skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full disclosure I'm Founder of https://pagescrub.com a "pay for no ads" project

Based on my research Brave will probably have a hard time through UX issues and companies/webpages boycotting it.

I talked to readability founder who tried to take money on behalf of webpages when blocking ads. Readers were very happy about the service and loved to pay. But the issue was the companies didn't "take" their money. Mainly because they didn't like that readability did all of that without asking them before. One can say they were simply pissed.
From my view Braves users also have to change to much. A new browser + a new payment system.

Best would be if the reader pays on one page and the rest is done for them. No new browser, No Plugin, No Special payment system. Of course this page has to negotiate with each Website first. With https://pagescrub.com I tried exactly that.
Small company, 0 hours of meetings. We resolve everything over Github issues, email, Slack, or in person conversations.
$1M Canadian is less than £600,000 — that's at least an order of magnitude less than the properties the article will be about. Try a search like [0]. Notice that ⅓ of the properties cost more than £6,000,000! Only 4 (2½%) cost less than $1M.

I didn't give this link before as there are no pictures, but the first hit from my previous search was this one — £60M, marble throughout and a swimming pool: http://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/41341420

[0] http://www.nestoria.co.uk/knightsbridge/property/buy
I use twitter and have a quick and snappy discussion in about a dozen exchanges, many times with known people like journalists, columnists etc. Of course, you must carefully choose who you interact with or follow. I find engaging in discussion of such topics as politics and religion to be futile, and economics is intertwined with politics. I only do it when I see something intolerably incorrect or foolish and I just have to engage with the fellow (as in this https://xkcd.com/386/).

On a cynical note (or realistic if you will), I don't think topics like politics and religion can be discussed in a civil manner. If they are, then those discussing are not getting to the meat of the matter because once you get there, you are bound to hit a nerve or two and the civility facade comes right off. Even IRL those who engage in civil debates are more careful about appearing civil than actually debating effectively. The interwebs, with its anonymity and all that, allows one to be much more freer in bringing out their ugly side right of the bat (though sometimes it could be a persona adopted for the kicks).
Think about a 250 or even a 350. Brakes, suspension, and motor all more robust. This'll be important once it's filled with plywood and hardwood. And all your stuff.
This is going to sound stupid, but could you have Lets Encrypt dynamically create a cert for the subdomain when the user creates it?
Great time to be asking this question. I am in the middle of a weekly call right now that has spanned more than 2 hours now and we are discussing almost the same "we will do this, we are doing this" kind of things that we talked of in the last call a couple of days back. I wish I could just lock myself and get some coding done.
Seems like a bigger win would be to allow all soaps to be labeled as "anti-bacterial" and "anti-microbial".

If soap manufacturers can get the same marketing benefit without the expense of including the chemicals, seems like they'd all jump at it.
Could have been ammo related too.
There were known solutions given a fixed set of generals. Nakamoto consensus handles the case of an unknown number of anonymous generals (miners) who may come and go when they please.
Also interested. My email is in my profile. Thank you!
What if they ran a ring of flood lights (to attract insects) to create a fence around the solar plant, so birds wouldn't enter the plant area itself?
Where is the natural predator in this comparison? Domestic cats are man-made as well - until very recently, the whole point of domesticated cats was to stand guard and murder varmints getting into your grain stockpiles, the more prolifically and efficiently the better.
By "bury" I mean more than "grey/flagged/dead". I also mean in terms of order on the page. When looking at rank order, groupthink is a large if not prevailing determinant, especially since HN applies a penalty for contentiousness (defined as lots of upvotes AND downvotes) to both articles, comments and users.
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August 2016
Is this a signal to the smart money that it's time to get out?
There was substantial development energy for a while. Notably, there was a large donation from IBM of code that had been in Symfony.
What paper is this? Is it available online? I hope you framed that.
and fossil fuels are directly responsible for the largest ecological disasters the planet has ever seen, so...
Is that Vint Cerf on the right in the photo? :)
The great thing that happens sometines on the internet, but rarely (yet wonderfully) in real life is that when you have a good conversation about something it often brings in people directly involved.

That's the reason I still bother to scan comments, for those moments.
Yes. What's the point you're trying to make? (genuine question)
I heard if you eat enough you will start to lean to the left.
It depends on what the birds are. The plant is on a migration pathway so vulnerable birds may be getting incinerated. Also, if it were attracting raptors, losses are a much bigger deal.

Kitty isn't killing falcons.
1950s jet launching tiny satellites
Well Europe is changing the rules retroactively, while the US is clear about taking their share upon repatriation.
I'm trying to figure out how "The city should be building affordable housing" is considered a libertarian ideal, and I can't get there from here. Can you help me understand why you feel that it is?

