skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Murdoch is a jerk. Arguing that Google is no more a jerk than Murdoch is faint praise.
I've recently done some quick calculations and based on WebAssembly (i.e. near native) mining for the most profitable crypto currencies, you're still almost an order of magnitude below regular ads unless your users leave the page open 24/7
Offtopic: The website in your profile http://encona.com/ seems to be down.
Ask HN: What do you want to see less of in comments?
The guidelines eschew comments about downvoting because they're boring. I'd like a similar guideline against expressing amazement at how ignorant group X is about Y; I'm really bored seeing that in comments. What do you think the guidelines should advise against that they don't already? Alternatively, what existing guideline do you think should be followed more?
Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (2015)
In a sense yes, but modern universities are also dependent on contributions from outsiders, so if a professor wants to become "successful" he/she may become bound to the political wishes of their donors. Economics is an area where this is very clear.
I'm sure the calculator app that requested my location, camera, microphone, and list of running apps is streaming it to some ad/analytics company.
There is much more than that to be a mass market automobile. They can't even produce enough cars to qualify. They don't have enough repair techs to even cover that many.

I should probably disclose that I actually own a bunch of Tesla stock. I'm happy with where the company is headed but they still aren't ready to be a mass marketing automobile supplier. That's probably just a few more years away, however.
"And then, you know, maybe little servers to... maybe little development servers, and here and there, maybe some real servers serving live traffic. Node can be useful, or it can be the right choice for it. But if you're building a massively distributed DNS server, I would not choose Node."
-Ryan
So Sprint would only work on iPhones?
Keyboard Shortcuts: Command Your QWERTY
I wouldn't say that. It seems to revolve around being pushed into pulling a story about something Google was doing. The fact that it vanished from cache is just an anomaly they noticed. I don't see the wrongness of this as revolving around whether or not their actions were technically legal or not, though.
No, pagers are very much still used by doctors. My wife is a doctor. In both hospital systems she's worked, she has carried an actual physical pager. Sometimes more than one!
Are there any stats yet on improvements in memory safety within Firefox attributable to Rust. In theory, it could be as much as 50% fewer based on the original premise of Rust removing whole classes of programmer errors, but are there stats from Rust being in the wild? The CSS replacement reminded me that there should be something to compare.
The real killer for laptop batteries is the fact that they are kept at 100% charge plugged in while under extreme thermal stress. Temperature + full charge kills li-ion batteries. Do your laptop a favor and never charge to 100% unless you really need to.
They already exist.
That's interesting. It seems the SD specs (which include SDXC) are mandating a specific filesystem. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#SDXC

Nevertheless, in order to be fully compliant with the SDXC card specification, many SDXC-capable host devices are firmware-programmed to expect exFAT on cards larger than 32 GB. Consequently, they may not accept SDXC cards reformatted as FAT32, even if the device supports FAT32 on smaller cards (for SDHC compatibility).

That seems like a gross "abstraction layer violation" to me --- like making SATA controllers which work with SATA6 HDDs only when formatted with NTFS. The filesystem should have nothing to do with SD, which simply implements a block device abstraction. No doubt Microsoft was involved in this ridiculousness...
Hockey is going that direction. There is increasing emphasis on strict enforcement of penalties for "intimidating infractions." While body checking is still allowed, it is more narrowly defined than in the past. I think within 10 years we will see the elimination of body checking from hockey.

http://assets.ngin.com/attachments/document/0131/9802/Standa...
Behind a paywall. Maybe this works for everyone?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3iRORm...
What are your skills? Some folks work remote.
And this itself is a piece of propaganda spread by libertarian think tanks.
> I'm actually rather surprised that companies like Google aren't offering solutions to integrate ads into the delivery of the page content itself rather than JavaScript at this point

Isn't that what AMP is?
Ops here. Never been on-call or had to work more than 40 hours in the previous 5 years of doing this as a career, but then again, I've always been a consultant in some capacity for multiple clients so YMMV.
The article reminded me of the two cultures lecture by CP Snow, from 1959. Where Snow argued Western intellectual culture was sharply divided between the humanities and the sciences, and great harm was being done by each trying to poison and undermine the other to claim greater cultural cachet.

I wonder if this played some role in Kaczynski's strange tragedy. As the article describes, he seemed to have adopted parts of each approach -the moral nihilism and dualism of the sciences, coupled with the anti-technology and anti-empiricism of the humanities. Almost as if he absorbed only those things each camp said to damage the other as true. Of course he ultimately did end up murdering scientists and engineers, so it's clear which side his sympathies fell toward in the end.
>This is sort of ridiculous. You don't have to keep someone on your payroll who is actively speaking out about white supremacy.

I explicitly agreed with that. Did you see this part?

>>That doesn't mean we should force you to keep buying from those whose ideas you don't like.

