skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As things move away from the real world and towards increased virtualization of everything, it's a lot easier for people to fall prey to "road rage" type of reactions - folks who are otherwise well-behaved and respectable turn into assholes behind the wheel.

Same with the virtual world.
I don't think it's stictly honest about showing all posts chronologically--it still hides many that it decides aren't worth your time, time that can be better spent viewing ads. Even then, the choice to view it chronologically expires every 2 days or so, and you're back to the default.
The browser indeed is fast to load websites, but in my experience it is still a bit in the beta stage. Also I'm surprised how many websites these days just work on Chrome and nothing else! We're back to IE6 folks.
Capital structure is _not_ external. You seem sophisticated to know this, but for everyone else, it's all about CASHFLOW. How much the business has coming in the door, how much is going out, etc.

Warren Buffet goes on periodic rants about these accounting gimmicks in Berkshire's annual letters. Metrics like EBITDA pretend things like massive capital investment don't exist. Guess what, if you own datacenters, or railroads, or anything else, you absolutely have to factor the costs of acquisition and holding those assets into your business model, metrics, and financing needs.

Amazon seems to have this figured out. Look at their financial statements, they always put the statement of cashflows first, right at the top, #1. Everything else is secondary. I'm not surprised their founder is worth 12 figures.
Flagged. You can't just not load the asynchronous assets that don't affect how the page is displayed and then claim your browser is 8x as fast.
I recall there was a most recent option and a top stories option. It seems the feed often got reset to top stories so you had to pay attention.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/115005045728-Do...
I hate all ads. The ads I get are irrelevant anyway.

There’s this funny PR line like I like relevant ads. I don’t like ads. I don’t like the same add 10 times in one hour.

Also it’s possible to hate all three at the same time.
Unless you have a small number of FB contacts (AKA “friends”) chrono is probably rapidly overwhelmed. I wanted chrono too, but it’s just too much.

OTOH it’s absurd that if you want to see again that post you saw last week — or this morning! — you probably can’t find it. That can be true in the HN firehouse too though sometimes you can dredge it out of your browser history. Good luck trying that w/FB

My gf works on this at FB (don’t know if she works on this particular change) and she says her group talks every day about the difficulty of finding stuff. I don’t know if those discussions are part of her work or it’s just they have the same problems. I just know that when I gripe about any UX issues or the shittiness of their app she just sighs and says, “yeah, we know”
I wonder if there's an underlying reason for the Fox news benchmark being the fastest. If page load time is largely determined by quality/quantity of ads, is Fox News serving the "best" ads to make their website faster? Or is their average user using a computer with less network bandwith and computing power, thus forcing them to lower ad loading time to present a reasonable user experience.
You just used the same argument that some parents use when they decide to not vaccinate their children. They essentially rely on the fact that everyone else vaccinates so they don't have to. This trend catches on and now measles are at a 20 year high.
You and me too.

The more Firefox strips out, the more I feel itchy to move to something like Dillo or NetSurf. Something small, fast, reliable. Something _hackable_.
I'm not a big fan of how they calculate load time. Usually you'll start interacting with the website before every single external resource loads (comments, Facebook integration, tracking scripts, etc.). Also, they should be comparing against Chrome/Safari with adblockers. Comparing the load times of one browser blocking the majority of the data downloaded vs one browser downloading everything will be very different regardless of what you're using.
This is completely credible if it has built in adblocking.
I came here to post that.

:(
I was working for a large hardware company (I'm not going to name names) that typically files for hardware/firmware patents. There was a push for everyone to file more patents, even from the software teams.

I was working on an app that had graph-like data so we decided to use a graph database...nothing super innovative. My coworker, who apparently had a couple patents, said that we could probably patent this algorithm. I looked at him and said, how can you patent traversing nodes and vertices... that's graph theory 101?!

Big companies try to patent everything because its a metric they can use to show how amazing they are, and acts as blackmail (or cold war). If you sue me, I'll sue you.
I'm sorry if it felt like I was running away! That is, indeed, my standard joke when someone who seems to be a fully grown adult tells me they've been reading me since childhood, since in my own timesense, my entire published life feels very short.

But I'm pretty sure I wasn't running away -- more likely just moving on to the next thing (it's often the case that people who book me in for talks schedule things immediately after, like faculty meet-and-greets to justify the expense of paying my way there, etc, and I try not to leave people standing around).
Yeah -- I... well, I'll stick with the bubbly bootstrap 5-second template look please, if this is what's going to be popular next. It's genuinely and actively hard to look at.
That is kind of the point, however, the value isn't created by making the toy or the btc. The value is created when the perceived utility of the underlying goes up. Imagine you own a well. Later they discover a way yo get oil from that type of well. The change in perception is where the increased value comes from.
I thought the goal was to maximize the dopamine releasing Likes.

