skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've replaced Adblock with uBlock and uMatrix and couldn't be happier. It seems to have a smaller footprint in the browser and better results at filtering away unwanted requests.

The only thing that would make this perfect is if they would also run on my Android phone.
I've been wearing glasses since I was 8, got contacts when I was 13 and have been thinking about getting LASIK since it first became popular ~10 years ago. I have gone from wanting it really badly to now not wanting it all.

In high school and college, I wore contacts all the time because it improved my confidence. As I got older, I found myself wearing glasses all the time and contacts at the gym/social events, etc. As a side note, wearing contacts stabilizes your vision - your Rx will not change as quickly because of the short focal distance. This is a nice benefit because we spend so much time looking at screens nowadays.
Well, there is a qt port. It’s really nice, but it isn’t really activate anymore.

Currently I use a lot of hacks to get proper file selection dialogs in Firefox, as the GTK dialogs are just horrible to use.
I had LASIK 7 years ago, for free actually (luckily my company's health insurance covered it if your sight was as bad as mine). I do see as well as I saw with glasses, so not having to bother with them has been amazing. But I never saw that well with glasses, and I see the same now. By this I mean I still use more zoom on my screen than anyone I know, for example. Otherwise it isn't comfortable. I've gone to the doctor and there isn't any problem with my eye, nor glasses would help, so maybe it's a problem somewhere. Anyone else have this problem? It isn't a huge one, but it would be great to see as well as most people do (wearing glasses or not).
What about tariffs? They're designed to incentivize buying products made at home. What about "sin" taxes? They're designed to incentivize good behavior?

(Some) taxes are definitely designed around incentives.
This is what I want to see more of, I get very worried about any tech claiming to overtake the UI layer of your application and make it cross platform. It never makes sense to do IMO. Logic and models though however, I can't wait!
Where did you do yours?
French Constitutional Council Widely Approves Surveillance Law
Are you kidding me ?

The argument is what follows that statement, how about we discuss that ?
Default-deny is the best answer against bloat -- though not for everybody unfortunately, but I did try to make it as straightforward as possible with uBlock Origin[1]. Using default-deny in uBlock Origin/Chromium[2] and with the page displaying properly, I get from Network pane in dev console:

- 62 requests

- 508 KB transferred

Once you start using default-deny mode, it's difficult to go back to anything less restrictive as one get quickly used to how fast pages load -- and with such virtuous "side-effects" as foiling most 3rd-party tracking/data mining by default. Once usual sites are "unbroken" and ruleset saved, using default-deny become less and less of a annoyance over time. For example, I already had the only two rules necessary to unbreak The Verge so the page appeared correctly the first visit.

Another example of ridiculous amount of bloat: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Tips-and-tricks-water...

* * *

[1] sorry if this sounds like a plug, I do feel strongly about users re-claiming control about where their computer connects.

[2] using suggested default-deny ruleset at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
Full Disclosure. That's what happens when companies aren't interested in hearing about their security vulnerabilities. https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure
> I have gone from wanting it really badly to now not wanting it all.

What made you change your mind?
Do we really need anonymous surveys? We are all adults, can't we just sit down and talk and sort out issues? If a team is already beyond that point, what is the guarantee that being anonymous will work (assuming it is kept fully anonymous somehow)?
I have been playing with the gomobile "bind" command to generate cross platform libraries for my Android and iOS app. Its quite easy to use, but the GC has been a pain in the ass on iOS. Its hard to track what the Go GC is doing and I am fighting with a bunch of EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors when calling operations on Go data structures. Still its a pretty fun experiment to have one backend for all the different native front ends.
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Nexmo's CEO also seems to be active on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamingo
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Off-Topic: Just curious here, are you guys having problems because of the other startup named Periscope?
Rather boggled that they have regulations for umbrellas
Can anyone index the chilling effects DB ... it seems like a great place to find content ...
Thank you. Let's leave it to the mods to resolve. :)
I went ahead and read his post about the actual process of getting the surgery and I think that's scared me off of it forever. It's not an invasive procedure, but just the thought of being strapped down and having my eyes mechanically restrained so a miniature band saw can slice pieces of them off is absolutely terrifying. I'm sure the doctors are all qualified for the most part and it's well within reasonable safety parameters, but even with sedation I would be incredibly anxious.

Is there a similar procedure to LASIK where they can put you completely under? Or can they do that with LASIK too?
Yes, forgot to cite my source. Been there, done that, got the suits.

It depends on what track you choose and what projects you get on, amongst many other things. There are plenty of talented people (at least to begin with) but they tend to get masked by people who would be better suited as contestants on the apprentice.

