skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perhaps you're simply not the target audience.

that said, this seems like it could potentially be a thought-terminating cliché:

> The problem is that complex topics are complex.
Can you disable the car tracking?
Nope. Moved back from China almost 2 years ago.
> The fact is that there are alternatives (for both consumers and developers) to the iOS app store. They don't get products from or on iOS, but they can still buy and sell comparable products.

But that's usually always true: 90s era Windows users had alternatives in the Macintosh and Sun workstations, and Monopoly-era AT&T users had alternatives in CB radios, etc.

That explainer you linked even uses language that excludes some competitor products: "Microsoft was found to have a monopoly over operating systems software for IBM-compatible personal computers" [emphasis mine].

That is a fair statement, but as far as the FTC is concerned that's probably not enough....

> By the reasoning of your stament [sic], all that's needed to establish a 100% monopoly is a sufficiently narrow definition of market.

I don't think the reasoning in my statement is sufficient to identify a monopoly, and it wasn't indented to be such. What I was trying to communicate is that you can't disprove a monopoly based on comparing marketshare numbers, and the actual determination is probably rather complicated and requires a lot of expert judgement.

I think Apple's business practices warrant careful and continuous antitrust scrutiny. If they're a monopoly, the form that takes will probably be significantly different than the one taken by 90s-era Microsoft.
Moderate inflation is easily factored into repayment terms. What inflation penalizes is keeping your money under your mattress. This creates demand to use money now which creates economic activity.

> a lot of the interest in Bitcoin is a direct reaction to decades of soft-money policies by the world's governments

Bitcoin came from and was nurtured by monetary cranks but they are a small fraction of why people are interested in it lately. Today it's an investment asset or a means to do something illicit like dodge currency controls or launder money.
Yes. Trading a constant distress of fear of paranoia for a chance of invasive harm is rational for some cost-benefit measurements.
Publication Year : 2014

Previous HN Discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006293

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8775772

"The Morning Paper" has a nice summary

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/29/machine-learning-the-hig...
I can't find a simple list of his eight losing campaigns. I can see that he worked for Kerry in 2004, Gore in 2000, McGovern in 1972, Ted Kennedy in 1980, Bob Kerrey in 1992, and both Gephardt and Dukakis in 1988, but that only adds up to seven. It turns out he also worked on Ed Muskie's campaign in 1972.

To be fair, though, between the years of 1972 and 2004, the only two winning Democratic candidates were Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Yes, you're basically wrong about those things, some more than others, but on the balance, wrong.

You're not displaying any willingness to study the basics of the 350 years of scholarship that supports the position that you so strongly disagree with. Believe it or not, I do actually understand the objections to this narrative (and while there are compelling points raised, I just don't think they're powerful enough to overturn the fundamentals), because understanding things means studying both sides in good faith. Factual knowledge does not "democratically rise to the top" of Quora. It's an interesting platform for surfacing alternative points of view and anecdotes, but we're some distance from actual knowledge.
These Wired articles that are clearly co-ordinated with product and redesign launches are starting to wear on me.
How has the quality fared over that period?
You should probably consider that there are plenty of geeks on Facebook and Snapchat and likewise 'dross', and that some of them even also take photos of their dinner and children. There are legit geeks in Generation Z. Probably, I don't even know what that is. Everything after X is just riding our trenchcoat-tails as far as I'm concerned.

One of the things the web has done is disassembled the social and cultural barriers separating subcultures. "Geeks" and "people with lives" and "young people" and "people who use social media" are not separate and isolated sets, they do overlap.

And sure, there are people creating their own forums. And people creating their own forum software. Both get posted here from time to time. But as with the anime community, we really need to get past the elitist attitude that one cannot be a "true" geek, nerd, whatever and still interact with the mainstream. At this point that's like saying you can't be a science fiction fan unless you only read books published before 1975.
'Shocking' level of sexual harassment at music festivals
Indeed. Reporting basket size without also reporting return volume is sloppy at best, deceptive at worst.
They stopped accepting bitcoin for good reason, not hostility. Why would anyone ever want to pay in bitcoin with the massive transaction fees.
> It’s only about sending your location when you specifically ask for help in an emergency situation.

