skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has the most obnoxious variety of online advertising (with my pageload, anyway).

1) Beats video ad playing in multiple panes (main pane above article, smaller side panel beside)

2) video ad autostarts, with audio

3) attempt to "Pause" the video is counted as a click, generating a popup page (in defiance of popup blockers)... and doesn't even pause the video.
Agreed. I simply can't imagine what would happen if our federal fiscal policy was left up to the 50 states individually. Jesus that would be bad. Texas, my personal and favorite example, would go from an economic powerhouse to unable to support its economy, ever, if anything went south, pun intended.
Ask HN: App and Cloud versioning strategies?
Hi. At work we have a separate App and cloud team.

Something that has come up recently is how to do the versioning between these two teams.

Some things that have arisen and we arn't sure the best solution. Maybe some here have gone through already.

1. Adding non breaking changes to the cloud api (like adding a new key to a response). What's your process for ensuring that all the older app versions don't break with this change? Obviously if it's written properly to ignore unknown fields it should be fine and you have unit tests to verify that it's ok. Just wondering if that can always be assumed?

2. Doing data schema changes. We store data sent from the cloud in storage on the device. It basically stays there until the cloud increments the 'schema version' which tells the app that it needs to be reloaded (maybe that object now contains new fields so the local cache needs to be reloaded). This should be done automatically I think. The client could keep checking the modified timestamp for every object and replace ?

This one is also like we need good offline/online handling. We looked into using firebase but that would be too expensive. I wonder if there is a accepted way of doing this?

Any thoughts or suggested reading on this topic would be helpful!

Thanks.
Why r ^ 4th power? The weight of the rock is ~r ^ 2. Potential energy is weight X height lifted. I'm confused.
i read a shit ton of books, but only keep the ones i'd like enough to read again. New to my library this year:

the checklist manifesto

friday

the left hand of darkness

banker for the poor

iq52

the pragmatic programmer

star diaries

cat's cradle

the dead mountainer's inn

spanner darkley
The local currency is already defacto dead, any new currency they introduce will not be taken seriously, they've already lost their local currency.
Patent and Trademark Office suffers major outage and equipment failure
Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: a representative community survey
An Unexpectedly Long-Expected Party
Apache Traffic Server – More Than Just a Proxy
From TFA:

> "As we’ve stated previously … it is against established Juniper policy to intentionally include ‘backdoors’ that would potentially compromise our products or put our customers at risk. Moreover, it is Juniper policy not to work with others to introduce vulnerabilities into our products.”

-- Juniper
Employees only lost money due to taxes because they tried to manipulate their tax rates. There's really on the employees, not anyone else.

I agree with you about the CEO.
#8 is the only one I've read on that list. Thanks! I look forward to reading the rest!
And I would argue that _use-site checking_ is the easiest and obviously the slowest method to attain the stated goal. Python is already slow, this is just going to make things silly.

Using the same inference methods as Shedskin [0] along with type annotations, functional tests and property based testing can get both correctness and performance in a gradual layered manner.

This paper doesn't prove that gradual typing is broken, it shows that _use-site checking_ happens to be slow for the version of Python that they used (PyPy could very well elide the checks).

[0]

Shedskin Thesis http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com/shedskin.pdf

Iterative Flow Analysis by Plevyak http://plevyak.com/ifa-submit.pdf

Agesen's Cartesian Product http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88....
Love Alpine. The biggest use case I've found for small images so far is for testing a microservices system on Travis or a similar CI. You package each of your services in a container, then use docker-compose1[1] to start everything up. The faster it can pull down the images, the faster your CI build runs, so size can be important here.

One interesting thing about Alpine is that it uses MUSL[2] for its libc. If you want the bare minimum image size, you can use a scratch or busybox image and statically compile your binaries[3].

[1] https://docs.docker.com/compose/

[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/

[3] http://blog.xebia.com/create-the-smallest-possible-docker-co...
RS UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
Stress Gives You Daughters, Sons Make You Liberal
Erm, yes.

I would say that accepting the debt of the local municipal government is by definition, "getting cozy with the local government".

Or would you say otherwise?
SYAC: It's https://quid.com , which does not appear to be comparable to Google at all - at least, the consumer-facing search engine aspect of it. Thanks, headline writers.
I've imagined this repeatedly. When you can buy any book you want online, physical bookstores become, in practice, galleries—and their clerks become salesmen.

In such times, there's not much point to having a big store stuffed to the gunnels with anonymous tomes that the clerks don't even know they have, let alone know anything about. Bookstores have none of the things that the book-buyer wants (discoverability, recommendation or "match-making", knowledgeability); and, especially in the case of used book stores, the online copy is probably in better condition, too.

