skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct.

What I'm now doing is reducing the number of third party domains I call.

In essence, where I used to use cdnjs.cloudflare.com or whatever other externally hosted JS or CSS, I'm now mostly self-hosting, but still behind CloudFlare.

You can see this in action on https://www.lfgss.com/ which is now serving everything it can locally... only fonts and Persona really remain external.

I have been using preconnect hints to try and reduce the latency created by contacting those 3rd parties, but TBH the fact that I use SSL as much as possible meant that those connections take time to establish. In that time, most of the assets can be delivered over my already open connection.

There is an argument that cdnjs/Google CDN or whatever is better for the web, but personally I'm unconvinced. I think one should self-host/control all of the JavaScript that runs on your own site, and that unless the exact versions of the exact libs are cached in end user browsers the benefits are not even there.

This also looks to be a smarter thing to do anyway; the increasing prevalence of ad-blocking tech is impacting 3rd party hosted assets, and thus the experience of your users. You can mitigate that by self-hosting.

I haven't obliterated first-party extra domains, for example I still use a different domain for uploaded assets by users. This is a security thing, if I could safely do it I'd serve everything I can from just the one domain.

Basically: Self-host, http/2 has brought you the gift of speed to make that good again.
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How is developing on iOS these days? Swift seems like such nice a nice language.
esp considering that most external Swift developers will come from iOS development

I am wondering about this. To me, it seems that there is still space for a modern, pragmatic language that compiles to native code. Coming from C and C++, I have been using Go recently for applications where garbage collection and some performance loss due to a relatively weak compiler is acceptable.

However, I still find the lack of parametric polymorphism tedious and annoying as well as other stuff you'd come to expect from a modern language (algebraic data types, non-nullable types, etc.).

Does anyone who has experience with Swift think that it could be a better language for the niches Go has gained traction? (Besides iOS/Mac development?)
Wow, Swift.org is getting hammered right now.
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Going by discussions like https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36969 (and the RHEL ticket it links in turn), it seems USER_NS in Linux isn't quite ready for production use anyway.

But yeah, I guess we should totally fund container startups, because… something.

(They seem good enough for local development, at least.)
>They could have been 500px, if Flickr was addressed in time

Is 500px really anything to write home about though?

Seems even more marginal and doomed to fail than Flickr.
It survived that with a cash infusion from Microsoft, not because it was showing results.
Are any of those digital notaries provably decentralized, secure, free, and scriptable in one or two lines?
Why everything takes longer than you expect
This becomes a topic for acquisition management. You can keep it as a separate company with the highest possible autonomy. I don't know how much autonomy YouTube has over Google's core decision (i imagine there are debates who to drive the decision and the technology implementation).

But obviously if Netflix were to be acquired by Yahoo, I see a fundamental demand to make Netflix into the Yahoo portal, because of the ad money, which I think would be a mistake (linking is a whole different story). At least YouTube is not integrated into Google portal which is a great decision.
>If you think so, then donate 100% of your income to the government and live on public assistance.

I've always found these arguments to be poor attempts at a reductio ad absurdum.

While some people do take vows of poverty, by and large this is not what's meant by advocates of public institutions.

The thing is that there is a large body of services and capital investments that are most efficiently - for both economic and political reasons - conducted by accountable, democratic institutions. The canonical example are roads and firemen but also education and public transit and healthcare and some kinds of housing.

We can debate over the legitimacy of particular governance mechanisms (NIMBYs in the Bay!) or political actors in given jurisdictions (State senators in NY!) but by and large in North America people have some sort of say in outcomes that affect them.

The problem is precisely that by

>following the law and organizing his affairs to retain control of the money he earned

his gift is a considerably less selfless act. It's one thing to "eradicate malaria". It's another completely to "try to make the world resemble what Chan Zuckerberg want".

You're allowed to do this with your own money, of course. But it's considerably less altruistic of you. If you were anywhere at all already suspicious of his intentions given the product his company has developed, the idea that he will be dedicating billions of dollars towards his own (political) agenda is not exactly heartwarming.
Would a "master password" (a la Firefox/Thunderbird) be the way to go (as input to an encryption routine)?

It seems like any credentials that can be automatically used after a program loads without the user authenticating are at risk for malware harvesting.
It seems to be down due to traffic.
I'm a bit of a procrastination literature connoisseur. In addition to WBW, here are some of my favorites:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140121123613-25056271-tasks...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/21b/ugh_fields/

http://visakanv.com/1000/0395-procrastination-as-parent-vs-c... (the most recent thing I've written)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY69bgftUok
It looks like Apple is also releasing an official package manager for swift.[1] I wonder how that will effect Cocoapods.

