skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have absolutely no control over what runs on your phone. You cannot even audit the software without breaking into your own device. The broadband firmware is known to be bad quality security-wise and it's tightly connected to the rest of the system. It's a walled garden where specific corporation has complete control over your privacy and you have no other choice than to trust them. Plus Apple has been already seen granting exceptional permissions to some apps like Uber for unclear reasons, so you have to trust third parties as well.

As someone who uses free software and worked closely with some mobile privacy-related projects, it's headscrambling to see iPhone users talking about privacy. I won't use it; you're free to do so, but when it comes to your privacy, it's just a delusion. At least be aware of what you've got - no security and privacy is way better than a false sense of it.
"Building a hardware startup is hard, but trying to build one that competes with Apple is nearly impossible."

So what is it? Hard or not?
It was a stitch up man!
I can't watch any porn video sites from my ASUS Laptop. What to do now?
I've been lucky enough to avoid traveling by US domestic flights, because similarly to what you say, they sound like a major shit show. So I don't have personal experience in that area, although my girlfriend was in SF for a conference earlier this year, and she said it was reasonably pleasant (on United, even).

I was referring to European and international flights, which I do have experience with.

Charging for carry-on is real shitty. At some point it will be cheaper and easier to simply have your luggage shipped to your destination instead of carrying it with you.
Any reasonable antitrust regulation should kill it:
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555...

Unfortunately they let those mergers happen:
https://www.economist.com/news/business/21679810-frenzy-deal...

Shareholders benefit at the expense of everybody else (customers, employees, ...). Classical capital vs. labour dillema.
Plus like all MSFT frameworks, it'll be abandoned about 3 minutes after it is released.

Citations for the downvoters: silverlight, lightswitch, Velocity, AppFabric, Windows Workflow, half of WCF, ...
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I agree, it's better to work with the internal tools if possible. I did install Tim Pope's vinegar plugin [0] as it adds some nice tweaks to netrw.

But I've since switched to using FZF [1] and hardly use netrw anymore.

[0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar
[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/README.md#as-vim...
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For the standards, the patents would almost assuredly fall under FRAND licensing terms (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory). Apple would still have to pay the license fees, but they already pay those.

As it stands, Apple already pays companies like Nokia and Qualcomm (until they started withholding licensing payments as part of the dispute) for use of their wireless patents. It seems that Apple making their own chips wouldn't change that situation. They license the patents now when using 3rd party chips, they'd license the patents in the future if they made their own chips.
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What a crazy turn of events. After all this M&A activity, Avago, a virtually unknown company, might end up owning Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP and Freescale.

How is this even possible? Who is financing these guys?
Are people without coins barred from participating?
my mtgox-spidey sense is a tinglin
Personally I find Concourse to be better at CD than CI. We've been using it for a couple of years now to deploy Cloud Foundry which has a complex dependency graph of deployment steps. Concourse pipelines are great at modelling this, and resources like Terraform[1], Docker and S3 save you writing what would otherwise be a hell of a lot of Bash.

Disclosure: I run a company that sells hosted Concourse.

1: https://github.com/ljfranklin/terraform-resource
Why not just use an IDE if that's what you need with a Vim mode plugin rather than shoe horning Vim into something it is not really meant to be. Virtually every major IDE has a Vim mode.
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Apple could purchase both companies outright in an all cash deal and still have hundreds of billions in the bank.
> "has nearly 15% of bitcoin volume which is pretty high to ensure market follows in-step to their market making"

That doesn't sound right at all. MtGox was huge, controlled most of the market. Bitfinex is way way smaller, percentage-wise.

But more importantly, Bitfinex doesn't lead the price.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
I came to the comments section to make sure this article was posted, it's such a fantastic read. If you read it and are hungry for more, check out "How the World Was One" by Arthur C. Clarke. It's a fascinating history of telecommunications with a large focus on submarine cables.

https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Was-Arthur-Clarke/dp/055307...
Technologies change by Qualcomm inventing new ones and patenting them.
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I see others already mentioned the lite version. For a quickly loading page with minimal extras that just let's you search you can try https://ixquick.com.

It integrates nicely into Firefox. I've found results to be pretty good and relevant when I use it. Found it before DDG and now I use both depending on what machine I'm on.

