skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I think my point was obvious, but if you want to be pedantic, yes, I should have said "Japan doesn't have to invest much money in security".

Yes, Japan does have the fifth largest defense budget in the world, but when you consider that the US defense budget it more than the defense budgets of the next 10 spenders combined, it's not really that much for such a large economy.

Also worth noting, the US maintains significant military presence in most of the world's top military-spending countries. For obvious reasons, China and Russia have very little military US military presence, but Saudi Arabia, the UK, France, Japan, Germany, and South Korea all have significant US military presence on their soil.
After reading your response it occurs to me that they're streisand effecting themselves. If they'd have just shut up, most people wouldn't even be aware of the adblocking capabilities in iOS 9. Each article they write brings more attention to the thing they're afraid is going to bury them.
Hmm, those CT boundaries aren't just high variance, they have extremely high error, which seems a more significant problem. They are linear!
I'd rather have a buggy site with a terrible ad that I can avoid than have to pay for all the content I consume. Now that adblock is on iOS everyone is worried that will become the case.
For what it's worth, I've had this same issue on NYT site. I also assumed it was an ad causing the problem because refreshing the page to allow a different ad to load fixed it. (I don't block ads on NYT.)
Is or was? The article explicitly mentions several of her tracks as having come from the pop production machine.
So far the ad blocking experience on iOS has been a little rocky.

1) Several of them that I have tested break basic functionality - videos not playing etc.

2) Adblock Plus, the leader in this space, decided to get greedy and not launch a blocker, but rather an entire browser, which I suspect most people will not embrace. I certainly won't, but I'd love ABP on my iOS Safari.

3) Peace, the most popular of the ad blockers, was removed after the author had an attack of conscience [1].

4) The ABP folks have decided to offer to pay those rolling out iOS adblockers for using their "acceptable ads" list. Sort of like a reverse adsense - basically extortion revenue sharing [2] .

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/09/popular-ad-blocker-pulled-ios-a...

[2] http://bgr.com/2015/09/17/ios-9-ad-blocking-scandal-adblock-...
In the past I've felt that arguing "X is not a problem" is sometimes a proxy for "we should not solve X" because it's taken as axiomatic that if X is a problem it should be solved. (And the solution, of course, usually involves compulsory rules enforced by the government or some administrative body.)

I wonder if it goes in the other direction too: people exaggerate problems and evidence if they like the proposed solution. Not even for personal gain, but for emotional reasons. (So not somebody exaggerating the threat of terrorism to consciously expand their power or sell detectors but unconsciously because of patriotism or a desire to get the terrorists.)
Dear community, please stop up-voting junk like this. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Because most of the people who read and post on new.ycombinator are making money from advertising one way or another. And even if they aren't many of their/our customers are.

It's a giant secular shift in the industry and we'll all be affected by it. Business models that looked sound a year ago look shaky now; some investment hypotheses will be thoroughly invalidated and others will be proving out.

If you're on the bottom looking up, or the outside looking in; it's going to be awesome. We have the possibility of overturning orthodoxies, the freedom to try new things; etc.

But it's not going to be easy. Display ads have actually been pretty crucial to the ecosystem of capitalism so far. They are the primary means by which potential customers are informed of the existence and desirability of products and services.
> whether we'll have time to adapt

I wish you were right. Unfortunately, the very same vocal people (for example former Czech president Vaclav Klaus) who proclaimed that "adaptation is not a problem" now cry a river when there is a couple thousands refugees at the border from regions that are in war, probably due to drought, probably due to global warming.

> Maybe we don't actually have to leave all the oil in the ground afterall and a few extra degrees turns out to be not much of a problem.

We can always burn it. I don't see how we lose anything by leaving it there.
A large problem with roundabouts is that municipalities tend to build them as poorly or put them places where a light should be.

>filling the center with landscaping that obstructs view

>putting them where a computer controlled light should be (small road meeting large road, stays green toward large road the vast majority of the time)

>put them where a flashing yellow/red should be (tiny road crossing main road

>putting roundabouts in areas that see a large volume of heavy trucks

Roundabouts don't work very well on roads with highly differing traffic volumes
> Voice enabled UIs with some AI capability are the future

I don't know if you are using voice enabled UIs, but from someone who's using public transportation to go to work in the morning, that's not "a little annoying", that's a big no-no. Talking to your watch spooks people around you like crazy, and having to repeat 2 or 3 times (because noise, eh) your command is just uncomfortable. Worst case ever is sending texts with that (as everybody is actively listening to what you are saying).

