skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the phone is already a trackpad, you can mirror the screen wireless via an Apple TV, and you can use a Bluetooth keyboard. In fact, I’m doing all 3 to write this (The user-experience is more than acceptable, but I’m not going to try to use the setup for coding any time soon).

Apple could pull the trigger on running full OSX on a phone or iPad if they thought there was a market for it but it would be a backwards-looking step.

It’s not exactly an innovation leap to think “hey, phones will match desktop PC performance, we could plug one into peripherals and make a device that can become a desktop”, everyone has had that idea. It just seems a bit backwards looking? In 10 years time the power of a current Mac Pro will probably be available in a watch with 5G+ bandwidth. If necessary, a desktop OS experience could be an app or a cloud service on whichever screen (or headset) is available.
like this one?

https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/
>Maybe some selection bias is going on?

I think the selection bias is 1980s companies because that was the context. (Linux is 1991, Java 1995, Google 1998, etc)

From the 1980s, the major software companies that's still alive today, you have:

Intuit (Quicken/TurboTax),
Adobe,
Computer Associates,
Autodesk

Intuit was one of the few that survived direct Microsoft competition from MS Money and MS TaxSaver.

Adobe and Autodesk survived because Microsoft never entered the professional graphics editing market of Photoshop and CAD drafting. If Microsoft did try to compete, they still might have lost to Adobe and Autodesk but it sure helps when Microsoft ignores that market. (Microsoft sort of had a competing edocument standard of XPS to Adobe's PDF but that initiative didn't seem to have all of MS's attention behind it.)

Computer Associates (now CA Technologies) was this weird corporation that basically did a bunch of acquisitions of forgettable companies. I can't think of an instance where CA and Microsoft competed head-to-head. CA bought a database programming 4GL (Nantucket Clipper) in 1992 but the DOS based programming languages were already starting to die by then so MS Visual Basic for Windows didn't really compete fiercely with it.
Somehow I can see this being an actual argument in government bids, and contracting officers gobbling it up...
Building Codes for Bacterial Cities: Biofilms as Bacterial Fortresses
Copy-and-pasted libraries are a direct cause of duplicated effort.

If you all grab it from the same repo (possibly through some sort of 'repo link' mechanism that keeps a local clone but is clearly marked as a clone, of course) then when a bug is fixed, it's fixed.

If you copy and paste it, suddenly every fix has to be done once per project using the library.
Boring thieves had tunnel visions (2009)
> Most annoying thing is that there isn’t even a real alternative. If I understand it right then AMD chips have pretty much the same thing?

Yes, but it was implemented only after Piledriver (family 15h). I have an FX-8320E overclocked at 4.4 GHz on all cores, all the time (turbo core disabled) and I'm happy with it.
We use Let's Encrypt for new environments at Datica [1]. It's one of better features we've implemented. LE is one of the better companies out there. Truly doing useful work.

1. https://resources.datica.com/compliant-cloud/articles/guides...
It's called the Manageability Engine. It's there to manage. They didn't do it to please three letter agencies.

Now that doesn't mean that the TLAs haven't found and used a vulnerability but that's like everything in a computer.
Doesn't this apply to pretty much everything though? You can partake in any activity without skill, you're just not going to get very far.

And I would argue that, since Clicker Heroes has exponential progression (outsiders) on top of exponential progression (ancients), that if you lack skill you're not going to get nearly as far as in any other activity, when measured in absolute terms. My max hero souls per primal boss kill is currently at e132. If you don't know how to optimize ascensions and transcensions properly you're not going to get very far at all, and will make very slow progression even at around e3. That's over one hundred orders of magnitude lower.

(Yes, the game is absurd.)
Genuinely, good for you. I’m glad that works for you. But it’s a strange reply. I’ve described an attention disorder and a method for coping with it and your suggestion is that maybe I shouldn’t have the disorder in the first place. Which I agree with, but it’s not particularly helpful.
I suppose that’s not fair. Let me try again: I’d love it if I could mindwander a bit while still paying attention to the lecture, the entire problem is that I cannot do this. That inability is called an attention disorder. If I have time to mindwander at all then I immediately get lost in my thoughts and am unable to pay any attention to the lecture.
Let's Encrypt has been of enormous service to me. It's not just about saving money -- it's about changing my perspective and expectations to "encrypted by default".

