skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess now we will find out just how important element of surprise is for Apple marketing.

I don’t think we will. iPhone X doesn’t really sound like a bargain.

I was hyped up to upgrade my 7 plus, but then I saw that the price stars at $1000, that they remove the TouchID, and that the rumors say they didn’t include it because the run out of time, so there is a good chance if will be there in the next version.

Add to this the usual 1st gen problems Apple is always facing, and waiting for iPhone Xs is sno brainer.
I am probably being naive but I see nothing wrong with the examples you listed. Isn't this how iceland essentially erradicated downs syndrome? Using information about genetics to inform how we steer the populations' gene pool sounds very good to me.
When it comes to the X we learned the name, what FaceID is called, the Animoji stuff, and how the status bar works.
That may be too brief. It doesn't quite convey the entirety of my intent. It'll do, however.
Same interview:

Interviewer:Would you say that Fuzzy Logic turns Aristotelian or Classical Logic on its head?

Lotfi:(Laughs). Back in Aristotle's day, people tried to be as precise as possible. That's the Aristotelian tradition, the Cartesian tradition. Looking at things as being entirely black or white stems from such a tradition. But take the example of good and bad. What we're beginning to understand now is that sometimes things that we perceive as bad really turn out to be good, or perhaps, not as bad as we originally thought. Things can serve a purpose. People back in Aristotle's time and even later thought that by perceiving things in black and white (in absolute terms) that they gained alot. And they did. But they lost a great deal in the process. Fuzzy Logic represents a swing in the opposite direction but I would like to stress that there is much more to Fuzzy Logic than multi-valuedness of truth.

Classical logic has erred in devoting so little attention to approximate reasoning and focusing to such a high degree on exact reasoning. So when you take a course in logic, you learn all kinds of things which are of very little use in everyday life. We encounter approximate reasoning all the time. For example, "Where can I park my car?" Where should I have lunch? Should I place this call "person-to person" or "station to station"? Should I buy this house? How do I get from this side of town to the other when I'm in a hurry? Classical logic, operation research, decision analysis-many other disciplines have nothing to say about this topic.

http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/24_folder/24_a...
The new SoC sounds like it's going to be amazing [1]. I don't think Qualcomm or Samsung are going to be able to compete for years.

[1] https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/90692329088688537...
We have this, basically.

There are several wireless internet providers available in my area (e.g. Vivint Wireless). One person has fiber and rooftop dishes relay it.
No one is calling his house, contacting his spouse or kids. His work email, phone number, and address are publicly accessible. This goes with the territory of being a lobbyist.
It’s unlikely to get WannaCry unless the PC is connected to internet or LAN.

The software we’re offering doesn’t require to be online. It normally works unattended for hours, controlling some specialized industrial hardware. Not unlike embedded software. For this particular use case, being offline has it’s upsides: no downloads, no updates, no reboots.

The users who discovered that bug (initially I did include these CRT merge modules in my installer, as recommended by MS) didn’t even send us a screenshot. Instead, they took a photo of their PC’s screens with the error message, and sent us that. Then I was able to reproduce on an offline Win7 VmWare machine, and deliver a fixed version with statically linked CRT, which BTW worked OK even on a vanilla Windows 7 sp0 from 2009.

Personally, I would recommend updating Windows instead, and I do update the PCs I own. But I can, and do, support running my software on a never updated system.
How can one reasonably assume that Apple has our PII self-interests in mind, whilst simultaneously building the most comprehensive PII-Invading-Spying (PII-I-S) device ever built?

FB and Goog seem to have the most PPII-I-S services on the planet, but Apple has the HW "cornered" on that invasion...

How can we even uphold a non-dystopian future.

Just look at the last decade has played out. Imagine the reverse-hockey-stick of the next decade.

So; again - How can there possibly any reasonable expectation of privacy going forward?
It doesn't even need to be breeding, it could be CRISPR technology. How close is that to the mass market? To some parents it could be very defensible as technology to fix a child's genetic defect, which was preventing longer life or peak brain function.
I keep them on the phone long enough to say a name, which company they are from and what they are trying to sell me.

Then I tell they are breaking the law as I am registered with The Telephone Preference Service [1] and they are on breach of the Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

I have had one successful prosecution so far.

[1] http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/
The article references a leaked hour-long recording from a meeting at Apple. Where is this available online?
I disagree. We now know what FaceID is called, how it works, exactly what the device looks like and how the status bar works, that there are new AirPods coming, the name of the new thing, the name of the updates to the old thing, and a software feature that no one could've ever gotten out of hardware chain leaks.

