skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a rule against breaking APIs, there is no rule against making a website that is better than another one.

So by your logic it's ok for you to kill and rob a rich person and redistribute all the money because, hey, at the end of the day it's a better user experience for everyone else and if you don't do it someone else might.

EDIT: By the way, browsers are in the business of providing a platform. Platforms should be stable. If they plan on not doing that they should say so. Guess how many developers will stop supporting chrome the day after that?
They broke userland.

They introduced a backwards incompatible change that causes a lot of sites to lose some functionality, behave differently or outright break.

Now you could say that the user (the developer here) used the feature wrong (I.e. they caused scroll jank), but that's a bit disrespectful - sure there are a lot of developers who had no idea what it'll do to performance, but others that weighed the options and decided that even with the jank the user experience for the majority of users is acceptable.
Can you expand on #2? I don't understand maybe the word "theorem" in this context, or perhaps the meaning of "property of the result."
Same in Albany, OR. Any theories or answers as to why we're seeing such a performance loss?
This is a really paternalistic attitude. The local presbyterian church down my street can't afford a full-time web developer to update their website every time Google decides to break it. The idea that sacrificing actual functionality in exchange for smoother scrolling makes the web "better" is a claim that makes sense only in a terrifically isolated bubble.
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Down Detector (http://downdetector.com/) is showing a huge spike in reports over the past 30 minutes. Many of our users are having trouble reaching our LB in Northern Virginia.

Anyone else having this issue or any insight as to what's going on?
Yup, that's because those hovercards render on `componentDidMount`, and the styleguide renders all components on page load. It's a bit janky, but it only affects the styleguide, so it's low priority.

Disclaimer: I work on Yammer, and I've contributed to this project.
My live is good, its also a harmless live. Not sure what your problem is.

For a more detailed comment, see my answer to the comment above you.
He literally has a video titled "Making Nitroglycerine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmYPAS9xB0

Not that I have any reason to think this has anything to do with the channel suspension.
Early business Web was Decision Support and not ad distraction based. There were cool "calculators" that would match relocation zip codes in Tulsa most like my favorite DC zip code or pick optimum breed/age/weight dog food.

Product Selection Engines (PSE's) were a different value proposition than product or brand promotion. They are fun to write for engineers because they correct purchase errors with IT good deeds like Consumer Reports but with user variables on priorities or constraints.

The Consumer Web threw out a great deal of baby with the .com era bathwater.
I agree that taking the whole channel down for the flag is not the right approach, and I would have thought the "three strikes rule", in any form, would have enough evidence against it by this point to kill it for good. But I think there's a bit of nuance missed by assuming that users are solely in charge of the videos they see. YouTube will autoplay related videos if you let it; I wouldn't exactly call that a positive action by the user. And recommended videos are a pretty large part of YouTube's model beyond that, so only removing the video for whoever flagged it doesn't seem like enough.

A better solution might be to unlist the video from these related lists and perhaps escalate things if a certain volume of flags are hit. I also don't see why reputation seems to have no bearing on this. How old and large is Cody's Lab's library, and how many strikes has it received (that were not later removed)? Seems like a good litmus test for false positives to me.
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Many of our customers are experiencing issues reaching our load balancers in Northern Virginia. Not sure what's up.
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We haven't criminalized alcohol or tobacco addiction in the same way we have other drugs, so that's not really a reasonable comparison. Tobacco cessation programs do use tobacco substitutes like gum, patches, etc. though, and there's been some experimentation with providing small doses of alcohol to people recovering from serious alcohol addiction.
Steve Jobs: What if the computer was a beautiful object? Something you wanted to look at and have in your home. And what if instead of it being in the right hands, it was in everyone's hands?

John Sculley: We'd be talking about the most tectonic shift in the status quo since...

Steve Jobs: ...ever.

Wonder if Sorkin could make a $1,000 phone and tax avoidance sound good? When did Apple change from being about the average person to being about the ultra rich, or has it always been this way? Maybe it's an unethical company not worth supporting anymore.

