skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Future of Self Driving Cars: Remote Autonomy
Twitch player is flash.
That's not fun. But I guess Servo isn't ready yet. But why aren't they using Gecko for example with IPC embedlite?
An under-appreciated little book. Although sometimes pushing its theses past the breaking point, it sports quite a few interesting insights.
Side note: reading quotes formatted with code tags is a pain on mobile Safari due to horizontal scrolling, http://i.imgur.com/o70LmZCh.jpg. Angle brackets generally are enough to signify a quote.
Blackbird Enjoying Winter Sunshine
It was called 1997. You can go back there by connecting over a 56k modem and using Netscape 2.
I wish people wouldn't downvote you without explaining why you're wrong.

I have zero education in statistics and your comment makes intuitive sense to me so I'd like to learn more.
The original source was submitted later but gained more traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939306 (288 points, 2 hours ago, 67 comments)
Zcash (formerly Zerocash/Zerocoin), a new currency for the Internet
Paymail's Free Web Ads for Business Platform
I know you're right but I don't have to like it :)
Would you spend more than $199 of your time?
This creates an immense amount of leisure time.

I don't know if I'd classify unemployment without the financial means to survive as leisure, but whatever helps you sleep at night!

I'm fully cognizant that my business has generated 50 jobs and cost 10,000.

No, we do not create leisure, we create redundant, surplus humans, who must either adapt (re-train), be catered for (universal income), or, sadly, suffer.
Gringots? :)
Conversely, if the overall market is doing poorly (which it is), you'll get hit in your 401k/pension fund/retirement account. To which degree falling housing prices and falling savings funds would cancel each other out, I do not know. If it were just Box and Square that were doing poorly, you would be fine - these recent IPOs have relatively low institutional holdings as a % of total. Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo on the other hand - upwards of 60% of the stock is owned by institutional investors, AKA your retirement fund and Vanguard ETFs.
> determined almost entirely by people who are well-off enough to have the free time to do that.

The word “amateur” used to be a positive thing, meaning that an amateur really had the time to get to know their field and weren’t distracted by the business side of things.
> Where Marconi was keenly interested in commercializing radio, Bose’s interest was purely academic; in fact, Bose flatly refused to patent nearly all of the inventions that would spring from his tiny workshop, on the principle that ideas should be shared freely.
Time, kids, and money. Choose two.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but why would I want to watch 3 streams at once?

I imaging that this is supposed to be similar to a sportscast that multi-boxes games occurring at the same time. The issue I find is that the control isn't automated, so I'd have to actually be paying attention to all three to see which is most deserving of my attention at the moment.

I suppose that there are certain games in which multi-boxing is useful, but none of the ones I watch would have much benefit. What are the games you stream that benefit from a setup like this?

Also, you're serving all of the images over HTTP.
Before your comment, I edited it to be much more civil and less presumptuous, my original phrasing had included "3.8 sigma is fuck-all", I was briefer, more resolute, and had just included my first link. (You can see evidence of my original phrasing if you remove the hedging I added.)

But the downvotes meant I'm probably wrong - rather than delete I edited it to be much nicer so I could find out why I'm wrong.
The system listed in the article is also run by a private company in the UK, Vocalink. The government isn't involved in it.

Systems in most non US countries are run by associations run by the banks. More examples include APCA (Australia), PASA (South Africa).

Not too sure where the socialism comes in.

In the US there is also Fedwire, which works in real time. It just costs a bit more.
I'm the founder of a competitor in this space called Paymail.net. We're looking forward to battling it out in the marketplace with Brave and the traditional ad networks. I posted an intro on Hackernews 2 days ago, but we didn't make it to the front page.

Our difference to Brave is that we give free ads to everyone, the advertiser only pays if the end user makes a purchase. Similiarly the display site gets nothing if there was no economic exchange. Capitalism is supposed to be a machine for you getting what you want. We want to help that process along. I have an uncompromising attitude that web/world ads should be for things that you really want to see, and then they become content.

That might be a utopian vision today, but I have strong belief in the power of people's self interest to drive positive change.

Edit: chrispm reposted the link here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10940684
مشاهدة فيلم Macbeth 2015
in my opinion, you're not really competing with those people, the real money that moves those markets comes from overseas. the local tech people just rent from the real owners.

with a global equities slump more foreign money might pour into california real estate.
There are no Postgres or Mysql add-ons for Meteor that are actively maintained or even close to production ready. Hopefully you can prove me wrong on this, but I've looked and have only found preview releases and alpha quality packages.
You can overcome this by developing some habits of mind. First, never make a purchasing decision at the store or when approached by another person. Always decide that you'll buy something in the comfort of your own home, and try to wait on that decision. If you think you need something, stop, forget about it, and see if you need it next week. Only buy it if you still need it then.

