the Times. It's really how the news is meant to be read (i.e. confrontationally).
with inductive charging, this could be as simple as setting all of your devices on a table with a large enough mat (one day.. since obviously not all of those devices support it today).
Deep learning is still often abbreviated ML...just because DL hasn't really caught on.
I think every editor can probably configured to do this. I've set up my VIM to do this specifically (auto reload the buffer when the file is modified). I don't think that one's on VSCode.
Perhaps Apple can be accused of trailblazing at times, but only when they think they're going to make sufficient money doing it. I say this as a long-time Apple fan: they've never been in the business of experimental moonshots. They have products that don't pan out, sure, but they don't bring anything to market with a "this is crazy, but let's throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" attitude. What they've always seemed to be best at is looking at other good ideas that aren't setting the world on fire and figuring out how to fix them. Arguably, they did that with the original GUI concepts from the Xerox Alto/Star line, and kept doing it, from MP3 players to smartphones to tablets to smartwatches.

"Any and all" major challenges strikes me as kind of a recipe for (slow) disaster, unless Apple decides to set up a quasi-independent Apple Research division dedicated to moonshots. That would be kind of cool, to be sure, but it strikes me as something that isn't really in line with the kind of company Apple's been the last ~19 years.
Yeah me too. He raised his voice and I was really expecting something significant.

Some AR glasses?
Self driving car?

Oh, another iPhone.
You're free to become a buddhist if you want. Telling others their prescribed avenues of pursuing happiness is not freedom.
Could you give some examples?

Particularly ones that are open-source and framework-agnostic.
> This ironically leads to a problem with the currency not being used.

This is not a problem for most of us.
If a page was recently submitted and didn't get many comments people can repost it.
This is something that can be largely fixed by the software, but it requires 3rd part developer coordination, that honestly only Apple can pull off. In iOS11 there is a concept of a safe area that UI should respect. With constraint based layout you can have a single layout that moved critical UI components outside of the notch area if its present.

The problem is that the AR game was most likely built with Unity, which has its own 4-5 different UI systems, and my guess none of them are aware of a safe area.

The problem is fixable, but why did Apple allow demo that was not polished enough to work well with their flagship phone?
I'm an emotional being what can I say?
*sighs, looks down, shakes head
> He's in jail because the prosecution got a fortuitous decision that says they can hold him as long as they want until he coughs up a password.

You call it a fortuitous decision, I call it precedent.