skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All (?) upcoming alternatves to Disqus: (my own listed last)

- Mozilla's Talk, https://github.com/coralproject/talk. Open source, install yourself.

- Discourse, https://www.discourse.org/. One needs to navigate to a separate page, to post a comment. Not threaded. Min $20/month. Open source. Facebook and Gmail login.

- Isso: https://posativ.org/isso/. Open source, install on your own server.

- Commento, https://github.com/adtac/commento. Open source. Moderation, spam-protection and hosting is under development.

- Schnack, https://www.vis4.net/blog/2017/10/hello-schnack/. Open source, install yourself. Has GitHub and Facebook login.

- HostedComments, https://www.hostedcomments.com/. Proprietory. Min $10/month

- Remarbox, https://www.remarkbox.com/. Proprietory. Min $4/month

- Gitalk. https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk. Open source, install yourself. Comments stored as GitHub issues.

- https://github.com/skx/e-comments. Open source, install yourself.

- And my own: EffectiveDiscussions: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/blog-comments. Open source, or $2 per month. Has Facebook and Gmail login.
Things in China are dramatically better than they were 30 years ago. Yes they played the west wrt techology, and we should have hit back harder after Nortel got nailed, but overall Chinese people are more knowledgeable about the world around them and their middle class would never put up with the types of things that Mao got away with. Harmonizing HK with the rest of Chinese policies doesn't really change my mind.
Aol reader end of service any free alternative?
Hello, NY resident from Orange County here. Does the investigation have a good likelyhood of suing the FCC for the current situation? Also how do the possible ramifications of a Net Nutrality repeal affect the Spectrum litigation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.
> It's still a market, so market logic should apply.

How many levels of deranged libertarianism are you on? The market never makes mistakes?

> I see the same shit with real estate.

Right, and the real estate market spectacularly imploded and took the global economy down with it when it turned out the market was wrong. Is that your point?

> When there's information that all market participants know, the market price should reflect that information.

It should, but it empirically does not. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - i.e., smart investors know that you don't bet against a bubble, even if you're 100% right that it is a bubble, unless you have very deep pockets, because you can't know how long it will continue to grow (and thus how much money you'll lose) before it pops.

Even if you know it's a bubble, the rational thing to do is to ride with it, make as much many as you can and try to get out at the right time. Hence bubbles can exist and grow even if every participant knows what's going on.
Sure, but the thing is something would've already probed into the 4K guard page before you had a chance to probe past it. If your stack guard page is the next thing up on the stack and you call that vDSO function, then sure, it'll probe past the guard page. But if all your code is built with -fstack-check then that guarantees you should have already crashed by having some prior function in the call stack probe into that guard page.
It's about the Dracula's monster
> My outdoor lights slowly brighten as it gets dark outside - not by a timer, but by checking the actual times of sunrise / sunset as well as how cloudy it is, which might make it darker sooner.

Sounds like a task best handled locally with a light sensor. Why mess with indirect inputs such as sunrise/sunset times and weather reports, which incidentally imply connectivity (and therefore more potential points of failure and vulnerabilities) when a simple, standalone solution exists?
Typically high level executives are required to buy a certain number of shares in the company. That's not including the options earned, but actual shares they have to buy. Now yes, much of the time, the shares they have to buy are options they have to exercise, but in the end, the stakeholders always want to see the decision makers have skin in the game.

So yes, the CEO is an owner as well.
I've made numerous (at least more than 100) UPI transactions, but haven't seen a single 'failure' as such. Yes, there's been delay at times, but it's just that, a delay. It's a little inconvenience at that time, but it's comparatively much rarer (and less frustrating) than OTP SMS not received problem for a credit card transaction which I just started hating. Most of the times, UPI (Tez) transactions are instant for me.

About 1-2% charges, if they ever start using it, wouldn't it still be better than credit cards? Most merchants don't charge extra for those (but some do even for credit cards).
Independent of knowing who he is and how "famous" he is, I'm only looking at the one thing I got from/about him: This interview. What I see is a very, very shallow article, both questions as well as the answers. Elevator music comes to my mind, not a symphony.

That doesn't say anything about his abilities, but I'm not here to judge the person but the article.

I think trying to find out "who he is" and his accomplishments is actually bad: Let's just concentrate on the article. It doesn't get better or worse if I were to know anything more about the guy. Everything that we are here to talk about is there - I really don't understand some of the comments where people try to discuss the person instead of the content. Neither attacking the person or elevating him are of any help.
Can states implement their own net neutrality rules?

