skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about life insurance?
Metadata about who talks to who when, along with when cash is withdrawn, can likely pinpoint drug dealers. It likely isn't even that hard - a dumb algorithm of something like "rank people by how often their friends withdraw more than $100 of cash within a day of talking to them, divided by how often their friends withdraw more than $100 of cash" would hit a good number of them.
Costs have already fallen. Iridium paid far less to launch their next generation fleet despite it being the same number of satellites, each of which are individually quite heavier than the previous generation (meaning, they purchased much greater launch capability but at a strictly lower cost). And several customers have taken advantage of the extreme low costs of reused launchers. Sure, right now it's only maybe $10 million cheaper, but $10 million is still $10 million, and for some that makes the difference between feasibility and infeasability.
Do you know what I would like? For Android to actually show what apps/services drain battery life.

I noticed recently that WhatsApp, Reddit Sync, and a few other apps were draining battery life like crazy. But none of that drainage was being shown in the battery stats.

Google is purposefully hiding how some apps use battery, and it started years ago when they allowed apps to hide under "Android OS" and "System" categories. In more recent versions they "fixed" this by simply not showing the Android OS and System categories in the battery stats anymore.

Google doesn't want to show how some apps use your battery because they drain the battery with similar methods that Google itself uses to drain your battery (by polling your location all the time, etc).
Do the TOS that Jones violated have definitions of "hate speech"?

Since there is no legal definition in the US, it would seem necessary for each TOS to create its own. If they have, I'd be curious to know how much they overlap, and how specific/vague they are.

EDIT: why the downvotes? I am honestly asking a question about how specific and consistent the definitions are. I didn't realize I would be punished for doing so.
> What if it's an 8 yr old African child right now looking up to code Swift 4 on YouTube?

This is an unbelievably tone deaf thing to say and a reason why people roll their eyes when techies talk about the future.
Almost 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicle_(brand)
Since then, more content from the same Pages has been reported to us — upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/enforcing-our-community...
Thanks, your last paragraph is a nice summary.
It's possible today in Canada.
Something that the local people are actually using.
You're comparing developer marketing materials which should show the reason devs would want this vs human marketing materials?

I get apple is for developers too but they word things in the most utopian way it's almost like they believe they're in a Utopia.
On the consumer side, I don't want "standard devices". I want excellent hardware with excellent software, and I want it to just work. Apple isn't perfect here, but they're much better than their competition. I also like their stance on privacy, and the fact that their business model is aligned with their stance.

Also, didn't iTunes lead the charge to ditch DRM?

On the developer side, I'm an iOS dev. It might be frustrating that Apple doesn't make their toolchain available to you on a Linux box, but I'm actually really glad. It's complex and frustrating enough without them trying to support hobby developers on other platforms. This sounds harsh, but if you don't care about / enjoy Apple's platforms enough to spend $600 to develop on them, they probably are better off without you developing for those platforms.

Also, Apple doesn't generally "intentionally break code". They deprecate stuff all the time, which I appreciate both as a consumer and developer. It keeps the platform relatively cruft-free and ensures that I don't have to make my apps support iOS 1.0 through 12.0.

All of the above is generally my opinion, so if you're going to argue that I actually do want standard devices, or that I should want Apple dev on Linux, or that deprecating things on their platforms shouldn't be my preferred approach, don't bother.

So yes, I'm a fan of Apple, because I value things differently than you, and their actions align with my values.
I've spoken about that in other branches of this thread. This tree is getting too deep, just read my other comments.
My brother is having a fit because he likes listening to Jones for 'conspiracy entertainment'. He's really upset that these companies are 'bullying' Jones.
The downvotes are because your comment does not address the content of the article in question. Instead, you have merely posted a generic criticism of Apple, going over the same old talking points we have all heard before. Thus, your comment does not constitute a quality contribution to this thread.
I’m not sure where exactly this particular Schelling fence stands, but it’s safe to say Alex Jones is on the other side of it.
As someone who's lived in four of the New England states I'd just like to remind everyone that the style of government that the author is idolizing tends to result in a very strong local government that gets up in everyone's business. Three states and many towns across New England were settled by people who decided that their ancestors didn't cross an ocean and risk starving so a bunch of jerks they don't agree with could tell them what to think, how to worship and generally micromanage their life.

There's two sides to every coin.
Hi HN, my name is Nikolay.

As a branding and marketing consultant, I had clients (and friends) come to me and ask me the same questions regarding the first steps to starting a business. I would always start with the same discovery questions about who are you and what are you trying to create and communicate to the world.

This was the birth place of SUBB, an automated branding agency. Making it simple and easy to start your business by autogenerating a brand book. Agency quality branding but for 10% of the cost and time investment.