When you treat books, instead, like pieces in a commercial art gallery—curated and exhibited for effect, with well-trained staff who can tell you all about them, or guide you to a book that fits your desires, or call/email you when a book you might like comes in—you get something from the physical store you don't get online. And, therefore, you actually might buy your copy from the store—maybe even at premium—because you aren't just paying for the book, but for the whole experience that led to you buying the book.
That's not a very useful way to look at it. (1) If Ericsson overall costs were just 4% bigger, you would be saying: "10000% of Ericsson profits came from Apple", (2) R&D that led to those patents likely had staggering costs, which may or may not have been fully amortized. It's not just the engineer salaries of those who filed the patents either, likely the whole company structure, buildings and all, were instrumental in getting those technologies developed. So while the cashflow is mostly free, it is not pure profit.
The vtable for an object being actively used will be in L1 cache, and when a virtual function is called in a loop, Intel's CPUs have been able to predict the target for many, many years. ARM may not; I've never had recent to deeply investigate virtual call performance on iOS.

Finding calling via a function pointer to be faster than calling directly suggests that you were not actually measuring what you thought you were measuring.
It probably has more to do with the continual end of the Zimbabwean economy.
> If no one has the ability to listen to the differing opinions of the group and then initiate a course of action by deciding on one or more of the available paths, there are plenty of cases where no consensus is reached and everything goes in a bunch of different directions at once

Organizational structures without hierarchical authority structures, e.g. network models, don't necessarily rely on consensus; they may well have distributed authority where decisions can be made at the point in the organization where the issue is encountered, rather than being kicked up a hierarchy until it reaches someone authorized to make it.

> Now, hierarchy may not produce the most correct decision making, but it does produce decision making (not even "quick decision making", just "decision making"). Nonhierarchical organizations can't guarantee that.

I don't see any evidence that that is particular true of hierarchy as opposed to non-hierarchical organizations. Hierarchical organizations are certainly not incapable of analysis paralysis; having a hierarchy doesn't guarantee a decision.

Hierarchies might promote consistency in the decisions that do get made, but that's a different issue.
Very promising concept from Joanna Rutkowska. It looks like it might be implemented in next versions of Purism laptops.
Seriously though, you don't get it both ways. There's been this backlash against startups paying below market on the promise of equity, so then many startups in reality do start paying at or above market, and then people are still unhappy when things like this happen. This is a side effect of the increased cost of labor which makes many startups less viable. Silicon Valley doesn't run on "screw you pay me". At or above market salaries are a huge cost to startups to the detriment of their equity, and so honestly I'm not too upset about employees who have been making market salaries not getting much out of an acqui-hire. Hopefully the ones who were in the trenches with the founders will be rewarded, and if it's the case here where that's much of the team, then hopefully there's an earn out structure that provides that if the acquirer is trying to manage the acquisition risk.
I will build your application in a month for $2000
I’m a React developer (over 15 years of programming experience altogether) starting my own JS boutique. I do not have any long-term assignments yet, so would love to build something for fun and portfolio.

A month is enough to build a MVP or develop existing application.

What you will get:
- A React application (web or mobile) with working Node.js backend
- 40-80 hours of my time in January
- whole ownership of the code
- help with server configuration and deployment

Please send me your ideas/questions to marcin@nexitive.com. We could start next week.
> Why r ^ 4th power? The weight of the rock is ~r ^ 2.

No, because, as shown on the fourth page, the length of the cylinder is ~r making the weight ~r^3 (if the length was constant, the weight would be ~r^2.)
"Nail Fashion Sweden"? :D
Not specifically. I play around with Mixxx but use Traktor in the club. It's more about software stability than anything inherent in the sound. I've had a handful of sets go south (which ultimately is enough) due to freezes etc that I'm wary (unnecessarily so. I'm sure they are fine, but It's more about "simplifying variables in arguable a super complex system.)
Just don't lose sight of Chesterton's fence.
Also worth noting is the effect of recent sales volume, which tends to hurt the company with more revenue, i.e., Apple, in these negotiations. E.g., my 1,000 patents and 10 million in product sales leaves me less exposed in a patent fight than your 5,000 patents and 10 billion in product sales revenue, so the bigger company often pays the smaller company in that scenario.
>And I'm sure some people regularly contact Google asking for removal of "false" information about dinosaur fossils and the earth being more than a few thousand years old. Acting on any such request would be making a decision on the veracity of that information.

