skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the size iTune Connect reports includes bitcode, and isn't representative of the size of the app once it makes it to a user's device. The information in the original bug report you linked to clearly shows the size increase is limited to the bitcode portion of the binary.
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For all the attention that https gets, I'm amazed how little (relatively speaking) attention plaintext dns gets.

If a site is https then even if an attacker is MITM-ing DNS to their own site they presumably won't have a valid cert for the site they're intercepting, although it has happened many times before, and 50% of the internet is still unencrypted. But even assuming that doesn't happen it's still a huge privacy/data leak.
It is that high, and some engineers are leaving: http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/google-waymo-bonuses/#6sJklr6...

Many more are sticking around because they want to be part of this potentially world changing field, and because you can always find uses for more money.
Actually, 90 percent of medical studies are pretty much horseshit.

Source http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Or ask a good cardiologist after a few drinks.

The closer you get to the source, the more you find out just how much we delude ourselves about what we know.

Sometimes BOTH sides have a hidden agenda.
I wrote sshlatex to speed up compilation. It does what you think it does, it runs LaTeX on a remote server and streams the resulting PDF document. The LaTeX header gets precompiled, shaving a couple of hundreds of milliseconds. It's therefore also useful when used only locally.

https://github.com/iblech/sshlatex
Taxes in California are comparable to taxes in Ontario.
It looks like Wikipedia beat you to it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice (and pointers within).
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/statuto...
If you use android, take a look at https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
> Another professor […] once said that the single particle wave function is more fundamental than the multi-particle wave function. Nevermind […] his research […] where the molecular wave function can't be well approximated using a product of single particle wave functions

Depends on what you mean by "multi-particle wave function". The way it is usually understood (I think), it includes all possible tensor products of single-particle wave functions. Then it should be possible, shouldn't it?
You're completely right on both points.

I am too quick to elevate my political _opinion_ to that of fact, and in doing so, commit the exact same mistake that drives me bonkers when other people do it.

Also, my own use of "real change", as soon as I read your comment, made me hang my head in shame. "Real Change(TM)" is just a stand in for "something that I think should be done, and until it's done, nothing else matters!"

It's related, I suspect, to the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

So, you're right. I worded that entire comment poorly.

This is one of the reasons I enjoy dipping into the HN comments now and again - I sometimes get really high-value feedback like this.

So thank you, /u/mejari, for taking the time to comment what you did. It's a good gift. :)
There is another layer, and it is very political. "Studies" that show people can be functional without brain matter are championed by certain pro-life groups who want to describe "brain dead" people as potentially functional. It came to a head during the Terri Schiavo fiasco. Her scans were horrific, showing very little brain after her accident. People pointed to these studies as evidence that such a scan did not preclude recovery to a normal life, that she should be kept alive at all costs in hope of recovery. That's how these things stay around. Someone finds them useful for completely non-scientific arguments.
Personally kind of bothers me that we live in a world where people are left to die from starvation and easily preventable disease. Understandable as it may be why that's the case.
> How there's no "inbetween" at the smallest scales. Everything is discrete.

I think the article is a bit misleading about this. We don't know if space and time are discrete or continuous. As far as we know space and time are continuous and all the current theories treat them as continuous values.

Discretization of space and time is useful for numerical simulations, if you pick the grid small enough, but it's only a trick to do the calculations in the computer.

Anyway, it is possible that someday in the future we will discover that space-time is discrete, and it has a really tiny grid, and it has a tiny effect in the calculations. But no one is sure if this will happen in the future or not.
I don't think it's required. Can be used for many things in networking, yes, but not required.
UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).
Your comparison to musical notation is insightful. I think that I can expand upon it a bit. I can read both western notation and Byzantine notation. Byzantine notation is very different from western notation: it describes a melody using symbols indicating how many steps to take from the current pitch in a given scale. There are also rhythmic symbols added to the notes that generally require reading ahead of what you are currently singing.

For people interested in Byzantine music, the notation can seem imposing at first -- especially to people who already know western notation. Much effort has gone into translating Byzantine music into western notation, but some problems arise. First, some Byzantine scales use very different pitches compared to a western equal tempered scale. Second, the rhythms in Byzantine music can involve syncopation or other rhythms that can be difficult to notate using western rhythmic symbols. Finally, Byzantine notation is optimized for depicting melody, while western notation is focused on harmony. There is simply more unnecessary visual noise in writing Byzantine music in western notation.

That last point resonates with your talk of idioms. While Byzantine music may seem to have many neumes for a given musical phrase, there are many idiomatic combinations of pitch-changing and rhythmic neumes together. As such, what would be read in Western notation with many individual notes and rhythmic markings, becomes in Byzantine notation a single "word".

