skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Event organizers (including for private events).

Here's a demo that you can chat with: https://www.facebook.com/Awesome-Brand-479830779178972/ — I think it uses this calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=YTgxNzBzc3Btb2ZkaGd...

I understand HN's general aversion to FB/Google login, but since the services _uses_ FB and Google, unfortunately that's how it is for now.
One of the things I feel happens in the tech world is innovation for innovation’s sake. In my opinion, “Real innovation” solves problems. What was the problem Apple was really trying to solve by removing the jack? The only thing I can come up with is to allow a “thinner” design.

In all the previous “radical changes”, they created a “better solution” to a problem. Take the removal of Floppies or CD drives, in both cases, the problem was getting data onto the machine efficiently. In both cases technology moved ahead and created better methods of moving data.

Please correct me if I am wrong here, but I fail to see what problem they really “solved” by removing the audio jack.
>The future, which is subscription models with limited time away from activation servers

My future is not an OS that spies on its users. I hope I'm not in the minority.
100% agree with this. Its pretty interesting that I almost never use headphones anymore now because bluetooth headphones require a few things:
1) preplanning/foresight in charging the headphones
2) refer to number 1.

I have 2 really nice pairs of bluetooth headphones, and almost NEVER use them. Guess what pair gets used almost daily? my 15 year old beyerdynamic DT770s. 3.5mm or ¼" plug, closed back. Not really the most accurate, but a nice bass heavy rich sound and plenty loud. they work with gear that is 50 years old and brand new(so long as they include a headphone jack). I have vintage analog synthesizers 80s and 90s samplers to <2 year old digital synths. All work with these headphones.

Apple really really really really really really screwed up here. reverse course immediately.
yeah, I recently left a job in which a third of the group was sys admins, there was no 'dev system' to test applications on, and I was not allowed to touch any of the data systems, despite developing applications for our clients that worked on that data, go figure. A colleague of mine at a previous employer would refer to this as 'self imposed denial of service' ...
I find that most non-mainstream nightclubs tend to be the safest and have the least trouble.

I don't think I've heard a single person complain about sexual harassment or violent behaviour in the underground techno scene in my city. Meanwhile getting sexually harassed as a woman, or having guys trying to pick fights with you as a man is such a common occurrence that I'd never bother go to to a mainstream club even if I liked the music.
Pretty much every popularized AI advancement of the past decade has been machine learning.

EDIT: To be clear, I think you're right that the term AI is being used carelessly here, but that ship has sailed.
From experience. Not to beat a dead horse in this thread, but logging is still the simplest example to grasp. Good logging takes 0 extra time over bad logging, the only difference is talent.

But you'll see this across the board. People who write well organized, readable, low coupled code do so naturally and at more or less the same speed as people who write piles of poo. They might both achieve the same functional output, but the clean code will pay dividends in the future (and not just long term, even next week when you have to make a little change)

Also, quality is pretty core to a number key principle of the Toyota Production System (which many startups _attempt_ to emulate). Kaizen, muda and jidoka.

Fred Brooks might have written "plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." But he also wrote: "Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude. "
"I'm guessing it was written roughly around year 1995"

I think you are on to something

http://copar.org/par/par19_references.pdf
I find the pricing of this service to be incomprehensible, as well as contradictory to “Unlimited private Git repositories for free”. Can anyone explain it?
> if only there was one universal audio port they both could use

CTIA or OMTP?
If you need to worry that much about the rent payment as a software engineer in current times you either lack skill (in interviewing or on job) or sold yourself way under worth.
It's certainly possible but to my knowledge hasn't happened. This case specifically where a random person got the authority to publish new versions would be prevented by debians organisational policies. Other distro's are much less stringent and open to this kind of attack though, arch/yaort for instance will happily install straight from github and this exact scenario could have played out there.

The gatekeeper model is a proven one, be it an organisation like debian, a paid curator like redhat or a locked down ecosystem like iOS.
I would argue it's not even a store of value anymore with the price tumbling.

When you buy bitcoin or ethereum, you get what? A number. I can sell you a number. Better yet, I can sell you a cryptographically signed number if you want. But that itself is just a number.

At some point, even something like gold has a certain amount of scarcity. But with crypto, there's no scarcity, even if you can artificially limit the number of coins. One can always just create a new bitcoin alternative...

The point is, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that underpins the price of a BTC to anything in the real world.
I appreciate that medical innovation walks a fine line when they balance progress with the risk of a new technology but implanting the first device after approval in an 82 year old seems like a bit of an unnecessary risk.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration
TAE has recently begun pivoting, for example trying to use their technology for cancer treatment(!). Their name change was part of this. Generally a company doesn't do something like that unless they are forced to.

TAE's response was not at all strong, IMO. And that was not the only critique.

