skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, I agree with your comment. I think basic income will go a way toward solving the issues you brought up, but that's not why I commented.

I'm about to start my own Forever Project where I'm going to write a game(with no actual game programming experience) and http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com looks like an excellent book for me to read in order to try to not make some really stupid mistakes in basic architecture when starting out. Thanks!
Top Intelligence Lawyer: Terror Attack Would Help Push for Anti-Encryption Laws
The condescending attitude of "users don't understand the consequences of their actions" -- which I've also seen from several other people raising red flags about the consequences of ad-blocking -- really bugs me a lot.

A different way of looking at it is that many users do understand the consequences and either disagree with the author about the likely outcomes or have a different set of priorities than the author.
Those pictures are pretty amazing. Something so far away from the sun having so many features. It really makes you wonder how that stuff got there.
System Description: The Apple II (1977) [pdf]
The psychology behind why couples always fight when assembling Ikea furniture
That was cool - are there any more of these?

Reminds me of Desktop Dungeons for some reason.
There is an alternative to adverts. Its real, it's here, it works. That alternative is Patreon.

In the Patreon model, you can support the creator directly, and their ability to produce content scales with that support. It's like a subscription, except you allow anyone else to free ride.

A Patreon supported site could run no ads at all and still make a stable income. It would no longer be fighting its readers to force them to view manipulative nonsense. It would no longer be answerable to pushy, content-controlling advertisers. It would have more editorial freedom, bounded only by the willingness of people to pay.

IMO the Patreon model answers all the problems of the advertising model and I'd like to see it becoming the norm.
SPOILER:
Move WhiteRook (G6>C6) thereby giving a check to black King with Knight at (H7). It also blocks WhiteKnight (A8)'s view of the Black King thereby freeing the BlackRook(B7>H7) to kill the WhiteKnight at H7
Why Isis fights
Robin Hood the thing. Give exactly 100% of the money to starving children. Literally. Personally, not through some charity. Literally go to a 3rd-world nation (on your own money, don't dare touch money collected through the app), find parents of starving children, and give them each a $100 bill.

Start a trend. Start that trend. Be that person. Not just the person who had a hit iOS app. Be the person who eliminates hunger by setting a simple, obvious, example. Does that feel good?
You can use an initializer list ctor for point:

drawline({x0,x1}, {x2,x3})
> The other 10-20% can be difficult or impossible.

Can you explain why a model checker would fall short of the last 10-20%?
Weird Security Term of the Week: “Exfiltration”
Ads tend to be in private spaces though. You can just see it from public space.

Another way to achieve your goal is for the glasses to render giant walls around all private spaces. All cities would look like Manhattan then.
Some people aren't effected by stimulants the same way others are. For example, generally with ADD/ADHD stimulants help calm the person down where with other in general people it would wire them up. Personally, I have to take enough caffeine to have an irregular heartbeat before I notice any effect besides going to the bathroom more often.
Ask HN: Could sites let their ad provider serve content to thwart ad blockers?
That would prevent those blocking ads from seeing the content, especially if the URLs used are randomized.

It needn't even be _all_ content; it could be just enough to make things a nuisance.
In this case defeat devices are specifically outlawed though, and VW have admitted creating them, so they are actually going to get punished, may put some people off.
But was it the cause of success? Who knows?

The cause? No, I wouldn't say so, not in and of itself. I don't know that any process can really "cause" success all by itself. But some are better than others at not getting in the way and actually helping rather than hindering. My (admittedly subjective) observation is that our use of Scrum at Lulu was helpful, compared to either "no process" (eg, pure cowboy coding) or some of the more broken processes I've been exposed to in the past. And to me, that's about as much as you can hope for. Because, at the end of the day, it really is more about the team than the methodology.

And yes, a truly great team can probably overcome nearly any broken methodology / process and still ship something awesome. The question is how much pain they have to endure to do so.
Estonian photographer shoots her own wedding on film
I just skimmed the paper, it looks like it just uses the neural net for the board evaluation scoring, and still uses minimax with pruning to search the game space.
So last year. Modern phone interfaces are back to soundwaves: "Siri, play Nicki Minaj".
Baller's consistent ability to create material losses no doubt had a large part in his downfall, see also e.g. the Xbox 360 hardware. And Intel is claiming that Windows desktop screwups are in part costing it a billion dollars in 1Q15, people aren't upgrading from XP.

