skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those things you listed are dubious claims at best. However, if you promise you're in good faith, pointing out the crimes of one group disproportionately is a pretty bigoted thing to do. Breitbart had (maybe still does) a section called "Black Crime", in which they exclusively had stories about crimes involving African American people. Hitler's regime would put out news bulletins highlighting crimes committed by Jews. When you focus exclusively on one group and they bad things they're doing, it leaves the impression that these groups are disproportionately committing crimes, making them out to be worse than they really are.
Could that eventual hvac trailer take regen power from the semi, given the extra weight.

It might be the case where battery in trailer makes sense.
I work in cybersecurity. I'll have to set money aside for a couple years to make a considerable down payment, but I might be able to afford one of these.
Putting aside the fact that REITs are already a thing, there's a fundamental misconception here:

I'm not really interested in having capital tied
up in real-estate, but a lot of people are.

Nobody wants their capital "tied up", they want it performing.
The reason real estate is such a popular (and often successful ) investment is because of 3 factors:

- income (via rent)

- leverage (via a mortgage)

- appreciation (via time and luck)

Leverage is made possible because the income from a property can cover some or all of the cost of the interest on the loan, meaning that all that's tied up is the downpayment, so the appreciation enjoys a multiplier effect (say 5x if you put 20% down). Offering a contract that only allows the investor to participate in the appreciation without any leverage or income just doesn't make sense (for the investor).
> Why build a browser and not extensions for top browsers?

I happen to be working on this right now http://browsercoin.com, if anybody is interested in beta testing it out, my email is in my profile.

> Extensions face API and performance limits. Our own browser lets us put our best foot forward on speed and deep integration of private ad-tech. We may do extensions if our users find themselves browsing in other browsers often.

Basically, their FAQ answer is debatable because the Chrome API is more than enough to support a Patreonesque model, if you have uBlock and other privacy focused extension, you don't even need to download a heavy browser client.

Hence the name BrowserCoin, I'd be open to feedbacks on what you would like to see happen with it.
I'm no expert but I think Clojurescript takes the Clojure language (spelt with a "j") and converts it to unoptimized Javascript, which then gets processed by the Closure compiler (spelt with an "s"). The Closure compiler takes unoptimized Javascript and emits optimized/minified Javascript.

Closure is from Google, but is independent of GWT which is also from Google, despite the two projects having similar aims. Closure is modern, whereas GWT is not.

The open source team who maintain GWT now (after Google abandoned it) are in the middle of a re-write, which will be called GWT 3 (current version is GWT 2). GWT 3 will convert Java to unoptimized Javascript and use the Closure compiler to optimize it etc (as Clojurescript does). Current GWT 2 does not use Closure but does its optimizations itself.

I may have got some of that wrong, corrections welcome!
help what? is it a bad thing for reddit if other 'reddit clones' exist around certain worldviews?
I don't really see how a browser that blocks ads is any different from an extension that blocks ads.
Your brazen support of censorship is troubling.
Biggest hurdle in using zfs is that it consumes a huge amount of ram and uses considerable CPU cycles when compared with xfs or ext4. It's like running a massive MySQL server on top of another MySQL server if ever that was possible. Follow Reddit datahorders subreddit people speak all the time about how powerful freenas machine must be just to give decent transfer speeds over samba. Yes freenas will run without lot of CPU speed and ram but performance will suffer greatly.
>Worst of all, our database is not backed up, so we lost our data backed up, but the backups don't work, so we lost our data sharded, so we lost our data twice NoSQL, so we're webscale, and we've been losing data for years

Heh. What I keep running into at various companies: "Backed up, but for some reason the restore is going to take three days (if it works), and it will be faster to tap original sources.

Why are we doing backups, then? Company policy.
Smart contracts don't actually make that “super doable”, because the underlying events and property are off-chain with no way for a smart contract to either react to or direct them. It's also doable without smart contracts: form a corporation where you are the sole initial shareholder, sell the property to the corporation while reserving yourself a life estate, and then privately sell as much of the stock as you wish. It's heavily regulated, since you are dealing with both real estate and securities laws, but it's doable, ad smart contracts don't avoid the complexity because ultimately you still need to deal with all the meatspace legal issues.

OTOH, the really big problem with the idea is separating decision-making about the property (which drastically impacts future value) from financial interest in future value. Your aren't investing in the property market, you are investing in the person managing the property, and people who aren't suckers aren't going to want to do that at arm's length without due diligence on the individual and some oversight of their management of the property. (And the ones that are suckers are going to get fleeced quickly and then not be available to invest.)
For viewing the code, whatever is your favorite editor. To comment on it, go talk to the person.
Deathblow Dealt to Dark Matter Disks
I don't understand all the implications, but I often hear from JIT language people that their language could be as fast as a AOT language if it was used correctly.

