skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems more likely that at certain times elites have found they have more in common with each other than the lower classes even across religious or ethnic boundaries.

This was certainly true for at least part of the Middle Ages. As Saladin famously said to Guy of Lusignan, "kings do not kill kings." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan
Show HN: Daux – An immutable model-based state management for your web apps
This is a pet project of mine. Probably something you may consider in your next hackathon project before using it for something serious.
Shortening light cycle times to increase revenue is evil. But one thing that is not widely known is that it is illegal to enter an intersection while the light is yellow. The only time it is legal to enter an intersection is while the light is green.

So if the light turns yellow, you enter the intersection and leave it while the light is still yellow... that is just as illegal as if you entered the intersection when the light was red.
> Objective-C spends like half of CPU time in objc_msgSend.

Profile or GTFO
SW - yes, I've tested across multiple OS's, browsers & I have high bandwidth-low latency network.

1.Chrome 70 on Linux doesn't drop frames for 1080p but 4K is unwatchable.

2.Windows 10 on same PC is better for 4K but drops some frames for 1080p as well.

3.Safari doesn't have VP9 codec; so there's no support for anything beyond 1080p.

So Youtube on Xbox is the best experience I've had w.r.t to quality of streaming. But it zooms by default on my ultrawide PC monitor.
The example in the article creates a thread. Is that what you mean by "starting a worker"? Because it does seem to be able to do that.
Consider terror, terrible and terrify! The second word now generally means something like a rubbish or bad state and the third means to induce a state of the first word (bowel quaking, etc etc).

The word dreadful (almost certainly also a warship name) has not suffered quite such an ignominious decline but "I'm dreadfully sorry" is quite often seen in the wild.
>I’m yet to hear of a non-hypothetical application that could change that

shared accounting systems between collaborates. complete replacement of ap/ar and every company in a consortium not needing to keep their own, isolated, audit requiring, double entry books. the amount of duplication reduction potential is staggering.
mercurial and git both have commands that allow you to select part of a change to commit, and both allow you to amend an existing commit. No index necessary.
> Signal's goal is to make all the messaging in the world that currently uses phone numbers as identifiers --- which, by a long ways, is most messaging in the world --- cryptographically secure.

That goal is fundamentally broken, though, because phone numbers aren’t cryptographically secure. One can use any exploit which allows one to take over a phone number to take over someone’s Signal identity. Yes, all of the target's Signal contacts will receive a message stating they his keys have changed — but they are used to that.

Signal's got some awesome crypto, but it also has some intriguing holes.
> Members of the American Trends Panel were recruited from several large, national landline and cellphone RDD surveys conducted in English and Spanish. At the end of each survey, respondents were invited to join the panel.

Methodology is very shakey for a sample of young people. Results are also just weird—I’m a young person (24) and very few people I know have deleted FB.
Growing My First App to Profitability with No Marketing Experience
>Amazon following tax law and that pissing people off is entirely irrelevant to Amazon donating to charity

A tax system they helped create and perpetuate. So it's not exactly as simple as "following tax law" unless you just want to boil the conversation to irrelevancy. Wait, I think that IS What you're trying to do.

>That's like saying your height is totally relevant to your favorite food.

No it isn't. Please don't willfully misrepresent someone else's view point just so you can easily defeat it. I think there's a word for that actually...

>changing the subject from charity to Amazon tax dodging (which is absolutely false anyway) isn't a straw man

No one said they were dodging taxes. Why are you attempting to willfully misrepresent other people's arguments?

>agenda-driven.

What does this even mean?
The future of JSON in .NET Core 3.0
His principles were "legally stolen".
Oh cool. I wonder when they will stop working because of dragonfly...
Google takes G-Suite/Enterprise focused products very seriously. I can't think of many major examples of them axing one of their enterprise products (or really any, though I'm sure there's one or two fringe examples). In other words, I think they have an issue of reputation here, but that reputation is mostly unfounded because it applies to a different class of products.

I also think GCloud is very unique in that all of the capex that Google spends on it comes back to benefit Google. All of their product offerings need servers and world class networks behind them. So even if GCloud remains a solid third/fourth place in the cloud race, I doubt we'll see them go anywhere just because Google itself is probably using it internally to some degree.

I mostly worry about the scope of investment from management. I want to see way more products out of them. More managed databases, a better managed NoSQL database than Firestore, lower prices, more enterprise focused things like automated security auditing, better support. We're just not getting it; they're so focused on shiny trivialities like Firebase and Stackdriver while missing the basics.
Good idea, uninstalling now!
I read them more for entertainment than any other reason. Just to see what's out there.

