skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't use terms like 'useful' when measuring jobs or output. It's in the eye of the observer.

Apparently nail painting businesses are a viable industry, in my eyes they are totally useless.

Most of the businesses we recognise today would have been hilarious to our ancestors. Paying good money for a personal trainer? Paying someone to wash your car?

This is an age-old problem which keeps solving itself.
> Yes, the United States replaced a friendly regime with a hostile one, that makes sense.

Read up:

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategi...

> SS and NKVD [and "brutal"]

This sort of b.s. psychological manipulations could be passed around before the internet as agitprop but those days are over. SS ran concentration camps, among other things. Kindly point to documented events that would even remotely approach the atrocities of SS or NKVD. (Google may also have some nice ultra violent pictures for your viewing pleasure courtesy of US armed forces and intelligence services in Iraq. From what WAPO published back in the day, when select members of US congress got to see the unpublished pics after Abu Gharaib hit the fan, they emerged "shaken", "pale", and "speechless".)

> the western powers did arms deals with Iraq in the 1980s

And Israel funneled American arms to "hostile" IRI during the same period. Regardless, the essential requirement was, and remains, for instability in the region.

Shah was a nationalist and that didn't fit in with the Globalist agenda.

> brutal & mass murder

Even the sum total of all state violence of Shah's 37 year reign pales to utter insignificance compared to the 4 year record of any American president starting with the Atom Bomb dropping shoe salesman and culminating with the current Nobel Peace Prize winner.

> incompetent

Fairly, he suffered from grandiosity and talked too much. But you can google for declassified assessments of this man. Incompetence was never on the list.
It's strange that the most simple and elegant solution to ad-blocking, self hosted ads are not considered by anyone. Magazines and papers have always done this in print. Yes there is overhead, because you have to handle the content manually and it's hard, even tough not impossible to measure impressions. But with print it's always been this way and now the media industry wants to both have the cake and eat it, because they don't want to handle ads but they want the revenue.

And maybe I should clarify, how does self-hosted ads solve the problem?

- It's hard to block ads on the same domain as the main content.

- Just loading an image with an ad is not as much of an performance hit as javascript loaded tracking ads and thus should not annoy users as much.

- More secure, because you can not hack one single ad service and distribute mallware to thousands of sites. Besides, the solution is less complex, and complexity always leads to bad security.
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It's not just you. Maybe FB is not an example of brutalist design [1] [2] because it's more polished that true brutalists are. It's just a plain vanilla site. Instead of thousands of different layouts on myspace and even on blogger, it's a one size fit all design. A white and blue page should be enough for everybody, and it seems it is, especially when it has the size of an app on a phone. Remember that the vast majority of its users didn't have any web property before their page and feed on FB. They don't find anything missing.

[1] http://brutalistwebsites.com/

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05...
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Reactive programming is an elegant and powerful feature for a modern language. Great achievement ! The idea to make it available also in non-graphical apps is very interesting.
omg... tracking to watch for speeding? then isn't it possible to know where I'm too?
Turn off ad-blockers or don’t read us, say top Indian newspapers
Wonder why it was removed.
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NY Times guy is still justified. No, his company should not serve malware. But if I get malware and it hijacks my machine, that means my browser and machine were both insecure. An ad blocker seems to me to be a bizarre way to make up for an insecure browser.

People get this odd vehement behavior when told that companies that depend on ads won't like it if you block their ads. The grown up thing to do would be to stop using these companies if you dislike their stance against your ad blocker. Instead there is this childish whining, as though people are entitled to free news without ads.
Looks like Indian newspapers are ganging up on their readers to force then to turn off adblockers. Goodbye, TimesOfIndia and HindustanTimes!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007472

Clicking on an article in timesofindia takes you to this:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blocked.cms
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Monopoly is the natural end state of capitalism. Once a company is big enough it's easy to destroy or buy out all competition. It's only regulation that prevents all industries becoming monopolies over time.

You're confusing monopolies coopting government to maintain control with large government causing and maintaining monopolies.
> So no the Linux gaming market is still pitiful it's not much better than it was 5 or even 10 years ago with Wine if anything it's worse since DX11/12 games pretty much do not run on Wine.

It's MUCH better than 5 years ago.

> On the indie side things are much better so if you are only a very casual gamer or really like some old school stuff you'll have things to play, if you want to play AAA titles Linux isn't where you find it.

Those "AAA games" used to be casual, over-hyped walking simulators...
Can you buy anything with that piece of paper?

Can you sell it?

