skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But many investors are going to take the side of big companies, not because they are choosing the optimal approach, but because they have to, because they have too much capital to invest in small companies. So it's not logical to assume their returns must be equal on average.
If you're in the USA, Home Depot also rents them by the hour/day if you don't want to spend the whole amount for something you won't use too often.
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An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it
If you liked this read, look into the upcoming ‘One Hour One Life’. Here’s the description:

“A near-infinite, persistent online world full of untouched wilderness. Build a new civilization from scratch, starting from rocks and sticks. When you join the game, you're born as a helpless baby, with another player as your mother. Each minute marks a passing year, and over the course of an hour, you will live a full life, having children of your own along the way in the form of other players, then growing old yourself, and eventually dying. Hopefully, in your brief lifetime, you can make your own small contribution to this growing world, passing something useful down to your children and grandchildren.”

I have no affiliation with the developer, other than enjoying his previous games.
Can the browser prevent visibility changes to auto-filled forms?
The browser could build a reverse index of the pixel->DOM object mapping
Buses don't need huge batteries for their size. A typical city bus goes only about 100 miles a day, they do a ton of regenerative breaking, and they can charge at stops and also they tend to sit in the terminal several times a day while the driver takes a break after each circuit.

Electric trash collection trucks are even better. That's because they do so much regenerative breaking.
I'll echo bckygldstn's criticisms[1] and add a few of my own.

The "lead-crime hypothesis" is a very obvious example of correlation not implying causation.

For example, rock music causes crime. Rock music grew in popularity in the late 50's and early 60's, peaked between the late 60's and early 90's, and declined thereafter. Just like crime! In fact, the harder they rocked the worse the crime rate got. I guess Tipper Gore was right all along. Rock music causes crime.

Margarine causes crime. Johnny Carson causes crime. The Boston Celtics cause crime. The Japanese economy, big hair, VHF television, polyester, yearly Oldsmobile sales: all cause crime.

During the period leaded gasoline was sold, Canada allowed 0.77 grams of lead per liter of gasoline, nearly three times the US limit of 0.29 g/l.[2] Yet the crime rate in Canada was (and continues to be) far lower than in the US.[3]

In Mexico, leaded gas remained commonplace much later than it did in the US, and yet crime fell dramatically during the period leaded gas was sold, and increased dramatically after it stopped being sold.[4]

One thing we could look at is people who had the highest lead exposure. Lead miners, paint factory workers, house painters, fuel refinery workers, gas station attendants, auto mechanics, etc. I would confidently bet the farm that, adjusting for sex and income, there was no statistically-significant correlation between these professions and crime.

Aviation gasoline, as used in small propeller planes, still contains lead. We could also look at present-day flight instructors, airplane mechanics and people who live near general aviation airports. I would likewise expect there to be no relationship.

Here's something that's known to cause crime: young men. The Baby Boomers were the largest generation ever, which means between the late 60's (oldest Boomers entering their late teens) and early 90's (youngest Boomers entering their 30's), there was a particularly large population of young men. This doesn't explain the entire rise and decline in crime (the Boomers weren't that much larger than other generations), but it's a better starting place than lead paint.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16025762

[2] http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/envp/louchouarn/courses/env...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/homici...

[4] http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_pol...
It's a serious problem for Android, and one that many people don't recognize. Part of the reason people are willing to pay more for Apple products is the customer service.

Similarly, I know people who buy or lease luxury cars because they know they will get a nice loaner car when they send theirs in for maintenance at the dealership. For example, some of those people really would be satisfied with a Camry, but they spend the extra money on a Lexus ES to get a better service experience.
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How are they still using the Nexus 7? I mean, mine didn't outright break, but it sure as hell doesn't have a remotely usable performance. Something with the storage in them degenerating to the point of a cassette drive.
Likewise here. We use it for recipes in the kitchen and baby video monitor. Want a stock Android tablet.
Areas of Chicago have been systematically divested from and abandoned.

Poverty is concentrated and guns are available from adjacent, easily-accessible red states.

"We don't need more law enforcement.

We don't need more police and demonising headlines

and pitiful donations

what we need are investments

we need resources

it is imperative that anyone with any privilege at all take the steps necessary to provide the resources they see a lack of

this is possible with perseverance and vigilance"

-Eva Maria Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiGK0PxaKvU
Not really the point of this discussion...

That said, I suspect Microsoft views less as 'return on investment' and more as value of having Minecraft on Xbox / Windows Store as an immediately recognizable title, just like how they acquired Halo to do the same back in the day.
In the beginning, I tried to avoid ad-blockers in the beginning out of consideration for the sustainability of the content providers.

It took one site for me to start using ad-blockers.

