skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that does it occur, but it also occurs that the same people messing it up have bought off both sides. So it's not like voting for Dems or Republicans will magically make it cheaper. They'll just change who pays the insane prices, if that.
For certain there wouldn't be content whose only purpose is to maximize ad revenue. That would easily be a net positive for overall quality of online content.
Recently here on Hacker News I had a short discussion with Steve Klabnik about JavaScript and WebAssembly among other things.[0] My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure, practically used to deliver malware and usually used against the interests of the user of the computer. If I can infer from Steve's stance the opinion of Mozilla, then it's sad to see that the only big browser developer organization I had hopes in simply waves these problems away and keeps on making JavaScript and WebAssembly more usable and widespread. It's disheartening to see that.

The connection to this talk is that they demo triggering a backdoor hidden in microcode by executing some WebAssembly code in an up-to-date FireFox.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981178
I use an ad blocker for a much simpler reason. I do not consent to having my behavior analyzed. Calling these things `ads` is deliberately misleading. The primary purpose of these things isn't to show you an ad, its to record everything you do on every site you visit, so then that data can be correlated to your credit history and other real world sources to profile you and optimally manipulate your behavior to sell you shit.

Just wondering how many people here noticed that pornhub injects google analytics, and gives google unscrutinized access to your sexual preferences and habits? They don't even bother showing a google ad, they just let them inject their arbitrary js payload.

I do not consent. They can fuck right off.
I don't know the answer to the first question. The second question (Is there ever an reason to mine 0-fee transactions?) is "yes, for a while".

Until approximately 2040 new Bitcoin are introduced into the system as a reward to the miner who discovers a block. So, even if a miner mines a block with only 0-fee transactions, they are still rewarded with a small amount of Bitcoin "from nowhere".

Bitcoin will be introduced in this manner until there are 21 million BTC in existence, at which point they will stop being introduced "from nowhere". This is expected to take until about 2040 (though I don't know how that projection is made). After that point there won't be much of an incentive to mine 0-fee transactions.
I had the same problem. After years of Windows laptops, I bought a Macbook back in 2015 because I wanted a change. Ended up with the same problem. Tried all sorts of fixes. Reinstalled the OS several times. It would work for a day after the reinstall and then lock up after every sleep again. I guess it wasn't always a complete lock up. Once when I was beyond frustrated with it, I let it just sit. After 30 minutes, it came back on.

I returned it and went with a Thinkpad instead. On all my Windows laptops, sleep's never been a problem. Even on the cheap machines.
Both KDE and XMonad have Just Worked for me when I have needed to connect external displays. No manual xrandr fiddling required.
Every cap weighted fund has a cutoff where it omits companies that are too small. But even the stocks that are barely large enough to include don't contribute much to returns.

I don't think the small cap stock is "mispriced". Rather, it has a different value for different investors, and the market price is a compromise. That means different investors should probably have a different amount of it in a portfolio.

It's an abuse of theory to claim that since the market is efficient, you should ignore the things that make you different from the total market. For example, suppose you invest in tax-exempt investments when you are in a low tax bracket, or even when you are investing in a tax free account. Is that optimal because markets are efficient? Of course not. Because the value set by the market does not take into account the way in which you differ.

The reason to believe in index investing is because you understand your own lack of knowledge and are honest about it. That's a good thing, but it doesn't justify pretending you don't know things that you do know. People seem to have the same issue with probability, I find.
Awesome, I'm happy you enjoyed it!

In some sense, it might actually be easier to tell at a startup because what matters at a startup is growth. That can be growth of revenue (if you already have a product to sell) or growth of users (if you need traffic first to sell, e.g. Quora).

The highest-leverage work would then be the things that most directly lead to that growth. Sometimes, this will require talking with product managers or salespeople or users to understand what the biggest accelerators or roadblocks would be. So, for example, at Quip, I looked at data on how the product spread within teams and organizations, developed engagement metrics around it, and then built features to move those metrics.

Working on some projects that end up failing is perfectly normal. What's important is to front-load as much of the risk as possible and to be explicit about the hypotheses required to make a project successful so that you can validate them early and, if necessary, change course.

That's where some of the projects we worked on at Quora failed (e.g. topic groups, an infrastructure rewrite) -- we let ourselves be overly confident about what we knew and didn't invest the time to sanity check our hypotheses.

For my book, validation played a huge role. Even before I started writing my book, I had written engineering-related answers on Quora for over two years and started to get a sense of what resonated with readers. That helped me build confidence that there would be demand for something in this space. Continued feedback and reviews during the writing process built on that confidence more.
>> Just go spec it out for yourself.

