skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty wild. It's common to have a Drupal site (and probably most PHP-based projects) with permission to write-then-execute, also. On some of the more robust CMS-specific hosting platforms, there are host-imposed limitations that only allow scripts to be executed from certain locations, and those locations are not writable by the user that the scripts run as (e.g., Acquia) -- in fact only the git/CI user can write to the script locations. All user-generated-content that has to be on disk goes off to the side in a directory that expressly will not execute PHP. The downside is that you give up letting the site itself be your update GUI, and for less savvy users (e.g., without knowledge of permissions, git, etc.) I guess that's a big downside. But this is what happens.

Of course, permission to write to disk isn't exactly a hard requirement for a backdoor to arrive (see Drupageddon). But it certainly opens doors, one might say.
I'm a skeptic. For a preview of this, try using a retina MacBook at full resolution with a pair of $10 jewelers glasses.

Personally I found it super slow and frustrating to have to turn my head instead of my eyes to see different parts of the screen - it's nothing like using multiple physical monitors. And jewelers glasses are better than virtual screens will be - they have zero lag and don't suffer from the double-aliasing of projecting one pixel grid onto another pixel grid.

I can imagine this working, but it would take way more resolution and field of view to simulate multiple monitors than anything we know how to build today.
Why isn’t this an issue with laptops as well as phones?
Looks great. Get back to me when it's real.
At the same time you have to deal with waking up in the morning and telling yourself you're going to go do some pony today, which seems a tad off.

Im going to do some C++

Im going to do some Java

Im going to do some Pony
This made things much clearer. Thanks. But I have a ton of questions:

* Where can I download the ad experience report?

* So if I replace the ad using a different approach (DOM path, attrs, domain, etc) every 29 days, this isn't going to block anything?

* Where is the code that does the blocking on Chromium so I can read it? Specifically, I want to see if it's client side or not.

Can anyone shed any light here?
Thanks, I'm glad it is working out for you.

Regarding the bug: Is there any chance you could email us at support at vallettaventures dot com? that way we can get back to you when there is a fix. Also, we may need a spindump to find out where it is locked up, so we can send instructions on how to create that if you have a moment.

We've had a request or two for this in the past. I've added your vote, the plan during the 1.8 series is to do a series of small updates, and this would be nice.
What monopoly? There is no taxi monopoly that I'm aware of. If anything much of the problem with Taxis is because of the heavy competition racing to the bottom.
Well, apart from a first stage that's designed to be re-used more often, there's also a second stage that's designed for re-use (and no fairings that are ditched). So simply by not throwing anything away (except for reaction mass) they have a cost advantage (assuming everything works as planned). And at least the F9 first stage has proven to be considerably cheaper to refurbish than the the Space Shuttle, so I'm confident that they won't fall into the trap of having re-use at a cost that's way above throwing the hardware away after every launch.
Any odds makers taking bets on this, I wonder? I'd put down $100 on the off chance it actually works the first time!
That was initially the plan. It proved too complex and has since been dropped from the design. It won't be coming back.

Which is too bad, because it would be really awesome if they had managed to make it work.
I mean lets be honest... If you knew in advance that this was going to happen, who wouldnt have done something like this? You could have made a quick 100k+.
It's a "Creators edition", that doesn't sound cosumer focused at all.
Some questions I'm curious about (including other exchanges besides Coinbase too).

Do Coinbase employees have to disclose their external crypto-currency trading accounts (as well as for immediate family members) to the internal compliance dept?

Is Coinbase employee crypto trading activity subject to pre-approval prior to trade execution?

What is their policy regarding disclosure of material non-public information of pending changes/additions to their own exchange?
He doesn't have to believe it. It still shifts liability away from himself.
They spent a lot of time building this fancy teaser site, but all anyone really wants is a 1 minute video of it doing anything.
At least in many places in Europe (but I think it's also the case in some cities in the USA) you need to get a taxi license to operate which is pretty anti-competitive. I agree with the parent that I would prefer if we had some stringent regulation for taxi businesses but the license system would be phased out to open the market to competition.

Unfortunately taxi drivers can resell their licenses, and they're pretty damn expensive (in the hundreds of thousands of euros in Paris IIRC) so the license owners obviously very staunchly defending their investments and taxi companies their de-facto monopolies. Besides taxis can basically shut down all traffic in the capital (and they're not particularly civil about it either) when they go on strike so the status quo endures.
MyPairingPal – ad-hoc experiment
They most certainly are different.
Opened the link on a mobile phone. Got a full screen image with the following text: "welcome to day one". OK, let's scroll a bit. This is the text that follows: "We're adding another dimension to computing. Where digital respects the physical."