Facebook: they persistently were showing me ads for online MBA programs when I already had completed a better brick-and-mortar one.

I recall that I tried complaining and got no response. For some psychological reason, that did it. I installed an ad-blocker on my and my wife's laptops and never looked back.

If the big sites had been more conscientious about their ad strategy (and specifically allowing people more control over what shows up on their screens) we might not be in an escalating technological war over ads.
On uk national holidays it's office workers who get the day off, these are people who don't have problems with voter franchise.

Even on thanksgiving there's plenty of places like McDonald's that are open, not to mention people working to set up Black Friday sales. The people who have to work on national holidays are the ones that struggle to vote normally.
Airships, part of the new ZBP (Zeppelin-Based Policing) initiative.
> I don't care about a headphone jack, at all

Does "works for me" work for you as a reason for closing a software ticket?

Built-in speakers and bluetooth are probably the most common audio output cases for me, and I suspect it's that way for most people. It's totally fine and probably a good idea to recognize that and improve the experience on that front.

But complicating corner cases are a definite reality. If you're someone who was treating your iPhone as a digital musical instrument, for example, bluetooth's latency probably makes it a no go for you. But of course, that's too niche, not a market that Apple does or should have to care about, those people should be buying more complicated niche hardware, right? OK, let's use a "normal consumer" example: if you're someone who likes to connect your iPhone to a car stereo, then maaaybe bluetooth will work out for you, or maybe it's going to be an interesting challenge dealing with the auto/stereo manufacturer's implementation. A 1/8" aux input? Just works. And lets you charge your phone at the same time. Or at least it did.

And before someone says "well, get a dongle" -- a dongle isn't "just works." And that's the thing that bothers me so much about this. It's essentially a user-hostile decision for some portion of users, with no particularly compelling upside for the rest of users... but a thin margin of manufacturing savings and a nice accessories/integration play, I suppose. I fully expect that's just business for many enterprises and "just works" is an acceptable casualty, but I didn't expect it from Apple.

But I do now.

> I actually like my phones getting smaller and lighter

Surely there's a point of not only diminishing but actually vanishing returns. Maybe literally. I recognize that's not going to be the same for everyone, but for me "diminishing" started around the form factor of the original iPhone and I stopped seeing any particular utility in shrinking around the 4s.
Did your latest “XYZ thing” really go as perfectly as you want to believe?
Misconduct occurs in all organizations; while pointing fingers I could make the claim that the Fox News organization is pro-sexual harassment because of two high officials’ actions (Ailes and O’Rielly). Yet this would be unfair and false.

Lest ye be Roy Moore’d (or Anthony Weinered), it is a mistake to take a bad actor and extrapolate isolated statements or conduct to the greater organization without evidence of a trend.

However, CNN is the topic. Don’t think for a minute if Trump or another Republican achieves greater than 50% popularity, CNN won’t swing that way. Negative coverage of Trump was en vogue before CNN started doing it, not the other way around.
That was a really fun to read, well written piece.

Definitely makes me interested in trying something like this - does anyone know of any other games that have similar economy aspects?
>they can just hire bodyguards

Which won't be able to carry weapons in most places. You'll have a hard time finding people who'll fight back when you're being kidnapped at gunpoint.
At the time I posted there were 3 top level comments, all negative on the post.
Lets be honest. Browsers and webstandards never gave us the things needed to build a nice userbase for our little web projects. Persona was a cool idea/step in the right direction but it came much to late. Everyone is on big web farms now where they can do many things after suffering though the arcane form just once.
Plus, the Pixel C had so much potential for a dream portable Linux machine. It was designed as a ChromeOS device, with Coreboot. But they locked the bootloader before launching with Android.
Although I agree with your first point, I think this is a symptom of a much larger problem that we are ignoring:

We have a serious economic problem in which we can't fund things that we want and need. Instead of making advertising "less bad", we should be looking into alternative ways to fund sites and services. Advertising in it's current form simply needs to go.
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Amen, brother or sister
Okay, here's a crazy idea for advertisers.

Tie the advertisement to the type of content that the user is already there to read about. Then you can serve ads from the content web server and make it indistinguishable from content, completely unobtrusive, completely noninvasive, and maybe even welcome.
How does D deal with cases where the computation might be plaform dependent (like floating point arth. or bit kung-fu+ endianess) ? An more generally, what happens when a computation "can" be done at compile time , but "needs" (for correctness or ressource ) done at runtime ?
They aren’t. Lots of devices utilizing lithium ion batteries experience similar issues once they get some age.
Companies like Apple actually take accessibility really seriously though, which I applaud. That said, there's a pecking order to disabilities that these companies have to service. I can tell you that blindness is top of the heap and cognitive disabilities are bottom of the heap. It's a crummy situation for users like you when a disability doesn't weigh as heavily as the product design goals - grumble, the world is broken.

