skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good way to put it.

Tangential, but does anyone else see movement near center of the color wheel when changing focus away from it? Optical illusions fascinate me. Are certain types categorized?
Sounds a lot like censorship to me. It's discrimination at the very least.
This is kind of an apathetic mid-90s defeatist attitude is I think easy but not particularly nuanced or helpful.

With that attitude nothing is independent: money has to come from somewhere. I think it's fair to say that every organisation has some amount of independence, some have money structures that allow them to have more than some others, and the BBC is an example of a situation where they can be more independent than an organisation that is more directly government funded.
Starbucks already tried that, from https://consumerist.com/2007/06/22/confessions-of-a-starbuck...

> A few years ago, Starbucks made the jump to automatic espresso machines. Standard procedure for pulling a shot of espresso requires grinding into the portafilter, tamping it down, locking it into the espresso machine, and pressing the button to start the water. The Starbucks machine does all of this with the touch of one button – it also stores the coffee grounds as compressed pucks in a drawer that needs to be emptied only twice a day. This saves a lot of time for baristas, especially when there’s a long line. The shots themselves are very good for an automatic machine. But these machines cost about ten thousand dollars apiece compared to about three thousand for a quality manual commercial grade espresso machine. That’s a lot of money to recoup at about two dollars for a double shot. Not to mention that Starbucks also pays its employees a higher wage than most coffee shops because they don’t make as much tips working at Starbucks. The cost of operating a Starbucks is astronomical. But the quality is there.

And then http://www.idea-sandbox.com/blog/solving-starbucks-problems-... :

> When we went to automatic espresso machines, we solved a major problem in terms of speed of service and efficiency. At the same time, we overlooked the fact that we would remove much of the romance and theatre that was in play with the use of the La Marzocco* machines. This specific decision became even more damaging when the height of the machines, which are now in thousands of stores, blocked the visual sight line the customer previously had to watch the drink being made, and for the intimate experience with the barista.
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Yeah, 3.2 KW would mean the dishwasher's heating the dishes to high temperatures, so it'd be more of an oven than a dishwasher.
I'd be curious to see a comparison of this with the "big 3" (Chrome, Firefox, IE). And playing devil's advocate, why bother to make yet another browser?
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I'm yet to understand the hype. Perhaps there are users out there to whom it is appealing, but personally I don't see the need for the features they bring out like notes in the browser or stacking tabs next to one another. These are things I can already do using standalone applications or a window manager.
I would rather a browser be simple and most importantly stable and fast.
I was wondering if GitLab provides a Markdown editor that could be used by non-technical users directly from the web interface? Something like Prose[1], Dillinger[2] or StackEdit[3].

Of course you could argue if it's in scope for a project like GitLab, but it means that I could use static site generators for projects where non-technical users need to edit the content without ever thinking about a CMS.

Would be nice:

- if it would also provide an easy upload/commit of images to some configurable directory from that Markdown editor;

- configure a content-editor user that's restricted to a subset of directories;

- allow the user to preview the full website without pushing to the live environment;

- use a tag or branch to mark the version that can be pushed to the live environment.

It would probably be the most flexible CMS that's available right now.

[1] https://prose.io/
[2] http://dillinger.io/
[3] https://stackedit.io/
I wasn't referring to the quantity of illegal images, merely that the FBI had burned its credibility by playing with the NSA: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-dea-fbi-snowden-doj-oig...

At that, one has to assume that they "planted" the image in question because they've proven their willingness to play dirty.
In Switzerland, I paid > 10 CHF for a drink and a croissant at Starbucks (and that was...8 years ago).
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I believe a distinction should be drawn between:

(1) stashing income derived in US somewhere offshore

(2) not repatriating income derived outside US back to US

If doing (2) entails additional taxes, why would rational multi-national corporation do that? Because America? The solution is to revise the tax code in such a way that income derived and taxed elsewhere would not be taxed again.

Take Apple for instance; they have a giant pile of cash that sits in bank accounts all over the world. Why should they move it back to US, pay huge taxes and let it sit in bank account back in US? That's irrational.

There are other issues involved: what are the actual tax rates companies are paying (too low!) and tax dodging all over the world (happens all the time! didn't Google just settle with EU?) but they are somewhat orthogonal.

The main issue is that US will tax one's profits again once they are moved back to US. Even if they profits are legally derived in another country and taxed in that country.
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Just launched a first version of FOIA Mapper, a tool for searching offline government records.

https://foiamapper.com

FOIA is a niche topic, which is not a bad thing for a side project - fewer eyeballs, more opportunity to really make an impact.
Water isn't lost, but water is polluted. And when you put water into the groundwater then it mixes with heavily polluted water from, among other things, agriculture. The Dutch farms may be efficient, but they are definitely polluting.

