skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WOW. Conspiracy was real the whole time!

Devil's Advocate to spark discussion (I'm not an iPhone owner so no dog in fight):

Apple did the right thing by not putting a switch in to toggle this slowdown[1]. For many iPhone users, the phone is a magic box that gives them videos and apps and (unlike our HN audience) don't have a clue about how it works, nor do they care. If such a switch existed, these same people would see a twitter comment saying "speed up yuor (sic) IPhone by turning off this setting~~~!!!!1" and would just do it.

The result? iPhones dying at a faster rate. Even today, as Android phones are barely updated at all, it is still a desirable selling feature of an Apple iPhone that it will be supported for years. People turning that switch on without understanding the consequences would shorten the life of their devices and then //still// complain about how the device didn't last that long.

I would think that a jailbreak-locked option would work IE you have to know enough about how your phone works to make the change, thus increasing your chances of making an informed decision on whether to shorten its life or not.

[1]Which is different than not telling people about it, which IMO is shady

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Not quite. The average person will likely not care too much about their identity being bound to a particular server (if they're aware of it at all), especially as many large and stable instances are available for guests to register and use.
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are getting their accounts disabled every couple of weeks and require photo ID proof to re-enable.

Sounds like hi tech version if voter ID and serving basically the same purpose.
> the trade doesn’t involve USD at all

Neither does buying pounds in euros, but you'll still calculate your taxes in USD.
Your post had so many straw men that I advise <no_smoking> tags around your post. It’s not that there was so much to disagree with, but rather I couldn’t suss your point beyond “the hive mind is hypocritical”, which...doesn’t leave me much to argue with.
Having just spent more time fixing quirks in an HTML layout in iOS Safari than I had to in IE 9, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
The scary thing is some may hold up Google/Facebook/Twitter as the standard of the internet (without even being conscious of it).

Guess I'm not that young now, knowing what the internet was supposed to be in the beginning.
I don't know Rust very well, but hope to learn it better soon. steveklabnik is the only person from the Rust team I recognize by name. He's always leaving detailed and positive replies in Rust related forums across the Internet. Thanks for all your hard work Steve.
Civilization VI for iPad
Although I can't speak for the rest of the software industry, Steve's hard work and talent have certainly made a huge impact on the Rust language and community. If you read this, thanks for everything you do to make Rust great!
I've written about this before, The American Banking System is still in the 1990s:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-american-banking-system-is...

As you've mentioned in Germany you have TAN numbers, in Australia and New Zealand you can send money to any person with their name and account number, free of any fee or charge.

With companies like Paypal, Venmo and Square profiting so much from that gap, I doubt we'll ever see the US banking system work as well as those in the rest of the world.
Relevant: https://serverfault.com/questions/218747/how-to-setup-a-nntp...
As an example, anyone remember the glaring indexedDB and flexbox bugs in Safari?!
the comments were just straight up wrong assuming information that only I have, and I can't rebut it because, you know regulators would put me in jail. so now what?
Knowing the odds of lotteries being one in a million hasn’t kept people from throwing away money to buy tickets.

Gambling is not a problem that can be solved with “information”.
Awesome, thanks for those. I had no idea these resources existed.
But if this bill means that the IRS will only reject like-kind starting January 1, 2018, then those advisors (and their clients) made an expensive error-on-the-side-of-caution, didn't they? Perhaps even to the extent that people who followed that advice might dare to amend their 2016-and-earlier returns?

This year, the case for 'in-kind' exchange might be best for Bitcoin and its baby Bitcoins (Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold) – the functional differences are initially miniscule, though likely to grow in time.
When JP was filmed, the discovery of dinosaurs having feathers hadn't happened yet, and big efforts were made on providing accurate representations of what was known about the creatures. Back then scientists still thought dinosaurs were reptiles' ancestors, so the skin had to look reptile-like; personally, I think they succeeded, and a bigger success was shown in The Lost World, years after.
flexbox isn't a bleeding edge technology, and it's supposed to work properly on safari, but it really doesn't. Annoying as hell, and garbage on their organization to be honest.
So we've got a company spending millions of dollars developing a piece of software, and then giving away all the source for free. And you think they should be forced to give you documentation on how to build it... why?

I mean, seriously the entitlement is astounding to me. OF COURSE they're going to make it difficult to build on your own, that's part of the monetization strategy. If you don't want to pay for it, and you also don't want to spend the time figuring out how to build it on your own, don't use it. But to act as if they owe you something is... ridiculous.
https://bitcoin.tax/ might be what you are looking for.
YouTube seems to be broken on Edge half the time. I don’t think they even test for it.
If Winklevoss tried to cash out, they’d probably crash the Bitcoin market
I need to block Forbes. The number of ads they put up is comparable, and quality of their content is comparable to buzzfeed nowadays
Age is unquestionably a useful attribute to use in targeting advertising. But in certain cases we've decided to impose rules that make advertising suboptimal in the interests of building a more fair society.
Yeah, you're right. Like @enkiv2 said, it's really about control. If the user controls ordering and filtering, any old order is fine. I think the reason plain old reverse-chronological seems notable is because most people who use feeds are using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and/or Snapchat, where the user isn't in control.

