skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that handles critical data and sends it encrypted to third parties needs to be open source in this day and age or wont be used by people who take their data serious. Actually it doesn't even need to be sent to third parties to hit the open source requirement. Having crypto involved like you said is reason enough.
"uber for x" is the new "facebook for dogs"
> I am not aware of a socialized plan to put phone in the hands of poor people

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...
Thanks! That's really helpful.
Budgets rapidly break down when you're regularly faced with unforeseen but necessary expenses that blow your cash reserves out of the water.

A lot of the problems of poverty is that once you get below a certain level, even if you are the most thrifty person around, you lose predictability in ways that end up costing you a lot of extra money.

Suddenly your employer pays you a day late and your carefully arranged bill payment schedule goes out the window and you get charged extra fees, or your car that you depend on to keep your job breaks down and you're forced into ridiculously high interest credit.
It seems peachy printer is mainly for creating pocket rockets...
I wish there was a version that one can run on their own servers.
I tried a 28" (TN) 4K, an Acer B286HK. Horrible ghosting and capacitor whine - if I had Wikipedia open you could hear the capacitors scream from across the room, and lines would blur into each other while scrolling. I eventually replaced it with a Dell P2715Q (IPS) too, and that's a really great monitor.

All in all though I would have been better off going 1440p at 27". I need some DPI scaling that probably gets me back to 1440p anyway, and it would be easier to drive in video games.

So that's what I recommend now based on personal experience. YMMV, but the Crossover 2795QHD seems ideal for productivity work. The Acer XB270HU or XF270HU are ideal for gaming, but adaptive sync is unnecessary for productivity so you might as well get a Crossover instead.
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Hi - I'm Sergey, Founder/CEO at IncomeClub.

I came up with the idea of IncomeClub for one great mission: to create a simple, efficient and customer-friendly alternative to traditional fixed income investing systems.

Bond investing is not sexy as a stock investing, but it provides a reliable return, and it’s only an investment approach if you have a goal with a defined time horizon.

Will try to answer as many questions here as I can.
I wasn't even aware PayPal's had changed. I still think of the original logo.
I have a HP Pavilion Elite m9458fr bought in july 2009 for 416€ (on eBay hp_marketplace_fr). I only need a silent reliable computer with a reasonably fast CPU for web development on Linux. I have no need for beefy GPU, I just need to connect 2 displays (23" and 19"). I would like to replace it in order to have USB3 connectors and SATA III HD. I do not find anything on the market for reasonable price. Should I buy a ultra-HD laptop with a magnifying lens ?
I have to admit it took me a while to understand why I couldn't find any unicorn on the page.
This is some fantastic writing.

And if you are looking for a longer, slightly better, fictionalized account of Facebook, "The Circle" by David Eggers is a quick, engrossing read and quite hard to tear yourself away from once you begin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
I heard a similar story.

Small company, dev had access to test and prod databases. Was using SQL Developer or something similar, and had gotten into the habit of using auto-commit when on the test database. Must have switched over to prod without realizing it, and did a `DELETE FROM USERS` to truncate some production table.
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Unfortunately Attic seems to be abandoned (last commit 10 months ago). But there is a fork called Borg Backup that is actively maintained.
Your comment reminds me of what SourceForge did.

>22 Apr 2015: By this date, SourceForge Open Mirror Directory has expanded to take over popular former SourceForge projects which left the site, such as VLC and GIMP for Windows. Some projects have malware embedded despite earlier assurances that the adware system would be purely opt-in.

>16 May 2015: GIMP developer asks SourceForge to remove gimp-win from the site. They don’t. SourceForge later claims they didn’t receive this message.
I immediately looked into that as well, since I'm still waiting for mine to ship. It's about two years late, and all the delays seem to be due to the fairly standard Kickstarter stuff (inexperience, shocking misunderestimatings of manufacturing, typical defect and spec failures, etc.)

The really cool thing about the Peachy Printer is the mechanism for the laser and such - sophisticated results for just a few parts. And the super cool thing about the OP printer is how simple the mechanism is. I look forward to see which ideas win in the end (or at least for which types of products - some resins are certainly better than others).
> Forgot to say, that by comparison, Android/Windows/whatever smartphones are relatively unknown.

Huh? Android has nearly twice the market share of iOS: https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

> iPhones are still seen as another class above by many, if not most, people.

This is severely anecdotal. But here's an anecdote from me to balance things out: where I come (and indeed within the industry I work in) most people look down on iPhones because they see them as uninteresting toy devices or devices for old people. Nobody I know would be 'impressed' by an iPhone. Something like a OnePlus One, Xiaomi Mi5 or even a Blackberry Z30 would have a lot more cool/novelty factor.

iPhones got boring a long time ago. Much like the rest of Apple, it pains me to say.
I'm not convinced the new iPad pro will even be usable for 5 years.