Way too much of the tech industry has come off as immoral and greedy this past weekend with these revelations. How do we reboot?
Fire up Terminate, call my favorite BBS, log on, check messages, play some Trade Wars 2002. Those were the days. For a brief time, I had my own BBS and I was really proud when it became a FidoNet point.
I'm on the phone with Comcast now, but I'm having trouble convincing the guy there's a problem :)
Same in Atlanta.
Same in Boston
UFC allegedly using customers PCs for crypto mining
Comcast Business is bad near Seattle
Par for the course. Youtube has gone completely insane and it is leaving a huge opening for less completely insane competitor platforms.
Yes, 4.2.2.1 DNS is down. Probably your problem.
Same issues in Plymouth, MA. Noticed it first w/ Stripe but now other sites like Reddit too.
Same thing happened to Brazilian carriers in general.

Law stated that every domestic flight fare within Brazil must include a 23kg checked bag, every international flight fare into and out of Brazil must include two(!!) 32kg checked bags.

Then the law changed and no more checked bag minimums, people cheered and airline promised lower fares, lo and behold, no more checked bags at domestic and one 23kg piece at international flights, but the prices have only gone up.
I have had great success with Mediawiki and Slate. With Mediawiki, you can use Categories, ex: [[Category:NameHere]], and templates (don't forget to update the CSS) for great organization and consistency. The usage of templates will allow you to be DRY, so if you update the template, where it is embedded will update too.

And Slate was just a pleasure to work with.
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Untangling the WebRTC Flow
To set some context for those that haven't seen the video in question, he placed a jar of fruit flies into a microwave and turned it on.

The flies were NOT harmed due to their size, and he went on to explain exactly why, discuss how microwaves function, EM wavelengths, standing waves, and so on.

However, anyone who looked at the title only might believe that he was harming the fruit flies, which is potentially why that video got so many reports.
South Florida as well, can't reach some websites.
Same on Xfinity in Oakland. What could cause this?!
Thanks for the tip. I'll pass this along to our users.
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I thought it was just me. I’m in Colorado. Bandwidth seems to be reporting as normal, however I’m having issues loading Facebook, imgur, some advertisements on reddit, etc.
Boston, Comcast Biz. Same issues.
Let's also complain about Mozilla because they are removing Flash support and thus breaking backwards compatibility. It's obvious that they are all 'evil'.
They don't care anyway. A while back I got a notification that a sexually explicit picture had been removed from my page. I had never seen the picture in question, said so, and asked where it had been posted, as I was worried that my account had been compromised. They completely ignored the question and I got back a standard 'we've reviewed the picture and found it's not compliant with our community standards' reply.

Their 'community standards' are also bullshit, of course, since the community of users has exactly zero input into the design of said standards. People can share video of violence and murder freely (though it may need a click-through to view), and I'm OK with that as some imagery can be both violent and newsworthy. But anything sexual is treated as toxic. My wife got banned for a week sharing a photo of a statue in a museum.

Like many people, I'd really like to leave the platform but not the network of friends that I communicate regularly with. And no, email and or other channels are not good substitutes. Any alternative has to offer at least the same degree of functionality/convenience to be worth using.
South Bend, IN is no bueno here.. both from comcast business and comcast residential
I'm in Colorado as well! Glad to know it's not just me. Are you on CenturyLink or Comcast?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637330
I currently can't reach doodle, something is definitely up.
> Dude, autocomplete=off should just work. Chrome does the WRONG THING.

Screw you. I've probably encountered 'autocomplete=off' thousands of times in my browsing history, and maybe 1% of the time was it being used for something that wasn't user-hostile. I don't care what the spec says, I care about what's good for users. If the spec writers aren't willing to embrace that, vendors will ignore it.
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Yeah well I still want to see some big pharma heads roll.
"The complete proof of 2 + 2 = 4 involves 2,863 subtheorems including the 189 above. (The command "show trace_back 2p2e4 /essential" will list them.) These have a total of 27,426 steps—this is how many steps you would have to examine if you wanted to verify the proof by hand in complete detail all the way back to the axioms." http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia
Also also, regarding restaurant reviews: Always consider that a negative review that only calls out bad service is quite possibly a review of the reviewer more than the restaurant. Anecdotally, I've seen my share of notes of bad service for restaurants that I frequent and have never had issues. I suspect that the reviewer had at least some part to play in such issues, but conveniently leave out or drastically underplay their own contributions.
if my paycheck was as small as what most publishers get from single videos most of the time i wouldn't really care.
I'm in the province of Quebec (Eastern Canada), and we're having huge problems with most websites. Strangely enough, LTE network is working on the three providers I've tried.
yeah, same pains that I've felt. I get the feeling that Atlassian products always lack some UI love
> I doubt you could find any member of the public who would say "Yes" if asked "Should research you paid for cost you money to read?".

