skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let me just go ahead and deny the first point. Normal cabs are horrible in some jurisdictions and places (try getting a cab at Manila airport, Denpasar (Bali) airport, Singapore, Addis Abeba).

In other places, where they're well regulated, they're perfectly fine by and large (London, Germany, Hong Kong).
"Five years ago" refers to across-the-board browser support, the spec is older. You can use caniuse.com, https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/, and/or MDN compatibility tables to quickly check browser support. Browsers are now grinding away at new APIs constantly - don't let your memory of "not safe to use" last more than a year.
As far as standard user-friendly file managers go, I'd say it works well.

So what sucks specifically, in your opinion?
I keep seeing this trend among supporters of diversity, which is a description of inclusivity goals which then follows with a set of exclusivity rules. The irony seems to always be lost.

The trending method of improving diversity and inclusivity is through exclusivity. This will not work.
People and groups who don't talk to each other grow further apart and trust each other less.
It's very strange that adding/updating documentation isn't treated as a basic requirement for a patch that adds to or modifies Linux's public interfaces.
I imagine that the best thing to extrapolate from this is to learn from your own failures, but make those punches hurt only a little. So that if you mess up, you can still move on.

Advisors could say what things to avoid, but then offer a path of- but if you don't want to listen to me, try this (small) experiment to see what happens.
I'm having a really difficult time connecting the points you're making about corporate globalism -- much of which I agree with! -- with the comment we're responding to.

My sole point was that Star Trek has literally always been explicitly about idealized, utopian social justice -- so complaining that it's in decline because of SJWism is ridiculous. Star Trek was 100% PC SJW from day one.
> special effects will keep production costs high.

The vast majority of written science fiction doesn't need a lot of special effects.

There are almost uncountably many stories that could be transferred to television or film at no more cost than any other drama. Take Clifford Simak's Way Station for instance, most of Ray Bradbury's stories, J. G. Ballard, and dozens or hundreds more. Even stories with a grand idea and scope like Clarke and Baxter's Light of Other Days hardly need much in the way of complex sets or difficult special effects.

Why is it that science fiction in video form always has to be space opera, alien invasions and so on?

If we are going to go for special effects let's not waste them on more space cowboys. Let's have Charlie Stross's Accelerando and Saturn's Children or Ken McLeod's Sky Road, etc.
Higgs boson based vitamin technology
Nerve implant 'restores consciousness' to man in vegetative state
I set it up after making a regrettable post that was replied to before I could delete it. It wasn't the worst thing I could've posted, but as I recall it wasn't a fair reply to whoever it was. I strongly dislike people doing that to me because it completely disrupts the conversation flow. So to resolve the conflict, I give myself two minutes to be able to freely delete things, which is still short enough that the conversation won't be unduly delayed.
China hasn't invented anything. Why would this change today? I'm not sure why you're surprised.

For a billion people, I think the WSJ says there is maybe 1 or 2 patents assigned to the country.
Arguably Obamacare has been great for adding jobs to the healthcare industry.

That said, I'm not entirely sure what the executive branch can be expected to do here aside from tweaking interest rates and actively hiring people directly.
Cool, thanks for a more in depth description. Sounds like it is worth watching an episode or two for myself, I'll give it a whirl.
> only recently began accepting Visa and Mastercard for purchases

Looks like they got so used to having a monopoly that even after they lost it they couldn't let it go.
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So glad I read to the end of an overly wordy post just to find:

> can’t release technical details at this time

Then what was the point of the very long post? To grandstand?
It's still impossible. These algorithms find in gaps with their biases, not reality. If information is not there it is not there.
The short/salty answer: EnvKey's app and client libraries are end-to-end encrypted and open source so that you don't have to trust our servers with your data.

The longer answer:

I run EnvKey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/daneschneider, along with help from a small marketing team and OpsZero (https://www.opszero.com/), a Kubernetes-focused devops consultancy that has worked with several YC companies. I've worked as a developer/consultant for a long time for various startups and agencies, both in the US and, for a 2-year stint, in Australia.

My most recent job was at GiveLively (https://www.givelively.org), a startup/foundation that builds payment integrations for non-profits and other charity-related apps and tools--they were also EnvKey's first beta customer.

Over the last few months, I've given several talks on secrets management and encryption in the NYC area. Check out my Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/daneschneider/presentations

Legally speaking, Envkey Inc. is a Delaware C-Corp based in Montclair, NJ. It's a Stripe Atlas company.

I hope that helps! I will definitely add more background to the website.
Creating fingers to protect identities
Sorry, I have to disagree. How do you suppose more innovation would have happened if instead of China, blocking US tech, they let them have the whole market from the get go and instead of WeChat there would be Whatsapp and instead of Baidu, there would be Google? How is that more innovation?

