skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I choose to believe it was the engineers finally getting a say after being forced to do all of the creepy spyware stuff.

I don't think engineers are as innocent in that regard as we'd like to believe.
Preparation is key for me. It's so easy to backpedal into junk food if you don't have a healthier alternative ready to go. There's just so much junk out there.

I do meal/snack prep on Sundays, which goes a long way. I eat less grab-and-go junk and I save money too.
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This begs the questions, how do we define a car? And how do we differentiate it from a small airplane?
Lots of clever things are simply self-evident in hindsight.
Automation is much more than just cars.
How will Blockchain go mainstream?
Dandruff is generally caused by fungi living on the scalp. The fungi eat up your skin and make it dry. The dry skin flakes off.

Dandruff shampoos work by killing the fungi. There are three main types of anti-fungals, zinc pyrithione is used in Head and Shoulders, selenium disulfide in Selson Blue. There is a third one not commonly used called ketoconazole that you may want to try.

There is also coal tar shampoo, which is not an anti-fungal, instead it slows skin cell growth and sloughs off the dead skin.

Selson Blue works well for me, I use it daily. If I go off of it for a few days the dandruff kicks into high gear.

The thing about dandruff shampoos is you have to use them with a certain regularity because even if you kill the fungi, the condition takes a few days to clear up, the damage to your scalp is done. You need to create a hostile environment for the microorganisms, and that takes time.

Your dandruff is probably caused by only one type of organism that thrives in particular climates. Next time you're there, you might get ahold of two or three shampoos and try them for a week each and see if it clears up. Then you know which is 'your' anti-fungal.
At MoneyConf in Madrid last week, Huy Nguyen Trieu - co-founder at Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) - discussed the current situation of Blockchain projects being tested within the financial sector, with Jon Mathonis and David Bailey, highlighting the inherent difficulties to scale implementation.
This is a rather hyperbolic talk. I kept thinking of counter examples; non-spyware devices, general purpose computers I've browsed by the hundreds in the last week; ways to maximize the use cases for devices sold at ridiculously low "black box" price points; missed opportunities to pour even worse regulation on the innocent user, etc.

I dunno, I just can't get there. I don't see a war on general computation. Maybe a shifting set of industry priorities around it, but that isn't a war...
I'm not dwaltrip, but I don't see that as hand-wringing either, for what it's worth. I don't think I'm being deliberately obtuse.
Uh it's not twice as big.

2^32 ~ 4,294,967,000
2^64 ~ 18,446,700,000,000,000,000
What is your solution to this problem then?
VPN from the same subnet simply doesn't work at all on Macs built-in VPN client, last time I looked into it. Windows built-in VPN client hasn't had a problem dealing with this for a long time.
PHP here is just calling c functions. The actual non-benchmark php people pay for is completely orthagonal to these results.
Imagine it's the other way around. I'm sure Apple has been working on car tech for far long than Samsung, but Samsung has been working on it because Apple is.

While Cook is mentioning it officially today, as you know they have been hiring countless people from the auto industry for many many years as they work on the tech. AI is integratal to Apple across all their product lines so makes sense to also do AI for autonomous systems such as a car. Apple isn't saying they will build their own car necessarily, they are saying they would build the underling tech for the car, that they would then presumably license to luxury car makers.
Clearly SiteGround is not quite so salable as Heap...
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In the case of Ionic it uses Cordova to give access to native APIs. Even better, it provides a JS wrapper so that there is a common interface for both systems and you only need to write your code once!
Alright, let's recap the situation here:

Someone spurs a random, obviously incorrect and unfounded piece of information just to make a point about how they use/used huge amounts of data, because big data these days.

Then they make it clear that it's just a memory, a less than vivid one:

> I agree, all I remember is that when I tried it, /dev/zero sometimes sucked performance-wise

Only sometimes yes. Sometimes it didn't suck. But sometimes it did. But sometimes it didn't.

> I can't recall the exact circumstances as it was some time ago

A long time ago /dev/zero sometimes suck performance-wise, and sometimes it didn't. But sometimes it did.

> and could have been on any of Linux/FreeBSD/SunOS/HP-UX/IRIX

Ah yes, _could_ have been on any <RANGE FROM THE MOST COMMON UNIX SYSTEM TO THE LEAST COMMON SYSTEM THESE DAYS SO THAT WE INTRODUCE SOME MORE CONFUSION AND ILLUSION INTO THE ARGUMENT>.

> perhaps it was the fastest common way at the time?

Ah yes, perhaps. Another layer of indirection in the argument.

And now the number of possibilities is endless, if you want to find any real evidence of the argument made there, you have to go through hoops and combinations of combinations and run the tests.