If not, it's not really "worth" $100. That's the difference.
> radiologists to acquire high-resolution images up to 8 times as fast as they previously could using traditional MRI machines.

I think the author means 'radiographer' not radiologist.
I also wonder about the claims as to how this will change clinical imaging. I get that this is a a amazing project, and it will have some far reaching effects but changes to clinical imaging will be limited imho. Multibanding existing sequences will make them faster, but sequences that benefit from the technique (bold and diffusion primarily) are not big clinical techniques. Diffusion is a routine tool but at <2 minutes it's hardly a problem to acquire. Maybe I'm missing something big like everyone getting a a functional scan as part of a routine clinical brains scan?
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Ubisoft has released one game so far - Grow Home - on Linux. It's one of their smaller titles, but it's a start!

> The only big publisher that releases games for Linux is 2K

Warner Brothers, SEGA, Valve, CD Projekt Red, Deep Silver and Square Enix aren't big?

Microsoft has put out a couple of their smaller indie titles too...
> It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have far bigger budgets

Yes, impossible on the most broad and least targeted campaigns. But there's almost an infinite amount of targeting that you can do that will allow you to bypass anyone with just a tiny budget. You may just not be aware of the fb ad campaign strategies (and targeting options) that you're able to employ.

Please take the time and watch this video: http://youtu.be/7zcVB-awAM0 He's probably one of the most obnoxious presenters ever, but you'll come to appreciate the world of advanced facebook targeting and figure out a way to utilize it for your content marketing strategy.
If you're blocking ads for privacy / security reasons this site doesn't load at all: http://i.imgur.com/lWxMl7B.jpg while you see this on some sites with paywalls etc... I've never seen a site _this_ broken.
Off topic, but I thought AT&T still owned Bell Labs. It seems I missed the last 20 years in that regard:

In 1996, AT&T spun off Bell Laboratories, along with most of its equipment manufacturing business, into a new company named Lucent Technologies.

In April 2006, Bell Laboratories' parent company, Lucent Technologies, signed a merger agreement with Alcatel.

On April 15, 2015, Nokia agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, the Bell Labs' parent company, in a share exchange worth $16.6 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Bell_Labs
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It's not changed for me. I get this url on the HN link:

spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/brain-scanning-just-got-very-good-and-very-unsettling?utm_content=buffera9ad6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.V3RLFDgLxrs.hackernews
Why don't you enlighten us? Right now your comment amounts to "you're so wrong". Not very helpful or interesting...
Ah, my naive friend. How can an advertiser know it's not being shortcharged? Having a "neutral" third party helps here.
Browsers are insecure. Fact of life. A lot of work is being done to rectify this; but in the near future, this will continue to be the case. Meanwhile, using ad blockers for security may seem bizarre, but it works.
> What exactly do you play i wonder, sure there are some games, some 1st party games from Valve come out to Linux, some 2K titles will get a Linux release on steam 3 years down the line (and usually be somewhat broken), and there are some indie games.

You need to do some research.

> But please let's not portray Linux as a viable gaming OS.

I'm playing on steam+linux for years and I don't really miss anything. There are 1-2 games I'm running on wine+steam but all the others are on linux.

But please let's not portray Windows as a viable OS.
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It would be interesting if you could selectively do that, to pay your taxes with the asset valued at that purchase rate.
Security but also readability is why I use addblocker. Sites I like that does not interfererar too much with adds, then I turn addblocker off for that site.
However, way too many sties gets unreadable and are annoying to go to because of how adds are used and thus addblocker is very nice.
This all sounds reasonable but there are some problematic assumptions and circular reasoning.

'bias', 'both sides', 'balance' etc all rely on the idea that there is a reasonable middle ground. Aren't you assuming the very thing I'm asking you to justify?

For example in the UK - the BBC has been criticised for 'false balance' in it's science reporting. i.e. giving equal weight to mainstream views and fringe views: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10944629/B... (this is from a right wing newspaper - bear in mind that the right in the UK doesn't strongly support climate change skepticism in the same way they do in the US).

Also I've found the concept of the Overton window to be useful and fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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The survivorship bias applies to the U.S. data as a whole. I've found this paper [1] that adds data from 15 more countries, some of which experienced interruptions (germany) but still excludes those that suffered "permanent interruptions" (eastern bloc) to the sample. Needless to say, the results are not as exciting.

Memorable quote form the paper (quoted in turn from Samuelson):

> We only have one history of capitalism. Inferences based on a sample of one must never be accorded sure-thing interpretations. When a thirty-five-year-old lost 82% of his pension portfolio between 1929 and 1932, do you think it was fore-ordained in heaven that later it would come back and fructify to +400% by his retirement at sixty-five? How did 1932 Tsarist executives fare in their retirement years on the Left Bank of Paris?

