skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, which is why I said this

> If only adblock lists (content subscription in general) were a more common model. You could tell your neighbors they can just "not subscribe to those channels" without affecting others. Hmm

Content subscription is a relatively easy model to understand. A stratified net is easier than DIY filtering but still is 'handled by the government' and affords the flexibility of a (somewhat) open internet.

Far sight better than wholesale blocking.
Here's a transcript of the talk: http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm
now everyone who thinks their vehicles are made to be crash safe think twice! they make them only to pass those tests
You don't understand the abstract correctly. It relies on having compilers from diverse sources, unlikely to share the same malicious modification. It does not rely on any of them being trusted.
How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free
I meant doctor didn't come across confident in how he was handling the complications. He was trying lot of different things without proper reasoning. He was clearly flustered. I was actually more calmer and methodical than him.
China and Japan Have Started Harvesting Methane Ice from the Seafloor
just have

const load = url => new Promise(r => { const s=document.createElement('script'); s.async=true; s.src=url; document.body.appendChild(s); s.onload=r; });

then

load('script1.js')
.then(()=> Promise.all([load('script2.js'), load('script3.js')]))
// etc ... depending on the dependencies between each
Clever. I love to see when complex problems can be easily approximated using existing algorithms and techniques. Very cool!
> Also, a centralized huge mass would create a different velocity profile from what we are seeing.

Doesn't need to be centralized, no? They can orbit the galaxy as the other bodies.
The headline claims that Theresa May "wants to create a new internet" but there's nothing in the story to actually back up that claim. A "new internet" would involve new infrastructure, ISPs, DNS servers, hosting companies etc. which seems pretty far fetched.

Of course, that doesn't detract from the (potentially very scary) reality of the situation.
Why is he comparing YCombinator to a university? I don't get it
People like to use percentage for everything. That doesn't mean that everything is exponential.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/6488wb/i_dont_want_t...
Yes, but Moon's goal is to have syntax similar to Vue's, and as a result, requires an HTML template compiler, Javascript expression compiler, directive compiler, and different component logic.

RE:DOM doesn't have any of these, but only has a virtual DOM engine (which Moon has as well).
Redditor Succinctly Lays Out the Evidence for Dark Matter
Why would that be your guess?
Self-hosted Trac (without the "k"). It was usually trac.domain.com
I thought it was helpful when I was doing it the first time. I saw things it made the human capital and self assessment courses much more useful to everyone when I could ask meaningful questions. So really I see leadership masters being helpful when you're first attempting to manage not later or before.
It's like our own version of the "nobody likes Hillary so I guess we'll vote Trump" situation. Difference here being that most of the media is anti-Corbyn which will tip the balance even further.
Bear in mind the concerns pointed out in this [0] subthread, namely that parents/citizens might not know (or want to bother learning) enough about "how the internet works" (or even thinking "having the government handle protecting our children" is their preference) - my suggestion would be to come up with analogous restrictions of the freedoms they DO hold dear, and possible alternatives (e.g. content stratification) that allows them that complacent hands-off worry-free approach without having to compromise net freedoms. Best of luck.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374533
Absolutely - I'm not saying he shouldn't take action if he thinks he's entitled to that compensation. But I think most people coming to this thread with just the news article will be reading it more as "twilio acquired and fired so they could claw back promised equity" rather than "head of acquired company thinks twilio made it hard for him to hit revenue goals, affecting 1/6 of his equity compensation."
This is terrific! I listened to it for about a half hour last night, and it was far more useful than I thought! One of the articles I had read earlier in the day, and your parser did a great job of using different voices for different people quoted in the article, which made the article flow in a way that's pretty close to real speech.

One of the articles, however, seemed to switch from voice to voice for no discerning reason. It might have been a medium article, where authors are more likely to stylize the text with bold, underline, italics, etc. That made it a bit confusing and difficult to follow.

For me, listening to any spoken word requires a little mental effort. For example, listening to an NPR podcast takes about 10%. Your app maybe took 20%. That's within a margin that, if you're able to smooth out your speech algorithms and tune the voice-choice algorithm, I could imagine this being as easy to listen to as a podcast.

So, on the whole, the voice-choice algorithm needs a little work, but other than that, I really like this!
Is Hypertrack open source?
Nice to know, thanks.
It's crazy how much this country has changed since I moved in the UK in 2010. I originally moved here because London was a city encouraging tolerance, freedom and respect for each other. Technology wise, this city was also the heart of Europe with a great pool of companies and engineers to achieve big things and counterbalance the hegemony of the Silicon Valley and the US.

