skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could imagine that setting up some kind of sequence that could make it either vibrate or resonate should still be possible. Basically set it up so that you get the maximum speed of hitting any characters. But like the sibling said, it could easily be a different printer too.
If ProtonMail manages to offer (a) seamless calendar and contacts syncing and (b) decent office suite functionality, I would consider switching all my accounts.

Let's hope Andy Yen and his team at ProtonMail can it pull off!
I'm not sure I'm seeing much difference. Could you explain more fully?
Forget about quantum computing at scale: has anyone actually developed a functional quantum device that unequivocally proves that it's both viable and that it solves a problem faster than conventional physics can explain? To the best of my knowledge, the answer is no. It's premature to invest heavily in something this speculative. I'm all for investing in research and science for the sake of science, but we didn't invest billions in going to the moon before we knew that rockets worked.
When did other countries reduce lead exposure. Does their crime statistics correspond to this decision?
Oh finally, I'm so happy about the notifications / do not disturb functionality - super annoying to have chat and email notifications popping up all the time and having to fully disable / reenable them.
Indeed, that's a good idea! I took the freedom to open a issue about this idea on the repository for the IPFS-Companion extension here: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/issues/581
The effect is definitely real - it happened to me many times, when I trust journalists in topics in which I have no expertise, sometimes much more than I should have, to my eventual regret. All while knowing to be extremely careful trusting anything in the press - especially non-specialized press - in my area of expertise, since the coverage is so universally bad that it's a cause for celebration when at least something correct and non-distorted comes through. I know that, and then kinda forget that, because questioning literally everything is kinda exhausting.

I am not sure what you mean by counter-example to the effect - I do not think the idea is that it's always happens. It's just the name and description of the thing that sometimes happens.
People don't realize that social media, smartphones, and the even the online retail space are akin to the invention of the railroad. Nobody has seen these technologies before now, yet they dominate our lives in US. It's time to start trust busting up these companies and increase competition. That's how the capitalist system is supposed to work! You should never hear about a Trillion Dollar company in the news unless it has 2-3 Trillion Dollar competitors on its heals.

Market share needs to be taken into account here. Don't tell me Facebook should remain just because there is a Mastodon out there. Apple vs Google is not enough either.

Take a look at this visualization and ask yourself whether these behemoths should exists:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/02/technology/ap...
Has anyone seen a lazy 'Super Rich' person?

I only have 2 super rich(1M+/yr) in my life, and they are always working. I only see them during holidays and the occasional grad party.

Their son told me that his dad worked so many hours that he totaled 2 cars in a week due to sleep deprivation.

Maybe second generation is lazy, but I'm not sure where this idea that 'super rich' dont work come from.
The SE is basically a 6 in the 5S form factor.
The other thing that has changed in 10 years is that you are 10 years older and 10 years wiser. Time was always kind of populist. It's a picture/newsmag. Essentially credible? Sure. But not exactly highbrow. Try reading the articles from 10 years ago again see what you think.
Pinker attributes it to cultural shifts, not causes like lead paint.

I googled and found his discussion of the subject. It's worth reading. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0002.206/--deci...
That's a nice initiative.

BitTorrent files are also content addressable, and the DHT allows for routing to several provider nodes. Only files that are downloaded are shared too.

What's the plus-value of IPFS over BitTorrent in this scenario?
I think the point is that they're hosting an HTTP proxy to IPFS. Since you're accessing IPFS files over their proxy they can modify the response you receive, since at that point it's just like any other website.
Wow, I never thought there is something like Lunr.js! In my free time, I have been working on https://ipfsearch.xyz, thinking about pivoting into a direction of search in JS, but never getting the time to do it.

Now I'm pretty sad that something like ipfsearch (most of my work was rebuilding Lunr.js) already exists.

I guess I should do more research before embarking on a side project :( Anyway, I definitely learned a lot about how search engines work...

P.S.: now, I'm noticing that Lunr can't fetch the index over the network. OK, so not all time has been lost!
That's interesting. Where would one go to find data about discretionary income? Disposable income data is readily available, but I wasn't able to find much about discretionary income, including going straight to the OECD which did not reveal anything in my searches.
It's a very hypocritical way to blame companies for paying minimum wage, which is set by law...
"it's a stupid idea" is terrible feedback.

Talking about why something shouldn't be done or why another way is preferable is way better.

Saying something is stupid will only work if you have complete power. If you explain why you think one approach is better than the other you can actually affect change without just holding the power.
I think employers like Walmart and Amazon are unique cases.

Again consider the fact that Walmart as a national grocer is able to milk the SNAP program on a national level to the tune of $14B/year.

That enables them to move into a depressed area and set up shop, even at a loss, which in turn allows them to shutter the existing market incumbent(s).