I imagine a headphone jack must use a lot of space within the case, which creates a lot of hardware design headaches that go beyond waterproofing.

I see some people at my workplace who walk around all day with a full bluetooth headset around their neck (not earbuds, like the big cans type) even when not in use, almost as a fashion accessory or statement. Perhaps you could experiment with those kinds of bluetooth headsets if you upgrade to a new iPhone. Obviously that doesn't solve your headset needs for running though, grumble grumble.
If I use a credit card to buy tickets, they can already track what I'm watching. And that's not even mentioning MAC address tracking that some places do.
They are still working perfectly. I haven't heard any complaints. My parents are probably nowhere close to filling up the storage, though.
You don’t think it’s coincidental that most Americans will click on a negative Trump article? CNN is a trend follower, not a leader in this regard.
Lack of sleep boosts levels of Alzheimer's proteins
I have a first gen Samsung S 8.4 tablet and it's miles better than my Nexus 7. I wouldn't hesitate to get another one if my current one broke. It doesn't get anything in the way of OS updates anymore but that hasn't been a problem. Everything works as well as when as I bought it.
Maybe ridiculous?
Open street map then ;)
WeChat accounts could double as state IDs in China
> but Apple is stepping up and doing the right thing.

Nope. I don't want "visibility into battery health". I want a damn toggle to undo this stupidity. This is just a cash grab plain and simple.
Who are these magical "they" we own Apple we vote in people in congress and on and on.
Well, looking at it another way, there's probably a distribution of times of day when people start working, including as late as 10:00 or 11:00 am. So, assuming that this anecdotal experience is representative (and it might well not be), it is surprising that no-one is in the office at 7:30 or 8:00 pm. Either the entrainment effect of the culture is so strong that everyone comes in at 8:00 in the morning, or folks are coming in late and leaving early.
It's not hard to determine, if you consider "visible" to mean "visible to a human." Most of the possibilities you mention are obviously not visible in that case.
No, it doesn’t.

See we can both play the no proof game.
I personally think the combination of the (legal, or at least government approved) prescription opioid crisis, combined with the relatively successful decriminalization at various levels of cannabis in several states, has really changed the tone of conversation on pharmaceutical compounds, recreational or otherwise.

Old paradigms (particularly ones that are not 100% based on factual / scientific analysis, as drug law tended to be) die hard, and it will take some time to change laws as a result. But the moral panic over "illegal drugs" is way less these days than it was in, say, the 1980s.
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And I will continue to deploy anti-anti-adblock measures.
Since getting the salt must be possible by supplying only username, one security disadvantage of such scheme is that by getting the salt of the target the attacker can precompute password guesses and store them. When the password verifier database leaks, the attacker then can more quickly verify guesses. This is a really tiny advantage and may even be more expensive than non-precomputed attack due to storage, so it doesn't matter in the real world.

Another disadvantage is that if changing password also changes salt, by requesting salt over the period of time, the attacker can learn when the password was changed.
> what happens if they stop being in that category

Simple: help them to find better, long term housing. Or, other forms of specialized housing.

Let's take the drug addiction example: homeless persons with drug problems can be best helped by first providing them with no-strings-attached, no-conditions housing to get them off the street and into the access of the care system, then once they're back on their feet again get them to addiction treatment and then into ordinary streetworker care. The point is, people in different conditions need different environments - and different care.
NextCloud?
even if they offered a free iPhoneX, the answer would still be "hell no"
I strongly doubt your assertion that Spanish identities pre-19th centuries are somehow so loosely related that they would have little in common with one another so as to not form 'mostly' a generalized identity on the peninsula.

Politically, geographically, linguistically - the languages spoken in that region are more similar to one another than those in France and have been for much longer than 200 years -obviously some bit notwithstanding - as I indicated.

My point stands and is strongly validated even by linguistic continuity ... 'most' of the Spanish still speak a version of Latin, and the Germans do not.

2000 years later - the 'Greeks' still speak a variation of Greek and still live in the same area.

