skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? There are two big factors at play, and both are tied to moves by Apple itself. First, the iPhone maker has been raising the cap on the size of apps, most recently lifting the maximum to 4GB in early 2015. Secondly, the phones themselves are also coming with more memory, increasing consumer's willingness to put up with bigger apps.

Saying "there's more space and apps can be bigger" is not an explanation for _why_ the apps are bigger.
More bandwidth too. Bandwidth was why I removed FB and that's not update bandwidth which I do over WIFI.
> And Windows 10 Enterprise is only available to an organization with a volume licensing agreement, or through a new $7 per month subscription program

Given that it's basically free to register as a commercial entity (in Germany it costs 40-50€, and iirc a British LLC can be formed for less), can one do so, and then apply for said subscription program?

edit: are offerings like https://www.lizengo.de/microsoft/windows-10-enterprise actually legit, and can these be used to activate a LTSB installation?
The FS access is not so much a permission, as the user picking a folder or drive that the app is allowed to access.

Sadly doing the picking is done via the age old Win32 file picker UI, making it a royal pain to do on touch screens.
I'm guessing they couldn't afford to lobby Ajit Pai.
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I'd wager a guess that the weight is coming from machine learning models.
The fact that there is a review time at all nowadays is ridiculous. The claim I've heard from Apple is that they have a review process to ensure the quality of the apps on the store, but we all know that's a joke.

As far as I can tell, it's there to make sure Apple gets their cut of any revenue generated in your app.
"Word was opened with administrative privileges through Windows' Task Manager"

So the whole point of Windows 10 S is that it's so locked down it will only run applications from Microsoft's App Store. (That alone make it useless beyond elementary school level.) Yet it will run Microsoft Word with administrative privileges? Why would you ever want to run Microsoft Word with administrative privileges?
On designing and deploying internet-scale services (2007) summarized
That would seem consistent with Netflix being on the lowest tier.
Not sure why this is downvoted. The main reason systems aren't secure is lack of simplicity.

To put it another way, pentesting is almost always the art of exploiting complexity. It's true that you can have a system that's both simple and broken, but that's the exception.
I agree; seems to me that Apple would want developers to keep apps smaller so that users can install more of them in the same amount of space / on the same (e.g. 64 GB) device.
You could implement player-submitted AI as a web API - so they would write something in whatever language they choose, deploy it on Heroku, or now.sh, or stdlib or whatever, and then provide the URL.

When it's time to make a move, you just call their URL and process the response.

I don't think games involve a lot of data right? So you could probably make it stateless by transferring the whole game each time.

If you want a hand with this I could probably help! Just reply here, and I'll drop you an email.
The actual heat released by human activity is not significant in climate change.
"Bugger! My hard drive is encrypted and they're demanding bitcoins! Do any of you blokes know the pounds to bitcoins rate?"
A confusing thing is that the program seems to be using the purescript-quantity library which uses the purescript-decimals library which is arbitrary precision numbers, if I followed the dependencies correctly.

The readme also advertises it can deal with 10^(10^10), which it can (doubles can't deal with this, so it's definitely not just using Javascript doubles). The part which prints out numbers rounds to 6 places, but I don't see any place which rounds intermediate results.

Edit: Found where 30 digits comes in. https://github.com/sharkdp/purescript-decimals/blob/ad719fc7...
>traitors

read US constitution so you actually know who is the traitor here
Devs spend less time on making them smaller?
Based on things that I've heard at work from our mobile engineers, iOS apps written in Swift compile to larger binary sizes than what they saw with Obj-C. Anyone have any numbers they can share for comparison?
Always interesting to see new tech coming out, but at $1800/unit it sounds quite different from a "raspberry pi".
I suppose they mean through search history and the fact that google and other search engines would have access to that.
You need courage to found a startup, but I don't think you always need courage to make a profitable business.
That's an interesting question, isn't it? Obviously not for personal gain.

What's in it for you? Why do you have such strong feelings about a criminal trial in Minnesota, in which you've only heard the prosecution's case summarized by the prosecution-friendly media?

Why does it make you this angry to hear the defense's side of the story? Why does it make other people angry?
That was the logic for desktop apps in the 90s.

Double memory in your new computer? Great! Let's use it all up!
How is it not? It doesn't seem reasonable to you to model the expected size of an app as a function with the size of the phone on which the app will be installed as one of the inputs and the function's first derivative w.r.t. the phone size being always positive?

It's not like it's the only factor but of course it would play some role. If you accept a higher size then all sorts of benefits follow. You can make the assets higher res, hold more of their data locally, just take less development time optimizing the app.
Pac3 not 5 don't know why 5 got in there.
I just turned 40 and in those 40 years, I have never gained a single thing from dick swinging. Rather, in that time, I have learned that the kinds of people who want to play that kind of game are completely useless to me and the path that I want to follow.

