skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also illegal to own a single guinea pig or parrot (because they are prone to loneliness): https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/guinea-pig-swi...
Not the parent, but I suppose it's safe to assume that VCs populate most large deals in tech. He also said 'per the SEC filing', so his source could be that.

With that said, Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov, is a Russian entrepreneur and of the $850m from 81 investors, an entire $300m was invested by a well-known oligarch in the country, Roman Abramovich.
The warrant requirement for content online, while good for privacy, absolutely hobbles criminal defendants. I pointed out this troubling issue years ago in a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073479.
That's pretty much what he said: "So, nothing new" VS "Sounds like Apple."
How exactly using a library supports them?
no way man. without making any claims about amazon's specific case, i think its pretty convincing that when everyone sees one company becoming a huge monopoly of something crucial to everyone, we are right to worry, and act. you would really let a single company buy up the entire national water supply? no! hell no!
It's not clear that if Apple did those things, that they would have had the market success they currently enjoy.
You could use mir glas[1], which has similar performance[2], but works on (pretty much) any architecture.

1: https://github.com/libmir/mir-glas

2: http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
Exactly. I'll stick with XML, XPATH, and XSLT - thank you very much. Is standards-based, natively-implemented, and super-fast. If a web services sends me JSON, the first thing I do is serialize it to XML.
CS  Yale grew 8.29x in the last decade
Workers Should Have Their Fingers Crossed for a Market Downturn
Please don't sanitize Meghan Markle
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In the case of google: Didn’t they do that in response to google blocking certain services from Alexa?
You have a lot of good points about techniques that are useful.

I would add that a debate does not need to be a battle. I am usually not looking to argue and win. I am usually looking to converse.

Also, minds and feelings change slowly. Expecting them to change this hour because you used pretty words and had great technique is unrealistic. My goal is to be heard, to be allowed to speak my mind. People can contemplate my words at leisure and draw conclusions later. I don't need acknowledgement that I "won" this round right this minute.
Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable compromise. I agree with you.
So now you want the government where hardly any of the lawmakers know anything about technology to regulate it?
Animals rarely sue their doctors.
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If all they really cared about were the environment, they wouldn't even make electronics at all. They're horribly polluting.

Fortunately, its not all they care about. Its possible to have multiple priorities, you know.
> would lead to more complex parsers that can contain more bugs and vulnerabilities.

Partially yes, but it's also at least in part due to a "fuck all this language theory crap, lets just standardize something already" approach.
No, those are query languages akin to XPath.
See also "secure units" - lots of these are privately provided to NHS patients in England.

A secure unit takes:

> Individuals with mental disorder or neuro-development disorder who are liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and whose risk of harm to others and risk of escape from hospital cannot be managed safely within other mental health settings, require care and treatment within a secure mental health service.

> Individuals will typically have complex mental disorders, with co-morbid difficulties of substance misuse and/or personality disorder, which are linked to offending or seriously irresponsible behaviour. Consequently most individuals are involved with the
criminal justice system, the courts and prison system and many have Ministry of Justice restrictions imposed
Point taken, but it was more of a relic, rarely enforced. My other comments stand, this is irrelevant to this discussion.
I've been struggling with this recently as well. I don't need to kill animals in order to survive and so doing so is just for my pleasure. It's surprisingly easy to put this out of your mind when you're sitting down to a nice dinner, but I do doubt that I'd be able to kill animals if I needed to do it with my own hands. Yet I and most others decide all the time that ending the life of another animal can be justified by the pleasure we'll receive from it when we choose to eat meat. So yeah, I'm also having trouble coming to terms with caring enough to reduce some suffering but still being OK with taking a life.
I don’t get it. Why pick something so easily disprovable as your argument?

https://www.google.com/search?q=vehicular+manslaughter+ny&sa...

Did you even look up that “fact” before asserting it as your incontrovertible truth?
I'm a Vim fan, but that's a little disingenuous.

Ordinary text editors have ctrl-left and ctrl-right, which are equivalent to Vim's w and b. They also have Home/End and ctrl-f.
Not to be a dick, but you get a slew of sources with a cursory Google search.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9439281/amazon-ban-apple-...

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/amazon-apple-tv-chromecast/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/amazon-ban-apple-tv...

And their more recent reversal:
https://mashable.com/2017/12/14/amazon-to-sell-google-chrome...
I currently live in a cold climate, yes. But haven't always - I'm used to hot and humid summers - you know, those ones where you can't actually dry off after a shower. I also am "lucky" enough to get night sweats due to hormones occasionally, to the point of soaking the blanket on top of me.

