skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically mention non-automatic inspection as automatic one may well not have the "paranoid mode," unlike a human who specifically told to go over every individual square millimetre.
How are event loop and non-blocking I/O inherent in JavaScript?
traditional robots need to be smooth. I doubt commoditized robots will be based on traditional servos with traditional pid control, there is plenty of room for algorithm and control improvement, not too mention the huge strides being made in soft actuators. Like a post below you said, humans are able to do it, so its a question of how to cheaply artificially do that. Just because something doesn't exist yet, doesn't mean its impossible, that's the whole point of research. As an example, the group I was a part of in school made specialized control algorithms for 3D printers that can compensate for the flexibility and dynamics of cheap/thin actuators, which nearly doubled printing speed while retaining accuracy
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Franz Lisp used BiBOP too, but not in any way that worked with the paging system of the host machine, it was just for determining the type of an object.
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There is nothing secret about it. Private labels are very common in retail.
> That is not the problem. The problem is many of us do not accept the world in which everything, down to the hardware we touch is just licensed to us.

As far as I know, this is not allowed in most of the EU if you bought the device outright.

On the other hand: The customer probably bought the phone with a O2 combination contract in which case it is a phone-on-a-loan (as in banking). In that case the provider is responsible as seller and loan provider, and the Apple store employee is correct to refuse unless O2 has a direct servicing agreement with the Apple store.

If he bought it outright (even through O2) and O2 doesn't provide reasonable service (missing your phone for three weeks isn't reasonable) he can request repair within warranty at the factory but will most likely have to pay for it himself and then send the repair cost to O2 (which they will argue against doing in order to avoid paying). The "factory" can refuse to do so and send the customer back to the seller in which case he/she should argue for a quick repair or stop the contract with reimbursement.

It's a complicated problem, but the Apple store was most likely correct in this case.
Why does everyone ask questions they know the answer to?
If nobody is actually analyzing the companies to discover their intrinsic value, stock prices will detach from fundamentals and we will see much bigger crashes than we ever saw before.
I understood the title more as, "since we all know other people's bragging is insufferable and does little to convince us of the bragger's supposedly higher status, why do we continue to brag ourselves as if we believe it will have the intended effect on others?"

The answer, and the article gets at this in the last section, is a variety of anxious human emotional impulses. I guess we knew that, but the way the article teased it apart was interesting for me anyway.
HP also offers on site customer service. I bought the next business day one for the laptop I'm using right now. I payed it a less than 100 Euro for 36 months in 2014. It's more than 100 Euro for each following 12 months period. This should be telling about their expectations of durability and/or availability of spares.

I got the screen replaced for free at home after about one year (a failing contact in the hinges). I sent them a video recorded with my phone to demonstrate the problem. The technician came the next day.

I had to change the keyboard twice (an arrow key years ago and the left ctrl-shift keys died a few months ago). The customer service doen't replace keyboards but the replacement parts are cheap. I bought them on Amazon and looked at videos on YouTube to learn how disassemble and reassemble the laptop (a ZBook 15 first series.) I like that I can open it and replace RAM and disks, which I did. I could even replace CPU and GPU much like in desktops. OK, it's 3 kg and not slim, but it's worth the extra weight and size.
Many retailers, supermarkets, etc do this. Best Buy for example has the brands Insignia, Dynex, Rocket Fish, etc. Given that Amazon owns Whole Foods and has several retail locations, it makes sense that they are adopting this classic strategy.
Most likely: phone-on-a-loan contracts. You pay per month instead of the insane cost outright.
Not really a surprise, why would Amazon constrain it's ambitions to being the store front, when it could control the whole product lifecyle from manufacturing to delivery.

Perhaps not great news for people who sell on amazon though. It would be very easy for amazon to tilt the table on their site in favour of their own brands.
> “The increased volume at other places has worked in our favor,” says Casey Bloys, the head of programming at HBO.

I do hope this is the case but I'm not convinced. Netflix's approach atm seems very strongly geared towards the middlebrow, which is perhaps the area their algorithms perform best.
It's probably not very economical for them to target someone like me when there's still droves of people watching network TV.

I'm not totally sold on the Deuce but it feels like far more of a prestige product than anything I've seen on Netflix.
When someone signs with HBO, they know they're gonna be given the opportunity to develop with top notch people whilst retaining control within a proven system. Whereas Netflix seem to be exclusively focusing on throwing money at the problem. For example, Netflix have made several attempts at a cool 30-minute dramedy type deals, absolutely none of them come close to something like Insecure in overall quality. The most noteworthy one (Master of None) has some bizarrely stiff writing at points that would've been helped hugely if Ansari had been paired up with some experienced writers.

