skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This mirrors my own experience.

As a Samsung Note 2/4 owner I used to give myself a lot of excuses as to why iPhones were "bad" -- non-expandable storage (even though I never maxed out the storage that came built in with my Android phones), non-user replaceable battery (even though my battery hardly ever dips below 50%, as whenever I'm in a place where I can plug it in, it's plugged in), a more restrictive ecosystem (even though I barely use more than the web browser and a few other common apps on any phone).

My tipping point was visiting Canada one time with data roaming turned off. Despite this, Sprint decided overnight that my Note 4 needed to download the Sprint NASCAR app that I did not request or have any intention of ever using. The download, since I was roaming in another country, cost me about $20 on my next statement.

Shortly thereafter I got an iPhone 6S Plus and haven't looked back. I'm still with Sprint, but thanks to iOS's restrictions I don't have to have any of their junk installed on there, which couldn't be removed from my Note 4 without rooting it.

I will say, however, that I'm still not a fan of iPhones killing the headphone jack, so I don't intend to upgrade until it becomes strictly necessary.
> market efficiency will solve the problem.

This won't happen without stronger carbon-pricing. Right now there isn't enough incentive to really push for large-scale innovation. Electric cars are a very small market segment and primarily serve buyers who are buying against their own economic interests for the greater good.
25% cash is ludicrous and irresponsible. Cash has historically been a terrible 'investment', especially since most central banks have maintained a policy of creating annual inflation.

Warren Buffett has some interesting things to say about this: https://20somethingfinance.com/warren-buffett-is-moving-100-... and http://www.barrons.com/articles/buffett-bonds-terrible-in-co... for example.
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If your AMP site is actually better (faster, cleaner, better adapted to mobile, etc ...) then it is possible that these 34% more visits really are deserved.
Not explored in the article is what happens when Amazon clones your product. HN last discussed this in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533973
Runtime refinements are actually useful for places where you'd have checks anyway. E.g. in Haskell, this library http://nikita-volkov.github.io/refined/ — can be integrated with JSON: https://github.com/myfreeweb/magicbane/blob/7c417504590fc40e... — and you get input validation specified right in the types of your data structures.
I've just read his self help book "How I found freedom in an unfree world", interesting approach, hardcore libertarian. I think he would like the decentralised aspect of crytocurrency.
I recently setup on ZorroVPN after going through that list. It's a little on the pricier side (BlackVPN is another one I was considering with similar pricing), but the performance has been pretty good so far. They don't have their own client so you don't have to worry much about them installing junk on your machine. You can use one of the open source clients out there.
Already many companies check the social media accounts of people applying for a job. A company can't legally discriminate against you based on gender, race, ethnicity, age, etc... But an HR drone can easily roundfile your resume because he doesn't agree with your political views.

That's why employers requiring social media information is illegal in a dozen states or so. (Illinois, I know for sure. There are others.)
We have older recorded dates for Solar Eclipses. Not sure why those are glossed over...

http://sarojbala.blogspot.com/2014/08/dates-of-ramayana.html
As others have mentioned, there isn't really much of a difference (apart from fees) when you're thinking about it as a vehicle for long-term holdings. Most of the time, 401k plans will not let you hold ETFs - they only let you hold mutual funds. Mutual funds usually can't be traded intra-day. You place your order and they buy/sell at the stated NAV on the close. ETFs can normally be traded intra-day. Again, ex-fees irrelevant to a truly long-term buy-hold-rebalance portfolio.
Isn't openvpn kind of a hack and a IKEv2/IPSEC based strongswan solution to prefer?
True it could, but theoretically the price should always go up. Plus there's risk in anything. I'd have thought that placing money in a foreign country is also pretty risky if you're not a citizen
You need the widevine lib but I was under the impression that recent builds of kodi could support Amazon Prime and Netflix content via plugins (valid accounts for both are obv needed)

https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix

EDIT: Reading the issues on the NF Plugin GH seems like you will need a heatsink for the RPI3 and you are prob only going to max out at 720p
Yeah, my main takeaway from this is "Learn Mandarin, and ensure that your kids learn it too."
There is no such thing as "extreme" encryption.

There's is simply encryption that works, and encryption that doesn't work.
Most of these look great. I am somewhat skeptical of Rule #8 about not giving anyone signature authority. Maybe he means this in a narrow sense that I don't understand, but when you have your money being managed for you, trades are being made on your behalf, you aren't doing them yourself. This is true from robo-advising all the way up to private banking and family funds.
It might be a good time to reiterate that fracking (in the USA) hockeystick'ed in the last 5 - 10 years. That, naturally, drove down the cost of oil, which naturally helped to not deter (pardon the double negative) oil consumption.

Cheap energy was great for the ailing economy, but it mortgaged Mother Nature's future.
> A bit OT but how did ancient civilizations know that they should NOT watch an eclipse with a naked eye?

