skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling this is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to have on your Mac. Using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES and attacker could inject code that swizzles -[LAContext evaluatePolicy: localizedReason:reply] to always invoke the callback block with success set to YES. e.g.

DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE=1 DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=evil.dylib my_sudo rekt

This won't work on SIP protected binaries (n.b. system binaries), but might still work on other binaries while SIP is enabled. It's mostly moot however as many developers have SIP disabled.
Why are you getting the battery replaced? Expensive?

Are you noticing range fallling?
Nice but the hiring part is repeating all the wrong ideas our industry already has.

If you're a startup you probably cannot hire great people, you're much too risky and you don't have the money. Most probable it will be the processes and mismanagement that will block value delivery. Get good enough people that will fit well in the team and create an environment in which they can be most effective.
Yes. I think having two or three very close friends whom you see often is vastly preferable to having fifteen or twenty friends you rarely see (the "see often" bit is probably the biggest challenge, especially once you have children).

Conversely, I have found in business that having an endless stream of acquaintances with whom you are on vaguely friendly terms is extremely beneficial.
If you were wondering where "deplorable" came from, look no further than that chat.
State of GraphQL 2016
They covered 238 miles on a trip w/ 34 miles indicated remaining, so if they went ~250 miles total on 60 kW-h that would be equivalent to a ~140 MPG car.
Agreed. This looks pretty nice. They did a good job.

> $30,000. The liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack stores 60.0 kilowatt-hours of energy (equivalent to about 1.8 gallons of gasoline), enough to earn a 238-mile range

Good price too
It's great that it doesn't have upstart appeal. Nobody cares about the latest Subaru at this price point either. EV's need to be boring to succeed. It can't all be Porche-level cars with a price point to match.
Recording and storage tech are unbelievably cheap nowadays. I would suggest finding audio and/or video recording systems to just get the information stored with a minimum of effort (whatever works: recorded conversations, solo dictation, etc).

Absolutely; I think everyone with living parents or grandparents should do this....even if you don't think they have particularly interesting stories to tell. When they're gone, it's too late.

Back in the 80s, as a high school assignment, I (audio) taped an interview with my great-uncle, who had been on the USS Liscome Bay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liscome_Bay_(CVE-56)) when it was torpedoed during WW2. It was an interesting story, and I did well on the assignment, but put the tape in a box and forgot about it for a long, long time.

Some years back, I came across the tape and thought that I should convert it to MP3 while I still had the means. By this time, my great-uncle had been gone for a dozen years, and it was fantastic to hear his voice again. The real bonus was that my great aunt, who had passed twenty years prior, had been inadvertently captured talking on the tape.
Yeah, of course you don't stop global warming by going vegetarian, but having some more lentils and less meat wouldn't hurt either: http://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/EWGGHGLCA.jpg
It would be interesting to get a list of thoughtful people supporting Trump. So far I have:

- Peter Thiel

- Scott Adams

- Nassim Taleb??

Who else?

Most thoughtful people I follow pick against Trump and more or less believe he is a threat to the Republic. I tend to agree with them mainly because of his attitude toward the press (even though I agree they are biased against him) and his proclivity to violent rhetoric.

Edited: formatting

Edit: I also want to clarify the biasedness of media was based on Wikileaks coverage and the [0]social media blackout after the Comey's letter to congress. I acknowledge their coverage of him probably helped him.

Edit: It is possible Taleb does not support DT, there is no direct evidence of this. I added '??' to him. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12838352

[0] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-29/social-media-blacko...
That's not without health risks due to the heat given off by the computer.

http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/danger-having-laptop-lap-1...

Occasional use is no problem at all but if you intend to use a laptop in your lap for extended periods make sure it has a side vent and a back exit or that it uses so little power that it does not get warm.
In a startup now. Worked at a 800 person tech company 4 years ago. All laptops, all wireless (at least on my team -- I'm sure there were people that were plugged in somewhere).

Worked at a much larger tech company 1 year ago. Had a desktop that was plugged in, so there's that. Guess I overstated (though I can't say I actually did plug it in myself). Also had a laptop that I worked on over wireless without problems. There were 5k-10k people in that office.

Still I do almost everything over wireless.
v3 means that if it's used (even over a network) by somebody, they can request the code, versus GPLv2 (Wireshark license), which says if you distribute binaries of Wireshark or software based on it, you must provide the source. The difference is that you could theoretically provide a web interface to a GPLv2 project and not need to supply the source, but if you provide such an interface to GPLv3 software, you could receive a request for the code.

