skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LSD or any psychedelic, can make the user more sensitive the energies that we normally cannot sense. Non-humans seem more sensitive to these energies than we are, whether because their stronger senses allow them to notice what we cannot, or whether they have better intuition than we do, because they're not taught to subconsciously disregard it as fantasy, delusion or coincidence, etc.
The number might be right but misleading in a way. Fixed wing commercial aircraft tend to have a LOT of passengers, while helicopters usually have just a handful of them. I‘d wager the factor on average load is about 50-100x – which is then also the rate at which fixed-wing aircraft crash less per operational hour. Crashes will just kill many more people, which skews the stats.
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Honestly, I think this might be one of the only companies I know of recently where I've gone "huh, that seems like a low valuation". Is this a hype factor or do knowledgeable others feel similarly?
> iOS is not a monopoly in the mobile market.

Whether iOS is a legal monopoly does not depend on market share in a common descriptive market segment, but instead in whether it in fact has market (pricing) power; that is, an antitrust market is in effect defined by where substitution actually occurs with price changes, not on how media/analysts describe markets based on product characteristics.
That might be a pretty good option just from a protocol overhead standpoint.

Maybe there are good technical solutions to this that I don't know about, but I'm inclined to believe that a satellite could communicate more efficiently with a handful of high-throughput ground stations at once than it could hundreds or thousands of smaller ground stations that are continually connecting and disconnecting as they gain or lose line-of-sight. That's a lot of control messages to deal with.
You know, yes, this is morally bankrupt.

This “if I don’t do it, someone else will do it” attitude really just highlights how much more ethics training do we need to have in part of becoming a software engineer.

Try that attitude in the medical community, or civil engineering, or aviation engineering, or physics or chemistry, and see where that will get you.

Computer Science as a field hasn’t encountered consequences: https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/975545527973462016?...
> I'm in the wireless broadband industry, and no one I know thinks this space-based internet is a good idea. The rest of the world is going to small cells and they are going for a cell the size of a large city?

The funny thing is, 5 years ago you could have said: "I'm in the space launch industry, and no one I know thinks those reusable rockets are a good idea. The rest of the world is eking out every last bit of performance, and they are going to sacrifice payload capacity for this?"

The established industry does not always know the best way forward.
Sort of. They did take a deposit but that had been based on the assumption that the Falcon Heavy would do the flight with a Crew Dragon. Those plans have been cancelled as SpaceX no longer plans to use the FH for human flights to the moon (or anywhere, even orbit).

Instead they plan on using the BFR for that. I don't know what happens with that deposit that was made. Chances are it rolls over into getting whoever it was a flight on the BFR to the moon.
Been there. I wanted to leave but at the samd time felt like I was leaving my partner in lurch.
So I offered to stick around for a longer timeline of an year. This gave me a feeling of doing the best I can. And
helped me initiate conversation.

You can choose a timeline that suits both sides.
How do you get fat-shaming from "peer and parental encouragement"?
I'm definitely not the person to ask -- I don't particularly live in this space, and I'm fairly sure other people here do and could answer more completely, but:

If you see modern society in a democratic environment with the (somewhat naive) outlook that a large enough group of people have consented to be governed by the laws of the land, then it's really up to the law on when this is allowed/disallowed. It's more of a reflection of the people (or.. who's making the laws), and what they've decided -- if people decide that personal privacy is protected under law then so be it. If people decide police are allowed to break the law (at all) then so be it. If people decide that police are somehow above what would normally be a law when they have certain piece of paper (search warrant) signed by the local wiseman (judge) who is likely looking out for the best interests of the community and country at large, so be it.

Things get blurry really quickly, and this is a gross oversimplification of how any of these systems work, but it's how I tend to think about it. I sometimes think that it can't be any other way -- once a bunch of humans attempt to work together, there are some fundamental problems that just end up best solved this way (in terms of efficiency and other factors).
Between shipping modes, yes. Hence the name "Intermodal Container".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container
Similarly, some of those that never signed up have got Facebook storing data on them. Facebook knows what I look like, my email, birthdate and that’s just what I know. Would be interesting to see what’s there.
For a tiny bit more context, the military market is a limited. Defense has N number of launches they need, regardless of price. If SpaceX pushes prices down by 50%, demand will not double or triple, at least not fast.

