skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider the potential number of new apps per day to an app store. Now imagine that each app requires 10-60 minutes of a halfway intelligent human's time to review. That's not such a huge staff required, especially compared to the revenue of said app store.

I'm not sure this adds up. By my counting, taking the total number of apps currently in the store, it would add up to something like 700 apps/day - which is reasonable. But as I understand, they review submissions rather than apps (or at least they should, for this process to make any sense) - which means that new versions of the same app also need to be reviewed, and then the same version might get reviewed multiple times if it gets rejected. Given the update frequency for a typical mobile app, this all would add up really quickly.

Could they still afford it? I bet. But it would be a significant expense.
An interesting target for postmarketOS: https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/
Eset Nod32 Keys Username and Password 12 June 2017
Which thing is micro architectural?
Taiwanese people love queueing. Queueing for the train, queueing waiting for the bus, and - of course - queueing around the block to wait to eat at a 'famous' restaurant (:
Seagate follows in WD and launches an external hard drive for Xbox One S
Simple rules also often lead to simple outcomes that happen to be optimizable, and those simple outcomes are often the most likely... until someone or some process accidentally discovers complexity and it takes over the game, as happens when a god takes advantage of the turing completeness capable in that physics or would naturally happen if true life--not just a replicator, but a higher level replicating entity capable of evolution--took hold in a world run by this ruleset... so please do not discount your original conclusion as it is entirely true.
Show HN: It can be taboo to plug your idea online
People with great ideas struggle to spread the word because it may seem taboo to plug your idea or something you're working on. I put together a website where you can post your idea, project, website, or startup for free, chronicle your journey, and not feel spammy or guilty. Hope it helps. www.Runway16.us
I ran into this issue and ended up using Affinity Designer. I was pleasantly surprised, it's actually quite comparable to Adobe Illustrator. It's not open source but at $50 much more reasonable than Adobe.
One of the impressive things about American democracy is just how cheap it is to buy politicians. To use the numbers from this article, Odebrecht spent $439 million to secure contracts whose profit totalled $1.4 billion, while in the US you could probably have done it legally for less than a million or two.

$10,000 is still big money for a US Rep, $50k will easily buy you a senator.
If you pick the 5 billionth one you've probably picked a gooden.
The docs seem to indicate you do not store properties on relationships? Is that right? Then why call it a graph database when it is really an RDF store?
These attacks have been going on for at least a decade in South Africa. The fact that it's still going on, and if the coverage is to be believed, spreading globally, is a pretty shocking indictment of the industry.

I wonder what other scams are being incubated in lesser-known parts of the world, that are waiting to be unleashed.
The most important thing is: DONT use your telco phone number in any of your sensitive accounts. Replace that phone number with a Secure phone number: the article recommends using Google Voice -> since this can't be compromised in the same way that a telco phone # can be.
There have been general architecture changes. Look at DRM as a better way to do rendering versus the old Unix way, for example.
Git hooks are just arbitrary scripts. They need to exist in a specific location, and accept certain arguments depending on when in the lifecycle they are meant to execute. But they can be written to do basically anything. From linting and syntax checking, to complex deploy behaviors.

http://githooks.com/
In Chinese there's a word I don't know how to write but sounds something like "uh" that means more "I acknowledge" without implying agreement. Actually, I don't know if it's a word, but I hear it a lot.

嗯 ?

Speaking of which, "OK嗎?" is used in mandarin a lot, at least in Taiwan.
Age may mean certain things about DNA methylation, but it doesn't mean you can't continue inventing, challenging yourself taking chances e.g. 94 year-old co-inventor of lithium batteries co-invents a solid state (solid-glass electrolytes) battery.

http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/technology/94-year-old-...
It's actually kind of mentioned at the end of the article:

> Another approach is to use git’s --git-dir and --work-tree switches to move the git repository out of the document root.

Yet another option is to make the htdocs directory a worktree of the git repository, which doesn't require passing flags around, or setting environment variables. Technically, this still leaves a .git, but it's only a file containing the actual location to the real .git directory.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
Ah, that makes sense. I probably should've thought about it a bit more, because if there wasn't mapping from object -> pack then git wouldn't be able to quickly look up objects in packfiles.
From the abstract if the algorithm they are implementing

> We consider the case where one doesn't need to know the solution x itself, but rather an approximation of the expectation value of some operator associated with x, e.g., x'Mx for some matrix M. In this case, when A is sparse, N by N and has condition number kappa, classical algorithms can find x and estimate x'Mx in O(N sqrt(kappa)) time. Here, we exhibit a quantum algorithm for this task that runs in poly(log N, kappa) time, an exponential improvement over the best classical algorithm.
Google's fork of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, is very far from "some minor changes". https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/
Yasha Levine has been promoting this view for years now. He doesn't appear to have a complete understanding of the technology he writes about, but still makes these accusations that anything the USA spends money on must be compromised.

