skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual counter-point: blocking all ads is shortsighted. As more and more people do it, the sites you are currently blocking from showing you ads will have to switch to a paid model, with many probably failing.

Only a select few news sources will survive. Local news in non-metropolitan areas will be even worse than it is now. People will start consuming news exclusively from the one or two (maximum) sources they pay for, whereas now they probably read at least one article from 50+ sources every month.

Elections will happen, but very few people will actually have enough information. All political oversight will seize, because actual behaviour is no longer tied to re-election. But, at least, most politicians will have very nice names.

Alternative scenario: smart blocking: start with allowing all, then blacklist individual ads based on the publisher, content/behaviour of the ad, and reputation of the ad network. That would incentive ads to actually get better.
they crossed 3 months ago when I still worked there but didn't want to share it broadly because they thought it was a temporary spike due to some political unrest in SE Asia. Safe to assume they are over the hump by now.
Curious if anybody proof-read this.
Is it really that bad as described?
NYT is pretty obnoxious in other ways, though, especially with a touchscreen. If you click and drag to highlight something, it navigates to a different article. If you double-click to select a word, it changes the text size. If you accidentally hit the left or right arrow key while trying to scroll up or down, it again tries to load the next article.
Right. But the nav bar on HN isn't sticky.
It's a one-device investment, you can't even use them on macbooks without a dongle converting it to 3.5mm jack let alone people who have 2 phones and the other being an Android, can't use the headphones on Android tabs or laptops. No point getting locked in.
Have you looked at WorldBrain? It is a fork of falcon, but it keeps a cache and let's you perform keyword searches against the cached content.
The problem with this flawed line of argument is that CloudFlare applies their own Pro-Platforming views that might fly in the US globally.

So this jurisdiction issue actually goes both ways.
Isn't it the other way around?

I can prove I had today's papers today, but once I've seen it I can prove it any day. So you can say "this information existed at day X or earlier".

There's also the issue of proving the content you hashed actually came from the place you say it came from. To me it seems that would require proofs of authenticity, by the source itself; not something that's easy to come by.
It is political but health insurance is very relevant to contractors and others that are self-employed.
Yea, you can see this in Denver. I just moved to sf and it's like night and day. The emphasis in denver is entirely in clearing homeless camps, not in attempting to find somewhere that can handle their needs.

It was pretty eye opening to see people shooting up on the street at 10am in front of cops in SF.
It doesn't need to be. It's a bookmarklet.

You click it when there's a sticky header. If it takes 200ms to run, that's not a problem.

If it were a browser extension running on every page, sure, that's a disaster.
I get off at Civic Center and it's astonishing how many used syringes I see on the ground by the escalators. Those needle tips are extremely dangerous and could be life changing if you happened to get punctured by one.
> It's extremely risky to put out a mass update, yes. But if it were a targeted attack against an individual, the risk is greatly reduced, especially if that individual won't think twice about it.

At that point, you'd have to hope the target would not check the hashes of update files. If detected, then there is the same issue: A signed malicious update being detected (and easily verified cryptographically if given to a reporter) would cause a catastrophic media firestorm, eroding trust in the vendor forever.

> With that said, you do have individual targets that are suspicious (e.g. https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho...). There's always risk.

0-day use against perceived "high value targets" is indeed a possibility and valid concern. No argument at all there.
> The line you quote is the wrong line

I'm very sure it is not. Article 1, Section 4.

> The topic of "how apportionment is performed" is a different line.

That's not how the law is read (X "topic" is governed by Y statute solely). One section does not provide the guidelines for apportionment, alone. Preceding sections generally override following sections when in doubt, unless explicitly overridden in following sections.

Reapportionment has nothing to do with elections, but the result of the elections as it pertains to the composition of Congress in relation to population. There is nothing in regard to this to require a change to the constitution, as an amendment.
App economy to grow to $6.3 trillion in 2021, user base to nearly double to 6.3B
I recently created a dedicated fb account to connect with some people, and I was very very surprised how dull fb is. I tried it back in the days and felt it had some value, in terms of UX and "connection" but now it's all foobar and gimmicky. Very odd. I would never had expected it to reach 2B so fast. I wonder if it's mostly because of mass + [o]auth capabilities so ubiquitous now.
They list increasing premiums twice. Are those different somehow, or just duplicated (copy editor error)?
Even if Google did this, and got past the shareholder lawsuits, what would happen?

Nothing much. Someone else would step in. Greed and free markets makes the "Atlas Shrugged" scenario nonsense. I'm sure there are millions of smart people who would love it if all the other smart people stopped producing. All it means is more market share for them.

I'm guessing you're posting this as someone who is fully sucked into the Google ecosystem. I was too. But the only Google product I use anymore is Google maps. No more email, no more search, no more android.

