skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author doesn't realize that what's changed about the Internet isn't the technology. It's the people that changed. Today folks expect to get things for free with adverts. But now people don't want the adverts either so they use uBlock (I know I do). So, what's left for content and technology/service creators to do?

I think micropayments would be a viable solution if a platform that's fairly secure and non-intrusive was created (I don't think Paypal or Bitcoin fit the bill). But the problem is that people today are rightly concerned about identity theft which can wind up draining their bank accounts or tanking their credit score. So, I'm not sure such a scheme would ever take off if companies like Sony can't secure their own infrastructure.

Anyways, the author should realize that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Either you pay in advertisements and data mining your personal info or you pay up front. Honestly, I prefer to pay up front and as directly to the creators as possible.
Amazon Announces Launchpad, an All-In-One Marketing and Sales Portal
HTML and JavaScript Among the Top Tools for Student Programmers
Thanks! I think you're right, I'm going to get rid of the QR code reference in the landing page headline. Maybe just 'Hand-drawn, scannable web links'. I will then have an FAQ box that says 'How is this different than a QR code?' where I list a lot of the feedback I got from this thread.
The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons
Devpost has some fairly robust data on what student hackers are working on.
Well, I guess this is inevitable, and it will be good for renters. It will be bad for people who have long used brokerage to support themselves while they do other activities that are important to them. Women who are the primary caregiver of a child. Artists and musicians. Entrepreneurs.
Classification.

If the system is using all available classified information, then an explanation of its output would have to include the security classification of every input, and the system of classification may also be such that no one person is cleared to know everything. Therefore nobody can know the rationale.

(I've made this up, but I think it's the most plausible way such a thing would get built, and it's the logical outcome of "no read up/no write down" security rules.)
Constantly have to adapt and change or build services because commercial incentives will turn each and every successful service to shit feels like a problem to me.

It doesn't feel sustainable, and a backlash seems to me to only be a matter of time.
D3-Labeler – D3 plug-in for automatic label placement using simulated annealing
I’m running Cyanogenmod 12.1 & everything has been fine so far. Haven’t tried the official Android L releases.
It took me a while to figure out that blocking cookies means I get the failure message for the CAPTCHAs even if I guess correctly.
Not sure it's the case with Quora. I'm just guessing here, but I would say they have high rates of direct visits and many reasons for users to keep coming back every day (or at least every week) because of quality of content and some of their gamification elements.
Facebook offers all those things as part of Facebook.

Google offered a lot of totally unrelated things, from a phone OS to a video site, a search engine, and a social network which did incorporate some stuff on its own (hangouts and photos were well integrated and not really a problem as far as I can tell).

Suddenly introducing connections across all those different sites, so your mail contacts end up on your phone, your Youtube posts on Google+, and identities that you want to keep separate get merged against your will, that is stupid, harmful and a betrayal of their users.
Or people below a certain age.
Finally a cross platform for mobile based in Java
iPhone 6 triggers record number of Android switchers
To me, the largest problem I have with olive oil is the counterfeiting and adulterous nature of the industry and its infiltration by organized crime. I stick with ones made in California, but wasn't Costco busted for selling fake olive oil? I realize it's possible to get good stuff and probably avoid the bad, but I'd rather steer clear of the entire mess and use a better alternative.
MyNewPassport
Sounds like the Devin Townsend Project (DTP) http://www.devintownsend.com/images/sprites/dtp_logo_links.j...

You see the d and the p kinda link together to cross the t, it's quite a neat logo when you think about it.
Show HN: App wants to teach novices the basics of coding
Meet the new middleman, same as the old middleman?

(Assuming, of course, that they're not planning on publishing their data for the public good.)
"tool that Salazar and Petro created basically emulates mouse and keyboard presses"

USB Rubber ducky? Neat tool that is.
> That is in no way diversification. And the correlation of investments within the tech world, when shit hits the fan, will be 1.

