skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their subscriber income will be tiny according to their target of 6000 subs at $12 PA.

Their outgoings include 7 journalists and printing and distribution costs (currently they are giving away 15000 copies free every week, which they plan to reduce to 5000 per week).

I really want endeavours like this to be successful and would love to understand how they plan to make this a sustainable (non loss making) business. The traditional model is classifieds & local ads, but that's not been working for a while now.
Highly recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pinchbeck

How Soon Is Now?

The book outlines the changes to our technical infrastructure - agriculture, energy, industry - and our social, political, and economic system that Pinchbeck deems necessary to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, species extinction, and so on.
It works fine out of the box on my Dell and Samsung displays. I think your "oneliner" is actually a zero-liner, and Apple just spelled out a list of supported displays so they don't have to be responsible for trouble with others.

I've been told that there was a good technical reason for whitelisting TRIM support, namely that a lot of SSD firmwares have buggy TRIM that caused corruption. Rather than risk it, Apple figured out some that worked, whitelisted them, and just supported those. Which is entirely reasonable.

Apple does some questionable things. Making it impossible to install older versions of iOS is a good example, as are arbitrary hardware restrictions like not providing Night Shift on older hardware. But this list of supported displays and their limited TRIM support don't appear to be among them.
Note that the first example compiles without any further changes, producing valid JVM bytecode.
> I don't see this downward spiral trend you're talking about.

He literally posted a graph showing interest over time in Drupal has steadily been declining.

> Drupal 8 is one of the most dynamic and thought out CMS's available.

Now you sound like a press release.
Right, I agree that pursuing life-extension is worthwhile. Even living a few more decades at the height of our productivity would benefit society immensely, given how long it takes to train humans to be experts at anything.

I'm just trying to inject a little reality into the more starry-eyed Singularitarianist fantasies about living for millions of years among the stars as an uploaded member of a hive-mind or something.

I'm not a "deathist" by any means, but I accept that one day, it is overwhelmingly likely that my consciousness will end.
How much does it cost to get my temp email service white listed?
They haven't disabled it, they just don't officially support it. It works fine, you just can't get help from them if it doesn't.
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Getting RETE right isn't trivial. I tried looking into the fundamentals a few months ago, and was very unsatisfied - it felt like people explaining it knew parts of it but not the whole thing. I guess it is good that we have some open source implementations that can be reverse engineered by someone motivated enough.
It will stick around for several more years but the business model for SC is really questionable to keep up with making profit ever. The whole "I've got a lot of active users" is pretty much a building on fire, much like Uber in general. The fire will go on for as long as there are enough oxygen and enough material to burn until users starts to drop or advertisers see no value returning from paying Snapchat. SC won't completely go away for a long time, much like MySpace is still a thing today. Uber on the other hand is sort of "too big to fail" because of the amount of users it has already accumulated and already invested. Don't think SC will be too big to fail ever, but it will be interested to see how SC plays out in the next couple years with its production evolution.
It depends hugely on where they end up landing on home growing. Right now they're considering 4 plants per residence for personal use. If people can grow their own the retail proposition is very different.
No offense, but why block those addresses?
I don't think that people having this conversation fail to make the distinction that you're making. They talk like that because language is metaphorical. In fact, if you pay attention, you'll notice that you do the same sort of thing all the time.

Speaking about it differently will frame the concepts differently, but the way that people frame a concept is an intentional choice (it's not an error because there's no right way to do it). You can disagree about the way to frame the debate (that is, the way to think about the concepts), but understanding the physics of light sensors doesn't automatically lead to framing this particular conversation differently. There are lots of valid ways of thinking about the issue that doesn't rely on understanding physics.
Looks like it could be useful, thanks for sharing. Did you consider adding sendfile() support? There appears to be a python module that implements it.

Also, I see the gzip support, but you should also be able to send the gzipped file as-is (with the right content-length, etc) if the Vary headers from the client support it.

Edit: I don't see it figuring out, and sending, the right Content-type header. Or is that functionality that comes with the base class you're using to serve http?
this is good. Worth reading.
Comforting, too, to an American who fears Trumpism. Although indeed a mass movement, Trumpism is not yet a personality cult. More like Putinism rather than the Kim dynasty.
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The article makes it sound so light-hearted:

> “We laughed when we got the lawsuit. We knew we made it.”

