skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like getting stabbed and saying "Losing a liter of blood in a matter of seconds is a rounding error on the scale of my life."

No, it's not a rounding error. It means things are changing at a speed never seen before, and it's a big fucking deal.

Disclaimer: Of course I'm not suggesting the Earth will bleed to death. I'm just highlighting the logical fallacy.
How can you say you're able to audit any application or daemon without viewing the actual source code? Case in point - if the sslKeyExchange.c code had not been published the "goto fail" bug would likely still be in the wild.
Fucking spot on! They achieved something so incredibly special. That place was a glimpse into the future. A marvel of both engineering and community.

R.I.P.
This is wild, wild overexageration.

>millions (if not billions) of people paying for internet

You're vastly underestimating the challenge in attracting millions (let alone "billions", that's so ridiculous it's not even worth commenting on) of costumers.

>This would replace cellphone plans too remember...

You can't just hope to replace 4bil+ users in a snap of the fingers... Even if you had a hypothetical magical product that was cheap, available and revolutionary, flipping 4,500,000,000 clients would be a grueling task.

>could probably charge a nice $100 - $300 a month and people would clamor for it.

Why?? Who would be willing to pay 300$ a month for internet?? Maybe wealthy people in developed countries would pay that for the convenience of replacing home+mobile internet, but you wouldn't ever reach the amount of users you project with those kids of prices.
And if the President was selected by popular vote, that would mean something.

It isn't, so it doesn't.
People say this, but imo building ratio on What was easy.
It's a good bet Musk has done the math.

It's also a good bet Musk has done the math and thought about future math as well.

This won't just be profitable. It has the potential to be a political game changer.

After a while it's going to be possible to start running servers on satellites, to move them out of national jurisdictions.
Just like the chickens...
I'd happily live with the lightning strike probability of being involved in a terrorist attack than the certainty that the government will abuse this data to subvert opposition.

Trading the rights of millions of people to combat terrorism hurts more people than the terrorists could ever hope to touch.

This doesn't even factor in solutions terrorists can use to avoid surveillance, or answer the question of if all this surveillance even reduces terrorism in the first place.
That still wouldn’t give you access to piracy sites, for which the FBI has required US ISPs to censor them from their DNS servers.

I’ve had this occur quite a few times now that 8.8.8.8 (yes, verified with DNSSEC to be the real one) and DNS servers of US ISPs returned different IPs than the authoritative nameservers, and the returned IPs always showing a neat "The FBI has seized this property due to piracy" link.
So if I buy 0.01 BTC for $750 [1] and cause the price to "fall 99%" that will leave a black mark against Bitcoin? Perhaps the blame really lies in the exchanges who were so eager to allow trading on such a scarce asset.

[1] I realize this is not really possible because you'd have to buy the entire order book first, but in the case of ZCash the order book was empty.
- 1 500 employees

- 650 000 hosts

- 3 billions in capital

- Voted best place to work

- And now experiences, places, flights and services

I think we will look back in the future at this moment and see how far we were from where they got.
I'm certainly no expert on the matter, but I'd doubt anyone who said they were. The first thing that comes to mind is that the alt-right is nationalistic and has no problem with some form of collectivism. The far-right, on the other hand, is much closer to the min part of minarchism.

The alt-left, if it is presently a thing, is even less defined than the alt-right. But in the interest of maintaining symmetry, I'd say that it would have a progressive agenda by way of individualist means. Emergence?
No, they're all bad apples.

Have you ever seen what happens when you leave a bad apple in with a bunch of good apples? Very quickly, the entire bunch of apples is bad.

That's why we have the whole saying about "bad apples".

It utterly amazes me that people constantly use this "bad apples" expression without understanding this. Anyone who eats apples should have this basic understanding about bad apples.

Anyway, from what I can tell, whether cops are good or bad is basically department-wide: either a department has decent cops, or they're all horrible and complicit. It's exactly like the "bad apples" analogy, and it depends on the leadership of the department. Notice that it's usually the same departments that come up over and over in the news.
Getting Started with Style Transfer Using Deep Filter
Why Twitter's Alt-Right Banning Campaign Is Alt-Right's Best Recruitment Tool
Dunno about unicorn, but Brad Feld was an very early Angel investor in Harmonix music systems and they were working for many years before the had breakout success.
Do windows people have any respect for the idea of home folders? You should put your own files in /home/blah/foo or C:\Documents and Settings\blah\foo, not /myfiles or C:\myfiles
Free global wireless internet lets every device in your home spy without an easy way to firewall it off.
But this is why we start the companies in the first place my friend. ;)
> Nice job slipping a completely unfounded lie into your response.

