skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, so somebody's tracking it in secret, doing the 'antibiotic susceptibilities' tests and logging the results, and the state health dept receives the data, but the info is being kept from the patients' relatives and from the public in general?

This creates two obvious results. 1) suppression of legitimate claims from relatives, and 2) suppression of valid concern and pressure for govt action such as increased research funding.

How is this good?
Short-sighted marketing bullcrap like this is exactly why I got out of the industry. It's an embarrassment.
Unless it is possible for a RDBMS to make that decision instead of relying on the users as we know them to be. Which it is, but just because people are working in the db field without an ounce of introduction to logic is not good enough reason to defend reliance on user discipline.
Reprising a previous comment about this suggestion:

This is one of those ideas that sounds like common sense when you hear or think about it the first time, but falls apart on scrutiny. Ryan Sleevi has done a much better job picking it apart than I can here, but among the numerous problems with it:

* The most important TLDs are transnational, and their trust hierarchies back into corporations (corporations, I will cheerfully and without irony point out, who are subject to the whims of the FVEY IC).

* It's jingoistic, suggesting we should base trust decisions not on technology or even, really, on policy, but rather on nationalism.

* It consigns residents of countries with oppressive governments to total control by their governments, while at the same time making usage constraints based on those TLDs (such as local mandates to use services whose names end in .XX for XX in $bad_countries) much more powerful.

* It further promotes the idea that security should somehow be tied to the DNS, despite the fact that the DNS is itself not transparently managed, and is often managed at odds with the interests of Internet users as a whole.

* By factionalizing Internet trust, it harms interoperability and also makes it harder to introduce further constraints into the certificate system by essentially declaring up front that we're conceding Internet trust policy to individual nations.
* It greatly complicates the security stories of companies that have adopted vanity domain names in random countries, which, whatever you think of those companies (koff! Pinboard), is an unforced error.

Of all the things we can spend time on to improve Internet security, this is not one of the better ones.
Grumble grumble. There are times I'm treated as oncall despite being hourly. Figure that out.
I'm so sorry for your loss, esp. in those uncertain circumstances.
> uncomfortably clear to me that Americans are bad about thinking all white people who speak English and are successful are American.

Don't worry, if you're black you're African-American too.
Now that the merger is complete a purge is inevitable. Whether or not they get rid of the correct employees remains to be seen.
I was under the impression that Nestlé's water mining practices were unethical (among their other practices).
Any particular reason you advocate this product?
The US is about $52K for a household. $40k would probably be enough for a lot of people. That's at 4% return on $1m. Where are people getting that consistently and without too much risk of losing a bunch of that money? Then how to you keep up with inflation?

In my mind I would still risk it at $1m because $40k isn't enough for me to live the kind of lifestyle I would want to live and ensure I could do it until I die.
Solar powered Casio watches are great. They still have a battery though.
My kid's elementary school has recently shelved the iPads in favor of Chromebooks.

Usable keyboard, multiple logins, gDocs collaboration, low replacement cost, etc etc etc.

The fact that the iWorks collaboration was highlighted in an education talk tells me a lot.
The blog entry doesn't mention the impact of that performance regression on Scala 3 (aka Dotty).
We just deployed a change that will show acquired companies too.
The data in that link doesn't show people are bored with it and stopped playing.

Some alternative explanations: many people checked it out and some subset of them never really got into it. Downloads slowing don't digest existing users aren't playing. Nor do fewer searches. It could just mean they have fewer questions about the game.

All the link really shows is that in three categories we've hit peak Pokémon.
I guess what I'm saying is: the companies that are in this situation should hire top-notch developers to solve the problem. But the whole problem is that these companies can't hire top-notch developers because of who they are.
It would be nice if yclist/OP's list added the zombie tag for the ones that aren't officially dead yet.
I wouldn't say the sole purpose of a smartwatch is to deliver notifications. They're just slightly more useful watches, and that's more or less it.

I have an Apple Watch, and while it's not the best product Apple has ever made, I still find the time to put it on every day. I find that it's convenient in a lot of small ways. I also like wearing it through the night and using it as an additional alarm clock.
Interesting choice in stock photos. I'd almost prefer no photos at all (text only post) as opposed to a bunch of tangentially related generic stock photos that pull attention away from the relevant content (text)
We just changed it to show acquired companies too.
Peak Google search for Pokemon Go was back in July. Not sure that's the same thing.
Lightning and proprietary wireless standards are "the future"? Garbage. Apple is segregating the audio market.

