skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MS has in the past overridden (or gone around) Windows Firewall for the downloading of Windows updates.
There's the new poop emoji!! (unicode 10 emojis via 10.13.1 update)

Real answer, APFS (which changes the Filevault encryption model to no longer be full-disk-encryption...) and Metal2 graphics (which has brought a variety of new gfx bugs into play, even for 1st party applications) are the big technical draws

For a full list of changes, review the marketing page or the developer release docs

- https://www.apple.com/macos/high-sierra/

- https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Mac...

(yes Apple can't be bothered to update their dev docs with the point releases. Documentation quality has fallen off dramatically since the 10.6 days)

Given the stream of bug reports on various apple sites, I have not upgraded any of my personal machines, and my employer has stated they will not be upgrading our machines in the near term.
Yes, the Japanese police investigated and the CEO Mark Karpeles went to jail for a couple years.
I may be rusty on my physics, but I think momentum/impulse is what you need here. You can throw all the energy you want at a bacteria or spec of dust or something, and you might vaporize it, but you aren't going to accelerate it to 20k mph relative to the surroundings, much less launch it out of the top of the atmosphere at those speeds. Even a bacteria is quite massive compared to particles that can hit those speeds by random collisions.
It makes sense if investing in the man rather than the company.
> set up a Windows guest under Linux using the Windows partition as the VM's boot drive.

> with the option of booting natively into Windows for anything strictly hardware dependent

IIRC, years ago, when Windows 7 was the latest Windows, this couldn't be done. Windows used to take offense if the hardware it was running on changed significantly from boot to boot. Has that changed with Windows 10?
This statement, or variations of it, such as "We get the politicians we deserve", are trite and don't capture the complexity of our social system and the power structures that exist within. It's meaningless.
It's resolved:

From his blog...
"
I have received a very courteous phone call from Netflix in which we discussed the matters at hand and appropriate compensation. The matter has now been settled to my satisfaction, and pending a few bits of paperwork, I shall receive a very satisfactory licensing fee and copies of the items as noted.

They have expressed their apologies over the mistakes made by their third party agencies as well as letting the initial e-mail contact get lost within the system.

As far as I am concerned, this is the best possible outcome that could have happened. Thank you all!
"
https://twitter.com/lui_gough/status/935633632688930816
Sure, but that usually requires an act of Congress. You can’t just pass it as an administrative rule.
So Alibaba doesn't figure out that it's fraud, probably.
C++ helps more than C for Rust.
Direct democracy has flaws, we do have another system: representative democracy.

The Greeks were certainly wise, but my main point is this is not untrod ground, we've got at least 2000 years of experience to draw from.
Thank you for the recommendation - I have added an options menu to allow users to turn off the fade in animation.
That's wildly speculative.
Q1) Perhaps. Where were you intending to be?

Q2) This is a webpage created by Ycombinator. This webpage contains a link to a different webpage hosted by a different party.

I hope this helps. Happy to answer any follow up questions.
It really hard to compare them fairly since they're quite different in scope; X11 wouldn't exactly be considered a Linux API. Win32 is also split between several modules and the functions don't quite correspond to the syscalls; it's basically a bunch of wrappers around the actual NT API, win32k and some userspace servers. So it's really hard to draw a line somewhere if you wanted to compare them.
I've never seen one of these (well, minus the really stupid AIM and Skype spam bots), where do you find them? Are they on the sites that constantly nag you to click through to live support on every page? The few of those that I have used all seemed to be real humans.
Democracy is still better than any alternative
Why does this redirect to trello?
There's no way this wasn't being used prior to being publicized on twitter. I'm sure the FBI/etc was on this day one.
You mistake criticism for disrespect. I've read Federalist 10, as well. Yes, it's a marvel.

That we've corrected issues over time is evidence that they didn't have all the answers, as wise as they were.
I mean, does “Play something else” work?

That’s one step removed from expecting Alexa to understand human emotions but still a rather natural interaction
From the linked blogpost:
> My interpretation: Spending time with our kids has become a chore because we're doing so much of it.

What a bizarre speculation, clearly a case of motivated reasoning. It's equally plausible that parents are working too hard/long and so when they see their kids they are cranky and irritable in the few moments they have with their children, and kids naturally want their parents to be better company before they become more frequent/enduring company. If parents had so much excess time hanging out with their kids, as the blogger wildly speculates, they probably wouldn't be so stressed and tired.
If I'm not mistaken you have this backwards. USPS is the one subject to a price floor that's tied in some way to cost, since they don't have the profitability constraints that UPS/Fedex do.

