skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, again - his career income likely never hit $55M. Even at the peak of his career it would only have been in the <$5M range (one of the Wrestlemania events that he headlined listed his salary for the event at $150K - and there certainly weren't events like that on a monthly basis, so even factoring in endorsements and royalties)...

So in retirement, no longer a public figure, aged 62, I have no idea how he can credibly argue he potentially lost $55M in income because of this. That he somehow "potentially" had $4M a year until his death (based on median age of death) of endorsements go up in smoke strains credibility. That seems to me to be some definite creative accounting that might be appealed.
Can anyone answer why they use both Spark and Hadoop (and storm)?
Twitter seems to really drag their feet deleting accounts of Islamic radicals inciting violence and Black Libes Matter sympathizers celebrating cop killings. If they even bother to do anything.

If you're going to police speech that's merely provocative, as Milo's is, and not expressly illegal (direct actual threats, child porn, etc) then you're going to get yourself in a position where you eventually piss everyone off. Twitter and Facebook are doing an excellent job of that at the moment with conservatives. We'll see long term how many users want to hang around a dry leftist echo chamber.
That's rather presumptuous of you. Denton being an asshole in no way precludes Thiel from being an asshole.
But the investor should optimize the process for themselves, they're in control. The startup needs THEIR money in order live.
Actually it takes more like 2 months for the Stockholm Syndrome of vim to sink in and then you don't want to use anything else ever again.
And sky-high property taxes in Texas also helps keep prices low.
The debate that's been unfolding for a couple months about the Ghostbusters movie as leftist propaganda.
Supposedly he incited a harassment campaign against Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/19/12221452/ghostbusters-lesl...
The article was quite low on substance, but quite readable for me. With no ads at all. And no ad blocker nag.

Firefox + NoScript for the win.
> Everything and everyone the left disagrees with now gets labeled as "hate" and increasingly gets flagged and then banned. Why is the left so afraid of a debate?

Milo Yiannopoulos was banned repeatedly for violating the rules on Twitter by launching personal attacks and inciting trolling.

He was intentionally provoking bans to enhance the controversy surrounding his brand.

I'm not sure why you think he didn't get exactly what he wanted (except the permanency, I'm pretty sure he didn't want that part)?
Ah yes, Darwin's black box for AI.

... and then suddenly it magically develops the concept of self-preservation fully formed, and begins taking action based upon this.

Even if the AI were to have a concept of what it is, because the fundamental goal against which it measures success is power draw the AI would only select for "self-preservation" if that action had a beneficial effect on power draw.
And they didn't even start changing the timing of any of the lights yet!
Good question, let's go check:

https://twitter.com/nero
This is the back and forth that got him banned: http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/18/ghostbuster-leslie-...
It's a bit difficult to dig through his account now it's suspended but here is a Guardian article about what has been happening http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/leslie-...
Another description of the mod. they made: https://medium.com/@sergey_nog/google-learning-errors-rings-...
Which browser are you using? I'm using LE for the SSL
Yeah definitely. Someone we talked to here at Techstars suggested the same thing. Appreciate the feedback.
I just tried this in a private window.

Yes, "google" is a suggested search when you type "hoogle", but that seems only fair. After all, G and H are next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. I'm sure a typo for google swamps deliberate searches for hoogle (maybe even for me, but then I have a custom search keyword). They're also suggesting other Google services you might want (Translate, Maps and Drive, when I tried), not just the one you're already using.

More generally, I don't see how overly generic suggestions amount to dumbing-down Google Search. If I actually persist and search for "hoogle" (which I had to do anyway in the days before search suggestions) I get the Haskell results I want, even without any connection to my Google account.
|but the wifi URL for GEO still points to |https://www.google.com/loc/json

maybe it a cry for help? Someone "accidentally" left a single https request there, hoping google will redirect North Korean requests to an open proxy allowing them full access to the Web.
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They were trying to seek some money to cover the $50M in collateral that would be required for appeal (to be held in trust).

