skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The camera update was not big this time around. Since that's one of the major reasons people upgrade, it's not surprising that people are buying 7's and 7 Pluses right now.

Also, anyone who's moving up from a 6 or 6S will see a huge speed improvement if they move to a 7, and for most "normal" usage I'm not sure the move to the 8 would make that much difference.
Interesting. The main problem seems to be the short growing season, no? From my experience after a few years, sheep cannot do much to trees, in fact many leave them unattended it their orchards. Granted some eat the skin and such sheep are kept away but most do not.

I guess Iceland needs to compensate sheep farming for a few years, so the trees grow. But even then, sheep will eat any new saplings, meaning humans will have to be involved "forever."

I left about an acre without being tilled for 3 years and now they are more than 1000 saplings--wind did it's magic from trees 50+ yards away. I am going to fertilize about 100 of them and keep it as it is. In 10 years, I'll no longer need to buy firewood, which is a way better return financially for that particular plot. Not to mention the environmental side benefits.
That may be true, but if customers decide that what they have is good enough for what they do, they're not going to rush out to upgrade at the earliest possible moment. I mean, I carry an iPhone 5 and it does fine for me. I'll replace it when it dies.
They arrived in a period where the weather was particularly good, and proceeded to just practice the same sort of farming that they were used to in Scandinavia and Iceland.

But there's no indication that they were actively contacting the native population to learn their hunting techniques, such as how to build kayaks and hunt marine mammals, or venture under the ice to gather mussels[1] etc.

Which, to bring this thread around to the original point being made, doesn't suggest that "Greenland [was] uninhabitable", just that a population of people had arrived that didn't know how to make use of it.

You might be able to transport a tribe from the middle of the Amazon to northern Greenland today and them not being able to survive, or the other way around. That doesn't mean that either place is uninhabitable.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA
Great point, luckily unlike fiat currency, developers can fork the code and create a new currency if they don’t agree with the way things are being run. This happened when Bitcoin forked into Bitcoin Cash (which has a blocksize that’s roughly 8x larger than Bitcoin, and has very very low transaction fees) and its likely going to happen again around mid-November when Bitcoin forks again. Unlikely that all these forks will survive, only time will tell what the market actually values!
This is pretty much what I've experienced by accident. There were times in my app that I screwed up and had to send out some emails explaining or to users in some particular situation where it was necessary to communicate something all responding way more than from the MailChimp and had to scramble to get it out, not caring about looks and was high response rate. Another occasion where I was lazy to pretty up the announcement email also had a much better click rate than MailChimp. I was suspecting something was off but seems this article is making me think it wasn't a coincidence.

By the way, you can still send HTML and just wrap a DIV around your pure text with a style="white-space:pre-wrap" along with any font you want which is bad ass as it preserves your return breaks and stuff and you can put <strong> tags or whatever in there and spend way less time.
Saw a documentary about Tour De France riders. They had to force huge plates of spaghetti into themselves every night to the point of throwing up and still lost a ton of weight during the race. It's hard to stay overweight if you are active the whole day.
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That'd be swell. As an EJC, transacting in USD is more difficult, hence we must use cryptocurrencies.

Is Ripple pegged to USD? I do not want anything complicated, just a coin or token that has a 1:1 ratio with USD. Charge me 5% or 10% to buy them or 5% on cash out.
Because I saw it on /. and thought the Fast Company link was the original source. Turtles all the way down, or something; should have paid more attention.
If they still owned 51% of the company their respective net worth would make even Bezos seem paltry
Google does not pay for articles, AFAIK. However, having a high profile individual like Sundar Pichai interview with you has huge benefits for cash flow anyways: Your ad revenue will skyrocket, because other major sites will also cite you and link to you as they also post the story. Google does not have to pay a site for the site to profit from promoting Google.

The big thing is, Google will not grant it's exclusive interview treatment to news sources which are heavily critical of them, which means that any news site or blog which gets interviews with Googlers isn't going to risk that revenue source by getting on the Google press folks' bad side. This is why sites like The Verge which regularly get insider treatment, and interviews with Sundar Pichai, Matias Duarte, and Astro Teller will never really write a truly critical article about Google.
There is no upper bound on what "web" will require of hardware. Web developers will see to that.
Yes, the JavaScript JSON parser is broken (in design), in that it silently loses data/precision of JSON numbers. JSON numbers are not "int64s" or "double floats", they are arbitrary-precision decimal values. [1]

Postgres is the only popular system with built-in JSON functionality that I know of to correctly round-trip JSON numeric data. Python comes close but fails for any number with a decimal point or in E-notation.

