skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when do I start hearing all the BSD/MIT promoters apologize for allowing this normalization of tivoization and admitting RMS was right all along?

Oops, that potentially might interfere with profits, never mind, as you were, keep trying the same ol shit.
I've used https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple to good effect; it's under active development, and has Azure DNS support. Doesn't help with Azure-hosted sites as such, but works great with IIS.
Not quite right: just because an argument is fallacious doesn't mean that the propositions on which it is based are false. Not a single proposition need be false, only the logic.
This argument would hold more water if the laws in question weren’t constantly in flux and these people weren’t being used as political footballs.

If they’re gainfully employed and have committed no crime, grant them residency (not citizenship) and allow them to keep working towards citizenship if they’d like to stay in the US.
Intel does support SGX code signing where vendors/developers have to apply (just like getting Windows Kernel drivers signed by Microsoft): https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sgx-product-...

To the best of my knowledge, all SGX attack research papers disable checks and run unsigned SGX code to demonstrate a proof of concept.

Not saying vendors won't run horrid things in SGX enclaves, just saying malware authors are gonna need to steal a private key first :P
Not everyone supports government control of ISPS...
NO - you follow the laws of the country you are trying to enter. Period. Full stop.
Recent research has suggested that fats aren't really as bad as we thought they were, its the sugars that cause weight gain.

There is also a difference in the quality of life. Most of the clientele seem to be daily wage laborers, who could certainly use all the energy they could get.

But you are correct that it can go either way. I'm glad that lentils, at least, are part of the menu. And as someone living in the US, the meals offered seem like luxury compared with the crap fast food meal that seem to be the staple of lower class Americans (please, its not a Nationalist thing. American fast food is objectively bad for health).
>> Linux? Destroyed
>> Mac desktop platform? Gone.
These two have what, 6% of the personal computer OS market?

>> MSIE? Dominates the world.

IE did dominate the world. Remember Netscape? IE was at like 90% in the early 2000's until Firefox showed up.

>> Java? Completely unknown

Never made much of an impact on the desktop. What's the most widely used Java desktop app? Was there ever one? Eclipse/Netbeans comes to mind.
Billboards and all other public-space advertising out in the real world are so much worse than modern digital media. At least when it's confined to a device the user has the ability to turn it off.

That said, I do think the end of humanity will be via a primitive AI optimized to hold our attention at all costs. I just don't think we're there yet.
> NO - you follow the laws of the country you are trying to enter. Period. Full stop.

Small nitpick: they have already entered the country, and were even given the right to work. Why throw away productive members of your society because of immigration policy that needs work? I’m not suggesting drastically increasing immigration quotas, only allowing people to stay who’ve built lives here after we gave them permission to come.

Even if you’re anti immigrant, keeping these people is simply a good business decision.
It seems to work. This same blog post was listed on HN two days ago. It got one upvote (might have been mine, I'm a sucker for articles on art, however obscure). The re-post has gotten 88 votes in seven hours.
> Never though I would be on the side of AT&T or a cable company.

You can oppose the AT&T merger and also call bullshit on the whitehouse if that does turn out to be the motivator here. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I find it shady if that's the only reason for this happening. But mostly just shady because it hasn't taken place in previous deals where it should have.

However... That doesn't mean I'm any less against the AT&T merger.
Yeah, what's the problem this solves?

Here's one it could (but doesn't quite) solve.

At my office everyone carries around their laptop and is constantly trying to get it to work with the telecomm and video software. Some people have a work phone, a work laptop and a personal phone too. I even know some people who add a tablet to that mix. Sometimes I see them bouncing around between all those devices.

For most employees (not necessarily coders) it probably makes sense to just have one device: a phone that you can edit excel and powerpoint on. A universal dock should exist in every meeting room and on every desk.

The major impediments to this are currently the power of the device, the ability to use the os for actually making things, and the existence of a decent dock.

With this dock and the power of the latest generation of phones, we're just stuck on the fact that no one has been able to make an os that actually works well on both mobile devices and as a keyboard/mouse driven system for creating things.

Yeah, I'm looking straight at you, Windows 8.
I just want the modern equivalent of a VT100 or X Terminal. No plugging in a phone. Just sit down at a generic terminal, log in - maybe with a hardware ID token like Sun used to offer - and there is my stuff.

Local display performance should be snappy, but compute done in the cloud with a resource level I can choose at appropriate expense.

Timeshared machines were wonderful for usability. PCs took over due to performance per dollar. 25 years later can I have my cake and eat it too, please?

Edit: yes, I know about Chromebooks. I never tried the high-end Pixel, but the cheap ones had underpowered local compute and were disappointing.
It's more like smoking two brands of cigarettes and then deciding to stop half your smoking; that is surely an improvement...

