skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look deep enough into the history of any modestly large Amercian city (pop. 250,000 +) and it's surrounding suburbs, you will see a metro area that was and still is being shaped by race.

It's not a surprise that SF's first zoning law was a veiled attempt at curbing Chinese immigrants, it's not a surprise that when the highways were built in Portland, OR the mostly black neighborhoods in NE Portland were razed to make room for cars.

Here is a quote from a recent Cupertino City Council meeting where new apartments, with a % allocated to affordable house, were up for discussion:

“The idea of Cupertino is to have people living here that are educated with degrees. Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.”

American urban policy is filled with slight of hand comments and maneuvers just like this.

A poster has been down-voted to oblivion for pointing out the hypocrisy that the bluest states have the most un-affordable housing, but I do think there is a thread here which highlights the hypocrisy of those who virtue signal for equality but advocate for policies that secure their wealth and make it almost impossible for lower income folks to survive.
I presume you still gave up 7% equity?
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078660. Promotional comments aren't good here.
Brian Acton or anyone else feeling guilty about their ad-tech wealth: use your winnings to lobby for a federal privacy bill that is as strong and comprehensive as GDPR (and other EU privacy regulations).

The industry is moving to enact something that maintains the status quo [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/technology/tech-industry-...
A cron job every hour with a slack notification of temp >60C has put me at ease. It goes over occasionally so I suppose I’ll need a fan at some point.
The US doesn't have GDPR because of the gigantic chasm because the European and American philosophies of what the government's role in society should be.

Europeans are more inclined to think that if there's a problem, it is very logical for the government to step in and solve it because that's government's function after all. Americans are more likely to think private citizens should solve it if possible because government should be small whenever possible.

When it comes to privacy, an American might value privacy but think the best solution is a buyer beware approach. Such as, if you don't want to risk Amazon / Alex spying on you, don't buy an Echo. To many Americans, having to take on the entire burden of being responsible for their own privacy is the lesser of two evils because government intervention is to be avoided.

As an analogy, consider attitudes towards medication. Some people dislike taking any medications at all if they can avoid it. If they have a headache, they will usually just deal with the pain instead of taking a pill. If their doctor wants them to go on prescription medication for high blood pressure, they will hope to find a way to manage it without drugs. Then there are other people who have a more balanced approach and have zero problem taking medications as long as they have been studied well and found safe. Americans are more like the people who avoid medications whenever possible. Sometimes they avoid things which could actually have been pretty beneficial. But they don't avoid them because they think the problem isn't a problem. It's because they don't like that type of solution.
It sounds like maybe they should be using sqoop to import directly in to HDFS. It also sounds like they may not be exploiting parallelism properly. Depending on the queries sometimes its easier to create multiple tables in hbase from the SQL import and have your hbase schemas correlate to the analytics queries that are most common.
What inspired a doctor to code? I assume that must have an inspiring story
If the commenter has disabled their smartphone mic as you say then I’ll give them a pass. I suspect they haven’t.

Why can’t Google flip the “record all” switch in Android on a whim?
One service which many cloud provides include in their egress fees is transferring data through their network to close to the other end. This can improve performance as the cloud provider often has a better private network than the public internet.

This service is also one that Cloudflare provides, except they don't charge for it. It sounds like what is happening here is that the cloud providers are egressing close to the end within their network directly to Cloudflare, who is then doing the more expensive work of transferring the data to close to the other end. This makes the traffic like intra-regional traffic for the cloud provider, which is often free or deeply discounted.
It's not like they secretly sold it Facebook. People knew what Facebook was about by the time of the acquisition and either didn't care, did a wait-and-see or switched to an alternative. Perfectly reasonable behavior by everyone involved. Your standard for "demon" is rather low ! :-)
Even if it is totally illegal, you're still going to go to court to fight it, and lawyers are expensive. Nobody sane is going to spend 30k+ going to trial on a side project.
The 12 lead ECG is used for a different diagnostic purpose.

The Apple Watch is positioned as a cardiac event monitor. Those are intended for extended wear and only need to take measurements between a single pair of electrodes to function.

For instance, a Zio Patch is a modern version designed to be compact and unobtrusive.

Here's a comparison between a Zio Patch and the old school tech of a Holter Monitor.

https://www.medgadget.com/2014/01/zio-wireless-patch-may-be-...

One of the tech journalists at Ziff Davis who took part in Apple's heart study ended up being dignosed with Afib by his cardiologist. He wrote about the process he went through.

