skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the exact same issues with Quora. Both websites I used to hang out frequently. Facebook to see what was going on within my social circles (not content consumption) and Quora to learn new things from the people I followed.

Both websites became unbearingly bad after they updated their feed algorithm. To this day, this remains for me the quintessential case of bad product thinking meets over-engineering.
Well, it's probably a lot easier to store fluid at an airport than on a rocket
Mercedes-Benz Confirms It Will Skip Detroit Auto Show in 2019
Chalmers is the guy who coined the hard problem of consciousness. The reception varied extremely, some people refused to even admit that there's any problem at all with explaining consciousness. So now, after many years of multiple disputes he describes the meta problem - that the base problem itself is so controversial.

The clearest example of the meta problem is Daniel Dennett, another prominent philosopher, who not only doesn't agree that the problem is hard, but also insists that the consciousness itself is illusion, so there's nothing mysterious to explain in the first place. Quite mind-boggling statement to most people, including HNers, as far as I remember from other threads related to the subject.
I agree that bitcoins problems include not having relatively fixed-rate use cases in the future, like paying taxes and your salary.
And you make a good point that it will be socially easier for society to adopt a new currency if early investors aren't getting 10x returns for being first.

But any new currency is going to offer the opportunity for capital gains as long as it's competition includes the U.S. Dollar, because almost by definition a better alternative to the dollar would be deflationary relative to the dollar.

My point is that small rates of deflation aren't bad in a currency and bitcoins fixed size is not really a problem as long as you can trade small enough increments.
Also fixed size is not even deflationary, it's just fixed unless something beneficial happens on the demand side like manufacturing cars with less materials.

At the same time fixed size is not really a feature though either. You have the whole number line available why not use it?

Bitcoins real problem is that it's not a "victory against entropy" like gold coins were in ancient times or reserve notes which can appease Uncle Sam in the future are today. Bitcoin is quite the opposite in fact, because we are dissipaiting so much concentrated energy to maintain the system. It's ironic because bitcoins greatest success is making us imagine currencies that don't dissipate value.

I'm pessimistic that there is a distributed solution to this beside just electricity or energy itself, and we're obviously not quite at that point technologically yet.
Considering Unilever's own mis-steps in well known territory, they seem pretty intolerant of others' struggles with the less known.
The Gare du Nord Eurostar terminal has been revamped in the last few years - it's much better than it used to be.
I wish they would put focus on macOS. The recent bugs have been laughable. I am seriously considering switching for the first time in about 16 years. The lure of better more affordable dev hardware is almost to much.
I can't tell the difference between 75mbit and 900mbit. Most servers don't get anywhere near 900mbit. And my hardware is almost always a limiting facture (wifi, hdd speed, etc).
This is excellent. Hopefully other mainstream brands will follow suit. Once this issue hurts Google and Facebook enough that analysts start asking about it at earnings calls, we'll start to see some change.

The only other avenue I see for meaningful change is proper enforcement of anti-trust laws, but the odds of that happening inthe current administration are probably zero.
That's exactly how you do it without hurting their feelings. It's an impersonal blanket rule.
I’m not panicking, but wow. I did not expect to learn this sort of thing today. Amazing.
> If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits.

Can someone explain this? Is there some kind of awkwardness/waste with anything less than doubling the number of bits?
I can, because it is. Normal people can do that too. I would argue that VLC is mass-compatible.

Since using your own subtitle file, Netflix just doesn't have to do anything besides displaying them. Finding the correct subtitle is the users job, not Netflix. After all this would be called "use your own subtitle here" and I think Netflix can handle Unicode. Not everything has to be spoonfed for the dumbest user alive. Also, I don't think there is a reliable way to detect delays in the subtitle, especially if it's in a different language then the audio track. If you have a reference subtitle track, this might work, comparing time of first appearance. Any subsequent offset might be due to 25/23,976 which could be detected, but again, this is not Netflix's problem.
Please enable per-app VPNs via Apple Configurator, i.e. without an enterprise MDM. This will allow separation of work and personal VPNs.

Please allow auto-connect VPN profiles to be associated with a whitelist of SSIDs, so that insecure networks (e.g. coffee shop) will auto-connect to a VPN.

Finally, please add a Control Center button to reconnect the default VPN profile.
Wrestling fans can be broadly defined as "marks" who buy into the illusion, and smart marks who understand the illusion and how it relates to business.

