skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably about the time that it became cheaper to replace a thing than repair it. Labor is expensive in the US, and so are aftermarket parts. It might cost $400 to repair a TV, and $400 to buy a new, 'better' model. I've even witnessed folks choosing to spend a bit more on a new thing rather than repair the old out of fear the old thing will just break again soon and putting them in the same predicament. For most folks, that's a no-brainer. (personally, I would repair it myself, but that's not an option for some due to skills, required equipment, time, etc)
Definitely something I'm thinking about. Maybe even some kind of "confidence interval" of confidence ratio could be added next to an estimate.
> You make it look like it's easy for the normal Apple user to switch to Android.

No, I'm saying Face ID is not mandatory on an iPhone X. You can use a passcode.

Nor am I saying privacy should be sacrificed on the altar of technology. I do my best to stay away from Google, and I try not to let Facebook know any more about me than necessary (and every day I contemplate ditching it, but there are a few important reasons to stick around).

There are plenty of ways to do biometric security wrong from a privacy standpoint. I trust Apple to do an earnest job of doing it right, because they have positive incentives to work for their user base rather than being a data collection/ad selling company.

And if biometrics aren't where you wish to place your faith, you can simply not enable the feature.
I'm not one to defend the CRAs, but if their job is to make a note when a credit file is opened, and not to do the heavy lifting of verify identities, I will concede that actually it's really not always the CRAs that are in the wrong here.

The banks are their customers, and I would think that market forces would drive banks to choose the CRA that will enable this workflow, but I know that market forces don't always work out the way you'd expect. Banks should be driven (by the cost of fraud) to ensure that they don't open fraudulent accounts, where CRAs probably just report on it when it happens (whether or not it is fraud.)

If none of the CRAs will do this, the banking companies don't really have a choice, other than to choose not to participate (AKA to choose to go out of business...)

Those banks are all heavily insured too, so they are probably not really incentivized to make waves in order to lower the fraud rates. This is really where my informed opinion ends, but ultimately we, the consumers, are the paying customers of the system. The debt system cannot exist without debtors.
Nature doesn't care whether Scotland has forests or not. Natural events can have catastrophic consequences on the environment. Ice ages and meteor strikes are pretty darn catastrophic. Invasive species were wiping out other species before humans came along (at a much lower rate). Any balance you see in nature will only last until something big enough happens to change it.

Humans have preferences about the environment we live in. When there are things we like and want to preserve, it's up to us to do something about it.
Veritas - formerly Symantec. Makers of Norton Antivirus. Your missed out a key industry in your suggestion viz Network Security.

Veritas is right in front of my workplace.

May I ask what's FS?
I do take my own advice about introspection and thank you for your concern.

Much like Mr. Taleb, I just don't see it as a problem. If my personality allows me to appreciate a communication style others have trouble with, without restricting me from appreciating other communications styles that they do not, then I have access to a broader and more diverse set of knowledge and interactions. I find the trade-off acceptable.
My beef was more with google, but my isolated instance of this was pretty damning. I started watching Meet the Press after the election. It airs on Sunday mornings. One day though, it was pre-empted by a golf tournament, I forget which, maybe the British open. I never ever watch golf. I have been golfing maybe once, never search for it, never talk about it, have zero interest in it.

I think I got distracted, or maybe since my show wasn't on, I just decided to go shower, and left it on for a bit. The next week, I start getting notifications about golf on my phone.

There are two possibilities here- Verizon (my cable provider) is making data available on what I watched to google, or google is using my microphone to pick up what I am watching on TV. I don't know which is more likely, but VZ and google having a partnership like that and keeping it secret seems unlikely.
It's one part of the problem. It's so much worse than this though.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/electronic-wast...
Also, automated assembly lines might be better at producing products that aren't as repairable due to the automation methods.
First -- ship it! Go live now. You'll learn more.

Second --
1. Decide what a conversion is (is it an app download?
somebody ordering stickers? etc)
2. A/B test the hell out of that landing page with #1 in mind. Everything is fair game -- the car graphic, the layout, the text, etc.

Third -- measure everything. How many times are these codes scanned? How many codes get registered? How many are purchased and of those, how many get used? Do people who scan the codes go on to become active users themselves?

