skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that standard media diet includes Fox News and One America Network (which has ~15% the viewer count of Fox News). Old media isn't necessarily great at filtering out nonsense.

Though I agree that the newsfeed tends to put these things next to the NYT or the Guardian, I feel like "page rank"-y stuff could help smooth this out. I've already seen improvements to my FB newsfeed for this kind of stuff over the yearse.
Can someone explain to me why they chose to make their own language instead of creating a DSL inside of an existing language?
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Yeah I think the start up landscape is slowly changing in Japan with more and more people starting small businesses and trying to make it on their own.

They've recently made it easier to create a company (lots of capital was required in the past but not anymore) and it's actually really easy to start a sole proprietor business. A lot of entrepreneurs over here now are setting us as a sole proprietor as it's really easy to get going and also open a bank account under the business name.

Also a lot of events happening in the start up scene especially in Tokyo. It's always good meeting with other entrepreneurs, hearing about their experiences and of course expanding your network.

Thanks for reading the blog and be sure to check back as I'll have some new content up there soon.
I had to double check to see if I had woken up from a coma and it was in fact April 1, 2018, but no. What a way to destroy the most iconic webpage in history.
I wonder if someone saved interview notes with another candidate under your name.
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Perhaps take a look at existing CRM's and copy the methods of some of their market material?
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What I'm saying is that these are not actually big selling points for a general audience.

I'm not saying it's not viable at all, but the distributed aspect alone requires a certain amount of popularity to sustain it.
But history is full of successful unmodified contracts despite non-omniscient actors.
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That Microsoft link lists 6 CVEs.

Apple's security content page lists 48.

That's probably an unfair comparison. How many vulnerabilities have been patched for all of those leaks / stashes by Apple and Microsoft?

It seems like we'd need to know those numbers in order to fairly judge whether PhantomGremlin should feel depressed or not.
Didn't they try basically this before, then had it fail and discontinue in the form of iGoogle(2005-2013)? The idea of google going back to that is just nuts.

At least DuckDuckGo has got the search page concept right.
77 Million were rescued by the white hackers and stored.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x1dba1131000664b884a1ba2384641...
I went through the whole dot com boom and collapse. The weirdest thing was driving on 101 during rush hour and it being empty.
Who cares your privacy.
Someone already did it! https://duckduckgo.com/
Considering that they have three important citations of the paper unpublished, I think it's okay to continue to be skeptical that they have achieved their claims. This paper is not complete, and on it's own does not demonstrate that they have solved the problem.

It is always trivial to simulate storing client data that you don't have. So you'd have to invent a system where simulating client data is equally expensive to storing real client data. But, simulating client data can always be done deterministically using a seed, which means you don't actually have to store the data.

So you have to prove that generating client data is equally expensive to storing it, if not more expensive. Given that legitimate client data can literally be all zeros, I don't see how you can achieve this without some overhead.

That overhead will make you less competitive than Sia, which doesn't have the overhead.

I haven't yet gotten to the point where I fully understand proof-of-spacetime, but that is hard when the paper is literally referencing unpublished work. But I'm skeptical they have solved the generation / simulation attack.
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Interesting feedback, since I was attempting to carefully avoid advocating for anyone to do anything. My target audience in offering examples/suggestions of anonymity techniques was the extremely non-technical friends and family who talk to me about having read my blog -- if the post sounded insightful to a technology professional, I would view it as having placed them in the lucky 10,000 for pieces of expected knowledge.

The post was written from a place of annoyance toward a specific and unfortunately not-yet-public set of proposals to bring about the safeties I lumped into the 4th group, while disregarding the benefits of the others. It sounds caricaturey because I was drawing a caricature to demonstrate the implausibility and fragility of such safety, and you have guessed my opinions of "social justice" accurately. My actions toward it are neutral or supportive because it beats the alternatives, but there's a good reason I usually leave my personal opinions out of technical content.

As to whether the problem of safety online is solved, ask the people who identify as victims of pretty much any technology-facilitated harm or scandal how they feel about the matter.

It sounds like you have a highly knowledgeable perspective on the physical/political safety side of things, and it'd make a fantastic post on your own blog!
HTTPS is a legacy protocol
People sober up when there's a defined end date, but it still takes camp leads and the threat of penalties to get everything packed out properly.
The difference is personalization. I never would visit a portal site like yahoo, but every morning I look through my Google Now feed. Relevance matters.
I think the real issue that most people have understanding this stuff is that they don't have a clear grasp of dependent vs independent events.

