skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bluetooth is slow and unreliable unless you're using Airpods (due to the W1 chip), which I think is the more subtle move by Apple in this case. I was not a happy camper when I first read about Apple removing the headphone jack, but I won't lie, I'm an Airpod convert. They work flawlessly for me and I haven't traveled with or used normal headphones since I got them (other than a nicer pair of over-the-ears when I'm working on my desktop).

I'm not saying this excuses the removal of the headphone jack, but from a business perspective it does add up.
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Have you tried a Pixel? Xiaomi isn't running vanilla Android.
This is my field, more or less, though I'm on the basic research side.

Traditional hearing aid companies have no idea how large a freight train is barreling down on them in the form of Apple and Google. It's going to be a fun ride.
"They don't work, because the US government's modus operandi is compromising machines or forcing users to provide access to their encrypted data."

I'm not so sure - at least as recently as 2013, Lavabit showed that even top level US govt targets had some realistic reliance on properly encrypted 3rd party email providers...

The "dragnet" is the thing that's potentially useful - if it's difficult enough for them, they can't do warrantless "full take" surveillance - even for non US citizens, then choose to individually target you later based on a complete historical record being open to keyword/"selector" based searches.

(And for the appropriately paranoid - even Levison's comments back then suggested the thing he was prepared to fight and maybe go to jail for was handing over the SSL key that'd have exposes _all_ users. Reading it the right way suggests he may have sold Snowden out on his own - and I can't exactly say I wouldn't have done so myself in his position - but he was principled enough to not hand over the keys to the entire userbases's security. I sincerely hope _I_ never have the protection of privacy of a user like Snowden being my responsibility while the full pressure of the US government bears down on me. I strongly suspect my strongly-held personal principles would not stand up to that...)
Attack helicoptors have opinions too
Exactly. Are airplanes manufacturers going to start building in the lightning port?
Hmm that’s a good point, I hadn’t thought about team size. Although even with a large team, there may be limits to what you can do if the product must be cross platform. It’s funny I use windows myself so this is not a feature for me, I’m really just trying to see it their way that’s all.
The problem with the S8 and S8+ is finding glass screen protectors for it. The only one I can find locally is $40, and the curved edges means it cracks really easily.

Yes, I tried it for a day without a screen protector and ended up with scratches on the screen.
I was in the military with a secret clearance (standard I believe) and you are correct it is very mundane, nothing exciting. There were a few times I had to cover documents when people would come in and couldn't talk about certain projects, but it was nothing exciting. I believe intelligence is worthy at the aggregated level, not at the individual level most of us experience.
In my experiences, regen is disabled when ABS is activated
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I reluctantly agree. Apple has a bunch of dirty practices that makes me thing twice about buying their products, but their market position does incentivize them to protect my privacy. In contrast, Google is incentivized to provide a thick pipe between the highest bidder and the screen in my hand.
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That's a optimistic reading of the article. The article states it was for marketing reasons, and also states that they had several plan threating outcomes that were not planned for.

If it where in the context of understanding the plane's behavior at trans-sonic speeds, I can understand it, but that is not really given as a justification.
1. Negotiate your salary.

2. If you're new in a programming language and you're deploying to production for an important customer, make sure you get a code review first.

3. Writing software isn't the important part, solving problems is the important part. (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/07/10/stop-writing-softwar...)

4. Productivity is about doing less work, by avoiding waste. It took a while to get all the related skills here, and most of them don't have to do with coding as such. (https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/04/technical-skills-pro...)

5. Testing comes in different forms, each with its own purpose. Spent years getting to a place where I could articulate how to choose, and then I gave this talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaq_e7qUA-4&feature=youtu.be...
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Why the hate for PDFs, I can see why you would not want to communicate dynamic content with them, sure. But for academic papers, which are usually static text and equations and maybe some plots, PDFs do exactly what you want: At least in principle they look the same on every system.
If I want to email them to somebody, store a copy, read them offline on a reader etc. I have to deal with one single file, in a format that just works on many readers. What am I gonna do when I typeset a paper with webtechnology ... fire up a local server to display some inline math in my html page .. no thank you.

I agree that maybe layouting based on physical paper is maybe not ultimately necessary, but it gives the reader a familiar structure. The way the advertised web site is transferring the papers into a long scrolling list of text ... I find it rather disorienting and unstructured. Text that is split up into "pages" (whatever size they are in the end) somehow helps break up the reading flow.