What's this site about? What's the product?

I understand that designing a website is tricky, but - to me - this site seems an example of something aesthetically pleasing, but very cryptic from a content point of view.
"I guess no one's wearing this out in public"

Yes. Currently it is birth control for your face.
>I don't know if uber is a horrible company or not

Really?
I've just started doing it (Win 10 on a MBP as a primary OS). So far, the only major annoyance was the touchpad drivers - both the ones provided by Apple and Touchpad++ (alternative) don't come near to the touchpad experience on OS X.
Some people paid what it "should" before Uber, but I'm also sure there are now a lot of people using Uber that wouldn't be taking a taxi at the "should" price.
"The viewing space is about the size of a VHS tape held in front of you with your arms half extended. It’s much larger than the HoloLens, but it’s still there.

“I can say that our future gen hardware tech significantly expands the field of view,” Miller says. “So the field of view that you are looking at on these devices is the field of view this will ship with.

From https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
>Seems a waste to send an automobile advertisement into orbit around Mars for eternity.

Especially since Red Bull will probably pay a lot of money to have a crash test dummy in a space suit strapped to a dirtbike with a Red Bull zip-tied into his hand, a GoPro on his helmet and some solar panels dangling somewhere broadcasting a live stream for the next handful of decades.
That depends on what you mean by "constructed". The individual stages of all rockets are constructed horizontally. The difference is in how the stages and payload are integrated.

With a rocket like the Atlas V, the upper stage and payload are integrated with the first stage while it is vertical. This is a common approach taken with rockets that frequently fly satellites with big mirrors in them (if the payload is never tipped on its side, it's a lot easier to secure the heavy optics inside).

SpaceX does not currently support vertical integration, they only support horizontal integration. Generally speaking customers prefer vertical integration, since it makes their payload design easier (and in some cases it's a hard requirement), so SpaceX will be adding vertical integration support at their LC-39A launch pad (mostly for government launches).
The French data plan even includes 25 GB of roaming which you can use in Germany, IIRC you can choose between Telekom or Vodafone network. Unfortunately, you still have to be in France most of the time, or they will cancel your contract.
But but but crytocurrency is so useful right??

1.) It's just like dollar! Shoot, coinbase won't allow me to trade it for 3 months! Every country is banning it? It went up 20% then dropped 50% today?!

2.) It's just like Visa!! Damn it costs me $500 to send $500

3.) It's just like gold! So rare....oh wait, another crytocurrency just came out with 100M unit of supplies.

4.) It's just like the bank!! Damn another exchange got shut down/frozen. The insiders made out like bandits

Oh well, who cares. It's for gambling!!!!
That doesn't really explain why they're not showcasing it yet.
It might have differed by region. I went on a bike trip from Denmark to Greece in 2010 and remember doing all sorts of GIS to get good mapping data.

I seem to remember discovering Google's bike directions, including the height profiles, a few months later and being slightly miffed that it wasn't available for my trip.
Unhyping: (v.) calmly assessing a hyped phenomenon
>"Bonus points if you give it a name involving patriotism, freedom, economic or personal health, or a backromym that spells out the same."

Indeed, and this "cognitive dissonance" technique is so widespread now that you can generally invert the message to find out the actual intention of the legislation is. Examples:

If you are cutting taxes for the wealthy donor class say it is bill to "help the middle class and the poor."

If you want to take health care away from people say "it is a bill that will help the American people."

If you want to empower a monopoly just state that "this is a bill designed to foster competition."
Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models
> but I believe it's a least a step in the right direction.

Boy, I don't. Ask yourself why this is not an extension instead (even if installed by default)? Also, where can I download this ad list? Why do you believe lack of transparency is a step in the right direction? You really believe that the perpetrators are the best enforcers?
Sure, until you get sick.
Hailo tried to take on Uber – but now its brand is being killed off
I miss Hailo :'(

MyTaxi has been a disaster from the off.
I just find it hard to see how this is different / competes against the Hololens. They already have a couple years of market presence and after all the marketing/campaigns by Magic Leap, the product is the same (with the same qualms like FOV).