The more data you collect, the more you'll learn, and the better you'll get.
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> There won't be because it still actually is useful governments and businesses.

This was actually true before, AI has been useful, it has always gotten more useful over time, AI has always had limits, and AI winters occurred because expectations dramatically exceeded those limits. For there to be a winter/crash, hype just has to increase to a point that is way beyond what we can hope to accomplish in the near time. It doesn't help that the Chinese are taking the place of the Japanese, who in turn were a significant cause for the last AI winter.
> Delphi ...

I just started picking up pascal again, freepascal to be specific.

I started with pascal in school, quickly moved to C, then C++; As I gain experience and wisdom, I migrated back from C++ to C. I just discovered freepascal this year, and has been enjoying pascal again. Pascal is just like C, but cleaner.
To me that's the key for sth to be called blockchain: it has to be decentralized. In a way that the truth is not mandated by a dictator or oligarchy, but by the own rules written in the blockchain and accepted by all.
So adding a distributed change/audit log - don't forget, that's all any blockchain really is - is the deal breaker and will cause you to fail audits or break production systems? How is it different from the GPG chain that is the Keybase changelog?

What is it about this change that makes you assume you're going to have to deal with cryptomining et al?
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) Drove a Fully Driverless Truck and Raised $16.5M
i hope it passes, but i bet it won't. sigh.
The world outside the bleeding edge of tech is a really, really big place. Also, software, once written, has a way of sticking around for a long time.

Ruby has been around for almost 20 years and decidedly hip for more than a decade, and only now breaking into top 10. Delphi has been more or less dead in our bubble for a couple of decades, yet only dropping out of top ten...
I wonder if it's a combination of a) appliances are now much cheaper as a percentage of our disposable income b) planned obsolescence. The ironic thing is that we now have such easy access to repair manuals for stuff online. Some things have gotten much harder to repair though since the devices have become more compact (laptops and phones).
This is nuts. If people wanted to purchase repairable products, they'd do it. Clearly the market doesn't care, so all this will do is create needless litigation and artificially constrain product design.
One more thing, this is not an ICO. There is no token sale, no profit motive, we just want to democratize results from computation math and showcase what is possible with Ethereum/IPFS.
Right above the code, click "Show in Viewer". It'll bring up a player. Click the play button and adjust speed to your liking.
Whoa. I only skimmed it but I’ll have to re-read it.
Totally. Pure processor speed stopped being a major driver of user interest in the early 2000s. Since then, it has been all about looks, feel, functionality (with the exception of the brief 'core count wars')
IMHO there's a world of difference between automation that touches your projects and automation that touches projects of many other users, and that seems to be a key part of their criteria.
Repair requires both easy assembly and easy disassembly of the device, recovery/ recycling greatly benefits from improvements to the disassembly. There is no conflict.
I love the name Sir Robin, but to me it looks like there is the profile of a cat at the top:

http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Knightship
We have this in Massachusetts for cars (car diagnostic info can't be a car company secret):

It was passed by referendum (Voters voted on the law, not legislators...Although when they saw it was going to pass they passed a similar law).

Here is a summary from the referendum: [1]
"A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law requiring motor vehicle manufacturers to allow vehicle owners and independent repair facilities in Massachusetts to have access to the same vehicle diagnostic and repair information made available to the manufacturers’ Massachusetts dealers and authorized repair facilities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Right_to_Repair_...
Thanks, I just had to modify an older project, adding YouTube would be the next step but lunch is over lol.
Having done both, multiple times, at scale: Implementing Paypal is about an order of magnitude harder than Stripe.

Paypal's documentation is horrid; they have several competing APIs (the most obvious choice - the REST API - has been silently abandoned); there are many active bugs; their support is slow and unreliable; the admin UX is horrid (finding transactions can be very hard); you will find yourself discovering the hard way how the system behaves on error; and oh there will be lots of errors.

Stripe is stupid simple by comparison, and impeccably reliable.

I pushed thousands of transactions per day through each. Paypal practically required a dedicated engineer to follow up on all the chaos. They periodically lost transactions (and fessed up to it after hours of debugging and support). They lost support tickets too. It's maddening.

