skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where not only the illiterate are allowed to vote but the vote is mandatory you have a demagoguery - not a democracy.
Krebs linked to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4fjMhGn-I

It's kind of hard to watch. The guy wasn't well.
I actually like this a lot. Cool design
America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care
For automation software, transmission (BitTorrent-client written in python, slow) seems to be the standard.

If it could offer a transmission-compatible API-layer, I bet it would receive much more interest.

Edit: apparently not written in python. My bad.
What is "censorship"? When I learned about the concept, I learned the definition that "censorship" is to block a person's speech in a purely public space. You seem to be alluding to a more abstract right than this.
Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn't cave under the, "It'll cost us this much in legal fees anyway" argument.
Depends on the relationship of Snopes and Facebook.

If Snopes is being actively used by Facebook in some sort of joint venture for this purpose, yes, I agree there needs to be something (perhaps a new flag_item: true/false field for Facebook to actually act against).

If Facebook is just scraping Snopes and looking for the true or false distinction, well, the onus is on Facebook.

Tangentially, I wonder if this is why there was the hostile takeover thing going on with Snopes a while back (not sure if that has been resolved or not). Since "fake news" is all the rage, I bet Snopes has bumped up in usage either as a fact checker or as an API for things of this nature. So the takeover was probably done in the hopes that an acquisition from one of the networks came and they could cash out.
You also neatly sidestepped my point about the origin of these unions, by starting in the "early 20th". You also ignored the Blair Mountain reference, and other deeply capital-hostile examples of union struggle. Unions started as an instrument of class struggle and remain precisely that, the fact that that is even slightly controversial is more representative of the ideological climate of today and specifically this website. Also, if unions are not a direct, full frontal attack on capital and hierarchy, why are they facing constant attack from organs of ruling class consciousness, like, say, the WSJ, the Financial Times, or even other less explicit papers like the New York Times? Why are teachers unions treated like the scum of the earth everywhere? Its downright weird that this is even questionable.

EDIT
Also worth pointing out, there is an anti-union case being argued before the supreme court today. Its been widely acknowledged as an attempt to "kneecap" public-sector unions. If unions are not hostile to capital, are not an element of class struggle, where do these battles come from? Why are unions perpetually on the defensive, not merely from specific owners of specific companies facing individual actions, but across the board from class conscious (from above) institutions and people who have no individual stake in any given organizing struggle.
Cynically, I really doubt it.

Where would the money payoff for this be?
I think that we can agree that we're very lucky to have you here to correct our malformed opinions! :)
Oh, my. That...

...brings back memories.

I hope the younger folk appreciate all the web-design sins we committed before they were born, so that no one else need repeat them, ever again.

I might still have a page or two left over from 1998 or thereabouts, on a PATA hard drive collecting cosmic rays in my garage. But no, you can't see them. I am too ashamed.
I actually get a little excited when I see the blink and marquee tags still being used on current websites. (yeah I know, I'm psychotic!)
Of course these trolls have no face or names. Hope someone can track the actual owners down.
What is the usecase for WebUSB? Here [1] someone from Google suggests vendors should write device drivers in Chrome HTML and Chrome Javascript. Please don't.

Or (my assuption) it might be for devices that cannot work without browser and network connection.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb...
Pretty obvious patent trolling if they're only going for this rather smalltime developer and none of the high profile F2P game developers and big time game developers releasing AAA games with a premium currency.
Weird startup metrics?
What are some weird startup metrics? Which you would target for weekly 7% growth?

From unconventional companies, not consumer focused companies.

Examples would be: Biotech, Nuclear Energy, Hard Tech, Quantum Computing, R&D, Finance, Hedge Fund, AI.
How is the price settled upon? I mean, why ask $35k specifically? Why not 3.5k or 350k?
Modern art is rather like bitcoin - mostly pointless work of no value with pseudo-randomly attributed value, used for portable hoards of those capable of dealing in it.

(already said here)
>So if you wanted tech giants to have less power what exactly would you do?

I'm trying the "work for a tech giant and do a poor job" approach to this problem. I don't think it's working.
You can, but you probably wouldn't notice.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19633719

"Two samples were co-infected with HRV-A and HRV-B or HRV-C. [...] Double or triple infections with HRV-C and respiratory syncytial virus and/or bocavirus were diagnosed in 33.3% of the HRV-infected patients, but no correlation with severity of clinical outcome was observed."
That's awesome. I recently found my first site is up too(http://home.earthlink.net/~flighttime/justins/). Still running on free hosting from my family's ISP from 20 years ago. Complete with a Dodgers' schedule from 1998.
This is the strategy that helped defeat the patent on podcasting. Also I would contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
> "wage slave milennials who will never own a home or have a opportunity to accumulate wealth."

not with the way they spend it. i graduated in '02 with 35k dept, couldn't find work till '05. started off at 29k doing tech support. But I didnt travel, I -never- ate out, always tried to keep my spending to almost nothing. two years before i bought my house, i lived in a micro apartment for 400/month to save money. bought a house by 2013.

