skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason I don't see any hope of us making money on the App Store - we refuse to give into the "portable casino" economy of gaming apps, feeding people's micro-idling addictions, just to fill our pockets. We made a simple app (Bubble Maker[1]) which we intentionally made very different from other apps: it's just a bubble simulator and nothing else. No points, no micro-transactions, no social media aspect, just play with bubbles. And it's doing pretty badly in the App Store because none of the major app reviewers will review it on account of how it "looks too simple", not realizing that's the whole point. I guess this is what voting with our downloads has come to.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bubble-maker-relaxing-way-to...
How so? If they swapped apartments they'd just walk to work and not have any contribution to traffic.
If a database snapshot and a checksum are published out to a CDN on a regular interval, you can certainly run UPDATE on a row and publish a new snapshot, but those tracking the integrity of the data will detect the change.

If you are in control of write access to the blockchain, you can roll back to whatever block suits you better, and just fork it. Others might protest, but those fools have no write access, so they're stuck with your fork for the time being.

Blockchain is just a protocol for consensus-based DB replication, you don't somehow magically end up with a superior DB because of that.
I'd agree that's absurd, but what Damore did was worse from a company perspective.
I am not sure if it is attention span or just the quality of the information.
> So what can we do about it? I have no idea

Since you admit to this why are you applauding broad application of draconian law to address the problem? This reminds me of the last episode of this past season of Black Mirror -- the UN mandates that 'containers' for artificial consciousness contain at least five emotes (woefully inadequate) and simultaneously that artificial consciousness cannot be terminated; effectively trapping people in hell. Reacting to every manufactured media panic, running to the bedroom of your parents (government) and asking them to protect you from the monsters under your bed is the true problem here.
Pave Golden Gate Park.
This depends on a lot of things and often linux switches to graphical mode quite early.

Another thing is that some new-ish BIOSes leave the VGA card in non-standard videomode that is 80x25 text mode, but has 8 pixel wide font and same timing as 640x480 graphics mode. The difference is clearly visible on CRT monitor (lower refresh rate but no horizontal black lines between scanlines that are typical for PC text modes). I believe this has to do with fact that some LCD monitors are not capable of reliably maintaining synchronisation in 400-line VGA modes when using VGA input and many TVs and similar HDMI-connected devices simply don't support 400-line modes at all.
Nothing against your MIL but it is extremely common for people to not walk the talk. It's much easier to talk in pure abstract models when it is someone else's life and money on the line.

I am sure most people here who claim that the likes of Google and Apple should not 'avoid' taxes take every possible tax deduction in their personal lives so as to minimize their tax liability.

There's a reason the young are such idealists. It's easy to preach in the abstract about how OTHER parents should raise THEIR kids. Or how OTHER landlords should manage THEIR property investments. When these people become parents and homeowners themselves is when the rubber hits the road, and most just regress to the mean.
Apparently I'll only accept objective scientific claims to the contrary. We're turning over a new leaf here.
This is an awesome write-up.

Regarding the experiment on monkeys that showed calorie restriction led to a longer life, there is one key point that I think damages the conclussion. Both groups of monkeys were fed an extremely unhealthy diet that was very high in sugar. So the conclusion would be that eating fewer unhealthy calories leads to a longer life, not that calorie restriction in itself does.
NASA should try to do this from Space. (Space Station? )
Bingo. Facebook is one of the easiest services to do this with because their mobile site is nearly identical to their native app. Similarly YouTube is also surprisingly good on mobile browsers.
Hologram announces multi-factor authentication solution for IoT devices
Japan is weird. They demo/rebuild housing much more than in other places in the world.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/03/31/how-tos/ja...

You'd really want some kind of net housing units measure, rather than housing starts, to compensate this when comparing Tokyo to other cities.
I love the idea of giving kids access to the net on an old computer. Even better would be to simulate a 44k modem over wifi. This makes it possible to load anything, but you have to really want it, and you may even have to plan ahead (gasp!) before downloading something. It also inherently biases the kid to learn more about the local machine locally, which I believe is the key to growing a healthy adversarial relationship to computing devices. If you make the usual way of getting entertainment hard (e.g. youtube) my hope is that they will create their own entertainment (hacking the machine).
I found it not interesting because it didn't feel very scientific like you said. It sounded like a high schooler's argument and was cited like one. Your condescending tone is appreciated.
This isn't as obvious as you make it sound. If all landlord realized they will have a future loss, they are looking for a way to recoup this. If they believe other landlords are going to do the same thing, they know they can raise prices without getting undercut because others know the same thing they do. Quips about the goodness of their hearts isn't as deep a thought as you think.
> The silly games and facebooks are only a problem for those who choose to participate in them.