Google already does this...they remove websites from their results and they make a decision on the veracity of the remaining information through their results. As to the dinosaur fossils...they don't have standing to sue over defamation, so Google is protected from making the hard decisions there.

>The courts should have told the plaintiff to sue the site publishing the information...

Where you find Google is just "a search engine linking to the information", according to the article, the court found Google was both publishing and promoting the defamation. I can see courts splitting on this issues for sure, so you might get your hope on appeal, but I don't think it is an intellectually dishonest conclusion to view search result/ads as more than "links" but impressions Google approves for publication in their search results.

Traditionally, if someone were to publish something false in a newspaper the plaintiff could name the author, editor and newspaper publisher. I am not for limiting the rights of individuals over corporations. In fairness I recognize technology makes it easier than ever to publish/republish false statements, but I am more inclined to feel bad for the individual being defamed on a scale never seen before more than I am to feel bad for Google because the Court didn't buy their argument that they should not be liable because they are just a "search engine" and it would burden them to stop linking to false information about people.
Here is the Nature paper:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16454
Mostly convention, but also compromise. You may like:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
What if URLs were immutable?
What if once content was posted to a URL (maybe a new kind of URL, the immutable IURL)
it could never be changed?
The contents of the site and the URL itself
would be hashed together
and out would come a key that could never be altered.
Not even the theme and styling of the page could be rebranded.
It would be frozen like Han Solo at the end of Empire Strikes Back

An interesting concept, and I think fatally flawed. There is a simple question of plumbing. Who'd pay for the kind of infrastructure required to make that happen? How would it be backward compatible with existing URLs?

Far more important would be issues of identity and freedom. They are related to Facebook's awkward handling of gender and name identities. What if you posted something embarrassing, libelous, or injurious to your professional career?

What if you became a "new person" through a religious transformation, witness protection, or some other kind of powerful ideological repositioning (think conversion to or from ISIS, for example)?

What if you want to become anonymous, or link yourself to a formerly anonymous publication after the fact?

It seems to me that freedom consists not just of being how you wish to be defined, but control over how you wish to be undefined.
Automatically pause recurring subscription for inactive users
Sexist Prices?
> I am not a physicist... Why is setting a rock atop a column of water better than an unadorned column of water?

At a minimum, it requires less land area.
Out of curiosity, why wouldn't they go public ? Major govt contractors are public, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.
This is not "catering to the lowest common denominator."

That expression would be appropriate if CloudFlare decided to keep everyone on SHA-1 just because less than 2% of users couldn't use SHA-2. But that's not what they're planning to do. The 98% of users that support SHA-2 will be given SHA-2 certificates.

Your argument about Windows XP is moot because XP SP3 can handle SHA-2 certificates just fine. So even if we got rid of SHA-1 now, people will still be running XP SP3 10 years from now.

I used to have a Nexus One that ran Android 2.3. I didn't curse Google or HTC when it became too old to be useful. I don't think people will curse Huawei or Xiaomi, either. We're getting used to planned obsolescence, the exceptionally long life of Windows XP notwithstanding.
Terrorists have no Ism
Yes, I expect you're right about that, and furthermore I expect SpaceX will be willing to make substantial design changes in support of that effort.
He's only sold 2100 books in 7 months - not much of a success, at least in terms of profitability.
"We didn’t really need the capital, per se."

Why exchange equity for capital if it's not necessary?
I get sound lag on my Linux PC (Firefox 43) too and I bought it less then a year ago. There is definitely some issue(s) in this code somewhere.
Having played with Redstone in Minecraft makes these computers all the more impressive. There are so many twitchy little details you have to get right to make it work that I can't imagine trying to build some of the crazy stuff I've seen on Youtube, like the graphing calculator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ
A Nano Step for Man, a Giant Leap for Mankind
Dr Janice Duffy, the woman in the article, had many false & libelous statements written about her on a website - in this case being RipOffReport. Per Google's Removal Policy[1], the search engine forces you to contact a webmaster to remove the offending material yourself, or supply a valid court order of defamation. RipOffReport itself only gives you a few options: 1) She could've written a rebuttal to these claims, or 2) Paid off RipOffReport to do an "Arbitration" (extortion).[2]

She also could've sued RipOffReport in addition to Google - but like Google/Reddit/et al, they are protected by the Communications Decency Act in the States - not making them liable for anything users post.

In the end, what she should've done was sue the original authors of those posts on RipOffReport - winning the case (burden of proof is on her), and then having Google de-list the search result.[3]

Taking the third route in using a court order is by far the best way to go.

