skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pointless middle-men of ecommerce.

A drop shipping store is a web "store" that's little more than a form that forwards your order to a distributor or wholesaler or some other real store. The distributor makes wholesale and ships direct to you, the "drop shipper" pockets everything you paid above wholesale as their cut for deceiving you into believing they were some kind of stock-holding entity when in reality you could have gone to the wholesaler and saved money.

It's a niche rife with scammers, hence most payment processors officially wanting nothing to do with them.
Please, for quotes, use a > and/or asterisks, but not a leading space. That triggers formatting that doesn’t wrap.

> This is much nicer
That calculation was based on the new "increased" cap.

And yes, for $30 you can have unlimited bandwidth. And for $30 more you can opt out of them scanning and recording your activity for ad targeting.

So now the price has literally doubled to have decent internet. How can they get away with that? Lack of competition.

And that is what this thread is really about. Until there is some competition, we won't see ubiquitous, cheap, high-speed internet.
I would love a poster sized module, do they exist?
It enables candidates purchasing votes
>Taste is a really difficult thing to optimize for due to the subjective nature.

No one tastes locally grown produce and thinks, "this is OK, but I really prefer the flavor of the produce that's genetically engineered to not bruise as easily in shipping."
Technically it uses hash chains which blockchains are based on, so it is tangentially related. But IPFS is basically just Git (also using hash chains) with networking addons, no concensus algorithm (none needed).
CCC was what I used back in the day (IIRC it used to be free) to make the most reliable bit-for-bit backups of OS X machines. Time Machine skipping over so many files is kind of a nuisance to me.
In the past year since El Capitan I have had essentially zero major issues with the software. I feel that most of the time programmers tend to overstate the bugginess of Apple software - most users I know have a consistently smooth experience.
You are well into UB land. The behaviour you describe is very dangerous as the signal handler will be accessing the mutex protected data structure while it is in a potentially inconsistent state.

The right, portable way to signal from a signal handler are POSIX semaphores that on glibc are a thin wrapper over futexes. Any data structure access must be non blocking.

Edit: autocorrect
Follow up noob question: Do they buy all stock in public hands or just a part? How do they decide he is obligated to sell ?
Interesting. Got any details on that?
HFS+ didn't lose any files, his hard drive did. He wouldn't necessarily be able to get them back with filesystem-level checksum either, but he would know they're gone faster.

BTW, disk images already provide checksumming, and so does authenticated encryption.
It was featured in Platforms State of the Union... which is the "real" keynote targeted at developers.

You will be able to see it here shortly:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/102/
You still have to comply with apple pay guidelines.

If you are selling physical goods then you can use apple pay. If you were already in the app store, you would have already been using credit cards (and probably apple pay) to process payments instead of in-app purchases.

If your hybrid app is currently using in-app purchases, then you should still be using in-app purchases.
TitanDB is dead in the water. They have been unresponsive since getting acquired by Datastax, it looks like the team is now working on their commercial offering. Everyone I know is looking for alternatives.
It could be handled as a civil suit. The nine employees would likely get a lot more than $350k.
Right now I have somewhat more faith in PHB's mathematical mesh:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-mesh-developer...
> Apples targets the premium segment of the market. Who are less likely to have such limitations.

I frequently tether my MacBook Air to my phone's data connection, which is limited to 1.5GB a month (on an overage rate of 20c/MB). It would be nice if I could permanently designate my phone as a throttled connection and expect the OS and apps to respect that (even so far as having, say, Chrome limit the amount of images and Javascript it downloads from sites).
Is this INCarDefrosterResolutionResult class a leak from Apple?
This is based on the premise that we have a democracy in the first place. There nothing really to endanger here.
> However, it isn't really realistic to do re-counts right now, nor do people do them regularly.

