skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“It’s not about blocking ads, the web behaves as it always did, but your privacy is protected,” he added.

Does this mean browser fingerprint is somehow scrambled before it is sent to the tracker instead of blocking?
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Safari is free.
Isn't this just a roundabout way of saying that people with lower IQs are more prone to criminal activity?
It's unclear to me how these "trackers" work? How do they track you, is it cookies, or what?
It's based on HEVC. I wonder how bad the patent situation is.
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> despite occasional high-profile successes like Groupon, Zynga

Are those really the definition of a VC success story?
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> a contractor doing maintenance work inadvertently switched off the power supply [...] This resulted in the total immediate loss of power to the facility, bypassing the backup generators and batteries... After a few minutes of this shutdown, it was turned back on in an unplanned and uncontrolled fashion, which created physical damage to the systems and significantly exacerbated the problem.
I've seen this advice repeated elsewhere, with more academic analysis. And also repeated in terms of startup advice.

patio11 has a phrase: "increase the luck surface", and it is kin to this as well. If % of Making It is 1 in 500, then it's much more straightforward to increase the number of dice rolls than to attempt the perfection of your roll.

This also ties into the findings about grit, or perseverance through rough patches. Grit and trying over and over, learning each time, is a pretty good predictor of some decent success.

In my own career, I've found that being aggressively prolific is key to getting better. Careful tweaking so as not doing the same thing over and over is hugely important as well: searching the learning hillclimb for improvement.
Blockchain's function is only to prevent double spend. Note that addresses are just a virtual term, in reality when you send money to an address you are setting up a "lock" (predicate) that can be unlocked only by a private key associated with public key that hashes to this address.
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cool idea, but the majority of the videos on the "videos" tab make me immediately wary of how useful this will be.

There's one guy (Mike_Egg) who owns the majority of the videos on the page. That in itself is suspicious, since if they were so frequent over a single location, we wouldn't need something like this to catch them. The videos are also VERY sloppily edited, though. Meaning they are feeding fake data to this system and having it flag artifacts they shopped in.

its a cool idea, but I'd maybe put some policing on your user-submitted videos to weed out the obvious fakes if you want to gain credibility that this system works
That's exactly correct. Looking at the output:

write(3, "\3048\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\7example\3com\0\0\34\0\1", 29
write(4, ";\251\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\7example\3com\0\0\1\0\1", 29

We can make these a little more legible like this:

$ printf "%b" '\3048\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\7example\3com\0\0\34\0\1' | xxd
00000000: c438 0100 0001 0000 0000 0000 0765 7861 .8...........exa
00000010: 6d70 6c65 0363 6f6d 0000 1c00 01 mple.com.....

$ printf "%b" ';\251\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\7example\3com\0\0\1\0\1' | xxd -a
00000000: 3ba9 0100 0001 0000 0000 0000 0765 7861 ;............exa
00000010: 6d70 6c65 0363 6f6d 0000 0100 01 mple.com.....

RFC1035 and later explain how to decode. We only care about decoding the "question section" which follows the format of QNAME/QTYPE/QCLASS.

The QNAME is sequence of labels ("example", "com", "") preceded by their length. So we see "example" (preceded by its length of 7), "com" (preceded by its length of 3, and the null label (empty string with a length of 0) representing the root.

Each QNAME is then followed by the QTYPE (two bytes) and QCLASS (two bytes). The first QTYPE is 0x1c, or 28 decimal, which is indeed a AAAA query. The second QTYPE is 1, which is an A query.
I'm the opposite I buy all my entertainment from Apple, physical items from Amazon + hundreds of kindle books to read on iPad.
Apple TV is a fantastic device, way better than fire TV, I'm glad I can ditch it now, it's got a crap remote.
I'm also ditching way over priced Sky TV, I hate them for charging me and playing countless adverts on music channels, als the sound and video qaulity of Apple TV is so much better than Sky. Buy loads of films for the kids and rent adult films, also often buy a series pass for latest TV series if not on Netflix.
Looks neat but you ask for a massive amount of permissions.
Unfortunately, anyone who wants to fork over $5K for one of these gems has to consider how brittle Apple products have become. Who wants to spend that kind of scratch only to have it become a brick in a year.
Apple are a bit old-school about releases, they seem to bundle all major updates together and only give security and minor updates to their previous releases, and they follow that for all of the software they provide.