See: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
another: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privac...
and another: https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spoo...

He brings up some good points, but then jumps to conclusions which don't actually seem reasonable.
There was a Japanese client where I use to work that was in a meeting with my coworker. When my coworker would go into detail about how our products work, the Japanese client would nod their head up and down while saying Okay in English. My coworker would take pauses during his mini-lecture, asking "Do you understand what it's doing so far?" He would almost always respond with "No."

It was pretty funny watching from the sidelines as my coworker slowly slipped into insanity because of the miscommunication.

Random Edit Note:

Had a class that dealt with Supply Chains in college. We had a section devoted to negotiations, including international. As a result we had to learn about various business cultures.

One of the main points of that section was Western Cultures tend to have their words require little context (Their words are literal) and have focused more on Individualism. Eastern and Latin Cultures tend to have more of a Collectivism and their words rely heavily on the context of the situation (Their words are implicit).
It's really strange to me that Google just decided to remove the option to not use AMP. I personally hate that part of it the most. It's like someone made the decision to not even fight the take-rate battle. "AB test it? Hah! They'll use it if they want to get to the result!". It seems to be getting them tons of ill will which they could easily fix by just putting a non-amp link on results. Then again, "tons" on HN equates to basically nothing across their whole user base, so I doubt they really care too much, but damn, what an awful idea/decision to take away the choice.
>both don't guarantee true privacy as we can't see the servers.

What do you define as true privacy? Why isn't other privacy "true"?

What do you mean by "see the servers"? Surely you can see them as computers at the other end of a TCP connection, and the server cannot read the cleartext of an E2E encrypted message.
> They were foolish to vote for the kind of person who left them jobless.

What 'kind' of person are you referring to? I think you might be over-generalizing. Trump has long been opposed to outsourcing American jobs, reportedly.

In any case, we should differentiate between the actions of individual business owners, and the policy that establishes the playing field. For example, current US corporate tax policy creates a strong incentive for many businesses to keep their cash overseas, and not repatriate it and pay the tax. You can criticize each individual company that operates in this way, such as Apple, but if you want to fix the problem, you need to look to policy solutions like changing the tax law.

A person can be in favor of changing policy even while they optimize within the current policy framework. For example: a wealthy person might be in favor of a tax on the wealthy even as they personally employ all available techniques to reduce their tax burden; there is no contradiction. No rational citizen will pay higher tax than the code obligates.

Criticizing individuals who optimize their actions within the current policy framework isn't productive. We should expect everyone to operate according to the current policies, laws, and incentives -- and if we don't like those, then we should change them through the political process.

So even if you consider Trump as somehow in the same category as company owners who ship jobs overseas, the point that you shouldn't overlook Trump's stated policy objective to create jobs in the US and remove the incentives to ship them overseas.
10/10 Ironic. Would comment again.
It's not (probably) random in the sense of true, quantum mechanical randomness, but random can be thought of existing 'with respect to the certain knowledge'. So if you flip a coin and have as input the precise physics of the launched coin and the air, the result isn't random; if you only know 'a coin was flipped' then it's essentially random.

So I imagine chaotic systems' outcomes seem random if you have only approximate the initial conditions (since small perturbations will greatly modify the outcome) (that's probably a good, equivalent definition of a chaotic system, also).
Flagged for posting multiple times

Do you realize that it's not taboo to plug your idea? It annoys people when it's done out of context or when the idea isn't interesting. But if you're genuinely showing people your work in an effort to provide value to them, no one will be annoyed.

Also, HN explicitly encourages plugging your ideas, as does Product Hunt. You're plugging your site for plugging ideas on a site that already allows people to plug their ideas...
So, that's what all it comes down to I guess. Like, be happy because there are jobs in the first place or unionise, make them accountable for all kinds of regulations and give them a hard time?

Maybe the Chinese or perhaps anyone wouldn't have invested in the first place if they think they can not generate enough profits to sustain, so giving an easy pass for safety standards or any regulations would encourage this.
I've been wondering how RISC-V compares to Donald Knuth's MMIX ISA. Surely MMIX is also freely available, probably Public Domain or something?
you shouldn't _need_ to understand how git internally works to use it (and if you did, then it confirms that git isn't good). You should understand the abstract model of DVCS that git presents (just like you'd need to understand the abstract model of a car to drive it).
> You get them by starting as soon as you are ready.

