skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HIPAA (among other things) makes it Not Fun™ to be in that space. It's not that it isn't ripe—almost overripe—for an overhaul, but that the bureaucratic requirements tend to attract, well, bureaucratic types and reject people of a more "disruptive" nature. There's no particular reason why software and systems that can pass audits can't be as pleasant to use as any; it's just a matter of assembling a team of people that is creative, has both an aesthetic and ergonomic sensibility, and doesn't mind the kind of working environment that the process (and the auditors' interpretation of regulations; it doesn't matter what's actually required if nobody will certify that you've met the requirements) demands.
also the amount of boilerplate needed to use redux leaves a lot to be desired.
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Disagree. I work at perk.com and we use PHP for all our products/APIs and we serve millions of request per day without any problems. BTW, I've talked to PHP Developers in China and they get paid lesser than what we pay our developers in India.
Japan has 30 million more people then the UK - while having much lower agricultural land.

It it one of the most dense countries in the world.
Same with Singapore and South Korea.

Why does Germany still have that trait while Britain still doesn't ?

You are talking as if society stops needing engineers after a point ?
Servo, the Parallel Browser Engine Project by Mozilla
Politicians design policies. Engineers are good at working with complex systems. Seems like even better fit. We will just need some typewriters in suits to translate said based in science and reality policies into legalese.
Nah - we were never at all interested in engineering or medicine. This just happened purely by accident...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
There’s a huge antiscience group of people out there. Let’s just not give them yet another excuse to attack science. They could inflate numbers and make it sound like NASA is endangering the health of millions of people for generations to come. We’ve heard crap like that before.
I think it requires having a dominant position, which in the in app purchase market is pretty much the case (by revenues).

Lots of android in the market but sold to people who couldn't tell the difference with iOS and wouldn't even know how to buy an app.
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What is RTG?
Yeah I did think about this, however after looking at https://www.npmjs.com/ I felt their 'packages people npm install a lot' kind of satisfied that criteria.

I could put something along the lines of 'Top 10 most discovered packages' based on data from the site :)
> On either side of the fork is bitcoin, not the "original" bitcoin and an "altcoin".

The point is that on one side you have the original protocol in use, and on the other side you have a different protocol in use. Both of them are called Bitcoin and use the same database up to the point of the fork, but they're not the same protocol in much the same way that Dogecoin is not the same protocol as Bitcoin - someone who attempts to use the pre-fork protocol will not be able to achieve consensus with someone attempting to use the post-fork protocol.

> In the case of most forks, you fork via voting by "x% of the last 1000 blocks were mined by this implementation".

That is not the only way to implement a fork. As I say, you can fork the chain simply by convincing enough users to use your fork - there's no hard requirement for any miner-level voting to be done at all.
If your devs are creating shitty commits in the first place maybe you are facing a completely different problem, don't you think?

We only push to master after rebasing locally which has worked out well for us for several years. Every commit is supposed to be deployable to live and CI friendly, that is, tested. So, by definition, we don't create shitty commits (most of the time :D).
Why don't we pass laws saying it's illegal to move out of Flint, MI. Would such a law harm the people living there who might like to move?

Black Americans in Flint seem incapable of creating a NYC-like environment in their own city. Is that an argument to prevent them from moving to NY?

And none of this explains why American consumers should pay extra. Apparently Indian humans count for less than 3/5, but don't American consumers count as full humans? Why should labor sellers be privileged over consumers?
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Rather than talking about hypotheticals, it might be better to discuss the actual problems Bitcoin currently faces. The development team for the most-widely-used implementation are mostly in the employ of a particular startup. That development team are refusing to raise Bitcoin's maximum block size – presumably because it would be contrary to that startup's interests – despite that inevitably resulting in the strangulation of the currency, as it introduces artificial scarcity to the number of transactions that can be processed.

That would be bad enough by itself, but how they've handled disagreement is worse. There have been several attempts to fork the primary implementation, producing alternative implementations which support a higher block size. Official bitcoin forums have now banned discussion of these forks, leading to an acrimonious community split.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118

Bitcoin doesn't need an outside infiltration to bring it down. Its own leadership are sealing its fate.
Why is smaller and local inherently better? In many cases, small and local means less selection, higher prices, and more waste (duplicative inventory, supply chain operations, management, and line staff)
Does Apple get a cut of Uber fares from in-app purchases? (I think the standard amount is 30%.) If that's the case, the money lost would be one more reason for Apply not to do this, or perhaps a reason to reject the Uber app if Uber refused to pay.
The Cell processor was an example of that. One MIPS CPU surrounded by 7 (8 on a good chip) simpler processors, with DMA between all units but not shared memory. But the Cell only had 256 KB (not MB) of RAM local to each support processor. That just wasn't enough.

