skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few American police officers get shot. It's an imagined threat, like terrorism: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6373798.

And yes, people should be able to own at least some kinds of guns. Though, I think you could constitutionally ban handguns: the 2nd amendment exists to let the people defend the homeland against external threats and possibly the government, not for personal defense. It's automatic rifles that people should be allowed to own.
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I am also a long time customer of 1Password.

Unfortunately or fortunately (if you are a shareholder of a SaaS public company) we have seen a mass exodus by corporations (see Adobe, MS/o365, Quickbooks, Basecamp, etc.. etc..) that have moved from the traditional purchase a license model to the cloud based subscription model.

While I do understand the benefits of storing certain information in the cloud (GitHub!) when it comes to the storage of critical information such as passwords I'd rather be in control of that information myself and on my own hardware.

While 1Password is correct in suggesting that the cloud model may be the best solution for average users, it runs face first into the best practices of security conscious professionals.

I would personally be willing to pay a premium for a "Pro" version of 1Password with local storage and keep the cloud based subscriptions for people that are either unwilling to or do not have the skill set to manage a local security store.

One more additional note, a move like this should have been more transparent from AgileBits. It looks a bit like they tried to slip one past the goalie, which isn't going to give anyone the warm fuzzies especially when it comes to security products.
Also to mention, the biggest bottleneck to US economic growth during the Ford era was was the lack of workers which is why opening our doors to crowded Europe gave us a boost.

China on the other hand still has plenty of workers to fill its mills.
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> I think the workflow is pretty easy: buy a MacBook & an iPhone, and load your app onto the phone & test on it for things which the iOS simulator is not good at.

> Don't CI your apps, CI your libraries.

That's not scalable for complicated apps that you can write automated UI tests for though.
I'm wondering if the Cloud providers are seeing cryptocoin mining as the primary workload at the moment and don't want to be left with a ton of inventory the next time there is a difficulty increment and clients move on.
I have the same issue, therefore one question:
Which password manager will be your next one?
Corporate profits are up a bit as a % of revenue. Similar labor's share of national income is down a bit. A lot of businesses could afford to pay a bit more.

Just a bit though. There hasn't been some sort of sea change like a lot of people seem to think.
I mean, plenty of software gets rewritten and sold under the same name as an old version - I'm not really sure I see the difference there.
No, but posting while green will usually get your comment downvoted to oblivion, even if you are erudite and contribute to the conversation.

Turn on "show dead comments" and see how many greens are deleted. I screenshot many examples.
IMO this is because China is still a (massive) developing economy with large swaths of undeveloped resources and untapped labor.
My brain often cracks on startups like these and particularly listed users/client companies. And it kind of worries me that those companies can't do their own analytics and outsource it to segment or alike.

All they need to do is install some dashboard, data processing tools and think of what data they want to correlate with other data and if that correlation has any interesting meaning.

But of course having your company listed at a hot startup site is simply exposure or marketing too. Maybe those companies don't even use it, they just want their logo to be shown every where on the 'hot' parts of the web.

And having listed on your site that 15.000+ companies trust you? Why do you still need to raise money then? Start charging people if your product has value.

Also as a private citizen can i request at Segment if you are storing, processing or handling my private data (provided by parties i did business with) in anyway?
Exactly. You can't industrialize a country without protection. Just think how USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea accomplished it.

When the IMF and others advice against it, it's because they are not thinking in the welfare of the country in question in the first place.

The other side of the coin is that it's very difficult (or inefficient) to develop a country without access to knowledge and technology from outside, so you need foreign currency.

In order to get foreign currency, you need to sell something or investment from outside that bring what is necessary, but you need a way for the benefits to stay in the country. Navigating this dichotomy is something that the Chinese are doing very well.
It is actually. That's why the unemployment rate has been steadily dropping.
The US has never had or been a free market. "Free trade" is propaganda used to forcefully open foreign markets to US businesses looking for further growth.
I doubt it's downvotes. Probably cases of the spam/ringvoting detector gone wrong.
This never occurred to me until you said it. Did that work??
The vast majority of the jobs being added are full time positions.
To add a thought, invitations to foreign companies and investments can drown out local cultures with foreign personalities. This can be detrimental to what makes the country special and reduces the purpose of why they should ever prosper.
All fun and games till the plug at the end...
Related: Arsenal (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2092430307/arsenal-the-...) is trying to build a hardware camera attachment that uses ML to find the perfect levels for your photo in realtime.
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Yes, workers with increased productivity almost always get paid more.
Just reminded me of the new rules set by my University. I had a really hard time coming up with one.

