skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it's planned to be removed in the future

Common response. Everything is promised to be fixed and shiny in the future in the cryptoworld these days.
> Most of those bugs and failures you listed are really inconsequential in their contexts.

Yes, I expect that for most things we could find a context that could render them inconsequential.

> Car won't play your phone's music? Use the radio. Game has bugs? Play another game until it's patched, or find inventive ways to use the bug. Can't see your CC? You can still charge on it and pay its balance. Experian and Equifax don't report same credit score? Your creditors aren't reporting to every credit bureau.

Elevator doesn't work? Use the stairs. Public restroom is filthy? Hold your breath and don't touch anything. Lost a tooth on the right side of your mouth because of an incompetent endodontist? Chew on the left side.

I'm not being facetious here. I really do agree that almost anything is tolerable if we decide to. That last example is from personal experience: I have lost three teeth on the right side of my mouth and I have to chew on the left. Most of the time, I don't even think about it anymore. And it really isn't that big of a deal -- it doesn't have a very significant impact on the quality of my life.

> Ashamed that someone else's system doesn't work? I can't help you there. That's some deep psychological issue.

It could be. Like I commented elsewhere, I would expect a doctor to be ashamed of Andrew Wakefield, but maybe most of them aren't. And even if they are, it could be a deep psychological issue that I choose to compare the state of our industry to what Wakefield did in his.

But here's the thing: I know that we can do better. Not perfect, better. But we don't have to, because we lack accountability.

Sure, perfect is the enemy of the good. But complacency is the last refuge of the mediocre.
Chrome is 100% the IE.

They blatantly ignore standards, the most obvious of which is their treatment of autocomplete=off in forms[1]. They broke the ability to disable autocomplete, and since then have been intentionally breaking workarounds people find to actually turn off autocomplete. This has been a major pain in the butt at work.

Before you yell at me about password managers or whatever, we don't use this on our login form: We make an app that collects some sensitive data that it is very pointless to autocomplete, and we've had user complaints about this very issue, but there's nothing we can do about it because Google unilaterally decided they know better than us.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22694173 (make sure to read the comments!)
It's still legal gambling targeting kids. It's heinous.
Cars, you may have noticed, are big. Apple has made a tradeoff between replaceable batteries and small phones, and the market has more or less agreed with this decision.
You're just being sarcastic for the sake of it and not really contributing anything to the discussion.
So now adding the term cryptocurrency to your product to make it look good is a thing now?
Both the iPhone and the Nexus 6Ps have horrible battery-swap design, but I still don't want to pay middle-men for what should be simple service I should be able to do at home.
> revenue seeking

Then what the hell did I donate money to them for? I thought their whole thing was they were for "people, not profit." I don't want my technology to make money off of me in any way I'm not aware of.
I can't help but laugh at the commenter below who made a new account just to troll you. Part and parcel of being a prominent part of a community, I guess.
If I buy N btc every month for different price and then sell some fractional amount, what would be the cost base? It appears to be possible to name the lot being sold but I can't find the consensus, internet in general advises FIFO.
I read this as satire.
Yes and maybe.
Facebook’s Community Standards are a total joke... no later than two days ago I came across a cartoon of a guy on public transport taking an ’upskirt’ without the woman’s consent only to start puking when he saw on his phone that she was menstruate (I kid you not). I of course reported it instantly. I promptly got an anodyne notification that ”I had done the right thing” reporting it it but that it was found ”not to violate Facebook’s community standards” so would not be taken down. I reported it again (this time as ”nudity or pornography”) and within 20 minutes my account was suspended for 24 hours. They’re dirt. And they’re too powerful.
Yes indeed!

The reason CloudFormation isn't used is because it's a lot slower. It also has its own bugs, so it didn't seem like a big win: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46280080/cannot-delete-a...

See https://github.com/zenclabs/deploy/commit/72c1fc847661a0ed0d... for the old CloudFormation equivalent :) Happy to bring it back if there's demand for it!
My biggest issue with Apple maps is lack of lane to get into when driving you get everywhere with Google maps. I can not live without this feature is not the greatest driver and really need this.
There's no difference between an "action" and "taking a position". If speech were meaningless, had no effect on peoples' lives–why would anybody care about free speech?
Maybe the image is outdated? The Quick Start doesn't seem to talk about Serverless accounts.
Health benefits. There is a whole world of study regarding the health benefits of long fasts. It gives your immune system a chance to generate a greater variety of responses to different pathogens. Also, it might have some benefit in staving off cancer, as it has been shown to offer aid with chemotherapy. See here:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fasting-might-boo...
Thank you for your response. I imagine in the case of a hunger strike in prison - which the above testimony was about - the fact that you're basically not moving all day must help with the weakness (not to mention slow down the actual starving due to lack of calories burning).
The Blondie24 book was published in 2002.

