skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this article explains why that is not so good: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/applo...

"There is a place in this world for the sharing economy, and it could be a beautiful thing, but where I live these companies run the show. There are no rules. The apps are breaking the spirit of the law by abusing the independent contractor loophole and actively encourage (e.g., through dubious car placards) actually breaking the law. But it will only ever be the workers, not the companies, who are punished."

The problem with this companies is that they have traditional workers but they are hired as one man companies. So the workers lose all their rights, all their benefits and all their negotiation power.
I work on the tech industry, as probably most of the readers, and I understand how apps works. I don't think that the apps are a problem, but removing the rights of thousands of workers is not a good thing.
The article that I linked explains it better than I can here.
> I thought in the UK these kinds of taxpayer-funded projects were required to be open source.

There is no law, afaik, and even the BBC has commercial interests. iPlayer has never been open-source, for example.

The BBC has obligations in terms of content reach and content quality, but they're not particularly bound to specific ways of achieving those targets (beyond some stuff about not abusing their position in commercial terms). Actual engineers are mostly pro-OSS and try hard to push for it internally, but they have legal obstacles similar to any other company.
The income tax is a tiny part of France budget. Most of its revenue is a combination of VAT, energy tax, corporate taxes, etc.
Right, that's how startups work. And that's why enterprises rarely buy software or services from startups. Microsoft is expected to be able to produce something more polished and reliable.
You all are forgetting one thing. Without ads google would not exist, without ads facebook couldn't exist and expand, make research. If everybody will block ads then you will see decline in free sites.
Would LOVE to see his response to this. So it's a sham.
Ward Cunningham coined the term "technical debt" according to Wikipedia. He worked for Microsoft for a short period of 2003-2005, but this was long after the term was invented.
Apologies for that, I submitted this and did actually go looking for the HN title guidelines, which seemed to say use the original title. I'll try to be a little braver with title editing in future.
For pretty much no reason, a bunch of players in FinTech that are sometimes lumped in with Square (since Square has a financing product) plummeted on the markets starting a week ago. Lending Club, OnDeck, Lending Tree, etc.
I'd also like to see statistics on how many of those guns used in crimes are from other states. If there is a successful gun control program but the state is bordered by states with more lax gun control, then that confounds any gun statistics.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/12/us/gun-traffic...
It says 'startup' but I don't see a business model or customers willing to pay for what they can already get free.
That just seems like a really silly idea.

The APIs you describe are not 'locked up' by 'spec committees'. They're typically implemented by browser developers within the community, based on the demands of developers and users, grow towards standardisation cross-browser, and are eventually developed into official specifications.
> The recent Blaze/React debate

Can someone point to the backstory here?
Another possible reason is that the college's calculators, while required by the federal government, are not terribly accurate. In fact, they are pretty much useless. A comparison would only show which calculators were out of whack the most, which is not really helpful for students looking for cheaper colleges.
I'll probably use your browser so that I can read the Sydney Morning Herald. That's one crappy, crappy website - and only because of the ridiculous level of tracking.

Case in point - I connected to smh.com.au and since I have connected to it yesterday (only two times!) it has accessed 91 third party sites. 91! It's ridiculous.
Well, the NASDAQ[0] and DJIA[1] are both off 3% for the day right now, along with every other index around the world. Or, to talk about price movements that are probably a bit more noteworthy, crude oil futures on NYMEX[2] are down ~7%.

It's been kind of a (minor) bloodbath so far in the markets today. So, a 10% drop for a young, growth-oriented company is not terribly surprising on a day like today, I'd think.

0: https://www.google.com/finance?cid=13756934

1: https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI

2: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/clg6
It's terrible under OS X/Chromium using a Magic Mouse/trackpad.
As I've gotten older I don't tolerate contacts as well so most of my usage (dev unit v2 in my case) has been with glasses. My prescription is fairly strong so I already get a bit of distortion in peripheral vision. It's something I tune out in reality but in VR, it took a few minutes of getting used to. It wasn't bad but it's a lot like when you first put on a headset and you sort of learn to gaze straight ahead rather than looking at stuff at the edges of your vision while still looking forward.
The micropayments sound good, but I don't understand how those can work in practice:

Site owners have to opt-in to the system obviously, if for no other reason than that they have to receive the payments somehow.

So what will you do if I selected ad-free browsing and am willing to pay but the site doesn't support your system? Refuse to load the page? Do not block ads and override my decision? Block all ads and override the site owners decision?
I fall into the camp of blocking all ads because frankly I don't like them. They are visual pollution. I also doubt I would pay for written content (maybe on a very rare occasion I might) if given a micro-payments solution because it doesn't seem worth paying for. I write blog posts from time to time and I do it for pleasure because I enjoy writing about things that interest me and sharing it with others. Honestly I don't feel any compulsion to fund any of the media whose links bombard my social media daily. Even some of the good stuff on this site I wouldn't feel compelled to pay for because truly it isn't transformative and I would probably be better off not reading it and doing something productive instead.