Nadella I'm very uncertain about. To the extent he can terminate with extreme prejudice stack ranking and the poison it has suffused throughout Microsoft, he'll have much more people capital, including much less internal sabotage (part of why Kin failed). And he's completely changed how QA is done, although I don't know if for the better. On the other hand, he doesn't ... "feel" like the sort of person who can sufficiently directly change the culture for the better.

We'll see.

Ah, here's a bigger question: can Nedella change the perception of Microsoft's trustworthiness? That was bad under Gates, became catastrophic and frankly insane under Ballmer, and after so many have been burned by Microsoft has got to have an incalculable cost.
I just spent 30 hours figuring that out (DNS, flanneld), and that's with using hyperkube. (I'm building a new framework that helps you build a custom dev-environment for your workflow using Kubernetes, called Matsuri).

I don't regret it, since I know a lot more about the details of how this works together, and this will help a lot when it comes time to putting this on AWS for production. But I don't want to force this on my team either, so I'll end up putting something together with Vagrant (or finding something that works with it).

One thing I realized though: this stuff should be baked in as part of a standard Linux distro. A working, single-node Kubernetes setup works far better than docker-compose / fig / crane / any number of homebrewed orchestration for dev work. No wonder people are using CoreOS and RHEL 7/Atomic, and not Ubuntu. It's seriously making me consider switching to one of those, off of Ubuntu.
Show HN: DayQuant- an app that helps you quantify and analyze your daily life
I showed this to HN a few weeks ago and have updated it a great deal since then. This app allows you to grade your overall day on a scale of 1-100, as well as on the criteria of productivity, social interaction and physical activity. You can then view your results on a long-term chart. There is also a program which analyzes the frequency of different grades. Check it out and let me know what you think! The website is DayQuant.com and it is on the Google Play store as DayQuant.
This is an excellent idea. So long as you trust the server you're talking to, and it's using TLS, you can eliminate attack vectors by a compromised CDN this way.

Bravo. :)
How to Write an Open Source JavaScript Library: 23 Free Lessons on Egghead.io
I'm curious now after reading the mobile gaming post that's also on the front page. If everyone paid for the content on the big news sites, would it even be more profitable than selling ads and mining user data?

How much would sites have to charge to make up for the loss of ads and user data?

Also what are the chances publishers to ever get rid of tracking and mining data?
I agree, these are too opinionated to be unconditionally useful.
> drawline(Point(vec.x1, vec.y1), Point(vec.x2, vec.y2))

True, though you can usually reduce the pain by implementing appropriate conversion operators and/or implicit constructors.

> Again, it's only inferior until the very common case where you're doing something else with the index, which is pretty common during debugging.

You can use subtraction to obtain the index from the iterators in the better version. In this case, find really is superior.
by not being able to post images, memes aren't really going to become a thing

Slashdot would beg to differ... :)
You probably mean rack. Rake is Ruby's version of Make.
Actually, on a flat surface with a constant speed or acceleration, weight matters much, much less than frontal area. Weight comes into play much more when many quick accelerations or elevation gains come into play.

Because frontal area doesn't increase proportionally with weight, I would argue that power output should be the primary concern and that typically increases substantially with weight. For evidence of this, look at world class time trialists versus world class hill specialists.

Fabian Cancellara [1] is considered one of the top time trialists in the world at 181 lbs as he can put out much more absolute consistent power than someone like Nairo Quintana who is considered one of the world class climbers and weighs 128 lbs, [2] even though Nairo Quintana may have a better power:weight ratio.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Cancellara
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairo_Quintana
Can you or anyone else tell me if The Deck ads still track and employ targeting. If they do, then personally I'd consider them still invasive and worth blocking. If not, then I see his point.
I wonder why for fastest human-powered they don't use more than one cyclist. I assume with eight humans like in rowing you could get up to a ridiculous speed. Might be a little dangerous though.
Back to the drawing board, you've failed this Turing test! (Mary is no one's brother.)
Urban Prius living
There is a sports related web site I often read (friends link to it from facebook, and other sites I visit).. When reading it on mobile, almost the entire page will load, then my whole phone (LG G4) freezes up completely for about 8 seconds, then a full page add appears over the screen. Sometimes the "X" is in the upper right, sometimes below, etc, and if you are off even the slightest amount, you get a new chrome tab opened, to a site that also freezes up your whole phone again for a few seconds..

