skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone hardware and user interface made the leap from stylus to finger.
Why does laziness hinder reasoning and predictability?
Yep, several times this year I had to do double-takes to see if directional microphones are now considered script-kiddie level toys. Nope, it's "just" SDR.
More precisely: A liable and financially strong third party.
The copy on that "EULA" is in poor English.

Also, anyone who uses an app/service like this, and that service has the word "spy" in their company/product name deserves to have their data and identity compromised.
Right. The closer to sea level you are, the denser the atmosphere you're pushing out of the way as you accelerate - thus, the more force you need to use in doing so, and the lower the acceleration you obtain from the propellant you expend.

So if you can get above the thickest part of the atmosphere, say attached to a giant goofy-looking airplane, before you light off your engine - rather than having to push your way through that same thick air on your own - you need less propellant, overall, to reach orbit, which means you can devote a larger fraction of your launch vehicle's mass to payload.
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They've chosen to act w/ private accounts, muted accounts, muted words, and blocked accounts. Personally, I find muted words a powerful feature but perhaps my story is a bit different as I don't find myself targeted by hate too often (ever). I'm hesitant to believe kicking accounts off the platform is a great solve.

Does any social media platform take part in shadow banning? How has that worked out?
We're expecting our first in December. Is it really like that? Don't scare me man, I have big plans!
Try Hass.io which bundles the install and update process quite nicely. Also the components have had a lot of work.
>Steve McBroom, a Spyfone representative, told Motherboard on Monday that the company is investigating the leak, and expressed relief that the person who found it had good intentions.

Unlike spyfone whose intentions appeared to be profiting off of violating the privacy of others. I wonder if they have done the market research to determine if their core demo is domestic abusers.
> how much privacy they've lost

You mean that those who they've been spying on have lost?
It kind of is, especially in a relative sense. I was in Japan for a few weeks this year. Some of the unique anime things that I found in Japan that I don't see in North America:

* Anime girls (specifically Azur Lane) plastered all over Yamanote Line trains

* Shops playing music from animes I've watched and other recognizable Jpop music

* Anime-themed cafes (Gundam, Card Captor Sakura, etc.)

* Stores for secondhand anime goods

* Rentable display cases to sell your anime goods

* Anime mascots printed on public banners

* Gaming arcades with anime goods

* Conversely, the way that cities, train stations, and other scenes are depicted in anime is fairly accurate to how Japan looks like in real life

This is not to say that Japan is 100% anime, because that is obviously false. All I'm saying is that if you want to see a place that upholds the anime lifestyle more than anywhere else in the world, then Japan is the only answer.
Yes, as mentioned in the blog post, we worked with Security Innovation to do a week long security assessment with full access to source code, design documents and endpoints.

We also have a long term consulting arrangement with a widely respected security architect, and they helped review our design and implementation.

Additionally, BuzzFeed has a bug bounty program on hackerone (https://hackerone.com/buzzfeed), and have invited partipating researchers to report on any issues found. We’ve paid out bounties for a number of minor issues, which were addressed prior to open-sourcing.

Additionally, knowing that security is never done, we continue to make it eligible for bounties -- see https://github.com/buzzfeed/sso/blob/master/README.md#securi...
People are mentioning pricing for living there. I just visited, so not the same, but noticed some things.

1. Many things try to round out to a flat amount (¥100 instead ¥253). Some places don't.

2. Cash is king. Many places refuse to accept credit or contactless payments if you carry cash. Some places only accept Cash. You can see this when you look up places on Google Maps.

3. Coins are used for denominations of 1 cent up to $5. $10 is the first bill you get so be prepared to carry lots of coins. Also, I still don't understand the reason for it, but they usually refuse to pay things using two methods (e.g. to get rid of the 35(!!) ¥1 coins I had).

4. Tax is usually included or a second price, higher price is shown with the tax included. As in #1 you may see on receipts with tax included. E.g. ¥2000 first shown as total with a smaller number of ¥1740 as sub total and then the final amount with tax included (same as total).

5. There was never a tip where I went and I believe it's not done pretty much anywhere.

6. Many things in major cities are being adjusted for the olympics so things are actually fairly nice for foreigners to get around.

7. Besides going between major areas most train cards can be used in most other places. Assuming you land in Tokyo (e.g.
HND) you can get a Suica card for the subway and put ¥2000 on it. It takes face ¥500 as a deposit on the card. I used the same card in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka.

sn: That card can be moved to your phone in to Apple Pay if you switch to Japan region in your iOS settings (language and etc doesn't need to change). Apple doesn't require FaceID for it so you can swipe to enter subway super easily with just your phone. Once you do this you get the ¥500 deposit on the card back to use without returning the card.

