skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It drives me up a fucking wall when clients want iPads for their retail spaces. You are locked into their limited form factors and premium pricing for a device that will likely be locked down to extremely limited functionality. Android tablets come in any size and shape for half the price and are easier to manage from MDM software. You can also just buy large touchscreens with USB ports that can plug into whatever. They all look the same when they're anchored to a case or kiosk.
Regardless of your cherry-picking judgements that support your narrative, the fact that this in the supreme Court, and the fact that we're debating it on HN point to an uncertainty in legality.

The structure of the free market doesn't insulate monopolies or illegal items from being traded under the guise of choice. So don't keep pining on the existence of Android.

If you've lived under a rock, Apple banning an app from the app store can often be the death knell for the publisher, especially small ones. Stop pretending Apple isn't anti competitive on the app store
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I believe that understanding this makes us less jealous of people who seem "undeserving," and also helps us make better decisions in our own careers.

oh no, now I'm just jealous they were able to convince people of the value of their vapid bullshit.
Ask HN: Which industries, domains, or programming languages will be top earners?
It seems the trend is to dismiss these discoveries by saying it was somebody trying to push negative reputation on their brand or get back at them. How do you go about directly proving the individual bought clicks and not just inferring based on the patterns of their followers?
Zero-page instructions also helped alleviate the problem of not having many registers.
That game seriously scared me as a 13 yo boy at the time. I loved it

I remember playing for hours then standing up and immediately falling over and having to just lie on the floor for a few minutes...
On projects I do solo dev, I do integrated tests because after a while the project becomes big enough that trying to cover all paths takes too damn long. My current project got to be about 70% testing/30% code and I was miserable. I stopped all coding and moved to e2e tests and now I'm back to 95% coding / 5% coding and quite happy. Most companies surprisingly don't care about full integration tests, they talk about it but are quite happy to have fingers on the keyboard and mouse pecking and clicking away.
> Imagine!

I am, and it scares the hell out of me. If I have to choose between having emergency responders possibly not being able to locate me, and having the government be able to track my every move along with everyone else's, it's not even a hard choice: I'll take the former as by far the lesser of the two evils.

Being able to reliably hide my location is every bit as important to personal freedom as being able to encrypt my communications. If that means I have to take some additional steps to summon help in an emergency, so be it. It's a price I'll happily pay. Life's quality metric is a vector, and safety is not the only dimension.
Because sick people are desperate we actually make it quite hard for them to volunteer for things like risky medical tests. Requiring more animal or smaller pilot studies first. I don't know the numbers well enough to know whether this is a net win for humanity, but just like any technology development project, the longer your dev cycles the slower things go.
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> 2.4 GHz is the frequency at which water resonates

Answers by people who understand this better than me here [1], but 2.4GHz is not "the" resonant frequency, water has a number of frequencies it interacts with radiation. And water isn't going to behave like a tuning fork anyway, it would be more analogous to sand. Microwaves interact with water by dipole interaction, and they just unload heat.

That's why wifi isn't going to do much to your body, any cooking of you being done by radiation is trivial compared to your own body heat.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/169173/what-is-t...
Can I ask what industry she is in if she gets such a high return for subscription rate?
Increased pay.
There's the circle tgv line around Paris, there's part of a line between Strasbourg and Lyon, and I believe they're working on Bordeaux-toulouse, which should enable Bordeaux-Marseille.
Setting aside the constant drama surrounding Trump, to me this seems to have a significant positive potential.

See reference [1] below to see how many people are currently in space. I would definitely not call that a "force". A more permanent presence in space for more people would necessitate a lot more scientific research that will likely have non-military benefits (like GPS research did in the past). There is so much for us to learn which is good for humanity and inspiring for young people.

The excitement around space might make it easier to get additional funding approved. According to this [2] the Army, Navy, and Air Force budgets for 2016 weren't too far off from each other. It will be interesting to see at what level the funding will fall for this "separate but equal" department.

According to this [3] the President has announced job one is to declutter space to avoid collisions and spacecraft breakups, which all spacefaring countries will benefit from.

As much as I admire Elon Musk, it would be nice to have a government presence in space for rescue missions, etc. For anyone that has played too many hours of Civilization IV, you might enjoy Baba Yetu performed by the United States Navy Band [4]. The rescue force I would envision would be like the small clip at 2m00s to 2m20s in that youtube video, except in space.

Lots of people talk about things like 'basic income' to protect us when machines watch what we do and then take over our jobs. I would prefer to push that day out a little bit by instead allocating money to us doing totally brand new things, like this in space, that excites me and makes me want to spring out of bed in the morning!