You can just look at Europe.

I'm not advocating any policies or supporting anyone. I am just disputing the claim that free markets maximise innovation in this particular instance.
I have several friends who have said that they feel more safe walking around alone at night due to the cameras, when compared to major north american cities.
Show HN: Guess the country
> I just skip over the rest of the text.

You could also skip over the step of posting in comment threads.
No I expect it to be more like only the rich will be able to afford the data rate fees that will apply to any Inter-Zone communications.
Is this the US you are talking about? I though the consensus was that when using biometrics you can be legally compeled to unlock but not when it is a password.
>GGOP get elected by saying Government is broken

Honestly, with this issue, and it's a huge issue, it seems the government is broken. I don't know how the Dems plan on solving this either, so I'm not sure replacing every GOP politician with a Dem politician will solve anything.
It seems to me that Uber transfers value from Uber investors, Uber drivers, and regular cabs to Uber employees and, yes indeed, Uber riders - for now, as you say.
> haven't seem a wrong time on a mobile device in probably over a decade.

Not talking about mobile devices. Talking about cameras.

A dozen of us from work flew to have lunch at Noma in Denmark. We combined pictures after. There were nearly as many wrong times as there were people in the group. No software could have machine sorted these.

> Flickr

Flickr integrates with camera roll to upload originals in background but you manage albums and sharing in their app or web, and share via URLs or app. Only you have to be a member.
A) What gets paid to support children is called child support, not alimony.

B) I spent two decades supporting my husband's career. When we divorced, he still had a well paid job and twenty years work experience. I was starting over from scratch and was "lucky" to get a better-than-minimum-wage job to start.

It aggravates me that the world as a whole acts like having kids and raising them is only a financial cost to men. The fact that women give birth and then take more time off for family responsibilities helps suppress the incomes of most women. Then people don't act like this is a real cost to them.

Furthermore, if you just don't want children at all, there are several viable solutions:

1) Remain celibate

2) Get a vasectomy

3) Have only homosexual sex

A lot of men seem to desire sex with women, who can then have their entire life derailed due to an unexpected pregnancy, even if they use birth control, which is not 100% reliable. And then they act like women are just overentitled and lazy for wanting compensation for the very real cost to themselves.

I'm a woman. I like sex with men. I have been celibate for more than 12 years for medical reasons. The difficulty involved in finding a man who is not just cavalierly willing to ruin my life for his convenience and then walk away makes me wonder if I will ever get laid again. That whole "sleeping with me will destroy your entire future" vibe is a distinct turn off for me.
https://eclecticlight.co/2017/09/24/high-sierra-automaticall...

Posted to HN over the weekend so few have probably seen it.

One user referred to this "feature" as "beyond creepy".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15326924

Tweets from the developer were quickly removed from Twitter.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170924180858/https://twitter.c...

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A design requirement we were given early on by Privacy was that we can't just scoop up everyone's firmware and send it back for analysis

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In my perfect world we would have rolled this out way back in 10.12 as just a silent data collector"

Once again, remote, "silent data collect[ion]" from all users, in this case from a hidden partition on user-owned hardware, is on by default. Nor is user asked for consent.

This is not meant to be "alarmist".

EFI is an open specification. Anyone can write EFI applications and anyone can use EFI type partitions for whatever purposes they like, assuming that the computer belongs to them, i.e. they paid for it. EFI usage is not exclusively reserved for companies like Apple.

Perhaps if the remote check was on a more familiar partition type where more familiar files are stored, the privacy issue might be better illustrated.
This article is a great example about why there is a sexual harassment problem in technology. It's conflating two completely different things in the name of "free thinking": the facts about men and women and the severity of sexism. Are men and women different? Yes. Have those differences ever been shown to affect their ability to do the same job? No. Sexism exists because of the perceived answer to the second question, not the first.

The dismissal of Costolo's point about the urgency of addressing sexual harassment based on a false dichotomy summarizes the key flaw in the entire article. You cannot simultaneously have an intellectual debate about a topic when one of the parties involved is being actively demeaned and marginalized.
I think the point is they frequently vote against their own interests. For just one example, one need only look at the Kansas experiment to see what unchecked conservative tax policy can do to a state.
Have you tried any of the Finder alternatives, such as Path Finder[0]? I'm not sure if it's a result of me adapting my workflow to the environment, but I find I don't actually use the Finder very much. Between ⇧⌘G (Go to Folder) and Launch Bar[1] (the first thing I install on a new system), actual Finder browsing is pretty rare for me. Of course, different people have different workflows and needs, and I can understand people who might want an alternative.

What do you personally find lacking or inefficient? What changes would you like to see?

