skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to add on, many of the “free apps” make money via in app consumables - mostly games. There is a reason why the top grossing apps are games like Candy Crush and Clash of Clans.
I flat out will not buy a phone without a headphone jack, and I cannot see this changing in the forseeable future.

Anything that could be added to a new phone model—a better screen, a faster processor, a better camera, etc—will not be enough to offset the inconvenience of being unable to listen to an audiobook on the subway because I inevitably forgot the damn adapter.

As long as there is one phone with a headphone jack, that is the one I will buy. If the only options are older devices, I will buy the least-old one.
Saw that coming a mile away. I won't use an Apple phone. Never would, probably never will. We had this whole lock in discussion in the 90's. Got my first Linux distribution back then. Red Hat 5.2 in the nice box. That investment has paid and paid and paid...

I like some Mac computers a lot. Happy customer. 2012 Mac Book Pro is a sweeet machine! Has all the ports, is plenty fast, sexy. No, I don't run iTunes and friends.

Today, I will run most anything on a computer. I don't mind Android. There are open alternatives all over the place and I use them, moving from platform to platform with relative ease. This all gets easier over time. I can even dumpster dive and get up, running and make some quick cash.

Android is a reasonable, general purpose computer when I want one on the go. Programming, terminal? Check. Content create? Check. Comms of all kinds? Check. Heck, I can through a VM on my Samsung and actually do stuff using the pen. Amazing. If I choose to carry bluetooth keyboard / pad combo, it's happy to show me a pointer and I'm off to the races! And device support? That phone will operate a portable, USB floppy drive, if I need it.

Apple has nothing at all on that environment.

The pads? Throwaways, got one given to me, and it's a great toddler learning tool. Throwaway app buys. I won't ever take the thing seriously, though Mrs loves to stream on it.

As for attached... Nice phone, what's that thing sticking out of it like that... Seriously. Honestly, if it were me stuck with that, I would try and find a case with the jack built in.

And here's the thing! You got that choice forced on you. it's completely unnecessary. Forced migrations happen sometimes. That's OK. This one is unnecessary. There is no meaningful gain, and quite a few downsides to digital only audio delivery.

Finally, yeah. Easy. Only hurts the first time. Rip that bandaid. No joke! Just start. Lots of help out there, and you will benefit over the longer haul.

Once you do, and start navigating away from that lock in, it all improves nicely. I've helped a few people do that. They get there. Soon, they are showing me cool things they found out there in the wild.
Is there a source document that can be linked instead?
I have 3 cars with Bluetooth and one of them (which sports a "Sync by Microsoft" label gives me no end of trouble with bluetooth. At one point I gave up and just started using a cord, because I could. I don't drive that car on a daily basis now (It's a Ford Fusion, which otherwise I like.), but when I do, I still have hassles.
How to differentiate between deep and shallow copies in JavaScript
https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/946886702932557824

https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/933791331146784768

More seriously, some people apparently consider git a blockchain: https://medium.com/@shemnon/is-a-git-repository-a-blockchain...
Ahem. The maker of that documentary is anti-Putin to the extent he supports the theory that Putin blew up some Russian apartment buildings to start a war.

Browder, on the other hand, is actively surpressing the documentary; even if none of the things said about him in the documentary are true (in which case you'd think he would sue the guy who made it for libel; a guy who lives in the UK), that's pretty shady.
People go to nightclubs to hook up. They want to know that there are going to be lots of options before paying a cover.

I used to do event promotion and in a real sense the crowd is the product, not the music or the drinks or anything else.

What you work really hard at is cultivating a loyal audience who will show up week after week no matter who you book, and who know how to dance and bring energy in with them.

Clubbing is about people more than anything else.
I think blockchain is staring us in the face as a solution to the collapse of trust in institutions. For example, if all votes were stored on a permissioned blockchain, audits would be trivial. If we layered it on top of our existing (bad) election technologies and did a post-election comparison of accuracy, I bet it would be far more accurate.
Also, Baidu is completely in the pocket of the Chinese government. They are happy to censor anything and everything they're asked. Google is not beholden in this way and will censor the minimum amount possible.
8 lessons learned from Black Friday 2018
pdf of the document: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
Does anyone know about repair at this time?
A lot of ink is spilled about how a blacksmith made something, not so much about repair.
Arrow heads, were they repaired/reused, or just used as scrap? If a sword has snapped in half was it welded back together, modified into a knife, had the whole blade replaced?
> So if you want a "tamper-proof", auditable, decentralized data store, go with git.

