skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about tolerance and acceptance until it isn't. I understand why people are mad at the guy, but the black-and-white worldviews are on both sides of the polarized divide. Conflating his actions with rape is disingenuous at best, at least from the information presented here, where all the sex was consensual. The way this has progressed is symptomatic of a bigger problem in our society right now. I have no answers, though, since it is nearly impossible to have a discussion with either extreme, at least in my view.
For JavaScript folks, there's Turfjs from Mapbox.

http://turfjs.org/
A company that size will always have material non public information.

If you're in that position, then wouldn't you make sales regularly on scheduled dates? (say quarterly)

Otherwise theyre asking to get prosecuted, if not for this sale then the next.
Definitely complicated, but that should be the gold standard to aim for in the future. A lot is possible that hasn't even been tried yet!
What about putting it on an even footing with Firefox, because currently that's its biggest competitor.

The thing is with Firefox that if it's on your computer is most likely because you installed it yourself.
Faster than Python and Ruby.
PHP7 is actually a better OOP language than Python is.
PHP is much easier to get started in and find "talent" for, tons of PHP developers out there.

A lot of money has been made with PHP, the only reason many companies switched from PHP is that the developers wanted to "feel grown up" and switched to something else.
There will be absolutely no change. All major browsers already implement EME (this includes Edge, IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and a bunch of minor ones).

I personally think it is a step forward, as it is much better than Silverlight. Now all the client behaviour is out in the open, and only the DRM piece is proprietary.

There is no way that removing EME will make things better, that would just require all streaming services to build native clients or browser plugins, which isn't exactly improving any transparency.
Zero facts? The fact is that 3 people sold between the company finding out and the public finding out. In fact, there is only one fact missing which is evidence that they knew of the breach.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that we have n-1 facts? (or n-3, one for each person)
The first problem you have is that this is a lot of data. You are talking 250 MB or so worth of images. If you use JPEG, you can get images very small at the cost of image quality. There are also tools like PNG Gauntlet that will reduce PNG sizes; one thing that tool will not do is convert an RGB image to a limited palette and then store it as indexed. Sometimes that works wonders. Both Google and Microsoft have image formats that compress better than PNG, but they don't support each other's formats.

In your case I would consider some kind of "infinite scroll" gimmick like Twitter. Maybe you load the first 5 images and as the user scrolls down you load more.
Disrupt SF: Visitors personally targeted via online ads
You might find the guidelines and FAQ useful as well:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

The FAQ includes information about ranking and flagging:

> How are stories ranked?

> The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.

> Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention.

Also, the guidelines request (as 'brudgers points out):

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

I'd speculate that it was just the normal churn. 'dang and 'sctb have commented many times that they specifically take care on posts that reference YC in some way.
This. Don't bother shipping the servers. Ship the disks. Copy them. Ship them back. Easy peasy.
Is there though?

There are more open source libraries, tools, frameworks, languages and other tools used to create software

But I am seeing a HUGE shift to Closed off, non open SaaS and property installed apps for end users.

Outside of dev tools I am not seeing a shift to open source.

GPL a licence that protects user freedom has fallen out of favor in place of MIT and BSD which protects developer freedom

So like EME, Open Source has become hostile users. Open Source is for dev's not users
Special Relativity isn't even hard. It's literally geometry and trigonometry. True, it's done on a hyperbolic space, as opposed to a Euclidean, but that's the only difference. Everything follows from that simple foundation.

https://www.av8n.com/physics/spacetime-welcome.htm
yeah 40 hours is already to much especially at later ages.. aren't we supposed to be trying to make life more enjoyable?

if we're not what's the point?
Thee SPARC CPU has/had instructions to add tagged integers which show that this can be nearly as fast as "normal integers"
Count me in. There will be at least three dozen.
I think there's an imprecision problem here with the language. What people might mean by "could help" ranges from "A miracle cure overnight" to "3% improvement in perceived severity of one symptom"

I hope that people will avoid the former and view the latter in context - i.e. a genuine wish to relieve their suffering for a while, rather than a flat denial of the reality of the disease. I don't think either is especially appropriate, but the latter is misguided rather than malicious.
Do you have an example of this technique? I just tried using your technique but I couldn't get it to work.
Get more fiber in your diet. Eat more vegetables. Eat less sugar and processed foods.
> If I can compile it out, or get a version that someone I trust has compiled with it removed

You can. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/mozil...

> that only leaves the rest of the web as a botnet attack surface.

1. Every new feature added to the web platform increases the attack surface of the browser, so this concern is not unique to EME. In this case, it removed a reason somebody would otherwise install Flash, which has a significantly larger attack surface.

