skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like the article was dictated by someone with a very strong agenda so that it reads "good, simple people found fortune trading oil and now evil computers took their jobs".

It fails to ask a number of key questions like:

1. Why unskilled random people were able to earn significant money as traders? Why is their background an excuse for inequality they were part of?

2. Who was financing their crazy earnings? Surely money didn't appear out of thin air?

3. What was the motive to hire those random people? My best guess: whoever was sponsoring their seats wanted to have a trusted partners to gather intel / pull of a scam. Either way, not exactly pretty.

4. Who exactly is now profiting instead of the old traders and how does it affect the other participants of the market?

I do wonder which PR company is behind this article and what is the ultimate motive of their client.

EDIT:

A) Forgot to add the note about deceitful graph of "New York City jobs ..." which looks like the number of jobs goes almost to zero, except it has a base level of 90k.

B) Interestingly Mr Ardizzone was sued in 2011 for an alleged scam [1]. This would support my guess from point 3.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arcadia-lawsuit-idUSTRE74P...
The project seems to be quite dead?
My favorite is dwb, which is not dead yet (tm) but not that active, too: http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/
Android 7.0 Nougat Theme for CM 12.1 and CM 13
Nuclear power warms water which is then usually dumped into rivers at a temperature higher than it started at. The waste issue is problematic and the cost (especially when factoring in cleanup and waste) is prohibitive to a small country with no existing nuclear program. Our dams gave been in a while here in New Zealand and the trade offs they require are vastly more acceptable to New Zealanders than the nuclear option.
Make the link go to a web page with a "download app" link -- the app can start and look for a cookie left by the web page.

Or simply download the app and click again.

I'm not saying not to have user-readable ref codes (though emojis are a terrible choice -- you can't read them aloud), I'm saying make typing them the very rare case.
> For a long time in the early 2010s, Chrome had superior developer tools built-in, while Firefox needed addons like Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar. While these addons were good, you needed to know about them and download them separately, whereas Chrome shipped with better out of the box.

I agree regarding the relative quality, but developer tools have no place in a default Firefox install; the whole point of Firefox was to streamline Mozilla by moving as much as possible to plugins. It's unfortunate that they've recently started bundling stuff again (developer tools, PDF reader, pocket (whatever that is), etc.).

> Chrome's underpinnings V8 and Webkit found new uses outside of Chrome

To be clear, WebKit came from Apple (as a fork of KDE's KHTML), so this wasn't really due to Chrome devs; they were just part of the WebKit bandwagon.

Gecko (Firefox's rendering engine) was already quite widespread before Chrome existed, e.g. it was/is used in Gnome and GTK programs (Epiphany for sure, and I assume other HTML-consuming applications like Liferea); similar to the way KHTML is used in KDE programs, although it was more painful to integrate. Some of these programs were cross platform, so may have had a reasonable userbase (I don't know; I've used Linux exclusively for about 15 years).

Programs based on the XUL toolkit presumably had a much larger installed base; e.g. Thunderbird, RSSOwl, Songbird, Miro, etc.

I didn't notice any conspicuous users of Mozilla's Javascript engine except for Gnome 3, although there were other JS engines around for those who wanted them (e.g. Rhino for JVM applications). V8 certainly opened the floodgates for embedding JS though; I think I first started treating JS as a serious language when the D8 repl came out; node.js followed quite soon after.

> Furthermore, Firefox was late to Android

Well, Chrome and Android are both Google projects; we could say that Chrome was late to FirefoxOS ;)

> Part of the problem is a website/webapp developed and debugged using Chrome will work with Firefox more often than not

This is tricky; when I was doing Web dev around that time, I'd do a quick checking in FF or Chrome (whichever I had open) to spot glaring problems, then switch to IE6 for my serious testing.
Ok. There we go. It's actually what I had in mind for PreScheme. You just gave me more confidence in it.
> Right now only rich have the resources to offshore the profits

Where are you getting this from? You don't have to be particularly wealthy to offshore your income.
In otherwords, Chinese is "misspelled" for dialect... Just like any other writing system.
"to eliminate college tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes under $125,000"

And what happens if you make $126,000? Is it just gonna be a steep cliff where you go from no tuition to full price? Will this be conditioned to cost of living in the area? $125,000 in NYC and in Nebraska don't get you to the same place.

