skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom is assembly and freedom of speech add up to freedom of group speech, including unions, political groups, ethnic groups, and so on. I don't know why corporations would be special groups without that right.

But, yeah, corporate personhood and bailouts need to be revisited. It's too bad that we need to have a functional policital culture to make any significant changes like that.
I wish this was actually a fix for how shitty their keyboards are instead of what is essentially a fart app. I've taken my 2017 MBP in for three keyboard repairs at this point. Reluctantly spent $5k upgrading to this after the 2014 i7 air wasn't enough for development. It's easily the worst Macbook I've ever owned.

The kicker is that repair is no longer what I would consider "trivial", as to install a new keyboard yourself you have to gut the touchbar out of the old one because there's no way for users to pair a new one.

I also recently learned they killed Target Display Mode when they introduced the DCI P3 screens on both iMac and MBP. Perhaps the hardware to do so at that color depth wasn't available then and they couldn't justify doing it themselves, but it certainly is now. I doubt we'll see the feature return.

I miss when "Pro" meant actual professional level features

Edit: I should add I really don't mind typing on them, and can go just as fast as I can on my custom 60% with clears, the reliabilty is just ass for how much time I spend using it
I don't think the concern is that his family will be random targets of violence. Rather that his family will be the victims of targeted violence.
There's a simple way to prevent re-entrency.

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bool isEntered = false;

function doSomething() {
if (isEntered) { throw; }
isEntered = true;
...;
isEntered = false;
}

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I don't really understand why they went with this gas-limit solution. I feel like there must be something I'm missing cause its too obvious.
Yeah, but this is not iOS exclusive.

This is affecting everybody using DDG.
> Why would the second bet in your example be any different from the second bet in mine?

If you're conditionally making the second bet based on outside factors, then you might not actually be implementing a strategy of reduced variance. (And if you were making that bet unconditionally then why did you wait until midgame?) It's tricky. I'd rather deal with simpler upfront scenarios.

> Let's go with a more real world example. Let's say you have a shop near a stadium in the UK and you place bets so that you win money on outcomes that are likely to lead to vandalism or looting. My understanding of your position is that this is not gambling unless the shopkeeper miss-estimates his risk and bets so much that he gets vandalized and still comes out ahead.

That could possibly work. If the looting is basically guaranteed, the bet acts to reduce variance. But looting tends to be pretty random, so under real life circumstances it probably wouldn't work out that way.

The laws aren't set up for such tiny corner cases, of course.

> I might buy a case that insurance companies don't gamble the same way that some bookies don't gamble, because they have the information they need to safely hedge their bets with certainty as they are made.

> In my view, consumers generally have much less information about the risks they are hedging, that means they can't have the certainty required for buying insurance to not be gambling

The information is needed to figure out a fair price for the insurance. If you don't have enough info you might overpay, but overpaying isn't gambling. If you turn a 10% risk of a $10k loss into a guaranteed $2.5k payment then you got ripped off but you didn't gamble. Your variance is still dropped to zero.
Okay, swap Bob and Eve then.
There are large databases that have names, zipcodes and dates of birth in them.

If you include year, birth dates carry an awful lot of information.
Its enabled by default. iCloud backups are automatically opted in since iOS 9.
The experience is already better. Thank you. Now please delete Yelp (or at least let me turn it off).
Their library has increasingly sucked. They've changed their UI to be correspondingly undifferentiating, making this change less apparent without actually viewing the content. There's a good reason -- besides "touchscreen/TV interfaces" -- why user comments are gone, and their star ratings.

Speaking of interfaces, it seems the "tile" interface changes are oriented towards those touchscreen/TV formats.

Basically, I think they're enticing people with (some of) their "Netflix Originals". And they have a (now, very) few new or new-to-them A-list films circulating through.

For the rest, they just hope you'll click on something that sounds or looks (from the tile) like it could be good, and then be satisfied -- or at least put up with -- what you get.

That said, other people still seem pretty positive about their streaming offer. When they offer details from their viewing, I just don't agree.
> I blame you.

Entirely warranted. We're nothing but an expensive headache to everyone on both sides of the table.
Triple-Organ Transplants
It's just Americans being really had at organisation, training, planning especially in government. They also hate government so underfund it so they hire bottom barrell people to be agents.
I suspect that unless forced to migrate, or really nasty stuff comes to light, most people will use what they are used to, with the people that are used to doing it with. If a group stabilized on a platform and knows everyone has it and those people and be reached and expect to be reached on it by them, why change? Who wants to be the "hey, let's all just switch to some random new thing" person after you're old enough to be too busy to see most the people all at the same time in real like that often anyways?
I live in a NYC suburb, and driving a sedan or wagon on the highway feels awkwardly low among all of the 18 wheelers and SUVs. I would only feel comfortable in a sedan if everyone else also converted to sedans.
EDIT: Duplicate
Can you please explain to me why anyone on the face of this earth would want their government deciding how to classify types of pastry in order to determine how much cinnamon people are allowed to use?