Even at this stage, Gawker/Denton offered Bollea shares in Gawker from their expected sale, _and_ Bollea _accepted_.

And then withdrew. I can't help but suspect if it was because Thiel's lawyers advised him not to, the same way they dropped the tort that was covered by Gawker's insurance.

I find this interesting too - it was one thing when it was just that insurance claim. Then Hogan is willing to accept collateral from Gawker's prospective sale (indicating it's not him that's looking for Gawker's abject destruction), but lawyers, funded by Thiel, have him drop this, too.

I think one of the fundamental tenets of justice (and to be quite clear, I feel Denton and Gawker both deserve to be reamed - for varying severities of the word - for their actions in this case) is the right to face your "accuser"/opponent. Not what looks more and more to me like their puppet.
Far from unlikely, I have seen government-operated metropolitan-scale networks that allocated extravagantly in their early days and ended up using all of RFC1918 space, being unable to renumber (because change in government systems is Too Hard) and moving on to more esoteric non-globally-routable space.

For those intrigued as to what those addresses might've been, have a read of Bill Manning's roll up of the special case IP allocations: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manning-dsua-08
He said something about someone else, his fans then harassed someone, they quit, and Twitter blamed him for it... I think.

That's what the article implies, anyhow.
Beijing doesn't really have that many wide streets. The worst inside the 4th ring road is Chang'An Jie and a few streets inside 2nd ring that are mostly gov buildings, which just happens to be where all the tourists go. But a typical residents wouldn't encounter such streets every day or even every month. Even Zhongguancun DaJie is only really 4 lanes in most places, and even that is sky bridged crossing in many places.
Thanks, that looks promising. Downloaded and tried it a couple of times, am going to try it out a while longer and see how it goes.
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The H-1B positions of Clinton and Trump
Bitcoin v Ethereum
I don't think anyone thinks that the new GB movie is a leftist propaganda, it's a bad movie and people now blame the reception on the fact that they've replace the cast with women.
They could've used the American pie cast and it would not have mattered they made GB into a Tyler Perry movie that's why it tanked.
Well, it isn't poor maintnence, but cheap maintnence. If you follow the rules and your competitors don't, you are quickly out business. A classic prisoner's delimna. For cars, the cars are fine but the gas they put in them is not.
Yes it does. Censorship by public or private entities is dangerous because it destroys the open marketplace of ideas. The best ideas, given time, will rise to the top, and censorship in all forms prevents this from happening. Speech that is agreeable to the public/government/whatever doesn't need any protection, but speech that isn't does. We all should protect speech in all forms even if it's hateful or abhorrent.
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It's the first result for me. It does have a "did you mean 'google'".

I wonder if the increased search volume over the past hour since you posted this updated the probability that it was a mistyping?

It wouldn't surprise me - unique vocabulary (think hashtags) created all the time, and Google is pretty good at responding to that.
"Impressive" is such a click-baity word for a title.
I would say it's use, and in my experience it depends on the blade.

Most recently I bought a 100 pack of each of Feather and Derby blades (the latter were so cheap, it was hard to resist...). The Derby literally blunted during the shave, whilst a Feather remains acceptably sharp for (i.e. starts tugging after) about a week of daily shaves.

You can tell the difference when you change the blade and there is slightly less tug.
It's not too hard to build a wood-framed condo that is noise-resistant. You just need separate frames for each condo. That adds to the cost, so it's not typically done.
Netflix $400k salaries, $350k total comp at Google or Facebook. Uber hires can get over $1M in RSUs in addition to a healthy salary.

While you may not be able to afford housing, you can bank $100k/yr if you live frugally. I'm not sure where else in the US that's a possibility.
I haven't used Bing and I mostly use Duckduckgo and Google. It's really surprising to hear that Bing doesn't support literal searches. Genuine question - for a search engine, aren't literal searches much more easier to implement?
The Hacking Team hack had some interesting fallout... I believe the article below was posted on HN a while ago: [Edit, just saw tptacek's comment]

https://tsyrklevich.net/2015/07/22/hacking-team-0day-market/

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-leak-shows-secret...
Zulily sold for $2 billion with $200mm in revenue(and declining).

