skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Face ID is going to be a monumental failure for people who dock their phones on their desk or car. It's also going to annoy everybody who likes things to happen fast all the time because Face ID will definitely cause a delay and frustrate every user at some point. I have no doubt about this.

The lack of a home button is probably the worst design decision. They should have gone with dedicated virtual home button or better yet, stick with the iPhone 7 style home button. iOS 10 and 11 already has too many problems distinguishing between "global gestures" and "application gestures".

EDIT: Oh please - tell me why you disagree and prove to me that you're not just an illogical, emotional mob. You think Apple never made a mistake? Pffffftttt! I just spilled my coffee.
That doesn’t seem to be a neutrally presented analogy in good faith to the discussion. You can mount a cogent argument that various financial institutions in our culture are suboptimal for a given metric, and you can further posit that those metrics are what we should be optimizing for to achieve some normative imperative.

But those aren’t arguments you made, and as stated your analogy is so hyperbolic and unsubstantiated it feels like you’re only engaging with the topic to forward an ideological disagreement.

It’s not at all self-evident to me that hyper-efficient price discovery in modern capitalism is comparable to optimizing local maxima until you drive off a cliff. I’m willing to be shown why this is the case, but again, those aren’t the arguments you’ve made.
> not rely on status symbols and brands to define their tastes.

> I got a bundle of knock off Ralph Lauren polos that let me experiment with the frat boy look in college with out spending thousands on real ones.

I hope at some point you realize the irony of your life choices.
Last year I bought a genuine Samsung 128GB card for $25, so what you paid isn't that suspiciously low. Flash memory prices have gone up over the past year, but you probably still paid more than wholesale price for a real 64GB card.
Sent an email to the mods, but they were faster than me :)
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I have found some sites have made the "main" site better than AMP in terms of speed and download, but because its often the first result, sometimes you get an inferior experience. As someone who built and deployed the bbc news amp experience, i didn't really know how it was going to be used, but i would have raised serious concerns knowing what we know now.
There are two ways to read this article:

1. Be completely skeptical of the author's claims and demand proof.

2. Give the author the benefit of the doubt.

I submit that when we ordinarily read an article, we do the second. We can't know what the other person did that was creepy or intense, but we have (presumably) all been in similar situations. The person snaps, or doesn't respond, or yells, or takes credit or any number of odious habits.

For whatever reason, some people are inclined to not give this author the benefit of the doubt and, without being there, want to give this other person the benefit of the doubt.

To them I would say this: imagine that you have an idea and recruit a technical person to help you with it. After a weekend, you tell them its not going to work for whatever reason.

Maybe you just don't like the way they smell, or they go off on goofy tangents, or you don't like their puns, or they don't laugh at your jokes. I don't care. Its just one weekend and you don't want to work with them.

You have a right to ask them not to work with you and move on. You didn't say this was forever. If the person refused to move one, what would you do?
Speed, in terms of bandwidth and latency. I consistently get slower speeds using a VPN. Granted, I'm using Google Fiber so I have symmetric gigabit, but there is a downside to it, depending on your use case.
Yes, that's true. But that does describe Rails. A pure Python web framework, integrated, with a python to javascript transpiler is very likely to emerge, but I can say with almost total certainty that it will have to be open source.

I don't know any actual numbers, but I think DHH and basecamp almost certainly profited from the popularity of Rails. That's probably up for grabs, since integrated web environments in non-js languages may become a big deal over the next decade.
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A quick Google tells me that Andre's currently at the #2 position on Google (at least in my search bubble) for "The Web dying", #4 for "The Web is dying", and so on. And of course he's at the top by a country mile for the exact article title.

Hacker News regularly dominates Google queries, and Reddit does too.

I do agree that the statement that search engine rank is all misses a rather significant element, that being virality / social reach.

If you can regularly gain enormous traffic from Reddit, Facebook, or even HN, you don't necessarily need search engine rankings. If you can afford to pay for ads, likewise.

It's if you're in none of those three camps that you might as well not exist on the Web. Tree falls, forest, no-one to hear it, etc.
Man I wish I could upvote this twice! Since I can't, I'll register my hearty agreement with text.
>The iPhone X (pronounced “ten,” not as in X-ray)...

Do people really not know Roman Numerals anymore?
VPNs protect you from snooping by 3rd parties on the way to Bob's site, such as your ISP, anyone on your network, or anyone on any of the intervening nodes between you and Bob's.

If you don't want Bob to identify you then yeah you need more than just VPN such as ad blockers, disabling cookies, and more.
I don't know how different the culture at Keysight is from the original Hewlett-Packard.

But I do remember in 1994 or thereabouts, calling the h-p customer service number with questions about the old hp 'scope I had just picked up for $50 that came without a manual. The lady who answered the phone put me on hold to go digging through file cabinets and then came back with the documentation to politely answer all my questions.

