skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What conclusion? That digital subscriptions look good because they have lower overhead? I don't imagine they come all that close to supporting the company yet, but I do imagine their profit to expenditure ratio is pretty good.

> Nobody is willing to spend much for online advertising.

nytimes.com is actually in a good position to institute change in this are. I imagine if they rolled their own ad solution that was both not obtrusive and did not source the ads from third party servers (thus being much harder to block), they could possible leverage their name and the fact the ads weren't being blocked to charge a premium for ad-space.
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The same switch, without the HP Altoline branding on it:
https://bm-switch.com/index.php/bare-metal-switches/10g-bare...

$5,795.00
I've never been a fan of "creepy pervert gerbil" either. I wasn't familiar with Russ's even creepier rabbit-thing, but now the gerbil makes more sense.
Best explanation I've heard. Still supports my concern more than the claim's truth. Nonetheless, I can totally understand that given I was around back then and remember what that was like. It would certainly have been a differentiator back then before sane defaults were a thing.
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That article is a textbook example of cherry picking. If you pick the height of a boom as your baseline, of course poverty will increase during a major recession.
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Note that OpenSwitch and Cumulus Linux are both exactly the same in terms of Open Source: everything is Open Source except the part that talks to the ASIC. OpenNSL in OpenSwitch's case, and switchd in Cumulus's case.

<disclaimer>I co-founded Cumulus Networks.</disclaimer>
> That means that 96% are guilty. That's beyond a reasonable doubt and probably not far from the best accuracy you can expect from an inherently fuzzy system.

I disagree. A 1 in 25 chance that someone is innocent certainly seems like a reasonable doubt to me. Even 1 in 100 seems like a reasonable doubt. 1 in 1000 is maybe unreasonable, but 1 in 25?

At any rate, the formulation that the legal system prefers to use is the other way round. Rather than how many innocent people we should put in jail, the question is how many guilty people we should allow to go free to prevent a single innocent person from going to jail. The idea that an innocent person could possibly be convicted is totally at odds with the way the legal community sees itself. (Which is why, incidentally, it is so difficult for the law to accept that innocent people have been wrongly convicted.) So I disagree that the system is not at fault. The legal system must recognize that false positives exist and it needs to handle them intelligently.

By the way, there's a wonderful article by Eugene Volokh speculating on what an acceptable number of guilty men to let go free is [1].

[1] http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm
I don't want to speak for ksenzee, but a friend of mine with prosopagnosia uses body language (e.g. gait) and clothing to recognize people.
A lot of those optimizations would no longer yield any benefits[0]. The CPU archictecture evolved a lot in 16 years, especially in branch/code prediction to the point where a correctly predicted branch (without branch_likely) has almost no cost.

[0]: At least, this is true for x86 CPUs.
But that's still a single up-front cost that is then amortized across all visits over time, compared to a smaller up-front cost for typesetting plus a per issue cost of actually printing the paper. Unless your rich interactive article costs a lot, it should be cheaper at some point. The question is when.
The think I love the most about these keyboard/trackpad/trackpoint peripherals is the physically distinct mouse buttons.

Do you KNOW how insanely awful current model trackpads are?

Every single manufacturer seems to think it's a good idea to fabricate the trackpad as a solid unit, and have it act as both the left and right buttons, and it is SO horrendously impractical that it pains me to even broach the subject.

Every single fucking laptop I see tries this, and fails. They are all bad.

And yes, I know Apple does it. And you know what? The MacBook trackpad/button unit also sucks. But. They have the capacity to tailor the operating system for a closer behavioral fit. And that's the only thing that separates the Apple product.

Note physically separate mouse buttons on this IBM/Lenovo unit. These buttons are so much more reliable and accurate.

When you press one button, there is little risk of accidentally interacting with the other button, because they are not physically united by the same piece of plastic..
This is a strange quote, since a Sistine-Chapel-Ceiling can only be painted by an individual with great skill and thousands of hours of deliberate practice.
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Probably the easiest way to frustrate these things would be the simplest; only go out in public with substantial facial features obscured or altered.

Sorry, going out hidden means you're a terrorist.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/style...

http://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/295...

http://qz.com/324805/china-has-just-banned-the-burqa-in-its-... ('authorities in the Xinjiang city of Karamy barred anyone wearing burqas, niqabs, hijabs or simply “large beards” from taking public buses.')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering ('The key argument supporting this proposal is that face-coverings prevent the clear identification of a person, which is both a security risk, and a social hindrance within a society which relies on facial recognition and expression in communication.')