With the mom & pops gone and/or employee owned grocer now gone only Walmart is left.

It’s using tax payer funds to out compete competition, which allows Walmart to further depress wages.

It’s not like this behavior is all theoretical. In practice Walmart takes taxpayer money and turns around and lobbies congress to increase SNAP benefits so they can keep lining their pockets. Walmart takes losses in certain regions to put others out of business to become sole grocer. These losses are in part balanced and paid for by tax payer dollars at the national level.

In many ways Walmart is directly responsible for lack of competition and closed stores, and despite the desperate attempt to say that is free market...it’s not free market when 1 company is subsidized by taxpayer money and the loser isn’t.

You are right effort should be made into improving/fixing the economy and lives of workers...getting rid of corporate welfare for certain businesses is part of that.
I am not postulating a hive mind, and my question is not based on any racism (as you are implying).

Your DJT analogy is wrong because every single president has been white, so DJT's rise to prominence is not exceptional in that regard.

A better analogy, and hopefully it demonstrates the nature of my question: One can ask whether Barack Obama is generally well-regarded as a source of pride in the African-American community, or seen negatively, or as a no-op. That question has a very clear answer.

Similarly, few Indian-Americans have risen to prominence in the US government, and I wondered if that serves as a source of pride, or the opposite due to his policies, or neither.
It is a really interesting marketing move (and don't delude yourself, this is a marketing move). To market a feature that Google can't possibly compete with.
You can find idiotic question on both SO and Quora but, in my experience, the stupidity demonstrated in Quora questions is just astounding.

But that is not the issue. The issue is that complete garbage answers get upvoted to the top too frequently. You actually have to dig very deep to find something interesting.
Things like the mass hysteria with CO2 are just surreal to anyone with a basic understanding of atmospheric and climate science. It really messes with your trust in public consensus.
It costs a cool million to throw a kid in jail so the numbers add up.

But dont worry when the economy goes South again the prison industry will be back with their promise to provide jobs.
And I'm on iOS 11 on the SE, and it works just fine. So 12 should be ok.
This hasn't been fixed; the build that went out was the same as the golden master seeded to developers last week that was still susceptible.
"Rfc 2616" typed into google works just as well and saves you a click.
Smart Cities Could Be Security Disasters – Decentralize Today
A friend of mine is still running her iPhone 6 on the original iOS version, so probably iOS 8.

It would slow down with iOS 12, right? Those speed gains are compared to non-ancient versions?
Hahahaha... well said.
What's the typical sequence when a new iOS version hits and then all the apps that were developed in beta need to release fully?
How about getting his workers off of public assistance? That should be a few drops in the bathtub of his wealth.

But he "wants to help the poor". I call bull on it until he helps his own employees.
I don't understand why environmentalists would prefer carbon-based fuel greenhouse gas power plants over nuclear. Does that make any sense to anyone?

I wish some major journalist would ask this question and get an appropriate response.
I've started and run a number of affiliate and other partner program types. As few things I'd consider:

1) Who do you expect to be your affiliates? Is this more of a refer-a-friend program a la Dropbox, or are you looking to have businesses refer you traffic en masse?

2) If the former, I believe it's going to be easier. You can offer non-cash rewards, like free months of service. If the latter, really think about what type of affiliate you want and how to properly incentivize them.

3) re: incentization above: let's assume you go for a 20% revenge share model (fairly standard). Consider how many referrals someone needs to make the payout worthwhile. My current affiliate program is for a SaaS that costs $19/month – affiliates have the refer 260 customers before they hit $100/month in payouts, which is a lot.

4) Buckets: I broadly lump my affiliates in to two buckets: "value added" traffic and "dumb traffic". Value added traffic are affiliates who have an existing relationship with their referrals – think a web design agency who refers their customers to a web design tool. "Dumb traffic" is my slightly pejorative term for bloggers, etc. who just send leads my way with no expectation of helping them set up the tool, etc. Dumb traffic can drive a lot more leads, but Value Added traffic has higher LTV.

5) Finding affiliates: think of who is blogging in your space, or who else might be interested in your tool. If you can't think of this, don't start an affiliate program.

6) Don't make your affiliate program super visible and easy to join. One or the other. Otherwise, you're going to spend a lot of time chasing down shitty affiliates who spam your links across dummy pages and coupon sharing sites, and it will never amount to anything and will make your app look bad.
Over iOS 11. And I encourage you try try iOS 12; I've been using it for three months and it's been really fast in my experience.
50+/year? That is a big plus indeed, I also want my family on Protonmail. I donated btc in the beginning and got on board immediately, now that the bridge software is out, regular people can use their MacOS mail and their Thunderbird so the service is really attractive. But... on my own domain with 2 kids and a wife and a father it is 25 euros per month or 240 per year. I email about once every couple of days, as does my wife. Kids do even less... Now I have 3 mail users for 3 euro/month at transip.com. The price difference is pretty big. A family package would be really welcome. Before you ask, be aware that the "Addresses" of the Plus account are not users, they are aliases.

