skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t agree with piracy of apps. Developers should get paid. But looking through my apps on my iOS devices, I’ve only paid for three apps - a calculator app and one game to remove ads and Infinity Blade back in 2010-2011.

I do pay for services that have an iOS app but they are not just iOS apps. That includes Office365, Evernote, DirecTVNow, Hulu, Netflix (not really, its free with T-mobile), Apple Music, and so guess I could include various streaming apps that I can use via my DirecTV login.

I would have paid for Overcast to support Marco, but he started his own podcast display ad network and he monetizes that way. I usually pay to turn off ads on apps I use frequently but I find topic relevant podcast ads so relevant, I consider the ads to be a feature.

I’ve always said it was a fool’s errand trying to make money on $0.99 downloads. Either create a service that generates reoccurring revenue or develop apps for B2B deployments where a company is willing to pay a lot of money for custom deployments. That’s where I made money working for companies doing mobile development.
The really funny thing about doing any construction work in basically any Italian city is that you already know from the start that there is going to be several years of delay due to finding ancient stuff...

But it's impossible to dig all of that out (reasons: too big, too disruptive, no funds, happens everywhere, etc).
So what usually happens is: take pictures, save some artifact, cover with concrete and go on with the works.
I think a significant portion of my brain (Similar in size to the knowledge from my Bachelor's degree) was dedicated to remembering every quest and map up to WotLK. It's surprising how much I still remember from 7 years ago.
Can someone explain this?

> “Yubikey cost Google less than their own authenticator app,” Ehrensvärd said, and there have been no account takeovers since the program was implemented, Google says.
Scientists Found New Class of Antibodies Protects Against HIV-1 Infection
To me it seems that modern apps don't really stay frozen in the background like it was ten years ago, at least not on Mac. Something always keeps bubbling up in the process manager. Especially, JS GUIs seem to constantly occupy the CPU with something, even if a little―despite the supposedly event-driven nature.
As a person with severe aerophobia, I'd give a lot for air travel to feel mundane.
Im running a $5(+$2 for backups) 1GB linode and getting around 50k views a month on a properly configured wordpress with caching and 30 plugins with nginx on Centos 7. Sometimes 25-50 ppl at the same time. Site is pretty fast(faster than most- maybe because lack of a dozen of trackers). With 2GB ram and 1 more core it would be super fast. Im using Centmin mod stackscript for managing nginx.
interesting...by floor and ceiling is that like the minimum and maximum threshold for latency?

here's my pain point. I built a serverless REST API with token authentication on Lambda. However, if many people aren't using it all the time it will sleep and then the next sucker who calls the endpoint is stuck with waiting for the serverless instance to wake up.

In some cases even getting a token from a simple POST request would take an awful long time. This was a few years ago and I stopped using serverless since then.

But now I'm interested in serverless because I've been hearing that the cold startup problem is being reduced.

I wonder if in the future developers will be just taking core logics from serverless repository and wiring up the components, sort of like how wordpress does it without the crazy layers of PHP and bloat.
Heck, even if it ends up being completely lifeless, IMO Europa is still one of the most exciting bodies in the solar system in terms of future potential - Between abundant energy from the Jupiter-Io flux tube, methane fuel from Titan, hydrogen and helium from Jupiter herself, and water from Europa, colonization of the Jupiter system may well be the key to the outer solar system, and potentially even interstellar efforts. More immediately, it could be an essential stepping stone to enable largescale harvesting of the Jupiter Trojans.

Even if you'll never see a Jupiter-rise, I for one love the idea of living on Europa.
The instructors may be tough, in order to motivate you. But there's a difference between being tough and being mean. I would imagine your instructors wouldn't talk down to you outside of class.

Working for an abusive boss can seriously take a toll on your mental health.

And then the thing you get in return - building the future. You think that will make you happy. But I know people who have a long list of accomplishments, who are deeply unhappy, because of the crushing work schedule and toxic people they work for. And in the end, the future you build may not be what you hoped. You wake up and realize you sacrificed your wellbeing all for a phone app or a new piece of adtech.

It's just not worth it. There are plenty of places where you can impact your industry and not be treated like shit. Your dignity is worth more than that.
Why would I use this over, say, Stripe, which is also very developer friendly, robust, and no fear of disappearing anytime soon.
The Founder’s Paradox: How to Succeed When Most Founders Fail
I hope you know that Dubai is not in India
#1) The need for a large ellipse of flat plains with a minimal amount of hazardous rocks/slopes. Landing accuracy is constrained by our knowledge of the Martian atmosphere. Odd features tend to be on the opposite end of the ground hazard spectrum.

#2) Planetary protection. Mars his a Category V target: it has potentially habitable niches, it has an atmosphere able to carry biological contamination anywhere, and we want to return samples from it to Earth. Chances of contamination are much lower when we stay far away from water ice and active gullies. Modern landers and rovers are much more delicate and intricate than the original Vikings and we can't just bake off all the contamination.

