skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet. We're still figuring our what's needed for this. It seems there's no auditing requirement at all.
Here's an archive.org link to Dan Bigman's May 2012 Forbes post on those ownership structures (published a few months after Facebook's IPO):
http://web.archive.org/web/20120527223753/http://www.forbes....
Yes. But isn't a stapler.
Apologies. I made some edits. Perhaps I should edit a bit more but looks like edit window expired.
Oh? What about these studies:

"Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are five times more likely than other ethnicities in the United States to die of alcohol-related causes"

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm
I think reddit is more the space for you; hacker news tends to be for people who like data; not arguments plucked from your brain. From wikipedia:

Number of Looms in UK
Year	1803	1820	1829	1833	1857
Looms	2400	14650	55500	100000	250000

Tell me how increasing your manufacturing base 104x in 50 years is possible without above average returns on capital in textiles? Were the British industrialists stupid? Did they just want to compete each other out of existence? Or perhaps they had a captive subjugated market where people were not even allowed to produce salt, let alone textiles.

Your argument that India would not have "kept up" is based on pure conjecture. Also, every respected economic historian writes that India would have been better off without colonialism. Transfer of technology doesn't have to coincide with being invaded. Eg. Japan.
The article clearly states how you can take a screenshot of a snap, thus saving it forever. That has always been an issue.
Show HN: Scrape to Swagger – webscraper for API documentation
For the curious:

> In order to use Popcorn Time on your browser.

> You need to install the Torrents Time browser plugin
This is because video ads use an obnoxious ad API called VPAID [1] that is mostly used to track viewability of video ads (which in turn conditions the billing event for advertisers). This is most effectively done with Flash and so 90% of video ads use Flash if given the opportunity.

[1] http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/digitalvideo/vsuite/vpa...
I'd always assumed that stoichiometry problems could be solved with linear algebra, but was too lazy to investigate. Usually the problems assigned were easy enough that you didn't have to work too hard to figure them out.
How to change someone's mind, according to science
True! But slicing it up and looking at it under microscopes is, in fact, the most likely means of restoring cryopreserved brains, either as computer simulations or as nanobot-constructed replicas. Doing it this way is easier because such techniques could handle cases where molecules are damaged in ways that make them not function but which make it obvious (from a good microscope reading) what they were before.
Twitter Tweaks the Timeline, but It’s Not the End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtqzn6WuHk

it's been virtualized and mobilized and everything by now, but kids have been entranced by this since I was a kid and something about the rhymes and the the drawings just work.
I found this: http://www.jacksonvilleu.com/resources/career/men-in-nursing... by searching for "male nursing recruitment" and it mentions several examples.
Dollars certainly do have value. They are effectively tax credits.

watch Warren Mosler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1uWVj0YJ3M
What is teleportation?
There was for a brief period what I like to call the "wild west" of the web. All just shitty phpBB and whatnot boards for every topic. There was no concept of social media. I genuinely got to know the people, mods, smods, gmods, admins, superadmins (the list of "positions" was always comically long and induced great drama on most communities). I visited many of those people I formed connections with online, in person. I feel like social media has swallowed the people from these communities and created large "highways" instead of communities.

Facebook groups just aren't the same. There's something comforting knowing it was "just some fucking guy" hosting the website for fun.
If there are two companies A and B, and you are convinced that A will yield a better ROI than B, you will sell B and buy A – even if there is room for B to yield a positive ROI.

Growth in users/usage/engagement in a social network almost always yields a better ROI than no/low/negative growth in users/usage/engagement.

Twitter does not necessarily have a monetization problem, people just want to invest their money where there is more potential.
>People who's day job is to predict this stuff can't even make good predictions.

When you get paid for lending academic legitimacy to politically 'useful' recommendations, accuracy isn't necessarily priority #1.
Data URLs for large images are horribly space-inefficient.
Looking at this article more, it does seem more likely that this is an attempt at some weird anti-abortion propaganda.

That being said, I still think it's an interesting concept. I don't think that the AI assuming personhood of a fetus is inherently wrong. There are plenty of philosophical arguments about what constitutes personhood, and how that effects the topic of abortion.

Again, this is something that I think could be potentially very interesting in relation to artificial intelligence, which has it's own fair share of 'what makes it a person' type debate.

An Artificial Intelligence (potentially non-person) relating and empathizing with a fetus (also potentially non-person) -- that's an interesting thought.

