skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds clean here. Some ambient room hiss but that is unrelated to pops and cracks.

I do notice a crazy amount of pops and cracks if I touch that cable by the way. That's only why I asked. It's mainly around touching it near the Scarlett side of the connection.

Super fresh dependencies would mainly be for things like nvidia drivers, i3, compton, ffmpeg, obs, maybe pulseaudio / alsa-utils, vim, xterm, maim, kdenlive (for editing videos until I get a GPU pass through working so I can use Camtasia), gimp, pass, vlc, tmux, weechat, ranger, sxiv, dunst, kvm/qemu/virt-manager. That's 20ish and that's only things I managed to discover after using Linux for about 3 days.
"root access" has a different meaning than "root certificate"
My results are stale too! It sucks. =( They're never good anymore.
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It's not oversampling, it's native sampling. On high DPI displays browsers automatically apply a zoom to the page, so the canvas ends up being a smaller size that gets blown up. You have to detect this and create the canvas bigger to begin with to counteract this.
Here's and oversimplified way to thing about the housing problem. It's 90% a policy problem and 10% a technology problem. Todays technology allows you to build economy housing for $200 / sqft. That's pretty much no different from the 1960s when it also cost $200 / sqft. There has be no productivity growth in the construction industry [0]. But that's not the real problem! In San Francisco the median price per square foot is just over $1000 [1]. That's a gap of $800 /sqft between the raw production cost and the market value. That gap has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with policy (zoning, historical association, neighborhood review, environmental review, various other forms of NIMBYism). If we had a HUGE productivity boom in housing production, we could maybe knock 50% off the construction cost. That would save $100 per square foot. Only policy can help bring down the rest.

If you want to nerd out a bit, you can read Ed Glaeser who wrote a piece "The Economic Implications of Housing Supply" which seeks to calculate the Minimum Profitable Production Cost (MPPC) per square foot for every place in America. He then compares that to the actual price per square foot. Anytime there is a gap there is a huge public policy failure.

[0] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/08/17/the-constructio...
[1] https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/
[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.32.1.3
The default font is hard to read regardless of contrast.
In light of Apple's numerous and sustained demonstrations of their contempt for their customers, I can only attribute peoples' continued willingness to engage with Apple to Stockholm Syndrome.
I'm looking to get a new phone from Apple (mainly for the new camera). I'm just waiting for them to make a smaller phone again!
It would likely be a literal smartcard reader. E.g. you put something in there that looks the chip in your debit card.
> Cocoa is incredibly fragile about the main thread, so you need to be super careful what runs in what queue.

This basically just boils down to "don't touch the UI off the main thread". There are some exceptions with CoreAnimation, but other than that the main thread checker will yell at you if you do something wrong.
Next to regular ol' iPhone knock-offs, Huawei also makes the actual telecommunications equipment, e.g. antennas and other equipment.

Western governments are concerned that due to Huawei's cozy relationship with the CCP, their 5G equipment might include some, shall we say, "undocumented features".
But it's facebook, so I'd guess this misdirection from the privacy-defeating measures they've also added.
Sure, but this change might cause a hard fork. VC investment in browsers has been a long time coming.
Your copy/paste doesn't apply to my comment, since I didn't assume you were incompetent, just that you'd made an overaggressive claim you didn't care to back up.

Of course, a defense of systemd's comically broken reaping behavior removes all necessity for assumption in this case. sysvinit at least consistently reaps on SIGCHLD -- systemd randomly reorders into the sd-event API and then does something random based on the order receipt.
>Look at the comments, you'll see that people are more than willing to take it upon themselves to ostracize independent thinkers and skeptics.

Why do you believe "independent thinkers and skeptics" should be allowed to disagree with the status quo, but that disagreeing with them is tantamount to censorship and restricting speech?

>Look at the article and how it's been upvoted on HN because of the premise of how evil and ridiculous it is.

Yes. People believe it's ridiculous... and meanwhile plenty of skeptics believe mainstream science is ridiculous.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't support criticism and not expect criticism in return.
The first independent tests of the EmDrive suggest a mundane explanation (2018)
https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year
I don't see the author pointing out any faults in Swift. There's a passing comment about GCD being complicated, which I personally disagree with, but this isn't specific to Swift.
Sort of. While it's debatable when SIGHUP should be sent as part of controlled system logout/whatever, the signal itself was originally used upon abrupt disconnection (hang up) of the controlling terminal of a program.
Apple should pull their entire developer program account! This is insane abuse of either Enterprise signing or developer signing - it could be either depending on the setup process.
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At what point does Apple pull Facebook's developer licenses? as people have mentioned, this appears to be a violation of the enterprise account program.
Depends on what you consider favorable. Winters don't normally ever drop below freezing, and Summers don't normally stick above the 70Fs. It's pretty moderate thanks to the mountain ranges.
and whats to stop the federal government from doing this. At this point people need to accept everything is being recording in public.
Zuckerberg is very happy to bend/break the rules and abuse his customers when it suits him, so screw him. These aren't instagram's images anyway - they're the images of the people who painted them, and the people who photographed them.
If you're an "SEO guy" you should know that any SEO techniques that clearly violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines are not "white hat SEO".