Even if these services offered sorting options (most don't, I think), the default is an optimization for time-on-site. Which is to say, when most people's experience of feeds is being manipulated by them, boring old reverse chronological sticks out.
Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism?
This is another example of a corporation that's too greedy and dishonest. Apple is by no means the only one. I'm sure there are going to be many "fan boys" and girls or maybe marketeers that will try to justify this, but the fact remains that the company that manufactures and sells the most expensive device in the market and has 100% control over the hardware and software , is degrading its performance on purpose. The user has no knowledge of this (hence the lying) and doesn't have the option of replacing the battery in an easy way. Who tells me that this isn't part of a strategy so that the user will buy the newest and more expensive phone...
> On one government site it seemed the only working combo was to use an iPad, as no desktop browser worked on my Mac.

Did you try using IE? I find some state government sites still work best on IE10/IE11
Documented in what way? All studies focus on people who already have heart disease. Just because sedentary couch potatoes on a high salt diet get sick does not prove causation from the salt. Everyone's body has built in regulatory systems to maintain isotonic balance and excrete the excess. We couldn't have crawled out of the sea without this fundamental ability. But, of couse, everybody knows salt is bad.
This thread has really activated your almonds, huh?
> For someone who is gay, there's nothing like that. They find different people attractive. No ethical systems to it.

And why is that difference relevant?
Anyone who says this doesn't remember what made IE notorious back in the day.

None of the browsers now are anything like that.

Apple's approach with Safari is exactly what the author of the linked article said; they are slower to implement standards. When they do, I usually have no problems with them at all.
That is backwards. Nearly everything in the web platform began as a proprietary extension, including JavaScript and XHR. Standardizing something that has never been used in real life is a bad idea. Convincing the other browser vendors to implement your new idea is usually impossible. So insisting that only standards ever be used would result in no progress at all.
This doesn't really refute what the author is saying; the main thrust behind the website and the blog post the site references is that Safari doesn't adopt new features Chrome does, which is basically the exact thing which the author of the article we're commenting on is saying is a bad position to take.

I have no horse in this race, since I like Safari when I'm on Apple products and I will happily use Chrome or Firefox or IE/Edge depending on what's available, but I agree with the author of the primary article here; we shouldn't put one browser up on a pedestal just because of release cycles or cool projects it does and let it dictate how the web should look and behave.
It's a valid question, but you may want to start by contributing to OSS projects that you actually use. The story in the article is about the author and his cofounder contributing to a library they used heavily. You already have a vested interest in things you use. The next step would be to visit the git repo and see how you can help.
I'd say "your notification tray", but it seems like the majority has already lost that one.
look, i really do not try to be an ass about this stuff, but the stuff people post is actually just wrong and hurts my business (people on hn can appreciate this) but i can't say anything substantive because we're regulated by the US govt and I can't say anything beyond what I am allowed to.

Does that make sense?
Submit articles you think are interesting, upvote those you think are interesting, flag those you think aren't appropriate for the site, contribute comments which move the discussion forward in substantive ways, flag/downvote those you think aren't appropriate. Those are pretty much the tools we have at our disposal. Things we don't like are easy to see. Help create the site you want it to be. It does take more work, but I think that's the main way forward.
Computational study of world music reveals countries with distinct recordings
Counterexample: The Four Color Theorem (which states that any 2-dimensional map can be colored with four colors such that no two bordering countries have the same color). It is considered proven even though the proof involves a giant computer verification which certainly can't be explained in under 100s of hours.
Nothing in the article seems to indicate him leaving Mozilla or rust. It ends with "here's to 5 more years".
Woah. I have a 2013 macbook that was getting pretty sluggish even for browsing. Thankfully the battery is easily removeable and I could test this. After removing it I noticed a great difference!
I'll try to live with the dangers of a sudden power loss from the cable unplugging.

Why throttle the ac connected devices?
Wow, that's a lot of potential reward for someone inside the exchanges if they can put together some information to report to the IRS - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/taxes/09/reporting-tax...
>Google Hangouts for one!

I believe this now works on FF, according to an HN post yesterday.

>If you don't like the standards, advocate for new ones!

