skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Armchair" in this case means "without looking at the data". We're making hypotheses about the tail of a distribution based on the assumption that the distribution is normal, rather than looking at the data. It's still a problem with the argument, no matter who makes it.

It sounds like you're saying that it's more important to know the identity of the person making the argument than the content of the argument itself?
Apparently it's just Asia? https://www.quora.com/Why-do-iPhone-users-in-Asia-have-an-on...
A passcode that you type in fast seems a bit harder to record than looking at someone who winks at their phone
It used to be The Growth of Biological Thought (great writeup of Meischer's discovery of DNA), but now it's The Eighth Day of Creation (for the methodologically sourced material of molecular biology).
decentralized != blockchain.
If you're going to be taking a camera with you, you might as well as carry a phone instead, since every camera I know is a lot bigger/thicker/have worse battery life than any cell phone. Alternative would be a Snapchat glasses or the discontinued Google Glasses, which have lower-quality image and the added bonus of looking dorky in appearance.

EDIT: Forgot about GoPro Session or those miniaturized action cameras (such as Mobius and Polaroid Cube)
The PFS under MPI-IO clearly doesn't have to be a POSIX one; PVFS is stateless. I can't comment on that specific intention, which isn't in the standard's rationale. Where is it documented? You'd have to argue with Rob Latham about whether "MPI is a good setting for parallel i/o".
This is a great point, and why I'd like to see more features being locked without a passcode. The move in iOS 11 to restrict device imaging without a passcode is a great step in this direction.

Perhaps we can see more customization as to what biometrics unlock and what they don't?
17% of google devs are women
18% of cs majors are women.

This isn't a google problem, no need to talk about variances.

http://splinternews.com/survey-says-92-percent-of-software-d...

https://www.ncwit.org/infographic/3435
> How to estimate this?

Ratio of actual purchases on sites compared to the number of "please let people pay with bitcoin" requests they got before adding it?

I've seen varying reports ranging from low to super low.

Old but e.g. https://fundraising.mozilla.org/bitcoin-donations-to-mozilla...
Just out of curiosity, have you changed any sleep behaviors after using the sleep tracking app?
There is a difference between goals and vision.
>Linux is a security tire fire.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why are you calling Linux a tire fire when it has had significantly less code execution and buffer overflow exploits than iOS?
I'd argue that under some conditions: I feel it's secure enough for locking a phone for example because a phone won't allow any form of brute-force unlocking that would allow an attacker to try, lets say 1 password/sec. Same goes for pin codes on debit cards. Same goes for a physical combination lock safe: 1 million possible combinations would take an impractically long time to crack on average in a realistic real world attempt.

For things like hard drive encryption where you can get the specific piece of hardware and have software brute force it then yes I agree it's insufficient.
Because biometrics are usually relatively publicly accessible information. Passwords aren't. You're arguing reproducibility. Well, your face can be replicated by a picture you put on Facebook, fingerprints are left everywhere you go.
Oh yeah, I forgot that I had to change that setting. I definitely hope it's the same with Face ID - I don't use home screen notifications for anything.
It's no different than show or movie spoilers. Do they make the show less enjoyable? Does that reflect on the production quality?

People enjoy the keynotes for the suspense and shared joy and excitement.

Leakers of movies, shows or new device features do take away some joy from some people. For me, the fact that 99% of the features are available in some form on another phone already (unlike early iPhones) is a bigger spoiler than the leaks.

I love seeing how Apple can take existing common features and take them to 11 and it's why I've come back to iPhone.
Yeah, we just sell it at 6x the cost and have a weird conversion rate to Europe...

Hate the 1$ = 1€ ...
> Are you feeling picked-on because of what you're saying, or how you're saying it?

That's impossible to answer without telepathy.

(Aside from topics that generate lots of discussion that weighs one particular way, I find it impossible to determine a priori whether a particular viewpoint is controversial on HN. For instance I have recently and wrongly predicted that transhumanism would be uncontroversial; and while I've noted this as evidence for future predictions, I am unable to explain it logically.)
That's not an answer to the question. What happens? Break it down, step by step.
By the state? How does the state enforce it? Who pays?
Testing vs. Checking – so what?
> As others have said, google/facebook are opt-in. I have knowingly given them the information they have on me.

Did you knowingly give them your credit card transaction data, too?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23...

Did you "opt-in" to being tracked across most of the web by Google Analytics?
NPR developer here. We launched some changes to the text site this morning.

NPR set up a text site in late 2001. A developer reworked the text site in 2005. We have made very few changes since then.

The site is a set of a few PHP scripts querying our MySQL CMS database directly with no caching. The HTML and JS were aimed at providing a decent mobile experience in 2005. That included a lot of hacks and workarounds for extremely defunct platforms.