Or a potential criminal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws

"Germany - [..]you may not disguise your identity in public meetings such as demonstrations so the police are able to identify you."

"Russian Federation - it is prohibited to wear masks and any other means of hiding identity during public events"
1Gbps open switches are probably under $2,000 and there is Cumulus VX.
But if you follow that strategy you might have a +EV but you are very very likely to lose in any given entry because you only win when all (or most of) your high variance players come through. And that is, by definition, unlikely.

So this guy won big the first time he tried this? Or maybe he's tried 4 weeks now and has already won big?

This still doesn't add up.
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What the legal profession believes to be "beyond a reasonable doubt" and what the members of a particular jury consider "beyond a reasonable doubt" are two very different things. Judge Alex Kozinski wrote very well on the matter in a great article [1]:

"Juries are routinely instructed that the defendant is presumed innocent and the prosecution must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but we don’t really know whether either of these instructions has an effect on the average juror. Do jurors understand the concept of a presumption? If so, do they understand how a presumption is supposed to operate? Do they assume that the presumption remains in place until it is overcome by persuasive evidence or do they believe it disappears as soon as any actual evidence is presented? We don’t really know.

Nor do we know whether juries really draw a distinction between proof by a preponderance, proof by clear and convincing evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. These levels of proof, which lawyers and judges assume to be hermetically sealed categories, may mean nothing at all in the jury room. My own experience as a juror certainly did nothing to convince me that my fellow jurors understood and appreciated the difference. The issue, rather, seemed to be quite simply: Am I convinced that the defendant is guilty?"

[1] http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2015/06/Kozinski_Prefa...
Implied but not stated directly is that because vast reduction in disease and proportionate increase in life expectancy people are having fewer children so that the small resources people have don't have to be divided into smaller slices but rather into larger slices.

Globalization, the boogeyperson of lots of people, has allowed some income redistribution to the developing world -has the developed world not globalized, it's not a given that had the developed world hoarded their industry and jobs the poor countries would have done as relatively well as they have.

It's also surprising to not see much comment on the interesting phenomenon where countries which had relatively good economies in the early 20th century (Mexico, Argentina, etc) went way down hill after WWii, partly severe corruption and simple non-investment due to antiquated policies and emphasis on natural resources rather than technologies.
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1. doesnt work without javascript
2. lots of space wasted
3. pulling others content vs linking to other websites... reddit is about the comments, not about consuming content on the same page.
Rental security deposits in the U.S. make no sense – the U.K. found a better way
That's how I read it, too. That's why I'm wondering if it has had a security-related patch or change since the 2nd flaw was found. If it had, then the claim should be modified. If it hasn't, claim might be true.

Most making a claim like that... one that's usually wrong.... have data to back it up. Most people's position has been that I should accept it by default, accept reversed burden of proof, and disprove the claim by countless hours of inspection. Whereas, from high-security to mainstream stuff, the status quo has been something is insecure until proven otherwise. I see no reason to change it.
1. going to /r/videos causes firefox to freeze for 10-20 seconds, probably from all the embeds loading at once

2. stickies, in their entirety are always shown. They should be collapsed to just titles to be less obstructive.

3. I get where you're going with the narrow container (enhances readability?) but I never found reddit's wide container to be an issue.

4. voting stuff on the right breaks my workflow[1]

5. 9reddit: seriously? I thought redditors hated 9gag.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
Actually the Cyanogenmod port of Android has a feature called LiveDisplay which works like RedShift/f.lux. It makes the display warmer at night. Very cool feature and can't believe every phone doesn't have it...
Not really. In a case like this people will likely go to jail, so resigning isn't a big deal.
No but it's mandated utilities offer service unless you've done something very egregious.

No simple EULA denials.
Seems like you only embedded a "mobile friendly" layout really awkwardly in a desktop container.
Take-away: 5 key attributes of high resilience organizations:

1. Preoccupation with Failure: We were continuously on the lookout for what could go wrong and ways to spot weak signals and small failures early so we could act on them and take corrective actions.

2. Reluctance to Simplify: Complex problems don’t always have simple solutions, yet it can be comfortable to jump on the last solution that worked well or the one that most readily comes to mind.