Stuff I do pay for: educational content (books, courses etc), Spotify, Netflix.

You're obviously much more deeply invested in this and have done the maths. I am curious, what percentage of web users do you calculate will use the micro-payments, if it was a seamless perfectly executed experience? How much revenue do you think it will generate and will it be enough to disrupt web-ads?
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But we give you a report for free as compensation. Just send your idea to support@test4startup.com
Well, the point of the article is that the documentary is structured to ensure that's the attitude you come away from it with.

If you've listened to Serial too, the comparison is pretty stark. In every episode, Koenig nurtures doubts about Syed's innocence, and continually returns to the most difficult challenges to the case for his innocence.

Koenig does this for reasons beyond integrity: it's also the reason Serial is a more effective true crime story (you really want to hear the next episode because you have no idea where the story might go, which is just not the case for the Avery case).

For me, the facts that Ricciardi and Demos left out are damning in pretty much the same way as the facts they reveal about misconduct in the Avery case:

* Avery is forensically tied to Halbach's car in ways that do withstand scrutiny

* Avery had repeatedly contacted Halbach, sometimes with caller ID blocked, and, despite Halbach's discomfort with him, had specifically requested that she come out to his place the day of the murder

* There is physical evidence that corroborates specific, idiosyncratic details of the story Dassey told investigators
That deal has been heavily touted as a terrible deal for square for years. As such was priced into the IPO price as well as the current valuation. That is basically the only bad deal you can point to that they are in.
I remember Google's unobtrusive text-only ads. Those were often actually helpful to me, letting me know of products or services that I might actually be interested in that I didn't otherwise know about. If all adds were like that plus fast-loading and not invasive of privacy or security, I'd be just fine with them.
When I want to buy a card, I go to a shop named Cards Galore. I go there because the name makes me think that they sell cards. I know it exists because I pass it every day, and they have their name in big letters on the outside of their shop.

Do you consider that I've been manipulated? More to the point, do you find anything unethical in this?
I would theorize what you're observing is incompetent push is indistinguishable from incompetent pull, at least WRT resulting annoyance level.

Also a lot of markets are a confuse-opoly. Go ahead, help me out and find the technically best tire for peak all season performance (not worried about longest lasting tread, not worried about cost, not worried about mileage, just best all weather performance on a skidpad). Doesn't matter what car I have or what you search for. The market is dead, pure confuse-opoly, may as well give up and use astrology. I'm a Pisces if that helps more than knowing what model car I have. Likewise look at pre-smartphone cell phone market. You can not have ads worth anything if the underlying market is pure nonsense BS, so vast segments of the economy will have to be categorically excluded, and they have advertising money to spend... Some of the biggest marketing budgets are in the least healthy markets...
Are you implying that this kind of corruption happens in every single investigation? No one should be prosecuted in cases where it is present, that's for sure. But I don't see how that leads to the conclusion that "no one should be prosecuted for anything so long as this kind of corruption exists". Plenty of investigations and prosecutions are conducted above board with no corruption to be found.
Is anyone else concerned about the possibility that if ad blocking on the web becomes widespread enough, we will end up with more ads baked into the content itself? Native advertising, ads burned into images, ads burned in the middle of videos?

Thinking selfishly, I would much prefer the status quo, where I can block most ads, but the majority of consumers don't do it. Current ad blocking tech is fine, I'm afraid this could become an arms race.
Possibly a branding fail, at least for the parent commentator :-)

I actually quite like the Meerkats.
We had ~150 projects across about 1M LOC and 4 developers because they were being used like folders - they weren't really separate codebases, just a means of organising the code. We cut that down for a drastic improvement in speed.
As another Win 10 user, I agree with him.
Is it the browsers that are getting slower, or the websites that you visit?
Surely the advocates are after federal level gun control laws rather than looking to make sure people have to abide by disparate state rules..?
It's good to realize the mistake here, so good job. Never jump on the new thing. Always lean toward the simple thing. Always prefer tools closer to your core competencies. Meteor is really fun to play with and the community is very good, but Meteor creates complexity over time.

