skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empiricism and the scientific method don't care about what anyone claims to know until it can be tested in a falsifiable setting. This headline is an insult to critical thinking. Of course folk lore ought to be considered when considering hypotheses. "Little-to-no evidence for" does not mean "is false."
Capturing the organization that has a monopoly on violence is not capitalism.
Try it with just ASan. Some of the UBsan checks can be quite expensive.

Also, check how much free ram your computer has when running with ASan. It may be running out of RAM, and e.g. spending a lot of time looking for other memory to free, or even swapping.
The usefulness of ip addresses that old is very limited.

Either the old IP addresses can be tied to a specific individual, which means they are potentially useful for legitimate security purposes such as helping to identify someone who has previously tried to scam you, or they can't, in which case what is the risk of keeping them around anyway?
The rules are not made for cyclists, and you can see that in their riding. When you expend your own power for every acceleration and have better vision & hearing, a red pedestrian light with nobody using it suddenly looks less absolute. A one-way street that can easily take 5 of you next to each other, and probably nobody even driving there, when the way around is 500m longer - the same.

You can see the same behaviour from car drivers when the rules don't make any sense (as for example in some upcoming countries).
If the law applies outside the EU (for instance, if EU citizens travel to a non-EU country), then it is an extra-territorial law. As far as I understand the discussion here (which may or may not correspond with the actual law), the GDPR goes with the person. Wherever an EU citize goes, that EU citizen must be able to be forgotten, despite if the location they are in is outside EU jurisdiction. That is practically the definition of extra-territorial.

Now, would an EU court rule that someone who kept permanent records of an EU citizen be violating the GDPR if the business has no EU presence? In the American system (imagining if the US passed a GDPR and prosecuted a non-US citizen), no, because the government would not have standing to sue: the violation took place outside of US sovereignty. If the EU takes a similar approach, then the law is not extra-territorial in enforcement, otherwise it is.
I have checked your pricing page, and I think you are penalizing larger users without trying even to hide that.

You require large users to pay more for the same functionality, that $5/mo user gets.

I would create 2 plans:
1) Regular, $9/mo per user
2) Enterprise, $29/mo per user with some added functionality, like custom login page, branding and some user management/sub-users.

This way you will give an actual value to enterprises, that justifies paying more, while keeping smaller users happy, by removing confusing pricing.
Could you expand on this for someone with very limited economic intuition? (me)
We have speed controlled zones in the US as well and I don't see how that makes a difference. It's a speed limit, not a speed requirement. Unless you're riding the speed limit and leaving yourself no margin for error then you should be actively monitoring your speedometer with sub-minute frequency and having to glance to your side instead of down isn't going to impact you much if at all.

My point is that where I'm from I typically don't get to decide my speed because it's dictated by externalities like traffic or road conditions. I also have a pretty good idea of the speed I'm travel and when moving through speed control zones I know if I need to slow down without watching my speedometer like a hawk.
Learning about iterators and generators in Python
> This is exactly what I'm thinking as well. If the platform has paging support, in theory this is cheaper then it seems because (besides using up tons of virtual memory) the array can be sparsely allocated, with only the regions actually in used taking up physical memory.

Yes exactly. The worse case still seems like a doubling of (actual) memory use though: imagine a very sparsely accessed region of memory: even today each access would bring in a whole 4K page (on x86, for example), but now you'd bring in a whole 4K shadow page as well (yes, the access has to be really sparse to get this 1:1 ratio).

> And at that point you're talking about likely 4K granularity, not 64 bytes. Still better then nothing of course, but it would definitely decrease the effectiveness for smaller objects.

I think a 4K granularity is next to useless - you already get that from the hardware/OS paging support. If you want to detect problems on a 4K level, you only need to change your allocator to mmap in a page at a time, which you can even already do on some with tunable ones.
I love the "(and they must always be forced)". Very naked display of political power, that. It's very far from obvious that forcing utilities to subsidize others is a good idea.
Do you disagree that govts being able to track "money laundering, tax evasion and terrorist funding" is a good thing?"

I'm assuming not - so we then get to the obv follow up question of how you weight losing that with the purported benefits of crypto?
Finally Bill and I agree on something other then DOS and MS-BASIC. It may not be for the same reasons (I prefer physical currency and silver for anonymity) but we have a common ground on cryptocurrencies.
I'm curious what Romulus does that Zendesk could not
I seem to remember seeing somewhere that the artificial quartz crystals could also be doped to flatten their change in frequency with temperature.
Yes, it absolutely can be, which is pretty amusing. Since I've gotten downvotes, apparently people think I may be one of those cases. But hey, at least I'm only arrogantly dismissing people's arrogant dismissal of Flutter ;)
Safeguards are put in place because people are prone to malice, fraud, violence, and financial fuckups in the past.