In the end it remains to be shown that the gain from having academic papers not typeset in PDF outweighs the hassle of having to deal with non-standardized ways of rendering properly formatted text on websites (thinks like MathJax etc. do not support everything that is available in full LaTeX etc.).
Don't really agree. I've had a Nexus 5 for years and it's been great. I think the old Google phones were the best kept secret (not really secret) out there. They came packaged with vanilla Android which is perfectly usable and the designs were usually very reserved and tasteful in my opinion.

Even though you can't get the simple Google phones any more, any Android device still has the "feature" that you can use it as a general purpose computer and not something that you are only permitted to use insofar as the manufacturer approves.
I just visited Project Gutenberg and tried opening a few books. There seems to be a HTML option, what did you mean?
As far as I know Xiaomi still cant function on any US cell provider; dunno about europe but its not even an option for me
So it sounds like they do know why they are still so costly...
The Canadian requirements look very sensible: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/labelling/food-labelling-fo...

Spit it out - which one did Soylent fail?
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> Indeed, there’s an entire industry available to people with the correct clearance.

Indeed, one of my biggest career mistakes was not taking a job that would have included a Q clearance back before 9/11, when they were handed out much more quickly and freely.
[1] "Probably are low" "We've been hearing conflicting answers"

[2] "Report" says iPhone 8 is "slow selling", offers no comparison to this year's 7 sales

[3] "A study suggests", and compares to 7 sales last year

So in other words, no-one knows, and it's all completely speculative, from people who probably have an agenda.
Funnily enough I switched from an iPhone 6 to a Nexus 6P, and found Android (now on Oreo) to have both the better UI and being more snappy in its handling.

That snappiness was surprising to me since according to some people on twitter nobody should ever buy an Android phone because of the relatively shitty CPU. IME the superior CPU of the iPhone doesn't make much of a difference, except if you're benchmarking CPU-heavy javascript I guess.

Thom Holwerda of OSNews feels similar (http://www.osnews.com/share/29402/Apple_s_A10_Fusion_benchma...).

Considering you feeling Android being cheap: To give some perspective, in my country(Germany) people regularly forgo iPhones for the newest Samsung flagship, even though they are more or less priced the same. I don't think they would choose the cheap feeling one.
The lacklustre cameras and LTE band support are my main issues with those. You'll also want to reflash the phone when you get it - this may require asking Xiaomi for "permission" to unlock the phone (what happens when that server goes away?)
Because most of them are?
There were a few times I had to cover documents when people would come in and couldn't talk about certain projects

Sounds like my old insurance job.

You have to comply with both HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley in insurance. Confidentiality is a big deal. Turning papers face down is standard practice.
I'm usually ready to embrace the next step, but the loss of the headphone jack was what made switch to the Pixel.

Call it what you will, but the headphone jack is superior to its predecessor, unlike the floppy, cd-rom, etc. When I heard they were discontinuing it, it felt wrong - it felt intentionally radical. And I knew there was no way I was going to pay extra for some Bluetooth earbuds I will definitely lose on my morning runs.
I'm not an audiophile, but I can hear a difference between a good DAC through an headphone cable and a bluetooth set of headphones.

I was also just in an airline lounge last weekend and got a huge amount of drop outs on my bluetooth headphones. I'm guessing because of a strong wi-fi signal to the point where the music was stuttering badly.

So it's got a ways to go yet.
Your comment perfectly fits the definition of non-constructive. Don't be surprised if people down-vote this.

Yea android was relatively bad a couple of version ago, but today its the best competition for iOS and in many ways feels quite as polished.
Anyone know if the APIs give info about spoken languages? I feel non hispanic immigrants are a huge variety and was wondering if this aspect is available through the API.

A quick search through the API docs didn't reveal anything.
I emailed dang about it a while (years) ago. He said he's added it to the fix list, after initially saying that having a quote tag would mess up the site's "character." You may want to email him too.
> Android hardware and software feels cheap, chintzy, and, I hate to use this Jobs-ism, it just lacks good taste.

Feel is highly subjective and de gustibus non est disputandum; to me, iOS clearly has a much stronger design aesthetic (not just visual, but especially there), but also a much less appealing one, even after it abandoned it's older, all-in skeumorphism aesthetic to follow the trend (which Apple did not lead) of cleaner, flatter design.
The first link you have makes it sound like clearance does not transfer, unless I’m reading it wrong
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I believe that discs do survive longer. I remember reading some article describing the decay of data over time. As long as the discs aren't horribly scratched up they will retain data for a very long time without decay.
Could well be selection bias. I've been gradually removing more and more of the fascist left from my monkeysphere (and it's been great for my overall wellbeing - if someone tells me that a person doesn't deserve a voice because of their gender or skin colour then they're not my friend), so that would be skewing my news sources compared with someone who hasn't been culling in that way.
Sure, I'd be happy to, I thought LoC was only used as a unit of measurement on Slashdot.

