skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you pay $5 for 5 minutes and a set of recommendations?

You'd probably need more than 5 minutes for the first set of recommendations, right? If they can give you 5 recs in the first 5 minutes of talking to you, then those recommendations aren't necessarily so personalized (or, at least, the nominal lift above crowd-sourced recs is dubious).

> what we had previously was effectively a store manager working part time as what I'm suggesting.

Good point. Let's call it $20/hour, then? Starts to sound a little better. (but, of course, without a physical footprint & actual books to sell, you need to spend more on marketing, so you need to charge more).

> The advantage of it now is that location is not important and I could talk immediately to a recommender...

I get the appeal. If I was provided reliable, way-better-than-crowdsourced recommendations, then that would be worth a lot to me - easily enough to justify a one-time fee (say, $30) and then $1 per book or $5 per series. I doubt that's possible, though =( Even really close friends with really similar tastes to mine, with whom I have regular long conversations about books, still have occasional misses when the recommend books to me, and vice-versa.
> The one who focused on the basic core usecase over flashy features and modern/trendy design won.

Wouldn't call Delicious flashy or modern. The design is almost as brutalist as Pinboard. I don't like either.
Not sure how this is worse than what Android or iPhone do. My apps are constantly chatting on the internet

I thought that what iOS apps can do in the background is fairly limited:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iP...

E.g., Dropbox can only synchronize the camera roll when you keep the app open or enable the location updates permission. Also, on iOS, you can disable cellular data for specific applications.
Why you do not like Java? Does Kotlin solve some of those problems?
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Been to silicon valley? It is about 80% liberal big business, with a smattering of rogue libertarians.
Not everything on the internet needs to be public (or part of the "open web" as the article calls it). Facebook is a fantastic place for web content that isn't meant to be public.

This idea of posting "public content" on Facebook is inherently flawed. I agree with the article on that much.

However, what I haven't figured out yet is if this is actually an evil-Facebook issue or just a user issue. Is Facebook actively encouraging this web breaking behaviour or is it a "mis-use" of what the tool originally intended (e.g., a safe place to post content/blog/etc. with privacy restrictions)?
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The paper points out that many of the Ponzi contracts on Etherium have exploitable bugs. Some can be induced to compute too much and thus run out of "gas", aborting. Some allow an attacker to change the party who gets the fees. Some can be stalled out with a suitably constructed transaction.

Making Etherium contracts a full byte code execution engine was a big mistake. That form is too bug-prone and led to the DAO debacle. It should have been something simpler, such as a decision table.[1] That simple declarative form can handle most useful business logic, but can't loop. It's always decidable and is easy to hand-check.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table
> What about business travellers - are we going to see a resurgence in portable manual typewriters, and flights sounding like a hailstorm?

Actually not a bad idea. You could type up a bunch of memos or reports and then scan them and use text-recognition software when you get to your destination to convert to digital.
And you are actually productive for all of the 60 hours?

I work a normal north european 37.5 hour week and I'm productive about 75% of the time. If I'm having an off day, I'll just go home and do something else and come look at the problem from a new angle the next day.

Programming is a creative profession, just piling on the hours doesn't affect productivity in a linear fashion.
I think Pinboard should totally sell out if someone offers $20 million.

It's $20 million!
> I don’t know what your privacy settings are. So if I point to your post, it’s possible a lot of people might not be able to read it

Easy: open the page in an incognito window.
Surprisingly, not all of the space inside the CBD is metered. There's actually a fair number of spots in the loop that aren't metered.

Regardless, that's actually a pretty easy question to answer, because Chicago gets charged for every minute a spot isn't available by the company they sold the street parking to.

Inside the loop, the price would be $43,891.30 for every parking spot removed.

Inside the CBD, but outside the loop, the price would be $35,040 for every parking spot removed.

The entire meter deal has been a boondoggle, and the previous mayor has been subpoenaed about it several times but has gotten out of it citing "health issues." It's really screwed over the cities flexibility when it comes to urban planning. Plus Chicago has the most expensive meters in the nation.