What are the use-cases that lend itself to be faster in Rust, than JS/Ruby/Phython?
LOL. Sorry about that. I'm in Colorado. But for the accountant, anywhere in the states would be fine. We have a DE C Corp. An accountant who specializes in SaaS startups would be great!
That's kind of silly. Every single thing that happens in politics is "new" at one point, so therefore we should be able to post every new political thing?
How to Find Your Most Productive Hours
You can configure Gerrit to cherry-pick, and I believe the default is to do a merge.
That seems like a question with a really obvious answer.

Because it is useful, makes users happy, and generates revenue. There really isn't another useful standard to apply here.
A projector in a conference room.
You’d be wrong to assume it. Amish make some of the best candies around, made the old way but full of sugar. I doubt they are growing their own sugar cane so it’s likely it comes from sugar beets or corn.

My fried growing up was from Pennsylvania and would bring back massive amounts of candy from Amish country. Whenever I drive to Florida I see many road side stores touting “Amish made candy”.

The answer is yes they eat the candy they make as well.
Anyone who has tried out pullrequest.com (YC S17)?
I'd consider the latest iPad Pro better for sketching, thanks to high frame rate and no lag, pressure sensitivity control, pencil "angle" control, and iPad-native software options have BnL surpassed desktop.

// Digital ink junkie since the Newton, currently own and use latest models of Wacom Cintiq, Surface, iPad, and Remarkable.
Excellently put. Good or bad all depends on context and context (via ever-changing environmental pressures) has changed about a billion times during our long, winding path towards becoming modern homo-sapiens.
You have to think about the effects of what you are saying.

Let's say you have the "non-racist" slave owner. No matter what they personally believe about the equality of individual humans, they create a world where the people who come after will believe fundamentally different things about races.

You can't say, slavery IS wrong, but we are going to do it anyway because we are selfish. The act is racist, because the people who come after you will justify your decisions and cement a racial worldview that you contributed to.
If your young child gets lost, why is a watch that reports GPS once an hour a bad thing?

This is very different than spying on a teacher or recording audio.
The intended purpose of mobile phones is not to spy on unsuspecting bystanders. Phones are even explicitly mentioned in the official justification by the parliament when they enacted that law.
You cannot prove the goodness or badness of a thing by a single data point.
Lots of people here pointing out minor, easily fixable nitpicks here, completely fail to understand how bad the ad/monetization/content world has gotten. Ad fraud is still an insanely huge problem that companies like Twitch and Youtube constantly wrestle with (former Twitch employee here). Monetization policies are still arcane, unfair, and increasingly untenable for many content producers on Youtube (google "Youtube monetization drama" if you really don't know).

The whole idea that you can pay creators instead of watching ads is obviously a good one, and this is really the best attempt so far at actually solving the problem. Someone suggested implementing this as a chrome extension -- Really? They took an ambitious route with building their own browser, but that's obviously the correct move if Brave's goal is to transform the way ads and monetization work on the internet, which if you haven't paid attention, is currently destroying everything good about the Web and eating away at the values of civic society (again, see recent congressional hearings on Russian Manipulation if you've missed the news)

(Disclosure: I hold a small amount of BAT, but mostly discouraged by the finnicky nature of some of these comments that want Everything to be Perfect Overnight without realizing the scale of the problem that Brave/BAT are trying to accomplish)

Edit: If you want more reading on the subject of how screwed the digital content monetization industry is, this link is also sitting on Hacker News a couple stories below this one.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-c...
Hey Will Brown, I'm curious about the implementation of creating a token on Ethereum. Have you written anything about that?

And I completely agree about the courts needing to decide. A bizarre idea - should we generate a lawsuit as performance art? To establish precedence? That's a scary world if it's possible.
Since they are owned by a parent company (look at the sig of the email), are they really shutting it down or are they going to reassign the employees to another team with a different name?
Don’t worry, when the tire blows it’ll take that fiddly piece of plastic with it. Which I think is at least part of parent’s point.
Combustion engines need lots and lots and lots of little extra bits to hit the (still very bad) efficiency numbers they have. Every extra moving part is another thing you're paying the mechanic to check, repair or replace. Good for the mechanic, bad for your trucking operation.

Electric motors are brutally simple. So first that means they break down less often, second it means they're less complicated for the mechanic to figure out what the problem is.

