skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft gave up on Windows RT to go back to the drawing board and build Windows on ARM. It's the same with phones: they gave up on Windows Phone so that they can have a "Surface Phone" do-over in the future. This allows them to introduce hot "new" products rather than updated versions of failed products. There are many examples of Microsoft doing this.
I am fully ok with government paid tuition. No problem. Not when the school is four years vacation. Not at all. I expect the students to sTudy in exchange of those money.
"Solved problem" is perhaps a bit strong. There's no reason to assume every possible chain is visible to every client. An attacker would not release a chain until they are certain to profit from it. There are likely bribes to be taken for reversing transactions, and these add up at scale. There is the suggestion that penalizing non-cooperating miners would be sufficient to prevent this, but this has never been shown to hold theoretically and cover all externalities such as the mentioned bribes.

If a such a blockchain is under the control of a mining cartel, it would be rational to join that cartel instead of fighting it. When every participant knows this it should be possible to bootstrap such cartels from scratch.

And Ethereum absolutely plans to implement some sort of checkpoints. As you say, it's required to bootstrap new nodes anyway. The straightforward way to do this would be to sign them, but I'm not sure what they're planning to do.
> “Existing CMSs are like the MS-DOS of the internet,” Konietzke said. “No one really likes to use them, similar to older payment systems before Stripe.”

What a ridiculous statement. Wordpress is so much more popular than Contentful. The vast majority of publications don't need a headless CMS. It's literally half the value proposition of Wordpress (since they have a REST API).
Not finished yet -- I'll be in and out today to answer your questions. Thanks to all for taking the time to join me.
> What even is the market?

A democracy where people vote with their money. Since their is significant risk involved, said people are assumed to do at least some due diligence/research before placing their "votes." And for that reason people have confidence that markets are right/smart, because why would so many intelligent people put themselves at enormous risk by placing their confidence in a bad investment?

Of course if the original investors get rich, eventually this leads to ignorant people (i.e. people who have not done their research) jumping in and the smart market becomes something else.

I know I am oversimplifying
The Grand Tour is in HDR and the picture quality is amazing. Looking forward to seeing more HDR content around as its way too scarce.
How could you overlook (son of) Grid Engine
> What if WeChat just suddenly gets popular in the US? What should the US do in that situation?

Block it (or heavily regulate it), pending a reciprocal opening of their market.

The whole "be open, lead by example, and they'll do the same" hasn't worked with China very well.
I've thought about switching many times, and would see myself using the web client, however I wonder if they support the "undo send" feature as GMail does. I cannot see it listed in their features page [1] at least. Can someone shed some light, please? TIA.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/features.html
I was thinking of overwriting files or removing database items. I know it's pretty easy to minimize, it just could be a problem if it isn't.
Why you should only plan for 4-5 hours of “real work” a day
If you are looking for it (like I was), here's a direct link to the deeplearn.js project: https://deeplearnjs.org/
Windows RT 2. We know where that went.
I expect Apple would either switch entirely, or not. But fracturing the desktop doesn’t seem like something they’d do. ARM would have to be the clear path forward.
Ask HN: What would you do if you are given 10 years to live?
How would you spend your next 10 years if you are going to drop dead on 10th year?
Like this one?

https://blog.highfidelity.com/avatar-island-our-first-steps-...
8500 has a curved screen. It is definitely an improvement over a flat screen for looking to the side.
It's a design detail. You can't have a "secure enclave" if it accepts external private keys.

That's also why it only generates one kind of key. It's a black box that spits out public keys.
Number 17 will shock you.
Classify it as a critical infrastructure. Done.
I think the only way is to start switching gradually. If you don't want Google to read your email, keeping it as the main accounts isn't really going to help.

If you do change, get a forwarding service or your own domain so that the same mistake doesn't happen again.
Trump's FCC gets ready to take a chainsaw to net neutrality
Please tag me when they answer. (does HN have tags/notifications?)
Windows has been running on ARM for ages. Windows RT was an early go, but even before that internal builds of Windows for ARM were kept around.

Windows Phone 8 ran on the Windows 8 kernel, and Windows 10 Mobile ran on the Win10 kernel.

