skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. Look at China's social credit system. (Does it solve anything or does it just push the equilibrium to a more intense "energy level", when a black market crops up for fake social identities, etc.?)

I think that advancing technological capabilities will eventually make it impossible to participate in "the system" (National, Global, whatever) without being subject to a pervasive surveillance (which is already happening.) So we will be forced into some sort of totalitarian system whether we like it or not by our own technology. So to me it seems like the real question is what kind of totalist system should be build?

To be sure we are confronting these questions already (cf. the Ashley Madison data breach and how it stirred up, uh, conversation around extramarital affairs.)
> I am talking about the actual definition of a monopoly, not that defined by antitrust laws, hence my second sentence about how the law (consumer law, anti-trust, or both) needs to change to prevent these walled gardens.

I didn't mean that your definition of a monopoly is incorrect, but that you can't just narrow down the market until you find a monopoly. Because if you could, every company has a monopoly (which wouldn't make any sense).
>Moreover, a search result returning "only" two results should be taken as a good thing for someone with confidence in their dataset

I completely agree with you here but in my experience it's not anything new with DDG, that's always been a problem as far as I'm concerned.

As a hobby I sometimes have to reverse engineer electronic circuits, when I'm not sure what a chip does I try to search the inscriptions on the package to see if I can find a datasheet online. Sometimes you end up with very cryptic strings like "xardc10-egh" or whatever. If you input this string on Google it gives you no results:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xardc10%2Degh

If I do it on DDG I get pages of irrelevant results:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xardc10-egh&t=ffab&ia=web

That being said DDG improved slightly, when I did searches like those a couple of years ago I'd often end up with results containing completely broken encodings, binary dumps as ascii and other obviously erroneous content that got indexed by mistake. Here the results at least appear to link towards proper pages.
I agree. Using the garden for tutorials is really cute and fun as well.
Aviation safety is written with blood, a high cost for every safety measure conceived. It is one of the areas where it's better to be wrong and safe.

Aircrash investigations take a lot of time, and sometimes, well, sometimes you have to act on preliminary information or even guesses if it is on the safer side.
KAYAK has reported that people in the USA are filtering out 737 MAX8/9 flights now in ever increasing numbers. (Orbitz and Expedia have followed KAYAK's lead and added filters to filter out this plane.)

IMO, It's only a matter of time before public pressure forces either the government, or the carriers themselves to ground the planes.
We need a Pants on Fire emoji. Or maybe a Pinocchio Nose.
That's because they twisted the facts like crazy. They might have had a good argument before they got greedy.
The Boeing 737 Max: Is the Problem with the Plane or the Pilots?
If you don't bother to check the sender then you're not using pgp the way it's supposed to. pgp wants you to assign trust to identities, explicitly or not, after which pgp will automatically tell you whether you're talking to the right person or not. That's something SPF/DKIM/DMARC doesn't have for a very simple and legitimate reason: it's not a technical issue, it's a people's issue.
Also, why not both? Is the data in some... Non-copyable format? Is the physical device needed for some reason?
Meanwhile, Spotify is still a rip-off for artists http://www.timetoplayfair.art
If the apps have been removed from the google play store, but not user's devices, would they be identified by the play protect scanning feature?
> It should not be too hard to drastically reduce binary size with a build-time flag.

And then how portable would the code be? Would this be a path to running node on CPUs without JIT support? Or does it still have to mess with the calling convention at an assembly level?
Thats because its an USA company. You don't see it coming up in news, you don't see any lawsuits from other countries, and they will keep covering the real issue as long as they like. There have been incidents in past when corporations have leveraged USA influence to punish countries that have tried bringing airlines companies to justice(like when Indonesian airlines were barred from entering USA airspace because of them blacklisting a American airline). Had it been another company whole Airline would have been grounded and news channels would have been all over it.
Yes of course it's hand wavey, all analogies are hand wavey. That's why they're called analogies and not lectures. You don't devise an analogy to deliver all the academic rigor of a topic, you devise it to ground something back into the realm of the intuitive and familiar.

Not all analogies are useful, but the reason this one is useful is because it captures the heart of why this isn't meaningfully "time reversal." If you have all information about a linear system, yes you can transform it back into its previous state. That's not at all mysterious or unintuitive even if it's a technical achievement.

Obviously reality is nonlinear, which is precisely the point the analogy is trying to capture. We're not trying to teach quantum mechanics here, we're trying to make sure people don't come away from the article thinking the second law of thermodynamics is (non-locally) violated or that time travel at the macro level is plausible.

