skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-arguments still. Also, spirituality is not religion, nor is spirituality mutually exclusive with science. Scientism with its snarky, ignorant arrogance is a sad religion.

The video is actually pretty good, your choice though.

Gerald Pollack has also written a small book (full of science!) on the 4th state of matter (crystalline liquid): https://file.io/SGlzL0

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. (…) We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.” - Max Planck

“Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties, when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent, it must have been created.” - James Clerk Maxwell

Yeah, but maybe those guys were not "real scientists", but just religious lunatics! Downvote, censor and burn them!
That's quite different than Google tying search queries to a phone number. Though I also don't agree with censorship in Bing's regard either. Also from my understanding a lot of Bing/Yahoo results aren't "official policy" and the reports of censorship from 2014 have been addressed, a lot having to do with simplified Chinese characters/bad translation. Google even has higher share in China than Bing. Google already operates in China with .cn domain through Hong Kong, the new action is an entirely different posture.
1) What would be the quickest way to get a either a Pi-hole device or a router supporting that level of functionality (ad-blocking, and DNSCrypt) into the hands of normal consumers on a mass scale (e.g. completely non-technical users like my parents or grandparents)?

2) I know my next suggestion goes against net neutrality, but what would stop an ISP from doing something similar at the level of their router (or cluster of routers)?

Update: Actually for 2), some places that provide Internet access to their users who aren't ISP customers (e.g. businesses, malls, municipalities, colleges/universities/schools) could roll this out as well citing bandwidth savings (therefore cost savings).
> It's well known the EU doesn't like Google and Facebook because of how disruptive they are

Um, what? No?

> Please don't insult my intelligence and say that France would have voted to hurt some of the most innovativ...

Luckily the EU does not consist of just one single country.

> Every single European country would vote another EU country out of the EU if it meant gaining Facebook, Google and Twitter

This is honestly so ridiculous, I am starting to wonder if you even know what the EU is. You are aware that it is a large union of countries that keep each other accountable and help each other, right? No single country could ever get rid of another country.

> And Europe is irrelevant when it comes to consumer internet companies. That's just calling a spade a spade.

Wow...just wow...
Why scatter plots suggest causality, and how diamond plots can compensate
I want this so badly, but…

The Oculus privacy policy has a blanket clause that lets it share and receive information from Facebook and Facebook-owned services.

I’ll come back when that’s no longer the case.
And the reason for the spikes - blockchain technology struggles to handle large transaction volumes. The consensus mechanism monitors block creation time and tries to keep it at 10 minutes. Ideally, there are never more than a block's worth of transactions to be created at any given time. When that is not the case a backup occurs and yes, the settling takes far too long. This is the technical challenge that must be overcome before a PoW backed blockchain should be considered "viable" ready-for-prime-time. It is a significant engineering problem that I am excited to try to solve.
Show HN: SkillUpper – interactive step-by-step algorithms tutorials
Mikrotik routers were just hacked pretty badly. I'm not so sure they are competent enough with the security of their routers now, even if their routers are otherwise good value.
I think each person should be given a clear choice.

I should be allowed to give up my privacy for convenience, I just want to know exactly how much privacy I'm giving up before I make that call. I don't think that's unreasonable, and I think we can pass legislation that puts something like that into effect without harming the economic viability of current companies or future startups.

I don't want to bog down startups with regulations that force a "you must be this tall to ride" situation, but it's getting out of hand, how exposed I am without being told about it.

I just want to know, is all.
face palm. Some advice: if you read a book and have already decided what is right before you read it...don't bother reading it. You seem to have your own view of the world that you want to confirm. Great, but keep it to yourself. Again, 95% of what you are saying is just factually inaccurate, and the 5% that isn't seems to have been purposefully misunderstood so that it fits with what you thought already. HN is a special place.
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This being first option is a non issue. Not being able to customize right click menu like in Opera IS a deal breaker.
Non-paywalled article : https://outline.com/ZC4jn8
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Some people look at societal improvements as byproducts of increased wealth generation. In other words, me getting rich is good for the world, presuming I am not cheating/robbing someone else in the process. Although, apparently that's an optional ethical boundary for some.
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This is a perfectly cromulent response (see what I did there)?

I'd argue that you did not settle a transaction but more exchanged in a barter of one item for another. I am glad it worked out well for you and pray that you will experience continued expedient transactions in the future - blockchain-powered or not.
I find its the bigger sites that have been introducing the slowest/most clunky front-ends. Thinking new Reddit, Tumblr, etc.
The problem with this thought is that small businesses help EU citizens, and making it harder for the businesses to do that means the EU citizens are indeed being harmed.

