skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the final straw for me to move to Android. My 6S was unusably slow with iOS11. I'd rather this be something _I_ can control.

At the very least, the performance should improve if you plug in the phone, and it doesn't.

Edit: other thing I remember is that when I upgraded iOS10 at one point my battery _stopped_ being reliable. I was getting the unexpected shutdowns at <50%.

Another weird thing I had experienced: after every update, my battery percentage would be totally screwy. I'd burn from 100% -> 1% in no time, then sit at 1% for hours. Over charge cycles, it'd figure it out again, but that'd be reset every time I upgraded.

Edit 2: looks like I angered the fans. This is simply my experience. My geekbench scores were awful, so I was certainly impacted by this issue. I thought I'd done something wrong until this news came out.
I suspect many people are holding BTC waiting for it to go to $400k or whatever.
> Rural Americans have no idea "in God We Trust" is not original, that it was added in 1956...

'And this be our motto-"In God is our Trust"'. From the 4th verse of The Star-Spangled Banner, written in 1814. (You did know that it has four verses, right?)

Now, The Star-Spangled Banner wasn't officially the national anthem until 1931, and "In God We Trust" wasn't officially the national motto even then. But the idea of that as the motto is far from new, even if it wasn't officially true.
"Remember it is a public service. It demands sacrifices of personal and professional time."

That isn't the issue - the issue is one of the practical amount of time and energy required to actually be a politician.

Full time or not full time - it's still 'public service'.

We don't have many 'part time brain surgeons' or 'part time police chiefs' ...

Politics is a profession like most others.

How on earth does the 'Minister of Finance' manage a national budget part time?

I can see a lot of fluffy ministers who don't do a lot - but most cabinet level positions (Parliamentary) and other senior legislators - there's no reason they can't or should not be full time.

"It works and provides less way for corruption and lobbying?"

+ You haven't said 'how it works' - how does a national minster of finance prepare and manage a national level budget on a 'few meetings a year'.

+ Less corruption? How? Given that 'everyone in politics also has a day job' - the lines of politics/business are considerably more blurry!

- Is the 'Minister of Finance' allowed to work in banking?
- How do politicians create taxation legislation when that could create significant conflicts of interest?
- Canadian Minister of Finance - and others - have to put their assets in 'blind trust' to avoid corruption. Can't do that if everyone has a normal day job. It has to be considerably more difficult to manage issues of conflict of interest, surely.

There might possibly be an advantage to having part-time politicians - in the sense that full time one's often don't earn a lot of income, they have to be re-elected etc. so perhaps they are more vulnerable than those with normal jobs.
A lot of these are only faster to transact because they have nowhere near the volume of transactions that BTC has. BTC is also much more widely accepted and understood.
Hi Peter! Thanks for doing this.

So I travel a lot to the US because my gf is from there but we currently live in Spain, I've always been employed by spanish companies but I have flexibility on where I can work from. Would it be possible for me to work while in the states for a spanish company for a short period of time? say 3 days out of a 2 week vacation. Also, would I be able to be on call while vacationing there?
Except that it gets unbearably un-zippy. If battery life really gets so bad that Apple believes it will reflect poorly on their brand, then they could do in-store same day battery replacements. But that would cut into their profits wouldn't it.
You'll let them have it, even if you don't, right? Other people upload your pictures to Facebook all the time. They give FB permission to use facial recognition, then your photo is theirs to do as they please.

Does the EU have any privacy laws to counter this behavior from FB?
Actually it should be the opposite. Definitely do your own benchmark, but take a look at the latest numbers from Tyk and compare it with the latest numbers from Kong to get a general idea.
Hi Peter, thanks for arranging Ask-Me-Anything.

I am working for a company A (which is owned by company B) on H1b while my Green Card process is at a stage where:

a. I have my EAD card in hand and I am waiting for interview and approval of I-485.
b. I-140 is approved some weeks ago.
c. Priority date is current due to small pools for my country.

Problem:
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On my H1b and Green Card documents "employer" is mentioned as Company A but on Jan 1 our company is going through a re-organization where Company A (my current employer) will merge into Company B.

I expect call for interview for Green Card in January and then hopefully a Green Card in 3-4 weeks. In such a case:

1) What would you recommend to avoid issues with Green Card process as the interviewer may complain that my employer is now Company B whereas on my documents its mentioned as Company A.
2) Will I have to file for amendment to the already approved I-140?
3) Will there be any problem if I have to file the amendment before or after my interview or does it not matter?

