skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And PS Vue would only be of use in the US.

At the end of the day, PS Vue doesn’t offer anything compelling enough to acquire. A few subscribers and a bunch of licensing deals to broadcast TV over the Internet. Apple could get the same deals as Sony, Sling, Directv, Hulu, etc. Cable networks aren’t exactly being stingy about licensing.
Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
Krugman, in a real way, is why Bitcoin exists.

He literally advocated a housing bubble. (Broken Window fallacy)

The housing bubble collapsed causing bailouts of banks.

Bitcoin is a direct response to this nationalization of private losses. Not to mention the century of financial corruption that preceded it.

Satoshi was not coy.

The genesis block contains the text: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”.

Of course Krugman is a “skeptic”.

Bitcoin repudiates his entire career, ideology and work, and is having a significant positive impact in the world.

Unlike Krugman.

Every year bitcoin continues it gets stronger, it rewards supporters and forces the corrupt banking system Krugman endorses into the light a bit more.

Krugman and other nocoiners hate bitcoin?

Bitcoin don’t care.

This is what you have to understand about bitcoin:

Bitcoin doesn’t have to care.

It’s the first real tool of individual financial sovereignty.
but those scores do not necessarily translate to real world experience.

the issue I take with Apple is they do have the ability to come in under 1k and provide a good product that they can profit from both in desktop and laptop lines but they don't choose to.

on product availability and innovation the last major update to iMac was the retina screens discounting putting a workstation CPU in the same chassis. the mini is just a disgrace but this also comes with the fact that they dropped their stand alone screens and people have been waiting for a 4k Apple branded screen.
FB is not in fact banning any speech here. You can say what you want as long as you are speaking on your own behalf, using your true identity. What is problematic here is that people have created false identities and use them to influence public opinion. That is a clear ToS violation.

Quote: "It’s clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past. "
Nick Szabo, who some people thought might be Satoshi, wrote an interesting essay/paper on "micropayments and mental transaction costs" for those interested:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-...
Most of those cars are much older and have much lower maintenance labor costs as well. I fully expect self driving cars to remain more expensive than taxis in many of the countries I've visited.
If I say,

> Most Christians AFAIK do not supplement their Christianity with terrorism.

Will you link me to the wikipedia on the KKK? There's a difference between some and most.
The web was intended to be a free exchange of knowledge, not ad driven, regardless of how JS was abused in the late 90s, early 2000s. A scripting language was added to the web because of Netscape’s commercial interests in Creating an alternative to MS products.
It's totally reasonable for someone to like Dell and want to stay with Windows. It's not for me though and my point to the OP was that it's not irrational to prefer Macs. I don't buy them for status symbol (at least not consciously). I've looked at Surface Pro and Surfacebook but I just can't get over how clunky Windows feels to get anything done. I especially hate the nagging to get a One Drive account.

I don't think of people who prefer Windows and Dell as status seekers or in otherwise derogatory terms. To each his own!
Hey -- been dorking around with Go for a few months now. I started with VSC and the various Go plug-ins, and it got me about 50% of what I'd like to have in a development environment.

I've since then switched to JetBrains' GoLand IDE. It's fantastic... lots of good, useful help, very fast. One thing I'd recommend is to set up an "On Save" event to run "goimports". Then you get automagic import correction, and very nice pretty-printing (I think it runs "gofmt" under the hood).

Notably, all the tools such as "goimports" are already installed, and if you want a debugger, I believe that's built in as well (I gave up on debuggers a long time ago).

Enjoy -- it's a fun language, and there are a ton of useful open-source projects to learn from and leverage.
Citus claims OLTP but for a large cluster 2 phase commit is not a very viable approach.
> Downvoted for stating a true context fact?

You did not provide the context at all, and I'm surprised that you would imply you did.

The context is that he said that as part of an article about why economists make incorrect predictions. In context, it was clearly (in my opinion) intended to be a provocative possibility, rather than taken as something the author thought would definitely happen.
Judge blocks release of 3D-printed gun plans
>How do I overcome my fear of flying?

Here's a good allegorical story that can help with that:

"There was a rich merchant, who after having been out travelling with his caravan for some time, reached the outskirts of a town. The evening was late, but he needed a few things so he sent his best servant to the market. At the market the servant happened to meet Death. It was easy to recognize the sinister face of Death, they were no more than ten meters away from each other. Death saw the servant and raised his hand. The servant instantly became terrified and fled head over heels to his master without having bought anything at all.

Back at the merchant’s tent the terrified servant told his master whom he had met at the market. The merchant immediately gave the servant one of his fastest horses and told him to ride the whole night without stopping and by dawn he would be safe in Samarkand. The servant rode as fast as the horse could carry him. That night it was only him, the horse and the glistening stars.

