skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe there is space (as in: market space) for user controlled advertising? :

Publisher gets a cut, for providing a place for the ad, having made the consumer come to it, and also for providing information on the consumer's interests. This is the current situation.

But the consumer would get a cut too. For renting his pixels, his CPU, his internet connection, his eyes, his brain. He would get to veto types of ads he dislikes. He would get to say he only wants 30% of ads to be displayed (and let the crowd define these 30%). He could partitipate in surveys, share his buyings lists, share events of his life (ex moving to a new city), in exchange for better revenue, or deals.

This (tiny) revenue really could help bootstrap microtransaction. On top of that, if the NYT can benefit from the microtransactions, the NYT will talk of such a program. Adoption could be boosted by all the news outlets.

Would participate as a consumer? Do you think publisher, advertisers, announcers would participate too?
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PSA: Beware of low rate limits in letsencrypt
Is it possible to do the back end connection to S3 securely instead of over insecure HTTP?
In this case, the corporation is the threat, and corporate statism is probably the worst possible end game.

The state isn't really the problem, though -- centralization of authority is. The DoJ issue is basically moot; this is a lawful request made under public scrutiny and judicial review.

Whereas Apple could just change their business priorities at any point, and never even has to tell us.
As far as platform support goes:

- Oculus Home works with the Rift.

- SteamVR works with the Rift and Vive.

It gets a little trickier with which games support which types of controllers though.
We definitely took some inspiration from projects like synapse.

However, Finagle, the core tech behind linkerd, provides some extremely powerful tools to do things like:

- per-request routing to support things like "when I browse the site, use the staging version of the users service and production versions of all other services". (https://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/Names.html#interpret...)

- request cancellation, so that when a user request timeouts downstream work can be reclaimed

- budget-based timeout management (https://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/Servers.html#request...)

- circuit breaking (https://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/Clients.html#failure...)

- etc, etc.

We think that offering these sorts of features in a sidecar model will be extremely powerful.
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Human nature tells me that this will happen in crowded cities no one is going to want to pay though the nose for the limited car parking avaible.

Exactly how are dense and expensive Citys like London and SF going to build those "Huge automatic multi-story parking lots".
oh boy...this is going to turn into a well informed, articulate, and unbiased argument on all sides. I am sure of that.
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Is there any library/framework that helps build p2p things? That could help the ecosystem the same way web frameworks have helped build websites faster and more secure than ever.
For security: this should be combined with something like CertCoin. HTTPS is Evil™ 8)
Which doesn't really indicate what battery life is going to be like.
A cap like that might not fit.
Seivan, thanks. Yes, Rails "Omakase" is driving Swifton development.

I'm not sure that protocols will help here, because Swifton supports before/after filter. Could you explain more your idea about how protocols could help here to implement actions with filters?
I think the difference here is that craigslist did not employ the serial killers
A good movie about the insanity of the trench warfare and some of the French commanders of WWI is Paths of Glory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paths_of_Glory.
For interest's sake, what's the latest VR HMD you've tried?
FWIW I should probably have reread what I wrote since I guess it comes off as making fun of him for playing around with a bluetooth button. Oh well live and learn.

I was making more of a joke about the fact that he bought $40 lifx bulbs that require you to update the firmware for them for the privilege of shutting your lights on and off. I think author of the post would agree that that is also utter tosh, regardless of the use he gets out of it.
They don't need a backdoor. They take your phone and demand the key. If you don't give it you will never see your phone again. Do you think they just thumb through your emails or, being a government institution, plug it in and dump off everything on the phone while possibly installing a small app to help achieve that goal. It's not a conspiracy theory. They actually take physical control of your unlocked phone with the intent to search all of its data. The only question is do they do this electronically and are there any lasting effects on the device such as a leftover app they might have installed.
My "is it worth even thinking about a particular device" litmus test is "can it run CM". Unfortunately that's impossible to tell for future devices, most of the time.
Do any private insurers offer packages which permit the use of the vehicle as a taxi?

Does Uber check that their drivers have such insurance?
at first glance it seems to be missing a write barrier to catch new references from old gen to new gen, which is a very important part of any generational collector
Linux Mint forum database compromised, all users urged to change passwords
gets advertisers to agree to let website self-host ads, with access to click rates, etc

spins up new server

setups ad service

spend couple days fidgeting with open source ad software

ads deploy to subdomain ads.domain.com

people start blocking ads.domain.com, assuming ads.<>.com wasn't already in your blocklist

redeploys ads into domain.com/DEFINITELY_NOT_ADS

people start blocking that URL

its basically a cat and mouse game. most people don't have time for that.

if you have a small client base though you can probably get away with selling a promo on a per month basis.
The inverted tracking and placing the two in opposite corners does though. Going under one and facing away from the other will probably break the tracking but otherwise there's enough swept by either lighthouse to keep tracking.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-valve-s-amazing-lighthouse-tr...
I liked this one more: "Why you shouldn’t trust successful people’s advice" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116902
Only because they force the driver to eat the loss (Or pay him with VC money).