This is just whataboutism. AdSense should be judged on its own merits, and it fails badly: it does nothing I want (aside from delivering quite small amounts of money) at an unacceptable cost. Maybe Disqus is also bad but I would have to ponder how much I want commenting and how to deal with the extant corpus of comments and in any case, at the moment I am gearing up for another ad test to try to figure out what about AdSense is so harmful (and help convince the doubters that there is an effect at all), so I can't test Disqus without complicating things a lot.
There cannot be an unknown factor which renders a valid argument in valid. An argument makes explicit all of the propositions on which it rests. The propositions themselves are irrelevant to validity: a valid argument is true for all possible combinations of truth values of the propositions. It is valid in any imaginable universe, so to speak. That is to say, we can take all of its distinct propositions, replace them with unique variable names, and then evaluate it for all combination of truth values of those variables, and it must come out true.

If an argument is valid, then we can further consider whether it is sound: are its propositions true when interpreted in some relevant world (often the real one, but possibly any imaginary world that the debaters agree about, e.g. the Star Trek universe or whatever). Being valid, the argument will of course be true, but if it is unsound for the given world, it will only somehow be vacuously true in that world. For instance, by exhibiting a false conclusion from a false premise in a conditional.

Applying this reasoning rigidly to the examples presented in http://www.iep.utm.edu/gettier/ readily unravels their issues. For instance, the lucky coincidence that Smith has ten coins in his pocket readily succumbs to the fact that this situation isn't true in all imaginable universes; it is a separate proposition from "Jones has ten coins in his pocket". It gets a separate variable, and is separately considered both false and true when we go through all the possible variable values.
Theres some studies done of the effects of Chernobyl over the years since. Of note are the WHO and the Chernobyl Tissue Bank.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/
http://www.chernobyltissuebank.com

I went to a talk by Prof Geraldine Thomas, of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank and Imperial College London, sharing her insights and research into radiation and its effects on the body. The key takeaway from the talk is to take into account the type of release, what radionuclides were exposed to the public and their half-life, and then what the passage of that particular element is through the body to determine what damage can be done.

A notable example is of Iodine-131 causing of thyroid lesions and cancers in the direct aftermath of an event because of its short half life of alpha decay directly into tissue that bioaccumulates Iodine, keeping the alpha decay focussed on a very specific tissue. Other heavier elements tend to (I am not a biologist or nuclear scientist, paraphrasing from a talk a couple years ago) can leave the body without being bioaccumulated, having only released 'tolerable' amounts of alpha decay into a broad area of tissue.

It would be interesting to know if those "unusual cancers" were in some part a result of radionuclide exposure from Chernobyl or the result of other factors. But I — a nobody with a causal subject matter interest — would be hesitant to suggest that there was causation in absence of a hypothesis based on biology tied to the known Chernobyl emissions. Either way, we can find out more about radiations effect on biology if a study takes place — or if there is already one out there?
>its ultimately up to you to decide what you do with your time and money and if you cannot do this yourself, then you need to seek help.

It seems like you implying people are 100% free agents independent of external influences and subconscious evolutionary drives?

>Just because a corporation has unlimited resources committed to targeting a person with ads or tappy and clicky stuff, it does not mean they should be held accountable for people's addictive habits or tendencies

Should alcohol, cigarette, and porn companies be allowed to target children?

Should opioid manufacturers be allowed to target recovering addicts?
Well that is a whole other debate. The best thing about React is common patterns. Second best is the availability of components. I've worked with JavaScript for a long time -- the Backbone.js days were painful. It was easy to accidentally leak event binds, code yourself into a corner, etc. The jQuery days were almost better in some ways but still had some real pain points.

You missed that I'm working on SaaS and a web application. Client-side state is important -- each of my customers can load up most of their state to client-side and the performance is great. This is the whole point of client-side apps. Get rid of all that round trip latency sending HTML to the client of every click. Get rid of your complex server-side framework. Client-side is simpler if you learn and embrace it (and don't need server-side rendering). It's also much easier to have a consistent UX with client-side state.

So use what is appropriate for you use case. For mine, that is 100% client-side no doubt. You can't beat the performance for an application.
Agreed. They clearly hired well.
Well, it did happen in our lifetime already. Waymo cars are driving beta customers around in Phoenix without anyone in the driving seat. There is still an employee in the back seat but within a few months they will not be in there at all.

So looks like your estimate was incorrect by many decades.
What does an MIT grad call a Harvard grad?

"Boss"
If net neutrality was ended, would ISPs actually charge incrementally for website access?

Websites like savetheinternet.com seem to argue that if net neutrality is ended, only major websites will be offered. They say "And without Net Neutrality, millions of small businesses owned by people of color wouldn’t be able to compete against larger corporations online, which would deepen economic disparities."

Why are ISPs going to targets people of color? I don't understand..

How will ISPs decide what websites I can not visit? Will they have a whitelist/blacklist?

