skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty drastic. That nukes the derived data folder of all your Xcode projects. If you work on more than 1, using this to solve a problem in 1 will lead to needing to rebuild all of your projects. That seems a bit extreme for an issue in a single project.
The tie ins with the google dataflow paper are at least superficial (if not deeper on deeper reading) in that they mention: "latency, correctness and cost" as their drivers: http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/08/18/the-dataflow-model-a-prac...
According to the photos on Amazon it's a case. But there is a heatsink and a fan underneath: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91aUgUqFTIL._SL1500_.j...
Could you explain what you mean by easier?
What are some behaviors you would excuse from one but not the other?

Essential, I apply the right of self-defense to a group much like it does to individuals. The justified intensity of the action is relative to the injury being fought against (up to and including "shooting back").

The ethics of gaming journalism certainly don't deserve more than dispassionate criticism and factual accusations of impropriety.
A driver is not an OS, notwithstanding the legitimate and well-founded objections to driver signing as it affects open source operating systems...but I'm willing to firgive a little hyperbole in the pursuit of attention. On the other hand:

I firmly and respectfully disagree. The user always knows their life better than anyone else. Linux exists because users could modify their device. OpenWrt exists because users could modify their device. CyanogenMod exists because users could modify their device. Ultimately, a software community which believe users are fundamentally unqualified is a broken community. I trust users to take responsibility for their own lives.

Sure, philosophically I feel the same way. But as soon as I begin broadcasting, I'm not just living my life any more, I'm affecting yours, too. Probably not by much, but possibly by a lot - what if my actions impact your ability to live your life?

Externalities are an economic fact. The article itself discusses ways that ignorant or indifferent radio users could cause trouble for others. Pre-emptive regulation of the sort the FCC engages in is annoying, but what other mechanism is proposed to prevent spectrum abuse? We saw from the Marriott Hotel case that where economic incentives exist, some actors will opt to defect and collect an economic rent.
Arguably, that's exactly what happened with Google in China.
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FWIW, I don't think there's a lot of regret among gun enthusiasts who stocked up. They like guns, they like ammo, and they found a reason to buy in bulk.

The people I know are happy they did.

I can imagine being pretty happy in a year or two having stocked up on SDR gear. :-)
But the FCC regulates a great deal of equipment, and this is only targeting a very specific subset of that equipment - not all of it. I was initially pretty concerned as I'm a Ham radio operator, but this really does not concern me overly much now that it's clear it's:

A) SDR/Modular only
B) Consumer only
I suppose the statement you are latching onto is where I said that it is never economically optimal to allow someone to die in exchange for higher profit, so allow me to clarify.

In this case, it seems nearly impossible to make a concrete case that links this monopolistically-determined price increase to something that comes close to morally justifying the potential loss of human lives.

And as we know, pharma is not a free market in general, and is certainly not in this specific case, so the idea of the free market setting the price on lives seems inapplicable here.
I think you explained very well why HomeJoy failed this summer.
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All uploaded builds of my iOS 9 content blocker, written in Swift 2 with Xcode 7 GM, were (and still are!) stuck "In Processing" on iTunes Connect.

I rewrote the extension in Objective C and uploaded another build, and after a few minutes, I was able to submit it to the App Store.

Just a random anecdote that made me go back into late adopter mode for the rest of the year. It's great that Swift mostly works, but I'm really scared of the times when it doesn't.

(Edit: Not just me - https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/50182#50182)
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My old 2009 VW Jetta TDI averaged over 50MPG highway on a cross-country road trip, 38MPG in combined highway/city driving in the Canadian winter. If you're keeping it to highway driving, it's totally doable.
To return this to drug companies, what you are suggesting is a nationalized manufacturing of drugs, not a nationalized R&D of drugs.

FWIW unlike 90% of this thread, this suggestion doesn't sound insane to me. We could look at the number of people with a disease, and the QALY swing caused by the treatment, and then pay the team which designed the drug for the patent for (expected number of treatments) * (expected gains in QALYs).

