skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that it's already usable, but it could be even better. For example:

1) Making it easier to compose Tweetstorms (third-party services like WriteRack exist, but it would be nice to have official support).

2) Enhancing the display of Tweetstorms to make them easier to follow. Right now, the UI for viewing Tweet replies is the same regardless of who's replying to who. Twitter could make it so that a person's replies to themselves (the building blocks of a Tweetstorm) have a unique look-and-feel compared to replies from followers. This would emphasize the Tweetstorm as a distinct type of posting, rather than something jury-rigged out of self-replies.

3) Not Tweetstorm specific, but make it easier to have and follow branched conversations. Sites like Reddit have this down already, while Facebook and Twitter seem reluctant to let anything go beyond one level down. Let people branch! It would actually make things easier to follow, and it would also allow for something (sort of) novel: branched Tweetstorms! Linear text is so 20th century! :)
Smile and be positive.
I assume you meant "can't"? I think the parent simply made a poor choice of words, "a perfect form of stasis" fits a lot better than "without consciousness"
> How does AdNuseum detect the good from the bad?

It doesn't. Or it gets evolved until it does, but there's no incentive to do that while there are very little "good" ads.

> How does a "good" advertiser submit themselves to some kind of whitelist?

They don't, that's the point. As AdNauseam currently works, there are no good advertisers, and for now it's a good enough heuristic. Any ad with an active component is a legitimate target.

> How does AdNuseum verify the advertisers claims?

It doesn't. It does not care.
Your comment is not relevant or appreciated. Not only are you not adding to the discussion, this comment is simply a personal opinion coupled with an undependable generalization about what "many people" consider relevant or appreciate without even addressing the topic of discussion.
Yeah that's a fishy reportedly. Better to look at the transcript. Trump: "I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls we’ve had asking to come to this meeting, and I will say, and I will say Peter was sort of saying, ’No, that company’s too small.’ And these are monster companies."

My guess is Peter vetoed Twitter, for sensible reasons.
>Opioid addiction is a symptom, not the disease.

That's an assumption on your part.

An alternate explanation is opioids have been overprescribed for decades now, and that people who've gotten hooked and then cut off by their doctors turned to illegal sources, and that as a result opioids are "around" in a way they haven't been since the 1960s and available for the more adventurous people to try.
> A shame the presidential candidates don't seem (as far as I'm aware)

There was a fair bit of that (particularly NH primary, I think), though a lot of it was lost in the noise of emails, FBI & the leaks.

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/21/12973740/trump-clinton-opioid-h...

I probably picked up on that was when I had to go pick up painkillers for a family member ... with all the added complications of looking the way I do.
So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)
I have experienced discontinuation effects from Paroxetine, Venlafaxine and Fluxoetine in the past, Paroxetine was by far the worst, but absolutely within the boundaries of what the doctor and the tab mentioned. With Paroxetine itself the worst effects would be "blackouts" when I would loose all my senses for a split second, just short enough that I would not fall if walking, but long enough that people would notice during a conversation.

During one specific Venlafaxine withdrawal, however, I have experienced severe depression, and got close to suicide. What saved me, ironically as it sounds, was a huge dose of Clonazepan I rationally decided to take just so I could sleep the withdrawal over. I'm still on Venlafaxine for a couple years now, I take it for Anxiety/Panic and that was the only time I've experienced severe depression in years.

What I've learned from all that is simple: that stuff is messing directly and profoundly with your brain, so take it very seriously: anti-depressants are not your over-the-counter shit. Apart from that, find a doctor you trust and talk to them,every little detail. Never trust a psychiatrist who does not suggest some kind of therapy: the meds won't cure you.

Also, I don't know of a single drug that won't give me some kind of discontinuation syndrome if interrupted after continuous use. From nose sprays and anti-acids to hypnotics, all have some rebound effects to them. I believe the bottom line is to be rational about taking any drugs, yet specially the ones messing with your head.
My impression is they have an excess of technical talent. They have a huge engineering staff, and from n outside perspective, I'm not convinced their product demands it.

Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., all have much more interesting products, which in turn gives their technical staff many more interesting problems to solve.

The common advice here is "let Twitter be Twitter," i.e., they don't need to expand into new products, let alone crack VR, or self-driving cars, or drone deliveries. That path will need to accompanied by major restructuring.
MLMs seem like one of the best target for indiscriminate application of AdNauseam, for more than one reason.
What's wrong with 2006 programming? (2010)
That's a far cry from a REPL.
I agree that capital gains should be taxed like income except for the fact of inflation. If you hold, say a house for 10 years, and inflation averages 8% a year (remember the 1970's), and then you sell it at the same inflation adjusted value, you will pay a bunch of tax on no real gain. Maybe we could adjust capital gain tax to inflation. This would have added benefit of having a constituency that wants a higher CPI against those who would like to keep it low (for example to keep Social Security payments or other retirement payments from increasing).
How Citus Enables Scalable PostgreSQL on AWS [video]
> Apple replaced the FLoppy drive with the CD rom, but still kept all the other ports around.

What? That's not even close to true. The iMac replaced all of Apple's then-standard ports with USB. ADB: gone. Serial: gone. SCSI: gone.
AdBlock Plus is already doing this: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

It might just lead to escalation, it has so far. The point is there is a plausible way forward. It's the story of countless industries, just because it hasn't happened yet for this one doesn't mean it won't ever.
I would argue that the literature is basically worthless here, because they're mostly looking at modulations around an absolutely ridiculous baseline. The 2003 changes dropped hours DOWN to 80/week and 16 or 28 per shift.

As an analogy, imagine reducing your cheeseburger intake from 60 per week to 40 per week: it probably won't have a huge impact on physical fitness.

The hand-off issue is also weird because it's at least theoretically improvable, whereas there's no real way (barring go-pills) to reduce sleep-related issues.
That actually can work:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...
> So you're willing to trade your time for feeling connected?

Well, yes - that's life, basically :). Writing a comment here is also me trading time for feeling connected ;).

> That's a shame. They offer Prime video in Poland? I don't even think we get it in Australia :/

I'm surprised, I thought Australia is usually right after US in such things. As for Poland, they've started offering it something like a week ago. I signed up immediately after I learned about it, mostly because I wanted to watch "The Man in the High Castle".
That is 15 years old; cryptography as a field has seen tremendous growth in that time frame.
Did he have statistics on the typical amount of time he spent caring for patients?

Like, how many people are in the care of an ER for 10 hour stretches in a given week.
a) it's ridiculous to summarize the collapse of the USSR as being due to centralized planning. There were grocery stores sitting empty and corruption saw wealth going towards fewer and fewer hands. Plus they were more of a totalitarian dictatorship than communism

b) dramatized perhaps but ok

c) layers on ridiculous rule after rules, hands out contracts then only to those than can afford to abide all the rules (conveniently they're also related or friends with those people), which is started layering on after its propaganda engine convinced the public it was to prevent government doing a bad job of spending their taxes. Then fast fwd to 2016 and wealth inequality has gotten so bad the whole thing looks rather untenable without a serious rethink

Which one is workable again?
In truth they were likely exploiting a vulnerability in MethBot. Similar to XSS only server side. The legality of this, if my suspicion is correct is highly dubious, so they kept the details low key.

I imagine somewhere in MethBots virtual DOM emulation they got sloppy and ran code (JS) from the server. Using metaprogramming plus some output they could predict they could use runtime reflection and inspect server side JS object.
It's an SSD. I suspect there's some sort of middleware that's scanning every file, like antivirus or something. That kinda thing adds up quickly.
Very interesting and while I think the title is a bit "clickbaity" it has some interesting points. He is not claiming cloud computing is going to disappear, he is claiming that due to real-time requirements and amount of data, computing power at the edge will grow, while SaaS and central data analytics will not stop being centralized in the cloud. He claims the cloud won't handle the vast amount of sensor data and I'm not sure he is right, but can't prove him wrong. In any case it seems that cloud providers are already aiming for this direction. AWS has project greengrass for example: https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/
You can already reply to yourself and Your handle doesn't appear, does it? At least, it doesn't if I use the web interface.

