skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These claims don't make sense together:

> Walmart is one of the top USA e-commerce retailers. In 2016, they were the second after Amazon by sales.

> In e-commerce, the conversion is directly affected by how fast the site loads.

Maybe site performance matters a whole lot less than developers think it does. At least at this scale. Is the claim that users get tired of waiting and head over to Amazon? Seems like there would be a lot of other factors in a decision like, most of which would be far more important than load time.

Or do they get tired of waiting and just decide not to purchase something? Do they end up just purchasing it later? If they don't, then I guess people didn't need whatever they were trying to buy in the first place? If that's the case, maybe slow page load times are a good thing for society as a whole. Perhaps we should be celebrating them as a check on empty materialistic impulse buying.

FWIW Personally I prefer Walmart's site. I find it easier to use, I like that I can sort by best sellers, and there seems to be less advertising noise in the results. However it has a high minimum to get free shipping, a smaller selection of goods, and some things seem to be more expensive.

But overall I was surprised by how good it turned out to be - give it a whirl if you've never tried it. Amazon is ahead of the curve, but I'm starting to wonder if they'll manage to hold onto that lead. A few missteps and things could look completely different in a decade.
It's definitely easier to get a $1m bank loan to open an Arby's franchise than $100k loan to build a SaaS startup.
$125 get's a basic 1br apartment in Chiang Mai and everything else like food and cell phone is pocket change. Biggest expense is visa runs and trying to replicate Western life halfway around the world :)
>I think advertisers —and the people implementing their work— are a net bad, at all ages. They are actively and openly trying to force influence on people to get them to spend money. Why would you want that for yourself, let alone your kids?

Because you want to learn about new products in some way, don't you? You also want companies to create new products, don't you? Advertisement is a necessary part in both of these. Few things spread fast enough with word of mouth alone.

>"My kids are fine!" is an anecdote, not an argument. How about one of the dozens of reviews of the impacts of junk food advertising on diet, spurring record rates of childhood obesity? https://www.apa.org/topics/kids-media/food.aspx

The article does not claim that it's a causal link. They quite clearly say that it's a correlation. The causal link could even be the other way around.

>Letting people (and now AI) openly influence you is a stupid decision. Letting them do the same to your children is much worse.

How do you propose that you or your kids learn knowledge? That's letting other people influence you.

My guess is that your kids will pick up these "negative influences" anyway, but they will never tell you.
Json enables you to chuck the notebook to any browser client anywhere on the net.

Org-mode is great, but you still have to install emacs.
This is actually perfectly legal and is already practiced by government agencies that have advertising: https://nypost.com/2016/03/03/mtas-ban-anti-muslim-ads-on-su...

A Supreme Court case saying that advertising is not a public forum: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/418/298/#tab-opi...
Thanks for the correction, you are right. I did not read the OP clearly enough, and thought they were arguing the government issued the ban.
If only YURI MILNER would
Mr. Milner, your future depends on contacting Brian Hannaford on linkedin.com, project "ODYSSEY" is no joke. This would make you a rock star, in the science world.
Curious, what change within Oracle do you want to see?

Java is still free, so it can't be that.
Could the future of open source and P2P be tweeting apps to one another?
We did it for a year and the only reason we came back is because of societal expectations regarding family and more "stable/permanent" careers :(

Ah who am I kidding. We moved back for her to pursue a medical career and I just pay my half because I didn't want to be without her :')
NFL and other leagues have streaming on their own sites now. NFL is $75/year for all games on-demand.
One place to start might be http://infiniband.sourceforge.net/
I hope not. CRISPR has a lot of potential to change our lives. I thought they're actually a little closer to finding solutions to treatments of incurable diseases and giving us life longevity. Now I'm not so sure.
Wouldn't it be better to show the intended font at first page (using font-display: swap or fallback instead of optional) instead of a potentially uglier fallback font until second page?

With swap (or fallback) the page is visible early using a fallback font but you still end up with your "goal font" without having to reload or visit another page
There are always daemons on the machines that aren’t under the control of the cluster scheduler (init or its equivalent, etc). The thing that exports the storage assets of the box can simply be one of those things.
I have a usb c jack on my Android and haven't had any lint woes.
As a developer I appreciate it more, perhaps users might find it slicker. However, I go back to something another user posted "The vast majority of users don't even perceive things like page reloading, etc. Build something useful, whatever the means are." And that is the correct answer here. As the other poster stated, there are tons of applications that don't need to be an SPA. Think of damn near every admin section of a companies intranet or whatever. That thing just needs do the job, run fast enough, be easy to scale and develop on and hopefully not look like an eye sore.
I don't see the connection to the article, what do you relate to it?
So no malware can be installed to override a software based interlock. No malware can alter the contents of the T2 chip so code there cannot be changed, altered or mitigated.
There has been a lot written about this, but here's a test I just ran on a random page on Huffington Post:

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/181031_TT_443f9d1e666d08f...