The commercial market will respond to price. SpaceX is all about lowering the price of space-access, and growing the market. More flights. New use cases.

Elon has a great grasp of microeconomics, at least the parts he needs. Tesla was also clever in this regard.
It's likely that they might see the power lines' magnetic "signature" before everything else, as if the lines are highlighted or marked by a visual filter. Large congregations of birds on power lines preparing for a flight, however, is not a clear indicator for that. Perhaps power lines are just more convenient than searching for a tree large enough for the whole flock.
>The crypto that protects a Tor hidden service is much weaker than you can have in HTTPS

Do you have some sort of citation or source on that? I would love to read about a reputable cryptographer taking apart Tor's network security (if only so we can improve it).
I guess I disagree that "asshole design" is less bad than "dark pattern". The implication with the term dark pattern is that you are being evil. An asshole is just someone that's annoying or selfish, but being evil means intentionally malicious.
This is a long way to say “people don’t know what you want until you give it to them”. See famous Henry Ford quote.

If ‘validate your market’ means ask people what they want - that’s bad. If it means show a small audience a prototype - that’s good.
Plus growth in digital ads (and the duopoly that virtually all new digital spend goes to FB or Google)
> I heard Portuguese from South America and from Portugal are different - maybe that could be a reason?

I came here to say the same thing. Spanish from one country is "wrong" in another one. A lot of people doesn´t understand that it´s just not your flavor of the language. It´s almost the same that If I, that speak Spanish, commented how wrong is Portuguese because is similar to Spanish but not the same.

Maybe the mistake is to announce the course as Portuguese instead of, for example, "Brazilian Portuguese".
This device pranks the hardware to allow unlimited attempts at guessing the password.

I don’t know the details: is it as simple as grounding the “password entered incorrectly” pin? Or is it about injecting so much noise on a signal line that the message to increment the PIN attempt count never gets through? I don’t know.

So use a passphrase, not a PIN.
Nobody in the mobile phone industry thought that iPhone was a good idea for Apple (no keyboard = hard to do email, no business market; only one operator, with bad network that was inefficiently used by iPhone; too expensive for regular consumers - the competition is fierce, many others tried to get in and failed).

I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm saying you have no way of knowing whether you're wrong or not. Maybe something changed, something that will seem obvious in hindsight, and that makes all the difference in the world. As others said - the fact that SpaceX can launch those satellites much cheaper than anybody ever could, historically, may be the thing that changes the whole equation. Or maybe not - we'll see... but just because you are in the industry, that doesn't make it any more likely that you're right about this.
Edsger Dykstra wrote one of his many famous notes on project selection[1]. In his case, it was choosing projects for scientific research, but his guidelines are definitely worth a look:

"Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward."

"We all like our work to be socially relevant and scientifically sound. If we can find a topic satisfying both desires, we are lucky; if the two targets are in conflict with each other, let the requirement of scientific soundness prevail."

"Never tackle a problem of which you can be pretty sure that (now or in the near future) it will be tackled by others who are, in relation to that problem, at least as competent and well-equipped as you."

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EW...
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With that needlessly arrogant attitude you might be surprised to learn that there's lots of music, new and particularly old, rare material, that has never been available via streaming. Or might disappear one day due to ending licensing deals. I'd estimate that about 20-30% of my collection isn't available via streaming and that includes pieces I do not want to miss.

I understand that this isn't as important to everyone, but as a music enthusiast I refuse to rent my music collection, which I intend to build and maintain for decades to come.
>I sincerely cannot tell how this is different from the Music app that I already use on my iPhone other than the color-matching background stuff.

Especially since the Music app already does "the color-matching background stuff":

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-create-colore...
Yeah but that wasn't my argument... I didn't say that "someone else would do it so they should be that person", I'm saying that if you're good at taking apart washing machines, and someone's personal washing machine happens to have names and addresses of people who are considered government dissenters on it, the question of should you sell that knowledge to the government is up to you.

It varies by case, but if you try to delineate where it's OK and where it's not, it will be endlessly subjective -- in the face of that, I lean in the "do what you want" direction.