For example, specifically take a look at the line that says, "Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites" in the Google Webmaster Guidelines.

How do you explain the hundreds of press releases, with optimized anchor text, linking to good cheap and fast dot com? Such as this one: http://www.kitv.com/story/39477963/presenting-good-cheap-and...
That's one way to put it.

Another way to put it is that they bribed the critic with hush money.

Unless his employment is not tied to an NDA (highly improbable), even if Nate thinks they are acting genuine, this could just be a move from the top to shut him up.
American stooges for Venezuela’s dictator
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True, but what about cash in excess of what you need to keep for operations?

You’ll want to put a reserve in something safe, like treasuries.

You’ll want to invest some in somethingnhigher Heike for opportunistic needs, like an acquisition or, in Apple’s case, locking in pricing with suppliers (most companies can’t afford that).

But if you have more than that? Might as well return to shareholders since they aren’t investing in you for your stock market prowess, but for your computer manufacturing and sales prowess.

Apple had a problem for a while with that middle category: they were the fastest growing large cap stock so there wasn’t anything better than their own stock to buy.

This is an interesting problem to have. Imho they still should have paid out more dividends, but what they did was probably more tax advantageous.
I'm in the midst of a giant Perl rewrite to Go. I see Perl as glue code, but as soon as you want a "real app" (for various definitions thereof), Perl will bite you. Go is designed for large teams and networked services with concurrency as a first class citizen.

In our Perl code base, we have had so many issues with auto-vivification, lack of argument tracing (just pass around @_ everywhere!), callback hell in AnyEvent for concurrency, and more. Maybe if you use Moose everywhere, you can get some form of sanity, but I doubt it. Engineers I have full respect for have scratched their heads trying to initially dive into this perl. What I can grant however is that it is able to do a lot of work (given enough machines!).

For the Go version, I know exact method signatures and variable types. Concurrency if first class. And just about anyone can read the code and figure out what is going on. We've onboarded new grads who can help put solid features into this already large Go codebase quickly. We are seeing 20x optimization in throughput over one code base from Perl (it requires a lot of waiting on remote servers we don't control), and 100x in another.

I can't imagine regretting the choice to write in Go for networked services running in the backend.
I'm not seeing how Google is going to tell the difference based on that. It's not hard to auto generate content that has fewer links, doesn't have duplicate content etc. The website the OP is about looks formulaic as well. Not trying to knock the effort put in to it but my immediate reaction to the site was it looks like a spam affiliate website.
Yeah, I read it as the mother as well. And it talks about how she got a developer account to try to contact them? I guess maybe I understand that, somewhat?

I don't know, it just feels like yeah they tried a lot of ways to contact apple but maybe not the right ones. I mean look:

> Thompson provided emails to NBC News that showed her efforts to contact Apple, including an Apple representative who directed her to the company's "bug reporter" program and bug bounty program.

Apple told her to look at the bounty program but the article doesn't say she followed up so I'm guessing she didn't. Regular customer service aren't equipped to deal security holes/bugs so I would expect this response.

So yeah... I mean this whole article is about all the things she tried and how they didn't work but she didn't really try any of the right ways. The FIRST google result for "report ios security hole" is a link to Apple with the title "Contact Apple About Security Issues" [0] with the line:

> To report security or privacy issues that affect Apple products or web servers, please contact product-security@apple.com.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201220
Google have said they know about change of ownership of domains and don't count links from them.

Having said that brands with long running sites still have links to pages from 95 - 97 that are worth redirecting I found one last week :-)
Yes. As much as I was hoping they'd implement it back then, I kind of wish that they didn't implement it now. If they couldn't do it years ago, might as well wait for AVIF instead of letting webp proliferate.
In a direct democracy it can't be vague generalizations that the actual rulers, who are distinct from the electorate, get to choose whether and how to apply and whether or not the electorate can reconsider it, because if there are actual rulers distinct from the electorate it's not a direct democracy.

