skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bridgy is only able to see the comments one's social media account, like one's Facebook account, gets notified about, right? If some to me complete strangers start talking on FB about a post I made, I won't get to know about that via Bridgy? But if some friends of mine, whose comments my FB connected Bridgy account gets notified about, start talking about the blog post, Bridgy detects that?
OpenFL is getting TypeScript support in the next release
Its a good point, and a lot broader than tech or online forums.

The end point of "everyone gets an equal say" is noisy, bad consensus, because not everyone deserves an equal say - that invalidates the whole idea of differences in skill/knowledge among domains across people. Its why the modern world uses representative democracies, rather than direct democracies because no one person is qualified (or has enough time) to make decisions about the minutiae of FISA amendments, cooperation treaties between US-Israel space programs and federal food stamp programs at the same time.

I think early HN (and the web) were small enough that only people who really cared used them, so stuff tended to be high-quality even though they were open to all. As audience grows, content gets worse. Quora is another great example of a forum being destroyed by scale.

Plus now that people actually use forums, there are millions of "growth marketers" trying to push their agenda that further muddy the waters and increase noise. The ads, "native" ads, clickfarms, massive networks of sockpuppets and ads masquerading as "content".

I wish I had a solution.. but the only resilient one I see is a real old-school human community. A network of people you trust. Friends basically :p

Also, if anyone has books or pointers to read more about this kind of stuff, please tell me!!!!
Hidden bridge between quantum experiments and graph theory uncovered
That's the point. If I run a US-based company and have 0 assets in X country, it doesn't matter. EU lawyers would also know this and also wouldn't bring it to court. It's just a waste of everyone's time.
I'm certainly not going to do anything If I get a summons from a random country due to some random law. Especially if it means nothing in the country I'm currently located in.
At first I thought this was a room sized vr code organization library thing? Like you could have a house with different rooms corresponding to different packages
Aren't we lucky to have stumbled upon the "correct tool for the job" at our first attempt.
I can't speak for Canada, but coming from a nation with a similar health care system I can pretty comfortably say that you or your friend are lieing. No one has a months long waiting time for a broken arm, the vast majority would be treated in hours at worst.

> Beloved... I'm sorry, I just can't get past that word. It's so out-of-place.

Many people around the world would describe their government institutions that way, healthcare is a common one but you'll also see things like the BBC or public transit systems held in similar regard.
Wait, women dislike seafood more than men? That's the first time I'm hearing this. In landlocked Europe I'd be guessing the opposite. Is there some biological explanation?
I guess in another market somebody would bet on the nuclear and hope to draw people with lower prices. Lets see how deep the confections are.

But since build those monsters is such a long process and the approval alone is so difficult already. If you want to develop something new, you can add a couple years to the project.

The hope is China, they are selling mid-sized pebble generators and they should start producing them pretty soon for delivery in a couple of years.
The problem for Apple is why would anyone want to use "good enough" when the alternatives are better, free, and easily available?
Political content on reddit has always been trash. The reason everyone wanted spez to create a politics subreddit back when only admins could create subreddits wasn't so they could talk politics, it was so they could unsubscribe from it.
A couple of things stand out for me from the article, one is that this sort of aerial image to detailed map was one of the things the US Government was doing with satellite images in the 70's, and with Google's compute resources if it this seems like the kind of 'side' use that would be encouraged. It is certainly a more useful use of compute resources than computing cryptohashes :-).

The second thing was that Google owns all of their data. When I was there Maps was pretty new, Google was digesting the acquisition of the Keyhole folks (who became Google Earth) and was complaining bitterly about how restrictive the usage rights were for the map data from a major mapping company. They kicked off a program to become independent of third parties for map data and to have the most accurate data in the world.