Edit: to hook people on FB to increase eye ball time (which translates to more ad exposure as well as improving individual profiling and ad targeting)
Thanks sir. Having destructive thoughts doesn't really help, you are true.
They run on a fork of Electron:

https://github.com/brave/muon

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
>Racism is the simpler and blazingly obvious explanation, backed by endless reearch and even the most casual observation.

Things that are wrong can be obvious to individuals and groups of people. It's certainly not obvious to half the country, and that "endless research" is tainted. How long do you get to keep your job in academia if you point out the primary drivers of black misery in the US (out of wedlock births, drugs, and violence) are self inflicted?
>>Most ICOs are deeply unethical in the sense that they exist only to circumvent traditional funding regulations

Care to explain what makes this unethical? What if you think these regulations are unethical?
My personal experience is that Dropbox just works, and works well and reliably and quickly on all platforms.

OneDrive is almost as good, but Google Drive is not, especially their client is unreliable.
Load time is measured by calculating the duration from the start time for the first network request, to the response time for the final request made for each domain.

I guess you'll see the page much sooner than 98 seconds, because seeing nothing for that long would probably mean the majority of visitors think the site is broken. There is still a ton of stuff loading in the background.
WHY are you forcing your philosophy of "wealth should be used for the public good" on billionaires. If they accumulated wealth in a legal fashion, they aren't beholden to doing ANY public good.

On the contrary, of you requested billionaires to NOT cause harm by using their disproportionate wealth, that'd be a sound argument. For instance, Gawker's takeover by Thiel seems to border on the illegal.
Why say Fox employees are more skilled when you can insult conservatives
As I understand it is based on Firefox and have some neat features added: when opening a new tab it displays how much time you gained from not loading adds and tracking code + feature to provide payment to creators based on a monthly budget and how much time you spend on different sites. Its like Patreon with direct relation to your usage.

See "Enter Brave Payments" on https://brave.com/publishers/
SEEKING WORK - Remote: Yes please, willing to relocate: No

I'm a US based full-stack software engineer with experience building APIs in nodejs and elixir and frontend with backbone and react. Recently I've just completed a project in vue and would love to work with it more.

I'm preferably looking for backend elixir gigs but I'm also open to nodejs and frontend roles on a remote contract basis.

I have an active codementor account or you can contact me directly on linkedin.

https://www.codementor.io/cultofmetatron

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdecroos/
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45530.html is the most complete recent paper I've seen.
Have you ever considered that you might be narcissistic? Why on earth would you want to go on social media only to view self centred experiences?
Show HN: TopKappa – Watch AGDQ and Upvote Twitch Chats in Real-Time
Funny. My grandparents moved into one of those neighborhoods (Peoplestown) ~1920. I remember eating figs and pecans from the trees they planted and nurtured.

It’s amazing when you walk those streets — abandoned train tracks, memorials to Black churches burned during the Jim
Crow era, artwork long abandoned. For all it’s lack of design at least the city still has immense green space.
let me introduce you to mobygames:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/xbox-one/disney-infinity-30-ed...

like movies, games have credits. entertainment products (movies, games, music, books, etc.) have traditionally been about following talent around to find more work by them. we're all basically entertainers.

that, and angry gamers can chase down people to yell at. especially the higher you are in the responsibility chain, the easier you are to find. linkedin makes sure of that. resumes and all that. because, you know, game devs want jobs, too.

this often means game developers don't have the choice to not be derided in public. not unless step one to joining a game team is the switch your entire life to "private". delist your home address. everything. and, i know plenty of devs who've had to. we all shrug and say, "man, that sucks."

because the difference between making games and making boring, insurance middleware? nobody really cares about enterprise middleware as craft. nobody wants to do it, much less thinks they can do it better.

EVERYONE passionately thinks/hopes/wishes/wants to make better games than you.

(. . . well, maybe not everyone, but certainly a whole lotta folks)
If you have Pages which you really like, you can emphasize them with See First as the press release notes:

> Can people still see posts from the Pages they follow at the top of News Feed?

> Yes. People who want to see more posts from Pages they follow can choose See First in News Feed Preferences to make sure they always see posts from their favorite Pages
And similarly for Firefox with Tracking Protection turned on. The speed gains come from reducing the amount that's downloaded and rendered or executed:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-bro...

You can set Firefox's Tracking Protection to "always" so it's on all the time, inside and outside of private browsing mode.
Understanding Service Publishing Part 1
Knuth-Morris-Pratt by Example
> No, of course it isn’t.

Then maybe it's time to put down the keyboard and listen to the experiences of the people who have found some level of success.