"In the Netherlands water pollution originating from agriculture is an important environmental concern. While recent trends indicate that the pressure from farming on water quality is diminishing, absolute levels of pollution remain amongst the highest across the OECD (Figures 2-5). Agriculture is the major source of nutrients, pesticides and the only known source of heavy metals in water. Pollution from endocrine disrupters and veterinary medicines in terms of potential impacts on human and wildlife reproductive systems is also a concern. The total external costs of agricultural water pollution are unknown, but in the late 1990s the annual external costs of eutrophication associated with nitrate emissions was estimated at €600 million (US$540 million), and for treating drinking water polluted with nitrates at an annual cost of €23 million (US$21 million)."

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07900627.2010.53...
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From the technical level of the article I think they have allowed for that. I took that item to mean some fraudsters run customized browsers / extensions that result in a null value when non-null value would be expected eg. useragent is some post-2010 browser.
The problem with that type of indicator is that it will target the same people again and again. An X-ray scan is safe enough to be used in routine medical visits, yet the technician must step out of the room due to dosage effects; so too the effects of even well-regulated police attention are cumulative. (Part of this is probabilistic: if every encounter has an x% chance to go badly...)

And that's true even if the indicator objectively performs relatively well, as long as there are innocent people affected. To go back to the current topic, banning all connections from certain countries is an effective way to cut down on fraud without decreasing sales too much; but that still screws over legitimate users from those countries.
One thing that us nerds might not think of but which I think can be immensely helpful is talking to a good therapist. It's a really tough situation… Try not to approach it by hunkering down in isolation. Be proactive about finding a resolution ASAP.
For those curious, this is the one I found. They're advertising this campaign on Facebook and crud. You can't search it, because it's all images, but they say they're open source.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protonet-zoe-start-your-s...
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Well, their CI is pretty good for starters... compared to self hosting jenkins, or paying for Travis CI. Self hosting gitlab integrated CI runners is a big plus for me.

As a third party service provider you could still host and/or modify those CI runners for specific tasks like node, go, etc.
Germany is buying a lot of typewriters.
great to see them getting business ... but why am I reading a PR statement from some data company on HN? Would be more interesting to see how the same can be achieved using Open Source technologies. The article mentions Solr and Tika to extract the metadata[1] but that's about it.

[1] pretty sure that just for the purpose of extracting the metadata, the same can be done with more lightweight tools
Green Heart Games did basically that.
http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...
I would add that you shouldn't trust GitHub not to lie to you, and verify signatures for yourself. One need not attribute malicious motives to GitHub in this scenario; they could get hacked, served with an NSL, successfully man-in-the-middled, or inadvertently hire a bad actor.
The main focus of Vivaldi appears to be in improving the user experience. You can read more here:

https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en
Before you start using your "unique" and "exotic" RGB color as the primary color for your brand, always make sure it actually has a CMYK/PANTONE equivalent. You'll thank me later.
Happened with my iPhone.

Its screen started to behave unreliably, and it was still on extended warranty, so I brought it back to the point of sale.

After keeping it for 1.5 months, they told me it was damaged by liquid (it wasn't, so no warranty for me, the phone is beyond repair, and I have to pay them €80 for their efforts). They would also physically destroy it.

I told them to [redacted], threatened to sue them, so they waived this €80 fee, but still won't repair the phone despite the warranty.
The 1999 strategy game The Settlers 3 would appear to work fine, but the iron smelters would produce pigs rather than iron bars, so you couldn't make any new tools or weapons.
That's a pretty hefty hosting cost compared to revenue. Do you have a lot of non-paying users?
the problem is credit cards. the should be depricated
I digress, but this site has an interesting comments layout..
I mostly agree with you. We could and probably should eliminate corporate income tax. However, this repeal should only come after many years (I'd say decades) of stable growth in personal income tax rates (going as high as 90% of income above a certain threshold -- I recommend the threshold be at 100x the natuonal minimum wage times two thousand or about $3M annually) and criminal penalties for failure to report income that pushes people above that threshold (I'd recommend a minimum sentencing guideline of 10 years in prison). Here income will include any expenses the "employer" corporation makes for the employee.

The idea is to not affect police officers who make $60k a year and get free lunches worth $2k a year but to affect executives who make $2M and live in a corporate owned home, drive a corporate owned car, take corporate jets and so on.

Sure, the corporation can stash unlimited wealth but you can't spend any for personal reasons without paying your fair share in taxes.

