skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did not win the Nobel Prize in Economics because there is no such prize.

It's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-i...

Just imagine the ridicule if instead of the Turing or Shannon awards we'd have the ACM Prize in Computer Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, or the IEEE Prize in Electrical Engineering in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

BTW, here's a great paper by George Akerlof and Paul Romer who both won the prize:
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~promer/Looting.pdf
looks awesome. why only es5 support?
I got fed up of going to conferences and getting some cool stickers that I never get to put anywhere.

The obvious idea is to put them on your laptop, but that can make reselling it difficult, and you lose those stickers if you sell it with them still attached.

So... I’ve managed to find some sticky-backed vinyl that looks almost exactly like the aluminium used on the MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s. I’ve stencilled and cut out a couple of lids and when applied you can barely tell they’re on there. They look awesome.

I’ve had them on nice hot laptops for a couple of months (with cool stickers applied on top) and they peel off fairly easily, but most importantly, leave zero residue.

I’m planning on figuring out if there’s a market for these ‘skins’ and going from there. I’ve take pictures along the way so I’ll put a blog together about it shortly, and gauge interest.
How ironic.
I would love for a company to offer pay in lieu of subsidized health insurance if it was a dollar for dollar match. If you’re married and both jobs offer partially subsidized insurance that would be a win.
That’s the next step. Will take another few years after glasses.
Are You Overwashing Your Face?
>The US cannot force those companies to lie.

But they can. Maybe only in cases where silence is a canary, but that still sets a precedence for them being able to force you to lie.
Where will Amazon put its second headquarters? What you need to know
Global Warming for the Two Cultures [pdf]
> the privileged of flying in the national airspace system

This is exactly the core of the problem. You've claimed the entire atmosphere as your private domain, from the ground up. Territorial claims are founded on use; you have no right to exclude others from airspace which is not part of a routine flight corridor. Certainly nothing below 400' and not part of a standard takeoff or approach glide path should be considered part of the national airspace system or otherwise subject to FAA jurisdiction.
Nexus 7 is a tablet without Plus model. Are you thinking of 6P?
I think Apple's pricing only works because the resale is so strong. I've never lost as much money on phones as when I was buying Android flagships. When I can go sell my two year old iPhone 7 Plus for $400, it's a lot easier to stomach the purchase price of an iPhone XS. Not that I'm going to do that this year, mind you, but still.

Apple has really curated their position as the premium choice, and I commend them for that. They learned relatively quickly (though not without missteps) that people would rather buy last year's (or the year before!) flagship at a discount than a brand new budget model. Saves R&D by milking the older model for another couple years, makes a bunch more customers happy, it's really a brilliant strategy.
> the organizations that are denying it have no knowledge that it occurred

Are you saying that Steve Schmidt, the AWS chief infosec officer didn't know about the hack? Or that his article [0] was published to purposely hide it?

If only one person in Amazon knew about it, it would be Schmidt. And if Schmidt knew, I don't think he'd write an article so strongly claiming Amazon doesn't know anything about it. The only thing in my mind that lends credence to Schmidt covering it up purposely is that $10B contract the Pentagon is putting out- perhaps they've told him to play ball as part of getting the contract. But even then it seems a stretch.

[0]https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-str...
You could also say "not sure how these are better than buying a 2-year old pixel". If good-enough is what you want, there are a ton of options, I won't disagree. I buy latest (at the time) phones because I plan to hang onto them for 3-4 years at a time.

So its really all about what you are looking for in a phone. If you think Apple has better UX and you don't mind the direction their hardware is going or have any aversions to their ecosystem, then, by all means, get an iPhone.
I get that you are trying to sow doubt, but consider:

>The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location — and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data.

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-r...

When you discover a memo like that for Apple, feel free to share it with us.
Or IBM :(
> Operators reported that they did not suspect a
cyber attack because unexplained crashes were normal for the system.
If you have read Fermi's paradox you know that it deals with only the visible stars in our own galaxy. The question he posed is why hasn't one of those planets orbiting one of those stars already created a galactic civilization that colonized the Milky Way.

It could be that we're the first/only group to achieve sentience in the galaxy but the probability of that being true is astonishingly small. (Hence the paradox) The conjecture is essentially a "negative space illuminator" which is to say it suggests there is some piece of information that exists but is not currently known that would resolve this apparent paradox.

If we were to discover that events happened every 'n' million years or so that sterilized stars in a 'm' thousand light year radius, a function of these two components would tell us for what values of n and m that would cancel out the survival and thus emergence of intelligent species.
No, they still have small bezels both at top and bottom
I have had my QC35's now for....2 years, with I would average at 6-8h of use every day at work. They don't have a single iota of visible wear on them, and the battery life is still 24-32 hours on a single charge. I imagine that, barring any accidents with them, they will probably last another 2+ years for me.

