skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If those "talkers" all had hubs which were participants in the mesh, would that help the network "scale"?

Also, _what is_ the "scale" issue? Network congestion? Latency introduced by the need to relay a message from node A1 to node Zn? Something else entirely?
I'm just one data point, but as a semi-serious runner I tried switching from ordinary Nike running shoes to the cushion-less, toe-heel-preferred style, and found it made no difference. I think all this business about "running shoes are bad for you" is an overblown fad, no different than all the other fitness fads that come and go.
I'm not really qualified to speak on this, but the most annoying part about this is it seems like a new discussion every 6 months. It's like asking your roommate to not set fire to the kitchen, but every half hour you have to go stop them from doing it... at some point it almost feels easier to just have the kitchen on fire than to continually worry about the kitchen being on fire.

I assume that I'm not alone in this feeling.
Sounds like a good art project.
Google doesn’t send your data to third parties because Google wasn’t able to identify any other companies more evil than Google to send your data to.
If I buy coins using a 3rd party service and they have yet to transfer them to my private wallet then I have counter party risk until they do.

All exchanges do this to one extent or another. To minimize risks they would need to accept cash and never accept bitcoins to their own wallet which would cause massive transaction fees.
Looking over [the contributors list][1], looks like the plugin was written entirely by Mozilla employees. So, no "Mr Robot marketing department", as some commenters here have been speculating.

[1]: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/graphs/contributors
If that algorithm is building a model of me, then yes, it's clearly an invasion of my privacy. Google itself is the entity that I do not want to have access to a model of me.
The internet is seen by many to be a vehicle of freedom of speech, and even a basic human right. The outcry on NN is likely an pushback on the principle that it sets a dangerous precedent of privatizing a public service.
That paper is referenced in this story.
The article touches on this. I guess that's why you're being downvoted.

Anyway, they seem to have a solution to that, but they won't disclose it. So it's anyone's guess, but it seems to have been taken into consideration.
Nothing is permanent, exactly so.

Our ability to slog around drives full of data lets us gloss over this fact, but when we're dead, are our kids gonna keep slogging around our drives? Nah.

Better way to get permanence in your life is to do things that people will remember you for, if permanence is what you're after. Crowd-sourced in other people's memories.
I think we should recognize there can be a strong misalignment between what’s written in a text and its actual purpose or how it will be enforced.

For instance the patriot act surely was filled with feel good vocabulary about protecting the public good, net neutrality’s repel “to increase investment”, and I’m sure the coming up “save the children” act that will aim at giving better education and critical thinking to younger generations.
I was hoping the article would provide more detail for why this is better or different from existing microwave radio methods. Higher bandwidth appears to the answer. It appears that some laser systems feature a hybrid system with laser and rf technologies, and will automatically downgrade to RF when weather, pollution, or other obstructions come up.

http://www.lightpointe.com/airebridge-lx-1.html
But it also made it sound like there was a chat room associated with them?
Like anything, things like this can have the potential to be the first step is a very slippery slope that erodes what makes the internet great.

The one positive i can see about this is that it might make the general public more aware of what net neutrality is, and hopefully thus reverse this and put in a strong law bolstering it.

I also think that the way that Trump has acted in such a radical manner during his presidency ensures the next guy in the chair will hopefully be the opposite, but then, i really thought Trump becoming President in the first place was extremely unlikely.
I quite like the visual design of this article. Very pretty.

The contents of the article, I'm less sure about. This line stuck out to me.

>“I’m 25 and I’m still in the same place I was when I earned minimum wage.” Four days a week she works at a dental office, Fridays she nannies, weekends she babysits. And still she couldn’t keep up with her rent, car lease and student loans.

She works at a dental office, I'm guessing she isn't a dentist or dental hygienist (both careers can expect to make 70k plus). So... Why does she have a lot of student loan debt? What did she go to college for? To become a part time office secretary and a baby sitter?

I'd have more sympathy for millennials if I knew them at a greater distance. As a millennial though, I was not afforded that luxury.

College has many useless subjects and so many more useless students. Why, for example, are you getting an English degree? I enjoyed writing and reading and took many high level English classes in college - but as a degree? To focus on it? Why? What's the point? You can pass an English class without reading the literature, just by getting summaries on Wikipedia and writing about them. If your degree can be obtained reliably by such tricks, how valuable is it?

The change we need to make is removing the obstacles around discharging student loan debt via bankruptcy. Then, I trust, lenders wouldn't lend to students without a good career plan, students who took on too much debt could get out of it, and schools would stop the crazy artificial inflation of their prices.
Why do you use the worst service available? There are way better players in this market than Coinbase imo.
Ask HN: Can anyone at Facebook please help us?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I'm the co-founder of a well-known SaaS being used by SMB and enterprises. Recently, FB began blocking our pages and the pages of our customers from receiving likes on external sites (using social plugins), and blocking our customers from advertising on FB. We've reached out to many people at FB, some who said they will open a ticket to get this resolved, only for there to be radio silence and no replies after 2+ months of followups.