Edit: To add more color. P&G bought Gillette for $40 billion on $4 billion in rev.
Over-engineering? Possibly, but we don't know what was in place before.

Given the cost of data centers, I'm not sure why we should assume it was naive - or less than state-of-the-art, for that matter.

State-of-the-art, that is, until the AI solution :)
I do not know what you are referring to, but I point out that fiat means "by decree". So US fiat only exists through legislation. When is legislation not ad hoc?
The entire hard fork idea was a case of "your choices are shit and shit, pick one". On one hand, if the hard fork fails, the hacker gets away with millions of dollars, representing a very large chunk of the entire market. On the other hand, if the hard fork succeeds, the entire idea of a decentralized currency where everyone's equal and there are no higher authorities (i.e., corporations or governments) to intervene against you is dead.
Show HN: Breathalyzer Tells You When You’re Drunk Enough for a Cigarette
That mask is super creepy.
I was a cop – but I still don't know how to survive a police stop
The application to streaming data is very similar to that of signal processing filters in electrical engineering and signal processing. For example, there you have high pass/low pass filters and more complex components that clean up your signal for downstream consumption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(signal_processing)
Yes, and if ETH is behaving the same as US dollars then there is no reason not to just stick to US dollars.
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I also know only as much as you, and it seems hilariously weak. Shouldn't it be possible to make a smart contract that dispenses it in accordance to the whims of ETH stakeholders? I guess the trustees will need to decide...
Hardware world? Do you mean the DDR4 ram in the hardware in your server? An example of how bits can be flipped in modern hardware is the Row Hammer Attack-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
Search tools → All results → Verbatim

This prevents basically all of Google's word heuristics, like searching for related words or dropping parts of the search.
whoa, lets not equate spying on people to release their secrets publicly for ad revenue with secretly spying on people to maintain a status quo of peace. without defending the security industrial complex, we can pretty much all agree that unconsentualy publishing private sex tapes for money is a different type of moral turpitude than big brother.

i dont think hypocrisy is the right word
He can always create a new account. Twitter is not capable of banning all IPs. If the user is seriously going to become controversial on Twitter, he certainly can.
The link above shows him being mean to her. Perhaps he told other people to be mean, too? (Dunno, if he did, I'd think it'd be shown all over.) Or maybe Twitter decided he isn't a good fit for them. He's said that "feminism is cancer", so they might find that offensive. He's popular with the kind of people that might insult her, so perhaps him being rude was enough cause for Twitter?

Maybe Twitter will implement some system to hide new/anonymous/unvouched users from messaging more popular users. Or give them filtering capabilities. As the target in this case says, "Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that."
Ironically if you have an ad-block there is an interstitial annoyance-delay. Seems like my ad-blocker is doing its job.
This whole article is pretty interesting, but the last paragraph is worth quoting:

For instance, in 2008 Marzluff had researchers in caveman masks capture crows while others in a control mask—Dick Cheney—let the birds be. Afterward the birds ignored the harmless Cheneys but scolded and chased the cavemen, and did so for years.

Poor birds! Probably thought they could trust a Crow-Magnon.

Dick Cheney masks! Probably thought they could trust a Crow-Magnon. I have faith in the world again.
If you find this interesting, you should really look into the intelligence of crows. They've been observed to remember human faces, wait on traffic lights, plan, and a whole bunch of things that are very impressive.

