skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the author was not next of kin.. The letter has obviously been opened. How is unknown but then by not returning to the postal service, and instead trying to track them down himself, I think is the crime. Has he simply left it unopened and attempted to locate this wouldn't be an issue. The violation in law arises when the envelope is opened.
Hopefully we won’t bring back Kelvin.
If I had to guess why, I'd say that I am mostly self taught and more of an extrovert. It's probably the only way my brain could trick me into sitting in front of a computer all day instead of talking with other people. I also played with action figures late, until I was 12... around the same time I started programming... I think I'm having a psychological breakthrough, haha.
What do you use to keep track of your data?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/other/why-one-lib-dem-exp...

^ Best article I've seen on Brexit options and why "reversing article 50" is not a viable option as far as the EU is concerned. It is based on an interview with a former Lib Dem MEP (Andrew Duff), who is basically a consultant constitutional lawyer advising both sides.
That argument sets no principle for declaring a government illegitimate, so you should really have started the second paragraph with “By my hostile reimagining of that line of reasoning...”
It's not income if you never exercise the option.

Imagine starting as a senior-level manager at a company that's a few years into its life. They provide you with a salary of $150k/year and 100,000 options at $1 with a standard four-year vesting schedule. In the first year, the company's fair market value increases to $2/share. Your tax liability just increased as though you made an extra $25k, so you'll need to come up with ~$8k to cover.

If the company sees its value increase 2x per year for all four years, you'll be on the hook for taxes on $675k having only made $600k in actual dollars. Good luck scraping together taxes to cover adjusted income of $525k in year 4 if the company doesn't go public.

If the fair market value falls after you vest but before a liquidity event, you never saw a penny of extra liquid assets but still had to pay tens or hundreds of thousands in taxes.

This will bankrupt people.
While I'm bullish that self-driving will happen in our lifetimes, I think there are a lot of challenges that many are underestimating. This includes the actual technology—this is one of the most important and challenging technological breakthroughs of all time. It's going to take time and be very, very expensive to produce at scale (ie all-electric self-driving cars at $100K a piece).

Even putting that aside, I have questions about the business side of things. Demand for transportation has been pretty consistent with big lumps during the morning and evening commutes.

One of the beauties of Uber's existing business model is that it can theoretically spin up and down drivers as needed with Surge pricing. With a fleet of cars, it's not guaranteed that supply will perfectly match demand most of the time.

The counter to that, which I sort of buy, is that it will kind of be like broadband Internet. We don't even know what demand and opportunities self-driving cars will create. My hesitancy with fully embracing this is that broadband was an acceleration of something new whereas self-driving is a leap to an existing quantity of transportation. It will still change lots of things but it will take longer for things like where you choose to live to change.

Finally, my main hesitancy is the human aspect. For self-driving to make the impact that many want/believe, there's going to have to be a hard line in the regulatory sand where human-controlled cars are outlawed or limited. I don't see that happening in the United States for a long, long time.
Wow, this is closely related to what I was thinking of doing.

Tracks in the racing simulator Assetto Corsa are simple 3D model files that have had a few hand modified additions using the editor distributed by the developers.

I wanted to take Elevation data and turn it into a big file of polygons, and then lay a road on top of that using freely available shapefiles that describe roadways, giving the user a smoother surface to drive on. I could either texture polygons using some land use data from the same shapefiles, or using satellite imagery.
Strewth, I can't even read that without wanting to go and uninstall every browser from every device I own.

Are people really considering this? People that, y'know... matter?

edit: good lord, I read further and saw this:

3. Security and Privacy
Considerations

This section is non-normative.

...I mean... surely, surely that's the one bit that should be most gigantically normative? Right?
There's no easy way of switching between them, starting a new firefox instance requires running from a command interpreter with -P specified, even the selection window isn't great. The containers feature is the alternative you want to propose here.
I'm still part Alice, I think. The Carnegie book really helped me, for sure.

The difficulty though is that at some point if you believe something is important you may ultimately have to go through some kind of dialectic to make your case.

How to Win Friends and Influence People says never have an argument. If you follow this advice you will reap the benefits of the book. However what you're building in your team will trend toward a Least Common Denominator. Or else I don't know how to not let that happen in a world where you can't debate. (Any response that tries to say debate/argument/dialectic aren't all the same thing in this context I think is cheating. Or someone enlighten me.)
Isn't it the same thing no matter the browser?

If you are logged in you Google account, every Google search will end up in your Google history. It doesn't matter if you search from Chrome's omnibox, google.com or Firefox's search bar.

Does Chrome also uploads search made with other search engines? That would be a bit more worrisome. Though considering that Firefox saves your history in your "Firefox Sync" account, I wouldn't be surprised if Google did the same.
Ask HN: Next steps when you're blacklisted by Akamai?
I don't know if anyone here has experienced this, but I'm currently blocked from numerous sites around the web because I'm apparently on some Akamai naughty list.

