skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this play into how we perceive security threats? As far as I understand it, the general model to reduce threats to any system is to create bottlenecks (reduce attach surface) where you can focus the majority of your countermeasures. Is it at least not a valid consideration that one model of society/government effectively forces a bottleneck of social/political decisions at the government level in order to head off any issues? Citizens in this model would presumably have a higher level of vested interest in the proper functioning of the government, and therefore have higher involvement.
Still not being taken seriously as a "real currency" - it is being taken seriously as "real property" though.
NavPay Release
"I had to write a small python script to transform the binary into a printf command to write it out to disk, as essentially nothing but bash builtins worked due to the condition of the disk."

Why not create a tmpfs directory over some existing directory? Why try to write to disk when the disk is known to be malfunctioning? Then send the static binaries needed to the tmpfs directory, e.g., using netcat. Perhaps I have misunderstood the problem.

Many years ago, I once tried a pre-packaged, well-regarded, "system rescue live CD". When I tried to use it on a computer with a malfunctioning disk, the rescue CD would fail to boot. Apparently it tried to access the computers HDD during boot. I switched to using another less-hyped OS to boot from USB stick into RAM and encountered no problems rescuing the malfunctiong HDD. Oh well.

Why try to use use the disk if it is not working?
People aren't upset because they cannot tune the voltage themselves; they're upset because of a lack of communication.

You cannot make informed purchasing decisions if manufacturers are hiding this kind of information from you. How many people bought a new iPhone due to degraded performance when a new battery would have fixed it right up? People didn't have the information to make that choice, and I believe that's what's upsetting at least some people.
Hard to feel sorry for a media outlet that publishes blatantly unscientific feel-good drivel like this:

http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/what-both-the-left-and-right...
Really? This is the first I've heard of lithium-chemistry batteries being expected to expand over time. I'd love to know more.
Portland already is better to the homeless – that's why they're there!

But, generally, I've never come across a compelling argument or solution about homelessness.

> Why should people in Nebraska and Oklahoma and Idaho have to deal with the homeless of Portland?

Why shouldn't they have to deal with the homeless? Or why shouldn't homeless people be able to demand, and receive, free housing wherever they want? Surely some of the homeless in Portland now weren't born there. But even if they were – is there a real right to be able to live wherever one was born, forever, for free?

And surely some degree of economic efficiency should be considered. The more cheaply housing or other accommodation can be supplied the more can be helped. Certainly it seems ridiculous to provide free housing in the most expensive places.

I suspect there are no good answers, generally. Conflict is inevitable!
I’ve bought two and they were great. eBay has reviews now so you can have some confidence in the seller.
Yet another social-media thing.

I thought the consensus in non-social-media media was that all social media was unhealthy.

Now we're getting an ad (or infomercial, if you prefer that term) from traditional media for an open-sourced Facebook / Twitter wannabe killer.

I guess they just take whatever stance that fits their unstated goals.
sounds like warehouse scale computing, imo.
Yes, of course. And since they don't put in a significant amount of money, even if their investment were to go 50x, they probably wouldn't cash out and keep holding. That is a clear mistake, as it can be dangerous not to exit.

I was just pointing out that it can be profitable riding a bubble, as long as you're careful about it. I have an old money friend who put in a few million last year. That's exciting stuff.

One thing I wonder: since they own so little, do they even move the market?
the OP said it was a hassle to track down. I don't disagree, but instead of tracking down the problems, you can just spend the few dollars extra every month and ignore the problem.

I don't disagree being able to stop streams remotely would be a great feature, I'm just saying there is another way to avoid the hassle of tracking down the offending devices.. ;)
My point wasn't that they shouldn't work together, but that just expecting that person, in your example, a closet racist, would lay that at the door when working with someone of another skin colour on a project seems fantastical.

There will always be friction between people based on their views - expecting everyone in a project to only be giving one part of themselves (only the bit relevant to the project) is ridiculous. I guess a roundabout way of saying you need to take people as the wholes that they are, not just cherry pick the parts you like and expect the rest to have no impact.
If we go with the car analogy, then the gas tank would become smaller with age, but also the fuel line which feeds the engine becomes smaller with age. So overall capacity is reduced, but in addition to that, if you try to floor it when the tank is at 40%, the engine will stall.

If you had only puttered around town (putting only a light load on the engine), you could have fully used the remaining 40%. So the gas tank does still have 40% capacity remaining at that point, it just can't deliver surges like it used it.
I can edit if I type 1, backspace 3, type 1 backspace 3 and so on.

But I don't like this whole thing of never editing, never looking back, move forward and break things anyway.
>> Yet another social-media company.

