skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In God we trust – all the others we monitor
My grandfather’s travel logs and other repetitive tasks
I've heard of a bank actually trying to use that excuse when asked why their online banking passwords were so limited.

That is, of course, complete bullshit.

Sure, it is plausible that a bank has an old mainframe handling their accounts. It is also plausible that user account passwords on that old mainframe are only 6 or 8 characters and from a limited alphabet.

What does that have to do with customer online banking accounts? Nothing!

When you open a bank account they don't make a user account for you on their mainframe. What they make for you is an entry in an application database that their banking applications use. The only mainframe user accounts involved are the account that the database runs under and the account that the banking application runs under, both of which are the same for all banking customers.

Even if, for some strange reason, they do actually have to make a mainframe login account for each banking customer there is no reason for the banking customer to ever directly access that. Online banking is accessed through the web, so only the web server needs to access your banking account on the mainframe. They could make the website have its own password system, without the mainframe login restrictions. The restricted mainframe login information would only be known by the mainframe and the website back end. The banking customer should never deal with that.
Thank you for content, its helpful and very easy to use.
~10 months ago. Looking at screenshots on their website I still don't like it. But maybe that's just because I grew up with Windows (although I do like how macOS looks). Think it's very much a taste thing. Most of what I do is browser based (incl. IDE) anyway so the OS doesn't really matter anymore.
There was a time where I was like "Just let there be an exception for Disney. They're going to fight tooth and nail for their IP to be in perpetuity and win, so just let that be an exception, and have sane copyright lengths elsewhere."

But they keep buying up alllllll the popular IP....so that kind of doesn't really work now.
This. I'm not going to shell out $3k for a desktop computer that can't be upgraded. That's just stupid, even if it does look nice.
Are rising stock prices always a sign of company health?
The second is definitely plausible - I only recently learned this after diving really deep into the academic world. Most of the friends I have in academia don't know this distinction.

The first is not necessary (although still not that implausible to me) - non-native speakers also influence native speakers.

But yes, your final paragraph is definitely true too. Although I think in the comment you responded to, you can equate them.
When I heard the news, all I could think of was this Lee vs. Henson ERB, and the South Park episode where the mouse becomes a rampaging daikaiju.
The race to erase Kevin Spacey
I'm still looking for a video or audio of that conference.
Nope, the closest thing you can get to the iMac Pro display is likely something like a the Dell PrimeColor UP2718Q which costs about $1500 or the UP2715K which goes for around $1300.
Really good doesn’t mean professional. Reference monitors are well over 10k dollars and the factory calibration on Apple screens is fairly close. Certainly better than you’d get on a < 1000 dollar monitor.
So make that the link, why the blogspam?
A list of bash aliases
PSD2: can my cat now call himself a bank?
Isnt lucasarts the game studio
however with modular people are reading too much into it. Apple more likely meant modular for them, as in being able to adjust to changes in technology where the previous Mac Pro could not be changed.

I doubt we will go back to the old tower style similar to PC versions
>very much like how TV was once described.

Now, when TV is part of our life we're used to that brainwashing and most people don't notice it any more.
There also was a time when Russia (and Germany) were well ahead of the United States in terms of access to space.

I would expect China to take as long or shorter than it took the rest of the countries that mastered that particular skillset. Incidentally, I had a tour of the company that makes the machines that mill the final contours of those turbine blades and I'm not at all surprised that this is extremely complex knowledge, I know quite a bit about CNC machining and they managed to surprise me more than I had expected possible.
I am in Massachusetts and recently needed to purchase a generator for a DIY project. It was amazing how difficult it was to get one from any store—it took two weeks of restock tracking. According to the retail employees they’re still being bought (in Massachusetts!) and shipped to Puerto Rico ASAP after they’re stocked.
I find it hard to have an open discussion if you're mainly dropping links without much added substance in the content (quotes like "business as usual", "keep bullshitting" don't help). The links are really long, actually seem to contain some relevant points, but also raise my BS-filter-flag (especially the links to 'prehistoric' economics papers).
> "One of the things we’ve learned over the last few years is the depth of love and loyalty for macOS by our pro customers. And pro is a very large term. It encompasses many different people with different needs.

> “What we find is, across all of our Mac products, we have a lot of pros on MacBook Pro; we have a lot of pros on iMac; and we have pros on Mac Pro. And so, a number of years ago, when we talked about where we need to move all our products forward for pros, we knew we needed to, along with MacBook Pro – and doing a new Mac pro – that there’s an iMac need there.
> "This time, we decided to push it further. We asked our engineering teams, 'Can you make an iMac Pro that’s truly designed for pros?' It really, inside, is a different computer.

