skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, and absolutely brutal amount of work must have been put into those reports. How do they estimate the cost of parts made inhouse?
Different video encoders certainly produce different outputs. Even the same video encoders produce different outputs. Here is a good paper that explains why that is, and talks about how to make a deterministic video h264 encoder:

http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/mmsys14.pdf
If you insist upon talking TLS 1.3 draft 23, which is the last substantive change before the draft went to the RFC queue, google.com is perfectly happy to talk TLS 1.3 draft 23.

TLS 1.3 has downgrade detection, so if a middlebox tries to downgrade you (e.g. to TLS 1.2) without proxying the entire connection the TLS 1.3 implementation in your client will spot that and reject the connection.

Proxying is possible (including with a downgrade) if you trust the proxy. So, don't.

If you have a recent-ish version of Chrome or Firefox you are already using all this.
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Ok, I understand this - that soccer has many variables and it is difficult to create a model with all of these variables. But my point is, the global economy has way more variables than soccer. Way way way way more variables. At least 7.5 billion of them.

So would you argue that creating a statistical model of soccer is harder than creating one for global economies? I think it's harder to model economies.

I'm not even trying to give Goldman a hard time! I'm saying that Goldman probably put together a very accurate model of "soccer", but we aren't watching an accurate model of soccer; we're watching the corrupted one where the players and skills don't matter.
Integration Algolia in under 30 minutes
Hacking campaign targets iPhones with data-stealing, location-tracking malware
Perhaps UBI does require thinks like universal health coverage but that would not make it "deeply flawed" that would mean tweaking is needed.

And that UBI requires low unemployment is directly contradicted by the head of the article where UBI is described as a potential solution for loss of jobs due to automation.

But either way theorizing beforehand why it will or won't fail is comparatively unproductive; we can actually experiment and see if it works.

And interestingly two conditions of the article; a sort of universal heath care and low unemployment, currently apply in the US. So the article should be predicting success there.
Consumers aren't savvy.

Close to a decade ago, JCPenny went to a get rid of coupons/sales and go to a low price all the time model.

It almost bankrupted them.

http://business.time.com/2012/06/01/jcpenney-is-already-goin...

Seemingly customers demand to get screwed over by the "this huge discount feels like a drug" effect.
> In an era of remote servers and web scripting languages, not every developer needs a full-blown workstation.

I haven't really found that to be the case, especially these days with "modern" frontend tooling, like Babel/Webpack/etc, static analyzers like ESLint/Flow/Typescript, and the various types of frontend testing. Every bit of performance helps.

You can debate whether all of that is necessary, but the reality is many companies use them.
Does that mean you may end up not inheriting value worthless yet emotionally valuable items such as photos because you refuse the inheritance? Or does it only count for valuable things such as jewelry?
"That’s why I remain fascinated by smart people in the United States being so misguided about the implications of the UBI in a country that has no decent healthcare system, a poor primary education complemented by a horrendously expensive higher education system. A state in which having more than two children is a mark of social status and in which any life crisis can lead to a social precipice."

from the article
Good point - revenue rules.

By the way, golf and baseball help me take naps.

Cheers
Don't forget to pay your taxes (about double what you would pay as a regular employee; your employer pays a portion of that behind the scenes) out of that, plus any health insurance you want to pick up. That $72,000 yearly will vanish pretty quickly.
I don't get those people either.
I don't think you are using "instead" correctly in that sentence.

You are implying that not being able to have dangling pointers in Java (and thus eliminating an entire category of bugs) inevitably leads to the new category of bugs of leaking memory by holding on to references. But that is the case in any language that allows dynamic memory allocation. You can leak memory in Rust, C++ and VB if you don't dealloc.
They need 3 machines specifically, one is for heating the material, one for pressing it, and one for forming it. I'll see if I can get the listing of the machines as she has already found the ones available for purchase locally.
Obviously. Critical thinking skills are in short supply.

If sales really saved people money all those fancy stores would have gone bankrupt long ago. "Oh yes Sir these shoes are €149 but for you I will go down to €99"
All that will tell you is "china grew a lot". It won't tell you whether they grew 10%/year or 8%/year.
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On the report box, each of the checkboxes on the "Send Report To" should have a mouseover that explains exactly what each option is.

I also don't understand the star rating. I don't think I have ever had "5 star food poisoning," but it sure does sound nice!
If you are in Canada, you can use https://ca.camelcamelcamel.com/
I've hired many devs in Germany, if you pay less than 60k you get very bad ones.
This is what I do with my CV. I just keep a markdown file up to date and can quickly generate PDF and HTML versions.
Why not blog tips and tricks about the game, or create Youtube How To videos to build an audience in the first place?

