skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am British, so what I would consider upper class is... upper class. "Middle class" in the UK means the same as it does anywhere else - educated, property-owning, suburban, high discretionary spend budget... middle class.

Sure, there's plenty of people who will try to redefine it to mean people with substantial investment/property income who send their kids to private schools and own second homes abroad... in general to justify claiming that cuts to capital gains and inheritance tax are 'to help the middle class'. But that stockbroker-belt lifestyle is more specific to what you'd call the 'upper middle class'. And even stockbrokers aren't sending their kids to Eton...
This is the most important comment in the thread. As a teacher, I've been pitched/required to use too many tools that were obvious designed by someone with little to no knowledge of what I actually do on the day-to-day.

It will save you major headaches.
This Three Story Home Was Built by Robots
Completely agree about The Expanse. It's hard SF, and every episode is as good or better than the best SF movies. I think this certainly counts as moving forward.
New features are cool and everything but I wish they weren't too busy with new features to finally answer my 3 week old support request about Cloudflare overbilling me!
how wasteful would your work have to be before the personal satisfaction wasn't enough to outweigh the drain on society as a whole?

i'm genuinely asking, because i'm genuinely curious. i'm lucky enough to get paid decently to work at a job that i believe in, and that's been true of the vast majority of my employment history. but i can think of an e-commerce gig i took that i did not particularly believe in (though i certainly didn't find it immoral), and what was essentially a classed up spam generation gig that i turned down a long time ago (more for the fact that i had a bit of trouble trusting the founder when i pressed him on what equity and future compensation might look like, though i was also rather hesitant to become a spammer, er, direct marketer).
Is this more than a graphical wrapper around the 'createinstallmedia' tool tucked inside the installer app package?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
> China's ruling class further cement their power at the cost of China's innovation and future growth.

The same thing happens in the U.S on another level. This isn't necessarily a case the choking of the free flow of information and censorship, but I think we've all seen a steady increase in the future being delayed for the now.

Around a month ago, there was an question on HN discussing train automation and why it isn't already done as it seems much easier to automate than other forms of transportation. A first-hand account commented that it was because unions have been fighting to block it to keep their jobs; stalling innovation and future growth.
> Now I've gotta watch, just so I can figure out whether the Klingons are racist (as in, the depiction is racist and the Federation's going all high-colonial Britain on 'em) or racist (as in, they're Trump supporter stand-ins)

Possibly both, actually, from the one-hour broadcast “pilot” (which seems more of a teaser than a pilot, but I'm not buying CBS All Access on the strength of that teaser, so I probably won't see the rest.)

That is, the focal Klingons are xenophobes looking for a war with the Federation to Make the Empire Great Again, but also there is strong indication of the other, as well. So, something for everyone on that department.
> Suddenly the Minister[0] possessed a file which he couldn't decrypt on demand.

While I entirely sympathise with this idea abstractly, so much of law depends on the context of actions where it's easy to dismiss this stunt. Merely having encrypted data in your possession is technically not within the scope of the law if the context is "as part of a counterterrorism investigation" and if the person could reasonably be expected to decrypt it (which would imply they were both the person to encrypt in the first place AND with the means to decrypt it - as this politician clearly wasn't).

Wrongful convictions and dragnet searches are the serious consequence of these laws, yes, but the real test comes when it's hateable/despicable people at risk. The problem with these laws isn't that it's fundamentally or potentially arbitrary, it's that it's wrong even when it's not arbitrary. And the mere fact of a police investigation or allegation is not sufficient to cross that line.

People should have the right to encrypt anything they want without being coerced into decrypting it. There are more than enough means for police in our modern technological era to convict terrorists/criminals and prevent conspiracies without having total access to all data. And the costs of removing that right is much higher than the rewards of a few extra convictions.
Yeah, I know, but unfortunately Cicero didn't have too much to say about GAAP.
Drop test confirms Apple totally lied about the glass back on the iPhone 8
If that is a feature or a bug depends on perspective and if a Markdown renderer strips HTML comments or not is an option for many of them.

(That said, I do miss the reStructuredText comments sometimes in Markdown, but partly because the syntax was so simple.)
Probably, it comes down in the US case to probable cause. Random border searches are probably not going to pick you up by your ID, and having a cover would not be detected. If they were specifically targeting your identity then they might dig deeper. If Google (for instance) would not disclose your 'other' account without a court order, then they wouldn't have access to that information unless they previously got the order.

There is another twist here in that there isn't a precedent for them to ask for access to your network presence, they can ask you to 'unlock' hardware in their possession but it does them no good when there is nothing on it.

So it pushes them back to having to do things more traditionally (with a warrant).