Oh my.

Yes Apple backdoors their phones for government surveillance access.

There's no sneaking here. I'm saying it very clearly as a central tenet of my comment.

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Here's a list of things that Apple will provide from Apple's own Guide for Law Enforcement Access:

- Device Registration (name, address, email address, telephone number, iCloud Apple ID)

- Customer Service Records

- iTunes (name, physical address, email address, and telephone number, purchase/download transactions and connections, update/re-download connections, and iTunes Match connections, iTunes subscriber information and connection logs with IP addresses, specific content purchased or downloaded).

- Apple Retail Store Transactions (cash, credit/debit card, or gift card transactions, type of card, name of the purchaser, email address, date/time of the transaction, amount of the transaction, and store location, receipt number)

- Apple Online Store Purchases (name, shipping address, telephone number, email address, product purchased, purchase amount)

- iTunes Gift Cards (sixteen-digit alphanumeric code, nineteen-digit code, any purchases, name of the store, location, date, and time, user account

- iCloud (music, photos, documents, iCloud email, encryption keys, Subscriber Information, iCloud feature connections, connection logs with IP addresses, Mail Logs, records of incoming and outgoing communications such as time, date, sender email addresses, and recipient email addresses, Email Content, Other iCloud Content, Photo Stream, Docs, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, iOS Device Backups, stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks and iOS device backups, photos and videos in the users’ camera roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail)

- Find My iPhone (including connection logs)

- Other Available Device Information (MAC Address for Bluetooth, Ethernet, WiFi, or FireWire)

- Requests for Apple Retail Store Surveillance Videos

- Game Center (Connection logs with IP addresses, specific game(s) played)

- iOS Device Activation (including upgrades the software, IP addresses, ICCID numbers, and other device identifiers)

- Sign-on Logs (iTunes, iCloud, My Apple ID, and Apple Discussions, Connection logs with IP addresses, Sign-on transactional records)

- My Apple ID and iForgot Logs (password reset actions, Connection logs with IP addresses)

- FaceTime (logs when a FaceTime call invitation is initiated, content protected by 15 bits of entropy if secure enclave baked key is obtained from manufacturer)

And, from this thread on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12977612): All call logs including contacts, timestamps, and durations including for third party applications on the phone like WhatsApp, Skype and Viber.
> First we'd have to stop the massive deforestation that's happening right now. A lot of that is for agriculture, so we'd have to find another way to feed those people.

You speak about deforestation in the US, but there are more forests in the United States now than there were at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Galileo's push for heliocentrism were in direct opposition to doctrine (Ptolemaic/geocentrism) and most interpretations of scripture.

If the Catholic Church didn't take that as a threat to their legitimacy I'd be surprised.

Similar shit happens today where people who question the efficacy of e.g. capitalism are effectively silenced (media control and subtlety allows voices to be silenced without imprisoning or killing people these days)
The biggest feature change is the addition of interrupt support. Also stability and bug fixes.
Then we chop down all the trees and burn them!
Google Firebase.

As a front-end developer I just can't warrant the time setting up a backend, setting up a database, defining routes, handling authentication and the other nonsense that seemingly takes a solid day to get working.

Firebase to me is the best choice for simple projects, I don't use anything else anymore.
Gnunet on the right track:
https://gnunet.org/
If you use Klar then you have not yet received the 2.0 update. We hope to send it out pretty soon. Sorry the German market is unfortunately a little different in this case. Same product but with a different name. Silly reasons.
Do you think American voters are going to be happy about sacrificing their own well-being explicitly so that other people can pollute/deforest more? Do you think that's a platform that will win elections?
Yea it's true. Rate Your Music is a decent place to do discovery. Also even though 4chan is a cesspool the /mu/ board can be surprisingly great for finding out about obscure artists old and new
I worked at sourced.tech

Back then we crawled all public github repos and took a look at all the commits so any email you've used for making commits with git and pushed to GitHub is public.

The analysis is somewhat legit. The email is ofc automated but it was quite high quality. I left on March this year so things may have changed an awful lot.

EDIT: By high quality I mean they give you all the possible details of the offer. Again, this might have changed.

If you are unhappy with them feel free to rant on Twitter mentioning them and they'll get back to you very quickly.
They wouldn't file infringement suits for not eating. They'd file them against people who build a business out of controlling the diet of diabetic patients in this particular way. And given that it's been studied, health insurance companies are willing to pay for diabetic patients to have their diet controlled in this particular way.