Thoughts?
Are you sure? Do countries without a 4th amendment have more criminals in jail and lower crime rates than we do?
There is no need to "understand the hype", as a) there is none and b) it mostly comes down to personal preferences. When you're happy with your current workflow using other tools - that's totally fine, good for you. But, you know, there are people out there who are really looking forward to an alternative Browser-UI that 1) is very fast, 2) has a lot of configuration/features the others lack and 3) does not require you to install buggy/slow/tracking extensions for each and every single thing you want to change.

e.g. having a vertical tab list out of the box is great, even when it still lacks some nice features from Tree Style Tabs.
But you can. The Brazen Head in the Marina, Thai Noodle on Haight and a bunch of places in North Beach will happily serve till 1 AM or later and at a quality that doesn't even compare with fast food. In fact since I've moved to SF, going on ten years now, I've found pretty much most of the rest of the country (NYC and LA excepted) to be quiet a sad food desert.
I'm yet to understand all the attention smartphones get. Perhaps there are users out there to whom it is appealing, but personally I don't see the need for the features they bring out like address books and instant messaging in the phone or taking photos. These are things I can already do using standalone applications or other devices. I would rather a phone be simple and most importantly reliable and fast.
Related article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11437095.
I like the idea of a new browser, but I won't switch from my beloved Firefox that has all the addons and stability I need.

Is it using webkit or something else?
"Like many techniques in machine learning, the simplest strategy is hard to beat." is a thoroughly ridiculous statement.

It should instead say "Like many techniques in machine learning, the simplest strategy is easiest to implement" as the title of the post (20 lines) makes it clear.
I have successfully bootstrapped a VPS / cloud hosting company with my 2 partners while my wife was pregnant of our first. We've had two more in the years after. Me and my wife both work 4 days so we can each spend a day a week with the kids (and weekends are reserved family time too).

I started coding in my spare time and me and my partners only quit the day jobs when the company was pretty much self-sustaining. 7 years later we are an established and fast growing company (and if you're Dutch: We're hiring! https://www.tilaa.com/en/jobs ;).

I'm not sure if things are much different in the US (I'm from the Netherlands), but I definitely think it's possible to have it both (a loving family and a flourishing business) without making big sacrifices.
The only browser I'm comparing it with is Opera 12 as Vivaldi is supposed to be its successor.
By racially profiling, it easier for non stereotypical mules to get through.
Webkit/Blink.
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It is using Blink (the same engine that powers Chrome), which started as a fork of Webkit. Blink is also used by Opera since 2013.
I don't see you making a point that is relevant.
I admire the research that went into collecting these signals, but I consider it a poor idea to have published what could be used as a checklist. I believe some of the kind of people (criminals, bad people: you should stop) who take the technical actions listed certainly read hackernews. yet without exception all of these are easy to modify, losing your hard-won signals. better not to mention what they are.

that said, perhaps they did not pubish all of the signals they found.
Offtopic, but why do i have to enable Javascript to even see anything?
Amazing. I can't help but wonder though why the FBI is telling us this at all. Are there disclosure laws prompting them?
> What about those who are of a different gender/sex than they were born? What about people who choose to change their gender?

If you actually speak to these people, they will inform you they didn't "change" their gender. What you are referring to is the practise of fixing the body to conform to the expectations of the gender they were born with.
There are capabilities like local storage that are often disabled in private browser mode.
I don't really have fragmentation concerns because it's basically Chrome with an Opera-like front end. I did a benchmark comparison and they were roughly equal, with Vivaldi winning some and Chrome winning some.

I'm liking it so far. If you aren't crazy about Chrome's UI, it's worth a shot. Hope to see more privacy features, but right now the settings are the same as in Chrome.
One of the things that makes Vivaldi unique is that it is built on modern web technologies. We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface with the help of Node.js and a long list of NPM modules. Vivaldi is the web built with the web.

By the looks of things Vivaldi is Chromium with a skin written using React, but there's no links to a repo or any API documentation as far as I can tell. The extensions page in the browser suggests it uses Chromium's extensions API which rather defeats the "Customize Everything" tag line that's all over the website. Is it possible to load in my own React components to add to the browser chrome some how?
and put a "300$" price tag on it to complete the illusion.
Dude, I can't even use my preferred username here (it's too long).

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Its UI is made with Javascript. As if I don't already have a bad enough time dealing with sloth websites, they have to pile it on. Not even worth a try.
I think it's good to make another browser. Trying to improve on existing things benefits everyone. Just downloaded it, it's got some nice touches I've not seen in other browsers.
Can we make hacker news independent of Ycombinator please ? Or does this already exist?
"dgit" is not the best of names, since git itself is already distributed, as they note. It would have been more accurate to call it "replicated git", or "rgit". I guess they just wanted to be able to pronounce it "digit".
I thought it was pretty clear. Maybe I should have used "Swiss army knife" instead of smartphones?