This would allow the drugs to be any price the government liked once created, but still convince financially motivated smart people to work in medicine. Bonus points if the solution included ever-rising-prices for long untreated diseases (kind of like an auction).
Meh. Blu-ray as a storage medium is a nice upgrade from the DVD. Blu-ray as a movie delivery format on the other hand. Thing is that what blu-ray tried to do for movies, was already tried once before by using DVDs to produce higher bit rate CDs.

Thing is that mechanically neither product more convenience for Joe Consumer.

While the CD brought instant track selection vs the cassette (and was a more practical size than the LP), the DVDA/SACD didn't bring anything close vs the CD.

And similarly the DVD removed the whole rewinding issue vs VHS, never mind that you could now pack a whole series season in the shelf space of a single VHS movie.

Frankly i just wish that we could have something floppy like in terms of UI For BRRW discs. copy, paste, done, rather than having to mess with burner programs etc to lay out the disc beforehand.
Just a nitpick, but the poem wouldn't make much sense if the first line was "first they came for me" :-)
These all sound like good things to look for in people you are hiring, but what happens for the people who don't have those things?

My sense is that "Smart, Gets Things Done, and Not a Jerk" are all things that are teachable in the right environment. If you're not at the point where you can get away with "we only hire the best of the best", you need to know what you can teach people and what you can't teach people to make smart hires. That seems like more useful advice to most people than just signs of what the best of the best look like.
The thing though is that these proposals usually come from groups that are not exactly impartial. These include e.g. Safari Clubs, "anti-environmentalist think tanks", ranchers and other groups who would gain from free trade of wildlife products.

> Nothing else seems to be working;

That's the thing though, not much has been tried as far as bans go. The current bans leave a lot of loopholes so getting around the restrictions isn't exactly hard.
A few edge cases to consider here:

1) ASIC hardware running on free, stolen or "creatively accounted" electricity. Maybe it's as mundane as a janitor with a bunch of hardware stashed in a closet, or an office complex that charges a flat rate for utilities. Maybe it's as exotic as a mining farm getting a cut rate on nearby power generation in a cold climate.

1) ASIC hardware, by it's very nature, requires some type of network connectivity-- either with other miners, a special dispatching machine or directly to the bitcoin network over TCP, one way or another it needs to know what the blockchain looks like at any given point in time. This means attack surface area. All it takes is one widely deployed bug and those machines you run are mining into someone else's account.

Both of these scenarios, along with countless others, make mining in any capacity a negative sum game.
Depending on your architecture, this difference is often immaterial. That's what people don't get.

When architected correctly, the actual amount of code to be written and maintained is quite low. And an easy way to jump-start that architecture is to have other people who have amortized the cost into a service model do that work for you.
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I think this is a pretty clear failure of capitalism, since the whole point of having greedy, top-hat-wearing capitalists chasing profits is to have them re-invest that profit in the hopes of making more. In the meantime, they compete with each other and end up magically allocating resources in a socially useful way.

Instead, big companies sit on their profits (like you say), while startups compete for the attention of a small group of investors who behave for all the world like the central planners of old, deciding how to allocate money based on their own tastes, interests, and gut feelings, rather than anything resembling a market test.

Goes off to have red flag dry-cleaned
Honestly flashing the ECU would likely reduce driving dynamics (horsepower and torque) but it might push fuel economy up. I'm excited to find out.
More than 1 in 5 female undergrads at top schools suffer sexual attacks
Apple refunding all purchases of Peace
I can't tell if you are implying Symbian had a good security story, or if you are merely reminding us that it is basically the original smartphone OS.
In the past that's exactly what they've tried to do, and this usually ends up clobbering the law-abiding users in the process. Most of these bands are pretty close to each other - the 10M HF band is right next to the CB band, the 2M band is right next to the emergency services bands and pretty close to both the aviation bands and the weather radio bands, and so on. Gear from one will pretty much just work on the nearby bands, absent some other protection. You can do filtering, but it's physically pretty hard to make an amplifier work ideally within its band and then immediately stop working when you take it outside its band.