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1558607838

People need to recognize that this is not a new idea. It may have been groundbreaking in the early 2000s, but Genetic Algorithms + Neural Nets are a relatively old strategy at this point.

Definitely read the book if you want a bit of a throwback. When cutting-edge AI research was about beating players on Yahoo-games Checkers with new techniques.
> Kozmo.com

Hey don't diss Kozmo. I remember being a punk teenager and ordering a single 20oz bottle of soda and having it delivered by some dude in a car an hour later. Clearly, it wasn't a bubble :-)
The 'S' in Strikingly points to Weebly, while the 'trikingly' points to proper URL.
Exactly. I had an old iPhone 3G that was working fine until Apple released an update that crippled it after I held on to it too long after their product line had moved on...

I mean, to all those who might think "well, old phones be old", it's not that simple. The OS was running very smoothly, it's Apple, after all, but then I installed an OS update and after the update everything was slow and painful and took long to load, etc. It was night and day, pre-update: perfection, post-update: laggy as hell.

You can't tell me that this is anything but a way to force users of older models to upgrade.
Germany does not ban trading card games (Pokemon, Magic the gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! etc), which are real world examples of loot boxes.

The difference is you can trade rare X with someone else for money, but the company is not going to pay you when you get rare X.
In 2017, ULA launched 8 government payloads and 0 commercial.

In 2017, SpaceX launched 6 government payloads and 11 (or 12) commercial payloads.
Something to note about cameras in the US:

The vast majority of them are private, not government. Those that are private, many are misconfigured, aren't recording, are broken (either the camera or the backend), or are just plain fake cameras.

The government ones are usually not much better: I've had incidents where I've asked about CCTV footage at a post office, and I was told the camera wasn't hooked up (granted, maybe that's a standard line unless you are a cop with a warrant or something).

In a similar fashion, I've had something like that told to me by security at an office parking lot (I think my car was run into or something). Of course, maybe that was just a CYA response standard to keep the management company from being liable in some manner...

I have cameras at my house. They monitor my yard and doors, and store events on my ZoneMinder server (which also emails me the events). I try to keep it in working order.

Finally, those that are government and monitored, etc - just like everywhere else - none of that footage is looked at until long after the fact of something happening. The real fear is with various facial recognition, gate recognition, and "threat recognition" software being used - identifying people as false-positives for innocent things (while missing the identification of actual threats).
According to this article Service Workers is on by default in the latest Safari Tech Preview: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/20/safari-preview-46-service-wor...
Wait, it's the holidays, should the people making significant business procurement decisions be out-of-office?
My plan is to ban EU residents in my TOS and not bother enforcing it.
> Anon because making free to play games is admittedly kinda evil.

Don't be cowardly.

If you're ashamed, then don't participate. Otherwise, own it.
All of the Android phones I've had do when the battery starts to get old, Especially when you use the camera while it's low. Maybe you take better care of your batteries?
I mostly agree. Chrome worries me for a lot of reasons and I don't trust google at all.
Or they could, you know, design the thing so that the battery is replaceable and provide easily accessible replacement batteries.
Dear ad industry: You should care about media literacy, too
Honestly I think it makes him more "relateable" by making him not "the enemy" for viewers
Except it does change your argument: you are clearly missing a for now, so long as it pleases Google.

You can imply that if Google did something to upset consumers they may flock to an alternative Blink-based browser or Chromium, but Google and Chrome are the brands they know, they don't know or care about Blink or Chromium.

You may believe that Google are entirely generous and would never upset the open source balance from which they benefit, but they've done it before. The hard fork of Blink from WebKit is one obvious sign that if Google isn't happy, they can and will take their ball and move on. You can also consider in this equation the increasing disparity between open source AOSP and consumer Google Android. The number of closed, proprietary "Google Play" APIs that applications increasingly rely on still seems to be growing at a strong pace. The number of APKs that you can, for instance, sideload to AOSP-based Amazon FireOS continues to only dwindle and at this point a software developer very much has to develop two apps, one for Amazon's APIs and one for Google's, despite all the shared open source between the platforms.

So of course we should worry that Chrome has such a huge marketshare and that so many web developers are essentially building "Chrome-only" websites.
Currently, we set up a separate Application Load Balancer for each of your deployments.

It's technically possible to share a single ALB for several deployments, but it becomes harder to manage and sharing the same ALB between dev/prod/staging for example isn't necessarily a safe design (e.g. if you run some load testing on one deployment, it should not put other deployments at risk).

Will add more docs, thank you for the feedback!
They have them in a few intersections here in Munich too
Luckily the IRS has been kneecapped by Congress because they started looking into the finances of some sketchy looking conservative nonprofits.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fact...
Theres a world of ideas between talking about motivations for doing OSS and telling people not to contribute to OSS.

