skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as if the market can magic gigantic competitive companies into existence. Amazon is a monopoly because of its huge scale. It happens - almost incidentally - to have an effective monopoly on a large sector of the self-publishing market. But that's a small part of a much larger online retail marketplace monopoly.

This means it can dictate terms to authors, and generally do whatever the hell it wants to. There is nowhere else that authors can go without losing significant sales.

How easy do you think it would be for a competitor to build a monopoly the size of Kindle from a cold start? How much cash and other resources would be required, and how long would it take even if the cash and other resources were available?

And after all that - how profitable would that competitor be compared to Amazon, and how likely to provide a reasonable return on IPO?
> First, we can't offer options/stock to contractors

Can you elaborate on what is keeping you from offering options to contractors? Sure, incentive stock options can only be given to employees but what about nonqualified stock options? They can be given to anyone.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NNgpuV...
It's an open question. In Scandinavia, they apparently scale fines based on wealth: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

It is important to be able to sufficiently deter people from committing various crimes/infractions, and this is one way to do it. In the US, we have "points" that go on your record, which means that rich people can't get speeding tickets that frequently — you eventually lose your license. And if you're going 25 over the limit, you can be charged with reckless driving.
The files are still encrypted at rest (using convergent encryption) to obscure their contents from the underlying storage service, but Apple holds the keys:

> Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents that utilizes SHA-256. The keys and the file’s metadata are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as S3 and Google Cloud Platform.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf (page 56)
What a tremendously rude comment. I can't believe you need so many hundreds of karma points to downvote what is clearly a non-contribution.
It is one of the purposes, yes. The idea being that you don't need build artifacts in containers which run the application.
Glad to see employers are breaking hiring norms
Not faster, lower cost. It means they get more total computation. I don't understand the objection.
Unless it's actually just got a counter that counts up from the last time it's been unlocked. Powering it down wouldn't save you, because it requires an unlock at boot anyway.
None of the above. Few engineers (or other individual contributors) have the operational maturity to work effectively remotely. Few managers have the skills to manage remote employees. Few employees have the insight and communication skills needs to work as effectively with remote colleagues as with those who are present. These issues magnify the larger and organization gets.
Others have mentioned this to some extent, but what I've found the most challenging is when a company tries to do both local and remote, but was not remote-first. People who are remote are de-facto second-class citizens by virtue of the fact that they aren't included in hallway conversations or casual meetings. It's incredibly hard to overcome that. Teams that started remote-first are already well-practiced in inclusion and remote rapport-building, so it's less of an issue for them. But people who have the opportunity to meet locally and build rapport locally tend to get lazy and their remote muscles atrophy over time, unless they are making a very conscious effort, or the habits have already been deeply ingrained in them over time.

I'd add that this culture-setting rolls down from management -- if they aren't setting a good example, others will falter and the remote-supporting culture will fall apart.

Things like payroll, taxes, infrastructure are all solvable today, IMO, with the right resources or tools.
It may be legal in LA or NY, but in Washington, it is not legal.

> RCW 46.61.202 says "no driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk or drive onto any railroad grade crossing unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection, crosswalk, or railroad grade crossing to accommodate the vehicle he or she is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles..."

Some people bring out the following passage to be in conflict with it, but I strongly disagree.

> RCW 46.61.190, which says drivers must stop at a marked stop line or "at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the roadway, and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard..."

The 'intersecting roadway' obviously refers to the crossing street, not the lane you want to turn into. Therefore, if you can see oncoming traffic without pulling into the intersection, then crossing past the white line, and waiting there is illegal.
Did this company have an automated process for dealing with abuse tickets? Usually you’ll get at least one abuse ticket before an IP is added to RBL, right? It shouldn’t come as a surprise when your IP is added to the list after you’ve had X number of abuse complaints about the IP.

Seems like a better (or at least, complementary) solution would be more proactive monitoring of the abuse@ email and prompt terminations of clients who generate too many complaints.
"which becomes uneconomical at least in the resale sense at some point in time, because the repaired car resale value is less than the cost of repair."

I think this is a common misconception about car repair economics. The question is not whether the repair cost is more than the value of the car, the question is whether the repair cost + sale cost is higher than the value of the repaired car. I like keeping cars that I know the history of, even if the car is worth <$2,000 and the repairs >$1000, because it is unlikely that I can get a $3000 car that I have as much confidence in.
libSystem is provided by Apple. The fact that libSystem does it does not mean you can do it without libSystem, as libSystem is the one and only supported way to do this.

> Do you know how often, if ever, Apple ever changes the syscall table other than to add to it?

