skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely your "available balance" was reduced and everything worked fine.
An excellent post, and a great blog for anybody interested in modern dynamic language implementations
What? Did you miss the "enforcing one's religious views [onto others]" bit?
What I missed in the article is whether there was an audible glitch at 4:15 AM.
Was the Discoverer of Autism a Nazi?
Ugh, I'm right with you. When I renewed my car insurance recently, I avoided using either of the 2 comparison sites for exactly that reason. I wonder if brands ever do market research on the number of people actively repelled by their adverts.
> In other words, his contributions to science arose from his exceptional physical insights, and not his mathematical brilliance.

True about special relativity, certainly false about general relativity. Between 1905 and 1915, Einstein learned the mathematics required to formulate and write the general theory.
If your premise is that less guns does not make people safer...

...then you inversely arguing that more guns does not make people unsafer.

Which is not true. More firearms makes for an inherently more dangerous society. Less firearms does indeed equal greater safety.
Researchers find evidence of ninth planet in solar system
I do agree with you on that, and there should be some form of Chromium that can be shared across applications to reduce the bloat of such packaged apps. Perhaps this is an issue with the architecture of Electron itself, which requires all such apps to contain their own version of Chromium?

I wanted easy cross platform compatibility with minimal code, and Electron seemed like a good choice across for apps across Windows, OSX and Linux.
I have an hp split laptop. It's really anemic and I regret to have thought that processors had come as far as not having to think about them (you do). It has an Intel Pentium N3510. Anyways, it came with windows 8 and it was a slow and buggy product from day one. Linux on it runs worse then windows somehow. But since windows 10 it's at least bearable now. Windows 10 is faster at least on this machine.
Pornhub’s 2015 Year in Review
I'd vote for naming it Nibiru just to riff on the planet X stuff, though I somehow doubt it'd host anything but frozen gases.
When you have a hammer all problems are nails. ISIS isn't a startup company, and the analogy to one fails beyond the initial thought.

>There is no viable strategy for a terrorist group that says "we'll grow like crazy and then sell out to Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft

What ?
Do you have a link for the service that could do 300mbps for this price? I'd like to setup a server if that's the case.
Not sure what you mean by "military-grade" rifles, but sub-machine guns and automatic rifles are basically unobtanium to ordinary citizens. They are heavily regulated and restricted to pre-1986 firearms, making them astronomically expensive.
From experience, the types of muslim Iranians & Kurds who are rotten enough to join ISIS would speak decent arabic.
Great project! We should start valuing and throwing money at something more impactful for our future than stupid snapchats and food delivery services.
but how is the flow of traffic between the nodes measured?
The idea that 20,000 deaths per year is a "real problem" while 10,000 per year is not is disingenuous at best.

If the US had the same amount of gun violence in a day that the UK experiences in a year, it would be worldwide news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/what-...

As recently as a couple of months ago on Marc Maron's podcast he advocated for Australian style gun control laws which included mandatory registration and confiscation as well as the banning of semi-automatic rifles.

Maybe that doesn't seem like "he wants to take your guns" to you, but it certainly does to many people.

Obviously, like most things, there's a spectrum and this falls somewhere between "he wants to take all your guns" and "free guns for everyone!" But to claim that there is zero evidence that he'd come and take (at least some of) people's guns if he had the political capital to do so is being just as disingenuous as the right-wingers.

Also, as a sibling post has indicated "military grade rifles" "submachine guns" and all sorts of other scary sounding things are regulated to hell and back and nearly impossible to obtain for your average citizen. They're also used in crime approximately none of the time. People who would like stronger regulation routinely and intentionally conflate real military (automatic or select fire) rifles with the semi-automatic civilian lookalikes.
My ublock add-on blocks exactly 5 requests from their home page... so why would I want to install their browser?
newspapers are un-needed intermediaries. For whatever weird reasons AP and Reuters and the like don't want the hassle of 6 billion individual subscribers, so they contract out to an intermediary who pays them a vaguely fixed amount per month based on viewer numbers and then the intermediary stuffs the pages with ads and clickbait headlines to profit more than their 1000 competitors trying to do the same thing, which is unsustainable.

