skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? There are loads of short exits. And in rush hour you need every space you can get. Here's an example:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5096714,-2.515484,3a,75y,1...

Now imagine you're in a continuous stream of rush-hour traffic and there are 10 contiguous lorries in the way. Actually even the existing lorries have to pull out into the middle lane there.
Typically the index only returns an abstract, not the whole article, yes, you could invert the index on a word-by-word basis and reconstitute some or all of the articles but that is not the interface that is exposed to the outside world and that was definitely not what this lawsuit was about.

The statement that 'google was founded on a gray legal area' holds absolutely no water for me.
Your apparent inability to understand how someone could be motivated by anything other than profit and fame I find more than a little disturbing.
It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning
Trip report: C++ meeting at Jacksonville
Need Help to Recall CSS in JavaScript – Dec***
It was posted in HN and can't recall the name of the CSS framework in Javascript. What that call?
Would you like some polonium tea?
Let's not underestimate how many startups do things to keep afloat that are black-and-white illegal. I've been ordered to do something illegal to help keep the company afloat. It's tremendously upsetting for me but was treated with enough nonchalance by the CEO / founders that I cannot help but think "Don't break the law" is advice the startup community is DESPERATELY in need of.
Why would a TBM need to be nuclear? That makes zero sense.
Soda's reputation is insanely bad. I still have multiple family members in their 80s and 90s who drink it regularly. I also have elderly relatives who smoke, but their health is pretty much wreaked whereas the soda drinkers seem pretty much okay given their age.

Similarly the very most productive software engineer I've ever worked with practically lived off of diet coke, just as John Carmack did while doing amazing things at Id. Similarly, plenty of olympic athletes drink soda, including one who was a second degree connection of mine in high school and who later won multiple gold medals.

None of this means soda is healthy, but if it were "insanely bad for you", then it simply wouldn't be possible people to consume it heavily and still be top performers or live into their 90s with decent health.
TV ads, especially in US, are far beyond unacceptable. I don't watch TV channels that have advertising in them (self-advertising excluded, obviously).
That's not a counter argument - cheap products exist because there is a market for it (whether the market demographic is rich or poor, it doesn't matter). It still hinges on the exchange of money to decide what should be produced. It's far from perfect, but it does seem to have a blurry correlation with what humanity needs (in my opinion).
Starting to think HN is full of sock puppets. Here's a downside, robots don't care about killing the population that paid to create them. Basically, every single claim you're making is false or is easily spun to be a negative.
In London the argument for companies being in zone 1 is that meeting with people from other companies is easier. So for the few who have external meetings the entire company has to drag itself every morning and evening through the overcrowded, unpleasant London underground, arriving at work late, flustered, or miserable. What a way to start the day. If the companies moved only slightly out of centre, zones 2 or 3, the majority would be happier, and the few who meet outside would have a 10 or 15 minute, relatively pleasant, tube ride to get to a meeting.
Robots do not act cruelly unless specifically instructed.

I agree that in theory, killbots fighting killbots could lead to very clean wars. The problem is that the least powerful party will quickly resort to 'kill and torture as many civilians as possible' as a means of revenge, psychological warfare, terrorism, etc.

The ethics of robots will be the ethics of humans. More powerful and effective killing machines will amplify the behavior of immoral humans.
But Adblock is free. Wouldn't a simple donate button be just as effective?
The purpose of the signature is to establish legal solemnity, not identity or authority. It's why you can sign with just an X, and why really important contracts still need to notarized (which does establish identity).
If there's no other legal way, they will pay for content.
This is inevitable.

Remote controlled drones are prone to jamming, hacking and human factor.

Whoever deploys autonomous warfare systems first will have an advantage in battlespace.
Humans are not much better than robots at disobeying orders, as demonstrated in the Milgram experiments.
There are acceptable advertisements as far as I'm concerned. Ones that are static and register the user in any way (including cookies) and don't get in the way of content consumption.

It's been a while since I've seen ads like that.
Yes to apt-file, and 'apropos' seems to fit in there too (searches for keywords in package descriptions).
Unrelated to my sibling reply

I don't accept your dismissal about conflation. If the tx-validation is centralized, the distribution and intentions of the actual users makes little difference to the potential for misappropriation of the network behaviour
There needs to be some sort of combination between subscriptions and "pay as you go." I pay for The Washington Post, since I tend to read it almost every day. I won't pay $4/month for Wired, since I'm not a regular reader. I'd pay say 50 cents an article, though, if that were an option. That goes for The Economist, Scientific American, and a number of other sites.
CheckMyHTTPS
https://checkmyhttps.net
Check if your ciphered WEB traffic is intercepted.
We propose an user-friendly addon that allows you to check if your encrypted web traffic (SSL/TLS) towards secured Internet servers (HTTPS) is not intercepted (being listened to).
Because any technological advance is going to be countered. Then at some point, we have drones killing drones.

