skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't asses penalties in this country based on the resources of the perpetrator. All are equal before the law (at least that is the aspiration. we obviously fall short in many instances.).

And besides, your idea is non sensical. We should confiscate their property knowing that they have the resources to get it back in order to induce some higher lawyer fees and a pain-in-the-ass factor as some kind of penalty increase? That's bizarre! That's not how government should work at all! It ends up being a waste of time and resources for a lot of people and, as you mention, draws in innocent 3rd parties who end up taking some of the heat.

If we actually wanted a higher penalty for richer people than there should just be a bigger fine or late fee.
The ATLAS near-Earth asteroid survey (full disclosure: I am on this project) detected the Roadster last night as part of routine operations:

https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/status/962013418143195141
They need an Ethereum address
FedEx and UPS should have cut Amazon off while they could still kill them.
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Replying to cvwright:

That feature is presented by Google as an alternative "for less secure apps". If you're using a client that Google considers to be "less secure", you also have to explicitly enable support for "less secure apps" in settings, in addition to that. This setting may not even be available to you if you're not on @gmail.com and your domain administrator has disabled it (which Google recommends they do).
stock market != economy. People have been used to easy constant gains but this bull market has had the benefit of low interest tailwinds the entire time. Before the 2009 crisis, potential interest rate hikes would always act as a stock headwind.

An economy getting hot leads to higher interest rates which makes stocks less tempting due to risk-free alternatives getting better. So it's very easy to have scenarios where stock market declines are occurring while the the economy is doing very well. That's what appears to be happening now, there are no economic indicators that show the economy is faltering at all.
> It seems that most people don't care about the headphone jack given companies have decided to ditch them en-mass.

Sell more expensive hardware, close the analog hole for DRM content. Consumers are just the willing sheep in this equation who are willing to be distracted by loss of wires and shiny..
The last time I tried to do that, they wouldn't do it. They just said "sorry, sometimes we don't get stuff out in time".

It's getting to the point I'm about to cancel - they are late more often than not, and customer service responses are really poor.
Charmingly put. Your 'lowbrows' read more now though, no? SMS, Tweets, Facebook, memes...
Just stop into your local pizza place and ask about uranium.
> We run Fortnite’s dedicated game servers primarily on thousands of c4.8xlarge AWS instances, which scale up and down with our daily peak of players.

That's between $572,000 (500 instances, 30 days) - $2,863,800 (2500 instances, 30 days), per month at current prices, and seems like it's only for one aspect of their infrastructure.

That seems .... excessive? Is that a typical spend with a game server system like this? That does seem to suggest that once this becomes less than profitable, it's all going away ...
I've found plex has a great interface, but performance when streaming to chromecast is not great
We are still talking about a website, right? A totally optional website, in a browser with a close button? This isn’t a chemical addiction or gambling.
George Church is using Crypto tech for a new company. You're going to be able to sell your genomic data to pharma companies[0].

Selling such data may seem like a terrible idea, except they're also using a second layer network (Enigma.co) for the data processing which maintains the secrecy of the underlying data.

That's a counter-example. I don't think George Church got FOMO! I agree with you generally.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610221/this-new-company-w...
If you allow untrusted users to define tasks for shared agents, then you must assume you will have malicous or incompetent users defining 'poison' tasks. These would be tasks that bias agents toward taking unproductive or harmful actions.

Afaik, this problem hasn't been solved.
a ton of services use XMPP underneath the hood like Signal, WhatsApp, Jabber etc.

it looks like a great business model to take something open source and hard to use and make a proprietary version thats easy to install and use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-offic...
The 45 minutes she's referring to, is the 45 minutes that Waymo spent talking about it in court. Not 45 minutes that Levandowski spent talking with Uber employees.
> None of the current big-name flagships (this S9 potentially being the exception) have headphone jacks.

All of Samsung's current generation of flagships (S8/S8+/Note8) have headphone jacks, they also starting in the previous generation (S7/Note7/etc.) activated the radio chip (which relies on wired headphones) and restored removable storage.
Bitshares did low cost transactions at high volume years ago, so I'm never quite sure why Nano gets so much attention because those features aren't novel.

Furthermore, free transactions with minimal POW don't create proper incentives and will not scale because there is an extremely low cost to spam the network. This means you can essentially use full historical nodes as a data storage for anything you want.
Congratulations VLC team! I remember yours being the first software I used that "just worked" with anything I threw at it. It was incredible.

I stopped using VLC because of the whole Rebuilding font cache issue every time I opened it. It soured me a little more every time until I finally just stopped using it. I wonder if that issue is fixed.