Australia uses paper ballots, and every election there's a seat or two somewhere that there's a recount. The major parties get their volunteers[0] to scrutinise the officials as they count as well, so you have multiple opposing interests scrutinising the actual count. Every vote basically gets at least three pairs of eyeballs on it. The officials and the watchers observe the ballot boxes all the way from the booths to the counting areas. It's difficult to come up with a more robust way of doing an actual public election, though there are some minor drawbacks.

And as far as I'm aware, this system is actually cheaper (per capita) than the US electronic systems. I imagine the 'low tech' nature is where a lot of savings happen - little need for technical skills.

[0]'Scrutineering' is boring as hell, but parties already lean heavily on their volunteers, what's one more thing?
Andrew Appel (CS Prof. at Princeton) gave a very good talk about the problems of voting systems and why internet voting is a terrible idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM

The secret ballot with counting observed by all parties is a technology that evolved out of necessity over hundreds of years. Adding more technology adds complexity which is the same as adding more attack surface.
That's why it seems more likely (to me) to be tech sector than finance. Nobody in finance would make this kind of move. A LinkedIn or Microsoft employee might.
Update: Please upvote this for future readers.

Thank you to all who commented. The general advice of get a lawyer is absolutely correct, I had not considered the potential backlash this could have on me if my name is associated with their illegal practices.

Calls to 'name and shame, while cathartic, probably aren't going to be very useful. There isn't a database of bad actors that has any reputability, and the legal consequences may be dire.

I'm just about scraping by without wages, so the ideal course of action seems to be to try and get a cheap/free initial consultation from an appropriate lawyer before deciding on what to say to the unemployment services. I think, however, getting a new job pronto would be a better use of my time, though both may be possible. Luckily, I have no dependants so the mistake is mine.

I don't expect to see any wages from this company, the CEO appears to be living in another world to the point of giving me more work to do after bluntly being told I couldn't make rent this month, and I'd borrowed to make last month's. As many have said, never work for free, never work without a contract in place (or cash in your hand). Why assume other people's risks when there's information asymmetry?

With respect to the code, IP suits are probably the most painful type of suit, so I'll hold off on pursuing them unless they happen to hit it big. And if they don't, there's nothing to claim for anyway.

I'm not happy about the prospect of ruining the equity of my co-workers, worthless as it may be, so unless I'm really having a hard time getting another job, I won't apply for unemployment benefit. Painful as it is to continue to suffer a loss for this, I think the relatively small amount might be worth avoiding the fallout.

For those requesting the country, as this has quietened down a little I can tell you it's Ireland. The laws on employee/contractor and IP assignment are relatively clear here, but, obviously, a lawyer is required.

I have been taken for a fool, please learn from my mistakes.
I look forward to the inevitable HN 'What is this thing?' post in ten years when somebody implements this in a one-off system then leaves the company. "Here is a recording of the two devices talking, one in the left channel and the other in the right. Can we figure out what they're saying?"
So the system Siri is only accessible for a few very specific app use cases. What a dissapointment
"two wrongs don't make a right"
Sounds like a casino alright
Also the SE
Not to be rude but it seems like you're in need of a reality check:

Who the fuck cares?
Here, though not available just yet:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/102/

Via the index for WWDC 2016 videos:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc2016/
Should be $350,000,000, no doubt.
Yet, if you had invested in bitcoin 5 years ago you would have outperformed Berkshire Hathaway's lifetime performance. In my opinion if you are young, it makes sense to make these kind of bets, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you are misinformed. Cryptocurrencies are certainly onto something, and it's still not clear which one(s) is(are) going to win, so by buying them you are not only making an investment but also voting with your money. I do believe that the DAO will crash and burn, but the truth is that among the people that bought DAO tokens, I don't know anybody that invested a significant amount of their savings. Furthermore most of the people used the Ether they bought at 100th the current price when it first launched. Last but not least, as an economist, the DAO is a fascinating experiment, but I do hope that nobody loses their life savings because of it, which brings me back to your initial comment that raises a good point.
I don't see anything about drop shipping on that page. I'd also have guessed that any past restrictions would have been on the drop shipper not the companies using drop shippers, but that's just an uninformed guess.
I don't have a definitive answer for you, but you can kind of back into a rough approximation (someone please correct my math if I went astray).