I agree though, it does appear to be self-insertion on the part of the author. And, if it matters, I am pro-choice. I just think there is a lot of interesting stuff to be said on the topic of personhood.
I just user the Ghostery browser. Is there any benefit to using Firefox?
Based on your tone I'm going to guess there is no amount of evidence that will change your mind.
Deconstructing Uber's Messaging Refresh
How Repulsive: On the merits of disturbing literature
If there's even a difference!
A Better Varargs
Just in time for the launch of AMP.
Vote for devices? Companies?

Jake, the election is rigged!

Walk with me down this garden path, if you please... :)

Regulation of the manufacture and distribution of medicine is a good thing.

'Regulation' just means that corporations and individuals aren't blindly trusted to do the right thing with regards to medicine.

That's because bad medicine generally has a profound impact on people's lives.

Somebody could put some bad medicine in a bottle, but there are actually organizations checking for this and there are severe penalties.

Cellphones aren't medicine, but the impact that a bad device can have on people's lives is growing every day.

It would appear that each person's identity is largely composed of their memories and their internal processes, which were also shaped by their experiences.

As devices become our primary source of information, the devices become more important. More powerful and potentially more dangerous.

Today, Samsung (for example) would never get away with filtering all negative news articles about a particular political candidate out of all their users' feeds. Nor would they get away with inserting positive chatter about their own devices.

For how long will that be true?

We have to establish some sort of minimum quality standard for the devices through which we are going to experience life. Yes, rules!
A Google Car Can Qualify as a Legal Driver
So you didn't make it down to:

> BROOKE: Also, EVERYONE looks at Cosmo on Discover. If it’s funny, they share it.
Bundles might make sense, but one large blob that couldn't be parsed until it was finished loading would probably be a big step backward for responsiveness. Parallel downloads also help speed things up.

Another interesting idea for JS-heavy sites is server-side pre rendering (yes, having the server generate HTML like the good old bad days) like Ember FastBoot http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server...
HTML Imports basically give you bundling, at least for CSS, JS, markup, and things you can fit into data URLs. It'd be awesome to explore how HTML can serve as a better bundling format for ES2015 modules and generic files like video.
Sure. Zuck realized he wanted to do a lot of good with his money. If he thought that Facebook was the best way to have an impact, then he'd simply donate his shares back to the company, which would give them ~$45bn in capital to reinvest in their mission.

He didn't do that. Which means, as the person with the single greatest understanding of Facebook, he thought he could have a more positive impact on humanity by putting that money elsewhere.

This doesn't mean Facebook doesn't do good things. This doesn't mean Facebook isn't a great company. His actions merely show that, for some objectives, he thinks other organizations can have a better impact.
So you rewrote the whole thing.
Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now freely available
I write with (almost?) all my fingers in use, without looking at keyboard, and
with quite good accuracy for quite a long time. I don't think everybody should
force themselves to learn that.

If you write really much, your hands will remember which keys are where. If
you haven't learned that yet, it means that it is probably not a critical
thing for you -- and nothing more.
All companies? Surely some companies have linear growth.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
No, it is perfectly acceptable to ban the most extreme members. Just because they don't ban everyone with extreme views doesn't mean they need to keep all of them.

I am tired of these all-or-nothing discussions that seem commonplace nowadays. The world is not as brightly defined as you think it is. We can make forward progress progressively.
The only effect you will have is to freak out some people.

... which might be his goal. Short the market, and spread FUD.
It sounds like great progress.......until you realize that Google uses Flash everywhere in their own APIs
If you're in C#, the best NoSQL database for you is RavenDB[0].

First class LINQ support. Transactions. Full text search. Blazing fast. Open source. And it creates and maintains indexes for you based on your app's queries; database machine learning that keeps your app fast.

Disclaimer: I'm a bit biased, as I've contributed to RavenDB. But it really is a great document database. I use it on nearly every project, personal and professional.

[0]: http://ravendb.net
What's the domain name?
Once you gzip them they aren't bad.
Why not just adding a colon feature like tweetdeck, its way more efficient than having an algorithm choosing what is relevant or less relevant for me
> The crash will come sooner or later

I wonder if there's ever been a point in human history where that wasn't true?
That's true, but the trophies and points are barely any value in the day-to-day. For example, in deciding to reply to a snap, the thought "My score's gonna increase if I do this" barely crosses the mind.

It's always just about keeping the conversation. And since a lot of the conversation is filler that need not be saved forever, snaps have a unique position.
Switch.co finally has a native mac app
Data URLs should be ~1.37x the size [0] of the original file (and generally, kept in the same format). Obviously, there are issues of caching, keeping the image loaded in memory, etc, but it shouldn't be all that bad. Esp. when you consider that ads are inefficient for a variety of other reasons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#MIME
A very cool project, and drones could certainly move faster than people. However practically speaking, lost people are frequently not on the trail.
But you are cherry picking outcomes. Does a police force, an army, a functioning society align with your personal values?

