skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philosophy Degrees:
Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn,
Stewart Butterfield - Flickr,
Peter Thiel - PayPal,
Patrick Byrne - Overstock,
Carly Fiorina - you all know her,
Carl Icahn - Icahn Enterprises,
Sheila Bair - FDIC,
George Soros - Soros Funds,
Herbert Allison Jr. - Fannie Mae,
Gerald Levin - Time Warner,
Ethan Cohen - you all know him,
Rupert Murdoch,
Rashida Jones,
Philip Glass,
etc...
...of course - just statistical - there's always some list for other degrees too....
I actually don't care about movies, very rarely watch them at all. The vast majority of video I watch is YouTube.

I meant to type "I never actually saw DRM on the web in person".

Also, proprietary desktop software is still usually "protected" by just a serial number :D
The Brave browser on iOS has per-site Javascript control.
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We have a matrix chatroom for three colleagues. The list of keys and devices we have to verify against each other does not fit anyone's screen, it is insane.
Exactly. Signal is #privacyfail because is requires access to contacts. Wire is better.
Decriminalization of drugs would have to come with a massive restructuring of our social programs. You could get into a lot of trouble by financially supporting people who become addicted beyond their control.
And depending on the local geology, it will take anywhere between months and thousands of years for that ex-Coke to get to a water body, evaporate, precipitate, and infiltrate back into the aquifer. It's very easy for the rate of extraction of a particular aquifer to exceed the rate of replenishment.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_conductivity water moves through porous material at rates varying from 300 m/day (mixture of gravel and sand) to 3 mm/day (clay, sandstone).

EDIT: arithmetic.
I actually use Typescript to speed up development. Having the type-system looking over your shoulder is great for reducing the code-test cycle.
I am all for text-only, structured web; but gopher transfer protocol is broken mess (which is an achievement considering simplicity of it's purpose).
>>In the labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 60s and 70s, they broke any rule that interfered with building the stuff of early computing, such marvels as the first video games and word processors.

Surely this is part of tech's own, positive, legend of itself? Is it "disrespectful" when it's part of HAKMEM or the Jargon file? Isn't this where all the "disruption" ideology comes from?
Yes, this happens automatically in whatsapp. In Signal, you will be prompted to confirm the new key.

Still, _it is possible to trigger this process for a third party_, and then to MITM the key exchange.
There are several issues that are all relevant, I think:

- Corporate taxes reduce the competitiveness of a jurisdiction and create a market for tax havens like the Caymans which add no value.

- Companies' tax avoidance schemes are massively complex and create an incentive to hide earnings and obscure profits, making this information less transparent to markets.

- A company's share price should reflect company performance only, not the performance of the company's accountants in the realm of tax minimization.

- Offshore tax avoidance schemes reduce government revenues. Google avoids taxes by running such a scheme. Why shouldn't Google pay the same fair share as a tiny startup that lacks the budget to set up such a scheme? Why should governments lose out on the revenues?

- By simply taxing the money when it is income or capital gains, governments can get the proper amount of revenue. Suppose Google evaded $10B in taxes via its offshore scheme. This $10B would instead have been collected from shareholders and employees via capital gains and income taxes.

Why don't we switch to a system of zero corporate tax? The firms like Google that have invested heavily to set up an offshore tax avoidance system are quite happy with the result. They get to be insulated from smaller competitors who do not have the budget to set up their own scheme.

Larger firms like WalMart are cash cow businesses that are not doing enough R&D to offset the profits. Investors in WalMart are OK with this and the shares are priced accordingly. If WalMart paid no corporate tax, the dividends would be higher and the revenue could be captured by capital gains tax and income tax.
> Families and friends would be able to communicate once the Internet became possible whether Facebook exists or not.

Have you tried using Livejournal to communicate with friends and family? It was certainly possible, but had tremendously worse usability. You know, that thing that HN readers care about much less than actual users.
Thankfully Reddit lets you tailor your subscriptions very narrowly, even allowing you to disable notifications altogether. Even if you take a machete to your friends list on a weekly basis, Facebook has a lot of noise.
Because it's a massive program that required several technologies that were never used in production aircraft be made production ready with expensive state of the art technology and deliver a result that has acceptable performance for a wide range of users with a wide range of use cases.

It was pretty obvious from day 1 that this would be expensive af.

Being cutting edge is always expensive af.
The Xbox One controllers send data over the USB cable when plugged in. You could make the argument that the USB cable could get pulled out of the controller, but the Xbox 360 wired models have the breakaway which is just as easy to pull out with a good yank anyway.
The telephoto camera in the X is a little better. f2/4 vs f2.8. Do they both have optical image stabilization? Any other differences?
> remember not to use your phone to do internet transactions!

Do you have time to explain?