A Cell with a few megabytes of RAM in each support processor might be useful for bulk packet processing. IBM built some blade servers like that. They were powerful, but too weird to sell in volume, and were discontinued in early 2012.

That's the problem with exotic architectures. It's quite possible to build very high performance special purpose systems, but if the volume isn't there, they can't compete with commodity hardware. Google, Facebook, or Amazon, who consume enough hardware to justify going custom, might do things in this direction.
>URL's must start with "http://"

>example (i.e. the placeholder) starts with "https://"

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a word describing these weird letters before the colon and slashes? /s

(Not to mention the poor usability.)
With 51% of the hashing power you can asymptotically do whatever you want with the recent transactions. Including erasing some of them and so allowing double spending, or blocking all the transactions. It's much easier if you have more than the 51%.

With the 70% you can do more interesting stuff, like using a 35% to mine in the fork/altcoin you like and use the other 35% to block the other fork/altcoin so no one can make transactions in it.

With the 90% you can play games, like mining during the day as usual, and do fancy stuff at night. From 0am to 4am, keep a 10% as protection against attacks, and use the other 80% to mine empty blocks in the other chain, starting from the last block you mined last night. So in 4 hours with a 8x hashing power is enough to catch up with the other chain and then when they get up in the morning they will see all their transactions reverted.

A fork with little hash power is very insecure.
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They could simply update their policy and then continue to remove it, which would make all the above points moot.
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It doesn't, Uber processes their payments themselves. You don't have to pay the Apple tax for physical goods or services.
The marketing is geared for 21 year olds and younger. If you're older than that and offended, then the marketing is on message ;)
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I wasn't aware they use in app purchases?
I think the recommended way is to use the --network parameter instead of --link now.
If it's an IAP (In-App-Purchase), then there would be a 30% cut. But Uber and Lyft are simply using Apple Pay or card on file for transactions. They may take a smaller skim though, anyone have the answer to this?
Safer bullets Anyone? At least US Army is working on them
A different story for sure, but I don't see how the difference between Windows and iOS plays to Apple's advantage here. Windows is something that I voluntarily run on my computer. If i don't like it, I wipe it off the disk and use a different operating system. If I wipe iOS off my phone I've voided my warranty as far as I understand.
What happens after these markdowns to the employees hired in the last 12 months? Presumably their options are now underwater and they have little reason to stay anymore. Will these markdowns lead to a sizable exodus from the companies?
I'm working on one and expect to be done around May. Just wondering, what kind of features do you want most?
It's reached the realms of farce now that seemingly everyone in UK politics has a PPE (politics, philosophy & economics) degree from Oxford.

The real power in the country is whoever writes that syllabus.
It's hard to short for such a long time, nearly impossible. Common shorts and puts are short term instruments.
1) Uber would offer an alternative web app immediately

2) Uber would sue Apple for damages and try to get back into the app store & using its monopoly to influence other businesses.

3) Uber would encourage users to use Android and possibly raise awareness of Android and begin supporting its development in OSS circles. It would also support OSS projects that improve the app experience of web apps.

4) Uber would also start offering incentives to its api developers to make their own Uber apps for the app store as an alternative. So none of that referrals crap, proper cash incentives. Maybe even invest in a couple of startups creating these apps.

5) Undoubtedly Uber will use its PR team to write negative articles about iOS and use it as an opportunity to 'fight back' and gain customers. It will ask users to also write to Apple or ask them to boycott Apple products.
Distribution channels:other distribution channels, be it the web, or other apps. Those might be harder to ban, maybe due to laws(net-neutrality), user expectations about the web or maybe to the power of said apps together.

Politics: pulling strings, getting people Angry and channeling that Anger , pressuring Apple. might have all kinds of side effects on politics, the stock market, people that use phones as a critical tool(work, etc).

Technical solutions: In paralel , they could also shift to a model of virtual bus-stations ,maybe they will put large public touch screens(like in china) , maybe they will create a very thin iphone case with embedded electronics and an eink screen , sell cheaply, just for UBER and some other stuff. Or they will build an automated voice/sms activated ordering system.

End result : Unless other distributions channels works for them, the rest will take too much time, and UBER will probably lose.
Although, I would argue that often those providing local goods and services don't have the time/resources/knowledge to create the platforms these remote corporations make, which often provide significant improvements in efficiency or increased commerce. I agree that siphoning large amounts of value out of local economies is not a good thing, but I honestly think that that phenomenon is a problem with the way our social structure (and generally conservative taxation/welfare system) works and less a fault of large companies.
I think anti-trust also requires a non-privately administered market. In Apple's App Store, they own the servers serving the app market, giving them control.

