skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The video you linked talks about using normal user terminals as relays. A couple of those won't be full bandwidth, but your mid-ocean service wouldn't need to be full bandwidth.

If you see my comment and others, using user terminals as relays is going to be very difficult, if not impossible. The EIRP/GT of those terminals will likely be very low, and that single relay will cut the bandwidth significantly. They also have much lower availability than a gateway, which makes the routing decisions harder.

> I strongly disagree.

What beam size do you think they're using? It's not really a question of IF they want to. Doing so on a cheap terminal can easily break FCC interference guidelines due to sidelobes, thus making it not their decision. That's the reason why these systems design for a very specific elevation limit from the user side, because anything else would either have too poor performance at the detriment of the entire satellite, or it's illegal if you're transmitting where you shouldn't. The performance degradation is very serious as well. It can be as bad as a single user consuming 10x more satellite resources than a nominal user, just because they're outside of the coverage of the beam.

So I realize where you're coming from in that they can do it, but I guarantee given the link budgets and cost-benefit tradeoff, it's simply not worth it to cover that far off boresight.

Look at a picture like this:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Schwarz5/publica...

This is clearly not representative of starlink, but rather a GEO constellation. But the same concept applies: they will have tiny 0dB contours, and it rapidly falls after that. Serving users outside of the main contours, while it might be feasible given their antennas, is a massive hit to capacity on the entire constellation.

By the way, I think this dialogue is good and neither of us are going to convince each other. I think we will have to wait and see a year from now and revisit these comments.
It's trivial to have multiple Lua states running in different threads in the same process. Messaging and data exchange between those states is easy and LuaJIT gives you a lot of tools to make it painless.
Multiple Families / Single Family / Married / Single, and I apparently live in 3 different states. It did get the "Chrome" part right, though.
…and you know what? If Apple's payment system makes your app better, you can use it! That's how it works on Android, and it sometimes bugs me when things use their own payment systems, but that's also the point. Google's payment system brings value. Sometimes it even brings '30% per purchase' worth of value. Why does Apple have this weird inferiority complex about theirs?
No idea why are you being downvoted. It seems like a pretty accurate description of what's happening.

We don't have much of that in my country but we have it with women. Anyway it will eventually reach us as we're already colonized by American culture.
How did it shift from Russia to China, the same guys are still in power, the only guy that changed is Trump(I think he
has mentioned China a lot but no idea if he caused this shift of attention or just using it).
Lengths exist in the world, and regardless which length measure you choose, they can all be added the same way.
These policies exist because we live in an imperfect system that does see race and actively favors whiteness. It’s the pinnacle of white privilege and ignorance to say that “I don’t see race.”
There are services that operate on Android with open source implementations of the Google proprietary services which have been designed for lock-in. https://e.foundation packages up the work from Lineage and MicroG and sells phones with the software preinstalled.
It's how things went down with aol
You're overestimating the technical aptitude of the average person. If it's not a URL or in an app store, it basically doesn't exist for a lot of people.
Boycott Chinese Products
paperarchive.home.blog/2020/06/19/boycottchineseproducts/
If you don't like Amazon, good luck not using anything that touches AWS.
...Apple stepped in and essentially said "Nah, fuck that, you either implement in-app subscriptions in your app and give us our 30% or you can go suck an egg"...

For the record they actually said https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1272976901762478080/photo/1

...but thanks for translating it into mid-oughts hip-hopper mixed with 1940s farmer/GI/zoot-suiter!
I don't think it's passive aggressive. It could actually just be a mistake. I've emailed (admittedly much smaller) news organizations before when their RSS feeds went down, and received a response and a reinstated feed.

I wouldn't bet money on it coming back, but if this was an intentional move I might have expected them to replace the page with "Sorry, no more RSS, try our app!" or something. They are also still linking to the feeds at the bottom of many pages, like this one: https://www.reuters.com/tools/mobile/us
>A customer is an external stakeholder.

Customers used to have more choice, this made them highly valued stakeholders.

Before the era of permanent rolling mandatory updates and new releases customers (And IT managers) had to be convinced a new version had more value than the software it was replacing.

Windows Vista, DOS 4 And numerous other software failed to get traction because the value of new features was too low vs the pain points.

Now days the focus is on shareholder value not customer needs.

Locking in customers and maximising revenue is far more important than marking software better for the end user or IT teams.
Not just about this title for this particular subject but dismissing people by telling them to just stop using or go elsewhere is also bad for almost everything else in life.

Applying the same logic for:
- "Whining" customers: just go use someone else product; you are going to miss new ideas and paint points that you can solve
- "Whining" about country or politics - imagine the phrase "if you don't like your leaders of your country, just leave the country and go somewhere else"; it's absurd.
- "Whining" about family and friends: just stop hanging out with them; most people have no choice to change who they are with...
- "Whining" about social media fake news: just stop using it. ...

