skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a CPU+GPU+ML-optimized chip. I'd say "Bionic" is a bit of a stretch from the marketing department but it's likely a reference to the neural network capabilities which are modeled after biology.
Oh, geez, cowboy up. Nontechnical secretaries learned how to use Multics Emacs back in the 70s and extend it using Lisp. Now you're telling me we can't expect professional programmers to learn it or vim?
Blistering barnacles! That's not going to stay online for to long....
I think the key for wireless charging is a not-metal back. Glass or plastic would both work.
To say nothing of the regional accents in England where "th" is often pronounced the same as "f".
I'd argue that 64GB is not enough. I was surprised to see that level of memory.

I imagine 4K video at 60fps would eat up a lot of that 64GB.
They should have an option to lock your phone, disabling face recognition, on voice command.
To anyone confused about how to manage Hugo themes, check out this article I wrote. http://stephendrake.me/post/deploying-hugo/
I believe countries with single-payer healthcare have less problems with this, but they also have very different cultures around the amount of healthcare and drugs they provide. I can't see it being politically viable to impose single-payer-style restrictions on access to healthcare in the US any time soon.
For many, that's the point: to show others(inc. the opposite sex) that you are carrying a $1000 piece of equipment. But people prefer to invent other reasons.
Ask HN: AWS connectivity issues this AM?
According to https://status.aws.amazon.com/ there were route53 issues this morning, however the issues were not supposed to impact queries to existing DNS records.

For us, we saw non-DNS-related connectivity issues this AM where route53 worked correctly, requests were able to reach the ELB, but then were never received by our EC2 instances. The timeframe of our issues matches that of the reported route53 issue.

Anybody else run into this sort of intermittent connectivity issue this AM?
> they have to launch with a profitable phone the 1st month; no delays & no defects.

They've survived both in the past.
Other people have different preferred learning styles.

A toy language won't teach the exact same things, but it covers a lot of the same topics.
I didn't really understand from the video what this new standard covers that Qi doesn't. Is Qi lacking the feature to charge multiple devices at once and why? Does Qi maybe only have some single-link communication channel between charger and charged-device? I don't know anything about Qi, so any insights are welcome.
3D Touch (before called Force Touch) has been in Apple products since 2014. I use it all the time on iPhone 7S, it's a regular part of interacting with the operating system:

- force touch an image to view fullscreen

- force touch app icons to open a quick menu

- force touch buttons in Control Center to open a menu

It's like a quicker touch-and-hold action in other operating systems, although sometimes there's also a touch-and-hold action in iOS which can be annoying.
I just thought what could be done with animojies + ar... my head started spinning :) role-playing, avatars, you name it
I don't think Apple would ever have a plastic back on a premium device. The Nexus 5 back was not "premium", it was a soft touch plastic.
Wow, that escalated very quickly.

Joe-Z probably thought you were Convery because your comment seems to flow from his seamlessly, I made the same mistake.
You let your girlfriend use your phone? Are you being held hostage? Please blink twice if you need assistance.
Meh. I still have a 6P. I will pick up used 7 now (as there is always a ton for sale after a new iPhone) so I can use the NFC for the Tokyo subway. The face thing to unlock to pay is a non-starter for me.
>>Dimon compares bitcoin to tulip mania, predicting a collapse
Still, he says, it’s a good option for murderers, drug dealers

Ooooh hot take. Good thing experts are really digging deep into this.

Regardless if Bitcoin is in a bubble, is a Ponzi scheme, will crash, or become the next One True Currency - there hasn't been any new criticism in months. Just the same single point arguments parroted over and over.
They started years before Apple did.
only tangentially related ... but this is a funny take on the ol' walk and talk :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_Re7wmd2o&ab_channel=Rocke...
The keynote did say it works with hats, scarves, and glasses. It also works with face changes like growing out a beard.
My problem with wireless charging is that it gets my Nexus 4 crazy hot because of the induction. But that may be my cheapo charger, I dont know.
Am I the only person more excited about the Watch 3 than the iPhone X?
Given that it requires "attention" to unlock it seems like it would be HARDER to force this than TouchID.

Just look away or close your eyes.
More often than not the old curmudgeons are right, young shits just don't want to accept it
The US is a net importer of smart people... that may change though.
iOS 11 has a specific feature to deter people using the phone while driving: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/30/ios-11-do-not-disturb-w...
exactly the same, which means FaceID is not that much more secure unless as part of the authentication process you have to smile on cue or something
A macbook also lasts much much longer than an iPhone
I agree with the sentiment, but what did you plan to do after unlocking the phone in bed, with touch-id
That works because Chicago is in the north central part of the country, where highway numbers are firmly in the double digits. In the southwest the numbers are often single digit, so it's awkward and confusing to use without a preprended "I-" or "the".
That matters why?
Also with one buyer they are more keenly aware of when one particular drug or class of drugs spikes in usage.
The past as the future:

http://pretotyping.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-of-my-favorite-p...
D is also memory safe, and it has been modified to make it possible to gradually migrate a C program to D.

