skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert but GNU Ring https://www.ring.cx does look interesting. It doesn't give the federated goodness that Matrix does, but is truly distributed P2P using DHT. It was absorbed by GNU in 2016, so it does have that going for it.
didn't Dropbox also recently blog about this?
As the body count begins to rise we’ll see how much that really matters.
If your goal is early retirement, you will likely benefit from reading http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/.
I applaud the audacity of starting an airline from scratch, considering it's way up there in terms of capital requirements and regulatory burden, and the industry has been losing money in the US, collectively, since the Carter administration.

But it needs to be said that SFO<->LAX is, at just 300 miles, and with the high demand shown by such startups, a perfect example of everything that is wrong with transportation in the US.

Compare Berlin<->Munich which happens to be almost exactly the same distance: even with some political compromises requiring the trains to stop in towns along the route that planners would rather have avoided, total travel time is only 3 1/2 hours. Train stations are also in the middle of each city, saving you about an hour of time on each end. And you can just hop onto any train without booking in advance, without going through security, without discarding your bottle of water, without the yoga-like contortions of economy class, and without the existential threat of not having internet for two hours.

That even an environmentally friendly US state such as California can't get its act together, and instead "solves" its traffic needs in the most resource-intensive ways available, is a scathing indictment of the US' lost faith in the power of government to solve collective action problems.
I'm unable to find a single item in this post that I could agree with or even relate to. What a terrible attitude towards a fun experiment.
No, that's just the general progression of frequency allocation as we develop better coding and modulation schemes to more effectively use frequency.

On the analog side all new voice specifications on VHF/UHF are mandated to use 12.5kHz instead of the old 25kHz wide channels for the same reasons. Amateur radio is currently the only one I know of that still can use 25kHz wide FM frequencies[1].

P25, DMR, DStar and Fusion all use 12.5kHz since they can get digital audio into much narrower spectrum(DMR in fact supports two channels over one 12.5kHz channel using TMDA which is pretty awesome).

[1] http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Narrowbanding
>Anyways, the employees at my gym just play Spotify Premium and are friendly enough to take requests.

Not a Spotify user so I don't know what I'm talking about, but it sounds like this might be a feature they could implement...some sort of "Jukebox mode," whereby anyone w/the Spotify app could make requests for the local area, given the right password (put on a whiteboard or something, the way we do for wifi).
oh yeah great one. Thanks.
A corporate plan for x flights per month without a named passenger would be interesting, too. This would be useful for companies with employees in both cities who occasionally need to meet face to face with the other team. It would certainly be easier, faster, and probably cheaper than the cluster that arranging corporate travel currently is.
BRS parachutes have been tested as low as 260' AGL at 187 knots (several times faster than this craft would ever go) and individuals have reported successful deployments below 100' AGL[0] The question of course is how quickly it can be deployed in this craft as the vertical speed will likely be much faster than a Cessna or Cirrus in the event of total power failure.

[0] https://www.flyingmag.com/g00/how-it-works-brs-aircraft-para...
> iCloud accounts registered outside of China are not affected.

What exactly does this mean? What makes an online account registered in a geographic location? Is it determined by where the iphone is bought, the IP addresses when the registration is made, the email account used for the registration or something else?
As of early 2018, national boundaries combined with linguistic barriers are still more powerful than the internet. Could this change with low Earth orbit satellite internet? (Given the precedents to date, I'd expect the Chinese government to jam the signals or otherwise intervene.)
Good point. I changed Siri to Spanish to practice my speaking and comprehension, and it was a huge challenge. I assumed it was because Spanish support wasn't as developed as English, but I guess it's that there's not enough training for accents in any language.
I think the only fix is to create TLS-SNI-03 in which the only dnsName component in the self-signed certificate is a well known child of the domain label to be validated.

Validating www.abc.com, SNI and dnsName is well-known-acme-pki.www.abc.com and the certificate should have some other parameter stuffed with a challenge response that is defined to be a challenge response calculated over the inputs of a random token provided to the requestor by the CA and the account key of the requestor.
Dead Stars Orbiting Black Holes May Explain Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
I remember reading a story years ago about one early VGA card company. They had somehow heard about a competitor using a flip-flop(?) to make their VGA card twice as fast. They puzzled over this idea for a long time, wondering how that competitor could have done that. It seemed impossible but because the competitor had apparently managed to do it, they kept experimenting, and ended up shipping a product inspired by this idea, but not quite achieving that factor two. Later they found out the competitor had actually done something much less impressive. (Using only a latch instead of a full flip-flop? I don't quite remember the exact details. I thought this story was in the Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash of Quake-fame, or maybe one of Jim Blinn's Corner columns, or something like that, but I can't find it.)
Yes, mostly cleared with fire around the start of the Bronze Age for crop farming and livestock grazing. The soil's too acidic now to be good for much except looking scenic.

