skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) floppy was not big loss at the time -- not even close to the same thing

2) CDROM -- was just about as obsolete at the time it was removed -- also not even close to the same thing

3) flash -- well that did cause some people problems, but I didn't really care at the time, and it isn't really the same thing either.

The headphone jack may be old, but it is still way more useful than either a floppy disk or a CDROM were at the time they were removed. In the case of the floppy drive -- they were already on the way out, and the CDROM drive was there to replace them. When they ditched the CDROM drive, it could easily be replaced by a USB thumb drive or similar device -- which was still standard hardware, didn't have to be made by Apple, and was a reasonable replacement for the device removed. Having to have a separate adapter in order to use a standard set of headphones is, IMHO, NOT a reasonable replacement for just having the jack. And, yes, I DO believe that at least part of Apple's motivation was to make money by selling you Apple-branded headphones with their proprietary connector on it.

It's a legitimate gripe by paying customers. Apple is welcome to make whatever decisions they want on the hardware they sell, and we should not be essentially told to shut up when we (very reasonably) disagree with their decision.
And you'll actually get to retire!
I've always thought of it as a minimally perishable thing you could toss in your go-bag, to pull out when no time for a real meal -- saves you money when the alternative would otherwise be expensive restaurant food
Probably because the cost of the mask writers is so huge. As the article says, only 10 - 12 mask writers sales are expected in 2017. My guess is these machines will run 24/7, practically. The more masks it can make, the more units over which you can amortize the capital costs.
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It wasn't risky. It was reckless. It played moves that made no sense and were obviously bad moves or pointless moves.

I'm talking specifically about game #4 of the Lee Sedol games.
Where there is smoke there is fire. Just like most rumors/leaks are true, just how everyone knew Travis was getting canned from Uber weeks before it was announced... all speculation but is rarely wrong. I guess we'll see at the earnings report.

But this is the first time in the history that we haven't heard of the new iPhone flying off the shelfs, about serious back orders, etc...
If you really are at risk, (thinking of when I had small kids running around the house) maybe consider one of the Belkin "BreakSafe" magnetic adapters? Yeah, you'll have a nub sitting on the outside of the machine, but it might be worthwhile.

https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
It's from a computer, not a console.
I have done some COBOL and even some PASCAL. Yeah, I'm old.

I hired professionals in 1995. I was done doing any of the coding by 2000. I sold and retired in 2007.

I took only one course in C. Everything else was learned on my own, informally.
You are correct. The clearance comes in the form of a designated position with sponsored need to access certain cleared information. When you are no longer in that job you no longer have the need to access, and hence no active clearance.

When you start in a new job, if it is a security clearance designated position, your clearance can be reactivated. If there has been a gap between old and new your eligibility for a clearance will have to be re-evaluated, also when changing employers. (You could have been fired or left under a cloud, a significant marker for security concerns.)

All clearances require a government sponsor. So tech companies can't maintain someone with a clearance unless they are working on a govt program. IC may be a little more flexible on that.
> but it's still disappointing that sprawl seems to be the best way to make housing affordable.

The other alternative is like much of Europe with lots of small cities and towns connected with trains and roads, and zoning enforced farms in-between. Isn't easy to get done in US though where developer $$ rule.
There is at least one more name that could fit that description, depending on the breadth of your definition of creator. Regardless, oblique references serve the purpose of allowing victims to triangulate over space and time and connect with lower risk of having to go out on a limb alone, or to send a message in a bottle to other victims who might have been suffering thinking they were the only one, or thinking that they were going crazy.
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Even before I read the article I guessed this is an Indian kid. I am Indian and I know the parents mentality. I also think her parents played a huge role in this, and the leftist media is hyping it up to signal their virtue.
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I'm usually the first to blast excess regulation, but note that this is only a labeling issue — the CFIA is not telling you what you cannot eat, but what a product can be described as. I can understand the appeal of a government mandating that a product for sale in that country, that is labeled as a 'meal replacement', have some reasonable distribution of macronutrients. The goal is to reasonably ensure that someone would not consume meal replacements that grossly lack nutrition a person actually needs to live.

The issue as I see it is that the definition of what would be considered reasonable today is not in line with the CFIA's. I don't see the intent of the regulations as unsound.
If I needed hearing aids, I'd pay anything for them.
> One is inherently passive, I interact with it on my own terms.

No one is forcing you to interact with Google. You choose to interact with them because they have the content that you want, or they provide a service that you like.

