skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but fewer people are having children, which reduces the demand for suburban living.

The suburbs also have less attraction for me as a parent. In the old days you could let your kids roam a suburb freely - now you can't. So why not live in a city? You have the same restrictions, but also a lot more distractions such as free museums.
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It loads much slower than Google or DDG for me. The search bar jumps up and down the page as the huge animated logo loads. Then when you click the search bar, it jumps to the top of the page again. It's not a great UX.

Qwant Lite (https://lite.qwant.com/) loads much faster initially and the UI doesn't jump around, but it's slower to load search results. It also features the objectively false tagline, "The only search engine that respects your privacy."

I think I'll stick with DuckDuckGo, thanks.
On top of other comments, I'll add you can do them more securely. High-assurance security often used proxies to enable support for legacy apps since the proxies could be clean-slated using rigorous techniques. The legacy systems were often closed-source, way too complicated, or (eg Microsoft) deliberately obfuscated. They already mentioned SSL/TLS. Another example is putting a crypto proxy in front of Microsoft Outlook that communicates with a mail guard. Can scan, encrypt, etc email with little or no work on the client.

Can do (improvements here) with little to no change to (existing app) is the recurring pattern.
30% of new bikes sold in the Netherlands are electric. In Belgium, 40%. No need for carbon frames - electric engines flatten all terrain.
> I made the statement about using any email client (local or web based) because the post I replied to stated that one needed to use a TUI client like mutt.

Wouldn't using HTML email (default in most modern clients and webmails) be frowned upon by the ML participants?

(for the record I liked your comparison)
Sure, but on any decent phone, the only Linux you're going to get is Android.
Hypothesis: Apple's best product is now privacy.

Testing the hypothesis: if that was true that all those new iPhone do not matter that much, Wall Street analysts would take a hard look at what is the gross margin of the Apple's new best product (privacy) and Apple stock price would take a serious hit.

Looking at the evidence: AAC stock price is super high

Alternative hypothesis: some people will buy Apple products for tribal reasons, no matter what the quality over price ratio is, and find a rationalization after the fact to justify it.
> I'm genuinely curious: do you wear glasses? How do you keep them from getting fogged up/iced over when riding in the winter?

Don't waste your time. Pro-cyclists are the most biased and privileged people I've ever met. Just get on your bike, it's so easy! forgets that some people have bad knees. All you need is some goggles when it rains! forgets that people wear glasses. Just wait for the snow to be cleared! forgets that some cities don't clear snow. Just buy knobby tires! forgets that smaller people will struggle with the extra weight. Just wear a face mask! forgets that some cities ban face coverings and certain demographics get looked at strangely if they wear balaklavas
Even if you are in the suburb it is bad. They office park has no houses within walking distance. Sure technically you are in the same small city, but you may as well be 30 miles apart - either way you will drive to work. (it is possible to bike to work, but you are doing it for exercise or because you are some sort of "new age hippie" - it isn't practical)
It wasn't battery life, it was stability. The day Apple brought out the feature toggle for you to choose whether you wanted to throttle your device or not, I turned the throttling off. The phone was as fast as when I got it again.

That same day the phone crashed, a first in a long time, because apparently the power draw was too high for the battery. Imagine if, instead of throttling, they had phones crashing left and right. I think throttling was the right choice, but they could have been more transparent about it.
I think the parent was implicitly referring to smartphone platforms. Certainly Linux is both the most open and most private option for general computing, which is probably why the parent was lamenting the fact that privacy and openness (in smartphones) are not tightly coupled.
... and deleting your movies.

I am not sure we can trust them.
What I find is that many people do not consider different edge cases or understand what the data really represents. They have some vague notion of what they want, and you only get that very high level limited case.

They almost need some training on how to think like a program in some sense to understand just how much detail is needed to provide a good spec.
We have been able to derive an immense amount of information about our universe from observations and probes but we're still incredibly ignorant. We can't even determine whether or not there might be a substantial dark body (several times the size of Earth) orbiting within our own solar system. That hypothesis is being used to try to explain other things that remain otherwise inplexicable even within our own 'little' solar system. Grand claims about being able to detect dyson spheres with a billion light years are just silly.