[1] https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

[3] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/trump-space-force-1.471101...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKWQQQjAEBU
Extremely slow and expensive data stores that are reliant on a large number of gullible people to waste their computational resources in order to provide it to you.
There's also a whitelist. The specific link was added to the whitelist, then to the article.
Is MQTT version 5 worth the trouble?
yeah, pretty down https://i.imgur.com/CfhzHU0.png

EDIT: and it is back up
It's partly checking that you're a human.

It's partly using you for free labour to train their next generation of SkyNet.

We've reached a point with CAPTCHAs (originally conceived as a way for humans to exert their will over machines) where the machines are now setting tasks for the humans, and the humans are carrying out the tasks without putting up too much of a fight.
Netflix isn't that good, with such a crappy lineup and limited old mainstream movies. It's just cheap. Our household and people at work (california) struggle to justify paying for it.
Alright, how about the X-37B?
>> it's not even a hard choice: I'll take the former as by far the lesser of the two evils.

Right or wrong, I think you're in the extreme minority here.

Edit: I'm not necessarily speaking for myself here, but then I'm in a low-risk area and demographic, so am not especially likely to need 911. But I think the average "man on the street" would not give a second thought about it.
not something you see very often.
And the Apple II the parent is talking about aren't connected to the net. The singular purpose and tasking of loading Logo into machine like that is liberating. No distractions, one path forward, the keyboard, the screen, the manual and you.
> Microsoft needs to treat GitHub like a LinkedIn or Minecraft, not like Skype, Nokia, or aQuantive.

Oh please, don't treat it like a Minecraft. I don't want my GitHub subscription cost to quadruple.
I also use the Logitech G Pro and like it quite a bit.

Logitech also makes the g203 prodigy [1] which is identical to the G Pro except for two things:

1) the G Pro has a sensor with a higher DPI (6,000 vs 12,000)

2) the G Pro has a braided cable, while the g203 has a normal cable

Unless someone actually plans on using their mouse above 6,000 DPI, the g203 is probably a better choice because it's cheaper than the G Pro.

I've got one of each, with the G Pro at home for gaming and g203 at work so that I more-or-less use the same mouse all the time.

[1] https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/product/g203-prodigy-gaming-...
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Unlikely that China would comply though, and they are a major contributor to the rising Super Bug problem because of it.
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It's back up now. It's still weird to see a 500 error on a Google Property.
Now it's back online!
Microsoft's latest acquisition focuses on social education
All you've started here is that you dislike Microsoft. There's zero moral difference in Apple's actions on the app store and Microsoft from yesteryears
Why do you say that? Take insurance in its most basic form: a company does its best to determine how much money they're likely going to pay out over the lifetime of a policy and spreads that cost out for their customer who is then insulated from unexpected expenses or non-uniform cost schedules. It seems perfectly suited to medicine.

Insurance doesn't solve the problem of a population where the total cost of care is more then they can collectively afford or when an individual's treatment has known costs higher than what they can afford but nobody has a good answer for that.

Insuring everyone from birth can be a solution for the individual but not the population.
Ban on trans fat takes effect in US, but global eradication could be tough
The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language (1986)
I wouldn't say that. Elite: Dangerous is the current big space-sim, and hotter than ever. Everyone is looking forward to Star Citizen, although it's even odds to me if it ever sees a full release...
Oh God, Privateer. That was another 10,000 hours of my childhood.
Think this is the second time in +10 years I've seen youtube be like this
I can only see options if you're paying for enterprise. So, if you're paying for enterprise, you've already got it :thumbsup:
Thanks for sharing. Blind people are much more attuned to what they can hear than sighted people.

People have the ability to transpose their senses - blind people still have the portion of the brain that processes vision, so it gets used in other ways. The term is 'synesthesia'. Ingo Swann talked about 'Blind Sight' in one of the Las Vegas speeches I went to. This link is to my recent comment about meeting Ingo Swann: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238552

If you put drop an email address somewhere (a comment, or in your hacker news profile), I'd send you an email - I am concerned about the accessibility of my website for the visually impaired.
Indeed. Here's a condemnation of Wilson from a different perspective, one emanating from distrust of government power. Might be called "radical conservatism", in the original first senses of those words rather than as found in the political jargon of today's headlines:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-way-to-tell-...
Is that what the article means? I wasn't able to find anything that explicitly states that but maybe I overlooked it. Would make the conclusions much more cogent.
A space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces
Well said. There was something I inherently disliked about the whole influencer idea. By labeling it a sellout I see exactly what it was. (Sellout actually implies they had something cool to begin with like a band, unlike influencers).
Hmm, I was excited to see a former Midori developer working on a "cloud development platform". And I was even more excited to read:

>Using Pulumi, you author cloud programs using your favorite language, spanning low-level infrastructure-as-code to highly productive and modern container- and serverless-powered applications.