3. Sensitivity to Operations: Plans are necessary, but operations will vary, so crews need to pay attention to operations as they unfold and make dynamic adjustments based on the actual (not planned) conditions.

4. Deference to Expertise: many complex complex organization have with multiple different job duties and roles. Deferring to the experts means ensuring there are competent members who can do their jobs and then trusting them.

5. Commitment to Resilience: Adaptability and flexibility are critical skills in an organization committed to resilience. resilient organization for aviators. Resilience requires you to react appropriately to dynamic conditions as they unfold, actively managing risk using judgment and decision-making.
Without private ownership, resources cannot be traded to their highest utility. Politicians ultimately are left to figure that out (when they get around to it, of course).
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Show HN: A simple way to remember (and learn) the key messages of books
Hi everyone,

Would love your feedback and questions on this project I started a couple weeks ago.

After finishing Robert Greene's book Mastery, I searched for ways to see how much I learned from it. I wanted to check how much I actually learned, as well as take my understanding of Mastery to another level. But there was nothing available online that tested me.

There were only YouTube videos, podcast interviews and book summaries. These are all fantastic for revision, but not so great for testing oneself. I remember thinking: "I wish there were quizzes based on non-fiction books."

And so, seeing that there was nothing available online, I decided to try create a quiz myself. I had recently read Derek Sivers fantastic book Anything You Want. It's a short, quick and brilliant read for first-time entrepreneurs. So I made a quiz based on that, which you can take yourself here: http://www.bookgym.xyz/#anything-you-want. I showed the quiz to Derek Sivers himself and his response was: "BookGym looks like a wonderful idea! I just did the quiz based on my book. That was so cool!"

The basic premise of BookGym: after you finish reading a best-selling non-fiction book, you can take the accompanying quiz for that book and check how much you learned. After each question, you'll get detailed feedback, depending on whether you got the question right or wrong.

I am dedicated to doing one thing, and one thing only: creating the best interactive quizzes based on best-selling non-fiction books. I want to help you remember (and learn) the key messages of a book.

The main question therefore is: would you pay for this service? If yes, why? If no, why?

Here is the URL: http://www.bookgym.xyz

Thank you for your help!
It's really not just about you, and what you care about. Other people may care about stuff you may or may not care about, and what they care about is valid to them.

To others, some things that may matter to them may include:

- Trackng down old friends

- Keeping in touch with friends

- Keeping in touch with acquaintances

- Staying aware of what friends and acquaintances are up to

- Keeping friends and acquaintances aware of what they are up to

- Fitting into social groups

- Staying aware of what their social groups of interest are up to

- Or more generally staying aware of cultural events, news, trends, and topics that are of interest amongst circles of people they are close to, or other circles of which they are members.

Facebook is a one-stop shop for a lot of these things. Sure, some or all of them are conceivably possible in other ways, but finding alternatives for all of them would involve significant expenditure of effort compared to just being a regular user of Facebook.
You turned Reddit into a Facebook feed (or LinkedIn feed). I don't think that's an improvement.
> The primary purpose of media news is to make money

My main news sources are:
- CBC (Canadian crown corporation),
- BBC (UK Royal Charter),
- TVOntario (Ontario crown corporation),
- Democracy Now! (independent non-profit),
- PBS (independent non-profit),
- crowd-sourced for-profit sites (HN, reddit)

I live in NYC, and it's always really strange to see how prevalent for-profit media is here when there are so many better options.
I'm not seeing any posts. Did you hit a throttle?
Someone still maintains an OS/2 port of Firefox. Mozilla removed the OS/2 files from the Firefox source repo just last year because they no longer compiled. IIUC the OS/2 maintainer couldn't upstream his fixes to Mozilla because he replaced Firefox's build system (autoconf + python DSL) with kbuild "in order to simplify maintenance and speed up the build process".

https://github.com/bitwiseworks/mozilla-os2

https://bugzil.la/969757
Really disruptive tech: telepresence that's finally almost as good as the real thing.

I expect luddite attempts to ban it as soon as they realize it means that everyone in the world is now free to work with anyone else, borders be damned. It would lead to massive economic growth as whole countries that have lacked access to high-productivity jobs suddenly gain access.