If you truly believe in your tech, make it an open standard. The future will not be owned by a single corporation.
Instead of 'chin up', it helps to think of it as extending the crown of the head up to the ceiling.
> I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don't earn a PhD.

I totally agree with this. Also as an anecdote, I really struggled with the decision to pursue a PhD. In the end I decided not to for various reasons. I was never interested in academia, just in certain technology careers that seemed to demand a PhD at the time I was finishing my BS (also I went to a fairly ordinary state school for my BS even though I was accepted to much more prestigious schools figuring I would attend one of those for a graduate degree and avoid some student load debt). Many years later, in hindsight, I am very happy with that decision. I never think about going back in time and making the decision the other way. If anything I expect I would have been less successful by any metric (intellectual or otherwise) had I done so.
>I've yet to hear of a horror story of the kind that people tend to raise in the abstract

First result on Google:

>When Sufiah Yusof was 13 in 1997, she was accepted by Oxford University but left the school in 2001. Although she later returned, she did not earn her degree. It was later found she worked as a prostitute in England before finding employment in the social work field[0]

People in this thread are acting like denying these kids entry to college is denying them the opportunity to learn. I just don't think college is the only way to learn (arguably, it's not even the best way). We have online courses, we have all kinds of resources.

[0]http://study.com/articles/How_Young_is_Too_Young_to_Enroll_i...
"Many educators and parents continue to believe that acceleration is bad for children—that it will hurt them socially, push them out of childhood or create knowledge gaps."

And we still wonder why in the US our children are so stupid? Clearly, they're getting a lot of help in being the dumbest they can be. To hold a child back from their full potential so they can be bullied and made fun of for another year or few is an atrocity that should be criminalized. I can think of few things worse than ruining a child's life in this way. Instead, these people are our children's' teachers, teaching them to be mediocre, stupid, mindless, lazy, underachieving idiots.
C'mon now! The Apple apologists are a big bore here.
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Having artistic credits aka not just being a gofer on several major animated films is a significantly more exclusive club than being a tenured professor at an Ivy League School, or being a lawyer at a major law firm. So, when that's the goal it's a reasonable measure for success.

People can always add an arbitrary benchmark. But, having reached a major and difficult life goal at mid twenty is further than the vast majority of people out there.
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What's Freudian about that? Am I missing it?
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I believe it's the case that until this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12445837

... nobody had clearly explained to you what the specific transaction Trustwave got in trouble for was actually about.

Now you know, so "this will not stand" and "Trustwave stuck its hand in the garbage disposal" shouldn't be germane anymore. Once again: the whole point of those certificates is to sign domains the certificate owner doesn't control. They're sold only to giant corporations with huge amounts of insurance, and they're contractually obligated to ensure they're deployed only on the corporation's own network.

They're also not allowed anymore.
How many units of Apple Watch Edition could have been sold -- I'd imagine it must be less than 10,000? Upgrading that amount of watches to the new motherboard (with the improved SOC) which fits in the same case doesn't seem like a major operation.

IIRC, those watches were sold with a private consultation at an Apple Store... So Apple could be privately inviting those buyers to get their watches upgraded, and it would give Apple an opportunity to connect with these high-spenders again and sell them some more stuff.
$5M is rather low, and 10 launches rather high, for the time being. First-stage reuse would likely cut prices by 33-75% for the first decade; More than that is going to require a significant expansion of the satellite market, which takes time.

The best market prospect for cheap launch is probably the re-advent of LEO communication constellations, which will each require hundreds to thousands of satellites along tens of orbital planes (adding tens of launches to the global manifest per network).
Wired headphones:

- "Just work"

- Never run out of batteries (in less time than a cross-country flight!)

- Have impeccable audio quality (well, not AirPods, but...)

- Can be hung on your neck for a quick conversation

- Are protected from falls by the cord
My hope is they'll actually put some resources into bringing VMWare current, and more open as an option, closer to how they were a few years back. ESXi is still a pretty nice server, but running a local/free version instance has become difficult with a few pitfalls if you do the wrong things somewhere... You're all but stuck with windows-only mgt software instead of a web-management interface.

I'd like to see dell go closer to the Redhat model when it comes to VMWare after this closes out. Which would be a stark contrast to prior efforts. Also of interest would be offering "private cloud" hardware/software options. Would be very cool to have a turn-key solution for self-cloud hosting, and with VMWare's work so far, they might be in a better position to actually integrate docker as a solution than others, despite being different than their prior efforts.
Feeding antibiotics to livestock for faster growth is illegal in Germany, yet we feed around the same amount as the US: http://i.imgur.com/9ybmhwE.jpg
> The DBMS doesn't read your mind before interpreting relations.

