skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bigger issue in my mind is revocation and separation of identities. I only have one set of fingerprints. What's more, I may not want my biological identity connected to online identities. It would be like having to give every website your SSN/National ID to identify yourself rather than merely a unique ID. You are giving out a huge amount of info with your fingerprint.

Now some of the above issues aren't specifically in play with this particular app: It's locally owned/controlled hardware only. Also, as you say most of us aren't international spies (though I do find that getting a bit close to 'I have nothing to hide').
How do you know he hasn't used them?
In our experience the vast majority of the money into the system is from arbitrageurs. We've been fighting these guys for a long time.

Here's a better solution, now in private beta: http://pubsub.publir.com/
With PyCharm and most Jetbrains IDEs I can remap keys to run test. So pressing two or three keys will run tests AND!!! I don't have to look at my keyboard to run the tests NOR see the results.
A small personal training only gym with mostly free weights (dumbbell, Olympic bar, kettle bells) and a small number of machines.
Coming from Linux I HATE how updates require a reboot on Windows. I got into the habit of just powering off all the time with Windows now that I have a SSD. It seriously is a 10 second boot and I never have these reboot issues.
Apple has for a very long time been a marketing and branding innovator. Jobs recognized something important: branding and marketing matters more than technology, but the technology has to be good enough to support the branding and marketing efforts. So he took the company in a direction that was quite clever: wait until the tech was good enough to wrap in a marketable package, then blitz the market with it suggesting they'd been the technology driver the entire time.

It has worked fabulously. Just look at the number of people who think Apple innovated computing at any level: from portable music to smart phones to displays and on and on. These days you're a "tech geek" if you have a couple of Apple devices in your kit. This phenomenon has almost nothing to do with innovation in technology but quite a lot with their marketing efforts to present themselves as fashionable technology innovators.

In the last 20 years or so there aren't very many technologies Apple has actually innovated on that didn't already exist in some form or another, just without the Apple Marketing Magic behind it.
France sold Argentina the planes used to launch the missiles
This, yes. And other things.
I suspect a lot of people have come to take USB for granted, forgetting about the mess it resolved. (Or, they weren't around at the time)
From here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=267637
it's just that his tier in Azure is not dimensioned for such load, and Azure blocked it
Because no matter how many times you redesign the UI it doesn't help if the core social mechanic is either broken or reached its local maximum.

Not every product scales to a billion, even in its most refined form.
> Is there a site we can legally use to register that bet? I'd be interested in taking it.

http://longbets.org. Also the site Warren Buffet used to bet that he could beat hedge funds with the S&P 500.
Why does it matter?

English isn't a programming language; it's OK if some of the things expressed commonly by natural language speakers aren't perfectly regular or logical, as long as everyone understands them. In this case, "PAM module" is totally understandable, and less ambiguous than just "PAM".
Nope, it's Azure all right. See -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql...

The error page points you to this URL.
regret not learning how to play a musical instrument.
So what? Its not helpful to score points off of what was the 'true' maximum temperature of the planet. Here we are, now, with coastal cities in jeopardy and Antarctica melting. It will affect us, our children and grandchildren (and 100X grandchildren if you are right and it lasts 20,000 years before recovering).

I take no solace in thinking "humans will be long gone". Not if its global catastrophe in the next decades that trigger that.
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"If Apple wants to dominate music industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for songwriters."

Why is this one self obviously stupid? Maybe song writers, and maybe TV and movie writers, are under valued and there really is a huge arbitrage opportunity there?

"If Apple wants to dominate software industry, all it has to do is to create a baseline support for programmers."

Like the App Store? Gave any programmer on Earth a low friction way to access consumers and take payments with very little up front effort. Not a bad baseline, given what existed before.
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Ever starting smoking.
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how many people outside our tech bubble are actually doing these upgrades?

That's true, but I think the point is, the people in the tech bubble are also the people making the apps.

I don't know how you'd go about testing this, but I feel very strongly that part of Apple's recent success has been due to making very developer-friendly computers in the early 2000s. The original iPhone was a joy to program for (once they finally opened it up) because it was based on OS X, which was already pretty great compared to the competition.