Currently military numbers are limited by manpower. And military units (like let's tanks) are to some degree limited by money. You don't want to pour too much money on single tank, because you then put all your eggs on few baskets. And you also don't want to put significant part of your troops in badly armored tanks with food firepower, because then you will run out of tankers in no time. Currently the "good balance" is 10 000 M1A2 Abrams that cost 6,2 million dollars a piece. Those would need 40 000 tankers, which is tolerable amount of crew. Training them is costing and going to cost lots of money. Combined price of the thing is 62 billion dollars or tax payer money, distributed to several decades. Increasing the price of tank to 10 million would be stupid, as it's still vulnerable to certain dangers, but you now lose 4 million more in single blast.

Now let's imagine full autonomous tank fleet of M1A9 Abrams somewhere around year 2050. You are no longer limited by tankers. You are only limited by price. But as you lack crew, you need less armor. Lets say we have unit price of 4 million dollars. Now 10 000 units is only 40 billion and zero tankers.

Then Russia makes autonomous tank "T17 Kursk" and produces 15 000 of them to sell to China. (Or something else, I'm not fiction writer.) They are bit crap, but as trained tankmen are not required, they can easily produce higher numbers to compete with U.S.

But U.S. is not happy with second place. So U.S. gets another 10 000 Abrams.

But China is not giving up, they order another 15 000 Kursk.

And on and on. Until tax percentages of both China and U.S. reach 70% and all of it is poured to "defense". China, India, Brazil and Russia are all likely to beat U.S. in economic growth rate in the future, because it's easier if you start from the bottom. And they are all geopolitically ambitious. We are headed towards multipolar world and that means arms races again.

TL;DR: Autonomous killing robots remove limitations of arms race. This is "destabilizing" and draining.
> Lots of people say that if we all start blocking ads, then lots of content will go away. I'm perfectly fine with that

I don't think people (hackernews users) really have thought about how much innovation on the internet is directly and indirectly related to ads

Both excellent arguments.
Tried to find the creators that have joined, but found no listing, did I miss it or is there none?
I've been online since 1994, and that's not how I remember it.

There was plenty of amateur content put up for fun before the ad explosion. There were search engines for the content. And there was a lot of academic and technical information.

Then the business types moved and tried to turn the entire web into a strip mall. To some extent they succeeded. Twitchy pointless banners invaded a lot of pages.

To a large extent they failed, because the purveyors of twitchy little banners pretended they have the same user impact as print and TV advertising - and that idea has always been demonstrably wrong.

The problem is that the twitchy little banners created an entire economy of user sharking, which completely fails to understand that the best ads give real value to users - either by providing truly useful leads, or by being beautiful and interesting. Networked web ads are none of the above.

Occasionally you'll see sites that sell space to a narrow targeted niche relevant to readers of those pages. Those tend to do much better.

But the scatter-shot nature of web advertising puts it on the same level as email spam. It's not useful, it's not interesting, it's not beautiful, it's just distracting and annoying. Most of it provides no user benefit at all.

It deserves to die until that changes. If it can't exist without being parasitic on content, then the market needs to kill it off until it works out how to pays its way.

And the content industry needs to get over itself and start producing outstanding, irreplaceable, content that readers genuinely want to pay for. If it can't do that, it needs to die out too.
Well... There isn't, in the same sense as there's no need for specifically the USD in the grand scheme of things, right?
Consumption is necessary (as a mean) in all systems but it's not fomented as it is in capitalism. In advanced capitalistic societies comsumption exists mostly to feed the system and this over consumption doesn't seem to correlate to extra life quality.
the challenge of your method is you have to be extra careful so you won't smash your phone
It's a 1 ghz a9 snapdragon cpu.
Can someone please explain to me the difference between p-value and the confidence interval?
Nope. DNA copying is surprisingly reliable, and there are several mechanisms that prevent this kind of degradation.

Also, as soon as a serious bad (deleterious) mutation happens, the resulting individual won't be able to reproduce further -- this selection process ultimately prevents this from happening.
(Now deleted parent post (that Manishearth replies to) claimed large numbers of adults lie about their age and claim to be children in order to get advantageous treatment.
> We have a flood of unaccompanied 9 years old with beards.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

Many children, (genuinely children, under 16) declare themselves to be adults. They do this because if they are identified as children they are taken to camps.

http://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2015/07/27

> The youthfulness of the faces is striking. Many fled Eritrea to avoid being conscripted into indefinite military service, but none will admit to being under 18 for fear the authorities will place them in a centre for unaccompanied migrant children, dashing their hopes of reaching northern Europe.