Doesn't it hurt when you look at the sun? Any time I've ever accidentally glanced at the sun it's literally a blinding pain and my eyes just close reflexively.

It has never made sense to me when people say, "Don't stare at the sun". It's roughly the same as saying, "Don't stick your hand in the fire." Well duh, it hurts.
A disturbingly perfect allegory...
Hey, author here. :wave: If you don't mind doing Help > Report Issue it'll submit your logs and we can see what went down.
Amazon and Apple both allow you to buy per episode already. I'm guessing what you mean is that the price per episode isn't "micro" enough for you.
I believe you are referring to the "perma-cookie"? (directed to all the confused replies)

Please feel free to correct me.

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/verizons-perma-cookie/
What was so revolutionary about the original iPhone? I don't think anyone could point at any single feature throughout the whole smartphone revolution and claim it was "revolutionary." It was always a combination of features and design decisions that made the phones so easy and pleasant to use. There were many phones before the iPhone that were way more capable, yet nobody talked about them.

Siri, TouchID, FaceID, capacitive touch screen, great cameras, app store, full fledged browser, LTE, etc...

Any of these features by themselves aren't "revolutionary" until you combine it all into a cohesive experience where you look at your phone to unlock it, take a photo that until very recently could only be produced by a DSLR, upload it nearly instantly to a social network within 5 taps, and then receive real time notifications when other people comment on it, all on a device you can hold in one hand.

Sure, you could say this is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but again, I don't believe there was this time where it was revolutionary to the extent you claim. It's always been a slow iterative process.
That's a fair analysis. My point was that it's not literally millions of years worth of energy stored, but only a very tiny fraction of that.
Regarding speed, I've been using ProtonVPN for around 4 months and It's much faster than other VPN providers I've used (TorGuard and PIA).
It doesn't work with Netflix as Netflix blocks most VPNs.
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My dad got one on because a coworker told him about it. It's a Fire stick you can buy on eBay that comes preloaded with Exodus. He has no clue how or why it works, just that it has every movie and TV show for free. Which is better than all of the other services combined.

I pirated a bunch of stuff when I was younger because I didn't have cable, but now it's easier to pay thanks to Netflix and all that. But like others have said I'm not going to pay $10 a month for each network. They need to work together to get their content on a single platform. People are going to do the easiest thing, and currently Exodus is winning.
Good reminder, simpler is better
I'm aware. If you mention though, that this doesn't suck their battery (or listen in to their conversation) they might think about it, though I'm having a hard time making people care as well.
Because you didn't look at it during an eclipse, when its more dangerous than looking at it on a regular day.
Possibly holding cash is useful for when you need to quickly capitalize on a drop in the market?
Copyleft doesn't restrict anyone else's freedoms, given that it starts with copyright law and proceeds to grant freedoms from that.
"It currently costs $40/transaction"

No it doesn't.

"How is this not a ponzi scheme, help up by mining fees?"

You misspelt "speculative bubble".
Actually from a financial perspective, wealth is assets you own (equivalent to equity + liability). People with high net income should be investing as much as possible to let the money flow in the market. If everyone saves with no intention to invest/spend, it would potentially result in a stagnant economy.
Why is there no mention of the manafort indictment on the front page? It seems like there's something blocking all posts about this...
Big stuff, but the George Papadopoulos plea deal may be the bigger story.
Mostly, I'd think that they'd want to nail the guys who break toilets and urinals. I mean, how to they do that? Those things are solid porcelain, no? Hammers? But maybe they're more fragile than they used to be.
Because most of the people commenting here seem to have not actually read the article. E.g. so many comments mention /sexual/ harassment, but the article was mostly focused on just harassment in general, and didn't claim that Mark's actions were explicitly sexual.
There are reasons why a VPN is great but not for privacy. A VPN is currently allowing me to work remotely would be one of them.

CiPHPerCoder provided a great link[0] in this discussion [1] that details a short list of a few reasons why VPN's are likely not what "regular people" who are concerned for privacy should be using.

that all being said, tools like tor have become much easier to use with setups like tails [2] which may have its own security issues but I'll agree that regular users may not be capable of using Qubes with Whonix.....yet

I think advocating for a VPN is actually harmful to the "regular user" not only in the fact it will not accomplish what they want, it will deepen their ignorance on how the internet works because they will think "its encrypted" "so I am secure."

I do have some concerns that tor is a tool that needs to be improved upon greatly to truly accomplish its goals but I am not aware of any projects that are doing so. Re metadata, fingerprinting, developers inserting backdoors etc.

[0] https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15585974
[2] https://tails.boum.org/

[edit:added concerns about tor]
oops, he lost control of his carefully crafted narrative:

>However, this balance seems unsatisfactory to encryption zealots who are hellbent on leading an extremist vanguard toward some nirvana of ultimate e2e encryption.
There are many things which aren't death threats or physical altercations which are harassment.

