skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is on track, albeit slowly, to the AltaVista destination.

When in 1999, before the first collapse, the competitors to Google were inundating users with in-result ads, crazy load times and odd results. This was pushed by the stock's need to show constant revenue growth.

Google now is adding more ads, configuring the ads in-line to increase clicks (yes, they are 65% relevant), integrating an obtuse implementation within Maps, and so forth.

DuckDuckGo becomes more viable each day as an alternative.
I got excited and installed an etherum wallet. I transferred two BTC to it but now my etherum Wallet says my balance is two ether!

That sucks I'm out 900$ on this thing. :-(. Any ideas?
Usually data / persistence layer is not stored in Docker images directly. Frequently the data directory is marked in containers as a "volume" to bypass the usual CoW filesystem and write directly to the backing filesystem. So, it's uncommon to snapshot DBs directly in Docker and likely (this is pure speculation) 'zfs snapshot' is more efficient than 'docker commit' (on disk space usage and/or speed of snapshot) for this workload due to different use cases.

I'd be really curious to see some actual numbers on this though.
Great post seems pretty useful.
Nokia was doomed before Elop took over. Kallasvuo was CEO when Apple released the first iPhone, and Kallasvuo was the one who decided that Nokia's existing offerings were good enough to compete, just keep minorly refining things every generation. By the time Elop came in, the ship was already sinking (or, if you prefer, the platform was already burning). Elop's decisions did not turn that around, but realistically, could he have?
So? What's wrong with that?

Gawker is predatory in terms of how they approach "news". I'm glad they got hit back in kind (someone with resources took on their legal resources). I'm not sure they have enough redeeming qualities to overcome their bottomfeeding approach.
I think you probably need to read 1984 again. Doublespeak is euphamistic political propaganda language.
Looks a lot like Mario Advance 3.
A very enlightening read and quite excellent in breaking down the approach and technologies researched and employed in the concept! I'm an amateur in the arena[1], albeit with some first-hand flight experience, but study this kind of development every chance I can get. As an academic concept, this is superb and the aerodynamic advantage of the prop/tail design deserves high praise - that's some innovative thinking right there!

From an implementation standpoint I'm curious to how practical using a fuel cell will be from an aviation safety and regulatory standpoint. From what I've read regarding their implementation in automobiles, the testing is rigorous, so that's a plus! The author does point out that the plane needs to be accepted by the target markets, and honestly, I think the plane could be built and working by 2020 but there'd be a total of six mechanics qualified in the world to work on the thing. It might be an exaggeration, but give it a little consideration.

We're talking a significant overhaul - an advancement, sure! - to the existing notion of flight. Hey I'm cool with it if it works! I've got no love for burning tons of fuel in the upper atmosphere. Yet also I've been quite skeptical of all the excitement around electric battery tech - e.g. graphene, super-capacitors - until it starts getting used and tested in real world applications. Advancements are underway, sure; time will tell if they live up to the hype though. See also: Moeller Air Car. There's something to be said for the punch that Jet A still packs - the new FlyBoard air debuted recently and I'm not sure an electric version is possible yet, or within the near future.

[1] I participated in the LocalMotors LITECAR challenge and still am sore that an "exoskeleton" and "body panels made out of this lighter metal" entries were deemed more revolutionary than an organic composite sedan powered by microturbines and electric motors because what was said was the purpose of the contest did not match what was chosen in the long run. Grr.
The problem was that someone who was skilled enough to have taken on the job of turning Yahoo around would have just started their own company -- without the baggage of Yahoo's culture. VC is easy enough to get that any tech executive capable of a Yahoo turnaround would have had no trouble raising $50-200 million. Anyone capable of the job also probably wouldn't be interested -- Yahoo does not play in any big growth markets right now.
In order to use this, you have to have know SQLite, given that, why would I spend time to learn something that wraps around it?

Most of the time you do a insert/update/view, something that a simple helper class would do well.
it could also use 'same ip' data, apparently, so if they were using the bar wifi you'd get a friend suggestion, even if you never gave location access to facebook.
> Does Google need this revenue?

Yes, of course.

> What is the problem with the existing maps that they are solving?

It's not generating enough revenue.
> We can talk about grit, perseverance, determination, etc. until we're blue in the face but all else being equal, talent will be the deciding factor.

In fairness, both are equally necessary. Talent without conscientiousness goes no further than conscientiousness without talent.
wafer starts/week, I think.
The answer to that is: use an SSD. With SSD random seek vs sequential access doesn't matter.
Second part of the answer is that ZFS provides features for cache devices. So you get a fast disk as cache and a set of larger disks for as actual storage. All writes at first go to the cache device to be safe and then are written to actual storage, thanks to cow this can be done in larger sequential sequences. (Unless the disks become too full, ZFS has issues when disks are ~80% full, then it takes too much time to find free space)
What's left are longer "sequential" read operations. There ZFS tries to predict the read, this can be successful, but might also happen that the seeks take too much time for highest performance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11695824
Your sibling comment mentions that Google depends for 90% on search (and webpage) advertisement. For Apple, the iPhone was 65% of their revenue in the last quarter, but the remaining 35% is divided among other products (with some dependency of 'services' on iPhone).