I'm aware of the problems with using sms as 2FA but if I understand you correctly you mean something else?

(Around here most banks demand we use BankID which is typically downloaded to the sim card in the phone.)
Nice; added to my wishlist. Thanks!

"The El Principito / The Little Prince Spanish/English Bilingual Edition with Audio Download (English and Spanish Edition)" https://amzn.com/dp/1999706110/ $18.69 paperback
Walmart currently pays $2 a year in dividends to about 3 billion outstanding shares.

So over a few years they have paid tens of billions in dividends (and have done share buybacks in addition to that).
Yeah, Elm is the bomb! Had to grin when I saw your comment. I am really happy with this refactor of Coffeescript but Elm is what I do.
The most surprising thing about Amazon lately is that it suddenly is showing some profits. Normally, Bezos has every single dollar that looks like it might be a profit re-invested in something or other.
What problem are you solving? If you won't explain it in public, it is suspect.

(And why do you need VC at all if you can get this going that cheaply?)
idiocy playing out in real life
I get this is a mindless junk article, but this statement is ridiculous right?

"Surely the earthquake damaged underground caves in the aquifer, which could impact aquifer recharge in the future,"

You could give them the benefit of the doubt on a translation error, but no mainstream paper would be this sloppy.
I think the obstacle there is momentum and critical mass. Nobody uses askjeeves.com because Google has mindshare.

If you were to build this hypothetical pure social media communication platform we'd still have to find it, it'd have to be funded, maintained, and improved. Even then it's useful only if you can get your network on it.

Money is the root of all evil and will pervade into whatever is next. It's only human nature.

You can see examples of this with https://diasporafoundation.org/ and https://gab.ai/ -> these platforms and ideas exist but they have a raindrop in a bucket of usershare.

I'm not an expert in this field but I think about it a lot. Thanks for discussion, HN.
I'll confess this surprises me, but not overly so. I'll try to find what I was thinking of. Primarily, I thought you could do live reflection in lisp machines. Which is basically this.
> The water isn't safe to drink, and Coke can be cheaper than milk or formula, so many moms feed their babies Coke instead [1].

So, the unsafe water, gets treated, margin added and still cheaper as coke than local drinkable water.

Not sure what to say at this.
Amazon can't escape paying Medicare and Social Security taxes. So, they are definitely paying into that, along with everyone else who pays payroll taxes.

So, if you exclude those two things from the budget [0], you'll see that military expenses and interest on debt greatly outweigh education and NASA and etc.

Now I personally think Amazon is a great source of good in this world, compared to Lockheed Martin or Halliburton [1]. So if those guys aren't paying anything in taxes, I am biased, they should be paying more, not Amazon.

[0] https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_...

[1] they make missiles and weapons that kill people wholesale.
Yes, there are some (there are 4 in the Netherlands, for example: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_slavernijmonumenten_...), but I think people in Europe are generally less aware of their countries' role in slavery compared to people in the US.
Review is not thorough.

One huge change in the control center is that the wifi “toggle” doesn’t toggle wifi off anymore (wait what?). It just disconnects from the current network and doesn’t reconnect for a minute or so.

If you don’t want to be tracked by wifi APs it seems you have to force touch settings into wifi and disable the adapter from there.
Huge step backwards IMHO.
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Maybe they have a mil-spec fallback mechanism (manual control, maybe?). Would that suffice?
It also makes maintenance cheaper over time, that $30K controller is going to cost a lot more to fix should it malfunction or get damaged than replacing a $20 game controller.
Yes, and what happens when those corporations keep hundreds of billions in profits in the bank for years - see eg Apple?
Just like we stopped using AOL, myspace, yahoo and napster, facebook will go the way of the dodo sooner or later. People have short term memories. If there's one thing true of the internet, it's that everything slides into obsolesce at some point.. gopher, FTP, icq, geocities, irc and a long list of one massive sites and technologies that are now dead.
Just like you're not caught up in a literal prison when your proverbial student loan debt prison is due every month.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelficarra/make-a-b...
I can't read the article because I have no Washington Post subscription.

But isn't this more of a question for an economist than one for a medical doctor?
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Ask HN: iPad app for prototyping ideas
I'm a mobile app and occasional web developer. Over the last few days, I have began setting my iPad up so I can do more work on it. The easy ones are thInge like planning and researching (reading docs).

I'd like to prototype ideas. Mainly, bits of programs I am currently working on. I'm not prototyping UI. So I can simulate UI with logging. This can all be throwaway code. One of the reason I'm doing this is to use it as a drawing board, so I can hopefully be more efficient when I sit down and write the actual code. I'm handy with several languages so I'm flexible here. I am aware of Swift playgrounds, but I don't particularly like Swift and feel it's too complicated for my purposes. I have Blink. I would rather not need to connected for prototyping.