Second, always always comparison-shop for things. Read the reviews, identify which specs are most important to you, seek out competitors, and compare prices. The Internet (and now mobile apps) makes this so easy these days.

I've never bought Nike or IBM, usually prefer local amusement parks or carnivals to Disneyland, and had to Google to realize that your last slogan applies to OS X (I think Xen when I hear "the world's most advanced operating system"). Consistently saved 80% of my income since I started working. I love ad-supported stuff, because it means other people pay for it rather than me.
How this Melbourne startup assembled a dream team of strategic advisors
It seems to me that holding large amounts of cash is only viable when inflation stays low. So a higher level of inflation might cause the release of some of these huge cash reserves in the form of real investment (real in terms of hands doing work instead of moving the cash to some other financial instrument)...
Micropayments already exists for journalism in the form of Blendle and others. It isn't as effective as you might hope:

https://medium.com/@wfederman/micropayments-for-news-article...

(key takeaway from that article: people are moving away from micropayments where they already exist (e.g. music) to subscription models. It doesn't work)
Agreed, where this would be tough to implement would be with all the individual programs and their states/settings. I guess you could sort of get around that by running everything in a virtual environment potentially?
this... I commit all the time locally.. "Saving progress on feature X" or whatever... then when I go to push upstream you just rebase.
All good questions. We do not store your secrets. You do not give us your secrets. Your secrets do not live on our servers. No one at our company can see your secrets or access them.

We provide you with an agent that you install on your own servers and that agent is marked as a key management server. That agent is contacted to do asymmetric key encryption.

Here is a more detailed blog post about this: https://www.distelli.com/blog/keeping-your-application-secre...

Also we use standard encryption algorithms and have not written our own crypto (and never will).
It really can help if they are actively communicating with each other--the user interface is how the data gets into the system, so if the database engineer understands the interface it can provide context for where the data comes from, what it means and how it is used, and that can inform data modeling decisions.

Understanding how the data model is laid out, how much structure is needed, what fields are required/optional and what types they are etc. can also inform UI/UX design decisions.

And this is an example of two roles that are at opposite ends of the frontend/backend spectrum. For roles whose work products interface directly, there's an even stronger need to collaborate.

Specialization is good in that it allows people to focus on using their best skills, but it's bad if it fragments the product development team and inhibits communication and decisionmaking.
If it's all you know you don't necessarily have any reason to believe it's any better elsewhere. And moving is probably more dangerous than staying put assuming you have relative shelter and food.
But this whole little website we're both posting on is essentially content marketing for a for-profit startup incubator. It even has "promoted content" in the form of job ads for YC backed companies.

Why is that OK but display ads are not? If all sites switched to native ads does that make it better?
Small note, 1/5th of the daily revenue for Supercell as a whole, not for Clash of Clans alone (although that is likely the lion's share).

This doesn't change the overall thrust of your point. Just noting for accuracy only.
Thanks for this! I opened an issue for it.

https://github.com/unchartedsoftware/torflow/issues/4
Have you tried hierarchical notebook[0]?

[0]: http://hnb.sourceforge.net/
Every country should be able to build cars, too, but most of them don't because it doesn't make sense. It takes a whole lot of time and money to develop that kind of capability.

And it makes other countries nervous. Anything that can be used to launch a satellite can be used as an ICBM.
I'm sure you had some point, rathrer than a veiled personal attack; feel free to make it any time you want to sit at the adults' table.
Colonization can be viewed as planetary diversification in order to lessen the odds of human extinction.
French ministry of defense is 32b€. You can't move an aircraft carrier without submarines and destroyers, you can't move a fleet without the satellites, you can't do anything without headquarters. We are currently active in 2 wars and present in a lot more places, but without wars, there'd be no need of a big headquartets; so how would you, yourself, make a honest pro rata of the cost of each war?

Then income tax is 20m homes, avg 2300€ per home.
Less competition and more resources if you adapt.
I like how a very forthright question has been met with utterly ridiculous characterizations of what was stated. I didn't say "how did you ever get hired." I specifically mentioned the lead/CTO aspect. It's a crudely constructed sentence that should result in a struggle to interpret any other way.

My comment then was meet with trivialities, outlandish statements, and generally nitpicking of tiny parts of my posts. And it appears that because they simply took a position seemingly contradictory (in the lightest sense of the word) to mine, they have been spared any amount of criticism despite significantly diminishing any hope of constructive conversation. Quite honestly, if I had simply ignored these responses there'd be far less noise and general non-sense. My question was not a top level post, it was specific to what was stated and based on one other comment the OP made in the same thread. It's not complicated to respond to nor to understand the motivations of.

