skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see what the disagreement is.

Somebody (e.g. Billybob) does something stupid that winds up on the local news sites. 6yr later the court case is long since closed and he wants it behind him because it was a just a drunken mistake. EU says he has a right to be forgotten which he exercises. Google deference the news articles from Billybob's name. Billybob Google's himself and finds a blog about Google referencing search results that mentions him by name and the nature of the result. Since it mentions him by name it's a primary result (you Goggle Billybob and it comes up) and Google should have to remove it per the law.

Obviously this sort of law creates an incentive for background check services to just crawl every news site imaginable which could create a whole set of different problems but that's beyond this scope...

I think it'll just take time for society to understand that people do stupid shit and ignore it as long as it's irrelevant to the context and "forgetting" events is just a stopgap. Eventually people will realize that racists, political extremists and people with non-violent felonies can still function normally from 9 to 5 and this will be a non issue.

This problem has a lot in common on the technical side with dragnet surveillance and law enforcement. Google needs to determine what is and isn't relevant when returning results for somebody. Some misdemeanor in highschool is of dubious relevance 10yr after the fact and if the person apparently has a lot of results that paint a picture of them having a successful career and generally having moved on. Google could put that on the 3rd or 4th page, after all the "people named $name in $state" public records databases, where it's practically forgotten. Meanwhile the NSA (or whoever) needs to figure out how to filter out and avoid flagging for followup that sound like flags but are actually sarcastic, based on inside jokes, or obvious false positives when considered in context (to avoid wasting their time,wasting our money and violating people's privacy).
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I am totally disappointed with bootstrap4 alpha preview. While there might have been many code changes but design has not changed even a bit. As an HTML and CSS framwork, Bootstrap has been at forefront in design but they made absolutely no changes in v4 wrt design. So, what other option is the best?
material-ui or semantic-ui or mdl or anything else?
Thanks.
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Definitely not $2B "Profit" since they would have to subtract all other overhead costs like salaries etc.

I think the article mentions that actual profit might be negative.
The problem with most current Flash-to-HTML5 conversions is that they only barely support ActionScript, if at all. So anything meaningfully interactive (like minigames) is pretty much out.
First, reading an article doesn't mean I'm super interested in the topic. It could just be that I was curious about the title and didn't need to know more than what was in the article.

Second, email is broken (thank you spammers). I don't subscribe to mailing lists because I'm not sure you're not going to give (voluntarily or not) my email address to third parties and most of the time it just clutters my inbox. I probably go on my spam account twice a year.
One year later I will be wondering why I receive these emails about vertical farming and why aren't they trying to sell me viagra instead ;-)

So yeah page views just means you managed to get some people to click on a link, that's it.
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None of the major browsers are really modular in the Unix way. There are some research browsers that are much more modular, though, like IBOS and Servo,

http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~kingst/sasse12.pdf

https://github.com/servo/servo
You are right. But it is often referred to as the 10x rule.

http://www.minidisc.org/econ113-paper.htm

A technology needs to be 10x better than a previous one for widespread adoption. It has successfully explained many failed technologies and products.
I was thinking the same thing. Tab Mix Plus sounds like one of those extensions that might not be doable under the new API... Which would explain why there's no chrome version.

Also the main reason why I use Firefox as well... This window has 20 tabs open :)
Note that the proposal doesn't fix arithmetic. Adding a 60 minute timedelta to 1:30 on the transition day will give the same result (2:30, first=True) whether first=True or first=False.
It's the curse of the gifted: http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
I think that many of the comments in HN highlight the economical problems of vertical farming. So a typical HN reader will be more skeptical than a reader from a site with less technical discussion.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092184 (78 points, 1 day ago, 121 comments)

Partial transcript of the first two comments:

> Vertical farming is an energy nightmare. It requires at least 1000x more energy than conventional agriculture because you have to provide supplemental light for the plants to grow indoors. [...]

> What's making this transition difficult is the economic viability. It only makes sense in densely populated areas but those areas also have ridiculous property values and higher utility costs. That makes it increasingly difficult for these farms because the margins in farming aren't that great. [...]
This is great. I think things such as this would be great for kids to get started with programming.
Didn't we just read about the NSA moving to quantum resistant algorithms a few days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064226 - NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms

also I found this from a few hours ago:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/nsa-preps-quantum-re...
I think that's absolutely the correct solution, but it doesn't help all of the people who already had information about their actions as teenagers published.
Great NES games? TMNT, Double Dragon 3, and Silver Surfer are some of the worst NES games ever made.
This was true for me until the most recent major version (42.x) that broke the Tree Style Tabs extension. My whole browsing workflow depends heavily on that extension, so I had to revert to using the stable version for now.
Yes, but it is effectively saying that the "right to be forgotten" means that the right extends to the topic/event covered on the pages as it relates to that person not the pages themselves.