Google is very far from indispensable.
Ask and ye shall receive!

make-scratch-dir () {
local name="$1"
local pattern='^[a-z0-9\\-]+$'
if [[ "$#" != 1 ]]; then
echo "Usage: make-scratch-dir <name>" 1>&2
return 1
elif [[ ! "$name" =~ $pattern ]]; then
echo "Invalid name: ${name}"
fi
local full_path="$HOME/tmp/scratch/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)-${name}"
mkdir -p "${full_path}"
pushd "${full_path}"
echo "Now in temp dir: ${full_path}"
}

The directory change is done via pushd so you can hop back via popd. Also, it restricts the suffixes to ensure the directories are all "simple" names.
Reader view on iOS Safari makes the web usable on mobile.
> As you read, write down every single word that you don’t understand. You’re going to have to look them all up (yes, every one. I know it’s a total pain. But you won’t understand the paper if you don’t understand the vocabulary. Scientific words have extremely precise meanings).

That's a great tip. I've found that a lot of papers aren't necessarily complicated, but the vocabulary is unfamiliar (but you experience the same sense of confusion with both). It's interesting that we often conflate complexity with unfamiliarity, my reading comprehension abilities improved quite a bit by understanding the difference between the two.
Sticky headers ave their place, but they should be minimal and supply links to other locations on the site. They should never be used for advertising.
In what sense do Bing and DDG not matter in search?

They have less market share, true, because Google has a better product. Your argument seems to be that Google doesn't bother to have a better product (in search), because Google has all the market share, because Google has a better product.
Moderate weather that won't kill you. A tax base that can finance some social services. And increasing housing costs. It's a mix of all of the above.
Being homeless in SF is awesome:

0) Free muni passes,

1) great social & free housing programs - some even have stipends & phone service

2) a few decent shelters,

3) close by methadone clinics,

4) friendly 420 doctors (police don't arrest for 420),

5) tons of crack/meth on eddy street,

6) great places to pan (market),

7) weather is amazing (no hot days, no snow),

8) huge! public parks.

9) super friendly locals

10) a pretty liberal police department

SF hilariously always takes the wrong approach to things. If you want a city full of homeless, make it awesome. This would definitely be my plan G.
does this mean optional typing, is no more? why?
The Rise of ARM? No, this is more like when a wildly popular and universal software package gets ported to AIX or something.
This article BADLY needs source references otherwise all it rings of is FUD. I'm sure there is definitely references that can be found, but they are just sorely needed.
It doesn't make sense to a native speaker either.
This! Precisely this!

There is no benefit to me to go with a debit transaction and the risk of significant liability if there is a data breach. So, I don't do debit transactions.
Heh, walking the dom to evict these kind of elements is a pleasure of mine.

I have too bookmarklets very similar. Makes for a nice tree recursion thinking exercise at first.

ps: yes sticky is subtle and nowadays it's often wasting space.
You can, but it requires a lot of discipline, and the code you're left with is not particularly fast or elegant.

Still, if you must: create classes to represent components, with methods used to manipulate markup, and plug those methods into a simple pub/sub event bus. This will work for very simple apps, but ask yourself - how simple will your app remain?
A Proposal to Empower the American Voter
Verily, money is power. The huge and growing concentration of wealth occurring in the U.S. citizenry and in business translates directly to political power for the few, and political weakness for the rest. Because of this, the general citizenry of the U.S. cannot really hope to command real representation of their interests by their elected representatives. Thus the U.S. is in the midst of a several-decade long crisis of corrupted governance. Is there a non-violent solution to this problem which can gain traction despite the political weakness of the U.S. citizenry?

The solution I’m proposing is simple:

The Federal government issues to every adult citizen $100 which can only be spent by donating it to a registered political candidate.

Why it might work:

1. $100 isn’t much in itself, but collectively it is three times the amount that was spent in the last presidential election. That is a real political power.
2. You can donate it to 3rd party candidates.

Why it could be put into law:

1. The media corporations cannot disregard the immense profits that would be had from the quadrupling of spending on elections by adding ~23 billion dollars? Why wouldn’t they herald it as American as apple pie? As a noble investment in democracy?
2. The biggest lobby of government is Google, and Google would profit from increased political ad spending too, and by selling information about voter preferences so that politicians can figure out how to get your $100 donation.
3. On a personal note, politicians hate having to give so many fund raisers…this is an out.
4. The law is fair. There is no proposal to give certain disadvantaged groups more money than others. The richest American would get $100 too.
5. It doesn’t outlaw free speech by corporations and political groups. These groups can still provide their valuable input to the political discussion.
glad to see this fixed
....and thank god, I'm NOT one of them!
i guess this means no more optional typing
If you happen to be on OS X, you can fire a notification into Notification Center from the terminal.

osascript -e 'display notification "that thing is done" with title "my awesome title"'

iTerm2 has a similar feature called Triggers [1].

