skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web was fine without these commercial companies. Not like their content added a ton of value to the web. The news is mostly propaganda anyhow, belonging to various wealthy parties that want people to pay for their propaganda... If they funded it completely out of pocket, that would be a more honest approach to these "businesses".

The other companies like FB, they took bunch of content that belonged to users that users had tools to publish for free and willingly put them in silos.

There is maybe 1% of content that needs saving. The rest of it is the same sort of drivel that you get from tabloids and I say making that stuff economic non-viable is a good thing. The elites though care about making it work because otherwise the democratic media is "fake news", meaning news heavily slanted to what people want to believe rather than what they are told to believe. If you want that, then they should pay for it. Not the people through taxes as Bernie is proposing... or this scheme.

Other than that we have good models like BBC or PBS on how to do independent government and publically funded programming.

In fact if we re-engineered the web so that there was no data sharing between various systems on the frontend, something like everything has to be served from the same canonical domain, and put it in law that you could not share data between various private companies on the backend without heavy regulation and oversight that would be a better web. I mean prism is already sharing all this data, why don't we put controls on that?
Ask HN: Can you source this pg quote?
I have been using a version of this pg quote for years, but cant find the original and it makes quoting it painful.

When talking about companies who behave badly (i think related to law suits) he mentioned that "companies that get used to winning that way forget how to win by doing well"

Please help!
fair phone 3? it has a replaceable battery
That's not really comparable. The candy store owner is still paying for the other brand of candy to collect dust.

Amazon isn't exposed to the same risks in a lot of product listings.
>Researchers working at a company are often thinking about solving company problems, even if their particular solution doesn't have management support yet

Yes.

But it's another thing to have a company's the management,
say "we want a team to create a language to solve programming at our scale" and throw full resources and money at it (at C#/Java/V8/Swift scale) and have it adopted by mandate for further development,

(as is often implied),

and another thing to have an independent group of a few devs at a company to sit on their own, and say "you know what would be interesting to try to build? A language to handle what we see as Google scale problems", and then getting some more resources, and seeing some at the company adopting it, as just one more language used along with several other company-approved languages for greenfield stuff...
Don't the Pixel phones have a lot of features that aren't part of stock Android?
Talking about "treason" (i.e. execution) for exposing lawbreaking by spooks is enough.
All the trends start in the 70s, which was the coldest decade of the 20th century. That doesn't say much at all.
Yeah, I'd love to see more websites accept tips in XMR (and see the Monero economy grow overall)
Pontificator
Maybe it's just the color scheme, but a lot of that UI reminds me of the Kickstarter-era demos for Light Table (in particular, the "lots of windows each with one function inside" pattern)
Here're some decent maps:

https://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2010/06/climate-vulnerable.jp...

https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4-enviro-econ-impa...

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/projected-im...

tl;dv:

- Canada, Russia, and Northeast Africa (Egypt/Libya) actually see positive impacts. For Canada and Russia global warming could be a huge boon, opening up large areas of uninhabitable permafrost to settlement and bringing in trade through arctic ocean sea routes.

- The US does pretty well, but with large regional variations. The Pacific Northwest and Northeast become more desirable, with fewer rainy days. NorCal does okay but faces increased forest fires. The Southwest (LA/Vegas/Phoenix) faces water shortages. The Southeast becomes a miserable place to live.

- Europe (particularly Southern Europe) is in trouble. Crop yields and rainfall drop in the South; the North is vulnerable to changes in the gulf stream.

- Africa, India, Australia, and island nations get fucked.

So basically, the worst effects fall on the global poor, while major geopolitical powers see mostly neutral (U.S, China) or positive (Russia) effects. Within those neutral countries, the benefits fall largely on rich heavily-populated areas, while the downsides fall on marginalized rural poor. No wonder we haven't seen much movement on fixing climate change.

Canada is a big surprise winner that could catapult it to geopolitical prominence. Right now it's the U.S's friendly northern neighbor; in 2100 it could rival the U.S. in power.
The FAQ mentions security. We've been working with a security consultant for over a year. One of the reasons we're in private beta is that we need to get security right before we're generally available.
Apple, when the data is hosted on iCloud

Samsung, when you pay for their cloud data storage
It doesn't have to be unmaintained. A 1911 pistol can be made to bump fire pretty easily, especially if you have it in a weird position. While it really isn't impossible, if you take kind of a Bayesian view, the likelihood that it was mis-attributed murder probably goes up considerably once you restrict yourself to the subset of double gunshot suicides.
That should really be the takeaway from any of his videos. Anything you buy consumer-grade can be cracked instantly by a skilled locksmith or within maybe a few tens of minutes by an average thief. The number of locks that I've ever really seen him struggle to pick can probably be counted on a single hand.

