skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you advocating for a second coming of browser wars era because we now have more options?

Have we not been there yet? Can we agree that that is a place of endless pain for developers, project managers and users as well?
Facebook listening to you talk about the game.
same in Baltimore
If this is interesting, you might also like Mt Fuji from 2500km. http://blog.digitalglobe.com/industry/from-a-bird-from-a-pla...
I'm not sure I can envision a scenario where raising children in a suburb is worse than trying to do so in a city. Mind explaining?
I’ve had frustrating issues syncing joy-cons. For example, if a game only supports 1-2 players, and my controller is using the player 3 slot, the sync screen will simply ignore any attempt to sync that controller. I can fix this by going to “Change grip order” in setting, but there is no UI indication why I can’t use the controller. It’s just a bit frustrating for a few minutes until I figure it out.
If people realize that not many users are actively using these platforms it would decrease the value of ad buys.

I mean if 20% of all Twitter users are bots that would be detrimental to the sales department. If Twitter knew how many users are bots and did nothing it might be considered a form of fraud and deceiving investors.

Why should I buy ads on a platform that are overpriced if the ads will not be seen by legitimate users?
Guess we should just grab a pint and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
No there isn't - anyone can pirate the pirated stuff off of sci hub.
Secaucus, Edison NJ also having issues
As you'll see in my other comments (and articles on it), "blockchain" is better described as a field with a set of related goals for technology artifacts, rather than a specific data structure [1]. I frame it as: it has blockchain characteristics if it's decentralized, immutable, and assets [2].

This is a much healthier framing, because it doesn't constrain the goals to a particular approach (e.g. a particular data structure).

[1] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/blockchain-as-a-field-47c9f45894...

[2] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/three-blockchain-benefits-ae3a2a...
Letsencrypt is down
Yes but not all breaking changes are equal. The church down your street was extremely unlikely to even be impacted by this change let alone have functionality broken by it.

This only affected websites which were using blocking scrolling event listeners. Scrolljacking, some mapping websites where you were able to tap and pan around, and some sticky headers, and only on mobile devices using chrome.

And of those features impacted, most weren't even "broken", they were simply delayed until after the user lets their finger off the screen. A "sticky" header will still work with this change, it will just "snap" into place after scrolling. Scrolljacking content will act in a similar manner.

I'm completely against breaking the web wherever possible, but in this case I really believe it to be worth it. Smooth scrolling makes sites usable, janky jumpy websites on mobile are so infuriating, and on lower spec devices can be completely unusable. This makes them usable again, it wasn't just "breaking the web" it was "fixing the web" for many people.

In my mind I see this like I see popup blockers or even adblockers built into the browser. Yes, they break functionality, but they do so for the user, and if the website needs to get around this change, they can easily do so without the user having to do anything (unlike popup and adblockers in most cases).
> There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe.

The positive intent behind your comment is clear, but please don't post like this to HN. It crosses into, or closely enough resembles, nationalistic attack.

Commenting like this about the place you yourself are from isn't, unfortunately, much different in terms of toxic internet effects, so on HN, please just don't. I'm sure you can find a more precise and neutral way to say what you want to say.
We went to 56k6 or 28k8 baud almost immediately. Other places of the world were stuck with much slower baudrates for longer. Maybe that made the difference?

Or it's just the acoustics of older, crappier speakers
It would be cool if it could also do 3D.
IME it was better getting a rental car with the more reputable players(Hertz, Avis, Europcar), I once was looking at rentalcars.com and the smaller companies had significantly cheaper prices which inclined me to go with them but they were full of gotchas and when you reached the place(bullshit key fees, security deposit going up to 10x higher than the security deposit of the big ones).

As for gas policy whenever I rented a car it was full/full.
Jesus! I guess I'll just stick to 2+2 holy shit this is well beyond me!

Thanks for the link.

EDIT: Nope guess not now I'm knee deep in this thing :P
So you are saying that rather than taxing the middle class more that we should simply make large corporations like Apple actually follow the existing tax laws?

Owing to its source it doesn't sound like this idea is going to be popular on hacker news, in spite of its blatant rationality.
You don't realize how many times you've heard those words.

But the senior folks with maximum control are just starting to hear about this stuff. The buzzwords are just trying to get these seniors to put the project work in the right bin so, hopefully, when they hear about it again later, in a slightly different context, they'll remember.

