skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the OP isn't just talking about felonies, but homicides. "The Wire" Season 4 aside, it's much harder for the police to fudge a body count.

Yes, but you also need to take into account that emergency rooms have gotten much better at treating gunshot wounds and other serious crime-related traumas. I.e. even with the same exact level of crime, the homicide rate would still have gone down significantly over the last few decades.
I feel like making threats on Twitter is not really "grown up". Especially since I doubt his departure would seriously affect the progress of the technology, which makes them fairly empty threats.

I think when something like this happens the founder has already lost control; There was a mistake made a long time ago with respect to disalignment of the vision he saw and the product he built, and by now it is no longer recoverable. He acknowledges the problem, which is why he wants to issue the complaint, but he doesn't really know how to solve it, which is why it seems so desperate.
Lenovo, Huawei, and their strikingly different global expansion strategies
Giants Stadium has free water next to the bathrooms. Dump out the soda and fill it with water.
'Show me nothing, nothing at all, until I make the effort to ask the question "what products are available for $need?"'

Isn't that basically Google (at least before they bought DoubleClick)?
I think this Siri there is that if the battery is only capable of supporting full voltage when it’s charged to 80% or more, then you consider that top 20% the full range of the battery and when the battery gets to 80% actual charge you tell the user it’s at zero.

I’ll admit that I’m not sure how possible that is. If this technique would let you pretend that the battery only had half its capacity left without slowing down the phone then that maybe one thing. If even a slight battery degradation meant you have to pretend the phone only had 1/20th of its original battery left then obviously that’s pointless.
Waste and corruption in a public good as vital as rail transport is truly sad. It happens everywhere though. In Melbourne, contracts for their new ticketing system were given to a totally unqualified company and ran several hundred million over budget. Rather than just eat the cost, the corrupt city officials have doubled down by wasting more money of worthless ticket inspectors to attempt to recover some of the costs from fare evaders.

https://sites.google.com/site/cheaperthanmyki/home
Opposite of what?

I agree with legalization. And with a freer market for growers and sellers and entrepreneurs.

Our government is plenty sinister too. And government is actually "people".
It’s exactly as insecure as a standard x86 PC then (ignoring recent Intel issues!).

Yes this is less secure than the default config.
I actually appreciated the article offering another conclusion as the author did clearly indicate the originals papers conclusion. This isn't the first time papers using data from this study(https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/) has lead(excuse my pun) to controversial conclusions.
And, cynically, they don't care as much as they should about this lost trust, because:

> Since we were already locked into the Apple ecosystem (with paid apps and media), we bought iPhones.

I feel that iPhone vs Android is the current Holy War [1], and it's just as contentious as Mac vs PC, Windows vs Linux or even vim vs emacs. (PC, Linux and vim, of course!)

1: http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/holy-wars.html
It is a breath of fresh air seeing someone, after earning some success and wealth, still remembers the values he started out with.

Going a step further and being a good leader would I suppose be to steer the technology towards a tool that can create the values he desires e.g. advocate for proof of work that folds proteins.
It's so lame most of the web won't work with JS disabled anymore
(3) Seniors click on preditory links served by Google AdSense
It’s the “on paper“ that I took issue with. From what I’ve seen from developers (which is admittedly limited) the chips Apple has do seem to be incredibly fast. Between that and the benchmarks I have no reason to think Apple chips are artificially optimized to look good on benchmarks and aren’t noticeably better on normal tasks.
I’ve replaced things on my iPhones before, the only issue after that was dust ingress on camera lens.

How does your kit ensures it?
Theres also nothing wrong with criticizing that decision, especially when they are clearly using it to push you to buy a new device
I think it's the second, and I doubt the alternative ways to profit is my thing. I think they are banking on one of those paying off.

I doubt many people get movie pass and lose money on it frankly. Somewhere around 1-5%. If you are going to only 5 movies a year, and price isn't the issue, you have no reason to buy MoviePass. The majority of the customers are likely those who they will lose money on.