Mandate penalties if insiders are abusing their responsibilities and hold people accountable.
Perhaps it was about purchasing the copyrights and patents Ring controls, or purchasing the company most likely to cause problems for Amazon when Amazon rolls out more of their ridiculous home invasion plan marketed as an inside-the-home delivery service. This is the service apparently everyone has been perfectly fine to do without since Amazon began doing business.
I don't understand everyone's complaints about Model 3 missing tactile buttons. I went from BMW (which had buttons everywhere) to Model S. I have had the S for 2 years and have never missed any tactile button. Nor have I met any Model S owner who has said "I missed those buttons". Tesla allows for an overnight test drive. Try the S. You will not miss any buttons.
Consider a different example: someone participates in adding threading to the C++ standard. They then get hired at a development tools company to help implement the standard. Anything unseemly there?

Your characterization rests on the premise that the regulations are a priori negative. If you start from the premise that the regulations are good things, then there isn’t necessarily anything wrong or inconsistent about someone saying “I’m going to help create these rules which I think will be good for the industry” and “now I’m going to help companies implement and follow these rules.”

I’m pretty skeptical of regulation myself so I can see where you’re coming from. I personally think we should let crypto currencies be complete anarchy as an experiment. But crypto currencies are a good illustration of how regulation and regulators arise naturally. Big bad government doesn’t come in and start regulating things people never complained about. First people lose a lot of money. Second, the industry welcomes some level of regulation, in order to reestablish trust with consumers that might otherwise be scared off. Third, regulation gets implemented on the premise that its good for both consumers and for the industry, because it allows the industry to overcome trust barriers.
I've had that experience as well, but this is different. I don't generally get motion sickness in vehicles - but reading will make me get an upset stomach, regardless of who is driving. I just learned how to minimize some of it and realized the stuff I can do on long trips.
As someone's who's tried that, depending on how old the car is, that 10k can be burned through rather quickly. And then there's next year's maintenance to worry about.
Trump’s Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages
Not sure what you mean by this.

rsc has recently blogged in much detail about the package management situation, basing his work on existing solutions. He seems to specially eye rust's cargo. The blogs have been on HN several times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421966
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434973
This is somewhat pedantic to the overall point of the article, but Peter Thiel is moving to LA because the Valley is a stifling cultural environment, but then goes on to name multiple tech companies that they consider part of the Valley, but physically removed.

Why would Thiel moving to LA somehow affect this equation? They start the article using it for its importance and end it with saying it isn't, and it feels so contrived for the writer to use it as a way to editorialize on other matters.

I do happen to agree with a lot of the article, but the editing here feels sloppy, and while I love a lot of Wired's content, it seems like this continues to be a problem with their articles.
Amazon and Google -- and Facebook and a handful of others -- seem to be in a never-ending race to learn everything about everyone everywhere: who you are, where you are, what you do, when you do it, and why do do it.

Having cameras and microphones in your house and your neighborhood is a small part of that.
Unfortunately no, this was purely anecdotal based on my experiences using sample/demo applications.
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As an epistemology science is extremely rigorous – if something can't be measured (and thereby tested), science can't claim to "know" anything about it.

This is an excellent standard for particle physics, but can be extremely limiting in other contexts. You probably claim to "know" a great number of things, despite the fact that you have never "measured" any of these things (or could ever hope to measure them). Whether or not we can consider this knowledge is an old debate[1].

When taken to extremes, the scientific world view just devolves into "scientism", which denies the possibility that we can know _anything_ outside the strictures of the scientific method.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/
A speed limit is an upper bound maximum safe speed, not the speed you're required to travel at on the road. If you're unable to approximate your speed and keep it under the speed limit without a gauge then maybe you shouldn't be driving?
Which makes it all the more important to maintain offline connections, and resist the pressure to include the online world in everything.
I thought they already had back in October. I thought the CloudCam was just a rebranded Ring doorbell.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/technology/business/amazon-k...
I'm pretty sure that the Volvo XC70 I rented two years ago had exactly this feature. If you'd kickdown it will release all the furious anger hidden beneath the hood.
Kind of funny that this "kill the banks, bring down the system" technology is being infiltrated by Wall Street lifers.

Reminds me of this quote from a recent Matt Levine article:

> [Andy] Noto is leaving Twitter to become CEO of Social Finance, the online lender whose mission just a couple of years ago was to "kill banks." Now it will be run by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker. The banks do not want to be killed, and they play a long game.
The taxi driver is a human, humans have different, less spectacular failure modes. In a world with self-driving cars, it's plausible that there's a bug/hack that makes EVERY car on the road do something wrong or malicious like take you to the wrong destination/drive in to a crowd of people etc.
Powers of Ten (1977) [video]
Nah. Buffet wants in, but he wants his niche which is reinsurance; covering pools who get hit with cancer patients and car wrecks so they can expense risk as a line item and keep much lower cash reserves.
If you "told me" to delete a picture that included you that I had taken in a public place, I would "tell you" no.