Will the Trump administration be able to sensor online content like Putin does in Russia?
These are just sort of nitpicky comments, but I think in this case they matter:

* most of this is due to appreciation of stock appreciation rights (an instrument similar to a stock option) he already owns that is already vested ($230M)

* $190M is from common stock he currently owns

* he gets $60-85M as part of a change of control package, which is triggered if he is fired after CVS takes over. this is a standard clause in most contracts

* overall, his package is worth so much because his equity became more valuable over the course of his tenure. any employees who got options at the same time as he did would benefit from most of this as well

so these gains did not come from profits, rather appreciation in the equity of the company during his tenure. it would be hypocritical to praise startup founders from reaping capital gains while admonishing this ceo

edit: formatting
No one is saying that you need an amazon echo to do anything - obviously you could just use a physical timer, or pull out a calculator or a book to do conversions. The point is the echo makes it more convenient.
I know it's foolish to compare myself to the top 0.01%, but every year it seems like I fall further behind.

Athletes used to make tens of millions of dollars. Nowadays some retire with over a billion dollars of lifetime earnings.

CEOs used to make what? It was common to hear 20-25MM a year, today that number seems ridiculously low.

I know staff on professional sports teams, low men on the totem pole, who make quarter million dollar bonuses.

I realize these are one off examples that aren't common, but they make the gap seem so large.
I respectfully disagree with the way you are positioning this.

The relative impact of a CEO, whose job is to set strategic direction and direct human (tens of thousands of employees) and financial capital (billions of dollars) at scale, dwarfs that of any of its individual employees and the vast swath of them combined.

Most relevant to you, the majority of the benefit of this 7x increase in value in 7 years is actually accruing to the the shareholders, not the CEO. And guess who are the top shareholders of Aetna?

#1 Blackrock
#2 Capital World Investors
#3 Vanguard
#4 T Rowe
#5 State Street
Source: https://whalewisdom.com/stock/aet

All of these above are money managers of "the people's" 401k's and retirements funds. So you can rest assured that the majority of the benefit is going to the people for whom Aetna owes its success.
How would you define whether it makes sense ? Free market or some other metric ?
From society's point of view, having an educated population arguably has more benefits besides the immediate economic one, much like having an universal health service, having a police force or permitting LLC's to exist. If it's spiraling out of control in the US, reducing costs per head would be far better than reducing the overall headcount.
Yeah, I think we are a minority.
I’ve turned off “hey Siri” on all of my devices. Primarily for battery life. You can’t say everyone’s for their phones listening to them.
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> In the end, she started her own wedding photography company instead.

That's awesome! I wish more people had smart person to sit down and explain these things to them.
ecobee has a microphone in it?
But this is something you could get from your "friends", family, or even an employer as a "gift". Usually people would not install spy gear in their home, even if it was given to them for free. But give them hacked Echo...
Home automation is a life changer for the disabled, frail, and the chronically ill. For that reason alone they are worthy of development. If lazy people are the driver and primary market for these technologies, so be it, as far as I am concerned.
What is the most important is that USA stops causing and going into wars all around the globe. After that nobody will threaten to nuke you. Double win.
Does anyone else find it strange that we've apparently settled on "sexual misconduct" as the general descriptor for this stuff? Is the media afraid to call it "sex crime"?
Not necessarily... If we pretend the $500m is "profit", that $500m could have been created by Aetna offering better preventative care or it could have been created by letting people die in the name of corporate greed.

Aetna's valuation has grown out of the passage of the ACA. I find it unlikely that the second is true. The first certainly has happened but its unlikely that it accounts for all of the profit.

I put profit in quotes because the $500m is a bonus from the sale of the company, not an "income - expenses" profit.
And if the company had done poorly, would be game for the employees taking a pay cut? It works both ways.
I tend to agree with you about the problem although I am not sure that it has been an issue in other countries with free college education. Maybe the solution would be to emulate some European countries and also pay for vocational training, or subsidized trade apprenticeships.
... oh I see, they made a new one.
And you know that this actually stops it from listening to you how, exactly?
Interesting how that question is phrased.

Would you accept $50 (million dollar)? Hell yeah.

What would you choose between $50 and $500. Maybe $500, not sure if I could live with myself, but I can see how some people would.

But why is $500 even on the table? Why isn't someone (a board, a shareholders' meeting) telling this guy: $50 (million) should be enough.
How do you know which sites sell product placement? Are you %100 sure that NYTimes does not? What about theoutline.com? Do you KNOW that they don't?

I happen to be familiar with the book publishing industry in my country, and I know that many journalists will publish an article on a book written by a publishing houses PR manager, just to save themselves the effort of writing an article themselves. And these are the biggest newspapers in the country.
Then why not get rid of the rest of the employees and just hire a dozen like him since he is bringing all the value.
Leaving debug pads is not a vulnerability that most people care about. Expecting physical tamper resistance is unnecessary for regular appliances.

Even if the debug pads weren't available, one could replace the flash, or use a scanning electron microscope to modify bits in the main microprocessor. This isn't a smart card.

