skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been before, too, if you had JavaScript disabled, wouldn't it?

But yeah, that is interesting. They supposedly lose/lost a lot of money from that button, as it skips past their ads.

Also, they are supposedly redesigning the Google Homepage [0], moving away from having just the search field there to having a news feed, the weather and some such there as well.

So, maybe this change is in anticipation of that and maybe they'll also tuck some ads into there then, to actually monetize the time people spend on their homepage.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/20/google-ch...
Not eliminate, replace
Financial literacy has traditionally been a part of "home economics".

There are lots of results for googling ["personal finance" "home economics"] and ["financial literacy" "home economics"]
A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
After a Year in Space, the Air Hasn't Gone Out of NASA's Inflated Module
The thing is, the security elements of those things are often only marginal and were not the purpose of their existence (in most cases), and they mostly (though not all) boil down to security-through-obscurity.

We're all mostly agreed that security-through-obscurity generally only provides a false sense of security and isn't the real deal. So, what if instead of working around an IP limit with all this complicated technology, the same folks had instead been working on good point-to-point encryption for everything all this time? And, what if all that complexity didn't have to exist in every device? Every line of code increases the likelihood of a security bug, and a network stack with all this extra stuff has a lot of extra lines of code. I dunno if NAT code has been responsible for exploits, but I'd be shocked if it hasn't.

NAT didn't come into common use for security purposes. It just didn't. It came into common use because not every company owns a big enough sub-network for every device to have an IP and no individual household does. It would require completely rewriting history to suggest NAT is and has been used primarily as a security feature.

Certainly, VPNs have a useful purpose other than dealing with the IP shortage of IPv4, but a lot of VPNs at the corporate level are used to tie two private networks together. And, a lot of development has gone into that purpose.

I'm just saying that in a world without a strictly limited set of IPs over the past decade or two, we would likely have a very different looking internet, and I think it'd be a better internet than what we have, because of how much effort has gone into dealing with the complexity of NATted/tunneled/VPNed/etc. networks.
I want to start placing "Google and " before stating my accomplishments.

"Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm"

sounds way better than:

"Nuclear fusion company has developed a new algorithm using Google"

They may not mean the same, but in today's world faking it until you make it might pay off.
Try to start by reading docs of Play framework. Play has the easiest migration path from Django, Flask that others (it also has a list of tutorials, examples https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.6.x/Tutorials).

Frameworks/toolkits like Akka, Finagle, Lagom very different from usual python things, therefore try some of it later.
Not Silicon Valley ;p.

I never hear anyone complain or hardly anyone even knowing about it.
>Can't wait to get my refund :)

I had like 0.000001 BTC in mtgox and it was worth it for the cute sticky unfoldy postcard thing I got from the Japanese court.
huh?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15609844/waymo-google-sel...

https://www.slashgear.com/waymo-launches-early-rider-beta-pr...

They're easily 5 years ahead of the competition.
like the other comment, I don't see how your example of self-driving proves anything.

In fact the more I think about it the more I'm confused by your comment. What are you skeptical about? Google here has demonstrated their computational resources can be of great benefit to scientific causes such as nuclear fusion. If you're saying that you're skeptical Google can do nuclear fusion, I think you're missing the point.
Looks super promising, the API is really neat and running the tests in parallel is a big plus! Awesome work!
Sure! At one point, some group of volunteers also created a spin off project with the aim of putting more focus on creating a whole web interface around the concept, but I think it's inactive now. I try to maintain this repo from time to time and to keep it as bare-bones as possible.

At one point, I plan to experiment with ZipPy (https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy) to see if that would be a viable option to get Python 3 support underway.
> But you leapt to the most indefensible one.

Nonsense.

His position was that any punishment of false claims was "putting off" victims from making real claims.

Which is what I reacted to.

Given the upvotes for my position and the downvotes for yours, I suspect the majority of people came to the same conclusion I did.

Please stop grasping at straws. Your insistence on taking me at an extreme position while accusing me of the same is unsupported by facts.
Remote code execution vulnerability in Factorio
That's a bug in that software stack which is unique to however they've designed it. The right thing to do is fix it or replace it rather than blaming the vendor you notice problems with, just as you wouldn't blame a pothole on the first car to hit it.
I would imagine that vast majority of similarly aged (and older) PCs that are in the same price bracket as Apple hardware continues to be supported by Windows 10
Inflation of housing costs wouldn't be that big of a problem if we had cheap and fast public transportation.

I live in the Bay Area, and I've seen families forced to move further and further from the area to afford a reasonable house and good education for their kids. The problem is, now they have to commute for hours, driving in sub-optimal conditions to get to their jobs.