If you politely asked, I would generally delete the picture, depending on whether or not there was a reason that I felt I wanted the picture and whether or not there was a way to reproduce the picture without you in it. For example, if Bigfoot had run through the frame while I was taking the picture, I'd be less likely to delete it.
But if the overall usage trend is downward, how do they justify building new plants to replace the ones that fail?
Thanks, Webster.

But it says "Scientists...". Humans do indeed care about what others "know" as a method of discovery.

IMO it's a bad headline in typical "western" fashion where the reality of reality is forgotten in order to stroke our ego.

Everyone is, by the nature of reality, a scientist. "What will I discover tomorrow through my own agency?"

So when indigenous people discovered it, they may not have been conscious of it, but they were abiding the model that was later explicitly defined.
Amazon is buying smart doorbell maker Ring
How big are these teams?
How active are they?

4000 teams of 1 that used it for a couple of weeks before abandoning is way different than 4000 teams of 100 that are active everyday.
> in which case what is the risk of keeping them around anyway?

GDPR wants you to think differently about it: if you want to keep data, ensure that you actually need it. Do not treat data as an asset but as a liability.
External pressure as one of reasons of USSR collapse? Come on, really. You can't be serious. It had lived under much more strong pressure more than 70 years before authority decided to demolish the union. What pressure do we speak about? Commodity prices decrease? I can't believe the west is involved in the free market manipulations though. Unthinkable.
Why not both Goldman and Google? I can't see how knocking off the leader of corrupt capitalism and the infrastructure of the surveillance state wouldn't be a good thing.
The weak scientific case for emotional support animals
If you store the full IP address forever, that’s already today illegal if you have German users.

Hashing (only useful for IPv6) or truncating is recommended.
> I'm fine with societies experimenting with more surveillance with the aim of improving people's behavior.

Someone hasn't learned from history. The impulse you're feeling is tempting, but it never ends will.
There are plenty of companies that don't grow and just pay dividends. Companies go out of business all the time too. Looks like capitalism isn't just about growth is it.

Capitalism - An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Doesn't say anything about growth. You're just conflating the two.
What European legislation is that?
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Thanks, that looks like what I'm talking about and I'll have a read through. It looks like pretty dense reading but the equations mostly don't look too horrible.
Keep your email entirely in a jurisdiction that doesn't cooperate with your country's law enforcement. I can think of three off the top of my head. Sensitive topics are only discussed with someone located in the same domain as you.

Quite easy to avoid criminal charges when your email is out of reach of a subpoena.
This happens everywhere regulation exists. That doesn't make regulation inherently bad, but before you can come to reasonable conclusions about how to change things, you have to come to terms with the spontaneous order your changes will result in. You can't abolish self-interest.
Well, for one, I prefer React to Angular, so just in terms of how I'd prefer to write my applications JS seems like a better fit. In general I tend to try and stick to things with large and successful communities when I don't have a particularly compelling reason to do otherwise. However, if I were building a mobile app in Flutter, I probably would stick to Dart for any web client stuff that went along with it, just for consistency and possibly code sharing.
Is this something that Internet Archive or Public Resource would take over? Seems like it'd be best under a NFP.
Remember car shopping and hating those center console displays.

I like Mazda's HUD system (think some luxury cars have had such solutions for awhile) which allows you not even change the focus of your eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZdisJihI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr02z6tgss
Also, how much they can buy your company for.
I would never go for .87 as it is confusing number and forces the user to go out of the comfort zone. I would always suggest going after 9 or 7 at the end, and the full dollar. I have quite an experience in pricing, and prices ending with "7" helped to convert more on the fence users (and cheap ones too, so if you offer live support, I would avoid that), while with "9" I would get less troubling customers, but I would see a slight dent in revenue numbers (out of every 50 customers buying at price ending with "7" I would probably see around 3 less with prices ending with "9"). The sample for this is few thousands of customers, that I had to cater for personally.
Splunk Acquires Phantom Cyber Corporation for $350m
They still should be VESA-compatible ;-)
Up to $20 million, depending on the severity of the infringement. I think the reason that floor is there is to handle cases where an organization doesn’t have much revenue, either through accounting shenanigans or because it is a non-profit (made up example: a free PDF to text converter that claims to be stateless but mines passwords and information to blackmail people with)
Parasoft Launches MISRA Compliance Pack and ISO-26262 Qualification Kit
Pizza: The problem’s not with the multiple analyses
Lots of software is awful because the client is an awful purchaser.

