skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire building is the computer

This is precisely the principle on which a lottery is based, in the style of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The lottery knows that humans have a hunger, a thirst for transitioning into monsters, then returning to their normal form. This maintains balance with nature while giving the community a sense of control over the forces of anger.

The society is a computer, and if the society is based on a lottery, then the lottery is a computer. The lottery is a computer, and anyone can shut it off---just convince enough people to abandon tradition.

Nobody shuts it off because they have become accustomed to the way the lottery manages the population. It brings stability to the community, and freedom.

It is something to live in fear of.
In Singapore the Apple Maps capabilities seem to be a little better, after they introduced bus lines a couple of months ago I’m using it as my main guide to go around the city or when I’m lost. The general direction is always correct, points of interest or businesses are sometimes missing, but it feels like they’re improving, so I don’t think they gave up on it. I think they just don’t put so much effort on it compared to Google, because the data gathered from the service doesn’t have the same value for Apple.
Actually, it's not an article, it's an Op-Ed. You'll see that if you click through.
I'm not intimately familiar with BTC prices, but they seem to have lots of high frequency volatility while the low frequency price changes are close to monotonic. If that's the case then it makes sense as a long term store of value.
Would this have been handled better anywhere? It seems really hard to decide when to take action. I knew a family whose autistic son regularly injured them but they still kept him. I wouldn't have been surprised if he had killed them at some point.
Here’s the thing though - if everyone shared data, they could compete on the UX. Nobody says that pharmaceutical companies aren’t competitive on the end product, but they have a shared data set in the form of all the university research. Of course they get their own data, but being “free” to not have to do basic research themselves means they can put more resources towards the end product than data gathering
One might research the effects of cyanide byproducts from gold mining, and the lives lost harvesting it.
This sentence is not saying that "bucket" is the name of the bucket.

It is saying that the data was in a thing that Amazon Web Services provides, which AWS calls a "bucket".

Most people who are not web developers don’t even know Amazon Web Services is a thing, much less the cute names of any of their services.
That's a good point, I mean what if they're ice-based life forms? Perhaps we shouldn't be so presumptive.
Estonia is absolutely not one of those countries.
What would make this super interesting to me would be a historical timeline and a way to contribute historical routes.

For example, here are some old branches off the main San Francisco Peninsula line:

• Hawthorne Avenue in Palo Alto (three blocks north of University) and Middlefield where it crosses San Francisquito Creek were originally a spur line that served the Catholic University (now Jesuit Seminary) in Menlo Park.

• What is now Fry's Electronics in Palo Alto and that row of buildings had loading docks in the back for the spur that branched off the main line there. This line went to where the Veterans' Hospital is now and then followed the path of Foothill Blvd, straight through the Trader Joe's parking lot at Homestead ends, then continued through to tracks that still exist on the other side of 280.

• If you ever wondered why Camden Avenue in Campbell/San Jose has that oddly smooth curve where it veers off Hillsdale, yes, it was another train line. This was the Campbell-Almaden line (thus the name cam-den) which started from the still-existing line that runs through Campbell (you can see some of the old loading docks from Railway Avenue). Where Camden bends right at Kooser, the train line continued straight through where the power lines are now, crossed a bridge to follow what is now Redmond Avenue in south San Jose, and on to the town of New Almaden.
> sellers don't pay extra charges to any US company (Visa, PayPal, etc.)

The EU also recently introduced and controls on credit card fees (that a merchant pays) with the aim of making it as cheap to transact as cash. That is of course only true if cash isn't being used to avoid taxation.
Rogue One is actually about internet freedom
> Under iOS 11.2.0 the effect is even more pronounced.

No, the effect is exactly the same as you can see from the charts since they peak at the same benchmark scores. It is the distribution of those effects that is different, with the performance being negatively affected for more phones. But keep in mind that under iOS 11.2.0, most iPhone 6S's that are tested are probably about 2 years old. Under iOS 10.x, most iPhone 6S's probably about 1 year old. I'd like to know the distribution of the times that these Geekbench benchmarks were run. If scores for one phone model in one month are one average score under iOS (x) but is substantially lower the next month under iOS (x+1), then I would consider that to be a significant act of "planned obsolescence".

But really Apple should probably be more transparent about this. And the bottom line for users is that if you notice any kind of significant performance degradation, whether it is fast battery drainage or sluggish performance, you should consider taking the phone in.
gab.ai fanboys: we basically created western civilization

Also gab.ai fanboys: We can't survive without google hosting our services.
Gold bars are only a store of value if they're in your possession. A gold bar in the hand is worth two in the bush as they say.

To be a good store of value its not enough that it exists and people value it, you have to be able to call upon it when you need it. That's where its back to approximating currency, and where Bitcoin's weakest link seems to be. This is probably just the beginning of the bad news.