But wait...

> On a recent x64 Linux, /dev/zero seems plenty fast enough now:

Ah yes, of course, make sure you're not wrong when it only comes to something others can _easily_ call you out on.

Seriously, is HN fostering a culture where it's OK to spew pseudo-intellectual garbage as long as you're being nice? This contradicts how every comment is trying to look like a paper published in a highly acclaimed journal.
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Apple has been focusing on it for many many years, but the news today is that Cook himself has admitted it is a focus rather than they his limited past remarks such as that they are watching the space.
A note on the Multi-Cloud support; OP is correct, it's not "switch to another provider" type setup - that's not where the power lies, the cool stuff is about being able to share attributes across clouds - Think about creating an AWS ELB, and then adding that CNAME entry into your CloudFlare account.

It also makes it for when/if you want to switch or start supporting other providers - your tool is already agnostic, and you don't need to go from CloudFormation and port over - you're already there.
If the interview took place June 5th, why has Bloomberg been sitting on it until now?
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Yes, yes and yes! In addition to progressing as a developer, you'll be surprised at how much you'll forget as you move on to other projects and having it written down in a way that you can understand is incredibly valuable.

Its been over three years since I've graduated my bootcamp and I still blog regularly, have multiple breakable toys and keep my documentation up to date. Its saved me more than once!
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How do devices like this, handle data analysis of two people in a bed?

The latest crop of devices have been single-person-only, for example Alexa, so I assume it doesn't work at all for non-single people, but maybe there's some interesting magic going on in there to support multiple people.

I wonder what this kind of hardware thinks of pets.

You get a married couple, a housecat or two, maybe a dog, the data stream must be very interesting to filter.
I could be wrong, but (what with the references to the client complaining to the OP's manager) it sounds to me as if the OP is not the person who negotiated the contract but the engineer implementing the requirements. Perhaps s/he is in a position to affect company policy regarding such client interactions and contractual agreements, but it sounds like that may not be the case.

Do you have any advice for someone in this situation? Mine would be to start with a nice long sit-down with the manager about setting expectations for both the engineer and the client. Of course, if your manager doesn't have your back, you have a whole other constellation of problems, and you may be better off getting the hell out.
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This is exactly right. Install Postgres, add some indices on the columns you're querying, and you're probably good for the next ten years in that respect. Try to focus on making a product people want and making them aware of it instead. No company[1] has ever died because their tech stack wasn't good enough.

[1]: Approximately.
This assumes Apple is going to release the car before autonomous cars become an established market. Apple probably could have released HomePod back in 2014 around the time Alexa was released. They chose to watch the market unfold and enter when they felt was right.

There's no reason they can't be working on a car that won't be released for 5+ years, after the market has matured.
Robert Russel:

The KERNAL was known as kernel[6] inside of Commodore since the PET days, but in 1980 Robert Russell misspelled the word as kernal in his notebooks. When Commodore technical writers Neil Harris and Andy Finkel collected Russell's notes and used them as the basis for the VIC-20 programmer's manual, the misspelling followed them along and stuck.[7]

According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer/programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the "word" KERNAL is an acronym (or maybe more likely, a backronym) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role. Berkeley Softworks later used it when naming the core routines of its GUI OS for 8-bit home computers: the GEOS KERNAL.
I'm mostly testing the waters, but if people find it useful in the long term, I would like to commercialise it (probably as a SaaS), maybe by providing "pro" features such as authentication, longer expiration dates for the API tokens, things like that..
No need for "dd", let "pv" get the data from /dev/zero directly:

$ pv < /dev/zero > /dev/null
[ 16GiB/s]

But the version of yes using vmsplice() is even faster than that on my machine.
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Because outside of the home screen and poorly maintained touch-optimized apps most software for Windows is still designed for using with a mouse. iOS is inherently less capable than Windows, but is much better for touch, and all apps are geared towards that.

I was skeptical a few years ago, but I think iOS's productivity potential is growing faster than Windows "Cool Factor", efficiency, and portability are improving.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. The Uniform Commercial Code (in the US) has provisions about what constitutes accepting an instrument of payment taken in good faith, and that indemnifies a business. Maybe those laws should not exist and insurance should be the mechanism to cover loss stemming from fraud, but it doesn't work that way.
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As someone who uses Django more or less full time, I don't think relying on the ORM without knowing any SQL is especially good advice.

Django's ORM is very easy to use, but it is not especially powerful, and when you want to do advanced queries (multiple join conditions for example) it often isn't possible. When someone asks me for some data from the database, usually its easier for me to go directly to the database than use the Django ORM.

