skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dodd-Frank barely affects small banks. It was intended to reduce "too big to fail", that is, big banks. Lobbyists have duped you.
Opt-in by default seems so often an admission that not enough would go out of the way to enable it, and that they don't have enough faith in the importance of thr item in question as to introduce install/update friction and just ask users what they want.
The 6 second ad format is not imposed by technology companies, it is the limit of consumers' attention span in an environment where they can scroll past or click away from anything longer. TV forces attention, the internet does not.

Interestingly, it is not so much that videos need to be 6 seconds, but if they are going to be longer, they need to capture attention, and traditional "30 second" ad spots are not designed to be attention grabbing in the first 6 seconds.

This ignores repeated viewing, most users are going to burn out of watching even the most interesting 30 second ad fairly quickly. On TV this wasn't a problem, captive audience, on the Internet, again, viewers just scroll past.
This site violates Betteridge's Law.
Thank you. It looks like Athena is trying to do just what I described. They even have an incubator for new health related startups[1]. Of course, it is difficult to know from the outside how well they are doing and their trajectory, but I am (foolishly?) optimistic.

[1] https://www.athenahealth.com/more-disruption-please/labs
I've started several corporations over the years and the regulations aren't that bad. I have a partner that will get an S-corp going for a few hundred bucks.

In any case, the article shows that dynamism was higher in the 70s when there was more regulation.
Algotrading has those regulations for good reason though... The last thing we need is a thousand silicon valley cowboys running around causing flash crashes all the time.
IPSec is beautiful and definitely was the correct way to handle encryption.

IKE and ISAKMP was the problem, that stuff is an absolute nightmare. Maybe now with IKE2 it might get better...
Firefox has an extension called "self destructing cookies" that implements those the way they should be done everywhere.

There is absolutely no need for font enumeration. A browser can decide do download fonts it does not have from the site (what will indeed open it to some tracking), or use another cache (with other, different tracking possibilities). But any way it chooses, it just needs to cache the fonts locally to avoid most of the tracking.

There's no reason for local storage to permit 3rd party tracking. WebRTC was a mistake, and WebGL although well meant is so complex that will never work well.

A lot of out javascript signature could be simply removed without any ill effects.
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/primar...

I wonder, for someone like me that got a pretty terrible math education, how these free courses stack up against just using khan academy or similar.
Cross-domain is needed, otherwise an app/webapp couldn't talk to the bridge since the bridge only serves the REST API.

However in order to send control commands and query light states the app/webapp needs to authenticate and create a account, which is only possible for a few seconds after pressing a physical bridge button.
Ah, seems like this battle is just a part of the bigger war that is the ugly side of capitalism. The top companies that Millennials are raving about are threatening old companies, and as a result those old companies are making a pact to bring their rivals down.

Examples include Airbnb; the business is now being banned by cities like New York city, New Orleans, Santa Monica and countless others. Another is Uber; it's banned in Texas, Alaska, Oregon (except Portland), and more. Now it's our beloved, favorite websites that are being targeted by Internet Providers.

Who do you think will win this war?
Quick breakdown of what's going on here (I work at Mozilla, and have worked on the Add-ons site in the past):

The "Get Add-ons" view in Firefox is an iframe to a page hosted by addons.mozilla.org. AMO, as all Mozilla sites, use GA to collect aggregate visitor statistics. We negotiated a special contract with Google [1] to only collect a subset of data and that that data is only used for statistical purposes.

Google Analytics is only loaded when this view is loaded, and is not otherwise "inside" Firefox. I filed an issue [2] to make sure that our privacy policy is linked from the Get Add-ons view so users can be better informed.

Mozilla tries to walk a very thin wire to ensure that we have the data we need to make sure our products are working properly without being intrusive, and to let concerned users opt-out of even that baseline data collection.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2789
Totally with the story, I just put in my vote in support.

However the blacked out title is confusing. It is noticeable definitely but does NOT tell me to click on it, just looks like there is a bug. In fact I opened HN in another browser to confirm.

There should be an icon for net neutrality - like the pink ribbon.
Are you sure you want to publicly share `api_key` and `api_id`?
What happens to London's retired tube trains?
My guess is ~2070-2090 will see 20% of current fossil fuel use.

Boats and Aircraft are going to be hardest to transition and will likely make up a large chunk of that 10+%. Bio fuels may take some of this, but it really depends on overall demand for liquid hydrocarbons.

Electricity and home heating are going to change from market forces.

Cars have many options, but oil is going to get expensive (as in 2-3x current price not 10x) which will push alternatives.