King George used to lay claim to every pine in North America, to be called upon when he needed them for ship masts. For some reason or another he couldn't do that anymore. Historical examples abound, if you look for them, and they're not tulips: https://hackernoon.com/the-guns-of-bitcoin-1f779309a718 (disclaimer: I wrote that, which dances around a few historical reasons why bitcoin's value might not be so peachy)
That's ridiculous. AWS provides infrastructure and tools, it's up to developers and companies to properly deploy them and implement the appropriate security.
Creating a hostile work environment that constitutes discrimination on sex is absolutely, unquestionably, a federal crime, a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see Supreme Court cases Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, Ellison v. Brady, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, etc. etc. etc. - and Meritor and Oncale had no dissents, and Ellison only had one dissent from a justice who felt that the case should be heard before the Supreme Court to establish a stronger and clearer precedent).

I note that in your edit you have jumped from "killing someone is a crime" to "Murder is a Crime." Those are different things. Killing someone is, technically, not a crime. There are lots of cases in the US where you can kill someone legally (self-defense, fighting a war, administering the death penalty, being a cop who got scared, etc.). Murder is a specific crime because it's a specific set of circumstances around killing someone. Even manslaughter is a separate crime.

In the same way, no, "telling some one a sex joke" if you're a comedian at a bawdy bar, or in bed with someone you met on Tinder, or any such thing isn't a crime. Telling someone "a sex joke" in a way that creates a hostile working environment is a crime, as is allowing it to happen. And this article and this entire discussion is specifically about sexual harassment in working environments.

If you do not understand this or believe this, for your own sake, please seek actual legal counsel before telling any more sex jokes.
Haven't yet, happy with Abine Blur, but the more the merrier...
Really this sounds like a situation where they're setting up a system where every actor is in violation, but there's an understanding that you won't be charged, unless someone doesn't like you.

That's worrisome when it applies to people, and I'd like to think its worrisome when applied to corporations too.
It seems to me that doing so should somehow constitute fraud. It would be better if the law could be changed to make sure it is penalised as such.
> if everyone shared data, they could compete on the UX

Why? Google seems to have a gigantic advantage in data, which is highly valuable.

Why would they give up that advantage, if they spent millions, if not billions, of dollars creating it?

And what would be the incentive to create such data if there's no economic gain from it?
I recently switched to Apple maps primary for car play after 10+ years. I haven’t looked back.

Building outlines are not much of a moat for me.
Market settings in the Australian NEM mean that generators tend to set their governors with very wide deadbands.

http://www.escosa.sa.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/1047/20170208-I...
Reddit is a misinformation hotspot right now. It’s a tabloid where the most decisive and sensational tidbits rise to the top.
I think the question is, do the potential proof you speak of exist in this specific case
Exactly this. Data intermediaries should only be notaries.
Also it doesn't speak about board members
I had suspected that one of my iphone's RAM chips had gone bad, because the slow speed was as if it was swapping a lot

when I saw the reddit post I was like GTFO
Not sure who you're claiming is anti Net Neutrality, but if that's levelled at me it's quite wrong.

See my other comment in thread, but in short I don't think a user cares really that action is at a different level of the conceptual OSI model, they care if they can consume given media, if NN legislation shifts things so that the browser blocks the media from a particular server instead of that servers upstream ISP I don't think users are going to be applauding too much.
I find it a much better view of the transit layer, and I actually enjoy its navigation UX, but that's about it.
Well, IMHO it depends on the company, position and interviewer. But something I've learnt is:

- Programmers love good code

- Entrepreneurs love good products

So it's not always the quality of the codebase that matters when showing your side projects. Sometimes the product itself is more valuable.
https://www.reliablecoin.com/breaking-bitcoin-cash-takes-bit...

REKT
They didn't just buy btc and sit on it. They also contributed greatly to the ecosystem. They built and run the Gemini Bitcoin exchange, they are trying to get a Bitcoin ETF approved, the CBOE bases their futures pricing on mechanisms they put in place. They have done a ton and built a ton.
Well yes, but fundamentally it's backed and guaranteed by physical paper bills. So when I say E-Coin I mean a purely digital/mathematical abstraction like Bitcoin, or other Cryptocurrencies.
Thought experiment: Just say Citibank adds the Mexican pesos to their products, USA & international, side by side to all their USD products. If citibank bought pesos before the announcement, would they be engaging in insider trading? (Pesos are just for illustrative purposes, replace with your local currency)

If so, would every bank need to halt trading in a currency before adding it?
Great story, but she wouldn't have been born a serf in 1905: it was abolished 44 years before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia
>Not thin; light.