I wish there was a solution between "free for all" and "repay your student loan for the next 25 years". Can we just figure out a plan to make it affordable without it being necessarily free?
65% of market share is a monopoly?
I can imagine some of the complaints with gnome, although I feel its gotten far better, what exactly are the problems with gtk3 vs 2+?
"Wealth storage medium has to be rare (with predictable rarity), easily divisible, easily transferable, easily verifiable against forgery. Bitcoin fits the bill perfectly. It's hard to invent better medium of storage."

No - this is completely false. All of it.

Owning bitcoins is effectively speculative. It fluctuates wildly against all other currencies, commodities. It has no basis for appreciation, or predictability.

Your position is totally upside down - it's hard to imagine a worse store of value than Bitcoin.

+ Real estate, commodities, government bonds, equities, standard currencies are all 1000x better than 'Bitcoin' as a 'store of value'.

"It _is_ a common currency _now_. I"

NO. It is not. Can you pay your rent in Bitcoin? Can you buy milk? Can you walk down to any car dealer and buy a car? Can you report your earnings in bitcoin? Can you pay your taxes in bitcoin? Less than 0.01% of goods in the USA can be bought with 'bitcoin'- it is not a currency either in the technical or common sense.

Bitcoin is not 'legal tender' or 'de-facto tender' in any economy of the world, ergo, it is not a currency.

Why are you paid in bitcoin? Why not gold? Why not Diamonds? Why not porc-futures or T-Bonds? You have to transfer your Bitcoins/gold/diamonds/corn-shares into a real currency in order to use it. It seems pretty crazy to be 'paid in bitcoin' unless you were trying to skip on taxes. Otherwise (assuming you live in the USA) - you should rationally want to be paid in USD. Rationally - it makes more sense to be paid in almost any currency over Bitcoin. Dollars, Swiss Francs, Danish Kroner, Euros, RMB - they all make 'more sense' to be paid in than Bitcoin even for a US resident.

"Bitcoin is 100% transparent. "

Technically - I agree with you - but in practice, it is not, because it is not tracked or regulated, ergo, it is effectively anonymous, which is why so many 'black market' sites use bitcoin as a medium of exchange.

In fact - without 'black market' exchanges, bitcoin would probably not exist.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use bitcoin.

Also - I suggest you might not know what a 'store of value' or a 'currency' is, these are established financial concepts.

Most people behind bitcoin has no grasp of what currency is. They often compare it to 'internet technology' like IP. The lack of financial literacy among the Bitcoin bloggers is staggering.
Has there been a recent example of the olympics being a net positive in the long run? Russia and London were total disaster economically. I don't know about the other ones. Maybe Beijing.
There is also https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader
For mapping applications, tiles are loaded to display data. These requests have to be handled carefully, especially when there is a lot of data, because every map movement causes 10s of requests to be fired at once. Their lifecycles have to be managed so they can be cancelled as soon as their result isn't needed (user panned away, or changed zoom level).
Thanks Chuck! My thought is to have one end of the Airstream be the bedroom, and convert the other end into a workspace with a U shaped desk, big displays, Aeron chair, etc... And then leave the middle for the kitchen and dinette.

It's less about saving money than it is about minimizing a bit, and seeing more of the country.
Our+solution+for+the+hell+that+is+filename+encoding,+such+as+it+is
Amazing essay. It's chock–full of good stuff.

