skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom and democracy are vital to open and honest discussion, which in turn drives innovation.
Sense of safety and security on all fronts let people concentrate on ideas and execution, rather than things.
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Laptop infected with viruses sells for 1.9M$AUD
Better source with answers to those questions: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/29/no-chill-google-jus...
A few things:

1. America's early expansion was designed to gain control over the entirety of the Mississippi river, which has the largest lockless waterway system serving the longest "useful" land area in the world with cheap boat transportation. This cheap transportation is the primary reason for American early development success, and continues to benefit America immensely to this day.

2. Every other developed country suffered massive losses in the world wars. America suffered no damage to her land or infrastructure, and was able to use her superior position at the end of the war to gain even more economic advantage over allies and foes alike.

3. America binged importing top scientific talent at the end of the second world war, most notably from Germany by offering them amnesty from war crimes (which massively boosted their rocketry, medical, and electronics industries).

The rest is largely snowball effect.
How do you measure 25% of the world's intellectual output? I'm a fan of Judea Pearl and Woody Allen, but I think that's a pretty strong statement to make
Mozilla can (and does) offer putting the privacy concerns and an open web first.

Google has worked very hard over the years to make itself into an organization with deeply baked-in incentives to do the opposite. It'd take a decade of sustained effort working counter to powerful incentives to fix that.

This is distinct from making a capable well-performing browser, which Google has done. So has Mozilla.
The people most impacted aren't the entitled well-off first world citizens you allude to, but second and third world citizens and youth.

The rational choices of market participants do not remove the ability of sellers to sell, but they certainly do create more economic pressure for sellers to find and support better systems.

Also consider that the problem is not audiences vs publishers. It's corrupt middlemen harming audiences (privacy / malware / hidden costs) and defrauding publishers (fake traffic, bots, perverse incentives).

At this stage Brave's system of on-device ML in-browser for relevance and privacy, and opt-in ads seems a much better model, and I'm sure others will pop-up too.

We seem to be on the cusp of much better approaches to funding content, so it's really up to us to start advocating and supporting these new approaches.
Time to build a Pi Hole since iOS Firefox doesn’t allow extensions.
Half of the most popular social networks have bad names - Twitter, Facebook, Snap... doesn't seem too critical to me.

Hell, you could practically name your product "eunuchs" and it would be unlikely to affect your success.
Which demonstrates the benefit of having decentralized websites deciding which ads are okay rather than one centralized global distribution platform deciding what's "acceptable content" for every app uploaded there.
They mention their finding "highlights the challenges in store for the research for trace of extinct life in Mars.", which seems different to me.
Yeah, although I work in the fintech industry and we have to do a lot of work to comply with local regulations and data sovereignty laws in most countries. It's daunting but you can still engineer to have the same versions of applications deployed globally with different configurations per region.
Of course, this is not the sole reason why the US industry is where it is today. It's rather one of many reasons. The effect is much smaller than, say, soviet espionage on US technology was. But here you have some links on US industrial espionage on German companies:

https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-firms-fe...
Servo is very promising, but not ready for commercial embedded applications yet (as of approx 3-4 months ago last time I checked it).

It will likely be a better engine than embedded Chromium when it's done (if for no other reason than that it seems to have fewer dependencies[0]), but I wouldn't start building an application on top of it today.

I am highly interested in finding a more performant alternative to Electron. I'm currently building a web-first game that will also be available as a fully offline native app. I'll probably use Electron unless the ecosystem changes drastically before I'm done. Some really interesting projects out there -- not just Servo, but also thin wrappers around OS web views, even a few re-implementations of CSS/HTML that just force you to cross-compile or port your Javascript to another language.

But I haven't found any that were mature enough that I felt comfortable using them. Servo was the most promising project I personally have seen so far, but it needs more time.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/b67910842ab95bb3decdf8...
Really, you'd fire every engineer that shows an ounce of curiosity? I'm glad I don't work where you work.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...
Really good overview: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01715
User feedback.
I think a better idea for the person involved is to work at a company that isn't run by self-serious bureaucrats.
In my mind, that can only be one of the four: Adderall/ Dexies, weed, alcohol, or maybe coffee. Not sure the code word is subtle enough!
“It always seemed like when there was cool technology or things happening, it was kinda of in the United States. So, my goal as a kid was to get to America basically.”