It seems like the hard part here was doing the seamless emulation of x86 apps. Writing a production quality general purpose emulator is hard.
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No. It doesn't punish those people who paid earlier because those people fare no differently in the world where we don't retroactively forgive loans and in the world where we do retroactively forgive loans. It doesn't benefit them either but unfortunately this is a society level problem, we need to move beyond individual level thinking to solve it.
HBO definitely hasn't solved that yet. They don't have online service in many major markets, such as Germany.
Would be so kind and elaborate a bit on why do you see it as "amazing"?
6k in deductions is equal to the standard deduction
The market has decided that kitten Giga Pets is more interesting and valuable than Etheriuber, at least for the time being. This possibility was always present, and now it has come to fruition. I don't see the problem.
They probably want more control over the implementation of Youtube. Maybe it's not a good experience on the Fire TV and Echo Show.
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I am saying the opposite: the market becomes less efficient as a result of legislative capture. But it is a feedback loop, so attributing the dynamics to simple cause and effect is not appropriate.
'Smart Bags' May Not Fly If Battery Cannot Be Removed
> WeChat will not suddenly get popular in the US because it sucks. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have survived in China without the firewall. But assuming it did, I think the correct response is to require it to have end to end encryption.

Claims of end to end encryption are pretty worthless if you don't trust the provider and haven't audited their source code.
Some of the lesser known tips for new web developers
why would you file itemized when your deductions are less than the standard deduction?
I wrote a small opinionated post trying to share some of the things I learnt in the past 5 years to help out fellow developers who are just starting out.
Aren't most trucks multi-axle and have distributed weight?
This explanation from a Google blogpost helped me:

The API mimics the structure of TensorFlow and NumPy, with a delayed execution model for training (like TensorFlow), and an immediate execution model for inference (like NumPy). We have also implemented versions of some of the most commonly-used TensorFlow operations. With the release of deeplearn.js, we will be providing tools to export weights from TensorFlow checkpoints, which will allow authors to import them into web pages for deeplearn.js inference.

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/harness-power-of-mac...
All I see on their homepage is backend UI. A headless CMS has no client/visitor facing UI.
I would love to see this usable as a U2F device too.
The Pollyannish Assumption
So it's a REST API with a webapp I can whitelabel? Why would I pay for this - what is the problem it solves?

If it's anywhere near as brilliant in implementation as Stripe is I really want to know, since it will probably make my life easier.

I often find "Uber for X" or "Stripe for Y" confusing. If Stripe were doing Y they wouldn't be Stripe now, would they?
That's part of the problem now though, there's no room for nuance. You almost HAVE to take an extreme position in order to be heard.

For instance, the GP mentioned anti-vaxxers. There are many different kinds of "alternative" stances on vaccinations, and only one (very) extreme position is "vaccines cause autism". But if you mention anything about vaccines that isn't 100% of vaccines are amazing 100% of the time you are considered an "anti-vaxxer", lumped in with the vaccines-cause-autism crazies.

Consider: I haven't made a judgement on vaccines in this comment, yet I guarantee you have a feeling/judgement about what you think I believe. Like I said, no room for nuance.
A Hacker's Day – One Month Later
The Strange Case of the Look-Alike Credit Cards
So it's not a matter of demanding my representatives create new legislation, so much as it is trying to convince them to make my voice (our voices) heard on the national stage. That makes sense.
Sure you are, you burn more gas sitting idle in traffic than cruising down the road, so you pay more.
juno? Damn blast from the past there.
Google should probably block amazon from any search results. That should get amazons attention if this does not. Its bad that they are not selling google home mini, chromecast , Nest products. What reason they have for blocking google home mini and Nest . For chromecast - they said it does not play prime video which amazon does not offer support for..
Ahh, I was talking about a hypothetical hacked Echo as described in the article, or perhaps the sort of Echo modified by Amazon due to court order.

I think now that the top-level comment concerned a standard unmodified Echo device, so my comment doesn't apply.
We have that in Uruguay, and it's no fun (I agree that getting into debt sucks as well).

State/national University here used to be 100% free, but now every graduate has to pay, starting 5 years after graduation, until they turn 65, if they make over U$ 1000 - irrespective of whether their employment has anything to do with their career.

So, a 25 year old graduate gets to pay for the next 35 years. Unlike student debt, you never pay it back, and the cost is also adjusted upwards every year - ostensibly according to inflation, but might be higher.

