skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing has over 77,000 employees in Washington state, and Microsoft has over 40,000 employees there. It's hard to imagine that the state does not already benefit so enormously from the presence of these two giants that a few hundred million is literally a drop in the bucket.

Washington state doesn't have a corporate or personal income tax, but they do have something called "Business and Occupation Tax", a tax on gross receipts which all corporations must pay, regardless of profit. There are all sorts of exemptions and exceptions, and of course MSFT and Boeing have their share. However, MSFT last year was singled out for the closing of a loophole to the tune of $57 million; they weren't named specifically but the law was directed at "software businesses with greater than 40,000 employees", an unusual maneuver to get more taxes from a specific company.

The blogger complains about a few hundred million and then goes on to fantasize about how this extra money could pay for all sorts of wonderful services in the state.

The fact is, however, in the real world, that chunk of tax revenue does not exist; you have to work with what you have, and in this case, Washington has to work within their $37 billion budget. Also worth noting is the unfortunate fact that public funds do not efficiently flow to an earmarked pool of deserving causes; much of it is sucked up by the bureaucracy, a certain amount stolen through graft and embezzlement and dirty contractors, a certain amount wasted, a certain amount subtly reassigned to other needs. $57 million designated for schools in underprivileged areas makes a great sound bite, but at the end of the day the deserving schools will see very little of that money.
The best layman's example of O(log N) I've heard is finding a name in the phone book. You open it around the middle, select which half gets you closer, and repeat. It's then easy to "get" why it's not a big deal if it's a huge phone book versus a tiny phone book.
Honestly, this is playing out like a Hollywood flick.
self hosted IRC
It is interesting when Microsoft did the same with Windows most my peers were pretty outraged. Imagine clicking remind me later in the morning, start a long running process when you are just about to go to have lunch and coming back to Windows installing updates after a restart.

I don't think Apple gains anything substantial from pushing security fixes, however eroding user control could be in their interest.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757 which is actually linked towards the bottom of the article.
I've had exactly one iDevice, an iPhone 3G, and the experience with iTunes turned me off to them forever.

What should be a relatively simple task, plugging in a drive-like device to my computer and moving files from one place to another is made needlessly complicated and restrictive by forcing it to slog through the tar pit that is iTunes. Never again.
What's forgotten in this discussion are the property taxes in Cupertino. The property values in Cupertino are among the highest in the Bay Area, and with that comes more property taxes. I doubt Cupertino would be this desirable were it not for Apple (and the school district). So once again Apple, albeit indirectly, helps pad city coffers.
I think I get it now. Essentially your replica is always in an inconsistent state, you cannot ever guaranty for anything, that happened on one replica, to be present on another. It's mostly for backups, disaster recovery, when it is ok to lose some data, right?
> "Amber relayed to me that she’s had to suffer through many calls from people who cancelled their Apple Music subscription after the free, three-month trial, only to discover that all of their own music files had been deleted and there was no way to get them back."

The Apple Music three month trial had a positive affect on my listening habits. I tried it, hoping to discover new music. But the UX was a slog. No easy pivot points on artists and songs. A DJ workflow vs listener workflow, which added complexity. No collaborative filtering.

So, I switched to Spotify. The "Discover Weekly" section that uses Echonest (I think) has surfaced new artists and songs to explore. Pivot points on songs, artists, and playlists are straightforward.

Have spent 100s of hours hours ripping and curating high 100s of CDs over the last 25 years. Barely touch em. At this point, if you'd ask me to choose between my old catalog and Spotify, I would choose the later. Heh, thanks to the Apple Music 3 month trial.
How we run 4 hours of tests in under 4 minutes
I believe the trick is declining when iTunes first asks whether you would like it to keep your music collection organized, or disabling the option in the preferences.

There are two default options that should be changed for safety when configuring iTunes:

- enable error correction when importing from CDs (importing options in Preferences)

- disable "keep music collection organized" (or something to that effect, located somewhere in the prefs)
I wonder if they're using the MediaRecorder API, or if it's some custom solution.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/01/mediarecor...
Strangely, he's replaced the homepage and every subpage/file with an HTML version of the note, rather than the image. I'm not sure why.
WA's annual budget is $37 billion (plus some deficit spending). The number you cited is a 2 year budget.
Having personally had a £10 unarranged overdraft turn in to over £200 of fines, the idea that UK banks get off the hook is ludicrous. They've been forced to tone it down now.
Freelancer or Consultant? (2015)
PG County school district shares a border with Washington, DC, which may be a reason why it got caught and other schools haven't yet. By that I mean, other schools may in fact be in violation, but investigators (who are likely in DC) heard about the practices going on right next door.
Bluetooth LE – Increasingly popular, but still not very private
these stories about bitcoin are like those long drama's/soap operas/ Tween Peaks, I dont know anything about because I didnt have time to put up with it. Only women..
Use CSS :root for flexible, responsive type
sorry, HN proved that correlation is causation.

you're an idiot.
This. It's about economics. It's about extracting value from the parents. It's about making the children, who are the workers of the future, more compliant.

