skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criticizing the media with proper rationale is fair, but he's going a step further. He's strongly implying they are doing this for the money. No need for him to imply that or even assign any motive to why the media is wrong on this topic. It suffices for him to say they are wrong and to show how. He's putting forth a bad faith theory and this is also what Trump does. This sort of cynicism / assumption of poor motives towards the media is bad for society.

There's no evidence to suggest they intentionally write brown recluse stories because it sells more. It's just as likely the media also gets innocently wrapped up in the myth. I'm not sure how you're defending that quote.
I wonder why Apple doesn't encrypt calls between iPhones. And subsequently work on an open encryption standard with Google et al.

It's strange that Facetime and Messages and Whatsapp and others are end-to-end encrypted, but voice is not.
Little Boxes
I suppose if US passenger car sales, a segment the Model 3 & S belong to, decline by 1/3 in 2019 that statement could ring true.
You might like this:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-lang...

Basically, it's a calculus of constructions that guarantees equivalent funtions get compiled to the same thing. It's really intended as an intermediate form for some higher-level language, and we have Annah as just such an example:

https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Annah-Library
In common parlance, an SUV counts in "all cars sold", so it's misleading, even if technically correct.
That's really creepy, and I can't believe some people are actually scattering their loved one's remains at Disney parks just so they can "live forever" in there. Didn't they realize that the park employees could just easily sweep them off the floor? If only there was a way we can escape death and live forever, right?
Russia has "destabilized" the US? That is hyperbole at best, unless you know something I don't. What exactly are you referring to? They seem to have destabilized the US media, in the sense that they can't publish enough stories about Russia. But have they actually achieved anything in any real way?
Fallacies of Distributed Computing

1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology doesn't change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogeneous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
You can just deliver the counterpoint, explanaining how you think the parent was mistaken, without the personal insult. “The key point this comment fails to recognise is [useful new info]” might work well.
It is bold of Stratechery to make a longterm bet against any face-based device. The press of the 90s and early 2000s was laden with writers claiming in essence that there won't be any smartphone revolution. They'd have ample of proof from a wide range of mobile hardware products that failed spectacularly -- from the Newton to the Palm Pilot.

Then we got the iPhone.
I'd really like a robot capable of creating standard meals. If something could cook up a small variety of basic dinners with customizations, or make a sandwich, I'd be really pleased. I imagine for a decently sized family, also having it handle ordering food delivery of necessary ingredients as they start to run low would be awesome.
End to end encryption would not prevent malware from having access to your microphone.
I don't think that's what I'm saying. Of course they _matter_, as much as any of us do anyhow.

What I'm saying is that if you actually compare people with similar demographically-expected IQ and socioeconomic situations, Americans stack up fine. It's the extenuating circumstances that drag the overall averages down.

All that really means is that overall averages across 300 million people aren't that useful.
I think most of this comment is wrong. A "transfer" is actually not a thing. When another employer files a petition for a worker who already has an H1B, it doesn't "cancel" the first H1B. It simply makes it possible for this second employer to hire the worker. It is completely possible for the applicant to change their mind and decide to stay with the first employer.

I went through 2 H1B "transfers" (so in total I have been employed by 3 different employers as a H1B) 7-ish years ago so I'm very familiar with this process. At least, the way it was working at that time.
In hindsight Elon’s frustration with the negative press makes sense since he’s seeing these numbers along the way. Though he did end up making things worse, but I would probably find the negative press frustrating too.
Pretty much every large well known tech company uses an IDL and binary format to exchange data between their very large number of services, so that says something about why this might be a critical piece of the puzzle over have ad-hoc interfaces and shoving JSON everywhere. JSON isn't a very efficient format to send and store data in, and it's a terrible IDL.
i fear a blacklist won't be enough. better a user configurable whitelist. every time a command is not on the whitelist, don't run it, but give the user the option to add it to the list instead (with a multi key action, so that it can't be added to easily and by accident)

greetings, eMBee
I like the idea and love the your website. Did you guys use a Privacy Policy Generator? Because this...

Examples of personal data include but are not limited to:
your name, NRIC, passport or other identification number, telephone number(s), mailing address, email address and any other information relating to you which you have provided in any form to us;
your photos;
your employment history, education background, and income levels;
personal data of your family members, such as next of kin, spouses and children;
information relating to payments, such as your bank account number and credit card information; and
information about your usage of and interaction with our website(s) and/or services including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views and traffic to and from our website(s).

...is way too much. I am aware that Instagram doesn't have most of the latter information. But still. It's a deterrent, for me at least.

