skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if eventually ad companies will just host the content themselves. Or at least route it through their servers. The ads then get served through the same domain and can't be blocked that way.

But that only defeats simple adblocks that blacklist domains. It's theoretically possible to make an adblock that detects ads through machine learning and removes them. Doesn't matter where they are hosted.

But advertisers can run scripts to detect modifying the web page and stop it. So adblock would have to move to having a headless browser that renders the page, and then copies it and removes the ads.

Then the advertisers would have to try to trick the machine learning itself. Adversarial machine learning is a thing, with neural networks trained to fool other neural networks. And images that are highly optimized to exploit subtle defects in other neural networks.

As ML ad detection improves, the only way for ads to get past it will be to make ads that look more and more like real content, even to the human eye. Perhaps in the limit, ads and content will become completely indistinguishable.
What happens when zuckerburg runs for president?
And this shows why forcing that in shim was a bad idea. They should have made a version breaking the chain, and allowing to boot unsigned kernel.
No idea how it worked in detail (they were mainly acquaintances I met at meetups/co-working spaces). It just seemed like a right of passage - virtually everyone I met had bootstrapped their 2-5 person teams with guys & gals that were living off their unemployment allowances for a year (and so were fine taking equity and no salary for a while).
You are confusing practice, or customary, with technical (constitutional law), which I would include political philosphy and the unalienable rights of man as identified by Rosseu.

If I cannot choose to not pay taxes, then I have been denied the right to choose, then it is a forced subjugation of my free will. Correct would be to give my taxes voluntarily, according to my disposition and agreement with the government.

If you are profoundly 'contra' what the government is doing, then how can you be forced to help with activities that you believe to be deeply detrimental to the well-being of yourself, others, and all life on earth and beyond?

Tolstoy argues this point very well in his book "The Kingdom of God is Within You." He essentially says that if we pay taxes to a government that kills innocents or tortures Arabs their blood is on our (the taxpayers') hands.

If the government is doing something that I find to be deplorable then I have the moral obligation to find a way to avoid contributing to such array of horrors.
I agree these complaints are widespread in corporate America. In fact, I think these issues are worse OUTSIDE of the startup world.

Most of the founders I deal with pay their employees before the founders themselves get a dime of salary. Sure the founders get the bulk of the equity. But they also give their employees equity awards, even though the employees get paid a salary, as well (i.e. they don't take on the same risk).

In comparison, in generic corporate America, the people on top get substantially more guaranteed cash compensation, in addition to any stock awards.

In addition, I've had plenty of startup clients who did all sorts of generous things for their employees that were not required. For example, when getting acquired, I have had clients give special cash bonuses to employees to ensure they get a sufficient "upside" in the transaction (beyond what the employee was entitled to from their stock or options). I just haven't seen that type of behavior in more "mature" corporations.
awesome! thats a great idea to use linkedin premium to find folks closer to home.
Only 5 kids each for test and control populations.
Answering my own question: a person who works at Stripe is a "Stripe", not a "Striper".
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Well if you had this, you could probably get along with this just this more often. Kinda like you can "just" use the dashboard for most businesses rather than doing a bunch of API stuff.

Though the point about data sets is important: even if we have the metadata here, ultimately it's only a partial view into money we're receiving.

But if Stripe is your only payment process, this is definitely interesting.
The headshot is my favorite: http://davidsimon.com/kwame-brown-another-federal-case-anoth...

TL;DR they can get you good for taking money from your parents to buy your first house, which most people in the US do.
Uh huh.

Paris agreement is non-binding.

China has no obligation for 20 years.

It's not ratified by Congress.

Nothing from agreeing to this was going to affect your descendants other than draining American coffers of billions.
Crystal hash syntax ruins Crystal
Crystal hash syntax destroyed the language, for me.

Why would you, when creating a new language and faced with the opportunity to fix what your forebears got wrong, repeat one of their mistakes?

Ruby/Crystal hash syntax is awful, in my opinion. Both languages already implement a better syntax for hashes of symbol-string pairs - why not make this the default for the language (as with Python's dicts)? I can't see any syntax conflict in the rest of the language.
Application load balancer

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appli... Gives a good overview of the two types
... very likely less than coal power plants will have done.
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> and wait a couple years for your equity to be valuable

Product-market fit does not imply appreciation. Growth is priced in. Unless you think you know more than the market (the VCs), you shouldn't expect a return.
I think it's more insidious than that. Of course it's not done on earned income. That would be too transparent for the general public to see. Instead you create a lot of financial instruments with varying degrees of complication that all have rules for avoiding taxation while still providing yields. Even better if it takes expensive and exclusive accountants and lawyers to conceive, establish, and protect these.

