skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody here knows how these cases truly work. There's some precedent where you can find gag orders, which make people think that Cook would simply go the "No Comment" route, but to assume those are a blanket procedure for everything is incredibly narrow-minded.

When it comes to National Security, combined with the most valuable company in the US, all assumptions should be off the table. Apple has many reasons to publicly dismiss the claims: their business in China, their marketing as a security-conscious company, etc. They also operate under immense secrecy. Apple has unmarked buildings, top secret projects, a culture of secrecy within the company. They are the type of company that would have innovative approaches when dealing with national security matters.

It would be odd for Tim Cook to knowingly lie about this situation. If definitive proof came out that the chips were bugged and he had knowledge of it, then he could be punished. But, at the same time, if he were able to prove that he lied in the name of National Security, it could be instantly excusable.
> If you attract 4.5 million tourists a year and charge admission your "nonprofit" label is a bit of a joke.

No, it's not. “Nonprofit” isn't about not generating revenue, or even not generating surplus revenues (though IIRC, Sagrada Familia visitor fees fund construction, so it's not generating surplus revenues.)

Nonprofit is about not having people with a claim on profits.
Did he ever begin compensating his victims?
Wouldn't Canada be more receptive to Franco-Belgian comics due to the large number of French speakers?

America had its own influential comic book industry since the early twentieth century, so it never got into importing them. For most of Europe (and beyond) the comics made in France and Belgium and translated in the vernacular were the absolute cornerstone of comics for most of the previous century.

A lot of European kids who grew up in the twentieth century know about the American Old West through reading a cowboy comic (Lucky Luke) made by a Belgian, and first heard of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire through Asterix.
Reference ?
Relax. People seem to have this idea that you can jump into an existing team and start making big impacts on an established product with no ramp up time. It takes time to understand something, and much woe and misery arises if you start tilting at Chestertons fences out of the gate. Developing a feel for the interpersonal dynamics of a team is also not something that comes about instantly by osmosis. I'd try to get a bead on what expectations are, keep plugging along, and give it time.

A month is an eyeblink. It may not seem like it in the fever pitch environment that is all too easy to fall prey to, but I've waited longer waiting on customers to navigate red tape to get a few service accounts setup to install our products...
[Orthogonally to client-side hashing]

Using a hardware one-way function you can ensure that even if your database is breached or disclosed, attackers cannot brute-force outside of your environment (e.g. the hashed are “anchored” to your systems).

You can construct such a function using something like CloudHSM (pity that KMS cannot be coaxed to be deterministic or you could use that). All you need is an encrypt operation with no corresponding decrypt or way to extract the key.

I’m surprised that more large online services don’t use anchoring.
Where to get browser specs for design testing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224741
Lyft drops $100k against SF tax to fund housing for homeless
Nicotine is a powerful nootropic.

No, don't do drugs.

You're feeling incapable of doing your job. Address either your capabilities or your feelings. If your background isn't as good as you thought, this is your time to catch up. If it's your feelings, confront them. Why do you feel inadequate? What can you do to improve your perception of yourself?
> So what's really happening is the type expressions are pretending to be "just everyday python", but actually they have arbitrary restrictions (cannot be functions? need to work via overriding `__getitem__`?) that neither you nor I were aware of.

Yeah, that sounds about par for the course for bolt-on static-y typing in languages that aren't supposed to be statically typed.
> Has severe mental illness grown significantly during that time?

No, but protocols for involuntary commitment of people with borderline states may have.

> They're comparing cost-per-resident instead of cost-per-homeless-resident

It is pretty easy to derive one from the other, given homelessness levels, and given as SF is has one of the highest ones (slightly lower only than NYC) the conclusion seems to stay - expense level is very high.

> We actually spend less per homeless resident than NYC

Source?
Lots of "talk about feelings" in the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC); or even the Old Testament, for that matter...

Such a disappointing article.
5 Business Mistakes Every Entrepreneur Should Learn to Deal With
Hi there!

This seems like an interesting concept. Signing into your app via the link in the email does a good job of showing the concept of what you're working on. Your app also has a nice look-and-feel to it.

Couple of thoughts/questions for you:

1) Once I was logged into your app, it was unclear to me what my next step was... I saw "New App" under "Developers", but I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do there.

2) Is your app meant for the end user or website/app creators? Who benefits from using your service? I'm a website/app creator and I don't know why I would want to outsource the one thing that makes my users feel secure when coming to our app?

3) While forgetting a password is massively annoying, there is a small sense of "security" I feel in that I had to type something in to access a website

4) With the proliferation of services like LastPass and 1Password, how are you going to go about convincing users that are using those services? (these services do a pretty good job of removing much of the pain of having to remember a password)

5) Seems like SSO via FB, Google, GitHub and the like are pretty convenient to users already -- is there a benefit/upside that your service provides that these SSO services don't?