We don't need to go to all variations but this is not the right mindset.

That logic is usually used by monopolies, dictators and so on to shut up people. Don't fall into that argument trap.
This sounds great! I am on my 30s. Maybe I can't join your program right now but I can definitely share this idea with my parents. Is your app running global?
I think that if there is only 1 music app in the app store, it has its place solidified in stone.
They tweet all their articles, right? No need to scrape their site, if you're only looking for headlines. This tool will generate an RSS feed from their Twitter account
http://fetchrss.com/twitter

You won't get the article content but it'll give you enough information to find out if you're interested in the article and then read it on their site.

https://twitter.com/Reuters
> by being as racist as it's possible to be.

Even if someone were to hire someone else solely because of the color of their skin, this would be nowhere near as racist as it’s possible to be.

Hint: people are being killed because of the color of their skin right now. People in the US used to buy people in large numbers because of the color of their skin.
Wow, this is a long-winded semi-rant that goes through a lot of contradictory points. Summing up, it seems to take two opposite sides, the first aligned with the title:

1) Don't take legal action against Apple because "think of all the ways that precedent could be abused against other companies" and "it seems silly to me to cry about monopolies", so "The solution is obvious. Stop making apps for iOS" because if you "can’t survive without the ability to suckle at Apple’s teat then you’ve made bad decisions" and "Stop buying iPhones" and "Don’t buy Macs while you’re at it"

...but the second totally opposed to it:

2) "In reality, I know none of these solutions are actually going to come to fruition", "Maybe the ultimate solution is an anti-trust legal one", and "My hopes for such legal action ever succeeding are not particularly high."

But as in most cases, reality isn't that black and white. The author is ultimately correct in saying "boycott Apple" is simply not viable, as it should be -- it would be like taking a sledgehammer to level a nail. Unfortunately, the author is being incredibly condescending and unrealistic that a business shouldn't depend on the iOS market, which is something like 2/3 of all mobile app store revenue.

But government intervention here doesn't mean a slippery slope -- that's a common but totally unfounded fallacy. Economists are well acquainted with all the different ways markets can fail, and how targeted governmental remedies are required for healthy market competition to function.

Identifying that Apple is abusing its market position in one area to stifle competition in another is easy to show, if we write appropriate legislation to define it (applying to Amazon etc. as well). The only question is what remedy best serves consumers: whether to treat this like a monopoly situation that gets broken up (force Apple to allow apps and app stores that bypass Apple's walled garden) or regulated like public utilities (the security and trustworthiness of the App Store is valuable, so set a yearly profit limit of e.g. 12% to that segment of the company).
> It’s the pinnacle of white privilege and ignorance to say that “I don’t see race.”

Who gets to decide when "white privilege" no longer exists? Not intended to be inflammatory, just curious what the benchmark is. “If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.” sort of thing.
Hey is arguing that they want the choice to unlist from the app store entirely so their client would never surface in organic search results, and have no IAP link. That way the only audience they gain are from people they themselves marketed to and purchased a subscription on the web.

But it's unfair to Apple! They get 0.00 for this!

Bullshit.

Every Apple customer who wants to use HEY gets a great mobile experience to encourage them to keep buying Apple products. If enough services like Dropbox, Netflix, Spotify, were not available on iPhone, the consumer might purchase the Android phone on their next upgrade, or the company might switch their fleet to Android devices that actually support their business software.

Basecamp / Hey is providing value to Apple's products by enriching their ecosystem. They should have the choice if they want to pay a 30% cut for organic search traffic in Apple's App Store.
If anyone would like to learn more about this topic, Jepsen has some great articles on isolation levels and consistency models.

https://jepsen.io/consistency
Tethering the headset to an iPhone in your back pocket to offload the processing still makes the most sense to me. By the time this thing comes out, iPhone 13 or 14 will be pretty powerful, and most people already own one so the headset can be a lot cheaper and more lightweight.

Wireless tethering would be best, but a thin wire would be fine too, I'd probably prefer that to having a radio on my temple all the time.

I wonder what kind of display tech they are planning to use - laser projection or something else? I've been seeing tiny 1" OLED displays from China lately with 2560x2560 resolution on Alibaba, pretty cool. But of course they block your vision, unlike a projector.
Shameless plug -- but I built this web app, aggregates a bunch of different sources: https://journali.sm
I know the founder of BlueKai. The name refers to "blue ocean" as in the blue ocean strategy of business where you enter or create an entirely new market rather than competing with everyone else in a saturated one (which is called red ocean).
> This echoes the "if you don't like it so much then just leave instead of speaking up" dismissal

It's even worse than that. Even if you leave Apple ecosystem, you are still subject to it. Consumers don't like paying different prices based on the platform they are using. They will feel cheated. For this reason, app and service developers almost always price their products the same across all platforms. If a service developer estimates that 50% of the service's customers end up signing up through Apple Pay and pay the Apple tax, which one of these scenarios do you think will happen:

1) The developer will just eat the loss and will not take Apple's cut into their calculations of what the pricing should be at all;

2) They charge users who sign up through Apple 30% more;

3) They charge everyone the same. In order to negate the effect of Apple tax, their prices end up being higher than they otherwise would have been. Everyone, Apple user or not, ends up paying 15% higher.