I'm having an equally hard time finding the libertarian angle in the top comments to the other threads you referenced.
I don't know what you count as useable, but I have an original iPad Air here (3 years old) that still works fine for my use - some games, email, reading, and internet.

It was only this year that I stopped testing our apps on the iPad 2. It was workhorse, and for many apps was much better than the iPad 3. With the 3 Apple went to retina, but IMHO the rest of the hardware was not quite retina ready.
Bloke accused of Linux kernel.org hack nabbed during traffic stop
IT Blues: Why are Indian infotech firms losing steam?
Auto-renewable subscriptions provide a simple way to offer free trials to users.

I do like that Apple promotes the classic "let's hook them with a free trial and hope they forget to unsubscribe in time" dark pattern as an official use case.

(Edit) Also:

Even if a user cancels and resubscribes within 60 days, they will still accumulate days of service from the point where they lapsed. [...] As part of your overall subscription marketing plan, consider ways to win back lapsed subscribers with targeted messaging, such as email or in-app messaging, to communicate the value of your subscriptions and encourage users to resubscribe.

So app developers are not just incentivized, Apple explicitly advises that they spam unsubscribers with notifications to win them back. Sounds great!
https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-c-sh...
your mom's house.
This looks neat, nice code, but isn't this just the same stuff that xv (1) has been doing since the 90's? It sure looks similar. Maybe this is much faster?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)
People are paying for the location not a "brand".
It takes time and effort to construct a lasting narrative. For sure there are some defense mechanisms in place.
It's actually more absurd - Apple paid between 0,05 and 0,005% in taxes and EU now wants to collect the difference UP TO 1% ;)
The nice thing about using postgres is that when you realize "Mongo style" was a bad idea you can write some migrations and take your common fields into proper columns quite easily.
Not for an unknown number of generals.
"Auto-renewable subscriptions provide a simple way to offer free trials to users."

Not sure it said that before.
Just wondering. Why can't they climb back up through the pipe? I've seen ants walking in the ceiling. And if there's a passageway to the outside (a researcher squeezed in) wouldn't the ant eventually find the way out?
A little bit off-topic, but I've always wondered if there were academic research on how to improve discussion forums. In addition to collective moderation, could we use techniques like machine learning for a better ranking of comments?
Working at big corp in R&D

- about 2hrs/week for larger meetings

- about 1hr/day in Skype meetings where I can tune in half-way

- about 1hr/day in working meetings with 1 or 2 other engineers
Ban cats and you still have feral cats. They eat birds because nobody's keeping them inside away from the wild birds.
>> I think I will take these problems over the current.

That is, until you have to sit in severe pain for six months.
Isn't an in person conversation a meeting?
That's how I've always done it - frankly, it never occurred to me to clean it beforehand. The grill is already hot so I just turn it up, close the lid for a few seconds, open it back up and scrape it to death.

I've never had this problem because when I'm done the surface has nothing on it but metal.

That said, those bristle brushes are very hard on my non-stainless steel grates and the coating is starting to chip off, so I'm replacing them this year and had planned on switching to a wood scraper -- this article pretty much sold me the rest of the way.
please don't ask people to not comment like that here.

you're an idiot.
Why the $300 generic EpiPen will just extend Mylan's profitability
I walked from Kings Cross to Marylebone at dusk recently - half way, I took the road up from the main Euston Road - walking through mostly residential - barely an apartment window with a light on - it's just money parked in property - the parks don't have kids playing in them any more

The recent Vancouver tax changes have worked, I suspect/hope we'll start seeing that repeated in every city thats had it's life sucked out
So groups of banks get to vote on what is true or not. How could that ever fail. /s
But encryption will prevent dedupe meaning a vm cannot attack other occupants as described in the article.
In the era of big hard drives and fat pipes, people forget that 6 megabytes is a lot of raw data if it's not packed with unnecessary GUI elements, high-res video, and inefficient code.
I think Bangladesh cares about it by now
True, and the problem gets worse with less participants.
Note that £20-45k/month (US$25-60k/month) is more like the going rate for these properties.

http://www.nestoria.co.uk/mayfair/property/rent/2?price_min=...

But either the owner isn't interested in the money/hassle/attention, or occasionally uses the property — it's difficult to show off your fancy London apartment if people are living in it, and you can't casually lend it to friends or relatives.
Where do you draw the line between "in person conversations" and meetings?
Yes, it happens, but that one ant then is apparently too selfish to go back again for the others.
I agree :(
I feel pretty lucky, meetings are rare for me, just shoot an IM. "I'm working on XYZ, almost done. What do you want me to work on next?" or "Hey Bob are you done with that test environment" etc. I might go have one-on-ones maybe once or twice a week if it's too long/complex a conversation for IM. And those don't usually take long, maybe 15 minutes?

