skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare the HP EX920 (1TB for $300 on sale) to the SSD in the... 15" MBP 2017, or something.

HP EX920:
http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/hp-ex...

Apple:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Apple/MacB...

Same AS SSD benchmark.

Now you can argue that since SSD performance increases with size, maybe that's why. Then prove it.
These freaking knowledge paywalls are awful, try scihub:
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.02.002
In the past, only bitcoin users were criminals. Now miners too!??! Only groups left are developers and businesses.
Chat wasn't as much of an issue when the UI was boring. IRC was boring and people used it mostly when they needed to.

Slack is made by a former gaming company that understands how to make chat more psychologically addictive and appealing. Our devs said, "You can take slack from our cold dead hands." We've had emoji wars, integration wars and so on. Slack is not for chat.
Yep, that's where I stopped. What I think is going on... Some people think predominantly in abstraction and don't really care about syntax. As Paul Graham once said, LISP doesn't really have syntax - you write parse trees directly. That may be fine for people who have achieved that level/style of programming, but it's a tiny minority.

Why should I write (+ p 2) when most people think (p+2)? This difference gets worse with more complex expressions. For the masses (and I mean a lot of very capable people) this is just garbage. For some it's wonderful. I can't say it's wrong, just not my thing. Perhaps it's the Blub paradox - I've never had the LISP epiphany so I can't say. I have had the python epiphany, and it's quite the opposite of this.
Not a scotch, but if you like those three then give Connemara a try, especially the "original" version.
Wild boar, or wild sow? In domestic pigs intended for slaughter, the males are castrated when a few days old in order to keep their meat from developing a gamey flavor. (Ask Iowa senator Joni Ernst if you want to learn how to develop that skill.) I could imagine wild boar meat would be inedible. But aside from that, diet will also impact the flavor if the meat. A diet heavy in acorns will probably add a pronounced pungency, for instance.
You're supposed to bundle a fixed version of glibc with your application.
You would think so, but it's not true. I struggled with this for a few days before giving up (after finding articles which stated that this is really going where nobody went before)

> Static linking of glibc is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/02/17/upgrading-the-...
I'm not sure how many people care. It's like finding out Pepsi owns Aquafina.
Yeah...rather than validating paths, the better use case is probably normalizing them so that you don't need platform-specific configuration files. Being able to write:

static-files = path/to/static/files

And have it work on all platforms gives a distinct advantage over specifying paths as strings.
A Speed Race for Soybeans
Qwikster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#Qwikster https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/qwikster-netflix-m...
The reason health care costs in the US are ballooning is not HIPPA. It's the Byzantine system of who pays for what, how much, and why, where nobody has an incentive to make care cheaper.

See:

* Why nobody can itemize a medical bill.

* Why a bag of saline may cost the patient $100.

* Why an in-network hospital will bring in an out-of-network independent contractor nurse to assist an in-network surgeon, leaving you with a $200 bill for the surgery + a $5,000 bill for the out-of-network assistant.

* Why nobody will tell you how much a procedure will cost, with, or without complications.

* Why nobody knows how much your insurance will pay for, until the bill is due. Often months after the procedure.

Compared to all of these problems and abuses, HIPAA seems the least of America's problems.

I'd like to contribute to reducing the cost of care, by shopping around for more efficient/more affordable/better dollar for value doctors/hospitals, but I haven't the foggiest idea of where to start. It's like going to a car dealer, saying that you want a Prius, and not knowing what the age of the car, its condition, or how much you will be billed for until after the title is irrevocably transferred to you. Oh, and the dealer across the street will happily sell you one for half what you paid for. Or double. You really have no idea.
> I would think owning your place of residence would be a pretty good long term investment most anyplace.