If you're interested in seeing how these systems of notation compare, look at the following hymn: http://www.cappellaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Che... The neumes are in red at the top, with a simple western interpretation on the first western music staff and an ornamented interpretation on the bottom staff. Comparing the neumes to ornamented western interpretation (which represents the full Byzantine ethos, or style), we can see that significantly more information is contained in the sparser Byzantine neumes.

Anyway, you've convinced me to learn APL because I now see how similar the arguments for this notation are to my own arguments for using Byzantine notation. Thank you for your insight.
"Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford University professor who is an expert in computer vision, said one of her Ph.D. candidates had an offer for a job paying more than $1 million a year, and that was only one of four from big and small companies." https://nytimes.com/2016/03/26/technology/the-race-is-on-to-...
Why would they do that, visually in the store?
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I have friends in Europe, and last time I stayed with them they tried to explain, as best they understood it, the local recycling scheme. It was so complex that packaging has something like 5 different recycle logos, and their municipality only accepts 3 of them, but they're all just a circle of arrows pointing at each other with a number in the middle.

So can you recycle the brown bottle with the more square shaped arrows and the "3" in the middle? How about the next bottle exactly the same with the "3" in the middle but slightly more swirly arrows? Or the same square arrows and a "4"? They didn't even know, so they presort, show up at the recycle center with everything and get rid of what the employees there will accept and take home the rest for regular trash.

It's a huge waste of everybody's time. And the 20 minute drive to the local recycle center can't be helpful.
You've gone totally off the reservation. My argument was simply against parent's statement that Americans would be shocked if they saw their tax bill; I'll reiterate; hardly. A little less than half of America pays no federal income tax (after refunds are accounted for).
If it is a B2C product launch, you have Retail as a Service : Airflash, which gives you access to Early Customers,Bloggers,Connects to Wholesale Distributors and Retail Access through popup stores

www.airflash.co
Magic Band is a great example of consumer tracking done right. The band is not a biometric, it doesn't require an app that tracks you at all other times and it used to actually improve service, not just serve up adds and 10% coupons.
I don't see anything wrong in people becoming super rich by exploiting their talents in the free market. That's the opposite of feudalism.

The alternative was tried in Soviet Union and Maoist China. The results were not exactly pretty.
Your math is incredibly stupid to begin with.
CSS alone can get window size

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929211
The Apple bug report was filed by my colleague, JP, after we noticed that the built size of Realm's frameworks dramatically increased after updating to Xcode 8.3. We pay attention to the built size of our frameworks as we distribute precompiled versions of them (https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/releases), and a signifiant size increase inconveniences our users. We've not tested the impact of the size on an app installed via the App Store, but since the increase is limited to the bitcode portion of the binary we have no reason to think it will be affected.
> If a site is https then even if an attacker is MITM-ing DNS to their own site they presumably won't have a valid cert for the site they're intercepting

Kinda. It still can add a CNAME there, and make you go into another site for what it has a valid cert.
At a guess there are two major schools of thought here. The first thinks that emotions, will, personality etc are much more complex than the way we think of neural nets today. The other thinks that what we are seeing is already much more like the brain than we were expecting and if we continue down this path we may discover those things are emergent aspects of much simpler behaviours at a small scale.

My slightly optimistic money is on the latter one.
The problem is not that there are people with huge sums of money. The problem is that groups of those people have an acute control over legislation and policy.
I'm not sure what you're asking here. Why would who do what?
Maybe I've just played too much Civ, but I don't understand why space colonization isn't our top priority.

It changes everything.

It won't matter if a large percentage of jobs have been automated. The ones that haven't will go up in demand with every habitable planet that is settled.
Oh, this could be really good! I've played with a couple emulators that had some proprietary restrictions, but still worked well for my needs. A good one free and clear would be really nice!
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They still support the LaTeX command set, except they're native Unicode and native OpenType support. That's kind of where the full stop should be satisfactory. If you need to typeset anything, having the LaTeX commands _and_ normal text typesetting for arbitrary languages is literally why base LaTeX with pdftex is now effectively irrelevant.

If you need amsmaths or APA citation, you still get those. Except now you get them without insane commands just to type Paul Erdös' name, or citing Лев Семёнович Вы́готский.
>Actually, it's pretty hard to eat a whole day's worth of calories in a single meal

I find it effortless. Some IHOP menu items, for example, are like 2000 calories, and I can gulp them in one sitting -- and one 1-2 16oz cokes on top--, and I'm not even that overweight. My "maintain weight" caloric requirements are about 2300 calories.

>If you're ordering at McDonald's, your best calorie/dollar ratio [edit: s/your best/my preferred] is the ~800 calorie double quarter pounder with cheese for ~6 dollars. My daily caloric requirements are estimated at 3000 calories based on my age and gender, which means I'd have to eat a little under four of these.

