skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS definitely allows you to implement your own browser engine. The only caveat is that Apple doesn’t let third-party apps to mmap executable memory, so you won’t be able to create a JITting JS engine.
Because one is dealing with abstract theory with specific rules vs engineering in the real world.

One exists in the world of abstraction while the other lives in the real world.

Might as well ask why we can have a perfect circle in math while a perfect circle doesn't exist in the real world.
Yeah, surprisingly good. Like, three standard deviations better than I would have expected.
I don't agree that mathematical proofs are more fault-proof than code.

Mathematics is based more in the "spirit" of the idea and proof, rather than pedantically driving things down into the ultimate nuts and bolts. Many paper proofs are likely full of bugs deep in the details.

As intuitionism and machine formalism develop, and the standard of rigor rises, we might see entire branches of mathematics being relegated to the dustbin of historically interesting human endeavors but totally useless as foundations/formal assumptions for future work.
Linus clarified later that he could reproduce on Fedora with the relevant build flag (-fstack-check). His initial assumption that this was caused by an out-of-tree patch specific to Gentoo was incorrect.

The patch to "fix" it is explicitly disabling -fstack-check for the kernel build. I believe that will go out in 4.14.11 (it is not in 4.14.10).
Meh, clickbait. I read a lot and am happy to get through 50 books a year. Books you can read in a few hours are often trash as well.
I’m dubious about basic income because, having done the math on how much it would cost, there are certainly better ways to spend that much money.

If we give every American $1,000/mo basic income, that’s $12,000/yr times 300 million, or about 1.2 trillion per year. For that much money, we could fix all our infrastructure, build better subways in every American city, build a Loftstrom-style launch loop to keep space launch costs down, land on Mars, replace the entire military arsenal, invest billions into basic science, expand health coverage, and still have some money left over. Plus, building all of that shit will probably get the country to full employment, give people meaningful things to do with their lives, and we get a lot out of it.

Or we could just mail people checks so they can sit around at home playing video games.
GP is correct. The Quora answer has a false dilemma that you've just perpetuated here, viz. that an OO program cannot use a compact representation. But there are standard patterns for using a compact representation of data for domain-model objects.

The article's author isn't just unaware of them, they've written a petulant, arrogant article demonstrating their own lack of experience and adaptability.
On the other hand, that social media time also gives me things to write about online and ways to promote the stuff I'm working on. I like reading books as much as anyone else does, but if my main job is web development and my secondary hobbies involve news reporting, then using that time for social media is a hell of a lot more useful.

I'm certainly learning a lot more about the latest advances in tech from Hacker News than a physical book...
Guidelines say to not editorialize titles, and stick with original, but I agree. Putting short summary in parentheses would help (like "So Close (Otto postmortem)")
Those were exactly my thoughts upon reading it. “Four weeks from generating revenue” and then sudden death because of a failed acquisition sounds like awful planning for a well-funded startup.

Also, it’s a damn internet-connected door lock with Bluetooth. Do you really need $45M and designing new mechanical systems from scratch to make it work? I’m sure their team did amazing work but all of it sounds incredibly head-in-the-clouds.
>> "My last product was a hypothesis that never gained traction"

Best place to start is where you already are, not a new venture - what exactly was the product and what did you do to gain traction?

EDIT: You posted a "Show HN" linking to the site below [1], is this the project you're referencing?

[1] https://www.helloreads.com/
Well apparently this one has "a new, exciting and addictive (?) user experience".
Apparently in Germany the age of consent is 14, and if someone over 21 interacts with someone near 14, a hearing can be convened to determine whether this was justified.

I heard this secondhand on Reddit, so I have no idea whether it's true, effective, or what the implications would be. But it seemed like a sensible and tidy system, if one existed. (EDIT: indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Germ...)

I was similarly active at around 14, and it didn't really affect me much. But on the other hand, that's only a few years after it's even possible, so it's hard to grok the gravity of it. Especially at that age.

You're right – it's simply hard to figure out how much protection, and where, should be applied.
I found him via his Personality and it's Transformations lecture series (I love psychometrics!), I very much enjoy watching his lectures on whatever he does, he is very sincere and honest.
Ask HN: What's your tech stack of choice for your 2018 side hustle?
Here are a few off the top of my head.

1. Servers. I've always 'pushed to heroku' without really knowing how servers worked.

2. Git. I've always just used gitlab or other git hosting services without knowing how to build it.

3. File hosting. I've always just uploaded files without knowing how files are processed / stored.

4. Email. SMTP is like a big unknown, I've never really cared about how emails worked.

5. SSL. This was always done for me, I've never had to create and manage my own certificates.
Sounds more to me like other mobile browsers are holding the web back by not paying more attention to the needs of the many. Users don't care about standards, just that things work.
Nothing, but there is a business advantage to having an author and their fans support your work rather than turn them against it, so if J.K. Rowling refused to do that without getting paid, she still has leverage regardless of copyright.