If there is no guarantee of a fare back, this kind of pricing is not sustainable long-term.
but that convenience will surely backfire if the included headsets are not super-ultra-hi-def-audiophile-yada-yada
As a father of 3 I even wrote an article about ageism in this industry and especially the so called startup culture. Why are you downvoting me?
It could be possible to add on via the modular slide out thing though
Not really. The concept is definitely interesting, but it will fail with the consumer masses.

What is really needed is a concept for micro-transactions - transactions that may even go down to fractions of a cent!

If you're a newspaper and you're trying to sell an article (e.g.) for 20 cents, it's not possible unless you use Bitcoin, and even then it's a hassle.

Adblock Plus might actually be in the position to introduce a platform for this - in contrast to Flattr, they have a huge userbase, a massive number of clients for their opt-out scheme... I'd gladly put, say, 10-20€ a month on my Adblock account, and enjoy a web free of paywalls, advertising, malvertising, video eating off my mobile data...
>I think if all the documents are ever declassified it will be a case study in the breakdown of communications in a large organization.

I have always been curious about this as an organizational phenomenon. What percentage of documents are classified for actual security reasons as opposed to things like embarrassing the country or allies, covering up misconduct or outright illegal conduct, or just as the default reaction. Study would be impossible/impractical even with access, but it sure would be interesting.
>Do you believe there is space (as in: market space) for user controlled advertising?

Aka permission-based marketing. Most common examples being email and SMS subscriptions. Most studies of marketers actually conclude that email marketing is their most effective tactic.

Don't overthink it.
Why not "driver kills six"? I'm not an Uber user or fanboy, just curious.
Reminds me of my stepdad who always had to show of with bis fact knowledge. He even would tell some BS just to be right.

Now we can simply look it up and be done with it.
> "a": <utf8 http url of an image to render as your avatar>,

HTTP, again ? Ah, if only there was a decentralized way to exchange content without the need for any central authority, all while being sure of the authenticity.
Anecdotally, none of my co-workers use Lyft in Seattle because "There's always an Uber 2 minutes away."

The network lock-in is quite real - if you can't get a critical mass of cars on the road, you can't get customers, and you can't get a critical mass of cars on the road without having customers paying fares.

What can really hurt Uber is unionization of their drivers - since nothing stops them from collectively switching to a competing service.
This one is deep in the uncanny valley. The definitions feel like an ml trained thing trying too hard, lack the spark of just-so humor. I'll take "felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature" over this any day.
Contacting the mothership doesn't help. The way it works is that an ad network loaded by site A sets a cookie with a new random ID. When you go to site B with the same ad network, since the ads are served from the same domain (the ad network's), it can read the cookie with the ID and link the two website visits.

If ads came from the sites own domains, this wouldn't work.
I think like the police in UK once a FBI officer gets experienced in computer security the leave for the better paid private sector.
To further elaborate: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-valve-s-amazing-lighthouse-tr...

The exact design may have changed but the dual sweep is probably the same.
Presumably, this guy passed the same cookie cutter background check that any employer, including a traditional taxi company, would have used.
This is awesome and exactly what I want sometimes when trying to figure out if a restaurant is in a good area, how parking might be near a destination, or if an apt I'm thinking of renting is in a good area. Its possible to do in StreetView but clicking on the arrows is just a pain. This is much nicer.
I think the author is right about cars being next. There is a lot of work by a lot of people in this area, and one of them is going to get it very right (my personal bet is on Tesla or Apple).
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There aren't much details available, but it seems that the driver appeared to be a pretty "normal" family man. If the criminal background/etc didn't turn anything up, then why would there be a significantly higher bar for Uber compared to a typical cab company.

I'm no über fanboy, but this certainly looks like a piece trying to stick it to Uber and generating negative PR which could scare future users from using uber. Bring out the pitchforks!
This is why I give thanks for noscript.