The basic idea is that you did a reversible thing, then reversed it.
The complaint is that Apple is withholding certain APIs from public access, though nothing technical prevents it from doing so, other than anti-trust issues. There is certainly truth to that! When Apple is both an app publisher, and API publisher, these anti trust issues are bound to pop up
Isn't that what Apple is doing in this case with Apple Music vs. Spotify?
Nobody's claiming it's impossible. That's a strawman.

What Spotify is complaining about is that it is possible, but at a massive inconvenience to users, (having to manually type the payment url into safari etc that they need to find manually first), which makes it so that most just decide the burden is not worth the hassle. That's how anti competitive behavior manifests itself, usually. Technically, anything is possible, Spotify can develop an iPhone competitor and then ship the app there, but come on, we both know that's unrealistic.
I think it might have something to do with the ~7 billion people whose native language isn’t expressible in ascii. Just maybe?
I don’t even know what to say to the first sentence in your comment.
From what I understand about the issue so far, the systemic flaw is not in the aircraft, but in the training of the pilots. Or the lack thereof. Boeing wanted the 737 MAX to be considered just another 737 that didn't require any new training, but there are apparently significant changes compared to other 737 models that leave pilots feeling ill-prepared.
It's in the ballpark. "It's a second email password so that no one can listen in on your emails". The problem is implementation. Even one where your client / provider knew the private key is better than cleartext everywhere.
What should stockholders do when their CEO is a druggie?
The timing of the publication though. One day before Model Y announcement.
I have experience with all three of them, indeed Azure fails miserably, AWS is a bit better but I didn't spend much time there. GCP is the most solid one and I had the least troubles there.
You are right but Amazon has invested almost $1b into Rivian and Amazon has almost as much cash ($42b) as Tesla's market cap ($50b). With GM jumping in too these two companies combined could flex and crush Tesla. Not saying this will happen (I don't think it will) but it could.

Amazon no doubt wants in on the self driving electric vehicle market to compete with Tesla, Apple and Google and heavily investing in the best EV startup other than Tesla is the easiest way into this field. But because of this I would put Rivian as only slightly behind Tesla.

Now you are right, forcing your way into a field by throwing money at the problem doesn't always ensure success, just as Windows Phone. But as with Windows Phone it does usually ensure a decent product gets to market. And that is all I am saying will happen. The likelihood of a Rivian product getting to market is just as likely as a Model Y getting to market. Both extremely high.
"their" platform. nominally you can install whatever you want using profiles, but effectively having to do so is an artificially high barrier to entry for competing app stores (not to mention you have to pay apple $100/year for the 'privilege' of installing whatever you want on your own device for a year. no way to do so permanently.)

the degree to which apple has singlemindedly anticompetitively abused their vertical integration frankly astonishes me. the breaking point for me was opening the music app on the at the time 'latest' ios to be presented with a full page ad for apple music.

utter garbage and I hope they get what's coming to them before they have a chance to worm out of it.
It's was always ok to use their SDK and make money as long as you did not make money from music listening.

We make money from user playlists data (which we believe should belong to user) and I don't treat our usecase as integrating with others, as we do it in 3 steps: download from Spotify, then import to somewhere else.

It was all fine for 2 year, but after IPO they changed their TOS for Developers.

There was either making our service less attractive or removing Spotify all together, so we had no choice. Don't really care about stock price ;), just want to keep the project going and allow others to be able to migrate between different services.

I like that with email on your own domain you can easily switch providers (which I recently did with google to protonmail). But there are many other solutions which are not so easy to switch which halts competition.
Yes, we tend to underestimate just how much energy, time, and money people are willing to contribute to harassing someone whose ideas they disagree with. Many times I find myself wanting to debate something online but the consequences of accidentally stepping on someone's toes who is willing to dedicate their life to destroying mine makes it just not worth the risk.
But isn’t that a cost that could be eliminated with efficiency. It seems the legal costs are a result of the moral differences of population segments.

If this different went away and everyone had the same morality, the legal costs would be really low.
The level of certainty required for an action changes depending on the downside risk of action vs inaction. For example, if I am 20% certain that you have a pulmonary embolism, the correct action is to start treatment immediately; the risks of treatment are low relative the harm of waiting for further testing.

The FAA and NTSB are rightly very conservative and cautious with respect to approving new designs, since the risk of premature approval is high and the harm of waiting a bit longer for more information is low. But this is the opposite scenario - the risk of grounding planes is operational inconvenience, versus the harm of another plane crash.

The correct move here is to act even if they think the certainty is low.
We're talking facts here; and this data is from climatologists and backed up by studies. The conclusions are also not mine.

What is there to rebut?

This isn't the point I was making. Climate change doesnt matter.