And if you turn the problem into an algorithm that can be parceled up between machines, you have way more of that than people. It's the one thing that the previous generation of computer companies didn't get, when computers are cheap having 50,000 of them isn't all that much different than having 5,000 especially if you can code up ways for them to route around damage. I think Maps is a good indication of what you can do when you think like that.
BTW what makes you prefer GUI over text almost-GUI? My experience with email is that it's 99% text.

I use gmail because of the labels (no, folders are inadequate), full-text search, and the fact that it runs in browser which I keep always open anyway. I wish there was a comparable open-source solution.
2017 retweeted by Bill Gates
If https://github.com/adobe/flash-platform (currently empty, but placeholdered) is any indication, maybe they are planning to do it. The ActionScript VM is already opened here: https://github.com/adobe-flash/avmplus
OpenStreetMap, the (only?) backing dataset for OpenRailwayMap, is a little picky about purely historical features, as they generally seek to document current facts on the ground. Check OSM policies before you contribute.

That being said, there's plently of historical rail -- running the gamut from disused, abandoned, railbanked, to never-knew-it-was-there -- visible in OpenRailwayMap. A good example is zooming in on Lima, Ohio, between Columbus and Fort Wayne. Dashed lines are everywhere.
I mean, you could argue that just as with writing, code is emergent from our biology. Brains are naturally wired for language and symbolic thought. Once computation was defined and made technically possible, perhaps the current form of programming was simply inevitable. Not that other things aren't worth trying, of course.
As I'm sure you're aware, many content creators that you are reading the work of fund their efforts via ads. I think this is a happy medium to attempt to improve performance of these pages without denying them compensation.
Distributing the News: UUCP to UUNET (2015) [pdf]
> This is finally great news for Android security

Yea, now only Google is collecting an absurd amount of information on you. They don't like competition, so I'm surprised it took this long for them to implement this.
For me the App Store is one of the worst apps on iOS. Just look at how many complain about its poor search results. I just skip them and use Google to search for iOS apps.
What's you got there is a field of dreams. Employers will love the fact you didn't even want to impress them.
https://bitcoin.tax/blog/how-to-tax-bitcoin-cash-bch/

What if you had no interest in BCH but you owned 1,000 BTC. Do you suddenly have a $277,000 income tax bill?

Yes, as discussed by Tyson Cross, tax attorney at BitcoinTaxSolutions.com. Since you have accession to wealth then this is taxable income.
Usb Cable Supposedly Improving Sound Quality
Why might that be? You are smart, I think you will figure it out from public info. I’m bound by non-disclosures so cannot say much.
I wonder how much of this building information comes from the LiDAR data the StreetView cameras capture along with images. It's a couple of years old now but I wrote something to display the 3D point data for any address and was surprised to find just now that it still works.
http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/street_cloud/index.html

I wonder if there is a more detailed data set available these days.
100% considered it and have a dual boot machine (nix / Win10) at the house for those non cross- compatible use cases, but I find them few and far between and end up using my Win10 machine for streaming and games mostly.

I have almost fully switched to nix and have had 0 issues. It is a but harder to find applications, but that is the mix when you are running non-commercial software... And if you really need that one application that only runs on Windows... Ask yourself why you have to use it... You probably don't and there is a terminal application that works better on *nix
Fruit Juice Company Stock Triples After Announcing Pivot to Cyrto Trading
Consider the following counterfactual: What if Bitcoin Cash had become accepted as the "true" Bitcoin and the original Bitcoin's market cap plummeted to near zero? Then you would treat it as a long-term capital gain if you sell it, right? Technically, there is little to distinguish a contentious fork from an upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol.

As another counterfactual: What if the SegWit2x fork had happened, and each of the two resulting cryptocurrencies had roughly equal market cap and each claimed to be the "true" Bitcoin? I don't see how the IRS could coherently distinguish between these two cryptocurrencies and treat the sale of one as a long-term gain but a sale of the other as a short-term gain.
Sometimes learning something new isn't so bad. I have used both Windows and Mac OS. It might be a bit of extra work to have to reboot from OS to OS, but you could always run out and just by yourself a new laptop with Windows 10 on it if you wanted to go that route.