If programmers stop buying Macs, because they're just too expensive, too limited and unexpandable, the apps will start drying up and users will start drifting away. Maybe.

It's just hard to see who these new machines are aimed at. I see tons of students using Macs in coffee shops -- but what's happening to the low-end, semi-affordable Airs? Graphics and video professionals love Macs -- but where's an up-to-date Mac Pro, or at least a really beefy MacBook Pro? I'm a mobile app developer, I love my MBP, but if I get a new one I'd also need a ton of adaptors for all the mobile devices I work with.
Ask HN: What is the best Hackintosh laptop for ios app developers?
It doesn't matter if you're comparing "0.001" success to "1" success or "1" success to "1000" success.
Make it autonomous and you get quite nice illegal goods transportation machine.
It's sold with short sleeves.
> Learning how things "actually" work is different than learning how to get things done.

And that's how you get C++ programmers who don't know, what is a linker and what it does. Their IDE presents them a project organized in a tree and when then press "Build project" button, an exe is on the other end.
IoT USB malware test at SIA security conference
I used to regret not finishing my degree, but I'm past that now.

I don't have many regrets but one that sticks out is not taking a team leading position when I was about 30. I am now over 50, happily working in a coding env, but I have no real experience of leadership which I feel is an element sorely missing from my professional experience.

But even that is minor. I feel very glad that I don't have the personal regrets that I've seen many others suffer. They are the most potentially damaging I believe.
Love the comments section ! So classic youtube ..
I was literally just thinking about this. I regret not working harder in school and not taking it more seriously. I was just trying to get through it. Now, as an adult, there's a lot of schooling I wish that I had taken advantage of when I was younger instead of desiring to now as someone struggling to pay all their bills.
I work with 5 TB of data over 3 millions files, half a million of those are media files that need processing. That's a tiny minor internal application, bigger applications have at least 1 order of magnitude more data, 2 order for our flagship products.

The data is best left in the datacenter, moving it even within the datacenter require careful consideration.

There is "that kind" of professional too. My need for memory and speed actually went down over the years since the cloud become more and more practical. As a professional machine the MBP is actually ok, except USB-C is a bit annoying, but just a bit since the world is full of dongle already.

As a personal machine I'm a bit nervous to be stuck for 5-6 years (at least) with only 16GB. However, USB-C each with TB3 is actually quite a future proof move.
Okay, I was assuming a failure in front of the train. If the failure is behind the train, it's still an extremely solvable problem. Blast gates to stop the inflow of new air. Or inject air in front as nickparker suggested. I don't see that this is a legitimate blocker to this technology.
Show HN: Portier, a spiritual successor to Mozilla Persona
Plenty of non-devout or non-religious people in the Chicago suburbs area. Unless you're talking about Wheaton. But even then, there's a few.

Personally I think internet forums had a greater effect on that for me than relocating (I actually moved to the Chicago suburbs about ten years ago).

Definitely agree about the more friends, though. That's a big thing that's making me reluctant to leave, is how many friends I've made here.

The job market here could be a lot better though. Most of the tech jobs are in downtown Chicago, and even then it seems it's mostly in advertising, which I loathe and would rather not work in.
Apple is a publicly traded company after all.
Some are, sure, but those mirrors are actually there so you can check your form.

A CrossFit instructor I know says the best reason to squat is that you will be able to go to the toilet unassisted when you are 80...
Personal regrets:

* Fighting with my parents when I was younger by refusing to learn to speak Polish(felt like it was too much homework and for little gain)

* Not recognizing earlier that my mother wasn't going to live past 42 with stage III / IV colon cancer(granted, I was 16 / 17 and I was kept in the dark)

Career regrets:

* Not trying harder in school. I feel like I should be doing a lot better in life than I am.

