skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something similar happened to Sega's Shining Force for iOS. I paid $1.99 for it around 2013 or 2014 and it was great. Shining Force is one of my favorite games for the Sega Genesis and it's perfect for on the go mobile since it's a turn based strategy game. I hadn't played it in a couple of years and got an itch about a month ago so I loaded it up with much anticipation. Turns out sometime last year (or late 2017?) Sega had updated it to include ads and in the process wiped all saved games for all users. Now there is a premium upgrade to remove ads which, from what I can gather from the reviews, doesn't actually remove all of the ads, just some of them. Oh and you can't play without an Internet connection now since all save games are stored off device on Sega's servers. I don't ever leave reviews for apps, but I was so angry I had to vent somewhere. This kind of shit is absolutely unacceptable garbage and everyone involved in the process that led up to it happening should be ashamed. At least I'm not out $30 though. Yikes.
Multiple opponents does not fix negative campaigning. Look at the Republican primaries that Trump one for an example of a very negative multi candidate campaign.
Keras and modern convnets on TPUs, a hands on approach. (180 minute tutorial)
It’s not, but Wisconsin is an example of the secondary demographic that the Republicans target heavily — white blue collar people who have lost the stability that they had.
Is it a little baffling to anyone else that Facebook's entire plan if Apple killed their research-app Onavo iOS workaround was "loudly point out that Google does it too"?

Not to me. That’s pretty much how I expect Facebook to operate these days.

Sadly, it’s not just Facebook. Pretty much every time any article posted on HN points out how Company X is misbehaving the thread is flooded with “But... but... Company Y does it, too!” It’s like the SV bubble falls back on the logic of a five-year-old whenever they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
They can't test facebook tools or internal apps on apple phones, because they used their cert that signs facebook tools or internal apps to make consumer facing spyware in violation of their agreement (that they had been warned about before!).

Its not like they shut down their macbooks.

> Secondly, from the company (apple ) that literally turned everyones devices into wiretaps, globally, and ignored the issue for who knows how long... This is just.. wow. ( and they continue not to issue a formal reason for this ).

If you think there's a major equivalency of the bug on facetime, I can't help but think you're hopelessly biased.
I thought I am viewing different website from yours.

I am totally not satisfied hackernews website design and UI.
> Regressions happen, and the Eternal September is real.

Now that UUCP time has come and gone, I wonder if Usenet might have returned to its once former glory. It would be a really good place for technical conversation.
I can't say I do, no
East Bay Biochemist Sells ‘Gene-Editing Kit’ for the Masses
Seems ripe for fraud, seller delivers and never gets paid due to threshold (one time shoppers). Good luck.
It's most likely targeted only at relevant sites.
From no perspective, consciousness is subordinate to the rocks that govern physical rules /(tongue-in-cheek non-dualist "nonsense")
Indeed. What a lot of people don't get is that companies don't "buy American", because they can't. We simply do not have those manufacturing capabilities. It's not just the factories. It's the skilled, trained, and experienced workers needed to do that particular flavor of high precision work.

For the US to change this, to compete directly with China at large-scale electronics manufacturing, would take decades of work and untold billions of dollars of long-term focused government effort. And frankly, the US government isn't great at long term thinking. Makes you appreciate an old-school Marxist Five Year Plan.
AMD Nails Its Epyc Server Targets for 2018
The difference isn't that large in the grand scheme of things. The engine mount would have to be able to fail in it's operational envelope in order for the reverser kicking in to be realistic.

In fact, the reversed kicking in would decrease the loading on the aircraft by decreasing it's airspeed.

This isn't a case of acceleration being able to break the mount from the frame. If it ever could, one wouldn't want it on the plane in the first place.

Doesn't mean you couldn't ruin your day with it, but it isn't an instant catastrophic failure either.
Why would it be a liability? Shareholders voted and accepted the purchase of SolarCity.

