skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spectrum efficiency is only one dimension. Smaller cells increase spatial reuse and can dramatically increase network capacity.

Demand is also off the charts. Approximately nobody does VR. Growth is still in bread and butter things like mobile video. In the U.S. in just the last two years, cellular penetration grew from 105% to 115% (more cellular subscriptions than people) and monthly data usage tripled.
Interesting. I'm pretty aware when people use this on me and I appreciate the effort. I don't feel like I'm being manipulated, I feel like this person is taking the time to try to preserve the relationship. Agreed that you should take a moment to understand the person you're delivering criticism to, though.
Unicorn Instacart Hopes Its Data Scientists Can Calculate a Path to Profits
Did you ever take the test?

There wasn't all that much about 'remembering useless details from a manual' in it. I've taken the cert twice (5.x and 5.3 IIRC) and in neither case was there much in the way of 'manual trivia'. Far more were scanning a piece of code and being able to determine what the outcome was (error? if so, which one? if not, what's the output?) than haystack/needle issues.
Looks like this is a port/clone of Ruby Warrior: https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior
I'm not sure he is wrong. Here's a quote with his position. Seems fairly reasonable:

QUESTION: It might help if you could define how you use the term “cognition” as opposed to the term “language.”

CHOMSKY: Well, I wouldn’t use the term “cognition” as opposed to the term “language.” Rather, cognition is an overall term that includes every system of belief, knowledge, understanding, interpretation, perception, and so on. Language is just one of many systems that interact to form our whole complex of cognitive structures.

(https://chomsky.info/1983____/)
I am seriously thinking of making a small web that parses HN and shows the links in a decent way and when clicking something it opens it with automatic styles like Firefox reader mode. The % of decent (as in readable) articles / articles in HN is too low, and Firefox reader mode fixes them all (so far 100% correct for me after years).
What you're saying pretty much already exists in the UK, to a certain extent.

Automatic speed cameras that trigger sending a penalty notice, with details on how to pay the fine, and how to appeal the charge.
Well, let's compare it, because that is a much better comparison!

Every time i bring it up i get downvoted, but why is blocking ads but still consuming the content okay? I'm genuinely curious.

To me it really feels like stealing. Like sneaking into a movie theater/concert/amusement park without paying, or like you said free-riding a subway/bus.

And when looked at through that lens, many of the excuses people make seem comical. (Ads make pages slow, they are ugly to look at, I don't agree with the business model). To me those excuses sound like saying "I don't think the movie is worth it, so i'm just not going to pay" while walking into the theater, or walking into a concert without paying because "waiting in line to get a ticket takes too long, so i just won't".

I'm hoping to have an actual conversation here and figure out why I feel so differently about this than many of the people on here do. What am I missing?
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this guy FUCKS
Kupor's mentality stems from dealing with co-founders who leave right after they complete their 4 year vest, well before IPO/acquisition.[1] While they certainly laid a foundation for the company, there's a lot of work still to be done to get to a liquidity event. Is it fair for them to leave with a huge stake and let the other co-founder(s) and employees figure it out? This is where he gets to phrases like "no longer contributing" or "wealth transfer". Essentially he's saying the vesting schedule doesn't capture everything an option should incentivize.

Having said that, I think he's over-applied this mentality to regular employees with much smaller stakes. It is reasonable to expect a founder to stay 10 years with a company. Not most employees.

[1] http://a16z.com/2015/10/19/prenups-for-co-founders/
US border control could start asking for social media accounts on landing forms
It doesn't have to be random - you can take a many-worlds interpretation where there is a "block history" that just branches into branches with a certain "mass", and the Born probabilities are just the subjective probabilities of finding ourselves in one Everett branch or another.
Show HN: RequestHub – route webhooks from one service to others
Donald Trump Has a 20 Percent Chance of Becoming President
Minor correction if we go by my own anecdotal evidence:

> When is a link scraped and stored in Facebook’s database?

> From my testing I assume that a link is stored in Facebook’s database from the moment someone actually clicks it on Facebook. This does not apply to links shared through Facebook which no one clicks on.

Watching server logs at the time I paste the link, the link is scraped immediately. Before you even hit send immediately. I imagine they do this so that they can populate the little preview window if you've pasted something that has an og:image or other rich media. If you paste it, it's instant, otherwise if you're manually typing the link it seems to wait for you to type a space character.
I've never used Zend, but was tasked with creating a new web app for our customers.

I did some research, and after reading this article comparing the PHP frameworks [0], I ended up choosing Laravel, which I think was a great choice. The documentation seems quite good, and there seems to be a strong community. I found this site which has video tutorials that teach the framework https://laracasts.com/

After sitting through a few lessons, I was off, and finished a production ready web application in about a week, and was really proud of how it turned out, especially since I do systems administration for a living and not development.