There's no company.
The last time I replaced a battery was for my 5S and I noticed it definitely got snappier. My SE is a year old right now at 92% and I'm quite happy with it. I suppose if I was running benchmarks on it all day long, I'd notice. Maybe if I was doing mobile gaming and losing, I'd notice. But I don't.

So if this approach gives me a more hours albeit less snappier hours, I'm good with this. But it should be a mode.
My point is Government doesn't even need to "want it". It has it.
> and a far more solvable one (how do you solve sick passengers?)

You move them off the train ( 2 minutes ) and let the train continue moving.

Improving signal system won't fix delays. The article is about what about makes commute terrible. MTAs customer does not give a flying f!ck about why there are the delays. MTA customer wants to have no delays. MTA's solution? Contractless payments! New L cars with folding seats!

Subway in NYC runs on electricity. It is not possible to run more trains on most of the lines than already run. MTA got a stupid grant from feds of several hundred million dollars to upgrade one of the L substations. It will add two or maybe three additional trains in the rush hour when trains already come every 3-4 minutes. No improvement in switching infrastructure would fix it. A train stopping for twenty minutes on Bedford St would affect the system for hours because of the idiotic 8th St design.

Oh how about someone having an episode in a tunnel, followed by a dumb-ass passenger pulling emergency brake. In a tunnel. Guess what happens? The conductor has to check every car before the train moves forward even though he or she knows where the emergency brake was pulled. So you now have a sick passenger in a tunnel and entire system again stops. Fun, huh? But sure, through the magic of signal system improvement we will totally address dumb design ideas.
I was playing Pai-Gow poker at a casino with my parents and some friends. The game has side bets, which pay out if you get a good hand, independently of whether you win or lose, and (inversely) proportionate to the probability of the hand. By the numbers they're terrible bets (while Pai-Gow has the, I think, third-lowest house edge, after craps and blackjack), so my friend and I don't bet them, but my parents do. My friend got a great hand, full house maybe, and my dad said, "bet you wish you'd made the side bet," and we both said, "no, we don't."
And when public opinion changes so that your political opinions are out of fashion, that same "precrime" argument will be used to lock you out of society.

Authoritarian liberals seem to forget that what goes around, comes around.
Ah, I see. I guess it all depends on the meaning of "use",
100% there will be multiple class action lawsuits regarding this. Whether it's right or wrong going to be people that will wanna see if they can throw something against the wall and make it stick.
There is another problem, at least I had it with my android phone, is that percentage is averaged on usage pattern, so it would show me I have 20% battery and then I make one 5 min call and it is suddenly 2% and critically low, simply because I usually don't make calls late evening and phone sits in idle.
Anecdotal sample of wear ratios as reported via coconut battery:

- my iPhone 6S, barely one year in: down to 87%, 282 cycles.

- a friend's 6S+, one and a half year in: down to 74%, 398 cycles

- another friend's 6S+, two and a half years in: down to 54%, slightly less than 600 cycles

Those LiPo are supposed to last 800-1000 cycles before dipping below the 80% mark and it's a far cry from that.

Even before I checked the values for mine I noticed a cliff effect when charge goes below 40%, at which point it takes only a dozen of minutes of light use to drain.

This is not OK. I can readily accept a non-replaceable battery on a 800-1000€ phone but it has to keep giving good performance (WRT both battery life and throttling) for three years (it was so for my iPhone 3G and 4). Changing the battery on my dime each year is not an acceptable solution.

This is poor engineering that minmaxes thinness vs battery, and I see the same trend on the MacBook line, which currently makes me very unlikely to upgrade my 2013 rMBP.
Hedging is a valuable practice. But my point was the old option modeling, Black-Scholes for example, doesn't work in Bitcoin markets: firstly because Bitcoin markets don't have the same structure or offer the same inputs as equities markets. And secondly because equity option theory doesn't even work in real world equities if we're being honest. Options do a decent job as rough short term guidelines for hedging and replication, in a few corners of the market that have gained enough efficient liquidity in options (such as large indexes and small number of single names) but hedging beyond there is an active challenge. One obvious sign maybe that option models don't work so well outside of their assumption-filled theory is how the options market makers still need so many humans involved in subjectively managing the risk on their books every day - if a theory and its models are strong and "tells you how to hedge" why can't computers calculate the next move and hedge risk with a click of a button automatically? Hedging in bitcoin would be questionable (if not laughable) right now, you can still do it of course and maybe shoddy guess hedging is better than nothing? But what's a fair price for bitcoin insurance over the next day, month, year?
We forecasted a lot of 2017 right, but we got some wrong too
I purchased $300 BTC the other day on CB and they wanted a $30 transaction fee to withdraw the BTC off their site. I wonder if this fee can also be considered part of the purchase?
Tech timebomb: The IRS is still living in the 1960s
They should at least give an option in settings.
What is the algorithm for slowdown? Is it guaranteed to be fixed on replacing the battery or its just a linear decay function based on age of phone.
LyndsySimon: the tolerant and inclusive company you are describing cannot accept intolerant behaviors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
does this apply to all the alt coins or just eth-btc?
The problem is that this "Feature" is/was hidden, after 1 year when a new iPhone is launched and the person would test it , he will notice a big performance improvement so in a way he will be tricked to think the new iPhone is much more perform ant so he will be tempted to buy a new phone instead of replacing the battery. If instead he would be informed that his CPU runs at 50% because of old battery and that a battery replacement would fix the performance issue then the users would not feel cheated.
Then article "Trick Apple doesn't want you to know" comes up and every mom and pop goes 7 levels deep into settings.
I mean, complaining about the color realism of a film with gigantic monster dinosaurs (whose coloration we may never know to begin with) seems a bit silly. Movies are not documentaries. I'd buy in a bit more for things like the BBC's 'Planet Earth' needing color realism, but even then it's ok to dramatize things.