Another one of our customers contacted us yesterday saying they were permanently banned from getting likes and advertising on FB because they had used our app. Their marketing rep told them the engineering team at FB said it was a permanent ban for using our app because it was associated with some form of "like-gating."

Our app has never offered a like gate, and has always complied with platform policies (we even have blog posts dating back to 2014 on FB platform policies and our changes to comply.) We're almost certain this is just some type of automated algorithm that flagged and blocked us, but we'll never know because no one at FB will speak with us.

If anyone on HN works at FB or has a contact there and can help look into this to get this resolved, we would be forever grateful. We are at our wits end trying to solve this issue for our extremely angry and frustrated customers.

I can be contacted at fbissue123@gmail.com
I was fine with the Shield Studies program when I understood it to be a tool for improving the browser.

This is clearly an abuse of a development/testing/telemetry tool to deliver an advertisement.

Trust is hard to win and easily lost.
I think the announcement was actually very important, though I agree it was prone to misinterpretation. When I first learned about RISC-V I thought "Wow, I really could have used this thing during my thesis" but while it was obviously destined for success in the world of research I was skeptical that it would see any commercial uptake. But with NVidia's and now especially WD's announcements that they're using it in products suddenly it seems much less risky for other companies to incorporate RISC-V designs in their own products. I don't think this is of much practical significance to the average reader of HN but there are people for whom this announcement is very important in a fairly immediate way. And those people are, in turn, very significant to the future of RISC-V.
Thomas Piketty says the US is setting a bad example on inequality for the world
There are set top boxes that have many tuners. The STB uses the extra tuners to anticipate a channel change and tune ahead to the next channel. (Fast Channel switch).
There's a bike shop that opened near me but I've had the impression that most of their income comes from the coffee shop in the front and the bikes are more of a passion of the owners. They're nice folks, but their bikes start at $800 and go up very quickly from there.

I actually did give them a chance and tried out a couple of the bikes when I was looking to replace my tired out commuter bike but I just couldn't feel the $600 premium. The biggest surprise is that the shifters didn't even feel any better, it was the one area where I expected the better bike could really make a difference but they were no better at shifting quickly or under load than my old shifters.
> Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their knowledge

I think for most people this is the stickiest point. Other commenters have said things along the lines of, "well if you trust their browser you should be able to trust their add-ons" and I do, mostly, trust their add-on here... but I really don't like how it slipped into my Add-Ons without telling me. For every other Add-On I have to click an explicit blue button, so I know what's in and what's out.

In today's landscape, Add-Ons have massive potential as security threats. For instance, would a savvy user who is security-aware (most users on HN, I assume) install an Add-On like Gmail Checker Plus[0]? Without digging in, it's hard to be 100% certain what this Add-On is and isn't doing with my Gmail content (I have no reason to assume anything nefarious, it's just an example). My browser Add-Ons should be off-limits to any sort of tampering without my permission, as well should be my bookmarks and auto-fill info. If I broke into your house and changed your bedsheets, you'd rightly be creeped out... nothing was stolen, new bedsheets don't affect you in any significant way, but it's still wrong and weird and hurts trust.

0. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checker-plus-...
In the US it's $20, with discounts to $10 (look for the upcoming Steam sale). I am not qualified to speak on legality but a cursory search suggests that the catan ports are technically not safe... still, there are many versions in the workshop as catan is such a popular game. It's hard to imagine that they all get pulled without replacement.
After I read on Hacker News by a number of commenters that Coinbase Customer Support had given up -- seemed fairly dodgy to give them money as you've no reason to think you'll get recourse should something go wrong.

I went with BitPanda. I should leave my referral link here but rather my own words carry the recommendation.
If you haven't check out the subreddits /r/dotnet and /r/csharp on Reddit. You can promote it there.

Question for you: Any particular reason you split out v6 and v7 into different repos on github? I would suggest using branches to do your dev work and keep master as is as the latest version. If need be, you could branch off and create v6 branches if you want to support old versions. The only reason I mention that is if people are using v7 and then you make a new repo for v8, many of the people who use v7 will never know about v8.
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I was under the impression that in 1995-1998, flirting irl was still number 1.
I've been interested in this for some of the reasons you mention, but never took the leap because I worried that even if I understood a bunch of useful stuff in the GA formulation, I wouldn't be able to back-port my knowledge to the more traditional path and understand papers / algorithms built on that knowledge. Be interesting to hear your perspective on that.
The "outrage" is the people making their voice known. If there were no outrage at all, our politicians would take that as us not caring, and thus have the freedom to listen to the big companies without repercussions. Now that we've made it clear where our stance is, both politicians and big companies will be more cautious about their actions.

