skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can walk to a swanky wine bar, and afford drinks rather than drive 45m to one where we just split a glass and grimace at the bill.

I didn't even know the regional differences in drink prices were so pronounced until I was talking on the phone with my cousin a few months ago. I live in Dallas, and she lives in NYC. I was talking about how I was about to go out for drinks with friends, and I ended up mentioning that how most of the bars here have one night a week where wells (and, at some places, U-call-its) are under $3. Her mind was blown. She didn't even know drinks that cheap were a thing anywhere.

That was one more entry in the "why I'll never live in a place like NYC" list.
Yes, that is ideally how it would work. Yes, they have infrastructure which needs paying for, but that infrastructure only exists in the first place so that they can take a cut of the donations.
Yeah, I guess it's time to stump up cash for a proper cert. I actually need about 5 tho...
"For the attacks to work, the cloud hosting the VM must have deduplication enabled so that physical pages are shared between customers."

But the vendor's cloud will not disable sharing pages of physical memory because ____.

This is a great counterpoint to the salesman trying to sell you on "cloud" anything.

Why is it less expensive to use the "cloud"?

One reason is because you do not get your own physical server, including your own RAM.

When the "cloud" buzz began to gain momentum years ago I raised the issue of not knowing who your "neighbors" were on these physical servers that customers are sharing with other customers in datacenters.

As usual, these concerns will just fade into the background... again.
PEGASUS iOS Kernel Vulnerability Explained
Why add features that users don't really care about before features that users do really care about?

There are a minimum set of extended functions that I need from a browser that I'm going to use daily. They are: a speed dial that I can manually organize, a quick javascript switcher and an adblocker. Brave has only one of those.

So I'll stick with Chrome/Chromium on my desktops thank you very much. On mobile, Dolphin Browser gives me 2 out of the 3. So, for a long while I did most of my mobile browsing on an 8 inch Windows tablet with full Chrome. Recently I have been trying out an iPad Pro 9.7 to replace that tablet. It's a better device in every way except for the web browsing which is a second rate experience on iOS.

However, I'm thinking of forking Brave for iOS so that I can make it do whatever I want. It's just a wrapper for WkWebView written in Swift. Shouldn't be too hard to alter for my purposes - I might get started this weekend!
I find it hard to see this as anything other than good old tax-avoidance. There is no other reason for having these kind of structure other than to avoid paying taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

By allowing these kind of structures the Irish government have harmed both the average tax-payer in the Us and Eu.

Kudos to the EC for going after them!

And not very impressive by Ireland and Apple to publicly protest the decision, while not allowing the full report to be published.

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In response, the Danish politician called on Apple and Ireland to allow the release of the confidential ruling so that people could see the detail behind the commission’s arguments.

“If it was up to me, the confidential version would have been published yesterday,” said Ms Vestager.

“I hope that Apple and Ireland will be as open and cooperative as possible in order to let us publish the decision as fast as possible. It is very good for everyone to see our reasoning.”

https://www.ft.com/content/a8b7e363-64ac-394d-9a69-68e65d32e...
look at my profile for a link to my blog where I explain things in detail, it's not finished (I still have to write a post about how I configure i3 and how I start virtualbox more easily) but the pfSense stuff should be ready for public consumption
In which situations is parallel execution used?
Oh, I agree with you and the classification of marijuana is a great example. The government line on that seems totally divorced from reality, even if it is to remain illegal.
> young women are not interested in serious relationships (instead they are interested in having fun, one-night stands, drinking, sex, etc...)

Same with most young men. Your statement is unnecessarily gendered.
> When doing a job for a customer, use that time to resell other people's stuff with an increased price and don't tell the customer about you taking a cut.

