skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They only did it for ad revenue

Most only did it for revenue and ad revenue just happens to be the easiest for many.

I, for one, have never built a website for the ad money. I get my money through value-add services such as showing what I can do, by showing what I have done; providing software and services to other people so that they can also create their own things and provide help and input.

> You now have to put up with more lower value ads

No I don't; I use adblockers, like everyone I know. Everyone as in not just developers or tech weenies. Everyone as in normal people with social lives or claim they don't worry about privacy because they have nothing to hide. People don't want their bandwidth (precious bandwidth these days) wasted, they don't want their battery wasted, they don't want their privacy violated.

Let's build and promote platforms that empower content developers to get paid for their work through means other than advertisements. Patreon is a great example of that (and I wish I knew of other similar services).
I think that's all "T3". Looking inside the transceiver, there are two toroids, each with 6 loose wires coming off. Since there are no pins, I think the pin numbers are fictional.
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To get a sense of how a regular camera's focal-plane shutter moves, here's a great video from Slow Mo Guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmjeCchGRQo&feature=youtu.be...
> French cinema icon claims recent focus on outing sexual predators is stymieing sexual freedom

No one ever had sexual freedom. It was just sexual freedom for the 1% who could afford gym memberships, not working in college, organic food, etc. Recently, now that the rich work so so much, I’m doubting even they are finding sexual freedom, whatever that is.

You would have had more sexual freedom in the 1950’s.
> Sick and tired of accusations being thrown out with no skin in the game.

This is a weak attempt at deflection by those who want to discredit criticism. Anyone who understands this sector and thinks it is a bad investment, will not invest. This doesn't mean their view is somehow incorrect.

As for finding an ICO that hasn't lived up to the hype, throw a dart at the dartboard. How about Tezos, for one.

How about Tron for another, whose white paper was found to have plagiarized from IPFS and/or Filecoin. See: http://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/08/trons-whitepaper-copied...
Maybe I'm just dumb, but is this a bigger problem than it is offchain? Data is forged all the time, we have fake news, people lie, people are jailed with false accusations.

If the owner of the fridge in your example eventually discovers that the sensor has been tampered with, s/he can get the money back using the judicial system offchain, maybe reflected in some inchain contract.

Answering to my own initial question, the speed of the system could make a difference. An automated way to scam people with an oracle could make it easier to get the money and disappear.

Are there any other major differences?
Gene therapy for rare retinal disorder to cost $425,000 per eye
When thinking about progressive enhancement, it's debatable what your baseline should be. I'm not sure I agree we should take plain text as the baseline. There's a development cost to everything. I genuinely believe you can create a better experience with a JavaScript-powered app/site, where the server doesn't have to re-render the entire page when someone interacts withit to show new content, and developing server-side rendering so that the same page can be rendered by the server, as well as constructed by JavaScript on the client, with content from an API, takes a lot of time. Even though it'd make it more accessible to clients who have JavaScript disabled, or where rendering the page client-side takes longer than rendering it on the server and sending it as a whole.

I completely agree about unnecessary annoyances such as auto-playing video, or load-blocking ads. #perfmatters.
Crypto means cryptography. Cryptocurrency should be shortened another way. Perhaps "Cryptotoken."
If JD wanted to take a stake in Bitcoin, trash talking beforehand could help, and i think this could have been the case.

most reasonable people would prefer to stay silent but JP Morgan plays the "bad boy bank" role with gusto, second only to Goodman Sachs. both organizations openly break the law while eating the fines as an operating expense, bet against their own clients and ensnare nation states in unpayable debt with what most laypeople would think is unbelievable power and control.

compare that to a few choice words in an unregulated wild west market and perhaps id be stupid not to think it was intentional.

his reversal seals it for me. (unless this is yet more strategy on his part)
Wait, Wisconsin wants to "give" $4Billion to foxconn? Is that in cash or tax breaks, in which case, are isn't Foxconn really just keeping their money?
Author here: I'm mostly wondering if this is a direction people have looked into before, or if it might be interesting after all, or if anyone can point out to me why it's probably nonsense :)
...is a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek dismissal of the fundamental idea. That's about par for the course for intellectual debate around cryptocurrencies of late.

To be clear, I don't have a dog in this fight. Tokens may be the Next Big Thing, I don't know. But it'd be really nice to have a full conversation on the topic that didn't either go off the rails or devolve into a political diatribe as soon as I ask a question about intrinsic value or zero sum games.
> The thing I find funny is that they aren't acknowledging the fact that they used to solve crimes before cell phones existed. What did they do back then?

