skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run AB-solution.info on my Asus router for the same effect without the need for extra hardware besides a usb stuck. Highly recommend it.
Google business model is the greatest con the Internet has ever seen. I mean, it's a con when your front says "we do no evil, we are cool", and your back is squeezing your users for everything they gave you (gmail monitoring, browsing habits, location history, adsense scam, and now permanent logging). Mind you, I just uninstalled Chrome. Luckily, I never really used it. I recommend Safari and Firefox.
> [...] words in English often carry a number of different meanings, and these can affect whether a word will be considered countable in one instance compared to another.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Uncountable-Nouns.htm
That's because it's a moving goalpost. Pixar keeps increasing the quality to take advantage of faster hardware and better algorithms.

We'll never be close to getting today's real-time Pixar-quality until Pixar rendering is good enough that they stop meaningfully improving it. What we can have is yesterday's Pixar quality rendering in-game.
It's tough because I think the group mentality is part of what can really make a company able to produce the value it can (more than just the sum of its parts and all that), so I feel that mentality can come from a genuine place, but it is also used manipulatively. How we tell the difference is a problem I'm currently incapable of solving.
A blockchain is just a type of data structure. I have yet to see any use case, outside of building crypto currencies, that could not be realised without it. The problem is not that the technology did not exist before, the problem is that people and organisations were slow or unwilling to adopt it. But that is not the type of issue that will be solved by introducing new technology, and almost all blockchain advocates seem to completely oblivious to these dynamics of human behaviour.
That Go may or may not be a trustworthy foundation to build on for the future you can't say it yet, but Google isn't very trustworthy on this front, while for Java oracle has been very boring but stable.
I didn't because the chance of getting a permanent academic position is incredibly small and the pay and conditions are also poor.
Could the business/hosting aspect of it going down damage the content aspect of the ecosystem in any significant way is the question, as I believe was the case to some degree with Google Reader?
It's interesting how podcasting has evolved as this very decentralized medium. At least part of it is that hosting and serving audio is a lot cheaper than video. Not that my occasional podcast has a huge number of listeners but my S3 bill is trivial.

But, yeah, podcasting looks a lot like blogging--especially earlier on. Very easy to get into but hard to discover and hard to directly monetize. Those who keep doing it are mostly doing so because 1.) It's a fun hobby and/or 2.) It supports and is subsidized by some other activity. Which is often the case with a lot of things including writing technical books for example.
I really like one of the highlighted quotes from him since it pretty much sums up my view on computer peripherals:

"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. When America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces."

Also the title should probably be marked with (2016) since this isn't a new interview.
Happy to see this here :) I've been using it since the invite-only release. Helped us track down a bunch of bugs spot on. Burpsuite was my go-to tool before this, which simply is an overkill for this kind of testing. Intercept.rest makes it super simple and neat.
This is also a gem: "Because list is already immutable there's no practical need to actually create a copy of the list-instance, therefore list and copy are the same instance. However if you copy a mutable list, copy is indeed a new instance so it's garanteed there's no side-effects when mutating the original list"

So you can get a "reference" to the same data where one reference gives you the data immutably while the other one lets you change it. Sounds like a recipe for subtle bugs.
Note the "Linux distribution packages", as in "your application being packaged by Linux distributions". That's pretty much not going to happen if you ship your own engine.

Could you elaborate why you'd prefer shipping it with the browser rather than sharing it?
It's not all black and white. I'd say it's not choosing Iran over the US, it's more a matter of distancing away from the US.
If you do it five times with some intelligence, you have rules that you can apply and have most things work most of the time from then on. It's really not a huge hassle and generally the malware-containing networks aren't the ones you are greylisting.
And no one from the engineering of the chrome team had balls to tell the manager "No, not doing it. It is wrong".
Does it select low quality when you're on Wi-Fi, or on cellular?
My forge and tools aren't permanent installations.
I wish the content of the photographs wasn't so obscured
I don't believe that this is actually happening for at least 50+ years. And by that point, indeed, I won't be driving myself, but for slightly different reasons.
The deathbed scenario is something I use regularly when faced with a difficult decision. Cuts a lot of BS out of decisions
I’ve been running this kind of setup for over 5 years on my home network, and the only complaint I’ve ever gotten was the Google search results that are ads or shopping links don’t work (yes, my wife clicks on these). If a web site didn’t function I wouldnt know it was due to DNS, because I never turn this off. I’d simply chalk it up to it being a defective website and not use it.
The ether does not exist. What we call “space” is light decentrated (expanded, radiated). Space is relatively cold, but not without seeming light motion. Therefore “space” is the negative half of the physical universe, while “matter” is the positive half. The pressures of motion between space and matter balance each other out continuously. https://wikischool.org/divided_light

