skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really cool. I'm going to definitely try it on my old iPod Touch.
We do also have CloudFront - which can front dynamic content, and even integrate with Lambda@Edge to serve responses. But at that point it's not really acting as a load balancer.

R53 + Geo DNS | Latency Based DNS | Traffic Manager + Application Load Balancer | Network Balancer is definitely our go-to recommendation and it's used by a variety of customers to handle traffic globally.

Route53 supports ALIAS records, so everything still works at the root of your domain (e.g. mydomain.com). Failover is handled with DNS health checks that propagate more quickly than the cascading BGP routing updates that power alternatives such as anycast, as well as avoiding breakage of other in-flight connections due to route table disruption. R53 + Health Checks is what we use for www.amazon.com.

I'm curious - what would you prefer to see in an alternative?
I can't in good conscience ever use Firefox after how they treated Brendan Eich. What a bunch of pigs.
The first time a putative national leader was picked by people outside a country's borders, that country would leave the union. And who could blame them?
Ask HN: What added sensors/features might smartwatches have in the near future?
> Human touch is fucking important

if it's important to you, that's why you have friends and family.

i'm sure as an adult you can handle not fondling other adults at work, because even if you think 'it's important', you don't know what kind of space other people are in and how they feel about you touching them.
> But why are printer drivers still a thing? Apple introduced AirPrint for iOS 4 back in 2010 and for MacOS a few years later.

Have you looked at the unimaginable amount of crap a typical Windows printer driver forces upon you? It's not just the driver, it's usually also a stripped down license of some image editor, an "update agent" (because Windows 7 does not have an "app store" or a centralized driver distribution that does not phone home like Windows Update does and often enough carries fossilized drivers only), a toolbar for multifunction printers, a watcher that nags you to buy new original cartridges, a scanner agent because there is still no standard for scanning without drivers, much less so over network or cross platform, a selection of adware... and God help you if you have printers or MFDs from different vendors.

The only way to not have this ridiculous mess is buying enterprise printers - for example, the Z2100 plotter drivers are 4MB for Windows, and 16MB for the manager app, while the Photosmart printer driver can only be had as a part of a 145MB download, there is no such thing as a "driver only" package in the consumer space. In enterprise environments (or small offices) the situation sucks even more because you can't really deploy them via GPO, you have to extract the drivers by hand.
Yep. It's better than it was - most XDA developers understand what a GPL violation is.

I imported my Galaxy S8+ to save over $400AUD on retail. This meant I needed to find a ROM on an obscure site to flash to the phone using a stolen (?) piece of factory software. I can only trust my phone because a Samsung in default configuration won't accept a "modified" update - only one from and signed (?) by Samsung themselves.

Is LineageOS still using "test-keys"? It's been possible to do much better for years: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31765.html
Why does the kernel and driver ABI matter for upgrading userland? On desktop Linux I can by and large use a new kernel and chroot into an old install, or vice versa, and things still work. It would seem that Android userland is unnecessarily coupled to a specific kernel version. It should be able to upgrade independently.
Unless it's reverse engineered I doubt you'll be getting Chromecast. It's kind of in the name.
I bought a Galaxy Nexus for Android app development in September 2012 and it lasted me less than a year before security updates ended. I specifically picked that phone because it was supposed to be the best choice for always receiving the latest Android updates.
It currently works no differently with private companies. It's a common misconception that RSUs are taxed when they vest; they're actually taxed at delivery/release, which need not be the same as the vest date. At a public company there's no reason to make those two dates different (unless you're subject to trading restrictions and the vest dates are during blackout periods). At a private company your RSUs can vest but not be delivered/released until later.
We've been "whining" about it because it allows you to spend on social programs without worrying about your security. The money we spend on your security would be better spent at home on our social programs.
Why software updates and especially security bug fixes are not covered by manufacturer warranty as it is with hardware issues? Or maybe they are but no one enforces that?

In other words if I buy a phone with 2y warranty (a standard duration in many European countries) it would be reasonable to expect that any security updates (device fixes) will be provided in a reasonable time within that period starting from the purchase date.
I would, and I think most other Americans would too.
presumably, the rate of male v male harassment accusations is very low (at least relatively), and as such doesn't much play into risk aversion.
Mathematical beauty
how is postmarketos doing ?
Two years is completely too short, even three years if you purchase mid-cycle is not enough.

I own Nexus 5X's on Project Fi, one bootlooped and was replaced, the other still going strong after ~20months. I also have a Pixel XL acquired like 7 months ago, both of those should outlive the updates and giving Google the money directly, they should take care of their customers.

Far from an Apple fan boy, the 2016 MBP and 2017 iPad do not worry me about getting forgotten in the ever ongoing updates.
>It's peer2peer, there is no server.