Electric trains can take over most long distance trucking and shorter distance is easier to transition. This will be a fairly fast transition if oil spikes again in ~2030-2040 combined with some form of carbon tax.

PS: Plastics / fertilizer and other chemical processes are going to be the wildcard IMO. But, they don't involve burning carbon so they are also less important.
Morgan Stanley: 'Bitcoin acceptance is virtually zero and shrinking'
Project Lamdu: A Live Programming Environment and Language
Doesn't https://dnscrypt.org do that?
I apologize for not having CMD on my iPad.
Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning
Being treated like cattle shuttled down a narrow pathway. Being forced to wade into a compressed crowd of people who apparently forget all manners and will push and shove you.

It's basically one of, if not the worst parts of every day. And there is nothing you can do to avoid it.
> along the time we'll see some decoupling of stdlib from GC

That is already happening. There is no measure, though. How should it be measured?

Related, a few days another blog post in the No-GC series was published: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/07/07/go-your-own-way-part-one-t...
They don't even produce complete search results. Go to a group with a long history, and use "search this group" for a keyword that will return over, say, 100 results--some of them a couple of years old.

You won't see many of the older posts, and facebook gives no indication that they have been pruned. It's very hard to find old things without just scrolling through chronologically, which is slow and error prone.

Drives me insane.
How come it's free?
We had a big community discussion about this topic last year: https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/
You can have CLF's, just don't turn them on. Natural light is quite nice this time of year. Working with glowing rectangles has it's perks.
My company uses 2010 as well. It's regularly patched and supported for another two or three years. Why fix what's not broken?

(Yes, I know Clinton used 2010. Her admin was a dumbass though).
It seems to me that a lot of the technology making up PWA has been bundled with a PWA philosophy that has made it difficult for folks coming from a progressive enhancement background to understand how it can be applied. Too many people make it seem like an all-or-nothing deal, or couple learning these technologies with other technology that's not an essential. In reality you can incrementally add pieces to your approach for new site, or improve an old site.
Or, you know, you could just change the ballot to allow more voting for than one candidate, as Maine just did.

Rendering gerrymandering much less of a deal.

By the way APPROVAL VOTE is the best one, not ranked voting.
Why should research funded by American taxpayers be transferred to Chinese solar cell producers, and by whom?

I hope an American firm implements the underlying science into a manufacturing process, and any Chinese firms that want to use the process pay a fair and equitable license for the technology.
I feel like the mess helps discourage it's use. I shouldn't need a Turing machine in order to read a text document.
SNI puts the DNS names you're connecting to in plaintext at the start of every TLS connection. Running your DNS over an encrypted channel won't stop someone from knowing or blocking the sites you connect to.
Key management would be a nightmare here. IPSec has very long setup times, and every destination would need a new crypto configuration. This is exactly the problem that TLS was designed to solve, and IPSec and the web are a bad mix.
As @rockostrich and @fragmede pointed out, I'm talking about whitespace having parsing impact ("significant whitespace"), not just any whitespace. The fact that extra spaces changes the structure of the output seems like a total minefield to me, unless your config is being machine generated (in which case there are many more robust formats to choose).
AffluentConfidante.com – Anonymous public statements by the wealthy to everyone
Nope. See http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/09/community-banks... and many others.
Youtube is definitely over-weighing the last few videos. Then again, it's likely optimized for a different market segment. Especially with how many children are given tablets. Like, brief intense fascination with many subjects in general is genuinely hard to optimize for, especially when a huge portion of your market has long-lasting intense fascination with a few subjects.
The purpose of that security is to protect the integrity of the transactions. Without transactions, the network is pointless. The energy used for mining should be charged to the transactions, just like the energy VISA uses to light its offices would be.
This. Make as big a mess as you like on your own box (your sysadmin can pave it when you're hopelessly confused), but everything in prod has to be registered with the one and only package manager because otherwise nobody will know where it's deployed or what its dependencies are or whether they're up to date. cpan/pip/gem/cargo/go get/hackage/melpa are not sysadmin problems.
This site doesn't address the countless small sites on $3/month shared-hosting plans. These generally do not provide shell access, so there's no way to use Let's Encrypt, therefor switching to https is not free, which means their assertion for point #4 is flat-out wrong. Web-hosting plans with shell access generally cost more money.
Yet, at the same time, people living in cities with mass transit vs suburban sprawl (admittedly still not an 'ideal') prefer the cities for the increased sense of community, higher sense of dynamism, and more 'creative' things going on than what they might get in their their non-mass-transit suburban coutnerparts..
Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet
I don't understand your focus on Google - they're not at all visibly associated with battleforthenet.com, nor have I seen them releasing any kind of public statement on the issue (at least this time around). Look at today's doodle ffs, it's celebrating a costume designer's 79th birthday.
Visa Takes War on Cash to Restaurants
I'm sorry, but that is blatantly false. I don't know what sources you could possibly have used to form that opinion, but nobody who is informed agrees with you (ex, http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/09/community-banks...)
Note careful use of "potential" there. Fraunhofer hit 46% two years ago with a four-junction cell: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/images/efficiency-chart.png
Would you really describe Discourse as "Reddit/HN like" though?
I generally hold facebook in contempt for the forced filtering that they subject me to. Making the 'sort posts chronologically' flag come unstuck is a dirty hack that they should be ashamed of.
> I am riding on on the idiomatic C++11/14/17 train right now.

