skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be able to collect a few wads of cash from finance firms who want a cooler-looking Bloomberg terminal, but I doubt this strategy could actually displace Bloomberg unless there's a technological edge that (1) delivers real, ongoing value and (2) can't be matched by Bloomberg within 1-2 years.

Problem #1 is what you mentioned with VR/AR $APP Killers - they mostly suck. They create value via novelty, which wears off. Bloomberg delivers value by addressing a really consistent set of needs in a solution highly familiar to many users across a whole industry, to the point it's hard not to buy it if you're in finance. It's like the industry's craigslist - lousy in many ways but good enough to stay entrenched (though Bloomberg's entrenchment is driven more through familiarity and brand rather than network effect, which makes it somewhat easier to compete against).

Problem #2 (being matched by Bloomberg) comes from Bloomberg having such domination of its market, and such deep pockets, that unless you are doing things they can't do they will just learn from and then kill you should you attain sufficient success. Although it might be easier to buy you!
Ahhhh, depth. How I miss you. Sigh. Well, back to my flat-everything-for-no-real-reason modern digital life.
Original Recipe Bitcoin
My stupid introduction to Haskell
Are you quoting something that SpaceX said?
Good thing I saw this. I was thinking about installing Ubuntu or Mint on my X1 Yoga during the holidays. I'll hold off now or do some more research.
Tokenize your project and do an ICO. Get millions. $$$
"Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status."
OK, so what about the planning period where you talk to your engineers and ask if they can implement it? Or does the CEO just shoot off the email without consulting anyone? The price would shoot up as soon as that email was sent out, so if anyone was consulted about it then they could insider trade.
Interview with a giant of technology: spicey
1) There's a lot of cases where blocking an entire domain is either excessive or insufficient -- important assets can be located on the same domain as ads. Adblockers can target specific files and specific elements on the page. They also provide much better ease of use for the average user than updating a hosts file.

2) The list of ad domains, URLs, and elements has to be constantly updated. The plugin has to be kept up to date with changes in browsers. Advertisers occasionally come up with new techniques to bypass or detect adblockers, so those need to be worked around.
Yes, I do. I subscribe to a quite a few sites. Got anything else?
Bitcoin doesn't inflate enough, so there's no incentive to spend it.
Tap: Wearable Keyboard available for pre-order
6 LibreOffice Tips to Get More Out of It
The classic way to engage in peaceful force projection is to do something drastic but oriented inward, with international implications, and implicitly challenge the world to do something about it. One way would be to institute unilateral border restrictions not unlike the ones just passed in the US.

Other states would balk at such a move, and talks of sanctions would likely follow, but the UK will have proven that they can throw their weight around, framing the narrative to ostensibly take their national interest over a supranational body. Since no one is willing to escalate beyond diplomatic and economic punishment, they will get their way.
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This does not exactly make them look like innocent above board victims of libel.
This volatility is exactly the reason it isn’t useful _for now_. In the past countries have created currencies, and it’s never been the case that they capitalize from 0 to _a lot_ in such a short time period. That’s why the USD chart is meaningless as a comparison against the same timeline. Wait 20-50 years and then we’ll see.
Based on Magic Leap's explanation, I'm not so sure it would work for that.

> My eyes were seeing two things existing in the same place and had decided that the creation, not the engineer, was the real thing and simply ignored Miller, at least that’s how Abovitz later explained it to me.

That sounds to me like some kind of light-field trickery where it puts an object in front of the background using the light field, but doesn't physically block the light. Instead, your brain processes it out because your visual model of the space has something in front of it.

I'm imagining this works sort of like the effect where you overlay left and right eye images that don't match, your brain sort of fades between the two of them because it can't decide what's there? Except instead of having that disagreement, both of your eyes say "This thing is in front" and that's how you see it"? It's hard to say from the kind of hand-wavey explanation.

If that's the case, I don't know that it would work for really bright glare. Either it might be a strong enough signal to overpower the light field, or the bright light scattering around your eyeball might still cause enough bloom to wash out your vision.
So that was identified as vandalism in ~9 days and removed and the user has been banned from editing:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1698922081/history

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1652

Of course as a practical matter the block only applies to an account rather a person, but it makes the point to the person that the vandalism isn't welcome.

I mostly mean to expand on how OSM deals with such things, not to argue whether or not that makes it suitable for your purposes.
I don't think it's exactly 100% but it does seem high.
Wikipedia survives without advertising and has some of the best content available anywhere. Some sites paywall, and for specialist content that’s actually valuable, that will continue to be a viable model. And static sites are cheaper than ever, keeping plenty of niche content available. Affiliate advertising is still a viable model and there are even more ways to monetize content that don’t require display advertising. Clickbait might die a miserable death, and thank God for that. Valuable content will survive.