The point is that Vivaldi is a toolbox. Some people like toolboxes.
I use to use vivaldi on my old computer due to performance issues with chrome. The killer feature I remember was stackable tabs. Going to reinstall it again to see what is new.
This is the most frustrating part. cd? Fine with forward slashes! mkdir? Shits a brick! robocopy? No problem with either. xcopy? Better have backslashes. There is no consistency and sometimes, yes, the failures aren't an immediate error or will produce strange behaviour (especially if they look like flags).
That is really weird. Technically the content is there all along (so it's not loaded in by JavaScript) but you still have to have JavaScript enabled for it to render. Who designed that!?

Edit: hahaha what. It appears the content is laid out with JavaScript. So basically they're using JavaScript as a more dynamic CSS. Let that sink in. They're using JavaScript as CSS.

It sorta-kinda makes sense for the fancy stream of comments but still... why is it a requirement!?
FWIW there are bits of the code here, but I don't know what is the extent of it

https://vivaldi.com/source/
Sleeping next to the phone to take customer support calls sounds really tough. I don't think I could do that for long.
Interesting read, thank you!
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All of them actually plus the Application has some design flaws which eat up RAM like butter.

I also have to add that hosting costs me about 50€ right now, the same box which also hosts all my other services. My point is that i thought about it and got a rather cheap dedicated box, build up my own "hosting structure" on it, including load balancing and use Cloudflare which helps a lot when you have massive traffic. I could also use AWS for about $200, but when i would just purchase each service individually on AWS it would get very expensive fast.
I agree.

I'll add that a person who pronounces git as JIT is probably a git. Dgit sounds like the git more than d JIT.
To some extent, but people from all sides have thought about this a lot in the UK, and other countries with a state television that is supposed to be as independent as possible. They are a lot more independent than most commercial outlets.

The biggest political influence is the board, not the budget. Since it takes a while to change the laws governing how BBC and similar agencies are run, I do not think the economics is the most interesting part.

The change from a Board of Governors to the BBC trust was a big one and not something done easily, so even there you have problems with affecting programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_BBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Trust
I completely agree.

I was thinking it'd be nice if you could set a signing policy on GitHub - either all commits are signed or none are. A mixed situation just leads to harmful confusion. You would still need to verify sigs yourself, but if they're available for every commit this does still save you time before creating the signed tag.
I thought this was a pretty good follow up to show the strengths and weaknesses of this approach: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/. Personally I think this approach makes a lot more sense than a/b testing especially when often people hand off the methodology to a 3rd party without knowing exactly how they work.
Ask HN: Does anyone else see Panama Papers as irresponsible journalism?
Have seen lots of images of famous people splashed around, accused of being involved. But there has been very little posted about exactly what they are being accused of, let alone evidence to back it up.

There is nothing illegal about owning an offshore account. Maybe they are doing something illegal with it (Iceland PM onviously did), but seemsweird to just throw the names out there and see what sticks.

Several of the people mentioned, such as Putin, aren't even named in the documents.

Why is the media withholding all the raw info, with no plans to release it until May? Does not seem consistent with the public interest, but a great way to milk the story for all it's worth.

It also seems strange that the media be the one in charge of picking which people deserve to be accused.

Wondring if anyone else agrees the whole thing smells fishy, and why nobody is talking about this.
>If that is wrong, what is right?

easy. ignoring protected classes [1] - thereby losing part, but not all of your signal. i.e. don't see race.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
So I googled A/B testing vs Multi-Armed Bandit, and ran into an article that's a useful and informative response to the OP: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/

edit: Ah, 'ReadingInBed beat me to it. tl;dr: Bandit approaches might not _always_ be the best, and they tend to take longer to reach a statistically significant result.
> continuously readjust the grinder and brew parameters to match the weather and beans.

I say this as a total coffee outsider but... You're kidding, right? Is that really a thing or are you describing audiophilesque insanity?
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I wouldn't say it's a toolbox, it's just another browser with some more sugar strapped to it out of the box. Coming back to your smartphone analogy, it's just another smartphone with more stock apps that many users don't want at all.
Apparently some sort of useless fade-in effect is more important than the page content. This is the fix:

#main {
visibility: visible !important;
}
If I am allowed to do some PR, Nessos with their MBrace project is a very cool Greek company.

http://www.nessos.gr/

http://mbrace.io/

A good example of F# in production.