skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a customer who purchased the iPhone, I paid for the iPhone already. The first two points benefit Apple and me, not just App developers. I've already paid for that, because that's part of what Apple sells when it sells an iPhone: access to apps. As for the degree of trust around the sales process, that's not true. I get that with my credit cards already. Apple doesn't instill any additional confidence when it comes to the sales process. Quite the opposite in fact.

I mean, if I want a refund for valid reasons, and Apple won't give it to me, and I call up my credit card company and they issue a charge back, will Apple do something negative to my account (such as block other purchases I made?)

> They're also providing to the end user a level of confidence

Yeah, and I paid for that already.

> They're maintaining the ecosystem that allows the App to be sold in the first place.

That benefits them, because without it, I wouldn't buy an iPhone.

> And they're providing all of the above for free to developers who want to give away their apps.

No, they aren't providing it for free. I'm paying for it, the iPhone/iPod owner. They are literally using these things you mention in their marketing of the iPhone. Take away apps, and see how well the iPhone does.

Apple takes 30% because they can. I'd much rather see the producer of the App get my money, but Apple makes this difficult to do easily for customers.

If Apple really had my best interest in mind, they'd charge a modest fee for the app store and processing, or allow companies to use 3rd party processors.
I was recently researching car dashcams. On Amazon the top brand has thousands of reviews but the most critical one accuses the seller of offering free mounts in exchange for 5* reviews. The second most prominent one is featured heavily in a deal aggregator website which I knew about from before.

I decided to do my research outside of Amazon. The most reliable brand which I chose based on independent review sites and user forums does not actually appear on first 10 pages of Amazon search results. I bought it anyways, and it is so good value for money that I have ordered another one. Safe to say I don't trust Amazon recommendations at all.
>The good news is, if you use a third-party app for archives, such as WinZip, WinRAR or 7-Zip, you won't encounter the bug.

I'm not excusing the bug, but 7-zip had been one of the first tools I install on any windows installation since XP, setting it as default application to handle all archive formats it supports, .zip included. I'm surprised to see so many comments about potentially running into this bug, doesn't everyone just use 7-zip?
I think the title is substantially misleading in that it suggests the bug is in the plugin itself. Maybe "Zero-day in PHP server sample code provided with popular jQuery plugin"?
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. The killing of the journalist is nothing like all the other things you mentioned - and some are so broad it's almost like saying "Saudi Arabia is a country with an intelligence arm."

It again is a case of the opposite Halo effect. Because an entity is evil in many ways, are we just going to assume they're evil in any way we like?
Privacy expert resigns from Sidewalk Labs over data concerns
It's probably more profitable to leave it the way it is... Which opens up the door for a competitor.

Imagine if there was a different site that became known for its highly reliable ratings. It would eat Amazon's lunch and dinner.
Then the hotel owner can put a ton of fake positive reviews and verify all.
Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance
Reddit's desktop site uses infinite scroll. Maybe you are using old.reddit.com or opted out of the redesign some other way.
The program becomes less limited as it is ported to more capable machines with bigger integers, instead of continuing to pretend that everything is a 32 bit i386.

I'm guessing you've never ported code that was written for 32-bit ints back to a 16-bit architecture.

Always better to make your type sizes crystal-clear to the reader, IMO, even if it risks using a suboptimal word size on some other platform down the line.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1439399/

37-56%. Literally the top result when I googled for “running injury rates”.
This is from another similar post from a couple of weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762
Building My Commodore C64 Reloaded MK2: A Photo Essay
Real url: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ann-cavoukian-sidewal...
Local to Tokyo, Github has been down for most of the day. I never realized how much of my day centers around it: pr review, creating / commenting on issues, etc.

Looking forward to the write-up. I'm also curious as to how this significant outage lines up with their SLA for enterprise users.
Diffract.
Singapore flying taxi trial set to begin in the second half of 2019
Unregistered WinRAR for life
Assuming the same salary, I would opt for more interesting/challenging work. Besides that being able to work on projects that mean something to the business, having good work correctly attributed and recognized for is also a big factor. In short, being able to do something meaningful is a way to retain me.
Butler Lampson's talk at Cambridge in 2015

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wheeler/butler-lampson/ind...
With a receipt system to authenticate real customer and an opt-in inscription to the service by restaurants/hotels, it could make it.

It could be linked to an order/invoice number the owner could check or enter in the system when the client check in or check out. The client would then be required to enter that number to authenticate he's a real consumer.
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"Fast". Compared to what? How does it perform compared to Neo4j? How do you scale it?
Agreed. I recently heard in a talk an example of NLP being used to help rank sellers by analyzing messages between buyers and sellers, before and after transactions.

