skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not intend to make a connection between GMO tomatoes and herbicides. Reading what I wrote I can see how one would think that though, sorry for that.

I tried to show of how the debate is distorted away from the things that are difficult to address. What are the consequences of introducing new pesticides in tomato plants? Will the bees survive that? How sensitive is our ecosystem to the ever increasing dosage of Glyphosate dumped into it?

We could deplore the fact that people turn these questions that cannot get answered into fears for their own safety. I rather think that we should try to answer the questions, and move very conservatively meanwhile. But that's not what I see. What I see instead is shills brushing off concerns with statements like "Plants have produced their own pesticides since basically ever, so there is nothing to worry about."

To come back to what you wrote, I do think that you try to actually inform, rather than just telling people that their fears are silly. Thanks for that. My complaints are not addressed at you.
Any idea why only 2 out of (seemingly) 4 assignments are posted? Are the other assignments available anywhere?
Then don't include 3rd party code. What's the problem with it?

If I am including shitty 3rd party stuff in physical goods I am fully responsible for the final result and possible bad outcomes. Why should that be any different for web sites?
Passive, maybe, but active? I'm skeptical that there's any submarine in the world which can avoid active sonar. Further more the difference between a nuclear and diesel electric submarine's noise level would likely quickly be overcome by the resulting low frequency noises produced by the propeller at high speeds.

For example the Russian Alfas class were so loud when they were going top speed that US listening posts across the atlantic could hear them.
That's not a ponzi scheme, that's how investments in general work especially with startups and VC, the defining part of a ponzi scheme is that later investors funds are used to pay the returns of earlier investors.
Is that data never synced to the cloud?

What happens if you lose your phone. Do you lose all your photos?
I think there's a lot of historical evidence over the last few thousand years that people naturally form small communities, or at least small groups within large communities.

Today, people can, in theory, choose from among billions of peers to form these small groups. And the groups can if they so choose connect with each other, via a network of networks.

This internet "connects billions of people". True. But your company's LAN probably does not connect that many.

If a user started creating numerous fake identities on the LAN, then it's likely she would be detected.

Is it possible to create distributed "LANs" over the internet?
(rhetorical question)

Another commenter questioned why a distributed Web needs "lack of trust".

People in small groups can and do trust each other. No computers are needed to make this happen.
Each queue has its own mutex (or better, use N lock free queues), but they would all share a single signaling object. As signaling is the slow path and it is rare, it is fine to contend in that case. You can't use a condition variable directly, but can build an event signaling object on top of a condvar and (another) mutex.
It's really troubling to me that 3D Touch features are a big part of this release and yet their most recent phone release (the iPhone SE) has no support for it at all, and neither does ANY iPad, including the flagship iPad Pro 9.7 released in March.

I know many people are sceptical about 3D Touch. I myself found it to be quite useful if you build habits around it - until I got an iPad Pro 9.7 and found all those habits were useless. Since I had to break the habits on the iPad I rarely use it on the iPhone now.

If Apple wants people to adopt 3D Touch and make it useful it has to actually be available on anything other than the 6S.
I'm rooting for Hamilton. I live just outside it. It's a place with such huge potential.

But seems like the centre of gravity for not-Toronto tech in southern Ontario is Waterloo, unfortunately.
The rise of HD Radio (which I assume phones didn't support), streaming audio (Pandora, Spotify), and even radio apps like iHeartRadio made it obsolete?
That gateway is an ad network.

Now, if it was an open standard without a gateway, it would be a different beast. But fraud would kill it.
I made this: https://www.behance.net/gallery/23269525/IOJS-logo-concept

I can build you a website.

Email in profile.
For a 2016 article about online voting, i'm really surprised to find no mention of block-chain related solutions...
It seems most of the concern addressed here can be solve with this kind of "open-computing / open-data" technologies.
If you are interested in this topic, I strongly advise you the reading of: https://medium.com/@DomSchiener/publicvotes-ethereum-based-v...
And more generally what can be done with contract on the ethereum block-chain.

about anonymity: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413196.0
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Reminds me of a /. sig, with which I agreed very much (paraphrased):

If you don't like my software licensed under the GPL write your own damn software.
My English websites are not very big but I'll check it out if possible.
Heh, you're downvoted but I think that's exactly what would happen if China were to decide to annex Taiwan - everyone else would stay out of full scale military conflict.

Sure, they'd do everything else possible, like they did with Russia, but Taiwan would not be worth a war.

