skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commute via Penn Station, and while I think it's a labyrinthine and Kafkaesque human cattle pen, I've never seen anything like that, let alone routinely.
Let the contracts have as much graft as exists in Afghanistan and Iraq and the contractors might be interested.
I would much prefer that the license and information from apple explicitly stated that this chinese firm will only be able store and access data from chinese accounts and there is a very secure barrier between the two. However, given this paragraph

They include a clause that both Apple and the Chinese firm will have access to all data stored on iCloud.

It makes me really worried about apples commitment to privacy.
I think you lack a grasp of the issues. Failing to fill out an FEC form properly and registering dead people to vote are two different things. The former doesn't even affect the vote count.

Quit playing for your side and accept when you've read a valid point.
This was the hope with the internet here in the US. Hundreds of millions of users later, the average person seems even less informed on the world around them. Access is meaningless if good information is less appealing or is made to seem less credible than propaganda.
> hence the transaction barriers to consuming global services are easier.

It's just a political choice. It's not a fact of life. Better regulation and better taxation of capitals would "firewall" Europe as well.

As I said below, language has never been an issue. Nobody is using google because is in English. Google is well translated everywhere.
I think you really have to look at installed or planned hardware decoders, or closely coupled software/GPU decoders to really declare victory.

Edit: software/GPU decoders, not hardware/GPU decoders.
Doesn’t this have the potential to inform a potential adversary as to your habits regarding those levels? “Ah he’s back on “tier 1” so this might be juicy!”
jasonette.agent
This is probably the way it should be.
Multinational corporation have subdivisions that handle local laws and customs.

ex. Facebook Germany should handle all its specific speech laws rather than trying blanket global speech to Germany or EU specific laws.

Though at that point you start losing advantages at scaling depending on implementation.
>European citizens have better English proficiency

"better" yes, but not good enough to make American products successful unless they are translated
Another chance for Apple to stand up and do the right thing, and it flinched because it would rather have money than morals.

And don't give me the standard amoral shareholders whine. Apple is already on record as saying it would rather do the right thing than make money, and if investors don't like it they can go pound sand.

Now Apple's sold out a billion people.

How long until the Chinese government requires access to the Secure Enclave chips in iDevices?
Introduce an option, to be included in all races on all ballots: disqualify these candidates and start over from the primaries.

It even works for uncontested races. The office goes empty until an acceptable candidate can be found to fill it.
Amazon Echo devices were wildly popular as gifts: remains to be seen if that will translate in enduring popularity.
For me, 5% of my future retirement contributions are in cryptocurrency. Rebalancing is obviously tricky since it's so volatile but that's the general target I hit, and the remainder of my portfolio has shifted to be more bond-heavy as a result of the additional risk. This suits my current lot in life but may not be for everyone.
> Ostensibly his crime

To my knowledge, Damore has not been accused of any crime.

> was "creating a hostile work environment for women and minorities",

No, only an employer can do that. Damore might have engaged in actions in the workplace that, in context, made it an unacceptable risk that by continuing to employ him Google would risk creating a hostile work environment for women and/or other protected classes.

> He was fired for challenging (an anti-white, anti-male, anti-conservative) political orthodoxy, and that's illegal in California.

Advocating change to corporate, rather than public, policy does not seem to be even remotely “political activity”, which is what California law actually protects, not that the California law would be valid if and to the extent it required corporations to undertake actions prohibited by federal law.
Maybe we're not so far from an European Great Firewall decades down the line- to stop Five Eyes spying (once the U.K. is no longer an EU member state) or from monopolistic Google privacy infringement or whatever. Economics can be determined by geopolitics.
From what I've read, economists argue that the Mortgage Interest Deduction is skewed towards benefiting the rich. Rich people buy more expensive houses, which leads to more interest, and a larger deduction. In that respect, the republican tax plan sounds like it was a step in the right direction.

here's a source:
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/time-repeal-home-mortgage-in...
> How does requiring a license for cyclists solve this problem?

Well, would you argue that requiring a license for motor vehicles is unnecessary? The benefits should be similar and identifiable.
Ask HN: What is the most secure smartphone out there?
So here's my postmortem after hunting for a data science job
> The company gave a don’t-blink-or-you-might-miss-it peek at what it says will be the world’s first commercial MicroLED display, available sometime this year. MicroLED technology operates like the Jumbo Tron in a football stadium, with a dedicated LED for each colored subpixel—shrunk down to the size of a standard TV, that is, with subpixels so small your eye can’t distinguish them. It doesn’t require filters or backlights, so color and brightness can be exceptional.

