skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly my point. They're not talking about the real cause of the problem, thus misleading all the readers and ignoring the elephant in the room.

Housing shortages are almost always a market failure due to regulation of some sort. They keep talking about it like the problem was existing landlords/AirBNB and to whom they're renting it out, etc. Instead of focusing on the real problem: lack of supply.
Yes. That's why Apple moved from JS based extentions to Content Blockers model. App provides a complex list of blocked resources to Safari, and have no access to actual browser content.

On iOS, install Firefox Focus, and in Safari settings enable FF provided Content Blocker.
I was one of the people who wrote long support requests to you guys detailing how much I disliked the system you had in place. I really respect your forthrightness here.
> when most people say they're good

One size doesn't fit all, and some people don't speak for all.
Something very similar happened to me.

When I was at university studying CS I was running a Arduino fansite and a fansite for a videogame - both of whom made most of their money from affiliate revenue (a couple hundred bucks per month).

I thought it would be cool to work at Reddit (was close to graduating), and I had read blog posts from here and various other sites and IRC about how hiring managers liked projects.

I took to it to build a JS library that converted links to affiliate links, for example amazon and some other small retailers I had used.

Basically you just parse any URL you embed in the page with this library and it would convert the existing (non-affiliate) links to affiliate links with your signature attached so you got a revenue share.

In addition to this, I had done research on Reddit's traffics and crawled reddit to see how many affiliate-capable links existed. I talked about this in the interview and suggested they could make around 2 million per month if they hired me and used my script.

--> I was rejected after the interview, but a couple months later Reddit announced it was experimenting with a new feature that would re-write links as affiliate. They ended up implementing this feature that I am 95% sure I came up with and someone else stole.

It was one of the shittiest experiences I have ever had interviewing, especially since I didn't get a job out of it but I believe they have made millions off of this idea so far.

I huge put off, but I've learned since then backstabbing and stealing ideas is a big part of politics in most corporations. What a bummer.
Apparently the Harvard Scandals and high incidents of rape on campus are finally catching up with Harvard, nevermind the awful things its alumni have done: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/fashion/harvard-scandal-a...
Did you forget that there is an actual article we are discussing here? And it uses the term? And it has a specific definition of it? The same one I used?

I mean you did object to this article right? Not some other one, that used a completely different definition of the word?
Yeah, like wtf?

>they offered to add me as an inventor on the patent application if it meant the applications could stand. I said no
Did you sign Google's visitor agreement? Did you read Google's visitor agreement. You give up some IP rights by signing that. This is a case where it matters. When I visited Google, I refused to sign. They just give you a badge that said you didn't sign.
I have an account. Why would that make any difference?

RH BZ's are (or used to be) public by default, unless they're manually changed. eg for security related things
> Seriously, it's set and forget

If that was true they would not be euphemistically labelled as experimental.
It seems like you answered your own question? You have to pay a lot of money now for a breakeven that happens in close to fifteen years, which is close to the lifetime of the device. Which means that the value of the device to you is close to $0, but it costs you $15k. Why does that seem like it might be a good deal?
Flux OSKit: Reusable Components for OS Implementation (1997)
here are an endless number of smart plugs that let you remotely turn an outlet on and off, but those plugs usually accept just one single cable. So to address bigger needs, Kasa is introducing an entire smart power strip that allows you to individually control all six of its power sockets.
Strategies for Headless Projects with Structured Content Management Systems
Why did it crush them? Shouldn't the job they agreed to take with you have set them up for success? Or did they not perform well and find themselves unemployed?
To trigger the switch to a container, only the user-visible URL in the address bar is relevant. Other URLs for resources on the page do not matter at all, as they will only be loaded after you are already in the corresponding container.
- Generics do not make runtime performance slow, but it sure does make compile times slower (although it really depends on the type system and its implememtation) For example, C++ templates, although very powerful, makes build times order of magnitudes slow when used poorly. One of the most important features of Go is its fast compile times, but generics/contracts can potentially slow it down a lot.

- Yes, being a dynamic language slows it down a lot. For example, when evaluating a+b, the interpreter has to check the types of the variables a and b at runtime beform performing the right form of addition (it might be an int, or a string, you dont know). Even with JIT (just in time compilation) the compiler has to initially “guess” that the variables are numbers, and fall back if that is not the case. Statically typed languages do not have this problem, because you know the types of variables beforehand at compile time.

By the way, Nim is not a dynamic language. And LuaJIT is one of the the fastest dynamic language implementations because the language is very simplistic (compared to Javascript/Python/Ruby) and Mike Pall is a robot from the future...
If they do mean what they say then they will release a version of Go where the GOPAH nonsense is over and a fix for that design problem is not euphemistically described as experimental.

