skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be evil if they had intended to fail. I assume they intended to succeed. It turned out that Linux won the server market, but it was entirely plausible that BeOS could have won instead. At the time, lots of well-funded startups used Solaris/SPARC web servers, and many used NT, so it wasn't a foregone conclusion that open source would win. BeOS had a lot to recommend it over Solaris, not to mention NT.
On the long term when cryptocurrencies will be used instead of fiat I believe governments will have to fall back to taxation based on land value, which is I think much more fair than other taxes, as it correlates well with government infrastructure usage.

On the other hand in Switzerland many millions of people have Swiss bank accounts, and it has never been a problem for Switzerland, the government is working quite well there (it was very rare for me to see a tram/train being more than 5 minutes late for example).
And heavily favoring more recent results. I have to add within the last year or month to almost all my queries.
Part of the problem, money is flowing more towards sinks like "Social Influencers", "V-loggers" and other similar jobs. Younger generation is focusing more on instant fame/money/reward/acknowledgement than investing in long term initiatives like pursuing STEM based programs. Sadly we live in a time where a 15 year old is making more money posting his/her pictures than someone holding a Phd. Forget about academia jobs there are no more jobs in post-docs positions in USA anymore.
Wouldn't that just contribute to Ethereum transaction fees getting higher, so they eventually have to remove it? They'd need to move to a cryptocurrency with better scalability (something eth might have in the future, but certainly doesn't have now)
It allows for more experimentation than say a national level policy which is far more inflexible.
Uber is the cute one. There are people going into debt buying that Uber approved four door taxi.

All to be at the mercy/whims of this company.

Most of the workforce cannot work in tech. People are desperate. Hell--even most of tech will be thinned out in a few months.

I don't see it getting better either.

I don't see a business out there not trying to eliminate jobs. You have immigrants that are happy with being exploited. You have a whole generation of people who don't believe in unions.

I know a lot of you don't believe in government regulations, and I'm not either for the most part, but these "side hussle", gig jobs are begging for a butt slapping. F they want to exploit workers--move to the country that allows exploitation. Just go!

If you can't guarantee minimum wage--have the federal government takeover the website. Yes, I'm looking right at you Mechanicalturk/Fiverr. (I know nothing about Fiverr--but can just picture the thieving site.). If you are taking advantage of Independent Contractor laws--have the federal government do their job. Don't pay sales tax--have the you know. Hold onto fees for weeks because you can--gave the federal government shut it down. I'm not just picking on tech. I would like to do away with all volunteer jobs, in every sector of society, except within the family. Yes, Moderators would get paid. Internships would be history.

It was kinda cute a few years ago, but now I see companies just exploiting.

"Hay bro--we got our app. Website is hot. Now how do we get someone to deliver our product for essentiall free? Oh yea--and those taxes? I guess that's why they had Retail leases? You mean the customer drove their car to us? Trippy? Our app will work? Why bro? Because American employment hasen't been this bad in years. What--the unemployment number is low? You have to look at the ever increasing "able bodied, but just gave up" number. There's tons of works we can Hussle."
Don't other nations also receive much aid from US but score low in this ranking?
When Amazon Go was first announced, my guess was that they were using RFID tags on every item in the store.

I now understand why that was misguided: the cost of RFID tags would scale linearly with the amount of goods sold. With Amazon's camera/ML technology, they can reproduce this store wherever they want for just the cost of the hardware and maintenance.

I really appreciated the article for explaining that.
I saw this earlier today and was blown away that it's only ~430kb. It loads crazy fast on my shitty university connection! Good job guys!
I'm running OpenWrt / LEDE on various routers since 2011, and have the opposite experience.
There's no ETA as far as I'm aware—it's mostly in the blocker bug burn-down phase and I don't want to try to predict when that will conclude. Progress is coming along quite nicely, and it's easier than ever to try it out in Nightly (just toggle gfx.webrender.all in about config). Lots of people on the team, including me, use it quite regularly.

There's a newsletter you can check out too: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/
If you don‘t want to use DuckDuckGo you can do:

http://google.com/ncr

I used this as default before I switched to DuckDuckGo completely. For a software developer google.de results are pretty useless. Switching the language to English helps a bit, but ncr results are a lot better for software and tech topics.

Also, if you want to break out of your own bubble and get non-personalized results, Google is pretty useless, because of the annoying data protection pop up.

Pretty much the only times I use Goggle is for local search , otherwise I’m pretty happy with ddg.
When casual readers see results titled "Bloomberg Innovation Index" (myself included, a while ago), there's a tendency due to brand reputation (Bloomberg!) to believe that this is some scientifically and statistically rigorous analysis of a well-defined "innovation" that can be trusted. This is dangerous, and IMO disappointing (I know, I was naive and optimistic) regarding the statistical credibility of many "reputable" sources.