[0]: https://cocoatech.com/#/

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
No I cannot. Not being an economist I can't point to exactly what is causing this to happen. I can, however, talk about my theory on what causes it. More or less it boils down to education. In a lot of rural communities the school systems are one step above garbage and have been for generations. This feeds back into declining tax revenues (because education tends to lead to higher paying jobs) which feeds back into worse schools.

But that's just gut feeling.
>Yet again, Minnesota bucks the trend.

I don't know of a definitive study that controls for all variables but one theory is the heavy Nordic population there.[1]

If you believe in cultural factors... (e.g. memes such as "Swiss punctuality", "German engineering", "Protestant work ethic", etc), there's something about Nordic culture or solidarity that aids success. (E.g. Norway does not squander its oil resources and built up its citizens' pensions -- while oil-rich Venezuela is basically bankrupt.) It's hard to think of a geographical area in USA with significant # of descendants of Sweden/Norway/Denmark being an economic slum.

It's an interesting correlation, if not provable causation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Americans
I've never liked case-sensitivity in file-systems, personally. I've always found it to be annoying with no utility that I could discern. If main.h and Main.h are truly different, I find it more useful to make the file name more descriptive than just changing letters. Would you tell me why you find it useful? Not an argument, I'd like to know what other people do with that feature.
I think the policy of flagging without providing an explanation is becoming a problem on contentious issues. It allows a minority to have disproportionate influence on a discussion.

I think there are several conflicting ideas of flagging:

- Reason: I'm tired of this topic (I feel like this doesn't happen much, or else all this bitcoin talk would have stopped 3 years ago, as well as "Building X in language Y").

- Reason: I think this piece is non-factual and doesn't present any falsifiable claims.

- Reason: I think this piece is demonstrably inaccurate

- Reason: I think this is a controversial topic

I think controversy is an indication of the importance of a topic.
Tencent and Baidu are used by tiny tiny tiny portions of westerners

That doesn't matter - they are focused on China and Asia. To think that they can't innovate inside the borders and with a significant number of people inside other companies and abroad is just putting blinders on.

since you think China is doing such a good job of education

Whoa, never said that. Mainland domestic policies for 1.7B (non official number) people are mediocre at best.
Why single payer health care is a terrible option
Maybe from a non-German union ?
I am keeping a close eye on smart contracts, but so far it seems like there needs to be new primitives to make them really interesting. So far they can only really act on tokens on the same blockchain. And still I haven't seen almost any new financial instruments, e.g. options, hedge funds of tokens.

There's obviously interesting things you can do with smart contracts when they're actually tied to real world events, but for that you need oracles. That hasn't been figured out as far as I can tell.
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If a system is designed for large scale problems, it seems like it really should be validated against problems that are impractical to run on a single commodity server. The problem with the results the blog author pokes fun at isn't (necessarily) that they trade high overhead for high scalability. The problem is more that these papers are mostly dealing with such small problems that simple one-laptop processing offers competitive or even superior performance. There's no useful evidence provided either way when a proposed "big data" approach is tested on inappropriately small inputs.
Ext2 (closest equivalent to the first version of HFS+, which shipped in 1998 with no journaling support on Mac OS 8.1) was released in 1993.

Ext3 could be considered an equivalent jump to the first HFS+ version with journaling. Both HFS+ and Ext3 extended a previously non-journaling filesystem with journaling.

Ext4 is fully compatible with Ext3 images (and is in fact the default codebase for mounting Ext3 volumes on linux), but Ext3 is not fully compatible with all Ext4 images (but potentially compatible with some). Likewise, HFS+ tends to be backwards compatible with images, but old HFS+ is not forward compatible.

I think it's a fairer comparison than you might imagine.
It is better but what are the chances of that realistically happening? When I was doing enterprise mobile development from 2008-2010, I worked for a company that had people to go out an chase funding, marketing, salespeople, a QA department, business analysts, etc. I could have never done that as an individual developer. Even if I were to start my own company, I would still need capital to compete with the big guys. — and the code would not be mine. It would belong to my business that was partially owned by investors.
Isn't it possible to offer the "Slow Sync" feature on older models like 6/6s? I would assume this would be software controlled... Maybe another camera app has this already?
I was in China recently and my ssh tunnel got blocked to near zero bandwith after some time. The way to go is a good VPN subscription or shadowsocks on your own server.
Another perspective on the rash of South Bronx arsons is that it was caused by bad data science. See story here: http://nypost.com/2010/05/16/why-the-bronx-burned/
Ha ha ha. We have a conspiracy theorist in the house people.
> Sure, if you define all the very real advantages Excel has as “extras”, that's true. It's also not meaningful in the real world where the artificial distinction between “base product” and “extras” has no meaning; the actual product of Excel that businesses get has features for which Google Sheets has no equivalent.