Plasma confinement is not the issue for TAE. The problem is even with perfect confinement, their non-Maxwellian scheme doesn't work.
I suspect that the quality of the solution is due to the connection between continued fractions and best approximants. The author notes that the approximants alternate between being usable and non-usable, which is characteristic of continued-fraction-generated approximants, which "flip" every time and have a sort of parity as a result.
I am happy to discuss with anyone who downvotes as to why they disagree with me. My comment may be tangental but is completely relevant to the discussion and reinforces points made in the article.
A BitTorrent inspired training framework for neural networks
Scarp: a library of type safe C# primitives. My first open source library!
At this point I'd take a MacBook with a lightning jack, because now I have to carry a separate pair of headphones for my iPhone and my Macbook. I'd prefer 3.5mm everywhere, but if you are going to drop it, make it consistent across product lines.
The cynic in me says it's optimizing to hire lots of low-skill programmers at Google for cheap.
Many have said thinner is the reason, yet phones without jacks are not thinner than those with.

The problem solved was encouraging sales of some very expensive wireless earbuds. I really do think it was as simple as that.

Those who want Bluetooth wireless could just as easily have it on a phone with a jack without losing any benefit. They already did.
I probably wouldn’t have bought AirPods if my phone still had a 1/8” jack, and every time I have had to use wired earphones since have been worse than if I had my AirPods on me. So here’s one human who disagress with the first bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem

> On September 26, 2007, the Sheriff's Department of Collier County, Florida issued an internal bulletin about jenkem based on a TOTSE internet forum post by user "Pickwick", which included purported photos of the manufacture and use.[6] "Pickwick" confessed it was a hoax around the time of the internal bulletin.[14] In November of that year, officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration said no reports of jenkem use had been confirmed in the United States.[15]
> but its been made fashionable to go without.

fashionable implies people are making a choice. i guess you can say they are, somewhat, but... if you want larger storage and good camera in a portable device while maintaining any investment in a particular ecosystem... you have to do without a jack.

i've stuck with my iphone se and plan to for a while longer, hoping apple will eventually put out another device with headphone jack. or perhaps i can find an android device i like well enough that still has a jack (those seem to be harder to find too)
Yes, but how many of those numbers can you sell at cost? (There is crypto scarcity, who values the random newcoin at the same as some "established coin" Bitcoin or close, older friend coin? I can see that BCH, LTC, BAB, BSV, etc have all not come close to the price of the original BTC. So, "store of value" is obviously wrong, but...)
Removing the audio jack helped make the phone waterproof, which could be pretty vital. The decision is complicated because we're comparing the tangible loss of the audio jack against the intangible gain of a lower prevalence of water damage for iPhones.
FYI instead of the recipe in that ancient Rome I have personal experience that 30 grams of clean washed seeds ground up in a blender to " black pepper " consistency then mixed into a ice cream shake ( in the same blender) will produce a desirable result.
Collect the seeds yourself , this plant is a weed in cali, it's everywhere and once you have learned to identify it you will be happy you did
I've had the best luck with the brilliant violet colored flowers although there is a cream colored variety that works well too, it's just not as agressive as a noxious weed as the violet type.
The cream colored variety is a much smaller vine
In the United States, the National Park Service has some fine 'wild cave' tours. I have led several as a ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, and Carlsbad Caverns National Park (Spider Cave & Hall of the White Giant). The Wild Cave tour at Mammoth Cave can be fairly epic if the right guide leads it. These particular parks also each have lantern-type tours that follow rustic, packed-dirt paths on out-of-the way caves and trails. There are actually quite a few other unusual cave tours on federal land throughout the United States, but I have less experience with them (e.g., Round Spring Cave, Missouri; Lava Beds' Crystal Ice Cave, California; Blanchard Springs Caverns, Arkansas; El Capitan Cave, Alaska; Sequoia Nat'l Park's Crystal Cave, California).

Indeed, some of the most spectacular tourist cave experiences are international, such as black water rafting in New Zealand, several eco-adventure resorts in Belize, and 'adventure caving' in Malaysia http://mulupark.com/tours-activities/adventure-caving/

One of my favorite 'normal' tourist caves is Jenolan Caves in Australia. To get to the ticket office and parking lot, you drive through part of the tourist cave. https://goo.gl/maps/aeyabQ3qMEQ2
Sony make perfectly waterproof devices with headphone jacks. It's a solved problem.
No, I mean, if the "users" are on the other end of a socket and never receive any copy of the sofware (in any form) then they don't get the entitlement to the software in code form either. It's the problem AGPL was designed for.
The lazy person's perspective on programming: why you should code
The meaning of words isn't what I want to focus on, but the irrelevance of any response to this event along the lines of "well he SHOULD feel bad".