#3) Communications. Equatorial plains have a better view of the relay satellites.

#4) Close up, most interesting features on Mars are still a rocky desert. The Phoenix Lander landed on top of permafrost, which was unintended as it was thought to be just another rocky desert.

#5) Odd features are often complex geologically and characterizing the area near the rover may not say much about Mars nor provide useful context for future, more detailed missions.

#6) Perhaps, a tiny bit of backlash from Viking's ambiguous chemical experiments. It's easier to get conclusive science and write solid papers from old, stable parts of Mars.
I'm just amazed that the whole of America is not offended by the Department of the Interior's ineptitude. Our internet got cut for two weeks because they were required to be removed from the internet because of how sloppy their IT security was. Made for some problems with our distance learning classes. Even the colleges who paid for their internet from a private provider were affected. Hell, BIE still thinks a T1 is good enough for a community college.

North Dakota has open enrollment, so there are a lot of buses from other schools on the rez each morning (which I find good for the students). The tribes runs the local school not the BIE, and I think that is much more common these days. We don't have any of the old BIA schools, and the most common boarding school in our area is a world of difference from the old government crap (it is now run by Native Americans and does wonders for troubled children).
I don't live in India, but that's basically what I gathered from the massive market research I conducted with a few friends :)

Then again, I believe the top-end Samsung and iPhones are comparable in price here in the US?
How to Deploy a Single Page Application to Google Cloud
Probably around 100,000 €.
When comparing different locations I find beneficial to look at the local purchasing power. Numeo has a quite accurate comparison of cost of living, salaries and LPP: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Bottom line is, for the basket of goods and services used in their comparison, LPP at San Francisco is 30% higher than Toronto.
>>You simply haven't made a case showing why $400B in space research will generate more or better positive side effects than $400B in cancer research.

You made the original claim that spending that money on cancer research would be more beneficial. The burden of proof is on you, not me.
> There's a big difference between people self-censoring due to a chilling effect, and an actual change in beliefs.

To society - or victims - the difference is moot. Do you care if the former rapist was genuinely reformed by a prison sentence, or are just "self-censoring"? Changing beliefs is not the goal, reducing harm is.
Embracing Artificial Intelligence
Not a very good article, but I agree with the idea that rent-seeking should be discouraged and we need to fight against it.

As an entrepreneur/self-employed person who 100% does not have any special relationships in government and relies almost solely on referrals, it is very frustrating to see people "create" wealth because they have special relationships with government officials.

In my industry, education, it's pretty rampant. Textbook deals are particularly horrendous.

Even on the local level it can be pretty bad. At a local charter school near me, a math teacher working at the same school is the number one recommended math tutor for students in HIS program. While they are not allowed to be his current students, he has a very parasitic relationship with them.

He charges a very local high rate ($100+ per hour) to students that he has taught math to. It just blows my mind how corrupt this is. I have heard him bragging about making thousands of dollars a month and more than doubling his school salary from students in a math/science program that he is an administrator/teacher for.

And this is at a very competitive math and science charter school who routinely sends people to the top math and science colleges in the country.

I mean, I get it, people want to make money, but this type of behavior is just disgusting.
Takes me around an hour each way. I prefer it to public transit which takes me 45 minutes. I've lived in the GTA my whole life, I'm used to the traffic. The KW and Ottawa are cheap but they're really boring. If you're starting a family or something they would be great.
My hunch is that they were absolutely hedging and that they liked not being dependent on a single CPU vendor.
A Guide to Mindful Communication in Code Reviews
I would go talk to both your team mate and your boss, in that order. I would also be very cordial and professional. Learn why the teammate took the credit or may be the boss is just mistaken. Find out the truth and then set the story straight with the boss without bad mouthing the teammate.

If this happens again, then you can be little more direct.

It would also behoove you to mention your accomplishments in passing to your boss during a casual chat in the morning while you are talking about weather or current events. Bosses for most parts don't have all the minute details of who is doing what.
I'm not claiming to have faith in anyone.

I'm saying if I was the billionaire and someone criticised me for using my money directly rather than giving to the charity I'd ask how does that person know the charity is better than me. It seems like people are just seeing the label 'charity' and are thinking it's undeniable that the charity have any idea what they're doing themselves.

What causes do you support? If I set up a charity for those causes, took a cut for my salary and distributed the rest of the money as I saw fit, would you give your money to me instead of carrying on as you see fit? But I'm a charity and you're not!
Ask HN: How to raise money for proof of concept?
hey guys so I showed a demo to a VC and he's really excited and wants to invest but I'm thinking about shopping around town if you know what I mean.

Problem is I've never really done this it's always been just one off individuals that approach me so I'm looking for a good book or tutorial out there.

