skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no real benefit to the local economy, so why do it?

You're assuming the politicians have the area's best interest at heart. Start by thinking - what's in it for them? Good press for bringing in a nationally recognized brand to the area. Maybe campaign contributions from said company. Maybe you get thrown some more campaign contributions from the construction companies that get work out of the deal.
I understand where you are coming from, and don't disagree with you, but we aren't just talking about parents teaching their children.

It's perfectly reasonable for a parent to decide their child should spend time away from computers.

It's also very easy to take this reaction too far. Deciding what a child should do with a computer, or even that a child should not spend more than 10-20min. at a time using a computer seems reasonable, or even necessary to a lot of parents. Such a situation would have been extremely detrimental to my childhood.

It's easy to overcompensate for things like this, just like it is easy to overcompensate for safety. Parents who know better are likely to ignore studies like this, but others will definitely use these studies to excuse their own draconian censorship, privacy violation, etc.

> This is also why sex ed is important, BTW.

Correct thoughtful sex ed is important. Teaching children to stay away from or fear their sexuality is detrimental, yet it is still common practice. It would be nice to be able to expect a reasonable reaction from everyone, but the fact is that we simply can't.

I think the focus of studies like this misses the mark. Children need variety, so it's important for parents to push them out the door from time to time. Unfortunately, a lot of parents find it more important to schedule every moment of their child's life, make every decision for their child, or be somewhere in between. That attitude leads them to awful things like censorship, and privacy intrusion.
Yep, worldwide it looks

http://downdetector.com/status/slack
No, there isn't. Antivirus only protects against known threats anyway, and Windows Defender works fine for that.
Cool. We're also planning integration with push notifications services, including SNS.
That was my point. 15% of Sweden's population live in 1 (one) urban area. You can reasonably compare it to some individual states, but in that case you get similar results, too.
How do you guys handle it? We just use hangout, but it is horrible for a team of 20, I can imagine a nightmare for bigger teams.
> Instead of granting premium placement in search results only to AMP, provide the same perks to all pages that meet an objective, neutral performance criterion such as Speed Index. Publishers can then use any technical solution of their choice.

Hasn't Google gone on record saying that AMP doesn't affect search results given the same page load speed for non-AMP sites?
Was AMP the reason people stopped doing that?
The questions and answers in Microsoft's own doco imply once.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076660
No. In fact, the solution detailed in that article accomplishes the exact inverse of one of the letter's demands.

While the letter wants third-party content not to be surfaced in a wrapping viewport that downplays the fact that it's actually Google's AMP Newsreader, the recent AMP announcement details a planned change where emerging tech [1] will be used to make the URL appear as if the content was directly loaded from the distant origin, because the content being served has been digitally signed by that origin and its serving has been delegated to Google akin to how a run-of-the-mill CDN is delegated the authority to serve content for a domain that's 'spiritually' owned by someone else.

However, the recent AMP announcement does address a very frequent complaint about AMP. Just one that's at odds with the one the letter is requesting.

[1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
I've actually found that AMP breaks websites on mobile for me (they don't scroll properly & often lock in place while taking forever to load), especially since I switched to Firefox. It took me a while to realize that the little icon on Google News next to the sites that kept breaking for me was the AMP icon.

On the bright side, every time it happens, it reminds me that news is rarely worth reading and that I should spend less time on Google News.
But on e-commerce you have large regional players already. Japan, Korea?, India?, China, and probably Indonesia too. I find it hard to believe that Amazon will be able to conquer all or any of these. Saturation in what way? Total amount of goods purchased online increasing gradually over the years? As for for adjacent markets, ok fair enough -- but will they win in everything they try? I don't really think so -- and the more they take on the more Amazon as a whole will be strained.
Just because you use a blockchain doesn't make your implementation trustless, nor censorship resistant.
I'd vote:

>>>> Apple >>>>> Microsoft >^∞ Amazon > Google >>>>>>>> Facebook

None of these companies are trustworthy, but Apple's business model doesn't require them to be quite as untrustworthy as the others to get your money. Microsoft is quickly headed down the ladder with their difficult to avoid or disable telemetry and an OS that spits ads in your face. Amazon is close to becoming Google's equal on this list with their "Alexa in all of the things" push. Facebook is run by Mark Zuckerberg, who acts as an anchor to keep it firmly planted at the bottom of the list.
first thought after closing: peace at long last
In Chrome, is this possible?
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
flags	: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm pti avx2
bugs	: cpu_insecure

$ uname -a
Linux archvm 4.14.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 3 07:02:42 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lspci
00:04.0 System peripheral: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service
I think this dovetails well with the idea that salaries are increasingly becoming bifurcated with the top 10-20% in any given skilled profession being paid 2-5x what the bottom 80% are. It also ties in with whether or not you are living your life "above or below the algorithm" AKA are you ordering Ubers or driving Ubers? Are you creating content and building a "personal brand" or are you mindlessly scrolling through a skinner box feed?