The problem is that residential real estate values fluctuate unpredictably, and sometimes wildly, and the investment is almost always made using considerable leverage. Housing is unusual among the commonly made investments in that a person can seemingly do all the sensible things and lose all the money they've invested.
The keto and zerocarb (carnivore diet) communities on reddit are all pointing out the fact that 46% by volume of the sample was fat, indicating he gained 60%+ by calorie macro of energy from fat (and a large percentage of proteins). There is a compelling argument being made now that humans are more carnivore than omnivore for most of our history (10,000 of agriculture is blip on the radar for our species) and that we ate the whole animal. Yes, we can eat anything, but did we. And which food sources are we most adapted for? Hence The Omnivores Dilemma ... (good book)
How iOS 11.4.1 Stops USB Attacks and Bad Emojis
Can we please come up with a more specific name for this type of expertise? A large-scale system can mean anything from a social security system to a rocket. I was a bit disappointed that it only concerns websites here (though I'm aware that I'm browsing HN).
Actually, when someone is identifiable with a couple of pieces of data, that becomes personal data. For example, if you would be the only Paul Smith on earth, we would consider that personal data. If you are the only Paul Smith in the US and the context reveals that we are talking about someone in the US, those 2 pieces together are personal data (and so on).

That is what they mean with "indirect identification" in the link provided by jdietrich.
Not really any different having two jewellery stores opposite each other in a shopping mall giving you the feeling of choice. Only to discover they are owned by the same company.
Force post transactions are literally when a merchant takes the money of the account without requesting authorization, so there is no opportunity to decline the transaction.

This very rarely happens. You won't see any big merchants like Spotify or Netflix doing this because you closed a card to cancel a subscription.

Speaking broadly, there is often some type of fraud, suspicious activity, or a serious loss potential for merchants to resort to this.

Examples - if you rent a car and don't return it, borrow books and don't return them, or abuse generous return policies (return items that are clearly not what you purchased).

All that said, even if we don't win the chargeback, we still often credit the user out of pocket in the interest of giving the user the benefit of the doubt.
> Whitespace means tab (0x09) or space (0x20).

> Newline means LF (0x0A) or CRLF (0x0D0A).

Complicating things from the start. Not a good sign.
There's a whisky from Glenrothes? That's hilarious somehow. When I lived in Fife we called it Glen-grotty, it had some "great" brutalist architecture. Also known in the past for its lino factories (floor covering, the making of which was highly polluting).
No matter what, sending it back to the internal display is going to mean a significant performance hit. There's only so much bandwidth in a TB3 connection.
Still waiting on that Oculus deal.
Obligatory reminder that trying to access one of these devices is a felony (under the CFAA). You probably probably won't be prosecuted, but it's a possibility.
I read this book about 20 years ago when I was in high school. It was one of my favorite books at the time. I think I read it 3 times during my high school years. It was a great read at the time.

I haven't read it recently but anyone that lived experienced technology of the 80s/90s or wants a realistic feel for what it was like should read this.

It's a great story about how a guy from Berkley (I think) tracked down a hacker. I don't remember the specifics but it was very War Games-esque but based in reality.
e2e was delivered 2016, WhatsApp was acquired in 2014.
Pen-initials are quite common. Iain M. Banks wrote SF; Iain Banks wrote the more mainstream stuff.
Hey, just a heads-up to inform that I installed the debug version from here[1] and it's working p-e-r-f-e-c-t-l-y in my good old Android 4.0.4 device (Spanish locale). Kudos.

[1] https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/issues/152#issuecomme...
I strongly disagree, otherwise you get stuck in an echo chamber.

I tend to enjoy things that other people do. However, I become more critical when something is considered 'good' or expensive not less. So, I prefer to go in fairly blind vs listen to a lot of hype.
As far as I can tell it's just a different common name.
> Now think of America. People dying for a lack of insulin.

I stopped treating this article seriously here. I can confirm you this happens everyday in a third world country and the international English-speaking media don't give a damn about it.

Quickly skimming through the article I can see the author was filled with rage and drowned in a sense of entitlement. True, human existence is suffering, but it is not just the US. You can never eliminate poverty completely.

