skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are paying for someone to provide you with advertisements.

As was the case with newspapers and magazines for hundreds of years, as well as more and more subscription-based sites today.

The advertisements defray the cost of the thing you are paying for. If they weren't there, you'd have to pay much more for it.
Cheers, presumably the AC wall plugs have international equivalents for the non-US market?

(i.e. their 'compliance' has been tested on 240V scenarios)
Some big consulting firms are also notorious for this kind of flattery. It comes through in their meetings with clients. Some clients get wide-eyed and pay them because they're "experts". The smart ones laugh and walk out.
Wait that’s just a bug? I thought my iMessage contacts had all developed precognition :-/
> "to the level of a commercial operation" just means actually washing it, not just scraping the hard stuff off and calling it good. It is not labor intensive on a per item basis nor is there any special equipment involved.

Are you actually aware of what we are talking about? We are talking about filthy, greasy BBQ grills covered in baked on crap that is really hard to get off, some people use pressure washers. There is special equipment involved, namely special steel bristle brushes that deposit tiny bristles that need to be dealt with in a very specialized way as seen in commercial kitchens where they have stainless easy wipe down surfaces and huge sinks so that everything can be carefully cleaned after each service.

> It's the same as a knife needing to be sharp

Deep down, you know this isn't true. A knife is very well known to be sharp and is obviously a hazard. A wire brush has hidden dangers. Bristles are expected to remain attached, but unknown to many users they come off when cleaning and then even more unknown to them they get into food and can cause trauma in the body and are very hard to get removed.

> Which is enough as far as I care

Well, I am not talking about you, I can see beyond you to the numerous people who have ended up in the ER. This is the problem regardless of how much you scoff at their ignorance, apathy toward sterility, and general lethargy at the family grill on Sunday.

> the contents of the average consumer kitchen were not designed to quickly and easily cleanable

> The difference is that the frying pan in that hypothetical example requires expensive specialized equipment

Erm, isn't this the same? In your examples you are describing specialist commercial equipment, and so in mine I was also.
A good trick I use is to turn on Reduce Motion in
Settings -> General -> Accessibility

Seems to not lag as much when transitioning between apps. Given, I shouldn't have to do this in the first place.
The worst for me is that FX/FXX shows have ads in the beginning of episodes you pay for. Obnoxious.
Same here, but in educating myself more I found that TPC-C seems to be a somewhat obsolete metric compared to TPC-E (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9246939/what-is-the-diff...). Why use the old one here?

edit: Looking into it even further, I agree with the co-author's response here that TPC-C is still an appropriate metric. TPC-E is different and newer but still not as widely used.
> Wasn't that goal already met by the EV1 back in the 80s?

The EV1 wasn't for sale at any price, so it also wasn't relatively affordable. It was leased at a loss to meet a state law while GM lobbied against the law. (Same with its contemporaries the Toyota RAV4EV and the Honda EVplus.)
I think it depends on on how common the negative sentiment is. VomitDB anyone?
Milking the whales, film at 11.
This is only going to increase the cable companies attempts to add more Netflix-taxes to your internet bill. Comcast started it with their bandwidth soft-caps, with $10 per 100gb over 1TB (it was originally 300gb). I'm lucky to be on an isp that doesn't have a cap right now, but I'm sure it's in the pipeline as cable subscriptions fall and advertising dollars decline.
Is the reason they won't create more technical or philosophical? I don't know enough about Ripple.
Kotlin == (Scala syntax) - (Scala power) + (Groovy wackness)
We need a startup that uses the same market forces to slowly chip away from the capitalists.

i.e. a collective labour and legal assistance group that has economy of scale and/or ML that's cheap enough for everyone and uses its userbase to collectively punish companies that uses belligerent gamifications against its customers by automating bill payments and underpaying every single bill by a small amount that makes it financially penalizing to resort to collection agencies etc.

A consumer protection equivalent of unions + zombie botnets.
I take issue with your criticism of deflationary currencies.

Deflationary currencies worked well for literally thousands of years, when people used precious metals for their currency.

Inflationary monotary policy is a fairly recent invention of the 20th century.
Better/cheaper don't enter the equation for things that can't be implemented on a centralized data structure:

- Financial transactions without a trusted authority

- Elections without a trusted authority

- Anonymous messaging (this is admittedly solved by federation if the federation is distributed enough, i.e. Tor).
Has c++14 existed for 15 years yet?
The key issue is one of control. I don't mind having an automatic update system, so long as there is some way of telling the os "I know what I'm doing - let me handle this". In a similar vein, updates should respect explicit configuration choices made on the system, and not re-enable things like Cortana without permission.
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You do know there's tons of advertising by way of product placement in pretty much every modern show/movie.
Using peer review to avoid a computing-induced apocalypse
I guess there is still the potential to roll it out with a server side trigger, as Apple did with Apple Pay Cash.