An interesting thought, but is it true? I cant really think of people complaining of arm fatigue from holding up a ~150-200g phone -- the effort of holding up your arm and hand alone are going to be substantially more than additional weight of the phone.

I also dont really see any evidence of phone manufacturers decreasing weight over the years, at least with a quick review of Apple's iPhones, which have definitely increased in weight over the past decade.
An important point that wasn't originally known when stomach stapling/reduction procedures were first developed:

"Shrinking the stomach can suppress the hormones that affect hunger and satiety, like the “hunger hormone” ghrelin. The gastric bypass may also reset the body’s metabolic rate, as the Biggest Loser study showed, and alter the gut microbiome in ways that make losing weight easier."

In other words, the results stem from more than just forcing the patient to meter his/her eating.
Star Trek Continues finishes the five-year mission
This might interest you:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AzVOviQ2o0fJQtwONbVHk7M3TB...
> Hmm, well to me it seems like the that last option is the worst of the bunch. And that's what we get when we don't regulate at all - unsupervised, undemocratic, corporate bureaucracies making decisions that critically affect our lives.

Your implaying that state burocracy and markets produce the same outcome. That is 100% false, as both systems have totally different feedback mechanism. It is a totally different thing if you are a open soruce standards commity that has to actually attrackt people rather then a burocracy that has no insentive to attrackt people.

The market process is guided by the choices of all the players, and this is why even in a bad case the deversity will be higher then in any government run situation. Standards can be overcome, thrown away, upgraded depending on the chaning needs people.

We already have the largly unregulated market and in that market we have lots of standartisation both completly open and industry standards. Open Source software is winning in many places. New spaces are being opened up for standards, like RISC-V. Yes its not perfect, but you have to realize that you are risking everything we have by giving some government burocracy (and a US burocracy at that) the complete power over the internet.

There are good and well studied reason why this approche is better then the political processes I have mentioned.

> Why do you need every detail of a plan to see if something is good? You want us to quote from law journals for you? Why don't you just admit you don't like the idea - don't pretend that if only we could lay out a plan you'd be for it, your disagreement isn't in implementation it's in foundation.

If you don't have even a basic idea what the scope and power of your policy is, how are you gone compare it to anything else? I am a consequentialist, if you can make a reasonable argument that your burocarcy can significantly improve on the current 'anarchy' approch then I'm happy to listen to your argument.

We actually do already have lots of government promoted standards, and if they are any indication then
I would be running into a different direction as fast as I can.
Most people are intellectually lazy. Better get used to it. If you want your arguments to be consistently distinguished from the racist ones you will have to put in more effort to make them seem more distinct.
Yeah, side projects should be for pursuing personal interests... which has the side benefit that if you happen to later be interviewing for a job and mention your side project it will be much easier to talk about.
Maybe it warns when the problem gets more severe. But the problem described here is when the battery still has as much as 80% capacity.

Source: I have 6s+, noticed it was slow recently, after some updates but not right after. Read about this. Got GeekBench and battery test. It tests normal when the battery is full, slower when battery is less full.
This is the wrong way to think about things. Competition is good.

If it weren't for the need to compete, would Google have spent billions on innovations like Street View, Satellite imagery, Google Earth, etc. Or would they have just said, "MapQuest has won the internet maps game, let's just let MapQuest do their own thing. No use in doing the same work twice,"
See his details on his work at Apple here: http://worrydream.com/#!/Apple
Spoiler: he can't talk about or show any details for some number of years. From his notes there and his other research, it seems would have been a proponent for skeuomorphic design at Apple, which lost out after 2011 in favor of flat buttons and icons.
Seems a German minister is not entirely on board with privacy. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/germany-pre...
They wouldn't know of course, but that's not the point. The point is to cover their own ass if they get in legal trouble, by saying "well, we told them it was prohibited, and made them sign stuff".

It's the same reason companies make all their employees go through sexual harassment training. Not because they actually believe such training reduces sexual harassment, but rather because they want to eliminate liability.
When can we get a flight simulator using Google Maps data? It doesn't need the fidelity of data for names of streets, places, etc. just the imagery.

If they can extrapolate building details like bay windows, then they should be able to model entire areas from enough heights and angles to represent it much better than what I've seen in flight simulators for personal use (at least last I looked).
It’s all the same wallet just a different address, no transfer needed.
This isn't even a broken code issue. This is a totally unnecessary functionality regression issue. Instead of just loading a page, they're waiting four seconds to load the page, because the page uses an asset on a domain they flag as a tracking domain.

This is like if the compiler generated loops with 4000ms sleeps because the app links a library the compiler thinks is annoying.

Technically the compiler never said it wouldn't add random sleeps into loops. It's totally in spec! What's the big deal?