Imagine if BART charged a flat $1 fare? Or if the Caltrain ran every 15 minutes from 5AM to 1AM and charged $1/ride? Then living far away wouldn't be that bad. But we're getting squeezed from both sides here: sky high housing costs, and terrible commutes on gridlocked "highways".
The problem with this time=money calculation is that some people enjoy riding their bike, just like some people enjoy driving their car. For me, the time I spent on my commute is not lost, is valuable relaxation time. If I had more time I would use it to ride my bike more :).
Don't bring Keynes into this! We're way to far in the weeds already.
They have an almost unlimited budget, as far as we know.
i'm biased as we're one of the standing desk makers (Autonomous), but our 50+ people team and more than 50,000+ companies are actively using our own standing desks daily.

we're also developing new accessories around the desk, like the anti-fatigue mat, so that your sit/stand experience would be better throughout the day.

anti-fatigue mat
https://www.autonomous.ai/anti-fatigue-mat-standing-desk-acc...

our desk
https://www.autonomous.ai/smartdesk-sit-to-stand-height-adju...

we're also working on a software component that reminds you when to stand or sit to maximize your productivity. we'll release it in a couple of months, and hopefully, it will be helpful to you.

if anyone has any suggestion on how to make sit/stand experience great at work, would love to hear from you. my email is duy@autonomous.ai.
Just move to a cheaper part of the country and then illegally rent it out. This lets you profiteer off of more than one side of the shortage. You don't have to give up that property you don't particularly need anymore but could never acquire again. I know plenty of examples of people doing this.
Non-competes: Bosses want capitalism for themselves and feudalism for workers
Oh, I know, just thinking from a patent, acquihire perspective. Imagination is for sale, at one would assume a bargain price, after losing Apple as a customer.
They had no malicious intents? Like in they had no intentions of hiring open-source maintainers, taking over their codebases and quietly injecting their product?

Point is, if we don't consider this sort of behaviour malicious then we can expect to see this more and more often.
Looking just at the "equals" data still looks weird (although in a different way):

require(tidypvals)

allp = allp[!allp$pvalue > 1,]
allp_eq = allp[allp$operator == "equals", ]
hist(allp_eq$pvalue, xlim = c(0, .15), breaks = 1000)

https://image.ibb.co/i2aBqQ/pvalue_equals.png
API.AI was acquired by Google. I think they nailed the agent design interface.
This is not first hand, but the commonly given reason for undefined signed integer overflow is that it allows for mathematically correct reasoning: x < x + 1 is true for all x. Or rather, the compiler may assume that it is true and optimize accordingly, since the programmer is trusted to avoid the undefined overflowing case.
Where the people pay increased taxes to help the NSA spy on them easier.
Defending you here:

In this setting this is relevant even if funny.

I'll still downvote you for the same comment elsewhere.

And I mostly defend MS for enabling telemetry by default but I don't defend how absurdly hard they have made it to disable it.
If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye.

Come here and the top discussion thread is about how little Priceline does, how they're "just middlemen", and that they don't add any value.

It's clear that HN (and techies as a whole, I assume) highly discounts the value of users, marketing, brand, and distribution.

Really is fascinating how different perspectives can be.
While we're at it, how about bringing back the search box at the bottom of the page, too?
It's not that they "don't" want to do that - in fact they'd very much like to. It's that they can't do it. Their agreements with listing services prohibit this. And if they don't get listed then they simply won't get the same rate of bookings.

Generally they are paying around 20% of the booking fee to the listing service. So in theory the hotel would be able to charge 15% less on their own site and make a larger profit. But if they did they would no longer get listed on the popular sites where people go to easily price compare and then book.
Ask HN: How would you invest $500k in real estate today?
How would you invest $500k in real estate today? This topic explicitly focuses on real estate. If you were to invest that money today, what would be your best strategy and biggest ROI in the US?

- Commercial real estate?

- Vacation property?

- Flipping houses?

- Strategic locations?
Because you can disable it. No?
How to Check If Class Exist
I use Google Sheets. One of my friend started to try out using a Slack Channel and aggregates the info every week.
Having a home warranty & depending on it is probably the most stressful thing. Every one of them seems to be scam.
Buying a popular addon with the express purpose of subverting its original intent for commercial monetization seems like it should be against Atom's TOS

This instance is razor thin close to being malware

What's to stop the next enterprising company from intentionally uploading all your code to their servers? Modifying your code? Or holding your code hostage? Atom has git support backed in, so how likely is it an addon could inject code and commit it without you ever seeing that it happened.

Atom's automagic update approach to addons can't survive this kind of exploitation. If I have to re-vet every addon every time there's an update, their entire ecosystem just turned to shit.

