skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO there's no excuse to buy an unreliable car these days and complain about it not being reliable. We're literally drowning in information and reliability information is perhaps 5-30 seconds away from any human on the planet. Anybody who buys an unreliable car in the modern age either did it knowing the car was unreliable but wanted something else from it (usually some kind of image) or is trying to be ignorant.

One of my friends just bought a car with an incredibly well known mechanical issue and got to complaining about it. When asked if he bothered to look up the reliability of that make/model he answered "no".

He has a smart phone, knows how to use Google and works in I.T. Zero excuses, zero sympathy. After pressing, turns out he liked it because it was red and a hatchback.
I don't want to ask everyone to install a native app, I don't want to use several different native app UI libraries, etc. I'm one of those people who thinks that the web browser as an app platform is a pretty good idea.
So they are already switching to the new Quantum-powered Gecko in Firefox 57?
Misleading title. After the publication of this article that 1 Guy got a buncha money.
I just think they are bad for anyone. Its not hard to measure actual useful things like features or bug.

Why even bother measuring lines of code/number of commits.
Boy will you ever be surprised when he's reelected in 2020. Techies make the same mistake over and over: they think their inflated bubble is representative of the state of the country as a whole. It's not.
giving me a permanent marker of upper-class status and a near guarantee of material comfort.

Someone needs to let the author in on the bad news.

Many people whose parents pay the full tuition of $50,000 to $60,000 per year have, without any hint of irony or discrepancy, described themselves to me as “middle class.”

Because by certain perfectly reasonable definitions, they are middle class. The problem is, the author is trying to measure middle class by very different metrics - those of his parents, and via the statistical interpretations that support that position. But whatever 'most' people in the 'middle' of the economic scale make for almost meaningless metric for a social class, which is driven as much by the outcomes of that income allow as by the relative size of your slice of the pie.

The problem is that while his parents >were< middle class, if you take 'middle class' to mean the relative freedom and safety that it once stood for, his parents aren't that any more. The country has progressed technologically, and regressed as a society, and the independence and security that was once afforded the middle class is no longer available via the channels that his parents started out on.

But, admitting this would involve admitting that the precious society of his childhood was complicit in it's own demise, which, in some parts of the country, is quite literally inconceivable.
Really? If this was the case, I would expect laptop providers to allow you to set a top charge rate for those like me who have their laptop plugged in 90% of the time.
So what is ycombinator biased towards?

Unless you have not noticed a lot of news are being censored systematically on HN when they touch certain topics, some of them is giving SV/IT a bad PR, or poor work conditions in IT , political POV...

references:
http://hckrnews.com/ (use all button)
http://hnrankings.info/
Err seamless is just a grubhub brand no? If so, they frequently will partner with companies like Delivery Dudes who aren’t much different than Grubhub’s own contractors.
> people are the ones doing the bad things. Technology is just a force or thought multiplier. He explained it so well. It sort of clicked into my brain

Except, this isn't empirically true. It's the same argument made by the NRA ("guns don't kill people, people kill people"). To be clear, I'm not weighing in on the gun debate here, only pointing out that if people have easy access to guns, you will have more deaths by guns.

There's something comforting about the view that "it's really just people doing these things," because it suggests we aren't responsible for our inventions and their consequences. It sidesteps the actual unfathomable complexity, which at high level is this: people are living an environment which can be changed with new technology, which will in turn cause them to behave differently in unpredictable ways.

Make no mistake: the technology causes the change.
When the users buy into the ICOs don't they send ETH or Bitcoin thus giving the founders a currency which is far more stable and less likely to tank?
I found that to be applicable to dating.
High-Level SIL Optimization in the Swift Compiler
Great stuff. We do similar work at Publir [1] on behalf of high-traffic news publishers, although we do this largely by maintaining our own exchange. We filter for bad actors on the intake side.

[1] http://publir.com
Makes sense. Less moving parts means less to break. I like the trend towards (mechanically) simpler vehicles
If you are still looking for an ad blocker, I have had great experiences with ublock origin.
In the US, the FTC. Or do you consider them toothless? It does seem like they're at least making the appearance of trying: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/03/lord-...
The same way you reproduce things in astrophysics or epidemiology: natural experiments.
More often than not, they wouldn't be able to make the first batch of money without the aid of PEDs. This is pressure that even MLB minor league players face.
The interesting thing about the article isn't that they're able to release continuously; there's nothing technically hard about deploying quickly. The interesting thing is that they're able to make the continuous release system work with thousands of engineers actively working in the same codebase without destroying quality. The three-tiered release system, monitoring alerts, feature flags, and good testing infrastructure seem to be what makes all of that possible.
You are right. My math was off!
This image format is going to replace JPEG
That sounds like a great target for automation abuse? Rev up a bunch of virtual machines, each with a bit of attention to distribute.
What would you call research? Reading the whitepaper?