Another example was how Taobao increased the number of useful reviews by allowing sellers to pay for reviews, and used NLP to determine if the review was useful. If it was, only then would the reviewer get paid. This would then dis-incentivize sellers expecting bad feedback from paying for reviews, and incentivize good sellers who were seeking honest, relevant feedback.

Seems like both examples can still be gamed, but it seems like a step in the right direction.
Is god in the image of a man? Probably not.
Users can opt out of the targeted updates, so they will update only after the version is consolidated.

Companies and government should not be using the targeted version at all.

It's not an excuse for the issues, but it's not a big problem for companies as you make it seem.
*advantage
You talked about how you felt like Ruby was sort of the "hip crowd" so to speak, since enterprises hadn't discovered it yet. Do you feel like that is still true of Ruby? Is there another language that has taken that place in your mind? What would you choose to write Github in today?
From a distance perhaps. Up close the build quality isn't great. And riding in them for more than a few minutes is rather unpleasant, at least compared to a decent car like a Honda Civic or something. The cheapest cars really skimp on noise insulation, seat supports, and suspension damping to hit those price points.
I don't get it, but don't have a hardware wallet.

One of the parent comments said signing happens client side. Another comment said private key never leaves the device.

Which is it? Are both possible?

I really think the option to paste in the private key should be removed. It's dangerous to ask for that when there are so many Android apps that by default get access to paste buffer and can grab that key easily. If I were writing malware that would be my number one focus.
The devs aren't the ones limited, just the users.
One problem with that is that Apple’s restrictions allow them to eliminate piracy, and perform an approval process that keeps high the perception of iOS app quality. These two things make the iOS app market much more attractive to developers. Allowing Android-style competition would lower the value. It might be that it lowers it by less than the difference between 30% and a “fair” cut, but it’s hard to tell and users and developers wouldn’t be well-served by performing an uncontrolled experiment to test the theory.
I'm all for the worrying about the IMF and I don't know anything about this deal (my fucking parents don't tell me anything other than what's happening with the family I guess), but it's not as bad as the article makes it out to be, which was annoying. Most people in Palau live on one tiny island which is probably less than 10 sqkm in area. There is one larger island but it isn't as inhabited, and the two are well connected (powered by the same diesel power plant). The VAST majority of the tiny islands are not even inhabited, without coast line, and the ones which are are considered like picnic areas.

One of the main issues I worry about is large infrastructure projects come usually from loans or aid from foreign sources, but we simply don't have the money to maintain them, so they tend to rot. Palau is subjected to rain almost constantly, with the extremely humid air rusting everything. I wish we'd take notes from more developers in South-East Asia who develop in very rainy, humid climates, but for some reason we seem to hire people from the west, which is great and all, but after driving over roads that form potholes less than a month after being completely replaced, it gets annoying.

EDIT: I should mention I'm a Palauan, at least my parents are.
Consolas and Inconsolata. Unfortunately, I use Intellij idea currently and Inconsolata is rendered horribly in that ide even with infinality and intellij Specific configs.

Ubuntu mono is also not bad.
I desperately want to write my ML code in a statically typed language

Why? What kind of ML code do you write?
That's a silly statement. By saying 'nobody' - a single point of data invalidates your assertion.

I use gmail, I'm quite happy to trust that contract.
It seems to me that this post is distilled evil.
Obviously a functional democratic society will stomp a dictatorial one on pretty much any axis you care to think of.

Having acknowledged that central point, we can't just say "dictators are bad". We can say "democracy is better", but there are instances where democracy doesn't work.

For a realpolitic example, great powers have a long history of quietly corrupting and overthrowing democracies where their interests conflict with our interests. It might be that a country has their democratically elected government toppled by the CIA/Russian version of the CIA/Chinese version of the CIA and then ends up as a dictatorship.

It is far too simplistic to then say "well, the dictator is at fault". Maybe the dictator isn't very nice, but there are political realities to attend to.
Lack of bidets, like insistence on using fixed-head showers (and only fixed head) or putting light switch of a table lamp in the bulb holder, the most inconvenient location, is one of those things that I can never understand about Americans and that makes me think that may be there is something particularly brain-damaging in the water here. (insert sarcasm tags appropriately)
The material living standard for a middle class family in the West is better than the material living standard of anybody who ever lived, at any socio economic class, before 100 years ago. And here you are arguing that somehow the reason middle class people aren’t having more children is because they can’t provide adequately for their children?
Key is stored client side, never leaves the page, only resident in JavaScript? No network connection is made at all until tx is signed?
This is a serious problem. My wife goes to Amazon and just buys the top seller of whatever she's looking for(even if its from a no name marketplace seller). I don't think she realizes people can game this system.
There must be some additional variable. Be nice to know what it is.
Could our brains have come up with a way of describing a process that was already there before?
Never happened to me with Windows. It's not the best, but works.