You may consider it conspiracy theory, to me it's just obvious.
Music and Startups – Does Original Exist?
(still speculating on the basis that he is not Satoshi and did it for reasons of getting attention)

Also a possibility of course... his method to safe at least some of his self-image, depends on how good he is at self-manipulation, people are often very good at it.
I've long considered how weird it is that I'm jealous of the American past at times. We collectively have forgotten how deeply connected our rail system originally was and how fast it was when it originally was built. Even what small fraction of those rail lines that still exist, if America managed to wrestle them from the cargo companies running them near bankruptcy for a bandwidth of just cargo tons, found a way to pay for updates and upgrades (the most unlikely part of this scenario sadly) and got the lines back up to the original speeds, not even doing an upgrade to modern high speeds, people would be amazed at where you can travel and how fast you can get there...
All ethics of the deletion aside, matching on metadata is a weird, crappy approach (and that itself is pretty consistent with my other experiences with iTunes).

It shouldn't be hard to imagine that metadata will have collisions, and include something like a hash of the actual data.
YouTube could debut “Unplugged” digital TV service in 2017
No need to worry! The origin always meets the maker.
Does using Tor puts you on some kind of list? It would be tragic if someone used Tor to read a scientific article but then got charged with aiding terrorism or looking for child pornography.
Show HN: Make Your Own Curabase Clone in 10 Minutes with Airtable
> the main reason I wrote it is asymmetric cryptography

Why do you prefer asymmetric cryptography instead of whatever restic and attic/borg are using?
Can someone change title to "iOS apps supporting ..."
an alt-schyzo-personality of John Nash. He probably lost access to the blocks due to the sickness.
This is not directed at anyone in particular, but:

"syncing" with a cloud service - stupid

not backing up - stupid
It seems like the main difference from attic/borg is the the asymmetric encryption.
That's true, and the writers of FiveThirtyEight publish a weekly transcript of a Slack chat in which they discuss those things.

Some of the writers were very optimistic about Trump, and Nate was notably not optimistic.

It's impossible for journalists to be unbiased or to be right all the time. Good journalists will "show their work" (the data they're basing their analysis on), explain areas where they could be wrong, admit their biases, and (ultimately) admit when they're wrong. Silver has done all these things.

Maybe you don't like his site or his writing, but "unbiased" journalism is a fantasy peddled by low-brow entertainment channels like CNN. When people study facts, they form conclusions, and we should want to know both the facts and the conclusions.

It's better to know the biases and be able to take the work with a grain of salt.
Writing histrionic nonsense like this does not advance your cause. Apple did not "steal" your music any more than "rm -rf" or 300 million poorly manufactured Seagate drives did.

"Matches found, press OK to delete [list of files] from your computer and phone FOREVER" is what 99% of customers want.

Debate the quality of the match algorithm (it sucks), argue the proper UX for a pretty basic function (it also sucks), but knock off the Orwellian sky is falling stuff. Because that's obvious bullshit.

Apple has its own view of the culture, and has a pretty obvious way of mining it for profit. You ain't changing them. You can perhaps however nudge them if you're not a total asshole about it.
Nate Silver is what would happen if a really smart Vulcan came to Earth and tried to understand and predict human behavior.
Develop CMS based website via Wordpress
This Startup Wasted a Whole Lotta Money on a Conference (2015)
WA charges property tax, so anyone living in WA is funding the state, unless they're camping out in a state park.

The populist slogan "You didn't build that" doesn't stand up under scrutiny. Directly or indirectly, the companies in your state have paid for every inch of the roads, water pipes, and power lines, and they paid for every brick of every schoolhouse.
I'm very surprised that they would perform such a destructive operation based only off of metadata (instead of some sort of audio fingerprinting).
Apple, Set to Move to Its Spaceship, Should Try More Moonshots
This is extremely wonderful, thank you!