I agree government make mistakes, but that isn't an argument for getting rid of government, that's an argument for getting rid of mistakes.
> Nor was gold arrived at by the will of market forces. It was imposed through bank charter

Haven't gold and silver been used as money for thousands of years?

Carl Menger's Origins of Money makes the argument that gold/silver naturally emerge as money through the barter system.

Precious metals best satisfy the characteristics of money:

- Durability
- Portability
- Divisibility
- Uniformity
- Limited supply
- Acceptability

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/economic-lowdown-podcas...
Be sure to scroll down, as it still shows the Chrome app at the top, but as of Monday they list a Mac app lower on the page.
Have you gone to any of the hackerspaces in the area? Noisebridge is a great one in SF.
There is nothing incompatible with a finding that Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are more likely to die of alcohol-related causes than other ethnicities and one that Native Americans are more likely to abstain from drinking, and have similar heavy and binge drinking rates to Whites.

(1) Native Americans is not the same group as Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and

(2) "other ethnicities" (than Native American and Alaskan Natives) is not the same group as Whites, and

(3) Probably most significantly, its possible for similar overall problem drinking behavior to go along with different rates of alcohol-related death (this would be expected, e.g., if one group had substantially worse access to health care, such that similar results of problem drinking were more likely to result in death.)
> Method: I used 22.3GiB worth of Windows XP installation ISOs, 52 ISOs in total. No file was exactly the same, but some contained much duplicate data, like the Swedish XP Home Edition vs the Swedish N-version of XP Home Edition. I deduplicated these files and noted how much space I saved compared to the 22.3GiB.

So let me get it straight: he stores a bunch of CD ISOs, presumably with block size of 2048 bytes to different dedup file systems without caring about dedup block size?

ZFS has 128 kB recordsize by default, so little wonder it does so badly in this particular test without any tuning!

Windows has 4 kB blocks, so that's why it does so well. Doh.

He could have configured other systems to use a different block size. 2 kB block would obviously be optimal, one should get the highest deduplication savings with that size.

From ZFS documentation:
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Performance_tuning#Dataset_recordsi...

"ZFS datasets use an internal recordsize of 128KB by default. The dataset recordsize is the basic unit of data used for internal copy-on-write on files. Partial record writes require that data be read from either ARC (cheap) or disk (expensive). recordsize can be set to any power of 2 from 512 bytes to 128 kilobytes. Software that writes in fixed record sizes (e.g. databases) will benefit from the use of a matching recordsize."

So what happens if he sets ZFS recordsize to 2 kB (assuming it can be done?)? Ok, dedup table will probably be huge, but... savings ratio is what we need to know.

> ZFS is another filesystem capable of deduplication, but this one does it in-line and no additional software is required.

Yup, ZFS is probably the best choice for online deduplication.
Fortran programmers find it much "easier" than other languages. You are arguing about a subjective matter here. The fact that there are so many R packages and users shows it is useful to a large enough subset of users in statistics/data science domain.
If everyone was predicting a crash, then we'd have one already, because the markets would reflect that.
Here’s How Well Twitter’s Execs Use Twitter–Or, Um, Not
There are usually several systems involved in a settlement, all run by different parties - the bank (broker), the custodian (which holds the certificate) and the counterparties that are trading. They all have representations of the same trade that are mostly out-of-sync, and reconciling these systems incurs delays.

With the blockchain, none of these parties need necessarily trust each other, but all can share the same system which shows the current state of the transaction. All parties can observe a ledger that is distributed in real time. So they don't need any reconciliation steps anymore and all trades are "T0" (same day) settled
> My special area are rare earth metal bonds and EU government bonds.

A gold bug who has chosen rare earth metals instead of gold. Fascinating.
His GEICO investment was about more than just him believing in GEICO. It was much more brilliant than that.

Insurance companies are wonderful to own because you get access to their capital. They have tons of floating capital that's held in reserves, from premiums, until it needs to be paid out for claims.

GEICO was a perfect investment for a young Buffet because he exchanged cash (liquidity) for even more liquidity.
Many state "Association of Realtors" have "standard" contracts they recommend. They might be a bit biased toward the landlord, but have been refined over time to be generally acceptable by all parties and take into account state and local law.
It's the correct answer for the web.

You don't get to be st3v3r everywhere, you get to st3v3r@st3v3r.com if you have that domain.
Ripple effect: scientists await word on gravitational waves – Mpelembe Media
How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness
Legal tender laws are likely more qualitatively significant than ability to pay taxes in of itself.