As pertains to what you're saying we completely agree.
Bankers Begone Spotify to Get Clearance for an ‘Underwriter-Less’ IPO
It means dick.
It also will be marked-to-market
You probably donated money to the Mozilla Foundation, which owns the Mozilla Corporation. The Corporation is not a nonprofit, in the sense that it's taxed, although that is not the same thing as saying their goal is profit.
Then why is he going on his "I'm running for President" tour of America, eating at blue collar family homes and visiting historically black churches?

Being in governance gives you power that you can only glance at as a private citizen. Being a billionaire and president of the US will make you far more powerful than merely being a billionaire.
Hey now, 30 Rock had Condoleeza Rice!
They come in waves. dang and crew are generally pretty responsive in taking care of it. 4chan/8chan on the other hand... It's just a part of my life at this point.
And then they'll raise prices yet again and continue to deliver horrible service, packages nobody wants, etc.
There's a quick manual in the README at https://github.com/zenclabs/deploy. We'll add some docs on the landing page too :)
But I don't intend to sell my non-iPhone, ever. It works as well for me now as it did when I first bought it, so why would I? It's the same reason why I'm never going to sell my 2001 Honda Civic.

Have you examined the reasons why iPhone owners sell their older iPhones, and why people buy refurbished used iPhones?
- Apple has disabled to check how many cycles the battery has.
- Battery recall over shutdown issues
- Software to slow down the phone to save battery

All these three should explain Apple's behavior.
> I'm pretty accepting of software having bugs at the beginning, even stupid obvious ones.

Even cryptographic security bugs intentionally placed by the lead developer? https://gist.github.com/Come-from-Beyond/a84ab8615aac13a4543...
> 2. > IOTA network relies on the “coordinator”
And it's planned to be removed in the future.

If someone told you they were going to create their own currency by releasing a completely decentralized 100% electronic brand new form of money based on cryptography, would you have believed them before bitcoin was released? Even when it was already up and working for 5 years, people were STILL saying it wouldn't work!

Now for some reason instead of being skeptical, people buy into wild claims with nothing backing them up.
You read books, and you talk to real people imo.
But their owners and managers who actually tell them what to do and have all of the power over the networks are nearly all Republicans (or right-wing democrats). They don't do it for free, they do it out of self-interest.

For example, Sinclair broadcast group that owns a huge amount of local broadcasting in every media market in the US. Their national corporate governance literally requires all subsidiaries run blatant pro-Trump hyper conservative propaganda pieces.
Web developers grouse over supporting all web browsers and I find it fairly ridiculous. If you're job is to essentially "paint a vision" for users of the sites you're hired for, pick the highest common denominator that ALL of the three or four largest browsers have and work from there.

It really grinds my gears that some in my dev team constantly pick shit that ONLY works properly on one browser, then they write in hacks for the others. It's dirty, dealing with dewy eyed "pros" whose strength is one of dozens of frameworks that would have been better suited for the task at hand.
I agree. I don't want the police using biased tools either.

OP has stated elsewhere in the comments that the reason they're interested in the tech is for testing it in some other unrelated area.
> Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are significant technological innovations.

Hardly. The Blockchain uses the same kind of underpinnings as git. In fact, for many applications git might even be a better data store than The Blockchain--it doesn't require a bajillion miners consuming several hydroelectric dams worth of power to stay online.
Twitter responds to Elon Musk with positive public transport stories
Not yet. Currently I'm working on adding Ether and Litecoin. But I'm adding this suggestion on my suggestions list! Stay tuned :-)
Alternative title: Apple uses crappy batteries
Can you use a debugger yet? This was a major roadblock for me when I tried to learn rust. (other than lldb)
> I don't really understand this attitude. Mozilla doesn't need to be everything I ever wanted from a browser in order to get my support.

Having a Mozilla option is good, but when Mozilla screws up it needs to get a clear indication that it did. I think folks saying "down with Mozilla" do not really mean this 100%; but they do want Mozilla to know that it seriously screwed up in their view. And we should not treat it as a shrinking violet -- it is not a tiny startup; it is a large corporation with funding in hundreds of millions.

> It only needs to be better than Google.

This, IMO, is setting the bar way too low. It should aim to do what the users want and consumer technology easily allows. If there is a big gap between those we should encourage new entrants, not entrench Mozilla as "the" alternative to pick-your-evil. My 2c.
My friends used to complain about this but I always thought it was them trying to justify buying the newer iphones. They always said their iphones would slow when new iphones came out. Sounded like conspiratorial nonsense back then.
I tried cointracking.info a couple of months back and figured that it would take some time for it to stablize. With different exhanges using different formats, and no support for all exchanges (at least the ones I am using), it is tough to tally. I finally used their export as basis and built my own excel sheet. I don’t think I have it all figured but I am happy with what I have. Now whenever I make any transaction, I add entries to my sheet.
So you do the trading offshore? It's a virtual currency after all.
^thought
I don't think it is relevant "who" changes "what" (you or a specialized technician).

