skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That, plus a bit of over-reliance on the US Census Bureau's way of measuring new startup activity. It's now easier than ever for individuals (read: not registered businesses that reporting agencies typically count in their studies) to start up and run experimental ventures, especially online. (edit: typo)
This isn't really about killing "the web" though, it's about changing web development as we do it today. At least, when I read that title I assumed it was about the web as a whole, not just web apps and the way we develop them.
1st point - I dislike sites where I have to turn on JS to see anything meaningful, and I often back out for safety.

2nd point - a forced delay to get to the meat of the site is very irritating, eg on a second visit.
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Paper Wallets is to storage your Bitcoin offline. You do not need to use paper. You could use metal, acrylic, tattoo in your body.
Ok we put that in the title and added its year for good measure.
That page doesn't compare wealth but disposable income.
Doh! Thanks. Should have Googled it.
Content providers think they want their videos to stay monetized, but I don't think they don't.

With regard to monetizing videos, am I totally wrong to assume that this is entirely based on what advertisers are willing to sponsor? So if company A decides, for whatever reason, they don't want to pay for ads on videos that talk about some subject that they don't agree with, I think we can all agree that they should have the right to do that. And if that causes a community backlash against that advertiser, then that's a good. Boycotts are better than laws.

If some video has content, regardless of whether we agree or disagree with it, and youtube is seeing advertisers shy away from such content, then why would youtube continue to force that advertisers ads to show up on that video. They would lose the advertiser. No advertiser. No money. So leaving it monetized only to lose advertisers and thus money isn't exactly what the content creators want either.
Valid points. Thank you for the feedback!
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>400 hrs of content are uploaded every minute. You’re exactly correct that an algorithmic first pass is the only thing that’s feasible.

It’s important to mention that creators can appeal monitization decisions to a human reviewer for videos with at least a thousand views.
It really doesn't matter where the money goes though. Even if an investor spends the money on golden bathtubs and private jets, the money is being spent in the economy. If they keep it in the bank it's getting leant out to small businesses.
[Edit: nope, I misunderstood the issue... ignore my comment.]
Yes, we need something better. The correct solution is to have Unicode combining characters, as anything else will require a lot of separate work to be properly supported.

To think about how Unicode combining characters could work, just look at what Mathematica can do with just a few shotkeys: like ctrl-2, ctrl-- (ctrl-5), ctrl-6, ctrl-7 etc.

The matching Unicode combination characters would respectively be: place under a square root, put a something to the right below (and above), put an exponent, put something over.

With these 6 combining characters, you could already solve a large part of the problem and write 90% of the equations: for ex, if you want to type the sum of i=1 to 10 of the square root of alpha to the k bar power:

Type:
𝚺 (ctrl--) i=1 (ctrl-5) 10 (ctrl-2) α (ctrl-6) k (ctrl-7) _

With a proper keymap or shortcuts support, you could write (and render) equations just as fast as you write them by hand. I know, because I take all my notes with Mathematica and the only "magic" I use beside Mathematica combining shortkeys is a third level Unicode mapping for greek letters and some mathematical symbol like infinity, so that AltGr a gives me alpha, AltGr 0 gives me infinity etc.

Also, unlike what you read above, where only sigma and alpha stand out, it would show up in your browser, and you could copy-paste that in any email or text forum -- like HN or reddit!! No need for MathML support, that would be implemented straight in the Unicode rendering engine with the next batch of Unicode changes.

I have been trying to get some people involved, to try to submit a Unicode Math proposal. Nobody seems interested. Maybe with MathML dead, proper Unicode math combining characters will have a better chance.

(NB: in the above, I do not use a combining over bar for k, even if that is possible at the moment with what I think is called a macron. The idea is more general - what if you want to write a letter instead of just a bar over k? we have a few exponents like numbers and latin letters, but what if you want to write greek letters to the top right corner?)
ddg's server and js are closed/proprietary, if I remember right.
So a more realistic scenario might be after gaining access to a company's LAN, or at a public WiFi? Did I read it right, you can force downgrade Exchange clients from TLS to plaintext, essentially?

What more did Apple say on the phone? No rationale given?
The essence of your argument here appears to be "we cannot complain about how people use power", which I think is bunk.

Yes, Google has the power to do whatever they please. But the people who work there aren't perfect; one can reasonably dispute that a given action is the best business choice.

Although their power over their platform is in some sense absolute, everybody else has power over their individual uses of that platform. It is entirely reasonable of them to tell Google, their business partner, how that platform is working for them.

Further, everybody, whether they're a creator, a viewer, or just a regular person has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of association. Google has dominion over their platform, but everybody else gets to choose whether to deal with Google and what they say about it.
This article is so naive.