This story is actually about the fourth-phase of matter (though they claim their own discovery), the charged liquid crystal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q33KyLkP_Rg

These four states of matter (gas, liquid, liquid-crystal, solid-crystal) correspond to charge and geometries: https://wikischool.org/divided_light#crystallization_and_dec...
Depends what you want to do. With MixPanel you get a much deeper insight into your product and your users. The analysis you can do like retention, funnels etc exceeds the capabilities of GA.

Note: I am biased, I work at Mixpanel.
I agree.

Considering that Firefox 62.x seems to be a popular web browser I thought it prudent to warn others before they open the site.
New copy on the day Chrome is in the middle of a privacy-related storm, what a coincidence.

From the (older) interview you linked: 'The aim is to earn a dollar per year per user. "We're almost there," he says. "I think we can do more than that and still be nice guys and not sell out our users or do anything silly."' That's hardly cast-iron, especially considering that Opera did indeed sell out eventually (yeah I know that "it was complicated", but that's basically what it boiled down to). But hey, in the end, trust is individual, so more power to them. I just think their impact on the web at large will never be as significant as Mozilla's, if they continue on this track.
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My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely mind-blowingly ridiculous.

I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I've come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead.

I heavily believe we should be supporting creators, and go out of my way to support them in direct ways (Patreon, buying merch, direct donations, Twitch subs, etc), but I absolutely will not submit my family/kids to the mess that is online advertising these days.

Ads that look like legitimate download buttons, or that run scripts to do cryptomining popunders, autoplay video ads with sound, etc etc. Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.
Someone very concerned about ads whitelists can also use multiple ad blocking extensions.

It would take every creator to accept the bribe for the ads to go through. Well, if the extension starts injecting ads it's another story...
good point, I think GP's counter is a counter only if you accept as a premise that you must find fulfillment in your work. Otherwise this point undercuts it by attacking that implicit premise.
If you want to claim that 2000+ word terms are not legalese then so be it. Suffice it to say, I disagree. What is needed here is a summary in the warning box on the main page. Something like "Do not download this unless you want to pay us".
Still here. Still appreciate the kind words ;)
When they're discrete, yes.

Like asking someone "can you grab a couple waters while you're in the kitchen?"
This is what makes the MAD doctrine so scary in reality, little mishaps and hiccups in a fallible system that could accidentally blow the world back to the stone age.
Neat article, but I think we should distinguish basically two things here that the article blurs together:

1) Reducing website bandwidth and computational usage (static sites, small images, reducing extra resource requests). Super common topic that HN talks about all the time.

2) Reducing the electricity bill for the server and powering it with renewable resources. This part is quite neat, I think, but for a single bespoke website, the energy savings of using a single low-power server seems pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things — I could get similar savings by changing a living room lamp to a more energy efficient bulb.

This inspires me to propose a third category of energy efficiency that the article doesn't touch on: human energy costs.

Humans are quite energy intensive devices, and I suspect that the labor and human-maintenance costs of making this website dwarf the direct energy costs of running a webserver. I'd be curious how one would go about optimizing these other energy costs, and whether that can be done in a way that still preserves quality of work/life for the humans involved.
I must not know about what glitch's small services are for. They do have paid plans for monetization. I would be really curious to know what companies are using them for what service and why
Yes, halfway into the article they explain that it’s precisely that, and what motivates them to make it visible to users.
I was really hoping 2.0 would include the integrated e-mail client they teased a looong time ago. By now I think that is the only feature I still miss from the Opera 12 days.
You're not helping! Haha. Why Boulder over Denver?
So a git repo with signed commits ?
Also if you want to do a sneak attack you don't start it with the weapon your opponent can most easily detect.

So, the control center hasn't been taken out by a cruise missile and the submarine pens are untouched and the bomber airfields check in as OK... it just doesn't make sense as a sneak attack vector. Maybe every sub launched cruise missile in the fleet failed to work; unlikely.

Something not declassified yet, but probably would clear up a lot of confusion, is if the detector code was fooled by sunlight on clouds or whatever, the trajectory solver likely came up with bizarre results like the ICBM launch site was the center of Lake Michigan or downtown Chicago or the trajectory of the other missile has a best fit predicted impact point of Ohio or Mexico City.