Every Frame a Painting goes over Michael Bay's work and includes some color content he uses and WHY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q
> I'd really like to read more Chinese-from-China views on this kind of article.

Note that this level of surveillance is not pervasive throughout the rest of China; this is about a region populated by non-Han Chinese (Uyghurs, a who are Muslim and speak a Turkic language); most han residents are colonists. The Chinese language is the official one but is not spoken at home by most people there. The central government promotes Han migration/colonization of Xinjiang as they do with Tibet.

So I suspect you'd find most Chinese people outside Xinjiang very supportive of this: the government and newspapers describe it as an integral part of China with a terrorist separatist movement no different from, for example, how the government of Spain used to describe ETA, or, without the violence, the Catalonian independence movement).

In addition, every time a western politician claims that "all muslims are evil terrorists" it gets printed in China as support for the narrative that these "security" measures are justified (Uyghur separatists have bombed Beijing and other han cities).

I expect this to be routine in OECD countries within the next 20 years. Hell, I remember dystopian movies always had bizarre, pointless "security" announcements
as a way of showing how creepy the future had become and how the future didn't believe in people having time to think...and now that happens in every airport and train station in the world!
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My second paragraph is simply the situation on the ground. The territory around Xinjiang has been under Chinese control for over 250 years; in the preceding millennia it sometimes has; at other times, as part of various Khanates it's been part of empires that controlled China (just as Tibet has at various times been independent; been under the control of China; and been in control of the emperor of China) So depending on what time point you pick you can justify an argument that Beijing's control of the area is "legitimate" or "illegitimate". I have zero connection to any side (not Chinese, not turkic, not muslim, buddhist, whatever).
So, would you be okay with someone shitting in front of the front door of your house or apartment? What would you do, personally, to help resolve the root issues that led to that shit.
True, but we're still not talking about the batteries being soldered to the board, like with RAM or storage on newer computers.
Practical AI: On Natural Language Processing in Voice Commerce
I think it's not inherently bad to have a bias, but it's bad if you don't recognize it. In your example:

If you train an AI on data that solely consists of trading firms & banks, you should recognize that it's an AI biased towards detecting activity at trading firms & banks, and that it might be lacking in other areas.

It becomes dangerous when such an AI is marketed and assumed as unbiased and the source of truth for detecting all insider trading activity.
With the .com bubble you had to find a specific stock to buy and go through all the rigmarole of buying it.

You mean click a mouse? Buying a stock in 1999 was a lot like buying a stock now. I don’t recall how fast one could go from account creation to trading, but eTrade has been around for a while. A lot of folks had a 401K account that probably had a trading account of sort as well, so there might not have even been a barrier.

Not saying you might not be right, but buying stocks wasn’t all that hard in the 90s, either.
Is there any documentation on what the current status of the ARM port is?
The fact that this was never communicated to users is what's the big issue here.

Users may not know that their battery performance is degraded. And even if they knew, how would you expect the average user to correlate bad battery health with low system performance?

Apple should have notified users of battery health issues (they do so on MacBooks, for example) and the impact on system performance.
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There are usually logistics centers on the fringe of the city. From there everything is dispatched on smaller city friendly vehicles. Small vans or ebikes like so https://www.dekra.net/media/newsletter/jpg/2017/ups-zustellf... or so https://www.ttm.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/8892_333.jpg
As a German living in the US, I wholeheartedly agree with this article, especially the bit about everything being somewhat lower quality.

And despite the lower quality, things usually are considerably more expensive anyway. If I might just add one more example: housing. Rent prices in the U.S. are generally about twice what they are in Germany for comparable units, and yet the houses here are incredibly flimsy (walls made out of plywood and windows without proper insulation - you just don't see that in Germany) for anyone but the upper class.