Will there be ISPs that offer packages that we have now? (I.E bandwidth only restriction)

I've seen good arguments both for and against net neutrality and I really don't know which would be better.
Your previous effort at

https://medium.com/@hondanhon/i-trained-an-a-i-to-ask-questi...

is pretty amazing.
This isn't uncommon. You're not wrong to expect that, if they did not do their job when configuring these data, they will not do anything to support you postsale. Their lifecycles are so short maybe your product is several generations old now.

Some of the board vendors do a better job, but usually still not as good as "namebrand computers." There is a lot of engineering work that goes into integration. It's not readily visible to endusers/consumers and therefore difficult for us to appreciate it or evaluate it for completeness or accuracy.

I hope that someone does a survey of computer and board vendors' support for this problem. I would like to see who abandons products last.
They were one of the first to allow accepting of credit card without leaving the site or requiring heavy PCI compliance work. They did it using client-side tokenization so the server never needed to see the credit card data. Paypal either required you to leave the site or put you in territory where you need to meet fairly expensive PCI compliance rules.

So the UX was simply better for the buyer. And the API is drop-dead simple to implement.

Now a days PCI caught up and requires some compliance for users of Stripe like platforms but still nowhere near as much as the ones who see the card.

Also, being able to be up and accepting payments in less than 15 minutes is pretty great.

And as other's pointed out, Paypal has (had?) a nasty habit of taking people's money. To be fair I know some stripe merchants where Stripe held back payments as protection against chargebacks. But that is just a delay, not flat out taking the money like Paypal used to do.
It's true that it is possible to flip enough bits to bypass ECC and make whatever nefarious change.

However, it seems likely that first you're going to make a lot on correctable errors, which will slow down your system. Even if you don't notice that, chances are you're going to get a double bit error which will halt your system many times before you get a triple bit (or whatever) that gets the desired exploit.
I thought, “can’t be that bad”. The clicked and it was unusable on my phone. That is bad.
I was going to say this. The most useful parts of Reddit are way more useful that the most useful parts of twitter imo. And if you only visit once a day or week, you can sort by the top posts in that range. With twitter, you kind of have to be there all the time to see the good stuff.
I can't wait to see the community contributed synopses. I'm also afraid to see them. This is great!
The last thing this country needs is more media consolidations... Trump snuck in to office partially because of past conservative-leaning mergers and acquisitions
"Microsoft was also hurt by its reputation for bringing products to market behind schedule and full of ''bugs'' or errors."

I guess some things never change.
Billboards can only be targeted to a general area. Digital ads can be targeted to more or less a single person.
What? It's incredibly easy to avoid social media. If that's the kind of hardship our generation is facing, we're doing pretty good.
People don't know Vitalik's addresses. People estimate his worth and have no idea how much he kept or sold after the ICO in 2014 or at low prices in Ethereum.

Also, Ethereum won't mix inputs from different sending addresses, so it would have to be done in multiple transactions if he has multiple addresses. This would be indistinct from all the other transactions on the network.

OTC markets would try to price his assets at a lower value, and thats where you negotiate, and find counterparties yourself. If you know of several hedge funds that want to BUY ethereum without moving the markets UP, then you can sell straight to them, and tell the OTC trader that they won't get any volume and then you'll get a better price.
I don't think that's fair except in hindsight. The entire national conversation and attitude towards sexual harassment and sexual assault was pretty different 2 years ago, let alone 20 years ago. And to their credit, a number of liberal writers and thinkers have recently admitted that they got it wrong and should have called for Clinton's impeachment / resignation in light of the accusations back then.
You make good points. I've been in IT now 20 years, and while I need a phone to text and make calls, I do nothing else with it. I'm thinking of ditching my iPhone for a flip phone.

I served in the military years ago. Just one tour. I got out with good memories but also some ideas. For example, I have standardized on Levi's 501 jeans, button down shirts of the same brand, and desert boots. I wear this daily. I don't have to think about what I wear. All my clothes fit as I expect, all the time. This frees me up to think about what matters--my family and job.

I made a comment further down about freewill you might find interesting, as freewill is now going to cost those of us who care about it.
Discovering the YouTube speed options setting rocked my world. I found it difficult to watch many videos - especially instructional - because the speakers were just such slow talkers. I come from the Eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland where many speak our own unique fast and abbreviated English dialect - especially in tiny rural areas like where I live. Listening to "mainland" North Americans speaking English is painfully slow. Now I can set them to 1.25-1.5X and be close to the speed that I'm used to in conversation.
Right. I'm guessing you are not opposed to removal of mortgage deduction, if it becomes the law

...or child labor, if that is the law

...or slavery, if that is the law

...or genital mutilation, if that's the law

We should all learn to respect the law, regardless of what it is right?
News about AR/VR – ARKit, ARCore, Unity and More
As an non-American I would like to ask...