High-efficiency solar cells are about 20% efficient across the daylight spectrum.

For some reason, no one gives hard stats on how much energy LEDs waste as heat, but the claims are that incandescents waste about 90% of energy input as heat, and LEDs are about 80% more efficient than that. So let's say LEDs convert about 80% of input power into light at their operating wavelengths as a guess.

So if we put these together, we'll get about 16% of the input daylight back out as light at the wavelengths we want.

According to wikipedia [1], about 47% of light that falls on chlorophyll is wasted because it falls outside the ideal range for plants (400-700nm). Another 3% or so is lost due to wavelength conversion. The rest we can't really do anything about because it has to do with biological limitations. Put another way, our total system has to be about 50% efficient to be better than just putting the plants in the sun. As you can see, we're not even close. In fact, it's not even possible since the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar panels is only about 34% [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...
Thanks for those (other comments) - it seems obvious in retrospect. As someone whose vote cannot be bought these things don't occur to me. :-)
There are electronic means if you're a crypto-nerd, but for the general public, paper ballots suit. You know your vote is marked to your preference when you put it in the box, and no-one can make you prove it one way or the other. You should also be able to stick around (or get someone to stick around for you) and confirm that the box you used is included in the counting, should you desire to.
Watch Dario Argento's films - Profundo Rosso, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebrae. Those should all be quite easy to get hold of. Then start in on this list... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giallo

Suspiria in particular sticks in the mind. Great music, saturated colours, properly horrific horror. It's a bit more 'on-screen' than BSS, btw.
Sorry if that wasn't clear, but I absolutely agree you should use a distributed revocation list. As each request comes in, you need to check the list. But you do need to check the list, and you do need to distribute it widely.

Depending on your situation, managing a revocation list in memory at each edge node might be feasible, reducing the overhead of a network call to a per-cluster store, which is another advantage of using a short revocation list instead of a large session store that can't feasibly be shared like that.

(Edit: looking back at my comment, I shouldn't have said a "shared" revocation list, but a distributed one. Whoops!)
GNOME's plan to discourage portable Gtk apps
I've got a 2013 15" rMBP. I'm jonesing for an upgrade (I really want Force Touch and the new Butterfly keyboard), but there is literally nothing comparable on the market. The current rMBPs pack a lot into 4.5 lbs: almost 100 watt-hour battery, quad-core CPU, 15" high-DPI display. The Thinkpad T560 is a pound heavier with the extended battery. The Dell XPS 15 gets a lot lower battery life with the 4K display. The Surface Book is a lot smaller. HP's laptops tend to have unfathomably small batteries (~50 watt-hours) despite not being that much smaller.

So I can kinda see why Apple is taking its sweet time. Even with an almost 3-year old CPU, the rMBP is extremely competitive.
My guess there are 100s miles between anything that is similar (typos, same words but different order) i.e., you'll be able to figure out from the context which address is correct.
> Yep, the rest of the world has moved on. Olm already provides what Signal protocol did and the app itself is now useless to many.

Olm/Megolm is not Signal Protocol. It is an entirely different protocol that has made different choices, and those choices have received less study and scrutiny. It hasn't been deployed anywhere that I know of. It's fine if you want to explore those choices, but I would caution against calling it the same thing.

> the one major thing LibreSignal wanted and were threatened legal action with if they did

I understand that because we have what you consider to be unpopular opinions, it's easy to believe that we're somehow single-handedly responsible for everything bad in the world. However, you can't just make shit up. Legal action? Could you cite that?

The entirety of our exchange is in the top of that issue. They asked for permission, and I said we'd prefer for them to use their own servers and their own name. The same thing we say to everyone. Many people do set up their own servers for their own products, these people chose not to. We didn't threaten anyone with anything, legal or otherwise.