Anyway, they claim they are "the world's most private search engine".
Using network namespaces does require root. User namespaces can give you something close enough to root to use network namespaces. But that only helps you if user namespaces are usable unprivileged, which they usually aren't, due to distro/sysadmin customization.
Plenty of scepticism about this online. Personally I am all for advances in space travel regardless of nationalistic feelings (I don't have much choice really being a Brit, a previous government having given up on space a long time ago and given our technology to the French!).
They are really good, but they don't have everything (maybe due to copyright complaints, specially for Nintendo games which might have been re-released for new platforms.)
Basic crypto price tracker built with VueJS and apollo-client 2.0 (GraphQL)
Sorry, I'll try and be more direct :)

> Do you think the prices offered on freelancing sites are fair?

Yes, I think they are 'fair'. This is how a free market works - clients are free to offer whatever price they like, devs are free to take on the jobs they feel make sense.

> Would you be willing to work for such prices?

It depends on the job but, taking $100 for 10 hours of work as an example - No. But just because such jobs don't make financial sense for me, doesn't mean the same for other economies.

> Why do you care which ISP someone uses when committing to a repository or login to VM?

I don't, nor did I claim to. What I care about is market rates.
And it works, depending on who you are trying to reach.

I know that this article has me completely convinced that Jay could be extremely effective assisting with any of my projects. Much more so than any Ivy League diplomas, years of experience or lack thereof, glossy brochures, testimonials, or other conventional marketing tools. And it's significantly more effective than any FizzBuzz quiz I could administer to potential candidates.

For all the foibles of business politics, expert opinion from within the organization is extremely persuasive when it's available (though an organization that really needs Jay's services because they have no internal experts would have a hard time using this article).
At least with Powerpoint you can also do it right.

I wonder what all those "programmer-friendly presentations" creators are thinking who are proud to use Markdown. In Markdown you are forced to do bullet points.
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The same is true of our healthcare system. We have some of the best hospitals in the world, if you can afford the ever-increasing cost of care. Meanwhile tens of millions of Americans are skipping regular checkups due to cost, and a significant number of them will get very sick or possibly die as a result.
Looks like I can not really use it just yet, need sign up and then be put into a waiting list.

Is it true that Collaborate is on Python 2.7? Since everything is switching to 3.x these days it would be nice they can update Python version as well. This tool is built on top of ipython-notebook(jupyter) which supports 3.x officially already
> Really? Even if you haven't selected the line?

Absolutely, works for the entire line, no matter where you are.

> But it's still faster to type dd than Ctrl + D

Don't be overly pedantic. I could say Ctrl + D is faster because dd means: 'press d' + 'release d' + 'press d' while Ctrl + d means 'press Ctrl' + 'press d', or I could say that you don't have to change modes to use Ctrl + D, but you could say your finger is already on d, you're more comfortable, etc. The difference in speed is quite negligible.

> https://stackoverflow.com/a/9616315

Using cscopes sure is better than dumb text search, but apparently doesn't know the difference I asked about. From the comments:

> Now that I've spent a bit of time with cscope, it seems to me that cscope does not differentiate variables of the same name that belong to different classes. class_b::var may be returned even though I'm only looking for class_a::var. I'm using C++. Am I doing anything wrong?

Maybe it works better for other languages. However, my point is: if you think "There hasn't been one feature that and IDE has that I used, which can't be achieved in vim (or via a plugin)", then I don't think you've used JetBrains IDEs.
It can come down to how well you know your topic. If the presentation was on how to make a cake then my mother would be able to take to the stage and do the whole thing with zero preparation. She would pop the recipe and the method notes up on the big screen and that would be it. Myself, because I actually would have no idea what I would be doing, I would make up slides for each step in the method summary and still be reading them. Again, my mother would not have to refer to what was on screen.

Actually there is lots of science and craft and history and plenty else in cake making, again, my mother would be able to do all that with open ended questions.

I think that if you have been working with the same clients and the same code for the last few years then you too can present without the presentation, to keep the audience captivated and learning. Vision, focus, enthusiasm all comes into it.

The other part is having presentation skills. Who really likes standing in front of a crowd? This can be learned, however some people go to posh schools that emphasise public speaking and other people go to schools where this is not something that happens. It is a lot easier to stand up and talk in front of a crowd if you have done it every week throughout your childhood than if you have not done it before.
Parts are open source (Wire chatbot SDK, Wire Chat client) , others are not currently (entropy.ai).
For the later, this is their alpha test of outside API calls, so hopefully this is something than can be published publicly later once they are comfortable exposing API for everyone.
It's one of the slowest UIs I know about. We also have a Yammer Embed on our Intranet and it's slow and buggy as well.
It is ambiguous because, as you point out, it can be read either as `abs(abs(c)).a.abs(b)` or `abs(abs(c).abs(a).b)`.

A mathematician can of course think about it and know what is meant. But there are many alternate notations that could be used, where such ambiguities don't even occur (e.g., balanced parens).

