skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While the price cut will be a boon for many consumers, it’s bad news for collectors and investors in so-called “Forever stamps,” the generic stamps valued at whatever the current postage rate is no matter when they were purchased. Since Forever stamps were created in 2007, Americans have scooped them up as a way to hedge against future price hikes that seemed eternally inevitable. But that strategy has now backfired: As former Fortune columnist Allan Sloan put it in a 2014 column, “If stamp prices somehow were cut, millions of Forever holders, including me, would feel cheated.”

Collectors don't care. They aren't buying for face value. "Investors" are idiots if they invested heavily in forever stamps. Stamps have generally tracked pace of inflation. You could put your money almost anywhere else and do as well or better.

I buy forever stamps because it used to be so damned inconvenient to buy (and remember to add) 1 and 2 cent stamps every time they raised prices. The fact that they're lowering the price by 2 cents does not make me feel cheated.
They weld "shoes" onto the deck that hold the tips of the legs.
There is the technical webcast in complete silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8V0COrrzE
Yes, yes it does. It's pretty annoying, aliexpress does similar too. You'd think big ecommerce sites would have caught up with this.

As for their reasoning... maybe performance, but more likely laziness.
Well for one reaching the wider public is hard. Well, unless, Google, Apple and others take our side. Which is plausible.

Then after reaching the public there must be a compelling relatable story. Applied did it a bit when replying to FBI's request:

-- Weak encryption means more identity theft. This is a good one. Everyone knows someone who lost a phone, a wallet and then thieves emptied bank accounts, caused grief, time wasted and pain for years to come. This works and is great.

Others I can think of:

-- Point to large scale data breaches, even Government's own OPM office was hacked by Chinese. Having back-doors in everything means more such large scale failures.

-- Take their own rhetoric and spin it around. Look Snowden stole all those documents right under the nose of the NSA. Point to their own incompetence and say imagine future such incidents with a perpetrator walking away with "master keys". Remember to repeat phrases like "it is not a matter of if but a matter of when". That was used by talking head security experts on TV post 9/11, this one works great. I like it.

-- Point to physical analogies where master key has been lost. Was it a case for NYFD or some place like that. Where it was mandated all these places have a master key and it was copied and used for criminal activity.

-- Find something with terrorists. Nobody will ever defend terrorists. Any case where Chinese terrorists hacked Google through a backdoor created to handle government's access to data.

-- Everyone loves freedom of speech and hates when worthy dissidents in countries we don't like are martyred. Point out how strong encryption has saved lives and provided the only channel for communication freedom fighters.

The list goes on... but that's the gist basically
> It turns out we're not really planning for self driving cars at all. Most cities seem not to be forecasting driverless cars in their future.

So what? Nobody knows exactly how self-driving cars are going to operate in cities, because they aren't here yet. In the meantime, it's fine to continue as normal.
Space X lands Falcon 9 stage 1 on drone ship (picture)
> which was not ready for professional editing at release

Some would argue that that sounds more like a project management failure than a change in market strategy—that they shipped a beta product as done, that someone screwed up somewhere, etc.

I don't think so, though; I think Apple just made a correct call in shipping the "core" of the product early (in the same way most enterprise products get 'Early Access' releases) to allow actual professionals to start evaluating the architecture of the software and tailoring their pipelines to fit it. Professional-use software doesn't get used on day 1 of release; it gets played with by an internal pipeline infrastructure team for six months while the working craftspeople continue to use the stable pipeline.

Handing out something that would be "patched into usefulness" at right about the same time it would actually be put into use makes sense, in strictly consequentialist terms, for both Apple and the professional studios—although Apple latching onto that release to do a bunch of marketing of their product as if it was usable for indies already, could be seen as a bit scummy.

> since it only supported one CPU. For compressing feature films, dual CPUs are a must.

This might not be the case right now (I don't know much about video encoding), but encoded video has keyframes, and effectively you can "chunk out" a set of raw frames to become a keyframe plus its successor interstitial frames, and then parallelize on those chunks, right?

In which case, I'd expect Apple figured that even if CPU-based compression is currently en vogue for this use-case, it'd be obviated by GPU-based highly-parallel compression soon enough, making the dual GPUs a much more significant benefit and the single CPU a much less significant drawback.

Tell me if I'm getting that wrong; I honestly have no idea.
And here's a Tesseract+corrected transcript: https://lin.noblejury.com/burr.txt
Nothing but positive experiences with youtube-dl, invaluable piece of software IMO.