Any suggestions?
That is good and I'm interested in that workflow. I've yet to work with a team that didn't decide they had to rewrite it all. :(
"the GoCardless CEO’s first with the technology or business press"
VPNs are configured in Settings->General. Any reason why that would need to be regularly toggled, out of interest?
To me the big advantage of static typing is refactoring. I am dealing with a mid size JS codebase right now. It's well written but it's still really hard to refactor because you never know what code may break. In C# or C++ I can make a change and the compiler tells me what breaks. I haven't used TypeScript but it seems it will also make refatoring easier.
my favorite insight about balancing putting in the hours vs deliberate practice comes from a Super Hexagon tutorial:

the moment it starts to feel like grinding, you should stop.
I've been programming consistently for 50 years, so I've seen lots of languages and used scores. Some were special purpose languages like the simulation language GPSS or the string manipulation language SNOBOL or the IBM system programming language, PL.8; others were general purpose like FORTRAN or Pascal.

I like D. It appears to be a well designed language, unfortunately, for me, it fits in an isolated place in the galaxy of all programming languages and I have limited time to dedicate to learning additional programming languages. I'd like to hear from HN readers that are using it and that have some experience with the more popular languages.

I use different languages for different reasons.

- Ease of learning: Go is easy while C++ is hard.

- Performance: C++ and C are great, Java is very good, Python not so good.

- Good for just getting things done: Python is great and is easier to read than bash scripts or Perl.

- Good for team projects: Go, code stays easy to understand, its easy to learn, and compiles fast.

- Teaches me something: Haskell, Prolog, Scheme

- Special purpose but necessary: HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, Emacs Lisp, Swift

- Math/Stats: Python, Julia

- Has packages already written that do what I want: Python, Java

- The 1980's language of the future that still cool: Common Lisp

(I don't know all of these languages well anymore, in fact C++ has now gotten completely away from me with it's constant evolution.)

Should I make the investment in time to learn D? Would really learning Haskell well or would picking up Dart be a better use of my time? Maybe getting back into C++?

On my list of languages to try or use more are Dart, Swift, Rust, and Haskell. So, should I add D? Or should it be Elixir. There are just so many to pick from.
Code completion goes beyond auto-completing method names on objects/modules. Either way this shouldn't be some tribal us vs them thing, both static/dynamic have well documented utility for different use-cases.

But if we're going to make a generalization on which is easier or most capable to build complex editor integration around I'd say statically typed languages is the winner here.
> He even brings up Apple's inexplicable need to have a 16 GB base model until this year without trying to justify it.

He's been ranting about that for years. Here's his review of the iPhone 6 three years ago:

> But I don’t understand why the entry level storage tier remained at a meager 16 GB. That seems downright punitive given how big panoramic photos and slo-mo HD videos are, and it sticks out like a sore thumb when you look at the three storage tiers together... That’s just wrong. This is the single-most disappointing aspect of the new phones.
Honestly, the sooner we can have a real discussion of the pros and cons of using Facebook and not using Facebook while everyone else around you continues, without ridiculous hyperbolic bullshit like "social media poison," the better.
>The biggest advantage of static typing(...) or "move method from one class to another class"

You are posting about static typing advantages. Please note that the use case you mention would not need too much refactoring in languages like Common Lisp (dynamic language) or Julia (dynamic), because of multimethods and because of the way methods are called. Methods -and method signatures- aren't constrained inside class definitions, they are separated.
The field of author services (as actual paid-for services, not bundled with journal publication) is an interesting field. Peerwith [1] is one new entrant into the field, which is part of the Springer-Nature incubator Digital Science. They're sort of a marketplace for academics to connect with (and pay) other academics to help with manuscript services, everything from peer review type work to copy editing.

[1] https://www.peerwith.com/
No it probably doesn't do well when wet or corroded, but, instead of $38,000 for single point of failure, you now have watertight box of 20 (or more) $30 controllers.
Mob-programming as a training technique
My last bank made that easy. But required a new card and a new PIN, and immediately and automatically cancelled the old one. As I was abroad at the time, this was not a fun process. Not that it's particularly fast even if you walk into a branch.
And not only does the upgrade semi-arbitrarily make old apps stop working, it's impossible to go back.
Some of the retailers in the States are protesting Apple Pay and disabling it on the terminals even though it would otherwise be fully supported. Home Depot did this awhile back, they were one of the first places where Apple Pay worked and then it stopped working due to some corporate hissy fit.
How do you plan to maintain it? No ads, full privacy, how will you eat? Why is it not free and open-source?
He is talking about a policy, not Chavez. The fact that lot of Chavez's policies were disastrous doesn't mean this one in particular was bad.
Yep. I'm worried that reddit is going to abandon that user-friendliness though, under the typical SV pressure to "grow". Fingers crossed it never happens.
I use Apache all the time. It's great software.