[1]: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-triggers.html
That's where I looked too, but I sorted by the 2014 column which seems to be missing values for some of those countries. Confusing!
It isn't always a "just fill out some questions" issue; some of the captas they show are essentially impossible for humans. The one Google service I can't avoid (well, maps also but I can't reember a problem there) is Google Scholar and I occasionally get the almost impossible captchas there (I think I got one out of at least six I tried on different occasions). Logging in avoids the issue (and tends to fix it for a while without logging in... I think an IP address range thing in my case).

The worst part is when you need to prove to Google who you are when already logged in to a (non-Google) online store that you have purchased from previously. That is just rediculous and seems to be getting more common. At least those are not impossible, but still. I do not know if Google has anything to do with promoting that use but if they do they should be held responsible for that (as well as the businesses that use such things).
I think OP's point is that bad health insurance options for the self-employed have a detrimental effect on entrepreneurship.
This is honestly the direction I see us going. Angular has also created a component concept nearly identical to React, the only difference is implementation details. It's a natural way to go, because it decreases cognitive load.

I am intrigued and ponder the idea of there being "JS Standard Libs" and wonder which ones will initially get picked for the honor. I don't think it will be React or Angular but definitely "something" like them, even if it is a version of Web Components.

That'll also mark a huge change in performance and download metrics, because if your browser already has your framework built in, your delivered code base is suddenly a fraction of what it was. And then there will be more opportunities there, too - dynamically providing the framework where needed in a separate code split, vs. a browser that does not need it.

We're just at the beginning, really. Browsers stalled for 15 years and have shifted into a period of innovation again.
You have to click it to make it do anything. It's a bookmarklet.
Or the ones that are very skilled on fortune telling and they know they will not get cancer.
Facebook is non-rivalrous but is is excludable (that is, one user of Facebook does not 'take up a slot' preventing any other users from using it, but you can be prevented from using it if you don't 'pay', i.e. follow the TOS).

In general, public goods are things like air, languages, street lights, and national defense. Facebook (as far as I know) is not critical to your safety or survival, so you'd have a devil of a time trying to convince anyone that it's a public good.

As a litmus, I would wager that the odds of Facebook or any other website becoming a public good before the internet are nearly zero, so once it happens to the internet, we'll come back to it.
Technically Whole Foods does not themselves do delivery (it's Instacart), while Amazon actually does (Fresh)... Amazon's also working on grocery pickup, which seems perfect for meal kits.
I got a dedicated server in France that cost me less than $20 USD/month. 16GB RAM, 1TB storage: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc
Some can find shelter. Sometimes open vent grates on the ground provide heat (until they start putting spikes on those). Sometimes you can make fire someplace. Sometimes you have to migrate away. Or, you freeze to death...
>It's not just acquiring the ingredients; there's value in having someone else plan the menu for you.

That's where I see the value. People spend a lot of effort figuring out how to eat a balanced diet while optimizing for low (enough) cost or just close enough. Offloading the work of planning a balanced diet on a weekly level is something many people would pay a small premium for.
Maybe its just me but I find a lot of algorithmic interview questions are just as hit and miss as these obscure questions if you need to do it in an interview.

I had a phone interview with Google and was asked to come up with a variation of a soduko solver. Couldn't get it there and then, but half an hour later walking down the road, a really elegant solution came to me.
I imagine that the contents of this post are not incorrect, but the alarmist tone and the hand-wavey assertions that lack references to primary sources is very off putting to me.

Worst of all is the fact that I can tell that being alarmist/sensational and simplifying information so that it is easily digestibale and/or partisan and unbalanced [1] is the most effective way for any cause or any party to mobilize its allies.

[1] In the absence of references to primary sources, it's only natural for me to assume that there are counter-benefits for some subset of the population for many of these effects that will negatively impact potential self employed professionals.
If the US intends to keep doing private health insurance-based healthcare (as opposed to single payer, universal healthcare, or a medicare-advantage like model) then they need to seriously evaluate if employer linked health insurance is a healthy model.

The ACA ("Obamacare") Marketplace was the right model, but it failed. It failed largely because insurance consumers were largely put into two "buckets" those with employer provided insurance (more wealthy; more healthy; more profitable) and those without employer provided health insurance (less wealthy/startups/unemployed/sicker/less profitable/etc).

To use an analogy, imagine for a second what would happen if everyone got their car insurance through their employer. You'd expect car insurance for the employed to get a little cheaper, and the car insurance for those buying it independently to shoot through the roof.

If everyone purchased their insurance privately, and employers could only provide money for that via the pre-existing HSA accounts (tax free), then everyone would get to pay the same rates. In that scenario the unemployed would pay the same as federal employees.

