skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though it might not be explicitly stated in the paper, EPaxos has the same liveness guarantee as all other consensus protocols: commands will eventually commit if a long enough period of synchrony occurs. As the author of this post notes, this is a fundamental limitation of the specification of the consensus problem - no protocol can get around the limitation while solving consensus by definition.
And it was under development all the back to 1993 or 1998 depending on your opinion. Including image codecs, PNG was 1996. For video codecs, Huffyuv was 2000. (Though to be fair lossless codecs are relatively easier to create, which is why there’s an unnecessarily large variety of them.)

And even lossy video codecs had some OSS experimental developments in the early 2000s that admittedly never went too far - Tarkin predates VP3 open sourcing if you want to count that, and Snow got somewhat decent results if you ignore that H.264 predates it.
"Old Europe" really is a good term. Life is good here but man, innovation is just not a priority.
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pc86 you are wrong. I have bought tickets on Amtrak, and Amtrak sucks. I have done the price/time opportunity cost calculation for several destinations, and Amtrak came out a big loser, and I ended up driving. I have taken trains in Europe many times, and the overall difference is astounding. I don't know how to fix it, but American trains just seem to want to fail.
I agree with you on the whole lapped transforms concept. It looked quite promising, but they ran into issue. IIRC it was problems with the overlap between differing block sizes. My instinct tells me there is a way to overcome those issues but it may be a while before anyone finds it.
I think jeamish makes a reasonable assumption. The 13 or so sources (it's annoying to find, see image near the bottom) that inkl.com has are often sources that are on the front page of HN. So a $15/mth subscription seems like an acceptable cost for the OP if $10/mth is OK for 1 newspaper.
Then why does iOS 11 break so much stuff?

If the answer is simple, it probably has to do with culture/QA. But I don't think it's that simple.
Not sure if you've actually read it. What's the point of calling out bullshit on crap "reporting" and hype? Nothing. The rant. Giving people a chance to vent, call it names, when they just don't get what it's about. Reading comprehension is at an all-time low, so such pieces are necessary.
Blue Cross Blue Shield is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Doesn’t seem to help.
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, there was a huge backlog of bugs and deferred maintenance in system software, presumably because resources had been diverted to the failed Copeland project. Jobs addressed the problem immediately, and the result was a series of very solid OS releases, starting with System 8 in July 1997. Ironically, Apple seems to have come full circle. If Apple has their priorities straight, this year they will invest a chunk of their repatriated cash in Mac software.
Don't you have a public bookcase nearby? You could give your books there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_bookcase
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I know - and that's where wanted to get at: I'd argue that, esp. in regard to their cooperation with SMBs and the benefits for the latter, nowadays it's the sheer concentration of R&D expertise (resulting in better risk mitigation, faster time-to-market etc.) that's the main driver for institutes like Fraunhofer, and monetization to third parties might sound that it is, but is actually incidental in practice.

(Ironically - in contrast to defense against patent violations/litigation, where having Fraunhofer's back is certainly a big benefit! :) )

I mean, we are in a time where e.g. even Sony (of all companies!) freely licenses their LDAC codec to the AOSP. To me it seems that after decades of countless multi-front patent wars many finally start to admit they are sick and tired of it. (Esp. when looking
to the rising China, which seems to do well at the innovation front while not giving much of a damn about patent protection...)
Illusion magic: Game programming

Evocation: Cracking/pentesting

Abjuration: Cybersecurity

Conjuration: UI programming

Divination: Data science/forecasting

Transmutation: Backend developer

Necromancy: Sysadmin

Enchantment: Facebook/Google/Amazon/ad industry
ha ha.. thanks, i guess i don't need that FT subscription after all :D
Apple may be a (large) minority purchaser of modem chips overall, but it's a hugely dominant chunk of the market for high end devices. If they do their own high end modems, it would gut the high end modem business for Qualcom. That could also drive up prices and jeopardise supply for other high end phone manufacturers. It might even make some high end features uneconomical for Qualcom to include.

Right now Apple is several years ahead of other high end phone manufacturers in CPUs. If they cripple Qualcomm's high end modem business by taking most of it away from them, they could extend the same lead to modems.
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"the characteristics you care about are hand size and grip strength"

"the degree of background knowledge they have which might influence what relevant data they want to see (e.g., novice vs expert mode)"

If your research shows you that those are the relevant perspectives to take, then you will base your personas on these main skill sets.

