skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm mistaken but my impression is...

Silicon Valley isn't a pin on a map. It's a culture. It's a collective mindset. It's a process. It's a high-tech Wild West.

It's also an outlier.

Startups + VCs !== Silicon Valley. It's more complex and more complicated than that.
The promise of new technology was to provide simplicity and better prices for the consumer, not for content providers to try to run around maintaining legacy profit margins.
bittorrent itself is not illegal.
Because we're talking about the people we know day to day, not a bunch of people who are interested in installing obscure apps. Last time I tried chatsecure a few months ago it was buggy and difficult to find a server to sign up to that supported the bizarrely difficult to navigate XMPP extensions that allow you maybe sort of know if it's all working properly.

So yes maybe for ultra secure comms with specific parties, but useless as a day-to-day solution.
Here's the PDF if you want to crunch the numbers:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...

This is FY 2011-2012, not sure if there are more recent PDFs.
Doesn't surprise me. There are people driving around neighborhoods all day long looking for packages.
>The rate for whites is higher but only when counting from a stop already being initiated.

Of course. You consider people who interact with police. Some old lady obviously shouldn't be included in the data.

>Stops are initiated on minorities at tremendously higher rates.

Blacks and latinos commit crimes at higher rates than whites and asians.
You don't know what you're saying. They'll bring higher home prices, more traffic, Californian politics, complaints about the weather, snide remarks about how things are better in CA. What's not to love?
If you liked The Idea Factory, you should read Kitten Clone. Kind of a dark sequel.
That's a silly response. IBM provides enterprise level apps that are distributed outside of the app store. That doesn't really apply to this situation.
(Original reply, heavily edited)

My intention was to warn that Mozilla's use of the term 'Telemetry' as a feature does not cover all of their data collection, and to point to official examples demonstrating the mindset of the Mozilla developers for a higher-level perspective. As you have repeated, the one (primary) aspect of of Firefox's data collection that you mentioned (dubbed Telemetry, which I initially confused in context of OP's comment as intending to include all data collection) is documented on your link as opt-in. Props for that, but there are other aspects. (I am also going to verify it must indeed be enabled manually during a default install.)

Per OP: The last thing I want is my browser to 'phone home' when it feels like it.

I may be wrong, but my understading is that "Google Analytics in the add-on settings" has been improved only to _opt-out_ rather than being required in the past.

Also, per their website SHIELD Studies seem to have a global opt-in followed by a per-study opt-in/out setting. Unfortunately the wording seems a bit wishy-washy and there are anecdotes on this discussion claiming this specific "study"/marketing opportunity did install and run something (at the very least: to skip enabling itself) without purposeful opt-in. There is a lot of confusion here. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956568

>Manishearth: What was enabled was a small piece of code[1] that would enable the full addon when a pref was flipped

(Note: the Github link 404's since the add-on has been updated after this story broke.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958466

>tosssh: Shield Studies are opt-out by default
this is the first time I can't tell the difference between the synthesized voice and a human voice.
Michigan's shoreline, at 3,288 miles is "more than any other state except Alaska"
Used to be I made an item for sale, sold it to an expert in retail sales, and they sold it to a customer. Now content creators want to own the store, too. Problem is, if the ice cream makers want their own store, and the meat growers have their own store, well I’ll be damned if I’m driving all over town, so I’m skipping the ice cream.

In this analogy, I dust off my copy of a bittorrent client that I thought I’d retired after HBO wised up. Because HBO Go, Netflix, and iTunes to fill in the gaps is as far as I’m willing to drive.
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Nah. People are dumb. Look at the zero percent of people who know what "beg the question" actually means. Or look at how many people ask if someone can "expand on something". All words and phrases will eventually become something slightly different and dumber.
I think the main reason is

https://caniuse.com/#feat=asmjs vs https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm
At what point would it just be cheaper to buy an old desktop/server, put a FOSS OS on there, install Plex/Kodi, and purchase all of your media legally?
You'll be surprised how quickly religions will adapt to include aliens. Or new ones will appear out of nowhere to replace the old ones.
Yes, I believe that is definitely what the author was going for. If you don't pay market rate for development, you're 9 out of 10 times going to regret it.
Let's dig further into the root causes.