In general it saddens me that we've come to this.
Most mid-1980s technology books expected majority of production jobs taken over by robots any moment soon (and the rest going to ninja-like Japanese workers).

Of course what happened is the jobs went to China.
We (the US) have to start treating the blocking of our internet applications as trade embargoes. They are the future of our economy.
IKEA: Product, Pricing, and Pass-Through [pdf]
If they were defined by percentiles (i.e. certain definitions of middle class dictate the middle 60% of the population by income), you could still describe a "growing middle class" as a middle class acquiring a greater percentage of total income. While the population of the middle class isn't growing, its buying power still could be.
For Disposable Voice Recognition, Take Cheap Chips and Add Simple AI
Yes - mostly. The idea behind a mixer is this:

1. Your transaction goes into their address

2. Their address is always transferring money to accounts.

3. Sometime after you pay them, some amount, not quite the same, leaves their address to an address you control, but which has no established connection to you.

So an observer can see:

1. That you put money into the mixer.

2. The full list of addresses the mixer payed 'out' to (very long).

Which allows them to say if an address has "mixed" money but not to determine which account is connected to which person. If you're careful and you don't transfer any coins to addresses linked to your 'real world' persona, it becomes difficult to trace the account containing the 'mixed' coins to you (though trivial to identify it as coming from the mixer).
Even if it is not groundbreaking, people need to learn it somewhere. I've learned a ton from YC posts. Maybe they are things that people running businesses already know, but that is not me. I may look at an application and say it is not innovative technology, but if they are solving someone's problem and making money it is hard to argue with it. YC is definitely educating people who don't know these things and in that sense, the information is very insightful.
Await doesn't have to be as everything (im theory) is non-blocking.

Yes, I see, if you have data crunching in the event loop, you have to "manage" it, by either delegating it outside of it, or chunk it up into small pieces, and yield between.

But that should result in the same performance as BEAM, because you can run 1 big runtime or many small event loops on each box, and put a load balancer in front (which is needed even for BEAM, because if you have a more threads/processes than cores throughput AND latency will suffer).

Agreed on the DoS thing, but nothing, sort of a proper timeout (and/or hard RT) will save you. Yes, with Node et al. you can lose a lot of requests when you inevitably kill the runtime. But it's just as easy to DoS a different runtime. (BEAM just gives up a few seconds later.)
How on earth would that work? You're going to have to disclose your DOB at some point in the process to landing a job or applying for a loan regardless of any 'age discrimination'.
Apple Continues Dominant Reign as World's Best Brand – Fortune.com
> What the long-term effects will be: China's ruling class further cement their power at the cost of China's innovation and future growth.

Yeah blocking a foreign competitor is going to be terrible for innovative Chinese startups.
In my experience, yes. I previously took it for alcoholism. I found it very broad acting. I stopped drinking compulsively. I also became indifferent overeating, smoking cigarettes, sex, and pretty much everything else compulsive.
I've heard of people using it off label to lose weight.

For me it is a very strong & powerful drug, but I also know of others where it did not seem to work. I've heard if you have a family history of alcoholism it is more likely to work.
> Who said anything about social media

I don't care about Facebook and even if my product hasn't any relation to FB, Twitter, etc. At some point you probably need them anyway, eg for ads and then you must have a FB company page and thus a handle/account.

The best time to get those social media accounts is when you got the product domain name. The wise founder checked if the respective social media handles were free before he registered any domain name. You can also wait of course few months and register a cumbersome handle because somebody else took the the handle then.

My message was: Just setting up the foundation of a product and a company--and by foundation I don't mean the actual product--is already a lot of work.
My SE battery is definitely not lasting as long with iOS11. Same old story really, new iOS = worse battery life. I feel for iPhone 8 purchasers as the battery in those is smaller than in the iPhone 7.
I was wondering that too. I know at least some exchanges (maybe even all the major ones?) use temporary addresses like that. I wonder when they started doing that. There's the huge spike in "mixer" activity from March this year onward, but that's also when Ethereum gained a lot of value. Maybe it's just a lot more trading started happening on the exchanges?
Abstracting away an Email API (e.g. SendGrid) for deliverability gaurantees
What problems were associated with it?
This Ransomware Demands Nudes Instead of Bitcoin
https://onlyusedtesla.com/
I set up a landing page using WP with form and a basic email capture.
I got 3 listings from tesla forums.
I got a BUNCH of emails.
I started using ambush tactics to get customers to list their for sale used tesla with me for free while in beta. Saying stuff like " we have a concentrated buyer exposure , notice buyers not shoppers.
I used FB messenger for communications and email.
I started running ads on FB for each listing.
I started charging customers $150 for each sold vehicle, manually.
Now 6 months later, i am building a new web app using VueJS hosted on DO.
I tested charging from the get go and made a sale today. $50 to sign up list $50 to boost on FB. Boost on FB cost me like $5/$10. You can target location , interest , behaviors.
I am working on new features . I made $150/avg just following up with customers , i was ranking first page organic for "buy a used tesla" kinda got lucky , who knows.
I just wanna grab a "slice" from cars,autotrader they can keep the pie.
customers started comparing my rinky/dink Wp site to cars, auto trader , they liked the simplicity and speed.
I adopted the mentality
NOBODY IS GONNA FUND YOU.
Its everyman for himself. Good LUCKY!
It can be done and he is doing it. Mexico and Canada don't have to accept it though.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/trump...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer...