EDIT: Never mind, there are apparently price floors enforced on both USPS and private postal companies.
Sapiens by Noah Harari or When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
AWS Secret Region ‘game changing’
Seems like this would be better for container farms, depending on cost.
Meteor impacts throwing debris into space can happen for sure, but we're talking about stuff that ends up on the outside of the ISS. The bacteria would have to be on something large enough to shelter it from the heat and wind of the original impact and high-speed passage through the atmosphere. It would have to end up in a stable orbit in the ballpark of where the ISS is. Surviving bacteria would then have to make their way out of this object and float around in space. And then their orbit drifts until they hit the ISS, mostly likely at very high speed unless they happen to be in almost exactly the same orbit. Feels pretty unlikely.
AWS rolls out AppSync to enable offline app usage
There's a problem I don't see anyone addressing here, which is the encoding speed. It is especially important for your use case.

I thought that AV1 is going to be the Opus of video codecs, but with the encoding being so compute intensive, how to you plan to tackle the problem?
What differentiates these from dedicated boxes in server rack? Is their dedicated "cloud" hardware somehow managing access to RAM/storage/etc?

On another tangent - how do Google Cloud and EC2 attach GPUs to instances - given that you can choose CPU and RAM the GPUs must somehow be modularized away from a dedicated server?
That is assuming people patch their Mac ASAP. It will still be on high alert for most media if they have disclose it few days after the bug was fixed.
10x return isn't worth the downside
Please build websites for the web, not just Google Chrome
So now you can rent a dedicated server on AWS, what is nice.
MIT’s new desktop 3D printer technology increases speeds up to 10x
1. Even if you cannot constantly vet every single piece of software, no matter how tiny, that is no excuse to simply let some software vendor do as they please, and to tolerate them as their abuses become more and more egregious.

2. Even in the case of Firefox, there was pushback. It may or may not have been sufficient, but there was. Ultimately, the disabling of that telemetry, whether by toggling a setting or by forking the browser, is still doable. The same cannot be said of some closed source software, particularly of the OS-level spyware that Microsoft has been peddling.
Bitcoin Marketing Technology
What technology trends you can expect in education in 2018
When I found a version of this paper, as an undergrad researcher circa 1995, it changed the course of my life and I spent an amazing decade working in quantum computing.

For those who are interested, the result quoted by Wheeler, which attempts to derive quantum theory via arguments using distinguishability, appears in Wootters' Ph.D. thesis in 1980. 33 years later(!), he wrote a follow up https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2018 in which he showed that result essentially only works for the real number version of quantum theory. (Pessimist would say this means it is a dead end, optimist that we are just missing something!)
Network and other managed services those are integrated into AWS.
Impressive hardware but I wonder what will be the cost considering even the regular VMs of EC2 are generally more expensive than dedicated offerings of other providers.
You can provision these servers just like any other instance. They work just like any other Amazon EC2 instance (same Nitro System platform as C5).

Disclaimer: I work at AWS on the team responsible for the Nitro System including EC2 Bare Metal Instances.
Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard
Does Windows Update allow one to disable non-security updates being applied automatically?
Of course, but this is just moving the goalposts. I think Apple bears a lot of responsibility for making an entire new product category so anti-user, but within desktop computing, the standards are different (thank god), and Windows is the worst offender there.
There is something disconcerting to me about titles containing the author's name. I don't care if you are famous or not, that format is for tweets, not full articles.
You know what else has a better ROI than most businesses? Successfully hitting a trifecta at a horse race.

I reserve my FOMO for things I think I could have known.
So you could magic up a virtual machine that spans more hardware than would typically be in a single, enclosed chassis?
When one parent is working (or relaxing) at home all day, and the children are at school, the parent isn't spending time with the child.
"Expectation" means that there is some probability <1 that they will return cash to investors on any given day. You have a finite time alive. It's not academic to conjecture that there's a very high probability that you, as an investor, will never see a yield on the capital of your investment.

If you knew with 100% there will never be a buyback or dividend by AMZN while you are a holder of their stock, arguably you are making the same trade as someone buying bitcoin or gold: expecting someone else to come along (who perhaps expects to have a longer lifespan) to pay you more for the stock than you did.

Note: I am not arguing that buying AMZN is a bad idea, I am saying that the argument that there is no "underlying rate of return" for bitcoin is a poor argument coming from someone who is also telling investors to buy those stocks, many of whom will certainly never see direct yield on their investment, just capital gains.
Business: The Economy, Websites And Widgets (1999)
What age was the child?
As President Is Finally Inaugurated, Kenyans Are Feeling Economic Pain
This is really good news, happy to see this is an option now.

And thanks for posting this here personally @jeffbarr.
I assume you can spin up new instances easily, and they’ll have per-hour billing. You don’t usually get that with dedicated servers.

It sounds a bit like MAAS [1], which allows you to throw images onto, and manage real servers easily, very much like you might spin up VMs on AWS.