Its an interesting trend that I'm seeing more and more. Its much more subtle than a Black Mirror episode but its worrying nonetheless.
Amp finally helped me make the switch to ddg. I’d completely forgotten about it until I saw this thread.
To be completely fair here, so could most focal plane shutters of the era. Electronic flash hadn't really become a thing yet -- it was expensive, inefficient, fragile and finicky -- and focal plane flash bulbs would let you "sync" at practically any speed due to their long burn time.
AMP preloads pages before you click them, which means it's much faster than mobile.

You could argue that a browser could preload Google search results before you click them, but: (1) those pages could be giant, and loads 10 giant pages would be a bad bandwidth tradeoff and (2) there are privacy implications, since this would leak information about what users are searching for, even if they don't click the results.
> My quarrel is with people who think you can treat human society like a deterministic computer system, and 'hack' it. Politics is hard!

I'm going to nitpick here and point out that if you want to avoid getting into stupid philosophical or definitional arguments you should probably say "predictable" or "easily predictable" or "practically predictable" or something along those lines rather than "deterministic".
I've found the faker library [1] useful.

The fake data that I've bothered to model are weighted age ranges. Fortunately, as of Python3.6, you can access it from random.choices [2] in the stdlib

[1] https://github.com/joke2k/faker

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.choices

example: https://gist.github.com/Dowwie/8409d871ddae913e44c61bc4d47ce...
not the free consumer kind. Some business/enterprise stuff is useful (e.g. eset), but thats not helpful to the average consumer.
Because Buffalo isn't a place that attracts much attention about anything outside of lake-effect snow and how terrible the Buffalo Bills are.

The only movie about Buffalo I know of literally features lake-effect snow, how terrible the Bills are, and the tap dancing of Christina Ricci.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118789/
Man, given that some youtube channels get ~5 million per day, isn't ~85 million per day using snapchat kind of low? I would expect way more than only 20x interaction with snapchat than with one-man shows like that. 20 big channels and you're up to the entirety of snapchats user-base.
For precision, it’s good to distinguish between decentralization and permissionlessness as separate axes. Technically speaking the two are commonly positively correlated, but you can build centralized, permissionless systems and decentralized, permissioned systems.
(I haven't felt the need for such a warning since approximately 1998, when people stopped relying so much on third-party web hosting via FTP, and Content-Type fields were generally accurate. I recommend upgrading your web browser: direct links to a tar file no longer cause the entire window to be filled with line noise; and, if you try one of these newer graphical browsers, even if that happens for some reason it doesn't mess up your TTY state.)
I don't feel Facebook is anywhere close to the levels of omnipresence Google has.

It's rare if some random webpage doesn't talk to Google servers, be it analytics, fonts, CAPTCHAs, "sign in with Google" buttons or whatever. And they're in every other smartphone. And they handle lots of payments. And so on.

Facebook, on the contrary, rarely shows up. Sometimes there are like buttons, but I'd say they're rare. Or maybe I'm visiting the kind of sites where they're rare.

They may try to spam me (usually with some "you have new friend suggestion" with another person I've never ever met) but not like my mail filters care about that. And I occasionally log in there to check if someone had posted something (usually nope). I fed it some public information, never ever fed it anything non-public (not just private but non-public - even though I tag some public stuff as "private" there is no harm if that becomes public), and don't post anything there myself.

I'm going to say a heresy but... that's feels basically harmless (and absolutely useless) to me.
With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone
Shudder at the thought of sending an email lol
Winklevoss PR men would be my best bet.
> the coin doesn't give you ownership of the company

Why would you give something up when there are pools of dumb money willing to take nothing?
Poll: your cpu % increase from meltdown patch
I see tons of articles downplaying the cpu increases caused by the meltdown patch but my teammate just checked and our rds instances and all EC2 instances increased in cpu usage by 40% after the patch.

What has been your cpu % increase after applying the meltdown patch?
1-9%
10-19%
20-29%
30-39%
40-49%
50+%
> I think it's fair to say that different people have different thresholds for "bricked" depending on their awareness, willingness, and ability with regard to various repair techniques that may be to hand.

I think it's fair to say that people misuse terms through ignorance often, but that doesn't mean we should always just say "okay, let's extend the definition to include that too". It's useful to resist the erosion of terms until it becomes unuseful to do so. It often gets you marked as a pedant in a derogatory way, but it serves a very real and useful purpose, which is the preservation of definition which helps clear communication.