You mean, the customer is hiring a service from you but does not expect you to take a cut?
Young women get a lot of offers, they of course have to tell 99% of them that they are not interested - and to avoid hurting the guy's feelings, best to say you are against the whole idea of a relationship.
Their AMA Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/50ax32/we_left_aaa_to...
When Cognitive Bias and Design Meet
Startup Life: How we hacked our way to 500+ subscriptions in less than 24 hours
Sorry you had a bad experience. I work in the Portland office and that hasn't been my experience at all. We have maybe 20-30 people and wide latitude over the projects we work on. Prior to this I had only worked in startups of 15 people or less. This experience has not been all that different for me, except that we're not constrained by resources. Our managers are former startup guys. It's honestly been great for me, to my initial surprise.
Windows 10 Embracing Silicon Innovation
I literally downloaded this for the first time in years the yesterday. This is really sad news.
I suppose a lot of that depends on your ethnic background. I've been to places and been like, "woah I just stepped in to the 1950s." Certainly not everywhere (Chicago comes to mind) are like this, but again Chicago is also a pretty expensive city.
DO relies on KVM which OpenBSD has supported for a good while. If you are interested in something similar - including price-wise - to digital ocean with support for OpenBSD, I encourage you to try https://exoscale.ch
> including performance and battery life

Apple is the only vendor that has a 15" laptop with high-res screen and quad-core processor that gets 8+ hours of battery life. The only laptops with greater battery capacity than the Macbook Pros are the Thinkpads with extended batteries that stick out of the machine.
"the consumers that choose the budget hosting options for critical applications must surely share some of it."

The customers expect the RAM they bought to work correctly. They might have even read papers on ASIC verification where the hardware companies brag about all these techniques they use to prevent recalls like one Intel had. The issue is that the companies stopped doing or reduced verification on specific components to reduce costs. What they bring in on the chips is way more than it takes to do that. So, the reason must be greed driving the profits up a little bit.

This one is the companies' fault. I'd have assigned blame differently if we were talking security of regular, consumer products or even operating systems. Verification of repeating pieces of hardware circuits is an industry-standard practice, though. Except for RAM providers apparently.
Cool writeup. This is part of sklearn, which has a great visualization of how it performs on some different clustering tasks, including comparisons to other algorithms: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_cl...
Commentary here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3112663/software/microsoft-ma...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.documentfo...

AFAIK, it also has an experimental editing mode. Yes, from what I've seen, development on it is slow.
> For each data point, Mean shift defines a window around it and computes the mean of the data point.

This makes no sense. A clearer explanation would go a long way.
New implementation of mass indexer using JSR 352
Startup School Curated Reading List #07 – Social Media Marketing
> We can walk to a swanky wine bar, and afford drinks rather than drive 45m to one

To be fair -- if you live in Iowa, it is much more likely to be the other way round. People drive everywhere in the US countryside and there are no sidewalks or even unpaved foot-paths.

This is not even taking into account the weather.
I can think of only one ETOPS-rated aircraft in recent history that got into trouble due to multiple engine failure. That was flight 38 at Heathrow in 2008, which crashed short of the runway due to ice buildup in the fuel system.[1]

So it's definitely rare. Personally I love 777s--part of the attraction is the monster turbofans. Most long-range models have GE90 engines, which are total beasts. They incidentally have extremely low shutdown rates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38
> modularity is now unattractive for most users.

It's not that modularity has become unattractive, it's that smaller form factors have become more attractive.

A larger form factor is a potential side effect of modularity.

I don't think modularity was ever very attractive in most consumer electronics for the "average joe" who just wants something that does the job they bought it for.
What would you spend for a nice apartment by good transit?
"Obviously, without considering state organizations for what they are — i.e., parasitic organizations"

Well, that's one perspective. People will disagree on this point, and it's useful to know the basic position on which the rest of the article is based.
Java 9 Process API
Don't bite the hand that feeds you and wants to hand you stacks of cash.

"We’re seeing it transformed into something that risks becoming like every other technology park."

That would be...educated population, business growth, tremendous financial gains for existing property owners.