It completely negates all the benefits of the open web while
presenting problems along with non-sensical "fixes"...
The links are also indistinguishable from text, at least on iOS.
Oh interesting. OK, so the comparable is London black cabs and new york yellow cabs.
Even though it's a bit forced, I agree that the whole mainstream computer field as a weird non ROI. Machines 10000x faster, personal value/productivity: flat or below.
Google “death due to lack of health insurance” for numerous examples.

If you want some specific ones here, consider a diabetic who can’t afford insulin, or someone with cancer who can’t pay for treatment.

If we’re talking about a true free market where ERs can turn people away, then it could be something simple like having a heart attack while you’re out and forgot your insurance card at home, or being mugged, beaten, and left for dead.
Anything that can be prevented at a cost. Anything that seems like a less serious illness that wouldn't be worth missing a rent payment over.

You can get emergency care and just not pay for it if you can't afford it. You can't get preventative care if you can't afford it.
One issue with studying the effects on economic policies (licensing, wage floors, etc) is that it's difficult to meaningfully measure companies that never get created, beyond maybe hypotheticals via polling.
Your local library’s e-books will now show up in Google searches
Wow. This kind of blows my mind. Thanks for the link!
I can't speak for everyone and I'm ignorant of other industries, but friends that have visual arts degrees are having no problem career-wise.

Most of them work in media and advertising where they make a great living.
I don't understand what is wrong with TeX.

- As a syntax/language for mathematics, it's the actual standard. Do you think Terry Tao will bother learning some other language for his blog? You might as well argue that English is poorly-specified and the web should switch to Lojban.

- As a layout engine, it encodes all the damn typographical conventions that are in every single research article, academic journal and textbook. In the world.

Trying to replace TeX is so quixotic it makes Urbit sound pragmatic and down-to-earth. It's this whole scorched earth tradition. There just isn't any mathematics out there that uses anything but TeX.
Some are useful. But it has begun to cross the line. For example, the nags for their new feature for organizing research into projects are annoying, and then I started getting notices that a deadline was approaching for an update to my project. Eff that. I have plenty of real deadlines already.
Most of the points is arguing that NSA could compel the company Duck Duck Go, Inc to install equipment and then forbidding the company from disclosing that fact.

Doing so does carry quite a bit of political risk. There have been quite a few lawsuits from EFF and ACLU in regard to do so, and as the comment from CEO of Duck Duck Go says in the comment thread, all existing cases has been about turning over records. Going the extra step of compelling people to install hardware and keeping the operation going would be a further step.

I doubt ddg is currently worth the political risk. There is likely much easier targets to attack first in order to get 100% of the worlds search data.

*down votes? Explanation?
I've argued here at HN before that I don't think this is a technological problem, but a social one. There is nothing that stops a powerful enough actor from breaking encryption with a rubber hose, except for a strong stigma against that kind of behavior. We need to give digital privacy the same social protection. The other problem with making a purely technical solution is that you leave out people who are not capable of using that solution because they do not have the resources, education or capability.
It took me a while to understand what you might mean, but I think I know now. What I'm asking is for the English words (or pick whatever language your prefer) that you would learn the equivalent of in a target natural language.

And yes, I know that not every word has an exact equivalent.

So words that I find especially useful are things like please, thank you, yes, no, exactly, again, never, always, here, not, and a few others. I'm just looking to see what other people think.
You are not thinking outside of the box: the advantages of Bitcoin multiply when you stay in bitcoins without converting to/from fiat currency.

For example my brother in France owns some bitcoins. One day he sent me, who live in the US, some bitcoins. I was able to spend them instantly (~10 minutes) on NewEgg to buy computer hardware. None of us had to convert to/from fiat. The fees were small and the transfer was incredibly fast compared to a regular bank wire.
80% of businesses don't survive their first year, though the number goes up if you have employees.

However, the percentages have been pretty consistent, year over year, for quite a while. This isn't a new trend, it wasn't better in the past. It was like this even before the current situation where there is 2-4 trillion needing to be repatriated.

Here are some numbers and a bit about how these numbers have been largely unchanged for a long time:

https://www.fundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-busine...

Blaming it on boomers and wealth preservation seems all too simplified, considering it has been like this for quite some time.