"Their age/sex/race/preferred clothing/music/etc. is utterly irrelevant."

You only include the qualities that make it a human being, so you can think of this person as a human. So yes you need gender, age, race. If they are not relevant to the task at hand, you can just take the average of your (expected) user base, so no need to spend much time on that.

As for micro-details, you like to have a perfect list of all essential. In the beginning of the process this is often not known. It's the job of the UX designer to figure out what is essential. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not.

"I sincerely hope that you are not attempting to build tools of any sort, because with the kind of garbage you promote as input, for the output, I don't expect much..."

How sincere.

My goal is not to promote my skills, but to explain how personas are used in the UX process in practice to those who are curious about it. Let's say Jim, 31 year old back-end developer in Boston who want to move into front-end development and is curious about how UI and UX comes about in practice.

Secondary personas is me. I'd like to learn what the thinking is behind the negativity you see in some of these comments towards personas.

My current understanding that the negativity is based on a misunderstanding of what UX design is (it's more than usability and UI design), and bad experiences with personas in the past what wasted a lot of resources on 'irrelevant micro details'.

You seem quite passionate about providing a good user experience. Everybody has the right to be grumpy every once in a while, so I sincerely hope you have a nice day!
>> occupy the vacuum US policy has left

Others might argue this is free market at work.
(That said, I get it. Hype is everything, whatever does not stink of the "latest tech trend" must be bad. Sad day to be a reader, indeed.)
Fetched & decoded instructions per cycle.

Parent is wrong though, the A7 has 3-wide cores (and dual-core like previous chips)
In the late 80s, when Duncan Campbell wrote an exposition for the New Statesman: http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/n...
Well that might be ok if you make it thicker. Eg straw bale walls for housing. Also only good for about one story but it's nice to have alternatives.
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Never ben to Shenzen but from watching the video it looks an awful lot like Pantip Plaza in Bangkok. Probably less high tech in Bangkok but they definitely have all the androids that look like iPhones and that kind of stuff.
Tragically I think this is the answer - all of Apple's talented developers have most likely shunted over to iOS and the quality of macOS has been left to rot.

What's infuriating is that High Sierra, as referenced in its naming scheme, is supposed to be minor improvements on top of plain Sierra, but it breaks so many things that I am drawn to compare it to Vista - half-baked, unfinished, should never have been released. And yet Apple have previously managed good releases like this - Snow Leopard (my all-time favourite OS) and Mountain Lion were successful. High Sierra is a train wreck. I am holding all company laptops back from upgrading because I can't trust the thing.
Or even a laundromat. Someone will pick them up and start reading them, it's a near guarantee.
Some regional BCBS are nonprofit; Anthem BCBS isn't.

Even so, your main point is taken. There's a broad directorship problem with many non-profits, higher eduction, and mutuals. General users of these public services either have no say -or- have no reasonable way to exercise their limited authority. For example, State Farm Mutual permits its subscribers to show up in person on a particular day once per year in order to vote from a set of directors that was selected by... the previous directors. I'm curious what sort of legal/social/technology solutions could be put to use in addressing this administrative capture.
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Polarization of the main parties is creating big democratic deficits in UK governance. The Tory party membership is heavily skewed towards Brexit despite it having a razor thin majority in the country; while Labour is heavily skewed towards Marxists, despite Britain being roughly centre-right throughout its modern history, by European standards. As a result, neither parties have natural constituencies in the electorate to deliver a majority right now. And LibDem are a rounding error.

And of course Corbyn is completely out of whack with his membership, being pro-Brexit while the party is heavily for Remain. Remain effectively doesn't have democratic representation, and nor does the business-focused middle ground.
Hi there, great idea and app! One suggestion though - this could be a huge thing in the freelancer world. I wonder if you will be supporting freelancer model of working?
I agree. But that doesn't mean we should make it legal, and, as per the snooper's charter, relax who has access to it. I'm glad we still have people fighting for us.
An alternative explanation, likely unsatisfactory, but possibly correlated to continued growth of social media such as this very site:

Stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky coined [the term "frequency illusion"] in 2006 to describe the syndrome in which a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere. It’s caused, he wrote, by two psychological processes.

The first, selective attention, kicks in when you’re struck by a new word, thing, or idea; after that, you unconsciously keep an eye out for it, and as a result find it surprisingly often.

The second process, confirmation bias, reassures you that each sighting is further proof of your impression that the thing has gained overnight omnipresence.