It seems like this would be something where you'd need a large number of companies to have buy-in to what you're doing in order to add your form to their website. It seems like you'd need to have some hook there to get critical mass of widely-used websites to adopt your sign in/sign up form.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing where your service goes from here!
A recent experience from a hackerspace showed me how incredibly thankless people can be. After working really insanely hard to build an inclusive space with loads of features, every little hobby revolutionary in the community just shits all over the work and proclaims the people actually getting stuff done should just stop and leave it to them.

Even if I had the time, money and expertise I would never do something like that. These days you can't even ban assholes without everyone making like you're the one with a problem. And even a single person with a grudge can make you more problems than anyone can reasonably deal with while having a life.
Honestly I think "insecurity" or "dissatisfaction" might be stronger.

But in either case, isn't labeling it "great American" still a kind of exceptionalism, however negative? :P
Very interesting. It is worth noting that Marxism is rooted in being entitled instead of having gratitude.
The History of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Gargoyles
> ia64

I wouldn't normally comment on something like this, but I noticed this mistake twice in the linked post as well. ia64 refers to Itanium, while amd64/x86-64/x64 refer to the 64-bit version of x86.
There is no racism in that comment, GP is making an observation that is, to my experience, factually correct. Many (Northern) European countries have a number of economic migrant minorities (eg Turks, Moroccans, etc) and Italians (chiefly Italians whose (grand)parents came from southern Italy) are a relatively big one in some areas.

Just like the "unwashed masses" have a bad impression of eg Turkey based on racism/classism towards their local Turkish-$NATIONALITY minority, they have the idea that Italy has to be a poor backward place based on racism/classism towards the local Italian-$NATIONALY minority.
New Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite History
Yeah, this submission was surprise-nostalgia for me too.

It strongly reminds me of another series, "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks".
I'd like to see a flip phone again. Large screen, small size (and would actually justify the modern trend to make everything incredibly thin).

Having said that I'd like to know if this small phone is a success or not. If no one buys it then maybe everyone is happy with phablets.
Interesting writeup, but the Ghost Ship is an extreme example of what goes wrong - you couldn't make a place more of a fire hazard if you tried.
So this is another step for Apple to try to get everyone paying them their software development tax, since "notarization" requires you paying the $100 annual fee.

I don't think Apple really cares about the fee. I know that the three platforms are now bundled together under one developer program, but suppose that there are 100,000 Mac developers that publish signed or App Store applications (which is probably an overestimation), the fees will make Apple 10 million. This is less than pocket change to them.

To me it seems that the $100 annual fee is to prevent fraud: (1) using a credit card to tie the developer account to an actual person; (2) make it expensive enough to avoid playing whack-a-mole with malicious account creation.
gallery house in palo alto has an interesting model - membership comes with a volunteering requirement - it can't obviously reach the level of NY MOMA but it works well for Palo Alto and is a nice little gallery that has launched quite a few careers.
If Printed Dictionaries Are History, What'll Children Sit on to Reach the Table?
I built my personal music website around this.. https://www.dkdomino.zone/album.html
Why? There's an extensive benchmark [1], also seen on the homepage, that proves it is the first tool that does not break images like other state-of-the-art tools, i.e. fits the submitted tagline.

On a side note, HN voting system is horribly broken. I submitted the link in the morning and when I hit the bed it somehow got attention.

[1] https://getoptimage.com/benchmark
Honest question: How would I do that when I'm on a rather locked-down school Chromebook?
Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
I guess you are replying to the subject line instead of the actual article because your post makes no sense in the context of the article.

As the article says, "In ancient literature, emotions were predictable reactions to external actions or events."

All you've done is list people having predictable reactions to external actions and events.... Just like the article says ancient literature did.
And that makes him not an expert but actually a layperson and an incompetent liar about his credentials how? Did you directly observe that he's lying about his expertise? Can you refer me to someone more qualified, with a time machine, who directly observed what happened millions of years ago, and disagrees with him?
I feel like there's an untapped space for a small phone with a good 9-key keyboard (or something).

There are a couple niche small phones out there but they all insist on using a software keyboard that is _amazingly slow_. Typing is basically the thing that needs to work as fast as possible, otherwise it ruins the experience.

Almost no design is trying to acknowledge that the idea of a high-end small phone might be appealing to people (despite Apple having evidence with iPhone SE sales being decent enough).

In a world without all the apps, designing something almost ground up would make a lot of sense, since Android isn't meant to fit on such a small screen anymore.
For me the larger screen has much more value than the ability to have a small phone with me. For typing reasons and for doing research on a larger screen or reading news or ebooks.

