skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acton is being incredibly disingenuous and it is disappointing. When you sell your company to another for $19B, you should surely know that the expectations for monetization will be very heavy indeed. Well beyond Acton's suggested metered-user model.

I'm certainly no great fan of Facebook, but anyone who thinks that they deserve to use a service free of charge and also avoid advertising is extremely entitled and disconnected from reality. There is no free lunch.

None of this is to excuse FB's bad behavior. The fact that they claimed they wouldn't attempt to link accounts but had teams elsewhere in FB working on that very task is yet another example of the true nature of that company and its highest ranking people.
I remember that being pushed hard in college... it would power washing machines, refrigerators etc.
I didn't. We are committed til death do us part. Not just saying that.
You don't need a thirds party tracker to get fancy graphs. Matomo is free, open source, self-hosted, works on logs, and has fancy graphs. An ELK stack would also work fine.

Lazy-loaded 1px images can be used for tracking how far users have read and a/b testing can be done by compiling multiple versions and redirecting users to the version you want them to try.
> I mean, there are plenty of billionaires who make ridiculous statements from time to time. Donald Trump being one of them, for example.

I think it was established during the election that he isn't a billionaire. He also makes ridiculous statements on a weekly if not hourly basis, so "from time to time" is misleading.
Yea here is the talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n2xnOiWI8)

I have found that static generators, specifically Hugo, have made just plain HTML fun again. They give you just enough power to not repeat yourself endlessly (e.g. maintaining each page and copy-pasta all changes between them) without turning into the system's we're all trying to step back from.
It’s interesting the vast difference in reporting the media has on China’s IP issues vs India’s and even Canada’s.

I wonder if China only remade pharmaceutical IP while India remade technological, the reports would be different?

Or is it because China is a rival?
There's goaccess[0] which you might find useful.

[0] https://goaccess.io/
Have had Pi-Hole running on an old 10" netbook for a little over a year now. Set it up just to play around with it, wound up being a perfect machine for it.

Agree about ad-blocking on mobile. The killer feature with Pi-Hole is that you don't have to set anything up on each individual device; anything connected to your network suddenly has near flawless adblocking.
>Any% refers to completion percentage, not the number of glitches allowed.

Indeed, which is why I said "usually."

I usually see "Any %" and "Any % no glitches," but I just dabble in watching speedruns. If I see "Any %" with no other qualifiers, I'm going to assume glitching is allowed.

I think it can be a bit arbitrary at times when a technique is considered "glitching" or not. The community decides. Which is fine.

I saw a speedrun of Super Ghouls and Ghosts that had a clever limitation - "pick up all weapons that show up." If you're familiar with the game, if you pick up a weapon you lose your previous weapon and some weapons are way worse than others.
> A blockchain is just an ordered series of files, each of which contains a hash of the previous one in the series.

Mentioning the hash is an implementation detail -- it is what gives blockchains their immutability property.

So I'd say even simpler: a blockchain is merely an append-only register that can be used by multiple parties.
You do realise that it is a tiny box with really crappy SSD BTW? You can get an x86 box with 12TB RAM 200+ cores and RAID over a bunch of Enterprise NVMe SDDs for 350K.
For the Cardiogram app, most of the UI is developed in React, Redux, and D3 (for interactive charts). For functionality that needs to be native--for example, integrating with the Health app or Google Fit--we use Swift (for both iOS and watchOS) or Java (for both Android and WearOS by Google, which is itself based on Android).

The backend is written in Node with PostgreSQL as the database. Since it's a large dataset (terabytes), we rely quite a bit on PostgreSQL 10's partitioning feature for our larger tables: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/ddl-partitioning.h...

The machine learning code is written in Python, using Keras, TensorFlow, Pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels. Our AAAI-2018 paper has a bit more info on how DeepHeart (our deep neural network) works. We also do feature engineering and traditional machine learning models when appropriate: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/view/16...
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That was not his point. And I agree with him.

It doesnt have to be accurate but the script was just bad. It was basically the most typical misunderstood genius against the evil military industrial complex, with a woman lead who understands him.

Also a good adapted screenplay should adpot the most interesting unique parts, and not.just creat a generic new story with some of the same names.
The the big news outlets will lose money, remember they get paid by driving fear into the population to get their eyes on ads. Sad.
Might makes right, and you can only take someone to task if you have the power to do so. The US (or at least owners of equity in the US) are too dependent on the cheap labor and lax environmental rules of China, otherwise there is no reason for the most powerful country in the world to let another country take "advantage" of them.
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How is "higher proof of work" defined in this context?
Also, doesn't consensus of the majority of peers have any bearing on which is more authoritative? I.e. if all nodes except for your malicious node report a single chain, why would yours not be rejected?
> Not all games support it (think games like Zelda and Metroid where you have to collect powerups to push get past obstacles to collect more powerups to get past more obstacles).