All that assuming GDPR actually does harm businesses, which is definitely debatable. I just don't think "fuck businesses" is the right stance to take, because it doesn't account for the benefits businesses provide to their customers.
Yeah, it's theory of «a quantum atmosphere». Different name means it's completely different theory. Right?
> Scala programs usually are comparably easy to debug and run as expected as soon as they get compiled successfully.

I am quite frankly speechless that anyone could hold this opinion.
Open Sourcing HASSH a Profiling Method for SSH Clients and Servers
Usually you put the firmware file inside the UEFI partition and then update from the bios. It's very simple.
who's working on guile 3.0 ? I thought wingo was too employed~ :)

ps: well I was wrong, it's wingo as usual https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077710
Or, if you can afford $20 per year, there's this https://blot.im which lets you dump stuff in a Dropbox folder to become blog posts. -
I guess that sounds good, though it might sound less good after a mass casualty collision.

Wonder if we couldn't have "ground strobes" visible only to viewers looking downward at a significant angle.
Your mistake is that you choose to see everything in terms of race. Not everything is a "racist dog whistle". If someone doesn't want poor people in their town, it's because they don't want poor people.

Cupertino is a melting pot of individuals of many different racial groups, they just all happen to be very wealthy. That's it. Your compulsion to consider everything in racial terms is itself racist and it clouds your judgement
Yeah, they replaced the "Bitcoin proof-of-concept system" [0,1] with BAT for "blockchain-based digital advertising" [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1036724148146384896
[1] https://brave.com/faq-payments/#previous-bitcoin-wallet
[2] https://basicattentiontoken.org/
> As is, this is easy to sort out: the Bill of Rights restricts the actions of the US Government and no one else

As a matter of law, this is correct. It's true that the Bill of Rights is only legally binding in America.

But we are not here arguing that the Bill of Rights aught to be binding on the whole world. The argument is that Congress ought to treat the Bill of Rights as if it were binding on the whole world. These aren't just laws, they are foundational principles.

Under the letter of the law, Congress isn't prohibited from secretly imprisoning and torturing random people on foreign soil, but that doesn't mean that this behavior is okay, it means they've found a loophole and they don't care about the principles.
The issue I see is that the United States government consistently attacks internet freedom, much more so than Google has historically. The decision to make a censored search engine may not be the best one, but it's definitely a lot better than what Alphabet would get up to if it were under the control of Congress.
It's already changed the world a bit - CryptoLocker, dark web drug purchases and Ponzi like ICOs wouldn't have been the same without it. It's also consumed epic amounts of electricity and warmed the planet a bit. I hope some positive changes come too.
And high-performance infrared cameras are also probably one of those things that end up on arms control lists. (Since it's not just useful for spotting planes on your "runway", but also for spotting tanks or people on your hill requesting an ordnance delivery)
How bizarre. I wonder how heavily the micro-tasked and bot-driven fake-reviews will factor into (now) literal product placement?
Are different modes implemented differently? E.g. an immutable (but extensible) Map should be implemented as a tree, whereas mutable maps are best implemented using arrays.
I'm sure some MBA has run the numbers and determined that operating in China provides $X over Y interval, I highly suspect another MBA has run the numbers and determined that operating in China costs $Z dollars to Google's brand, and I'd guess that X >>> Z.
My friend, we are living in the Age of Complexity. Do you see ANY aspect of our lives that is getting simpler? Saying that the world doesn't need a realtime market for the valuation of chocolate bars - well, maybe it does. Maybe the end result is then cheap and freely available chocolate! What sort of monster are you, depriving the world of delicious chocolate?!
I love how these companies lie in front of congress and nothing happens. Too big to fail? Where's the competition?
I find the article interesting from a cryptographic perspective--specifically have they implemented searchable encryption or such a "encrypted environment" where they able to capture more than meta-data.

These quotes specifically:

The challenge was WhatsApp’s watertight end-to-end encryption, which stopped both WhatsApp and Facebook from reading messages. While Facebook didn’t plan to break the encryption, Acton says, its managers did question and “probe” ways to offer businesses analytical insights on WhatsApp users in an encrypted environment.

...

When Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, was asked by U.S. lawmakers in early September if WhatsApp still used end-to-end encryption, she avoided a straight yes or no, saying, “We are strong believers in encryption.” A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed that WhatsApp would begin placing ads in its Status feature next year, but added that even as more businesses start chatting to people on the platform, “messages will remain end-to-end encrypted. There are no plan
Thank you. An article about how a lottery winner picked the right numbers is about as instructional and repeatable.
Emulators can be detected.