Same here, but I use them walking 1+ hour a day. With all that sweat over the years, still look and perform like new.

Yes, they were expensive, but I consider them the best value of any purchase in the last few years.
I have a different take: We were in a recession in the last 10 years. We are just turning around for the real bull-run. Interest rates just started to go up. If we were in a heated run, they should reach the double digits. We are probably 4-6 years away from that.

It is a good time to invest but probably a bad time to leverage as interest is going higher. The right time to leverage was a few years ago. Interest was cheap back then. Remember buy low sell high? Looks like everyone was freaking out back then and waiting for the "recession".

We are being far from a heated global economy and given how globalized and inter-connected the world did get in the last 10 years, the world wide economy might affect the US more than its own.

No this it is not different this time. But probably the baseline of your "recession" and "bubble" got re-adjusted for the new realities.
Everyone is doing the notch now, there were notch androids out there before the pixel 3 photos leaked.
Or more to the point: a chip "providing privacy" that you don't control yourself, really does the opposite.
Nice article, but not sure that the changes it talks about are actually required for the suggested semantics. The `must_drop` annotation suggested could just be a lint rather than actually being encoded in the type system. I don't know if early drops is related or possible though.
Do Apple keep security updates over the old versions? That could be an easy way to be forced to update.

Theses 2 relatively recents vulnerabilities are pretty good reason to have to update.
https://www.krackattacks.com/
https://www.armis.com/blueborne/
Is Alexa dangerous?
So much for "mainstream math". There is an alternative take called constructive algebra, which I believe to be more useful to a computer programmer. Briefly:

"There are only finitely many numbers."

That's trivially true, because numbers are man-made objects, and man has only had enough time to make finitely many of them. Integral and rational numbers can be made by writing them down, algebraic irrational numbers can be made by writing down an expression for them. (What language? Lambda calculus, obviously, because according to the Church-Turing thesis, nothing more powerful exists.)

Only countably infinitely many numbers can potentially be made this way, only finitely many will ever be made. Those non-algebraic transcendental numbers? Don't exist, because they can never be made. They may "exist" in a philosophical way, but they no impact whatsoever on the real world in which my programs operate.
The question I have about all of this is the environmental impact of the "densification of wood." They cite it being similar to paper manufacturing, which is really energy intensive and is a horribly polluting industry.

I don't have any info on the above, but it is something I wonder about.
I don't like "+1" type comments, but this is a rare instance where I want to highly recommend Netlify. From support to performance, uptime and UI, they've been exceptional.
the CEO one of the chinese phone companies (i can't remember which one) just came straight out and told theverge what we all assumed: the notch isn't necessary, but consumers see a notch as "premium". So they notch the display, because that tests better in their market research.
Bloomberg is also one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. Their entire business model revolves around providing accurate financial information. We happily pay $2k per month per person for it, partly because it is such a trusted source.

Some reporters may be dumb, but if it has the Bloomberg name attached to it, and has far reaching effects in financial markets, you can be pretty confident that this wasn't just the work of some clueless reporter.
Military Now Recruiting Soldiers to Fight War That Started Before They Were Born
Dual sim as in the ability to have two sims? That's popular in India and the middle-east, so Motorolas yes probably. But that's not what's required for Fi.

IIRC Fi's requirement has to do with the ability of moving phonecalls smoothly between wifi and cellular. This capability used to be limited to a dozen or so phones. I don't know what the state of this is nowadays.

Edit: https://www.androidcentral.com/these-phones-work-project-fi -- I don't know which ones are good on that list, to be honest. I really liked the 6P, although it was a bit too large for my taste. I miss phones like the S3 :/
> How do server-side only things will happen then?

By calling a service from JavaScript. What you're probably getting at is, how do I dynamically generate web pages?

That's different. As a web developer you're probably used to generating the presentation tier on the server at least some of the time. You query a database and spit out some HTML. The so-called "static" approach here means:

1. Generate more stuff up front with build tools that you previously would do at request time. For example, why write server code to generate and cache a blog on every request when you can just build it whenever you write a new blog post?

2. In many cases this greatly narrows down the dynamic stuff that might need to happen. See if you can use JavaScript to fill in the rest. Instead of inserting that ad banner with server code, write a JavaScript function to fetch it from a service (like Lambda) and update the DOM.

