skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can tackle it either way, but keeping your costs down is certainly the smarter way to go if you are spending your own money.

The problem is investors will put pressure on you to expand as fast as possible without concern for your CAC. They don't really care if you bomb out as they are just looking for the growth rocket they can ride to the stars - if 9 out 10 blow up on the launch pad well that is just a problem for the entrepreneurs who have put their life and soul in.
Democratization is I think a poor metaphor; a better one would be emancipation.

Right now, if you use Facebook, Facebook owns you. If you don't use Facebook but all your friends do, Facebook still owns you, but you're worthless to it, and it punishes you for failing to generate value by making you as close to socially invisible as it can - which is pretty damn close. (Ask me how I know!) None of this is deliberate, in the sense of an evil conspiracy cooked up by cackling villains. But all of it is true.

The purpose of Urbit is to make it possible for people to own themselves. Doing so is not free of charge. (Should it be? Are you worth nothing?) But it is, or will be once (if) it's possible at all, as cheap as can be made practical - which is very cheap indeed, or free, if you don't mind opting out of guaranteed and durable identity. The tradeoff is that people who don't opt out may not be as quick to trust people who do. But that's a choice you get to make, instead of, as now, a choice that Facebook makes for you. I can't speak for anyone else (especially Tlön), but I've had enough of Facebook making choices
for me. Have you?
In self-driving-car crashes, most people think automakers should be liable
Atari and Arcade Kickstarters to Back
People in Austin are replacing Uber and Lyft with  a parking app?
How Apple Obsessive John Gruber Built Daring Fireball
Better, don't put private information behind a publicly accessible link. E.g. that google doc has its own access control, don't set it to "share with anyone who has the link".

Links are leaky, think about Referer, JS to access history, DNS request, ...
Facebook’s Unsettling Referendum on News
Ask HN: [Brexit] What if the Article 50 will never be triggered?
After the dust settled down it seems most likely, that the new prime minister (if there will be a new one at all) will never trigger article 50.

What would be the ramifications of this outcome?
Independent Auditing happens in all kinds of industries and for all kinds of reasons

There is no reason a neutral 3rd party can not review logs, software, or other data to ensure in house ad metrics are accurate.
Dynamic 'types' are not types, they're tags [1]. Their function, to determine what to do with a piece of data passed to a function at runtime, is common to both so-called statically and dynamically typed languages. The actual function of types, on the other hand, is to prove simple propositions about a program without running it. This feature is unique to statically typed languages.

This is the problem with this entire debate. People act like there are two sides arguing from positions of equal merit. That is not the case. One (static) is a strict superset of the other (dynamic).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(programming)
Right. Don't put anything on an email, or on Facebook, that you wouldn't want the world to know. After all, it's all stored somewhere and is readable there (except if it is end to end encrypted and encrypted while at rest).
From what I know from a friend that works there, Kiva robots are still not profitable enough, even though they're quite simple tech-wise.
Ad blockers is a misnomer. They are HTML firewalls.
A bit difficult to do if we're in a desert, I think...
I like to think that Finnehans Wake was an elaborate practical joke aimed at the literary establishment.

Can imagine Joyce chuckling to himself as he imagined generation of literary critics and bedevilled students trying to make sense from its fractured dreamscape.

I love the book, though. It's words come closest to capturing in words what it is like to dream. Glimpsed fragments of meaning, locations and people and ideas that shift and stir in and out of existence. A lingering sense that there was some kind of narrative there, but there's no way you could ever describe in words what it was.
Those random DOM nodes will probably be easy to recognize because they can't affect how the final page looks. If all else fails there is still the option of rendering the page, using image-based add detection, and killing/hiding the associated DOM nodes.