It kind of sounds like the issue is that outside of safety regulations someone told some petty tyrant that they got to decide how to classify pastry so of course they decided to classify it in such a way as to require action and importance on their own part at the expense of everyone's inconvenience.

I suspect the proper fix is to fire everyone in that department and start over.
Augmented Reality and the Browser – An App Experiment
This should be a lesson for all voters across the world - think for a minute before voting. At least try to understand what you're voting on. We can blame all we want on the media, politicians etc etc, but in the end, we can't deny Brexit is the result of a properly, democratically conducted election - voters need to take at least some responsibility. No amount of "voters' remorse" is going to help now.
401(k)s Are Failing; What We Need Instead, Professor Says
U.S. Spies to Americans: China and Russia Are Coming to Get You
That can't prevent a malicious device which act like harmless for the most time, but do evil thing on certain conditions are met.

You may found the evidence of malicious act after it has happened, but often it's too late.

If Amazon is directly responsible for Amazon Echo's malicious act, you can blame Amazon. But if the attacker was government spy agency, you're out of lack.

Just don't use these devices which cannot be examined thus cannot be trusted.
I see the headlines are trumpeting how sterling rose (0.05% !!) after the results (hinting that the result is good news), but this looks like a clear case of short-covering to me - short speculation earlier in the day (possibly anticipating a decline if the vote passed), covered when the actual results came out.
My family has a minivan and a subcompact. Snow tires have made a huge difference on both cars -- night and day. I learned that www.tirerack.com (no affiliation) has a deal where they send you 4 snow tires, on cheap steel rims, mounted, balanced, and inflated.

It takes about 1/2 hour to swap them out. I mark the tires with chalk so I can get them back on in the correct place, while rotating them front to back as well. First time, I made my teenage kids do the job, so they could experience changing a wheel.
Apple collects and uses data all the time. Their marketing kind of claims they don't, but their privacy policy is very clear that they do.

For example they continuously collect GPS position + list of WiFi APs from iPhone users to build their crowd-source'd wifi location database: "To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. Where available, location-based services may use GPS, Bluetooth, and your IP Address, along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations, and other technologies to determine your devices’ approximate location."

They also state: "We also use personal information to help us create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes."

It's quite eye opening to compare how Apple's marketing describes their privacy policy vs. how Apple's legal describes it.
Multiple Zero-Days in PremiSys IDenticard Access Control System
Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS [pdf]
They released a horrendous UI redesign and user count has been dropping for two quarters in a row now. IG's Stories feature (basically a snapchat clone) has 2x the active users of Snap and IG as a whole has over 5x the active users, and they are still growing while Snap is shrinking.

They've been operating for over 7 years and have yet to turn a single quarterly profit. With negative growth the past two quarters it's looking increasingly unlikely they'll ever be profitable.
I think that Bezos literally wrote every line of code and assembled every atom on the servers hosting the api. That’s how I intetpreted Yegge’s post and why I think Bezos built AWS.
Should be possible to have crimes against life.
CERN Unveils Design for 62-Mile-Round Atom Smasher More Powerful Than the LHC
The New York Times claims NYC is Airbnb's largest US market[1]. And CityLab claims NYC is Airbnb's 3rd-largest market worldwide.[2]
However, with respect to whether "the overwhelming majority of its facilitated transactions are illegal":

Speaking strictly for NYC (the town I live + Airbnb host in), I think the more relevant metric is- what percent of Airbnb's revenue comes from the illegal kind of rental (i.e. rentals of the entire unit for more than 90 days of the year) vs the legal kind (whole-unit rentals totaling less than 90 days per year, as well as shared-unit rentals of any length)? According to Gothamist, 75% of its NYC revenue came from whole-unit rentals.[6] How much of that was legal is anyone's guess, but this is one reason why Airbnb was fighting tooth and nail to stop the recent city council legislation.[7]

NB- Another reason is that, once the city collects hosting data, it will likely use its housing inspection mandate to shut down most if not all Airbnb rentals in the city (not just illegal ones) at the behest of the local hotel employee's union. But that's me speculating, so take it with a grain of salt.