Hence the "in a way." And your argument makes the assumption that tech, as a category, will collapse.

> Which of the companies are making profits?

"Tech" is a very big thing, but if we're picking random companies there are a few divisions:

Public: Google makes money hand over fist, Amazon tries not to make profits (and almost accidentally brought in $20m last quarter) while their revenues grow exponentially. Facebook brings in billions, Twitter, the dark horse of this category, is still bringing in >$1B/yr in revenue.

Ok, but those are the titans. Let's look at the YC companies: Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe alone would make up for every dollar YC ever spent investing.

But even locally, almost every company I talk to is choosing to raise money. Meaning, they have enough revenue to stay afloat, but elect to raise money to grow more quickly. These are companies raising little $2m rounds but are either profitable or could be if they needed to, but elect to grow quickly instead of become cashflow positive. (Admittedly, my company does not fall within that category).

There may be overvaluation, especially at later stages, but the investments being made assume there is. They assume that some (or most) will fail, but that the others will make a multiple.

Some money will be lost, but as long as the entire category of "technology" doesn't collapse altogether, it's not like 1999 again. And given the amount of real profits and revenues in the category of "technology," my contention is that there won't be, as Marc Andreessen puts it, an "earth-shattering kaboom."
I like especially this part:

> But, really, the bigger point was made by Boyle where he noted that we are "the first generation to deny our own culture to ourselves and to drive the point home, he notes that no work created during your lifetime will, without conscious action by its creator, become available for you to build upon. For people who don't recognize the importance of the public domain and the nature of creativity, perhaps this seems like no big deal. But if you look back through history, you realize what an incredibly big deal it is -- and how immensely stifling this is on our culture. And then you realize this is all done under a law whose sole purpose is to "promote the progress" and you begin to wonder how this happened.
I have been greatly attracted to the idea of creating a better search engine. But people aren't generally searching for websites anymore, they're searching for content. There is a certain need for the service provided by google/ddg; and I'd be looking to provide more of an internet yellow pages so that you don't always have google funneling you back to a handful of large sites.
It's hard to commit to a project like that, but I do think the idea (and your others), have merit.
At least the French are honest, we are taking everything and there is nothing you can do about it.
Only some debit cards are covered by Durbin. (Those issued by US banks with more than $10 billion in assets.) So, sure, we could break that out... but quoting "X% for most cards and Y% for Durbin-regulated debit" isn't exactly straightforward or easy to understand/model. We calculate our fees based on the blended cost of processing. (Plenty of transactions cost more than 2.9%.)
This is Devpost's, (formerly ChallengePost - oh yeah, we also changed our name today), Student Hacker Report. We looked at & ranked project tags from a sample of 13,281 student hackers who participated in 160 student hackathons and submitted 9,898 projects, either in hackathons or on their Devpost portfolios.
Are you telling us or the line cook? :)
And those systems all have humans operating in conjunction with them, none of those things are (currently) autonomous. The success thus far of life-critical code usually depends partially on the assistance of humans.
Desktop with a big monitor.
Unless it needs to be portable.
I'm not criticizing the programmer's effort but whenever I see a new project as a "drop in replacement" and/or "50% to 3x faster", the first thing I always look for is the test data to verify that new bugs weren't introduced.

I went to the test subfolder:

https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/testdata

I saw 3 files.

The kind of test data I'd like to see for something like a compression library would be:

0 byte files

1 byte files

2,147,483,647 byte file

2,147,483,648 byte file

2,147,483,649 byte file

(to check for bugs around signed 32-bit integers)

4,294,967,295 byte file

4,294,967,296 ...

4,294,967,297 ...

(to check for bugs around unsigned 32-bit integers and see if 64bit was used when necessary for correctness)

Also add files of sizes that straddle the boundary of algorithm's internal block buffers (e.g. 64kb or whatever). Add permutations of the above files filled with all zeros 0x00 and all ones 0xFF. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of other edge cases.