What exactly is he worried about? Traffic?
OpenACC (OpenMP-Like GPU Accelerator)
http://www.openacc.org/
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC

This seems like a god-send for those of us which need somewhat portable code that's parallel. OpenCL is fantastic... if you are writing a new program from scratch, it is very tough (in my experience) to fit the OpenCL paradigm in legacy code.

Does anyone know if any compiler has successfully implemented a 'performant' solution of the specification? Is there any independent analysis of the GCC6 implementation worth reading?
The resurrection of 'Allison Road'
Early one morning I got a fare at a house at the southern edge of Chandler. It was a young family - Man, Woman, Infant. They were going to the airport...

The man said that he'd tried driving for the taxi company, but it didn't work for him. I had various other passengers who'd also tried their hand at taxi driving, and couldn't make money. The traditional model for running a taxi service involves leasing cabs out for 12 hour shifts. Drivers have to work as much of those 12 hours to maximize their income. The first couple hours pay for the lease. An hour or two pays for gas. The last few hours are when you pay yourself.

This passenger had started driving for the Venture Capitalists' "not-a-taxi" business, and he thought it was great. The venture capitalists' business taps into the vast hoards of people who aren't good employee material, and those who want to supplement their income. But the money wasn't really enough for this passenger - he was working on a way to increase his income. After expenses, driving for the venture capitalists is the same as driving for the taxi company: they're both low-skill minimum-wage jobs.

It was a very nice neighborhood... I imagined that this family had support from their parents to be able to live there.

When I was talking to my ex-wife yesterday, she pointed out that I value freedom more than anything else. This is why I was drawn to taxi driving, and why I stuck with it for so long. The taxi company had their dress code, and standards. They didn't care what I did with their taxi, as long as I paid them at the end of the shift. I could have found a regular JOB, but I enjoyed the adventure of going new places every day, and meeting new people every day, and occasionally being sent to help someone who needed more than just a ride.

JOB is a backronym that stands for "Just Over Broke". My income from taxi driving was enough to finance my entrepreneurial ambitions.

The only "real job" I've had was working for Amazon [1]. I worked at a summer camp when I was 12 or 13. After I graduated from teh college with a "B.S." Computer Science degree (it is an expensive piece of paper that hangs on my father's wall), I worked at various family-owned businesses, and helped take care of my grandparents...

I am not well-suited to being an employee. Now that I don't drive around in the taxi anymore, I'm thinking about applying for the IT department at the local hospital... Recently I went to visit a friend in the ER, and this fellow was swapping out a scanner, so I struck up a conversation... It'd be a temporary gig.

[1] http://www.taxiwars.org/humanitys-second-best-hope/
Europe's hottest startups 2016: Helsinki
(2010)
Indiana county incarcerates more people than SF and Durham combined. Why?
Great post and I actually agree with you on the "divorce is too easy" point - I don't think there is anything wrong with it being easy to divorce, however I think the real issue is that men get the short end of the stick. Internet gave us transparency and we know it. Men stopped marrying, so the government decided to treat live in arrangements as marriage in an attempt to catch-up. Hilarious if it wasn't so absurd.

As for "not interested in serious relationships" I think the posters anecdotes are valid and there is no misogyny on his part. If anything - I'd recommend the OP to embrace the new normal and not stress about it.
There's no obligation to reduce costs, but there might be the opportunity to do so.

If Hanjin's ships go at fire-sale prices (no idea), and if financing costs are a major component of operating costs (no idea), then you raise the possibility of a carrier with a reduced set of operating costs (lower debt obligations) competing in what's already a very soft shipping market (I've just posted HARPEX, the freight shipping index analog of BDI, and that it happens is pretty poor).

In a market where capturing more marketshare means higher net cash and profit, there's a benefit to underbidding competitors. If you can strategically underbid another low-margin, high-cost shipping company, and/or crowd in specifically on their markets, you could capture yet more of the market.