In reality (as you describe), these are completely arbitrary human-designed heuristic scores with most likely no statistical significance.

I really wish we could qualify these "rankings" with a more honest term , like:

"statistically useless, arbitrarily rated average of multiple human designed score scales, meant to loosely relate to some quality we want to measure, but in reality is more a game of politics and adversarial score optimization."

But that doesn't have the same 'ring' to it as "top country rankings in innovation".
It's pretty insane.

Empirically, you'd rather let several fraudsters through in order to not trap a good customer (because of their customer lifetime value, brand value, etc).

However, the industry does the opposite. They'll reject 3 good customers to catch 1 fraudster. It's really bad.

Every switch to Bolt has seen a 1%-20% lift in order approval rates (while guaranteeing zero fraud) because of our unique data engine and data visibility. Huge reason why companies are switching to Bolt.
One could presume it's because they want to add XLM ; and want to appear unbiased for now.
how is this good for Bitcoin?
Likewise. I hope the reason for remaining in "stealth" is detailed.
Rediscovering make: automatic variables
This seems to be a weird thing:

I've been om FF the while time and I'm impatient.

In the other hand I've no reason not to believe it when so many people report performance issues.

My best guess is a combination of different browsing habits and/or different hardware/os.

(My browsing habits are mostly hn, local news and pages I work on and I've had decent hardware running various versions of Linux and Windows.)
I've been running it on a 4K screen for a bit, since I've been using the beta channel, and it's seems to work very smoothly. At least, I have noticed the lag or choppiness you've mentioned. One caveat is that my screen runs at 60 hz, so if you have a higher frame rate, then you might see things I won't catch.
The person above said "slow," you assume they meant artificial JavaScript benchmarks but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent.

I too found Firefox pre-57 slow and switched to Chrome. That was because the user experience was slow, slow to open, slow in UI responsiveness, slow to make websites actually usable. Everything had this UI lag feel.

I'm sure it benchmarked fine, but I am a human, not a JavaScript benchmark.
"Abandoning" Ukraine (a funny way of describing sending them a ton of weapons) has little to do with it.
Just pretend the numbers are real :P
@criddell: ok, carry on trying to keep the global slang out of your little utopic garden.
Sure, but I don't think human is very good at judging his/her own emotion on a simple yes/no question on happiness. :-)
Augmented reality headsets can theoretically project onto real piece paper just like a projector (actually, a projector is a form of AR). They don't mask out the current reality like a VR headset does, they have no need (and indeed no capability) to simulate a different reality.
Kind of interesting seeing some of the ratings. Like Mozilla and HN have a B because of unknown privacy practices. Both these websites are fairly old, and it seems odd to me that the privacy practices of Mozilla are unknown.
I miss Alta Vista and all the operators you could add to your queries.
Did you ever actually shop for it? I bought health insurance before Obamacare and I have asthma.
They should add support for the Ethereum stable currency DAI: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/

Most people don't want to use a currency for payments that is volatile.
Kubectl powertools
I'm totally cool with "contract" work (that's what I do in a way) so long as I:

* Do the work from home or wherever I want

* Use my own tools and equipment

* Work when I want to (within reason)

* Have a say in the deadlines

* Can turn down projects

But the minute you dictate my hours and where the work is done? No way.
The Marshmallow Test: Delay of Gratification and Independent Rule Compliance
I recently tried DDG again after reading the quality was approaching Google. I was surprised to find the results are actually much better, for exactly this reason. The results I get from Google are often filled with answers to distinctly different, but much more popular searches; sometimes even after adding quotes around terms.

Another nice feature of DDG is that the '-' operator works very well.
These rankings need to account for mobility of high profile graduate students. For example some of the top CS programs in Canada have 50-75% of graduates leave for the US tech sector. Canada gets rewarded for it's STEM grads who end up working for US companies in the US market while the US gets punished for it's lower domestic STEM grad production. If the rest of the world is producing a fairly substantial number of educated people who work for US companies on US innovations does it make sense to say it's less innovative? Sweden is #2 in Large part because there aren't categories that measure Venture Capital Invested in Country or New Business Formation. Is it really the case that a few more net patents filed is more valuable to innovation than having companies like Dropbox, AirBnB and Stripe? (Feel free to pick your start-ups of choice here).
That's an interesting idea! Might be something indeed.
The UK still has many overseas posessions, but they are mostly minuscule specs of land in the world’s oceans. By that argument, Ecuador has an empire, insofar as it possesses the Galapagos archipelago.
This reads a bit like the sort of things people say when breaking up so as not to upset the other person too much. You're a great person, but you're just more of an asset than a medium of exchange, and what I need in my life right now is a medium of exchange.