The web is so much more pleasant without.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121664
As a side note, do any native Mandarin speakers have a good understanding of why app is usually spelled and pronounced as if it were an acronym (A.P.P.) instead of an abbreviation? Have been wondering about this for months, and the Quora thread on it is a little unsatisfactory: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Chinese-people-in-China-pr...
Liechtenstein barely qualifies as a town, much less a nation. It has less than 40k people, and it's economy mainly consists of international tax evasion.
Show HN: WaterFlow – JDK8 simple SWF framework
https://github.com/fzakaria/WaterFlow

Frustrated with AWS Flow that is a pain to setup on
maven & IDEA, this is a new take on a framework heavily inspired by https://bitbucket.org/clarioanalytics/services-swift

It adds JDK8 asynchronous interfaces to make writing distributed workflows pain free.
There is something really ironic about going to a dedicated VR facility.

Dont get me wrong, I'd love to check a place like that out. But if this is the era of mainstream VR, you'll never have to leave the house to jack in.
Nothing new, for pianists have known this for ages. With difficult bits they ring the changes with rhythms and keys. Most students work through the Hanon Studies, written in C major, in all keys.
I could definitely use one.

Thanks in any case!
Conditional aggregates were a problem until 1.8 or 1.9. Joins on more that one field would be another.
> There are a number of incredibly promising features here. Visualizing code graphs could be incredibly helpful

Excited overuse of the word "incredibly", just like the author of the featured article.

> make it seem like joy to use.

Missing article, just like the author of the featured article. Interesting ;-) (OK, this one happens to a lot of people who come from a Russian background, for example.) If you are involved with this, I'm sure people would be interested to know! Maybe you could answer some questions...
Not all Vive games have to support room-scale games, it works for sitting down/cockpit games just as well.

Beyond that, I really do think that the front camera (supporting AR to a degree, and being able to grab a drink or use a keyboard) and bluetooth/phone integration (immersion, collaboration) are the biggest technological advantages the Vive has. Recently game devs have been gushing over it, but when it comes to gamers typically the price really is the deciding factor regarding hardware adoption.
Taxi driver kills 12:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gun-rampage-taxi-...
Of course they would prefer it, if there were no trade-offs. But as you point out it's not currently sensible.
> That solution was written and reviewed by two former core devs (including the former lead of the project) so I believe it is a high quality option.

I assume this is a reference to Satoshi. If this is such a big deal, why not pony out Satoshi to share his opinion?
That does not compute. The US is already the most expensive place to move employees even with H1B scams factored in, so if employers were price sensitive they would just hire those people in Bangalore, Dublin, and Vancouver right now. What motivates employers is the use of presence in the US as a perk as people badly want to get out of those other places. Individual managers also like H1B because it gives them a high level of power and control over those individuals.
Thinking about side effects is only a part of the issue. E.g. I use immutable classes with builders in Java almost dogmatically.

Run-time cost thinking is something that is never brought up when FP is contrasted to other forms.

For example, in CLRS when you look at run-time of a function with loops, it's really really easy to just look for the loops.

But with FP... people like recursion. Solving recurrence relations is Hard Work (tm).
I just thought it was somewhat sour grapes that the USA didn't get the World Cup and worst of all Russia got it. Since powerful people were involved in the US and UK bids and I hazard a guess that they were pretty passed off at losing to a bunch of fat bribes.

Whatever the reasons, I'm really glad they are hunting this lot down and trying to clean up football.
ipfs just released their beta which includes a golang library for interacting with their DHT/p2p network
Does anyone have a start-to-finish recap of this whole debate? It's difficult to understand for people without the adequate context.
April Fools RFCs get tagged as 'informational', not 'standards track'. This is in the latter category.
Yeah, they could have distributed via BT, but that's just an alpha and it's "just" the avatar, the actual tweet contents matter a bit more.
That could be a quite convincing argument to present to advertisers. Honestly grabbed attention would transform better.
It can be as simple as checking out the orpsoc repo: http://opencores.org/or1k/ORCONF2013_Workshop_ORPSoC_On_DE0_...
Also, "later" instead of "latter" in their press release.
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> I might suspect that they were intentionally impeding the progress of the Web, sabotaging all of us while putting on a great show

You think they aren't capable of that? Isn't it the same thing they are doing now with not supporting Vulkan and sabotaging open graphics API by pushing their lock-in Metal instead?
quit whining, you nerds. this is how a country with any form of patent system works. either start making real arrows and fix it, or tuck your little gurldik back between your pale thighs and go back to rolling your D20.
What does Uber have to do with the story, other than to demonize the company?

Was the suspect also a "milk drinker", and if so, why not put that into the story as well?
I have just spent a little (too much) time playing with this.