It's kept up to date and it works for everything I want it to work with. This idea that because it's old and not hip therefore it's use is questionable is kinda dumb. I was disappointed when OBSD wrote their own httpd that was initially filled with stupid bugs.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Maybe he wants to prop up that share price so he can become the world's richest man again :)

Amazon is expanding really heavily into so many verticals. It is crazy to see. I don't think they will stop the spending, but maybe they felt like showing a small profit for some kind of "investor confidence" strategy :)
Facebooks whole shtick is making you feel like your being social. In reality you are partaking in the most superficial 'fast food' social needs scratching imaginable. This causes people to become addicted to a constant stream of ultimately unsatisfying validation at the cost of spending time on meaningful relationships.
Does coca-cola charge for breast milk over there?
While it was "easy" for me to drop Facebook, I realize that for others it's harder. And not because "it's addicting" but rather for practical reasons.

My wife, who is still on Facebook uses it as a tool to coordinate social events, message teachers, stay in touch with family and even ask useful questions to specific groups. You can't force everyone in your life to communicate on your terms, unless you want to A) piss people off and B) reduce your socialization dramatically. If I didn't have her, I'd probably be forced to be on Facebook, if only to support my kids social activities, and stay in touch with my immediate family.

Some content shared on Facebook still annoys her - stay-at-home moms posting about their purchases and political posts are her least favorite - but I have those same issues on Twitter and remain because she and I derive value from the service(s) despite this.
On the other hand, would we want to see Cocaine and Heroin marketed to young audiences in the same way Cigars are?
Bingo. Remember when you first first learned the ternary operator syntax? I recall thinking something along the lines of, "Wow, that's cryptic!"

result = if condition then success else failure
This comes across as extremely petty. As someone that owns a 6S and no desire to get an X, I see why it might appeal to people. It's a huge UX shift which is enough to intrigue and excite a lot of people. Ultimately what it offers may not work, but you can't dismiss it immediately as being for "fanboys" or "rich people" (especially given there are other $1000 phones on the market).
Of course it does. They also collect sales taxes in all (or nearly all?) states now based on customer address, so they contribute to state revenues as well.
I haven't used it in a while, but when I did, it wasn't very good at reconnecting after sleeping the device or switching networks.
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> mainstream browsers won't display media without DRM

Seriously?

Nothing has really changed, has it? Video services want to use DRM so they developed or bought tools to do so. A de facto standard emerged around the frameworks and the W3C essentially ratified the standard. If I understand it correctly, the standard itself isn't DRM, rather it's a place where DRM controls can be installed.

I get that the EFF saw this as an opportunity to ask for a promise from DRM companies to not sue researchers and I applaud them for that. But now that they lost that battle, I think it's entirely appropriate for them to drop out and apply their resources elsewhere. For example, if they can get rid of the ability to sue researchers in the first place, then none of this really matters.

I don't think there's a demand for DRM free browsers but there is a demand for DRM free content.
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Indeed I have moved on - I'm not using Javascript transpilers.

Maybe it was an unreasonably smug reply, for which I apologize, and I hope it hasn't distracted from the main point that the value of this empirical study is not diminished by specious arguments about what constitutes a type error.
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What's not fair? They are following the law.
In context, it doesn't appear that he actually believes the first video games, for example, to be a marvel - he's deliberately describing the programmers at MIT in a way to make them seem childish and naive. This makes his point that Zuckerberg is both childish and exploitative an easier one to support.
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Per my other comment, the military's cut is 16% of 3.8 trillion.

Energy, Environment, and Science take a combined 2%.

Social Security and Medicare take a combined 60% (!), which are funded by entirely separate taxes (payroll taxes). Amazon still pays those.

Trust me, you don't want a corporation paying income taxes.

It just results in dead Iraqis and global surveillance.
They did a partial refund specifically for fraud? Not the whole amount? That is extremely strange.
"As the other replies allude to, the USA is extremely slow to adopt "new" things like chip&pin, and so in many, many places they still use swipe."

Well, we're relatively slow.

That is to say, after inventing credit cards we now have a lull in innovation and feature adoption.
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>- offline plaintext PIN -- cardholder enters pin, terminal sends the pin to the card, card responds if the pin is correct -- this is the source of most of the skimming problem

>- offline encrypted PIN -- same as above but the pin is being encrypted with a key established securely with the card. This is safe but the cards cost more.

what's the difference between the two? can't the attacker put a physical keylogger on the pin pad?
There's a great talk on this subject by Richard Feldman from Elm Conf. I haven't used typescript so I'm not sure if the techniques translate well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
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