skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I was actually mistaken in assuming a server would use a port only once per IP for all connections, and not just once per client IP (and even farther, client IP and client port combo).

It makes much more sense, and in fact I'd been pondering that since I commented as how that could work in practice with servers that actually keep connections open but can handle a lot of requests wasn't obvious in my prior mental model.

> Beej's guide is a popular intro, but I'd bet any text on network programming covers sockets.

I highly suspect I knew this at some point, but forgot it over the past 15-20 years since it didn't have direct relevance to most of my projects since that time. :/
If the only websites that we essentially have to utilize as competent citizens are public ones then it would be easy. We regulate the public ones and we let the private ones do whatever they want. At that point I think a bunch of people on this site will probably be content quitting the internet heh :).

The problem is that it's not that simple. As I said, for things like banks/job search, these are private entities and not public ones. Going down that line, we can find some private services that a majority of the population around you uses that you also have to use in order to keep up with everyone else because there are little alternatives (google maps comes to mind). Granted, the latter is a weaker example, but it's meant to explore how practical it is to completely ditch services that are anti-user.

Also don't get me wrong.. I'll probably be one to turn off my blocker to access some service that will provide me value even if I'm already paying for it. However, it's just a terrible state to be in.
What does "diversity" look like? (IHNFC)

What sort of "equality" (as opposed to equity) does it impose? (ie closing of men's sports programs)

It seems like either path goes down the road of victimhood hierarchy, SJWs and discrimination due to identity politics while ignoring merit of substance. Count me out of that crybully nonsense.
To quote Qualcomm's FY2018Q3 earnings release with respect to Apple:

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/QCOM/6406790406x0x982...

Beginning in the third quarter of fiscal 2017, GAAP and Non-GAAP results have been negatively impacted by our dispute with Apple and its contract manufacturers (who are Qualcomm licensees). We did not record any QTL revenues in the first nine months of fiscal 2018 or the third or fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 for royalties due on sales of Apple’s products. We expect the actions taken by these companies will continue until these disputes are resolved. QTL revenues in the third quarter of fiscal 2018 included $500 million paid under an interim agreement with the other licensee in dispute (which dispute was previously disclosed). This represents a partial payment for royalties due after the second quarter of fiscal 2017 by that other licensee while negotiations continue. This payment does not reflect the full amount of royalties due under the underlying license agreement. We did not record any revenues from the third quarter of fiscal 2017 through the second quarter of fiscal 2018 for royalties due on the sales of the other licensee’s products. If we do not reach a final agreement with the other licensee, it may not make any other payments or may not make full payments under the underlying license agreement, which may result in increased legal costs and will negatively impact our GAAP and Non-GAAP results.
Some states have their own tax which starts lower. Here in Massachusetts it kicks in at $1MM.
Not always. I don’t go to Reddit.com, I always go to Reddit.com/r/motorcycling, or r/leathercraft, for example. You don’t have to be signed in for that.
Yea cases like this really have me torn... I despise both so my hope would be they destroy each other...

That would be a good day indeed.
>I was doing homework one night and the building next door's top 2 floors were blown up because some banker had a hit placed on his head...

Wait. What?

Did this really happen somewhere? (Sorry for the question if it's stupid, I just was unaware of all of this.)
Canada legalization: Could the NHL be a leader in pot policy?
>>181 million daily users to ... 181 million daily users.

My feeling is that if(or when) things go bad for facebook it will happen rather precipitously. Like a bubble popping. i.e. Like the real estate implosion of 2008.
It's a service, just like any other; and, in the occasion that the customer is able to utilize that service to the full extent, it is also a creation of a valuable good (human capital).
Ask HN: What is your relationship with Imageboards?
4chan, 8chan etc.
Ubuntu is the default base image for Cloud Foundry, so in fact it's pretty widely embedded in enterprise at this point. But it's an implementation detail, rather than a separate line item on the invoice.
Interesting! Seems like something that fits nicely between the chaotic couchsurfing.com free for all and pricey soulless Airbnbs.

Does anyone know how the pricing compares with airbnb? Could be handy for early/young founders coming to SF to pitch investors for the first time.
Charset encoding is definitely a pain everywhere. Email's specific problem is that the charset is essentially mandatory in terms of labeling, but the label is often incorrect. The light at the end of the tunnel is that there is general agreement that the future of charsets is "use UTF-8 everywhere," so it's just a matter of waiting a century to kill off all the legacy stuff.
If television is to be believed, detective work is discovering means, motive and opportunity.

By that measure, billionaires are in any given instant 2/3rds of the way there.
RED Hydrogen One review: all hype
Signal does store encrypted media on their servers until your client downloads it (and for some time after).
Bad skynet.
From the Signal blog post:

> To prevent abuse, clients derive a 96-bit delivery token from their profile key and register it with the service. The service requires clients to prove knowledge of the delivery token for a user in order to transmit “sealed sender” messages to that user.
The long game requires planning and goals, like any project.