> Phil Schiller[0]

Clearly, they missed the mark. But honestly, I just think their definition of "pro" is watered down.

[0]https://www.t3.com/features/phil-schiller-interview
Just for fun, I maxed out the configuration all the way--just to see--and the price was $14,000. :o
Laurence Tratt: Dynamically Typed Languages
It will cost $200 billion to get to Mars by 2040?

That's a lot of cheaper robotic missions. If something breaks, there's another one in the works.

We should also be developing robots that can do what the human can do. That investment will pay off in many ways.

Btw, the first DARPA Grand Challenge was a bust in 2004. No one finished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra...
What's concerning here is that they could have easily bought a certificate and configured it to their site.

Instead what they did as preventive measure is to buy the domain name that Troy mentioned as one of the possible vector to spoof their site.

Hate to say this, but whoever made that decision as a course of resolution should be axed.
They may, if competing on price, but that is a decision for C-level executive suite with direction from the Board.
There is no such thing as "fair redistribution" - it's theft through political means and it will just further obscure the market. You will end up exacerbating the problem.

The solution is to build more housing and stop subsidizing one-another, so that those that can afford to live there do and those that cannot move.
Isn't the closest thing just any other monitor with the exact same panel? The panel isn't everything - but it's a lot. https://www.amazon.com/LG-27MD5KA-UltraFine-International-Ve...

In any case: you'll need to put up $1500 to get this. Either a "better" Pro 4K or the equivalent 5K.
Yep 70-80% for 50-60% of the price is about right, you can replace the Intel Xeon for a cheaper i9 or even cheaper AMD TR or even cheaper Zen if you don't care about matching the performance.

TBH most of the savings are from the CPU/motherboard once you drop the Xeon.
Does anyone take Bloomberg and their "predictions" seriously? I may be biased (I think, most of the predictions I've seen are in "Apple is suffering badly and will be suffering" context). But it looks like their "predictions" never ever hit their mark and only serve to drive traffic.
Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign for 2000 in October of 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...
I am also Asian American. I spent the first 20 years of my life in an area of the US where I was the only Asian in the entire school.

2. I can count the times this happened in 20 years on one hand.
3. Same as #2.
5. Never experienced this at all.
It’s almost like that’s how the market is supposed to work! The price moves around until demand and supply match.
Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row is not Surprising [pdf]
Not at all. Let's say you manage 100 machines, possibly for different domains, and each generates their own certs. Now you probably want monitoring that alerts you when the certificate is about to expire in the next 20 days (you can renew them 30 days before they expire, without running into rate limit shenanigans).

With 100 servers, you'll have on average about two calendar entries per day, most of which are no-ops, because the certificate renewal worked fine.
It sounds like a partial solution to this is an infographic that must be provided by each college before allowing loans to be taken out showing:

* The degrees you're interested in

* The total cost of ownership of each of those degrees, based on the dollar cost + interest

* The years you'll have to work to pay off the degree based on the median salary of whatever career requires that degree

* Placement rate in the career you're obtaining you're degree for after obtaining your education (colleges usually fudge the numbers here by considering a student getting any job as "placement" after going through their pipeline)

Very similar to truth in lending requirements for credit cards and mortgages.

https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/consumer-protection/truth-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_in_Lending_Act
> Some do, some don't.

I've never seen a torrent site which wouldn't let torrents because "oh, it's individual developer's program, we don't allow those". I would say that overwhelming majority of people who created pirate sites (or created/sold illegal compact discs before that) didn't care about who to pirate from. And practically all shareware developers felt it.

> Something being pirated 1M times never means 1M lost sales. It could mean 2K lost sales or it could mean 200K lost sales.

I've never said it did, and of course it doesn't. And I think pretty much everyone here understands it. I don't know why you've put this sentence in your reply.

> The book your writer wrote, did it build on a genre, area of expertise, setting that inherently draws inspiration from earlier works? Where do we draw the line on what you can borrow?

I think it's ridiculous to compare outright pirating and "borrowing from genre", everyone sees the difference. If we put that arbitrary line at absurd 90% (less than that "borrowed" is ok), than everything on the torrent sites is still crossing that line, because everything there is full copy... And there's a lot of areas where it's hard to pin point the exact place for some dividing line, but everyone can see the difference between entities: like where you put exact line between colors on a rainbow? But you know that green isn't yellow and red isn't blue, you don't need to know where that line is exactly.