The article is probably <200 words, but the page is 3.2 MB and makes > 200 requests. There are 55 Javascript requests in there.

Right, HuffPo is egregious. How about a site HN readers might frequent, something lightweight like Reddit?

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/181031_H6_eaa2e64c9969515...

Random Reddit page, content: medium-sized image. 164 requests, ~12 seconds to render the page on the test rig. 60 Javascript requests. 1.5 MB of JS downloaded to display the post, a 46kb image. There's a 30:1 ratio of JS to post content (what the user wanted to see) here. And there's other bloat beyond the JS.

I just picked these two sites at random. You can do this all day with random websites. I would guess that most sites behind a .com (or .co.uk, etc.) will look similar.

I don't mean to pick on these sites, just wanted to point out that these practices are widespread and even reputable developers engage in them. Which will make it more difficult to undo the rot.
No, getting your message out is marketing, advertising is a subset of paid marketing. Press releases that get picked up by news agency’s is a great example of the difference.
Apparently counterexamples are needed:

https://www.dw.com/en/calling-prophet-muhammad-a-pedophile-d...
If only it ran macOS.
there were phones that effectively had a "notch" long before the iphone x. for example, the lg v10 had a second screen directly on top of the main screen with the two front-facing cameras slid over to the left. the second screen was used to access recently opened apps, text messages, settings, flashlight, music control, etc.

in general, apple just tells people they invent and do everything the best, and everyone listens. it's funny, because my lg v35 is much thinner and lighter than my girlfriend's new iphone xs max (which has a marginally larger screen), doesn't have a protruding camera lens, and it actually has a headphone jack with a high-end dac (which basically no other phone has). so apple says they need to get rid of the headphone jack to save room, and yet here we are.

i specifically avoided the lg v40 because they added the notch. as with the new ipad, i simply don't understand this need to extend the screen all the way to the end of the phone in the long way. this is especially true on the ipad, which i nearly always hold horizontally with my thumb on the perfectly sized bezel. getting rid of the bezel literally adds no functionality for me and actually removes some.
>4. You can see what your iOS device is doing. Plenty of apps allow you to see what processes are running, file system behaviour etc. Apple just doesn't build it in.

Do you have any examples? I've never seen anything like this in the app store.

Some apps give you limited access to their filesystem but (as a Jailbreaker) I'm pretty sure the larger system isn't viewable under normal circumstances.
If you're going that route,peripherals can also be "hostile" not just mass storage
ha, totally not going to write another CM layer. That is one of the fatal blunders, up there with fighting a land war in Asia and all that.
Ask HN: What is the correct method to teach C in a university?
My university in India has somewhat rigid rule to teach C and it is compulsory. The course spreads over 3 hours a week and spans through 4 months.
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 17
This was a rant, but I did learn about turbolinks, so its a worthwhile read for me. The salt in here is strong.
Welp, I apparently pick up men in the wrong places because none of them are ever genuinely willing to support my career goals and dreams, much less move where I want to be.

I hope you two are very happy and eventually get back to Thailand, or wherever your dream life happens to blossom and thrive.

Live long and prosper.
I agree. I find an article like this very useful. Glad I saw it!
Nah, the adjectives are hand-wavy and unqualified. They mean nothing
I only skimmed that post, and havent dealt with mysql in years, but .... that bit has another wiggle with writes committed to one of many replicas. Im presuming thats any one of many. Which means I can now have writes committed not just in two places (terrible), but to N number of places (zomg). Recovering that (linearly) would tend towards impossible without something like a vector clock. But if you had a reliable clock of changes you probably wouldnt be in that mess at all.
Yea the console execs are trying their hardest to convert PC players over and milk em. Yet they could've had more...
Why does Tesla allow Autopilot to be engaged at speeds above the limit? (I'm assuming that 80MPH is not legal there.)
Kaepernick is banned from the NFL in the same sense I am - no team wants him because he isn't good enough for the price he wants.
>Exposure will do little more than desensitize them to ads and instead let their subconscious absorb the message.

This isn't how it works. If a kid sees ads repeatedly then it initially increases their preference for them, but later lowers that preference again. Overabundance of ads will desensitize kids to them and will make them less interested in them. You shielding your kids from ads will likely make them more affected by ads when they get a glimpse of them here and there.

Ads that affect you subconsciously are not the type you see on TV or on a poster. The subconscious effects of ads come from things like your kid repeatedly seeing you using tide pods to wash their clothes.
Freakonomics podcast had an episode on apologies recently - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/apologies/ - one of the more interesting things discussed was how the start and end of the apology has a dominating impact. It seems people are incredibly sharp at recognising insincerity too. I'd say github did a great job here.
Lies. I know first hand a few very large corporations that don't have this restriction. I only know of one corporation that has a blanket ban.