The programmer may have done a wonderful job and all the code may be 100% correct. Unfortunately, I can't trust a library replacement unless I also trust the test bed of data that was used to check for defects. It's very common for performance optimizations to introduce new bugs so there has to be an extensive suite of regression tests to help detect them. Test data for bug detection has a different purpose than benchmark data showing speed improvements.

Those multi-gigabyte files are not git repository friendly so perhaps a compromise would be a small utility program to generate the test files as necessary.
WTF? It's the exact opposite. Google+ as a standalone social network is fine. In fact, it's fantastic; far better and more usable than Facebook or Twitter. It's the integration with all the other stuff that's turning it into a mess.
Can we have a tl;dr for this article?

Yet again another nutrition article that does not really much other than confuse.
I thought Oracle has it?
Do you know anybody using it?
> They blog and write on forums about what they would like to see, but the things they write are always very, very different from what they actually do, according to the data.

That's because content providers make it fucking impossible to buy their content a lot of the time!

I've been looking into this here (the Netherlands) for the last 12 months or so. It is so incredibly hard to go into a pay-per-view movie service, whether that's a cable TV video store, Netflix, Apple TV or what-the-fuck-ever-else, search for a fairly popular movie you like that came out in the last 5-10 years, and actually BE ABLE TO BUY IT.

Content providers are almost entirely at fault here. (I know this as I'm currently working at a cable TV company). They insist on negotiating individual contracts for restricted selections of (movie, series, whatever) content with each streaming/VOD provider individually. They will happily let customers buy an SD movie but charge them again, 2x, for a HD movie. They throw up all kinds of hurdles when it comes to recording TV in the cloud -- it is LEGALLY DIFFICULT to just store one copy of a recording for multiple customers.

The list goes on and on, it will drive you crazy if you have to deal with it.

> But those suits are very well in touch with reality — it is a couple of SQL queries away from them, actually. (And I see that "managers" are getting more and more literate in terms of analytics, by the way — SQL and R aren't really that hard, and often you have much more user-friendly analytic services at your hands).

Those suits are in touch with reality indeed -- they see that this business model has worked and continues to work, despite The Pirate Bay. They just need a large enough army of lawyers to maintain their dominance, both over distributors and customers (via lawsuits and website takedowns).

Don't blame the users for the clusterfuck digital content distribution is. It is the content providers who are to blame. They screw the artists, the distributors, the end users, as hard as they can, for as long as they can.
You know, I'm actually OK with this in the medium term as a global wealth recycling scheme. Just as many of the private investors who built railways lost their money but gave us a useful network.

We just need to keep promising vast wealth to investors as a result of global dominance while never letting any particular one take the whole cake.
Except we tried micropayments about a bazillion times and they have universally failed. People don't want yet another monthly bill, which is what micropayments would be. You'd "subscribe" to various sites and services and it would eat at your bitcoin or whatever that you would need to replenish monthly.

Ads aren't as terrible as the average INTJ male makes them out to be. They're trivial to block as well. The OP's post is just one long angry rant. I'm not even sure what the take away here is other than how monetization works on the modern web (internet is not only the web!!). Everything about this screams, "The mainstream doesn't care about my marginalized interests and opinions!"

If anything, the mainstream has it pretty good. I pay something like 1/10th for Google Music what I spent at the record store annually. As a music lover, being able to tap into 30m songs trivially is pretty amazing. Geeks used to write love letters to a future with a "universal jukebox" and here we are, yet no one is happy! Old fashioned ideas of "collecting" albums and such are bizarre to me. The people into that always seemed to do it for some kinda of social gravitas so they could show off their "taste." I just like the music. I don't need to own it, I just need access to it.

