skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, the reason this isnt being taken up by anti-trust folks is that iOS doesn't dominate the market the way windows did. So: i guess the answer is to convince my users to stop buying idevices. Whee.

No. Monopolies themselves aren't illegal, especially when they're natural monopolies.

It is illegal for a company to use its monopoly to stifle competition in other, unrelated markets.

The classic case is Microsoft using its monopoly in operating systems when Windows had 95% marketshare in the emerging browser market. Remember that Microsoft threatened to cancel HP and Compaq’s Windows licenses if they continued to ship Netscape Navigator instead of IE. That's illegal.

It's not illegal to have a rules and guidelines for a platform a particular company owns. Game consoles are way more restrictive than the iOS App Store and nobody is suing them.
Welp. Sorry.
With Rust you can at least have some certainty of where problems could happen. It gets boxed inside unsafe and affords extra scrutiny. You don't have to worry much about everything else surrounding you code.

Disclaimer: only went through basic tutorials and I don't program in Rust daily.
The WebKit team.
> All concept, no character.

Also known as high-concept sf - though probably not in this case, unless Atwood has stopped swearing at people who refer to her work in such terms.

On the other hand, postapocalyptic totalitarian religious dystopia isn't really what you'd call breaking new ground, even in 1985.
For those who are technically inclined:
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
I think there is one difference between the person who prefers cubicles/isolation and one who prefers an open space: when you want to get away from the isolation, all you have to do is walk over to a willing party and have a chat. For people (like me and others in this thread) who are unable to function in open spaces, there is no escape from the torture.
This seems like a very strange API. Why do you need a proxy to intercept network requests coming from your own app?
I would posit that having such information, from multiple unrelated sources, could be reasonably used to justify a court warrant that would allow pretty much 24/7 surveillance using any legitimate means. At least for a while.

And that is more or less what they do. The problem, apparently, is that they don't have the resources for this level of surveillance for all the "persons of interest".

And I disagree that increased surveillance wouldn't possibly help here. In all cases that I'm aware of so far, there had been some advanced preparation - and not "45 minutes" advanced. E.g. in the recent London attacks, apparently, the guy was inquiring about how to rent a truck in the past days. If he had been monitored, that alone would have likely triggered an even higher readiness level for a while (to the point of "SWAT team on standby in a van outside of the residence").
Core ML: Integrate machine learning models into your app
Safari supports Web Notifications: http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications

Safari 11 supports WebRTC, Media Capture API, WebAssembly, WebCrypto API, drag-and-drop, and other interesting new features. If a crippled browser is their goal, they're doing quite an awful job of it.
Do you want crappy ads? Then go ahead, make tracking more difficult. Tracking helps you see ads for things you actually want to see. It's not some kind of grand conspiracy.
I used to use OVH on occasion, but I was really disappointed with their North American-based tech support. Didn't seem particularly plugged-in and English proficiency was shaky. (At this point I'm in AWS because I don't really care about low-point performance and would rather spike up when needed.)
Cryptocurrencies market cap hits $100B
I've read many of the proposed questions in this thread - does the CEO have daughters, does the company send everyone to conferences. I personally would avoid asking "what's in it for me" questions unless the company has shown strong interest.

I remember one candidate who received an offer, then insisted on meeting with the CEO a second time and asking him a few more questions. She never got that meeting; the offer was rescinded. The CEO saw her demand as a bad sign.

Any weird question you ask during this sensitive phase will get analyzed and raise concerns. In other words, you have to gather your info via other means.
But if you want to kill the alone-ness, all you have to do is step out. Heck, people used to pair program in cubes long before this open space disease (sorry, my opinion). For those of us that are unable to function in the cage-free farm, our only option is to destroy our hearing with headphones to try to get some work done.
Perhaps an even better analogy is popcorn and soda at the movie theater. Its 10x the price of buying it at costco (perhaps 100x), but you are paying for the movie. In the world of cloud computing this is things like TPUs. I think the lesson here is if you are merely looking for connected bandwidth, maybe cloud providers aren't for you. Shop elsewhere. The point of cloud computing is clearly moving in the direction of data-driven services, at large scale, for big businesses.
I've always figured that the point of this was to allow a) overall costs to generally scale with the "size" of the customer while simultaneously creating a sticker shock effect on migrating out of whatever cloud. For example, looking at Google, the cost to transfer a terabyte out of their Cloud Storage product is six times the cost of just keeping it there for month. Of course some of this collapses if you really look into it (e.g. you are going to pay that egress anyway if people are actually accessing the data) but I'm not sure that that is always clear to execs doing back of envelope math. I think that to some degree this desire for lock-in is explicitly visible in the asymmetric ingress/egress pricing but I do think that it's a little bit underhanded if I am right because it would mean that slightly-deflated e.g. instance prices would be subsidized by lockin.
I prefer crappy to creepy. You're welcome to embrace being tracked if you like the reverse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Doctrine
"British Indian history". That pretty much sums it up. No country should ever have the ignominy of appearing second in its own history. Every Indian wishes the 1857 revolt had snowballed to freedom.
I'm dying for a Mini with Pencil support. I want a digital Moleskine.