We tend to use the fair coin or the fair die as a common way of talking about things, but I've found that this is problematic for a lot of people.

First off is the use of the word fair. People not from a background in statistics don't think of that word the way we do. They think of it as an attribute of the object itself. The the coin or die is 'fair' in the ethical sense of the word.

Second is the experiential understanding: 'This coin is fair and therefore should flip heads and tails with equal frequency. It's the same damn coin, and I flipped it a thousand times! Why are these crazy stats people telling me it comes up heads and tail equally often? It doesn't, dammit!'

What I've had some success with helping people understand independent trials is to get them to envision flipping 6 different coins at the same time. Then you can sort of walk them back into understanding that flipping 6 different coins once is no different from flipping the same one 6 times. The events are totally unrelated, and a past event is not a predictor of the future.

Plus, you can actually map out the math for them on the spot. .5 * .5 * .5, etc.

That's just my experience trying to explain things though. Would love some criticisms if there are better ways to go about this.
SoftBank is on a rip, wow.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/softbank/timeline#/t...
We need a Haskell transpiler.
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US manufacturing output is at an all time high.[1] (Finally back from the 2008 crash.) Much manufacturing is automated, but outside automotive, doesn't need robots. Mostly special purpose machinery. A pick and place machine for assembling PC boards is not considered a robot, although it has much the same parts as an industrial robot arm, including a vision system.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
Nope, you got it. Small group of people get to decide which products get how much in subsidies, and by extension, which companies get how much taxpayer money. Also, since it's a per-vehicle subsidy, it rewards large companies over small ones. (Not to mention wealthy consumers over poorer ones.)
please do :) P.S. I'd love to see a Q re. motivation and perseverance in the YC application form.
Who watches the watchers?
I share your outlook on the future of society with regards to its relationship of the mass with technology and privacy. If anything the last decade has shown us, it's that the average person will readily sacrifice freedom and privacy for security and convenience at the earliest opportunity and almost entirely without question or protest.

With that being said, I've some feeling that the "consent" FB and Google have from its users to essentially bulk collect and analyze their data may largely stem from ignorance as to what is being collected and how it's being used i.e. the relationship between the content one produces in Gmail and the ads that same person receives.

That's a tightly coupled, straightforward relationship too. I've no doubt that the average person has zero idea what is involved when Google touts that it can now confidently track an ad being served/viewed online to an in-store, in-person purchase offline.

Then again, with the Snowden leaks and similar and the absolutely apathetic (at best) reaction from the public at large, maybe convenience merely trumps all and will forever more.
This famous roboticist doesn't think Elon Musk understands AI
A thread from last week with more details about why forks may be expected in the next week or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758587
The name of a startup can have a huge influence on how much funding it gets
I suspect you're right, but it makes me sad. I really like verilog as a language and after working with it for a few years wish it was possible to program desktops in a similar way.
Wow, that's awesome! I'm going to PM you :)
WOOSH
what on earth is your objection?
It is extremely variable in Europe - in Italy most of the cars seem scraped where as in Germany it's more like how you make Australia sound.
Honestly dropping Java or C++ as intro languages is fine imo...
But why not something like Lisp, SML, or even Ruby...?
Yep, taking action to prevent oneself from coming to harm while also working toward a world in which the mechanism of harm doesn't happen are not mutually exclusive. A cyclist who campaigns for safer bike lanes and legislation against cars hitting bikes probably still wears a helmet.
Wow, if they're giving that much away to EV buyers, just think how much they'll hand out to people who walk to work!
I think the authors lost a good opportunity to move towards containers to avoid these problems in the future. While interesting academically, is wrong for the long run
Old Cray computers had the best memory bandwidth when the fast dimension of an array was of length 64*n +- 1.
>There could also be some kind of critical point where too many miners keep doing it unsustainably, in hope to survive longer than others and stay up (but that would be absurd, they could just start it up again later when it will be sustainable again, but humans are humans...).

This is not absurd at all, most miners have a lot of sunken capital as well as ongoing costs such as fixed term rent and electricity contracts they cannot easily get out of, thus many continue to operate at a loss just in case price improves over time. A lot of traditional businesses also follow this model.
Thanks for iTerm2. When I moved from Linux to macOS, I installed it and loved it. It's one of those apps that I simply always have open.
Is Tesla in trouble financially? And I mean actual can-no-longer-be-profitable type trouble? That seems an odd call given that they've so far planned pretty comprehensively, and delivered pretty much on their plans, and those plans would have included the existing subsidy ending as soon as they hit higher volumes.