There are only so many ways to obfuscate your DOM without screwing up the page layout and making your UI people angry. The battle against add blockers cannot be won.
Text messaging creates unique brain waves
The ultimate Apple I/O death chart
The innovation is great. But it is scary that amazon may start buying all these robot startups just to keep the patents and their products out of the hand of other e-commerce companies.
Keep Out from Spam – free disposable email address
Also:

* pretty much everything actually useful is implemented as a jet

* the jets often don't actually match the supposed code they're accelerating (e.g. the Markdown jet has different bugs)
The warp drive will have to wait
Unless you intentionally want to convert yourself, the propaganda user experience is generally pretty unpleasant.

Agreed that cognitive dissonance could be a part of the part of propaganda that is hatefacts.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t...

The critical passages - translated by myself

Page 2:

The hint:

"Again it showed the same behavior - until the drive was directed towards the top for testing purposes. Usually, the drive is put on a torsion balance in a way that it can best turn the scale left or right.
With the drive directed towards the top nothing should be measurable. [...] However, the drive directed toward the top in this experiment still showed the same force as when directed to the left."

The test result at TU Dresden, Germany: "Tjalmar said: 'I can't say I proved or refuted the EM drive'" (because they didn't have the means to test it with a battery instead of an external power supply)

Reference to a follow-up from a Chinese university:
"But a research group from China did the necessary to refute it. As soon as the EM drive doesn't get its power from a cable outside [i.e., it get's its power from a battery], there is no measurable force anymore."

The link to the Chinese paper
http://www.tjjs.casic.cn/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=2...

The final sentence of the abstract:
"Within the measuring range of
three-wire torsion pendulum thrust measurement system，the independent microwave thruster propulsion device
did not detect significant thrust. Measurement results fluctuate within ± 0.7mN range under the conditions 230W
microwave power output，and the relative uncertainty is greater than 80%"
This was an interesting read, so first and foremost thanks -- I'm glad you took the time to spell it out.

Firstly I'm a bit confused. I interpreted your initial comment as saying that it was a bad idea for the Ethereum protocol developer to hold $115k DAO tokens, but now I get the sense that you were saying the DAO, as a whole, was a bad idea. Could you just clarify which it is?

Secondly, I get the sense that you're making two types of claims: a) claims of incompetence on the part of the DAO/ETH team (which seems to be the general consensus) and b) claims of fraudulent malevolence.

As a layman, I'm interested in getting a better picture of the latter. Couldn't this "just" be a case of shoddy craftsmanship and absence of due diligence on the part of investors? I apologize, but I don't see the scam per se. Please be aware that I'm only superficially familiar with smart-contract technology.
>>Shadow of Mordor is near unplayable)

Really because I have played over 200 hours, seems to work just fine in my Arch Linux system...
Lots of people dare to say it. Then Chomsky comes to their research talks and heckles them.
Somewhat strange methodology is used there:

"speeds can be altered by mobile networks' use of proxies, meaning that the speeds recorded will be between those proxies and Akamai's servers, rather than between the servers and the actual mobile devices themselves."

For users end mile usually matters the most and this table doesn't count for that, so it doesn't reflect the actual user experience. Sounds more like PR stuff than an actual test.
Why can't both benefit? Palantir merely offered the deal, and employees (and ex-employees) accepted.
Every time someone posts something like the parent comment, I just assume they're using Urbit or TempleOS and move on.
Urbit: neoreaction via Diaspora in INTERCAL on the blockchain.

(Urbit is explicitly intended to instantiate Yarvin's political views, per the 2013 version of the security chapter: http://archive.is/UK8So )
Heck, I remember using an emulator on a 286 PC clone to develop CP/M software circa 1988.
Could it replaced Comcast? That would certainly excite people!
It's a private individual working at a private company - whose investment was already public knowledge. OP is just spreading FUD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDao/comments/4j6nv7/you_have_bee...
Would it help to have an off the shelf, self-hosted ad platform available? Perhaps a plugin to an existing CMS?
For the birthday thing:

From your Profile page > About tab, then Contact and Basic Info. Click on the pen icon to edit your birthday and you'll see a dropdown to determine who can see the date and/or year of your birth. I've got mine set to "Only me".
> If the blockchain is useful in those areas where [almost] no trust exists,

It is entirely unclear this has been demonstrated. Mostly what we see in the cryptocurrency space in practice (not hypotheticals) is scams upon scams: it turns out that a "trustless" system attracts people who can't be trusted.
It is a private individual at a private company - and his investment was already public knowledge:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDao/comments/4j6nv7/you_have_bee...