For people interested in tools like this, or for people who want to just watch videos without downloading, I would also recommend Livestreamer. I use it to watch Crunchyroll streams, and I avoid all the strange issues that come up with their terrible player. No more skipping to random sections of the episode.
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
I really would love to da an AMA about it. But I guess I'm not allowed. I'll check with marketing some time after the launch party ;)
Workflow fragmentation
SpaceX lands first stage on Drone Ship
Missed it by five minutes :) Is there a replay?
I think you're half there, but in the end I stand by it just being kind of poor writing. It's not so much a development of prose tending towards shorter sentences. Rather, the author is making a stylistic choice that uses longer sentences while _also_ loading the sentences with structural aberrations and external, sometimes opaque, references.

I'd argue that it's always been a good idea to use style judiciously in prose, and balance longer more complex sentence structure with fewer references or other oddities. Or load up unusual structure and abstruse language, but keep things shorter.
To put this in perspective, they just landed a supersonic toothpick upright on a turbulent matchbox.
"aimed at" and "used for" are never disjoint sets.
It's already pretty much happened, I can search google, browse wikipedia, read email, HN and reddit, even click the images on imgur all without leaving the SSL comfort zone. Even facebook seems to have taken this route. Most big sites now offer SSL-only.
The way I read the text (which is quickly and layman-y) I don't see anything that mandates back doors or encourages weak encryption. So to me it looks mostly fine or even just a formalization of the status quo?

It seems to say that if a company can read their customers data in plain text, then that plaintext should also be provided to authorities upon request/warrant.

So the bottom line is: use strong crypto and build products with strong crypto and ensure only the end users hold the keys to the data. Then all the aid you can give authorities is "no can do" - and that's still acceptable? I'm kind of fine with that.
The government has always had the power to compel an uninterested third party to act against its will. I can serve someone with a subpoena in a civil suit and they have to show up and answer my questions. Nobody wants to do this, but the government compels them to.

The issue isn't whether the government has the power to compel assistance with the judicial process. It's about what sorts of things the government can compel people to do.
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Those forever stamps are a good idea, and as you say, it's obviously about convenience.

There seems to be a culture of complaining about everything the USPS does. Personally, I think it's something of a miracle that for about 50 cents, I can send a letter to anyone in the country.
Growing Revenue May Kill Your Startup
I've got one of these and love it and I know a few other developers who do too. The main negatives I've seen are from people who want to stick PC GPU cards in for gaming. As a developer desktop computer it's a joy to use, virtually silent and can power multiple 4K displays. It's a shame Apple hasn't done an update though.
What's so bizarre about paying for costs when they are accrued?

I wish that approach was applied more widely; imagine the effect on the USA's willingness to go to war if the expected long term cost of disability pensions and other veterans' benefits had to be set aside up front.
Tuned in just in time to see stage 1 sitting happily on the drone ship. Not as much data about what can go wrong, but hey, they got an intact stage 1 back and going over that is going to provide them with mountains of data. Looking forward to more.
Google considering possibility of Swift as programming language for Android
Thanks. I was trying to picture a fixing mechanism that could work over the entire surface, but hey, all the metal is meltable!
baladodiffusion means "podcasting". podcast is "balado"
I agree. I would think that the problem of yahoo finance is an engineering problem: in fact, Yahoo finance was built on a solid technology that was good 10 years ago, but has basically been kept under maintenance ever since. Several attempts have been made to modernize it and they have almost all failed. In addition to this, yahoo finance has been an interim property within yahoo for many years, the kind of place where middle managers would find shelter before their next career move, hence the lack of risk taking. So far, it remains the best finance website in my opinion, but it's sad when you think about how much better it could be.
Annoyingly, the MBPs, being "workhorse" machines, depend on 'legacy' connectors to whatever people need to use to get their work done, in a way that the consumer-level notebooks don't. The Macbook can get away with an adapter for USB because people rarely plug things into it. I'm always plugging things into my rMBP, often random things I wasn't aware I would need to plug in, so requiring adapters would be much more annoying.
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I am primarily a Mac/iOS developer, but occasionally have to do CPU or GPU intensive stuff. I use a macbook for most of my work but have a windows desktop machine for when I need it. (Ironically, the beefy windows machine was cheaper). For example: lightmap baking.

Switching between the two is annoying.
What an amazing job!!!
Yes, only the first three chapters are released.
It's probably propaganda, but I might be okay with progress propaganda.
You should be able to rewind the YouTube stream.
It took me about 20 minutes to index 2.7M records. It was pulling from 3 tables using joins, and using the .Net NEST client.
> Technically, you don't have to successfully decrypt so long as you can help try.