Linux on the over hand it's a continuous installation of drivers and fixing functionality that works out of the box on my windows: graphics problems, audio, screen, usb, WiFi.

Of course and then you try to install some module and says you have incompatible modules. Then you need to figure out what modules you need to change to match the version of the module to install. This was a few years ago, but I don't have the time to do this.

Plus window management is broken on Linux, too many bugs. Last time I couldn't even alt tab like windows.
I don't understand why this is a major deal, though. Allowing users to rename resources will always result in this kind of behavior, but I don't see how this could be a bug or a security hazard. Some similar things you can do:

+ Swap the handles and profile information on instagram — transferring Instagram followers

+ Swap the handles and profile information on twitter — transferring Twitter followers

+ Change the team name & URL on Slack — transferring Slack users

This is fairly widespread but benign behavior.
Brings back some horrific memories. I was scarred by the windows 95 experience, which is how I got started on linux.
> As a side note, I know a Vine Voice, and they get emails from companies offering to reimburse them for a product in exchange for a five star reviews every few days.

Amzn should pay extra for those. Then ban them:)
Great question!

Patricio Guzman: La batalla de chile, Nostalgia de la luz, El boton de nacar (i.e. everything I've seen so far)

Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson - First Contact, Joe Leahy's Neighbours, Black Harvest (Trilogy about a half-white, half-native New Guinean farmer)

Werner Herzog - (apart from those already mentioned) Lessons of Darkness, Les Blank's Burden of Dreams

Everything by Scott Noble - watch on metanoia-films.org/

Bus 174, Harlan Country USA, How To Start A Revolution, Silenced (2014), War on Whistleblowers, The Century of the Self

Man with a Movie Camera, Man on Wire, Dark Days, Kumaré, Dear Zachary, Children Full of Life (2003)
IBM Plex Mono
> Criticising a fraud who happens to be a woman isn't sexist

None of your linked articles say that it is.
This shows what a steamimg pile of incoherent features and behaviours the Windows Explorer has been gradually turned into since Windows 7. It is quite hard for average users to coax that tool into showing an actually honest content of some directory on the hard drive. There are so many abstractions, redirections, alternative view and on the fly translations (only obvious with languages other than English) in there that the very thing it is supposed to be good at becomes cumbersome and error prone. And you cannot easily disable all these things that just tend to get in the way.

If anyone who is working on that program reads this: please rein in this madness and turn the Explorer back into a decent and simple file manager without abstactions and lies to the usera
> Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, CrunchFund, Marissa Mayer and Mark Cuban

how were these people so easily bamboozled? this is some pretty dubious tech straight from the get go.
Exactly. I'd be 100% mad if I found out somebody shifted my public validation of their project to something entirely different. If I catch anybody doing this, they're dead to me. It's straight up fraud.
Thank you for providing an actual example of insurance that works this way. I actually looked at the insurance article on wikipedia and it was describing what I was describing (unless I missed something about universal life insurance). And I actually had auto, property, and health insurance in mind more than life insurance.

That being said, the important distinction still stands: Social Security is unfunded, which makes it subject to a kind of risk that funded insurance programs are not exposed to.
Hey at last, maybe in my lifetime I'll see the motor per wheel AWD design I've been fathoming for the past ten years.
on macOS: Menlo

on Windows: Consolas

on Linux: Adobe Source Code Pro or DejaVu Sans Mono
Sure Juicero was a fraud. The founder claimed (to the public, investors, employees, board members) that the pulp had to be cold pressed with thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch, so they developed a juicer to do that. Except it turned out you could "juice" the packets with your bare hands, and the results would not be that different. Why did he do that? Because if all users needed was a $20 manual roller press to juice the packets, there would be no specialized "DRM" juicer device, and no business model.
Interesting that "educational endowments" made it onto the list of "ethical" LPs -- one could argue the opposite, given that the size of most of these endowments are directly due to the easy credit market of student loans, which is now a $1.6 trillion monster.[0]

[0]https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/pf/college/student-loan-sta...
This is awesome. Reminds me of the ayahuasca trip scene from the movie Renegade. This could easily be made into a game where you have to avoid hitting any of the particles, and you get more points by going through smaller rather than larger holes.
You’re still not addressing the main reason that comparing social security to a Ponzi scheme makes sense: being unfunded means that people will get royally fucked if the number of people paying in starts shrinking.
I strongly recommend that blog. It's so very rare that an insider after leaving will publicly point out the bullshit. So rare and so valuable.