Sure, these technologies make great marketing material, but apart from the glowing on-stage demos, the actual use case of voice control immediately dies when there's either other people or loud (and fully quiet) environments.
And to put it in global warming perspective: Urbanism is a long trend, and only countries who reduce their exposure to cars and individual transport will be able to make the turn towards reducing CO2 emissions.
Interesting note at the end: "I was also able to dispell the long-held rumor that opium poppy was legal to grow and purchase if only intended for “ornamental purposes.”".

One can easily buy dried pods of papaver somniferum, found on the first few result pages of a google search. I wonder if this is an enforcement oversight, a loophole, or a scam?
Superb!

Thanks for sharing the source code as well:

https://github.com/stared/tagoverflow#tagoverflow
Is this more specific to diesel than gasoline? I get the vague impression it is. The problem with that is that engine temp greatly effects the combustion ... profile in diesel engines.
Okay, ignore warming if you like. We still need to stop producing so much CO2 because it's acidifying the oceans and destroying ecosystems we depend on for food.
Not true, there was one briefly but it was so hated that it was scuttled. People who use sites like this one tend to dislike change, in my experience.
Yes a responsive version seems too much to ask in 2015 :) I use hn.premii.com to read the news on HN, it's using the API and it's... responsive.
There are two easy ways to turn the nest off. Press the dial in and turn it off. Or from anywhere in the world from your phone. Also you can set it to heat/cool and set ranges where it will cool above x temperature and heat below y temperature.
Thanks. I agree with your larger point, but wanted to clarify this detail, because I've seen people around the web saying that Japan actually has no security forces whatsoever.
Some caveats:

-Many people do not tolerate high fat diets well. For them such diets are not an option.

-A low carb high fat diet is pretty suboptimal for athletes. Many proponents of low carb diets attempt to mitigate this by having athletes eat carbs only around training sessions. The problem with this is it greatly ignores the science showing carbohydrates' usefulness in the recovery process, specifically in building and maintaining muscle mass. It's important to move out of a mindset of "good vs bad" food and into one of goal oriented eating. If you are an athlete and you are eating very low carbs, you should probably reevaluate. If you are not an athlete and are eating significant amounts of carbs, you should probably reevaluate. Putting jet fuel into a car is not a good idea, but the inverse is true as well.

-There is not science showing high fat diets perform any differently than high carb diets when calories are equalized for the purpose of weight loss. High fat is a compliance hack, allowing some people to more comfortably consume fewer calories than they do on a high carb diet. Many people talk about insulin spikes etc., when talking about high carb. That's kind a red herring: insulin spikes happen with significant amounts of protein as well, and they really aren't a bad thing.

-Cutting out carbs usually leads to an initial 5lbs-ish drop in water weight, which makes people look less bloated pretty quickly, provided they were coming from a poor diet in the first place.
So Guscost, when you net it all out, what do you think is the probability that continuing use of carbon fuels will cause a significant climate problem? 10%? 30%? 0.01%? 0?

I don't understand these arguments that global warming is "true" (100% likely) or "false" (0% likely). Because those probabilities are nonsensical.

Reasonable people might assign anywhere from 10% to 90% to that. Even if a person thinks it's 30% likely, that person might still find it prudent to take steps to avoid it. Or maybe not. But at least they have some thought process behind their viewpoint.
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Air Force Times runs ad urging drone pilots to disobey orders
Probably. I remember a wild salmon smoked with fir wood and with entire pepper grains in a small village in Sweden that was absolutely memorable. My parents sniffed the smoke, entered automatically in bloodhound mode and find a fisherman that was working in a lake beach and sell them one.

I like also the raw but can come in several different qualities. Some are very good, other not so.
I've got somewhat unorthodox views on global warming that might make for a good test of this:

I fully accept that global warming is real, human-caused, and a major problem in the coming century. However, I don't believe we should limit carbon emissions. Instead, we should earmark all the money that would've gone into reducing carbon emissions (a carbon tax could be useful for this) into developing comprehensive evacuation plans for every major city, as well as a fund for rebuilding. As the effects of global warming hit (which will more likely be in the form of severe weather events than a global rise in sea levels), we migrate away from the hardest hit areas and rebuild in the areas made more hospitable by climate change.

There are two advantages of this:

The first is that many climate scientists believe that it's already too late, and a tipping point was reached around 2000 that's set in motion a catastrophic climate shift that we can't reverse now. Cutting carbon emissions now is a bit like closing the barn door after the horses have left. It won't actually fix our predicament, though it may slow it.

The second advantage is that this covers a number of contingencies other than climate change. A freak hurricane sweeps up the Gulf Coast, headed for Houston or New Orleans? No problem, all of the evacuation routes have been mapped out, we've built enough roads that the population can get out (as an additional plus, this helps rush-hour traffic), and the insurance companies are ready to pay out to help the victims. Drought in California? Move to Seattle or Portland and stop buying beef and almonds. It'd help if we let the price of affected commodities (water, and the things it helps grow) float to reflect their true scarcity rather than subsidize them.

