skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as certain about those outcomes. The brainwashing ends where hunger begins. Look at Venezuela--there was no "right" to offset the leftist agenda and it ended, or is ending, predictably. The US has further to fall, of course. I'm watching Germany carefully--are the people there going to do anything about their government working against their own interests as citizens? And please understand that I don't view all immigration as bad or all non-whites as something other than humans with individual needs. No, I am talking in terms of individual liberty and having accountable, competent government, which is something even most Americans have no experience with.

I'm only pointing out that there was an endgame in play by the left in America and it was close to fruition. I prefer moderate, centrist policies, not far-left nor far-right adventurism into the pit of despair.
He discusses that in the attached video, it was needed to prevent picture vibrations due to audio. https://youtu.be/0aFhzGEBQlk?t=9m9s
UNIX has been multi-user for a very long time and the intended use case is that those users not be able to compromise each other or get root.
>"It stays most fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery," Singh said.

haha wow. That sentence says it all.
> Most people don't need better-than-TLS security

I agree with the literal interpretation of this statement; most Signal users don't need that level of security. But many users want a level of security that makes it much harder for their government to intercept their messages, and I believe Signal is better for that than Facebook Messenger. I think you could make a convincing argument that Whisper could be strong-armed by the US government, but for me it seems unlikely that they could be compelled to install a back door by Turkey, Russia, China, or some other such illiberal regime (at least, less likely than Google/Facebook).

For example, see https://www.cultofmac.com/426440/whatsapp-wins-encryption-vi..., where WhatsApp (which uses the Signal protocol) was not able/willing to hand over message data to a Brazilian court. That is the feature that Signal users are choosing that FB Messenger does not have.
Based on what I know about moderation, the penalty on the story may have been overruled by upvotes or reversed by moderators. This does happen occasionally.

And by authoritarianism I do not mean politically authoritarian views, simply authoritarianism applied to moderation decisions (having iron fisted idea police ensuring the quality of HN discussion).
MySQL Metrics – Important for Performance – InfluxData
This kingpin story is not likely to be true.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/urban_legends/henry_fords...
Hey, better than nothing! Thanks.
Personally, I think it's when an EV can make a 9-hour drive without needing more than about 30 minutes of total charging.

9 hours is (in my opinion) the max amount of driving you can seriously do without at least a couple hours of resting.

That'd be about 540 miles total, maybe a bit less if you could make those 30 minutes of rest stops at a fast charger.

Right now, EV's are clearly the future. I'd say that when they have a 500 mile range with an MSRP that matches ICE vehicles, they'll go from being "exciting new technology" to "the obvious choice for most people."
AWS AppSync – Up and Running
Why not just, you know, submit it?

Edit: In fact it was submitted some four hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16060448
Stasi files: scanner struggles to stitch together surveillance state scraps
Every state except LA had a CON law.. You can't restrain supply for a couple of decades, then repeal the law, and immediately say: see, there's no difference.

We're already seeing a difference in prices after a few years[0].. and it takes years and hundreds of millions of dollars (up to $1B+) for a hospital to go from a proposal to operating:

CON laws raise overall healthcare spending by 3.1 percent—5.0 percent for physician care. As for type of provider, while CON has little effect on Medicaid spend- ing, it increases overall Medicare spending by 6.9 percent.

States that repealed CON laws have seen overall healthcare spending reduced by 0.8 percent per year, leveling out to a 4 percent drop after year five. The greatest decline in spending is with physicians at 1.4 percent per year, compared to a drop of 0.3 percent per year in hospital expenditures.

And by constraining supply of beds, hospitals redirected investment into equipment, increasing per-unit costs of providing care [1,2]. Arguably CON laws have contributed to unnecessary tests (since hospitals need to use the equipment they buy to pay for it), and use of more expensive equipment than necessary.

Of course this isn't the sole problem with our health system... there are many that contribute to the problem. But CON laws are negative, and are one of the issues we need to deal with if we want to reduce health costs.

0. https://www.mercatus.org/publication/health-spending-reined-...

1. https://jhu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/impact-of-stat...

2. https://www.mercatus.org/publication/do-certificate-need-law...
Is the 60$ for a single guy trekking to a spring and filling these manually, and carrying them back? Seems outrageous.

Nestle pays 2$ per million litres of water to extract.

I might aswell get a friend in the interior to goto a stream and start shipping mason jars of water lol.

