skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should just start picking up the conventional news channels; an custom one would instantly make them enemies who thought it was either too conservative or too liberal.

At some point the channels will realize that cable carriers are a dead end and start selling to online companies like Netflix. Why should Netflix replace cable when it could become cable (less the exorbitant pricing and punch-a-hole-in-the-wall customer service)?
And their telemetry needs are superior to the actual privacy at stake here? And they are now providing an updated version of Firefox that merely flip-flops on the protection, instead of providing a message "hey, you're being intercepted"?

I'm not naive, but I still think it's only to prudent to point out how ridiculous this sounds. In any case, it seems like Mozilla needs a bit of Skype-magic for their update process. Relying on the very thing you are patching with every minor version seems silly regardless.
Hey mattmaroon, I just noticed your comment here. I was thinking of you specifically when reading this article. I could have sworn you were talking about daily fantasy 7 or 8 years ago, back before it was "a thing".

I'm curious, did the market play out like you thought it would? Is this about where you expect daily fantasy will end up, or are there still big changes ahead?
The U.S. needs consumer protection laws. Companies won't stop unethically collecting and retaining data on their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
What tip?

This was genuine. I certainly wouldn't expect them to conplain, but nobody fakes spontaneously talking about how much they love their job for twenty minutes.
> You can bypass the paywall by entering your email.

No. I tried before commenting: you need to enter a credit card too.

And the trick of looking up the article title on Google didn't work either.
I don't know about you but I go to the cinema almost exclusively for the amazing popcorn. Otherwise, I'd rather watch movies at home.
Hitler - The Holocaust = Napoleon

There are a scary number of parallels. How differently would we view the Third Reich minus the atrocities of the Einsatzgruppen, Buchenwald, Auschwitz and their ilk?
Ask HN: What would you want in an IoT platform?
Hello everyone,

I work at a startup that currently provides RFID solutions for mid-market businesses. We have an in-house API that interaces with Impinj and Invengo RFID tags and readers.

I have suggested to the team that we should also use our platform to enable developers to bring IoT into their own projects. My question for the HN community is, what would you guys/gals like to see in an IoT platform? Personally, I would like easy interfacing with my Raspberry Pi, but that's the extent to my hardware expertise.
Personally, I ascribe differences in political talk to things being new. Democracy has a natural tendency to vote all competence out of the office, but it takes decades. Politicians of the past may have seemed smarter just because there weren't that many players specializing in persuasion tactics yet, and the "media experience" wasn't so streamlined.
I literally created a ASK HN post about teaming up with someone earlier today but got zero responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10852495

Mind if I get involved too? I can shoot you an email.
Of course it will. If there isn't adequate competition, every company will do this. If you have an executive in place who refuses to do it, the shareholders will fire and replace him. This is exactly why free markets that stimulate competition are extremely important. Our current copyright laws make competition very difficult, especially if you're not starting with a multi-billion dollar war chest.
Sure, but in this little sub-thread I'm talking about the thug officers who think that polite refusal to answer their questions is justification for police harassment.

It's far too common in the US.

And while it's stupid to point a gun (toy or not) at police (I agree that death is a likely result, because you should never point a gun at someone unless you intend to kill them) that doesn't excuse all the people who had cell phones in their hands, or the people shot within six seconds of a police officer arriving on the scene, or the people with no weapon and their back turned.

Yet in many of these cases we see officers closing ranks and claiming the victim somehow deserved it, and was somehow responsible for their death because they were arguing with police.

The US is unique in first world nations in murdering its citizens. It's an abuse of human rights when it happens after lengthy court cases; I can't imagine why it's okay before an arrest is made.

(Unless someone's life is in real and immediate danger).
Global Mutable State (and what to do about it)
That's just another (better) way to force them.
Thanks for the mirror.

I didn't find any mention in the article of this "voluntary crash" claim, did I miss it?
>defaulted to the mobile browser version of the social network, rather than give up on Facebook entirely.

I'd rather use the mobile browser version of just about anyone's crappy app. There might be a handful of exceptions.
More likely a Microsoft Surface in a Samsung Galaxy :-)
Could you please take part in my short Survey on Yammer?
I'm talking about right at this immediate moment. You're correct they can lobby, but while they take the time to engage in that process, they will either have Zuckerburg's free internet or they will have nothing. The dichotomy is very real in the present.
> which uses the fact that every sequence of bits appears in pi

I don't think that's completely true yet, it's just incredibly likely. I don't mean you can't build the thing, you just can't quite prove it accepts all input; it could work in practice before it works in theory.