Like a safe - a lock buys you time, and hopefully the thief chooses a loud method of entry that attracts attention.
Oh wow. This is scaringly close to how we run geocod.io - right down to the ansible provisioning wrapper that I put together :)

> ./provision
provision usage:
./provision environment role [hostname]

This script will provision the given role in the specified environment using Ansible
If a hostname is specified, provisioning will be limited to that specific server
If you are on a trusted network or have a VPN into a trusted network this is not an issue, you can run your own recursive resolver. The real issue is the traffic between your resolver and the authoritative servers.

Using someone else's resolver (secure transport or not) just changes who you're leaking the information to, not the fact that you're leaking.
Vending Machines of Desire
What stand out is Google GVE driver. It's first of a kind:

1. GVE host will never see the light of the day

2. Never be used outside of Google's DCs

3. Hardware that backs its is very likely of Broadcoms origin, with their virtualisation API.

4. It made it! Unlike dozens of attempts by other companies to do the same for their proprietary in-DC hardware. How one does it?
I think he said the opposite. Someone said something like "she was 17, that's rape in the Virgin Islands" and he said that rape shouldn't be defined by what country an act took place in or whether the person was 17 or 18.
Then I won't be able to use them with my Macbook Pro
http://thehumanlanguage.com/order/

A series of 3 films is "just" $545 to order.
check out r/waxpen
Kindle unlimited is absolute junk; it's not curated. It's just a muddied lot of self-published spam. I just gave up trying to find content.
uf the linked judgement is not absolute, which means they threadened with something that might hold up. but does not need to. the judgement mostly validated the single case.

the letter/mail is just plain threatening. copyright law in germany is in a bad state so be aware.
What does commingling mean? In real world terms?

I ask because I'm unclear if shared SKU is a physical thing, a logical implementation detail, or some mix.

Is there a bin full of white 3' USB cables of the same type, regardless of supplier?

I had the impression that fulfillment centers weren't organized by product. Everything is everywhere. The robots retrieve the bins of whatever from wherever for the pickers to grab from. If this is mostly true, I'm not clear how similar white 3' USB cables get commingled.
Surprisingly, bio is pretty similar to software capital-wise, at least initially and the standard YC deal works well. Jared and Jorge wrote good pieces around this recently -

https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-biotech-startup-funding-wil...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/biotech-researchers-ventur...

Case in point - Asher Bio from the most recent YC batch went from zero to a working molecule & in-vivo data in ~3 months on the standard deal -
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/here-are-the-82-startups-t...
I adore my LG OLED TV. I cannot recommend them enough.
That's right, any pentester worth anything will know the stack used in a few seconds by looking at cookies or even sometimes just by the login page's url. For ex: different frameworks have different session and csrftoken naming, Rails and Django have recognizable url conventions, and there's always default error pages that usually give away the framework used.

Sharing is caring, be secure not paranoid :)
Almonds, meat, and golf courses are exorbitant consumers of water which no one needs to survive. You absolutely need water to survive.

One liter of bottled water requires 1 liter of water. One liter of almond milk requires 384. It is absurd that you justify almost 400x water consumption because "at least we get almonds".

I live in Florida. The amount of water I need is independent of bottles. If I drink a gallon of water from a pipe or bottle, I take a gallon of water out of the springs. If I drink a gallon of almond milk, I take 400 gallons from somewhere in California.

Your argument against plastic applies to almost all other things in grocery stores. The argument is specifically applied to water because everyone seems to have a personal grudge against Nestle.

Is bottled water wasteful? Yes. Should we dedicate more energy towards 400x wasteful activities in the same grocery store? Only if you want to be taken seriously.
You are probably thinking of the experience in e.g restaurants in the US.

In our business, we very much do verify signatures. The primary goal is to establish whether the signatures are intended to be the same - not as some kind of forgery detector.
What about your ISP? You already pay them for Internet access, how about adding a "content charge" to that, then have some neutral organization disburse that cash (based on traffic? usage? evenly?) to individual websites who promise no third-party advertising, no tracking, etc.
This is a decent amount of people but I think this is increasingly rare as more and more cars have Bluetooth. And it's not hard to update many older cars to newer headunits that have Bluetooth in them. (as I did for some of my cars) or just get a headunit that does power+transmission over USB too.
In Punjab most of the time they Have to, because staying back means competition 1000sof Over Qualified applications for a peon job, whereas coming over to First World means being rich in few years.
Yes of course you're right. In a way that's the big problem with the NBN - a 'national infrastructure' project that is a complete lottery regarding what you get is not worth the name.

40 odd km from me there are estates wired up with NBN's original FTTP. Yet in my location, all that's available is the hopeless Sky Muster satellite service, which tends to go offline for days at a time, and has trouble with weird contingencies like rain. It was originally slated as a last-ditch option for people in truly remote areas, but the hapless NBN Co has gradually extended its use to anywhere they can't be arsed to serve properly.