> 'Open' Whisper aren't open sourcing their server. The voice side is locked up.

https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure-server
https://github.com/whispersystems/pushserver
https://github.com/whispersystems/websocket-resources
https://github.com/whispersystems/dropwizard-simpleauth

By "the voice side," do you mean a TURN server? Plenty of options for you out there. Or are you just more interested in having something to blame us for?

And LibreSignal already doesn't support voice, even with our servers, so your complaint doesn't make much sense.

> Why have Signal Protocol chosen now to open the license up a little? Well, I can't help but wonder if it's because Olm is finally ready, done and merging for public release.

The conspiracy theories never stop. We haven't changed anything, this has been what we said our policy was all along, but people thought that was some kind of conspiracy. Of course, now that we've made it an explicit license term instead, that's also suspicious somehow. Why would anyone ever want to be involved in this community you think we're not appropriately considering?
It's not the money but the abuse they can dish out at you. Even if you get a visa (which is a pain in the neck and a total time sink on it's own), customs can just tell you "You know what? Go f yourself." After you've landed...
You might be, but many people use signed cookie sessions in order to avoid having to check the DB.
There are two common mechanisms for invalidating tokens:

* Store the invalidated tokens in some fast store, in memory store and check that before accepting tokens.

* Have auth tokens be very short lived (e.g., 1 minute) and require the use of a "refresh token" to get a new auth token when it's expired. This is the mechanism used by OAuth 2 (which strangely is never mentioned in the article). The refresh tokens should be random strings stored in a db, and they can be simply deleted on invalidation.
In the clearest case, insider trading laws kick in when you bribe an insider for information.

Acting on something you overhead, hiring a private investigator to see who's having lunch with who, etc, are all fair game; paying for an advantage in the market is not.

It turns out to be way more complicated in practice though. It looks like the SEC just settles things on a case-by-case basis.
I saw one Dasung working, and it was pretty impressive. Refresh rate is good for CLI work. Apparently, eink can get quite quick refreshes, it's just that ebook readers try to save battery.

But it's a bit disappointing Dasung needs drivers, which are quite unstable and only available for OS X & Win 7.
Is Bitcoin supposed to be an investment or a currency?
I had visions of toothpaste and hemorrhoid cream in mind when I composed the riff. Sensible brands, of course.
There's plenty of code in the wild that assumes case-insensitivity since that's been the case since forever.

Backwards compatibility is going to end up trumping whatever ideological purity case sensitivity represents.
I think it's a natural pushback to the over-the-top evangelicalism of the crypto-cultists.
Spotify as well.
Indeed. Apple cables, micro USB cables, even HDMI cables have all failed for me more often than 3.5mm cables. Even my earphones last like 1-2 years, and they get a ton of abuse
"Why would you care what anyone does with their money? It screams vested (but hidden) interest."

You sound like a shill who has a vested interest in people not getting good advice about what to do with their money, honestly.

EDIT to all the downvoters: he's literally attacking people for giving sound financial advice, and claims that giving good (read: likely to not cause people to lose money) advice is inherently biased. I accuse him of being a shill, or at least arguing in bad faith, a second time.
The early investors got in very far UNDER the current "market" value.
Neil Brown published an interesting series about Unix design mistakes a few years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/414618/

The first part of the "Unfixable designs" article is about Unix signals.
I've migrated many Macs using Carbon Copy Cloner. Works fabulously and is a great tool.
care to give an example?

I've worked plenty with HDLs (mainly system verilog) from large ASIC projects to smaller FPGA prototyping projects.
I could guess at a couple ways these new HDLs could possibly address some of the pain points, but it's not clear that's even their purpose.
Which ad hominem attack?
Programmer automates his job, gets fired after 6 years
This is probably 100% about blocking Spotify, and other media companies, directly competing with Apple.