Keep in mind that Airbnb made $140 million in NYC in 2018[3], had $2.5 billion in 2017[4], and over $1B in revenue in Q3 of 2018 alone[5]. So the percentage of revenue it contributes is likely between 4-4.5%. If this went away overnight, the company would probably be fine as long as the damage ended there. But there's no guarantee of that, since other cities are considering similar legislation and are looking to see what the outcome of the above battle will be.

In the end, NYC will probably succeed in approving a permit system similar to San Francisco's, which will be enough to get the city the information it needs to shut down any Airbnb host it wishes.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/nyregion/new-york-city-ai...

[2] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/what-airbnb-did-to-ne...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/airbnb-s-...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-results/airbnb-had...

[5] https://www.pymnts.com/earnings/2018/airbnb-third-quarter-re...

[6] http://gothamist.com/2018/06/28/city_council_takes_on_airbnb...

[7] https://ny.curbed.com/2018/7/19/17590164/airbnb-nyc-law-prop...
What exactly do you mean by “the right thing”?
ala tell, don't ask.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TellDontAsk.html

I'd also like to point out that with all design decisions there are trade offs. Bezos made these trade offs specifically with Amazon's scale in mind and likely would not make the same trade offs with a team of 5 devs or even a team of a thousand devs that had good habbits around adhering to data boundries.

Clearly the dev culture at Amazon had a habbit of abusing those boundries or it wouldn't have gotten to the point where such a black and white mandate made a net positive change to the status quo.
I wish I had remembered the "Biased Nonce Sense" paper (which I heard about last week but didn't read!), which someone else mentions downthread at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917385

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/023.pdf

(This is a nonce reuse issue rather than a common-factor vulnerability, but one reason for nonce reuse can also be CSPRNG seeding problems.)
Here in Utah, Ksl.com does the majority of classified transactions. Craigslist was late to market and never caught on.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/ksl-c...
Because they have reason to beleive it can cause liver damage?

Most countries have a body regulating what you can eat that will do it's best to stop you from ingesting dangerous amounts of, well, anything.
I agree when bolted onto data, but if data collections are properly designed to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable from the start, I think long term data management drops due to more efficient processes.

I think closed data or data in pdf masks a lot of technical debt that causes manual labor, expensive proprietary licenses (looking at you SAS for archived data sets).
But it didn't use to be? From the article it sounds like it used to be a "traditional pastry"
Lol. If this is real, I think you can try to gather numbers from complaint sites like http://whycall.me and set up the flooder to their phone numbers. It will work great, I guess. These scammers are very annoying.
Nobody said you couldn't share, communicate or transfer ownership of your data to another service.

I'd say you're being a pedant but you're not even technically correct.
If anyone has any links to existing products, or organisations looking at this stuff let please post details here (or email me) and I'll update the references on the blog post.

I didn't find much at all in terms of software, but we need to at least try some things.

I made a start a few years ago - just a shell really to try and work out the requirements in my head
https://github.com/acutesoftware/acute-experiments/tree/mast...

If you want to contribute, or share any code you've done I think you should. It would nice if we could work together on this.
Yes, but now the UK is out over its skis. It has much less leverage now than its MPs seem to realize. The clock is ticking — they are headed for a hard Brexit in 10 weeks and everyone knows they’ve not planned for it.
Nuclear is not imaginary. And waste is not the horror it’s made out to be. Radiation intensity drops off quickly. Nuclear is a realistic, short term turn around from oil.

We could quickly replace the worlds largest, dirtiest shipping container ships with nuclear vessels and make a significant cut in emissions.
What matters for oncoming traffic is the intensity of the light per area emitted. A projector emits all of the light from half of a 1.8 inch (typical) lens, versus a reflector light which may emit from an area 10x that. A well adjusted reflector and a well adjusted projector will both point predominantly down, but both deliberately put some light above the line, of course. And both will occasionally be pointed directly at oncoming traffic due to elevation changes of the road. The projector is much more intense and produces far more glare when you look at it. Doubly so with HID, of course.

I've seen several newer Acuras and BMWs switch from single projector to multiple, which helps, though you'd really need quite a few more to lower the glare back to a what a big reflector light produces. I kinda wonder sometimes what it would be like if we were able to emit across the entire frontal area of the car -- it might be possible to emit significantly more than current HID setups while having less glare than ever.
I didn't realize you posted that list already.
Understanding the problem is development.
Backing up messages to iCloud is not on by default. iPhone will ask you if you want to enable it.
I really hate legalese. It has always struck me as a tool to browbeat one or both parties into a false sense of security by trying to account for every possible scenario (and failing or worse, contradicting itself).