And that's before the straight to technical advantages. Take braking. In a normal truck you turn speed into heat by rubbing brake pads. This gradually destroys the pads, so they're a consumable. But an electric truck turns much of the speed back into electricity instead. The pads get much less wear, you replace them less often.
X-Rays Around Rotating Black Holes Can Act as Carriers of Quantum Information
> there is basically no publisher in existence involved in any sort of news or political news coverage who says to themselves, my readers are demanding more of their news on video as opposed to text. Not a single one. The move to video is driven entirely by advertiser demand.

What's true is that no representative group of readers who have said what that hypothetical publisher claims they said exist.

But publishers make the claim that they would say that all the time.

I recently was assigned a project to convert all our technical manuals into 100-second Youtube feature highlights. You pay me, I will do what you ask, so it's done...but the analytics don't look good. Not even bots are watching those videos.

> Another way of putting that is that the future that VCs and other investors were investing hundreds of millions of dollars in probably doesn’t exist.

It doesn't need to exist for most or even an above-average VC. If those hundreds of millions were invested by 100 investors at $1M in each of 100 companies, and 99 tanked but 1 unicorn made a 100x return, they would continue to behave in that way.
It does. It will heat up. To quote a physics textbook: “Power transfer between a voltage source and an external load is at its most efficient when the resistance of the load matches the internal resistance of the voltage source.” IOW in the configuration where the power transfer is at its most efficient, battery has to dissipate as much thermal energy as motor(s) are consuming. Too much internal resistance and most of the thermal energy ends up in the battery. Too little, and your motors aren’t going to do their best. But in either case even with the load that’s not 100% matched, you do end up with a ton of heat dissipation in the battery when a heavy car like this is driven hard.
It isn't really a matter of verifying it independently. But we know that Google isn't the expert on dog eating and is only getting their information from third party sources. So we have to know the source to consider its credibility instead of Google's.
As far as I can tell, Brave is doing both. The money rests in a third party account that has no affiliation with the receiver, and they have no way of getting to it until they register.

To put it succinctly, I think it's unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.

(whereas yeah, I don't consider holding money in escrow unethical)
The law in its current form was passed in 2012 and was specifically restricted to devices that have the purpose of spying. We can safely assume that the lawmakers were aware of current technology.
> Hate speech is illegal and should be removed.

This is a lie. Hate speech is not illegal, and the SCOTUS has explicitly made this clear.

To not have an understanding of the critical importance for private individuals to speak freely shows an extraordinary lack of knowledge of history, for one. And you declare you are an attorney in your HN "about" page?
Wow this is really useful!
As a layman: why don't things like GridCoin take off? Is it only mindshare/being late to the party/or something alike, or are there technical reasons for it?

Bitcoin seems like a waste of energy in comparison (again, as a layman). Apparently enough to be in the top 65 of global power consumption for countries. [0][1]

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
Accelerating at > 1g off the line has its own set of issues - without extra downforce from somewhere you have traction problems regardless of tires, street tires just make it worse.

This is why you see so many approx 2.9s 0-60 times in higher end sports cars, it's hard for aerodynamics to affect it much over the first couple of seconds.
I was going to take issue with you're "this is the answer" description but sure enough, on the featured snipped "About this result", Google interchanges the word "answer" and "result" pretty arbitrarily:

When a user asks a question in Google Search, we might show a search result in a special featured snippet block at the top of the search results page. This featured snippet block includes a summary of the answer, extracted from a webpage, plus a link to the page, the page title and URL...
I agree that browsing large threads is a pain on HN, I believe there are technical difficulties at the core that make it difficult to improve without ruining the performance (or at least, I know it used to be the case).

As for lobste.rs, a website I didn't know existed before your comment, looking at the frontpage I see that the "politics" tag is conspicuously absent, and instead all tags are about rather objective things like technologies being used (with maybe the exception of a lone "philosophy" tag).

I'd also point out that if I had up all the number of comments of all the stories on the front page currently I end up at a whopping 42 comments with most stories having none. I'm sure it's a very nice community but it's really too small to use as a reference.
Are there Facebook engineers here?

I believe Facebook heavily uses btrfs, which has a similar design and feature set. But they may only use it for object storage.

Did they try using it for MySQL databases?
I think the problem is "who gets to be verified?" Why can't I be verified? The implication was that verified users were special in some way (maybe just in a Sneeches "stars upon thars" way), and so giving it to admitted Nazis and white nationalists was seen as saying they deserved to be special. And then taking it away made them and their supporters feel they weren't special anymore.
I wouldn't even know how
Doesn’t mean much. They had to replace a lot of stuff between the presented and production model x, like the door hinges, because from prototype to reality there’s an abyss, especially for a car that’s supposed to sustain thise speeds.
"everyone" meaning everyone who buys ads?

