skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but your ISP is expected to resolve domains to the same thing as everyone else, which is based on the distribution setup by ICANN/IANA/whoever. I2P has complete control over what a domain will resolve to, and can choose names based on utility to the user. There's also the factor of ease of use: even if everyone could edit their hosts file to make typing domains easier, few people know about the hosts file, or would think to edit it. Putting the option front and center, with a easy-to-use GUI makes a difference.
These are all petty optimizations that we've been conditioned to accept, and work with, because of the anti-transit politics of a car-centric US culture.

What we need are trains and subways - with service levels and cleanliness acceptable to all classes - not new and interesting ways to stockpile poor people into shitty buses.
> It's still unclear why dolphins are willing to risk so much for such a small meal.

maybe it's just they like the taste? it's not like we don't go out of our own way to find some delicacies just because we are in the mood for them.

I know anthropomorphizing animals is a no-no these days, but trying to explain everything based on "nutritional value" seems a bit narrow minded...
concerts in VR you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kcIy9XGmwI
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Even if they introduce an "off" setting, there's no good way to verify that they aren't collecting/sending that data anyway.
Really? Maybe the way I didn't write it didn't imply it, but I actually meant that you always had to make very clear that the product doesn't exist yet. You are selling the concept of something you are or you will be working on. If after a week you have managed to do only 1 sell, then return the money, say your product didn't receive enough interest, and try something else. However, if you manage to do 1 sell, you will probably manage to do more than 1. The first one is the difficult one.

If you achieve a decent amount of sales in a week, then build quickly the first version of your product.
Increasing the contrast on hover might do the trick.
Sorry, yes that was this thing called "humor" again.

/slapshand
Ergodox-ez.com sure make a big deal about being 'open source', yet I can't find a schematic, PCB design or anything related to this on their site. Perhaps I'm missing something?

What I do see is they use an open source firmware, used on several other keyboards.
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Have you heard of his hip new tool called Google? You can find any quote you want.
In my experience ingesting calories before bed is never a wise idea, but especially so if milk is involved.
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How, exactly, would you handle the ending of Use of Weapons?
> This isn't wikipedia.

No, it's a forum where the norm is that if you are going to make factual assertions where you aren't the source, you should include the source.

> If someone is so concerned about sources, they can include it in the reply after the parent.

Which is just making everyone else do your work for you. It's fine, if you want to make assertions and not include sources, you'll either be ignored by some number of people, or depending on how different the assertion is to their worldview, possibly downvoted.

If you're interested in having a discussion, sources help. If you're just interested in putting your mark down and saying something because you have the urge, then they don't really matter.
Both parties are beholden to special interests, but they're usually different special interests.

A quick perusal of public filings for 2016 campaign contributions shows that democrats disproportionately received more money from unions (teachers, carpenters, nurses, restaurant workers, etc.), while republicans received more from casinos, private prisons, energy companies, and other corporations.

AT&T gave $7.7M to republicans for 2016, and $2.3M to democrats. Comcast was more balanced with $3.3M and $3.7M for republicans and democrats respectively.

There are certain sectors that give a lot of money to both parties. Hedge funds, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies are a good example, which might explain why we pay so much more for drugs than most countries, and why we've been so resistant to any form of single payer healthcare.

Political campaigns are long, drawn-out affairs in the US. The campaign for 2016 kicked off in the latter half of 2015! Running a campaign for that long costs a lot of money, and it all has to come from somewhere. Unless we're willing to get serious about campaign finance reform, or dramatically shortening campaign cycles, our politicians are going to continue to owe favors to special interests.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
Obvious from the correctly set commas.
Damn you
or the worst line
$150 to have a nurse put a popsicle stick on my tongue and tell me that my throat infection would probably go away on its own.
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Why is it a "no-no these days"?
From a Bloomberg article* yesterday:
"The lift fan made the common fuselage bulkier than it otherwise would have been. That, in turn, increased drag and decreased fuel efficiency and range."

This quote from the article reinforces my view that the VTOL requirement does effect the other version of the F-35.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-04/is-the-f-...
no but I spent a lot of time studying this research when I was getting my econ degree and it made perfect sense to me. That might explain my emotional attachment to this theory, coupled with my sympathy towards African Americans downtrodden by institutional racism hidden in plain sight.
You try doing that, eat it, and see what happens
Reminds me mongodb being open/unprotected by default, that turned out well...
Central heating seems seriously overdue some innovation. Radiator's​ are so ugly, but what can you do? I've never known anyone have underfloor heating upstairs, though I'm not sure if there are technical reasons preventing that.