No, it's not. Go back and re-read the comment I was responding to. Pay particular attention to the following passages:

> Consider how much real-time location info — and live HD video streams — can 1 mobile phone produce, and how close to none of that is available in an emergency situation.

> Consider how 911 is but one service, and that this is a worldwide problem. And that smartphones are worldwide too, and that there’s hundreds of millions of them.

The GP is specifically talking about expanding the capability beyond just location and beyond just 911, and talking about this as if it were a foregone conclusion that this will be an unalloyed good. That is what scares me.
Or for a minimum starting point, the accusers should be obligated to compensate the victims for lost profits, as well as time cost. The current system of penalty-free reckless false assertions is insane.
Yeah, endgame is a non-starter without a large guild. I still miss doing Molten Core 40 man raids. Such a rush at the time.
Everyone has certain advantages, one of the keys to creating value is to leverage those.

The public & press love rags to riches stories, so even someone without any of the traditional 'advantages' can leverage that for publicity, fundraising, etc. And many independently wealthy business-people have.
I'm sorry if this is "too political" for HN - something this outrageously inhumane merits an exception, I think. This needs to be stopped.
One special cell can revive a flatworm on the brink of death
Microsoft Employees Up in Arms Over Cloud Contract with ICE
At the very least do it for major accounts (4k hours a year). It's pretty ridiculous that pulling in hundreds of dollars won't get you even a 30 second review.
Anaconda: State of Data Science 2018
RPN calculators are simple stack machines.
I wonder if negative campaigning also plays a role. Candidates like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore have faltered due to the cumulative effect of years of attacks, while candidates like Obama who appeared out of nowhere were more successful.
COBOL salaries and contract rates aren't very high.
Except that they're often (usually?) one and the same. If the opinion was popular, it wouldn't be minority.
Managed private cloud - compatibile with AWS APIs, however by default completely isolated from the Internet and other DC tenants. That includes on premises, dedicated DC cabinets, cages, rooms, staff etc.
Lots of people can get 25,000 and anyone can get that amount if there was a billion dollars payoff at the end.

Millions of people started a business with at least 25,000 and there are only a few billionares, most lost it all but some made a living and some got richs.
Love to know what kind of tools/techniques/processes were used to generate such beautiful graph/animations....
I'm curious as to the design decisions behind the THTML[1]. Some of them, like the double or triple arrow tags seem like they are going to be confusing in practice. It becomes a constant question or intent or typo (at least in my mind).

[0] https://tht.help/reference/thtml
> email in profile.

Nope. This is almost never true when someone writes it on HN.
I've been enjoying the g305 without the battery cover. It's really light with a AAA lithium ion.
> Well, I had in mind something more useful and realistic, not less; namely teaching assembly in normal Linux environment.

This might sound odd, but as someone who's done some assembly programming under Linux, it usually isn't different enough from C to be worth the effort. Even if you eschew libc, the kernel APIs are still fairly high-level and, more to the point, there are no new concepts relative to C: You have pointers and pointer arithmetic, you have fixed-size buffers, you have ints and doubles, and the rest is just syntax.