I extracted my favourite quotes from it here: https://minireference.com/blog/the-aims-of-education-accordi... (warning long post)
Druid committer here, happy to answer any questions!
Yeah.. 0% chance of this being real.
Thanks as I couldnt recall how average CPU was then. I was writing it off as possibly the safety/reliability sacking the performance a bit. Still wondering about the "noise immunity" feature. Thought all digital gates had that property.
Writing a Book: The Imposter's Handbook
So why didn't SYLK files get their own extension? Having to parse the file to figure out what it is? Seems so error prone. But maybe Machine learning will solve this too. Isn't that why extensions were invented- to reduce cognitive load?
Is it really free if you pay for it by taxing a subset of the population ( the wealthy ) who will almost all had gone to college. You can either pay for your tuition up front voluntarily, or you can pay for tuition for the rest of your life through forced taxation. I understand why this is popular with some segments of the population, but for the candidate who was supposed to have well thought out policies this looks just like a populist move to try and buy a portion of the electorate, without actually dealing with the cost of rising tuition.
Moving to Canada from San Francisco Where to Start?
I am in my 30s. I've been working with local startups in Silicon Valley for about 10 years now.
There's no future for my family here in US for numerous reasons. I have two kids now and it's time to think of their future in the country that has proper education and health care system.
What would be best place to start in Canada considering I will need a visa and planing on staying permanently?
It's a private archive of snaps you decide to save into it (and a PIN-protectable private-er archive inside it).

The in-depth Verge article [1] mentioned in the original article does a good job analyzing its capabilities and implications. Interesting, that other article's conclusion is the opposite of the Recode one, which suggests that this capability is essentially the same as Instagram and Facebook. It's not. Users of those sites practice more curation, while this is merely a private archive, fulfilling a different purpose.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/6/12102294/snapchat-memories-...
I thought the Arris Group supplied the hardware? I haven't had Comcast in a while, but when I did, Scientific Atlanta was the manufacturer. Has Comcast switched to internal HW development?
Subhead: "There is so much I don't know about Computer Science. I figured I'd share that with you"
42,300 Transistor Megaprocessor Is Complete
Web sites definitely have the ability to attempt profiling based on what they are allowed to see (e.g. your IP address, browser, OS, typical window size). They simply guess that it is still “you” and return what “you” just did.
End of Cycle?
Most people today are brought up in education systems that encourage conformity and obedience to authority. To some degree, some amount of conformity is required to prevent total anarchy. But that system of encouraging obedience is indoctrinated early and is very very strong. A leader simply emulates the same traits as a person of authority and thus is able to "hijack" that neurological response.

Personally, coming from an education system that places an even stronger emphasis on conformity than the American one, it took me a long time to figure out just how much it affects me and my friends. I don't know if it can be reversed but I'm glad to be aware of it at least.
"Movable goalposts", not "fixed goalposts".
Why DHCP Lease Expiration Matters for Your Coffee Shop Router
The 'solution' to bad currency policy is simply to use a currency that is well managed.

Some small Caribbean islands use USD exclusively.

After their national crises, Iceland almost switched to using Canadian dollars.

The 'black market' economy in Venezueala works on USD, as it does in many parts of the world.

So long as they are established currencies with widespread use and liquidity - we don't need bitcoin.

The most 'legit' currency in the world today is probably the Euro. It's the only currency backed by real assets. The reason for this is because no European country can fully trust the other. Ergo - hard currency.

Next would be Scandinavian countries, Canada, UK etc.

The Fed is not the most trusted entity, but due to the massive and widespread adoption of the USD, they have a kind of 'seignorage' and strategic backing (Oil prices etc.) - and so it's kind of 'de facto' a very good currency.