So, what? They were just like "lol we're getting sued"? I have a hard time believing they were perfectly OK with the situation...
No, Java class files usually include the names of variables and functions, so this isn't the disassembler's fault. The class file actually had two functions with the same name. You could certainly implement an anti-obfuscation layer to detect stuff like this, but I wouldn't call it an "error" as is.
A refreshing read in what seems to be a ongoing deluge of rewrites, languages and frameworks.
It seems we're racing towards the events of Gattaca. It's easy to dismiss the movie as being similar to the far fetched distopian depictions in Minority Report, but in this case we actually have the technology to make it a reality.
I'm very happy this exists, but I feel like it's time for the underdog media to give up on money-making, and just register the paper as non-profit.

It seems like this developer isn't looking to make a profit anyways, and that move helps ensure he or a future owner has more barriers to changing their minds.

Not all valuable endeavors yield a profit-making opportunity.
NASA has developed a lot of technology, but I somewhat agree. Silicon Valley get's a great reputation, but has fewer real successes than you might think. The basic problem is your 1000th rocket is not any more innovative than your 1000th dating app.

Which is the core issue, private industry hates investing in long term research and it has a small problem space. The government funding got self driving cars close enough to production ready that companies are willing to finish the process. But, no company was trying to build a freeway capable self driving car 30 years ago and then publish their results.
That surprises me, I'd thought the drop in circulations was less severe at the local level.
Agreed. Penalties should be in the same form as the motivation: money, and lots of it. Sufficient to make people think twice about asserting a bogus patent again; the amount they claim in damages would be a good starting point. Lose a suit claiming $100m in damages, pay that amount to the winner.

Yes, that's arbitrary, but less so than East Texas patent awards.
I had to stop using f.lux on my Mac Pro because of this. Every five minutes my screens would blink as it adjusted the color profile. Not quite worth it!

If for some reason Night Shift were to cause a similar problem, Apple wouldn't want to put effort into fixing it if it happened with third-party displays. By having an official list, they're free to tell people having problems with other hardware "tough luck, sucks to be you."
Sometimes people use them for bots to create accounts.
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"forensic imaging specialists" already exist in modern GAN networks and are called discriminators. They examine how likely is it that they would be from a human and then provide feedback to the generator network on what a human would do differently.
> Teens and 20-somethings liked the fact that Snapchat was their real friends. Facebook has that goofy uncle, and coworkers from 5 jobs ago, and old classmates you don't really want to stay in touch with. Facebook has too many "weak ties".

You can choose who you share your stories with on Facebook.

But Facebook doesn't need to get _all_ Snapchat users to switch. It only needs a tiny percentage of all those users and will severely damage Snapchat (by slowing down its growth). See this article for a good argument: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-copy-snapchat-2017-3
The source cited in Wikipedia lists only 11 states that have anti-mask laws. Sometimes there are religious or medical exceptions. Many of them are targeting the KKK or bank robbers, but most of the litigation against them has been state civil liberties unions teaming up with the KKK, who is not very sympathetic. But I don't see how this can possibly be constitutional: http://io9.gizmodo.com/man-in-joker-makeup-charged-with-felo...
I respect Rollins but a more useful and informative interview for HN and entrepreneurs would've been Ian Mackaye. That guys is a business legend for me.
I understand were you are coming from with a comment like that, but I would argue that the large majority of people read about and get emotionally invested in news stories that have no impact on their lives. Take, for example, the stories of refugees being taken in by European countries, and those of Donald Trump's view of healthcare. It's nearly physically impossible to be affected by those two things. We can think of plenty of such 'pairs' of stories that people get interested in which it's impossible to be affected by both. And beyond what marginal information you get to inform your voting preferences via those stories, it is pretty pointless to get invested in them.
Disposable email addresses exists precisely because we don't plan on returning. Some websites tried to block disposable addresses already, I just went somewhere else.
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Why do you believe that the possibility that people may be discriminated against due to their dna is a ringing endorsement for single-payer "medicare for all" health insurance?
> Greg Egan and I came up with this formula last weekend.

He says with the same sort of casual tone that I would refer to my wife and I rearranging the living room last weekend.
74M Americans are on Medicaid
> Alternatives to training include downloading the trained model. It could be a big download but an overnight download is not that weird to ask users to do.
Or keep the pretrained network on superpowerful cloud machines.
Well well now i am curious. That was what drew me towards Linux back in the day as i felt Windows was getting more and more convoluted and opaque. And these days the feeling is rising in me again as i watch what is being introduced above the kernel on almost a daily basis.
oh, okay. thanks.
Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?
Right this seems like what is going on. Or at the least, things were publicly accessible and now are not so there is no way of knowing if these data sets are alive somewhere.
If you have that list yourself, then you don't need to attempt anything. You can create your own service.
Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce
I wish，but the news is just a another example of increasing monopolization in America. Economies of scale are a powerful tool against a shrinking market.
If you consider using this, please for the privacy of your users make sure to only check the domain, not the full mail address (so not like the first two API request examples).
What companies underwrite their own health insurance policies?