This is how it has historically been for 90's and early 00's unix-like operating systems like *BSD and Solaris. A lot of things come bundled with the base so everything in the operating system's base release is updated with a new release of the kernel that comes bundled with it.
Wonder how this will work with random websites' photo upload features. Will all other browsers break because they are serving HEVC user-uploaded content? Or will iOS transcode to JPEG on upload (triggering double lossy encoding?)
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I really liked "Building Microservices" by Sam Newman. It's a good review on current software architecture and software development process in addition to going over microservices. Honestly microservices are a topic in the book but it could just be called "Software Architecture in 2016".
There are a number of ways. Cookies are one, but you can also collect other kinds of data from a web browser to uniquely identify a user across multiple sessions. Generally speaking, if you can run JavaScript, you can track the user. This is done by all advertisers and most little widgets like Facebook or Disqus comments, like and tweet buttons, etc.
The mac pro did not feature external GPU, just external storage. The only thing you won't be able to upgrade in this machine is the CPU. The RAM is not soldered on those high end iMacs, and disk and gpu can be external over TB3.
It would seem the Nokia open source implementation is what's limited by the patent rider. I don't think that applies to the format at large.
This is generally the most detailed and reliable: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
I know what an external GPU is. But the external graphics aren't powered by an external GPU "enclosure". They are powered by an external GPU.
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I'll have to agree with you. Having owned cars both in small and medium-sized cites and also while living a few blocks south of the 575 Ocean Avenue spot mentioned earlier, I was very happy to no longer have to deal with parking/owning a car in NYC.

Shit happens everywhere, but owning a car in Brooklyn was a level of hassle I'm not prepared to ever deal with again.
>Finally, the carrier was provided, but the phone itself wasn't identified. Was this a dumb phone, Android or iOS device? Does it matter?

It does not matter. Every carrier maintains a list of connected to towers for a month or more. This is the data those companies would be providing to LEO.
MacMini 2013' are better than a new one.
Vulkan might become the next OpenCL, with the focus being Android (7% devices as of today) and GNU/Linux thing.

All major game engines already support Metal, DX 12, NVN (the actual Switch main GX API) and LibGCM. Middleware is what counts, switching the graphics API on a compilation switch.

Apple just announced on the Keynote, Metal 2, Metal VR and updated Metal Compute, with the Window Manger being ported from OpenGL to Metal.

Also how ILM is now using Metal on their production pipelines.

It remains to be seen what will be shown later on the technical sessions.
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> The ancient “2 percent and 20 percent” should be killed off and replaced with something that endorses higher alignment. Let the VCs fight for their supper.

I agree, this is a stupid fight. Higher alignment is called "Private Equity" and it already exists as a model. VCs will go where the market (i.e. the money) tells them, which right now is 2/20. All of the VCs that don't return their funds will simply stop getting LP money and cease to exist.

> I recently had a meeting...talking about the macro view of venture capital and how it doesn’t actually make sense....It took me a while to understand what this really means.

Ok so the author just had a meeting with an angel investor, decided to do all of the research (that's already freely available mind you) and came to the same conclusion as everyone else. Ugh.
I agree. I think the sweet spot for my workload (not encoding much video just compiling stuff) the 8-core model with higher clocks makes more sense for me.
Maybe the immutability is not 100% now, but it will be when the technology is finalized, which will take a few more years. The fork to save DAO funds was a good thing, because otherwise too much ETH would have been in the hands of an attacker. The ETH distribution would have been skewed. That's all.
Real, fully fledged Safari is only available on Apple Products
Personally, I would love to. The decisions aren't up to just me though, so I don't have any real news or plans to share.
Probably most (if not all) fingerprinting sources are showcased by fingerprint.js: https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2
In practice, User-Agent strings (which are just HTTP headers) have been shown to be pretty effective at uniquely identifying and tracking most people. So even disabling JavaScript and Cookies only goes so far.
No, it is not. It's part of Mac OS, which is not free. There used to be a Windows version of Safari, but that was a long time ago.
How about just one single discussion thread "Apple WWDC news and announcements" rather than multiple ones?

A Kaby Lake refresh is hardly news when the rest of the industry is already preparing for Gemini Lake.
Ask HN: Where should a UK-based company move to if encryption is outlawed?
Throwaway account for probably-obvious reasons. We would be grateful if people avoided speculating about who this is in the comments :-)

We're a UK-based PaaS. About 90% of our customers are from outside the UK.

The party most likely to form the government after the upcoming election here is strongly averse to encryption. Although it remains to be seen what, if any, legislation they will actually enact if they get in, we need to do contingency planning. The worst-case scenario (which, to be clear, we think is very unlikely) is that they might pass laws that would mean we would not be able to offer a service with sufficient security for our international customers.

In this - again, we think unlikely - event, we'd either have to close the business, as we can't keep going on our UK revenue only, or we'd have to move to another country.