> The EU’s Dublin Regulation means that once fingerprinted in Italy, they would have to remain in the country while their asylum claims are being processed or risk being returned there. Countries in northern Europe, however, may hold better job potential, better asylum odds or even the chance of being reunited with family members.

The camps are not pleasant. There is considerable abuse that happens in the detention centres.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/100741/migrant-detention-abus...
I think the article kind of misses a bit about qemu-kvm + libvirt and the tools.
You can administer a guest and view it's display output via qemu+ssh protocol and ssh keys for a very easy way to run vms on multiple hosts via an easy graphical interface ( and the command line.

With the graphical tool it is also very easy to setup and run local virtual machines like VirtualBox.
An increasing number of Guardian pieces seem to be thinly-disguised advertorials.

When Adele's last album arrived it ran pieces about the awesomeness of Adele for days without a break, until it became a running joke in the comments.

Of course it's impossible to prove the content was bought and paid for, but unless the editor is the biggest Adele fan in the world in the history of ever it's hard to imagine the staff at an international daily spontaneously filing Adele puff pieces without prompting.
Quite hard to comment without context. This guy might have just been left behind, and was working on some soon to be obsolete language and never made any effort or interest into learning something new.
I have a Flattr account, but I only use it for regular contributions to a couple of open source projects, since I never see a button anywhere.
For US residents, date of birth-name and home address-name pairings are not really sensitive information. There's multiple databases that can be used to access them (often along with SSNs).

Maybe they should be, but they clearly are not.
That sounds like Brave's bitcoin protocol they are working on.

Thing is, if sites are automatically compensated once users visit how does that change the motivation away from click bait?
Israel satellite startup SkyFi gets $3M to spread internet globally
People are not the limiting factor on number of tanks. See: the rest of the military. This is an implausible scenario.
Also Belgian Association of Newspaper Editors v Google. Also Perfect 10 v Google.

These cases mostly revolve around the same issue - they say Google is ripping off their content.
Currently anything "homing" is launched at a target by human. The fact that it can correct its course, does not make it "autonomous" in the sense of autonomous currently used. It's about differentiating kill decisions "could have killed that, but didn't".

If we go to historical precedents, probably Russian swarming anti-ship missiles are the cut point. They can discriminate with carrier and it's companions, so the individual missile will make "I will not kill that" decision about individual ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-500_Bazalt
For anybody getting a message that says "Please try loading the page again after activating mobile data or connecting to a Wi-Fi network." = it's not your connection, despite what the page says. The mobile site, http://m.thestar.com/ , is giving that message on desktop too and it comes from the site itself.
Nigeria Communications Comission Accepts MTN Nigeria's 'Chump Change' Settlement
Netflix and Spotify might argue with you. Subscriptions might not work in all case, but as these threads demonstrate, there are many alternatives depending on your content (micropayments, or sponsored content for newspapers).

Ads of today don't work, the widespread and increasing use of content blockers back it up.
Do you mean to imply that all forms of content are equally sensible as units of sale?
http://logs.glob.uno/?c=mozilla%23seamonkey&s=2+Mar+2016&e=2... - Also very nice read, Mozilla guys bashing people from Pale Moon project.

What for idiots.
You keep on bringing more and more stuff on that has nothing to do with what google was founded on. Google news linking to newspaper articles has nothing to do with the search engine and so on (it was in fact someone's '20%' project that gained traction long after google was founded). Anyway, I'm done with pointing these out, yes, google got sued a lot, nobody ever - as far as I know - sued them on what they were founded on, let's say pagerank or the fact that they are a search engine at all or anything closely related to their mainstay of income once they found a way to generate it (adsense). And there was absolutely nothing 'legally gray' about it.
I keep waiting for some serious content creator to try a bitcoin micropayment system. From there it's a small stretch to envision a third party like this one to take care of SSO and varying pay rates per provider.
The growth of Artificial Intelligence in the new economy
Unfortunately I'm neither american nor a US resident. I'm in from Philippines.
This article refers to documentation that is behind a $499 paywall. Ick.
Offline-First WebApps with Hoodie and PureScript
You do know that MBT's require a lot of day to day maitainace by the crew to keep them going - that's one reason why they still have 4 man crews.
Now added (with tweaks to fit the static-site generator and templates I'm using.) I love the idea of turning the functionality of adblock-detection on its head.