Yes.
Then what was the original poster comparing it to? People don’t inspect binary compiled apps on any device.
Depending on what a job is, it seems like this could all be done with Jenkins.
It is illegal but you may escape consequences if no one complains.
[1][2][3] Besides being a revised policy that no longer applies (and yes, policies take time to unwind)...there is no universal human right to emigrate to any country whatsoever. I know a lot of people think so...

but also this pales in comparison to the abuses of existing Chinese nationals by China, taking Muslim property [1], placing citizens in internment camps and abusing them, placing them under "deeply invasive forms of surveillance and psychological stress as they are forced to abandon their native language, religious beliefs and cultural practices" [2], imposing a nationwide social credit system that can deny citizens of China basic access to education, air travel, etc on a whim [3]...

Whatever your thoughts on Trump (besides being off-topic...he's not racist, by the way [4])...he's kept in check by a robust court system, a constitutional republic and the congress itself from imposing the systems listed above on U.S. citizens.

And yes, free speech is the right to say offensive things. There's no reason whatsoever to protect "inoffensive" speech. Yes, free speech (and liberty in general) allows you to be skeptical of the assessment on global climate change. It allows you to question what role if any, our government should have in attempting to control the climate. Sorry you hate liberty, maybe you would prefer if a social credit system imposed punishment on those not pre-disposed to your particular beliefs? If so, then China is looking like a good move for you.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-m...
[2] http://www.tribtown.com/2018/11/26/us-united-states-china-in...
[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p...
[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/23/trump-pushes-senate-to-pass-...
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Which would also be included in that valuation, the total value of which would be equal to or greater than the alternative costs.
Why would a Russian individual host his, rather shady, operation in the smack dab middle of Germany, and not somewhere in eastern Europe?

Why would an individual like that, who goes through the effort of obfuscating Google analytics code, leave the domain registry information out in the open like that?

Imho none of this really adds up, the whole setup seems to be quite complex and sophisticated, I have a hard time believing that anybody who's as clever as that, would screw it all up over the domain registry information.
> Not sure if that's still true, but at the time it seems Fortran was a more restrictive language which permitted stronger optimization.

There is no aliasing in Fortran. In C (and using compiler extensions in C++) you manually use restrict to give the same information to the compiler, but it is a trickier process than in Fortran. Rust inherits this benefit from Fortran, but last I checked they had all related optimizations disabled (and most numerical computing friendly features in Rust tend to be on the back burner).
You're only stretching already over-stretched analogies. Art prints are not, by their nature, limited resources, nor do they hold important inherent value. Housing, public transportation, land etc. are better analogies to specific domain names. The ethical ramifications of a person hoarding a specific piece of art and a person reserving and not using seats on public transportation are quite different.
Are you kidding? Go and get that signal. Even if they pot the thing, it would take a day.
I don't have an iPhone. What's happening?
If you don't care about keeping a voter's vote secret, the problem becomes a lot easier to begin with, and permits a lot of non-blockchain solutions. Like publishing votes in the newspaper.
There are a lot of assumptions in my argument, but the one with the hardest data will be how many startups succeed. Most people don't join startups thinking they'll fail (they understand it might fail, but if you knew it would fail would you still join?)

Of the high-growth tech startups we're looking at, here's an analysis pointing towards 92% failure rate - https://s3.amazonaws.com/startupcompass-public/StartupGenome... - I suspect the real number is actually much higher if we're including seed stage companies.

Beyond that though, it's mostly me piecing together anecdotal evidence of disgruntled startup employees who left for larger companies and regret not joining immediately after college. There are of course plenty of people who join for the experience, for the smaller team sizes, the autonomy, etcetera. But I think my argument is largely driven by equity. Unless you'd happily except the job offer without the equity it's pretty hard to refute that people join startups because they want equity. And that equity is almost never worth it. If you aren't a single digit employee number at a company with a 10 digit exit, and this is still assuming you didn't get fucked by dilution because of asshole investors, the math just doesn't add up.

The odds of being in that cohort is much less than 1/1000, probably closer to 1/10000. It would take me a bit of effort to find a hard number on it (looking at total number of employees at large exits, find large companies that failed, approximate number of employees at various other startups) - but I actually know people that were employee #X at a company with a 10 digit exit who didn't get screwed by investors and they still would've been better off going to Google in terms of financial compensation.

Also I think a lot of it is ignorance. Many people at startups don't realize how much better it could be at a FAANG company because they've never worked there.
I used to mix dandelion shoots in with my green smoothie in the morning, when they were available. It gave the smoothie kind of a creamy effect, with a microfoam on top. It was delicious.
>> People who work at Google are choosing to aid in the suppression of human freedom.

The fact that there's a large number of employees who signed this document provides great evidence to contradict this claim.

It's kind of a blanket statement - I'm sure a bunch of the folks here on HN work at Google and are trying to do exactly the opposite.

Heck, some of the people who signed off on this document could be HN'ers!