If you aren't in a high volume business, Paypal is NOT worth the development headache. You can probably get 20% more users by spending the time building features your users care about.
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File system.
Introducing Faviator: A simple easy favicon generator
Facebook is probably going to hit $100+ ARPU in the US + Canada for fiscal 2018. It was $85.41 for 2017.

It was $27.76 in Q4, and $21.20 in Q3 (for the US + Canada).

It's not implausible that it'll eventually hit $200 per year in the US + Canada.

For fun, here's their quarterly ARPU over the last few years in the US+CA, starting from 1Q15, excluding all Q4 results (Q4 skews because it spikes):

$8.32, $9.30, $10.49, $12.43, $14.34, $15.65, $17.07, $19.38, $21.20

Quite the increase machine. US+CA ARPU for 4Q17 ($27.76) was triple that of 4Q14 ($9).
str and String? That naming is horrible. string_view is a much better choice
duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16543978
> The index is currently limited to 22 languages. You can still analyze the popularity of your favorite language and compare it to others, using Google Trends. C++ has the same popularity as C on Google trends: to avoid duplication, it is not included in the PYPL index.
>It implicitly puts you above them intellectually and delegitimizes their opinions

If one's opinion at the end of the day doesn't involve one changing one's behavior to combat the influences of those who use information about/relating to them, then sure one can call it out that I'm delegitimizing their opinion and implicitly putting myself above them intellectually, regardless of whether or not I think that is completely true based on what I have observed of people who are in a state of cognitive dissonance (self admitted or not) and continue to engage intimately with these platforms/services/devices/applications.

Still, it is ultimately up to everyone to change their own behavior in face of their own cognitive dissonance, instead of the usual discussions on here that are infantilizing and void of the reality of the situation, as if we as people have no sense of self agency.

>…If all you want to do is signal your ingroup to other people then using the term "useds" makes sense.…

This is probably closer to the truth.

In actuality, the reason I have been able to work with some of the data I have is because of useds, so in a sense I'm grateful because I get to research things that builds on what we know now (or more selfishly, I can get better personal insight into the behaviors of others around me). So if those who have cognitive dissonance don't want to listen to me, and continue on doing nothing except delegating their responsibility for their choices to others, that's fine, because the way things are now, it will only get better for those who will be able to leverage such.
Can I trademark my likeness (as famous actors or musicians do) and then sue Facebook if they use it?

I'm sure there's some reason it wouldn't work, but it's fun to think about.
Thanks ! Indeed, that's actually something I should have added before posting here (to collect a few emails for future updates).

Timeline is also a big area of improvement. It's good to be able to see a snapshot at a moment in time, but I'll have to develop ways to make it more clear which it is, and perhaps to extend that and make projections for months/years to come.

Update : I've now added a top banner to collect emails for people interested in company news
I plan to monitor my kids’ internet usage and heavily filter it as well.

Their phones and apps will be restricted until mature enough to make their own decisions.
Starsky just drove a fully unmanned truck down the road
Nebraska: Good Life, Great Legislative Innovations.
Ask HN: Which one to choose: Serverless or Containers?
I've read about people switching over from Docker (container) to AWS Lambda (serverless) but what scratches my head is, are there any performance (latency and cold start especially) difference? I mean, both are quite similar, so there shouldn't be any difference at all?

Let's say you create a single function that returns a certain calculated number, and you deploy this as Lambda function and to docker. My guess is that both should perform that function equally fast, am I wrong?

My question: Why should you prefer one over the other?

My understanding is that AWS Lambda functions are just like Docker except they're "smaller" and stateless and only runs when the function is being called.
Ive been saying it for years - I wont allow fb, twttr, ggl, or any of the tech giants access to my data until they compensate me fairly for it. If theyre making billions off of us, then I want a few thousand in return. Until then, no accounts and no data from me! Privacy Badger, ABPlus, block @ DNS level, etc.