Edit: I still think protonmail is absolutely great, it works well, it looks very nice. I'd love to pay and probably would switch just for me, however, it's pretty hard to route one address of a domain to one server and the other to another.
My mom is German. I was just helping out a "fellow German" (so to speak) with a little translation.

Also, this is my original comment above, where I make it clear that I don't really care about the code of conduct per se, but I'm thrilled to see Linus deal with the man in the mirror.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18001323
If anyone can opt out the rule of law at any point then it is the same as having no law in the first place. Which means the ones with the most weapons get to decide. Which means we are back to having a government except without any rights and protections for everybody else.
RPython is a framework for building trace-based JITs. Its selling point is that it automatically produces a JIT from a high-level specification of your language (basically, you would implement an interpreter for JS in RPython and then the framework would spit out a JIT)

In JavaScript land there is less space for high level frameworks because browser vendors are willing to throw thousands of man-hours into JIT development. They are willing to go through this trouble to avoid the runtime overhead of meta tracing.

Additionally, JS JITs have moved towards a more method based than trace based approach over the years, for whatever reason.
Some people on the watchuseek HAQ forum determined that, even permanently disconnected from an iPhone and any network, it is accurate to ~10 seconds per year, which is extremely impressive.
Voter suppression through felony disenfranchisement, however, remains en vogue.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/florida...

"In Florida, more than 21 percent of black adults are disenfranchised because of this policy."
Pterm for Mac 9.1.0 has been released with macOS Mojave support
But when GPS is going for another purpose phones could grab the time. Don't know if they do.
Torrents don't have the concept of links at all, they're not a web.

Also: Being able to inter-link any content-addressed data structures. With IPLD [1], you can link from an IPFS directory to a Bitcoin transaction, to a Git repository, to a Torrent.

[1] https://ipld.io && https://github.com/ipld/ipld#implementations
On a philosophical level, yes, intentions matter, not just here but in general. There are ample scenarios where wrong intentions lead to positive results, and they are rightly criticized.

As for this point you have highlighted, its just a comment, thinking out aloud, and not worthy of dissection or having a discussion about.
"skeptical of Time"

Time?

This is how the entire media works.

Some are credible, some are not.

They all spin.

It's a rough game for them, there aren't enough interesting things going on frankly. The world would be fairly boring were it not for the 'adaptive' way in which we tell stories.
Which is strange, because it seems to me a consumer that there's been an explosion in POS systems that offer any featureset under the sun. Are the backend systems just all wonky?
oooooh, the memories... thank you very much for this 45 (!) minutes of great nostalgia :)
> And ultimately, how can I know for sure that CloudFlare won't play the game where as acting as a proxy they will modify some of the files served? Imagine I want to retrieve cat.gif and cloudflare intercepts my request and serves me cat1.gif - I guess it all boils down to trusting them?

The hash serves that purpose, the file is identified by the hash for the purposes of retrieval and coming up with another file with the same hash (especially one that's usefully different, like changing the overall message in somebody's blog post) is computationally infeasible. Now you might have a problem there in that in a web only implementation like this the code that checks the hash is probably also provided by Cloudflare, but the functionality is there, you can download the file, compute the hash and compare it against the one you retrieved it from.

> But hold up, isn't p2p file system like this all about trusting the network and not 1 server?

Ideally yes but 1. it's very difficult to get more than a handful of users to use anything that doesn't run in a web browser, 2. IPFS' implementation for Windows is effectively unusable (it's a command line interface like the Linux one, which is a non-starter on Windows), 3. attempts to built a complete IPFS node in the browser are currently incomplete, I believe because DHT discovery isn't possible in the browser presently. These gateways should probably be viewed as a stop-gap solution until such a time as we can have full IPFS nodes in the browser.
Also had a bad experience on my 6 Plus, but then I did a factory reset of the phone and it has been performing pretty well as a result
Do you have any examples you recommend?
I'm really psyched to have the new Screen Time feature working across my family. It's got some quirks which I suppose will be smoothed out in time, but it's still lightyears better than previous third-party programs.