May be time to revisit VLC 3!
I'll be honest, I've never set up the thing I mentioned, but it sounds vastly less error-prone than writing some certificate update support (likely written in C/C++) that writes the certificate bytes directly to the devices.

Initial can-of-worm questions are "who's allowed to update the cert?", "how does the device authenticate the person updating it?", "what's the failure mode if an update goes wrong?", "how long shall we test the new cert-writing-module?", "will the customer even bother after the initial certs expire we install for them and instead just tell their users to flip the Chrome flag?", "how do we also update TLS and crypto libraries to support future certs or standards?"
> compelling in any way, whether on sound quality, convenience, device size, cost, robustness, complexity, usability, or versatility

compelling for DRM rights holders, and all the manufacturers are trying to setup their walled garden 'content stores' and need to make rights agreements with content producers..
On my mobile device this amusingly read as “= $0.” before I realized I needed to scroll to the right.

Who knows, perhaps that may end up being the most accurate value..
Thanks for the clarification. I posted your review on r/cryptocurrency and was quickly down-voted to oblivion.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say your statement about shitcoins using social media to attract bag holders sounds about right.

I've noticed the mods on r/ripple are even worse. They ruthlessly delete any post that raises legitimate concerns about XRP and it's so called touted use of providing liquidity for cross border payment, that not a single bank appears to be using in a production environment.
Seriously though- beyond a dismissive snarky reply, what is your view on it? Why now? Why not six months ago and why not fight to the end?

It's fine to disagree, but don't just tell me I'm wrong, convince me I'm wrong!
Nope, marketing checkbox feature only (a.k.a "big fat honking lie" IMNSHO), no actual resistance whatsoever in my experience. Samsung S5 billed as "IP67 certified", meaning water resistant up to 30min/3 feet IIRC, yet denied warranty repair from 10 sec/1 inch of water, even though I had the plug in and everything. Apparently it's only resistant against dry water or something. /s

Edit: sorry for offending the downvoter - I actually like that phone, yet there I was with a wet brick.
> Lazy drivers

I'm sure some of them are, but—for the most part—I think Amazon and their subcontractors have absurd expectations about their drivers' performance, as described in this lawsuit:

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/12/21/25647480/deliver...
Getting Started with Moya
You make it sound like switching Node versions on Linux is a hassle. Allow me to introduce you to nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm
I believe in the implication is that Amazon will cut out the competition because of its cost advantage, leading towards a monopoly, not unlike what it's (trying) to do in many other sectors.
there isn’t a clear link to how those documents got onto Uber computers

Just a minor correction: Waymo has not demonstrated that the files went any further than the disks Levandowski had. To date, nothing belonging to Waymo has been found on Uber's servers.
I think he's saying the packages you install with dep don't adhere to things like semver.
You don't have to dig around for the underlying video stream, you can actually just paste a twitch stream link straight into the vlc network stream dialog, I'm not sure what magic it does but that's worked even well before this new version.
I completely disagree. Every single subject I've ever struggled with in a school setting was described to me as "No don't worry, it's actually really easy" which was a problem.

If I'm struggling to understand something that is so easy, maybe I'm just dumb.
1. competent people are handling the problems

2. they actually care

3. they enjoy what they are doing

One thing I really miss working solo is working with a team of smart folks to solve a complex problem together. It's so damned fun.
Four more are in the works, just being held up by the city's permitting process.

The building was originally not built as an office space, which is painfully obvious when you consider that it had more freight and truck elevators than people elevators.
It's anti-Semitism. The one thing you can say for the ignorant throughout history is that they are both consistent and enthusiastic about their awful beliefs.
Good. Hopefully this will unclog UPS during q4.
You certainly implied that it did.

> You could have solved your problem in a dozen other ways.

Hmm. And what ways would those be? First, I simplified when I said that "I" bought the monitor. It was a gift, bought for me, that I didn't have particular choice in. Second, I'm unaware of "a dozen" ways to solve the problem of displaying a computer's output. If you'd care to list the ones you're thinking of...
If Amazon takes a loss on their shipping service that could very directly open them to an anti-trust investigation
Speed or quality? With Test and Delivery you don’t have to choose
This rendered as a blank page on FF, worked on Chrome. Anyone else?
Not true at all, especially not after the construction of Stairwell J. You almost never see any sort of crowding on the stairs. You see crowding at the elevators frequently.
This looks awesome but I see no decoding for atmos/dts:x/auro.... :(
An 'Iceberg' of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported
> Hopefully this S9 signals a return to manufacturers adding hardware features again instead of removing them.

