skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How frequently you use hacker news? How many useful info you usually find and how you make use of Hacker new to find useful info? is it Hacker news an important news source to you?
Surprised that the comments here are from the perspective of an employee considering moving to France when the purpose of the visa is to attract founders. Try founding a tech company when you are paying all those employment taxes for everyone you hire. And then they are only allowed to work 35 hours a week. I helped a startup during the dot com boom in Paris. They said the "employment police" would stake out their building to ensure nobody worked too long. And good luck holding on to anything if you sell. Sorry France. Nice try.
> does anybody have more information on what that URL is for?

Many years ago, Google Search existed only on http:// and schools used filters to block searches that they didn't like. Then Google shipped https:// for search on www.google.com, upset the schools because they could no longer block just some searches, then moved encrypted search to encrypted.google.com so that the entire domain could be blocked: https://cloud.googleblog.com/2010/06/an-update-on-encrypted-...
Sure, it was a lot worse pre-ACA. Thankfully, it's quite easy to purchase individual insurance these days (I pay $160/m for mine). We'll see what happens with the Republicans.

More importantly, health insurances do not at all sufficiently explain the differences in salaries. Google will hire you here and give you great health insurance, even though they're also paying very well.

Also, the notion that it requires really high taxes to implement single payer is simply not true. Singapore, for example, has a robust public health system while also having some of the lowest taxes in the world. After all, companies are already paying for insurance here. If we socialized it, I wouldn't expect tech salaries to drop.
You don't understand, you can't entice people who have it better with something worse.
Is it possible to fork the project and keep all the good things that makes it fast but remove all the evil lock in stuff?
Perhaps because European integration has been the antidote to the extreme nationalism which devastated not only the continent, but the whole world in the first half of the 20th century?

We're seeing rises in ethno-nationalism again, a turn to leaders who project strength and authority and demagogue via twitter, and a new theater of war where we are just as clueless of the consequences (cyber) the world was about explosives and machine guns in WWI. Couple those with the pressures from climate change and I sadly predict a major war between major nation-states in the next 15 years
Indeed, my graduate coursework was full time for 2 years, and the failed thesis project probably cost me 3 years.
Generators or alternators driven off the wheels are not free - the horse is now powering your lights as well as your wagon. The relatively high efficiency of LED lights helps a lot, but your horse still with thank you for using batteries.

The article discusses the higher efficiency of steel tires compared to rubber tires and the emphasis on light weight. Tens of Watts of generator load on the horse is probably more than the difference in steel vs. rubber tires.
VR by Facebook is like adventure travel trips organized by WalMart.
as does chrome on android
Just finished the book this past weekend, highly recommend. The science is great but the philosophy behind it all was what was really interesting to me.
Not really, as coastal city can also benefit from fishing, and certain coastal area had maritime trade back in ancient times.

But it's not sea level either, my understanding is that the reason why most ancient capitals are built inland is military.

Coastal areas are harder to defend from foreign invasions than inland areas, as there is little signal and time to mobilize troops, moreover, martial strategy privileges high ground.

Capitals were usually built around a river that connects to the sea, and where that river meets the sea, you can usually find a fortified town which had a military garrison.

My guess is that the advent of the airplane bomber has changed the considerations.
An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (2011) [pdf]
In many rural settings there is no dedicated fire department and it all operates on a volunteer basis.

Around harvest time it was expected that the neighbors would have their tractors standing by hooked up with discs to till the crops and build fire lines.

Dedicated fire fighters aren't the only people who can put out fires.
Yeah but here it's functioning effectively as a better ad-blocker (one that doesn't screw up site layout). Looking at how AMP works, I can see why : you'd have to decide before you know who the user is what ads to show.

Wouldn't that effectively mean that in a search query followed by an AMP site visit only Google has the opportunity to show targeted ads ?
> e.g. seems likely they'll have camera eyes.

Why is that likely? Mantis shrimp, for example, have compound eyes and one of the most sophisticated visual systems found in nature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
So people at Valve gave away tech, and then got hired by other companies to work on that tech, presumably for stacks of money? Leaving others who happened to be working on less lucrative subjects their a prestigious but lower-paid positions with little hope of meaningful advancement?

Huh. Valve is just like academia.
w/r/t selection bias, "As of the third quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.79 billion monthly active users."
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

Their sample pool covers better than 25% of the human population.
> Not all the world's a web page

Did you really need that patronising statement?

My point wasn't about memory usage, it was about development cost. The transactional behaviour emerges by default from use of immutable structures.

Any transactional system will have memory performance characteristics that are very similar to using immutable structures, if not worse, so your point was, well, pointless.
Noah Smith tries to describe the overall state of macro in this recent post:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-11/tribal-wa...