And more importantly, you've accepted their privacy terms by using their service. In other words, you have interacted with them on your terms.
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It also makes me feel uncomfortable when reading zero knowledge things in non-cryptography sense.
There is a big difference because when you don't follow the government's rules, you get shutdown. When you don't follow an independent body's rules, you can keep operating you're just not accredited. There are many great non-accredited institutions that teach all manner of skill across this country, including excellent non-accredited colleges.
Or just you kno. Plug headphones in using the adapter....
Soylent actually tastes really good. It's like cheerios milk. Their other flavors are pretty good too.
Would your Dad be willing to open source his design?
I think that’s a problem, but I don’t think it was done for DRM or to prevent the next square- more done to upsell Wireless earbuds. The cost of the iPhone can only go up so many hundreds of dollars per year, so they do things like offer exponentially more storage and fancy wireless earbuds as high-margin upsells to keep growing revenue on the same user base.
How often do you have to charge airpods ?
Congrats on launching FinTech product for the Indian market.

Do you support subscription model i.e., auto charging a credit card every month for a SAAS product? From what I understood, RBI banned auto charging customers credit card. I am not sure.
So you’ve learned you’ve got a “pitifully” low IQ. How worried should you be?
I read it as pull request.
You are correct. Total # of masks for a modern IC can be 30-50 or possibly more. And with double and even quad patterning on the critical layers, that's 2 or 4 masks for a single layer.
Don't go back to school. Make money... Honestly!
Not to split hairs, but the cap is 35% unless you want to replace all meals.

I know we're all avant guard around here, but until fairly recently it wasn't accepted knowledge that fat wasn't as bad for you as first thought. It's understandable that regulations would take time to adjust.
Please don't be uncivil on HN regardless of how bad someone else's comment was.

It would be a good idea to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make sure you follow them when posting here. Your previous comment broke them as well.
Where did you move to? I'm looking for a good area like this with the biggest requirement of having fiber or otherwise just a very good 250Mbps+ service.
Why not both? Apple makes a killing from selling media on iTunes and with a healthy profit margin. A better DRM helps protect that golden goose just a little more.
I wonder why they think I was actually wanting the oversimplified stuff? I thought I'd made it clear that I wanted the technical details from their experience. Ah well... Your response is better than mine would have been.
>Only music you have purchased through your phone's marketplace may be played, and only to an authorized device.

Is music piracy still a hot button issue that would motivate Google/Apple to remove the headphone jack? I'd imagine that most people that care about ownership are in the shrinking minority - the rest already don't own their music and streaming it via Spotify/Apple/Play.
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If there was such thing as a 1 second delay then the tech would be dead by now. He’s just making things up.
People are confusing 'security clearance' with 'background investigation'. Non-citizens very rarely have any US security clearance.

It is normal for Army units to have many non-SECRET cleared members. It is one of the challenges of distributing ISR information to frontline units. Signals (communications) will tend to have clearances, and they couldn't progress if they couldn't get one. Officers are cleared.
Serious questions for people that drink this stuff:

My breakfast is often Siggi's 4% skyr (thick yogurt): http://siggisdairy.com/product/plain-whole-milk-24oz/

Plus Organic valley heavy cream: https://www.organicvalley.coop/products/cream/

Ususally about 300g + 100g, then sometimes some granola (oats, almonds, sometimes honey), for body.

Soylent is:

* 37g carb

* 21g fats

* 20g protein

What I'm eating is much healthier by my estimation:

* 16g carb

* 49g fats

* 35g protein

(Before granola, which you can use to moderate the carbs if you want.)

It is not hard to mix two things together, sometimes three. If you really want to custom flavor it, buy a jam (I suggest Mymoune rose petal jam, from Lebanon, but there are millions of flavors when you pick your own jam!)

What is so good about soylent? Why not just mix skyr and heavy cream if that's the kind of meal you want?

Why eat a strange synthetic meal from a company that has trouble with rats and mold when you could eat a couple simple whole foods? What problem is Soylent solving, exactly?

And aren't you worried about the unfavorable omega 3:6 ratio in this stuff? Just going off the ingredients they list, I can't find any literature they give on the ratio. (If you're not up to speed, the latest: http://openheart.bmj.com/content/openhrt/3/2/e000385.full.pd... )

(Diet Note: I'm 5'10 and 146 lbs male, 12-13% body fat. In my diet I aim for ~60-70% calories from fat, but don't always hit it.)
Or use USB-C headphones
Me too, haha
How it works:

https://youtu.be/7UR6epdce-o?t=40

Disposable cartridge consisting of briefly outlined carbon nanotube component...

How does a regular person make one of these nanotube cartirdges?
His thesis is from 1966, an era in which (1) it is likely that he typed it on a typewriter, and (2) he was still almost completely able-bodied.
IIRC there were very few devices with a hard-wired cable on the device end. So for them it was just a new cable or if not, then a permanently-attached dongle. That doesn't mean the device itself is obsolete.

I still have a FW800-Thunderbolt adapter...
> I tend to have a tough time with dark areas in a lot of mainstream games. If I can get the game to realize that I'm trying to look at them (usually by getting the bright sky out of my viewport so it does the "HDR adjust" fake thing) then the darks come out of the contrast floor and I can suddenly make out the detail.