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
They were also magical when they were announcing new, incredible features instead of small iterative improvements.
Indeed. I've cursed at glibc for continuing to try an unresponsive resolver for each request quite a few times. Go systemd.
>>> Reveal your inner panda, pig, or robot.

Ok, I stopped there. Now let's talk about the sociological impact of Apple.
S8 has a headphone jack.
The only thing my S7 Edge lacks compared to this is the telephoto lens.
Well you need to put the proximity sensor and camera (and IR dot projector) somewhere. The options seem to be:

- Thin, symmetrical bezels (Samsung S8, LG V30)

- Notch at top (iPhone X, Essential Phone)

- Big bezel at bottom (Xiaomi Mi Mix & Mi Mix 2)

It does seem an oversight that they don't just black out the space on full screen video and apps, though. That works fine on the essential phone, and it still looks cool in the launcher which has proper support.
I… don't disagree with the "meh" though software buttons and no buttons on the face are pretty different results. And dual camera was added on the 7+ last year (though it was hardly a first back then, IIRC LG and Huawei had dual-camera models in early '16).
I've felt the same way. I went from crappy low-end Android devices when I had no money in school to a Nexus 4 and I haven't seen reason to upgrade since. The only reasons I've done so have been because I cracked a screen and because I wanted to hand down a device to someone else. Been sitting on my OnePlus One for a few years - looking at the market now and not seeing any reason to upgrade still.

Worse, I get worried about some newer devices which may make me less free - the Pixel has a very locked down boot process and the Magisk developer has been struggling to support it. I currently use Android Pay on my rooted device and I'm definitely not willing to pay to lose that freedom.
Why.This also completely ignores engineering feats. LG V10 did this idea and it's... been disbanded.
iPhone 7 comes with a pair of Lightning EarPhones and a Lightning to 3.5 mm jack adapter.
Then say "Mac OS X belongs to the BSD family". Don't call it a fork of FreeBSD.
Mo – CircleCI client for mobile web
Is Apple a reasonable developer for the built-in media apps and Safari full screen video?
Yes. So how much do look-alikes change that number?

It's 1/1M for strangers. Is it 1/10k for family members? 1/100 for close look-alikes?

The difference between FaceID and TouchID is that you don't have pictures of millions of people's fingerprints available publicly online...
You're absolutely right that not everyone seeing this comment tree knows the details of Electron's memory usage. But I don't think that GGP's original comment was aimed to educate those people about the issue. To me it just sounded like a quip aimed at getting some cheap points from the choir.
>Autopilot is better than no-Autopilot.

If only there was something to put in the middle of this reasoning!

Elon Musk fucked up as soon as he named it "autopilot". He set expectations at autonomous, and released it as a "beta" because that's what you do with some web app, and then when people started using it as an autonomous driving product (because that's what "autopilot" means), they unsurprisingly got killed. But shruggie! Move fast and break things! It's beta! What ya gonna do?

On the other hand, if it was called "driver assist", or "super cruise", or some other thing, then drivers' expectations wouldn't be set at "autonomous driving", and then the'd be paying more attention, and probably wouldn't end up dead.

I'm sorry, but this is all about setting expectations, and Elon fucked this up.
Not an accurate feeling of reading, but the general idea is about accurate.
> I find it remarkably difficult to actually get a pair of AirPods to try.

Guess you don't have an Apple Store nearby?

That said, if the regular Apple EarPods were as painful as you describe, then you'll hate the AirPods. They are almost identical fit wise.
This question is asked at the bottom of the linked comments, with an interesting answer from the blog author.
Do you use a laptop at a coffee shop occasionally?
It's an incremental improvement, with some really neat features.

I've owned mac laptops for the last decade, but my next one likely will not be a mac laptop. Same thing with iOS(already switched on that one).

I think their devices are appealing to the majority and that's maybe not us.
Ex-Google search engineer here, now using hosted ElasticSearch extensively in my startup.

This is a really good overview. If there's one part I want to highlight, it's that you should expect to spend a lot of time fine-tuning your ranking function for your particular product & corpus. The default ElasticSearch ranking function kinda sucks. It was changed in ES 5.0 to Okapi BM25, which is the current academic state-of-the-art in non-machine-learned ranking functions. However, search is one field where the current academic state-of-the-art is at least a couple decades behind where things are in industry. When you use a service with good search that just works, chances are that there's been a lot of engineer hours devoted to identifying exactly which signals are most useful in your corpus, how they relate to subjective evaluations of relevance, and how to clean them up so that noise doesn't dominate the signal.