Our company lawyers are claiming there will be no issue in any case but because of their misinformed information I had my Advance Parole denied (because I travelled to my country while the application was in process). Therefore, wanted to confirm from a better source. :)

Thanks.
Another good, very mature framework is Repast (https://repast.github.io/index.html), though it is Java with all the goods-and-bads that come with that.
Ask HN: How to get in touch with Facebook support team?
As of today Facebook started blocking messages containing Google Drive links with /u/0/ and ?usp=sharing parts. That would be fine (those could be security risks), aside from the fact that a secret group containing links like that in the description has been "suspended". The group is unavailable to it's members and I as an admin can't edit the group to remove them. I'd like to get in touch with somebody that can fix this problem (as the group is used daily), but have been unable to do so. Any suggestions?
And solar panels can both power your home and recharge your car. Indefinitely. What happens when you run out of extra fuel?
As an example, wasn't there an $80m transaction the other day, where the fee was $20? I wonder what banks would charge to facilitate that?
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Name - Flap Flap Flappy

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flap-flap-flappy/id1320697408?ls=1&mt=8
Something I've wondered is what sort of distribution can you maintain in a Tilapia population. In some fish populations once you get to a certain size those fish can cannibalize the fry such that you get no additional fish regardless of breeding until they are removed. Any thoughts on that?
> Alt-Coins don't have astronomic price increases

The really big multipliers have been in so called alt-coins for years. This statement is flat out wrong.
It costs $1 to put 8kW (30miles) into a car, and takes about an hour (for a level 2 charger) so the cost of electricity is less than the land value (unsubsidized meter rate) of the parking space itself, in any urban area.
You really can't though. I had a phone with an awful battery-- it would shut off around 25% randomly. I brought it into Apple 3 times, it even had apple care-- and because the f*ing diagnostic suite identified the battery as good, they wouldn't replace it.

They wouldn't even LET ME PAY FOR THE REPAIR.
I bet youll change your mind if/when you get accused, especially if its false. Guess you should hope that never happens then right?
I'm incredibly disappointed that this isn't related to tacos or robots, more importantly robots making tacos.
If you are interested at all in continental philosophy, I'd say Lyotard is a really good place to start for folks coming from an analytic philosophy or hard science background. He engages with some of the same ideas as the rest of the continental milieu but his writing style is not nearly as dense and allusive as the rest. For more contemporary stuff, Badiou is really interesting. He's, among other things, trying to bridge the gap between analytic and continental philosophy. If you want to dive deeper, I'd try to understand the historical development of contemporary continental philosophy from Kant through German idealism via Hegel. A lot of the stuff that is confusing in continental philosophy is confusing because we tend to teach it without regards to its historical development (I know my continental philosophy class was like this at least).
A small technical point: "Hypercard in the World" was one of the prototype systems that came before Realtalk, which is the operating system and protocol that runs Dynamicland.
This seems like an excellent toy, a great tool for education, and possibly a good UI for future end-user systems that mostly live in the cloud. But in no way something that could be used to build those systems.

Almost everything that's good and powerful about software comes precisely because it's non-physical. It's probably just a failure of imagination on my part, but I can't see a path where re-introducing a bunch of physical representations of virtual things makes things better for those trying to create, maintain, or understand complex systems.
Most Android devices have rather severe issues with flash degradation (due to use of cheaper chips, controllers and connection... cheap MMC controllers are still very standard) which makes them practically unusable after a few years.
The goal posts will stop moving in time with the music.
Google has contributed quite a bit to Boto. The GCS command line tool, gsutil, is built on top of boto. If you're talking about Boto 3, though, not so much.
With Apple being Apple, I think they can do it in an Apple way and degrade screen-on time for performance, switching it to favor battery whenever you turn on the "Low Power Mode" setting. Simple binary decision in the user's hands. I would also put "Conserve Battery" in the control center.
Top-level `await` is a footgun
>It’s not a currency. It’s digital gold.

Abstract: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
To add:
> Also, our system cannot yet generate audio in realtime.

For an production GCP API, I think faster than real-time would be necessary.

For example, WaveNet took a year to go from research to production in Google Assistant: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-launches-google-assistant/
The difference is that legislative coalitions don't have to be permanent, the way parties are. Various factions in the legislature can come together for a particular bill, or series of bills on some issue that's relevant to them all. But on something else, they might realign differently. Also, even when coalitions are more persistent, the terms are effectively renegotiated every election - party platforms are much more stable.
You've got to fight

for your right

to compute
That was my thought: should browsers be content gatekeepers?

(Honest question, this is a very tricky area)

If Comcast decides to "block" 3rd party tracking and analytics content, would it be ok?
I think these comments are exaggerated and misrepresent the situation, and no basis in fact is provided:

> the recent wave of "guilty until proven innocent" ...