I do it like once a month, and this "3-4x" claim is strictly false. If you spec MBP versus Dell or HP or Lenovo or whatever with the same parts, Apple may be anything between 5%-30% more, nowhere near 300%-400% that you claim.
As long as a person can do their job and avoid being mean to others, it does not matter what gender etc they are.
I built a small web app with Hyperapp earlier this year. It's such a nice fast, simple, lightweight alternative to React (which is great too).

It reminds me of the comparison between Flask and Django in the Python world.
Apple needs to continue signing iOS 10. It is unacceptable that they have increased the software drain on power for normal activities beyond what supported hardware can run, and then when the problem is recognized not allowed downgrading to revert the experience.
he ded.
For the same reason auto makers don't offer free lifetime oil changes. A battery is expected to degrade over time so if you expect to use a device for 2-3+ years it's your own responsibility to factor that into the cost of ownership.
I depends on the stand, I'm guessing. I know the one by 205 has not had plain water, historically... but the water fountains are just 10 yards away. (I usually walk in with a quart-sized cup anyway; security lets open drinks through if they can inspect them.) Any stand will add ice to your cup on request.

Coffee and hot chocolate (and tea?) are other options printed right on the coupon.
In SF a couple of parks needed to have new public bathrooms built. Cost: 2 million.[1] If you had to do it yourself, It'd be about 100k max. It's pure graft and greediness.

Meanwhile in Japan, they convert an above ground line into a subway line in 3.5 hours of coordinated work.[2] It's a startling difference. This is the one time I'd love to be able to bring engineering and crew from overseas and have them do the work for us and dispense with all the local corruption.

200 ghost workers -unbelievable. And they initially wanted to keep that discovery quiet. $1000/day/ghost worker for the taxpayers of New York. $200k waste per day --that's how much The City respects its citizens.

[1]http://hoodline.com/2017/10/golden-gate-park-playground-land...

[2]https://youtu.be/wIbZqqLra9k?t=80
TRUMP effect!
Wouldn't be the first time, assuming you mean exchanges in general:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/30/business/fbi-commodities-s...
by definition safe deposit box that is not safe is not a safe deposit box. so yeah, there are no safe deposit boxes in Ukraine.
I think this nicely encapsulates the problem faced in a lot of facets of society.

I'm not sure how to address it other than to raise awareness, but that has its own potential to backfire unpredictably.
The iPhone X is thicker than previous generation models.
Mobile CPUs have quadrupled since 3.5 years when the 6 came out. Most normal people want cool new features. If you are in the minority, don’t expect it to be fixed just for you — especially since the old OS is optimized for you and you can use it just fine.
Camera lenses curve light, offsetting on a micro scale produces a slightly different perspective. You would end up with a blurrier image, not a high resolution one.
If the first mission to Mars is really full of explorers, mountaineers, and daring billionaires then as I said I will be a believer. If they’re full of desperate people not searching for longevity or comfort, but those same things for the families they leave behind, I will not believe. It strikes me as fundamentally wrong to accept that the world is full of desperate people, while also rationalizing away the morality of exploiting them.

If there was no other way, as it frankly was in the age sail, and human lives simply had to be the currency of progress then so be it. We don’t live in those times, and we definitely have options other than sacrificing some people; they’re just more expensive, difficult options.
The 1 in 6 figure is for "food insecurity." I'm sure "chronic malnutrition" is a worse condition.
.. I mean, they would not have jobs if they did not participate in it.
I have not read this, but an excerpt was featured in Wired - http://amzn.to/2DtzgjI

Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
I can't claim to know what was going on with your phone, of course. But artificial benchmarks that push the system to its limits seem more likely to trigger this behavior than everyday usage, so I wouldn't take those results as evidence. I didn't see the app loading bullet point and agree with you there.

In my own case, everything was slow. Loading apps, loading web pages, whatever. And the difference after a clean install now is huge. Went back and did the same to an old iPad that I stopped using for its sluggishness, and it's usable again.

Complex devices, so there's certainly going to be a complex set of problems, but I think that some of it is due to us taking Apple's message that iOS devices are appliances to heart, whereas the truth is that these portable computers still need mysterious maintenance rituals. It's been impressive, but Apple's still got some work to do to make these things bulletproof.
Hi. Obscure fact about me: I started the Resonant Rise modpack and have helped test and promote ATM3. I have also appeared in the minecraft productions of the Yogscast. While less active now, I still know a lot of people in the scene.

Given this...