OP is just concern trolling.
Plain Emails Work Better
All of urbit.org is in robots.txt, by the way - if there's anything interesting on there that catches your eye, make sure it's in archive.is.
Firefox reader mode. It fixes the web, and it makes me slightly sad.
Looking at the gzipped size on cdnjs

- react minified 43.2kb

- react-dom minified 723b
Pro-‘Brexit’ City of Sunderland Glad to Poke Establishment in the Eye
Ironic that Bobby Lee calls the Americans imperialistic given that BitCoin wasn't invented in China, but Chinese firms have clearly taken control.
On top of all of that 4G is still so data-restricted you cannot do anything with it that the speed was meant for. The cost of streaming a blu-ray quality film over 4G on many carriers can cost you tens of dollars alone.

I agree, and would rather see ubiquitous and cheap 4G before anyone talks about 5G. I think 4G already has the potential to eliminate the vast majority of wired to the home cable Internet service given its rates, the only downside is the extreme spectrum crunch and the lack of viable open bands to use to provide Internet to everyone.
> the lights did a good job

No, absolutely not.

Lights are to help the cyclist SEE.

To be SEEN you need reflectors. [1]

Worse, if a cyclist's frontlight is blinding other cyclists coming at him it means they're failing both the others AND themselves, as: The oncoming ones can't see shit and are more likely to make a mistake and the rider themselves isn't illuminating the ground ahead of them so they can't actually see where they're going.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWzeGlaFvI
grumble grumble standardized tests
Do you have a source on the 1/3 c in copper?
I think Article 50 will probably be triggered, but dragged out. Britain loses little from waiting this out until it's negotiating position improves.The EU is scared that other countries may wobble on their decision to stay and wants this done quickly.

After listening to Theresa May and Boris Johnson exclude the idea of a general election I think it is becoming increasingly unlikely that there will be a reversal on the Brexit. The Tory party seem to have staked their future on it and will continue on this path to 'a greater future for our children'
StartEncrypt considered harmful today
While society needs a certain amount of financial infrastructure we can probably don't need the massive amount of finance biz that we have now.

"Market share[edit]
US[edit]
As of 2004 the financial services industry (finance industry) represented 20% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 in the United States.[citation needed]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_services

As Warren Buffet once said:
"It has always been a fantasy of mine that a boatload of 25 brokers would be shipwrecked and struggle to an island from which there could be no rescue. Faced with developing an economy that would maximize their consumption and pleasure, would they, I wonder, assign 20 of their number to produce food, clothing, shelter, etc., while setting five to trading endlessly on the future output of the 20?" -Warren Buffet
Isn't that just the Markdown jet? Or are there other examples I haven't yet heard about?
Don't think for a moment this can't BSOD your system. A LibreOffice font caused a BSOD on Windows 7 SP1, and whilst I sent memory dumps to Microsoft they eventually never got back to me.

As far as I'm aware, I guess this can still occur.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62764&re...
Let see Top 10 Games by play hours, all on native linux (no WINE)

1. Borderlands 2

2. Shadow of Mordor

3. Cities Skylines

4. Civ V

5. Stellaris

6. Borderlands Pre-sequel

7. Space Run

8. X-Com

9. Wasteland 2

10. Race the Sun

Plus I just bought like 10 or so titles on Steam Summer Sale, all Linux but have not had time to play them. Solar2, universe Sandbox 2, Tropico 5, Portal 2 are a few of those.

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

I game exclusively under Linux now, if the game is not available for Linux native I will not buy it.

I no longer own any Windows Computers.
> It's hard to block ads on the same domain as the main content.