It astounds me that new developments still get white steel atrocities strapped to the walls, among other things like white plastic UX-disaster thermostats.
I think the point being made is that whilst the probability of picking one at random is "zero" the rational numbers exists.
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But isn't time a function of skill?

To put it another way, if you had a lot of practice at building CRUD apps, have your IDE set up, know the short cuts, might it take you 40 hours where someone else needs 400?

In that case, time and skill would be fungible. (Or, skill can be thought of as "stored time.")
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I hadn't seen any discussion or mention on HN. This is an important milestone in increasing the availability of space, both for commercial and human ventures, and possibly for extraglobal habitation in the future.

I found the WaitButWhy series on Musk and his companies to be interesting and enlightening (as someone with no aerospace background):

Part 1: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-m...

The SpaceX post (part 3): http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...

Additional SpaceX post: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-f...

Edit: line breaks for links.
What about the other subsystems that silently collect data?
Consider that now that the original joke isn't visible anymore, all these other comments of yours about why you got downvoted are boring to read indeed.
That's a good point. I find I am more productive in the mornings.
Somehow had completely missed this. While it doesn't answer the community-aspect which I consider the real source of value behind Hacker News, Satori's RSS data seems quite interesting from a technical standpoint. Thank you.
Perhaps the nutritional value is why it tastes good to them from an evolutionary standpoint.
Exactly. Chernobyl was an unsafe design, when safe(r) designs were well known. Its operation was not just sloppy, the operation that was performed was a crazy experiment that was well beyond the operating specs of the reactor, clearly illegal and unsafe even in the best of times.
While that might be true for some organizations, it is not 'the' issue. Most mergers and consolidations that have the potential to be most damaging aren't necessarily global businesses. e.g ISP's consolidating, Health Insurance companies in the US.

And I'd argue even companies that have a global presence, example US airlines, might benefit from consolidation but it does harm their local market, in this case US domestic travellers since they inevitably end up paying more due to a lack of choice.
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Accelerando is an independent novel (in fact a series of nine short stories).
Of all things procedural they refused to do stories and socities
Had to double check but seems so!

(link to image of ovaltine jar)
https://www.catchthedeal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2...
The slogan of Horlicks is "Taller, stronger, sharper". Grew up in the Caribbean and every mom swore by it so we drank it.
Google paid car unit staffers so much money that they quit
Telemetry at the OS level bothers me to the point that I'm not Windows user anymore and I I'm not planning to become one anytime soon.

But to be fair one should point out that Apple is also collecting telemetry data (search system logs for com.apple.telemetry) without any toggles in the system preferences.

Search results don't bring much info on what is collected and how it is being used. Does anyone here have insight into Apple telemetry granularity?
Thank you, I'll be researching this further
It'd be cool if the browser used this to allow cross-origin caching as well.

Say I have jQuery previously loaded a page that included jQuery from CDNJS and now I'm in China and another site tries to load jQuery from Google's CDN.

Currently that request would get blocked by the great firewall. But since the browser should know that this file matches one it has seen (and cached) before it should be able to just serve the cached file.

This could also save a network request even if I'm linking to a self-hosted file on my own servers if I include the hash.
I've seen the new film (but not the original) and the nude suit is distracting (not in a good way) in a live action film. But to allay your fears, the film does feature a ton of tech including nigh-invisibility.
> It's a pity that establishment literary circles still mostly ignore it outside of a few token examples. This drives educational circles and now most literary curricula (even K-12) leave any kind of serious analysis or discussion off the list.

The problem is anytime you pick up one of these sci-fi works that's supposed to be a deep philosophical masterpiece it is really not that and could only be thought of as that by someone who only reads genre fiction.

Don't get me wrong. I have read the entirety of (and enjoyed most of) the Sherlock Holmes books. But I'm not convincing myself that they were deep and challenging works.
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I feel stupid for all the time we have bought Horlicks for people that are sick and hospitalized in India. I wish they called out marketing in India like they do in the US.
> Also, community colleges are a great resource.

I think my lackluster grades in High School were actually a blessing in disguise. I attended Rockland Community College (as no one would accept me anywhere else) and received an A.A.S. in Cyber Security with a very high GPA. Due to my performance at my CC I received a great academic scholarship to Rochester Institute of Technology.

I graduated RIT with just more than $15k in loans.

