skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.manifoldjs.com/

"manifoldJS helps you reach more users than ever by packaging your web experience as native apps across Android, iOS, and Windows."
100 % agree. I have been using webview or Chromewebview to whitelist all the sites that I browse. See https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps
I can browse with 56Kbps on the way to my work even in suburbs with poor 2G.
I don't think anyone is confusing this documentary with journalism. The movie was a work of entertainment, not investigation.
IME, Visual Studio crashes are almost always due to misbehaving plugins. I'm in it all day every day, and once or twice a week it will develop some quirk that requires a restart to fix, but I can't remember the last time it actually crashed. The only plugins I run are Resharper, Xamarin, and PTVS.
I look at this sort of thing the way I looked at my first smart phone in 2004. Sure, they should have been fully graphically accelerated in a less bulky package with a bigger screen and such things were possible even then. But at the same time, I could download and run programs on my phone. I could stream Shoutcast radio in the car and check email or watch little low-res video streams. I even had a Nintendo emulator on it for portable gaming!

The other stuff came eventually. Within 5 years it was finally (relatively) affordable to improve the ergonomics and responsiveness of the UI and within 10 it was common even among cheap, mainstream devices.

I see VR following a similar path. Get the actual basic features up and running first as that's the basis of the platform. Then iterate and benefit from scale to get the nicer, more polished hardware into something under $1000+
> This is not the The Atlantic that you've heard of.

I've heard of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic.Net

Marty is the founder.
All the data I have, is consistent with people having different levels of susceptibility to ads. It wouldn't surprise me if there are in fact people who aren't influenced by them.

Do you have data which is inconsistent with this?
I've had to uninstall Skype on Windows a bunch of times because it defaults to install it in Windows update. You can hide the update, which I finally did. Very annoying.
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We store a UUID in their browser and send that along so if they chatted before we un-archive their previous channel to give the Slack operator all the context.
As far as is reasonable/moral. You're using a slippery slope fallacy.
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Well, license plate "technology" has existed for ~100 years. Microstamping exists as a single parent which has never actually been demonstrated or implemented in a commercial product.
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I disagree... I find ads an extremely agreeable way for the web to run. I get what I want for free, you get money just simply because someone's ad showed up.

Sweet.

What I don't care for is the idea that one or two megacorps know everything about me. So I selectively use ad-block software to keep the Big Boys from overly tracking me.

I find your version of the future--in which ad networks are gone and content proviers stay around because they provide their services "just for giggles" or require micro+ payments--unpalatable.
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Try white listing only the "content delivering server from smh". You will browse blazing fast!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tobykurien...

https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps
PS: I am not the author, I like the idea, so I have a complete white list of sites in the webview.
I wish you good luck guys ! Can't wait for that in France
Press stories cover how what we are building can scale without site owners having to opt in. It'll be in the roadmap too. I went light in the blog post to avoid to;dr.
Does that boil down to "if root is malicious, Bad Things can happen to other users"? Well...duh. Why not keylog all terminals instead of fumbling with ssh-agent and connection multiplexing?
Both sides of the political spectrum regularly complains about the BBC being biased towards the other side. It's the best evidence that whatever bias there is either is minor or short-lived.

In my eyes, the biggest problem with the BBC isn't bias, but that they're terrified of seeming too biased, and as a result they're wishy-washy in ways that ironically makes them seem biased.

E.g. the left will accuse them of being right wing because they don't write in more critical terms about the governments willingness to deal with the Saudis, while the right will accuse them of a left wing bias for not writing in more critical terms about Chavez, and so on. Similarly they're often accused of bias for not reporting something, or very carefully reporting something, that either side believe to be fact, but where there's not (yet) actual firm evidence. Of course, if done "against" just one side, this too would be actual bias, but the BBC appears to be pretty consistent about it.

So we're left with reporting that is rarely very biased, but often exceedingly unsatisfying for everyone.

I'm not saying there's no bias - I don't believe that would be possible. But I do think that the allegations of bias against the BBC tend to be wildly exaggerated.
All the food trucks, street and market vendors, estate and yard sales, handymen, etc I see accept credit cards using Square. If they figure out how to hang on to this market and grow as these little vendors grow then they're in good shape. Being down 10% when the Dow is down 400+ points for days on is not unusual.