But they aren't "really" needed, as mere intermediaries.

Someone should startup a "newspaper" that doesn't bother with filler or ads or clickbait and just aggregates and handles subscription costs that funnel back to Reuters (or AP, or ...). I'd pay a little more for "The Intercept" and "Linux weekly news" in addition to the standard Reuters feed. Basically a pay version of the google reader / newsblur / rss ecological system.

I'm not seeing the newspapers as valuable intermediaries. They, and their clickbait headlines and ads, can just go away and nothing of value will be lost. We'll still have the sources of raw news.
Is Linkbubble free software, or they just made some agreement with author to use/rebrand it?

(I always assumed it's proprietary, but seeing that others are FLOSS forks, would love to be wrong about this one.)
We're currently using it on algolia.com; works like a charm!
According to this study normal smoking has virtually no secondhand consumption issue, unless you live with a smoker for 30 years.

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/12/05/jnci...
Took me a minute to understand what was going on here, as the page itself is light on detail. This person has created a number of tiny demos ("[64b] voron" means it fits in 64 bytes) in a primitive\simple graphics mode, with no external libraries. Check out the youtube links to see them without any fussing around with DOSBox etc. I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxCp2ZZPec
I really hope your game designers know how to mask latency. If you're going over TCP/IP then expect to need to resolve a game model that can sustain at least ~750ms of latency.

I totally understand the browser constraint part but you're going to hit some serious issues once you start having real-world clients that have >3% packet drop.

It gets even worse when you start adding different discrete layers on a single TCP connection(chat, larger game state not related to twitch parts, etc). Each one of those channels has the chance to drop a single packet and then your whole world comes to a stop until you can roundtrip that single packet that's unrelated to the realtime info you care about.

FWIW most stacks end up implemented channels over UDP with unreliable+unordered, reliable+unordered and reliable+ordered for the different latency needs of the specific channel.

I've done a fair bit of this stuff in a production environment and have to echo my original comment. TCP is great for lockstep but if you're doing dead-reckoning it will fall apart on anything other than a LAN.

Edit: I also don't mean this as a dig, just that I've seen many teams go through this and it's usually at a point where it's too late to make any changes.
> Having worked for some time with configuration management and backend development and seeing the growing pains that happen after any "non-trivial" use case of it like: obscure declarative languages/DSLs, tangled messes of declarative vs scripted configurations, inter-dependencies that are not so obvious until you hit a corner case, etc., I can say that Docker has been a breeze, even when I encounter a breaking bug in a new release that breaks it somehow.

I don't really see how the Docker model is better. I wouldn't trust a person who wrote a terrible Puppet file to work on a Docker container.

I can understand that from a Devops point a view, it's more convenient, however you can easily just build a VM image with Puppet and deploy that to your billions of servers.
Workfront's trademark doesn't seem to be an issue for Brave due to different use fields. Looks like Eich can't make a calendaring app though :-)
I agree for the most part, but there is a not insignificant part of the population for which those things don't matter.

