skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you had to have saved up money in the first place in order to make a downpayment on the mortgage. If your rent is so expensive that you can’t save any money then you aren’t going to be able to get a mortgage anyway. And if you can save money for a downpayment then you have to compare the opportunity cost of investing those savings versus using them to buy a house.
Not to tread too much into political territory, but if Warren or Sanders is the next US President I'd assume he will receive a full pardon.
According to the book 'The Everything Store,' Amazon's search engine is a matter of internal contention. Years ago, when people noticed that Amazon's search engine was terrible (as it is), someone from another group in the company developed a new search system based on Elasticsearch and more modern technologies. He presented the new search to Bezos. But there was an existing team whose primary responsibility was the search functionality. And the man who led that team was one of Bezos' personal friends. That man was, apparently, petty and status-seeking, so pushed back against adopting the new search engine. Bezos proposed that there would be a contest between the old and new search engines. Judged by his friend, head of the current bad search engine team who didn't want the new search because it threatened his status. Predictably, the new search 'lost.'
Fanaticism in programming languages sometimes sounds very funny
Yes. It's obviously common practice to partition systems in cars. The infotainment is not running the ABS or airbags.

That said, the people who work on infotainment have to take safety very seriously too. Even just static visual imagery can cause distracting optical effects if it's high contrast or the right shape/pattern. Anything with motion or audio presents very real risks.

If you take the 30k foot view, tbh, the auto world seems kinda nuts. We buy objects that are a sizeable fraction of our annual income if not more, that very rapidly depreciate, and then 20 years later we toss them out as scrap metal to recyclers.
Then, from my experience, when the mouse-clickers are done, you employ an army of C-coders to work around and/or abuse the (expensive) AUTOSAR components until the system (somewhat) does what you wanted it to.

In my case it was AUTOSAR in name only. Our higher bosses thought we were running AUTOSAR, but the lower you went, the understanding was firmer and firmer that what we actually ran was custom software.

Oh, the days numbered part - nah, I don't think so. AUTOSAR is for very low level stuff, I think unholy combinations will live on for a long time. AFAIK all the component (like hardware, Bosch for instance) vendors only provide AUTOSAR components for integration. Not sure, it was a few years ago I was in the loop.
When I first started getting back into chess a few years ago, I absolutely _could not play_ blitz or bullet -- after the opening, I'd squander all my time in a few moves.

After a few months of practicing, though, I really started to enjoy it -- it really _feels_ like time dilation / thinking faster when you complete an entire chess game, to mate, in the range of 2 to 6 minutes. I'm also certain that this practice has helped me a lot with focus when doing technical work.
[I'm still a lousy player, but that's beside the point, haha!]

p.s. re : American chess : Nakamura is, in my opinion, one of the greats -- and he [like Carlsen] has that quality about him that gets kids excited to play chess.
[On a different note, it's great to have Hou as a role model for girls who want to play - I feel like she's up there with Polgar in the 'inspirational' category]
I get a little bit worried when I read that they want one platform for everything, the security needs of different systems are too different. I'd say a modern car needs at least 3 separate systems:

A low level system for all critical features, this should be coded as safely as possible and run on a slow almost unbreakable computer.

A selfdriving features module, doing all the computations that are too intensive for the low level system. The low level system must be able to detect malfunctions in this system and act accordingly.

An infotainment system, just assume that it has been hacked when designing the other systems. It should be simple to prove that this system cannot take over the rest of the car.
It's unprofessional to let prospective customers know that EasyDNS is not a company that specializes in handling DDOS, so just keep looking for a company that can help you out? Seems refreshingly honest to me. And as a customer of theirs, I appreciate that they're looking to protect the infrastructure that I rely upon.

Regarding that second part; if you do any kind of online service provision like EasyDNS, you'll quickly realize that the scammers are legion. EasyDNS is giving fair warning to anyone who thinks that they can just burn domain after domain on spamming or other disreputable ventures. EasyDNS won't allow its infrastructure to participate in scams.