I'm not a big fan of government surveillance, but I find this argument problematic. Crime was different before the Internet and cell phones. Criminals learned to use the new tech with the rest of us. For example, not that long ago if the FBI had a person followed and his land line monitored, they could know who that person was in contact with. Today, that person might be exchanging messages over an encrypted app, on an encrypted phone, and there's no way of telling who with.

I'm with you about the fact that privacy of ordinary citizens is being undermined, and that through technology, invasive surveillance became so cheap and easy to deploy, that it's everywhere.

But let's not confuse state level surveillance of the whole population with targeted surveillance approved in a legitimate proceeding by an independent judge in an independent court against an actual criminal. Citizens typically want to allow the latter, while preventing the former. Governments tend say they're doing the latter, while doing both. So "public safety" arguments might be used to promote anti-democratic surveillance of a population, but can also be legitimate concerns of a law enforcement agency trying to investigate actual crimes.
> but is it prudent to shred register receipts?

I'd say so. First, it makes life more difficult for an attacker who does want to recover sensitive documents (simply: there's a lot more noise from the receipt shreds), and purchase patterns tell a lot about you - in 2012, for example, Target got flak for finding out a girl was pregnant before the girl herself did (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...)... for example while you may decide to take all your whiskey bottles to the recycler, when I see weekly purchases of a dozen Jack Daniels bottles I can assume either you are a heavy drinker, or your family likes to heavily drink. Both stuff I could use as extortion leverage.

I prefer to drop the receipts in the store as I leave the property unless there's something on the receipt on which I might want/need warranty worth more than 50€ - it's not tied to me, the store and anyone present at the property can see what I bought anyway and as I like to pay cash for most things now I don't leave any data in big-data analysis companies which match purchases with my DC account data...
I think this part is misleading =>

"Spectre means that an attacker can control branches, so branches alone are no longer adequate for enforcing security properties."

I think they meant "Spectre means an that attacker can ABUSE branches", and in that they are right.
Everyone’s sensitive around some niche subjects.
The author of the paper doesn't mean that the concept of linear types will change the world, but states that linear types combined with functional languages will be able to interact with and change the real world (I/O, graphics, etc). This is because functional languages have a hard time representing these concepts, and have alternate workarounds (monads).
ICO's are the equivalent of getting funding.

I think that the first successful blockchain based company won't be doing an ICO but just launch it's token/coin because it has utility in itself.
There are plenty of stocks that no one ever expects any distribution or dividend from, but they know it represents a claim on real value (assets and incomes) in the business, and that there is a market where they can resell it for more money if the value of the underlying assets increase. All the incomes may go back into the business but that doesn't mean they don't increase real value.
It reminds me more of the P2P mania of the early 2000s - P2P was going to decentralize and revolutionize absolutely everything, and well, it didn't. It stayed in its narrow lane, providing benefits where it made sense.
Lisp ideas didn't caught on until 40+ years, so...

Not to mention that the first digital computer appeared in the 30s or so, and it took until 1980s and on to really say it "changed the world" (as opposed to merely improving the speed of some calculations).
I take your stance is the same for train drivers, too?

What an utterly silly opinion, anyway.
And why would I need the tokens in the first place? Hell, why would I need to pay at all, given that there are free alternatives like Medium?
I respectfully disagree. There is a reasonable requirement that as you're passing someone on the street if they aren't in front of you it's not your fault. You as a human have a blind spot at which point you can't be reasonable expected to stop.

They should have definitely stopped after hitting someone.

Fault could be the drivers if they were speeding, the person was standing in the road (not entering at a perpendicular), drinking, etc.

This is why you should have a dashcam for your vehicle. I always ALWAYS watch side yards and such for children (my mom called them snipers). I drive down the middle of the road when people aren't around (more distance between parked cars and my bumper) but no one is perfect and the Fault isn't always the drivers.
The funny thing about expected value. Even if the expected value of a one dollar lottery ticket was ten dollars, it still wouldn’t be worth playing.
ITT: sensitive nerds who don't appreciate humor to cope with tragedy.
Firefox has "Tracking Protection"* setting under "Privacy & Security".

* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection
Do you support optional 1031-like kind for 2017?
What about optional currency-to-currency for those looking to be aggressive?

Thanks!
Interaction though mailing lists is far far far far far worse then even the mess issues is.

Mailing lists are completely terrible for anything.
Reminds me of that scene from Lethal Weapon 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXNUaSjXRY
> Assange's value as a bargaining chip is dubious to a Trump admin.