The LoC holds around 24M cataloged books [1] in its collections.

So the difference between a lead paint detection kit and this project is like the difference between the LoC and a single bookshelf of 72 books.

Or, if you prefer bigger numbers, the LoC has around 540 miles of shelf space [2], so if you laid out all the shelves end to end, it's like the difference between the shelves of the LoC versus shelves that span 180 million miles (greater than the distance between Mars and the Sun [3])

[1] https://www.loc.gov/about/general-information/

[2] https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc79.htm

[3] Note: if you try to verify this, use caution, you'll need some sort of heat shielding on the shelves nearest the sun.
Warm personalised emails via ReplyApp. huge conversions. requires crafting the perfect email and testing delivery. Email list must be culled prior for product market fit.
Bluetooth is a merely adequate replacement, though. It regularly has dropouts depending on radio interference, and it means another peripheral that needs charging.

I don't know about you, but I regularly - at least 5 times a year - find the battery drained in my Bluetooth peripheral when I wanted to play audio, typically before or during a long trip. I keep wired headphones in my jacket pocket for these times, as a backup. I use three different peripherals often, and I don't track their charge state - the first I know about low battery is when they start giving warnings, usually about 10 minutes before they shut down, leaving me in silence. I don't have the time or patience to be checking their charge statuses constantly, or continually plugging them in to charge up, meaning disconnecting them from their home locations and needing retrieval before use.
I just tried it on my GS7... sliding Auto Brightness from Off to On always bounces the setting bar down to baseline (about 40%) initially regardless of prior setting.
I don't think it'll matter? I think it will just drive adoption of Ctrl + [ for vim users which is arguably better anyway since it's closer to the home row
I agree. Still use my Lumia phones day to day.

Android is built by people who think the world needs phone hw/sw updates every 2 days. And the design reflects that mentality.
Perhaps they did some things better, but in terms of pure population increase I don't think it's comparable:

Vancouver 2010: 603,000
Vancouver 2016: 631,000
Vancouver increase: ~28,000

SF 2010: 805,000
SF 2016: 864,000
SF increase: ~59,000

So SF added twice as many residents as Vancouver in the same time period, And this is despite SF being denser than Vancouver to begin with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
[2] http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/san-francisco-pop...
We haven't implemented many of the LaTeX packages used in papers that aren't machine learning papers yet - sorry. :(
I get where you're coming from but the "What's one more?" idea is what led to this whole donglemania. Dongles are conceived of bridges into a brighter future but no thanks I'll happily live in the past for now.
This article doesn't answer the question on its title.
Definitely fragmentation: every vendor wants to pretend they’re Apple but they aren’t willing to invest in a serious team, plus the fact that nobody makes money after the initial sale means there’s no effort to ship improvements. Any iPhone will get half a decade of UI improvements but with Android you have to hope you get a model which sells well enough that the vendor & carrier actually ship anything more than critical security updates. The recent releases from Google aren’t bad but only a fraction of the market will see them without buying a new phone and then only if they buy the right phone.
Haha, my reply was more of a good nature jab @ GP's comment on Python.

Have you thought of learning a new programming paradigm? Why not check out Elixir or Rust?
What kind of mobile network do you use? LTE or 3G?
What signal strength do you have where you spend most of your day?

Where I work has terrible LTE (and previously terrible HSPA) and every phone I've had has noticeably worse battery drain while I'm at my desk.
This is a red herring argument. There is no need to raze the redwoods or pave Golden Gate Park.

Changing the single-family zoning to just allow 2 or 3 story housing on 1 out of 10 blocks would be enough to alleviate the shortage, provided developers had few enough regulatory obstacles.

It boggles my mind that the Palo Alto Caltrain abuts single family homes with 5000 sq ft yards. Their quality of life is low due to the noise and traffic. That area really should be apartments.

Going to Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, or any other similar city will show you that a little density in the right places can accommodate many people.

Paris isn’t a sci-fi dystopia. It’s still pleasant, and has more than 2x density as SF.
with regards to charging while using the "charging port", with my 8+ I simply leave it on a wireless charger and it gains charge while making a call. I have a Plesson charger.

I did move to air pods so I have that option as well, but the wireless charge ability and the fact they are cheap removed my concerns. plus with apple providing both adapter for old headphone to charge adapter as well as new head phones with that same connector I am in the camp of, don't matter anymore.
General volunteering information for the CHM is here: http://www.computerhistory.org/volunteers/

As far as the Symbolics event goes, could you email me what you're thinking about so I can pass the idea along? (As a MacIvory owner myself, I can guess what you'd like to see but I'd want to be sure)
Thanks! This is useful.