Arguably the largest part of this illusion "kayfabe" has been dead for years and years - everyone knows wins and losses are predetermined. That doesn't stop promotions from using wrestling news and social media to blur the lines of what's real and fake when it comes to contracts, injuries, and alliances.
Backblaze posts some good stuff on HD pricing and reliability. Here's a good chart from their data:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

They also link to this great (logarithmic) chart:

http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update

TL;DR: price hasn't been dropping by half annually, but prices have come down from ~$0.70/GB to < $0.03/GB now. So roughly a factor of 20 over 13-14 years, somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% improvements compounded annually over that time.
> Godel showed us there are true things that can't be represented by a formal system.

This is stretching things a bit. Specifically, it defines truth as 'does not lead to a contradiction in (some formal system that extends) Peano arithmetic'.
Then, as there are statements that are 'true' in this sense in such a system A but not probable by that system, there are 'unproveable truths'.

But is that satisfactory as a definition of truth? It used to be because we had hope for a complete and consistent formal system, which feel very truthy. When Godel proved that cannot exist, perhaps the conclusion is that formal systems aren't the 'base' for truth.
Sounds like 2010 when they gave everyone an @facebook.com email address to try to... take some of email's pie.
It's the same idea, isn't it? A single pixel with a whole lot of meaning added to it.
Are there laws preventing people from doing things like lifting their bumpers above the average cars bumper height? It seems insane that I could lift my car until it effectively negates all the safety precautions and innovations built into todays vehicles.
Why not just pretend you do TLS and simply don't show MITM attacks to your users like the (also somehow Chinese) CM Browser does?
https://medium.com/@dEad0r/cm-browser-insecurity-can-chinese...
> I've read that over 3 billion people don't currently have access to banks. Is that not true?

I suspect that 3 billion overlaps significantly with the 4.4 billion that lack internet access.

I'm not convinced that blockchain is a particularly helpful solution for them.
Which is the whole point of the subsequent thread. FB is not just gonna ditch EU, nor are they going to be destroyed by a new regulation.
Tannenbaum's “Distributed Systems” 3rd edition (2017) free download from authors
It’s Time to Start Worrying About the Housing Market Again
Interesting. Are there any examples of this library being used so far? Can anybody familiar with the topic elaborate on how much can it actually simplify things and what's left to figure out?
Good. Let's hope that other companies follow (MS, Google, Adobe, etc...).

What I want for Christmas is to swap phones with Tim Cook for a week. I think it would be eye-opening for him to have to use an iPhone that isn't fresh out of the box for once.
I kept the friends list, at least for people with whom I was OK sharing contact info.

I did, however, unfollow around 500 people or so, which shrunk my feed to only a small number of people whose opinion I actually care to read. FB really should make the unfollow option more obvious, because it largely solves the feed noise issue.
>The company will continue to update its software annually, but internally engineers will have more discretion to push back features that aren't as polished to the following year.

Let's hope Microsoft follows suit. I would much rather have a product that works the same way every time over one that can do 1000 things half the time.

Hopefully this will also give them time to reconsider some of the more ill-conceived UX choices they've made in recent years. If they'd spent more than 6 months using the iPhone X I doubt it would've been released as is.
My answers:

(1) I noticed a long time ago that by listening to radio on long drives I was being bombarded by advertisements. Over the past couple of years I've become more aware of how algorithms also shape the non-advertisement content I am presented. The power of algorithms to funnel attention really hit home for me when I saw my friends' toddlers quickly being classified and funneled toward the same YouTube channels of other children playing with dolls. So my reaction to the talk is that this is an important issue to at least pay attention to.

(2) My first attempt at dealing with advertising bombardment and algorithmic manipulation was to switch to purchasing content as much as possible. A couple years ago I ran an experiment where I switched from free broadcast radio to a paid audio books during car rides. I felt like my listening left me in a better mood and gave me opportunities to explore subjects at greater depth. Later, I introduced Netflix, HBO Now, and a few podcasts. I also switched exclusively to paid video games. I recognize that these services also have algorithms that want to keep me subscribed, but I feel slightly better about that because I perceive the quality of content is given more algorithmic weight. Especially with the switch from radio to audiobooks I've felt more in control of how I'm programming my mind. More recently, I took a break from social media. I'm just starting to about how I want to use it going forward.
Java project Hydra, a network framework built upon Netty
Hello everyone,

I just would like to share this project with the community. I mainly am looking for some people to give me feedback or review and test the project. So feedback is really welcome (:
Thank you in advance!

The project:
https://github.com/DataSecs/Hydra

Cheers!
Having an integer/memory address size that isn't a power of two is possible, and has been done before, but it's awkward. Lacking a specific reason not to go to 128 bits, they did that.
I'm someone who doesn't follow a lot about current aerospace capabilities and technologies. Can someone explain why the work SpaceX is doing is so much more exciting than that of United Launch Alliance or Khrunichev or similar systems?
I was hypothesising Facebook being unreasonable. And their business model could very well be incompatible with GDPR. They're an ad company that feeds on personal data. I'm not sure they can get the informed consent of most of their users for this.