Network network network yes I don't mind it but often walk away tired having to listen to so many successful people.
Knative Slack channel
If you want to discuss knative, there's now a channel with the same name on the Kubernetes Slack community (https://kubernetes.slack.com/)
You see a man lying still on the ground, blood pooling around his body, and a woman standing close by gripping a knife with bloody hands. What happened? “We weren’t there. We didn’t observe it.”
Haha that was your first thought?
Funny enough, that might also reveal something about how human brains store information: locations on a map sounds suspiciously compatible with the method of loci (aka "memory palace", thanks to a more recent incarnation of Sherlock Holmes)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
In Zotero you just do that in your PDF reader of choice. If you're using syncing, as long as the PDF reader saves annotations back to the original file, Zotero will automatically sync the updated file to other group members.

The one downside of this approach is that multiple people can't modify the same PDF at the same time. The upside is that you can use whatever PDF tools you want and annotations remain accessible in the file even if you stop using Zotero, which goes with our philosophy of leaving people in control of their own data. (Mendeley stores annotations and highlights in its own encrypted database, and you can't even export PDFs with annotations in batch. If you want to get a PDF with your annotations out of Mendeley, you have to do it one file at a time.)

Disclosure: Zotero developer
If you are selling digital goods on the app store, you can't use credit cards (and therefore Stripe).

You are forced to use Apple's in-app purchase APIs which are not very developer friendly (especially for subscriptions) and aren't very complete with regards to metrics.

Also, RevenueCat will be around for 1000 years so I reject the notion of us disappearing. :p Actually, I think about that every day. I had a lot of friends who got burned when Parse shutdown and I plan to avoid that. The way our pricing and costs work, we should never have to shut down the service.
#RPA- #RoboticProcessAutomation Myths Debunked
What if your product never gets built, because you are unwilling/unable to navigate the legal and regulatory barriers that have been set up to keep you out?

Not many startups do medical devices. Everybody knows why not. Many other industries are just as walled off.
Housing+utilities+food
I should correct my earlier statement: there appears to be a huge "used-phone" market in India. Purely my observation that there seemed to be a lot more older phones in circulation (both Android and Apple).
That may be the case, but I appreciate it nonetheless - most posters are pretty good at avoiding jokes at the OP's expense, for example, which contributes to HN's relatively good community.
Can confirm. Staying in Toronto because prospects are fewer outside of the city. Girlfriend is from the west coast but helps head up a very popular establishment group in town. Family is from ~2 hours outside of the city on Lake Erie.

I've been casually seeking either something more profitable so that I can save, or otherwise a viable remote position so that we can move a little out of the city (or to the coast). (Both profitable and remote would be ideal in this case, but I can take one before the other as either would help get me there).

Hell, I'd probably even move to the right suburb if I could land a substantially compensated job with Honeywell or something for a while.

Judging my present circumstances, you'd probably wager that I do hate money. I used to have a lot more fun here than I do these days.
I do know that. But people from India fly to Dubai to purchase iPhones because they are cheaper than that. Apple even offers support for these phones but they warn people that Dubai iPhones do not have facetime.
Searing Summer Heat Follows Killer Floods in Japan
Good point, I’d forgotten wine and beer were different. I wonder what further examples of mixed up units the UK has?
Yes, there are many causes. We are in violent agreement. If you focus on the causes, you are preventing cancer, not curing it. You are playing whack-a-mole.
I think it's very naive to think, especially in the political climate of the last few decades, that people who call for repeal of regulation are first of all reading the text and second would be averted from repeal if it simply contained a rationale or they had it explained to them.

De-regulators know there is a reason, in many cases they understand it well. They don't care.
It sure would be nice if AWS would support FIDO U2F. Currently, only TOTP codes are supported. I guess most orgs are implementing that in their SSO solution, but for those of us that still have regular IAM users, U2F would be a big improvement in usability.
Excellent summary. Although I think you're far more likely to make Starfleet 0.5 in the private sector. This problem is too big for current governments because they can't ever agree and ideas will be weighed down by infighting/constituents. Good luck getting 5 countries to agree to anything other than not going to war with eachother these days. Compromises on ideas would be too much for such a mission.

I think the only way to solve this is private industry i.e. SpaceX IPO. Then you've got plenty of cash, fast moving ideas, economies of scale, and most importantly market incentive -> no better type of incentive.
Widespread MediaTemple Outage
which are you saying is "more negative" eeeh or uh-huh? The way I hear it, eeeh is much more rude or insulting, but also has more levity. Uh-huh is a mild eye roll sarcasm meant as an insult, more to the side of someones back. Eeeehhh, is "pretty sure you are wrong" to their face.
I'm not OP but I would root to get my battery life back, delete preinstalled apps.
I will be jobless with RPA setting in my business!
Make no mistake about what is happening here. GSK is buying access to all of the genetic data that 23andMe has. This is why I am wary to use any 23andMe type of service.