No one guarantees that after years of suffering you'll reach your desired goal

This is flippant, but intended to be helpful:
There are no guarantees. Each person has to use their own judgement on what's likely to happen in X amount of time, and then re-adjust on a regular basis.

This is true for the short or the long game, it's just the distance to the horizon that's different.
This really surprises me. Reddit to me feels like the easiest social network to customize your feed towards what you want( the redesign sucks though). Only recently after years of using it I found out that there are default subs and I was only subbed to r/funny and r/askreddit Every time I want information on whatever subject, be it a game or technology etc I first look if there's a subreddit for it and most often there is. I'm also building a multireddit for photography related stuff. You don't have to follow outrage or game-culture related subs whatsoever. Just sub to what you want to read about.
There are many answers in that thread; I think different things work for different people.

My favorite angle on this is the following graphic/animation, also present in the thread:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/ExpIPi.g...

This shows how (1+i * Pi/N)^k, k=1..N traces out a semi-circle for large values of N.

Geometrically, all it says is:

* Draw a right triangle ABC with AB=1, BC=Pi/N, and ABC the right angle

* Make a copy of ABC, call it A'B'C', and scale it so that A'B'(the long leg) = AC (the hypotenuse)

* Put A'B'C' over ABC so that A'B' and AC coincide

* Let ABC=A'B'C'

* Repeat the process N times

* Look where you end up when N is large enough

The answer is: when N is large, Pi/N is small, and the right triangle ABC is almost isosceles, AB ~= AC. So you end up with N slices of a pie that make up a fraction of a circle.

Which fraction? Well, the perimeter is N/Pi * N = Pi - so half a circle. So if A=(0,0) and B=(1,0), you end up at (-1,0).

Now (1+x/n)^n approaches e^x, so it makes sense to define e^(i * Pi) to be the same limit - which we found out to be -1 + i * 0.
Google British VAT, which is now at 20%. The tory party consistently raises it.

Also, the Rates scheme only payed by home owners became the Poll Tax levied on all which became the Council Tax levied on all households. Another tory party abomination.
What articles like this seem to miss is how good/bad the old cab system is in comparison. I would be curious to get that full vertical compared, also what changed for customers.
Asking where the money will come from is buying into the way the GOP frames the issue: It assumes there is a shortage of money.

The U.S. is the wealthiest, highest earning country in the history of the world, with no real peer. #2 is the U.S. last year. When the U.S. was much poorer, it provided quality, inexpensive college education. Other countries that are not as wealthy do it. There is no shortage of money.
Fatalities per distance driven is probably a more useful metric, since the US has more cars and typically longer commutes (when you check this the US is behind 4 European countries). 3 seconds seems like a really short time for a yellow. If it takes 1 second to react, make a decision, and physically push the brake pedal, that only gives you 2 seconds to come to a complete stop. If I'm doing the math right for a 25 foot wide intersection (enough room for 1 lane in each direction), at 60mph (~95 kph) that gives a stopping distance of about 150 feet / 46 meters.

Lots of cars are barely capable of that in test conditions with new tires on dry roads.
The Japanese study [1] looked at immune (microgial) over-activation in the brain, which is different from actual inflammation of the brain or spinal cord (encephalitis or myelitis). Stress, anxiety and depression from psychosocial stressors are already known to cause neuroinflammation from microglial over-activation [2].

It is a little confusing that they use the term neuroinflammation for something that isn't really inflammation.

[1] http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/6/945.long
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660717/
New Zealand schools get the license to Chrome
IBM seems also ambivalent about making money.
Bitcoin-Backed Tokens to Ethereum
Because they were the inventors of 4G LTE.
> Starting on November 1, as part of an agreement with Google and the New Zealand Ministry of Education, all state and state-integrated schools across New Zealand will be able to start claiming Ministry-funded Chrome Education licenses to manage new and existing unmanaged Chromebooks.
Their FRAND Agreements with the standards bodies says other wise which Qualcomm voluntary committed to when they submitted their patented technology for consideration into international standards
That's missing a good chunk of the interesting stuff related to how users interact with the os though. (app and framework source code)
Reddit is a restaurant. If you winnow your subscriptions you’ll have the best seat in the house. If you leave the default subscriptions in place but log on your jammed three deep at the bar wanting a classic cocktail but having to settle for a miller lite. If you dont log on you are seated at the table next to the bathroom where a stream of drunk sorority girls and fraternity boys stand in line waiting to piss and yelling woo hoo! Everytime the door opens you get a waft of stench that puts you off your food.
Bill Gates realized he could save a lot more kids from the heartache of losing their parents by curing malaria in millions permanently, instead of stopping the Joker from robbing individuals a few nights a week.
A billionaire has a lot to lose if he ever gets caught. Why risk even a small chance of spending the rest of your life in prison with the common criminals you detest so much? Unless the stakes are extremely high, it's better to forget about the few tens of millions you didn't make and just chill in your yacht.