To me, CEC is a buzzword. It's a whole suite of combat control concepts, hardware, software, training pipelines, etc. But you've probably never even heard of it. I've got to make sure my project gets into the senior's head, and lands in the tiny "ML" bin, and not the huge "CEC" bin, which has it's own "ML" sub-bin.
I don't think it's necessarily advertising. There's a huge societal narrative that education is "the answer." (No specific question given). The statistics imply that maybe it's not, maybe it isn't a skills gap, maybe this is just how things are now. That's too terrifying, because then there's no solution, so they have to restore the natural order by finding some other way education solves the problem.
I totally agree with you. The "every day a little bit no matter how little" can take you way farther and I believe it's usually the most sustainable way to approach personal goals or learning projects.

Actually I followed that motto to build https://everydaycheck.com which is actually about that, to work on goals every day. One of the tricks I always share is to quantify the daily milestone, like "15 minutes of learning js" or "run 3km"
What's your proposed rule that would close the loophole? I don't think it's actually possible.
downdetector.com now seems to be down. never a good sign.
All Apple is doing is completely legal. Avoiding taxes by using foreign methods isn't unlawful tax evasion, only failing to pay what is owed.

The root of the cause is the insane tax requirements governments push onto corporations (people too) for doing national and international business. It's natural for them avoid excessive taxes through whatever methods they can legally do so.
The e-mail address is easily found in the paperback version, and I just added it to the FAQ as well, thanks for reporting the bug!
It might be worthwhile to consider interpreting that Phaedrus passage more literally.

The thesis of Frances Yates' The Art of Memory is that you cannot properly understand ancient (or even more recent) scholarship without understanding memorization techniques. This is particularly true for Plato, for whom memorization arguably was the fundamental aspect of knowing.

I found Yates persuasive on this point: you can't really understand Plato's concept of the forms, and of his epistemology in general, without understanding the role and function of memory palaces. She makes a similar argument about Augustine's conceptualization of God, though it's attenuated as by Augustine's time the use of memory palaces had already entered a millennium long decline. By the time of the Renaissance artists were using exaggerated methods of memory palace construction--i.e. anchoring and "hiding" ideas in complex, elaborate visual works--without fully understanding the origin of those methods. Renaissance artists recognized aspects of the technique in earlier works without fully understanding the context. The arc of Yates' book is analyzing this historical progression--how memory palaces transformed from a fundamental utilitarian methodology that strongly influenced epistemology to a fragmented and esoteric body of concepts before being almost entirely forgotten altogether.

To understand how influential memory palaces might have been, consider how the technology of computers shapes our modern discussion about the mind and neurobiology. Even when our computer-mind analogies and metaphors are transparent, they still strongly influence how we generate and filter scientific ideas in both philosophy and biology. It can't be helped. Similarly, I found it very persuasive that Plato would naturally perceive and identify in the technology of memorization deeply intrinsic linkages between memorization, knowing, and reality.
Exactly. And it avoids the problem of losing tax revenue by creating an expectation of additional future tax holidays at regular intervals, incentivizing people to keep untaxed money offshore.
The author expands on this concept in his 2014 book (~7 years after the publication of this paper), Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. I've read it, and I would highly recommend it to my fellow HN'rs. I found his multiverse classification scheme [1] very compelling and something that finds its way into my worldview and a lot of my thinking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Max_Tegmark.27s_fou...
That's not a bad idea, but I still don't think it would work. There are at least two problems.

First is the rate at which you can generate the precursors. How many can you generate in a picosecond? That's how big your explosion can be. Or rather, the explosion will be as big as how many you can generate in a picosecond, times however many picoseconds you can sustain generating them (plus the force needed to make the fusion reaction happen).

The second problem is that generating the ingredients probably takes at least as much energy as you get out of the fusion reaction. At that point, whatever you're using to generate the energy can be your weapon, without needing the intermediate step of the quark fusion reaction. (As the Schlock Mercenary web comic says, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a really big gun.")
> this past weekend

Just this past weekend? Really?
I have the feeling it's something American that I can't really understand as an European.

Last time I got flagged was a comment with a link to a picture of a Sikh with a sign that said he writes bug free code. As some Americans mistake Sikhs with Muslims that may have triggered something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209714

By the way: You can't post emojis here. Hacker News removes them from your comments.
Marinated artichoke and cannellini bean salad
Actually slip, trip and fall accidents are a huge safety focus. Regulations can ensure stairs are designed to make falling less likely to cause serious injuries. Or, of course, as with most things Americans can insist their "freedom" to suffer so that somebody else can make a buck comes first.

Another big cause of household accidents is excessively hot water. Sure the kitchen sink might need the possibility of water hot enough to clean grease off a steel pan, but you don't need that for bathing your baby. So some countries legally require bathroom outlets are thermostatically controlled to a fixed limit, if there's not enough cold pressure to hit the limit, the water shuts off safely rather than char you. Simple mechanical valves can do this, and they're not that expensive - once a country is buying them for everybody.
The "market" will bear varying levels of cost though. The demand and supply curves are curves and not lines intersecting at 90 degree angles. Often a firm can make more money by lowering price because of the higher quantity.