Believe it or not, so long as you are generally clean, you are fine. Wash your face on your non-shower days, then wash the sweaty portions. Armpits, genitals, and under the breasts if you have them. Wear stuff that helps keep you from sweating. Problem solved.
Lack of floating point is not so out there - I've worked on several embedded Linux systems that shipped without hardware floating point support, and they didn't suffer much for it. Userspace code got to use floating point with software emulation, and kernel code avoids floating point (especially in contexts where interrupts are blocked) for precisely this use case.

On atomics, see this section of the readme:

> While developing Ariane it has become evident that, in order to support Linux, the atomic extension is going to be mandatory. While the core is currently booting Linux by emulating Atomics in BBL (in a single core environment this is trivially met by disabling interrupts) this is not the behavior which is intended. For that reason we are going to fully support all atomic extensions in the very near future.
I have 9 years experience developing for iOS and my take is completely opposite.
If you know native SDK RN gives you nothing and takes a lot away.
Almost makes me wish I had gone to MIT instead of Harvard....
I'm desperately holding myself back from getting distracted from work with a deep dive through crustacean nervous system anatomy here, so I'll just ask: in what way are they different?
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Plus existing suppliers manufacture under very different constraints than what SpaceX needs. They're launching many more satellites than typical and at greatly reduced payload cost than usual.

E.g. they're using cheaper terrestrial solar panels and cheaper redundant commodity electronic components. The economics change when you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for every ounce you send to space.
I didn't pick the lowest cost regions in Italy or Spain either. I am comparing cities vs. cities and not cities vs. middle of nowhere. Both Rome and Barcelona are world class cities. (Barcelona the more modern one). The prices are similar in Berlin and many other cities in Europe expect in Scandinavian countries and London.

There are places where things are even cheaper (especially in Souther Italy), where 3 euros will get you a whole bottle of wine.

While NYC is expensive, is it not much more than either San Francisco or Boston. (maybe a 5% difference, but not 2x).

Just saying
I think that this will a glorious side-effect of effectively ensuring net neutrality without waiting for politicians to change the law.

And in general increasing the competition in a way that Comcast and others wont be able to block by buying politicians (see buying FCC or buying the laws that prohibit city-owned fiber).

I'll switch to Starlink just to stick it to Comcast.

Comcast magically dropped prices and upped service in areas where it had competition from Google Fiber but Google Fiber is too slow and too expensive to build.

I wonder how will Comcast react facing a competitor who can build out a competing network in 2 short years to serve all areas Comcast is available (and more).

Will they be crushed by massive defections or merely have to drastically lower the prices and improve the service?
So, you're right - and the point you raise at the end (with your illustrative example) is a good one. It would be wrong for HN software to silently not deliver your message to me without telling you - just because tó was on some blacklist for some reason.

If it's possible to write "Your message could not be delivered" when messages match the blacklist (even leaving the sender to guess at what they did wrong) it would be better.

As a practical matter if you haven't built the infrastructure into your clients to tell the sender that their message won't be delivered, none of the choices the platform operator has seem great:

- Silently drop a few kinds of messages without informing sender. Seems bad for the reason you outlined.

- Silently modify messages before delivery, modifying them so they won't crash clients. This seems potentially very wrong.

- Deliver messages even if you know for sure they will crash the client upon view

Doesn't seem great to me either.

I guess the real solution is to have robust forced-upgrade on the client (after all, it's your software, you're responsible for it and if you build it to include updates that it is on you) but some users object to that and I suppose they could be justified - it is also a massive responsibility.

I guess there really aren't any perfect answers here.
> Every single one of their products is made for "use it two years, throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one". Unfortunately other companies aren't much better, e.g. Microsofts Surface laptops which are impossible to repair.

That is completely false. I'm typing this on a "MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)" that still works great. The MacBook I had before that lasted me about five years as well. The laptop I had before that one did break after two years, but that was because my cat spilled a bunch of soda into it while it was running (and the genius bar people spent an entire weekend trying to recover data from it anyways, and then gave me a huge discount on a new one).