This isn't entirely unlike the game J.D. Rockefeller played in consolidating the oil extraction and refining business in the 1870s and 1880s, with significant collusion via railroads, to whom his Standard Oil was often a largest single customer.

The question is whether you're playing the game for profit or power.
A couple of marketplaces, e.g. https://flippa.com/. Make sure that you have - ideally written - agreement to sell from any cofounders and maybe team members. The might later claim to own the rights of the domain or a logo or even code. Right now they might claim they don't care, that can change when money is involved.
Don't forget birds! They have the first known wing-warping design. :)
I really don't understand how that works. You can't (reasonably) sell the siding and plumbing in your house for groceries and medical bills... So how do people use their house for retirement (you know besides not paying rent or mortgage)?
Ever heard of charity?
This article is highly subjective: "Since the 2009 crisis, Ireland has systematically been designated as the official scapegoat of every politician, witch-hunter, and other demagogue trying to avoid any discussion about the real problem: the explosion of unproductive and anti-competitive government expenditures."
Good. It's pointless to disinfect and reinfect your hands so many times in a day. Soap should be used to make lipids and other grime water-soluble. That's it.

If you need to sterilize your hands, then you should use a separate product dedicated to that because chances are you are a doctor.

Not sterilizing your hands all the time is actually good (in most cases) because it allows your body to sample the latest and greatest baddies and keep immunity up-to-date.
Airlines are ill-equipped to handle sexual assault accusations on their planes
Is there any reason why these companies would include a seemingly ineffective element into their product other than being able to say "antibacterial" on the label? It couldn't possibly have been CHEAPER to add them to soaps when it became the new meta, so it'd be interesting if marketing was the sole reason for it.
If Ireland leaves EU then Ireland is no longer interesting for Apple (and other tech companies).

Ireland is an entry to the full EU market. Ireland itself is a very small market compared to EU.
Maybe he's (rightfully) worried about housing prices. He doesn't really have a problem with cash-flow, he does have a problem with an insanely bubbled housing market that collapses the moment the tech bubble does
Telegraph 1.0.0 has been released
A nice idea, and I want to agree with it. Unfortunately, teachers and firefighters are employed by the state, which means they're not going to go out of business if they're out-competed by superior workers. So there's no incentive to pay more to get better workers, they can just pay the minimum necessary to employ almost anyone to do the job.
Milton Friedman has some interesting points about welfare programs and how they interact with immigration. Particulary, that you can have massive unchecked immigration, or extensive welfare programs, but the two don't interact well.

The NHS is probably a good example. The UK has historically had low to moderate rates in immigration and the NHS. The US has had a ton of immigration, but no NHS. It seems like half of the country wants to have unchecked immigration and extensive welfare programs, but the consequences of that kind of policy will quickly become bankrupting.

I would imagine that vocal minority would be fine with a single-payer system. Again, look at what happens to pricing when the government is your sole customer. And given the influence they can wield, it would be a bonanza for them.
The thing is that young men gravitating toward that, always has been the case, and they change their behaviour when they want a wife.

But now, they have no incentive to change that behaviour, in fact, the whole point of the article is talking about such behaviour, thus why I don't mention it explicitly on my comment, my whole comment is about why they keep that behaviour, thus mentioning it again would be redundant.
I still have my 3.3 discs and the 4.x discs with the wall of documentation. I'm tempted to install it again, if for nothing else to get at some very old e-mail I sent.

I think some of the "dated" is that it wasn't very high resolution, or put another way, it really didn't get to evolve into the high resolution / anti-aliased world we live in today. I've seen multiple attempts at redoing the icons in a modern setting and many of them look great. I particularly like the old folders. The menus suffer from the same problem, but more from a modern font choice scenario.

For me, OS X stripped a lot of the NeXT goodness to appease Mac lovers. I'm just not a fan of a UI designed for a 9" screen that really should have a better menu system. Recently, I've seen some 3rd party software that simulates part of the old NeXTSTEP menu system. Sadly, it doesn't seem to do the tear-offs.