Based on his comments, both the lead of the project and the CTO chose an entire stack for their product after seemingly one hackathon, maybe even hosted by Meteor itself.

I am sure the industry doesn't need to have a conversation about how huge amounts of capital are being used at various companies, with people who lack the experience (or sometimes, and not necessarily in this case, intelligence) to make such decisions, all while giving marching orders to who knows how many engineers under them. And again, this type of problem and others like it are something that the industry as a whole has plenty of talent do deal with and appropriately handle. So, how did this non-sense of picking this shiny new toy come about? How did he become lead? Which is why my question was asked. This isn't some isolated incident. I see it far too often, especially professionally.

Oh and let's not forget this is all on a post about the schism between development motivations in the Meteor community.

Calling me a troll for not using an endearing tone and having a question that is part of a larger conversation on the state of the tech industry is maddening. That being said, this is clearly not the right audience, especially using the responses as benchmark, so I'm dropping it and sticking with "just ignore everyone but OP" after this.
I don't quite understand your question but if you're just interested in a Stratum 1 time server you can build it yourself with an rPi and a GPS.
Thank you for sharing this we are currently looking at alternatives to our current live chat. This could be a great choice.
In comparison to where I'm from(Poland), UK banks seem to be stuck in middle ages and it's infuriating.

- cannot get two separate cards for the same account(unless it's a joint account). Why would I want to? I'll explain in a second. In Poland I have a visa debit + mastercard debit cards for the same account.

- the cards have a limit of 300 pounds for ATM withdrawals. There is not way to change that limit, I've asked at a few banks and that's just what it is, even in an emergency. With my Polish bank, I can log in online and change it on their website - I can set it to any amount, 100k a day if I want to. I used my Polish card to withdraw few thousand pounds out of an ATM in UK and it worked fine(the ATM itself had a limit of 400 pounds per transaction but I just used it a few times and it worked fine). I can also set a separate limit for internet transactions - which is why I have two cards. One card that I carry with me all the time but which has 0 limit on internet transactions, and another card which always stays at home but which has 0 limit on ATM and over the counter transactions. If someone steals the card that is on me they can't use it on the internet, and if someone steals the card at home they can't use it to withdraw cash or to pay for stuff.

- No ability to see pending transactions online on my debit cards until they clear. This one is absolutely crazy to me. How can I know if someone hasn't stolen my money if I can't see pending transactions? The only way to do that is to call the bank. As far as I know, only lloyds shows pending transactions online, Barclays had it as a "suggestion" for ages now.

- Credit cards. In Poland, I apply for a certain limit when applying for a card and I either get it or I don't. In UK, you apply for a card, have to sign all the documents for the card, and only after the card arrives I can see what sort of limit was given me. If I don't like it, there's nothing I can do - well, I could ring the bank and ask, but they don't have to increase it. I could close the account and apply somewhere else but that negatively impacts my credit score, what a nightmare.

- can't change the pin for my card online.

- most UK banks won't send any of my documents to a foreign address even if I ask for "security reasons" but my Polish banks sends all theirs to my UK address no problem.
What you just built for yourself is something that should become an open source product, and many people would use it.
It was a snarky response to the idea that asking for a drivers license is considered rigorous from the standpoint of purchasing a deadly weapon.
one application may be streams of multiple POVs of the same game.
Yahoo Mail flaw gets fixed, and a researcher nets $10K
It was kind of a rhetorical question... because if you actually care about latency, you do not use windows nor use the public cloud.

I saw a few hundred Solarflare cards purchased, the prices were not that absurd. Only 10-20% of the total cost of the server, for a pretty amazing perf gain. Mellanox etc. tested similar but had less helpful sales engineers IIRC.
Deconstructing Human Labor
OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers.

It's a nice, heart-warming mission. But in the end of the day, content is king, that's what consumers want.

There have been many examples of people rallying around a "free and open" version of a service. They fail to realize that the end consumer barely cares. Look at voat (Reddit), app.net (Twitter), Diaspora (Facebook), even ycreject.com (Y Combinator) tried to be a thing for a while.

If someone is able to make it "free and open" while also making it a better experience than the alternative, then it'll be a big success. But so far everyone gets that wrong.
I'll second that. The addition of "principles of conversation" was a nice passive aggressive touch.
>It means the available creative works—which in turn effectively means the engine of culture—is determined almost entirely by people who are well-off enough to have the free time to do that.

From where I sit, that's the problem ad-supported media has, not the other way around.