I dont think I qualify as being a millennial, but I do respect the hardships they faced, as I graduated during the 2001 recession and was smacked with the housing crisis as soon as I was starting to get on my feet. delayed employment and years of low wages have made it almost impossible for me to save enough to retire.

however,

when gainfully employed people say they cant afford a house, they very often mean: "I dont want to adjust my spending, and I dont want to be flexible for where I want to live."
http://gtxcorp.com/

Appears to be this company. Or they're using this company's name, but that would be wildly stupid of them to attempt if they want any chance at all of winning (which they already don't seem to have -- way too much prior art).
That would be really nice. Having to have a windows pc solely for gaming is so wasteful.
Kontrol Energy buys company developing token platform on IOTA for $14M
> Firefox barely supports U2F.

Haha it's funny you put it this way because actually it's Firefox that implements FIDO U2F standard correctly and Chrome is not. Chrome uses low level API to communicate with their built in extension and the high level shim that they provide is not 100% spec compliant.

Google did not bother to use the U2F correctly on their accounts site, Github for example did it correctly and their 2FA works on any browser (that is FF and Chrome).
... How's Terry Davis doing these days?

For those here unaware, he's the schizophrenic author of TempleOS, a weird 64bit OS. He used to post on HN, though they were usually racist or religious rants, so that he eventually got banned (I think).

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonel...

Sounds like he's homeless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043
> What I'm afraid of is with this capitalism with Asian values

What's "asian values".

> But I don't share the hope of my liberal friends - give them ten years, [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square demonstration

It's been 30 years since tiannamen square demonstrations. There won't be another tiannamen square unless there is economic issues within china. And the same applies not just to china or "asia", but everywhere. Economic stress is what drives protests and societal chaos.

> no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over.

When was there ever any marriage between capitalism and democracy? One isn't linked with the other. Democracy precedes capitalism by millenia. You can have democracy and no capitalism. You can have capitalism and no democracy. You can have both or neither.

The quote appears to say a lot but says nothing. It makes a host of false assumptions and runs with it.
It is checked server-side. I understand why people are concerned that the price is passed in a way that they can see vs grabbed via javascript or another method like most other sites, but that doesn't change the responsibility to check the data server-side. I can edit my POST requests to Amazon but they better not sell me stuff for $0, and neither will this site.
While it doesn't help in this case (since there is already a looming legal threat from an NPE), you can buy patent troll insurance now: https://www.rpxcorp.com/. This covers your legal fees in the event of litigation, which can scare off a patent troll who just wants a hit-and-run settlement.
Specifically says at the bottom of the post that it's not:

> "As far as I can tell, the guys shaking us down are NOT these guys in particular: http://www.gtxcorp.com/"
Is Vulcan a locale? Is this so I can use Vulcan text in Windows apps under Wine? Oh, sorry, wrong Vulcan...
The most important aspect of education is learning how to think. Whatever the vocation.
Well put. I usually refer to Twitter as the "Outrage generator".
350k is too high a price to shake down from small companies. 3.5k won't recoup enough value.
Chair legs!
> and to hire non union employees without the unions approval

> socialist countries like India

Stop trolling
Where does it end? Or at least go next? The death of the general purpose computer [1], that's where. Signed bootloaders show up as opt-in, luring you with safety. Soon enough, they'll be mandated by legislation. Next ISPs will be required to execute authentication protocols against all devices -- no more anonymity.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Interesting, I didn't know that. I never liked the flag package, and the downside you mention is a reason not to use it. Kingpin (used by the Prometheus projects) and go-flags are nicer. Lots of Google code uses spf13's pflag, which I'm not a fan of, but it does do GNU flags correctly.
The major card networks (not sure if that's the right term, issuer isn't either), all entered the business around the same time, and all from a position of banking or at least providing credit (Discover was created by Sears).