Hipster Britain: we were Brazil before it was mainstream.
Today sure was an odd time for that NBC news story to turn into 404. (Cached version still on Google, as of this writing.)
I'm going to forward this article to my gym. Cable news really isn't news anyways. CNN is entertainment masquerading as news, and Fox is just a 24-7 confirmation bias funnel for conservatives.
The history on this is that originally, templates like Web, Compressed, Audio, Video, etc... were added to ignore an entire domain's tele tapes instead of assuming that you're working on any of those types of projects. Right now, there isn't anything that differentiates the domain specific templates from a language, IDE, or operating system template. Not sure how to improve the experience off the top of my head but I'll think about it.

Good feedback.
Azure App Services / Functions support up to 8.9.3. They move pretty quick to add new node releases.
Now, if he really upstreamed his fixes... (it says he will, but in the next blog post he immediately backtracks saying 'I still want to ponder submitting an LLVM patch to make all this less hackish, but I also sort of don't really care because my changes are really minimal and doing them "right" would involve a lot of heavy lifting. Maybe I'll tackle it some other time.')
> a 100m person market

No, not really. Only extremely wealthy people can buy this. It's more like a 10,000 to 100,000 person market in the US I would guess.
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Just cleared some of my iCloud photos with faces.

Resistance is useless. WeChat, QQ, AliPay and other complied third-party online services are more than enough. As long as you are connected in the Matrix, it has you.
Look up info on cod liver oil. It is high in vitamin D and is how we discovered vitamin D. If you dig a bit, it is known to help a number of conditions, though the Wikipedia article makes it sound like we have hand wavy, vague guesses and nothing definitive. Search for inflammatory conditions, like arthritis, and vitamin D or cod liver oil. Trying to dig up what I saw recently also led me to a piece on PCOS and cod liver. The known benefits of vitamin D seem to not be well advertised or well understood.

The Wikipedia article makes no mention of the fact that people with cystic fibrosis are generally deficient. It is a fat soluble vitamin. People with CF are typically deficient in all fat soluble vitamins and are frequently prescribed supplements for A, D, E and K because of it.

In a nutshell, CF predisposes people to chronic infection and average life expectancy in the US is currently around age 37. Most scholarly articles do not blame the symptoms on things like vitamin deficiency. They basically say having CF causes deficiencies, not that deficiencies cause the symptoms of CF. Which seems pretty dumb to me.

Your bone marrow is an important part of your immune system. Vitamin D plays an important role in bone health. It really shouldn't come as a surprise that a deficiency would undermine your immune system.

It interacts with a bunch of stuff, like calcium and magnesium. Taking a lot of one thing in isolation probably won't have an optimal effect, though there are a lot of confounding factors because if you start eating calcium rich foods because you crave them, you may not realize that you are getting more of other things. Most people don't think of diet that way.

Anyway, if you have reason to think you need this, you should also read up on the other nutrients it is known to significantly interact with. If you need one of them, you like need all of them. If a vitamin D deficiency exists, you likely aren't really on solid ground for things like calcium and magnesium either.
This is great, thx for the link. Been thinking about this for 10 years, nice to see someone being more proactive than just thinking about it!
I'm pretty sure elementary schools in Finland have a cycling lesson or two. Mine certainly did.
Yes. Costs are determined by the sale price, not the other way around. For example, if the sale price of a product increases, the demand for its components raises, which raises their cost.

If a would-be producer cannot source materials that would cost him less than the sale price, he just won't build the product.

[1] has more details on the subject.

[1] https://mises.org/library/whats-cost-got-do-it-0
How do you limit the rate? I only see the requirement of a low-difficulty PoW, which is easily subverted with some custom hardware.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this basically what REITs do minus the franchising? (Walmart doesn't franchise either)

There's also large privately own property management/real estate companies, I lived in a complex owned by one for 4 years. They own and operate properties in 25 states.
The two parties run the organization which works to keep any other parties out of televised debates. They don't care what anyone thinks as long as both parties agree to cooperate on screwing everyone else over. They're willing to have an uneasy truce with each other at the expense of all others.
Yup. It’s one of the reasons I didn’t go through them when incorporating... not that I didn’t want to. If they figure this one out, it would be a dream. Sort of like when Stripe first launched and was only available in certain countries.
There is a video of it at a trade show on YouTube. The craft definitely exists, whether or not it flies is a different question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-3jDTibSQ
AGPL doens't force bushiness to buy a license. They can use your code at no cost and modify at will so long as they make their changes available AGPL.