When I watch youtube videos of a technical nature, there tends to be much higher-quality comments.
Microsoft two-factor authentication bug with identify verification apps
I protected my Microsoft account with 2-factor authentication using Google Authenticator for perhaps 2 years. Until 27 October 2018, if I logged into outlook.com or onedrive.live.com, I would be prompted for user ID, password, and a token from Google Authenticator. On 27 October 2018, I made a change. I removed 2-factor authentication from my account, only to immediately add 2-factor authentication right back on with Google Authenticator and 1Password OTP. The two code generators are in sync.

Since 28 October 2018, when I log into outlook.com or onedrive.live.com, I am NOT prompted to provide a one time code. The only time I am prompted to provide a code in the Microsoft environment is when I enter the MS account security page. This does not seem like correct behavior, having only the account security page of the overall MS cloud computing environment 2fa protected, but leaving email and documents unprotected. Nor does this new behavior match prior behavior before the change on 27 October 2018.

I have full control over my account at this time.

I have been able to replicate this behavior across 3 browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Note Safari is a naked browser with no add-ins) and the incorrect behavior persists since 28 October.

I submitted the bug report to Microsoft Security Response Center <secure@microsoft.com>, who acknowledge it seemed like a bug but closed the issue on their end without taking action. They asked if the issue persists to resubmit with a bunch of stuff that is way outside my wheelhouse.

* Description of the vulnerability

Detailed steps required to consistently reproduce the issue

Short explanation on how an attacker could use the information to exploit another user remotely

* Proof-of-concept (POC), such as relevant code samples, a video recording, crash reports, or screenshots

Does anybody know a person in Microsoft who might be willing to take this up?
Not sure what violence in Seattle have to do with whether you need to get politically involved.

There are lots of reasons why people get assaulted most of them have nothing to do with sexual orientation.

Yes, you can decide to do something about it politically but you can also choose to just not come to those places again just like a family who can afford it would move away from the ghettos. That doesn't mean you have to be politically involved, it's a choice.

Don't get me wrong I don't mind people getting politically involved but in my experience confusing virtue signaling on FB, Twitter and Reddit with actual political involvement leads to more disappointment than progress.
TO signal, Verify my identity, send me an OTP.
Pick and app and I will profile it.
You're an intern. No one cares.
The Signal team essentially invented the cryptographic constructions the current wave of (good) secure messengers are based on, work for which they were awarded the Levchin Prize at RWC (for perspective, this year's winner was Hugo Krawczyk). They did the work, then published it, for the other messaging systems to adopt --- which is why you can easily get a comparable, though inferior, version of Signal's cryptography in a messenger that doesn't require phone numbers.

At some point in the future maybe the roles will reverse there, and interoperability will be a bigger issue. For now, I think Signal's userbase is benefiting from the decision. If it became necessary, presumably they can alter their stance in the future.
Yes, but one is a business transaction (exchange of goods or services) and one is not.

So i would argue they aren’t the same.
This gets overlooked.

In San Francisco, if I count the number of jurisdictions I fall and pay taxes under, I get a number like 7, the typical City/State/Federal tier (minus the County tier as SF is unique in CA for consolidating that into the City tier), and at least 4 special districts that are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Singapore is 1 City 1 Nation. I’m not an expert on precisely how they govern themselves, but it must really help cut through administrative overhead and bureaucracy when the national government is effectively also the local government, responsible for police, fire, the environment, the parks and playgrounds, utilities regulation and national defense.

So if they want to set aside a line item for city cleanup right beneath national security and the public healthcare system, they have the option without debating further past public/private for whose responsibility it is. The government can take the tact that it is either its responsibility or it isn’t, without the complex tax system imposed by several different entities that the US has getting in the way. No federal grants to grant, no support legal challenges in 50+ court systems and various appellate court districts to overcome, no multi-tiered incentive structures, just, “do we have the budget?”

There are certainly more advantages to be had for larger countries, but there are also certain quality of life advantages to not having to be a large country, as long as you are rich anyway.
Masterji: Coventry's secret 94-year-old photographer – in pictures
Generic ideological tangents are off topic on HN. You can't get much more generic (or ideological) than freedom-good-or-bad.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333236.
If you hit the hamburger icon you can turn off the constant asking you to open the app pop ups.
I understand that the GP's add-on is not Amazon's. But Amazon wants you to install their "Amazon Assistant" extension in order to get this functionality[1]. They are obviously using their Smile program to push this, otherwise they would just bake this functionality directly into their website.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/dashboard/ref=smi_se_rspo_l...
If your opinion isn't informed by data then what value could it possibly have?
>Update #1: I spoke to Valve earlier, about how buying Windows games to play with this system counts, they said this:

>Hey Liam, the normal algorithm is in effect, so if at the end of the two weeks you have more playtime on Linux, it'll be a Linux sale. Proton counts as Linux.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/valve-officially-conf...
So out of everything that it takes to be a competent dev in 2018, including learning $front_end_framework_of_the_week we should single out the term “serverless”?