(Note: "keeping someone on your payroll" = "keep buying from them".)

>There should be social consequences for your speech, just not legal ones.

I just explained how the standard grounding for free speech doesn't distinguish between social vs legal consequences, and how the latter are only one part of the puzzle. If you dispute that logic, I'd like to hear your thinking.
MacEwan University (Alberta) defrauded of $11.8M in online phishing scam
In the old days, not anymore, CPU's are too slow to compete with ASIC's for mining.
Brave browser?
> All those pictures on your general-purpose computing device?

The trend is, and I believe will continue to be, not using your own memory for long term storage. It's a nearly impossible task. If you're storing anything important on a single device, be it a single use display, or a cellphone, or a memory card/disk, you will lose that data, 100% guaranteed.

We're already moving towards transparent backup of all user data. This trend will continue, because people will become more and more aware that they can't save their own data.
Staring at the Void: The Human Predicament
This is a bit off topic, but bear with me: so far, nearly every comment in this thread has contained some degree cynicism toward cryptocurrency-related funding. Why does HN have such a distaste for cryptocurrencies? Why can't we just have an intelligent conversation about this new technology? Why do we have all the negativity and downvotes for any remotely positive comments related to cryptocurrencies?

This is super interesting technology, regardless of your prejudices, and just complaining about it being a "bubble" doesn't add any value to the conversation.
What is a memory leak in Android Programming?
People believe in evolution, just not for humans
May be too late in this thread for a response, but does the completion of the 1.20 release free up some time for the "State of Rust 2017" survey results blog post before the 1.21 release? I know there was a huge response, and you don't want to step on the release news, but I'm waiting to see where the user community stands.
All this and the developers that were driving new line of biz products were coming from the front end ( web and mobile ), of course all front ends need backends and when these these folks went looking they naturally leaned toward JavaScript the same language they were using on the front end and Async model
I grew up playing field hockey (as well as rugby union) as a kid in New Zealand. Such a fun sport!
>>This is the important part, money coming back to the system doesn't mean people can get away with it.

Nobody with big money worth chasing after deposited money in the banks. There are some real estate developers who preferred to throw money in lakes than give it back to the government.

>>An elaborate exercise is going on and I read multiple stories where the tax dept is sending notices to people with dubious deposits.

Basically any body smart enough to put it back into the bank has long covered their tracks. Also it will take forever given the population scale.

>>Digital payments certainly went up, people started using bank accounts.

Temporarily, I'm back to DeMo days. People and shops around me too. These days if you say you will pay by PayTm they just give you blank stare and ask you to come back by cash.
Canvas + WebAssembly to the advertisers rescue. You didn't really think this technology was created to make life better for users did you?
Ex-bank employee (developer on ATMs) here. This happens. Constantly. Even in automated systems. For a million different reasons.
China exports its bike-sharing revolution to the U.S. and the world
> think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine

Sometimes they are. Sometimes they do legitimate research and work, funded by people who care about certain issues. It's kind of a crap-shoot, really.
That's pretty much "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." Lots of mentally ill people defend what they believe in very vigorously.
What this article tells me is that these areas are so unprofitable that the telcos don't actually care.

I can tell you that they know exactly which areas can be profitable, and if one of those areas suddenly decides to try to do something on their own, all of a sudden lots of obstacles magically appear.
Roughly right, although with enough attention to detail, low subscriber/AP ratios and some luck with spectrum availability it is possible to do better.

Source: I built and ran a small WISP for 15 years.

IF you are willing to spend the money and invest the time to get it properly deployed and configured, it is possible to achieve decent performance even with 802.11-based gear. For example I'm typing this over a connection with two wireless hops that goes 10 miles to the nearest town that achieves 150/150 with sub-5ms RTT. All the links are point-to-point though.

btw rule of thumb is to take whatever advertised throughput a piece of wireless gear has and divide it by four to get a realistic actual performance. 1/2 for the loss between "air" tx-rate and achievable packet payload throughput, then another 1/2 for the difference between full duplex and half-duplex. So that "400Mbps" radio will actually deliver 100, best case.
Ah, fair enough; I hadn't interpreted your previous comment as backwards/forwards in the text. Thanks for the clarification.
There's also suspicion, if I recall correctly, that the routine repetitions of linemen taking knocks to the head in practice does more long term damage than what we see on game day. This may be more pronounced in high schools and to a lesser extent, college, where the coaching can be more suspect.
The unfortunate truth, I hope I don't get hate for saying it here, is that those poor people who need the money the most suffered, and even died during the demonetisation exercise

http://mashable.com/2016/11/16/india-people-dying-demonetiza...
Because backwards compatibility. No one wants to break it; Quirks mode was still a thing up through IE 11!
Attention is used in machine translation since 2014 as far as i know (Dzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio:
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate) in various forms.
An Elaborate Darknet Phishing Scam Is Top Google Result for Bitcoin Tutorials
Since you apparently know stuff about language, maybe you can help me out:

Sometimes novice programmers try something like "foo == bar && baz" when they really should have "foo == bar && foo == baz". This is because, in English, "Foo is equal to bar and baz" means (and is more common than) "Foo is equal to bar and foo is equal to baz". There's some name for this rule, but I haven't been able to remember it for a while. I think it's "right hand ______", but I can't remember that final word.
Tesla's cars have a charge limit you can set, after which the car simply stops. I believe they come by default at 90%. You're supposed to override it if you want to go on a long road trip.