This is without a doubt the biggest leak since the iPhone 4 you pointed too. If it wasn't for the HomePod firmware leak a month ago this would've been even more devastating.
Feel free to ignore/downvote me - just wondering: is this a thing people do?

I certainly understand and support it, but I have never seen it happen at work (and I work in a start up, not some old boring enterprise shop). After eight hours, if I want to program at all I'll probably mess around with some new language or whatever, not "train". Same with my coworkers. Maybe I am lucky, but the things I do at work challenge me such that I learn something after every project.

Anyway, I did ask a similar question one time, check it out:

https://lobste.rs/s/uu6v1o/what_is_deliberate_practice_for

To give you a direct answer, how about doing LeetCode exercises, starting from the easiest and building up? If you take your time and note down how you solved each problem, you will start to notice patterns and can apply those at work to solve stuff quicker. But IMO, if we are talking about performing "better" at work programming, it's more about the skill of taking business specs/feature request and fitting them with the existing codebase :-)
It's not like there's only the One Big Leak that can be called major. This is pretty damn big. Now the whole damn world know what the next iPhone looks like, what features it will have, and then some.
It sounds pretty darn creepy to me. And it's sure to lead to social disasters - how can you boil down all the nuance and uniquenss of an individual human's facial expression to a smiley? It's bound to make the wrong face at least sometimes.
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If you're an RPN fan and have an Android phone, you might like RealCalc [0]. I use it a lot.

[0] https://www.quartic-software.co.uk/
Being Spanish, I know someone will stab those with a knife or a screwdriver the first day they are installed. That someone might even be me.

I mean I'm happy they are proud of their invention but, please. Don't make me laugh.
Here is a link to the several times this has appeared here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jroweboy.github.io

I find these "hey there is this language called C and you can do some really weird stuff in it!" articles humorous because from the beginning of time there have been people who are fascinated by this aspect of the C language and gave rise to the whole obfuscated C contest thing.

The idea that a symbol references an address and its type is only a convenience in the source code always messes people up. When I've taught C to people there is always that one person who says "What if you cast a string pointer to a function and called it! Huh?" and I explain that is perfectly legal C and has been exploited for years and you can practically see their brain change conceptual planes in mid-air :-)
Before the GM leak, we had no idea how the status bar and face recognition would operate. Now we know all of it.

Unless Apple has other hardware in the pipeline or another hardware feature for the TV or Watch, there will be no surprises. I'm sure the execs are pissed, as they want people to watch the keynote completely unspoiled.
Not you either.

If people come in through Google because they are searching for something and instead of arriving at the content that was advertised in search results, see a content covering popup, that's not really informed decision making. I think Google has legitimate right to rank sites that do this lower.
It would be neat if the tweets paused when you hovered your mouse over them. I struggled for a bit to click on one of them.
Given that Apple keeps a hash of your fingerprints stored on the device in a way that even Apple can't get to it (and I would assume something similar for the facial scan stuff) how are they in the same league as Facebook?

Apple doesn't even share the facial recognition data for iPhoto between your own devices.

Facebook has a profile of every one they've ever seen in a picture and can guess who they are even if they're not on Facebook.

It's completely different.
Not sure how I feel about the premium model's name. Is it pronounced as in the letter 'X' or ten/10? I'm guessing ten, as in the 10th anniversary edition iPhone (which will certainly confuse things in 2-4 years).
A good editor an give better autocompletion with the help of static typing - that should help with productivity
doesn't work for those not still at university and there are strict rules in the USA about the role of an "internship" its meant to educate the intern not be a source of cheap labour
This is going to be fun. Some people will learn that it's soft at slow speeds and will assume it's always soft and severely damage their cars.
I think that if somebody with 10 years of actual and relevant experience fails the interview process, the interview process has a problem.
https://www.vagrantup.com/ and hope the attendees install Vagrant and Virtualbox before they arrive (takes a bit to download and might overload the network if everybody does it at the same time). You can map directories from the virtual machine to the host machine so the attendees can use their editor of choice for the coding.
This seems like a great idea. I would be interested in detecting 404's as well. This would need to be configurable because not all 404's you care about, but some you likely do. Great idea none the less.
You should listen to some on youtube, they are not simple loops

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lenny+telemarke...

one of them keeps trying for over 50 minutes
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is a cardinal sin.