One can argue that the JSON spec is too permissive (and I would disagree, though I'm somewhat a purist). Or a pedant could note that the JSON spec doesn't actually say whether any of the digits in a number are considered to carry information (and does in fact note that many parsers are faulty). But it's unfortunately true that most popular JSON parsers fail to round-trip valid JSON data due to flawed design.

[1] http://json.org/
Not quite.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mercenary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mercenary

"one that serves merely for wages; especially :a soldier hired into foreign service"

:)
loadlin.exe! It ran under memory-unsafe Windows (95/98/Me) as well.
Great point. Thanks for clarifying.
And only for retail. And the store is supposed to check your ID if there's no signature on the card (which is stupid, because they're not comparing your card's signature to your current signature). It's just a way to push back fraud charges onto the merchants.
Terrible example. You do realize recent Android versions have a native flashlight app?
Many of these things don't have exact definition in actual laws, either. I assume that a more detailed description will be made available as those policies are put into effect. Law systems generally rely on individuals designated to exercise judgment on a case-by-case basis, and, I assume, this will be the case here, too.

And even with actual law, people who may be satisfied with a particular law, may be very dissatisfied with a particular judge's interpretation and subsequent ruling, but that's how jurisdiction works.
Definitely, the user experience is going to have to improve A LOT. It took a solid 20 years before email was used by grandmothers though, in another 11 years it’s likely to see grandmothers using cryptocurrencies!
Indeed, the public and regulators are not pushing enough, the floor needs to be hotter for the CEO, whoever is in charge.

Google has lost its cute startup image long time ago and people have realized companies are never out there for the social / greater good, just for profits.

It's time to break up Google.
Ask HN: Going from solo-founder to co-founder; how to give equity affordably?
I've bootstrapped a web startup that I had developed by a paid freelancer. I'm a non-technical solo-founder and the freelancer I hired owns no equity in the company. The minimum viable product is now finished and I think it would be a good idea for me to bring on a technical co-founder to start working on some of the more complicated features that will be needed for the site in the long term. I'll have to offer this co-founder equity only, since I spent the funds I had available getting the MVP built.

My startup is organized as a single owner California LLC. I'm wondering what would be the most cost effective way for me to add a co-founder to my company and set up a vesting schedule for the equity they would receive? Are there online tools that could help me accomplish this affordably? My budget for something like this would be around $500 or under.

PS. I know that forming a Delaware corp is ideal for startups, but I don't know that I can afford to reorganize my company that way right now.

PPS. Raising seed funding is not an option right now as I've applied to multiple accelerators and been rejected, though I still have my fingers crossed for YC! My startup is in the ancillary cannabis space, which can be a limiting factor in terms of accelerators.
Likely the reason for the Euro/US model split I imagine?
Just you wait until the next iOS :)
As far as I can tell, it is an US thing. I can't speak for other countries in the Americas, but when I was in Europe briefly a few years ago, what few purchases I made with a card were all done chip & pin.

In the US, that signature is a on a line right next to the words "I agree to be bound by the cardholder agreement", or some similar language. If I had to guess, the signature was originally supposed to be a mini-contract that yes, you're going to pay back the card company for what they just paid on your behalf. I don't know if such has ever been been taken to court to be enforced, however.
Which Rebol fills this space, R2 or R3? The idea was also not loadable Redbol compatibility (which would be nice of course), but general utility. So Ren adds new types and changes others, where it thinks that is best.
Same. I have a 5s and I'm tired of running out of storage space, so it's time for an upgrade.

As a Mac fan, I follow Apple news, but even though I watched the press conference I've forgotten if there were any substantial benefits to the 8 over the 7 other than presumably faster specs and a mildly better camera. Seems pretty similar.

I definitely feel no need to grab the 8, and the 7 (or even 6s) seem like good options when one considers the price drops.
It's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolution ASCII-art, the models can be made to look more gender neutral, IMHO.
For a while I've been making the joke that you could draw a flower when asked for your signature and nobody will care. I've had to pay with other people's cards and signed in print. Nobody cared each time.
Sarcastically cute. It appears very parochial (in the sense of "limited or narrow outlook") to think that having a single "currency type" is useful, or that using a "$" to denote it is appropriate. While "$" is used by at least one important world currency, I am pretty sure that more people use ¥ than $ by a long shot, and users of € are about as plentiful as people who spend in USD.

(The idea that in Rebol one might write EUR$1.00 to denote the value that would usually be written 1.00€ is also pretty horrible)
Devils advocate, they might simply know your face.