He starts out strong and gives a good overview of the "schools" that have been laid to rest, but concludes on some kind of utopian, happy note that I don't believe he has any evidence to support. But then again he spends most of his time in conversation with leading economists (I think) so he should have a pretty good idea of what's up.

Paul Romer has a good summary of the state of macro in his 9/16 paper "The Trouble With Macroeconomics". Here's the abstract:

For more than three decades, macroeconomics has gone backwards. The
treatment of identification now is no more credible than in the early 1970s
but escapes challenge because it is so much more opaque. Macroeconomic
theorists dismiss mere facts by feigning an obtuse ignorance about such simple
assertions as "tight monetary policy can cause a recession." Their models
attribute fluctuations in aggregate variables to imaginary causal forces that
are not influenced by the action that any person takes. A parallel with string
theory from physics hints at a general failure mode of science that is triggered
when respect for highly regarded leaders evolves into a deference to authority
that displaces objective fact from its position as the ultimate determinant of
scientific truth.

It's a good one...https://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/WP-Trouble....

Personally, just from reading books and papers it seems like there are very few economic clans left, just economic celebrities (Krugman, Varoufakis, etc.) and the profession's credibility is suffering due to the Fed (and other leading central banks) inability to make anything happen with an empty clip monetary policy wise.
Will never happen. As a ml researcher, I'd absolutely love to apply ml to Healthcare but the data simply isn't there. Big companies will never release the data. Government intervention is needed,but that won't happen with the new administration...
Can you at least halt?
Your logic is not sound though. Some people are not paying a dime while others pay more. And by far you are using way more road that you are able to afford, just like what happens with shared hosting.

More importantly, according to your definition, nothing is ever free. If I tell you that you can pick a fruit from a tree in a national park, you will probably use a ridiculous argument that national parks are protected, therefore somebody pays for the maintenance, etc.

So no offense, but please don't be an idiot, and by that I mean "someone who acts in a self-defeating or significant counterproductive way."
>> * Healthcare insurance ~ 40 euros / month, the company pays half for it. (240 / year)

For the benefit of non-French readers, let's clarify that the kind of 40€/month health insurance you're talking about is called "mutuelle", which is optional extra private insurance that covers the remaining third or so of each medical bill, after mandatory state insurance ("sécurité sociale") took care of the first two thirds (slightly oversimplified explanation : the coverage ratio varies and you might sometimes still be out of pocket slightly)

In other words, France has a hybrid paying system which gets a lot of criticism, but I think is actually the best of both worlds : it means patients get almost complete freedom in choosing their private doctor/hospital, but most of the bill is still footed by state insurance. You don't have to attend a specific surgery as in most public systems (UK NHS), and there are no mandatory "provider networks" like with most US/UK private health insurance.

The drawback for the very poor, is that it's not entirely free (but there's special help available to get on a "mutuelle")

In the UK where I live, on the other hand, the National Health Service is almost completely free for patients and often has great staff, but is chronically subject to government cuts, unavailability of "non-essential" treatments, and unacceptable waiting times.

So, most people in the UK who can afford it buy private insurance (if they don't get denied because of "preexisting conditions", a notion that doesn't exist in France) and go to completely different doctors / hospitals than the NHS. It's a two-speed system which doesn't feel right when you're used to the French one.
As someone happy with their AMP site, I'm only happy with it on the basis that my Jekyll theme builds the whole site as a single site that happens to support AMP on the desktop page.

I couldn't imagine dealing with supporting two deployments.
From the link:
"On their way to the moon, the Apollo 17 crew took one of the most iconic photographs in space-program history, the full view of the Earth dubbed "The Blue Marble." Despite it's fame, the photograph hasn't really been appreciated, Cernan said in 2007.

"What is the real meaning of seeing this picture? I've always said, I've said for a long time, I still believe it, it's going to be -- well it's almost fifty now, but fifty or a hundred years in the history of mankind before we look back and really understand the meaning of Apollo. Really understand what humankind had done when we left, when we truly left this planet, we're able to call another body in this universe our home. We did it way too early considering what we're doing now in space. It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo."

Gene Cernan had poetry in his soul.
> Does anybody have more information on what that URL is for?

You used to have to use that domain to run searches over HTTPS. Google's enabled that for all users now, so it's kind of obsolete -- but apparently it still behaves a little bit differently?
The more I read about complaints about AMP, the more it dawns on me that there are still a fair amount of people that do not understand that the web is basically Google's product.

Facebook and others have arrived to take significant time away from that product. Then combine that with things like Facebook Video and Instant Articles. Google is in a difficult position where Facebook may be able to start offering up a superior product for content as opposed to the web.