It's also worth mentioning that unless you have a real-time app whose data model fits nicely with schema-less document storage, Meteor is almost never the right tool for the job. And even if your project has those requirements, there are plenty of high-quality alternatives to Meteor.
Yeah. It almost makes me hanker for the bad old days when we had to support IE6. The pendulum's swung too far in the other direction when my phone has trouble when it's less than 2 years old.
>On the other hand, Russia has claimed to have been bombing oil transports since the very start of their air campaign.

The key word is claimed. Like everything Putin's propaganda spews out, it couldn't be farther from the truth.
I have no words for how broken this is.

You don't refactor data. Data is. Refactor your code.

Data isn't a model for "how you do business."

Data should be a model for what is. How you do business is an interpretation of the underlying data.

I deeply disagree with your approach, but I hope to do so with respect.
Those landlocked countries do need sea ports too. It's just a bit harder to do anything about that without invading your neighbours.
>1. In the American system, we are biased for innocence, so there's nothing wrong with the documentarians for operating on that assumption.

The presumption of innocence is different than only hearing one side of the story. And in journalism you aren't supposed to operate with blatant bias.

Like the article explains, we allow the defense to zealously advocate because there is another side to counter it.
One has to wonder if maybe all those laid-off STEs and SDETs were actually adding value after all....
> But what the documentary really showed me was how utterly corrupt, venal, incompetent and evil the entire system of justice can be, from the 'court appointed lawyers' all the way up to the sheriffs that clearly, unequivocally framed Avery.

Which is an example of what the article was actually about. You've seen a documentary that by some accounts is very biased, and is presenting information to you in a specific way, and neglecting to mention other information that is not conducive to the opinion they are pointing the audience towards. Is it impossible to believe that the evidence presented to you might have lead you to believe something "clearly, unequivocally" which when all the facts are present may not seem nearly as cut and dry?

For that matter, Making a Murderer was not really the subject of the article, just the prime example with which to express its point; Courts of last resort have little oversight, and can be used to manipulate the public when not held accountable for biased presentation. If anything, your comment unwittingly bolsters the original point.
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Can't remember how many times a persistent autossh reverse tunnel to a jump host has saved me from several hours of a field trip. A few man-months, I'd guess - that's quite enough profit for me ;)
I don't think Square was overvalued at IPO. As for today's drop: the fall in oil has hit everyone, unfortunately Square's fall of around 8% is worse than most. For Example today AMZN saw a drop of around 4% and TSLA is down 5.5%.

Don't be wary ;)
Why wouldn't their calculations be able to suggest possible locations for the planet?
They're just trying to make more money... Go figure!
Agreed.

Many of the use-cases for ads have been replaced by search engines, marketplaces and aggregator sites. There's troves of information and access out there for a consumer to make informed purchasing choices.

If I need something, I can actively find it.

The use-case for ads is:

1. I don't need the thing
2. I am not aware of my need for thing

Advertisers probably claim (2) when almost certainly it's just (1)
The more that you know about guns, the stupider the proposals sound. Take the expired Assault Weapons Ban that people keep trying to bring back. Almost all gun murders are carried out with handguns and there's no evidence that the ban, while active, had any positive effects. "Assault weapons" sure sound scary though. The same goes for bans on high capacity magazines and high caliber guns, mandates for gun locks and safes, etc. This stuff is 100% political pandering and demagoguery, not serious policy making.

As for Obama the constitutional law professor, I think actions speak louder than words. When he can't get what he wants from Congress, he's had no problem twisting the meaning of existing law to legislate from the White House.
Both, I think. The rash of huge background videos is a prime culprit. Here's a bug I filed, for example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197460
Not only today, almost all of this year. FED + China + Oil.
It looks, on the screenshots, that it does speech-to-text on the display. Or you can write.

And the text will appear already rotated to the deaf person sitting across you.
Interesting that a drop in oil price would correlate. Why is this and how does it impact a completely unrelated industry?
We've always been paid to watch advertising. By free websites, free browsers, free content...

This just makes it more explicit, which may have appeal.
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Link to the paper by Batygin and Brown: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22...
To know that there are ads at all you first need to visit the website.
/r/sysadmin is full of Win10 horror stories for multi-user deployments in business environments. Your one anecdote just doesn't compare. I think Win10 is very undercooked, even by MS's standards. There are simply too many use cases where its a step down from Win7.

MS has more of less conceded that Win10 isn't business ready, so they have a special distribution called LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) of its Enterprise version. It doesn't auto-update, no feature updates, no cortana or edge, no support for app/modern apps, etc. Can you imagine windows 7 shipping with a lot of things stripped from it to make it more like XP? That would be crazy, but that's exactly what's going on here.