And I'm certainly not saying the renegotiated deal will be any better for middle America. Trump seems to be moving towards a traditional GOP pro-business at all costs stance.

I'm not sure how economists can say it didn't hurt or barely hurt American workers when we have so many plants in Mexico today.

This is the Perot v Gore debate on NAFTA. I think Perot was right.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/02/nafta-debate-1...
The way to achieve your goals would be through lobbying your local school district, state education agency, and state legislature (if your American). A startup has limited power and no legal authority to change the public education system.
Basically anything by Neal Asher.
Yup, and this makes it even more problematic that Google is forcing us developers to use their services more and more on Android.

There are users in other countries, users in corporate intranets, users on Amazon Kindle devices, users on open source Android ROMs.

None of these will have access to the required Google services.

But we can’t make apps without them anymore.
Why to Docker Compose your developer environment
The article doesn't seem to support the claim.
> In general it saddens me that we've come to this.

No kidding. It's a pretty sad state of affairs all around. The reason I mentioned this is that if the border patrol / the police / the feds / some random official are already aware of your linked accounts and you lie about it that you are in much hotter water than before.
Apps can request to keep running for up to 10 minutes after you background them. That would likely show up as "background activity".
What I'm looking for: libraries instead of one-size-fits-all frameworks. Libraries annotated for Closure Compiler's advanced compilation mode, so I can automatically tree-shake all the code that I don't need.
Indeed he is. Even more so, go download Tor Browser Bundle and read what the Daily Stormer has to say. Aside the obvious racism, it seems to match what and how Trump talks. Its one of their ways of conducting rallies as well, to cloak themselves in "normalcy" and use the weapons of the other side against them.

On the other side, they are willing to stop at nothing to destroy lives of people they see a threat as well. Ive seen it time and again. It turns into what amounts to a mob, exerting its will.

This is going to end very badly, for many. I see the underlying grievances as something neither side can amicably talk about, nor will either side give up.
Thanks! Will see what I can do about expanding the scope of the search.
That's all it appears to be, at least according to strings(1).
I have lost the thread of what you are talking about. What is "this phenomenon"?

Is the Federation in the new series supposed to be a conquering culture or nation, trying to take over the quadrant? If so, that's a huge change.

"It is a human trait which is universal"

Universal? What does that mean? Swedes and Norwegians each feel themselves to be better than the other nationality. They have flags and banners too. So, what is the consequence of this universal trait? Will Swedish tanks be going over the border soon?

Does that mean those who believe in internationalism ("the people of the world should unite across national, political, cultural, racial, or class boundaries to advance their common interests") are not human?
> It can be done and he is doing it. Mexico and Canada don't have to accept it though.

If Mexico and Canada don't accept it, a renegotiation has not actually been done, only attempted and failed.
At least for x86, you can get this same information fairly easily directly from the source. The table is located at arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl, from there you can grep for the function with git grep. For example, git grep 'SYSCALL_DEFINE.*read'.
I disagree - I think having some control over the self-destructive urges of a population during times of economic trouble is a positive thing. Several democracies with cancerous social media networks are teetering on the brink of right-wing proto-fascist parties as a result of the recent recession and perceived immigration issues.

The mob needs to be controlled for progress to be protected.
China will reach some predetermined level of technology that The Party decides they are comfortable with, then close their borders and just get on with being the Middle Kingdom in splendid isolation. That is my prediction. I don't think they feel the need to project power and remake the world the way the US and previously the UK do/did. Maybe they will disengage from the world and look spacewards.
Unique tit-for-tat regulations of Chinese companies of what is shown in practice?

"Our companies don't have freedoms X,Y,Z vs Chinese corps in china, so Chinese corps and investors will get the same special treatment in our country too".
Kinda, the problem is once you've moved through a couple wallets (many wallets, in the case of the mixing services), it becomes very hard to tell the difference between one person moving their coins around, and one person paying another person.