I will say that creator studio piece looks great, given Weta and other studio parternships.
NC State University has a pool reactor on the main campus used in their nuclear reactor curriculum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_State_Universit...
Objects that Sound [video]
You need a phone that supports LTE for the Free contract, otherwise you only get 3 GB of data.
I think putting Elon Musk inside that rocket and then launching it would be a really bold move. I recommend they do that.
Most bigcos aren't doing that because it's illegal, not because they don't want to.

If you, e.g., have market dominance in operating systems, you can't prefer any web browser, install any browser as default, or advertise any based on the OS. In the same way, if you control web search, you can't prefer one web shopping site, or one web maps service. And you especially can't integrate one, but not the other.

The goal of all this legislation was to ensure that a company like Google can't use their advantage in search to gain an advantage in maps, to avoid exactly the current situation.
> I didn't think he actually said it'd be cheaper

He absolutely said it would be cheaper, indeed that it was fundamental to the project. Here's slide in his presentation:

https://youtu.be/tdUX3ypDVwI?t=25m9s
Good. If your business depends on collecting tons of personal information from people, and storing it in a way that puts innocent people at risk, your business does not deserve to exist.
When Coinbase launched Bitcoin Cash at 17:20 PST (01:20 BST) it was valued at about $3,500 (£2,612) per coin.

At the time it suspended it, the company was quoting a price of about $8,500.

Trade of Bitcoin Cash was frozen just four minutes after it began on the firm's Global Digital Asset Exchange (Gdax) and existing orders were cancelled.

So the prices more than doubled in just 4 minutes. It might not even be a case of insider trading rather very, very thin order book.

That is why this happened:

https://status.gdax.com/

> Update - All BCH markets will remain cleared and offline until 9am PST 12/20/17. At that time, BCH markets will enter post-only mode for a minimum of one hour to allow liquidity to be established.

That is to say no matching orders allowed of any kind - limit or market which can suck the liquidity and cause a huge price jump.

One might think that Coinbase/GDAX understand liquidity and market making after so many years. But no. Makes you wonder what kind of stuff is going on in other exchanges.
>> around the same volume as an Olympic swimming pool.

>> with each 400-megawatt unit capable of warming 200,000 urban households.

>> with temperatures not exceeding 100 degrees Celsius,

Think about that for a minute. If the water isn't going to exceed 100c but the reactor is still going to pump out 400-megawatts, it isn't going to be a calm pool. They are going to have to pump insane amounts of water in and out of this pool if they want to keep things under 100c. That's fine. Just don't pretend this is going to hum along quietly like a research reactor. And don't tell me thing will remain at 100c should that flow of water be interrupted. Any non-boiling, low-pressure, reactor is going to need exponentially more cooling (by volume) than an equivalent traditional reactor. Let us hope they keep a lake nearby as backup.
It would appear that you were wrong. They seem to be just fine this morning well after sunrise.
> I wish we would fix that rather than regulating the monopolies.

See, that's the kind of bullshit that makes it hard to tell whether you're honestly misinformed, or disingenuous. The ISPs at issue are the ones providing last-mile connectivity. That's a textbook example of a natural monopoly. You can't make it not a natural monopoly. The free market will never settle on a strategy of providing competition in the form of multiple parallel and competing cables along every residential street and driveway. Regulation of the inevitable monopolies is the only solution that doesn't completely ignore reality and basic economic concepts. There's no alternative that can be expected to be at all effective.
Space X has regularly focused on lower costs at the expense of payload. Their rockets get significantly less to orbit, but the price saving ends up being huge which more than offsets the loss.
This is the way all rockets are built. I think the OP is confusing construction and integration.

Rockets are fabricated and transported horizontally. The distinction is whether the rocket is vertical or horizontal when the payload is attached.
Nice for them to prepare for Apple and their glasses.
Is Bitcoin considered a security now?
When I heard the word "mixed reality" for the first time two years ago, the idea was that AR was a 2d layer on top of reality (like google glasses) and that MR was actual 3d objects merged in the reality.

But then, mobile apps started doing the later and called it AR. Also, Hololens did what we were calling MR and called it AR as well. So at this point, I guess you can use whatever word you prefer.
The use of native languages is important in science communication
It seems to have a larger field of view. Hololens (I have one) is about the size of a credit card held out with your arm half extended. This one is the size of a VHS tape. Also, the unit appears to be lighter as processing is done by a pocket computer that comes with it. Hololens is completely self-contained and thus heavier and less comfortable. I wonder if they'll use the same Unity/C# dev tools.
I was going to ask if anyone had actually read the proposed bill. It isn't very long, and I didn't see anything about "paid" prioritization, though that might be considered a "specialized" service. From what I can tell, this bill puts give a lot of power to the FCC to determine what types of specialized services would "offered or provided in ways that threaten the meaningful availability of broadband internet access service or that have been devised or promoted in a manner designed to evade the purposes of this section".