Our question for HN is: which country would it be best to move to? It would need to be one with no crazy laws around encryption (and no obvious political rumblings that it might move in that direction), and an immigration system that would let us in. Ideally it would also be a nice place to live :-)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[edit] By "political rumblings", this is the kind of thing we're worried about, coming from the EU: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/ec_push_encryption_backdoors/
Really, this could be quite massive:

>It's a sum so great that The Walt Disney Co., parent of ABC, has included this lawsuit — and no other lawsuit — in 10-Q reports to shareholders filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. That means Disney sees the outcome as potentially "material" to its bottom line.
Does that $2k hackintosh have a Xeon, ECC RAM, and a (presumably based on their history) great 5k monitor?

Because a good Xeon E5 can easily cost $2k by itself.
It is free like macOS is free, as in, it isn't. It is software that only runs on hardware created by that company: it would be like considering your embedded microwave control software free with the purchase of the microwave.

Safari for Windows is long gone if that's what you were thinking.
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Author here: The larger significance is that the iMX6 can run Android using an all open source graphics stack, that contains no proprietary blobs.
What's most surprising is Apple's endorsement of eGPUs via Thunderbolt 3 - given only a few months ago Apple seemed to be simply aghast at the concept of external GPUs: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-c...

> Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch): What’s your philosophy on external GPUs?

> Craig Federighi: I think they have a place.
How many websites don't already re-encode most of the JPEGs they're handed? Facebook does- Flickr does, though sometimes you can request the original file specifically. Imgur probably does.
Another consideration: How easy is it to spoof a sim card? Someone might be trying to implicate the accused by duplicating their sim card and taking a phone with the duplicated sim card to every robbery they commit.
> Authorities, especially institutions of higher learning, shouldn't be in the business of policing their student's speech. That's not "culture." That's oppression.

I considered that to be an absolutist argument. I think there are contexts in which authorities (EDIT: non-governmental authorities) can police speech in a way that is not oppressive. And not just the usual "shouting fire in a crowded theater" sense. If you are using a public forum to be disruptive and is detrimental to the other students, it can be appropriate to levy some sort of disciplinary action. If you start shouting racial epithets in a crowded theater, for example, I think it is appropriate for you to be thrown out. So the line is not clear cut, there is a level of subjectivity at play.

> So are you basically saying it's okay to engage in partisan thought and speech policing of political viewpoints of graduating high school seniors by trolling through their social media?

In this case, the students posted the offensive material on a public forum moderated by Harvard staff. I wouldn't consider this "trawling through social media".

> I don't get instantly excluded for voicing an opinion. Instead I get feedback. There's the difference.

So if Harvard had put these students on academic probation or something instead, you wouldn't necessarily have a problem? That's something I can get behind. I thought you were opposed to any action being taken against these students of any kind.
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Not really, because in order to [easily] use Apple software, you must buy Apple hardware.
This is at best a tangential point. If the wind farm is 114MW with a 10% capacity factor, his point is still correct.

Yes, they still rely on coal and natural gas to smooth the load, but his point was that by subsidizing the wind power, they still reduce emissions the same amount as if they didn't.

Obviously, this strategy only works when renewable penetration is fairly low, once you start having oversupplies then you no longer have 100% efficiency with this strategy.
Would it make you happy if they had written "On average though, x MW is pulled out of the grid by the datacenter and x MW is put in by the renewable energy company, where x is some value < 114 MW"? Sheesh. The point being made is pretty clear.
It would be a great thing if screen was a cintiq, like Surface. This.. it feels like a stopgap - expensive one at that.
Viper is not completed, and it might never be completed.

Solidity is here now, and the demand for Solidity developers is growing by the hour.
I think this is kinda misleading. Sure Safari is free, but is ONLY available on OSX/iOS which can only be obtained by purchasing apple devices. This is unlike Chrome, which is free for anyone, across any platform.

One of my coworkers once told me he preferred Apple products over any other vendor if only because he believes that by paying higher for apple products, he is paying for the privacy/security aspects of having his data secure and personal. I'm not sure how much this is true, but this datapoint does seem to confirm that theory.
Are you referring to anything specific?
So you missed the part of the post where I said "Video right holders have never allowed their content to be delivered without copy protections."?

Netflix was completely incompatible with PC operating systems that didn't run Silverlight. Netflix is nowe incompatible with operating systems that don't support the required DRM -- which is now a greater subset of operating systems.
You have to* purchase an Apple product to use Safari.

*We're going to ignore the minuscule hackintosh community for a minute.
It's in keeping with their "Tick-Tock" naming since Snow Leopard:

Leopard (Tick) -> SnowLeopard (Tock)

Lion -> Mountain Lion

Mavericks -> ...(uuhhh...whoops?)

Yosemite -> El Capitan

Sierra -> High Sierra
To all of you who're disappointed by this not being a "proper Pro":

"4x larger L2 cache" and "2x wider AVX" suggest they're going to use the upcoming i9 X-series chips [1] that are based on Skylake design with ~15% better instructions-per-clock (IPC) performance than Broadwell-based Xeons, plus they'll clock much higher than Xeons too: with turbo boost up to 4.5Ghz for even the 10-core model!. Quad channel DDR4 at 2666Mhz is also an improvement.