I would certainly feel uncomfortable receiving those messages in the situation as described in the article.
Other than the fact that the author clearly views any means by which people can communicate electronically in total privacy as a form of "extremism" he does highlight some scary stuff. It really is only a matter of time before some judge allows someone to sue some company for end-to-end encryption because that person may have had a conversation which resulted in a bad deed. That's more scary than anything else I've read in a long time.
Learned recently: Opera includes a VPN for free.
It is a shame that A10 and A7 were rejected.

In our mobile held, APIs are often unprotected because authentication is hard for machine to machine transactions. OpenID and the misused oAuth are a solution but it is hard to implement.

A7 addressed an organizational issue completely absent from the top 10.

Since there à so much controversies, they sold have made it a top 12.
>and as such there's no guarantee that you can represent its behaviour by the current algorithms.

Doesn't the universal function approximation theorem provide just such a guarantee? It doesn't guarantee any algorithm will converge on that representation, but the capability to represent it is there.
Knew of a couple articles like this, but didn’t have a link handy. Basically as I assumed, at best 50K views in a day. That’s averaging less than one page view a second.

For a blog, that’s a ton of traffic. For a professional business, let alone a hosting provider, that shouldn’t be an issue if they know what they are doing.
Partially, at least, they don't need to earn my trust as much. They don't have my name, address, date of birth and social security number/credit data, like my phone company does.

The only positive point of trust a VPN provider has is that no-one has exposed them selling browsing data. Definitely not great, but also better than my phone company by default.
People risk their lives daily to read Facebook while doing things like walking across the street and driving. As long as people get their notification fix, they probably wont care that much.
> universal human rights declaration

My country is bound by the Constitution, not by some bullshit the UN came up with. I don't believe in one world government and never will nor does our own supreme court which in 2004 declared that the declaration "does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law."

We have no obligation to that document.
For small modules, SPARK with this book from the limited feedback I have:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...

Verification of larger programs is hard for a lot of reasons. Easiest method is to do Design-by-Contract in a memory-safe language. Anything easy to specify in contracts goes there where stuff easier to test for is done that way. If your language doesn't support it, you can do it with asserts, conditionals in functions, or constructors/destructors in OOP.

http://www.eiffel.com/developers/design_by_contract_in_detai...

Then, you hit the app with tests generated from the contracts and fuzz testing that both run while the contract conditions have runtime checks in the code. That means a failure will take you right to the precondition, invariant, or post condition that is broken.

For analyzing distributed stuff, TLA+ is your best bet with an accessible tutorial for a subset available here:

https://learntla.com/introduction/
The micro instance is (eligible to be) free https://cloud.google.com/free/ so the $300 is an extra (expires after 12 months)
Not all ads have to be relevant to be valuable. Especially when you're still training the AI.
This. Amazon has eliminated its own usefulness for me with its permissive approach to no-name sellers (and also its permissive approach to gougers, and the poor quality of search results where gougers and no-name sellers are difficult to filter from the actual good results).

In general, the typical "retail" product results get mixed into the sketchy sellers way too much on the platform.

I've actually gone back to buying from brick-and-mortar for things where I care about quality, and aliexpress where I'm willing to experiment. Amazon mixes those two categories poorly, providing a bad experience for both use-cases.
How would I go to represent rectangles, circles, text and lines with CSS and JavaScript? With Canvas? Is React able to render to canvas?

Sometimes SVG is a good fit for the graphics needed.
I slightly agree. However, these days it seems more and more that "thing elite spy agency does to track terrorist" is on about a 6 months to 1 year lead on "thing startup does to target ads."
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Amazon just don't care.

I bought a charger with a fake Intertek -- a UL competitor -- mark on it. Internek at the time had a pdf on their site warning the product had not been tested by them. I discovered this by googling the product after arrival. I notified Amazon and they immediately refunded my order... but didn't remove the charger from their site. Instead, they continued to sell it.
See the work of Josh Bongard and Hod Lipson, examining exactly this topic.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/1118
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I think this article may clear some things up for you:

https://portfoliocharts.com/2017/05/12/understanding-cash-wi...

Harry's 25% cash isn't dollar bills, it's treasury bills, which have held up to inflation.
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Very good summary.
Imagine a program to implement JS vs Java. Which would be shorter?

