skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he wanted to be able to subscribe to people's pages and get updates when they post something new.

Yes, but even this feature would be more like a traditional browser: A service-neutral, "dumb" feature where the user is directly in control. Not in an abstract marketing sense but literally: A user subscribes to a page and will get all events from tha page in predicatable order.

The "news feed" as implemented by Facebook and envisaged by Pocket is something completely different. You "subscribe" to pages alright. But this is simply a hint that gets fed into a curation algorithm. What you then see is a selected subset of events from your subscribed pages, in addition to "related" content and content the algorithm things you might find interesting. The algorithm used is of course constantly being changed and optimized towards a metric you probably don't even know. In short, with that kind of system, the user is very much not in control.

> I came home and investigated – the option to "subscribe to page" when the page has an RSS feed is gone from Firefox, or at least I couldn't find it.

Apologies for being cynical, but I'm not surprised. I'll be bold and assume that you can make money with curated feeds (or letting other people try out their curation algorithms on your userbase) but you can't make money with RSS.
I wish they would remove the feature. People who really want Pocket can install an extension.
Stop Political Correctness
How about changing your javascript bookmarklet to do 'if on news.ycombinator.com, use the url of the first a.storylink'. That way it can be done from the comments page.
They were using pack programs that unpacked the crack program over itself to save space. This was what triggered the antivirus. The actual crack was often just there to rewrite the launcher code to skip the copy protection.
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What on earth does that even mean in this context? "Don’t shit where you eat" is a warning against office romances. This is plain old fraud AFAIK.
Love it, thanks for sharing.
Python's lambda also has an interesting design flaw that anyone using it will come up against sooner or later [1]. The way it interacts with Python's scoping rules is quite broken. This hinders using it as freely as is possible in, eg, Clojure.

>>> fs = [(lambda n: i + n) for i in range(10)]
>>> [f(4) for f in fs]
[13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13]

[1] http://math.andrej.com/2009/04/09/pythons-lambda-is-broken/
I know it has its own smart contract scripting but that isn’t used, there are only public transactions there, anonymous transactions, multi addresses and multi key wallets etc aren’t built in so there is no plausible deniability.
Clearly its not that advanced if it doesn't work properly. Perhaps they shouldn't try to rush out prototypes that are incomplete before the kinks are worked out.
Is there any starter kit using rest without redux out there?

Actually I’m using react with js-data for a rest backend. I have made some simple forms and list components that abstract a lot of communication with the server.
It does not offer inherent plausible deniability and only relies on the relative anonymity of your internet connection to hide your identity.

Look at the difference between Bitcoin and say Monero when it comes to anonymity.

My point isn’t about something being easy or hard but rather if the anonymity comes from the design of Bitcoin or is it circumstantial to how you use it and it’s essentially only the latter.

The network was never designed to be anonymous and there isn’t any way to “hide” transactions or to deny your association with a wallet or an address if they trace the IP to you or you end up holding the private key it’s game over and nothing Bitcoin does impacts on the difficulty of this task.
HN loves nothing more than a contrarian statement backed with substance. If comments have been flagged, it’s usually due to a lack of effort.

The effort is worthwhile.
Bear in mind that UPS’ (and I’m sure Fedex too) entire operation is in motion 24/7. The brown trucks return to base full of packages, most of which need to be pushed upstream to regional sort facilities to go to other areas. Those regional facilities and everything larger are basically working nonstop IIRC.

“Continuously delivery” would probably be difficult. Your typical truck will head out with 6-800 packages to be delivered in a 8-9 hour day, and they don’t all come in at once. Maybe you could send out trucks more often during the day, with fewer packages to be delivered over a larger area, but I’m not sure it would be that beneficial. You’d increase fuel and maintenance costs, plus you’d be paying your (fairly expensive) drivers to spend more time driving rather than delivering packages.
"The richest countries have strong IP protections, generally, that might indicate something."

The assumption here seems to be that their riches come from IP protections. It could be argued that the IP protections are a result of lobbying from rich companies.

I am not arguing that the causation is wrong, but the implied claim does not follow from the observation.
It seems a bit hand wavvy to say all science (the thing we use to help society come to unbiased conclusions) is a lie because a food company paid a scientist to write a biased paper.

I can see where this is going though.
These are absolutely legal software, they don't violate any DMCA rules, M$ and github don't have right to remove it.