The newsroom asked us to make some improvements. The main features:

- display more news stories following editorial order rather than reverse chron,

- remove the obnoxious interstitial "read more" view for stories,

- put the text site behind Akamai like our other web properties,

- configure HTTPS on the text site (still in progress and won't be the default due to TLS overhead)

It should be a lot faster and more pleasant to use.

Thank you to everyone who made lots of noise about CNN's text offering. There is a small contingent of developers at NPR who love the text site to the point that they've created replacements as personal projects. They were very excited to improve it for the public!
A modern efficient European fridge typically costs about $3 a month where I live.

I'd rather ask you, where you spend 900 kWh per month on :p

I suspect airconditioning is a big factor though, I've never had a fan in my home in my life and heating and warm water is done by gas. (although the country is shifting away from gas right now).
I think it would be interesting to see a filter that generates something along the lines of Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases, or "SIPs", the most distinctive phrases in the text of books, but for articles, and then tracks how closely the comments line up for that particular article .. might be a good indicator for authority ?
Microsoft aims to take the work out of data wrangling with coming tool
That was my problem as well. The other problem that I had (which turned out to be a deal breaker) was that in order for the phone to charge, you had to place it just right on the charging pad. Otherwise it would show that it was charging (you'd see the lightning bolt on the battery icon), but the phone wouldn't actually charge. In practice, this meant that wireless charging was actually considerably less convenient than plugging a USB cable into the phone, since you had to check back on the phone after a few minutes to verify that the phone was actually charging.
TBH i was mainly thinking about desktop applications where app stores are not really a thing (beyond Steam) and - at least in Windows - you can still use applications written a couple of decades ago while the companies that made them have long dissolved.

I agree about the gatekeeperness aspect of app stores too :-). At least with Android there is the ability to install APK files, though it isn't very user friendly.
There are two significant parts of the announcement:

1. Improved controls for filtering comments on prominent news sites.

2. A step towards the decentralisation of the web.

Both have potential benefits, especially if the comment filtering is user-driven.
Thanks for the explanation. I would be interested to help build a plugin that implements user-local moderation policies, if sites would actually install it. If that's not likely to happen, then a distributed commenting model seems more useful to me.
License Zero: get paid for “open source” software
First, the baseline isn't the total US population. We're not surprised that toddlers and retired World War 2 veterans aren't software developers. You're looking for the percentage of the labor market, which, of course, is higher.

Second, what you're pointing out is orthogonal to the question. The premise of the question is that there aren't many women software developers; the dispute between the memo and Dahly is why that is.

Third, if you bring international labor into this, you muddy the issue even more, because female participation in the software development market is sharply higher in some major overseas markets.

I don't follow your second sentence.
I'm not disagreeing that it's poorer for security, but in practice under most threat models you'll be able to patch in time for it to not even matter. And you'd still need to patch, even if it was nicely sandboxed - getting access to just the bluetooth stack could allow emulation of a keyboard or internet connection. Let's not forget that Apple has had trivially exploitable vulnerabilities in the past too - I'd argue that Linux's recent history has been significantly better in that department actually, despite the technical merits of the mitigations being worse.

There's no PoC code out for this even and it's been many times longer than it would take to patch something like this in most cases.

What I'm saying is that going from "Linux has worse security design" to "use an iPhone" is just a non-sequitur - people choose devices and operating systems for reasons other than the best security design and there's no reason that an attack like this should force you onto a single platform. It comes off as nothing more than fanboyism.
It seems nearly every year people ask the same thing.
I see people saying Apple should allow fingerprint plus passcode, but I've yet to hear someone explain how it would work if it can't read your fingerprint? A longer passcode? Why not just use the longer passcode in the first place.
The exact same set of moderation actions will look like a necessary and correct restriction on bad actors to one group, while looking like a choking echo-chamber imposition to another.

The reality is that any social space needs to have a set of norms, including ideological norms, that are enforced to a degree to ensure they're followed. The idea of purely "open discussion" is a fantasy; if you ever have something that feels like that, it's because the participants have internalized the enforced norms sufficiently that they never run into the enforcement.

The difficult problem is picking out a set of norms that successfully produce the quality of space you want. Sometimes that is an outright ideological echo chamber. (In fact, it almost always is, to at least the limited degree that there is some ideological position that would be rejected without consideration by the participants and met with hostility. This is a good thing.) Any talk of "open discussion" must always the include the important context of "within what boundaries".
How do Muslim women that cover their faces use this phone?
I really hope someone makes this as that would it so much safer and more convenient not fussing with cables everytime you drive.
Why do you need AGP? I'm very curious to know if it still has a use case.
Kubeless – Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework
I think I remember them saying 50% back when TouchID was announced
> There's a hack for this which I find works, just go to sleep at 8pm or 8:30pm instead right after the kids.