Every new proposal these days from the UK government is pushing an authoritarian government, and the Brexit has given them an excuse for more populism and isolationism.

As a French man, I moved here because of all these reasons. I had a job in France, a good situation, but I wanted to discover, meet new people, enlarge my horizon. Today, I am not sure that London and the UK are the right places for that.
That's what I thought you were getting at. Thanks for elaborating.
The use of the word "deny" is deliberate, it's used to invoke the phrase "holocaust denier" to smear the person you're accusing of it. An underhanded tactic from the author of this hit-piece.
Yeah - the simplicity of it, over something like this one posted, makes it much nicer. I also use for move windows to the other display.
5 rake tips from a former QA engineer
The Wire was a good show for its time but it's already showing a lot of age.

Badass gay character, humanized gangsters, contra-Reaganesque attitude to drugs, aim at corruption and money, etc. were pretty great for its time, but now that a lot of media has caught up, the lackluster areas stick out a lot more.

It's got liberal sensibilities, not leftist ones.

For example, S2 is about the shipping container women. McNulty swears she won't treat them like a mere blip or statistic, but will remember their humanity. At the end of S2, they have a gag scene where McNulty goes "undercover" at a whorehouse, and gets serviced by some prostitutes, while everyone at base overhearing the mike goes "ooooh youuu McNulty".

I think this shallow and circumscribed commitment to nominal values, not fully comprehending the extent to which they require a fundamental shift in approach, is pretty liberal.

There's also plenty of blaming of teacher's unions for shutting down "innovative" approaches. All the issues chalked up to "capitalism" have to do with individual corruption and not the regular brutal application of market logic to human problems (eg: corrupt construction agencies wanting bribes vs. regular white citizens protecting their interests).

but perhaps the most anti-leftist aspect of them all is how the show is utterly grim and hopeless and nothing ever changes. all radical initiatives are shut down and ruin lives, and it works more as a cautionary tale than an inspiration. if all media is propaganda, The Wire works as propaganda for obedient incrementalism, and decidedly against anything revolutionary.
Iranian President Rouhani wins reelection by a landslide
Travel blogger comes clean about the 'dirty little secrets'
Firstly, they function well enough to predict that gravitational waves exist, the ones which we measured being produced by an extreme gravitational event.

Secondly, many other areas of physics have worked this out. The prime example of Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, which has been incredibly successful in predicting the existence of new types of particles from purely mathematical equations and theories (and trust me that stuff is pretty damn abstract, even compared to General Relativity)

It is of course a possibility, although you make it sound somewhat obvious, as if physicists just haven't bothered to question that the widely-regarded theories might be wrong. I assure you this is not the case; there are no politics involved in this kind of research which is stopping people presenting questions such as "are we sure our current models are correct?"

In cases like this, it is safe to assume that researchers have already explored any ideas you could come up with, especially the particularly simple ones...
NIST advises services to not require that passwords be changed periodically
If bypassing Daily Fail is of interest, link to blog:

http://behindthequest.com/
I believe we are in the early phase of the adoption curve for #2 replace email- slack, #4 internet drama- netflix, hbo etc, #5 next steve jobs- elon musk.
Right it's like when people say, I don't believe in Creation, that stuff is just nonsense. And you say, so what's your alternative theory then? And they reply, well there was a "big bang" and everything just sort of appeared, for no reason. Really, that's the alternative explanation?
FWIW, this approach is popular because it has worked pretty well in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino
It's actually my favorite part of nautil.us but has not been updated lately so maybe I am the only one :(

It is a subsection (as it is a subdomain) but it's linked to directly from their main page. Consider it a magazine within the main publication.
Yeah, letting other people know that it's okay not to like those shows. I enjoy and upvote when people voice dissenting opinions, so I like to do it too.
China seems the perfect place to call Apple's B.S. policies out. The government isn't afraid of confronting a global powerhouse if it threatens domestic companies with unfair trade practices. And Apple's whole running of the app store approval and payments policy and process is nothing but unfair.
This is a problem with humans. Some will always try to break the rules, and take risks, no matter what the system.

A deeper point to ponder: Is that really a problem, or is it just life and the way it should be? Would trying to "fix" this "problem" only result in a more dystopian, authoritarian society with more government control?

This is probably going to sound quite controversial, but I've never been a fan of such emissions regulations. The argument that emissions effects everyone is true, but IMHO besides the point: After all, the best way to not "pollute" the planet is to just not live at all.

I do have an interest in car modding/tuning so I may be slightly biased... but to summarise, I'd much rather die from pollution than live in a society which doesn't have any personal freedom anymore.