8. Neat trick for changing prices is put a decimal after first two numbers since your in ¥100 == $0.90 != $1.00, but it's close enough.

9. Restaurants often have english menus, especially in cities, but it's much better experience to be able to read normal menus. At least I'm assuming given I know basically no Japanese.

10. Food and restaurants are comparable to the US. Cheaper meals are $6-7 where nicer sit down restaurants are around $16-25.

11. As far as cheap food: FamilyMart bread is a must try. Also the various Rice+Seaweed+Protein meals are cool.
Isn't this mainly because of the OS builders? MS, Apple, and Google? The only cross platform GUI system they all support at this point is browser based UIs. And given that developers basically any UI dev practically needs to target the web now, I don't see why this is surprising.

We seem to be blaming developers, but developers are just dealing with an ecosystem where this is the best common denominator. There's another comment in this thread, that points out that Electron is only 5 years old, and there is a lot of opportunity for performance and system utilization improvement.

IMHO if we want this to be better, then the OSes should make this easier and more performant for developers, and by extension, then their platforms will out perform and outsell the others.
I didn't notice anything off about it. Looks normal to me.
But there is absolutely no evidence that saturated fat causes any of the diseases of civilization. Why should people limit their intake of it?

Did early hunter-gatherer populations count calories? I don't think they did and I don't think counting calories is necessary or sufficient for health. If you eat real food (such as... animal fats) you will naturally become satiated enough and know when it's time to stop.
>They're requesting in writing that no analysis was done, because then when they get the equipment back and see that yup, analysis was done, they can then I assume sue for... Something?

I'd assume if you're involved in a lawsuit against the police, and they make a factual claim like "we did not analyze items not listed in the warrant", that there's some sort of perjury type charge there.

While the police are allowed to lie to you, that's usually restricted to interrogations ("your partner has already flipped") not lying to the lawyer for the person suing you.
> It seems to me that even with our limited intellects, we have already figured out an awful lot of what there actually is to figure out.

Really? It seems just as likely that our brains are fooling us into believing that they are universal knowing machines.

We understand that there are real things that we cannot see. Microscopes and telescopes and other sorts of detectors outside the visual spectrum allow us to "see" them. That is we have technology which present reality as a simulacrum our eyes can see. Similarly with sound, we know that there are sounds which we cannot hear, but through technology we can represent them in a form which we can consume. But to be clear, we are still not seeing or hearing these things, we are seeing and hearing artifacts of our technology which we accept as corresponding with reality.

Is it that hard to imagine that there are true thoughts that we literally cannot think? And any sort of technology which would help us, would really just be showing us a pale representation of the reality?
Ask HN: How do you blog in 2018?
What do you use to blog in 2018? Ghost? WP? Something else?
How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 mil
Mainly pets. Or perhaps as a learning aid? Kuri and Jibo failed on price point, because for their use cases Alexa or Google Home are cheaper substitutes.
Children, big plans, or sleep. Pick two.
I never noticed this but now that you point it out it's really nifty!
The only thing I've learned is how to go to sleep quickly.
Pre-children it took me easily an hour to fall asleep now its minutes, tired or not.
Control surfaces behind the payload would be aerodynamically shadowed, and, depending on payload shape, either unable to develop significant control moments or subject to chaotic airflow that'd make them more of a liability than an asset.
Seriously?

http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2012/nov/more-kids-than-ever...
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>So it doesn't have Mine or Craft, don't call it a clone

It does both of those things. You can mine blocks for resources and then make new blocks out of those resources.

Your other points may be relatively salient, but a beta/alpha clone of a game does not have to implement every feature for it to be a clone.

It seems like you've taken this too seriously and really did not need to say anything. It's not really a productive point.

Say you've managed to brow beat OP down to calling his clone something like "A Minecraft-esque Resource Building Game." What have you done, at that point? Nothing. Calling something a Minecraft clone might be sensitive for you, and others, but it does not automatically make that sensitivity valid in any sense just because you feel it.
In addition to getting your release timing off, as the other commenter has pointed out, the iPod Touch and iPhone are essentially the same thing, only the latter has a cellular radio and the respective features that enables. Regardless of which came out first, it's this platform that was truly innovative. So they should be considered together as the revolution.
See here for a good ticketing mutex that fairly solves the problem:

- https://stackoverflow.com/a/5386266
I think you're missing the point. It's not about MZ's motivations or even how FB thinks about things internally. It's about the perception by significant numbers of people - and, critically, their elected representatives - that FB is fundamentally shady.