That said I'm a mid-level dev and I know the more senior devs & boss are in meetings more often working out how things will work with other departments and such.
LBRY: The funded YouTube alternative that forgot how the real world works
The free trial period is a huge win for developers, something we've been wanting since the beginning.

(Though admittedly it's only for subscription-based pricing, but, let's admit it, one-time software purchases seem to be going the way of the dodo.)
Bitmovin grabs $10.3m as it looks to crack VR video adaptive streaming
House cats are not indigenous to the majority of the world and certainly not to North America. The robots comment doesn't follow.
Yep. If people are familiar with Redis, it would be much like how Redis periodically rewrites its append-only-file to make it smaller. So you go from a file with full history like

SET a 2
SET b 4
SET a 6
SET b 10
SET a 20

to just

SET a 20
SET b 10

The snapshot would just retain resulting balances at a certain block height, and no history of how they got there (previous transactions). If people wanted that history it could obviously be archived and accessed separately.
Yes. Assuming the tax actually works as expected (it's probably too soon to tell now), the burden will be shifted onto other cities that are too stupid or dysfunctional to enact the same tax.

I don't see a problem here. The problem will correct itself eventually, with regular citydwellers all moving to cities smart enough to enact these laws, and abandoning cities like London that become completely unaffordable. Eventually the latter cities will collapse, and these wealthy foreigners' properties will be worthless, like all the $100 houses in Detroit.
My mother used to live in Belgravia, in one of the buildings pictured in that article, when she was a young girl.

....well when I say lived there, my grandparents were caretakers so they lived in the basement.

This was back in the 1960s mind, but even back then Belgravia was an extremely affluent area, with Lords, major industrialists etc living there.
Alcohol's effect is limited in scope. It affects the individual, affects the immediate surroundings, and perhaps their family. It cannot affect some one in another country.

The resistant bacteria can grow to a problem of global proportion.
I must be thinking of a wider range of systems than you are.
60-70% of my time as PM.
You mean the process to get to the subscription management page isn't intuitive? I'd actually be shocked if more than 3 people out of the 1 billion that have bought iOS devices have ever figured this out without Googling or being shown. "Tap View Apple ID", seriously?

1. On the Home screen, tap Settings.

2. Tap iTunes & App Store.

3. Tap your Apple ID at the top of the screen.

4. Tap View Apple ID.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039
Big company, about 2-3 hours per week. I'm in a mostly-releng role. Two team status meetings per week, one status meeting for another project, where I'm the liaison for build+release.

In a previous role at the same company, my meeting load varied between maybe 1 and 8 hours, depending on how many things involving other teams I was working on and how controversial the design decisions for that project were.
Do you mean the antibiotics keeps them healthy and in turn bigger or antibiotics has some growth hormone type effect?
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I have two one on one meetings each week which together wind up being one to two hours a week. The CEO of my company's philosophy is that having more than two engineers meet together is usually a waste of time. This is for a small company of ~40 people.
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I've heard it's possible, but it would be a substantially increased maintenance burden. You won't be able to put all your subdomains into the subjectAltName section of one certificate, and so you'll need to constantly reload your nginx/Apache configurations to reference all of the different certificates. Plus Let's Encrypt certificates expire every 90 days, and you will have to update all of your certificates before that happens.

I really can't for the life of me understand why they won't offer a wildcard certificate, if you prove you are the owner of the base domain name. The cynic in me expects it's the same reason every CA in existence charges four to ten times more for a wildcard certificate that literally costs them nothing more to make. That entire market would vanish overnight if Let's Encrypt offered them for free. I would even immediately start using them for my site.
Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?
I've recently moved back to reading non-tech books (I have spent the last years reading on solely programming languages or frameworks) and it was a bit of an eye opener regarding getting a more general picture of startups and businesses.
I have read the four hour work week, the daily entrepreneur, and the 22 immutable laws of marketing.
I have a few others under consideration (like Peter Thiel's From zero to one) but I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?
> I mean, it's trillions of transactions we are talking about.

It is not even close to that yet. Eventually yes. Right now the bitcoin blockchain is about 80GB.

What real numbers are you using to predict this being a problem?

BTW a 120TB SSD meant for read heavy workloads was announced not long ago. Huge, fast random access and made for reads is exactly what you would want.

Beyond that my own prediction is that there will be many successful crypto-currencies. Most people won't store the blockchain of any of them, but whoever wants to be more involved could pick and choose.
Curating and adding to the collection, updates for evolving platforms, operating expenses, customer support?

Haven't looked at museum budgets, but it may be similar.
I honestly can't be sure because it's WashPo, so they've edited out any context.
depends on what will be on the person bank statement, if it's your company or apple. they will call you to cancel, not apple, if the statements say the charge is for your service

apple isn't new to this kind of outsourcing
The bubble will be forcefully burst when homeless people start squatting; or pranksters vandalize them.
Quake alert system – valuable or technology boondoggle?
A net zero property seems like it could generate less paperwork if the management balanced incomming and outgoing payments, (less their fee.)

