skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those rules are disingenuous, extensively ideologically partisan, and do not reflect the human condition at all. It's akin to taping a warning sign on a Skinner box that says, "Do not react" while the experimenters are perpetual baffled when subjects twitch when delivered a jolt of electricity.

By "the users", do you mean four or so hyperpartisan ideological zealots who exploit your rules to get their rush of moral supremacy by downvoting instead of commenting to refute the points?

Because downvoting is technically political activity and your rules totally allow that all day long.
Am I understanding correctly that these guys apparently stole "more than 600" servers (allegedly) out of a data center!?

At a minimum, I would expect the data center to have their own video surveillance. In addition, it's not uncommon for folks to install their own video cameras inside their own cages as well.
I'm right there with you on retargeting. It's been my experience that this is smoke and mirrors and something that a client can sell to their bosses because it sounds like it would work.

If a campaign isn't working, I talk to our client about it and if I think I can fix it, I'm open about that too. It's easy to spend tens of thousands of dollars on useless ad spend optimized for the wrong things, and it's unfortunately the responsibility of the advertiser at this point to show their client what metrics actually matter, how to track them, and to give the client the ability to check in whenever they feel a need to.

This shouldn't be the case, but I think a lot of companies hire people that are technically illiterate to run marketing and they just chase eyeballs.
Iterate recursively, The Real Acme, Inc. obviously also operated in the EU, they made a revenue of $25MM from goods and services they sold to Acme EU, Inc., therefore they owe taxes on global_profit * $25MM / ($25MM + non_EU_revenue). I admittedly didn't really think this through for more than a minute. This also feels like I am reinventing value-added tax, this is definitely not my area of expertise.
This Hummingbird Chirps Like an Insect. Can It Hear Its Own Sound?
Millennials lose money to scams more often than their grandparents
The law is not a deterministic computer program that explicitly covers all cases in the code. The law applies common sense tests of reasonableness and your scenario would obviously not pass the test.
Seems like you'd just want to serve these from S3 behind a CDN, but what do I know.
We've stopped going to the movies since this service came out, and bought a bigger TV. We don't want to pay the movie food tax, movies are now packed with people and unpleasant to watch in our area, and it's just not an enjoyable experience.

Location-based tracking is totally common, and a serious business these days. This dataset will provide MoviePass with a huge and unique database, and they will prosper.

What nobody is talking about in this thread is that once they combine it with all of the other databases (profile, interest, etc), they will be able to track every single movie consumer from cradle to grave, from home to work, and on to the theater. They will know how your friends are, who you go to the movies with, where they live, who they know... this is all stuff that companies have been doing now since the early 2000s.

My point is that not only is this not illegal, it's relatively common. It might feel creepy, but this is the new normal. It's just not talked about very much. Google has a ton of this data, so does every cell provider, and of course someone mentioned foursquare, who realize that the location business was a better business than anything else they can build.

Also, the more we allow social media into our lives the richer these profiles become, because the qualitative data from social networks is the foundation of location networks. Where meets who meet when = datapoint.

In case you were wondering where all the mobile advertising revenue transitioned, start reading the T&Cs on the apps you download friends. :)
Educated guessing/speculation != making things up
Sure they expressly said they don't in their Privacy Policy but then the CEO admitted they do in fact, but the T&C allow forced arbitration and no class actions.

Unless the government wants to make a statement by pursuing them, there is no recourse except public shaming.
> I'd love to see "full-service" 401k plans, where employees are forced to contribute at least X% of their income, and all of it is managed by the equivalent of a pension-fund-manager (ideally, invested into low-cost diversified index funds)

My employer does something like this. They put money (3% of my salary) into a 401k for me regardless of my own contribution, so I have no option of not saving at least that much (although I still save additional money, because 3% is not really enough). This defaults into a low-cost index fund. However, I still have the option of transferring the 401k to another fund; but I suspect that most people would stick with the default instead of trying to change the investment.
Servo is actually modular, and most of it is available as Rust libraries including the layout and rendering engines. There is not a full electron like solution available yet though.
Game Arcades – Japanology Plus with Peter Barakan (2018)
Yeah, but I wonder if .NET wouldn't have succeeded until .NET Core without generics as a distinguishing feature. I feel like generics + some of the features built on them (LINQ+TPL+etc.) is what let .NET/C# stand apart from Java.

I'm not necessarily saying it would have failed, but I do wonder :: )
Every text editor beyond the most basic is incredibly complex. Terminals are a complete mess, so every terminal-based text editor certainly can't be called "simple", and that's not even beginning to consider extensibility! Emacs and Vim have entire interpreters embedded into their codebases, for instance.