Simply put, dick swinging comes out of place of low self esteem and a serious lack of confidence. We should feel bad for those kinds of people while also realizing that they are emotional vampires who will make us feel bad about ourselves.

Invest in high quality relationships with humble, mature people. As you get older, this will become more important because it gets harder to find time to invest in personal relationships.
Build a Budget IoT Grow-Box with Your Raspberry Pi
When they have RDS and Redshift and and Athena and SQS and SNS and when they have a fully-functional API that crosses every platform I need to write code against and years of a proven track record of stone-cold simplicity and success, I am sure I will take that into account.

Time is valuable. AWS/GCE/Azure have a huge head start in making us more productive.
The thing is having your app be 200 MB is not actually a big issue in the real world. So why do space optimization? Time is limited and there's always other things to be worked on.
Oh, you mean in America? Oh, that ingenuity gets you arrested as a youth on the National Mall.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-06-2...
I wish:

(1) Microsoft would actually
document clearly how its
security works.

(2) Solve these security problems.

E.g., decades ago we had time
sharing systems where rarely
or never did the work of one
user cause security problems
for another user.

One partial approach is to run
a program in a particular
file system directory and
arrange that the program
the program has very limited
access to anything outside
that directory and possibly
limited access to what is
in that directory.

Then ransom ware? Okay,
such a program might make
a mess but only within some
one directory. In that case,
junk the program and delete
the directory.

Or a program gets its own
access control list
with its own capabilities
for whatever resources
are or might be on the
computer.

A clear goal is for Windows
to be able to run any software,
including malicious software,
safely. Why not?
Fair response. My thought of startup is definitely in the mold of rapid growth an expansion to MVP and finding product-market fit as fast as possible. I think its a safe assumption to make on HN given that it is a public facing arm of YC, but I should have qualified it for clarity.

In a small business, consultancy, or more bootstrapped world you're completely right. Theres plenty of technology businesses that I've worked with where the CTO is one of the co-owners or the engineer who's been there the longest and they'll come on site to fix equipment or get on the phone with me to walkthrough unexpected behavior/etc.
On the other hand, the iPhone5s is still current and will be getting iOS11 later this year, and the base model has ~12GB usable storage out of the box, and 2GB is a sizable chunk of those 12GB.
Gcaptain.com has had some informed and informative commentary about the incident.

http://gcaptain.com/
Relativism merely the philosophical tolerance for doubt, which is the beginning of wisdom. Moral absolutism is an escape hatch for people who don't like doing the hard work of thinking.

Ethnocentrism certainly provides some meaning and purpose, but it's a shitty purpose of 'my interests at the expense of those other horrible people' and almost invariably ends in atrocities.

Globalism is simply a function of technological advancement, which is not going to go into reverse. We are not giving up instantaneous communications, or high-efficiency containerized shipping, or air travel, or GPS, or any of that other good stuff, despite the urgings of people like Aleksander Dugin.

You can have both a globalized society and meaning and purpose: there's a whole cosmos out there waiting to be explored, and the idea that there's more meaning to be had in militarizing the marginal differences between different ethnic groups is bizarre to me.
Well, what is the difference between a hobby project and a startup? Is a startup something that brings in money? If so, I am definitely planning to monetize all the 12 startups. Does a startup need someone who works on it full time? If so, I am working on these things full time. These products may be small but they are real products which will have real customers.
I'm mildly surprised you can't process why many in the United States (including myself) praise Snowden.

The United States is a country founded on distrust of power. Nevertheless, it is a state, and its function is to protect its citizens through monopoly of force. That tension is central to our political consciousness.

Sometimes people argue that "secrecy" is required to fulfill the duties of the state. Secrecy is required, sometimes, but secrecy requires trust, and trusting the powerful is not something we do. If we 'must', then we demand checks to prevent its abuse.

In the mythos of the United States, the government (county, state, federal, doesn't matter) is always viewed as a potential threat. America-worshiping morons notwithstanding, there is a deep moral undercurrent in this country that views the state as intrinsically corrupt, simply because it has power.

Many felt that the Snowden leaks showed that whatever mechanisms were supposed to be in place to check overreach by a potential enemy were not functioning. People who view Snowden as a hero believe that he was fulfilling his duty as a citizen to his fellow citizens.

If you wonder why someone might be paranoid about their own government in the 21st century, I think its sufficient to point out that governments killed several orders of magnitude more of their own citizens in the 20th century than they did foreign citizens in wars. I personally believe that a turn to an unchecked security state in the United States is a bigger threat to my children and children's children than a war with China (or wherever), and a vastly larger threat than "terrorism".

