skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know most people here hate ISPs/Cable Companies/Phone companies. But they deserve more respect and profits than they get. The FANG companies are making incredible amounts of money and its a bit unfair that the broadband providers have to provide easy access between users and the FANGs by law. Esp as they're the ones doing the hard work of fixing your cable in the snow, paying local taxes.

My ideal would be repeal of net neutrality - but with UK style competition of ISP services where an independent 3rd party owns the pipes and ISPs compete with whatever packages they want.
> Obviously not all hackintosh's are not as bad as that (AMD being a completely unsupported platform in Apple-land) but the /risk/ of it is a very large blocker for many people.

> I bought my first mac precisely to avoid these kinds of issues.

The lock-in to Apple products should also be considered as a large blocker.
Why would million of subscribers bankrupt someone? I work in the industry building video software that would allow anyone to create their own personalozed video on demand or live streaming service. I havent ran the numbers myself, but the cost to provide a youtube like experience is not that expensive. I would be happy to run the numbers if we could determine how many minutes a single subsriber would watch in a month.
I hear what you're saying, but none of it makes me feel better about using Windows 10. It's not high-quality HN discussion, though here's a Reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/31rxsv/disable_k...

You've told me three things that I can disable in Windows 10. Why is this stuff enabled by default in the first place? How do you know this is everything I need to disable to address these concerns? Or better, why isn't user consent requested before any serious "diagnostic tracking" like this? The answer, I think, is that it's too complicated for the average user. Once this "diagnostic tool" is effectively hidden from the user, and enabled on all devices, the tool either has to be monitored regularly (to make sure more features aren't auto-enabled like these were) or eliminated completely. I've spent too much of my life "monitoring" closed-source software to give much consideration to that option, at this point.
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Yes, it was built by crew.co, a company that aims to bring together freelancers (dev / design / ...) and companies that are in need of them for a certain project.

It got so successful that they split it into two companies at some point (I can't find the reference blog post talking about this right now, so if anyone does feel free to comment)
Think about it for a moment: you get a decent computer with solid performance, with an incredible screen, a great software ecosystem (from both Unix and Mac) and a very nice OS to run everything.

You can't build a Dell to match that, even if you rip Windows out and install Linux or a BSD.
Clearly we have different concepts of "roughly equivalent" :) One means everyone on your network can trivially serve you trojanized binaries, the other doesn't.
That's what I was thinking of. A simple "hey, just so you know, this website has a pretty small edit distance from "paypal.com" (or ditto with certificate owner names). If you're trying to go to the big important financial institution that ain't it, but otherwise click here to carry on."

Not perfect, obvs, but would that be an improvement?
The canonical use case here (and it's already a thing) is an iMac running Capture One and/or Phocus (for Hasselblad) and/or Lightroom (if the desired output is raw + xmp) for tethered commercial photography on set. There are rugged cases available for it. All you need is the iMac, a keyboard and (Wacom) tablet and cable for a rather complete DT (digital technician) setup.

You don't need a lot of processing power in the grand scheme of things, you just need something that the photographer, AD and client can use to make decisions without incurring the cost of a potential reshoot. The grunt work of post-processing is done elsewhere and elsewhen - that's much to costly to do on location - but you do need a "close enough" representation of final colour and contrast, along with focus checking, page overlays and that sort of thing.
My favourite are the ones where you're not allowed to use “the portion of your email address before the @” in your password. My email address is r@foon.uk. Fun times :D
> Little if any of that money makes it back to the school.

That's incorrect. Most major football programs transfer a large percentage of their revenue above operating expenses, back to the university. Texas for example, which is typically one of the top five college football businesses (and nearly a pro level business), transfers about half of its revenue after expenses (ie profit) back to the university.
I am not suggesting cultural determinism. I am suggesting that culture has roots in past events and that the origin story of the US and Australia are not identical. That they have some things in common, yet have not turned out identical, is not a good rebuttal to or dismissal of the idea that America's current situation has roots in a long, ugly past that we are struggling to live down.
I just created a botnet with a meme
It's probably ok to resubmitt.
This is true, they are also free to change schools when they are of adult age. They can also gain additional credits from that state's community colleges, the local ones have more likely transferrable credits.

An internship helped me, I was enrolled in a state school yet was pushing pencils the same as a Princeton student, this made realized the school name wasn't going to change anything in this path, just whatever technicality lets me get the degree.