And even when we do detect things reminiscent of what might be a dyson sphere there is a very logical and reasonable desire to not accept this and instead look for natural explanations. For instance KIC 8462852 was never fully explained and its dimming continues to this day. The only thing that stands out against it being an 'obvious' dyson sphere is the lack of ambient infrared, which we can attribute to a variety of factors, not the least of which being the all-encompassing 'technology we don't yet know'. But we don't do this precisely because when you start going down this road you can attribute basically anything to 'aliens' in the same way a religious person might attribute otherwise explainable events to a god. The point of this being that unless a LGM walks up to us and says hi, we're not going to attribute anything, seriously, to their existence.
It's the same failure mode though.
check out the killing of the Kim's brother couple years ago - 2 girls just sprayed innocent chemicals on him in public at airport, and the resulting mix of these chemicals on his face is what killed him.
Yep. I either walk or hope that public transport's schedule aligns with mine.
You don't give us much to help you out. At a high-level, if you keep being replaced, it means the perception is that you are not adding value. So I need to ask an honest question: as the PM, do you think you were providing value to the project? Are you sure?
It's like being a ship on the ocean. You could be lulled into a false sense of safety by the pretty views and the flying fish but death is always right around the corner and waiting mercilessly for you to fuck up every so slightly.
I had a similar idea, but I wanted to do it properly, with markup: define sections with time ranges, properties for effects like fade in/out, auto-pause, HTML+CSS blocks. Initially it would be driven by the JS, but once things settle, maybe the browsers would standardize it.
Unless you're Chinese or expect Apple to be clear and transparent about their privacy principles when forced to go against them. Apple's best product is the pass given to them by the media.
High altitude snow is also really weird. Back in Denver you just had to get used to snow disappearing and leaving behind dry concrete.
>"Either way, I walk to work. There are few better ways to commute, IMHO."

The bicycle is one of those ways. It's faster and significantly more efficient.
> I come to HN to learn news or tools for programming. Less of this sponsored content

How is it sponsored? HN is not just about programming, but if it's programming you need there are communities like Lobsters[1] which are
heavily biased towards programming.

Privacy issues are always going to crop up in tech, and especially now more than ever with IoT devices and the proliferation of smartphones.

[1] https://lobste.rs/
> "...we live in a commercial surveillance state. Well, unless you use Apple’s products."

The cringe train is arriving at the station.

> "When you pay that extra money for an Apple product, you’re not just buying better industrial design or more advanced underlying tech–you’re buying the right to keep more information about yourself to yourself."

All aboard the cringe train.

This article could have been written by a bot, instructed to talk favorably about Apple and privacy. Tech journos are funny when they expose their brand crushes.
In most statistical analysis, it's useful to throw out the outliers before calculating the results. For example, many latency metrics on websites use the 99th percentile or "P99" as a measure of success.

If we throw away the top 1% of incomes (and the bottom 1% as well to be fair) how well has America actually recovered from 2008? I can't imagine it looks nearly as good.
MDN Changelog for August 2018
There's nothing on the market now that I'd actually like to buy.

Apple do seem to have some respect for privacy at the moment, but it's still a phone that scans the user's face (far too creepy for me) or makes it difficult to restrict outgoing connections (I'm not keen on apps connecting to flurry, facebook and so on).
Comodo has had their signing keys compromised multiple times. I can probably dig up the old ZeroForce (ZF0) chat logs that show them poking around their forum servers that had copies of the signing certs. I am not even kidding. They had their signing certs sitting on their phpBB forum. That all started from one of their employees taunting some kids on irc.

Symantec has signed and provided signing certs for multiple government agencies and proxy vendors, allowing them to sign for anything. That is part of the reason Google is distrusting them.

There are many more, but a majority of certs in use today are from one of those two companies. They also have numerous re-sellers with signing certs, so the names won't always be Symantec or Comodo, hence one more need for intermediate certs.

TLS today just means the average Joe won't be able to see the specific bits you are transferring. Sorry Joe.
Who's laughing? I think it's sad that some people have to resort to ridiculous peacocking efforts in order to not feel bad about themselves and their position.

And regarding your attempt to turn this back on me: I drive a small car, own a humble home, spend well within my means and as a courtesy to others, deliberately avoid dress and behaviour that would draw others' attention to me. I'm quite happy being an invisible old fart.
I think approaching an idea that already has existing solutions is better than trying to come up with a completely new idea. The existing solutions indicate that there is a market for it. Can you improve on those existing solutions, and deliver some value that is lacking in them?
That's a good point. Although there is another sorting example which is using the correct format. But yes, you are indeed right.
Yeah, so that reinforces my point. Millenials aren't going to buy up those suburban homes.
>Are Bitcoin a security?

not according to the SEC.

>"Cryptocurrencies: These are replacements for sovereign currencies, replace the dollar, the euro, the yen with bitcoin," Clayton said. "That type of currency is not a security."