Password needs a minimum of 10 digits.
Low and upper characters, at least 2 numbers
and could include special characters. These
chars are not allowed: ! & ' ` $ % ; § ~ ^ @
\ € ä ö ü ß. It will be checked against last
two former passwords and it couldn't be
include 3 or more identical characters.

Theres not many spacial characters left. Also this is a german University and äöüß are not allowed.
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Probably someone vouched for it.
I can't be the only person to remember using search aggregators (aka "meta search engines") because every individual search engine was so bad and incomplete on its own, especially outside the US.

The "major" search engines before Google were Yahoo and Altavista, who were too busy trying to sell you a foggy concept of being "the Internet's start page" to be of any practical use when you actually wanted to find something specific. And of course plenty of people were stuck in their own ridiculous AOL microcosm.

Not only were the search engines lackluster and incomplete, the search results were also simply not very relevant. Often you'd only get good results because there simply wasn't enough content indexed for your queries to be in any way ambiguous but good luck if you were looking for anything you couldn't pin down to one or two very explicit search terms.

Kids these days don't know how good they have it with their Googles and their smartpads.
Is this cause (ie. people downvote greens out of prejudice) or effect (greens are often created to shitpost?

And to concentrate all my meta in one place... Is shadow banning a thing at HN? I thought they just, well, banned you.
Well, it is correct PHP as it is missing an opening "<?php" tag.
Therefore the interpreter skips this part and prints it out. :D

When interpreting as PHP however

if(isset($_SESSION['uid']))
header("Location: reg");
}

is either missing an opening bracket or has got one too many closing brackets.
> He said the UK's chief cryptographer had assured him the new approach was feasible.

As a brit, as far as I can tell, the UK has no such job title as "chief cryptographer" or even anything similar.
Reminds me of this picture: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/e9/ff/28/e9ff28...
Not only they provide real-time resizing on CDN, but many many many other things: hardware HTTPS acceleration (check their HTTP vs HTTPS latency,) per-file authentication, hardware Gzip, 'bouncer' for websocket connections. They used to provide free load balancing on the edge for APIs, but I can't find that service in the control panel anymore.
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They could easily force foreign companies to operate under a strong censorship regime if that were their main goal. Facebook basically bends to the will of every market it operates in.

However they clearly prefer local startups and makes it generally difficult for foreign companies to purely exploit the Chinese market. Joint ventures are always required at the least.
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Good App Features Become OS Features
Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. It depended on the quality of the cassette deck and also how crappy the tape was you were recording to. Me and my friend often used to try high speed dubbing but that rarely yielded good results.
If you don't see any "compile and run" button or the text console, you may need to zoom out or go fullscreen. That was my case on Firefox 54 with a 1366x768 screen.
Wait so the name of the website is stored in plain text? So if I want to store my login for gaymidgetporn.com, there will be a file on my computer with that name?

And anything or anybody on my computer can see all the websites for which I have logins just by doing ls ~/.password-store ?

Erm, no thanks.
I consider myself security-aware and use LastPass for the majority of my passwords.
That's kinda my point - why do they ship a Linux distribution without the prerequisites for their flagship product preinstalled?
The boilerplate HelloWorld code hangs on `compiling...` for me. Not sure if it's my network ad-blocker or something else though.
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So your rights were violated and you got legal recourse. Your complaint is?
Once you sandbox that much you've just reinvented processes.
All the information of Alibaba is controlled and monitored by Chinese Government. Never trust a company controlled by a Autocracy.
UK and French ballistic missile subs have collided:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_and_Le_Triomphant...
LambdaOxide is the Lisp interpreter and Skomakare is the graphics interface that supports drawing basic shapes, text and textures from LambdaOxide REPL.

LambdaOxide source code: https://github.com/rpasta42/LambdaOxide

It's pretty basic and does not yet support tail-call optimization and macros.
What if I don't build the actual factory. What if I just have the idea about how to improve the process and publish a paper about it. Then someone else actually builds the factory?

Then who pays the tax?

What if I invent a whole new product category that obsoletes a whole industry? Not a lot of people manufacturing typewriters anymore.

What if I invent a cheaper way to ship goods from China making it easier to shift manufacturing there? Who pays the tax then?

What if I'm an employee at the factory and I figure out a better way of doing things so that I can take on additional responsibility so when Bob (the guy next to me) retires we don't have to hire a replacement? Then do I pay?