Why stick it to the best calorie/dollar ratio? All the parent said is that it's easy to eat a whole day's worth of calories in one sitting.

McDonalds large fries: 510 calories.
McDonalds Double quarter pounder with cheese: 800
McDonalds 2 packets of ketchup on said fries: 30 calories
McDonalds Large Coke: 310 calories

That's 1650 right there.

The Chicken Piccata at Cheasecake factory for another example is 2,120 calories by itself. And that's without any appetiser. Then have a cheesecake after lunch for another 1000. Oh, and a coke for 100 more -- or a coffee with milk and sugar. Total tally? 3320.

Also not sure about this "3000 calories" estimation (unless you're very tall, exercising etc). The commonly cited figure is that the average man needs 2500 calories per day to maintain weight.
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I've heard that cancer bullshit since I was a college kid. Now I've lost friends to the disease and I'm married to a medical researcher. The race is to find the cure- not to let people keep dying.

Same with the climate scientists. You would mske your name by proving all was ok, not by saying the same thing the others are saying. I don't get why that isn't obvious.

They may be out there but I've never met a scientist who didn't want to solve the problem they were working on.
None of the commercial entities involved stand to gain from providing encrypted DNS lookups. It would just be one fewer bullet point in their personal-data sales packages.
>Have you ever tried to eat that much?

Oh, yes. And I'm not even that overweight.
That might be the case now, but who's to say that won't change in the future? What will happen when robotics and computer vision advances to a point where employing a human on an assembly line doesn't make economic sense?
As far as I understand this doesn't encrypt communication but authenticates it to ensure it hasn't been tampered with. So it's still out in the open. I also don't understand what the benefit over DNSSEC is.

Edit: Nvm, DNSSEC still has to trust the validating resolver, DNSCrypt solves this.
> Furthermore, plenty of physicists don't actually grasp the fundamentals of their own field - they specialise a lot and can use specialised theories to get what they need done without understanding in detail where it came from.

This. Sometimes physics does feel like a religion. The fundamentals (including basic assumptions and "proofs" that are complete bs in the mathematical sense) are getting reiterated time and again till people actually start believing in them. From what I've experienced myself it basically works like this: In the beginning, you come across some claim or fundamental assumption you can't follow and make a mental note to follow up on it and sit down to fully understand it. Then you get sidetracked and next time you come across said claim, you're like "Damn, I wanted to look that up!" and here you are, making a mental note again… Now somewhere between the fifth and tenth time this happens, you've forgotten about your mental note completely and have just accepted the claim as fact.

It's basically the brain tricking you into thinking the claim is correct, the more often you read about it. It's like habitual behavior you don't actually process consciously anymore.
> The big problem with that unbundling scheme is that it made DSL less profitable than cable internet,which didn't have to be unbundled (because they aren't ILECs).

Don't forget the fact that it's 2017, and DSL sucks. 40mbit down and 10mbit up at best is what DSL providers tend to offer. DSL just isn't viable compared to cable.
Why would they show the full size including bitcode when you go to download it, when it doesn't get sent to the device anyway.
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>V.5 (just outside the Vesuvius gate); 6641: Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place

I like how he wishes the best to Defecator.
Crimes aren't inherited.
I don't think you understand that Canadians pay out of pocket for many non-emergency medical services that are 100% covered by the gold-plated health plans offered by Google, Facebook, etc.

Dental, prescriptions, eye tests, rehabilitation and physical therapy, hell even an ambulance ride - all NOT covered by the Canadian "universal" medical system.
There is no "alternative". Government can be approached from a million different ways. To say it's black or white (capitalism vs communism) is completely self-serving and offers no real insight into the fundamental complexity of human civilization.
>My stomach is literally not big enough to handle that much liquid/volume in a single meal.

You'd be surprised. It's also not about the volume. You can have the same amount of calories in much smaller volumes... -- heck, even in a salad with the right dressing.
They also sold under MSRP since their product was basically virtual (aka just in time).
Yeah, and it's terrible in Vancouver where RE prices are as bad as SV.
In practice, Seattle's location in one particular corner of the continental US, anchoring a metropolitan area that's "only" 13th in population (by CSA), and not possessing a significantly populated catchment hinterland means that it's heavily disadvantaged to the gain of LAX and SFO, which are frequently "close enough", but serve much larger metropolitan areas.

In the US, where most passenger traffic is domestic, this works out to LAX or SFO being the first choice for a benefit-maximizing west coast hub. Nearby Vancouver in Canada essentially acts as Canada's LAX, so the advantages are multiplied for them -- but Canada's smaller domestic population means the numbers are correspondingly scaled down.