If you want to blame a big corp for AMP, you should probably take a closer look at Facebook as without it Google risks losing a large chunk of its market.
How do Amish recharge the batteries though?
Claude bloody Shannon ;)

I was going to say that I think Marvin Minsky deserves to be on that list, especially if we are talking about the rise and fall and rise again of neural networks. Especially the fall part.

Then I noticed he was first on the list and I'd just scrolled.
But even if Moxie does something weird or some country breaks Signal. You and your contacts can easier switch to another system.

While when your XMPP server admin does something weird or a country breaks it you are locked in.

For Signal you use an ID which is not owned by Signal. So for Signal and alike the decentralisation doesn't come from the service but from your own social graph which is your phone book on your smartphone.

Moxie explained it much better I think.
https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
In my opinion, this is not hustling but ambulance chasing.

Every tech company is going to have bad operational issue days. Going at your competitors customers regularly when your competitors have bad days will net you more negative reactions than positive, in my opinion.
Typing Practice for Programmers
> a load of shit

Your comment is anecdotal proof that profanity doesn't have jack shit to do with anger.
If you mean the Google CDN cache, just don't include the Google CDN file and host it yourself instead
SIP SIMPLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMPLE_(instant_messaging_prot...
Personally I think there is a ton of growth potential for Steam that has yet to be realized. I wonder if the revenue is making Valve soft since it tends to hide many problems that scrappier companies are forced to confront and solve or perish.
Yep... Some of my ex-classmates from engineering schools who stayed in France now have 45+ holidays per year. One even has 52 holidays per year. FIFTY TWO! And that's excluding bank holidays!
Arguing why "people trot out" socialism from a purely individual financials POV is in large part a normative judgement. In any case, I certainly don't expect a tech visa in France to hope to attract people whose life goal is to retire in 10 years, so on that we probably agree.
In fairness, I assume you would still try to swear less in an interview, no?
Several French mobile phone carriers have run a yearly Black Friday sale that got you that kind of 20€/mo plan for 3.99€/mo or so for a year !
Snapchat is HUGE with college aged and under, they check it nonstop and it has become the go to social platform. It also has pretty good ideas for revenue between custom filters that anyone can pay for (different tiers) and placing ads in between stories when watching them. They can be skipped and are pretty non intrusive.

I really like snapchat because it is super casual and there is no inherent risk in throwing something goofy together, and no pressure of getting likes or upvotes or anything.
Personally I think there is a ton of growth potential for Steam that has yet to be realized.

I wonder if all the revenue is making Valve soft since it tends to hide many problems that scrappier companies are forced to confront and solve or perish.
Is this true in all developed countries? What about healthcare systems owned and operated by the government. Seems plausible a government contract could provide access to such data.
This looks really useful. Is there a way to make it directly printable? It would be great if I can use it for my lectures.
It was assigned CVE-2016-9919.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9919

This all happened December 8th. I'm surprised this didn't make more noise, but it's unclear to me what versions are affected. It was reported on 4.8.12 and not marked as a regression, and was fixed during 4.9 development.
Bamboo is a commonly proposed Mars substitute. Grows like a weed.
The wiki lists an "in progress" python implementation:

https://github.com/anupsv/The-Noise-Protocol
Reading this, it would seem the President of Samsung is more important to Korea than their National President. One is mentioned in every paragraph; the other in only one, offhand.
Wow, neither of you actually finished the article. Both of you are claiming the author believes viewpoints that the author presented in order to show problems with them.

Ultimately, the TLS didn't even claim a viewpoint. They merely presented a variety of opinions and critiqued them.
Comments are half the news anyways :)
Except those outside investors won't be paid back if it fails.
How to download and install video add ons to DVDFab Media Player
Relevant information:

Alphabet: GOOG (non-voting class C) closed Friday at a 2.8% discount from GOOGL (1x voting class A)

Zillow: Z (non-voting class C) closed Friday at 1.1% discount from ZG (voting class A).
You can't entice EVERYONE, but you can definitely attract or tip the scale for some or many. Your ideas of "better" and "worse" seem rather limited.
One of the things I feel are underrated here, is that this spec ships with implementations written by different people in different languages.

The fact these are interoperable confirms they meet the spec.

Contrast to Argon2, where recent independent implementations found the reference implementation was incorrect.
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> But the people who designed the page in the first place should be able to make it just as fast without using AMP.

...but they don't, which is the point.

