skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram has officially killed Snapchat
https://twitter.com/Legend0fLucky/status/969796446957445122

I could easily find many more examples and (less easily) write a "blogpost" on Medium that was 99% embedded tweets with a few lines of snarky commentary, but this link says it all. I'm in college, and only some of my classmates use snapchat -- and the younger kids only use Instagram. The latest Snapchat update only convinced any neutral users who hadn't been bothered to switch over from Snapchat when Instagram added their Stories to finally leave.
That animation on form input errors is amazing
I believe it's more like 30%. In a few years Vulkan should be on the majority of Android devices.
The site is down, you can see it in whole here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050212133946/http://boglin.iwa...
Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Formaldehyde (2011)
oh wow im sure he'd love to see that now if he's still alive!
> West Africa could be so much more prosperous if only they would will their way towards it.

I have just spent a year and a half driving through 20 countries in West Africa. [1]

At times I would have agreed with your comments, though lately I have been taking another tact.

The developed world has stress, heart disease, cancer and hundreds of millions of people going to jobs every day they hate with a passion. People have little or no time for family. People have crushing debt. Life expectancy is going down in the USA.

Obviously West Africa is far from perfect, but I think it's very important to realize the Developed World is also far from perfect, and it would be a shame to have West Africa "Develop" into exactly what we have built with all our failings.

Maybe not working 40+ hours a week is OK.

[1] theroadchoseme.com
You mean, like irc?

Or e-mail?

Or USENET news?
Please explain what "league" means, and why the obvious choices of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Brin and Page - I assume that 'current lot' means 'new tech billionaires' - aren't in that league.
With the ships jumping into lightspeed, it is easy economical calculation. How long it takes to build a ship?
They also aimed at one big commander ship not wiping entire fleet.

I think it is reasonable for ship systems to be programmed to avoid collisions when jumping to lightspeed. Manual override would be reasonable measure to pull that move.
Suggesting that US law makes a company legally culpable for all interaction with that company's website has no basis in our legal system. That isn't how our law has ever worked. The first and foremost thing to understand about law is that intent is as important as the actual act itself.

So, no, there is no way removing the blank check we cut big tech is going to hurt small startups or a community forum. And most of those are going to have human moderators that do a much better job than those "automatic filtering tools" you seem to suggest are a solution.

The whole point here is that automatic filtering doesn't work. We've seen YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter prove that. Of course, Google has hundreds of billions of dollars at it's disposal, but it isn't hiring human moderators, because it has no reason to: Our government holds that Google isn't responsible for anything on it's platform, so it is better off keeping the money as profit.

Now, where it starts to get interesting is perverse incentives: Much of advertising profits comes from malware and scams. Ad companies make billions off this illegal, criminal behavior. And since we've granted them platform immunity, because it's "user content", they're free to keep making that money. They have no reason to take down illegal content, they can't be held responsible for cash cow scams like the fake rehab center fiasco that make them millions. (Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...) Even if they get pressured to shut them down, they get to keep all of the profits.

Section 230 protects companies which knowingly (and this is key, intent is important) do not remove illegal and criminal conduct because it is profitable, and they can't be held responsible for it. Section 230 does not protect small businesses, and the marketing to protect it relies on fundamental misconceptions about basic legal responsibility. Companies without intent to profit off criminal conduct are protected by the basic concepts of our legal system: That you can't commit a crime without intent.

It's amazing how the organizations promoting how critical Section 230 is to "small businesses" are funded by the five largest companies in the US by market cap. (The Center for Democracy & Technology spoke out against SESTA-FOSTA in some articles today, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are all top tier sponsors.)
Must say the prospects of fixing my grandmother with some flashing lights is appealing. At this point she mostly talks to her doll - as if people around are all strangers.

Don't worry I'm not quite crazy enough to run human trials on unsuspecting relatives. Particularly, not when they are long past the ability to give consent.