Why is scrapping employer provided health insurance never discussed in the US healthcare debate? We already have the mechanism for employers to pay for employee's health insurance tax free (HSAs), all we need to do is ban employers from picking an employee's insurance company for them.

Everyone always talks about competition in the US. But how can there be competition when an employer can dictate just one or two different insurance companies their employees are forced to take? And only one or two tiers of care?
Three things:

- Do you have real IP/patents? If not, a "working prototype" is probably going to be hard to sell.

- What specific business problem does it solve, and who is the person with the budget who is trying to solve it. Reach out to them. A "team" trying to solve a similar problem is never going to buy a solution (manager will no longer have a team...).

- Alternative to selling is to offer to do contract work for these companies, using prototype to help close the deal.
Elon Musk Mars Plan Might Just Revolutionize Humanity
I'm willing to bet that this will not get better. It's going to get worse. Much, much worse. As mass employment disappears, you're going to have millions of people become destitute across the country, and many rural, semi-rural and suburban settlements will simply no longer be viable. Some families will return to subsistence farming, but many others will flee to the larger cities. The current homeless camps will expand into large slums and shanty towns, while gated communities connect into upper class enclaves. When you see in Powell Station will be the general situation across all US cities in twenty years.
It frustrates me to think I count in this number even though I only have a fake Facebook account under a fake name and with no friends, simply because my job requires that I log into their developer account occasionally.
Yep definitely, either way React is here to stay and it is in large part not due to Facebook, but to the maturity of the community that has supported it. I'm consistently impressed by their level of professionalism.
Oh you may be exactly the person I need to talk to! I'm looking for a soil humidity sensor that is able to permanently sit in my garden and accurately measure soil humidity and soil temperature. Do you have any advice?

Currently I'm using this one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1298

But after 3-4 waterings, it reads 95-100% consistently, regardless of the temperature. I've tried 2 of their sensors and have had the same problem.
Google's profile counts -- Android, Gmail, Youtube, and G+, mostly, in about that order, topped 3 billion a while ago.

http://archive.is/zi4Uw

(Origin site appears down.)
>> "There's nothing in this article about why the containers need to be painted."

You're right. There isn't. It's taken for granted that you are aware of the fate of unpainted steel in a salt air environment.
Article is a hyperbole filled rant light on facts and heavy on rhetoric. Doesn't belong on HN.

That said, healthcare is a demographic and economic issue - period. If there's enough money to cover all American's healthcare needs it is pure political gold to do so and no need for debate. There isn't enough money. If the United States were a cruise ship, it would be sinking in debt (eg. 100% of US GDP) and feature 50 swimming pools in which most states are simultaneously sinking in debt - Illinois being the standard bearer of US fiscal catastrophe.

This is the reality a half century of fiscal irresponsibility and irrational optimism has brought. Cold, hard realism is the only remedy.
It is both amazing and deeply concerning that one corporation has influence over 1/4 of the world's population. It is even more concerning when you consider the outsized voting power of 1 person at that company.
Granted, you have to spend about 30 - 40 minutes in the kitchen, but I find Hello Fresh meals to be consistently superior on just about every level to most restaurant food anywhere near its price point, and much healthier to boot. This shocked me at first, but when you think about it, even most "pretty good" restaurant food is designed to be thrown together in 5 - 10 minutes using as few ingredients as possible.

Also, we've found preparing the meals to be a great couple activity. Normally, I wouldn't say this about cooking - my wife and I tend to run the kitchen alone when the muse strikes - but having clearcut instructions and not worrying about shopping makes cooperation fun and easy.
> Which means soon it will be mitigated.

It was fixed in a security patch one month before the Shadow Brokers leak. All computers affected by this ransomware outbreak (and WannaCry) were those who decided not to patch.
What you're touching on is a change in dev in general, especially in certain parts of the stack (like much of front-end).

That is, devs have become more assemblers than coders. I think this is due to the explosion in OSS, with all of the libs, frameworks, etc.

On balance, I believe it's made us more productive, but the time spent writing logic has gone down vs. the time spent learning, assembling, integrating, etc. So, devs are expected to keep up on all of the latest tech, tooling, etc.

Of course, the demands of agile development just pours gasoline on it.
Yeah it's basically "I know Perl and I don't know Awk". I'm surprised it got to the front page.

Obviously, the two languages overlap in functionality, and the one you know is going to be easier for the job (for you).

If you know neither, Awk is easier to learn, but that's of course because it does less. That may be good or bad, depending on what you are trying to do.
exactly a saner heath care system makes sense for employers and employees it removes the need for expensive employer provided benefits and also promotes a flexible work force ie you don't stick in a job for health care benefits
What file system are you using? Couldn't a deduplicating file system handle redundancy for you?
How's life with no friends? You must be a blast at parties.
What if I have R&D expenses in a side business- can I use the credit to offset my main job's income tax?