Meanwhile, the modern legal system offers a much better way to destroy your rivals, take their money, and publicly humiliate them if that's what your ego demands. It suits a billionaire's style to send lawyers, not hitmen.
Can someone explain to me why CAPTCHAs are used all over the place for sites that don't have user interactions?

I understand it for account creation. I understand it a bit less for login (seems like a lazy way of preventing automated attempts).

But for simply accessing a site? What gives?

I'm increasingly starting to find that only tech blogs, the odd big site I'm logged in on like Amazon, and sites like HN are usable lately, because anything else seems to require a 1 minute + gateway of CAPTCHA + GDPR + whatever else before I can actually get to the site.

Is it some way of filtering out users the sites don't want without expressly having a "403 Forbidden" or whatever?
Ask HN: Why did Evernote fail?
We recently saw news of layoffs at Evernote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18019219

It seems like they've been trending downwards for quite a while.

I have noticed that there are a myriad of notes apps options (like Bear, Notion), but none of them seem to be thriving where Evernote should be leaving space. In your opinion, what do these notes apps (especially Evernote) fail?

What should they be trying to build and what did they build instead? What did they not understand about their users?
> Otherwise - why do you care? It's none of your business.

When your boss is sleeping with one of your co-workers, how do you know that they are not in a quid-pro-quo relationship?

This isn't an American thing - this is a workplace thing.

If you're a manager, there's seven billion other people in the world, who don't report to you. You'll probably find your soulmate, or whatever the hell you're looking for - outside of your reporting chain.
I’m trying to build something I like, beyond anything - so I’d rather have it not be Voat.
Except $7bn isn't for one quarter, it is for almost 2 years now.
That would be it, good catch.
I don't super disagree, but note that one can argue for a mechanistic explanation of human behavior, with important implications about what we should conclude from that behavior, without implicitly endorsing different behavior or otherwise making an ethical claim.
Suits who don’t love the product in charge. That’s it.
You haven’t done that already? Most I leave any comment is 1 week.
>The success of democracy is exactly the possibility to effect change without shouldering grave personal risks...

True. In effect, we have a civil war every 4 years. During these civil wars there is zero personal risk to the participants. And even still, the largest bloc of us chooses not to participate.
apple should definitely reconsider itself, if true it is very unethical for this company to simply give out code it doesn't have a right to share. It would simply be that apple has to pay the fee and a fine.
That reminds me: a few years ago I got bored of playing Skyrim on my Xbox 360 and I wanted to play with mods on the PC. I didn't want to build a new character, but turns out that there are tools to extract Skyrim save games from the Xbox and are perfectly compatible with the PC version. In fact, not having a Windows installation at home I managed to play them with Skyrim on wine under linux. Everything worked pretty much flawlessly, mods included.
If you include the usual disclaimer what part of the law are you violating?
I would expect stuff like that to happen super often but I don't think I have even heard of one real case like this.

At the risk of stating the obvious: did this realization that reality fails to match your predictions cause you to question your model or your predictions?
Graveyards of the Contiguous USA
Hey Chris! We usually end up being a bit cheaper than Airbnb, since the hosts on here aren’t trying to make a profit, but just cover their costs and meet awesome people.
I don't understand... Did any protesters walk through your office? Are you having trouble getting GMAil support?

Because if, as professed, have no opinion one way or the other, I fail to see how you can be annoyed by something you only read about (after clicking on links presumably informing you what to expect). Are you also annoyed by the weather report? Because that seems to have become a daily staple.
How so, and more importantly, how?
In the BBS world we added some color and called it ANSI Art.
Disagree vehemently. HHMI funds what’s fashionable. Find me a HHMI investigator without a recent CNS paper. As with Nobel prizes, the true innovators always seem to make their discoveries outside the power circle.
Once you're a billionaire, maybe the Nash equilibrium suggests that you don't go too far to upset the cart for other billionaires.

If I ever become one, I'll make sure to come back to this post and let you know what's up.
This has the potential to bring affordable chemical assays into reach of the average consumer.

The nootropics community will love this, making it easy to verify the composition of the bulk powders ordered from India or China.
The suggestion is that the old internet wasn't a pure technical bubble: although the barrier to entry made it more technical than average, it was still fairly diverse because the alternative to passing that barrier was staying off the internet entirely. Now, getting online is easy, and there are millions of alternatives to the techy corners of the internet. So nobody who isn't specifically interested in that stuff has any motivation to join in.
> I don't believe they have any platform-specific code to support record-oriented files.

Yes, I was assuming a more traditional client, which is probably a mistake on my part.

