skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comcast isn't holding anybody back from innovating. If anything, wireless carriers may break their monopoly suddenly. Google, just like old Microsoft, by a vertical monopoly from OS to applications, is actually already doing harm to competition and innovation. You can feel the tech clock slow down in the last ten years. Imagine what small companies would be doing about security and privacy in search and browsers if Google didn't own that space completely. Imagine what the hordes of rest-and-vest half-working Google Ph.D.'s could be doing if they weren't hoarded by Google because of monopoly money.
Custom and Border Protection buying 2.2M pairs of diapers for tent city
You are right and that's the way industry is moving slowly. Currently publishers provide the following:

- Toolkits and tutorials for inexperienced writers. If you never written a book, you probably don't know first thing you should write is outline. You probably also don't have good templates with typography and layouts that gets instantly recognized as good modern book.

- Taskmaster that keeps nudging you: This is super important role. Book writing is tremendously taxing job for most people and its very easy to get in writer's block, put off things and distracted.

- Regular advances: Almost all publishers would deposit money in your bank account at specific intervals during book writing. This keeps you obligated, at least morally, to keep going.

- Book reviews, editing: Various services like cover design, proof reading, recruiting technical reviewers etc.

- Marketing: Almost all publishers would buy sponsored spots on Amazon as well as Google. Some top-tier publishers would have journalists do book reviews, podcasters invite you for interviews. Some very top-tier publishers would have you do book tours at their expense. However, 90% of the authors will end up doing virtually all promotions themselves.

- Brand recognition: Publishing from very top-tier organizations like MIT Press has huge brand recognition due to their stringent selection process.

I think the future of writing is not even book-size publishing but probably series of posts published as chapters online.
My experiences were all with their "dedicated" or "managed" cloud services. Although I did notice that their marketing seemed to shift in the last months I was working with them for that employer from "let us help you build things on Rackspace" to "let us help you move what you built on Rackspace to AWS"
bullshit. Saying that Microsoft went through some drastic changes would oversimplify it. As a former employee, Microsoft was basically another company after the anti-trust thing.
When you resize a window in MacOS it is already builtin that it is aware of the edges of inactive windows. The edges of the active window you are resizing will very lightly snap to the edges of other windows, such that is nearly impossible to make two windows either separated or overlapping by only a couple pixels.

It's too bad that there isn't at least a hidden property in `defaults` to adjust the intensity of the snapping. Hammerspoon and Karabiner work well for the type of audience found on HN, but coding your own customizations can seem like a lot of work, and there are still some unnecessary limitations to what you can do.
Don't forget recaptcha.
Storm 2.0
The news office writes the press release not the co-authors or research group, but yeah it kinda sucks. They get a proper shout-out in the third paragraph. Should have really just been written that way in the sub-headline and introduction.
I suspect the reason Netflix is better here is because Netflix goes out and chooses its content, and has few incentives to discriminate between what it shows me -- its incentive is largely to keep me using the service enough to justify renewal, however that happens.

Amazon, meanwhile, has an incentive to show whatever ads pay the most. In this case, it's something of a winner's curse situation -- the ads that pay the most are often the ones that overestimate the value of an ad placement, not the one who correctly estimates the value of an ad placement. And if the ads don't generate the expected revenue, as long as Amazon can find more suckers, there's never a feedback loop occurring where Amazon's poor ebook ad placement ends up aligning with anything they care about. So I get ads for a lot of self-published trash (either in the Get Rich Quick With Bitcoin variety or the modern day romance novel sort), Amazon gets money, and most of these authors need a very low conversion rate so what do they care.
And at least they'll be free. After all, your kids will pay for our gun registry with confiscation, and the religious census with death camps.

No one ever said that the tree of liberty could survive on water.
This is why you should never buy/sell electronics used for sensitive stuff like this second hand. Cases like this might seem bad but are still quite isolated and unlikely, imagine if the seller deliberately implanted malware, or buyer trying to get past your 2FA.
You can use Google Analytics through the <amp-analytics> element [1], but since AMP prevents third-party scripts that were not approved by Google, I'm not sure how you would include other trackers in an AMP site.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
If you want to kill this in Utah all you have to do is say that this will be used against CCW holders.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/08/21/university-...