Perhaps. When the question is addiction, who really had free will to choose?
Which is no different to the tap-and-go we have had for years. Just make sure you glance at the balance on the screen before tapping.
This is not bad, but has one problem. How many watts I have to use to heat up my dinner? Watts are not a natural thing that any human knows how to relate to any experience. Of course, with some trial or guidance, I could figure it out. But even then watts are useless for me - I just know 600w means "dinner", but it could as well say "37 zzq" and be as useful as "600 w".
> "James Damore was fired as an engineer after the manifesto, which [...] suggested women may be biologically inferior engineers"

Nowhere in the essay suggests that at all.
Every since credit cards got Chips, all chip-readers are insanely slow. I mean 5-10x slower than swiping (sometimes even longer)

I have started using Apple Pay more and more because it is so much faster than inserting my credit card into the chip reader.
I agree that a traditional desktop or laptop computer is a more productive text processing machine than an iPad, partially due to the physical keyboard and partially due to limitations in iOS.

For other productive tasks like music creation or digital drawing, where text is far less important than it is in programming, writing documents, using a spreadsheet, etc, the iPad is arguably superior to the traditional desktop setup.
Under Icelandic Viking law, every year one man had to recite the law. (I believe this was given one day.) Anything he forgot to include was no longer the law.

Different system, but some thematic similarities.
This is good information for people to reflect on this discussion. There is a lot of speculation in this thread and it's what is ultimately leading to the divisive arguing.

However, I don't think Google did what you have pasted here. As far as I can tell, they fired him for violating code of conduct, which maintains that employees do not publicize discriminating memos, which he did.
Not modern Linux, but recalling Debian 1.2 on an AMD 5x86 133MHz in 1996
It is poor journalism. Responsible journalism would write it as:

"James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board that was perceived by many to argue that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering"

They can also point out that he denied he argued this, and that there is plenty of disagreement over whether his memo said it or not.

I know plenty of folks are saying they read it and don't see how one can interpret it any other way. But the fact that you get so many comments indicating they did not interpret it that way is a strong indicator of a lack of consensus. The way the article is written implies a certainty, and does not reflect the reality around the memo.

Essentially, to insist that this is what Damore meant, based only on his memo, is insisting that a huge number of HN posters are playing the same game Damore is. It's much easier to believe that there are other valid interpretations of the memo and to allow for the possibility that Damore had one of the other interpretations.
lol I read some of these comments and all I hear is "Protect the children!"

Introducing your kids to any technology is an excellent way to teach them responsibility and how technology can be used to increase their understanding of the world around them. But this would require you to spend time with your kids and guide them along their journey with enough freedom to make mistakes.

I have 2 kids 5 & 10 that started using phones at 2 years old. A couple of broken screen and a few dramatic crying fits, but I can trust both of them to use technology with respect. Of course the 5 year is still learning and that happens everyday. The 10 year old is amazing now at self control with usage of his phone while interacting with others.

I say start them early to learn good habits, but also demonstrate good habits in your household.
Any living male with a pulse is generally considered to be "right-wing", particularly if they ask questions or exhibit any skepticism towards mainstream liberal culture.
Building additional units (supply) in SF isn't being limited by the renters, it's zoning laws, prop 13, and NIMBYs.
When the earthquake levels half the city and your mother in law is bankrupt because here tenants have no connection to the community and jet, I’m sure she will be very interested in government asssitance.
If you're looking for deterministic timing generally that goes out the window the moment you add caches, at least non-manual ones. Other than timings if you can tell the difference between a processor speculatively executing and one that doesn't then there's something seriously wrong, which unfortunately includes xdcbt.
Fascinating article, but I wish it had also described what was happening on the Russian side of the border.

The Finns are not the only ones who've learned lessons from the Winter War. If Russia has any plans for another invasion, you can be sure they would be keen not to get humiliated a second time. No doubt the Russians are making their own contingency plans, and undergoing their own cold-weather training in freezing terrain that Russia itself has no shortage of. It's unlikely that they would go in to Finland unprepared again.
Never said it was a good strategy ;)
US here - I use it all the time now that chip readers are widespread. Apple Pay is drastically faster than chip readers, especially when you're wearing an apple watch already.
Really, because "We have emails from coworkers saying they won't work you anymore, we have numerous news stories that paint this in a terrible light, we have internal emails that show we spent a stupid amount of time dealing with PR issues from this, etc..." sounds like a pretty good argument for why he got fired.

or do you mean google settles? maybe. I kind of wish they would just let their lawyers run wild with this though.
> I am terrified about giving smartphones to my kids.