I always have trouble reading papers on Kindle, as the screen is small. panning and zooming are also painful as the device is slow.

I kinda hope papers can be turned into single column (more kindle friendly.)
My understanding is that they actually exclude ALL dual nationals, even those whose citizenships were the result of birth circumstances, unless you are willing to formally renounce your second citizenship.
This is exactly how I plan on acting too. I wish I had a way to tell these companies to attribute the lack of sale they normally would have gotten, to their decision to remove the headphone jack. I'm worried they'll attribute sales difficulties to some other reason.
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My cynical reaction is it sounds like they know, but the author didn't like the answer: experts, plus tech-medical research, is expensive.

Also, for something as life-transformative as a high quality modern hearing aide, the prices didn't strike me as outrageously expensive.
With the current legal uncertainty around whether your fingerprint or retina scan locking your device has the same legal protection as a passcode - do you _really_ think every Three Letter Agency isn't operating under flimsy legal advice that "papers" does not include anything stored digitally? "The rule of law" is _very_ open to interpretation... (And it's not like parallel construction isn't a well known tool used to hide questionably legal (or outright illegal) law enforcement activity from whatever limited oversight they have anyway... A "Superior system of governance"? My opinion differs somewhat there...)
And the next question is: "Why can audiologists charge so much?".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese

https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/263433
After sitting down on a real Alto machine last week at the Living Computers: Museum + Labs, I'm beyond excited for this event! Thank you so much to the speakers, sponsors and organizers for arranging this.
Actually you're wrong. They dropped the standard USB ports and EVERYONE is pissed off about that. And if someone isn't, they're a retard.

Flash is still important even though its written like garbage.

Your last argument is as dumb as can be too. You're trying to say because people have forgotten what they were made about, it doesn't matter. So since people forgot that the iMac they had was USB only and couldn't use older devices, its not important. It may not be now, but it was important then.
I'd buy a few iPhone SEs as spares. In a similar vein, I currently use an iPod Shuffle on runs and hikes, because it's cheap, light, and durable. They retailed for $50 from Apple, and now that they're discontinued, they seem to be selling for $80+ on Amazon. I wish I had invested in a stockpile, so I could sell most at a profit, and keep a few for personal use.
I won’t be surprised if you see a rash of suicides...
This is correct, I checked claim against the paper and the paper does seem to be talking about errors that were caught by the SSD itself: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...

It could have been that the paper was about errors detected by checksums at the level of Google's distributed storage engine, but that's not the case.

This means that Apple could in fact be using entirely standard SSDs while being correct in their claim that they don't need checksums. Their SSDs may sometimes bubble "uncorrectable errors" up to them, but like the article says, redundancy doesn't help you avoid those on SSDs.
I've been reading great things about the new LG V30.
> code that was compiled into bitcode years ago and the source hasn't been touched in any way since

Maybe the code was recompiled (i think they 've switched to mono now) , but the script state is saved separately.
"Typical A.I. specialists, including both Ph.D.s fresh out of school and people with less education and just a few years of experience, can be paid from $300,000 to $500,000 a year or more in salary and company stock, according to nine people who work for major tech companies or have entertained job offers from them."

Wow, half a million dollars in salary, I'm living under a rock.

Sign me up!
> i'm not yet ready to be responsible for charging two devices every night.

If not now, when?
As a spouse of someone with a cochlear implant I've asked this question repeatedly. The cost of everything around that hearing device is insane - want a cord so you can listen to audio? That's $500. Want a device to make it easier to hear TV? That's another $750. Operate over bluetooth? Nope we can't do that. Need a new battery? That's a grand. Its insane what they get away with
opensimulator (opensimulator.org) is free and you can run it on your PC if you can find a way to extract your creations from SL.
Security clearances only apply to positions that fall under the purview of the federal government.

Under the purview doesn't mean that you are employed directly by the US Government. Again, from the example, Snowden had a clearance from his previous employment. Yeah, it had to get transferred but he didn't have to get re-cleared all over again.
Does your estimation take into account the energy absorbed by the plans we farm?
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Botched medical regulations gone haywire.

The same reason health care is expensive in general.

When side step the regulations and buy outisde the health care industry - say, amazon.com - hearing aids magically become $38.

https://www.amazon.com/Sentire-Med-Enhancement-Amplifier-amp...

Health care is more than ripe for deregulation and monopoly/union busting - but the American medical association lobby is one of the strongest in the world.