Do we need virus scanners for Atom packages now? An addon that scans repos to see if the primary contributor suddenly changed?
Moleskine and pen, using bullet journal format. I usually jump between that and markdown with a good ol' text editor.
Actually more specific is 'alluvial diagram' [1] since the style emphasizes a 'flow' character.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram
The CRISPR patent battle is back on as UC Berkeley files an appeal
Quick Notes 2
Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040
True. But commissions are counted in the expenses towards the fund. So basically the NAV of the fund is nothing but the income of the fund minus the expenses. So more the expenses, less the NAV, less the return to the investor. In the end investor/user is paying for those commissions.
>"The existence of life is no mystery or lucky break, he told Quanta in 2014, but rather follows from general physical principles and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”"

This makes sense. Life exists here on earth, I believe it got here through natural processes, and so it seems that life should be expected in the right circumstances.

But this begs the question, has life arisen independently from other existing life in the last 4 billion years? All known life shares the same fundamental genetic code and appears to descend from a single common ancestor. Are we to believe that the founder population of all life on earth, from which the GCA hailed, is the only instance of life on earth arising directly from inanimate matter? Or has life arisen independently between 4 billion years ago and now, just to be out-competed by existing life forms? Or were conditions just right 4 billion years ago to allow for the spontaneous generation of local-entropy reducing molecular agents (which evolved into life), and ever since conditions have been wrong for the generation of life?
Hell, there are aggregator aggregators already. Sites that compare prices between aggregators.

It's turtles all the way down.
I agree. There is no reason for ECC to not be the norm. And once scaled up, it would be as cheap as regular RAM.
It's doable, but if you're good enough to somewhat routinely find bounty-worthy bugs but not spooky good at it, it's not the most lucrative way to put bug-hunting skills to work.
I wonder what impact this will have on open source software (OSS).

OSS can't afford to pay people to look for bugs and improve the overall software. But commercial companies can.

I wonder if there will exist a date/time in the future where closed-source software, because of these bug bounties, will yield better (less buggy) software vs OSS.
You shouldn't be passionate about your work: http://www.virtuouscode.com/2014/02/10/the-passion-gospel/
The term "significant" is itself part of the problem. In statistics it is often used to describe an arbitrary threshold where a difference between datasets is assumed to be real. In common parlance this term implies "important" or "meaningful", but the statistical tests are not designed to draw such forward-looking conclusions.

It would be far easier, and more honest, to simply report the P-value obtained by performing a statistical test without adding the term "significant".
That $50+ billion black budget doesn't spend itself.
Then again I've got Perl code I wrote in the 90s that still runs untouched on the latest Perl 5. Much more recent Python 2 code (of mine) still won't run untouched under Python 3.

So I might agree actually on the "bigger", but the "noticeability" does have a lot to do with the general feeling.

(to be clear, I agree with all of your comment)
There was an article linked on HN awhile back about getting bacteria to evolve resistance to antibiotics in just a few days.
Isn't this for the same reason that iOS can be quicker than Android, because Apple control the hardware and can thus optimise and focus their efforts?
From the actual journal article:

> Two additional complications arise because plasma fusion apparatuses are experimental and one-of-a-kind. First, the goodness metric for plasma is not fully established and objective: some amount of human judgement is required to assess an experiment. Second, the boundaries of safe operation are not fully understood: it would be easy for a fully-automated optimisation algorithm to propose settings that would damage the apparatus and set back progress by weeks or months.

> To increase the speed of learning and optimisation of plasma, we developed the Optometrist Algorithm. Just as in a visit to an optometrist, the algorithm offers a pair of choices to a human, and asks which one is preferable. Given the choice, the algorithm proceeds to offer another choice. While an optometrist asks a patient to choose between lens prescriptions based on clarity, our algorithm asks a human expert to choose between plasma settings based on experimental outcomes. The Optometrist Algorithm attempts to optimise a hidden utility model that the human experts may not be able to express explicitly.

I haven't read the full article nor do I understand the problem space, but the novelty seems overstated based on this. Maybe they can eventually collect metadata to automate the human intuition.

Edit: here's their formal description of it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06645-7/figures/2
http://tomtunguz.com/cost-challenges-facing-the-valley/ New article uploaded and it seems we are not only a startup benefit from 'Labor Arbitrage' by having our development team back in South Korea
Which is actually sort of a worst-case scenario (not that I think this bounty is bad), because NSA's primary objective is in fact not to hack all your Windows machines, or even to hack anyone's Windows machine. NSA's primary objective is to secure more budget/headcount for NSA.
Jose Valim: Fallacies of Web Application Performance
hi! i'm the founder of autonomous. thank you for order! we're working hard to add more distribution centers around the world (we have 5 now: new york, california, toronto, amsterdam, and shenzhen) and that will reduce the shipping cost for customers around the world.
Those look like rounding artifacts; the pic I posted just used some Gaussian smoothing, but there are (way more complex) methods for handling them correctly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847785/

The overall function is a p-curve, here's a paper on it: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1745691614553988
I just had some funny dark humor thought that men today and increasingly moving forward on average just ain't as manly as those of the past.
I like how the original was agnostic, yet you interpreted as perl5 :-)
A story about how I tried to get into game development and failed
It was good execution of a very bad idea.
Yes, with some effort: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

You probably could with the same amount of effort for Windows, but at least Windows makes it more clear that it is happening.
Bullshit.