WSJ: "An anti-crash system for trains designed to thwart serious accidents of human error, such as derailments from over-speeding, wasn't activated, according to an Amtrak spokeswoman. The deadline to install such systems, known as positive train control [PCT], is December 2018." [1]

PCT [2] was mandated by Congress in October 2008. It was required to be deployed and activated by 2015; however in October 2015 the deadline was pushed another three years, to December 2018. [3]

Meanwhile, some form of train protection system has been operational in Europe for over one hundred years, and automated train control has been deployed in Japan since the 60s. [4]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amtrak-train-derails-near-seatt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control

[3] https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/congress-approves-rai...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_control#Japan
Well, if the server and the client support the required extensions the battery impact is very low:

https://conversations.im/#optimizations

Those extensions are pretty standard stuff nowadays. Here you can find an explanation with a few more details (section "Battery drain"):

https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
Oftentimes founders/entrepreneurs qualify for green cards through the extraordinary ability or national interest waiver route.
Removing people from the process doesn't remove gerrymandering, it means that the gerrymandering will be done by analyzing the short and long-term (based on demographic trends) effects of different mathematical criteria, with partisan actors legislating the most advantageous criteria.

You eliminate gerrymandering by eliminating single-member FPTP legislative districts in favor of multimeter districts with a system producing proportional results (Single Transferrable Vote or some similar candidate-centered method, or a party-list method, though I prefer the former.)
meta -- But there's more to cryptography than cryptocurrency.
We (Streak) recently rebuilt one of our most popular features which relies on providing autocomplete suggestions in a content editable and were surprised at some of the complexities. Thought we'd write it up for others.
57 channels and nothing on...
There is an open source version Gnash. I installed it on a laptop a few years back and it ran fairly well, but a bit slow compared to the real Flash. Why do you think that didn't take off?

Edit:
Looking at the wikipedia page I see one reason (though I am not convinced its the reason it didn't take off).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash_(software)#Adobe_Flash_P...
Microsoft got in trouble for a good deal of illegal things they did to protect the Windows monopoly from Java :) Integrating IE into the OS was fine in itself, but part of the bigger strategy for which they were sentenced.
At this point I'm just happy when drivers use turn signals. I have a 6 mile one-way bike commute through the city. It's rare I have a whole drive with everyone signaling properly. Thankfully, bike infrastructure here in SF has dramatically improved over the years.
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That's outside my area of expertise unfortunately.
> proximity to large population centers

The Chicago metro area has almost 9.5 million residents, 2.8 in the city proper. The larger Great Lakes Basin, depending on how you look at it, has anywhere from 35 to 60 million residents.

> cheap COL

Chicago can be pricey, but almost every other major city in the region is around 20% less costly than Austin (using Austin since it's got the largest pull of your mentioned alternatives).
You can put it in Mountain or Hold, Mountain waits till the battery hits ~25% and then tries to hold it.

Hold will (try to) hold the battery where it currently is.

Both essentially do what you describe, use ICE primarily and the battery as a secondary. The battery mostly ends up only being used under heavy acceleration at highway speeds (ie, to get your last 10-20 mph of your speed).
The US could be very well in on it. What if US companies could use the NSA data for business benefits? And that happened. The EU needs to stop seeing the US as its ally, and protect itself adequately. GDPR is one step in the right direction.
We can go for the raw data.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#...

170+ MB .xlsx. Tried doing some stuff with it on a 12 core 64 GB RAM workstation. Took way too long and LibreOffice crashed a few times.

Google Sheets doesn't want to touch it even.
No, but there are tons of prettifiers that can get minified/obfuscated JS back into a state that it can be read and reasoned about fairly easily. It's not like minifiying/obfuscating JS compiles it into byte code. It's still plain text.
Experience: Awesome Productivity with ClojureScript's REPL
Is the npm registry still open source?
In general, a lot of digital back catalog pricing doesn't make a lot of sense. It's true with Kindle books as well. A lot of the time I can get a used paperback for the cost of S&H while the Kindle version is still $9.99. I assume it comes down to a general reluctance to put potentially downward pressure on overall pricing by discounting things that aren't ever going to be significant moneymakers in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, there was a huge slump in the 70s with the oil crisis and other factors leading to stagflation. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/1970-stag...

Sensible regulation will buy us a lot, but you can't prevent people from doing big stupid things forever.
Those types of apps wouldn't have a problem as long as the app was being published directly from the restaurant's App Store account. The issue is with companies publishing all of these apps from 1 account where it's just flooding the category.
Midwest cities will often be black or white, very few Asians, Indians, etc. And very segregated. Look at Milwaukee for instance: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wuwm/files/styles/med...

Detroit and Chicago are not much different.
> An airgapped internal network for this sort of thing would be an acceptable compromise for accessing something remotely.

Do you even listen to yourself? Do you understand the concept of "remote"?

>This reads like you think that people dying is acceptable risk to take.

Yes, clearly this is a ridiculous notion. No one ever signs up for things that carry a risk of death like driving, being a soldier, or getting shot into space.
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Isn't there a clause that says the note isn't valid without confirmed fund transfer? I would imagine that since the other party hasn't fulfilled their duty to you then the contract is null and void.
What's amusing is a legit VC thinking it's about devs. Technology is (relatively) the easy part.