* You get them by starting. Period.
Every time a project moves to GitLab or GitHub it is great news; I find them much easier to contribute to. It's specially goo news when it's gitlab, it's just an all-around awesome service.
i think github will have learnt from sourceforge's mistakes though.
The op here. There were Chinese players in the tournament but fortunately for us, of only average skill. I entered the GeekWire ping-pong tournament in Seattle earlier in the year and got destroyed by some highly skilled Chinese 'Asian Tigers'.
Li-Ion Battery Control Modeling Using Neural Networks [pdf]
Not just that. It took major DEs a very long time to get to some level of readiness with Wayland (KDE is just getting to it). And some major applications aren't event close yet. Firefox seems to be in progress for years, and Wine didn't even start moving to Wayland, because of various difficulties.
Seeing that this is a continuation in a saga of the author and their issues with Wikipedia, and that many of the comments then take a step back to look at the overall goals and discuss the war rather than the battle, it is likely important to look at the previous submission from this website and the conversation that took place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483080
"What 'kind' of person are you referring to? I think you might be over-generalizing. Trump has long been opposed to outsourcing American jobs, reportedly."

How many employees does he have overseas? And how much does he depend on overseas goods when generating his wealth or power despite local ones available? I have a guess on one aspect given he spends a lot of time on Twitter using a smartphone that isn't 100% American despite he and others here having ability to fund one. Decent reasons, too, if we're talking espionage.
Exile and Election: The Case for Barring Exiled Leaders from Contesting
Saw a pearl party the other day with over 3k viewers.
I always liked

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as a prompt, e.g., on a bootloader.
A great, Democrat example of:

"most districts vote out the honest, well-performing folks early."

Leave us to Trump or Hillary by the end of it. Russian roulette has better odds of success.
It's not just decision making deadlock that receives a benefit.

The survival of my offspring is often dependent on them expressing strategic diversity from one another. The only feature that you share in common with your ancestors who survived snowball earth is the uncertainty of inheritance through mutation. If uncertainty is adaptive, it makes sense that it would also be encoded into the genome.
In French, "au quai" means "in the harbour."

Cargo in the harbour, is not lost at sea, or in transit.

Instead it is safe and sound, or O.K.
Resuming: what's the simplest solution to at least reduce risk? Is it to get a second phone number just for banking?
Signal Desktop is hardly a web app in the sense that you open a website and you're done. You need to use Chrome and you need your phone. It's probably more secure yet rather inconvenient.
The implication of which is that git is a leaky abstraction?
You're looking for a New World PowerMac. If you hold down the right key combination while turning it on, you will land in Open Firmware. While quite different from BASIC, it is a programming environment similar to the olden days.

And is the Rasberry Pi comment a reference to RISC OS, with its ability to access BBC BASIC by pressing F12 and typing a quick command?
My Taiwanese parents were the sort to enter a large queue without knowing what it was for, because whatever was at the end of it was bound to be good.
I'm building one, slightly different use case though.
Interesting. Though not really clear why you continuously say "no API!" when you have an API--it's just in the data itself via your "special keywords" i.e. $cell, $update, etc. That's kind of like saying React components have no API since you never actually call e.g. componentDidMount directly.
> If you're going to knock Windows on a lack of security, at the very least do as much as you can do to protect yourself on a Mac.

If you're behind a firewall and you practice safe computing (adblockers, NoScript, click-to-play Flash and Java or just don't use them at all, don't visit sketchy sites, don't open email from unknown sources, etc.) you can remain just as safe on an older Mac as you can on Windows. Even a 2010 era Mac can still run Sierra and therefore get all the current security updates, just as Windows 10 does.

> Note the long list of security fixes in the latest version of MacOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

The list you shared contains updates for much more than just macOS Sierra, there's Apple TV, iTunes for Windows 7, Apple Watch OS, and so on. Microsoft's list contains 876 entries[1], of which approximately 250 apply to Windows 10 x64 alone, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletins.aspx
In my experience, when the targets of criticisms based on facts, history, and rational argument claim that facts, history, and rational argument are unfair, and attack the person rather than the arguments ... the criticisms are probably pretty well-founded.

David Gerard seems to be doing something right, and hitting his mark.
i recently bought an ipad pro, and the new was announced a couple weeks later.

in the past, this would have bothered me, and i surely would have found out some roundabout way to swap for the new one.

i don't know if it's me, or the level of modern technology, but this time around, i just don't really care enough to do anything about it. i'm sure it will be fine for close to 10 years.
Delphi now trying to become the Cisco of self driving cars
Sorry, I was trying to reply to both of you but I was not clear - I apologize. The ops are cached reads also, it was the same test across different devices.