We don’t live in a world of Faustian bargains where we have to put up with excessive pollution—either of the informational or physical sort—as an unavoidable byproduct of value. There are better solutions out there, and all it takes to realize them is to take the minds that are wasted on tricking people into seeing or clicking on ads and put them to work on more useful endeavors.
Lucyd AR Technology
Show HN: Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps
In pre-Uber San Francisco, many of the drivers who had medallions made a decent living renting them out to the likes of Yellow Cab instead of driving themselves. This alone shows the wrongness of that system, at least as it was done in SF. (Not sure what the system is now, but probably similar.)

I never blamed the drivers (nor the non-drivers) as it wasn't them who rigged the system. And most were pretty cool, even in the days when getting one to show up was a real challenge. (For SF folks: I would regularly wait 45 minutes for a cab to 5th and Howard in 2000, and knew better than to call Yellow which would just not show up half the time. Veteran's at least showed up eventually.)

Now that we have Uber and Lift clogging the city I would have expected the taxis to push things like customer service and professionalism... but last time I was there a taxi driver in front of my business hotel refused to take me to my doctor's office because: "You can walk that."

So I guess I'm prioritizing Lyft next time out. </anecdotal>
A noble thought, but

> Do consider what killing off most of the independent professional info websites will do to the Internet.

Where do I sign up for that?

The web was never a platform for publishers, it was a platform for users (some of them publishers). Big publishers never wanted it and hated it but were forced to use it or face irrelevance. Now they act like they own the place and are entitled to their business model.

If you don't want your readers to be able to triage content and data once they receive it, go build your own network and publish on there.

Using advertisement blockers is not only not an unethical thing to do, it is the right to do to force back those who seek to usurp and abuse a popular commons that was build to serve all equally.
They definitely are trying to build what I want. There is even an Excel spreadsheet in the marketing materials! I didn't think the Oculus Rift had good enough resolution though. Has anyone tried this?
Azure's cheapest SQL Server as-a-service offering is only $5/mo.
Of the three cases I named, 2 already were ruled antitrust violations under EU law, actually. And against the third, a case is also ongoing.

So, from an EU perspective, it is as clear cut as that :)
Ok this is pretty cool. This is also why I love HN. I've been using SQLite for ~3 years, have I missed this from the beginning or has it been added since then?
> But yes, it would be a tragedy if the better, more revolutionary way of working was discarded for an incrementally better version of what we are used to.

This tragedy is common occurrence with incremental ideas.

Compared to the revolutionary, incremental ideas have an unfair advantage. They are way easier to talk about, way easier to imagine, way easier to implement, and way easier to sell. They capture the market, and before long, too many people's lives will depend on them that no one would dare even propose doing things differently.

This has happened time and time again. QWERTY is a nice example:

> The top row of alphabetic keys of the standard typewriter reads QWERTY. For me this symbolizes the way in which technology can all too often serve not as a force for progress but for keeping things stuck. The QWERTY arrangement has no rational explanation, only a historical one. It was introduced in response to a problem in the early days of the typewriter: The keys used to jam. The idea was to minimize the collision problem by separating those keys that followed one another frequently. Just a few years later, general improvements in the technology removed the jamming problem, but QWERTY stuck. Once adopted, it resulted in many millions of typewriters and a method (indeed a full-blown curriculum) for learning typing. The social cost of change (for example, putting the most used keys together on the keyboard) mounted with the vested interest created by the fact that so many fingers now knew how to follow the QWERTY keyboard. QWERTY has stayed on despite the existence of other, more "rational" systems. On the other hand, if you talk to people about the QWERTY arrangement they will justify it by "objective" criteria. They will tell you that it "optimizes this" or it "minimizes that." Although these justifications have no rational foundation, they illustrate a process, a social process, of myth construction that allows us to build a justification for primitivity into any system. And I think that we are well on the road to doing exactly the same thing with the computer. We are in the process of digging ourselves into an anachronism by preserving practices that have no rational basis beyond their historical roots in an earlier period of technological and theoretical development. – Seymour Papert, Mindstorms

That's why I believe we should be more evangelical in promoting revolutionary ideas (from the blue plane), and more quick to point out incremental ideas (the pink plane).
What can you do if that fancy club that prefers rich people takes a cut of all your performances, no matter where you play?
Fun facts not mentioned in the article:

* The lunar module was off course because the astronauts failed to completely vent the tunnel between Eagle and Columbia and the resulting puff of air altered their trajectory.

* Apollo 10 was short-fueled to keep the crew from mutineering and attempting to land.