I believe Nintendo would be better off making little to no money on the Joycons. As a spillover of Switch owners having more Joycons and thus the ability to play with their friends, Nintendo will sell more multiplayer games and more Switches.
Hi, thanks for the thoughts.

For "why would I want to use this over a SQL alternative" see [2].

For "what kind of applications can I build with this?" see [1][2][3][4].

Cheers!

[1] https://www.bigchaindb.com/usecases/

[2] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/three-blockchain-benefits-ae3a2a...

[3] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/six-blockchain-application-verti...

[4] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/where-does-blockchain-scalabilit...
We rebuild because business needs change, because compliance and stuff. It is not like we rewrite because code is crap. We have like 30 percent of test coverage because that is part that changed only a bit.
Southern Ontario, everything is slow as all hell
It all depends on if you have to support IE or not:

https://caniuse.com/#search=grid

https://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
I see your point about the bad side of capitalism, but consider that this kind of abuse is only possible because the governments allow it.

No economic system can live up to its design when corrupt governments interfere with it.
He extended the experiment by showing that a grasshopper would be affected by the microwave’s wavelength; the bug exploded.

This was later replaced with a grape, which is also larger than the fruit flies which would be safe in the same box.
> "...We do not stash money on some Caribbean island."

Nope. Just Jersey. Much less exotic!
Coinbase,bitcoin startup,adding daily up to 100k users last week, 0.5m in 7 days
Pretty sure Apple is following existing tax laws.
I’ve worked with major US car crash testing facilities.

I used to think that crash testing was just a video of the car crashing and an opportunity to walk around the car afterwords to how the car did. Maybe it would pass, and maybe it would not.

The reality is that before crash time, a team of guys spend three days wiring hundreds of accelerometers and other sensors onto the car’s structure at precise places. During the crash these sensors are recorded at high data rates, and 3D dataset of the moment by moment deformation of the car’s internal structure is reconstructed.

This reconstruction is then compared against previous software crash simulations, and if needed the simulator is updated.

Because the crash simulators are refined across hundreds of crashes, when a big manufacturer sends a car to be tested, they not only have a pretty good idea that it will pass, but to a fraction of an inch how much each piece of metal will bend.

The real design work happens against the simulator, and reality just validates the simulator.

Similarly, SpaceX has enormous amounts of sensors flying on each launch. This data lets SpaceX ensure that the simulator version of the rocket matches the behavior of the real one.
AWS came in here and asked us to stop swarming their status page during the S3 outage
facebook, discord, reddit; all unusable

what the hell?
other details:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/apples-s...
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412

There are I think three threads talking about this right now. This one won the front page and topical title fight.
I agree with you on 'lean'. But say I'm building a web-app that accesses medical records and I don't want sensitive fields being auto-completed by a browser.

Forcing autocomplete in this instance does a dis-service to both users and developers.
I think once a loophole has been identified, it becomes a "just." But you are right that the trickier problem is with the more fundamental process of constantly searching for loopholes. If only we could "just" close that one, too.
> we should simply make large corporations like Apple actually follow the existing tax laws

Apple is in compliance with our tax laws. The laws, not Apple, are the underlying problem.
Comcast home customer in Portland OR

Netflix servers responding and streaming fine, but almost everything else is slow
Overwatch devs showing early gameplay development
Maybe developed countries should agree on minimal profit tax for multinationals?

E.g. 10% of profits for companies that have revenue larger than X mln / year?

Right now it's race to bottom and there will be another loophole. So much of energy of smart people goes to tax minimization instead of finding a useful way to reinvest those money.
Serious question - what could cause this? I don't know much about network configuration or DNS. Could it be a coordinated attack on Comcast's infrastructure somewhere? Seems a little crazy that they'd be experiencing problem nation-wide with no redundancy baked into their system.

I tried manually flipping over to Google's DNS servers with the same result.
I would like to propose a law against the use of Germany's laws against Nazi symbology as an argument against freedom of speech. Given such a law, would you maintain your position, which would require HN to ban you for saying it?
yep hell has indeed frozen over.
Show HN: Small telegram bot to search for research papers
Indeed. Doing business with the tax havens is a choice in the same way that refusing to do business with Iran is a choice.

The tax havens are almost all small islands that are dependent on food and fuel imports. Iran-level sanctions would collapse them in a week.
Did anyone's website or web app break because of this change in Chrome 56?

