skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this one still works http://www.heavensgate.com/
If you want to see the richest art markets in terms of consumer participation and artists succeeding (and don't care about adult nature), look no further than the anime and furry communities. It is a THRIVING market for commissions and patrons - tens of thousands of artists running the gamut from $5 sketches to $10k oil paintings. Its the best example I've ever seen of a lower/middle class art market working well. What you're "buying" is a representation of your individual expression.

The high end "art world" and NYT/New Republic articles could not be further away from these artist communities, both in terms of accessibility and relevance outside the ultra-rich circles that traditional art galleries serve.
> Lets move them towards being a more neutral platform with less or no editorial control. That would be wonderful.

Ugh, no. Editorial control and moderation makes the difference between a community and an open sewer.

But let's make sure we don't create such a liability that nobody wants to host user content at all. Because the easiest thing to do is to omit user content and focus exclusively on licensed, first-party, commercial content that has a contract associated with it. That doesn't create communities.
>"unlike neural networks which we will need to entirely redesign, rebuild, and retrain to get similar progress"

I don't think you would need to redesign or rebuild anything for that. You would need to train the network on additional examples, which I supposed you could call retraining (although it need not be from scratch), but that is the same in the case of the child.
I assumed it was a snarky shot at in app purchases for games.
Consider the possibility that your assumption about the state of my knowledge on the legal system is incorrect. Assume this. Then present reasons why my disgust is unwarranted. That would be a good starting point for further discussion.
Can confirm, going strong.

We don't get a ton of media attention (and when we do it's usually stupid and focused on anachronistic design rather than creative control), but we're still growing steadily and getting a lot of really interesting new web sites and traffic.
No problem with this, but then art donations to the museum should not be federally tax deductible. Donations should be tax deductible only if they benefit the entire tax base — if the Met only offers free admission to New Yorkers, billionaires should only be able to deduct their New York taxes when they donate Michelangelos.
Doctor who ordered unnecessary heart surgery and risky tests jailed for 20 years

Dr Harry Persaud of Ohio made more than $7m from health insurance fraud while abusing patients’ ‘sacred trust’, says FBI

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/22/doctor-who-o...

Moreland Hills doctors performed unnecessary tests, illegally prescribed drugs, feds say

http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2018/01/mor...

The $395 billion US pharmaceutical industry spent $5.2 billion on advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers in 2015

Every $1.00 spent advertising prescription drugs is estimated to increase their retail sales by $4.20

https://prescriptiondrugs.procon.org

Doctors received more than $46 million from drug companies marketing opioids

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/0...
Its no walk in the park, but we do pretty well with it. The thing I always say to people about dropshipping is you're either making no money or lots of money.

Finding a "winning" product is the hard part (0 revenue at this point), now imagine that product has a margin of $10 (after acquisition cost), all you have to do is find just 100 people to buy it to be making $1000 a day. Think about that for a moment, only 100 people from the entirety of Facebook or Instagram to be making $1000 a day profit.

We're small fry compared to some of the guys out there, there are people doing 6 figures a day. Some mid 6 figures.
This Couple Found a Math Error in the Lottery and Made $27M
US Has Been Secretly Watching Russia's Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missiles Crash
IceBox: Cold wallet device by NODE
That sounds illegal somehow.
Some of the later stages of mine are archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20020915000000*/http://www.geocit...

Goes from dark and pompous to enigmatic.

Its original purpose (created in 1997 or 1998?) was a Final Fantasy VII fan page, but it seems that stage of it is long lost.
While I think there's a lot of interesting stuff in this essay, I can't help but notice everything in the article requires making new things.

I often wonder how much of climate change is driven by our need for new things, to consume.

I don't want to downplay the need for science in avoid climate disaster and I'm by no means a primitivist. but, and please inform me because I don't actually know:

How much could we curb climate change if no one

- produced and purchased a cell phone for a year

- manufactured a laptop for a year

- manufactured and launched rockets for a year

- manufactured an automobile for a year

- bought a smart watch

- bought a new sound system

- drove to work where possible

- went snowmobiling

- mowed their lawn

- bought new skis

- bought a brand new bike

- flew across the country for a meeting

and so on.

I know a lot of stuff would simply halt, but haven't we seen coordinated national efforts on similar scales during war-time? I'm not proposing this as a solution, but more as a thought experiment and I recognize as with any thought experiment there are problems with it. But the underlying questions remains: What can we do today if we got serious about the problem?
I recently remembered I still somewhere have printouts of all the Geocities signup/setup instructions from their website in 1995... Will have to dig those out of storage and post them up sometime. Would be a neat little view into the past, for sure!
Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice?
so https://www.slashdot.org hasn't been showing new stories for since yesterday mid-day. If you go to the firehose url of https://slashdot.org/recent it shows "503 - Service Offline
Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later."