I'll tell a Soviet joke.
- What is the best way to eliminate poverty in a communist country?
- Eliminate the people who are in poverty.

That is where the author's blind spot is. The author fails to see the foundations that lead to the rapid expansion of wealth in the past three hundred years: limited government, individual liberty, free market, and capitalism. Before the industrial revolution, everywhere on the planet people live in "poverty" if judged by today's standard. You can rant all day long about your rage against poverty. But you are not providing any better solution than the existing solutions the system has.
I was one of the supporters of TOML back when this decision was made. I might have been the first one to suggest it, but I don't remember exactly.

Basically, I wanted something that was (1) simple, (2) terse, (3) supported comments, and (4) supported recursive data structures. Requirement (1) eliminated YAML, requirement (2) eliminated XML, requirement (3) eliminated JSON, and requirement (4) eliminated INI. Of the remaining formats, TOML seemed to be the most popular and had the most traction, so I went with that.
Only if the symbol is exported, but in that case
it won’t be removed even if -dead_strip is used.

As userbinator noted, Unix has an awful tradition of exporting most symbols by default, which is also in effect on macOS. The modern approach is to pass -fvisibility=hidden to the compiler, which changes the default to unexported, and then mark symbols that are supposed to be exported with __attribute__((visibility(“default”))). Alternately, there’s a Darwin-specific ld option (-exported_symbols_list) where you write a list of names to export in a separate text file, and everything else is forced to be unexported.
When you walk around in public, you are emitting photons that let me see you nude. Well, no human I know of can actually see you nude, but with some technology I can definitely do it unless you wear special clothing. So would you say me using that technology to take pictures of the photons people freely admit in public is fair and that I can then go sell those photos? Or does technology change things from how our society use to work?

In the same way a photo of the visible spectrum is not the same as a photo of lightwaves outside the visible spectrum, a photo is not the same thing as seeing someone, and using that photo to track their every facial expression, emotion, and interaction isn't the same as a photo.

Law has not yet caught up to technology, so we need to change the law.
Russia DNS Alternative Internet Could Yield Cyberattack
We're rolling out straight cashback (up to 5% at select partners) - simple and no hoops to jump through. It's still in the works, but you can join the waitlist at cashback.privacy.com.
Suntory is the only Japanese whiskey featured in a $100MM-grossing motion picture, and that was 15 years ago.
But this is clearly not even remotely the case in this story. All of the defendants covered in the story had explicitly discriminatory policies. What motivated you to write that groups seeking to eliminate inequalities that harm men "mostly seem to be a reaction against attempts to address institutionalized misogyny" in response to this story? Why did you feel this was remotely relevant to bring up in response to explicit discrimination?
Ask HN: gRPC in Prod 2018
What are people's experiences with gRPC in production in 2018?
There’s lot of popular social media apps now or from before. Most don’t succeed the way Instagram and Whatsapp have. So it’s not as simple as just picking any. Yahoo picked up Tumblr, look how that turned out. Look how Snapchat is doing right now money-wise. Though of course that’s tougher to say since Instagram had a direct effect on hurting Snapchat.
New York and New Jersey had pretty small numbers of slaves, so while they did allow slavery, they were more politically aligned with the free states.

Another factor is that there was a much larger disparity in numbers of voters than there was in number of people. Many of the southern states had very restrictive requirements (such as needing to own a large amount of property) to be allowed to vote while while northern states had less restrictive requirements. In the 1789 election[0] Massachusetts had more than four times as many votes cast as Virginia while having fewer electoral votes and New Hampshire had more votes cast than Virginia while having less than half as many electoral vote. Massachusetts and New Hampshire alone had more than half of the votes cast in that election.