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the answer is something other than "never".
I think it's the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" [1], which seems to be the official name of the Iran nuclear deal.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
IIRC it's a joke commonly attributed to soviet-era Russians.

That might be a clue as to the meaning....
don’t knee jerk on the throwaway blockchain comment. he clearly is using it as an example of decentralized systems. a quite poor example for his point, but still.
I highly recommend you try out Sqreen. https://www.sqreen.io/
It's basically newrelic for security. Takes 2m to add to your web app and it works super well. It blocked an attack automatically on our service recently!
It's gotta be Screen Junkies / Honest Trailers

Pacific Rim is a particularly entertaining one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc
I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You)
It seems Phillips is just an outdated but standards-complying head. No one wants to use it because there are better tools for the job these days, but it did serve its purpose once. Whereas Pozidrive just duct-taped a few updates to the old standard and decided to call it good rather than fixing the actual problems.

There's no reason to have kept the same form-factor for the two varieties, it just leads to unnecessary confusion. The fact that you can plug an incorrect driver into it is, by definition, broken. Like how USB and Ethernet jacks are the same size, so you can plug your USB stick into Ethernet (which luckily does nothing harmful) but you can't plug Ethernet into USB.

If you're going to update an old standard and that requires an incompatibility with the old standard, you should come up with an entirely new form factor to ensure people won't mistakenly use the old connector with the new technology.

Though to be honest here in the US I've never seen Pozidrive and I just checked, I have zero drivers for a Pozidrive screw. Phillips really is just that awful all by itself.
It doesn't require an extra party to do useful things across a protocol, where the discussion implies it does.
> google does this ALL the time. you just don’t read about it in the press. for example, they encrypt the inter-data center links

This has been well covered in the press as part of the NSA story. To the extent that the belief Apple getting more coverage is true, it’s because most people know tech companies protect themselves but Apple’s moves affect millions of people who otherwise would not have the resources to do so.
This is only tangentially related to the article, but...

I'm all for preventing nuclear proliferation, but how long do we realistically think we can maintain a world order where only a few states have nuclear weapons? This technology has been around for nearly 75 years. It's still a dangerous frontier, but far from a new one.
A hair dryer would likely work.
Many women didn't have a problem with not being able to vote in the 19th century, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem or any real conflict.

People temper their expectations to what they can get out of life. It's easier then a lifetime of disappointment.
The cause?
Only if they're mackerel and cabbage tacos, apparently[1]

1: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-nordic-diet-healthy-...
The problem is that areas that are affordable enough to create more, cheap housing are not near the services that the homeless need and use. I'm in Denver and housing in the city is somewhat pricey but there is tons of land just outside the city that could be developed but you'd be hard pressed to claim that would help homelessness because all the services they use and people they accost are downtown
This is not the Notch you are looking for.
I'd also be interested in the article if you publish one, but I don't see any email in your profile. I believe only the `about` section is displayed publicly.
You have yet to give a valid justification to your "should."
Yes it's huge problem to face, but I never understood this response to immortality/transhumanism. The alternative is, as far as we know, eternal oblivion for you and everyone you love. That, as opposed to using our rationality and creative powers to at least attempt to solve the societal problems that immortality presents.

People often further respond with something like: "I don't know about you, but I'd prefer that me and my loved ones die - the universe would get boring after so long". Of course, the vast majority of these people would still yearn for life even on their death beds at age 97 - and if technology and medicine allowed us to have sound minds and bodies by that age, the yearning would be even greater.

Who wants oblivion when eternal adventure could await us?
Deep Learning for Electronic Health Records
Close enough, "justified comma partitioned ordinal array" has just about as much inherent meaning as "joint comprehensive plan of action"

https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/iran/jcpoa/
What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human?
> This is clearly total and utter crap, as anybody who has spent any time on Amazon knows.

"Today's Deals" is absolutely infested with brand new products with tons of suspicious reviews, and has been for the last year. Even just checking the date from the first to the last review (e.g. one week) reveals problems for a product with 100+ reviews.

> I don't see any easy answers to Amazon's problems.

There's no "easy" answers, but user reputation is a good start. Right now every review is worth the same as every other review, but looking at the data available we can rate reviews:

- Did the verified buyer actually receive the item before review?

- Is the reviewer's account brand new?

- What does account activity look like outside of reviewing (e.g. Do they browse products? Shop? Check order history? How many non-buy/non-review interactions do we have for every review posted?)

- How did they get back to the product to review it (e.g. direct link? third party site? order history?)