TLDR: The watch flagged that there was a potential problem, he was given a traditional tape on cardiac event monitor to wear for an extended period to confirm the watch data, and was then diagnosed and treated.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-apple-watch-saved-my-life/

For me, this was the money quote: "I've had EKGs a number of times, and there was never any indication anything was wrong."
It's a question of support though, in a non-software-selling org, as a dev, you are a cost center, not a profit center, so getting the tools or other things you need is not a business priority; in fact, any additional costs in the cost centers are only losses on the balance sheet. In a company that sells software (primarily), you are the profit center, so anything that can be done to facilitate your work is supported, as it drives the bottom line.

footnote: just because they produce lots of software doesn't mean they've ever learned how to do it right. Ford is still a car company, Chase is still a financial company, Schlumberger is still an oilfield service company, despite all of them producing more software than some Software Companies.
How many Whatsapp users care about privacy and encryption? How many chose Whatsapp because of that?

I believe most users simply use it because it is the most used messaging app in their country
My only issue is if I haven't been to a site in a while it makes an error showing page not found or something similar, then a reload fixes it.

Otherwise, it's a godsend, especially on mobile. Though some...unscrupulous sites...I visit on mobile on some occasions still manage to redirect me to crazy shit. But I get way less adds pretending I have a virus.
> If you look deep enough into the history of any modestly large Amercian city

Sadly this is true for any multicultural city in any country of the world
Show HN: Launch SaaS business faster with SaaS boilerplate
The promo videos only showed single players. Does anybody know if two people might be able to network the devices and be in the same virtual space?
Stupid question, is this targeted at producing water or is it targeted at producing clean water where contaminated water is available?
I actually applaud Poulson for leaving Google in protest of Google's Chinese business practices.

Having mentioned that, I think I have to part ways with him when he implies that the correct way to "fix" this is to have the government come in and make these sorts of business decisions for the company. I don't believe in the government obliging businesses to do things. Especially when it looks like this whole thing is Google specific. That's unfair to Google.

What about all the other American companies doing business in China? Do they get to keep doing business because they are politically popular companies but Google is not? Or would this be a government mandate of a broad based American pull out?

Or just forcing Google to let its employees have a say in how it's run? (But again, you gonna force every company? Or just Google?)

Etc etc etc.

Once government gets involved and starts playing favorites, everything gets messed up.
So what do you suggest instead?
A good thing to keep in mind is that there are hundreds of thousands of ex-googlers. The fact that one or more of them holds this belief is virtually assured.
That is what I did. I used a TP-Link Archer C7 router and installed adblock and few other useful packages. Works like a charm so far.
Pretend Billionaire Threw Insane Parties for Celebs and Then Vanished
Trackless trams are ready to replace light rail
Electric grid protection through low-cost sensors, machine learning
Actually just one. ARKit works on nearly every iOS device since the iPhone 6S.
I love how one of the Breezy testimonials is from HOALife. Way to dog-food!
It basically has a mid-range smartphone inside.

Don't expect the games on this to look anywhere near as good as PC VR games.
That's not exactly true. It's not under active development at Facebook. I still intend to work on Skip as it is said on the front-page:
"The language, compiler and libraries are maintained as a side project by Julien Verlaguet, the main designer of the language."

And I am looking for people to help ;-)
Depends where you live, this is illegal in California.
I’ve made some comments here previously about how Facebook has been ruining Instagram by making it into Facebook, and it looks like the founder agrees.
In a similar vein, the weather icons are 800x800px images displayed at no larger than 20x20px
But you can't rely on any external entity's free service. Spotify are a great example of an org who'll deprecate it (if you are lucky) this week and then shut it down the next. Or maybe suddenly change it underneath you. If you are going to do this you must be able to build and host it yourself. And that's the hassle that was alluded to.
I think the unfortunate thing is that by preventing almost all change for so long, by the time change is going to happen, it no longer makes sense to try to make a gradual change, you have to make a dramatic change.

In less tightly zoned areas, it's pretty common for single family homes to be replaced with two or three story apartment buildings over time. But there's no point in building a three story apartment building in SF, you need to build a 6-10 story building. A 6-10 story building is going to be out of character in a neighborhood of small single family homes; but a smaller building wouldn't necessarily be. In a block that had most of the single family homes replaced with small apartment buildings, a 6-10 story building would probably be OK.

I don't know how to make fair rules that allow for that, though. Nobody can build anything bigger, and everybody can build whatever they want are both easy to apply in a fair manner, but lead to bad results. Maybe allowing to build up to double the median size could work.
> the ICO should have given them pause

Freudian slip? :)
I’m only at 7.5%, probably because I use uMatrix in the first place, and have gone out of my way to kill a few applications that phone home like crazy.
Isn't fulltime an accepted life-style? I see lot of people didn't think far enough but loved their job. Indeed, they seem much happier than lost people in startups. If I would hire someone, I would like to work with that type of person. They can change their mind later, no problem.
White House issues quantum computing strategy and hosts public-private summit
The soothing effects of strangers
Researchers develop invisibly thin spray-on antennas
Being forced to keep around dead weight because they can't be fired, the potential for an entire company to be shutdown due to a union strike, being forced to only hire individuals who are part of a union, regardless of whether they're the most qualified. For workers, they may be fine with the pay and benefits provided by the company, but get forced to pay union dues and deal with strikes and walkouts because union leadership says so.