>A token, or a digital asset used in a fundraising process known as an initial coin offering, or ICO, are securities by Clayton's definition.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/sec-chairman-clayton-says-ag...
You're trying to detect the modulation, not merely the transit.

Your noise floor is now vastly greater.
Remote work is dramatically different for different people. For me, it means I'm home with my family, and in 6+ years of doing it I've not once had the urge to go into an office for any reason, much less socialization.
Theaters are taking high-end risks to lure customers
Show HN: Sal – Lightweight scroll animation library
Gotta get a face mask with vent holes for your nose/mouth. That lets the moist air escape away from your eyes, reducing fog.
Yeah, some HR departments seem to have a strong feel for a need of justifying their existence.
I remember a conversation I had with an engineer working on Bing around the time of the Microsoft/Yahoo deal... their core metric was the number of searches where they matched 8 out of 10 or more of Google's results on the first page of the search.

Qwant isn't even that close. The results are absolutely poor across a number of different queries.
Illegal Patch Allows Easier Access to India's Aadhaar Biometric Database
Unboxing Chrome: Redesigning the Omnibox
>But that would mean that they were provoking the Western countries to give them hell

Gee, you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...

Putin clearly has no problem with the idea of provoking Western countries.
Qwant is based in Europe, so no matter what future qwant might decide to do, they will always be bounded by European legislation.
Nordic Power Whale is also an awesome name for a metal band.
"The Breakdown of Nations", by Leopold Kohr. Big organizations, centralization... are not good for humans, nor really efficient or sustainable. Some/many/most(?) of us feel it, this book clearly shows why.
Ask HN: Best Wordpress theme for your ebook?
If you have written and are currently selling an ebook on a wordpress based site, what theme has worked best for you?
Paul Manafort Agrees to Cooperate with Special Counsel
Anecdote of one. 36, wife and two kids. Have a quarter acre of land, a pool, and a 2600 sq ft house in a Tier 2 city for ~$200k. Why would I ever choose higher density and city living? I would not pay more for a lower quality of life (and distance means little to me, as I work from home and my kids don't go to school).

I happily bought my suburban home instead of living close to others in a condo or a townhouse.
It's a bit more complicated then that ;)
Indexing sure, might be done per server. But what about, for example, ranking?
Why, to keep the nepotism thriving?
I'm asking this as a thought experiment, nothing personal.

What if, fixing things the way you like breaks these features for someone else?
But this article is not about privacy issues. It's about "how fantabulous and oh-so worth the higher price, Apple products really are".
It’s fairly easy to distinguish low quality food and the brands or factories that are likely to produce it, if you’re in the habit and educated about it. Many people in the US have very little exposure to higher quality food or alcohol since it’s simply not available from mainstream outlets.
There is Microsoft's Azure speech-to-text API: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

But MSR's research system from that paper is probably quite different from what's deployed in Cortana/Azure, and Switchboard is a very different task from podcast transcription.
You'll have spammers 1 minute after something like this goes live. A search engine isn't only about finding things with your key word in it. It's also about rejecting low quality content you're probably not interested in. The former is the easier job. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
I spent my summer holiday in Aarhus, Denmark this year. The city is half built on a massive hill, yet 25% of commuters cycle to work.

Flatness is not a pre-requisite for a cycling culture.
Because that is how you get nothing but spam.
I am not sure about LPM on ios being remotely enabled, but they can remotely disable apps. And they have a patent on remotely disabling the camera.
Apple is still a profit seeking corporation. Given that they could be like google and mine you for every cent, but don’t, is a pretty big tick in their column. Aim for progress, not perfection.
Props to BurntSushi of Ripgrep fame who consistently churns out high quality tools. It's crazy how productive a single programmer can be, especially in a language as Rust.
iOS Jailbreaks Post-Exploitation
CopperheadOS is a very questionable choice these days. The author lost control of the company and was booted by the business tool.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8qdnn3/goodby...
Zimbabwe gov't sets up emergency crowdfund to fight cholera
The importance of finding social hobbies outside of work cannot be stressed enough.

However, if you are not in the lucky situation of having a partner for whom you feel responsible (e.g. by regularly doing things together, stopping work together, or even just having a conversation over dinner), it becomes way too easy to get sucked into a spiral of not going out and seeing people, and not even feeling like you want to.

I have had times when I was working alone for extended periods of time, at which I felt lucky to even be able to talk to a cashier while shopping for food. That alone however didn't automatically motivate me to go out and seek friends or activities. It's way too easy to forget taking care of your mental health in such a state.

