skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome extensions are "sandboxed" in the sense that only the extension code has access to the special APIs behind special permissions. If they just inject some ads onto a page, they won't have access to the extension APIs (they do naturally have access to everything on the page itself, which is why it's still a bad thing).

It would take a reasonable amount of stupidity to manage to download untrusted code and run it in a context that has access to the extension APIs if all you wanted to do is inject ads onto webpages. But no amount of sandboxing is going to stop that, if you give the code the permissions it wants. That's why one should always evaluate both the trustworthiness and competence of the developer before granting them scary permissions.
> With billions in free marketing from every media site on the planet, Apple would be pretty much irrelevant already

So you think the media collectively conspired to prop up Apple, and their subpar, irrelevant products that nobody actually likes? Well, that's creative.
I meant declaring the UI interactions as well as the content structure
- The Mexican government is committing crimes against it's citizens.

- NSO Group is selling software to commit crimes.

- Blackstone, the largest investment firm in the world, is planning to purchase controlling stake of that company.

What a wonderful world for those with no accountability.
- Radically limit your input. Read less and only high-quality stuff

- Do-nothing-alternative: if you work on a task either a) work on it, or b) do nothing. Don't allow yourself to browse, check the phone etc.

- meditate or try "free-writing": open your text editor and write. Only rule: never stop typing. Do this for as long as you can. It clears your mind and uncovers deeper thoughts and ideas

I believe we all are losing our ability to concentrate which is a frightening prospect. But you made an important step by recognising this! To concentrate is something we need to train and exercise like a muscle.
Exactly. Coinbase should have learned from Ethereum Classic and just announced a general policy. If a fork ends up with a certain volume and certain % of the original over a certain amount of time (to avoid someone inflating the stats temporarily), then Coinbase will support at least withdrawals. They can cap it to a month/year/whatever after the fork so it's not an indefinite issue they need to deal with.

By doing that, uncertainty is eliminated, people can keep their coins on Coinbase knowing if they're worth anything serious, then they'll be fine. Zero downside.
I had a $180 car battery that was supposed to fit according to their site but didn't. They refunded me and said they couldn't have me ship it back (I'm assuming because it's a hazardous material), so a friend wound up with a free battery. That was pretty surprising to me.
Negative bias towards those with records--along with a healthy dose of racism--is certainly at play, but I see the zeitgeist moving swiftly in the right direction. But it's a challenge, for sure.
That's actually a really clever approach. I like it a lot.
We don't have any porn, all of are GIFs are PG13.
$9/month for what essentially is a preinstalled pi-hole is a rip-off.
FIFO, Exactly-Once, and Other Costs
>"I think it'd be hard to actually quantify the impact."

You would need Uber/Lyft's help I believe. But I think if you combined the Uber/Lyft data with data that the DOT keeps it would be pretty easy to quantify the impact. I think that was NYC's point as well. But unfortunately the mayor had received money from a taxi lobbying effort which allowed Uber to cry foul and make accusations of protectionism.[1]

One metric used is average travel speed which according to this recent article is down 12% to 8.1 miles compared to 2010[2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/nyregion/de-blasio-reaps-b...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/nyregion/uber-ride-hailin...
The two colors were different prices?
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I haven’t seen any proof but it seems like Lyft does this. I almost never accept surge prices and I absolutely will never accept anything beyond 1.5x. Often if I leave the app open or check back 30 seconds later it will lower the surge rate.

It makes sense if you think about it: giving people who won’t pay surge prices a ride anyway makes drivers scarcer for those who will pay, raising surge prices even further.

I’m pretty sure that surge pricing outside a narrow range will eventually be made illegal. It makes too many people too angry and they’d rather get on a car waiting list than see a 3x price. You can argue the economics all you like but people are irrational.
Driving for Lyft/Uber in traffic jams is economically unrewarding, because the fee schedule is tilted towards per-distance-unit and the per-minute fees are a pittance. Raising the per-minute fees would incentivize drivers to take fares which are currently not worthwhile rather than wait for surge pricing.

However, drivers do not set the per-minute pricing -- that's the rideshare company's prerogative.
> Everyone's a newbie.

Not really. A newbie at being paid to drive, but in many cases, not new to driving. In my area, I can predict to the minute when I'll arrive at my destination, and what route is best at that time of day, even for a 20 mile trip and without software support. That's because I've been driving 24k miles+ annually here for nearly 30 years.

Not to mention, the driver's app has the same real-time mapping features that smart phones have. So they can avoid grid locked areas, accidents, etc. even without years of cab driving experience.

