skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nearly 1/3 of of people in USA have experienced package theft and it is only a federal crime if you steal USPS packages not Fedex/DHL/UPS etc.

That statistic is from a survey done by Comcast as a precursor to trying to sell you a home security system. That is not a reliable source.

And stealing a non-USPS package is still a state crime, so the main difference is whose jail you sit in. Unless you manage to steal something which is actually worth a lot of money, or is involved in interstate commerce etc., in which case welcome back to federal prison.

> I can get a personal loan without any kind of collateral as long as i have X income. Credit cards doesn't have collateral as well.

These are small loans, in which case the collateral is your job. They verify where you work, so if you don't pay they know where to find you. The only way to avoid them finding you is to quit your job, which they don't expect to be worth it for you to do over such a modest amount of money. Notice that the interest rates on those kinds of loans are dramatically higher -- because of the risk that they're wrong. If it was really your identity doing most of the work you would expect the interest rates to be much closer to those for loans with more substantial collateral.

> There isn't a lot of press or reports from Personal Data Watchdog about somebody doing monetary damage from using other people data

According to DOJ statistics, more than 17 million people in the US are victims of identity theft per year.

> Honestly, i feel that we live in different worlds - i cannot fathom not having an official ID as there are occasions where i must have it (voting, travel, banking as well as government e-services where you can use bank login or your ID card certificate to identify yourself).

You feel that way because you live in a place where having an official ID is required to do everything. That isn't a law of nature, it's just a law of the place you live. It's completely reasonable to do things a different way.
Also known as bivariance.
The biggest benefit is that non-union members get the same employment terms as union members. So they essentially get a free ride on the cost of negotiation.
Now is the time for the cloud I think. Phones are pretty much laptops and laptops have replaced desktops, heavy tasks are more often outsourced. When the hardware is interchangeable (and that includes the next version of the iPhone) that's when the demand for the cloud will be heard. Before it was a convenience, now it's an exigent matter of not being able to keep things apart.

Up until now, devices have been objects of treasure and identification. When what your machine does is taken for granted, something else will have to replace it as your personal hearth keeping you warm at night.

I agree that there is no next big thing. But there is a next big "thing".
People keep talking about domain registrations and competitors in this area, but the majority of GoDaddy customers don't know what means. The majority of competitors in the shared hosting space are part of the EIG conglomerate, which is largely more of the same.

All the options we might call "better", including deploying a static site to Netlify or GH Pages, using a cheap VPS or a complex AWS deployment, aren't actually options for the people buying these services, who expect a one click Wordpress deployment.
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Most of the skills I learned to do my job are from self-unschooling (aka side projects) in my spare time from an age of about 7.

That said, I wouldn't be doing very well without the traditional schooling, especially forcing me to read and write well when I naturally wouldn't have gravitated to those subjects.

I didn't realise I liked maths and science until they become hard enough to challenge me.
Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety
I’ve been doing this for a while now for small utilities, and got started on it in earnest with https://github.com/rcarmo/shelf (which I used for a long time until LinkedIn broke their APIs).

There are mainly two challenges here:

- packaging (it’s a bit tricky to sort out, and bundling a full virtualenv is the best long-term option across OS releases)

- longevity (Ronald has been maintaining PyObjC on his own dime, and Apple seems to mostly ignore everything else in favor of Swift these days)

The JavaScript bridge also works OK (I briefly considered using that instead, but the way collections are handled is hideous due to language constraints and PyObjC is so much better).

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Very interesting article. Definitely learning starts with accepting mistakes, avoiding arrogance and being humble.
Just this month five Polish teens died in a fire in an escape room. Shutdowns are the consequence unless the companies up their game in regards to safety and monitoring.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46781545
In the 90's phone manufacturers tried doubling down on one of the main selling features: size. I saw phones almost as small as a Zippo lighter on the market before the industry regained its sanity. Today we're similarly going to the extremes of screen size + thinness.

I believe once the industry once again regains its sanity, we might see a new form factor:

1. Smaller, egg-shaped 'pods' that fit more comfortably in your palm and pocket, something along the lines of: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/05/05/mobile-phone-shaped-li...

