skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, that's probably a valid point-if a very dangerous game of technicalities to be playing.

On the other hand, I'm less perturbed by what Facebook says it will do-and what Facebook actually does in the absence of a governing policy to begin with. Like, for example, not vetting applications that utilize the swaths of data it consumes from its users

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/26...
Isn't it a little bit sad to see that Tim Cook in this situation still looks backwards and talks about Steve Jobs in half of the email? Instead of being forward looking and laying out his vision of the future of apple and the products to come? He really is still simply maintaining Jobs' business, trying to repeat what Jobs said as often as possible so that he sounds like him.
HN downvotes anything critical of apple, so heres my criticisms-

>Anti consumer- Proprietary hardware, non standard devices, and a constant cornering of user content. I remember burning CDs from Itunes and ripping them back just to use them on my mp3 player... The hardware is 2x the price of non Apple brand, this should come as no surprise.

>Anti developer- It sounds like at bare minimum I will need a 600 dollar refurbished apple mini to compile my app. And pay for yearly development. And apple intentionally breaks code. Not to mention prior to 2014, they were harsh on app developers denying many people's hard work.

I cannot understand the fandom on HN, why would anyone be a fan of such an aggressive company?

EDIT: 3 downvotes and 0 reasons why? Did Apple buy accounts on HN?
> Intel was on top of the game again with the core architecture

Funny thing is that Core, AFAIK, came from a separate laptop chip branch. For 64 bits Intel was betting on Itanium, which crashed and burned like iAPX-432 did before. And so Intel once again was forced to stay on the 8080 treadmill ...
I agree. Especially the games I play, slower paced single player games, n-key rollover is not needed at all. That said, it's the big seller for video game centric keyboards. Just pointing out that a lot of high-end gaming keyboards have other things that they focus on more.
Payday

Peanut Brittle

Popcorn

Popsicle
Is there some sort of service that I can pay to have this done? That's not an unreasonable amount of money to spend for that.
> Also, credit cards are already very convenient and near universally accepted. It's hard to compete with that.

Oh, come on. Maybe it's a US thing, but credit card is the last but one (just before a manual transfer) payment method I use (in Europe, Poland most of the time). It requires providing full credentials to every merchant you transact with on-line. It requires taking out your wallet and typing all this data in. Or taking out your wallet and taking photos of both sides in some modern apps, then checking for correctness. I actually use PayPal as my card payment gate to minimize the number of parties that see my complete set of payment authorization data. Credit cards are moderately convenient when used off-line and completely unadapted to being used on-line.
Have you tried it?

According my reading of the challenge specification [1] it shouldn't work. Notice that it says:

> 2. Query for TXT records for the validation domain name
Verify that the contents of one of the TXT records match the digest value

To me, this means that it should issue a query for TXT records only (not for ANY) and hence the server shouldn't even see your CNAME "redirector" record.

Thus, if your method works, either the server is wrongly implemented, there's a flaw in my reading comprehension, or the specification should be amended...

[1] https://ietf-wg-acme.github.io/acme/draft-ietf-acme-acme.htm...
Treble (which launched with Oreo) requires a different partition layout, a rather significant change to do on a running system.

If anything, Oreo would see lower uptake due to Treble, although that's mitigated by not making Treble a requirement for Oreo upgrades (ie. even if your device was upgraded to Oreo from something < 8.0, Treble still won't help you)
Sounds great. It delegitimizes all 3 of them in the eyes of a lot of people. ( I've only seen occasional clips from his videos, but he seems like your typical half crazed conspiracist, not an ISIS-level propagandist deserving damnatio memoriae)
"US has a reasonable share of non-profit hospitals and other medical institutions, but the prices are not drastically different"

Your mistake is to think that nonprofit means that they don't make profit. They still pay a ton of money to their administrators and doctors. And the rest of the profit goes into fancy buildings.
I've always regarded the back button as a completely random thing.
Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
Speaking of which, any suggestions on any good books on anxiety from the HN crowd?
There are some lives that I simply don't consider worth living.
Surprised not to see mention of the cutout stuff yet. It seems pretty dumb to me that Google is jumping on board with this ridiculous feature. Maybe this'll be one of those Dropbox-style HN comments which in hindsight looks misled, but I honestly can't find any redeeming factors to the cutout idea.
Plus the front forks are straight.

eg they have "Rake", but no offset, so the amount of "Trail" or "Castor" will be incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr...
On the other hand, one might argue that SpaceX has already permanently changed the space game. If SpaceX fails to keep moving society forward, it would do little more than create a major vacuum that could be filled by companies such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, or other new players.