But if they were more specific, it would probably smell like anti-compete lawsuit.
I'd be surprised if the telcos offer everything Twilio offers, but I would expect them to be able to offer the biggest line item for me (SMS) more cheaply.
Even more disappointingly, there is an open W3C standard in progress for payments. Ah well, such is Apple.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they just dropped the number, and kept the name.

"macOS Sierra" and so on.
Apple is bad at cloud syncing. And "cloud" stuff in general, really. That's just not the scale they think on naturally.

Apple has always done "workgroup"-size sharing pretty well, though. See: early AppleTalk; Bonjour; AirPlay; Time Machine with a Time Capsule; etc. (Though I won't include iTunes Home Sharing in that list; it's garbage.)

But, I was surprised to learn, OSX Server.app is actually supposed to be part of that "workgroup-sized solutions" list, too. It's basically "Active Directory Controller - Home Edition"—an actually not-insane thing to use to manage ~3-8 devices for your family. Stick it on a Mac Mini, forward some ports through your router, set up dynamic DNS and a LetsEncrypt cert, and suddenly everyone can consume regular old CalDAV calendars and LDAP contacts. (Plus some cute other things, like putting all your family's devices under Profile Management so you can push an update to them whenever you are about to e.g. change the wi-fi password, instead of having to go around to everything and change it.)
The press understands "apps" and "tabs". The press doesn't understand "filesystem snapshots".

Part of the reason Apple has historically gotten much better press from WWDC than most tech companies do from their big developer events is that they laser-focused their keynote on being Press-digestible and not full of incomprehensible tech terminology that bores non-geeks to tears.

As evidenced by this thread, the people "filesystem snapshots" can be marketed to didn't need it to be mentioned in the keynote to get them talking about it. Hence, using precious keynote time for it would have been a waste of marketing resources.
The macOS users of the past have adopted iOS for its good macOS integration, the iOS users of the current and future will go with macOS for its good iOS integration.

Apple is tying all it's devices strongly together through software and services. This way you have a huge incentive to completely buy into the Apple ecosystem.

This matters far more than something like a new filesystem - a term most Apple customers have never even heard.
I was at 94 base when I left. Started at 90 2 years before that.

Of course if you include stock it was 120ish.
FYI it's fairly easy and cheap to short BTC now if you really believe this.
> Yet, if you had invested in bitcoin 5 years ago you would have outperformed Berkshire Hathaway's lifetime performance.

I have some penny stocks to sell you...
This is the exact right answer to 'it's not what Steve would have done'.

Who cares what Steve would have done? He doesn't, not any more.

Anyone who says this is basically just complaining about something they don't like, and invoking a ghost to back up the argument.
As a special case of this, one might see the mild "coercion" in simply being uncomfortable with going against the grain by voting for something that others strongly dislike.
They, erm, can't do that. Scraping LinkedIn would violate the terms of service.
I would hope they do sue and win a civil suit. Violating FAA regulations by transporting hazardous chemicals improperly, resulting in bodily harm. Sounds like a pretty good case.

The fines should really be higher. Amazon should get hit hard enough to actually care about it.
Isn't this exactly what Enron did? Use some sleight of hand to hide the fact that you're using company assets to speculate on the performance of company assets?

Obviously doing that turned out very poorly for Enron.
I read "4" as a joke about Amazon paying poorly (when compared to Facebook and Google)
Thankyou for posting your story!
I dream of a lightweight e-ink typewriter. Sometimes I want to write without all the distraction of the "normal" devices.
But why couldn't ZFS also take advantage of those opcodes?
Clair the vulnerability database for docker images uses Cayley which is how I found about it, both neat projects and worth a look:

https://github.com/coreos/clair
The point is to avoid all the database updates. So, I would recommend not going that route.

If you need to sign out a user across all logged-in sessions, use a revocation list based on UID, rather than token-id.
No, it doesn't. Think about it harder.