skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My prediction if the experiment is a success would be: Mozilla acquiring Laserlike and trying to find out how to implement their technology client-side as best as possible.
It's possible that they've changed their implementation but it absolutely was not the case for at least the first year or so.

It was one of the reasons why I switched exclusively to Brave on mobile because they didn't serve AMP to that user agent, which meant that Google search results loaded faster (that 100KB of render-blocking JavaScript meant a LOT of time looking at empty pages on the subway) and weren't broken if you tried to share or save the URLs.

Testing just now, I see only AMP links in the carousel but there are queries where a non-AMP link has sufficient rank to be featured in the top stories section.
This is a Facebook submarine [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The goal is to avoid disruption during topology changes. If you have long-lived connections, this is important to keep them alive. The explain this a bit more here: https://github.com/github/glb-director/blob/master/docs/deve...

I have also written about this in a past article: https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-multi-tier-loadbalanc... (which may or may not be easier to understand)
How do you share the page with someone then?
It's regressive amongst those who drive, that's the point. By definition, that category is more oriented towards middle class, upper middle class; the poor don't pay the tax because they can't afford city driving in general.
It was meant to replace email, an open standard sporting many interoperable servers and clients, with something that Google controlled, even though it was theoretically federated.

After Wave failed, they doubled down on making Gmail into more of a nonstandard product with reduced interoperability (now requiring Gmail API instead of standard IMAP) and increasingly, embrace & extend functionality such as email expiration dates.
It just seems like something that can happen client side. Say there are deemed 100 new interesting articles in a day, send those 100 links to the client, and let the client rank them.

Thats how the recommendation by pocket works, right? Whenever I see these types of systems, I worry they try to hard to show us things more like our past, and dont try hard enough to shape our future. A recommendation engine should be more focused on "this is interesting, this is good for you to learn about" in a healthy way, compared to "this is more of the same but we know itll keep your attention better than facebook."

These AI recommendation engines ALWAYS fall too close to clickbait, like a drug dealer, and never close to a medical healer, currated lists like techmeme/mediagazer/longform/longreads/redef/aldaily. Prismatic and Trove come to mind. I bet one could get better results just parsing those 6 sites for new daily links.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...
By law, they have to take you to where you want to go in the five boroughs, plus... Westchester and somewhere else. So the trick is to get into the cab before they figure out that they can speed off before you can grab their number and file a 311 complaint.
Won't this explicitly fall afoul of GDPR? My completely lay understanding is that you no longer can offer give-us-your-data-take-it-or-leave-it services in the EU.
so the thing is they're building a browser but they also care about having an internet to browse on.
That is what I meant and it does appear that they've backed off at least for the top stories results, which is welcome.
If you do have broad shoulders however, narrower keyboards are rather painful to use. Right now, I'm using a Logitech G710+, which is a full-sized IBM-syle keyboard, with an extra row of garbage buttons on the left side. If my left hand is in line so it is comfortable and inline with my shoulder while on the asdf keys, my right hand wants to be half off the right side of the numpad. Makes typing left-handed and mousing right-handed very comfortable, but typing with both hands on the homerow somewhat cramped. It'd be interesting to try a keyboard that had the keys split apart so that asdf was in line with one shoulder and jkl; in line with the other.
User-hostile? I'm a user, and to me it seems more like google protecting me from the hostility of publishers. I love it.
100k Uber cars is fantastic. Let's boost that to 1M and get 10x the benefit.

There is a limit where all these cars become a true public nuisance. It might be less than 100k.
Boston's system is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBTA_Subway
> the next release of Windows desktop after 10

Which will no doubt be called Windows One.
Yes, the spread would be better, but banks don't do it unless you have several years of high cash flow and positive on-paper income. Even if the owner is deliberately trying to offload the income into another corporation, they can't figure it out and say the income statement looks bad. Banks don't even understand small businesses at this point.
Given the fact that congestion is an admitted issue, it's possible that it's not enough; plus, many people use street parking, which costs time instead of money.
Exactly.

Use the laws supposedly made for poor people, and use them at your advantage (like most of the wealthy do).

Also yell and pretend high and clear that you want to help the poor.
0% -> 5 people is actually ∞%, not 500%.
This has actually already been determined. For instance, businesses are required to serve all colors regardless of sexual orientation, color, religion, etc.

It's a regressive part of this epoch of human history that the opposite is true of free speech: companies are required by law to surveil and censor.
I don't disagree with you but the reason for this shutdown is a much-needed reconstruction of the tunnel under the East River (it was damaged during Hurricane Sandy) along with station upgrades at all the Manhattan stops. This is investment in the city's rail infrastructure. Sure, it will suck for 2019-2020 but come 2025 New Yorkers will be glad it happened.
The Four Points Puzzle
http://a.co/cKeH8oK
I'd argue it's still a strong objection, your solutions require a lot more bureaucracy and would still be filled with loopholes.