Early the next morning the merchant went to the market and also he happened to meet Death. The merchant, who was annoyed instead of being afraid, went straight up to Death asking what he ment by threatening his best servant. Death calmly replied “I wasn’t threatening him, I was merely greeting him. But I must say I was very surprised to see him here since I am supposed to meet him in Samarkand tonight”.

Or, to paraphrase a saying we have here, "They who are meant to drown, are resistant to any other kind of fatal incident".

We shouldn't concern ourselves with statistically insignificant odds such as of a plane crashing. Heck, a car accident is an order of magnitude more likely -- and even more so at the rate we get in cars or cross roads vs being on airplanes.

Or, to just use the words of Hunter Thompson: "Buy the ticket, take the ride".
Visa still managed to make $15 billion in gross profit last year. Seems pretty significant to me.
In other words: horror vacui
OK, that thing with the Kickstarter is cleared out in another reply, but I feel like fake it till ... has some truth to it. Some cheap rhetorics to my taste:

"Ordering from China, I’d see my product in 90 days. Now that it’s made in the USA, lead time is only 3 weeks!"

Err, 3 weeks = 24 days. "If you don't treat the flu with our drug you are seek for 14 days, if you do - only 2 weeks." Haha.

"They are producing them at the same price as the Chinese were quoting me! You can imagine the amount that I am saving on shipping car trash cans with producing them here."
- Not sure why Chinese quote an experienced procurer same as in US, he should be able to get a discount at least for the shipping costs, shouldn't he?
- And anyway, no, I can not imagine shipping costs, must be low, shouldn't they?
If you enjoyed SoTM for that reason, you may also enjoy "House" by the same author.

Its a nail by nail account of... building a house with Kidder's trademark style.
I don't get why they don't just prepare the dataset for optimal search beforehand, as done in compgeom, like a quadtree or voronoi or in this case clustering into k regions. K dimensions are not so hard to handle.
Then search will always be logarithmic. Even Google prepares it's datastructures for fast queries, a reverse index.
You haven’t had any issues come up with the keyboard? I’m honestly surprised.
Hi Cassowary37, I'm working on a CBT application, I would love to get your feedback on it if you have a few minutes. Would be happy to buy you a coffee via the starbucks website :)

CBT helped me a lot and I would love to be able to share it with others.

My email is johnCbogil@gmail.com
"The only thing objectively inmoral is imposing one’s own moral standards and viewpoints on others." So the only really moral thing is to a) think that there are no universal moral standards b) universally apply this moral standard of no universal moral standards.

You have a great mind to be able to hold both of these thoughts at once, and be able to sincerely express them both in a single sentence. I assume then that you would not have a problem with an Afghani policeman who recently immigrated to your country raping your kids, because that is morally acceptable in his culture [1]?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/world/asia/afghanistan-mi...
Me using noscript doesn't make a dent in the usage patterns of the public at large and it doesn't inform others that there is a better way to browse.

Without any decent weight behind it, there would be no incentive for people to build their software to actually respect the user and they would continue serving a broken application.

Much like browsers slowly boiling site owners by displaying sites as insecure if they don't have any encryption, a similar effort could be made to stop websites handing visitors around like the town bicycle.
Loved ZZT and Megazeux, it was what got me started into programming over hacking
David Einhorn: Hedge fund's performance 'far worse than we could have imagined'
Interestingly, I just visited what I believe is generally regarded to be the first community-owned public library in the world: the Biblioteca Maletestiana in Cesena, Italy, established 1447. It had books in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, all chained to their desks so that patrons couldn't walk off with them. And the chains worked: the books are still there.
Yep. Credit to the author. The page has been updated today since I wrote that comment.
There is no such thing as "the ads are well done and blend in with the webpage". Especially on a website where you pay for a subscription.
How intriguing! I would like to subscribe to your... how do you say... letter of news.
Tips for Reading Aloud to kids
Most of your bullet points are interesting and relevant. I have to take issue with the last one though.

In any discussion of self-driving cars I've learned to completely and totally ignore all statements of the kind "X plans to launch Y at Z point in the future"
And those new USB-A devices exist for a reason. There's a formal ban on female USB-C to male USB-A adapters because they're afraid of someone making an A to A cable with two dongles. So if you want to follow the spec, and want to support hosts that don't have a USB-C port, then all you can ship is a USB-A device.
> Starbucks is doing very well in China

Starbucks is considered extremely high-end/luxury in China. It's not just an overpriced coffee shop like it is here in the U.S. It's considered 'exotic'.
Fly Qantas. They've had zero fatal accidents since the jet age.
I do and... they don't magically generate rubbish out of thin air any more than adults do - seriously, exactly what rubbish do they generate?!
>Windows doesn't provide zero-copy file-to-file transfer (only file-to-socket transfer using the TransmitFile API).

