skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very hard for me to take a service seriously upon seeing the "$5 per user per month (billed annually)" pattern on the pricing page. It's sneaky. Gas stations don't show prominent signs with the price per gallon and "100-gallon minimum" in tiny font beneath.
I use the one fetching from flickr.
Do you think that's how it works in practice, any evidence?

I suspect the authors now are getting the same, or less, and the publishers are both charging more for digital (despite their costs being lower) and taking a higher proportion.
I am inclined to agree, however Amazon basically offers you the service of scanning and rebinding as a service, and as you said that is basically selling the rebound book.
Congrats! It looks awesome!

I love KinesisAdvantageII. Having two of them myself both with Cherry MX Brown! One for office, and one for home.

I can see some similarities and some differences comparing Keymouse to mine. It looks like a mix of Ergodox and AdvantageII!

Very much like it that you are offering different sizes.
In a production system, it's highly unlikely that there is anything on the host besides the VM. You're not running qemu on one core and an unvirtualized database on another. Amazon is not running an S3 file server on the same physical machine that's being an EC2 host. The only valuable thing is other VMs.

And I think that there is no common configuration of OpenStack or libvirt that assigns unique access control labels per VM. Every qemu runs with the same privileges, ergo one exploited qemu can laterally attack another. (But maybe there's something nifty I'm missing?)

(Agree that for the use case of desktop virtualization, a good SELinux config can keep it from accessing your browser cookies.)
> No consumer will pay extra for this feature, so it's also in the publishers interest to accept and move on.

Cool, then it's useless and Amazon can simply withdraw the feature.

But realistically, it gives Amazon a competitive advantage over other audiobook distributors and hence is something consumers will pay extra for, or at least change their purchasing habits for.
I think it depends on color and clarity but I imagine a pretty good amount.
CA worked on his presidential campaign, not his Senate campaign.
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Shopping on Amazon has deteriorated gradually over the last three years. It has become enough of a chore that I am considering dropping my Prime membership. The third party sales flood the market with so much crap that it drowns out the quality vendors and the reviews are nearly worthless at this point. I don't how they fix it, but it is broken now.
... Xerox, DEC, Compaq, Polaroid and Avon. They were bright stars that never set.
What's so good about the apple ecosystem everyone hounds about? I don't see why you'd want to lock yourself into paying 5x more for every tech product you'd ever want. All of that stuff has an Android equivalent and Bluetooth now. It's not 2011.
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It's the old motte-and-bailey argument; the author stands in the bailey and asserts "there is a living God, who created you and cares for you individually, and I have detailed information about this God's nature."

When you ask to see some evidence for that, the author runs back into the motte, and says "obviously something led to the existence of the universe, and all my information about the nature of that Something is subjective, which you can't impeach. Since you can't prove my subjective assertions wrong, I'll continue to claim I'm right. If you don't accept my claim you're being unreasonable."
In software terms, by buying a book you are purchasing a (transferrable) license to read a story. An audiobook is a (generally nontransferrable) license to hear a story.
As far as copyright is concerned those are different things, so since publishers do want more money, why not charge twice.
I strongly believe that they are a part of the content, just not in the traditional sense. Many times I find more substance in the comments than in the main content. Sure it's great to have more control over which commenting system to choose, but would adding a native commenting diminish that control? Certainly not right? (If you check out ghost's forums, you will find many people asking for a native commenting system)

Yes none of those static site generators support commenting, making them not very suitable for blogging(they dont even support searches). That is why I am not a proponent of static generators as a blogging platform.
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Pointer validation via hardware memory tagging has everything to do with C, because it is only due to C's shortcommings that millions of research dollars keep being spent to try to make it work.

In what concerns Solaris, and the requirements for future Android with ARM memory tagging, the system allocator is all there is, at least from official support point of view.

Hoare hardly needed to pursue such endevour, because all systems programming languages derived from Algol, like ESPOL, NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, PL/8, BLISS,.... were sane regarding bounds checking.

Hardware validation of memory is the only way to tame C, the alternative is to just dump the language, because as proven by ISO C11 dropping Annex K, very few actually care about making the language safe.

However given UNIX's dependency on C, it is also quite clear to me that in the next couple of decades C will be around, long after I am gone, and business opportunities to create companies on top of CVE exploits due to memory corruption bugs.
Yeah I wouldn't draw attention to the concept of software longevity anywhere. New SAAS by a solo developer is not what I think of when I think of things that will last.