How exactly do they pay utilities/etc without anyone noticing their transfers? But I don't believe they are successfully hiding anything in any case, governments want everyone to be guilty of something so they can achieve whatever political outcome they need through selective enforcement.
I suspect it's a pretty common phenomenon. I recently visited Venice with a Venetian friend of mine. He mentioned that most of the apartments in the historical center were empty.
To express skepticism about

>The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique.
I genuinely don't understand the Kindersurprise ban. Those plastic eggs inside are fucking huge.
I think it's easier to find such kind of comments on specialized communities, i.e. where users have a common ground. For example, looking for insightful comments on politics and economics, I usually like to follow the discussions on the Mises Institute site - since there is a common ideology to most visitors there (libertarianism), they don't spend time hating each other and disagreeing on basic views, and can contribute with constructive arguments instead.
Why time is money? The ultimate book to teach yourself about corporate finance
> How much of your time is spent in meetings?

Does time spent on HN count?
Note: Price of $7.85 mentioned is net of ICANN fees that registrars are charged (by ICANN .18) and are the fees that accredited registrars pay to Verisign which operates the .com registry.
I was in no way arguing that I am personally being targeted. A society where people only oppose these kinds of abuse if they are personally targeted is screwed. Just because you and I aren't the victims doesn't mean we shouldn't speak up. I'm not paranoid, you are in denial. FBI spy planes ring a bell??

"Especially when you're likely carrying an iPhone"

You can power down (or remove the battery if possible) from your phone.

And yes the risk is more that city and state governments will use it. And since many have been caught using and abusing stuff like stingrays and license plate readers it's not a stretch by any means to assume. Who wants to live in cities that are under a microscope like London.

Your right though, nobody is trying to force me. Now I'm going to go turn on my robot mower. Enjoy cutting grass with your scythe. Watch your legs! And have fun cleaning up all the clippings. I'll be with my family, being fat and "lazy"
Or too dumb to have the intelligence to know that he has to go back.
As someone who currently has coverage, I would be in the "rich category" and fly somewhere else for treatment, with funds I saved paying healthcare bills.
They will pay pensioners to live there 'on paper' to meet your homestead requirement.

The whole tax penalty is thwarted that way
First of all, the 25% in the US is on top of what is taken in Europe. The US has pretty insane taxes. Secondly, Europe is looking more kleptocratic, and while maybe he can afford to pay up today, who knows what they might take in the future?

Would you be willing to put your money into Venezuela even at 0% tax?
Yes. I have several friends who are nurses, all of whom made around $100k right out of nursing school (more or less depending on proximity to a large city). Here's their union: http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/california-nu...

(in california)
I hope to god they make testing them easier. If you set a subscription to annual, then your test account can only test it every hour (and it used to be every 4 hours).[0] Imagine during development and testing only being able to verify your code flow every hour! I changed to "non-renewing subscriptions" to avoid this, which are essentially one-time purchases that don't require using their ridiculously awful subscription API.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
Wild cats don't go after birds as much because they are looking for food not entertainment. Further wild cat density is fairly low outside of populated areas with endless supplies of mouse food.
What does Australia have to do with this? I wanna know.
Haha this is great.

On a more serious note, maybe banks could offer some sort of investment vehicle made up of homes in a certain area. The homes would then be rented out for revenue, and foreign buyers could have an equivalent financial position without driving away actual residents.
Better investment plan: Send me your money via paypal and I'll call you an idiot.
Was early onset industrial-era warming anthropogenic?
Your comment under the thread I link below is a case in point. You make a reasonable counter argument, but it still got greyed out. In this case, Upton Sinclair best explains why: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330325
There's two components to real estate prices: the cost of the actual building (if any), and the price of the land. The building cost is measurable, and basically equals the cost of rebuilding it (unless it's historic), and that's what you insure the property for. The rest is the land value, and that's determined entirely by the market, because land is not fungible. A quarter-acre in a prime metro-area neighborhood is likely worth much more than 100 acres in the middle of nowhere, because lots of people want to live there and are willing to pay for that privilege.

So, if you find some property in downtown London that just has a crappy shack on it, it'll still be highly valuable just because of the location. A wealthy buyer can purchase it, then raze the shack and build something better there.
Not taking away any credit from GradeScope folks but being new to AI, I fail to understand how is the underlying system labelled AI. Seems like they have created a rule based rubric for grading & human input can add/delete these rules..?
> I like living in the city. I would prefer to live in one.

I'd bet once a decent public transportation system is inline, the termination points of the larger trains will become as much city-like as the center, but much more affordable.