The behavior of using these software maybe illegal, and violate EULA, the company can punish the user who is using the software according to their EULA, but there is nothing directly related to the software itself.
Extensive discussion a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17015644

Also, as per HN Guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Either we figure out a way to fund education properly like taxes (which we already pay so it's a matter of relocating money at the government level only) or we end up in a system with millions of stupid people unprepared and unable to contribute to society enough to survive, let alone enough to give something back. We're already most of the way there and the society that we're creating, a society that values stupidity over knowledge yet feels entitled to all the benefits of knowledge and the technology knowledge creates, is frightening. The anti-intellectualism is frightening. The stupidity and almost inevitable poverty and violence that follow are even more frightening. You'd think the government would be more concerned about such a situation and would want to fix this, but like most political issues in our stupid-first society, this has become a partisan issue. I hope we figure out how to stop being a stupid-first society and figure out how to advance in the world before we turn the whole country into the third world shithole most of rural America has already become.
>I still don't see why wishing someone dead or expressing he should die should be treated differently than empty threat to kill him

I think I misunderstood your position; I'm in agreement with that statement: there is no difference, and neither should be punished or regulated, unless theres evidence of there being a real chance to transform into (or cause) actions.

>Or why you should allow people or corporations to enforce a ban but not government.

The federal government offers a space for the entire population; corporations offer a space for a (very) limited subset, and individuals offer a space for those in their household.

Due to the sweeping nature of its power (and its slow speed to update), its by far preferable to play conservatively. If you don't have a good reason to regulate, the government should not regulate. The same applies less to corporations, due to limited power, the general availability for its subjects to move to other corporations (which exists for country movement, but much more difficult than corporate).

>There are already things you cannot say. Why not add wishing someone harm to them? What useful purpose does it serve?

Well, you want to limit the amount of speech regulation in general, because again its difficult to regulate, difficult to decide what to regulate, and almost trivially easy to abuse. The problem isn't that keeping that particular statement is beneficial, but that banning such a statement, and statements like it, is prone to buggy behavior.

And of course you want to avoid as much as possible reaching the point where you can no longer criticize the federal government, and the more you regulate speech, the more stable that path becomes. And the federal government is naturally incentivized to take that path if it can: it makes its life far, far easier.
Sure we're talking about pseudonymity though, not anonymity.
Summary: The article is looking for an efficient way to map a hash code into a smaller power-of-two-sized range, for use as a hashtable index. It dismisses the common solution, masking off the high bits, because it discards information, and proposes Fibonacci hashing: multiply by the golden ratio and shift down. It gives measurements suggesting this gives better performance in practice, and some theory as to why this might be.

But later it mentions, in passing, a simpler approach: just shift the high bits down and xor! The author only tries doing this as a preprocessing step in front of Fibonacci hashing to avoid "bad patterns". So I'm left wondering: might shift-down-and-xor be good enough on its own?
> I think one could only say that if those jobs didn't still exist with the new name "Devops Engineer".

Yeah devops is the same thing but I still think in general that person regardless of title can provision more computing power than ever before. Just the in vogue name right now.

On the other point I read one time that they do a ton of custom work like adding all kinds of sensors to their servers to they can use automation to turn them off and on as needed.

But yeah I think you could argue there are whole teams dedicated to tooling and their labor hours are moved to them.
Kurdish as well. They tend to favor Indian gold for some reason.
I'm surprised the cocksucking HN-crowd can't stomach my last posts in this thread. Fucking fuckers.
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The majority of servers are open source, the majority of consumer devices are open source, all super computers are open source. How is open source not eating the world?
> they can use dramatically less lux

They can, but at least what I've seen around California is that they don't. The one outside my window is a good example. It was replaced with LED and now it's like a spotlight right into my window. I didn't even realize there was a light there when it was HPS.
Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
so you don't have knowledge and experience. Good to know.
Thanks for sharing. I thought it was universally agreed that white light is awful compared to yellow light. I'll have to dig deeper into this.
Yeah that's part of the problem. People care about how the city looks vs. the health of themselves and the creatures around them.
LibreOffice is a pain if you want to do anything that looks remotely attractive. MS Office, unfortunately, wins hands down at that (and at general usability and power).

