skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...what paranoia are you talking about? The data-slurping defaults are there, that's a fact. They are also (during the installation) hidden under a small link that barely looks like a link at all (not to mention the process necessary to make a local account). When a device is doing local search, there is absolutely no reason to phone anywhere other than sloppy design or more data-slurping.

Additionally, the worst thing is that the average Joe probably won't even notice all those obfuscated settings. Of course a power-user can disable most of it, but it's not about them and that shouldn't be a thing to begin with, especially in a paid software where we are supposed to be the customers.
Problem: sometimes (often?) the reasons for the fence are so old and so far from relevant today that a cautious reformer cannot reasonably figure out why it's there (unless he first becomes an historian). If we insist he first understands the original reason, the result is that the fence remains, at much cost.

If you've ever worked on legacy software, you know what I mean.
The point is definitely pedantic but the differentiating factor in my mind isn't whether the ray is physically based or not. The important fact is that the ray undergoes multiple bounces, so at the end, a pixel isn't lit with a single ray, but many rays that meet end to end.
I'm currently in Bangkok and wanted to add that if you keep on the low and spend your money here there are no problems. It sucks as soon as you try to speak up, buy property, make money from this place, or do anything where the rule of law is important. You will miss the rule of law, i.e. republic, of well-established nations.
How about Pale Moon ?
They've said that for a while, but the last time I had the Dev edition installed I couldn't install the Dashlane [1] plugin.

1: https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/3bce5a89
Invisible bicycles: Tokyo's high-tech underground bike parking
I was in NYC a few weeks ago and Lyft Line was $5 flat rate anywhere in Manhattan! Beats taking the subway if you ask me.

On a more related note when I was in Bushwick in Brooklyn it was pretty much impossible to even see a cab let alone hail one. I didn't even think twice about calling an Uber to take me back to the city.
The Hidden Connection Between Morality and Language
Charting the slow death of the Universe
ofc, you can since firefox is opensource
Lawrence Lessig to Explore a Run for President as a Democrat
How Sundar Pichai Is Different from Larry Page at Google
It seems to me that Google is now the software arm and everything else is spun off into its individual niches.
Given how hard it was for me to do non cash commerce without a Chinese ID card, it's no surprise that you don't use those features. Do you use the app in English? Maybe the English version doesn't even have these features.
That's a bad cop out. There are widely used languages like c# and python that cause very little whining.
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Dentons and IBM join to fuel legal tech startups
Try this link for what MS is doing :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RffHFIhg5Sc
Cheap Lace Evening Dresses，Designer Lace Evening Dresses Online
If their goal is to maximize the odds of innovation, not minimize the odds of failure, which path would you advise? And please share more Sun stories. These were entertaining and informative. It should have been Sun leading the cloud revolution, but that's the Innovator's Dilemma for you. :(
Except that at least a gear looks like an icon, which suggests it might be clickable (since the flat-design people thought that making buttons look like buttons was a bad idea). My problem with the hamburger menu is that I literally don't see it, because three horizontal lines does not look like an icon to me, it looks like a decoration. In pretty much every place I've needed to use it I end up going "hmm, where is [essential feature I can't find]?" Nowhere? Not possible! Oh, yeah, those three lines, that's actually a menu. Yep, there it is.
How to Fight Lex Luthor Using Only IssueFly
How to Monitor Gas Available in Tanks 100% Correctly
I love seriously over-powered "luggables" and these machines might have
impressive specs, but there's a big problem; a lot of open source folks
won't buy NVIDIA gear due to the need for non-free binary-blob drivers.
NVIDIA makes some impressive products, but they seldom play well with
others, and they seem to have a real vendetta against supporting open
source efforts by simply providing the necessary documentation. With
luck, other vendors will also implement the mobile Xeon chips, but make
a more friendly and compatible decision about graphics hardware.
Buying Failed Startups 5 to 50k USD
Hey guys, we're looking to buy failed SAAS startups. We're a marketing company and often times the failure is due to lack of marketing. Let me know if you'd be interested in discussing this. We'd do an audit of the code (with NDA if you prefer). We're looking to pay between 5 to 50k USD depending on the saas tool.
It sounds like a world where AOL won and we all accessed the internet through keywords and paid everything through AOL, or very similar to France's old Minitel, except for mobile.