I think on average they are losing quite a lot per user, and the data can't be all that useful.

If it takes a year to get useful data, and they lose an average of $100 a year per person (a bit under two movies a month per person on average), is each person's data worth that?

As far as concessions, big theatres hate MoviePass right now and I don't see them getting a cut of that confessions profits anytime soon. I'm riding the wave of free movies but doubt they last. I think it's far more likely it pressures the industry to change its model but they aren't going to be getting rich off of it without a strong pivot from the current business model.
I loved, loved loved my Nexus 7. The battery eventually died, and I waited for the mythical replacement model which never came. Then I gave up and got an iPad Mini. The iPad is fine, but a 7” Pixel would be awesome.
Forgive me if this is naïve, but how does Joe Random site owner participate in the selling of data? My impression is that that's an area of commerce with a pretty closed membership.

I'm not asking in order to do something like this, just that I think it's an interesting question about exactly who is able to profit from activities that are somewhat assumed to be occurring everywhere, and not by and within the ad networks that everybody is using.
To anyone being harsh to this guy I suggest you go back and look the code you wrote 5 or 10 years ago. Now think how bad the code you write today will look to you 5 to 10 years later.

Edit: I lost my train of thought. I meant to say, imagine how your code looks today to someone as good as you but with 10 years more experiences than you.
>So I take the drop to $29 as a tangible apology

It's more like a middle finger to all the independent smartphone repair shops that have been replacing screens, batteries, speakers, LCDs, and cameras for years.

Apple has the resources to subsidize the cost of shipping and labor for battery replacements thus undercutting the Mom & Pop repair shop by a wide margin.
When was Apple great? Snow Leopard 10.6.

Most of the early OS X problems were resolved: Pretty much any printer you bought would work instantly; there was a healthy ecosystem of well-supported native apps; bundled apps worked well and used open standards (Mail, Address Book, iCal); networking worked well, including sharing files between Macs and PCs. And built-in utilities worked great, like printing to PDF and opening PDFs in Preview.app.

And hardware was quite good around that time too – with unibody notebooks (both plastic and aluminum) released during that time.

Things went downhill with 10.7 Lion and beyond, when Mac OS X imitated iPhone OS and usability started to decline:

- Bundled utility apps suffered: iCal and Address Book got photorealistic leather, and lost key functions like column-based navigation for your contacts and easy handling of multiple networked calendars.

- Flagship apps lost core functionality in the name of simplification: iPhoto took up the whole screen but lost core functions; iMovie was dumbed down (prior to 10.6); Final Cut Pro X left a massive gap in functionality from Final Cut Pro; Aperture was discontinued.

- Things just got worse for no valuable reason. Example: watch a Quicktime movie full-screen on a multi-monitor setup, and all the other monitors just show... textured linen.

- Reliability declined. I don't have data to back this up, and I'd really like to find an objective source for "reliability" on the Mac. But I no longer say "it just works" seriously anymore. That used to be mostly true, but it's no longer true for me. Personal example: constant problems when adding or removing my external display – permanent sleep that requires a hard reset, or display will repeatedly not be detected, or built-in keyboard and trackpad won't work until I plug in my wired keyboard again, type something, then remove it again.
Given that the etiology of Alzheimer's is tied to the very same proteins that must be cleared out during sleep, and that the requirements of sleep decrease with age, there seems to be a cyclical feedback loop at play here, insofar as healthy aging does not typically difficulties with R&R. (This example becomes more salient in the case of supergenarians who can rest and let little stress them a great deal.) Compound that with a likely immunodeficient response during sleep (where the brain is supposed to become more spongy) for these proteins to be cleared out and a poorly functioning blood-brain barrier, it would seem finding treatments that focus on these self-restorative responses would be most beneficial. Whereas treatments that temporarily boost processing capabilities will only somewhat delay the onset clearly shows that this is most likely the case.