Re: what komon said, if the offset dwarfs the input, perhaps you could find the offset of the offset, so on and so forth, keeping track of the # of indirections (until that number exceeds the input).
I have also been collecting my sms data for almost a decade now.

Symbian and Android had options to extract to xml/txt. But after I got Windows Phone and iPhone, it is harder for me to extract all texts but they are there in the cloud. I will have to extract and normalize them somehow.
Your link is about banks pretending the financial markets were OK before the 2008 crash which is really a different thing. Probably some people assign magical properties to AI but a lot of average people use things like Siri and Google Translate and have seen self driving cars on video and have a realistic idea of what they can and can't do.
As always! It need a http://www.netflix.cn/ first
I'd use Amazon Prime Video much more often if they gave up their crusade against the Chromecast. I know they're trying to move their own hardware (Fire Stick), but they're really misguided to completely exclude Chromecast support. They even shut down a third-party app that added it. Don't they think having to download a separate app is enough hassle to encourage sales of the Fire Stick to someone who cares?
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I used to have this issue and while I'm not totally cured, I improved things a lot by waiting until I was at or near the point where I could barely keep my eyes open before getting in bed and trying to read. You don't need to do it every night, but if you do it often enough, eventually it becomes easier to get in bed, start reading, and find yourself falling asleep even if you aren't already almost there.
Im on mobile and didnt realize you were project head when I first replied. Id have been more helpful. My bad.

Im glad your doing it gradually with intermediates. That will let it benefit spinoff projects or even products hopefully. Plus keep you from getting overloaded.

I also like that RISC-V is in your long-term vision. Keeping that in mind early will help avoid architectural mistakes early on. Id say use the ISA closest to it in meantime so little change is necessary.

Far as overall scheme, I'll email you some reference work if your interested in prior work on safe runtimes, split apps, high-security dev techniques, and so on. Might be able to integrate that into idiomatic Rust. That's your call though.
This article touches on the religious obligation issues but I feel it doesn't go far enough.

In the middle ages, you were religiously required to get up in the middle of the night to say a set of prayers. This practice was mandated by the authorities and failure to comply was not regarded well.

Articles about medieval first and second sleep tend to present this practice as if it is a natural human practice found in all cultures before the modern world.

The specific manifestation of first and second sleep in this era in europe though is clearly a result of authoritarian mandates of behavior that should not be neglected.
>Who cares about knowledge of city streets? Haven't they heard of Google Maps and Waze and GPS?

I take it you don't actually live in a city
I would guess because it can become dangerous to one's career to explain in these circumstances but they believe it to be a bad thing. -1 is a vote. The more words you put down the easier it is the interpret what you say in the worst possible way.

Heck, following the wrong person on Twitter gets you on a ban list, so expressing opposition at all should be taken seriously.
apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-headless?
app : Vect n a -> Vect m a -> Vect (n + m) a

That is pretty amazing if you ask me. I look forward to the day when we all use languages which save programmers from themselves.
Or the "Hacker tool" EVERY IP ADDRESS EVER released on P2P services.

https://blort.org/~kgasso/images/how-to-catch-script-kiddies...

http://imgur.com/04sMAxd
Tea and Unaccountability: Bureaucracy and the Drug War
Hell yeah! Appreciate the updates. My idea there was a runtime or overhead came from an early OS attempt in Rust where they couldnt get past real mode. Had to use non-Rust code for that and it was using too much space IIRC. They've gotten past those obstacles now?
What are you Maximizing? Why?
You weren't joking. Should be as dumb as getting your webpage crawled by google: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?pli=1

Why all the wording:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/how-to-sub...
I don't know about that. Retail margins are pretty thin. Video seems like it would be much more profitable, and they'd prefer to have people sign up for Prime just to watch videos and never buy anything that requires shipping.

Of course, Amazon's cash cow right now is AWS. It's mind-blowing how much money companies will spend on that just because they resent maintaining their own hardware.
Oh hell, you going to be working with the top talent. You might learn some high assurance skills after all. That makes your project 2x as interesting. Good luck on the new job. :)
I want people in India to have a choice. They can choose to accept Zuckerburg's free internet or they can wait for something else to come along.

It's Zuckerburg's critics that want to deny Indians their right to choose by taking away their free service and leaving them without internet in the present. As was noted earlier, the most vocal critics in this situation are not the poor people in India that are most directly impacted by this situation.
China stock trading halted early after 7% plunge again
Tell that to clients. They're convinced that because they're in an app store that they're instamillionaires. My favorite one is house hunting on an app, a la Zillow.

The user numbers that a store reports are so pointless. It's a popularity contest. I wish that someone (anyone) would pull out some open analytics to show usage numbers instead.