Critical thinking, finding problems, identifying opportunities, assessing risk, "what if...?", product, UX, etc. That's where the magic happens.
I could be reading it wrong, but your post came across as overly combative and an appeal to whataboutism.

I'd say both are protectionist and both are wrong. My interpretation of your parent was simply that it is protectionist of France to be doing this (and I'd argue that makes it as wrong as the American protectionism that you brought up).
“World without end” amen
Thanks to Movies Anywhere I've started just buying movies instead. iTunes regularly has tons of movies on sale for $5-10 and you can almost always get iTunes gift cards for 15% off. And you can stream them from any service since the license transfers.

HBO Now has the shows I care about most.

All in all, I'm watching less stuff now but enjoying what I do watch more.
It's sad that sometimes it's cheaper to buy the physical DVD used on eBay/Amazon, wait for it to get to you, watch it, and sell the physical DVD than it is to rent for 48 hours.
That's true, too.
The 3% get a little larger when you give them this link (German) ;-)

https://www.jabber.de/clients/android-ios/conversations-guid...

But I agree: it should be even simpler to set up.
Now, more obfuscated than ever! Better DRM! A few more layers of bloat! Buffer overflows are back!

Search for WebAssembly demos. There's a crappy tank game.[1] WebGL is doing all the real work; the game part is simple. There's ZenGarden.[2] 200MB download. Again, WebGL is doing all the real work.

WebAssembly is going to be a way for sites to bypass ad blockers. That's the real use case. Maybe the only use case. It's all about reducing user power and giving total control to the big sites.

[1] http://webassembly.org/demo/Tanks/
[2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/ZenGarden/EpicZenGard...
> More importantly, it is software that has nothing to do with improving FireFox, collecting telemetry, error reports, running tests, experimental features, or anything else the Shield Studies program is ostensibly to be used for.

I agree that delivering it through Shield was not a good idea.
This is fun but also pointless. There’s no guarantee you would have made any money. And the model assumes that you’d buy and hold this whole time.

So if you’re looking at this and beating yourself up...don’t.
Without getting into the ideological minutiae, is it not possible for the government to know that there's something wrong in the marketplace, and not be obligated to address it?

It should be possible for both the FCC to acknowledge that censorship by large, private, commercial entities is bad for free expression, while acknowledging that it is their platform to do with as they please, IMO.
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Netflix and Hulu basically cover everything for me. Also looking forward to Moviepass for seeing a lot of new movies in theaters. Anything else gets downloaded.
No, technically you can’t even check your email.
Thanks for sharing the book.

I agree that the releases from the US Gov the last few weeks have been VERY surprising, nearly a 90 degree shift from the "deny everything" policy that they assumed for the last few decades.

Going one step further, at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I just wonder, what actually has changed to prompt this change in policy of denying everything
Yes, as a general rule, it's possible and the likely options would be the H-1B, O-1, or E-2. The problem with the H-1B route is that H-1B petitions are placed in an annual lottery with a 30% chance or so of being selected.
I’m surprised at how the author fails to mention fmtlib [1] with near-printf-like performance and sane (Python .format-like) formatting syntax, which also happens to generate much smaller binaries than Boost.Format.

[1] https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt
WINE fixed a 5-year-old bug that makes Photoshop CS5 usable
"Letting a giant monopoly control the internet might be a bad idea." Right wing propaganda.
I agree for rentals/purchases, e.g., I should be able to rent any movie from Vudu, Apple or Google Play. The real problem though, is that people just want to pay Netflix $10/month, and that obviously can't support anything more than it's very limited catalog.
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Retracted, thanks for making me look at this more closely!

My comment referred to paragraphs 7.17-7.19 here http://www.econlib.org/library/Ricardo/ricP2a.html but now I see the assumption doesn't need to be as strong, and attacking it isn't fruitful anyway. The right way to test the theory of comparative advantage is to look at real world patterns of imports and exports, and it seems like the theory accounts for at least a significant part of these patterns.
Your response is a bit naive too. Isn't the most beneficial thing for Apple (the owner of the walled garden) for their users to get the information they want easily so that they can spend money there? The better and faster the conversion happens, the better Apple makes out both financially and in repeat business.
This is an interesting but dangerous thought experiment, like all of the other instances where you ponder what would have happened if only you had picked the right investment and timed the market right.

If there is a lesson to be learned about reading the markets, learn it, but don't dwell on the money you didn't make because it can cloud your judgement next time.
Google and amazon certainly think the average user cares about latency, even if they don't know what it is: https://blog.gigaspaces.com/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-late...
Plan something to look forward to.