I'm generally in favor of unions, but there are enough downsides and examples of corrupt unions that they can't be considered objectively good. Also, not all companies treat non-union employees the same as walmart and amazon. My father works for a large multi-national company that is mixed union and non-union, and the non-union employees get paid more than the union employees, and get equivalent raises whenever the union employees get one. Money and benefits for employees aren't really a huge issue for the company, but the threat of a union organized shutdown is, so they pay basically reward the non-union employees for not having an implicit threat of shutting down if they don't get their way.
Newly released iPhone XS supports LTE band 46.. anyone try that yet?
And then, at the end, there's one line of useless info - a weather forecast for their server location.

Forecast: today Partly cloudy in the morning and breezy until afternoon. / tomorrow Partly cloudy until afternoon. / day after tomorrow Clear throughout the day.

For that, they pulled in JQuery and made a XMLHTTP request.
>> China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother?

> Bing is allowed in china

It's probably more accurate to say the Chinese government will not allow a foreign company to out-compete one of its local champion companies. The Chinese government is probably fine with Google being a minor player, but they'd start to have issues if it starts dominating Baidu.
My understanding of the “list all inventions/projects” activity is that its purpose is to let the employer know what past projects they can’t grab, but it is not a way for you to continue working on them while still owning the IP. Their lawyers will say, “we can’t go after the parts of this project that were disclosed to us, but we can go after it based on the parts you’ve worked on since joining us.”
I work full time and get/test/ship washer/dryer/dishwasher spare parts in my, uh, spare time. It's profitable at 2000 pounds/month, and can go much, much higher. Fuck this shit because no one should just work 6-8 24/7.
Definitely, great point. For Facebook + WhatsApp, I'd bet that this is a case of Mark having a giant ad revenue hammer, and everything else that's corralling eyeballs is inevitably going to be a nail.
> “The idea of Cupertino is to have people living here that are educated with degrees. Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.”

> American urban policy is filled with slight of hand comments and maneuvers just like this.

How do you know they don't actually mean it? People can be as biased against low income neighbors as against neighbors of races different than their own.
It's not necessarily "less accurate" data (it may or may not be), there is just less of it. A conventional ECG uses those 10 electrodes to view the heart from 12 different "directions", which allows you to understand how impulses are moving throughout the heart as a whole. A watch only gets you one of those leads (Lead 1, specifically).
Why the sudden concern over tech companies mining our habits?

Advertisers have been doing it for years, using government funded research in military propaganda that made it's way into universities after WW2 as marketing and journalism programs.

This rhetoric is something like "Kill this particular witch!" without questioning whether the belief we hold on how the world works is rational.

EDIT: let me re-state:

Why is the public conversation around data mining limited to west coast tech?

Media be capitalizing on the public mistrust in the air after the election, and government is leaning in.

Why should any big brand or corporate master be enabled to collect and analyze my behavior in an effort to get me to buy more of their widgets without my explicit approval?
I run starterstory.com with a full time job and this month it's on track to make $1,700 revenue.

I actually wrote a blog post about balancing side project and full time job: https://starterstory.com/blog/full-time-job-and-full-time-si...

Not sure if that's what you're looking for but hope it helps.
The ‘Real You’ Is a Myth
Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time
Ha, I should probably update those to customers that are less biased
Researchers find Russian “VPNfilter” malware was a Swiss Army hacking knife
The email client was also really handy for reading rss feeds. It made the notes tool more useful for grabbing web content and then composing an email with it.
Yes, I tried doing this for a while and it’s frustrating for everyone.
Not useless, as it's relevant to the solar power for the server.
> Several large new customers have also been listed on Stripe's website this week, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Uber Technologies Inc.

If Uber is now running payments exclusively through Stripe instead of Braintree, that is a significant blow. I heard that Uber's payments through Braintree was a significant portion of Braintree's total revenue, don't recall the exact number I heard, but it was something on the order of 25% to 40%.
"Ensure that your users never get any privacy at all! Why install Google analytics on your WP blog when you can just give the entire blog to Google in the first place!"
> I am sure somebody else can provide more color but it is my understanding that there are 6 or 7 intermediaries that each credit card transaction travels through - each taking their fraction of a penny and delivering questionable value - all to eventually have that transaction finally settle 2-3 DAYS later.