2. All the major web browsers implemented EME before it became a standard, so the standardization of EME does not change anything here.
Martin Löf's lectures on type theory are pretty much the clearest explanation of modern mathematical logic that you'll find anywhere. Some of the technical results turned out to be false, or at least needed more work, but the analysis of inductive definitions and equality is and was groundbreaking.

Since this is more mathematics than philosophy, the latest truly novel idea is also a few months old instead of a few decades. You really just have to start somewhere and work your way forward. :)
Looks like lack of alienation is killing nautil.us. Cached version (scroll down): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kgVH5lq... also, this is why you need caching and high availability implemented on the back end... and after looking at their "about us" page staff, apparently a sysadmin.
Some laptops take two battery packs, you can change one while it runs on the other. You can then have as many spares as you need.
Mozilla is not funded by Google anymore, and hasn't been for several years (the Google contract ended back when I was still working at Mozilla).

If you're interested, I wrote up some notes/thoughts from my experience in one of the sessions about EME and whether to implement it:

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2013/oct/16/eme/
Hey, I love ASP.NET as much as the next guy. But there's no mistaking the large trend from what used to be entirely server-side rendering (LAMP days) to REST services with JavaScript front-ends.
Sounds like your employer sucks mate and probably a weak or ineffectual CTO who is not doing their job
I get your point, but there's also "reasonable doubt", which often is conflated to "beyond any doubt", which is not the standard.

I realize they're examples, but if there really is a high index of suspicion...

"So which realtor have you been working with? Presumably your browser history will show hits to real estate sites, too..."

"Vacation? Very nice. I'm sure you have boarding passes or credit card receipts from hotels..."
BBS on HAM Radio? I've been toying with the idea for a while. The exact stack is not clear yet, but it has to 'liberate' me from the current web/internet insanity. It could be slow and imperfect, but dammit it would be ours again.
I feel much less upset about this than what happened with Harper Lee.

Apologies for the soft paywall: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/opinion/joe-nocera-the...
All those http requests cost so maybe combine the thumbnails into a few sprites consisting of 64x64 graphics?
I don't think they would care that much. I think they could just drug test employees if they were concerned about pot. And I haven't heard of any major non-DOD companies on the west-coast drug testing.
With caching proxies and load balancing and whatnot, Wordpress can scale to whatever number of viewers you may happen to have.

What Wordpress may not scale to support easily is the complexity of features that a site may have accumulated by the time it gets to 180M users.
What a strange argument, it's not about cost, it's about ownership. The creators own their content, the consumers own their hardware. Either is free to do what they wish with their piece.
Right, and these execs did that as well. I mentioned that in the "routinely liquidate" part, but I guess it wasn't clear, they do liquidate shares on a schedule.

Sure, doing anything out of that schedule is always a risk, and doing things on that schedule doesn't mean there isn't insider trading still happening. A successful prosecution under these equities-specific market sanctions will rely on more than that.
Former electronics manufacturer sales here. Manufacturers usually set the pricing steps with volume generally at the lowest price they can accept. The venue of goods sold often does not play a role in manufacturers' price structure.

Now when it comes to channel cost, physical stores are already taking more margin out of retail price and for manufacturers, there is simply rarely large enough incentive to sell to physical toy stores at a lower price.
That's not your decision to make. They own their sites and content. You are, of course, free to ignore it. If you don't like a site, use the back button.

You can complain, of course. What you can't do is control others. That's something the web is good at working around.
Its probably deeper than that as NZ law is derived from UK law most people don't know the details of employment law.

Actually UK and it has an impact on your social status setting your own work hours is a class / status indicator
Every one of my family members I have to uninstall it for is already running a fully-up-to-date copy of Firefox. The question is usually "why does the web look different?" or "why does Firefox have a rainbow ball now?".
Uber’s London licence to soar from £3,000 to £3m
There are so many options for RI purchases honestly.

Standard vs. Convertible:
Convertible allows you to switch between instance families (like c3, m3, m4, i2, r3 etc...) but it requires you to make a 3yr commitment, commit to a specific AZ and doesn't offer the same level of savings you'd get with a 3yr standard, I think it's closer to the savings you'd get with a 1yr Standard RI.
Standard RI's come in 1yr or 3yr commitments. You can choose between the default option of the "Regional Benefit" which allows you to apply the RI to any instance that meets the RI criteria in a given region or you can choose the "Capacity Reservation" option which requires you to commit to a specific AZ to guarantee your reservation. That's right, your 'reserved' instance isn't necessarily reserved in the case of an outage unless you commit to a AZ.

One benefit that you get with Standard RI's is that they can be applied to any size instance in the family for which you've purcahsed them. Amazon allows you to convert between nano, micro, small, large, 2xlarge etc. within an Instance Family (t2, c3, m3, r4 etc.) with Standard RI's and they apply these conversions automatically on your bill.