The DBMS doesn't interpret relations at all. It performs relational operations on them; humans interpret them (often using other software as a tool to present an interpretation.)

> Most programmers are used to expecting language constructs to mean what a human would mean (“I called my class `Customer`, so of course its instances are customers, right?”), but the formal semantics of the language in question seldom, if ever, justifies this.

Which "language in question". If you mean the DB query language, that's true. OTOH, in a sense, most programming involves creating specialized languages (often layered on top of existing languages) with their own (in the layered case, additional) semantics. In the constructed language of a particular library or database, that the instances of a Customer class or members of a Customer relation are representations of customers is part of the semantics of that language, even if it isn't part of the semantics of the host language.
Diving depth, below that the pressure will force the water into the watch.
> Marketing is by and large about gaming the way people select goods and services, so that you can sell more regardless of the quality of your offerings, or of whether the client actually needs it.

That may be the objective function of the marketer or salesperson, but it doesn't follow that marketing itself is a simple net transfer of wealth from consumers to producers.

> I think bringing up marketing-as-information-dissemination is a red herring, because it's only a small fraction of the whole thing.

The marketer is not paying to move bits to a consumer, the marketer is paying for the consumer's attention, which is much more limited than our ability to move bits around.

Do you have an alternative fair and equitable way of allocating that scarce resource? For example, if we went with your suggestion and restricted marketing to only classifieds and other forms of print advertising, then we would expect the cost of placing ads there to skyrocket as everyone competes for scarce space. Also, the same risks of manipulation and dishonesty apply just as well there:

https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+oil+ad&espv=2&biw=1440...
I bought my off-brand MBA charger from Prime Cables (like Monoprice, but in Canada) and wonder how well they're made. I messaged them on social media linking the last article along these lines but they never responded.
"... activity goals set by the player. During a walk, it registers the distance and calories burned." Interesting - are they transitioning Pokemon GO to a peripheral activity? No longer the primary focus, but simply a side minigame to otherwise analog activities.

Also, the $35 peripheral seems to be too little too late. I can only imagine the piles of money they could have made if the hardware could have been available when EVERYONE was playing playing Pokemon GO.
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Database design IS logic. That's the point of the RDM: to formalize and symbolize semantics such that the DBMS can enforce integrity on and manipulate data, such that logical and semantic correctness is guaranteed. Leave that to users in apps at your peril. We used to do this before the RDM and the whole shabang collapsed. And we're still doing it because practitioners know nothing beyond SQL and coding.
It's a measure of depth. (Source: I watched the live streaming.)
I think the most frustrating part of this problem is how disengaged a lot of developers are from operational work. I don't think it's enough that we figure out who to delegate responsibility to. Both SRE/DevOps and developers should be always working together to avoid outages. There are usually things that make this hard, as described by Susan, but there has got to be a way to get people on the same page.

As an operational person I want you to have feature but I don't want you to break things. Developers want to focus on pushing features instead of getting bogged down fixing the work of yesterday. I don't think it's enough to try to make these things work as the teams exist. I think there needs to be this mentality from the get-go to make things good on both sides. Teams need to be engaging either side throughout the entire engineering process, not just when they think they're ready for the other side.
> Another swath of them are working on getting people to click on ads for Facebook and Google.

Which finances Google's driverless car efforts and an untold other amount of businesses (like gmail). Plus the salaries of thousands of developers and the myriad of other people who work for Google, and the subindustries it supports (bus drivers, chefs, real estate, etc). Just because their specific job isn't world-changing doesn't mean it has no positive effect on the world.

Silicon Valley has benefited greatly from the ad industry which is why the popularity of this type of complaint bothers me.

Same with Goldman. They do contribute to the world by facilitating commerce. Although they likely contribute far less to the world than SV developers since they siphon so much off the top for ultimately marginal longterm ROI. They also ultimately wouldn't make so much money unless they did provide some value to the economy beyond exploitation of byzantine financial systems.
I think Intel backed away from the documentation that implied all signed enclaves had to go through them. I think people can attest their own SGX enclaves.
You'd be shocked that already existed before Apple Watch - made by Garmin.
There are multiple ways that will work. The simplest I can think of is to fix the real part at zero and use i, j, and k to represent deltas along the x, y, and z axes. Then point + translation = point.

There may also be a representation that also encodes distance from the origin, but I am probably confusing this in my memory with something else.
I used it for few months, and then one day I forgot to charge them - then I just didn't bother to charge ever again..