But I won't say it's not tempting to buy and EEG and start cooking...
DMCA takedown process is specifically created so that hosting providers don't need to verify any claims in the notice, they only need to take the content down and notify the user who published it, so that the user could provide a counter-notice (in which case, they bring the content back up).
- you're a lot better off working at a good company -- MUCH better off -- unless you have a pretty damn concrete idea of what you're doing.

What makes so sure? Have you started your own thing? Glad to hear about your story/lessons learned.
Successful business ideas are really just problems that need solutions
So in other words, "dodo" is (slowly) going extinct from his vocabulary?
Open Source Disk Cleaner App BleachBit Gets First Update After 19 Months
You're posting this comment on Hacker News and not 4Chan for a reason. Censorship is absolutely essential to make an internet community tolerable to people outside a tiny cohort of edgelords.
I've been using Uber and similar apps for years mostly in Europe and Asia and 80+% of the time the price would be substantially cheaper than taxis (often 50% cheaper in places like London). They use dynamic pricing though based on supply/demand so it is very possible to have higher price than taxi based on parameters (i.e. if you booked a ride in central Paris during rush hour the price would spike up). But from my experience you cannot use those anecdotes because if you use Uber a lot (like hundreds of rides) you will statistically see they they are cheaper in big majority of cases.
Agreed! Bring back the X-Wing franchise! The X-Wing VR video clip in the Disney app in the Oculus store makes me think an X-Wing game could be the blockbuster that brings so many people into the VR fold that it becomes mainstream. A bit like the early X-Wing games were a reason for people to buy PCs :)
On the other hand, they paid the opportunity cost of not spending their time learning something that could be actually used to improve their living situation (electrical/mechanical engineering comes to mind).
make sure you are getting your b12, and other important micronutrients. that stuff plays a big role in balancing your brain chemistry.
What's amazing was that when they introduced this change, a lot of dedicated Twitter addicts hated those long tweets with a passion, as if someone had cut their favorite cocaine with chalk. Now they can barely remember what it was like.

Twitter rots the brain. With every doubling of the message length, they will reduce the harmfulness of the product, bur also remove its addictive appeal at the same time. So every business metric they have tells them not to do it.
Where’s the actual link?

The posted link just takes me to this YC page.
The site is down due to increased traffic from HN. Here is an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20180303000007/http://boglin.iwa...
Now, if they could downsize it and kill mosquitoes in mid-air (while keeping other insects alive), I'd definitely buy that!

(Sorry, just a residual reaction to a mosquito-ridden vacation last summer.)
Working for a big company is stable but fragile (you can lose the job, or become a special cog that cannot fit into any other machine).

Working for yourself is risky at the very beginning, but anti-fragile, given you know what you are doing.
What is a bitcoin “hodler”?

Seriously, what is it?
It's impressive, but it doesn't necessarily actually download the file from webtorrent peers. It will happily do HTTP streaming, instead.

It works fine for me even though my browser is configured to block third party traffic by default.
You can crash Emacs for example with the recipe from #2099:

$ emacs -Q --eval "(let (v) (while t (setq v (cons v v))))"

In response to how such deep structures can arise: They may for example arise when testing Emacs with randomly generated code snippets. For testing edge cases, it is highly desirable that Emacs run robustly also in such situations.
I would love to be able to follow people for those things. But I can't. Because the same people's whose works and thoughts I like keep sharing news clickbait, socialite posers and hollow moralizing.
I've seen these okay-ish numbers, but subjectively it was a crap experience (bad enough to buy an SE). It wasn't really app launch times that bothered me, though. Scrolling all around the OS "felt" (not sure how to measure it) like it was running way below 60 FPS, whereas everything was buttery smooth on iOS 10. And the OS seemed to only keep one or two apps in memory, ever.

I suspect it might be because I only had 1GB of free storage, and iOS 11 was uploading and downloading cloud photos like crazy? Often I would take a picture, and by the time I wanted to send it via message ten seconds later, the phone had deleted the original it from my phone, and had to re-download it.