–"There's a Name for That: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon..."

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/153166/what-is-t...
It wouldn't stop an attack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
Alternate link for people who can't be bothered defeating WAPO paywalls: https://kotaku.com/infamous-atari-player-gets-world-record-r...
I honestly can't tell if this comment is satire.

If it's not, please point to the racism. The study makes no moral judgement as to whether it's better to have a bigger parietal lobe vs. visual cortex. Do you think the study's results are somehow inaccurate, or improperly obtained?
So many services and organisations have gone after hyperlocal for the perception of the ad-revenue that's just waiting to fall into their hands - because if someone's reading about a car accident near their route home they need an advert for the local carwash right?

Similarly if they are reading about some music gig coming up in the area they need an ad or offer for 25% off burgers at hipster burger joint du-jour that covers that night.

I once worked on a hyperlocal project that was funded by a television company to actually curate a stream of interesting and novel content about the local area. These were trained journalists curating sourced and self-created content. If the content was good enough then there would be ad-revenue (and deal placement) to follow, or so you would think. Turns out nobody was interested at all.

I don't think user submitted content will be engaging enough, but we'll see. I think anyone with a disposable income that could be targeted for hyperlocal ads or deals doesn't have enough time to use this app as well as twitter/facebook/whatever.
I don't remember where exactly I read about this, but I recall that it was an opinion peace based on the NSA leaks.

Anyway, there's the Five Eyes alliance that does it, why wouldn't there be an arrangement between EU and USA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

>"Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 revealed that the FVEY have been spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on surveillance of citizens."
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The US healthcare system worked for the majority of people until roughly the last 15 years, and then it began failing gradually up the income ladder. So if you look more recently, the last ten years in particular, that would be the window where something like this would especially begin to matter. It wasn't done before, because it didn't make sense for large entities to bother; things have gotten bad enough that now it makes sense.

The average annual premium for families for health insurance was $5,791 in 1999. The median was even lower. Today it's closer to $18,000.

The system worked at $5,791, the average family could afford that without much problem. At $18,000 the system breaks apart and fails for the typical family. Wages for the US were even further beyond comparable nations back in ~1999. With very modest real wage growth since 1999, especially at the median, that $18,000 cost essentially represents money in the economy that should have in part gone into wage growth.

These large companies now have a powerful incentive - for several different reasons - to begin hammering down the cost of healthcare. Their action on this front is a positive fortunately, these companies are extraordinarily powerful, both politically and economically. If they're dead set on bringing down the cost of healthcare, that's exactly what will happen, and they'll gather other very willing partners and the momentum will likely roll.
I'm not exactly convinced this will change anything. It's the same for Denmark, and even though it was also ruled unlawful, it just continues. They are even planning on expanding it, and sharing data across public inst. without approval.
People in my town have started erecting tiny libraries -- a little outdoor cabinet on a post, with a door and a roof -- where people can stash books they're done with. There's no expectation that the books will be returned, just passed on. Seems like a nice idea, although I've not gone near them because I'm afraid I'd take books and never leave any, book hoarder that I am.
Well technically, you're not just editing your own genes. You're also potentially affecting the genes of the male's heirs.
On one hand, we have Darwin, who straight up wrote a book about why some races are superior [0], and on the other hand we have extremists who take offense even at assessments like "Men are on average stronger than women."

For a modern-day Darwin, we have James Watson, the father of genetics, who has some interesting things to say [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Controversial_com...

James Watson definitely has a masculine, biased perspective, but I mostly consider him to be somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Yet, his career has suffered greatly for his remarks dealing with race and genetics.

Personally, I think it is patronizing if not downright deceitful to pretend differences don't exist between isolated demographics, but it will remain a touchy subject for a long time and most scientists will see what happened to Watson and pursue other areas of research.
Yet Corbyn's somewhat populist rhetoric seems to have made Labour competitive again, or were their good election results just a coincidence and had nothing to do with Corbyn?

Just curious, since I'm not British and probably only have a very superficial understanding of the politics.
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What is the real reason behind surveillance?

The government(s)'s excuse is terrorism, but terrorism in Europe doesn't kill a big enough amount of people to justify these drastic measures. I would argue also that no one has proven that it's efficient at preventing terrorist attacks.

There must be a reason, I don't get it. Is it just because governments can, so they do it? It is to create the basis for some initiative that is planned for the future when technology improves..?
> Most important of those due to centralisation, the service-tied-to-a-paying-number and several numbers for different price point; payment and authenticity were the norm.