I know most of the features of AWS either from real world day to day use or at least on high level that I can talk intelligently about them. The time it took to learn them wasn’t lengthened by the term “serverless”. That was one of the easiest things to wrap my head around - write your code like you always do and just have a function as an entry point that takes two parameters - a JSON object and a context object and wire up an event that calls it.

But on the other hand, when a bunch of Azure folks start talking about Azure features they are using, I am clueless. Does that mean that Azure services are misnamed or that I would need to spend some time learning about it on high level if I wanted to talk intelligently?

For instance when I heard friends talk about Data Lakes, Data Factories, Event Hubs, I had no clue what they were yamerring on about. The same when anyone starts talking about machine learning.
> realize that meant having to figure out which toolchain or choice of standard lib to use, and just gave up and used c++ as usual

Once upon a time C++ was in much the same state.
> unions must be able to ensure that no one does the work.

Often the barrier is natural, such as with folks at Google who built the systems and are (collectively) the only ones who can keep them running without significant interruption. By what authority, for what compelling reason, would you abridge their freedom of association (or in this case non-association)?
Please keep this kind of flamebait far away from HN.
It might also help to know Kay has said the Internet is a good example of "Real OOP": A system made up of other systems sending messages that are "desires", not commands. (paraphrasing)

(He has also been quite humble. He claims his own original ideas aren't very good and all the best stuff came from others. On Smalltalk, he also mentions Dan Ingalls did most of the work while Kay only did the mathematics.)
> but that reputation is mostly unfounded because it applies to a different class of products

That's not how reputation works. A brand has one reputation. You mess with that at your peril.
You can also just change that in your account settings to use the old design.
A few years back there was a start-up doing something similar called StartupStay a.k.a BiZpora ( https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bizpora). I hosted some founders in London, it was a great experience and I made some friends. I am glad this is being looked into in SF! All the best with it!
I thought it was deep fakes?
IBM today is Unisys of 1990, it's 2017 did you know that Unisys still sells Mainframes?

IBM has become completely dependent on consulting, and they did that because their hardware business has been shrinking. They are only selling hardward to a captive audience. The only companies buying Mainframes or AS400's are existing customers, but those customers are also converting portions of their business to other technologies, but not on IBM hardware, or the IBM cloud. It appears that IBM is still a technology company but it's an illusion.

IBM is dying and there is nothing that anyone can do about it, they won't fold, but in 20 years IBM will be as relevant as Unisys is today.
Great question! We love Mike Lissner and have talked with him about connections between our projects. We'll definitely work with him if we get a chance.

Benefits of our data set: we're more complete, being a census of all known volumes of official caselaw back to the beginning; we're easier to work with for data processing, since all of our data, across centuries and states, is in one consistently structured format; we have the page images, meaning if there's any question of accuracy, we can check the final authority.

Benefits of FLP (and there may be others I don't know): they're updated in realtime from scanning court websites, so they'll stay up to date in a way we won't; their scraped text for modern cases doesn't have OCR errors; their site is much more featureful.

At this point I see our strength as being a complete/consistently-formatted/authoritative data set of printed cases, which leaves lots of room for other caselaw databases with complementary goals.
I have to agree with totof. I think the author is a fool, and doubly so for taking the time and effort to carefully document his own foolishness.

He spent $4500 to learn that you shouldn't lend $4500 to random strangers with "no feedback", no collateral, no credit card, no way to collect... on the say-so of some random startup. That's pretty foolish.

It sucks that he got ripped off, and it sucks that the company rep lied to him in the chat. From what he says though it seems to me like they're trying to do right by him after the fact. Maybe they are a bunch of amoral jerks, or maybe they're just "a small team of filmmakers and photographers who ... work hard to make KitSplit as safe as possible" and who just messed up, eh?

I also think it's a bit lame for him to take the $2000 they offered him and keep using the service but write a blog post complaining that that's not good enough.

At least he learns from his folly! That's encouraging.

> I feel like everyone is to blame, including (and especially) myself. I should have read the fine print better and protected myself.

$4500 is a lot to pay for such a basic life lesson, but at least he wasn't physically hurt, and if he sticks with it and is careful he may yet break even on KitSplit, eh?

I would say that the person to blame is the dude who ran off with the camera.