All this promises a much better single-thread performance vs the current Pro line. IMO that's insane amount of power, it can even probably handle Slack desktop client! :)

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex...
But I think this behavior is nothing new. It is just revealed in a persistent form when you put it on a chatroom with your name next to it. One hears about this kind of stuff everywhere, all over the world. It fits the stereotype of the entitled rich white guys from the ivy league, but it's also not that uncommon in the non-ivyleague world. Yes, its unacceptable to share this publically, or with coworkers.

But that's a pretty huge penalty. High school kids do stupid shit. There are some people there who lost their admission who probably were very lucky to get into harvard, who don't have 10 other ivy league schools to go to.
It is important to understand that these studies really are looking at the 'post dot com' VC industry or perhaps more succinctly "what it became after that event."

And it would be wrong to assume that there aren't market forces, working even as we type, to 'correct' the imbalance. If it had not been for the exceptionally anemic returns to be had in general, I expect this correction would have happened sooner.

But unlike startups that post 'incredible journey' type farewells, VC firms that evaporate are rarely reported on. There are firms which are contractually following through on their existing funds, raising no new funds, and entertaining no investments in companies they aren't already invested in. These are dead venture capital companies that are waiting for the end of life support.

I am curious what the next chapter will look like. A lot of people think it will be more 'integrated' VCs that look more like Y-combinator and less like Sequoia. Hard to say.
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This seems pretty similar to BPG: https://bellard.org/bpg/
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For a second I thought "why in the world is Valve maintaining this". Confusing username to be frank.
No need for this to be a future issue: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...

That works (for now)
Right; my point is that your "some" circumstances are precisely those under which there is no competitive pressure.
The first of many on the audience automation front:)
Not sure what you mean. Anecdotally I have a 2009 MBP and a 2013, both still running strong...

The phones are another story, but it seems the macbooks are pretty solid.

Also I'd be hard pressed to find a $5K configuration for a new macbook. Seems like $3K tends to be top of the line.
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I agree with much of your thought, but we've seen just now in the US that members of the republican party basically believe if you get sick and didn't earn health insurance on your own, you deserve to die, which is effectively the same thing as "disease is a punishment of the wicked" (or poor).
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why DNSSEC is a really terrible idea... That's what tptacek would've said, I guess.

But seriously, having such a weak security for something so fundamental as name server scares me out.
The Kaufmann report was published in 2012. At that time, both companies looked like VC darlings.
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If you want a keyboard that looks similar and has good quality but not for macOS, I've heard good things about Surface Keyboard

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface-keyboard/8r3...
I'm not on FB, but can you click in the corner of the advert and find out why you (or rather, your mum) was targeted? Is it demographic or interest based targeting?
The classic branch is still susceptible to the same problem, though. They didn't fork because of the DAO, but who's to say they won't fork because they don't like the result of a different contract?

If I'm going to trust the enforceability of my contract to some group of people, I trust the established legal system--warts and all--much more than the mob rule of the Ethereum crowd.
I wonder how it compares to FLIF, which looks like it has a formal release finally. http://flif.info/
Technically it does - the Surface Book's "Performance Base" has a beefy NVIDIA GPU inside of it, while the rest of the main system, with an Intel GPU, is in the display portion - though I don't know what interface is used between the display and the base - is it "real" hot-pluggable PCI-Express, something proprietary, or Thunderbolt?
Yep, I wanted exactly two things in the MBP on the last refresh: 32+ gigs of RAM, and an nVidia GPU.
This still affects a lot of communities in California. [1] (And, of course elsewhere across the country.)

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lead-california-exclus...
The external GPU is in an enclosure and that enclosure doesn't have to have a GPU in it. Most of the Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe enclosures support other PCIe devices.
My understanding is that lead exposure increases impulsiveness much more than you would expect from the IQ decrease it also causes.
Lead poisoning comes with more than just an IQ drop - it increases aggression and reduces impulse control.
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@QuinnyPig just to clarify. You think most lambda ideas are bad, but not this one?
GSLV MK3 is a crucial enabling technology for future applications for ISRO. They plan to human certify it. But most importantly, it's planned to evolve into new family of launch vehicles called Unified Launch Vehicle (ULV). A new SCE-200 semi-cryogenic engine which is under development and other upgrades could enhance the payload capacity to 6 metric tons. So the ULV will eventually replace PSLV and the GSLV MK2.

As for pricing, I definitely agree SpaceX has the edge especially with their reusable rockets. But one can still hope ISRO catches up :)
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