It's a losing battle, but it's a worthwhile fight.
Just waiting for this insane cryptocurrency bubble to pop hard. Riches are being made, but a ton of people are going to end up broke and broken, and the bigger the bubble grows the worse the popping will be.
I imagine ambulances save more lives than automobiles take.
It's funny how no one was up in arms when facebook (the leading source of publisher traffic) did their version of accelerated pages.

AMP serves a purpose for the end user and it does so well, it loads instantly and doesn't consume much data in the process.

As for their "demands":

1. Google already states that AMP pages are ranked higher because they're faster to load.

2. I'm not sure if it's related but they they addressed that only yesterday: https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/improving-urls-for-...
I don't see it that way. I think AMP was a wake up call to other websites and everyone starting prioritizing speed and responsiveness.

Early 2000s we had crappy Flash Websites that took a minute to load. I refused to build websites with Flash and would only build websites that were HTML and JavaScript (I HATED JS back than (Maybe it was just me)). I stopped getting business because that norm was slow websites that were pretty and had animations.

After Mobile took off in the early 2010's we had faster connections and those Flash sites worked much faster, except for mobile. Now everything is responsive and 2 or 3 seconds feels like a lifetime.

AMP changed the internet in my opinion, and maybe it isn't needed any more.
slack down.
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Why did this get downvoted?
Openly seeking to reproduce is not frowned upon. Plenty of people get married, have kids, and are fairly straightforward about their intentions regarding family. No one has an issue with this. This is a private issue, to be discussed with your partner.

However, publicly seeking someone to be nothing but a baby-factory for you is frowned upon for most people in public, because people like being valued for more than their sexual organs.

Hence when you refer to people as 'female' or as a 'mate' in certain contexts, there's a hint of a creep. Calling the new VP a 'hot piece of ass' is censurable for the same reason: because it minimizes her value as a person, professional and team member, regardless of how accurate the assessment regarding how nice her butt is.

Trying to frame this as a 'fashion' vs 'logic' trade-off is nonsensical.
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Frankly, I'm okay with slow sites staying slow. Google's initial attempt was to lead the horse to water. The horses that choose not to drink, I can choose not to, uh, ride. (If that maintains the metaphor)

The caveat comes in when no alternative exists, and when the access to some information of service on very constrained connections (such as you'd see in remote third-world regions with poor Internet access) meets some reasonable definition of vital, but I've not seen where AMP is playing a significant part in that.
To me the proposal there is arguably even scarier than what AMP is doing now.

It requires changing browsers, to let people distribute Google Hosted Apps on their own domains (as long as Google approves). Sites distributed in this way will get preferential treatment by Google.

This is essentially an App store model, similar to Google Play, and the really big danger is that we end up in a place where you either distribute (and host) your website through Google's AMP registry, or you're not actually on the web (in the same way that distributing your Android app as an APK outside of the Play store is not a realistic distribution channel).

I hope Firefox, Safari and Edge will resist this.
Except that AMP pages are often in the band of promoted results that show above the remainder of the search results, at least in the mobile app. And are prominently icon'ed in the desktop results.

So yeah, Google's not honest about this.
In defence of swap: common misconceptions
slack down
POWER UP THE GIGAFACTORY.
it cost on average around $1 USD to perform an average blockchain transaction and millions of transaction are made a day, the demand is transparent and the data is available for everyone to see. If it was a solved problem I would expect the demand for decentralized ledgers to be a lot lower
> they're nowhere near anything they can use to do real lasting damage

Except, make 'technical management' decisions like "we should use mongodb because it's web-scale".
On crypto markets and speculation
> why do you need to bash people enjoying themselves with a tool they're comfortable with to create things

Isn't that part of the theme of the post? Javascript doesn't care that it's being used for evil, but the things people create in Javascript often turn that way. They harvest personal data, drain battery life, and litter the internet with obtrusive advertisements. And that's when it doesn't just fail and break the website.

So go ahead. Create kind and beautiful things in Javascript. Just don't be surprised that people blame the language for the dreadful things it's brought us.
Wouldn't that be a Kryptocurrency then?
So are you saying -- all else equal -- that if your webpage can respond just as quickly as an AMP one, that your search rank won't be docked?

E.g., your site is just as performant as AMP, but you're not using AMP.
Google's VR180 Cameras Are the Future of Point-And-Shoot
Someone replied to our internal outage notification and replied to everyone@ with a gif. The chaos has begun.
My experience: ~2 years ago when amp first was initiially released it was freaking fast. Now I see loading spinners in Google app for a 3-5 seconds.
You could have also just manually created the registry key
Both, but mostly the latter.

