skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unsurprising because Disney itself is a simulacrum.

"The Disneyland imaginary is neither true or false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real. Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary. It's meant to be an infantile world, in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that real childishness is everywhere, particularly among those adults who go there to act the child in order to foster illusions of their real childishness."
Events would be a nice service for Twitter to move into.
Yea a portion of the watch later. The main signal there is that the recommendation engine is so much better than I see tons of recommended stuff that I automatically add to the watch later. In the past it was always - watch one video and bounce because there was a lot of low quality, irrelevant videos recommended.
Appealing to a higher court is literally how the system is intended to work and gas absolutely nothing to do with infinite money. The Judge ruled and the 9th overturned him. That means the system is working.
> shop at Trader Joe's and Costco

Huh? Was that trying to say save money at the supermarket? Because those are two stores I don't associate with saving money, they're stores that offer premium products at reasonable prices, but they aren't going to compete with actual discount retailers.

It is just really odd examples/usage in that context...
The economic case for installing air conditioning in every school
> This is so esoteric it's hard to even know what you're trying to say here. I'm sure you could find plenty of people with $10+ million net worths who feel beholden to act a certain way in the interests of certain people.

I think with OP is trying to say is that more money means more leverage – not in the credit sense – to only feel beholden to people that have interests that align with yours (family, peers, mentors) and less with those that don’t (boss, managers or people who know how to manipulate your behaviour by using lack of money as a tool).
My prime use is messenger and groups. There isn't alternative for groups.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196507
In the past it was not infrequent among cultures to choose not to keep children via various forms of infanticide. Some prophylactic and abortive options existed as well. Though, yes, not as assured or safe as present methods.
Disclosure: I work for Paperless Post.

PaperlessPost is a events company and we recently launched a product named "Flyer". It's an easy way to create an event and collect RSVP's using a unique URL. The designs are pretty hip too. Check it out here - https://www.paperlesspost.com/flyer

Hit me up with any questions about the product.
I'd argue it's more Marvel-envy (movies, not epic TV shows), and since Disney owns both, it's more of a "hey this worked, let's try it with another franchise". I'm no expert, but I feel the Marvel universe is better at it than Star Wars.
If you’re going to claim that targeted ads are that kind of improvement over the alternative, you should present some evidence of their relative efficacy. From what I’ve seen, unless you rely solely on marketing claims, you won’t find it because the improvement is marginal at best.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175366
I think they are saying that let's say you install wind turbines. Great, you use them as much as possible during the day when electric demand is high. So, then it is night and the supply exceeds the demand due to the fact that this energy can't be stored (or only in a limited fashion). This "wasted" electricity might be a great way to extract value from otherwise wasted electricity. I've said this to friends, I don't know why the power companies wouldn't be mining with electricity that would otherwise be dumped. It is just another channel of demand.
> Firefox 45 (over 2 years old) and are looking to move to 52 (almost 15 months old)

That is quite misleading. They are using the extended support releases: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

So "almost 15 months old" should be the "most recent one up until the start of this month".
Star Wars sequels have been nothing more that a vehicle to market toys and other movie-related things to the next generation of children. They carefully craft each film to have at least one character that a marketing plan can be built around. It's sort of like the hook musicians try to place in their songs. That said, Disney will continue to churn these things out so long as ticket sales are high and their merchandise sells.
You yell "Hey, Zanizabo, call Fylnatis" at the top of your lungs. Zanizabo being a phrase encrypted such that only Bob knows you are talking to him, and Fylnatis is your similarly encrypted contact information.

Sure, scaling is harder, but it's not impossible.
> But what could possibly go wrong when military/war artificial intelligence is combined with all your data and knows everything about you?

Someone made a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

Dailymotion (French company) mirror:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kttmw
XMSS - First post-quantum signature standard
You could argue that Google should work on their own knowledge database instead of learning from other people's content and/or presenting other people's content in their own frontends (shopping etc)...
For a college "ethics in computers" course, our professor had us watch "Triumph of the Nerds" by Robert Cringely. It's from 1996, so not the most recent history, but it was still an interesting watch. There was another documentary about the dot-com bubble we watched, but I can't recall the name. Overall a very interesting class because the professor had a lot of industry experience and watched companies rise and fall.
I think this quote can be applied to 99% of television and Hollywood.
I would love to switch away from Messenger but all my friends are still using it.
> I think that the ML community's decision to write core operations in C or C++ and provide Python wrappers is the way to go about it if you want the flexibility of scripting.