I would gladly assume that I'm an outlier, but a friend with a 5s asked me for new phone recommendations right after updating to iOS 11, so there's at least two points of anecdata.
> Believe it or not, this is the US system working as intended.

I don't. And it's not.
Once again, whimsy turns to wisdom when least expected. The very idea is ludicrous, but the hurdles and lessons learned while trying to be funny are real. Good read!
I like him too. Just be cautious - he's a contributing editor at Reason, which is heavily funded by the Koches and tends to follow their agenda. I wish we had decent smart right-wing voices that weren't co-opted by money from billionaires, but they're pretty few and far between.

Ken White is close to that but the Reason and Fox connections taint him a bit.

Edit: after looking into it he's only got three articles at Reason and it looks like 'contributing editor' is an overblown title. Phew. I want to like him and think he's fair.
Salary is too low for an iOS AND Android engineer.
GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)
Right. It doesn't provide evidence for pilot wave theory any more than rolling some balls around on a rubber sheet provides support for Glgeneral relativity.
Hah, I remember this. My favorite thing about it is the fact that vital processes could end up killing each other and crash your system.

To me, that takes this from stupid, to gloriously stupid.
The way I understand it this is done to make the terrorists' threats more credible to other victims, not to judges. But I would also not put too much trust in judges in particular jurisdictions, such as EDT.
Apparently yes - I don't think it's the same server from 1998 through...

I think that it's a smart move of them actually. There are lots of business (and simple users) that have set up their business web page through this service (here's a list of all accounts with pages there http://users.otenet.gr); most of these people people will want to keep their business or hobby web sites so they won't change internet providers and stick with otenet!
It exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
The math necessary for ML/AI (statistics/vector calculus) is mostly taught at undergrad level though isn't it? So most engineers should already have it covered.
No see, this is the enormous blind spot that people have about "hate" on social media. It was the progressive _left_ who pioneered the mobbing, the sealioning, the doxing, the threats, the career sabotage. That is, the people who fashion themselves opposed to hate crimes.

Remember the ESA Rosetta shirt guy who broke down into tears? Yeah there was the Verge with "I don't care if you landed a probe on a comet, your shirt is holding back progress."

How about Justine Sacco and her tweet about AIDS and being white? That was Sam Biddle and Buzzfeed, and it was anti-racism outrage that missed the sarcasm and self-mockery in her original message.

Who can forget the anti-harassment antics of Adria "DongleGate" Richards? She posted that guy's photo on Twitter, engaging in "harassing photography", and the media called her a hero for it.

And of course, the biggest "harassment" scandal of all, GamerGate, actually egged on by progressive journalists like Sam Biddle and Leigh Alexander, proudly proclaiming that nerds needed to be bullied into submission, that gamers were a bunch of angry white manbabies, and so on. Taunting from their position of privilege while denigrating a lower status demographic.

That's hate. That's selfish. That's bigoted. But it doesn't count because it was "punching up". Because the progressive left has somehow convinced itself that when it exercises power, it stands completely isolated from the "oppressive systems" it deems are driving all of our "patriarchal", "capitalist" society. Now a few years later, the right has caught up, and now it's all blamed on them with the same buzzwords as before. Nope. This is on the left. The left has the media power and networks to amplify this outrage into the stratosphere, the left runs the companies that maintain it. And they continue to deny responsibility and pretend like people defending against their attacks are somehow the real offenders.

Those backwards country bumpkins weren't on social media when all of this started happening.
There have been a number of cases of the terrorists going against US-based customers of non-US entities.
That's a good observation, and it highlights that the GDP has its problems as a measure of wealth/output.

A big part of the reason why Russia's GDP is so low is that it's measured in dollars. And now you say "who cares what the currency is, when you change from one currency to the other you're just changing the units, you're not changing real wealth measured". Well, yes and no.