EDIT: I'm not entirely correct There are provisions for the network situation ("ASP (application service provider) loophole") I described, but I looks like it's not necessarily the default mode. See [0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
Indeed. As soon as you're willing to accept something a bit less pretty and slighly clunkier in usability, you can save a huge amount of money over Apple devices.
Yeah I agree. I'm not against the idea of the user staying on the same page to get more content, but for example when you click a tweet on the web to expand it and see replies, I would have designed e.g. a pane that 'slides in' from the right and can be closed by sliding out, rather than the frankly amateurish overlay.

Also compare the way Facebook will let you 'expand in place' when you click see more/show replies/etc. rather than overlay their feed with a popup.
That's not right at all. Exponential is constant^x.

Also you can put "n *" in front of all of them if you want, but multiplying by a constant is usually omitted because it doesn't affect the shape of the graph.
There are plenty of people who dislike the basic sentiment behind many things that Trump has said.
It will, but you'll void your warranty, and it's annoying that Lenovo doesn't offer it themselves – all their notebooks are built to order anyway, so they're actively hurting themselves by artificially constraining their customers.
Yes, this gets to me too. You can fit any sequence of n points with a curve described by a polynomial of n-1 degree. therefore, you need at least 4 points to know that the curve is not cubic, and an infinite number to know that it is exponential (though you can usually surmise as much sooner, because many natural phenomena are exponential or logarithmic).
C++ vs. Python vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Others Performance Benchmark (2016 Q3)
Presumption of non-existence is just as much a presumption as presumption of existence.

One man looks at the universe and thinks, "Someone must have created this, for nothing can exist without having been created." Another man looks at the universe and thinks, "I cannot see who created this, therefore no one did."

Who has the better case? Who has more evidence? Of course, it's a matter of interpretation.

But the same can be said for your assertion about the philosophical burden of proof and claim for an idea. One man claims, "I cannot see who created, therefore there is no creator. If you think someone created it, the burden of proof is upon you." Another man says, "It exists, therefore someone created it. If you think no one created it, the burden of proof is upon you to explain how something can exist without having been created."

Whichever side you take requires making assumptions that lay the burden of proof on the other side. And if one were going to choose a side, I fail to see how the no-creator side is a stronger default position: the fact of the universe's existence is evidence that it was created. To disprove this would require demonstrating how something can exist without having been created.
There is no reason why npm couldn't have a lockfile, for example.
Inventions That Changed Our Lives Only Because of Liberty
It forgot to improve on the 3.5mm jack!

But thank god I have a thinner phone, I was really having issues sliding it under doors.
That's not correct, exponential should, in your example, be n^x, not x^n.
"Apple used to be focused on making their devices better, now they're just focused on making them even thinner" - Some guy on Reddit

I don't claim to know a whole lot about the design of Windows, but what would be the possibility of seeing them become POSIX compatible at some point?
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Why do you feed your expensive headphones with the sub-par audio from an iPhone A/D converter (probably listening to lossy compressed MP3 in the first place)?

As long as you do that, the pain of having a (free) dongle attached to it kind of fades in comparison.
Not everyone is as smart as you. You can either use your advantage to use them for your own gain, completely ignore them, or help them improve their lives. Personally, I choose the latter out of simple altruism.
You need a privacy policy to get users (or subjectively me) to grant read and write access to a user's twitter feed. There's no imprint, no links to a contact and domain is registered with privacy protection enabled. In other words: who are you?
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback, and they're totally valid points.

I think you're right about the web app -- I've already built the "web-app" worldwide preview, meant to tease you into getting the app, but there's no reason that couldn't be a functioning version of the app, similar to how it is now, but with the localisation working as an option if users allow the location request.

I have a few ideas to slightly pivot if this doesn't really work, or take off the way it needs to succeed, and concentrating around the web app for Android users in the mean-time is a great idea.
That's an apology for poor execution, not a mistake as in making the wrong choice.
I'm looking at ~2.5-3x range, more interior space, much better performance, and better handling. Which metrics are you looking at that are merely 'slightly better'? Oh, and which parts bin did GM scrape that 60Kw/230mi drivetrain from?
> Maybe you should stop shopping for cheap, consumer-grade crap and get a real laptop like a Thinkpad or Latitude.

If only that were true. Lenovo products are high priced chunks of thin, flexible plastic.

You're basically comparing 30th floor office space to a freaking warehouse.
It's quadratic. Polynomial would also have been acceptable. But what they meant to say is "superlinear". Like aetherson, this drives me nuts.
Be mindful that it is not hard to lift fingerprints to trick that authentication method.

Most specially, in an office environment it can be done from a mouse, a keyboard, a glass of water, etc.

There are some videos in YouTube showing how it can be done.
In general, I can take libertarians seriously... but not Peter Thiel. The depth of his convictions can be measured in microns. He's the perfect example of the "libertarian" who espouses that philosophy not out of any genuine commitment to its ideals, but just because he wants lower taxes and more leeway for whatever despicable business practices he has in mind.