Not regrets / silver linings:

* Because of the above though, I learned to appreciate how little time we really have in life, and to really appreciate and love those whom we have in our lives, along with appreciating the value of learning, too.
There seems to have been an inflection point in 2014 at which they stopped shipping product updates.
13“ MacBook Pro Late 2016 Review [MobileTechReview]
What on earth would you want/need 32G or 8 cores for? My laptop is for doing work but that just sounds like an obscene spec unless you're doing 3D rendering on it or something. 16G is plenty, and while I'm not that fussed about thinness per se I wouldn't want my laptop to be any heavier.
It's been about two years since I asked the question, but Apple refused to license the use of OSX under a VM when the enterprise I worked for needed to setup a number of systems for offshore developers to work with.
I think that's covered by connections and money.
I would see it successful if:

1. Just works.

2. Primary mode of operation as a cache for iCloud and all other Apple things. Acting as a router probably and as was said a HomeKit hub.

3. Private cloud as an option.
Why would you not just block them after the second time they did that? That's such an incredibly low bar to cut off that annoyance that I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy.

The same thing happened to me (though with a water company, of all things), and that was my approach. Block on the second like and move on.
Thanks for work you're doing. Hope someday these efforts will be taken by official scala website.
There are no tests that would convince me.
I wouldn't worry about it. 24 is still very young, and many people never make that move. I'm moving to another country for the third time in ten years in a few hours. You'll make friends, build relationships and have a home.
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The underlying idea of promoting content natively while reading other content is a better user experience than other advertising and can democratize smaller publishers (with laser targeted relevancy placement opportunities) and brands reaching consumers in a very engaging and relevant way for consumers.

Whats missing today are two ingredients.

1. better policing of the advertisers/quality and relevancy scores like Gooogle and Facebook have.

2. Relevancy targeting that actually works. If we ever reach a point where the native ads are supplemental content that add to the story you just finished reading, It will be a net positive.

If you are part of the world that believes all advertising is a nuisance and bad, no matter how relevant, than we do live in different universes, if not, than anytime an ad unit fits natively into an experience to the point of removing friction (and not requiring switching context) it will go through growing pains but eventually will be a net win for the user (because actually providing value to users will maximize revenues.)
I regret spending years trying to make others (parents, siblings, others) around me happy & conform to their ideals / wishes, instead of trying to make myself happy.

I regret following their advice getting married to someone I already knew at the time I didn't fully want to get married to, then having kids because that's what everyone else felt was right for me. And I "regret" meeting other people who I know would make me happier, but not knowing how to get out of my present position, without making a ton of people (incl. little people) unhappy in the process...

(and hopefully I'm not going to regret not having posted this under a throwaway account)
Devil's advocate: Maybe they're challenging their own assumptions about the twitter experience?

This is something you often do in game design: Rather than say "pah, that'll never work", you try it out and see what happens.
The future of PCs and Macs is expensive – The Verge
This was written 4 days ago and says Bioshock Infinite sold 4.3 million units, yet the Wikipedia page says it has sold 11 million copies. Where is the disconnect? Seems like a huge discrepancy.

Is "units" normalized to full price or something where "copies" just total games sold even at sale price? That is the only guess I could come up with.
I regret listening to naysayers in my 20s. Whatever your dream or ambition may be, there will be people telling you that you will fail when they have no idea whether you will or not. They just want to stop you from trying it seems.

I wish I could have powered through instead of taking their "advice" to heart.
The host is a white box Haswell system so this is not Apple hardware. Sierra _can_ be virtualized on non-Apple PC but you'll need to use a bootloader that supports it and build a customized .iso[1] from the install medium downloaded from AppStore. I believe the same goes for Yosemite and El Capitan.

So no, it is no longer the case. It is still prohibited by the EULA though.

[1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/master/create_install...
The fact that they decided to make it a default to use your personal bandwidth to serve updates to their other customers shows their attitude. Windows is also 50+GB, which is just ridiculous. No user should have to deal with all the user hostile settings changes cleanup that you have to do.
> Now, the sacrifice I don't understand at all is capping RAM at 16GB.

Apparently, the lack of a higher capacity RAM was due to the performance/energy ratio.

https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/791754757404626944
There is only one legitimate way to criticize climate science, and that is by producing contrary facts. Everything else is noise. There are a limited number of potential facts which could overturn AGW; similarly gravity is considered difficult to disprove. The kind of mental processes which would use speculation about the future to contradict empirical fact seem antithetical to any coherent worldview, let alone a scientific one.
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> I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack, whether that be an Android or iPhone.