The best way to create an audience out of nothing is still by far a blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIo8e12sBM
GitHub, Gist unavailable
My preferred argument in favor is that depression can render government form-filled disability bureaucracy into an unnavigable hellscape and since it's one of the most common disabilities, a lot of human misery could be spared by making a living income automatically accessible.
I don't see why you want to do a 60hr work week grind but spend it playing consoles and socializing. Maybe you should attend meetups instead?
> mounting a massive Plato's Cave-like conspiracy to convince people they are doing something useful

Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like that's what most of us are doing now anyway.
>A state in which having more than two children is a mark of social status?

Really? I never knew that was a thing.
I have been using the Day One[0] and it has been fantastic. It is marketed as a journaling app but it works really well for general note taking.

Pros:
- The developers offer a service where they will publish all notes as a book for a small fee. Exporting notes into physical media is a great way to ensure notes stay preserved into the future.

- They are available on most apple platforms (ipads, macOS, iphones) and the notes sync up between all of them. There is also an android app.

- The subscription isn’t expensive

Cons:

- Doesn’t support Windows

- The service to publish a book from notes is still in beta, has not worked well for me so far.

I have been using this app for making notes for about 8 months now and it’s been working great.

[0] http://dayoneapp.com
This is also how webrings operated in the 90s. I make a Diablo page, you make a Diablo page, we both have a common banner in the footer that references each other's sites and anybody else in the ring. (Don't forget to sign my guestbook!)

They still do this with black hat SEO, since such sites aren't going to get any legitimate backlinks organically anyway.
Depends on what you mean by weed out. Each report is a signal. A single report on our site is a weak signal but still may result in a) an inspection and identification of critical violations b) discovery of an outbreak c) a false positive. One hundred reports relating to the same place same timeframe, would be considered a strong signal, and more typically results in a) and b). Our approach to handling the false positive aspect is that we roll data off our website after 30 days.
Github is investigating reports of service unavailability (16 July, 18 10:34AM)
M&A guy here - despite what finance people will say, a majority of acquisitions do not end up realizing their planned strategy.
I think Australia only ?
well done Microsoft
Lets not confuse quiet professionalism with submission and passivity.

That guy was coordinating large amount people in high stress situation. If he would allow everyone to walk on him, lie about him and would not be able with people full of BS, the whole operation would had likely failed.
Yes, it's down for me (in India). And the six newest submissions on HN right now claim the same. Thanks for asking.
> You also have to consider that the average length of a "day" for a popular Twitch streamer is 10-12 hours.

carlsagan42 streams once a week for ~4 hours, and pulls in a couple thousand viewers at min, at 6pm on a Saturday.

His secret? He is super entertaining, hands down one of the funniest people and most entertaining people to watch on twitch. His YT videos of his streams then get a few hundred thousand more views on top of that. But yes he is an anomaly, in that he is really damn good at both game play and also entertaining.

Most streamers don't have that killer combo, so they have to work a lot harder.

Plenty of streamers are 9am-5pm, 8am-4pm, or 11am-7pm. Heck I know successful who are 8pm-midnight.

I'd argue that it really depends on the stream and the community. Streamers that build a super strong community can get away with shorter streamers and smaller viewer bases. They won't be pulling in millions, but they can get a steady income stream from it.

My overall point is that streaming is a valid career for people who have the right skills. The barrier to getting started is low, but the barrier to doing to an open mic stand-up is also low. The difference is there aren't a bunch of news articles about people flocking to open-mic nights, although I suspect on any given night there are a thousand or so people doing open mic in the US alone! But there is also a cultural realization that most people shouldn't quit their job, drop out of school, and start practicing their comedy routine 8 hours a day.
Any UBI program that doesn't take basic living expenses ( housing, healthcare, bandwidth, food ) into account is just a fancy detour for the money to go back into the pockets of the ownership class rather than creating lasting wealth for society at large.

At best UBI is one element of a comprehensive restructuring of society towards one that actually tries to be a knowledge economy where unique individual talents are cultivated and useful knowledge is discovered and disseminated as widely as possible for the maximum benefit of society as a whole.
also UK
Down in Canada as well.
Should I switch to Instapaper from Evernote?
You're right -- I don't remember the right term for this case, which is why I put it in quotes. I just know that you can get the license automatically, and do the recording, but that the original artist has some means to try to block you releasing the recording.
It's down for me in California.
He sold it around the time of the tumblr acquisition by Yahoo. Marco was the first employee of Tumblr and even though he didn’t work there at the time of the acquisition he made a few million off of the sale.