[0] http://zenofcoding.com/2015/11/16/the-great-php-mvc-framewor...
That'd be an interesting approach. I like the idea of diff'ing a page to detect sneaky ad injection.
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Have you ever configured a secure setup for php+httpd?
Because it is much easier to deploy a secure userspace python app outside of context of webserver and just proxy to it.
I use sub-TODO lists with thematic stuff (ie. freelancing-related, related to this or that product, etc). Then I get to not see it which is really helpful.
A good TODO list doesn't have too many stuff in it, so why not hide parts of it.
Then each day wake up and think "I'll do all that very doable backlog today".
I own the car.
But who is streaming Blu-Ray over their cellular connection? There is still a lot of room to grow with existing use cases. E.g. when I upload photos or videos of my toddler on Facebook, the picture quality is still potato. It could be better even without breaking my bandwidth budget.
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All true, but in this case there's millions of acres of cheap desert in the US. I think there's other forces than those retarding solar progress.
We should strive for a better world, not perfect world.
Misleading title. Info request to appear on visa application forms.
Uber to remove surge price details
It sounds like you already realize this is a good move for everyone else, it just sucks for you.
Know the Risk – Raise Your Shield: Travel Awareness (video, 7m)
Didn't both Google and Microsoft get nailed by this with their online maps? Specifically by using short urls with no access control for distributing routes?
Microlocation Marketing – The Future?
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Dammit, the title is clickbait and I clicked on it. I feel dirty.
... which is about the same as the Brexit "leave" vote was given http://uk.businessinsider.com/ncp-research-shows-196-chance-... Then leave won.
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That parking tickets even exist is a sign we grossly undervalue the land cars are parked on. Just price parking to the market and it's a non-issue.
The battle against ad blockers cannot be won.

I strongly believe that the ad industry will die, at least in the sense of what it is at the moment. Fighting ad blockers is its death rattle. That doesn't stop the technology being interesting though. Quite the opposite in fact, as a developer I find it fascinating.
Actually that's not a bad idea. Why not hit the site that the ad's are reportedly on from some IP addresses unknown to the ad provider. Do this over and over again until you have enough data to assume that say 1/5th of impressions are you then compare that to a neutral 3rd party source (Google Analytics comes to mind) of the total hits for that day. 5000 hits / 1/5 of those are impressions of your ad = 1000 impressions. Compare this to the numbers provided by the ad provider itself. All you'd need to do is spot check and it should keep everyone honest. I'm surprised people don't do this already.
The amount of complicated 'techniques' being advised should show you one thing: some companies have complicated and toxic environments and it's a rigmarole and a farce or parody of trustful human communication to use those techniques.

Probably the best thing to do to avoid 'engaging in toxic discussions' is to avoid the toxic environment in the first place. Find another job where communication isn't toxic or freelance.
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Yeah, we need to save that 146kb so we can do dumb stuff like animate stars.
There'll still be at least one person who knows your birthday already posting on your wall every year...
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They didn't necessarily blow through _all_ of it. Some companies will give cash back to investors when it becomes clear that the business is not viable.
Show HN: MVP done, now what?
I've spent about the past 6 months or so working on what I think of as 'database as a service'. Essentially hosted Sqlite with CORS support so users can post from anywhere, and execute queries saved on the backend. One of the things I'm going for is a completely in browser development experience, so there's nothing to install, the user simply uses the UI to create and edit queries and admin their database. One of the most basic uses would be posting form data from a static HTML page:

https://www.lite-engine.com/blog/post_form.html

I've posted it here before and didn't get much feed back. So I've deferred implementing any more features and wrote a bunch of documentation and blog posts. Kind reader, how would you characterize a service like this? Is Sqlite a deal breaker? Would a different database implementation be more appealing? Are there any other features that would improve the appeal of the service (ie static file hosting)?
Max & Erma's charges a $1 more. I've been there many times when everyone else is packed and I get seated right away. But, the menu is about $1 more per meal. Same reason I avoid Walmart like the plague.
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> For mainstream businesses, like chain supermarket, Coca Cola and car makers, I still maintain it's wasted effort.

I'm working at one of top digital advertising agencies in EU. National and global brands save no buck on their spending on social media presence, and there are plenty of cheap (for them) tricks that result in both additional sales, positive PR and new customers. We also have strong data to back this up and justify our budgets.