I worked on Square's payment systems and I agree. Most credit card payments at least go through a merchant acquirer, one or two card networks (they can proxy to one another), and the card issuer. Settlement tends to involve other parties like First Data. Sometimes there are extra middlemen like Braintree.

Settlement is slow mainly because of the ancient technology. Payments are usually settled in batches, which are typically processed once a day, and transferred with some variant of FTP. Since there are a few parties involved, it usually takes a few days for each of their batch settlement jobs to complete. The companies involved tend to be very cautious and slow to change; a lot of them still use COBOL running on IBM mainframes.

> On a blockchain that can happen in as little as 10 minutes

Or a matter of seconds with BFT systems :) I'm working on a BFT system with a goal of subsecond consensus.
Yeah, upvote for reminding me about chatty IoT crap. I've got a Nest right now that was phoning home every four seconds. Why, I have no idea, so now it doesn't phone home at all. And a Foscam camera that isn't as persistent, but still tries a few times a day. We're still at < 35% blocked, though.
Yes, it's worth it.
I think the article hits on the key problem:

"Less than 100% reliability is essential for the sustainability of an off-the-grid solar system."

IMO, this can only become mainstream once there is no longer an expectation of "100%" uptime for websites in general.

It's far-fetched, but I can imagine it becoming mainstream if mesh networking becomes popular, or if the Internet were to become a widely self-hosted platform (e.g. people had their own "clouds" running in their homes). In such situations, 100% uptime would no longer be an expectation, so the perceived cost of using an off-the-grid system would be reduced.
He is an exception. I guess 99% (or maybe more) of the people in his situation would've taken the money, and they'd probably be doing right for themselves and their families. Ethics is always a nuanced topic.
These role would be sent for file training to the Netherlands. This is one of the most direct culture, you get a raw opinion.

This is a good thing, eventually, after an adaptation period where you think that missed the memo on being nice.
The healthcare system, or at least the insurance side of it, actively tries to push patients to urgent care clinics instead of ERs for that type of problem. Most health plans have a phone number where you can call a nurse to ask whether you should go to the ER or not.

And the vast majority of primary care clinics do have sutures in stock.
Key quote:

>In our source’s words, an operation of this sort would have typically required a lower-ranked, “field operative” with a military rank of “no higher than captain.” The source further surmised that to send a highly decorated colonel back to a field job would be highly extraordinary, and would imply that “the job was ordered at the highest level.”

That speaks for itself
no not Buzz but he certainly did do a little more than hint there's something going on but he can't say it for obvious reasons.

If you look at NASA streams they 'randomly' experience technical issues but it's widely observed that this typically happens when a UFO is detected.

there's so much we don't know and are not being told but what is clear is this-extra terrestrials possess technology that far exceeds our own and possibly this dimension, and this scares the shit out of superpowers.

It's supported by the fact that there is so much fake UFO with very real ones (ex. US Navy f-18 video) so you can't claim what is real and what isn't.

Also this happened to USSR with their trip to the Phobos moon when the satellite all of sudden disappeared and there's captured photos showing what appears to be cylindrical objects. We can't send satellites there because they keep disappearing.

The real theory as to why we haven't been back on the moon is because the extra terrestrials that are supposedly mining on the moon will not allow weaponization of space. I know this is shocking but it's the most logical conclusion following the various "technical difficulties" during the live coverage of the moon landing.

20 years ago nobody listened to the theory that the government is snooping on everyone because it was too out there.

We have multiple witness accounts from credible backgrounds being demonized and outcasted as mentally ill.

This is the greatest trick they pull. I mean look around, what has changed after Snowden? Absolutely nothing because there's fuck all we can do about it when everybody is focused on the carrot on the end of the stick.
Standard tools for formal verification of RTL is either SystemVerilog assertions or PSL. In my (limited) experience these are expressive enough to not be the problem with formal verification.

They must have some very specialized or large properties they want to prove if they decided to roll their own formal proving tool. That's not a small task. Of course, Intel does have more resources than most ASIC design shops.
I love podcasts, but they are likely to always suffer from monetization problems. No one wants to pay for them; this is similar to issues faced in news media. If the price was right, the quality issues would be fixed, or at least improved. Currently, they seem to serve as platforms for semi-famous people to advertise themselves, and build a brand. Also groups like NPR are already setup to release content as podcasts, as they can just play them over the radio.
> Why the sudden concern over tech companies mining our habits?

Because tech companies have broad, detailed, individual-level visibility into our habits. Neither traditional advertisers nor the government have ever had data that detailed.
I guess he has marketing down to a science.