Brexit is not a failure of direct democracy.
I think in auto mechanics, I accomplished things each day. Many beginnings and many ends. There was the mental challenges, similar to what I face these days, but those things came to completion much more frequently. It was rewarding.

Now my current job is absolutely rewarding as well. I’m actually recognized a lot for my troubleshooting ability, but normally a typical project from start to end could be four months - or more - if it includes a lot of documentation to pass off to an operations team. I definitely do more designing, documentation, and transitioning of those systems than I do troubleshooting, however these days.

Keep in mind, I’m not complaining - just explaining. I love my job and am challenged. I think it just misses some of the more frequent gratifying completion of tasks (which cycling fills).

Hope that explains a bit more.
It's important to note that Facebook has at least two "licenses" here: one is used to push their apps to the App Store, and another to sign enterprise apps (like this one). Pulling one should not affect the other.
Google ranking is actually real estate. It takes time and works to reach premium position.
I see that you have not been following recent events. For some time now, broadcasting has been the only way to get any response from behemoth companies, and often not then.

Google and Facebook have the excuse that you are not their customer, and your problems don't affect their paying customers. Apple, not so much.
It is a shame shannon doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Computer science has many fathers and as amazing as Turing was, nobody contributed more and nobody has a better claim to call himself the father of computer science than Shannon. Not Turing. Not Church. He outstrips them all but nobody outside of the computer science world has heard of him.
uber has lots of sales and ops folks and it makes lots of sense to use salesforce then.
> Focusing on Facebook make the issue easier to understand, but the issues raised apply to all targeted advertising companies that try to justify themselves to consumers

Then they should also mention that in their articles. Because in the existing form, for a not techie people it sounds like _only_ Facebook has been doing this and that's not the case.

"Many other companies" includes Google, Twitter, Ad networks like Adroll etc. I don't think there is a need to list all of them in here :)
This is the key line "the fundamental tension [is] that Americans want housing to be both affordable and a good investment."

You can't have both! You cannot have your home be a good investment because prices keep rising and have homes be affordable. We have a national narrative that the best path to wealth accumulation is through home ownership. That is a terrible terrible narrative to promote. You can make it true, but only if you massively subsidize home ownership (which we do) and make in incredibly difficult to build homes in desirable locations like most of California (yup we do that too).

We need a new national narrative. Housing is not a tool for wealth accumulation. A home is a place to live. The cheaper that place is the more people will be able to live in one.
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The goal is different though. In marketing the goal is "convince them to buy" or simply "get eyeballs." It's almost hostile to the users at times.

The goal of UX is to help them get something done and make them happy. So while the techniques may share ground, the intent is completely different (and new).
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I’m on board. I’m a designer - and I don’t think about “users.” I think about people using these instruments. The difference, in my experience, is profound: I’m connecting with a complex, amorphous process rather than a mistakenly defined unit.

It comes down to accuracy. “People using xyz” is simply more descriptive than the shorthand.

At the same time, it CAN be useful to mistakenly define an element in a system for the sake of making it usable. That’s where “user” comes in - it’s a simple enough concept to make it fit into frameworks. But please, please... be aware that it is indeed akin to shorthand.
Your writing style is hilarious, bordering on poetic.

It is somewhat hard to follow the actual information though, and non-native speakers will probably struggle quite a bit.
I wonder if Apple considers options to take the Facebook Apps out of the App Store.
> Children, specifically.

I fail to see how this is supposed to make it in any way worse.
If you do longer, I’d make sure the most important bits are in the first minute.
Not the cause. The release team asked for KEPs for all new features in the next release and the deadline was today.
My thoughts exactly. The proposed ordinance would only apply to "city departments", so the feds could do whatever they want.

Given my vague recollections of the Supremacy Clause [1] of the Constitution, I don't think a local ordinance like this could have legal effect on the feds, even if it purported to.

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause
But to the point - this should at least result in a revocation of the Enterprise account.
Ask HN: Steps to forming a company?
Hey guys,
I'm leaving my firm very shortly to form a startup.

Does why have a checklist of proper ways to do things?

Ie.
1. Form Chapter C Delaware company with Clerky
2. Hire payroll company x
3. use this company for patents.

any info there?
You've never personally experienced actual corruption in your entire life, have you?
In general, I have found this blog to be very useful https://medium.com/@KeywordsHeaven and their main site https://www.keywordsheaven.com/.