Hey smartphone makers, if you're listening: Let me set an alternate PIN that unlocks the phone in a limited access mode, or "kid mode." Only pre-approved apps are available. Only pre-approved contacts can be called/texted. In-game purchases require the more secure PIN. Maybe when the phone is in this mode I can track its location easily, and make it emit a noise. The maximum volume is much lower than normal. A lockout timer auto-locks the phone after X minutes. If the battery dips below 20%, only the voice calling, texting, and tracking will work. Bandwidth caps. Et cetera.

This would also be nice if I ever have to lend my device to a stranger. Smartphone OS makers should be embarrassed that this feature doesn't already exist.
If anyone finds the operation of airlines a fascinating topic, you might like Wendover Productions: https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions

How airlines price flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hlr-E7KA0

The little plane war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1YMPk3XhCc

Why planes don't fly faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QEj09Pe6k

The economics of Airline Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

How airlines schedule flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXahSnA_oA

I just recently found the channel. So much good stuff. (My unrelated favorite is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j48Z3W35FI0 How the US government will survive doomsday.)
I'd say that the very fact that identical quotes from the memo can be used to argue opposite positions in earnest shows - with no judgment for which side is correct - that the memo itself is poorly written.
Surely in most cases you'd be contacting you bank for support though, not Google?
> "I'm particularly concerned about the 13 year old, as she appears to be going backwards in terms of reading age and ability, and her attention span is dismal."

Definitely not limited to 13 year olds. I've notice this myself the last couple of years, and it seems to have coincided with an increase in my usage of Reddit and HN apps (ie. feed-based news apps with comments).

I'm finding that sitting down to read a good book no longer seems appealing to me, and I almost have to trick myself into doing it. I also am a lot pickier in terms of whether a book is good enough to hold my attention. Ditto for long-form magazine articles.

Interestingly enough this also seems to bleed over into other media. Movies seem too long to focus on without using my phone while watching during slow scenes, and same with TV shows. In fact, across Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime Instant, I am struggling to find any shows that seem interesting enough to warrant spending the time to even watch the first episode. Yet I find I enjoy trailers for movies and shows way more than I used to. I'll bet some of that is due to the short couple minute format and quick cuts which keep my brain occupied.

I'm making an effort to cut back, but even being aware of the problems doesn't make that easy. I almost wish I'd lose my phone for a day so I wouldn't have an option.
This is pretty impressive. Manipulating a Cessna at 100 mph while taking a photo of another aircraft traveling at 200 mph with the goal of framing it over an event unfolding at a fixed point on the ground. The article is tantalizing. I hope there's a more in-depth piece forthcoming describing in more detail how he's able to pull this off. He does have a co-pilot, but I imagine while the photo's actually being framed and taken he's in direct control of the aircraft: the latency communicating intent to the co-pilot while at the same framing the shot would make the endeavor infeasible.
The merit (or lack thereof) of his claims and views matter little in this case.
The case is visible enough and touches on politically relevant points enough so that there will be tons of people on both sides willing to fund this case all the way to supreme court.
Then there is the problem with how damaging discovery would be to the company.
It will probably will get settled fast, with Google paying him a few years worth of salary and a non-disclosure clause that will make him never speak publicly about the episode again.
Unless the guy gets too greedy and push for too many figures, then it will be a shit storm.
Wasn't that one of Trump's promises, that for every new regulation, two old ones had to go?
There are plenty of bad outcomes: say they no longer need a 3 bed apartment. But with rent controls, they might actually pay more if they moved to a 1 bed. Or they get a job in San Jose and are forced to commute instead of just moving because they are getting such a deal.