2. Thicker, but less dense and more durable (think Nokia 3310)

3. Some form of innovative physical scroll/click control on the edges of the device to alleviate thumb-scrolling (perhaps a pressure sensor with no moving parts)

4. Perhaps even a control on the rear side of the device, that can be activated with the index finger (for single handed operation)
Just wonder why the way it was distributed. Is the dropbox traffic free for 1.3 GB download or ... There is strangely not even an option just to copy to my dropbox so I can share the load. And I guess they were too political correct to use torrent but that is the way even for ubuntu distribution. 1.3 GB is a lot of bandwidth. In fact, this apply to the files for academic just public domain. That is also a large file collection. Just wonder
A lot of the apple services are iOS only or better integrated on iOS, like iCloud, Apple Music, app subscriptions, etc. That said apple's service revenue is minuscule compared to device sale revenue.
Lifesaving food 90% aren’t eating enough of
Future of HEVC Licensing Is Bleak, Declares MPEG Chairman (2018)
If its about saving money I wonder how much you wasted on powering that tube tv.
Why are cookie-based demographic-targeting ads that manipulate public opinion bad, while demographic-targeting ads on television, in magazines, etc, are fine? Is it because more targeted ad spend is more efficient?

If your problem is that advertising is used to manipulate public opinion - consider - why do we even allow political campaigns and paid speech? Its only purpose is to manipulate public opinion, and to trick stupid voters into voting for bad people.

I'm afraid your position is not entirely ideologically consistent with how we determine what kind of political speech is allowed, and is not allowed.
One could propose that weak technologies as described by Cdixon are just un-finished version of one technology.

It's super hard to close the loop on a technology.

It was often said that the companies who benefit the most from one type of technology are not the first to innovate but the last to innovate, e.g. Facebook not For etc.

It's because what creates the finest working loop is hard to design into existence and tweak into motion.
Don't see how leetcode causes diversity problem... Very weak argument tbh. Even though it's a broken system but in other ways.
This was also one of the major reasons for apple getting such a large market share in the US. As people were not required to pay full price for the phones buying a $100 iphone or $50 android phone with contract didn't affect many people but paying $1000 or $500 will.
> Basically, if there was customer support that could fix the problem, then skilled scammers can get money and control out of them.

Possibly. Then the question is - what is more important for the company, tolerating some amount of losses but keeping honest customers happy, or minimizing the losses at the cost of innocent people being screwed hard. As an innocent person, I'd prefer the system that leans towards my benefit. Even if it'd cost Google whopping 0.0001% of their revenues.
Wow, 2012? More like mid-2000's websites, I kind of like how nostalgic it looks.
Even in as lousy a subthread as this one, this comment stands out as breaking the site guidelines. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
Most non-competes are null. Get a Lawyer (and if you're French, come to see me).
Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard
Sometimes it's that simple, often it's not. There's still plenty of sites available without such hassles so it's not yet a problem finding alternatives.

On the other hand an ad blocking user is not necessarily producing no value for the site. I've had subs to newspaper sites, all of which I viewed with blocking on, and Independent will never now be one of them. If Guardian did likewise, and added AMP, I'd cancel my current sub and look elsewhere, which would be a definite loss of value for them.

I'm not so wedded to the views of any one outlet that I'd subscribe with this in place, or turn off blocking to subscribe, or feel I must subscribe to the same one indefinitely.

If it's a site I wouldn't have considered a sub or donation to, you're right, nothing is lost.
What type of financials and key metrics are you looking to report?

Small startup here. We use https://www.waveapps.com/accounting for basic accounting - it's free and fairly easy to use. They have bookkeepers for hire if you need something more (we haven't needed it so far).

If you're billing via credit card stripe can give you metrics on revenue, growth, churn, etc.
What's the practical difference on a proprietary platform where you can't just look at the source code to find out what it does?
Calling it an industry might be a bit of exageration, don't you think so?
> it's "solved" my moving as much of the burden and repercussions onto the consumer as possible.

I've had fraudulent charges on my credit card several times, and I've had checks stolen, and in no case I had any repercussions and financial burden shifted on me. I didn't pay a cent, and both credit companies and banks never tried to claim I am responsible for it - they rolled back the charges and reissued account numbers and that was it for me. Maybe I'm just exceptionally lucky, but my impression from other people that this is what happens in most cases like mine. Of course, whole full-blown identity theft is a different matter, probably harder to handle.
One possible cause I haven’t seen mentioned is that abusive parents are perhaps more likely to get drunk on a Friday, and the report card provides them a timely justification to beat their kids.
We were specifically talking about Patreon, could you please clarify why that would need a smart contract? I don't see it. I see how you would perhaps in some complicated convoluted way to implement the whole platform on a smart contract, but at that point (if we are going that route, without having a central website at all) - what is the point of using contracts at all? It is way more complicated than just publishing a bitcoin address on creator's website and be done with it. People already think that is complicated, imagine what they would be saying about "smart contracts".