These guys are extraordinarily ethical and professional.
The numbers you cite are in Hong Kong dollar, so 400 USD for an extremely small flat with no windows, and 1000 USD income, which really is not much when you factor basic necessities.
We are literally talking about intelligence, for which the best model in nature are humans. It's difficult not to be anthropomorphic in general.
Lovely. "The Holy Missile".

"The Holy Hand Grenade" was comedy in a movie. "The Holy Missile" in real life? Not so funny.
> Can you trust your own hosting though?

Some people, organizations, or groups can, absolutely.

While this is definitely a valuable question to ask, self-hosting is still valuable for many. Also, as we have seen repeatedly, assuming a random company will devote resources towards security can be a very silly assumption.
This is the evil of fiscal policy. Inflation is targeted not at 2%, but 2% plus erasing all the non-fiscal economoc gains of improved technology.
I received a legal "threat" via ... LinkedIn.

I had a situation where some competing company didn't like that my employer had one page where we compared competitor's products and used their logo (and others) on a simple comparison page. The usage was well within US law.

LinkedIn was a strange route as the company has been at the same mailing address forever, there are obvious email contact addresses available to find and so forth.

The message was vague enough to sound like it was from a lawyer, and even in a round about way seemed to try to create the misunderstanding that I personally would be in trouble of some sort if I didn't take down the image and any mention of their company... but without actually saying that.

I suspect by directly contacting a webdev they hoped I'd take it down without thinking and just move on.

I didn't respond, just forwarded it to the folks in charge who engaged a lawyer who responded with a letter telling them to go away. Never heard back from them.

I looked up the person who contacted me later, they were some PR drone, no legal background... just vague statements that sounded like legal threats.
Ugh, why embed tiny videos that can't go full screen.
Are you referring to the AMD Drivers?
Most US goods come manufactured from China. While China has a large counterfeit market, it's mostly restricted to inside the country.
> There is nobody who questions whether his actions were legal,

A number of people have suggested that at least some of the programs he revealed were illegally classified to conceal their own illegality (and at least one was found to be illegal in one of the court cases fueled by the revelations), and that no lawful prosecution can proceed for revealing material illegally classified in that way.
It seems not so clear cut?

This article mentions a controversy on the topic:
https://physicsworld.com/a/is-photosynthesis-quantum-ish/
Investments aren't simple wealth transfers.
I think OCaml/ReasonML seems like the nicest choice, even if you're using the Elm architecture. Functors make it really easy to combine components, which actually makes it nicer than Elm for the same tasks.
That 'through one man thing' comes from Paul (Romans 5:12, if you want to get specific).

Historically, not all theologians were big on female agency (there's even a theory that a woman only fully takes part in the imago dei when united with man through marriage, whereas a man has it on his own; can't quite remember if that was a Jewish of Christian thing, though...)
I think it's downvotes because Amazon is not a store, it's a marketplace. And it's well different than BigBox because there is way less capital outlay for both property and goods.

Downvotes for bad information, not snark
Something else I'd wonder is whether there are other sources of entropy that could be used here other than the disk -- as improving disk IO is what seems to have caused this particular issue in the first place.
>The small sample data suggests secret and illegal NSA attacks on Hong Kong computers...

From your source. You're flabbergasted that I think the illegal programs you brought up were illegal.
>That said, how many times have we seen this story in other industries?

This is a great post, but it could really use a list of actual examples from other industries.
Again, the biggest problem for Ed Snowden is when Putin decides to hand over Snowden.

Snowden is a card with an expiration date. Sooner or later Russia will try to use it to get something back.
When I spilled water on my keyboard, I actually walked into a Fry's and got a better deal than anything online, for a genuine Microsoft keyboard.
We combine version control, deployment and feature flags, with the intention of simplifying the three concepts into one.