Am I the only dinosaur who turns to Slashdot for my daily news fix (along with Hacker News, of course!). Didn't find anybody posting on this on Hacker News nor on Twitter.. wondering if anybody's noticing, or just thinking it's a slow day.
Probably not. US Patents are the cheapest patents to get.

If, say, a German company infringed on a US Patent by selling to a customer in France, that would be completely legal, unless the US Patentholder also had a French patent, which is often not the case. They'd have to prosecute in French court as well, which, given the size of France's market vs. the US, would be Pyrrhic (with a capital P) at best.

The calculus for being a patent troll requires a bizarre confluence of factors (size of market, expense of litigation, certainty of litigation, cost of patents, venue procedures) that are likely to limit the phenomenon to the US.
You don't have to ban it. It will kill itself. People will realize how toxic it is, how bad it makes them feel and there will be a time when social will "fall apart". Then after a couple of years it will make a comeback and the cycle will start again with a new Facebook, a new Twitter and a new Instagram.
> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME!

Thanks! I like the simple design,
I'll check it out.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c
yes, he did say that, but also that does not say "he does not believe this affected the outcome". It was widely noted that his wording in this statement was extremely careful, and merely stated a true fact: "there is no allegation in the indictment". Which of course there isn't because it is impossible to legally prove the outcome of the election being affected by nearly anything. Having documents like this indictment that are 100% on solid ground is very helpful, as in this discussion it is pointing out how many people here seem unconcerned about foreign interference in an election due to reasons like "people want it to be true" and "you can't prove it changed the outcome". Those aren't good reasons to just let the Russians come in every election and go nuts.
Leftists will naturally assume you should enact policies that encourage equality for all, but also believe that much of society's problems derive from income disparity. They will push for policies that shift the tax burden from the poor end of the spectrum to the richer end of the spectrum.

I would argue that neo-liberals believe in equality for all, but aren't willing to push for the income redistribution policies that leftists believe in. They believe that the standard economic policies of most governments on earth, to take a hands off approach to banks, labor and trade, is fine. Sometimes this is labeled as "classically liberal".
"As simple as possible, but no simpler" is a great dictum.

Unfortunately, Twitter has no concept of "but no simpler." And I'm not sure there are any meaningful insights on controversial topics which can be expressed in <140 characters. Certainly there are none which can be conveyed to a hostile audience, since hedges and caveats are the first things sacrificed for concision.

Social media already rewards brevity with attention, we don't need maximum lengths. The good conversations should have happened on Facebook (but it's for people who already agree with you), Reddit (but it rewards pandering to the masses), or Tumblr (but it's designed to connect you with people who will threaten to murder you).
This is a reblog of https://www.winehq.org/news/2018030201

and the detail is at https://www.winehq.org/announce/3.3
The company ran out of latest round of funds without increasing its value, and took them best deal it can. In the years since it had diluted around that much, again.

This is a public company, not a tech startup.
Yep that's the one! haha awesome.
We support external modules these days. I specifically designed its interface to allow for a moving collector. The current implementation of the C core, however, precludes such a thing.
No. Despite it being a defense, sometimes its not worth shining a light on yourself or maybe they just don't feel comfortable speaking out.
I forgot to mention the key part of the task. The key was to constitute the tree back by reading it from the file. The writing part is trivial, the reconstitution part is not. Try it. While not impossible for a decent programmer half an hour is not sufficient who does not deal with binary trees ona daily basis.
But not nearly enough to sustain humans even if you don't go through (insanely inefficient) photosynthesis.
I stopped reading slashdot after CmdrTaco left, it just didn't have the same "bespoke hand crafted" feel to the content. HN / the twitters has been my person go-to since.
> He's probably looking for an HF rig

Indeed.
This article contains a bunch:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reforms_by_country

The dearest to me, however, is what was done in my native country, Finland, in the 17th and at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries which created the basis for our current national wealth.

To simplify a bit too much: a succesfull land reform looks like splitting the ownership of land which produces agricultural output or timber from few large owners to many dedicated ones. This distributes the revenue from capital among the population using a " market healthy" method. Rather than spread the revenue from the capital, spread the capital itself. This is a solid foundatuon for creating a wealthy middle class - which has been identified as one of the key parts of a healthy modern economy.