Anyways, good luck....love your website..cool design.
It doesn't void your warranty, although the manufacturers have done a very good job spreading that lie. It is illegal in the US to void a hardware warranty because the user altered the software. If they can prove that your alteration led directly to damage, then they can refuse to cover that specific damage, but that's all.

Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3nax/jailbreaki...
It’s also dangerous if your filenames have spaces in them.
China has no interest in funding terrorist attacks against the U.S. or anyone else. They want to be a Great Power, not a rogue state.

Aside from nukes, which would draw an obvious and unstoppable reprisal from the U.S., China does not have the military capability to meaningfully threaten the U.S. They don't have the aircraft, ships, subs, landing craft, etc. And again, I don't know why they would want that.

They do have the means to threaten their regional neighbors, though, and some of them are U.S. allies. That's the WWIII threat: that Chinese regional aggression sucks the U.S. into a military confrontation on China's turf.
"Multi-racial" is not a homogenous term you can just throw around as though it means the same thing everywhere.
Patient advocates condemn breast cancer immunotherapy hype
Thank you very much for you answer
They have those guys taping together all of Trump's ripped up papers, surely they can get someone to essentially do manual data entry from one phone to the other?
For the record, rooting doesn't void your warranty. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297361
The problem wasn't that Musk can't tweet about going private. The problem was that he made a false claim about planning to go private in a direct and bald-faced attempt to manipulate the stock to the detriment of short-sellers.

As a CEO in charge of the company, he doesn't get to lie to the public, his shareholders, or putative shareholders, about what he plans to do. He doesn't have to tell them everything--but he absolutely cannot lie to them.

A shortseller not connected to the company isn't in the same position. Since they're not a company insider, they don't have any knowledge of what the company is doing and others follow their advice at their own risk. It's only a problem when they make false claims that aren't supportable by data or reasonable (if not necessarily accurate) analysis.
Yea it's going to vary by the phone, iPhone 8 was very common and is still relatively new. In my case it was a Nexus 6p with an actual LCD problem so I needed the full assembly (couldn't find just the LCD). Lowest I could find was $250 to do it myself, and if I took it somewhere, they wanted $400 for the parts and labor, not entirely unreasonable from what I could tell since they also gave a 60 day warranty on the parts. I ended up getting a new phone for $799 instead.
They've only lost if TSLA is not overvalued. (The "us vs them" mentality is really tiring by the way.) The Q3 numbers don't significantly change expected future cashflows. Don't forget that they've tried really hard to make the numbers look as good as possible, they've pulled every trick they could think of.

I've been quite bearish on Tesla and Q3 changed my mind to some extent. But, it's just one data point, people are biased to extrapolate short-term trends. Does Q3 really change our understanding of Tesla's financial situation?

This is a good big picture analysis (the author is very knowledgable about equity valuation, check him out on wikipedia): http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2018/06/twists-and-turns...
This article mentions that restoring an iphone from backup also risks transferring any malware.

What would be the way to restore an iphone: would restore data from icloud also risk malware infection if the phone had it? (E.g. syncing calendars, imessages, health data, etc, all of which can use icloud sync)

Referring to regular iphones here, not the president's custom phone
Hi S,

Tell us a little more about yourself. Do you have any unique abilities (Like Data scientist) that would make sense for you to get a work permit?

Why are you looking for Internship at 31? Are you still in university? Why not just become an entry level programmer?

Best of luck!

Thanks!
Thanks for chiming in. I’m very pleased to see you engaged with your customers/potential customers; especially in a high stakes community such as HN.

I’m not going to comment any more on this situation as I don’t know all the details, I do hope I won’t see comments of unhappy DO customers on HN in the future, as that would be a sign you guys are not up to expectations.

P.S. I have been a happy DO customer for years; thus far (:
Wish I could read a good answer to this one.
Two things

First, I said they're not as accessible.

Second, not all journeys are between cities. In fact...
I'm not defending what you are attacking, but one sees that attitude consistently in the farm arena, those people who own/manage farms want to have more border security and less immigration from abroad (whatever that means but what the GOP is running upon nationally) and they also want access to the undocumented workers that supply the labor for their farms. From dairy farms in the midwest to livestock farming around the country to central California to border areas along Mexico, that is the one thing that stuck out in coverage on all news sources from local papers to radio that interviews farmers that hire immigrants. It seems like the epitome of doublethink, but it's a pretty widely held viewpoint.
Cookies are frequently cleared by users, and the other datastores -- IndexedDB, LocalStorage, and SessionStorage -- can be unceremoniously purged by the browser under storage pressure.