Maybe text editors with an extensible feature set really are more complex than we've been led to believe?
Who's panicking?

I was posing the question as to how the community could deal with something horrific. At this point in time the power is in the hands of the community developing the technology. Surely there were lessons to learn from the implementation of the web.

I posed it again because each time there is no discussing potential for improvement and only responses crying censorship with pseudo-Orwellian lingo.

There's a line someplace. Nobody is preemptively stopped from producing snuff, but we don't support it by allowing it to be stocked at the local library in the name of anti-censorship.
Wait, that works? I'd just given up on fb on my phone.

If you don't mind... what exactly do you need to do?
One thing I wish were explained is where the 'U' came from; it first shows up when Mozilla was born with Gecko
The way the system is set up now, there would be little incentive to make pharmaceuticals without patents. The R&D cost is insane, so to be profitable, pharmaceutical companies need exclusive rights to their drugs.

Bearing that in mind, I have no reason to believe a fully state-funded pharmaceutical system would be impossible, tied into healthcare. However, to make people complacent with that, it would have to be unbelievably transparent. Many people fear the idea of the state designing and providing them with drugs.
The Europeans (meaning the government in Brussels). They strongly believe in ignoring election results. Brexit is merely the latest example of that.
Have you seen these: http://www.pilot-namiki.com/en/ ? Amazing work...
One of the issues was that companies that targeted IE often developed their sites using vbscript rather than jscript, therefore they would not be compatible without a re-write.

Now days there's plenty of Chrome only web apps.
The road to hell is paved with one off exceptions that are temporary until we get a better implementation in place anyway. :-)
I started reading that article a couple days ago and it's part of the reason why this subject as sparked with me. His article does a pretty pathetic job of trying to actually disprove anything about the science.

The way he smears Charles murray as if hes some closet white supremacists is just absurd if you actually have heard him speak or read his works.

Charles is one of the best example of someone who end up stumbling into the question on race and gets put on a fiery cross simply for not towing the line that race is purely a social construct.

It's a long read so I don't think you expect anyone to try and debunk it on the spot, so all i would suggest is people interested listen to the episode of Sam Harris's podcast with Charles and determine for yourself if Charles is just some shifty white supremacist neo nazi posing as a liberal or a scientist just trying to get to the bottom of uncomfortable truths.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/forbidden-knowledge/

If you really want a point by point rebut though, I know someone who did a video a couple days ago on the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxCKQupwZQM
> If anyone is interested in a paid project to build an open source command line replacement for my use of MoneyWell in Rust

Don't know if you've seen this, but as you mentioned a command line accounting system...

https://www.ledger-cli.org/

It's an open source command line accounting system (though it is written in C).
It's really easy to catch fake research papers with machine learning
I've used Braintree extensively (and have limited experience with Stripe).

Braintree has been an absolute pleasure to develop with. Their support has been excellent, we even had a conference call with their dev team in Australia regarding a new feature that they were rolling out so that we could be an early adopter.

HN gets all giddy and excited about Stripe for some reason, but Braintree is just as nice and easy to use. Stripe doesn't have anything inherently better than BT.
Fortunately the younger generations of people in the RoK are much less interested in nonsensical “Sunshine Policy” politics, or the prospect of uniting with the DPRK. The notion of absorbing millions of generationally impoverished, indoctrinated, and starved people into their incredibly successful state doesn’t appeal.

This would make the union of East and West Germany look easy and cheap by comparison after all.
> I explicitly wrote "lobbying AND donation". Please don't twist conversation into debates about semantics: it's not helpful.

Yes, and you said that both are illegal in most "other" counties. Except lobbying isn't illegal in any healthy democracy, including in Europe. Donating "millions of dollars" isn't really legal in the US either.
You'll find private sector contracts which pay in instalments for hitting milestones, but not ones which give companies hundreds of millions of non-reimbursable research dollars without the obligation to buy or sell any actual services or transfer IP or equity. Phase I of COTS was a series of grants for hitting planning milestones with a right to terminate before Phase II. The procurement contracts were separate and subsequent to this.
I'm not strictly opposed to software patents, I do think that the threshold for what deserves a patent is far too low in the USA though.

Regardless, patents in general are a net good for mankind. It incentivises innovation, as the inventor gets a monopoly for a limited time on new inventions.

What's the point in inventing anything if some other company (likely with more resources than you) can just come along and steal your ideas?
Smaller goals, easily achievable.

This is true both for you, or if you're teaching to someone else. By creating smaller goals, you can achieve them and get a sense of satisfaction, which is very important to move forward.

