skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Larry Page and Sergey Brin got rich of making an incredible contribution to the world of knowledge organization and then continued to build on that. That's why Google is still around so many years later, and that's why they still own a good chunk of it.

What is the last time you went to 'broadcast.com'?

That deal shouldn't have happened because there was no substance to what was sold (ok, fault of the buyer, a certain company whose name starts with Y).

For some more background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
I've heard plenty of anecdotes from this decade that toddlers in rural China commonly poop onto the street, and that public toilets on e.g. buses are too messy to be hygienic.

It seems to be common enough: https://www.quora.com/Chinese-Etiquette-and-Behavior-Is-poop...

Better than doing it in one's own drinking water, but I think what saves the Chinese is not education, but a tradition of cooking absolutely everything (see sibling posts).
> And let's not forget the ridiculous need to install third-party software just to be able to tell which window has focus by the color of its title bar.

They added back the "active window titlebar color" feature in the 2nd Windows 10 update in late 2015: https://www.howtogeek.com/232176/whats-new-in-windows-10s-fi...
Sounds like a good opportunity for something analogous to UL certification, albeit for security.
Object-Oriented PHP7 Book
How, specifically, is this helpful to the consumer or to the internet in general?
Brave is based on Chromium. With a bit of chance, the service worker should be working as fine. That mean even offline you can access the page (by going to the URL as usual).

But I know, the UX sucks to access such a silly game :(
You need to configure SPF and DKIM, irrelevant of what reputation and service you have.
Yes, I understand what "value" is.

You are muddying the distinction between revenue and value in your first paragraph and correcting my understanding in the 2nd. Why?

There is an argument to be made, that the valuations used are unfair, but if you inherit an actual $6 million operation and are forced to liquidate to pay the $200,000 tax bill, I doubt you are financially ruined. In fact, I expect you are a cash millionaire.
I think the problem with thinking of it like an investment is there is a 0% chance of personal, direct, return on your investment. It may benefit society and you may even benefit indirectly due to the benefit of society, but you would not be entitled to direct return on your investment. In that case to me it seems like a non-starter purely as an investment. There would also be very ambiguous (if any) accountability of the ROI with lots of hand-wavey things for ups and downs. You also can't re-invest anything that is invested in this manner, like you can with other investments. You can't rebalance or shift investment around once it's happened. So there seems to be a huge sunk cost the principal is unrecoverable.

Maybe it's just too complex (right now) to calculate an expected ROI so it tends to sit more on the side of speculation than investing. It may seem like a good thing to do, but we're really just guessing.

> $100 per month justifies at least $50,000 in additional investment, $100,000 if you count compound effects

That seems like a total guess without a source.
A poor choice of words on my part. That aside, the point remains: poorly secured IoT devices cause real harm to others in a way that a poorly secured bike does not.
I agree, we should continue let all the badly configured IoT devices continually be used against the end user. Doing something about it is dangerous and no one likes danger.
This whole battle has felt like the consumers versus the ISP's. Is there economic advantages to consumers if Net Neutrality is eliminated?
how would you rule out the possibility

You know what? I have no idea. I have a pretty strong prior that any archeologist could tell you though. I suppose it won't surprise me if one or two pop up here to tell you, but have to imagine there are more efficient ways to find out.
I think those are the libertarians.
most moves from mainframe to *nix, windows or others are a port of existing code to a new OS. NOT a complete rewrite.
There are other aspects to the problem that make it more complicated. A lack of decent bathrooms has been correlated with a risk of sexual violence in India - perhaps these people are going somewhere they feel safe?

There are millions of links on this problem, here is one.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/tribune.com.pk/story/1265016/...
Audit: University of California hid $175M in budget reserves from state
> A financial crime heatmap is not, because police patrolling the neighborhood doesn't deter or detect financial crimes

It would if they were doing the right type of patrolling. I think part of the point is that's something we haven't historically emphasized.
No. China has historically used toilets. In fact, the earliest documented case of a flushing toilet date from the Han dynasty ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/851957.stm ) , which is more than 2000 years old, but that's rare. Most Chinese toilets were buckets in a separate room. China historically used night soil as fertilizers. These bucket toilets were carried out of the house and later used to fertilize crops. This is the reason why the Chinese never had salad or any uncooked vegetables as part of their cuisine. They might not have known about germs but they did draw the correlation between uncooked vegetables and being ill.
Fixing the problem is pretty simple, repeal the tax. Its unseemly to tax a person when they die. Just the adding of grief (which I have recently experienced) is something we should not do to people. Plus, the continuing of this tax makes it hard for new family businesses (and a lot of minority owned family businesses are new) to build up like the incumbents were allowed.
Which was the main point I was trying to make. Furthermore, if you use the strict designed-for-rapid-growth definition for startups, a number of those companies were probably never startups. I don't think Apple, for example, fits today's classic startup mold.

