skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are publishers (including the Washington Post, who are not signing on) that have decided that they have to transition from getting lots of revenue from a few people (often in one geography) to getting a little revenue from lots of people (all over the world). If this is your new strategy, Apple's offering might make sense.
Where's the data taken from? Couldn't find any mention of this on the site.
seconding the x1c6, fantastic linux machine. Lenovo's sub-model differences are a little bit baffling, but this means there are sometimes deals to be had on ebay.
good news is that it’s buckets. bad news is that it’s C++ and Java
I wonder for WSJ if you still have to call a high pressure sales line to cancel?
No "buy now" button... ie. still vapourware
Passphrases only marginally more secure than passwords (2012)
I wonder how much that has been changing as an increasingly large percentage of software is compiled far more frequently than in the past (JIT, formats like WASM and Apple’s bitcode, toolchains like LLVM becoming widespread, etc.). It seems like at least Apple could ship a new ARM instruction and be relatively confident that most of the important code would be updated to use it on a time-scale which used to seem impossible.

Java might be a counter-example but I’m not sure you can separate that from all of the other dubious decisions which happened over the years there.
The COBET Project; a project dedicated to making security tools
> I understand that it's important to "gain broad interests"

Its important, but I definitely agree with the OP its not ~40k a year and 3 prime years of your life important.

Its also something high school should be presenting. Its the literal last step that the state has in producing productive members of society from its curriculum, and they waste it on Shakespeare driving generations to "hate" reading than trying to diversify their students interests to get them excited about career prospects and opportunities they can rise into.

Its evident in how totally directionless and lost most college freshman are. They did what they were told in gradeschool, don't remember a fraction of it, and are now being drilled with the same kinds of banal "diversification" classes of lecture and monotony they have toned out for a majority of their life at that point.

Experiencing diversity is something that requires a desire to experience it in the first place. Forcing people to do it when all they want is a job that pays them a living wage is at least disrespectful to their self determination.
We are a small group of freshmen in high school working on security projects. We have been working on Ansa for over a year now, and Xase is a new browser we are working on. Ansa (a.k.a A Network Security Analyzer) is very similar to GlassWire (even though the development of our project started before them, we're still a good sport about it. We love you GlassWire!). It can view your network activity and show you which ones are bad. Xase is an in-progress security and privacy focused browser with an estimated launch time of 6-7 months. We have a discord you can join to follow the progress and become a part of the team.

noodles (a.k.a Gabe)
we should form a club or something. we’ll call it the gopher 8th light seekers and drink sparkling water +
bitch about go while the rest invent the future. in go :)
Ask HN: Can Larry Ellison Become the CEO of Tesla?
It's worth noting that Apple did not create the "50% revenue share" business model behind the Texture app they bought.

The big names in magazine publishing who created Texture did.

>New York, NY, December 8, 2009 – Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc. today jointly announced that they have entered into an independent venture to develop open standards for a new digital storefront and related technology that will allow consumers to enjoy their favorite media content on portable digital devices.

http://allthingsd.com/20091208/nows-the-time-finally-publish...

As for their revenue model.

>That service, which was eventually called Texture, paid out 10 percent of its monthly revenue to its owner-operators, who divvied it up based on the usage their titles generated. And publishers who sold their stuff through the service but didn’t own a piece of Texture captured 50 percent of the revenue, also cut up by usage.

https://www.recode.net/2019/2/13/18224013/apple-news-publish...

Apparently the magazine industry and the newspaper industry have different ideas on what a equitable revenue share might be.
OT: I'm sure there's a lot that Indians and Pakistanis are not taught about the other side because the facts are inconvenient for the powers that be.
You can navigate youtube to find what you're looking for with most of the javascript disabled. It renders a lot of what makes youtube awful mostly ineffective.

I've come to mostly search youtube explicitly for things or visit bookmarks of channels I enjoy, with most of the javascript turned off. When something looks interesting, it goes to youtube-dl and I close the tab to watch the video effectively offline.