That's why it seems fair to say that JS is much simpler than Java.
It's only more dangerous because of the potential lack of discomfort/pain and subsequent reflex to look away; in terms of time you can safely spend looking there is no difference.
Strawman, no one claimed we shouldn't have anti-trust legislation. If you're going to engage in a debate, please do so honestly.
The biggest discussion AFAIR is https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/6210

“This is a Google Search issue, not AMP issue”
Ask HN: Why is there no mention of the manafort indictment on the front page?
And it seems like when I try to post about it, it just gets blocked. What's going on?
FaceID is extremely uninteresting but the hardware used for it could be game-changing. A depth camera on 100m devices in the world is pretty novel. I can imagine pretty cool gaming and communications apps that project a user's face into the virtual world, and held backwards you could use the depth camera to scan a room.
Note that Mozilla is explicitly pushing back on the Device Memory API, because of fingerprinting concerns. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
It is really cool to see someone reviving the RAD concept, especially within the Python ecosystem. I was pretty big into Delphi back in the day--even worked for Borland testing it for a bit. I'm looking forward to trying this out.
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One can do that with treasuries or T-bills which historically have earned a real return. In a crisis one often finds that treasuries are negatively correlated with equities which can be a boon.
Can anyone point to a resource for learning F# from scratch?

I have tried a few tutorials but the syntax is so foreign to me that I've found it hard to grasp.

What would be awesome with a project like Fable would be to have a tutorial for existing JavaScript devs to learn F#. For example, have JavaScript and F# code side-by-side.
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In the end, the majority would continue the established brand. For example, you can argue that Ethereum Classic is the most 'pure' implementation of Ethereum, however, Ethereum (ETH) gained much more support and kept the name.

In the case of Bitcoin, it's not clear yet who it's going to keep the name at the next fork. You can see Coinbase blog post about this https://blog.coinbase.com/clarification-on-the-upcoming-segw...
Eesh, aren't wire fees super high?
No one should trust what they say they can or cannot do. What we can only assume is their capabilities in doing it. This is where end-to-end encryption is important. If you can't encrypt it in a way that only the other end can see it, then assume that someone in the middle can eavesdrop it.
“Fast product cycles” or “mountain stockades” or “counterfeit consumer goods”
Bonds are better suited for that purpose, however it's still preferred to just hold stocks over the long term. Holding bonds provides stability at the expense of drag.
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I don't think people our target is more inclined into clicking on AMP results as they're non-technical

The whole point of AMP is to target those users. Hence the little lightning bolt. Even non-technical users can notice "hey this had a lightning bolt and it was fast"
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I'm in a similar boat as you. I was an iPhone user who switched to the HTC One for Android, and had problems. I then went to a Nexus 5 thinking it would fix my issues, but still had various problems. When the large screen iPhones came out I gave up my experiment, switched back, and wondered why I ever left.

People tell me Android has improved since then, but it always felt not quite done. I'm still happy with the iPhone. Meanwhile, a co-worker in the office received his new Pixel 2 XL and RMAed it the same day because the proximity sensor doesn't work.
The agreement was that the work was voluntary.

If you volunteer to fix my yard, and after a weekend, I tell you thanks but please leave, am I suddenly expected to pay for it?
I wish that we had arrived at a different term for third-party VPN proxy services. I use VPN connectivity to my home network whenever I am on the road so that my traffic is encrypted over-the-air (Wifi) regardless of its protocol or destination. When I read, "Do you need a VPN?" I think "I love having a personal VPN to my home network that I use from everywhere. You might love it too!" I am evangelical about creating and using a personal virtual private network—that is, a "VPN" in the more traditional sense of the term.

And then I realize the question is actually about third-party VPN proxy services, which seem to be a substantially different use-case.

It's just a shame that the term "VPN" has become so ambiguous.
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Berkshire Hathaway currently has a $100 billion cash stockpile. There have been multiple times in Mr. Buffett's career when he waited for better investment opportunities by holding cash. Besides, cash isn't so bad. If you roll over short-term Treasury bills, you basically keep up with inflation.
don't mean to be crufty - the new work looks cool, but also don't want the previous works to be unknown..
I agree it would be nice to have a 5" height smartphone with 85 to 90% screen coverage. Doesn't look to happen. And iphone X is really no different size wise to its current/recent competition.

The S8 is slightly taller (5mm) and slightly narrower (3mm) with a very slightly larger screen at higher dpi. The V30 screen is 10% larger, higher dpi but at cost of additional 8mm height and 5mm width. For comparision, the diameter of a dime is 18mm. (data from GSMArena)

Think its a reach to say iPhone X competitors are some how 'ginormous' in comparison. Sounds like an iPhone 7/8 is more the physical size you are looking for if wanting to leave the Android world.
So you can but... looking at the code... you don't want to.
https://www.bullionvault.com/ allows you to buy gold held in Switzerland, UK, USA, Canada and Singapore.

I don't know what conditions they place on the residence location of their subscribers.
So I know of normal people using VPNs in the the UK for some or all of the reasons below:

1. They're blocking lots of torrent websites, using a VPN circumvents this

2. They're sending out letters to people saying "you're torrenting, stop". VPN stops this

3. Some ISPs throttle traffic to certain services and streaming sites, VPNs circumvent this