Otherwise, this pic will give you a good idea of the changes Twitter is making to the tweet structure...

http://www.insider.gr/sites/default/files/57e01f4edd08956b5e...
> no damn way the smaller CPU builders (everyone not Intel or AMD) will build in decoding support

Companies smaller than Intel or AMD like Chips & Media, VeriSilicon, Polycom, and Broadcom are part of AOMedia: http://aomedia.org/about-us/

ARM is also part of AOMedia. So I don't think the claim that there will be no hardware support for AV1 adds up. If anything, AV1 is already well positioned for good hardware support before it's even released.
I think it is littered with the corpses of tipping companies because no one wants to jump through hoops to use a proprietary tipping service. But if you go with pay pal, you can get tips:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...
FedEx Plays Hardball with Retailers as Profits Get Squeezed
Data has been updated. It should be closer to actual wage now.
CTO at Twitter, but no "Blue Check"?
Simple Twitter AI bot with markov chains
Happens to my chrome as well.
I've updated the data so it should be closer to reality now.
I thought that only worked if the two devices scanned the code at the samw time.
Dear Mr. Trump: To 'Cyber' Better, Try the Blockchain
How did they find out?
Does this do layout detection?
Wordvectors, pre-trained word vectors of 30+ languages
We just don't use gitlab heavily enough yet :). We are mainly a JVM shop so the bias jenkins has for things like maven and what not out of the box is pretty appealing. I've been watching your integration play :). Maybe 1 day.
Rust's concurrency story is built on top of ownership. Its how Rust prevents data races.
> Unsigned Add-ons, which allows for add-on development where it isn't possible otherwise

It is possible, you've just chosen to disallow it.

To be clear: the Firefox team took deliberate steps to make sure that add-ons can't be tested or developed in the stock builds of Firefox downloaded from Mozilla.
My brother was going through a divorce and committed suicide after his doctor refused to refill his prescription for antidepressants.

I've always wondered if it was a windrawl side effect
Wow, thank you for the h264ify mention! I can now play 4K YouTube videos on my MacBook Pro, who'da thought?
I for one would pay YouTube for an ad-free, smooth and offline-cacheable experience. At least now, that I have spare cash.

There is a rarely discussed topic of access for people who don't have funds or means to obtain it - like myself 10 years ago. It's tangential to ad blocking discussion, but a reason why I'm not sure if a pay-per-view Internet would be a good idea in general.

Oh, and if it helps me look better - I'm not really "ad blocking" per se, I'm doing responsive administration of my secondary OS (i.e. the browser) resources by using uMatrix, which makes me put some up-front decisionmaking work about which requests are or are not allowed on any page I visit ;). But it's fun, and I get to see how more and more insane the web is becoming :).
Back when I used to use tabs as bookmarks, I would routinely get to >700 open tabs accumulating over the months. It was a useless agony. Pocket was a godsend for me. The urge to let tabs linger is still there sometimes, but it doesn't get over 20-ish nowadays. Sticking to GTD workflow helps too.
Hey, so I know that 0.90 isn't much...
But is there a difference between running the programs on AWS than on my local computer with my mediocre video card?
Will they take much longer to trian? I honestly don't know the difference so I'm asking
These things are highly subjective. I think it started to go downhill during the last episode.

I then read the book, and my suspicions were confirmed. But that's just me... I don't like space-monsters.
I think it's sad that Twitter is facing so many departures. It's unclear what is really happening but I do hope this service doesn't collapse. It's mind boggling to me that something so useful is struggling to stick around.
Google Sued by Employee for Illegally Muzzling Workers – Lawsuit PDF
The brain’s architecture, efficiency… on a chip
What I'd really like is something that uses stylometry to track astroturfer comments, shills, fake news authors, advertisements parading as news, and PR campaigns, etc. Then just have those articles identified on places like Hacker News, Reddit, etc. Optional to block them if you want.