My web activity is pretty vanilla except for, I guess, cryptocurrency exchanges, and running a crypto wallet (SpectreCoin) that networks over Tor. (However, I first experienced the Akamai ban before using the latter).

Does anyone know how one lands on these lists other than the obvious answers (e.g. malware, which I'm pretty sure isn't the case for me)? Or does anyone know of a recourse other than getting a new IP address?

I think it stinks to have this centralized gatekeeper on the web who can essentially turn off your access to large parts of the web with no notice, explanation, or apparent recourse. I understand why it exists but these CDNs seem like a more ominous chokepoint on the "open" web than some others that get more attention.
idk, being too sunny also leads to staying indoors more. especially in LA. i rarely get sun around here. just the other day, my doctor told me i have extremely low levels of vitamin D. and i started taking 10k mg doses of vitamin D, this also seem to help me sleep better at night.
Investors Are Celebrating the Tech Revolution
To make an even harsher comparison, Dota 2 is free, all characters and gamemodes, sans cosmetics.

Since Disney / Starwars is probably in control of cosmetics (No green lightsaber for Vader allowed) the only way for these microtransactions is via these unlocks.

They bundled up the microtransactions / unlocks and built a game around it
So much this! If they seize a boat for non tax payments, they can auction it; it would be interesting if there were a secondary market of buying shares in startups at an IRS auction.

The fair market value of something is whatever you can sell it for, not what someone says it’s worth. Taxing something that can’t be converted to tangible value is just wrong. They are basically taxing potential and not reality. They are taxing the egg based on what the resulting chicken might be worth.
Is there a way for the compiler or the runtime to be designed such that it can detect that these heap allocations of the same "shape" and similar size are happening with sufficient frequency/regularity that some optimization is possible?
Early in the history of commercial internet in Brazil we had a couple issues like this one with the recently privatized telco that operated the big backbone that connected us to other countries. At that time we more or less seriously mused about whether all commercial ISPs should pool their resources and pay a top-tier consultancy to properly configure everything for the telco, provided they never ever touches those routers again.
Also another thing is when Github changed its licensing model it really hurt those of us working on small budgets like at non-profits or in education.
https://venturebeat.com/2016/05/11/github-changes-pricing-un...
For example, I worked at a public university where we had student workers. I could convince our dean to pay per repo but once it was per user we had to migrate off Github because we couldn't afford it. Migrating off took up a lot of my time.
Does California really want or need more people? If it's so hard to get housing, then move out. The rust belt has really good deals on housing. It just needs something to jump-start its economy. Something is out of whack.
So I've played all the ones that you've mentioned and loved them (especially Kerbal Space Program), but I'd like to point out that they're fun to play because they're games, whereas similar industrial software applications are not games. This is a very meaningful distinction because the addition of game mechanics makes them fun to play around with.

I also don't think the connections are quite so close as you make them out to be. Factorio is at its heart a survival game -- you can't just dismiss the enemies as added "spice", as they are an integral part of the challenge. The advanced factory automation becomes necessary to build up your tech level high enough to take on the higher level monsters that come at you later in the game.
I've played that - Offworld Trader Co is seriously a day trader simulation, but with commodities on Mars.
Are you using a vanilla browser or do you have a content blocker installed perhaps? There is a very noticeable difference in load times and I would definitely consider the former 'slow'.

I agree though, that rendering performance is not the bottleneck of the browsing experience.
Young people were excluded from the referendum vote.

Certain demographics living outside of the UK - who are normally allowed to vote in elections - were excluded from the referendum vote.

A non-trivial number of ballots for foreign residents were sent out too late to be counted.

The original Parliamentary Act for the referendum explicitly defined it as advisory.

Most referenda are run on the basis that a super-majority is required for any significant constitutional change.

The suggestion that the referendum was truly representative and binding is an horrific travesty of democracy.
I'm pretty ignorant of browser stuff, but couldn't the attack be even worse than mentioned in the article?

If the newly opened website has full control over the Facebook tab, can't the attacker directly modify the html in the opener to pop up a form asking for a password?
This would be stronger because the address would not change.

Could the attacker reach into the Facebook tab and pull any information from it?
Second-Guessing R
How to Write a Business Plan for Your App Startup
Keep in mind that the smart founders all hand over daily control to top managers at a certain point - FB->Sandberg, G->Pichai, Msft->Nadella.

The best strategy for founders from these data points seems to be to retain control via stock ownership, but recognize your limitations and bring in good managers.
Why not just go out and walk more?
A few years ago I experienced something similar at Heathrow. According to Heathrow's website[1] it's because:

airports that operate common departure lounges[2] must comply with
UK Border Force conditions that are necessary to prevent any
circumvention of UK immigration controls.

