skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we NEED Facebook and Google again?

It’s 2018. Do we really need intermediaries who we reveal our data in order to achieve basic things?

Collaborate on documents - use Google

Share news with friends - Facebook

Plan an event - Meetup

Host my own mini blog - Twitter, Medium

Seriously?

We have projects like scuttlebutt, dat, SAFE NETWORK coming out. We have cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies.

Personally I started two companies to change all this by building easy-to-use open source platforms to disrupt the centralized models. One is to make social apps. The other is to power currencies and tokens.

2011: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI

2017: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBU__CCeUxE

I am passionate about the change that’s about to happen. We are not the only ones doing it but I think it will take about 5-10 years before most people are talking across open source, uncensorable, end-to-end encrypted, autonomous, self healing and self rebalancing networks.

The only way you can snoop on such group activities is to have a mole join that particular activity. And by ”activity” I mean anything from a chat to a video game.

And it will be EASIER than the current Internet. There won’t be any questions of “do I host on bluetooth or hostgator” or “my site was blocked in x country” or “help I got slashdotted” because apps would mostly be client side while the static file delivery would be content addressable and rock solid reliable.
> In the US the parties have Think Tanks and hordes of analysts covering these topics.

You wouldn't say so. Most 'think tanks' seem to do what they can to give the party they work for the ammo they need to get the laws passed they desire, it rarely - if every - seems to be based in a genuine desire to move matters forward.
Even they were pretty happy to get rid of their SGI stuff and replace it with cheap (and plentiful) hardware.

This stuff has enabled entire industries that are not 'sexy' but very useful.
By out of date do you mean around 1 year old? I'm sorry but your statement will likely be out of date soon.
How to make application scalable?
Hi, I am a junior software engineer and I have been searching about how to make application scalable that thousands of user can use it without facing any issue? Everywhere I read has some things like use cdn, program your application in such a way etc but I think I am not getting it. Can anyone tell me in a bit detail and using real time system, like how you will program your system, what programming language will be preferred, what will be the architecture (I have only used MVC) and I think if I will use MVC all the time, of course I am wrong but I don't think of any other pssible architecture because I never had any use case??? Can anyone explain me..
> Plastic foam manufacturers in China
Wow, this is quite a theory:

> Published in 2010, a controversial hypothesis about the origin of the Moon proposes that the Moon may have been formed from the explosion of a georeactor located along the core-mantle boundary at the equatorial plane of the then-rapidly rotating Earth, 4.5 billion years ago.
I'm not joking. Spend some effort. Challenge me.
You build a UI in your favorite framework. I'll use reagent.
Document the code.
Compare the code then.
> And nitrogen isn't innocent, it's notorious for being in tons of explosives.

It makes up ~80% of the atmosphere, it's easy to forgive someone for being unaware of it's explosive potential.

> TNT is a compound, not a mixture

This is at best just needlessly pedantic. In this instance being correct would probably lead to more people not understanding the article.
I'm not going to delve any further into technical details of batch auctions.

I never said anything about unfair advantages. You're the one who's ascribing fairness to this whole thing. I just fail to see how hiring smart engineers (HFTs) is an unfair advantage whereas hiring smart former investment bankers and research analysts (hedge funds, mutual funds, other investors) is not. It just seems like yet another baseless attack on technical nerds.

Also I hope I didn't give the impression that HFTs and investors are competing with each other. HFTs more naturally compete with banks and other market makers. It's just that the advantages that investors have are one of the reasons why HFTs don't expect to make half a spread every time they trade.

You could argue that the work of HFTs is less important than work of investors and that they should make less than the investors do. I would agree with you, but this is already the case and it's not even close how much more money investors make.
> You assume stopping "revolution" is the goal. It is not. All you have to do is look at what outcomes "revolutions" in an info saturated/low attention span/consumption culture based society have produced in the last 20 years.

And from that follows that the Chinese leadership wouldn't mind a revolution (that they didn't concoct themselves to tighten their grip, that is)? That doesn't follow at all.

> China is overvaluing control

You're overestimating your own attention span. Either they "value control" (what a disgusting euphemism) or they wouldn't mind a revolution.
The End of Innovation on the Internet
Probably the latter. The "deadbeef" string as a "random" hexadecimal example is pretty common.
How does this tool keep stupid and evil people from participating?
Artivism is a fallacy of romance and a mark of decadence. I sympathize and appreciate the sentiment but we must let it die. Aesthetics compliment power but never redirect it. Let’s not fool ourselves.
Interesting, and good to hear! Is that anything like http://drrobertmelillo.com/2016/03/18/5-exercises-inhibit-pr... ?
I won't reply to all the comments saying mostly the same thing, but Git doesn't have this, true. SVN, another centralized system, does have it. Shallow checkouts plus folder checkouts and you can have any combo you want. Without adding another concept to take care of.