I gave up on the iPad 1 and iPad mini because they didn't have enough RAM to load many websites. The new iPad pro has only 2GB of RAM and even 5 year old PCs had 4GB or 8GB.
The Volkswagen Swastika is pretty interesting, hadn't seen that before.
As opposed to what? It's still less than half the price of a usable iPad (I know the Mini 2 is $270, but let's not pretend they're comparable), let alone Mac.
you are part of the problem here. Many folks are refusing to even consider the fundamental issue because it is different from the mindset they are used to.

Yes this particular episode is related to the unpublishing results... however the underlying issue is not only about unpublishing results. The underlying issue is:

number 1, Having thousands of dependencies is a software engineering trade off, their is a upside and a downside of that trade off. Having Thousands of dependencies is fundamentally more 'risky' than have a few. Period. End Of Story. It is ok to accept the trade off based on what you are optimizing for. It is not ok to refuse to accept the fact you are making a tradeoff.

number 2, is you should not be running production builds or builds for important components based on dependencies on the naked internet. This is also an engineering tradeoff but is firmly in the camp of what is considered 'bad practice'. This is fundamentally the same exact underlying reason why we have build servers instead of just builds from developer work stations. Developer workstations are not controlled environments, which means the builds are not guaranteed repeatable. A build server that depends on the state of the naked internet is not a controlled environment. It blows up today because of unpublishing, it will blow up tomorrow because of something else.
There's a lot of missing steps. See also Logopedia: http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Logopedia
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There is no support for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
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There is no proof it was actually her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
I'm reminded that health freaks have recommended supplements containing phosphatidylcholine and precursors for many years. It does make sense, in that phosphatidylcholine is a bipolar lipid, and plays important roles in cell membranes.
Tenacity Trumps Everything
It's amusing seeing the Reddit logo not change at all.
The Enterprise I work for is currently implementing a new idea - where they hire a crack team of generalists - and give them complete and utter unfettered access to production (including databases).

This is despite our databases being controlled by my team and having the best uptime and least problems of anything in the entire business. Networks? Fucked. Infrastructure? Fucked. Storage? Fucked. But the databases roll on, get backed up, get their integrity checks, and get monitored while everyone else ignores their own alarms.

The reasoning for this is (wait for it...) because it will improve the quality of our work by forcing us to write our instructions/changes 3 MONTHS IN ADVANCE for generalists to carry out rather than doing it ourselves. 3 MONTHS. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. AND THIS IS PART OF AN EFFICIENCY STRATEGY TO STEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOSSES.

Needless to say the idea is fucking stupid. But yeah, some fucking yahoo meddling with the shit I spent my entire career getting right, is sure to drop a fucking Production database by accident. I can guarantee it. Your data is never safe when you have idiots in management making decisions.
I freaked the hell out when it did (I'M BEING PHISHED!). I probably saw it the same day it went live, because I was developing an e-commerce checkout flow at the time.
You can have good OO with just encapsulation and polymorphism.
Hmm, there must be some extension that detects 404 errors and/or server unresponsive and prompts whether you want to check Google's cache or the Internet archive. That browsers haven't already integrated this (with a configurable list of archiving services, like search engines), is actually rather surprising to me.
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as a reply to his post, this reads like a magic wand wave
My $500 Windows laptop is over 4 years old. I run Windows 7 on it and I'm in no mood to upgrade any time soon.

Screw it. I can afford to buy any new computer tomorrow, but I'm not doing that because what I have works perfectly fine for my needs
I was forced to train someone so cocky that they ended up doing a rm -rf / on our production server a month after I quit. He also accidentally euthanized a legacy server, deleted the accounting database when he was trying to do a hardware based RAID rebuild, completely destroyed the Windows domain server and mocked my daily tape backup regimen - opting to ship USB consumer grade hard drives in an unpadded steel box instead to off-site storage... The list goes on. He literally destroyed everything he touched. The only reason he wasn't fired was because he was a pretty man.
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html
Actual two-word passphrase from an AOL disc once in my possession: 'cloaca market'.
A sense provided by Google for "poaching":
>take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way

Which fits this use perfectly. Mindless thought policing of this type seldom produces any good; please employ with great caution.
NPM doesn't. Maven does. Debian has authentication of the repository itself.
It worked for me. After countless injections of errors after updating a large list dependencies we made the decision to stop updating and freeze the versions, patch remaining errors ourselves and leave it alone. Worked so well we now have time to rebuild the whole front end on a new stack as an experiment instead wasting time with endless bug hunts.
I'm not a fan of these kinds of hilarious-in-hindsight juxtapositions since it gives the impression that "hey, the logos of old companies sucked, so you don't need a good logo to succeed!"