CF WS support means I will no longer have to keep around a separate, direct-to-server (sub)domain around for my WebSockets projects, and this also means goodbye to any websockets-related SSL certificate hassle in this regard.
Andresen (and Matonis) themselves should be considered responsible for the harm to their own reputations no?
I only just started using a mac/iphone after many years of only using Linux and Android, and my impression is that although they'd object to the language, yes, that's pretty precisely their business model, and its an insane success. I'm not saying most people actually are stupid, but I'm saying that probably the set of people who either (a) are not stupid and want their computer to do something different than what iTunes automatically does, or (b) somehow, whether by ignorance or villainy, get screwed by a situation like the one in the post, barely register in Apple's statistics. I'm (a). The author is (b). We're edge cases. The moral flavor of Apple's business model will continue to not matter while people keep shoveling over the dollars.
No. Teleport installs triggers on all tables the first time it starts. After the first start, consistency is guaranteed because triggers will save every data mutation in a separate table (that teleport reads to generate batches for the target instance).
Serious: With the number of votes you had, you could probably get those voters to give you $10-20k through gofundme et al ;)
According to the article, Apple pays for 18% of the city budget. Is that nothing?
Shots: get an animated gif from a Wayback Machine archive
I don't know what that many simultaneous long running connections effect at their scale. Along with the inability to cache.
Nope... Apple is too profitable, and even if they do hit the moon it can't be as profitable as phones that are propped up by rent-seeking spectrum owners.

It's a big part of the puzzle behind the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario we have where profitable companies pile up cash that they don't invest.

Even if Apple can greatly expand it's revenue with a "moonshot", it will be perceived as lower quality revenue if the margin is less, so shareholder value will decline.
Show HN: DocuSign API ruby gem with libcurl
We are supposed to care about privacy, yet people can't stop trying to find out who is the creator of bitcoins, even though this person clearly doesn't want that to be known. I think we are all naturally hypocritical beings or something.
Dorian wasn't given the choice. He didn't announce that he was Satoshi but had the mantle thrust upon him by the media.

Mr. Wright made his claims but now is unable to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt.
Apple breaking the world, one update at a time.
Mobile App Development Glossary
Not learning to read until I was 11 would have been strange. I had no specific need to read, but being literate at 4 allowed me to program at 7. It allowed me to explore mathematics beyond what most of my peers did because I read every bit of the book. And then there were the scores of books I read and the interaction with friends using encoding schemes lifted from my Boys' Life subscription.

This is very much a to each their own thing. It worked well for you but it also sounds like you had a uniquely active family and community to support this. The primary problem with homeschooling and unschooling is the lack of family support. Either by apathy or by lack of economic opportunity. Or simply their own lack of education preventing them from even being aware of these options (such as finding a community to coordinate with to make up for their on educational deficiencies).

I can't speak for all public schools, my parents deliberately chose better than average schools for my sister and I to attend. But good public schools exist. Good teachers exist. But just like good home schooling and unschooling experiences, this requires either luck of birth (well-to-do parents) or deliberate effort by parents to improve their children's position.
that seems like a very general rule for something that might have greater subtlety than, "lower pay for an non-citizen employee." curious about your rational here.
Yes, I know, use it everyday. Most small business in Brazil don't. And definitively no automated software. Also, all automated software for WhatsApp must rely on terrible hacks on the interface, as there's no supported API and WA is really aggressive against third-party clients.
> this kind of stuff isn't fixed by a simple browser update and inherited "for free" by all sites

Why not? What's stopping browser from disabling window.opener unless CSP specifically allows it?

(totally appreciate there may be something I'm missing here, and thanks for responding)
Sci-Hub onion service
"Advocates for the deaf on Thursday filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and M.I.T., saying both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials."

Torrent available:

http://mega.co.nz/#!0FtFyCjJ!_hXJXCBNN-rZgJXuw-mpAb-D-MHS4AJ...

Or:

http://academictorrents.com/details/46c5af9e2075d9af06f280b5...

Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/cs231n-CNNs
He realized the image wouldn't be indexed by Google, I'd imagine.
Boeing and Microsoft make useless products?! lol
Sounds harsh but all I read was that someone had 122 gig worth of files they considered precious to them and no backup.

Computer systems fail for all kinds of stupid reasons. What will you do when that disk fails?

I admit this is a particularly stupid and infuriating reason for data loss, but how little would it cost to have a backup of 122gb?
Is there a donate location of sorts that we can pay into to support the efforts that the sci-hub person/team/organization is doing?

This is a another good cause that I would find worthy to donate to.

Edit. Ok, found it:

http://www.sci-hub.cc/donate

Apparently, only bitcoin donations are possible at the moment. BitCoint Wallet for donations: 1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM
It's basically trying to figure out what the purpose of an "actor" is, and what it means in terms of schema design. I can't tell if I'm supposed to use multiple actors because it adds some kind of resilience, or performance, or something else?

On the surface, it seems analogous to "CREATE DATABASE" / "USE DATABASE", but then the examples show applications using multiple actors...which wouldn't be typical (one app / multiple databases). So, it seems clear the idea is multiple actors within a single app, but what drives the choice of what the actors are?