My argument here is that part of the intrinsic value of a creative work is in the author or team behind it, and that doesn't necessarily need the force of law to back it up.

Look at doujin culture in Japan. People create derivative (mostly pornographic) works using established properties and characters, but the originals still retain their value. It's technically illegal, but it's still permitted as authors consider doujins free advertising and a way for new talent to showcase their work.
> Maybe the law just needs to be more adaptable somehow.

It is, in theory, with judges. However mandatory minimum sentences or sex-offender entries have a massive negative effect here.
>Google's only consumer OS is Android

And why exactly is ChromeOS not a consumer OS?

>Even after literally years of development it's still riddled with inconsistencies (visual and behaviour), performance issues, security issues etc.

You make it sound as if inconsistencies, performance and security issues are isolated to Android. Which is ridiculous considering the plethora of inconsistencies, performance issues and security exploits on other platforms. As for security issues, no Pixel has ever been hacked at a PwnToOwn event while iOS devices consistently are.

>It took them literally years to arrive at Material UI design, which is a vast sprawling document which is often internally inconsistent, and even Google can't adhere to it a lot of the time.

Have you looked at iOS recently? Apple doesn't even follow their own guidelines nor do the vast majority of the special snowflakes on the App store. And I won't even go into the disaster that is Metro/Modern or whatever they're calling it now on the Windows platform.

>Their best customer-facing products have traditionally been third-party acquisitions (such as Docs). They have a very inconsistent approach to UI/UX across all of their products.

Mac OS was a third party acquisition and iOS was created from that so you could make the argument that even iOS is the result of a third party acquisition. The fact is these products would never be as successful as they are today without the resources and money its taken to get them to this point.

>They can still pull it off, but it's definitely not a given.

It's not really a question of if they can pull it off, but rather when they'll pull it off. If nothing else Fuchsia will be the new OS used by Google internally replacing their current customized Linux distribution. And if that's the extent of Fuchsia's use then it'll still be considered a win, but that's not where it's going to end in my opinion. I see Fuchsia surpassing Linux in desktop OS market share rather quickly and eventually challenging Mac OS in the long term.
Yes, there is evidence:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/17/no-voter-fr...

There is also the MSM's tendency not to investigate, due to political correctness, the government's tendency to stone-wall to avoid looking incompetent, and the politicians' tendency to not pass laws that would hinder their chances of winning the next election.
I always had a trekking bike, not that it was necessary for a concrete cycle lane.

The speed is not overestimated. The overground and the car have a well defined speed for comparison. Sometimes a friend would happen to drive along on the road on his way home and be surprised that I keep up with his car.

I cycled every day for a decade. That's a good training I guess.
500 pages means one thing for something from the nyt reading list and something else for a grad math book.
Having just bought a "non-luxury" car that locks and unlocks by proximity (plus things like OSX that does the same with Apple Watch) this seems like a no-brainer.
> Any plans to run a private NEO blockchain?

After visiting the NEO website I have no idea what it is supposed to be.

https://neo.org/
Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

Section 2.5.6 from https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I usually advocate for storing (and therefore versioning) tests with the code under test, but this one complaint may have changed my mind. Backwards compatibility is incredibly important for microservice architectures. The more tests are black box, the more this would work.
I think when you say 'journalism' what you mean 'analysis' vs 'reportage'.
Seems strange that anyone would agree not to raise more funds or negotiate with other parties for their entire remaining runway.

I mean, it puts you in the situation that you either sell to that company or you go out of business. They could offer you a fraction of the amounts they were talking about before you signed, and you'd have no alternative.

Hell, even asking you to agree to such unbalanced terms seems like a sign they're planning to pull a fast one on you and they don't intend to negotiate in good faith.

What kind of chump would agree to shoot themselves in the foot like that, unless they'd exhausted every alternative?
Because humans like language and the Turing test is about artificial human intelligence.

And because at the time of Turning, computers were for arithmetic and text, not for audiovisual
This sounds interesting. Do you remember why they were making this allusion to diabetes?

I read an article just a few days ago that discussed how sleep is important for cleaning out plaques from the brain like those associated with Alzheimer's. Unfortunately I flush my browser history frequently or I would post it.
Eh, that information is shared widely. Some decent googl-fu will get you the information you want.