Anybody knows if the Windows TransmitFile API can also be used to make file-to-file copies?
All those fancy words, and yet they couldn't manage simple number agreement -- "reoccurring phenomena".
Yep, this was me with ZZT. The scripting language was very limited--it didn't even have numbers really. You had to get creative. But it was simple and small enough to understand and try things out. Good memories to me.
Amazon's global workforce has changed genetic makeup of Seattle's blood supply
I developed a fear of flying in my late 20s. My doctor prescribed me a low dose of Xanax specifically for flying. I take it about 1-1.5 hours before takeoff and it significantly reduces my anxiety about flying.

All the techniques listed here are helpful and may solve your problem in the long term. But honestly there's nothing wrong with taking medicine, especially if it's just when you fly and it makes the experience tolerable. The only potential negative is you can't mix it with alcohol on the plane.

If the extent of your anxiety boils down to "I take Xanax when I fly" then it sounds like you're doing fine!
>where nature reigns supreme and no powered travel is permitted.

Except for airplanes and helicopters of course. There are no airspace restrictions preventing you from flying over these locations and I know people who have landed both planes and helicopters in these regions (although likely illegally).
You make a good point. I personally would love to see Mac sales crater. Just fall through the floor. That would hopefully nudge Apple to stop trying to use the product line as a design exercise in minimalist extremes.

All I want is a slightly thicker laptop, with some key travel, and a couple USB-A ports. Is that too much to ask for?
A print book costs less than $1 to print, $0.5 to handle/ship, and $0.5 to sort/shelve. Books cost around $10, and printing companies aren't growing unboundedly, so the money has to go somewhere. It goes to the process that is shared between print books and e-books.
Show HN: AtPassword Slack bot – Encrypt password in your Slack conversations
Out of the box Android and iOS, no it does not. And that's a (the?) cash cow for online advertising.
Yep. Unfortunately some folks are getting downvoted for reasonable criticisms that make no sense now that the post has been updated.
Universal Studios is owned by Comcast [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Pictures
Hi everyone,

Creator of this (pretty much useless) Slack bot here. Before anyone is going to complain about how this isn't secure because Slack can still log your passwords, I know and that wasn't the point of developing this. The attack I was trying to solve is when a hacker get access to a the Slack workspace (e.g. a hacked account) and is able to scroll back to get all the passwords. And although this is only marginally better, it made me (and several other people) think about this issue. And therefore, made it worth my time.

You can't try it out from the Slack app directory because they denied my request with the following reply:

Thanks for submitting your app to the App Directory. Unfortunately after looking at your submission we have made the decision that your app is not appropriate for the App Directory. Slack is not designed for the sharing of credentials and as such cannot be used for that purpose safely. In addition we can't approve an app that promotes the sharing of credentials with a third party. Sorry I couldn't have better news for you.

So once again, this was just a Proof-of-concept and should not be used in production, obviously you are welcom to think about the issue. :)
Are you asking how they are implemented? You'll have to read the compiler code for that. But the documentation does tell you... "No runtime type errors, ever. Every bit of Grain you write is thoroughly sifted for type errors, with no need for any type annotations." So you never write them, but you get all the benefits as if you did.
It looks like they limit the radius of wilderness to the US border. The circle for Boundary Waters would be bigger otherwise, since the Quetico (on Canada's side) is wilderness as well.
The time to do that would have been during Snow Leopard. At this point, MacOS is a liability, not an asset.
> You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies

The U.S didn't ban ALL Chinese companies operating in the U.S. Try setting up a coffee shop or computer repair shop in China as a non-citizen and see how long you last. That's extremely illegal in China. Their government has to approve every foreign business and they rarely do (unless you're some multinational corporation who have made a whole host of concessions.
Beta-blockers have been helpful for me for fear of flying (and other situational fears like public speaking)

http://www.kickhealth.co/blog/beta-blocker-tales-stage-frigh...

https://www.anxieties.com/159/beta-blockers
"To quote a random person from the internet: "Why are there commercials for toilet paper, who is NOT buying it?""

The last time I saw an ad on the internet for toilet paper was yesterday.

There is a wide range in the price of toilet paper, and presumably profitability. Advertising it is motivated by this differentiation.

Besides personal preference, presumably many people are or can be induced to be, afraid of guests and SOs judging them if they buy the cheapest 1-ply.