How do you see it?

Nowadays I only use C++ on hobby projects or when Java/.NET need some kind of integration work.

To me it seems that as code bases grow organically, it will become very hard to get which code is in which ANSI version, specially problematic given some of the changes that took place between standard revisions.
> Politics is always a game of compromise and incremental improvement. There are no perfect laws.

Amen.
I think a lot of people here are focused on tech startups, but I think what is really apparent is the domination of large corporations in many other aspects of our economy. So many mom/pop restaurants are being pushed out by corporations, same goes for all the small grocery stores and retail stores that existed in the past. Everything is being collected under massive corporations who have the lobbying power to maintain their positions. I'm not sure there is much you can do about that. The distribution of wealth is affected by this too. You don't have as many owners and entrepreneurs making a living running their businesses, instead its going to the top tier at these corporations.
Yes I agree. But I see that as an exception. The Captive Portal is ONE thing that needs to be secured and be accessible inside the LAN of a public wifi hotspot. I see that as a special case, and public HS providers can work around that (using a domain for the CP they own and got a cert for). But imho that does not mean that browsers should throw security warnings at users for everything else inside their home lan. At least until we have a solution that works for everyone. And

- depending on an external service for your internal home stuff, or

- installing a self signed CA on every device you own

is not a solution.

Until we have something we can replace the status quo with, we should not deprecate it.
As a holder of dozens of patents, many of them on processes derived from algorithms, I fully understand (as well as anyone can) the implications of current case law. In order to patent an algorithm, you have to re-cast it as an operation to be performed on a general purpose computer. As long as you do that, you have the patent. I fully agree that there's nothing to stop you from calculating GIF's with pencil and paper, or on an abacus, or in your head -- is that a relevant distinction, or merely an academic one?

Additionally, the algorithm has to be non-trivial, which I take to mean multi-step, for it to be patentable when it's transformed into an operation performed on a general-purpose computer. Simply multiplying by a constant, even when done on a general purpose computer, is not patentable.
Some of the ugliest looking district ducklings are beautiful swans in the eyes of the courts. For example, the Illinois 4th Congressional District drawn in the 2000's decade is often called the "earmuff" district for obvious reasons. The western portion of this district actually travels along the northbound lane of Interstate 294! But, this district has a very important purpose. It was initially created in the 1990s to elect the first Latino representative to Congress from the Midwest.

The 4th congressional district has its funny shape because there is an African-American community sandwiched between two Latino communities. The African-American community is represented by the 7th Congressional district, which is designed to elect an African-American candidate of choice. The 4th district was wrapped around the 7th district so that both African-American and Latino communities could have congressional representation.
Interesting concept.. one that Google certainly wouldn't implement in Chrome because of their ad-based revenue model.

But I could entirely see a little privacy "eye" icon in the URL bar of Firefox, similar to the padlock icon we have now for HTTPS/certificates.

The eye could turn red and display text for the site you are visiting based on analytics, beacons, web bugs, and so on.

Or how about major social media sites have their icons placed in the URL bar if they have trackers / social media widgets on the current page. This way, it is made explicitly clear to the user that "{Insert social platform here} is tracking you on this page, even while you are logged out, don't have an account, ..."

The difficulty with having the browsers force the standard is getting Google Chrome on board, since they have so many users.
With the ACA it isn't all that complicated, a small business doesn't have to offer health coverage, just pay enough to still have the job be interesting for people willing to buy a marketplace plan.

I also wonder if actual premiums paid by end users in the individual marketplaces (that is, prices after subsidies) are really vastly inflated compared to group plans (it's just the group plans hide a lot of the cost from the insured).
As far as algotrading regulations, they were put in place because bad apples took advantage of loose rules. If you can describe a way to prevent the bad apples from gumming things up WITHOUT regulations, you deserve a genius prize.
I agree with your points. I am curious about your use of the phrase "tragedy of the commons" though, specifically how it relates to mass transit.