Hopefully this will not extend to all new content created about the past events and the person, because there could at times be a reason for new content on an old topic to be relevant to the public and people should be able to find it then. I fear it will however.
I don't think it's even negligence. When you are a startup, you are not required to file official SEC disclosures or anything of the sort. So you can use whatever you want as your terminology. Having said that, it's a really bad idea to use misleading terminology, because any sophisticated investor will know it and will consider you full of shit anyway
Great! Now I'll no longer see these "Click to Play" placeholders instead of the intrusive animated ads. I'll finally be able to experience the intrusive animated ads the way they were meant to be seen.

... Yay?
Seeking a mandatory backdoor is equivalent to banning encryption.

This isn't just metaphorical - it is a practical, provable result of it. The various attempts throughout history have been abysmal failures of security.

The other practical result is that the current UK government appears to believe that citizens are their subjects, whose freedom is a privilege and not a right.
Are you suggesting that the developer edition is merely a prototype and not a production browser?
Sierra shipped games (e.g. Kings Quest 7) in the late Win 3.1 era that required WinG.
^^ when I quit coffee, falling asleep comes easy also.
Well, it is forbidden in Germany, but some newspapers will still do it, and then just eat the fine. BILD is very infamous for this.
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I don't think so. It seems he is on emailing terms with the PR people of many of the Islamic groups.

With so many groups fighting it out for power, getting public credit for your actions is extremely important. Money, recruits, (and maybe fear) follow apparent success.
The article is terribly mislabeled. Uber's bookings are scheduled to reach 26bill, not its revenue. Supposedly this year they will reach 10 bill in bookings, which would provide revenue of about 2 billion [1].

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/21/us-uber-tech-fundr...
The car using them is fine. Their absence alone causing failure is worrisome.
I'd recommend the following books:
Financial Statements Step by Step
(http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Step-Step-Underst...)

Financial Intelligence
(http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Revised-Edition...)

Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
(http://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Entrepreneurs-R...)
I'm pretty sure that's money paid by users (i.e., 80% which goes to drivers) then 20% to uber
This is degrading--both to the "cheerleaders" and the programmers. Look at the face of the poor woman programmer in the second picture. Stereotypical "Bro" culture only now with Chinese subtitles.
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I swear, one of these days I'll implement a gopher server and client in go just out of spite.

Every time I read a link mentioning "gopher" I expect it to be a neat hack based on the obsoleted protocol.
Wavelets are my favorite approximate function to build up with.

But yeah, the overfitting problem / approximation is the real issue. I do like seeing the hybrid approaches (Genetic Algorithsm searching random Neural Nets with a little bit of backpropigation for some measure)
I don't think parallella gets you anything (but more cycles/cent) in terms of education about clusters and distributed systems. Multi-core parallelism, sure, but that's an entirely different paradigm.
Economically, education is a public subsidy that helps private wealth. Taxpayers pay for your worker training for free. In exchange society makes some demands on the educational process, primarily that it spend some amount of time preparing students to be responsible citizens/members of society alongside the office drone prep these gifted programs want to accelerate.

Keeping all the smart kids locked in an ivory tower where they don't have to deal with humanity or ever get any context into how society actually works is how you get Ayn Rand afficionados well past the age-appropriate teenage years, and nobody wants that.
Did it blow your mind when you understood something for a change?
Doing research phases I can have 100 tabs open -- although only 30-40 actually fit on the screen at once (3 rows). Even if Tax Mix Plus was ever doable under the new API (and it won't be), somebody has to write it, test it, and maintain it. I'm not confident that will happen. The churn is just tossing out a lot of existing code and might never be replaced.

I just turned off automatic updates. It's sad that all good things do eventually come to an end.
Probably because the FSF doesn't own the copyright for it. Without the copyright, you can't do fun things like forcing everyone to upgrade to the GPL3.
The idea is that, if you search for it with determination, it becomes legally something completely different than if you stumble upon it "accidentally" while doing a "standard google search of the new job candidate"
My understanding is that quantum computers are very good at simulating quantum physics. Which, granted, probably doesn't have many commercial applications.
I also like the very public illustration of how not all memory corruption bugs are easily exploitable (or, occasionally, meaningfully exploitable at all).