The exception is doing something like a really tight high-performance kernel using SIMD opcodes, which necessarily involves learning a lot about the specific SIMD hardware and data organization to optimize cache use and other details C can't express.
The world does not care about the minutiae of US's internal political system. In the case of Paris, an agreement was signed and not respected.
For those interested: nowadays Linux has support for what is called the EFI Stub boot, which allows the kernel to be booted directly by UEFI. So in a sense steps 1-3 are rolled into the kernel, and the kernel acts as its own boot loader.
We've become so used to a complete lack of anything remotely resembling morality from our leaders that we've started to believe that good behavior is literally impossible. Utopian. It is not. To ask for a higher standard than abject failure is not utopian. It's no more than I would ask of any 6th grader. Sociopathic behavior is learned and it can be unlearned.
The cost of shipping one item is almost the same as the cost of shipping a stack of items. As long as she's keeping a purchase, the additional cost of shipping+ partial return is small and baked into the pricing model.
Baidu open sourced new deep learning algorithm for pathology analysis
That's because nowadays we judge people by the size of their bank account. We equate people's value to economic value, somehow what you do hasn't any value if you can't create wealth from it.

We even talk about the "net worth" of someone, like if their money what "what they're worth".
I'm (somewhat) sorry to pick on you for this, but this is something I've always found annoying/fascinating. I'm a fiction writer and a technical writer, and in both cases, I'm routinely advised that it's good to turn subject matter experts -- SMEs -- not only for things that I know I don't know, but for things that I think I know but might not have a complete understanding of. If we want to know what it's really like to be a fighter pilot, we should talk to fighter pilots, or at the very least read first-hand reports from them. We generally accept that this is true for nearly all fields of interest, not exclusively professions: if you want to learn about concentration camps or life in a cult, for instance, talk to or read first-hand reports from those who have.

Yet, somehow, when it's suggested that the SMEs on what it's like to be a woman software engineer would be women software engineers, or to be a woman founder in tech would be women founders in tech, suddenly "hey, I'm a man who's been in tech for a long time and I've never seen it" is good enough.

To me, it seems intuitively obvious that they may have insight into the challenges they face that you and I don't, and when we hear multiple women founders in tech talk about the sexism they faced that you and I by definition would not, we should consider the possibility that they know what they're talking about.

Crazy, I know.
> only the people at the bottom make sense as the people
> to sue, as when you control distribution carefully like
> this, they are the only injured party.

Here's the case for manufacturer's standing: the manufacturer (app developer) might argue that the distributor's (Apple's) monopoly on distribution hurts them just as much if not more since the inflated price means they're selling less quantity than they would in a non-monopolized marketplace. Even though they technically set the price, having to pay Apple's rake on the App Store means that they must inflate their prices by at least 30% to bring them back to the price they'd otherwise sell at in the absence of the distributor.

In any event, I thought the case was a dog on the merits. How can Apple possibly be a monopolist, despite their 100% share of application sales on iOS, since the relevant market is for app-capable cell phones -- not iOS. Plenty of folks, the majority in fact, vote with their dollars by buying Android devices.
Okay, it's a fair point that '(lock) xchg' can potentially be faster than 'lock cmpxchg'. I wouldn't say it's really an ideal spinlock, because under real loads there are other considerations. That's why the Linux kernel uses queued spinlocks, for example.

For various reasons I still suspect that some other factor is at play, but I also don't really know how to tease that out. Maybe there are some performance counters one could look at, but I'm just speculating.
Companies all over the world are shipping and selling these clothes all over the world, from boutique websites to huge department stores. An individual could try to compete, and might succeed, but this isn't an undiscovered niche.
I can't believe I actually have to explain this, but the difference is you're going to a barbers that don't take appointments and expecting them to honour one. If you want that kind of service then you go to a barbers that offer appointments.

It's really not a hard concept to grasp but after reading your other comment about how you love to talk confidently about subjects you no nothing about, I'm starting to question if this is one of those subjects. Perhaps you don't even have kids at all and this is just another one of your attempts at trolling which you also described enjoying.

In any case, the real crux of the matter isn't what you consider logical but rather what the generally agreed social etiquette is. So you can argue until you're blue in the face but if it's not how barbers currently work then that simply isn't how barbers currently work. Period.
So best keyboard I've ever used is on the IBM Selectric typewriter. In terms of visceral feedback the IBM Model M is closest to the Selectric which it apes; classic Selectrics had very positive aural and mechanical feedback but not quite as much key force or travel as the Type M if I recall correctly.