To my mind, ads are, in the absence of my prior informed consent, an outright theft of the computing and networking resources I pay for. (Not to mention the attention thing and the propaganda/pernicious-psychology things.)

I could not agree more: There are NO acceptable ads.
Because the world economy is currently overproducing (more supply than demand) to prevent prices from falling, these ships (esp. oil tankers) are being "transformed" into storage. Either by taking a longer path, or by outright idling them in front of harbours.

Since nobody wants to pare back production (because the last one to reduce production will retain marketshare and revenue and jobs and ...) this is providing a short intermission where prices don't have to drop.

This extra capacity that slower shipping provides is filling up fast, it will be full in less than 2-4 months (measured starting in december), and the next leg down for the global economy will begin.
Great. I have no problem setting up a ltd and invoice through that. I just wanted to know if this was common (which from your comment it seems it is) and if I should negotiate the offer as the expenses of contracting through a company are higher vs expenses as an individual contractor. Thanks for your input.
Society is not obligated to take care of the elderly. They had 60+ years to prepare for being old, and if they didn't, the burden doesn't fall on me.
The seat adjusts because of the study described by the article...
Now that you know how high of a priority encryption is to Amazon, do you trust them to do it right?
> At some point in the call they will ask me "I just need to verify your identity with some security questions." and ask me for something like my date of birth or my home address.

> The only correct answer to this is "I can't give you that information. You called me. I have no idea who you are."

This ties in with a scam in the UK that exploits a feature / bug of the POTS.

The scammer calls, and claims to be from your bank, and that you've been the victim of crime, and that they need to sort it out.

Some people express doubt about the validity of the caller.

The scammer says something like "Have a look on the Internet at your bank's phone number, and give them a call, and ask for Mr Jones in the Fraud Response Unit on extension 537. I'll hang up while you look. But it's really important that you do this quickly, to prevent more of your money being stolen".

The person being called hangs up the phone, but the scammer does not. Since the scammer initiated the phone call they're keeping that line open.

When the victim picks up their phone to make a call the scammer plays a fake dial tone while the victim "dials a number". An assistant of the scammer then pretends to be a bank phone answerer and connects the victim back to the scammer.

This little bit of social engineering appears to be very strong. There are stories of people who were initially suspicious, but who then lost all suspicion because of this trick, and who lost tens of thousands of pounds.

And since the victim handed out the money the banks tend to refuse to give the money back. The victims really lose real money.
It's very sad.
Interview techniques to invoke trust in the subject
Since I am not a lawyer, could someone please explain (given the subject, perhaps, "Explain like I am five") how this bit from the article:

"Unlike in felony criminal cases in federal court, children charged with violating immigration laws have no right to appointed counsel, even though the government is represented by Department of Homeland Security attorneys."

is allowed when we have this (from a Wikipedia entry)?

"The Sixth Amendment (Amendment VI) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
I think he/she meant it as a mathematical argument. Infinity + 20 = Infinity. So if Hell is eternal, it doesn't matter if you get there today or in 20 years.
The more deterrents to war we have the better. Lowering the perceived risks of it seems dangerous and might in fact make it more likely to wage war. You need skin in the game to make you think twice about waging it. I worry the actual human costs could be much higher by removing humans entirely from one side of the fight.
The lack of this by default is something that has annoyed me whenever I have been forced to use chrome.
Well, there's really no reason why Bitcoin should/would be a part of it. Bitcoin is no better at microtransactions than any other payment solution, it's actually worse. So you're left with solutions that involve "off-chain"-type transactions and even then, you have a MAJOR adoption hurdle with Bitcoin that you don't have with credit cards and ACH.
I agree that it is inpolite to not read a resume or a cover letter. But as a candidate, you can't change the fact that your interviewer is not well prepared. The job will go to the candidate that makes the best of the situation.

The bigger point I'm trying to get at is the following: do not expect the interviewer to discover how brilliant you are on their own. Being smart, hard working, is not enough -- you also need to tell people about it.
I don't think it's the place of doctors to decide what level of suffering is needed before someone's allowed to kill themselves. That call should be up to the individual in question. If the depressed 35 year old wants to die, she should by all means die.
Privacy issues of social networking sites
And if they lost the knowledge of English grammar.
The Bill of Rights is taken to apply with full force only to US Citizens. The kids aren't.
Mostly because the majority thinks Core makes generally good changes. If most people agreed that someone else has made a better change, they'd use that instead.
Yes, There Is Life in Space
NASA doesn't launch anything because there's a concern that it'll steal resources from exciting new ways of killing people.
Why bitcoin?

Why not 'regular money' that more people have?
You don't. It's not the browsers job. Users need to educate themselves, and they won't unless there are consequences for ignorance.