Having everything in one app is interesting if only because it offers some powerful integration opportunities, but otherwise this sounds like a proto-Internet for a developing economy.

$5 says they evolve past this in the next 3-5 years and their app ecosystem looks a lot more like ours.
So hamburger menus are ok as long as they're duplicated elsewhere? That would be kind of an odd rationale. Why have the hamburger in the first place?
Startups Vie to Build an Uber for Health Care
I think you're taking the concept behind the name a little too literally...

They're not going to collect one company per letter just so they can have an "alphabet" of 26 companies. The name just implies that they have a collection, a variety, a spectrum of companies.
Linux Lite, a Friendly Linux Distros for Windows/New Users
Does it support Docker?
Or the mobile messaging ecosystem in US will look a lot more like wechat in 3-5 years. China can be ahead in some areas.
Berlin doesn't seem to think so.
I don't know about conquered, but there are certainly some attempts to at least partially account for it.

Though, perhaps that is why you specified conquered.
Silicon valley, tech beside one of the best places to live!
discussions:

9 months ago, 30 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620589

1 year ago, 36 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7558081

2 years ago, 79 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971127

3 years ago, 14 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753216

4 years ago, 51 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212515

4 years ago, 4 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335824
Ask HN: Is it ok to use Adsense on sites like this
I was wonder whether the sites like this (http://soundflush.com/) violates the Adsense policy or not ?
I'm currently in BKK as well. Hit me up if you want to grab a drink, email is in my profile.
For what it's worth, what makes me sneer at Atlas Shrugged is the awful, stilted dialog.
They are livery cars.
> wouldn't it make more sense to target WebAssembly?

I don't think it would. A Python source -> WebAssembly bytecode compiler needs updates with every enhancement to the Python language.

An engine for running Python bytecode in the browser only needs updates with change to Python bytecode, which is presumably more stable than the language -- all the language-side work can be shared with the mainline CPython implementation.
Wanderlust Watches
This is good to know, but not very surprising. NY Taxis are known to refuse rides to outer boroughs. A decade ago, one had to jump into the cab, tell him that the destination is some fancy neighborhood, and then once he flags the meter you tell him the real destination (Queens - gasp; Bronx - sheer cursing). And often when the driver threatens to drop you off midway, you call the authorities while in the cab.

For readers who think this is traumatic, it was, especially in winter nights and your destination is not served by Subway.

In fact, some friends of mine that are Black had to dress extra nicely for an otherwise casual dinner on Friday nights, just so that the cabbies would think (wrongly) that the fare would be for some nice neighborhood. And one had to make sure, he stands on avenues that are not pointing towards Harlem. It was a done thing for a white buddy to hail the cab, and the black friend gets in (There is a certain choreography that goes into this - the black person had to stand close but not-too-close and in a location where he can apparate after the cab has come to a halt but not in a way that gives him a chance to rev up and scoot).

Here is a recent article from Huffpo and Washpo that talks about this in detail:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/23/...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-larosa/nyc-cab-drivers-bl...
yeah I have it set to English. I don't think there is an English version per se, just different consumer facing text. Commerce shouldn't be too hard. I have a bank account here and my card is Union Pay.
#allmeattuesday
Ever heard about the hashtag #allmeattuesday? Well, it's just a part of the day-to-day themed recipe campaign. So, what recipe with your favorite meat ingredient can you suggest for today?
It's a good way for you to recover some money. There are no marketplaces other than Flippa to sell these assets and you would never get much there.
It's an official feature:

https://youtu.be/H9zwf0VMVDI

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/11/28/mozilla-invests-in-...

http://everything.me/about/
> RPC traffic is expensive and slow, not free, fast, reliable

If i've understood your point, you should have rather said this is what you've learned, not unlearned.
maintaning any kind of notes.? or just upvoting and going through them whenever needed?
What's HIR/MIR?
Define "very little"...
On a freighter? I'd love to know more.