But honestly "best" keyboard is a minefield fraught with fond memories of computing. Getting to spend hours standing in a Radio Shack clacking away on a Model II or Model III writing basic? Great keyboard. Getting to play Star Trek on an ASR-33 dialed into a CDC mainframe? GREAT keyboard. Getting to the computer lab first before anyone else and getting the TEK-4104? Oh man I can still feel those squishy keys and remember the screen flare from pressing clear. Great flipping keyboard.

Getting to the VT-52 with its buzzy relay buzz with every pressed key or the glorious quacking clack of the VT-100? GREAT KEYBOARDS. And of course getting my very own ADM 3 A terminal when I was learning UNIX? Ermagerd. I'll be alone in my bunk... with my keyboard.

Still love the Model M of course but with the rise of the cube farm they're no longer viable. I miss everyone having an office and quiet space to work far more than I miss any particular keyboard and as you can tell I really like my keyboards.
We're talking about enforcing an existing law against illegal immigration (which every company has a concept of) and not murdering our own citizens so the two are in no way comparable.
> A couple of seconds later they will send more accurate GPS coordinates for most calls

I wish my day-to-day GPS initialised and obtained an initial fix that quickly. Usually it needs at least five minutes, sometimes over an hour.

From an earlier job I vaguely remember that a NavStar cold-fix requires two or three minutes at a minimum with optimal conditions.
Logitech MX518 (mouse).

I bought it for gaming as I was using a 400DPI free Dell mouse I had, I didn't realise what a difference it could make. They sadly stopped making it, I emailed Logitech pretending mine had broken to see if they had any internal stock but I got nowhere. I bought a Logitech G400S for work which is pretty close, but it's not the same.
GitLab GCP Migration Project
true, but in antitrust terms the developer is still setting the price. Not Apple. It's the developer who makes it a free / freemium / $0.99 / $999.99 app. That pricing decision seems to be responsible for the circuit split.
FYI, IIRC G Pro is currently on sale for $29.99.
When I first saw magnetic markers proposed, it was sometime between 1999 and 2005.
I contacted Logitech twice when it was discontinued, claiming mine was faulty, just to see if they'd let on they had spare stock - they didn't.
J-c-m/ubnt-letsencrypt: Let's Encrypt Setup Instructions for Ubiquiti EdgeRouter
Detain them as a family, then. Separating children, some infants, from their parents, is cruel and unusual. The stated aim of the policy is to be so abominable that it acts as a deterrent. You okay with that?
Think about how many enterprise-level software apps have been developed in Java and will need to be maintained for years to come. Think about how much of such software is being developed now as you write this.

While I like Python for its seeming simplicity it lacks some nice architectural paradigms that Java has employed for years - think Inversion of control, or data access frameworks hibernate or ibatis.

Python is in a somewhat of an infancy stage to support that type of enterprise-level architectural paradigms.

For OP, if you want to get into machine learning domain then Python is definitely the language of choice.
What if you publish web cartoon and nobody knows about it?
Wear what you like.

"I mean, really, how often do you look at a man's shoes?"

--Shawshank Redemption.
HHKB Type-S and Logitech G703.

I absolutely love the Topre switches on HHKB Type S because of the silence it provides and the how it feels to your fingers.
Amazon: Get Out of the Surveillance Business
There were alternatives to Windows on IBM-compatible PCs, but MS actively worked to block them in the marketplace. MS also actively worked to block competitors who would break platform-centric software via things like (as Netscape was after) creating a platform-agnostic software delivery platform.

It's also important to note that the FTC doesn't actually care about monopolies in all cases. They care about monopolies that arise from abuse and anti-competitive behavior or that are used to abuse consumers and competitors.

Show that Apple is in a monopoly position (as a player in the mobile hardware/software business space) and that they got there by way of anti-competitive behavior. Or that they've abused this position to artificially control pricing and other things. That's what needs to happen to establish an anti-trust case against them.
When Children Say They’re Trans
The GP is me. :)

I apologize if my original comment was not clear, or could leave itself open to a different interpretation.