The fact that they're hellbent on hitting those higher volumes ASAP indicates to me that they know they'll still be profitable after the subsidies are gone. In fact, they'll probably gain some advantage from the fact, as the only EV manufacturer operating at any kind of volume, because it will raise the barrier to entry for newer, still-lower-volume manufacturers.

So yeah, nice windfall for Tesla, but 'bailout' seems somewhat loaded.
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Why run Chrome at all then? What's wrong with Opera, Iridium or even Chromium?

I think majority of people just use Chrome because they either don't know better or because when it came out, it was legitimately a cooler more innovative browser than Firefox at the time.

Only very few people need a few extra codecs that Chrome provides or maybe the bundled Flash plugin.
I use Bing's news section (on their home page) all the time, syncs with Cortana. I assume this will be similar. I'm sure they will let you hide it, even Bing does that.
I don't know how using Sia works in practice, but comparing it with regular S3, which is connected to the entire AWS ecosystem (including EC2), is absurd.

Amazon S3 also offers "glacier" for longterm storage with few accesses, which is $4 per TB.
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>> I know you had to "turn on" pocket. That doesn't counter my argument.

> Kinda does, especially since Google never used pocket?

Pocket also gave way to a new type of add-on that's impossible to remove and installs silently. They do show up in about:support, at least, but only as names [1]. I feel like that whole episode was treated very poorly by Mozilla, with a lot of misinformation [2] and reasonable documentation requests being ignored [3].

[1] what's even "presentation@mozilla.org"?

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...

[3] e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179699
I don't know what your friend is telling you but safari is absolutely not designer friendly, it doesn't follow the specs at all.

It just seems like your friend is making things for safari only, then is for some reason trying to remake it properly for other browsers once he's done.

https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
For comparison, according to Richard Duncan the foreign exchange reserves was raised by $7 trillion for a total of $9 trillion: https://www.richardduncaneconomics.com/currency-manipulators...
the link seems to be down. Did we DDoS it ?
They did this already? I'm guessing it happened in the dao accident?

If so, this seems terrifying, what if I had accepted stolen ETH to sell physical goods?
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If you click on Tools and then change "All Results" to "Verbatim", then it behaves a bit more like it used to
yeah as someone that bikes 25 miles per day for commute it kinda bothers me how many tax breaks are given to other forms of commute like trains, buses, vansharing, EV, etc.
Perhaps the BBC spoke to someone at Google who said the news feed would be available via the web – à la https://news.google.com or https://newsstand.google.com/ – which the reporter misunderstood to mean Google.com itself would display the news feed?

It just seems anomalous that such a great change would be announced with so little fanfare (a single sentence in the article). I need to see confirmation before I believe it.
A quick comparison of the size of various Doom codebases
Example cases: Richard Branson, John Chambers (Cisco), Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea), Henry Ford (GM or something), Bill Hewlett (HP co-founder)... All these guys were dyslexic and achieved fairly exceptional things.
Hi, I have a math learning disorder, which includes algebra. I was never able to grasp the concepts throughout school.

I've been programming for 10 years now, and I'm pretty damn good at it if I do say so myself.

I'm not advocating dropping algebra, but your statement is a bit sensationalist.
Do people even visit google.com anymore? I just type in the address bar of browsers.
I love you Firefox, but you're horrible on retina screens. Just scrolling takes 2 times as many CPU cycles when compared to Safari. It's troubling because I'm the biggest Firefox supporter I know and even I switch to Safari when I hear the CPU fan spinning.
How long did it remain empty? Did real-estate prices crash?
Interesting. On first glance I was thinking the article was pertaining to Google Plus.

It was talking about the website after all - "Google is adding a personalised Facebook-style news feed to its homepage - Google.com".

This made it a lot interesting. Google Plus doesn't seem to be making it in our country. But Google Search has been here for a long time. The front end of it didn't change much for as long as I can remember. (The back end though seem to be mutating like a monster.)

I wonder how they're planning to target who sees what kind of content. But I think they pretty much have enough data gathered from all the email accounts and search results that everyone has been feeding them.

Looking forward to this update and more importantly how people will react to it.
Ask HN: Should I buy out my business partner?
Business Background:

* 6 years old - bootstrapped, no investors
* I am the business co-founder(42.5%), my partner is the tech co-founder(42.5%)
* 3rd shareholder is a part time dev (15%) - they will stay on after a transition for at least a little while
* $85k MRR
* $10k COGS (hosting+3rd party services)
* $20k customer service, office, misc
* Remaining revenue is spent on marketing and previously on shareholder loan repayment.
* We were planning to start paying ourselves a market wage prior to deciding to do this buyout
* Revenue Growth
FY2017: 40% [forecasted]
FY2016: 55%
FY2015: 80%
FY2014: 60%
* Conversion rate has halved in last 9 months, and cost of acquisition has been creeping up.