So the FCC's response in the past was to make it illegal to produce anything that could go from [unlicensed power level] up to [licensed power level] on demand. If you wanted to make a 10M amp that could hit say 150W, you had to require at least 75W drive power because that was beyond what a legal CB radio could deliver. Kinda sucked for anyone who couldn't afford a radio with 100W of drive, and I think they eventually let off a bit because they were losing the battle to cheap Chinese junk sold over the internet. They're very proactive about enforcement, they'll get you sooner or later, but until then it's better for everyone if you're not spewing harmonics everywhere.

There are radios and amps that use a frequency analyzer to automatically cut out when operated out of their intended bands, they're just very expensive compared to most of the gear that's out there. And a lot of the Software Defined Radios and so on are actually wideband radios that are physically capable of operating across a bunch of bands. These are very concerning for the FCC, and you pretty much cannot limit these physically, it has to be built into the firmware or the controlling software. Hence the article.

There's also just different rules for different license classes. As a radio amateur, I can also use 2.4 GHz (13cm band) under my license, and I am allowed to operate with up to 1500 to 2500 watts EIRP depending on mode. That is of course subject to lots of limitations including "minimum necessary power", but there's nothing physically stopping you from taking a 13cm amp sold for radio amateurs and running wifi over it. Same frequency, how does the radio know?
This is basically the worst case of patent trolling you can think off.
Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common infections out there, it's usually asymptomatic but it's damn freaking scary (brain (and every other cell) eating parasite meh, fucking cats).
There needs to be some procedure to revoke data exclusivity/patent protection in cases like this.
What do you mean by "more diverse than the European Union"? In what way?
Do you want /cgl/ to have more or less flaming? It's a very popular and active board and everyone is still pretty rude.
If you figure 0.16 Joules / gigahash and 100 gigahash/second, you'd be looking at about 0.39 kwh / day. At $0.10/kwh, you'd be spending about $0.04/day on power.
This is a brilliant answer, thank you. Lot's of solid advice about projects in general in there as well.

I guess I find it a bit disheartening there are no game changer desktop OSes having had even moderate success for the past few years. I like variety.
> There is an army of naked celebrities dancing around the internet today because of an "iOS" hole that didn't even involve the device OS at all.

Are you referring to the year-ago iCloud “hacks” or is there a really surprising twist to the whole XCode Ghost thing that I haven’t heard about? :)
Agreed that this is awesome! Would love to also see Genius-style annotations, where the comments are on lines instead of the margins. I think this makes it slightly easier to read the text without scanning back and forth between the text and margins to check if what you're reading has been annotated
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Her parents both worked for Government
I'm not arguing that ads are acceptable, merely that it's acceptable for sites and users to come to an agreement where ads must be "unblocked" in order to view content.

Whether it's the publisher's job to inform the users of the risks involved with allowing ads to appear is questionable (should the publisher also inform the user that staring at a monitor for extended periods of time can cause adverse effects, or is this simply common knowledge and implied?).

If you want to discuss the morality of online advertising, that's another story altogether. In my opinion, ads used to benefit the common good at the expense of taxing individuals of time and attention are fine. Take Google for example, the ads they show collectively benefit the public distribution of knowledge (search, maps, books, entertainment, etc.) Just like with any government, if you're unhappy with how taxed resources are managed (or the amount you're taxed), you're free to leave society and live outside of civilization.
That doesn't mean a thing, because BMW is a dinosaur. In 2004-2007 Nokia spent nine times in R&D vs. Apple: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/14/nokia-outspent-a...
>SDR kits are usually rated as professional and test equipment

The cheap ones aren't even that. They're repurposed/upcycled television DTV receivers.
You’d generally write that with a hyphen: “The 21-Bitcoin Computer”.
Well, they obviously did it so Martin could put together his badass monitor setup! Can't say I blame them, it looks like he's got at least 4 and 2 are stacked!
Show HN: Automatic Transcript Highlighter
If you click on the audio the corresponding transcript for the audio becomes highlighted and if you click on a sentence the corresponding audio starts playing. The scrolling moves down slowly as the audio is playing. I want to know what other improvements I should be making to make this more useful for users.