Whether that's a vacation, a long bike ride or a day of nothin' but Netflix, planning something in advance does a few things:

1. It gives you a personal goal to look forward to that you'll know you hit as long as you're patient.

2. It gives you a span of "work hard" time that you know will expire, and

3. It gives you something fun to do in the future!

That's how I keep my head sane!
>(how do you multiply to members of R^2 with each other ? you need to define it, whereas multiplication in C is already defined)

You can use the geometric product, and C falls out as a result.
Great, thanks for the info. Admittedly, this was a while back and I know docs change quickly in this space.

I agree that on-prem can be a challenge. You really have to know your stuff, and your environment. We run it in production and it has been quite a journey.
Any operations that rely on server-side compute/data must margin for nondeterminism. I would put in a loading indicator just to cover the outliers.

Local (client-side) operations are a different matter entirely. Either precompute the result for common operations or optimize for speed!
If you can get some Canadian money invested into the company, whether from you or other Canadians, then the E-2 could be a great option.
Hi, I'm a founder from a Brazilian startup (based in São Paulo) and we've been developing our product for 2 years now and are about to launch. We have another local round next year but then (1.5 to 2 years from now) we plan to raise money in the US - at that point I'm even willing to move there if it's advantageous or if the investors require so.
At that point we'll probably open a company there and have it own all the equity from the Brazilian company. Now, if I needed to move, which visa should I apply (for an expected 5 year stay)? What's the likelihood of me getting it. Also, separately if (for example) I wanted to have 5 employees move with me, will they apply for the same visa and (also) how likely were they to get it.
Finally, how can I reach you if we were to hire your service to help us at that instance? =)
Thanks and sorry for the long question.
We hear this argument over and over again. See, they want Apple and Starbucks to pay taxes despite special arrangements because protectionism. Guess what, they are now going after Ikea, a large company from the European Union.

CNBC compiled a lost of fines handed out by the EU and some of the largest ones concern companies from the EU:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/the-largest-fines-dished-out...
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As we can use a decompiler with other languages.
It is long past time for Disney to get trustbusted.
This is great - but I imagine they are trying to get this to work in Realtime.
There are plenty of simple questions that already blow apart the majority of religions if someone is unbiased / not indoctrinated. It would likely just be used as further proof of righteousness and a source of xenophobia by those in control of said religions.

"God sent his prophet because we're the chosen species, the only one created in His image. Only He can protect you from the alien threat," garbage like that. It's easy to spin this type of thing when you've thrown all rationality out the window.
Sounds like a good time to meet 100 of your neighbors and start a community ISP. If I were Netflix, I'd definitely be outspoken about that being a solution everyone should look into. And I might even throw some money around if I were Netflix to try and sponsor small ISP's. I couldn't think of a better way to get positive press.
If you are setting up a business for operations, meeting potential partners, attending events or doing market research, you should be fine. As long as you are not employed by your own company. That's the whole point of the B1 visa. Am I right, Peter? :P
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Wait, just how many examples of stained glass text are there? What’s the use case? Capchas?
If you publish the packaged app under your own account, you wouldn't get the notification. The issue is the companies are flooding the store with these apps that are barely different, even in content.
...and maybe NK too
Yes, that's right, my area of expertise is limited to U.S. immigration law. Thanks for the comment. I'll make that change.
Don't forget other countries. In Canada, there's no Hulu or any HBO online offering. There's a streaming service operated by Bell that has some HBO content, but they intentionally leave out the most popular shows in an attempt to avoid hurting their cable subscription numbers.
Barely! It's not far from bytecode in some cases, especially with the advent of asm.js.
Stuart Russell is also a proponent of the idea. You'd be hard-pressed to say he's not technical.
"In neighboring Turkmenistan, President Saparmurat Niyazov — a despot who requires all clocks to bear his likeness and renamed the days of the week after his family [...]"

I'm pretty sure both claims are false.
Just to add...one of the big reasons to do this is that testing that script now becomes much much easier as it is now a "module" and all the testing facilities in Perl can be brought to bear on it.
https://gist.github.com/nathants/0b7b0aeed94fcfea46fef8f1456...
There is a common misconception amongst people holding stocks, crypto coins and other investments: that they equate to cash. You would not be rich if you had invested in Crypto, you would be rich if you had invested in crypto and had successfully liquidated your position.

That second bit is the hard part when you have a large volume of something since the liquidation tends to depress the price.

And in the world of Bitcoin you might end up with nothing if the exchange accidentally loses your loot (chance of which goes up as you have more money outstanding).

So any realistic scheme dealing with the liquidation of such an amount of crypto coins would be to spread out the sale over a longer period of time in small amounts to be taken back out.

Which makes me wonder how much the largest successful one-shot liquidation anybody on HN has ever done and how they did it?