Much simpler conceptually, in my opinion.
Wordmesh: Using t-SNE and word2vec to generate clustered wordclouds
Then try http://fastbmk.com/
China is to 1984 as USA is to Brave New World.
Three cool things that are happening in technology
Seems pretty incredible AMD sold the keys to the kingdom for 1/4th the x86 market for 300millionish.

I'm sure the shenanegans where they get pushed out of china are going to occur after a few years, just like they happened to tons of tech companies before them after they got raided for IP with joint partnerships...

They never had much penetration into China to begin with, maybe they consider it worth it to cut down Intel's influence.

Seems super dangerous if china starts exporting the chips however.
Selling out your users has never been a successful long term business model. These companies should have held up paid models and not bowed to pressure for free services (at the hidden cost of selling all our data). They should all be replaced by companies that charge a reasonable fee (or are subsidised) for the service provided like every other industry.
Brightpod :) Everything that needs to be tasked goes in there.
This is a very nice demonstration that the sites lacks a neutral option. I think a lot of people don't care about tabs vs. spaces, as long as there is a convention and editors can be configured to respect it. Since their voice can't be heard, this results in needless polarization of the debate.

I suspect other more serious debates will suffer from the same problem.
Roger Scruton's thoughts on beauty renewed my interest in decoration.

His argument that stuck with me is that what we value as the most beautiful things in nature such as meadow flowers and birds of paradise, is due to their decoration. Decoration's purpose is to seduce you. It is in decoration that we experience beauty, lust and love. Decoration is a path to the heights of human experience so we should take it seriously and not carelessly dismiss it.

I have never heard someone say the panama canal is beautiful. No image or emotion comes to mind besides the will of humanity to cut through a continent for money.
My contribution: the Lindy effect applies to design.

The longer something has been considered good design, the longer it is likely to remain good design.

If a design has been good for 100 years, it'll probably be good for another 100 years.

If a design has only been good for a year or two, you should expect that it'll have a much shorter lifespan.
I'm guessing because Intel/AMD/VIA don't want to sell it to them.
While the author implies that making a website is an overly complex, daunting process and things used to be so much better in the past, the key phrase in the article is this;

The tech I know may no longer be suited to do the things I want...

The old tech that the author knows doesn't work for the modern web. He says as much. If you want to build the new shiny you have to use the new shiny tools. You don't have to make a website that does all the fancy reactive, responsive, Web 3.0 stuff. You can make a site exactly how we did it 20 years ago today and it'll work fine. But if you want to build a modern website, you've got a giant pile of things to learn first.
Eric was the first British robot (1928)
Or you can use the body: https://codepen.io/jodi/pen/oMvLaN
This is really good for the consumers, since the Chinese are free to innovate instead of waiting for Intel.

Lately they have been coming out with really good things. The Matebook X Pro is amazing and can easily compete with Dells latest offerings, and Deepin Linux 15.6 has its own very modern user interface that makes it very enjoyable to use. Finally a linux distribution with a good sense of western style and performance, and it comes from China of all places.

Its important to be careful of spyware however, but that goes for American software as well. There is plenty of evidence that NSA is spying on everybody, and probably has access to most Americans emails and web habits already.
On the first couple of reads I thought the mini sub had also become stuck in the cave. If you've already seen the sub then saving a click -

"Elon Musk's Mini Submarine to Save [the Thailand Soccer Team Stuck in Cave]"

not

"Elon Musk's [Mini Submarine to Save the Thailand Soccer Team] Stuck in Cave"
Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry
> Swiss design is all about using a well defined grid (see Josef Müller-Brockmann).

I think that Swiss graphic design is more about whitespace, a limited amount of information density, where the grid is just a tool that helps with defining that space.
The suite is back! http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Cuisine Royale Yarına Kadar Ücretsiz
Home insulation in China blamed for rise in emissions of ozone-depleting gas
What Is the Sun Made of and When Will It Die? – Facts So Romantic
Have you considered adding Stack Exchange or Quora integration and then using reputation from those sources? Might help in avoiding bots/trolls
The app may be called gmail, but it works just as well with my hotmail account as it does with my gmail account.
Still gotta deal with the dom though. They need a root pixel level api to be made in conjunction to wasm, so people can restart from scratch.
Bael Nuxt/NetlifyCMS Brutalist Blog Template
No longer able to access the website but still on GitHub https://github.com/oxy-secure/oxy
It does, that's why the GDPR applies globally ;)
How to Block Pop-Up Ads in Mozilla Firefox
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If you browse any website over the Mozilla Firefox web browser, then you can block such annoying ads without any hassle. You will not only get the Pop-ups to be blocked, but will able to see them again via a specified option if you want. However, if you don't have any information or you don't know how to block pop-ups in Mozilla Firefox, the following are the easy steps help you to remove these ads properly.