I'd be wary of the chartalist/state theory of money, since it's somewhat of a truism (state theory of money is correct for money chartered by the state). It tends to ignore that many local currencies have also emerged through different channels.

MMT as promoted by Mosler, Wray, Kelton and Tcherneva is also a syncretic and often uncredited mix of a variety of economic ideas, generally as a clout for the policy activism that its founders promote.
The Surgeon Will Skype You Now
Like it or not, 90% of the body's serotonin is produced by gut microbes... Dopamine, GABA and other lovely chemicals are also contributed by the endless sea of creatures within.

:)
Well they don't kick down doors, but they have picked plenty of locks. You probably don't need to worry about the Special Collection Service [0] though, unless you live in some kind of communications facility. The NSA's crypto programs are well known, but one area that gets very little attention is the part of the agency full of military personnel on loan from their parent services. Those people don't spend their day analyzing cryptographic functions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Collection_Service
> Money represents an obligation for society to provide you with something of value.

What does that mean?

> many things would work exactly the same if people agreed to pretend that gold was moved from one vault to another instead of actually physically moving gold around.

This is how commodity money works. The dollar (as well as almost all paper currencies) originated as commodity money. The paper dollar was backed by and convertible to gold.
> I'm not talking about puberty, but mental maturity. An 11 year old boy back then would likely be working to support his family.

That doesn't mean that they would have more "mental" maturity (particularly, in any sense relevant to the instant discussion.)
Javascript is probably one of the weakest typed languages out there. {}+{}, []+[], {}+[] are all completely valid operations in javascript that cause all kinds of implicit coercions. And assembly language is very strongly typed: it just has a very simple type system.

As for Julia, I'm not sure how strongly or weakly typed it is, but I would probably put it at around the same level as Java.
Point is they climbed it by having a subjugated captive population who were not even allowed to make salt let alone textiles[1]. That population was forced to plant cash crops (primarily cotton) that could then be exported to Britain at fixed prices and sent back as textiles.

There is about 70 years from the start of company rule to the 1830's. If you're not allowed to manufacture textiles in that time period, what exactly do you think would happen? You'd maintain a comparative advantage?

On opium: In India, its cultivation, as well as the manufacture and traffic to China, were subject to the British East India Company (BEIC), as a strict monopoly of the British government.[7]

Opium, like most industries, only benefited the British. So it would be more accurate for you to say the British used the Indians to start exporting opium.

So lets recap. People that mostly export textiles suddenly finds themselves 1) unable to make their own textiles, 2) forced to plant cotton and other crops for sole benefit of the British. So you have a whole civilization barred from selling finished goods. Gee wonder what happens to them.

[1]
Taxation of salt has occurred in India since the earliest times. However, this tax was greatly increased when the British East India Company began to establish its rule over provinces in India. In 1835, special taxes were imposed on Indian salt to facilitate its import. This paid huge dividends for the traders of the British East India Company. When the Crown took over the administration of India from the Company in 1858, the taxes were not replaced.

The stringent salt taxes imposed by the British were vehemently condemned by the Indian public. In 1885, at the first session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, a prominent Congress Leader S.A.Swaminatha Iyer raised the issue of the salt tax.[1] There were further protests throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminating in Mahatma Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha in 1930. This sathyagraha was followed by other sathyagrahas in other parts of the country.

After the arrest of Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu lead the sathyagrahis to Dharasana Salt works in Gujarat and was arrested by the police. C. Rajagopalachari broke the Salt Laws at Vedaranyam, in Madras Province in the same year. Thousands courted arrest and were imprisoned in large numbers. The administration eventually relented and invited Mahatma Gandhi to England to attend the Second Round Table Conference. Gandhi's Dandi March got wide news coverage and proved to be a turning point in the history of India's independence movement.

The salt tax, however, continued to remain in effect and was repealed only when Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister of the Interim Government in 1946.
Millennials are beginning to choose jobbaticals over jobs and bar tips
Whats flabbergasting is that Benedict Evans completely got away even though the things he said were waaaaaaaay more offensive than Andreessen (Using a derogatory phrase and being utterly aware of the context behind it). This kind of ignorance is dangerous coming from kingmakers of the valley
NASA proposes X-plane revival with supersonic, subsonic designs
I didn't know it was common for operating systems to let user-mode code adjust the memory segments and for them to persist those changes between context switches. It seems like a pretty niche feature to have in a 64-bit operating system, though I'm glad it's there. I only recently tried to run a 16-bit program in Wine on a 64-bit machine and I was pleasantly surprised to see it work perfectly.
But you weren't part of the majority of your peers. The generalization is about the majority.