You can sometimes change a corrupt system from the inside. It takes a lot of work and dedication and it certainly doesn't always work out - but it's a choice some people make. It certainly isn't mine! :)
Well, and "depressed prices on farm goods such as corn, dairy and soybeans are also likely leading to a spike in Chapter 12 filings, according to the report."
yeah - thinking it'd be helpful for npm to have a diff command to check source changes when doing upgrades.
Google has little reason to kick them out. They can ignore them instead. Some will leave due to this. Others will stay. The effect of the action overall would be diluted.

Worst thing that can happen here from Google's perspective is for this to get a lot of media attention & a lot of signatures.
The actual NIST report is here.

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final
Who allocates the credentials that each citizen needs to vote?

There's no way around the need for trusted institutions in this case.
Economic success is also very strongly correlated to height.

Now, height is only about 70% genetic, 30% is diet and other environmental factors, but if you were looking at DNA and financial outcomes without any nod to culture, you might conclude tall people are naturally good at business.

Invader Zim satirised the culture of this pretty well with the aliens being led by 'The Tallest'.
The article says bankruptcies have "increased steadily" since 2014. It does mention China, and the trade war, but I think when they say "falling commodity prices" they are referring to a longer/broader issue. But it doesn't say why else commodity prices are falling, and I'm be happy if someone enlightened me.
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final
Everyone on a bus could be using BT and you're still not at enough people for connections to drop.
I think the days of "mad investor money" just because you added blockchain to something may be over. The hysteria over blockchain went hand-in-hand with last year's cryptocurrency bubble, I wouldn't be surprised if smart investors are avoiding it now.
I remember taking a friend to Tacos Moreno in Santa Cruz. The line was around the block, despite the super fast service - when we got to the front, I had my burrito before he was done placing his (straightforward) order.
I agree wholeheartedly with your last point.

At my last company they had no equity going in, and added it on Jan 1st a year later.
When I spoke to the founders about raises for the engineering team, the CTO looked at me funny.

"we just gave everyone stock options, why do they need a raise?"

Why?

Because a few of the engineers had young kids that were just starting school, and equity on a 1 year cliff won't pay those fees.

Because in Sydney there are enough start-ups that any one of the engineers could get an offer for 10-50% more base salary with options on top.

The founders were genuinely great guys, but they couldn't see the wood for the trees.
Right, but that means that material implication can't be used as an analysis of the meaning of "if...then..." in English. If you have to make ad-hoc adjustments for different kinds of sentence, then you don't have an actual theory of the interpretation of "if..then..." -- you just have a toolbox of techniques for paraphrasing it. Note that it is possible to do much better than this, so it's not an unreasonable goal to have in mind. See e.g. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/95781 for an overview of modern approaches to the semantics of conditionals in natural languages.

On the preceding point, virtually everyone agrees. I was questioning even the weaker assertion that analyzing "if...then..." as material implication always preserves validity.
Not really, this seems like an actionable heuristic that gives actual alternatives and a concrete, realistic case where a blockchain might help.
I just drove across central Italy from Rome to the Adriatic--mostly at night on the Autostrada--and got maybe two bug strikes on my windshield. That seems pretty thin to me.
Not to mention that the French total had a cosy relationship with Saddam Hussein's government after they negotiated in 1997 for access. It was really not in the interest of France to have a war in Irak
In an ecological sense, what are the downsides of humanity killing itself off in the very near future? It seems like nothing but a net-positive for the rest of life residing on earth.
Sure, but they took VC money. :-( VC and Wall Street money are poison to privacy products.
If iPhones shipped with an adapter would it be okay then?
I'm sorry, but if 'liberty' includes the ability to reserve the right to deny science to continue destroying the entire planet, I'm not sure I can support it.

Sounds like liberty for humans, and not for the planet, which we have to live on.

What's the point in free speech if we destroy the place we live in? Who will be left to speak?
The concept of "You" is sort of interesting. If "You" want to build something that isn't centrally owned by "You" then you should use a blockchain. Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't "own" bitcoin anymore than anyone else does. Same with most other blockchain projects. The problems come when "You" want to have your cake and eat it too.
This study appears to be yet another alarmist rehash of what has been previously discussed on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533

Here's one of the original papers:

https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2....

The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot. From that paper:

"What follows is a description of measured Insect-Biomasses from samples collected in the Orbroich Bruch Nature Reserve, near Krefeld, using Malaise Insect Traps. The results show that, in the same two areas, sampled in the years 1989 and 2013, there was a dramatic fall in the number of flying insects. Using the same traps, in the same areas, significant reductions of insect populations, of more than 75%, were found. Our data confirms, that in the areas studied, less than 25% of the original number of flying insects collected in 1989, were still present in 2013."