I wrote my own contract that is written plainly, I borrowed the bulk of it from a similar effort to this one and heavily modified it. It acknowledges that it is written plainly and that where any ambiguity exists, it's presumed both parties are reasonable and responsible, are not malicious and that all effort will be expended to resolve problems as such before resorting to the legal system to settle a dispute.

The most important and most complex part is indemnification. You don't want to mess that section up. It outlines who is responsible, how responsible, type of responsibility and where they are responsible (if you are in a different part of the country or world). It has to fit with whatever your professional indemnity insurance is.

The Client has the opportunity to suggest changes if something is important to them - but only up to a point.

It works for me and I don't work for huge or faceless organisations, ymmv.
> Innovation easier in person

Innovation is not a group activity, it is always the work of a single individual's creativity. You might think otherwise, that brainstorming and bouncing ideas off each other is important, but you'd be wrong.
There's already a significant market for assistive GPS trackers. Most of them offer geofencing; some support two-way communication. One particularly ingenious company has designed a pair of shoe insoles with GPS tracking.

https://www.techsilver.co.uk/product-category/assistive-tech...
An Htop-like terminal dashboard for Bitcoin trading and charting – commandline
The world at large doesn't drive SUVs. People in France don't complain about F150s and SUVs because they don't exist at nearly the frequency. They get by with twingos, why can't suburban California? Even the farms only rarely have trucks and even then they're taco sized, not F-series.
For a while, DDG offered a free Jabber provider which lots of people hoped would do to XMPP what Gmail did to Email but they shut it down.
I suspect you are confusing the terms.

What Google/Netflix call a "Canary" other companies call "deploying a single host/percentage of production traffic with a new version". When other companies talk about canaries they mean regular tests against production to detect issues.
The fact they can "quietly put out a new OTA which took ~24 hours to roll out across the fleet" honestly scares the crap out of me.

Call me a luddite, but in my opinion there are no compelling-enough reasons a car needs to be wirelessly networked at all, and I won't buy a car with those "features".
I concur. One only need look within the number of companies who have opted to move offices to the Continent.
Are you familiar with the standard joke about the engineer and the guillotine? The basis is "if the guillotine fails, you go free". In the joke, several more practical people of other professions are put under the broken guillotine, nothing happens, and they are set free. The engineer is positioned underneath, sees the issue from his new vantage point, and can't help but crying out "Wait, wait, I think I see the problem!"

Look at the level of hatred directed against Curtis in just this thread. Then realize that HN is one of the more measured and rational parts of the internet. Realize that the mostly unspoken landscape of the blog post is that he's leaving the company of his dreams so it won't be doomed by his presence. Professionally, he and his ideas are simply too hazardous to touch. If you even come close, you will be treated as contaminated. Even disavowal will leave you suspect --- ignorance is a better strategy.

I exaggerate for effect, but only slightly. If you need deeper explanation, you could try Venkatesh Rao's series on the "Gervais Principle" for some parallel examples of the role of strategic ignorance in business communication: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/.
This is constantly being misreported. No. They. Do. Not. Apple's data is kept on the device and so are the keys. If you enable that data to be put on the cloud (it's an opt-in) then they will also store the key, but otherwise they do not.
Yes this is true at the genealogy level, but because of the way meiosis works once you get back more than about 12 generation some of your ancestors don’t pass any of their DNA down to you.
One exception to those who misunderstand him are esspecially committed Marxists. The overlaps and differences are fundamental, but Marxists are fundamentally about all of the people’s rights to choose their own direction in life. Friedman’s vast understanding of his very fundamental arguments serve up just the right opposition. The way I understood it, at least, is that Marxists can never claim to come from such a fundamental angle in terms of solutions but their concerns are as fundamental as Friedman’s solutions.
Yeah, but... https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3817/9066371914_b93ba47d92_b.j...
I believe she can, and that is technically an option. The problem is that this could destabilize the country. Citizens voted and asked for a Brexit to happen. The government is trying to honor that request as it is a democratic country. If it just decided to ignore the vote and cancel any plans for Brexit, the British government would do irreparable harm to the idea of democracy in Britain.
What's wrong with using WhatsApp for this? That's what everyone I know does.
Yeah, the vast majority of people don't do actual retrofits, they just get some cheapo ballasts and HID bulbs and shove them in the existing projectors/reflectors. Since the HID arc is oriented and shaped completely differently from the halogen filament, it usually results in some terrible hotspots above the cutoff. And the quality of the light is frequently worse than just leaving the stock bulbs in.

Even some of the dedicated retrofit enthusiasts go a little too far IMO. The pursuit of the almighty sharp cutoff line results in an on/off style of lighting. Go down a dip in the road with zero light above the cutoff and suddenly your line of sight is 20 feet.