Students that elected to pay their tuition in a private university don't have to pay.

In a way it's more fair because impoverished people have a chance to do a degree, and they even get a scholarship that includes money for living expenses and textbooks, but OTOH most of the graduates don't earn much above U$ 1000 and they have to pay 5 to 8% of their salary for all their working lives - I'm not sure if that's a good deal.
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Qualcomm doesn't build faster chips because their customers have thin margins and want SoCs optimized for cost rather than speed.
Fat Protocols Theory
Physically modified devices are harder to blame on "hackers".
Why Social Media Is Not Smart for Middle School Kids
Wow I'd never heard of it before. I've tried it for a bit and just love it. Though I wish the js version wasn't beta and it didn't require silverlight.
It does now !
I guess, on reflection, the behavior that seems most frustrating is pitching it as a "Story Idea". I would prefer to have had "An offer to speak with CEO of XYZ". But, in fairness, as an analyst I have slightly different priorities that the average journalist. (not saying they're better priorities, just different)
Which isn't completely different than some SaaS startups.. or many of the new AWS services are preview only which is also similar behavior.

The difference is AWS tends to back up their announcements fairly quickly and with working stuff.
> 1. What about the property tax deduction? Why are property taxes deductible, but income taxes are not?

There's no objective reason why it should be. But since deductions are largely arbitrary policy instruments anyway - because property tax deduction encourages and makes easier home ownership (at least this is the theory) and the government wants more home ownership. State tax deduction does not really have such goal (unless you see moving people to high-tax states as a goal, but I don't think federal government identifies such goal).

> 2. How do you feel about the mortgage interest deduction? A very similar question could be asked.

Same as above. Only much bigger - given 20% down mortgages, mortgage interest - especially for new mortgages on standard equal-payment plan - is very substantial. So, tax deduction makes owning home easier - and, on the reverse, removing this deduction would seriously hurt current mortgage owners and discourage new ones.

The difference here is that with property-related taxes there is a policy goal linked to it, and also long-term choice individuals make based on this policy, which would make them very upset if the policy changes. With state taxes, there's no real policy goal (for federal government at least) and most people don't choose state to live it because of state tax deduction.
Adding up your numbers:

Tencent: 40% foreign owned
Alibaba: 45% foreign owned
Baidu: 35% foreign owned

None of those are majority or controlling stakes. Which is hardly the...

> Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are all largely owned by foreign investors, even though they are operated by Chinese personnel.

...of the ancestor comment.

China has long welcomed foreign investment while simultaneously rejecting foreign control.
Its not the elections or the Republicans.

The US was under the impression that they were special snowflakes. Every country has rules about corporate involvement in political campaigns. But Americans knew better. Our politicians can't be bribed because America fuck yeah!

All citizens are equal but some are more equal than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Congrats, LD team! We use your tool every day - it's incredible how easy you've made it to drag a slider and get automated progressive rollout of features to our customers.
For reference, this is part 2 of a two part series. Here is part 1: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/tunable-controls-for-late...
The mattress industry has suddenly woken up
I was going to write a cynical complaint about how it's hardly useful without GPU support... but it's using WebGL to hit the GPU. Of course. And it's probably a million times easier than trying install a TensorFlow stack locally on your desktop.
> people choose the monthly payment they can afford not the house they can afford

It's the same thing - the house you can afford is one for which you can afford monthly payments. Unless you buy cash, which on the average almost nobody does for low-mid-range market.
That's true. Content providers usually pay a (usually many) intermediary (usually a tier 1 or tier 2 backbone provider) to deliver the traffic to the ISP. In order to deliver the traffic from one network to the other, both companies need to have short and long haul cables, routers with high speed interfaces, and employees to manage and maintain those things. So there are costs of this traffic borne by both companies. They are both getting paid by their customers to deliver the traffic, but the "peering agreement" between them governs the cost sharing responsibility of that link between the two of them. If the intermediary fails to fulfill their obligations according to the peering agreement, it is opaque to the customer who is not living up to their end of the contract (and always blamed on the end-user's ISP)
Awesome news. Long live C++ ;)
> Do you foresee this putting a great deal of performance-related pressure on Qualcomm that wasn't there before

Possibly. Although I don't doubt Apple may have superior expertise in designing ARM chips (which sounds strange when comparing to the #1 ARM chip maker), I think one of the main reasons Qualcomm hasn't been able to match Apple is that Qualcomm has to optimize its chip for a variety of OEM needs.