If you go into consulting and you're even vaguely technical (can write simple software) then you will be very frustrated and will probably end up teaching the start group courses. If you're happy to have your non-technical manager take credit for your work then go for it. Solutions is more technical but doesn't pay as well.

If you're the sort of person that reads HN (which you obviously are) then it is unlikely to be a good cultural fit for you.

Swombat also has experience but I don't know if he'll chip in.
I did Relex Smile in Bangkok, Thailand 2 months ago and am very happy. Can only recommend this procedure as it's quite uninvasive (at least compared to the older approaches).

I've had all pre-exam checks & the surgery on one day and could work the next day (after a beautiful 16h valium-induced sleep).

My left eye took a bit longer to adjust but now i'm fine and only really need my eye drops when i wake up in the morning.
Would you happen to be frequently dehydrated? I find that floaters are a sign that I personally haven't been drinking enough water...
I'm thinking the parent comment's point is more that if I upload an original composition on YouTube and someone else issues a takedown request claiming to own the copyright it'd be really hard for me to dispute that if the person making the request had deep enough pockets. Not sure whether that is true though.
It's funny you say "monetizing users". Immediately after reading that, I opened up linked in and I had a message in my inbox from IBM providing me a free trial to some software and it had a little "sponsored" tag on the inbox item.

Dear god this site is wretched.
Did you have "dry eyes" symptoms after your surgery? For some persons (like me), they can't have this treatment because it can damage lacrimal glands. My eyes are naturally to dry to try this securely.
My first job out of school was in tech consulting, and I got a lot out of it. In the 5 years I was there I got to see probably 5-8 different companies of all types and sizes. It gave me a better understanding of the different kinds of problems and (sometimes) the positives at various types of companies. Plus, lots of variety in terms of the projects and technology I worked with. It would have been hard to get the same breadth of experience at a single job, and I don't think I've ever had it in me to change companies every 6-12 months.
Yeah, but you still need to write those maxi, maxd :-(
"If DMCA claims were expensive... the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music."
I remember getting glasses for the first time when I was 13. While I found the better definition of far away objects nice (useful is a better word), I actually found that I liked how the world looked (in an aesthetics way) without glasses vs. with it...like I always liked how the trees[0] looked in the afternoon sun but glasses sort of ruined it.

I would later learn about "impressionism"[1], and fall in love with those art works. Apparently there are/were people out there who enjoyed seeing the "impression" of something over its definition like I did. Today, my instagram has a number of blurry photos.

EDIT: I should mention that my eyesight is not extremely terrible, and at that age, my eyesight wasn't good enough to function, although I need glasses now to drive, etc.

[0] I would learn later there is a word for it in Japanese, komorebi:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181055/english-eq...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
Yes, Eq. 16 certainly does not follow from 15. They should have a mixed state of the system. You should recognize this, since it's the graph isomorphism approach everyone tries.

infparadox: It's a subsystem, not a subspace. When you discard a subsystem which is entangled (as they specifically say it is) the result cannot be a pure state, and you need to express it in the dentist matrix formalism by taking the partial trace over the discarded system. What they wrote is not correct.
Three ideas:

First, try the bitap algorithm.

Second, you can encode the search as a DFA - look up the Aho–Corasick algorithm. Then just run the DFA over the genome. It means that you don't need to match every string at every position. If you've read AAAAA and your string starts with CCCCC with an edit distance of 4, you can skip ahead for a while before you need to start reading again.

Third, you could build a suffix tree (O(n) preprocessing), and then use the standard fuzzy string matching algorithm using suffix trees on it.
Grok this and you will know everything you need to about spreadsheets: http://jsfiddle.net/ondras/hYfN3/

You'll probably also end up learning a thing or two about JavaScript. Even now, 2 years after I first saw this, I'm seeing new things in it, and I've been doing JS for 20 years.
Not to my knowledge. Last time I did research on that, there were experimental treatments (also involving lasers) to try to dissolve them. Which had dangers and some side effects, among them more floaters!

Give it time, it will likely become less annoying. I've had one for 5 years now. In the last couple of years, I've noticed more of them appearing, but this particular bothersome one fading. It is likely breaking down and my eye doctor told me it could happen.
Ask HN: Who is disrupting car buying?
So I've been frustrated with TrueCar, and all the other car buying sites (carsdirect etc). Is anyone truly disrupting this process? I would love to hear also any innovative ways you guys used to get great pricing on new cars.
They don't care? Full disclosure then.
Slightly unrelated, but has anyone developed floaters (moving or static) in their eyes (late 20s)? I find them quite irritating, especially on solid light-colored backgrounds, not to mention the white background on most apps.