Isn't that what OLED is?
Snow leopard wasn’t all that till it got a few updates either
I'm not sure it was ever alive.
To contrast with Penn Station, just ~10-15 blocks to the northeast you have Grand Central, an iconic train station that is much better in almost every way.
Is it ever something you want to hear/doesn’t make you want to cut off your ears?
It's true that that phrase is a bit harsher than what we usually post. I use it in a somewhat precise situation: when an account's comment history shows that they've been breaking the rules habitually. That's a worse situation than a one-time offence and seems to merit a stronger tone. Also, I've noticed that some people don't get the message unless the volume is turned up that way. It's hard to predict whether a user is that sort, or someone who would respond better to a softer touch. I presume you would be the latter.

If you can think of a better phrasing that I could use that covers the above issues, I'd like to hear it. And if you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and only post in the spirit of this site going forward, I'd appreciate it. Other links to take a look at are https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html.
It seems like there's a market opportunity to create a property management company that operates on a Wal-Mart or McDonalds scale. Franchises all over the country, consistent architectural design for apartments, consistent management and maintenance. I'm surprised something like this doesn't exist already.
This idea that young people should be more circumspect ignores basic tenants of the time-value of money, and how life and responsibility work. When you are young you have the most amount of time to make up for losses and mistakes. You are also far less likely to have mouths to feed, a mortgage, and college tuition to think about.

Things can get really bad if you are nearing retirement and lose even 15% of your portfolio in a downturn. On the other hand you can lose 100% and even have to declare bankruptcy at 25, and still have plenty of time to get your life back on track.

I am not saying that Bitcoin or anything like it is a good investment. I'm saying that it gets harder to take risks as you age, unless you've been very successful and/or lucky. But being either of those things probably required some risk taking in the first place.
The article mentions gated communities... that means there's an HOA right? Are these absentee landlords just ignoring the fines? Would there be any consequence of ignoring an HOA fine? I'm not a homeowner so my knowledge of HOAs and their role is very limited.
Could it be because autorotation requires a skillful, vigilant pilot, and the redundant systems of this machine help avoid urgent need for it?
a limit to how hot something can get get, doesn't imply that something shouldn't be hot.
I like that idea.

Honestly I see so many ipads or tablets on the cardio equipment anyways, I never saw the point of having news at the gym.
Nuclear deterrence is more ideology than theory
Don't destroy shit that doesn't belong to you.
Most of the work of the helicopters I see involve long flight times and/or the ability to carry some sort of not-insignificant payload (camera/sensors/pesticides/people).

This doesn't seem to address either of those situations very well. And with 1 seat to sell, you aren't going to be getting many short charter flights.
I saw this in the US last summer at a filling station. They had TVs mounted on the pumps tuned into CNN at ear-splitting volume. It reminded me of Mike Judge's movie "Idocracy."

Creating a captive audience out of what would normally be two minutes of mental free time is incredibly disturbing.
How about a notice on iCloud reading something like "iCloud is not available in your country due to local government regulations that are in conflict with our position on personal privacy. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
> In your f2 example, could you ever use/inspect the preProof argument?

Yes you could, but if your return value relies on details of the proof (e.g. branching on different cases) then it may no longer be erasable. Unless those parts of the return value can also be erased... it gets tricky :)

You're right to mention Idris, since it treats proofs in this way. In languages like ATS, there is a clear separation between erasable "proof-like" things and runtime "value-like" things, which makes things more predictable, but can lead to duplication.
Interesting, this Time article says he made about $6M from the Broadway production in 2016, out of a $100M gross.

http://time.com/money/4362742/hamilton-cast-earnings-lin-man...

I would have thought you'd make a lot more money for creating such a huge cultural force, but I suppose the economics of live theater don't scale much no matter how popular you are.

I'm sure he made a pretty penny from the Moana soundtrack though
Implementing Single Sign-On in B2C Applications
I can't be the only one who noticed the similarity to the planet in The Last Jedi.

https://fsmedia.imgix.net/b8/50/91/5c/de5d/4948/8e51/fdf72b2...
I think the problem is that it limits competition. The established companies with deep pockets have an advantage if royalties have to be paid.

This is bad for users, whether they realize it or not. They end up with fewer (and potentially worse) options.
Or, the 50%+ of the eligible people who don't vote, can vote, and do something about it. At current voting rates, every race is competitive.
> no "gatekeeper" telling you who or what you can spend your money with or on

That only means you'll use option B for the purchases where option A isn't available, not all purchases.

> no ability to "charge back" any money

For the purchaser, that isn't a benefit.