I just suggest both because they do have their benefits.
I stand corrected. I was going by the behavior of my coworkers laptop running a recent release os Mac OS. Perhaps it was a remnant of an older third party installation.
One thing I really appreciate about Google Maps is how accurate the times are. There have been numerous times where google maps says is will take x minutes to get there and I think "Nah, I'll be able to get there faster than that." Nope, I've never had google maps be off by more than a minute or so. I think it must take into account not just road conditions and traffic, but also how much I am likely to go over the speed limit.
But that's statistically speaking - GP seems to be enough outside the norm to spend a few minutes thinking about this. The question I'd ask is whether American soils used for farming are generally enough iodine-rich, or whether the problem rather goes away by people eating lots of processed foods containing iodized salts.
Apple really didn't get it in the Jobs days. For quite a while, Cupertino's built-in Google Maps app sent traffic to two Netscalers in California that Apple managed, no matter where your iPhone was. That was definitely not Google's idea. As you can imagine, hilarity of all kinds did ensue.
Yeah, the "Midwest" is a stupid term. Great Lakes region is where Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc. call home. I don't think there's much in common with somebody who is from Nebraska or Kansas anymore than I think somebody in rural California or some random place in Arizona has much in common with people from the Great Lakes region.
You can go without cash for a lot on Germany. Train tickets, groceries, cinema, restaurants, bars.. All of those and more work fine without cash (you need Maestro, but everyone has one of those).

It fails if you want to buy food in the streets maybe, not every Doner can be paid by card.

But.. that's normal and aligns with what I see here in Singapore now: Cashless, unless small food shop/hawker place or something similar.

Germany doesn't accept _credit cards_ on a large scale. It does support paying with a card made of plastic usually..
I keep a list of a few more HN clients with alternate interfaces here as well.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/
I don't understand why this would be a problem. Apple Maps is not competing with Google Maps. Apple Maps is simply there so Apple can provide turn-by-turn navigation out of the box without paying Google for it. The fact that Google Maps is free to consumers is irrelevant, because it's not free for Apple to bundle with iOS.
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/2056
Are you sure?
From what I remember Piketty was simply against using the Gini Coefficient as a measure of wealth and income inequality, which happened/happens to be primarily used by such contemporary measurements.
That's what Apple Maps does (but only for the very last announcement):

"Your destination is on the right, 123 Main Street."
Pick a phone next time that is from a manufacturer who has a reputation for staying up to date with Android.

But, the sad reality is that no manufacturers anywhere will provide OS updates for more than 2 years, and many are MUCH less than that. They expect you to throw them away and buy new ones. Or, they expect you to not notice since they don't want to 'burn cash' on porting new updates.

Nevermind that the 'android device support model' is a dumpster fire. Android (specifically AOSP, but google's spin too) needs to be a rolling distro to make it easier for manufacturers to support older devices (but no guarrantee they will care..). Shitting a monolithic update on them once a year doesn't work.

The 'smartphone industry' is an incredibly wasteful industry.
This article does a good job of explaining the main reason: To retain runtime on a degraded battery, they underclock/undervolt the hardware.. drawing less power and producing less performance. This honestly accounts for mobile device performance loss in the majority of cases and it isn't iPhone or Apple-specific.

A resets might improve performance of the flash device if it frees up additional space or does something similar to an SSD "trim" event.
>Wouldn't that just be rate limiting by client IP though?

This won't defeat an adversary with a botnet.
If WASM replaces JavaScript then is this repository an example of JavaScript being replaced by.... JavaScript?

https://github.com/ballercat/walt
Good luck with that. All Disney films are really just advertising so that Disney can make a fortune selling merchandise. The 'Star Wars' franchise is one of the best-known and successful merchandising franchises, which is why Disney wanted it badly.
Even negotiating power would be a valid argument in a perfectly regulated world. But governments, often with good intentions, improperly or overly regulate many times only stifling us small guys and often not even knowing it (it's hard to quantify).