Thank you so much.
Key paragraph:

Biofilms are everywhere. Far from being rare alternatives to the lone microbe swimming in a flask or sprawled in a Petri dish, 99.9 percent of the simple cells called prokaryotes default to living in close quarters among millions of their compatriots. These biofilms of clustering bacteria can create impossible-to-eradicate infections on central lines and catheters; they foul everything from sewer lines to our teeth. The billions of bacteria that can live in a single biofilm cover themselves with a sticky combination of sugar and protein called the extracellular matrix, which effectively glues them to their surface of choice. Both the matrix and the physical shape of the biofilm protect those cells living at the center of the structure from attack by predators and antibiotics. The size of the biofilm and the interaction of cells within it give the different cells the opportunity to specialize in a particular task, such as acquiring food, subverting predators or acting as a reservoir of genetic material from which to regrow the entire structure.
Wouldn't really work behind a NAT...
I started to write something about dropping massive amounts of LDS on the North Korean people, and Kim Jong-Un looking like the stay puff marshmallow man, but I digress...

It's a tough choice. Dropping large amounts might get military action. Kim could say it's food today, but they will start dropping poison to look like food. The medicine is ok now, but it will be poison next! Shoot it down! Burn it! I think these poor folks are so brainwashed it will take a long time of systematic kindness to make a dent.
I have no illusions that this is likely to happen, but if I ever hit it big, the first thing I will do is donate a good chunk of change to educational programs like MIT OpenCourseware. It is extremely generous to make this stuff freely available, and has contributed immensely to my ability to educate myself.
Most reports I've read, including the one you have just linked, state Apple hardware as unaffected by this.
They didn't become billionaires at the same time?
While the legal system might have more power than the average newspaper, that doesn't mean that it is more effective at determining guilt.

I was raped 10 years ago when I was a teen. There is no evidence of the crime. No court is going to convict my rapist.
I think your entire comment also applies to people who pin all their hopes on the absence of power of the state, too. Or, well, just about anyone. Politicians pander, and politics has gotten more extreme in recent years. It's a vicious cycle as the most extreme politicians are rewarded and the most level headed are discarded.

Suggesting that this behavior only happens on one side of the political spectrum is part of the problem. It's universal, and we need to accept that.
Hmm. FCC allows rules to let Sinclair Broadcasting expand to becoming a monopoly. OK! Net Neutrality? Possibly gone by next month.

AT&T and Time Warner to merge together?: "It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy."

Yes I know the FCC is not the DOJ, or the FTC. Just seems like Republican-led departments and commissions can't seem to get their story straight on whether mergers and fewer options are beneficial to customers or not.

I'm not for this merger. But certainly seems like Trump's interference in this is probably going to udnermine any semblance of partiality by the DOJ.
Completely agree, psychological warfare is alive and well and the media is its main carrier. Its really frightening how people are being manipulated by the mainstream media thru social channels. I think developing a personal philosophy of internet usage is what we all should be doing. Right on!
That article is incorrect.
The youngest self made billionaire is Vitalik Buterin at an age of 23, the founder of Ethereum.
Ethereum has a market cap of currently 35B.
Its rumoured that he has 5-10% of the coin supply.
> I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though.

Ostensibly, every net-new feature increases the pool of people for whom the software, as a whole, solves a problem. The performance and usability of that feature further adds to that.* I'd argue that is technical profit, and is realized into real profit when it converts to purchases/subscriptions/whatnot.

[1] For the sake of argument I'm assuming a scenario where the feature and its performance/usability is positively received.
I wouldn't mind that actually! My first response to your comment was to say "In the Morning to YOu!" and the second was to smile at the pun. I wouldn't mind if a journalist puts at the bottom of their reporting So and So is a registered republican, and votes for xyz in the last presidential election. Etc. I would feel so much, much better about of the news, because then I can start to understand which news I can trust, and which to be wary of, but being me, I'd read it all anyways.
What's wrong is that the package manager and repo manager aren't talking to one another. "Keeping a copy of the dependency with your code" and "copy and pasting the code" should not be the same thing.
Mr. Bill has been running the sunhelp.org website and ran the Sun Managers distribution list for years. He's quite into the old Bell System.
so... spiegel's older then. and hence not the world's youngest self-made billionaire.
This is something that is going to save a company I work for thousands annually. Extended Validation certificates for dozens of domains and subdomains. Now we just plug certbot into crontab and forget about it, forever!

Thank you for all the work you do. It is a great service you have given the world at large.
AWS Cost Explorer API
Of course it is relevant. Cases tend to get much weaker if the victim refuses to testify.
What is the state of Docker container security? Is it still the case that root inside of a container trivially equals root outside of the container, or has that been addressed? I thought it had been. I've been finding it hard to find an answer to this.
I am from Kansas and this is really frightening to read. What on earth is going on and why are they deleting their paper trail...
> Reddit (Yes, all of reddit) ... Twitter (Follow helpful people only)

I swap those. I only follow a few helpful subreddits to pick up things that don't make it to HN and I don't use twitter.
While I hesitate to presume any logic on the part of government agencies, I don’t see a problem. I would assume the answer is that the specific facts of each individual case are considered, rather than applying a blanket “all mergers are bad/good”.
Nebraska Allows Keystone XL Pipeline but Picks a Different Path
Yes I'm aware of it - but I do not prefer the method for the reason you mention.
About acceleration - dunno about macOS, but on GNU/Linux there's lots of low-hanging fruits to get by tweaking a few entries in about:config. Check out https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks
Think of starting a startup as a long road trip where everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Now imagine you have an emotional gas tank, and there's a really long distance between gas stations. If you start your journey out with your emotional gas tank near empty, you're probably not going to make it.