The difference is a lock-pick can't exploit 20,000 doors in 20 minutes.
Ok so all I hear is Intel and no trace of AMD?
So X86_64 ISA wise the only diff between modern CPUs are AVX512.

I bet you within the foundations of AVX512 lies a nasty one that can't be patched with microcode update.
No, I mean to give Facebook any more page hits or demographic data.
Elementary OS: 2017 in Review
This is a pretty common method of watermarking sensitive content in EVE Online alliances, however we've found it suffers from some serious drawbacks.

Zero-Width characters tend to cause lots of issues when they are copied and pasted, which may alert a poorly equipped adversary that they're handling watermarked content. In addition, entities that are aware that you're watermarking text content in this way can just take screenshots of the text, transcribe it, or strip it of all non-ASCII characters.

The best solution I've seen is something I like to call "content transposition". The idea is that you take a paragraph of content and run it through a program that will reorder parts of content and inject/manipulate indefinite articles in order to create your watermark, while keeping the content grammatically correct. That way even if an adversary is fully aware that you're watermarking text content, they need two copies of the watermarked text in order to identify and strip your watermark.
For me, with personalized account, and query "img src" against Google DE: top3 for the TLD after html.com and selfhtml, and top8 for a t.co link to the site which I did not dare click.

For what its worth, I have never tried to interact with CP in any way, or have heard of this site before today, so I'd assume Google has no reason to up-rank this site for me based on browser history.
Hypothetical innocents that can be checked for before a banwave goes out vs hundreds/thousands of active accounts cheating and ruining games.
Yes, I edited it but got changed either by bots or mods.
The Sticky Truth about Modern Written Language
It's better that this happened, than if they had gotten further and become the Juicero of door locks.

Edit - all the things that had my subconscious chanting ¡Juicero!

The consultation of a Swiss watchmaker, indicating an exacting exquisiteness of mechanical design (for a door lock) indicating idealistic overdesign. ¡Juicero!

The resulting $700 price tag. ¡Juicero!

...to replace an older system that already works great. ¡Juicero!

...despite its not having any of what he calls "intelligence," which equals an internet connection and a CPU. When in fact, a system as old as the deadbolt lock has a lot of true intelligence built in, and reliance on an internet connection and a CPU is a weakness, not a victory. ¡Juicero!
I mean, what you are effectively arguing is that Microsoft's OS is so freaking awesome and amazing and good for consumers, that no other competitor is able to provide value to consumers as much as microsoft is.

And your solution is effectively to make Microsoft's products worse, so that a different, lower quality product is able to compete.

What about instead of that, we do the thing that helps consumers, instead of hurting them?
> Does anyone know how the extraction cost of shale compare to the declining cost of solar?

The solar market is so tiny it doesn't matter in the energy discussion. Despite what you read from the cheerleaders ( paid or unpaid ) on social media and the news.

The two important changes in energy markets the last decade are fracking/shale oil and natural gas. That's it.

> Are we at the point already where some oil fields become non-profitable?

Solar doesn't determine profitability of oil field. Oil prices determine profitability of oil fields. And it's all variable depending on location/quality/etc of the oil fields and the oil. Yes, as oil prices drop, there are oil fields that became unprofitable and many oil fields were shuttered. As oil prices rise, they will become profitable and the activity will increase on those fields.

Low oil prices and the rise of natural gas along with regulation has absolutely crushed coal markets in the last 10 years. It has also crushed the solar markets as well ( see all the solar companies going bankrupt ). Whether oil and gas can keep this trend going, your guess is good as mine.

I think Trump is very pro-energy and he will support low oil prices, low LNG prices and even push for more coal investments. That won't bode well for solar. But what do I know.
Yep. The kernel maintainers are being so aggressive with this that I'll be very concerned if there isn't a major security issue coming down the pipe. I know that Linux is considered fast and loose in various circles of old-school hackers, and granted, but merging this type of fundamental change into stable is not normal. There's something brewing here that is pushing this to completion.
> Can you contribute more on 'That's the point of the article.'?

Sure. I'm not a scientist but I have done some reading about Teller and his role in the Manhattan Project and its aftermath. He was clearly a genius. He was also a controversial figure and had a poor reputation in the physics community because of his churlish behavior in the theoretical physics group at Los Alamos, his claim to be the "father of the Hydrogen bomb", and the Oppenheimer affair.

It's no surprise that the petroleum industry ignored his 1959 warnings about CO2 pollution of the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. The point of the article is that because of his poor reputation in the scientific community, scientists might have dismissed his important message.
Magic link authentication server – Cierge
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man on the Moon?
> A more general question: why is it so typical for a Python we worker to have its memory grow infinitely with each request processed?