Also Ive been a succesful technologist, programmer, and social being for many decades, and not having any of those accounts has never been a downer in my life. I feel much healthier, sound, and happier than my peers that have FB accounts. Cant see the value in that jank. Cant see why it makes sense to empower those companies at our expense.
https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko implements a simple module in Rust. When you can expose C bindings to your functions and don't need much runtime support, there aren't really many limitations to what you can do.
IIRC, Jepsen here is named after Carly Rae Jepsen, the pop singer.
Wow do people still use these languages enough for them to be in the top 20? I wrote a lot of Pascal after Basic and some Delphi when it came out but I haven't heard anything about either in like 15-20 years.
To loop or to stream?
Learn C++ from beginner to advanced
there is a good chance that you will benefit from this step. It's easier for the manufacturer to make the manual available globally than restricting access to only Californians.

EDIT: Is it even possible to restrict access to people from a US state? Even if I wanted to do that I would have no idea how.
This is the same argument made against any environmental regulation. The governments report released the other day showed us those often have a net benefit to society.
It's a run length encoded version of that pattern:

http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/RLE
Good luck getting it in the mainline kernel though...
Care to explain what exactly you mean by this?
I just can't take TIOBE seriously, I don't think Kotlin is as popular as the Logo educational programming language and Rust dropping 20 positions despite adding a new keyword to it is also interesting. And Typescript isn't even measured.
Yours is much more believable, but I don't see C++ there. Is this a bug or a feature? EDIT: I saw the clarification in the other comment but maybe C/C++ would be better then?
There is a LifeViewer link up top, I captured it on Imgur just in case it isn't loading for you.
https://imgur.com/a/yNF5a
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There's a cosmic rays detector that I was in charge of, even if I have little idea how it works. Apparently, it requires some very toxic gas (I have forgotten its name... something with -fluor- in it maybe?) that has since become forbidden from shipping.

So there are a few spares remaining on the island (forbidden from shipping away anyway) but no legal way to keep operating once they are used up.
Why is one capitalized and one lowercase?

I kind of agree with the sibling that the naming is odd. Why not call them String and Slice or String and MutableString? Using different ‘spellings” of the same word seems like it only encourage some confusion.
In the early 90's Ghandi got hold of one of these devices and caused havoc. Luckily, he was stopped by Bob Woodward with some help from Elwood Blues and, of course, President Roslin.

I'd like to see Qbert crack that.
> will be to make sure that very large companies stay very large and very small companies have a hard or impossible road to growth.

Do you mind connecting the dots on this? Apparently you think it's self evident why it would have those effects on companies, but it's not, at least to me.
True, there might be people spending a lot more than the average cost of a basic subscription. I don't know the product well enough to evaluate if having Tinder Gold is enough or if some users also buy one-off app purchases in addition to that.
Credit Karma does this for free.

https://www.creditkarma.com/credit-monitoring
Then they can write it into the driver "Stop working on jan 1 2019"
By that logic an ad in a travel magazine is using your personal data.

I personally wouldn't consider search ads with no data being stored or user level history being used as not being personalized or user targeted. They're to me no different from an ad in magazine or a static banner ad on a web page.
My kind of project.
Electricity consumption is not an "artificial scarcity"
This is sort of a strawman. No one is saying that trust should be removed from society in general. Bitcoin proponents think it's desirable to have a way to store and transfer money without having to trust a single party. Anyone who has had Paypal freeze their funds or had a customer request a chargeback after receiving service could tell you why that might be desirable.
Off the top of my head, it could easily be the case that Facebook is:

1) Aware of construction happening close to your place of employment (in any number of ways that doesn't require any super advanced knowledge)

2) Knows that people usually start to get fed up with construction noises after X days

3) Started showing you popular co-working spaces as a result

Or, as you noted, your co-workers started searching for co-working spaces and Facebook picks up on that and assumes something is happening in your office such that other people might also be interested in co-working spaces. Creepy, sure. But doesn't require clandestine recording and parsing conversations.

Or, even simpler than that: I see WeWork advertisements all the time despite never discussing them. It's not really that insane to think that places like WeWork might just be targeting your demographic and that's why you saw the advertisement.

Anyway point being, none of these explanations require Facebook to record you.
.. Bitcoin and Zcash have had integrations into Keybase for a long time.
Depending on the contract you're allowed to sell the share. The company might have the right to counter-offer or refuse the buyer. At best the company or another shareholder buys the share. Given the conflict between shareholders I'd say you only have those dividends ongoing.