Netflix don't do themselves any favours with the notion that things will get lost in the pile. A director selling anything that hasn't a sizeable and obvious audience tends to get absolutely buried on their platform (e.g. Noah Baumbach's last film's only publicity seemed to be the references made to it following Dustin Hoffman's sexual harassment allegations)
As a consumer, isn't this a good thing?
>>If people are uncomfortable with their CEO eating meat then they should be free to ask about it and voice their opinions.

But really, who would be that obnoxious?
My only knowledge of Apple and the FBI is Apple refusing to unlock iPhones at the FBi’s request - care to enlighten me further?

I’m also not sure what the problem with Apple keeping iMessage encryption keys on their servers is. The article I read about it said that Signal also uses centralized encryption key servers and nobody ever complains about Signal.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessag...
The 2015 HN discussion of Loglan [0] included links to XKCD [1] and its debunking [2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075196
[1] https://xkcd.com/191/
[2] https://mw.lojban.org/papri/File:xkcd_comic_debunker.png
Yes, marginalized people will not be discussing whether their marginalization was a good things. However, there are neonazi or Nazi sympathetic subcultures, some of them fairly large. It would by incorrect to then state that it is universally agreed upon that nazis were evil and a black mark on history. Similarly, there is a significant movement in the United States that either waxes nostalgic about or outright prefers the pre-civil war era with its slavery.
This might actually be a bad point for letsencrypt. All the eggs are starting to be in the same basket.
Ah, it makes a bit more sense when interpreted that way. So the capital that is described as being allocated is really the company's capital to the investor, not the investor's cash to the company.
>>We have to presume Kavanaugh's innocence because no witness has come forward to corroborate any claims.

By the standards of criminal proceedings, yes. But this is a job interview, the standards for disqualifying someone are lower.
Yeah my Thinkpad X220, a model generally loved by Apple critics, also has a WiFi card whitelist in the bios.
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>Arabella. Lark & Roe. Mae. NuPro. Small Parts.

And all are the same rebranded Chinese stuff.

Used to work in a few companies doing "sourcing agency" work for this style of operations. Made some brands for big retailers, Amazon included: Adreama, Trigse, Avani etc, as well as trying at that myself during college years.

Nothing complicated: you pick something sounding vaguely Italian or French - Whopani Schmopani etc, make a convincing looking website, and order the most banal plasticky goods from dudes on 1688.com with your "brand" silk screened on it. Then you list that stuff on ebays, amazons for $200 each. And once a day, there will be few misfortunate dudes buying into that.
"Think you're really righteous?

Think you're pure in heart?

Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art"
Yes and no. A store brand can be a good thing for value and consistency, but at the same time, if it crowds out variety and selection and makes it harder for other suppliers to thrive, that's not good for consumers long-term.
I gently suggest that you examine this thinking, hard.

You obviously don’t believe that you have a choice in the matter today. But you also seem to have a helpless belief that you won’t have a choice in the matter tomorrow, nor do you seem to believe there are things you can do to have a choice tomorrow.

So instead, you are wishing that something else would force the universe to give you what you want, but without you actually changing your circumstances such that you can freely choose not to use JIRA tomorrow.

I urge you to shift your thinking and make it your business to recognize that you actually do have a choice today. You can work somewhere else. That has some costs you may not care for, but it’s healthy to say, “Overall, I like the choice I’m making” and then to be happy with the outcome.

Next, I urge you to believe that you can make choices today that give you even greater freedom to choose not to use Jira tomorrow without making difficult tradeoffs.

When you have greater confidence in your own freedom of choice in these matters, you will be happier today and tomorrow, and you will let go of wishing that other forces will act to give you what you want in life.

Summary: Working on your own agency is far, far better for you personally than hoping that the universe will conspire to make other people stop choosing to ask you to use Jira.
> "chinese whispers"

Does anyone have a better phrase for this?

A Chinese workmate called me out for using that phrase in his presence. Until then I had used the phrase since childhood without thinking that there were connotations and with nobody complaining. However, after that one fateful conversation I did see that my language could be improved. But how?

Does anyone have a concise alternative that conveys the same thing without implying anything about how Chinese people communicate in whispers, to get things wrong?
There are two issues I know of with SQL where it isn't super great IMHO.

1) Hierarchical data. The relational model is fine here, but the query syntax isn't awesome.