Yes!

I'm not consistent at remembering to do that, but fairly often I'll crash super early as soon as the kids are in bed. I get up at 6:00am specifically to give me an hour or so of me/project time in the morning. I could probably get up a little earlier, but it's hard.

The downside is that it means sacrificing evening time with my wife, which is also critical. And I try to exercise twice a week, usually in the evenings. And I work on my book every day, so if I didn't get any writing done in the morning, I have to stay up after the kids are in bed to do that.
This is a fantastic point. Marketing isn't evil - it's just a tool. It gets you connected with things you want faster. And like anything it can be misused.
It's about preventing wrongthink from being expressed on newspaper comment sections. Previously they just removed commenting from politically contentious stories, so I'm not sure why they're bothering with bringing it back.
Maybe they leaked on purpose to control expectations leading into the event. If there hadn't been any leaks, would you have been underwhelmed by the design of the iPhone 8? and/or confused by the introduction of another phone as a 'one more thing' device?
I think the problem is deeper than 'is Autopilot better than no-Autopilot'. Is Autopilot better than no Autopilot under what conditions? Is Autopilot being marketed to customers in a way that encourages them to use it in the wrong conditions? How are changes to the Autopilot code being vetted before being deployed OTA to customers?

I think if used properly Autopilot can be safer than most drivers without it, but the crux of the issue is that many people will trust the system more than they should, which could make them more dangerous. We're in a dangerous inbetween state with autonomous driving where it's just good enough to fool some people into thinking it's foolproof when it's not.
ROMIO unfortunately requires global locking on Lustre, but I don't see how that's relevant to the use of standard or other high-level (HDF, NetCDF, ...) non-POSIX interfaces. You can swap in PVFS, or something else with a different architecture. (So what if object stores are on _local_ POSIX-y filesystems?)

I'd have thought the salient feature is collective i/o, not cleaning up silly POSIX i/o of some sort. Nothing's perfect, but what should replace the non-blocking collective MPI-IO under5, for instance? I wonder what are the major NERSC applications that don't do sane i/o and should. The published workload characterization doesn't help.
1. The police arrest them.

2. They're tried by a jury of their peers.

3. If found guilty, they are punished and/or imprisoned.
Thinking about it a bit more yeah, when you stop subscribing you might have to roll back 12 months of updates on your machine, which is pretty odd. Clearly they want to discourage you from doing it.

At least bug fixes are included:

"The license also includes all bugfix updates, more specifically in X.Y.Z version all Z releases are included."

I can understand giving you the major version at the time you bought the subscription but it's a bit stingy to exclude minor version bumps (Y releases).
Optimus.Data cleansing and exploration made simple using Python and Apache Spark
The whois of the domain from which the JS is loaded shows that it is owned by wapo too. That's great, disqus always loads everything from a CDN.
One of the features offered by Talk is the ability to ignore comments from a specific user [1]. It is designed just as you described it here. As mentioned in a previous comment, our server api's should be sufficient for you as a site administrator, to write a plugin that would allow users to do exactly what you described. The idea with Talk is that we hand control to the newsroom, so they can enable or create the plugins that they like.

[1]: See a demo GIF on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/wp/2017/09/...
I had the same problem with my Nexus 4 and a nokia qi charger. The battery life got significantly worse in the months after I started using it. I have no way of knowing if that was the cause, but it seemed likely at the time.
Depends on how the game is tuned to handle it. Somehow we all played Quake / UT back in the day with that kind of ping.
Upvoted :) What about don't giving a fuck about scores!?
You don't have to turn FaceID on -- you can continue using a normal passcode.
Really, an article in the wake of the most significant data breach in the US telling me to forget about that breach and think about something else?

The first two words of this title are "Forget Equifax ..." An imperative. This is exactly propaganda.

>"Whenever a journalist 'names names' of big companies, they're probably doing regular journalism."

What? Since when is using proper nouns a defining characteristic of "regular journalism"? That is a ridiculous statement.

>"The bad stuff happens when stories are suppressed to avoid upsetting advertisers."

Do you see many ads for Google on Bloomberg? No. There is zero risk there at all. Bloomberg is not in the ad business.

The real bad stuff happens when propaganda masquerades as journalism.
Typeform receives Series B funding
>Self-signing is a great way to invite phishing attacks against your end users: if they're used to clicking through cert warnings all the time, they won't notice when something has actually gone wrong.

Sure, it's most suitable for a homelab where you can import the certs, with suitable discretion, for yourself only.

