skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used Apple music since it came out. Here are some problems that have been fixed over time:

- The de-duping was way too aggressive at first but there were workarounds and its working the way I like it now.

- Another annoying thing it did was when someone deleted their album from Apple music it would find the "same" tracks in compilations etc and pollute my library with them. Now it just says "can't play that anymore" which is what it should have done from the beginning.

- ANOTHER annoying thing it did was the "token" used to play music used to expire way too quickly. I usually listen to music on my iPod touch and it would want my password for my iTunes account at least once a day or it would refuse to play music, which was a major drag when away from Wi-Fi. It seems to be more sane now which is nice.

Overall I'm happy with Apple music. It is nice when discovering a new artist, I can listen to one of their albums without downloading their entire discography at once then doing the dance and magical incantations required by iTunes to get it onto my iPod without doing nasty things like deleting ALL of the other music from it.
Linking to extensive Wikipedia articles with dozens of sources is encouraging people to think critically.
It may not be Microsoft's right to decide when or how to patch your computer but from a public health point of view, sane policies already dictate mandatory vaccination. Perhaps you would be happier with the government enforcing mandatory patching to be able to connect to the internet?
No one is forcing you to keep using Windows. Plenty of people are happy enough with Linux.
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This is a dynamic programming problem; if anyone wants a resource, I'd recommend this book [1]. Longest Increasing Subsequence is on page 162.

[1] http://algorithmics.lsi.upc.edu/docs/Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-...
It seems like you're saying "it's impossible to achieve perfection, therefore you should never even try to improve."
I believe his longevity was little to do with any special treatment and more to do with the strain/variety of the disease.

My brother in law contracted Motor Neuron, was given 2 years to live, and died after 2.5 years, the last year of which was not really living.

Up until then I had never understood that Stephen Hawking was actually in one sense amazingly lucky.

RIP, an amazing fellow.
I asked a related question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582762
Good. People need to fucking update. Don’t be dumb.
1. Create demand

2. Acquire users

3. Own distribution

4. Iterate to multiply 1
I hate to be so blunt, but I think you need a wake-up call. There is absolutely zero reason to give an ounce of thought to titles right now. The three of you need to be laser focused on adding the maximum value with every action the three of you take. Talking about what a role entails at this point is purely "playing house" (in pg parlance, see http://paulgraham.com/before.html).

If you need to put on a fancy title in order to close a deal then so be it, but other than that you all need to execute on whatever are the most important tasks, delegating to whomever is most capable of each given task. That is it; don't overthink it or your startup will fail while you sort paperclips.
> What about hosting HTTP content because you verify GPG signatures upon download?

Because the rest of the content is not verified?????? That's the whole point of HTTPS????????
They are not in any position to judge that.

Thankfully, the black bar is not there, perhaps previous discussions made them reconsider.
I'd rate the second book (broken angels) as one of my favourite sci-fi books (which might include tiger,Tiger/the stars my destination, neuromancer, fire upon the deep, holy Fire... There are many great ones).

I started with that one though, and then read the other two.

I'd say overall as a triology, it rates alongside neuromancer /the sprawl triology. A little more pulp - but a similar serious take on technological evolution.

[ed: the netflix series is to ac, a little like the Johnny Mnemonic film is to the short story. Although the series is a bit closer to the books]
Now we have wordpress, medium, etc. It's never been easier to have a personal blog over HTTPS.
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If software updates/upgrades can be cleanly separated into security fix vs new features/removal of old features, then I think it may be reasonable for governments to enforce mandatory patching.

Unfortunately, software doesn't work like that. It's hard (if not completely impossible) to separate security from feature updates.

You'll likely need to cherry pick git commits and build the software yourself. I don't know of any sane person who would spend the time to do that.
> Youtube already takes down anything they dislike.

These are the funniest comments on HN. There seems to be a huge group of people that are more willing to believe that YouTube will push a narrative vs believing YouTube just wants to earn more profit.

If you make a video that people want to watch the algorithm will love you. It determines this by watch time and session time. If you make a video that people click away from, especially if it ends their watch session, the algorithm hates you. Remember, you have to compete against over 300 hours of content being uploaded every minute.

This is how every social platform works. It’s a function of content volume.