The idea is that you use feature flags to manage versions (my video on the blog post goes through that workflow). We haven't yet got features to support moving back to old versions (apart from undo), but we will.
With a power-supply it's not a hard problem to avoid. You have to hire independent engineers to evaluate the product design and establish testing procedures to verify that the product isn't unsafe. And you have to do QA and design verification during receiving on all batches of product to confirm that the manufacturer followed the design. I've never had a power supply catch fire and I've done some really dumb stuff in my lab. Frankly it's a matter of paying for UL/CE marks(including testing) and actually looking at the component layout, and Amazon doesn't strike me as the kind of company to respect that kind of QA/Verification work.

Batteries are a different story because they're basically tiny plastic bombs. Somehow Samsung managed to deliver almost 15 years of Android phones before having their batteries catch fire, and that was almost certainly a result of skipping essential QA/Verification processes because they've never had a problem before.
I don't assume he would, but I do hope he does.
Nope, that's not how it works. They can simply sue you in the jurisdiction in which you live, getting a court order for you to reveal the information. Details of where it is hosted doesn't matter.

Unless you don't mind serving indefinite jail time for contempt of court.
AmazonBasics isn't any more trustworthy than any of the junk you find on AliExpress or at Wal-Mart/Target/Best Buy. (Except that it has a good return policy backing it, I think)
Apologies, we don't know why this is happening - something with medium and vimeo. The videos on our home page go fullscreen: https://darklang.com.
Until the pendulum swings Republican again and he gets thrown into jail. Remember Chelsea Manning?
It makes sense- if Anker's batteries start exploding, nobody will buy Anker's batteries again, and that's a significant part of their brand.

If Amazon's batteries start exploding, it's not quite the same magnitude. People will still shop at Whole Foods.
In contrast, his (counter-)interviewing skills are impressive. Thoughtful and unflappable.
>The font in the screenshot is `Iosevka Slab` which _is_ monospace -- `fvim` currently syncs with the neovim grid system and doesn't support proportional fonts well.

Aha, looked like a proportional font was used to me. I'd use a more well designed monospace font for the first impression!
That seems like an interesting assumption, given than Snowden had to escape the country when Obama was the president.
Gene editing on an embryo involves making a choice for an unborn person without possibility of consent - and their children, and their children etc.

That assumption of knowing better than the person affected is 'playing god' in a way that doing a surgical procedure on a consenting person isn't.

Obviously that stuff is already done today - abortion or medical intervention at an early stage where the parent acts on behalf of the person.

One of the things that's different is the scope and power of these techniques.

Look at the diversity of domestic dogs, from great danes to toy dog breeds - that all came through selective breeding from the same wolf ancestor in a few thousand years.

Also remember that humans are 99% the same as chimps at the DNA level and about 85% with mice.

Direct, untrammeled genetic modification of humans could unleash huge changes in a very short time.

Until we are clear about how we want to manage that, it's easier to have a moratorium.
Give me you cedula and I will give you YOUR password.
You should report them to Plain Text Offenders[0]. They're doing God's work.

[0] https://plaintextoffenders.com/

[0] https://plaintextoffenders.com/submit
> The market is not about fairness. The prices are about what some segment of the market will pay.

It's all about perceived fairness. If a price doesn't seem fair and alternatives exists (e.g., paper books, piracy), consumers look elsewhere.

> One side effect of higher prices of the traditional publishers is that it opens a door to self published authors offering books in the lower price range you mention.

The masses want the new John Grisham, Danielle Steel, or whatever is popular right now. The odd self-published author gaining a small audience does not offset this.

> […] but for now are happy with capturing the premium market. […] Can you cite figures for that? I would expect video and music and pc games to all have far higher rates of piracy.

The publishing industry is rather miffed at not getting as far with e-books as they thought they might get. I don't have exact figures (although they shouldn't be hard to find), but publishers and their representative bodies have been complaining about e-book piracy in the media a lot.