What you want is dual license. First is AGPL: you accept that some companies will use the free code - get over it. Second is a non-open source license: your lawyers write it, those who buy this license don't have to share changes (which could be made by you or them).

The hard part is not the license, the hard part is the business model so you don't go bankrupt. Since AGPL is always available what do you offer so that a company will pay you? (there are many good answers, just make sure you have one)
Don't know if you're the author but under the Performance section, there is a typo: "Le{r}an More". Also, your none of your performance graphs have a label/unit of measure for the Y.
And that's why I don't hitchhike.
I met him a few years ago when he impromptu visited the gamedev studio where I worked (a mutual friend caught him on the street during lunch). During that brief visit he did come across to me as a really nice guy with a genuine interest in games and the tech that powers them.
Also, as second point, broadcast TV is still very relevant for rural areas where high speed internet access hasn't made significant inroads. It's pretty straightforward to get a VHU/UHF antenna up on a roof/tower and get a reasonable number of channels.

It's anecdotal but I also know of a fair number of cord cutters who supplement their Netflix/Amazon/Hulu with local broadcasting.
I concur in full with your commentary here.

LetsEncrypt, through thoughtful planning and action -- even when it was inconvenient for them -- has established themselves as a shining beacon of best practice.

For better or worse, when you become the best practice example, you are held by the world -- and especially by your peers -- to a higher standard.

I can not imagine how they would see a return to production status of TLS-SNI-01 as anything other than painting a target on themselves for their various detractors to take aim at.

It is no secret that numerous other parties in the CA space would love to see them slip and fall.
We Analyzed 100M Flight Searches. Here’s How to Get the Cheapest Flights
WhatsApp has some decent decisions even after the complexity of being tied down to a single device at a time.

WhatsApp Web is essentially a hack where any message you send through the web app is _always_ routed through your phone (which is why it needs to be connected all the time).

Earlier you could not even view the media on the web client without first downloading it on your phone. But now it looks like they've hacked it further such that you can view the E2E encrypted message on the web app without downloading it to your phone. I guess it achieves this via shipping the decryption key to the web app (just for the current session) where it allows it to decrypt messages in the browser and using the phone just as a router of sorts. This is just speculation based on apparent behavior though.
But you still can't have some inlined `data:image/*` SVG's on your page or you get "An error occurred while fetching or analyzing the page". Even though chrome renders the SVG just dandy.
Buffet knows enough about bubbles to recognize a bubble. Even if Bitcoin miraculously becomes the only currency used 50 years from now, it's inevitably going crash because its value is purely propped up by speculation.
If my comment was a little ad hominem, I apologize.

I watched my parents struggle growing up. My dad worked in a steel mill. My mom cut hair and cleaned businesses after work. I never saw them not busy. They made a ton of sacrifices to keep a roof over my head and food on the table.

Getting an ID would not have been a simple task for them. We lived in public housing and we walked almost everywhere. I watched them struggle to get by every day and to hear someone say "just do something" really makes me upset. It's not that simple. Their life was planned down to the minute. Work, walking me home, second job, making dinner, managing finances down to the penny, etc.

All that I am saying is, it's not that simple. People are in some really shitty situations despite doing everything right. Making it harder for these people to vote (who already have trouble finding the time to get to the polls) is just fundamentally wrong in my opinion.
Hey, my friend and I just released Coinbook -- super fast and simple to watch and track coins in your portfolio. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coinbook-bitcoin-altcoin-app...
While cool I am not sure if this is genuinely useful. I can now take my design and convert it to HTML- now what?

I still have to integrate my api, handle responsiveness, add JavaScript and other animations/actions etc. So I’ll probably end up rewriting most of it anyway.

What I actually get out of this is not much better than emebedding the original image in an img tag, in fact it might be worse, because it creates technical debt that I now have to maintain.
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Yea I agree. Because "AI" is out of our reach.
If we can get hold on something we give it another name (like neural networks) and move on.
Continuing the search for "AI".
How do they define "Chinese users?" What about an American traveling or living in China?
> it seems like Apple isn’t taking as much care as required on security and stability on the Mac

It's even worse than that according to[0] Mark Gurman[1]:

In another sign that the company has prioritized the iPhone, Apple re-organized its software engineering department so there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team. There is now just one team, and most of the engineers are iOS first, giving the people working on the iPhone and iPad more power.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple...

[1] https://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11835514/bloomberg-mark-gurm...
Wrong. it’s counter intuitive... similar to animal rights... why do animal needs any right? shouldn’t it be survival of fittest? answer is NO... and that makes us human... our ability to express emotions and “human kindness”... though it’s a choice not to show any kindness to this metal box... trashing/damaging is certainly not the right attitude...
I only see one "station agent" with compensation anywhere near that level and it is Antonette Bryant. The rest are in the 60k area.
Ah, I didn't realize those were separate. I actually have both.

