skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the example of exxon, but I'll do my best. So let's say, I don't know, some startup figures out cheaper solar (so in the energy sector, like exxon in a broad sense). They're not going to raise money easily or at all in my personal opinion and experience, and would do very well to get government assistance for their innovations, this being their only source of viable funding. Anybody who doesn't want to fund alternatives to the SV "social network for X" or "Uber for Y" is not just metaphorically "part of the problem" but in fact the definition of the 'problem': the 'problem' is that nobody wants to invest in these startups in these other sectors.

Not in some metaphorical way. You, xyzzy4, and all 8 of my downvoters across my couple of comments here would consider investing in a silicon valley social network but would never consider investing in the above. Just won't happen.

if you want this to change you have to take out your pocketbook and start writing checks. that simple. it's like complaining that mcdonald's doesn't sell vegan hamburgers while buying 7 big macs a week. they don't sell vegan hamburgers because people buy big macs but they don't not buy vegan big macs and then complain to mcdonald's then they can't - and anybody that tried to open a vegan fast food hamburger joint competing with BK, McDonald's, and Wendie's would find that people do not show up, do not take out their cash, and buy a vegan big mac.

It is what it is! Fast food restaurants don't sell vegan hamburgers because people don't buy vegan hamburgers, and startups don't operate outside "social network for X" or "Uber for Y" echo chamber because investors - specifically you, whatever reader you are - don't invest in these things. if you want this to change, take out your pocketbook and write a check.
Worst case you can split up the hosts file into several different files, then use gas mask[1] to toggle them individually.

[1]: https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask
I want some of what you're smoking.
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They obviously meant photons
Amazingly small! It extends halfway to the next star (a lightyear or so) which seems like it would add up to a lot.
Well you could say the same about any privately held company, from the behemoths like Koch Industries to your local mom and pop laundromat [1]. What you describe isn't really limited to tech startups (tm).

[1] Though some laundromat empire can be staggering in scope I imagine.
Not if you consider that a project with more resources can more easily make do with an inherently broken system. It is easier to triage bugs with each additional contributor.
My Linux system runs a 60k+ /etc/hosts files, plus dnsmasq for local resolution. Nice thing about dnsmasq is that it treats domain-level entries as domain-level assignments.

No measurable lag.

I'd used the various blockfiles used by uBlock Origin, as well as some additional entries of my own, de-duplicated. There are some overaggressive entries, I've commented those.

A nice plus: I found the dozen or so hosts/domains associated with autoplay video crap, added them, and have no more bother from that.
A better way to view this is that if libraries are kept small, then you can pick a more granular set of dependencies than say a larger library that includes the kitchen sink.

I agree with most comments here that it's not a good idea to reinvent the wheel everywhere, but when all you want is a wheel, and not the entire car, it's ideal that we have a way to just include the wheel.
> Bilingual data is highly repetitive

That depends on which pairs someone has and which concepts they (re/dis/_cross_)connect to understand something. For instance, Spanish and Portuguese (a common combo, both stemming from Latin) and Hebrew and Arabic (another common combo, both stemming from Semitic languages) provide less cultural variation and thus conceptual synergies than when someone cross-pollinates them.

> (2) And not every concept is useful - (1) what use [is] [grammatical gender]?

(1) It gives a window into how each culture understands a given field and Universe overall, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_classes#Common_criteria_f... . (2) It may get too cold or too hot one day, so changing your houses' windows' degree of openness may help you with your current homeostatic needs... welding them into that place, even if that change makes a huge difference, probably wouldn't work out long term.. A simple stick of a suitable height, or none at all, or perhaps a counter balancing weight, will work much better.

> Add in that fact that as a tool for communication, you won't be able to use you full vocabulary everywhere.

Perhaps it would make sense to prune our English vocabulary. After all, less is more, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If you regularly add new tools to perform previously unforeseen functions in software you use\write, then perhaps your optimizations for these specific features comes at a cost of generally misunderstanding software and information structures\informatic processes. It doesn't necessarily take more to do more.

> In addition, seems like there is an obvious difficulty wrt incompatible grammars.

Luckily we have two hands, so we can easily hold on to two branches (as long as we have them within reach). Even if one bears one kind of fruit and another a different one, simply remember how to swing back and forth and you can get fat and happy with your varied sets of friends and fruits. :D

> There's nothing preventing you expanding you current vocabulary in your native language (jargon) - why do you need to learn a new language?