Zimbabwe just took the land from it current owners - which were already spread among a fairly large population - to complete people who could not tend it as well, and not utilize the capital as effectively.
I’ve come to find out that it’s not illegal if they let you go for other reasons than taking paternity. Getting this to court is hella expensive and uncertain. So, it’s up to me to fight it and show that they let me go for paternity alone.

It might be illegal, but the onus is on me.
In the past they've made fun of Pakistanis for being inbred and implied that the only way that some actresses could have gotten famous was through sexual favors (this was during the start of the #metoo thing). Most of the subreddit is memes and random political nonsense but when certain topics come up there is a lot of hate. I don't have any specific data as it would be weird to just keep evidence on hand for these sorts of claims but I could get some examples later when I have time if it's really necessary.
I recall kids who weren't computer geniuses would still start websites about their hobbies / interests using geocities or tripod. They have wysiwyg editors that were easy.

But of course, just having access to computers and the internet wasn't a given for many families
Moving to Estonia just to avoid software patent trolls is an extreme case of letting the tail wag the dog.
If you're into this, the final season of Halt & Catch Fire was pretty great as far as reliving the web of the mid 90s goes.
It is really amazing what the hackers behind Wine have been doing for the last 20+ years. There's not a foundation or some commercial backing behind the project if I remember right.
The copyright footer says 2004-2018.
The only thing this page is missing is a marquee element :-)
I thought it was already deployed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5qKSKsfUPM
As mentioned above. We're making money doing it.

I've long wondered why these guys are out there pitching their courses, right now I just believe its a) because they see everyone else doing it b) its easy money but really c) because their businesses are just on auto-pilot.

A lot of these guys have VA's who do a lot of the heavy lifting. I just think they're getting bored and don't want to be forgotten on the conference circuit.
Your friend's son is over-extending "Mono" to other similar animals. This is actually a normal part of a child's linguistic development.

My son also does the same thing with "dodo" for dinosaur. At first, he applied it only to big, scary dinosaurs that made large sounds—later on, it applied to any animal that had some large body and jaws, e.g. a shark. Finally, he learned to differentiate between the majority of animals (save for a few big, scary-looking animals that are still "dodo") and can name sharks, dinosaurs, and bears separately!
Did These Computer Scientists Solve the Cuban ‘Sonic Attack’?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615
>a bittorrent that actually does more than download and quit always seems like something quite heavy...

Don't forget to seed!
Git for structured data? really?
What SCotUS decides here establishes precedent for future cases. Some of those cases will involve tech companies.
The entire thing is ridiculous, but I can't help but laugh at how it seems to them that all the different races and cultures have been reduced to being one of: white, asian, black, hispanic. What about Arabs, Persians, Turks, Natives, etc? Would those have gotten rejected as well?
That's what the wayback machine is for!
It's good for most personal pages back to about '99.

https://web.archive.org/

It's awesome if you want to see which animated separator GIFs and crazy tiled backgrounds you were using.
... and shame on the network for actually airing it, but I suppose such is the way of "following the money" at all cost to morality. "BIG STORY"? What the fuck?

This level of exploitation is pretty sickening.
Poster on HN says Snopes has exactly as much credibility as some random guy. Got it.
We as a society agree to state sanctioned consequences that are similar to actions unacceptable to individuals. The difference is that there need to be a sense of justice and recourse, which social justice warriors don’t think should apply to their actions. Acting like a social justice warrior in the workplace should for instance be a firable offence, and things like doxxing should receive severe punishment.
This is a good comparison with EC2, but doesn't directly address the comparison with many other AWS products.
You want added irony? Insurance has been known to deny ambulance bills because the ride "was not pre approved".

Including Heli EMS from car accident scenes...
I doubt they will ever truely deprecate win32. Too many old applications that will never get updated to UWP but that people are still using, there will be too much backlash.
And it'd be my guess that they probably source some of their topics to research based on search results where users abandoned w/o clicking a result.

Though I don't know that to be a fact as I don't work for them/speak with anyone from their team/etc., so I wouldn't try to leverage it in an article I'd write if I were a writer.

Someone else mentioned that along with the true, false, undetermined (or is maybe distinct? I can't remember), and true/false flags, maybe they should just bite the bullet and add a "satire" flag. Essentially you're saying, yes, it is false, however it isn't meant to be taken seriously. Then Facebook can either do nothing or flag it as satire which I don't know the correct path here: for me, most of the fun of satire is not being presented "it is satire" up front and then picking it up pretty early on. Then again, not flagging it as satire would then leave it open for people to assume that it is legitimate as it wasn't flagged as fake.