IMO, it's not an attempt to monopolize the results of the research. Rather, it's an attempt to monopolize extracting money out of health insurance companies that are only willing to pay for proven treatments.
>I can’t send my $800 phone to the manufacturer and pay some extra money to get it repaired like I could if this was a Samsung or Apple device.

It's not warranty or free repairs he is asking for isn't it? He is asking for paid support.
a clearly un-biased viewpoint
How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp
To give him the benefit of the doubt (not saying it's warranted), Georgia government interactions do seem to have a tendency towards "yelled at and fixed in a back room, face saving comments at the press conference."

See the history of our JQB (before voters questionably decided to give control to the legislature this election).
Thinking further, you could have achieved something similar by refusing to allow coins to be traded for X weeks. E.g. no coins at all can be sold until the first 2 weeks of mining become available all at once.

It's fair-ish distribution, without the absurd trading game that followed the Zcash release.
a karma threshold. 800 or something?
Mojolicious. ( http://mojolicious.org/ )

I am a sysadmin.
I like Perl and its plethora of modules.
With Mojolicious, I can write a simple web app/prototype within the hour.
Health insurance companies will pay for proven-effective diabetes treatments. This prevents competitors from free-riding on the effectiveness proof of this diabetes treatment to charge money to health insurance companies.
Well, with strong opinions, I have hope that they'd motivate you to do something. I'm trying to figure out what I can do that's both constructive and effective. One of the things specifically I want to do is make sure I'm listening to people who I don't necessarily agree with and understand where they're coming from. With your tone and phrasing, particularly in your descriptions of Trump voters, and seeing a lot of similar language on both sides of the voting divide, I'm genuinely interested in how that's going to affect what you do.

That was all thought of before I saw your comment updates. I hope you can figure out something that you feel is constructive. Feeling hopeless is terrible.
Not to mention he wouldn't necessarily be recording, just logging time where the amplitude of the signal was over a certain threshold.
Lots of people have mentioned over-subscription, but another consideration is that while 1gbps connection speeds may be offered, they're likely to have other speeds as well at different costs. For a lot of people, even 100kbps would be an improvement over what they have (which might be dial-up, might be satellite with 2-second ping times, or might be nothing). I myself probably wouldn't notice much difference between 5mbps and 1gbps, as long as youtube works.

This could be a big deal for the huge under-served population in rural America and in developing countries. Incumbent telcos would have to have service at least as good/cheap as SpaceX's internet service to stay in business. I hope they introduce a low-cost, relatively low bandwidth plan that's accessible to the world's poor.
> Clutches get less wear during engine braking because it doesn't slip. When you disengage and reengage the clutch because
> you're using the regular brakes to slow down, the clutch slips and damages itself.

And when you have to change down, while engine braking? (I have an odd learning style. Please don't mistake this for "You're wrong because..." It's a case of "I don't understand why, so...")

A friend once told me that the UK required you to half-engage the clutch while using the brakes and the engine together. I've also read something to the effect of modern brakes are much more efficient so (at least one) UK "advanced driving school" teaches that it doesn't really matter.

I have an older car (1998 Mazda 626 wagon). It's a manual, and when I drive downhill I put it into third and let it coast, braking to reduce speed. Should I be putting it into second, and letting it run up to 3500-4000 revs? Should I leave it in third, and use the brakes? Does it consume more fuel to do this, in a car of that era?

I've often meant to ask my local mechanic about this, but never think about it when I'm there.
I agree with this. Government leverage on Apple is huge, as is the magnitude of public-private partnership. Mass surveillance of its products is not likely something that Apple would have pursued on its own.

However, it Apple has capitulated to a combination of carrots and sticks. Today, it enables surveillance of its customers.
"Nothing to hide, nothing to fear"

"And yet here you are, wearing clothes."
You can probably promote it and they won't care. They will care if you run a thing that you charge health insurance companies for.
"Still others are relocating to Texas. Home prices are cheaper there, he said, although property taxes are higher."

True, but 2.2% of $145,000 is way less than 1% of $800,000 still.

I'm one of the people that left California and moved to Texas. the housing prices were a lot of it, but so were the politics too. I'm way more "middle of the road" and I've found that most of Texas seems to be as well. (yes, parts of it are way right - but that's true in California too.)

"world-class schools"

I laughed when I read that. Friends there have kids in schools that are half portable buildings. I visited some schools that I went to as a kid that haven't seen new paint in years. I've had a much better time with the education systems here in Texas than I ever did in California. (yes, your mileage may vary.)