But, I would imagine it would be in the release notes if that were the case, and it isn't.
I tried a few articles on speeding it up and switching off background app refresh for all but a few apps seemed to make a difference. Of course it could have been a combination of several other things as well, but that was the last thing. It's a little better, but still rubbish compared to a 5 or 5s on iOS 10, or a 6s with twice the RAM.

I'm convinced the problem is insufficient RAM memory. Freeing up Flash storage is often mentioned, but I think it's marginal. Switching off services that require things to run in the background is probably saving RAM, preventing the OS having to constantly swap apps and services in and out of memory.

If Apple were still signing iOS 10 binaries I'd downgrade today, I'm thinking of going down to iOS 11.1 to see if it's any better.

I' probably getting a 6s soon from work and my wife will get my 6+ to replace her 5, but I'm worried she'll hate the step down in usability.
Regarding the timescale this is about, what does it matter that the article is 5 years old?
MemSQL is one of those "ask for a quote" products. What are some rule of thumb estimates for what it costs?
Making people less racist by altering what they're ingesting is one of the most effective ways to do it.

The "reality" in this case is not unbiased, because it's not the reality of "cars are hard" but the reality of "red means stop".

> access to racially distributed crime statistics

That does sound like something that would backfire or fail. Seems like you hit on the delineating factor: You search for crime statistics to contextualize and understand your reality. Is that why people search for porn?
It was still happening in the betas. Not sure if it was solved for the final release.
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My company has put a lot of effort into helping junior developers get a really good start to their careers. To a certain extent, you have to structure your work to enable this. I'd suggest seeing the support as a wider thing than just the activity of mentoring.

I wrote some notes:

https://www.haplo-services.com/blog/2017/working-with-early-...
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I think they put insulation behind the drywall.
Hah! Could be. It certainly worked for me - I stayed eight years, rotating teams on average every three years. Greenfields project, big established project, greenfields project, back to big established project. Learned a heck of a lot too, in a very wide variety of areas.
The instrument you link (I actually do know one of the co-authors on the paper you reference) isn't a full-up mission focused on the wind speed issue. It's one instrument that would be part of a larger flagship mission (i.e., many instruments on one spacecraft). When you put all the instruments together on a spacecraft, maybe you learn more about the history of Uranus. Isn't "send an orbiter to Uranus" a goal?

You mention the ambiguity of the animating goals. Part of this is just linguistic: of course you want to push down these top-level goals to more granular, 0/1 goals ("was there an ancient lake at this site on Mars?" Answer: yes). That's what the NAS report does. Now that we know how abundant water was on ancient Mars, we'd like to return samples to see if there was life. That's the next couple of missions.

You raise a worthwhile point, I think, about immediately-graspable 0/1 goals, like "man on moon". I see your point - but I'm really only here to talk about the unmanned program because my limited expertise covers part of that area.

You like SpaceX. So do I - two good friends left my lab to work there. But their achievement ("revolutionized space") is not unique. The little Mars pathfinder had about that much history. There are plenty of other examples over the same time period, like exoplanet discovery (as you noted), cosmology, and a host of Earth science stuff.
It's not mandatory. But it's incredibly hard to get hired out of school, even a top one, if you don't do any internships. You gotta grind from day 1 in this world.
No. Then every time I make a change in my network (not just changing IPs, but when I add a machine), I would have to modify a bunch of host files on all my different machines. No, this is actually what DNS is made for. As I said, Linux and MacOS are fine with it. It's Windows that's causing a problem.
I suspect it has something to do with the captive wifi webview being (frustratingly) modal.

I was staying at a hotel recently that wants you to put in your rewards account credentials at the captive portal page, but I couldn't switch over to 1Password to retrieve those credentials without iOS dismissing the portal page and leaving me with no easy way to get back to it. At which point the internet is working, and you're no longer "captive," but the half-completed process implies you want them to bill your room $15 for a day access pass...
Yeah, I can feed my Hasselblad a lot of Pan F for that kind of money.
> It wasn’t until we actually had strangers paying us money that we designed the CBlock.

Weird world we live in.