Source: http://chicagometers.com/cost-hours/
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Uber could have not run a loss making minicab service and spent even more on self driving car research.
Couldn't find it on the site, but do you know how much a delicious subscription costs?
I'm in my mid 30s and remember seeing it on TV as a kid in Shanghai. The news were all reporting on how the PLA rolled in and were holding back and avoiding violence against harassment from the protesters. (And to be fair most were until the orders came down from up top).

Other interesting pieces of media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace I think does a pretty good job at covering a highly controversial event. Providing its own interpretation of what lead to the protests as well as what escalated and its aftermath. (And when both sides of a controversy complain about "bad coverage" of their side then I consider it worth watching/reading ;))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUjsbSAZv0 Cui Jian Live at Tiananmen Square in 1989, performing for the students on hunger strike. (Cui's a rock and roll pioneer in China, who was later banned for many years for his support of the student protests)

*Edit: What I find fascinating now is I will see American Idol type of singing shows where the young contestant walk on stage and cover "A piece of red cloth", which Cui sang during the protests to allude to the youth being blinded by the government's promises and became an anthem for the protest. But the contestant likely had no idea what happened at Tiananmen Square nor what the song was alluding to...
Its implimentation is much more complex but I'd recommend trying it as it's trivial to use in practice:
- Find a suspiciously slow function using cProfile
- pip install line_profiler
- Edit function to start with @profile
- Run kernprof
- Take a look at the output and act accordigly
Have you tried it recently? Mozilla has done exactly that. The latest version is faster than Chrome in some benchmarks.
Announcing JSON Feed: An RSS Alternative
Excellent finally somebody is saying this loudly and clear!!

Ps. Be careful, suckerberg will delete your accounts soon and google will follow.
It's not true in the US at all; retaliation (which includes any adverse job treatment, which termination is a textbook example of) for reports, internal or external, of sexual harassment or discrimination, even if legally unfounded so long as made in good faith, are themselves prohibited acts of discrimination under federal law, in addition to protections that may exist (as in California) under state law.
Err, yes. Apparently I need to go back and learn how to count months in a year again. I've updated the wording. Thanks!
Kodi is a media player/ media library manager . Plex is a set of applications (including a server application and player software for a vast number of platforms), that lets you build your 'own Netflix'.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288286-What-is-...
> people who start mining early win out, and the people who join later to speculate on the currency have less and less chances of striking it rich

If that's all it takes to be a pyramid scheme, then any high-growth stock is a pyramid scheme. I could have struck it rich by buying Apple in 1999, but I don't think it would happen now.
Type I diabetics have lost the natural way to regulate sugar in their blood. The have to take insulin or a insulin analog to regulate how the body will break down the sugar and starch they eat. There is a fair amount of guess work on how much insulin to take with each meal and when . If they overdose and take too much insulin they will have to consume sugar to bring their blood sugar back into normal ranges. The Sponge idea, if it could be delivered pre-loaded with sugar, it would be a great way to provide a long term low blood sugar antidote. However the idea of a type II diabetic, LADA, type III or a non-diabedic taking the normal sugarsponge would probably result in death or coma.
That QM is random to us is no more correct on its face than a dice roll being random. A dice roll follows rules of classical physics and given enough information about the state of the system we can accurately predict /exactly/ how the die will land. It ceases to be random as we increase knowledge.

That QM has a limit to the knowledge we can acquire within the confines of our observations does not indicate some philosophical "true randomness."
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Meh, radiation concern is over-rated. Astronauts and cosmonauts have spent more than a year in orbit, and the longest cumulative time in space (for one person) is over 800 days. YES, this is LEO, where the radiation levels are lower, but the levels of radiation aren't actually that much higher once you minus out the relatively-easily-shielded solar particle radiation. It's about a factor of 2 higher in deep space vs LEO. So as far as cumulative dose, we've already achieved that without "slowly dying of multiple cancers." And really, it takes a lot more cumulative dose than that to have a large and statistically meaningful cancer risk increase. We're talking about a 3% risk of cancer death, not 90% as you're implying (and the risk is relatively linear).