The biggest reason for the electoral college was to accommodate the aristocratic tendencies of some of the states. Contrary to what is often claimed, it wasn't intended to prevent the large states from dominating the small states; ironically it was the exact opposite. They wanted to prevent a tiny state like New Hampshire from being able to out vote, Virginia, the largest state.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_e...
FDA tries to take the reins on regulating cultured meat
If someone connects one of these TVs to a computer and views their medical information, does that mean the vendor has access to their medical information?
Errata: "We can imagine having random variables Y_1, Y_2, ... that are, in the sense of probability, independent of Y and that have the same cumulative distribution as Y."

should read

"We can imagine having random variables Y_1, Y_2, ... that are, in the sense of probability, independent and that have the same cumulative distribution as Y."

"To define the expected value, we can use some calculus and the cumulative distribution of F_Y, but for now let's just use our intuition about averages and move along."

should read

"To define the expected value, we can use some calculus and the cumulative distribution F_Y, but for now let's just use our intuition about averages and move along."
Just upgrade the GPU. Most of your problems are solved.

Upgrade the RAM at the start of a new spec and you'll be fine. CPU/mobo go hand in hand, but you're rarely going to need to upgrade that anyway.
I used to be big on challenging my assumptions with blind tasting. Then I realized I do 99% of my drinking with the label visible.

For better or worse the marketing and tasting notes impact my enjoyment of the spirit. Any results I learn tasting "blind" don't generalize to my day to day experience. As a result I've mostly stopped doing blind tasting.
Instagram is a good 20% of most Facebook advertiser's account spend already. Not at all insignificant. For young and female targeted products, it's even higher.
Users don't care about leaded gasoline either.
Also, mining equipment is continually getting better. Large scale parallel ASICs like these are still a relatively recent field, with lots of remaining room for improvement. It's far less stagnant than current x86 processor speed. Mining is very much a red queen's race.
You and others here probably don’t know half of the companies or brands owned by other companies or brands.
Bonded whiskeys are legally certified to be (and kept in custody to ensure they remain):

* The product of one distillery

* The product of one distilling season

* Aged at least 4 years

* Bottled at at least 100 proof

For the most part, as a consumer, you don't care about these particulars. For instance, 50% ABV is on the high side for what's pleasant without dilution.

However, a distilling brand that can produce a bonded bourbon or rye expression is probably not playing games with their non-bonded bourbon or rye; that there is a bonded VOB strongly suggests that all VOB bourbon comes from VOB distilleries (and isn't sourced from MGP or simply relabeled Heaven Hill). So you can pay a little extra for the bonded VOB, or just buy regular old VOB trusting that their ability to produce bonded bourbon means their non-bonded bourbon is just as good (which is a safe bet).

An annoying thing to be careful about: just because someone produces a respected (or bonded) bourbon doesn't mean their rye is trustworthy, and vice versa. Distilling brands do brand extensions into other whiskeys by sourcing from other distilleries and rebranding.
I think Nikka from the Barrel is comparable to the Hibiki line.
Valid long-term advice tends to be invalid short-term advice, otherwise the valid long-term advice would have been marketed as valid short-term advice...
I also don't know I'm "using microchip" with my Atmel or SMSC - and I really don't care either.
Not really. Criminal conspiracy is already a crime.
Well, there is the overhead of creating and removing namespaces each time a container is ran, or communicating with the Docker daemon.

I think to most people it would be negligible, but fb operates at a scale where these normally insignificant pieces matter. I would be interested to hear more about the _why_ of a system like this over containerization.

edit: rwmj's comment has a good discussion over the benefits of this over containerization.
> take a vacation or find something else do to over the weekends to get your mind off it. If you are annoyed that it's not fun anymore, then -- welcome to adulthood.

I drew another consequence and quit the field instead and in turn rescued my passion from fizzling out.
And while I'm only passingly interested in what I'm doing now, for me, it was worth taking my hobby back.

