skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a little unfair to car companies no? Dual clutch transmissions are a fairly recent invention by car companies and improved dramatically on previous automatic transmissions.

New engines are much more powerful and efficient than before as well. I'm sure improvements have been made to the suspension like using inner wheel braking for FWD cars although I'll admit I dont know too much about this. And of course the biggest improvement is probably safety..
They do, but they shouldn't. Both MasterCard and VISA explicitly prohibit this practice in their terms.
We don't have a coherent and morally elegant method of defining "earned".
When fish is sliced, cut, and prepared, it's difficult to tell exactly what fish you are being served.

According to the book, here are common substitutes:

* Escolar for white tuna

* Asian catfish, ponga, tilapia, hake for grouper

* Tile fish for grouper/halibut/red snapper

* Tilapia for catfish

* Langostino, which is shrimp or crab for lobster
Governments do in fact regulate posting of notices, including both commercial and political speech, routinely. This includes both forbidding specific types of notices in some instances, and compelling them in others.

As only one of literally millions of examples: http://ij.org/case/gilliland-et-al-v-city-of-dallas/
I'm curious, too. I've sometimes had similar, but vague, thoughts that "introversion" can sometimes be used as a mask for really just being a very unpleasant person.
Facebook backs down from 'napalm girl' censorship and reinstates photo
I feel like many startup founders, including Patrick, build the technology and hope the business will follow...usually with an unsuccessful outcome.

He's great at marketing. He should have spent a year building a network of employers with lower-tech solutions and then expanded it out with starfighter.

I've been following Patrick since the BoS days and all of his products have been pretty low profit. Enough to support himself only (some, not even this much) (I'm not including consulting, only products or services)

Money is the lifeblood of all companies and you will need it to truly change the world.
The Mac App Store still has v5 only.
On Interface Complexity vs. Implementation Complexity
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/credit-cards-ma...

>One of the most often cited studies is one conducted by Dun & Bradstreet, where the company found that people spend 12-18% more when using credit cards instead of cash. McDonald’s reports its average ticket is $7 when people use credit cards versus $4.50 for cash.

>Those who were told they would have to pay by credit card were willing to pay more than twice as much on average as those who were told that they would have to pay by cash.
Uh, nope. You've just ensured Dropbox will never be installed again on any of my machines or devices. Ever. You fuck up like this, you never earn that trust back.
So everyone gets a text-to-speech victim, listens to the conversation, but at gun point writes down something and makes their victim actually say it. Nobody talking on the phones is part of the conspiracy.
Me too. Granted our team is tiny, but Clubhouse is quite snappy. And built on Clojure!
It's an interesting paper, but I really worry that headlines like this veer into mysticism. The TL;DR is that if we want to understand why neural networks are so effective, we need to remember that the sets they've been trained to understand follow a small number of physical laws, as opposed to just focusing on the abstract math of how NNs work.

That's an interesting perspective (both authors are physicists, without much experience in NNs per se, although Max Tegmark has long been philosophizing about the future of AI) but it's not as if neural networks have a particularly magical key to "the nature of the universe." Original headline said the link is "extraordinary," when the link is just that... NNs exist in reality.
I realize this is common practice in walled gardens and just to get a link preview. However the amount of data gathered about me as (through slack) authenticated user (with a paid subscription) is staggering. I think in case of Slack (compared to facebook and linkedin) it's specially intrusive because people get asked to join slack to collaborate in organisational settings. They don't have much of a choice unless they subscribe to the privacy policy of the tools their employers chose. In this setting you won't register as an anon pseudonyme but your real name. When I sent a link in a private direct message on slack that has never been sent out to the internet 3 mins later I got a slackbot visiting. My conclusion is: The data they create has massive value and must be part of the reason why they're swimming in VC money. As a user this is disappointing because I'm the product (even I'm paying). SaaS and Cloud businesses are becoming a pest to society IMO.
I mentioned this briefly in the article, but we thought about doing something with Lambda + API Gateway. But doing the math, 5k RPS pushed through API Gateway is about $1500 daily just to authenticate.
Yes, thank you.

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Thank you for that piece of information. I did not know that it was called that. Very interesting.
Your post further up in the thread:

> Calling BO a backdoor is a major corruption of the word, as you loose the only word for describing intentionally weakened security - so that you may describe a thing which already has several more explicitly defining names: malware, trojan, dropper, etc.

Thinking in that context, it sounded like you were arguing further for the fact that backdoors should only be describing intentionally weakened security. Have you changed your mind about that?
Invention by a British student could save millions of lives across the world
Those expensive buses aren't cheap.
I guess if you imagine a person walking from the beginning of the text to the end, their front (the side with the face on it) would face the end of the text.