I wonder what study on general EEG signatures may reveal with respect to the efficiency with which the cleanup process can be facilitated thereby. Perhaps meditative practices could be demonstrated as a form of protein-cache clearing even when in a waking, albeit altered, state of consciousness.
It's amazing to me that time is really the only limiting factor, I imagine for many others. I've gone to 5 movies in the past 20 days because of being off for the holidays.
Can anyone recommend a good book about the Minecraft phenomenon? Something that covers its history, rise, proliferation; economics, education, global engagement, etc. It seems like a really great story...
Where in SF did you feel unsafe?

I walk around all parts of the city considered “dangerous” (Bayview, Mission, Ocean View/Ingleside) and nothing has happened to me. Really the only “bad” area SF has is the Tenderloin and it’s common sense not to be out there wandering around even during the day.
Tip of the year!

I bought a "used" one-year-old Cadillac ATS with 6,000 miles on it. It had AWD, the V6 engine, and every option available except the rear-seat BluRay entertainment system. It was priced at 60% of new.

It was a great deal and I challenge anyone to tell the car wasn't brand new without checking the odometer.
It looks interesting, but that list of investors reads to me like a timebomb to pivot back toward surveillance.
I've just remembered that I used to play an economy based server, years and years ago. I think before the time the author is referring to because I think when I started mobs weren't synchronised in multiplayer. It would be great to find another server like that, it was fun.

Actually part of me thinks it may have been the same server, the sky mall sounds familiar.
It would seem the only guaranteed way for a browser to avoid interception of credentials is to deny JS access to sign-in fields. Even write-only access risks allowing other scripts access to the key and mouse events.

Am I missing something?
Good point, must of helped Google sell another dozen of them. Thats what makes this whole thing creepy, how many iPhones did this scheme sell for Apple - I imagine a non-trivial number.
Where exactly do the transaction fees go in the blockchain? Are they used to bid-on/confirm the next block? Are those mBTC in the transaction fee gone forever once the transaction is confirmed?
I would say that in rural areas you’ll find more acceptance of driving above the legal limit because of disagreement about how reasonable that legal limit is. I don’t think you’ll find much acceptance of “drunk driving” according to their own definition of “drunk.”
The unlikely history of #100DaysOfCode, and why you should try it for 2018
People know that there is a drop a drop in crime on the weekend that a big violent movie comes out.

It's also known that male participation has dropped in the labour force and in particular young males without many skills who also tend to commit crime:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/7/15933674/vi...

Personally I think there is something in this. A big, time consuming engaging hobby appearing that young males take to with great enthusiasm appearing as games got cheaper and better.

Here is something on it:

https://www.polygon.com/2014/9/12/6141515/do-violent-video-g...

It's a really hard thing to study though.
There’s literally hundreds of flavors of Japanese KitKats. I know of probably over a dozen different varieties which are green tea based.
They go to the miner of the block, which is incentivized to pick the highest paying transactions to put inside the limited block.

So yeah, you bid with your fee against everyone else wanting a transaction in.
> Apple makes great long-lasting Hardware.

Six months ago I would've agreed with you. After getting a touch bar MacBook Pro for a work computer? Not so much. I don't like the ergonomics at all, but I'm more concerned about out-of-warranty costs.

Thunderbolt glitches aside (it used to kernel panic fairly regularly upon resuming from sleep, more so if I had plugged/unplugged it into the TB3 hub), it took about two weeks before the keyboard started acting up. About 50-75% of the space bar actually works. The left command key isn't centered in its bore properly and sticks with some regularity. There's something rattling inside now too.

I'm in the market for a replacement personal laptop and, for the first time, I've doubts about the longevity of the Apple product.