Even 20 years ago the currency exchange was about 1USD = 4 Rubles, then sanctions happened, now it's about 1USD = 50 Rubles [0].

Now, do you think the amount of stuff Russia produces in a year shrinked 10 times over in 20 years? Of course not, it's just that the amount of stuff they can buy from the rest of the world shrinked 10 times. And this is the crux: Russia is mostly self-sufficient. GDP is a good measure of a country's size if that country interacts with the global markets a lot. If they have low GDP in dollars, then they can't buy much and they're a weak country. But Russia is mostly self-suffient they can produce a lot of guns and oil which measured in rubles is dirty cheap. But then they sell it in dollars in order that they can then buy the stuff they need.

A country like Spain is tighly integrated with global trade, and so even when you're converting their GDP from EUR to USD, it remains a good measure of the country's wealth (here it applies that you're just changing the units).

Compare Russia's situation with Venezuela. Venezuela has a minuscule GDP measured in dollars. But since they don't produce anything basically (other than oil, and even that is not enough), they have to import a lot and so then measuring it in dollars gives you an accurate idea of how much they can buy from the rest of the world: not much.

This said, there is also an element of truth to another commenter who said that a lot of their stuff is left over from the soviet union. Yes, that is part of the story, but it's still true that they produce a lot. Obama famously said [1] "They are a smaller country, they are a weaker country, their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy except oil and gas and arms." Turns out that that's exactly enough for them to buy the things they need, the rest they produce themselves.

Here's another interesting nugget. The GDPs of Russia and Spain are respectively $1.5Tr and $1.3Tr. Similar. But the PPP-adjusted GDPs (i.e. GDP adjusted to account for the amount of stuff that can be bought within that country for that amount of money) are $4.1Tr and $1.3 Tr. So while the stuff that Russia and Spain produce is worth similar amounts in dollars, the stuff that you can buy with it with those dollars within those countries, is about 3 times larger in the case of Russia. Since Russia also has about 3x the population of Spain, it follows that Russia's per capita PPP-adjusted GDP is roughly that of Spain.

[0] http://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php?A=1&C1=USD...

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/obama-russia-weaker-c...
Those are Trustico's customer's certificates. The only way Symantec could have fraudulently issues those was if Trustico told them to or lied about who their customers were.

There's no logic here to understand.

I think the previous thread about Trustico had it right: Digicert bought all Symantec's customers but Trustico wants their customers to stay with them instead and wants Digicert to look untrustworthy. If none of this went pubilc and Digicert revoked all their certificates, Trustico could step in to save the day.
But there are 1,100 times as many Americans.

"The difference in his study amounts to a reduction of several hundred injuries per convention per year"
What is mobility?
What does mobility as a technology mean when people say mobility is one of the technology that is bringing 4th industrial revolution?
Free Itch.io KEY, First in First Served
> And my problem was that this test would be running on a bazillion machines if upstreamed, for about 0.000000001% chance of ever be executed, bar for our own low volume, industrial SoC. We'd add cycles to a critical code path for zero reason, and without conditional compile, nobody would know by reading the code.

That's a good reason why C++ is generally superior to C in embedded development: with C++, you can get at the same time compiler checks for the validity of your whole code to prevent bitrot (unlike macros), and ensure that the actual implementations will only have the actual code that is relevant to them - e.g. set your flags as constexpr variables in your device's struct, and have the tests run under `if constexpr` conditions. Devices without the flag set won't have the check compiled in, and others will. But oh well :)
Anecdotally, if I've learned anything from watching comedians like John Stewart: self deprecation is the keystone of their entire act.