I don't think you parsed the conversation correctly.
What makes dinner talk more profound than regular talk?
Up until very recently if I had an old 386 I could still install modern Linux on it and use gnu apps.

Whereas if I have a 2 year old phone the official story is: no it totally doesn't work, throw it away.

This is garbage. Phones are a lot more powerful then that 386, what's different is no one is building to any reasonable standard. Kernel updates should just work.
I hope this becomes a trend.

I still think Clayton Christensen's "Be patient for growth, not for profit" quote is the sanest way to build a business.

I understand the idea of giving startups money to explore business models but I also think it can lead companies astray and into some very problematic business models like Ubers where subsidizing is disguised as a business model.

It's not that it doesn't work (it works remarkably well) it's just that it's creating a lot of companies taking in a lot of talent who aren't creating anything and I personally do not think the few that do end up being successful makes up for it.

If you are forced to look at your finances you are foced to look at where you can create value that people want to pay for.
So a cycle every 50,000 years or so?
you shoot at spaceships man
This is beautiful juxtaposed against the current top comment
The bridge example is economically equivalent to not buying out the bridge but giving everyone the amount necessary to pay daily tolls. Why wouldn’t rents go up (in either scenario)?

Do you deny generally that rents go up with public infrastructure? Or that lifting a toll would raise rents (because it now becomes a more desirable place to live)? Or, which supply/demand curves do you think differ here from the UBI case?
You can tell Google not to keep your search history.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?p=web_app_...
I have seen a prepaid device literally self-destruct from a combination of market segmenting and artificial firmware restrictions.

Edit: There was no CM support, no way to delete bloatware, forcibly disabled SD storage support, and non-optional updates that eventually rendered the device unusable. The two end-user choices were to either remain offline or get stuck in "not enough free space" loops.
> Isn't this a change that makes the tax code fairer? It seems like options and RSUs have value associated with them. At the very least, the person who is receiving them considers them to have value. Stock options are traded on markets, and priced some how.

By that logic, you should have to pay tax on publicly-traded stocks that you own daily, every time the price goes up, even if you don't sell it.

Taxing unrealized gains is insanity. How does it make sense to levy a tax on income that cannot be converted into money?

> Part of the new tax plan seems to be trying to lower the tax brackets, in exchange for preventing people from avoiding taxes.

That's a bit naive, if that's the case. I would never expect people to opt out of legal means to reduce their tax burden.
A dinner party requires a heaping helping of pretension.
Though not a adblocker, Privacy Badger[0] works well as adblocker for me

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
This is really cool! It'd be fun to have a GraphQL variant of this.
I love that nobody actually countered my arguments but I'm still negative karma.

Seems to be a trend on HK if you dare mention a "hot topic."
Is this going pass the underwear stage stretching CNN to fit the Emperor's new clothes? Hinton's caught up in a mind boggling batch of mumbo-jumbo that proves no one understands how the brain actually works or is even close. Winter is nigh near. Till that time it's pin the tail on the donkey time...,
Makes a lot of assumptions that multiple technological societies can survive the early competitive period too ( the one we're pretty obviously still in)
The problem with the UK military is it's been starved for funds for so many years one wonders how long it would take to gear up for an actual "near peer" conflict.
Have you looked at the unimaginable amount of crap a typical Windows printer driver forces upon you?

Yes. I go out of my way to run a clean crap free Windows PC. Even going as far as either buying from the business line of laptops or buying from the Microsoft store. But the minute I install a printer driver....

It's even worse for people like my parents, they search online for printer driver and usually end up downloading crapware from a third party site unaffiliated with the printer manufacture.
Comcast and Monsanto being the worst.
Definitely agree option of a memory limit would be handy in a lot of cases. Sometimes a box exists to run one service and you know you want like 75% of the box's RAM (leaving some for cache, other procs, etc.). Other times, like this, you don't want GOGC=100's frequent collections but also don't want the risk of an explosion if live data increases.

Just adding some heuristics to override GOGC's behavior in extreme cases could help, e.g. assume by default OK to use 1% of system RAM and not OK to use >75% of it regardless of live data. I'm not sure we can realistically hope to get that--adds complexity, folks dislike arbitrary thresholds, and any change will break users who have optimized around current behavior. It might be you could approximate the desired behavior for reasonably well-behaved programs from a third-party package using runtime methods and a timer, but that's a drag.
E=MC^2 Move more, be more.

Granted, the article gives you more than a bumper sticker.
I don't think not providing updates makes them assholes. Its just the reality of the traditional software model gradually becoming obsolete. They paid the developers to write software, and as a consumer we paid for that software. The cost of additional development has to be borne by someone. The success of the subscription model from biggies like MS, Adobe, Blizzard, SAAS startups, etc has shown that atleast one other model is viable. Its up to others' to show that there can be others.
That shouldn't be the trade-off, though.