A couple quick ones:

1. Registering the car in your grandparents name, who have no income, to avoid tolls. Or perhaps your stay at home spouse (assuming you file separately).

2. Make your next vehicle a light truck or van to avoid potentially hundreds in monthly congestion tolls. Luxury trucks are very much a thing.

I agree your plan would technically work, but it would be filled with exceptions, loopholes, and political handouts. That is rather fitting for NYC though.
I assume you meant to add a /s to that
This is similar but not totally. Linux has an open source version of Maglev as a scheduler for LVS since 4.18 (to be released). GLB uses a specific consistent hashing algorithm selecting two servers and a module to let the first server redirect the flow to the second in case it doesn't know about it. This helps minimize disruption even more than with Maglev.
I'm not sure why I expected a thoughtful piece with actual substance — the nexus between Twitter's original design, post-launch strategy shifts, and its current state — from a mass-market publication in 2018, but I did, and that was a mistake.

Now I'm convinced that was designed. Someone crafted a wily scheme that ultimately had me reading a few paragraphs looking for actual insight. Who's the mastermind behind this?
Henry George was right all along! It's amazing to see how similar income levels are after taking rent into account.
The technology isn't there yet, of course, but the ultimate use case is replacing every computing/entertainment device you currently own that has a screen (plus all the other hypothetical use cases of AR)

Whether they can find compelling enough use cases to sustain them in the meantime is the real question (and I suppose that's what you're asking)
The critical difference being that a search engine of any usefulness requires transmitting a search request to that third party. Pocket's recommendation feature does not require any such transmission, so it's definitely possible to work around.
Do you recommend the air purifier that you have? And would you mind sharing which one has a built-in sensor? I'd like to try measuring my laundry room.
While iOS can improve on a lot of things the biggest factor here is that Apple’s business model does not revolve around their user’s data.

If I’m in all honest i don’t have that many apps on my iPhone and the same goes for most of the people I know the app craze has I think settled down quite a bit.

I have 15 apps installed and only 3 have access to my contact list and those are Protonmail, Signal and WhatsApp which I would allow access too anyhow for convenience.

Apple can and should improve permission granularity but as far as contacts go I’m not sure that it’s even a good idea.

All or nothing seems like a good compromise to ensure that apps that you don’t want to have access to contacts don’t, how many usecases can you see when you’ll have to go to individual contacts and approve them one by one?

The best thing beyond that that Apple can implement is per field permissions e.g. I would like ProtonMail to only have access to the contact name and email fields but not to phone number or address but this level of granularity isn’t available on any platform afaik.
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At an early startup (definitely anything pre-Series A, but arguably including many Series A startups), any pushback on changing these kinds of terms would be a major red flag to me regarding the founders. If you're early on the team and not asking for anything outrageous or subject to terms they've already agreed to with their investors, I'd see it as a sign that the founder would choose to put their own interests at odds with their employees when given the chance to choose to align them.
yes, that's possible, but the regulatory environment is already uncertain, and trending toward less certainty, due to increased partisanship and the ping-ponging between ideological extremes (accelerated by the money pouring into politics).

so if citizens & businesses knew that regulations were generally going to trend toward more fairness, the regulatory environment would be less uncertain (the cone of future possibilities narrows, even if the path was entirely a random walk).
That data is old. There are now over 100k black cars. The growth is going exponential which is why this is a problem that needs to be addressed soon.
Because you can't make money whether the elevator falls on wednesday or friday, but you can make money if candidate Y wins instead of candidate X. Where there is money to be made, there is people to be corrupted.
I guess it's not popular or all that well-known anymore, but for quite a while there's been a Quicken-led banking interface for some banks. Known as OFX or Direct Connect, it provides at least one-way (download) access to banking transactions. I think there's a way to upload as well but have never used it nor had a bank that supports it for upload.

My bank has a separate enrollment - it was free - offering download-only access to my transactions. I haven't used it in awhile (just too much on my plate) but it worked well as recently as 2016.

https://github.com/aqbanking/aqbanking is one open implementation for the interface.
Unfortch Bloomberg tried congestion pricing and it got strangled in the cot. That would be my preference too. Simple, market-based, fair, etc. . . .

With the ranks of uber cars in the city growing as much as they have the downtown traffic has become insane and I'm for anything that would relieve that congestion. I've been living along the Prince/Spring corridor for ~10 years now and the change in bumper-to-bumper traffic, particularly on summer Fridays is outrageous.