I agree its sketchy, but Musk doesn't technically control the company. He has a large share of the voting pool, but the shareholders in general were willing to bail out SolarCity. Its kinda "Democracy in action".

I think it was a stupid move for the shareholders to do, but its fully within their rights to do so.
I'd pull a nihilist into my lifeboat. I wouldn't be happy about it, though. If I had to choose Viktor Frankl or a nihilist, I'd choose Viktor Frankl. I wouldn't be happy about that either.
You can protect your password DB with a master password on Firefox, though it only will be 'locked' when you close the program. AFAIK this is not too dissimilar from the model for most password managers.
That was not what happened. The tweet is here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/elon-musk-says-cave-r...

I thought it was obvious, that it was a clever dig at a guy he was fighting with (as much as idiots can fight on twitter, cough trump). Something about a guy with a hard on for getting to some kids. I'm sure Elon was high. I REALLY don't understand the HN brigade trying to imagine it into more than that.

There's plenty of reason to go after some of Elon's money to keep the fame train going, but it wouldn't go anywhere in the US. In the UK? They are big on curbing particular kinds of speech and behavior. He has a good shot at getting the money.

Edit: I am wrong, that's why.
> That's only half the answer. The real answer is that no one wants to spend the time to offer those features securely.

>It's perfectly cromulent to allow users to upload CSS and html and even javascript. You just have to put a lot of effort into making it safe.

I work in an online payment company. Custom CSS is one of the features we hate the most implementing. It is very difficult to get it right and the cost of maintenance is quite high.
I think there are a few options for a failsafe here.

none where it would deploy the reverse thrusters and probably crash regardless of other inputs to the system(could be one or more of many inputs wheel speed, slats deployed, airspeed, elevation, throttle position, etc.)

turning off the engine (presumably you want this because you are on the ground but your ground sensor is failing so you want to cut engine and apply brakes which is less preferable than the reverse thrusters but manageable normally.)

ignoring the input altogether.

not a failsafe at all and an unexpected failure mode of the system (I think this is probably the case since they couldn't relight the engine on the ground)

the point i was making is that if you have the failsafe turn off the engines under normal operating procedures it should be able to relight when in flight and it's not good if a software glitch turns your heavy into a glider without possibility to relight. (i am not a pilot but it's my understanding that you still have the turbines spinning and all you need to do is give it some fuel and fire up both ignition plugs. might need to use the compressor to spin them up to full speed but i doubt it.)
A dumb heater with a dumb mechanical timer connected to a dumb thermostat would have restarted too.
Chinese effort to clone gene-edited monkeys kicks off
Yeah, what people want is often times at odds...specially at scale.

What I find funny you might find horrible.

Everything boils down to the most agreeable format in the end
That looks pretty sweet. I'll have to try it out.
They still have “Solar energy systems, leased and to be leased” for $6.3bn, plus $350mn in goodwill, in their balance sheet. We’ll see a nice write-off someday.

Edit: for context, total assets are $29.7bn and liabilities are $23.0bn.
It's only one more hoop compared to doing it with a static IP. Pretty trivial to anyone capable of setting up a server.
This reminded me of an interesting gent I met at last summer's San Mateo Maker Faire. He was showing off how he'd designed a Sinclair Z80 computer running on a FPGA.

Sadly I misplaced his info and can't find any info on the interweb.

Oh well, I can have some fun with this!
Weird, I was actually writing a response wondering whether there was a term for this phenomenon and then got distracted by work. I made a post about a week ago that I thought would be fairly unpopular and it ended up being my most upvoted post yet. It's like a super specific form of self doubt.
See this news release by Mount Pleasant:

"...The local development agreement stipulates that, if, for any reason, Foxconn’s investment on the campus falls short, the company remains obligated to support a minimum valuation for the project of $1.4 billion, which will more than pay for all public improvements and development costs for the project."

https://www.mtpleasantwi.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=219
I think I never was in a developed field that was as error prone as statistics, both intentional (fraud, p value hacking, etc) and with honest mistakes.
I agree and that's not what I meant I replied in another comment.
Three Steps for Oil and Gas Companies to Survive the Energy Transformation
They state all over in their website that they don't log.