"The partners plan to use 23andMe’s data to jointly discover drug targets."

They will claim all kinds of protections of course, but it is only a matter of time until genetic data starts being resold.
You need to also take in to account average income when looking at COL, which is significantly higher in SF than in TO. If you're spending 2x the price in SF, but making 3x then you come out way ahead.
Oh wow, I just tried counting to ten with pictures while thinking a conversation. Neat trick!

I do something similar for separating my hands on the piano, the left hand becomes a pattern rather than literal chords and I can picture the hand placement and still think of the melody. Forever a work in progress that is though.
« the water likely has a great many salts dissolved in it »

Might be easier to get less saline ice and melt that than to desalinate saltwater.
Eh, the military invents very few things, they mostly spend money on custom development of existing tech to make it better at killing things or facilitating the killing of things.

The car, the calculating machine, the photograph, the steam engine, the radar: none where invented by military men or even those funded by the military.
In that it suggests he's thirsty for "just" wars? Or you think that running for-profit companies that produce expensive luxury goods counts as socialism? Or... he's a bit shallow and just enjoys a fun novel?

The Culture setting is a sort-of utopian socialist society, its people literally don't have money, and the most obviously valuable "things" made in their society, Ships, are people, not products. Musk doesn't look like any flavour of socialist to me, let alone a Utopian one.

The book those two names are from, specifically, is about the Culture using below the belt tactics first on our protagonist (he's blackmailed into doing what they want), and then on an entire alien civilisation, sparking a massive civil war apparently as a means to the end of regime change.

It's very easy to be gung-ho about the Culture's intervention here because the alien civilisation in question is clearly both corrupt and bigoted - but the thing about massive civil wars is that even if you like the eventual outcome it sucks for ordinary people caught in the crossfire.
Sure, but it's a continuum, not a binary dichotomy. Just like you can do more with your car if you have degrees in mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics, but a person with nothing but a high-school diploma can upgrade a camshaft.

The point is, you can do a lot of very useful things with ML, without needing the entirety of the theoretical underpinnings. Of course you can't do everything but not everybody needs to be able to do everything.
offtopic, but does anyone know where I can download NLS/Augment? OpenAugment website seems to be down. From what I understand, the server could be loaded on a DEC-20 virtual machine while the clients could be accessed via a MS-DOS terminal. It's not being sold anywhere, so I figure this would be "abandonware". and hopefully downloadable somewhere.

I would like to play with this, as there is nothing quite like this in the market.
When Trump's travel ban rolled out and people with green cards were being blocked at the border, I was terrified. Thank goodness the courts struck down that version.

My wife and I aren't from any of the blocked countries, but who knows how the list could have grown at Trump's whim and current "enemy of the week".
ColdQuanta raises to make it easier to spin up use-case quantum computer
Replacing netstat's 90s C Code with Modern Python
> If you don't want to use a web browser with a third party rendering engine, you could just not install it.

It's not that I don't want to use a 3rd party web browser. It's that I don't want a 3rd party web browser to ever become popular enough to give that browser's vendor the ability to influence Apple's ability to make technical decisions about their platform. Being beholden to 3rd party software vendors was basically the story of OS X for years. I don't think it was good for Apple.

> As other comments mention, all a mandatory browser leads to is "you must use IE6 to visit this site"

On the contrary, as long as Apple is Safari only and Android is mostly Chrome, there is no way that this can happen.
Microsoft and HP are in Mississauga, Honeywell and IBM are in Markham. Uber has a small office right in my neighbourhood. Rakuten Kobo is in the neighbourhood as well. Nvidia is downtown, but their office is relatively small.

There are a few. Most large ones are in the suburbs. Downtown has an overwhelming amount of VC-funded ad-tech companies that I wouldn't go near if my living depended on it. (I'd take up something else to cover the bills...)
Sad that this great trove will end up with a name linked to one of the most shameful pages of Italian history [1], just because postwar politicians in Rome didn't have the guts to do the right thing and rip colonial-era names from the map.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amba_Aradam
Airboats aren't quiet at all.... maybe you mean a canoe/kayak with an electric trolling motor? Newer PWCs aren't all that loud as long as you aren't going full throttle.
This is the first computer at school that I got my hands on
Yeah that's a great truism but using that as an argument against a feature doesn't help your case.
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It's seems silly to compare it to the y2k problem, aside from the bit at the end of the article:

Many older computers, with aspects dating back to before the end of the Shōwa era in 1989, have never been updated to reflect the new era, and still think the year is Shōwa 93. That means Japan could face another mini Y2K problem in 2025, as those systems attempt to tick over to a three digit Shōwa year they can’t cope with.

The real problem with y2k was the amount of compiled code depending on two-digit years. All those conditionals looked exactly like any other integer comparison.