For people wanting to run them yourself, clone the repo and go to test/ptsd/ptsd.html - we need to make it easier in the future though.
https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/ is a treasure! Thank you.
A related article that some might find interesting:

Why does Deep Learning work? - A perspective from Group Theory -- https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6621
This flood carried the Willamette meteorite, a 15 ton space rock, embedded in a chunk of a glacier, from Montana to just south of Portland. It is the largest meteorite found in North America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite
This is my point; a 60% chance of making a 2 is equal in value to a 40% chance of making a 3, averaged over the 80+ shots you will take in a game. The top teams in the NBA are closer to 40% from beyond the arc then they are to 60% within it.
I'd like to point out that the DNC argued in a court room that it's totally within their right to pick their candidate while smoking cigars in a back room, votes be damned; nobody voted for that.

https://medium.com/theyoungturks/dnc-we-can-legally-choose-c...

We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’” Bruce Spiva, lawyer for the DNC, said during a court hearing in Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corp
What is wrong with recompiling the kernel? Last time I used FreeBSD (also NetBSD), all that it took was to edit some config file and call a shell script. Has it changed from that?
It'd be interesting to see a composite of reflected sunlight included around the builings with highly reflective exteriors.
>someone went into a T-Mobile store and somehow convinced the associate that my number was theirs.

I had to regain access to an employee's phone a few months ago. T-mobile gave me account control after providing them a phone number that phone had dialed "recently". I am disappointed, but not shocked.
I see. (ic)
"Understood" might fill that roll depending on the context. Or just "acknowledged" on it's own would be understood just fine.
I think it's worth noting that there's a big gap in the perception of NAFTA (and its ilk) and their actual consequences.

In terms of actual consequences NAFTA has had almost no effect on the US economy, either positive or negative: a 2003 CBO report found that it had increased the US's GDP by only a few billion dollars[1].

Different sides have presented job loss and gain in different industries over the last 20 years as evidence of enormous failure or success, but the reality is that the 20+ million growth in overall employment since NAFTA has probably been normal economic growth.

The real benefits of agreements like NAFTA for the US are geopolitical stability and economic dominance - Mexico is asymmetrically dependent upon us for trade, and that dependency has been central to their willingness to cooperate in border migration and drug policing efforts (which are arguably terrible uses of power, but are good examples of the influence brought by trade). The TPP presents (or presented) similar opportunities in Asia.

I don't reject the claim that people feel disenfranchised by trade agreements, or that the industrial-service shift has harmed millions of previously middle-class Americans. However, trade agreements can't be blamed for either of those: the first is a political talking point, and the second is unavoidable in a developed country with a chronic aversion to new job training and safety nets for workers.

[1]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14461
The ‘Global Order’ myth: teary-eyed nostalgia as cover for U.S. hegemony
We are gonna start the liveblog for Bethesda E3 soon at https://vaniila.com/cxchanV/bPgz8y. stay tuned for updates :)
Fun fact: Wayland is supported on ChromeOS versions 50 and above for the supported Android applications.[0][1] Consequently, you can run Fedora with Wayland on a supported Chromebook using crouton.[2]

[0]https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=549781

[1]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Ch...

[2]https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/crouton-fedora-wayland-yes-pleas...
Haha, I feel like this is common. There was actually an ASK HN about that a couple of days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522653
Can you talk a little about the networking benefits of HN?
Google and Microsoft obviously can do it; they just don't want to spend resources on a public service when there are many other alternatives.
Keyboard Mini PC-K2:A computer works with any monitors
Given that practically every non-beginner git tutorial starts off with "back up your repository", it's quite clear that git gets wedged a lot.

Somehow, I rarely see a Mercurial tutorial give that same advice unless you are doing something really experimental.
Ask HN: What is your best example of human persistence?
It can be a personal story or a famous story, one you've lived or one you've observed.
I'm not sure why this is here but it's a great reading
If a US politician can be substantially influenced by $10-50k - how many reasonably well paid Bay Area software engineers could be out actively buying influence using nothing but their personal salary?
Yeah, Identity theft is one of those crimes where the authorities don't really care. It can be quite lucrative for the folks carrying it out since there are no consequences.

The police are so overwhelmed and typically it is out of jurisdiction so their options are 0 to none to prosecute.

The only way to guard against it is to keep your foot print small and give as little info as required.