>Running your own CA works but has two caveats: first, I don't really trust myself to run a CA competently given that almost nobody who runs a CA as their only business function is doing so competently

Not a massive concern since the context is internal only, but I hear you.

>and second, you have to get your config onto every device on the network.

Yep, this can be tricky in a less controlled environment. I had two scenarios in my mind - Home lab, and enterprise, when I penned that response. There's definitely a third one here, that you have in mind, that I didn't cover.

>It's quite a bit simpler and more secure to just use .corp.example.com or whatever.

Definitely the best option for small to medium companies.
Check out Pushbullet? https://www.pushbullet.com/
The end user should always be in control.
Huge shout out to RZA, for making it into that Keynote.
The article is too google centric. It's believable that google is hiring a significant chunk of the top 0.3% of the US population because they pay incredibly high salaries (300k+).

It would make more sense to look at average companies that don't have the resources to hire from the right side of the normal distribution. If they have a 4 to 1 ratio where a 1.5 to 1 ratio was expected that means the differing distribution is one of the less significant possible factors out of many.
Yeah FaceTime to talk to your family is totally narcissistic.
Just a guess: it uses infrared to somehow determine where you are looking, and sunglasses don't block infrared.
Yup. They call it an eSIM: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/12/the-cellular-enabled-apple...

"The eSIM has to be provisioned via the device itself, which is handy if you want to switch between T-Mobile and AT&T in a hurry, but not handy if you want to switch to a carrier not supported by Apple, or sell your device to someone on a different carrier."
Do you think that's a problem inherent to USB-C? Or just how they've been implemented in the MacBook Pro?
On Disk I/O
>On my Pixel, I have to take it out and then unlock it.

This isn't my experience at all. By the time it's out of my pocket, my index finger is right on the scanner and the phone is unlocked.

Might be a function of the size of the pocket or of the hand, though.
Several implementations of such a concept have been done, one being Microsoft's Continuum [1]. If there is a future Windows 10 "mobile device" running Windows 10 ARM with x86 emulation, as has been rumored, it will likely use CShell [2], their new adaptable/responsive UI model.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum

[2] https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-cshell
Facebook set a precedent in their open source licensing rules where users of their libraries aren't allowed to sue them for patent infringement.
Except it isn't, assuming the tech works as described. Face ID uses a 3D reconstruction of your face (now we see where that Primesense acquisition went). You can't bypass it with a video, or a photo, because that would be presented to the phone as a planar surface. You could conceivably create a model of someone, but adding a gesture would make it incredibly difficult to mimic.
> Much the same, they can force you to reveal your fingerprint, but cannot compel you to share a password.

Unfortunately this is dependent on your jurisdiction. In Virginia it's been ruled that law enforcement can't force a password out of you, but in federal court and in other jurisdictions (Florida), they can imprison you indefinitely for not revealing your password.

The justification used is that the password itself doesn't incriminate you, it's just a password. The stuff that would be revealed with the password might be incriminating, but that's different.
You could try running it with no custom plugins. If it still happens I would report the issue at their GH repository.

As others above have said, me included, never experienced what you describe.
I think economics itself is very important for society. I just don't think economists add much to the field.

Peter Nobel, a human rights lawyer and great grandson of Alfred Nobel explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".

So often I read some bullshit article with a headline touting the author as being a nobel prize winner, and it is always the economics prize. It debases the achievements of other nobel prize winners, both in hard science and in literature/peace.

Even Hayek himself was against the Nobel prize for economics because: "The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.... This does not matter in the natural sciences. Here the influence exercised by an individual is chiefly an influence on his fellow experts; and they will soon cut him down to size if he exceeds his competence. But the influence of the economist that mainly matters is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally."
I wonder if there is an algorithm to score comments vs the article so that you can warp the article toward something the commentator would approve.

We have already seen examples where people run the same story on extreme left and extreme right web sites to get clicks and rage views and their toning, and changes are fairly algorithmic. That makes me wonder if you could build an echo chamber of one. So that what you read was always something you really agreed with, even if it wasn't written that way for anyone else. (same data and facts mind you, just slanting it toward the reader's preferences).
Precisely the reason I never use my Qi charger: It's too slow.
This is a step in the right direction, but why hand control to the newsroom as opposed to the user?
I like the neural processor. More things being local is nice.
We're not saying different things. As I said: I love the comments here (usually). I also learn a lot from them.

I think "forums" like reddit and HN are fundamentally different from inline comments on news websites.
>biometric data is a username/id.

It's authentication. When it unlocks, it's authorization.
"If depressed people would just stop whining they wouldn't be depressed" - person without psychology background who has never dealt with depression