OP you're just straight up not going to get people for who stability is a priority any time soon. Your target market is people who like to fiddle with their work tools, likely beyond pragmatism and in to productivity as a hobby territory. Guy that wants to get his organisation on to something and know he wont have to think about it again, ie the guy who cares about "built to last", is going to go Salesforce and call it a day.
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There is inspiration for design, and then there is completely copying a design. This website copied CSS exactly, just open up the source and you'll see the exact same css classes.
Inconsistent localization of names and people struggling with pronunciation an unfamiliar glyph is not a problem unique to English native speakers.

As a counterpoint foreign names - let's say Serena Williams - can get sort of inconsistently mangled in Czech too. Sometimes it'll be left alone as "Serena Williams", sometimes localized "Serena Williamsova". And the sometimes the "W" might be pronounced correctly or mistakenly pronounced as "V".

Nobody's perfect, people make mistakes and if you are able to suggest a correction then most people are happy to learn the "correct" way.
Here's a quote from the Ada interview with S. Tucker Taft

>Do you have any advice for up-and-coming programmers?

> Learn several different programming languages, and actually try to use them before developing a religious affection or distaste for them.

> Try Scheme, try Haskell, try Ada, try Icon, try Ruby, try CAML, try Python, try Prolog. Don’t let yourself fall into a rut of using just one language, thinking that it defines what programming means.

> Try to rise above the syntax and semantics of a single language to think about algorithms and data structures in the abstract. And while you are at it, read articles or books by some of the language design pioneers, like Hoare, Dijkstra, Wirth, Gries, Dahl, Brinch Hansen, Steele, Milner, and Meyer.

I think this point...

Try to rise above the syntax and semantics of a single language to think about algorithms and data structures in the abstract.

...is a stage that not many programmers reach (I certainly haven't). Agree or disagree? Or do you think it's importance is overstated?
Maybe not exactly how I would put it, but yes, the simplest solution, sprinkled with a touch of elegance is fine. OOP fails because most problems don't involve a taxonomy, they invovle "I need this from here to get to over there with some kind of assurance it did that."

Read about 12 factor applications, those are the real issues, not whether you can bolt a taxonomy to ingesting a CSV file.
Well, if I have stayed with ubuntu 16.04, there wouldn't been any problem at all.

My understanding is that dell ships the OS with some proprietary drivers which were there on 16.04 but they they were missing on the default 18.04 install.

Anyway, the driver issue took me a couple of hours to fix which I did only once.

It depends on your priorities, it's totally worth for me, instead of having to install xcode and register an account if I want to compile anything.
Veggie burgers caught in a war over the future of meat
The paper notes another, distinct, attack possibility:

> Before going to this, we mention quickly another mistake in the design that could in itself have led to devastating attacks. The generators that are given in public- key.json are generators of the whole multiplicative group. However, due to the Chinese remainder theorem, it is a good practice to use a generator of prime order. In the present case, the generators will have their order divisible by 2, and therefore there is a huge risk that one bit of information leaks from a ciphertext. In a context like e-voting where a ballot can have a very simple form, this bit of information could reveal a lot of the vote (or even all of it in the case of a yes/no question). In principle, we would have had to investigate more in this direction. But due to the main attack that is much easier and far more powerful, we keep this as a remark.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05127.pdf

This still leaves the question why the developer(s) decided to roll his/her own crypto in this way:

> A possible explanation is a confusion with the key size that can be used when using elliptic curves for which the Number Field Sieve algorithm does not apply.

This is such an obvious mistake that the entire protocol (whether or not it's ever documented) might be vulnerable.

> Another less excusable but still possible explanation might be related to the use of the Ethereum blockchain. In the Solidity programming language that is used to write smart contracts, the bit size of the largest supported integers is 256. Maybe the authors did not want to write a multiprecision arithmetic library that would have been required to deal with larger key sizes. This hypothesis is supported by frequent tests in the source code, checking that the big integers they manipulate are not bigger than SOLIDITY_MAX_INT.

This seems more likely. However, that last sentence checking for overflow sounds like another trove of vulnerabilities.

Moreover, the claim by the developer in the ZDnet article that a patch is forthcoming seems suspect given that it will need to also include multiprecision arithmetic functionality, where there are still more opportunities for snafu.
Definitely doesn’t fit the humans are bad narrative.
> each country can either: a) mutually agree to cancel all debt

Sovereign debt doesn't mean that countries owe money to each other. Most of the debt is owed to private investors (banks, funds, etc).
What makes the risk of malfunction higher compared to a standard power supply plugged into an outlet?
Great guy. Here's an anecdote from that time. He spent a few months on sabbatical at our lab ( https://ai.vub.ac.be/ ) in those days. We were preparing robots for a NATO Advanced Study Institute ( https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642796319 ), and I was struggling writing the serial driver for a custom embedded computer for this as the system kept crashing (due to a bug in the dram controller). Anyways, Rod Brooks, offered to help me with the coding. It wasn't needed as the code was not the problem, but I don't know many professors that could and would be prepared to dive in that deep.