But English never conceives of text in this manner; we view text as being arranged in a chronological order, where text that occurs chronologically earlier comes "before" text that occurs chronologically later. This mirrors the application of "before" and "after" to time in the rest of the language. Whether you conceive of reading as the reader traveling through text from the beginning to the end, or as text arriving at the reader, the reader will always encounter text on the left before text on the right, and therefore the text on the left is in front of the text on the right.

(In the only other language I'm qualified to talk about this for, mandarin chinese, earlier and later time might be indicated by either of two spatial metaphors: "up" for the past and "down" for the future ["up" is also used as a metaphor for beginning things]; or "front" for earlier and "back" for later. When text is read from left to right, "front" is used to indicate text on the left.)

Here ( http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm ) is someone writing about the ancient Egyptian writing system, inadvertently assuming that the front of text is its beginning and the back of text is its end:

> Note that Egyptian glyphs have a front and a back. All the images above and below face to the left, [...] which indicates that the text is to be read from left to right. This is conformable with the usage of English and other European languages. However, although this would be familiar and agreeable to the Egyptians, Egyptian usage was ordinarily to write from right to left, as today is done in Hebrew and Arabic. They indicated this direction by having all the glyphs face to the right instead of to the left

(Egyptian glyphs often depict a person or an animal with an actual face. They face towards the beginning of the text, not the end.)

You seem to speak English at a fully native level, based on your writeup here. (Although you don't seem to have picked up on the idea that if a quantifier "precedes" a '?', it must be "in front" of that '?'.) Do you have another native language? Are you based in a country that primarily speaks some other language? What is the metaphor that determines that later words are "in front" of earlier words?
> Yet only one-thousandth of 1 percent of imports are inspected for fraud.

Yes, and? That's how statistical analysis works. You don't sample every single member of the population, as it would be infeasibly expensive. You can get almost as good results for a small fraction of the cost (through random sampling).
So the poster child for this might be David D. Friedman.

First of all, he uses this as a thought experiment and a sort of alternate method of constructing a model.

Second, it sort of assumes a frictionless universe in which there is much weaker national/tribal/city-state affiliation.

It's a good thing to know about, but I'm skeptical that actual humans as they currently are can handle it.
Yes, upon further research I see that you are correct. Thanks for the info.
Per the original article, even root doesn't automatically have permission to modify the system.preferences.accessibility list.
The outbound sourcing work is the worst part without doubt, but the game took care of that for you. That, and the fact that it was backed by people with good industry names, was the beauty of Starfighter. I told Patrick that you already had the two hardest parts covered - engaging with qualified candidates and establishing credibility.

You also had cred with the hiring folks, so that was taken care of as well - hiring clients were going to be easy to identify without much effort.

The hard part would be scaling it to some degree - Patrick and you/Erin wouldn't be able to talk to every candidate if you were going to make serious $, and then you'd have to hire actual recruiters (who are wildly unpopular), and then you're starting to approach the problem of being like everyone else (other than the game) if the recruiters behave like...recruiters.

If you ever want to discuss recruiting stuff, I'm easy to find.
"No military" was an actual thing in the United States prior to WWII. See any good bio. of Eisenhower for details
> The two countries that you mentioned, Belgium and Japan, have absolutely horrific history of violent occupation/repression of other ethnic/racial groups, anchored in no small part by racist ideology.

Now imagine that 12% of the population of Belgium is Congolese, or that 12% of Japan is Korean/Chinese. Picture what that would do to the cultural and political dynamics of those countries.

The U.S. is relatively unusual in that its culture and political institutions have had to adapt to integrate a large minority population that, until recently, it viciously oppressed.
I'd disagree. Most jobs are highly solitary with minimal social interaction. Ask a farmer. However, sure, many workspaces don't.

You're missing my point as I'm not talking about degrees but individual class grades. The moment a grade for a class in Nuclear Physics incorporates a group project, that grade no longer accurately reflects that student's understanding of Nuclear Physics but a hybrid of that understanding and the necessary social skills.

A degree can and should represent a wide array of skills from technical to social within a domain. This is accomplished by having classes in a wide array of technical to social skills. A class in Nuclear Physics. A class for Group Presenting. Maybe even a combined course if the coupling of the two is actually important for the degree program.

It's the blending of two topics into a course under the guise of "it's a good life skill" that infuriates me.
That's actually in interesting (and possibly helpuful) ratio... I've often thought I'd rather only have to kill one animal (cow) for ~200 meals than 100 animals (chickens) for the same number of meals...
So all those posts were just to say nothing?
> Um, yeah, that case is so good that they needed a plea bargain

Even with a slam dunk, prosecutors usually prefer a plea bargain. They have limited budgets, trials are expensive, and if you can get a guilty plea with an agreement on an acceptable sentence and get the defendant and a judge to sign off without the time and expense of a trial, that's a big win.