But in that case, most of what I said still applies!
>I will probably check it out, to be fair it seems unlikely to "unseat the incumbent" git

It will not, as they are more or less the same. People already on git have no good reason to switch. The only real benefit mercurial has is being friendlier. It may prove beneficial for new teams, but these days most people are already familiar with git and will put up with its pains (or rather, be oblivious to its pains).

Mostly an accident of history. If mercurial had initially gotten popular, I doubt anyone would be using git today.
This says that the HN homepage is 2.7MB. Seems a bit high, but I’m on mobile so I can’t verify. Is that right?
This is not a scalable solution. Learn to ignore distracting stimuli and you can be free anywhere you go.
They're "good faith" is asking customers to read the Apple Terms and Conditions...

I hate to reference Orwell, but the fact that Apple convinced us all to lie by saying we'd read the T&C and now are telling us that there's "important" information in this unreadable document seems like classic Orwell.
It's exponentially more difficult for the Chinese government to wield data against me than it is for the British government, as I do not live somewhere where the Chinese government has any power over me.

It depends mostly on the nature of the data, and how much interest they have in you. If the data is damning enough, and they would find value in using it against you, then the Chinese government is perfectly able to hire someone to do so.

Anyone in China who is significantly wealthy is effectively involved in politics, with potentially life and death consequences. To stay under the radar, you have to stay at the level of inconsequential small fry.
All true points. The x100 is a fixed lens camera though. HSS flashes are fairly cheap these days; I have 3 Flashpoint ones (low cost Chinese), but I usually only need one. Nice thing is the same flash works (TTL & HSS) with Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Olympus, and Panasonic. Leaf shutters are nice but the added cost is too high :/
There would likely be a police incident report, especially if there were multiple officers were involved which would almost certainly be the case for a situation in which drugs or terrorism was suspected.
Blog link is dead.
>"Anyways, the employees at my gym just play Spotify Premium and are friendly enough to take requests. Maybe you can ask your gym to play some music you like?"

Does this strike you as a viable solution? Everyone goes to the front desk and requests that the gym play music to suit their personal taste? How does that work out for the rest of the people in the gym that have different musical tastes?

Also wearing earbuds doesn't mean someone doesn't value "awareness." I can listen to my music and not compromise my visual awareness in the least.
GPU mining chip in your TV? Coming soon!
Apple cares more about revenue than brand in regards to China
In theory much of the country is designed to be malleable and fault-tolerant. Checks and balances exist to prevent one branch from overpowering others, but the malleable nature of the country means there are mechanisms to push the dial of what powers each branch has. So the reality is at present a strongman wouldn't have the mechanisms to clean up the mess. Gridlock is - in a way - by design.
Didn't use OSX back then, but I think there is a good distance between "not all that" and the security fiasco going on with High Sierra.
But much earlier than the Russian annexation happened, there was plenty of evidence of Krimea wanting to leave Ukraine... You can travel there right now and talk to people! Almost no one wants to be part of Ukraine!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-a...

Seems like some people just refuse to see that?! Why??? Who is really brainwashed here?
It really is cable news that's the problem. Local reporting is often way better.
So good. We need more silence and less distraction. It's not like it's a bad thing to have an empty wall here and there.
What do you get when you tell everyone that “MacOS and desktop computing are as important to our company as ever” when in reality you barely give a crap about it.
You're welcome. Glad it's helping.
The argument is that software is mathematics, not build on or makes use of mathematics.

It's a small but very important distinction.
Yes, exactly, you're right. The article is correct, it's just not telling quite the whole story. Affine transforms aren't linear, and their augmented matrices that do the same thing are linear. In practice, it's both, and it's precisely cool because it's both.
Sure, broadcasting is still part of the legacy TV, but as the rest, its decline depends on the growth of good quality Internet availability. In the long term it will be gone, and radio will be used for Internet itself. Clearing of spectrum for that purpose is already gradually happening and other radio based Internet access types are coming as well (low orbit satellites and etc.).
Additionally, geography does matter for the group for similar reasons. Proximity constrains economics and policy.
> Is there a way to cut a cake between 3 people with this sort of approach?

Cake? Maybe. Equal-population single-winner firdt-past-the-post political districts, no. But that's okay, because single-winner districts don't practically support more than two competitive parties, especially when you have separately elected statewide and national executives rather than a parliamentary system.

Of course, get rid of single-winner FPTP districts, and you not only can support more parties, you make gerrymandering mostly pointless, even if you do still have districting.
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This is a private company attempting to solve a cost and convenience issue, not the State of California attempting to solve a travel-related environmental issue.

There are other industries attempting to solve transportation and environmental problems in more general ways.