A startup will only amplify your depression, and when that happens you'll find yourself slowly pushing the rest of the way instead of driving.

Source: someone who went that route primarily out of having nothing to lose, almost five years ago.
I doubt the web will ever be fully encrypted. There will always be tons of people who don't care enough. I've come across dozens of high information static websites that were set up like 10+ years ago where the author will probably never be back to configure tls.

It's so strange that you have to ask someone's permission to use encryption[0]. Certificate authorities should've been (should be?) optional. SSH came out around the same time and its Trust-on-First-Use is a much better system.

[0] https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/moving-to-https

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use
I'd be shocked if it hasn't. The announcement from Google a year or so ago that sites not using SSL would suffer a small but undefined down-ranking in search results I think also really helped drive adoption too, and doubtless drove some into the arms of LetsEncrypt and their free certificates.
You missed my point: People with the values system I described are acting rationally within the confines of that values system. In that system, zygotes are as human as you and I, and harming zygotes (et seq.) is infinitely worse than harming 14-year-olds. The moral calculus is that simple. I don't agree with it either, but I'm not going around insulting people's sincerely and deeply held moral beliefs. As a rhetorical strategy, that sucks. It won't convince anyone.
> No seriously, how do you keep the browser from hooking you?

This was a really big issue with me too. What I did in the past was to signup for low bandwidth internet connection (not by speed, but with yearly limit of 18 GiB), which made me limit the frequent visits.

These days when I do some serious work, I decides to disconnect internet for the next 45 minutes (or so). I have locally installed manpages, devhelp and devdocs.io documentations. Even if I'm tempted to visit some website (eg: stackoverflow), I delay until the time reaches.
Oh even better. They decided to lease them to you. Forever.
I've got an S8+ (great phone!) and haven't tried this.

When I can have a fully fledged Linux desktop on my device, parallel to the native phone services and with pocket-portable screen connectivity I will stop carrying a laptop. My 2013 Apple MBP is dying, and the replacement won't be Apple, since 95% of all I use on Apple is open source anyway, and the prices are stupid. Looking at NUC/BRIX devices, phones, etc.

Samsung, please make out of the box Linux a priority. The cloud stuff is useless here in China (Google/MS/Samsung) and I just want to use my own device as I see fit.
Honestly, I've been fighting a similar problem with my parents. I'll state something and the first argument against it is "well where'd you hear that" as if any source other than [preferred news org] is completely unreliable (I tend to have streams of hearings and debates on while I'm working, so my usual source is "the freaking stream"). Then it usually becomes "well I can't justify my position or claim". At which point, honestly, I just can't continue a discussion. I'm not going to let it drive us apart but it's incredibly frustrating that it's impossible to have an informative discussion on any topic.

I mean, I'll admit fairly freely to not being an economic expert... my father has an MBA and 30+ years of running a business. I'll admit to not being an expert on the economic policies of Presidents from before I was born. It's why I want to have a discussion, I wasn't there. I start from a position of "you lived this, help me understand it and why the lessons learned then aren't applicable now?" Because yeah, otherwise I'm going to do the whole scientific thing and assume that history is a useful teacher.

There's sane ideas and logic on both sides but it's getting harder and harder to have a discussion to understand either side because BOTH groups scream about fake news and insult the other side.
...congrats bruuv...wanted to build something similar lack of time killed it
Self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over ghost town
The Huawei mate 10 series has desktop mode that requires only a cable, which is more convenient as a portable solution:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2017/10/16/huaweis-mate-...
Brand new accounts, no real internet history. Did the russians find Medium and hackernews?

Anyway, would love to hear the mother's side of this account, if it's real.
Unfortunately, OS/2 could barely load on the PCs of the day (it started swapping while loading), it had very little software, and cost a ridiculous price (from memory, something around $500).

You had to vape your PC to run it.

By contrast, you could pick up a copy of Windows for $40 and run it on top of DOS without losing your DOS software. If you didn't like it, it hadn't cost you much time or money.

And there was a boom in Windows software with lots of cheap programs to try.

Seriously, how would anyone expect OS/2 to win that battle?
Faster. Still an insane memory hog. I had 12 tabs open and it was up over 6GB at one point.

I have LastPass, Acrobat, Grammarly, and OneTab extensions.