This is really just the technology version of a solution to ending poverty that we could apply today, if we wanted to: open borders. Let anybody work wherever they can find a job, and global poverty would end incredibly fast. By some credible estimates, it would double global GDP almost overnight, by letting workers go to where the work is.
Who defines 'unreasonable'?
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There is no social contract here. If you have a website and you want to get paid for it, fine. But you don't get to do that without the risk of obsolescence just because, historically, it has worked in the past. Walmart can't order 20 million giant CRT Tv's and demand that customers are obligated to buy them just because they would have 10 years ago. There is no social contract requiring me to see ads I don't want to see.

Contracts don't exist if nobody enforces them.

PS: Most of the content I enjoy is not ad supported. And ads aren't the only way to spread money around while creating value in an industry.
I liked OS/2 at the time - a lot - but I am not sure why would anyone want an OS/2 clone at this point in time. Besides the "because I can" and "it's fun" standard reasons for building an OS, there is little reason to do it.
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Looks like Vysk's QS1 is aiming to mitigate the baseband hacks - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/25/startup-cl...
I can understand the harm of opiates and stimulants, but are psychedelics really that damaging to society? And if he grew them himself it wasn't contributing to harmful suppliers...
I know what insurance is. I just don't know how you can insure against political failure unless you've already got a stash of "political success" to apply when things go wrong.
Some other problems I've found...

- If the user has already interacted with something in a visible way (e.g. pressing a button that is now clearly in a pressed state), no opening animations should occur. If I click a menu, I want it to open now; I do not want to wait for your pretty scroll-down or fade-in effect to finish.

- Similarly, once a finishing action has been requested, it should be initiated immediately and not be contingent on the completion of any animation. To achieve this, closing animations should be optical illusions: for example, a window that "fades away" shouldn't really be the original window; the real window should immediately commit its changes and close, replaced by an image of the real window that can be harmlessly animated away in the background.

- Animations should generally not relocate clickable elements. It's very frustrating to click something open (like a menu drawer) and have the corresponding close-button start sliding away from my mouse to a location that can only be determined when the animation is done. I feel like I'm chasing your UI around the screen, and that's just ridiculous.
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It's not a hack... this is exactly what is guaranteed for OAuth2 servers that follow spec to deauthorize all tokens.
> Meanwhile 55 engineers at WhatsApp can write software used daily by 700m people.

First, arguably, the engineers at what's app quite possibly might not be the best or brightest. Not saying they're aren't very good, but that's not necessarily what drives an app like WhatsApp into popularity.

Second, even if it's assumed that the WhatsApp engineers are literally the best 55 engineers in their field bar none they only represent a minuscule fraction of a pool of many, many talented individuals.

In other words, there's room for WhatsApp (and all the other comparable unicorns) and the teaching profession.

The overwhelming majority of very talented engineers are not impacting 700 million users. And as I mentioned, many are impacting them only insofar as what they see in their google sidebar. . . which I'm not sure is very socially impactful.
I think you just agreed in a slightly angry way with plenty of citations.

Internet company valuations are also driven up by a small group of very rich people who all collude to drive up valuations anyway and promote their own rich people agendas anyway. It's not entirely based in the real world and doesn't come under real world scrutiny until it's too late.
What level of certainty is "beyond a reasonable doubt"? 99%? If we let the state take a prisoners life based on 99% certainty of guilt, 1 out of 100 prisoners thus killed will be innocent. Is this an acceptable margin--to kill 1 innocent man for every 99 actual murderers?
Though their definition of "Do the right thing" seems like a pretty low bar:

I. Avoid Conflicts of Interest
II. Ensure Financial Integrity and Responsibility
III. Obey the Law

https://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html
I have noticed that certain online media have been sluggish or timing out lately. A bit of a bad advertisement for us all to move to the 'cloud' ..
You're not unreasonable to question this--I honestly think he's guilty, but it's also true that the evidence is indirect, that Sneed has a motive to lie (avoid death penalty), and he's hardly the most reliable character.

Most of the evidence is Glossip telling some very suspicious lies about a dead guy's whereabouts and allegedly splitting $4,000 with Sneed.

I'd still say you're better off not executing people as a matter of policy--you can never undo a mistake in that process--but I'm not very convinced of Glossip's innocence. Given that it mostly relies on testimony, all of which is inherently unreliable, it's a bad use of the death penalty. I'm guessing the prosecutors used it with the intention to force Glossip to cave and plead guilty, but that really doesn't sit well with me.