I have never been anything but completely impressed by all of Hewlett-Packard's instruments or any interaction I've ever had with them.

And BTW, IIRC that Rigol made some of HP's low end DSO's back in the early 00's.
Simulation-Supported Development of Hydrogen Engine for Emission-Free Transport
It's not intending to be a general purpose language, and as such doesn't have a lot of features that make software engineering easier. In fact, it intentionally has a phenomenally slow compiler, because the compiler is solving or attempting to solve various NP-Complete problems simultaneously.

Think of it as a language that will help build tools, analyzers, and possibly linkable libraries for small scale but highly security-critical components, but not necessarily the language you want to use to build an app server.
We both know full well that mass football fan adoption of the service isn't just to watch the odd game at that specific time on one day of the week.

You're right that it isn't strictly "stingy", but wanting something you've been denied isn't a good reason to take it.
This might be in the realm of possibility with the new HAL (Project Treble) they introduced in the latest Android.
If you are tunneling all traffic through your ISP, seems to me you aren't trusting them all that much.
Coal is big enough to worry about it, especially in the developed countries (like the USA):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption (1)

"In 2014, world energy consumption for electricity generation was coal 40.8%, natural gas 21.6%, nuclear 10.6%, hydro 16.4%, 'others' (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc.) 6.3% and oil 4.3%."

Also:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to... (2)

"in the United States, fossil fuel-based energy is responsible for about 80% of total greenhouse gas emissions as compared to about 6% from animal agriculture (estimates from the World Resources Institute and Pitesky et al. 2009)."

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=77&t=11 (3)

"CO2 emissions from U.S. electric power sector by source, 2016"

"Coal	68%, Natural gas 30%, Petroleum 1%, Other	<1%"

It is true, according to (2), beef is surely contributing more than other meat:

"Eschel et al. 2014 estimated that producing beef requires 28 times more land, 6 times more fertilizer and 11 times more water than producing pork or chicken. As a result, the study estimated that producing beef releases 4 times more greenhouse gases than a calorie-equivalent amount of pork, and 5 times as much as an equivalent amount of poultry."

and animal agriculture in total does have its 14 to 18 percent (2) of total human greenhouse gas emissions (you stated only the bigger number).

Short URL for (2): http://sks.to/meat
Yeah, should have said "even some denialists will concede this."
Treat you like what? Where was the threat in the email? Did he call OP a "bitch", "slut", etc? Did he belittle her? He asked her for his share of the prize and said that if she didn't then he would pursue it unilaterally.

Since when did that mean he was going to physically harm her? Sorry, I believe sexual harassment occurs in the tech industry and should be stamped out, but this is not a case of it.
A Neural Network Primer
Seems like that's an agreement, not a law
Locked room or some dodgy basements. I remember watching a documentary many years ago on the transfer of the archives of the french republic where many were lost to rats and other fungus.

But I agree with your point that if we scan anything confidential, it will need to be stored in a lock room very much in the same way than the paper originals (as opposed to anything connected to the internet). But it will still be easier to have multiple copies in multiple locations.
How’s the perf per dollar? It’s not enough to “bring” it to AMD, it must be competitive as well.
I don't look to it as a foolproof solution, but I do see it as a way to make things a little bit harder for someone that's trying to track me.

The arguments here often sound similar to "experts" that complain about 2 factor auth: Sure, it's not perfect and there are better solutions in some cases, but it's still better than nothing for a lot of people.
> I'm not looking for a guarantee. Probably getting additional privacy is good enough for me.

I think we can both agree that wasting your money on wishful thinking ("maybe provider doesn't log") instead of using free open-source privacy-by-design solutions is a bad idea.
I bought an iPhone 6 on eBay about a month ago after another one broke. It's good as new, works perfectly, was super-easy to purchase.

So don't worry: the Apple upgrade cycle really isn't that bad.
Exactly. There's also other matches at non 3pm times that aren't shown in the UK. Not paying £70p/m+ is definitely a factor, but not the only one.
...I know it sounded like a "pro faceless international corporations" rant, but in most less developed countries aggresive globalization helps the young lower/middle-class working individuals most, who, believe it or not, actually want to "get the f out" of their mostly toxic cultures that is only stiffling innovation and keeping people in poverty.

The whole "union in diversity" and "reviving local culture" movement only helps countries and regions that are rich in relation to others to stay rich in relation to others. Hopefully in Europe the whole war incited movement of people around helped with some shaking and mixing and setting the middle east on fire a lil' bit to move people in and out enough to "wash the culture from them" helped both sides (because some will return to their countries, and with a more "westernalized" mentality).