For business, capital and investment banking, Ivy League puts you very far ahead, but outside of that, especially if your life involves working for someone else, the trade and the school are largely irrelevant compared to just having a degree, which also has limited relevance in many fields.
>seems kind of esoteric

Which is a bit unfortunate, because (APL-like) array languages, of which Q appears to be one of the more approachable/popular, have a lot of very interesting ideas that I think mainstream languages could benefit from. Their unpopularity is self-inflicted due to the wacky syntax, of course.
> nobody should be trying to remember all their passwords, or using a memorable scheme that is adapted based on requirements

I strongly disagree with this. Using a password store guarantees that it is technically possible for someone to recover a complete list of my passwords without me being aware. And means I am either storing my passwords online someone which makes it far easier for that technical breach to happen, or I am relying on a piece of hardware not failing to maintain access to my account.

Remembering a unique password for each site (that I actually care about, I can write down passwords for sites that I don't) is simply more secure. Sure the passwords will be easier to reverse if you get a hash of them then a real random string, but it would still be extremely difficult/beyond most cracking software (it's easy to increase reversing difficulty by using a long hard-to-reverse suffix shared between all your passwords), and you'd have to steal and reverse a lot of hashes to find useful patterns.
New approach may help people in need of a stem cell transplant
Not as easy as not implementing it though.
not what I'd call a bargain for $5k. seems like more Apple tax than usual.
For better or worse, this sets a fairly clear precedent. Will be interesting to watch people try to get around it.
There's a difference between simply removing yourself from the system and doing things differently. It's simply a behavioural change. You live with a new set of priorities, or you can think of it as playing by a new set of rules. Why live with a set of priorities and values that makes you burnt out, ill and depressed?

You don't have to believe me though - research it yourself, if you want further proof that the current system is not working look at suicide rates, rates of medication use, self-medication (drugs, alcohol, food) and so on. We are living in a very sick, literally, society. Pick anyone of these and you will see trends near exponential.

I am not suggesting anything new or something that is not currently being done, right now, by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, and it does, slowly but surely, change things. I am not saying we are anywhere near there yet though.
Or maybe it's a draft document? It's obviously a side project in any case.
How are you evaluating their alpha then?
Anyone know if mutt does this? I currently pipe HTML mails through w3m to read them, and I'm almost certain this technique is pulling remote content, so I would be interested if anyone has some tips on improving this setup. Avoiding HTML mails altogether is sadly not an option.
As others have pointed out, Div I football programs bring in a lot of money for colleges.

The real issue is what is the school spending money on that constantly increases tuition?
Say you use a lot of spotify but you don’t surf that much this is ideal.

What if you listen to a lot of Pandora?
UX aside, the set of requirements in place when you created your account may be different from the set of requirements that are in place at the time of login.
Because the ONLY requirement should really be > 8 (or more) characters. Any other requirement will generally lead to users creating passwords with predictable patterns.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/password-guidance-simplifyi...

"Traditionally, organisations impose rules on the length and complexity of passwords. However, people then tend to use predictable strategies to generate passwords, so the security benefit is marginal while the user burden is high."

Edit: Adding NIST guidelines too, which say the same
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-passwo...
Donald Trump signs directive to send astronauts back to Moon
WSL has exited beta on the mainline release. You can now install Ubuntu/Suse from the windows store. Look up the processes to extract data from your current wall, unintall the legacy edition and get the new addition. It's not clear yet how the legacy version will be impacted it may be easier to migrate sooner rather than later
> We don't know what the strategies are so we aren't in a position to evaluate their alpha.

If that's the stance you want to take, it works both ways. You are no more qualified an outsider than anyone else to evaluate their strategies. But given the available evidence, your position is on shaky ground.

> Second, the Medallion fund cherrypicks the best strategies, so we don't know what the global return is, just the Medallion return, which is reported for PR purposes. To the extent that the strategies have been revealed, as in this Senate report, the strategies rely on fraud and illegal levels of leverage.

This is more complicated than you imply. Medallion uses strategies which have lower capacity constraints and risk, which is why only employees are allowed to invest in it (they don't need outside capital, and they don't need to share risk with investors). Renaissance could close up shop to the outside world completely, but the fact remains that if they are consistently developing strategies for Medallion, they are consistently developing alpha. This alpha is not nullified because they have other strategies that perform worse, because on any realistic timeline they can abandon one and favor another. They would simply not use the strategies which they feel require risk pooling (i.e. capital from outside investors).

Furthermore, the returns are reported by various news outlets which do get to audit them, even if the general public cannot. If you're willing to pay for the information from hedge fund performance indices, you can get it. Which circles back to my original point - regardless of where you stand on the strategies documented in the Senate report, Renaissance has enjoyed those returns both before and after the use of the tax maneuvering.