I ask because the article lists a couple things that could break such as drag 'n drop but I have not noticed anything breaking in my experience.
Hostels too, I've seen some charge for(and not fully disclosed at the time of booking):

- Bed sheets

- key deposits

- shower access

- locker usage
What are you trying to say about Jersey?
Unless, of course, your production site purposefully does not support Edge (or IE) as a matter of policy. Fortunately that applies to me.
Emeryville too.
Suggestions for YouTube I've seen here and elsewhere I like:

- flagging a video suspends a video, not the channel

- flagging a video hides the video (or channel) from the user who flags (this is one of my favorite features on Reddit, allowing me to distance myself from a few subreddits I prefer not to see)

I do not like:

- a few flags to a single video takes down the entire channel. It feels disproportionate to me.
Dover, NH Comcast, same here.
Why do we spend billions of dollars on airport security when nobody in this country dies from terrorism, yet 66,000 people die every year from guns and cars? Because we're fine with people dying en masse if it doesn't bother our morals or make us afraid.

Also, thanks for flagging this article. Intellectual discussion about critical health and safety issues is clearly off topic.
Sure, but it's not about what "most publishers" get.

It's about Cody staking his livelihood on youtube income. Typical income seems to be about $0.01 per view. His nitroglycerin video is worth almost $12k.
Yes - although that financing in this example is based on the assets or cash flows of the company being acquired as well.
Anything that needs immutability and decentralization. You're asking for non-financial examples, which are not immediately apparent to me. Say, for example, you wish to make an online encyclopedia but you don't want to have any main server, instead you want lots of nodes that mirror one another, and that way if one fails the others work. However, you want to make sure that the edits are cohesive and people don't just delete articles or put their own on, so you add a protocol (like a cryptographic hashing function and consensus algorithm) so that additions to the articles happen together across all nodes, and every node has an easy way to make sure that the "fingerprint" of the latest edits matches the ones from all the other nodes. I must admit, blockchains are good for this sort of project, but the need is particular and creative. It would be like making a fully transparent application where the database is visible by all. Not every application wants or needs this, but some things, like scientific journals, online encylopedic archives, ledgers, research that is timestamped, copies of financial reports, many things can benefit from living in blocks that are cryptographically hashed to ensure their consistency across mirrors and also ensure their cohesiveness between changes.

Ultimately, you can have something like github be a completely decentralized blockchain based service, but it's not exactly necessary, and although it may be more elegant, it's not easier to debug, but it does make additive collections of human knowledge easier to condense, branch off, extend, and reason about.

It's not about one being infeasible to make and the other being feasible, it's about eliminating points of failure. If I have one long cylindrical vertebrae and I break my spine, I'm Effed. If I have many vertebrae, each can take its own shock without really compromising the rest. Can you think of anything that needs decentralized points of failure and impeccable record keeping? Again, the only things that really come to mind are things humans are trying to tabulate or keep adding to (knowledge and research, transaction ledgers, what else?). Most of these characteristics are fully attainable with standard databases that do atomic writes and have append-only architectures. It's an overloaded term because people think blockchains solve problems databases don't. It seems to be a very specific use-case but in the future it is likely we will use such tech to note our "observations" and ensure that they are cryptographically inconvenient to alter. For example, we could take all of twitter, hash it, store it, use it as a starting point, and years from now (assuming Quantum Computing doesn't destroy all encryption right out the gate) we can positively assert that some specific thing was said at some specific time on twitter because the past events in the twitter blockchain we just made would be increasingly difficult to alter. I guess that took me a long time to bring to words: anything you need the historical data to be unalterable for is a good use for blockchain.
This is not the fault of Capitalism alone. In a healthy democracy, the people vote in the Government, who can impose fines, tariffs, penalties and such on companies and business practices that the people (via the people they elect) deem to be working against them. Sadly, as you point out, this creates a direct incentive to lobby or otherwise attempt to control Government by large and powerful companies. The only way to prevent this is to impose fines, tariffs and penalties on businesses undertaking this behaviour (effectively disincentivising it financially), since it fundamentally unbalances the power dynamic between Government and business. However if you've got nobody left to elect who will fight that corner for you, you're kinda stuck.
She has an interesting YouTube channel as well. Some of her signal visualizations are very cool.
Stripe's status page distinguishes between API, dashboard, stripe.js and checkout.js.

Right now it says none of the above had any problems today.
That’s just whataboutism. If Russia found that the CIA had invested hundreds of millions of dollars into one of their energy companies, I’d fully expect them to investigate the national security risks. I never argued that it was somehow a unique behavior to Russia, you incorrectly inferred that. The U.S. obviously tries to project influence through corporate “partnerships” as well, e.g. the NSA with AT&T.

And I stand by the Putin comment. He isn’t a supervillain, but the power of the Russian state is far more concentrated in his hands than the power of the US is with any individual.