(I'm not saying I completely buy this definition but some people insist on using it.)
Or we could explore the possibility that the acceptable amount of human feces on the streets of a major city in a first world country is none.
As a non-US resident potentially wishing to visit the USA, do I want to click this link or will it result in a flag being raised?
Fusion hit a technological barrier that only until recently meant extremely huge hard to build plants to have any hope of positive energy return. Those required many billions of investments just to study physics before any considerations of practical power plants.

Fortunately recent progress allowed newer designs that are much cheaper [1]. That is the reason that we got startups investing in fusion. It is still not pocket money, but at least the scale of investments is 1e8 USD, not 1e10 as before.

[1] https://www.google.no/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
My (smart) 8 year old is not interested in daddy's boring programming stuff AFAIK, but has latched onto binary and I make him and his older sister convert chapter numbers between binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal (and Roman numerals) when I'm reading to them at night.

Don't necessarily force everything on him at once, but fragments might stick.

My dad got me hooked on (ultimately) electronics with one simple circuit maybe age 6 (maybe younger) that broke my expectations of what 'boring' batteries and lights and switches would do.
Just to make this clear (correct me if I'm wrong)... If you buy stock at market value, and it increases in value over time, you only pay tax when you sell it. But if you exercise a stock option (in which you purchase stock for a [typically] lower price than current value), the difference in value is considered the same as if you received any other non-monetary income (i.e, that difference in value is treated the same as a stock grant), in which you would have to pay tax in the current year. Did that about sum it up?
Technology, done right, can be more reliable than humans.

But in this instance the weighting is one done by beancounters looking at salaries as an ongoing expense, while tech is an investment that pays itself back the longer it can be used without further expences.
Internet wasn't 4 years to 50 million. It had a long history before that. And if they just mean the web, it didn't have images at first, so why not time it off of Gopher or earlier protocols? That entry just looks massaged to fit a pattern.

It would be like taking TV and baselining it's growth off of when second NTSC standard took effect.
Product utility aside, I'm willing to bet a lot that this results in at least one PR nightmare.

Can't wait till it decides a turban is a bad addition to an outfit.
This comment's a bit flippant, but yeah, I've found a consistent ability to produce a steady string of never-addressed "but, wait, what about...?" questions on my part as a defining quality of writing from the libertarian-leaning intellectual set. That Friedman's writing would prompt a reaction like frgtpsswrdlame's is entirely typical of the genre. I continue to be unsure which explanation for this behavior is most charitable.
Yeah they're doing great work but I've actually met people who told us they didn't want to use the toilets because they couldn't "build up the pressure" in the cramped space since they are used to the open fields since decades.

This is going to take a long time but they're actually doing a pretty good job at installing toilets that's for sure.
Show HN: Gopher Browser for Windows Client
HPCToolkit: dynamic analysis of performance bottlenecks
how about "notebook"?
Nothing wrong with leveraged ETFs in principle. It's just another, slightly sub-linear, point on the risk/reward spectrum (ie. 2x/3x extra risk for slightly less than 2x/3x reward).

http://ddnum.com/articles/leveragedETFs.php
GP likes posting anti-Muslim sentiment on social media. The overreaction follows logically from being that type of person.
I'm not going to watch a nearly 3 hour video to find that part. Please tell me the h/m index into the foreshadowing. Thanks.
I'll relay that to the author - thanks!
>previous earlier evidence as being from 115K years ago

I think you may have misread that. The article said this discovery "predat[es] the best evidence up to now by about 115,000 years".
What's more, a failing power supply can cause all manner of weird symptoms that don't immediately trigger the "bad psu" thought in most people's heads.

If I can avoid that by not pushing the limits, it's worth doing.
Typically a population either grows exponentially or vanishes.

Remaining small but alive for thousands of years is not entirely unthinkable, but it's very unlikely.
Obligatory: Don't Talk to Cops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

Everyone should watch this video. It may save your life.
You should also remember that FBI agents, police officers, et al do NOT have the authority to grant immunity. They can claim things will "go easier" for you, promise you won't be charged, etc but all that counts for nothing.

I'm always surprised when watching one of those reality TV detective shows... inevitably there is someone who knows the police have nothing, yet never insists on a signed agreement from the prosecutor before spilling the beans.
Amazon introducing the Echo Look
Trump Calls for Deep Cuts in Business Taxes, Changes for Individuals
Hopefully I arranged the images correctly. I've posted an imgur album of the article because a pastebin/gist is trivially haystacked

https://imgur.com/a/C5Ijc
No, I don't. Just anecdotes, conjecture, and common sense.

I'd like to see the numbers too.
> if you inherit an actual $6 million operation and are forced to liquidate to pay the $200,000 tax bill, I doubt you are financially ruined. In fact, I expect you are a cash millionaire.