And if the comments here are any indicator, the article is also right about the fact that Americans are never even going to realize how poor the quality of life is in comparison to Europe. Instead, they just placate themselves with myths about collectivism, socialism or communism in Europe (none of those are even remotely a thing).

Which is all the more heartbreaking because there are some things about the US that I absolutely love.
Blockchains Need iExec: The Market Just Hasn’t Realized It Yet
Getting started with Kotlin on Android
Yet a study in Las Vegas reports significant reduction in the use of force when body cameras are used: https://www.cna.org/cna_files/pdf/IRM-2017-U-016112-Final.pd...

In fact, I think the DC report is the exception - cameras are having significant impact most everywhere else.
Spoken like a tone-deaf apple PR person. The entire furor around this suggests your opinion is not shared by the general populace. A problem I usually run into with product managers.
> It's impossible because it's very un-Apple.

You mean Apple can't stop jerking around, and for once be useful for the user rather than their bottom line?
I also had mine replaced for free (6s) on the same recall program ~11months ago.

The battery still has 95.7% of the capacity, with 400 cycles, yet my device is throttling the cpu between 30% and 50%.
It was how slow it was running that made me upgrade this year instead of the next which was my original plan.

If I had known that replacing the battery fixed the speed problems I would have saved the money.

They really need to communicate this reduced power state to the user.
To use the programming lingo that I hope a majority of HN users still recognize, they're like a sequence point.
In addition (not a lawyer here, but I believe this is well established territory), defamation is difficult to prove, and suing someone over an article almost always carries some negative press, regardless of the merits.
> > The core problem with the NYC subway system is a management culture that does not value long term problem solving, instead preferring quick fixes and short term band aids

The management culture you're referring to stems from the TWU, which actively fights efforts to impose long-term planning and solutions, in favor of quick, short-term responses that pad their bills.

The government doesn't push back against these, because (for a variety of reasons that are beyond the scope of this article), New York city and state government are not really accountable to their own constituents. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the mayor of New York hasn't ridden public transit regularly in decades and doesn't even know basic transit ridership facts[0].

The former Speaker of the NYS Assembly (who was convicted for corruption a few years ago) was one of the strongest advocates for cutting the bus service that his own district was entirely dependent on[1]. Because of said corruption, he was essentially untouchable, so there was no democratic avenue for holding him accountable.

Corruption in NYS is widespread; it's the most corrupt state in the country[2], and it's no surprise that this corruption impacts the public transit infrastructure.

[0] https://twitter.com/2AvSagas/status/943158489064624128

[1] His district has essentially no subway coverage

[2] http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2016/sep/19/el...
Amazon Music removes ability to upload MP3s, will shutter storage service
That amount sounds suspiciously less like a CB fee and more like the network transaction fee to ensure your transaction winds up in the next block. The average is $41.69 as of this morning.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
Alone no, but the combined yes. There are a few big players that manipulate this market. The Winklevoss did it, and caused the first bubble in 2013. Then the market fell off the cliff, and sat a $200 for the next 3 years, until someone bought up tons at around $250-300 mark, and here we are again.
I believe this fee can be figured into the cost basis.

In the future when you are withdrawing from coinbase, you can transfer to gdax (their exchange platform) instantly, for free, and then transfer out to your wallet for free.
So I'm willing to let that go.

You're willing to let it go? You accused someone of some kind of massive financial impropriety without any serious evidence. Other people started repeating it as fact. You owe that person an apology and a retraction and yourself some reflection beyond a rather generous 'letting it go'.
These are excellent points, and I think they highlight a lot of the things that are "good" about how the American labour market works, and the deficiencies of the "social utopia" of Europe.

I think you can take it too far in either directions and I am relieved that you point out the deficiencies of this approach when it comes to healthcare.

I think France in particular often comes in for a lot of fire with regards to having these big slow expensive bureaucratic structures.

But then at the same time, along with the US, France is one of the top exporting economies in the world? They can't be doing too badly.
The first thing I do on any new Android phone I get is enable developer options and disable all animations.

I've had many friends complement my utterly midrange phone for feeling so snappy; it's because the stupid animations that only serve to slow down UI transitions are off.
From my own research (ie googling), your best bet is to build up the brain, so if the decline starts, you have a stronger starting point. This means exercise[1], B12, folate, CDP-choline[2], turmeric[3], coconut oil (medium chain triglycerides) [4]. Also, I avoid paracetamol, there are some claims about it being linked to dementia.
There are some promising drug trials (aducanumab for example), but we'll have to wait and see.

[1]https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicoline

[3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781139/

[4]https://coconutketones.com
Does the IRS allow brokerage fees to be deducted?
Do you have a data model you can share that would show "a reasonable amount of confidence"?