Which raises the question of whether a vendor could build a system they cannot themselves break into, and then "help" by providing the documentation showing how they've built the system (which they should post publicly anyway).

Still a bad bill for numerous reasons, of course.
To which country? The UK, France, Australia, NZ, Eastern Europe would love to just follow the US on this stupidity. German politicians are too stupid to understand security only remotely. The few countries which would not introduce a similar law would come onto some black list.
How will you acquire your first batch of enough users to reach critical mass, where the site becomes an interesting destination rather than a ghost town? This will be your biggest challenge by far.

Your competition is not only existing blogs, newspaper comment sections, and discussion forums that already host socially-oriented debate, but also any other place where people spend their free time: Netflix and XBox.

How will you reach the people who would be interested in participating in such a forum?

When you do reach them, how will you overcome the initial "ghost town" chicken-and-egg problem, where nobody will want to use the forum unless lots of other people are using it already?
Is it an instantaneous weld that happens on landing?
Pretty sure the large crowd are the people who built the rocket, which somehow makes it okay in my book.
I think it's worth mentioning that Windows really still isn't ready for "retina" prime time. Setting a > 100% scaling results in all kinds of GUI horror all over the place, especially in 3rd party apps. Things are better now than they were 2 years ago, true, but still not a good situation.

On the other hand, there is pretty much no problem anywhere on the Mac. Apple just handled it. Pretty much all 3rd party apps were updated within a few months and most just "worked" without modification. A remarkable feat, at least to me.

The Mac is still the only way to go if you want a 100% retina desktop experience without glitches.

That said, I have no clue if linux is better in this regard.

So I guess my point is that the 4K on a Windows laptop is largely wasted. The GPU is not up to driving it for games and the GUI is not up to driving it for daily use. A shame, truly.

Disclaimer: I have a 2013 MacPro (with 2 4K Dell monitors) and love it. I use it for Photoshop and software dev.
Images of the SpaceX drone ship landing
Amazing, well done Space X. Watching the live feed gave me goosebumps and was more exciting than the any blockbuster I have ever watched.
Dragon Space Launch Was Successful AND Stage 1 Landed on the Drone Ship
Not only did the dragon space launch make it safely to space, it hit it's experimental landing -- the first time anyone has landed a stage 1 rocket on an ocean vessel.

History was made today.

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Well we can't not have the actual quote:

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself;
(I am large—I contain multitudes.)

http://www.bartleby.com/142/14.html
Cryptographic algorithms are generally not 'provably' secure, because most are based on an underlying assumption that some problems are hard, and this is not proven, just assumed. Also, there are mathematically verified implementations, and tools for verifying existing implementations that are about as 'provably' secure as the specifications of the algorithms.
SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket on Drone Ship
U.S. Presses Bid to Force Apple to Unlock iPhone in New York
What history? Apple was never very big in the 3D content creation biz. Their 3D support has always lagged a few years behind windows.
I find it strange too. My grandmother moved to England from Italy over 60 years ago but she sounds like she arrived a couple of weeks ago. I think it's a combination of wanting to maintain her Italian identity and talking daily/weekly to other people in Italian. It must take effort, even if subconsciously (e.g. wanting to fit in, thinking it affects the way people perceive you, not being understood etc), because it clearly doesn't happen automatically.
The landing takes place at approximately 36 minutes into the video.
Except which accountant will get more business.

a) Hey I have a cousin Vinny. Great account. Knows every single rule and is always ethical. I sleep great at night

b) Hey I have a cousin Jen. Great accountant. She found all kinds of crazy savings, saved me $1000 last year.

People know in their heart they should go for the honest guy. But hey, saving money.. who can pass that up?
I thought this was a finished game I could play right now in the browser!
I guess there are lemons with everything. I'm sitting here still using my Q6600 workstation with no issues. I keep upgrading around it as it's still fast enough.
Maybe Iceland could capture the entire infosec industry.
State of the container world, March 2016
Nomadic generously for pangu 9.3 download iOS 9.3
Apple should just announce it will move to Canada and no longer sell the iPhone in the US. Bam problem solved. The government would fold. As a long time Linux user, seeing apple seemingly stand up for privacy has given me a new found respect for them, won't be switching though.
Just turn off "Network notification" (applies to public WiFi only) in the WiFi preferences? Its an option that has been in Android since forever.
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We have also the word "informatique" which is not exactly computer science nor software engineering.
Like throwing a pencil over the Empire State Building and landing it perfectly.
Lot of stereotypes in the comments. I'm little disappointed to read that on HN.