[Edit: as a side note, my location shows the corporate fakery behind the 'mixed tech' model. Using a cheap 4g modem from ebay, and without even so much as a fixed antenna, I can get 60Mbps down with 4g. Yet NBNCo doesn't make the fixed wireless option available here, instead foisting on us the 'outback solution' of satellite with its 600ms ping times, pitiful data caps & unreliability]
How about the statistics you've seen on Go?
> Yet they never reverse course.

The “trash can” Mac Pro would like a word...
Waitlisted people (like me) got accounts today. Yay!
GraalVM has several parts. If you want to run polyglot apps directly, yes, you need to install GraalVM. If you compile your JVM apps to native, no, you get a standalone binary.

Truffle is a developer-facing API.
The investors are not the only parties affected. VC activity imposes a tax on the society they operate in.
AWS has competition, there is only one darklang. While it certainly would be difficult for most to move away from their cloud providers, it can be done. Almost all cloud providers are just packaging together open technologies with their established internal conventions. There is a world of difference between "this is a pain in the butt and we should have planned better" and "you have to start over completely from scratch".
Ahh actually this makes a lot of sense. The thing is, I don't "pair" the scooter I ride - maybe it's Bluetooth LE?

Actually, I have an android phone around here somewhere loaded up with a BLE inspector app, gonna see if they actually broadcast bluetooth :-p
> the pool of [all consumers' discretionary income] is likely a small fraction of the pool of [all commercial companies' marketing budgets].

"Discretionary income" is a short-term idea, defined as [income - cost to maintain current lifestyle]. Over longer periods, lifestyles expand to fit current income and the idea is meaningless.

For instance, when cars were new, people could only buy them if they had a large chunk of discretionary income to spend on them. But now, most middle-class people own a car that costs more than their discretionary income. So discretionary income isn't a cap on what people can spend in the long term.
> to water a relatively standard size lot

There's a big chunk of the problem.

We really need to start pushing back against "traditional" lawns. In a lot of places you're not just socially but legally required to maintain a completely unsuitable breed of grass in a condition that requires enormous amounts of both labor and water. America spends more water growing lawns than it does on wheat and corn. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/grass-lawns-...
>> I really don't think you are Apple's target audience.

I am a creative professional - which, historically, was a very important part of Apple’s user base; and the reason I still use their products.

The ecosystem and workflow of using an iPhone or iPad to write a simple musical idea in GarageBand on the subway, and then finding it already on my iCloud on my MacBook Pro at home, so I can open it up in Logic and refine it, is unparalleled.

Anecdotally, I’ve never had anyone whom I’ve met, dev, creative, or casual user, who enjoys or uses the Touch Bar.

It’s not even just the touch bar. The keyboard, the soldered RAM and SSD which prevent upgrades, the lack of ports, when I spend more for a MacBook now, I’m getting far less than I did in my many years of purchasing them.

Furthermore, I could pull up a heap of references for this, but it’s a much more serious case with the SE form factor than even Apple’s current garbage laptop offerings.

There are practically a lot of people with smaller hands - they would be happy to give Apple their money but have nothing to give it for.
I Don't Use a DI Container
Why did you choose to have ec2s with postgres rather than using RDS? I've found it saves me a ton of time dealing with upgrades worrying about backups etc to have RDS handle it.
Well here is your answer https://youtu.be/r5BxjUmzPPA

I'm a Seinfeld fan (thanks to Curb, in fact) and I think you underestimate the success and relevancy it still has today, like Friends (but without the cheap emotional stuff).

As a fun anecdotal data, uTorrent stats on my home computer shows that Seinfeld is way way more uploaded that anything else I have.
The, ahem, documentary ‘HyperNormalisation’ seems to have the exact same footage: https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU?t=4947

(The use of Eliza in the film is hilariously nonsequitous, though.)

However, half of the clip looks like stock videos of people typing or looking at the screen, so not too much value in that.
Flying the baddest airplane the world has ever known – X-15
LastPass leaks credentials from previous site
> The next question then, is: how good of a camera does the average person need?

I have a family and now time seems to be running much faster than before, and you can't buy back this time which is even more precious now. I want the very best device to preserve this time in amber, while being able to fit in my pocket and simple enough to quickly point and shoot in less than ideal situations and lighting.
> I have no idea when _fat_ was processed, never my point. I know _exactly_ when my weight diminished. (I feel like I did not make this point very clear before)

I'm pretty sure you've been clear. Your idea is:

1. Fat is processed into fat waste at some point.
2. Fat waste comes out in urine in the morning.

2 is almost completely wrong, and you've provided no evidence for that assertion.

> It is well understood method to weigh yourself every morning to ensure you aren't measuring water weight loss. Feel free to argue against this standard, it's not my personal belief. I do believe doctors and physical trainers, etc... all use this standard.