The Yen would be up there as well but the Bank of Japan has been doing crazy things to fight deflation and so it's risky for outsiders to own.
That's whst I was thinking. Usually something important in a stream of filler at the meeting. Watch it be misinterpreted by the software while the filler is intact haha. Even worse, using machine learning that optimizes for common case might actually make it worse given signal to noise ratio.
You're referring to Mixed Reality, which is the concept that Magic Leap is working on (rather fantastically). It may ultimately prove more enjoyable than VR in a variety of ways, but it has a different set of challenges. The goal there is to bring virtual objects to your world, while the goal of VR is to transport you to another one.
An Analytics solution on top of this data would be amazing ..
What does that have to do with academia? That's just having an overly simplified mental model of something, which all humans do when learning any new thing, whether through a lecture, a random stack overflow question, the compiler manual, or through pure experimentation.
At https://MNX.io we introduced an SSD cached storage VPS server -- 500GB starting at $7/month, available up to 40TB at $15/TB.
So very true and I doubt if ANY service with such low costs would provide any support beyond hardware/network failure. However, speaking for myself, once I have the trusty ol' CentOS 6.7 and an ssh login, Barbara is my aunt, so this works for me. :-)
I wonder if we can download/scrape all the data..
Another thing benefiting WebKit (and now Blink)’s dominance is its portability. WebKit runs on more platforms than I care to number, even finding its way into things like pre-smartphone Symbian devices. It can run where XULRunner is impractical or undesirable and has bindings for just about any popular language, and both of these factors have proven beneficial to its takeup.
27 9s is literally higher than my confidence that human civilization will be here in the next second. 10^27 seconds is about 32 quintillion years. Extinction events occur with a much higher frequency than that.

No criticism of Dropbox here; they know that number is just math games, too. I'm just putting some numbers on how true that is. Because I find tossing about big numbers like this as if they mean something a bizarre, nerdy sort of fun.
That's incorrect. The GP comment (tinco) is simply relaying a story that says that Google should know that he and his significant other have disjoint interests and query patterns (though they share devices and location). It's an anecdotal story. Someone else could have said that they like things in the join of the two interest sets and dislike something else. Tinco's story helps us learn more about the "entangled session" problem - a known area of research in Google (per the constructive response from nostradamons). Claims aren't made about how to go about doing that (people searching for X will never search for Y), just that Google should have a way of addressing Tinco's specific case.
This project has been dead for some time, unfortunately.

As has the more interesting idea the idea of a lua-based mail-client using Luakit: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/post/luamail_a_mail_client_built_...

That said I did write a console-based mail-client with lua support:

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
Everyone’s waiting for the Azure ascension
GitHub Universe 2016 Call for Speakers
Some of the most productive varieties of traditionally bred plants are sterile already.

Patent laws are completely different set of problems. They don't necessarily need to have anything to do with GMO as process.
I tend to live tweet stuff into slack, makes it useful to dump into other tools or get input from others who arent there, eliminates a lot of status update / meeting recaps
Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About Granola?
Or just use this: http://docs.gridspace.com/
European Commission approves new investment in cybersecurity
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648

http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/science
The point was made that, in one course, they're already learning JS/HTML/CSS and the full MEAN stack. Adding on the requirement that it work in each browser is just too much, especially when you consider how you'd want to grade such a thing.

FeatureA works in Chrome/FF but looks weird in Safari and is outright broken in IE. 7.346/10?
Making sure a website works for everyone is exactly what the company I'm working for [1] is focussing on.

We run a large grid of all different browsers, both old and new versions. You create a test where you verify certain aspects of your website and then run it on all these versions on our grid.

With the feedback we provide (screenshots/videos) you can fix any issues that may have come up across different browsers/versions.

[1] https://testingbot.com
These laws are likely invalid. Communications networks already operate on a "record and transmit" basis. As you pointed out, the real question posed by these laws is "when must a recording be destroyed"?

At the level of your personal rights, however, you have an absolute right to observe, record, copy, and display anything you are able. Personally, I feel the correct response to anyone who tells you that you cannot archive what you see and hear is laughter, followed by an explanation of their rights.
I'm glad that racing sims and flight sims don't have to solve these problems, because VR flight sims are exhilarating. Only thing that's needed is G-force.
Police stations are already warning Pokémon Go fans to keep out
Personally I think the best solution will involve some sort of hardware that can keep the player stationary while giving them the feeling of walking around freely. I'm not sure exactly what this will look like, it's generally not a good idea to walk on your treadmill while blindfolded.
I uninstalled the Gmail iPad app because suddenly YouTube and the Google maps apps on the iPad suddenly knew who I was, even though I'd never logged into them. It turned out that all Google apps can access the same iOS keychain.