Every comedian seems to have some level of it, because not taking yourself too seriously is like a vital component of turning comedy in to a job. But Jewish comedians go to that well a lot more than, for example, Black comedians like Katt Williams.
So funny how people (or at least, me) immediately try to 'humanize' everything. Watching the video and seeing that robot crashing into the fence I felt bad for it and started wondering insane things about pain.
Apple had their own agenda with the app store, so this is not really an objective source.
I only know him from Medium and Twitter, haven‘t noticed misoginy so far. Got an example?
The slow cooker is one I should add here myself, saves a lot of time cooking
Also, "I have legal insurance, you can talk to my lawyers" might be a turn-off for trolls, effectively diminishing what would be spent in this specific case.
What a wonderful read. I'm sitting here on a bed with my girlfriend, Mars, having just read it to her.

It reminded me of my Jewish mother and her vibrant storytelling. There's great pleasure in telling a riveting tale of a small slight.

It reminded Mars of my not-Jewish (but somehow more Jewish) father. Both respectful and subversive, he'll make a joke to an armed guard if he can.
It sounds like the report glossed over a rather important bit of ux:

If, when logging in, you see a big modal dialog asking if you want to grant webusb access to the site, then DONT select your yubikey out of the list of connected USB devices and click "Allow".

As long as you can convince yourself to avoid taking that particular unusual action, it sounds like you're fine.
How Instagram Conquered the NBA
The first implementation of BitTorrent was written in Python. I don't think it has happened once since, not as any serious attempt anyway.

The clients that use Python today are not slow because they all use rasterbar-libtorrent as a C Python module that performs all of the heavy lifting.
What if I'd argue otherwise - that download managers (including plain HTTP(S) downloads) shouldn't be a part of browser, but a separate pieces of software?

I suspect that in modern "we don't download anything, we watch/read/run this on the web" times in-browser downloading is bound to be second-class citizen that vendors would not pay any significant attention to beyond the simplest scenarios. Basically, the torrent support will be barely functional, just like the current HTTP downloads are. If they're split in a separate program (buzzword: microservice) they still have a chance, though.
In below link you can find self made billionaires (if thats what you mean by the league).
https://www.inc.com/business-insider/worlds-youngest-self-ma...
Python 3 migration prevents access to system Python
I'm with you on the absurdity of the West. The isolation, sterility and atomisation of life in large cities (self service checkouts, lack of street life/physicality, laws wrapped in regulations wrapped in rules) is soul destroying.

But we live until 80, our institutions work, we want for little (materially), and trust is higher. So depends on what you value.

Africa doesn't have to emulate anybody. It can move up the human development index any way it pleases, but, for the sake of its people, it must move up.
can't decide if this was meant in good faith or is simply racist.
Rust would be a good fit, yes, but many other languages could be a more comfortable fit. For example since we're just doing a simple data processing task, a simple language like Go would work perfectly. Since the realtime constraints are not super strict, you can build fine BT clients in comfortable languages such as C# or Java as well.

An advantage of Rust however is that it's easy to expose a C api from it, so it can easily be integrated into a project done in a more comfortable language.
[0] link should be http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P08/P08-1028.pdf
Jeff Mitchell; Mirella Lapata - Vector-based Models of Semantic Composition
"Objective wavefunction collapse" is not a good "aka" for the CI. There is a great deal of objectivity in it but there's an essential element of subjectivity (shared by neo-CI descendants of the CI such as QBism and Rovelli's relational interpretation) too. Streater's discussion of EPR explains why: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117174141/http://www.mth.kc...

Broadly speaking, the CI and its "radical" psi-epistemic* relatives interpret QM as (generalised) probability theory applied to mechanics: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/the-quantum-mech... It's hardly a cop-out. See e.g. Rovelli's take on what the ontological ramifications are: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02894

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135521981...
IRC still works a treat
And this makes sense when disk is slow and you have much more RAM than network traffic. If RAM is small, while net traffic and disk are both fast, mmap writes may result in poor file layout due to arbitrary OS flush order.
It does seem like a good fit, yes. Just for example, rtorrent regularly crashes every few days.
Is it also to reduce security concerns?