I've hung around crypto for a bit, vast majority neither read the technicals nor actually use the technology.

Have you used Sia? I certainly have.

How would say it stacks up compared to S3? Both on price and speed?
Good point regarding pervasive bias in journalism, intentional or not. I've been thinking about how to help people identify bias and poor quality citations and built a chrome plug-in to do so. This is Beta but would appreciate any feedback you all have.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/civikowl/clbbiejji...
Left and right are degrees of authoritarianism, e.g. libertarian is far right, and nazism and communism are far left. Nazism and communism would be flavors of authoritarianism.
You could possibly connect them all with through holes or very thin PCBs. No need for a library or a full reader.
>Again, this can only work if a quite strong parallel economy develops, where everything is in BTC. Well, for that to exist, it needs to get to a comparable level of a real state economy

I think this is too absolutist. I don't think BTC or cryptocurrencies in general, to be successful, don't have to have do all of that __today__, or at all. They just have to chip away along the margins, as they have so far in order to become more attractive to people to use for exchanging goods/services. In the US, I could only pay for my electricity usage in USD, in Indonesia, I can use BTC. People speculating on BTC face similar risk considerations as people speculating on any asset.

>That, in order for you to have a stable exchange rate when you need public services, like health services or to pay taxes…

In any system of resource allocation, you need people to buy into it and stay invested, and as I can see, the balance sheets of "real state economies" are having a hard time getting people to stay invested through typical means that states have established channels. Unless one thinks that continuously selling T-notes to CB's or private investors by collateralizing ones taxation ability through typical channels, or CB's buying up all corporate stocks/bonds will be enough to win the hearts and minds in the long run…

>Otherwise, just having always to exchange your BTC in the de-facto currency so you can do your daily stuff, that is just not money. You can call it whatever else you want.

As an expat living abroad, this isn't really issue since I need to do it anyways to convert from whatever currency you have to what you need to use, and ones habbits are reaptible enough that you should be able to get a good guess to withdraw enough to cover a period of time to minimize the inconvience. And there's increasingly more options in how to go about this than there was say 5 years ago. I think there is more freedom by being able to be exposed to numerous amounts of currencies to be able acquire/leverage goods and services than just being locked into just one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtT0xZ11wM
The FBI made the call to publish the manifesto, hoping for this exact outcome.
That's a very interesting take on this subject!

So you recon that instead of parallel economy using Govt. issued notes - better to shift to old (but invalid) notes?

The only problem is mainstream will not accept old notes from them.
What do you mean by "recreate types in tests"? Checking for the right results doesn't require any type-checking. If the result is right the type is right.
2+ year old article.......
> fake video preroll ad placements

Can you explain this further? Who is getting defrauded here?
Some do (ThinkPads).
Why don't languages like Python have the concept of a C-like struct? Seems like it should be straight forward to have with no downsides that I can think of.
> I see it repeated a lot that think tanks are really propaganda engines with an intellectual veneer, but can you back that up with specific examples?

Let's not lump together all think tanks. Some are more intellectually honest, some are places for partisan intellectuals to work when their party is out of power, some exist to provide intellectual cover to political goals.

I've had the same questions as you. According to an interesting paper I came across[0], there have been three waves of think tanks (and this also is painting them with a very broad brush):: 1) Think tanks like Council on Foreign Relations and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which aimed to promote global engagement by Americans. 2) Brookings and Rand, which grew out of quasi-governmental programs (IIRC). 3) Starting in the 1970s, groups that "focus as much on advocacy as on research, aiming to generate timely advice that can compete in a crowded marketplace of ideas and influence policy decisions." Heritage is the prototype; it was the source of much of Reagan's policy and now of Trump's. Heritage (I really hope I have the right think tank) hired someone to write talking points for cutting the estate tax in the U.S., and that is the origin of the meme "death tax", and the (false) argument that small businesses and farmers suffer widespread harm from it - so effective that I'll bet you've heard those.

In the last few years, I've seen many allegations of leading think tanks selling out their independence, including Brookings, CNAS, CSIS, and others. The leader of one defended the practice saying (IIRC), 'This isn't the Greatest Generation. Nobody will give you money now and say 'do something good with it'. Everyone wants specific results.'

Here is a dump of some more articles. If you really want to know about them, look up U. of Pennsylvania's 'Think Tanks and Civil Society Program'.

-- Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams, in NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-r...

-- Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks by Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams, Nicholas Confessore NY Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-power...

-- How Saudi Arabia captured Washington by Max Fisher in Vox: Covers more than Saudi Arabia - http://www.vox.com/2016/3/21/11275354/saudi-arabia-gulf-wash...