And how long does this tax last? Forever? Are people still paying taxes for all the farmers we don't have to have anymore?

How confident are you that you can really write tax rules that make sense for the infinite number of scenarios via which productivity is enhanced in a modern economy?
Can't speak for other countries, but of the 12002 total weapon discharges by German police in 2015, 11901 were against "animals or inanimate objects".

Just for completeness: 101 were directed at people (half of those being warning shots and only 40 actually hitting people).

http://schusswaffeneinsatz.de/Statistiken_files/Statistiken....
There are vast numbers of programs that run without a UI for people to use.

There are also vast numbers of programs designed for action entertainment.

Then there are programs like spreadsheets and word processors that are "applications" -- programs with a humane UI, purely for end users, designed mainly to be employed for some other specific productive purpose rather than to be used in themselves.

It is true that we now have the more generic "app" thanks to the iPhone,[1] but I think at this point the word is only a little more established in the language than "on fleek."

But even when that changes, it won't mean that when grown-ups observe the history and meaning of words as they are actually used they are engaging in "pedantry."

[1] (Yes, I know there are examples of prior usage of "app" from long before 2007. I'm talking about widespread, mainstream language, not your technical chats with RMS when you were a comp sci grad student in the 1970s.)
Up to a point. It's an analogue process so each copy degrades the signal. At some point games started having custom file loaders which made them load faster but also served as a kind of copy protection as copies were more likely to fail. Of course it also meant the original was more likely to fail.
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Neat, enjoyable read for the friday afternoon.

Q: Whats that math/graphing app you have screenshots of?
Did you previously work for Yahoo?
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What is my side? I don't want to break any rules here, please point out which posts have broken them so I can adjust.
It may be an accurate predictor of who will respond to ads.
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https://www.google.es/search?q=mujoco+learning+to+walk#q=muj...
This doesn't highlight that trend. Writing a 128 byte demo is an art, and done for fun. This isn't conciseness out of laziness or coolness, it's a challenge in its own right. I think you vastly underappreciate how hard it is to put cool visuals in so little space. It doesn't really have much to do with ordinary programming.

It's like saying F1 racing is cool but it does highlight a trend of reckless driving in highways.
Hello there. Can you share your browser and OS? We can't replicate this here. - LT
A similar thing happened when bitcoin GPU mining became big. I was watching an interview recently with one of the large mining operations where they basically bought all of a suppliers GPU stock (of whatever type of card was popular for mining at the time) and couldn't find any other suppliers who weren't out of stock.
We aren't moving towards useful proof-of-work because the goal of Bitcoin is to agree on one, single chain of events. By making the calculations useful, there would be greater incentive to have competing chains, which is avoided by choosing something otherwise useless, such that an adversary has to waste work in order to promote a different main chain.
Horizontal non-resizability of the editor is a bit of an issue (Chrome / Win7).
Why is that? I understand that GPU's have a ton more memory than an ASIC, but couldn't you attach a huge amount of RAM or something to your ASIC (kinda like how GPU's work)?
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I think those people are saying -- reasonably -- that the word app is recent in the mainstream popular language, not that it was never ever used by anyone until the iPhone.
"[...] These findings demonstrate that handwriting is important for the early recruitment in letter processing of brain regions known to underlie successful reading."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274624/

Some educators specializing in dyslexia treatment point to research around cursive handwriting being a helpful tool:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/connecting-dots-role-cur...
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They get laid off for being making their department a black hole for money, though.
>but for the discovery of things you don't know anything about yet, its a poor substitute.

You're describing getting a random selection from a section, something computers are excellent at. Or you're talking about browsing things as a list, something else computers excel at.

The biggest difference on doing this on a computer is a loss of a sort of grime based review system. Something that could be seen as a benefit or detriment in different circumstances.
Ruchi Sanghvi recently started South Park Commons.

https://nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/tech-scene-south-par...

South Park Commons, like Travis Kalanick's JamPad, is invite-only.

For a vaguely similar experience that is open to the public, you could try visiting Noisebridge ( https://www.noisebridge.net ) or Hacker Dojo ( https://www.hackerdojo.com ).
So you think free markets work without regulation? Give a single example. Sniping vague comments doesn't help the discussion.
Far as IC's, Ive been reading on their failures for some time. As non-HW person, it looks like the physics of IC reliability get worse every time they shrink to a lower node. Variability of what each component does increases. The analog may drift more since I saw one group using digital cells to keep it accurate at 90nm. I keep seeing attempts to do magic at the gate or synthesis levels to counter a bunch of this. They already do to a large degree which is why they last 2-3 years in first place instead of breaking immediately.