Once you get use to this, you can extend the scope of your goals, and you'll get smart enough to view even failures as partial successes, learn from what you did bad, and build upon what you did right. But if you never experience the satisfaction, you'll never be able to distinguish it in the chaos of dissatisfaction and failure.

I'd recommend starting with 1 small easily achievable activity per week for a month or two, and grow from there. This may include publish a 1min-read blog post, create a small webpage, read N articles, etc. Don't overthink where you want to go, just start by getting things done.
A longer version of my first comment originally admitted that Notepad's tech stack probably looks a lot like Xray's....

But then I would bet the Notepad engineers didn't wag their dicks on a blog post telling the world how special they are because they figured out how to make the Win32 message pump performant....

I'm happy they're finally treating Electron performance seriously... oh wait, they aren't! Just writing the hard parts in Rust instead :/

It would seem Electron adds far more complexity to projects than its adopters are lead to believe.

Perhaps I am biased against Electron and web-tech-on-the-desktop but there are far better ways to skin this particular cat, to say nothing of the fact that it has already been skinned a thousand times before.

Does the world really need another extensible text editor?
Some type of retirement system would be needed (whether pension, 401K, IRA, or simply "money you saved and invested"). I did some back of envelope calculations that suggest to me that UBI for Americans would be no more than $650/mo - 0 Realistically, it might be $600/adult and $200/minor 5-18 or something like that. Basic indeed.

In that type of a world, people who chose to work during what we today call "working years" would likely feel the need to put some money aside for their "post-working years" so they didn't slip back to the $1200/mo as a couple standard of living.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13595493
Get specific (2008)
I'm not sure. Apparently there are a few of these kind of projects. That one sounds closer to what I remember from the article than this other one I just found: http://www.sabranenque.com/eng/index.html
If it weren't for the oddness of the language, Lua would be a perfect fit. Near-C speeds, super flexible, no recompiles.

You'd lose type safety compared to Rust, but they don't have that with JS now anyway.

I don't think the majority of the memory consumption is from JS though, moreso the embedded browser+DOM approach.

Edit: Blaming electron for bloat more than JS.
If corporations were people, they would be subject to things like the 3 strikes law and the death penalty. People don't get the chance to simply pay fines for harming people.
You can enter into a contract for almost anything you'd like, if you don't like the terms you don't have to agree (and thus not get the money).

> This would be akin to telling my dad that I will gift him a car for his birthday, but on the condition that he can never sell it or rent it out or re-gift it to his friend. If he doesn't do as I say, I'll sue him to get the gift (car) back.

I think it's more like an agreement that you can use the car as long as you keep your grades up and obey a curfew.
To nitpick a bit more, these engines would have had a secondary power turbine added to produce mechanical power. This would have reduced the exhaust pressure, so they wouldn’t have used a jet for propulsion.

Rover actually produced the first car turbine engines back in the 40’s.

http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover-BRM
I'm sure it is structured in a way that mitigates that issue. E.g. donate to an intermediary trust for the tax benefit, then that trust makes the gift to the university. In fact the article seems to name this entity as the Pearson Family Foundation.
This would probably be a net positive.
phony add on
>According to MarketingWeek, Mark Pritchard of P&G had this to say on Thursday: “If entrepreneurs can buy digital media, why can’t the brand team on Tide, Dawn and Crest be entrepreneurs and do the same? They can, and they will.”

The big question here is, were the famous Super Bowl "Tide Ads" created by the Tide brand team, or an external consultant!?!?

Maybe P&G are emboldened to publicly speak out due to the success of that campaign?
They wouldn't be as profitable - the focus would shift: quality would increase.
In those days each browser had their own quirky idea of how to render a website (even Firefox). None of which was really "right" but how IE did it was the de facto standard because IE had 90+% marketshare. If you had a site that could potentially be "broken" if the layout didn't render correctly the the easiest thing to do was to test that it worked how you wanted it to in IE and then add a note telling people it might be broken in other browsers (or not serve to them).

It wasn't until after people really started focusing on standards compliance and cross-browser compatible frameworks that things got better. The "acid tests" for html/css/js standards compliance helped establish how far along the various browsers were at the time. Most browsers were absolutely terrible in that era, it wasn't until Chrome hit the scene and webkit started taking off that standards compliance started to become a big deal. Eventually most major browsers had decent or good standards compliance in their rendering and things like jQuery helped smooth over the rough spots of differences in browser behavior.
My experience with Comcast has been decidedly split. I know a few people who work on the engineering side at Comcast and they—to an individual—have been great. Comcast also has sponsored engineering meet ups in Philadelphia. The three or four people who have come out to work on issues with my service have likewise been great.