-- Hacked Emails Show UAE Building Close Relationship With D.C. Think Tanks That Push Its Agenda by Zaid Jilani, Alex Emmons in The Intercept - https://theintercept.com/2017/07/30/uae-yousef-otaiba-cnas-a...

-- Hackers Vow to Release Apparent Trove of U.A.E. Ambassador’s Emails by Kevin Poulsen in The Daily Beast - http://www.thedailybeast.com/hackers-vow-to-release-apparent...

[0] From Contributor to Partner? Norway's role in foreign policy research and implementation in the United States by Tove Bjørgaasat Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre/Norsk Ressurssenter for Fredsbygging (NOREF). Here's an old link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1284...
Just out of curiosity, if the sport is so violent/unsafe for kids, why not ban it for under 18 players ? Or is it that, only a small subsection of the american population find it violent/unsafe and the rest are completely fine with it ? I find it difficult to understand how parents could allow their children to play a sport knowing it might cause permanent brain damage to his/her kid. Maybe we're missing something in this debate ?
I think that "effectively rid the world of shitty ad fraudsters" is a strong credential in one's CV. Jobs won't be hard to find!
As an ex-prop forward, I have to say scrums (especially), rucks and mauls are a fascinating part of the sport. These aspects are what really differentiates the game of Rugby Union from Rugby League.

Regarding cricket, this too is an evolving sport. The emergence of T20 (20 overs per team) has a completely different appeal to 5 day Test matches. Try watching a game of Indian Premier League (IPL) or Australian Big Bash cricket. Batting is back in the ascendancy, with sixes and fours galore. Very much mass appeal, light sporting entertainment.
Well, it's misleading now. It wasn't misleading when it was published.
I can't make it work, what does the ad do?
> Its not hard to measure actual useful things like features or bug.

Presumably your consulting business has really taken off now that you have such unique insight into a historically unempirical area of our field?
British economic growth since 1270: the role of education
Give me an example of no-nothingism on the right.
Generate REST Servers and Clients Based on GRPC Service Definitions
No, just a 5 yo macbook pro.
It seems so bad that uMatrix is not even allowing me to access the website. I opened up Chrome Dev Tools, and I really wish I hadn't. Holy hell.
> Try to fly a drone with a knife to stab people and people will destroy it and arrest you

Unless it's the people doing the destroying and arresting who are flying the knife drone. In that case, they'll be celebrated as patriotic heroes and you as a terrorist deserving of death.
I don't think we can unwind it so simply. The basic consequences of technology are not new. The scale and asymmetry are. It shifts power around and changes who can make decisions about what happens. Of course we are responsible for our inventions.

Oppenheimer and co. lived with the most dramatic weight of such decisions. No one solely blames the president who went ahead with dropping the bombs. It took thousands of people making a conscious effort to build and deploy the technology. In a sense we all own that to this day. But at it's heart it is and always will be driven by the choices of people. As long as we agree that our will as human beings exceeds that of technology, then it is people doing the changing, whether thru build of tech or use thereof.
No, they don't "need" to do that. Not any more than newspaper, magazine or television advertisers "need" to know anything about the individuals seeing the ad, beyond the target demographic of the publication. They do it because there's money in it, but if website owners could put the welfare of their customers ahead of the relentless pursuit of profit by serving manually curated, static, untargeted ads we could have a much nicer web.
> What's interesting about restaurant automation is that it could go either way in terms of making existing franchises more of a monopoly or enabling the little guy compete against them.

Whoever can make his restaurants 0.05% more efficient than the next guy will take over the entire market as scaling up will be so easy.
>Good grief, it's like an invisible war going on inside your browser.

I find it incredibly interesting that the evolutionary-arms-race of ads and viruses versus blockers is mimicking the development of actual genetic evolution.

There's that XKCD comic that mentions if you want to look at 20 years of code evolution, look the source for the google homepage. Now imagine what your genetic code looks like after 800 million years.

I don't have any insight or education to back me up here, but I believe that even if we were to re-engineer the internet from the ground up we'd still get an evolutionary arms race, simply because a space with potential to exploit a system will always exist.
Excellent points. Seems I was oversimplifying a single part of a bigger problem.

I want to pay, but never feel satisfied with time-based subscription models, especially for news, would be so happy to pay upfront for 1000 articles, no time limit, yet to see that offered.
I know what you're talking about. I simply disagree with you. Not about "purely functional data structures", but about implementation details and how computation occurs in actual practice, in the context of their use.
What a lack of net neutrality looks like – in Mexico, today
Thanks, this is cool, for a fiver I'm in.

Not many sites, but it's enough, will see how it goes. My main business news website is listed there, which is nice.

