skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would you rather work in the amazing Apple spaceship in the suburbs,
or a normal office building in a city-center?

I would rather work in any building in the suburbs than any building in a city center. I love being able to get in my car and arrive at work in 10 minutes. Very few public transportation systems can beat that. It also means that I can live in an area where I can drive to and park at restaurants, grocery stores, etc. Live is easier with a car in a suburban area is easier than without one in an urban area.
I think there's a difference between the drive to work and a commute. A commute means that you're in your car maybe 45 minutes to 2+ hours each way every day. So, biking probably isn't a viable option - especially in areas where it's winter-like temperatures 6-8 months out of the year.
Agreed, the idea that Apple couldn't possibly have any influence over municipal policies is laughable. They just didn't try.
Personally, I'd rather have people have their little apps with too much security than major apps with too little.

Also, having people trained in good practices would make hiring easier.
> Whats the difference between a daycare at your work or at a separate daycare building?

Lower cost and fewer logistical issues I would imagine.

You've just removed a 10~45 minute round trip commute to that separate building. That's twice a day every day, and if the kid gets sick or injured.
You know how Snapchat made their platform "app-only" and designed the UX to "keep out the olds"? This is like that but the opposite.
> Cars are, presently, an unavoidable fact of life. This is a shame, but all else considered it's the best possible outcome with the present circumstances. Things will improve however, one day.

Indeed, I am currently looking out my window at several Amazon office towers that most employees didn't drive to.
Are we doing memory corruption mitigations wrong?
such a sad story.
The selection of stats presented is still a form of bias.
You make a good point. I agree that the analogy is not perfect, and that if you assume that breaking RSA is computationally hard for some intrinsic reasons[1], then the theorem proving is more like chess and go, rather than RSA. However, theorem proving is still much more difficult than chess and go, if you consider time spent on a theorem vs. on a single game, and on the number of good mathematicians vs. the number of good chess/go players. I think we'll have human-level theorem proving solved by machines at some point in future, though not very soon. Either way, humans will be well deprecated by then.

[1] - Practically speaking though, the biggest reason we believe that factoring is hard is that we haven't really figured out how to do this, so our belief that it's hard is really build upon our feeling on hardness of theorem proving. :) I think we have more intrinsic reasons to believe than P != NP than that factoring is hard.
Imagine how revolutionary a robot would be that could simply walk around, pick things up, and set things down.

"Herbert: grab my car keys."
"Herbert: set the dinner table."
"Herbert: put the mail in the mailbox."

Obviously, cost will be a big deal, but I think we'll get there.
Database encryption at rest is a normal practice for PII data.

MySQL example:
https://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/tde.html

Percona article:
https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/04/08/mysql-data-at-rest-e...
If you call "number of people using the format"part of the featureset, mp3 is superior in one aspect at least.
Mouse with 3D-printed ovaries gives birth to healthy pups
I feel like the term "Serverless" has been hijacked to a point that it will soon become meaningless just like "AI", "IoT", etc.

Basically "Serverless" in 2017 has become just a hype friendly marketing friendly way of saying "Saas".

That said, I think the platform looks great!
No, such a claim would be complete nonsense.

We are using a local database as a mirror for offline use, which is a key requirement. Profiling (a forgotten art nowadays) shows that most time spent during queries is in this bridge and not in the actual queries.
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I can't agree with you more. If only it would take the hint that there is a reason I zoomed in so much that only one street fills the screen.
Trustzone isn't AMT; it's borderline orthogonal. Trustzone is just an extra address bit that's only set in higher privileged modes (the "secure" modes in ARM). Most boards like this boot into end user controlled code while in system monitor mode, or a mode that allows you access to it trivially.
OK, then listen up any Apple folks lurking here: this would be a huge mistake. The iPhone 7 plus is too small. The regular iPad is too big. The iPad mini is Just Right for a lot of applications. Don't discontinue it.
Tinder doesn't even have a desktop site/app so that's not a good example.

I also disagree, I think overall usage to complete your goal is fine, it looks a little old but whatever.
I looked at the two linked pieces of documentation, and to my naive eyes they look like they perform the same task:

PHP: "Bound parameters minimize bandwidth to the server as you need send only the parameters each time, and not the whole query", meaning that the statement is prepared server-side and parameters are sent separately.

Postgres: "A prepared statement is a server-side object that can be used to optimize performance. When the PREPARE statement is executed, the specified statement is parsed, analyzed, and rewritten. When an EXECUTE command is subsequently issued, the prepared statement is planned and executed.... Prepared statements only last for the duration of the current database session. When the session ends, the prepared statement is forgotten, so it must be recreated before being used again."

Is there a difference between the two, and could you elaborate?
> I mean, &#(@, look at the script for Alien and Aliens.