We do our own machine learning and speech recognition, so the transcript quality may not be perfect.

Love any feedback.
radios cannot be permitted to listen on frequencies reserved for cell phones

Is this true ? I've never heard of the FCC restricting receivers before. You don't need a license to buy or operate a HAM receiver.
Perhaps the real value will be in the software. But I would expect that software to be open anyway.

There's nothing I see that can be done by this "Bitcoin Computer" that couldn't be done by a raspi + a few hundred thousand satoshis bought from an exchange for a dollar or two. But this solution has more buzzwords.

Is this the result of "Valley Economics" optimizing for investment, not revenue?
Ask HN: Appointment Scheduling Software
Does anyone know of an appointment scheduling app for small businesses, suitable for a business that has lots of appointments, like music lessons or massage/spa businesses?

----

It should have the following features.

In addition to scheduling appointments on a calendar, it should avoid duplicate scheduling of employees/workers.

Allow workers to set unavailable time periods.

Allow customers to cancel appointments online.

Allow appointments to be moved, so that employees won't get double-paid and customers won't get double-billed for make-up appointments.

If requested, send out reminders to workers and clients ahead of appointments. (I already know that patio11 has an Appointment Reminder app.)
You could try rebutting the points instead of making such a weak comment. I use every check available including the clang static analyser btw.
I think you're underestimating how much of that extra stuff is unavoidable in day-to-day life. But it's not hard to consider them all secondary to your goals, and there's no reason everyone should.
Can you elaborate on why the FCC would ban a commonly used antenna connector?
Why can't there be an FDA approval exemption for drugs with foreign approval that have limited use in the US (maybe less than 100 patients per year)?
DIY aerospace probe for scanning the out-of-reach signal space
The three most difficult questions with blockchain technology are "where is the blockchain data?", "where are the keys that represent my wallet?" and "how do I get my initial bitcoin?"

This product very succinctly answers both questions in a reliable way.

It looks like they've got some basic ability to write to the blockchain, and since this only costs a few thousand satoshis, the very small amounts of Bitcoin that this device mine will be useful.

It looks like they're hoping that further profits can be driven back to the address that wrote to the blockchain.

This is a really good idea but fully dependent on how hackable this is.

Like, do I get the full Bitcoin JSON-RPC interface?

This would let me use this device as a pretty reliable source of identification, using Bitcoin's public key infrastructure to sign and authenticate messages.

It would also let me write client software on behalf of the physical device that could read and write arbitrary messages to the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing for custom colored coins, but with keychain ownership contained only within the physical device, instead of on an external server or running on a laptop.

Do I have direct programmable access to the SHA-256 ASIC?

This would help with content-addressable distributions systems like IPFS.

It would be great if the device could expose an interface that was compatible with both Common Wallet and Common Blockchain.

Common Blockchain[1] is a protocol that aims to make an abstraction of queries against the blockchain, allowing devices like the 21 Bitcoin Computer, the Bitcoin Core software, and web services like Blockcypher to expose a single interface to client software and Blockchain meta-protocols like Open Assets, Blockcast [2] and Open Publish [3].

Likewise, Common Wallet is a protocol that aims to make an abstraction for wallets and key signing devices like the 21 Bitcoin Computer, Trezor, Mycellium, or Bitcoin Core, so all of these devices can sign custom transactions that were built by external libraries like Open Publish and to sign authentication messages for services like Bitstore [5].