Ultimately, public health systems and employment laws should take care of people by providing counseling and paid mental health days.
The distractions don't go away once you step in an office.
Is it?

Because the traffic in the suburbs is usually nowhere near the level of traffic in the city. The commute time tends to be relative to the traffic density more than the distance.

I drive to the same location, 15 miles away every day. Depending on the time of day and the traffic, the drive will take 15 minutes or 45 minutes.

The commute problem is forcing all of those cars down those same roads at the same time. Locating offices outside of the middle of cities would largely correct the problem.
Taking up a seat when someone needs it, sure you're getting in people's way. Taking your example of the grow light as a fire hazard here is an example of what I mean by management just trying to get rid of everything.

How is it anymore of a fire hazard than anything else plugged into the electricity? I doubt you were rationing the electricity or unplugging everything at night, and if people had laptops they we're likely plugging things into and out of the sockets every day. People can see the obvious hypocrisy it poor reasoning and it makes them ignore or detest even reasonable requests from management because the requests are so frequently unreasonable.

If management had their way everyone would be completely standard, with no individuality or humanity because it would be cheaper and easier to deal with. The unthinking objections to every bit of personality or decoration of a space people are in for half their waking lives shows no appreciation for the mental toll it takes on employees
I don't know LA enough to comment on that project, but my experience with similar projects is the bike trails created like that are a beautiful ride to nowhere. A great trip to take on a nice Saturday, but nobody will use them to get anywhere. (other than the bars that happen to be near the trail)
https://lite.qwant.com/

is a more familiar (and in my opinion, better) interface.
No, they decided to control the narrative so that people don't call it what it is, a defect.
> Almost a century later, it is time for a new set of statistics. It’s time for measures that do a better job of capturing the realities of modern American life... Fortunately, there is a nascent movement to change that. A team of academic economists... has begun publishing a version of G.D.P. that separates out the share of national income flowing to rich, middle class and poor.

I'm 1,000% for the idea of a statistic that captures a more holistic view of economic improvement.

The problem is, nobody's come up with a single number that feels ideologically neutral, because there's no agreement on what the "right" level of inequality is.

GDP is a sum you can't argue with (and easy to argue that more = better, even if not always true), and likewise unemployment is a percentage you can't argue with (and easy to argue that less = better, again even if not always true).

But even if we separate out GDP by class... it isn't clearly actionable. There's no obvious equivalent of "more = better", because it's clear that wealth increases should be spread out, but it's not clear they should be spread out equally.

The puzzle piece that seems to be lacking is some kind of rigorous justification for what the right level of inequality is in a society. But no political scientist, economist or philosopher has yet developed/proved that in any way that people generally accept.

We can't measure the economy all "right" until we collectively decide what "right" even is.
Thanks. If you really want to keep things to yourself you can log into a domain - anything you do in a domain is not public, by default (though you can toggle this).
Sure, but just like in so many other industries, what the bigger corporations do is buy the largest small brands and then ruin everything about them that made them good.

They also invent pseudo-craft brands that dilute the market and practically mock the entire idea of craft beer by being low quality, mass produced, nationally marketed and corporate backed. It’s noteable how subtly off their packaging and marketing is when they do this. If they understood the product they would have made it in the first place.

The way these companies are not corporate controlled are an integral part of the quality of their product and experience. People passionate and knowledgeable about the product are making decisions at every step, not MBAs. I’d compare it to game studios, or especially music. When a brewery like a Goose Island gets acquired by a major brewer, it’s like they have sold out, similar to when a underground band grows and gets signed by an major label. They lose relevance for true aficionados as the quality predictably decreases along with any feeling of exclusivity.
Note that’s it’s also incredibly localized, even in stereotypically “wealthy” areas. For example, life expectancy varies by >10 years across neighborhoods in San Francisco County (https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Health_Human_S..., slide 32).
Maybe in the US. We don't have many crazy white kids with guns in Europe. We do however have whole suburbs with people who don't accept the law at all, many of whom are open to the "terrorist content" the EU now wants to regulate.

Companies might certainly play into this as well (and terrorists do make perfect scapegoats), but it's mainly the politicians who see that they are losing control of the justice apparatus and society as a whole, and pressure from right wing parties who will be replacing them if they don't act.

Downvote me to hell. I don't give a single fuck. I pretty much predicted all of these developments to the point and got downvoted and insulted. It feels good to be right and your angry downvotes -especially from users who don't post a reply- are the icing on the cake.

Have a nice day.