The iPad is a family device. The children watch kids stuff on YouTube. My wife and I both use Google maps for different things. I was the only one using Gmail.

So, no I don't want personalised YouTube tracking on the iPad. Every time i opened the maps app it drove me to login. The iPad is a shared device. Maps and YouTube logins on a shared device make little sense, especially when Google is building profiles from our usage.

I found it a pity that my only choice was to delete the Gmail app, in order to stop the nagging. So irritating!
It's associative. If I think about smoking I get a strong urge to do it. I stopped the first time I noticed the craving when seeing someone I did not know smoking and had the urge to bum a smoke.
'Pokémon GO' Is Rolling Out Today on Android and iOS
But if I pay you bitcoin for goods/services, you still need to pay tax on that, in USD.
fwiw, if you have the Instapaper extension installed it has the option to insert itself into Hacker News among other sites.
Raintank (Grafana) to support Graphite project
Even today the Firefox dev tools are quite far behind in my experience. For example, source maps are completely unsupported in the web console [0], so you get a useless trace pointing to app.js:22312 while Chrome will tell you the target is actually indicator.js:21 right out of the box. That's a showstopper right there for any dev that's using Babel, Webpack, Browserify etc.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670002
Hyperloop One says it can connect Helsinki to Stockholm in under 30 minutes
Other things Comcast & the cable industry deem infeasible:

1> Operating in an open market - they've lobbied against 2 cable providers in a zip code.
2> Providing reliable, high-speed service and realistic prices - US internet prices are among the highest in the developed world, while being woefully slow in comparison.
3> Moving with the times - heard of the 300 GB monthly cap?
4> Not subverting the competition - Cable companies have been known to throttle speeds to competing services like Netflix.
5> Protecting your privacy - Selling your data and usage patterns to 3rd parties
Before I dropped cable TV, I refused to subscribe anything that required a set top box. My house still has an antenna in the attic with a cable running down to the basement where an A/B switch will flip the whole house from cable to antenna. No extra boxes on any of my TVs. Granted, I never wanted pay per view anyway. WoW can still be used like that by just plugging the cable into the TV, but oddly you need a box to get "digital" channels outside the normal local ones. Of course that's another fucking scam because there haven't actually been analog broadcasts for 7 years in the US, yet the cable companies down-convert everything and then charge more to get it unaltered.
You have some pretty bold claims here and not much to back them up. If you gave us some examples or studies you'd be highly upvoted, in my experience.

Anyway, I appreciate your viewpoint.
I'm not familiar with Clojure, but briefly reviewed the Carp documentation, sparse as it is. The part about "[]" meaning array hadn't quite sunk in when I commented about the syntax. Thanks for pointing that out, the Carp syntax makes perfect sense. I think it's a project worth keeping an eye on as it looks like it could have interesting capabilities.
How does Kubernetes compare with Docker? Does it compete with swarm, or which parts of the docker tools does it overlap with?
I worked as an intern at one of the companies based out of Matt's old high school four years ago. I also had the chance to use their space for two weeks a year ago and the space/environment is fantastic. It's amazing to see how far they've come from their first summer four years ago. I can't speak for GCT, but I don't believe it's profit-driven. In its first form, the accelerator was an extension of Matt and Charlie's (the other Co-Founder of GCT) high school which is an all-scholarship school for Catholic boys in New York. In short the students pay nothing; the school subsists off of alumni donations. The school's mission was to give a great education to students who otherwise wouldn't be able to access it for financial reasons. Matt and Charlie tried to preserve that benevolent attitude when founding GCT: an accelerator purely dedicated to the success of the companies in its classes.
It seems like whenever I hear of cycles, no example past "the last" (~2000) is given. What evidence is there that these are regularly recurring cycles?