Here's a vulnerability that almost every device has: an attacker with physical access can replace the device with an identical looking device. The new device might even have explosives!
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We are all all in 2017 while those guys are in 3017.

What's wrong with going to the shelter and getting an actual cat.
The eternal cycle of developer tool bullshit:

1. "Ugh, OldTool™ v3.0.0 is overcomplicated, bloated, slow and unnecessarily configurable!"

2. "Introducing SuperTool™ v1.0.0, which just does the stuff you really need. No bloated configuration. No huge ecosystem of extensions. Simple, straightforward and fast."

3. "SuperTool™ v1.0.0 is great! But our setup really needs it to do something a bit different, so we've hacked in this extension."

...repeat for a while...

10. "Introducing SuperTool™ v2.0.0, which now has a more flexible API and configuration , allowing many former hacks to be done in a straightforward way."

11. "SuperTool™ v2.0.0 is great! But our setup really needs it to do something a bit different, so we've hacked in this extension."

...repeat for a while...

20. "Introducing SuperTool™ v3.0.0, with a whole new, flexible, pipeline based API. Everything is a plugin! There's even a plugin to send email!"

21. "Ugh, SuperTool™ v3.0.0 is overcomplicated, bloated, slow and unnecessarily configurable!"

22. "Introducing HyperTool™ v1.0.0, which just does the stuff you really need. No bloated configuration. No huge ecosystem of extensions. Simple, straightforward and fast."
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So all you need is another robot that can hit the mute button for you when you give it a less sophisticated audible command?
Sure. Not claiming it can't have secondary effects. But there's no argument been presented that establishes that it does.
HN isn't all that different, so it's probably about more than just reddit.

For example, you can post the same remarks criticizing functional programming in a post about C# or Java and get upvotes, while the same post in a Haskell discussion will be downvoted. You can try the experiment yourself to verify it.

This applies to companies as well - you will be upvoted for pro-Microsoft or anti-Google posts in a news topic about Microsoft, and the reverse in a news topic about Google. This is because people who use Microsoft products will be very interested in Microsoft news, but not interested enough in Google news to go and downvote opinions they disagree with there.
They'd be fired.
It's just a tendency for things to become more restrictive and less open as the masses get on board.

It's a problem with human scale. We're not meant to scale to the billions despite technology enabling that. Once the internet scaled, all the human problems came with it. The innovators are part of a smaller and smaller % of the population. The inertia of current systems bogs down potential future changes. Innovation is traded for security, convenience and entertainment. Certain things become ingrained.

So, all the people move on and start again in a greenfield. Maybe its not the best but honestly, taking the lessons of the past and applying it to a new greenfield can't be the worst approach.
They should be more worried about layoffs.
This very vaguely reminds me of the rainbowcrack services back in the day!
Thank you for your work on Rust. It's needed.
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Something I find curious is the degree to which HN seems to want to break out the torches and pitchforks when a CEO profits handsomely by increasing shareholder value. There doesn't seem to be the same animus towards ordinary developers becoming millionaires in a few short years by getting lucky and landing at the right unicorn startup pre-IPO.

CEOs interests are aligned perfectly in this situation: increase shareholder value. The vast bulk of CEO pay is derived from the stock that's granted to them and vested over time just like it would be for any employee that received RSUs or stock options.

I don't quite grok the idea that employees with no ownership stake in the company are somehow owed a share of the capital gain when they've got no capital of their own at risk.

A big part of my compensation is commission and another big part is RSUs. If I don't deliver results and if I don't align my goals with that of the major shareholders and the market, I don't make as much money. I don't see how this contravenes the startup/get-rich zeitgeist here in HN.

Capitalism for me but not for thee?
Do you allow computers and cell phones? Or is there something special about a microphone when it's attached to something shaped like a hockey puck instead of a box?
My cell phone displays a clear indicator when any app is accessing the microphone (and I know I can trust it because I can access the source code).

I have no way to verify what any of the currently available home devices do with their microphone.
Will you be writing the third book in the Meriwether trilogy? :)
I'm going to go against the grain. I only use my computer for development and as a Plex Server. I either by Dell's business line or from the Microsoft Store to avoid bundled crapware.
It's like 80% according to the article:

- $230m from "already-vested stock-appreciation rights"

- $190m from "Aetna common stock he currently owns"

- "Between $60 million and $85 million" as part of a "change-in-control package" which is paid out if he's terminated as a result of the sale.

One of my biggest pet peeves regarding reporting of executive compensation is when the headlines pretend that CEOs are being paid hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, when it's mostly coming from stock-based compensation, which is arguably the most fair way to pay a CEO (if they do poorly leading the company, they make much less money).
Maybe survivorship bias
hello,
my question is completely off-topic, but here I go.

you are waiting for the App Store to approve your new game, right?
There was also no evidence you could do sub one minute blocks for Proof-of-Work. Then Vitalik read the ghost paper and figured it out. Put enough very smart people working on hard problems and eventually they will figure some of them out.
I mean, Pai was an Obama pick for FCC commissioner.
A CEO is responsible for the products that they make. In the case of any company really you have to deal with various professionals, the City, and laborers to make a product.