I would think the "tragedy of the commons" would people who elect to drive a car during rush hour rather than taking a similarly viable mass transit option if one exists.

Or are you using the term just in the context of overpopulation? Thanks.
The Electric Sheep is an infinite animation created with the collective intelligence of the internet, crowdsource, AI, and distributed computing.

It has been a free service for many years but now there is a premium HD version.
This is a fair point. The underlying instrumentation here is based on the matching of CSS rules to the DOM via selectors. We then map those rules back into source locations (including external style sheets, @sourceURL, and style tags). We do also have to account for all the other bytes in the block of CSS.

I believe in your case, these bytes are all whitespace. Here's a basic comparison of two pages where all rules are used: http://imgur.com/ZtfNFmo On the left, we have typical whitespace; On the right: no extra whitespace between style tags and rules. You can see we went from 15 unused bytes to 0.

To be extra clear about this we could somehow indicate these bytes are "unused whitespace" bytes. The implication is a little different in that case, mostly just to use a minifier.

(I work on these tools)
For every social media site XX:

Question: "Why does XX do things this way?"

Answer: "Because it increases engagement."

Why does the Facebook algorithm do this? Because it increases clicks.
Why does Youtube use autoplay? Because it increases watch time.

For every single social media site.
Don't you lose decentralization then?
And on some systems, one can usually tell if an inbound train is running faster/slower than normal and where to adjust position accordingly to end up at the right door/position/etc..
Towards Django Channels 2.0
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/no-more-404s/
DNS Crypt (https://dnscrypt.org/) at least partially addresses some concerns with the current DNS specification providing for the authentication of DNS entries (spoofing prevention). I don't think it addresses the privacy concerns of ISP or 3rd party sniffing though.
meh... people have been screaming DHOOOOOOOOOM!!! for generations upon generation...

We'll never make enough food... we'll never have enough energy... we'll never get along...

Things are always bordering on the end of the world yet we survive.
Not sure why you say "corporate refusal." They're trying to minimize their tax liability, which is their fiduciary duty. If you owned a slice of that company, would you want money to go to distributions or taxes? Congress is to blame here. The US tax code is essentially the only one of all countries that doesn't have a regional income policy. The IRS just follows companies and individuals around the world.
It's done for you, but you'll have to wait for the next Chrome version. (Or use beta/Canary).
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/zSfShm1
Use separation of concerns.

Block ads / tracking outside the browser, eg using a hosts blacklist: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This allows you to use any browser. I've found Firefox to be buggy and slow on OS X so I use Chrome. It's great on Windows though.
Incremental rewriting introduces the potential for new issues, as foreign function interfaces are inherently unsafe.

Rust also has its own costs. Its biggest limitation when it comes to mixing in code with that written in another language is probably its poor support for shared ownership (i.e. multiple references of the same object), while in most languages, shared ownership is the norm.

Multi-language setups (which you invariably get with an incremental rewrite) also generally create other interfacing issues when they share objects. How are you going to represent `std::shared_ptr<T>` or `std::vector<T>` in Rust, for example? They are opaque types, after all. Can you guarantee that Rust properly observes C++ semantics with regard to assignment, move assignments, and destructors when dealing with instances declared entirely in C++ code once you start mixing and matching C++ and Rust?
Surprised more people haven't mentioned this. It works so well it's pretty incredible. I get really excited every time they release a new update because I can't wait to see what new AI features they added.
Treed!
> i know its supposed to be a general truth, that regulation raises costs. i mean how can it not, since in the absence of regulation costs would be minimized.

There's lots of cases where a lack of regulation causes higher prices. Such as monopolies and oligopolies.

Remember that companies seek to maximise profit above all else. They only lower prices if it helps them to maxmise profits.
This is correct. And let's say a new service wanted to differentiate itself somehow by prioritizing some sort of exclusive deal with an ISP that provides an improved consumer experience, well now they can't
Dear overlord, stop this shit. Don't force any web user over your agenda BS.

Amazon.com worked fine from 1995 to 2016 with HTTP (only the login page was HTTPS).

If you have a crappy ISP like Verizon or whatever, it's your own personal problem - 99% of the web user don't care about your problem. Maybe use a VPN to somewhere to an ISP you can trust.

I stopped using Firefox because they turned mad. Chromium with some custom patches seems like a far better solution nowadays. Yet I see Google is too trying to destroy the open web with their PWA/AMP monoculture that is favored and listed on top of search results.

We need the EFF and other "good" foundations to lobby for the end user - too many shady and corporate entities lobby against the end user, unfortunately.