If "he is morally responsible" leads only to "he should feel bad" and nothing more, then what does it matter if he is/isn't morally responsible?

Ok he (does/doesn't) feel (justifiably/unjustifiably) bad .. now what?
The more I have my pixel 2 xl the more I miss the headphone jack.

I lost the dongle long ago and have no idea where to buy a new one. Google doesn't seem to sell them and everywhere online says the don't even work.
Are you forgetting how MS forced a lot of happy win 7/8 users to upgrade by abusing windows update?
Reminds me recently when I was out and was asked to use my phone to play some music through one of those external speakers for an event, went to plug the cable in to my phone... Oh that's right, my new Pixel 2 requires a dongle which no one carries around with them.
What about the people who sell Bluetooth headphones? I’d think of some of them are doing better? Or what about the people who worked on the AirPods? Or god forbid the people who like AirPods (or other Bluetooth headphones) more than any wired ones?
"strike beard"?
Trivia works. I go to two trivias (M/W) almost every week. I have a group of about 6 people that show up (random which subset) to each (not the same people) to play on my team, sometimes more (used to be a lot more but some people moved). And the other teams are people I knew before going there or have come to know since starting. Pleasant way to spend a couple hours a couple times a week. A bit of hanging out, a bit of competitive fun, and more hanging out.
https://outline.com/5LPxXv
From section 0: To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
The https://github.com/gruntwork-io & https://github.com/cloudposse examples spring to mind.

As for example implementations review cloudposse in depth or take a look at the https://github.com/travis-ci/terraform-config repo.

This answer is skewed towards infrastructure as code. Often conflated are things such as configuration management & provisioning.
Smart Contracts- What's Next?
+1 for one extra battery to keep charged. I don't like that. That's precisely why I stopped using my Apple Watch after a few months.
Can’t find the image online, but the web remembers:

Mad Magazine #116, January 1968: "A San Francisco Trip". This Don Martin cartoon shows a hippie preparing some banana peel shavings in a frying pan, and trying to smoke the result in a pipe. Nothing happens. He angrily stalks away -- immediately slipping on the peel he cast aside earlier. He bashes his head (KLANG), and THEN begins seeing paisley-styled hallucinations. - Dbenson
Maybe your baby ate the dongle?
I think that was the motivation of https://js.foundation
How do the internal components/manufacturing process compare between Sony devices and iPhones? I only ask because it seems like you’re an expert in this topic.
AWS Transit Gateway
In theory what you are describing sounds appealing. One more issue I thought about is in a case this system ever became a thing, Visa/Mastercard could just lower their fees. Pretty sure they are still profitable even with much lower fees so there's a chance they could still outperform this plasma system since their centralised system will be more efficient and will allow them to have even lower fees. It would be good to have a competition to force Visa/MC to lower their fees though. And other payment processors. They are getting away with insane profits right now.

Also I don't think it's possible to rollout a system like this in China due to the government there. They would not allow a a system they don't control to be used. So it would have to be in some relatively free country where you would have to implement this.
When I was experimenting with my Clicker Diet (shameless plug - https://clickerdiet.com/) I found it is much easier to not eat in the morning/lunch times, to stay under daily target. It is intermittent fasting per se, but the reason, I believe, it worked for me - it helped me to stay under target, not because it made me burn more fat.
Personally, I detest wired headphones. I find they always get caught on things while I'm wearing them, and because of the neck problems I have that's a big issue for me (and as well as that, they'd always get tangled up in my bag, which was a bit of a hassle).

So I'm personally glad they've removed the headphone jack, because it will help push wireless into the mass market (and bring down prices) at a faster rate than it otherwise would have.

Now of course, there's lots of people who don't find it a positive like I do. My point is not that everyone should find the jack removal great, my point is that it's wrong to claim that it's a disadvantage for everyone.

On a separate note, people like to shit on Apple for that "courage" claim, but even if removing the jack was a bad decision, I think it's fair to call it a courageous one, because they knew well that they'd get a lot of shit for making that decision. Look at what gets said every time the headphone jack issue is brought up on HN.
False dichotomy. The choice is not only between 3.5mm jacks and Bluetooth; there are thousands of models of devices that support and have supported both.
Contributing to Clojure
A simple google search returns this as the first result:

https://store.google.com/us/product/usb_c_headphone_adapter?...
The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End, Starting in Dallas
apple ditched the floppy drive with the release of their g3 hardware, the ethernet port with the macbook air (and built in cd/dvd drive), before that they ditched the serial & parallel port, etc.

any of us still missing those?

needless to say that it kinda sucks when a new device forces you to buy new adapters / peripherals, but in the long run, is this really an issue?
Lots of people in this thread bashing on LOC as a metric, which is fair. I'd just like to point out that infrastructure code is incredibly verbose as is, so the number is way overstated to start.