Yes, an experienced cab driver will be a better cab driver, in general, than a new Uber driver. But not enough better to keep the masses away from Uber/Lyft. Cab companies are getting slaughtered, cab drivers are panicking and two-timing or jumping to Uber/Lyft, and this is happening globally.
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>If I had 10 BTC on CB and missed out on the opportunity to trade or sell $6,500 worth of free BCC I just got, I'd be mad too.

But is that really what's going on? As I understand it, each BTC also became a BCC at the time of the fork, and owners can now decide on which network they want to use these units (CB users are not technically owners though). No free BCCs were distributed.

If I were to decide to move 1 BTC to a BCC wallet now, I would buy something worth $650 for something worth $2700.

That is my very tentative understanding at least.
Maybe we should nationalize YouTube to provide a safe space for anti-Marxists
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SGrow up, guys. omehow France and the United Kingdom gavan managed to find way to live with Brittany and Great Britain being next to each other.
An MBA from a top school is worth the money and what you make of it.
>"About 2 years ago I sold an item through the marketplace, shipped through Amazon, and at 30 days the buyer requested to return. I ignored him, and then... (blah blah blah) I haven't used Amazon to buy or sell anything since"

So it sounds like buying on Amazon is great way to avoid merchants who ignore support requests. Thanks for the info.
"Installed size" as reported by iOS can be deceptive, since it includes a cache.

Unlike Android, end users can't clear it, though backing up and restoring your phone does that...
I don't know about being "yet another case..." This is something that has affected me, my family and many friends square on, and I'm compelled to try to improve things. There are more and more people like you who clearly "get it," so I have hope.
They used to in the Jobs era. Haven't seen anything jaw dropping since then. Mostly new colors, difference sizes and minor UI improvements.. Swift is cool, but it doesn't increase sales.

AR/VR is interesting but won't take off until the hardware lowers in price..significantly.
No one means any base other than base 10 when they use that phrase in casual speech (without previously saying so).
Perhaps it's hope that things will eventually get better. That's one thing that kept me hanging on for a long time. The problem is that so many project seem to be asymptotic. The developers get to a point where the software is almost ready for prime time, or is getting really good, and then trash it, start over, or decide to switch direction. Or the dev team falls apart, and you get 3 forks out of the project that never go anywhere. It seems like no one ever wants to actually finish anything. And it gets tiresome.

Also ideological reasons, which I totally understand. I prefer FLOSS options when possible, but I'm not dogmatic about it. I understand a lot of people want to make sure every bit of software they are using is open, and I totally get that.

I mean, I still love Linux a great deal, and if DEs were less shit, and applications were more integrated, I would still be running Linux, or would return to it. But I suppose it's simply a matter of what people are comfortable with.
Wouldn't different people want different things on their whitelist/blacklist? AFAIK Pi-hole doesn't offer a way to do that.
One could argue that the state, by allowing private entities to conduct raids without the ability of appeal, by enforcing laws so one-sidedly, has lost the legitimacy of its monopoly on violence, so violent retribution is fully legitimate.

Or maybe not. Maybe those responsible will be held accountable, and face jail-time for effectively holding someone prisoner, breaking into their home, and stealing their belongings, albeit with the dubious stamp of approval of a judge.

I wouldn't hold my breath.
Webpack blogged about this in their blog here: https://medium.com/webpack/trivago-helps-secure-webpacks-fut...

I am working for trivago. If you have any questions, i can answer them or forward them to the right team to get the answer. AMA!
Avoiding the use of the word 'synergy' it makes sense for them to do that, I'd imagine that the techy market makes up a good chunk of their market and more importantly is the part that answers questions like 'I'm worried about my privacy how do I protect it?'

Something I answered a week or so ago when my 60 year old Mum asked me about it (she'd seen a news story about what our Dear Leader and Rudd where up to this time).
I understand the disappointment and frustration here, but choosing to be out $90 for something that will never be used—vs. recouping some money and having the offending item gone—seems like a questionable decision.
That seems like an incredibly inefficient and wasteful way to do it. Am I missing some justification for this?
Some information about what is TVAddons:

"TV ADDONS is an unofficial Kodi add-on development site, it does not host nor link to any type of protected content.

It was contended that out of the 1500+ add-ons indexed on TV ADDONS, less than 1% were what the plaintiffs considered to be allegedly “infringing.”

Kodi add-ons scrape content sources that are readily available online, sort of like specialized search engines.

Add-on developers do not control the content the add-ons are scraping, they are simply a conduit for accessing content through streaming web sites, the same way your web browser would.