No prototype, no feasibility study, just some "marketing guru" writing up copy and seeing how many fools easily part with their money.
If you have kids they often don't understand that, or they don't quite have the motor skills to click the tiny little "skip" area.
Dash compatible docset for the Pony Language
They don't do it for a long time, because that means they will have to KILL support for TVs, Xbox and laptops that already have 4k support. They just use hardware deciding (because of DRM).
That they provide OpenVPN access does not change the discrepancy in their choice of sponsoring and their own doing.

And well, you should care for the US jurisdiction, whether you're from Europe or anywhere else on the globe. It means that the various three-letter agencies there probably have access to your internet traffic.
I don't find myself terribly upset when someone is just ambiently using a product. It's almost more jarring when something set in the current time & place has someone is using a "Banana" computer, with a bite out of the banana, or something like that.

Of course, if the actors actually take a moment to start extolling the virtues of whatever that's a different story.
Another opportunistic ÐAPP. A ponzi scheme disguised as a message board
The 1020 still wipes the floor with any of the current smartphone cameras, though the new dual-camera phones are a very interesting development. You can stand to lose a lot of chroma resolution if you still have lumina resolution. Just try chroma noise reduction while retaining lumina noise in your favorite image editor.
Why don't you just write a browser script extension to edit out your trigger word? It might be easier than expecting a database company to change the name of what they make.
This is really the only reason I have a play/red subscription. Of course, this doesn't stop YouTubers from placing sponsored messages everywhere.
There is a privacy push in this release. Immediately after upgrade you will get a page letting you know that "Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right…" and explaining steps they take to help with that, along with introducing a new icon which lets you know an Apple app is asking for personal information. That sounds like a way to train you to think about personal information differently, but I don't expect any users to read that screen or to know the icon. Darned users.

You can read a bit more about it here: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/01/25/ios-11-3-new-privacy...
I thought they fixed that in the last patch release? (Just looked, it was 11.2.5)

Are you still having the issue? My mom was still complaining about it, but I just assumed she hadn't updated her software.
Never heard of it until today.

> Spark, which launched in July, is a social feed of photos. It is similar to Instagram, but open only to Prime members.

There is the reason--thinly veiled way to encourage people to buy Prime. Facebook succeeds because "everyone is there." Not everyone can afford Prime.
Or meddling kids put stickers on stop signs that make them look like no parking signs to an Uber automated car.
Much like the Steven Avery case, this case was poorly prosecuted and defended. The case the State brought was unlikely that what actually happened. In the Steve Avery case there was a healthy dose of the police 'enhancing / fabricating' evidence and witness tampering, here it was mostly witness tampering and prosecutorial and defense 'issues'.

If you believe Adnan is guilty - he goes free because of poor prosecution and defense;
If you believe Adnan is not guilty - he spend years in jail for a crime he didn't commit - because of poor prosecution and defense.

:(
I don't know. I live on the other side of the continent from California but sometimes I hear complaints about the ecological impact. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-201504... The oceans may be deep in the middle, but they are often shallow at the edges. And Saudia Arabia is bordered by two seas which have much less capacity to dilute salt than an open ocean.
Thanks god. Fuck those guys, seriously.
The lens 'weak point' depends on the aperture you're using.
Even relatively inexpensive lenses will resolve a hell of a lot of detail at f/8.

I do agree that it's an enthusiast thing, and will remain so for a long time, but it's not that hard to utilize that resolution.
I'm pretty sure that this is (or should be) a classic example of boiled frog effect.

Your brain is used to the ads so it tunes them out, the advert makers figure out (using the metric of "how many users complain about advert frequency") how to increase them so that users don't notice. Eventually you end up with a fifteen minute advert block every ten minutes, and you're wondering how it got to that level, but you're still invested in this-one-show-that-nobody-else-has, so you put up with it -- your brain tunes it out the rest of the time so you don't really notice it unless you've had a break from TV long enough.

I think that the UK does the right thing. In legislature they mandate that you can have no more than 12 minutes of adverts per hour of television[1]. Apparently in 1980s America a similar agreement was ruled illegal[2]. Sometimes I wonder how the Americans can put up with American courts, given how obviously biased towards corporate interests they are.

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8341764/TV-fi...

[2]: ""Many countries regulate the amount of advertising per hour, but a similar industry agreement in the U.S. was ruled illegal in the 1980s."", from: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-02-06/opinion/ct-per...
Cryptography lets you make signatures that can't be falsified by anybody not having your key but that's it. It doesn't mean much if you have no way to know who is actually behind the signature.

I could generate a PGP key for Bill Gates right now, distribute it to the keyservers and sign a message saying that "I owe simias on hacker news one billion dollars". You could verify that the message was signed by my key beyond a doubt but so what?