I think by 2017-2018 it'll be fine, but two or three years from release date to get something as stable as the previous versions seems really rough.
It sounds like he's talking to a bot when emailing Microsoft. I'm not surprised they'd use one to respond to emails.
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Good points. Here's an add-on which can mute by default https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-tab/
I am far from being an expert front end developer. I have found that a good match for my requirements and the amount of time I am willing to spend developing and maintaining my web sites is to simply use minimal Bootstrap themes and let media queries generate mobile and desktop versions of my sites.

Without too much hassle I can support all device types and as long as I am careful to use small image files and minimized JS and CSS, page load times are pretty good.
Once could imagine some software app installed on your machine, that tracks you and gives you interesting offers , without loss of privacy.
That doesn't work well with AD networks though. Site owners will either have to use links of the form: siteOfAdNetwork.com?id=smthhere and it still will be possible to block them. Or AD network will be unable to check the number of clicks.
>The taxi industry in NYC has given the mayor over $500,000

You say this as if Uber isn't heavily involved in lobbying for their own benefit.

I'll consider Uber to be on a level-playing field when I can be certain that any car I climb into has the proper insurance required for transporting people commercially. Right now it seems like Uber is putting that responsibility on the drivers themselves (which, I suppose, is their right). But I believe that's a huge cost advantage (with associated externalities when someone is hurt badly).
There are standard-ish ARM boards with standard DIMMs. They're just quite pricey.
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Presumably it makes it easier to do so.

To be honest, if I was running a media company I'd be rather more inclined to block/redirect users of browsers designed to inject replacement "good" ads into my page than worry about users on a mainstream browser who happen to be using a plugin.
ABP > AB.
You're fixated on the notion that DNA recovered from epithelial cells is the same as DNA recovered from blood. That's true, but the claim being made can simply be: "DNA was recovered, and testing did not indicate the presence of blood".

You might not be able to distinguish "blood DNA" from "skin DNA", but forensic testing can identify the presence or absence of blood.

Meanwhile, the reason the "skin DNA" evidence is so compelling is that the source of DNA the sheriff's department is alleged to have tampered with is blood. It's not clear how they could use that blood to place DNA under the hood of the car without it testing positive for blood.
There are certainly disgusting and slimy ads out there, but, to cite a recent example, if I am sent a 10% off coupon and I happen to want to buy a major appliance, am I wrong for choosing that store to buy it at over the others? Did they wrong me by giving out a discount?

You can say that they 'manipulated' me into going to their store, but that's only because it was in my own interest to do so in the first place.

If we put the bar for 'manipulation' low enough, it would seem that one shouldn't talk to anyone or get any information from anywhere, lest it change your mind in some way and thus manipulate you.
... Not making it better, to be honest
IMO nothing is unrelated when it comes to the markets. A fall in a primary sector of the economy will lead to uncertainty in every other sector.
It looks like current ad-blockers are sufficient for most people. Privacy also does not seem to be a large problem for the vast majority of web users.

> We have a micro payments channel to publishers, frictionless and anonymous, under construction, for folks who want no ads and who will pay.

That's in my opinion the interesting part. I would not maintain a browser for that reason, especially not for the .5% geeks that value that stuff. Directly supporting your favourite content creators would be an awesome thing. There already are micropayments providers like flattr or google contribute but they have different goals (flattr) or different approaches (google).

I'm just not sure if a for-profit organisation would be the right way to do this in web-land.
Link to paper by Batygin and Brown: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22...
I think the problem is if you have the user affecting the environment, say, it tracks your hands and displays them. You don't just need volumetric information, you need to render the possible actions the user can take over the next few milliseconds.

Or, you split rendering work, and leave some things for the local machine to render.
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>> In the American system, we are biased for innocence

Not enough, in my opinion. Watch this PBS show about the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death by Texas for the arson-murder of his three little girls:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/

The sole basis of conviction was arson science, and as the PBS show explains it isn't much of a science at all. This is a sad story of an innocent man put to death by the state of Texas.

Five years later, with a Texas commission working inexorably toward a formal acknowledgment that the state had executed an innocent man — surely a watershed in the history of American capital punishment — Governor Rick Perry pulled a bureaucratic maneuver that effectively stopped the investigation in its tracks. More on that here: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-cameron-todd...
Part of the point of the article is that people don't care because the creators of the series don't want them to; the documentary isn't structured to raise those questions.
> * There is physical evidence that corroborates specific, idiosyncratic details of the story Dassey told investigators

Could you expand on this? The prosecution made this claim, but I've not found anything to back it up.

The closest I've found is an interchange that went roughly Q: where in the car did he put the body, A: in the back.

Which I think is more a case of that being the only place anyone would ever put a body in a car. If he'd said "on the roof" or "dragged behind in a trailer" then that might actually be unexpected info.