I would wager that number 3 is what happens in almost all instances. You cannot not pay the Apple tax, even if you never use Apple.

On a side note, I am so surprised that so many people see this as a fight between Apple and developers. They view the Apple tax as something developers pay and thus is developers' problem, not theirs. Like any tax, ultimately, we the consumers end up paying it. It may be indirect, but it is coming out of our pocket. And it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that I would have to pay more than $1000 to buy a device, and then get nickel-and-dimes by Apple to actually use the said device.
Being on the side of Turkey in the Syria conflict cannot be the right side of history. Especially because they are now in control of Kurdish occupied lands in Syria. Saying that the Turkish government harbors a century-long paranoid animosity toward the Kurds is the understatement of the year.

Turkey's government is just the big despotic fish in the small geopolitical pool that is the Caucasus / Northwest Middle East. Finding cheap ways to kill is not a defensive strategy for the gov't.
Thanks for sharing. Its a shame this wasn't upvoted enough to be on the frontpage for a longer time. I'm glad I read this.
The traditional understanding of monopolies does not seem so useful in this case.

We live a world where there are two walled gardens that control everything you do. They are both lovely and nice, and you can choose which you pick, but in both, everything you do owned by the landlord. Even how we communicate is controlled, and talking to people in the other garden is degraded. (iMessage and FaceTime).

Even if both walled gardens have 50% marketshare, there is no monopoly, but is that really the world we want to live in? Taking your business to the other walled garden is not an incentive to either company to build shorter walls.

It seems we need to be talking about regulating vertical integration and walled gardens, not monopolies.
Thank you, I hadn't seen this before and "incredible" is definitely appropriate.
Oh, you're saying that this is more like Colin Kaepernick's decision to partner with Medium moreso than Medium's conveniently-timed decision to support a movement through celebrity endorsement. Yes, that makes sense, and it seems that Kaepernick likely has the upper hand in this transaction. His brand is much stronger than Medium, better growth potential, impossible to replicate. I hope he got at least 20% of the company in this deal.
Nokia Maemo, Openmoko, webOS, Firefox OS - outshined by locked down crap. Pulling resources out (no place for third contender).

It is hard to beat advertisement machine by powerful organization with unlimited resources which utilize small window opportunity gain monopoly. There is nothing magical about Steve Jobs and iPhone, it was obvious so much that design was tried again and again through decade.

Today - PinePhone, Librem.
I wish there was an OAuth for RSS, so I could subscribe to private/paid feeds through reader apps I only partially trusted.
I got Mighty Health for my mom as a Mother’s Day gift and she loves it! Absolutely worth it and the content the team publishes is especially helpful.
Probably sooner than you think. Thanks to the internet nowadays things travel incredibly fast.
I‘m more and more of the opinion that oligolipolies (multi-monopolies) should be treated the same as monopolies. Just because there is more than a single provider still does not mean there is a free market and consumers have actual choice. Google and Apple both pull extremely anticompetitive behavior lately and the excuse of „just switch to the other side“ bypasses reality. There are quite a lot of studies that free markets start working only if there are more than 4 parties left to compete with significant market share.

Citations missing since I‘m on mobile.
To extend that a bit, using something like RSS-Bridge[0] you can turn a Twitter feed into an RSS feed.

[0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
The best way to fight this is for everyone to put black on their race form when asked.

It’s time to destroy the racial data.
Likely, there are people that have never used email either.
End-to-End Encryption with AP Characteristics for a New Era
Agreed! It's such a struggle encouraging people to take preventative health seriously, even as chronic issues start creeping in. Rising insurance deductibles in the US certainly don't help as well. We've found that the members who are must successful are those who have received some kind of "warning" from their doctor -- "if you don't lose the weight, you're going to need back surgery" -- or worse yet, people like my dad who had a near brush with death before realizing he needed to take his health into his own hands.
> Are you suggesting people stop using smartphones altogether?

I do not have a smartphone and my life is alright, but I was not suggesting that.

You can certainly have a smartphone that is not controlled by neither Google nor Apple. For example, by installing an OS like LineageOS, or even some "freer" stuff that is out there.
Ask HN: At which point should a startup build a dedicated security team?
Hi,

I'm the technical co-founder at a small startup serving among other types of clients large consumer companies and banks.