Would be cool if there was a similar feature available on phones. Maybe you could rig up something with Tasker or the like on an Android.
I'm the journalist who wrote the linked story. You should email me: kashmir.hill@gizmodomedia.com
It's not really about that; the post is almost done, and you should see it soon. It was a lot of work to go through.
I have experienced a lot of convenience sharing-bike has brought. Even it has scattered along the roadside for some time, it is put in queue in most China big cities.
While there are some fine examples of journalism with integrity, I don't see any evidence of that being the norm or traditionally the norm. For every Pulitzer Prize winner, there are thousands of articles about Bat Boy and $politician being a baby eating demon.

A good example would be the New York press. Most of their papers, of which there were many, were owned/operated by political parties - according to the documentary series called, simply, New York.

I suspect your vision of these principles is subjected to some sort of bias? I'm not sure what it is called. It might be survivorship bias, or maybe confirmation bias? I don't want to speculate, as that's not my domain. However, I don't actually think those principles have ever really existed - as a general rule. Again, there are examples of such, but it doesn't appear to be the norm.

If you get bored, go down to your local library and have them dig you out some old microfiche. This is nothing new. Censorship and biased reporting have been a known problem and already is the norm.

To be clear, I agree it is a problem. It's a horrible problem. However, it's not new and it's aleady normalized. That's why I constantly speak out to support the freedom of expression. That's why I recently, in HN, spoke out to support the Nazis right to express themselves and why I decried Google taking away their domain name. I don't like Nazis. I like free speech. Nazis are pretty deplorable, after all.

As for censorship, it comes in various forms. Soft censorship is most common, in the Western world. I can relate a time when it happened to me, if you want. I was a freelance journalist back in my university days.
How positive are we meant to be about out right scams and Ponzi schemes?
Many founders are pushed out of their companies pretty early on if they're successful. The shareholders are the owners and their focus is on improving ROI, not coddling your baby. Being too attached as a founder will stunt the business's revenue growth. That's fine if you are a lifestyle business or haven't raised significant capital, but those aren't the kinds of businesses you're talking about.

I've been building a business for the last two years and I know how hard it is. I reject your assertion that I cannot have an opinion on breaking up major corporations. You're missing the part where American businesses are built under the protection of the US government, leveraging public infrastructure to aid their growth. They have no right to existence beyond that which is given to them by law.

Monopolies hold back our economy. We're losing ground internationally because mature businesses do not contribute as much to society as startups, and we have far too many mature businesses running things. Aging firms become hard and crusty, change slows, organizations begin failing, and eventually they die from atrophy. That's not an opinion, it's fact. Geoffrey West's book "Scale" explains why.

With that in mind, there are many reasons founders should be fine with limitations. 1) A business's legacy will carry further if it is broken into smaller, more agile units split across multiple industries, 2) the business will contribute more to the society which houses it, 3) more people will be employed due to overhead required for running a business, 4) there can be reasonable competition over the goods or services provided, creating higher quality products and greater overall GDP, leading to healthier economies where 5) it is easier for an existing business to compete in new markets, and 6) it is easier for anyone to start a business, increasing overall personal freedom.

As a founder I want all of those things. It creates a stronger workforce, stronger markets, weaker competition, and improves my standing relative to the rest of the world. The odds of me becoming a megacorp are very low, but the odds of me failing in a market controlled by megacorps is high. I'll take the higher odds of success if it means not growing beyond a certain point that very few of us will ever reach anyway.

If you want people to have freedom, you should want to cap business growth. By allowing or promoting monopolies you're giving maybe ten or twenty thousand people all the freedom in the world, while letting the rest languish in their corporation-defined cages. For me it's heartbreaking to see good people so tightly constrained that they can't even choose what they wear each day, what time they wake up, what they can say and do for 8-12 hours a day. If you cap growth while promoting competition and small businesses then you're giving everyone else an opportunity to decide how to live their own lives.

Also, allowing one to "engage in business as they see fit" is dangerous. What if they want to dump poisonous sludge in your water source to cut costs? Would you feel the same way?
I doubt that teenagers exhibit this level of operational capability. I wouldn't even call commercial red teaming software (cobalt strike) up to par.