See my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297177

I'll explicate this in the documentation. Thank you for your feedback, bazizbaziz.
That's awesome! If you don't mind - one more q.. I see that stream-stream joins are not yet supported (http://docs.pipelinedb.com/joins.html#stream-stream-joins). Can you comment on when you think this feature cold land or is it still a ways off?
Russia actively attacks US election infrastructure. This is not an unknown thing, it is well-documented over the last few years and is happening right now.

Yes, Russia has "destabilized" the US. Our elections were hacked with both real physical hacks and lies-at-scale through sophisticated propaganda.

People are dying in the streets from the actions taken by violent right-wing people who are directly encouraged by language from RT and from the President. This is not some fantasy of fear, this is the real deal.

The US has a major political stability problem, where the party in power has made it clear they do not respect elections, will not respect the outcome if they lose, constantly gather support to jail people who have committed no crimes, etc.

Yes, Russia, through its hacking, violence, and other election fuckery, has destabilized the US. If you "don't know" this stuff, then you haven't been paying attention for the last few years. None of this is a disputable conspiracy, it's just facts.

Sad facts. :(
Interesting. I feel I could say the same of the USA vs China - any outright attack against China would draw a massive response, and I hardly believe the USA is capable of occupying China in any meaningful way.
Not quite what you were after, but I saw this Twitter thread that claims (with evidence) that the greenhouse gas contributions of meat and agriculture are overstated: https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1053398265817894914
Interested in building a homegrown IAM solution?
NYT: Do Not Double-Major
Happy XVth Birthday, Xen – Xen Project
Luddite? For not using a fucking smartwatch?

Check yourself, you elitist jerk
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the company all-in on the Web has a solution for every part of the stack. It might be a surprise that they open source so many things but that’s a pleasant surprise. Every thing you mentioned has a replacement from someone else so I don’t see how you concluded “control”. And finally the great majority of Google’s backends are written in C++ not Go.
Lack of support, the government is against popularization of encryption, and who would hold the keys?
Just because someone has a respectable credential or title does not mean that they don't like to troll sometimes, or worse (nb: no accusations are being made here), have a vested interest in opposition.

People, for reasons we don't know, understand or maybe without reason at all, put their professional reputations on the line all the time. Most of the time it goes by unnoticed.
capabilities should certainly work. for portability, setting a non-existant proxy should also help. most commandline tools should honor shell proxy variables and fail the request.

greetings, eMBee.
My opinion - don't delete (I don't think it'll let you), but yes, post again as a Show HN

So you'll do Show HN: [title] and the URL will be your url, and then your text you won't post in the main post, you'll post it in a comment after your post is submitted
Paul Graham pointed out that the US has 5% of the global population. But, it has been a magnet for talent, allowing it to punch above its weight in technology.

You do make a good point. Perhaps america is only using 2.5 of it's 5%. Half, in other words.

But that's still tiny compared to the sheer amount of foreign tech talent america has been able to benefit from.
> Plus, what about the Bolt, Volt, i3, Soul EV, or any number of other EVs?

Only teslas can charge on the supercharger network afaik. And, Nissan dealers will let other manufacturers car's charge if you pay, ymmv but it happens.

Listen, I'm not defending Nissan's setup, I'm just countering the point that there's only the supercharger network.
Combining two comments on the thread which both attack the issue from a different perspective.....

"What did you do to reach out? Did you go face to face? "
"writing a blogpost != talking to customers"

That's the issue.
In the UK, the immigration agency checks that you are still being paid above the minimum salary for a work visa. I see no reason why they couldn't check on this sort of thing.
The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces so pretty much anything the military does is under the presidents authority or by authority delegated down the chain of command from him/her. The president could personally lead troops into battle if he wanted to. I think the only president to have served as an actual general during their time as president was George Washington during the whiskey rebellion.
Makes it clear that this is not a technology problem, like most of the commenters here are assuming. There is no technology fix for a President* who actively tries to get foreign countries to destabilize our democratic elections. If they don't hack his phone, he'll go on TV and ask Russia to start the hack already. Just like he did before.
Nothing can save you if you install malware on your device.

But end to end encryption would be good for everyone -- not just world leaders.
Interesting saga behind a recent CNBC article on Amazon vs. Oracle
A CNBC reporter reached out to Andy Pavlo (professor at CMU) and other database professors about an internal Amazon document talking about an outage. Here is the full saga:
https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1055154039606910976

TL;DR Reporter flips out when told its a non-story. He still publishes the article with wrong conclusions. Goes to show the effect of having wrong incentives in media.

The article published on CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-caused-prime-day-outage-in-warehouse.html
Is it any surprise that most of the country is beginning to see right through this duplicity and virtue signalling and the democrat party is not looking so hot?
Very little of the cost of an iPhone is to make up for lost advertising revenue.

If you spread all the revenue of Facebook & Google over every android device it still wouldn’t come close to the difference in price.