Of course, this is also how eyeballs work...
True - but the similar issues people complain about with BT audio are going to be present with $5 cabled headphones... crackly audio, dodgy cables might cut in/out with movement etc...
Are there any examples of working hebbian algorithms?

I’m drawing a blank how you’d run a nn that way?
Ok, a bunch of confusion in this thread...

A clearance is held by a specific agency. Say I work for contractor company C, on a contract with three-letter agency TLA. TLA grants me a clearance at whatever level, and they keep track of it. If I switch jobs to another position that requires a clearance -- maybe I go to company D, maybe I stay at C but on a contract for four-letter agency FLA [1] -- then TLA can transfer the clearance to the new agency FLA, and now FLA is the holder. Depending on the specifics of TLA and FLA, this can be "quick" (in government time), or in the worst cases it will take just as long as getting a clearance from scratch.

If I go to company D, but the new position does not require a clearance, then it becomes inactive. I can say I previously had a clearance, and if not much time has passed then getting it reactivated (if I go to a third job that needs it again) may be a relatively quick process. But if I am not at a job that is keeping it active, then I have no right to access classified data or anything.

In other words, if Facebook is hiring cleared people, they have to be working with a government agency that is holding the clearances.

On the other topic: obviously you have to be a US citizen. Immigrants/naturalized citizens are fine; I've known many cleared immigrants. Dual-citizenship I'm not sure about, you might have to renounce your old citizenship.

[1] This is an NGA joke. NGA: because the intelligence is silent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligen...
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PV is treated differently to lower levels.
I got a Soylent subscription and it's pretty good to have it around for those times when you really don't want to spend any time preparing food and want something moderately nutritious and fairly inexpensive, with near-infinite shelf life.
In addition to it being magical, it's really incredibly useful and handy for driving and for work. Great to be on a phone call in a crowded server room, without extra wires being in the way. Great for commuting. And super-extra-great at the gym.
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>he entered the information in digitally

This is Stephen's Hawking's PhD thesis. It is dated 1966. How could he have entered it digitally? UNIX research didn't even start until 1970s.

I believe this comment chain thinks the thesis was written recently. So you guys thought Stephen Hawking didn't have a PhD till now?
The problem I have with bluetooth is that it's a noticeable drain on battery. That's why I keep mine off all the time and avoid bluetooth devices.
In Puerto Rico’s case, would a centralized or decentralized power grid have worked better? When the power went out for my street a couple weeks back, I thought that decentralized grids would result in more redundancy and be less vulnerable to outages.
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In 1966?

HN's guidelines say that one shouldn't ask if one has read the posted link, but I'm tempted to all the time.
Why is it that plants are so much better than animals at tolerating chromosomal shenanigans? Plants can be highly polyploid, get chromes swapped out, randomly get duplicates, etc., and not seem to suffer massive problems. In a human, you duplicate one chromosome, and you get a very buggy phenotype.
> insomnia.rest

One of those moments where you kick yourself for not being able to come up with these sorts of names.
There's only one phone you can use? ;)

I set up the equivalent Square card-reader device for my kids' school parents group, together with a dedicated iPad with cell connection. It's magic... even the most technophobic mum can operate it.

Sure, would be a problem if (or when) the iPad died, but it is stupidly cheap (and contract-free!) compared to a dedicated payment machine.
>And nobody cares to give you a good adblocking solution out of the box. Google makes money by ads so I guess they'll never change that.

No widely used OS give you a ad blocking solution out of the box - desktop or mobile.

>I agree with everything else said. Android is just a half-done OS in any regard I can think of. My Xiaomi Mi 6 is awesome, beautiful and very snappy but Android's idiosyncrasies are visible everywhere:

You're using an old version of Android that was butchered by a Chinese OEM. I realize you have an attitude towards Google, but these "idiosyncrasies" seem to be with your cheap Chinese phone. You get what you pay for.

>My GPS can find my location in 1.5 secs max (there are dedicated apps to test that) yet most apps that go through Google's Location Services consistently need 10+ seconds (a full minute is not a rarity as well) to report a location back to the apps.

My phone also picks up my GPS location very quickly and significantly less than 10 seconds. If your phone does take 10 seconds to get a GPS signal then you may want to talk to call your Chinese OEM support line.

>Still no good support for volume controls; if you want to decrease media volume, most of the time you end up decreasing phone call volume. Like, seriously. It's 2017.

Decreasing your media volume is a tap away when you press the volume button. And if you want to directly control the media button with your volume buttons there are many free apps that will do that.