It's not an entirely hollow phrase, but something to consider at least and maybe one should ask themselves if they're ready to be passionate about something for 8+ hours a day.
From the comment guidelines [1]:

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

Also, your own account is all of 40 days old and you have a grand total of 8 comments, so you don't really have a leg to stand on here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
US HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week
> I think the arc codebase is worth studying and understanding

Are you talking about the source code for ARC, or for Hacker News?

It would be interesting to see how ARC is being employed on such a high profile site. I expect that some algorithms won't be freely available so as not enable people to game the site, but the rest would be interesting to see.

I could find any source for Hacker News though.

> And since code is data, a lisp master can write systems with a shocking number of features in shockingly few lines of code

You don't even have to be a master. So much bikeshedding has been spent over the decades. We are still going back and forth on data interchange formats...
> nobody has an incentive to make care cheaper.

Companies who act as the insurance company and the care provider have an interest in cheaper care. E.g. Kaiser Permanente
> While you're busy building your platform-agnostic wondertrap with Cassandra nodes and Docker images and Chef scripts and monitoring and all the other bells and whistles, I'm sitting down at my keyboard and implementing customer-facing features.

I'm not sure if you're responding to a different comment or missed where I suggested just use the cloud Postgres. I specifically mentioned time to market and acknowledge it. I am saying you don't have to sacrifice portability for time to market, and what is terrible advice is suggesting that you do.
I stayed in a hotel in Kobe a couple of years ago. The room had mini bottles of Yamazaki in it, and it turned out they were free, and replenished every day! Neecdless to say, my wife and I took full advantage...
Corryvreckan, fwiw.

£100/l on Amazon. Blimey.

(https://amzn.to/2uvAaJr, aff.)
I followed the 1986 Will Steger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Steger expedition to the North Pole quite closely at the time. I recall they spent a lot of time developing and preparing foods for the journey, in particular a high-fat pemmican. They also ate huge amounts of butter -- as much as they could stand.

It is interesting that in Otzi's time the necessity for a high fat diet in extreme cold conditions was understood -- or perhaps that is just how they came to live.
Is this related? https://www.termius.com/
Bet money on how many likes an Instagram post will get
VSCode has a problem when lines have many columns, you are unable to view the end, it can copy them to the clipboard though. I have to wrap when I want to see to the end.
Thanks. I checked the code out but it does looks like that part is not open source :( I'll email them
> [July 27 2016 is the date on which Trump said on national TV "Russia if you're listening..." and invited Russia to commit a crime to hack and find Clinton's 'missing' emails.]

Trump's words were "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"[1]. In my view, interpreting that as a call to commit a crime is a stretch.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-...

> [Trump claims the DNC did not turn over the hacked (physical) server to the FBI. And per this indictment it's clear it was a virtual server hosted in the cloud and at least Mueller's team does have quite a bit of forensic evidence to show how the theft occurred.]

Trump's claims are supported by Comey's testimony on March 20, 2017 that the FBI never got any kind of access, physical or virtual, to any DNC machine.

> HURD: [...] you have still been -- never been given access to any of the technical or the physical machines that were -- that were hacked by the Russians.

> COMEY: That's correct although we got the forensics from the pros that they hired which -- again, best practice is always to get access to the machines themselves, but this -- my folks tell me was an appropriate substitute.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/20/cnr.07.html
> “The taste is really, well, it’s horrible,”

Ötzi probably liked it very much. Body of a hungry person learns to like tastes that give it the calories.

When I was starting to feed myself I was cooking rice. Forgot salt. It was dreadful. Forgot few times. Began to like the taste of overcooked unsalted rice after I satiated my hunger few times with it.
I'm a software developer.
Insane prices as always, bravo apple
I saw Shane Robison give a talk about the HP+Compaq merger. [1] He advantage that came from the merger was getting more shelf space in retail stores. Having some influence and/or control of what got displayed in the HP shelfspace and the Compaq shelfspace was considered valuable.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shane-robison
I'm not familiar with Gumroad; how do I find your book?