This can't work forever as it effectively removes all the advertising, at some point they're going to start injecting the ads and suggestions directly into the video stream so even tools like youtube-dl consume the garbage.

But it's a marked improvement over using youtube as Alphabet intends, for now.
Yes, anyone who is elected actively campaigning against the bill would presumably not feel any pressure to vote for it.
If we’re splitting hairs, I believe that according to the default SGML concrete syntax a tag is delimited by angle brackets, so both the element and the attributes are part of the tag.
But we're not talking about subjective appreciation of the final product, we're talking about ornamental attributes.

A medium steak can be done "properly" and still suck, it's still a steak
I don't see how any sort of backups would permit me to browse and post as ‘aasasd@something.xyz’ after something.xyz disappears down Lethe.
Hmm, I have a hard time understanding what advantage these all in one devices have over the various VR lens devices for random phones.

That said i'm not really impressed with the basic rift device I have. Mostly because the core software seems like garbage. The first blue screens I've seen in over a decade were caused by it. Then there are all the non fatal problems like the fact that the software apparently wasn't tested on machines that go into standby regularly. Then there are the weird USB discovery issues the hardware/software has (the software wants everything plugged into different controller ports but can't seem to figure out the USB topology correctly 1/2 the time, meaning sometimes it works then it decides not to work unless the machine is rebooted/etc).

I would say it generally works better than some of the stuff I used in the 90's but the resolution is strangely lacking given the price of the thing and other devices on the market.

So that said, the core problem of VR making people nauseous definitely hasn't been solved with the basic rift. Pretty much everyone I've demoed it to gets sick on games/demos which involve first person perspective. OTOH, there are some pretty cool 3rd person games (witchblood, moss, etc).
Those cheap sub-$200 Dell Inspirons run Xubuntu no problem. No non-free wlan needed and storage is easily expandable with USB 3.0. No complaints so far the experience has been smooth.
The other thing x86 has which ARM doesn't is a doublewidth divide instruction that also outputs the remainder.

Interestingly, MIPS does a similar thing to x86 with a dedicated register for its multiplier/divider: http://chortle.ccsu.edu/assemblytutorial/Chapter-14/ass14_9....
So they're producing the basic materials but have concluded there is no long term business related to supplying graphene wafers. That means there are other companies already in that race or soon to come out with capital. Exciting times indeed.
Let's imagine the simplest case where the scientist never actually ran the experiment in the first place and just made up their data.

Looking at the p-value of a study doesn't tell you anything about how likely the study was to have been based on fabricated data.
Asus Vivobooks are fine and cheap .e.g S410U and easily upgradable (taking it to 16gb cost maybe $100)

Everything works out the box except the fingerprint reader (maybe in 19.04)
The more time passes the prediction of Amazon raising prices once it has destroyed the competition seems to be coming true.
This is hotlapping, it seems. A race would be cooler.
On the Internet, even if you're "ironically" being something, it doesn't matter - in text, where it's difficult to interpret intent, if you're being something ironically, you're still being that thing. And for those that find it hard to interpret the irony, all they see is you being that thing.
As requested:

System event Actual latency Scaled latency
------------ -------------- --------------
One CPU cycle 0.4 ns 1 frame (1/60 s)
Level 1 cache access 0.9 ns 2 frames
Level 2 cache access 2.8 ns 7 frames
Level 3 cache access 28 ns 1 s
Main memory access (DDR) ~100 ns 4 s
Intel Optane memory access <10 μs 7 min
NVMe SSD I/O ~25 μs 17 min
SSD I/O 50–150 μs 0.5—2 hrs
Rotational disk I/O 1–10 ms 0.5—5 days
Internet call: SF to NYC 65 ms 1 month
Internet call: SF to Hong Kong 141 ms^3 2 months