I am in BC, we drink tap.
We bottle our tap water for on the go. Alot of people prefer bottled water.

Surprisingly alot of people prefer Costco Kirkland bottled water over other name brand crap like Fasano, nestle etc.
Show HN: Uppy.io – The next file uploader for web browsers
> It is not her habit to tolerate needless extravagance in the animals on her production lines: superfluous capacity is trimmed back, new capacity added only as and when it is needed

It's not exactly wrong, but it's way too anthropomorphic and attributes way too much intent.

Plus there's plenty of natural stuff which at least looks way over-engineered or redundant/unnecessary in its current form. The Mantis Shrimp's eyes for instance. The gallbladder also seems mostly redundant, and while one can argue that the lobed paired design of lungs is necessary considering the common occurrence of respiratory diseases redundant kidneys seem less than necessary.
There is a time pressure for them to IPO given the terms of some loans they took out in 2016.
It seems the loan included penalties tied to how long it takes them to IPO. Apparently for every six months thereafter till the stock lists, the interest rate will keep going up by 1%.

(http://www.sramanamitra.com/2017/03/08/2017-ipo-prospects-sp...)
I converted a similar laptop from win10 to Ubuntu and now it is all cool and quiet.

Windows seem to require many many CPU cycles just to update itself and index files (yet cortana never seems to find anything, but that's another discussion).
It's unfortunate that there aren't any high quality projects for the other way around - text to speech.

By high quality I mean something as good as Tacotron 2 [1]. However, I have no illusions of Google ever releasing code or trained models.

Someone will likely re-implement it from the paper, but it's unlikely to be anywhere near as good as those samples, due to worse tuning and lack of a good training set[2].

This effect can be seen if you compare Baidu's samples [3] for Deep Voice 3 with those from an implementation by a third party [4].

[1]: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...

[2]: Common voice, for example, will not work well, since you want lots of data from a single speaker for good results. See for example, how samples get progressively worse when increasing the number of speakers in training data[3].

[3]: http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-3-2000-speaker-neural-t...

[4]: https://r9y9.github.io/deepvoice3_pytorch/
> (Now you can install kernel extensions)

This is wrong. There is no "now." Kernel extensions have been installable in macOS since 10.0, IIRC. The real "issue" here is that Apple has provided a mechanism for installing Kernel extensions into a protected bucket, but no way to uninstall them.

The fact that this whole thing isn't very well (or at all) documented even for developers (the ones writing the kernel extensions), seems like it's not the most ideal of situations.
Most likely bad. With Intel you tend to need a new motherboard anytime you upgrade your processor since they change sockets frequently. This also makes it harder to find replacement motherboards for old processors.

AMD has committed to the AM4 socket they're using until at least 2020, so if you buy a Ryzen processor and motherboard today, you should be able to use that motherboard with Ryzen class processors until 2020.
Show HN: I spent a few weeks building a private label brand for Amazon – AMA
Hey there HN!

So for the last few weeks I decided I wanted to learn more about selling on Amazon and FBA - so I did what any normal hacker would do. I bought a website - https://www.chargeduck.com - Wrote some funny copy (Well I think its funny, but I suppose thats subjective) and then I went a step further.

I called up suppliers, had samples made, designed packaging and even through some of that cheeky copy on the box.

As I've been talking to people over the last week or two - especially other entrepreneurs its become apparent that this is a world a lot of people don't understand all that well or even at all.

So I figured why not Show you guys what I did and open it up to questions if you're interested.

I'll hang around for the next few hours and if you're interested I'll even tell you about what my plans are for the future with this and other products!

Looking forward to seeing what you all have to say
The most hilarious part about the "unfiltered water" fad, to me, is that it probably has a bunch of hipsters drinking industrial run-off and many of the same chemicals they rally against.

That's not to say I disagree with them about industry destroying water supplies or poisoning us with various poorly-understood chemicals. It's just the lack of self awareness that I find amusing.
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Once there's a number of reproducible, peer reviewed, studies then maybe it's time to have this discussion.

Until then, we have pretty good real-time evidence that drinking dirty water is one of the highest causes of mortality in the world.
This is almost certainly the case.
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https://imgur.com/a/CwUYX
https://pastebin.com/1keqsjZF

1. Does your yearly expense also look similar?
2. Is there anything you do different than me which leads to lesser expense?
3. If your expense is less of more than please explain.
> Maybe Motor City in its heyday.

