skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen people arguing in favor of this but what's the reason?
This will help you grasp the sizes of things in the universe
Front ends in Lua? Say no more:

http://github.com/moai/moai-dev/
> Making games more addictive is not really all that "evil" or "reprehensible".

Considering the amount of behavioral science being used to accomplish this, it's actually quite "evil".

As much as we humans fancy our intellect and "free will", we are still just very predictable biological automatons. Put us in a very well designed skinner-box, and we gonna be pushing that button until our body rots away without us even noticing.

There is a very fine line between making something "engaging", for the sake of building something exciting, and making something "engaging" for the sake of keeping "engagement going".
This raises a good point of why connecting gear to the cloud that doesn't need to be comes to bite ya.

Ongoing cloud costs for eol products will kill old products quicker.. That shouldn't be connected to, or rely on the cloud.

I own harmony hubs and will have to figure out how to leave.

EDIT: I'll look for products that are hybrid-cloud enabled - ones that offer locally stored and run backends (perhaps an offline-first progressive web apps as control panels that can sync to a cloud API if it exists).
There is an option for "verbatim" searches.

Anyway, google ignores synonyms if you use double quotes around each word or phrase.
Not to be morbid, but what is the actual cause of death when this kills you? I wonder if it is difficult sometimes for the public to understand the danger behind a disease because it's difficult for them to bridge the gap between "this is really unpleasant" and "this will kill me".
The proof that that's not true is that whose second-generation sharks DO appear. Not all small companies get squashed, and some of them grow large enough to grow into sharks themselves, thus breaking the monopoly.
It's been a while since I really cared about this realm, but wasn't the big deal with Google Fonts in the beginning that licensing was almost impossible to deal with as an individual or small company?
I genuinely believe one of those IoT companies will start banning users who talk of legal recourse for hate speech or some such.
Only a matter of time before harmony hubs are hit.

OTOH, maybe there's a few months to reverse engineer the link backend for those affected.
Do you mean - "Vizio"?
Then configure your browser not to download them.
I have come to the same conclusion. There needs to be more IoT devices that function like that though. It is difficult to find ones that meet those requirements.

Does anyone know of a good smart thermostat with an api that can be used without a proprietary cloud?
Other people are doing it too is NOT legally a valid excuse for anything.

Source: tax lawyer.
LOL. The PC was nearly entirely a free market phenomenon. It’s like sayming cars wouldn’t exist without governments switching warships to oil, most developments are inevitable regardless of government actions.
All other things aside, the American taxation-by-citizehship instead of residence has some nasty and unfortunate consequences that your comment suggests you've never considered.

Some Dutch people in the Netherlands who were incidentally born in the US (ergo, also US citizens) but have never lived or worked in the US are now presented with the absurd scenario of actually having to do what you suggest. Of course this is just one country; in principle it applies to anyone who returned home to another country after being born in the US.

Here is the case of a woman, who was taken by her parents back to the NL as a baby, now has to establish herself first in a country in which she's never worked or lived in order to renounce an unwanted citizenship. She must get a social security number, file six years of previous taxes to a foreign country, and only then can she seek renouncing of her US citizenship. In case you were unaware, simply renouncing also costs several thousand dollars.

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2044332-amerikaanse-belasti...

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/06/us-tax-service...

So yeah, just give it up! Piece of cake! /s
I think the question is less about size than about deterioration. By analogy - old documents are hard to read sometimes because ink has faded. So the question is more like: is the size the problem or is it the fidelity?
Insecurity: The Root of Developer Evil
Yeah, having done robotics in the past, I'm super skeptical of promises of level 5 autonomy in the real world, even in the medium term.

I mean, we were able to do level 5 trucks in the desert two decades ago! But the human world is much less benign, and the perception problem is hard. And the history of AI is littered with limited solutions that failed to scale.