I am excited about disrupting the current industry and making brand books accessible and available for every entrepreneur and small business.

-NB
where did you get this idea from?
Today the west learns that speech can be harmful even if not directly violent.
We should stop pretending they shouldn't be regulated like some kind of public good or utility.
Yup. Samsung bought a company called LoopPay a couple of years ago. They invented and patented the tech.

https://www.looppay.com/

https://www.recode.net/2015/5/13/11562614/samsung-paid-aroun...
"At the beginning of 2010, it was discovered Goldman Sachs and other banks helped the Greek government to hide its debts." [0]

Yes, it seems that Goldman Sachs was involved in helping cook the books.
To follow this thought, it's also worth pointing out that AIs also have an advantage of parallelization over humans in many cases. What might take an AI 100k hours can often be achieved in ~10k hours in parallel across 10 machines. This is what enables the current system to train over 180 years worth of games every day.
They already do.

My wife had a very early ruptured ectopic pregnancy (which she wasn't aware of), which nearly killed her. On the week that the baby would have been born, Enfamil launched an acquisition campaign targeted at expectant mothers that month, kicked off by a Fedex package containing bottled/powered formula (worth about $60) and including Facebook campaign targeting new mothers.

This was very upsetting to us, so I dug in, found out from the company where they obtained out information, and obtained the list. I spoke to a couple of physician and nurse friends who are pretty confident that it was a combination of the ER admission, an imaging claim, and a drug that was prescribed and filled in the hospital that made it highly likely to an observer that she was pregnant -- but didn't provide enough detail to determine that she left the hospital not pregnant.

It turns out that information regarding hospital admission, insurance claims and prescription fulfillment is available and slurped up by various parties, who are able to de-anonymize it. It contained alot of information, including accurate salary history, cars we owned, approximate credit score, where we bought baby stuff for our previous child, etc.

I make it a point to share this whenever appropriate, as it was a very painful violation of our privacy, and really threw me for a loop, as I couldn't fathom that our medical providers were selling our data to help pitch diapers and formula. Facebook and many other companies either has access to this information by buying lists, or can extrapolate by looking at advertiser patterns.
Meanwhile, people are free to not use their platforms.
You're not wrong. But when the alternative is their platforms being used to spread misinformation and hate, there's not really many other options.
You could re-write that quote to apply in this situation:

First they came for the trolls, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a troll.

Then they came for the shitposts, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a shitposter.

Then they came for the memes, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Memer.

Then they came for me—but there was no one left to like my posts.
Every culture has its myths, and in Apple's culture today, no myth is bigger than Steve Jobs. It might be wise of Cook to invoke Jobs at big moments.

He knows he's never going to match that legend... so why try? Instead of fighting it, he uses it to foster a common purpose within the company.

In terms of "maintaining" the business, Apple's share price when Cook became CEO seven years ago was about a quarter of what it is now. Pretty good maintenance.
My favourite if a little harsh description of 4chan is weaponised autism.

Literally in one case https://www.quora.com/How-did-4chan-get-the-coordinates-of-a...
It's not that sudden. They already warned the pages that they were in violation of policy, and suspended Jones himself for 30 days as of two weeks ago. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/alex-jones-slammed-w...
Any bank that gave my information to Facebook without my explicit, opt-in consent would immediately lose me as a customer.

(Heck, I might switch just for asking.)

Luckily I bank with a credit union (not for profit) which does not constantly try to monetize me.
I don't even understand what you are getting at. Why would a routine physical cost 10000?

The question makes as much sense as asking "Should we have a military if soldiers have a salary of 250 billion dollars each?"
There's no reason to pander to anti-semites like Jones and his ilk.
Mostly because it's what I use everyday. I would imagine it would be fairly easy to port over to a FF or safari extension, though i haven't actually looked into it.
The best analogy I've seen is this: You have the right to say what you want, but I don't have to invite you into my living room to say it.

These aren't public spaces -- they are private spaces that are available to the public.
This is the first time I am considering an iphone as my next phone. But the lack of headphone jack makes it really hard.
AWS s2n lead here! I don't think that's the case ... after all it'd be less work to maintain a branch than to build a whole new implementation. My understanding from meeting the FB TLS folks over the years is that they have their own implementation, with their own coding guidelines, and priorities that "fit in" and suit Facebook. It's great to see more implementations too! I'm excited to finally pore over the code. Companies like Facebook, and Amazon, should all have deep ownership here. You'd be amazed how thick into the weeds we have to get to solve customer problems and it's invaluable to have a team of expert implementors on staff.