A --> B

A --> B --> C --> ...--> Z

Pretend you know who A is already. Who are B through X? Is the person in control of A also in control of Z? Or any of the other wallets? These are answers the blockchain doesn't give you.
If you closely followed this advice, I don't think Kahn academy would have been invented. What teachers want and what students needs are not the same.
Ask HN: Should I tell a candidate (potential successor for my job) that I quit?
My boss apparently prefers not to tell potential candidates that they would actually be a replacement/successor for my position.
Context: I've quit my job both because I've got another offer and because I've not been very satisfied with my job lately,
and I've been part of the interview process since I'm the only one in the company with the technical expertise for that position.

I strongly feel that the candidate should know that he would be a replacement rather than future colleague.
However, I think my boss is afraid that candidates would be put off if they knew that somebody has just quit exactly that position.
What do you think?
I'm a China hawk, but this is what has been happening and what will continue happening unless something massively more drastic than blocking a single minority foreign app happens.

I think there's a tendency for people to overestimate the importance of foreign apps to Chinese consumers and to underestimate the Chinese market. It's almost laughable that people think blocking WhatsApp will make any difference to Chinese people.

eg., the Chinese tech/online market is so huge it can sustain multiple competitors of its own in each sector - ride-hailing, search, shopping, food delivery, maps, chat, mobile payments all have massive players providing their own competition and innovation.

Genuine ground-breaking technological innovation is rare. When it happens, it's not like China won't get it (eg. touchscreens) because it blocked Google. In a lot of ways, because Chinese consumers are so quick to adopt new technology, there's sometimes more low-level innovation/adaptation because companies can rely on new apps/tools getting traction quickly.
Does YC have an approach on how to actually get founders to take advice to heart instead of just understanding at a surface level?

If you apply to YC and get accepted, the program provides a lot more intensive support than just the articles on the website. So, I think the short answer is "Yes, you can apply to YC."

But, if that route is not going to happen for you, then articles are what they can offer to the general public. They also have video courses, as I understand it. But, those are still essentially instruction. If that doesn't do much for you, you probably need to find something providing greater engagement, like a hackathon or group of some sort where you can connect in a meaty way with other business people. That seems to be the gold standard: mentoring, making connections, etc.
I am overloaded with acronyms. For crying out loud can we please just say what we mean instead of sending everyone down an acronym wormhole three whitepapers deep?
Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions
Is anyone in the FX business playing with this stuff? I'm thinking generational backdrops with groups of people/stuff/animals in them without a lot of modelling input.
The same is true in the other direction: Japanese domestic auto sales heavily favor models that you can’t buy in the US. Toyota has Crown dealerships that boast about selling JDM-only models.
>if 5 were true

Sadly, it's true:

>At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-gover...
Major iOS versions are simultanepusly released with new iPhones. Such new iOS versions have higher needs on the hardware, makig them appear somewhat slower. So yeah this could be seen as planned obsolescence, you still get a major version update on your ‘old’ device for free, with new features as well.
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Yes, I didn't like him at first but Tom Wheeler did a great job. To bad Ajit is reversing most of it.

I'm of the mind that no large company mergers shouldn't be allowed period, at least for a long time. Small company mergers in growing industries, sure. These large mergers in established industries only serve the companies and hurt both the workers and the consumers. The word cartel comes to mind.

I think the biggest problem with US politics, at least in the executive branch, is presidents need to be cautious until the last 2 years of an 8 year term, and still, anything radical they do can hurt the party. I think we need something radical done to fix middle America.
It seems to me that education needs its own "industrial revolution." Education with 30 kids and a teacher in a classroom for 9 months doesn't seem to scale well. There aren't enough good teachers, and it's inefficient to have so many kids together learning the same thing, and the same time, at the same pace. It's too inefficient, and any improvements are going to be cost prohibitive.

I think we need to separate instruction, student work, and assessment. Students should be able to receive instruction in multiple ways (1on1, group, watch videos), do their work with something like TAs, and be assessed at their own pace.

Japan is starting to see to super-star teachers that parent pay for. Why do we always need a teacher to provide direct instruction in the classroom? Why can't we reward the best instructors, like Kahn, by having kids be instructed that way? The reason is because instruction, work, and assessment are not separated now.

I wish there were more experimentation in education, but since everything is a big ball of wax paid for with property taxes, there's a lot of reluctance for anyone to experiment with their kid, and since it's all or nothing, there just are minor experiments in the classroom

We need tech to find a way to scale the classroom and deliver it cheaply to students, and I think we need a separation of concerns in order for that to happen.
My high end 486 dx2/66 was 2000 usd, in 1993, plus monitor.
The common crawl has 3.28 billion pages. That should result in plenty of edges for 2017. (Shouldn't it?)