skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I find it insanely naive that anyone would believe what comes from the horses mouth, especially when they don't provide any evidence. Companies say things all the time that aren't true, and I find it silly to believe giant PR groups.

I'm not saying that they violate your privacy, I'm only saying that we don't know what they do with your data, thus we don't know if they protect your privacy or not.

My complaint is easily solvable: Allow me to set up and use a phone/laptop in such a way that they can't violate my privacy.
you can design a complete and sound type system in which any program can be checked in polynomial time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_sy...
Offending someone shouldn't be illegal. Period.

Directly inciting actual physical violence, you might have an argument for.

But words and ideas must remain free to maintain any semblance of a free society.

As other commenters have said: who decides?
Actually, you are correct, I apologize. I mis-read the question and no, I don't have any evidence of Apple violating their privacy policy. But that's not what I'm stating. I'm only stating that we don't know what they do with our data.
> Similarly, it is not because one can play a guitar that they are entitled to turn into musician, or writing something doesn't turn one into a writer.

I disagree.. playing a guitar does make one a musician, and writing does make one a writer. What either is not entitled to is success in the marketplace, but then, no one is, regardless of skill. Once you put your work into the marketplace, the market decides its value, and your value by proxy. But for that to work successfully, the marketplace has to efficiently sort for quality, and one way to enforce quality is having the barriers to entry be sufficiently high. In practice, that doesn't often work because entrants don't want to be sorted efficiently, they want to be sorted to the top to maximize exposure and revenue. It's why SEO exists - to optimize the Googlebot for you and you alone by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Steam also wants to maximize the size of its library and revenue, so it has an incentive to engineer a marketplace that favors quantity over quality.

But even amateurs put in more effort than the developers publishing much of the garbage onto Steam - using the term "developers" loosely. These are incoherent rage games or weekend projects, barely functional tech demos and tutorial games, asset flips, etc. Games that don't even run. If the bar for quality on Steam was merely "amateur" then I would be happy, but it isn't. There seems to be no bar, and that makes it bad for everyone, except maybe Valve.
I see China envy online a lot, especially given our recent political disfunction as people look at the superficial stability of China and want that for their own societies.
so due to this significantly cheaper availability of computing power one would think that today we would be making enormous progress every day.

my phone is more powerful today than most powerful desktop back in 1995. And what do i use my phone for? check email and read HN.
Well Molyneux is taken, I guess we could call it the Murray effect.
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TSA checkpoints have accelerated to being in subways, etc.

Ratchets only tighten.
chinese 'patriots' and/or chinese psyops must be active on HN just as they're active on other online forums; that's probably what you're seeing.
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Since I can't edit my last reply, and I misread this originally: No, I don't have any evidence that they do. Nor am I saying that they violate their privacy policy. I'm simply saying that we don't know what they do with their user's data.
Same. Seems like trolling.
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Having all your sensors fail is actually a very easy case. Imagine if all of your sensors failed: suddenly you could not see, hear, feel, smell, or taste... do you think it would be hard to tell that something was wrong?
Please tell me you're kidding.
I had a Palm Pré and I miss webOS more than any mobile OS I have ever used.
It's not a straw man though? Meritocracy, the word itself, was invented to describe a fictional dystopian society.
Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively.

https://sivers.org/openbsd

http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/

However I have not heard any reports of anyone running an alternative OS on iPhone or iPad hardware.

With every passing year I continue to think it would be interesting to observe how users would choose if Apple hardware and Apple software were sold separately.

Would all users choose Apple software?
> Seeing how he actually has cars in production

You see, the the projected promise is not to have electric cars in production. It is to build cars with tech that is far advanced and game changing, to a point that owning an ICE vehicle does not make sense...

> but also land rockets those are definitely not vaporware

The promise is not that they will build rockets. The promise is mars. That is why people are cheering for them and is investing in them..

Then there is Hyperloop. Classic vaporware..You might be seeing why I think these are vaporware now...

Thanks idiots of HN for flagging the comment. A fool and his money is soon parted. If there are too many fools in the world, it is only the preservation of that law that is dictating that entities like Musk should appear.
Not case sensitive? so they lower case / upper case it all? or store as plain text?
The amount of "bullying and abuse" by the US is grossly overstated.

I think many people, especially in large and proud nations, don't like the idea of being a second class power to the United States. That's certainly what motivates Putin and Xi Jinping. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best, of course. I welcome competition.

Unfortunately though this frustration with not being the lone superpower drives people to focus solely on what the US is perceived to have done wrong while ignoring the tremendous amount of good the US has done and continues to do for the global international order. Therefore people develop a very skewed and biased understanding of the world.