The only thing I wish Apple had done was create a separate app to control the restrictions, or at least provide an API so someone else could do it. Digging all the way into Settings to change time and lockout settings is already a pain.
This is basically what San Francisco, CA does. They use 3 10-sided dice to randomly choose 1% of ~600 precincts to manually audit. You can watch the random selection for the June 2018 election here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSLlBkFY-Y
Such a wonderful show and several actual prime ministers have said, more or less, "yes, this is what it is actually like."
IPFS is a protocol that dictates how it's clients are supposed to validate the data. If you use any of the client libraries they will do this for you (go-ipfs/js-ipfs). If you want to use cloudflare to distribute your index, you need to trust them to use a valid client implementation. Otherwise you can serve an index file off of your own server/network and distribute the rest of the assets via IPFS.
I was also on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE until a couple weeks ago. The blocker for me was that I wasn't able to open my credit card app anymore to see my balance, because they stopped supporting iOS 10 (there were other app updates that were pending my iOS upgrade). I upgraded to 11.4.1. I'm hoping to stay on that until iOS 13 is announced. I prefer stability, so I prefer staying on the latest minor version of each iOS release.
This is also what I was wondering. The first thing I was looked for was raw numbers. I found those here [1]. Nationwide youth confinement dropped 41% from 1995 to 2010. So the next question is how does this compare to the general change in crime rates. A convenient graph with those data is available here. [2] And we see there has been an overall 36% drop in crime rates.

And so, lacking any confounding data, it would seem to be almost fully explained by the general drop in crime. Of course now that begs the question of what's causing that drop, but that's a more actively researched question and it appears that the answer to that could likely also explain this.

[1] - https://www.aecf.org/resources/youth-incarceration-in-the-un...

[2] - http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Almost none. PIN/passwords render fraud to negligible amounts. That's why debit card transaction have fees for ~$0.10 under Durbin. Companies like Stripe make a killing whenever their customers use debit cards instead of credit cards because they're charging 2.9 +0.30 with a cost of 0.10.

But if you had to rely on debit cards only, then commerce at least in the US would grind to a halt. I believe the average American CC debt is ~$8000.
Thanks for this additional feedback. It sounds like we should create an XCode project from scratch to get many of the defaults and figure out how to bridge this with our current implementation.
What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet?
Wit IPFS you could rent a few cheap storage servers at different providers around the world and have them all pin your content. That should be resilient against most classes of failures (unlike a cloud provider where bad code pushed to production by the cloud hoster can cause failures in all availability regions).

It's not exactly the first protocol enabling that, but IPFS also has the benefit of distributing bandwidth if your clients all access the files via IPFS (since they will serve them from their cache).
There are actually parts of this I like better than the current status quo:

* Ad blocker detection and a way to ask for funding? Seems nice. We will get a view on the actual market value of the content. As the Internet started out free and hand plenty of content, I assume content producers will get a rude messages about their actual value here.

* A good base platform for the GDPR is also nice. A big player like Google cant flaunt the law too much, and browser plug ins have one big target to block, verify or modify

Some extras to make the ad ecosystem sane again:

* Micro-payments. You could get to choose between an ad, a micro-payment, or no content.

* Content producer vetting and taking responsibility for their ad's. Todays ads are bottom feeders. If, say, a car site would get an image from e.g. a car company, and place ads on their own site, you get a better ad for the customer, no privacy violation, and more respect and use for the ad vendor. This is the stack oveerflow/jobs model.

* A header element like X-Interested-in. Use your browser to set a free-form value, and let the ad vendors get some input to give better ads , while you are completely anonymous to them.
I own a watch that uses GPS as a time source and it is not without its limitations. It only works outdoors, and it takes several seconds to get as sync - over a minute if you also need to sync your position (to adjust the time zone).
So maybe make throwing someone in jail not cost a million.
VPNs in China get blocked all the time.
6s
How much lower must immigration-overhead get before employers feel like half productive US workers are not worth the tradeoff against desperately dedicated internationals, geez louise.
I use Firefox AND Chrome for work. Chrome for development with the dev tools (I don't really mind if Chrome is phoning home to google with URLs like `localhost:8080`, and my local dev sites certainly aren't setting tracking cookies.

I use Firefox with the new Container Tabs feature for everything else (email, JIRA, etc), which is particularly nice as you can have multiple accounts from the same SAAS site open in the same window.
The one I played for years and years is now offline. Makes me sad.
This is a very good point. Before seeing this point, my initial reaction was, "Nope, it's way too early to worry about quantum computing." But, the security cost / risk of being few years late can be so high for nations that they don't have a choice. They have to invest in it early.

I'd love to hear from crypto expert HNers about what the industry is doing to prepare for the possibility of quantum computing disrupting current crypto solutions and if there are any interesting (long-term) startup opportunities.
One of the things that the Pycket team has been trying to do is use JIT compilation to cut down on the runtime cost of Racket's contract system. This is not an area chez scheme would be able to compete with.

I don't really know what is the current state of pycket other than that though.
I'm on a 5S and the speed gain from iOS 11 to 12 is noticable. Not vast, but noticable.
This browser extension can help you guarantee e2e integrity in the meantime: https://blog.cloudflare.com/e2e-integrity/