> no trust needed to transact

Either the purchaser needs to send the money first, and trust that the seller will deliver the goods, the seller needs to deliver the goods trusting that payment will be (has been) sent, or both need to trust an intermediary. "Decentralized electronic money" doesn't change this, the only solution is to do all transactions in person.
Optical disks are becoming more relevant for me as Netflix's catalog shrinks because content owners want to launch their own streaming. If I want to watch something today and in 6 months, I better buy it on disc, because who knows if it'll still be available later. Also, the minivan can play blu-rays, but streaming netflix on I-5 in central california doesn't seem likely to work.
Résumé Review Is Awful, but We'd Better Get Good at It
When you get your retinas burned out by HID bulb in an oncoming car, thank the DOT. Rating is based on watts delivered to lights, not photons delivered to driver. Law shouldn't even have type checked.
I don't know. Just because I haven't been exposed to it yet and it's not the new normal doesn't necessarily mean it's an objectively better world.

And speaking of automobiles, I feel like a lot of cities are actually fighting back against that now, creating pedestrian-only areas etc... I like the autonomy and mobility that cars offer as much as anyone else, but I sure do enjoy the peace of a quieter country side, and I'm afraid with this technology, even that would go away: there would be no place left to escape the madness.

In my opinion, progress is what makes the world a better place overall for humans, as in better quality of life, not what makes the world a shinier place with new toys, even though we might be getting better and better at creating those.

At the end of the day, the cons far outweigh the pros here for me.
I have no opinion w.r.t. they have been pumped or not. I'm just saying that they all use novel consensus mechanisms that don't rely on huge amounts of work or long finalization windows.

NEO, for example uses dBFT consensus (which is a type of dPoS), and trades off availability for consistency (the opposite of Bitcoin). It has a block time of about 20 seconds and can do thousands of transactions per second.

IOTA, uses a block DAG (which it calls Tangle) instead of a chain, and uses a novel PoW mechanism to validate transactions that allows for parallelism, and it's throughput grows with the size of the network. (I don't know what you mean by "isn't even real cryptography.")

There is a huge amount of research in this area, and some of the ideas coming out are really interesting (from a distributed consensus perspective.)

(/me worked on paxos-based consensus systems for a decade.)
Wow,I didn't think of that example.
It's a pretty huge hypocrisy.
Previous landlord was a nightmare, and renter's rights in VA are non-existant. He was clearly well versed in the law but because he didn't own an absurd amount of active rental units all the normal rights didn't apply. He lived pretty far away and I wasn't legally able to withhold rent or anything (unless doing it through court and paying into an escrow) for the numerous issues that came up.

Since then he's tried to withhold the full security deposit, largely for issues that existed when I moved in that he'd (verbally) promised to fix (but refused to commit to over email). I submitted it to small claims around the same time one of my roommates from that house put him down as a (required) reference for a new place, and he called her directly to blackmail her, claiming he would give her a negative reference unless she submitted in writing that she believed all the issues he cited in keeping our deposit were justified.

I don't even understand how some people live with themselves. Oh well, court date approaching.
--no-check-certificate for something that is intended to install software is unacceptable.

https://github.com/tj/n/pull/475/files

I guess nvm is better, needs some polishing, though (error prone for scripted usage, because of unpredictable exit > 0 behavior.

https://github.com/creationix/nvm
"HEVC has been around longer, and has been widely deployed, so the risk is much smaller."

Isn't this the opposite of what you said in the parent?

"They will wait till the format gains traction and then sue the players with the biggest bank accounts."
UPS mis-delivery caught an security camera
We did it with phones in general and the cost of service plummeted as the quality rose.
Apache, like nginx, is powerful and well-maintained. It has a longer history than nginx, though, and has to support some features that probably wouldn't have been implemented if the project was created more recently. One such feature is .htaccess, which makes it so an app's directory, belonging to the app's user, can configure the web server. This is a potential attack vector if the app's directory is writable (not an issue for configurations in /etc which are only writable by root). This feature can be turned off by setting AllowOverride None in /etc/apache2 (/etc/httpd on CentOS). There are other defaults that are better in nginx than apache as well. Here's a post that has the AllowOverride None suggestion and two others: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/3-small-tweaks-make-apache...
Should be four or less considering each arm has two props. (Unless the motors aren’t powerful enough)
"This is all I could afford" is not a valid reason to make a bad investment
> both are better and faster than C++

"Better" is a matter of opinion, so I'll stay away from that claim.