I get that it's a bit ridiculous that you can't add more ram, but realistically speaking the biggest upgrades come from the motherboard and processor architecture and there's not a lot of laptops that will let you swap that out anyways.
There are gradations of "dignity" - your formulation would demand vegetarianism, since all animals being killed for food are killed "unnaturally". Whereas I think there's a great deal more respect involved in reducing the animal's suffering (quick killing during a period of reduced stress).
I agree that they could reduce consumption and make life easier by consolidating connectors and not screwing around with those already established. However, in my experience whatever I buy from Apple tends to last longer and I definitely don't throw any of it out until it's completely unusable. In the cases where their product isn't more durable (e.g. certain MagSafe connectors) people tend to baby them because of the cost to replace. In over 15 years of buying Apple products, the only products I've discarded were a pair of earbuds that were stepped on and torn and a MagSafe charger which caught fire (early MacBook Pro). I think in some sense it's Apple customers customers who keep them "green" just by holding on to their stuff as long as possible.
As you see, it isn't just Apple, it's our whole economy. Building products that are durable and maintainable are better for the user and a less wasteful us of resources, but building things to be disposable is better for the short-term corporate bottom line. So all manufacturing tends to move in that direction.
I'm sure the researchers control for this. Most likely they block the rats' access to HN at the firewall, thus preventing them from ever hearing about stoicism in the first place.
You aren't born with all of your intuitions, you learn most of them. This includes mathematical intuitions.
Yep, I have a couple of family members who've done really well working for Coke throughout the years. The phrase, "they put the 'cult' in 'culture'" applies. I think it has done really well for them though. When you buy into culture, you become an automatic salesperson.
> rest fairly assured

No you cannot:
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-33472971/inside-...

mentions illegal manufacturing in China early in the article.

Your advice is dangerous.
if i remember correctly it has something to do with the nervous system being less central and more distributed. probably similar to limbs that continue to move once severed (in other species)
While I sympathize with your viewpoint--I hate artificial restrictions on my own property--I think your statement is overly broad. There are a lot of things that should not be modifiable by the end user. Car odometers, aircraft transponders and the software in self-driving cars leap immediately to mind. I'm sure there are more.
Perfumes and vapor from most petrol based solvents really get to me. It took me until I was around 30 years old to really get a handle on that but doing so made a huge difference in my quality of life.

Wasn't easy on my wife and kids though. They all thought I was a major grump because I became so adamant about not using hairsprays, perfumes, nail polish and polish remover, in our house but that stuff makes me feel like crap and gives me pounding headaches. Makes me feel like a bug sprayed with "Raid" (which is another thing I banned in our house).

As a teen, I started thinking I must have some kind of psychosomatic issues because I'd get to feeling like crap at school, work, church, family get togethers, and dates with girls, etc.

That was reinforced when I noticed that when I did feel like crap if I went outdoors and spent a day a walking in a park, which I really loved to do, I would feel great afterwards. That almost convinced me I was making myself sick when I "had to do" something I didn't really want to do, but I could never nail that theory down because it wasn't consistent enough.

Finally, someone mentioned I might be "chemically sensitive". I had vaguely heard of that but never considered I might be. They inspired me to start paying closer attention to things like perfumes, and anything scented like candles, detergents, soaps, shampoos, and paints and solvents. When I did I soon realized I was being bombarded with them. They were everywhere. At home, at work, at Shopping Malls and stores, and anywhere people were gathered, and those were all connected to me feeling like crap.

So I started avoiding them and getting rid of them in my life but it wasn't easy. I had to be vigilant about it. My wife and kids would sneak stuff in and while I couldn't always smell it, I would get to feeling like crap and then go on a mission to find the source, and I always found it and got rid of it and started feeling better right away.

I've been doing that now for almost 30 years and have felt great (normal) since. And over those years I've realized I can tolerate short durations of exposure better now. I suspect because I don't have much in my system to begin with, and I generally avoid places (and people) that are using perfumes and scents. I've even been able to pinpoint some scents that really smack me down. Something in that "Axe Body Scent" is one of them I get away from as fast as I can. Whatever it is, it is used in a lot of products and I can detect it like a hound dog now.

What's really interesting to me is now that my kids are adults none of them use that stuff anymore because they found it craps them out too. Same with my wife. She can't be exposed to perfumes for very long now without realizing they crap her out too.

I do wonder if others have experienced this. It's not something I hear about much.
Having to do with the fact that lobsters (according to Wallace) have decentralized nervous systems consisting of ganglia wired in series, so that slicing through one of them might not disable the creature's nociception upon being immersed in boiling water. You might just be keeping it from flailing around, paralyzed but still "aware" in whatever sense a lobster is aware of anything.

Dave Arnold, another favorite writer of mine, has a solution to this problem: clove oil anesthetizes lobsters (and fish). Clove oil, knife through the head, then boil.

(Myself, I'm kind of grossed out by shellfish).
I'd wager that there weren't all that many renaissance men/women back in the day either, but some of the ones that were there are now well known.