Simply put, GDPR could be reasonable and sue Facebook to death (at least within its borders).
I knew of WEB, which was pascal-derived. I guess CWEB is the C-derived equivalent?
I also found it underwhelming. There was enough to keep me reading through the first book, but I definitely did not feel compelled to pick up the second/third.
I had something like this happen to me a few years back. It was unexpected and pretty eye opening to realize that there are people out there who feel the need to take out their rage out on indie entrepreneurs.

You might want to post responses like "Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it!" to try to mitigate the damage of their review but the overall best advice would be to just ignore the person. Hopefully they will eventually fade away.
Memory alignment? It's also the next power of 2. Anything non-power-of-two would be cumbersome.
"we don't want to deal with this shit for another forty years or possibly forever" would have sufficed for me.
1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End
These are just anecdotes but to pile on: A while back I switched from Android to an iPhone because despite loving the flexibility and freedom I hated the instability I was trading to get it. Now I'm holding out on buying an X or 8 because the buggy experience and daily crashes since I updated to iOS 11.

I'm sure if I do a fresh wipe and don't restore my data I'll be back to normal. And I'm sure an X or 8 is going to work great. But I don't want to _have_ to do that kind of stuff. I want it to just work. I bought into the walled garden because that locked down environment is supposed to be trade off that makes things stable and secure.
throw in many would be surprised at how many areas cell coverage drops out. traveling a lot has shown me that cell is not guaranteed and having a satellite dish at least gets us tv/music. then again traveling also reveals that free internet is just a McD away.
> one which better matches our intuitions

> A door knob that's most intuitive and natural for the majority of humans to use.

Ok so let me explain better:

The UX = Human End-users POV (intuition)

Programming syntax = Human Developers (intuition or whatevr)

Tools to deliver (Browser API, CSS) = The domain/s

The way in which we structure work = the things we are building = things that exist in real life.

Websites are mis-leading because many pages appear alike people tend to believe that there's a lot of repetitive components but there really isn't in general.

So inheritance is usually way over used despite the style of programming.

I am not discussing how we use a door knob. I'm arguing about how we build the door knob of different variants in mass production.

> It's not Brainfuck-bad

Brainfuck is not a "bad" language, if it serves it's purpose well then it is good. I think Brainfuck is doing exactly what it intended to do.

There are people who have been using JS for 20 years who think it is terrible. It's because they have never taken time out to learn the language properly. Most JS devs don't

I'm not convinced that you have because you clearly wouldn't be saying x is a poor language. No language that is in high demand today is a poor language.
Another point I didn't see mentioned was "support and documentation" (not necessarily SaaS specific, but still applicable)

I was the lead developer of a greenfield new b2b web application that took several months to develop the MVP for, then another almost 2 years to develop support tooling and systems for.

We would get calls that it didn't work with no other information, calls that it didn't work with "my older samsung", emails with pictures taken with another phone of the login screen with no other information, users that didn't know the name of the company they worked for, or even their username in the application.

We found suprisingly that there was a subset of our users that couldn't even tell you if they were on iOS or android! But quickly we learned that it's not their job to care about that, it's ours. We spent the next almost 2 years writing in debugging code, shipping logs back to our servers, writing code to send errors back to us to avoid having to ask the user on the phone to "please read out exactly what the error message says" only to find out that it happened to them last week and they don't remember... We wrote code to be able to "playback" what a user is doing in the app before they have a problem so we could identify UX issues, and redesigned UIs to include important information so when users sent us screenshots or pictures of the device we could get useful information from it from anywhere in the app (like app version, os version, username, company, etc...). We wrote documentation for how to enable camera permissions that they may have inadvertently denied for several android versions and flavors and iOS versions because we found that some users would be confused if the images and names were slightly different.

If you asked me today what makes our app better than all of our competitors, i'll tell you that it's hands down the "support" capability of the application, and that if a user has a problem, we can track down what they were doing when it happened and figure out a fix (either procedural or technical) sometimes before they even call the problem in!