That is unlike South Korea and Japan, and in the case of South Korea, it would be China that would not go to full war on North Korea's side. If anything, they'd use that opportunity to get Taiwan back.
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Our Swiss Constitution was based on California's. We added cooling-down periods and made referendums binding to the Legislature, not directly law.
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Since you seem to specialise in this, FYI:

> Mixed Content: The page at 'https://haloads.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,300,700,900'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
https://haloads.com/assets/img/favicon.png Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
Wikipedia: Postal voting
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If it's any consolation, I've been downvoted a bunch of times when I tell stories about my time working for Steve at NeXT. People just don't seem to like hearing things that disagree with whatever perspective they hold. (And Steve used to refer to our software as the "crown jewels" that needed to be kept secret at any cost - even if we lost business or bankrupted partners. Steve freely admitted that we would overcharge anybody who was naive enough to pay high prices. But people don't like to hear that - even though I was in many meetings with Steve where he said those things.) And I should add that I'm not anti-Apple. I think we need to be able to see people and companies clearly - warts and all. Otherwise, how can we react to the real world?
Pretty cool, still sad at the really bad Last.fm redesign but glad useful things come out of the data.
Well, you would certainly not load ads in sync with page loads.

About measurements, you can measure almost anything (except for user identity). As long as you don't monetize it. You can monetize clicks or conversions.
It seems like every mid-size-or-larger organization does this now. I think the only way to escape this is to work for a trusting "mom and pop" outfit, or work for yourself.

Places that do this kind of thing (most places) usually have a culture of secrets and backstabbing. Life is too short.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." - Matthew 7:7-8

Or, if the check is just too damn juicy to part with the bastards, SSH and VPN are your friends.
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They are ahead. Asynchronous first class language support is sooooo 2011!
That is incredible cool! When I was a teen in the 90s I was part of a 1200baud radio network using 27mc. It was pure anarchy. Yet we managed to setup such a distributed system that allowed people to send mails across Europe. My idealistic half dreamed a while of a modern version of that 27mc network, which appears to be exactly the OP: distributed and independent.
Sunk by who how and with what? everything you said is pure speculation armchair analysis. Carriers project power. end of story. If Russia had carriers and we didn't they would be on the east coast projecting-their-power.
HTTP is a centralized protocol. IPFS is a decentralized protocol. It's considered a core requirement of the replacement protocol by these people. So, HTTP can't fit the bill.
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This would be sweet and all except for the fact that ad networks typically don't care about a) providing proper stats and b) detecting display/click/affiliate fraud.
OK, so this guy is complaining about a cancer inflicted on us by advertisers like Google, while posting on a site that (speaking of cancers nobody is talking about) requires a Google login to view. I agree with his point, but the obliviousness to the problem caused by his choice of blogging platform is a bit rich.
Another totally fair point, love to get proven wrong (:

I am from Spain where the minimum salary is around 700$ and has 40% of young people unemployment, however it's not poor compared to most other countries and the hosting cost is considered cheap.

I don't know what could they do where the hosting cost is significative. Do ad networks scale prices depending on the country served?

I think that's the ugly side of global capitalism as the answer is they shouldn't launch sites then.

Maybe they could try to join several groups to share the expenses. Any other ideas (besides advertising)?
In general, newspapers serve the same ads to all their users, so approximate circulation roughly correlates to an ad's reach. Websites don't, so even if you knew a website's pageview count you would have no idea what percentage of those pageviews an ad appeared on.
Right, but not because of who made it, but because of its merits. Which is how things should be demonized.
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I kind of agree. Some of the technical issues do seem like good points to think about, but a lot of the issues raised here (eg, coercion and the lack of anonymity) would also be applicable to ballot by mail / absentee ballots. Many nations have had ballot by mail for a while. Although there's been some fraud issues, I'm not aware of extensive fraud / anonymity problems. Certainly not to the point where the phrase "danger to democracy" is applicable.

Actually I would think electronic voting could be made more secure and less fraud-prone than ballot by mail, to be honest.
Will substitute the official cadc.uscourts.gov link when it becomes available.
>Microsoft will avoid having to pay a 35 percent tax rate to repatriate cash from overseas accounts. While it’s true that Microsoft has more than $100 billion in cash and cash equivalents, most of it is parked offshore. Bringing home any of it to fund the proposed $26.2 billion purchase, announced on Monday, would generate a tax bill.