Branding is not that simple, unfortunately.
"but its only recently that people in america are too poor to buy american products"

American products, like Apple?

Or like other PC manufacturers, who are quite able to sell cheaper (yes, less featured, maybe less cool) computers at more affordable pricing?
Uber worked because it disrupted and undercut taxi monopolies, and a minicab industry with various usability/availability/safety issues.

Uber is not only more convenient, but cheaper than the established players.

Few other industries are ripe for such disruption.
I had an Uber driver on the SF Peninsula who works a day job just a few hundred feet from where I live (which is, I suppose, why he got the dispatch). He drove us to SFO.

Turns out, he lives in BFE (Tracy) and works 7-4. His commute in to work is fast (okay, as fast as a, what, 70 mile drive can be) because it's off-hours. Then he drives for Uber for a few hours after work, getting PAID to sit in traffic.

Then he drives home when there's no traffic! And as a bonus, sometimes he gets paid to drive someone to the East Bay or somewhere that gets him a bit closer to home, 'on the clock' so to speak.
When she started the repetition of 'championships..'; for some reason it seemed too doctored to be part of real story telling.
This was exactly my take-away after reading through this list.

Industrial safety inspections done by robots and affordable, modern zero-energy homes are the kind of difficult real world problems that will make the world a better place when solved.

On the other hand, I don't know if glass-by-glass wine delivery or another college social network are solutions to real "problems" that needed to be solved.

Now of course, it's still early for a lot of these startups and I can be proven wrong. But the potential impact of a something like a smart oven with a companion subscription meal service seems really small compared to an idea like a marketplace for farmers in India to sell directly to institutional buyers
I thought this thread was in the context of people who could not really afford an iPhone - or at least have to really think about their spending to be able to buy one. In that context the 0.50$ makes a huge difference.

To me it seems interesting that a lot of people here want to play up the excellence of iPhones.
Excellent concept, and one I've been a proponent of for a while.

I'd like it to have an option (which it may have but I haven't found) to either not show me stuff I already subscribe to (WSJ, Economist, NYT) or allow me to enter subscription information so that I would not double pay.

From a consumption point of view there should be a "blendie link" which is like a URL shortner for articles which connects you through the paywall to the Blendie version of an article. Then if you share that link it lets other Blendie subscribers read it in a fairly frictionless way.
Just hanging out, taking some photos with my kwanon camera.
Most people just don't know any better. And when the social norm is spending all your money (and then some) on things you don't need, most people don't even realize there's another option.

I myself didn't realize until I stumbled upon Mr. Money Mustache two years ago (http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/), and it kind of woke me up. Now I buy way less, save at least half my income every month, and am overall much happier.
Cruise was started by Twitch co-founder, again pre-dating the strategy. And Zenefits, LOL.
Module repositories have been a thing for decades. Even a platform as crusty-old as WordPress doesn't allow repository take-overs for plugins. Surely someone had some experience outside npm to think about this.
Firstly: Are you saying that it is unfair or clandestine to offer someone a job?

Secondly: Connotation matters. Poaching is clearly a pejorative term.
It doesn't help that historically, (like eBay) parts of their site get served with old themes. Sometimes depending on what account you log in with.
> On the other hand, each dependency you add creates a little bit of risk: that the package will be updated in a way that breaks your application, or the package maintainer will go rogue, or the package will get hijacked.

If your development environment is such that you can't test these things before going into production, and that production updates its packages on its own, then you have much bigger (and harder to fix) issues that dependency hygiene.
My 5 year old PC has a dual socket Xeon I think that beats any iPad rubbish.
It is kind of like an acqui-hire where the buyer is paying for the team and maybe some tech. However I can see many challenges implementing this for a team of more experienced candidates. Not everyone on a team has the same motivations for a job. e.g. I might work at a certain place because I like the work, I like the people I work with, I like the salary/perks I have and it is 5 miles from where I live. Another person on the team might be more motivated by a high salary and might want to be paired with a different company, yet another might be motivated by challenging work, etc. How do you align the motivations of multiple individuals that work on a team so that everyone will want to be swept up by another company? This becomes even more problematic with mixed age teams, > 3 person teams, mixed experience teams that work great together at Company X working on Problems Y/Z but might not be that great working on Problems A/B/C
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> the data is a lot less valuable because I'm well over 4,000 miles.

That is a very dangerous assumption to be making.
> There's various stuff to watch for bad long term effects

And how many drugs have been pulled off the market after additional testing hasn't been completed?
Uber only worked because they found a market that was heavily regulated at the local level.