I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of using a real programming language to deploy and control a distributed system. It would be fantastic to have a library that gives me a nice, clean API for performing low-level distributed system tasks, manipulating and controlling hosts at the level of individual processes and sockets.

But I was disappointed to see that Pulumi doesn't seem to be designed to support deployment onto bare metal. In fact it seems to be just another layer of abstraction over various SaaS providers, or a huge dependency like Kubernetes. Why add another layer?

Today's systems are already heavily abstracted. For me, the value of using a really expressive programming language to implement a system, is that you can keep more of the abstraction in the language, and thereby avoid complexity in the underlying architecture.

To me, it is not very interesting to layer yet another library on top of the Kubernetes API. I'd be much more interested to see an attempt to replace the Kubernetes API with a library. This seems to be the former, and not oriented towards the latter, which is a bit of a disappointment.
I've noticed this in the fandom too, how come? Was D2 just much more popular than D1?
warning: heavily political and opinionated content below.

Due to it's tiny size in land, I believe Europe should be a single country. I still believe in the idea of EU: what it stands for, what it means.

However, the past couple of years have been terrible. The whole Brexit vote only gone through because one can't fight lies with logic and nobody from the Remain side realised this. (Yes, lies, admitted by Leave campaign faces, see morning TV interview the next morning). Everyone sat back, completely ignorant to the option that people will believe those who show up in their village halls with a speech, even if it's mostly made up. The whole reaction of the EU to Brexit is that Britain made and idiotic decision and the EU will not bend due to this. Divorces happen, sometimes it's stupid, like in this case, but that doesn't mean the sides need to be assholes towards each other.

Apart from Brexit, there is still no central response or governing to the immigration through the Mediterranean and it's been a serious problem for years; it gave enough ground for the Hungarian governing party to build a hate driven election campaign around it and win with it.

And than suddenly that complete madness copyright law idea pops up.

This is not the EU I voted to join as a Hungarian in 2004. I might have been under-informed, and the EU might always have been like this, but if it does, something needs to change.

So, answering your question: no, one law is not enough. It's a long series of "wth?" reaction from my side, including no decision decisions, stiff attitude, pitiful procedures like .eu termination, which goes way beyond mere politics - think of personal domains -, and genuinely bad law ideas. Enough of these can drive someone away from an originally beautiful and invaluable union.
Can’t the government already locate phones for missing persons? I don’t know if that requires a warrant or what, but I seem to remember hearing about locating the last “ping” of a phone to a tower for many missing persons cases.
Sending money between countries is two things. Changing currencies and moving the cash. Bitcoin maybe saves you some money on the latter but you are going to need to do the former to do something useful no matter what and it doesn't save you anything there. Plus if you're an American suddenly this transaction has tax consequences.

Plus I don't know where you got that quote but most transfers are much cheaper than that a/i. That pairing must just be incredibly non-competitive since it's very low volume.

Why didn't you pay via a CC? Free foreign transaction fees is a common perk?
Google could create an open API for app developers, with which all companies(Uber, Ola, Lyft) can integrate and provide great user experience.
Maps(Show available rentals) -> App(Book rental) - > Maps( Track the rental).
Moral and legal are different things and you keep conflating the two. Additionally, you're the one that brought up Microsoft's anti-trust issues. If you're going to make a comparison, make it correctly. And if you're going to talk about moral and legal, make sure you distinguish between the two concepts.
Maybe we should formalize this process. If everyone just rips the videos they want we'd wind up with a bunch of silos. There would be important videos overlooked, a huge amount of duplicated effort and, most importantly, only you could view your archived videos.

I think the technical problems would be solvable. youtube-dl and existing peer-to-peer filesharing systems have done most of the work for us. Making a system to browse videos would be harder. We'd need working channels, playlists, and links. We'd need search functionality. Those don't cleanly fit into normal filesharing.

The problem would be the social side. It would take a lot of volunteers to archive a substantial chunk of Youtube and would most definitely be against the law.
I have tried the K480 in store. Weirdly enough, it feels very different from the K380. Neither the keys nor the construction are the same. (The Wirecutter makes this observation in their BT keyboard article[1]. I didn't believe them, so I had to check it out for myself. Turns out: true!)

[1]: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-bluetooth-keyboar...
Program for Children with Autism and ADHD Rests on Razor-Thin Evidence
[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...)
On Mac, you don't need administrative access to install programs. You download a .dmg, you drag the app to /Applications, you're done.
I also started as a programmer on a C64. BASIC didn‘t get you very far, so assembly it was. The machine code monitor, all the three letter mnemonics and ??? when it couldn‘t disassemble are fond memories.