> What possible advantage could one get by replacing it with something hacked together with Apache/curl/wget?

Well, there's always the obvious one, which is firewalls are much easier to deal with, since there aren't two separate ports in use, so you get rid of a whole class of network and firewall errors that are quite common.
I believe I was 47 and had already been on the street about a year before I got solid perspective. My mother worked as a maid most of my life. For the longest time, I absolutely did not see myself as coming from some kind of privileged background.
I work at an AT&T store, we get people in everyday with phone issues related to all the advertising apps. People will have basically non responsive phones where you have to swipe through 8-9 different lockscreens just to get to the home screen. Not once has an ios user ever come in with the same issue, the play store is just a joke. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartkeybo... is a huge culprit on most of the phones that come in. The Emoji keyboard changes your launcher and does nothing but spam you with nonstop ads. That it has such a high rating despite so many 1-2 star comments talking about how it ruins whatever phone it touches shows you how messed up the play store is.
So? They have to make the patents available under FRAND terms in order for it to have become 4G, but are clearly not.
60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970
I use the "News Feed Eradicator" Chrome extension. Don't have the app on my phone, nor Messenger. Life is more sane.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Reminds me of Lockheed's Skunkworks. I've heard lots of businessmen say they're going to recreate skunkworks, but with improvements.

The improvements, of course, make it not a skunkworks and these efforts never deliver skunkworks performance.

Could the government create a skunkworks? Not likely, because they fought against Kelly Johnson constantly over how he ran it.

I bet Paul Allen could have done it, because he had a track record of funding competent people and letting them do what they wanted.
Wire supports email-only registration at https://app.wire.com (from a desktop web browser). The account can then be used to login from mobile or web.

This approach enables "easy" mode for casual users who prefer phone number registration, while supporting additional privacy for others.
Hmm, how much trust and control can I have over the data I am generating?

This sounds like it could open huge possibilities in a lot of industries, provided there's transparency.
Check again, they've been pushing lots of code upstream recently. I couldn't believe it myself until I saw all these @codeaurora.org authors on commits in git log.

Also, project treble is fixing soc fragmentation. Won't fix last gen, but is stopping the bleeding for current gen.
We don’t have quantifiable metrics, but I could distill our habits into some qualitative ones:

First, we hotfix only for data loss bugs or for breakage of one of 3-5 absolutely central pieces of functionality without which our site might as well not exist. Anything else goes through the usual testing and deployment cycle, even if we try to accelerate said cycle a bit.

To qualify for a hotfix, a bug (other than data loss) has to make the functional area unusable or pointless for a substantial percentage of users (off the top of my head, we’d probably start panicking around 20%). There can’t be a workaround or the workaround has to be so non-obvious our users would be unable to use the site without customer service help.

In 3 years here, we’ve deployed a lot of major bugs that were fixed within the hour - that probably happens once every week or two. Nearly allf those fixes passed acceptance testing and cursory code review but not all wait for CI. A handful or two of those may have even met the hotfix criteria above.

But I can only think of one or two true hotfixes where we skipped any sort of QA process or proper merge procedure - and those were cases where the site never came up properly at all after the deployment, so they were essentially failed releases. The ones I can think of were production-only configuration errors, where breakage was massive and testing in a staging or CI environment wouldn’t have accomplished anything.
WOW meaning Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington? Those counties make up a little over 10% of the state's population. I agree that they're important, and I agree that it makes sense to campaign there because they have higher population densities, higher voter turnouts, and more swing voters than the deep red exurban counties. But it's misleading to claim that they include the vast majority of Wisconsin's Republicans, as the GP comment did, or that they're the main factor in election outcomes. In 2016, for example, the 8 percentage point decrease in Milwaukee's turnout rate compared to 2012 was probably a bigger factor.
>Having $400,000 to spend manipulating public opinion is having a thumb on the scale. The ideal of democracy is not that whoever has the most power should have the loudest voice.

So are you also saying Benioff should stop supporting Prop C with his loud voice and big wallet?
Not to mention their dark patterns to get you to install the mobile app while browsing on mobile.
You have been waiting all week for this occasion. You made a reservation at this great restaurant with someone you are really excited to make a closer connection with. Finally, the moment comes, and you are led to your table.

Unfortunately your table is within 2 meters of the bathroom. Every time the door opens, the bathroom light casts shadows on your silverware and lights the back of your head highlighting the thinness of your hair. This is followed, a few seconds later, as the smell of urinal mints wafts over and mixes with the delicate anise and dark plum notes of your $26 glass of wine.

I guess you have to have been there :|
Why should an estate with $100K worth of appreciated assets pay no capital gains and no estate tax?
No, their slant is 'Intel is already paying for these patents in the LTE modem we're buying from them, and Qualcomm is just trying to double dip.'
Write it!
Start with a blog post series if "a book" is too great a hill to climb!
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