I hope that helps clarify why a reasonable citizen of the United States might be at least ambivalent towards leaks.

Also I hope its clear that this is a discussion about what is fundamentally a fiction: the people (myself in particular) have a bullshit narrative about governments and corruptions and heroes, you have some bullshit narrative about spies and the CIA. Both are very thinly connected to reality, because the reality we're describing is vast and overwhelmingly complicated. I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have any well-researched constructive suggestions about what I would do to fix the mechanisms of verification that should be in place to check secrecy in our security apparatus. But this isn't a conversation about mechanisms and policies, it's one about narrative, and one compelling narrative in the United States is that we owe our duty to our compatriots not the government, and government is always the first and most likely place to look for something evil.
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Probably Apple lifting size restriction.
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Put your name on your accusations. They did.
Or something like super capacitors to hold the braking energy until the train needs to a accelerate again
It is if it can only be downloaded on WiFi -- I see that as a big motivating factor to keep your app below 50 or 100mb (whatever the Cellular data limit is).
>That's simply no longer true with EV.

Which all of 5% of the population or less have.

>In those fabulous city centers? Sure! Full of families with small children they are... ;-)

Ever been to Europe?
Bitcoin network hashrate is currently around 550.000TH/s[1]. An asic miner with 4.73TH/s claimed capacity can be bought for $500 [2]. With a budget of less than $100M you could have similar capacity as current bitcoin network.

One thing that bothers me a bit is that it is hard to tell how decentralized these technologies really are. Especially when you go into direction where commodity hardware becomes useless and you need specialty equipment to do meaningful mining, there's a risk that the power falls into few hands.

This is probably not an issue for bitcoin, where the incentive to cheat would be to just gain monetary profits. In some other blockchains, serving different purposes things might be different. Governments with their deep pockets might be interested in building up capacity to be able to perform covert ops.

[1] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
[2] https://www.bitcoinmining.com/bitcoin-mining-hardware/
I'm pretty sure the networks jumped on Apollo 13 pretty quickly given what happened.
There's also a fork (of an older version of this) for binary instead of physical units: https://soupi.github.io/insect/
I’m pretty confident that a lot of this is basically because of AB tests.

Even in a top app like Facebook it can take many months to hit statistical significance on a new feature test. If the numbers on that test are down (I.e it’s not moving in the right direction) they don’t just give up on it, they iterate and try again.

Add to this NUXs, not being diligent about deleting unused code and you have a receipe for a phat app.
Email is decentralized, yet I don't need to run my own SMTP server (but if I wanted I could do that).
Thank you! Yeah it'd have to be only for people who have submitted their email but that's still better than nothing. Guess I know what I'm adding next!
Not to put down Nix, but some of the arguments about other systems have counterexamples. For instance, it's common in rpm or dpkg distributions to have multiple versions and implementations of things, and richer dependencies than simply on packages. You can also do unprivileged installation into a separate root with, say, fakechroot or PRoot, and you need something like that to install and run Nix unprivileged, don't you?

There are comparisons with alternatives in at least the propaganda for Spack and 0install, though the same criticism might apply to those -- I don't remember.
Show HN: BingHomepageAPI, lets you get the current Bing Homepage
Large fishing vessels turn on their AIS when crossing shipping lanes. Also, the whole point of modern military naval architecture is to reduce radar cross-section. Sure these boats can be seen from up close, but we can't assume that decades-old cargo ships are outfitted with the latest radar tech either.
One option for this is to make the split clear between the backend and the view.

If your frontend is asking for the current game state (to render it) and sending control messages to modify it, then you don't need much else to allow people to write bots. All you really need to do then is make sure there's a way they can access the exact same API your frontend uses but with (e.g.) an API key rather than cookies.

It's a reasonable thing to do for the code anyway (and might be how it works now, I don't know). Bots then have the ability and knowledge of any human player, you don't need to run any code your side (which brings up issues with sandboxing) and people can write in whatever language they want.
The first test i always do with a new calulator:

99999999999999! = 1.6456e+1356570551809668

999999999999999! = Infinity

99999999999999999!= NaN
I guess you don't get many pictures or constantly offloads them. sure 16gb model is fine for standard usage plus maybe a handful apps, but hd videos eat lot of space.
>Saying "there's more space and apps can be bigger" is not an explanation for _why_ the apps are bigger.

Sounds like a great explanation. Apps tend to fill up to take all available disk space, and we've known that since 1981 or so. Every time computers got more disk/memory, apps grew in size. Back in the day you could fit most apps in a single 360K floppy disk or two.
> This gray area exists because the law needs to operate under the presumption of innocence, defining crimes unambiguously and prosecuting them with due regard for reasonable doubt -- it is deliberately narrow and permissive, because the state is very powerful and if not held to strict limits it becomes very dangerous.