Launch the Firefox browser and hit the 'Firefox' option placed in the upper left-hand corner of the browser window on the menu bar.
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Search the 'Content' icon placed next to the box and click on this using your mouse. It will change the settings list that is displayed in the box.
Hit on the box beside the 'block pop-up windows' list option that should be placed on the list topmost part. Now, the box should be verified, means that Firefox will block all the popup ads and windows much easier.
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> But that's strictly financial.

Being homeless and jobless is a strictly financial problem?
This. Flipping the semantics around because Marketing thinks it will attract more customers is disingenuous at best, murderous at worst.
democracies are sluggish, progress slowly, and also cause racial division sometimes. But I'd still never wish any country to devolve into any other form of governance
one of the things China has felt they have been held back on is chip production

Really? They have a decent MIPS story there, have had for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawning_Information_Industry#D...

They could literally have ignored x86, but they are making the same strategic blunder the UK made in the 1980s
I think I got very lucky or I get easily passionate about things.

When I was 13 I wanted to become a hacker, my dad got me a scrape yard DOS box with a then already obsolete 386SX. There was GW-Basic on it and I hacked away trying to implement viruses. I got me a QBasic compiler and wrote a programm that overwrites the config.sys and autoexec.bat and catches the usual interrupt keys like ctrl-c. Then it showed a blinking colorful ascii-art. My mother was not impressed when I let it run on her accounting machine...

Fast forward 3 years, I played piano for a while but it felt not cool enough and I was in to classic rock (I still am) so I wanted to learn guitar since I couldn't afford a Hammond organ. My friends needed a bass player and so I listened to my favorite songs, figuring out what bass players actually do and it got me. So I learned bass.

2 years later I finished school and wanted to study Jazz with my bass, tried to get into universities but they somehow felt I wasn't completely behind it, being more of a rock guy, still I wanted to move out from home. I remembered my coding sessions from my early teens and went into CS. After 2 semesters I realized that programming and reading about CS 8 hours a day is fun, 8 hours of practicing bass isn't.

Since then I love my job and still have fun with a blues rock band in the evenings. Only downside, I don't do martial arts anymore (Boxing, Kali), I got afraid of hand injuries.

So as stated, there was a lot of luck involved but still I found out, if there is a slight chance something is fun to do and you invest some energy, you probably develop some passion for it. I never thought about it if something is commercially useful or if I even got good enough to stay out of the masses, I don't do magic on the bass, I'm not the best dev out there. But at least I feel good after coming home from work and every time wasted with the band is time well spent. What else do I want?
It's the US who puts sanctions on companies working with foreign military organizations and manufacturers. So, they can't freely buy chips for rockets, for example.
But their PCs use Intel chips and Microsoft Windows OS. Microsoft opens their source codes to security services of different nations, including Russia and China. There are of course Linux distributions which are supposed to be used by army, but no one really uses them.
Dude, I've got work to do.

You threw down a URL to a framework I don't know that is apparently similar to a framework I don't use and runs on Clojure, which I don't work in and none of my codebases run in. You did that with no context or even taking the time to explain why I would do such a thing.

Objectively, there's nothing simple or expressive about the samples on their homepage. Their demos are simplistic (todo?! seriously?) and do nothing to convey why someone would express a complex web app in this manner.

It seriously looks like Matrix code to me.
Step one, it seems to me, is to figure out what passion isn't ... there are several mental trips that may seem like passion, but don't last. I think of it as a challenging journey you're drawn to regardless of what others think (so it's not ego-tripping) or how conventionally rewarding it is (if it is, lucky you, but ... danger, Will Robinson).

Something that opens you up and allows you to develop ... challenging enough to keep you from ever getting bored. A large set of related problems, for example, a universe to apply your growing expertise to.

That (not so elegantly) said, finding it may mean a lot of trial and error. So staying open to new candidates is important, until you can rule out most avenues and focus on those you stay drawn to.
i wonder if they'll make multi socket motherboards. as manufacturers struggle to go smaller they could spread the thermal load over multiple chips.
Ubicomps colonial impulse at work. Siri may not adapt to speakers, but speakers will adapt to her.

https://www.academia.edu/14861357/Ubicomps_colonial_impulse
Facebook Beacon – Cross website user tracking and data sharing system (2009)
Out of curiosity, what are some examples of "100 year" designs?