2) Understanding remote data. This is outside the scope of the data model, but it does effect the way software is built.

Neither of these show any evidence that the relational model should be replaced.
If someone compromised the old one, it would be already catastrophic. Key rotations are mostly about compliance requirements and are also mostly rubbish.
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Yes, because the incident they reference was a mid-PCB-layer chip discovered by govt agencies using X-rays. The findings were presented at a private conference in Virginia. Sources who attended said "they've seen the xray pictures" etc.
Mostly security theater, but it’s still useful to practice a key rollover in case something bad happens.
Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it.

Take it from a socially clueless person, some of us don't know the answers to these questions. :)
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> “Another is security, but I don’t see a security model that doesn’t trust the owner of the device making much sense.”

Apologies for the cynism, but isn't this pretty much the mainstream security model since at least the advent of smartphones?
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The copyright reform doesn't affect user agents.

Besides, it isn't even in effect yet.
I have the same experience with the force upgrades of OSX (due to xcode). Download is big, require massive 21G of free space, takes ages to update on older MBPs, everything gets more sluggish after the update and crashes more often...
Amazon shows that planned economy works.
Let's nationalize Amazon. ;)
The unfortunate reality is that if you don’t sing your own praises, you will miss out on opportunities in life. Most people don’t have the time to really pay attention to what you’re doing (bosses, interviewers, dating interests, etc), so you have to make them aware - or you’re just off in the corner being unseen.
And what you are doing if not handwaving? I'm all for breaking HN-stereotypes, please show us some statistic in which US police does not look like a bunch of murderers.
There are two typical ways to make Turkish delight.
One is the "easy western" way - sugar, rosewater, gelatin.
This is obviously not halal.
The second is the "hard authentic" way: sugar, rosewater, cornflower.

Cooking confectionery is a real trial. For Turkish delight, you heat a large amount of sugar for a very long time making it hover between a very tight temperature tolerance.
If you go over you make toffee, if you go under you make caramel.
After a few hours, you mix in the cornflour slurry, mix for a few more hours, and then pour to set.

In my experience, your cornflour lumps (three hours wasted), the temperature spikes or drops (fail), sticks (fail) or you get hot sticky napalm on extremities.

However, if you pull it off it is delightful, and your Turkish friends will be very impressed!
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Not a native speaker: Does it have additional meaning to the reference to the children's game where everyone whispers to their neighbor, passing a message along? If not, isn't that also known as the "telephone game"?
That's super common, and not specifically a bad thing.

Unsure about other countries, but here in France super/hypermarket are even presenting it as an advantage on various points, "XYZ own brand means the cheapest price", ...

Eg I once consulted for the "Super U" chain and the fact that one of their own brand is a certainty of locally produced agricultural product in relation to each supermarket was a big thing they massively insisted on. Or "french origin" etc ...

Like for myself, I love LIDL's "chef to go" brand for salad/smoothies, always fresh and at a good price (their smoothies are awesome and contain nothing but fruits). I will now look for and buy those instead of other "regular" brands. I discovered their smoothies, because they already convinced me with their salad earlier.
The production values were certainly great. It has some issues with pacing, theme consistency, certain plot elements, and characters.
> I am proud to say I have never bragged in my life.

How is that figure of speech called in English?
Private labels are somewhat the norm in retail, and retail had become the core business to AMZN. So, not surprising at all.
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Citation needed, https://www.wwindea.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase/small_wi... (an apparently pro-small publication) states the total worldwide number at less than a million in 2015, with just 17000 of those in Germany. The installed total capacity of small wind in Germany is stated at 26 MW, which is equivalent to a modest wind farm of six 4.4 MW turbines.

Oh, and I do see plenty of small wind generators installed, they just never move because they are merely bought as futuristic architectural ornaments, not to make a difference. They probably run until the first time they require maintenance, then the novelty has worn off.
Prediction markets are more hype than substance. The future can't be predicted through gambling.
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The Capital Market is more than just the stock market. The Bond market - the place where orders of magnitude more $$ volumes are traded is also a capital market. Both are allocating and reallocating capital to daily, and the price signals are just as important to future capital decisions of all participants.
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Ask HN: Requesting Mock Interviews – For Marketing and E-Commerce Roles
Hi HN,

There are plenty of web services that help developers with programming interview practice (paid or free) but none that i could find for other roles.

I am an MBA graduate specialising in marketing at e-commerce (+ fmcg industry with 6+ years of work ex.),
and have been finding it very difficult while preparing towards such interviews.