And don't even get me started on _jackdaws_.
Chemical engineering process design can become very complex and highly nonlinear (in fact, Nick Sahinidis' group in the chemical engineering department at CMU created BARON explicitly for solving these kinds of problems to global optimality — see http://archimedes.cheme.cmu.edu/?q=baron). Granted, Google's systems don't involve chemical reactions, but that doesn't automatically mean that designing these data centers is a simple task.
Thank you for exactly making my point. There is a legislative process, no matter how ad hoc and pressing the issue is, that can attempt to rescue US fiat. There's no way to divine every rule which is needed for a fiat currency to keep succeeding. And rules change over time with the ebb and flow of balance of power between nations, their trade, their military might, etc. Legislation provides a well-defined process for changes to be made. Whether you trust that legislative process seems to be a key point in choosing a cryptocurrency.

Now take Ethereum: suddenly changes to the transaction history needed to be made which violates the one law of cryptocurrency that's been shoved down my throat ever since Bitcoin hit mainstream media. So with no process set (because it should not have been needed in the first place), a sudden reversal of intent for one arbitrary contract, and no way to have the original intent stay binding, Ethereum made its choice. It didn't even have a legislative process, just an authoritative one guised as a democratic vote. The way that choice went down shatters all trust. If US Treasury suddenly decided it didn't need to follow any US legislation and redistributed wealth across the world, trust in USD would equally be shattered. I'm not a gambling man, but at this point in time my money stays in USD.
That picture is straight out of an indie horror movie.
My dog has been on a killing spree this summer, sometimes catching 2 birds in a week :(.

It's amazing how the birds react when she catches one. They all go nuts, and more fly in and start squawking.

I worry they'll call in a hawk to carry her away lol.
A billion dollars for a razor company. What a marketing job they've done over the decades. I've never understood the shaving fetish. It irritates your skin, causes infections, and hides your beard.

Yes, I'm both a graybeard and a "neckbeard." (Never understood why the latter is pejorative, either. If you let your beard grow like it should, it will cover your neck.)

A question for all you young men who have grown your beards as part of the recent fashion trend and have gone back to shaving as the trend has faded, which was better? Lower maintenance? Less expensive? Yes, bearded, I'm sure. Stop following trends and do what you like.
Feather blades <3
All these social media platforms are bad at this. They're in the business of facilitating discourse and giving people a platform to speak. IMO they have an ethical responsibility to protect speech in all forms, unless it's inciting violence/child porn/etc.

I can't say that they should disallow illegal speech because governments get this wrong, too. Like how many countries have laws forbidding hate speech. Those laws are as abhorrent as the speech itself because it's stifling discourse.
They released the list of all NY gun owners, complete with their addresses. Some people had gotten their guns as a measure against their stalkers, which now had their legal addresses.
This also increased the risk of the relevant houses being hit by thieves, who could then use their new illegal guns for crime purposes.
The inclusion of the explanations is fantastic. This is a wonderful tool, and a very useful one.
>quite a few low brow leftist media outlets

maybe a better explanation is that "aggregators" republish whatever is outrageous and visible that day. the "news" is an echo chamber of people that spend their day surfing reddit and ending their contributions to the fourth estate with h/t
I'm surprised Twitter didn't try to monetize this feature. I'm sure there are a lot of people that would pay to have that "verified" icon.
This is what ties it all together.
And this is why I'll be pouring my money into a serious government backed digital currency. It's a shame Canada isn't going all in on this, they were pioneers with their digital money project last decade. I'm reassured by Bank of England's latest (95 page) note on the matter.
Just play it. The first level you will think you were right, if I remember correctly it even has some references to Mario, but if you continue it will surprise you and realize that is far from a 2d scrolling. The Last few levels are really challenging.
And that's not a bad thing. I don't think it's right to call Vim intuitive unless you're used to reading a book to understand 35% of the features of an editor.

But Vim isn't about being intuitive, it's about being efficient. Once it 'clicks' you will be able to express incredibly complex text manipulations in only a few keystrokes. And with configuration you'll build the most powerful but comfortable environment that you'll miss anywhere else.
The linked article said that they had 3 million subscribers. Pretty impressive for a 4 year old company. 3 million credit cards on file, 3 million payments.