I think the problem with this is it means that I can't provide something useful until the standards body updates, which could be a cadence of years. In that timeframe, a competitor will break the standard.
The writers for most prime-time sitcoms are Democrats. They do it for free.
I read the first article when it was on the front-page of HN, and after reading this response, I'm more surprised at the costs of running a Kickstarter through a PR agency, especially when the goal is not something in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I get your point but considering Mozilla gets all of its funding from those same corporations I'm not sure how true that is.
How about just the ability for a user to replace the battery? Should be a law to cut down on ewaste.
People who got the idea to kill her after breaching her privacy... this is like basic cause-and-effect.
Reform is not the intent, although it is the criteria for re-inclusion. The intent is to create a community that respects all of it's members rights. Excluding the co-worker helps me because I don't have to worry about whether the fruits of my labor are going to a effort that will cause me harm either in the present or in the future.

Social interaction and software development go hand in hand - The idea that someone with a fundamentally hostile viewpoint is needed to create something of value for both of us is not applicable. There are many software developers who don't wish harm upon others, and they will be more willing to work with you.

The best outcome in this situation is not the product that gets created. The best outcome is an environment in which members of the community don't feel like their basic rights are in question.
Hangouts uses a plugin. It's not using web standards. So using it as an example of breaking standards is really silly.
Now, I know that different battery chemistries have different discharge profiles and this waters down my point a bit, but hear me out.

I started buying LED flashlights when the first couple of designs with high efficiency voltage regulator circuits showed up. The one my buddy had was only fit for a reading light for the last couple of hours of use.

People used to understand that things got dimmer or slower when the battery was almost dead. Due to circuitry these flashlights kept going even though the battery voltage had dropped below the shutoff voltage for an LED. Shouldn’t we maybe have built on that familiarity? Couldn’t we still?
Well, those are brokerages. I assume what you mean is that it was more common to call your broker on the phone and place an order (at a fairly high fee in most cases). That's fair. Even in the US, online trading really came in contemporaneously with the dot-com era. That said, even the newish online brokerages were regulated to a degree we don't see with cryptocurrencies.
There's only so much the actual phone can do to prevent a problem with a battery though. To put it bluntly, a temperature sensor in the phone isn't going to do shit if one of the battery's internal walls fails due to a manufacturing defect and the thermal runaway starts.

Every month or so I hear of another person who's phone caught fire on their bed, or the whole galaxy note fiasco. While I agree with you that for the most part it's not a worry in devices from reputable manufacturers (like OEMs), but it is and will continue to be a problem for cheaper manufacturers, and suppliers who aren't afraid to lie about what's inside the package.
> 'This is what a company looks like when it runs out of money'
'This is what a company looks like when it is mismanaged' - FTFY
You might like reading "Beyond the Pale" by Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada. Years and years of just barely making it and tons of reinvestment to keep on top of production, but basically no free cash flow for a decade. As a perk, it's really well written.
Most of them couldn't tell the difference, so they pick some internet advice like "hire people with many side projects!", which is why job seekers are told to create side projects to improve their chances.
She set herself a sweet gig of collecting mining profits instead of taking just one time payments. Probably the only way she can take a recurrent payment as a sexworker.
Small fry. People like Martha Stewart. She's wealthy of course, but her dipping in is of little consequence. Or your buddy at Google lets you in on something theyre not supposed to. It's the big sharks you care about.
Anyone notices the screenshot? The price was at 13.37.
It's mind boggling to me that anyone takes IOTA seriously anymore. The fact that it's in ternary should be enough to convince the more risk-averse technical people of the folly of its design. More optimistic techies should have been convinced when researchers showed that its hash function was trivially broken. Everyone else should've jumped ship when it was revealed that all of their "corporate partnerships" were made up to pump the coin.

It goes to show that anyone with good marketing can make a killing in the cryptocurrency world.
Yet, what Safari is, is competition. Also let's not forget that it gave the world WebKit and broke us free from the trap that was Flash.
Needing punitive damages is a contradiction by definition. If you could show injury then they would be normal damages The point of punitive damages is that they're not necessary to compensate the injured party but to send a message that a certain behavior is not acceptable.

For example: "$person was burned by your hot coffee so we're awarding them $smallnumber for medical expenses, lost wages, suffering, etc. and $bignumber in punitive damages because you shouldn't be serving coffee that hot in that manner in the first place"
- Because nobody ignores attribution.

- Not only is life it too short to pretend outfits that exist to promote a particular agenda are, in fact, neutral arbiters this time around, but doing so is actively empowering bad actors arguing in bad faith.

Puzzle me this: a person you know to be con-artist wants you to do something. You can't figure out an angle, but it is a weird-seeming thing to ask.

Do you ignore what you know about this person in making your decision?
They had a Mac, so probably not.
Wow! Thank you so much for the explanation!

