skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It also glosses over the fact that they are state regulated by all states they run business out of, not just NJ. I'm sure they issue policies in NY, the NY insurance commissioner typically will oversee their valuation methods for stat reserves to make sure they meet industry standards. I would be very surprised if they took a loss on their life line of business that puts them out of business

Honest question -- has this changed since 2008? If not, how is this different from AIG in 2008? Because putting aside AIG's sensational Credit Default Swap issues, the bigger story was AIG Investments' Securities Lending fiasco where huge portions of the reserves were lent out (short term) and the funds were used to buy illiquid mortgage backed securities which went down in value precipitously.
https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/aigs-collapse-the-par...
That's a cool site, and some of those top sketches are insane, but does the editor really not let you code and preview side by side? I can't even find a quick shortcut to switch between the two. While that site looks a lot cleaner in general, that alone is a no-go for me.
Saudi Arabia killing its own citizens is bad. Saudi Arabia killing an American resident, and father of two American citizens, for writing opinions in an American newspaper is closer to an attack. The former is not clearly an American issue. The latter is.
This is something I've been advocating for in California. Basically the equivalent to the auto repair law that guarantees that the repair is done to the quote or they tell you it will cost more and you have the right to take their quote elsewhere[1].

[1] If the technician later determines that it will take additional work and will cost more to fix your car than the original estimate, someone from the shop must contact you, describe the additional work and cost, and get your permission to proceed. -- https://www.bar.ca.gov/Consumer/Auto_Repair_Guide.html
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I think they'd just put in 365000 fake accounts, and continue posting 1000 fake reviews a day
Problem is, they leave no avenue for good third parties to exist. Their AASP policies are restrictive, expensive and overall make shops that are trying to give a legitimate experience less competitive.
I never saw the benefit in working much harder to get a 5% raise when I could just go someplace else that would actually value me more.
It has a lot of great features but for some reason people seem to consider this primarily a beginner tool.

Is it just the fact that it's easy to use that makes it only for beginners? Surely there are some people who are serious about visual or interactive programming that could take advantage of it?
So now I have to spend time reviewing reviewers? This smells like the next bullshit job (or, since I'm not even paid for it, just a huge waste of time).
Maybe this observation will be unwelcome, but that content exists because it has very broad appeal these days, especially among hipsters and the "bohemian bourgeois". Those aren't my terms.

"Authenticity" is the word that usually gets wheeled out to explain why people want to spend time learning about, purchasing, and living with these goods, whether the goods are inexpensive, common but basic items or more expensive craft products. In the end it comes down to an ethos about quality, hand-made goods, often made locally, that seems to have survived through the 20th C in the high-end clothing and food industries. It's a form of commerce that people can get behind that doesn't involve mass-production by impersonal corporations.

It's a massive social trend.
There are side-effects of PrEP for long-term use. It can cause kidney damage. So it's not an entirely risk-free magic pill.

It's still much safer to only have sex while in a monagamous relationship where you and your partner have been tested for HIV. And checking test results before having sex with someone is also a very safe practice that is really common. But in the end if you're often sleeping with people who you don't trust, PrEP can be worth the risk.
Instead of going sophisticated way I would just say - read some reviews before buying. Fake reviews are a problem for a separate discussion, but they should give you some idea on probability of having some problems and difficulty of solving them.

In this case I think most people who buy Apple products are not really looking for the cheapest parts and repair costs. They pay extra for the experience they want to get.
You’re confusing copyright and trademark- copyright can be as selectively enforced as wished without giving up any other or future rights.
this is incredibly unambitious of a goal for an island nation that needs to get off fossil fuels. 70% renewable by 2050? that's insane -- the technology for this exists right now and is being rapidly deployed. taking 10 years to do this would already be very generous. 32 is just not even trying.
Web accessibility for 2019
Good question - Although my snap judgement is similar - I'm loath to judge too harshly having not used / touched the device.
I am specifically calling out "infinite" scroll here, i.e. the practice of artificially limiting the amount sent to a very small amount then populating it on the fly.

The comparison is with just sending all of the content (via API calls if necessary, whatever) and having the browser decide what to do with it, not breaking find, not having weird loading bars when you scroll down, etc, etc.

If you can't send all of the content you're probably creating a slot machine-type site.
The seeds for this were planted long ago, here was an interesting exchange between PG and Fred Wilson:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144224
I don't have issues with drivers, but I don't use a lot of different devices with the computer. Wifi and wireless mice work out of the box. Haven't tried bluetooth, I'm not sure if it has bluetooth TBH.

Battery life is good, but nothing awesome due to the 1080p screen. I think I get 5-7 hours depending on task. If you want to go all in on battery life, get the X220/X230 with the extended battery and 768p screen. I got ~9.5 hrs with this setup.