Red Hat is a business. FreeBSD is a volunteer/community project.

FreeBSD is a volunteer/community project that offers more business-friendly licensing than gNewSense, which is also a volunteer/community project. It is not, however, a business like Red Hat.

Red Hat development gets all that funding because Red Hat is a business. FreeBSD relies more on volunteer time because it is not a business.

Fedora is a "community" project of Red Hat. FreeBSD is a community project of, well, a community. Red Hat funds Fedora (astroturf project) as its testing ground for RHEL (commercial project), while FreeBSD is just a community project.

What part of this do you not understand?
I'm rigorously defending a person whose character is being seriously inpugned without a shred of supporting evidence.

I don't care if he's a billionaire. I don't care if he's a venture capitalist. I don't care who he is. I would defend you just the same, under the same circumstances.
As a guy who has commuted by bike for the better part of 20 years, I leave my bike in the house and drive in my car when it's snowing or icy for the same reason that I wouldn't drive a motorcycle. Two wheels in those conditions is just dangerous. Watching the die-hards in Portland slide out and eat pavement on icy roads is humorous every year. While there was a time I relished the adventure, I'm just too old for that kind of risk. I suppose I'd be more comfortable with a 3/4 wheeled bike, but there's still the risk of other car drivers bouncing off you, which they do a lot in Portland in the winter.
Or, "hey, should we try to put our ads in the minimap package?"

It probably doesn't matter if it was intentional hostility or unintentional incompetence. Either way, it needs to be fixed.
Don't force them to learn to code?
I have to disagree. Computers are not getting faster at a rate that they did a decade ago. I just upgraded from a 2013 laptop to a 2016, it is not appreciably faster in any way except gaming.

You can blame Microsoft for crummy support, or the manufacturers for poor business practices, but a 2013 machine is not slower or depreciated. And I'm not sure what "hardware has seen better days" means, chips don't wear out like automobile parts.
My understanding is that the grey market for exploits is way more lucrative than the bug bounty programs.
> Slowly but surely, your mind will associate Coca cola with happiness and relaxing.

Not really. My mind associates Coca cola with high blood sugar, diabetes and horrible tasting sugar water that would take decades off my life expectancy. Looks like I'm doing something wrong.

> There is no such thing as 'filtering' out ads.

I'm pretty sure there is, based on my own experience.

> They are designed to infiltrate your subconscious.

It's a vacuous claim - by definition, it is impossible to know what is in my "subconscious", so there's no way to disprove whether something "infiltrated" it.
I love native containers, but none of the major cloud providers support them so that isn't really actionable advice for most people.
Facebook, Github, and Microsoft already co-sponsor a well-funded open-source "Internet bug bounty".
it's the Weißensee one that I've seen. I didn't go there, just drove past. The other place in Treptow shows up on google more. But you would hope and expect a place that bans cell phones to not give a f*%# about their SERPs.
I live in an apartment, still like the volt. 1) I grab free charging when I can, 2) it was an extremely cheap 3 year lease (even as a 15k mile a year lease)
It seems like this might be in part balanced by the fact that it's much easier to find vulnerabilities in open source software, since it's open source.
Looks quite nice! It would be more useful if it can be integrated into Slack, Jira etc. For example a slack bot could notify people if they, or their tasks were mentioned in a meeting.
UTF8 is backward compatible with ASCII just fine - latter is a strict subset of former. It doesn't get more backward-compatible than that!

IPv6, on the other hand, is not at all backward compatible with IPv4 (was never a design goal - magic of OSI stack was supposed to do it's thing). One would argue that incompatibility is in large part responsible for the 6's slow start - even though afterthought bolt-ons eventually did see sunlight - ::ffff:x.x.x.x thing, cornucopia of tunnels and dual-stacks of various degree lite-ness, etc.
The plateau is real. It's not unheard of for your first job hop, early in your career, to get you 10-50%. Next move might be 5-15%. Over time, as you approach the ceiling, your reward for job hopping will diminish. I've got close to 20 years under my belt, and my last few hops were less than +1%.

Short of going into management or doing a complete career change, it seems you can get stuck later in life.
Are there any Japanese cars with CarPlay or Android Auto support?

I just wish Waze would come to CarPlay as well and Navdy.

I guess anyone wishing for Android Auto and CarPlay support will have to go the aftermarket route.