It's not that a lack of capital isn't a problem, it is - and that's the primary reason for failure. It's that trying to pin this on boomers is a simplistic way of looking at this problem and doesn't solve anything. The problem existed long before the off-shoring of capital. The numbers have been pretty similar, for quite a long time.
It is incorporated, not only working from a charter, which in this case means city not town.
Why is it sending a password at all?, surely it should be at least a hash of the password
Why should Google be monetizing anybody's propaganda?
OK, we added 'app' above. That seems in the spirit of the article, which seems fine with the web as a document platform.
U. S., where there are enough people that reload ammunition that I made a pretty good bit of money back in the 90s selling software for that market. So, yeah, if you want to buy a couple pounds of the stuff, it’s not terribly difficult and no one is likely to think a thing of it (last I bought gun powder was probably ten years ago; take it as the dated information it is).

EDIT: I also forgot that referring to smokeless gunpowder as just “gunpowder” is mostly a U. S. thing. But smokeless gunpowder is what I mean, in contrast to the stuff old school muzzle loaders use (black powder in the U. S.).
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tracking-wildlife-with-tdoa-directio...

See also, https://ptrkrysik.github.io/
Mostly number two.
> It isn’t much of a stretch to visualize the Internet successes such as Google, e–Bay and Amazon gradually being replaced by open source distributed processing just as Napster was by Gnutella.

Surely any day now!
The 2004 tax holiday was a bad idea for trying to grow the economy. However, there is a clear difference between a short-term tax holiday and a long-term lowering of repatriated fund taxes. The problem is that investment isn't spurred by short-term windfalls, it's a slow, long-term strategy to insure a particular business is competitive.

If I was coincidentally looking to invest in something in the US during the tax holiday, I'd be in luck. But if I was looking the previous year or the following year, I'd still be facing a massive 35% burden over leaving the funds overseas. This creates a pervasive attitude that businesses don't even begin thinking about investing foreign funds domestically.

http://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/would-another-repatriat...
Agreed, and I tried to strike a balance. Going more technical put off certain reviewers, and going less put off others. In the cryptocurrency space in particular, this is an interesting topic that devs and users are hesitant to even discuss in person, and I wanted to take some of the fear away.
There's nothing newsworthy here, just some guy trying to make a name for himself by giving his so called vulnerability a flashy name and website.
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This is a bigger issue because those credentials can be used to authenticate to the Exchange server to download emails or, if they're using Active Directory elsewhere in the enterprise, to VPN in, to log in to servers, so on and so forth.
The government absolutely subsidizes at least two the those industries: Cell phones/service and automobiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-cons...

https://www.nap.edu/read/4816/chapter/5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-DOT

the list goes on...

(I don't know much about those other industries but I'm sure there's billions behind them as well)
I always thought it was kind of funny that Italy was famous for new-world and relatively recent concepts. Tomatoes definitively didn't exist in the old world before 1500ad and la Cosa Nostra only emerged in the 18th century, in the same vein as the Bow Street Runners in the UK.

Of course pasta existed before tomatoes were available, as in things like Bolognese sauce, but it's still a strong association.
Oh you're right :\ will remove my comment, thanks for pointing this out.
Do not send hashes. Do send challenge/responses. Hashes can be replayed.

(Or send passwords over TLS)
> Should we enact laws that force tournaments to hand top results to female players? What about racial minorities?

I think there's a lot that can be done that will be more effective than that.

https://kotaku.com/5889415/this-is-what-a-gamers-sexual-hara...
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-esports-racism-problem-20...

etc. There's dozens of these stories covered, which means there's probably hundreds of incidents at the top levels, and thousands or tens of thousands among people just started out.

The most popular and financially successful streamer in the world has normalized straight-up racism.
EU paid for a report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful
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I see no evidence of a force downgrade, you can see in the screenshots that he configured SSL off. If you configure SSL off, your credentials go over the wire in plaintext. Surprise surprise.
Recently I have been using the free and open source Searx more and more (admittedly mostly using the !searx shortcut from DDG). Results seem better than DDG sometimes. Would be interesting to try and host my own instance or write something that picks a random public instance.

https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
>rising inequality

Rising inequality means that higher incomes are rising faster, not that lower incomes aren't rising. No one claims that trickle down effects will fall to the lower half of the income distribution as quickly as the upper half (i.e. flat inequality). It's right there in the name!

They might argue that the bottom half of the distribution grows as quickly as it possibly can via "trickle down," because in a more regulated and redistributive world, the productivity gains that the left wants to to redistribute wouldn't be made.

I don't think this is right either, but inequality isn't a signal you can use to assess that.
The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford is also very, very good if you like scientific artifacts. Not quite as overwhelming as the Science Museum, and the building itself has history- the basement was probably an alchemical laboratory however many years ago.
This is a positive development if it forces content creators to look for platforms that are not ad-funded, and thus precipitates the death of the publisher business model that is beholden to advertisers.