Multipolarity means warfare and carnage on a scale much greater than anything we've seen in the period of global peace and stability we've seen since the US has been the superpower.
Finally, someone made an Eisbergsalat that stays true to it's name.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisbergsalat
Oh, that EDMS! I had totally forgotten its code name.

Seamus's physics system was really ahead of its time, but unfortunately a ton of the work of getting a physics system to work in a real game is dealing with edge cases, numerical stability, etc., and we had huge problems getting everything to an industrial-strength state. (You will probably not be surprised if you look at the code.) Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri's full biped physics eventually had to be replaced by run-of-the-mill sphere physics just to make sure that things worked 100% of the time instead of 95%. Flight Unlimited was the real culmination of Seamus's physics work.
i was pretty happy with windows phone but not being able to install many apps killed it for me.
With free software and properly documented hardware, you would never need to miss an OS; you could just use it.
> Don’t get me wrong: it’s a well-written article explaining the biology to a lay audience. But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights.

This "article" in the Harvard Gazette is basically a press release about an invited lecture that happened at Harvard. If it manages to clearly and correctly explain any science, then it's already going above and beyond its main purpose.

Edit:

* Here is Athena Aktipis' lab site: http://www.aktipislab.org

* Here is a 2015 NYT article about her work that goes into more detail than this press release: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/science/cellular-cheaters...

* This is the scientific article: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1673/2014...
How come? My understanding is that the thing people loved the most was the "cards", but ios and android both have something similar with their app switcher now.
The semi-nomadic indigenous Australian's used 'song lines' where they would start singing at a landmark continuing at a certain heading and the pacing such that the narrative of the song would tell them about the local resources and other relevant info.c my 2c
The mouse I use at work turns a large percentage of my single clicks into double clicks. There are lots of reasons people might double-click other than frustration.
Do you help reduce polarization by speaking well about the people of Georgia?
The filthy parts are well known and mostly keep to themselves. The non-filthy parts are some of the most beautiful city living in the world, with outdoors access that rivals a resort town. (I lived in Park City before)
China is a dictatorship. Don't delude yourself.
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>Of course you can. For example, constraints inside triggers. A simple insert trigger will only apply on records going forward.

Or you can just expand the constraint to superset of two, or figure out how the old data needs to be treated by new system and migrate it. There are many right options if you actually care about data integrity that are not as easy as not caring. Doesn't make it good general advice not to care.
It seems like part of the reason might be to provide fresh vegetables in a place where they are very hard to get, to keep the researchers happy and healthy.
I have no idea what they're doing on the back end but this is bad. They do "randomize" your username. It looks like it's also limited to 8 characters and since they sent it in all upper case, my guess is that's what they're doing.

On the bright side, my password does expire in July!
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>No matter how many times someone has seen a video demonstration of the technique underwater, they still are completely spatially disoriented the first few times they try the move.

How well does practice "on land" or "in the air" map to the same movement under water, with water resistance?
Bats aren't birds.
Oh, agreed. I definitely think we should keep financiers and rentiers on a much tighter leash. I just think we have to do it explicitly and politically.
F9 can do 22,800kg per launch when flying expendable. I don't think SpaceX intends to many expendable launches for their own constellations. iirc the max payload to LEO when flying recoverable to barge is ~18,000kg, and when returning to launch site ~13,000kg.

To minimize costs, I think it makes more sense for them to do RTLS than barge landings, especially as barge landings put hard limits on launch frequency (the barges aren't very fast).

However, even that 13,000kg is probably too high, because that is to an orbit that is probably lower than the 1150-1300km ones they are going to use for this.

However, for practical reasons enlarging the fairings can be more expensive than just flying more, so the limit of satellites per launch is probably set by how many they can fit into the standard F9 payload fairing. (1).

> If they wait for the BFR

They can't wait for very long, or they might lose their spectrum allocation. The contract requires them to put up half of their constellation in 6 years.

(1) page 36 of: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guid...
Is it anti-US or rather just not pro-US?

Arguably the biggest problem that Western democracy faces is apathy. So I think many of us take the opportunity to ride the wave of ire that China's policies illicit and attempt to funnel it into self-reflection. The West is an unaccounted bully on the global stage, the list of atrocities it has committed is both difficult to comprehend and stomach.

This does not at all placate China. Unchecked power in any context is bad news. Both the Chinese and Western populace are complicit. We are all heading for a tragically sobering wake up call.

If the only way for the Western psyche to understand its own pathology is by projection onto others, then so be it.
Hah! Wow that's a blast.