Or one of those Caribbean leisure cruises? Those are cheap upfront - to get you in the door - relying on in-ship purchases (like alcohol & restaurants) to make the majority of their money.
Embrittlement and neutron activation are already well understood and perfectly tractable problems, since they affect the fission power industry to the same degree. That comes down to the materials you use to construct your reactor.

There are thre main problems, only one is entirely engineering the other are on the border of engineering and physics. The most pressing problem is one of plasma containment lifetime. The longer you can contain a plasma the more feasible it is to operate a fusion reactor as a power source. Right now that time is measured in seconds. An equally important problem is plasma temperature, the higher the plasma temperature the higher the fusion rate, and the farther beyond break-even the fusion reactions will be. ITER is "designed" for containment times of up to a thousand seconds, about 15 minutes, though in reality it is likely to fall far short of that. And even that is a far cry from what would make fusion power production feasible engineering wise. As it happens, tokamaks are not necessarily particularly well suited to long containment times, but there hasn't been sufficient funding to thoroughly research all of the most promising designs (such as stellarators, gas-dynamic mirror fusion, spheromaks, etc.). It seems extraordinarily unlikely that the first and most easily constructed plasma confinement system would be the most capable one as well.

The main purely engineering hurdle is cost effectiveness. Which is about being able to construct a plasma containment and heating system and all of the other components of a fusion reactor (some straightforward, some not) within a reasonable cost, not multiple billions of dollars for a single 1 GW plant. There breakthroughs in superconducting wire and so forth can have an enormous impact on the economic viability of fusion power, so it's a hugely important step.
Alchemist v1.4.0 Released – Elixir Tooling Emacs Integration
If you read her previous posts you'll see it's the exact same tone and writing style. I think the claims of hacking are a way for people to express their incredulity and not meant seriously.
Right. There's a lot of maybes and potentially with this research. It's something new and interesting but how much it will allow us to unlock some of the secrets of condensed matter physics that have so far eluded us remains to be proven.
Strapless Short Summer Dress
Marketing to Millennials – An Understanding
I watched the first part of this, and this is apparently the inventor of Scala talking about the Scala compiler.

He was talking about how deep the transformation pipeline in scalac is, compared to javac.

I would say that something close to the opposite statement is justified: databases are interpreters, e.g. sqlite is certainly an interpreter with a storage layer.

I didn't watch enough of it to see why he thinks that compilers are databases. Where's the storage layer? I'm interested in compilers and databases, but TBH I am not that interested in Scala, so I stopped watching.
Can some infosec person speak to her strongest claim, that static analysis gives "basically 100% false positives" and wastes the team's time?
Microsoft has ambitions, and then they hire bottom-feeders to mismanage it to hell. No, that's not at all what they're doing.
Which smartphone manufacturer is bundling WeChat in China?

I know that Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi doesn't, and these three together make up a good chunk of the market.
How to sort a list items alphabetically using JavaScript
Approximately 5% of users are infected with adware. This is one way to combat it. Google has already taken this approach.
How does this policy interact with greasemonkey, an extension that allows running random JavaScript on sites with access to the extension API. You could write your malware as a greasemonkey extension, convince a user to install a signed greasemonkey release, and then convince them to install your malicious extension.
> Subsidized loans are subsidies