Anybody new to the tech industry should carefully study that blog. It's far easy to spend years of your life on something that sounds good but couldn't possibly work.
Good luck.

I think the business model could indeed be proven ethical - The main issue with advertising/marketing is not that it exists, but that it is not regulated enough (by the state or any other party) and is (in Western markets) biased/deceptive - So I feel that your organization will need a rigorous ethics board (and a strict 'customer fit' step in your Customer>lead process) that holds itself to a higher standard than state legislation allows for.
For example, you will need a blacklist of things to advertise (e.g. won't accept hate groups buying ad space) and a level of demonstratable proof of what claims are made on the adverts (attempt to refuse hyperbolic product promises).

I can't quite figure out how the business model can be proven profitable though - Are advertisers really going to be able to subsidize the full cost of the entire business operations and supply chain? I imagine the product pricing model will be a 'per unit' type - Perhaps a mix of cost-per-click/impression and traditional advertising-space hiring. But imagining arbitrary rev and costs here: Are you really going to be able to produce a unit for $1 (inc fixed costs), and sell the advertising space & data on that unit for $1.50+?.
I hope it is indeed possible - The free market could massively benefit from a lower tier (i.e. your offerings) and a higher tier (paid-for offerings without advertising or data collection).

Re: Inks - I cannot provide exact advice for inks to print onto hemp, but in general I believe there are three categories of eco-friendly inks that are worth investigating: UV inks, soy/vegetable based inks, and water-based inks. These seem to be the areas currently achieving the smallest ecological impact /the fewest trade-offs/externalities.
Ink is, unfortunately, a horribly messy product to satisfy in terms of ethical considerations. There are so many moving parts and components in the supply chain, so many compromises, and such particular requirements to fulfill (the material to print onto etc.)
Not OP.

> Why not order online from a sporting goods store, or, if possible, direct from the manufacturer?

I don’t want to share my info with more websites / services than necessary. Amazon already has my CC. I don’t want to spread my info any more than I have to.
In Arkansas, our roads are nothing but potholes. As soon as they are patched it rains (or as we say in the South, torrential downpours) and the entire road is a pothole again. Very annoying. It's always wet here and humid, btw. At least not as humid as Louisiana though.
https://twitter.com/dvirsky/status/1053987868677423104
I don't actually log into tumblr itself. It's just I'll often stumble upon a blog through a search or a link, and every time I see a tumblr infinite scrolling theme (i think it's the default one?) I want to scream. The worst ones are the ones were even single posts have infinite scrolling. Ugh.

I don't use any social media to actually read much of anything I'm already following. I use all RSS feeds. No bloated interface. No blackhole of content. The RSS reader I use (inoreader) is technically infinite scrolling now that I think about it, but it's the only instance I don't mind because I usually read it on my desktop, I never scroll back up (I star anything interesting), and who searches new articles?, and there's a good search for finding things again which I almost never use.
Yes, "eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage slot" [1], and pre-loaded eMMCs for C2 [2].

-e- See "Technical Detail" tab on the first link for board picture showing the eMMC slot.

[1] https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...
[2] https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...
I'm in the market, can you tell us the name?
>how to know if a cease & desist is BS?

Have you actually received one? If you have received one, speak to a lawyer. If you haven't received one, then you are worrying about a hypothetical.
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The grand parent describes this exact process. Why would we think he was lying?
From Michael Arrington: https://web.archive.org/web/20170819183727/https://uncrunche...

> I’m sitting backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. I’m introduced to (let’s call her) Mary, a 22 year old recent college grad. She spends ten minutes setting up a science experiment on my desk. There are jokes about how she managed to get this thing through airport security. She then performs the closest thing to magic I’ve seen in a long time.

> Stuff like that is what makes my job so much fun. In a year or so when this thing is productized you’ll be hearing a lot more about Mary.
> If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.

May never happen [0], but one can wish. Although it doesn't have a cure, the treatability, prevalence, and general harmlessness of herpes make it less of an issue than the "curable" STDs. Most doctors don't even bother testing for it [1].

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-hav...
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm
Ah sorry. I assumed a 500+ company with bloated and old-school IT like my own. I shouldn't have assumed that :).
The latest Xprize winner harvests drinking water from the air
A Hawaiian singer reinvented the national anthem and it's beautiful
ProtonVPN's signup is disabled now.

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Do you think that's because they post their prices?
Having never looked at it.. why? Is it particularly bad in some way?
It's actually possible to have long range wireless power transmission using beams of EM waves with the thanks to phased arrays of antennas:

https://newatlas.com/cota-ossia-wireless-charging-microwave-...

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/intellectual-ventures-microwav...
this design is much cooler
pylint + typing might do the job.
There's a recent 99% invisible episode about this:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...