So I'm more curious about the purported GM testing of level 4 in Manhattan, it's a much more realistic and far less forgiving driving environment.
My understanding is that it costs the manufacturer something like $5 difference to put what's essentially a Roku into a TV to make it "smart" (which kind of makes sense as you can buy a Roku stick for $30 retails and it has to have a case, cable, box, external hdmi connector, power etc.).

The manufacturer then sells the smart tv at a $25-50 premium over the dumb version and it's a decent profit for them.

FWIW - I was always skeptical of the onboard TV smart features, but the Samsung TV that I use a computer monitor actually is actually surprisingly decent.
Ya, how dare some people want to use a field they had reserved ahead of time!

Sometimes I wonder what bizarro world other people are living in. Every city in America has public spaces which can be reserved - playing fields, gazebos, park areas, picnic spaces, museums, art spaces. Only because it was tech workers in SF does anyone suddenly pretend like first-come first-served laissez faire is the only acceptable use of shared resources.
books, on paper?
Nice font, but it just looks out of focus to me.
No, a fair number of the statements in his post were and are demonstrably false.
Noticed this as well. When I started using DDG it was like stepping 10 years back in time. Lots of interesting niche websites that look straight out of the 00's.

I mostly miss google when searching for physical locations, but the !g comes in handy there.
So this what the serious movie reviewers do in such cases:

They ignore it. Sometimes it's fun to take down a bad movies, such as the usual big warmongering patriotic Hollywood blockbusters or the latest fascist superhero fad or genocidal fanfare. Sometimes it's necessary education. But mostly you ignore it.

Those blockbuster movies only live by the advance hype and star power. After the first weekend and the first serious reviews are in, they usually go down very fast, that's why they take the Spielberg/Jaws route, starting in >3000 theaters, best worldwide, and leave them after the first or 2nd week.

If it's really bad, no advance screenings to the previews are allowed for certain movies when they don’t expect the reviews to be very positive. Although studios often give the flimsy excuse that a particular movie was intended only to please the fans, rather than snooty critics, most of the time this is a strong indication that a movie is a piece of crap. They just want to give themselves a chance to make money on the opening weekend before word gets out about how bad it really is.
Disney is one of the worst offenders in the business, besides the Weinsteins, Relativity and New Line Cinema.

This is also the best sign to check if it's worthwhile. When there's only marketing hype or official press clippings but no serious review, the movie is mostly crap. No one writes about it.
But "income tax" is a misleading name for this. It's a tax on corporate profits.

The letter wants you to compare this rate to _your_ rate of income tax and be shocked. But this is stupid, the corporation is not a human being.

For those profits to be enjoyed by anyone, they have to be paid out again as salary, or dividend, or recovered by selling shares... and these transactions are all taxed. And, of course, all of this money which is now profit was taxed when whoever bought the computer was charged VAT.

(Who signs the check to the tax man on each of these transactions is irrelevant, but another common way to mislead people for outrage. The tax man stands between you and Apple and demands VAT... and between Apple and their employee and demands income tax... how this is collected is, again, an implementation detail.)
> they rage non-stop, pretty much every day, about Trump this and Trump that

Sounds to me like you are a Trump supporter then? :-)
(And Anthony et al 2017 don't use checkpoints at all, noting that it slows things down a lot for no benefit in their Hex agent.)
> Logitech is one of these hardware companies that don't care anymore about their customers

My experience, historically, has been the exact opposite. While they do discontinue products I love, the few times I've had to call upon their tech support they've been as helpful as could be.
Ok so I actually watched most of that on crappy internet - and there are many places where there are big issues with the underlying assumptions.

I think around the 14 minute mark or something you made a statement that people need to be aware of the apps they choose.

Prior to that you had argued that (mostly for the first world) behavioral choices are the root of the major causes of morbidity.

Your redeeming speech comes at around the 20 minute mark.

Issues first:

1) you assume people have a choice - and that inherently Discounts the over size impact of bad actors and antagonists.