I worked in a 5000 person building for a year, left, and went back a year later for a christmas party. The shared reception still remembered who I was without being told and were able to guess who I was visiting.
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They should have split the release into 6 months like Samsung (S vs Note) . Call the iPhone 8 the iPhone 7S and then 6 months later release the iPhone X under the name iPhone pro or something like that.
What most don’t see in TBH, an app sold for ~$100M and launched only 9 weeks ago
I think the demand for the iPhone X will be tepid. It is too expensive and no popular apps require that much CPU/GPU horsepower. My iPhone 7 still works great.
It's for fast food or retail, the idea is you never put a pin for your purchase.
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Text and maps worked fine a decade ago. Web, too, though it depended amd still depends a lot on the sites you use.

The issue is that it's not enough to be good enough 99% of the time. That's assumed.

It's performance in the last 1% that really makes or breaks the user experience (or maybe the right ratio is 95/5 or 80/2...).

Obviously, any car will have sufficient power and traction to maintain cruise on the highway. It's those few seconds of acceleration to pass, or that panicked emergency stop, where you'll definitely notice a difference.
Agreed. When I discovered the world of healthy living, I started reading and applying a lot of nutrition advice to my life. It was natural that I would come across research defending both sides of the coin for certain foods (eggs, for example), but I felt I generally became healthier and more aware of what I put into my body. However, over time I felt I read enough to come to the conclusion that we don't really know much at all and so I don't really read about nutrition research anymore. I tend to stick to simple principles now like eat more vegetables and as little sugar as possible. Beyond that, it seems too nebulous.
I feel like I've seen more gender-obvious ascii art than other kinds of ascii art
Waiting for the rap music ban in addition to majority of video games.
>Pixel perfect: High Pages are close to pixel perfect. Depending on the quality of the creatives, you may not be 100% accurate, but your page needs to be close to your template.

What is this 2004?
You can physically break into any facility, if you have enough force. Social engineering is a different problem.

In your case, no exiting the alarmed back doors for break. Breaks are taken by exiting the front doors or in designated break areas.

There were no security doors that weren't manned. Positive identification was required, as was approval. No exceptions.

We worked with proprietary data at that facility. Sometimes, we'd even have to put a team at the customer's site. Once, I had to personally do all of it as there were only two of us with government security clearances. For that, I had to be on a military facility.

The latter being really, really silly. I can't be specific but it is fairly well known that I modeled traffic. Yup... That's what I did and the USG determined the data was marked at a higher level that FOUO.
iPhone X looks more like a dev kit.
only problem is that there won't be enough to go around!
Steve Jobs revitalized Apple by streamlining the product line and guaranteeing high quality. Tim Cook has done exactly the opposite. Makes me really sad
Headers on the JPGs say Pixelmator 2, so looks like they were done at least partly by hand.
Shane Legg isn't worried about "evil" AI, but rather an AGI/SI that simultaneously (a) has the ability to achieve complex goals in complex environments, and (b) not perfectly aligned with operators' goals [1].

We can also take a strong guess about some aspects of how sufficiently advanced cognition look from the outside, regardless of internal implementation, because of coherence theorems [2][3].

[1] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/03/so_far_unfriend....

[2] https://arbital.com/p/expected_utility_formalism/?l=7hh

[3] https://arbital.com/p/instrumental_convergence/
I'm in the same boat - I have a 6+ 128gb and it's starting to lag with the most recent iOS. Apple is just going to do Apple things and intentionally slow it down.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I was thinking of buying a refurb 6s+ (I really want a 3.5mm jack) and send it off to apple to refresh the battery and live with that for another 2 years.

The 7 and 8 aren't that interesting in the same way that I haven't updated my late 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro. If they fix their stupid mistakes (touch bar, deleting the 3.5mm jack) I'll upgrade. Otherwise I'll hold off until the products die and then I'll buy something from their competitors.
Unknown is a nice word for this, yes. And while we don't focus exclusively on being terse in the Redbol world, "unknown" is a lot more work to type than "none", harder to scan visually as well.
iPhone 6S 128GB is a solid choice.
Recent Xoogler. My observations/opinions:

- To many inside, the company feels like it lacks direction. It feels like the leadership doesn't know where to take Google and this pervades pretty much everything;

- There is a lot of discontent at the the amount of money Google throws at executives. I mean Sundar got paid ~$200m LAST YEAR. Levandowski got $120m+. Back in the day, Patrick Pachette was parising the benefits of scrappiness, which saved $40m in travel costs that year. Incidentally, his was paid ~$40m extra that year;

- It feels like there are constant reorgs going on. This plays into the directionless point above but is also symptomatic of politics run amok and middle managers creating work for themselves and covering their asses. I mean a decision can never be judged good or bad if it lasts at most 6 months before another reorg.

- Some units were deliberately keep apart from Google. Most notably Youtube, Android and X. This exacerbates a cultural drift such that Google is really becoming autonomous and separate business units;

- Internal mobility is harder than it used to be and also less advisable for your career, as a general rule.