Ultimate levels of NOPE.
It's already up: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/169262039243/bu...
For some reason I can’t reply to ‘chrisper’ but I think ‘api’ is referring to going long in the stock market.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/long.asp
> and would run the risk of watering down the opprobrium attached to the term "eugenics" by including a thoroughly unobjectionable practice.

The opprobrium shouldn't attach to "eugenics", it should attach to "forced eugenics".

If some people are incapable of making the distinction, well, some people are incapable of making a distinction between male homosexuals and pedophiles, too. There's only so far we can carry an unfounded hatred of an extremely broad concept due to a tiny, distinguishable special case within that concept.
The vast majority of sugar in the US at least is from corn.
This is the same argument against vaccines.

And you can't win that argument in the face of hard facts.

Poorer countries don't have the luxury to drink filtered water. And you know how many of those populations die of diseases from such 'holy spring water'.
If they are drinking pure water from the well or spring, provided it was taken in pristine environment, it should be better then regular "clean" water. That is what concept of "mineral water" is, you get water directly from the ground, usually with some health benefits.

Sometimes you get 'mineral water' packaged from retailer, but if you go to place where it originates, you can get it from the well. Microelements you get in that water is something you will not ever get in regular water and it is good for your body and brains, within reason. Drinking it exclusively will not be good for your kidneys I guess, but it is not intended for that.

I wish reportes would not hype this as much and explain if there is genuine issue in how this water is getting collected, there might be genuine issues, but it is hard to understand where the problem is and this is not the first article I read.
Sugar beets account for about 20% of sugar production, so it's not unlikely you've had non-cane sugar. Still no real reason to label it as cane sugar though.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2459... gives some more info on the process for approving installation, but doesn’t mention extension unloading or removal.

Neither does https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208019, but I would guess/hope that, if you are managing Macs running High Sierra through MDM, you _can_ do that.

Also, if you are using MDM, be prepared for a change (from that second document):

“If your Mac is running macOS High Sierra and is enrolled in MDM, User Approved Kernel Extension Loading is currently disabled. All kernel extensions will load without requiring user consent. Use the Kernel Extension Policy payload to specify which kernel extensions should load without user consent, and to optionally prevent users from approving additional kernel extensions.

In spring 2018, an update to macOS will cause User Approved Kernel Extension Loading to be enabled even on devices enrolled in MDM. You will still be able to use the Kernel Extension Policy to manage User Approved Kernel Extension Loading after this change.”
Thanks Paul

But What i see as a difference is in feature request is

customer will ask a sales/support person ,he usually files this in support desk or crm .
Sales guy will intimate this to the product manager or tech lead .
Tech lead will create a task/customer story in JIRA .

In the above process the communication between sales/support and development is manual and in some cases, the feature request loses its priority and no single owner for this .
I think that saying: "A calorie is a calorie" is too simplistic because it's never just calories vs calories. 1000 calories of bananas comes with a lot of other content vs 1000 calories of ice cream. You get a lot of different nutrients, you get a lot of fiber, etc. The holistic combination of things you get in unrefined foods makes an impact on how your body processes and stores calories.

[Edit: I hope it's clear that I don't advocate eating 1000 calories of any one food. :)]
Does life insurance pay for incidents like this where there is no body / proof of death? Just read that NYT piece about the Everest climbers from India who died, and who's families could not collect because there was no body.
Yes it's boring. DTrace is broken too thanks to SIP.
It means that if you come to the US from more or less any country you can get started working and building up a good business and end up on the top in fact you are expected to. There is no social welfare system for you. You go to Europe and you point to how many places that happens.

In the US almost half of all Fortune 500 companies are founded by foreigners. Let me know where that happens in Europe.

And yet apparently accepts around three times as many new immigrants per year than the USA, as a percentage of population.

But a fraction of what the US have of illegal immigrants (approx 100K vs. 11mio). Furthermore the IRS and Immigration actually doesn't communicate about illegal immigrants because of the US Privacy Act which means you can actually pay taxes even though you are here illegally.

The US is many times more flexible for anyone who wants to stay here.

But don't take my word for it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/business/international/fo...

Even the fact that Dreamers are even discussed shows how different the US is form Europe.

So is the USA the land of opportunity or the land of greater hardship and toughness?

What part is it you don't understand?

The US is the land of opportunity, the US sentiment isn't like the european where equality is a goal in itself because of the US history and how it was founded.