Also an illustration of how unlikely it is that serious exploit developers are going to spend time writing a complicated Tarsnap exploit. :)
Using a popular search engine that abides by EU laws is not the only way to find out about things. Killing the messenger does nothing to the message.
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What are the reasons startups can't hire good finance people? Or at least contract with an expert?

Is it a difficulty in judging their abilities when it's not your area? Is it something where only at a certain size would it be worth the reduced financial risk to have someone on it? Learning from scratch has to be the slowest, highest risk way of doing it -- which is the exact opposite of what a startup should be optimizing for (reduce risk where possible, move fast)

It seems like helping identify business talent is what an accelerator should be helping with, not becoming a half assed B-school for engineers..

There's some implicit assumption here that learning from scratch is better than hiring talent, and I think that's a mistake.
It's $10.84b in total bookings (or taxi rental fees, whatever you want to call it), of which they keep 20%, so $2x billion in revenue for Uber.

Next year bookings are projected at $26 billion and they'll keep $5.x billion of that as revenue for Uber Corp.
I've probably been guilty of this but I think revenue & GMV can be confusing terms based on how a lot of commerce works via the internet. For reference, our company used to do dropship e-commerce.

Amazon, for example, uses revenue for first party sales and GMV for third party marketplace, Amazon never owns the product in third party marketplace. If you are a dropship retailer though, you have flash ownership because you buy from the dropship wholesaler and then you sell to the customer using a marketplace or website. You could say Amazon is different here because they physically have the products, but with net payment terms up to and past 180 days, it really isn't much different.

Also, if you just consider revenue to be your cut of GMV and you have net payment terms that gives your company high free cash flow, that seems important to distinguish as well.

[Update] The main point of my post is to show how confusing these terms are in one instance, and every business is different so it is really important to clearly define how you use the terms you are using
Yes! Bring back gopher!
meditating to sleep has helped me a lot. Personally I find that having trouble sleeping is related to not letting go of certain things that happened during the day or event from before.
Anyway, for every course that is not Math, everything you learn was created for a reason (make that a "most things you learn" for Math).

Yet, before one enters an university, teachers almost universally refuse to answer this question.
He doesn't have a problem with git per se, at least not overtly. I think the confusion is that Emacs went with Bazaar over Git in 2008 essentially because it was a GNU project (and Arch had faded into obscurity by that point):

>We should use Bzr because that is becoming a GNU package. GNU packages should show loyalty to each other when possible, and in this case it is possible.[1]

But now its main repository is managed with git[2], Savannah as a whole makes extensive use of git,[3] and Stallman tacitly supports git by linking to git repos from his personal website.[4]

1. http://lwn.net/Articles/272853/
2. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/
3. http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit/
3. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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wget piped to less.
>I guess it's time to fork FF and maintain my own version, implementing security patches as they come in?

AKA Iceweasel?
What happens when you hit zero? Do you go to negative numbers? =)
Funny, I was just about to send you an email asking if you wanted to try your hand at this, given that you're much better at this sort of thing than I am. :-)

you have my permission to note also my commitment to match the bounty

Thanks! I've updated the blog post with a link to this comment.
A couple years ago I was trying to teach myself OpenGL, and I failed miserably for that exact reason, plus bad function naming conventions.

The weirdest thing about OpenGL is that you sometimes have to run one function before another function, for no good reason, but it gives you a giant performance boost.
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I hypothesize this happened to me somewhat. I was just under the radar enough for the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education ) Program that I didn't get in. 4th grade through graduating High School was a breeze, even when my bad study habits caught up with me. I even got into university too!

But once there, I got a major kick in the ass. Classes were hard all of a sudden. They would fail you and leave you behind if you didn't catch up.

I also tend to flail when doing a thing, it goes well for a bit and then all of a sudden it gets hard. My formative years in school didn't really prep me for handling a challenge.
It would be a shame if AirBnb would price gauge based on profiling customers. I don't like, when I enter a shop, to be asked my nationality before they quote me a price.
Just finished reading 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers - think Google's monopoly and totalitarianism come true - and this just further reiterates how Google are become so pervasive and invasive in monetising off everyone's data and lack of privacy awareness.