"Government" is huge,the department in question does not handle confidential(classification) and above information.
The simpler explanation is that Apple simply wants to move to USB C because they see benefit in being on the "standard" mobile device port now that it does not have marked drawbacks vs their proprietary solution and can used for their entire line of mobile devices, including laptops
Important missing information for me: what is a reasonable founder salary cap?
It depends on the exact situation. In this case there is coordination happening among multiple vendors who are working on various fixes in this space, which complicates things. Also complicated is that apart from "don't use Chrome" there's no useful mitigation users can do for this risk, and most Chrome users would never see any security-related blog post, nor act on it if they did.

There are times when "screw you, I'm going public with this" is in fact the right thing to do. Again, in this particular case I don't think it is.
Give to a charity while contributing less tax. It's a zero-sum game.
Using dd.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html
My answers are platform-specific:

For Windows: Camtasia

For macOS: Screenflow
If buying it then means the transaction between us is over, and I get a fully working app with no ads, no popups asking to buy extra "coins" or anything, and my kid can play that app with no other interruptions or anything I need to be wary of, then yeah that sounds fine. Just sounds like a free trial/demo to me which is fair.
The ads never ran. There was no fraud, since was no intent to earn money from Facebook.

Lying, in and of itself, is not illegal. While that may be unfortunate, that is also true. So to speak :)
The CAP theorem strikes again.
What is it about Chrome's renderer that specifically appeals to you?

I agree it's somewhat ridiculous that you can't get (real) third party web browsers, but Apple's is so damn good that I don't consider it a real problem.
I agree that the consequences of us trashing the planet will be felt more by us, but I think that our future kids and grandchildren will have to suffer through it, if we don't take actions fast. It's true, we should support someone who acknowledges climate change and tries to find ways to stop it, but we could also help by starting in our own homes. Change must come from within. Also, tech companies should help solve this problem. They have the resources, they can find a way to stop or alleviate climate change from worsening.
Yeah I got some handy shutters from some conferences, not a bad solution.
> it sounds like they're replicating database updates asynchronously, without waiting for the updates to be acknowledged by slaves before the master allows them to commit. Which means the data on slaves is always slightly out-of-date, and becomes more out-of-date when the slaves are partitioned from the master. Which means that promoting a slave to master will by definition lose some committed writes.

Unless you temporarily pause writes to the primary before promting a slave.
So if everybody is going to use a case anyway, why isn't the functionality of the case just built into the phone? This applies not just to apple by the way. I've never understood this.
The title would be a great sentence to test the quality of machine translation.
How much of an issue is it?

The kind of issue do not want to have: issues with money that can go very wrong when calculating discounts, tax percentages, interest or whatever.
It's not that difficult to compute true marginal effects from logistic regression using something like the bootstrap (if you have a distribution for your coefficients) or explicit differentiation. Every traditional stats app (Stata, SAS, etc) has this.
Just out of interest, what solutions did you discover that fit those criteria - no large disruption to most peoples lives, but suppressed by industries that stand to lose money? I think the problem is usually more that solutions require both large and disruptive changes to lifestyle and large investment and costs from industry and government...
Postgresickle has a nice ring to it.
Either masterful satire or, ahem, you may want to check your server.
I know of company that did that as well.

"We survived" is a very low standard. Security improvement should be measured against user impact and data being handled. The org. in the article does not have data confidentiality requirements that warrant such a severe user impact.

I know of first hand a corporation whose nationwide business would bw crippled by USB mass storage blanket ban. Context insensitivity is bad security.
I stand corrected. I was so sad in how costly could be the model I wish that I do a bad comparision from thin air. (ie: The Iphones I have)
Except that Helium is not dangerous whatsoever and to actually displace oxygen you would need much much more than that.
I'm totally with you. We write/run financial software for government. We MUST be correct to the penny. Our auditors absolutely check this stuff.

We've never done $ math in JS, that just seems like a stupid place to do it. If it's in the browser, you can't trust anything that happens there anyways, as it runs client side, with almost zero security. We happily take $ input via JS on the client, but we just pass it through, and let the server(s) handle the actual math.
I'm pretty sure there is an even better idea -- don't expect Facebook news and ads to be legitimate. News from a social media site is false at the worst and unreliable at the best.
How do you communicate to millions of people then? What is your strategy? Visit every single person's home?
Can we just choose to give some to Amazon Warehouse employees or delivery drivers?

Since Amazon won't do it themselves and treats them so badly?
It's not what the concern is here, it's that this is becoming the norm for all IoT devices, and it is inevitable that in time said devices with comparable security will have access to more privileged, sensitive information.