However it's sliced, though there's a problem with the city being full of too many idling/circling cars. ~10 yellow cabs at 330k rides per day vs Uber's 60k cars at ~200k rides per day, as per the article. That means Yellow cabs are actually driving people somewhere most of the time they are on the road whereas Uber drivers are spending a lot of time idling and/or driving to or from a pickup/dropoff.

All of that said I've been looking everywhere for good supportable numbers on how Uber has been affecting Manhattan traffic and it has been impossible to get anything other than the total number of Ubers on the road which isn't very helpful.
We have this in the UK with "faster payments".
Are polls ruining Democracy?
SCP, SFTP, and WebDAV are all woefully inefficient for large data transfers as a result of bandwidth delay product.* They typically use a single TCP session and transmit files serially. WebDAV does support an mput, however.

S3 does a much better job of utilizing available bandwidth. It supports multipart parallel uploads and resumes nicely. In my experience, it will usually fully saturate any available upload capacity.

There are other protocols that may be more efficient for high bandwidth, high latency connections, i.e. WDT from facebook or UDT, but S3 does okay.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-delay_product
They’re similar to all the government support(subsidized mortgages, education) given to white people post WWII that allowed them to build the generational wealth and greater proportion of middle class standing they enjoy today.
Adi Robertson's Verge Review of the Magic Leap One
My guess, new fake accounts. The best evidence for that is the following snippet from the article:

The most striking example of those massive rebounds is the account of @AdelAliBinAli. Before the purge, this account had 6.2M followers. On July 14, its follower count was down to 2.7M followers (-3.4M / -55%). Between July 14 and July 19, it regained 1.2M followers, and as of July 23rd, this account now has 6.6M followers, which is even more than before the purge and represents 3.9M additional followers gained.

As for the others, having more than a statistically average number of purged followers is evidence that you were buying fake followers in the first place. The obvious explanation for large increases in followers for someone who is already known to buy them is that they bought more.
This conversation on HN can essentially be boiled down to "law versus ethics".

Those supporting censorship make basic references to it being okay because it is legal.

Those opposed to censorship make basic references to it being wrong because it is unethical.

Clearly, there is a tension between what is legal and what is ethical.
Other comments in the thread quote numbers indicating that Uber has 8X ridership of Lyft. I'd say the title is fair.
Rent isn't everything. The cost of living in Detroit is absurdly lower than Silicon Valley. I was in SF this winter and everything little thing I bought felt like it was 20% more than in Michigan. When on vacation I can get two weeks in Florida for what one week in SF costs me.
Other than the repeated references to the company, do you have any evidence to support that?
FWIW they mentioned the highest salary was $187k
I also got stuck on that sentence for a minute. The idea of being able to throw a gram of salt in the ocean in Florida, wait a while for the salt to disperse, and then measure the difference in a water sample taken in New York sounded implausible.

Also, when you talk about sensitivity, don’t you need to talk about the amount per something? E.g a billionth of a gram per milliliter?
Assuming all other factors are constant — a drop of conversion rates by 70% implies that real users are also getting tripped up with AMP.
Then I truly and seriously feel sorry for them if they consider managing their situation to be a laughable absurdity.

But be careful not to project that as the expected case, and ignore the reality of others' lives (yes, like mine and family & friends around me, if it's even necessary to state). That's dangerous tribalism that normalizes failure.
> The problem is credentials. If you have a college degree in X, you can prove it to me. If you lived at home and took pre-programmed online courses, I need a way of determining whether you actually know what those courses should have taught you.

There is already an approach that addresses this: competency-based degree programs.
You know, it would be one thing if this ruling was motivated by serious labor concerns but it really has to do with a bunch of crybabies that bought medallions as financial instrument and are upset that customers are choosing a service that's cheaper, better, and more hip.
It's ironic, impressive, and very sad, that so many in tech are frothing at the mouth as they implore @jack, leader of the centralized speech platform (on the Internet, that decentralized miracle) to apply censorship to a guy with off-kilter ideas.

I cannot stand Alex Jones, by the way. So I simply don't listen to his bullshit.

Have you learned absolutely nothing?
I’m more interested in the work some folks are doing on using succinct structures style techniques to accelerate parsing. https://github.com/haskell-works/hw-json

It’s still relatively immature. But it’s a more algorithmic approach that I think plays nice with pretty much any source of semistructred Data. Though simd acceleration certainly is pretty sweet too
I’m an anecdata scientist...

Jokes aside, it was a data point to illustrate a change that I know takes place also in other countries; that women account for an ever larger fraction of people with higher education. The number of families where the mother makes more money than the man is slowly increasing.
What if the problem is that you are mayor and got lots of campaign funding from the taxi lobby and now they want their pound of flesh?