Most of the technical knowledge lies with my partner. The part time dev is catching up, but are a long ways away and the project is too big for even 2 people now, let alone 1.

Long story short, my partner and I cannot work together and must part ways. My partner says they might like to buy, but they could be just doing that to negotiate the price up. I think I would like to buy, but am having a tough time pricing the opportunity and deciding if I should. My big worry is managing the technical side of things - I have no developer contacts. I'm not sure my partner will be able to handle to sales and marketing side of things that I did.

I am bullish on the business and think we can improve things and do well.

My questions are:

1a. should I buy my partner out?
1b. should I sell to my partner and go on vacation for 6months?
2. In 1a and 1b how would you value the business and would you set the price the same in a buy or sell situation, or would there be reason to price differently for the two?
3. 1a and 1b are obviously difficult to assess in a vacuum - what sort of things should I consider to help decide if I should buy or sell?
I bike as well and never thought of this. Now, I'll never be able to forget it.
If you have such a bright mind, you often need a dark hat, to avoid blinding the others.
Is it a retina macbook? Because I think that's one of the problems.

Also: connecting a 4k monitor to your Macbook to run Firefox on and things will get hot real fast.

Shame really, I love Firefox but keep coming back to Safari because of the CPU usage.
Great job, finally you can use GraphQL on top of OrientDB without any performance penalties.
Fine dining generally has small portions, but there tend to be many courses and they really like to use meat so it actually adds up to a very substantial meal. If you ever go to one pace yourself, otherwise the last few courses will be quite unpleasant.
We (tech geeks) tend to think of situations like this as analogous to code, where the local declaration supercedes the global one. We see a specific investment platform with specific terms and rules and our gut says those override more general ideas about how it should work because they're more immediate to the context.

But civil society is the opposite: Contracts cannot violate the law; the law cannot violate the constitution. The justice system would care about the terms of the DAO only insofar as those terms fail to conflict with the law, which includes a massive body of precedent in contracts and torts.
oh man, there was a lot going on back then. enron's rolling blackouts in california, 9/11, gray davis' recall, my roommate telling me that now was the time to invest because there was no way tdfx could go lower ...

what a time to be alive.
1. Safety. One place could go burning in fire. Second place could be destroyed by some missile. It might happen simultaneously or while you're trying to retrieve the backup. So you need multiple decentralized copies to ensure safety. Also you can't just use AWS because then might ban your account and you'll lose your data.

2. Price. There are many computers with a lot of free unused storage space and unlimited internet plans. Basically storage and transfer is 0-cost for them. So they'll compete creating very affordable pricing. AWS can't compete with that, because they have real operational costs.
I would rather just run small businesses and side projects. Still a pretty high chance of failing, but if they do fail you still learn and it doesn't impact your bottom line that badly.
The vulnerability was extremely simple, as suggested by the three keyword-long patch. I've written about this and other Solidity/EVM bugs from a technical perspective, if anybody is curious:

- https://ericrafaloff.com/parity-multi-sig-contract-vulnerabi...

- https://ericrafaloff.com/analyzing-the-erc20-short-address-a...

I think at least a big part of the solution to these security problems is two-fold:

- More secure conventions. All of the gotchas in Solidity make for a bad time. Even non-security bugs create a bad developer experience. Opting into private functions by default

- More code review. Engineers need to be diligent or hire security professionals who are (I'm one).
Taleb is the Deepak Chopra of Economics and Probability. What he says sounds really important, but is mostly a bunch of horseshit.
This isn't intended as snarky but after listening to the "You Are No So Smart" podcast [1] for a few months now, seeing these sort of examples my mind immediately goes to Confirmation Bias [2] and that use of inductive reasoning like this cannot be trusted.

[1] https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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Never really noticed it until I started a new job and they were pitching all these federal and company commuter benefits and didn't see a single one for bikes.

But hey.. my work has a nice locker room that makes biking possible so it's not all bad! I also ride about half the way on bike paths under high voltage lines so I do get some benefits :)
Not really. Check the nutritional label. Disclosure: tried Soylent and didn't find it agreeable with my belly.
Yes! Prolog is a great language for such use cases in my opinion.