These signals are tightly tied to the corpus you're working with. One slightly unpleasant surprise striking out on my own was just how little the stuff I learned about websearch is relevant to working with different corpora (though I guess I should've predicted this, having seen how many different teams across Google Search operated and how all their signals differed from core websearch). I'll reiterate the article's point about process and method being more important than any specific function or algorithm; the most useful stuff I learned at Google was actually a process for taking a vague domain where I'm not sure what's out there, and then learning how to turn that into a system for getting useful information out of it.

And then once you've got users, you probably want to feed usage data back into it through some sort of machine learning. In that order, though; with all the hotness around AI, it's really tempting to think "Oh, I'll just read the latest LtR papers, Mechanical Turk a bunch of query evaluations, and feed the data into the algorithm", but without a deeper understanding of the particular corpus you're working with and how users want to access it, it's unlikely an initial LtR system will perform well enough to attract enough users to bootstrap the system.
I was really hoping that the watch would be able to share a cellular plan with the phone. I'm not sure I'm willing to buy another cellular plan just for the the watch.
It's slower than a wire, but it doesn't matter in practice. You put the phone down on your nightstand or desk as you would have done anyway, and it charges. There's nothing to think about.

It's like an electric car. Yes, it's slow to charge. But in practice it's always charged when you're ready to leave in the morning, so in daily use it's more convenient than spending 5 minutes at a fuel pump during your trip.
Ask HN: How to deal with blatant copyright infringement?
Say you developed some website/service and someone literally stripped your frontend/UI code and just replaced logos/theme colors.

Is that enforceable to protect or is this something like "Just happens, build new features to stay on top of copying"

Didn't happen to me(yet), there was a job that I backed out of after it was clear this was the intent "copy this site, replace their logo with my logo, change from red to blue, etc..."
Hmm I'd put the raincoat-in-the-car anecdote in the "neuroticism" category. I think of resilience as the ability to weather issues that you don't foresee.
If only there was some sort of history of the code... and the history of people that contributed to the code over time...

Something like this maybe? https://github.com/facebook-atom/atom-ide-ui/graphs/contribu...

I looked at top 12 people, none of them claim to work for GitHub, majority of them claim to work for Facebook.
Fair enough, I stand corrected on my wide-gamut assertions. If HDR is only about hacking the luminance channel that is rather... disappointing. Here I was thinking wide-gamut was finally becoming fashionable...

Still, I don't think HDR is a net negative even if its just improvements in luminance -- LCD TVs are especially bad at representing shadows and I have grown tired of watching thousand-dollar TVs treat dark images like a cheap laptop. Was hoping HDR would do something about that :/
That's true, but that sounds more like an additional layer to communicate charging info, negotiate which devices should get more power, etc.

I do half-suspect Apple probably tried coming up with a better solution (e.g. one not involving a charging mat), but ran into technical (probably laws-of-physics) challenges and went with Qi instead, because otherwise there's really no reason they couldn't have done this earlier. Or perhaps they just needed the time to re-tool for a glass case, who knows.
I think Apple Watch series 3 is the best news. Imagine not having to carry your phone and look at it all the time.
I'm seriously considering ditching my smart phone altogether and just using this watch. Someone talk me down from the ledge.
Canadian Company Shaking the Picture Hanging World With Revolutionary Technology
I'm not sure if it neccesarily that the first iPhone was special in an of itself, but that the shift to mobile was special, and was largely enabled by the iPhone. Subsequent models aren't tied to a once-in-a-generation shift in technology, and so they feel more like iterative improvements.
Jamie Dimon is definitely a 'Fraud'
I wouldn't consider it post-processing because it's using data that's only available live. Making a live 3D mapping of a face and applying lighting effects to it will give you much better quality than applying lighting effects after the image has been saved.
The fact that it also has "in collaboration with Facebook" as its tagline tells me two things:

1. This is designed specifically for React since Facebook wants to control that ecosystem.

and

2. Github is internally stuck in 2013 when FB was still "cool" and using the cloud (ooooohhhh, aaaaaahhhh) to power everything was the new trend.

Don't get me wrong, Github is a fantastic product and community. But they really shouldn't be writing desktop software.
There was another accident in China, in a controlled access divided highway where a Tesla failed to notice a maintenance vehicle moving slowly ahead on the side of the road, ended up rear-ending it and killing the driver.[1]

By the way, can you point me to statistics about “traditional fatality rates” at controlled access divided highway in conditions where the line markings are clearly visible? It's dishonest to compare apples to oranges, especially given that a Tesla can't or won't recognize one from the other.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/business/fatal-tesla-cras...
Well, the stock did spike while the watch was being announced, and then fell back down while the phone was revealed.
Problem is that they never identify themselves, they just say "we're looking for [xyz]" and hang up when I say I'm not them. I can't keep them on the call and the caller ID is faked to be some random local number.
> I can understand the compromise of the "notch" for the sensor bar in portrait-oriented UIs.