The big question is - who is Square competing with.
Yes, Serial first season engaged by laying out a larger and deeper story as it progressed, and was driven by the audience's curiosity to see what new evidence comes up that may change their view on previously presented evidence. Making a Murderer seems to (I'm only 6 episodes through) feed off the audience's impotent rage at injustice.
Tech looks like it might be doing a little worse than the rest, too: https://www.google.com/finance?catid=us-TRBC%3A57&sort=MARKE...
I added them :)
Not only was it not much of a story, in fact it's so generic that can be applied to almost any field, but I never said he shouldn't have shared it. I asked how he was a lead on a project, when it's kind of clear that he probably shouldn't have been. I'd also be inclined to ask how is CTO is, well, a CTO.

It's a really rather silly situation -- but as far as startups go it seems par for the course. It's quite irritating.
I think the real underlying problem here isn't film makers misleading people (which i agree is very annoying) its people believing what they see on tv and then acting on it (which is more annoying).

So if you find yourself typing up a nasty email to a sheriff or whoever bc of something you saw on a tv show...please realize you are being a moron and stop typing...save as draft. Then, if you're willing to invest the time, do some real research and if you are still convinced your outrage is justified...by all means carry on with the nasty email.

This way film makers can make their money, people can be entertained and/or inspired to better things, and nobody gets assaulted by an angry mob of stupid people.
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I like to think this as well, and we aren't the first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
ISIS prefers foreign recruits, local recruits often want money, have to go home every year to help the harvest, and aren't willing to follow genocidal orders against their own people. This is all explained in the docs Der Spiegal got a hold of http://m.spiegel.de/international/world/a-1029274.html

ISIS is primarily made up of ex Saddam Hussein henchmen who know a lot about running a state.
So where is your magical solution that puts food on the table of the content creators but doesn't rely on selling user data or displaying ads?
Most of mathematics seems to be successfully resisting disruption because there's just not that much money there. Still, it is interesting to see other fields also wrestle with new social affordances.
There are too many JS frameworks/platforms/libraries to keep up with. I can't spend my time investigating them all. I've heard of Meteor several times but in my mind it was associated with (a) real-time apps, and (b) not free. I'm guessing that was because it is the free alternative to a paid thing? Anyway, that's what stuck in my head so I've ignored this one.

Is looking at GitHub stars a recommended way to find the best frameworks? Or what would you suggest for that?

I recently started looking at Nodal since it was mentioned here on HN a couple weeks ago. It looks pretty cool at first glance but I haven't tried building anything with it yet. (I don't have infinite time.)

I remember when there was Prototype.js vs jQuery vs Yahoo's library vs MooTools vs fill-in-the-blank. I only switched to jQuery when virtually everyone else had. Until then I stuck with Prototype because its the one I already knew (because I tried it first), even though I had played with jQuery a little bit.

So, again I say there are just too many frameworks to keep up with. (And ask if anyone has a good site / method for dealing with this.)
Try this webapps, you get both privacy and fast browsing. Just whitelist what you need https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tobykurien...
The code is opensource in github.
It was purchased by an unnamed startup recently. I guess maybe it was Brave? http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/04/link-bubble-is-under...
The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think
I'm not an economist, but my understanding is that the price of oil does not directly impact the valuation of these companies, per se, but that growth-oriented companies (especially) and oil sales depend on a strong global economy.

When the price of oil falls, that indicates that people are pulling back on oil/gas/etc purchases due to constrained budgets, reduced business/operations, etc. (and/or that people buying the oil predict that others will cut back on those things in the near future)
For comparison, Paypal is down 5%, Capital One is down 5.24%, Intuit down 2.24%, Visa down 3%, Amazon down 4.4%.

Not to say that a 10% drop isn't notable, but the whole market is taking a beating today.
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We have been looking for a "missing" objects for a while. The nemesis star theory says the sun has a brown dwarf companion. This object would interact with the Oort Cloud instead of the Kuiper belt. But this theory has been pretty much refuted.

This theory definitely looks more promising. Finding eccentric Kuiper belt objects, and aligning them with a missing object seems to be a good bet. Giving the object an orbit should make the search easier, and we will probably have a conclusion one way or another within a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)
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I have never forgotten this. It's my primary motivating factor in mercilessly blocking ads and ad servers, both within my browser and at my routers, both at home and at work.

If someone wants to make money off of me, they're free to send me a bill. If their content isn't valuable enough to sell directly, why should I waste my bandwidth and RAM monetizing their garbage?

A world without Facebook and Google sounds wonderful. Sign me up; I'm willing to pay.
What stops someone at BoE from just changing a balance?

What stops people from carrying out fraud elsewhere? A system of security controls and reviews. The high-value end-of-day transactions may well be manually confirmed at both ends.