It's still not healthy, but their bets are spread quite a bit better than Google's.

(I think there is quite a bit of monetization potential for Google in Google Apps and Chromebooks. They could move to a position/market that Microsoft was in. But it takes time to grow that business.)
So Peter's basically choke-slamming Gawker because they outed him as gay earlier on. I'm conflicted because I think Gawker is a click-bait cesspool, but at the same time feel uncomfortable with someone else's desire for vengeance fueling a legal offensive.
Really applies to all people, not just tech people.
He didn't present launch costs as the only problem to be solved.
No one is likely to share it with potential hired directly for the same reason you aren't likely to outline all the ways you might fail at the position in your job interview.

If employees are concerned about it, they should just ask. Good, ethical companies will be more straight with you than shady ones.
I own the 630 when it got released with 8.1.

For me, the appeal as hobby development was that I wanted to support a third ecosystem, have my love-hate relationship on the MS stack back to the MS-DOS 3.3 days and I love what they are doing with C++/CX (VC++ finally catches up with C++ Builder) and the whole AOT compilation for .NET (MDIL and .NET Native).

But with this scenario there isn't much value in building up WP skills specially since WP10 is still quite buggy, even as an hobby.
Can you explain this a bit more? I've only read both the abstracts but if I understand right your link deals with compiler-level attacks but the OP deals with hardware-level attacks ("fabrication-time attacker").
Somewhat OT, but while I am not a reader of Gawker at all, I do enjoy posts on Jalopnic and Gizmodo quite a bit. It would be a shame if those sites got dragged down with Gawker.
Getting to smaller feature sizes is pretty much an exponential curve. Jeri Ellsworth made transistors at home once, and I suspect very early IC's could be done in a garage... if you can deal with the chemicals ;)
Xiaomi's Mi Drone
Surprising that Wikileaks doesn't do this too.
Please don't say it is faster than SQLite anymore. http://kpgalligan.tumblr.com/post/133281929963/my-talk-at-dr...
HS and collage are both very low hanging fruit. The real question is how much of this do they maintain after 15 years and that's more complex. Some collage seniors forget basic algebra skills if they don't use them regularly.
I dropped this on another comment thread but think it'll apply here on the NYT take as well: My perspective is this won't have a chilling effect on real journalism.

This, to me, simply re-iterates the ingrained expectations of conduct that journalism attempts to envelop and embrace as a profession. There are newsworthy stories, and there is muck raking. They are different, and on completely different ends of the integrity scale. Personally I like that the courts are a venue for recourse when there is perceived harm; sure, things could be improved mechanics wise but at least there's an attempt at "checks and balances" the way laws are written.
CRS: The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Options for Congress [pdf]
No, the change notifications will work across processes as well. Realm Java still need to add multi-process support though (https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/1091), but it is working in Realm Swift/Objective C.
Introducing Polybit – Build, Deploy and Scale Your Node.js APIs
To give you an idea, it just shipped baked into Ubuntu 16.04, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/16/zfs-is-the-fs-for-con...
Another analogy might be ARM vs. Intel? Lots of small players don't have to go toe-to-toe with a giant in order to be effective competition. I agree though that it needs to keep up momentum to be competitive, a lot is still missing.
It just feels shady, an "anonymous benefactor" who's actually funding a legal assault he'd otherwise have no involvement in simply because he has an axe to grind. I agree with your feelings re: Gawker Media though- they're basically on par with Buzzfeed in my mind.
Having lived in the UK for 16 years now, it is exceedingly rare to find sandwiches here that are not made by sadists that you might imagine escaped from a prison kitchen where any attempt at making anything edible was punished by flogging.
dupe, earlier and still active discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766621
I was amazed that she took the job at all. Yahoo is dead, and has been for a very long time.
We had no mutual friends. I actually have 0 friends on Facebook. I use it as a media outlet.

All my recommended friends come from my iOS Contacts, by phone number. So the fact she popped up is absurd
Having the electric motors at the top of the V tail planes indeed enables a short landing gear. But they increase the tail plane loads, requiring a heavier structure there.
Break your arm or lose your nose, obviously.
Doesn't Android bring in $$ for Google?
Gawker is crap, but it's awful seeing vengeful billionaires throwing money to suppress journalists.
I do not think Realm has sync. Using couchbase for mobile development definitely makes it easy to get data from the device into the cloud (and back). The only complaint is it feels more geared to enterprise to have the best infrastructure for large set of users, but I guess that goes with the data size.