Though I have no way of verifying they don't keep logs, if I discover they do: at least I can sue them for it.
Google Chrome will warn you of lookalike URLs
You mean Windows Activation?

What do you think would happen if you used your Azure, AWS, or GCP account to knowingly do DDOS attacks?

Or more realistically if you do Pen testing on your own AWS resources without getting the approval of AWS and your entire organization is dependent on it? It is explicitly stated in your agreement with AWS that you can’t do that.
From your link:

> he later urged a BuzzFeed News reporter in an August 30 email to investigate Mr Unsworth and "stop defending child rapists".
> Facebook’s daily to monthly user ratio, or stickiness, held firm at 66 percent where it’s stayed for years, showing those still on Facebook aren’t using it much less.

What are the precise definitions of daily and monthly active users? To be a daily user, do you literally have to use Facebook every day for a month?
Services number is YoY in the columns beside where you are probably looking

$1,880,354,000 costs - $1,391,041,000 revenues is $(489,313,000) in losses
I know, I just can't help lowering the bar for a cheap shot sometimes.
Ask HN: How to practise Algo/DS for interviews that are every 2-3 years?
It's okay to learn Algorithms and Data structure once and practise questions to be good at it but once you leave practising you forget almost all the details and when time comes to interview for next company, you start to practise all over again to pass the interview which is quite inefficient and tedious.

What strategies do you use to keep up with these interview questions every 2-3 years (assuming you change companies in 2-3 years)? One answer to this question is you keep on practising for eternity to keep your Algo/DS game up, but this means you can never devote your time to learn other fields you might be interested in or to work on your personal projects (assuming you are a full-time working professional and so have limited time to study).

Also if you are not up-to-date with your Algo/DS skills, then there might be a situation that you have been given an opportunity to interview with a great company through Linkedin or something but because you are not practising Algo/DS during that time, you may miss the opportunity.

So, how do you manage this situation where on one hand you want to learn new things but on the other hand don't want your Algo/DS skills to fade away?
> For better or worse, I think we can all agree that only ever saying "him"/"he" or "she"/"her" is currently considered unacceptable (for better or worse) in English-speaking companies.

Hi, I'm the person who wrote the (apparently offending) comment.

I am sensitive to and aware of these issues. However, using they/them is not necessarily an obvious slam dunk in these contexts either, as that's technically not grammatically correct when used in the singular. There are those who argue that the singular they is useful enough in our modern gender-fluid context that we should just start using it and let the grammar rules catch up when they will, but this is definitely not a settled currently-considered-the-only-acceptable-choice-everywhere kind of thing.

Grammarly tackled this question on their blog last year (here: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/use-the-singular-they/), and while I think that piece makes some good arguments, note that it approaches the subject as "while non-standard, this is a good thing that people should be doing anyway" rather than "everyone knows this is the only way to approach this." Similarly, Merriam-Webster (see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...) judges this a matter of still-evolving usage rather than long-settled grammatical law.

The last thing I wanted to be when I grew up is a grammatical pedant, so please don't take this as an invitation to a war over which usage is the right one. I can see merit in both arguments (though I tend to think the singular they will eventually reach consensus acceptance, just because it's so useful). I just mention it to illustrate that it's not necessarily the case that failure to reach for the singular they automatically marks a writer out as oblivious or sexist.
* Had a device stolen and password stolen either through spying or a key logger.

Fixed that for you.
You can use Ad Hoc deployments, which is what I used to do on TestFlight before it got acquired by Apple.
I think the internet is still fun and weird. I think the flaw is equating "the internet" to html encoded content.