That is the theory everyone refers to when they're trying to justify imposing harsh penalties.

Have you read the laws that Congress actually passes? It would be nice if they actually lived up to that standard.

And you can't get out of the problem by appealing to a reputational shadow enforcement system. If reputational harm wasn't real or powerful then no one would be interested in imposing it. Imposing real penalties with a weak standard of proof on marginal behavior is equally problematic regardless of whether the penalties are formally imposed by the state. And today's attitudes become tomorrow's laws.

Gray areas are gray because they contain both baby and bathwater.

If something is clearly wrong it's easy to make it illegal (and it almost always already is), and if it isn't clearly wrong then we don't have any special knowledge the state lacks that allows us to mete out penalties in borderline cases without punishing good people.
I just learned about the Exploding Dots thing for the first time from this article.

It's an approach to representing and playing with place value number systems visually, which also leads to generalizing them to show things like algebraic structure. It looks like fun.
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> (in Germany it costs 40-50€

Less, in most cities. Sometimes, free.
Here’s how to use the Us/Them instinct to our advantage.

Us is merely what we empathise with and understand, that which is similar to how we identify with ourselves. The “Other” or Them, is farther away on this spectrum.

We see that in a more primitive time, when societal groups were based on race and ethnicity, we would identify strongly as so, and also select for it.

The brain is very good at “short circuiting” stuff we already know, and engaging with the aberrant parts of incoming information, so the brain scans should merely speak to the familiarity of information and not directly of any underlying bias, even though both may have a common source (i.e. foreign information is the underlying cause, but these variables - brain scans and biases - are merely correlated).

In today’s age, we identify based on what we are now seeing as “higher” interests. The intelligent vs the stupid, the skilled vs the incompetent, etc. These are now forming the in and out groups in our collective minds. It must be said though that it would take a significant amount of information about, say, an individual African American skilled person to change them from merely a black person to a skilled person in a White man’s head because one can be inferred trivially by a picture and the other by more time and a deeper understanding. (Take with a pinch of salt :)

The point here is that we now understand that society’s interests are better served by selecting for traits that are, in a sense, more objective. Things like skill and intelligence and the ability to contribute positively to the world we live in. By encouraging this selection, we are creating an in-group to which an aspiration is a positive thing, positive here being the same as positive for society. It also means that people are less limited by their biological circumstances, which is an equalising platform.

Hard questions remain, such as access to education and information that influences the position of a person with respect to the in-group. But I would argue that this is at least a positive evolution from where we have been.

Something also should be said about the ability to take every individual and every circumstance as unique, and be able to help each attain the maximum potential as per your own selected ideals, but this would require a radical individuality and awareness of self, and an extreme ability to understand and communicate with every other person. In this world, there would be no groups. But we’re probably not quite close to this world yet.
> Women who don't say "no" for the first time are widely considered low-moral

There is no "low morality" in a woman accepting an invitation to go on a date even in the most hidebound parts of the United States. But that's not what you mean. You don't mean "interact". You mean "screw". That you're conflating the idea of "regular, not very confident or skilled people" interacting with women with its very small subset, screwing, is telling as to your worldview and how you regard the women under discussion.

You should stop digging.
>Even some adults appear obsessed with social media, tracking the number of retweets on their Twitter profiles or likes on Facebook

"Some"? Where does the writer lives, on Mars?
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Swift adds a few megs but you can minimize that impact by doing things like this guy did:

https://blog.halide.cam/one-weird-trick-to-lose-size-c0a4013...
I think it's interesting how you emphasize nothing to mean "was pulled over 46 times for driving with a suspended license." If your license was suspended, would you keep driving and assert that you were doing nothing wrong?

Officer Yanez's story is that Castile was reaching for a gun in his lap. Do you know this to be false beyond a reasonable doubt? How?

Have you considered the possibility that you're engaging in a "horrific character assassination" of Jeronimo Yanez (whose life is destroyed and will never be able to work again)?

Do you normally decide on issues when you've heard only one side of the story? Here's a summary from the trial, presented more or less unemotionally:

http://www.twincities.com/2017/06/08/philando-castile-police...
I realize it looks confusing in this example but this is just how it is displayed (with 6 significant digits). The internal precision is 30 digits.
Huh. I hadn't even thought of players hosting their own AI! That would actually be EXTREMELY easy to implement on my end, haha. You are correct, and that's basically what the game is doing already just to my own AI server, so all I would have to do is use a pugged-in url, perform a POST call and then parse the response. What a good idea!

So I guess my to-do list now is:
1) Forgot password feature
2) B.Y.O.A.I. :)