As for TLS1.3, we've been merging TLS1.3 dependencies into s2n already (like HKDF) and proving them formally, and we contributed to the TLS1.3 process with some design/security reviews and more. We're big TLS1.3 fans, and it's coming! As a low-level infrastructure provider with security and availability as our top priorities, after talking to our more TLS-savvy customers, we did choose to be a little more conservative, not running experimental branches in production and so on.

I'm also looking forward to this ... https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings/schedule/#playback-... ... and seeing it relates to any of our own research in the same area!
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicle_(brand)

It was invented by Frank Epperson, who left stirring sticks in fruit juice that was left to freeze. He called it the Eppsicle, as a combination of Epperson + icicle, but his kids started calling it "Popsicle" (as they called him Pop), and the name stuck. The name is now owned by Unilever.
Does anyone know someone at Google who can help me? I have been extremely offended by hate speech on their platform, written by literally Hitler. When will Google stop supporting Nazis by hosting a copy of Mein Kampf? [0]

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kJgpngAACAAJ&dq=Mein+kam...
Wait, afaik Alex Jones would call himself a hardcore libertarian. Seems people think he is a right wing guy but I don't see that.
You could, but I’d hesitate to call the result an SSTO, and you’d be better off using the whole BFR stack anyway.

Orbital refueling is critical for the Mars plans. BFR can’t launch for Mars without it, so the capability will definitely be there.
Which is hilarious considering he was a liberal screaming at the right only a decade ago. Hell he's even in Philip k dicks a scanner darkly screaming liberal values on a street corner.
that line doesn't work with monopolies.It's like saying 'people are free to leave their country'
Donald Trump should not be allowed to regulate speech platforms of any kind.
Freedom of speech is not freedom of speech anywhere you'd like, nor is it freedom from consequences of speech.

The notion that a private company has some obligation to uphold First Amendment rights at its own expense is ridiculous.
I wonder how long it will be for them to build a version that actually uses the screen images as opposed to all the data from the Bot API. Seems like it would be a lot harder when you add an image processing step and restrict processing of information from across the map without actually scrolling over there.
I didn't see how you see banning InfoWars is, for no reason. There is apparently a very grounded reason why InfoWars gets banned.
Yes I would forgive anyone who used pre-s6 devices to think Samsung is some lackluster copycat with slow TouchWiz UI and terrible useability
"Mega Purge!" RealNews tweeted on Monday morning.

It's too bad they couldn't get Twitter on board.
Neither one of those companies are monopolies in their industries.
I no longer can say "silence for 1 hour" when I'm giving a talk

I've been using this free app for years to do that, try it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobje...
Is Let's Encrypt good enough for say a production e-commerce site, or is it more for personal blogs and the HTTPS everywhere movement?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - attributed to Napoleon

They just made Alex Jones in a sympathetic character, a martyr for free speech.

And now the pressure to regulate social media platforms will increase.

Can Alex Jones be banned from using toll roads, if those toll roads are operated by a private company?
To be fair, that was in the post war economy. The U.S. had a massive competitive advantage in having a not-bombed infrastructure. Young workers had a competitive advantage in not having to compete with people who died in the war.

And there was a baby boom and a more economically engaged female population, creating new kinds of demands and opportunities for productivity.
Did 3 CEOs decide this?

Or do many of these companies have commitees that guides such decisions?

Not saying it's ideal, just questioning how the decision was made.
Credit cards have section 75 protection, PayPal does not. It’s certainly convenient to use, but comparatively unwise.

Edit: except for small transactions when 75 doesn’t apply. Also I don’t know if it’s in Poland too, but I’d guess so.
The Little Typer is out soon too https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-typer
Government spending, not taxes, are the proper measure of the burden of government. Ultimately, the debts will have to be paid whether that be outright, through devaluation of the currency, or a combination of both.
Hate speech doesn't have a legal definition in the USA (that I know of). It's defined in each service's ToS if they choose to restrict it. Facebook is pretty clear about what qualifies. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/hard-questions-hate-spe...
You should check out their presentation [1] from 2017. The whole thing is incredibly interesting but if you want to see some jaw dropping stuff, check the tail end. They plan to use the BFR (big.. falcon.. rocket) to carry out suborbital missions. In other words, you hop on the BFR. Take off in New York, enjoy some silky smooth zero g travel, and less than 30 minutes later you're landing in London.

I have serious doubts about this, but it's about time that people who have the means and ability to make incredible things happen became so aggressively technological that their ideas seemed doubtful. It wasn't that long ago that many believed that complete rocket reusability impossible (to say nothing of autonomous retropulsive landings on barges getting rocked around in the middle of the ocean). Then it changed it uneconomical. Then it changed to 'oh shit, we're now a decade behind technologically.' I now find myself on the doubter side and look anxiously and happily forward to being proven wrong!

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FY894HyF8
They definitely shouldn't be.