And service providers could do both IAP-style (pay-for-bundle) and ongoing-style (pay-for-stay), the latter being a great model for news services or story providers (serials and the like).
Here's what this is about. Large successful companies contract out their health insurance and care to external companies. Most of those companies are profit centers- they provide a service, but they take a very large profit on it. Much of that profit is just waste- it's money that goes to people who aren't innovating, or providing value, just acting as gatekeepers (note: this is just my opinion, not provable fact).

Companies like Amazon know they can provide that same service- or a simplified version of it that focuses on effective treatments that don't cost a lot of money- far more cheaply, because they have willingly forgone short-term profits.

Whether this saves money and provides adequate care remains to be seen.
Interesting autocorrect on my iPad, but yes you are right :)
I think you'd have to say that the fact Dorner killed people is unquestionably wrong. However, his superiors shouldn't even be allowed to fire him for reporting excessive force, and whatever evidence there is should have been examined and gone high enough up the court system until the LAPD was completely overhauled with staff who didn't find it so expedient to use such incentive structures to to get away with behaving in such awful ways.
One of the benefits a profit motive brings to insurance companies is pushing back on improper billing by providers (doctors/hospitals) and negotiating lowest possible care and drug rates. Tech-focused insurers like Oscar also invest heavily to help guide members toward better care paths, which if done well lead to better care at less expense (for both the member and insurer).

Unrelated: one of the worst parts of insurance is the customer service quality. How does an internal, non-profit insurer staff itself to do this well? If they commit to this even at the risk of it being unprofitable, that would be most awesome —- but I’m skeptical.
I mean racism needs to be obliterated before the differences our governments and world religions trick us into bickering about become even greater, and we regress on fair and ethical treatment of all people in both the eyes of the law and the heart of the common man.
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I've thought about this before as well. It seems like there would be room for something like Mozilla—a non-profit arm for healthcare insurance, perhaps with car, home and other types of insurance as for-profit. Then again, I know little about how these companies operate. That and I'm sure it requires a large amount of capital to start such a company.
Article says "bunch of 10G ethernet cards" and "some SAS cards", though.
Good point, but if we can't rely on the law to help us what will be left?

I wonder if one can make a request for information (Freedom of Information Act) about data personally held from the government?
> I'm glad we still have people fighting for us.

Absolutely. We should just not forget that it is not a law or any other promise from government officials that will protect us from mass surveillance.
Users browsing /new need to wade through quite a few fluff pieces and upvote the interesting ones. Users with high karma can also flag individual submissions (it needs multiple separate users to flag to take an effect). Domains can only be blacklisted on domain level. IMHO medium.com is a platform and also brings much good content. Some companies moved their official blogs there (for good or worse, I hear it drives "engagement").
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It doesn't seem different from how, say, WhatsApp is used in some places to spread "news".

The potential for abuse is big. What sort of curation will be done?

Right now, I can safely say that 90% of everything I get in popular WhatsApp groups is fraud, misinformation, fake news, baseless accusations, harmful medicine advice, etc.

Maybe Bulletin will be exclusively focused on events and they'll have a better time curating that.
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> He seems more of a background figure who does best focusing on the issues he cares about, and not so much of a leadership type.

He's Labour's Deputy Leader.
Apple isn't really the right target if we are looking for someone to blame, but placing blame is a lot less useful than seeking solutions. I suspect that a company could make a lot of money by marketing a device with the features of things like https://freedom.to/ built-in to the device.

- A notification and calling API which can be set to "I'm driving" or "I'm focusing" mode.

- Scheduling certain websites or apps to be cut off from the internet at certain points of the day, without the ability to unset this when a focus session has started.

If an Apple investor sees a market need for this, why not push Apple to build it?
So just don't do internal analytics. Or, if you feel you must, ask consent first. Easy peasy.
The idea that Corbyn or his supporters are all Marxists because they want to nationalize a decrepit subsidized rail system used to suck profits out of commuters is on the batshit extreme end of right wing. This stuff is both extemely popular among Brits and common sense.

By historical standards Corbyn is pretty soft left. It's the establishment and London media bubble that have moved into crazy town.
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The interesting part of that article was that his views were sufficient to silently land him on a “do not visit” list at Google HQ, which implies that Google is tracking people who hold such opinions and adding them to such lists.