> And these regulations are a very minor impingement on free contract-making

Agreed, but it's a question of cost vs benefit. They may not be a minor impingement on smaller companies and consumer choice and may make minimal impact anyways. I think we can all see that, if the law is evenly applied, smaller companies stand to lose most. Granted, the EU tends to subjectively choose when to bring the hammer down and it's mostly on larger companies. But it's still not worth the risk.
I usually hear "your destination is on the right", and become aware to having zoomed by the place. 5 minutes of U-turning ensues.
Yes that's it. Excellent search fu you have.
Structure vs. Combinatorics in Computational Complexity (2013) [pdf]
Google shouldn't wait till Nov to fix the loophole of apps bypassing some permissions by declaring an older target SDK version. Give developers a quarter's notice, and update Android and Google Play services to enforce these permissions starting March 2018.

Developers who don't prioritise their users' privacy even after being given a quarter's notice can have their apps break.
I think it just shows the primary difference between the two companies. Google is ad-revenue driven by mechanisms that leverage world-scale data mining & analysis. Apple is revenue driven by hardware that leverages high-quality product design. Oversimplifying both I'm sure, but I think most things stem from this.
Dirt on the camera lens or image-sensor.
I’m only aware of one government postal org that uses w3w. Are there others beyond Côte d'Ivoire?
If You Don’t Use It, You’ll Lose It
I think people generally wildly underestimate the scope and impact of Ground Truth (or are entirely ignorant of it).

Back when Apple Maps launched (and probably just after GT had been publicly acknowledged), I had a chat with an Apple journalist, and basically told him that Apple had no idea what they were in for. They'd fix the obvious big public bugs (turning off of highway overpasses) easily enough, but they would remain way behind on data quality. Back then Google was spending something like a billion dollars a year for GT and Street View alone, which is a massive organization that Apple just didn't have, wasn't likely to build, and couldn't license. Add to that a huge lead in satellite imagery, custom flyover data, business data from web search, customer feedback from their incumbent maps app, and I just didn't see any way that Apple was going to come even close to Google's map quality in the next several years. Basically the only question to me was if/how quickly they'd reach "good enough" status for their users to avoid tarnishing their brand.

Story time: Back before GT was used widely, I think some street addresses were placed by just linearly interpolating them along the road. Charleston and Rengstorff are a bit weird near the Google campus, so for a while people looking for directions to the shopping center on the other side of the freeway would find themselves getting directed (embarrassingly!) to the Google Maps building, with its big red pin in front reminding them how they'd been led astray. After giving directions to these lost souls one too many times, I got annoyed enough to rant to someone about how terrible the data was. He agreed, took me over to a what I now know must have been a GT operator, got it fixed, and told me it would be live within a month. So I got to say that I'd personally served some Maps traffic, and reduced load on a low performance server as well (my QPS is pathetic).
I see your point, theoretically majority miners could manipulate BTC supply. The major difference is that with fiat currency control of the money supply is centralized, while with Bitcoin it is distributed.

In addition, at the point that miners reached consensus for new BTC rules, arguably it would no longer be BTC.

Bitcoin’s qualities today make it more like gold than fiat, but in reality it’s neither. “Digital gold” is just an analogy.
I can only assume that there is some population of speculators that are only able to purchase bitcoin cash through Coinbase.. maybe the other exchanges make it too difficult?
You could alternatively test $0, but caller() does seem cleaner.
I've had the worst customer support experience with coinbase. I'd advise not using their service. They aren't equipped to support their customers. I'm out of pocket $1000 and have been in a "queue" for the last couple of months.
Are Early Stage Investors Biased Against Women?
It is. It does. uMatrix is probably not for the average user out there, but personally, I won't go anywhere on the web without it these days.