3. You can be as dynamic as you want to be by expanding on what you do with JavaScript and services. This is sometimes called writing a single page app. It's maybe more complicated but on the plus side, it's how you write mobile apps and you may be able to share the same backend.
I was underwhelmed with the specs. Only 128gb storage? Processor improved, and I guess image processing software improved... maybe that's all that should be expected after 1 year? But the iPhone seems like a huge contrast... 512gb storage available? Both of them offer cloud storage, but the 512gb option is amazing to have on the device.
Facebook’s last chance
I read their articles on income sharing, but it doesn't mention if the income sharing is truly 100% communist, or if there is some kind of specific $ amount you need to contribute, and then everything on top of that is yours (or you could choose to work less hours). Do you know any specifics?
How skateboarding is uniting outsiders around the world
Can anyone here comment on using Octobox at scale or with success?

I currently have over 10000+ unread Github notifications and would like a better solution for managing these notifications.

Is Octobox designed to still work reliably when handling this amount of data?
> If there's not a better argument for automatically-sunsetting laws than the East Coast, I don't know what it is.

Give it a few years and CA will blow the east coast out of the water.
Science Daily altered one sentence from the originally regurgitated PR, and I think it thoughtlessly corrupted its entire meaning.

SD: "The blast generates two jets of gamma rays which travel out..."

PR: "The blast generates two jets which travel out ... The jets emit gamma rays,..."

Implication from their creative edit is that the blast itself shot out gamma rays (photons) at light speed, whereas the paper's authors actually described something else, a decades-long process of ejecta compressing and interacting to create gamma emissions. "The long time baseline of this event offers the best available constraint in afterglow evolution as the bulk of shock-accelerated electrons become non-relativistic."

My understanding is that the famous '91 OMG particle (proton?) was theorized to have been generated by an expanding shock wave, except unlike here the scientific community then spent some time doubting their readings and being unable to re-verify the phenomenon. Conversely this new study observed such an event spanning from 1975-2017 using 7 different instruments.

Original PR: https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/astronomers-discover-sonic-bo...

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08964
I’d assume it’s a sampling problem. Do they fully inspect every board? If they ship three modified boards for an entire data warehouse could that be sufficient?
Especially around earnings season...
Most buildings for which you'd consider wood will probably be torn down before they become structurally unsound simply because a different building will be desired (bigger / different purpose).

Also, is concrete actually reused like this at scale? Sounds unfeasible economically.
I get that. My point is that Google aimed at “core feature parity,” which was a mistake.
I know someone who has an Android One Motorola, while they like stock Android, updates are still really slow for reasons unknown. There was also no beta during Pie.

Definitely isn't a full Nexus or Pixel experience unfortunately.
An easier explanation for more blue in traffic lights as they switch to LEDs is that blue LEDs are just boringly cheaper.
Exactly, so what if a company/product's source of profit was helping people get off their phones?
Apple doesn't invent anything. They let someone else invent it, then they just borrow the design and iterate. It's been their MO for more than a decade.
Google got legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz to switch from iPhone to Pixel
Here's the source 9to5mac is quoting from. It's a podcast episode, so no text:

"Risky Business Feature: Named source in "The Big Hack" has doubts about the story": https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/
Food has become substantially cheaper over time. I don't think that can be discounted as a bare essential.

Shelter and medical services have ballooned due to ever increasing regulation. That regulation may be necessary, but it unquestionably comes with a cost.
iPad Pro rumors: 4K HDR video output over USB-C, flexible Face ID, and more
GnuCash 3.3 released
With the mention of temples, it's actually pretty common for historical temples, churches, and castles to have wooden rooms for anything past the ground floor, since it was much, much easier to build a few main structural supports out of stone and then fill in the rest with wood later.

Of course, I'm a little biased on the subject, living in a 100-year-old all-wooden building (you can see the huge beams resting on the foundation in the basement) that I chose for earthquake resistance. I'm actually a lot more comfortable knowing that the whole building can sway while all the parts stay attached, compared to the many old brick buildings around here that will literally fall apart if an earthquake happens.
Reminds me of the book "The Eden Express" -- one bad medical situation can ruin a commune.
Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for Civil War gold
Oh, it's Bloomberg again...
Erdogan demands that Saudis prove missing journalist left their consulate alive
No headphone jack, I'll be sticking with the original pixel for a while longer
Last time I checked, the US was among the most expensive countries regarding health care. But I don't have a source at the moment.

And sure, health care ia costing money, nobody is argueing that. What Europe figured out is that a solidaric system, one where people with less individual costs are covering for those with higher costs, are the optimal solution from a national perspective. It still pizzles me how that can actually be a issue in any developed democracy.

And again, all legal residents are eligible for health care in EU countries. A good thing if you ask me.
Rethink: Web
I worry there are long-term implications to the exodus of intellectual capital from academia -> industry.