I used to work at a lab as an undergrad that worked on extremely similar topics, though the cancer link was more implied: http://research.fhcrc.org/shou/en.html

We had four yeast systems: Two cooperative yeast systems (exchanged metabolites the other needed to survive), and two cheater systems (needed those same metabolites to survive, but just took from the system and never gave back).

One experiment I assisted with was basically putting them all together at differing ratios and seeing what happened over time - the different systems released different fluorescent proteins, so we could measure their relative populations.

Common sense might dictate that the cheaters would rapidly outgrow the cooperators and eventually crash the whole system, but that actually didn't happen until very high ratios of cheaters.

The cooperative yeast systems somehow managed to extinguish the cheaters pretty consistently (all the experiments were repeated and done in triplicate). This happened even at fairly absurd ratios like 3:1 cheaters:cooperators. Unfortunately, I left before any of the follow-up work to determine why that was happening.

All that to say, it's fascinating how much cooperative systems really are favored in nature. Glad to see someone explicitly applying this idea to cancer.
It would be helpful to have a link to pricing accessible on the front page of the site. Not seeing this on mobile at least. Businesses aren't afraid to spend $100/yr or $10/month for a useful tool. It cost more to have a meeting than to impulse buy. Not seeing pricing info on the site is kind of a turn off. Maybe that's just me?
An even more extreme example: suppose someone on the sidewalk suddenly whips out a bazooka and shoots it at you. Does your failure to anticipate this contingency count as a failure?

"Failure" must be defined with respect to a particular model. If you're driving in the United States, you're probably not worried about bazookas, and being hit by one is not a failure, it's just shit happening, which it sometimes does. (By way of contrast, if you're driving in Kabul then you may very well be concerned with bazookas.) Whether or not you want to worry about drunk pedestrians and avoid them at all possible costs is a design decision. But if you really want to, you can (at the possible cost of having to drive very, very slowly).

But no reasonable person could deny that avoiding collisions with stationary obstacles is a requirement for any reasonable autonomous driving system.
Yes.

Sum types are essentially discriminated unions. Given a value of a sum type, it is possible to tell which alternative it is. This is commonly done through pattern matching.

Union types are a bit like C's undiscriminated unions in that you cannot tell what the actual type is. This makes them significantly less useful, and thus very few functional languages have them. Essentially when you get back a union type of A | B, you can only perform actions that make sense on both of them. This essentially means functions with a type variable (parametrically polymorphic) in typical functional languages. If we additionally have subtyping (which ML-like languages don't) this can be more useful.

Side note: things like the `typeof` operator in JavaScript is muddling the water a bit. But I'm talking about the theoretical perspective.
We in "the west" or whatnot need to watch out for the corporate equivalents of this, including credit scores, particularly coming from the financial sectors.

There's just a lot of opportunities these days, with all the data floating around and our increasing ability to calculate probabilities of arbitrary things about people from large enough datasets.

One side of this is disadvantage. Credit scores are an attempt to rank people by probability of default. A modern version of a credit scores would be even more black box. There are serious problems of fairness with this. You can probably calculate some usable credit score based on where you were born and to who.

Another side of such scores is the punitive side. This will affect your credit score, so stay inline. Essentially it's a lightweight proprietary justice system.

Insurance generally works in a similar way. Rental markets can too, and agents will aggregate blacklists which can then be used punitively. Policing is now using a lot more statistical techniques. Employers would probably like a commercial version of the systems police use.

Treating people as statistical objects in this way... Its dehumanising, it's discriminatory and it isn't rule of law.
I am on a plane once a week and refuse to check anything. I pack light and take it with me on board. Yesterday for the first time in like 3 years I checked a bag and it never made it. They changed gates on me 3 times in a span of 6 hours due to a storm that passed through DFW. It's not lost but it never made one of the gate changes. Lucky it just had some booze ( one of the reasons I had to check it, TSA Rules) in it and a few items that were not that important for my trip.

Rule 1 - Pack light and just bring a carry on if possible.

Rule 2 - If you are connecting try not to check any bags.

Rule 3 - If checking a bag make sure you tag it with your flight number, home address, destination address, phone number, and record locator number (this one is important).

I can't wait for the day of fully autonomous cars. Anything within 8-10 hours driving would replace flying for me. My trip was a 2.5 hour flight and took 12 hours to get there before it was all over.
Interesting! Guess I got “training lite”.

Here’s a third-party explanation: https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-are-the-penalties-for-hipa...
Hashcat running on a Amazon p3.16xlarge (8 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs) does 115 BILLION salted SHA-1 hashes per second. Based on that, most weak passwords are cracked in seconds, even if you have per user salts.
To use the example cited in the article, 5% licensing / royalty on the total cost on the phone may or may not be fair depending on the phone.