Isn't that a claim that the public may have against the researchers, rather than against journals? A journal is merely _offering_ a publishing service, and the public may, if they deem that service unacceptable, demand of the researchers that they do not use it.
The market prioritizes short-term results over long term public goods. Think about it in microeconomic terms, aiming for a simplistic price equilibrium will give you the lowest common denominator outcome. The premise of the utility function selects for crap.
There seems to be a spike across many major services according to http://downdetector.com/

That is just user reports though, so they all could be symptoms of a greater issue.
There are so many articles about ICOs that don't offer any new thinking. This one covers:

1. Lots of ICOs happening (crossed $3B in money raised).

2. ICOs are risky.

3. SEC will likely use the Howey test to determine which ones are securities (and therefore need to comply with securities law)

4. Startups may be able to protect themselves by limiting token sales to accredited investors and providing more disclosures in their white papers. (a hack that most people now are well aware of -- i.e. the utility token + SAFT route)

5. When you invest in an ICO, you not just take financial risk, but also may inadvertently be breaking a law (basically, ICOs are fraught with uncertainty)

I wish we heard something new. Clearly, there is something interesting happening - a new way to raise money, or perhaps a new way to launch products. In the long run, it is exciting because it will help launch useful products and services. But many articles often just regurgitate what most people already know, and don't offer anything new.

I suppose regulatory authorities at some point will offer a way forward (by regulating this space -- which I think would be a good thing!). Until that happens, we just hear a lot of armchair thinkers and potential practitioners just conjecture endlessly.
Maybe I should have said "you have an explosion". I agree that this isn't really a bomb in the usual sense.
Or the US Congress could just change the law, close the loophole and require corporations to bring the money home anyway without any tax holidays...
just a representation of existing technologies in combination

I don't shop in those markets, but combining existing technologies into one product can be a step in the march forward.

See the integration of the memory controller, northbridge, video codecs, and so forth into the CPU SoC. No one integration blew the doors of, but helped pave the way to the fast, low-power chips we have today.
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Comcast is having major issues right now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412
You've got to drop actual technical data on them. Are you seeing complete routes to some destinations and not others? Do the incomplete routes stop inside Comcast's network?
And besides the whole rise of organized crime thing, it was a fabulous success!

Did you know that the customer warranty didn't exist before prohibition? People were generally so drunk that it wasn't considered a viable option to warranty your products because people would break them in their drunkenness.
And you want to be the judge who decides what is right and wrong?

Homosexuality is morally and legally wrong in many countries in the world, and sensitive topic, why not ban it by default because it's the joy of a fringe group of Americans?
More hypothetical than anything, and possibly a template for more likely scenarios. I mean, it would seem that there are some that seriously think the world is flat. Should I ever meet such a person and the topic comes up (and you know it will), I'd be curious as to the outcome of whipping out this rebuttal. I don't care about "winning" the argument, as there's nothing to win, but the response is what I'm after. I'm sure I'll be disappointed.
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The project is just us working in the open. We're not trying to push this as a new component framework for others to use, and we probably don't have the bandwidth to support external consumers, but we're happy if people can learn from it.
You're making the error of assuming that all web applications in production have the same user base and constraints as yours. For example, I work on an application that is a companion app to some larger domain applications that themselves only work on newer versions of Chrome and Firefox. I defacto don't have to support IE, as none of my users can use it. Additionally if you make a developer focused tool like bug reporting, APM, or log aggregation, you can probably ignore IE, if you don't target Windows devs.
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Yes. Comcast Business, SF.
I've yet to differentiate the "HD" rumble from just normal rumble. It just feels like there are more degrees of being "gentle" vs "strong". Is there a hardware difference between what's in the Joycons and the standard counterweight-on-a-motor?
If you consider the press and rhetoric she was getting for overturning death row convictions early in her career you could say they have been doing this to her for over 40 years. She is an intelligent woman and very effective as a litigator, which has made the right regard her as an extreme threat since they became aware of her.