It's kind of sad to see regions of countries like Spain that pull in the "retrograde" direction when we finally had a breath of fresh air, violent as it was... bigger countries, with less cultural identity, offer more freedom to the individuals simply because they free them from the oppression of local cultures and a true-EU sounded like a move in the right direction. That's what people never get: in a small country, a local tyrant can really tyranize the s out of you (think NK), while in an empire-ish bureaucracy you can be free as hell, especially if you're not the kind of person that "fits in" or "embraces the culture" (take countries like China where you can have an utterly tyranical government, but regions with lots of local identity and lots of freedom like Shenzen). When something is too big to control without bankrupting it, like an oversized country, or an overgrown "international faceless corporation", you get tons of freedom (as an individual) as a byproduct... and it's the best kind of freedom because it's also free (like in... "you don't pay for it" :P).
It's nowhere near significant enough to matter, unlike AMP which guarantees higher placement.
Discussion from 4 days ago (188 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558861
The email isn't supposed to be proof of some kind of creepy behavior but proof of an unwillingness to leave the project.
The issue really is lack of scoped threads forcing usage of reference counting to figure out when to drop a value. With crossbeam scoped threads implementation this looks much nicer.

extern crate crossbeam;

use std::sync::Mutex;

fn main() {
let counter = Mutex::new(0);
crossbeam::scope(|scope| for _ in 0..10 {
scope.spawn(|| *counter.lock().unwrap() += 1);
});
println!("{:?}", counter);
}

Four lines to declare a mutex, start 10 threads that all lock that mutex, increase value behind mutex, unlock mutex, and join all spawned threads. There is a lot going on here (unwrap is arguably a noise here however, but the rest is straight to the point).

Also, it's possible to use atomic ints here instead of mutex. Verbosity of mutex actually helps a bit, because locking is fairly expensive and it's better to avoid locking if possible.
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Open Money plans to make the Ethereum ecosphere go mainstream
He's a professor at MIT now. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/
I'll look it up on my Moto X.
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funny thing is, they actually block you from posting if you let people know it's a fake or replica. ebay and amazon do tend to side with the buyer most of the time, making it a tough problem to solve because it can be exploited on both sides.

on the other hand, this has opened up other places for people to buy and sell with authentication provided as a service ie: StockX and GOAT for sneakers.
Are you ready for the tutorial? Levels of expertise in CSS
Where do they get their water from? Don't we currently have (or will have) a huge problem with supporting populations in areas where there is no local sustainable source of water?
although, if you don't use any refinement types in your program, i don't see why you can't write general purpose programs and extract code to Ocaml and F#
Based on our historic experience with women, if they treat us like disposable collective garbage, it is probable that they will continue to do so.

My point is that this inference of "always unsafe", and "always vigilant" is delusional. Sure, awful things happen constantly around the world, the probability of that at a hackathon related event? In a developed country? The only perceived threat is some emails? Do you not realize how silly it sounds to believe any of this is threatening? It just seems out of touch with actual victims.
> I'm not impressed, the bar has been raised for claims of harassment and victimization

This attitude really frustrates me. This isn't a court of law, the man in question isn't accused of a crime, and his name is even withheld so his reputation is not at stake. She is under no obligation to turn over evidence for the public to sift through. And just because she doesn't have some smoking-gun "I'll kill you!" email doesn't mean there wasn't harassment going on. He refused to take "no" for an answer, and she says she felt unsafe being in the same room as him. She's not doing this as revenge against him, or she would have given his name. She's not doing this because she's bitter about losing the competition because she won. Why can't we, even for a moment, believe this woman when she says "I don't feel safe" ?

> If you had spent your whole weekend working around the clock on a project that won the prize on your own code, only to be told your dreams were now crushed because you "weren't a good fit", you'd probably be begging to find a way to hold onto the tickets or the project as well

From the Techstars FAQ: "Whether or not you continue to work on the idea with some or all of your team is completely up to you. Approximately 25% of Techstars Startup Weekend participants continue working on their idea with all of their team". What she did wasn't unusual, in fact it's what the majority of participants do.
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No, the last layer is just a linear layer, there's no non-linearity. That's what's strange about their definition. The depth-three network only applies a non-linearity twice, which would conventionally be labeled as depth two.
The US Army Rangers would be ideal for this work.
It's not pedantic at all! As is repeatedly said, it's like calling Google Chrome a piracy application because you can go to The Pirate Bay with it.
Manafort indicted for keeping money overseas that he did not report, among other reasons. Just a fact to bear in mind, as one of the points suggests keeping cash overseas
That was my first thought as well; GE is the easiest way I know of to introduce domain-specific knowledge into the genotype > phenotype translation.
It's not theft, or piracy, it's copyright infringement.
oh, great, thanks for the help :)
Fun connections if you're into that kind of thing: Robert Morris, who wrote the work, was one of the founders of YCombinator, and by extensions Hacker News.