I don't think there is a single discipline that's unscathed in this discussion, it's just the level to which the morals are shared in each. In the medical community, "do whatever you can to save a life" is a pretty strong propellant, but also the medical system in the US (for one) is really fucked, and if the medical community is as ethically pure as you propose them to be, I get the feeling that wouldn't have happened.

[EDIT] - Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but when I think of "ethics" I just think of agreed-upon shared moral values. That is inherently up to someone or some group to decide, at some point, is it not?
All of the above features are available in the Music app -- and the last one is not an issue.
I don't doubt it, but beware of survivor bias. Several "advanced tech companies" don't exist anymore, and not taking them into account would be misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

"In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies which were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included."
> I don't have a country.

Is there a country in which spend the majority of your time? If yes, then that's your country. Don't like it? Move to another one or get politically active.

> That's a manmade concept that is forced upon me against my will.

Nearly everything in our day-to-day lives is a manmade concept – that doesn't make it any less real.
That's also one of the advantages of traveling, exploring, stepping outside your comfort zone, etc. New experiences can open you up to completely new ideas.
Something for your life insurance beneficiary to watch out for is a funeral director suggesting that they let the funeral home deal with getting the proceeds of that life insurance policy... for a "modest" fee.
And we can out him here? First, and last name? Maybe his addresses?

And after a few beers--it's all cool anyways?

(Might prevent another company from trusting him?)
Virtualization may be not save enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
The addressable market for space flight isn't as large as it will be yet. However, unlike software where coporations get a bye on this problem because the capital expense for consumers or others to adopt a given technology is low, the cost to companies to adopt technology like SpaceXs is really really high.

So far, we are not seeing a ton of new types of traffic that just would not be feasible where it not due to SpaceX's lower launch cost.

I think that will come, but it will come with the LEO based communication satellite fleet, and that is still a ways out.
I've been using Rails since 2.x, and very much interested with Elixir/Phoenix. Will I regret using Elixir/Phoenix for production?
I'd buy that domain and run something fun on it. No idea what but I'm sure there is a list somewhere.

But that would probably not end well for me. Or anyone associated with that domain.
Of course this isn't true.
What about protecting yourself and allies?
The parents statement assumed, that
1) child will more likely to be dysfunctional
2) grannies knew about it
Otherwise it does not make sense. I referred to the statement's inability to back either of these assumptions.
If a term has already been around for a long time, you're probably going to confuse more people by trying to change it than you'll help by making it more intuitive. Also, the use of darkness as a metaphor for evil has been common in English for centuries - think of the "Dark Side" in Star Wars, saying "Dark Lord" to mean Satan, Sauron or some other fiendish character, etc. And it shouldn't take much context to figure out whether someone is talking about deceptiveness or color when reading about user interfaces.

There are lots of terminologies that are even more obscure but still well-understood because they've been used for a long time:

- "core dump" (even though computers with core memory are only found in museums these days)

- "carriage return" (even though output devices don't have a moving part called a "carriage" anymore)

- "dialing a phone" (even though phones don't have dials anymore)

- The common use of a floppy disk-shaped icon to denote saving a file
Here's an alternative structure that I have been discussing with one of my clients:

1. Start-up defines token buyback rate in terms of revenue (not profit!)

2. Start-up sells tokens

3. At every defined interval (e.g., monthly), start-up updates revenue statistics and buys back tokens according to 1 and destroys them.

This means:

- it's an eternal bond if you never sell your tokens

- the actual interest rate payment is done via token buybacks, so it's also kind of a dividend

- token value is largely determined by future revenue of company

Some thoughts:

- Re 1: You have to scale the token buyback according to the number of outstanding tokens (otherwise the long-term holders benefit relatively more per time held than short-term holders)

- You might want to define a cap after which you will stop your buybacks (still haven't thought this fully through)

- You may want to start 3rd party audits after some predefined event (to increase trustworthiness), e.g., after reaching an annual revenue of X

- This is especially suited if you have some quantified business metric like "loans repaid", so you don't even have to define it in terms of company revenue.
Email Marketing solution from w3techs
I can understand Facebook knowing what you look like from pictures of you other people upload and your email from others connecting their Gmail address books. How will they know your birth date though?