Being unable to use MS Office was one of my big regrets of working on Linux for a long time. When I finally learnt LaTeX, that at least removed the need for Word ;-) (Although I still miss PowerPoint, LO Impress really doesn't impress me very much at all.)
> By adding cobalt and oxygen atoms to iron fluoride nanorods

Could someone who knows this area comment whether this sounds expensive to manufacture?
Well there is little, but there is also some. There's a whole field of accelerated testing of components, by degrading various variables, e.g. increasing temperature, vibration, sounds, corrosive environment, materials, etc., and then using curves of exaggerated failure times to predict failure times under nominal conditions. (after making tons of models and analysis)

You can also improve your simulation (here the sky is the limit).

It really depends on the cost of mishaps and design failures, if it's high enough you can almost always improve design with additional expenditure.
I think the search part is implementing the Fibonacci Search Technique[0]. It’s related to Golden ratio search[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_search_technique

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-section_search
Thanks for all the links, I'll be digging into em.
I think the idea is that chess positions are an absolutely sorted state where you have a large space, but can give a full ordering to the positions.

That said, I think I agree with you. The Rubik's cube is amusing because it literally is just permuting numbers. You can build a transversal set where you quite literally just pick the permutations in order to get back to sorted. I haven't gone through the effort of building up the transversal set, yet, but http://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html was where I started playing with the idea.

I mean, yes, you can get more complicated. And no, I have not gone through the effort yet to see how much time the set takes to build up. Pretty sure it won't take long, though.
I thought RSS feeds weren't available for Facebook entities (users/friends, pages, groups, etc)?
Spreadsheets used for calculating expenses were around long before computers.
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It needs to be easy and clear for developers to port their extension. Ie. good documentation. Whether it is or not, I don't know.

It feels unfair if you blame only Mozilla for your issue though. It only seems to be that way because Mozilla changed something. But developers knew well in advance about this change.

If Photoshop doesn't work on the latest Windows version, do you blame Microsoft or Adobe? It'd depend on the nature of the issue but generally Microsoft allows developers to plan ahead.

Why did an extension like Bitwarden (a one man project) get their shit together while LastPass (with a big corp like LogMeIn behind it) not? If it were the other way around, I'd have understanding. Also, Bitwarden is open source, cheaper than LastPass (half the price if you want 2FA), you can even run the cloud backend locally if you prefer, and you can convert from LastPass (its only a CSV IIRC).

This comment on LastPass support forums sums it up: "I have had this submitted as a trouble ticket for almost a month now ... support simply sucks"

[1] https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=296945&star...
You are not alone...
> have no value to experienced users

That's precisely his point: Experienced users deal well with open-source software, because much of that was designed with them in mind. But in all too many cases, it doesn't play well with pretty much everybody else.
That has not been my experience. I have often written lengthy comments that simply explained my view on certain topics, and within a few minutes those got flagged which rendered them invisible to others. This place is like Reddit in that regard, when it comes to silencing non mainstream opposing views. I've been here 10 years now, and it's gotten progressively worse in that aspect.
Yes but the source of it isn’t Bitcoin but rather your own opsec which can be employed for any other commodity transaction.
Viewing the world through your phone's screen/camera lens is just not a great experience.

Having stuff just "appear" is way better. Remains to be seen how this will play out in the short run, but the fantasy is something like smart contact lenses.
AutoIT can connect to the ActiveScripting (Windows Script Host) environment, which is great!
Perhaps the poster was celebrating women as chattel property. I don't know. I thought it was an interesting fact. It's weird more states haven't determined an engagement ring is simply a gift, and not a sort of (as i learned today from the poster's comment) bizarre form of insurance policy.
Oh yes! Thank you.
It already is. As you can see by everyone here talking about it, it's beginning to cost them sales. I imagine there will be a big campaign by Amazon in some years from now about them "trying" to fix this problem.
it was a russian intelligence operation aimed at affecting the 2016 election. after that goal was accomplished, its effectiveness waned and law enforcement started getting closer.
Tesla Model S Catches Fire While in Motion – Not Caused by Crash
Although I don't know if this has been tested, I'm not so sure that manufacturers can so easily weasle out of a warranty for a product simply because it was labeled for sale in another country.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/05/the-wor...

You have expressed and implied warranty rights on products, regardless of what their actual warranty paperwork days.
>Additionally, mike pall wrote a large chunk of luajit in assembly language and hand-optimized lots of things, which gives the code that dense demoscene feeling that was mentioned before.

The use of assembly is actually very tame in luajit. I was actually referring more to things like the fact that it spits out native code by iterating backwards so it can do register allocation in reverse (simultaneously and with minimal memory footprint!). Because of a lot of neat details of how the SSA IR is laid out and stored and how tracing JITs work, this results in more optimal register allocation in a way that is actually very straightforward to implement.