I can't talk about general situation but in this specific case it's because they've turned off GC previously, so growing infinitely was expected. Details are in the first blog post they've linked from the OP.
Wilderness of Mirrors
Do you think this could be within the rather new Intel AVX 512 ISA or older intel CPUs like Sandy Bridge (first AVX chip) could also suffer?

- edit - I checked Ryzen ISA, they support AVX2. So probably AVX512 is the issue.
> I heard this secondhand on Reddit, so I have no idea whether it's true, effective, or what the implications would be.

as a German, yes this is correct. Additionally: as long as both involved are >14, the parent(s) have to file a complaint, which is the reason why these cases are very rare - even for e.g. 13/15 combination (which would be illegal) I don't know any case without having to resort to Google.

Both courts and the general public treat the entire matter responsibly, although the latter has shifted a bit, if one involved party is a refugee - that sends the German alt-right into a frenzy every time there is any hint of suspicion. But still, it's far, far away from what hits HN/Reddit every couple of months from the US.
I think yes, if you choose your definition of fruit. I chose it to mean any amount of any part of the fruit, in the botanical sense.

I wrote more here: https://medium.com/@7sevens/1st-january-2018-fruit-and-runni...
so they can verify who you are

How do you "verify" that the person presenting a birth certificate or SSN is the person named on a document?

no voter fraud happening in California

As someone who has already experienced somebody voting in my place multiple times, I can assure you that that is hogwash.
Something really rubs me the wrong way about paying the government to mistreat me less. It really seems to me like it was created to make sure that wealthy, and therefore politically influential travelers don't get too upset about the TSA and demand reform.
I did one of the races today, and it counted for about 12,000 steps. I did exceed my step target for the day, but it wasn't easy.
There's room. But the problem you'll find is the constant problem with raising funds and keeping staff. People have their own motivations for working at a place but the bottom line is that they must feel like they are earning enough to keep them satisfied. It varies by person. But if the workplace can't compete in pay and benefits then people move to where they can find that.

Also, it's expensive to run a quality business and you'll find that you will need to charge students about what they are paying now. You might give them a better quality education but ultimately it costs a lot of money to keep staff and the other business needs. So either you charge what it costs or you do fundraising. Also, even if you keep the costs low, students what to attend and pay for a school that will eventually give them the education that will give them the skill to get a top paying job. You need to build a reputation that will eventually create a school people want to attend.

So basically you have to have a benefactor that will pay and carry you through the expenses and the time to build a reputation. It's a very hard to do.
http://archive.is/g1NEH
tl;dr Otto was almost successful in making a high-end smart door lock, but despite incredible engineering and design, bad luck (read: negligence) through an acquisition deal led Otto to run out of money.
They were trying to sell a $700 custom designed lock based on its “user experience”. How much sense do you think this management team had?
I'm counting species, not varieties. I wrote more here: https://medium.com/@7sevens/1st-january-2018-fruit-and-runni...
I set up my own consulting company and, when not working for clients, I am trying to work on some of the common issues I found in businesses I worked in.

I just launched a simple tool: http://stackbiller.com - it's a tool to keep track of all the SAAS subscriptions a company may have. It's a small tool but hopefully will be useful.
What you describe is reporting, or perhaps creative non-fiction writing. Whatever you want to call it, it's not journalism.

The problem is simple: the definition of the word journalism has become kicked, bent, dented and corrupted. And no one questions it. Certainly the "journalist" don't.

Yanking tweets off Twitter - as if someone or some bot hasn't said somwthing at one time or another - is considered journalism. Having a blog (somehow) makes you a journalist. Positioning yourself as a serious and respectable journalist but then covering NYE in NYC's Time's Square - hello Anderson Cooper - is completely acceptable. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Most of what gets passed off as jounalism barely qualifies as appropriate for a grade school newspaper.

Journalism is a verb. It's what you do in the pursuit of the perfection of your craft (i.e., The Truth). It's not where you work. It's not that your work is published on the internet. No, excuse me for repeating this, journalism is a verb.
I wonder what, if anything, the agreement to proscribe other fundraising was traded for? Why would the management enter that deal without something in return (i.e. a cancellation penalty payment)? It seems negligent at best.
That may be the case in some places, but every company I've worked at has had HR have some say in hiring. The worst place was one where it didn't start out that way until the head of HR played some political move and refused to process the paperwork for any hires unless they had gone through their SilkRoad software and been vetted by HR first. We immediately went from getting some decent candidates in interviews to suddenly interviewing people who didn't know what loops were but had listed 10+ years of experience as a software engineer on their resume