They seem to publish new articles/guides every week or so and have addressed link building in the past which, according to their case study, appears to not be the most important thing, although it is important.
my point was lot of people who think they have aspergers actually dont
This is why I refuse to tip in restaurants. Most people in san francisco that I know don't tip and as a consequence most waiters here don't expect a tip.
W2018 what happened?
What happened in winter 2018? Why are there so few companies that went through Y?
we see this dark pattern deployedall the time on hn
Claude Shannon had an interest in AI and had a hobby of making electronic game machines, most of which survive to this day in the MIT Museum. A list with descriptions and photos is available here:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon...
To get a good idea of what they are doing, visit whatsmyudid.com and follow the instructions to use SuperUDID (you don’t need to go through with it, just read the steps).

Similar to SuperUDID, they installed a profile onto their device that provided special privileges for Facebook.
You say that like it's profound. You need 1) laws 2) funding for enforcement 3) penalties for corruption. Absent any of the three, corruption will succeed.

The article directly references the broad systematic attack on 2 and 3 that's actively underway.
I've used Ubuntu daily for over a decade now. My two boys use it too. Right now I'm using the MATE variant. It just works.

No issues with privacy for me because I simply uninstall the relevant packages when the time comes, if it comes.

Highly recommended!
I have enormously mixed feelings about anyone who says they are a professional in SEO. I don't doubt there are people who show results to their clients, and they will range from amateurs to people who charge to do it for a living and they will be black, grey and white hatted variants.

My own experience is that carefully reading the google documents which return when you do the obvious searches on how to improve SEO are very clear: do some structural work, be very clear about your sites underlying page relations, proffer keywords which contextually make sense, but do not try and game the system.

If you pay search engines money they increase visibility of your site. If you host adverts since they place adverts it increases visibility of your site in their systems because its a "virtuous circle"

If you attempt to use other mechanisms to direct traffic to your site which the search engine can (a) detect and (b) proscribe, you will be penalised.

What else is there?
FB is not supposed to make deals with minors without adult supervision…
What could be more ironic than your VPN spying on you? The very thing you use to avoid the watchful eye of elder siblings.
Indeed, someone in a separate channel explained that new sig-pm staffing is at the root of the resurgence of KEPs. Thanks justinsb, no relation to GCP's Justin Santa Barbara?
So wait, isn't this a good thing? It discourages people to tip.
> “Reply Al”

Maybe they're just fans of Paul Simon[1]:

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you write me
You can call me Al

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
I think that this is a fairly common when it comes to technology. The terms and conditions seem reasonable ("we collect some data to provide more relevant ads"), but when you look a bit more closely they build a personal file that contains who you communicate (email/text/call) with and how often, where you go, what you buy, which websites you visit, which videos you watch, etc to the extent that they are able. My mother is very smart, well-educated (she has a PhD), and relatively tech savvy (she works in scientific computing), but she was still floored when I told her about some of the tracking Facebook and Google perform. Google recording her location (which she technically agreed to, but did not realize) was enough that she asked me to help her migrate away from Gmail. She probably would have managed without my assistance, but the barrier would have been much higher.
The title on hackernews is highly misleading, there's quite a difference between "for any domain" and "for any domain using shared hosting".
Phew, I was worried that facebook would scrape my confidential communication with facebook.
FWIW, you could argue that they are failing to handle their economic situation as well as they could.

But even that is fraught, since, in the current economic culture, consumers are pretty much constantly being preyed on, and actively encouraged to make questionable decisions. Consider, for example, the predatory mortgage practices on the part of the banking industry during the 2000s. Or predatory lending practices on the part of the student loan and private college industries. Or payday loan companies.

(There's arguably a double standard there - if it's a person with relatively little money swindling people out of relatively small amounts of money, it's con artistry. If it's a company with lots of money swindling people out of lots of money, caveat emptor.)
I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand Facebook is working around Apple’s terms and conditions, and enticing underage kids to compromise their phones. On the other hand, there’s no law broken here, Apple’s terms and conditions are not generally fair to users, and the kids know all of their data is being tracked for money ( and presumably are happy with it). Plus, freedom to use the personal device you bought as you see fit is preferred to Apple deciding what you can and cannot have on your phone. So, how should I feel about this?
You mean... it was, itself, an attempt at SEO? :P
That's the whole issue here. It does.
I think it is safe to assume that any free VPN is spying on you.
It's not real clear, which is a shame because the development story is what makes me so excited about it. Basically you want to look at the gnome developer documentation (https://developer.gnome.org/) this is also often incomplete or outdated but it's a start. A standard gtk app will probably run fine on the phone, maybe with some minor tweaking. For compiling, linking, etc you just use the standard c tools, or the python ones.

I can't think of the name right now but there is a widget gallery installed with the libgtk-3-dev (I think) package that includes a heap of code samples.

There's also this whole gui xml designer thing they keep trying to push, but the best thing about librem development is that you can start with a single c file and expand from there.