C'est si bon

Lovers say that in France

... http://artists.letssingit.com/louis-armstrong-lyrics-cest-si...
£113,180 > US$164,000

It had better be astonishing.
Well... "more or less" has a pretty large variance. My mother rents a 2 bedroom duplex in Idaho for like $500/month. In the Bay Area I could probably rent a tent in my backyard for $500/month. A person making $150k/yr where she lives in Idaho is going to be far better off than a person making $250k/yr in the Bay Area.
This just doesn't mean anything to us given that these issues have been talked about for much, much, much longer than a single month. Why is a random GitHubber telling us this and not someone in a more authoritative position? It seems painfully obvious to tell people you're working on it, and I think it's perfectly reasonable to worry when you hear literally /nothing/.
E = h*nu
The point you make is an important one...as the article points out, we knew bacteria moved toward light for years...now we know how...

As humans we imagine that we're very efficient processors, and we are...but, much of the time we're very likely just on on "auto-pilot", responding to stimuli...with all the senses...

Example: Say you're driving down the road, feel hungry, and catch a glimpse of Golden Arches ahead...without very much processing at all you pull into a McDonalds and order a meal...birds in the McDonalds parking lot flit around constantly under cars, checking for bits of French fries dropped or discarded...there's not a lot of difference between us and the birds...we're both responding to stimuli in our environment...without much deep thought at all...it keeps us alive...

One of my favorite quotes is one from "The Judge", a character from Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian...it puts our existence into a unique perspective:

>“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."<
No Rust production program will ever transitively depend on a library with a 6502 assembler written in the macro language.
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I've tried Googling but I haven't been able to figure it out. I've seen it used exclusively by hacker-types and have always wondered what it was about.
I've heard bananas contain a natural source of beta blockers.
When I was younger, I loved physics because it bridged the gap between pure maths ("when are we ever going to need this stuff?") and the physical world. I didn't pursue it beyond high school

Now, as a full-time software engineer and part time jack of all trades, I appreciate stuff like this experiment and the work of Space X and others much as I appreciate good engineering. It's a difficult problem to solve. So many disciplines had to cooperate to grant us some small insight into the inner workings of our universe. It's marvelous, and makes me feel like a kid again.
Looks like your run of the mill edge detection filter lol
The buyers conduct inspections, supply photos and place bids at the request of the broker. I pay the broker for their contact with professional buyers and their knowledge of the imports process (ie, paperwork, shipping contacts, etc).

I never had any contact with the buyers themselves - they may not actually speak english.

If I had to guess, I would say the buyers work for many different brokers.
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You can pay for a basic license of OpenDNS and "null route" (to a block page) ads at the device / network level. Those preferences get synced to anycasted DNS resolvers and performance hits are negligible.

Some ideas here, but it's pretty straightforward and functions just like their adult content blockers: http://iradar.blogspot.com/2011/07/useful-free-tool-use-open...
I've been using this method for months if not years. I haven't noticed anything unusual about browsing speed, except that it's increased due to less ads.
Compared to the overhead of a network request, the overhead of going to though even 1000 items doesn't seem that much to me.
> quantum theory does not make the same predictions as classical theory when it comes to classical experiments (mechanics, basic EM phenomena)

Yes, it does. Do you know how the classical limit of quantum theory works? That limit is what allows us to use classical physics in the domain where it works. If that limit didn't work, we would have a serious problem with consistency.

> It only gives probabilities of results of specified experiments of certain kinds; it does not reproduce the old predictions (like definite trajectories, Moon phases or solar eclipses)

Are you aware that all of those "old predictions" can indeed be derived from quantum theory, using the classical limit I described above? The reason that works is that, in the classical limit, quantum theory predicts a probability of 1 for one result--the classical result.

> It is natural to expect of any new theory to bring new results, but demanding that it reproduces all the old ones along is too much.

You appear to have a mistaken understanding of how new theories get accepted. New theories that don't reproduce all of the predictions of the theory they replace, in the domains where the old theory is verified by experiment, are not accepted. If general relativity had not reproduced all of the predictions of Newtonian gravity in the weak field, slow motion limit, it would not have been accepted. And if quantum theory had not reproduced all of the predictions of classical physics in the classical limit, it would not have been accepted.
I highly doubt it. I use AdAway for Android, and my current (/system)/etc/hosts file is 58626 lines with no noticeable lag on my Nexus 7 2012 and my Nexus 9.

I would assume local IO would usually beat network IO.
Thanks for explaining that further!
The phrase is a meme that comes from an actual (repeated) quote. In the context of that original quote there have been plenty of people who have commented on its grammatical errancy, but in the context of the meme it perhaps would make less sense if you fixed it.
It's really funny. People say Buzzfeed? And I'm like, who do you think is making money right now, our national newspaper or Buzzfeed? Who do you think is hiring instead of being forced to let go of high quality journalists, our national newspaper or Buzzfeed?