I'll take that bet. A decade, so lets say, we bet for $100,000? Is that Ok with you?
Hi y'all! A few of us have been hacking on a scaled-down, spiritual successor to Persona, and we think it’s far enough along to show off and get some validation of the idea / architecture.

The core idea is that you treat this (self-hostable!) microservice like a black box: email address goes in, validated proof of identity comes out. No passwords, and no secrets to store in your application’s database.

Behind the scenes, it works similarly to a password reset or passwordless login workflow, but with progressive enhancement so that, e.g., Gmail users go through Google Sign-In instead of having to check their email. We'd love to know what you think. :)
I also regret buying a house. Double down on the regret for not selling that house before 2007.
One of the primary responses to the 2008 crisis has been to change the regulations around capital requirements for banks and other financial institutions.

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

Note that even though the introduction calls it a voluntary framework, the US and EU have implemented much of it in their regulatory systems.
Ask HN: Resources on describing bugs to engineering teams
I'm currently a PM at a small startup. We have a 20 person engineering team that works in a separate office from the business team (sales, product, etc).

I manage a team of 2 product analysts who help with QA, booking bug tickets, and documenting user stories.

The analysts are fairly new to working with engineers, and are having trouble clearly communicating with them. Specifically, they struggle with booking bug tickets. I find that they don't have an intuitive sense of a few things:

1. How to investigate an issue prior to reporting it to the engineers
2. Which details to include in the description to make things easier on the engineer
3. Which things to EXCLUDE that are confusing or potential red herrings

...etc

My goal is to write up a training doc that will get the stuff out of my head and into theirs. However, I'm sure there are already good resources on this topic. Does anyone have suggestions of where to start?
What's the battery life like on those Pro laptops?

Ideally Apple would release an external graphics card that communicates via TB3 for docked pro use, and then use the discrete Radeon Pro 460 when on the road.
A sensible approach would be to have a master token which is unlocked using your fingerprint and used to generate one-time tokens for identification - perhaps like Apple Pay.
What makes Apple's better? Genuine question; I haven't looked into this at all.
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@konrad As is often the case there's a hint of truth but overall it's misleading. They're not talking about the old-school Win32 games, but rather the new Xbox Live-enabled games which are free-to-play and offer a bunch of premium functionality like tournaments and regular content additions - things most people don't need but some enthusiasts presumably appreciate. You can play it for free with a much, much wider range of games and features than the old 1992 classic.

Updates should never reinstall anything you've removed (including Candy Crush).
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The fact that this post is on the front page is evidence that the most demanding users of laptops, including software developers, feel they are being IGNORED by Apple.

I believe this creates a window of opportunity for other vendors to offer top-of-the-line Linux/Unix-friendly laptops. Many people here, including me, would jump at the chance to buy a high-quality Linux laptop without the MacBook Pro's nonsensical limitations.
It's hard to notice or care about the fortunes of great, big, but faceless companies, and indeed I never paid attention to all these studios getting renamed and shut down. But it's eay to notice a single individual, and in this case Ken Levine has been on my radar since Bioshock as I recognized he was the one turning out video game story after video game story that could actually hold a candle to stories in other mediums.

Thus, I heard about the termination of his studio (or scaling his team back to ~15 people-- whatever) with dismay and utter confusion. As far as I knew, he made successful game after successful game, culminating in his whole team getting canned. So that's why I was interested in the story linked above, truthful that it is or not.
I feel like every time I see somebody with a new phone they're excited about it and want to show it off. And those that don't have a new phone grumble about how they still have to wait another year before they can upgrade.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Like your sibling comment, I also injured my back while deadlifting (with proper form and everything) years ago and it's been very tender and ever since. I also get back cramps in that spot around once a year, making me unable to move for about a day.
I'd guess a lot of Apple's value lies in the trust their customers have for them - you pay a lot for Apple, but in return you know you're not getting a lemon. It would only take a few failures to seriously dent that, whereas a company with a less premium reputation can probably afford to throw a few things at the wall and see what sticks.