The point revolves more around whether replacing a vital component after only one year of normal use would be covered by warranty (in EU for consumers warranty is two years for everything).

Another interesting point is how you discover that some part needs to be replaced.

For the car, it is easy, one morning it won't start.

What if (say) Ford or Chevrolet (or Volkswagen that has some documented experience in the field ;)) had a hidden electronic device that - in order to save the battery and your next morning start of the car - progressively dimmed a litte bit your head and tail lights and/or lowered the heating or the cooling set temperature slightly, starting, still say, after six month?
There's a difference inciting violence and hatred versus party propaganda.
That may be part of it. It's also that people like thin phones, and replaceable batteries place mechanical requirements on the phone that make it thicker.
I think it should say "ClojureScript arrives on THE server", with the article.
The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism (1998)
Apple's _total_ revenue since 2000 has been less than 1.2T, and it's not like they provided no value.

Calling it a "scam" in any capacity is already a stretch. Calling it a scam in "trillions" is utterly hyperbolic, and equally stupid.
My 2013 Macbook Pro would spontaneously shut down with anywhere between 30-40% battery. I tried a few tips I found online to fix it, but nothing seemed to work.
The Illustrated versions of Harry Potter is such a beautiful book. It went on sale recently to $24.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harry-potter-and-the-sorcer...
Depends on the nature of the cronjobs you're scheduling. If your cronjobs cannot run in parallel on the same node (or, more likely, you cannot trust that they can safely run in parallel on the same node, because somebody else wrote the job and didn't need your review or approval before deploying to the scheduler), then you need to restrict each Jenkins node to a single executor, and you cannot run more cronjobs in parallel than you have Jenkins nodes, or else those cronjobs will be delayed. Because Kubernetes enforces the use of containers, multiple jobs can be run on each Kubernetes node with no issues (by design).

Remember - if there's a one in a million chance of a collision, it'll happen by next Tuesday.
Large voltage drops under load are typically an indication of a bad cell or battery. You could argue this is beneficial to the customer but Apple is hiding the fact that they're doing this. Why?

I recall when they switched to non-replaceable batteries in MacBooks, they boasted how their battery lives were the best and would last x years. Is this how they did it?
> No rational investor would ever make this investment.

Depends on your situation. But of course you need to assume that this is a very high risk investment... It could go to $500k or $0.50.

> Do you happen to have any money on bitcoin by any chance?

I only have a very small fraction of 1 Bitcoin... nothing to be excited about.
That's not entirely accurate. They observed that with a fully charged battery it performed as expected. The CPU wasn't throttled until the battery was depleted.
Since you mention odds, it's interesting to look at the stats of the companies that provide official information about their odds.

For Blizzard's Hearthstone, for example, their stated odds of getting their highest category of cards (legendary) is 1:100 and given that that 1% chance is spread across several different cards across multiple sets, getting a specific legendary card is only a fraction of that 1%.

For Nintendo's Fire Emblem Heroes, the chance of getting their highest category of characters (5 stars), is a relatively generous 6%. However, that's split across 2 batches of 3%, one of which is split across 3 specific characters (i.e. 1% specific card) and the other which has about 100 cards (0.03% to get a specific character). As each character is one who appeared in the long-running Fire Emblem series of games, there's significant incentive to try and get specific characters.

And these are games from companies that behave relatively ethically in this space. I can think of Asian games that are much worse.

[0] https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Card_pack_statistics

[1] https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Summon_Heroes
Round 1 submissions to NIST post-quantum crypto competition
Are we at that point where we can have ternary signals though?
Yes! Coding != Programming

You can still have programming without text-based coding.
Mozilla has ~$500M revenue/year.

I don't think you'll find a alternate non-Apple/Google/Microsoft player with similar backing.
People who can delay gratification are likely those who have the means to do so to begin with. I know it's not the point of research, but it would really be nice if this stuff was more prescriptive (to the article's defense they do touch on this a bit in the end).

Discipline and willpower and what not are great things, but for the average person simply creating an environment to which discipline is unnecessary is easier.

Some more thoughts for anyone who's bored out there:
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1) Website usage: many people check websites religiously, just to see if anything is new. Most of the time nothing is new. A means to prevent the actual visiting of the website (which will lead to more wasted time) would be nice.

Example, you refresh the page right now, perhaps there are some new comments, maybe there aren't. Either way, maybe it's only worth it if there are X amount of new comments. A way to prevent "pointless" checks would be nice.

2) Soft reminder: it's worth thinking about a potential way to get someone back on track without explicitly reminding them to do so. I'm not quite sure how would do this (redirect to a website that was being worked on, maximizing the window that was important) as figuring out important itself is difficult, but it's worth a thought.

EDIT: grammar