Hell, it even makes radio stations based on my library or by artist, or even by song if I choose. This completely invalidates whatever questionable value radio stations provide today. What a waste of bandwidth all these FM/AM stations are. Retiring them and selling that spectrum off for better LTE makes sense to me. The old ways aren't always good, in fact, a lot of the old ways were shit. They're old compromises and dinosaur tech that's overstayed their welcome. Lets not pine too badly for the past. It was shit for the most part. As a person in his 40s, I think we have it better than ever.
Ah, sorry, I should have clarified. It's in beta! You should email me or mlahey@stripe.com to get access.
Microsoft quietly releases their own Android launcher
New technology lets scientists easily rewrite living organisms' genetic code
About companies this is what I think: If Mickey Mouse goes off copyright, sure there would be copycats making Mickey toys and not paying royalties/fees.

Possibly somebody non-Disney approved would be making a Mickey Mouse movie.

However, Disney could still be certifying approved toys(Nintendo seal worked quite well, there were non Nintendo cartridges but they were hard to find and generally horrible , I was tinking Custer's Revenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge but that was a non Atari approved cartridge).

And if someone can make a new Mickey movie that stands along Fantasia then more power to them is what I say. Disney has been sitting on Mickey laurels for too long.
A New Company Lets You Take an Eye Exam Over the Internet
Porn clicker keeps infecting apps on Google Play
anything exposed outside is a potential risk. If there is a button you press it. If it is a hole, you stick something inside.

Having a usb outside is invitation to do something with it.
People with a dualist view whose fundamental belief makes the human mind a supernatural force will give illogical arguments like this.

Basically he is saying "we can't get AGI via deep learning because brain simulation is really hard."

Deep learning, brain simulation, and AGI are all related, but different concepts.

Take something like deep learning and combine that know-how with agent-based developmental AGI approaches that have been in progress for some time. We don't need any more computing power than we have. We need a few more years of solid research and engineering and then you will see surprisingly general and human-like capabilities.

Take a look at the AGI-15 research.
Laws where intent is a necessary component of violation are not nearly impossible to prove in court (given how common this is with criminal law, and the higher standard of proof there than in civil cases, yours rarely see criminal convictions in cases that went to trial were intent nearly impossible to prove in court.)

Intent can be inferred from circumstances and other actions alongside the prohibited action; and this is particularly true in civil cases where the standard is a mere preponderance of the evidence rather than proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
> This makes no sense. If you're a true music lover, a great song will give you countless hours of enjoyment and appreciation. Do you seriously think $1.50 is too much for that?

Just to add to this: since you've been streaming the song, you already know that you enjoy it! There is no risk to you, as a consumer, of purchasing something you'd dislike. This, to me, is the genius of streaming services. I know that my money, once I spend it, is going to artists I enjoy.
I hear Brink's QA department is hiring.
Official White House Response to the Petition “Pardon Edward Snowden”
Oh shut up already.

We are, because people like us don't want to pay 99¢-$1.50 for songs that took time to compose, play, record, master, ship, and market, apps for mobile devices are quite literally a dime a dozen in app packs, games are at their lowest prices ever and the only sustainable model is DLC and subscriptions, and hundreds of petabytes of video storage are hosted by YouTube for no charge.

It's 2015, grow up. Innovators need to make money. Maybe you'll understand one day when you make something people want.
> $1.50 isn't much of a risk you know, even if you don't know the website. You'd probably even get the song!

The $1.50 itself isn't the risk, it's how you pay for it - by entering your card details you let them charge you whatever they want whenever they want
How Finns Make Sports Part of Everyday Life: Shots – Health News
> The energy density of batteries sadly lags the energy density of gasoline or kerosene

Nitpick but the energy/mass density is usually called "specific energy" to differentiate it with the more usual energy/volume "energy density".

And while a battery's energy density is pretty bad, they pretty universally have a higher density than petroleum fuels and thus even worse specific energy: the best batteries have 2 orders of magnitude worse specific energy than petroleum fuels (Li-Ion or AgZn store 0.46 MJ/kg, kerosene stores 43 MJ/kg)
Wow has made over 10 Billion which is far more than any one movie. Grand Theft Auto V made 1 billion in 3 days.