I don't blame Peter H. for getting ripped off, but I do think it's his responsibility to look out for his own camera, and that he made a foolish mistake.
You don't talk like a European at all.
I guess especially if one considers the population density the cleanliness is remarkable. From just walking around and experiencing litter volume I see no difference to Munich, despite the missing vandalism and chewing gum. I don't say, that Singapore feels dirty. It just feels normal. Of course feeling is not a scientific value, but for the "super clean Singapore" my expectations were different. Now I can more relate to the super cleaned Singapore as a statement about this city.
Do you know that earlier in 2018, the diamond industry started using blockchain?
Clicking Washington on the map fails, with a 400 error.

It looks like the link from the map is using "wa" for Washington, when it should be "wash".

I'm curious now. Some states do use a 2 letter code, some use 3, and some use 4. Why didn't you use the same naming format for all of them?
Make that part of the YC process. Mock renting of space, filling it, etc. Have reviews of how they did, things they considered, etc.
Qualcomm is the Oracle of hardware companies
One thing that always impressed me about Singapore was that they incinerated all their garbage, then they collected the emissions from that furnace to power the city, and used the by products again. Brilliant
Semmelweis was literally thrown into an insane asylum and died not long after, following a beating by the guards. Einstein worked in a patent office, unable to get a university job like he wanted until after his theory was proven correct. It took years to get the evidence he needed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Pretty cool, thanks for sharing this. If you're up for hosting founders in London again, let us know :) we're looking to expand to other cities soon.
> A self-driving car has no better brakes than an ordinary one

I didn't say that it does. It has better reaction time and drives more slowly. That makes its stopping distance much shorter than a human's.

> The problem statement says they run into the street too close to stop, so seeing them from further away is irrelevant.

No, it's not. Seeing them from further away means this problem happens less frequently. If this problem happens so infrequently that overall deaths go down, that's a huge improvement.

> should a self-driving car ever leave the roadway to preserve a life, precisely because it doesn't know if that could be worse.

This is still better than a human, because it could actually make a decision. A human doesn't have time to consciously decide what s/he wants to do.
> FBI will send 500 agents to find the killer.

Dont forget that during the peaceful protests of #occupywallstreet the American FBI drafted plans to assasinate every identifiable “leader” of the movement including majority of US citizens.

Make no mistake, although some individual FBI agents may still be loyal to their country, as an agency the FBI is treasonous and has been bought and sold to the true power brokers of the world for decades.
Cross-Package Operations Support and Linking Print Tickets inside .NET Apps
I wouldn't, they should be free to work or not as they choose. But they shouldn't be able to abridge anyone else's freedom and I doubt they're as irreplaceable as you think.
Is this really true? I can't imagine the amount of plastic waste per person per year is necessarily more than other developed countries. Also I don't remember using disposable plates/bowls when I ordered from the Hawker stalls unless you specifically ask for something to take away - otherwise there's shared reusable plates/bowls that are cleaned.

One thing I definitely know is that the stalls have bans on handing out napkins, which both serves to give the poor a way to make money and reduce the amount napkin waste by pushing the cost to you. I also think it's fairly common for residents to carry their own reusable utensils with them when they go to places like that.
Remember that Cringely did a kickstarter and didn't follow through and kept all the money, attributing it to his kids.

60-odd days left...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely

On May 22, 2017, Stephens published an update on his personal blog[25] claiming that he had run out of money and had decided to turn the project into a startup. On January 2, 2018, Cringely announced that, while the Mineservers had been burned along with his home during the October 2017 Northern California wildfires, there would be "a spec update and a new shipping schedule in a couple more weeks."[26] In a comment on his personal blog dated May 21, 2018, Cringely announced that "every supporter will get their Mineserver before the end of this year."[27]
> which is why you can easily get a comparable, though inferior, version of Signal's cryptography in a messenger that doesn't require phone numbers.

How so? Are things like OMEMO different cryptographically from Signal protocol?
law-abiding evil.
I wouldn't go with the one with a cryptocurrency named after him.
This. It's what everyone I know who works in the Windows space does when they have a deep problem to investigate. Lack of source doesn't mean lack of ability to investigate, and sometimes the source doesn't tell the whole story either.

(Yes, I know about the anti-RE clauses in EULAs. If they were actually enforced as strictly as they claim, people like Mark Russinovich and Matt Pietrek would've been sued out of existence long ago, along with just about every Windows security researcher.)
Facebook: Graveyard of racist uncles.
Arman.
Maybe you misunderstood my comment, here's some additional context for what I wrote: (1) Apple competes with Qualcomm today (indirectly via many vendors who ship snapdragon-based phones). (2) Apple is pretty good at supply chain controls. (3) Apple uses [until recent designs] Qualcomm modems in their iphone/ipad.