Much of the internet's creativity is encoded in audio, video, and photography.
It would be interesting if they made the AI harness add noise to the click position signal based on how long it has been since the last click. Ex. up to 5 perfectly targeted ClkPS, or up to 10 with 10px accuracy, or up to 15 with 30px accuracy
I was going to come here and say this, but you beat me to it. I work from home, and also have children.

They won't LET me get my priorities out of whack. :)
That's not an accusation (or defamation) either. Sheesh.
As near as I can tell the Twitterrific ad network literally only serves in-app ads to users of Twitterrific.
To nitpick, it's literally plutocracy, not democracy.
You made this comment:

==As long as it is done through non-structural means, convincing people not to vote is a perfectly reasonable persuasion technique==

I took your own generic statement and asked you to further qualify it. I did this by posing a question (opposite of a straw man) and applying it to a hypothetical scenario (to make it realistic). I never accused anyone of doing it or claimed it was something you cited. I was trying to understand if there should be some type of qualifier on the phrase "convincing people not to vote is a perfectly reasonable persuasion technique" because it seems to me that it isn't a universal truth.
Wow, that is so astonishingly scummy [1]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...
>By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that's not really monetary. We want to keep them alive and enjoy them so long after their time has passed. It's so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.

Creative works are valued longer because new creative works don't function as replacements. There's only one Canterbury Tales or Super Mario World.

An old photoshop copy is more like an old almanac, it is a tool.
> I was on the internet in the mid-90's (I was 15 in 95 which I think is the year I got on the net, I'd been on BBS's for about 5-6 years before that) and it did used to be much more weird as a percentage of sites than now (though the number of sites was tiny).

I agree with your basic observation but I have a slightly different response:

Most people aren't all that fun or weird, at least not in a way which translates to text or graphical arts or music or anything else you can transmit over the Internet. Most people are the majority, and you'll never find the majority you're currently steeped in to be especially fun or weird. (Example: A great way to make a living as a comedian is to rephrase normality to make people see it as fun and weird. Observational comedy takes a keen eye for the obvious.)
How is "stop defending child rapists" not suggesting the person is a child rapist, doubling down on the initial claim? (which was in bad taste, but wouldn't have been to big a deal if he'd not stuck by it)
Didn't also Musk abstain from voting before the SolarCity acquisition? That's what I remember, anyway.
In Tegmark's case, his hypothesis doesn't necessarily imply that consciousness escapes the laws of physics in any sense, even somewhat. He's simply arguing that consciousness is a state of matter, like liquid, solid or gas, and its properties emerge from lower-level physical laws, just like the other states of matter. Kind of a wild claim, but still compatible with strict materialism.

Tegmark's theory is an expanded version of Tononi's Integrated Information Theory, which has gotten a lot of interest in mainstream cognitive science. IIT also stays well within the laws of physics.

Non-materialist philosophers of mind tend to like these theories since they make consciousness correspond with fairly low-level processes, and that looks a lot more plausible than consciousness being something that only pops up in animal brains for some mystical reason. But neither IIT nor Tegmark's approach actually require any kind of escaping from the laws of physics. In fact Tononi sounds to me mostly like a materialist, although he's pretty slippery about it. Not as sure about Tegmark.

Also, important to note that almost no one believes in vitalism (the idea that life itself requires special extra-physical "secret sauce" to exist) anymore. It is only consciousness that is up for debate in mainstream philosophy.
sjw = individual who promotes socially progressive views.
socially progressive views could include society attitude towards privacy.
No, it's just the number of users who used it that day, no matter what each of them did on previous or subsequent days.
Star Wars is No Match for Today's Military Force
Learnability can be undecided
That's nothing compared to what is going on in their warehouses. Buy hey, who cares.
how does basic physics tells us there is no free will? That is generally an argument about hard determinism which could be argued is invalidated by The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Anyone on HN understands the implications of this. But does your average user? I doubt it. They just know they can install a little box and get paid. Digital privacy means nothing to far too many people
High Ceilings, Lovely View: Denisova Cave Was Home to a Lost Branch of Humanity
> It's so much different than, say, ... Winamp 3.