At the same time, every one of my tens of interactions with customer service at Comcast have been a disaster. Unfortunately, the customer service experience can be the one that overshadows the rest, and I'm sure there are plenty of customers who don't have the positive in-person experiences to balance out the poor customer service experiences. Tough to keep it all in perspective. Also important to note that I haven't been using Comcast since early 2017, so things could have changed in the interim.
Quick search answered my own question - 'U' indicates USA; As a result of cryptographic export restrictions, different levels of security were shipped in early browsers: U(SA) = 128bit, I(nternational) = 40bit, or N(one).
And how easy is to actually to incorporate in other projects?
5 minutes of googling suggests that Penicillin was not patented and the mass production was later patented by the USDA (not some private pharma company). The entire modern funding ecosystem being patent based just means it's the most profitable business model, not that it's the only way to produce pharmaceuticals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#Mass_production

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2442141
To be fair, a lot of big companies know how to tune the JVM. A TON of HUGE companies write a LOT of java. What you consider a constant struggle, a lot of very large companies consider trivial.
Try using a circular polarizer?
>even the most advanced technology can’t make someone hear voices or experience a different reality.

That's the advanced technology that we know of, anyway. Surely the aliens among us have more advanced technology that are capable of these kinds of things.

I say this only partly in jest, but it is downright amazing where your mind can go when you're trying to reconcile an "out-of-band" subjective experience with how you expect the world to normally function.
"Strong security (Default)
the browser provides crypto support that is stronger than what the "international" builds of Netscape offered circa 1995."

https://cat-in-136.github.io/2010/08/u-in-ua-string-and-abou...
Or just use Messenger Lite https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.m...
That's a nice one. Will have to bookmark.

If anyone needs to check their parcel for lots of info, ZIMAS is very useful:

http://zimas.lacity.org/
Got it! I'd be happy to serve as a resource for anyone taking a swing at adding an Impala front end (or any other, for that matter). I'm unlikely to get to it myself any time soon.
Google moves toward quantum supremacy with 72-qubit computer
Great article. Could we get [2008] added to the title please?
Why not use ScyllaDB ? (Serious)
It certainly is nothing of the kind. You dragged that Sanders-shaped strawman in with you. Since you appear to harbor the common delusion that mainstream Democrats are, in fact, on the left side of the political spectrum here's some light reading. You'll note that the overwhelming majority of the entire range of opinions detailed here bear little to no resemblance to the standard Democratic party platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
It has held for the last 100+ years (that chart is only the last 50 or so, but other calculators go back to the late 19th century).

Not all the growth is domestic. Many "US" stocks make a substantial portion of their revenue and profit from international operations [sales and/or manufacturing], not all of which is reflected in US GDP growth. As an example, when Apple makes an iPhone in China and sells it Europe, that doesn't contribute to US GDP, yet it contributes to the total return of Apple shareholders.
There are dozens of large cities all across America and hundreds of smaller ones.
If you want to try to do it in lens, a circular polarizer and a set of gradiated neutral density filters will go a long way to improving your landscape photography.
in other news, Ford Executive says he can track you anytime you drive... http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
space-station transitioning the moon is also excellent !
Netflix used to refuse to run in Firefox I had to install Chrome on my laptop just to visit one site - incredibly frustrating.
It was about encryption ciphers, when the US had export restrictions on key lengths. U = USA = 128bit, I = International = 40bit, N = None. Nowadays the U is another vestigal piece of the UA string.
I think you need to read up on some the cluster analysis work that has been done over the last decade. Your statement about inventing races and assigning them to people isn't true.

I linked this in another comment but ill mention it again, this article makes a comprehensive argument for race while linking off to the supporting papers instead of just me shotgunning a bunch of papers at you.

http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/329...

Look under the heading "Genetic Clusteredness" and you find a summary of papers such as Bamshad 2003 which explain how they can conclude a strong correlation between self reported races and objective measured genetics via SNPs.
What tooling do you think is missing due to erasure?
>It sure isn’t in the company’s privacy policy

What they are doing is illegal in the state of California.
They have an ad-block gate
Note that Java's originally only generic type, the array, has C#-style reified generics. The early JVM implementors should have felt a bit dirty in providing reified generics support for arrays at the VM-level without at least having a forward-compatible VM-level provision for general reified generics.
Can Mozilla/5.0 be eliminated these days?
But it wasn't sold for $0 in Spain. Its not right to be able to write off revenue from expenses of another country. Taxes are a cost of business. Again I don't get why it seems reasonable that country A gains at the expense of country B's loss. Why would country B want your business when you contribute nothing to their country/ economy?
Rustlings: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code