Also, I use my iPhone more like a PDA, the telephone feature is used lesser and lesser. And if I do use it to do phone calls I do it in combination with my AirPods while my iPhone is in my pocket. And in that case perceptionally my AirPods + Siri ("Hey Siri, call my wife") are my telephone.

The way I see it a small(er) phone or even a small dumbphone makes sense for people who use their devices mainly for doing phonecalls.

Having said that I must add that going for a run with my iPhone 7 Plus is cumbersome because it's too bulky. I need it to listen to music while running. Cant't load music on my running watch from Garmin (Fenix 5)
So how do coffee shops like Starbucks mange to support 20 working part time plus a corporate headquarters and make a profit, from the same small store you would operate as a hobby?
In my experience it takes 4-6 months to feel like you belong.

You don't feel like you have that much to do because they're not giving you that much to do yet. They are giving you time to look around. No one expects you to rockstar the first day (or month even).

After you look around for a while and get the lay of the land, you're expected to spot places you can pitch in and one fine day, you'll see something that really needs doing, say excitedly "hey! I can do that", own it, and then you'll feel like you're home.

Just jumping in to a big office with an energetic team is extremely disorienting. A month in and you've already battled through their (undoubtably weird and opinionated) tool stack and are submitting? Good work. Carry on.

Heh, I've taken that long to get a workstation allocated, get a parking pass issued, and find the bathroom (not in that order...).
Lists aren't typed in standard Common Lisp. For these cases, using THE around the access site is required to declare the type for inference.
I’ve always thought that a remote tech job/lifestyle business is perfect for opening an art gallery / niche bookstore. You don’t need to worry about paying the bills, you have a private office / desk, and realistically you won’t get more than a few visitors per hour, so you can focus on work.
As NovaX describes, “holistic” admissions had very ugly roots. It was specifically instituted as a way to limit Jewish admissions.

Oddly enough, Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell justified the policy as a way to avoid antisemitism, reasoning that too many admitted Jews could provoke antisemitic sentiment. This was the same President Lowell who tried but failed to impose segregation on students. (“We owe to the colored man the same opportunities for education that we do to the white man; but we do not owe it to him to force him and the white into social relations that are not, or may not be, mutually congenial.”) [1]

Still, as Judge Burroughs has pointed out, the ugly origins aren’t necessarily relevant to the current impact. [2] It will be interesting to see how well Harvard’s “diverse student body” argument holds up to scrutiny.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Lawrence_Lowell

[2]: https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/09/harva...
Mainstream IP/identity anonymization should be something we're striving for online, both for site visitors and site operators.

Tor is the only project I know of (please comment if you know about others) that removes needing to trust someone from the equation. But Tor is slow and doesn't have many secondary benefits that make it worthwhile to recommend to someone who doesn't care about privacy.

VPNs require trusting a third party, so obviously they aren't great for someone like Snowden. But at least I'm trusting someone I chose instead of being forced to trust Verizon or Comcast. And at least the speeds are good enough to use it for everything, even normal browsing, without feeling guilty that I'm stealing bandwidth from journalists. And at least there are enough benefits that I can recommend VPNs to non-privacy conscious friends and family members.

I dunno. I view this as an unsolved problem. I have no idea how to solve it. But I'm very interested in seeing it solved. I'm glad that Tor exists, but I still don't feel like I could stick it on a router and send literally all of my traffic through it without significant downsides. Certainly I don't think I could install it on my parent's router.

Am I being overly critical? Have things improved, or are there any promising efforts to improve them? I can't even imagine what a technical solution would be that wouldn't rely on bouncing traffic around a bunch of nodes (which doesn't seem to scale well) or aggregating everyone's traffic under a central authority (which is admittedly fragile).

In the meantime I'm using a VPN because it's better than trusting Verizon.
I see it not as a hardware change but a software change. That doesn’t prove Jaynes’ theory, of course. There is another book called Metaprogramming and the Human Biocomputer.

Jaynes’ theory is interesting to me because it reminds me of disassociative disorders.
The school doesn't have some kind of filtering proxy setup? A decade and a half ago I was having to end-run Bess to get to the Sun Javadocs - blocked for "hacking." Useful education, but it made studying for the AP comp sci test difficult...
Heads up: Start any Coursera Specialization for free
First of all this is a common error. SF spends only about $3.8K per homeless person.[1] You can't just divide by the homeless population because a huge portion of the budget goes towards homeless prevention. Things like subsidies to keep people housed. So there are many more people supported by that budget.