Do you have any comparison metrics of Couchbase and Realm or other mobile Databases?
> Realm is not an ORM, and is not built on top of SQLite. Instead we’ve built a full database for mobile app developers, one that uses native objects that are dynamically mapped to a full, custom database engine (not just a key-value store).
Show HN: Windsock – A Flux inspired library for building web applications
Reaction videos YouTubers h3h3 sued for copyright infringement
Same username on Twitter, or for my email run this hopefully-spam-preventative-de-obfuscation code in your browser's JS console:

[115,108,64,99,107,119,105,46,115,101].map(c=>String.fromCodePoint(c)).join('')
Ah, so a Set keyed with an Enum is functionally C-style "flags" then?
Yea, but that itself is a very big deal. Along the way they made, browser, mobile OS, programing language, all highly successful. Their cutting edge ad platform which Yahoo despite being much longer in business and multiple tries could not beat.
Windows 10 hijacking computers, forcing controversial 'upgrade'
I can't deny any of that, and DDG has a better UX, but Google is still by far superior when it comes to returning relevant results. I do a lot of Googling for my job (and life), and nothing I've tried seems to compare to Google's results yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
ORM (persistent objects) for Node.js
> In order to use this, you have to have know SQLite, given that, why would I spend time to learn something that wraps around it?

The linked article explicitly says it's not a wrapper around SQLite - what gave you that impression?

> Realm is not an ORM, and is not built on top of SQLite. Instead we’ve built a full database for mobile app developers, one that uses native objects that are dynamically mapped to a full, custom database engine (not just a key-value store)
Gawker sites advocated harsh punishment for nude leaks of other celebrities. This is just holding them to their own standards.
A reasonable question! From my experience with general and professional aviators, the answer is a tentative "No" for quite a while. It would likely start out as an "Experimental" certification by the FAA[1]. Following that, I'm not sure what the course would be to official production for purchase (though Experimental planes can be purchasd on the free market to my knowledge).

[1] https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...
Looking forward to Cordova/Ionic support, our community would love this (I see it's slated already, cool).
Buzzfeed has a lot of excellent reporting and long form articles.

I'm surprised that they're shamed on HN of all places, when they've found a great business model where they take money from clickbait to finance good journalism.
OTOH, can you name a single feature of WP10 that you wanted to upgrade for? I went from a 920 with wp8 to a 950 with wp10, and the only good new features are ones that required new hardware (continuum and hello).

I regret buying the 950. Excellent hardware, but unstable battery hog of an OS, with an app situation that's bad and getting worse. WP 8.0 was the high mark. All the changes since then made things worse.
In this case, the "journalists" posted a sex tape recorded without the consent of the person, and with no journalistic value other than to smear the person involved.
It's not a similar attack. This doesn't modify future chip designs to include itself, which is what Ken's attack did with code.
Nova: The Architecture for Understanding User Behavior
Interesting bit of history, I had assumed the parent was complaining about bash interactive shells with the usual "they're hard to use for humans" position. The link suggests that the major gain of Debian Almquist was performance.
Microsoft finally agrees to stop forcing win10 upgrades
Due+Diligence:+What+Is+It+Spiritually?
I did enjoy the movie but not as much as I thought I would. I had watched the old BBC TV production so many times that I just expected the characters to look like that, cheesy production values and all!

It was nice that the original Marvin and Simon Jones (Arthur Dent in the original radio and TV versions) had cameos though.
graphics stuff is always nice: take a webcam picture and make "instagram" filters for it, 3D stuff, voxel-style graphics (Minecraft!), ...
How does the fuel matter? The case has legal merit or it doesn't. If you are assessing worth based on who is funding it, then you are looking at it the wrong way.
I have. Unless there's something new in the last few months, they left some things out that might sway my opinion (slightly) about whether Avery actually committed a crime but nothing that would sway my opinion on how the system treated him and whether the police and attorneys involved were engaged in corruption. In fact based on additional readings I'd actually add "incompetent judges" to the list of government faults and failures.
Slides : http://www.openbsd.org/papers/dot2016.pdf
I throw a baseball through a window, and set the window's state to both Shattered and Shattering. It's Shattered, for the purposes of "is this an intact pane of glass?" e.g. if I throw another baseball, it's not going to shatter again, and I can jump through it without any physical resistance (in the case of strong/thick glass, if it was still intact I might risk bouncing off if I'm at low velocity or mass).