They are subsidies on the cost of borrowing money, but not on tuition (except at a very small ratio); but they act (in terms of effect on tuition prices, for the reasons discussed in my previous post) like a much larger direct tuition subsidy. because of this, it is much more likely that loan subsidies have a perverse effect on affordability than grants.
I wonder how long it will take until adware producers patch out the requirement for signed extensions in the binary when you install stuff from them on your computer.
Sometimes people do those type of things to effect your balance. Be your self, listen the feedback and backpropogate any improvements and move on. Most likely you are a head of things and they want you to slow down for them to catch up.
Regulatory costs can be an huge drain on long term profits, and I'd count anti-trust as a regulatory cost.
Show HN: WebGL/ThreeJS game with source
You are correct; I've edited my comment to (hopefully) make it a little clearer. Google RPCs are fast. The RPC trace depth of many requests is >20 in miliseconds. Google RPCs are free - Nobody budgets for intradatacenter traffic. Google RPCs are reliable - Most teams hold themselves to a SLA of 4 9s, as measured by their customers, and many see >5 as the usual state of affairs.
Tera Hardware-Software Cooperation [pdf]
That airbearing demo was surreal.
> Instead of one startup spending a lot of time thinking and researching (and maybe missing the market window if there was one), let ten startups just assume and go for it. Maybe nine will be wrong and fail and one will be right and succeed.

But that'd be something like evolution or anthropic computing. In order to find a solution to a hard problem, write down something. If it is not a solution, kill yourself. Conditioned on looking at anything at all, you look at the correct solution.

Or we could use the distinct advantage of humans and think about it properly.
Different AST representations in Rust compiler - high level and middle level.
Untrusted – A Code-Based Adventure
China is devaluing yuan for quite a while, but usually more smoothly. Will this that do the trick or there is problem in fundamentals? Like debt is growing too fast comparing to rest of the economy.

Moreover, will China start making transition from cheap labour, efficiency based economy to innovation based one. Does government is aware of that challenge or they try to execute strategy for old model, that used to work, but may not help to make that transition?
I don't think that's the problem so much as simply that Uber's model is more effective at serving the outer regions.
The quote itself is somewhat vauge, but I think the movies exemplify more clearly the viewpoint.

Take The Lord Of the Rings - the good and the evil is very clearly defined. Sauron and the Orcs are objectively evil, and you can kill as many orcs as you want without feeling any remorse. Sarumans industrialization is pure evil. Aragorn is the rightfully ruler purely by virtue of being a "good guy" and having the right ancestors.

Now compare to Princess Mononoke. Obviously the corruption of the nature is an evil thing, but Eboshi is not "evil", she saves the outcasts of society, lepers and prostitutes and gives them life and dignity, but as part of her plan she upsets the balance of nature. This is much more complex conflict as in Tolkien, and the solution is not as easy, since you cannot just kill all the bad guys.
It was expected, let's hope they don't slip much further.
"Your information is ours unless you are aware of it and spend unreasonable amount of time searching for the information leaking settings and disabling them." Yaay
Unity Asset Store: Paper Play
Interesting point, though I've never thought about this situation because I've never worked with software versioning. If I need to rollback, I have to check which migrations are present in the SCM repository in a specific revision that I need to rollback to
> They already have a large update coming in the Fall and one next Spring that should bring additional features.

And this is relevant to a customer now as in what ?

I'm getting tired or too old for this "continuous, agile, push now make it work later" attitude of products that's out today.
If china is ahead in this, then humanity might as well pack it in. China's sandbox model works well when you've got a few hundred million uneducated peasants, but an educated populous (Which china is having more success stopping than I care to admit) wants diversity; It wants options, differing opinions, choices that cater to them, not to what people want to offer them.
Tech people are the first ones to freak out about it. ;)
Requesting on your phone and seeing exactly where the car is is much better.
> ed: for a more specific example, look at Firefox or Chrome, try really hard to imagine that you are a first time user of that web browser, but you've used IE before, and then figure out how to do one of the most common things that people want to do with a web browser: bookmark a page.