If "iPads seen in the wild" are anything to go by, they're still the best-selling model, too. My best guess is that the usability gurus have decided that it's just no good for "getting work done," and they're willing to sacrifice some sales to get more professional traction.
Did it in 90 seconds. Where are they doing it in 90 seconds? Pretty sure they scrapped it, because people didn't want the risk of getting bunk batteries. IE simply an old battery. Do you not understand that EVERY lipo battery has a limited lifespan. Do they swap your used battery for a brand new ones every time? I doubt it. If not, no thanks. Not worth the variability / risk of getting a degraded battery as all lipo batteries degrade with time and cycles.

This is probably one reason they scrapped it.

The next reason they scrapped it.

In your video they "torqued every bolt to the factory specification". The Tesla factory specification. This is exactly what I mean by standardization. Standardization is another issue. You can't have a generic "battery swap station" until EV companies standardize on a battery system, which they won't do because battery system is going to be like a model trim. Yes, you can have a just-for-tesla swap station (but even Tesla isn't bothering with that anymore). You could have a standard charge station because charge plugs are quickly moving toward standardization.

Is there anything else you are having trouble understanding?

So again. Show me where this is a regular thing. It is cumbersome you can have a special garage to change out a specific battery pack. It has to be done with garage equipment, and the battery and connection system is specific to a single type of car. That will not scale.

I didn't move the goalpost. I pointed out your arguments falling on their faces 50 yards away from the goalpost.
I just landed a few racks of bladecenters and storage. High 7 figure deal. This was probably the best implementation project ever... everything ran on time, the vendor delivered everything on time, facilities was 100% ready and pre-cabled, etc. I'm incredibly proud of our team -- our biggest issue was someone ordered the wrong SFP. Butter.

Timeline: 120 days procurement (including product evaluation and PoC), 30 days install activity, 10 days buildout. 10 days software build, 15 days testing.

That's a little over 6 months. A ton of vendor/build engineering/tester time. And we'll be at 50% capacity for another 4 months. Or... we could spin the whole thing up on AWS/GCE/Azure in < 30 days and only consume what we need when we need it.
Sadly Apple has no interest in helping developers make hybrid iOS apps. WKWebView and UIWebView will only give you headaches.
As the author of this post I need to clarify something. I love Amazon AWS, and I love the flexibility and awesomeness of cloud computing. I just don't like the bandwidth pricing ;) Sorry for the interruption, feel free to continue crucifying me. P.S. If someone has more accurate data I'd be happy to update the post or add a guest post. Cheers, Love Arador xoxox
As a provider of IaaS Cloud and of dedicated servers and colo, I hear this argument all the time. No one ever seems to include the Network Engineers, monitoring systems, the routers (better have more than 1!), the switches (distribution and access layers), the maintenance, software licenses (where applicable), customer support, cost of IP addresses, Account Payable, ARIN membership, RADB membership, cross-connects, optics, spares and/or support contracts, etc... and finally, you do not use a 1Mbps at 100% for 24hrs per day, so while 1Mbps for a month is ~320GB, in reality, the way most people transfer data, 320GB would look more like 3Mbps at 95th percentile (the way burstable bandwidth is billed)

A basic 1Gbps commit on a 10Gbps port in a data center might cost you from $0.50/Mbps (something like Cogent) to maybe $1.50/Mbps (let's say Level 3), other providers could be $4+/Mbps. By the time you factor in all of the above overhead costs, the true cost of the bandwidth is much much higher on a per Mbps basis.

Don't forget to significantly over-build your stuff, or you might get knocked off-line for anomalies or DoS attacks.

Admittedly, the scale of Google, AWS, Azure makes the cost per Mbps much much lower, but when as others have pointed out, AWS, Google, Azure don't need to charge less than they do.
Great Post on Quora by a ISRO engineer on the significance of GSLV to ISRO: https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-GSLV-MK-III-mean-to-ISRO...
The Core founders invested very little in the DAO, and pushing for a decision that went against the interests of the network would have hurt them far more through reducing the value of the portion of their holdings they still held, than helped by rescueing the portion they put in the DAO.