I don't think the government could force them to keep an app on their server and continue to serve it to consumers running their software if they didn't want to.
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BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program
"Salesforce remains the only platforms to have integrations with the software we use"

If you identified the software you need to integrate with, it might be easier for people to suggest alternatives to Salesforce that would be useful to you.
Besides catharsis, I think interacting with people is a great blogging motivator. I appreciate your inclusion of the two Louis C.K. videos (I've seen them before, love 'em :)

Your blog post was far more effective at showing the differences between writing and editing, which is definitely far more nuanced than "fuck quality control." I agreed with her to a degree, and I definitely agree with you.

Looking at the reddit thread of your article, though, you're incorrect about not interacting with your audience. You absolutely did that. And suddenly, once you linked your article, I have become part of your audience. And you're interacting with me. (Good work.)

I don't advocate editing just to serve some imagined audience, either. You are your own audience, like it or not. And if your text is unclean, your thoughts incomprehensible, then what use is your blog post, even to yourself?

Well-written blogs are far more useful than stream of consciousness ones. I took far more out of your blog post than from the OP. I agree that "giving zero fucks is totally fine", as OP mentions, but polished posts are many times more useful.
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They already have a web app https://m.uber.com/
Users can request rides via Uber's website.

I believe users requesting (and getting) rides is Uber's primary revenue generator, so not having the App Store access would be inconvenient but not catastrophic.
Two remarks:

- There are a lot of exchanges that don't involve direct transactions on the blockchain (buying and selling BTC is nonlimited in terms of quantity or time).

- There are many altcoins, claiming to do certain things better such as proof of work or block size etc., however, the most convincing argument for using BTC seems to be the current market capitalization. As such, it is understandable that the Core wants to introduce the least amount of distraction possible, i.e. go against improvements whatsoever.

Can anybody please explain why increasing block size would mean more centralization?
Summarization used to be a feature in Microsoft Word through Word 2007, and it did a decent job. That feature was taken out in Word 2010.[1]

[1] https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Automatically-summa...
Look, I'm not the ethical police or anything, but I think it clearly is.
Some companies decide to reprice the options and/or grant more options to help with retention. Also companies with high valuation and closer to an exit give out RSUs (so strike price 0).
Exactly.

It's not really an argument to keep them out. We should let them in when real demand is there. Right now, its a race to the bottom in this country due to job market manipulation by business.

Also I'm all for letting Indian entrepreneurs into the country because they will create jobs.
Static analysis tools are very useful for identifying accidental security defects, however they really don't guarantee the absence of a deliberate security flaw or back door. You have to assume that the attacker has access to the same static analysis tools, and can thus find tricky ways to cause false negative scan results. Or perhaps the static analysis tool itself has been compromised?
it's still stealing if the anti-theft mechanisms in the store don't go off, right?
Terms of Service likely stipulate this sort of thing. Just because they aren't enforced with technology doesn't make it legal.
Alluxio is getting attention from Baidu and other data giants
Is it just me or there has been a wave of posts about Austin on HN? Is it the pre-SXSW anxiety?
Microsoft's Open Compute Gambit Pays Off
This is one of the reasons why one should always build from locally hosted
sources, except maybe for highly trusted parts (e.g. Debian or CentOS official
upstream repositories are known for providing historical versions).
Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory
> It's not known to me whether this is the theoretical purpose of psychiatry

The fringe of the mental health profession objects to treating people’s symptoms as if they are the problem. The mainstream has standardized on a perverse standard of care, where they precisely “diagnose” patients with one of the meaningless labels contained in the DSM.

The author of 'The Doctor Isn't In' [1] is an older psychiatrist who is not kind to the mainstream practices of his profession. Another piece of his is 'How Psychiatry Lost Its Way' [2].

[1] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-doctor-isnt-...
[2] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-psychiatry-l...
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My Journey to Lock Picking
Sure, thanks. We use Front [1] and need something that integrates with a soft phone (we use Aircall [2] but we could switch to something else).

[1] https://frontapp.com
[2] https://aircall.io
> A sufficiently paranoid individual can only run code they wrote themselves.

I'd say that is not sufficient because even in this case you trust someone: the manufacturer of the CPU on which the code would run.