Of the companies you mentioned, only Paypal could really do this, and in fact, they did have some in-store options available, although they're apparently being shut down. It's really a marketplace problem though -- you have to have enough consumers so that it's useful to businesses, and you have to have enough businesses that it's useful to consumers. And you have to have enough clout that the rest of the banking industry won't refuse to deal with you.
Apparently Apple doesn't really want anything to do with it[1]. I don't know that I'd hold my breath on the major game consoles picking it as the defacto way of doing things, over their close-to-the-metal graphics APIs, either. I'd be shocked if Microsoft bagged DirectX. And ultimately, Unreal and Unity are going to have whatever backends they need for whatever systems they are on, and most developers are going to be working through whatever the engine exposes, so they won't really care.

Besides, there are many other dimensions of platform-dependentness. You've either got to go lowest-common denominator, or you've got to special case for the platforms that are more capable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16475385
There are operating systems which don't by default give every application running as every user account access to every storage device.
Isn't this what they did on Silicon Valley?
Oh, I'm all over this one. My OG KoolAid Fan Site. See if you can crack the secret club password.

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/koolaid/
Well, we found it really, really useful! https://www.numworks.com/blog/webusb-firmware-update/
The article explicitly states that is NOT the company, but rather another company with exact same name.
How much you need to earn to be part of the 1 percent
I had something similar to your site in late 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981212032411/http://www.roha.m...

I was able to clean it up a bit with Macromedia Fireworks in 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991004165614/http://roha.maxim...

I don't remember exactly what I used to build these but it was probably some combination of AOLPress, Macromedia Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and Hotdog Professional FTP
There is hope! archive.org has many of them. Here is mine from late 90s/early 00's: http://web.archive.org/web/20021130100312/http://www.geociti...
We've had these discussions for hundreds of years. You really think the powers that be will reach a consensus on this issue if we talk about it some more? The only path forward is really to suggest reforms or an alternative imo and convince people it's superior. Basic Income / Negative Income Tax / changes to corporate governance / whatever.
Experience is not the same as problem-solving skills. And I never said they were "race based".
> None of this is relevant to whether Twitter want to be complicit in publishing this speech which they are under no obligation to do.

Grandparent was arguing that people can't handle free speech and that:

> Speech needs to be protected, but when it starts to encroach on my pursuit of happiness it's a problem. Facebook, Twitter, etc don't need to become chan sites.

I hear this a lot, particularly from the left (although the right does it too), on the grounds of protecting people from "harmful" speech. I disagree with that, which is why I responded, because I don't think enough people know about the modern interpretation of free speech and the long, storied history it has (not just in the US but everywhere). I certainly had no idea before I started reading.

> I'm also wondering why the great examples of free speech that people reach for are always racism.

It's not that they're examples, it's that the landmark Supreme Court cases that established our modern understanding of free speech typically involved the KKK and nazis (c.f. National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie). In other words, people with horrible beliefs are the only reason why you can stand on a street corner and preach about socialism, communism, anarchy, etc (which might be "horrible beliefs" too, depending on the individual). 100 years ago, someone distributed a gentle poem by a socialist and was put in jail, and it was legal. Do you want to go back to that? Because it is absolutely possible.
Yep. All costs are subsidized by the end consumer. That includes costs of service providers (aka, middle men) like shipping and credit card fees.

The merchant sets their prices based on the cost of the product and the cost to bring the product to market. If their profit is too low to sustain the business, prices go up. It does not matter why profit is too low. Any cost to the merchant increases the price for the consumer.
I noticed the response from Playsaurus' attorney, as well as stating why CH2 is not infringing, lays out arguments suggesting the 838 patent should not be valid.

I'm curious if someone familiar with the matter happens to be reading - is there any provision in the system for Playsaurus to now have the case taken the court regardless of the fact GTX did not infact file a lawsuit, i.e. attempt to have it invalidated even if GTX drop the threat of the lawsuit? Or would they need to piggy back / support one of the other companies listed in this blog?
As of late I've been using `emacs --daemon=some-name` on instances. I attach with `emacs-client -s some-name -t` after I ssh in and detach with `C-x 5-0`. Sometimes I'll run multiple named emacs daemons. This has worked really well to keep persistent independent workspaces on remote instances. Tramp was always a headache and running emacs in screen tends to introduce terminal color and keybinding problems.
In both cases (on separate accounts, same computer), it said "Thank you, xx xxxx! Let's see the magic..." (I used the same user name and IP address from both).

Restarting (exactly the same version) of Firefox a second time and revisiting the site gave:

"Are you anonymous?
Do you think that switching to your browser's private browsing mode or incognito mode will make you anonymous?

Sorry to disappoint you, but you are wrong!. Everyone can track you. You can check it out for yourself. Just type your name below."

Which seems to suggest that whatever the site does failed in my (admittedly unusual but still simple) case.