(And, if they were likely to lose at trial, its also a big win for the defendant where they aren't indigent and are paying for the defense out of their own pocket -- a plea deal is cheaper than a trial, and may get them a substantially better outcome in sentencing.)
Musk asks for help solving the “complex” riddle of SpaceX’s rocket explosion
Dropping Down: Go Functions in Assembly Language
I hope never. This is clearly the sort of thing that should be optional--which is exactly why Wordpress has a plugin system.
Yes, last time I tried it, had a variety of conflict issues plus the client had some problems, performance and otherwise. If you're just using it as a backup solution (does it even keep file history?) from a single machine + mobile/web access, it may well work acceptably.
How so? Seafile and SpiderOak both thrive on their excellent Linux support, and Mega also supports Linux with an official client. They are, if not in the top five, at least in the top ten of popular consumer cloud storage solutions.
Reductive and ridiculous. Games frequently have smaller languages (like Lua and Scheme) embedded inside them for scripting purposes. There is no shortage of game mods.
There's nothing wrong with janitors, but the work they do can be done by any dumb monkey with almost no training. That's why the pay is so low for the job: anyone can do it, as long as they can lift trash cans and push a vacuum cleaner.

Plumbers are entirely different. They have to get their hands dirty working on some awful systems, but they actually have to know what they're doing, get specialized training, etc. Soldering a proper joint with copper pipes isn't that easy, and if you screw it up, it'll leak later and cause a lot of property damage. Knowing which pipes and fittings to use where is specialized knowledge. It's not something you can just grab someone off the street and train them to do in 30 minutes. Of course, plumbers also cost a lot too, and the ones who are self-employed (rather than their assistants) generally do pretty well financially.
Corporations are institutions and like all institutions there are legal and social norms which regulate them. In terms of private corporations (for profit) they have only one norm that trumps all others: profit motive. As this is their primary function, with all else being secondary, you should expect them to act in terms of that. All the appeals to Zuckerberg and the board of director's own consciences is not going to work every time. In fact, it's the sloppiest way to deal with this problem. Let's say tomorrow Mark and the BOD agree 100% with the anti-censorship thesis for Facebook, what then? How are they able to override the other shareholders? What happens the shareholders sue Mark and the BOD? Forcing them into court with an injunction to maintain the status quo at Facebook? See where this goes now? Basically, it goes right back to what we have and that's that. You can't just say "Oh screw the shareholders" when our own laws protect them. It's one of the biggest jobs of the SEC which is to suppose to protect shareholders which include you and me who have retirement accounts. Again, institutions are affected by NORMS not individual consciences. I wish it were the case that appealing to the better nature of billionaires would and could change the world but it doesn't because billionaires don't make the final decision it's institutions like governments, courts, AND corporations that do. Don't like how this works? Too bad, it's the real world. We don't live in loose tribes like we did 100k+ years ago. Thus your individualistic expectations don't fit the actual world. Sorry for coming at you with this rant but it annoys me to no end when I see people naively thinking you can overturn a complex system like what we have in institutions by default. You have to work with what things are and not with what we want things to be.
It's not that I don't care about cash back, but I would simply prefer prices in general be 2% cheaper rather than having to claim them via a cash back card.

This type of thing warps price perception and just passes the costs back onto consumers in other ways.
UBI assumes a sort-of Star Trek utopianism whereby production is severely decoupled from labor input.

It depends on whether we're pointed at "replicators" ( or some assemblage reinventing them ) and how far we get there, how fast.

And some who advocate for it are just Levellers.
I think it's only in the past decade or so that it was legally required to refund disputed charges within 10 days, so it could be an older story.

However, lot's of banks make it really easy to overdraw funds when using a debit card. In particular the ordering of transactions can cause you to overdraw (consider charge/refund/charge when a mistake was made; the bank could order it charge/charge/refund and you are now potentially overdrawn despite no day ending with you having a negative balance).

In particular, my past experience with Chase is that they pull crappy stuff like this all the time, nickel-and-dime-you with charges and then act surprised when you close all of your accounts with them.
Over a certain wealth threshold, it takes overambitious or actively destructive portfolio management to not receive more real interest on it than a highly skilled professional can expect to earn in salary for working regular hours.
(including the highly skilled professional that's being paid to manage the money)
How might a government or society have an interest in, say, the content carried by a private radio station? What possible interest might there be?

http://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html
FSF stresses necessity of full user control over Internet-connected devices
And why is that a problem, exactly? In the end aluminum is fungible for aluminum, and the US is getting aluminum from Mexico under NAFTA. Trying to enforce a tariff on element production from a subset of external countries seems sisyphean.
Does this count as raw metal hacking to disrupt the aluminium industry?
How do you build a massively ambitious space game in a post-No Man’s Sky world?
Because there is a good chance that X is going to be less than what either you or the cardiologist already make, but it may be more than what a janitor does make. So the cardiologist and you keep working, and the janitor has an incentive to quit performing a mindless job... and maybe become a cardiologist.
What if Dropbox has an exploit they're unaware of. Someone finds a whole in Dropbox and boom, now they have accessibility access.