Isn’t Google’s “Swift for TensorFlow” move in direct opposition to this statement? I think you are right that it gets you 95% of the way, but that the final 5% of performance and portability simply will not be there.

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/DesignO...
As opposed to that parallel universe without capitalism where no improvements happened?

You can't just point to improvements and say "look the system is good". If feudalism had remained the dominant system then we'd still have had some improvements in quality of life, and I'm sure the aristocracy of this hypothetical world would be pointing to that and saying "look feudalism has been nothing but a boon!" just as confidently as you.

The question is, could another system be better? And given that by pretty much any measure, we've had the resources to lift everyone out of poverty for years, and yet haven't used them to do that, I think it's not unreasonable to suggest that another way of allocating resources might be an improvement.

>Meanwhile some in the west are sitting at Starbucks on their mac books or smart phones whining about how terrible the "west" is while checking to see if their steady paycheck was direct deposited before they uber back to their furnished home or apartment, all without being arrested by secret police for their negative post upon arrival. Fancy that.

Meanwhile many people in the west can't afford most of these things, don't have a steady paycheck because they do shift work, live in a trailer, and are often harassed by the non-secret police for no reason. And they're the ones lucky enough to be born in developed economies.
No, it's not. It's an accurate assessment of the current state of the web world: web frameworks that last a year before they get abandoned by their creators. jwz wrote a nice blog post about it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
FB was cool to teens when it was limited to college students. Scarcity is gone and coolness left with it.
The Innovaters by Walter Issacson, a must have.
Like public events? or your private events inbox? I think Eventbrite/Meetup has a browsable public event list.
I agree - declarative in memory dataframe manipulation is extremely powerful. And the composability of plotting in the tidyverse is really nice as well.

It looks like there are the beginnings of both of these in Julia:

[0] http://gadflyjl.org/stable/

[1] https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFramesMeta.jl
They can't block something like domain fronting themselves, have to "ask" companies that host them to help. But they can easily block resolvers by IP, SNI, etc, if not already.
The lack of operational knowledge is real, and there is no easy fix other than resilient defaults by a benevolent dictator (in this case, resolvers across netblock and provider demarcations) or spending the time to educate yourself first on the “why” then the “how”.
Very cool. How's it work? Affiliate links to amazon, sure- is amazon serving the first couple pages as well? Great project.
> I'm not sure if that's because the processing is better hidden from me, it's much more efficient on the custom chip, or maybe a bit of both.

The later, a bit of both. It’s also probable that your phone is turned on and plugged in more often than your computer (especially for laptops).
It's OK, the parent will be paying the price when they're still writing native x86 code in 20 years time.
I find it odd how little a basic principle enters into this: don't do something to someone when they make it clear they don't want you to do it.
Also, Google has reaped the reward of being a superior moral actor for a long time.

There was a good decade where google was the coolest place to work in the country. Many of the smartest people channeled not only their time but their passion into propelling the idea of google forward based on that understanding.

Some of the brightest minds happen to be idealists and visionaries (Gates, Musk, Wales) who want to work toward a post-war future where information is abundant and there is no scarcity. Putting power into the hands of the few seems like a step in the wrong direction to us idealists.
Hello world program measures startup time which is not what julia is optimized for right now. I''ve heard that they are looking into it but it is not as important as startup time in python where we have a lot of python scripts as binaries which are executed repeatedly or interactively(like "hg status").
yes I know it well. That is why the quote on the bottom of https://wamp-proto.org/ was amusing to me "WAMP™" etc
Have you tried N-APIs? It definitely helps with the documentation issue? What exactly was lacking?

https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html
Even if this were only (or primarily) available to one gender, what makes you conclude that that gender is "the opposite gender" in the context of GP's post?
Others have touched on this... but I bet it's also to lock down that market space. Facebook's competition is communications platforms. By preventing anyone else from dominating the secure communications space, they don't face that threat.
JuliaLang are the Julia developers, PackageCompiler.jl is no more third-party than cargo is.
Not gonna say the US military isn't aggressive, but I think it is at the very least debatable that China and Russia are less aggressive.
Supervisor implementation in Go
> That's a very painful lesson about putting all your eggs in one basket, but one she will probably learn from.

Gamblers often don't.
I mainly meant the military there, however it is debatable how much you can separate the two. But that discussion would be imho too OT for here.
>I am trying to be surprised to find criminal activity in Finance but I cannot work up the passion.