How did it get in the first place? Ultimately, deposits; dating back to the establishment of the bank as a credit management vehicle for the government when it would have been deposited in gold.

The BoE may also issue loans, in its "lender of last resort" role.
I can't back it it with data but I suspect that many of the gun owners in California do not report their gun ownership, contributing to the low number.
> Spending more money promoting gun safety would likely save lives

This is something I could fully get behind, and I believe it would have real positive effects for the general population.

I had the privilege to have grown up in a military family, and was active in Cub Scouts and then later Boy Scouts -- so I grew up around guns and was introduced at a very early age.

Gun safety needs to start early. In scouts, we had it beat into us how to treat a weapon, and how to be safe with one. It was taught the weapon was to be respected and treated as loaded even when you knew it was not.

Unfortunately, many gun owners don't have such training, and are unknowingly careless with their firearms. This includes people leaving loaded firearms in places where children can gain access, or showing off for their buddies, etc. Too often I've been at the local gun range and witnessed a new gun owner looking down the barrel or casually walking around with the gun's action closed and barrel "sweeping" bystanders. It's not their fault, they literally don't know any better... it's the lack of mandatory safety training (and at most ranges, you'll find staff and customers alike harshly coming down on these offenders in attempt beat into them some core safety rules).

Gun ranges are actually good examples of gun safety done right (most of the time). In the rare occasion where I've felt unsafe around a fellow shooter, the range staff have taken quick action. In general, even with all the guns at a gun range, it's one of the safest places to be around firearms.
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That's be fine if I just went to a site and searched for coupons, when I needed an appliance. Same result, cheaper and nicer for everybody. Its the pervasive ad noise that's at issue.
I think Avery's prosecution was corrupt enough to be worth vacating on police misconduct alone.[1] However, implicit in your comment is the premise that process is more important than outcome. While I fully agree with that (as a lawyer), I think ordinary peoples' view of the justice system is a bit different.

Watch the beginning of the 1983 Michael Douglas movie, "Star Chamber." The first scenes show two men getting away with the rape and murder of a young boy, because the damning piece of evidence (a bloody shoe), was found in their van pursuant to a search in violation of the 4th amendment. The audience is supposed to be outraged by this failure of justice.

Surely you've heard the consternation about criminals "getting off on a technicality." A lot of people view procedural protections as just that: technicalities. It's people with that mindset reacting so negatively to this documentary. To them, Avery's actual guilt or innocence is the important thing. The process is just technicalities.

The same mindset makes it easy to justify police misconduct, and I imagine it was strongly at work with Avery's jury. Once you admit the evidence excluded in the documentary, such as Avery's prior conduct, it becomes quite reasonable to conclude that Avery is actually guilty. At the same time, with the "planted blood" theory seemingly debunked by the FBI test, the only blatantly obvious police misconduct you're left with is the planted key. If you view outcome as being more important than process, it's very easy to think of finding Avery innocent based on the planted key as simply letting him off on a "technicality."

[1] Not to mention the pervasive logical and legal fallacies in Ken Kratz's statements, which left me yelling at the TV.
Shopify is down more than 50% from its high and below its IPO offering price as well:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASHOP
This book was something I found very fun to read: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...

N.B. I did read the book when I was in university studying CS, but I felt like it was a good balance of history and tech information.
I suspect this is partly due to how notoriously overpriced and under-performing Australian internet access is.
Then you wouldn't know the best places to get food, water, or shelter.
I'm not responsible for putting food on their tables. Perhaps if their content is worth money, they can charge for it.

If they can't get people to pay for their content, maybe they should consider a line of work they can monetize without subjecting every single transaction to third-party skimming and engendering massive surveillance projects.
You're spot on. The fact that the documentary is supposedly so one-sided is almost irrelevant, because it presents more than enough evidence to constitute reasonable doubt.

On another note, I honestly can't believe that there's isn't some sort of law that would've prevented the sheriff's dept. from any sort of involvement in the case; there was such an obvious conflict of interests. I felt a little sick to my stomach when I heard about all the evidence they'd managed to procure, seemingly out of nowhere.
> although I like previews, those can stay

Why is an advert for a film that you don't need to see, better than an advert for a product that you don't need to own?
I wonder when the U.S. will target those guys?
Crawling sites actively hostile to your crawler seems like it has both useful and shady applications. What kinds of things do you use that for?
> If they figure out how to hang on to this market and grow as these little vendors grow then they're in good shape.