I'm glad it went the way it did. But, coming out of HS the stigma of CC was palpable, and it shouldn't be - the education at my CC was surprisingly good. Many of my peers who graduated with me at RIT, and those who graduated with me in HS but went straight to private well renowned schools, are in 10x more debt than me.

Luckily I'm the oldest off all my cousins, and will be drilling this into them when they start looking at schools.
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"Art of the octopus smackdown" haha very colorful writing
I think that's 100% true in places with a critical mass of population density, in fact "groups over 10" sounds about right. But in some places, it's going to be an hour between trips if you're trying to get 10 people onto the bus. Innisfil is not shutting down an existing transit system to replace it with Uber, they're declining to buy 2 buses.
I enjoy Doug Demuro on youtube. He reviews cars like the trabant, and buys weird cars like the Nissan S-Cargo.
Its easy for sure but I think you agree that we don't want random multipliers or string prefixes to array idexes just for fun.
Why is that? I've heard lots of people saying that, but not had any concrete reasons why. As far as I know, he's generally correct about the things he discusses. And pretty good at making technical discussions interesting.
> When you find politics in Lit Fic it's usually historical and/or located in a distant country, and provides a backdrop for the personal lives and emotions of the characters.

Huh?
Absolutely that is how it is marketed. When you visit a sick relative, it often tradition to bring something to them. Often, people will show up with Horlicks or Complan bottles. It is fortified with vitamins so people conflate Horlicks with it being healthy. However, it is mostly carbs and sugar. I know a lot of Indians who insist that their children drink it as part of their breakfast.
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Note the Orwellian use of the word "telemetry." They are using it to mean "data collected by the telemetry team" at Microsoft.

This is not a list of "telemetry data collected by Windows 10".

I am beginning to suspect that they do not have adequate internal safeguards to control the collection of personally identifiable information across the entire company (including office, bing, skype, linkedin, etc, etc).

That would mean they are actually incapable of enumerating all the information a clean Windows 10 install and office 365 will phone home. It would also explain discrepancies between todays's list and third party audits of Windows 10.
Sure, someone could. But it's easy enough to obfuscate it so that it would be extremely difficult to tell for sure. There's a reason why making things verifiably FOSS is such a big deal. "Someone would surely catch them and embarrass them" isn't a great reason to trust them.
There are people who have returned to their old residences inside the Chernobyl danger zone and they're doing just fine.
In this particular case I'd say the company behaved very badly. But in general, about "firing customers" in B2C - when you work for customer service for anything mass-market-facing, you quickly learn that among all your customers, there are some that are just utter idiots, there are some who are entitled assholes, and then there are those who want to defraud you. This is a fact of life. Such "problem people" are a big drain on both the company and (implicitly) on the regular customers. Cutting business off with those people is a win for company and customers alike.
Mine just started updating as soon as I hit 'About'
In the UK Horlicks is largely marketed as a comfort drink (ie to relax and soothe you) and isn't advertised as having any 'special powers' - but then advertising rules in the UK can be pretty strict when compared to other places. It's interesting to see differences between markets (hence this article I guess).
Hot water is also pretty common.

I guess more so in areas where cooling is less needed.
Sometimes there are multiple values within a dimension, for example: grid-template: 50% 50% / 20% 80%;
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> Guess what mine is saying...

Hey, LANGUAGE!
Countability does have to do with it. Measure theory [0] allows us to extend the classical notions of discrete probability to continuous domains.

[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_measure
The web looks like shit
I think they meant they would return the money if they ended up not delivering the product.

But, you are on to something. I think this is what always bothered me about the "lean" approach: it almost feels like you're tempting yourself to create vaporware.
Question two is outdated for Scala 2.12, a trait might be compatible with Java (but doesn't need to)
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VR training apps put students in real-life scenarios in the comfort of classroom
As someone with many failed side projects, I can tell you that having a goal of making money is usually a bad thing. Like many other people have said, you can learn the skills. The hardest part of building a side project is finding the time and staying motivated for more than a few months.

So, pick something _you_ will use and, if you enjoy building/using it, so will others. Obviously think about ways to monetize it, but money should be more of a side-effect than a motivation.

I'm currently working on https://insomnia.rest, which makes around $800/mo right now. I started it as a side-project a couple years ago with no intention of making money. However, traffic grew organically and I eventually left my job to pursue it full-time.