It sold for $1 billion dollars. Youtube says their channel has 35,002,980 views, so that would make about $28.57 per view the selling price.
Milo banned from Twitter for organizing harassment brigade
What's more is there can't really be an established "market" for a unique exploit. If a product isn't being regularly traded then there's no easily findable pool of buyers. There's also no ongoing/repeat business which outside of contract law (and even for plenty of business conducted under contract) is all there is to keep people honest.

You'd need to be very well connected to be able to get good value out of an exploit. There could very well be people that are. Hackers in leather dusters travelling the world exchanging thumb drives in shady third world bars, sounds cool as hell, in fact I hope there are people living that life just because it makes reality that little bit more interesting. But your average pen tester isn't that.

Whenever i see the "better value on the black market" crowd show up here I'm actually reminded of a, Jim Jefferies I think, bit about the black market not meaning you can just head down to the docks at night going "GUNS. I WANT TO BUY A GUN".
That would probably be closer and I suspect they have the data to get what I want, which is more like a list of flagged stories to understand some of the inherent bias in the site.
I don't know that as someone who uses DuckDuckGo, you can really complain about Bing's name.
Your Psycho Pass is a little cloudy...
I think people on HN are underestimating the tabloid market and previous prices paid for photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_celebri..., TMZ regularly pays out 5k for photos/videos, selling to them is the hard part and not getting caught in some type of undercover sting during the process is why most people will take the bounty
Deep mind is needed for other things (e.g. search results). Effectively, the cost of developing it is paid for by search et al, and the only cost core infrastructure has is adapting the existing technology to work on power data as well. This is that "synergy" thing we always snicker at when people in suits say it. It just happens to be true here.

Sidebar: the sour grapes in this thread about what Google has apparently accomplished here is amazing. If any other company said they used machine learning to save that much money people would be singing their praises and begging for it to be open-sourced. This thread effectively reads as "pics or it didn't happen"
If he had hit the accelerator, you can bet your bottom dollar that Tesla would have mentioned this detail in order to continue the "driver's fault" narrative.
Ask HN: Can the hide option be made less prone to fat fingering?
Ever since the "hide" option has been introduced at HN, I have fat fingered it on my mobile devices while trying to click the "N comments" link, which is just beside it, for a thread.

I then had to go scroll back to the top of the screen, then click on my profile and click on "hidden" and un-hide it from there (remember, all this on a mobile phone).

Would it be possible to show the hidden topics at the top of the page just beside the rest of the links? I understand that currently, the links at the top of the page aren't each user specific, so maybe that might be considered a not-so-good UX practice to include it there. So any other thoughts on how to make it easily accessible to get to the hidden topics or make it less likely to fat finger the "hide" option itself, by moving it someplace else?
On my website yesterday there were 112,500 referrals from Google, 9,400 from Bing and 5,750 from Yahoo. Also, 800 from DDG and 200 from Baidu and 70 from Yandex.
It be interesting if it cycled the motors too often and popped solinoids, creating higher long term maintenance and down time, but they cut this study before these long term effects showed?
The true "10xer".
So you would agree that Milo et al shouldn't be using the internet to silence marginalised groups then?
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I haven't done any testing on this but the corrosion hypothesis seems plausible. I wouldn't store it under alcohol because there's generally some dissolved water/oxygen/salt in there which would cause corrosion. Oil immersion or even a light coat after use would probably work better and alcohol at preventing corrosion.
I'm sorry, but read through what happened to Leslie Jones yesterday and tell me that wasn't hate. This is not a matter of debate; it's a matter of harassment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126548
Mockingbirds also remember faces. They will attack if they think you are a predator. I had one who decided my daily walk was a threat - maybe I walked too close to its nest - and came straight at my face. Scary as hell. That bird then swooped to attack every time I went outdoors. To Kill a Mockingbird indeed.