[1]: http://merage.uci.edu/~jorion/papers/risk.pdf
I mean, in fairness, if you have a Window that wide, what do you expect to see? It would normally either be blank space, or ridiculously stretched out text. I guess you could split the text into multiple columns like newspapers do, but I haven't seen many websites do that.
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Keep in mind that their bottleneck is likely not capital but available partners. One partner can only handle a couple of companies/board seats. Andreessen calls this having only so many tickets to punch.
That's got to be a pretty nasty sequence to have run on you. A high res diffusion scan on a stock scanner can be heard a long way off and I've heard people 3 floors up complain of the noise (although that individual was quite susceptible to noise). This sequence must be rough on participant's ears.
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It’s mostly diagrams and formulae on a chalkboard. I don’t think a plain-text transcript would be very useful, and a full-fidelity transcript would take too much work to produce.
I have worked extensively with PHP, Python, Ruby and Node. I love PHP for deployment of end user apps. It just works. It literally takes minutes and you can be in your app rather than struggling with the language ecosystem.

It takes a lot of work and thinking to get to this state that is easy to overlook but it reflects a respect for users from the developers. And it shows. All the top apps in terms of deployment are PHP. I will ignore the many criticisms against it, they may be valid or they may not. The bottom line is utopianism is a deadend, there are always upsides and tradeoffs. PHP is improving and will continue to improve and is relatively simple to learn and use. Kudos.

Python is really a fantastic asset to the community. It's relatively simple to use and deploy thanks to its wide support on most Linux distibutions. I hate complexity and there are tons of interesting things in Python beyond Django. The server story could be improved but its not a deal breaker.

I think Ruby and to some extent Node but Ruby more so shows a thorough disrespect near hostility for the user. Deploying a Ruby app is always time for trepidation and you can be sure it is going to take time unless you are extremely well versed and upto date on the ecosystem ie a developer with a Ruby focus and perhaps that's why Ruby is best used in SAAS scenarios. I have deep doubts on the user focus of developers who expect users to deploy their Ruby apps.

There are tons of issues that crop up, from getting the base environment up and you do need a dev environment which has its own pitfalls and gotchas as gems may need to be built. Then there is the decision of where the gems should be, using things like RVM, Rbenv or the system ruby, the users who should run it and all the shenanigans that comes with it. Then deploying the apps themselves in terms of using things like Bundler which needs its own knowledge base and servers which could mean compiling Passenger with or without Nginx or using Unicorn. That is a lot of know how and it's a complete mess.

Updating apps can be equally troubling. There is no knowing which Ruby gem dependency could fail, which library may be needed, and that particular library may not be in your running distribution so you may need to compile it and that could start a long time consuming chain. This is millions of user and dev hours wasted for nothing, literally, that could be resolved by the developers and is much worse than anything you can throw at PHP which looks almost angelic in comparision. The deep knowlege required makes Ruby and Node extremely unpleasant. It should not take this amount of know how to simply deploy and use an app.

HN is dev focussed and it makes economic sense for devs to have expertise in the most rewarding languages, but this should not detract from the weakness and strengths of languages and I think it does.
Should probably involve the population there somewhere?
Yeah, if you want to tie your income to the risks of running a startup, just found one yourself.
In 1996 I was prototyping a belt with piezo transducers spaced around it with each doubling as emitters and receivers for a crude ultrasonic distance, and then each would vibrate at a higher frequency the closer the object came.

Nicknamed 'batbelt' in-house.

I dropped it after looking into insurance requirements and ADA compliance.
If an user has the Linux subsystem installed, that user knows what rm -rf does
I have a 2.5m solar oven and it's brilliant. It can boil a litre of water in a minute or so on a sunny day.
Judging by your post you seem to have no knowledge about computer security.

There is probably no internet-connected workstation today that is safe from malware, so one needs every bit of protection they can get.

Not running an ad-blocker or even better something like the Firefox protection tracker is foolish.
Ads really need to be put on a diet.