Sometimes it costs real peanuts. Its easy to pump sales for soda brand by going to Snapchat with staged clip going "PEOPLE!!! I WANT TO SEE HOW THIS SODA HELPS YOU BEAR WITH CURRENT HEATS!!!" with people in 13-30 range flocking back with clips of them demoing how soda helps them out stay cool. Then brand gifts dozen or two best submissions and next action ran month or two later attracts 120% the number previous one did, word of gifts and possible response from social media make sure of that.

Whats in for, say, Lidl (large market store in EU), when it gives away stuff to guy who complained to them on twitter that he got diarrhea from expired pizza he bought at their place? It lets them save face, improve recognition of their brand and makes more people bring their feedback, allowing them find potential rotten apples within their chain.

For young peopple especially the fact that large brand @'s them on twitter/face/insta or elsewhere is enough to go nuts, go to store, buy crazy amount of brand's product and then stage some photo or clip alone or with friends. And then there are followers who mimic this in hopes of getting social fame as well.
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Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" from 1974 also touches on this.
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Mentioning senior/management levels is stupid. Obviously they will lag both the increase in the number of women studying CS in college and the decrease in sexism by employers. Wait 10-20 years, if the gap is still as wide as it is today, then it becomes a valid complaint.
In the example

<button type="submit">Add #{{ todos.length }}</button>

should probably be

<button type="submit">Add #{{ todos.length + 1 }}</button>

:-)
On the topic of Stephenson, i can't help wonder if his "cyberpunk" was more satire. After all the guy actually knew computers, and thus was perhaps irked by the "imagery" used by cyberpunk authors. He also basically pureed the prototypical cyberpunk during the opening chapter of Diamond Age.
I get the feeling Facebook is running out of ideas and just rejigger the same thing over and over again. How often had the newsfeed changed? How often for the better?
Huh? Surely if parking prices went up, more people would illegally park and tickets would become more prevalent?
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Waiting for Gödel
For mainstream businesses who use branding style marketing; they're used to spending money without much measurable results. I work at a niche yet global business our best use case for Facebook is to be in our niche groups. Combined they're 8-10k users.. we wait for a mention of a issue with our product then fix it privately via messenger.. 90% of the time they get back on the public thread and praise us. It's absolutely priceless as a customer service channel for us.
> But who says that what people say about themselves reveals actual emotions and motivations?
> This might be true for simple attitudes free from moralisations (‘What is your favourite music?’)

My answer to that question changes depending on who asks me, where, and when.

As for a link between language and cognition, it completely depends on the definition. Like the arguments of religion they are both pointless and masturbatory unless the participants are willing to agree on concrete definitions beforehand.

Cognition is murky because it involves understanding, and understanding is a most variable and undefined term.
You mean the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is wrong. Which people like me (originally trained as a linguist) have been saying for years.
Ways to maximize your cognitive potential
Patent application suggests infrared sensors for iPhone
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Robotic automation of any sort doesn't occur in a vacuum.

If 50% of the jobs in a field are automated, in the near term you still have 100% of the former labor looking for that job, pushing salaries down towards their minimum, thereby reducing the cost effectiveness of further automation.
Yeah, I thought this was a solved problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In...

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20522.html
A guide to transform any app into a social network
Google uses Bermuda (a British overseas territory) to avoid tax liability in the EU

“Google has paid €8.8 billion in fees to Bermuda,” S&D group MEP Peter Simon complained. [1]

The irony being that the current president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was Prime Minister of Luxembourg when his administration was organising the low tax environment. [2] [3]

And now the EU claims that "the Anti Tax Avoidance Package is part of the Commission's ambitious agenda for fairer, simpler and more effective corporate taxation in the EU." [4]

[1] http://www.euractiv.com/section/public-affairs/news/google-f...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Leaks

[4] http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/company_tax/an...
I guess a cheap and efficient propulsion that doesn't fit our understanding of physics was too good to be true. Still, it's a bit sad, that would have been beautiful if it were true.
We don't think in terms of language. Language is simply a translation layer for the underlying neurological phenomenon. It feels like we think in language because we tend to understand concepts after they've been turned into words.

I can turn this off and just compare the word referents to each other. In fact, I have to in order to get any serious thinking done. Translating to and from words just introduces friction.

The tradeoff to doing this is that the end product insight is not at all relatable to other humans, it's some deep deep link into my subconscious that's extremely abstract.

Sometimes I'll conjure up, in my head, an imaginary conversation partner, and converse with them. Then I will use words, because the point is to use the other person as a clarifying foil. I'll hew to the rules of human logic, and make points that they can follow. In my own head, I don't have to use the same logic everyone else does. To me, human logic presents as a strict subset of rules of my logic, but still "logic-complete" in that I can represent most of my findings in semantic form given enough time to find the right 'compilation'.