Can’t do the same in California though
I have yet to read Vinge's books, but Joe Haldeman's The Forever War is an excellent book that also makes good use of this effect.
Do you also provide services for proof-reading, cover design, marketing (or connect people with these expertise online)? It would be great to have community of people offering services to book writers for money or royalty.
Apparently -- it's the Panopticon :(
it was just a bunch of examples of stuff that was specifically done on top of my other job resps. also, not every place is the silicon valley and not every company is a fortune 500, plus some perspective about relative worth also applies - i.e. the automation stuff was calculated in time saved by the Indian based testing team, which reduces the raw impact.
There is no difference between you moving with velocity X and the other party moving with velocity -X; or you moving with velocity 2X and the other party being stationary; or you being stationary and the other party moving with velocity -2X. There is no experiment you can perform that will tell the difference.
How to properly install an SSD and extend the life of your computer
How hard would it be to add Router function to Apple TV box with latest Apple SoC and tvOS?
No offense to you personally, but I find the opinions you expressed to be naive and self-centered. The open source software you're releasing (scratch-an-itch software) is much different from open source software that we all use, which requires people working together with the goal of building something impactful. Most open source requires effort from many people for development, testing, management, and maintenance, and requires sustained work on it over a long period of time. If everyone had your attitude, it's unlikely that open source would exist as it does today. No Linux, LibreOffice, VLC Player, or even matplotlib, D3.js, Firefox, Tor, or even wget.

People do often do open source to build a reputation, or to be able to push their vision, and both of those motivations should be encouraged. Furthermore, the attitude of "I built the technology and it's not my problem if people use it maliciously" is dangerous.
>Would people be even remotely okay with this if mass shootings weren't becoming a daily occurrence?

...but isn't this addressing a symptom, as it were, and not the problem?

I know I'll probably get down-voted to hell, because this is primarily an American board, but if the issue is systemic to society, shouldn't society redress the cause[s]?

Inb4 the "homogenous" argument: Yes, American society is homogenous but so are other societies. Wouldn't something like, say, affordable (or free), easily accessible and not ostracised mental health tools be equally or even more effective?

I get that people are scared of mass shootings and that drives the reactionary responses we are seeing, such as this, but wouldn't be better to find ways to reprieve the causes?

After all, it wasn't that long ago that "going postal" was a common parlance in American English for such events but those particular events (postal workers "going postal") have diminished - considerably.

Edit: So, clearly, if the rates for postal workers "going postal" have considerably declined, then something can be done to prevent these events - but this would have to be on a societal scale; which is a daunting task, I'm fully aware.
Android Barricade – How Does Android Ban Effect to Huawei Users?
Pilots made visual contact in at least two cases, so not just a sensor glitch for those.
Cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNYuEKW-ek
The Crawler/Analysis Component of Are We Private Yet?
They're certainly not free from dying at school.
But at the very least my mom's contact list shouldn't be able to be used to send me targeted ads in search or suggest contacts to me in Gmail. It would be isolated to those products owned by that newly split off sub-company.

Sure any 3rd party app I install can track me to some degree, but it can't compare my usage against my entire email history, my travel history, recordings of my voice...
The problem comes in many guises. A similar problem arises when someone says "Y" doesn't work. After going on a long trek you find out "Y" is just fine - they had some other problem "X", had done some diagnosis and decided it was caused by "Y" being broken.

After many years of being dragged down this rabbit hole my first question is now "what makes you think Y isn't working". If the answer is "because X is doing ...", you've just dogged another hours wasted time in another rabbit hole.
Brexit 'causing' more British nationals to become Irish
Been following it for a while, btw: https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelhoffman/status/11228390743...
Sounds like a teenager wouldn't be a viable candidate for president, then, in which case why does there need to be a rule forbidding it?
Also don't forget that they also jiggered the switches to not be able to shut off MCAS alone, only together with automated trim.
That is absolutely horrible. What country was this? Isn't that illegal?
"how do they defeat the speed of causality to relay information back home?"

Why must 'they' (assumption there) 'defeat the speed of causality', exactly?

Even at light speed, the information will beat any physical threat to the home region, permitting some kind of response.

Also, the idea that 'causality' is bound to the speed of light is, in my opinion, simply a result of our limited understanding. Just as relativity opened new vistas, it is likely a new theory explaining gravity, dark matter, and dark energy will provide entirely new, fundamental understanding - and possibly FTL communication/travel.
That assumes the sensors are likely to disagree if they're broken, which may not be true.
> you dont think a human being with a full time job in the first world country deserves basic privacy of 1br apartment?

That's an entirely different question, and I don't know the answer to it. I do know $18/hr isn't enough to pay for that in NY though. It would be great if wages would go up or rent, become cheaper so it could happen.

More generally, I see nothing wrong in a single person, with no children, needing to share a house for a few years until they establish themselves financially. There are many people with far higher pay than $18/hr who live with roommates, or parents, until they have enough saved up to buy and move out. I've done it myself. And I think historically speaking (I could be wrong about this), people have always lived with family or rented a room (even shared a room) until they got married - Western society has only changed in that regard in the past 50-60 years.
Kind of a waste of such a nice street grid for such low density housing.
LOL! Concur.
That's the trouble with armchair parenting advice. "Haha".
just to put things in context:
greater tokyo area is 38 million, the largest urban economy in the world.
I don’t dismiss other proposals. I dismiss this one in specific.