> the media collectively decided that it was a good idea to promote abandoning the principle of "innocent until proven guilty,"

The stories I've read have done a good and careful job of corroborating and verifying their stories. Those that don't are subject to massive libel lawsuits like the one that shut down Gawker.

> smugly righteous

> hysteria

This is name-calling, which doesn't add to the discussion, and it's against nobody in particular, which makes it meaningless. Who, by name, is smugly righteous or hysterical? And do those people affect us? Are they representative or influential somehow?
> Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value.

How did that work out for oil a couple years ago?

Yes there's some lower bound on gold, but if it turns out it's lower than you thought, or if the supply can be altered to manipulate the price and drive it even lower, it's not very useful.

Given that gold prices 20 years ago were somewhere around 1/6 the maximum price in that period ($300 vs $1800), it's reasonable to assert that this lower bound on gold lower than even that. Meaning if I invest in gold and people completely lose faith in it, I could lose 85%+ of my investment. Not a very helpful safety net.
>There’s no evidence that FTL is possible...

True, but remember that ~75% of the universe is 'dark energy' that is making the universe fly apart, eventually, faster than light speed. So, we hypothesize that eventually, everything will be faster than light.

What I am saying is that we don't know enough physics at the moment to say definitely that FTL is impossible. We really don't know any physics when talking about the majority of mass-energy of what we know currently, really. Extra-solar visitors may have figured a bit more of this out and realized that FTL is somthing you just go around, who knows.
Stellar is the most similar to Ripple (I think they had code in common at some point). Dash and Monero are a little older, and I don't think they solve the scalability issue in any special way, but are definitely less popular and therefore more usable.

I recommend reading forum posts about these different currencies to get an idea of what people think are the most competitive features/pitfalls. You could google something like "most scalable alt-coins" and then read stuff from reddit and bitcointalk.org. When a few of them have gotten your attention, do a "x vs. y vs. z" search and read more forums. You kinda have to feel it out!
But it's not as cheap or easy as just popping the back of your phone and slipping in a new battery. Mind you, most flagship phones these days can't be refurbished in that way.
> I follow one such guy on Twitter, and he seems to post a lot of pictures of guns with USB sticks when he's not promising to take more Bitcoin tattoos or bashing Ethereum as "beta cuck fake coin".

There's a range of topics (money, power, sex, death) that do funny things to the human mind. When broaching said topics, most if not all people become unfathomably stupid in various ways.
Let companies share and do whatever they want but put huge fines on data breaches. Make it a felony to hide, fail to report or otherwise lie about data breaches. Money if you fuck up, prison if you lie about it.

that should align some incentives and get you a good way along. It will incentivise proper security measures, and help quench the thirst for data in the first place.
Another anecdata:

Last night, I finally succumbed to iOS11 (the only reason I did was that I wanted to enroll in Heart Study, for which your iphone device has to be iOS11).

Indeed I had been pushing it away because I usually associate the word "upgrade" to device death when it comes to mobile devices.

But wow... it did not screw my 6S up. In fact, I think it's faster and 'zippier' with this iOS11 upgrade.
A multihead charger can move the charge to a different head every few minutes, and can apply quotas or QoS priority.
One of the coolest things I've ever played with. It's hard to describe how antiquated engaging with computation through 5.5" or 15" rectangles is when you've seen a whole building that is a computer
I am not the OP but from looking at their profile - https://heapanalytics.com/terms you can check there
" you're frankly talking out of your ass to put it politely "

Well I'm from Canada, and we rank HIGHER than Switzerland with 'full time politicians' - as do 100% of the nations that rank higher than Switzerland - as 'proven' by the very data you provided!

So to 'be polite' - maybe you're 'talking out your ass' x2 by providing research that repudiates your own logic, and while taking smack to others on a thread?

Consider 'reading your own research' and 'not calling others names'?
Personal data right now is considered an asset. It needs to be seen as a liability.

Maybe the solution is a data tax. You pay a set amount every year for every piece of personal data you have. If you buy personal data from another company, you still have to pay the tax for the data you acquired.

If you have a breach of data, your tax goes up for a period of 10 years.

In addition, every piece of personal data needs to have provenance which must be tracked. There must be a way to track from when a consumer input the data all the way through. Fraud in regards to this provenance is punishable by jail time. If you have data that does not have provenance, the company will be severely fined and people will go to jail. In the event of any data breach, not only will the company that had the breach be taxed extra, all companies that provided the data to the company (which is in the provenance information for the data) that had the breach will also be punished with increased data taxes.