Well, I'm sure that it would not be impossible:

- ads are the changing part of a webpage, so they can be identified

- ads could be collaboratively removed, by allowing the user to select the ad, then send its fingerprint to a central entity, so that others can benefit

- AI techniques could be used to identify and remove ads.
Very informative!
They are not "basically owned" by a private equity firm. They have raised money at high valuations, and I strongly doubt that they have sold away a controlling stake in the company. So, they still get to make their own decisions.

They are definitely bringing in real revenue. Many firms have raised substantially more than they need to, because they have been well aware that funding could dry up.
Only the good die young.
The revenge of those left behind by the global economy:

"I don’t have any money in the stock market,” Mr.
Walker, 59, said as he drank a pint of beer in a pub.
“So what’s it to me?"
How Much Is That Big Data Worth? – Big Data Decisions Impact Business Valuations
Latency will always be inferior in satellite links.
From what it looks like it may not be so bad. Since the system appears to be dynamically scalable you can most likely move all items out of a section and make it off limits. Then do maintenance etc on that section.
Facebook tweaks its algorithms constantly. Facebook's algorithms tweak the algorithms constantly. This is just PR fluffery.
Show HN: Quickly search through Web Development things
Many former employees have done exactly this.
Atomic Energy Lab – Cloud Chamber Toy for Children (1950)
Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption
Acorn's master plan for the BBC Micro series of computers was that they'd really just be the I/O terminals for another, much faster computer attached via a high-speed bus; there was an RPC interface to allow the second processor unit to make system calls on the I/O computer and use its peripherals.

The only second processor unit they released in bulk was a 6502 unit (3MHz with 62kB of free RAM and no interrupt overhead, so it was blisteringly fast by 8-bit standards). But there was also a Z80 unit, which would run CP/M.

http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Aco...

The plan was evenutally scrapped in favour of the BBC Master, but they produced limited quantities of a 10MHz 32016 unit (running Panos) and was used to develop the original 8MHz ARM1.
Yes. It's still the only decent way to organize a party, group trip to a museum or anything like that - Meetup costs money, Slack costs money or requires a dodgy hack, other groupchat programs are too noisy, setting up a dedicated mailing list or website is too much effort, emails-to-everyone it's too hard to get everyone to add or remove someone from the list.

I put events on there, occasionally a few holiday photos or whatever, and check updates on my commute. I defriend people I'm no longer close to, and hide as much political news as I can, so mainly I see photos, personal-blog-like posts, and events. It's great for short-notice events - if I see someone's going to something cool tonight I can ask if they want to meet up. It's great.
I am sure they are making these changes based on their engagement data but ultimately how many of us here believe that their engagement data is really down because some of the activity between friends is happening on Snapchat.
Microsoft Bing's - Internet Speed Test Utility
It seems like a natural consequence of things like this could be a computer program on the other end automatically doing the judging of minor offenses, with an option to appeal to a human for a slight cost.

One way to introduce it could be for the courts to produce standardized forms for extremely common offenses, with the judges expected to simply follow the instructions unless someone files another form for a deeper investigation.
looking at autostore I was curious how many skus can be done efficiently and how deep you can go relative to the number of fast moving lines? With a million SKUs it might be fun to see what initial mapping can be done. Also, how can hazardous stacks be integrated to they can deliver to the same work station as regular items?

as for maintenance I would think a few strategic extra rows could serve that purpose without losing too much efficiency.

most the picking I am used to has both voice and light based picking with high velocity parts duplicated to the front.
What is he wrong about, exactly? (by the way, thousands of people have been saying that Chomsky's wrong for some fifty-something years, now).
At least no one threatens to throw me in prison if I don't pay taxes to support Ethereum.