P.S. I posted this comment in reply to a Brooks reference a few days back, but might be more on topic here.
>But I never understood why once I have the audiobook I could not be allowed the text version for free.

The opposite is also true, that Amazon removed and no longer allows text-to-speech for Kindle books, except for certain devices that advertised the feature like one of the Kindles and the Fire Phone. I use my wife's old Fire Phone to do this, and it works rather well.
> but the law in the US and UK (for example) is that you are free to refuse service to anyone you please as long as it is not illegal discrimination (e.g. in the UK, race or sexual orientation).

There is more to discrimination law, including "gotchas" like adverse impact.

> or they will have to be controlled in a way similar to what China does in order to keep decisions on censorship, exclusion, and provision of service within public hands.

The Western nations seem more concerned with who and what is banned from a platform, the Chinese the opposite, banning speech the Party doesn't like and, perhaps more in line with the West, leveraging these companies as intelligence assets.

In this way, the Silicon Valley companies themselves are more like the Chinese whereas the current administration less so.
> Do people write their own static site generators because they're bored, or because templating is always annoying and it's more fun to write your own than learn a new system?

In my case [0] because I wanted to generate the site from a single Markdown file. I wrote a Perl program to accomplish this. Then I got bored and wrote a Python version as well.
And it works, I have kept up posting to my blog [1] for 150+ days since it went live.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[1] http://plurrrr.com/
So an entire group needs counseling ? The desire to end ones gene pool is not mentally sound but is a self correcting issue I suppose.
The whole publisher intention behind copyright and license rights is that you shouldn't think of digital products any differently than you think of physical products on a shelf.

They don't claim that at all. Digital items are typically licensed, not owned outright (as is the case with a physical book).

That said, the way the market is currently configured, audio books are a separate product from digital text. That's fine and legal. But, we don't have to like it. I have a legally blind* family member and it always feels a bit like a scam when she has to repurchase books that somebody else in the family already purchased.

* She can see, barely. For complex texts (particularly textbooks), she prefers to have an audio copy as well as the printed/digital text.
Great. I accepted the audio performance and that's what i got. Can i run the audio performance through a speech to text engine?
I remade the example with placeholder.com:
https://codepen.io/_def/pen/MWgpqmq
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Also country-dependent. In Sweden, most modern stoves would be 240V, but with the possibility to connect two (or even three) phases.

I imagine that the same stove models are sold all over Europe, but that in countries where multiple phases are uncommon, the stove would come with a 240V plug already connected (i.e. set up to use a single phase).
>> the amount of money and effort people waste on 'enterprise solutions' that are both orders of magnitude more expensive and inferior".

Let me give you another perspective: One of the reasons the Enron scandal happened was because traders for a major canadian bank,my former employer, kept the trades on their deskop Excel and audit and risk had no way of knowing the actual risk to the bank.
When I was hired to build an expensive enterprise app that allowed only limited set of financial models, every single user hated it at first: it was both orders of magnitude more expensive and inferior". But the bank now has full uptothe minute knowledge of its risk exposure and the system has proven itself.
I find it noteworthy that the author chose to touch on kmod and driver installation. The fact that mucking about with graphics drivers is so common it gets so much air time so to speak. It goes to show the headaches Linux still has to overcome, but reminiscing about how bad WiFi was just a few years ago gives me hope that they're going to hit the nail on the head eventually.
Depends.

I had some success with Terry Prattchet's Discworld? Especially Moist von Lipwig series or The Watch.

Like, if you get hooked, suddenly you are reading the rest of the series and you kinda have to become a regular reader :D
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I own over 300 Audible audio books, about the same number of eBooks purchased from Google, Apple, and Amazon over the same time period.

As an example of the value of audio books: several years ago I read James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and I did not totally follow the story. The language he used is interesting. A year later I bought the audio book, narrated by four or five excellent actors, and even with the strange language, the story really came to life for me.

I also like to listen to audio books while walking.