I'll throw my hat in on being a fan of reading news on AMP pages as well (though reddit amp does seem completely broken). I wouldn't care in the least if news site x instead wrote a fast site, I'd happily use that instead. But until they do, yeah, as a user I'll click on the amp link first.
This attack should work on EV too. Register a company with PayPal in its name in some small country. There is no "avoid name conflicts between companies" system with as much reach as the Internet itself.
Nope, it's part of a trend that began with the Google IPO. Larry and Sergey kept control, but investors made money so they didn't care. Then Zuck tried the same thing, and it was a bit of rocky start, but investors still made money eventually. It will keep going until there is a disastrous IPO where founders keep control and investors lose their shirts and realize they have no recourse. Then it will stop.
Eyes have evolved on Earth about 20 different times. But octopii have large brains and camera eyes (and aren't mammals). It's only one extra data point, but it is a data point.
One day we'll be pointing at pictures yelling "Enhance!", and not in jest!
Great list, leaving a comment here to "bookmark" it.
Or at least recyclable
I realized later that I left out a smiley, or better evidence of humor. Hopefully it was taken as intended by everyone!
There are more than a few people that believe they deserve $1m+ for throwing or kicking a ball. I hope you look down on them as well.
Trump is many things, and charismatic may be one of them, although personally I don't see it, but "a powerful builder" is not one of them.

Trump doesn't build buildings - he licenses his name to buildings other people build. He doesn't even own most of the properties that bear his name. The only thing he can feasibly claim to have built is his own celebrity, and prior to his recent status, his celebrity might generously be described as b-list - he was a reality show star who was once a professional wrestling celebrity heel and sometimes guest starred as himself on various tv shows.

The distinction is important, I believe, because to me, "builder" implies someone with a passion and a deep understanding of the art of whatever they make their living at. I don't see a passion about architecture or design from Trump, nor do I get a sense that he understands how they work, or that he cares.
I imagine it's supposed to be similar to how Apple's iAd platform works for iOS apps. It's a bad shake for third-party ad networks, but it's great for user privacy, since third-party origin requests are no longer being made to anyone but the platform owner (who then anonymizes the impression metrics they give back to the ad creators, who just have to trust the platform-owner's stats.)
I'm not sure what basis you have for the implicit claim that we don't exist in "loose animalistic structures".
> The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes. In exchange, employees get as standard

So, France could be great to be an employee, but it's horrible for entrepreneurs.
On my iPhone, I use DuckDuckGo mainly to avoid AMP. I use Google on my laptop.
We don't - but most of the rest of the browsing public doesn't know the difference.
> Arguing why "people trot out" socialism from a purely individual financials POV is in large part a normative judgement.

You don't seem to understand what a normative judgement is. I'm not saying whether socialism is good or bad, just that it objectively does not balance out with the less compensation. The OP literally framed it as you getting "these benefits" in compensation for the lower salary and they are simply wrong.

> I certainly don't expect a tech visa in France to hope to attract people whose life goal is to retire in 10 years, so on that we probably agree.

If France isn't hoping to attract people who are hoping to make enough money to retire in 10 years, I question how they'll get any good founders. Successful founders are almost always in a position to retire within 10 years.

It sounds like you're arguing that a socialist state will have trouble attracting capitalists. On that I agree. I don't really see how you imagine startups being built without capitalists though.
On my phone (chrome on android), basically any google search result from reddit goes to the amp version of the page.

(with all five visible comments, and since the full comments are almost certainly what I was searching for, I end up having to click through to the full page anyway every time)
Very interesting. I live in Pullman, WA. They have a colony in Spokane. I'm curious now.
Is more government or less government in order?

A previous company I worked for was scared to death of holding any records that may be classified as health records because of the regulatory implications.
My understanding is that he's generated less returns off his inheritance than he would have done by investing in index funds. If true, isn't he just a rich kid spending his inheritance?
Samsung alone is responsible for about 20% of Korean GDP. This article is from 2012, but I don't expect it to have changed much: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/whoa-sam...
The author doesn't actually ever present an ethical system they believe: the article is a summary and critique of a variety of ethical systems.
Warren Buffett is both. He's a very capable schmoozer now after decades of practice (he wasn't when he was very young). His style of schmoozing, the disarming folksy charm etc., is a huge part of what enabled him to buy the companies he did, luring in very talented owner/operators. And he's an empire builder of the scale few in world history have ever managed in financial terms. To manage to put something like Berkshire together and not have it collapse under its own weight after 50+ years (due to mismanagement or any number of dozens of common reasons), is an extraordinary accomplishment of building.
Everything seems to be moving towards gardens right now. Certainly not just Google. It's one of the things that depresses me most about tech right now.
Already fixed in Debian, probably fixed in most other distros as well considering it was posted Dec 8th.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9919