I am a huge Alien fan, but I can't understand the fascination with Aliens, it always seemed like a cheap action movie when compared with the true psychological horror of the first one.
Childcare is competitive and there are already a range of nearby options.
Nice mobile web app! Works like a charm on my shitty 3rd world phone.

It would be nice to share a batch of new links on channels one is the administrator of, perhaps for the first 15-30 days, to be able to populate channels.

Also: Where do I go to edit channel settings as a moderator?

Also: It would be nice in the case of my channel to make available content filters, like what is done in /r/science.

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I'm a language learning specialist and full-time learner. Here's my new channel:

A channel dedicated to learning, meta-cognition, and domain-specific resources.
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That's exactly the one, thank you! The relevant bit is at 4:10
AAC-LD and AAC-ELD get plenty of use as the preferred codec for Facetime on Apple products (last I checked).
One line summary: “99.999% availability and strong consistency — without compromising latency”

(I work at G)
Its employees live all over the South Bay. I don't see how you'd provide bus service that services thousands of residents over hundreds of square miles. Most people would still need to drive, and perhaps even people serviced by Apple buses would still choose to drive. I know I would.
Kudos to the authors for taking an idea I've had for a while and actually doing it. Very, very cool.
That sounds wonderful, a similar situation here in SF.
If you're in management, you're responsible for these things. You don't get to be "just" a technologist when you're in a leadership position. You're responsible for the well-being of everyone who works for you. That means seeing it through to resolution, not just throwing it over the fence and dusting off your hands.
The SMB exploit was released by the Shadow Brokers on April 14, 2017. How come Microsoft patched it in February? How did they know about it?
So pan handling more or less? Have any sources for this... seems strange that loads of people in the UK have all of the sudden become pan handlers.
You're underestimating how much people love their cars. I formerly worked at Microsoft (the Redmond campus), which bends over backwards and does pretty much everything possible to keep people from driving to work. They have company shuttle buses, they give you a free card for public transit (and Seattle's is pretty good, compared to the Bay Area's), they pay you a bonus for using carpools/vanpools, and they have bike storage and showers and pay for bike expenses. They still need acres of parking garages, which are full every day. People like driving, and there's only so much the company can do about it.
Disk encryption also prevents disposal issues from affecting you, which is a separate problem than physical access.
Most of their employees prefer to drive themselves to work. Trying to force that to change is not their agenda.
What about the 12" Macbook? It's the same size as the 11" MBA.
I negotiated with my company to count my commuting time as work time, since my bus is not crowded and I can always get on my laptop and work with a hotspot. So in a sense you could say I make money while commuting because it counts towards my working hours. I also get part of my afternoon back :)
What is with this cynicism? Bay area tech "drones" are some of the luckiest workers in the world. I work at a pretty average tech company here in the bay and every day I am amazed at how good I have it. I get paid multiple times the country average, I live in a beautiful city, I take at least a month off per year, I work with awesome people on fun projects using cool, new tech. Jesus, what more could you ask for? Most people I know here in the bay feel similarly yet here on HN I only see this cynicism.

Here we have a company that goes way out of their way to build a ridiculously cool campus for their employees and the top comment is talking about how it's no different from what we see in Office Space. Jesus christ are you all really that jaded?
You can't compare points over time between stories directly because of the anti-abuse software. This story made it to the front page by user upvotes, nothing fancy.
It can depend on your location too. If I commute by car, it can take 1 - 2 hours. By metro 1 hr but I've had a few times take up to 2 hours. When I go by bike, it's a consistent 1 hr 15 min.
The food is quite good (better than Google's, by my taste, though reasonable people may disagree), and partially subsidized. Lunch runs you ~$8-12 (typical casual lunch prices for the Bay Area, but with better quality).

Also many of the individual orgs within Apple do have free snacks for their teams; it's not a campus-wide thing.
Waze Carpool. I'm not sure if it's available worldwide, but in Israel it's working pretty cool and allows you to collect up to 4 passengers on your way to work and back. It also matches you only passengers +- on your route so you don't become a taxi driver (they adapt to the local regulations around this since Carpool is allowed in Israel, but Uber isn't..)
Interestingly the G.729 patent pool also expired this year:

http://www.sipro.com/G729.html
It's just got to feel like one solid piece of metal, not actually be solid. Like how iPhones give that glass-and-metal-slab vibe, or (to a lesser extent) MacBook Pros before they thinned the body out (back when they could fit an optical drive), not flexing like the newer ones do when you press lightly on them. I want it to feel like something that could sit in an auto garage seeing daily use and still work after 10 years, but not be giant (possible because the mainboard would be tiny and power-sipping). Sturdy in feel and in fact, though not giant and bulky, and with all-day-plus battery life is what I'm looking for, and I'd trade raw computing power for it. A shopworn socket set of a laptop.
That was also because a lot of those scores were actually performed live, but yes, it has happened already and it keeps happening every day - tons of books, movies and cds are never reprinted because they are copyright-encumbered but not popular enough, and eventually their master documents are misplaced or lost... if it can happen to Kubrick, Dr. Who and Joy Division, it can happen to anything and anyone.
Hm? Win 10 one was released in March, but XP's one wasn't released until WannaCry was rampaging in May.