But if we include AMD's HCC or Microsoft's C++ AMP projects (which turn C++ code and directly run it on the GPU), then I think you are mistaken about "faster".

http://rocm-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ROCm_API_...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh265136.aspx

Full GPU acceleration from C++ code. The SIMT model is quite powerful for allowing massive parallelism. And the "tiling" feature indicates that C++ is powerful enough to represent the various memory structures inside of the GPU. (LDS vs Global memory)

------------

Transparency of the memory model is incredibly important. GPUs only get their massive TFlop numbers if they are calculating from their LDS cache / Shared Memory locations. Even the biggest, beefiest GPUs with HBM2 only have ~480GB/s of main-memory performance, which is insufficient to reach 10TFlops. (Remember: a single float is 4-bytes. So 480GB/s bandwidth only gives 120GFlops at best)

Careful programming of memory, and transparency of the "LDS" cache and awareness of the limited register space of the GPU is needed to even
A counterpoint here: Consider American subpoenas, court order, FISA warrants and the like. Remember that FISA warrants are secret! Having the data managed by a US company has these consequences. Perhaps you trust the US government more than you trust the Chinese government... that is very reasonable, to be sure. But it makes so much more sense that your data is subject to the law in the country you reside in, rather than the laws of a foreign power.

This is not even remotely hypothetical. Making everyone's data accessible to organizations and people subject to US court orders is bad for privacy.

This kind of thing will be happening more and more, and not just China and Russia, but also the EU. So it won't just be that Chinese users can be spied upon by the Chinese government. It will also be true that it will be more difficult for the US to spy on citizens of other countries.
Wow that was helpful!
Stephen King's “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
It's probably because the sound of a hundred people grunting and panting in a silent room would be weird
I encounter problems with yielding nearly every day, but I think it has more to do with road design. The yield is on a very long acceleration ramp and it is placed towards the front of the ramp. Then there is a merge sign near the end of the ramp.

I think the idea is that you should yield and only go when it is clear. But because of the length of the ramp, I think they are legally required to have a merge sign there. Invariably people fail to yield, and, since it is uphill, 'merge' into 45 mph traffic at 20 mph. And by merge I mean they just drive on and expect people to stay out of their way.

I have way more problems with people turning on red at the worst possible moment (despite lots of previous safe opportunities) than I do with yield signs though. But I don't doubt the GP's experience either. Drivers are very different in different states and regions of the U.S.
That actually sounds like it would balance the competing needs of wanting neighborhoods with an identity to have a voice and not stacking districts to unfairly affect the percentage of representative affiliation compared to the general population quite nicely.

Who would have thought someone that has spent a large chunk of their life studying and working in the areas that are required to solve this problem would come up with a useful solution? Not our representatives, apparently... :/
Hey, thanks for the site! I use it all the time! Great tool to have!
They absolutely have the right to refuse to cooperate with the Chinese government, its called refusing to do business in China.
nvm works on Windows for me?
They're probably running fibre cabling for the same geographical distance as here considering NZ is slightly larger in area. So yes, it's 20 times the premises, but I think calling that 20x the cost is a bit of a stretch. You'd have have to calculate the additional cost from street-to-house for the additional 19 million premises versus the difference in running the cable the length of each country to prove that 20x number.

Side note: just left BT. Hate their service, never go back.
Airpaste, a 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mDNS
Then what do you compare it to?
The rest of your comment seems right to me, but the title says "personal helicopter"; charter flights are not personal use.
> Microsoft should not be relying on 3rd party applications to determine whether or not their customers receive critical OS security updates (and of all things, hilariously defaulting to 'no')

The default is to use the 1st party product, Windows Defender, which defaults to 'yes'.
If that's a counterpoint, my point must have been unclear. I think we're in agreement.
> BMW

You signed up for this.
It worked for the Internet bubble, just give it 10 more years . The bubble crash will slow down everything for a while but the technology is here to stay.
The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed
For that to happen, those people would have to be spending money in Hemet, and not just at the grocery store or the gas station. They'd have to be dining out in restaurants in Hemet (local ones, preferably, not just fast food chains), going to bars in Hemet, buying things in little shops in Hemet, etc. As it stands, a lot of these people are probably still commuting to LA, not just for work, but for their leisure as well.
ANT Evaluation of Internet Connectivity
> programmers are not trained, nor have the time to go far enough asking the questions

It may be hard to do right and it may be oblique to the typical reasons and interests for which someone becomes a programmer, but it absolutely is (or was, and should still be) part of the training for a programmer. And the time to do it must be part of the task, just like time to do proper testing or documentation.
>Nowadays the engines and tools are so complex, that it just takes too much time to build maps for a hobby IMO.

What tools? I can't think of a single recent AAA game that actually has an editor besides Unreal and Unity and those are, IMO, just as easy to use now as they were back then. The processes are a little different but the basics are still pretty similar.
> I can't remember the last time someone on the right was arrested for fraudulently

I can, it's this https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...
It's the inspiration for "Idiocracy"! You have the same at the dentist, in hospitals and everywhere else.