Conversions courtesy of Wolfram|Alpha, e.g.: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=65+ms+%2F+0.4+ns+%2F+6...
Regarding being labelled a right winger: not necessarily the case. The most left-wing political party in Sweden are against the EU, the Euro, and have a long term goal for Sweden to exit the EU. They "criticize EU for prioritizing the European single market's interest over the environment, public health, worker and consumer interests" [0]

[0]https://www.vansterpartiet.se/politik/eu/
"By 1978, there existed over 80 distinct Pascal implementations on hosts ranging from the Intel 8080 microprocessor to the Cray-1 supercomputer. But Pascal’s usefulness was not restricted to educational institutions; by 1980 all four major manufacturers of workstations (Three Rivers, HP, Apollo, Tektronix) were using Pascal for system programming. Besides being the major agent for the spread of Pascal implementations, the P-system was significant in demonstrating how comprehensible, portable, and reliable a compiler and system program could be made. Many programmers learned much from the P-system, including implementors who did not base their work on the P-system, and others who had never before been able to study a compiler in detail. The fact that a compiler was available in source form caused the P-system to become an influential vehicle of extracurricular education." (Niklaus Wirth)

http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/recollections-abou...
Tech side here if you have any other questions!
No but Nvidia still has a diversified customer base too. High end enthusiast gamers are only one component. Occulus seems to be trying to diversify a bit too.
Analysis of a Chrome Zero Day: CVE-2019-5786
I think the life experience of farmed sheep tends overall to be a little milder than wild mountain goats, although they are herded up several times a year which they don't much like - they are bred to be quite cool. Most seriously their lambs are separated and sent to slaughter, and eventually the adults are too if they don't fall ill outside. The slaughter operation is the most problematic and the stress could be reduced alot if it could be arranged on site. In the wild predation on herds and flocks is routinely very traumatic as well.

My major concern with sheep farming is that it is done at an intensity which keeps their ranges quite barren of flora. Tree and bush saplings and many native plants cant withstand grazing levels so ranges which could reforest and be more fertile wild or semi-wild habitats, end up tundra-like despite having much more potential for diversity, conservation or sustainable productivity.
> The Economist

> Its when they want both seo/viral traffic AND my subscription dollars that annoys me.

Have you followed TE on Facebook or Twitter? There’s plenty of clickbait there, although they do now hive some of it off to 1843 Magazine and Espresso
Speaking for hobby RC car racers in Seattle, WA, average racer spend upto $1000 for a decent rig. That too when there are no returns on winning races.
When I've had it (at a chain restaurant), it's been served like this - a bit of root and you grate it yourself https://i.imgur.com/oApgDKG.jpg

Of course it could still have been frozen beforehand and I wouldn't know.
Hippocratic medicine lasted well into the 19th century, centuries after the scientific revolution. There'd been critics correctly calling it an intellectual fraud before then. You could've taken this as proof that no force on Earth could drag medicine into modernity, but it did sort of happen, as it became public, common knowledge that doctors were harming more people than they helped. They did start cleaning up their act (literally) though it took a long time and I think they're still collectively irrational about chronic conditions.

I hope we aren't worse at reform than they were in the 1800s.
The interesting part was while not the whole EU does the protest? It would send a clearer message.
There could be lots of deals. Maybe the 50% cut drops after they get to 20 million subscribers. Maybe the WSJ and the magazines will get a lower rate for being an initial partner compared to the NYT or WaPo who might want to come on later if Apple News gets really big. The fact that WSJ isn't going to have any competition from the other big national newspapers means they'll likely capture most of the reads.
I'm surprised how many people in the comments automatically assume that fake meat will be safe to consume. Sure it appears identical but so does a clone of a sheep, and yet they live a fraction of the lifespan of the original animals. I think a little agnosticism, especially given the lack of research and testing on animals/humans would be welcome here.
I’ve got one of these as well, and it’s great at running Linux, but it’s SOOO much slower than my 6-core MBP.