What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it? That is not a purely rhetorical question; cryptocurrencies change things a lot. But this news is worrying.
The Three Body Problem
Rainforest QA raises $25M Series B
this is a meme from r/bitcoin, where literally everything gets replied to, "this is good for bitcoin"

it is also an identical meme from r/buttcoin
Does anyone else get videos that show as like a pink or green screen and can still hear audio? I've experienced this on multiple machines with both Linux and Windows.

Edit: Experienced this under FF57, unknown under 58 because I just updated it.

This also usually happens with things like Facebook videos, but would less often happen with Youtube.
They are actually quite costly and unreliable, or at least they used to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launc...
The head of Facebook’s AI research is stepping into a new role
And today, when American astronauts need a ride to space, guess who we have to bum it from?

It's a disgusting state of affairs, regardless of anyone's opinion on Russia.
It has an uncapped supply, and inflates at 1% per year. It doesn't really seem to offer anything compelling other than its A-list investors. It was also created by the same person who brought the world eDonkey 2000, Mt. Gox, and Ripple.
Absolutely love the UI and the quality of the websites you can make
For what it's worth, we just spent two weeks trying and failing to get Stripe's Bitcoin integration working on our site.

The short version is that Stripe guaranteed a USD <=> BTC exchange rate for an hour, after which they would automatically cancel the transaction. Given that most transactions now take well over an hour to be verified on the blockchain, that means basically every transaction fails.
Two things are constant in this world: tax and death.
I don't think it's wrong to say that that was the original goal of the EU though.
Other leading theories are non-continuous. LGQ example is an active area of research.

> Every physics theory that we use to explain the universe is continuous

Are you suggesting thete are no discrete models?

Any discrete model may be similar to leading continuous models, so the explanatory power of both isn't relevant unless it can only be produced by continuous models.
They mention in the post that they are interested in lightning.
IIUC the API needed for this addon[1] will be available in FF 59[2].

Mozilla dropped support for Tab Center a while before Quantum IIRC. Another addon took its place, but then was dropped by its developer with Quantum. Supposedly [1] will allow transition from the older addons. I'm looking forward to finding out once 59 is out.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/
[2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725
Absolutely, more than happy to :-)

Amazon is currently able to invest $100M's and 100s of engineers into perfecting the checkout experience. There are actually hundreds of things you can do to optimize checkout. Here's one study: https://baymard.com/checkout-usability

We do all those things. We invest the engineering resources to perfect checkout. So that you don't have to. Even our checkout today is not perfect, but it's way better than the one's we replace. And will continue to improve with every deploy.

Now that you say it, Amazon-like can be a bit confusing. Really it appeals to our vision to help every online business compete with checkout by optimizing their payments flows.
It is hard to say much of substance on macro economic stuff - because all knowledge in this area is not within the realm of personal experience of any person. I therefore find it hard to trust anybody on such issues.
It's not clear that the regulatory burden surrounding web page UI is all that steep. Peeking at CA's law (Title 10), for example, doesn't yield a whole lot. However, what does stand in OP's favor is that it must pass standards identified by the ADA and in secion 504 (Rehab act). This might be a way to fight back- unless under some adaptive technology everything magically appears haha.
This is the kind of thing that the field of "differential privacy" excels at and should be used for!
At the expense of many layers of defensive mechanisms which a non-trivial number of people illegally modify, and I'm curious how close to "nil" it really is.
Side-questino: Does ETH as a coin benefit from all the coins that are built on top of Ethereum network?
Yes, maybe wishful-thinking but could have waited until a alternative was in place or at least have linked to a test implementation or something.
Being the person in charge of the new language process, I'm just going to tell you your information is not correct.
The reasonable assumption in 2018 is that everything is always connected to the Internet, whether you intentionally connected or not, and the only thing you can reasonably control is the latency.

That air-gapped server sitting in a grounded bank vault filled with pure nitrogen gas is still somehow leaking data out, and you just haven't yet figured out when or how. Maybe little cockroaches fitted with tiny SCUBA rebreathers and brain-control chips are crawling in through a dime-sized hole and sticking their aluminized antennae into the USB ports.
Facebook Offering $100K Grants to Fund Internet Security Projects
I hope one day we'll perfect space travel and be able to colonize the galaxy. Then for quite a while we'll have so many planets and resources that every human being could destroy a planet every day and we'll still have no fear of running out.

In the unlikely situation where this happens and I'm alive to experience it, I'll be the most extremist libertarian you've ever seen. "You don't like this? Just create your own community on some planet a few light years from there and do your thing." Communists colonize their own little solar system, anarchists cohabitate in an other, fascists create the Germania consortium.