The Canadian telecom cartel never sent us a takedown notice, something that is required by law." [https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/support-tv-...]
In Europe, for some sad reason credit cards are very rarely used and many stores don't accept them. Not to mention, if you do a charge back against a store like Walmart or Amazon, you won't be able to shop there anymore because they will ban you.
Checkout the other HN post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911762
It depends on where you live and how comfortable you are with moving to a different city. Not every city is San Francisco.
Checkout the other HN post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911836
Another list of APIs:

https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs
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We can't ensure they get a fair offer, other than by providing information and access to resources to address such injustices. I judge our success one job at a time, and one repaired family at a time.
Taking a full course of antibiotics doesn't help prevent resistance
This wouldn't be the first time the government has elevated corporate policy to criminal law.
This seems fishy to me. There’s a huge divergence in the price between the various exchanges that claim to trade BCH[1], signaling that arbitrageurs are unable to deposit to/withdraw from the exchanges.

Many exchanges aren’t even allowing BCH deposits, meaning that the price isn’t connected to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, since you can’t sell these coins into the market. Right now there seems to exist multiple different BCH — one for each exchange — all of them with a different price because they’re not joined by the coins on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets
I'm having issues scrolling on your site
One problem is of course that few places are good enough carbon sinks to make grass fed beef even close to co2 neutral.

A better idea would be less regular manure and more humanure.
Many large multinational corporations have offices in Buenos Aires with IT workers. RedHat has a local office that offers support for the entire region, IBM has offices for subcontracted IT, etc. In fact it's just gotten expensive enough there (the country still has some inflation although it is slowing) that some jobs are being moved out (Exxon comes to mind) from BA to India.

Like anything the talent pool and their ability to speak English is on a spectrum but my personal experience hiring in-region was and is a positive one.
https://img.guggy.com/media/5y5bpShQXM/animated/1/h/2d7eLjxo...
Dissecting SQS FIFO Queues
I wish we heard more stories like these. It might dissuade people from getting involved in drugs in the first place.
I did go frame by frame myself earlier. The fact that it starts as a dark blob is pretty good evidence for it being a firefly, and I think I saw it earlier as part of the dramatic increase in diameter, but I can't see it that way right now.

For me it's hard to tell whether it "actually" goes in front of or behind the trees. I was thinking if it were bright enough it could fade as it descends behind the treeline. It would be a rather large firefly if it went behind the trees, though.
Right you are. The US has 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's incarcerated population. Per capita, more than China, Iran, N Korea.
As much as I agree, notice that it sort of defeats the point of it all if the they have to sit there with their child.

It ain't easy being a parent, a 9 to 5 worker and a household manager within a 24h schedule. If parents leave their children to do some mindless thing while unnatended, it's often because they don't have enough time to give attention to all the stuff which is immediatelly pressing them.
Yes and no.

You are right, after the initial fetch, everything should be cached locally. However, caching traditionally does not affect parsing speed. While size gains are a nice side-benefit of this proposal, the main benefit is parsing speed.

Now, both Chromium and Firefox have introduced smarter caching that caches post-parsing data for websites that you have already visit (or visit often, I don't remember the heuristics). This is very useful for all the sites that you visit regularly and that do not update their JS code between your visits. However, for all the sites that do update their JS code between your visits, including Facebook (which updates several times per day), Google Docs, etc. and every random website that you read because of a link on Hacker News but will never revisit again, there is a potentially pretty large size benefit.

Does this answer your question?
Related question: how is uBeam still alive?
> What does Rust have Ocaml doesn't?

Safe memory management without a garbage collector.

> If Ocaml solves the problem why Rust?

Ocaml doesn't solve every problem any more than Rust does. Rust may solve a subset of the problems people use the listed languages for better than those languages, so it might be beneficial for people to use it in those cases.

> Rust was made to solve the problem Ada solves.

Not all solutions have the same efficiency, or are as easy to understand. Rust aims to enforce safety at compile time to eliminate runtime safety checks where possible. Ada performs many safety checks at runtime, which introduces a performance cost. This does allow Ada to provide some additional safety checks though (such as limiting a type/subtype to a range of values).
I recently had this experience. I ordered a pack 5 toyota oil filters for my vehicle. When the box arrived, I was shocked that where was only 1 filter in it.

I contacted amazon customer service and, at first they wanted me to ship the one filter back, so I would receive a full refund. I told them that I'd like the other 4 shipped to me, and that I need to keep the 1 filter as I was planning on doing an oil change that day. BTW, 1 filter costs like $5, so the cost of shipping it back would have outweighed the benefit.

They refunded me and told me I don't have to return the filter.