* Apollo 11 ended the crew's careers as astronauts: they were national and international heroes, and no sensible bureaucrat was willing to risk them.
Normally I'd agree with you. But it's kind of a huge red flag when a PR agency sets their twitter account to private.
The fight for net neutrality is a test of our broken democracy
Solid Platinum is also not a very good currency. What is your point?
This amusingly would be solved by having more money.
For what it's worth, I haven't had this problem with Arch Linux on my ThinkPad T470s or P50 and I did a fresh install on the P50 this week. Arch has really nice ThinkPad support and documentation, too.
similar idea is https://www.thunderclap.it/howitworks
So, so lucky we didn't kill anybody except the first three guys on the pad. There were so many opportunities to suffocate, poison, burn, freeze, strand, atomize, crush, or drown a crew. Their bravery, and the work of the engineers to get them home safe, is more stunning now than ever.
Microsoft Pulls Google Chrome Installer from the Microsoft Store
If you really believe that trade within your country is unhindered and uninspected, then I fear that you are one of the deluded. There are quality controls in every aspect of your life, even if they're mostly invisible to you.

Although, if the British public really want the 2013 horse meat scandal and the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster to become the norm rather than the exception, I guess now is the time to seize the opportunity.
That reddit link was incredibly informative and worth reading. It finally explains why /r/bitcoin looks like such a meme-driven asylum. All the propaganda, censorship, astroturfing and fake news reminds me of how /r/The_Donald gained support.

EDIT: And theymos's reply with the other side of the story https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/infor...
One unintended consequence of cramming 3-4x the amount of people into a building designed in the 60s/70s for offices is the influx of traffic. On top of that, parking becomes very problematic.

On top of that bathrooms and kitchens are harder to maintain, though admittedly those can be more easily remodeled.

May not be a huge deal in the city, but definitely in a lot of office parks in the 'burbs I've been in.
Well, one of those things has to do with technology, and the other one doesn't.
This blog post is complaining about office space shared with other companies in the Style of WeWork, not open plan office spaces.
Imagine describing the scene of someone running the Atom editor on a 1080p laptop to someone from the 90s who complained about Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping[1]. It would seem so odd; 8GB of ram, 4 cores running billions of instructions per second each. Also there's a terraflop scale massively parallel supercomputer with 2GB of RAM dedicated to drawing overlapping windows.

1: Backronym for "EMACS"
That's similar to an outdoor concert venue trying to charge nearby residents for each show.

If websites don't like that users have the ability to block ads, then a new ad delivery mechanism is needed, or possibly a different revenue model. For example many youtubers now have sponsored sections directly in their video. The only way to avoid it is to fast forward through it.

People have every right to control their computer, their network, and what happens to data once it has arrived. Depending on something as squishy as ethics for your revenue is pretty risky.
Are those approaches mutually incompatible? It seems to me that it would be easier to build a system which can drive fast when what it's seeing matches what it's expecting to see (most of the time), and which falls back to a much more conservative stance in the case of surprisal (i.e. expectation not matching observation).
Serious question, are there any new components in the SLS worth copying?
Not even out yet, and every know-it-all is shitting all over it. Typical HN.
To me it seems like Bitcoin Cash profits greatly just from having the word "Bitcoin" in front of it. Surprised no one just copyrights it and sues other coin makers. I guess that's against he community, but imo it needs to be done.

I don't hold any bitcoin or bitcoin cash...I say this as just a general consumer. The "bitcoin" name has brand value, and having "bitcoin" cash is going to inflate the market value of the it and confuse consumers into thinking some coins are more trustworthy. Especially as this goes more mainstream and your Aunt and Grandma can buy BCH on Coinbase. Or whatever new altcoin comes up that tags on the words "bitcoin."
The main reason I never got into Bitcoin is that I considered its deflationary nature a disaster and crippling flaw (for a currency).

That said, it's become much less a currency and more a fiat commodity one stashes like beanie babies so my original reasoning isn't particularly applicable at this point.
> The ISP doesn't pay both sides, but someone pays somewhere. So, if we are talking about the "cost of peering" it doesn't serve to talk about it from only one side.

But we're talking about the cost of peering paid by the ISP, because the ISP doesn't have to cover costs paid by somebody else and no one else is objecting to paying their part of it.

> You can get more than 16 ports in the 5u unit, so rent is probably under-amortized but not by the two order of magnitudes that would make up the difference between my estimate and your original.

Juniper MX240 supports 80 10GbE ports in 5U. Cisco's product search is lame but I expect they have something similar too.