But that's not the world we live in currently. We're all stuck on the same speck of dust in the middle of an absurdly large ocean of empty space. So yeah, for now unfortunately it means we have to play nice with each other and compromise. Whether you like it or not you're part of a society.
Stellar isn't a direct replacement per-se, it's fast and has near zero transaction fees, but the lumens themselves were not intended to be used as a medium of transaction, only to have a token amount to pay the miniscule fees with.

To use the stellar network as intended, there needs to be an anchor that issues USD/EUR/whatever tokens on the stellar network, and then have stripe accept those tokens (issued by anchors they trust to convert the tokens back into real money)

XRB would be another good candidate for low fees, but that one has no fiat pair to value against, so it's hard to pay a USD invoice with it when the value is indeterminate.
It looks more like a cascade of a P controller (theta setpoint to gamma setpoint) with a PD controller (gamma setpoint to torque). But yeah, basically just classical control.
The continuity with Trump is a lot more significant than a lot of takes would have us believe, though. He's just a symbol of deeper systemic issues which aren't even confined to the US.
Fair point. Poor wording on my part.

Given the way the ranking under discussion values tertiary education and given how much the Soviets had them but didn't succeed economically, is having a high number of them really beneficial? It takes resources and time to get a PhD or a masters. Are these the best thing on which to spend them? Do they really matter? Can you be more practically innovative with simple undergrad degrees?
I love Firefox and switched back from Chrome with FF 57, but I really wish they had a Task Manager like Chrome does, so I can spot and kill misbehaving tabs rather than have all my tabs seem to steadily slow down. It's the only feature I miss from Chrome, and hope it appears in FF soon.
Err, I thought I was quite clear that the experiment is people using the new-to-google language, not the language itself
Odds are in favor of Virginia (look up AWS and other data centers in that area). But it is still interesting to see how these cities are competing with each other and are throwing out tax payers money to lure in Amazon to moving in their backyard. I wonder if they would give similar incentives to small and upcoming businesses and startups.
A good start, though this isn't a bill legislating net neutrality. Rather, it's a bill legislating the possibility of legislating/regulating net neutrality.
Seems to be a well written argument for ending their support while still maintaining a positive cryptocurrency stance. This will still cause many people to be upset because the state of cryptocurrency right now is a hot topic and changing quickly. Why didn't they switch to X? What about Y? etc. All of it requires development work and many of these currencies are still growing up. Seems like a reasonable approach.
They could also replace it with money, which one can readily and easily, through systems with well-understood protocols that are agreed upon by participants in those systems, exchange for goods and services.

(Even the Lightning Network people don't think you should use it with money. Not that that's likely to be a problem, what with it being for Bitcoin and all. Stripe also doesn't support any other commodities as method of payment, and frankly if they did I'd hope they'd choose cattle before Bitcoin because we know that cattle is actually worth something.)
It's not just negotiation strength. The theory of the firm gives lots of reasons why employment can afford to reward people better than individual contractors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

Though if you have niche skills or knowledge (and I'd include contacts in that), you can be better off with contracts that leverage your specialisms specifically, and not waste your time with work that can be done cheaper by more freely available labour.
> Given that bitcoin isn't a medium of transaction anymore and a store of value this makes a lot of sense.

Can someone bother explaining what this actually means? 3 weeks ago everyone is hype about how Bitcoin is going to be the future of currency and now that it's tanking and vendors are dropping it like a hot potato, its no longer a transactional currency and it's now a "store of value".
Many of the comments here show why critical thinking is a useful skill esp with articles such as this one, but given how much volume there is nowadays, and the fact that we are not all subject matter experts, it becomes a bit cumbersome.

I wish these articles had a "Ways in which our claim could be wrong" section. Maybe every article should. E.g. Here is what i think, but here are aspects of it that I haven't looked into that could make me change my stance.

At the very least, you'd know the author made some effort to be truthful, and not just sensationalist/misled.

Perhaps we can have a browser extension that aggregates and ranks crowdsourced feedback on articles such as this one? :P
A Cryptographic Analysis of the WireGuard Protocol
JavaScript and Typescript should be in the list, as should Dart.
Seeing how developed nations(particularly with service-based economies) depend on ever-increasing specialization to drive economic growth and efficiency, what makes you think the percentage of grad students and graduates _wouldn't_ be a good proxy for relative economic strength?
Don't know else to shout this from the roof tops, but it's a biiiig deal in terms of browsing happiness:
https://www.peterbe.com/plog/another-win-for-tracking-protec...

^ That blog post was written when my Firefox Nightly was what is v58 today.
The Kodak plan seems pretty good to me. Digital photograph copyrights are a solid basis for a coin. They're an asset class sensible people might want to make long-term investments in.