This way you get to give appearance of the wealthy doing their part in a progressive tax while really only subjecting a small or zero amount of their wealth to it.
Buffer is a $10+ million business that has made their founders well off. If you wait and wait until you see a business opportunity with little risk, you could wait forever.
Ask HN: How to support old hackers?
Hi HN. Over the past few years I've seen several instances where historically significant members of the software, hacker, or open source community have fallen on hard times enough to be reduced to fundraising for medical assistance, and/or being forced to abandon their open source efforts due to inability to survive doing it. Latest in long line of examples is Captain Crunch (John Draper), one of the fathers of phone phreaking [0]. In fact, he got Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs into phreaking, and their first business before building Apple I was building and selling blue boxes [1]. In a way, without their meeting, there may not have been an Apple.

In this case, a massive part of the blame is of course with the US health care system, which basically makes it extremely difficult to survive old age unless you have a retirement plan and insurance - things that many self-employed developers never had.

The question I'd like to raise, however, is not "what is the root cause", but rather "what can we as a community do about it". Some trade professions take care of their elder members by forming a union and contributing to a common pension plan, but it seems that there aren't many unions for software engineers. We have the good fortune of being members of one of the best-paid professions in the world, and I find it very sad that we still end up with our members and elders falling through the cracks and struggling to survive.

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[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-definitive-story-of-steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-and-phone-phreaking/273331/
This article is really bad. M. Friedman has nothing to do with UBI. What is the origin of the money given ? No one seem to talk about it.

From the paper "Assuming that leisure is a normal good, economic theory predicts that an increase in unearned income reduces labor supply [...] In this paper we study a large cash transfer program in a developing setting, one that has come under criticism for its potential negative labor supply effect"
Why would reducing the labor supply be a bad thing ? If we can live the same lives and work less, that's definitely a good thing.
That popup that takes up a third of the page is ridiculous (I actually think it's a bit more on my screen).

Whenever I get a link to facebook for something I sigh, because that sort of stupid, hostil UX won't get them anywhere.

If people wanted an account, they'd have one. It's not like visiting the link is going to be my first time ever hearing of facebook, and that's probably true for 99% of the people visiting one.
$400B a year with no way to pay for it.
The bill does not include detailed language about how the state would come up with hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for health care coverage for nearly 40 million residents.

Perhaps they expect to go bankrupt and let the rest of the country bail them out?
Who would get integer percentages after seed round?
How would a non-rotating black hole be possible? Wouldn't it be impossible for any source material to lack spin entirely? Or is it a purely theoretical thing?
That looks like CNN algorithm right?
Exactly the same- we use Munchery and love it. I don't get why people want to fake-cook Blue Apron when you can just heat it up with Munchery... same quality!
#3 was what helped me.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-bus...
I want to head to your farmer's market then. I live in a high density city and proteins at my farmer's market are at least 2x supermarket prices.
They do this BS in every 'poor' nation. In many, they even offer 'free facebook' as a carrier perk. The sooner facebook dies, the better.
But how radioactive is concrete compared to a similar volume of bananas? I would like to know this, but I'm on my phone at the moment. :)
That is super depressing.
I'd like to see how this opinion would change if the lettuce picker went to school for a few years, studied really hard, practiced for a job interview, then got the job, then shows up every day and does something they didn't know existed a few years ago.

Sounds hard.

Other than that, this is just one of those "where I am isn't so bad, because there are people I view as worse off than me."
Stupendous intelligence of honey badgers
What is so bold?
Cheaper talent, risk-free stunts, don't have to worry as much about an actor getting seriously ill or dying during filming (voice acting can be time-compressed, and you can replace someone much more easily). CGI actors don't have bad days on the set.

I'm sure there are more reasons. Ultimately I think it gives a director much more control.
I personally am the most efficient between 10pm and 2am. And always have been. That's when nothing is going to bother me in anyway.

But business hours don't accommodate with this window. Even more now I've crossed the Atlantic Ocean and most of my client are still in Europe starting their working day when it's 3am for me.

But when I really need to move forward on a project, I work nightly.
Just to clarify, Buffet and Gates didn't climb a corporate ladder. You are right, though, that the thinking is different and theirs is most likely atypically well-refined.
Well income tax was magically mandated without any sort of discussion so there's that. In the end the question is a question of hard power. If you have none, you are in no position to bargain. IMO giving government taxes that are used for purposes that may not agree with your personal sense of responsibility and morality may itself be immoral, for instance if the government uses your taxes to start wars you want nothing to do with. For infrastructure and education though they are fine regardless. They are always tooting the horns of voting with your dollars, in this case where is the voice of voting with your dollars as to what gets done with your money. /rant.
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Why iOS needs a redesign
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They don't need to be more draconian. Just like they do now, they make their adblocker the first option in search results and the webstore.
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China banning bitcoin would have a huge negative impact on cryptocurrencies worldwide. But what if... that's exactly what the chinese government wants? What if this is all a scheme to short sell bitcoin?
> I'm just trying to understand your reasoning.

They completely drag down the per capita numbers. You're basically lumping people producing near-US levels of emissions with half the population producing basically nothing.