You make the assumption that you are able to sell the operation for the tax value which is a pretty wrong one. Plus, ignoring the people who depended on the continuing operation of the family business is not a good thing. Never mind the psychological damage of destroying what the family has worked for at a time when you need help not the tax man ripping down what you built.
It's worth noting that "sophistication" is not really the defining characteristic that makes retail order flow appealing, it's that it's non-correlated with other market events.

Retail flow is driven by things like needing money for purchases or having excess cash lying around.

Also retail flow is less execution cost sensitive.

That's what people mean when they say less sophisticated.
If you're willing to wait a long time, then yes, KSPP, in years, might bring Linux kind-of on par with grsecurity today. If you mean in the short term, well...

What will likely happen is people will base new features on the last public 4.9.x patches, the same way prior KSPP patches have been, such as PAX_REFCOUNT or the read-only static variables, latent entropy, etc. (Frankly most of these are uninteresting compared to the powerful things like RAP, UDEREF, size overflow, etc, and the patches were in some cases neutered in other ways -- but whatever.)

However, grsecurity is more than that; if you watched the RSS feed, substantial amounts of effort went into also monitoring upstream kernels and carefully picking out security relevant commits and closing holes. The -stable grsecurity trees often had (literally) hundreds of included bugfixes that plugged things like minor infoleaks, 'benign' integer overflows, etc, when compared to the stable mainline kernels.

(In fact, there were few better resources for getting a peek at security-sensitive code "in the wild" being analyzed and fixed than looking at the grsecurity RSS feed, IMO. Huge amounts of it was very enlightening to understand what kind of security sensitive issues you can find..)

When a substantial amount of your infrastructure is about anti-memory corruption mitigations, taking care of stuff like infoleaks becomes more important. It is both the combination of all of grsecurity's features -- making most attacks substantially more difficult, or simply outright impossible in a lot of cases -- plus this kind of detailed attention -- not just stopping whole techniques, but also mitigating future possible attacks -- that put it very far ahead of the competition. It is not just a patch set, it is also very much a mind set, and a development model, behind the system.

In short, I don't agree this is the best thing that could happen for Linux Security or the KSPP. It's one of the worst, in fact. I think it means the KSPP will fall even further behind grsecurity as it will now develop all of its new protections privately (such as the whispered KERNSEAL), and they will be left to their own devices to develop new protections. (The current grsecurity authors have over a decade of experience in advanced anti-corruption techniques and kernel hardening, you're already starting the race late.) And even if they do rip the code out of the old kernels, and they do manage to keep it in tact without neutering or removing parts, it's not clear to me the kernels will still have the level of attention or mindset previously seen by the grsecurity team, which means it will overall still be worse off.

I knew this was coming after the -stable trees were pulled. It sucks.
The current stock price (and thus market cap) already assumes future growth. The market cap would increase further only if growth exceeds the current expectations of investors. (Or due to other factors unrelated to growth).
I know... it was tricky to make Flexbox working everywhere. I ended up setting this property to make Safari looking fine. But you make me realise that it uglify everything on Firefox... I hope to find a good fix
I meant bookmarks to pictures. Like infographics or memes
Places to Post Your Startup or Product
Great comment! And I agree with a lot of it.

As for the question if political branding, maybe Amazon doesn't brand it this way, just says "data indicates our customers will love this service"? And customers ,coming with zero political expectations get all this benefit and are happy ?
My first and only use for the button is cat food. :3 Toothpaste is probably next on the list.
Almost done. robots.txt is so pedestrian.
Slack black theme
There's a misconception that COBOL is dead, its not, there are developers and new compilers being built for it. [1]

IBM isn't sitting around waiting for COBOL to die out, its working out hooks between COBOL and Java and introducing new languages like NodeJS [2]

The problem isn't money, its risk. No CIO is willing to risk moving to a new system, and that's the problem that needs to be attacked.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/communit...

[2] https://developer.ibm.com/zsystems/documentation/java/worksh...
> But you are absolutely right that its entirely due to natgas and that will maybe last us a decade or two but certainly not three.

Currently our known natural gas reserves will last over a century. And we're still finding vast new pockets of it:

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Massive-Natural-Gas-D...
Here is the "fact sheet" that Ajit Pai distributed at the event at the Newseum today: https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/85728851922775655...

Also of note, YC, TechStars and Engine Advocacy released their "Startups for Net Neutrality" letter to Pai this morning: http://www.engine.is/startups-for-net-neutrality
> An enterprise valued at more than $5 million, with lots of employees, is not a "family farm", at least not in the traditional sense.

Of course it is. A non-luxury house can cost $1 million in certain places. A family farm with a couple of siblings and equipment can easily reach $5 million.

If your yearly profit on investment is 10% then an income of $50,000 / year needs half a million investment. You just need 10 people (3 families and some hired hands) to reach $5 million.