I was illustrating the point of the article. Nobody will want to discuss climate change if there is such hostility and alarmism. By definition creating climate deniers.

If the climate change folks are correct, and they very likely are correct, the point I was making was perfectly proven just now.
That feels like average software development mindset applied to airplanes to be honest.

An airplane nosediving on sensor malfunction from time to time is not acceptable behavior that could be considered fixed by telling the pilots to disable the autopilot.
Out of curiosity, which would you say is her best work?

(Left Hand isn't my favorite, either. I'd probably give that to The Dispossessed).
Agree it's not a bug as I assume it's an implementation of the IValueConverter interface: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.d...

However since the method bodies are identical, IMO one should have the full implementation and then the other should just call the first. Still not a bug, just a code smell.
It is unfair. However, unless you have a principle of ignoring freely (free as in beer and code in this case) released software from bigger companies it's a comparison that will be made.

PS - I understand what you're saying, but I thought it was funny you claimed you don't have an account on a website that requires registration for commenting. Welcome to HN!
It's possible to take a full page screenshot of any of your playlists or saved songs in the Spotify web player. That would probably be the easiest way to save them, but not the most usable. For a little more effort a scraper could be written that would generate simple text file with artist - album - song.
How is it a right-wing talking point?

Because that's how wacko some of the Far Left have become. Because some of the Far Left would like for there to be something like Lysenkoism forwarding a version of science which explicitly fits their narratives, and for this to be taught to young people. (If you look into it, they basically have a "good start.")
But it was Spotify that asked the random guy to take the app down. If anything I would have thought it would be in Spotify's interests to keep it up - "look it's possible, but Apple isn't allowing us"
Isn't their argument about the Apple Store and being able to put their product into the Apple Ecosystem? I didn't read any of it as saying they have a monopoly on phones.
I was referring to the language you write playbooks in (YAML). There are no static checks, other than a dry-run that only tests for syntax errors. Frankly, I haven't heard of any provisioning system written in a compiled language. I wonder why.
> quantum hasn't provided anything substantial yet

I believe you meant "quantum computing hasn't provided anything substantial yet". I first read it as "quantum theory hasn't provided anything substantial yet", and I was a bit shocked!
But I feel this harms more than it helps, like saying "quantum computers compute with every possible value simultaneously in superposition" which gives the audience a very flawed understanding of how QCs work (that they'll be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time for example). By phrasing quantum phenomena in terms familiar to the classical audience, we do them a disservice; we are lying to them.

In this case, the question "why doesn't quantum entanglement enable FTL communication?" is properly that the reduced density operator of an EPR half is the maximally mixed state. All we can do to simplify that is to tell them that quantum concepts exist outside of classical language, and in order to understand them they'll have to learn a new language - mathematics. The most you can say is quantum entanglement enables FTL "correlations" which are stronger than classical correlations but not strong enough to enable information transfer.
They have more than 5000 orders for this model of aircraft. Each one costs approx 120million. Which means there are approx $640 billion dollars on the line. It is imperative that Boeing keeps it's reputation and grounding flights would destroy it.
Anyone know how common attacks that take advantage of the JIT technology actually are?
It is more a fantasy back of the envelope calculation than a real number, I can't imagine that Boeing won't be able to fix the issue.

In the end, it might be some penalty paid to some companies, and a slightly tarnished image, but people will keep buying and flying Boeings.
Tips to Prepare Mobile Landing Pages for Mobile-First Index
Just tried this in Perl6; looks like string comparisons Do The Right Thing™.

> "\x65\x301".contains("\xe9")
True
in 2016 he shared an article that suggested a rocket explosion was sabotage. Though he qualified that by saying it isn't true.
I would do that... but I like my house and my stuff. Plus, my wife wouldn't approve.

I am not saying that it is 'evil' but it does contribute to the wealth gap in our society. I definitely don't want it to go away, I want my children to get the same benefits that I had!

I guess my point is that the entire system is rigged and because so many people have benefited from it, including me, it's not going to be fixed anytime soon. It's important to recognize the ways in which the system is rigged so that we can level the playing field where we can.
Honestly, I haven't checked.