> I'm surprised that this issue causes such outrage when I see bigger issues that could arguably cause much worse effects

This happens all the time; it's an unfortunate state of the world. But we shouldn't disregard important issues just because there are even bigger issues.
I wonder if it will have an impact at all.

They say big websites will pay for fast delivery and small websites will have their data delivered slower.

I have a small website. I already pay for bandwith. What will change? Will I be charged more for fast bandwith?
Funnel it through dash -> zcash -> monero again :)
I shill DragonBox every chance I get ;) It does a great job of teaching abstract algebra to children who don’t even know arithmetic.
> It like we can't understand complex systems very well.

The problem is we keep getting better at doing crazier things, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15929012
While I too had a hard time reading through the website, I was amused by the author's style (e.g. "the moderators visit the room frequently and can bust your bubble") and also enjoy the names of the bots such as Guttenberg, as a nod to the famous plagiarism scandal in Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttenberg_plagiarism_scanda...
I would note that whilst Corbyn does have a few policies that are popular, he still lost despite facing perhaps the weakest Tory candidate in a very long time. Theresa May: "the naughtiest thing I've ever done was skipping through a field of wheat" wat?

The objections to him aren't usually about the specific policies raised in the last manifesto (which I disagree with but reasonable people can differ on things like railway nationalisation). They're more that people don't trust his government would actually stick to the manifesto. The habit he has of surrounding himself with liars who try to hide their extremist views - and yes, in the UK thinking Marxism is great is an extremist view - engender a deep suspicion that if he won on a moderately left wing platform he'd immediately go off the deep end.

today, they poll much better than the ruling party

The latest polls don't show Labour polling better at all, although this many years into an administration the opposition would normally be polling much better. Actually the Tories are slightly ahead at the moment:

http://britainelects.com/polling/westminster/

Of course the polls will drift around all over the place between elections. That doesn't mean much about what would happen if there was another snap election.

What this all demonstrates is the sheer power of propaganda to shape people's perceptions - yours included

Given that you just made a claim that's provably false, I'd be careful about tossing around accusations that those you disagree with are all brainwashed, although I realise this is a very common belief amongst Corbynites.
The fight for net neutrality is just beginning
I agree in theory but am amazed at how many jobs are unavailable to me without a BS degree. If I could go back and tell my twenty year old self, I’d say not to take those high paying 90s jobs and stick it out two more years.
>>Hopefully, it's a bug, and that addon wasn't intended to be installed (much less active) universally like it is.

>hey look, a voice of reason!

Where's official statement saying it's a bug and it will be disabled ASAP? All I see is Mozilla workers here trying to justity the "bug".
Deep Learning for Disaster Recovery
Friend with a 15" MBP just went through it this week. Shift key got stuck in the down position.

He took it to an authorized service center and the solution was to replace the entire top case assembly. That includes the case, keyboard, touchbar, trackpad, battery, and I'm not sure what else.

It's out of stock on PowerBookMedic, but their price on this part is $800. Eight. Hundred. Dollars. For a single broken key. This is insane.

I have a 13" version and I'm very concerned. I've got Apple Care but I'm careful with my laptops and I expect them to last more than 3 years.

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/MacBook-Pro-15-w--Touch-Bar-To...
I'm not entirely comfortable with how this all went, but it's at least worth noting that the add-on was written entirely by Mozilla engineers.
It's happened to a lot of people, and recent coinbase news supports the parent's anecdote.
I think the point was that there would be a _defined_ period where everybody knew that the service would be unavailable.

If that were peak-trading time for a particular locale that would be unfortunate, but the regularity would be preferred to failing under unexpected load at random times of the day.
I’m looking into learning some electromagnetic/photonic engineering. But like I’m astounded by the number of applications. I generally don’t learn math for it’s sake and GA is applicable to virtually everything.
The Oxford dictionary almost disagrees, I think you could argue the point. Note the origin too.

“by accident
Unintentionally; by chance...

...Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense ‘an event’): via Old French from Latin accident- ‘happening’, from the verb accidere, from ad- ‘towards, to’ + cadere ‘to fall’.
That's about it.

You know who also annoy me? Roaches. Do you suggest searching for a peace threaty with them?
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Benchmarking Apache Spark with Kudu, Alluxio, Cassandra and SnappyData
Sure is, https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/111347/sobotics
Same, why is this in my addons..?

I really don't understand what they were thinking.
Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8G
Weapon yes. But for attacking humans? I am not convinced.

(1) It is small.
(2) It was found in a river.
(3) It was used by persons in a very different time than ours, doing very different jobs.