I'm slightly worried about them, especially if it means i will develop more as i get older...
When I made the appointment in the LASIK center, I did it through QualSight LASIK instead of directly with the center. That center offered discounted rates if booked through QualSight.
How bad was your eyesight, then? I'm curious, I heard LASIK effects are weaker when you have smaller defect (~2 diopters)
I had LASIK 15 years ago. I was saddened when I learned my vision has started to decline from my eagle eyed 20/10 post surgery. It's currently around 20/40 right now, so I wear my glasses driving at night, bowling, and movie watching. Part of the decline could be due to diabetes, but my ophthalmologist said it's quite normal to experience regression as the LASIK population contributes more empirical data.

I still think it's a tremendous value, even if it doesn't last forever. I may go back for an adjustment some day...
I drink (water) like a fish. Have tried that one for over a year unfortunately :(
in all honesty, correct me if I'm wrong, Canon doesn't produce state-of-the-art sensors, does it. in fact, at least according to very same dxomark, Sony does... and since Sony glasses suck/there are too few & good ones are overpriced, to me it seemed logical to go Nikon way (which use Sony sensors, namely D750 in my case).

Now Canon with proper sensors, that would be a killer combination, wouldn't it
Interested to know for everyone who has had it, how old they were when they got it done and how old they are now? I'm curious if there's an age factor involved. I'm a 40 year old male with not too bad uncorrected eyesight and a little astigmatism.
The remarkably high odds you’ll be poor at some point in your life
There are countries with much lower corporate tax rates. E.g. Ireland is 15%, Panama is 0% (on foreign income).

I'd say the optimal strategy is what Facebook and Google do with the double Irish Dutch sandwich http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/07/double-iris...
IANAL, If you're "fully disclosing" a vulnerability in a service (that isn't running a responsible disclosure program) rather than a code-base, you're potentially opening yourself to legal trouble.

Even looking for vulnerability's in software running on servers that aren't controlled by you without permission is very legally sketchy.

Whether or not you should do so or not for the good of the internet is a different argument, but you should be aware of the potential implications.
... Which is one of the reasons I listed for not using it, and unrelated to features.
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Because you can is largely why I wrote the post.

That being said, i think the nature of go routines and how go handles threading could be very important for mobile. We are all walking around with handsets that have multiple weak cores. If we can spread the general work over those cores our handset could possibly get back to a lower power mode faster.

That's my take on it anyways
Congratulations Tomas and Maria on the launch! It's a really interesting concept and it am excited to see if, when and how it will succeed.

Based on what I've read so far, it sounds like if I purchase a Wheely's cart, I almost a franchisee. What's different between Wheely's and the typical franchise model? Would I have to pay royalties for this? Also, would I have to source my own locations to place my cart and deal with the regulation within my local city?

I'll see if I can convince folks I know to bring this to Canada :)

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of a startup who's helping franchises find the perfect location for their store. We have done some analysis work on coffee store locations in Canada and the United States.
I had ICL* surgery instead of LASIK, because the cornea was too thin. It has worked very well so far: I do get halos, but haven't had any other complications. The implants can also be removed or replaced.

* Implantable Contact Lens, from Wikipedia: The procedure is performed under local anesthesia with the patient awake throughout the operation. The flexibility of the ICL enables the lens to be rolled for insertion into the soft silicone tip of the micro incision injector through a very small incision (2.2mm) thus avoiding the need for stitches, and this procedure usually takes less than 30 minutes in the hands of an experienced ophthalmologist. Following the procedure, most people have immediate use of their eyes. The full recovery period is typically 1–2 days with minimal discomfort and most patients are able to go to work the next day. After surgery, the common advice is to avoid driving home and to visit the attending ophthalmologists regularly for several months so as to monitor the implants. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_collamer_lens )
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Verge: We're turning comments off for a bit
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/6/8901115/were-turning-commen...
I think what yason was trying to say is that how it currently works isn't the best option, but neither are obvious alternatives, such as making it a financial investment to send takedown notices.
The people you need to reach are the software developers that maintain the system. It's probably best to try signed contract one of them through social media.

Yes there are companies that don't care about security. Often these mean that the software was built or operated by people with an agency/consulting background who care more about whether the software works.
I did mine 9 years ago. Best decision of my life. Long term effects:

- I suffered from the night halo effect for two years afterwards, but it went away. Even then, I was happy having done the surgery.

- I am more light-sensitive now than I was. I'm uncomfortable without sunglasses in a bright summer day, something that didn't happen before. From what I can tell I'm still in the normal light sensitivity band.