Until then, no LTS means not ready for production.
They discontinued their best Marvel show, after one of the best seasons of superhero television ever. I don't see the logic.
Oil has been there under the earth for thousands of years now. But it takes some work to put it use.

Human resources are the most important natural resource any country will by and far ever own.

That's also the reason why the 60 mile radius around Bay Area, a barren desert, has an economic output higher than several countries.
DocuSign is not even remotely as simple as you think. Notice how there's no one else in the same space. Microsoft tried and failed and ended up with DocuSign integrated inside Outlook ( the only third party integration I believe). The nightmarish regulation of signatures is complex enough, let alone the doc management system.
If the author pops in here, I hope he takes a look at this patent, because it might be prior art: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8512151 I complained about it to the "Stupid Patent of the Month" attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (here: https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month) and got a nice response agreeing that it looks obvious.
On the specific idea: The idea is not unique, and really low hanging fruit for a mass site.
ih is internet hindu

a label created for us by marxists
The people using buckets to scoop it out, obviously.
The story talks about a patent. The search on the first listed inventor brings 5 of his applications on various aspects of these electronically enriched books all almost simultaneously (after he invented additive manufacturing) - Google I suppose have nice bonuses for patents and skillful patent layers.
Is there any way to get in touch with you? I work in accessibility and would love to connect with an ADHD researcher to discuss some specific questions. My contact info is in my profile, if you can reach out!
For anyone wanting to dig into the ICS the authoritative introduction is the NIMS IS-100[1] course. Be aware that it's your standard government produced course, i.e. not entertaining in any way but generally manages to get the point across.

If I understand/remember correctly, IS-100 and 200 are the required courses on ICS (along with 700, 800 for NIMS itself) for all frontline firefighters on any fire department wanting to receive federal money.

1. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100...
How much are you saving in rent compared to the same home off the bus line?
None of this is happening in India because the problem isn't restricted to just money alone. There are huge social problems to solve.

People here still fight elections on the basis of religion and caste.
Similar story and time as Google ANS patent:
https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/inventor-says-googl...
Well, if you'd said "was efflorescent for 40 years" and not "existed for 40 years", I wouldn't have had any beef :)
Crazy how high a percent that is...
> Did you read Google's visitor agreement. You give up some IP rights by signing that.

I guess the "don't be evil" thing is already well down the toilet.

What's that all about? A new form of tribute when you're called upon to kiss Google's ring?
I switched to using Private Browsing windows and tabs, which clears all tracking cookies on close. And browse via always-on VPN to hide my IP. Much safer, imho.

Still unresolved are history leaks via Referer, from things like fonts, ajax, tagmanager google.com API calls, present on all websites.

Why web people link so much Google stuff in their websites is a mystery.
Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax
A car has a high fixed cost whether you use it or not. It only costs about $.25/mile in variable costs.
Really sorry to hear that. I understood patenting can be a pain and takes an inventor to get it done, but it seems like the thieves are more interested in getting patented than the inventors themselves.

I guess the best thing for you to do it in such a situation is to open source it so the whole community can benefit from it, not just one big evil company that steals ideas. At least you'd go down as a hero.
I have to disagree. Someone getting paid a lot for unproductive work (football coach) is much better than someone who makes a lot through court-enforced theft (this guy).
101 South of 85 has little traffic reverse direction (commute direction is into mountain view in mornings; out in evenings).
> She's off meds right now, struggling a bit

May I ask why you opted to take her off the meds after seeing such a huge benefit from them?
> I wish the world had stuck to his principles, but it clearly hasn't and it's unlikely it will ever inch closer

This puts perfectly my thoughts on stallman. I think the world would certainly be a better place if everyone adhered to his principles. However, I think his way is neither the best way nor the improvement which can most successfully be brought into action.
Look at a roadmap and compare to a transit map. Also look at the schedule of road closures.
First of all I would consider it very unethical to steal your client's idea/project or try to extort money from them just because you believe their idea has potential.

You are hired to write code. Bill them for the time & effort it takes you to write that code. Doesn't matter whether the code has potential or not (if it does, great, because you're likely to have future business from them, and possibly end up being hired in a senior position, maybe even CTO).

You can communicate this to them as your personal opinion, but make sure you don't come across as threatening. Ideally let them know after the deal is sealed and you already agreed on a rate, otherwise it might come across badly during the rate negotiation where they don't really want to pay X amount of money but at the same time feel pressured to accept otherwise they think you might run away with the project/idea/whatever.
Babylon 5 has this. Available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime (no affiliation; just know many have an account) as of a few months ago.