Most manufacturers add hardware features even when they remove them; but Samsung started restoring features by bringing back removable storage in the S7 generation of flagships. (They also activated FM radio starting in that generation, which was doubling down on the headphone jack, since it relies on wired headphones for antenna.)
Is vimeo on-demand DRM free?
> Sure, there's a lot of consumption of non-text media,

indeed, perhaps verbal/visual communication is just 'catching up' to text after millenia
Perhaps they're doing some creative counting and thousands refers to all the instances spun up over a day rather than the actual concurrent boxes.
Odd that it doesn't mention the Falcon 9 stage 2 that the Tesla is still attached to. That's much larger than the Tesla itself, so you'd have thought it worth mentioning.
Ask HN: How do I become a world class automation engineer?
as titled really, or maybe a better question would be, are there examples of world class automation engineers and if so, who are they?
Stellar Lumens make sense. They have a small burn fee to limit network spam and their consensus algorithm is partially centralized through node federation, but it's a reasonable tradeoff used to achieve low cost, high throughput. This means it can work well in mobile environments, etc.
Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice (2016)
You should only ever have a single canonical version of your content. Serve your stuff on one path and one path only, and everything else redirects to it.

The solution here is to serve on https and redirect http to it.
This idea has been floated so many times, but somehow text is still around. Jason Kottke wrote a good article about why text will never die: https://kottke.org/16/06/facebook-is-wrong-text-is-deathless
Way to miss the forest for the trees...
Where did I claim they were rendered harmless at a mere 100C?
Happy to see Ukrainian companies there :)
Probably true. But if he made fraudulent or false statements during arbitration that are later proven as such, I assume that could reopen him to lawsuits
For Uber I think it's obvious. For Waymo, well, to use the Words of former program manager Chris Urmson in a late 2015 letter to Sergey Brin (Which Uber's lawyers trotted out as part of their defense) "Over the past 6 months we have stopped playing to win and are now playing to minimize downside."

Waymo joins Tesla and Baidu as self driving car companies who have levied lawsuits over top engineers leaving their projects to become competition.
You could quite simply expand this to The vast majority of code is of very low quality
Works fine for me on Firefox for Android. Check your add-ons.
People have told me this, but it seems fruitless for me to get free months for a service I am unhappy with. Instead I recently cancelled my subscription.
Basics of parallel programming with Swift
> Aside I have een looking into nice headphone amps for iPhones and that market seems really small. It seems that audiophiles would skip the built in DAC yes or yes if audio quality would really matter?

https://www.jdslabs.com/products/35/objective2-headphone-amp...

This is a design created by NwAvGuy (who has since gone AWOL) because all the headphone amp manufacturers pissed him off with all the hooey.

It's got a Creative Commons license and the design is actually public.
Thanks for that. The Pit-of-Success concept is intriguing.
Well there you go. Does that count as debt though? Money and bitcoin would be exchanged simultaneously so no one ever owes anyone anything. I guess futures are an "obligation"...
In most of the EU one hits the local ceiling and that’s it. There are very few regions where the ceiling is above 100k EUR, in most regions it’s much lower.
> I'd typically open a, you know ... calendar application.

such as..
I don't care about appearance: I get it started and go fullscreen anyway.

I care 1000x more about basic solid function, like chromecast and subtitles and dvd menus. Casting to roku maybe. I'm donating now, what they've done needs to continue.
How Redux Saved Our Front-End and Supported Our Migration from Angular to React
I ordered a graphics card from Newegg back in November and it got shipped via FedEx. What was really nice with Fedex was that I could have it shipped to my house, or pick from any FedEx or several Walgreens locations for pickup.

Since it was an expensive package I chose to pick it up from a Walgreens near my office.

Amazon's shipping is faster, but Newegg/FedEx shipping was a much better experience. It told me who was shipping the package up front and let me choose from several delivery options via that carrier.
React is interesting. It takes something that we started out with, immediate-mode style UI programming, and brings it to something we have now, retained-mode UI (i.e. the DOM). History in our field loops...a lot.
Disney’s streaming service won’t have R-rated films
Is anyone, anywhere actually 'pirating' music through the 'analogue hole' in a smartphone? Seriously?
> Truthfully, it makes it seem like you aren't even trying to have a real discussion, you just want to grind an axe.

When you can't counter on facts or logic attack the speaker and impugn their motives.

> You've now gone and pretty much ignored every point made and just shifted discussion to something else

When someone directly refutes you accuse them of trying to change the subject, which is what you are doing.
Just came back to make this comment after failing to find a link. If anyone can advise...

Edit: see comments below. They had a build problem and 64bit windows is a few hours behind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16340935
Oh man I really hate phones treating me like a child, I want to control my volume with my audio system, let me do it!