- Did they use a coupon for a discount on the product? Is that coupon posted on Amazon? What % was the coupon? If it is 90% are they even a verified buyer?

- Was the shipment tracked? If not how do we know they even received anything?
Chimpanzee calls are communication but not conversation
xml2 -- for simple tasks.
> The truth is that FSF is primarily a political organization.

So what? That doesn't matter. What part of the FSF[0] or GNU[1] project suggests that abortion is an issue relevant to their mission or goals? Why is abortion a software freedom issue? How about we say RMS does adopt it. Does that benefit the other stated goals of the organizations? How?

What happens when the FSF runs a fund raiser, and they hear, "I'd love to give to your organization because I support free software ideals, but I can't because I disagree with your stance on abortion." Does that benefit free software? What happens when they're working with legislators on bills to re-enforce net neutrality, and the legislator says, "I'd love to help you on net neutrality, but I can't. My constituents are overwhelmingly pro-life, and I've gotten hundreds of voters contacting me since Fox News ran a piece on how your organization is pushing this bill to promote pro-choice laws. The National Right to Life and National Pro-Life Alliance have been calling to lobby against this bill as well. I'm sorry, but it seems that people think net neutrality is a pro-choice issue." Does that benefit free software?

So, is the FSF and GNU willing to sacrifice their software freedom goals in order to further pro-choice goals? Should they be?

0: https://www.fsf.org/about/
1: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html
I assume so. Otherwise GreyKey could masquerade as a pair of EarPods to get authorized simply by plugging in.
This is as designed. All these companies ban or block users without explanation because their hand is forced. If they reveal the detailed reasons, or even make it possible to discover why, they become wide open to gaming. It’s a losing battle to begin with and keeping every advantage (secrecy) is critical.

Unfortunately.

It falls into the “this is why we can’t have nice things” category.
Note that the author is actually a Forbes Staff member. It's not _just_ a blog post.

But in general, definitely look closely at the forbes.com/sites articles.
Any chance mapzen would open source the code used to make metro extracts? The formats your team had to offer were so much nicer than working with raw OSM data
There is some dystopian crud in here in just the few minutes I've watched.

- Google will write your emails for you so you don't have to. Is this Gmail user writing me an email or is Google? I no longer know.

- Google Assistant can now impose Google's parenting values on your kids by making them say please. Combine with the mandatory Chromebooks in my school district for full-on indoctrination from childhood.

I am so uncomfortable with this. All the people cheering for it is even worse.

EDIT: HOLY CRUD, they're unleashing their AI to call and harass people on the phone.
Am i right in thinking the source code will not be available for this?
Dichotomous thinking: the error at the root of science denial
Your assumption is totally incorrect sudhirj. Wirize uses direct charges trough Stripe Connect, so we never touch/hold customers money.
If you want, check it out: https://goo.gl/vpvBEQ
A Big Concern in Norway, a Country Now Ruled by Women: Male Anger
Cyber Battle Fatigue Is Real – So What Should Organizations Do?
According to this (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303) everything is encrypted at rest on the server, except for mail.

Everything isn't end-to-end encrypted, is that what you are talking about?
If he was dead serious, he's an idiot. There was never any proposal to ban all usage of the word 'abort' in the sense of 'bring to a premature end because of a problem or fault' or as a noun meaning 'an act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise'.
You'd think that Amazon would have some technology similar to FakeSpot's by now, but I'm not convinced that they do. I bought a product that had the special "Amazon's Choice" label on it that turned out to be a dud. I looked up the product on FakeSpot just now, and FakeSpot (correctly, I believe) identifies the reviews on that product to be unreliable (grade level "C"). Just a single anecdote, but it's clear to me that there's a ton of room for improvement on Amazon's part.

Another strange thing about the "Amazon's Choice" label is this: I've seen a product get that label in part due to a low number of returns ... but the seller doesn't accept returns! That should be a con, not a pro.

As you can probably tell, I have not been happy with the results of following Amazon's product choice advice.
If I understand iOS correctly, the reboot will cause the data partition to be strongly encrypted -- so that's worse.

But maybe the device can be tricked into time passing reaaally slow?
Qualcomm Plans Exit from Server Chips
Kind of a funny comment given the sibling comment noting that this is Apple catching up to a long-existing Android securitt feature, file transfer over USB requires first unlocking the device.
We don't need to create cheap housing near homeless services. We just need to a) create a lot more housing and b) make sure some of it is affordable. It doesn't necessarily have to be in a particular area.