I think your average smartphone owner doesn't understand all this anyway. They look at their 3-year-old phone and say "it works fine and does what I need it to do", look at the new ones on the market and say "I don't see anything compelling there to justify that price tag", and so they don't buy a new phone. Most people don't realize that their phone has gaping security holes in it that will never be addressed.
> Most students had no idea how to set up charts or mental
> pictures for the logic problems.

I took Introduction to Symbolic Logic my first year in college. It was a tiny class, which was a real shame. Many years later, I remember my LSAT instructor spending the first two sessions explaining, e.g., Venn diagrams to the class. I was like, "is this guy serious?" "Who could possibly need a refresher on this stuff?" But I guess I was the odd one in terms of formal exposure.

Symbolic logic should be required for every college student. I can't think of any better class for helping produce well-rounded students with solid critical thinking skills, regardless of their academic focus.

The class is easy and it has almost no direct application whatsoever. But that's the point. Every college student should be able to get through it without sweating, even if it seems initially daunting. And it has no direct application precisely because it's a distillation of some of the very basic mechanisms of rational thinking--mechanisms that everybody and everything glosses over. It's the one class that puts the really simple stuff front-and-center, which after a semester of lessons makes it so much easier to recognize the logical patterns (or lack thereof) elsewhere. Practicing logic negations for example is incredibly useful, especially in the humanities, but even in the hard sciences.

The only downside is producing more of those annoying people who apply formal logic in every context, oblivious to the limitations. But that's better than the current state of affairs, I think. And I guess those annoying people keep everybody on their toes.
If you have enough money to pay salaries for all these people, why are you working at all? If you're rich, just retire and live a stress free life of luxury on the beach. If not, just give ME your money. I'll teach you how to spend it properly.
Agreed in principle, but a decent amount of the new security features present in more recent Android phones are due to new kernel features. It's just a sign of the relative immaturity of the platform that this is the case.
>The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's. It's good that Android users can at least avoid this particular kind of planned obsolescence

I have seen this first hand with my 4S. The updates slowed down my phone, which I was perfectly happy with. Unfortunately, Apple blocks you from restoring your phone's OS back to when it worked great. Heh, and then I bought the 6S, so I suppose Apple got my money anyway.
Sounds like you want to be developing product and don't want to be managing people. Maybe consider bringing in someone who can do project management or be the team manager -- let everybody focus on what they do best. Likewise, especially if you see yourself leaving at some point in the future, set up the company for long-term success by hiring someone who can grow a team.
Tangent: I see example.jpg added to the main repo, just for the readme. If you don't want to store binary blobs, there's an alternative: open a new issue, then copy-paste the image into the issue. It'll give you a link that you can use in a readme permanently.
>I feel like most people working for us are just there for the money - which is absolutely understandable, because I would be exactly the same. With most people I interview I feel like they're either unqualified, total scammers who are unable to write code, but can speak well, or good engineers whose approach is "Fuck you, pay me

Are you paying well? Do you maintain contact?

Working remotely would make team building really hard but really important. More contact could help, regularly talking could help give your employees a better sense of the struggles your going through. As they see that they may take more ownership.
Not having a smart phone is probably up there with being serious about security.
Now waitasec...

I own Crappy unupdated Android one of. And the drivers use the Linux kernel. Last I checked, they need to release source for their drivers.

So where is it? And why can't we upstream those patches and "fix" android?
Hinton is with no doubt one of the greatest name in the field, but I think in this case particularly the paper fails to properly address citations. I have seen people publishing about dynamic routing and invariance problem by decades (e.g. C. Von der Malsburg, T. Poggio, and many others).
But I admit, authors in general name concepts in such obscure and convoluted way, which makes it very hard to actually separate contributions and give credits to whom deserves it.
This really depends on the lists that you use in each. Research exactly what you want to block. I personally don't like a few of the lists for that specific reason, they block everything all together, not just tracking pixel domains and things of that nature. There is also an official uBlock Origin Extra extension that I find very handy for blocking websocket garbage. This is becoming more important as websocket connections become more prevalent. https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...
You need a suitable car in order to drive for Uber don’t you?
That would be a barrier for entry for many minimum wage employees I think.
Here in our county (that includes Tampa), we have an annual mass casualty drill. The larger hospitals actually get mock patients (high school students, some in makeup) transported and practice triage. Every capable facility in the county, even little surgical centers in strip malls, practice communicating with emergency dispatch and "tabletop" how they would handle trauma patient overflow. Fire rescue practices coordinating patient transport to send more minor cases to the more remote facilities. They rotate where they actually do the drill so they get experience working in the different sports arenas, airport, etc.
I understand this entirely, but there are some pretty bad iOS vulnerabilities out in the wild now (e.g. KRACK wpa2). It’s pretty dangerous to avoid updates nowadays.