Bicycles come to mind.
You may be interested in reading Salman v. United States [1]. It's a dense read so here's a news article [2] that I'll quote.

> The justices rejected claims of defense lawyers who argued that there was no crime because no money exchanged hands between the insider and the stock trader.

> Instead, the court said exchanges within a family are like gifts and have value, even if no dollars are paid.

Sounds a lot like misappropriation is the concern and not merely having access to information that others don't.

This is a case that's widely seen as making it easier to prosecute insider trading.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/580/15-628/opini...

[2] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-supreme-court-insider-...
The Benefits of DevOps Outsourcing
We humans often run into new discoveries by basing it on stuff we already know.

We knew that combustion engines could rotate an axle. We knew that axles could drive a wheel. We knew that wheels turning could drive a cart. Thus, the automobile.

Just like humans, AIs can only solve problems it already understands.
Yes it is important for competition. But this gives x86 another century of survival. Seriously, someone kill x86 please!
I was thinking about stuff like real books or paper that fill with digital information, comparable to timecoded vinyl for DJs, where the analog haptics are conserved and combined with digital advantages. The glasses you wear may be able to detect objects in the real world (like paper), and overlay digital information in a way that seems natural.

What I mean that this will be preferred over a virtual window floating in space.
The robots helping NHS surgeons perform better, faster – and for longer
Some opportunist guy whould create a clone very fast, demand creates supply.
I seem to be getting the same impression through all the news and 'research' that have come up over the years. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Come on people don’t be scared say something !
Well, i haven't read Snow Crash. I read about it on wiki and decided to skip it. But i admit, while I was reading i got bored in between because pace had slowed down and then I skipped a few dozen pages , read a few lines and skipped way more and read more because wanted to know about the end as I was becoming really impatient. Anyways after reaching the end, i felt guilty that I skipped through a lot. A few days later I started reading again from the point I began skipping and in the later parts , i got to know that I had misunderstood some parts while skipping, so it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Also, some space stuff would have been better explained with a rough diagram.
I guess, I got bored in between because I was reading a novel after a really long time. also, I got to know about Neal and this novel via Bill Gates' summer reading list a few years ago.
I think we need a Geneva convention on microelectronics and informatics products. We are growing tired of this spy bullshit by the so-called super powers.

They are destroying the information age. We need machines and software we can trust and who don't go around spilling our secrets.
Google News forget once again my preferred news list :-/
Sometimes I think Google is made of best of the best coder of the planet, maybe that is right, but they are certainly not part of the news.google.com project. For the second time they just loose all my preferred type of news
Nice. But wind speed when expressed in SI units are more often expressed as m/s rather than km/h.
Move matters forward in the sense of implementing the party’s preferred ideology.

Though it’s a far cry from the highest good of all conceded.
Browsh, a text-based browser written in Go
yeah. Even that head of rocket company seems to be a bit inspired by Blue Origins/SpaceX. Neal has worked for Blue Origins in some capacity. Also, TV series would be much better because it's spread over a number of episodes giving a sense of time.
> Fortunately, the 1518 dance epidemic was the last of its kind in Europe.

No no no... we call them festivals now :)
Amazon Lumberyard: A Scream of Anguish
>Peter Zeihan

Man, he cooks his digits and "facts" haard. What is his point? He pulls out his "revelations" just to advance himself as think tank academician/strategy consultant
Most of these studies do not take into effect the "cost to companies" for hiring h1b employees. They are higher than citizens. Plus h1b pay taxes, and SSN tax which only a tiny portion of them claim back
Let's not forget that before fully-programmable shaders in NV20, NVidia had register combiners [0] in GeForce 256 (NV10), allowing more flexible texture application & blending compared to the older (sequential) pipeline.

[0] http://www.nvidia.in/object/registercombiners.html
How to grow a network of over 2M followers. (Looking for feedback)
Google is actually very bad at everything.
Well you only get the strategies that lead you to the scenarios you ordered. If your party winning the next election is on the list, the strategy will be influenced by that. Not sure if there's anyone that would pay a think tank for a strategy that achieves world peace by way of destroying the party that ordered it.
Black Mirror is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
>Perhaps I am confused, but it seems like that's almost all they ever report.

Only within the narrow confines of what the "national interests" (and the interests of the elites who own them), allow.

In other words, only when there are competing fractions with different viewpoints within those.

Which is hardly all the cases when something should be criticised.
Crowded carriages at Shoreditch station
https://www.google.com/search?q=slow+down+sound+online -> maybe https://www.conversion-tool.com/pitch?lang=en if you feel like DIY