Mine didn't come with Optimus (You DON'T want a linux laptop with Optimus).
This is ridiculous, but to save yourself, run backups. I've been doing a full system disk backup every 24 hours for the past 2 years. So far it has saved my bacon once.

Fwiw, i use Acronis for bups. The restore process for a 128gb ssd took about 10mins.
Every insurance company actually has two businesses in one:

- An insurance business where they hope to underwrite risk intelligently to pay out less than they make in premiums.

- An investment company where they investment insurance reserves (to keep them safe, but also to gain extra $ beyond what is required for reserves)

The insurance reserves follow state insurance "stat" guidelines and are usually spread across corporate bonds, government bonds, and real estate debt (with a bit in riskier assets.)

A housing crisis very much affects insurance companies. AIG's Securities Lending fiasco of 2008 is a perfect case study of this.
https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/aigs-collapse-the-par...
The blog post points out that client-side hashing exposes you to ahead-of-time dictionary attacks, because you have to reveal the salt in the initial phase of the challenge.
I usually only buy things they can't bully themselves into like Macs or Surface devices, or gaming consoles. However, I was not aware of such awful nonsense.
> I was so close to flagging this post, but I figured I'd be generous...

How generous, what is your SO account details?
LOL, Just what the police unions wanted, probably a cleverly faked 'spontaneous fire'
char has another use. I've always figured char pointers were the proper way to provide byte-level access to other objects, since char pointers are allowed to alias other pointer types. That is, they're not bound by strict aliasing rules. I don't think int8_t or uint8_t have the same special exception.

This means you could implement your own versions of memcpy, fread and fwrite by casting the void * arguments to char * , but if you cast them to uint8_t * , your code might not be correct.
They have to clearly separate between Marketplace and Amazon again. Everything used to be fine when people knew from whom they bought at any time. They are removing the line in multiple ways right now (one of the worst being comingling).
Thanks, that makes more sense. I clearly parsed the sentence badly.
> The only thing really good about elisp is that it is integrated into Emacs.

But that's really, really good compared to most programs, which are customized by dialog boxes or INI files. Imagine how great it would be if you could script your web browser using some semi-decent programming language, and your scripts would work 30 years from now.
The issue Rossmann found was not complicated, any competent repair guy working for Apple should have known what the issue was and how to fix it instead of saying the device would need significant repairs.
I work at a small community hospital about 225 beds. They have 9 VPs, 44 directors, and 44 assistant directors. This in addition to the Medical Staff Supervisors. Seems a bit much... no.
Good point. To clarify, many people buy Term Life when they are healthy. You lock in long-term savings for 5, 10, or 20yrs. Renewing term life 10yrs or 15yrs in is hard -- you now have high cholesterol, diabetes, risk, etc., so your premiums go up massively. It defeats the point of term life.
It will, given that Tim Cook probably doesn't read that email, a secretary or something does, and he can hire as many secretaries as he wants.
I don't think it's intentional overpricing so much as incompetent staff whose immediate solution is replacing the entire affected component. In addition, Apple has designed their hardware in a way that makes it very difficult for the average hobbyist to repair things the way you can a PC.
The effect is the same
This sort of thing seems pervasive these days. I see it on Yelp, Google Reviews and Amazon. (hell, the NYT has had pieces on people buying their competitors products en-masse just to give them 1-star reviews and move the relative needle in terms of Amazon reviews).

It will have to be fixed though, it seems that buying things sight unseen only really works when you have a lot of evidence (reviews) that the product is good.

Seems like a good way for an upstart to differentiate themselves.
Good news: https://youtu.be/9D_oV14dGmM
Ask HN: Mind blowing documentaries?
I just want to mention that Gaddafi brought a lot of development to Libya and his death did nothing for his people. It's easy to say "oh he was a dictator and dictators are bad" but it's not so simple.
Pretty sure Tim Cook's email is actually handled by a team. It can scale as well as Apple wants it to. Like Comcast's "email a VP" escalation line.
The Titan M Chip Powers Up Pixel 3 Security
I'm not the one who posted complaining about maltreatment.
> So instead of writing a one line abstraction, I should invest a bunch of CR time explaining to my whole team which of 3 different APIs they should be using in this dependency I've brought in?

It's not a one-liner because it doesn't support the same feature set. It supports a basic use case that may be great for trivial apps, but in the real world it isn't.

> No, just the trivial ones. Have you been actually reading this thread?

And said trivial ones must still be "learned" by your co-workers. You've saved exactly zero time.

> No, my point is that you can't infer the full API of a function from the arguments passed to it's invokation when the function is polymorphic.