/rant
It does seem like some of that list is a lucky accident. what might the world look like if someone sat down and thought it through and did something ambitious on purpose? Woz and Bezos did it on purpose. Zuck and Google did it on accident. Microsoft seems somewhere in the middle.
Dyson spheres emit lots of light, just at lower temperatures than that of the star they encompass. You're basically running a Carnot engine with the heat reservoir at the temperature of the star, some number of thousand degrees, and the cold reservoir at a few degrees kelvin.
Why It’s Time to Stop Punishing Our Soils with Fertilizers
Family size is generally going down everywhere, also in religious countries. Population growth is mainly because we live longer.

It's not a physical law, but still pretty well understood phenomenon: more likely your offsprings are going to survive, less likely you are going breed more of them.

Rosling also claimed that population growth projections have been very accurate for decades.
If you like to follow good blockchain progress to move beyond proof of work take a look at https://dfinity.network using threshold relay chains.
I got that info from a .NET podcast, thanks for the heads up as I don't follow CoreRT development.
There are rumours that Sergei Brin is making a dirigible https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/serge...

And David Brin (no relation) talks about using them in his books Earth (1989) and Existence (2012)
>"...pointless", "it's trash..."

Compelling arguments in favor.
No, this is just a demonstration of how to use their API in an app.

According to the pricing[1] page, actual use is US$0.04 per "action" (which they describe as "deliveries, pickups, dropoffs, visits, appointments or anything you may decide")

[1] https://www.hypertrack.com/pricing
On the other hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino
It's a bit clunky in places, but can be customized within JIRA itself.

Not sure what process you're using to create a ticket; I just hit 'C' and enter in the ticket details. JIRA has an agile view as well that allows DnD ticket status operations.
Sorry if I gave you the impression that it was a solution! What I'm saying is that the technical cat is already out of the bag, we're already moving forward with stronger encryption and a multilayered internet. Adding restrictions on the ISP level just creates a market to get around that restriction, be it mesh networks, li-fi, or low earth orbit satellites.
If familiarity mattered that much, why wasn't HTML itself replaced by something with curly braces, or CSS by something procedural?
The PicoBrew Pico: Getting closer to a counter-top beer-making machine
Is anyone really surprised that pro-brexit politicians would want something like this?
The mobile SDKs that you integrate in your apps are open source.
For mobile, my timings showed fetch/XHR to be heaps laggier than <script> tags. This matters for any resources on the critical path for rendering your page.

I naively thought that it would be quicker to have an inline <script> (coming first in the <head>) and have the script request JavaScript resources via XHR (to manage resource dependencies and load failures).

However, the browser decides the priority for resource requests and CPU usage. I found that XHR requests got low priority and wouldn't even get requested until after painting delays.
I took a brief course in accounting. The instructor was a former used car salesman. So we were talking about that business, and he said that the dealership didn't make money off of the cars, they made money off of the financing. And they made that money because the customers simply could not understand interest rates and payments. He said he'd repeatedly patiently explain the options to them, how the higher payment plan would save them money in aggregate. They'd eye him suspiciously, tell him they weren't going to be taken in by shenanigans, and always pick the lowest monthly payment plan, which was always the costliest to them.

This is what happens when you dog learning arithmetic in school, wondering what use it possibly can be. Not understanding arithmetic will cost you real money, a lot of it, throughout your life.
I'm not sure why your comment has been downvoted, this is a very reasonable point. I agree with the linked comment in that I know I am in the minority (votes-wise) but the point I was making is exactly that. Many many people have completely lost faith in politics because it seems that no matter what goes wrong or the number of insane policies presented by the Conservative party, the public opinion seems unchanging. I think there is a very complex set of reasons for this, a lot to do with the media here and the internet communities you mention.

For the above reasons I contend that these are biases, merely observations. I observe everybody around me supporting significantly more libertarian ideals and so I wonder who and where are these other people who hold opposing ideals. I'm sure I could find out the answer from census and statistical data but that doesn't bring me any closer to understanding the reasons why these people vote as they do. Part of my theory is that these opposing ideals are not ideals at all and are in fact a reflection of the efficacy of the marketing campaigns of right-wing politics.
I'm not saying this accounts for the entirety of the crappy print-on-demand issue you're seeing, but it might account for some: a lot of big publishers make their backstock be POD if it's old enough.

For instance, at the bookstore I work at, when we order older Penguin Classics books directly from Penguin Random House, there's at least a 50% chance that we're going to get crappier POD copies from them, the publisher. We list our store's inventory on Amazon, and there have been a few times when a customer returned such books to us, angry that we sent them a POD copy, even after I explained they're actually the copies the publisher sent.