Leverage does not create alpha or consistency on its own, it only amplifies the returns (positive or negative) thereof. To make my position very clear: again, I'm not saying I agree with the tax maneuvering; I simply disagree with your dismissive characterization of the firm's returns.
You can verify as many numbers as you want, purchase as many toll-free numbers as you want, and redirect them to ANY verified number on your phone list.

You can have 10 toll-free numbers all going to one number, or you can have 10 toll-free numbers going to 10 different numbers. Completely up to you.

The ability to record your calls is there too, so you could know what your employees are saying, and go into your logs to check out who is calling who, and listen to the conversation.

It is a work in progress to tell exactly which virtual number is calling you, which at the moment, is distinguished from the logs.
> But it is important to notice that, for networking, they also have Facebook competitors like Twiter, Snapchat and LindedIn.

These are all 800lb gorillas in the social networking space. If there was a new Facebook competitor it would not be on that list until it was relatively huge. Notice that ello, Mastodon, and other upstart social network are missing even though they've been around for a while now.

The problem is that now a new social network is not just fighting the network effects of Facebook (already a huge hurdle), but also economic incentives from ISPs to keep using Facebook, since you get cheap data for it. If this becomes the norm, I think it's only a matter of time until services like Facebook offer ISPs incentives to zero rate their traffic - especially on limited mobile plans.

Arguably the most problematic category there is not "social networks", but "video". The volume of traffic that streaming video uses on mobile dwarfs just about everything else. If I wanted to compete with Youtube on mobile how could I do it in an environment where Youtube gets special treatment from ISPs and I don't?
I simply think we could do more than 'nothing'.

Including finance in a basic math education for every high-school student would IMO make a significant difference. Listing interest paid as both a percentage and a total over the lifetime of a loan might also discourage people.

That said, I took a few very low interest loans, but I at least had the tools to do some basic cost benefit analysis. I watched many people spend way to much money for a sub par education.
> then you are sure your program compiled with CompCert will result in a bug-free program.

That is simply not true. A UB-free program which calculates e is incorrect, if the task was to calculate pi. Anything downstream from that program which uses its output as if it were pi is going to break.

Correctness is only with respect to a specification.

Specifications can have issues. Aside from being vague or contradictory, they can neglect to include important requirements, such as being completely silent on the treatment of bad inputs. A program with an exploitable security flaw outside of its intended operation can in fact be correct, because those inputs lie outside of its requirements: i.e. just like a compiler, the program has its own undefined behaviors. Also, the requirements for a program can explicitly call for undefined behavior, like "divide a number by zero to demonstrate/test the platform-specific handling of the situation".

Calling a function outside of ISO C that is not defined in the C program itself is also undefined behavior, so these proven programs cannot use any platform libraries without relaxing what "undefined behavior" means.
The first website I've noticed that does this is Expensify. See their login page here, specifically the little light bulb by the password field: https://www.expensify.com/signin

Is it an intuitive, clean design? Not sure. Definitely didn't guess that the light bulb meant, "show password requirements", but at least it's an attempt.
I have bash scripts within cygwin that control Windows firewall via netsh interface.

I still can't run those command under Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The requirements could have changed since the user last set their password.
Disqus' newly enforced free ads are breaking HTTPS everywhere
Free API for detecting disposable email addresses
I've always thought that the "profit center"/"cost center" distinction doesn't make a lot of sense.

The instant example is a pretty good illustration---a crappy university president can do a lot more damage to a university than a crappy football coach (e.g. by making decisions that cause the failure of big chunks of the institution and massive financial losses), so judging the impact of hiring a better president vs a better football coach by whether they're responsible primarily for things with a plus sign or a minus sign on them in the accounting books seems... pointless?

(Plus, since the president is the football coach's boss, why would we account football revenue to the coach and not the president?)
Contrary to popular beliefs, gmail does not pre-fetch all the images. It fetches the images via a proxy the first time the user loads the email via gmail app or gmail web, and caches it for repeat opens. Also, there’s no proxying if the user uses a third party app (like the iPhone app). So open metrics are still fairly accurate since not many users open the same email multiple times.

So why does gmail do this if it still allows the websites to track opens? Primarily to prevent IP address leak and to prevent the website owner from reading it's cookies on email opens (if opened on a browser), and/or cross-linking multiple emails for further tracking and linking identities.
If you're a developer you could build a smoking linux development box from a intel NUC for under $500.
Our free photos have over 16 Milion Views on Unsplash
Likewise, the Surface Studio is a very iMacish device that is being complained about here.
Building a Location to Time Zone API with SpatiaLite, OpenStreetMap and Datasette
I took a sabbatical to wander around SE Asia with my SO. Having a complete (temporary) break from sw engineering really helped improve my performance when I got back.
Of course not. macOS has no DRM, but that could change at some point.