You can with a glorified text-editor these days with Code Inspection. I guess that's advanced stuff we shouldn't expect our co-workers to use?

> If the function is trivial, which is exactly what we've been talking about this whole time, then No. Fucking. Shit. The function is trivial and they have the source code right there.

Yet, if the function is trivial AND is imported via npm, it suddenly requires reading docs. On one hand you argue "triviality requires reading docs" and then suggest that you can implement a similar trivial function and everyone can just look at the source code.

And you don't see the irony here.
After thinking about this problem for... umm... 30 seconds...

Allow users to write reviews, and then send a message to the hotel owner saying "X has posted a review of your business. Do you accept that X was a guest on X date?"

The hotel owner is forced to verify the stay before he gets to see the review.

Of course he'll know all about the outliers who had a bad experience and complained at the hotel and might want to lie about the guest staying, but such guests are usually very motivated and willing to prove their stay with receipts, photos, etc.
This is paranoid nonsense. There is no federal law or precedent which could force a corporate officer to actively lie.
lol, it was clearly an exception. Soviet cars (all russian cars except Kamaz) are total trash. My father spent 30 years of his life by repairing them.
One of the problems here is: are the venture capitalists, who are willing to expose who their investors are, able to take on most of the businesses that will one day be successful?

There will always be entrepreneurs unwilling to give up on their dreams just because ethical investors aren't willing to invest in them.

Maybe this is another good argument for universal basic income. Those who want to spend their lives as entrepreneurs never have to take money from bad actors and will be able to grow their businesses organically based on the natural success and will be able to reap all the rewards on their own terms.
It's good argument, but maybe they are saying that most, (or maybe "some"), people would be fine with a repair that is understood to have drawbacks where usable lifespan is concerned?

Maybe it's like a car? You can get the mechanical issue really fixed, or you can have a less expensive repair. Most people understand almost immediately that there is going to be a drawback if you select the less expensive repair.
Insurers are part of the racket. At least that's how it feels from a consumer point of view.
Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”
Updates to gist are getting lost. It accepts them as normal but the next page load for the gist is the previous version. Twitter accounts describe the same sort of problem for git repos.

status.github.com reports "We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com."
You have an interesting setup for your desktop environment, care to share some of the details? I see an XFCE icon but I'm not sure if it's only XFCE being used there.
Here’s another reason it isn’t pedantic. Without being precise, you get headlines like not exercising is worse for you than smoking:
https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/12511EDC-D4E7-11E...

“Smoking is bad, but sitting around doing nothing is even more deadly, study shows”

That study didn’t show anything like that!
To say such a thing in public is considered bad for your health.
Everything by David Attenborough, starting with his "Life" series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough#Return_to_b...
How are you defining first sale doctrine here?
You're heavily biased. Try bringing a leftist point of view on a right wing site, the Heritage foundation, or the American government. The current crop of conservatives brought loaded weapons to a presidential rally under Obama and President Trump is demanding personal loyalty pledges from civil servants. Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh etc control the talk show airwaves, there's not a single strong liberal voice in any media that has the sway or clout of any of those that I mentioned.

Leftists have been getting fired from media for quite some time for not being conservative enough. I sincerely disbelieve that the right is being silenced. What is being silenced is death threats, hate speech, and extremist which doesn't belong in public discourse. The people leaving to form their own groups are generally people who support white nationalism. Reddit has groups that literally function as attack dogs silencing any group that speaks ill of the president through brigading and taking over the front page.

To suggest that there is "good evidence" that the left is censoring the right is plain silly. What's being censored is things that don't belong in a workplace, or don't belong on a site for civil discourse. Personally, I am glad that they still have a place to speak for themselves, but most people don't want to read conspiracy theories, hate speech, and abuse on a daily basis from either party and every single time some group is removed they claim censorship, usually because they follow the letter to break the spirit of any rules.
Apple uses bells and whistles to attract NPCs and cucks, they'll pay anyway. The red pill of Linux/BSD is hard to swallow because it requires intensive cognitive activity.
Like others here I use it as a read-only resource now despite having an account. It is tremendously useful for when I get stuck and there are enough questions that generally the answer you need is on there.

I no longer contribute because the community is toxic. Some of it is due to the condescending attitudes. Look at any beginner question and see the "Why didn't you just try XYZ?" comments from self-described experts. SO has also gamified the reporting system, so people abuse the feature to flag questions. Then there are the debates within the comments about the merits of solution ABC vs DEF.

I've wanted to ask questions or provide answers but the culture was too off-putting.
365,000 credit cards, 365,000 delivery addresses?