- It takes too long to do pretty much anything, particularly anything UI related. This is in part because UI work is looked down upon by the engineering leadership and the tech stacks are like 10 years behind the rest of the world.

- Sundar came up through Chrome and still seemed to me see everything through a Chrome colored lens. Chrome in particular had (has?) a bad rep for hazing and their retention numbers for women engineers in particularly aren't great.

- Google promotion culture seems to value individual technical ability above all else. I can see how this breeds the views of the likes of Damore. Worse, it seems like a lot of PAs tolerate someone being an ass if they're a high performer, which is an unfortunate reward loop.

- This all said, there are a lot of talented and great people and projects at Google. At the same time you could probably get rid of half the company because they don't really seem to have anything to do.

- Left to their own devices teams will create work for themselves. This is most apparent in Maps, which definitely went through a period of new work and features making the experience decidedly worse by, say, unifying data pipelines because consistency to some is an absolute good.

- The effects of Vic's disastrous reign can still be felt and Larry needs to take the ultimate blame for that.

- There seems to be little or no regard for the harm in burning user trust. This comes in many forms but includes announcing projects and then cancelling or abandoning them.
There are a bunch of reasons from tradition in terms of letting sheep roam free to farming always having been a source of power. Further you have other weird facets like the votes of people in the countryside being worth twice those in Reykjavik. But basically for a long time farming and fishing controlled a lot of voting power. Although the traditional party of the farmers is on the wane now. The whole country has the population of a medium sized town so it’s on the whole very similar but also very different to larger countries.
I have a 7. I may get an 8; but since I know the X is coming out soon, I figured I'd wait a bit longer.

I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people are in a holding pattern like I am. Not long after the X comes out, some pent-up demand will avail itself on Apple's supplies of both the 8 & the X right through Christmas.
Not in single cases they don't, at least not detectably. (Serious question: is there a story anywhere of a senior appelate judge with a tale about how they totally changed their long-held opinion after hearing a case? Don't think I've heard of one, though I'd love to read it if so.)

People change their opinions slowly and generally along with much larger shifts in public perception. In fact there was a fun psych result just recently that extra facts make people less likely to concede an argument, not more.
I'm not totally confident that ESR is really a racist.

I think the thing about the hindbrain and the fecal people probably settles that although it is older than 2 years.
Quantum collision search: not overly scary
How is it “anemic” when it’s pretty much sold out everywhere?
Many islands are deserts because they don't have high enough elevation to catch moisture. In Hawaii a guy planted trees along a ridge line to pull moisture from the clouds and converted the climate. I can't remember his name or which island it was, this might be it:

http://www.visitmauiblog.com/blog/pine-trees-lanai/
UEFI boot handles the real->protected (and ->long) transitions, so it's no longer necessary for the OS to handle it. EFI executables run in protected mode, with a memory mapping set up by the runtime.

> Another thing I wonder about, is if it's possible to have the CPU come online directly in protected mode or long mode after POWER_OK has settled and the motherboard releases the reset line.

No. The BIOS needs to perform some touchy, hardware-specific initialization -- like detecting and calibrating RAM -- before releasing control to user code. It's not something you'd want the OS to be responsible for.
what made you choose the 8 over the 7?
The story is about a near-instantaneous ~23 billion dollar drop in the market cap of Apple after reports of production slow-downs; at least that's the story several analysts are telling. Your comment is very insightful and puts this drop into perspective (i.e. it's not that big of a drop), but the reality is some major investors clearly found the news unexpected.
Bastards. It's all a scam. :p

I reckon it is topping out though. A bit like any i3 or whatever is now sufficient to do any office task imaginable. You're not going to spreadsheet any faster with a i7...
This is one of my favorite reads. About 10 years ago I was developing a toy programming language that compiled to ANSI-C and this was a great resource to me at the time.
Question: are these courses all offered through edX? Or just a subset?
I stopped reading part way in because of them; it's juvenile and unnecessary.
One thing that bothers me about twitter is that there is a special case of harassement that is just impossible to report: trending topics.

Here in Mexico (can't say if that happens anywhere else), every week or two there are hate trending topics against women, other countries and indigenous people and these last for more than a day.

If twitter wants to be a «safe and welcoming place» for anybody, they are missing out a huge issue, as there is no way to report a trending topic nor to find who created/popularized it in the first place (so we can report it, altough I'm sure it wouldn't lead to anything). I can't imagine what's going on twitter directive's heads, as the trending topic is almost one of the top 5 things a new user sees.

For what I can tell, these trending topics are created by influencers and bots to flex their muscles before a paid campaign, often regarding the government.
You underestimate the draw of new and shiny. All my friends that use iPhones skipped the 8, and most are dying to get the X. I am betting that Apple struggles to meet demand.