In summary, find something you love to work on and let it consume you. If you do this, making $100/mo should come in no time. Have fun hacking!
you can include just one component of the entire Play Service library (e.g. cloud messaging) in an Android Studio project with a line like this in build.gradle:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:10.0.1'

but, i get the impression that's not quite what you mean when you say "install the whole blob."

i guess you're talking about the Google Play Services library, which is updated independently of my app. or something like that.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

not quite sure. trying to clarify this for my own understanding.
"The security properties of a collision resistant hash function, ensure that a modification results in a very different hash."

I really appreciate the clarity of this post. The author is building up the groundwork without skipping steps that may be obvious to many readers. I of course knew the purpose of a hash before reading the article, but some people don't - and that sentence clearly let those users know why the hash matters without making it less readable for knowledgeable readers.

Writing clarity matters.
> You don't get a choice on having a port open

With a bit of effort, you can have a service that is 1) nearly invisible to anyone not 'in the know', 2) allows incoming global connections without opening any ports, and 3) is extremely-well firewalled from any client lacking a manually-loaded decryption key.

It's not easy, even for technical users, but it can be achieved with 'stealth' Authenticated Tor Onion Services[0]. This does not open any ports, although decryption keys must be manually loaded onto client devices. Crucially, though, any client not in possession of the decryption key can't even determine which Tor introduction point relays need to be contacted in order to set up a rendez-vous with the Onion Service, let alone know what to put in their INTRODUCE2 cells to actually authenticate themselves to the Onion Service.

I make considerable use of this scheme for all sorts of applications and it works very well around the globe, though sometimes slowly and with high latency. The only real catch is that serious censorship evasion (China, Kazakhstan, Gestapo Corporate Firewall) requires using bridges with timing obfuscation, which adds complexity and maintenance burden.

I think there's considerable potential for truly privacy- and security-conscious IoT products using this scheme. All you need is to display a QR code the user can scan on their client device in order to load the service hostname and key. Users run open source server software on their home PC with a bundled Tor. Bonus: Tor use is de-stigmatized and normalized, and Tor traffic increases, improving all users' privacy.

[0]: AKA HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient in 'stealth' mode, in torrc. See also: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec.txt
Recommended Soundtrack for reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99h6iPRPN8 (Ludovico Einaudi - Elements)
I haven't seen Inherent Vice, but I totally agree about No Country for Old Men. One of the differences there might be that both of those movies were made by very accomplished directors, Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen brothers respectively. They might have the confidence to put their own interpretation of the story into their movie that lesser known directors dont feel comfortable doing.
NBA already has this... http://nbavr.ca/

Reviews were mixed, I've read that it's a great experience and has huge potential, but there is a lot to be desired with the camera positions. There are two(?) cameras, one located at the middle of the court, courtside, and one right below the net. So you can see dunks right above you.
This appears to be an Australian version.

UK: http://www.ovaltine.co.uk/media/22661/ovaltine-original-addm...
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No one is forced to use any particular email or messenger client, unlike (one could argue) public transportation.
Yeah, that would be cool. They could also even potentially save JIT typing, specialization, and even parsing. This is a big deal on mobile.

There is Cache-Control: immutable

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to...
https://bitsup.blogspot.de/2016/05/cache-control-immutable.h...
You really think the Microsoft of today is the same as the Microsoft of 20 years ago?
Sure they can. It's a ubiquitous colloquialism that's used to describe a business relationship that's severed by a vendor. It's not meant to be taken literally.
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>privacy-conscious users (read: virtually all of humanity, given the choice)

If only THAT were true.
Watson at MDACC isn't a good example, it's not the technology that the (main) problem.
Related: The levels of Scala knowledge, according to Martin Odersky[1]

[1] http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/8610
I also got the notice I didn't support CSS Grid.

But my steps were:

1. Hamburger, Help, About. Says my Chrome is out of date.

2. Click update button.

3. Click restart.
As for my take, I have a little shell script that translates hosts files into unbound configuration files, with always_nxdomain rules for each superdomain. I then use that unbound instance as my DNS.
Counterexamples: Telcos. Banks. Grocery stores.

There's very little a customer can do to meaningfully impact either of them. Hell, the companies can be (and regularly are) shitty to someone personally, and they still will use their services.

EDIT: more counterexamples - Comodo. Lenovo. Uber. AirBnB. They were all involved in huge Internet shitstorms about anti-customer behaviours, and they don't look like they've lost anything through it. I've seen enough shitstorms - small and big, local and global - to learn that they generally don't mean a thing, and most people forget about them in a week.