Of course if an individual or small business tried that, They would be in jail.
Can you honestly not differentiate between a chemical and a marketing term, or did you just want to crack a cheap joke?
Maybe. Maybe I buy your magazine in paper every month and just expect being able to read the content online, too.
I define good quality traffic by what they are doing on my website, not by who they are or what they are doing before they end up here.
I think you're right in that this won't have much immediate impact on the service providers.

But think of this as a step towards commoditization of services. It's a small step from "Hey Siri, get me an Uber" to "Hey Siri get me a ride", whereupon an Apple bidding algorithm gets you an Uber, a Lyft, a GrabCar, etc. based on e.g. price, wait time, and reviews. As a user, I wouldn't necessarily care which platform got used as long as it meets my need.
People will participate in the issues they follow. Plus, voting on ethics is something anybody can do.

You are right about TV though. That would be a whole new level of debate.
I think there is a problem in your thinking with conflating "simple" and "practical". You can have a more complicated thing being more practical simply because there is a better tooling or ecosystem, as you correctly point out.
(OP here) Thanks for bringing this up – we definitely took inspiration from Sentry Breadcrumbs and actually use this feature in our apps quite a bit.

We found that many bugs are not easily understood by looking at the breadcrumbs trail. Our goal is to give developers all of the context that is needed for fixing bugs: a video, steps to reproduce, and eventually a way to faithfully restore the state of an app at the exact point of failure.

Our goal is not to compete with Sentry, but rather to augment crash reporting tools with a tool dedicated to logging.
As someone who's worked in the film industry (visual fx & CG) I'm subject to the same problem, but all tedious jobs from the industrial revolution on have been automated away one by one. I can understand the lament for something you worked hard on, and this isn't to take that away from you, but most job skills do actually have less value in the market over time, right? The other way to look at it is that what counts as good quality work changes and improves continually over time, higher and higher quality becomes available for the same price. Jobs are continually being reinvented, and people always get to work on the interesting parts that can't be automated. Something that took many people to do one decade only takes one person the next decade. This has been true for hundreds of years from farmers to accountants to cooks to car makers ... This "problem" is here to stay, our economy hasn't crashed yet, and there are as many creative people as ever.
It's an option, sure. It's just far less convenient or practical than my current ability to plug a simple wire into my phone and then into a jack in my car. Removing that option in favor of soldering a device into my car stereo is not desirable.
How come I can't download the app from outside US?
Not sure I agree; the button in question is 240px high in size to make sure it's a huge click target; the ads are adjacent, true, but I tried to make all actions huge to make sure it's usable without fat-fingering it.
None of this Chinese weapons/aircraft have done any actual combat. Their J-31 (f35 clone) is a terrible at flying
Fraud is hard to detect even with user profiling. Among other tricks, sophisticated fraudsters replay genuine user sessions collected on hacked computers to build fake profiles.
You need some goal to correctly target that "wisdom of crowds". So first we need democracy to set the goal: Gini-index vs. Pareto efficiency. Freedom vs. security. Protection of personal rights vs. right of group self determination.

Then throw into the equation some very polarizing stuff like abortion, drugs, animal welfare, inheritance tax, immigration and whatnot. Then watch as some political entity loots government budget while people are arguing. This happens in Finland too now that Russia is weak.
No- the ad isn't served by the gateway. It's not an ad network. It's a standard (open or not) combined with the service to help advertisers conform and site owners to plug them in. Like itunes for ads.

Ad networks seem to be immune to fraud. Large companies will pay to have their brands seen anyway; us small guys take the hit.
> Use after free is one of the most, if not the most, common remote code execution security issues in C and C++ code nowadays.

I'd love to see a citation on this. My gut feeling tells me buffer overruns and integer overflows are seriously in the running.
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> and then know that I can whitelist it?

Don't bother. Your ad-blocking software does not block inline ads anyway, and this is a requirement for them being non-harmfull.
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Ask HN: Resources on Monitoring and Evaluation Software
Hi all! Could anyone with experience in M&E software development point me to useful online resources or publications?

I'm looking to develop a generic app for public procurement M&E and would like to acquire a deeper understanding of the requirements.
I live in White Plains, NY, which is about 45 minutes north of NYC. My experience is similar to yours. But the US is a big, big place. I wouldn't be surprised if your experience has more to being in a major city, than in Germany. That is, what is the experience in rural parts of Germany? Poorer parts of Berlin?
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Russia. Seems that it's a local trend. 3 years ago lots of people on public transit listened to music and used headphones, now it's extremelly rare. I don't know what's happened.
Siri: once a flake, now key to aApple's future
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Show HN: Gizmote – Your Personal Device Cloud
Hi All,

We just launched the Gizmote app on playstore last week (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gizmote.client). The app allows you to remotely control and manage Android devices in the cloud while enabling the devices into monitoring and location tracking tools. Some of the use cases are a video monitoring system for your home/business, a vehicle tracking system and a remotely controlled baby monitor. The app basically harnesses the hardware capabilities of an Android device to enable these monitoring tools. You can change settings of these tools on the fly with the changes taking effect in real-time. You can share events generated (video, audio, location events) with your friends and family.