Some commenters tell they had bad experiences in France. In my opinion, it's a case of confirmation bias and lack of understanding of cultural differences. For many reasons, you can't expect the same types of interactions with a waiter in Paris and one in NYC or Tokyo. I think people traveling to foreign countries should be open-minded and understand that things may work a little differently than in their home country.

The French aren't arrogant assholes overprotective of their language! that's just plain stereotype. Yes, they don't speak English as well as Swedes for instance, but not worse than let say Italians. Besides, there are tons of English words making their way in the French language.

Also, French people are often shy of speaking English. Sadly, we tend to make fun of each other, and those that haven't had the opportunity to practice outside school are often embarrassed to speak English.
Elon Musk, within the same week, sold 300,000+ preorders for the Model 3 (the largest dollar-figure launch of ANY product in history), AND landed a friggin rocket on a drone ship for the first time in history.

He is hands down the greatest entrepreneur within our lifetime, and possibly the greatest in modern history.

PS - yes, I'm a fanboy - jesus christ how can you not be? and yes, it goes without saying he couldn't have done it without all the hard-working employees at both companies.
Adobe patches Flash bug that’s being exploited to install ransomware
Of course they've had to pay. In the case of the investors, they've had to pay cash up-front to fund the development of Zcash. In the case of other shareholders of Zerocoin Electric Coin Company, they've had to pay for, or otherwise legitimately obtained their shareholding -- for example by their labour, in the case of developers who are also shareholders.

"Pump and dump" means fraudulently manipulating the price of a stock by making deliberately misleading or inaccurate statements in order to sell it at a premium. That's illegal under securities law. If you invest in something that then increases in value over a long period because people generally think it is valuable, and at some point you sell it, that is not "pump and dump".

Declaration of interest: I'm a Zcash developer and I hold some shares in Least Authority, which owns part of Zerocoin Electric Coin Company.
They might not show it but surely the people working at ESA, Roscomos and NASA are excited and celebrating successful launches as well.
I think you have zero potential. This was nice, but I wouldn't recommend following this advice and trying to grow the collection just because some random person asked for it. It is too much work.
Footage of the landing starts at 35:47, taken from nearby flying drone.

https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t=35m47s

Absolutely surreal footage, a 25 storey rocket just drifts into shot at a crazy angle and plants itself.
What happens when you don't put your phone on airplane mode on an airplane?
If I were Apple:

1. Our rate for this service is $10,000 / hour and we cannot provide an accurate estimate of how long it will take to do this or if it is even possible.

2. We will require each potential month of work to be paid in advance.

3. Bank a lot of money and wait a few years for a budgetary hearing to decide to stop paying for it.
Anyone want to help me make a social network for frequent flyers?
I've been working on this app for ~1.5 years at night, and I was wondering if anyone is interested in assisting.

It's like a foursquare + waze for travelers. Karma points for checking in to airports. Crowd-sourced tsa waiting times.

Anyone interested? The app prototype has gained some decent traction (6k+ downloads, $240 in revenue) and I'm getting ready to pitch it to investors in the next 2 weeks.

Looking for anyone who would be passionate about something like this. Bonus points if you are a travel hacker/programmer!

Serious inquiries only. :)
It was a unnervingly close to the edge of said matchbox. Can't they build a bigger drone ship? Seems a lot cheaper than losing one over the side.
That was pretty impressive, and while I love that New Shepard has flown three times, putting something into orbit and having the booster land on a drone ship is pretty freakin' awesome.

For me, the really amazing thing is that if SpaceX has been pricing their launches to cover their costs (and I realize that is a big if), they have been developing the re-usable tech on the back of those flights. And now they have 5 (or 6) test flights where two were successful that is moving that tech forward. Developing it on top of an already profitable space flight business, that is pretty amazing.

Really impressed.
I suspect that Apple will always continue making the "trucks" of the computing world (to borrow Steve Jobs' analogy).

To continue the analogy, compare their revenue numbers with, say Daimler[0]. Daimler sells more Mercedes cars than their other vehicles, but they still get revenue from trucks and buses and other pro/commercial vehicles.
Looks interesting.

Does the Windows service need to run as Local System? Seems like Network Service may be safer and equally functional.
I'm not even american but still so proud of what humans can achieve.
I don't think there is any clamping mechanism if that's what you're talking about. Apparently they rely on the sea being calm enough not to make the rocket tilt over. Also remember that the tanks are mostly empty so the center of gravity is fairly low.