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1228138
[2] https://www.ripoffreport.com/Arbitration.aspx
[3] https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=e...
I suppose that would depend on how much he sold each book for. ;-)
Pandora Strikes Two Licensing Deals on Day of Rdio Shut-Down
Yes to create a stable currency union you need a fiscal union. The EMU is doomed and the Euro along with it.

The answer to the Zim problem is not the adoption of multiple currencies they don't control, though, unless they are just completely abandoning the goal of self governance altogether.
Well yeah, but the same can be said of any continent at some point in human history.
It's a bad idea to try and solve the problem of hyperinflation by piling on more currencies they don't control (unless they want to just not really govern themselves ... )
The main use case I’ve come across is network analysis. After awhile in Iraq, the military realized killing people planting roadside bombs was stupid and ineffective since these were low level individuals sometimes doing it just for money to feed their families. The main focus shifted to building up a picture of larger enemy networks so they could be taken down in a more holistic fashion. McCrystal built the fusion cell concept [1, 2], bringing in intelligence from multiple agencies to build target packs of people and networks for operators to take down. I’ve never used the software, but I believe a key use was to help various agencies surface connections in the troves of data to build these target packs. Later, someone from the McCrystal consulting group [3] said they had a former CIA analyst who used the software to find hidden connections between people in a company, to uncover and reward the critical individuals who get things done outside the normal organization hierarchy. So again, network analysis, but directed toward finding super star employees instead of terrorists. I’m sure the software is more general then this and has other multiple other use cases, but this is the best of my second hand knowledge and seems to go along with what others have linked to here describing a node and vertices analysis tool

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
[2] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a514114.pdf
[3] http://mcchrystalgroup.com/
This article may have utility for everyone who is spending more than $33/day on alcohol and coffee while remaining sober and productive enough to read it.

The rest of us, not so much.
TV stations are certainly liable for content they didn't produce but choose to show.

Newspapers can be liable for simply repeating a quote but newsworthiness is a valid defence, provided the context is reporting rather than promoting the opinion.

The question in Google's case is whether the choices applied in their search algorithm constitute promotional choices or whether the engine is merely a robot reporting on available content.

I personally think the court is wrong here but promoting versus reporting is the question in play.
I believe hierarchy is not detrimental at all (indeed, it is a pre-requisite) for cooperation. Humanity spent the vast majority of its history in loose bands of tribes with no clear inter-tribal hierarchy. Thus we spent thousands of years murdering each other on contact. You may think you are "peers" in the US / West etc, but in fact you are peers in that you've accepted an overarching higher authority in the form of the government - in particular, it's ability to enforce laws by coercion and violence. Thus instead of wondering if the other guy is about to bash your skull, we coexist in relative peace.

International relations, however, lack clear hierarchy - it is a semi-structured anarchy of might-makes-right. Thus we fail to cooperate on many "tragedy of the commons" type problems, such as climate change. Chronic warfare is a defining feature of the 20th century due to this lack of hierarchy.

At the micro level, try running a startup with no hierarchy. You'll find that this will fester conflict, as engineers endlessly argue with no mechanism to bring decisions efficiently and move forward. Indeed, hierarchy is emergent, and tolerated for its virtues by humans because when it does not emerge, the "company" of people dissipate and fail their mission.
So, I give you Perl 6. She is free to fly. May she have joy in her existence. May she have joy in discovering the world. May she accelerate as long as she will! Cheers!

Cheers!
Even if the user-data is encrypted, they have the keys to decrypt it.
The value of currency is driven by the ability of the government to impose taxes denominated in that currency.

The easiest way to do that in a situation where you are introducing a new currency is to impose land taxes in NewZims.

How will land owners obtain NewZims in order to pay their taxes? They will grow shit and sell it to people for NewZims.

How will people obtain NewZims to buy the produce? By working for the government which will pay in NewZims.
It's been great for us. We use it for deploying applications such as curl or netcat in containers without overhead of Ubuntu potentially being downloaded onto a host.
How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
Wow! The integration with rayon for data parallelism is especially interesting, and I imagine that could be a killer feature for some people looking to accelerate compute-heavy node.js code without having to deal with the nastiness of parallelism in C++, or C++ at all.
"Not obvious" means "not obvious on the day before the patent was filed". The point of the patent is to explain it to the point that it is that one ordinarily skilled can now implement the idea.

And copyright protects implementations. Patents protect ideas.
It seems like everything is 'valued as $1bn' these days.
for one, you don't know how the environment and access to capital might change. So it might make sense to take some cash whilst it's available.