You press Command+D, dauh. You know D for Bookmark :)
This Aussie inventor is building robots to help soldiers become sharper shooters
And in Si units about: 500 000 kg (453 592.37)
"Unless you're so big that your reputation precedes you."
All this "bad for the joints" stuff is mostly urban legend.
One ref but there are others: https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/6298/do-joints-w...

Running in sand usually causes quite a bit more load on your achilles tendons. The pitch also causes one foot to underpronate and one to overpronate which is also usually a bad idea.

Most of peoples' issues relate to bad form, muscle imbalances, etc. Although I will grant if your form is terrible you are probably going to put weird stresses on your knees, etc. I blame our incredibly sedentary lifestyle. I sit probably 60+ hours a week (job, commute, home, etc.) and run only about 4 hours a week (~30 miles). I have been racing and running for close to 25 years and most of my current issues came from very hard training in the past and not taking time off when I got injured. When I just run 4 to 6 miles "easy" I am basically injury free as long as I supplement with a few other exercises such as single leg partial squats and monster walks with a rubber band. These are mostly only required because of my sedentary job and not the running though.
I think it's fairly obvious that the Uber/Lyft model is inherently more effective at serving the outer regions.

I'd be more interested to understand if Manhattan congestion is a legitimate concern.
Request for startup: Make the AWS for algorithmic trading. Strategies are not that hard, but it would be awesome if someone did hard infrastructure work and provide nice API.

So the only thing you need to do is to upload some code and wire some money.

Bonus point for matching money. E.g. if you have your own system you can allow to match your funds. So instead of $20k you can get additional $80k from other investors. Likely it will be regulatory nightmare... but maybe there is some legal workaround.
Zonealarm back in the day did something similar, yes (I haven't used it recently so I'm not sure what it does now). Little Snitch is the OSX equivalent :).
Heaven forbid. The unaware, uninformed user is the bread and butter that the Internet businesses survive on. Tech-savvy users are bad bad bad. Protected, gullible users is what keeps the engines running.
How many % of this 5% are running Internet Explorer ? Let me guess, 95% ?
Here's the thing... Many companies are actually poorly run. For most of them, Wall Street does the dirty work of forcing them to relinquish their money to more productive efforts. (Think of all the bloated monopolies who used to have fleets of corporate jets and crazy perks) No extreme is right or wrong.
"Told to leave"; sure he could stay an illegal and just live off the radar, but the expected value of that is really low given his options anywhere else in the world. I guess if you want to argue semantics, his risk of being physically flown out of the country was probably not substantial.

I think the purpose of all this discussion was whether OP should come to the States and work under the radar, and the general consensus is that being here illegally strongly caps your upside, and has a pretty uncertain downside.

PS - My friend's now the chief engineer of a successful business in London... I always thought it was such a shame for a guy who worked his way from being an orphan on a farm in Kenya to live 90% of the American Dream, only to be kicked out of the country after putting in his all at Stanford and at a few startups.
Wow. Someone's been hitting the Kool-Aid pretty hard.

I've seen this institutional hubris first-hand. The unshakable belief (typically by nontechnical management) that all of the smartest people in the world are employed here, working for me.

It always ends badly.
To be honest I would go for the Ubiquiti Edgerouter series, super good bang for your buck, and advanced features if you ever want to play around with firewall/routing features.

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/
Interesting, both this article and entry on Wikipedia say he invented the wetsuit, though the body glove article says they invented it too. (Using the word "practical".)
It's a platform, it could certainly evolve to cater for different options.
That means you are lucky, they do a favor to you. Search a little bit about what it takes to work for them on Reddit.
if you get an offer from them which quaranties you can get a much better one outside anyways.
You'd do better with "הבה נרדה ונבלה שם שפתם אשר לא ישמעו איש שפת ראהו" (Genesis 11:7)
That's God saying he will make multiple languages to confuse everyone...