This includes a requirement to capture a facial biometric for each
domestic passenger on entry and exit of a departure lounge in order
to verify their identity.

[1] http://www.heathrow.com/departures/security-and-baggage/flyi...

[2] AIUI what they mean by "common departure lounge" is a lounge accessible to international and domestic passengers without having to pass fully through to arrivals and re-checking in on another flight, but I could be wrong.
Collabora and Linux Kernel 4.14
A richer hard boiled egg with some texture. I liked it a lot. Ate it with a spoon and some sort of sauce. It was definitely different. Would probably do again.
Not me personally, but there will always be a vocal minority who will complain about having their workflow broken. Any replacement will be missing some critical feature. For a person affected by this, it is a painful experience having their entire workflow broken so they resort to dire warnings on forums such as this one ('Firefox is finished without <my niche plugin>').

In this case, I think Firefox made a good choice in modernising the codebase and the extension APIs. In 2 years we'll find out if the vim people were right or they were indulging in hyperbole.
>What's a good tool for managing the various lists/projects? I've tried Google Docs, Apple Notes, and Txt files.

Dunno, frankly. I use Org Mode. It's good enough. Others use TaskWarrior.

>Then it's hard to pick out the top must-do items from the 20-30 lists.

Which gets to my point of "If you don't limit inputs, nothing will work". I mean, you can make it work if you have huge lists, but your system will be heavy on maintenance. So for me the challenge isn't "How do I handle so much data?" but "How do I make sure my lists are not long?"

I'm debating switching to anti-TODO lists. Decide my focus for the next month/year/whatever. Pick a few projects I want to do in them. Everything else (incoming or in existing lists) go into a "Do not do" list. Once I'm done with my current projects, I'll examine that "Do not do" list and decide on another project. This way I don't spend too much time babysitting lists.

Yet another system to try.
> A car payment.
> $450 per month. At 22.

Well, there's your problem
I don't believe the Bologna process has any impact on degrading education, at best it's a chance for people who want to cut on education, but it doesn't imply it.
What about the elderly people who don't have problems?
Well how about that?! I always run "reduce transparency" and "increase contrast" as I never really like the translucent items (System Preferences > Accessibility > Display), and I too thought the new UI was a black bar with a light colored window. I have been enjoying the dark theme in both the developer edition (work) and nightly (home).
`up` looks like it only runs on AWS. This seems nice as the only requirement is docker and I can run it on my $3USD VPS
> I have work and a couple of personal accounts that I have signed in in different browser windows.

Don't do that. On one hand you mix work and personal related issues (not recommended) on the other hand it makes it easier to track you (as your accounts can be correlated). As a dev I have my own (personal, work, ...) users/accounts even at home (if I do remote) to separate the stuff - maybe that's paranoid, but for me it was great to improve work-life balance.
Certified Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine
How is it not unexpected that a piece of software uploads and saves everything you search for on a remote corporate server? When did this become so commonplace that users don't even blink an eye to it? And more importantly, why would anyone find this acceptable?
Google plans to remove apps that misuse Accessibility service
Grade – a flexbox grid for humans
Missouri Attorney General launches investigation of Google
I am on those forums.

How does this protect me (or more likely: them)? I disable 2FA (..), give you my credentials or you brute force them: You own my account. How's that related with "I moved"?

And why would you ever. ever. ever give a random company your government ID? Facebook to unblock your account? Hell no! Google Plus for the same reason? Certainly not and never. Blizzard because you changed the place you live outside of their digital universe? Of course not!

They can ask me questions about games I played, purchase dates of the games I own, can send me verification mails, can use the 2FA they support, can look at my login history (hey, how funny: I logged into my Blizzard account from a SG IP, even before I made the purchase).

No, they should NEVER ask for my address or my government ID. The former would be okay if they want to send me swag and should still be optional.

Blizzard's insane here, defending them is kinda weird. Would you send your ID to Google, Facebook or .... EA? If you nod reading all of this, fine. We're just not able to agree here. If you shake your head but think that it's different for the people that allow you to explode sheep by repeatedly clicking them..: Can you make sure that you're not biased?
While we're on topic of Factorio (and similar games like SpaceChem), here's a new indie game that should appeal to HN users about digital logic and CPU design: http://pleasingfungus.com/Silicon%20Zeroes/ (not my project, I ain't no shill, though I have met the dev on IRC).
> of a 72% turnout

If the other 28% disagree, then they really should have voted against...
The 2018 User Generated Content Marketing Report
It'd be great if there was a social protocol for having constructive debates, so they weren't always assumed to be bad things.
Good work! For those unaware how the DX-7 works, it’s simple to emulate a similar synth but getting the presets to work is a pain. The core of the DX-7 is little more than some counters and a lookup table for sine waves, but (unlike subtractive synthesizers) there are a lot of control inputs each with their own envelopes.