EDIT:

In addition, maybe require annual personal data reports. The reports should contain

Amount of personal data.

Amount of personal data last year.

Data breaches.

Amount of personal data acquired directly from consumers.

Amount of personal data purchased and from whom at what prices.

Amount of personal data sold and to whom for what price.

This will be a filing to a government agency every year on penalty of perjury and be signed by all the board members and the c-suite. This will be publicly made available by the government. That way people can see what is happening with their data, and who is profiting off their data.
WASM replaces Javascript as the target of other language compilers.

JavaScript is also a compile target in a sandbox. Emscripten started with outputting plain JS, then that was optimized to asm.js, now optimized to WASM.

I completely agree that WASM should NOT replace JS for normal DOM apps. It's currently possible through awkward calls into JS, and might be possible in the future more directly, but there's no need to replace JS.
Is this true for flagship Android devices too?
This screams "planned obsolescence".

If battery scaling is a feature, then why isn't it mentioned by Apple? Why do we need a Reddit thread and a third party benchmarking tool to figure it out?

Also, why does the google search for "iphone slow" peak every time a new iPhone is released (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...)? Is it purely psychological? I can't find there are no similar spikes for "android slow" or "samsung slow" or similar searches.
In the real world you cannot invent new elements, so it's hard to find an alternative for gold. Unfortunately everybody can create Bitcoin alternatives. That's the big difference between gold and Bitcoin.
A couple of years ago I went to a conference where one of the speakers outlined his company's web page optimization methods. The big one was to delay executing JS until at least the visible page content was loaded, and all JS that actually implemented customer-useful bits.

His example page loaded 94 scripts, which he claimed was representative of many pages.
Flowers For Algernon - For my girlfriend.

Trafficked to Hell - For my Mother.
I am not a bitcoin fan but I can't imagine anything like this would be affected by the NP-hardness of the traveling salesman problem.

It's not like the system breaks if someone finds a way that a payment could have been routed faster. There are quick approximations to the TSP. Also, a payment network doesn't sound like a single object that has to traverse a graph with various costs, it sounds like a network flow problem.
Mixed-member proportional representation provides for geographic districts, while still ensuring that every party gets no more seats than its popular vote percentage.
My neighbor dug a little trench to run a cable to the street in front of their house.
"STV" actually refers to at least two related systems. You seem to be commenting on the single-winner form (also called "Instant Runoff Voting" in the United States). The multi-winner form is a form of proportional representation and as such would provide substantial protection from gerrymandering. The Australian terms "majority-preferential" and "quota-preferential" help make the difference (and the connection) clear.
Sorry to pierce your holy pope box, but this stuff is really, really, really old. It's way bigger than peoples' economic interest. This deals with forces that people are willing to die for. Think about that for a minute. What causes people to sign up for war? 9 times out of 10, it's for "the good of the country."

How do you define the good of the country? Only against the interests of other countries. What's in the best interests of the US is against the interests of China. That's what this stuff means. And it's a strong enough model to have prevailed for over a thousand years. Foreign policy experts are all over themselves right now wondering what the hell is going on and nobody really has a good answer.

The United States has historically been the global hegemony that dictates how much other nations can get away with. That's something that usually sinks into the minds of the entire population and infuses them with the willingness and desire to fight, not just to safeguard that status, but also to punish insults to that status, even if they're just perceived.

The EU is not an insult to American status. Neither is Russia, Africa, or South America. China is. They're creating global status for themselves that the US has historically held to be within it's purview. It's creating alternatives for countless small nations other than acceding to American dominance.

American politicians are more than capable of setting the economic agenda. They've done this in the past. Why are they not doing this now, in response to geopolitical imperative that's held for every single other nation in the same position has for as long as we can study dominant nations for? China should have expected the American inquisition. The inquisition never came. So they get bolder and bolder. This is far beyond business. This is pride.

America got to rise because the powers in Europe were too busy infighting to recognize the growing nation. Once the world wars concluded, they got their act together and are acting as a bloc to balance the US. The world learned to not ignore rising powers just because they're thousands of miles away.

Look, the US is willing to check North Korea, which serves no real threat to anything but perceived American interests. Yet we're willing to make national news every little thing Kim Jong-Un does, and seriously rattle our sabers against him. Why is North Korea on our radar, but not China?

It's got nothing to do with business. This is pure politics. The only entity capable of drumming up the resources to check China is us, and we're not doing it. By all analyses that have served us well for a thousand years, we're not doing it. Are we just waking up, just now getting ready to perceive the threat? Or is there something else going on? Does America just not care about the position in the world that previous generations spent their entire lives building?