Moving up the timeline is meaningless toy story was 20 years old so the point is game year x ~= movie x - y. Means games in y = in ~20 years top games = today's movies assuming steady exponential growth. Which probably does not hold long term, but if today’s movies are ‘acceptable’ then that’s all you need.
The law is not intended to curb emotion, it is intended to curb behavior.

Living in a community with other people often requires not impulsively indulging every emotional urge.
That's the longest firstworldproblem I've ever read
I'm disappointed that this article did not evaluate avocado oil or peanut oil. The latter is increasingly used in frying in the US due to its very high smoke point, and I've been personally using the former for that purpose.
This might be a better question for an Ask HN, but this post brings it up. How do you translate hits on a web page into dollars?

Is advertising the only way to make money from hits? There are plenty of sites that users will like and frequent, but would never drop pay for access. Is advertising a huge turn off for most users?
But Google+ users told them that right from the start. We have been complaining about them messing up Google+ immediately when they introduced the "no unusual name" policy, or when they integrated Youtube. We've asked for something like Collections since the very first months of Google+'s existence.

If they thought it was great, it was because they weren't listening to user feedback.
If you have (root) access to a router, what's to stop you from circumventing software blocks on higher channels / power settings?

Don't try to enforce hardware behavior in software, especially if you're concerned with security. Instead, enforce limits on power and channels in the hardware itself.

Of course, the FCC won't do that because it will cost manufacturers money on region customization. And screwing big companies is harder than screwing consumers.
Can't you? The music has value even apart from the production cost.
This could potentially be combated by greyscaling the cat image. Or filling the band logo with bright colors...
I agree and thought the whole thing was a joke? A satire on the illegibility of metal band logos?
Well you also have the baby boom generation retiring so you would expect employment and unemployment to diverge.
Hackers Break into Brinks Compusafe Ultra Secure Safe
Having thought about it some more, what I think is going on here is that the Denotic Cognitive Event Calculus formalizes the deductive steps that a rational and already self-aware agent would perform, and the program is therefore just 'going through the motions'. If so, then this is not like becoming self-aware as a result of experience processed by generalized intelligence, something that several species are capable of.
Really, I don't know that anyone expected anything different from the current administration.
Electric powered flight...probably best for blimps.
I don't think it's a problem with $1.50 in absolute terms. It's $1.50 compared to $0.99 from other vendors. Artists have set the expectation that songs are worth $0.99 by selling them for that amount elsewhere.

FWIW, I don't buy a lot of music - I use free Pandora and put up with the ads.
@gatsby great data Many, many companies have tried, and yet in 2004 when Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc. Were getting off the ground, about 90% of people in the US used a broker to sell their home. In 2014, it was still 90%.
I assume problem is it is such a big ticket so sellers don't want take the risk - same reason we still use ibankers for M&A and IPO?
You can already set up a website using a "website builder" which hosts it for a couple of bucks and doesn't force any branding on it. A site on Squarespace costs $8/m and gives you unlimited storage and bandwidth to distribute your music; for $18 more, you get to use the ecommerce part to sell your stuff.

If artists aren't doing this already, which is much less intrusive than Soundcloud/iTunes/etc, what makes you think they'll be hosting their own IPFS sites?
Secure Existing RESTful Services – No Need to Change Code
Can you really call a discussion about ingredients which have been studied/discussed for decades a 'fad'?

I think the main point is that there is A LOT of misinformation out there, and people have made up their minds on things without adequate evidence. Anti-vaxxers are (rightly) lambasted for this... IMO, anyone who makes public statements about nutrition without doing adequate research deserves the same.

Articles like this one are important. Even though it still has some opinion sprinkled in, it has a lot of links to evidence, and that is what people really need.