So you could make something similar and get sound out of it in a couple hours, but you'd have to come up with your own presets, or you could spend a few months figuring out how the preset parameters map to actual values like envelope amplitude, timing, modulation levels, et cetera. This project is the hard version, which (apparently, since I don’t have Supercollider fired up at the moment, and my DX synth is in storage) correctly gets all the envelopes and modulation right.

Curious to know how close it is, e.g., does it respond to aftertouch? Not sure about that. Most of the DX presets I'm familiar with have some fairly aggressive aftertouch responses.
Do you use any particular kanban implementation?
This was a mantra both my brothers used while going through Marine Corps bootcamp. You don't have to get to the end of the 50-mile-hike. Just take one more step. I always remember this when facing my own seemingly impossible tasks. Mental or physical.
Patrick, you know that the MoCo has focused 110% on desktop the last 1.5 year. Or if you don't, you should ask the Android platform team (eg. snorp).
Saving the planet from wasteful businesses? Won’t happen in California
Why would it not work? It's just that you need enough people to vote :)

I do believe in this case it's not going to work - I don't imagine among gamers there will be a nearly enough boycotters.
Well, you could add about:profiles to your bookmarks. But I agree that the UX around profiles in FF is a bit clunky.

But containers don't have separate extensions, bookmarks and history so they can't completely replace profiles.
Yep. I randomly clicked on the Slack in-app upsells link [1].

The pros they list are just spun positive; you can just as easily reword them to be negative.

>Slack shows users the first upsell message once they reach the searchable 10K message limit. Any user who reaches this point has definitely experienced the product's value.

Users aren't told there's a message limit until they reach the 10K searchable message limit, surprising them with a required upgrade that loses their old logs unless they fork over some cash.

>Slack integrates similar upsell prompts throughout the app when users take relevant actions like searching through their history or reviewing a conversation.

Users are constantly bombarded with calls to upgrade all around the app, reminding them of their choice of subpar experience.

>An upsell message appears also in the user settings with a neat chart that visualizes current usage on the free plan.

Can't argue with this one. Pretty charts make everything better, although the chart isn't super clear what it even portrays.

[1] https://www.reallygoodux.io/blog/slacks-integrated-upsell-pr...
AG Hawley Issues Investigative Demands to Google, Inc
You can make OS links (e.g. different shortcuts on the desktop to different profiles) to start with different -p [profilename] then starting different profile is just a click away. I do it all the time using such configurations.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile

Also don't forget to add -no-remote option to each of the links to enable starting such browsers in parallel. Sadly it's not mentioned behind the URL above.
Sounds like you need to go over the head of that boss, or find a place less toxic.
I can see how basic income could help some types of people, but it can also hurt other types of people.
If only there was a way to determine who it would help/hurt, and then to only give it out when it would actually help.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-native-ame...
Portability matters
It could work, but it's a lopsided feedback system: EA can't count the number of people who didn't buy their game, they can only count the number of actual purchases. So, voting with your wallet leads to underperforming sales numbers, which they'll rationalize to be based on anything but the insulting ways they try to extract additional money from their players, or the myriad of ways they treat their fan base like idiots.

They learn the wrong lessons, assuming the franchise must be at fault, not the mechanics that make the game loathsome.
Not really. Natural language isn't anywhere near as precise as programming language code.

Some programming languages permit different implementations to behave differently (argument evaluation order in C for example), but natural language is a whole different league. What you describe would be an extremely impressive AI system, but I wouldn't call it a compiler.

There's an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/568/
That's almost exactly how they found the connection, from the article:

> Early epidemiologic research showed that incidence and death rates for certain cancers were lower among individuals living in southern latitudes, where levels of sunlight exposure are relatively high, than among those living at northern latitudes

An obvious problem is confounding variables, this isn't a controlled correlation in any way. The article goes on to say:

> However, additional research based on stronger study designs is required to determine whether higher vitamin D levels are related to lower cancer incidence or death rates.
The jist of the claim made in the headline seems to come down to this passage:

> Overall, McIntosh-Smith says anything that is memory bandwidth dominated does well on ThunderX2 and at worst, is roughly similar to Skylake. However for more floating point-heavy applications, Skylake and Broadwell do better and are evenly matched because of the wider vectors, even though ThunderX2 cores strive to make up the difference.

It doesn't seem clear that they were making an apples-to-apples comparison to the Intel chips. I dunno.

Honestly I was hoping for more about just why ARM might be a good core for HPC. I'm slightly surprised that Performance/Watt were not reported, as I thought that's where ARM stood a fighting chance against chips like x86 and POWER.