Elon Musk
We definetly need analytics toools like volument.com! Great job and what a design! Keep up the good work
I think it's a combination of liability and PR.

These may be apps for legal dispensaries, but that's by state. Obviously there is no use for the app outside of the legal zone, but does thet really look good?

Yes, a lot of modern apps are turning into embedded blink and v8 solutions that port existing websites. Regardless these "apps" are still directly related to marijuana. I dont think it's a moral stance, I think Google doesn't want to be visibly apart of it. Financial institutions are a lot more private and ambiguous in their weed assistance.
Completely agree. But, I think this begs another question -- why does venture capital thrive in the USA so well as opposed to Asia? Is it a cultural thing? or a fundraising thing?
Ask HN: What are engineers rewarded for at your company?
I was promoted this year, but my promotion seemed to have very little to do with my technical abilities. In fact, my manager seems to have very little interest in my technical abilities at all, or my velocity, or the quality of my output. My impression is that any rewards I receive are dependent on my communication skills. Is that normal?
Based on what you and some other people are saying, it does seem bizarre, like maybe some kind of random favoritism is going on.

I also am white and live in Mexico (Playas de Tijuana). My rating is 4.81. I have been going on the assumption that I am kind of ugly looking, although its hard for me to be objective about it.

I do always give tips though. They usually have three choices, like 10, 15, or 20 pesos, and I always pick the highest option. Sometimes for a longer trip I will put like 38 pesos tip. Maybe there is some way for drivers to track tips and somehow that can affect a rating?

I always say thanks for the ride when I get in and out.

My Spanish is very limited and I rarely attempt to say anything in Spanish except for buena noche or something like that. In this area around 33-40% of the drivers speak English.
Best part is it tells you how much ad spend you have caused. It’s crazy how quickly the number reaches 4 figures.
I use Firefox as my primary browser. I still have performance problems. Today this happened. After a long session using 5-30 tabs at a time, and devtools variously open, Firefox sometimes completely locks up for tens of seconds. This is on Windows 10. It happened maybe 3 times today. I've never seen it happen on chrome ever. This is a recent high-powered machine with fast (for a laptop) everything.
Welcome to the point when even free market people will no longer defend your monopoly, Google.

The number of egregious examples of their centralization backfiring against the freedoms within the day-to-day life of internet users keeps growing bigger at a seemingly exponential rate.

The barrier for competition may be high but history is littered with examples of giants withering under their own decision making. Nor will they forever be immune from antitrust laws.
First time I've seen someone use Keybase.pub. Last time I checked they gave out 250gb for free for everyone... this is a good use of that!
And perhaps related to this post, there was a YC "ad" a few links above this post saying:

> Outschool (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in SF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20048401
I'm only an engineer and don't have much business acumen so forgive me if that is a dumb question, but wouldn't it be perfectly fine to accept a much lower margin as long as you're still making money, given that having me around as a Dropbox customer is better than me going to a competitor?
Sounds like they're actually only banning delivery apps, even in Canada most (if not all?) of the delivery services being offered by Weedmaps for example are illegal. In most provinces you'd need to order from a provincially run store or go through the medical system where you can order from a specific licensed producer to get it legally by mail.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/29/no-chill-google-jus...
> Privacy for non-bad behavior is a temporary measure to allow people to practice it until everyone decides that it's not bad.

One other aspect of privacy is that it's harder for people with power to control other people's (private) behavior. For example, if all location information was public, employees would be much more likely to face repercussions at work for interviewing at other companies. You can make it illegal but it's hard to prove and will certainly still happen, so privacy is more effective. It's the same sort of reasoning behind secret ballots.
Also, critically, the US government (mostly) allows this. Many other countries have laws or regulations that impede the dynamicity of the economy and disincentivize entrepreneurship (or at least incentivize it less).
> Good lord, you make it sound like dealing with highly radioactive plutonium.

That sounds about right. Your average developer dealing with malware is roughly as safe and sane as playing pool with 6-kilo balls of pu-239. Especially since a lot of places, developers are trusted with things like access to production from their workstations.

> This is a site called hacker news, if you're a web developer and you can't figure out how to pull an html page without executing the scripts involved (a TRIVIAL thing to do) you shouldn't have a job.