I think you're right, the playerbase shifted. No one does it because the vast majority of the playerbase is in 3 camps:

1. Heavily modded servers. Lots of these servers revolve around gimmicks that ultimately produce a lot of materials, be they Botania and Mekanism or some kind of explicitly something-from-air premise like Sky Factory 3. The audience here is all 20+

2. Specialist modded servers that accept vanila clients. These are very showy and vary in complexity from modest story driven affairs (see Lyinginbedmon on youtube for good examples) up to the absurdly complex game-driven Hypixel world. Lots of kids play here, and to them this IS minecraft. Survival-style play in vanilla is no longer the norm.

3. The very youngest end of the audience has almost no exposure to the game as it was originally played, instead playing the subtly different mobile & iPad editions. These folks may have multiplayer, but it's their parents paying for a realms server.

I'm sure economy servers exist, but they're quite hard to find and they are nowhere near they were back in the older 2013 (and earlier) days when that sort of modest bukkit mods were THE way folks engaged the scene.
The results on the influenza trials are incredible, I really like the idea of distributed computing in helping tackle these types of challenges.

If anyone is interested in learning more about the Rosetta project, here is a link https://boinc.bakerlab.org/
this is in direct correlation with higher living costs/rent/food etc.

street thugs cant afford to live in new york hence lower crime. its not result of any policies.
Potentially stupid question: What is an SVM? The linked page uses the acronym almost 30 times but doesn't define it.
The build quality of phones back then usually didn't last longer than the battery. Keypads would die, screens would stop working, accidental damage, etc.

With phones that are now waterproof, dustproof, and have powerful CPUs and cameras, the time to replace them has lengthened. I know a bunch of people who have owned iPhones for 4+ years and were very satisfied until they finally upgraded.
Mr Robot tries to stay as true to hacking as it can.
More "fleecing of America" alarmist journalist bullshit. This type of ill-informed journalism is largely what creates the red tape (i.e. extra layers of unnecessary oversight, insane requirements, and irrational spending restrictions) in government agencies that would otherwise be very lean.

I'm a government contractor and I see first hand every day (painfully) how this type of reporting has resulted in the Governments inability to attract and retain talent, as well as the loss of corporate knowledge. It's the same irrational logic that prevents non-profit orgs from attracting/regaining talent because people thinking that wvery dollar spent goes directly to those in need without regard to the need to build an infrastructure to deliver fund/aid.

I have no knowledge of New York subterranian transit, but at some point you have to step back and ask yourself if the expenditure is worth it, simply based on the value of the dollar. I think it is. This journalist apparently doesn't, but seems to have all the answers, so I say fire the 200 'excessive' workers, hire Todd Heisler (the journalist) and put him in charge of the teamining 600 workers (and associated budget) to get the job done. Apparently 900 isn't good enough for Todd.
Spreadsheets in space.
It takes leadership of a kind we don't have any more. The electoral process has been hacked and it's not really fixable without some larger dislocations happening first.
Contractors are not employees.
Totally get it.

I grew up in a weird household, with half my family with strong Irish accents and the other with strong NYC accents. When I moved away from New York, almost nobody could understand me at all for a few weeks. A few teachers thought I was a non-native speaker.
I mean, the official definition is: "smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance."

So I guess OP could've meant Apple is being a sneak like a snake oil salesman?
After seeing the same damn advertisement 100 times what is the point? It becomes tedious and pointless for me and the advertiser. So I block ads.
Two sharks were found dead in Cape Cod. Experts blame “cold shock”
A story generator. So I can read procedurally generated stories and worlds rather than watch movies and novels.
I think I'm thinking of the Song-Beverly Act, which is a CA law, though reading this synopsis [1], I'm not sure if they can't use the cc number to track you, or if they just can't require you to give other PII in the cc transaction. In some cases this might amount to the same prohibition. But again, it would only apply to CA consumers (defined either by residency or by current location, presumably, which further complicates things).

> The Song-Beverly Act prohibits retailers from requiring a consumer to provide personally identifiable information (PII) as a condition to payment by credit card and recording that information during the credit card transaction. The Act defines PII as including the cardholder’s address and telephone number, and courts have repeatedly found that the definition includes other information such as ZIP codes and email addresses. Class actions against retailers in California based on alleged violations of the Act have become commonplace and several other states have also adopted their own laws modeled on Song-Beverly.

1: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=329a7064-6278...
Google + FB, the worlds largest online advertising companies lose probably billions to ad blockers.

I’m sure quite a number of people got nice bonuses and promos for bringing some of that revenue back.
It's not clear to me why Service Merchandise (and its predecessors like Best Products, Consumers Distributing, and Unity Buying Service) all failed back then. They certainly couldn't compete now with the economies of scale of Walmart or Amazon.

It's odd that online grocery shopping is so huge now given Webvan's crash and burn in that space not all that long ago.
Probably not. The realty is everything is free, infinite, and it's fairly straightforward to nether-tunnel to a fresh site to get tons of stuff.