If you have a convoluted and slow purchasing process that favors existing vendors you are going to have problems. If you have that type of process and can't spend very much money up front, you are going to have worse problems.

Government, at all levels, has the second problem. This selects for large vendors (they can handle cash flow irregularities, have many low cost staff, have existing relationships and are on VoR lists/can easily pass credit/reference checks) and low quality. Price is especially key - bad software can be superficially cheap but "unexpectedly" need lots of consulting work or change requests. New high quality software is typically delivered by a firm that can't take advantage of post hoc consulting and change request revenue.

One easy way to block a startup with dropbox like pricing and market approach - privacy/security requirements. Make a state/federal law or regulation requiring all software touching citizen personal data be certified as safe. To ensure less waste and data security all software of any price must be provided by a firm on the VoR list. Purely for privacy and integrity purposes, of course!

When a government agency with minimal budget is the entire market, you face incredible hurdles to succeed that have nothing to do with product market fit. There's a reason why Uber and AirBnB broke laws & regulations and why government clients outside of defence & intelligence are typically the last targeted by a generalist software firm.
It has been talked about from the start. I remember a documentary from the late 90's about self driving cars (it may have been BBC Horizon) and the liability issue was discussed.

Maybe the answer will be Uber-like car fleet services that self-insure.
This is statement is unfortunately true for every regulatory agency in the U.S. government.

- CFPB -> all consumer corporations

- FCC -> tech

- FTC -> corporations spanning many industries

- SEC -> finance

- FDA -> big-pharma

- USDA -> big-agra

...on and on and on...
Similar, but the article above is talking about miners delivered through ad networks without the publishers consent.

Publishers pushing miners themselves is super interesting, but definitely not fraud like in this article.
Memory tagging in hardware? Yay, they're implementing 1970s Lisp Machines again!
Fast Data Processing Pipeline for Predicting Flight Delays Using Apache APIs
SeaWorld CEO steps down amid continuing fallout from 'Blackfish' documentary
It's how Apple has been operating for 10 years with dozens of other frameworks. Plenty of people have been writing programs against Foundation, CoreAudio, MapKit, EventKit, etc, for their {mac,i,tv,watch}OS apps, and obviously different libraries for any other platforms they wish to target.

I do agree that this time it might be different. There's no great cross-platform open-spec solution for, say, EventKit, so when Apple offers up their own API, we've just gone with it. Game Developers are a huge existing community, in a way that Calendar Developers are not. Metal and Vulkan are an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.

As someone who learned to program in the 1980's, it's pretty amazing that it's getting feasible to target high-performance graphics on every major platform from a single code base. Targeting every user in the world using only 2 graphics libraries doesn't seem so terrible to me. Consider how different the "Lemmings" source code must have been for Commodore Amiga versus the Commodore C=64, for example, not to mention the other 25 platforms it was ported to.
Most of the farmers were able to get jobs in factories, with little downtime or retraining necessary. What are today's factory workers going to do that's comparable? Remember, they still have rent to pay, food to buy, families to support.
If you're open to alternatie medicine, traditional Chinese medicine (and probably ayurvedic medicine) splits food into hot/cold groups that affect your body's balance.

My personal armchair doctor explanation is that the inside of the mouth experiences a lot of small cuts, but our immune system takes care of those before they turn into larger wounds. When your immune system is weaker, or your mouth is drier, then those small wounds open into larger ones.
This is curious. I'm 6'"4 and have never had a problem seeing the speedometer in any car I have driven, sure I might have to adjust the seat but I've never had to peer around the steering wheel. This includes a 1974 TR6 that was way way too small for me, two Mini Coopers (though in that case it's the tacho behind the steering wheel), and various French and Italian cars. Now I have much bigger cars but it ain't because of the speedo.
It sounds like he did pregenerate all the responses, then stored them in Azure Blob Storage. From the article I can't tell why he even needs to use Azure Function. Azure Blob Storage can be configured for public access over HTTP [0], so he could point Cloudflare directly at it.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns...
The thing is, I don't see how you can put a price on these externalities. 13.000 people die early in Germany alone because of this. What would you have them do with this money? Planting trees wont do them much good.

Liberty is not an absolute thing. My freedom to drive my car ends where it encroaches on other peoples freedom to have a passable living environment.

We've banned smoking in public spaces for exactly the same reasons. The current system is really the tyranny of the majority. Let's just be honest about that and not use euphemisms like "accounting for externalities".
I'm surprised this isn't at the top of the frontpage. This is big vindication of all hardware startups. Will VCs go big in this category after this series of exits?
If Flutter is ported to Desktops, would that be a good alternative to Electron-based app development?
Exactly. It's one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy in the world.