You know what's interesting? Even if you can do that, you've already made a mistake and leaked information. You've demonstrated for an attacker deliverability, who is curious and amateurish enough to think they can handle it (but hasn't thought it through), and some useful information about how they believe they are protecting themselves. Fetching a malicious server's HTML safely isn't as easy as might be readily supposed - both curl and wget (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...) have suffered remote exploits in the past. Those are almost certainly the tools a random dev would reach for and they cannot be assumed to be safe. The odds that said random dev is equipped to set up a sandbox to do so reasonably safely are not great, and the odds of them doing so much smaller.

Curiosity isn't a bad thing. It's a wonderful and powerful trait that has driven humanity relentlessly forward through the ages. Unfortunately, it can also be used against people. Being curious when playing with fire can be dangerous. Especially if you just think the fire is pretty and haven't figured out that it burns yet.

This site may be called hacker news, but it's not full of the kind of hacker that congregates at DEFCON and understands the House of Prime. It's full of the other kind.
My point was I don't need my browser injecting extra ads that I get paid for.
Legitimate asylum seekers can seek asylum at the border. They do not need to run across the border, unless they actually have no valid claim for asylum and are simply jumping the border.

You see, as a legal immigrant who was stuck in the dreaded green card queue for years and many of whose family are still stuck in that queue because

(a) the immigration system is overwhelmed by illegals and
(b) because there is political lack of will to fix legal immigration

I do have a vested interest and authority to complain about illegals.
"It is therefore not applicable in all nations."

It's applicable to all nations. You could have a currency that is specifically for this job. As long as you remember to tax it out of existence at the other end.

"This step necessarily requires discretion on the part of the central bank. "

The process in the UK is straightforward. It follows the existing Universal Credit system. The indidividual presents themselves at the local Job Centre, the Job Centre signs them up and allocates them as local democracy dictates to jobs in the area (whether working for local councils, or local charities as the municipality dictates). The job program signs off timesheets which are filed with the UC programme, and then the UC is paid - directly by the central bank. Rather than a 'Treasury' account, you use a 'Job Guarantee' account to charge the bill to. Other than than the process is the same.

"The Federal Reserve bank has a dual mandate of stable, low inflation and low unemployment. "

Which it is failing to keep. Central banks without employment targets have high unemployment - particularly if government is constrained.

"There are other automatic stabilizers that can be implemented independent of the central bank."

Not and allow a balanced budget provision at the same time.

"Global lending has been distorted since 2008 due to the Federal Reserve's interest on excess reserves policy"

Without that central interest rates would be zero. The natural rate of interest is zero in the interbank - as any banker will tell you. Central banks interfere in the market to raise rates.

Reserves have no control function over bank lending. At all. Ever.

And anyway that misses the point. Bank lending takes time, which as any student of dynamic systems knows introduces unstable harmonics into the response function. The reaction is precisely the same as trying to stabilise a skidding car with a steering wheel. Get too big a skid and you can't counter it because you can't respond fast enough. Then the car crashes.
This, some formulas quite hard to read.
Sorry I don't quite understand. Are you seriously saying democracy is a bad idea and that you would like to live in an oligarchy?
You don't even have to dedicate a pi to it. If you've got Docker, you can run it in a container: https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole
My pet theory to Fermi Paradox is much more bleak: This is a very very young universe and we are probably the first and the oldest advanced civilization.

We might have 'aliens' and ET beyond our visible universe but they are further down the timeline.
Maybe, like you said, cellular life exists else where but they need billions more years to reach our stage.
Pages 168 to 262 seem to be missing?
Large population also the fact that it is because it is. Lots of skilled people in tech move to the US to work so more companies start there which means more people move.
Neural Net Worth
Some believe the pi version is superior due to the inclusion of three operators (+, *, exp), and five numbers (0, 1, i, e, pi) which are all fundamental in some sense. The tau version omits the + and the 0.
Showing compassion is always a good thing, and the man should be commended for that. However the law against aiding criminals is also a good thing that should be upheld.
He deserved to be arrested. As an immigrant, I can attest to the fact that the USA has one of the (of not the most) compassionate immigration policies in the world. But people who continue to spread false information in order to push for open borders encourage these people to break the law and get killed in the process.
So much strawmaning in this thread about the motivations of religious and conservative Americans, I'm truly understand why conservatives say you all live in a bubble. So sad.
user feedback can be easily gamed and faked. often the loudest voices are the only ones that are heard.