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/don-big-bill-article-1.14...
FROM ARTICLE
"A review of all contributions to de Blasio raised by or made by taxi lawyers, owners and other associates in the 2013 campaign tallies $254,451, making them de Blasio’s biggest backers by far. Fleet owner Ron Sherman is the most powerful taxi leader, just as his father Donald was in the 1980s before he was convicted in a federal felony case, and he orchestrated the de Blasio deluge of support."
Microsoft also tried to build a smart watch in 2004 with the SPOT watch.

It’s remarkable how a concept can stick around for decades waiting on an implementation that’s good enough to be viable.

Instead of trying to think of new things it’s perhaps better to go read tech magazines of prior decades finding failed ideas and trying to breathe new life into them.
This is quite nice, high quality documentation, the template is eye-catchy, very nicely structured, well done!
There's really not enough information in the article to judge its validity...

Some comparisons between devices, as but one example, could support the idea that AMP affects conversion rate (AMP is only shown on mobile).

As it is, I have my doubts that the mechanisms he speculates could have such an impact. URLs, for example, are really de-emphasised on mobile.
>appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)

The headline is incorrect. The turnout was 18 percent.
That's what they said about the big dig. Now that it's all said and done it's still the go to example of a boondoggle public works project that turned into a money fountain for anyone who knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy in government. (In the project's defense, it did increase throughput and alleviate some traffic problems on surface streets which was the goal.) The north/south station rail connector that was supposed to be thrown in never even happened which the city has been kicking itself over for years.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Of course when they do hatch you'll wish you had twice as many eggs to start with. Boston sure wishes it has the inner belt along with all the various rail projects it's forgone over the years.
"...the regulation does not mandate any kind of API format.."

That isn't true. Anybody which wants to be in the UK Open Banking Group (mandatory for the 9 biggest banks) must follow these very strict specs:

https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/pages/16385...
VC reputations take a hit when publicly listed companies they once endorsed fail
Truth of what is known, not of what actually happened. No one else has written about their view of the experience (or we're aware of), so the only knowledge of the situation is one person's accounting. Not a statement of moral relativism, although that's a complex subject in itself.

Gaslighting can be viewed as any statement here that either fabricates or contrudes another's internal feelings. For example several comments mention that the situation he felt wasn't traumatic. That term is an emotional response and often doesn't require being a rational one. My grandmother had a traumatic event when an egg she was cooking exploded. Sure it's silly, but to tell someone that a feeling isn't real is being a bully. At other times, that feeling can give us an insight into the experience that might just be too easy to otherwise rationalize away.
Ive noticed a lot of people who don’t spend time on creative hobbies usually think you should just do a thing because you enjoy it, and not for external validation. While that’s a good sounding platitude, they really haven’t experienced how crushingly depressing it is to have your work ignored and unappreciated.
Elmish.XamarinForms
On android, it's possible for apps to access contacts in a few ways:

1. Request permission to access all contacts at runtime - user chooses yes or no.

2. Ask the user to choose a specific contact. This pops up some system UI, and then relays back the information the app requested about the contact the user chose:

public void pickContact(View v) {
Intent contactPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(contactPickerIntent, RESULT_PICK_CONTACT);
}
@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
switch (requestCode) {
case RESULT_PICK_CONTACT:
soSomethingWithContact(data);
return;
}
} else {
Log.e("MainActivity", "Failed to pick contact");
}
}

And for most cases, it's also fine to just use the "share" intent to send a link or similar via whatever app and whatever contact the user chooses, without any extra info leaking to the providing app. You can actually see this in action with the uber app - if you choose to share your ETA with someone, it first asks for permission to access all your contacts. If you deny it (which I do) then it follows up by having you send a link via the regular share intent.
> is ... aspirational.

I'm going to steal that phrase.
That's not really true. I play a game called summoners war and Google strategies often. It's always an AMP page at the top from the one summoner's war site that does that even though I don't like their page vs. the other ones. AMP prioritization isn't limited to news/trending.
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Email, log files, pull requests, two instances of visual studio for different projects and one or two of IntelliJ idea for other projects.
Obviously I switch the other c# and java projects in the background unless it is needed to debug them all together.
Have you ever worked with at least one team using two different languages while looking at the production logs at the same time?
Imagine it multiplied by two and you have your answer.
This all makes sense. But i cant get my meek and honest mother to start acting like this. It requires a certain level of street smarts. It is almost a weekly issue for my mom, going into Manhattan for doctors' visits and the like.

Uber solved many of these types of issues democratized access to taxi rides.