There is a very good chance the path we're on ends with FB and potentially all of the social networks being considerably more regulated than they are currently, and I'd argue GDPR shows that we're already well on our way down that path.
Is it gender discrimination: Yes. Is it legally protected gender discrimination: Also yes!

Welcome to systemic problems!

"Data Driven Decisions" are almost always about "this consumer/user group will probably do X". This is discriminatory against people in the group who don't/won't do X. Insurance companies (and college admissions boards, and police deciding where to send officers) do their best to try and remove broad categories (race, sex, etc) and tailor their data to a specific outcome, but that doesn't mean data can't be used to discriminate. "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics" after all.

There is a line, but it moves, and it's blurry, and sometimes it's not really a line but more of a circle. The point is, sometimes these things are bad/discriminatory but they're allowed to keep happening because that's how we've always done things or something to that effect.

Dealing with people as groups is at the heart of -isms and stereotyping/discrimination. It's also how data/statistics tend to treat people.
Why not just call them concentration camps?
Chrome Android sending location data to Google 14 times hourly,even background [pdf]
Can anyone who has worked with automation solutions at an enterprise company comment on how solutions such as puppeteer or cypress stack up against selenium? I've used both superficially and some things seem easier but that is within my limited context. I used nightwatch for a while and found I constantly had to be building different tools around it and the authors were focusing on some paid service instead of nightwatch library.
Yes, but you won't even get that opportunity. It's flat out not an option.
Practically speaking, what does only two planes mean? Does this mean they can only overlay elements at two different apparent distances in the environment? Are these distances fixed or variable?
She is a gorgeous aircraft, isn't she? I'm glad she found a good home; we'd be the poorer for her loss.
iBasic is, however, on permanent hiatus: http://basic.mindteq.com/index.php?i=88
also curious on this!!!
Interesting choice of sqlite, what's the story on concurrent updates these days? Last I tried to use it for a project was in 2009 and even at a measly 3 concurrent people, sqlite had trouble with data lock errors.

How does sqlite mesh well with Craft multiplayer?
Hygon is just AMD's EPYC CPU [0]. I am uncertain if they will differentiate themselves more as time goes on, but at the moment almost the only difference in the kernel is that it has a different name.

I think you're more likely to see some ARM CPUs which have comparable performance to low-end and mid-range x86 before you see a new x86 competitor [1] - the overhead to making x86 perform well is just so high that I can't imagine anyone new bothering to get into the space. VIA has been in the market forever as the third seller of x86, and despite the theoretical benefits of entering into the datacenter CPU market, they've never made that leap (though I don't know enough about their history to know if they tried).

I'm hoping that ARM becoming competitive in the client CPU space ends up making the cross-compile overheads of enough drivers/kernel stuff that we can start to see some more diversity in the CPU market overall. I'm excited about RISC-V, especially now that they have shipping hardware you can play with today [2]. The Mill CPU sounds super cool in a bunch of ways, but the architecture has made so many decisions that I'm unsure will play out in practice I'm holding my excitement until I see real silicon somewhere [3]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/china...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/16/arm-says-chips-will-outp...

[2] https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture
> I seriously thought it was two planes parked next to each other

It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one.
The correct phrase, IMO, would be "cumulative shadiness" for FB...

Individually, and within groups, the work of the employees and teams at FB is nothing short of amazing (and apple, google, etc)... cumulatively though? The nature of these companies are not in the best interests of individual users, and when looked at the power and impact the company as a whole has over any individual in specific, is pretty obviously not in the favor of the individual.

The only problem that I have with anything related to the internet reality, is that it is no longer possible to not be connected to it and have any modicum semblance of a modern existence.
> You leave out the time dimension. What if a civilization died out a million years ago?

This is what I keep bringing up when referring to dinosaurs, and I'm surprised that this point doesn't get presented more often when considering the chances of encountering life on other planets:

We have proof right here that life on the same planet can be separated by time and never contact each other, without even bringing cosmic distances into the equation.
Will probably need a high profile case before anything gets moving (since there's a LOT of money to fight back against ethical laws). We need a governing ethics body to determine ethical guidelines, otherwise people are just going to invent their own ethics hosted on Github and that's bad if you follow it and have to go to court.
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would Elm do the trick?
"When the iPhone came out, it felt like someone had handed you a little bit of Star Trek."

Equivalent statement:

"When the iPod came out, it felt like someone had handed you a little bit of Star Trek."

In both cases, once you started using it you had the same reaction "this is REALLY cool but has major issues, I can't' wait for the next version".