Keep the blacklists up to date, and have scripting completely off by default. You get granular control on a wholly different levet than offered by NoScript (which I really no longer see a need for).
And you have no plans to have assets or employees in the EU. Ever.
No it's not on purpose. I just did not prepare all parsers yet to include or detect the parties. For some it is actually already present but not visible. Just search it in the searchbar on top. Example with SVP:
https://politiker-politicien-politici.ch/en/people?utf8=%E2%...
If it weren't for the fairly deep tendrils Apple Maps has in iOS itself, or if it were possible to change the 'default' maps app to a competitor's, there wouldn't be a particularly compelling reason. As it is, however, using a third-party app sometimes means awkwardly copying and pasting addresses, not having a turn-by-turn map present on the lock screen and so on, so there are compelling reasons against using third-party maps apps.

These limitations are, of course, entirely of Apple's creation.
I mean, not any more than certain kinds of code being faster than others in browsers. There's tons of stuff out there on how to optimize your site for browsers, and browsers make conscious decisions on what kind of code will be faster all the time.

Also I think tracking protection is off by default except in private browsing mode, and if it's something you need to explicitly enable that's no different from the "neutrality" issues caused by installing an adblocker (there are no issues).

This also ties into the whole concept of "a browser is a user agent" (http://words.steveklabnik.com/user-agent-moz-a), i.e. it advocates for you. Here it's trying to get the actual content loaded faster. ISPs are not user agents, they are more like a utility.
"In all honesty, I don't know what is going on at Coinbase. It looks like a circus and I suspect its days are numbered."

You must be joking. Coinbase is probably on track to be the most valuable company YC has ever invested in hands down. Their user growth is insane [0] at 2 million+ per month and a growth rate that appears to be doubling every month. They recently announced they had more users trading on their platform than Charles Schwab. [1] Schwab is a 70 Billion dollar company. I wouldn't be surprised if Coinbase ends up being bigger than YC's next three biggest hits combined.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NgvD2kFT69mSXuJPzPDu...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/bitcoin-exchange-coinbase-ha...
Bitcoin Cash reaches $8,500 in 4 minutes
French security laws make the PATRIOT Act look like a toy.
Here is the code for Realtalk: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJc2esBVwAAnj4X?format=jpg

Source: https://twitter.com/redblobgames/status/907253802931126272
Per the standards, scheduling and prioritization of downloads is up to browsers.

The standard also defines that scripts that are not async have to be executed before later content can be parsed (because they can document.write()). They can still be loaded with any priority the browser wants; they just need to block observable DOM construction.
That's a rather strange objection.

If any bureaucracy is run smoothly efficiently and effectively, I can totally imagine people calling it beloved simply because it makes such a huge positive impact in their lives.

I think this notion of not just lack of fondness for helpful government institutions but active dislike for them is more an American phenomenon and qualifies as 'strange'
After initial rollout of Bitcoin Cash trading on GDAX and Coinbase, Bitcoin Cash prices surges $5k in less than ten minutes causing GDAX and Coinbase to disable Bitcoin Cash trading.

Share your thoughts on Bitcoin Cash moving forward.
> if FB was a french company

Let’s be honest, Facebook would have never had a chance as a French company.
smaller occurrence of people
on welfare selling and buying
coke, drive-by shootings, rusty
factories and young-earth
theorists in schools

Woah, woah, woah, better watch out for the class warfare and racism cards. You’re on thin ice, my friend.
Yep, just like Detroit in 1950.
Or any of their assets or revenue in EU may end up getting seized.
It’s clearly the case for since the 70s as well.

In an interview, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz (who served under Bill Clinton) criticized Piketty [0] of overemphasizing the increase in concentration of wealth, and this was on the basis that the current increase in wealth stems from an increase in land value.

[0] https://www.salon.com/2015/01/02/joseph_stiglitz_thomas_pike...