The nice thing about Venus flyby is that provided you can shield the solar radiation (using water and supplies), the interplanetary magnetic field is stronger the closer to the Sun you get, so the very difficult-to-shield cosmic ray dose actually reduces.

And another note about deep space radiation: there's an incorrect assumption out there that you do not receive the highest energy cosmic ray radiation in LEO due to the Earth's magnetic field. That's not true. The Earth's magnetic field can only shield the lower energy cosmic rays (the ones that are easier to shield using supplies and spacecraft mass). The highest energy cosmic rays, above the "geomagnetic cutoff," still get through, and they're the hardest to shield and also the ones that people say the effects are least known. However, we've had dozens of astronauts & cosmonauts spend ~6 month stints in space with exposure to these rays without any dramatic effects (and some have spent a year or more at a time).

I'd venture that a crewed Venus flyby ("ma'ammed" as well as manned, since this is Venus afterall!!!) in the 1970s was perfectly doable from this perspective, given enough supplies and basic shielding from solar particle events. It would've been risky, but perhaps no more risky than Apollo 11, which had to actually land on and launch from a rocky body (a huge extra source of risk).

Skylab had a >80 day mission in the 1970s, and the Soviets did a >175 day mission in 1979. I think a Venus flyby in the 70s would've been feasible.
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> I'm no Trump supporter but I have screen caps of single digit election predictions; e.g. 90/10 Hillary.

Yes, of course you do, these have been well documented by the same sources that produced the models. Why would you feel the need to screen cap them? Why would you put this statement next to fake news?

Do you not understand what was in your screencap?
Easier: Don't bother; it's Facebook.
Not if you're converting bytes into integers, for instance. E.g. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.bitconverter... - it's arch specific.
The question of interest is "In a world where webassembly exists and is well-supported, would Slack have been written in JavaScript (or a JS-targeting language like TypeScript), or was there some other language the developers knew better that they could have worked faster in but the JavaScript tax prevented that option?"
I will take my chances.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1944495.0
and who will work there when all foreign workers will be gone?
My gut says that technologists could lend a hand by applying some kind of more advanced predictive modeling or ML knowledge than is available to the scientists working on this
No, the prohibition on termination for unlawful cause does not only apply when the employer admits the unlawful cause.
I think one use-case that makes some sense is Mysterium (https://mysterium.network). VPNs actually have material benefit from decentralization, and the ability to actually cover costs in operating exit nodes is somewhat of a game changer relative to something like TOR (I do realize they have different security profiles, though).

Data storage is also a moderately interesting application. Decentralizing data persistence, and being able to take advantage of the enormous amount of excess hard drive space that exists in the world is an interesting concept. Things in this category are Sia, Storj, and MaidSafe. While i'm not sure the economics and logistics will actually work out, I do think there is something there.
This seems like an interesting way for Walmart to compete with Uber and Amazon logistics/delivery services.

What about?

- Privacy Concerns (same that exist with Uber eats)

- Will workers do it

- Will workers be 1099'ed or get more hours?
I followed the saga, or rather the bits of it Maciej mentioned here and there, and I bet the price was not high. Basically the owner was bleeding money with shocking AWS charges, and was looking for a way out himself. I expect one of the reasons that it's going read-only so quickly is to turn off the saving/replicating machinery and cut bills. Once he does that, he can probably turn on export features again.

I wonder what is so wrong in delicious' backend that is so expensive to run. Maybe that's why Yahoo ditched it, for some reason it's a money pit...? Note how Maciej is explicitly saying he will never turn it back on, not even redirecting the api endpoints which should be trivial. There must be a reason for that.
Why would the whole Photoshop be downloaded and compiled? I would expect a web app to only download the parts the I use. If I want to blur an image, I don't need the other gazillion filters for example.