(FYI, they probably know your phone number and who you made phone calls to, when, and the durations for the last 5 years)
It kind of just enforces the idea that security by obscurity isn't sufficient; ideally even despite deep knowledge of the internals, it should still be secure.

What would be sleazy though is if he deliberately discovered a bug and didn't report it to apple while working there, and then took it with him to this job.

But if he simply made use of his general knowledge of the system for more effective pentesting, I think its pretty much fair, and expected
LSD + "Energy perception" = Free Energy Movement wavies.
I don't really see what encryption gets me over deleting the events. The end result is the same - the event log is unusable for replaying this particular projection. Why take on the extra complexity of adding encryption? Immutability is just a means to an end. It has no value on its' own.
>Apple went from being a leader in the music-listening industry with excellent UX to trying to compete with Spotify and YouTube, who are frankly not even that great

They might "not even be that great", but they are where all the listeners and the money are.

Ripping, listening to non-streaming music, etc, is becoming rapidly a hobbyist thing for older generations and a minority of hipsters. The whole rise in music industry profits in the last years was in the streaming area, purchases and digital downloads are down.

So anybody touting some specialized device, that takes ripped or bought mp3s, etc, is mostly living in the past as far as the market is concerned.
Are you running into problems because of it? Or what's causing the anxiety?
Sure that has some value, but Angular and React brought in new ideas for their time.

I think the react 'view as a function of state' makes a ton of things easier to reason about, and will probably last for a while.
I've also heard there's no true Scotsman either...
That 15k(or 30k) box looks like it is slightly more polished than an arduino case straight from the likes of DigiKey.

It wouldn't look out of place in the 80's. The LEDs in particular would fit right in.

I would not be surprised to find an actual $1 micro controller driving this. Or to find that out the box wasn't really required at all – and that during development the software ran in a normal laptop, but they needed a physical product to charge the big bucks...
Lots of non-US TLDs run over US-based registrars.

There are some, like Iceland, which run their own registrar and aren't connected to the US. Which means they don't care what the US says until an Icelandic court agrees.
Do you volunteer to be the main pin, and thus provider, for them?
both touchID and faceID are ephemeral and expires after 24 hours (configurable, i think). Unless the device was obtained from the person immediately any hardware hack to bypass them won't work.
For a second there I was worried I gone crazy, thanks for confirming I am. :)
As the adtech data sharing usually doesn't fall under any other legal reasons that would allow you to use that data, you need to get consent for the new companies. If the user ignores your email and takes no action (doesn't opt in), you don't have their consent, and can't share their data with the new companies.

But IMHO that's the whole point, the legislation is a response to users saying that they don't really want such companies to exist - the business practice of taking my private data and sharing it to the world 500 companies will now require my explicit opt-in freely given consent (i.e no "we'll refuse service if you don't consent"). The expectation and intent of this law is that I and pretty much every one else will simply not provide that consent, and that business practice will become impractical and die out, as it should.
I've been playing with command line IPFS since the early days, but a menu bar IPFS app for my Mac? Now that's pretty damn sweet.

Kudos!
That is a thoroughly depressing playlist.

You avoid processed foods, but you add balsamico to your salad?

Balsamico is made by concentrating down grape juice through boiling, and then fermenting the resulting must for years. Isn't that processing, and far away from "whole food"?

And the oil thing is simply scaremongering. Of course oil is calorie dense, but as long as you keep that in mind, it's fine. The papers cited by the guy in the video you linked don't really back up your claims.

(Besides, something doesn't become true, just because there's a paper or two on it)
Cryptochromes? That sounds like Google launched a cryptocurrency. These birds are mining Cryptocurrency using Magnetic fields. LOL!
What about if that country especially helps other countries to fight for there freedom and protects them from imperialist view countries and with that saves lives in that countries?
Thin Film Coating System
That article is classic worth rereading.
In my view, lava layer antipattern is lack of architecture. A situation like this could helped by assinging single role to make architectural decisions and maintaining documents describing them.

Another aspect is despite good intentions, an urge to use newest techniques and disregard for bigger picture signals lack of seniority. Everyone loves to use latest tech, but it takes courage, experience and confidence to slowly improve big project without using "latest and gratest". You need someone really experienced in charge to do that.
Mining on Someone Else’s Dime: Mitigating Covert Mining in Cloud and Enterprise [pdf]