Patreon does not have a limitation of a funding goal usually, it just sends all the funds directly to the creator. It's not like kickstarter.
The Man in Seat Sixty-One
Apple has always cared about dominating market share. It gives them extreme negotiation power when dealing with suppliers, giving them a good price and quality. Apple usually is the first to choose the best quality components from dealers and the rest of manufacturers have to live with the left overs.

In fact, Apple has dominated the portable music player for a long time.

They also dominate the laptops market, making the biggest seller models of all the world. They make them in Aluminum(extremely expensive to make for small productions) and the big quantity they sell make extremely hard for others to compete.

They dominate the smartphones also. Other manufacturers have more market share but divided in lots of models, and several manufacturers.

The Ipads had been selling fro hundreds of millions per year. There is no sophisticated product in the world that have been sold at those massive numbers in the entire history of mankind.

This is something that Steve Jobs understood very well. The current CEO was the boss of manufacturing for a long time, so he knows it.

But if they continue raising prices, they will lose the mass production.
I love this site: it’s such a nice reminder of the information-rich sites of the early 2000s, and it’s been extremely useful in planning journeys over the years.
So the funds go to one contract address, and the contract distributes them to another address (of the content creator)? What is the point, that is just money transfer, it could be done with bitcoin donation address (and in fact is done that way currently by many creators successfully).
It's been a long time since I heard of OSFree. Is it still active?
Check out syncthing or resiliosync
I see that those circles look like a Venn diagram. But for a Venn diagram to be useful in explaining something, there needs to be an easily understandable definition about what the 2 circles are. That doesn't seem to exist here. I can't come up with a logical definition for what the top circle or the bottom circle represent.
From what I understand, the plan is for the production Starship to have a stainless steel skin. I'm sure it will be a much more refined construction than the hopper, but skinned in stainless steel nonetheless.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)#Second_stage_and_...
Been using Nexus 5x. $210. It does everything. Plays all videos. Charges fast.

Id buy new phone if did one of the followings...

A) had a battery that lasted a month.

B) had free unlimited data.

C) can 3d scan objects

I'll not buy it if it has

A) NSA 2.0 Alexa or ok Google always turned on

B) reliance on Bluetooth. I've concerns about radiation effects.

C) battery lasts one day
Reactors are VERY different from weapons. And not all reactors result in weapons grade materials.
2, 3, and 4 all exist. Motorola Droid Turbo. Digital Crown on the Apple Watch. Oppo N1.
In a venn diagram the sum of the area combined by A and B can never be larger than A+B.

In a join the result can multiply and you get up to A*B rows instead.

Hence the geometrical representation can mislead you into thinking your data is smaller than what it actually is. As a quick mental model i think the diagrams can help but you have to understand they are only a reminder of how the join is being matched, not a representation of the complete data set.
That looks awesome. I do have personal concerns about GPL, though (which is why I avoid Qt - everything I do these days is either MIT or Apache licensed).
Which countries are on the right track, according to their citizens
For years Netbeans has been my go-to IDE for Java and PHP.

It Just Works and contrary to certain other IDEs it uses Mavens pom file directly instead of translating it to some other (even hehe) less ideal format.

(Recently though Visual Studio Code has been a so big part of my developer life because of Dot Net Core, and Netbeans was so late and unclear about their 9.0 release that I tested just using VS Code for Java as well. It worked reasonably well. But now that Netbeans 10 is released I'd probably go right back if/when I go back to Java.)
Thanks! I will check for updates. The topics of learning seem ambitious and relevant to our times. I wish you the very best!
The US Gov has a very nice little book on the topic - A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis. Just google and you'll find it on the CIA's website.

The book is geared towards the intelligence community but can be appreciated by all intelligent communities, especially on a topic such as this *. In a nutshell, it is about discovering implicit assumptions, questioning them, and checking for alternative explanations - in all areas of analysis/thought.
Linode's kind of expensive. I've been using VPSDime [1] for a few years, since they give us 6 GB of RAM for $7 a month. For smaller stuff, I've been happy with RamNode [2], which is $3.50 a month for 1 GB of RAM. And you can usually find good deals on Low End Box [3]. Of course, at those price points, everything is OpenVZ, which is kind of annoying.