If it wasn't for adds the cover the whole text, I would probably not run an ad blocker (and really need to find one for android that doesn't suck)
There are definitely more lessons to come!
re: reddit vs. Reddit: the new CEO confirmed that they're going to switch to "Reddit": https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3fx2au/conte...
You could really probably optimize for the 200m speed zone. As long as you can get to your top speed before it, you dont need to fly through the 5 mile zone. Better to save energy for an explosive finish.

Track cyclists sometimes do a "flying 200m." The record is 9.347 seconds which is 47.86 mph. Thats on a non aero bike with drop handle bars. It would be very interesting to see them in a perfectly aero recumbant bike like this.
This is to prevent files on a 3rd party CDN from being loaded if they've been replaced with malicious ones.
Code signing is a fix for problems introduced by automatic firmware updates. Intead of going further down the chain by trying to fix the problems with code signing, I'd rather take a step back and find a better fix for the original problem.

Besides, I don't believe that firmware updates need to happen so frequently that there needs to be a convenient way to install them. It's okay if they are a nuisance, because a majority of devices will be updated zero times in their usable lifetimes, and a majority of the rest will be updated one time.
But ad blockers are a recent innovation in controlling advertising. Billboards... you can lobby your local city or state to pass laws against obnoxious billboards, but at some point it is someone else's property, and they'll be able to put some kind of advertisement there.

Ad blockers let you edit your reality, immediately and easily. It's a big change and our historical acceptance doesn't carry over.
> The WHPSC is basically where cyclists put their knees where their mouth is, and attempt to beat the record for pedal-powered speed.

This is truly an epic pun, I'm duly impressed.
"The same diet may have different effects on different people"

This is a very key point. We're just beginning to scratch the surface on how genetics and diet interact.
I don't disagree but I think an important distinction is that when you provide your credit card there is an expectation that they will be able to track you based on that.

A big problem with ad tracking these days is that its entirely out-of-site-out-of-mind, nontechy people don't expect to be tracked across the internet as much as when they buy something online with a credit card.
Todd is actually a world-class rider (based on the chart you provided, as well).

From the article before they won the Sikorsky prize:

"Reichert, a national-level speed skater, can pedal at 1.2 horsepower for a full minute"

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news/gta/2012/08/26/humanpowe...
Track sprinters are even bigger, further showing your point. Chris Hoy is 205 lbs.
You prefer targeted advertising to and data collection from children and teenagers to having them get parental approval for what they do online?
Collaboration Seen as Crucial Component to Future Cyber Security Efforts
i don't get it, maybe its because i'm not a huge chess player, but hear me out. The the key to the puzzle was promoting to a bishop, but why not just promote to a queen? A queen can move directions just the same as a bishop. Am I missing something that required a bishop in order to complete this puzzle?

Edit: Thank you for the comment explaining this.
I don't get it. What was this Peace app? How did it get to the top of the charts right away upon release? How is an App Store app able to block ads in other apps?

These are all questions I wish marco would have answered for the developers reading his piece.
get some kids; they'll keep you busy.
Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(cyclist) weighs in at 75 kg - lighter than Cancellara - but not that light for a professional cyclist either.
Naturals, a parlor trick (Church Numbers)
...which is why I'm curious to know who they are getting their service from. A price point like that ought to be named and shamed if users have no other option.
i didn't post this, but probably related to the news that came out today. Previously they have just been collecting data, but now they are activating it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541351/facebooks-like-b...
Demand.
Here's an idea: Send bitcoin addresses in the HTTP headers.