Edit: ok hang on was very confusing at first, hopefully someone at google has a look at the layout, really comes across as though you can only use the $5 for one website, but you have to add other sites you want.

Also unsure about recurring payments, that should be opt-in.

Just bought 500 articles. Awesome. What a ride!

Contributor page gave me a 404 trying to go to direct to the website I added.

Restarted browser, no ublock origin, the ads are still there. Ahh the folly of beta testing.

Good game. Will try later.
Actually, those are the type errors I _like_ having (and don't always have: Scala will implicitly convert `Int` to `Long`), although I concede this is a matter of opinion. However, I am definitely less impressed by the unhelpful type errors one gets when implicits somehow fail...
I'm not at all an economist, and I expect I'll make some mistakes here, but I can think of two things that might be relevant to your question here. First is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Scarcity_of_official... which is that as you can produce more value for lower cost, with nothing else compensating, then things become cheaper. It's the value of things that's "made" in Ford's factory, not the money. If, hypothetically, you had a completely fixed money supply, then you wouldn't get money from nowhere; instead the price of everything else in the market just goes down. There are some reasons to not prefer deflation, so to counteract this the government prints more money. For another example (I think?), look at Bitcoin, where there's been massive deflation because the growth in value has far outpaced the rate of new bitcoins added to the economy by mining.

I'm less certain about the second thing, but I think that debt (and banks?) increase the (effective?) money supply. If you borrow money from a bank (or debt directly from a company for goods or services) to build a new house, then you've acquired a valuable new asset, the laborers you paid acquired new currency, so the total economy can exceed the number of bills that have been printed and are physically in circulation.

There's a lot there that I'm not sure about, and there's plenty of further fascinating questions that follow on from there that I don't know anything about, but I hope that helps you understand some things about how production and the money supply work!
Javascript is the new Flash.
That sounds like a pretty brutal workflow. Freezetab would be great for your use case, so I'm glad you like it.

I definitely plan on expanding availability to Firefox and Opera in the short-term (and eventually Edge), because porting Chrome extensions to those platforms is pretty straight forward.

Safari on the other hand is a little bit more challenging. Most browsers implement extensions as plain HTML, CSS, and Javscript — they're essentially just websites. Safari requires developers to integrate native Swift and Objective C code into extensions, which means I might have to do a partial rewrite (and learn Swift or Obj C) to target Safari.

You also have to pay a 99 dollar annual fee to maintain a presence in the Safari Extension Gallery, which is somewhat exorbitant for a free extension. If users install the Safari extension directly from my website instead of the extension gallery, then they'll miss out on auto updates.
Show HN: Search for monuments and share photos
As long as I am able to block any element I want using my browser (and god help us if we reach a state where we can't), I won't have to look at any ad for more than 2 seconds. Any website that has too many ads to disable manually, or is in some way embedded with critical parts of the website is simply not worth my time.
I have no idea what problem you think you are solving. Could you clearly state your goals and why you think they are broadly applicable?
Uber introduces in-app messaging
These events are like clockwork. You've got to ride out the unsubstantiated pessimism and outrage before you can have a healthy, reasonable, productive discussion about Apple and their role in technology and the world.

That's the price of admission for being such a cultural and economic force I suppose.

I for one, am incredibly excited. Their last keynote was packed with stuff, and it seems this one will be too. Lots to dissect.

Off the top of my head: iPhone, HomePod, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS public releases, updates on their new APIs like ARKit/CoreML, and whatever else they have up their sleeve.
I really hope they release some ar glasses or something. I've been working on the arkit since they announced it and I can't express enough how excited I am about AR.
First, no I'm not trying to make two wrongs into a right. Pretending that this is a new thing is a faulty assumption. And if you want to fix something, starting with faulty assumptions is the wrong way to go about it. The political forces negatively affecting journalism are not new forces, and any attempt to fix the problem needs to understand that.

Second, where did I condone biased news? Where did I say it was okay? I explicitly specified that I was talking outside the moral dimension on this in my first comment.

It's rather annoying that someone who is linking me to fallacy websites is themselves putting words into my mouth, creating a strawman to attack instead of dealing with what I'm actually saying.
GPG is used by some for email sure, but it isn't the only option. S/MIME has native support in pretty much all native mail clients, and is more pragmatic about how you trust an identity.
Perhaps this will be the "Big Bang" for consumer AR that everyone has been hoping for. Whatever they have up their sleeves, I genuinely have a feeling it's going to be big this year.

Institutional investment in Apple is at an all time high as well. Perhaps they know what's coming as well...
The Myth of American Universities as Inequality-Fighters
it's been a webextension for a while now, the only reason it has been listed as otherwise by Mozilla is because of the update wrapper

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2576#issue-22541793...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2862#issuecomment-3...