Moreover, you're misunderstanding my question. That's how much SF spends per homeless resident. Great, in theory that's what we should be comparing with other cities (calculated correctly of course). But that's not what Collison did. He just compared how much cities spend per resident.. i.e. he took the homeless budget and divided it by the population of SF, not just the homeless. You see how that misled and confused you?

It makes no sense to me, except as a trick? Please, somebody explain how this makes any kind of sense.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...
This would have been a perfect router/firewall box, right up until they chose to use realtek nics.

WHRRRRYYYYYYYYY??????? Realtek in linux is an irreperable shitshow. All my interest evaporated right at that point.
Was tempted to flag you or downvote you, but even if you present it in a very one sided way you have a good point, so have I'll instead just add some nuance:

Yes. Religion has been used to control populations, but for me and many others they've been a tool for empowering individuals and for many it has also been a uniting force to stand up to oppressive regimes.

It has also been a powerful tool to unite and bring peace.

I'd be happy if we as a community of what I think of as mostly reasonable people could manage to be a little bit nuanced.
What's the point of getting building permit if you can build whatever you want anyway?
I'm currently reading the book [1] and while I haven't finished it yet, the thrust (if I'm understanding it correctly) seems to be that it was the increasing complexity of civilization (as populations rose in an area) that lead the brain to reform connections to be less bicameral in nature.

There are evolutionary changes in humans that are known to us. For instance, people of European descent can still digest milk into adulthood; the father you get from Europe, the greater that lactose intolerance grows. So it could also be for bicameralism.

I too, am skeptical about how this came across the world, but he does mention in passing that some of the Pre-Columbian cultures of North America could have still been bicameral as late as the early 1500s. It's really an interesting read.

[1] I found a copy in a used book store and the price was right.
Well, affirmative action did technically have a built in catch-up mechanism.

But really, do you think all laws need termination mechanisms, and do you only vote for laws that do? Or if you think that some laws must exist that solve permanent problems, then, well, racism has never not been a problem, it has just taken different forms over time.

Alternately, we can trust the democratic system to do the course correcting.
Dude Canonical had a package manager similar to snap for mobile, snap is inspired from that.
Plus flatpack is a side project of a RedHat dev, this explains why it moves slow, also flatpack is desktop based where snap works with servers and IOT

Anyway I see some colaboration between the 2 projects so let's not create conflict between this 2 projects where there is none, snap covers more at this moment then flatpack
So when I will want to build something in Spain, I can skip getting permit too? Or the church is more equal than me?
No second chance for Stephen Glass (2014)
I guess this allows you to at least hold them accountable if they mess up?

Although the nature of a VPN is that it's going to be very hard to tell if they mess up. I agree that this feels a bit like trusting trust. I'd be a little more interested if part of this process outright required an independent security audit or something with the results made public.

They go right up to recommending that some kind of independent auditing board be made, and then just say, "but we don't have the resources to do that."
Original submit from 17 months ago, 130+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14272795
3D-printing a stainless steel bridge full of sensors
Nope, both NICs are Realtek. It'll make a great flaming pile of shit.

I've never had realtek network hardware that wasn't unstable under load on linux.
> he might even be grateful on the other side.

There would probably be a person on the other side who would be grateful, but it's far from obvious that that would be the same person as the one you forced into long term treatment. It's a good thing that our society makes it this hard to involuntarily commit people, and as cco mentions, it would be nice if we could extend this to other kinds of forcible confinement.
>Although, FPGAs could supplant some hardware.

But wouldn't you want the FPGAs to be open source, too?
Higher volume, faster turnover, economies of scale, predictable customer interaction schedules. All the things that make a local coffee shop or bookstore attractive, both to own and to patronize, directly conflict with those factors.
“Consisteny without clocks” seems like a misnomer considering Raft indexes are tantamount to a logical clock. Perhaps it should be “consistency without wall clocks.” But that’s not really novel by itself, except in the context of geo-distributed databases.
The Right Idea Becomes the Wrong Idea Over Time
What the actual hell.
From what I understood is that not every Starbucks needs to be profitable. Some are insanely profitable, while others are just branding and marketing places that sell coffee. Of course there is a difference between not being profitable and bulking up insane losses each day, I think that is something Starbucks does well.
I would love a board like this with AMD's FreeSync support for an arcade machine / retropie build.
Heat lamps provide a full spectrum of artificial light, including near infrared. The clear bulbs would probably be more appropriate than the red-tinted ones. I have mine on a dimmer.
Large capital reservoir to float downtimes, extraction of wealth from community in uptimes to fill that reservoir.
>intelligence

If you don't think that intelligence is very modifiable, then you must also not think that wealth is very modifiable too, given that IQ is the most accurate predictor of wealth that we have.