This point alone, fundamentally changes the constants underpinning the model you tacitly must be running to support your other predictions.

2) people are terrible at making a lot of choices on average. People choosing good apps over bad is similar to hoping people make good life style choices.

Unlikely, and far too path dependent. Unless you are highly informed, educated about skinner/conditioning and tech aware and cynical - you won’t succeed.

3) a lot of those behavioral problems have arisen from large firms using old school behavioral influencing to create that situation.

There is no basis for hope that more behavioral tools will solve the problem.

20 minutes onwards though, and you have a much better Wicket - at least up to the point I’ve watched.

Which is another thing. Very few people are going to watch a 30 minute video of you speaking, especially when we’re on a text based forum.
I have always just used ctrl + pgup/pgdown in Chromium for tab switching (same in Sublime). I am guessing OP is referencing the fixed min-width of the tabs though?

I know it is completely insane, but I have a strong compulsion to keep my tab count low. Once it starts approaching 7 or so, it is time to evaluated which 3 or 4 have to go.

Meanwhile I go look at someone else's monitor and they have 25 open all the time, and I can recognize some haven't been touched in weeks. I just think to myself "Clean up after yourself. How can you live like this?"
Solving both meatspace and cyberspace problems requires a fundamental change to how we distribute wealth in this country. Since the economy isn’t going to become less tech-oriented any time soon, making sure that technology is more economically democratic is incredibly important.

Far less people in SF would be homeless if the tech economy wasn’t so focused on pushing all its gains to the wealthy (and less so to an engineer class that enables them).
Apples not getting any direct government subsidies. It’s paying more taxes than anyone else in the world, and doing it legally.
This was actually a problem for me recently. I just wanted to know the options for restaurants in an area of London. I didn't want results specific to me, I wanted all of the restaurants. I ended up not using Google since it just wouldn't give me the simple information I was looking for. Googles becoming less and less useful as time goes on, which is a real shame as they were excellent 10 years ago.
Nice job in summing the material and a great dockerized example!
Apache OpenOffice: We are ok with not being super cool
That is because of smooth scrolling. I had to reduce the time for smooth scrolling to complete. I forget the key I modified in about:config.
> FDE is presumably Firefox Developer Edition.

> "Compact" is the built-in compact styling.

Yes and yes
I do it for bandwidth. Why should I need to download a font when my device already has several on it.
I'd bet my left nut that by 2021 there won't be a self-driving car subscription service. I'd be surprised if your average consumer could buy them by then.
Open Letter to the New York Times
Dear NYT,

I am referring to your article “What Explains Mass Shootings in the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html).” In it you lead with a very compelling graphic that shows number of mass shooters vs. the number of guns. The United States is in the upper right corner, with everyone else clustered near the lower left. It’s not even close, and the implications are clear.

And utterly misleading.

Of course the right way to look at it is chart 2, which scales the metrics by population. The U.S. is still the outlier, but the image is not as dramatic. The truth can be messy like that.

Why would you do that? Surely you know how misleading the primary chart is. It must be because it tells a story you want to tell more clearly.

But wait - even that’s not it. The real reason is Facebook. I keep seeing friends post a link to your article and your dramatic, misleading image is what shows up. Lovely clickbait, I’m sure.

This is very disappointing. I’m a liberal. I’m for gun control. But I don’t want a liberal, less bad version of Fox. I want something that really tries to be the truth. A media outlet I can count on. If you will mislead so transparently, what’s going on in all those other articles where it is harder to know the truth?

Disappointed,

Ross Rosen
Seattle, WA
What are the benefits of neovim over vim 8?
This video is pretty strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYNuR1oaQts
The problem with benchmarks is that they don't always represent real world performance.