Apple on the other hand, could even push the TDP by 20% on its chip, if it know that it can make up for that loss of efficiency with more optimized software that's developed specifically for that chip.

The AMD partnership is very interesting. I hope they double down on that.

Fun fact: Qualcomm wanted to buy AMD in 2015, but because of some terrible management and engineering choices with the Snapdragon 810, which led to a sales slump that year, the board was so furious that i wanted to sell Qualcomm's chip business! (and sell just modems).

Of course, that would have been a terrible idea, business-wise, which is why if Broadcom buys Qualcomm I hope it does get rid of that board and Qualcomm's CEO from day one.

Another fun fact: Qualcomm's Adreno GPU is AMD's old Mobile Radeon GPU division, and Adreno is an anagram of Radeon.

I've been hoping someone like Qualcomm or Samsung buys AMD. Perhaps it may actually do that eventually, with or without Broadcom's help. Then we can see some real competition against Intel, and AMD alone simply lacks the funds to compete head-on with Intel in many areas.

Also, now I'm starting to wonder if Broadcom knew about this deal and it's why it wanted to buy Qualcomm now.
> Unlike China, the US needs a legal reason for this sort of decision, not just the whim of whoever is in charge.

Non-reciprocal trade/investment policy that disadvantages US companies, that's the legal reason right there. I understand a lot of trade policy is driven by similar kinds of things (e.g. reciprocally drop your tariffs and we'll drop ours).
I really hope you do get to see it. This is yet another ground breaker (BP1 was amazing).

I nearly fell off my seat when they managed to show footage that must have been from a camera mounted on the back of a Sperm whale deep diving. They also got one on an Orca. David Attenborough is a legend and provides the usual authoritative voice over which instils a true sense of awe and wonder.

I wont go any further but it really is the new cutting edge of wildlife programming.
Intuit’s “rise of the rest” M&A strategy means large paydays outside the Valley
I've been looking for a tablet for my kids without that filth finally a solution.

it's sucks I have to make a deal with the prime devil to get it.
I don't think the internet should be any less-regulated than the power industry.

Westinghouse (e.g.) can't charge me more for power to run GE (e.g.) appliances. Comcast (e.g.) shouldn't be able to extort customers for access to (e.g.) Netflix.
> The renting family is not being subsidized

Guess what happens to rent if cost of ownership rises due to interest not being deductible?
So you're saying that police officers should be trained in something they rarely do rather than educated in something they always do.

In other countries, it's common to require a bachelors degree to become a police officer. In the city where I live, you can get into the police academy with a GED. I should also point out that the Oakland Police Department has been under Federal Court oversight for the last 14 years.
That's how light bulbs actually worked way back when. And now you have practically light bulbs that live for 10+ years and are 10 times more energy efficient.

Remember when you had to reinstall windows XP every few months? Yeah, i haven't reinstalled my windows since windows 8 came out. I've done upgrade to 8.1, 10, 10 CU without re-installation or "refresh".
>Value is the compensation others are willing to give you in exchange for your goods/services.

Value includes far more than that. It includes all kinds of tangibles and intangibles, including compensation in exchange for absolutely nothing, such as in the case of nonworking shareholders being paid dividends, such dividends arising from the expropriation by owners of surplus value created by workers.
My threat model excludes hardware compromise because it's dead easy for an attacker in the position of sticking malicious hardware into my laptop to e.g. run a malicious BIOS that notices when I'm doing crypto operations and wakes up and steals secrets off the CPU. If I worried about that I wouldn't use my computer at all.

I think the market for people whose threat model includes hardware compromise is extremely tiny. It should include purchasers of external Bitcoin hardware wallets, as you suggest, but it probably doesn't include the average SSH user deciding whether to trust hardware built into their laptop.

Also, in the specific case of macOS, your hardware manufacturer can more easily just ship you a malicious ssh binary or ssh-agent....
It makes absolutely no sense to do that. You get no added security at the cost of having to use non-free software.
It would increase the number of data points from one to two and depending on the nature of the life we would learn a lot about how life develops. Right now our sample size is a little small.