5% on a $500 phone is $25

5% on a $50 phone is $2.50

Switching to a fixed $25 fee makes it 50% on a $50 phone.

On phones of yore, even “smartphones” in the early-mid 2000s, the radio was still arguably one of the most important / expensive components. This may just be bias on my part on how terrible I thought Nokia and Blackberry smartphones (typically around $500 RRP) were though. My loathing of J2ME knows no bounds.
I really like Windows Phone. Microsoft killed it themselves though, by killing the project (I forgot the name) that made it possible to run Android apps on Windows Phone.

All their other mistakes are dwarfed by this single screwup. It's like they wanted it to fail.
It's also Iceberg Lettuce in English so the name works as well (also, "its name", not "it's name")
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It’s similar but not exactly the same feeling. It’s hard to describe. I don’t have an iPhone X though (which now has indeed a similar gesture to display the running apps carousel).

Another good idea in webOS was to display notifications at the bottom of the screen, I have relatively small hands and they were easily accessible: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zplVSI0M93o/hqdefault.jpg
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Spoiler alert - after “curing” blindness in a few patients this was demonstrated to be false.

There was a more recent article which I saw in the aggs recently, but Google offers up this one from 2011:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/health/research/26blin...
My only experience with Windows Phone was when I had to port a Cordova app (made with AngularJS) to it. It was a really bad experience for me. The terrible hacks to get the Angular app to even run in the webview on Windows Phone 8.1 was shocking and the performance took a big hit. Bundling and distributing a test version was so complicated without a huge enterprise setup that it was simply not feasible. Windows Phone 10 improved all of that a lot but there were still security hacks necessary for the app to even run. I can only hope developers which created native apps had a better experience than I did.
I guess they meant peace as the opposite of war?
Scroll up in the thread if you want more context. I only ready down and it was very confusing.

This conversation started because someone found out that customer service had access to their plaintext passwords. Starting the conversation at the point the link goes to makes it sound (to me at least) that this is just some hypothetical and there is no way they really store their password this way.

> Had the same issue with T-Mobile Austria. Apparently they are saving the password in clear because employees have access to them (you have tell them your password when you're taking to them on the phone or in a shop) and they are not case sensitive
Wouldn't the existence of semi-functional Android app compatibility just mean that developers abandon native apps entirely? It reminds me of a similar dilemma with OS/2. It could run Windows apps, so people stopped writing native ones.
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It's not like it fails on a 1d20 roll. Most unsound languages will only cause runtime problems if you are proactively trying to construct things which defeat the type system.
FWIW a friend of mine took 9 years off work. When he decided that he wanted to work again as a programmer it took him about a month to find employment. He's a smart guy though.
tech companies fault that people are moving away from south? I am curious what their explanation behind this is.
I used Windows Phone for several years. It was a refreshing take on a mobile OS, and to this day I still think it had the best touch keyboard with the most satisfying tapping sound effects.

When I finally did put it out to pasture, it was a breath of fresh air though; I really had no idea how much I'd been missing out on in terms of apps and features on iOS/Android, and how many Windows Phone irritations/limitations I'd just been putting up with.

That said, today I use only a handful of apps and barely if ever explore new ones - I mainly only use Firefox, Lyft, a mail client, a reddit client, and photos. I see similar 'app fatigue' among my peers, so I wonder if Windows Phone would have fared better in today's mobile market.
Python does have static typing nowadays :) Checkout Mypy, and also Dropbox's PyAnnotate, which helps statically type existing sources by recording types during runtime and then adding them to the code.
hey if you forget your password at least you can brute force it in less than an hour :)
They already have, at industrial scales.
> It is beacause human heights do not vary too much. No adult is 2x taller than another adult. (I just checked: tallest adult alive is less than 2x of shortest adult alive).

Sultan Kosen is 8ft 3in tall, while Jyoti Amge stands at 2ft 1in. https://i.imgur.com/YhL3bcn.jpg
> What color was your first car?

Why, it was b5142147-5720-421e-885e-aa032de362aa, of course.
T-mobile US came in later in the thread to clarify that they’re not storing passwords in plaintext. This is kinda fun, I guess, but arbitrating this with one arm of a multinational company over Twitter kinda yielded predictable results.
It’s not really Windows Phone’s fault that Cordova and Angular are so terrible.
Yes, totally. But given Windows's prevalence in businesses, there would've been many serious reasons for business users to use Windows Phone, even if few of the apps were native.

And on the consumer side, it was faster and leaner than Android at the time, especially on cheaper hardware. I bet Android apps would've slowed that down a bit but "I miss this one single app" wouldn't have been a reason to avoid the platform anymore.