I think this in particular is really the hugest benefit of privatizing space. When we had the government in charge of space, it living or dying was really subject to nothing more than the whims of a gaggle of politicians. As space has become a prominent part of the private industry with ever increasing competition, you remove that aspect of a single point of failure. I think the odds of us entering into another era of stagnation come regression are rapidly approaching 0, and that's incredibly exciting!
It would kinda ruin the authenticity of a coupla scrappy people putting a boat together on the cheap to sail it around. More fantasy than documentary.
> Also amusing to see "battery improvements" in every release without anything to show for it.

Whatever improvements are made are most likely quickly eaten by the cruft accumulating both in the system and in applications. The latter update frequently, which means you have a steady stream of bloat coming in...
But can we get scheduled SMS yet? Samsung has had this feature for ages...
Ask HN: How do you market a productivity tracking app?
I'm building Mastery, a habit tracking app for the iPhone. I've also setup a bare minimum landing page (for free) for people to signup. I've got 13 signups in about a week.

However, I'm struggling to define my target user group. They can be anybody trying to do better in life. Starting from indie hackers who want to code daily, fitness enthusiasts who want to hit the gym daily, to bloggers who want to write daily.

It's unhealthy to have such a broad, generic and ambiguous target group. Need advice.
If this current revival of spacecraft innovation goes on to create rapid, fully reusable spacecraft(BFR, New Glen, etc.), I think the epoch changing moment will be seen as the first landing of the first stage Falcon 9 on December 21, 2015. Similar to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. But if we fail to take to the stars, it will soon be forgotten and only remembered as a nostalgic touchstone for a few dreamers. Sort of like how I imagine how people will think of the first moon landing if, in a thousand years, humans have still not made it back.
I found this Wired article [0] to be a good start behind what actually happened in the math. The problem was not that subprime loans were being made. The problem was that bundles of those subprime loans were being tranched and sold as high-quality investments, even though none of the underlying assets were anywhere close to high-quality.

And all of this was foreseen by people who actually understood the math. And they were promptly ignored because listening equated with lost profit, commissions, etc.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2009/02/wp-quant/
> Ariane 5 is also extremely reliable

It certainly is reliable, but it's not extremely reliable. It's had 2 total failures and 3 partial failures out of 99 launch attempts, including a partial failure this year on SES-14 that left the satellite in-orbit, but inclined 20 degrees to the equator, which will significantly shorten the satellite's lifespan.
KitKat and Oreo were brands with international reach. On the other hand, what's "PayDay"?
Physically based shading and image lighting comparisasion in all major APIs
Sales of books on anxiety are only increasing in places like California and New York. In other parts of the country, sales of such books are decreasing.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/technology/businessinsider/arti...
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I've seen that as well. I believe it boils down to a few AMD motherboard integrators that have rushed out products that are marginal - they work ok for simple use cases, but maxing them out reveals some edge cases they didn't work out.

The solution, of course, is to name them. Can you share which motherboards you've seen people complaining about?
> Costs haven't fallen.

I disagree. I highly doubt reusing a booster has been more expensive to SpaceX than building new boosters. It is also speculated that at least the first few customers of reused boosters were given a discount.

If you are saying customer cost has not fallen, you may be correct. I would counter with the fact that SpaceX is already a low cost provider, lowering their price more may not increase their overall profits.

> The epoch-defining change would be back-to-back commercial launches with the same booster in a short period of time with zero or little retrofitting.

The booster SpaceX plans to reuse today is a "block 5" booster. This is basically the design that SpaceX hopes will enable that zero or little retrofitting reuse.
hilarious given that “Instagram” was obviously a riff off of “Instapaper”
Dota player here: other metrics that could have been involved in the trading decision are:

- Potential chance the enemy team would deny the tower before another friendly hero could take it (netting Sven's team 0 gold for the time spent whacking away at it)

- Map vision (removing a T2 often cuts a significant section of map awareness away, since the tower is no longer providing vision or protection)

- XP gains (Sven won't gain any XP while dead, nor from killing the tower)

- Creep equilibrium (this is less important, or at least thought about less often, later on in the game and past T1 towers, but might've been a factor in drawing the creep clash point to a particular location)

- Dictating team net worth averages (to some extent, if they predicted a loss in opponents forcing a teamfight or predicted a likely pickoff, gold lost could be minimized now by taking a death early, lowering the average net worth on the team).

Obviously, there are others and these can also be mixed and matched in various ways (e.g. cutting off map vision so they can more safely farm additional jungle creeps).

Not saying any of these aspects _were_ a part of the decision to trade Sven for a tower, but.. just wanted to include a few more subsurface aspects that _could_ be used in such a decision.
Apparently YouTube, Apple, and Facebook are all OK with that. Now what?
I'd love to know how you feel about inheritance taxes.
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email can use IP addresses using the "direct send" protocol. DNS servers are provided for convenience, and they're widely used, because they are much more convenient than the direct send protocol.
> Popsicle

Wait what, did someone trademark this name?
Ask HN: What is the best statically typed language for back end development?
I am tired of scripting languages and want to know what the best language for modern backend development is. Golang looks good to me.
I am not saying market research is unethical (also not not saying that). I was just pointing out what looks like a total non-sequitur.