Most industries with this sort of regulation are extremely difficult to disrupt thanks to regulatory capture. But the taxi industry was almost exclusively regulated at the local level. By starting the service in a city with a real taxi problem (and SF has always had a "unique" black car system in that black cars can answer hails off the street) they were able to prove their system worked and build capital. After they did this in a few friendly cities that just needed a taxi solution, they had enough funding and momentum to simply ignore local taxi regulations, pay off any fines, and let public opinion of the new (and super cheap because it's subsidized by Uber for a while in new markets) taxi service do the work for them.

That model works great if your regulators are far-flung and small. Most of these taxi regulatory agencies have pretty limited budgets and simply aren't equipped to deal with a company like Uber that has an army of corporate lawyers. The worst they ever thought they would have to deal with is a couple of local taxi companies with limited resources themselves, so they weren't prepared. Because Uber could drown their agency in paperwork for years, many regulatory agencies have adopted a "wait and see" approach with Uber.

Try this "ignore the regulators" approach in an industry with centralized national regulation and you're in for a big surprise. Turns out, the federal government has basically infinite money and is not scared by lawyers the way municipal government agencies are. This is exactly how Theranos and 23andme got in trouble -- you ignore the feds at your own peril.
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I'd imagine that, if NPM were contacted by a lawyer as the developer states, that there was the threat of legal action. So, then, you are correct and technically I should title the article "NPM, Under Threat Of Legal Action, Removes Package From Registry," or "NPM Complies With Request Made By Lawyer."

I don't think NPM at any point valued the lawyer's opinion. But do you really think it's feasible for them to go to court? An app with millions of users is not going to change its name. A command line tool with less than 100 stars on github can surely afford to.

Was removing the package the morally "right" thing to do? Unlikely. It's clear he wasn't intentionally infringing on the kik trademark. But he (the developer) acts as if it was something NPM did willingly, and clear proof that NPM is a malicious organization designed to usurp the community of its power. That's an absurd claim.
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Naive question,

why can't my phone smell?

Elaborating further, the phone has many sensors of: location, altitude, pressure, visual input/output, audio input/output, etc.

Where is the nose?

If the phone could smell, wouldn't that collect much deeper, more personal (meta)data about persons?

Are there any upcoming 'Internet of Things' which has a nose?

Or, it's just lower priorities compared to other data?

Thanks.
while it is a swastika, it is modeled after biplane wings
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We're just a tiny bootstrapped start up who started Elevator because we think this needs to exist in the world. Hopefully that adds validity to the argument that we'd quit our jobs because we believe in the idea so much.
your logic is flawless
I enjoyed the oracle discovery very much and even more its use on themselves. Cute.
The point of VC-subsidization is only to last until the company can build up both a brand and a more efficient system.

For example, shopping at Whole Foods is inefficient. However, once Instacart has their own (automated) warehouses and can cut out the middleman supermarket, as well as real estate/cashiers/etc, it can potentially shift to being profitable. Add in self-driving cars, and they're set.

(Also, don't forget that for many stores, Instacart marks things up 10-20%. So they're making +$20 on a $150 order.)
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I prefer Airbnb's old logo, the same with the Uber logo. And I was quite surprised to see Twitters first logo.
That's irony, since Apple has a ~80% adoption rate for iOS 9 and Google has an adoption rate of <40% for Android 5+.

I long ago switched away from iPhones to Android devices, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that Apple's public commitment to privacy and Android's recent security woes didn't make me think twice about what the next phone in my pocket will be. I look at the system updates page on my Moto X longingly, but it still says February 1st is the most recent update available. Not sure how long I'll have to wait but I hope I don't get exploited in the meantime.
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For me it was until the sports part. User chatter has nothing to do with future victories and the bookies would have priced in anything the public knows. Then it occurred to me that this sort of thing was hugely illegal and I noticed the facebook.com URL - no way FB would be hosting some insiders blowing a whistle like that. At that point my suspicions curdled and I checked the comments.
Let's not forget Uber somehow magically bypassed the old taxi licence/disc system. IMHO if existing taxi services could get rid of all the fees and regulations they would be only slightly less effective as Uber.
High end chips have been doing multiple instruction per clock for a while now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor
Not just that. They keep changing the capabilities/limits, have gotten harder to reach over the years, and have done some pretty direct back-stabbing things to developers and shut down good projects. Unless you're willing to pay them huge money, then getting stuff like Firehose access is impossible.
Not necessarily, maybe they know it's time not to give the "tick" expectations anymore. They can be very soon away, and from their perspective, it's time to be identified with other aspects, not with "ticks."
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Self-driving cars are inevitable, but concerning that day and hour no one knows. Not only will the tech have to be foolproof, but the product consumer ready, and the legislation in place as well. Even if it's moving fast now, it'll take at least a decade or half to be ready.