I think it's fair to say that no single laborer, it seems, is as important in the process of production than the person making all the decisions to employ labor to some final product.
How come Russia has a larger land space but very low population?
Russia

6,592,800 square mi
144 millions

USA

3,796,742 sq mi
323 millions

India

1,269,219 sq mi
1310 millions
At least he is not one of the right wing nutjobs like the guy who built the creationist museum.
It helps to understand the breakdown of how he got to this level of benefit. My guess: it doesn't sound like he just gets a $0.5B payout at close, but instead its the value of his Aetna holdings after close + his termination contract. To break it down, say he gets option for 300,000 shares at $30/share ($9mm) each year over the last 7 yrs, and the company stock price has gone from $30 to $207 per share, with steep ramp in price at the end of his reign, he is left with 2.1mm shares worth $177 more per share than he paid for them, netting him $370,000,000. His change in control contract is worth $85mm, bringing him to $450mm. Right or wrong, it makes more sense when broken down.

Disclaimer: I know very little about whats normal in stock options and executive pay, but a $10mm/yr salary for a man serving as CEO and chairman of a $70B company doesn't seem as far fetched as the $500mm total comp makes it sound
Is my career as a Webpack whisperer at an end?

cries tears of joy

;-)
I would think that the death of Kim would lead to.a number of power plays by the various leadership...that they would turn inward...
Seeing that too. Safari 11 on Mac.
How do you determine which party an appointee belongs to? Why didn't Obama appoint someone from the green party?
I didn't read the budget, and likely you didn't read it too. We can't do all things at the same time, so we have experts to take care of things. (Say, you get a CT scan, you are not going to view it and interpret it, your radiologist will.) The same with the budget: I trust the president and the Republicans, as I take their word for it.
Sort of. It's clearly stated that some of it is from growth in the value of stock that he has been compensated with, that value (the growth of the stock) isn't literal profit from healthcare, it's market pricing of the future ability of Aetna to profit on healthcare.

And then there is some reason to consider how much delivered value the profit is associated with. If patients reaped similarly large amounts of value from the care they received, the profit isn't necessarily problematic.
This is why we need a revolution not a minor improvement, I think. :)
Can you explain what this means? I don't understand what the person you're quoting is saying.
Possible securities fraud charges against Naspers and its directors
Move fast and break things is probably not a good idea for money.
It’s 64% they didn’t need most of the time, but would need during peak usage. The “spot market” uses this buffer capacity only when it isn’t serving customers, preventing slowdowns and outages.
Proof of stake and Lightning Network have nothing to do with each other, they're on completely separate axis.
we're not talking about the number of bitcoins though, we're talking about it's value
> For example, you can post the same remarks criticizing functional programming in a post about C# or Java and get upvotes, while the same post in a Haskell discussion will be downvoted.

It's simply unreasonsble to think that the value of a comment is independent of its context.
For 10% of that he can buy enough of congress to make that happen
Isn't Ethereum network used by Ether tokens ETH separate from CryptoKitties tokens/network?
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So, general anonymity, as I mentioned above. My (admittedly only implied) question around this usecase is: is it a real usecase, or purely theoretical?
$240K for 1 Engineer? Wow-zie
Outstanding read.
I am curious what is going to win the storing huge amount of energy in a small place that is safe competition.
I could be wrong but the Lightning Network is hardly a proof of stake system, just used to open up state channels between two members for lots of off chain transactions before finalizing on the main chain.
I don't think anyone is arguing that he has a more than average impact on the direction of the company. But, like any humble CEO would say, it's all about the people, the people below them, the people throughout the organization. So, while he deserves a decent bonus, fine, why does it need to be roughly thirty-three thousand times minimum wage. And this is just the bonus, he probably still has a very happy salary as well.
So an Echo is as dangerous as an iPad. Sure, but enough with the FUD.
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I thought the inefficiencies in Ethereum were intentional to limit the influence of mining farms and to permit home users to actually be able to contribute and mine.

With BTC you can't participate unless you invest in expensive ASICs specifically for mining.
Do you have the source code for your phone's baseband? How confident are you that the code you have is actually what's running on the device?
Scientists Watch and Wait as Bali's Menacing Volcano Rumbles
The link to the tower library in the article is not working (https://github.com/BuoyantIO/tower)
This was predictable to anyone who paid attention to Vitalik's t-shirts.
But not even bugs getting caught in the air intakes or radiator?
Same network, different tokens.
No, ethereum allows you to build other tokens on top of it- Cryptokitties runs directly on ethereum (and requires fees paid in ether)