In a scientific experiment, you control for a confounding factor by isolating the phenomena you are measuring from another phenomena that might screw up your measurements.

If you're measuring your weight every day, the confounding factor is the weight of things that aren't you: water/food/waste. So you separate out weighing you and weighing the water/food/waste by weighing yourself when there's the least water/food/waste in your system. So this is how you control the measurement of your weight for water weight.

If you're measuring the weight of waste products that come from processing fat, the confounding factors are still water/food/waste in your system, but the waste products that come from processing fat are mixed in with them, and there's no way to measure them separately. Measuring in the morning doesn't fix this problem. So this doesn't control the measurement of the waste products that come from processing fat's weight for water weight.

It is well understood that 85% of fat weight lost is exhaled as carbon dioxide, so if you're going to tell me what is well understood, you might actually want to find out more of what is well understood.
> Security people didn't want the RDRAND instruction to be trusted.

The recent AMD issues have shown that you certainly shouldn't trust rdrand blindly. Even using it after running some statistical tests would still have blocked the kernel bootup on affected machines.

> And nobody really wants their computer to just stop working

I would rather have my computer stop working than initiate cryptographic keys from an all-1s seed.

Of course filling the entropy pool should keep making progress, no matter how slowly, e.g. via the jitter RNG and eventually unblock the systeem. But until there's not enough entropy available for userspace it shouldn't pretend there is.
So does that mean hospitals with low number of privately insured (instead mostly uninsured and medicare/medicaid) will perform just as well as those with high percent privately insured patients?
NBA player to tokenize $34M contract, sell shares in ICO-like sale
That's not boring. That's sane.
Bokehs rendering backend is bokehJS

https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/dev_guide/setup.html
I think at one point, it was the case that they were made in-house, when they had a limited, well-tested selection of AB products, but recently (as the emphasis on profit over brand reputation has increased) they've begun also slapping it on white-labels.
I noticed that it seemed to entirely ignore that I use small caps instead of lowercase in my (non-cursive) handwriting. Pretty neat, though.
Nobody needs a smartphone at all, a feature phone can handle calls and texts just fine. People want the latest and greatest camera, processor, etc and are willing to pay for it.
People decided that paying nothing is better for them. I don't believe most people are even aware of the privacy implications or how that ties into the scheme of not paying anything. It's kind of like how most people don't really know the economics of Casinos.

Doesn't mean people don't value privacy. Just means that people don't value online services and content.
There’s https://barnacl.es/
A super interesting and refreshing read, especially since I am not very knowledgeable about web technology and most of the talk these days is about the latest fancy framework or database.

I am curious though, since I am using Google Cloud (App Engine in particular) for most of my company's modest backend needs: Would Google AE be able to handle all these backend requirements as well (but obviously without all the configuration and setup required)? Or asked another way: When is the point when you should move away from something easy and low-hassle such as GAE to something more advanced that requires a bit more manual configuration like setting up your own AWS servers?

Not trying to be critical, just honestly trying to learn from folks that know better than I.
It is unpopular to express opinions that violate the tenets instilled in every American in their civics / social sciences classes in high school.

Snowden had the same opinion though: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/exclusive-in-200...

I’m of the opinion though that Manning and Snowden leaked under orders from the CIA. Manning wanted assistance from Assange to a degree that would remove any protections Assange would have as a third party, and it is unlikely for Snowden to have obtained such a wide range of documents (allegedly scraping Intellipedia for backup) unless his superiors were totally unobservant.

To criticize the actions of either Manning or Snowden would be to criticize the US government.
which Florida.
This is unfortunately the narrative that the news has forged
I disagree. A lot of large German auto companies are opening tech hubs here in Lisbon, and from what I’ve heard after speaking to people who work there is that the company is well aware they know absolutely nothing about software and are years behind.

So they said screw it, let’s give engineers/hubs freedom to work with whatever technologies they feel would be best, structure themselves and control their output without micromanagement from above. Basically copy some trendy companies and see what happens.

One of the hubs adopted extreme programming, which I’m not sure about but perhaps has value in their industry. But all in all from what I’ve heard is it’s working well.

There is also a lot of non consumer facing software that compliments a car line. That all needs development and maintenance.
The closest thing that comes to mind is about companies that shift into patent licensing:

> When you read of big companies filing patent suits against smaller ones, it's usually a big company on the way down, grasping at straws. For example, Unisys's attempts to enforce their patent on LZW compression. When you see a big company threatening patent suits, sell. When a company starts fighting over IP, it's a sign they've lost the real battle, for users.

[http://paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html]
He was greedy against his castmates back then though https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/pact-brings-peace-to-th...
Isn’t iOS 13 not out yet?

I don’t have such issues on iOS 12 and my SE.

Of course “light usage” may be different between us...
I'm trained as a visual artist. I'd love to be doing that but it's not realistic for everyone.