I remember my boss gleefully showing me his new iPod, and then him cursing from his office that afternoon (and many after that) as the thing crashed, and nuked his music library again, and again.
Facebook pulls Onavo Protect after Apple finds it violates privacy policy
Ask HN: What's wrong with your corp security people and their processes?
Meltdown is ultimately a timing attack, so it definitely qualifies.

I take this as an indication that the underlying cryptographic primitives have become really good, so it’s no longer (usually) practical to attack that layer.
Going back how long? China's been around for a lot longer!
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Well yes, I can certainly understand the impact of rituals, I'm curious to know more about this specific one. Sorry but in a workplace context, lighting a candle and commemorating the moment like this just feels...kitschy to me
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> I just want to throw it out there that it might be impossible for AMD to actually go out of business.

Even if you buy this, (I don't), there's no point for them to stay in business with absolutely non-competitive products. The remarkable thing is that thanks to Zen that did not happen and Intel actually feels some heat for the first time in years.
From my experience having children and sleep isn't even always an option ;)
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Reddit political discussion is heavily biased towards the left and people who come from other standpoints are often ridiculed and dismissed. /r/politicialdiscussion is more moderate than let's say /r/politics, but still not a place I would go to discuss political issues.
No-Facebook would arguably be a better world the older I get...
This is the main issue that both the right wing gold bugs and left wing crypto anarchists don't seem to understand: Steady modest inflation is a good thing.

If there was no inflation everyone would be incentivized to just hold cash under their mattress and not invest into the economy. When you put your money in a CD or money market account hoping to keep up with (or beat) inflation that money then goes to pay payroll for corporations via the commercial paper market. When you put your money into a savings account hoping to generate interest to keep up with inflation your money gets lent to local small businesses and other people to buy mortgages. Inflation creates inertia in the economy.

We don't have an inflation problem. What we have is a wage growth problem. Crypto nor gold bars will ever do anything to solve that. The issue has nothing to do with currency.
That's correct, but only half correct :)

Johnny-Five programs can run on board any SBC that runs Linux and can support Node.js. For those platforms, GPIO and serial bus interfaces are interacted with directly; examples include Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison (+Galileo 1 & 2, Joule), Tessel 2, Linino and pcDuino
Children are big plans. You don't get to pick sleep, and you don't get any other big plan.

Fortunately Children for all their work are rewarding. You won't grow as much at work. However you get to see and do many interesting things in return. If you are lucky you can get your kids interested in your hobbies (this isn't that hard)

One reason to never become CEO: they travel 200 days/year and thus don't get to see their kids much - at less than $10 million/year they are grossly underpaid for the time away from family.
One is a lot easier than two
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In the US? No time soon.

The party in power is cutting regulations, not adding them. The customer has to watch their own back.

It seems simple. The free market will kill incompetent companies, right? Customers see data breaches and stop doing business with them.

Sounds good in theory but realistically, customers don't have time to do the research required for a completely free market to self regulate.
You know, capitalist food producers don't need to be evil. All they need do is keep tuning their food, and a blind process of optimization will lead to addictive foods that people eat until they're obese, because that's what maximizes profits for the food industry.

It's not much different for Facebook. A blind process of engagement and relevance optimization leads to a more addictive product that steals more and more of your attention.

It's also not much different for Google. A blind process of information gathering leads to a more privacy violating product.

Different companies have different optimization processes depending on their business models, and they don't need to be made out of evil or have malevolent intent to end up having (potentially) evil outcomes.
All of which they were required to license on FRAND terms - Consider that the basic research done by bell labs was paid for by a royalty paid to it by western electric and the various bell operating companies - it was blanket royalty, not a per product one too.
Can microsoft come after him for this?
Perhaps consider reading up on the naturalistic fallacy.
> “Spyfone appears to be a magical combination of shady, irresponsible, and incompetent,” Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard.

Leave it to EFF to have the pithiest quote in the article. Is it possible that companies that are shady are more likely to be irresponsible in their security practices, because they're focused on immediate profit?
It's more than just "a couple of decades", it's 70 years.
This raises the question about how you sort null with respect to processor performance.

Given four benchmarks (7,null,8,6) where do you place the null?
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Important: contrary to the marketing material, dgraph is not open source - it uses the Commons Clause we've been discussing over the past few days. Discussion here:

https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/issues/2545
> We are both as complex as creatures come on this planet.

Gaia says: Whatever, buddy. You're like a neuron comparing yourself to liver cells.
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But you're not really addressing the actual problem that the GP was stating. Disabled individuals want to be gainfully employed, but under the minimum wage law no one would hire them.

Your 'right thing to do' just negatively disrupted the lives of most disabled folks without much benefit other than upholding your ideal.