I know a good number of people who don't buy Nike products, don't own a Mac, and haven't been to any theme parks. For those people, whether or not they know the slogan doesn't matter: if you only drink water then 100 Coke vs Pepsi ads do nothing; if you run an obscure Linux distro you'll laugh at both the "think different" and "the world's most advanced operating system" ads; if you wear "the cheap black ones I think?" then the $90 Nikes won't get your dollar over the $40 New Balance shoes. I'm not saying that's the best way to live your life, but it certainly is one way to neatly sidestep the modern manipulation of ads.
If you had to do it all over again what would have been your choice(s)?
This will be banned by app stores and such and quickly.
Add to that the problem that "productive" is not the real goal. Businesses can survive and even thrive with sub-optimal processes as long as those processes deliver value that exceeds their cost. (We see this in early stage startups, i.e. "Do things that don't scale".) Needing a development process to run optimally in order to deliver value suggests that the marginal value may be far too small for a custom software solution.
UCSD Data Structures and Algo on Coursera
If you don't want to see ads at all why not just refrain from visiting the offending sites?
I had a similar feeling when doing the DK2 Desk demo. I was doing the usual looking around then reached out to touch the virtual desk. I had forgotten how close I was to my real desk so when I touched the desk virtually I touch my real desk. This flipped something in my brain, no way could I be touching a virtual desk. It was a really incredible experience.
Netflix is an interesting study in this respect, because they demonstrate both the immense potential if you control a dominant tech platform, and how at the same time relying on platform ownership can become your Achilles heel because you're ultimately just a middle man.

With the likes of HBO launching their own services to distribute their own original content, they have relatively little need for Netflix. Netflix, on the other hand, is nothing without good content, and in the face of declining third party content it has little choice but to move into creating its own to remain relevant. And then suddenly it's "just another" content producer, instead of "the" platform.
I will plug in a date, but yes, agreed.
Where is the incentive for the user to use this thing?
> It has more stars on GitHub than Rails.

Nope. Nope. GitHub stars was never a good reason to choose a framework. How about we compare real businesses out there?

Airbnb, Square, Twitter, GitHub, Basecamp, etc for Rails. What's there for Meteor?
Citation needed. The persecution complex in the gun cult is remarkably strong, despite there being objectively less gun control at the state level across the country than before Sandy Hook.
I don't imagine that grounding your pseudo-rational argument against gay marriage in religious texts will garner much traction here.

There might be arguments from child-rearing benefits and social obligations...but using the Bible to justify those benefits seems like circular logic.
I develop daily on Windows and Visual Studio. The latest versions of both are so horribly unstable and buggy that our team's productivity is being seriously damaged. What the hell happened to Microsoft's quality control? In Windows 7 and earlier versions of Visual Studio you didn't feel like you were walking on thin ice all the time.
Have you tried Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc?
True REST
I agree completely, but by 1915, Einstein had reshaped himself into exactly the multidisciplinary person required to write the general theory.

The real tragedy in science are those with only physical intuition and little mathematical foundation, like Nicola Tesla, who wasted much time on notions that flatly contradicted the mathematical underpinnings of physical theory.
It may be the case that your tax dollars aren't paying for that office since it is actually in NMC, across the street from LANL (http://newmexicoconsortium.org/). But I don't really know.
Not only have you missed the point (that passing the law is cruel, not the law itself), you're arguing the opinion on cruelty of the situation with the wrong person: I'm neither supporting nor opposing his opinion on the matter.
I don't know how current it is but back in the 90's when I was dealing with technical issues with payments at UBS (UBS was a big Sun purchaser) one of their bankers described bank transfers as a giant exercise in "liability hot potato". Which is to say that at each step of the way the person receiving the funds was trying to avoid becoming liable for them until they were really certain they had them in an account somewhere, and people sending funds wanted to be absolutely sure the destination had accepted liability for the funds before they were willing to release them. Because when it went wrong, they ended up liable for funds they no longer had. And he suggested that there were people that tried to make that true (basically stealing from the system) and that it happened enough to be priced into the transaction fees.

The amount of money that was flowing on a daily business through the bank was staggering.
We'd love to look closer at that (and will). There are rumours about Slack itself working on something similar, and then there's the screenhero acquisition a year back, but nothing definitive yet.

DISCLOSURE: I work at Chatlio

EDIT Slack has some recommendations on this: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/208492868-Making-vo...
Million Lines of Code
I would love if it was more viable to choose between ads and payment. I don't know how much my current Web habits would end up costing. But if it was a lot, I could stand to cut down on my Web surfing. There are after all other worthwhile things to do.
It's already been done that for Al Nusrah, though not by Saudi but Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey.