It has been over 14 months, since I left my last job to take a break and start a married life,
but since then it's been difficult being considered and barely received any replies to my over 200+ applications in the duration. Some recruiters have even been rude in stating that women should not state having taken a break or lie about it.

At the moment, I am working to make my application stand out from the rest and am creating a presentation with ideas and strategy, and some growth marketing experiments that I have been working on to pitch my candidature at a well know fitness & healthcare unicorn.

Towards this goal, I am looking for help with few mock interviews and constructive feedback on my efforts.
It would be very kind if you could help me with an mock interview or feedback on my resume or presentation.

Please drop me a your email, and I would reach out to you - https://goo.gl/forms/jyN9ej8GMZG0JLqL2

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> I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that finally explained to me, and I appreciated it.

That sounds interesting, would you have the links handy? :)
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Thanx for posting this looks interesting.
"In fact, I am the least bragging person in the world. No one brags less than me."
Netflix's classic movies selection is pretty terrible though, isn't it? I know I checked a couple of months back on the UK library for some noirs and I can't remember exactly but I think there may have only been 1 (Touch of Evil iirc)
I can't believe we're still debating if this movie was good or not....
MSDOS v2.0 is about 52,000 lines of assembler code.

Windows is in the order of 40,000,000 lines of mostly C++ code.

It is very unlikely that MS would release intellectual property that is approx 3000 times the size and possibly a several million times the value of MSDOS.

Even assuming that they did, it will take developers a long time to come up to speed with understanding the code base sufficiently to make useful changes. In the meantime MS won't be standing still.
So did anyone manage to glean what the "secret story" was?
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These projects could seriously backfire in unanticipated ways. There are a lot of important matters to explore in this space by law and philosophy wonks. I think that Solid and the other emerging platforms are more likely to create new revenue streams for those already in the business of selling PII than helping individuals protect and manage their PII.

If each of us can control personal information about ourselves, the Supreme Court may rule in favor of this information as property. The problem is that this is not a realistic scenario. Most of our personal information involves parties other than ourselves. Counterparties can rightfully stake a claim to information they helped to create. Why wouldn't they? There is no clear breach of ethics by doing so.

So, let's assume the world adopts Solid pods to manage this data. Is each pod really a single source of truth? Any pod organized by an individual could just as easily be created by a counterparty, with some modification.

Then, suppose a marketplace exists for this information. Who is dedicating effort to monetizing their pods? How will individuals, who work for a living, compete with organizations mandated to maximize pod revenue? Both have legal claims.

My prediction is that contrary to what Lee, Pentland [2], Mazzucato [3] and others envision, Solid and its growing number of equivalents will spawn a new generation of business models and go even further than they do now, by introducing financial products linked to monetization. The main beneficiaries are those already monetizing personal information and those who will securitize them.

[1] https://enigma.co/
[2]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611489/lets-make-private-...
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I would say one specific detail (I haven't looked at it though) would challenge the truth of the rebuttal of both Amazon and Apple is that if it is confirmed that both have severed ties with Supermicro around the same time, the coincidence would really seem odd then.
For those interested into following this bias into whether it was shady or not, all the reviews can be read on a shared Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFx... as linked to from the article.
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Also for those interested, there's an open source project which will do this too, given GTFS data: http://docs.opentripplanner.org/en/latest/Intermediate-Tutor...

It's extremely fiddly to set up but it's also a lot more detailed.
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As a student, you get more free offers to use university ressources or something else than someone who just 'works'.
If you computed a weighted average of all hedge fund returns, you would get a global contribution to GDP. Since hedge funds often don't publish their returns, and it's well known that there's huge amounts of survivorship bias in the data, it would be very difficult to measure accurately. My feeling though is that the contribution would be close to zero, as most of the strategies they pursue are arbitrage based and are zero sum, not wealth creating (with some known exceptions, such as venture capital etc).
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Were the domains using TLS?
Seems like a great time for someone to make an extension to show the "true" brand of products on Amazon. Nestlé is a great example of a company that people have tried to boycott and failed because of the sheer amount of brands at its disposal (2000+ according to Wikipedia[0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands
At least I'd expect that there you can be sure that it's not a fake / clone.
Welcome to HN. You’ll find that kind of negative comment which doesn’t really add to the discussion isn’t valued here.

It wasn’t wild nor uneducated; I have some experience with FPGAs and the challenges of complex circuit design - regardless, I was posing a question rather than stating fact.

Do you disagree with what I suggested? Educate me, correct my speculation.