They have plenty of practice analyzing the huge horizontal velocity vector of normal spacecraft launches. A strange sunlight reflection would tend to have zero horizontal velocity; the opfor seems to be bombing its own missile sites by tossing the ICBM exactly straight up and down? That seems a little odd unless someone's trying to set off a false flag leading to a real attack.

I would think it would be good defensive coding strategy to have different teams write and deploy the detector code vs the trajectory analysis code, such that if one messes up it really doesn't matter.
Ask HN: Co-founder performance issues. How to not loose everything?
Hi HN,

I need some much needed guidance in dealing with cofounder relationship problem.

Context: Both me and my co-founder (CEO)(equal owners of the company) come from very good educational and professional backgrounds and have worked in the valley before we started the company together. I manage the tech side. The team was a marriage of complimentary skillsets but we had not worked together or knew each other much before we started the company. Given our backgrounds, we were able to raise a decent angel round, enough to quit jobs and work on our idea.

Problem at hand: In the last couple of months, the team has been extremely demotivated and our earliest couple of employees left us citing issues with management. Almost all the issues are related to my cofounder's attitude. If I had to summarize them

1. Extremely authoritative and a lack of inclination to learn/understand - This is very demotivating for the tech team

2. Non performance, Lying and erosion of credibility - We hardly get any customer interactions and employees often wonder what my cofounder is doing and some have directly asked me. However, whenever questioned either we get false confirmation of work that never happens or get asked to just wait and be patient as things take time.

3. Stingy - My cofounder is penny wise pound foolish. This has led to massive compromises in the hiring as well as internal team frustration due to unnecessary cost optimization

Independent of all this, I very much believe in what we are building and hence want to take this to a good logical end at least. We also have some very good investors who have been extremely supportive (to the extent that they hardly question us of our progress, and it kinda becomes tough for me to reach out to them with these problems). I thus want to do justice to them and the employees who have worked with me while also, getting basic reward for all the efforts and sacrifices I and my cofounder have put in the last 18 months.
Is this tech-related?
> It is punitive. They are (and are within their rights to) withholding value because you aren't giving them what they want, which is mineable activity information.

What I don't understand is when we started expecting _anything other than this_ in a commercial transaction. Google's whole thing is they give out services in exchange for information.
Beware investing truths that are self-evident (2006)
I agree, I'm not a python fan. Python has a few good libraries I can't find in other languages, but it's slow, bad for multi core utilization, hard to distribute, is very wasteful with how many dependencies need to be included, has a terrible package manager and I prefer static strong typing.
Quitting my dead end job and finishing grad school at a good university in a city with a thriving technology sector. My second job search was quite a bit different from my first; recruiters were calling me instead of me having to call to even get anyone to look at my resume.

Now, six years on, I am all "ugh recruiters spamming me" like my peers, but I remember how awesome it felt when I woke up to an inbox full of emails after posting my graduate resume.
Shepherd should run on Hurd, since Guile does, but it was created as part of the GNU system, which is in reality usually run on the Linux kernel.
I suppose for those who wanted to make millions of dollars selling podcasts to advertisers, the bubble may well be bursting. For those who make podcasts because they have something to communicate and believe it's the right medium, I don't think the "bubble bursting" analogy is accurate.
Looks awesome! Quick note about the landing page: the GIF captures in the "How it works" section are a bit vertically stretched, weirdly pixellated and really too quick to understand what's going on.
I'd say that it is rather obvious that ray tracing is not a new thing, since it is simulates how light physically behaves.

I consider this 3d rendering as a spectrum: rasterization requires little computation but has little to do with physics. Ray tracing is what requires a lot of computation and has everything to do with physics. Somewhere in between are hybrid methods: rasterization with ray tracing components added to it, or ray tracing with approximations.

For instance, pure rasterization cannot do shadows. It is approximated by rendering the scene from the viewpoint of a light and test the rasterized scene for occlusions casting shadows. And the other way around: real time ray tracing cannot compute all indirect lighting paths, a subset is only considered at the cost of e.g. variance.
The OpenJDK build is GPL and should find its way into official package repositories. Oracle may have stopped creating the rpms for that reason.

Most distros use the IceTea builds for OpenJDK. Hmm . IceTea3 is Java8. There's no Java9 IceTea4 build yet. I can't find any roadmap info on their site ...
The logical reasoning is full of gap and holes that I cannot bother to rebuttal, because I am afraid of wasting my time.