Al Nusrah is the new hip and modern wing of Al Qaida. They are now so moderate and progressive that only stone women using Fair Trade stones.
Hire the trajectory, not the status – BerlinVC
I think you just invented Realism in programming. The programs are written by programmers not academics. There is no perfect way to code something. We should stop the dogma fetishism. Structural/OO/Functional programming theories have all their pros/cons but it can't be proven that one is better than the other. So instead of committing ourselves to the one true cause, we should focus on writing code that achieves its purpose. Why shouldn't we use goto statements at all?

PS: I wanted to write "programming is not sacred", but I couldn't. I only use emacs and open source software. I love computers religiously and think that there is something magical about them. So I admit to a certain extent of hypocrisy.
We computer geeks are obsessive people.
Personal Space Is a Fear Response
Lets not forget how that extended to "mozilla firefox is bad until we kick out a leader of it that once donated to a cause we don't like years ago."
Phone crypto scheme “facilitates undetectable mass surveillance”
You could also have gotten VBScript in IE6 and more strict licensing terms for H264 and AAC streaming.

I also don't think WebKit (let alone Blink) are poster childs of "true open source community development".
I agree ads are bad but the current state of the web is disgusting, it's barely recognizable as a conduit for any real information.

People hail the internet as a great way to find information -- if you type anything into the google search bar you're curious about, you either get wikipedia, which is clean and usually pretty great if incomplete, or clickbait ad-filled trash that gives you one sentence of content before you click "next", repeated 10 times downloading megabytes of data, tracking your habits, and grinding your machine to a halt, possibly infecting you with drive-by malware.

This feels to me like much needed incremental progress. Let's not give up on solving anything just because we can't fix everything we don't like all at once.

I clicked the HN link about ISIS fighter's salaries. Constant flash video playing in the other tab, CPU usage at 50%, obnoxious sounds pouring out of it. This should not be allowed to happen, we don't need to tolerate this kind of bad behavior on the part of websites. And even 'respectable' sites like newspapers do it.
It's funny when AdBlock tells you that brave.com has 2 blocked Ads. Oh the irony.
Your theory makes sense to me -- it seems the number of PhDs produced yearly increased greatly since around 1960 [1][2]. Since maintaining a career in science requires journal publication, I'm sure this correlates with incredible increases in published results over the past (say pre-1960). Perhaps the mediocre results are published by those wanting to 'look like a productive scientist' without adding much to the knowledge-base. The result being what you're mentioning, and maybe what I'm noticing too.

[1] http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06319/figures/fig02-04.htm

[2] http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf12303/
"The cynic in my wants to think that it's so people who don't pay attention to their finances are more likely to overdraw/double-spend the money"

The cynic in you is right. There have been numerous lawsuits that have won against banks for structuring the movement of money so that it is the most likely to incur overdraft fees, which are a $1 billion money maker just for the top three...

Bankers are more the enemy of the people than terrorists.
Apology accepted.
Funny though that Visual Studio insists on defaulting to upper case menus. That must be a decision forced on them by a PHB somewhere, which just tells you that nobody is immune from the organizational rot.
Exactly! Installing an ad blocker would be an act of revolution, it can disable entire economic systems. Ad blockers should be banned for this very reason - it's terrorism at worst and treason at best.

Like it or not, consumerism and capitalism go hand in hand. It has reduced global poverty and has made many of us in HN very comfortable. Advertising is bound hand and foot with this system. To deny this is to attack the very structure that we rely on.