There is, however, OoT Randomizer[1] which is really fun to play and watch. You can get end stage items at the beginning depending on your seed.

[1] https://github.com/AmazingAmpharos/OoT-Randomizer
Kodak’s long-awaited Ektachrome film revival is finally here
I am going to guess they are getting a massive surge of traffic about now and yet the site still renders in a fraction of the time it takes most "modern" web apps or even just static content sites - this is how it should be.
This is the best explanation of blockchain I've found.
What do you mean by a MITM phishing attack?

U2F credentials are tied to a particular domain, and so do not rely on the user making sure they are on the correct website. As such, they are not susceptible to typical credential phishing attacks.
"The New Yorker: Fiction"

Hundreds of short stories from past decades of the magazine, selected and read by contemporary authors. Moderated by Deborah Triesman, whose speaking voice is as musical as any I've ever heard.
By the same logic, I'm aware there likely isn't a prince in Nigeria who will send me a boatload of money if I send them .1% of that money over the internet. We nonetheless, as a society, choose to shame and fight the action of the scammer, though many capable people fall for it.

What I mean to say is that just because I'm taking a calculated risk does not remove the other party of moral and legal liability for their theft of some kind.

In fact, the only argument I remember hearing (I think it was Marc Andreessen?) against the shaming of the scammer in the prince analogy is that they sometimes have no other option to feed their family. I doubt that justification applies to Chinese IP theft.
Or is it perspective?
I agree. For all that people say there is nothing to worry about, these are fines that would be levied by foreign governments so a company may not really have insight to how likely it is they will be fined.

It's a lot easier for a government to fine a foreign corp than to fine a local one whose workers are all voters and tax payers.
Not clickbait enough. Need to get that ad revenue.
That was kind of my "meta" point. Social liberalism and economic liberalism have diverged. "Blue states" are more socially tolerant and liberal but have become strongholds for Plutocrats where everyone below the upper middle or "professional" class is paying >50% of their income to real estate or is priced out entirely. "Red states" tend toward the socially reactionary but offer an economic environment that's overall better for average working middle class people. You can afford a place to live and the general cost of living tends to be a lot lower.
What about WS2811s with a pushbutton to temporarily disable, or a pushbutton on one of the GPIO pins, with the switch in a central location?
I did not say "a compromised DNS server is completely inconsequential", I said that a compromised WebExtension with :/// and tabs permissions has UXSS (obviously true) and UXSS is worse than compromising DNS resolution.

Which one of these is worse:

a) I might be able to convince a bad IOT device to connect to an IP I control which may or may not let me do something interesting,

-- or --

b) I can just use your session cookie for GMail and reset all of your passwords for your IOT services and also everything else? And since I get UXSS, I can scan your internal network and get XSS on that IP/origin too. Or, I dunno: try to use UXSS to log in to your home router and change the DNS server to a machine I control?

The crux of your argument seems to be "it is more valuable to be able to point an IOT device at the wrong IP than it is to get UXSS on a machine on that network". That seems obviously wrong to me for any user, technical or not. If anything, it's worse for non-technical users, because they by-and-large don't have 2FA, making e-mail compromise far worse.

I only use the quality of the software in one sense: to bound how bad DNS resolution could possibly be. dnsmasq has had more than one of those style of game-over vulns. A malicious WebExtension or DNS server is indistinguishable from one with a bad enough vuln.
Part of the problem is expansion into China is a hot take for stockholders. It's difficult to stand in front of a board and say "no, we will never expand into China".
The term for what you describe is ‘entryism’, or ‘Gramscian incrementalism’ if you want to be showily verbose.

As it happens, the critique of meritocracy is one of the claims I don’t particularly buy. One of many; sympathetic as I am to most progressive goals, I think the movement’s choice of methods is almost maximally foolish. But, leaving aside the question of good faith on which I doubt we will agree, I think you ascribe a lot more power to the pro-CoC faction than that faction is in truth able to command.
Airplanes (those with a Garmin G1000 specifically) do it perfectly- a nice large non-touch screen that has manual buttons and backup vital instruments.
Ah. I wasn't aware there was no separate JRE.
I'd love to open a second office one day. I'm from Seattle and my co-founder is from Vancouver, so the Pacific Northwest is a natural choice. Right now we're 10 people, so a second office isn't imminent, but we're definitely aware that not everybody can live or wants to live in the bay area.
> There's a huge difference between technical processes that have gone through extensive peer-review processes and survived decades-long debates until a technical community reached the consensus that the practices indeed produce better software

I'm curious - I've seen debates about test-driven development, or how to appropriately test things, but never debates about whether testing or automated linting itself produced better software.