There are a number of items whose quantity is listed in the title/description rather than the item quantity when you add it to your cart. I think this causes confusion at their warehouses, and the pickers/packers are messing up. I had the same issue happen with a set of 2 pillows, only 1 arrived in the box... amazon shipped me 2 more free of charge.

Their customer service has been spot on. Considering I spend probably a few grand a year buying stuff from amazon, I'd expect no less from their customer service.
You had me at the 2nd paragraph. I'm also one of those who'll turn around and order a stack of HDD's. Capex is just too high. I find it quite funny that you think 50TB is considered "small amounts of data", but I suppose all is relative.

For a business however (if I had huge amounts of data that needed archiving i.e. >100TB) then I would definitely go the tape route. Or Glacier if I decided to be sensible.
In the UK, Timpson[0] are a well known example of a national employer not only willing to hire ex-offenders but one that does so proudly, and indeed offer training to prisoners before they are even released. They have tried to convince other companies to follow their lead but with limited success. That said, we also have Clean Sheet[1] through which employers can expressly publicise their willingness to employ ex-offenders.

I find it extremely admirable. Best of luck with your approach.

[0] See for example this archived blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20150222003545/http://www.timpso... or a search for "Timpson ex-offenders" https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=timpson+ex-offenders

[1] http://cleansheet.org.uk/
I was under the impression that since it's illegal to knowingly send counterfeit goods through the postal service[1] they can't accept returns of counterfeit goods.[2]

[1] I don't know about FedEx or UPS but probably against their TOS.

[2] This is also eBay's policy as well - http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/money-back-guarantee.htm...

>If a buyer suspects that an item is counterfeit, and there are strong indicators that the item is counterfeit, we don't require the buyer to return the item to the seller. The buyer agrees to cooperate with us to ensure the proper disposal of the item. In such instances, we refund the buyer for the full cost of the item and original shipping, and the seller reimburses us for the refund. The buyer may not sell the item on eBay or elsewhere.
I don't know why this was down voted, I was honestly thinking the same exact thing.
Not to defend Gmail but I'd like to see any app with settings that don't look like an afterthought
But she wears a black turtleneck, just like Steve Jobs.
Most OS's don't ship with a C compiler, go, python 3, rust, arc, etc, what does that have to do with anything?
During a fare, an uber driver told me that when he goes to an area with lots of drivers, he will turn off his app for a minute or so to artificially decrease the number of drivers in the area. If this is practiced by multiple drivers repeatedly, the result can cause a surge. He told me that he does this, and, that he holds training sessions where he teaches this practice to other drivers, among other things. I do not know if this was actually effective or if it still is.
What ad lists does it use? the standard one?
Film emulation sounds like a special case of style transfer. Those run from a single image, so it might be reasonable to emulate it with very little data.
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If they grouped together it could be more effective. Leaving would be a stronger message.
>Isn't yet another case that startup is trying to fix systematic screwup of law in the USA?

Two thoughts:

1) "systematic screwup of law in the USA" is a pretty good description; another might be "massive market opportunity"

2) "startup trying to [take advantage of market inefficiencies created by] systematic screwup of law in the USA" is also a pretty good description of drug traffickers of all kinds. (I'm not passing judgment; just making an observation. The meta observation is that you can't cheat reality, so when law gets out of whack the gap between Ideal and Actual creates an inefficiency, which savvy entrepreneurs can profit by bridging).
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If you enjoy this post, you'll love Martin Kleppmann's book Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Chapter 7 covers exactly this topic in more depth.

http://dataintensive.net/

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/designing-dat...
> The last information 'dang confirmed was that Hacker News is a server with something like 256GB RAM, dual 3Ghz decacore Xeon CPUs and 10TB of storage space (I'd guess maybe closer to 20 these days).

Wow, that's a lot more than I expected, considering how simple and lightweight the website is.
I have commonly seen this among products where there is a color choice. Here's a specific example: https://www.amazon.com/Walkers-Game-Ear-Razor-Electronic/dp/...
Weird, sorry about that. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can look into this?
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Thanks

> A thing that bothers me a bit is the extremely long URL...

Most platforms on which Guggys get shared either do not show the URL or shorten it. Could you say where did it bother you?

> As always there's a slight "uncanny valley" problem...

Interesting point. The thing is that if we have only the scope of the short message, such as "it's great", it's hard to predict whether you're being slightly cynical or sincere, so we try to provide with a few options to choose from.

> Let people re-caption existing Guggies

I see. It's more relevant to the website but I can think of a few ways we can do it on our apps too. We'll give it a thought.

Thanks!
My question is why isn't Elizabeth Holmes in prison? She is a disgrace.

And I was a huge fan of hers (I thought she would be a good role model for my daughter) before her crimes came to light.