So, it looks like they'd spend a lot extra with effects on performance/watts/cost to make them last for NASA lengths of time. Those same companies are incentivized to sell new chips regularly in a price-competitive market. So, no reason for them to do aforementioned work since it's just throwing away money.

Again, just overview of a non-HW guy that reads a lot of HW industry's publications. HW people correct anything I missed please.
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You are right of course. This will keep improving over time, especially on the HTML side of things. We'll keep your comment in mind. Cheers - LT
As a customer of 1Password since it started, I now find myself just using Apple's despite it being in iCloud, at least for me since I use Safari everywhere, works perfectly for me. I wind up using 1Password less and less. Apple's isn't perfect either but since my life is tied to them in many ways, it works for me.
> The limit on small claims court is usually 5 thousand and small claims court doesn't cost a "ton of money" and is very accessible.

You risk being awarded just a refund of the ticket, which I'm sure that United would offer anyway. And then you'd be down court fees and perhaps loss of earnings for a day to attend court. It's not worth it for ordinary people.

> The law to set up compensation limits in the US was done to lower the costs to the airlines, not as some way to help the consumer.

Overbooking lowers ticket prices. Lowering costs to airlines lowers ticket prices.
Current gen is Pascal though, so 'Prev generation' is more correct.
When it comes to politicians, sadly, statements such as this are often all too true.

Many (if not most) politicians operate in a separate frame of cognitive dissonance where they firmly believe that because they put "it" into a law, that everyone will now immediately follow the law to the letter and obey whatever commandment was "it".

Somehow, the counter evidence of the mere existence of "criminals" (whom, by definition, are those who do not obey the law) fails to dissuade them from this alternative viewpoint that "because they (politicians) say so, it will be made so".

The result of this hubris on their part then results in gaffes such as this one where a politician believes that even such things as physics or mathematics will also "obey his written law, because he said so".
I'm curious. Why does it matter if you have a Medium vs a Github account?
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Many of us in high-assurance systems have witnessed triple, modular redundancy fail. I started saying 3 out of 5 for that reason. May be same for other commenter. I also want where possible for the computers to be in different locations, using different hardware, and with different developers working against same API.
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I was hired (W2) by a staffing firm to fill a role. I interviewed with the client where I would be doing the work, and was offered the contract position. As part of the onboarding process with the staffing firm, I was then asked for references which they checked.

I wonder what would have happened if my references didn't check out. Would they then inform the customer that I wasn't available? Would they turn their back on almost a $100,000 in revenue (the portion they would take from my contract)?

Makes no sense.
I am not necessarily recommending this, but presenting it as an option. I use a VeraCrypt (nee TrueCrypt) archive with a plaintext file in it. This has advantages (simplicity, security through obscurity) and disadvantages (no auto-form-filling, which is a good protection against phishing[1]). It's worked for me for well over a decade.

[1] https://jacob.hoffman-andrews.com/README/2017/01/15/how-not-...
> I've been buying 1Password since at
> least version 3 and don't see any reason
> why I would stop

They're going to struggle to add much in the way of new features I'm willing to pay for, I suspect, which is a problem for them.
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> hardware will rapidly appear that supports 2 or more of them

Has been out for years. E.g. iPhone 4S supported GPS and GLONASS.
Too bad it's ZX Spectrum only. Would have been cool if it would have been a cross-platform BASICODE program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE).
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The burning of electricity is neither useless or wasteful. It is the conversion of value from a registered form (Your electric bill) to an anonymous form (bitcoin). If you balk at the CO2 output, petition your government to stop placing a premium on anonymous value. ie, let users buy drugs and gamble using their credit cards.
I'm from CA. Even with the resident discount, UCs are just as pricy as private colleges.
@idlewords has a very nice talk about this: "Superintelligence, The Idea That Eats Smart People". http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Also don't forget the filter bubble we're in. This article opens with "We’ve been told the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is right around the corner", but only a rather specific in-crowd actually believes this. I bet if you'd interview the average world-citizen they'd not be so convinced.
They added shadowbanning some time ago and later added a user (the rest of us) ability to vouch for dead posts to revive them. There were reasons at the time they did this that the admins could probably explain better.
Anyone care to chime in on why spot instances are now 10x on-demand instances? I've got a thread going here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14769026
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