I'll go back to dial-up rather than have all my activity centralised in the Google ether.
As I stated in a comment above, this is why they're working on browser.html so vigorously

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html

Web standards are fully capable of rendering entire user interfaces now. GUI toolkits are just needless dependencies for web rendering engines.
Some of the more extreme stuff is the fault of "stretch the truth till it breaks" ideology in business culture. This stuff is dubious in any form IMHO, but when naive first-timers without MBAs pick it up it easily devolves into outright fraud. Someone who knows finance, law, and accounting inside and out knows when and where to stop stretching, but non-experts in these areas do not.

I've heard some jaw-droppers myself in conversations with other founders/entrepreneurs over the years. It's okay to put a positive spin on it, but it's not okay to lie. You can't say you are "cash flow positive" if you are not in any way shape or form collecting actual cash from anyone.

If you don't understand MBA-level accounting and finance, then the safest and most honest thing to do is stick to concrete numbers and things you clearly do understand. Revenue is actual dollars that land in your bank account-- real money that really exists. Profit is revenue minus expense. Customers are actual people or businesses who have given you money for an actual thing. Contracts are actual promises to do so in the future for some length of time. Users are people who are actually handling, running, or consuming your product right now, etc.

It's also perfectly okay to say "I'm not an accountant" in response to questions you don't understand. Your prospective investors are looking for someone to build a product and sell it, and if you can do that then that's your expertise. Accountants and lawyers can be hired on a consulting basis just like any other domain expert. It's okay not to have expertise in all areas as long as your expertise is where it counts and you have traction/results.

Investors will appreciate that too, since anyone operating as a VC or serious angel will see right through any nonsense you spew. It will simply discredit you, and any investor who doesn't have very sensitive radar for blowhards and con men will not be an investor long.
We do already have different implementations of TLS/HTTPS used for different purposes. They're called cipher suites. There are already weaker cipher suites in widespread use, which are the cause of most of the big security issues with TLS/SSL/HTTPS. (This is pretty good article on the subject: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-we...)

I'd guess all the UK government would do is insist that, by law, all secured P2P messaging goes via a given cipher suite (one with a government backdoor/decryption key and, I guess, no perfect forward secrecy).

It's pretty conclusive how bad an idea it is, when all of the leading security experts in the world have said that this is impossible without weakening the entire security of the system.
The other weekend, I grabbed a bit of the Washington Post classifieds to set a paint can on. The first or second ad that I spotted specified JCL, COBOL, and CICS.
"""I’ve seen people use GMV for revenue or refer to an LOI as a contract many times in the past year when talking to investors. This is a felony."""

How come it's only "disruption" when it happens to somebody else.
Seeing the vibrant plugin ecosystem revolving around Atom makes me cautiously optimistic for Firefox's future prospects. Implementing the entire interface and plugin system in standard Web technologies will also make plugin development more welcoming to web developers who found XUL development too archaic.

In fact, I'm one of those developers, and the first thing I'd do in post-XUL Firefox would be try to create a Tree Style Tabs alternative.
> We selected a machine-learning model called a classifier.

Almost all machine learning tools are classifiers of some sort. It's like saying: we selected a car technology called "wheel".
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Yes. (Unless you're resident here).

The clue is the "I am a British citizen or UK resident" checkbox. ;)
AFAIK renderers used by the movie industry seldom use the GPU if at all... For plenty of reasons, the scene size not being the least...
You may be right, but I hope people won't take away the message that bugs like this don't matter.

Fix bugs! Update your systems! If in doubt, assume that potential vulnerabilities are exploitable!
A lot of production renderers use the CPU as well - most Dreamworks Animation and Pixar films are still mostly CPU-based rendered. I've used Mitsuba and it is pretty slow and incomplete compared to production renderers (Mitsuba's scene definition format is just brutal compared to Arnold or V-Ray or PRMan), but some of its results are not yet available in production renderers.
"What are the reasons startups can't hire good finance people?"

I think the reason is that you are in stage where the CEO personally empties the rubbish bins in the office, that's why.
There's no way it's creating 32k threads on start up. That's the default max. Threads aren't totally cheap so they alloc a lot less. Asp.net allocates more. Used to be 25 or 50 per CPU.
RedShift, a GPU-based renderer, is starting to get quite popular though in short form high end work like commercials. Haven't heard of it being used on movies yet, but I think it is coming.