It was supposed to be "cornerstone" not "catercorner" but I guess autocorrect?
And it's... really not all that fast when compared to mature analytical databases. ClickHouse on identical hardware is ~ 100x faster than cstore_fdw.

http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

More interesting to me is the reverse: using FDW from the analytical DB to Postgres, e.g., https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/join-amazon-redshift-a...
After googling bicycles, seems to me like the common shape is "diamond with a line dividing the two triangles (bicycle seat thingy) and a line coming off the top vertex (front wheel holder thingy), I'm gonna try to remember that and draw a bicycle later after the memory has faded.
In more conventional scripting languages than Julia, I wish more people would write simple for-loops for simple problems, instead of cramming in some functional construct, just because the language allows it. The extra indirection, the added object allocation, the deepening of the call-stack, it all just crufts up the whole routine. For-loops are simple, execute tidily, and keep code localized, that's good stuff.
Why all of a sudden?
Reminds me of that line from the show Narcos that translates
to, "Silver, or lead."

In case someone misses this meaning, silver or lead refers to either accepting a bribe (silver, money) or taking a bullet (lead).
Makes me regret abandoning biotech/computational biology for the safer shores of software engineering :(
MariaDB can do sort/merge joins. It's rare that you want to force one, but you can. That's what IGNORE INDEX is for.

If you're testing, take a sample of the database and test on that.

First try the simple form:

explain
select
project_commits.project_id,
date_format(commits.created_at, '%x%v1') as week_commit
from commits, project_commits
where project_commits.commit_id = commits.id;

That ought to call for a sort and merge.
I don't know if he redid this independently or failed to give credit, but here is an article [1] describing some similar experiments done by Rebecca Lawson. And a formal academic paper from 2006 [2].

[1] https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/cycleweb.html

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03195929
From what I understand, they are making a big shift towards a more devops-y process, so I can believe that a lot of the more traditional IT roles are not emphasized as much. I can't say I've noticed an increase in the number of job postings, but there's always been a ton of open positions at Liberty, at least for the last six or seven years I've been around the area.
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I disagree. I think Tim recognizes that Steve's legacy has a mythic quality that people want to relate to.
No... You could theoretically store information in the spin state of a few valance atoms, but all of the tightly bound atoms are already filling all of the spin states.
Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
cryptocurrency is clearly the wrong solution to this problem

Why is it the "wrong" solution to making a decentralized marketplace? What's the "right" solution?
I know some people chafe at the thought of tech companies self-censoring their platforms but they should be allowed to prevent their platform from becoming a place decent people don't want to be. Jones isn't just an opposing viewpoint, he's a hateful lunatic. And no, that's not a slippery slope.
Linux Kernel TCP Implementation Vulnerable to Denial of Service
Don't get me wrong: Alex Jones is the snake-oil-selling, kayfabing carnival barker of the internet. My concern is what appears to be a coordinated take-down of his channels on the dominant social media/communications platforms with very few precise details explaining why. My biggest concern is that this crackdown on a crackpot will set off one of his high-functioning, mentally ill fans to pull a Timothy McVeigh type of vigilante response on one of the companies who have canned him in the last 24 hours. Is my concern unwarranted?

EDIT: I presume the down-votes on this comment are because I referred to some of Alex Jones' fans as mentally ill. I don't say this lightly: I know a handful of people who are legitimately mentally ill who think Alex Jones is the lone truth-teller in the media. You should be very scared of what these people might do if they think their hero is being martyred.
What's interesting in all this coverage is how the actual content said wasn't so much as alluded to beyond "hate speech". Who was he hating on and how? Can we discuss hate without being hateful?
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Jordan Peterson cites research that people don't agree with. Because they don't want to take him to task over research, they often create strawmem.

Jones makes things up (and has admitted he's acting in court). Some of the things he makes up - like the parents of the dead lids being actors, or a pizza shop being a storefront for pedophiles - mean that people who believe him might be tempted to expose the secret actors, or punish the seemingly-immune pedophiles (who obviously are just people running a pizza shop). This is a serious danger.
Does anyone in here know if Zen2 is going to implement AVX properly?
Threadripper2 will not, all AVX2 instructions will operate at ~SSE speeds, as on past AMD chips.
Now nothing. But it's good that people trust them a little less. Too much centralization is never a good thing.
> I find crypto currency identical in difficulty as using foreign currency.