[1] https://swift.org/package-manager
There was a blog post about porting it to Linux before the site went down, so it looks like they're supporting it with this release.
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Pervasive cross-correlations of various traits' genetics
Netflix's expenses increased due to continued international expansion. It has a very lucrative business model, not that dissimilar to HBO, which is extremely profitable. It was definitely undervalued until relatively recently.

>The problem is there at the mercy of content producers who can extract most of the long term value.

How is that any different from HBO?

Netflix doesn't need to have everything, and, in general, Netflix can afford to outbid other services for content due to the sheer size of its membership and revenue streams.
Swift Package Manager? It looks like Apple has developed their own version CocoaPods for Swift? Interesting.
The hard part of error handling is not the error itself
The Rules of Attraction: Language
Bitcoin Is a Language Best Spoken by Machines
The traffic sounds like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCIFXqhLzo
> pay lower taxes on their investments

On all three pence? God bless America.
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The best thing about this page is that amongst all of the techinial features, they snuck in “Targeted Ads” as a feature of the car.
https://github.com/apple/swift wouldn't appear non-existent due to traffic.
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Which is not a fault of the Java language: trainwrecks (this->getThat()->getThose()-foreach(){ do stuff } is a general antipattern.

The correct way is IMO: colleague.getMoney() which can easily be implemented in Java, PHP etc.

I'm getting a bit tired of this constant pecking at Java (nothing personal). There are a number of questionable designs yes, there is a lot of ugly code out there, yes, but almost every alternative might have been worse:

Teaching everyone C? Good luck.

Switch to C#? Until recently that would prevent you from using Linux on your servers unless you were ready to put in technical effort and bet on MS not suing you or the upstream effort.

Perl?

PHP?

Catch my drift folks? Java filled a niche. It was almost as easy as PHP once you got started (although onboarding still is messy I think) and provided superior tooling.
Its not a problem. But its not a charity act either, which is how he has portrayed it. Its a PR act around charity but really a vehicle to exercise power in both private and charitable arenas.

Again that's fine, but call a spade a spade. It plays into the overall narrative on Mark as being slimy and doubletalking about everything.
Well, breast-feeding is natures perfect post-childbirth weight loss tool...
The trope that minimizing your taxes is good and should be encouraged is tired and political. The reasoning that one isn't breaking any rules is like saying it's ok to take the entire bowl of Halloween candy because there aren't any rules against it. It is against the spirit of taxes which pool resources for the greater good of everyone.

Everybody has to pay taxes. Some people have the means to avoid paying a fair amount and retain even a higher percentage of their income. The poor pay many direct and indirect taxes which equals a higher percentage of their income than rich.[1]

Not saying that the world needs to be fair for everybody, but it's disingenuous to take advantage of public services and resources and say it isn't your responsibility to pay for them in an equitable way. Warrent Buffet understands this and wants it changed. [2]

And no meaningful tax reform law has any chance of passing due to gridlock in Congress. People like Zuckerberg are flaunting this fact and daring somebody to close loopholes.

[1] http://www.itep.org/whopays/full_report.php
[2] http://fee.org/freeman/5-warren-buffetts-federal-tax-rate-is...
And slightly more specific, Swift on Android :) LLVM compiles some code I'm working on to be part of an Android app; so it should not be too hard (as LLVM is Swift compiler backend).
Apache 2.0 License + Runtime Library Exception + copyright owned by the contributor (i.e. no assignment or CLA) + good community structure and documentation + code of conduct... well done, Apple!
If that is the case, then in order to be consistent, one would have to celebrate subverting the tax laws made by the rich (even if done by one of them).
One if the problems with Tor is that adding noise has too much of a latency and bandwidth cost, thus it doesn't. But an IM client has much less restrictive latency and bandwidth costs, so it makes sense that it adds it.
Large industrial processes can be analyzed by looking at flows of hot, warm and cold fluids etc. They can then be optimized mathematically so you lose the least energy while producing the same useful output.

Often people with already basic knowledge of thermodynamics can spot the large inefficiency sources in many of the currently common processes. This stuff has been known since the 1800s.

It's just that the implementation has been too expensive (payoff is too slow), or politically inconvenient (the technology is in another department/company). There might be some reliability or emissions or noise issues etc...

The world is full of massive technical inefficiencies and thus, great business opportunities.