Dollars at least have tangible measure. I can't imagine that their users are hate spending money on in game purchases.
He/she's talking Albert Einstein, et al: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/german-jewish-inv...
It’s so sad that academic world is polluted by the politics. Who benefits from this!
more reason to use the Brave browser instead of Chrome. Essentially the Chrome browser without the Google bindings. Use the crypto features or not, it has been working for me and my mac runs way more cooler when i had been using Chrome.
I mean, there's the old joke about programmers being machines that convert coffee into code. I think it's pretty safe.
Has anyone created a commercially available CRM for this purpose?
e^iτ + 0 = 1

Fixed.
"Supposed to" are the important words. Currently literally no country is taking the Paris agreement seriously.
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Agreed, but the point is specifically not to nag people -- I don't think that works for Open Source communities; people just get mad. So yeah, tradeoffs.

To put it specifically in advertising terms, I'm also optimizing for conversion rate, not impressions. I'll make a (light) prediction that the few people who know in advance about a system like this will be more likely to try out a browser to save a dollar than they will be to switch a browser to stop a negative experience they're already in.

And on a less practical note, I think I'm OK with fewer people discovering something like this if the ones who do notice end up feeling really good. I want someone's reaction to be, "You noticed! You're right, I am awesome for using an ad blocker!" I want the feeling to be, "sometimes people don't hate me for doing this, and sometimes doing the right thing has benefits."

> you didn't have a reply button initially.

HN rate-limits replies to recent posts.
Asteroid?
What's the benefit of pushing everything to a thread and faking sync operations instead of putting a mutex around writes?
Pretty sure no one would. You'll only manage to get unemployed people. Who will bail if they get a full time offer during that three months.
Eat Club Killer for Startups
Fermat’s Lost Theorem?
Any reading on 1? I was thinking about how America gained ground in the world, from early colonial, to the industrial revolution, to the internet giants. I haven't read much about the Mississippi in relation to that era of our industry.
I feel like the scenarios in which it makes sense to use SQLite for multi users apps is growing, for a few reasons:

- SSD hard disks are ubiquitious

- WAL Mode: readers don't block, and multiple processes can access a single database

- DB-per-customer is getting more common due to privacy laws

- The browser itself is increasingly being used as a client side cache DB in its own right

IIRC Nomadlist uses (or used) sqlite. Wonder how many more web sites are using it in anger.
Lessons Learnt from Running an ICO
But apps that track women in Saudi Arabia are just fine.
What do we mean by in-depth? Basic knowledge is pretty fundamental. Beyond that, I'd say assume you know them, and when you're stuck because you actually don't then go learn only as much about them to get you unstuck.
Google certainly owns the right to transmit Youtube videos to users however they see fit.
I agree. My biggest fear is that we're getting a little too heavy on protectionism and regulation. We have giants in a lot of industries with regulatory capture. I think China's loose approach to IP may allow them to eat our lunch.
The multiple term sheet negotiation strategy is generally a myth. [1] Most startups even the ones that are decently successful would be lucky to even get 1 given the enormous time sink (and seems to be corroborated by the data in the blog post - 30(+15+5) meetings for 1 term sheet!)
Also remember you have atmost a week to accept it.

(Unless of course you are piedpiper ;)

[1]https://stevecheney.com/on-vc-startup-myths/
Clicking a link shows an attacker several things:

* That their attack was delivered successfully to inboxes.
* What email addresses are live.
* Who is curious enough that they will investigate.
* Who believes they understand and can handle the risks.

These are not small things for an attacker to learn. Further, in a world where drive-by browser attacks are real, it's worth thinking very carefully if clicking a link in a phishing email should be regarded as essentially harmless.
I'm currently over 1000 tabs in Firefox. Most aren't loaded in memory. I know this is terrible, one of these days I need to KonMari my tabs and start using bookmarks again. Thankfully I'm not a hoarder of non-digital goods.

Either way, I only get bad performance from a few tabs at a time, usually a Fandom wikia or the pinned Gmail tabs. The first can be solved with a few seconds on about:performance, and the second well... after reading this article and Gorhill's reply, I opened a Fastmail account. We'll see how it goes. But if they're really planning to put all users at risk with an automatic update, Google has finally crossed the evil line.