I believe that language is in the process of deeply integrating into the brain and still isn't really done yet. People have tricks that they use in order to increase the compression rate of words. Narrative for instance. But we still have trouble reaching for words when we need them. I think the language part moves in parallel to the rest of the brain, silently translating thoughts and presenting them to the executive function. (what you think of as you) Thoughts are multi-dimensional, whereas words have many fewer.

In the future, we'll become more strongly aware of the limitations semantics places on articulation. People tend to get too hung up on what words mean, and discussions will often digress to the moors of semantic posturing.
If you click the small Arrow in the top right of a post, there are usually some options to manage that post.

Often, there is "See less of X person", "See less of this kind of post", "Unfolow X person" and other other similar options.

I use it all the time and ended up with a feed that doesn't change much (maybe one new post per day, but that contains content I actually care about.
They can't be forced out if they didn't start in the first place (because of lack of interest). When I was at University, there were way more guys studying engineering and CS. Were they forced out before they started?
Can't this be mitigated to a large degree by setting the value per share to an tiny fraction of a dollar? Sure, you'll have a tax to pay when the shares are granted, but it should be reasonable.

I could get behind the scheme you commented with, but I'm unsure of generally why we have the system we currently do, so I would want to understand the rationale for the status quo.
tl;dr: StartSSL would issue certificates for sites like Github and Dropbox, and practically any site offering OAuth2, without having to have control over the domain.

StartEncrypt by StartCom/StartSSL has a LetsEncrypt-like verification process wherin the ownership of the domain is verified by doing a HTTP request, and having the listening webserver return a specific token.

The problem was that they allowed the user to choose the path on the domain, and so when you for example would host a raw file on Github or Dropbox, you could issue a certificate for that domain. Also, it would follow redirects, even to other domains, and with OAuth2 practically mandating open redirects, this was easy to do on many sites.
So... you're saying all we need to do is pull an extension cord behind our spacecraft?

Unlimited powahhh!
> if Bitcoin can scale the way its inventor envisioned (namely by simply increasing the block size limit every now and then)

It's not nearly that simple. There are two main reasons why "simply increasing the block size" is neither safe nor simple:

1. Centralization. Running a full node is already quite a commitment. The bandwidth requirements are high, the storage requirements are high, and it takes many days to sync the full blockchain. Many people already do not bother doing it because it is such a bother. Running a VM in the cloud as a full node is not that cheap. All of these problems scale linearly with increased block size. A really large block size that causes most existing full nodes to give up and stop relaying would not be worth it for the network in the end.

2. Bitcoin is vulnerable to (and has been subject to) attacks by way of computationally expensive transactions that scale polynomially with the maximum size of a block. This has not been completely solved yet. Right now the worst possible block verification time is on the order of 10-30 minutes for an average CPU acting as a relaying node. "Simply" increasing the block size a great deal without first fixing this issue (and it's a hard issue to fix) could potentially lead to entire network collapse if a single attack block gets mined and then chokes all nodes for days.
Advertisers can track clicks very easily on their own via google analytics and other platforms. What's so hard about that?
It's no surprise to me that one would adapt over time. The article you link didn't mention any long-term study. I'd be curious to know how long it would take to replace one's vision to that of vertically or horizontally mirrored vision, in full. It's one thing to walk or drive a motorcycle, it would be another thing to handle situations requiring sub-second reflexes.

Once you've managed to fully adapt to the new mapping, is it just as jarring to revert and go back to normal, or have you learned how to handle both?

Say you rotated for an entire year - or longer - on a weekly schedule between normal vision, vertically mirrored vision, and horizontally mirrored vision. Do you gain full training in all three to the point that you could transition between normal/vertical/horizontal at any time without any disorientation or readjustment period? Or can the brain really only handle one mapping at a time? This would be the ultimate question to answer.

I suspect the results would be similar to how we handle multiple languages. Your primary vision (ie: the one you learned first, or the one you have used exclusively for a decade or more) would remain the easiest to work with, while acquired alternatives may approach the "fluency" of the primary, while not being perfect.
Yes, it can. In uMatrix:

hindustantimes.com www.hindustantimes.com script block

indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com script block

lets you get past the blocker.
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v7/n4/full/nphoton.201... Here's a definitive src on .69c for an 'ideal' fibre velocity factor.

Here are two sources, both of which have prop. velocities @ around .6c depending on the dialectric. Again ideal. I haven't architected any long-run infrastructure, but 1/3rd sounds pretty right to me.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0986/4308/files/Cable-Dela...
http://www.faculty.ece.vt.edu/swe/lwa/memo/lwa0136.pdf
RG58 is your traditional coax copper you'd run with copper and SMA connectors on an above-average scope.