Then you also have to choose how you pay, no-upfront and all monthly (smallest capex), partial upfront/partial monthly or all-upfront (largest capex).

It's frustrating because it's so complex that it makes me hesitate. I never feel like I'm getting the best deal and it just feels like AWS is taking advantage of the market by making pricing impossible to decipher.

Does anyone have any good methods for determining how many RI's to purchase, how often etc?
Yes. First of all, if you "can't work with" the guy, maybe start by writing your own story instead of stealing his.

If you're getting involved with a Mark Twain project, you have to know ahead of time that you're going back 150 years to a time when slavery was still a thing, racism against the natives was still prevalent, etc., and on top of it, Twain was at times trying to be intentionally provocative even in that environment. You either take that body of work and look at it in its historical context, or you stay the heck away from it. Sounds like they couldn't resist the urge to sanitize the unsavory parts of history.
What was it like to have David Foster Wallace as a teacher?
"Thanks to you, sales are up 20% and infrastructure costs are down 15%.
But you made a minor spelling error in a Hacker News post, so we're gonna have to pass on that promotion this year."
All networks have a lifespan. Some of those lifespans are longer than ours. But there will come a day when another user-facing network supersedes the internet.

Many "superior internets" will have lived and died before then, so your statement holds. But progress depends on someone who doesn't resign themselves to failure.
If you can point to one example of a website that implements DRM that otherwise wouldn't have, I'll buy this argument.

On the other side, I can point to many websites that removed Flash/Silverlight/other security nightmare plugins after implementing EME.
Techmeme summary: London transportation regulator introduces private hire licenses based on fleet size, making Uber's licensing costs rise from £3K to £3M for a five-year license
Yes, members of Congress are not prohibited from making stock trades based on information they learn in their role as a Congressional rep. This includes not just routine and public hearings, but also closed and secret/classified hearings.
Excerpt from wikipedia's article on Denuvo

In January 2016, 3DM reportedly nearly gave up attempting to crack Just Cause 3, which is protected with Denuvo, due to the difficulties associated with the process.[8] They also warned that due to the current trends in encryption technology, in two years' time, the cracking of video games may become impossible.[8][9]

[8] Owen S. Good (9 January 2016). "Piracy group nearly gives up on cracking Just Cause 3, warns of bleak future". http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/9/10741274/just-cause-3-crack-.... Retrieved 17 January 2016.

[9] Robert Purchese (8 January 2016). "Finally, tide turns in war with PC game crackers". http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-08-denuvo-game-cra.... Retrieved 18 January 2016.
You mean the company that several years ago built features so that deaf people could become drivers? These features just so happen to be ones Lyft only just added this week.

The company offers UberWAV as a product and is trying to ramp it up. Plus, it's done a lot more than Lyft for the disabled.
I can't imagine how long it would take to charge that battery.
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true though as an English language site most would assume Anglo Saxon derived employment law - I know one member of a major UK union executive who would be deeply offended to be thought of as some one who got paid OT
Kimchi, sauerkraut and yogurt, among other things. https://www.rd.com/health/wellness/probiotic-foods-gut-bacte...
That's a great link, thanks. Journal editors should hire technical editors themselves. This is easier than it sounds since they can just contract with a well-known company at competitive prices. The workflow: first, subject editors filter and revise submissions, and then scientists judge the merits.

There is great need for a software nonprofit to enable scientists and editors to collaborate with minimal overhead, because even $2000/paper is too painful. The true marginal cost should be under $200/paper for scientific editing,[1] and at that price point, open access will overwhelmingly win. If we can build such a platform, I believe that Elsevier will find it very difficult to retain their journal editors.

[1] http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/pricing.html
That depends on a) what health issues you have and b) how you currently eat (and c) probably other factors, like genetics and other unknown unknowns).

I do have a food blog if you want to follow my eating journey for some reason.
Try Google Alerts. I think that's still a thing.
I don't quite understand what you're saying. Are you asserting that modern Mac computers will not turn on without a battery installed (which is not true in my experience), or are you asserting that trickle power is a bad thing (also not true in my experience)? Maybe I'm missing your point altogether.