I expect that Trump doesn't particularly want Assange (despite WikiLeaks complaining of a Trump Admin war on WikiLeaks), and I expect that he especially doesn't want Assange anywhere within reach of the Mueller investigation.
90% of my Instagram content is my kid. Though I use it as a way to record highlights for me and my wife, rather than for outside consumption.
Linear types are different from immutable types. You can change the value of a linear type as long as you used the previous value somewhere else (for example i = i + 1). Languages like Rust leverage affine types (another substructural type system similar to linear type systems) in order to guarantee memory safety.
You've decided to make it part of your life.

Plenty of us have gotten rid of that virus years ago; yes even at work.
Oh, like LIBOR! That's always worked perfectly, hasn't it?
dang, nobody understands what you are talking about.
Aha, that's the broken window fallacy, I think.
That's an awesome attitude for someone who had the driver flee the scene.
Specifically buy an AMD Ryzen:

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution

Ryzen is only affected by "Spectre variant one, Bounds Check Bypass"

It's fixed by OS updates with negligible performance impact expected.
This is admittedly dated now (2011), but according to it, print subscribers to the New York Times were each worth $385 annually in advertising alone (more from subscription fees, of course) while monthly online readers were worth $3.85 annually in ad revenue, two orders of magnitude less:

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-print-versus-o...

That resembles what I remember reading for a decade+ about the print-to-digital newspaper transition: online ads command lower rates than print ads. Which is really mysterious, if online ads backed with persistent tracking and targeting are truly more effective.
Show HN: ChromeDriver Proxy an extensible proxy to ChromeDriver
Bitcoin as performance art is..just perfect.
I really think there is a considerable amount of market manipulation going on with crypto-currencies in general. There was an earlier thread to a blog post that got voted up quite a bit, but the comments all brought up that the author was just speculating and tried to pass it off as fact.

There was also a pastebin up earlier that showed how someone had found wallets on the blockchain that used their own hashes as passwords, and were potentially being used to funnel money around (security holes in exchanges potentially?) It was removed from HN; found it on Lobsters.

The trouble is that no one has really presented hard evidence, but a number of people I talked to who are developers in the regular financial sector do think it's highly probably that there is intentional manipulation. And with the blockchain being all hashes, numbers and mathematics, it also seems plausible that it's a system that can be gamed; or at least more easily gamed than regular fiat currency.
AKA the broken window fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I am not nobody. And I suspect I'm not alone.
Why not leave the css out for extra performance?
Please note there has been a modification in the salary range to $75k - $85k + equity from what was originally advertised. I apologize for this.
Average cost to replace a 2,000 sf slate roof is ~$30,000. Someone was likely trying to rip you off.

Lifespan is kind of a leading question as many buildings simply are not going to last. Still, the high end for slate is very high. "There is a chapel in England, built during the 8th century, which has one of the oldest slate roofs known. After 1,200 years of service, the moss-covered roof is still in good condition, demonstrating the permanence of the material."
Cache timing attacks have been known for a while, for example across VMs in 2009: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/cloudsec.pdf
A close baseline is Hacker News. The site works perfectly without JavaScript but is a bit faster (don't have to wait for page refreshes on upvote) if you enable it. If Hacker News had a more responsive stylesheet, it would definitely be something we could hold up as an example.
I don't disagree with anything you wrote. I still won't invest my retirement into a company that doesn't prioritize profitability. I can't. It won't work if I lose money in my 401(k).

15%, 7%. These are positive numbers. They're profit.
If shareholders aren't getting value, the company dies.
"Not because blockchain is some sort of an innovation."

Actually, it is some sort of huge innovation.
Hi! CTO here!

Scripto, itself, is based on etherpad-lite, with a ton of other code added to support various other features necessary to support the shows and was written by some contract employees.
90% of the time I just use a search engine to find the page I’m looking for on Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. Without the search engine it’d just take a bit longer
When Gary oldman is talking to the priest, then he chokes on a cherry and none of his machines can save him.
2048 Coins is a challenging cryptocurrency puzzle
I was at that talk and it was amazing, but I remember it as: “privacy is the right to be imperfect”. Not a big difference and I might remember it incorrectly, but worth a note me thinks.
New crypto single-player sliding block puzzle game on"2048 game" mechanic. Earn your first bitcoin (hoho, virtual course).
But since the OS fixes to protect against meltdown come with a potential performance penalty, AMD is a better choice now than it was a week ago.
> A blockchain ensures that some sequence of agreements was made in a way that everyone can trust. If everyone keeps their secret keys secure and solely in their possession, then no activity can be forged on the network by any significant likelihood. Anywhere this concept has value, a blockchain has value. That's all there is to it.