I'd suggest extracting their binary and seeing how it works. It quite possibly is badly written, with no code update. May be fixed functionality, unable to detect rootkits etc.
Notions like "free speech is good" are themselves based on morality, and highly subjective. Yet we have them written not just into laws, but into our very Constitution.
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It could be your own browser who does the bookkeeping.
Are algorithms patentable? Last I checked in US they were, copywritable?
SF Cryptocurrency Devs: A Deep Dive into Proxy-Reencryption with NuCypher
As an anecdote, this happened at an Oyo hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhubCtp-DI

TL;DW: Western woman was trapped in the room by hotel employees threatening sexual assault.
That tends to happen with very strict type systems; in my earlier experience with Haskell usually non-trivial programs got correct results on the first try; though they not always had the expected time or space complexity on the first try.
whoa. huge props for HOALife. any interest in selling? I'm interested in acquiring =) we're a growing player in the property services niche looking at different entry points into hoa's
I don't think Google Docs is going anywhere, but what actually concerns me more, is I seem to recall some articles last year about a number of private google docs that were deleted by google because of $reasons. (ranging from content protection, to firing on appropriateness or censorship).

That would be my bigger concern.
So like runscope?
> The lack of a law is implicit moral approval of the American people.

Not at all. At most - if you assume that the political system is meaningfully representative of moral sentiment, which is a very big "if" - it is the lack of explicit disapproval, which is not the same as the lack of disapproval in general (because it could just be that most people don't judge because they don't know), and certainly not at all the same as approval.
OMG that is just pure gold! The United guy is SOOOO laconic. Like him speaking up on the open freq saved hundreds of lives and he sounds like he's reading yesterday's corn future prices.
This seems to be to be ad hominem fallacy.

I'm going by their track record.
>You're comparing food and water to how a company does business in another country. These two things couldn't be more different.

How a company does business "in another country" reflects back on its own country (and can even have repercussions beyond image).

Google is always free to relocate their headquarters to another country and quit receiving the drawbacks of being a US company of course (along with any benefits that come with them)...

>If Google gets screwed for doing business in China while thousands of other companies get away with it, what kind of incentive does that show?

For one it shows that "doing business in China" is not a single, concrete thing, but there are tons of ways to do "business in China", some harmful and some not, and that might even depend on the industry.

E.g. selling Cokes to China: no big deal. Selling arms to China: might need some scrutiny. Selling Search technology to China catered to assist censorship: ditto.

So, the right question is not "why single out Google while other companies also do business with China", but rather "are these other companies in the SAME kind of business with China?".

And I'm not even against Google working in China, or following their local laws. Just want to point out obvious argument flaws.
The idea that Hispanic people face massive discrimination in America is more a product of Leftist hysteria and identity politics radicals trying to find another victim group to champion than a clear understanding of reality.
"I've never liked the term "computer science." The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia. At one end you have people who are really mathematicians, but call what they're doing computer science so they can get DARPA grants. In the middle you have people working on something like the natural history of computers-- studying the behavior of algorithms for routing data through networks, for example. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters. It's as if mathematicians, physicists, and architects all had to be in the same department."

Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
They seem to be working on that as well: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid...

The solar webserver is another step towards that goal.
I was expecting an ancient 90s era neocities site, but it's actually very beautifullly designed. Well done Neocities.
So while in theory you are correct, in practice, usually whatever punishment is given in a company doesn’t usually amount to enough to change the company and individuals are usually shielded from the consequences of any malfeasance....
Iphones are very expensive, so most people are not buying them. They can still read everything you post, every SMS, youe location, and everything you send to an informant or someone using an older Android. Most comms are blocked -- no signal or whatsapp, just Weibo. It's nbd.
You can distinguish skill from luck by whether you can lose on purpose.

You cannot lose the lottery on purpose, but I’m sure this guy could have failed on purpose.