Use the ORM to start with, but its most definitely a good idea to learn proper SQL .
Your third point hits the nail on the head imho, but this:

> Hollow point handgun rounds drastically reduce the danger of over-penetration present with rifle rounds for likely police scenarios.

Isn't really true anymore. There are modern cartridges for 5.56 that have great ballistics while in the air, and then very reliably dump all their energy into the first thing they hit, to the point where if you shoot drywall they will make a huge hole in it but not significantly harm a person standing a few meters behind it. If you are concerned about overpenetration, today it should guide your selection of ammo, not your weapon.
CEO of Cambridge Analytica explains hyper-targeting political campaigns (2016)
FYI, Cambridge Analytica was used extensively for both the Cruz and Trump campaigns
How? Only eats 2GiB and crashes bash with

bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071562067968 bytes
Tobik already wrote it

but here's todays Useless Use of Cat Award
http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
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filler for a slow news day?
I vaguely recall reading somewhere about some study where they found out that when the police fire their pistols, at a range of 5 meters they hit about 50% of the time.

Having spent a fair amount of time in my youth shooting with a BB pistol in my parents garage, I find the above statistic entirely believable. Shooting a pistol accurately is much more difficult than it looks, so I can certainly imagine that in a high stress situation where your own life may be on the line you'll make simple mistakes that cause you to miss..
Since I know you are figuring this all out, here’s some pricing feedback for you:

I’m a weekender - building a desktop app (OS X & Win) for individuals and small businesses. I hope it turns into a real business some day, but as experience would show, it probably won’t.

On the low end, $24/month is way too much for me. I would find it offensive to pay $24/month for a licensing solution, when I pay $0 for python, flask, electron, NPM, Vue, and the myriad other technologies I rely on heavily. (Note, I don’t think it is offensive - but I feel it.)

My gut feel on pricing - don’t try to squeeze money from a stone. Give away the low end. You won’t make much money there anyway and you will almost certainly turn off many potential users and proponents. Get them hooked. Let them promote for you. Don’t let them find an alternative. Then, when they start making money, you start making money.

If I have a viable business going I will have a totally different feel on how I would see this expenditure.

2 cents for you.
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I think OP's idea was that developers in most fields are very infrequently treading new ground when it comes to solving programming problems.

Your business idea is where you'll likely be innovating - trying to use X language/pattern/stack to do something no other developers are talking about us a good sign that you may be going down a rabbit hole.
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Scalable?
IIRC, some games for the Commodore 64 just disabled the kernal (which was mapped to address space $E000-$FFFF) to have 8 kilobytes of extra ram.
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Anyone who is diehard anti-gun for personal use, I recommend taking a pistol class from a reputable organization, and keep an open mind. No one is telling you to get a license or buy a gun, just go take a class. They will teach you all about safety, how to shoot, gun cleaning and maintenance, and all of the basic skills needed to properly own a gun. Then if you are still diehard anti-gun, great! But if you have no experience, then taking a day to learn more might help you understand how the other side thinks.
This is obviously a loaded statement. There were reports of plant workers that died because of unexpected radiation exposure. Moreover, in many cases radiation causes damage after XY years of being inside human body, so we will only see in the next decades what the toll is. There is also water leaking for how many years already, nobody able to do anything about it and radiation from Fukushima detected on Hawaii in the sea water already (though minuscule amounts). And how much information is swept under the rug to maintain "face"? Your statement is either naive or intentional, the effect is the same.
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I don't know how this system does it, but I've done this with FullContact before (and https://clearbit.com/ will do it too). I have a few hundred thousand people and get about 50-60%.

Recently we tried using this data in the "To" field of emails we sent but it actually caused open rates to go down for some reason, so still figuring that one out. Investigations with a few users showed using the full envelope caused emails to go into different inboxes than were expected, but if you can do it from the get go it would be a great technique.
https://pastebin.com/jrcJbjU4

I've realised straight tee() is actually wrong - it works fine for piping to something but "zcyes > /dev/null" won't work, it needs vmsplice() like mrb said.

core2duo e8400, 4.8 kernel, coreutils 8.25
> yes | dd bs=1M count=10000 of=/dev/null iflag=fullblock
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 4.1901 s, 2.5 GB/s
> ./zcyes | dd bs=1M count=10000 of=/dev/null iflag=fullblock
10485760000 bytes (10 GB, 9.8 GiB) copied, 1.8542 s, 5.7 GB/s
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Hmmm, I suppose it depends on whether 'eloquence' contributes to intent / being understood.