I'm pretty sure I saw this very same article back in 2001 too, though. You couldn't find a one way U-Haul out of Santa Clara County for weeks.
Read the article. He's not saying he wants accident coverage, he's saying he should be able to pay a fee and get it fixed like all other manufacturers allow.

>I can’t send my $800 phone to the manufacturer and pay some extra money to get it repaired like I could if this was a Samsung or Apple device.

>Hey Google, if you want to pivot into a real brand: You need to provide real support. No other flagship phone tells people “well, good luck” if they have a common incident break the device.
The article notes one of the reasons this is a big deal is that major retailers use the measure, at least in part, to set their buy contracts.
Satellite communication at the moment is very expensive
(like dollars per kilobyte expensive) not because of the limitations of long distance wireless communication in general, but because most of our satellite equipment up there is old and outdated.

At some point as we developed world wide communications, laying down long distance fiber became cheaper than deploying communication satellites, and the existing satellites had enough capacity for the demand at the time.

We stopped shooting up sattelites, but we developed much better wireless technologies (e.g. MIMO) down on earth, and SpaceX now has the means to deploy those in space and undercut the competitions offerings that is still being used heavily for specific use cases (e.g. broadcasting, marine, etc applications)

It doesn't even have to be cheap, it just has to be cheaper than the competition. It's not quite world changing, but it's still a massive business (i guess) and would provide spaceX with some steady revenue stream. If it eventually becomes cheap enough for mass market that's just icing on the cake.

Also note that any competition also will have to pay SpaceX for deployment, so SpaceX wins no matter what.
Looks like that's what America wants in a leader as he was elected democratically.

Either enact the powers or don't. Assume anyone can become President.

Curious how Trump is "autocratic" and Obama is not. Was Obama not autocratic when he drone-killed US citizens without due process? I'm not even sure what the word means. Obviously the President is entrusted with some powers that are autocratic and some that are checked by the other branches.
I'm sure all large companies have staff to handle these requests for information, but this is the first time I've heard of a company creating a team that does nothing but hand over customer data 24 hours a day.

Apple VP Lisa Jackson:

>Please know that Apple will continue its work with law enforcement. We share law enforcement’s concerns about the threat to citizens and we work closely with authorities to comply with legal requests for data that have helped solve complex crimes. Thousands of times every month, we give governments information about Apple customers and devices, in response to warrants and other forms of legal process. We have a team that responds to those requests 24 hours a day. Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple’s ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data.
It does use an extensive HSTS preload list. So if you go to for example http://Bugzilla.mozilla.org it will actually never hit http and go straight to https.

Same list as in Firefox and Chrome. (iOS feature, all apps get this for free)
I have not. I use Sublime on the Windows side; in those cases where I have issues like linting I'm just doing it via the Windows equivalent (I'm not working with Python) and having a different source for linting vs. some of the runtime environment hasn't been a problem for me... though I could see where you'd want something more apples = apples.

For myself, an xserver is probably more overhead than I'd want to take on... I'd just drop WSL and go back to my VM at that point (different pain points, but simpler pain points).
You're missing the current very high cost of crappy satellite bandwidth. This isn't competing with downtown fibre, it's competing with current solutions for way-out-of-town stuff, which are either very expensive or very low bandwidth or both.

Source: am outdoor robot researcher.
Well, let's say Line, Rectangle, and Circle are reference types.

Which case does null match?

If you match the first type, that's somewhat unsatisfying. But if you only match with default, that's also unsatisfying because now we would have a problem with completeness -- if the match doesn't succeed then you have a potentially unassigned variable.

So now every match expression would have to have a default case just to handle null, but you also don't gain the advantages of static matching because everything matches default, so if you do legitimately forget a case you get no warning.

Existing switch statements are much more resilient to these matters simply because they aren't expected to be exhaustive right now. People are used to the fact that they have to deal with unassigned variables or completeness failures.

The match expression, however, I want to be more like ML where you can get strong guarantees on the "irrefutability" of a match.
http://i.imgur.com/fWT8usT.png

I really should have abused the github email bug further to do something more fun with scrapers.
That website was amazing, but it actually surprisingly difficult to maintain a positive ratio without making a decent effort. For every album I wanted to download, I had to download 1-3 others I had no interest in for the sake of seeding.
It won't be affected much. http://www.spaceacademy.net.au/spacelink/radiospace.htm

We're ok-ish with frequencies up to 20GHz or so. Standard satellite TV is below that. Spacex filed for bands 10.7 – 12.7 GHz and 14.0 – 14.5 GHz for user down/up link (Ku band) and higher frequencies (Ka band) for high powered gateways.