One of the classic books on the history of computers is Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg". It's a great book in general, and it mentions Robert Morris and Paul
Graham, which I was surprised to find when I read it (it's not about the worm, but about a hacking incident).

And lastly, Clifford Stoll is apparently pretty active on YouTube, which I discovered when seeing a video of his for Numberphile, and finding out that it is, indeed, that Clifford Stoll.
Yes, not so long ago there were marshes where is now the Chad lake. The megalake Chad was reached by Romans who called it "lake of ippopotamus".

It is a node of watercraft transport between the West Africa, the Golf of Guinea and the Congo to the South.

Actually all the places between CAR and Mali could be much greener. There is even a (quite old) project to make this area a much wetter place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad_replenishment_projec...
> I'm on Verizon so I don't get to choose if I need one.

Can you expand on that? I’m also on Verizon and feel like having a panic attack.
As of last weekend, NYT-over-onion serves ads like their other entry points do.
Early but not totally implausible. My mother taught me to read when I was four and I could write before I was five. It was a pain at school where I had to endure a couple of years of reading simple John and Jane books while everyone else was catching up. Unfortunately, while I could write, I never developed the technical skill of writing legibly and fast so even I have difficulty in deciphering quite a lot of my writing. More than thirty five years of using computers to create documents hasn't improved things either.
An impressively unusable website due to ads on mobile.
OP here!

If Mark was an employee who was fired and refused to leave the premises, he'd be escorted off by security. If he promised to show up a few weeks later to talk to the board of directors or investors, they'd similarly bring in security.

That's what happened here (or what he threatened to do, anyway.) After a really bad weekend, he was "fired". Then, over a series of emails with escalating demands he eventually threatened to show up at the project booth falsely representing himself on the project. Yet, he was offered exactly what he'd have gotten if he stayed on the project.

As for the rest, it's probably harder to see this if you've never had to do it before, but it's really exhausting being asked to repeatedly justify your actions in a situation like this.

When you find that one golden person who says, "I trust your judgment", it's honestly shocking. It feels good to have your judgment trusted when you go to someone saying, "Hey, I was in a bad situation and had to make a difficult decision" and they say, "That sounds tough, but I bet you made the right choice," rather than, "Tell me why you did that?"
> ”Our civilization cares about whether Microsoft stock will be priced at $37.70 or $37.75 tomorrow afternoon.”

i think it is worth noting that MSFT has about 7.72 billion shares outstanding; that $0.05 difference represents $386,000,000 in value. and that total market cap moving around is what matters. the stock could recombine tomorrow so the same $386M movement turned into a $100 swing in stock price, or split so that it became a $0.001 swing.
Thanks Oisin!
Ignoring traffic analysis, you shouldn't have to trust your own ISP while using a VPN. Ignoring traffic analysis makes sense unless you're a high profile criminal, and it affects all low latency tools, including Tor.
How does logging and log analysis fit into your monitoring strategy?
What challenges do you run into with making it effective?
> Rule #1: Your career provides your wealth.

I mainly disagree with the first rule. Your career should not provide your wealth. Your career should keep your bills paid, provide security for the future, and allow you to live a comfortable life. Investments in financial endeavors like real estate, businesses, stocks, etc, education, and family is what provides wealth.

Update: Not sure why this post is getting downvoted? A career provides MONEY not WEALTH. There is a big difference. It is up to you to convert that money into wealth
> facebook doesn't need to listen to what people are saying, it has a ton of other data streams

The same could be said for any of those data streams. But just because Big F has access to those other sources of data doesn't mean it excludes voice recognition.

I'd be very surprised if FB wasn't in this arena. That's how big tech companies work these days — they do what everyone else is doing. Like getting into self-driving cars.

Apple[1], Google, Amazon, MS, etc... all have voice recognition boxes. FB doesn't need to market a box for your living room, it already has one in everyone's pocket.

([1] Apple says it doesn't use any of your Siri words against you. If you don't trust FB's word, you might no trust Apple's, either. But at least on the Mac you can keep dictation off the internet, if you choose.)
New usage for RX480/580 miner?
This is a sales page, not a objective discussion.

(a) There's not much you can do with VPN that you can't do with SSH (actually I can't think of anything). And SSH is much more configurable.

(b) To avoid tracking of your browsing it is not a smart idea to pipe all your browsing through the servers of one VPN provider. A smart way would be to split up browsing streams, not to combine them.

I'm very sceptical about Mozilla writing such an ad page and trying to sell it as a reasonable technical blog post.
Advice: Just do dollar cost averaging in an index ETF.
Question: Why?
Answer: This article.