I would find that to be a ridiculous risk for those not actually in the business. The whole idea behind insurance is to spread the risk among lots of people. If a medium-sized business is underwriting their own policy, I would think they would quickly go bankrupt more often than not.
Exactly! And lot of people think this way about marijuana, too. And a lot more don't think this same way in both situations. How to fix it?
They missed a %20 from the link http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/IA%20Proposers%20Day.pdf
G+ is a poster child, but G+ is a horrible product. It was an entirely a whole new application of its own, so comparing that to Stories is pretty awkward. The Stories is integrated within the main Facebook user experience. It's literally showing up as another feature on the main site/main app.
> Print media provides a common landscape.

So does Hacker News. A major differentiating feature between Hacker News and Reddit was subreddits, and that has resulted in substantially different cultures (for better and worse).
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What the hell are you talking about?

> More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad.

I don't understand where this is coming from. Please explain what you mean, and why you think that.

> but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them.

My objection was that the parent post claimed the quote was "word salad" and I claim it is not, because the quote obviously has a message and it is not difficult to figure out what it is.

If you meant that I didn't bother explaining the message, well then here is how I interpret the quote:

>Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers.

He's talking about stereotypes here, and how there is a stereotype that many black men abandon their children/family.

> Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation.

Again referencing stereotypes.

> Attacker has the advantage.

Guy who hits first usually wins the fight.

> Jews have a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry) Ironic.

Again, stereotypes. He is obviously referencing WW2 in this context and talking about how the French were easily defeated by the Germans.

> I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.

I'm guessing here he is saying the Jews were God's chosen people, but they didn't live up to that an let the Germans almost destroy them.

So yeah, most people don't talk like this guy in normal conversation, but it is pretty clear to me that he is talking about stereotypes and sticking up for yourself. I might not get the finer details he is trying to communicate, but even so it is far from unintelligible.
In the past I've used this:
https://github.com/martenson/disposable-email-domains

Gets the job done.
This confuses me a bit, but I honestly have not spent a ton of time with Go, so perhaps you can explain. How exactly do you get simple cross compiling with OpenSSL using Go? Once you use an external library don't you lose all of Go's cross compiling simplicity?
Corporate personhood is deeply entrenched in legal tradition. It's not a simple matter to reverse or extract that. See the Dictionary Act, Section 1 of the U.S. Code, which clearly defines incorporated entities as persons for legal purposes. [0] [Disclaimer: IANAL and surely do not fully understand the implications and background here]

I don't think artificial restrictions on political involvement are the right way to go about a resolution. That ultimately just forces participants underground.

Instead, we need an updated electoral process that allows full engagement from all interested parties and still has a desirable outcome for the everyman, small innovators and entrepreneurs.

IMO the biggest problem over the last century has been the consolidation of credible information sources into a handful of media conglomerates. The internet is helping reverse that, at least partially, though it's at risk too with Facebook and Google controlling the vast majority of the traffic.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1
>My point was a very specific one, which is that a lot of longtime viewers who heavily engaged with his content (e.g. posted at length on the subreddit) seem to have walked away from engaging or perhaps subscribing at all.

On the contrary - a large number of them had little or no history on the subreddit and it reeked of a bizarre form of astroturfing with plenty of new accounts repeating very similar messages. To what end? No idea. He's popular enough that it is totally possible he had a number of subscribers that felt the need to join Reddit and speak out. But any long term fan would know Jon's opinions on such things. So if anything, they weren't the most engaging of fans and "no harm done".

Mostly smelled of rotten fish to me.
Author says (in comments) in support of Singularity being nonsense:

> Technology is not a quantity

Er, yeah, "technology" is a complicated thing, but it can be considered a quantity. Computing power grows, so does automation and material knowledge. Dismissing a useful concept as religion because it isn't mathematically rigorous isn't very objective.
> And expensive drugs are expensive primarily because it really does cost $1B+ to develop a new drug.

Nope. More of the cost of a drug goes to marketing than development: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
> unreasonable union interference grounds my belief that unions often engage in crude, counterproductive behavior.

They definitely do.