[1] https://maas.io
Your comment reminded me of https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html (cf. "e-postage").
Then micromanaging is not related to the OP research about spending time with them.
That was a good solution until the spyware/adware came with windows itself.
The second one is going to blow your mind.
They can exist in a VPC alongside virtualized resources, map EBS volumes (due to having the ENA onboard), are integrated with cloudwatch, ebs, etc
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

I read this book based on the recommendation of Bill Gates. It was one of the best books I have read in a while
> Can be mitigated by enabling the root user with a strong password

Instructions from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012
So I read that article and the nytimes one it links to. It seems like both your symphony analogy and this study focus on individual performance. That's not how most software teams I've worked in are collaborative. People like Linus aren't suited for most teams, but they could probably get high GPAs.

I do think that measuring individual competence is important for software too. Gauging collaborative ability is still important though.
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@AckSyn: your comment is dead, but many spam filtering applications can do this, including the popular open-source ones.
is there any information about nitro or ENA (assuming this is the "hardware accelerators" that are mentioned in tfa) that is publicly available? it seems like the most nifty little thing
Corporations can not buy half the people.

You don't have to buy anyone just influence.

You can buy influence by: building a media platform that everyone uses, buying a media platform that everyone uses, building a media source, or buying a bunch of media sources. Or most economically buying a handful of the most valuable Influencers, because most people love to love someone, and the platforms for Influencers are infinite now.

Most of the representation drawbacks to current systems you mentioned are intended to be safe guards against human whim, and to mitigate the power of super Influencers, originally the church. A substantial portion of the bureaucracy, forced slowness, involved in current systems are also deliberately placed for the same reasons.

When I look for causes for the current issues regarding ineffectiveness of parliaments, beyond their structure, I think that the huge change in the PERCEIVED ease of communication is having huge impacts on the actions of delegates. While all of us communicate a huge amount more than 30 years ago, I believe that generally we convey less. What is actually being conveyed by the current communication tools is relegated to the most compelling. The most effective communications are usually the topics with the most emotion charging them, because emotion conveys the most information in the current deluge of communication.

All of that hyper emotional and constant communication nearly paralyzes delegates, and also pushes all of us towards divisiveness because "for and against" become almost completely dogmatic as a result of level of emotion embedded.
"Key Obscurity

When we’re storing these tokens in a browser, or header, there’s no point in calling out what it’s there for. Don’t use keys that are obvious, such as “SESSION_TOKEN”, opt for something that doesn’t imply to an attacker that this is where they should be concentrating their efforts."

Closes tab, shakes head...
Customer Support Guide for StartUps
> With Amazon MQ support standard protocols for messaging, including JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket. This allows you to move from any message broker that uses these standards to Amazon MQ–along with the supported applications–without rewriting code.

Celery/kombu speaks AMQP, which is natively supported by AmazonMQ, so you might be able to move to it with no changes to your app.
It a nutshell, that's why I've stopped buying American* and just wait patiently for the 4-week free shipping from China.

*I'm Canadian.
Funny, I just had the exact same experience. Had been fixing compiler errors by adding lifetimes to my structs instead of boxing the values.

I need a good reference on the right way to un-learn certain C concepts to make learning Rust concepts easier.
There is more coming at re:Invent. We have more talks queued up tomorrow on this too.
Apple is the new Internet Explorer
I'm actually taking too a few people in Venezuela who may do some work for me and I'm going to pay them in Bitcoin, it seems a much option than their currency at the moment.
230 IQ: Terrence Tao Is the Smartest Person in the World
There's problems when you're taking a slice and storing it for a potentially long time. If the slice is actually a subslice of a super large array, the backing slice will be kept around until the subslice goes away (assuming the implementation doesn't try to be clever about things, but it probably doesn't).
Right now (it would be possible to change) Bitcoin is more provably scarce than litecoin or bcash.

https://fork.lol/pow/difficulty

Bitcoin is 7X scarcer than bcash.
Ads are different than Chinese "brushing" packages. Brushing is apparently a crime. Sending you ads isn't.
how many NICs can you attach to these?
GES 2017 Highlights
This is definitely not true, many businesses in Latin America will accept dollars, and not just in Mexico.
For this to happen there would need to be global heads of governments consensus and look how wonderfully the UN is working... it’s a joke. So the scenario you paint is impossible.
I'll keep an eye out, thanks
I'm not sure why this redirects to Trello. However this is what appears to be the website: https://totalcloud.io/
I liked how Leisure Suite Larry asked trivia questions to determine the user's age.
Not the first time I've noticed this with threads that are bad PR for Apple.
> Learning Erlang/Elixir is like learning a new paradigm, or a new way to think about programming.