At least it'd make my life easier.
i guess the dane cook point is another criticism i missed, i just watched a stand up by him. nothing was funny at all... it was like watching a friend having a rant.

at least compared to guys like chris rock, bill hicks, george carlin, richard pryor etc. to list some really great american comics...

although i apologise if i missed the mark. humour is very subjective. everyone has their own ideas about what is and isn't. :)
What you're saying is true, but it's also interesting to me that studios could potentially get by with less.

Young Harrison Ford in the late 1970s might have been willing to trade away the use of his likeness in future Star Wars films for a relatively small consideration.

In the future, if a studio can find a relatively unknown actor who wants the work, it's possible they could do with a digitally-produced likeness, in case the original actor doesn't want the job. (Sort of an augmented version of the SNL contract)
"Breaking" the browser for a large number of users will only lead to one thing: Users switching to a browser that still supports SHA-1 certs issued after Jan 1st, 2016. No privacy improvement there either. Additionally, there are many valid use-cases for replacing certificates, e.g. corporate proxies. They should just stop using outdated hashing algorithms for those certs. It's not Mozilla's place to decide whether that use-case is valid or not.

SHA-1 was never fully disabled; it's just that certificates using SHA-1 issued after that date weren't accepted anymore. Telemetry is important to understand the ramifications of this issue. This change is likely to be reverted once Mozilla understands the implications. Take a look at the discussion on Mozilla's mailing list for more insight into their thinking[1].

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...
That's not equivalent. We are talking about a vehicle that is programmed from the manufacture to do something. The SUV driver is responsible for his/her actions. When we are talking about a self driving car, we now have machines that decide what to do and killing the bystander tends not to be a sympathetic item in from of the jury.

As to the second part... I'm not sure how the software will judge the depth of the hoard to see if avoidance is a better answer than just pushing through. Also, a couple of zombies could really mess up a Tesla versus a SUV or Jeep. Zombie Apocalypse mode would be a much hard problem.
8 Mbps is plenty for watching Netflix
>can not already joining it in hordes.

Sorry, I can't figure out what you meant here.

>you seriously believe the motives of Facebook and Telecom companies that have clear business interest

I'm absolutely 100% convinced FB is doing this to be in on the ground floor of the explosion of internet access in India. And I don't see that as a bad thing. AOL happened, and it helped get a lot of people online earlier than they would have otherwise (AOL was my first foray online). The free and open internet will survive. But getting poor people online ASAP is the far more important concern for them than ensuring that their access is completely open when they do.

Furthermore, I'm not questioning the motives of those that are loudly against this. Their motives are crystal clear. It's those very motives that are misplaced. The values of the privileged are entirely different from the unprivileged. The problem is that the privileged tend to have a tragically narrow perspective and assume that their values are universally correct.

I mean, how easy is it to say "free and open access or nothing (for them)!" when you're not personally giving up anything? It's absurd on its face.
This is what he said.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

And young is when you are in your early teens, I think he was a junior in college when this happened and his frontal cortex should have been fully developed by then.
They should just acquire twitlonger and be done with it.
Haha one of my fav indie singers didn't even bother to reply when I told her her domain was expiring. It's now lost to the shitty secondary market. I guess she gave up. Let me know your email if you'd like to know the artist.
This will go quite well with their new "We at Time Warner Cable need to apologize to you..." ad campaign.

http://www.webpronews.com/time-warner-cables-new-ad-strategy...
Bit disappointed it makes the assumption the reader knows Haskell, that lost me immediately.
Sorry, I wasn't specific enough, I meant Java-based web apps^^
I absolutely agree. This is compounded if you take UberPOOL because the driver is expected to follow the GPS route (for multiple pick ups to work).

If you give me a clean car, reliability, and a driver who knows the city, I'd gladly get a taxi even if it's maybe 15 to 20% more.
https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el
You know how in Google maps you can drag and modify routes and it'd modify the route? Id imagine self driving cars will support that.
I read the "only" as referring to the ratio of crime percentage to shot by cop. 96% of those killed are men, and men commit the same order of magnitude of the violent crime (even though they are 50% of the population). Following that trend, you would expect blacks to be 50%ish of the shot-by-cop numbers, not 26%.
php based web apps are not 1 apt-get away either.