Many things are totally renewable AND automatable even n vanilla, including all the metals ((A famous youtuber Tango Tek shows how to make infinite iron; it's involved but cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs4wDJewNw), flowers, wood, dirt, and sand.

Economies form around packed ice and diamonds, but even these are eventually destroyed as fortune 3 picks become easy to manufacture.

It's all about timesavings.
Haha that's amazing, as a kind of thank you how about this:

I overheard on the Bakerloo line two Transport for London employees talking about safetly and one pipes up and says "of course most of the inside of the Bakerloo line is covered in asbestos, they have to spray the inside of the line with glue every year and check the air quality - it can't ever be removed of course - as soon as you disturbed it you'd be completely fucked".

I try to avoid the Bakerloo line these days...
Hong Kong maybe. The great firewall is really the party shooting itself in the foot.
The whole thing just reveals Apple's bullshit. They oppose right to repair laws and block third party repair by denying them access to parts. The fact that despite all the obstruction and sabotage from apple, you can still get parts is a wonder in itself.

>Of course, when a chemically aged battery is replaced with a new one, iPhone performance returns to normal when operated in standard conditions.

"Ofcource". Wow! How the heck is a user supposed to know this?

>We’ve always wanted our customers to be able to use their iPhones as long as possible.

More BS. The iPhone is designed to be unrepairable.
I wonder about robustness. Can the microcode physically destroy the CPU? Consider driving a bus line both high and low simultaneously from two sources. That puts transistors which ordinarily spurt out a little current to overcome capacitance into a continuous maximum current situation. Compared to maximum toggle rate in normal operation, (50% duty cycle for a transistor, exponentially decaying current when on), I’ll estimate this will easily average four times the current.

The development cycle could be littered with dead processors, but worse for Intel, if a widely used microcode has a very infrequent chip stressing flaw it will manifest as “Intel chips aren’t reliable.”
This description indicates that women have no real choice but to handle it differently from a man, which kind of makes your question moot.

This is a kind of assuming the conclusion. Maybe what dkarl is saying is right, maybe it isn’t; but my question is about investigating those ideas.

Given that I do it often in public on an overwhelmingly male forum, I have difficulty trying to fathom why that isn’t interpreted as extremely thick skinned, ballsy bitch instead.

Please know that I already think of you as someone who holds her own and is up to facing any challenger in this forum.
> I've never felt unsafe walking around in the Tenderloin, e.g. carrying an infant.

Are you joking? Or just insane?

I'm a 160 lbs male and would not walk through the tenderloin at night. It's really fucking scary. Almost everyone there is homeless and on drugs. The bad kind of drugs.

I would go so far as to say that someone carrying an infant through that area might be endangering the child.
You know, you shouldn't comment if you haven't even bothered to read the article or don't understand the issue being discussed right? HN really does turn into a low-effort circlejerk any time Apple comes up.
drug trade is at all time high in new york. massive amounts of drugs go through the city every day. its a major drug hub.

plus its a new generation of thugs out there that understand that killing people attracts unwanted attention. hence lower violence.
Hmm maybe this is what the boring company is trying to do. If they can use their tech to tunnel the same distance at 90% less would truly redefine transport.
Management is a skill. Moving up the totem pole to executive at increasingly senior levels is political games. It's a skill, but not one that contributes to economic output.

Founders excluded, of course.
Just because NYC generates enough value to make an over-budget project still "worth it" does not mean everybody should be sucking on the government teat and seeing nothing wrong with it.
See if this works: https://web.archive.org/web/20171229024557/https://newsnetwo...

I doubt the internet archive does goofy country-level blocking, but you never know.
NASA lends a hand to new American Girl doll with Mars aspirations
Care to suggest better ways?
Lose? They have monopoly positions in their respective markets and we have little choice.

While I personally avoid FB and use DDG, most folks can't or aren't allowed to (no extensions).
Actually, I believe there are a few economy-esque mods, and there's at least one subgame that enables randomized NPC traders.
Why is the line 14 extension not comparable?
Fast food franchisees claim discount menus cut profits too much
I don't think there's a theory that tells you risk is volatility. Isn't that more of an axiom? And I have the distinct impression it was chosen because it leads to tractable math. I'm not endorsing a specific alternative definition of risk, but I was suggesting risk is clearly multidimensional and intimately related to predicting what will be correlated in the future.
It’s worth pointing out that while b-amyloid and tau proteins are suspected of playing a crucial role in Alzheimer’s, disease it isn’t actually confirmed.
In recent weeks if not months, HN has been my go-to "fret about getting Alzheimer's/dementia" newsfeed.