I think what needs to happen across the industry is a complete decoupling of “feature” from security patching. Too many people are exposed because of exactly the kind of unwanted UI upgrades you describe.
Ah, apologies, I misunderstood. I don't recall seeing anything usefully quantified in the article about the effects of tax incentives, though there was a comment somewhere there about negative gearing, quoting David Llewellyn-Smith:
"This tax policy allows more than one million Australians to engage in a negative carry into property in the hope of capital gains. In a nation of just 24 million, 1.3 million Australians lose an average of $9,000 per annum on this strategy thanks to the tax break".

As to determining which is the most significant factor, I will leave that to those with far greater understanding of the area than mine.
I'm also not interested in just showing up, putting in 8 hours a day

There's nothing wrong with this. It's not doing the bare minimum; it's having a life outside of work.

Personally, I work in bursts. On days that I can't focus on work, I can barely do anything useful. Other times I manage 12 hour stints, but it has to be a passion project. It's hard to devote yourself to making someone else rich.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573618
Thousands of scientists issue bleak ‘second notice’ to humanity
Apple has the same issues, yet they keep their devices updated and secure for 5+ years.
I know you're being funny but that appeals to me. :-)

Of course, I already have a shooting range and dirt track: my back yard.
>Why do we want or even trust government to decide for us that a company is too big and needs to be smaller or that a company should conducts it business in the way that the government wants it to. As long as a company isn't somehow forcing me to use it services, I'm free to go elsewhere.

Should we get rid of IP laws then? Isn't copyright a government granted monopoly?
Is that really "paid well"? 30 years and a masters degree earns you $77K? Could you imagine that offer in SV?
getting banned in that case must've been extremely aggravating.
> The crux of the problem is how to set up a system where people feel comfortable coming forward without creating one that incentivizes false accusations.

My rule of thumb about these things is that if some guy is a creep, he will have been a creep to multiple women. See Louis C. K., Roy Moore, etc. By coming forward, the women will back each other up. I'll remain a bit skeptical until I hear more than one accusation.

Craaaaig Jurgenson, or whatever his name is, only has one accuser so far, but he took it seriously enough to let himself be fired. I won't say he's guilty, but it sure looks suspicious.
Translated from sci-hype-speak: Aerobic exercise can help maintain brain size after age 60.

"[T]his meta-analysis found no effects of exercise on total hippocampal volume, but did find that exercise interventions retained left hippocampal volume significantly more than control conditions."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917...
For reference Red Hat charges around $425/yr for extended support. Obviously the situation is different because Red Hat has a lot more software to support but they also have a fewer products and more customers that care enough to buy it. But I think the upshot is that a $5/yr extended support contract is a bit of a pipedream.

Just as an order of magnitude estimate we're assuming that it's about 100 times more effort to continue maintenance of a general purpose Linux based OS than a general purpose Linux based OS on specific set of hardware. And that's before you realize that the market for this support contract is just frugal IT people with specifc Android phones that haven't worn out from use. So not much luck with a 'we'll make it up in volume' analysis.
Could you elaborate on why you are unemployable? You have ruled out quite a bit of common reasons.
Sure, but what causes the amyloid beta?

Recent research shows that lack of sleep increases both amyloid beta and tau. One of them increases after a single bad night. The other takes a few days of too little sleep to start spiking.

There may be other factors, but the research suggests we need to work on sleep hygiene for at risk populations. This is a non drug intervention that I can wholly get behind.
I love IPA. It’s virtually all I ever drink, and yet I have no interest in fancying myself a connoisseur or going out of my way to try some new special IPA. It seems that most people assume that the former implies the latter.
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Just so anyone reading can take something away that might be useful if they find themselves in a similar situation... In the first one, I became a hardcore Alice, specifically got promoted because of it, and the jerkiness on all fronts accelerated. There are cultures where jerks thrive.

Another culture I’ve previously worked in appreciated people that could “level” their brilliant jerks because management didn’t want to replace them (growth stage -> acquisition). I’ve found sometimes people turn into brilliant jerks, and it’s allowed/tolerated, in part due to compensation inequality. These people were hired at a lower salary for whatever reasons, and in exchange received freedom to be a brilliant jerk because they became hard to replace at a certain price. The jerks in question were working their butts off to move up, which never happened in any significant way. So there can definitely be multiple sides as to why someone is behaving like a jerk.
Web Typography: Designing Tables to Be Read, Not Looked At