I don't know how many times I tried to run a php web app just to find out a random php5-* extension was missing, and then having to guess which one.
> As a result nothing he does has any impact for 20 years except to show people what will eventually be possible.7

20 years is not an exaggeration. For anyone curious, you can read a good overview of Chaums, and other related, work on anonymous cryptocurrency systems in a report[0] released by the NSA in 1996. When you actually grok what we've known has been possible for 25 years, Bitcoin looks like a naive toy made 'successful' only by virtue of its lack of dependence on the banking system... which is its only real strength.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money...
But don't companies need to collect and retain data to operate their businesses? Like they need your info to bill you, they need info to login to your account, your emails stored if you use their included email, etc.
No, you've got my point backwards:

Absent external effects, it's easier to write a long message than write concisely.

Twitter in its current form imposes an artificial cost on long messages, which encourages you to do the extra work to write something short.

Remove that cost, and you'll get more lazy, long messages.

That's my theory, anyway.
>This would be problematic for any programming language, though.

...except PHP.
On Safari I use hckr news[0]. It highlights new comments in threads I've already visited, and allows collapsing. There is also the option use the homepage there, but I just use the normal one.

[0]: http://hckrnews.com/about.html#extensions
A very successful Chinese entrepreneur once described Chinese economic policy to me in terms I will diplomatically paraphrase as the inexperienced leading the less experienced. His point was that China lacked the long history of economic mistakes, and economic success necessary to successfully manage complex economic systems at scale. The ups and down to come are necessary, but they will certainly carry the rest of the world in a contagion with them - and in that mistake I'm afraid the US is gaining experience as well.
Wow! Funny to see this...I started this project as a hobby in grad school and never thought it would stick around this long. The current maintainer had been working on it for years since I couldn't anymore and has done a fantastic job.

The original idea was to mimic the C64 Basic I grew up with. I think with modern teaching languages the control flow is too abstracted to give you a good idea of what the machine is actually doing. Early basics really mimicked machine code quite closely...I think that was important.

My hope was that it would never get advanced features, and that it would be instructional and then kids would move to Python or Racket, but adults liked it for generating art because of the simple graphics procedures.

Anyway, it's good to see my baby grown up a bit.
I will try to give them the knowledge and tools necessary to succeed. Doing so is time consuming and expensive. The actual tools necessary for success (IMHO), like the arts, are not given any priority in our schools. It could be that they follow the same path I did. It could be that they become musicians or engineers or whatever. It doesn't matter as long as I supply what is necessary for them to take whatever path they might want to.

Success is happiness. I want their adventure to be easier than mine, with more tools, mentally and otherwise, than I had. I have that opportunity and it's awesome.

I don't think that I necessarily want to defend my parenting experience as something for everyone, but it's definitely the primary source of joy in my life, for all the difficulties it brings.

Oddly enough, it was the movie Click that really showed me the way. How weird is it that it would be an Adam Sandler movie that would be a primary driver in my life philosophy?
at least request contexts in http php apps are isolated; memory lives and dies per request, which is more than can be said for java web applications.
Drivers can use any GPS they want. The uber gps is Apple maps.
The writing style makes it seem like there are unhashed passwords that were stolen. Very few details.
I'd be very interested in that! I don't have a lot of experience in this area, it's just something I'm interested in and started hacking away at. Email is in my profile.
I'm not exactly sure what the problem is. Ultimately the target user can choose from whatever options are available to them (apparently freebasics or nothing right now). For a free service there certainly is a limited amount of bandwidth available. It makes sense to ensure that the maximum amount of users get the maximum utility from it, which means preventing the bandwidth sink that porn will be.
Like I said, I understand the arguments for seat belt laws. What makes them a little shaky is we're again picking an arbitrary thing to police. All kinds of things that I can legally do also take money out of your pocket, including many of the things listed above. Motorcycles are a great example in the same niche. In my state we don't even have to wear helmets, it's our choice. I'm guessing the average consequence is a lot greater than skipping a seat belt.

We've picked seat belts as the one to police, probably to give a lot more leeway to police to pull people over and generate income.

Anyway, you say society has the right, and I'm not sure I agree, at least in the seat belt example. They have the power, sure, but I don't think they (ought to) have the right.
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This website is meant as a tool for hard Sci-fi writers, but its a great read on nuclear rockets.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php
That's basically nonsense advice without mentioning the baseline rates. If 90% of all sex offenses are committed by men, but the baseline rate of sexual predators is 10 per 100,000, your chance of running into a male sexual predator by chance is 0.009%, and your chance of running into a female sexual predator is 0.001%. Both would be essentially negligible risks, even if one is 9 times higher than the other.
People like to shit on PHP as it is a popular entry point for new web developers.

But I've seen just as awful code in other languages throughout my career so far. I wish people would drop this elitist attitude towards PHP.
As a fan of logic I appreciate your post and understand the Sigh all too well.