It might surprise some people but you can examine code of a piece of software to check whether it has a backdoor even if it is closed-source by reading disassembly. Surely it requires some skills and is a bit time-consuming but it's doable for an ordinary individual. Reverse engineering software is not as difficult as many think. And as a matter of fact, a large number of people are reading disassembly of widely-used software to find vulnerabilities to sell in black markets. So I think it's unlikely for Windows or iOS to have maliciously planted backdoors.

On the other hand, it's tremendously difficult to reverse engineer hardware especially CPUs for an individual without a large budget. So if I were them I'd choose CPU as a place to put a backdoor because virtually nobody reverse engineers a modern CPU and thus it'd be very unlikely to be found.

By the way, contemporary CPUs can update itself through microcode updates.
Assuming that the amount of hash power put into a blockchain is something that can more-or-less be derived from the value of that blockchain, the result of a fork with less hash power than it "should" have is that it will attract more miners until it has the same amount as the network pre-fork.
Need to know what is the most popular package by category. Either by downloads or by github stars. Good luck with your project. I hope to use it.
Yes. Something like that would be very useful.
This fork of https://attic-backup.org/ was never submitted as an independent submission (though it has been mentioned in comments a couple of times). I decided to submit it and hopefully it will generate some insights/review/discussion, especially when compared to its parent attic (which has been talked about a lot here). (disclaimer: I am not a dev of either project, just a user)

For some context: the discussion thread (issue # 217[1]) that (probably) led to this fork.

[1] https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/217
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Perhaps you should use actual statistics for launch and slingshot failures, because those numbers are actually available. Also consider that the design of an RTG probably takes those risks into account.
Good use case. I actually have one fork to do some experiments like using https://nightli.es/ . For the type of project, it doesn't make sense to put the automating testing in the original repository.

Perhaps the author can update the metric to count only the repositories without original commits. (But it looks much more complicated than the original work.)
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Why Stephen Hawking is more afraid of capitalism than robots
AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction
Hi, nice list. Have you used `is course X's textbook` feature?
other articles by this author:

"Silicon Valley exploits time and space to extend the frontiers of capitalism" [0]

"Why growing old the Silicon Valley way is a prescription for loneliness" [1]

SV certainly has problems, but let's not escalate the debate to hysterical levels. There's a bit too much blanket generalization and hyperbole here for my liking.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/silicon...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/24/growing...
It's not clear to me what this does, or if it's useful. You have a fixed-length vector of strings and you make cross-overs between elements in the vector based on non-uniform random distributions. That is to give more chances to younger offspring to procreate. Then you apparently remove the oldest (i.e. first) strings in the vector, and replace them by appending offspring. But then you also mention you are not deleting older organisms. I'm a bit confused.

I think it's wrong to say you don't have a fitness function. Your fitness function is "Is this string a password?" and the score is binary. Why do you say there is no fitness function?

Also, in your examples, is "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" really a password?
Woe to the people working for you, at least.
All I can say is, I was exactly where you are now. You sound like you're on the right track, sometimes getting publications accepted takes a long time. Good luck to you.
> Also, it would be difficult for Apple to come up with criteria for an acceptable app that would disqualify Uber but not also millions of other apps, without having some new condition specifically aimed at Uber.

Not really. Apple already has draconian terms to submit apps. They've done things like ban pretty wallpaper weather apps before and released their own version of it. They even attacked Flux and then duplicated the feature.

It's perfectly legal since their terms basically say anything that competes with them is not allowed. So they could easily ban Uber and say you should be using their phone capability to call a cab.
This was mostly my opinion too. At this stage of my career, I feel like investing in myself and learning as much as I can is the best thing I can do.
Why wouldn't the people be free to leave the animals?
What if Uber started distributing free Uber-requesting devices to its customers?
Exactly. Integrating many apps is something we do as well. We have a large application that handles roughly 500 different domain classes (just scan through https://apidocs.mendix.com/modelsdk/latest/ to see how vast that is).

This approach enables our partners to write plugins that are not only simple to write, because they can just work with 'plain' javascript classes and arrays (and don't need to learn the whole, for example, redux architecture), but which are also really easy to integrate in our visual tools. Our UI stays always efficiently in sync with whatever mutations plugins make. In an architecture with explicit subscriptions, events or selectors this would be a lot harder to achieve.
> It widely considered this liberal paradise

i was just in austin after spending a week in rural texas, and i wouldn't even call it even remotely a 'liberal paradise'. it's the capital of texas. most people i already knew or met in austin are from other places in texas.

and there's nothing wrong with that, i appreciate conservative areas as equally as liberal areas (from a 'freedom' perspective they're just picky about different things), but i think calling it a 'liberal paradise' is a little disingenuous.