Compiling any project that takes longer than 30 seconds kicks the fans into high gear, throttles the cpu, and leaves it nearly unusable until it’s finished.
iPad with mosh into remote Linux box in cloud. It’s the best!
Yep! I do this in traffic when bored...not when moving tho, just sitting in stop and go traffic. Its interesting to see the different patterns, doesn't seem to be much consistency to the pulse width they have.
Also second the X1 extreme. I bought for my machine learning projects and work. It comes with a dinky GPU (1050 TI w/ 4GB) which is useful for running experimenting with small deep learning models locally.

I was able to buy mine with 64 gb and core i7 (i7-8750H 6 Core Processor) during Lenovo's cyber monday sale for around ~$1,800. It looks like Lenovo is moving aggressively and is selling their high end laptops at a discount to capture the Apple audience. A similarly configured Macbook pro would run closer to $3,500.

I run pop os (ubuntu flavor) and it runs great. A couple of caveats. There is no linux driver for the finger print reader. Also it is super loud, anytime you do something intensive the fans start running. Additionally, you need to tune the laptop to get better battery performance. Usually, I disable the NVIDIA driver for general use which improves the life by 50 to 60%. And finally there have been some documented bios issues which have caused bricking. This is avoidable if you stay away from the touching the bios. Thankfully pop os makes switching between the drivers easy.

Overall, its a great laptop. Love the keyboard and the power under the hood.
> Here is a link... https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

That link does not "comprehensively debunk" anything shadowprofile76 was saying. It doesn't address the validity of the elections (or the legal ramifications for maduro's later actions). Where is that link?

Also, what can this accomplish once I click the link and find out it's irrelevant to the immediate discussion? It's very likely that you and I are the only ones reading this, so who is going to be fooled?

> Here is the interview

That vlog was already linked. Do you have some response to what I said about it?

> No one can take the position that they trust a Wikipedia page

I never suggested I trust a wikipedia page. As per usual, I scroll to the bottom and start clicking on the references.

> the official UN representative in the region

He's not an official UN representative. He is independent of the UN.

> it seems like you are not interested in the truth

What exactly is the point of making this statement? Do you think I'll suddenly "see the light"? Do you think you'll demoralize me so I'll shut up? What do you hope to accomplish?
I was actually making a point that what defines a tech company shifted over time.

10 years ago, we had some "hard tech" with a lot of tech innovation. I was arguing that the meaning of "tech company" shifted to a business company, using tech as a way to streamline operations. Those are very different in my opinion.

I obviously prefer the first one. But I accept that in the collective mind, tech company mainly means a website nowadays.
I was able to get AMDGPU & Mesa-OpenCL working reliably on an AMD RX480 with this release.

On 6 and 7 some OpenCL kernels would consistently fail with illegal instruction problems.

If you've been using AMDGPU PRO just for OpenCL support, and prefer running mainline drivers, give AMDGPU a try on llvm8 and a recent kernel.
Even if they were semi, many popular optics are restricted by ITAR.
Here's the _government_ of NZ arresting people for _not_ censoring the video, with a worse punishment than murder and rape: (fyi, all censoring has to be done via private companies, unless NZ has all government run internet and tv?)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/new-zealand-men-...

I absolutely loath the video, it's revolting. But as I mentioned ealier, worse stuff has been online and still is.

I think the problem is that many people don't want to really know what was on the video and be appalled by it without truly knowing.

Do you know what was on it? It was sick and terrible. But, since I have seen the whole thing (I made myself) I can compare it with other videos.

The last few years of ISIS videos of drownings, murders, pushing people off of roofs, mass shootings, etc... (only part of a few I saw, and what I saw was so terrible I turned it off)

A _slew_ of videos that are 10 times more graphic, sick and violent have been shown on CNN, Fox News and elsewhere.