When I switched to the PC I had great hopes but outright hated it after a short while. All this restrictions on the registers were confusing. The segment modell even more. And good graphics required programming the VGA cards bitplane modes [1] which still makes me dizzy when I think about it. Wished I had an Amiga.

Programming the 6510 and VIC and SID was so smooth in comparison.

[1] In these modes the bits making up a single pixel where not in the same place. To manipulate a single pixel you had to manipulate several bits in different places of the RAM without affecting the adjacent bits in the respective words. Crazy stuff.
That's correct, you can transfer off Cash app. However, you can't deposit BTC to your Cash app.
Of all the people/companies I worked with, the only two with stick-to-the-word-no-exceptions attitude were Japanese and Germans, hence the phrase.

It wasn't intended to be offensive, sometimes those rigid procedures save lives, and it's very much possible the whole idea has nothing to do with a single German.

Sorry for my wording.
Strong blockchain devs are basically not possible to find, and earn a premium. Whether you think the technology is here to stay, it’s already a profitable and underserved niche
Yeah, like aren't in-flight entertainment systems.... literally linux based these days? They're android tablets!
I don't understand why this is a problem specifically with bitcoin. Is this not a problem with any other currency? I mean I appreciate the sentiment but how does it even matter in which currency the rich are rich and the poor are poor?
But that affects both players equally, as in general the luck factor. My experience is that while you might lose a few games stupidly because of mana screw/flood, in the long run luck balances out and skill makes the difference.
Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file sharing service?
Thinking of making a simple site for sharing files. As easy as imgur, you drag-drop, upload, and get a link you can share. But with a twist - you can only download once, preventing most DMCA takedowns and illegal activities (movie sharing).
This has more to do with age and Chinese Exclusion Act. Most of the Indian/Chinese people are young and not in the age group where they will become CEOs. You will see a rapid increase in Indian/Chinese CEOs in next 10 years. As second generation Indians and Chinese would reach the age group of CEOs.

Asians are dominating US colleges they will dominate US executives by 2040.

Of course some of them might go back to India and China.
I don't see the sort of people following influencers to be so savvy.
Yes, but that's very different from having the phone send out GPS coordinates, which are orders of magnitude more accurate. Also, there's no way to avoid triangulating your location from phone-tower pinging. That's just inherent in the way cell phones work. But sending GPS info is (or at least should be) optional.
>> If the Apple app store isn't a monopoly I don't know what is.

> Microsoft had something like a 97% marketshare. Apple is nowhere near that.

Whether a company is a monopoly or not seems to depend a lot how the market in question is defined, for instance:

Apple has a 100% marketshare in the distribution of iOS apps. Monopoly-era AT&T had far less than a 100% marketshare in electricity-powered devices.
This is a symptom of an underlying mental illness in our modern world in which every inch of earth, every exploitable human (especially the women), and every pure and beautiful thing, now extended to the rest of the universe, are to be treated as subjects of domination and conquest, to be exploited, despoiled, bombed, conquered, raped and enslaved. It's absolutely and unreservedly vile, disgusting, and fucking tragic.
One major problem is that managers tend to be judged by how many people work for them. You'll often get paid more if you have a 20-person department that accomplishes nothing than if you have an extremely effective 5-person team.

Combine this with the fact that most people hate firing someone - it's just an awful experience - and most managers won't fire anyone unless they're actively destructive.

The owners or CEO would want line managers to fire do-nothing employees, but they're not the ones making the decision.
What was sad was that the same games ran better on my DX2/66 Dos Compatibility card with 32MB of on board RAM on my 6100/60 (with 16MB of RAM) than they did natively on the Mac.
Basic gun safety is like basic shop safety. "Don't touch this machine, you could hurt yourself". Learning how to use it comes later, if at all.
Excellent!

I led a Hacking 4 Defence style problem solving sessions that saw the development of an idea that included:

open source review of native app source code

partnering with national carriers to embed app on device at point of sale

provide Humanitarian and Disaster Relief(HADR) “ground truth” immediately overlayed on a heat map to reduce disaster reconnaissance needs(ie Haiti)

everyone in the 3rd world has a smartphone.

tie the app into semiautomatic mesh network functionality(we saw mobile cell towers fail in power outages here in Christchurch, Nz in 2011 Earthquake).

tie the app into emergency HADR network(tethered dirigible with suspended coms/retrans)

*tie the app into an emergency mobile network consisting of coms/retrains in every next generation first responders vehicle.

So many opportunities to leverage off the shelf tech for first responder & disaster management intelligence gathering and dissemination done in an appropriate way with high public trust.
How do they measure their ability to "influence" the purchasing decisions of their followers? How do their clients calculate ROI?
Siberian Dice
This type of transposition cipher has been easily cracked for decades.
Yeah. I found it. https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/6307 The menu is pretty hidden.