Pre-existing rights generally count for a lot more than rights that might exist. It has been said that "possession is nine tenths of the law". (Although no one has unencumbered possession of land anymore, in the sense of allodial title.)

Allowing neighbourhoods to be broken up by rich foreigners sets a bad precedent both for current inhabitants and the new ones, who are very likely to find themselves in the same situation well before retirement age (as is happening in San Francisco). City governments are accountable to the people who live there, not the greater good of the One Market, and by serving their interests are merely doing their jobs.
Even if you can potentially run several instances per server (with enough ram), I think that an usable one should run on a dedicated server. Considering that a Rails app doesn't run like a webserver with php installed, just like you can do with WordPress or php apps in general. Also, I suppose 1gb is required to run the instance, but it isn't known how many users can host decently.
A lesser known but major contributor to the financial crisis is the commercial real estate market. As far as I know, Lehman went bust because of their massive commercial morgage position, that Fuld accumulated in 2007, trying to catch a falling knife. And commercial real estate blew major holes in balance sheets all over the place.
I may have a different definition than they appear to be using. If I'm understanding your link correctly, I'd say they were undisclosed. There would have been a paper trail and the data wasn't classified, correct?

If he were to resign and leak secret information, he'd be in legal trouble, yes?

Note: This is not meant to be read as approval, just a bit of contention at the language used.
I wonder how they detect if something is annoying.
Good question. The administration admitted to the existence of these waivers in May, but refused to disclose their contents to the OGE, which is unprecedented among recent administrations. This secrecy was roundly condemned throughout the federal government, and notably and publicly by George W Bush's former chief ethics lawyer [0].

Trump was eventually forced to back down and the waivers were released, revealing such swampy critters as Michael Catanzaro and Shahira Knight [1].

EDIT: So, "secret" in a more colloquial sense than the technical "classified" definition.

0 - http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lobbyist-ban-cabinet-wa...

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/lobbyist-ethi...
original with no pay wall: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/09/why-amazons-g...
I found the article confusing, I don't understand the link between the paper and evolution:
1. APOE-Alzheimer-propensity gene is a new gene, emerging in the younger population. (Clearly, prevalence of this gene reduces a person's life-expectancy but not until they are done giving birth).
2. Same with CHRNA3-heavy-smoking-propensity gene.
3. These genes are not evolutionary drivers since they don't effect E[number of offspring] or E[survival rate until given birth to final offspring].
4. From an evolutionary perspective, prevalence of these genes should be found in equal proportion across all ages of the population.
5. Then why are these genes emerging? Isn't it far more likely that there is some new factor in our lifestyle/diet/habitat etc that is causing the gene to appear in the population? Which has nothing to do with evolution. Where in the paper do they talk about evolution?
It can also depend on whether you count the O(k) time needed to hash a string of length k.
I'd add 3) A Genetic arms race between nation states.

It's only a matter of time before a nation state starts spending a not-so-insignificant amount of money on IVF + DNA-based screening to start picking good genetic offspring for their populace. It's only going to start becoming more and more plausible the cheaper we make this technology.

Very awkward and important questions/decisions await us in the near future.
We still don't know the price but you're right that's where rumors are pointing. The idea (from analysis, we'll see on Tuesday) is this is the high-end fancy phone for people who want to pay extra. If you want to bigger screen without the phone being much bigger, if you want to better looking screen, if you want more battery life (maybe, OLED uses less than LCD) then this may be the phone for you.

They obviously have to be careful because they don't want to promote it in such a way that it makes the other two phones look terrible and not worth buying.

How they market all of this is going to be fascinating to see.
Well, Apple "officially leaks" some info to the press before major events, though this seems to be something unofficial

Still, the impact is much smaller than implied by the article
I don't think that's fair. Either form requires some mental stack space to convert to the other form. It's just that people are more used to reading and writing infix.
No, it doesn't work at all.
The target audience will love it, mistakes will become memes, and most won't find it creepy. I however, agree that it is creepy as hell.
Is this different from using an emoji to approximate an emotion? Or abbreviations like lol? Or language in general? Or any communication? People will get used to it and it'll become popular if people find it useful. I personally don't use emoji much and likely wouldn't use this much either. But I can imagine others might.
To be fair we probably have more violent and incorrigible people than China. For whatever reason.
You're totally right. I already forgot the deails.