But if you really want to promote free speech on the Internet then you should support Net Neutrality and go a step further and support the re-nationalization of telecom as a public utility so that it gets first amendment protection.
Ditching My Smartphone – Fail
> Don't like what your opponents are saying? Label them "hate speech"

If you think people just simply didn't like what InfoWars would spew, you have another thing coming.

Read up on Pizzagate. Someone went into a pizza parlor with a gun to investigate Alex Jones's claims that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring in the basement. Innocent lives could have been lost for bullshit InfoWars was spouting.

This goes well beyond "I just don't like you." InfoWars is outright dangerous and is poisoning the minds of Americans.

> They (the big three) should not be allowed to own our internet interactions

They don't.

You're still free to use other messaging platforms, or even make your own! The startup costs for creating a web site/app are astronomically low.
Only with heavy government subsidies. The situation I describe didn't require that.
How GPS works (2003)
The leaders aren't even going to these conferences. They deny climate change is even happening. With leadership like that, I certainly won't be making any sacrifices.
I still remember that in Elementary school in Kentucky the teachers "accidentally" showed an Elementary-focused science series that included a video on plate tectonics and they had to apologize to the class and parents for showing such an "advanced and controversial topic". That left a lasting impression to this curious kid about how such simple science topics could even be so controversial, when the teachers looked pained at every follow up question I had days later. (As someone with a terrible anti-authoritarian streak at that age, this show of weakness in the teachers didn't help.)
Interesting to note that this was removed off the front page of HN just now.
Loving the LRU cache IRL posts :)

I'm constantly tweaking my laundry sort algorithms to try and find the fastest. My latest is to have bins for the two youngest, two oldest and myself and my wife. I grab and chuck dry clothes into each. Then I take those to the appropriate place in the house and sort.

I also have toy cleanup bins stashed in each room so I can pile stuff away quickly for easier tidying.

And I have a dustpan just for toy tidying, scooping things off the floor.

And I try to keep the vacuum in the centre of the house where it has the least distance to travel to any room.

And I try to quietly take the messiest toys (small parts) out of circulation.

And all our devices use the same charging cable, and there are charge points with those cables in the most strategic places in the house.

And I try to tidy as a background "garbage collection" task, never leaving a room without removing something that's not supposed to be there
*There are backdoors in Django everywhere - ftfy
No, they're exaggerating. Some school funds are dependent on testing results. The better a school performs, the more funding they get from federal programs (some, not all). To say that teachers' wages are dependent on the results of these tests is just disingenuous.
Not just a hateful lunatic, but one with a violent following. Harassment and death threats are not free speech, and he’s lucky he’s merely getting kicked off some corporate platforms instead of being arrested for his role in these things.
anything by Eckhart Tolle
Same price as Costco ($50) for 12pk Acuvue Oasys - thats great. If it went lower I'd switch.

By the way most of your images especially on the homepage seem to be scaled up past their native resolution which makes the site look really fuzzy. Your logo for example is 30px but scaled to 50px. An easy win on landing page design would just be to re-export those images at the right resolution.
Oh no, I know. But they don't even need to give a reason.
Well, if we could board a shuttle and arrive at a stable orbit around Uranus or Neptuine in less than 12 hours, we would not need an orbiter, would we?

In the short term, if Webb got launched, that would be awesome. But in the slightly-longer term, there is so much about Uranus and Neptune to discover, and we haven't done anything on that front.

Just consider how much we discovered by sending probes to Jupiter and Saturn. Consider, how there is still to discover on Uranus and Neptune. And tell me you don't want to go there really badly.
It depends, but I have enjoyed Scala and Go.
Which is odd, because it's been long ingrained in the law. There are definite limits to speech. Additionally, InfoWars was admitted by Alex Jones to be fictional stories not news, so there isn't exactly a grave danger in banning it specifically.
" According to Marcuse, "Niemöller's original argument was premised on naming groups he and his audience would instinctively not care about... "
Its certs are the same in the end as anyone else's certs. You just don't have to pay or go through a bunch of hoops to get one.

Fine for e-commerce. They don't do extended validation or any of the more "I am really who I say I am certs."
Or, build in integrated `crypto <--> $$` exchange.
It was possible, but nowadays the money only trickles, not flows, down.
Proven to do what? Stuff the pockets of some well-connected people? Sure. Finance a variety of pet projects that end up in nothing but money exchanging pockets? You betcha. Suppress the economic growth? Of course.

Solving anything related to what they purport to solve? Nope.

Check this out: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/co2-emissions-hit-...

US does not have carbon tax. Many European countries do. You tell me how that happens.
I thought they asserted it as if it were an obvious opinion.

I guess you're asserting that they didn't…
US household wealth for the bottom 50% is half of what it was in 2007