I guess OS X is loads better than Windows, but it sure isn't my favorite. My two big "not working" projects are an agent oriented programing language and some form of modernized NeXTSTEP UI on OpenBSD. Sadly, more likely to do the former rather than the later.
> Among many other problems, DNSSEC+DANE permanently concedes .COM, .NET, .ORG, .CO.UK, and .IO to the FVEY Intelligence Community

That's not new; it just makes plain what has always been the case. Better to have it out in the open, IMO.

The legacy non-CC TLDs (.COM, .NET, etc.) are essentially US territory for historical reasons -- .COM should really be ".CO.US" but the latter will probably never catch on, and the ship has sailed at this point -- and anything under .UK is the UK's, obviously. If you don't want your DNS controlled by a FVEYs country, probably best not to use a TLD that's under one of those countries' control.

Setting up something in .COM that's likely to be objectionable to the US government is as unwise as setting up something that the Chinese government is going to find objectionable in .CN DNS space.

The idea that the Internet would ever somehow transcend nations, when it relies on infrastructure that lives in the physical world which is dominated by nation-states, was a naive piece of 1990s idealism. The fact that the Internet lets you basically choose your jurisdiction is a great thing, and shouldn't be undervalued. I don't think there has ever been a time when a person in the US could so easily set up a publication that's protected under the laws of (say) Finland, or Russia. (Of course, they do so at their own personal peril, if they live in the US; again, there's no escaping nations, just choosing between them or hiding.)

I am not totally sold on the DNSSEC+DANE concept, but the fact that it admits reality as it exists on the ground, which is that the Internet exists of and in the world and not above it, does not strike me as a particularly compelling criticism.
I'd rather keep my 30 days per year holiday and 35 hour work week to be honest.
Inspiring a global conversation on wine and sustainability
Naming things and off by one errors
GitLab backend lead here, and the guy who developed that feature :)

What you're describing is indeed a departure from previous behavior, but I think it is a change for the better, even if it may take a little bit of getting used to. You're not the only one who was surprised by it though, and it's being discussed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21406 I've laid out my thoughts in a comment there.

Feel free to chime in; as always, we'd love to hear your input!
One other benefit that Ireland offers than just a low tax rate is more 'pliable' business laws, in that say you are an American company trying to set up a subsidiary in the Euro zone. You can read up in length on either French, Germany or Italian corporate law to best figure out how to do business there, or 'simply' set up in Ireland where laws on purpose have been made to emulate american corporate structures, positions, titles, etc, and yet benefit from free trade and pan-european laws and standards provided by the EU.
For each data point, Mean shift defines a window around it and computes the mean of the data points within the window.

Better?
the parts people are taking issue with are the ridiculous generalizations that young women aren't interested in serious relationships, etc. the parent comment's perspective comes off as judgemental and paternalistic, especially "I don't like one night stands and whatnot, and don't go to bars or clubs" okay? i have a hard time believing that no women in brazil want a stable relationship and a family.

it's also possible to go out to clubs, have one night stands, and want a stable relationship and family too!! imagine that.
Yes, the thesis of this seems to be "tax is bad, tax competition will lead to a race to the bottom, so tax competition is good". Which is fine, but I was hoping for an argument that didn't rely on those assumptions.
There's not much smoke even. The red button channels are normal channels at 600 and 601. If the red button is broken you can switch to them directly. And switching directly is usually quicker than navigating the red button nonsense.
Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor
That's exactly my point of view on the matter.
Hire a graphic designer.
The blog post is dated September 2, 2016, and it claims:

> Today Chrome's stable channel was updated with a new HTTPS UI.

But I remember noticing these changes at least a week ago if not longer. The Chrome Stable channel link he used supports me in this as it's dated July 20, 2016.