It's a pretty good example of doctoring headline worthy titles. IIRC the author gave a talk of a similar name at the hashiconf recently.
has the time to master =/= can't master

At a lot of companies, asking "can I have a week to play around with these new tools/frameworks before I get started with them" will be met with "no way". Of course, not saying that's good: often the new tools are strong enough that you would still long term get massive development time savings even with the upfront costs. But a lot of managers and PMs are only focused on "shipping" ASAP, never mind the technical debt or maintenance costs (and to be fair, sometimes you need to ship ASAP... but sometimes you don't)
Bluetooth has been better for me 80% of the time and then that last 20% is a huge pain where as AUX is consistently a little bit worse but it never totally lets you down.
Part of the benefit is that Chinese taggers would have Chinese cultural knowledge, which is probably required for problems like the bakery one mentioned in the article (Africans probably don't eat steamed pork buns and wouldn't be able to correctly tag them).

However that would also mean the Chinese "AI" would have reduced effectiveness outside of China where different cultural knowledge is needed.
> I find the pricing of this service to be incomprehensible, as well as contradictory to “Unlimited private Git repositories for free”.

You get unlimited private repositories, 5 project users, 50 GB of storage, and 50 GB egress per monthly for free.

Monthly overage charges beyond the free quota are $1 per project-user, $0.10 per GB of storage, and $0.10 per GB of egress.

So for 10 project-users, 100 GB of storage, and 200 GB of egress in a month, you pay $5 for users, $5 for storage, and $10 for egress, for a total of $20.
I'm voting with my wallet. My household will never have a phone that is missing the 3.5mm jack.
That's why I bought a photo printer. I have photos of 2 of my 3x-great-grandfathers from the 1870's. One of them was born in France and emigrated to the US. I love these photos, they tell a story in a way that no words will ever be able to.
I've hung onto my first generation Pixel for largely this reason. There isn't a lot in the new models to entice me to switch however the loss of the 3.5mm port was the tipping point for me not to purchase either of the updates. I just put a new factory battery in my Pixel ($90 CAD) and it's back to like new again. At the moment I think I'll hold on to it for at least another year.
If users are not willing to face some discomfort then they're welcome to keep getting abused by MS like this, as there is no disincentive not to.
There is still one place left on the internet where conversations more or less fade away forever after they end: IRC

Sure, there are probably logs somewhere. User logs and server logs. But in all the decades I've been using IRC, I've never seen my chatlogs show up on a search engine before. It's just obscure enough and just low value enough to slip under the radar.
I'd be interested in a tool like this but I basically only look at content like that (i.e. news) on my phone. Has anyone tried the 3rd party apps that claim to be able to add Chrome extensions to Android?
This isn't the case in New Zealand. It's normal for all rural roads in New Zealand to be posted with a 100 km/h limit, with speed recommendations (not limits) on the corners.

Even winding mountain passes, which wouldn't be possible to take at 100 km/h without a race car will still have a 100 km/h limit. It's up to the driver to make a judgement as to how fast they can safely drive.
Sales is a complex art, and a story that resonates is extremely important. People don't remember details, and they don't buy numbers or features. They buy solutions, and sometimes that's an answer to a problem that they didn't know they had.

Marketing to create customers requires that your audience agrees with your premise in the first place, otherwise you'll never get to step 2. However, of course everything is contextual and this approach is more about opening deals, especially at large enterprise organizations. This is not something you would send to a prospect's IT department, and is not meant to compete with a price-features matrix, but rather it forms your company's brand and creates trust and familiarity in your market.

I met the author Andy Raskin a few years back. He's a great guy and definitely understands marketing, and I highly recommend taking his course in SF if you get the chance.
Yes, yes it is 0.

Why I don't have to use your trust minimized machine arbitration system, when I can build my own, just like the 1,000 or so other alt-coins.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750331
There's a ton of circumstances that could put even a software engineer into financial trouble. Don't assume that a software engineer automatically equals a high savings.
Removing the headphone jack makes the waterproofing easier and more effective.
You're trusting the developers and the code that the developers write.
> You could get memorabilia of the instant when memes were born

An irrational anger stirs deep within my soul at this suggestion. Too many marketing agencies have attempted to monetize internet culture with catastrophically misguided results. At this point, monetizing internet culture is synonymous with meme murder.
An ADC weighs a fraction of a gram, costs next to nothing in volume, and consumes microamperes at most when not being used.

In fact, it may even be integrated on the SoC, meaning it's still present but with nothing to do. Would need to have a look at some teardown photos to be sure.
Richard Rorty's Legacy: Criticizing His Critics
Those companies that sell things people don't want will go out of business.

Good luck only selling 3D TVs when the next company will just sell normal TVs for less and actually make money.