I'd also argue that a second form of evolution now exists - "memetic" evolution, of which language is the medium.
> Cars will be a service...and that clashes with what Apple stands for

Someone should get a memo over to the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iTunes, iCloud and other services teams. They only brought in like $7 billion of revenues last quarter [1].

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/02/app-store-revenue-up-40...
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> running the cars with no maintenance

Your car runs into a bus full of children.

Other lawyer: Jury, they saved millions of dollars per year not checking the brakes on their cars, you should award those millions of dollars, and some more millions of dollars to the families whose children died that day.
Isn't population growth close to zero for most industrialized countries?
There are improvements to be had in pistol sites that don't involve battery powered gimmicks. The trapezoid sights on Steyr M pistols for example. I rented one from my local range and it works well for new shooters.
> Fukushima had four meltdowns with only a few casualties.

The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.
Oh dear. So sorry that my memory is crap enough to not provide you with the exact details you require.

...every comment is trying to look like a paper published in a highly acclaimed journal

It was an anecdote about my previous experience with 'yes' and /dev/zero, it seemed somewhat on-topic. I'm not trying to justify anything or win magic internet points.

If you're expecting journal-quality posts, perhaps you should go read a journal and not an internet forum chat.
Interesting read, Electron get's a lot of hate but it's enabling a new category of applications.

Incidentally a few years back I were building a web based procurment-platform for swedish government nearing the finish line of the project a requirement arose to run it as a native executable through some sort of Citrix VM (because of government reasons). I remember embedding the frontend of the SPA into a few different web engines (XUL, webkit, etc) and ended up using an embedded Chromium instance (CEF) for getting the best JS performance (we're handling some large amounts of data). I remembered Electro/Atom Shell being released that same spring/summer where I handed over the project (now in production) and recommended looking into it as a replacement for our embedded Chromium, I think if Electron were available earlier I could have saved a great amount of hurdle under a high pressure time.
"What I’ve learned (aside from sucking it up, and sending a kind, helpful response) is: design your product as if it was going to be used by people that are a software literacy step below the target user."

Completely with you on the 'sucking up and sending a kind helpful response'. Snark does not pay. It makes no sense to snap at a user.

Regarding the other point about first-time users. I have a slightly related theory.

When you design something, design it for someone who has the attention span of a two-year-old. Not because your app is going to be used by a two-year-old. But because that is how much mental bandwidth a user is going to give you. Your user is probably busy or just likes to multi-task.

Working that much harder on the UI pays off, or at least prevents a disaster.
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That's a pretty weak conflict of interest. I guess it is more a poor alignment of interests, which could be described as a bad business to try getting into.

(in a strong conflict of interest they wouldn't find a way to make an initial transaction)

I think for things like sleep tracking the real problem is that people don't care about it in the large numbers required to lose money on the devices and make it up in the spying.
The market for self driving cars will be enormous, regardless of whether individuals own them or use them as a service. It's a field they would like to disrupt, and it's massive. What clashes with Apple, exactly?
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I am looking for something with a few customers and low monthly revenue that I can take over and grow. I know about flippa, but was wondering if there are any other sites or if anyone on HN want to sell their site/app/Saas since they are working on something else?
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"What Apple stands for"! Ha. I had to stop and have a good laugh just then. Thanks for my first chuckle of the day!
Yeah, I mean, who even uses emacs?
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And that's why there is a permanent exclusion zone no one is allowed to enter and the videos posted on YouTube by Japanese themselves showing significantly raised background radiations on certain spots in Tokyo were produced by irresponsible people using uncalibrated unapproved instruments, right? Or reports of metallic taste after first rains since meltdowns etc. It was just a show produced by Hollywood spread by fake news, right?
Awesome!
Any idea of which latency impact one would see on a fairly modern system by using this?
> The fact is, most people want to use programs, not read them.

I want to use safe programs, and programs with readable code are more likely to be properly audited.
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I did the same kind of competition, and the double-aperture sights were, indeed very effective and effortless to use. There's a catch though: they're only good for shooting circular targets of the correct apparent size.

I actually did once use a rifle with such sights to take some small game. It was not easy to aim outside of the conditions for which it was designed.
Lawrence Wright published a book titled Remembering Satan which describes the case of Republican Party Chairman Paul Ingram and his confession of satanic ritual abuse of his children, which was later suggested to be a case of false/suggested memory:

"Psychologist Richard Ofshe claimed that Ingram, because of his long-standing and routine experiences in his church, was inadvertently hypnotized by authority figures who conducted his interrogation, although no mental health professionals were present, and that the confessions were the result of false memories being implanted with suggestion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_County_ritual_abuse_c...