I'll take greedy financiers ripping off other greedy financiers over the vast surveillance industry that Silicon Valley is currently building out. But everyone on these boards is innocent of that, of course.
Yes, there is a difference between being reckless (which should absolutely be punishable, too) and knowing what you're doing but thinking you're above the law.
I'm not a C++ dev, but this looks interesting you're into C++ web development: https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
Not just ISPs; those using DNS-based adblockers (pi-hole and the like) will be impacted too (from my understanding.)
but then we end up with Solo where we pretty much know the plot beforehand.
> but I refuse to let anybody know that I want to communicate with Bob

That's not the problem though. You're not trying to stop an eavesdropper knowing you're communicating with a particular server, but rather which hostname you're talking to them as.

To extend the Bob analogy; you're not trying to hide that you're communicating with Bob, but that you're speaking to each other as members of Fight Club.

It's certainly not impossible, although overcoming issues of scaling or increased handshake round trips is a difficulty.
This has been true since the very first film. Lucas kept the merchandising rights for a very good reason.
Mars Express has revealed the red planet in stunning new ways
You might enjoy Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution[1]. It's not too focused on specific people or companies, although you'll encounter some well known people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Richard Stallman in the book. It's an interesting read because it gives you a great background that helps you understand how we ended up with the tech culture and environment we have today.

In the reply to another comment, I also mentioned Coders at Work[2]. I found that it provided some great insight into the early days of some fascinating companies from a technical perspective.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Le...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Program...
"Maybe someone else will do it, but we need to fight them and not allow it, not just take our money and put our head in the sand"

China & Russia are doing it. You can't fight them without ... fighting them.
Oh wow. Why couldn't we have had this instead? The emotional payload of this 5 minute trailer was greater than hours of watching gungan turds, I mean every Star Wars movie made after the '80s.
> Can you try to formulate those values?

Perhaps your question is phrased poorly, but it appears you're asking OP to rationalize every value a donor has when they donate to an organization like Make-A-Wish. Is that what you meant? If so, where would one even start to answer this question?
They have been criminally charged. This isn't a civil trial.
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Crows are very underrated in terms of intelligence.
A stock is a piece of a company. That company should be creating value and that value should be worth money, maybe revenue or assets. The price of a company goes up because it is either worth more today than it was yesterday or people believe it will be worth more tomorrow than it is today. Usually people that own a company are trying to create more and more value. It's human nature bubbling up to the top. Why would the stock market suddenly stop reflecting this value growth for absolutely no reason?
> Humanity has always been at conflict with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

well, it's been in decline for a while now:

https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/
No no the one you mentionned. It's like there was _intent_ behind colors and shapes.
Totally agree and I would argue that there even is financial gain for society in letting people take such risks. Maybe I was kicking at an open door, but my point was that there, in my opinion, does not exist a huge incentive to misuse the welfare system voluntarily.
This will not delete your account. It will mark it as "deleted" in database after 14 days of inactivity.

You need GDPR to actually delete your info from databases.
Why do people choose the same name for already known companies/projects to begin with?
The cursor stays in the viewport because, deep down, Emacs still thinks that it's outputting to a 1970s-era ASCII terminal.

See this https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smo...

“Internally, Emacs still belives it’s a text program, and we pretend Xt is a text terminal, and we pretend GTK is an Xt toolkit. It’s a fractal of delusion.”

For years, James Gosling, author of the first version of Emacs that ran on Unix (the ancestor of GNU Emacs), has been begging people to stop using Emacs.

Emacs is in a race, not against Vim, but against VS Code and Atom for which editor can be more easily customized. In the long run, it doesn't look good for Emacs.
Isn't it called a murder? A murder of crows.
But then why are they making origin stories that would only interest existing fans?
Someone from Conan has a nice monologue arguing for star wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRouEds_2A
Why do people link this dude here when you get redirected to that picture every time...
Wouldn't you agree that the harder someone works, the greater their chance of becoming rich?

You seem to argue that the OP has absolutely no claim to the wealth that he has worked for and his preferable situation is due entirely to luck. This is of course preposterous and easily disproved, so I'm curious to know what your answer to this question is.

Assuming your answer is, "no, not entirely" then my follow up question would be, do you believe that his situation is due _mostly_ to luck, and only marginally to his hard work? This is a more interesting question and one I would be interested in discussing assuming it's your take on the matter.

Edit: a word
Yeah, how dare donors use their money in ways they see fit! Let's make an organization that shames other organizations for spending in ways we find unsavory or inefficient.
Very true. They 'optimised' it with the wrong parameters in mind. And sadly they dropped the ball on big picture / vision. a/b testing is wonderful if you have an almost perfect product (Google Search). It's not when you are still trying to evolve a product.
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Same. I'm a programmer, probably much younger than you, but I dislike the video format. It's harder to follow, more time consuming and less efficient. I might watch something occasionally from a recommendation, or watch some comedy or lectures by myself from time to time, but I don't watch anything regularly the way I check my RSS feeds with text articles regularly. Same applies to podcasts.