The idea is to fix the problem closer to the symptoms rather than trying to get to the source. Accept that the planet's climate will change, and then work to adapt to that with minimal dislocation rather than prevent it from changing.

Thoughts? It's certainly not the party line, but it makes sense to me. And if you're currently a climate-change denier, would this proposed solution make you reconsider the facts?
I just "lost" a few hours reading that thread. Thanks!
And still, for a few months two recent web products were limited to one browser, which is used by a minority, and is in many countries not even the largest minority.
Watching the video demonstration was entertaining and funny, regardless of how useful or vital the statement is to things that matter today.
What? Matthew Yglesias is not “libertarianish” by any stretch of the imagination, and does not claim anything of the sort. He states outright that the goal is to reduce the extremely expensive (in land, money, etc.) parking subsidy that we currently provide to cars, which obviously makes cars more difficult to own.
Sure, you might not want to dictate a text message on the train, but at home its a different kettle of fish. I find voice activation particularly useful in the kitchen - I regularly use it for things like setting a timer or converting units from recipes.
Just to clarify, this didn't happen in Texas.
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I was just putting this quote in another comment:

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue." – Erich Fromm

I guess we can now rewrite 'virtue' to be 'reason'.
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There is an assumption that any advertisement is good. Where are the studies that show ad backlash?
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last night they broke their own new record,

"On Friday evening, Sept 18th, Todd set another record at 86.50 mph"[1]

[1] http://www.ihpva.org/home/?view=plink&id=21
(the site of the competition that engadget links to)
I'll agree that your favorite model is lot more likely to work than the "because gay sex" model, because your favorite model presumably has causal relationships based on measurable reality.

And I like the idea that atmospheric composition could be a strange attractor in the climate system.

But then you'd have to throw the simple forcing model for CO2 out the window, and come up with a hypothesis for why there is a strange attractor somehow causing CO2 and temperature to exhibit a linear relationship. Wouldn't your favorite model have to be rewritten at that point?

And then you'd need an explanation for how the water vapor feedback forcing (a critical part of most alarmist models) fits into those dynamics. And why a similar albedo forcing or plant cover forcing or fracking-earthquake forcing or Chinese economic forcing does not. I don't think you will find it simple to describe at anything but the most abstract level. But it is an interesting idea.
Just as relevant today, except "America's Right To Know" is now "My Right to Demand Everyone Conform To My Ignorance." it's getting worse.
My GE interview was a joke. The only question I was asked was about my move from Atlanta to SF. For some inexplicable reason, I was asked three or four times if there was any gap between living in the two cities, to which the answer was no: I moved directly from an apartment in one to an apartment in the other.

That was the full extent of the questioning, which lasted maybe 5 minutes.
wrong most of the time Google is accessible in China, different from several years ago
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Ctrl+Shift+C in Chrome lets you select the node even before you open the dev tools, and then you can just press "canc" to remove it.
OT: This page loads the full article, flickers for a moment, and then hides everything but the first three paragraphs. Instead I see a button to 'Show the full article'.

What is the reason for this? I've seen this pattern in a few places and assumed it was to speed up mobile page loads. But seeing as it loads the full page before hiding it I'm now not sure.
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First, don't worry, we've all had crappy jobs. You will be OK.

You have no reason to feel guilty at all. You don't owe them anything.

You always have to go behind your employer's back when you're looking for a new job, even if you have a great relationship with them.

Stay in your job until you have another one lined up. When you do resign, smile, be professional, don't argue with them about what might have been and don't agree to do anything beyond your notice period.

I'm based in London and have ~8 years experience of the tech scene here. I'd be happy to look at your CV and give you some pointers (feel free to anonymise, don't mind either way) or answer any other questions: my anonymous email is in my profile.
And your point is?

The idea of NaN is that it represents an unknown value, because it essentially says "we don't really know what the result is, but it surely is not a number". And if you have two unknown values, you can hardly check they are equal.

That's why NaN is similar to NULL in SQL, because the concept is basically the same. The difference of course is that C does not have NaN for all the other data types, so it's impossible to say (NaN == NaN) is unknown, because bool, char (or whatever type you use for true/false) does not have the equivalent for NaN. So the next sane option is "false".

The fact that the representation for NaN is the same (so memcmp of two NaN values) is a completely different thing.
But how many people with older cars have the initiative and the the capability to do that. It's a small fraction of a small fraction of a small fraction of vehicle owners.