Also, it's a sure fire way to deflate the ego of the hotshot lead developer that thinks he's made the best thing since sliced bread when the most important part of the application is a glorified log shipper!
Do you have to install anything on the host machine? Or can both just go to the website? (Will this help me fix my mom's computer remotely?)
> Last year, Unilever spent nearly $9.5 billion marketing its brands, including Dove, Lipton, Axe and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Holy cow, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Dove soap, Lipton tea, and Axe fragrance are all brands owned by the same company?!
This is a very common problem in large software companies that I can relate to. There is always pressure of the next big release and as a result bugs get punted, code starts to get out of order but there is not time to refactor and pause as the next release is just behind waiting for more features and limited bug fixes. Software Engineers and Management need to re-think of a better strategy to deal with these issues.
Read-Compile-Run-Loop – a tiny embeddable REPL analog for C++
the irony is that you're far more likely to get killed in a car accident than by a serial killer on public transit.
Also, the Z in ZFS :D
For those in the east bay, Bay area, looking for another provider, keep an eye on this one: https://www.lmi.net/services/internet/phiber/

They claim 50$/mo (60 after first year) for speeds up to 1 GB/sec. But, its not available yet, but will be sometime in 2018, they say.

Here's another one, I'm looking into: https://common.net/

unfortunately, alot of these aren't ready yet in my area
Interesting, I also see some additional details.
Detachable Chromebook Nautilus tests baterry-saving tech
St Pancras is "quite nice"?!

It's a wonderful building, both inside and out. I think it's one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe. Neo-gothic and wrought iron.

Image search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=st+pancras+international&t...
I set up the payment page of my app in under a day with Stripe Elements and just didn't worry about invoices. If someone needs them I just send them thru the Stripe UI. I have been getting more requests for them recently, but I think it's going to be a while before it's worth building myself.
LTFN 4: Intro to Convolutional Neural Networks
Computers are binary. After 2^6 the next step is 2^7. Anything in between would be awkward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands
The technical debt might be proportional to how many ad-hoc queries you have buried in various modules before you realize that some things do need to be deleted as of a particular date. But as you indicate, with a real DBMS, naive queries can just be pointed at a view.
I suspect that people tend to buy an automobile that they can afford and that's comfortably-sized for the infrastructure such as typical lane widths and parking spaces. In much of the US, that comfortable size is the Ford F-150 (a Hummer H-1 is too wide, a Toyota Yaris is unnecessarily small). In most of Europe and in some urban areas of the US, the infrastructure is smaller, so automobiles are by necessity smaller.
Story title is not accurate. Actual headline is:

Giant advertiser Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'

They haven't committed to it yet, they're in talks with Facebook, Google, etc.

Also, their entire digital ad budget is $2.4B, but not all that went to Facebook and Google, which the title implies. Probably majority did, as they make up like 65% of the digital ad market, but not all.
I'm with this sentiment too. I think there are plenty of laws with good intentions and unforeseen side effects which range from harmful to annoying and inconsequential (Prop 65 warnings, EU cookie law, south korea Internet Explorer mandate). They all seemed good at the time I'm sure.

Then the problem with technology laws is we have to live with them far beyond their usefulness since the tech evolves so quickly.
(I work at Stripe) We're actually beta testing a new product for invoicing. Shoot me a note (tara@stripe.com) if you're interested and I can get you into the beta.
Over and above the rocket technology itself, they're pushing the boundaries of what they (SpaceX) and others are capable of constantly - this is because they have a grand vision that they're all working towards that isn't primarily shareholder profits.

I think a lot of the excitement, for myself anyway, is that SpaceX represents the only tangible effort to bring us kicking and screaming into the space exploration age.
Oh that's nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_%26_Gamble_bra...

(includes kraft + mondelez on the page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kraft_brands
SpaceX is still the only company to land a real first-stage booster, and the Falcon Heavy was the largest rocket (in terms of payload capacity) to fly since the Saturn V.
I find the comments here fascinating. The consensus seems to be very much that Equifax were negligent and shouldn't be able to run operations like this.

Meanwhile we have this[0] thread (also on the front page of HN as I write) about how the EU is cracking down on US tech firms data collection activities and the GDPR which is seeking to restrict it. There is much less of a consensus on there that it is a Good Thing. There are accusations that this is a restriction on US trade, or some kind of EU tech envy.

I find it hard to reconcile these two positions? The EU seem to be doing exactly what people on this thread are asking for? The GDPR would enable regulators to impose crippling fines (4% global turnover) if Equifax were to lose EU citizens data after May this year. Do people want similar law in the US or not?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16361614
See the post on the Jupyter blog for more context which has a section on xeus : https://blog.jupyter.org/interactive-workflows-for-c-with-ju...
Typically speaking, SAFEs only differ in terms of: (i) the amount invested; (ii) whether there is a discount, cap, or both; and (iii) the amount of the discount/cap/both. If you are doing a round of different SAFEs, you might have a minimum amount of investment per SAFE and a maximum amount for the entire round.

You could put any of that into a term sheet. But you don't need to.
I've read about unstarts before and never got the impression that the engine in question stopped. It was the shockwave configuration at the inlet that had to be "restarted"?