> Should we also exclude the half of the US population that uses the least carbon emissions?

Not anywhere close in terms of magnitude.
Estimates of excess deaths due to nuclear, counting chernobyl, are the lowest of any energy technology. This isn't even counting the part where no new nuclear reactor could possibly be as unsafe as Chernobyl or Fukushima in the same way that no modern car could be as unsafe as as a car from the 1960s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
I stopped going to the WWDC almost a decade prior to this.
Like popular music lyrics dropping brand names...
Firefox has some pretty nice dev tool extensions.
Robert Naviaux is the real deal and his theory on the Cell Danger Response is fascinating [1]. In addition to ASD, he recently made a significant discovery in the characterization of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a metabolic illness [2].

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So all you would need to do to make your autoplay video ad acceptable is place some of your content after it?
I think these application level joins (great description, I'm stealing that in future) are responsible for half the instances NoSql databases (probably more) because relational ones weren't "scaleable" enough.
I'm not sure why the other guy was downvoted. I just read the article and it points out their choices and why: wanted to make it a microcosm of trees pre-Silicon Valley.

That being said you can be disappointed at their selection of fruit trees. It's just an opinion.
Here is the ruling if anyone is interested (the opinion starts on page 6): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1189_ebfj.pdf

I think this article is taking what the ruling says and bringing it a bit far. Essentially this suit was about Lexmark suing a "remanufacturer", Impression Products, Inc., that takes used ink cartridges and refills them, instead of the consumer returning them to Lexmark, for parent infringement (I think in this specific case, the remanufacturer was refilling toner cartridges). Impression Products won this case, and the suit says that patent rights end once the cartridge is sold to a consumer.

I can see that this could be a landmark case in the future when one of those Right-To-Repair laws (like the one in Nebraska(?)) if the specific reason manufacturers don't want to let consumers repair their own products is due to patent issues, but more broadly I don't think it covers the entirety of the "right to repair". That case might use this as a precedent, but it will still need to be decided in a court.
Is the onus of proof not on the accuser? I'm not being rhetorical, I have no idea how this works.
For an internal hackathon we basically tried to do this but ran out of time. We built our own query driven API layer that is basically a shim over datomics query and pull apis.
Supreme Court Victory for the Right to Tinker in Printer Cartridge Case
All keyless gobs have the same problem, a thief with a repeater can extend the signal range and steal your car while you are at dinner, even if blocks away.
EFF Asks the Federal Circuit to Fix Its Terrible API Copyright Decision
From the article,"An overwhelming majority of Democrats, 86 per cent, are fans of the deal, while only about 51 per cent of Republicans say the US should take part in the accord, the programme reported."

So, not 70% of his supporters, especially considering not all Republicans voted for him, and some Democrats did.

And the math is funny anyway. I haven't seen recent registration numbers, but last I looked, it was roughly 1/3 Democrat, 1/3 Republican, and 1/3 unaffiliated. It might be 40%, 30%, and 30%, not sure; the point is that I seriously doubt 70% of the people who voted for Trump support the Paris treaty, and certainly this article does not say that, though it tries very hard to imply it.
$331b, not $400b. And the article talks about ways to pay for it. You just have to read to the end is all...
Packaging Food with Food to Reduce Waste
Surely ubi has to be regionalised in some way. I think ubi without land value tax makes no sense.
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460160
But with 50% as the highest marginal rate, you don't lose half if you make a million. You lose half of everything earned above $xxxK, as set by the tax authority.
Small sample sizes aren't necessarily damning. E.g. if you gave 5 rabies patients a treatment and they were all instantly cured, that would be extremely strong evidence it worked. Because rabies is 99.999% fatal and the chances of 5 randomly chosen people being cured by coincidence is basically 0.
Short selling requires a counter party. There is no short selling counter party in the BTC ecosystem that holds anywhere close to the amount that would make such a move worth it. Even if the moves china makes somehow extracted the entire wealth of the bitcoin economy, it wouldn't make much sense for them to bother.
Working in Japan for a Japanese company I hope to give some insight.

I find most people in America that worked overtime felt that it was necessary to work because of all the tasks that needed to be completed. In Japan the overtime seems more "required" just to work overtime (not always the case of course). I think Americans get a lot more self-satisfaction when they finish their overtime shift (although they don't like it they know it was something that needed to be done).

I think there's a lot of stress and depression in the states from overwork (not as much depression from my group of friends), but not as much as Japan for a few reasons. One guess is that I find people in America more social than Japanese. Most of the "friends" relationships I see in Japan are more-so forced as they are coworkers who just go together and drink. I could be completely wrong here but I feel like they don't share their feelings and talk to reduce stress/depression as much as Americans.

One last thing about overtime is I feel most US companies have bursts of overtime when work needs to get done. Japanese companies often just have "permanent" overtime setting the mentality that they will be doing it forever.
no but it is a huge step. using your platform to block competitors is the definition of anti-trust.