The fishy part is that they prepared an XP update well in advance, but didn't release it until after the rampage.
Or a fourth option of not building an office for 12,000 people in a suburban area. It's literally across the street from single family homes and there is not a tall building anywhere close to the campus.
Not in particular. I appreciate the suggestion of the official documentation. I do need to rtfm, however after that I will be looking for further examples and explanation. Oh, but if there is any useful tooling I should be aware of that would be quite helpful.
If you are interested in the progress of construction and lots of high definition photos (as well as drone videos) of the Campus: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1385324
Was there any new information from the investigation in this article or was it strictly a hit piece? I've read it twice and the only thing it is saying is that two executives were responsible because of their position in the org chart, which isn't new information AFAIK.

Since it doesn't seem that Graves or Thuan did anything wrong, I'm trying to understand what vested interest recode has in terms of trying to get either executive thrown under the bus. Do they just want another executive out, any executive, so they can write another piece about people who have left the company?

At worst, one can make some sort of claim of professional negligence due to their positions but it's entirely possible the buck stopped with Renee. We simply don't have enough information to judge either of these two at this point but Recode is painting them as guilty. If they have smoking gun evidence, they should present that, but if they are trying to ruin the lives of these two for the sake of ad impressions, that's incredibly slimy and a breach of professional ethics for a journalist.

The only new information AFAICT are a few insider opinions about these two executives that may have come from someone being merely descriptive or with an ax to grind. Those quotes were also completely unrelated to the investigation. Recode isn't practicing journalism here. They are using a few quotes to craft they own story that is pure speculation. Last I heard, that's called fiction, not journalism. One should not be writing fiction that will be interpreted as fact when it can cause real people to be hurt without merit.
> standard: 50 years

According to this study[0] 50 years is the maximum lifespan of a commercial building, not the standard. Over 50% of demolished steel commercial buildings were under 25 years old.

[0] PDF: http://cwc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/DurabilityService_L...
Graph of ~180k relationships in Wikidata
It seems like the jury is still out about what impact Amazon will ultimately have on local communities and shopping as we've known it for years. Retailers are closing their doors as fast as they can get out of their leases.

In many ways, it seems like Amazon has too much control.
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This is pretty easy - work on your side project while driving: https://www.amazon.com/AutoExec-Wheelmate-Steering-Attachabl...

Edit: be sure to view Q&A and reviews at bottom before use - very helpful.
Seems like a great way to check confident ladder climbers, who have no idea how to actually grow a product.
Race to Prevent Airline Terror Turns to Laptops, Thin Bombs
> you can zone out

Another commenter worried that your advice might not be universally applicable because of weather, but I'm worried because of traffic. Whether you can zone out on a bike commute probably depends on what country you're in, and hence whether your bike commute involves a protected cycle path vs. dodging heavy car traffic. I've seen cyclists commuting in Utrecht and in São Paulo, and the former could probably zone out, while the latter would be taking a major risk if they did.
I just mean imitation in it's simplest of forms, which is to say, some creator saw HN and thought it would be good to do a design-focused version. The idea itself is good, it's just a lot of junk gets posted there. I still visit it. Some improvements would make it much better.
What You Can Learn by Reading Hundreds of Amazon Reviews by the Same Person
Don't forget the light grey on white text.
Yes, it is certainly confused thinking to state that if the universe is infinite, every possible physical thing has to be inside it.

One can easily imagine a mostly empty infinite universe...

Personally, though, I think his description of that is more akin to the multiverse, where there might be an infinity of universes with aleph=infinity(?).
> Why don't they have a child care facility?

That decision was made by a man?
I just thought worth mentioning, I am not aware how donations work today.
No offense but I hear this a lot "Why not public transportation?" Well, why not a car if people wanted to have a car? With Tesla and new E.V.s hitting the market, the primary reason (pollution) is gone.
Loads of people everywhere are pan handlers.
Does the iPad require any sort of FAA approval to be used in that manner? I know that anything that physically connects to the plane usually has some stringent regulations but I haven't heard about pilots using iPads before. Can you mount the iPad on the instrument panel?
oh dear, this ... is the exact plot-starter to eco-thriller "Dust" by Charles Pellegrino o_O

https://www.sfsite.com/05b/dust33.htm
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Yeah, the product isn't great. To the point about UX blogs though, theirs is pretty solid https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/. It isn't bogged down by social sharing widgets, scroll jacking, or pop ups (last I checked)
Anyone know what the thing on the pricing page means:

> To celebrate being hunted on Product Hunt, every product hunter gets a free lifetime project plan!