Edit: did some research, I will admit it is possible that newer MacBook pros with an embedded battery may not power on if it is not connected (not sure about this). But I know my 2010 15-inch MacBook Pro does power on and run without a battery connceted (I use it as a media server), and I'm pretty sure most MacBook airs would run without a battery connected as well.
What do you think of Amazon's retail outlets? They're little bookstores with a café and a display for a few electronics. They don't provide anything unique. In fact, they only sell what's popular on Amazon.
(I do get paid directly based on my work, so my original description for the 'majority of jobs' does not describe my own, so here I'm only speculating)

I don't think anyone is reducing their work hours specifically to read HN for an hour every day. Like the study describes, most people don't and aren't capable of working for 8 hours an entire day; if they choose to spend the unproductive hours reading HN instead of working on some ancillary project, I don't see any reason they'd have to go out of their way to justify it to themselves.
adsafe, and all static lint of ads, was dead from the beginning. If companies serve whatever comes from the ad networks, specially dynamic URLS, there is absolutely no way to enforce anything. You can check, but you can't enforce.

the only sane solution on ads is SafeFrames [1]. Which does not do much, but at least it prevents ads from scrapping the page and stealing your cookies from the main domain you are visiting. That is already a win, considering the mess it is now without it.

[1] https://www.iab.com/guidelines/safeframe/
The xinjiang things are fully justified. Serious problems with terrorism, random knifings, random needle injections, etc. Very bad stuff. As long as china doesn't allow the han population to carry defensive weapons they have no choice but to suppress the murderous muslims there. You want to go to a restaurant or a store? Metal detector and xray machine for your bags. (My wife is originally from there and she has relatives who live there now).
Oh that is cool.

It works without JS!
> The TrackPoint is a gamechanger

Are you expressing sarcasm here? Using the nub mouse is an infuriatingly frustrating exercise in trying to navigate the cursor to a point on the screen with some semblance of speed, and without overshoot. It's minimally five times slower than using a mouse.
The CEO of Toys 'R' Us as of 2015 is Dave Brandon. He was the former CEO of Dominoes Pizza. After he left Dominoes in 2009 is when they started the "We used to suck, we don't anymore, please come try us again!" advertising campaign.

After Dominoes, Dave Brandon was the athletic director at the University of Michigan. During his time as AD, he managed to alienate the majority of the fan base, hire a coach who got worse over the course of four years and who ended with a losing record and who gave up the title of "winningest program" to Notre Dame, violate FOIA law, repeatedly mishandle PR situations (including the time where it appeared that a QB with a concussion got put back in the game), and run up the athletic department debt. He got fired on Halloween 2014, after slightly over four years as AD.

Color me not surprised Toy 'R' Us went under.
"Cynthia"
-Jonah Hill
That asteroid is climate change. Is just less fast.
Basicly just different severities. Afaik no clear indications that they have different causes, so I don't understand the reason for OPs objection. I would assume their results are spanning all types, or it would have been spesifically mentioned. Most research seems to be done on the more severe type, tho.

> They put Acinetobacter and Akkermansia bacteria into samples of healthy blood. The microbes increased the kind of cells that activate immune attack (they’re called T helper cells) and decreased the kind (regulatory T cells) that suppress excessive immune responses, including autoimmune attacks as in MS.

As far as I understand the article it seems like they have replicated the effect MS has on the T-cells, and that is not subtype spesific. If they could inhibit this effect it would be a fix across all subtypes, even if it doesn't fix the underlying problem.
I would also plug Chomksy's New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind for anyone interested in this sort of thing.

also relevant: https://xkcd.com/435 - if it went further to the right Mathematics is just applied Philosophy.
Reminds me of an article I read years ago that a parent decided they could cope with homeschooling their kid after they followed them around at school and concluded they were only learning for one to two hours a day, not eight.
As a kid I never bought my toys... My parents sometimes bought them while we were shopping in the toy department of a store like Fred Meyer or Walmart, occasionally other random places like gas stations or movie rental stores, but the general department store is where we'd go when I needed a toy-gift for a friend/relative (unless it was something more specific like some packs of pokemon cards where then I'd go to the card store). Usually I'd only get toys wrapped up on holidays like Birthday/Christmas/Easter and it didn't matter where they came from.
> who took it private in 2005 via leverage buyout and ladened Toys r Us balance sheet with untenable debt from thereon

You are not taking into account the changing habits of kids as a result of both the iphone and ipads or equivalent. Kids don't view toys the same way that they did prior to 2007 onward and neither do parents. I grew up in a day and age where getting a chance to have a toy was a big deal (and only happened a few times per year at that). Today kids can play games and be entertained with a digital device. It's hard to even compare to whatever projections that were done with the leveraged buyout.
It always fascinates me that often these "heads in the clouds" type stuff has an enormous impact on history, politics, and other disciplines while what is supposed to be more practical often is ignored or belittled. The most plausible reason is that we have firmer convictions in the little things rather than the large things. This seems to reveal the contemporary, and speaking in philosophical lingo, "modern" tendency to place epistemology as prior to metaphysics. The exception to this thought is the field of ethics. Logic too has been explored in depths through computer science, but this is still -- historically speaking -- in its infancy. The difference between formal logic and computer science is also a gap that cannot be underestimated.