Where I work sometimes we have really big PRs (+-5000 lines of code). In GitHub diff pages, the scrolling in Chrome is really jerky, while the scrolling in Firefox Quantum is smooth. And for me this is much more important than some random Javascript benchmark.
Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?
This seems like an easy problem to solve. Require companies to open source at least the API for any device they discontinue providing service for.
Literally the only sticker I will allow to be on my laptop:

https://squaredesign.com/builds/wq/

:wq
In the end we all win.

We win as consumers because of all the tremendous value and products those damn corporations keep creating. Like smaller, faster and cheaper computers and whatnot.

We also win as citizens because those corporations buy stuff, create jobs and pay taxes (as much as asked from them and not more!).

And we can also win as Lords by simply buying some shares and owning those evil corporations...
You aren’t allowed to give up your US citizenship without paying at least 10 more years of US taxes. Even if your citizenship was inherited and you haven’t lived in the s since you were a toddler.
The hardware is fine.
I wouldn't say the same about OSes. Desktop experience with Linux is incoherent. Windows and OS X are legacy monsters with 20 years of piling new features on top of not exactly rock solid foundation.
Every time I see a frame drop when switching desktops on my MacBook I get so angry, I mean, really? It's 2017, game graphics are almost indistinguishable from life, and we're still having trouble drawing a couple of rectangles as our desktops?
The Guardian has a clear anti-tech/SV bias, I'll take the lot with a desert spoon of salt.
Imho certain personalities are more keen on this than others. I've seen it getting called "a propensity to compulsion", which is a very fitting way to put it.
The page is in Greek with no language switcher. I can't tell what the startup is doing. The link doesn't go to a page that explains the founding, just the homepage. Is there a better source with background or context?
Please explain the difference between "tax loophole" and "tax law."
You mean the security story is better in Firefox? Can you share some context/details?
One thing that these benchmarks don't capture is user perceived latency. A lot of work went into this for 57, making it feel faster, regardless of what a microbenchmark may pick up.

Of course, work is going into making those numbers better too, but I don't think that this kind of benchmarking tells the whole story.

(Also, these mostly seem to be benching JavaScript performance? That's certainly not the whole story of 57.)
Saudi-Arabias newest cititizen is a robot named Sophie
Sometimes I wish I could compartmentalize my decision-making process like this. I can't though. Actions usually have moral implications totally apart from their legality, and these implications seem at least as important as the legal side of things.

In terms of closing tax loopholes: tax loopholes are like vulnerabilities in software. They will always exist despite the best effort of lawmakers (programmers, in this analogy). The difference is that lawyers (hackers) don't go to jail for finding and exploiting loopholes.

In my opinion the root of this problem is the legal profession. The practice of law seems almost irreparably broken to me. Money should not have relevance in a courtroom, but it obviously does, it always has, and it will continue to. I have no clue how to fix this, but I think it's a huge problem in liberal western democracies whether it's patent trolling, Apple/X megacorp employing an army of layers to avoid paying taxes, or Harvey Weinstein/Bill Cosby committing sexual assault/rape over and over again without ever visiting a jail cell.
New stunning pictures of Jupiter courtesy of Juno
I don't care about a lot of political subject, would it be inequality, welfare, immigration, racism, etc.

But tax havens seem like a huge threat, and my favorite subject of opinion of all, and they are a big source of problem in how the economy is unfair and how any country's budget is unbalanced. Weirdly, libertarians will defend the existence of tax havens.

I'm really happy to see that some political actors are finally advancing on that subject. Even in terms of geopolitics, it will be delicate, but I don't care, this is the largest abscess to burst, and it's crazy it's not a bigger issue and that it took such a long time. It's really time that this gets fixed.
Couldn't agree more, the new logitech mice are awful. I have a spare G400 in case this one breaks but thanks to ebay cord repair kits my original is still going strong.
Every smart TV has WiFi. Even if you switch WiFi off, its not always off, on many devices.
What is Win + C + H + R? Is that just Win + R?
sigh I just spend an hour trying to figure out why my emscripten code no longer works. Browsing hacker-news and seeing this post about Firefox. Remembering my Firefox developer edition earlier today mentioned some update on start (FF 58.01b now). And yeah, for some reason it broke some emscripten code (edit: seems now it rather broke WebGL canvas).
The problem with all speculative investments is that you eat like a bird but shit like an elephant: earnings tend to be additive and losses exponential.