However, I have little doubt that my (rather atypical) setup could be fingerprinted accurately - assuming, of course, I was part of a big enough minority to be worth advertising to.

N.B. other local factors could affect the results here; the more obvious ones are local DNS and a firewall between the ADSL router and the LAN.
My problem with III was that the gameplay quality took a nosedive in comparison to II mostly due to the integrated video. It was clear that it was the focus of the title, not nailing the game dynamics.

It was still good though but, combined with some clunky characterization issues (continuity of that is hard moving to real actors), just turned me off the game.

For me the peak was WC2, and Privateer, but WC3 signaled where it lost... something important about the series.
There should be some kind of patent troll clearinghouse. Companies can check it to see if other companies are reporting the same shakedown tactics for a given patent.

Though, could a patent troll could get around that by spacing out the trolling? So by the time any company finds another company that's been trolled, they've already paid it up and don't have as much incentive to fight the patent troll after the fact.

They could even offer a "discount" conditional upon mandatory non-disclosure of the legal threat.
If the only thing that gets you out of bed in the morning is the blind pursuit of “success” for that alone, or money, that makes me sad.
Imagine for a second, that you managed to convince me that I am truly the master of my destiny, as are we all.

Wouldn't I then be lucky that we were both in this forum at this time?

We'd be so fortunate that you didn't get into a car accident yesterday that would have prevented my epiphany...

that you weren't abducted as an infant and never seen from again....

That your parents were together that fateful moment...

or maybe I misunderstand?
Next step will be devices that cannot work without Chrome, network connection and "anonymous" "telemetry" for the purpose of "improving customer experience".
Wait, Dreamweaver is not longer a thing?!?!
So you take no responsibility for the choices you make. It's all someone else's fault, right? You're a hapless victim of the vicissitudes of life?

You chose that fate.

Me, I choose differently.
There is hate and bile on Twitter because people are full of hate and bile. This is a frightening time to be alive for a lot of people, full of uncertainty and a feeling that they have been hard done by and manipulated by faceless bureaucrats.

The answer to this aspect is "simple"; make people happier.

What makes is easier and more 'acceptable' for people to write these things is that they don't have to look into the faces of their targets. You can't have civil discourse when two people are wearing masks. This problem can't be solved by social media in its current form, or maybe ever. Perhaps VR communities where everyone is forced to use their own face and have it 100% accurate and real-time.

Even then people don't have the same sense of humour and understanding of nuance which is a big reason we choose to associate with the people we do. It's easy to be offended when you hear two people talk in terms you aren't familiar with and aren't privy to past discussions and inside jokes. This is unsolvable by social media without federation, which is basically what traditional forums are.
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I can't sign the guest book, I get a 500 error. Please don't kill me! :-)
One example where XIP would be really useful is MT7688KN [1], which is a variant of MT7688 WiFi router SoC, already well supported by Linux/OpenWRT, plus 8MB of RAM on the same package.

Since no external RAM is required this makes for some very compact WiFi repeaters [2,3]. But all of them ship with VxWorks. I've tried to tinker with OpenWrt on this chip, but with 2-3MB free RAM after kernel boots (and that's before wifi modules are loaded), it doesn't look too good. With XIP, on the other hand, MT7688KN can potentially become a useful OpenWRT platform.

[1] https://www.mediatek.com/products/smartHome/mt7688k

[2] https://fccid.io/2AK8V-WF8300

[3] Xaiomi Mi Wifi+
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I don't really see it as a winner-takes-all situation. Here in the US my wife and I both enjoy many of the BBC productions, the 'Brit-com' comedy shows, and have noticed that a significant percentage to the actors even in US produced shows are from the UK or Australia.

It seems that there's plenty of room for good programs no matter what their country of origin.
I like this idea. You can post whatever you want, and make it as lengthy as you like, but you have to do it NNN characters at a time, at a rate not to exceed one post every X minutes.
http://winblows.com is available!
Effect size is ~0.2% of annualised net investment in R&D ($2m for median firm size) per standard deviation in vesting equity (unvested equity and remaining vested stock have minimal effect on equation as specified). So not huge but not trivial.

Paper is pretty thorough, including looking at changes in actual measures of firm efficiency, forecasts by friendly analysts vs actual earnings growth and an attempt to defeat the reasonable alternate hypothesis that boards time vesting decisions according to when they think massive investment is no longer needed and earnings growth will kick in.

It does however focus on [estimated per quarter based on annual info] vesting schedules and not actual share sale decisions.
Actual share sales are found not to be statistically significantly related to investment drops (likely due to a variety of other reasons for offloading and reluctance to offload if the investment drop is due to short term dips)