I guess that gave him some runway to try new things.

Besides, it seems like the team from Betaworks has been working on Instapaper since then.
Developer-related service outages seem to have become the new "compiling" excuse: https://xkcd.com/303/
Beautiful new Twitter client for Mac
US too
I'm confused how this comment got rated "-10":

I use Backblaze now and once I get my NAS, I’ll probably end up using a B2 based backup. But let’s make an honest comparison. Backblaze does not replicate your data across data centers. The standard S3 storage class does (0.23/gb). The comparible storage class for S3 is one zone infrequent access (.01/gb). B2 still comes out ahead, but I wouldn’t use either one for primary storage. For thier suggested “3-2-1” backup strategy, sure. Then again, just for backup, I could use S3 glacier for $.004/gb. That’s cheaper than B2 and I get multiple AZ storage. The data charges would be higher - but its backup. If catastrophe struck and I lost my primary and my local backups, getting my data fast is the last thing I would worry about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17407275
>It probably had nothing to do with sexism per se;

It is quite common to hear about sexism in the tech industry (especially here), but sexism in the toy industry is where it all starts.
Down in Chattanooga, TN, USA
> I think the fundamental problem is spammers. It's hard to kick off misbehaving users from usenet.

I know that usenet has the concept of moderated groups. I don't know whether managing one would be more time consuming compared to an email list. Based on what I see in the git mailing list (via gmane), there is a significant amount of spam that makes it through, but most people have set their filters to handle that.
I don't understand. Are you simply quoting the article?
Someone should write a bot that scrapes status.github.com and posts downtimes to HN. There's a lot of Karma to be harvested still.
The author seems to believe that UBI proponents are opposed to single payer healthcare, and this could be his central beef. He never criticizes UBI itself, he's yammering on about big tech's "view". But it's hard to tell, I had to dig for a while to find an identifiable point.

> Yep, but not with five hundred bucks a month, Marc. At least not in your country, where 44% of the population can’t afford a $400 medical emergency.
Ask HN: Can you recommend me a lightweight journaling tool
I am looking to keep brief notes on what I did every day. The Internet blogs are a overkill.

Here are my requirements:
1. Lightweight
2. Easily migratable
3. customizable look n feel

Nice to have:
1. uses embedded DBs like sqlite
2. written in php
3. Ability to add tags/search by tags
Yes, they do. The line width only increases up to a certain maximum because this is usability best-practice; there is an max optimal line length for readability.
I've been trying to go to sleep earlier for a little over a week now (I used to sleep at about 3AM-5AMish and now I'm sleeping at about 9:30PM-10:3PM0ish now). My sleep plan is turn off all the lights, open up my laptop about 30 minutes before I try and sleep and watch an episode or two of futurama on 1.23x speed. I've been getting to sleep every night since on my target time despite being on an Adderall prescription. Futurama really helps for some reason. I'm trying to build it up to the point where I don't need to watch any show to get to sleep early, but I'm not quite at that point yet.
There's another way to frame that: What if it's a coincidence that the rent of labor has afforded a tolerable lifestyle for the masses and lavish lifestyles for capital owners for nearly 200 years? And, what if this coincidence that has supported a social order (explicit or de facto capitalism) is coming to an end?

I'm fond of Zizek's remark that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. It seems apposite, here.
This is seriously where we're supposed to be for a pro laptop?

It shouldn't work "pretty well" when you're using a $2000+ machine. It should work perfectly every single time. This is what built apple into the company it is. "pretty well" wasn't good enough.

This sounds like the type of concession I would have made in 2005 on my gentoo laptop. "Yeah, USB doesn't work, but there is a workaround that sends that data over wifi! It even usually works!"
Bingo. It seems pretty easy for one restaurant to file reports about a rival.

I'd be happier with a site that aggregated food poisoning reports from various government health departments, but I'd worry about Joe Random telling me he died eating someplace.

But then it wouldn't be crowdsourcing, which is the point.
The author makes a false equivalence between the RSA in France and the typical UBI proposal. An individual's RSA benefit decreases as their work income increases. This has the effect of making an individual weakly indifferent to working, since it will provide no marginal increase in income. Most UBI proposals involve a benefit that doesn't phase out with income (or phases out at an income level so high that it doesn't matter). The RSA, in both design and implementation, is a lot like the already-existing EITC in the US.