I'd never seen it coherently, all the way through. I really enjoyed watching it again, and fully.
The story in the article about Jill MacKay stealing their LED sticker idea then trying to sell them the patent for $5m is infuriating. Goes to show you can get scammed by some jeweler in Colorado just as fast and easily as by huge Corp like Google.

I suppose it's possible she had the idea, saw their kickstarter then submitted a patent to CYA. But then why back the kickstarter? Just feels fishy.
I think you may be confusing what people are "willing" to pay and what people are "forced" to pay. We do not operate in "free market"
Error messages have been greatly improved in Clojure version 1.10[1][2]

[edit] more context

1: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md#21...

2: https://mobile.twitter.com/puredanger/status/102810365424144...
At the time, I could not find a single social media site that was using link-rewriting to make affiliate money.

Blogs and fan sites for niche products had been using this to make money for a while, social media sites had not yet tried it.

The close proximity with the announcement and my interview is what really bothered me. I have a strong feeling (but cannot prove) that someone I interviewed with took the idea and ran with it. I had done a lot of research into how much money Reddit would make off of this and how to implement it at scale without breaking existing affiliate links and such.

I had literally planned it as my pitch for what I wanted to work on and why they should hire me.
Agreed. Not sure how long ago your interview was, but I remember seeing plug & play services that would add affiliate codes to links of any site via a JS snippet even 10 years ago. A friend who ran a blog network used it.
They like to simulate them being big cities like New York or Tokyo in terms of cost of living and rent prices.

The country just build HOUSES for few people and nothing high or apartment blocks... Again, instead, we build offices.

Truth is Dublin is one of the most appalling cities in the world.
Sorry I forgot, no jokes allowed on HN. On a more serious note if Zuckerberg did become the Democrat nominee then I could see the party splintering into a progressive party and a centre-right party.
Finding the Best Deals on Travel, with Help from AI
Still not sure whether, and why, these containers are needed when Firefox's internal ‘tracking protection’ is enabled.
Case in point, from the article:

> Any API change had to be deployed simultaneously to all services using that API to avoid downtime, which often went wrong and resulted in long release cycles.

There’s an easy solution to that problem, which is a versioned API.
If someone tells you “I have no interest in serving you, because I do not wish to follow your rules”, and you disguise yourself as someone else and ask again, how could you possibly expect your rules to be suddenly be followed? It would be absurd. At that point, they would have follow all rules across all countries simultaneously, because who knows what country any given person is really from? Ask and they’ll lie, and you’ll still be on the hook!

At some point the responsibility has to fall on the user instead of the business, and the I think actively skirting the rules is sufficient and a nice, clear line, to fault the user.
IS GLOBALIZATION a VEHICLE FOR THE SPREAD OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE?
Regina Dugan is a former head of DARPA as well as ATAP. She has an impressive resume. Why would she do something like this? For a not particularly important patent, LED popup books? It seems bizarre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan
I don't understand why all this outrage is directed at Google but Microsoft gets a free pass.

I'm in China at the moment and if I search Bing.com for "Tiananmen Square massacre" all I get are results about Xi Jinping celebrating martyrs and nothing about what happened.

If you want to be outraged by Google's actions, OK, but it seems selective to me. Microsoft and Google can't be the only ones who do this, either.
She worded that way too diplomatically.

What google did here is one of the evilest things you can do.

They are taking open research and trying to close it off. Research that they didn't even contribute to! Research that they didn't need patent rights for because it's already free for them to use. But they can't allow anyone after them to have the same privilege can they?
Regarding the Pyramid of Giza, the current best understanding is:

> .. that they were paid laborers who took great pride in their work and were not slaves, as was previously thought. Evidence from the tombs indicates that a workforce of 10,000 laborers working in three-month shifts took around 30 years to build a pyramid. Most of the workers appear to have come from poor families. Specialists such as architects, masons, metalworkers and carpenters, were permanently employed by the king to fill positions that required the most skill. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex#Tombs_of_...
I think the author is a she.
Thanks for the feedback I appreciate it and I am very sorry to hear about your experience. While I can't go back and change what happened, I want to let you know we recognize the mistakes we've made and I can assure you we are committed to learn from them going forward. I hope one day you'll make it back.
A world where humans have given up free will, all desire and drive, and live out meaningless lives noticed by no one (ffs, the greatest game player of the galaxy was worried he'd be forgotten in TWO YEARS - and he was, except by people who knew him personally!)? I do not think life as a pet of a machine is a happy future for humanity.
Very likely. I can't quite make out the name on her badge. But she's with chibitronics.com it seems.