Meanwhile, my app is slow now. Or in the case of some apps, actually broken for active use cases where it used to work fine. Which, again, is totally regression by any QA standard.
if they weren’t you’d just be complaining about how monopolies are a failure of capitalism.
Voice control is in the right direction but Home and Echo are in the wrong direction: "You can change anything and see what happens. No black boxes."
Plenty of other exchanges have BCH at $3500 (or so), while Coinbase has it at over $8k: an arbitrage like nothing I've ever seen. Conveniently, buy/sell of BCH on Coinbase is temporarily disabled (or at least it was a few minutes ago).
A large amount of the exported gas is coming from pre-existing East Coast fields eg. Bass Strait that were already developed.

What's new is the liquefaction LNG export terminals.
I can tell Google is pretty upset that they don't have real time cams everywhere.
No, you are wrong, Monero has merged in MultiSig which is something unlike what it sounds, it basically means you can now make a wallet where several people hold a piece of a key and a majority agreement is required to spend.
"on-sharing the data with cross-site aggregators"?

The ToS and Privacy Policy of an analytics company discloses what the that company may do with their client's users' data, not what the client can do with their own users' data.

There's another Privacy Policy between the client and the user where the client discloses what they may and may not do with user data and the user decides whether to become / remain a user.

There are also laws which dictate the data handling further on behalf of large groups of users, e.g. GDRP for EU citizens and, on this side of the pond, interesting Supreme Court cases being decided about what kind of data users could have property rights to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
But why is it an asset to begin with? Why did it not stay a liability?

I hear things about how the data is the 'real' product, and how it's mostly used just to train algorithms that are then used to sell ads. More data, better training algos, better ad targeting, more money spent.

But that data can be remarkably easy to spoof and goof with. Garbage in = garbage out. That would be a liability to the algos, the real weak links.

So, I think that a tax is not the best idea.

Rather, the data needs to be made into 'garbage'. Yes, an obfuscation race will ensue, but there is always more trash than gold, more noise than signal.

If we really want to change the game, we need to have easy to use apps that will throw a minute amount of static on the instagram photos, that will put just a bit of background on the phone calls, and that will throw a small bit of random words into the emails.

Yes, PGP does this already, but we all know PGP is not easy to use (by design?).

We don't need 'total' security and safety, just a bit of fuzz will screw with the algos enough (thus the start of the obfuscation race/war)
Whenever I interview candidates I am always looking for things to talk to about with them so if I can find information on previous projects or publications of theirs then that is a good entry point to learn about their expertise.
Maybe it's naive of me, but I would assume it won't take 6 years for Apple to redo the work that Google is ahead on. For one thing, they now know a specific feature to work toward, which cuts some time out. Then, they can likely throw more cycles at this problem than Google could 6 years ago, again reducing Google's lead. Lastly, they probably have a lot of stored raw data (satellite images specifically) that Google didn't have at the start and took time to collect multiple angles over time.
What's anoymous data? If I have an e-mail, a screenname, and IP, I bet I could identify at least the household with a much greater than 0% success rate.
It's reminiscent of how the daughter of one of the Lunchable inventors has never eaten a single Lunchable.
>And what would be the incentive to create such data if there's no economic gain from it? //

If the data is useful then there is an _economic_ gain, just not necessarily a profit.

If you meant "if there's no profit from it" then it was spoken like a true capitalist.

Why do anything if you're not going to be paid for it.

Why visit your mum in hospital? Why give money to the homeless for food? Why create software for others? Why teach a child a fun game? Love, altruism, interest, expediency, fun, ... and a million other reasons besides.
From what I remember, 27 does not change the security model in any way, it just adds a couple of small features.

Their point is that you should target the latest major release.
Ideally you should target the latest release, period.

I don't really care if an app targets 26 instead of 27 though. if an app targets 20 though, I definitely resent that a lot.
Google Earth used to have a very basic flight sim. Not sure if it still does, though.
> No black boxes.

Other than the ones hiding behind the projector in the ceiling you mean?

Kind of like the Wizard of Oz I suppose...
I have generally mixed feelings about insider trading, because in the end, people making decisions on best information looks like economically profitable for the system.

That said, Coinbase did more than insider trading today, they deliberately hid their BCash announcement to perform insider trading. That is straight down fraud to me. They provoked the insider trading situation.
> Nobody was claiming that WASM would replace JavaScript in general, magically or otherwise.

That is literally what I have heard directly on here and Reddit numerous times.

> Unless you consider people who using things like Node.js or Electron to be "insecure about touching C/C++" I don't see where you get off saying that about people who want to use WASM.

I am not saying that about WASM. I am saying that about the people who obsessively NEED for WASM to replace JavaScript and believe this to be a magically solution.