Autoscaling does seem like a nice solution in this case, which preserves the traditional notation while resolving the ambiguity...
Well, if we are talking about recent great medical advances, i think Spain and France are leading right now with the discovery of CRISPR.
And i'm pretty happy about this, if it were discovered by an american pharmaceutical company, no other laboratory would have even heard of this before a patented product hit the market, and every research on the subject would be subject to a patent too.
I honestly can't see this going anywhere; Intel have no skin in the discrete graphics game, so what do they have to gain from this? They're not really competing with nVIDIA, except perhaps in the emerging AI hardware market?
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Replace UEFI with Linux: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...
So reusable components from a crappy UI! Thank you Microsoft :~D

JK
I've always liked the hover cards that they use on Yammer, the examples of those are pretty sweet.

It's pretty amazing that even this has generated negative comments. This is one of the reasons why I don't feel like I should ever open source any code. Anything I ever release would be something that was of use to me and maybe a few other people. Would I have to actively use and support it for the rest of my life to be "right"? I wonder how many of you complaining actually never open source anything while using lots of it.

I guess it's lame to complain about negative comments on the internet, but hacker news is supposed to be different. Open source from Google? That's fantastic. Open Source from Intel, Facebook, Yahoo, or HP? Those are OK too. Open source from Microsoft? Better make sure you've said something negative to make sure that your fan boy card doesn't get pulled.
For example (|a|)b(|c|) would be instead written |ac|b

That changes the meaning. You're now relying on multiplication being commutative which is not true for all sets.
I use Tufte CSS stylesheet (very slightly modified) on my blog/static generator. I like it for its focus on plain text and clarity over flashy presentation. Some people have complained about the font - serif fonts are out of style on the web but I find it easy on the eye.

The biggest problem I have found is that it really doesn't have a great answer for vertical mobile screens. It works, but I find the layout sub-optimal. I decided it was acceptable though.

These two posts demonstrate what I was going for the best:

https://sheep.horse/2017/9/crossfading_photos_with_webgl_-_b...

https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...
If you're a parent, you can play this strategy on your children, instead of a simple star reward chart, where good task = reward, reward spuriously and without cue, when you reward them, tell them you know they are always trying hard to do the right thing and are proud of how often they make a good choice, maybe point out something they could have done better if it's recent enough to be recalled... With a star chart children are adept at learning the minimum requirements for reward, and the point of the reward, for good behaviour, is lost in the game...
Client selection and client management matter far more than bullet proof contracts. They are also much much harder.

Good luck.
How is Avago virtually unknown?

They derive from HP and Agilent Technologies, along with LSI. Pieced together originally by KKR & Silver Lake. Realistically it's a half century old entity. They then moved the corporation official seat to Singapore for various strategic reasons.
Are you 15?

Shares in a company entitle you to a piece of that company, they can profit share with dividends, enable you the right to vote in corporate matters. If the company were to go bankrupt you also get money from the liquidation.

What does your ICO give you?
This will probably go down as AMD's biggest strategic mistake in the past decade (other than the Bulldozer architecture).

Did they at least revise their licensing deal where Intel basically adds a requirement that AMD can't be sold to other companies? If not, then AMD's leadership must be clueless. They should've revised that clause the first chance they got to make another deal (like this one!) with Intel.
I am somewhat impressed at the speed.
Intel ME is also used for DRM.
I remember when CNET was trustworthy, and not a giant, malware ridden advertisement...
people used the exact same argument when transitioning to 4G, they hoped that Qualcomm could lose the 4G battle so they could pay less qualcomm tax. what actually happened?
Because (in their eyes), you're gaming their fare rules. That said, I don't know how common this sort of action is. At various times, I've had to change flight plans and it was cheaper just to burn a booked return leg than pay the cancelation fee. And I've never had an issue doing so.
If a robot can write code in our environment and deal with all the politics and stupid decisions and wishy washy product direction (we don't know what we want, just implement everything) and broken technologies, you're welcome Mr Robot.
Well, I am european (and an employer myself)
How do you find Sapiens? I started reading it (about pg. 50 now) but I find it too full conclusions/statements that are not really founded on data. Basically, it tends sets up two or more premises and then somehow draws a conclusion that isn't in anyway related to the original premises (i.e: almost pseudoscience).
I lost it at "[...] when an All State Insurance franchise did a live demonstration of Interguard’s software to other dealers. The technology started scanning the network and almost immediately found an email with the words “client list” and “résumé”. The demonstrator opened the email in front of a room full of peers to discover his best employee was plotting to move to another company."