Information on changes for updates come quickly, and it's pretty standard practice to clone your boot drive before major updates.

In a worst-case scenario, you just stay on a version of macOS until it makes more sense to use that same hardware for a Windows/whatever OS change.
I would like to start an experiment where I create my own youtube/vimeo like website and run it as bootstraped buisness. For me, the hardest challenge would be getting viewers to watch the content. But the technicial side would be trivial.
It's ironic that all your examples are so impractical and yet you confidently used them to illustrate how tagging is so easy.
What I mean by this is - I don't see how anyone could reasonably call a Random Forest "AI" with a straight face, whereas someone could (wrongly, but understandably) call a CNN / RNN / etc. AI if only because it has the word "neural" in it.

There's two groups:

- People who are overly enthusiastic about neural nets

- People who are cynically calling every ML algorithm "AI", up to and including linear regression

and I'm more annoyed at the last one.
I think it would be confusing, people only expect feedback on their password during registration or when updating it.
Also, requirements can change but that won’t invalidate passwords which were chosen with the previous requirements.
Reflecting on our journey building the first VC fund in Argentina’s interior
This is easy to do in Rails on your own. Turbolinks is irrelevant to this.
How does showing the requirements help the user recall the password?
What happened to rendering farms?

When I did 3D (3D Studio DOS, long time ago) I had a couple beefy rendering slaves. My desktop was not even the fastest machine on the group - it just happened to have a better graphics card (a Matrox one IIRC).

If I had to do it now, I'd have an iMac on my desk (because the screen is so incredibly awesome) and a bunch of Dells (or custom built) boxes on a rack at the other end of a fat pipe).
I agree and have taken time to build a PC recently, after living in Mac world for 10 years.

The hardware you can get is quite amazing (this is what I built https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/6FXPxr). Everything works and it's rock solid, it's also very quiet (something a lot PC users aren't so concerned about).

Windows however I'm finding a lot harder to get on with. Windows 4K support is awful. So many broken and blurry dialogs and applications (including Microsoft ones). Retina, on the Mac, just works.

I missed the Windows 8 disaster, however it appears some of it has spilt over Windows 10.

Seems you can't have the hardware you want and the OS you want, you have to pick one or the other.
My comp sci building was the worst building out on the campus. We did get brand new rec centers and redid sports complexes for the fun of it.

The irony is the university still calls for alumni donations.......
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Lbz87h

Cheaper and more powerful, also you can replace parts as they break and mine Ethereum 24/7 when PC is not in use.
Think about it for a moment: 5 years ago you could have gotten more for the same price, relative to the GPU and compute power at the time.

Of course you can't build a Dell to match that. The point is this is less of a computer for the longevity that the Mid 2012 Mac Pro originally priced at $2,499 provided. (Guess what, the Apple Thunderbolt Display then was also priced at only $999.) Why in the hell would I pay twice that, for a computer I can't use for twice the lifespan? There are _still_ people selling their Mid 2012 Mac Pros for a large fraction of the original price.

But, no you're right, it's totally acceptable that Apple's only VR-capable machine is $5,000 to produce VR content that no one on the Mac platform can use.

Genius.
The thing to do is flag it, like others did, and don't mention that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm confused; if you can't use ICO proceeds to fund operations, then what can you spend them on? Where is the money supposed to go?
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> honestly seems kind of esoteric

Q# is more esoteric than Q is.

Has far fewer users, and in every way less of a claim to the name.

... just like "curl".

> I'm not really offended by Microsoft using that letter

Okay, but I am. Now what?
And even sometimes, you can have totally unrelated domains, but the site that looked exactly like PayPal, and people don't look at the domain (sometimes the site doesn't even have a certificate)..

Hard to find a solution to this scam problem
What is this even supposed to mean?

That's exactly their point. The average-to-low-budget (as well as unpopular) anime still has power line shots all over because that's just what they do. On average, our establishing shots in our (Western) cartoons just aren't as detailed. Obviously popularity and quality are not hand in hand, and The Simpsons is one of, if not the most popular cartoon show of all time.
Former Uber employees have gone into debt to exercise options they can’t sell
I believe this is part of their announcement on how the SEC will be handling ICOs, but IANAL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15902054
For reference, if you are using an ad-blocker like uBlock origin you won't see your site as being insecure because the ad is blocked. You'll have to disable it.

I would give you an example URL where it happens but I don't want this post to come off as self promotion. If you really care to look, my blog is listed in my profile.