Certainly nothing that would seem like it'd use that much memory. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FullStory, LogRocket, HotJar and Mouseflow all fit the bill, the search term of choice appears to be "session replay".
Amazon reps reportedly spotted touring Chicago’s former Finkl Steel site
Well, it's ambiguous from my perspective, with no more information, whether or not the behaviour was a genuine disorder or just caused by bad habits (akin to causes mentioned in the currently highest voted post[1]). It sounds like it was the former, in which case I'm sorry. I guess I was also not really thinking about it as a reply to you specifically, but rather to the entire audience of readers here on HN who I wanted to give a heads up on, in the context of your comment, that it's possible to experience lectures in more ways than one.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-att...
By the way, the Let's Encrypt certificates are Domain Validation (DV) certificates rather than EV. Hope that's still OK for your application!
If that works for you, then cheers. I get so sucked into Reddit's front page that I just need to avoid it all entirely. With Twitter, I'm less inclined to explore.
You can still donate! Indeed I would encourage any commercial enterprise that makes savings this way to contribute something back at least.
sorry i meant webtask.io!
Jared Kushner Still Awaiting a Final Security Clearance Determination
9.9.9.9 - DNS by IBM and City of London
Similarly, I've noticed that if I listen at a comfortable pace (1.25x-1.5x) for a while, and then switch back to normal speed, it feels like the speaker is deliberately speaking slowly and hyper-enunciating, like they're talking to a small child or person with learning problems.
Hey thanks for the tip. Just installed Self Control App to block Reddit. I love that it's open sourced.
Side note: I use Amazon certificates (ACM) and I had someone try to "verify me" using Extended Verification procedures, ACM doesn't have EV, it is listed as one of the limitations, but the real question I have is:

What is Extended Verification

Why would I want Extended Verification

Why would I look more legitimate to someone looking for Extended Verification? Because my business/personal information would be associated with the certificate or something?
59,000 Haitians living in U.S. must leave within 18 months
Sounds right to me.

Net Neutrality: impinges on profits of big telecoms.

Sinclair: amazing opportunity to simultaneously reward a major republican donor and disseminate overtly biased, conservative talking points in millions of American homes.

ATT: great opportunity to kneecap CNN, which the President hates.
This is nifty, although I wouldn't see myself using it. For starters, it looks like it's closed source, which makes it a non-starter for me. I'm personally trying to move away from locked-down hardware and ecosystems, although admittedly it is surprisingly difficult.

Furthermore, I already have a very powerful desktop hooked up to a large screen. I want to be able to leverage its power! So what I'd really like is a way to easily transfer activities or work between devices.

The best execution of this I've seen so far is from Apple, with iOS and macOS's continuity features. Unfortunately, I have an Android phone, which means I can't use that functionality.

Transferring files between devices is still such a huge pain! Between Apple devices, AirDrop has the best experience I've used. My cross-platform solution is running an HTTP server (`python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080`) and zipping up the files I want to send. Since zeroconf is widely available, it's usually not much hassle to type in the address. If I'm dealing with devices on different networks, I use instant.io.

Here's a typical scenario for me: I arrive at home and want to play a game on my desktop while I continue to listen to the audiobook playing on my phone. In that case I'd love to pipe the audio from the game to my phone's headphones. That would let me move around to the bathroom and kitchen without having to pause the audiobook, let me know if the game match is starting so I can rush back, and avoid being a noisy neighbor with obnoxiously loud speakers.

There's so much more potential for ease of use improvements! For example, while programming, since my desktop is much more powerful, I'd love to offload builds from my laptop when I'm at home. I know I can setup things manually, but it's a lot of hassle and usually ends up kinda brittle. Then if I take my laptop out to some place without network connectivity, I'll have to stop everything and perform additional setup.
Thanks for the report; don't know why that happened; no iframes involved.
I had a laugh at this:

"Patrick successfully applied to study maths at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, near Boston in 2007. Two years later John was accepted nearby, at the equally well respected Harvard University."
I've found PocketCasts (on Android, not sure of iOS) to be my favorite app. It allows 0.1x resolution. It won't get you 1.75, but 1.7 or 1.8 will be nearly identical.
Thanks for the suggestion -- people can donate to support Let's Encrypt at https://letsencrypt.org/donate/.
> False rape accusations are a little more rare than men abusing their position of power over women. The later is endemic

Okay, but that doesn't tell you anything about the truthiness of this specific event. Black people commit way more murders per capita than asian people in America - would you use that factoid as a hunch that between two suspects in a murder(one asian, one black), that the black one is more likely guilty?

> Unless you're willing to claim that women are engaged in a widespread conspiracy to take down men in positions of power, it's pretty hard to dismiss any of this as "false" accusations.

Is that the only possibility you see? It's either a massive conspiracy among women in general, or the accusations are true?