"The Orboicher Bruch, to the Northwest of Krefeld, is a designated Nature Reserve of around 100 hectares (220 acres). Due to the reserve’s relatively remote location and its rugged landscape, intensive farming came to the area only recently."

So alarmists are extrapolating from two data points (years 1989 and 2013) for a 220-hectare plot of German farmland to the entire world. I think that is a bit of a stretch, even for statistics.

Since different bugs breed in different seasons, and numbers depend on the fruitfulness of previous generations, food supply, predation, disease, temperature and so on, this bug weight could vary considerably from year to year (or site to site) for any number of reasons. While one year cicadas thrive, the next year there may be none.

BTW they're measuring the weight of dead bugs - not how many bugs or what species of bugs - just the weight of bugs. Actually they're not even measuring that, they're measuring the weight of dead bugs' soaked in 70-80% alcohol.

I could go on and on about controls in statistical experiments but I think you get the idea.

See the original HN posting for discussions pointers to the earlier papers.
Positive/negative is really just semantics for something that is the opposite of something else. In both cases you have a quantity of something so you can e.g. take the square root of it perfectly fine. However in a discrete system the square root is only defined for whole number results anyway. For velocities perhaps a polar coordinate system is more “simple”.
I created the "allsome" quantifier to reduce the risk of some of these confusions. Details here:

https://dwheeler.com/essays/allsome.html
I just immediately close the tab on any article that starts with "[person's name I don't recognize] was [doing something not directly related to the article's title]". If it's a topic of particular interest (like this one), I'll come here to see if there are comments.
It mentions decentralization, but in a rather smart-ass way:

"Are the entities with write access having a hard time deciding who should be in control of the data store."
I think the mods should switch the link to this one.
Because now "real" velocity goes down.

There's a negative Pavlovian reaction developers have every sprint when 1) "commitment" was not achieved, or 2) story points decreased. To avoid that pain, developers will pad points. This means that when things go according to plan, large sections of a sprint will have no work or people will try to appear busy.

The easiest way to avoid that gamesmanship is to not measure things that don't matter, which is all inputs. What matters is outcomes, which can be in the form of money, usage, satisfaction, etc.
It is almost as though, prior to blockchain, nobody had conceived the idea of a distributed spreadsheet.
A GitHub for Docker images might be the better analogy.

Docker the company could, I imagine, add deep search and browsing as enhancements to their existing Docker Hub.
If there was some way to ensure that this never got bigger than China, I doubt there would be as much opposition. The problem arises when you ask the question "Who, next?"

Who, next, wants all of Google's information about people in their country turned over to them?

As much as we in the US talk about out government compelling companies to turn over data, those companies _do_ have a say in what they will or can turn over and our government has some burden of proof that they need it. In China, based on my understanding, they have no choice, no say.

If the question was just "is this better for the Chinese?", I think I would agree with you. This _is_ better for the Chinese. The problem is that this raises the question of "where does this lead?" I don't think it leads anywhere good and, clearly, I'm not alone in that assessment.
Did Hacker News Censor the Nancy Pelosi Story?
I just saw a story that was at number 5 or so, it was a tweet showing Nancy pelosi's husband recently bought call options for Amazon and Facebook.

I checked out the tweet, and then as soon as I was back on Hacker News it was gone, looks like it was flagged. Was it flagged for political purposes? I've seen countless stories on Hacker News with questionable claims, which are debated in the Hacker News thread, why is this any different?

Was it squashed for political reasons?
Losing half the US market for soybeans to a trade war probably played a role in those sorts of price movements: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/soybean-expor...

edit: /u/WillPostForFood points out this report ends prior to the tarrifs. My bad. Their effect will be in subsequent reports.
Agreed with all your points here. Clearly from this letter and the opposition other projects have received at Google there are those inside the company actively working to influence change.
It's not an exception and very much in line with the spirit of mind your own business. It's about the freedom to have your own land free of trespassers and your right to stop them. The general idea, though of course there are exceptions, is your land your rules. Also, many consider trespassing a harmful act.
What? It will only work with that device. It won't work in any car or any other circumstance. Also the pods themselves will not work with any non-apple device.

That's an extremely narrow use-case. If that was the only thing people used the headphone jack it wouldn't have been the big travesty that it currently is (and will be for the foreseeable time).
BSD license doesn't require you to release your code changes.
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In talking to a few companies who thought they wanted a blockchain, one big misconception is that blockchain will magically solve the interoperability issue where multiple parties have data in disparate formats.

Blockchain doesn't inherently do any data translation or normalization.

It's interesting to me how resilient this misconception is. I have come to the conclusion that it's just wishful thinking for a magic bullet for an age-old difficult problem.