BTW, I try to buy books on different platforms so if, for example, I lost my Amazon account, then my entire library would not go away.
Canada is a failed state. The PM has been found guilty of so many things over the years, but the government is too corrupt to do anything.
A big part of the reason that there's so much Chinese property investment in the West is the belief that confiscation here will be much less likely than confiscation there.
It makes otherwise tedious activities much more enjoyable.
Do you also feel entitled to the movie adaptation or graphic novelization?

If you bought the Rob Inglis reading of The Fellowship of the Ring, would you feel entitled to the BBC Full-Cast Dramatization?
There's a difference between people exposing a bug and publishing it, revealing the flaws inherent in the implemented voting system, and people finding a bug and using it to manipulate the vote directly, then revealing the manipulation to 'overturn' the vote. Which ties into what I said earlier. It's going to cause a crisis and it can be used to spin a narrative about how they're under attack from the West and/or America, further cementing their hold on power. Really, there are so many things that can and have gone wrong in attempts to mess with elections that I just don't see the benefit for anybody.
True, they can just ruin your life, but at least they can't just kill you. That makes it totally okay.
Tell HN: Oracle now requires you to login when you try to download JRE
Oracle now requires you to create an account and login when you try to download JRE from the JRE download page at https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html
Presumably they weren't available in French either but Gaudry knew English.
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I'll pronounce numbers like 0xF000 as "F thousand"
Hanlon's razor says incompetence over malice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Reason: Only white male speakers.

I once organized a conference in theoretical physics and we put a female from a publisher just as a female on the list for the quote. It is really bad. There were basically no females in this field and/or we couldn't get confirmation by the few ones (roughly 20% female professors in physics in Germany).
This site and the links per country makes for interesting follow up reading:
https://commodity.com/debt-clock/
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It is absolutely correct. And if you can, you should try to gain some understanding of the inner workings of the languages you use. That often explains why feature X is not implemented.
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>I'm not sure why you're so upset about this.

Why did your parents didn't love you?

See how redundant and non-sequitur this psychological question is?

The "upset" question is equally irrelevant, whether they (the parent) are upset or not.

Who said they're that much upset? Who said it upsets them more than other more important things? And even if they are, who said it's not important in their line of work (e.g. a translator or proof reader) and thus it's not justifiably a pet peeve of them?

Parent didn't come in swearing, fuming, writing in all caps, etc -- they merely made a point.
I hope someone uses this line of reasoning on main TV channels: CHRONICLE, HACHETTE, HARPERCOLLINS, MACMILLAN, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, SCHOLASTIC AND SIMON & SCHUSTER are trying to make it illegal to read their books to your children.

All with their logos on the screen.

Oh. Can I dream...
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Most would agree there are plenty of ignorant people on either side. Nothing new there. For those who appear to believe that Brexit is merely born of ignorance & populist nationalism, there is https://briefingsforbrexit.com/ - contributed by pro-Brexit academics and writers who focus on argument rather than cheap rejoinders.
This is also a repost from last month, where there were similar comments left.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20523868
It's not the strongest kind of proof, but it's still evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning

I think we literally mean different things by the word "bias". It doesn't have to be intentional.

Even if somehow the population they were drawing from was 99.6% male, I would not comfortable with conference organizers who just passively accept that. At best, they're still perpetuating other people's discrimination. I think the fact they didn't even care to address that is what made these speakers uncomfortable enough to leave.
> the law in the US and UK (for example) is that you are free to refuse service to anyone you please as long as it is not illegal discrimination

Just wondering what does it mean and how can this ever be enforced? Does this mean that you can refuse service to anyone as long as they are not part of any minority?
Good question!

I'd nominate: Postgres
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If there wasn't such a clear PR nightmare for fighting a feature for the visually impaired, they would have.
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>>"[..] but it has allowed deeply indebted nations like Greece, Japan, and Italy to service their debts."

Anyone that put Japan, Italy and Greece in the same page and fail to point that Japan is using its own currency, and the other two are not, don't understand what he is talking about.

>>" [..] if the BOJ or the ECB was to simply buy bonds directly from the treasury without removing an equivalent amount from circulation by holding it as reserves it would be massively inflationary. [..]"

Why it would be "massively inflationary"? He fail to tell us.

>>" As tax revenues fall, debt to GDP ratios will rise. Rating agencies will downgrade nations debt and investors will demand higher interest rates to compensate for the risk. "

Why this has not happened to Japan already? They have been done this for years and years.

Edit - recommended lecture: "Building bank reserves is not inflationary" (1)

1 - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=6624
just wait til the red flag law gets passed
Thanks, I fixed the typo now :).

As I mentioned, there will be an API soon (same as I'm using for the frontend). Just have to document it.
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It’s true for every discussion on HN