[1] https://vpsdime.com/

[2] https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php

[3] https://lowendbox.com/
Passive Income Suggestions 2019
What are some good passive income sources?
"Most of what we have taught you isn't how the world really works. Good luck."
Choosing programming languages based on personality types
I use a CSP on my site to work around potential JS injections: script-src 'none'. Possibly a little heavy handed but it does the job.
What are the economics? How much can you can a month?
Writing custom tools with Swift
> The nuclear family is born in industrial modern society. In city in fact. Remember the one to be jailed - it takes a village.

This isn't true. The nuclear family was well established in Western Europe by the 1500s and it was known though uncommon in Eastern Europe. The clan or extended family is clearly older and more common in human history but the nuclear family was not born in cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...

> The Western European marriage pattern is a family and demographic pattern that is marked by comparatively late marriage (in the middle twenties), especially for women, with a generally small age difference between the spouses, a significant proportion of women who remain unmarried, and the establishment of a neolocal household after the couple has married. In 1965, John Hajnal discovered that Europe is divided into two areas characterized by a different patterns of nuptiality. To the west of the line, marriage rates and thus fertility were comparatively low and a significant minority of women married late or remained single and most families were nuclear; to the east of the line and in the Mediterranean and particular regions of Northwestern Europe, early marriage and extended family homes were the norm and high fertility was countered by high mortality.
8 seconds! I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds. It was often imperceptible. Oh how we've regressed.
No. On WeChat, the smiley face is used sarcastically to show discontentment.
Mistakes to avoid making when presenting to the boss
If you rolled back the clock a decade or so, every 'weak' technology listed could have been presented as a 'strong' technology with another, earlier technology as the 'weak' one. E.g. Private intranets <- dedicated hardlines, Interactive TV <- broadcast TV, MP3 downloads <- physical objects (records, tapes, etc), Hybrid cars <- gasoline cars, ...

I'd reframe it as: Technologists come in two flavors, the ones who think their current era is fundamentally distinct from earlier eras, and the ones who don't.
How convenient this would be the first comment.
Are you sure they have full access to your TLS certificates? Or can't you bring your own in this case?
I work hard when I enjoy it (when the work is interesting).

Otherwise I have a certain tolerance threshold for boredom - if it crosses that (I know it when I feel it) I'll find another job.
Is bringing up reddit fair? The their new design is awful and only getting worse, AMP or not.
> The converse is also true (and is much easier to prove, so we won’t be concerned with it): a diagonalizable matrix is always normal.

It is actually more difficult to prove. [2, 1; 0, 1] is diagonalisable (via [1, -sqrt(2)/2; 0, sqrt(2)/2]) but not normal.
>How did we get here?

People apply to coding jobs that literally cannot code .. like at all.
As a long-time SRS user, I've really enjoyed Michael's recent essays on the subject though I haven't had much luck using SRS to learn structured, abstract things, despite several attempts. These days I use it mostly for things that are naturally atomic--vocabulary words, quotations, etc.

It seems he and I approach SRS very differently. I see it as a place to drop bits of information I want to remember, and once the info is in there, I no longer have to think about it, outsourcing the effort of remembering to the algorithm. He seems to use it as a tool to mentally digest a subject, constantly revising his understanding and readjusting his cards. That process isn't foreign to me, but I prefer to use something besides SRS for it. If I had to constantly revise my cards, that would seem to defeat the purpose of using SRS anyway.

Very interesting to get a different perspective on this though, so I'll have to think more about his approach. I'm also interesting in the creation details of his math-cards. Does he use LaTex? Maybe he goes into it in one of his earlier posts...
It's pinned in my dock! <3
Question for those in the know: is a non-compete valid if you signed the template, but the company never got it back to you signed on their end?

In other words, your signature is on it, but you've never seen their signature on it.

(Company State = Texas... and I don't reside in Texas)
They are OK but I had trouble with Kivy’s Python 3 support and pyenv and the apps don’t look native (which is a secondary concern for most people these days, sadly, but an issue for most Mac users)
Ah, I so long for the days of trying to make simple things like finding primes or digits of pi run fast. I remember making a lazy sieve of Eratosthenes that gave you the first 120 million or so primes in 6s using chez scheme. I later did the same kind of lazy construct for pi digits.

It actually taught me a lot about memory access and reasoning about speed, and also a lot about small things that are beneficial for speed.

12T digits of pi is mind-blowing, and in that short amount of time on pretty standard hardware.