>Idle battery life. Damn it, why the hell must I lose 20-30% of battery when out and about with 90-98% cell signal and never unlocking my phone? Why? I had a work iPhone 5s around a year and a half ago and it was full of apps I used for work -- at least 20. I go out, do real-life stuff for 3 hours, come back home. Android lost 25% battery. iOS lost 3%. And then people wonder why iPhone fans love their phones. It's not only about being fans. There are real, measurable reasons.

I can tell you haven't used iOS 11 recently. I use it everyday on my iPhone and iPad and it's been very bad on battery. As for Android, standby time is very good on 7 and even better on 8. Unfortunately, I doubt your Chinese phone gets OS updates let alone security updates.

>There are others but let's not make this a book.

Please do.

>After installing a VPN app that filters traffic I was just astounded. I use my smartphone on average 2.5 hours a day and holy shit, that's ~17000 ad/tracker requests blocked a day!

Are you new to technology? What your blocking are browser ads and app ads. Do you think iOS is immune to ads and trackers?

>Android is overhyped and clumsy. And the efforts of Google lately are laughable, incomplete and are coming too late.

It sounds like you're frustrated by your cheap Chinese phone.

>And oh yes, they absolutely are a desperate reaction to the inevitable huge success of the iPhone X.

You should really get an iPhone considering all of the issues you have with your Chinese phone.
It's possible Hawking was able to type/write his thesis. It was published in 1965, two years after his ALS diagnosis. Wikipedia says he didn't begin to use crutches until the late 1960s.
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About 3 weeks ago I sold my Nexus 6p and bought a used Pixel XL (1st gen obviously), and it's amazing. You should definitely consider it!
I'll scrape the whole book and read it. Thanks! I know weather models still do it on supercomuters but understood the currently have plenty.

I look forward to reading the book.
public relations

you're all idiots.
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Do they not have RSS enabled?
It's difficult to imagine because there has been a not widely acknowledged rise over the last twenty years of incredibly well-resourced parents who spend all of their available time, energy and money on their children.

Elite education (Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Hopkins) historically was almost entirely the playground of the already rich. From the 70s onwards, it became a competitive game for the working upper middle class to send their children there. This elite stamp was necessary for their children to at least maintain working upper middle class status but ideally they'd collide with one of the already rich kinds and enter the wealth not labor class.

As income inequality has grown, admission to these institutions have grown even more valuable and parents have dedicated even more resources to giving their children a shot.

The result is that the children of well educated professionals end up in incredibly well resourced environments at home and in their schools. For context, the neighborhood this girl lives in has a median family income of 109,000 dollars, is 91% white and has only 2% of its population living below the poverty line.
For an explanation with much more detail and less cheesy acting, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY

With what we know now, a cap on fat is ridiculous. The cap should be on carbs.
I'm not aware of any programming language where it is safe to use a function's return value without knowing what the return value is. This seems unrelated to async/await, if you are calling functions that are returning things other than what you expect, you are pretty much screwed.
I've setup that flow by adding a custom script in the google doc that triggers a Netlify build hook. You can tie custom scripts to an image (so you can make it a publish button).
The headline on this article is misleading, but:

"Just-released numbers from January’s homeless count, conducted every two years as a requirement to receive federal funds, show a very slight decrease. The drop is attributed to fewer families and youths among the homeless, while the number of single adults living on the street — the most visible — has risen."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Despite-money-an...
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It does seem high. I don't know where they get this info, because these are all contractors, so the only info the govt has is how much it pays the labor hire company (e.g. Booz). There are no govt public service employees on a special 'cyber' pay grade. But a special IT stream would make sense - like doctors and lawyers. Otherwise the skills haemorrhage will continue.
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The Nexus 4 has both of those and cost less than half the price back in 2012 here in Australia...
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http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

ESR did it better, imho :-)
Oh wow thats a pretty awesome read
"I've watched everything"

"What do you mean everything?"

"TV shows. Movies. Even the japanese ones."

"How about older stuff"

"I've gone through early Chaplin work. I've seen Metropolis 17 times."

"I'm sure there's something"

(grabs his friend)

"You don't understand, Paul. I've been reading Shannon. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. I've run out. I've taken to begging strangers for a fix."

"That bad?"

(Guilty), "I just... " (resigned) "I just asked someone to put up a torrent of Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. thesis..."
+1 for using abbreviations to fix mistakes.

I use AutoKey (Linux, surely there are similar apps on OSX and Windows) to do system-wide abbreviations, including correcting "teh" and "hte". Along with abbreviating a few common phrases, this probably saves me hundreds of keystrokes a day.
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This has all the signs of a failed state. A government (US) that won't and can't provide the basic recovery assistance after a major natural disaster.
This is exactly what I've done. I have one pair of $250 headphones I've had for years that I use when I want to sit in a dark room and just listen to music. Now the dongle lives on them and there is no inconvenience at all.