So unfortunate that fun can't be had anymore because some are generally intent on deceiving.
Right but what are the odds of having had the life experiences that would lead to being a paid AI researcher in the early 2000s. How many people would have the luck and privilege to be in that niche field, be smart enough to be competitive and in the right network to get that job. That is the definition of luck. Only a small subset of people born in a particular window would even have a small chance. I'm sure lisper is a smart and hardworking person, but so are lots of people.
They're taking a jab at in-app purchases.
Thank you, mino!

At this point, we are targeting existing WRF users and newcomers into the field. These are either academic meteorologists without access to big hardware, or SMBs with focus on weather intelligence for agriculture, commodities and energy trading, and similar.

At a later stage, we will probably move toward operational weather prediction, and expand to ocean circulation (ship routing, search & rescue) and surface wave models (custom surf forecasts).

As Josh said, though, we've just started and learning every day about potential use cases.
Huh. I wasn't aware of that trick. I'll look into it. Thanks.
>Pretty obvious patent trolling

Not really. The patent was filed in 2000. Approved in 2007. It hasn't changed hands. The company makes software.

Believe it or not, this is the US system working as intended.

An obvious troll is a patent holding company, with no products, who purchases old patents, then goes on a suing spree for any company that uses printers.
Here is a link I had found in my comment history from the last time someone asked for an example
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7djxqv/three_as...
This reminds me of my first Geocities website: a full repository of KoRn's lyrics to date.

It's not that this didn't exist elsewhere on the internet (indeed it did, as of course I used these other sites as source material), but nowhere seemed to have the exact red-text-on-black-background look I was going for at the time.

The most excruciating part of this memory is not that I worshipped a nu-metal band, but instead that I hadn't yet discovered the magic of copying and pasting text. That's right: everything, from the lyrics themselves to the HTML tags, were typed manually by yours truly into the raw HTML editor.

I shudder to think how quickly I'd be fired today if I hadn't learned how to properly use a modern keyboard.
Thanks... I completely missed it.
You mean 70% of Asians who voted, voted for her.
Blink is unfortunately dead: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-...
In the linked article, it is Icelanders too who are complaining about domain loss. It's not just a matter of foreign visitors having a mistaken impression of the local sociolinguistics.
Docker Cloud/Hub Security Scanning Deprecation
I agree we shouldn't let the Russians just do whatever they want in America.

I have carefully read the indictment. I also notice the indictment is mostly stuff from sources like the RBC IRA report. None of this is deep state deep secret stuff.

I just want proof the Russians affected the election! I'm willing to believe.

I can point to many documented cases of various US intelligence agency and non intelligence agency campaigns to affect elections in other countries. It's all there, in black and white, very clear.

The recent Mueller indictment doesn't convince me. Maybe there will be future indictments. I just don't think the IRA spending a few hundred dollars on targeted ads in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania got Trump elected. I think it was the billions of dollars spent by various conservative entities over the last 25 years, who have been plotting to take down the Clintons since the early 90s.
As a dense primer on the subject, I'm reading Sapolsky's book "Behave". It was recommended by Gates and Mike Mouboussin as the best book they read in 2017.
Oh please don’t for a second believe I excuse this behavior in any way. I 100% agree with you, yet at the same time that is the reality you have to adjust to at times. Enterprise IT often moves at glacial speeds, and that’s on a good day...
When talking about this, people often like to joke about the webdesign back then. But the personal websites had personality. Facebook profiles feel like government forms to me... "here, fill in this standardized array of fields with your personal data."
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

― Mark Twain

That quote is a good indicator of what the quality of the average quick insta-message will be.
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Suddenly remembering when Geocities was so new, their ToS required that you manually place a banner image and link back to geocities.com on your site. It wasn't auto-injected server-side. They actually would browse through the sites and manually verify you link back to them. I remember how affronted I felt when they started doing their auto-frame/banner thing server-side. haha :)
> Austrian economics doesn't claim that short-term inefficiencies do not exist in markets, but rather that they are less harmful than attempts to fix them.

They seem to assume this a priori.
My 20 year old website, now archived on oocities. A nested mess of tables and inline styles...

http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/hyper-index...
http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/peaks/3657/ben-geek.ht...
This made me realize my old bootleg trading site is probably somewhere, and sure enough, I found it!

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405110002/http://dillon2112....

Reading through all my banter, I'm most surprised that I was trading MP3s via MySpace in 2000, and that apparently it was first known as FreeDiskSpace.com, which explains why I used it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010417000314/http://www.freedis...