The degree of ethnic continuity fundamentally transcends politcal borders.
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As someone around that age get off your virtue signaling high horse. People in their fifties today helped build most of the tech you use every day, but even if they hadn’t your implicit ageism levied in service of an accessibility rant is a level of irony that just can’t be ignored.
Obviously not. And the exceptional cases like those where the SSD can be swapped out for larger-than-stock SSD's make the point of connectivity pretty moot. And how hard is it to get connectivity nowadays?
Not for services that enable 2fa.
Do they actually exist? My friend got tired of waiting and got a refund. That was maybe a year ago.
I see, thanks for the highly informative reply... I’ll definitely disable auto fill.
It's been way out of hand for a long time and every update of every crucial piece of software has something new. The only major software I haven't felt to need to comb through all the settings looking for new useless features, telemetry, nag screens, re-enabled previously disabled garbage, etc. after every update is Linux.
I choose the topic, did enough research to paint the narrative I had in my head, but a lot of the role of a columnist is opinion based on personal experience and expertise.
I found the post itself to be quite strongly ideologically leaning - which is why I said that.
step one should be removing google from your phone (android or otherwise) and limiting reliance on all their services.
It was based on a book writing method. Might be the same person. He sold his training material in printed form.
My concern is that is some lawmakers get their way; this is not just a US concern but there is an interesting lawsuit in France pending; we could end up never owning devices.

As in, if the mandated lifetime exceeds what is efficiently manufactured one direction they could go is the phone is never owned by the consumer. Its a lease.

Option number two is simply higher prices with replacement costs built into the sale price but not disclosed as the reason for the elevated cost.

Option three, We could end up having devices with reduced battery time so they can use the space in a managed manner to give similar run time over the course of the mandated lifespan. Initially they could increase battery size which normally would give more time but instead limit how much per charge you get to use. (example, my car has 18kw but only 14.2 is usable per run)
I got a pixelbook a couple of weeks ago and I freaking love it. Before that I had a Yoga 2 pro running arch. I'm using Termux on it to get a local linux environment that doesn't require turning on developer mode. It's good enough for the light coding that I do on it (emacs, clang, cmake). I also use Termux for SSH rather than the chrome extension.

So far it has been amazing. The hardware feels top notch.
I have JavaScript off and I don't get that... I suppose JS off doesn't count as an ad-blocker, despite how effective it is.

(I know there are many more sites these days rendering simple static content with JS, possibly in an attempt to defeat/confuse others like me --- but my solution for them is either Google's text-only cache, or the Back button. Chances are I can find the same or even better content elsewhere; forcing me to jump through hoops ensures I'm not coming back.)
Even if the offered a FREE new iPhoneX, the answer would still be a "hell no".
Google hacks the Browser, Apple store the phones co-ords, and then they make you upgrade to make it easier to track you, and then their associated product "hi Sarah" crashing and locking out sounds like its trying to contact siri!!!

Free iPhone, Hell no
> It’s an all-too-familiar scene in Sacramento. A group of friends heads to midtown for a night of partying and drinking, but one friend has to miss out on the fun and stay sober to be the designated driver.

> A new law that takes effect Jan. 1 may not only let everyone join in on the fun, but it’ll also mean more money for the bubbly.

The problem here is the whole party may be too drunk to make the wise decision of getting a ride. The designated driver isn't just a driver but the overall sober final say for the group.
> poorer communities where gang-related activity can thrive

I know the parent comment only said this in passing, but let's be careful about assuming poor communities are gang-infested or dangerous. AFAIK, gangs are not a problem in most American cities.
WTF do you care what their end game should be for their best benefit? Maybe it'd be better for then to simply steal customer's money if they could get away with it. But that would be straight up illegal. And so is forcing users to upgrade by intentionally introducing performance degradation and telling users nothing about it whatsoever.
the irony on full display (at the linked article) in chrome devtools / record perf timeline and network log.

incognito: 4.4mb, 7000ms scripting, 365 requests, onload: 7600ms

with uMatrix (no third party shit): 612kb, 190ms of scripting, 56 requests, onload: 500ms

this is on a 300MBit connection
It's coming back in 2018 with a A350-900 ULR with only Business and Premium Economy, no Economy seats.
There are huge conglomerates in Ukraine operating in Crypto, gambling, porn, ransomware etc. Could be just some rivals attacking competitors (and paying of SBU to do the bidding is fairly realistic option)
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Sounds like the same method I’m using from the same source. He also recommended expert interviews, preparing the questions for experts in the field and setting up calls to get their answers. It’s a great technique in my opinion, but I never tried to write a book using it. It definitely helped my column writing.
A single hash is still a good idea since otherwise anyone who steals the password database can log in as any user. Sure if someone can steal the password database they may be able to steal passwords as users log in, but that is at least harder.

To make sure users have secure passwords, the server can just generate them and tell the client what their password is. It is, as far as I can tell, entirely a historical accident that this is not how it is generally done.

For web sites, I'm fairly sure this could be done via browser password storage without the user needing to ever see the password if they only use one system to log in (or browser sync between all systems they use). IMO, 21 character random base-64 passwords are good, enough security and still possible to memorize (three groups of seven) over a couple of weeks if necessary.
And they then use that leverage to attack the readers/viewers. Speaking for myself, I will see the internet wither and die before I'll accept that as a valid model for anything.