The US' large domestic aviation market also means that flyers quite expect to be flown to a directional hub that serves flights to a particular part of the world first. Towards Brazil, this is often a big hub on the Atlantic seaboard: Miami, New York, Atlanta, or Houston. [1] In Brazil, the primary international airport is GRU out of São Paulo, instead of Rio. They're less than 350 km apart. You'll probably find direct flights to GRU instead. Quantas flies from Sydney to Santiago, which is a comparable distance to GRU but doesn't need to reach as southerly of a latitude.

Plotting distances from a "typical" busy continental European airport like Paris to major hubs in the US, it can be seen [2] that it's advantageous to "collect" passengers towards busy Chicago and New York, utilizing spare domestic capacity to shorten the international leg: Seattle's positioning is awkward here.

Flying from the US to a busy Asia/Pacific destination like Hong Kong, Seattle is oriented favorably [3] to catch some traffic from the middle of the US and serve as a directional hub, but still has to compete with LAX and SFO.

Flying from Sydney to the US, LAX and SFO are the closest, and the entire country lies conveniently behind them [4].

[1] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=GRU-MIA%0D%0AGRU-JFK%0D%0AGRU-H...
[2] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=CDG-JFK%0D%0ACDG-ORD%0D%0ACDG-A...
[3] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HKG-SEA%0D%0AHKG-LAX%0D%0AHKG-S...
[4] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SYD-DXB%0D%0ASYD-HKG%0D%0ASYD-L...
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I think the point is that there are many grey areas, and the IRS is likely to come down the side of more taxes while the third party is likely to try more on your behalf.
This is sad really...Its the walmart effect happening here (where a bigbox store comes into town and crushes the little, local shop).
Trump promised to make taxes much simpler. Let's see if he keeps his promise.
Interesting link, but don't you think it's a bit complicated? I think the opacity of the determination method could lead to a lot of mistrust from the general public.

What's the problem with just assigning a number 0-10 for every candidate that you care to, and summing up the points?

Or just instant runoff?
>Fat people running a marathon does not change the fact that calories in/calories out is, not the most effective, but the only way how this works.

No, it's actually not. From TFA: "Still, further research has shown that calories eaten are only part of what determines weight. Our metabolism reflects an interplay of things like genes, hormones, and the bacteria that populate the gut, so how much energy we absorb from what we eat varies from person to person."/
Just curious - what's an example where Redis is a good fit as a primary database?
> But even assuming that doesn't happen it's still a huge privacy/data leak.

Meh, if an attacker can sniff your packets, they can already tell what IP addresses you're talking to, which certainly narrows down which domain names you're talking to.

I'm far more concerned with the possibility of intercepting or hijacking http traffic. Sure, an attacker could do this with any non-TLS connection in theory, but it's way way easier to hijack that one DNS response and change the A record.
If people might pay taxes they were unintentionally evading, might they not avoid taxes they were unintentionally paying when they didn't have to? It seems the latter would be more likely, given how arcane the deduction/credit system can be.

Just today I had to convince my girlfriend that no, just because she lives in one state and works in another she doesn't have to pay taxes twice to two states. This requires finding a different credit form for one state to claim a credit for the taxes paid to the other state. It's not exactly intuitive.
Apple charges $1200 to upgrade the latest touch bar rMBP from 512GB to 2TB of flash.

Let's not forget that they are a hardware vendor.

I don't think it's some grand conspiracy theory, but the interests of the vendor and of the user are not precisely aligned when it comes to efficient usage of storage. (The lack of stripping applications of their alternate language content on install/download also comes to mind.)
Isn't that why wills are written while people are still alive, and executed as they die? Isn't that why it's called the last will? Not "extending the will of the dead" isn't any kind of legal principle anyways. It's absurd. We don't rewrite every law after the people that wrote it died, come on.
Yep. The salary difference is astronomical when you take into account the paycut + exchange diff.
So blazing db mainly uses gpus to speed up compression/decompression? How do gpus help with partitioning and data skipping?
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> Network effects are unnatural online.

I find this line ironic since the Network Effect (or Metcalfe's Law) was created to describe literal computer networks.

Network effects don't happen in the physical world nearly as easily because the bar, grocery store, or whatever is limited by geography. They can only address a population within a certain radius and can't grow beyond it.

Transportation hubs - like airports - may be an exception because the more places you can get from one airport, the more likely you are to use that airport.. if you even have a choice.
Software parents are a minefield. For bigger companies it's definitely not worth the logistics to keep track of which companies you can and can't sue
That's crazy. Am I wrong in thinking that this is a scary bubble?
This seem long and complex but in Latin everything is done with prefixes and suffixes.