I know I only have 5% of battery, I know my phone will turn off, but I want to have a bright screen for the last couple of minutes don't dim it! Also I really need to take a picture with my freaking flashlight on, let me do it!

And finally I don't get what functionality does it serve to turn my screen on when it starts charging, I already have a red led indicating it is charging, don't make me turn off my screen specially when I'm wireless charging!!
Most stable player on Windows by far, and the best and feature rich player on Android.

I only wish they had the post processing chops of madVR...
As Snopes documents [1] this is a vicious politically motivated lie. You should also read Wikipedia's description of his youth in occupied Hungary [2] and ask yourself what completely unprincipled extremist parties are you uncritically believing? Of course your choice of username suggests the possibility that principle is not one of your high priorities.

1 https://www.snopes.com/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
I have to say that this is kind of surprising but thinking about it all logically it seems like there is a lot more to this story.

First off as others have pointed out Waymo's case wasn't a slam dunk. So they settled for way less than they originally wanted.

But there are several other interesting things to note. Because of this case there is now a criminal investigation into Uber's acquisition of Otto. I feel like part of why Uber settled was because they knew this was being investigated and dragging out this case in court may have made public some really incriminating evidence in the criminal investigation.

What further leads me to believe this is the case is the fact that the current CEO has basically admitted that the acquisition of Otto should have been handled differently. It seems like they knew that Otto may have stolen trade secrets from Waymo. It also appears that Uber may have had helped set up Otto from the start to acquire such information. For this we will have to wait and see how the criminal investigation shakes out. At which point we could see federal charges appear against Uber and Levandowski. We may also see the SEC step into this as well if they did appear to set up Otto as a Shell company to acquire stolen technologies. Time will tell.
I dunno. I read less books and less news, but a lot more email, WhatsApp, HN...

I definitely write more. I probably write more on my phone than in total, pre-internet. Maybe I'm one of the Philistines.
> There are "law schools" and "med schools" to teach you all the knowledge required to become a lawyer or a doctor.

Programmer now, gained a law degree in a previous life. Know lots of folks who studied medicine.

The idea that med school or law school teach you "all the knowledge required to become a lawyer or a doctor" is laughable and a truly absurd statement. The sheer size of the problem domains these subjects cover alone renders this impossible, and furthermore I'd argue it's pretty insulting to insinuate that Computer Science is somehow more difficult in this regard.

While I can't speak fully for medics, a law degree "hardly scratches the surface" as you put it either.
> people in Eastern Europe which are in close proximity.

We are such a cheap whores it hurts each time I look for a job in my home region. Sentenced for emigration.
Thanks so much for it!

I naively thought free projects were as resistant as VLC when it comes to manipulation for the sake of money, but big and even often cheered ones gave in.

A bad business model can be worse than having none.
yes, nice protocol, except everything is cleartext :)
AI Weekly 9 Feb 2018
> I have no background in psychology, but I'm confident that statistics will support that even the most deranged actors will be able to suppress their antisocial impulses to take advantage of such opportunities.

You would be wrong. You have clearly never worked with people with dementia.

Many forms of dementia impact your impulse control. Such people cannot control impulses--antisocial or not.
The bit that I found interesting is when one of the witnesses (either Jay Clayton or Chris Giancarlo) mentioned that they tried to get their college-age kids to invest in stock market. Even gave them some cash to play around with but it just never caught on. Then Bitcoin exploded and they naturally gravitated to it. He could've taken this story into many directions, basically saying that the whole thing is madness because we have teenagers playing in this market. But he didn't. Instead it kind of sounded like he wanted everyone to embrace it... but still put regulations in place :)
You shouldn't feel guilty. The Privilege argument is a way for people to feel like victims instead of taking responsibility for their own destiny. Life is unfair and it's quite impossible to accurately distinguish all the ways life has been unfair to all the different people. Is a white person's privilege balanced out because they are a cripple? There's not scientific metric to measure any of this, it's the new moral fashion an nothing else.

Bring on the downvotes, I don't give a shit.
OK. Just offering some suggestions, but it seems like you’re more invested in complaining than fixing the problem.
Memory card slot was restored in the S7/Note7 generation and retained in the subsequent one; keeping/restoring features other manufacturers are eliminating seems to be a key differentiating aspect of the Samsung flagship line.
What makes it different from gambling?
If they didn't give you a credit that promised you should follow up and hold them accountable. They should have logs of account actions, and if not, you should save a log of the chat where it was promised.
By definition a celestial object is a natural object. http://www.yourdictionary.com/celestial-object

So how does a Tesla Roadster classify?