Look beyond the brand and into the details and the journalist. Buzzfeed News is legit. Unlike a lot of media sources, they've found a way to be profitable and output quality articles.
It's a lot more common than you think. Look for companies that have a partner or reseller programs, often times white labeling is an option.

A couple of examples:

[1] Dell - https://partnerdirect.dell.com/sites/channel/en-us/documents...

[2] Rackspace - https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/email-resellers

[3] IBM https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35592.wss

If you are interested in finding more companies that white label, check out CRN.com - http://www.crn.com/search-results?searchterm=%22white+label%...
An if statement and a database query?
See, the thing is what if a website is broken due to host files, you can't easily re-enable ads for just this one website you need.

A situation we can all imagine ourselves in: You need to check the google analytics for your website/company site. You can't because it's blocked at Host level.

What solution would there be for this use case?
This information is in fact public record unless you have a FERPA opt-out in effect.
Some of these map the domains to 127.0.0.1 which is wrong. It should be 0.0.0.0.

On second thought, you shouldn't be using the hosts file for this at all.
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That would make us hiveminds.
Github has been aware of the gripes for a long time. The "Dear GitHub" letter came after many months of trying to get GitHub to respond through other channels.

The "6 months" timer doesn't reset every time you ask.

If GitHub wanted to do something, it shouldn't have required the "Dear GitHub" letter, and once it got to that they should have responded promptly. That they haven't ever responded official (to my knowledge) is a sign that they have no interest in dealing with the issues.
FWIW my company had a terrible, terrible experience with Zenefits and ditched them after less than a year. Incompetent customer service, crappy software (one problem we had was a result of a corrupted database record, according to one of their reps, that had to be manually corrected by a developer), no one seemed to know what they were doing. As a founder I told their reps multiple times that we were a startup too -- ostensibly their target market -- and that we were willing to work through some problems with them, but they didn't seem to care and frankly just kept fucking up. Once we hit 5 people we switched to TriNet and have gotten great service AND we're saving tons on the insurance side, even accounting for TriNet's monthly per-employee fee.

Generally I avoid rooting for others to fail, but I can't help but feel just a teeny bit of schadenfreude with this recent news. For the last couple years I've been rolling my eyes with each new piece of breathless coverage. The Zenefits people are talking about now sounds a lot more like the one I experienced dealing with.
Isn't it more a reflex than an interpretation at that level of complexity. I understand your point, the bacteria reacts to a piece of information. But the mapping is so direct .. it's like hairs on cockroach legs, it 'means' nothing to the insect, if someone stimulates it, it runs away, even though it wasn't a threat.
Please elucidate us then, with data, as to what that broader system is and how patio11 (who gave some pretty compelling numbers) was wrong.
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I just moved to Singapore from Australia, I suppose it really depends on the company. I was fortunate enough that the company adopts a `Western` work culture.

I work 9-6 with 1 hour of lunch. Very rarely people stay back more than 6:30 PM. Being a startup, it's flat hierarchy, but for the majority of the companies here they are based on deep hierarchy (which can be very frustrating to get things moving).

In regards with healthcare, the company pays for my cover but I had to pay out-of-pocket to cover my family members / dependents.

You'll be fine here without a car. The transport infrastructure is good, taxi is comparatively cheap, and Uber is quite established here.

Also it's very expensive here to buy and maintain a car:

- There's an ownership certificate(?) that you need to purchase via blind auction in order to own a car (runs in the $10,000s so I've heard)

- Cars are taxed pretty heavily here, so expect to pay 2-3x for what you pay in Europe

- Cars registration gets more expensive the older your car is
"do these waves behave like ripples in water, so a single event generates multiple repetitive, concentric waves permeating through space?"

No they don't. There is a law known as [Huygens' principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_princi...) which says that when a disturbance at a particular point creates a wave, that wave only propagates on an outwards-expanding sphere that is centered at that point of disturbance, and does not produce any effect on the interior of that sphere. This was originally formulated for light waves, but it also holds for other kinds of waves, such as sound waves or, in this case, gravitational waves. What this means is that when you look at something that's far away you see a sharp image of exactly what happened there a short time ago (the time it had taken the light to reach you), whereas if the principle did not hold, each light source would have a small "echo" after it which would blur the image.

However, one of the reasons Huygens' principle holds is that the waves are propagating over three dimensions. In contrast, water waves only propagate over two dimensions, so Huygens' principle fails. That is why ripples continue to emanate from a spot even long after the disturbance there is over. More generally, Huygens' principle holds whenever the number of dimensions is odd and fails whenever the number of dimensions is even.