Sure, luck is involved, but the existence of several successful serial entrepreneurs is a heavy counterpoint.
This was very nicely done and a really enjoyable time travel video. I learned to program on a ZX81 at a young age. With the manual (shown), the Usborne 1980s programming books that actually taught kids how to do machine code (all now released free: https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin... ) and then also the Rodney Zak's Z80 book (also available free somewhere). What a great start to a career as a hacker! Cost my parents something like a hundred bucks down here in New Zealand, but I also had to mow my neighbour's lawn to get my hands on an old black and white TV set to plug it into. How I loved that machine, but also hated it (they keyboard was terrible, and the 16kb "RAM pack" would crash the machine if you wobbled it). I envied the more feature-rich Commodore 64s etc that other kids had, but they tended to use them in a more passive way: playing games only. I think the austerity of the ZX81 either produced or at least selected for a curiosity about how code works.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076906 and marked it off-topic.
i found the keto diet to be very complimentary to the founder lifestyle. you end up intermittently fasting because of work which helps boost all of the benefits of keto.
I started opting for Lyft after the Susan Fowler thing. But I was doing some travel this year and it was shocking to me that Lyft hasn't expanded outside the US as Uber has.

One of the Uber criticisms is that they don't respect local laws when they do such expansions, so maybe that is part of why Lyft might be more cautious. Still, non-US markets and global user bases are much more of a thing as time goes on, so it feels like they're very severely missing out.
Not sure what it is, but the name really tickles me. Bonus points that it's kinda meta.
I don't think they will be profitable enough to pay back the staggering loans coming due.

Even if they manage, I fail to see why they should be priced much differently than GM, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Toyota as far as long-term stock valuation goes. The "synergy" promised from SolarCity and Powerwall and so on doesn't seem to be a thing any longer.
You can't. Hence the problem with using ZTE or Huawei etc.
> For example, I think it's pretty troubling that the French government banned a bunch of Muslim religious garments.

You're either misinformed on the French legislation or, less charitably, willfully misrepresenting it. The legislation [1] passed by the French government was a ban on face coverings in public spaces. It included covering the face with balaclavas, full face helmets, masks and yes, full face veils such as the niqāb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering
Thank you, I feel like Skip is very close to the language I've always wanted. Its MVCC looks very similar to Clojure's, I'm having trouble finding a good link about it:

https://sw1nn.com/blog/2012/04/11/clojure-stm-what-why-how/

The gist of it is that instead of tracking multiple separate locations in memory for values, the software transactional memory (STM) references data by value. So if you assign the value {a: 42, b: 24} to two variables x and y, that value is only stored in memory in one place that the variables both point to. Then if one of the variables changes something, for example y.b = 25, this big tree structure works like copy-on-write and makes copies of branches when mutations occur. So internally, a: 42 is one reference and b: (24 or 25) is another reference. So rather than using 4 cells of memory, we've only used 3.

This frees the developer from having to micromanage memory resources and makes a lot of other things like concurrency "just work" without locks. Do I have this correct?
at the end of the day, even if you fixed voting, gerrymandering and lobbying, as long as people can own newspapers/radio/tv, and amplify their voice; they will always be able to control: who is on the ballot, and who people vote for. MOST people dont have a substantial time invested in nuanced policy stance, they form an opinion based on what the tv or paper (or friends) says, and vote accordingly.

democracy will always reduce itself to who can yell the loudest, who can create the most fear, who can be the most persuasive to the mass (even if not a sound factual argument.)

and then every blue moon you will have a Trump, that finds a way to amplify their image on the cheap, by getting everyone to talk ABOUT them. all press being good press, and the bad press is free.
Another story glorifying a sociopath!

Article on Oyo founder (Ritesh) from 2015 - https://www.livemint.com/Companies/7CN7u5d4i3bfYgBAZLdLpM/Wi...
To answer your question without expressing an opinion myself: the people protesting Google's decision would probably cite the company's longstanding "Don't Be Evil" marketing, and the good publicity the company has sought in the past for refusing to do exactly what they are now doing.

Also, as far as timing, Google is being focused on now because they've just announced a major new product. Lots of other companies have been criticized in the past for complicity with China's brutal dictatorship.
Can you post some sources to this information?
a google search for "taxiway landing" shows that this has happened quite a few times - with full passenger loads in some cases.
CRISPR could totally eradicate mosquitoes
LOL @ all you arrogant idiots having a faux "high-brow" debate about Chinese politics while 80% of your possessions are...made in China. Particularly your digital "devices", i.e plastic electronic pieces of shit that control your lives. Google is bad for "doing business with an authoritarian regime", but it's okay when YOU do it. Amirite?
> I find attacking the people and company that made you a billionaire, and went to an unprecedented extent to shield and accommodate you for years, low-class,

Facebook didn't make him a billionaire. He & co. made a 19 billion dollar business. Anything after that, facebook can take credit for. But everything right up to the contract signing/announcement can't be attributed to them.
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