So, if you believe this one video is worse than others, I would like to know which part is more horrific than people being burned alive in a cage? Yet, I didn't hear one single peep about censoring those videos, or anyone being arrested or jailed for sharing ISIS terrorist propaganda.
Just to be clear simplicity is the progression towards singularity and complexity is the progression away from singularity. Complex quite literally means to put together. The terms complex and simple are completely unrelated to easy or challenging.

That said, a task accomplished by a single nasty 5000 line function is three times more simple than using 3 small 10 line functions. Inheritance means to extend and is thus inherently complex.

The simplicity of a system is the result of the competing requirements the system addresses. A system that does one thing only is simple. A system that does a few things is complex. A system that does many things is more complex.

This can be measured objectively. There is a Github plugin called Code Climate that rewards a grade to code based upon things it considers cognitively challenging. Large functions and large files are punished by that grading metric. I prefer to organize my code with lexical scope because the structure of code directly reflects the availability of capabilities. That is more simple but it also tends to result in really large functions that are trees of child functions. In this sense the Code Climate grading metric punishes that form of simplicity and instead suggests breaking things apart into many pieces to be put together. That is a punishment of simplicity in a very direct way even though the result is clean code that is faster to read.
" It's not the (debatable) "oversized bureaucracy" that has drafted and works on passing Article 13: "

Article 13 is 100% an EU law.

Pointing to the fact that maybe it's really just in the interest of specific French and German entities really only serves to highlight possible existential issues of legitimacy of that body politic.

Also, the fact that Wikipedia and other entities have to take such drastic action, never before seen, leaves no doubt as to how out of touch and unrealistic this legislation is.

Together with the $1.5B in fines today, and of course recent special French taxation legislation intended to get around the fact they view Ireland/Ducth systems as 'havens' ... well it would seem there are indeed some existential problems.

A 'winning' position would be to have something like Google based and operated on the Continent somewhere, generating real returns and exports as well.

All of this is good for discussion, but ultimately they're moves of players with a weak hand.

If long term conditions were set appropriately, the tables would be turned and the problem would be Trump threats on imports (as he does with Volkswagen). Those are 'good problems' to have.
Also curious – I looked up my own company and was surprised that it had pretty accurate data on our own team, as far as location. Not everyone on the team has LinkedIn or any other obvious source they could pull from.
For those down voting my comment above, I think you have no idea what happened in that mosque. It was really sad, only one person tried to help anyone. Everyone else just laid down. Literally (I mean _literally_) just laid down and waited to be shot.

Imagine if you are trapped in a room with your family, women and children and a gunman is coming. Would you tell your family to just lay down and wait to die? And you wouldn't try to do anything at all?
I roll a die three times. I get three ones. P<0.01 (for the null hypothesis of a fair die and the two-tailed test on the average).

Hmm. At a glance, that doesn't seem right. Yes, the chances of rolling 3 1's is 1/(6^3), but if we only rolled once and got a single 1, we wouldn't have any reason to suspect that the die was unfair. So maybe we should only consider the second two repetitions, and conclude with p ~ .03 that the die is unfair? Otherwise, consider the case that we rolled a 1, 5, 2 --- certainly we shouldn't use this series of non-repeated outcomes as p < .01 evidence of an unfair die?
What you want is a one-tailed Binomial test:

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

You need these ingredients:
- The scientists polled for whether they're rising up need to be randomly sampled from the population of 7M
- A threshold for the fraction of scientists rising up to consider an uprising to be occurring (e.g. 90% of scientists rising up indicates an uprising)

Then you can poll your scientists and feed the results into the Binomial test to find out whether there is statistical evidence to support the hypothesis that an uprising is occurring.

Note that the sample size to do this might be quite small. In general, the required sample size is not dependent on the size of the population, but rather on how close the actual fraction of scientists rising up is to your chosen threshold. If the true fraction of scientists rising up is much smaller than your threshold, say 10%, and your threshold is 90%, it might only take a random sample of 10-20 scientists to be confident there's no uprising. But if the true fraction is 89.99999% it would take a huge sample to be confident that no uprising is occurring.