For instance, he founded a company whose, no joke, entire raison d'être is providing surveillance-as-a-service to increase the power of the State. This is something I wouldn't even do, and I'm what might be derisively called a "big-government liberal".
Is it actually a new system or is it an implementation of an existing one?
Probably depends on what you do. And, I've luckily really never had to repair a laptop. Never drop my phone either, except a tragic drop of a blackberry pearl from 2 feet onto concrete that killed it.

60% or my work is through SSH, 30% writing in outlook, and 10% in various trace analyzers and debuggers. When it came time to upgrade my work laptop, I just asked for the lightest one I could get. A 15" with an extended battery I felt was irritatingly heavy to lug around.

My personal laptop is a 2009 Dell 13". Not very thin, but light.

(Irritatingly enough, outlook is probably more demanding on my laptop than the debuggers and analyzers)
I'm most curious how the Radeon Pro 450 stacks up against the Intel Iris 550.
He's also citing the inclusion of women's right to vote. To even question a demographic's right like that makes him incredibly suspect in my eyes.
I have tinnitus and have only been to one concert and a few smaller shows in my entire life. No headphone abuse, no firearms w/o hearing protection, no jet engines.

It just happens. Don't beat yourself up about it.
Have you ever tried GNU dot? http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf

I know you said you don't want to 'draw' ASCII diagrams, but if you use Emacs, there's a package called artist-mode which I've found helpful.
My water pump went out on my (gasoline engine powered) car today. All 6 of my fuel injectors did earlier in the year, so I'm a little sensitive about vehicle repairs today.

Out of curiosity, I wondered if the upcoming Tesla Model 3 has any water pumps. It has no need to cool an engine, right? So, maybe I'd avoid replacing fuel and coolant parts. Less parts, means lower cost of ownership, right? ...Maybe?

Teslas have 3 water pumps, to pump ~26 quarts of coolant to keep the battery cool. Sigh.

Maybe I'd have no fuel injectors to replace in a Tesla, but the physics of getting me from 0-60 in a reasonable amount of time must necessitate a minimum complexity.

I wish I could fast forward ten years to see total cost of ownership of EVs versus gas/petrol powered vehicles.
> You don't matter to 2K. The number of people who would ttly pay for a DRM free version is way smaller than the number of people who would be stopped from just pirating the thing by the DRM.

Nonsense. Number of people stopped by DRM for such games is zero, because it's broken already. Do the rest of the math. As I said, it's not about the money, they are losing money by not selling it DRM-free. It's about some irrational fear of admitting that DRM is garbage and isn't needed.
It astounds me how people have set it up in their minds. One friend from SF, who was incredibly anti war, who earlier said Trump was dangerous because he'd start a war, actually said "It's not like we'd really go to war with Russia, it'd just be a proxy war like Vietnam" -- as a reason for why Clinton will be an OK choice. The accuracy of the comment doesn't matter, but the fact people are willing to accept it is mind boggling.

And then I've been told I can't understand, can't have a real opinion, etc. cause I'm a white guy and thus too privileged for my mind to comprehend things correctly.

Even on HN, the yc guys actually said they cannot understand how Thiel can support Trump. If you find yourself saying that, it indicates your understanding is deficient, not the other way around.

It annoys me because this lack of critical thinking is going to cause a huge backlash and I'm afraid some positive liberal values could be collateral damage.
Nothing's going on with my place that doesn't go on at every place more than a few years old. Some day everyone's going to need a new roof or siding, new furnace or water heater. They're going to deal with pests (mice, ants) and fallen trees/limbs and drainage issues. Even when there's nothing wrong you have to mow lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow, clean gutters, etc. - or pay even more to have someone else do it. In our case the biggest single item was damage from ice dams, just like half of my friends and neighbors. This is all routine stuff, but it sucks up a lot of time and energy.
Their current top-end XPS 15 already supports 32GB RAM, a 1TB NVMe, 4k touchscreen and has an NVIDIA GTX 960M. I was looking into it recently and it was on-sale for $2250. Maybe I should wait for the update. I like the idea of having a 15" screen with a smaller form factor (without the bevels).
I agree with this as well and regret having bought a Xiaomi phone despite its great value. This is the reason I will not be purchasing this laptop.
Nop
The 'over the network' stuff is AGPL
> I didn't specialize in school, I like to have a very broad set of CS skills,

> I've been able to specialize in particular aspects of modern cloud infrastructures

That's fine, great in fact, but not quite what I meant. It was more of a leading question, at a higher level: you probably didn't specialize in whatever your startup is fixing or disrupting.

My suggestion was at a higher level than what we study at school.

How does a hedge fund work.

How does a medical device work, and not kill its patient.