Once we would need to use GDPR law to be able to export the data, then we would rather find a hacky way and pretent do be a user browsing their webpage. Just to offer best user experience for our customers.
Actually it proves even less than that --- it proves that it's someone with access to the domain that it was sent from. And if that's not amazon.com, but instead amazon-account-services.ru, then DKIM will happily report that the message is valid.
> What does Apple have a monopoly on?

i feel this is dangerous thinking. maybe apple doesn't have a monopoly on a particular market in terms of market share, but their influence on businesses, markets, policies, etc. is massive and is basically indistinguishable from a market monopoly. with their amount of money and position in the market, they have near limitless influence on other companies and ways of abusing this influence to act in their favor. they've done it many, many times, and continue to do it.
Vox in Rama
How does Spotify do this and remain competitive with Apple's $9.99 offering. The offering Apple can make because they don't have to pay themselves a 30% cut.
737 Max is their biggest order backlog. However, there's a lack of competition to Boeing (Airbus bowed out) so its stock has gone up and up. Not sure what will happen if 737 Max is sent back to the drawing board.
He literally designed his rocket and built multiple million/billion dollar tech companies.
2/3 of the fleet was reported grounded before Canada joined. I doubt many 737s pass Canada on their way to Europe but I found this:

> When it comes to riskier transatlantic and trans-continental routes, Boeing's new narrowbody 737-Max and Airbus's A320neo family can now be employed due to tremendous leaps in engine reliability and fuel efficiency. That has resulted in a considerable expansion of long-haul routes utilizing narrowbody airliners.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/08/16/transa...
Actually just yesterday i thought to myself: "How I wish someone built an alternative to FB Events" and here it is.

Really sweet!
This is what my wife did. She is a physician, not an MFA graduate, so she workshopped and wrote short stories for years, and even continued to do so while she worked on her first novel. By the time she published her novel, she was quite good, and even won last year's (2017) "first novel prize[0]" for "Mikhail and Margarita" (a fictional account of the writing of Bulgokov's "Master and Margarita").

[0]http://centerforfiction.org/awards/the-first-novel-prize/
>You'll be downvoted for being off-topic, excessively contrarian and uttering non-sequiturs.

Thanks for once again proving my actual point; which had nothing to do with climate change.
I'm not American and so not familiar with the laws. But can someone please contradict me on the fact that money equals liberty in the USA? Or are all these things that Elon do legal when you are poor too?
To Antinoro, one of the strangest parts of the situation was that after he told the company the threat was false, it asked him to put out a press release hyping it. He declined, but Tesla publicized the incident anyway.

Antinoro says he’s told his force not to bother investigating crimes at the Gigafactory unless Tesla starts cooperating. Big business, he’s decided, is its own strange world. “Standard Oil was probably as weird as Elon Musk,” he says.

Yep, this is every small town sheriff dealing with someone they believe to be a crackpot. One shouldn't play games with law enforcement.
Google Play Music and Apple Music also do this. I don't think I'm able to move any of my playlists off their services.
By portability I was referring to being able to move your application to different servers by running your provisioning system.
> The complaint is that Apple is withholding certain APIs from public access, though nothing technical prevents it from doing so

And once Spotify proves that then maybe we can have a discussion. There is no data to support that claim. I can think of a number of reasons why they weren't ready to provide audio API's like battery reasons. Also Apple has released audio API's both before Apple Music (iPhone) and after (Watch). Spotify is just mad they didn't get them sooner.
It still runs the bloated JavaScript programs, just slower
I get that, I just find it funny. GitHub is certainly a good starting place.
really the entire concept of a 'store' has been bastardized by these companies (another thing we can thank apple for) and is a misdirect.

the locked down software platforms wherein users can't install anything on their own devices without the owning company's say-so is the artificial monopoly. they're trying to get away with adding things like device management now to weasel out of it but in reality these are artificially high barriers to entry for any competing software distribution services or 'stores'.

when Amazon can barely even get a foothold in a competing ecosystem with its own 'app store' you know it's anticompetitive and it's working.
Getting into YC second time around
Hi HN! My startup got the the interview stage at YC but were rejected. This time we doing a lot better and think we could get to the interview stage again. What does this second time around interview feel like? Should we act like they never met us before or just talk about progress?
Google has that data only when Chrome Sync is enabled, and only when you haven't set a Sync custom passphrase (which encrypts it end-to-end).
I don't get this. Can you elaborate? So you're saying because I bought an iTunes gift card that was $100 for $80, Apple will only ever get $10 of my actual dollars if I spend all $100? This is an interesting hack.
I agree and I don't think you deserve the downvotes. The FAA is an institution with a deep sense of safety first and independence from (and even dominion over) private industry.

They are also a body of experts, with more collective knowledge than any other similar body of domain experts in world.

If we believe in institutions of experts who study and make recommendations regarding complex systems, we owe it to the FAA to trust they are charting a prudent course based on the evidence they are gathering and analysis they are doing.
Looks like Google search share is still increasing but just slightly. Now But f share has fallen over 20% the last couple of months.

Google is at 93% so not a ton more share to take.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share