If they took down every video they didn’t like PewDiePie wouldn’t be the top channel, literally making fun of the platform almost every weekday. But most people on HN haven’t actually bothered watching him, I’d hazard to guess!
So it's okay to have a fingerprint reader as long as you claim to do something to the effect of hashing the fingerprint?
Being able to stay agile & change the app, without breaking old versions of the app, and without having to have an explosion of ad-hoc end-points for every change you've ever made. With graphQL its perfectly reasonable to never rename or delete fields, and never break backwards compatibility. With REST that would not work & would result in over-fetching, or tons of ad-hoc end points for every query you've ever written.
Based on the quality of the 1.4 release, I would say probably not. There were many glaring obvious bugs and omissions, so they must had been in a bit of a rush (i.e. badly managed) to get it out.
I think there’s a reasonable argument that documentation is an integral part of usable software.
That is intense. I hope that's the only time you have to experience that. Speaking of hell, it's actually similar to what my Catholic school taught us hell would be like. No physical pain or brimstone... Just your mind, alone and separated from all for eternity.
Really cool. Is it open source?
Agreed. I used to watch reruns of Law & Order. Hearing the beginning intro would remind me of a time when life was less complicated, and the plot was engaging enough to distract and lull me into sleep. Sadly, Netflix removed it, so I now rely on podcasts.
It's useful to remember the words of the prescient Privacy Protection Study Commission, from 1977: "The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate recordkeeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."
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They won't get a dime from me ever. For anything.
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For those who are new to machine learning, this is like duct taping four wheels together and calling it a Lamborghini. Maybe a good start if you want to learn about basics of face recognition, but iPhoneX FaceID keywords here are clickbait. This is nothing like the technology used in iPhoneX.
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- what will you do when your glorious ad hoc GraphQL query ands up bringing the database to its knees?

With REST you can have an N+1 query, but you're making multiple round trips from the client to the server. With GraphQL, you can also write an N+1 query, so you can shoot yourself in the foot either way.

I would probably use graphql-middleware to log the backend calls, or just look at my backend's log, identify the N+1 query and instrument data loader to batch it out. But of course you should load test your app before even shipping it so why would you have this problem unless you do not test?

- what will happen when your glorious GraphQL schema doesn't have all the data the frontend needs?

I can add the field without impacting existing clients that I have shipped. With REST, the old clients would also get the new field.

- if your teams are dysfunctional, then of course, that's what you will end up having.

The point is that your teams can function independently of each other, each focusing more effort on doing their own job & less time syncing with the other team.
By the way, Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire" offers some thoughts on extended life, in a more near-future, no jumping bodies/sleeves setting.
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Reminds me of when Bing launched and they had a 20% or so off many retailers that you clicked from their results. One was Ebay. I must've been 17 or 18 and used my summer savings to buy silver bars from Ebay 20% off and relist them.

Not long after I noticed they severely restricted the types of discounted items.
Poor title choice.
yes they absolutely are in a position to judge that.
This is of course a legitimate concern, but it's also one that is addressed in EnvKey's design. Client-side encryption means that even if we are attacked, no sensitive data will be exposed. And we have a failover to S3 so that you won't lose access if the service goes down.

Storing config and secrets obviously requires trust, but at the same time, many other services that developers use without a second thought actually require a lot more trust than EnvKey does.
I know what it means today in current US law. I think that the law should be expanded.
Heh that's a very cynical view and it speaks to me. But my first thought was that this will make me choose AWS over alternatives because I've found the docs for GCP very confusing and sometimes outdated.

But regarding why people would bother helping. Well I guess it's the same reason some people help out with wikipedia. Not all of them do it for ideological reasons. Some are just very nitpicky and anal.
Can you please explain further? How does it work on the iPhone? How is it different from this method?
We have a saying up here, life is wasted on the living.

A. thanks for the suggestion, great, terrific, wonderful (was flux good?) but B. The dead shouldn't hang about trying to interfere with the living!
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"Pay extra(congestion pricing, progressives love that) to exit or take one before or after."

It's a physical impossibility, no congestion pricing will make more supply.

If it's 8:30am on a weekday, and you have a large suburban area serviced by a tunnel exiting in a much smaller downtown area, how will there ever be enough exits?

Have you seen how crowded a European train station is at peak hour? All these cars would have to go somewhere.

Some back of the napkin maths in an ideal scenario:
200kph = 55.5556ms tunnel, 1 lane, 3 metre windscreen to next windscreen distance (car length + distance in between).

55.556 / 3 = 18.51 ish cars/second
= 66,636 cars per hour.

This site [1] says LA's average off peak average speed is 26.8mph. Super rough estimate.
This graph [2] says 26.8mph gives you ~1800 cars/hour/lane.

So that's 37 downtown lanes per one lane of 200kph Boring Tunnel traffic.
37 lanes are 3.7m wide, so that's 137 metres wide!