Chasing a problem like that around is a waste of everyon'e time and money. Environmental regulatory agencies really need to do a better job considering the 90/10 or 80/20 rule (the last 20% of whatever you're optimizing will consume 80% of the resource).
For me, sites with intrusive ads and sites i visit more than once are two groups that do not intersect.
How is that a dead end? I have greater confidence in humanity's ability to find a genetic therapy to boost intelligence than its ability to compensate for bad parenting and culture.
I think the artvoice article is better, because it's focused in the thecnical details (linked from the article): http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10242524 (13 points, 17 hours ago, 6 comments ))
Yeah, simply reducing the number of horse stalls per resident is not a free lunch. The article is forgetting the negative externality of making people tether their horses in the park.s
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Point me at the paper that outperforms that model. I'll do my best to read and understand it.
Or, if the street needs a line of two ton shields to separate car traffic from pedestrians, and you're willing to volunteer yours, we can come to an accommodation.
I went to the same SW as the one mentioned in this post. Our team ended up being almost all devs and 1 biz guy where we created a way to edit neural networks with a web interface, a.k.a. no potential business/profitability. We had a lot of fun (got an honorable mention) and I got to network with some people, basically what I think to be the goal of a SW.

P.S. It was pretty obvious that Billy was looking for cheap devs when he gave his pitch. The warning flags were there if you talked to him 1-on-1 at all.
A large portion of the upper end of the market is running iOS. Real money is at stake.
NYT will let you hit any number of pages; your paywall quota is only consumed by those where you are interested enough to click "Show Full Article."
No, according to that logic, you shouldn't eat raw beef, pork and chicken. Which is a highly advisable precaution - not following it will result in a high chance of critters like Taenia Saginata or Trichinella spiralis making a home inside you.
>I am wondering if IOS could add a new feature to detect bad apps.

I think Apple can add such as a step into their build process (IIRC, with the new XCode 7 there's the option to submit a kind of bytecode to be built on Apple's servers depending on the target architecture etc).

Another thing they could do is enable some kind of "Little Snitch"-like network connection that a user can enable for apps. This way the user can be informed for any "mysterious" external connections going on.
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My thought is that it's because a big company is behind it and we would see the same thing if Microsoft did it for IE or (in bizarro land) if Google did this with Chrome.
I think the real irony is Apple blocking ads in the web browser when most apps in the App Store are a non stop barrage do ads Apple profits from. I use ad blockers, but something about Apple building this in strikes me as unethical and anti competitive.
Companies want paywalled content to be indexed by Google.
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Or a DNS server that blocks ad network domains
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* in the US

FTFY
I should add that if you had control over the software you use (similar to the classic idea of a human programming a machine), then this debate would not exist. Those willing to use adblockers would install or create them, and nobody would have to wait on Apple to be excited about using them.
Ha yes, double roundabouts, never seen them outside Nantes.

It gets fun when you have the tram line going through 1
Redshift does the same thing (supports Windows and X11), no idea what the difference is. Apparently at the time redshift was created 6 years ago f.lux didn't work properly on GNU/Linux.
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Consolidation of resources and broadness of ecosystem produces synergistic effects that advance tech. Google benefits in its pursuit of self-driving cars and drone delivery from existing investments in maps, AI, machine learning, and data centers. Plus, the ad revenue stream funds R&D.
Whoa, you're citing the consensus as an experimental result? What is this, economics? ;)

And Plass definitely missed at least one non-linearity. Out of curiosity do you have a list?
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It is to speed up page loads.

Most likely, the page is being rendered to HTML on the server and then client side javascript picks up where the server left off, once it has loaded and launched. So, you get the full page load, and >then< the javascript checks to see if it should display it.

The alternative is to have the page hide the content initially and have the javascript re-enable it, but this would involve a flash of 'closed page' for actual subscriber and people who came via google.
>Which popular/mainstream Android apps were taken down from Google Play due to malware?

Well, there have been popular apps that have been infected as came pre-installed in phones:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/android-smartphone-malware....

As well as apps pulled from Google Play for having malware:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/mobile-malware_n_66...

http://www.coindesk.com/google-pulls-six-mobile-wallpaper-ap...

http://fortune.com/2015/07/08/google-play-fake-app/
Each CT has zero error on its training set. The overall structure in each training set is the same (shown by the circles and triangles). Each CT, however, fits to the noise that is specific each training set. This causes the "linear" regions you mention. This is caused by how CTs recursively subdivide the feature space - these are essentially small subdivision areas fit to noise, which have extended beyond the class region to which they "should" belong.
Well, you shouldn't subsidize free parking in the street either. Charge market rates for it.
Yeah, the real world value is not very high, but I would be surprised if you officially could accept errors larger than the smallest unit and wouldn't get potentially into trouble when something adds up wrong.