I just put out my hp49.. god how I love these things.

ps: I just found out the latest attempt I did last years was a var called REC = << -> U << U U EVAL >> >> .. pretty sure I was trying a fixpoint CPS factorial in RPN
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- This goes way beyond the supply chain leaks that power Ming-Chi Kuo's analyst reports. Perhaps an Apple QA engineer or contractor? Disgruntled SWE? In any case leaker is in a world of hurt if Apple identifies him/her

- Wonder if 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors get limited access from Apple now that they published these leaks. I'd say yes.

- "As best I've been able to ascertain, these builds were available to download by anyone, but they were obscured by long, unguessable URLs [web addresses]," wrote John Gruber, a blogger known for his coverage of Apple.
I like'd PG's tweet about this: "Possible explanation: papers are becoming less how you communicate ideas, and more how you register work to get credit for it."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/906075608181915649
because at the time very few people had the guts to?
I think the quotes in the headline might be better suited around 'suffers.' I'm half convinced these sort of things are intentional.
discoveries so far include:

* a reference to iPhone X, which acts as fresh evidence that Apple intends to unveil a high-end model alongside more modest updates to its handset line

* images of a new Apple Watch and AirPod headphones

* a set-up process for Face ID - an alternative to the Touch ID system fingerprint system - that says it can be used to unlock handsets and make online purchases from Apple, among other uses

* the introduction of Animoji - animated emoji characters that mirror a user's captured facial expressions
One thing I think is important not to lose sight of: the institutions went bust, but the people at the top who made the decisions that led to the problem all received and retained compensation in amounts that anyone hanging out here would consider "set for life." Tens of millions of dollars.

To cite but one example: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/09/26/wamu-gives-new-ceo-m...
I had the same reaction as you at first, but read carefully:

"Mostafavi and his colleagues tested more than 8 million common mutations, and found two that seemed to become less prevalent with age"

Old people are less likely to have this gene than young people. This can have two possible explanations: old people with this gene are more likely to are already dead (and thus not show up in the study), or the gene is becoming more prevalent in the younger generations. The statement "People without these mutations have a survival edge and are more likely to live longer" favors the first explanation.

This is not the effect of natural selection on gene prevalence. (And it would be weird for Alzheimer's, which usually occurs at an age where reproduction is often finished, and maybe even raising the kids is done already).
As a hirer at my current company I would love to end interviews but far too many candidates have resumes that look impressive but they then fall short on pretty basic code scrutiny. The ease of appearing competent due to previous successes (whether by team support or outright luck) make interviews a necessary evil.

You would be amazed the number of candidates we get with solid work history who submit code samples containing red-flag issues like SQL injection vulnerabilities. We always provide helpful feedback and politely decline these hires (we are a small time and we all learn from each other but I can't start off a senior-level hire who doesn't understand the basic web security) only to find out that they've been placed at some other company for their sought-after senior/level salary.
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Except if the SS number was not meant to identify people, what was it for? It was meant to track people throughout their lives to set the amount they get paid by the program based on what they made / what SS tax they paid.

It is terrible at that, it is terrible as a general id, and its just another example of doublethink in American politics - we want national welfare programs that are restricted only to valid citizens, but we don't want to actually know who the citizens are or keep track of them, or have any concrete way to identify them.
Who cares? It was once a big deal what the 1956 Chevy would look like.
Now, nobody cares. It was a big deal when the original iPod and iPhone came out, but version N+1? It's going to be another black rectangle.
blog post with bit more info: http://szymonkaliski.com/blog/2017-09-08-building-das-ui/
olive oil based pizza is actually pretty good
FaceID sounds like a security nightmare. I still can't believe they opted to totally remove the fingerprint sensor.
No tears shed by me. Speed limits are to be obeyed, not ignored.
To be honest I've seen a couple advertisements that I watched the full ~5 minutes. Both were game trailers that were really interesting. I would have rather had a "click here to view the actual trailer video instead of the ad version" button though. I was sold after the first 2 minutes, but couldn't see the full name of the game until the end.
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I generally trust Apple to get this kind of stuff right, we'll see.

When my little sister saw the demos that were on 9to5mac that was sort of her reaction. She thought somewhere cute but at the same time she thought others looked kind of creepy. She had a similar reaction to some of the giant emojis The watch could send.

At the same time I could see having a ton of fun with this. Make some sort of funny voice, choose an emoji to go with it, and send it to someone as a joke.

My guess (in this is slightly based on some of the leaks from last month) is that it doesn't do any actual representation of your face. It figures out specific faces/gestures (smiling, winking, raised eyebrow, etc.) and shows those along with maybe the direction your head is looking. I'm assuming it's not real motion capture style.
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