Even if you trust the software vendor, security concerns can cascade.
Might as well include

> Meanwhile, setbacks were piling up. Trucks and metal were stolen from the Mexico facility, slowing deliveries, former Aluminicaste employees say. The company failed to obtain Nafta benefits after U.S. authorities concluded that the metal came from China.
> At a company like VW decisions like this are never made at the engineering level.

He was the manager of the entire Diesel department – that’s not "engineering level".

He just happens to be an engineer, too – because VW mostly promotes engineers to managers (even a previous CEO was a housegrown engineer)
I live about 10 minutes from Downtown Detroit.

It's nice. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions I could answer.
As someone who's lived in both spaces(GameDev and Phone UI/UX engine development) there's certainly similarities but there's also some pretty stark differences.

For instance you're given no guarantees for execution time on a phone. That slice of time that Sony/MS takes for their overlay that's mandated to no less than x% of a frame? Doesn't exist on Android/iOS. The OS is welcome to wake up some background process(or another app on Android) and steal away one of your cores.

From a development side you just don't have the same resources to dedicate to performance on phone development that you get in gamedev. Combined with a culture that doesn't value performance as much(hello Java) that's why you see different results. Google/Apple is targeting the guy in his garage who wants to put out something in ~3 months. Rarely do you see the development times that games have and that is where the divergence happens.
Credit score effects your insurance rates (in the majority of states) and your ability to rent an apartment.
> Absolutely not. Government should have no say what a private entity can/can't do in their walled garden.

Your statement is "a priori" false.

We place limits on private businesses all the time over issues relating to discrimination, employment benefits, etc.

An entity that has that much influence over public discourse almost certainly does needed to be overseen.
That's cool. I was afraid it was another method of purifying water.
I'm not saying there's no legal exposure. My point is that no one is going to slip and fall on your website, and leave you on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in personal liability.

If I was building an Internet of Things blender I would incorporate in a heartbeat.
Statins benefits underestimated, review says
Samsung, CPSC Say Galaxy Note 7 Owners Should Stop Using Them
Very small sample sized and dated. However, we shouldn't extrapolate either way whether things have improved, stayed the same, or deteriorated.
Good post. Everyone on HN should remember that even if you are lucky enough to work as an early employee for a startup that got acquired, you shouldn't expect anything. That makes the normal tradeoff that's asked of early startup employees make even less sense than it already made (no sense).

It seems the real way to get a payday is to bootstrap a consultancy, build it up over a few years, and save your money. Eventually, you can transition to a product company if you're still interested in that. This is what Fog Creek, 37Signals, and several other prominent companies did.

You can do stuff your way, on your terms, and make products the way you want without meddling VCs jumping down your throat. You can get paid as quickly as you can get clients and no one will be yelling at you for paying yourself more than $50k or working less than 70 hours per week.

I would implore all the devs currently in the startup rat race in SV to consider this as a reasonable alternative option. The people who get mind-blowingly rich in these transactions are primarily the investors, sometimes the founders, and only exceptionally rarely any of the employees.
> The intent was never to frustrate people or override their choices

When you designed an agent that specifically overrides the user's choice to turn off Accessibility rights for Dropbox, frustrating that attempt, I suspect that was intentional.
Open source Cortex-M3 controller board supports Arduino and FreeRTOS
yeah, but we have an ice cream shop.
I just removed Dropbox. Web client from here on.
This is, of course, totally OT, but D3F4ULT is a pretty sweet nickname. I wish I had thought of that... ;-)
Facebook is also the town square where people are selling the newspapers, Facebook is the streets that newspaper delivery trucks drive down, and Facebook is the sidewalks on which employees at the newspaper walk to work.

There is no public space on the internet, just a network of private residences.

Facebook has positioned itself as the public square. The freedoms of the press, speech and protest are predicated on equal access to these public forums and they clearly do not exist in our current media landscape.
We use OneDrive at work and it works pretty much exactly as well as I recall Dropbox working back when I used it.
> with no expectation (either cultural or legal) that they are made using real fruit or bacon.

I'm sorry, no. If there weren't a cultural expectation that words have these meanings, they wouldn't feel the need to put it on the label. It's a lie.
Just added London, Singapore and Amsterdam to the free offering. Please post any questions/feature requests here.
Milky Way mapper: ways the Gaia spacecraft will change astronomy