Also recently I finally dumped my old black MacBook off at a electronics recycling place. Apple keyboards have really gone to crap. Yes, the non-touchbar MacBook Pros had really mushy, nasty keyboards... but the touch bar slim keyboard pales even in comparison to the keyboards the polycarbonate MacBooks got.
I've never disabled it directly, mainly because I'm not intimately familiar with all of the about:config options, but I have always selected the "Never for this site" whenever that popup presents itself. Deep down, I always thought it was a bit tin-foil hat on my part, but sounds like it was good intuition after all.
The main caveat in Pixel C is android, Pixelbook fixes it with ChromeOS.

ChromeOS's window management is far suited for productivity than android and in some cases (IMO) even mainstream desktop operating systems. Android app ecosystem is an added bonus, albeit missing some essential features like HW acceleration, better clipboard management etc.

ChomeOS + android > Android + Chrome browser !
> (Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.)

As one who has a bachelors in business, I wouldn't my degree completely useless, but I can't think of a reason I'd recommend someone might go down that path. I would say 80% of the value I got from my degree could be achieved by taking courses in 2 or 3 classes, maybe accounting, finance, marketing, and management.
I agree, I simply don’t believe that the iPhone is not designed to be able to run at full speed a reasonable fraction of the time.

The implication that I keep getting from people seems to be that Apple is running their phones at 140% and when the battery can’t keep up they then slow it down to make up for the CPU being underprovisioned on battery.

I think it’s far more likely that Apple is running the phone at 100% of what it was designed for. When the battery ages they were running into problems with the phones having to shut themselves down (perhaps the newer chips were more sensitive to power fluctuations?) so they’ve started throttling to under 100%.

In a desktop analogy: I don’t think this is the equivalent of some company selling overclocked CPUs and lying about how fast they were. I think this is closer to a case of the computers just ended a clogged with lots of dust and had to throttle to prevent serious damage after a few years.

Obviously they should’ve told the user but I don’t think they set out from a malicious standpoint.
Sometimes I wonder why the heck I should live in NYC and pay so much in state and city taxes.. and then I can’t even deduct them starting in 2018... But then i get depressed so I try not to think of it too much.
Migrating MySQL to Postgres
On macOS an administrator (someone in the admin group) cannot create, delete, or move files in the system domain. That makes it harder to completely fuck up the computer, but as you say it won't really stop an attacker from running almost any arbitrary command.
When I worked as an intrusion analyst, I worked on a lot of content to detect domain generation algorithms (DGA) that are sometimes used by botnets and other malware for more robust command and control. Over the last couple of years this has become increasingly frustrated by a lot of websites using algorithmically generated domain names in order to evade adblocker blocklists. Domains like "djbvueiabjqkna.com" are increasingly just some major news website delivering their banner ads.
It's not circular at all. Every single one of the employees I have in mind can be accounted for by Alphabet and Alphabet alone. We're talking security guards, cafe staff, customer support, janitors, receptionists, massage therapists, doctors, physical therapists, and any of dozens of different types of line of business stuff that doesn't use permanent employees (could be as simple as running the Google Books scanners or processing returned hardware).

It's pretty simple to determine -- Who's paying the salary? Your example, of a contractor who is employed by Amazon to work on Netflix integrations for Amazon products, would count for Amazon, as the work is paid for by Amazon and is for Amazon's benefit. It wouldn't count for Netflix; we're only talking about employees whose salaries are being directly paid for by a company, not larger second-order ecosystem-type effects. That gets a lot harder. What I'm talking about is exact.
There's a really cool ecosystem of decentralized systems starting to find real-world use cases on the other side of the bitcoin divide. Bitcoin is just the figurehead.
You wouldn’t be able to prove or disprove the existence of incentive, but I’m sure the rule means that you can’t offer vouchers contingent on alcohol purchases, as in “buy at least 3 drinks and we will give you a voucher.”
This is generally what I do. I get Sprite with extra ice and then refill with water.
ChromeOS supports PRoot. https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-devel...
"I use an ad blocker, because otherwise the web is unusable"

What sites are unusable? Aside from some click-bait destinations like BuzzFeed I've found the web without ad blockers works well enough.
Well it’s a windows laptop, so yes they say what else you can get that is directly comparable.