What is wrong with people?
debugger integration ... performance instrumentation ... really just a separate tool that you can launch from the IDEs toolbar.

Which is actually awfully close in usability terms to <hotkey to next terminal> + <full featured shell> # just sayin'
This looks cool, but "Cross-platform" is a misleading adjective to use here.

By that standard, you can put "cross-platform" on anything. Like MVC is a "cross platform" architecture. And so is CRUD.
IE still only supports an older, deprecated syntax, doesn't it?
Shoot, thank you. We will fix this ASAP.
World needs new rules for powerful tech
By IT Staff, I mean (for example) developers writing risk management and trading systems, as well as support and infrastructure staff.
Something being a recognized diagnosis is not meaningful on its own. The nature of medical documentation and its ties to payment in the US and interoperability everywhere means structured, defined codes are needed for everything that could conceivably occur. That is why there are also special codes for other problems like your subsequent encounter with being sucked into a jet engine, or wounds sustained in a jetski accident that occurred while you were on fire.
Are you familiar with duckduckgo.com stack overflow integration?

It will pickup your search is technical and embed the best stack overflow answer it could find. Sometimes with a code snippet.
If you keep up and learn new things, that should be a minor problem.

And here in Denmark, the company is required by law to support that.

We even have a regal requirement to hold "employee development meetings" every year, where the company and the employee discuss how to "enhance" the employee...
Interesting project. The static generator I use for my site also converts markdown->tufte.css, although with a different set of custom tags for things like margin notes.
I think a year is closer to reality. If you're at your current employer less than a year consistently it is a red flag. But two years is plenty of time in my experience.

Also, loyalty works both ways, as an older millennial my experience and the experience of people I know in my age group has been that we get laid off roughly every year and a half. I barely know anyone my age who has not been laid off at least once.

And definitely through no fault of their own. Companies cut entire teams all at once.
This is lovely. Anyone know of a Hugo theme that implements it?
A man was able to use Face ID to unlock his non-twin brother’s new iPhone X
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> Google wasn’t concerned about your websites at all. It was more concerned about its own product performance

Why I'm not surprised?
There are some people, you know, that don't have the physical ability to do much else to get the same amount of entertainment in their lives.

Casinos are a boon to seniors, giving them a chance to go somewhere where they can actually enjoy themselves with worrying too much.

Jesus, how many sharp edges to we have to round over to make sure that adults live a "safe" life, according to your standards?
EU mandates to show real price (including taxes)[0][1]. From my personal experience, it works with all major EU-based airlines when booking online. Of course, if you want extra (travel insurance, priority, luggage etc.) you pay separately (opt-in), but it's nothing like it was ~10 years ago when you had to play hide&seek with all these hidden taxes and opt-out extras during the booking process.

0. https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2015/january/flight-book...

1. http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/pric...
What is the best solution to get rid of banners, pop ups, tracking, malware etc?
What is the best solution to get rid of banners, pop ups, tracking, malware and more?
They don't need to remove it, adding the possibility to turn it off should suffice.
It is in exchanges favor to offer increased prices so as to shore up their balances using BTC commissions earned per trade. This inversely leads to them serving an increased percentage of daily trades.

Add to the fact that, increased risks means people want more out of their BTC. So, if x is a fair price in other exchange, they want x + y% for the same BTC on exchange with issues.

Some of these people become aware of withdrawal issues later or buy some other crypto currency, move to another exchange to cash out.
That wasn't really my point. Arguably it should be a feature you specifically enable, or better yet only present if you buy that option.

If you ignore all that, then Intel ME actually seems rather useful, for a subset of users, specifically organisations with large numbers of machines deployed. Still I'm not sure that even the target audience of ME is actually using it, so it seems like a huge waste of time and money from Intel perspective.
Ask HN: Link to project to build 10,000 5km towers to fight climate change?
I've tried searching for the website for a while and had no luck, I've found it a few months ago through HN.

Basically it's a website about an idea to build a lot of kilometer high towers that would cool areas around them and provide a lot of power and basically "stop climate change."

The website had calculations about the effects of different tower sizes, diameters etc.
Well at this point all I would like to get is a USB-powered linux in a card, with wifi, optionally with a screen capable enough to display 3 or 4 lines of text.

I mean raspberry is cool, cheap and everything, but I'd prefer something all integrated, as small as the raspberry pi zero, less fragile (meaning I can put in my pocket or bag, and still expect it to work), not necessarily with pins.

I don't know about what the demand is for micro-controllers, but as a consumer and a developer, having a wifi-capable portable micro computer would really be cool.

Does it already exist? Under $50?
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