I do like the same music, despite of being born later. So maybe it's determined by one's music taste? ;)
Profit sharing for bootstrapped startups
They are mostly independent. Your privacy loss is by and large the sum (or max) of the privacy loss caused by DNS and TLS individually.

For TLS, the threat model is relatively simple: only an on path attacker has access to a plaintext SNI. In the context of route hijacks, 'on path' is not as simple as it sounds, but route hijacks are relatively rare.

For DNS the situation is much more complex. You have to consider not only traffic between stub resolver and recursive resolver, but also between recursive resolver and the various auth. resolvers.

At the end of the day, you need to consider all places where information is leaked and whether you want to do something about that or not. And in that sense DNS is independent from TLS.
Plus the Jedi Outcast games! I have a hard time imagining a worthy successor to that in the Disney era, especially with EA having a 10-year contract on exclusive rights. I don't think they set out to make worse games on purpose, but they're definitely oriented more toward mass-market movie tie-ins with a focus on looking pretty. And I'd bet any single player story game we get will be built around a character that Disney writes into a movie, so there aren't nearly as many stories they could tell yet.

Visceral (best known for Dead Space) was working on something to come out this year, but EA canned it, shut down the studio, and merged them into EA Vancouver and EA Montreal.

Who knows if it wasn't shaping up well or if it wasn't suitably designed to stuff full of microtransactions or what. EA is supposedly still planning to adapt some parts of the concept into something else eventually, but I don't have high hopes. Maybe they'll surprise me.
> Having some talent at hiring and managing people helped.

Luck.

> Spending my teenage years writing clever little programs in 6502 assembly language on my Commodore 64 instead of smoking weed and partying helped.

Lucky enough to grow up with access to a computer in a time when that wasn't common.

> Having a strong knack for math and computer science helped.

Luck again.
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> It's a fucking space cowboy western

I agree with Red Letter Media's take on this: SW is fundamentally a small universe (yes the universe IN SW is vast, but the universe OF SW is not: it's just rebels+jedis fighting stormtroopers+darth-lords. The only attempt at expanding the universe, the prequels, was a disaster). With that in mind, it's not surprising the movies are so unimaginative and Disney keep repeating themselves.
Recommended documentary:
Revolution OS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS
The cloud is so 2017. Here comes “the fog”
If it were economic to do that don't you think it would be done? Oil companies have been at this for a while and are not known for throwing away money. The basic problem is wells are remote and flaring is intermittent.

Why would environmentalists have a problem with flaring versus using the heat from combustion to do something? Environmentalists would be in favor of putting a price on the CO2 emitted from burning or perhaps limiting oil production that leads to flaring.
Save the Internet from EU
Based on a quick skim, this is not a good paper. Computer scientists writing on economics is great, it's helpful to grow new ideas in the field. Unfortunately they sometimes use economic concepts imprecisely at detriment to their question, methodology, and results.

That's the case here. This paper posits a definition of efficiency, but does not explain why that definition is correct or how it relates to other efficiency measures.

A better proof of arbitrage opportunities in markets is Wah 2016, which identifies actual arbitrage opportunities in actual markets.

Separately, what does "Since P probably does not equal NP" mean as a probabilistic statement?

And what is the correct way to concisely and precisely write: "most people familiar with the P = NP problem believe with varying degrees of confidence that P is not equal to NP, but so far no proof exists."
Does U.S. have plans on having similar regulations to GDPR or will it be only Europe's law that will affect business in U.S.?
The first of those may be teenagers this year.
Define dying ?

I don't see how Google can go out of business in the next 10 years given their cash reserves. Eg: If they lost 2 billion dollars every year they could still keep doing that for decades.

I'm pretty confident that they'll still be around in some form 20 years from now as well.
IETF PRECIS and internationalization. (successor to stringprep)
Peter Seibel's Coders and Work also provides an interesting perspective. As the title implies, it focuses more on developers than founders...although in some cases, the developer being interviewed was also a startup founder.

Some of the interviews give an interesting look at the early days of some companies, too. I found jwz's interview provided some good insight into the early days of Netscape, as well as the reasons why the company started to go downhill.
Surely at least 10 figures (early investment in Uber has returned 10,000x)
So instead we should install an untrustworthy intermediary that can record all of your internet data (the VPN), and do God knows what with it?
Sensationalism has thoroughly overwhelmed journalism.