I find it amazing and inspiring that she was able to survive politically and thrive despite ever-increasing smear tactics and baseless character gutting the GOP attempted on her. I find it sorely disappointing that after 40 years of it, the right finally succeeded in taking her down. Regardless of which side of the aisle I am on, as a feminist, I am awe struck by her and think she has done an unfathomable amount to advance the interests of women and all those resisting patriarchy globally.

I also hardly consider her a run of the mill politician. She brought the single-payer fight to the hill. She lost, but the current ACA had a lot of its legwork done by her efforts in 1992-1994. If we ever get single-payer, we will owe a lot of it to her.
Wow, quite the extreme take there, and a strawman argument at that. I don't know why you think that the alternative to not living in a city is a life "in remote isolation with delusions of Swiss Family Robinson self-sufficiency". The original comment even specifically referred to suburbs.

Transit may be wasted time, but for the vast majority of people, that transit consists almost entirely of going to and from work. Living in smaller cities or suburbs means that your transit time for everything outside of work will be roughly the same as someone living in a big city. So, if remote work were to be the norm, the wasted transit time is eliminated. I for one agree. The idea that you and others seem to believe in where anything outside a major city is an apocalyptic hellscape that is "more damaging to adults or children" than anything else is not just melodramatic, its pure fiction, and like the OP, is a viewpoint I imagine is only held by a (very) vocal minority.
Oakland checking in. Can't reach about half of the internet, dropping a lot of packets.
How much should you spend on business cards?
If you unplugged Apple's board (or given decision-making apparatus) and plugged in a (currently nonexistent) AI with the parameter "Maximize Profit," would you see a different result? I think not. I think we'd see things far more morally horrifying, in fact, with just enough PR makeup to ensure "maximized profit."

Unsure why we laud capitalism and then act horrified at the result. Here in America we've made our decision - profit rules above all else. It is more profitable to lobby congress than it is to upgrade a refinery, it's more profitable to auto-deny every health insurance claim than it is to provide the services your customers think they're paying for, it's more profitable to avoid taxes than not (as long as you can avoid breaking the law TOO hard).
Yeah but then they couldn't pay congress as much!
"Truth" of course is a red herring. "Claim" is better. And, "digitally signed claim" is better yet.

Then to answer your Q: a good sharding approach should let you see all digitally signed claims (including when those claims were made) with probability --> 1.0. I'm framing this probabilistically because many sharding approaches rely on that definition. (And even non-sharded blockchains like Bitcoin itself.)
I'm always skeptical when someone precedes "close the loophole" with the word "just", especially when the entity searching for loopholes has hundreds of billions of dollars in cash. Closing loopholes is good, but they'll almost certainly find another one.
Berkeley too.
Sounds interesting. About the role of CPS: for specialization purposes, CPS can have some benefits by splitting control flow. For example, if your input is "if (c) a else b" and c is a staged (=symbolic) value, then a CPS interpreter can ignore the control-flow join that's implied by the if-then-else, and continue processing longer paths independently. However, this also quickly leads to exponential code blow-up, and hence, we do not use CPS for the core model described in the paper.
To be honest, I remember a lot of that kind of videos and you has to be logged in to prove your age. Maybe I searched for that kind of stuff back then, it was as allowed, or they were not actively hunting down that content.
i think the classification of ice as "low entropy" and water vapour as "high entropy" is a little simplistic... ice in your refigerator on a hot summer day does not have "low entropy."

otherwise a really accesible tutorial on a difficult subject. easier to grasp entropy as a probabilistic/info theory concept, than physics.
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You've crossed into personal attack and made a throwaway account to create—ironically—flamewar drama of your own. Both of these are bannable offenses on Hacker News, so I've banned this account.

Make accounts to break the HN guidelines with will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that.

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