It’s the price of the midrange Windows laptops, but the specs and build quality of the MacBooks.

The downside is Windows of course. But it is supposed to work pretty well under Linux.
Soooo... either people “grow up” or he “takes his ball and goes home” is that about it? Definitely ironic.
Open Source CubieAIO SBCs Tap Actions S700 and S500 SoCs
Having visited Manhattan several times in the last couple of years, I have to say that it does feel like a police state being there. In some senses it's great, because you don't have to worry so much about crime as much, but it also speaks to the police state that NYC and the rest of the US is turning into.

So I'm not surprised that crime has fallen, given the sheer number of police officers present.
So I take the drop to $29 as a tangible apology

I take it as public relations and crisis management wrapped in a minor loss-leader. Plus, it automatically boosts store traffic to capture sales/upgrades that wouldn't have happened yet otherwise.
That's not why they're not allowed. It's because the bad guys might target people wearing military clothes.
which saas product?
I'm not being ironic or obtuse. This company is barely a year old, I suspect the improvements alluded to will take many decades to perfect. Starting with the existing state of the art and attempting to become a profitable earthbound venture is not an absurd opening strategy for meeting this goal. Musk has stated:

"I do think getting good at digging tunnels could be really helpful for Mars. For sure there's going to be a lot of ice mining on Mars, and mining in general to get raw materials. You can build a tremendous amount underground with the right boring technology on Mars. So I do think there is some overlap in that technology development arena."
I think Dart VM in Chrome was supposed to enable that, but since opposition the plan was dropped to focus on generic JS compilation.
Does the cost of a transaction increase as more blocks are found? What makes the transaction fee minimal?
ERs are required to report stabbings and gun shots, so that would still be captured in the crime rate.
This Leverage concept can be applied to a family .

Instead of YOU, as head of household putting more hours to solve Home chores/issues, if you teach other 3 members of your family how to solve issues/do chores , you get 3X return .

An example is online shopping for Home: Instead of you spending time for all the research each time, teaching family members, you can achieve leverage .

> If you bust your ass for a year and improve your own technical chops, you might be able to implement stuff 10% faster. Instead, you could help a team of 30 people to produce 10% more work. This is achievable from my anecdotal experience, but citation needed.

> At this point, you can throw your 10% incremental improvement out the window because now your incremental engineering improvement is 10% of a 30 person team, or 3 engineers
.... so what should they do? If they subsidize prices and help out the people who would never go to a local repair shop and only know the great white Apple logo in the sky, they're jerks for driving mom/pop shops out of business.

If they don't do it then they're non-responsive.

Them stepping up and going to $29 plus software updates is the way to go. It just took too long, like everything else Apple does post-Jobs.
Launched my side project Alias, a Slack bot that let's users define custom aliases and use them to type less. [0]

I managed to build it and launch it while finishing my Masters in CS, then working full time, while also being in a relationship. So I had to use any spare time I had to work on the app.

I learned a lot about time management and how to get into a flow state, fast. I tried doing a little bit of work every day. No matter how little, every day I tried doing some work on the app.

This quote stuck with me as I was working on the app: “It gets easier… Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”

Goal for 2018: Focus on marketing and bizdev to keep growing. I don't have much experience in this area so it'll be a challenge but I'm sure I'll learn a ton!

[0]: www.aliasbot.com
This is something that I'm exploring in 2018 with a group of people from the publishing world. Still very early stages, but if you have any further ideas or solutions then we'd love to hear them:

https://pollygot.io

e: link
Your sample size is too small. You may have gotten a lemon phone. I don't know what point you are trying to make based on your personal experience with 1 nexus phone. I have personally never experienced what you are talking about.