No, they probably spend their marketing budget on "online marketing" because they were told it's necessary
Where are you living? Probably not in Germany.

It's highly unlikely that anyone carries an active Microphone if they are not actively making a call with their phone.
1.9 seconds

That's what caught my attention the most. This is unheard of in a production car. I'm also generally very excited that Lamborghini is also experimenting with electric power.

We might be entering a new breed of electric supercars. the 3 second line used to be the gold standard but it seems like electric cars are aiming for sub 1.5 second range....that is insane acceleration.
as of bash 4, 'shopt -s autocd' will "execute" a directory by cd-ing to it.
Spending money while building out your main product pipeline is perfectly acceptable to me. How many quarters of runway would you want them to hold on hand? If in six months when their cash on hand gets low they can issue a new round of funding and investors can decide if its worth pumping more money into the company or if they won't be able to turn a profit. This would be the exact behavior you get from any company in a high growth phase, the only difference is most of the time the only people who get a look at the books of these companies are the investment firms who lead crazy valuation rounds since the public doesn't have access to pre IPO startups.
Well, most of my friends happen to be "in to" cars, so I've spent a lot of time being around and talking about cars.

Since I'm "good with computers", I would always help them with their electrical issues, which eventually evolved into me tuning their cars and dealing with any other EFI related issues. Most tuners charge around $500, but I do it all for free, so that helps.

If you really want to get involved, seek out some car clubs in your area and check out some of the open source ECU projects (such as Speeduino). Usually, car hobbyist can be identified by a group of people standing in a parking lot staring at their cars. Most of them love to brag about their setup, so they're pretty receptive to people asking questions.
> no problem with the police targeting Nazis

So what you are saying is, that all the police have to do is label someone a Nazi, and you'll give them a free pass for whatever it is that they do?
I don't think anyone here realizes what this would do to a property. This sort of encumberment, splitting ownership between possibly hundreds of people, is a huge headache. Try getting a proper mortgage when you have dozens of owners. See what happens when one of those owners goes into bankruptcy proceedings and that piece of your property gets tied up. And as an investor, get ready for a city/state to come after you should the primary owner walk away and stop paying taxes. And let us not forget the laws in many countries that require interests in land to be registered.

The only way to do this practically would be to put ownership of the property into a corporation and sell shares in that corp. But that gets you out of the personal property market, no more owner-occupier status for mortgages or insurance.
They're both incorrect, I think. Acceleration rate would be the rate of change of the rate of change of speed, or what is known as 'jerk' in engineering. I guess that would be the time that it takes to go from 0 to the '0-60 in 1.8s' acceleration? The correct term is simply 'acceleration' on its own.
You can't engage these people in conversation.

You're trying to make logical arguments to someone who is simply trying to express their illogical racism.
Dear Isaac,

Super interesting idea, and I have some cash I might be able to spend towards it. But can you ensure the following will be enforced by your smart contract?

1. Tenant agrees to upkeep property, including mowing of lawns, plumbing, electrical, structural.

2. Tenant agrees not to sell, sublet, or abandon the house.

3. Tenant agrees not to do anything illegal that might cause the forfeiture of the house by law.

4. Tenant will give me a key to the property and house, so I can check in on it from time to time.

I probably have some other requirements for the tenant. But I'm super interested in how this might be accomplished via a smart contract.

Looking forward to conducting this via this newfangled smart contract mechanism.

Yours Truly,

R
"In many cases, fixing the problems with events is
tantamount to switching to threads."

You might also say that implementing a thread facade over an event driven runtime is tantamount to switching to events.

If it makes programming easier I am all for it though.
Can you elaborate? Which functionality?
I presume they want the readers to draw the inference that if someone is going to the effort of creating multiple layers of trusts and corporations in different secrecy jurisdictions then something illegitimate is going on.

To be honest, I think that's quite a reasonable inference.
Not really. "Slippery Slope"-type arguments are fallacious when there is no evidence provided to support the slope. The fallacy is arguing that the closeness of each "step" in the slope necessarily means that these steps will likely happen, but not providing evidence to support that these steps will occur. If one provides evidence which support that certain steps will likely occur, then it's not a fallacy.

As an aside, there is something called the "fallacy fallacy" wherein pointing out a fallacy in someone else's argument doesn't necessarily mean that the argument's conclusion is false.

With that said, I'm not making an assessment of the above poster's reasoning.