Edit: Doh. It's Jie Qi :)
Prior art VigLink (2010):
https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/viglink-affiliate-programs...

Reddit partners with VigLink (2016):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/announcements/...

Hope this helps you move on.
You realize the CEO and COO of Enron went to jail, right? Technically, it was the FBI, but still.
Did you copy all this from some govt. website?
Funny how the author gave this talk in honor of Felleisen's on his 60th birthday. "Hi, to honor you I'll talk about how one of your better known works is incomplete and only shows half of the picture".

I started reading HTDP long ago but at the time I made the huge mistake of taking a detour to learn Racket, and later Scheme... HTDP provides small languages just to save students from the herculean effort of having to learn a whole programming language and environment. Way to miss the point.

Anyway, there's some associated documentation on the Racket site about a library called "2htdp/universe" [1]. The architecture described is very close to the so called "ELM architecture" [2] or even Redux [3]. Probably (maybe?) there's no relation though, since coming to this architecture appears to be really natural when working with functional programming languages.

1: https://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpuniverse.html#%2...

2: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

3: https://redux.js.org/
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Are you familiar with Fashion Nova?

Their only form of marketing is paying a network of 3,000 influencers to post on social media about their clothes.

(FYI:Some of the dresses could be considered NSFW)
https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/inside-fashion...
Crazy indeed. This was like lessons learned #2 from C, which later introduced the stdint types int32_t et. al.

A modern language with this type of confusing and platform dependent behavior is inexcusable. By all means, include a native data type as big as the processor can handle (size_t), but don't call it int which is the default data type most people will use out of pure laziness.
> What makes this terrible advice?

Some PhD programs focus on non-marketable topics that don't help candidates develop marketable skills, and exist only to dump the research group's drudge work on an unsuspecting soul.

Wasting years of your life in a low-pay low opportunity dead-end job that's prone to abuse just to pursuit a pipe dream is not a great career move, particularly if the alternative is landing a job at Google.
Is the world heading for an insulin shortage?
Venezuela is not starving its people for "political reasons". At least not anymore. That strikes me as a US talking point more than fact. Sure, the politics and economics of the leadership crushed the economy, but at this point, sticking with the program is nothing more than a megalomaniacal dictator clinging to power. Same old story
I believe this was an honest misunderstanding and not an attempt to steal the idea because if the patent had issued and become valuable, it would have been easily invalidated.

If a company wants to steal your patent they will "surround" your idea with other patents: method of manufacturing <idea>, method of using <idea> in <industry>, <idea> used in adjacent use case. This is a legal but slimy way to force the sale of your idea since now only they can profitably commercialize it.
It's not New York with lot of population, skyscrapers, etc. Dublin as a city is not great, like... They are not even prepared for rain.
I don't think so. When it spins it up, the request is already in flight. Otherwise this would have been solved by everyone but instead everyone sees terrible cold start times.
You're right, but it's still hypocritical to morally condemn a prejudicial action against a people while you're acting out of prejudice against the same people. Especially since this moral condemnation seems conveniently timed and aligned with an active trade war.

This Muslim ban came before the immigrant camps and migrant child detention centers, which Pence also supported. If we don't hold him accountable for hypocrisy, then who will?
Unwritten rule of HN is that, one must be a blind supporter of anything clojure, Haskell and must be a blind hater of anything java, Javascript. Downvoters:care to provide reasons??
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Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Life changer!
Golden mean fallacy
Alternatively maybe they had been working on the idea for awhile and it was just a coincidence. Bringing an idea to the table that they were already working on might also hurt your chances of getting a job there.
Google is a new patent troll, IMO. Another example: Google trying to patent compression algorithm already dedicated to public domain by its inventor

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/9c7kw6/google_i...
Firefox lets you use full-fledged uBlock Origin. That means that although Spidermonkey might have a 30% disadvantage conpared to V8, you end up running 90% less scripts, never mind the network savings.
Their old one was so bad I actually learned how to use route 53 just to migrate out of it.

Their CEO is just pretending to be forthright here. I have a tweet where he replied to me from February 2014 that said Google Auth support is coming in a couple of months.

This all happened because I got locked out of my namecheap account when THEIR system wouldn't sms me the code and they had problems with the voice calling.

So I emailed support. They called me 5 hours later to ask me a bunch of questions. Here's the funny part: they called me on the number I had used for 2FA. Isn't the fact that I answered that number proof enough that I had it?

Everything they do is half assed including their Frankenstein panel that's a mix of their old interface and their new one.

Anyway. Good riddance. Only use namecheap if you can't afford the $1 it costs to host your dns on route53.