> Peering is not a major cost for ISPs because ISPs don't have a lot of peers. As more services want direct peering relationships, there are some overhead costs which go up to manage the explosion of peering relationships.

That isn't necessarily true either. Only the major transit providers and CDNs like Level 3 and Akamai and the major players like Google that are so big they're effectively their own transit provider/CDN have any interesting peering.

All the smaller players get connected through one of the transit providers, because Joe's Website only wants to hook up from wherever Joe's servers are, not at every carrier hotel in the world like Google does. So they pay a transit provider to handle that and the ISP only has to deal with the transit provider.

The problem comes when the ISPs want to charge major transit providers monopoly rents for peering (which they would have to pass on), or refuse to upgrade the links to them when they're saturated in order to force their big customers (like Netflix at one point) to pay monopoly rents for peering directly.

> My initial objection was that you over-simplified.

It's supposed to be a simplification. The point isn't to make a full accounting, it's to compare orders of magnitude. Even using your numbers with unrealistically conservative assumptions about everything, they're still a single digit percentage of the typical customer's bill.
Are you saying that Democrats unanimously voted in favor of the Republican tax bill and are also anticipated to for the Republican fake Net Neutrality bill?
Ask HN: What are you programming on?
> For example, I go to buy a t-shirt for $10 and I pay the merchant $10 equivalent in bitcoin cash.

This is why I don't think of bitcoin as a currency: I've never seen it used to denominate prices. As far as I can tell, not even Silk Road had prices set in bitcoin.

Paying "$10 equivalent in bitcoin cash" (or bitcoin, or litecoin, or whatever) is using those cryptocurrencies as a payment gateway; the currency in those transactions is $.
Show HN: Cryptocurrency portfolio app on Blockstack
Pencil and paper
“Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac SDKs to Create One Developer Experience” would have been a more accurate title.
I call them reskins because they can't really affect anything beyond the UI.

For example Google has implemented a more restrictive policy regarding Flash in recent Chrome releases, and it has found its way into said browsers basically unmodified.
Apparently somebody at my IP is downloading

Category: "Child porn"	Title: "Massive Porn-Torrent"

That's lovely.
OP here. The project is beta, we need feedback from the HN community to improve things and make it to public release!
When forbes infested its clients thanks to a third-party ad network that distributed malwares[1], i was smiling with shadenfreude. Maybe i'm self-righteous, but since 2005, blocking ads is for me a way to protect my computer.

[1]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...
> Since no one is willing to escalate beyond diplomatic and economic punishment, they will get their way.

I don't follow. Isn't the objective to avoid economic punishment? What happens when the EU just says "ok, tough beans" and matches the UK's restrictions while closing off ties? Sounds like a great way for the UK to be left twiddling their thumbs with little to show for all the effort.

Also, the US comparison is mislead IMO. The US doesn't depend on Yemen the way the UK depends on the EU. Moreover, note the conspicuous absence of Saudi Arabia from the travel ban : even the world's hegemon can't completely ignore economic realities.
The fact that Germany banned Street View contributes to it being less useful there, and I theorize that it might indirectly contribute to less data in Germany.

Street View is so amazing, it's a huge game-changer from Google.
I appreciate your willingness to share your perspective here. The problem is that marketing/PR is a profession dedicated to finding whatever just-barely-technically-true weasel wording is required to make what they're getting paid for sound at least "ok" and preferrably "great!"

If you have time (definitely not expected) I would like to hear more specifics regarding this aspect of your statement:

> We don't do cross-domain tracking, or aggregate behavioral information across customers

vs. https://heapanalytics.com/terms

> We may also use data in an aggregated form for our own purposes
Unopinionated Comparison of Glimmer and React
For a PR agency I'd consider this as officially "going to ground."
Only two creatures isn't really possible. It isn't even an ecosystem, it's a Game of Life simulation.
Patio11 was ultimately asking for the owner of the free software project to emit an invoice, which has its own financial bureaucratic burden in which the owner most probably won't want to enter. Ie. it won't work because the typical free software developer doesn't want to incur into the taxes that this could imply.

For example, in Spain you aren't allowed to extend invoices if you aren't first registered as an autonomous worker (freelancer), which most people aren't because they already work for some company. But even if you did, then you'd have to pay for the obligatory social security for freelancers, which is around 260 Euro per month (so staying registered indefinitely as freelancer is not financially sensible, if you are not really doing actual contract jobs).

I would think this is similar in most other European countries, which in other words means that for the most common of the FOSS developers, writing a legally valid invoice is a no-no.

Of course the matter changes if the company doing the donations doesn't really care about the invoice being legally correct inside the country of the developer. But I wouldn't advise the developer to do things like that... (s)he would be risking a fine.