These Apple presentations were fun to watch a few years back... Maybe I just got older.
Do you think we could use the blockchain to facilitate this?
>According to them the issue is that there are lots of people who are "neither employed nor actively looking for work".

I wonder if we're talking past each other. Perhaps robots aren't the top reason for the apparent worldwide decline in labor participation (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS ). But robots have brought economic dislocation, especially in the manufacturing sector. The worry has been out for a long time on whether displaced workers can find other gainful employment in reasonable time (http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/09/art2full.pdf ). Note this is not about getting merely any job, but a job that can bring a satisfying life. As the automation has grown more capable, so has this concern (https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-happens-to-society-when-robots-... ).

Consider the full quote regarding the "neither employed nor actively looking for work"[1]: It critiques the official unemployment rate as shrouding a dysfunctional employment scene. Gallup says: "The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a big lie."

The usnews article also cites other stats on wage gains, shrinking middle class, growing low-income, etc., all to illustrate its main point: "The Pew study considers a widening wealth gap to be driving the wage growth disparity, as more and more workers find themselves at the extremes of the income spectrum. And this gap is generated in part by the unavailability of what Gallup considers to be good jobs."

This pressure for "good jobs" has brought movements such as raising the minimum wage or implementing universal basic income. Invariably this leads to questions on whether the wages for low-skill jobs should ever exceed their apparent economic worth in the name of a "living wage". From there inevitably robots are brought into the picture (limited, gimmicky, or otherwise), if for no other reason than to suggest that low-skill workers may price themselves out of a job.

Putting it all together - robots on top of widening wealth gap on top of shrinking middle class... - well people worry, you know?

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[1] The full quote is: Gallup also is among a host of organizations and individuals to criticize some of the government's statistical methodologies in recent years. The national unemployment rate of 5 percent, for example, doesn't keep track of the more than 94 million Americans who are neither employed nor actively looking for work. And while at least some of those not counted in the labor force are either in school or retired, there's also a sizable portion that simply hasn't actively looked for a job in the last four weeks. People who give up looking for employment altogether aren't actually counted as unemployed, even though they may have been without a job longer and in greater need than anyone who's regularly sending resumes out.
I can't believe that it's coincidence that every person I've ever come across that has been proclaimed a genius at whatever has had this very same sentiment to express.

There was a grain of talent and a moment of inspiration that led to a dogged pursuit of their interest.

People are quick to write it off as "oh, they had talent" or "oh they were a genius", but I'm reasonably confident given the number of amazing people I've met in this industry, everyone (well, everyone that's not an egotist) that's ever had this label attributed to them will attest: The talent comes from the countless hours of work, effort and frustration put into realizing that talent. It's only once we've overcome this effort and frustration and others think we make it look easy that they say "Oh, but you had talent"... sure, but I didn't have any to start with. Now after 10,000 hours of practice, of countless nights of going to bed frustrated that I couldn't understand something or make my fingers work right, of the number of times I played until my fingers and lips bled all in the pursuit of mastering whatever it is I'm trying to master. Only then does everyone see this talent. I don't see talent, all I see is the hard work to get where I am now and how far I still have left to go to consider myself part of the circle I still think are better or more accomplished than me. Any "talent" I may exhibit is the product of the pursuit of my interest.

My talent, my genius if you will is nothing more than this. I am not a genius. I am no more intelligent than has the capacity of any other that has the tenacity to stick with it through the basics and learn the fundamentals and go through the mental and physical pain that I have endured to get here.
V8 doesn't have an interpreter, so it doesn't bail out to one. It certainly bails out to its baseline compiler, though!
There is coming a point in time where every person must have a mark in order to buy or sell. It will be your access and citizen membership to a new global order.

Enjoy your temporary freedom. History has a nasty way of modernizing itself.
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A "complication" is anything on the face of the watch that doesn't directly relate to displaying the time.
Ah, so it would appear. Parked next to an SR-71 when I saw it. Many photos were taken that day. Thanks for the episode tip!
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Wouldn't you need to twist your wrist to see the screen even if the screen was always on?
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> A sword hanging over their head if any evidence arises that the CA has backdated any certificates.

Doesn't that just bring us right back to "too-big-to-fail CA"?
Love the idea and the site!

A couple suggestions:

* Let me create a user account and save cities

* Make cities shareable so I send a link to e.g. my wife for discussion

* I don't mind getting emails with packages that fit my budget and my cities, that can be a great revenue generator

I just shared it with my brother, and we started talking about taking a month-long vacation to one of the cities, perhaps after coordination with my other siblings and parents. Maybe that can be a long-term feature.
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Should probably be "down to 50 meters" then.
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