Sydney's current trains take 28,000 people per hour [3] in the real world, in 2018, driven by humans, with humans exiting stations. Put in 2 - 3 train lines underground, which is say 6 metres wide, chuck a station on top with escalators pumping people in and out, and people can walk through the city. Put a park on top.

Sydney Central Station has 27 platforms, 10 underground. That's like 280,000 people per hour on the underground lines by those dodgy estimates, or 5 x 200kph 3 back to back traffic lanes (not tested yet), or 185 lanes of 26mph traffic which is ¾ of a kilometre wide! And it was built in 1906 out of sandstone! There are ~ 5 CBD stations in Sydney. A 925 lane wide road sounds like fun. And its here in 2018 and it costs me AU$1.50 to use.

Cars don't belong in cities. Cars belong in the suburbs, which is where they can drive you to your train station. Tokyo's Shinkansen was opened in 1964 and went 220kph. If the train is more than 1 minute off the timetable you get an apology letter for your employer. They took the original trains out of service in 2008. The USA is so behind.

As I said, transport isn't a technical problem, it's a political one.

The future is here (high speed rail), it just isn't evenly distributed yet.

[1]: http://infinitemonkeycorps.net/projects/cityspeed/

[2]: http://moderntransit.org/solution.html

[3]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-11/barry-ofarrell-sydney-...
But if there's a performance upstairs (and, yes, Open Mic counts), please have manners and don't take your loud conversations upstairs with you.

I recommend the Assam tea. Real, loose leaf in a real pot.
> They're stopping ads, not content.

They’ve been removing videos from YouTube also. Which they are free to do, it being their platform, but my point is that they are removing content also.
The system forcibly taxes the population, forces the children through a funnel, and then witnesses how all of that does not work particularly well.

The alternative would be to cancel Statist involvement and let the problem solve itself. We will undoubtedly see the worst emerge, as well as the best.

When the Statist economy will finally be bankrupt, the alternative is what is going to emerge anyway.

Therefore, I advocate helping the Statist national economy to go bankrupt. It will be the solution to a very long list of otherwise intractable problems.
Good title choice.
It seems a little more nefarious than that. From what I am reading it seems that the group that is releasing the vulnerabilities has created a fake research firm and released an analysis attacking AMD. That parts reeks of market manipulation.
Oddly, this news struck me harder than other recent deaths of celebrity musicians that I was huge fans of. I guess Professor Hawking always had that aura of timelessness around him, and everyone just knew he was doing important work that would change humanity's understanding of the universe and our place in it.

It seems somehow unfair to have him taken away in the middle of all that.

EDIT: Fond memories of walking around Cambridge University two decades ago with my cousin, and she casually pointed to a building and said "Oh, Stephen Hawking works in there". Seemed so mundane to think that such important works were going on in some nondescript building that I just happened to be walking past. I always envisaged him working on a totally different plane from the rest of us mere peons.
Sometimes those computers are running critical medical equipment that fails on the latest update. There are good reasons not to update. Try and have a little bit of an open mind so that you are not being dumb.
Do you think it could be organised and paid by the same company that bribed Dell and other OEMs so they don't sell AMD CPUs in their laptops?
I thought someone had tried to kill the CEO.
As a kid my first introduction to Hawking was on a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.

This deserves a black bar. This man I’m sure inspired almost everyone here in some way. Odd to think he’s dead. I thought he’d live forever...
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there are better ways to detect aileron deflection via automation than with a camera, but I take your point.
Ask HN: Follow up for feedback a second time?
Hey HN,

I have been applying to jobs all over NYC. I've completed a few interviews. I ask for feedback immediately from all of them. Often, I don't get a response.

Question: Would it be unwise to send a second response asking again?

I understand people are busy, but you would think if they were making an informed decision on multiple candidates they would have shared feedback about the candidates at some point? As long as the feedback isn't "sorry, you didn't have what it takes" it's probably valuable feedback. Just be honest.
Though part of me is glad that he's now relieved from the pain of existence, the other part wishes that he should've lived long enough for his conscious to be uploaded into a perpetual medium; to find answers for his questions.
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Thank you! I'm glad it's helpful.
As little as it takes to accomplish the task at hand
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DNA is strangely relevant here (as he often is):

[...] I don't know what this great think I'm meant to be doing is, and it looks to me as if I was supposed not to know. And I resent that, right?

"The old me knew. The old me cared. Fine, so far so hoopy. Except that the old me cared so much that he actually got inside his own brain - my own brain - and locked off the bits that knew and cared, because if I knew and cared I wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't be able to go and be President, and I wouldn't be able to steal this ship, which must be the important thing.