Can you give us an example of tech at the very high end level?
We intend for it not to be; more on that as we get closer to actually having a model.
By that logic, you can say the same thing about pretty much every single silicon valley startup.
It would be really fun digging up places to lay fiber. I've wired up 2 offices for new networking equipment when the company moved. It's pretty satisfying seeing the stuff you rigged up light up and actually function. It was pretty fun but I can imagine doing digging with equipment would be even more fun.
A lot of people find the technologies incredibly interesting and potentially extremely useful. Similarly, a lot of people find the uses to which those extremely interesting technologies are being put to be at best questionable and of marginal utility.

Are blockchains cool? OH FUCK YES!

Is people raising a lot of cash from suckers in a bubble-y market that threatens to rebound on all of us cool? Some might opine that this is slightly less than maximally cool.
The latter - these are clearly not mom & pop setups. I'm impressed if they are actually profitable day to day.
Nice. Friends with the authors here, I'll try to bring them to answer questions.
Native content can be really difficult for humans to distinguish.
Forgotten Format: SANYO Micro-Pack 35 Tape Recorder
Has anyone attempted to quantify a rough cost for me to just pay for the http request I'm making and get rid of the middlemen?

I look at some of my spur of the moment purchases in shame, yet paying say $0.001 to browse a page somehow is the unthinkable?

Most don't like ads, as others have said they add latency and are easily subject to fraudulent clicks for the advertiser.

I get the feeling that content-creators and end-users are on the same side here and those in the middle are in the wrong. Not saying get rid of all ads, but it's amazing in 2017 there's no easy pay-to-play on the internet.
Yes, skepticism is healthy
Welcome+to+the+official+page+of+Israel+Opadeyi
Interesting podcast on Tesloop [0]. A youngling like him starting the company with his dad running it.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/tesloop-s02-ep11/
Are you suggesting investors in other startups are not also speculators? Do you think every silicon valley startup is destined to succeed and be the next Google/Apple/FB?

The tech is cool, and the new funding model is also fascinating. Never before has it been possible for everyone to participate in the early funding of startups.

Sure, most will fail, but that's not different from the old model. The biggest difference is that it's not based on cronyism anymore.
That would be fine until

jquery-1.9.1-min.js: 3,389 hours of battery usage

would refuse to budge from the absolute top of the "probably the best to block" list.

The heuristics would be tricky to implement here...
All we're missing now is a Super Bowl ad for ICO complete with a cute sock puppet mascot named Ether.
Wind power costs could drop 50%
You make great points. All sports are likely at their peak for performance at the highest levels. The difference may be one of whether you prefer "peak specialization" (football, baseball), or "peak dynamic creativity" (basketball, soccer.) I guess throw in "individual performance" if you want to consider golf, track, etc.

Not to say there isn't creativity in football or baseball, just that those are far more defined by organizational strategy than they are by moment-to-moment creativity by players in the game.
Wittgenstein gave away his fortune. He left academia and taught kids math. Never equate trinket lusts and synthetics peddlers with sciences. Kaczynski was specifically a young victim of wholly inferior bad men playing with superior men who should be named, denigrated and brutally punished if still breathing. Tit-for-tat for children of bad men is counseled by Harvard game theorists like Thomas Schelling. These are misadventures and not always good jobs at good wages.
> The "Bad" Parts of Technology Cannot Be Separated from the "Good" Parts. [1]

I thought this was one of the most prophetic statement from his Technology Manifesto. Written in 1995, still true today. Take any technology, and you'll see it has been used for doing "good" things as well as "evil" things, and it's impossible for anyone to separate the two and enforce usage of only the "good" parts. Example: Drones. Used in many countries now to send recon to remote areas for rescue missions [2], drop food or medicinal supplies in conflict zones. Same drones also used by the same countries to remotely kill "suspected terrorists" and by ISIS Jihadis (in Iraq) to drop bombs on Iraqi soldiers [3].

You cannot invent drones and tell people it should only be used for good things, not bad things. Same with Facebook. Used to organize events, connect with family, find missing people, start revolutions and protests. Same Facebook also used to spread fake news, lure unsuspecting victims for robbery and even murder, recruit Jihadis.

Every time a new technology is invented, human find a way to use it in a bad, destructive way.

Too bad blogging and Podcasting or youtube weren't around when Ted Kaczynski's wrote his technology manifesto, cos maybe then he may have resorted to online medium to spread his message, instead of killing people to get attention for his manifesto.

[1] Source:
The Unabomber Trial: The Manifesto => http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...

[2] Source: Drones Help Rescue Missing Hikers => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1VPZ5jt5Xw

[3] Source: Footage of ISIS drone dropping grenade bombs on Iraqi soldiers => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uw0KWhYAoY
Wow. What was the ad about? I'm curious, I like filing away disasters like these.
The Internet is a great technology but the dot com bubble still burst.