In 2014 Dutch research company GfK estimated that only 10% of e-books on e-readers was paid for legally:

https://www.ad.nl/economie/e-readers-staan-vol-met-illegale-...

An interesting related article from a Dutch newspaper from a month ago for who can read it:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/keurige-boekendieven...

Nobody bats an eyelash at loading hundreds of pirated epubs on grandpa's new e-reader, and book clubs happily share their digital copies in Facebook groups.

The situation may vary by country, but in the Netherlands the vast majority of people pay for cable television or streaming services like Netflix, buy CD's or tracks on ITunes or subscribe to Spotify, and game on consoles or use Steam. Piracy is marginal; except for e-books, where it is commonplace.
I personally don't think it would be unethical if Snowdern were to be killed while still in Russia. This isn't likely to be a popular view, but the fact is he's still alive and well in Russia. If the roles were reversed, Russia would likely try to poison him on American soil.

Snowdern knew that he was committing crimes that would be tried in a private military court. The US Government isn't required to disclose damages that he's done. There are classified reports on this already, which will be surely brought up at trial - behind closed doors.

Snowdern isn't likely to come home due to his self-serving fallacious argument about a fair trial. Therefore IMO he should just be taken out. The USIC probably has good reasons to not do so, maybe for perception or diplomatic reasons.
> It's $CURRENT_YEAR, I don't think we should argue pedophilia. Or rape. Or Slavery. Some things should be considered settled.

That's a bit like saying that since we proved the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, that we can now throw away all proofs of it and simply assert it.

If it took civilization a long time to figure out that slavery is wrong, or that children can't consent to sex, then it's an error that people will continually fall into; every new person that is born needs to be taught not only that those things are true, but why those things are true.

"Settled" should not mean that there is a clear, concise description of exactly why something is wrong to point somebody to and / or repeat every time someone asks. It should not mean, "We shout down and ostracize anyone who asks, 'OK, but why?'"
Why should I go for a vendor locked, proprietary solution that could disappear at any moment for any critical infrastructure? Especially when it requires a proprietary language no one has ever worked in before while there are at least a half dozen tried and true tech stacks that do this exact same thing, are not proprietary, and engineers already know them?
I really enjoyed Rodney Mullen's autobiography. He talked about how when he was a kid he would get home from school and skateboard for six hours. Every single day. Trying new things, inventing tricks that nobody else could do. And then he'd go to competitions and completely dominate because he was doing things nobody had ever seen before. That's the dedication it takes to be a pro.
The article is about deep learning, not AI.
Have any of them mentioned anything about it?
> If you always want an Array-like object, just always use querySelectorAll

`querySelectorAll` doesn’t even return an array-like object. It took w3c almost two years to add a forEach to it.

It’s also so badly designed that MDN docs has a whole section oh how it behaves with unexpected results and how, quote “to restore expected behavior”.

So all perceived benefits (like the separation between Element and NodeList) are badly contrived and trumped by how badly they are designed in comparison with a 15-year old library whose core API was designed by one person.
I’m sure Amazon’s competitors are the best source for unbiased feedback about the quality of Amazon-branded products.
paywall ha. Could we perhaps agree that whomever posts an article with a paywall should summarize the points made?
Fact that Guantanamo Bay is still open speaks volumes.
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I don't buy from Amazon simply because they've become a dump of all things crap for years. Their UI is horrid an tricks you into clicking on ads by putting them in product listings. And they treat their employees like dirt.
> That’s not true at all. The people are the ones who elect the politicians, remember?

Don’t be so naive.

In most democracies that I’m aware of, to win a politician only needs to win 51% of the vote.

I’m in Australia and we have a preferential instant-runoff system[1] so it rapidly gets way more complicated than 51% majority, whereby most of our recent federal elections have been “won” by minority (less than 51%) parties forming a coalition.