Note an important caveat -- a centralized third party can also provide such a service. So you have to further subdivide the space into use cases where the blockchain has to compete against such services, and use cases where a public ledger is desirable in and of itself.
Hang onto your graphics cards, as cryptocurrency mining spikes GPUs prices
I've no idea of the truth of the original allegations, or his claims that he was set up, but since then it's quite impressive how he's managed to change my perception of him and wikileaks from 'champions of freedom-of-information / free speech' to 'russian government stooge' over the last few years.
> Who's going to keep us safe from the FBI?

It's a reasonable question. And it has an answer: The same crypto / infosec community that's keeping us safe right now.

If governments are going to demand some sort of "exceptional access", then that's just one more constraint that our systems have to satisfy. Figuring out how to do that, while maintaining security for the rest of the users, is the million-dollar question.

I understand that after the Crypto Wars of the 1990's, the tech community has been super resistant to working on any sort of technology that allows for any sort of compromise. But I fear that if we don't -- if security has to be all-or-nothing -- then eventually we're going to wind up with some horrible mandate for backdoors or key escrow or something worse.
I was thinking about the angle "the drug trade vanishes, so the gangs will drift into pimping" - which is, imho, not really valid since where prostitution is illegal, the gangs are already in pimping and the supply/demand is more or less matched, so there are no new profits to be made there.
Not that it's right or good, but shareholders profiting off of global warming are probably getting a net gain on the backs of the rest of the world.

If you want boards of directors to prioritize carbon neutrality and similar goals, you have to translate that into money. Tax the carbon and price the negative externalities. If you don't do this, and just hope all business people make decisions from their heart, you will always be let down.
> FreeBSD Security Team was notified of the issue in late December

Anyone else thinks this was kind of a slap in the face to the smaller communities and companies or is it just me?

They were notified in late December, right before the holidays, so that's basically only 2-3 weeks of work. Obviously nobody _had_ to notify anyone, could have just released it right away, so it was a professional courtesy, but why not extend it to a few more projects?

Before anyone says "but OpenBSD broke an embargo before", this is a different project and besides having BSD in the name don't see why they were excluded.
Net neutrality activists are celebrating as Democratic senators clear key hurdle
I was not aware of the ZZT/Unreal connection. ZZT was one of my formative programming experiences, a lovely reminder to see it here!
this is a tool i created when transitioning form phantomjs to chromedriver. it both manages a pool of chrome browsers and allows you to extend the selenium api.
Any program containing some 50-100 KLOC or more is too complex for any one person to completely understand. (Even if that person wrote the whole thing: he or she will have to refer to the documentation, and puzzle over code written months or years ago to figure out what is going on.)
Have you checked out https://glitch.com? It has multi-user features in it.
Borrow money to buy money?
Wouldn't there already be a hundred things like this?
When people say they want new crimes on the books, they do it because they want someone convicted - otherwise there would be no point. It's pretty clear that this girl would not have been convicted, so what would the point have been? To show her the horror of the justice system, "so she will think twice next time"? She's already doing that herself, every day, simply because she doesn't want to kill anyone else.

What we need is better prevention and less cars.
When working on large complicated systems the best engineering approach is often to define a process (tools included) and then always repeat the same way. You’d be surprised how many things can go wrong when you stop acting repeatably. It will definitely seems like a waste of time until the first time you blow up a half billion dollar payload because someone unknowingly trashed an important component using the wrong wrench.
So you want to pay for all internet content?

It's not mutually exclusive: 100% paid content vs instrusive and obnoxious tracking. However Content publishers are desperately trying to increase revenue and these ad-tech companies provide a means to do so.
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It's interesting seeing the affect that feeding my kids had on my wife and their relationship. I was kind of jealous for a while. I didn't get to have that.

Don't get me wrong I still remember the first time I held them both, but I had to grow to know them from that day forward.
Watch Nvidia and others start pushing the Ethereum community to remain on proof of work, instead of moving to proof of stake.
New ZBOX mini PC 2018 range unveiled at CES
Do you have a source on the toxicity? I know people working at Snap, and they mostly have good things to say about the engineering culture.
So, he leaks Russian government secrets while working for them? Seems legit.
Intel has released new CPU microcode for download
> Anywhere this concept has value, a blockchain has value.

Sure, and that's several trillion dollars per year worth of the global GDP.
What I never understand: why try to track me and try to understand me when all that is needed is to chose ads within the context of the page where the ad is displayed? There is a reason I am visiting a certain page. Targeted tracking _never_ works for me. These ad are simply wasted. Targeted ads are snakeoil. I get to see useless stuff. And it gets so annoying if you only see the same ads for weeks or months (I dont care about IBM products!!!11). That‘s one reason, I bought ad blockers for my mobile devices, too.

Edit: I know one reason: the ad industry has to reinvent itself in order to sell. To provide useful ads to ‚endusers‘ is just a lie!