Our current housing market isn’t perfect, but like democracy it’s the best we’ve been able to come up with so far.
This is probably the scammiest submission title I’ve ever seen on Hacker News.

I love it.
A big problem is that even 100% cut doesn't amount to much if you are writing technical/programming related books. So this should probably not be the biggest decision factor. The advantage of not going with publisher, however, are MANY:

- You can open source the book. This can help you gain much more audience and career recognition.

- You are not bound by having to fit in to publisher's specific series, its style of writing

- You can chose your own title. Most publishers in technical books arena will force you to have title that is consistent with their series.

- You do things in your own time without pressure, may be even open sourcing book from day 1

- You are not bound by page limit. Most publishers would force you to have 250-400 pages, no matter what. My personal philosophy is that the most useful books are the shortest and personally I would prefer to write books that are as little as just 50 pages.
Why you'd want to fill your house with [internet connected] webcams is beyond me, let alone cams in your kids' rooms. People are weird.
I wonder if you could do what remote browser does and drive Firefox by the web extensions api, https://github.com/intoli/remote-browser.
There is no way to compare India to the US. Homelessness in the US is a matter of (lack of) policy and indifference.
The college dropouts, and the people with truly useless majors, have a real problem. For you, there is an obvious path forward.

The 40th percentile household income is $50k. Live on that. You can thus put the extra $50k toward the loan, paying it off in less than 2 years.
The 'Ai' part of this article is the only area I know about in detail, and it isn't looking so good...

Current 'AI' methods are a long long way from being able to simulate inter-company politics with any kind of accuracy.
> I know I'll probably get down-voted to hell, because this is primarily an American board

Please don't include this sort of off-topic provocation in your comments. It's against the site guidelines to downvote-bait, and nationalistic assumptions in internet comments never help. As it happens, the HN audience is about 50% in the US.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And I think the engine is generally heading in the right direction now.
Oh you'll love the Reddit redesign then. Gets old fast.
It just needs better driver support. It looks good so far.
As far as I can see this mught actually be a good idea if:

- you want to make your software as open as possible

- while still making money from it

It would require the manufacturer of the software to have some momentum but it sounds doable for some.
The Dangerous Folly of “Software as a Service”
As I have several children I feel the concern. I feel the same concern when they ride in a car with friends... which they are way way more likely to die from.

Do I stop them from riding with friends? No, because it's in their best interest. Freedom and growth comes with a necessary risk.

Instead of worrying about the weapon of choice, I'm more concerned about why people want to murder. Let's try to fix that.
I think you are greatly overestimating their power. It looks to me like they're walking on eggshells precisely because they can't really exercise the power you think they have without immense backlash.
Are ear infections common for divers? Is protective ear gear not common/not effective?
The problem with this way of describing "Bezos framework" is that, according to research, the things that you think will make you unhappy in the future will probably not. Predicting your future emotions is a fool's errand.

That said, the most reliable way of minimizing regrets when faced with a decision of doing x vs not doing x, is to do x. Inaction is not something your future self will be able to rationalize, and that's why missed opportunities are so painful.

In other words, don't think whether you'll regret doing something. You most likely won't. Worry about NOT doing something that sounds like a good idea, because you will probably regret it. Don't try to predict your future emotions because you will fail. Just do it. Do that thing you're wondering about.
I know it's really hard to wrap our head around the idea of objective worth of human lives but we already have calculations for the statistical value of life[1]. We only need to do a similar calculation for our freedom and then we can objectively determine when it's worth it to trade lives vs freedom. At some point (if not there already) a few lives is going to be statistically worth less than the freedom of the entire population.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life)
DigitalOcean drowned my startup. 'We lost everything, our servers'
"Being a drone would explain accelerations that would kill humans."

It doesn't explain:

- Operations far from any support vehicles (no carrier like the F-18s had). Must be a nuclear/LENR/antimatter power source.

- Going from hover to high supersonic/hypersonic. No current hypersonic platform has anything like that capability

- The acceleration involved in the extremely rapid course change at the end of the one video has been estimated at "hundreds of Gs". That's far beyond the current highest performance missiles, which top out at a few tens of Gs. This is similar to several historical reports.

- The lack of conventional wings, control surfaces or visible windows/sensors

- The "field effect" visible around the object at times. There's no technology in the open literature like that.

I find these videos extremely convincing, and interesting!

request: Provide a way to do decent lists!
Here's an example with numbers to illustrate what is happening:

Let us say that a ship starts at a distance of 100 ly (lightyears) and moves with 0.95c (speed of light) for all of the distance toward the observer through empty space.