The principle of least privilege, as a sibling pointed out, is important here because it sets the expectations of what a secure IoT device looks like. If we don't nip it in the bud now, this sort of lax security will become prolific even when more important information is at stake.

Google should be leading the pack on 'the right way' to do security on IoT. They know better.
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not really, the data is still there, there are just 2 different file contents saved into one and playing with the zip and jpg format so both of them are still readable.
> Holding music, either in your hand or on a personal hard drive, is a relic of Obama-era music consumption.

How is this true in any sense?
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I recall discovering apparent image files that had a rar archive appended. Not sure if it’s the same method.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean.

Oracle contributes patches to OpenJDK, for instance lambda support.

Do you want less of that? Are the commits made by Oracle employees especially bad?

It's not like you need to use the Oracle JDK. There are many different distros, just like Linux.
Was wondering how long that would take after the article last week.
> Can the technique be used to bypass content censorship (e.g. in China)?

Steganography can be used to hide data in clever ways, but it isn't a substitute for encryption -- anybody who knows whatever trick you used can extract the payload. You could always encrypt the payload, but all you're doing is giving your adversary another (trivial) hoop to jump through when you could've just encrypted the message to begin with.

> Can it be made resistant to detection?

Yes and no. There are some clever steganographic techniques that take advantage of PNG and JPEG implementation details to foil basic entropy checks, but anybody who knows the algorithm can trivially extract the payload. In other words, it's security by obscurity, not by any sort of strong cryptographic property.
Tesla’s dedication to environmental futurism
> voluntarily switch to a low-carbon, low-oil, low-net water use, low-net-material use economy

What about this is not hugely disruptive to lifestyles and standards of living? Its hardly an 'easy' solution to tell people to give up many modern conveniences or radically change behavior...
I thought studies said that mortality wasn’t significantly increased, though some deformities were?
For monetary values, though, the denominators should be the same.

This means that the denominator won't get arbitrarily large.

For serious uses of rationals you need to have control over when the top and bottom are divided by the GCD. For currency you want to keep the denominator at 100. 50/100 wants to remain as that and not get simplified to 1/2.
Hey Dustin, this is super cool. Incidentally, we just today posted Round 17 [1], so you can update your links (e.g. [2]) when you get a moment.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/blog/2018/10/30/framework-benchm...

[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...
Yeah, I don't.

To think of it now: I think boy scouts really are a great organization, to be teaching kids how to tie knots and survive in the outdoors.

I wish such a thing existed for me to attend as an adult!
Then it will be everyone's fault.
This isn't rocket science.

https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/statistics/marginal-effec...
How Architecture evolves into strategy
The one thing I loathe about this is that I have to remember to go to smile.amazon.com... which I never remember to do. This is presumably why this doesn't impact Amazon's bottom line much.

(And yes, I'm sure if I really wanted to, there's a browser extension to do this for you.)
Why was this posted? AmazonSmile has been around for years and I am not aware of any changes related to it.
Same here with Star Wars/ASOIAF content.

I get it. You figured I like those two things, but it's incredible that it won't pick up that I am (hopefully) not that dull.
I've written my own zip and unzipping code.

Basically the "top level" zip file section lives at the end of the zip file and contains pointers back into the file for the actual data. This is so that you can keep adding to a zip file without having to rewrite anything you have done previously - just append a few more files and then your updated directory at the end.

JPEG segments contain two special opening bytes, maybe a length, and then the actual data. So it would be trivial to have the last jpeg section in a jpeg file end with zip directory bytes. This directory could point back to data in other sections of the jpeg.

..my guess, anyway.
Unless they let you export the keys, difficult conversation time.

I did some support for some encryption devices a long time ago.

If someone was having that difficult conversation (you could just tell it was about to happen) we would all silently gather around to hear how it went...
So, not for science based reasons then.
Jack Ma's final letter to shareholders as Alibaba chairman
This sort of argument is not a dead end but the very essence of government. Asking how much power should be given to a government is vitally important to the citizens and is certainly not a dead end.
Giving without cost. Isnt this what Anand Giridharadas was talking about?
I was going to say that this is a very stupid thing to post, not only because of the content, but because it would ruin your career.

Then I wondered why an archive.org link was posted. Then I found this:

https://github.com/AviAgarwal/AccountHacked

Don't really know what is going on here.
I wonder when they're just going to start calling it "iOS".
MDMA-Assisted PTSD Therapy Edges Closer to FDA Approval After Largest-Ever Trial
Respectfully disagree,blanket ban is good if the specific business unit handles sensitive data. Some departments might need to interact with external third parties and customers who would send them data over mass storage.

Most people are not idiots when it comes to security since it is the job of system and security engineers to design a secure system for "most people" ,however a security policy that does not take into measure context specific business impact is foolish.