If bots worked, they wouldn't have had to resort to real humans on Facebook to get reviews.
I didn't give much of a counterargument because there was hardly any argument to counter. If the issue had not have been closed so quickly I would have pressed people for specifics of what they thought were wrong. At the time I believed I was the person responsible for calling the vote so I was prepared to give them time to provide a coherent argument.
your repair costs are going to be a lot higher than a ten year old Lexus

Ironically, one model of Lexus engine has the starter in a location that requires disassembling most of the top of the engine (and thus incidentally also requiring the replacement of many other soft parts like gaskets) to reach it:

http://www.lextreme.com/starter.html

That said, a lot of newer cars, not just luxury models, have seemingly been designed to make changing the simplest parts as difficult and involve removing as many other parts as possible.
His son and his daughter in law continue doing a great job at Gapminder [1]. They also finished and published Hans' book after his death.

Max Roser's fantastic project "Our World In Data" [2] does.

Steve Pinker [3] as well.

[1] https://www.gapminder.org/

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
This is really interesting as HotSpot (OpenJDK, Oracle Java) has its origin in a Smalltalk VM (Strong Talk), while Eclipse started its life as a Smalltalk IDE. Glad to see this come full circle.
I'm a bit confused by the wording, but I think you're trying to say that to a sovereign wealth fund, investment opportunities are essentially fungible because they're allocating their money over a large portfolio. So if one of the big VCs or tech companies won't take their money, another will and in a diversified portfolio that's good enough.
Nice, they already migrated to MS SQL i see.
Move to a poor country and get a compulsory license for a local producer via a WTO procedure. This has been possible since the TRIPS agreement.
So let's see your search primarily shows two white nationalists, one of whom incites riots were removed based on your search. That's pretty much all your search shows with a couple people from Infowars who..wait for it...incite violence against others. I am not shocked that these people were removed.
Isn't that like the air carriers in the US?
While we’re at it.
I pay 30% cut of my app revenues to Apple.
So for every sale i end up with 40% in pocket rest to Apple and government taxes.

EU should look into their app fees
It's easier to grok if you have a friend or colleague who is familiar with it and who can show you the ropes.

Also, there's no guarantee that you'll find it congenial. Some people profess to prefer programming-by-carpentry, and that's fine, of course.

In fact, maybe it's better for your sake if you don't like it. The great majority of programming work is programming-by-carpentry. You might find that you really like programming-by-teaching, and then spend the rest of your life pining for the opportunity to work that way.
Ah, reminds me of the old Turbo UI.

A few years back I got RHIDE working again and... Went back to emacs.
It's worse than that, arithmetic is never done in types narrower than int so even using + with a char type will do a such a promotion.
Apple has defined policy and procedures that staff are to follow. The staff aren't free to repair faulty electronics, they're to replace failed boards or systems.
That's about as credible as the argument that having your car serviced by a third-party mechanic will make it more dangerous --- yes, it happens, but it's not a real concern compared to the loss of freedom imposed by these restrictions.

State actors who have someone really interesting to focus on can likely defeat anything Apple does anyway.
"The necessity is mother of invention."

Russians were "hungry" and they had to work with what little they had. Their western counterparts were "well fed" and "lazy" in comparison. There was no need to be inventive and creative at every step of the process.

Its a funny balance. Throwing money alone at a problem often does not work - you need to have "hungry" people as well.

p.s. im not advocating return to communism lol
Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical?
Wikinews is one- not sure how good it is though.
It is also possible to use the widget with hardware wallets like Trezor and Ledger. Experiencing is quite seamless with signing done on the hardware.

There is going to be barrier to entry, but this gives the option for end users the option to safeguard their own private keys to swap tokens. Which in some occasion or cases more desirable than depositing into an exchange.
Yogurt is a food that contains bacteria, so maybe these bacteria could later be harvested and used to make food.
I wonder how many of these young men have their own hustle to pay the bills
I think that's the point --- "DDoS" the CEO to let him know very clearly that some part of his company is not working well.
This is neat :)

Check out dvtm for a tiling version of this. Some people pair dvtm with dtach to get just the parts of GNU screen that they care about.
I like how they pretend we tried higher wages.
My gut reaction is:

- 1,000 views/day => ~$1/day => ~$30/month

- 100,000 views/day => ~$100/day => ~$3,000/month

- having blogged about something on a regular basis that I cared about, I think my blog got maybe 50,000 visitors in 3 years, although I wasn't trying to attract them per se, and then I ran out of things I wanted to talk about

- you'd have to really like creating content to grind away for a long time to start making any real money, unless you get lucky & somehow attract a bug audience that sticks around

- if/when I decide to create a business again, I'd probably hate trying to build up an audience that was monetized with ads alone
PR comments are also failing with HTTP 405 error code.

Great way to start the week.