In order to grow our services/revenue within these companies we are going through an IT security homologation process with some of them.

The list of policies, practices and procedures they evaluate is pretty extensive, ranging from the SDLC, data management, disaster recovery, up to the physical office space security and HR processes.

So my question is, what's an effective strategy for complying with customers security requirements? Have you gone through a similar process while growing your startup? At which point should a startup consider hiring specialized security folks / building a dedicated security team?

Thanks in advance!
I think the thing that’s readily critiqued is the rhetoric — instead of “X will make the world a better place “, how about just “We think X is pretty neat” or “X seems like something people will pay money for.” There’s no need to pretend that every startup is engaged in a deep moral mission.
Congrats on the Launch! My mom has been using Mighty Health for about a month now, and is very happy with it. She particularly likes the accountability via text message, and nutrition coaching.
Manage Multiple Email Services with Django
Presumably there is a similar range of risks among those deployed to Afghanistan.
FBI trawled Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show
Through no fault of the author, he is confusing how bluekai operates. He talks a lot about the sanitized huge anonymous audience (like in-market for cars) but then skips to user-specific data (Steve who spent $10 gambling on 4/19.)

These two things, 3rd party and 1st party data, are very different. Stored differently, different user access, different rules, etc. If Oracle accidentally made all their client's 1st party data public they'd get sued out of existence.
Historians write papers. As do philosophers and classicists. There are papers in literary criticism, law, music theory, and theology, and none of them have experiments, mathematics, or data (at least in the scientific sense of the word). I don't think that makes those endeavors invalid.

The difference between an academic paper and a blog post is that an academic paper needs to fit into the context of the academic literature through its format (particularly through citation of prior work), and it needs to undergo some form of peer review. None of that is any guarantee of quality, of course. There are lots of terrible academic papers and lots of excellent blog posts. But you don't need to be a scientist to write an academic paper.
We already have anti-trust regulations that are supposed to stop these sorts of anti-competitive behaviors.

A company is not allowed to use its position as a "market" to ALSO give an unfair advantage to its own products - or to shut out competitors without reasonable cause.

...but these laws aren't being enforced. It's funny to remember Microsoft being forced to de-couple Internet Explorer from Windows, and yet the idea of de-coupling the app Store from IOS or the Play store from Android does not seem to occur to regulators.

I have a conspiracy theory that they like that American companies have this market strangle-hold and are unwilling to give market share to EU or Chinese competitors. Imagine all the data collect lost!
I'm very likely a minority but I only hear about Slack when I'm browsing HN.
>petitions their employer to terminate their employment

Whether you agree with e.g. internet mobs doing this sort of thing or not, it's usually perfectly legal and happens all the time. And many (most?) would agree that's perfectly fine when someone in authority/in a public facing position does something that's clearly bad behavior.

What's less clear is when someone rank and file says or does something dumb and it ends up on YouTube or simply somehow offends someone with a big following. The reality is that if you become a liability to most companies, they'll just follow the path of least resistance and show you the door.
i wouldn't dare to say its a 'serious drawback'. as soon as you add ridge to regression (something very common for statisticians to do), it's also no longer scale/unit-invariant.

Edit: this is also not just true for ridge, but lasso as well
I've been toying with peoples lack of imagination all my life. The cognitive ability test involves verbal, numerical, abstract and logical tests. Lets call them people with higher disposable income, at least some leisure time and of course head-space. Not very interesting. The opposite however (people with insufficient money, no time for anything and no room in their head) doesn't make a lack of patience with "bullshit" very surprising. (what they perceive as bullshit)

My experiment (more of a stress test) for academics is to debate them in the context of Mathmagics being nonsense (-2*-2=4 ! LOL!), Physics being nonsense (Conservation of energy? So, no universe?), Ufology and alien abduction, flat-earth, Perpetual motion, Water fueled cars, Fomenco's new chronology, More advanced historic civilizations, Forbiding Archeology, Out of body experiences, Near death experiences, Remote viewing, Reincarnation, Royal Rife, etc etc.

I pretend not to have an opinion on those and insist that we should let the evidence speak for it self and let the lack of evidence suspend a conclusion.

For a lot of trained professionals the mere mention of [say] Sheldrake renders them unable to debate.

It isn't a prank, don't mean to troll anyone. It is an exercise in objectivity. History and science are full of truly hilarious stories. It doesn't mean they are unworthy of debate or must be wrong.

The funniest was a NASA guy who first got really angry but when I suggested real space travel requires "impossible" physics, therefore: to dismiss impossible claims out-right is to rule out space travel - by convention. He flipped 180 degrees. A truly impressive feat that I much admire.