How does an airplane keep itself flying, and keep its pilots and home office and suppliers informed about and in control of its performance. How do we keep passengers comfortable and entertained.

How does an airplane in flight fit in with all the other airplanes in flight and on the ground.

How does FedEx tell me that my new phone just entered their facility in Wuhan China (which they just did), and deliver on their statement that it will be here Thursday at 10:30am (which I believe will probably happen, plus or minus hours).

In that example, there's at least two parts: The logistics of actually moving that phone and knowing where it is, and the system that's keeping me, the customer, informed.

How do first responders know where to go, and how do we know who to send first? How does a wind turbine work.

"What do people do all day?" (One of my favorite books, and I'm pretty old.) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313375.What_Do_People_Do...

For all of the above, and much else, software is both essential and incidental. It's the larger picture, what are we actually doing with software, that's most interesting (to me). We're lucky enough that we can move around and see all of that.
Dumbest apple fanboi I've seen today and it's 9AM. Apple just oversells security and "cool" design. But in reality its just expensive garbage, no real hardware power, no real security
Same. I crushed my L5 L6 disc and was in pain for 2 years. But fortunately with care it eventually recovered to 100% and I don't feel it at all anymore. However deadlifting is something I would never ever try again, and when I see people doing it I often tell them my story. It's one of the best lifts, but one of the most punishing. I wish I knew how dangerous it was.

That aside, most other lifts are fine. The only other one I would suggest people avoid is bench pressing with the smith rack (that's the rack where the bar is fixed and only moves on the vertical dimension). You'll get weightlifter's shoulder from doing that. Stick to dumbbells.
Sure. And there are more than one hundred million Americans who disagree with the basic sentiment behind what Hillary says.
"The Bolt starts at $37,495 in LT trim, but a $7500 federal tax credit will pull the price under $30,000."

I don't understand this because the last time I went into the VW dealer they had the MSRP of the e-Golf crossed out with a sharpie, and the price was written in higher, by the exact sum of the state and federal credits. How can the buyer expect to capture all of the federal incentive?
Bright. I m learning the machine.
There is already wubi typing method in China, which was widely used by my parents' generation. This is essentially reinventing wubi method.
I know we're not meant to do "me too" comments on HackerNews but me too.

For the life of me I do not know why one of the top Linux distro makers hasn't attempted this. Or even a consortium of them? The top ten distros on Distrowatch are:

1	Mint
2	Debian
3	Ubuntu
4	openSUSE
5	elementary
6	Manjaro
7	Fedora
8	Zorin
9	CentOS
10	Arch

If they partnered with a hardware maker like Lenovo or Dell or Asus or whoever they could jump-start a whole new world. Chromebooks show it can be done.
Re: durability, one thing most people don't think about is that modern Lightning docks are effectively just Lightning connectors: https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/apple-lightning-...

The stress of holding up the entire mass of the connected device (that can be as large as an iPad Pro!) is on the connector; and the stress of being held up by that connector is on the tiny part of the device that grips it. That'd be impossible with a USB connector (even USB-C), on both sides.
Combustion engines are about 15-20% efficient. Toyota has 30+% engines in their Prius.

Electric motors are about 90% efficient.

So electric motors are about 5x more efficient than ICEs.
That's not really a better alternative, now is it.

Now your headphones must come with all the electronics required for USB-C and their own seperate DACs. This means they're going to be slightly more expensive without any actual improvement over your 3.5mm headphones. Not to mention all of those threats of DRM and whatnot looming around. So with that in mind, why would I possibly want to make the move to USB-C?
I'm guilty as well. Even though I know, mathematically, the difference colloquially it just roles off the tongue easier.
Would you mind expanding on that?
Scott Adams thinks he is a wizard whose voice has hypnotic mind-control powers, and that the Clinton Foundation personally bankrolls an army of trolls to harass him on Twitter. In other words, he's delusional. He is not in any sense of the term a "thoughtful person"
I am curious how the quality compares and if they have common library dependencies.
Because you don't want every process to have control over the file system and other processes.

This limits the impact of a misconfigured service, a compromised service, or just a plain malicious service... or users of such services.

Then, it doesn't necessarily have to be malicious, you can also harm your system by accident. I have done it many times.
The (updated) history of Android
The biggest drawback for me would be the inability to charge quickly.

With a Tesla you can take it on a road trip, as long you plan it around hitting supercharging stations. In the bolt, you can go 200 miles, but have to stop for the night to grab a full charge.

But if you aren't the type of person to drive more than 4 hours a day, or have an alternative vehicle for longer trips, this could be a great choice.
Those three people are consistent contrarians. Contrarians are of course more likely to support Trump. It's important to remember that being a contrarian is easy, but it's extremely hard to be a contrarian about the right things.