But it's also still in the process of Shattering, so when I jump through it, I'm risking cuts, it's actively producing noise for someone to hear, that laser I'm shining at it will be fragmenting wildly rather than reflecting off/passing through/deflecting like it was before the glass started Shattering.
Grampa: blog generator using make and awk
HTC Vive – Lighthouse tracking examined
How to disable Xposed Framework on boot
- Foxconn finances this operation and engineers and manufactures the phones, essentially building a new non-bidding customer for itself and Sharp displays (owned by Foxconn)

- Nokia maintains its brand recognition in consumer products. It retains the power to protect the reputation of the brand and quality of the products.

- Nokia Research and Nokia Bell Labs continue doing research and they have tons of patents that this company has instant access.

Basically this deal replaces Nokia Mobile Phones division (Sold to MS) with Foxconn/HMD Global. It's a smart move but success is not guaranteed.
I don't have any issue with vengeance fueling a legal offensive. I also think that Gawker crossed a very real line when they outed him in 2007. What concerns me is one billionaire can bring down and effectively silence a media outlet quietly from behind the scenes.
Yes, apps can definitely listen while in the background. In fact, this is one of the few activities where Apple allows you to run in the background indefinitely. Without doing this or one of the other things (like continuous GPS updates), you only get three minutes of background activity before the OS freezes or kills your app.

Some apps actually use this to work around background activity restrictions. If they can come up with a plausible excuse to run the microphone, they can use that to keep the app active in the background indefinitely.

It does place a really obvious red bar at the top of the screen, though, so it's not something an app can do secretly. I believe only one app can do it at a time, too, so you can't have a bunch of them all spying on you at once.
There is a lot of hate here for something we haven't even seen yet. While I aknowledge that they could screw this up badly, my first reaction was positive. I've done a couple of road trips recently where a pin for every Peet's, Starbucks, IHOP, and Chipotle all along the route would have been welcome.
No more creepy than Shazam or SoundHound. You'd be amazed at the number of people that want to share the song they're listening to, or the show they're watching, as part of a status update.
If part of Gawker's strategy was that it could break the law because its victims lacked the financial resources to properly fund legal action, then Thiel is simply correcting a market failure. Ideally this would happen much more often.

However Gawker has also shown some mettle in resisting DMCA takedowns for stories that I do not consider frivolous mischief. Considering how pliant and officious the mainstream press is, Gawker's overall attitude is refreshing. But it's in poor taste to out someone's private business when doing so accomplishes nothing other than embarrassing that person.

The key ingredient for a respectable and effective press is a public that demands it.
Thanks for sharing. I remember seeing 'glitch' posted a while back, and am glad to see they've updated it with a bunch of new features.

I wish `noscript` didn't recognize a bunch of the example links as "potential xss", but that's easy enough to fix (can't have it both ways). NOTE: the links aren't XSS, just look "codelike" for obvious reasons.
I only dealt with K2 in '10, so things may have changed, but even in the sales process they had engineers on the line. One of the better 'sales' experiences IMO.

Oh, and if you are genuinely interested in trying K2 before buying, I'll be they'd set up a VM for you to remote into. They did for me in '10.
It all depends on the parameters that you are after.

Big without speed has already been done; see Facebook's 747 sized solar powered aircraft http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/30/9074925/facebook-aquila-so...

The issue is the amount of energy that you need to reach the speed of your average jet.

Just to put it in perspective jet fuel has a theoretical specific energy somewhere over 10,000 Wh/kg, compared to all of the options the author was exploring being well below 1000 Wh/kg
That's f-n huge, the big drones we were getting so far like the DJI Phantom are also Chinese but they market them selves and charge people like they were made in Switzerland and designed by clones of Wernher von Braun.

If Xiaomi gets into the game we can expect many more high quality Chinese drones at reasonable consumer prices.
You're taking it way too literally, I think it was clear what I meant. I meant if the decays of atoms could be the result of interactions with the particles of dark matter, rather than spontaneous decay caused by random quantum fluctuations. If it's true, we should be able to observe differing rates of decay depending on the concentration of dark matter in the area.
does this 'heirarchy of logic' have any direct relationship to computational models, or do all (non-hyper) models fall under a single category?
I agree Y! was in decline many years before Mayer was brought in. They went through a few CEOs with the mandate to turn things around and failed even worse.

But to blame that on classification I think is misleading. Can we call Google a technology company (or Ad company)? Was Netscape not a technology company? Was inktomy not a technology company? It does not matter, what mattered is that they didn't confront change and adapt. In some cases your niche is too unique to be able to adapt and you'd essentially have to pivot (but that's hard for big cos --though there are good examples IBM and office equipment or any number of companies which went from manufacturing to basically sales orgs selling things produced elsewhere.
parent is alluding to correlation vs causation. i.e. that their future life success may be caused by reliable adults.
I used to not think a great deal of Buzzed given the clickbait heavy articles/links but they have done some interesting investigative work, notably tennis matches they found using statistical analysis to have been thrown. Admittedly I think I saw the link for that on here..