In short, you're mischaracterizing the motives of the lead developers who supported the HF.
If you're running a top-notch search engine, why are you excluding the results I care about most?
I think it's about the next generation of users. Been wondering how to explain a mouse to my five-year-old nephew, "You push this pointer around to push buttons on the screen." "Why not just push the button?" Every answer I try to formulate doesn't even convince me.
The land area didn't change but car ownership and external competition [1] did. In the modern day having a car is too cheap and too convenient until you reach population densities similar to NYC.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
bocker(https://github.com/p8952/bocker) is also very good for understanding containers
This seems to be unidirectional -- am I reading this correctly? I'd like to be able to use my phone to authenticate to the keycard system at work (basically clone my keycard).

What I did is carefully cut my keycard down and mount the NFC device into a hole I cut in my case. The security czar heard about this and was not impressed and she disabled my card :-(
I think that's a shortsighted way to look at it. The iPhone is as successful as it is because of the perception of exclusivity - the best, newest apps will always be on iPhone first. Whether they are free or cost $100 each doesn't really matter that much - it still means Apple is the premier mobile device bar none.

If they enabled more progressive webapp features, we'd start to see a lot more cross platform webapps. That would not be in Apple's interest.
>There's a site on Neocities we host for free that would cost $560/mo to host on Amazon's CDN.

Neocities isn't just for static websites? How much traffic are getting that it would $560 on s3?
[LCS] Interview with TL Piglet, and his open letter to his teammates
Before You Build a PWA, You Need to Create a SPA
http://caniuse.com/#feat=push-api is the interesting notifications API, which allows notifying a user (with their permission) even when the app isn't open. Neither API is supported on iOS Safari, and desktop Safari only supports notifications while the app is open.
before I was a parent I was anti screen time. Now that I am a parent of a 3yr old I'm pro screen time within reason.

I was really surprised to the huge amount of language development that occurs through screen time. My son at age 2 could name all the Thomas the Tank Engine characters. There are probably 30+ of them! I was blown away by the phraseology he absorbed/adapted from children's cartoons. There is real learning that happens in front of a screen. It's certainly not as passive as it would seem!

A child's expression when watching a screen can be disturbing at times (zombie like is a good description), but I've overcome my initial misgivings. Mixed in with play, exposure to other children, outside time etc. it's really a great tool.

It also gives mum and dad some down time which is nice ;)
Oh man, finally we found the responsible person for open office misery :)
To be fair, there really was no 'India' before the British cobbled one together. Unlike China, there never was one power that controlled the whole subcontinent. It's hard to know how things would have ended up politically if not for British hegemony. Would there be a country like India, or would its various disparate parts have continued as distinct sovereign entities? Part of the miracle of the whole Indian project is that it has remained basically intact since independence. This isn't something one would have taken for granted a few decades ago.
Again, it's mostly public policy. I can get unmetered 100Mb/s broadband for $42 a month, because the broadband market in my country is competitive and well-regulated. Paying for your childrens' education is a completely alien concept in many countries, because public primary and secondary education is uniformly excellent and university is state-funded for all.

Financially, the average European is a fair bit worse off than the average American. Gross median household incomes in Germany are about 25% lower than in the US; America has the sixth highest median household income in the world. GDP per capita tells a similar story. This simply isn't a question of money.

Americans don't need to get rich, they need to vote for someone who gives a damn.
But if they derive happiness from contributing to something larger than themselves, they are still working for their own happiness. No?
>even then maybe we can go smaller.

Can you elaborate?
I bet that site loses money for Neocities every month. But it's subsidized by the tens of thousands of $5 sites that don't consume their allotment of resources.
North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat
I've been using Kryptonite a little bit and generally I'd say it's been a pretty pleasant experience. While I personally haven't spent much time weighing the pros and cons from a security perspective (and I'm not a security expert, so in all likelihood I'm not in a position to give a fair evaluation of it), from an overall user experience perspective these guys have done a really solid job.

If I have any gripe it's that, when using with Git, Visual Studio Code's Git autofetch feature winds up causing Kryptonite to issue a push notification to my phone every couple of minutes after first authorizing for three hours, with no way to granularly suppress notifications. That's really kind of the point of Kryptonite, obviously, but it's possible there's a better solution for this on Kryptonite's end that wouldn't require any contortions from users.
Would people sit on public transportation every day if they had a choice? Cleary not - BART ridership is falling during leisure time (when people have a choice) even as it rises during peak hours.
The project was very young, and the community miniscule, at the time. It could be justified as a one-time beginner's incident. The network and ecosystem can be expected to behave very differently when it's mature, or even today, given how much larger the community is now, and how much more aware people are of the risks facing smart contracts (which means there is much less justification to rescue those who put money in a complex smart contract that gets hacked).