Look at TV before Netflix/iTunes/etc. came along. It was pretty much a crap-fest of lowest-common-denominator programming that was created based on who sold the most ads. It left out large sections of the population (minorities, women, LGBT, etc.) for the most part, relegating them to stereotypes, if they were mentioned at all. It also limited content that discussed topics that were unpleasant to the media gateways. (I've heard it said that NBC News wasn't allowed to discuss nuclear power at all because GE, which owns NBC, was in that business and didn't want any bad press from their own company.)

Now a television show on Netflix/HBO/etc. can discuss topics that it wants without having to worry about whether a sponsor might drop out, or they might offend someone, or because they didn't appeal enough to the mainstream.

Removing ads has freed media. The current system isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than 3 major networks pumping out sitcoms about white fat guys married to beautiful women.
Why FedEx Should Be Scared of Amazon
For what it's worth, I agree with this. Was it Fark that used to limit posts by new accounts? Someone I knew got written about on Fark and wanted to respond but couldn't because he didn't previously have an account, and as a new account couldn't add comments.
It's OK that you feel that way, we need a few groundskeepers tending Earth...
The EasyList[0] already has blocking for DOM elements and querystring parameters in addition to domain blocks. So even with hosting ads from the same domain, they get blocked.

For example, ABP blocks our same-domain, self-hosted trackers with the default settings even though our domain is not listed there.

[0] - https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
Yuggoth, surely?
Well you are burning quite a few more carbs than fat even at a fast 1/2 or full marathon. Not sure exact switchover from more carbs to more fat is, maybe 5 or 6 hours?
When Movies Fly: How Modern Internet Experience Is Made Possible by Airplanes
I think railguns are better at sending dumb payload masses, there's a fairly high amount of electricity pumped into the rails and IIRC the military ones have a sort of plasma muzzle flash effect.

Cubesats tend to be lightweight and small, and probably wouldn't survive the launch.
Show HN: time-synchronized screen and network capture for iOS / Android
Cheerful chart shows how you might die
How Caltech Astronomers Found Planet Nine
It's almost better to ask this question of people living now
MIT mis-crediting biggest science discovery of decade
All this means is that ad-blockers will have to add anti-anti-ad-blocking technology (you can already download anti-anti-ad
blocking extensions to chrome), at which point it is a race to the bottom.
Flynn Effect
Perhaps the downvotes are coming because their arguments do not rely just on the improbability of that outcome.
Google's Dataflow Proposed to Apache Software Foundation Incubator
The interesting question here is why you have that attitude? And why you are passionate enough to write it down as comment?
It's the slick design and component based magnetic click-together configuration that you're paying for. Like icefox points out. That kind of design and polish would take a lot more than $199 worth of your time. Although it would be pretty fun as a hobby DIY project (even cooler with sensor blocks for testing robotics/iot/etc).
Rick and Morty creator shares first look at VR game using the HTC vive DK
Archaeological evidence indicates that the Inuit were generally involved in trade and border disputes with First Nations groups living south of the Arctic tree line. The "modern" Inuit that made contact with Europeans were a much smaller, more homogenous group than existed mere hundreds of years earlier, after being collectively forced to move south during the Little Ice Age.
The consequence of not destroying this infrastructure is that a vicious and brutal regime has much more resources and has an easier time surviving. By protecting a couple of "civilian" truck drivers -- and if your day job is illegally smuggling oil for a terrorist organization, one must question how much of a "civilian" you really are -- we guarantee that actual civilians in the Islamic State, not to mention civilians in areas attacked by it, will suffer far longer.
Report: Mobile investments are paying off
Thank you so much for writing that up, that surely makes a lot of sense.

What is your opinion on Ken? The way he organized press conference before Avery's trial? The way he proposed two wildly different theories in two trials? Do you think it was right on Ken's part to do that?

What is your opinion on Dean Strang/Jerry Buting? Do you think they could have done more to establish reasonable doubt?
Most, if not all of this could have been prevented by proper CSP headers [0].

Tip: Firefox gives you a really nice overview and tips on CSP if you enter 'security csp' in the Dev Toolbar (Shift F2) [1]. GitHub is a great example.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy

1: https://i.imgur.com/dbRjenA.png
"Taxes don't really play on this --> many startups don't make a profit ;-) "

I don't know how you can say taxes don't play into this. I started my company 5 years ago and if I had to pay 50%+ in tax back then, I would have failed. Instead, I used that money to grow the company.

"If I were a VC in the US, I would see France as an opportunity."

Why? More of your money will go toward taxes and the regulations will restrict your ability to grow your money. VC want a return on investment (as do most investors).

Firing someone in a company over 10 people is a court case. There have been many cases where the company loses the court case and a person that should have been fired just sits and does nothing and is forced, by law, to be paid by the company.

This has become such a problem that many companies in France don't want to hire students..because it's too much of a risk.

France has had 10%+ unemployment for over a decade. You would think they would have changed something by now.