- My eyes are drier now than before surgery. Again, not something that affects day to day life. I notice it mostly when the eye gets irritated somehow (after swimming in salty water or chlorinated water, after being in smoky environments or being exposed to dust).

Doctors routinely downplay both the halo effect and the reduced tear production. The halo effect is more common in high correction surgeries (my correction was 3 dioptries myopic correction and 4(left) and 6(right) asthigmatic correction, which is rather high).

If you have already reduced tear production, I'd advise against the surgery. From people I know who did LASIK, that's the only relevant downside people talk about. Having permanently dry eyes and permanent need for drops is worse than wearing glasses.

It isn't painful, but I was uncomfortable for a couple weeks. For the first couple of days it seemed I had a grain of sand in the eye (and I had to resist the urge to scratch it out). On the plus side, recovery is very quick. I was out and about on the day after, and working in front of a computer screen three days after.
The US has a system engineered around the political process. High corporate tax rates, with lots of carve-outs.

There are all sorts of strategies for optimization. Many involve lobbying Congress for special carve-outs.
Mindfulness and Meditation Talks at Google
No, the patent would be owned by the company.
nah, that wont work.

that would surely end up in legal battle, from the ad agencies saying that Google used their monopolistic power on the search industry just to boost their analytics product.
Thanks for mentioning this.

I've only ever had cursory looks at LASIK because my nearsightedness is not quite serious enough to need glasses all the time, but I looked up what you mentioned and found this:

http://www.lasikcomplications.com/flapdislocation.htm

Watching the YouTube video in the link quite literally made me shudder in my chair.

If I ever do get eye surgery I'll probably go for PRK despite the longer healing time.
The strangely successful history of stowaways mailing themselves in boxes
Thanks for sharing the link http://www.getmdl.io/ I did not know about it.

I think you are right, Team is thinking in similar lines. Thanks.
> I remember reading that a particular author, Franz Borkenau, was highly critical of the communists in Anarchist Catalonia, describing the terror they inflicted on Barcelona in his book the spanish cockpit.

Are you referring to the Stalinist oppression that began with the Barcelona May Days in 1937, or to anarchist atrocities in the city before then?
Yep. But that's YouTube's own content system, which is way harsher and tilted toward major labels: they commonly poach other people's stuff.
IBM is both a technology company and a services company. They shifted their primary strategy to services when they saw it doing well while eg server markets weren't. Right now, they make billions selling mainframes, servers, and software licenses. They also hit 7nm in the lab recently while Intel struggles with lesser tech. Their R&D is several billion dollars a year ranging from product development to foundational science.

They're more of a technology company than most that make Hacker News. They also sell services. They also acquire proven implementations of new products and services. The combo is called a technology conglomerate & it's a proven model to make billions over decades.
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I would guess this is their attempt at going after the virtualization market. They bought Sun for the hardware(among other things) so now they need the software. VMware was probably too expensive for them.

VirtualBox is not in the same playing field as VMware but it does work well and is popular etc. The team already knows how to build virtualization software. To me they're just missing some management tools.

Big companies like Google and Oracle don't really think about what's coming next year. Sometimes they invest in something that will pay off big in 10 years. I think this is one of those deals.

This is pure guesswork obviously. I have no idea...
And that's another reason why it's a good thing that PHP 7 (coming out soon!) has a new function called random_int() which provides an unbiased distribution of integers powered by a CSPRNG (yes, it uses urandom, in case anyone asks).

My employer is leading the effort to expose a compatible interface in PHP 5 applications so developers can add one line to their composer.json file and start writing code for PHP 7. It's MIT licensed and should nearing its 1.0.0 release soon.

https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat
Thanks for clearing that up.

I fell this is rather important, and kind of missing from your blog entry, as that's the first question that pops to my head as a reader (or at least a reader who's a software dev)
I've spent considerable time looking for GTK3 themes that meet your requirements.

My current choice is openSuse-Pistachio which is green, reasonably compact, and did not break for two consecutive Ubuntu releases. zonColor icons work beautifully, too, with adjustable colors.

There are a few more reasonable choices (though not oodles) on gnome-look.org
Two online learning assignments that promote application and reflection. Anyone interested in elearning should read that.
And for anyone wearing contacts, I can't highly enough recommend trying daily ones. They are thinner, more breathable, and don't need cleaning.

After suffering for years with monthly contacts (dry eyes, discomfort), I'd only wish I'd learned this sooner.
Books don't need to have a unique name, just like in normal libraries. You can basically assume a title is the first X characters of the total Y characters of a given text. The goal of the Library of Babel isn't to be a perfect key-value store, just to create all the permutations possible within certain conditions.
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