But I think Block chain can succeed. It matters less that it works, as long as the rich and powerful believe it can help then sustain their status.
Yup, that's a downside. The advantage is that it's much simpler and will also work when you're not on your home network.
> Point is: There is useful information even if certain steps can't be perfectly traced.

Yes (and no), but that's not what IBM is selling with their blockchain. They're selling trust, but only providing a digital trust solution while completely ignoring the physical and human side of trust.

> There is value in not having to connect to a central database all the time.

Problem here is IBM's blockchain is still a centrally maintained database. This literally provides any value. You still need to connect to a central database at some point.
I really wish I could remember where I read this so I could give proper credit --

Somewhere I read a helpful way to rephrase "blockchain" that really helps cut to the heart of the issue when you're dealing with technical questions like this: A blockchain is just an ordered series of files, each of which contains a hash of the previous one in the series.

So, when you've got someone saying, "What if we use blockchain?", just mentally substitute the suggestion as, "What if we store the data as an ordered series of files, each of which contains a hash of the previous one in the series?" Any bits of the proposed system that aren't impacted by the decision to store the data as an ordered series of files, each of which contains a hash of the previous one in the series, also don't have anything to do with whether or not it needs to involve a blockchain.

(Yes, I realize there are additional questions around trust and proof of work and whatnot that come into play when you're talking about blockchain-as-in-cryptocurrency, but, as far as I can tell, it's a rare case that proposed use cases for blockchain in business are ones where anyone even wants trustlessness. See, for example, Walmart trying to use a centralized blockchain to manage their edible leaf supply chain.)
uBO can block with pattern-matching URLs of network requests and additionally cosmetic filtering (hide DOM elements), while uMatrix works strictly with hostname of network requests and types of resources.
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Building a NLP-flavored Data Science curriculum and hackathon course
As a related note - why do employers prefer younger devs? Because they haven't learnt this lesson yet.
Just as a note, a project being open-source doesn't necessarily provide a 100% guarantee that it doesn't contain any (possibly obfuscated) malicious code. Our community likes to think that someone else would catch it, but enough people thinking that way can (and likely often does) lead to the bystander effect. So it's always good to be wary :)

Edit: Heartbleed was a good example of this -

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3223203/vulnerabilities/wh...

> The most ironic thing here is that OpenSSL is open source software. Anyone could look at the code, and presumably hundreds did, but nobody noticed the fairly elementary coding error.
If you trust your ability to secure a publicly-accessible DNS server. Pretty attractive target.

Also, you can't usually specify DNS servers on cellular connections. The VPN setup would address that.
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I would pay for a source of journalism that had any actual effort put in it and wasn't blatantly and hilariously wrong almost all of the time. Sadly news agencies don't fit that bill at all.
That's a common, traditional form for non-lining numerals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures)

Turns out, Al Gore doesn't like it, either: https://www.typotheque.com/blog/gores_choice
yes, no not to the engine, yes, no and most but not all.
What if the doctors had listened to our sister, Becky?
> Such interface will allow to effectively use persons with average IQ for problem solving, like calculators allows to do math easily for just anybody, but it will not generate geniuses.

Motorbikes don't generate world class sprinters either but they sure get you from A to B faster than walking.
I'd say it's car centric depending on where you live. I designed my life around being able to walk everywhere I need to or hop on the CTA to get places I cant walk. But I'm in a rare part of the city where I can walk to the red line or blue line in 5ish minutes. If you live elsewhere, or cant afford to uber from time to time, a car would be a big plus.
I couldn't agree more. I was a maintenance programmer/developer for 30 years and saw too much of this. It disgusted me to the point where I just rewrote entire systems during slow periods (unauthorized and on the sly). The Amiga OS had full multi-tasking with robust, inter-process messaging, and a full-featured windowed GUI that fit onto one 720K floppy so there is no valid reason that we need multi-gigs for the current version of Windows. I'm posting a link to your excellent article on Daniweb to encourage discussion.

Reverend Jim (on Daniweb)
Yes, but this is referring to a specific TAS (the current fastest* known one), not a possible TAS.

http://tasvideos.org/Game/nes-super-mario-bros.html

[*] It's also worth noting that there are 2 categories for TAS timing: Humanly possible vs TAS-only. The former meaning that it's possible in theory for a human to achieve under "normal" conditions, the latter implying the opposite e.g. using left + right inputs at the same time which is not possible on a normal NES pad. The TAS in question was the current theoretical limit for humans.