However, I don't blame anyone who makes this obvious choice:

A)Years of underpaid, thankless, exhausting work, for a... fractional probability of getting even a livable wage.

Contrast this with:

B)$techCo, where even a decent undergrad CV will get you a six-figure job, advancement opportunities, and maybe even a modicum of respect.

What sane(or not blindly idealistic) individual would willingly choose option A?

If there isn't some kind of concerted effort by higher-ed orgs to reduce the administrative and bureaucratic overhead of post-grad education, it's going to have long-lasting consequences.
> Nearly all major acquisition programs that were operationally tested between 2012 and 2017 had mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities that adversaries could compromise.

It's not too surprising and a little reminiscent of the security nightmare that are IoT devices.

All those weapon systems come out of hardware/engineering companies with little background in software engineering and the accompanying security best practices.
The high-risk, high-reward world of selling stuff on Amazon
Google Pixel Slate
Precisely the point of Aileen Lee (of Cowboy Ventures) when she coined the term.

But like "cloud" it's been gobbled up by people who didn't know what it meant and has been bent into a parody of itself.

(not to imply at all that a "unicorn firm" is as profound an idea as not caring how your packets are routed but rather connecting to a resource on the network)
Nice to see this getting major traction. Congrats to Austen - one of the true grinders in the startup game. Something sadly lacking on HN these days!
You have it backwards. The government can't force them to put out "no comment" press releases. They can force them not to reveal certain information. Maybe that means the only logical thing to do is to say "no comment", but it certainly doesn't prevent a company from commenting as long as they don't reveal the gagged info.
Keep in mind that the phone manufacture is tasked with providing those updates for Android One devices.

It was once going to be Google providing them but they changed the site a while back.... that makes me skeptical about when / if you get those updates...

Google has been struggling to get manufactures to do updates and backpedaling on Android One's updates doesn't have me optimistic.
> I noticed that most of their “noise-cancelling” was actually passive and consisted of good noise suppression from the good seal created by the headphone ear cups.

This is absolutely not the case, you can turn the cancelling on and off while still wearing them and it makes a huge difference to background noise. Many years ago they had a demo where you stand in the store and they blast a low-pitched white noise roar (like a jet engine) at you, and have you turn the cancelling on and off -- it's something ridiculous like a 45db drop. I bought a pair on the spot.

It's certainly the case that the cancelling is less effective at higher frequencies like voices than it is at low-pitch background noise, which does decrease their effectiveness in an office environment.

I have mixed opinions about build quality -- the originals were solid, I wore these around town most days for a few years, and they are now about 6 years old and still working. The replacement cups that I bought were garbage and disintegrated within 6 months of only at-desk wearing. So perhaps construction is not what it used to be.

Interestingly I heard that Bose patented the physically optimal geometry for noise-cancelling microphones, which would mean that their competitors are necessarily inferior at pure noise cancelling; don't know if that's true though.

I also find it annoying that these headphones require batteries to function even if you aren't using the noise cancelling feature; makes it very unreliable for carrying around town, but not a problem at my office desk. Without knowing anything about the electronics involved, it seems like it would be much better to have it degrade to being non-noise-cancelling powered headphones, instead of bricks, when the battery dies.
> some cheap antidote

That you have to pay for.
Why every startup should think about cost-plus pricing
Larry Wall's State of the Onion talks are pretty entertaining to read. As someone else said in this thread, he has the skill of linking to many other topics and making them seem related, then jumping back to the main topic he is on, and making it all sound interesting, and smooth and natural, not contrived. He also makes lots of good jokes and puns (well, at least some are good [1]).

And speaking of Damian Conway, who was mentioned in this thread as a possible heir-apparent, he is brilliant. I bought and read an intermediate Perl book by him. Some really good stuff in there. Forget the name of the book now, but it should be possible to find it by a web search. It might have been Object-oriented Perl.

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

[1] That was a kind of mild good-humored jab at him, BTW, the kind of thing that he does a lot in his talks and writings :)
And a direct link to his WebAssembly version of the emulator: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/bombjack.html

Took longer to boot then I expected, but after that played quickly.
Same here. OG pixel and I'm basically waiting for next year when we stop getting security updates.
What's your rationale for this? Beyond interest rates, which are clearly the result of more aggressive, far larger-scale easing by central banks than we've ever seen before.
A China Veggie-Selling App May Be Worth $7B
> Moulay Ismaïl is alleged to have fathered a total of 867 children, including 525 sons and 342 daughters by 1703, with his 700th child being born in 1721. It is estimated that he had 2,000 concubines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Ibn_Sharif
I started Perl 4 back in the mid 90s, but today I use Modern Perl with Moo. I have to say it is much cleaner than what you describe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos#Yahoo!