Keep a list of identified writers/writer 'styles' that are penned by fraudsters. Like easy-list is for ads.

That'd be the only way to clean up to the net. For a while at least.
My knee-jerk reaction was 'Why in Gods name would someone ...' But then i think hey, why not :)
One of these days I going to release my web framework for Common Lisp.

I call it "Railth".
2FA + the very fact that many - myself included - use Facebook, et al. primarily on a smartphone.
1. That's weird, what the heck ED do they do 30 hour shifts in? Non-US? My wife is an ED physician in the US and that does not ever happen in any ED she's been in.

2. She's also boarded in internal medicine, where she did have to do 30 hour shifts. They are terrible for patients and physicians, and I've been in heated arguments with physicians because I think the primary reason they exist is as hazing.

3. Handoffs are a legit problem; much more in other fields than in the ED. (Though handoffs do exist in the ED). It is a balancing act for that reason, though physicians could do a lot better with the handoff process IMO.

4. http://mef.med.ufl.edu/files/2010/01/Resident-and-Attending-... :

> Handoffs, the transfer of patient care from one health care provider to another, are known to be vulnerable to communication failures8 and have been called “remarkably haphazard.”

and

> When looking specifically at malpractice cases with communication breakdowns, 43% involved handoffs.

5. It's my belief that patient-centric design and communication could eliminate nearly all of these issues while reducing the need for long shifts, but there's a big [evidence needed] tag on that
Jeez, wtf is wrong with Turkey?! Any time there's instability, they tighten govt controls. It almost makes me think everything is an Erdogan-backed conspiracy.
There's a huge additional burden on the customer to select the right device, do special steps on purchase to remove the manufacturer's crapware, avoid mucking up the internals by installing the wrong software.

If you value your time at zero, and there have definitely been times in my life where I have, then this is a fine tradeoff to make. But I think a lot of the busy professionals who are bemoaning the touch bar aren't thinking about how they'll spend a few weekends trying different driver versions, or that they'll miss out on an important deliverable because their computer restarted itself in the middle of uploading the file. Externalities!
100Gb ethernet has been around since 2010.
Ask HN: How does Panxipan sound?
for an English speaking audience? Is it easy to pronounce? (we are launching an app). Thank you.
Soylent partner cuts supply after shouldering blame for recall
This is Nintendo's own fault for not making it $10 upfront. That way people would have had to pay to review.
Ask HN: What books about change and release management do you recommend?
Thanks! Wow that's a hd monitor. I have a 30" 2560x1600 and I thought that was nice. how do you like it?
We waited until my wife was done with residency and fellowship, and it has worked out well for us. We have our second child on the way shortly, feel free to message me if I can help in any way.
For any given amount of infrastructure, proper pricing makes its use more efficient (of course, minus the inefficiency of actually implementing tolls), by shifting demand towards less busy times or encouraging use of mass transit and pooling. In a lot of jurisdictions it's essentially impossible to build enough road so there is zero traffic, because buildings can grow upwards but roads cannot.

Your point about the rich getting infrastructure seems like a non sequitur here. It's voters' job to get their representatives to build enough infrastructure, not just the rich.

I agree that congestion tolls are somewhat regressive, but the solution is to have a progressive tax system, not to avoid efficiency taxes.
At first I thought this was a great idea, but then I thought about it more. I think this is the digital equivalent of an angry mob throwing bricks through windows. We aren't doing any good, just destroying the community we live in. What would it be like if all the content creators that are incentivized by ad revenue lost their revenue? And we lost their content? I don't like being placed into an artificial bubble of customized content by tracking services, but i don't think this is the solution.
I wish I could give you reddit gold for this.
> When we say "rose under Foo" we typically mean from start to finish.