Light will need 100 years to cover the distance. The ship will need ~ 105.26 years (= 100ly/0.95c). The observer can not know that the ship launched before the 100 years passed that it took for light (or any other signal!) to arrive. So it looks like that only 5.26 years later the ship arrives, making it appear that it only took 5.26 years for a distance of 100 ly which appears like a speed of 19 times the speed of light (= 100 ly / 5.26 years).
No.

I don't even want to imagine what a team of developers would turn into if they didn't have to fix the bugs of the stuff they write and kept continuously building "shiny new things".

Also, this would turn ugly (violent) pretty soon in my opinion.
Right author, wrong short story.

The short stories that inspired both Total Recall and Minority Report can be found in this anthology: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780806537948
Making the diagnosis of any medical condition easier necessarily can't be pointless
They can use the open source version of Android without the commercial programs like the Google Play Store, etc.
If historical context is important, then you might want to mention that Rome was a hereditary empire. The 5 good emperors were all adopted by emperors who had no sons. In the historical context of Rome, Marcus didn’t hand Commodus anything, or empower him to become emperor. He rightfully inherited the position.
I'll say this only because I found out the other week and it blew my mind. No other reason, and I swear I'll never do it again.

It's 'minuscule'. With a u in the middle. Mental.
I'm all for removing hyperbolic epithets automatically, but without "best" the title did not make any sense.

Edit : Also because the title is exactly conveying what the article is about; no need to spend a ridiculous amount of money for a truly great smartphone.
Your comment makes it sound like you believe there was a single person with nefarious intentions or criminal negligence who chose to put lives at stake in exchange for profits.

That is almost certainly not what happened. It is more likely a system of procedures and policies which failed. The company should take the hit, but unless an investigation reveals otherwise, I see no reason a single individual should take the blame for all of this.
Fair to the user - less than with FOSS, but more than with proprietary licenses. Fair to developer, yes.

But the problem for me is that if developers don't have incentives aligned with their users', then we get low quality software. I am a FOSS user and have been for many years, but while I appreciate the freedoms it grants me, the whole experience is... Let's say "inconsistent". I would prefer limiting some of the freedoms in exchange for better software, and especially in exchange for having it at all on mobile.

I think the somewhat extreme view FOSS movement holds about freedoms actually hurts opensource adoption, because it hurts its quality and availability.

Note that I don't mind Amazon (ab)using FOSS so much as I mind not having any freedom on mobile.
This is the main inescapable one for me. I have uMatrix to block analytics and all that, but so many websites simply wont work without recaptcha.

My solution lately has been to feed them junk data until they either give up on me or erroneously perceive my input as non-erroneous (not sure which it is). Takes some time, but to me it’s worth it. If we can get enough people doing this they might have to get rid of it all together. (Vastly unlikely, but a guy can dream, right?)
Graduating does not count as dropping out. Since a 4 year degree does not require completion within 4 years, it makes sense to extend the statistics longer. That way you include people who tried to spend extra time to be able to graduate.
No surprise there - the "living like nature" part was the whole schtick of Nietzsche's philosophy. More like an Epicurean with a healthy dose of Cynicism than a Stoic, if we have to make that kind of basic comparison. He would probably conflate Stoicism with the (nowadays prevalent and in many ways successful) "English" approach to values, which he considered a reversal of the "true" values that's driven by resentment, and a philosophical dead-end.

Though Nietzsche did also develop a highly refined statement of "living in accordance with unchangeable nature" through his idea of Amor fati. The fact that he acknowledged this principle so thoroughly despite opposing many other parts of Stoicism must surely be of some significance.
> I don't think $1500 is what it now costs to live in the middle of some cool city, but basically that's what it costs to live deep in suburbia in any city with a lot of jobs. It's not just SF or NYC, but pretty much all major metros in the top 20 or so.

$1260 will get you a 1br in downtown Atlanta.[1]

In Midtown, which is much nicer, a 1br will run you $1400-1600.[2] From personal experience, there are also some not-so-nice parts of Midtown where you can rent a whole 2br house for that much.

If you're willing to drive a bit you can get a 1br for around $900.[3] It takes 12-28 minutes to get from here to downtown in rush hour traffic.

1. https://www.apartments.com/post-centennial-park-atlanta-ga/c...

2. https://www.apartments.com/broadstone-midtown-atlanta-ga/7mt...

3. https://www.apartments.com/ashford-druid-hills-atlanta-ga/m1...
I have heard authors making as little as $500 and very rarely someone making more than $5000 from technical/programming books (outside of top 1% books). Given you easily put 500 hours of work in a book, the best possible outcome for vast majority of authors is literally minimum wage payment. Most authors are competent enough to make 5X more on their regular jobs so they are certainly not writing book for money.