When you've shipped a title that's moderately successful you're more then welcome to come back here and tell us how were doing it all wrong. Until then I find it hard to listen to the advice of someone who can't empathize with what is happening here.
At least on the commercial side the FDA requires that your approval population (“treatment group”) be “representative” of the population who will receive the drug if it’s approved. So you can’t get away with, say, doing your study solely in Chad or Norway as their population distribution (except perhaps by sex) won’t match that of the USA.
From the FAQ, this is just chromium + an ad blocker + something called Brave Payments that's suppose to support publishers with micropayments.. and there's an ad system you can opt into (https://basicattentiontoken.org/).

It seems to me that the last two are what's unique.. I think they would have greater success by refocusing on those and just developing plugins for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Getting everyone to install a browser seems like an uphill battle.
"Music is NOT well-understood by machines (yet !!)"

I wrote this blog post, with some data that might help improve that.

http://peterburk.github.io/chordProgressions/index.html
A quick search shows 381, counting short stories and young adult books. This doesn't count the roughly 80+ books that are or will be canon under Disney, currently out or at least announced.
> A program which executes deterministically cannot receive a timing channel!

Only if you define 'deterministically' to mean 'determined only by the program's own legitimately accessible context'. These timing side-channel attacks work precisely because the processor performs in a deterministic and detectable manner, but does so based on information which the attacking program should not be able to access.
Seriously. My kingdom for 10pt verdana and a few hours clicking through a web ring.
You don't need an emulator.

https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
Sounds like Facebook, and indeed the internet, is an unneccesary middleman for you.
Given Walmart's history - I wonder if there was any union organizing going on at those locations?
I don’t think the submitter is affiliated with the browser.
That was his first suggestion ("is Fox serving the best ads"). As for the latter suggestion, it doesn't necessarily have to be an insult. Liberals tend to live in cities, and conservatives in rural areas. Rural areas have worse internet due to being spread out.
"the company recently announced it will have 10,000 employees focused on the task"

I can't wrap my head around that number. How can that be true?
The DAO fork happened in what was effectively Ethereum's early beta phase, when the community was very small, and there was next to no activity on the blockchain. A hard fork right now would be far more disruptive due to the amount of activity taking place on it, and would face from more opposition to a much large community.
They compared a browser with ad blocking with one without it. Of course it's faster not to load ads.
"Major news sites". Nobody goes to those anymore - they're too crowded.
To have access to messenger to keep in touch for the people that are hooked on FB. Killing the feed has helped me stop wasting time mindlessly scrolling FB. Sorry, the memories comment wasn't meant to show narcissism but it's honestly the only thing that appears.
Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox.
Concrete proof has not emerged. Right now it's at the "numerous senior sources say..." level of reporting. The full answer is now known by Congresspeople but it's classified [0]. We'll see if it gets leaked. It's not proven but I certainly wouldn't say zero evidence; reports at this "truth level" happen all the time, and are widely circulated and trusted.

Circumstantially, I think strong evidence that this happened is the Trump team's behavior after he was briefed by the NSA director, Admiral Rogers. The day after their confidential meeting, all relevant activities were immediately moved out of Trump Tower.

Anyway, this is off-topic and is a testy topic as it is so I apologize for the tangent. On topic I agree it shouldn't be possible for anyone to do this, no matter their politics.

[0] http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-yes-congress-ha...
If it's bad for journalists and advertisers then it's good for users.
> Never to accomplish lucid dreaming

Two easy techniques -

1. Ask yourself continually through the day "Am I dreaming?", which primes you to become self-aware while dreaming.

2. Wake up two hours before you normally get up for 10 mins, then go back to sleep.

I also find that a Magnesium and Zinc vitamin tablet before bed assists with dream recall, however I have no science to back this up.
Laziness and CYA. Nobody wants to be the guy who didn't realize there was a useful section for making weapons, poisons, weakening bars, etc in a book he green-lighted.
I agree re giving him credit and I’m certainly a fan. It’s a hard topic to publish about on the web because that type or article could very easily be a plain static HTML page with no JavaScript on a personal server but obviously he’s a professional writer and probably sold to that site to get paid (fair enough) and the site gets that money from ads so circle of life but still dissonant to take the message to heart in that context.
Remote work and Productivity
Resources are freed up in healthcare simply due to its unaffordability. Effective but devastating demand-side management strategy if you believe healthcare should be a universal right.

Lifespan has increased dramatically over the last 50 years. In "Being Mortal", Atul Gawande argues we haven't figured out how to live with the substantial increase in life- and health-span that medicine has already given most of humanity.