Me too. Still, it'll be nice if there's an option to disable the notch and just use a slightly shorter display. There are no doubt Apple engineers out there who want this, so I hope it's a hidden accessibility setting :)
Many people (particularly women) wear wedding rings worth more than this all the time.
I agree. Something changed with their pricing strategy in the last couple of years. They used to keep and shift previous generations down the price curve to eat more of the spectrum of demand, but now they seem to be shifting new offerings up the price curve instead.
But then it isn't really a static site...

... and I get it, one of our webdevs spits out static sites from some PHP code he wrote that builds them. As the guy that has to administer that crap I much prefer to hoist static HTML... but like so many things in the SV tech scene, these stupid "engineers" have to build a thousand different little frameworks with a thousand new buzzwords for a thousand unoriginal, rehashed ideas. Many of them forsaking old techniques that worked well, and in many cases better the cheesy little framework some fresh-off-the-boat bootcamp-grad "envisioned" because he didn't want to learn $UNFASHIONABLELANGUAGEORTECHNIQUE
Bitcoin is a threat to Jamie Dimon
No! I am excited for both as I've been sucking every last breath from my iPhone 5 waiting for this phone heh. But the watch to me is awesome. It's actually what I would have liked to see in the series one regarding cellular. It's now a dick Tracy watch! I'm ordering two for me and the wife.
APPLE EVENT 2017 REACTION – iPhone X, FaceID, iPhone 8, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
Using single digit numbers by themselves to denote highways is awkward and confusing, but it's much less of a problem with double and triple digit numbers--"I took 95 from Boston to Washington" sounds prettier than "I took 5 from Seattle to Portland". Since the IHS numbering system starts from the southwest and increments up as you go northeast, southwestern Interstate highway numbers are disproportionately single-digit, which is probably why "the" is commonly prepended in SoCal.
After the first fatality while on Autopilot, the NHTSA did a study on whether Autopilot was inherently safe and whether it had any defects that needed to be addressed. It found that Teslas with Autopilot were substantially safer than Teslas without. I'd like to see a better study (since that one was mainly aimed at answering the question of whether Teslas with Autopilot should be recalled), but someone has looked into it at least.
Aren't german car companies owning like half the patents of electric cars? You make it sound like tesla is the only one working in this area.
You're thinking in terms of today. Network throughput keeps growing and 500GB in 10 years might become really little. We should think ahead not try to fix it after the disaster.
Well, there's iOS for one…
First Tech bought out the HP Credit Union (Addison Avenue) and others so in some sense, it has acted as [mega credit union].

Beyond that, this question is an imponderable for me because who can say what the future brings vs. the present. I guess one can refinance with some other credit union were this to happen in the future in a manner that was not desirable for one's mortgage.
I agree completely and am often called a curmudgeon myself. That doesn't mean the attitude isn't off putting to others, even when I myself am doing it.
Lightweight in terms of functionality, not lightweight in terms of memory. Excellent combination.
Starbucks has Qi integrated tables all over the place in NYC today.
You can try them on at an apple store.
The names FaceID and TouchID are apt. They are IDs. Not passwords. You should unlock your phone by something in your memory. Unlock by face or fingerprint is an anti-feature for me.
> and likely got rid of it because they valued that material choice over a glass or plastic back.

once again, probably because apple did it.
The ever persistent question I have about bitcoin is simple:

Who's actually buying it with cash at a $4k+ valuation? Is anybody in their right mind doing that or is it a completely theoretical number?

The thing about Bitcoin is that it's 100% transparent, except for where it's not.
How do you check notifications with your face? Or switch songs while jogging? Seems like it would unlock as soon as you look at it?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15229765.
Where do you see that it requires a separate plan?
>Why are people comfortable carrying a $1000 piece of equipment that can be dropped or stolen in an instant in their pocket? My Nexus6p takes great pictures, runs everything smoothly, and I don't have to freak out as much if the $350 suddenly vanishes.

I think AppleCare+ insurance is a good deal here. I use the phone wherever/whenever and never sweat smashing it to bits. It also means I never both with screen protectors or cases (except for ones that add grip or just look interesting).
Yes, I meant these aren't designed as phones, so the question is a bit blurry.

I say that because I consider them completely different from late 90s cellphones. Design, interaction etc.
It needs to because having a different number on the watch would make no sense.
Maybe that's where you're supposed to put your thumb.

I already find watching video on a phone annoying because my fingers get in the way. I'd think it would be worse on this device.
So, this is a small Smartphone with a limited-capabilites OS, for which you need a full-feature Smartphone of the same Brand to use advanced funtions.
100 queens problem, answer