The whole point of guaranteeing income is to try to avoid the distortion of incentives that comes from means-testing benefits. When the author claims that a UBI (like the RSA) would create a permanent class of non-workers, he is basing his argument on an elementary misunderstanding of policies involved.
I witnessed one myself when I was working as a consultant. It was a hospital that chose SAP to automate its invoicing system. When the implementation got stuck, the hospital was unable to send out any invoice for almost a year. In the end the money was finished and the government had to jump in and take over.

It is true that the management of the hospital made some big mistakes, but on the other hand it was SAP's sales team that had been very good at giving them opportunities to hang themselves.
This isn't the first time this kind of teardown has been performed and they all show the same thing. The $35k base model made at scale later this year will be profitable.

I know this doesn't sit well with the whole "Musk is a fraudster/bullshit artist" wave that's hit HN and most online forums recently, but sometimes things are really simple. They'll make the car and sell it a profit.
Nature and history documentaries for me. Pretty sure I've slept through some part of every documentary David Attenborough has made.
Five facts about smell (2014)
At one point in time, I thought MHTML was precisely what we need to get rid of PDF, double click, and everything works.
Sadly everyone abandoned it, and Google doesn't want you to have down any webpage for archiving purpose.
What I do for all of my side projects now is keep a TODOs.md file in the project root. I no longer keep track of to-dos for programming projects external to the project. I find it makes it much easier to pick up a project I've left for a while.

What I do is every time I think of a new work item or discover a bug, I add an item to the list. Once I finish an item, I check it off. Since it's checked in with everything else, it's a good history of what work was "discovered" along the way and what work has been done.

For the last few years, I've worked on a bunch of little side projects projects here and there and this system has kept me sane.

For an example, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/allenu/YokosukaJS/master/T...
How Tinder keeps your exact location (a bit) private
No effect on external quality. But it does improve internal quality. Whether or not a study should make recommendations based on metrics they didn't measure sure seems like a valid question, though.
South America too (Brazil)
Musk said for the price of an economy ticket.
That is what I tell people that think they could do the same for 1% of the cost: You can't.

I do believe they would have gotten more out of spending 500M on an internal team though.
I suppose that is probably true that a lot of very early stage startups may appear that way. That said, I've worked directly with them in Kenya and can attest to the fact that it's not and they are doing good work pushing this concept forward. If you have suggestions for other things that would help establish the veracity of things, do let me know.
Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
All I see is the unicorn, but can't access my repos!
> what if an uncomfortably large part of the population just really doesn't have anything economically worthwhile to offer in the modern context? Nobody wants to say that

What are you talking about. People on HN say that all the time; it's one of the core premises underlying the feeling that UBI will eventually be necessary? Indeed, that seems to be the prevailing view even though it flies in the face of the evidence that gains from automation are far away from replacing human workers.
Great point about the hover, and information popups for mobile, thanks for the reminder. We had those in the past, they were not well used, but I still think it's great to have them, especially for the 'Send Report To' - that's a newer feature. Star ratings is something new we are trying out, some people want to rate, and as wonderfully suprising as some people are, some want to rate well. I think its' an offset to them 'feeling bad' about reporting a place, especially if it's a place they frequent, and usually like. Not sure.
Fluid Coupling: Principles of Operation (1953) [video]
Happy to provide a more thorough answer :-)

You should think of Prisma as the data layer for your applications. If you look at large tech companies who are typically ahead of the status quo for how to build applications, then you see that there is a trend to move away from traditional ORMs.

Twitter has a service called Strato that manages data access for all their services. Facebook has TAO that serves a similar role. Prisma is an open source implementation of that pattern.

If you are building a GraphQL API using for example Graphene, then you could use Prisma as your data layer, but Prisma can also be used in non-GraphQL applications.
If you are using the Nodejs implementation, then you can take advantage of schema delegation to simplify the implementation of your resolvers. The GraphQL ecosystem is still evolving, so these capabilities will come to more languages in the future.

So in short - Prisma replaces SQLAlchemy, not Graphene. Hope that provides some clarity :-)
We can either ask people with money/power to support those without -- which I don't think will ever be a good or even stable solution -- or we solve the hard technological problems currently preventing self-sufficiency. The difficulty in the latter is not to be underestimated, but there's also more potential upside if we figure it out.
How TurboTax Used Design and Emotion to Solve a Boring Problem and Dominate
https://status.github.com/messages

Github is down
You could have a second bot that posts a comment in the thread each time with something like: "See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure." Lots of karma to be had there as well.
Yes, it's down for me (in India). And several of the newest submissions on HN right now claim the same. There's multiple Ask submission too.