( the above two paragraphs are possible satire )
I would have agreed that it's a good product right up to Visual Studio 2013. But Visual Studio 2015 is slow, buggy and unstable. They really have screwed something up, it has been months, and the update pack they released didn't make any tangible improvements. Meanwhile the "extensions and updates" area just continues to push Microsoft products I don't need, and every now and then I am not allowed into the IDE because my license has "gone stale". Everyone in my team has daily crashes, bugs and slowdowns and it is hurting us. How can Microsoft not have found any of these issues during all their testing?
Zcash, an Untraceable Bitcoin Alternative, Launches in Alpha
Again, those are things that people with money can do. The vast mass of humanity doesn't have any access to a CNC mill, nor do they make boats in their basement (e.g.because they live in a small apartment). Its a first-world middle-class idea, was my point.
I know what "just do it" means but have only bought one (1) pair of Nike trainers in my life (out of, oh, 40+ pairs).

I'm pretty sure I know where "the happiest place on Earth" is but it'll be a cold day in hell before I visit.

Less manipulated, more just a basic cultural awareness, I'd say.
This seems awful from a content provider perspective. I no longer get to have control over my own content, Brave gets to decide for me how much my content is worth and what ads appear on my site.

This isn't that far removed from coming into a bakery and saying "The Cupcakes are no longer $2, they're $1.50 'coz that's what we think people want to pay."

I realize the idea is that this is "better" for the content providers than Ad Block, but both are, IMHO stupid. If a site you visit has ads you don't like, complain to the people who run the site and stop going to it. All Ad Block software has never been a fix, merely a tool in an ever escalating war of ads where users and content creators both lose.
In Canada we have something called an Interact E-Transfer that the major banks all support. You add a recipients email address and create a "secret question" they can answer. Then, you simply fill our a form that says "Send $X From Account Y to Recipient Z". Depending on the bank the email is sent between 0-60 minutes later, the recipient clicks the link, logs in, and picks which account to deposit it to. The whole process is super easy to use.

Most banks charge about $1 per Interact E-Transfer, but some accounts will get a certain number of free transfers.

With all that being said, I just received an email from TD Canada Trust (One of the major banks) stating that they are now imposing a $5 fee to cancel an E-Transfer (previously free). I can't remember the last time I cancelled an E-Transfer, but I'm still most likely going to close all my accounts with them over it. I find it absolutely outrageous that they would charge you $5 to cancel a completely automated process. The only explanation I can think of is to nickle and dime their customers.
When I am working on projects, I would often have hundreds of tabs open (figuratively speaking) with reference material and whatnot, and my browser tab bar would end up being a gigantic mess. I just thought it would be handy if I could keep certain web pages that are important (such as Facebook Messenger / Whatsapp etc.) separately from the mess to facilitate easier navigation when switching between windows.
Yes, it'd be illogical for defense to go first. Regardless, it's a huge advantage for prosecution to go first.
Yeah, the HN title should be more like "Changing the NICAM radio transmission protocol without 35 million people noticing."
The mongooses? Or the meerkats?

(I can't think of any mongoose adverts.)
On OS X, a little Cocoa application in Objective-C using the system WebKit framework would probably do the trick.

On Linux, a little GTK application in C using WebKitGTK would probably work.

On Windows... I don't know. I know from firsthand that embedding the IE engine via the WebBrowser ActiveX control really sucks. I'm going to see if the WebKit WinCairo port is any good these days.

If we must use CHromium, then the Chromium Embedded Framework is worth a look. It's a DLL, so in principle, it can be shared between applications. You'd still need some platform-specific code to create the window containing CEF, though.
I'm surprised a lot of the posts here are missing the key point.

The main argument black cab (taxi) drivers are making is that Transport for London (the regulatory body) forces them to go through a bunch of extra steps before they can work (1) whereas minicabs (e.g. Ubers) are free from this.

That said, it's definitely a good thing these measures did not pass because they simply made minicabs worse rather than trying to improve the situation for taxi drivers whose "it's unfair" argument is a valid one.

Even as someone who is open to new tech, there are nuanced arguments on both sides which are often overlooked.

(1) For example, taxi drivers must do a navigation test learning the vast majority of roads in London ("The Knowledge"); be CRB checked where minicab drivers do not.