The vast majority of people would find it burdensome to convert their money to another currency, and then use that on a normal basis. Of course if you ignore the hardest part, it's "easy".
Have you read Irving's work?
No, you don’t always need to shine light on all nastiness on the web to fight it. Do you remember YouTube’s comment section or any other forum without decent moderators?

I remember YouTube comments being highly nasty. Many people had installed browser plugins solely to hide YouTube comments. Google finally started to remove nasty comments. And now I rarely ever see horrible comments. In fact, you can actually get useful info from some comments and threads.

And this is not a free speech issue but a hate issue. Almost all platform forbid hate and violent content. I don’t understand why so many people are equating this with freedom of speech instead of TOS violation.
> Those content producers have given users the tools to do linking themselves, and they express themselves in a variety of ways over a variety of mediums.

? How can I link to, say, a quote in that article that offends you? I can't. How can I link to a youtube video and add my own commentary links? I can't (I think) without creating my own video that explicitly copies the original (rather than consuming it).

> You need to learn how to write to express yourself with written word, yet how many people do we here harping on how difficult it is to learn language?

I definitely wish people took the time to work on that skill instead of assuming it's both automatic and that their level is adequate. Nonetheless, this doesn't seem related to the point of the article - not that linking is HARD, but that, outside of whatever the creator enabled, all we get are top level URLs.
Isn't it awesome that he's making good on a promise to take care of the business to then pass it on to the next CEO? What if it's an 8 yr old African child right now looking up to code Swift 4 on YouTube?
The greater Boston area gets overlooked a lot of the time because it’s relatively light on the web/social/mobile software businesses that SV thinks of as tech because that’s what SV majors on.

As you say Boston is strong in a lot of tech areas but they’re often different from SV tech.
I've been living in France for 16 years and eaten a lot of petits fours. Today I learned that they can be sweet? I've never seen somebody use the term for sweet foot.
Ok, fair point, but you can see the same pattern with other services. Look at any of the AI services for example. Everything was console first.
Is your argument that everything everywhere was completely 100% good except for the bad US mortgage packaging and other similar products? Because I don't remember hearing many good things about, say, Greece and Spain for example, during the fallout.

The US may have been the initial trigger, but it by far did not supply all the snow in resulting avalanche.
thanks. i was assuming it was referring to which material for the bullet you were inevitably going to take.
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That explains their recent advertising push!
news has been out about facebook seeking access to medical records for a while now

https://www.grahamcluley.com/facebooks-secret-plan-to-access...
If they made their current net annual income for the entirety of their existence (not even close), then they would've needed to be taxed ~50% to have reached $1 trillion in taxes.

I get (or at least hope) that it's an exaggeration, but I'm not too keen on seemingly witty phrases without substance that get repeated everywhere.
The impetus was Spotify adding Alex Jones's podcasts, which led to questions about Alex Jones's iTunes podcasts, and things snowballed from there.
I'd rather have cheap healthcare thanks
Not an Infowars fan, but I see "hate speech" being used as a reason to ban alternative views a lot lately. Let's say he was indeed engaging in hate speech (I haven't verified this): hate speech is still speech, no?

Edit: thanks for the downvotes, can we not have a discussion about this? Should we ban hateful books too? I happen to have learned a lot from historically hateful books.
I didn’t see any egregious violence or breach of trust by the officers in ur video. Maybe I’m biased cus the cops where I live routinely send people to the icu or coroner for just being in the vicinity of a cop
Agreed. Put another way: Treble should make the Oreo distribution percentage go down more quickly than other versions did once they're not the latest. Since Pie was released today, this is the starting line. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Where could one find graphs of the Android major versions' distribution percentage over time? https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/ just shows today's numbers. I'd like to see a "distribution vs days since following version released" with a line for each old version.
I just read that the warmer oceans are making it hard to cool nuclear plants.
This is the "not too inclusive" attitude that I referenced. It is not only rude to provide your opinion about a subject with this voice of tone. It is also problematic because it doesn't make it possible to have a positive discussion and learn from each other.

A lot of people on HN do exactly understand the nuanced differences between open source projects and communities. It is I guess enough to mention that Hyperledger is a IBM kind of enterprisey setting.

I will not try to explain in depth why proof of work is really difficult to substitute. But in summary: you will need to create an algorithm that prevents sybil attacks + creates incentives for participants to keep the network up + mechanism for byzatine consensus. Anonymous participation goal is not a goal on itself but a prerequisite for decentralization. Otherwise someone needs to manage and control who is eligible to access the network...

You are really wrong about incentive motives too. The example involving wire transfers is exactly the point. Blockchain is not about a record in a database of a money amount, it is directly the value representation. This creates a big difference. I'm sure you will understand this if you give it a more open minded thought.

I did a lot of research and talked to enough people. I will not respond to more ad hominem reactions.
It isn't in countries with sane privacy laws.