But it's totally cool and even funny that we throw people in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and where they often develop mental and suffer physical and sexual abuse, for not meeting our intrusive demands. Lol. Yeah it's the libertarians that are dogmatic psychopaths, not us.
Google is testing internet speeds straight from search
You can do that, AFAIK. I've hidden mine since I first signed up and it doesn't show it to anyone.
"Here's the thing about anti-virus. We use viruses to pay our talented journalists, editors and many other staff. When you browse our site without anti-virus it means we can't pay out staff and keep making articles you love. Please disable your anti-virus to continue."
Extremely cool!

Now is the reverse (vision->sound) also possible? Perhaps using an array of laser sensors, so that we can reproduce the sounds in the environment.

Also, is it possible to turn the images/video back into sound? Could be a fun experiment!
HTTP/2 Server Push with multiple assets per Link header
It seems they check it with ots: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/ots/README?...
James Norton's audio book of Ulysses is superb, he really captures the beauty of the language. I'd recommend it more as an audiobook that written, at least at first, just as I'd recommend listening to Shakespeare rather than reading the text.

genius.com has an annotated Ulysses, [0] and it might be even better to listen and read at the same time.

[0]: http://genius.com/albums/James-joyce/Ulysses
I think there's it can't be denied that there is a strong link between cognition and language, since from introspection I feel that my thoughts are in language, and language certainly permits tremendous richness of expression of thought. Chomsky discusses these views here - I don't think this article repudiates them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH8SicnqSC4

I will agree with the author that, despite being not possessing language, animals are more intelligent and sensitive than frequently given credit.
Spanish authorities raid Google offices over tax
It's interesting that we may get more insight into this stuff through building neural networks with similar functionality.
Space Now – Australians sharing spaces
Toward the end of my CP/M days (~1986/87) we had debugger named DSD for Dynamic Screen Debugger. Of course we take our modern IDEs for granted, but back then, being able to step one instruction to the next on screen, with the current instruction highlighted in inverse video, and all the registers and flags displayed in a box in one corner of the screen was pretty unbelievable.
Its really exciting to see that kind of capabilities and potential that bluetooth 5 brings to the table for IoT. However, what excited me even more is the capabilities put forward by bluetooth 5 to boost beacon adoption and location-based services. Given how Google's recent updates such as Google Nearby and Android Instant Apps are also ones with location-based services at its core, bluetooth 5 onces it's launched will definitely boost beacon adoption to a significant extent.
Ulysses is one of, if not my absolute, favourite books. And I don't share the post's dislike of Portrait, either.

But Finnegan's Wake, yeah. Too much for me. There are moments in Ulysses that touch that, but then reign back into focus, but Wake is just beyond me.
How long would it take until a Rust reimplementation would be as mature as the current ones?
You don't want to know! https://xkcd.com/1530/
I used to develop apps in dBase II on CP/M back in the early to mid 80's. We used to have these lovely NEC computers (PC 8800 and APC) with dual 8" and 5.25" drives running CP/M. Later the boss bought me a Torch Z80 [0] co-processor, which ran a clone of CP/M called CPN, for my BBC Micro so I could fiddle about and work from home. We used to use WordStar as our code editor and would patch its printer drivers by hand to get them working with certain NEC and Juki printers. Then once day we bought an early PC clone (a Ferranti box) and things moved on.

Amazingly some semblance of Torch is still around [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Computers

[1]: http://www.torchcomputers.co.uk/
Where I live health benefits are taxable. There are tax incentives for pensions (presumably intended to encourage saving?) which I guess I oppose too.
We all have a bit of a different way of approaching the problem and our target market differs somewhat. You can use this technology for a lot of different things, not just the obvious use cases. We're still looking at a lot of applications, so the clearer product differentiation is something that will form as time goes by.

- Kai @ nlacoustics.com
How do they manage that? I imagine they'd use JS to check if the ad loaded maybe, can it be beat by just disabling JS entirely for that site?
yeah and fair enough, it's a good example of great storytelling though
Affinity Designer for Windows is here
The making and comparison of draft curves
Exercising options in a non-public company should not be taxed or valued in any way until the stock can be sold in a public market or to a purchasing entity. Of course what are the odds Congress would ever do that? Nil.