How do you get that? I signed up, but it only gave me the basic one free.
Interesting. Still, the sunshine to energy need ratio in Cupertino seems to support low energy costs.

Redwood City, just to the north, is famous for having the "best climate in the world" by WW2 era gov't test.
honestly thought you were being sarcastic when i read that
Voat has a couple of issues.

First, it took in a lot of people from banned subreddits (/r/coontown, fatpeoplehate, etc.) Unlike the great Digg 4.0 to Reddit migration, they didn't a huge chunk of Reddit. They just got the most controversial.

Second, It tried to be a full Reddit clone with tons of subverses. Reddit started out with just a few categories and slowly expanded out to user generated subreddits. That has to grow slowly over time with your userbase. Since Voat started with that, it has a ton of abandoned subverses that one one posts in anymore.

Voat is a pretty bad cespool of hatred right now. There's occasionally good stuff on there, but a lot of it is conservative garbage. People who have tried to turn it around are so outnumbered that they just leave.

With that said, Voat is open source (written in C# I believe), just like Reddit.
$100k feels like middle class to economists and sociologists deciding what income range makes up the middle class.
How to Protect Against WannaCry Ransomware
There is a bunch of early-internet tech that will soon get out of patent locks, it could lead to a new Golden Age.
A few points here.

One is that social media and the internet have killed language and along with it, formality, and respect. Not just respect for authority, but general respect for those around you.

Some better passages from the article:

Alexis Delgado, a sophomore at the University of Rochester, is skeptical of professors who make a point of insisting on their title. “I always think it’s a power move,” she told me. “Just because someone gave you a piece of paper that says you’re smart doesn’t mean you can communicate those ideas to me. I reserve the right to judge if you’re a good professor.”

This was a real eye opener. A clear lack of respect for the people who are teaching you. I never prejudged a professor's intelligence to teach me, I always questioned my own motivation or the subject matter before simply discounting a professor's ability to teach his students.

The erosion of etiquette encourages students to view faculty members as a bunch of overeducated customer service agents. “More and more, students view the process of going to college as a business transaction,” Dr. Tomforde, the math professor, told me. “They see themselves as a customer, and they view knowledge as a physical thing where they pay money and I hand them the knowledge — so if they don’t do well on a test, they think I haven’t kept up my side of the business agreement.” He added, “They view professors in a way similar to the person behind the counter getting their coffee.”

This just supports the idea that millennials are entitled to whatever they are paying for. No, that's not how it works. It's interesting to see when I was in college in the late 90's early aughts, you chose to go to college as a means to get ahead, not as some sort of transaction where you just show up, pay your money and they give you a diploma. Your education is something that is earned, it's not given to you.
Most people are scared of things they don't know, not because there are logical reasons, but because they don't know. Human nature. If you walk on the street and you show random people a simple sum, they won't get it with sigma in the middle because their brain just wants to avoid it. But if you use english words to describe it people will get it instantly.
GPUs are already SIMD monsters, and even if you make them 8-bit then they won't be anywhere near what TPUs/DPUs can achieve because the TPUs/DPUs are in a specific arrangement for deep learning. Besides, there's tons of bloat in an OoO processor being used for deep learning...

In addition, people seem to disregard the fact that the biggest factor in power consumption is data movement, not the cost of computation, see here (slide 29 is the important one): https://www.ssken.gr.jp/MAINSITE/event/2013/20130827-sci-1/l...
> "That was Steve’s original intention, to sort of blur that line between the inside and outside."
>But all of this doesn’t come without a price for someone that, like me, is a heavy user of the ctrl+space code completion features of both Xcode and Android Studio.

What about using Visual Studio Code with the compiler set on 'checkJs'? I've just started using TypeScript and I don't think I can ever go back to raw JS.
Looks like servant quarters from Downtown Abbey.
This looks AMAZING. 3D games will eventually use deep learning controllers on fully simulated physical forms, instead of animations. The future is going to be amazing.
Taking calls while driving is pretty effective. If you have a side project you could do sales calls while driving.
Microsoft President Urges Nuclear-Like Limits on Cyberweapons
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14348231 and marked it off-topic. I assume it's in reference to McCarthy being surprised at Steve Russell's implementation of eval, but I'd be shocked if he actually said it was impossible.
Auto-discovered application topology and a ticket to Monitorama
> Yes, they are unable because that would hinder them from getting another job.

They, ultimately, have the responsibility to take care of their children, rather than always handing them off to a someone else - correct?

If these jobs are so incompatible with raising children, what's the point of trying to raise children? Does it now seem wise why they companies of these jobs could provide childcare for the benefit of these employees?

SV sounds like Hell on Earth.