If we create enough housing, it increases affordability. If people don't wind up homeless to begin with because astronomical housing prices are no longer one of the issues complicating their lives, they don't need homeless services.
Believe whatever you want, but a legitimate interest to match ip to company on a corporate targeted page is well within bounds.

And since you don't know what you're talking about, ok as per previous discussions with ICO.
I feel like I could type these robotic responses as fast if not faster than it takes Google to "help" me.
Wait. Isn't JScript a supported COM Automation script for the longest time? Excel is a COM Automation host. JScript just like VBA can run inside it and access pretty much all its API.
A very important contributor to good call quality is good audio hardware.
People reflexively believe lots of things. Some of those beliefs are more defensible than others. In the 1950s, almost everyone would've said that interracial marriage was "inherently NOT good." Would that belief have justified censorship?

To use a more contemporary example: I've been pretty frustrated with the evolving liberal American consensus on colonialism. I think lots of people (especially people pulling the levers at Google and Facebook) would say that colonialism is "inherently NOT good." But that's wrongthink. As an English-speaking person of Indian descent, I think colonialism was, on the net, quite a boon for the subcontinent in the long term. Americans easily reach the opposite conclusion because they've never had to think too hard about the problem or had to consider the counterfactual.

The universe of things people have strident beliefs about is a lot broader than the universe of things people are justified in having strident beliefs about. Which is why the whole idea of censoring based on content is a morass that Google and Facebook should not be stepping into.
Free Webinar –  Migrating to Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB
When your server is down and you need to ssh into an arbitrary 5 minute wait is going to frustrate you.

You don't really need fail2ban at all. Just don't log failed password attempts. Key access only, no one is going to get in.
How Voxels Became 'The Next Big Thing'
0. bandwidth

There’s no solution as good as yelling across the room or walking past the desk. chat is a poor substitute for all the reasons everyone in this boat knows.

The best way to get this to work is like that one company did (saw it here on HN): have everyone in the company work remote for a week.
Ghost in the locks – Hotel room locks can be hacked
Agreed. I've worked for a remote-first company, and another company where for a while I was the only remote employee. The difference has been tremendous.

I'm sure there are some special circumstances where being the only remote worker on a team works out ok, but my experience has been horrible.
Prisma now supports Postgres
It also depends on the business somewhat, but actually having an office you can invite outsiders to (investors, prospective clients) can be an indicator of success. Truthful or not, it's the perception that counts.
Good piece. Going on his info, it's amazing what a change 20 to 30 million people can effect when given the right tools.
Google is very clearly all about the money as well. It's just that they understand there is no money that will come from the "customer". Instead, it will all come from other corporations that are seeking to leverage the relationship Google has established with you. I think it is healthy to remember that companies aren't some do good no matter what it costs them. At the end of the day, all companies are trying to make money the best way possible. Frankly, I am glad that there is both Apple and Google. I think they both do well while making money.
You usually don’t even need that. 99% of the time someone posting flame bait like that will be comparing unlike things - slower CPUs, worse displays, etc. Equivalent hardware tends to be very close because markets usually do work efficiently.
Playing with the Context API in React 16.3
I go out of my way to avoid banal phrases in my emails.
On-Chip Network for Training of Deep Convolutional Networks on Manycore Systems
The Wavenet assisted new voice got me thinking.

I need an Alan Watts voiced Google assistant / Siri.
I suppose the moral of the story is that if you have enough of the judiciary in your pocket, then being a banned terrorist organization does not preclude you from eventually winning a minority government, and staging a coup?
It's hardly surprising. GoDaddy has been doing shady tactics for years, the first thing I do when I get a client that uses them is to migrate elsewhere.
Aye, I do not agree with that idea
To be honest Gmail auto-replies have been amazingly on point for me. The reply options they give me in quick, transactional emails are generally _exactly_ the sort of reply I would have typed out, so they save me a lot of time.
The “Open Source” in CockroachDB
Looks like the Google I/O keynote has turned into the Google AI keynote.
Sadly, the more common practice seems to be adding the entire IP blocks of known server/cloud providers to blacklists.
Yes, thanks for the warning about Bloomberg spin.

On a related note, Peter Thiel sounds like a strange and fascinated man. I would love to read an unauthorized biography or some deeper profiles on this guy and his business ventures.

New Zealand seems like a good enough place to watch America burn...
Gun ownership in the US is a constitutional right, not a human (fundamental) right.

Other rights in the US Bill of Rights are more globally accepted as inalienable human rights in all/most jurisdictions.

And why would banning assembly videos on a private platform considered going against the 2nd amendment?
No kidding.. their demo gifs look like an April Fools joke to me.