* Either a /static/ image or colored text

* Normalized (re-packed, stripped of all other data, etc)

* Vetted by a human somewhere to not be 'misleading in appearance' (not checking facts, but making sure that it doesn't look like a download button or anything else not obviously an ad)

* Based on the content of the context and nothing else (you can bake them statically based on the story and/or comments thread on the page)
The article presents the blocksize debate as Americans vs. Chinese. I see it more as an effort by payments companies (some of which are US-based) to capture the bitcoin protocol.
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One of the upsides of not being a democracy is that NIMBY, environmentalism and health&safety can be pushed much further down on your list of concerns/priorities.
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Completely OT and I apologise, but I've just noticed that your "60%" doesn't use the percent sign but instead ℅, a symbol I'd never seen before that appears to be the abbreviation for "care of". I'm fascinated by that -- how did that get there? What kind of keyboard did you use?
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So many sites now won't serve you content unless you turn off the ad-blocker. I have done so for those sites, but now I'm thinking of just boycotting those sites. CBS News is one of them, and I think it is a bit insulting to tell users not to protect their computer when they visit your website.
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I installed flash/java blockers when I was worried about vulnerabilities in those plug-ins, later removing those plug-ins entirely.

You should not install an ad-blocker if you really want a flash/java blocker. You'll still be vulnerable.

(Yes, there have been vulnerabilities in JS et al too, but blocking JS is a very different proposition.)
Solar panel silicon purity is above 99.98%, and often significantly closer to 100%.

Here's a study on "how impure silicon can we use for solar panels", and they only go up to 100 ppm feedstock impurity:

https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/how-silicon-purity-affects-the-...

Edit: should be "above 99.998%".
Not a word here about democracy. Lord Monckton summed it up very well: Where are the counter arguments?

"My three reasons for departure, in strict order of precedence, were Democracy, Democracy, and Democracy. For the so-called “European Parliament” is no Parliament. It is a mere duma. It lacks even the power to bring forward a bill, and the 28 faceless, unelected, omnipotent Kommissars – the official German name for the shadowy Commissioners who exercise the supreme lawmaking power that was once vested in our elected Parliament – have the power, under the Treaty of Maastricht, to meet behind closed doors to override in secret any decision of that “Parliament” at will, and even to issue “Commission Regulations” that bypass it altogether.

Worse, the treaty that established the European Stability Pact gives its governing body of absolute bankers the power, at will and without consultation, to demand any sum of money, however large, from any member state, and every member of that governing body, personally as well as collectively, is held entirely immune not only from any civil suit but also from any criminal prosecution.

That is dictatorship in the formal sense. Good riddance to it."
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> Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp all make use of types. They are, to a first approximation [0], all strongly typed and dynamically typed languages.

"Dynamically typed" is a contradiction in terms, at least if one is using the standard technical definition of the word "type". These languages offer runtime checks that have some things in common with a type system (in particular they have some of the same use cases), but they are not types and it is confusing to call them types (even if everyone in computer science agreed to talk about "dynamic types" and "static types" that would still cause confusion, because "static types" are types in the mathematical sense and "dynamic types" are not).

> But the structure of lisp (particularly its homoiconic nature) gives you a calculus over your programs syntax and semantics.

It's more a lack of structure, and a lack of syntax. In many lisps you have less control over syntax than in other languages - any embedded DSL has to be written in Polish notation. (You have reader macros but that's basically just having a program that operates on text strings, which you can do in any language - you can write a C program that preprocesses C source and it's effectively the same thing). I mean sure lisp lets you manipulate a tree of symbols arbitrarily, and then execute that tree with certain semantics. But there are a lot of languages you can do that in. The unique thing about lisp is that your program has to be expressed as a tree of symbols - which yes means that you have a calculus over it, but only by forcing its structure to be trivial. I'd rather have my program expressed as a richer structure, and a language that's powerful enough to manipulate rich structures in a structure-aware way.
Vitalik has said[1] that he has put 1500 ETH into TheDAO (0.3% of his ETH holdings).

So if you believe this than it's not him.

But yes, Vitalik gets the "many ETH-believers want him to be their ersatz satoshi" treatment. But IMO, he's ignoring those attempts and not encouraging it at all.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4pgf03/fork_call_...
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Shakespeare invented them, and then they became clichés.
I am not sure how effective are the methods to detect whether adblock is enabled or not.Most popular method seems to be checking the size of the ad content.There are other methods being discussed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4869154/how-to-detect-adb...

In the article itself there is reference to anti-adblock killer.If anyone installs an adblocker plugin,they can probably install an anti-adblocker killer too.
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It also tries to "mlock" the memory region on Linux so it doesn't get swapped, however it falls back to allowing swapping when it fails.
I did something quite similar couple years ago [jtmpl.com].

Main difference is Monkberry uses Jinja-inspired templating language and jtmpl uses Mustache (with slightly changed semantics, so, for example, a partial can be dynamically requested via XHR). jtmpl is a bit bigger and provides a bit more features.