> If copyright law was as established and enforced 400 years ago as it is today, Shakespeare wouldn't exist (in our knowledge)

I don't how that would make Shakespeare read less, since he couldn't download a book on his phone anyway, and he probably read many books which weren't owned by him, since they were pricey and that price was mostly behind materials of the book and work to create this physical object.
But he might or he might not exist, it's hard to say. It's not certain that writing would be less developed, if there were more effects of copyright. Being able to benefit from writing more could motivate more people to write, so it's hard to say what would have happen. Would we will be on the same level of technical progress if there were not patents (yes, there's a lot of ridiculous and bogus things about it now, but I'm talking about history) in previous 200-300 years, when inventors were motivated to create new things by legal protection of the right to benefit from it? Hard to say with certainty (though I incline to the "less advanced" answer).
Is Digital Capitalism Aligned with Public Interest? Probably Not.
Google’s Pixel Buds won’t change the world
It seems like "Zen of Python" is applied inconsistently

Good. I think we would all be better off if we forgot about it entirely.
Algorithms can’t be patched
I am looking to write blogs from the stuff I learn daily about learning a programming language called Clojure, simple hacks which I build and work on Open source stuff. I'm planning to learn designing as well.
I'm not sure what all these articles are complaining. Facebook is in the business of selling influence, just like Google or Twitter, that's how they make money. The product is people's attention span, just like TV or newspapers or any website or business financed by advertisement.

So what is the problem here? the fact that anybody around the world can buy influence on Facebook? When you needed millions before to buy a spot on TV or newspapers?

It's the black smith complaining about the automaker all over again.
Who is going to be the first to submit the Pull Request? :)

https://github.com/PineappleFund/pineapplefund.github.io
Almost seems like Netflix knew what they were doing when they started funding a bunch of original content. I remember when people thought they were being silly.
Are you planning to add jobs for non-engineers too?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

There is a separate section of law designed to protect such brand associations called "trademark". As long as Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark (which he is), TWDC will retain the ability to stop uses of the mark that would be deceptive or misleading.

Trademark protections are much weaker than copyright protections and apply only to commerce within the pre-defined areas in which the trademark is registered. Disney would lose the ability to lock up anyone who published an image of Mickey Mouse that they didn't like, but would still be able to protect its brand, as long as the public associated Mickey Mouse with TWDC in the relevant areas of commerce. This should be more than sufficient to stop, e.g., Universal Studios from putting up Mickey Mouse banners at their competing theme parks, implying an endorsement or association with Disney.

What it may not stop is a use of Mickey Mouse that doesn't imply association with or endorsement by the trademark's owner. For example, under copyright law, Universal cannot create a "Punch Mickey" attraction. However, one may be able to argue that such an attraction is legal when Mickey is only protected by trademark law, because then the only uses that are barred are those that are likely to confuse or mislead the consumer. I'm sure this would be litigated out if it actually happened and some judges are definitely stodgy enough to say that any use of someone else's trademark automatically rises to the level of misleading consumers (and we should not discount the rarely-discussed incentive that judges have to rule in favor of powerful interests, nor should we pretend that we don't see that on a regular basis), but under copyright there is no real way to argue that this is non-infringing.

The main point being that Disney would no longer be able to use the FBI as Rent-A-Cops to stop any use or depiction of Mickey Mouse that they disliked, under the auspices of "promoting the progress of science and useful arts". People who wanted to make their own unofficial Mickey Mouse content or merchandise would be free to do so without threat of arrest or lawsuit, so long as they did so in a manner that was not misleading about the association with Disney.
Its basically what the Macbook keyboards should be. Much more reliable with a little more travel distance, but with the same key stability as the butterfly ones.
What about XAML and all the other XML based UI markups? I find HTML refreshingly easy to use compared to the alternatives.
Yeah, but people who are food insecure can't usually borrow $15,000 in unsecured debt.

Plus, this presumes the ability to also maintain income (in absolute terms, not just relative to.local costs) in a relocation. I guess if the food insecure people are also working jobs they can do remotely, that's reasonable, but if they are doing low-wage in-persom work, even if they can find comparable work in Lincoln, the wages are likely to be lower (clearly so at the lowest end of legal work, since the minimum wage is lower.)
You quickly get into the whole "It's definitely not professional without ECC" and the stupid intel market segmentation. Intel makes it really hard and expensive to build quick (as in single core quick) workstations with ECC. If you are absolutely hellbent on 5K and a 4Ghz+ with ECC then it's going to cost a bit. So while you could get a lot of the performance at a lower price point, things like the ECC makes it hard to compare in some aspects.
I didn't said you should, but in all honesty upgrade-ability is so overrated in the PC world.

Other than storage I haven't upgraded a single PC I've owned in the past decade if not more simply because at the point when upgrade was needed it was pointless.