Have to disagree on this one. Classic software I wish modern media players were as good. Nice thing is you can still get it! [0]

[0] https://getwacup.com
This requires registering UDIDs, right?
> Apple themselves bought out the Testflight service and integrated it into their toolchain and it was built on using enterprise certs to distribute to external users.

This isn't true; when you logged in with TestFlight, they pushed a configuration profile to you that would collect your UDID. The developer would then register those UDIDs with Apple and sign the app with an ad hoc provisioning profile / normal developer certificate, as Apple intends.

You could also distribute enterprise apps through TestFlight, but they did nothing specifically to help you do that, they were just a hosting service in that respect. They certainly didn't abuse enterprise certificates themselves, although somebody using their service could, just as they could use any hosting service to distribute the apps OTA.
This is a deeply unproductive argument.
Thanks - if you're not comfortable using "they" yet, then you might want to consider something like "he/she" and "her/him" rather than excluding a single gender entirely by only ever using one gender. That will go a long way to addressing the inequality (but obviously this ignores non-binaries)

Thanks for engaging either way. We need to challenge sexism (either implicit or explicit) in our industry.
Pre:
- still 30% off highs

Numbers:

- 4Q EPS $2.38, Est. $2.18

- 4Q Rev. $16.91B, Est. $16.39B

- 4Q Mobile Ad Rev. as % Ad Rev. 93%

- Mobile represents 93% of ad revenue. Mark doesn't get enough credit for his big switch to mobile,

- Cost of revenue up 74 percent year over year

- Operating costs went up by 60%, Note this is more than their growth rate, really the only concerning thing from a good quarter

- Annual capex is $13.9 billion, pretty close to what Microsoft spends

- CFO is talking about phasing out Facebook only numbers and just disclosing total numbers(Insta, WhatsApp, and FB rolled into one)

-

Users:

- 4Q MAU 2.32B, Est. 2.32B

- 4Q DAU 1.52B, Est. 1.51B

- DAU up in Europe for first time in 2-3 quarters, Flat in North America

- instagram stories has 500M DAU

Misc:

- Headcount was 35,587 at year end. Increase of 42% for the year!!

- shares back up to Oct levels,

- turns out the markets like companies who can mint money and both users and advertisers just don't care at all about facebooks scandals

- https://investor.fb.com/files/doc_financials/2018/Q4/Q4-2018...

- more after hours trading than alot of stocks get during the entire day

- Zuckerberg saying that messaging growing faster than any other area. It will become more central to the social experience on Facebook's apps.
The author has a good thought but the wrong solution (most likely there is no solution and the public internet of the late 90s early 2000s is gone forever)
Still possible though. Years ago a friend and I pulled a manual transmission in a junk yard. He got it home, installed it, and then discovered reverse was completely stripped.
Excellent comment. I fondly remember the old advertisements and banner ads. Now-a-days most online ads are by major international corporations.
Hypothetical scenario.

Rather than China seizing infrastructure collateral for debt trap loans instead China compels governments to push for ubiquity of a China/BAT superplatform, say "WeChat+" thru which all local government services and commerce will be conducted.

Also concurrently providing outsourced support for local regime continuity due to persistent surveillance provide by a "WeChat+" platform integrated with local and Chinese government.
I disagree. Usually they have a lot of comments because they are worth discussing.
If you haven't watched the roombas spreading dog turds around the house on youtube I highly recommend it.

I wonder what the equivalent of that will be for the outdoors?

The safety implications worry me too. I'm surprised they don't discuss this in the article.
This is the first time I've seen content provided in Esperanto like this. Pretty cool.

Even cooler is that the Esperanto version seems to be the original, and then I suppose it was translated to English a year later.

Huh, now I see the whole blog defaults to Esperanto.

I wonder how much of the net takes that stand of Esperanto-first.