And hey, even if photoshop is 1000 times bigger then jquery - that would still compile in one tenth of a second.
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The popover things pisses me off as well. For a company like facebook to use such an annoying thing to get people to subscribe seems immature.
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Personally, I don't normally need any channels, I need shows. Frankly, if I didn't catch it with the DVR, then On-Demand is crap because of the "you can't fast forward!" crap. Then you pause it too long and can't fast forward at all to get back to where you were, all because of ads.
Part of the problem -- in my opinion -- was that the publisher treated The History of Middle-Earth like a typical fantasy series. Mass market paperback edition, cover art, the works. A different presentation might have made it more clear that it was a scholarly work, not a novel.

(Or perhaps that was the intent. Sigh...)
Why not get those shows from a service like iTunes, or Amazon, or whatever? I bet it wouldn't cost any more than you currently pay for all the channels, and you have the advantage of being able to watch whenever you want and on any device, even when away from home. You wouldn't get sudden new fees or have to pay a rental fee for your cable box.
I have a feeling that Facebook will be on the decline. My teenagers and early-20 year-olds and their friends (not just local, but all over the US) think Facebook is for old people. I actually heard a 16 year old recently giving a speech where he mentioned Snapchat Stories, then, as an aside, said, "That's like Facebook or Pintrest for you old people."
I deleted my facebook account in highschool and have never looked back. The melodrama and immature antics are hilarious to observe, I'm so glad that I'm not a part of all that.
Inequality and lack of opportunity are not the same thing. Leaving aside the question of whether America actually has opportunity, if it did, some would still fail miserably.
> Of course it does. Bitcoin used to be at $1, now it's at $1,xxx.

And you can bet those who bought at $1 sold all they had at $10 ("wow, it's like 10 times what I invested, this is insane, this probably won't go any further!"), those who bought at $10 sold everything at best at $100, those who bought at $100 sold at $1000, etc. Actually, I'm not sure the people bitcoin made rich are that many. I have yet to see an article explaining how someone got millionaire by getting early into bitcoin.

As for fundamentals, the underlying value of cryptocurrencies is to be a store of value that is not as easily stolen than cash, while still not sitting in at a bank. You can see it as cash that can be transmitted over the network, in small or big amount (and quite fast in that case, comparatively to a wire transfer). Of course, whether this tech will become mainstream is yet to be seen, it can still fail. On the other hand, the company you bought stocks from can also bankrupt and close.
In neighborhoods that are built like this, it doesn't matter..

As the article states. people sit on the stoop.
Perhaps less so as you mention due to indoor distractions, but still quite a bit.

Much as the suburbanite sits in the back yard, the true townhouser (not those phony things with garages in the front and no alleyways), sits on the stoop.
How much user-visible benefit?

Do a quick text search of this Hacker News thread for people talking about Firefox "feeling" slower than Chrome.

Preload is a big underlying "why" of that experience.
>> Facebook going out of business seems unlikely

Is it? Because it seems to me that they are having plenty of issues with gaining the trust of advertisers too. Considering that advertising is the bread and butter of their business, this would normally be something of a mini-crisis.

A quick search for "do advertisers trust facebook" gives me

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/facebook-needs-accountabil...

https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/10/facebook-verification-ad-...

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/01/31/will-facebook-chip-aw...

http://www.adageindia.in/digital/40-of-marketers-say-they-pl...

http://marketingland.com/facebooks-measurement-errors-impact...

Of course, no one actually believes anything Facebook says with regards to privacy, and probably never did.

I would seriously doubt if there is anyone who actually looks at their practices who doesn't think they conduct large scale psychological experiments on the human lab rats who continue to use FB.

In other words, seems like there are enough ingredients here for an implosion. Something has to give.
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A bit of a tangent - it seems to be common for folks to express disagreement with a certain sentiment by labeling the sentiment or the person expressing the sentiment as some adjective of repulsive, immoral, or gauche, rather than describing what about the position they disagree with. It is a bit lazy on your part.