> The terms of the GPL are criticized by many; that's why some projects choose different licenses.

Sure, but I've never heard anyone criticize it on the grounds that it insulted them or called them untrustworthy, and be taken seriously. Same with testing, come to think of it. There are lots of serious debates; "Are you calling me a bad coder" is not one of them. I'm happy to see debate about different forms of codes of conduct, but why are we taking "I am insulted by this" as a legitimate argument?
Generally good idea, analytical queries will be faster than on rdbms. You problem in strange tools and format. Hive = map reduce, JSON = scan for all data. You need to replace map-reduce (Hive) to Impala or Spark 2.x and JSON to columnar format: Parquet or ORC.
Images show 'runaway' expansion of coal power in China
tl;dr: It steals it
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Impartial reporting does not mean trying to make the reader remain emotionless or avoid coming to judgement. Facts themselves will frequently stir strong emotions. For instance in this incident even the most impartial reporting of the facts is likely to leave most readers with nothing short of disgust for the alleged offenders. The facts speak for themselves.

An excellent resource I linked above is this [1]. That's a series of historic articles from the NYT on famous events throughout history. You'll invariably find quite impartial articles, yet the facts themselves again speak quite loudly. This [2], for instance, is their reporting on the sinking of the Titanic. That is just an incredible piece of reporting. And though there are absolutely 0 emotional cues used or even implied, one can nonetheless 'feel' the story through the facts alone.

[1] - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/samp...

[2] - https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/archives/Disasters-Tit...
Someone needs to create a unionize Amazon website along with a social media presence.
> It seems to me that execs understand and take a calculated risk when they choose to do business in various parts of the world. If they cannot make this calculation, they should not be running a company.

There's an externality here, it's not just that one company, but all of its competitors that are losing out on these IP "appropriations". Then, let's say you're one of the companies that are able to "sell out", if you want to profit at all, you need to be the first to sell out. You can't rely on nobody selling out, therefore selling out isn't even bad management.
Here's a link to their Twitter announcement:
https://twitter.com/Kodak/status/1044526931536822275
First time I heared about such things was with Overnet many years ago, how come it never caught on?

Or asked differently, what makes Hyperswarm better than Overnet? :)
> More than anything else, the attitude displayed in this article appears to me as an attempt to defer (or pass to the public) the consequences of the above calculated choices.

Say what you will, but "privatize profits and socialize losses"[1] is winning formula, even in a country that on its face rejects socialism.

What's interesting in light of your observation is that companies didn't stay away from China due to onerous demands - in that parallel universe, the executives would be lobbying for China to open its markets. What happened in our world goes to show what they value more: keeping their IP or access to the markets/manufacturing. Now they want to have their cake and eat it.

1. corrected (had repeated 'profits') - thanks @greenleafjacob
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I've used .io and other "unusual" TLDs for a while and never had an email bounce or flagged as spam.

As someone else pointed out, make sure you setup spf, dkim, and all the other jazz. Some providers will host and setup the dns for you but its always best to use your own dns provider as the records are relatively easy to setup.
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>All the while, these companies keep their financial gain private, in the pockets of execs and shareholders.

I don't think the gain is as one-sided as you suggest here. The American consumer has had decades of inexpensive goods available. That is a real economic benefit.
At least in the US, you have to be cheated a second time for it to be your fault.
I think a lot of people who visit those two websites:

https://www.indiehackers.com/

http://sidehustlehq.com/
Not saying you're not mostly right, but there is the case of Jean-Baptiste Kempf, maintainer of VLC, who apparently turned down tens of millions to put ads into VLC. (I suppose that is two orders of magnitude smaller than a billion.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048
> Can you imagine if Facebook charged after a certain number of status updates and photos shared?

I can't, and neither can you, because it doesn't and it hasn't really been tried in a popular app.

Whether it's as obvious as you think that it doesn't scale and/or it wouldn't work, people would jump ship etc remains to be determined.
China is equally dependent on foreign infusions of capital. The real issue I think is that labor arbitrage has been very good for upper income and wealthy Americans. Corporations and the rich have gotten much richer by shipping labor off to China and paying less for it and pocketing the difference. That's largely why there has been no political will to challenge this situation.
I think this website is a beautiful piece of engineering: simple, efficient, clear and humane. It solves a pressing human problem with mature, straightforward technologies.

The dithering is obviously not to everyone's tastes, but I like the paper feel and think it's appropriate for a 'low tech' brand. Bravo to the lowtech team.
NIMBYism, greed, and hypocrisy can be found everywhere, regardless of political party. It is consistent throughout human history. Combating injustice is an everlasting struggle.
I disagree, intent matters a great deal. My conservative friends in Texas don't actually want poor people / immigrants / etc housed, it's a part of their value system - "If they want housing, they should work for it!" thinking. My liberal friends in San Francisco hold the opposite mindset, they want everyone housed, working or otherwise, even if it's done in their own neighborhood.