"But this former self of mine killed himself off, didn't he, by changing my brain? OK, that was his choice. This new me has its own choices to make, and by a strange coincidence those choices involve not knowing and not caring about this big number, whatever it is. That's what he wanted, that's what he got.

"Except this old self of mine tried to leave himself in control, leaving orders for me in the bit of my brain he locked off. Well, I don't want to know, and I don't want to hear them. That's my choice. I'm not going to be anybody's puppet, particularly not my own."

Zaphod banged the console in fury, oblivious to the dumbfolded looks he was attracting.

"The old me is dead!" he raved, "Killed himself! The dead shouldn't hang about trying to interfere with the living!"
Menlo Park is separated from Mtn. View by the 20 minutes of traffic known as Palo Alto.

It's almost faster by bike when you use the bike bridges and car-limited Bryant St.
Nah, I use a lot of SAN certificates; e.g. when a customer has 10 domains, and you want all of them to redirect to one, you have 1 site with just an SSL binding, and 1 site with all other domains and the non-SSL binding. That's a scenario that f's up a lot.
"Decentralized" is always an anti-feature in products like these. It always ends up as a lot of cost for little user benefit. A centralized server always works better and is easier to deploy and support.
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29% to taxes

5% to Patreon fees

Cool to see where the money actually all goes. Not just to her savings account!

"...$89 a month for everything else in my life, things like food and clothing and toothpaste and medical bills."

2018 is so strange. Stuff that used to be 50% of a person's budget are now almost negligible. I thought medical expenses were high in the USA. Maybe there is a story here that she isn't sharing? I hope she will be okay if a big medical bill comes up. Her health is the foundation of everything else she does.

P.S. What the heck is a "dogget"?
>I've been using it every day and can honestly say its really helped me

How do you know this? It seems to me to be quite difficult to test properly.
I surprised that they don't have a commuter ticket system. In my city the commuter ticket price is calculated to be somewhat cheaper than return fare*20 as well as being a tax deductible.
I wonder if all these crypto projects still attract fresh money. Or if it's largely winners of the Bitcoin boom shifting their assets around.
I like Google music better. Have been a subscriber and it works well for me. It lacks some Apple music features like good radio stations. But the experience is nice overall. Also Google music is cheaper in my country by 20%.
GraphQL does not replace redux, Apollo sort of does but they solve different overlapping problems.

GraphQL is serializable & a graphQL query or mutation is conceptually the same
as a standard FLUX action used by Redux.

The main difference is Redux intends to separate async logic & mutations, to make them easier to reason about in isolation. Apollo intends to remove the need to reason about async logic. In Apollo, you still have to deal with state mutations by refetching everything after any change, or writing verbose cache invalidation logic. So both Redux & Apollo make you reason about state mutations.

Apollo-link is like Redux middleware, it uses observables so its like redux-observable middleware.

If you treated Apollo like Redux, you'd have to fire a graphQL mutation as if it were a Redux action. In redux you can ignore an action. In Apollo, to ignore a mutation you would have to write custom apollo-link middleware to handle that action (mutation). As you can see redux & apollo solve overlapping but different problems.

If you are coalescing multiple API responses coming in over time, you may have a need for RxJS, not Redux. That is inherently a stream of events happening over time, so use a streams library (perhaps together with Redux).
The only "dumb" thing I can think of is critical medical equipment being on a network that can hit Windows Update. It is on people Windows for production tasks that may be jeopardized by updates to responsibly handle themselves. I practice what I preach: my video encoder rig lives on a network that explicitly drops connections to Windows Update--but the machine is also firewalled away from the internet at large and only visits trusted websites as part of production tasks. Neither half of this responsibility is tenable without the other.

I am expressly not saying that "forcing" Windows 10 updates on users is a good idea--but I'm sympathetic, and I'm not saying it's not--but if you are running something like "critical medical equipment", it should already be incumbent upon you to be doing it right.
My understanding was you couldn’t block the updates on windows 10. Looks like in creators update, they offered ability to block updates/and this has been ignored. As far as forcing updates, it’s kind of a double edged sword... noble to protect the masses, but honestly it’s been a terrible experience. We had a small ‘pilot’ team give it a try for a length of time. It seemed almost every time the updates install, we’re dealing with failed network drivers, no displays, blue screens and the odd boot failure. Not very good for a professional services staff under tight client deadlines. We’re not upgrading to Windows 10 at this time.