I really did mean that when someone in an emergency situation needs help, presently, they do not have the ability to send their location, a text message, an image or a video.

That’s it — I was only referring to emergency situations, and anything that I am discussing would be user-initiated.
> However it is a problem that has to be solved if you want the best outcomes.

Or you could invest some more and get a system that does not act crazy sometimes.

Yes, assuming the car company is honest, this is a sub-optimal strategy. But blind trust is not an optimal strategy. There are plenty of costs born out of lack of trust, and this is just another one.
in the short term this is annoying, but in the long term I think this is really great. it's almost as if the market is pushing people to adopt decentralization technologies, which would have been difficult to get adoption without this type of push.
How do I find an entry-level software position?
Recent CS grad here.

Is it me or have entry level positions almost completely dried up in the software industry? Almost everything that I find requires 2+ years of experience. I apply anyway, but needless to say I'm not having any luck finding a job.

Am I approaching the job hunt the wrong way or something? I'm beginning to worry that I'll never find any sort of desirable employment simply because there are hardly any reasonable positions for me to pursue.

P.S. I'm looking for jobs in and around Chicago (this may be contributing to my lack of luck finding a job, but I don't think that's the case).
Four Cognitive Mistakes about Blockchain
>in English-speaking North America, it's generally taught that "America" is the country and "North America/South America" are the continents

aaaaaand you don't see any problem here, no?

Let's try again. With that logic, there'd be no problem with Germany calling itself "Europe":

"What's the problem? When we say 'Europe', we mean our home country, a large part of the region known as 'Western Europe', and disjoint from 'Eastern Europe' - everybody here is befuddled by why the Greeks are upset! The Austrians are totally on board with it, by the way."
It seems we’ve reached the limit of the threading as there is no more “reply” option.

I’m open to discuss what your are saying, but you’ll need to respond to the questions I’ve asked vs. just saying “everything you are saying is wrong” without proving any evidence to the contrary, it’s probably a waste of everyone’s time.

It’s clear you disagree with me, and if you’d like to be on record disagreeing with me, you’ve accomplished that. Or perhaps you’d like to virtue signal to other capitalists, etc. all fine and I don’t particulary find fault with that.

However it will take more if you wish to convince me that I am “wrong” than mere saying so.
The ContentID system seems to be going far beyond what DMCA requires

AFAIK the content id system was built to monetise works on YouTube. The system must know where a song or a video is being included to direct advertising money to the original author if s/he wishes to participate in that scheme.
Mech Ujala
Wouldn't it rather just be UEFI taking place of steps 1-3?

The kernel becomes a PE binary instead of an ELF one, but I get the sense that it's basically the same thing...?
"Just do <insert current trendy buzzword here>." has been a common response for decades to any problem.
Ask HN: What value has going to tech conferences provided for you?
I've been wondering if I should start going to more in my city or not.

I've tried going before and I felt like it was mostly a lot of people there who just wanted to feel part of the industry and network. I did not meet a lot of people working on interesting projects or attempting new things. This is fine, this is good for inclusivity. I'm just not sure if being there was a good use of hard-earned money and limited time when I have work to do and projects I want to work on.

I've met a girl recently who graduated from General Assembly said 'yeah, he's so and so from Google and he follows me on Twitter' after they briefly met at a conference. She was bothered that I didn't find it a big deal, that I wasn't impressed by it. Is this really a big deal if a person follows you on social media anymore? Especially if you are not building stuff and/or posting interesting content?

I'm not Elon Musk or Steve Jobs or _____ myself. I'm pretty ordinary compared to them, i'm a n00b in the HN world too. I'm not ashamed of that, I'm trying to learn more all the time from people a lot more experienced than me.

I'm rambling. Please enlighten me if I am missing out on big opportunities for learning and expansion.