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't buy this iMac, I don't need it, and I don't want it, and I would buy a PC, but Apple is pretty far from skinning people on prices this time around.
Disney also gets controlling interest in Hulu through this deal. All around bad news for Netflix.
That’s because it’s technically delivered through Comcast business. I called about it and it takes quite a while to get setup. But they do give you a pretty solid connection and support.
It's not so black and white. Stratchery posits consolidation may promote competition at the distribution layer, where Netflix presently stands to dominate:

"To that end, might it be better for consumers, not-so-much today but ten years from now, if Disney were fully empowered to compete with Netflix? What is preferable? A dominant streaming company and a collection of content companies trying to escape the commoditization trap, or two dominant streaming companies that can at least try to hold each other accountable?" [1]

An analog might be found in the T-Mobile/Sprint merger [2]. It is not obvious whether their consolidation would have reduced competition, by turning two options into one, or increased it, by creating a stronger number three to AT&T and Verizon.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2017/disney-and-fox/

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/04/news/companies/sprint-t-mobi...
I've done keto for many months, so I'm quite used to the switch-over you describe.
Yes, she can move. If she cannot afford to live there, she can move. It sucks, but life sucks and sometimes it means you can't live exactly where or how you want to.

My parents worked as "pickers" for the Home Shopping Network near DC, making minimum wage. It became financially untenable, so they moved to southern Virginia to a place with good schools and where you can live and get by on low income salaries.
This is exactly why Netflix is banking on original content going forward.
Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15782014 two weeks ago.

>kenning:

I think cigarettes are a great comparison. I heard it a few years back.

When popular, a huge amount of the population used cigarettes despite growing research showing that it had a slight but consistent harmful effect. A hooked individual is unlikely to stop using even when given this evidence, as the product is addictive and gets stronger with network effects. Younger generations understood the harm better and had to avoid regular temptation to engage.
Now they're gonna get worse.

Before that, we could at least hope to see a good movie like Logan. Now if Marvel does them, we know they're going to be mediocre like all other Marvel movies, with bad jokes every 87 seconds.
> Apple's handling of Final Cut Pro X years ago still scares everyone.

I still remember watching Conan O' Brian and they lampooned it mercilessly with a rather long bit about it. I never thought I would see a late night comedian roasting Apple for their video editing software. You knew it had to be bad if it reached that level.

Here's the clip:
https://youtu.be/vZXsI84nRMg
I'm torn between wanting to agree with you ("Idiocracy is a documentary!", et al), and the cognitive dissonance of the greater and greater scientific and technological achievements we continue to create.

Maybe there's an analogue at work here; like financial/wealth inequality, but for intellect (that feels incredibly elitist to 'verbalize').
When is Apple going to recognize that we want Nvidia GPUs? Come on Apple. People are literally buying outdated MacBook Pros to have a CUDA compatible GPU.
That was true before the introduction of chip cards, though. The waiter's having to carry the card to the staff area of the restaurant, complete the transaction (by swiping), then return the card to you, probably interweaving some of their other duties along the way, took up most of the time. Their having to wait an extra few seconds for the chip reader seems a drop in the bucket.
I really enjoyed reading this, despite its length! It makes some great points about scheduling that resonated with me, backed up by interesting thought experiments.
The Lord wouldn’t have allowed some lazy Irish wretch eat his horse’s clover.

During the famine, Ireland was exporting bumper crops of oats and wheat and other things. It was a completely avoidable tragedy.

Starving people would eat whatever they could to survive. There was limited aid that was privately funded and slowest to a trickle as tenants were unable to pay rents. 40% of the population died or emigrated, which reduced demand.
> A particular medium is not (necessarily) to blame. Even the proliferation of what can be perceived as low quality examples of a medium isn't purely to blame. A large part of it is in how you interpret it.

Suppose we were to say, “Apple pie is in itself neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value.” Or, “The smallpox virus is in itself neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines their value.”

- Marshall McLuhan
+1. I fail to see how the NATO is in the 'wrong' here. They broke assurances in 1994 that they made to an entity which failed to exist after 1991. WUT?
Does that offer any real protection? I could try each possible character until I find the hash.
"no offense" doesn't mean that they think you're not american, even though it could mean that, similar to "where are you from".
I'll grant you tv/movies, though that is undeniably getting better.
I grew up in a town literally called "white settlement", conservative suburban but semi rural texas, most of my friends were asian and while I don't think they NEVER heard the word chink, it was never in a threatening or even (as far as I observed) bullying (i.e. directed at them) way - alot of the kids in public school have an EXTREMELY rough way of speaking (they're barely able to communicate without expletives). All that said, there's some things you didn't mention - a lot (but not all) of my asian dude friends had a bad time with dating for instance, and sometimes some of the teachers would be unable to tell them apart, etc..