Apple could make much cheaper devices, but they’d just end up cannibalising the sales of their high end phones.
There are so many issues with your comment that I don't know where to begin, but I won't bother addressing all of them because it will just devolve into typical Hn-ness. I will address the more egregious misstatements you have made.

Russia actively attacks US election infrastructure

Running a few ads, with a small budget, or having some fake Twitter accounts post things that millions of others are already saying, in my view does not constitute an "attack on the US election infrastructure".

Our elections were hacked with...real physical hacks

That would be news indeed. Source?

People are dying in the streets from the actions taken by violent right-wing people who are directly encouraged by language from RT and from the President

Source?

constantly gather support to jail people who have committed no crimes

Source? Please name one person currently in jail in the US that has not been convicted of a crime and does not have a criminal case pending. Again, that would indeed be news.
Tips is nice, but it only has a fraction of the info that is displayed on those splash screens. That info is displayed exactly once.

It's a mystery to me why they don't have a list of tips for each stock app in the tips app.
There is an error on p150 & p151. The text says: " The recursion
tree for the case T = 10 can be seen in Figure 9.1"
& "Figure 9.1: The recursion tree for the Change-making problem with T = 10."
But the figure itself uses T = 8

Also
"
Figure 9.2: The recursion tree for the Change-making problem with T = 10,
with duplicate calls merged.
"
The tree starts with 8 as well.
>is Subway removing pork from stores after strong demand from a religious group

Subway didn't actually do that though. Some franchises in India have lamb and chicken instead of pork and beef, and some have no meat options at all. 185 franchises in Muslim neighborhoods in the UK (out of over 1500) serve only halal meat, which means by definition they don't serve pork.

Those were just business decisions based on local preferences. You can't get pork at a Subway in a 90% Muslim neighborhood because there isn't a demand for it, not because people forced subway to stop selling it.
you are building up a pipeline, you don't want it to be destructive until you are done.

so at the very end you could apply a special action that now runs the resulting command with safety disabled.

or toggle between safe and unsafe mode at will, with safe mode being default.

it's not necessary to have the whole up utility run with filesystem disabled. but it could apply the restriction only to the pipeline its executing. that would allow it to selectively apply the restriction as requested by the user.

greetings, eMBee.
Thinking about it now, looks like I've just found an unexpected advantage of having the browser tabs on the left side, like I do.

Those scripts work by detecting a cursor movement towards the top of the window, predicting that you're about to close or switch to another tab. With Tree Style Tabs or Tab Center Redux, which put all the tabs on the left side of the window, those are rarely triggered :)
Worth noting that Tesla didn't really experience those losses due its special stock issuance to Musk to cover the portion of the fine that was due to Tesla. The only material effect to Tesla's corporate finances from that debacle was Musk now has more concentrated equity ownership of the company.
I have programming skills in PHP, Python, a bit JS and I think I can adapt to any environment. Also, I have skills in Scrum, including training emoployees.

Why not just become an entry level programmer? I just don't want to carry the responsibility of commitment for a full job. I just want to gain experience in the US, but I'm open minded. I would take a job offer after a kind of an internship, but I don't want to give that commitment before having made that kind of experience.

I graduated from university with a B.Sc. in 2011.
Sorry, in the case of "sail" boats, I worded it poorly before. Wind turbine-like "sails" could act as a propulsion source when the wind direction is correct, and generate energy and funnel the air into the CO2 -> fuel machine when the direction of wind is non-optimal for propulsion.

I agree in all of the cases I mentioned there would always need to be some energy source.
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> There are so many issues with your comment that I don't know where to begin, but I won't bother addressing all of them because it will just devolve into typical Hn-ness. But I will address the more egregious misstatements you have made.

There's no need to insult me to start with. Please abide by the HN guidelines and do not just start insulting people. Let's just talk about all this and get right to the content:

> Running a few ads, with a small budget, or having some fake Twitter accounts post things that millions of others are already saying, in my view does not constitute an "attack on the US election infrastructure".

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking about specifically hacking the voting infrastructure and removing voters from the voting rolls. You're going on about ads or something with a small budget (???) but I have no idea what you're talking about.

Here is a citation that Russia directly hacks the elections themselves: https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/russia-election-hacking...

> That would be news indeed. Source?

Oh yeah, that is the biggest news of the last two years. I picked a source and cited it.

> Source?

Well, Heather Heyer was murdered in this fashion.

> constantly gather support to jail people who have committed no crimes

Well Beto for one! Ted Cruz trying to drum up support to jail Beto O'Rourke last night was wild. Scary and sad :(
What were the arguments for the mouse having one button vs. multiple buttons?