If the documentation started with some deeper explanation of actors, it might be easier to follow...as is, it jumps into actor syntax, creation, etc, without the reader really knowing what one is first.

I do get that this might be unique to me...I'm just not grocking the concept.
Most residents of Cupertino pay very little property tax due to prop 13. Some residents pay 3000$ for the same house when their neighbors pay 18000$.
Sadly, this type of behavior is also the hallmark of a master manipulator. Given his track record of deceit upon deceit (lied about PhD as confirmed by university, lied about supercomputer as confirmed by SGI, got caught backdating PGP key, multiple acquaintances in Australia on record about his sketchy business practices, etc. etc), I'd guess that the emotion here is significantly less than genuine.

That said, I agree that if I knew the man, or had any idea where he is then I'd feel compelled to check in on him. But it sounds like people have checked in on him and he's OK [1].

But I'm guessing it's just more showmanship and more attempts to distract from the fact that he has no proof he's who he's claiming to be.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636144
To the person who deleted their comment that it's about compliance. That's an often heard conspiracy theory, but IMO, the main strike against it is that it doesn't work. The USA, compared to eg: Singapore, does not turn out particularly compliant graduates.
Thanks. How about 3D Printing or other means of automation?
https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62S...
For those who love the idea and wish to keep more control over the data and have access to an API, I've put together a tutorial on how to make your own Curabase in roughly 10 minutes using Airtable.

http://www.web3tutorials.com/2016/05/05/make-curabase-in-air...
Bitcoin is infinitely divisible, if a bitcoin is lost forever the remaining bitcoin just increase in value.
That's because at a conceptual level, a "general purpose computer" is far from an ideal device for rent extraction.

If your user is stupid, they won't be able to manage a general purpose computer but will instead require a well-controlled computing appliance that will dutifully collect all the rents its creators can get away with.
That seems more like a layman's explanation of a binary search than O(log N). Binary search just happens to be O(log N)
Did you get the print version from amazon? Or a bookstore? I've found the amazon print-on-demand quality to be stuck in "economode" sometimes. I personally recommend people to purchase from lulu because the print quality there is more consistent, though they too make mistakes sometimes.

Send me an email if the greyness bothers you—I'll be happy to send you a replacement copy from lulu, say when v6 comes out (no major changes; just more exercises because some people complained the onboarding was too hard for beginners).
Isn't "are magnificent" (as opposed to "would be magnificent") a bit of a stretch? I can't watch the video right now, but it sounds like it is a concept video for something that was never actually implemented. As such, it is wonderful to dream big and to reward big dreams; but that should not, I think, be confused with delivering on those big dreams.

EDIT: Thanks to dang for changing this. Just to be clear, my post referred to the original title, taken from The Verge article which was originally linked.
TouchBistro | On-Site | Fulltime | Toronto, Canada

* We are a well established, rapidly growing startup focusing on the pos market for restaurants, coffeeshops, and bars across the world.

* Are stack includes react, rails, swift. We have big plans for the future and need a product owner to help us tackle that vision.

* We are looking for an experienced product owner comfortable working within scrum.

* We offer competitive salaries, benefits, work/life balance, great vacations and most importantly an opportunity make strong impact on the product.

* If interested please send me a message (tberry@touchbistro.com)

Thanks!
nope.
tor is anonymizing software used by many thousands of people.
if you're really concerned use a VPN first, and download the tor browser using VPN.
unnecessary IMO, but if you're concerned then this will give you an extra layer of protection.
> What value does the publisher's work add to the work the author generated?

- organizing peer review
- spell-checking and fixing layout problems
- making sure that the paper stays available for a long time
- handling complaints and retracting fraudulent papers
- providing a single point of contact for people who would like to reuse published material (e.g., using illustrations in a textbook).

Sure, many publishers don't do a very good job for the money they are taking.
Sure, there might be better approaches for disseminating knowledge than the current one.
However, in the world as it is now, publishers can and do provide some value.
How my blog post yesterday went a “little viral”
Using Tor does put you on some kind of list, but you aren't going to get charged with aiding terrorism or looking for child pornography because of it. Unless you use it for those things, I guess, and get caught.
The only scenario wherein Craig Wright could actually be Satoshi is if Satoshi had burned his bridges -- in the process of abandoning the Satoshi identity, he had deleted all cryptographic evidence of the identity; all private keys and credentials for online accounts.

In that case, if he later (now) decided to assert the identity, then he might be tempted to cobble together fake proof to get his foot in the door far enough that he could begin to assert various forms of social proof with people that he had interacted with while using the Satoshi identity.

It's worth noting that the "scorched earth" elimination of the Satoshi identity is another possible theory as to why nobody has credibly claimed the identity -- because even the individual (or group) that assumed the identity no longer has the ability to cryptographically assert that identity.