[Note: I may be wrong on why Huygens' principle fails for water waves. Water waves are actually pretty complicated compared to other kinds of waves and I am not knowledgeable in all the subtleties.]
These things work, but ultimately never turn out to be more cost-effective than sealing your house up better and adding more insulation. You will only see them in high-end commercial construction. The technical term for it is zone heating and cooling, although what is described in that paper is a little smarter than what is typically done.
Agreed, but I can empathize with his frustration of having something important and powerful to say, and the words just not flowing.
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She could have been nervous and wanted to impress you. A girl who does not like is not likely to spend time trying to outdo you, she'll just fake some reason to leave.
toy model:

I, the spaceship, would like to accelerate through space. I take up some fuel and hurl it in the opposite direction, which requires me to apply force to the fuel I'm ejecting. It goes off into space at some rate determined by the impulse I applied and the mass of fuel I applied it to.

Newton's third law means that when I hurl the fuel, it applies a symmetrical impulse to me, accelerating me in the opposite direction.

In this model, the acceleration I get from the fuel doesn't depend in any way on the mass of the fuel I eject, only on the force I apply to it. What's wrong with the model?
I'd be waiting for the "Cherry Trail" Intel Compute Sticks in that case.

I've got a Baytrail-T version and it runs hot and slow, and is probably not really suppported by anyone any more - it's http://www.amazon.com/MeeGoPad-T01-Microsoft-Windows-Stick/d... if you're wondering.
And even if you live in SV, which I do, I still don't the no it would change much. That's the other data I'd love to see...how much of the SV economy comes from startups totally reliant on VC money?

My guess is not much at all. They almost certainly don't have enough total employees to dent the housing market because there is still huge demand to live here for other demographics, and the broader economy has many other healthy businesses that wouldn't even notice if all the VC money disappeared overnight.

People think the VC ecosystem is larger, and has a greater impact than it actually does.
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Thanks ... it's really bad practice from news articles to not link to the actual study or cite it. "Scientists found ... " yeah at least they mention the author and the journal.
In some implementations of markdown underscores italicize the word(s) they surround. On HN this is achieved with asterisks.
More like webtorrent[1]

I haven't actually kept up to date recently on the project, but the ML is super active. I believe they now have a working localforage backend to store torrents - the implementation already works flawlessly, and there is a hybrid client in the same node package family that can seed the same files to both webtorrent cleints and traditional UDP clients.

But it is extensionless and seamless and just uses webrtc data channels and websockets.

[1]:https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
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I was testifying before Congress once and I started to get a little nervous. Then I realized that I knew more about the issue than any of the Members of Congress and all of their staffers. Then I became much more calm because even if they wanted to argue, I knew I could hold my own.
If it plays the same songs, you need to remove your Thumbs Ups and add them as Song Seeds. Too many Thumbs Downs are also a problem. However I think their recommendation engine has slowly declined over the years (either that or I already discovered all the recommendations relevant to my favorites).
Can you explain the reasoning behind using 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1? Genuinely interested.
Just curious - since you switched the URL, why did you credit this version instead of the one I submitted about an hour earlier? My submission was even referenced in a thread you'd replied to.
Basically it's slower if you use 127 because it actually checks if something is running (example a server or whatever). 0.0.0.0 means explicitly "there is zilch, nip, nada". It's a little bit faster.
Didn't mean to imply it was impossible to care/have awareness to care at a young age, just that it is rare.
I can partly understand your points. I actually hated the "traditions" like Just Another Perl Hacker because it strongly gives an illusion of Perl as an obfuscated language.

My corresponding counterpoint is that you can write an obfuscated code in any language, no exception---probably a side-effect of Turing-completeness. If people has a general dislike towards too much magic and magic can be replaced with science^W saner alternatives there is no problem. The problem arises when you have to rely on magic for the certain class of tasks; it's no doubt that C++ (even the modern one) has this problem, but I think it is too early to claim that Rust has the same symptom.
Its in the repo's readme: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts#why-use-0000-instead-of...
You don't really need 100% uptime trackers, DHT lets you do peer to peer file discovery. There are trackerless torrents, the only problem being how you get the torrents in the first place, but all that takes is a magnet URI from the original uploader / creator somewhere.
Since the LISA has longer baselines, it measures gravitational waves of different frequencies, from different phenomena--supermassive black hole coalescence, not these (mere!) stellar mass black holes. So the experiments are complimentary
It's surprising just how silent GitHub is on these issues. Most of their engineers probably read Hacker News, yet none of them respond.
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