Policy needs work, I agree. My conservative friends like to mock me, blame the Democrats, or just the entire concept of liberalism, for every problem in San Francisco. Maybe they're right, but I've heard strong arguments that many problems we face are hangovers from old-guard republican policy:

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald...

I've also heard arguments that a lot of this boils down to just Prop 13, sponsored mostly by Republicans, particularly anti-tax activist Howard Jarvis but also Paul Gann.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

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

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

Anyway, I think finger pointing is boring and useless, and as someone who's social circle is split in third between the deep south, the not so deep south, and the capital of liberalism in America, I've learned to address these kinds of discussions with "point your finger at what you think the solution should be instead." Saying "blue states suck at building cities" is just another form of Ad Hominem - what specifically is the problem, and what specifically do you think the solution should be?
In a vacuum, perhaps, but I think there's more to it than that.

Another account yesterday mentioned plans to put Kevin Systrom under a different manager that would have given him "less access to Zuckerberg." Earlier accounts described them as friendly, always seen together, etc.

It seems like Facebook is a company where access to the CEO is so tightly controlled that it's basically used as a political weapon.
For several years starting in 2010 I ran my personal website off a Pentium III Thinkpad running Plan 9 sitting on the floor behind my desk. I wrote the web server in Go; it was a "hybrid" in that it served mostly static files, but in the blog subdirectory it would render Markdown to HTML.

It worked great! I eventually migrated to a VPS when the hardware started to get too flaky with age (and years of accumulated dust sucked through the fan inlet)
I thought archive.is was part of the internet archive project which is a public library of California.
There are price comparison tools like http://www.ucxmarket.com that can help make prices more transparent.
WhatsApp up until now was not pivoting to a full social network. That, on its own, was worth a lot to Facebook ; if WhatsApp did and was successful, it would have cost Facebook much more than 20B, perhaps closer to 100B in value.

Now that FB got their money’s worth of “WhatsApp not competing”, they want to actually profit of it.

Also, whatsapp’s Interaction and name database (“metadata”) is super useful to Facebook. Likely not $1B useful, but still a database FB would otherwise pay millions for.
You mean privatize profits and socialize losses.
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But that's what WhatsApp was doing before.
Is it just me or do the replies I'm seeing come across condescending and unsubstantial? I'm also missing why your PhD in cryptography is any important for the sake of the argument. We are not you in regards to your last remark by the way: "...expect us to nod along". But since you are looking for a good argument to support your confirmation bias, blockchain itself doesn't solve anything. It's just a data structure and a tool. The problem solving happens in the bigger picture, e.g. "decentralised trust management".

But let me ask you this: exactly what problem will a database/tree/file solve for vehicles or currencies? We can agree upon that what you are asking and looking for can't be answered or will get a reply similar to: we don't have that problem. You may have asked the wrong question though.

Let me be more precise and create a problem that doesn't exist but for programming purposes I want these requirements: many users should be able to read a (hardly) modifiable data structure that gets more resilient the more use it and that is a singleton who everybody has access to (call it decentralised if you will). Blockchain sounds like a perfect fit doesn't it? Now, when we replace the data structure keyword with OS and resiliency with speed, we can agree upon that this sounds like a decentralised operating system (Ethereum or whatnot).

Don't get me wrong. I don't see any problems that need to be solved with blockchain right now either. But clearly there is a trend in cryptocurrencies and decentralisation that seems to be important to a lot of people. There are tons of problems that need solving: trust misuse, censorships, privacy issues, advertising and so on. That there is a need for a change is obvious. That this change started with blockchain technology is good. I'm also sure cryptography is important to you too. Why not embrace an emerging technology that benefit your field of study?
Quoting what Sagan said about new ideas is a pitiful excuse for not providing answers to questions about what the ideas entail.

LambdaCDM gives us both rotation curves and structure formation (in particular the angular power spectrum to something like 23 peaks), so any new theory needs to reach this baseline.
This paints a clear picture of the opposite. An employee saying "this is probably the last time you’ll ever talk to me" to their employer is an arrogant and entitled behavior on behalf of the employee.
Start here at 1:30:30 https://youtu.be/6G59zsjM2UI?t=1h30m25s

and see all of nature follows a law of square roots. If you have 10,000 people, 100 will have all the money. If you have 10,000 music artist, only 100 will be getting their songs heard. This is a law of nature. Stop fighting against it and spend some time understanding it.
Anyone have some insider knowledge on the history of this project? I'm curious as to how a big multi-year create-a-language research project like this gets pitched, accepted, and finally sunset -- Was it a full-time project? Were there deadlines? Was this considered a success or a failure?