Agreed. It taught me three things primarily, both can be applied to other areas / languages:

1) Importance of fault tolerance (especially applied to distributed system). That is, trying to build a system out of small isolated components that talk to each other, and each can fail independently and be restarted safely. Did anyone say micro-services? Nah, the new rage is nano-services (stolen from here http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/06/elixir-in-times-of-...). But there is no need to get all fancy, this also can be done with plain old forking OS processes. The important bit is that the memory has to be separate, either on different machines, OS processes, or in different heaps like BEAM VM does it. So threads, or greenlet or goroutines don't quite fit the bill here. (Thought if Rust's compiler can decide that memory will never be shared at compile time, it's also good enough).

2) Importance of functional programming. Passing state explicitly and dealing with immutable data ensures that there is less chance of confusion and it's also easier to figure out what is happening. Also easier to write tests, as there is less a need to mock everything.

3) Importance of hot code loading and traceability in production systems. Many of the platforms and languages offer some form of hot code loading and ability to set traces on functions and methods. But with BEAM languages it's all built in, integrated and it's a first class feature. This makes a difference in production, can update code with extra logging if there is a bug experience by only one particular customer and reproducing it is hard, or can patch a critical running system without taking it down.
GameShell Is a Game Boy Styled Retro Gaming Console Based on Linux
Maybe this should have gone under "ShowHN" but I had to write up something that would put a load on the Raspberry Pi for testing, so I made a few scripts and a page to share it with others!
Or any age. I'd trust a VPN with my filth more than the government.
> via epacket, the subsidized, dirt cheap, glacially slow shipping method

ePacket is actually one of the faster postal service options from China
How China's Internet Economy Evolved
So if I understand this right, they are creating a fake account on some other site (aliexpress, etc...) with his address attached. And then they ship the 'gift' from the Amazon tracking number, so that he is more likely to accept that package, and then ship the multimeter from the fake account tracking number, allowing them to leave themselves a positive review on that site.

I always suspected something was going on with the aliexpress ratings. If you look at the reviews it is a lot of one liners like 'i got the item as described!' with a 5 star rating.
Show HN: How We Built a Raspberry Pi M&M Sorter Robot
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15798960
Health and Fitness Apps for Android
I wonder what it will cost - as of now I don’t see it in the price list
I spent a whole day struggling with a bug because I equated &[T] with *T and thought you could cast one to the other (for interop with C++ code). It took me too long to figure out that &[T] is two words long, but now its obvious. I'm not sure where I thought the "length" part was being stored.
There are mixers that hide the coins and stuff. Bitcoin's level of anonymity might just be sufficient.
I don’t know if this’d work at all, but I’ve idly considered the possibility of starting a grassroots “return to sender” campaign for junk mail.

As it is, the postal service is paid to deliver all of that spam—but maybe it would no longer be cost-effective if everyone just said “nope, send it back” whenever possible. As it is, I just recycle all of it, but it still probably represents a sizable environmental impact in terms of materials, printing, delivery, recycling, and landfills, which we could entirely do away with.
Are you saying there are reasonably priced long-lasting equivalents to graphite brushes? I'm asking out of ignorance. Because that would be really good to know when buying any appliance that has a rotating part. My impression is that they all use graphite brushes.
How Bitcoins became worth $10,000
$207M Revenue in Just 4 Years: The Rise of Daniel Wellington
SEC and IRS is a real thing. Which means they can regulate it behind these organizations.
Or it could be all of the above and then some. For some reason we as humans like everything neat and tidy and be able to point our finger at one thing and say this is it. If there’s anything you can learn from the world and why it operates the way it does and how some events that would seem unthinkable eventually transpire, is that the world is much more complex than anyone gives it credit. This goes for economies, markets, bitcoin growth, wars, policies, lobbying and just about everything else. So yeah, I’d say it’s a number of reasons.
Maybe 2nd or 3rd grade. Playing in the front yard with parents watching from the house.
GES Theme: Women First, Prosperity for All
How to solve a hard programming interview question
Yay! I start at Github on Dec 5th, and I'm a huge Rust enthusiast.
Copying my comment from reddit the other day:

Wow, this might be one of those rare instances where new research is gonna proceed rapidly into industry. The paper[1] isn't shy about it either. This is great on all fronts: increases cycle life, charge speed, and even marginally increases capacity. They're very optimistic about integrating it into production lines and it seems cost-effective. Cheap, even. The inputs are methane and fumed silica into a 1000 C furnace- you can practically buy those at a hardware store and then it just gets mixed into the r2r slurry.

I think it's pretty likely that charge speeds are about to increase handily. Fig. 4 shows the battery with additives charging at 5 C compared to virgin chemistry at 1 C. That's about 5 minutes to charge the middle 50% of a battery- incredible. Still remains to be seen if this is compatible with standard additives and SEI conditioning, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work out fine.

I feel the same about the CVD but it looks like it was fast and easy from the paper (as much as I recall right now). Certainly way less exotic than most CVD.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01823-7
This sort of thing is why I would never play cards for nontrivial money outside a regulated club. It's a lot less likely to happen when the owner stands to lose a license worth millions.