So the FCC could still potentially prevent prioritization that would degrade broadband internet service.

Of course, I am not a lawyer.
It doesn't indicate how many people knew, only that those who did know were warned.
I assure you the drugs are real.
If you had the option to hire one of two people that will do the same job at the same performance level and one costs you $10 an hour and the other $20 an hour, which one do you choose? Is it the company to blame for picking the $10 an hour person?
> I advocate the peaceful destruction of their facility in Utah...

How? Either voting doesn't work or we as a people are too collective stupid to vote for anyone different. How many like Reid, Fienstien and Hatch just keep getting elected despite their actions? Maybe we need some real people to run? Maybe we need to be smart enough to vote them in (and out when their time is up - I'm looking at you, Hatch).

A there letter agency doesn't just disappear because we complain to each other. It is going to take years to undo what is being done.
I have done this. I will suggest the same process to others who have been locked out despite providing positive identification.
I don't know. Perhaps they wanted to pleasantly surprise all of us. Companies often do this with surprise announcements.
BlackBerry Plans to Kill Its App Store
An insightful comment from Reddit: “Looks like they've limited your real world fov with the frames so it maybe matches the virtual fov you get. I guess shrinking your real world fov to match might be more immersive than a virtual viewport in the middle of it like the HoloLens.”

I agree they could do it in a much less ugly manner though.
Well, I am greek so accents would be the smallest of my problems if I tried to use my actuall name as a username (Σεραφείμ) :)

Installing stuff on directories containing characters that are not plain-old ASCII letters and underscores (for example there are huge problems when installing things on directories with spaces in Windows) is a major no-no and I didn't even think of mentioning it.
"We only have hours"? What are we supposed to do in those hours? Make phone calls that won't get through? Tweet? Forget it. Senators and congressmen don't fear their constituents so they're not going to listen to their constituents.
It's pre-installed. Their built-in adblocker will instantly get a huge market share, on the back of Chrome. There's no parallel to that with physical products.
At least for the concurrency work, there's been a lot of groundwork done for it already, and even a working prototype - albeit with a much larger scheduling overhead than we would like.

I suspect that it's a mix of both, these hours numbers are somewhat pulled out of a hat but the concrete of what we actually want to do and how to go about it is known so they won't be wildly off. The manas guys will know the details though.
I think this comment shouldn't be downvoted because it's a common misunderstanding rooted in how unintuitive it is that water is so good at blocking radiation.
Well at least it's a whole lot lighter-weight than the Vive, wouldn't you say.
A Real-World Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks
Worked out for Python.
And neither am I, but I could see how the paid prioritization may be considered a "specialized" service. I am leaning towards reading it as double-speak.
So he made a new one i see, because my thoughts went to one he made 8 years ago.

https://vimeo.com/8569187
I like the separation of glasses from compute power. The design itself seems cool, a little bit inspired by Ghost in the Shell. But imagine putting this on average dude, the coolness is gone ;)
Reminds me of the speech that Nixon would've given had the Apollo 11 astronauts been stranded on the Moon:

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by the nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind."

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/11/in-event-of-moon-disast...
That would be great ! Where do I sign for this ? I cannot wait for this to happen.
Yes, there's an option to enable blocking. I think it should be the other way around, which was kind of my whole point. That's the only way to encourage site owners to stop designing sites that break when they can't spy on users.
>People might not like it but if Coinbase/GDAX cannot understand liquidity issues after so many years, it doesn't bode well for cryptocurrencies in general.

All of the exchanges are repeating mistakes already learned by the financial industry.

It's why they'll always be amateurs until an actual major financial institution devotes serious time/effort/money to it.
​Red Hat on its way to being the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source biz
Anti-competitive behavior isn't necessarily monopolistic.

Google is leveraging Chrome's dominant market position to (potentially) harm their competitors in an unrelated market.

You were always able to install Firefox or Chrome on Windows, but Microsoft was fined for using their dominant market position (Windows) to push a product in an unrelated market (web browsers).
It's still the only way to watch many movies & TV shows. There's just so much not available on Netflix/Prime/Hulu/Play, or not available on streaming at all.
A lot less than you think. These are the reactors normally used for research and they are rather safe, as pretty much all modern reactors are.