Some gambling is fun as long as you don't bet the family savings.
I'm surprised the international community hasn't built a few walls/fences to contain threats like those.
The whole problem with all of this is that it's very hard (and maybe even intractable?) to define in advance what a "tax loophole" is. If it was easy to define then we could just write it out of the tax code.

I think the only way is for companies to make strong commitments to doing so, so in the case of future leaks like this or further investigative journalism, we would all have something to point to.
Kudos to Matthew, Ines and others making this possible.

I haven't checked it out myself yet, so I wanted to ask that are the performance issues fixed that were haunting the 2.0 alpha version?
Darknet Chronicles Pt 3: Forums and Sabotage
"All of the fuss" is not so much that the choices of banking available to an American abroad are reduced (though they are, and not necessarily due to the laws and regulations of the host country; and of course it depends how difficult it is based on the country) but that FINCEN/FBAR compliance which is in principle aimed at those evading taxes actually results in real pain for typical Americans who are living and working abroad, who only want to do right tax-wise.
They shouldn’t be people, and shouldn’t pay income tax.
I wouldn't rant if it was for intensive usage. But even twitter or the main UI can slow down.
Microservices with Nomad and Consul
Aside: Ines appears to be working on something called Prodigy [1] which seems close to what I imagined would be a "Killer App" after playing around with SpaCy. I look forward to hearing more about it as it matures.

[1] https://prodi.gy/
>> Did you want to make zero-tax status a precondition for establishing tax residency there? What gives you the right to do so?

This is a pretty twisted way of publicly shaming someone for just asking. They have all the right to put whatever condition on any country they want. Any country has the right to not accept their conditions.

If the intent of the author is to publicly shame Apple and paint them as being somehow culpable for the poor conditions of the said countries, then its not working. There are jobs that Apple bring to these countries that kick start their economies. Again, its not for nothing that countries _agree_ with their pre-conditions.

The other argument presented here is that smaller companies don't get to play by these rules. Again, they can. Just that there is no incentive for a country to not tax smaller companies.

Bottom line: Apple brings more to the countries than just its taxes, and that's why the countries are fine with their special tax status.
I bought a Logitech Harmony remote that had a touchscreen. It was very expensive and a total piece of garbage. I think we put up with it for about a month before my family asked for the separate TV, receiver, and cable box remotes back.
I'd be happy, but beside a context and a list of tabs I have no precise info to give. Would it still be useful ?
"By the end, most people would probably have upgraded.".

Or switched to a different product. IoT products shouldn't depend on the cloud -- or they should explicitly indicate a certain number of years of support based on the purchase date (so the customer knows what they're signing up for)
Which is why I think the current scheme of publicly traded companies at base is flawed. Earlier this week someone posted something along the lines of, once you become public your product is stock, not whatever you produce.

I think we ought to use the power of the executive to straight up revoke charters to businesses that are American that engage in these schemes. Something I learned about while reading about the British and Dutch east India companies.
It does sound easy to solve, unless you start digging into the inevitable workarounds and exceptions to the law.

What if service isn't discontinued, but merely suspended?

What if the company goes out of business? What if it's purchased, and becomes a different legal entity?

What if the service is discontinued as the result of a legal action?

What if the API depends on some proprietary technology?
Can you describe the right architecture?
So there is no reason as to 'why' they are being bricked. They just are doing it for the money?
What about the ones with wireless connectivity and no hardware kill switch for it?
Bingo on cloud required. Devices should be able to work cloud free (stand alone) or cloud enabled.

Maybe PWA's can become the default offline first configuration web interfaces of devices, and sync while the cloud is still available.