It's very, very clever and overall very clean with minimal code, but understanding why things are done in a particular way requires a lot of experience. The demoscene is similar: very neat 'hacks' that combine low-level programming knowledge with very deep domain knowledge motivated by the need to write code that is both fast and small.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067566
the deal was: you document your invention for the good of humanity and we give you a 25 years exclusivity. It was an encyclopedic endeavor.
Hard to change the mind of a person who believes science is used to direct society towards unbiased conclusions. You are putting a lot of faith in many powerful organizations that work tirelessly to control your state of mind and lifestyle habits.
Pretty sure that's still the case, right?
They probably do in the US as well if you press hard enough.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/05/the-wor...

Some have, and have one. Though none that I know of were specifically for grey market products.
https://hackernewsletter.com
Delivering residentials after dark is an absolute nightmare. Is that house on the corner 5647 or 5643? Is there one house or two houses down the gravel driveway? Hope you've been driving the route for 30 years and have your daily 200-stop route memorized, because it can be a pain to figure out even in broad daylight.
How do you feel about the Beamer class for LaTeX? I suspect it's better than Impress (I strive to not actually prepare slideshows in life, but I don't always manage to).
Hackers now have international coalitions; we need the same to fight back
Exactly. Now if only there was a way to educate people about such things so they could make better decisions. Oh wait ...
It's was about time we moved on to the next energy-storage technology for mobile devices. I can't believe in 2018, battery is still the main issue of all flagships.
Discussion of original source 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302881
Are you claiming Wikileaks was founded in 2006 in order to throw the 2016 US Presidential election to Trump?
They leave it on my house's porch yeah. If it fits they stash it between the door and the storm door and if not it's tucked right up against the house hidden from the main road by a rather large bush (that I should stop putting off trimming).
They make money off of Pocket. Companies can pay to have their articles be in the pool of recommendable articles.

And it's especially also a different source of income than search engines. They try to differentiate here, in case for example Google's monopoly becomes even more extreme and they push the price down.

And exactly in this vein, a big motivation for Pocket is competing with search engines in general. It tries to be another channel through which users can discover new content, so that Google can't determine everything you believe in without any hindrance.
This was happening with Ziess lens cleaners which is a HUGE deal because counterfeit lens cleaners don't use isopropyl alcohol to clean. They use ammonia (like windex) which destroys lens coatings.

At least stores like Walmart (not counting their online which is a marketplace like Amazon) vet the in-store products.
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> the very notion of motivation — striving to obtain a more desirable future — implies some degree of discontentment with the present

Surely there must be a study somewhere that shows how the right kind of misery makes employees more productive.
Are you suggesting that Rolls Royce didn't know this?
>Patents were only introduced in the Swiss law in 1907.

Luckily for us all otherwise we might never had a certain patent clerk figuring out relativity.

Edit: Also the Swiss Patent Office was founded in 1888 which is more inline with what I remember as Einstein worked there since 1902.

Do you know under which mandate did it operate then?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Institute_of_I...
Wasn't it the same for the Swiss watch industry? I think they basically copied and then perfected British designs. To expand on this, I'd say Switzerland and Japan have remarkably similar early paths to wealth.
The PDF has an abstract as well…were you looking for something in particular?
Won't it always be an issue? I have a feeling they'll just put in more and better power-hungry hardware and software and we'll be back in the minimally acceptable battery life range.
The knowledge required to build machines that can do the job would require intellectual property or trade secrets that the company owns.
But office software is typically used in offices, and considering the enormous productivity gains from using it correctly, it makes sense for employers to either hire experienced users, or to train their inexperienced users. Tweaking the interface might help beginners feel more comfortable, but it won't make them work anywhere near as effectively as somebody who actually knows what they're doing.
It was likely not founded with that intent, but it appears to have been compromised or manipulated by Russian intelligence in the months/year leading up to the 2016 election.
Those aren't relevant examples for drawing a conclusion about the relationship between the average contributor to Linux or python and their employer.. Or for the lead of an average project and their employer.
Why request this? Is there some common wisdom here I’m missing? You should probably include the reason or else this just seems like a weirdly petty request
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I doubt russian intelligence recruits and trawls along the trigot australian continentia. Doubt Trulian Blassange is a candidate for anything.
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