I hope you can agree that parents plus 2 married kids is a family farm.
Another answer: you aren't paying for the current kid's education, you are paying back (with interest) the cost of your own education.
Probably they are just the equivalent of "bad words".
If you're afraid of that, use a VPN service to browse these pages, or TOR. But really, thinking that reading this article will put you on a list is kind of paranoid, unless you have other reasons to be paranoid.
For example, [1]

[1] http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/15242729.Online_hate_crim...
> ITT fashion illiterate techies doubting the success of a pretty genius product

I love that caring how you look is just "narcissism" now. :)

The other problem I see w/ the ML is that, due to the nature of data sets, it's going to be mostly white people who benefit. Minorities famously do poorly.
try writing a rust implementation of linux...
I'm happy to help others. I'm not happy to feel used.

I don't enjoy having my empathy tugged at by people who only care about me because they want money from me. This experience does not leave me feeling like I have contributed to my community and helped a person. It leaves me feeling used.
Option 1 + Decide that you don't care about numbers bigger than 2 billion. Problem solved!
Someone post the youtube video.
I disabled comments on my blog a while ago. Private comments? Email me. Public comments? Write a blog post in response, I'll link to it at the bottom of my article. Improves the quality of the dialogue significantly.
But that is kinda how everything goes with nuclear. You can't plan for the "if everything goes right" scenario. Shit happens. Humans are very prone to errors. But nuclear proponents always want to pretend that isn't the case and explain away very real things that have happened as being anomalous- when in reality, errors and mistakes are the way the universe works.
It's even worse for non-tech companies that have tech departments.
Some very back of the envelope math shows that each year about 7% of vehicles are replaced each year, so by 2012 we can estimate that about 35% of cars would have been 2007 models or newer.

So by 2012 we have a minimum of 17% of cars with electronic stability control (probably much higher given that by 2010 75% of cars sold were mandated to include it). If cars with electronic stability control are really involved in 1/3 few accidents, then we'd expect a very sizeable decrease in vehicle fatalities due to electronic stability control alone by 2012 and probably much earlier.
You'd still be a millionaire if you managed 1/6th of the taxable value. And of course, if we fixed the system for valuing the property, it sounds like no tax would be paid.

I get that you think it is unfair to tax wealth at death. That's fine. Land and tractors aren't special wealth, that's where my "full of shit" came from. As far as the timing of the tax, there's plenty of people that go through the death of relatives while being completely financially insecure.
Mesosphere's VP of Eng. Tal Broda interviews Prof. Randy Katz, creator of RAID
"You wont have the government standing between you and your internet!" is the response I've seen around. I'd really love to see if there was any legit defense of this action though...
See coolsunglasses' reply: https://imgur.com/a/C5Ijc
I didn't mean to suggest that you specifically were brushing anything off; it was more of a general statement. Sorry about that.

What are other contingency plans that can be put in place?
It's not.

Not to get too political but there are two groups: "the people" and "business". Watch every decision the current administration makes. It's helpful for "business" and hurts "the people". This is the opposite of what most people think it should be.
> Pai argued that rolling back the rules will encourage ISPs to spend more on their broadband networks

How? How on earth does letting ISPs milk more money out of their existing network incentivize those ISPs to expand that network? It's just so frustrating that these guys no longer even bother to pretend that their arguments make any logical sense at all. "We'll protect user privacy by eliminating these rules that protect user privacy!" "We'll boost competition and choice, by giving the existing entrenched players more control and power!"

This is just such a naked demonstration of regulatory capture. It boggles my mind.
I think the problem is as often not about careing, and being unaware of anything outside their little subsystem.

You used to have what was essentially airgapped and self contained.

But then feature x needed an ongoing net connection, and it happens to run on the same soc as feature y that talk to the can bus, and boom.

Neither of the teams responsible for the features considers that something can jump from x to y, almost like an illness jumps between species.

Damn it, the other day HN linked to an article on how VMs sharing hardware could talk to each other using the CPU cache.
this diversity b.s. has turned in to a popularity contest.. sad
I don't understand why BackBlaze would decrypt on their premises rather than offload that processing to the client computer. I mean they've shaved every other cost in their system to the bone to achieve a low cost product for the consumer, but the one area where the rubber meets the road, they chose to incur the cost of decryption.

I understand the vital convenience tradeoff of storing the private key. I might be willing to make that trade too if not for the various 'bleed vulnerabilities known and yet to be discovered, that threaten to disclose my passphrase to evil haXor$ when the time comes to transmit my passphrase to BB.

And when you combine those two concepts together, it really only leads me to the conclusion that this is defective by design in order to support surveillance requests. Even ones that can only be satisfied when the user types in their PEM passphrase. Prove me wrong by implementing that so-called "FINAL improvement" noted at the end of that KB entry.