Now that Square is a public company with shareholders, the Silicon Valley mantra of growth-at-all-costs no longer generally applies, instead the focus is on profitability/ROI. Which is something that Square lacks, and is in an industry with slim margins already.
In an quasi-ideal world[1]:

1. Framing a suspect should be a career terminating offense, for both the law enforcement side and the prosecution side. This is not limited to the actual perpetrators, but also to the people higher up in the chain of command that encouraged or can be demonstrated to have failed to know due to lack of diligence.

2. For crimes where no violence was involved, the culprit walks scott free. If there was violence involved, the culprit has the right of a new trial with all the ill aquired evidence dismissed.

3. It is a capital offense to bribe, extortion or otherwise cahole law enforcement or prosecuition officials into "screwing up" the investigation/trial on purpose to invalidate the charges. Defense lawyers who accumulate more than 3 clients suspected of doing this (regardless of they being found guilty or not) are prohibited to practice for a period of 5 years.

[1] In an ideal-ideal world, corruption does not exist and this measures are not needed.
I'd bet the short obvious answer is that it doesn't cost them anything to ship small, lightweight products like this.

The plane was already flying from China to wherever, filled with AliExpress merchandise. They may have paid for the whole plane instead of just by weight. So adding this product didn't add any tangible extra weight or cost.

Then the mail carrier or whoever is already going on that route. I doubt he gets paid per package, so adding another small package is no big deal and doesn't add extra time/cost.

Unless someone is ordering 1million buttons, then the weight starts to add up. But then so does the cost of the buttons, which at that point would cover the shipping.

I'm generalizing a bit since I don't know the specifics of the shipping industry. But this makes sense to me.
Well, for some people, myself included, the not-going-so-well recent IPOs (Square, Box, etc.) would help deflate the pressure on housing prices in SF/BA. I feel for the workers at these company, but it's becoming impossible to raise a family here when the rent/mortgage is creeping up to more than half of most people's salary.
Or to have people to handle that kind of thing for them. Preferably using software to automate the process.
Kansas has some big data centers in it (there's a reason google fiber launched there). Lots of dedicated server and colocation providers are located in Kansas City. In order for these providers to receive IP addresses from ARIN, they must register with ARIN as an "autonomous system" (AS). One of the items on the form they must complete is the geolocation of the IP address block they are being assigned. That geolocation is often the location of the provider company, not necessarily the location of the server(s) the IP(s) point to.

Server providers register as autonomous systems, and purchase IP space in large blocks. They often have servers at multiple data centers, with VLAN routing configured to switch packets at the ingress IP to whichever server that IP is assigned to. When a client rents a server from a provider, the provider assigns the client some number of IP addresses from its available pool. Many times, the provider does not actually SWIP (officially delegate via ARIN) these IP addresses to the client, so the registration with ARIN will not reflect the owner of the server an IP currently points to.

tl;dr When a packet goes to an IP belonging to an AS registered with a certain geolocation, the AS can switch that packet to wherever it wants.
Native ads can be, and are today, blocked. Consider those ugly Taboola and Outbrain octoboxes with parasite pictures at the bottom of too many news stories these days. Those are just img in div HTML. But adblockers remove them with HTML rules (Brave will too).

In general, you can Greasemonkey anything. Tracker-less first party native ads may be harder to match, but most sites would need tracking to aggregate audiences, to get better ads and revenue, so third party native is on the rise. And it is easy to block.
This is a worthy endeavour. I want to download and help test and develop this today. Helping deflate this ad-bubble before it turns into the "The Zero Theorem" is worth the effort.

This however does not tackle the mindset shift that needs to occur for the masses to start protecting the private information they voluntarily give up on services they are signed in on the social net.

We are currently working on a project that will use this information to the marketer's advantage in a way that will make people sick once they realize the extent of the profiling going on, with the ultimate goal of reversing the trend before it's too late. Make people raise their guards, sell some tech on the way.
Me. I'm still rocking 4 gigs.
Population twice the size in a fraction of the area. Good for low latency connections -- countering one of the downsides of tor.
there's not that much oil to control in Syria
> * the putative ninth planet—at 5,000 times the mass of Pluto—is sufficiently large that there should be no debate about whether it is a true planet*

That's 10x the mass of the Earth, right, or about 3x the size of Neptune?
I scratch-built a minimal linux distro that had NE2000 support and ipchains. It fit on a single bootable floppy. Through high school, I sold the discs for $100 each, with the promise that it'd take whatever old junk computer you had kicking around and turn it into a reliable router. Paid for my first computer that way!