There is a very big problem with interoperability between various Bitcoin wallets, protocols, and services, and there is really no reason for this to be the case if everyone were to expose the proper interfaces, which roughly model the Bitcoin JSON-RPC.

[1] https://github.com/blockai/abstract-common-blockchain

[2] https://github.com/blockai/blockcast

[3] https://github.com/blockai/openpublish

[4] https://github.com/blockai/abstract-common-wallet

[5] https://github.com/blockai/bitstore-client
What, precisely, is negligent about Google's implementation of censorship? From where I'm sitting they're aggressively in compliance with the law. Some people have decided that since the law seems to be doing things it wasn't intended to, it's Google's fault.
> Bond mutual and exchange-traded funds now own 17% of all corporate bonds, up from 9% in 2008, according to the ICI. In periods of market stress, more-concentrated mutual-fund ownership tends to mean larger price drops, the IMF said last year.

This is way better than 17% of all corp bonds being controlled by hedge funds. Being levered money, HF selling would be way more disruptive to the marketplace than mutual fund selling.
> Let's not call out Apple as some evil locked down hardware platform company.

They have always wanted to own and control both the hardware and the software, though.

Just because Teslas aren't very hackable doesn't mean it's a good thing.
That claim gets made but there's nothing in the actual novel to actually support it, e.g. "A term of service isn’t a kiddie camp; it’s either real military service,
rough and dangerous even in peacetime . . . or a most unreasonable facsimile thereof. Not a vacation.
Not a romantic adventure. Well?" He then goes on to talk about things like "field-test survival equipment on Titan" as an alternative. (It's also explicitly mentioned that the merchant marine isn't included.)
It's also odd that the US paid the shop keeper US$2m to testify against Megrahi. You'd think in a normal case you wouldn't need to hand large amounts of cash to the witnesses.
It's a title. Of course it's lacking context. If you want context, you read the rest of the essay, which explains everything you're doing much better than you are, and makes a solid case for why the FCC is, indeed, banning certain operating systems.
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This is like banning guns cause people sometimes use them illegally to kill other people. Not very American.

Just go after people who are causing illegal interference and leave the people who 'might be able to' alone.
Reinvested profits?
I doubt the possibility of detection is very high if you're only receiving.
Has anybody looked at BountySource.com? Seems like an interesting model for funding targeted features / bug fixes in oss.
I'm unfamiliar with some of the terms in the short article. Can someone do a ELI5 for this? What did he do to his heart beat?
And here's some discussion on making OpenBSD's sleep more efficient (starting with a proposed patch from tedu): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144280057027331&w=2
but is NOx that harmfull?
On Linux, the "powertop" utility will show you processes that are waking up regularly (such processes can cost you battery life on a laptop or phone by preventing the CPU entering and maintaining low power idle states).
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> You don't need a license to buy or operate a HAM receiver.

Why have you capitalised ham? What are you under the impression it stands for? Are you also one of those people that capitalises JAVA? What goes through the heads of people like you?
Plenty of it, remember Pink Floyd's "Time" from TDSOTM: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"
> There are radios and amps that use a frequency analyzer to automatically cut out when operated out of their intended bands, they're just very expensive compared to most of the gear that's out there.

Why is that expensive? It obviously can't require fancy hardware if it can also be done in software.
While they might look similar, jackfruit is much less offensive to most people. Jackfruit has a sweet and floral aroma that will leave your hands smelling quite nice for a while.

Ripe jackfruit tastes a bit like a mix between cantaloupe, pineapple and mango, plus some floral notes. I absolutely love it and wish I could find it in my neighborhood more often.
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I would guess they take it to a chop shop and sell it for parts, but I'm not sure how plausible that is since they have GPS (or maybe they all get caught). Perhaps the thieves know the cars have GPS and can disable it in some way before they get to the chop shop.
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