Bitcoin doesn't have this problem thanks to PoW, when a miner submits a newly mined block the network doesn't need to check the miner's credentials, the block itself proves (statistically) that the miner did a certain amount of work to come up with the block. That's all that matters and the coins/fees are credited to the miner's address. That works because all the data necessary to create the consensus are available "objectively" on the blockchain for all to see. It doesn't matter if the miner pretends to be Abraham Lincoln, that's not what the blockchain works with.

Most problems don't have these properties, if I tell the blockchain "I have a brand new PS4 and I'm going to send it to X in exchange for n bitcoins" the blockchain has no objective way to track this transaction.
$25K/year/box from previous comments
Cable TV was originally a way for communities outside of broadcast OTA TV reception areas to receive TV signals with little signal-degradation. People paid only for the ability to receive channels - not for the channels themselves. Premium TV came later.
At the bottom of the article it says that information is coming:

"Note: We have not filed for official certification of our TPC-C results. However, we will post full reproduction steps in a forthcoming whitepaper."
> Here in modern times information moves orders of magnitude faster than when double entry accounting was invented.

The speed of information is about as relevant as the cost of tea in China. What matters is how fast people actually change their minds, which isn't any faster. All of the older generation basically just has to die before the new best practices can get widely adopted. If anything change likely happens more slowly these days because people are living longer.
During the Winter Olympics, I tried to figure out what I would have paid NBC for an ad-free experience (I watched as much as I could via CBC, but sometimes I just wanted to watch on TV without the VPN rigeramorale). I came up with $300. I would've paid NBC $300 for two weeks of ad-free Olympics coverage.
Is it really much more though? Whenever I see a number for how much an advertiser pays per viewer, it is typically small.
People complaining about the name and how they are never going to be able to use it in production because of how gross cockroaches are is definitely the most recurring point.
I think it worked well for them, since everyone remembers the name, specially with all the distributed stores coming out lately.
Except Cable is purely an entertainment-consumption medium. Whereas the internet provides tools and services vastly beyond entertainment including creation of content, goods, and services.

The value-cost ratio is absurdly better on the internet.
If we imagine the best-case scenario, where all actors are handling their keys with care, and a system works to somehow produce an immutable, always consistent log of all actions, I still don't see how this will be usable for most products. You basically also need an immutable link between the physical product and some kind of cryptographically provable ID in this magic log.

When receiving an item you want to check the provenance of, you need some way to securely identify the product in the log. Otherwise some bad actor along the way could unlink the actual product from the ID in the log, for example by duplicating and stealing a known-good ID, yielding all the provenance information useless.

I guess this could work for electronic products where you could deeply embed something like a TPM that could provide this ID securely (which would be to expensive to extract to make it worth duplicating), but for something like a shipment of steel or even worse coal/oil/grain etc, I don't see how this would work.
Licensed by total RAM of all nodes. $25k/year minimum license now, but you should still talk to them if you're a small company. Regardless of price, I highly recommend the product as one of the most polished data warehouses available for on-prem/self-managed operations.
I think that the Docker CLI bring written in go is some pretty big counter evidence to saying go is to low level to write CLIs. I can't think of a single reason that would be true.
OxiClean (or other clean-in-place products) should do a good job if you have a way of submerging the grill top. Brewers use this to clean fermenters and other equipment.
Still happening to me on 11.2.6
I will not use this product based on it's name alone, it give me jeepers. Petty? Damn straight it's petty. Doesn't make it less real though.
So why is the lifetime of the return value linked to the lifetime of the function argument? Couldn't the return value live longer than the function argument in that example?
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Hi there,

I just wanted to get HN's feedback on this api for getting credit scores and see if anyone is interested in using this. It's an API that lets your frontend either show someone's credit score to them (such as in a personal finance app) or quickly let a borrower know that they qualify for a loan (such as in a customer facing online banking application), while also not having to worry about securely storing people's social security numbers.

It's still very early and in private beta. It's an API that we're dogfooding for ourselves as part of Original Tech, and after talking to a few other people, realized that other people found it useful/ wanted to use it.
Survivor bias, I assume (haven't read the book).
Well I guess that's business as usual on Windows if you turn off software updates. I don't think anybody should do that.
I'm assuming that they postponed it due to iOS 11 bad reputation. People can handle dozens of UI glitches and crashes, but disappearing messages, sync inconsistencies would drive consumers crazy.
Sadly it's tiny watch batteries in the wrong place doing most of the killing and disfiguring.
There are still many a+ employees who just want to build and learn. Follow the c++.
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