You can look at the car as an industrial process as well. Intercoolers, capacitor energy recovery, heat pumps for heating (and not just for air conditioning). Most of the mechanical technology is 100+ years old. The turbocharger was patented in 1905.
With batteries and capacitors and control electronics there's some fairly new stuff.

You could for example skip the piston engine and instead have just a turbine and then a bottoming engine with CO2 cycle recovering the waste heat.
Ships run with turbocharged diesel engines, but GE is championing precisely this turbine + bottoming for them. So why not cars? There are some big operational differences of course (heating the working fluid in an external combustion engine takes a while). But there could be some big benefits too, like if you don't have reciprocating machinery at all, the noise is different and there's no vibration.
Can this do GUI programming on Lin/Win? Or Are there usable gui libraries for doing cross platform development like QT?
I find package management unscaleable (ie, it becomes more and more of headache as you pull in dependencies), but the language is much, much nicer to work with and read than Objective-C
This is interesting, I'd never be able to write something like:

print is the name of a Python command, which sends messages to output. The parentheses () after the print command are used to contain what you want to print.

I really dislike the idea that programming languages have "commands", so I would have called it a function since that's the actual term used. And that of course would lead to explaining the parentheses as part of calling a function, by enclosing the parameters.

I admit I didn't read far in this tutorial, so perhaps more correct/typical terminology is introduced later.
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In general, it depends. Statistical correlation analysis works pretty well as long as you have enough data, the data points you're looking at aren't specifically designed to change constantly (such as with a strong boolean function in a stream cipher correlation attack), and they don't introduce false positives. But if the data points you're looking at are strong indicators of unique data and your training method can correlate strongly with a specific user's requests, it shouldn't be too difficult.

Section 7 (page 12) goes over website fingerprinting and how they're able to gain a significant positive match and low false-positive match rate. They can more easily identify noise from signal than previously thought, we're only looking at hidden services (which number far fewer than the number of public websites), hidden service pages change much less frequently than public ones, and they exclude data points that could raise the false positive rate.

Also note that the classifiers here were even better at identifying specific clients than what hidden services they were accessing. So, not only is your hidden service not safe, neither are your users :-)
Oops. I did try to check his site, but it was coming up blank for me.
This is about legally being able to buy politicians via lobbying, not about diddling taxes.
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The caniuse.com data on http/2 appears to have some flaws.
Biggest buckets for browsers that support SPDY but not HTTP/2 for our website right now are:
a) Chrome for mobile
b) Safari on older Mac OS X versions
c) Older Chrome for desktop versions
d) Internet Explorer (small impact)
Other websites might see different ratios depending on their audience.

Stay tuned for instructions on how to gain protocol version insight for your own website on CF.
Non-termination, my bad!

And of course that's true! Trivially so, though, in that we could do the same by picking the counter to be 10 instead of 2^1000, since we don't appear to care about changing the meaning of the program.

If we do, then we have to consider whether we want our equality to distinguish terminating and non-terminating programs. If it does distinguish, then non-terminating ones are impure.

Now, what I think you're really asking for is a blurry edge where we consider equality module "reasonable finite observation" in which something different might arise.

But in this case you need partial information so we're headed right at CRDTs, propagators, LVars, and all that jazz. I'm not for a single second going to state that there aren't interesting semanticses out there.

Although I will say that CRDTs have really nice value semantics with partial information. I think it's a lot nicer than the operational/combining model.
Can we all just reserve judgement until Zuckerberg does something with the money? I'm hoping he'll be able to do something along the lines of what Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation have done/are doing.
and what happens when we let the "poor" make laws? Endless welfare, unaffordable backroom union deals, massive corruption, massive taxation to move money from the uppers to the lowers, etc. Just visit Chicago or Greece to see what happens when the power shifts to the unions instead of companies.

Also, 'rich' is often a placeholder for companies. Companies want to be successful. That means compromise in a million different ways as bold moves can lead to bankruptcy, boycotts, competitors coming in and taking your market share, etc. Companies have an incentive to play ball as they want to survive and be competitive. Government, on the other hand, survives by default and doesn't have to be efficient at all.

The reality is that good government works when we have all players mobilized and part of the process. Its incredibly cynical to just claim the rich make laws to benefit themselves, especially considering that the US runs on a popular democracy model to the point of directly electing the highest office, which is unheard of in parliamentary democracies. The rich are vastly outnumbered. Perhaps you should consider that a lot of regular people vote in policies that are pro-business because they want jobs and wealth in their area. Not everyone can become a silicon valley hotshot or NYC finance banker. Those 'red state' policies you hate so much bring in employers, jobs, create wealth, etc. We tried communism. Turns out it didnt work. In fact it led to the deaths of 50-100m people and created autocracies, war, political persecution, poverty, and misery on a level unimaginable before.