> I have seen folks add pointless "1 = 1"-type clauses to their text

I have seen something like that, too, and I have always wondered if that was just job protection or if there was some arcane reason to it.
The code in question was part of a view, though, so it ran unaltered countless of times. That view also contained numerous "1 <> 1" clauses, apparently to disable branches of the - rather intimidating WHERE clause. It was the one time I took over someone else's code and felt like swearing.
Call her what you want..this is actually genius
Hey everyone, sounds like this guy just volunteered to host as many homeless as wanted to live at his place! Dude's got that purp too, hooray!
Planned obsolescence
The Spam problem is difficult to solve with IOTA and 'valueless' transactions; the Tangle is elegant but doesn't seem to be standing up to real world usage just yet. I'm looking into helping verify the IOTA network by writing a simulator based on the Tangle WhitePaper to do some stress testing and to see if the holes can be plugged.

Arguably, it's still Alpha.
Just because it 'worked' doesn't mean it was a good thing to do
I'm not a big fan of labeling things as left and right wing.

In this case, the article is about homelessness, and I found it interesting to know that the institute has for decades held a fixed opinion on individual responsibility.

I have no idea whether the rest of the institute's positions could be neatly categorized.
Rust is among the most welcoming of communities to start out in. If you're interested in the language, definitely check here for easy ways to get involved.

https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork/starters
Then it should be broken up and managed differently. The idea that a company with a sanctioned monopoly who receives over a billion dollars a year in subsidies loses money is absurd.
I'm on the last few pages of this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_Pe...

...where he talks about his role and questions regarding the Challenger shuttle disaster; I don't know if things have changed much since then at NASA, but I suspect they haven't, given Columbia and such.
Mozilla is in great parts its community, and so far, it has done a great job in keeping it in tow when it appeared to derail. The Mr. Robot thing has been retracted (although it was also largely portrayed as a privacy issue, which it wasn't), Pocket has been acquired, and the rest were mainly diversions that many people deem unnecessary but that aren't necessarily a threat to Mozilla's mission other than potentially distracting them.

So I think the project is relatively healthy, and in any case, still miles and miles ahead in terms of worthiness than every other major browser out there.
As a reader, this is sad to hear. Nautilus provides real quality content. One of the best magazines out there.
Introducing Kubeflow: Composable, Portable, Scalable ML Stack for Kubernetes
I don't say this to demean these people but I would guess that a majority of that 16% are low-skill/minimum wage jobs. When you don't have skills that are in demand, employers less likely to offer benefits. Businesses are just like people, if they can get away with paying less, they will. I'm not saying it's right.

I'm hoping the Republicans manage to screw things up enough to lose Congress in 2018. If that happens, Trump will go all-in on single-payer/universal healthcare. He has no loyalty, and in the past (prior to running for office) he was pro-single-payer. So we'll see what happens.
Geez, that's the way you do it. Clever girl.
Your comment ranged from unhinged rant to moderate and reasonable depending on which edit you were on. I decided to focus on the part that was both consistent and worth addressing.
As if you supported your complaint with solid examples. The last time the moderators smacked you on the nose, you were making inflammatory comments with absolutely nothing to back them up. Just like this time: not one example of this egregious moderation.
Response three is quite the bullshit. every transaction in every coin uses some kind of computing power already, even without the confirmation part. what kind of computer is not powerful enough to handle iota? I don't know the exact numbers, but i read even internet routers can do it.

I have no stake in iota at all, but this response makes one wonder
What's wrong with Ternary? Other than being obscure?

I'm not happy they seem to be spending more on PR than development, but that does seem to be the case for most startups these days.
I'll add a link to the (to my mind) canonical articulation of why coroutines are superior to state machines: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

I'll also add a shameless plug to my recent 'port' of this essay for a VM with first-class continuation support: http://akkartik.name/coroutines-in-mu
Moreso to mitigate risk of theft, I assume
China builds transparent concrete solar cell roadways that charge driving cars
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Who in the world would run right out and buy a new iPhone if their last one became unusable in one year?

A lot of people? I'm sure there are tons of people who do this where cost isn't an issue.
The new trailer for JW just came out, no feathers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9mMeWcgoM
Big fan of bindgen. Two libraries i created already use it
- rustrpg (rust for postgres)
- torch-rust
This certainly seems to be the case from my experience. Same thing they did for previous recalls on MacBooks.
I on the other hand, mind being taxed.
Thanks for the in-depth analysis.
The whole problem is that the batteries can't deliver that performance.

They can throttle the chip to what the battery can deliver or it will crash. Maybe Apple's more conservative on the throttling, and some amount of performance could still be achieved without a crash, but there's zero chance Apple's putting a "make my phone unstable" switch in Settings.
Here's an article on IUT that shows that progress is being made: http://inference-review.com/article/fukugen