For people who are in the "patriotic" group. Your country needs to maintain the infrastructure to self-sustain it's people in a world war.

What would be a more effective strategy over food subsidies?

Edit: Sorry I meant Farm subsidies, not food stamps.
I’d been in the exact same not-worth-the-hassle-to-change-for-only-$9.95 mindset on one of my side projects. That is, until last year when Comodo engaged in some really shady behavior directed at Let’s Encrypt [1]. At that point, decided there was no way I was going to keep rewarding Comodo with my business — not even a measly ten bucks’ worth.

And now I couldn’t be happier I switched to Let’s Encrypt. Automatic renewals mean no more working through the partially-manual, email-based process we had to use with Comodo. And free+automated means I don’t think twice about using https on every new subdomain. Really, I don’t think at all about https anymore; it just works.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964583
is this in the US?
I don't understand how a company is allowed to even think of penalizing employees for not taking physical tests.
Dell's U2718Q comes close. http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-4k-monitor...

The bezel is < 1/4". I have two side by side and the combined bezels are .45" as near as I can measure.
I'm not knocking what they've accomplished, I just think it's cool they know they're not done yet. Makes me think more of Stripe than I would otherwise.
You have a good point, but don't kid yourself with "overtly biased, conservative talking points".

There is little to no truly balanced and fact-oriented media. Obviously, except for those perceived as such by their respective viewers on either side of the political spectrum.
Capitalism is about reserving a quantity of production to be used in future production. That is, accruing capital, specifically as a factor of production.

The game Microsoft played was one of enclosures, monopoly-building, corporate warfare, bordering on corporate fraticide, and engrossment.

Mind, that's a fairly standard game across a whole slew of economic activities, within which I'm looking for (and seem to be finding) some common grounds. Software, operating systems, hardware platforms (chipsets), communications networks, broadcasting, print media, copyright cartels, transportation (road, rail, sea, canal, air), and the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors all seem to share that certain je ne sais quois.

It seems fundamentally dendritic.
maybe it's an opportunity to go back to the old recipe of paying with money for things you want to acquire.
I'd gladly pay for a news service like that.
Massive mergers like this should never even get off the ground. They do because Wall Street makes a ton-o-money doing them. How would this merger increase competition and lower consumer prices ?
Which dictionary do you mean? Do you mean that highly inaccurate one that you get when typing a word into Google.com?
> ...enough bandwidth to push 4K at a decent refresh rate.

What general productivity task at mobile compute scale would optimally leverage 4K resolution at a decent refresh rate?
What do you mean? The Soviet announcement is right there in the video. It's an announcement on Vremya, the official evening news TV program broadcast across the Soviet Union.
I grew up in this kind of environment, and I completely agree that this is how religious conservatives talk about this issue and what they'd say to defend their choice, but it's mostly bullshit.

If Candidate D was pro-life, they still wouldn't vote for them. They'd either call them a liar and say they secretly DO believe in abortion, or they'd attack them for their stance on guns, or immigration, or prayer in schools, or whatever. And they'd continue to cast doubt on the accusations, so that it becomes a question of "candidate A was accused of X, but it's probably a bullshit conspiracy by liberals" vs. "candidate B definitely thinks Y!"

Like almost ALL voters, these folks don't really think for themselves that much. They're products of their tribe, the influencers in the media they watch and listen to, their preacher, their friends, etc. The argument you've laid out is the one they'd use because it's available and the strongest from their perspective, but they'd just swap it out for another slightly weaker one if needed.

It's about the tribe, not the truth.
The "black markets" in officially communist countries tend to be diverse, though.
Hey, I have no respect for the governments 'right' to confiscate taxes, but I still follow that one. I'm also not a big fan of the myriad ways in which the federal government tramples on the duties that should belong to the individual states, but those are also 'laws' as well. Granted, they are all laws that the federal government wrote.

"Lawlessness is the condition in which your adversary refers you to a law he made."
With ongoing certificate transparency efforts I'm less worried about this..
Unionize the internet
> What's the most widely used Java desktop app? Was there ever one? Eclipse/Netbeans comes to mind.

Ironic, because these are just Java IDEs.
A lot more good phones are available off-contract than in 2012 or so, and plenty come at reasonable prices.

(I've always had a prepaid smartphone, and the options were atrocious in 2010 and barely existed beyond the Nexus in 2012)
WinNT drew tremendously on VMS (even the old saw: VMS -> WNT), Cutler's previous project at DEC, and on OS/2, on which IBM had partnered with Microsoft. NT had a lot of external boost.

I seem to recall that MS Word at least drew on an existing wordprocessing system, though I can't pin that down.
If I wanted a Windows phone... #teampixel

Seriously, Android, OTG cable, chromecast and a powered USB hub. Done.