The distinction isn't artificial: you can build upon excel as if it's a programming platform, but that doesn't make excel itself more powerful - all you've done is built yourself into a proprietary tech stack. With enough time you could do the same thing in Google sheets with Google's proprietary scripting interface. Comparing the two apps at baseline there is no difference in sophisticated features. PowerPivot is a plugin.

> You could, if Google offered equivalent proprietary tech for the purpose, which it doesn't.

Yeah, actually it does - you just won't be solving everything with an xls file and you might actually be using a more appropriate tool for the problem, but I guarantee Google has an equivalent offering.
I know that second list is wrong because I own a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro retina and it has 802.11n (not AC) and doesn't support Apple Watch unlocking.
> additionally all Chinese DNS servers respond with random A records when the domain name is banned

Which DOS'd one of my server when the random IP they picked was mine. Grr.

Had to add a special rule to deal with it.
In Oklahoma the Internet has shown up in the rural areas. Oklahoma is 30% rural which amounts to 1.3M people who don't live in any kind of town. Rural Oklahoma is rapidly changing so fast many of the people are having a hard time understanding the changes. It is not that it is falling behind, but generations old ways of order became obsolete or massively challenged overnight. This community is being asked to catch up on multiple decades of urban cultural in a few years. So they vote to slow it down.

The Urban-Rural divide is real. Massive investments in Rural Oklahoma and Rural America are needed. Something I hope to promote if and when I enter the Oklahoma State House.
System calls have not stability guarantee on macOS. You should use libc instead. In general the use of syscalls directly is fairly limited.

Edit: for instance go broke once for macOS Sierra, when Apple changed the gettimeofday system call: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
Why do you call it data collection?

It's simply ensuring the firmware (which is really part of the hardware--though nothing's "hard" until you get down to the microcode interpreter on the CPU) hasn't been altered.

The only "data" collected is: Has this Mac been compromised?
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I'm confused by your last sentence. How else can we decide which side or sides is/are being demeaned/marginalized other than intellectual debate?
Illiberal regimes are assumed to be kleptocratic. Historically, it's rare to get a succession of just rulers when the temptation to take is there, and there isn't a strong balance of powers.

There have been just rulers for a while, but the risk of regression to the mean is ever present. We'll see how things go.
The ones I experienced were heavy on science and light on statistics and social science. Also, I was speaking more broadly than just what was covered in health class. We have smoking ads and drunk driving ads, but don't care to publicize hard facts about other lifestyle decisions.
This situation is more nuanced that you might think. They are not preventing everybody from gaining access to outside ideas. In fact, they are actually encouraging their top students to spend time at elite universities abroad; they are aggressively pushing for more "partnerships" with top Western universities. Additionally, they have special Internet lines for approved entities, giving unrestricted access. In theory, selectively giving access to information this way is the best of both worlds; protecting the masses from "dangerous" foreign ideas that might challenge the Party's authority, whilst still gaining full advantage of the west's technical progress. In fact, what they've taken from the West has enabled their surveillance state. Western governments have being underestimating China for years, at their own peril. Sadly, China has not underestimated the West's thirst for money, and has used this to their own advantage.
What is the use case for this? Is it for someone trying to write their own syscall wrappers?
I have no idea. I believe it is used where dopamine is the reward. I know that it is also used for eating disorders and heroin addiction.
It's still hard for me to get over the fact that the very first people Damore had interview him were Stephen "cult leader" Molyneux and Jordan Petersen. He's also got interviews with Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro. It's totally possible that they were the only outlets that would give him a platform, but those are very biased and partisan outlets. If he was as objective and free thinking as he's depicted as, why was his first reaction to jump to one of the extremes?

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux
What is the state subsidy Deliveroo is receiving? If they are receiving one, then sure I don't agree with it. If it's the VC's that are wasting their own money, I see nothing wrong with that.

> a number of the people working there are doing so through a shortage of alternatives

Right? Maybe I'm missing what you're saying. But possibly people are willing to pay for goods only at a certain price and if the price was bumped up, those services simply wouldn't be bought. And those jobs wouldn't exist. It doesn't necessarily mean better paying jobs will fill in the gap.

> the money spent topping up the wages of the low paid could be redirected to providing education.

Who's money? The consumers money? Or the VC's money? Are you saying through taxation because I thoroughly disagree.

It's also not as straightforward as you are implying - just having an education does not mean there will be jobs there to greet you after you are done. To make that happen you need to make the environment friendly to job creators - those willing to take the risk and start their own company.
The problem is that this just doesn't work. Look e.g. at Kansas https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/opinion/finally-something...
I tried playing it but there's a group of spaceships that is constantly destroying me in less than a minute :-(