Please do let us know what you think and any feedback is greatly appreciated. To realize the true power of this app, you will need more than one Android device to play with.

Thanks.
> If you can poll the people easily, you have a democracy where people directly chose, instead of having a mafious bunch in a grand building making what corporations want the law, ahem I meant doing what is good for you.

Well, look at Germany. Merkel always does what the majority of people said they want in polls, because she wants to keep having her power (she’s running for her 4th term).

And yet, the results aren’t ideal either.

(Some call her "the walking infratest-dimap poll".)
The internet and cheap computing has made anyone with some writing skills able to compete with journalists.

So maybe journalism as a profession is dying as blogging as a hobby rises. Of course there is value in professional journalism, but the need for that journalism is more specific.

IMO it will happen similar to encyclopedia authors or GPS makers followed a decade back.
I'm absolutely certain it isn't hardware: It started to happen the same week I upgraded to Mavericks. Besides, it's a Macbook Pro 2013. I had noticed several comments on HN about kernel panics in Mavericks, I didn't want to give them credit when I upgraded.

As you note: I reckon Linux isn't much better. I switched to Mac when Ubuntu dropped a bugfix for Ethernet encryption in 13.04 which prevented me from working for my employer (and reduced mouse controls in the UI since 12.04).

I'd pay $200/yr for a maintained OS.
I don't really like how the prominent "Open Source" link at the top takes me to a page on github telling me it's currently not open source. I'd have assumed they'd "work out the kinks" faster if the source code was actually open and available.

https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/

EDIT: Although, maybe it's all private activity, which I guess is not visible to the likes of me.
Cool I have a great collection in lastfm also. So I should check it out...
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"[The officer] told me that the honorarium and letter of invitation only applies if the company inviting you to the UK is based in the United Kingdom. This clarification was not on the gov.uk site I and the organizers poured over."
Where did Microsoft employ embrace or extend before extinguishing RoboVM? They bough Xamarin for Xamarin, and ended up with a RoboVM they didn't want. There was no RoboVM strategy there.
One of the ad blocker blockers I came across had the balls to suggest blocking ads could negatively affect the performance of the site.

I laughed, then dropped into the DOM inspector to remove the blocker overlay element.
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You would need to submit a proposal. Here is a good overview on that.

https://blog.slock.it/how-to-create-gorgeous-proposals-81eb3...
As a marketer, that was my mantra as well. Give us a year and we'll turn your website into the expert in it's field. Without that ambition your site is just one the 1.000.000 search results. After that year, you only have to maintain your reputation and make sure you keep up with changing technology.

But most people are focused on the short term. You can pretty much switch on traffic with an advertising campaign. Wooha, but once the CPC start to increase and you'll have to stop, your business is dead as well.
Only if you live in an ideal world with unlimited data and high speed wireless connections everywhere.

In my experience the world is still less than ideal.
There is painfully little on regular FM radio anymore in the US. It is becoming the new AM radio. HD FM is difficult to support with a tiny antenna, I would presume by the lack of support already.

Besides, most US carriers blocked the radio API in their phones, so many in the US did not even know it existed. From what I understand, FM radios are still prevalent in phones sold elsewhere in the world, like South America and Asia, where FM is still the dominant radio signal.
Hey Avtandi, the most recent version of sublime-phpfmt before all of the business model changes and stuff happened is available at: https://github.com/nanch/phpfmt_stable/tree/v803.10.2 If you're packaging this for inclusion with codeformatter, it's what I would suggest.
depending on how the program was structured, it would likely cost at least twelve to thirteen per cent of G.D.P.

None of the studies seem to have explored the possibility that given a salary cushion, people who would ordinarily have taken a low income but steady job might pursue something riskier, but with higher payoff, helping GDP in the process. You might see a lot of people more comfortable starting businesses and creating jobs.
Gaz guzzling is not a foregone conclusion. For instance, recall that the SR-71 actually got better fuel mileage the faster it flew, due to insightful use of the energy found in the compression wave.
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It is certainly "one of the most", even if it is not "the most".