Hopefully in 20 years we can look back and say that Facebook was the last major corporation to be built on ad revenue.
Median novel has some 65k words. Take all (consecutive) quotes of 2 to 24 words, and you have some 1.5m phrases. Take the top 666k books (apparently there've been about 130m titles been published in total, about 5m in the Amazon Kindle store), and you're at about 1e12 phrases, or 40 bits of entropy, or worse than a password with 7 random letters/digits/symbols.

You could probably improve on it considerably by selecting fewer books, and only taking quotes starting at some punctuation mark.

For a naturally throttled attack like here (on the phone) that's fine, but for an offline attack (where the attacker has access to the password hash) that can be cracked within days.
That approach works well in terms of compatibility, but my sense is that it's usually much slower than MathML, and with equation-heavy documents can be extremely slow.

I might be unaware of something, though.

MathML isn't perfect, but I much prefer it to anything else on the web at the moment. I'd almost rather see an updated MathML spec than something new, especially one js-based.
> The entire point of security questions is that their answers are supposed to be things that are permanently stored in your memory

And it's a shame to lose that feature, but they compromise your security so terribly that you're far better off not using them.

> it is possible to lose them - and that is unacceptable

Ten steps forward, two steps back. I find that acceptable.
App engine still only supports python 2.7 in the standard environment...
App engine is a niche environment.
HackRF is closer to $300, can transmit, but isn't Full Duplex. The LimeSDR (the original one) can also be had for around that price, and has two RX and TX full duplex channels, but not a whole lot of RF front end. HackRF would, however, work for the fan project.
An "UDP" server for browser clients: https://github.com/seemk/WebUDP
Well, Italy is also a new and recent country.
He worked at a waterfall digital agency.

Literally anything is better than that. The description of working a digital agency matches mine exactly.

Your given pictures and told to make it work as fast as possible. With no input into the actual experience.
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Here are people printing in tin and bismuth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzz7jWRlkQ
https://www.neh.gov/content/2017-lecture-video
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That must be a regional thing. I have seen the odd cyclist run a red at T-intersections or go through a red after stopping at intersections controlled by sensors, otherwise compliance is near 100%.
One neat thing about multisig keys physically spread is that it's extremely more difficult to coerce someone to make a payment. If an attacker knows you have a ton of money locked up behind a key you have memorized, they can kidnap and torture you until you give them the key. If the money is locked behind multiple keys physically spread and you're known to be the paranoid sort to do that, then it becomes a lot more logistically challenging and may deter kidnappers: some of the locations could have physical security (ie. it's in a bank safe deposit box that the bank only allows the owner alone to physically access), there's more chances for the victim to get away, the attackers can't know ahead of time if the victim is leading them on a wild goose chase to incorrect locations, etc.
I'm hoping for a speed improvement here too. Regex compilation for the URLconfs adds about a second to our startup time which in development is quite a bit.
This statement is so relevant, and seems to apply to other areas of the status quo being disrupted by technological innovations:

"The very attempt at hedging their obsolete business model instead of adapting to a new situation will be their undoing."
I pick smallest needed value type, and some values encode multiple fields (i.e. type/state/frame are all in uint8). Node.js uses cast to unsigned 32-bit integers for bitwise operations on numbers, so bundling doesn't pay out as much in CPU as does in bandwidth savings.

2TB of data is really not that much. Say you run at 30fps, streaming only 2D position (say, 2 x uint32) of 100 entities to 200 clients...

(64 * 100 * 200 * 30 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 ) / 8 / 1024^4 ~= 11TB per month.

You bring some sanity to that with less frames, less entities, naive delta not sending updates for entities, etc. It's really not surprisingly big number.

I'll definitely explore world state deltas in next game, but this works good enough for now.
The study this article is based off seems to rely on a logical contradiction.

The entire study is founded on the age of the specimen. That age was determined to a literally unbelievable level of precision (+/- 31.025 days for a 50,000 year old corpse of a species that went extinct 40,000 years ago) by assuming that neanderthal growth rates were effectively identical to homo sapien growth rates - so enabling them to determine its age by markers based on homo sapien growth rates. They then use this assumption to show that the growth rate of neanderthals were not, in fact, identical to homo sapiens. This seemingly contradicts the assumption they used to determine the specimen's age, which in turn would effectively nullify the entire paper since it thus negates any attempt at such a precise measurement of age.
Where do you draw the line on larger scale projects? Also how do you handle optimistic updates for things like drag and drop?
Then Dr. No can get it out of you with torture or seduction.
Web properties have invested growing processing power to the immense benefit of their customers, advertisers. Of course users have not reaped productivity gains from something we don't pay for.
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