My friends here in Chicago are all looking for new jobs because a couple employers have already left and many are planning on leaving as the tax level and anti-business attitudes here are killing the economy. This is a city of 3m people with a $550b GDP and we have a junk credit rating and no one knows how to pay off these fatcat union pensions. So yeah, be careful what you wish for. When the average guy has political power, he just writes checks for his friends at the cost of the taxpayer and the local economy. Without the business owning class calling some of the shots, there's really no incentive to do anything right as you can just keep dipping into the public treasury and when that runs out just keep raising taxes per the Chicago model. Which inevitably culminates into a Detriot-like bankruptcy.
yes, although I think it's more similar to Carthage than to Cocoapods.
I don't want to be totally negative on Zuckerburg. Maybe he will do good with the money. However:

An estate would not be taxed on the value of the LLC, the same way one he is not taxed on the value of his stock. It is taxed when sold. If he assigns family members as owners there would not be additional taxes when he passes away if the LLC's money continues to grow.

>11. Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Family Limited Partnership (FLP)
FLPs and LLCs let you reduce estate taxes by transferring assets like a family business, farm, real estate or stocks to your children now, and still keep some control. They can also protect the assets from future lawsuits and creditors.

>Here's how they work. You and your spouse can set up an LLC or FLP and transfer assets to it. In exchange, you receive ownership interests. Though you have a fiduciary obligation to other owners, you control the LLC (as manager) or FLP (as general partner). You can give ownership interests to your children, which removes value from your taxable estate. These interests cannot be sold or transferred without your approval, and because there is no market for these interests, their value is often discounted. This lets you transfer the underlying assets to your children at a reduced value, without losing control.

https://www.estateplanning.com/Understanding-Estate-Taxes/
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France
Thanks for your reply. Mom called me from landline few mins ago and said she is safe.
How much are tide sizes changing due to global warming? A few cm at max? How would that impact whales?
If anything, this transaction will actually result in more taxes being levied than if he had transferred it to a foundation. There still will be capital gains tax when the LLC sells Facebook shares. It will pay income tax on any dividends. Any investments it makes will similarly be treated. There will be no estate tax dodge. The LLC will be valued at the value of its assets at the death of the last spouse and estate tax will be levied at 40% on that value.

Please, someone, tell me how this is a tax dodge.
I may trust my mother a lot, and maybe she wouldn't rat me out to the cops, but that doesn't mean she can stand up to enhanced interrogation techniques. Tor alone will not protect you completely, but it's better than nothing.
Hope it's will have brighter future outside Apple ecosystem. It's nice to have more tools for server-side development, but wish it's will be better on desktop than ObjC / Cocoa / GNUstep was.
Apple Open Sources Swift
The thing is that there is a large body of services and capital investments that are most efficiently - for both economic and political reasons - conducted by accountable, democratic institutions. The canonical example are roads and firemen but also education and public transit and healthcare and some kinds of housing.

Extremely debatable.

That said, public education is such an evident failure that it's doing you a disservice to list it. Alternatives like Sudbury schools tend to be privately or cooperatively owned institutions.

(Also, most firefighters are volunteers, who need not be publicly funded.)
The video looks like a bad Tron parody
Containers have a rather narrow use case: efficient, decoupled deployment of Linux-hosted applications, particularly as part of a CI/CD pipeline. I would not expect most in "IT" to care too much about it, it's more of a "DevOps"/developer/SRE thing.
Just a slight clarification -- there is no "avoidance" going on here. This is merely "deferral." Transferring the shares of any company to another company is often a tax free transaction (provided some basic rules are met) under Section 351 of the tax code. (This is Tax 101).
So down voting a question about why my critical feedback was being voted down without legitimate argument (or even just an educated one) proves that HN can be a myopic mob sometimes (actually often) I suppose this will be down voted too? Silencing critical feedback feels good, eh?
> Seriously. does anyone reading this post think the government is a better steward of their income than they are? If you think so, then donate 100% of your income to the government and live on public assistance. That option is provided on the tax return you sign here in the USA.

Nonsense. I can support the idea of a democratic welfare state, and be opposed to the rich avoiding taxes, without having to give up all my money.
Thank you, I was wondering how it differed from Wikipedia's existing vandalism detector systems like ClueBot.
I once got this advice as, "Either change your organization or change your organization."