It's like what attorneys do with their clients. They try to sweep their clients' faults under the run and play to their strengths. "Unions are great! They empower and protect the common workers against greedy selfish corporations seeking to exploit them!"

Yet a lot of people on HN are business owners, and they see the other side of the coin - that unions are not always cooperative and sometimes can have a parasitic relationship with the business that borderlines and indeed passes the "unreasonable" threshold.
One can say the same about local politicians
Family farms.
> smoking around unsuspecting non-smokers is disrespectful (and gets them high, because weed smoke is active even in the air!).

disrespectful, ok, I can agree with that. second-hand smoke (of any kind) is a type of highly local air pollution and it's bad manners to smoke (anything) in an inappropriate spot.

however, are you serious about second-hand high? I feel like this is a destructive myth and I'm really surprised to see it being promulgated on hacker news.
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> QT is GPL licensed

Wrong. It is triple-licensed (GPL, LGPL and commercial).
If you read The Clockwork Rocket, it becomes very, very obvious that Egan is a mathematician who will go to any length - including writing excellent fiction - to attempt to cram knowledge into your head.
You are right, it's exactly a network effect in that Fb wants to keep existing user interested.
I will say, aside from the quality of the surgery and the awesome outcome -- the "marketing" for this is intense and actually feels crazy to me.

I suppose this is because the machine is expensive and you need to recoop your investment, plus most people are being sold glasses and contacts from their doctor as that is the default.

It does take effort to educate people about new options and it's an elective surgery where if you go with the alternative you don't really know what you are missing...
Not to be an asshole but I absolutely loathe this... these sort of things are why I'm forced to give my email address to organizations I don't trust. This is offensive to my sense of privacy and I wish people would stop doing it.

Too often now sites/app want a login for no benefit other than to SPAM me with newsletters and crap I never wanted. That's why I use disposable email addresses, you're providing me no real value, at least sight unseen, but I must give you something I know is valuable-- my contact information.
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Even in companies of size of Google most devs nowadays rarely deal with SVN directly, they use git->svn bridges. So yeah, Git is a de-facto standard. And it's not for the sake of Github.
It appears that stories in Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger are all completely separate from each other. If you want to post to all Facebook products and Snapchat, you'll have to do it five times.

edit: Facebook and Messenger may be linked. oops. Well, if you wanted to post to all Facebook products stories and Whatsapp, you'd have to post four times; tons of redundancy remains.
That was my first thought, that this is being presented as a fundamental tenant of compilers and really it's a design choice that a whole family of languages, some of them that people even use, didnt make.
I wonder if anybody compared Kdb+ with Jdb, a J DB system.
> The sorry consolation is that the threats are a sure sign of success, he says: “We laughed when we got the lawsuit. We knew we made it.”

Yeah, really not understanding this thinking. The preceding sentence claims that they received no payment from Acushnet/Titleist, but I can't understand this attitude otherwise. Maybe they'd laugh if they were playing a round of golf, but this is a real life business, not a game.

The linked 2015 Golf Digest article [1] uses very different language and responses, calling the decision to shut down "painful" and "very tough". Further, they say:

> "Each company denies Acushnet's allegations and intends to vigorously defend itself in the case."

I'll grant that there is some time which elapsed between these articles and the incidents surrounding them, but I find it hard to imagine that their attitudes could have changed so drastically.

[1]: http://www.golfdigest.com/story/five-golf-ball-companies-nam...
Can someone provide examples of temp mail abuse that makes this necessary? I sometimes use these service to avoid being subscribed to ceaseless email marketing rings or get at information (in my opinion) needlessly siloed in things like forums.

Seems also like a user-hostile escalation in this kind of arms race that will eventually be overcome anyway.
"Somebody died once" is not a valid reason for everyone thereafter to have to pay $80 (an hour of electrician's time) to plug in their computer to the outlet that comes as part of their trade show booth... or the same to have someone come vacuum their 10 sq ft piece of carpet before the show opens. Both of these are things someone could easily do on their own, but aren't allowed to because someone died once.
Don't take it the wrong way, I wish you all the best but I also hope this particular project won't see any significant adaptation :(
We are all a part of the human race and we owe it to ourselves and our fellow humans to take care of each other.
Why block disposable email addresses?
> a doctorate at Stanford and then become a professor at Cornell

As an aside, academia is no meritocracy. A lot of what's required to get posts at schools like these amounts to self-promotion and luck (graduating in the right year & from the right lab).

Of course hard work and technical competence is also required, so your point stands.