Recent discussions around ageism in the workforce (e.g. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 2017-11-20) highlight the double edged sword of increasing income disparity and longer life. "Healthspan" must also include mental health. Without sense of belonging, value, a feeling of security in one's future, mental health suffers. Deterioration of mental health manifests as physical health issues. The rate of growth of diagnosis and medical prescription for psychiatric problems is high. What can be done about the terror of aging?

Back to the OP, and to append my original comment, money for research aimed at solving medical conditions causing the greatest reduction in life span is excellent news.
I thought so too at first but note that there is a distinction between unfollow and unfriend.

See their response to a sibling of yours. They still use fb to keep in touch with people, just not have them on the newsfeed.
>If it simply to incarcerate people for a while to make their lives difficult and make them not want to reoffend...

One thing I've noticed about ex-cons I've actually come in contact with is the people who are least afraid of going to prison are the people who've been there.
In pygmy sperm whales, magnetite crystals appear to be concentrated in the rostroventral dura, but we know next to nothing about how they function or are used, let alone about how they are being formed.
Apple has a tendency to acquire shit products from shit vendors, because they resemble many of Apple’s existing offerings (or those that dominate Apple’s platform).

FCP was a Macromedia turd. Its mess of a UI and monumentally bad data structure set an unhappy standard that simply floated to the top of the cesspool. Look at FCP 7’s XML if you need confirmation that this product was designed by a hack.
What is NEO? How the Chinese competitor to Ethereum stacks up
While they are it, could they make the Skype application an actually reliable one? I find WhatsApp video and call quality far superiour to that of Skype, which has years on WhatsApp. Not only is the video and call quality subpar, the app itself often behaves in odd ways. Personally, I've come to dislike Skype greatly.
I guess there are a few issues with this:

The first is, anecdotes are interesting, but is there data that supports this? It seems like there are too many variables, and that at home care may not help in all circumstances anyway.

Secondly, "getting proper care from someone who actually cares about you" by which I guess you mean a family member or close friend. Is not viable is many circumstances...

Finally, I guess it comes down to "what do you actually do". If it proves helpful, what can you do to promote this? Fund family member to quit their jobs to care for relations? It seems like that would be open to abuse and difficult to administer.
What exactly is wrong with view controllers..? That strikes me as rather like saying there's something wrong with 3GLs. Are you suggesting React solves the programming language problem completely? If not, I'd like to ask you again what is wrong with view controllers. I've had frankly endless success with them once I got over my lackings.
If it's 1999, that means we have at a year or two or additional irrational exuberance.
People who want to distribute illegal material.
Its important to remember that complexity matters at all levels of abstraction and you don't improve things by merely moving it from the level you are looking to one you are ignoring.

Simplifying your depgraph by writing on big ball of mud means pushing the complexity down. Instead of a complex module graph, you have a complex dependency graph between variables/functions/whatever in your mudball. Oversimplify your individual modules and you complexify your module graph, or even your production infrastructure (one-line microservices anyone?).

Forced to choose, I would prefer a mudball to dependency hell. But really I would like the complexity to be intelligently and somewhat evenly distributed to each level.
"Google told partners that it plans to use both human moderators -- the company recently announced it will have 10,000 employees focused on the task -- as well as artificial intelligence software to flag videos deemed inappropriate for ads."

They will record decisions people make as training examples and will use it to train ML models.
> OTOH it’s absurd that if you want to see again that post you saw last week — or this morning! — you probably can’t find it.

Try 2 seconds ago. Open facebook, browse, start to close facebook, see something interesting, but it's too late the tab is closing, oh well, re-open facebook, too bad it's gone forever you'll never see it again.
“Journalists” being those making their money by being shared on Facebook are the least journalistic.
If you have a system where anyone can provide storage and anyone can buy storage, then you need to have a system to verify that the files are actually being stored. As I understand it, that's filecoin mining.

Filecoin eliminates a lot of the overhead of selling storage, but it adds some overhead all its own. The big question is: which is larger, and by how much?
It depends. Some people use Facebook "likes" as a crappy replacement for RSS, so it's probably not great for them.
Pretty underwhelming to have the top challenges outsourced to bounty-based RFPs. With the money they got any kind of centralization because of overpromises is a huge failure in my book. Really disappointed by the greed that ICOs have brought out of people.
Something being less bad than an alternative is not the same as being actively bad for you.

Going 20 mph is slower than going 30 mph but it is not going in reverse.
The last previous story was less than a week ago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-c...
People who do that might like Firefox Focus, which ships with tracking protection, adblocking, and no history by default: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/mobile/#focus
A thousand raging jerks treating random employees like shit because they think the game they made is somehow abuse.

Zero people tweeting about the abuse the employees suffer for being in never-ending crunch time until their studio folds.
I'll have you know that Mariner Valley rye is some of the finest whiskey known to man, partner.