But the bigger issue is that is artificially raises demand. That prices up for everyone else, which does more harm. It's a subsidy for older people paid for by younger people.
Really? I'm in a reasonably rural area but pretty much every PoS I hit now accepts Apple pay. Probable 80-90% at least? It's not always obvious the PoS supports it by looking at it
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That seems to me like an idealogy of its own, but what exactly are diversity metrics measuring then? Appearance and other unchangeable physical traits? How unfortunate since they have nothing to do with interests, abilities, or character.
What in particular about incumbent renters justifies making policies that benefit that group above all others? Is there something inherently less worthy about families seeking to return to a city after having left it? About a daughter seeking to move out of her parents house?
I think this is maybe what the suit is referring to: https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/950452593565798400

The person in question is talking about what they presented at a meeting, but I don't think it should be interpreted that the booing actually occurred during the meeting itself. In any case, it's not really the best look, but the suit is mischaracterizing it IMO.
best Sami movie is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(1987_film)
I think you're missing the point of the "diversity movement". The point is that some classes, e.g. women and minorities face discrimination that's baked into the selection process, even when they eventual selectors are not showing a preference. You might try to hire based only on "merit, motivation, and results", but any measure of those things is going to be imperfect. If those measurements are themselves biased, then your selection will be biased, even if you didn't want it to be. The goal of diversity policies is, in part, to break through and counteract those biases.

Jon Stewart gave a post-retirement interview in which he talked about this issue in the comedy world. He initially wrote off criticism of the lack of diversity in the writer's room for The Daily Show, since he always told people that he was interested in hiring more women and minorities. He eventually realized that the channels along which people came to the job was already selecting for white males, and that more diverse hiring required rethinking those channels.

https://youtu.be/p1H7KxPlbQw?t=42m32s
> People aren't investing in cryptocurrency

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/investing/long-island-iced-t...

Erm, yes they are. And they're doing it in roughly the stupided manner possible. There's a ton of people who literally hear the word "blockchain" and then just throw money at it.

That's why these no-name penny stocks go up 200%+ when they change their Facebook page to include the words "blockchain", even if it makes no freaking sense.
The anti-Trump bs was unwelcome. Anyone with any savvy can see what Trump is and what he is doing: Putting America and the interests of American citizens first and foremost. It's not like it's any huge mystery. It is very welcome that the US finally has a President who doesn't drink and who is dead honest about his policies. And if the Finns think the US would sell them out, to that I say "come on!" For the first time in a decade, the US is going to abide by its alliances. BUT--we're not longer your doormat for defense, which means Europe needs to step up.

As far as Russia goes, the US and Russia are not exactly going to become allies except where fighting the oligarchs who are wrecking the west goes. Ukraine was caused by the US Intelligence Agencies meddling there, forcing Russia's hand, not the other way around. I really don't think it's a repeat of Stalinism.

Don't forget that the Finns became part of the Axis by allying with Nazi Germany for awhile. Only Norway fought the good fight. I still admire the bravery of the Finns in the Winter War.
Slightly ignorant comment from a Haskell n00b - how does Agda play into this?
I bought a Series 3 Apple Watch with LTE for this exact reason. I'm on day 5 of going phone-less and while it isn't a seamless transition, I expect to go without a phone for the foreseeable future.

What works without a phone:
- SMS/iMessages
- Phone calls via AirPods
- Checking weather reports
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Setting timers
- Getting my focus back

What I wish worked without a phone:
- Updating contacts

Other:

I've been having an issue with my Outlook calendar not updating on the watch, though I'm not sure what the root cause of that issue might be. I'm going to try connecting my iPhone directly to Exchange.

I have the Lyft app on my watch, and it is supposed to work without the phone nearby. I haven't had a chance to test it yet though.

When I find myself missing an app, I remember how liberating it was when I spent 3 months living in Rwanda without the need to carry a wallet, keys, or phone.
The toughest part of immigrating from Canada to the U.S. was figuring out the mess that was Google Play Store, Google Wallet, Google Payment Profiles, and Google Pay to get myself recognized as being in the U.S. and thus able to download U.S.-only apps.
Well then doesn't he deserve what he gets?

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
Take anything to it's extreme and it will be bad for you. The key to social media, just like gambling, drugs, or food, is to not abuse it to the point where it becomes an integral part of your life.

I can understand why people would feel bad about their role in creating modern social media, it's basically crack. But new potential addictions are created every day, that's just the inevitable nature of the human mind and society. You can't feel bad because people enjoy what you've create too much.
I was ready to go back to a flip phone because I was aware of how many times a day I checked my phone because of FOMO or whatever. Then I found out I could get my phone subsidized by my employer and that was enough to keep me using a smart phone.

Now I feel only slightly better that I'm not paying for my bad habit and still guilty about the addiiction and associated "damage to my mind".