That said, we sometimes order books off Amazon for a customer when they're from a publisher we're not planning on placing an order with anytime soon, and it's downright appalling how many sellers send beat up used books as "new" books, or send falling-apart books as "used" books. Can't say we've seen a lot of POD books come in that way, unless they're from tiny publishers who do most/all of their books that way.
Can you share anything about how BitCoin has met any of your specific needs (without violating your privacy or anything, no pressure).

It all sounds great, in theory. I'm more interested in how it works out in practice though.
Education, Research (CERN), Shipping (Harbour IT), Telecommunications (CRM, Mobile Operators, OEMs), Life Sciences, Manufacturing.

Mostly enterprise size companies.
How much of a battery drain is it to be constantly GPS tracking?
Yeah, I think the main issue is that I have only tested on pessimal problems so far. In this case, I'm only able to find one or two solutions before I run out of time to iterate, so neither Tabu nor SA are giving me much. Monday I'll be doing some more testing on realistic problems and I'll be able to get a better idea of which solution is best. Or maybe I'll find that I don't need heuristics at all, since the real problems may have a much lower branching factor than my pessimal case.
I'm surprised that someone hasn't taken on Google in search. Cuil tried, and they had a huge spike in traffic at launch. Then people discovered the product was broken. Also, they didn't have a revenue model. They were able to build a full search engine with about 50 people and $50M, which indicates the price of entry isn't that high.

Over time, hardware gets cheaper, and the cost of building a search engine declines. This has not been matched with a reduction in ad density. The cost improvement is going into Google's profit margin. That indicates a vulnerability.

Google has some striking weaknesses. The two I focus on are provenance and business background. I've done work on business background (see "sitetruth.com"). That tries to find the real-world business behind a web site that's selling something, and then uses the data available about real-world businesses to check it out. That can then be fed into search result ordering. SiteTruth is a demo; it's running off free data sources. Paying for higher quality data from Dun and Bradstreet and other non-cheap sources would make the business background check much better.

Google's other big weakness is provenance. Search engines should find the original source of information. Much of the Internet is sites scraping other sites, linking to other sites, and commenting on other sites. We see this on HN all the time, where someone links to an article, but the actual source is two blogs deep. The original source should be the primary search result, perhaps annotated with notes about the more heavily promoted sites mentioning it.
This means more attention to when something appeared and better matching of content. Google already does this for news. For ranking purposes, attention metrics for scraper sites need to be credited to the original source, not the scraper site.

One possible customer for such a system is Bloomberg. The people who get those expensive terminals could use both of those features. Then offer it to the better universities, so that students grow up using something less consumer-oriented with Google. That strategy worked for Facebook.
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
I agree with all your points except to point out that CCCP is not a "crumbling regime" and a little reflection would indicate why we should not even wish it to be one.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/serge... follow up with more history on airships from the Atlantic
I don't believe the 3% number. 3% of which command. LOL
What are you writing? .NET Core doesn't even impliment many things that Mono and .net framework do yet.
> Regulate ads to target content, not users.

This. 1000x.

At it's core this is essentially like sponsorship. Anecdote : I've always found sponsored content more useful than the ads that ad networks show me and they are also not creepy like traditional ads. Eg- I search for strawberries on google, click through a few links. Separately I visit a tech blog to learn about how to monitor a VPS, guess what shows up on a site about servers and software? Strawberries! Creepy as f*uck and completely out of place.

Do you think an ad network that focuses on targeting content rather than users will work? Are there any such networks already? If not, it's time to build one.
> Firstly, they function well enough to predict that gravitational waves exist, the ones which we measured being produced by an extreme gravitational event.

I don't think that aspect of the theories is in dispute?
Newtonian physics well enough at certain scales, but breaks down at others. The question is if there's something better out there and if we adopt something better, would it remove the need for all this "dark matter".

> Secondly, many other areas of physics have worked this out. The prime example of Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

Wait, what? Quantum Field Theory suggests the existence of dark matter?
>>Give it a little while and we can stuff it with vacuum in spun carbon vessels.

How much of a while? This is nowhere near being a reality. Helium is expensive and getting more and more scarce.

Airliners are pretty safe. Safer even than walking, when measured by passenger miles.

I'm sure therr is a market for airships (similar to train travel), but I don't see how it would be arguably better than fossil-driven air screws.
"there are no politics involved in this kind of research"

While it might not be true in this case, you couldn't be further from the truth. there is an EXTREME amount of politics. people's careers are based on entire assumptions, thesis', papers, and work could be all for not if based on false assumptions.
Its like these are the first steps before V for Vendetta's plot...