The project itself made mistakes early on by not sufficiently warning people of the risks of the DAO, which gave justification for the do-over. I think they can be excused given the DAO was the very first smart contract of its kind, and given how much was deposited in the DAO so quickly, which was totally unexpected.

So I think Ethereum can easily be forgiven for the DAO and subsequent hard fork to redo it. It was a highly experimental technology, that saw a major hack of a early-stage application that was only aiming to attract $500,000 of ETH, but had ended up having $150 million worth of ETH deposited in it, when the ecosystem and the state of the technology were not ready.
Most sites don't obey the do not track header. Edge on the other hand is much more nefarious, by default it sends all data sent by POST requests to Microsoft. I was surprised to find Bing sending data from people who use Edge on my site to try and improve their search results. There are so many security and privacy issues with this it's not funny at all.
Well, this is hardly a new crisis. I lived there before and after Prop 13 and it was a crisis then too. They way I solved it for me was to leave California.

If you live and work in L.A. odds are good you're spending about 1 out of every 10-15 years of your life in traffic. And that's a 24/7/365 year. Deduct sleep and work from what remains and you don't have much of a life left.

I figured that out sitting on the Ventura Fwy one day and started planning my escape when I got home. That was 30 years ago I never miss it a bit.

I visited LA for the 1st time last year when my wife and went to "Desert Trip". In some respects it was better, and I tip my hat to Californians when I say that.

They only thing I'll say "fer sure" was worse are "In-n-Out Burgers". They weren't even close to as good. Neither were the fries. I was sad about that and to be fair I kinda do do miss those.
Most enterprises, you're right. I left people off because you can handle a dozen or more DCs with only a couple engineers if you assume (design for) frequent component failure and only do a site visit/decomm/install once or twice a year.
Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality
To be clear, do you mean that Map/Set is faster than {} even for plain idiomatic hashes with string keys (as opposed to pathological cases)?

When I last tested in other JS engines I found plain {} hashes were still moderately faster. (Haven't tried Safari since it doesn't support what I've been working on)
If you consider UI elements moving around dynamically to be a problem, which I'm guessing these guidelines do.

Also if you consider scrolling like an epileptic having a fit to be a problem.
From the article, I think the "remaining money" may be entirely notional. It talks about Ron Graham chipping in $5k to help cover a $10K bounty.

Besides, these days the money is mostly beside the point. It is like those Knuth reward checks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check. In most cases, certainly the most recent $500 "happy ending" problem, the bragging rights are worth more than the money.
If I could give unsolicited advice: focus on graceful progressive enhancements. Galleries, tiles, etc should be left to JavaScript.
Doh! Of course. Being on Linux almost all the time has given me tunnel vision.
Man, check out all the graphs on pgs. 39-40. It's not just crime that's strongly correlated.
The question asked was about using the iPad pro to code.
I often forget that my XPS 9350 has a touchscreen in it - do you have any tips for getting more use out of it in Windows 10?
>This format beats WebP by a margin wider than WebP was smaller than JPEG.

I have been looking for this, do you know where to find a comparison between HEIF and WEBP?
Apple pays devs 70% (and more on long-lived app subscriptions now). So that's $100B, not $233B.
tl;dr by Laura Norén (@digitalFlaneuse on twitter):

Stanford professor, Ilya Strebulaev, and Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia recalculated the valuation of 100+ companies known as unicorns (startups valued at $1bn +) and showed many aren't worth nearly as much as they claim. Why? Because math. Startups typically issue different classes of stock in each fundraising round but their valuations are oversimplified by applying the price of the most recent round to all outstanding shares. Every company they looked at was overvalued, 53 lost their $1bn unicorn status, and 13 were overvalued by more than 100 percent. ... "Some unicorns have made such generous promises to their preferred shareholders that their common shares are nearly worthless," the two professors wrote. In my opinion, this is an example of two things 1) lots of people cannot apply their math skillz and 2) the ethos of finance contains much magical thinking. The entire industry is obsessed with unicorns. According to Scottish myth, unicorns were ruthlessly hounded by clamoring hoards, simultaneously scapegoated for being the aberrant creatures they are and loved to death (e.g. abused, fatally) for their magical powers. Lesson: it's clear that many in finance are not good at applying their history and culture skillz, either.
> If there was a rogue web site launching service workers to do something nefarious how would I know diagnose what's happening ?

What exactly are you supposing a service worker would be doing? They can't do huge downloads (the worker is shut down when there are no pages using it and it can only be reactivated by another browsing session or push message), can't receive push messages without showing a notification... there really is very little a service worker can do nefariously.

It can, however, help improve battery life by allowing you to better control the offline experience, and not needlessly activate cell radios.
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Bandwidth is generally a necessity for cloud hosting, unlike drinks with your tacos.