How are you meant to implement the reverse function without a helper function? I tried defining an anonymous lambda function in a let statement, but recursion isn't allowed it seems. And interesting project though! well done
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How is delivering 30kb javascript file instead of 1kb CSS file reducing load?
CSS is static, just put it in a static file! Bam! Load reduced!
Are you saying that the employers of all murderers, rapists, etc are responsible for looking into the future and determining whether or not an employee will do something illegal?
The Al-Qaeda connection isn't the only reason people perceive Saudi Arabia as exporting extremism. When Saudi Arabia starts treating all its people in a humane way, maybe we'll revisit this argument, but while women are enslaved and people are tortured and killed based on religious nonsense (amongst the many atrocities committed there), you cannot claim that Saudi Arabia is moderate. That's insane and frankly, it shows you have no idea what moderate even means in this context. If state condoned slavery, murder, rape, and torture are your idea of moderate, then it's time to crack open a dictionary and work on your language comprehension.
Michigan Shooting Suspect Was an Uber Driver Between Shootings
I've just recently wrote a post on the subject:

https://medium.com/@rayalez/somebody-should-create-a-youtube...

tl;dr - I think that youtube red model would work really well for this.
Your employment contract or a related document you've executed may include a post-employment restraint/non-compete. These vary a lot by level of the position and type of work. They are difficult/expensive to enforce and are open to interpretation about "reasonableness". These are generally the former employer's best means to prevent you from immediately reproducing something. However they also can't prevent you from working in your profession and using what you've learned as a professional.
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It matters that he was an Uber the same way it matters what political party a politician is in when they break the law, or that a person is a preacher when they break the law. There's a narrative, and journalists more often than not emphasize elements of a story that support the narrative.

Narrative being that despite background checks, Uber will let anyone drive for them regardless of safety concerns. Obviously illogical, but I know I've run into some real freaks when Ubering.
> “The head of Nefertiti represents all the other millions of stolen and looted artifacts all over the world currently happening, for example, in Syria, Iraq, and in Egypt,” Al-Badri said. “Archaeological artifacts as a cultural memory originate for the most part from the Global South; however, a vast number of important objects can be found in Western museums and private collections. We should face the fact that the colonial structures continue to exist today and still produce their inherent symbolic struggles.”

I am always amazed by people's ability to choose the worst possible examples or context for whatever point they're trying to make. Syria and Iraq are currently undergoing unprecedented destruction of archeological heritage, perpetrated entirely by people from the "Global South", fighting for (their part of) the "Global South"'s resurgence against the evil West. I always wanted to visit Syria; now I can only wish that more of its monuments and artifacts had been taken abroad, so that they could be saved.
HTTP is easy and well supported. Why not mix centralized solutions with decentralized ones? The important part is that you can edit your tweet with different URLs if they go down.
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Every time I start using a d3 library I get stuck and end up rewriting with my own code, without stuff that I don't even need, and with all the particulars that I want. Even in react. But, I often search for examples, so thanks for sharing :)
Without an equally elegant/powerful test framework, this is just child's play.

If the concept allows, as some have mentioned, to let non-programmers make changes, then a fully-integrated test framework is absolutely required.

Other questions come to mind:

- How are global 'variables' (config, settings, etc.) represented? As more lines, or traditional named variables?

- Although the Category Oriented Programming seems compelling, I'm not seeing how this visual world will address concurrency in any meaningful way (maybe I'm missing something) - although the profiler is nice.

- Visual programming is also extremely messy when dealing with exceptions: not sure how that is addressed here - again more lines?

Before long you end up with spaghetti... but perhaps they've solved that via views / layers or something.

I highly applaud this effort, but it needs to address the complexities of software development /on the development side/... or it won't get much use by professional developers.
It's very impressive as an AI demo. While it's far from perfect, it seems to have a much better grasp of English than previous examples I have seen. It's picking up on small subtleties, it's grammar and spelling are decent, and it's even remembering long strings of arbitrary characters. Which a difficult task for RNNs, which have to learn many "memory cells" from scratch using millions of floating point ops. And it's doing all that with an insect sized brain.

I don't know why this is. Perhaps training on dictionaries is a really good way to teach NN's about English. Who would have guessed?
You mock and make fun of me, but my ideas are firmly based in scientific evidence. And you never answered my question: why do you think mammal based life is worth more than plant based life?

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-int...

http://www.dw.com/en/when-plants-say-ouch/a-510552-1

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden...
According to the article, his role as an Uber driver had absolutely nothing to do with this shooting. He didn't shoot his Uber passengers, or utilize the service to find victims. He was a psychopath driving around and shooting people at random places.

This kind of headline is clearly irresponsible. In fact it's so outrageously irresponsible that I wouldn't be surprised if a CNN executive is an investor in a competing service. There is no reason to even mention what he did for a living, especially in the headline, except for fearmongering purposes.