It looks to me like something for a fisherman or hunter. It's a little big to be a fish club. It is too small for use as a weapon. But it is perfect for someone trapping furry mammals and bashing in their heads, which is what you do when you want to preserve the pelt. It looks like a seal club. My money would be on otter.
I was expecting something more along the lines of a dumpster fire.
"Protocols" of scaling mesh networks are a dime a dozen. I'd rather read about stable and popular implementations of them.
I've seen some systems like this that will fall back to 5ghz or 2.4ghz RF connections when the lasers are blocked, so the throughput goes way down but at least the service isn't out completely. Maybe they'll do something like that.
To clarify the title, the article is about sexual harrassment in the statistics field.
Don't expect to get an answer. I had an issue as well, hasn't been resolved after 3 months. Their phone support is even a bigger joke. 2 hours of waiting and no answer then they just hang you up.
GDAX (owned by Coinbase) is the same, I wasn't able to download the statements because login was suspended for some reason.
You can also use good old Konqueror, they also won’t do this.
I started down the GA path in 2005 with the purchase soon after of Geometric Algebra for Physicists, and other than learning the simplicity of expressing things in this algebra, I have not been able to dive deep into its uses. I have checked out Versor[1] for code stuff, and there was the promise of potential hardware implementations of the algorithms necessary to be able to make gains in the human program GA code to the pipelines and bits on CPUs, GPUs and other hardware.

I think the day is coming for an explosion of GA in everything, since it has been simmering behind the scenes for many years thanks to many, Dave Hestenes[2] in particular. I love his book New Foundations for Classical Mechanics.

I program in APL and J[3], and hope that the array programming will segue into a winning GA library/module and way of approaching coding GA to make it more of a player in my work rather than my hobby.

EDIT: Versor.js is also available for a spin! [4]

[1] http://versor.mat.ucsb.edu/
[2] http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/
[3] jsoftware.com
[4] https://github.com/weshoke/versor.js/
This is going to put me in weird company but I really don't see why metered billing is such a terrible thing. Most other utilities are pay-for-amount-used. And as a bonus, this creates an incentive for developers (via customer pressure) to not use insane amounts of data.
It has - there were Facebook posts from students in the last UK election boasting that they'd voted multiple times. Nothing happened to them.

I thought you had to show ID to vote in the UK. But I've done postal voting for the last 10 years or so. So I guess my memory is bad.
Skipping over what I'm pretty sure is sarcasm, never leaving your house isn't a really great long term strategy. Unfortunately, what I believe to be the ideal solution: denser living, better public transit (high freq. w/ bus lanes would be cheap and effective), and pedestrian-first streets (sidewalk/bike area = car area); is simply a non-starter for most of the US. Outside of coastal cities, most Americans can't even imagine what that's like without immediately jumping to visions of Manhattan urban canyons (not even Queens). And even then, as this article points, Manhattan is not some oasis of car-free lifestyle either.
Keep in mind the world is not frozen in its current disadvantaged-for-millenials state.

A couple of forces might actually work to millenials' favor --

1) Boomers are retiring and dying off. Somebody will buy their homes.

Right now it seems investors are buying them all but as the demographic trend continues, the supply might outpace investor demand, the second-derivative will go negative, which will slow investor demand, and probably cause the first-derivative to go negative.

This trend will also affect other forms of investments as boomers cash out their portfolios.

2) Social movements such as #metoo will probably make certain types of people hiring liabilities (too "old-school"), and younger people might benefit.

OTOH, other forces might work against millenials --

1) Human obsolescence, especially if current social assumptions hold and keep programs such as basic income politically untenable.
Most of the large traditional manufacturers are into ebikes now and although a LBS might only have 0-2 in stock, they can all get you one within a week or so.
A few nits:

* GA is not a replacement for linear algebra. It's a vector space equipped with a certain product. All of linear algebra still applies to it. There's just more structure. What it does replace is Gibbs-Heaviside vector analysis.

* Unifying a line and a circle is a classical part of projective geometry. It can be written in Clifford algebra straightforwardly, but the identification is centuries old at this point.

* Quaternions and octonions are the generalization of complex numbers beyond the plane. A lot of stuff just happens to reduce to the same thing in 2D.

* Maxwell's equations are reduced to one in any relativistic formulation. The hard part is rewiring your brain to work in spacetime instead of space plus time.

* It doesn't replace differential geometry. It's a convenient notation for parts of it, the way that bra-ket notation in quantum mechanics doesn't replace the underlying structure, it's just a notation adapted to it.

But, yes, it's cool stuff.
AnySequence is a concrete type conforming to the Sequence protocol. It implements Sequence by forwarding calls to some other implementation of Sequence.
Thankfully there are scientific data to prove
you wrong. You just need to leave your prejudice and bubble behind, and we're talking about running mechanics here not Nike's competitors producing minimalist shoe wear. They you can have doubt about.