Huh, I don't. If I ask you if you got out of bed yesterday, I don't care whether you are currently in bed or not. I'm asking if you rose at all. On economics, if I ask you if there was mass unemployment during the 30s, I don't mean "only in 1939."

On WMDs, well, here we go again. Sarin tipped missiles were found in Iraq according to intelligence declassified in 2015:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have-...

Before that, in a hearing at the HASC in 2006, regarding weapons found in Iraq during the war in various states of functioning, Army Col. John Chu reported, "These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes ... they do constitute weapons of mass destruction."

http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=15918

More from WIRED:

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-contin...

On the minimum wage, I know what you're getting at, but I'm sure Card and Krueger would quibble with the phrasing of the question, arguing that they also have an economic theory with different results.

I think you're exaggerating what is clear cut and what's not to support your own bias that the world is comprised of simple uncomplicated facts, and people are either wrong or right. The more charitable explanation is that most issues belie significant nuance.

Not every issue, to be sure. Obama was born in the US. Rain is wet. But a lot of these studies cherry pick issues of controversy that are issues of controversy precisely because they hide layers of nuance that some people want to pretend isn't there at all.

The Iraq WMDs though... we just have HASC testimony on the record saying it's true, I don't know where you're coming from on that one. ;)
I think the product is solid, for a specific purpose, for a specific audience. However, they've failed to figure out the broad appeal that can lead to advertising dollars. I think their usage demographic is too narrow for a public company level of earnings. To me this is a product leadership issue. I agree that perhaps Jack Dorsey would be the next to leave. The biggest fear I, as a Twitter fan, would have is a private equity fire sale.
Unless you visit a tech company outside of the financial business... or really a ton of other companies.
If only I had had money to buy Apple stock in 98 lol, be well retired now, instead of going to graduate school taking out a loan to buy tons of Apple stock would have been a far smarter move
I was for a while thinking of the case where Apple bought NeXT but Gil Amelio and later Ellen Hancock stayed as CEO, and CHRP actually happened. While PC margins was declining, I was thinking that Apple could mostly focus on the higher-end PC and workstation markets, especially as OpenStep/Rhapsody was a UNIX.
Reporting for drugs is a standard for a long time now. You should report any adverse event to your physiciand and they are under obligation to report it to the pharma company who in turn sends annual reports of adverse events to the authorities. Serious side effects get reported to authorities within 24 hours and can lead to further investigations.

A bunch of drugs were stopped in the past because of post marketing reports.
Hacksaw React GitHub Search Example
I was disappointed to learn that "finally" was not the project name
The problem is the subjectivity of half the items on your list.
> it's ridiculous to summarize the collapse of the USSR as being due to centralized planning

Is it? These things were predicted long as a consequence of state socialism long before the USSR existed, and we still don't learn our lessons (venezuela)

http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
> I'll serve the ads I want the way I want.

Indeed they should. In most cases, they still send the page when requested. The problems start when authors decide they don't just want to control what they serve at their website. The advertising model also requires control of the client to guarantee that the ads are shown.

That kind of control is possible with a contract (e.g. a paywall or similar controlled access). Instead, a lot of "content creators" want to have the benefits of a contract but only from one side.

> And yet, there you are anyways, with your ad blocker

So stop sending them data when they ask for it. In the meantime, ad blockers are going to show exactly how little some "content" was actually worth. If your content is worth so little that nobody is willing to pay for it in money or time, don't be surprised when attempts to force payment (in time or attention) results in blowback.

> hard to take the high ground I think

It isn't unethical to use as desired data that you were freely given. The only people that are ceding ethical high ground are "content creators" that want to control how people use their website. Delusional beliefs about what they think contract law ought to be is no substitute for a business model that understands what the internet actually is.

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TL;DR - We aren't ethically obligated to prop up your business plan that relies on artificial scarcity. If you don't want people to read your web pages, stop sending those pages without pre-{payment,authorization}. I suggest finding a better business plan.
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