I know a lot of parents who are over-concerned with their child's "safety". That extends to reading through teenager's texts, severely limiting their exposure to computers, etc.

Naturally, every child is different, and most won't have similar interests to what I had as a child, but speaking from experience: I would not have flourished in such an environment. I would never have had the liberty to mod video games, install Linux, etc. in a situation like that. I wouldn't have even encountered an interest in such things.

A concern with what a child does on his or her own can easily evolve into overbearing control and censorship. I want every parent to understand that.
Most of the time these status pages sit on, and store data in, the same infrastructure as the things it's supposed to be reporting on.
You forgot a big one that’s not going away quickly: money launderers.
Google announces raft of upcoming VR180 cameras
Interesting. What distinguishes driving age cyclists who don't drive from those who do?
Ask HN: Why CPU manufacturers did not foresee Meltdown?
I'm not at all sure this is true, I reckon there's a huge number of people with autistic traits who you just wouldnt notice are autistic (and who tend to be employed, and largely living normal lives)
Yes, http://www.bromium.com adds next level security to Windows environments.
I won't go into homes with an active Portal, for as long as that's remotely practical. Jesus christ.
I agree with all the points, but I would add one:

Show AMP results for all browsers. AFAIK, only Chrome (and maybe Safari, can't confirm) are shown AMP links in the search results.

There is people (like me) who like to support other browsers , or like some addons. I get it, Google: you want your browser to be the most popular. You've done it. Now treat the rest of them like capable pieces of software.
The Buffalo plant is aiming for a gigawatt of annual cell production by 2019:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/tesla-sta...

Which is admittedly not large by global standards, but bigger than any solar manufacturing facility that has operated in the US.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16087060 .
While I understand that my smartphone can be used as a listening device, the day when I will purchase a dedicated wire tap for my house will be never. I've been to people's houses that have them and sure they're fun when you're having some beers and want to hear a song I don't mind taking 2 seconds to manual select a song on my phone to keep a hot mic out of my house.
Update from Slack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/950812653496053760
All of them, always, though there was no official guidance for a while most knowledgable people in the space have been saying that for... at least a year.

Of course they got yelled down by the gold-rushers... but it was nevertheless true.
HN Could make a killing selling a saas product that monitors if sites are up. Honestly it's more reliable at this point.
The catch is that it automatically builds a social graph based on recognizing the faces of people who visit you. No facebook account and don't pose for pictures? No problem, we'll just install facial recognition cameras in the houses of your friends.
The only reason this wasn’t possible in the past was because too many people got ripped off.
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Comprehensive directory and listings of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token
A small town in Japan doubles its fertility rate
> Instead of granting premium placement in search results only to AMP, provide the same perks to all pages that meet an objective, neutral performance criterion such as Speed Index.

But who will measure it "objectively" (leaving aside no one agrees on how to universally measure load speed).

Googlebot? From what location and what machine types and how often? Should I get search results based on an average of all possible variables or the closest matching my locale and device? What happens when page content changes? What happens when the page sometimes loads slow content (e.g. ads) and sometimes doesn't? What happens when SEOers start cloaking their ad loads or taking advantage of flaws in the benchmark?

It's good to have a speed signal in search rankings, but this petition shouldn't pretend that's an objective replacement for something that always displays content first and loads media and third party content async
For the past few weeks there have been a series of 500 errors accumulating on strangely easy API requests ( like user presence detection ) on an increasing number of endpoint hits, more and more frequently.
How can a billion dollar startup not get their status page right? It says "Smooth Sailing", when obviously nothing is sailing over here.
Probably not. There are many countries not engaging in warfare even though they do not have nuclear weapons. Belgium and the Netherlands, for example, do not possess them, nor is there an obvious mechanism why the US' (or Britain's/France's) nuclear arsenal would discourage a war between these nations.

The US, meanwhile, has been engaged in wars almost non-stop since WW2. It's "unprecedented world peace" for for only a select few nations.

And, most importantly, the costs of failure have gone up dramatically with the invention of nuclear weapons. The Cuban Missile Crises is just one of several near-catastrophic events. Sooner or later, we will get a madman in a position of power, fall victim to a misunderstanding, or suffer a technical failure.

And that'll be that...
Ostensibly, that already exists: https://www.statuspage.io/
> The name Gigafactory comes from the word “Giga,” the unit of measurement representing “billions.” The factory’s planned annual battery production capacity is 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh), with one GWh being the equivalent of generating (or consuming) 1 billion watts for one hour. This is nearly as much as the entire world’s current battery production combined.

via https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory

Doesn't explain why they call Buffalo's operation a "Gigafactory," but that's the origin of the name for the more well-known Nevada-based Gigafactory.