With regards to your [1] Denmark did that, it helped but what does that have to do with anything?

11mio illegal immigrants in the US plus all the legal immigration and add to that the last 200 years and it's pretty obvious that the US is based on very very different principles than EU.
Have you taken a real look at the Verge codebase? https://github.com/vergecurrency/VERGE
The problem is that a high fat, high protein diet has other downsides that a healthy plant based diet doesn’t, specifically cardiovascular issues.
Absolutely, it's a trade-off, and is probably strictly worse for power users.

As a counterpoint to Bitcoin (which is still quite a young and under-adopted protocol), consider how hard it has proven to upgrade the IP protocol from version 4 to 6 (20 years and still not complete?)
I'm not feeding OP humble pie. I'm sharing information with people who are unfamiliar with Java, so they don't believe what professional Java developers can clearly see is obvious bait.

I'm glad freedomben likes nodejs, but he shouldn't talk dirty about Java while pretending to know something about Java. His one comment to this story dominated what could have been an otherwise interesting discussion about a new feature of Java 9. Sad.
You're cherry picking the data to match your conclusions. To be fair, so is the article. And your "revealed preference" justification for cherry-picking sounds compelling. But I still disagree.

When I was a teenager, I observed interactions around me and came to the same conclusion that most women prefer the top few men and most men prefer any woman average or better.

So I have confirmation bias similar to the author (on this point. I don't necessarily agree with the author on other points)

But let me suggest why the different data point to different conclusions. When I was younger, I tried (very poorly) to flirt with the most beautiful women but was thrilled when any girl in the top 50% showed interest in me. I wasn't that picky, but it's more fun to get rejected by the prettiest girl than to be rejected by the average girl and rejection was pretty much the guaranteed outcome either way.

"Revealed preference" in who I'd date was, in my opinion, a lot more meaningful than "revealed preference" in who I'd approach.
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> Corporations literally have a legal obligation to attempt to pay as little tax as is legally possible

They literally do not.
It's not. A lot of sugar comes from sugar beets
Please play around with the demo. Uppy is open source, modular, supports importing from Dropbox, Instagram, tagging metadata, resumable file uploads via tus.io, React, etc. We want to launch 1.0 soon, but would first like your feedback so we can still get possibly breaking features in.
As i understand the problem, this isn't about clockspeed reduction, now it is the software's responsibility to check if the page is a kernel page/user page. So, the impact is significant. So, every time either pages are touched/accessed this check needs to be triggered, which causes it to be much slower.
To add to this:

* Add an authentiction subkey and you now have a drop-in-replacement for ssh keys.

* Password managers like "Password Store" use a git repository full of gpg encrypted files as a backend allowing for a secure password management solution that only decrypts the credential you need vs decrypting -all- of them at once like most popular tools.

* If you make use of the solid smartcard support you can even avoid your keys ever being exposed to system memory where malware can steal them.
You're getting downvoted for people who are missing that it's a reference to a brilliant scene from the show: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3uir5
Ah okay. Thanks. I have been an Intel guy for all the years now, so I was used to getting new motherboards.

Good to know AMD is doing that! Getting new motherboards is annoying.
Or maybe the lawsuit was timed to arrive just now and or extra pressure on Spotify?
When I was in uni I built up a multi-monitor setup of CRTs people left behind (the centerpiece was a 20" Apple Multiple Scan Trinitron, off to the sides was a 15" Sony Trinitron and a 17" Samtron display)

Then I got my first big paycheck from some remote work and I replaced them all with the original Apple 30" Cinema Display. That was a glorious day.
They need some legal standing or the case can be dismissed out of hand. It may very well be a question of who has the better legal team.
The Excited Soul’s Guide to Startup, Pt 1
Openedge ABL is a niche language.
How big telecom smothers city-run broadband (2014)
North Korea Reopens Phone Line with South Korea, and the Phones Sure Are Weird
I think prostoalex is hoping universities would economise on things like administrators on seven-figure salaries, expensive luxury buildings, and so on.
The Golang type system for newcomers
This made me think of this excellent planet money episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/21/533840751/epis...
The unadjusted paygap is still caused by sexism.
I don't really care either way for the man but something he said to the effect of "Technology doesn't just get better, it takes hard work and will and money" and the general building the future you want to live in.

I mean sentiments like that. It's just right in the feels ya know? It's a reason to go even read the news in the morning.
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Yes, that's precisely how lawsuit strategy works.