I don't think the principles are much different from automobiles or a lot of other things, where apparently excessive choices are a means to try to present a Hobson's choice between a cheap low quality option and an expensive, differentiated option. The eternal struggle in marketing is to avoid having to sell a mid-range product for a fair price that maximizes value to the consumer.
Thx for the pointer to TMX. I need to do some computer-aided translation, and was about to roll my own file format for parallel-strings, but always better to choose something existing. Seems there is quite a bit of tools that support it too...
At risk of being a broken record here, that is why I got an XPS. Sub 1k for the 13" model I chose (not due to price, but form factor) and subjectively far better than my 2015 MBP for my use cases.
I'm typing this post on an 11 year old Dell Latitude D830 running Ubuntu. 5 years is not some amazing lifespan for a laptop, especially these days with such incremental improvements in processors year over year.

Unless you're gaming on your laptop your requirements probably aren't that much higher than they were half a decade ago.
Sony is not a Keiretsu. They are fair game.
It's pretty simple, try a few different designs with A/B testing and you will see which one has the most revenues.

However the result will usually be a lot of dark patterns. For instance, that's why you get popup to ask you to register.
South Africa to amend constitution to allow land expropriation
Modern software has certainly become abstraction-heavy, hasn't it? It's not just the GUI libraries. Paint Shop Pro was lean and mean because it had to be, the targeted hardware just wouldn't support anything bloated. Not to mention that many copies were downloaded by modem.
SoaNM is an extended portrait of a single product development process/team under severe competitive pressure. The specific technology being developed isn’t the point (though it has to be explained for context) — it’s an attempt at capturing some archetypal characters and narrative of how technology is developed. It’s sort of like Silicon Valley, except instead of satirizing the outrageous nonsense that takes place in the Valley today, it takes seriously the mostly-serious work of development.

When I worked at Apple in the 90s, if someone asked “what is your work like?” I would give them that book.
The compression is basic run-length encoding, leveraging the Perl repetition operator (x), and the property of the Perl print/say functions that they concat items passed in a list before writing to STDOUT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Multiplicative-Operator...

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/say.html

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/print.html
I run arch on a 9360 and adore it, but the touchpad can be linux-ey at times.
The challenge for capital is that growth is very hard to find. Inflation is >2% while real returns on capital, even risk capital, are around 5%. Is it really worth going to zero investing in equities for a net return of 3%? Where is capital to go to get even the amount of returns needed to sustain it (NIRP bonds, etc.). Growth is the bottleneck, hence the manic interest in start-ups. Buybacks aren't a bad thing, but it is strange that companies like Apple can't find any good places to invest. People should save money and companies should spend it, most of the time we are seeing the opposite.
I've had two of the new pros for the last ~year (one for work and one at home) and haven't had any keyboard issues on either. I don't doubt that it's a problem but it probably gets blown a little bit out of proportion
It seems to me that is less likely. Certainly there would be some unusual situations where people are unfairly oppressed to a point where they cannot take advantage of this, BUT for the most part... people are people.
It's not perfectly legal if you ever do it to an EU user, now. This is why GDPR has some upsides -- it changes what was formerly just unethical into being illegal, which means that we as software engineers can push back against it more strongly.
I'm no fan of high military spending, but an aircraft carrier kept at the dock is worse than useless. Carrier operations are tremendously complex and the crews need constant practice in realistic scenarios (foreign deployments, fleet exercises with allies). When those skills and institutional knowledge are lost they take decades to rebuild.
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It's my understanding that UEFI actually comes up directly into long mode?

"UEFI firmware performs those same steps, but also prepares a protected mode environment with flat segmentation and for x86-64 CPUs, a long mode environment with identity-mapped paging. The A20 gate is enabled as well."

- https://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI
That wasn't really my point… I agree there's competition, but my point was that business are behilden to the government's wishes behind the scenes.
If you are a teen and can do that, I'd also upvote you to #1
Assume you are between any two civilization services and you simply walk parallel to both indefinitely... Seems that's about as bad as it can get. So I guess finding for the longest straight line anyone can take wuthout hitting anything that could rescue you is the answer to your question.
HN leftists can’t abide any facts that put Krugman in a bad light. I pointed out he advocated a housing bubble I’m getting downvoted too.

HN is a farm for socialist sheep and explicitly anti-intellectual.
Where to find people to teach
Love Citus's technology, but once again $99/month is ridiculous for a "dev" plan. Small startups want to use the same database from the pre-MVP dorm room phase all the way through their Series A, and while your technology would theoretically allow that, your pricing closes a lot of doors. No one wants to switch databases once their product is doing well enough to warrant $99/month for a database, so you are scaring away a lot of potential customers such as myself.

Once again I implore you to consider adding a "starter" or "hobbyist" tier for $20/month or even $5/month. If you want to really be competitive, your product should be free to use until you have more than 200mb of data stored in your database, at which point usage-based pricing kicks in based off of the number of rows used.
Just the walls of the library, not the library itself, the papyri.
Quixotic effort to secede California from U.S. to get reboot
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