What you’re saying, then, is Bangladesh is full of savages and not to come there as a tourist, whereas it’s well know that Iran has a problematic government that frustrates it’s well educated, fairly ordinary, citizens.

Edit to add: Trump didn’t win the popular vote neither; he won due to a quirk of the US electoral system. So I stand by my argument that we shouldn’t judge people by the politicians who claim to represent them.

Edit to add: I just realised who I’m replying to. So now I have another question: why would you even write that? How do you get to being an appellate lawyer and think the political system wholly represents people’s beliefs? This is a genuine question.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Australia
Go is garbage-collected just like .NET.

Rust indeed always pushes you towards efficiency :)
We Are Giving Away $100m to Creators with Mozilla and Creative Commons
How do I work with a team of people on something like this? How does it deal with conflicts?
They still teach Romeo and Juliet in schools, right? Couldn't their deaths have been prevented with a quick text message?
My problem with Amazon is that I dont know what to trust anymore. For every product I buy off Amazon, I spend time reading "verified purchase" reviews, 1 star and 2 star reviews and may be then find an item that seems legitimate and durable. I only recently learned that "Amazon's Choice in category X" label does not necessarily mean that Amazon has actually vetted that item. So my experience shopping at Amazon has drastically changed.
After Losing 'The Office' & 'Friends', Netflix Gets 'Seinfeld' Streaming Rights
The author's cut, the publisher's cut and the cost of printing the book are each about 10% of the gross[1]. The rest goes to the retailer.

[1] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-d...
The US Embassy in Moscow would happily take him in and provide travel documents, tickets, and an "escort". It's clear Snowden doesn't want to take that approach. (I wouldn't, either.)
>These guys are extraordinarily [...] professional.

I think part of OP's complaint is they are not coming across as professional. It is entirely reasonable to take those stances but their tact is way off and definitely portrays their company in an unprofessional manner.

They might be good at what they do, I wouldn't know personally, but they come off as edgy/abrasive/unprofessional and those two quotes alone would have me second guessing if I wanted to work with people who communicate in that manner.
He mentioned me again today. Sept 16 2019
Very relevant for 2019. Next they should announce "All in the family"...
> This is the evil of fiscal policy. Inflation is targeted not at 2%, but 2% plus erasing all the non-fiscal economoc gains of improved technology.

This is a very confused comment. The part that's coherent enough to clearly identify what is wrong is that it refers to “fiscal policy” when it means “monetary policy”, which is the policy targeted at particular inflation rates. But even aside from that, the whole claim is incoherent.
Agree. Any chance Trump will do it on a whim? I’m not a fan of the political character by any means, but afaik he’s known to be doing contradictory things for whatever reasons (if it matters I’m also not a US citizen and I’ve never been to the States).
Sorry, no, that's not the argument I was trying to make. I was trying to show this by starting the sentence with "Coincidentally." It was just a separate observation about the same topic.

I am frustrated by plenty of things that Amazon does, by the way...I just don't think that this is a particularly bad feature of theirs.
Amazon used to have the best service, best quality products, and best prices, so practically every HN user loved them.

Now they're wavering on all three of those fronts, and I guess that fact really bothers most of us
Atlantic Ocean may get a jump-start from the other side of the world
I believe he is referring to the 'PRISM' program that the NSA used.
> Profit sharing and equity grants

This works so long as the corporation doesn't try and muck around with how their profit is recorded. See "Hollywood Accounting" for examples of this in practice in union-using industries.
You're being stubborn, clinging to a singular notion of what god is in order to label it as malevolent. Of course the god you envision is malevolent, because that's how you designed it!
Kind of Like That: Perceptual Hashing
Are you talking about echo location? I don’t believe this is understood to be a form or communication?
It's on because HN is under attack by a botnet. Sorry; we know people hate it and we don't like it either. The plan is to replace it with a different approach, but this is not likely to happen during the current attack. However, if you (i.e. anyone) email hn@ycombinator.com we can put your username on a whitelist to exempt you.