In any case, there are plenty of people contributing in a wide array of fields who are alive today. How about Franklin Story Musgraves, who has academic degrees in six different fields, including medicine, computer programming and literature. He also went into space for NASA no less than six times, served in numerous conflicts while he was in the air force, was briefly employed as a mathematician for Kodak, practiced and taught clinical medicine and is/was a consultant for Disney. I found him with the briefest of google searches for "modern renaissance men" :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Musgrave
Definitely. I photographed the lunar eclipse a couple years ago with my 10-inch dob, an afocal eyepiece adapter and a DSLR. None of my images were any good.

Astronomy is as expensive as you want to make it, and the knowledge and enjoyment is worth more than the equipment, but the equipment gives you the knowledge and enjoyment, so it's a catch-22. The key is figuring out what you can afford and what you want to see and choosing your equipment accordingly.
I would love to have a jq lib in every lang, which would probably require a spec
(Rot13 as not to spoil the riddle)

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Nashville and Atlanta - under $200 far as I remember.

Cool laminated SOB license from Nash gov. :)
I'm sure I'm misunderstanding this, but it sounds like their entire user database for a medical system is copied onto every phone, and it's guarded by a six-digit pin? That can't be right?
Train an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
>tactics other than being cheaper and faster to ship?

Amazon regularly undercuts people to drive them out of the market - this is known as predatory pricing and it isn't new. It is an abuse of dominant position.

But most Western anti-competition efforts have measured abuse of dominant position in terms of consumer facing price gouging.

Operating under those assumptions, predatory pricing looks GOOD because it lowers consumer pricing, despite the fact that it liquidates market players, removes competition, and creates the accurate perception that you will use your bankroll as a barrier to entry of other market participants.

Once that occurs and you have control of the market's pricing and a dominant position on the logistics, your market already has price discovery problems, even before any further abuse of dominant positions occur. Best of all, this creates a 'new normal' which you can then use as evidence that things are fine in discussions with the competition bureaus you're dealing with.
Of course typically (in the bluebeard era) pirates actually did have a charter, or really a Letter of Marque from the crown. One country's "pirate" was another country's outsourced naval agent. This was true also in the barbary states (hence the song of the US marines) and the straights of malacca et al.

The ones today in the horn of africa though, AFAIK, are indeed free agents.
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Wait

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Really?

Cruel and unusual?
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Psychedelics are not simply dumb emotional amplifiers as you characterize them, they can radically alter your mood (for the better or the worse) pretty radically from your initial mood. They can generate or amplify one small insight into a wonderful state of mind, or they can generate or amplify an absurd fear to the point that you lose all sense of hope and reality.
Yep. No more California beef too. Water there is too expensive and there's no free-market in agriculture there.
With my physique this would be especially hilarious.

Although surely in some corner of the internet there's a subculture that fetishizes overweight, out-of-shape guys in leotards.
> When was the last time you killed and ate something out of respect?

Some indigenous American cultures do make sure to eat the things they've killed, out of respect. You could call that "animal dignity." (You could also consider it a superstitious belief that the animal's spirit will get after them if they disrespect its gifts.)

I also know that in many cultures (at least in previous eras†), if you killed the parents of a family (human or animal), it was seen as correct to kill their babies (i.e. children not yet of an age to fend for themselves) as well, to prevent them from just later succumbing to starvation or predation. That's a form of "animal dignity."

† This mostly came up for human babies in the context of soldiers from an army-on-the-march razing foreign villages. If these villages worshipped a different faith, the whole village would go. But if they worshipped the same faith as the attacking army, the army would likely refuse to burn down the temple of the faith they believed in—and so, rather than kill "innocents", they'd dump them into the hands of the priest of that temple. This was the de-facto invention of the orphanage. Later, orphanages would become formalized as an institution, and spread to the point that soldiers would just assume foreign cultures to have them as well, and so the killing-innocents part of razing villages generally stopped.

(And recently in Western culture, we've invented the equivalent of orphanages for animals as well: wildlife rescue habitats.)
There's a reason for the existence of the word 'privateer' and the distinction between privateer and pirate.
Yes, sometimes when I hear people talk about how we kill animals inhumanely, I feel like they should watch a little bit of national geographic. Makes a sketchy slaughterhouse seem like a picnic.
A few months ago the trackpad on my late 2014 rMBP began to malfunction. I brought it to an apple repair centre and they had to replace the battery, keyboard, laptop and the aluminium top case of the laptop. A lot of people, when presented with the quote they gave me would very likely just get a new laptop and throw the old one away.

If they were even slightly commited to the environment they would have the option to replace only the trackpad, it's not even the same part, they're attached by only a few screws!

It's very easy to find things your company already do for another reason and say you're doing it for the planet. I don't think there's more than this to apple's "commitment to the environment"