People could voluntarily install a browser plugin that watches for addresses and sends money. Perhaps the donation could vary by time spent on the page (monitoring for activity to accommodate leaving stuff open), or perhaps it could be a fixed sum per pageview (with a cooldown to discourage blogspam). In exchange, servers could withhold ads.
I was thinking more like: detect an advert, draw a grey box over it. Or kittens.
Your unix shell isn't the only shell that exists :)
And that was _with_ a gravity assist at Jupiter...
What blows my mind about these clinical trials is that the truth is always going to come out if the drug goes to market. And for big pharma, that's the goal--get the drug to market (and the largest market possible).

While you can hide bad results when n is small. i.e. just re-run the trial with another or smaller n. However, when n gets large as the drug comes to market, there is nowhere to hide. The negative effects will become obvious and compelling as the sample size grows.

How do they think they can hide this?
marco claims Deck doesn't track, per link above
This might be true for individual creators, but ad revenue powers companies. Can Patreon do that?

(It's still an important point for individuals though.)
Llgo – A Go frontend for LLVM, written in Go
That's a poor comparison. Not all of the $30B in sales were fraudulent.

Actually, in order to come up with the $2B penalty, the gov't determines the number of fraudulent Rxs, then hits the manufacturer with triple damages (this is typical).

J&J would have been better off financially had they never committed the fraud they did.
Tech Entrepreneur Nano Degree
Would the multiplied power be offset by the multiplied weight and potential loss of aerodynamics?
Use all of the techniques described in the GOF book at the same time.Your flyweight should collapse because the facade was too heavy with decorators to support another observer.
Im sure the rules state 1 human. That is an interesting thought though. A second person behind the first would add very little extra drag while doubling the power.
It's not about convenience, it's about security. Regardless of how many menus you have to go through or buttons you have to press if your device will just execute any code that it gets with no way to authenticate the code, you're asking for trouble. At the very least, the device should use a secured connection to download updates from the manufacturer.
The only issue I have with "agile scrum" is that the people saying it are still viewing them as the same thing but just want to appease folks like me. But it's good enough I suppose.
The problem is the laptop, not the desk. Without external monitors or keyboard, either your neck or hands (or both) will be in bad positions
Isn't that just saying "we want all content creators to become charities, and then other people can pay them". It's like saying all software should be free, but the companies should have patreons. Even the open source softwares supported by donations from big companies get their money indirectly from the actual monetization the big company does.

I just don't see a charity economy being long term sustainable on the web...
My understanding of fractional reserve banking, if they operate with a 10% reserve, they can loan up to $900 of the $100.

So with 2% it's much more than that.
This kinda blows my mind. I mean... on the one hand it's cool, on the other hand, where in the world would I use this in my resume?
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which we're talking about, doesn't exactly dictate how its citizen can use Bitcoin, but Bitcoin derivatives and futures. And these are also regulated for Euro in the US, and so are derivatives of USD in European countries.

So Bitcoin isn't really being more regulated than the Euro; just treated as a different class of regulable things.
Didn't think about that being the reason so many people are talking about capturing the queen.
We Need an Ad-tervention
Isn't Jasmine used more often than Mocha/Chai on open source? Perhaps just for the front end projects?
Pretty cool. I typed "Illinois" into the search bar and I was directed to a page about Angeles National Forest, you might want to look into that.
True but with DLC and the catalog that more and more of these studios have (aka EA), I'd wager this is becoming more regular and more likely. I think for subscription-based games, it would be even worse.

Imagine that you lament on Twitter "I just don't time to play X as much as I'd like!" and then someone else pops up and asks "oh, have you fought Y? Did you find [unique drop] yet?" Then next time you're in the game, you get that special drop.

All of it appears to be unconnected and random but odds are you'll go back to that person to celebrate and be hooked again.

(This is an off the cuff scenario, the actual scenarios are probably way more mature.)
> The airline will usually cancel the return ticket if you skip part of the outgoing one.

I recently did just that, buy a round-trip ticket with a stopover where on the way out I skipped the last leg. The return leg wasn't cancelled. I would've been furious if that happened, I paid for that and basically saved them money on the skipped leg.
Absolutely. Being trained for such short intervals, I wonder how much their power output would drop in the final 200m after that 5 mile buildup. In any case, there has to be some optimal cyclist build for this event. I suspect it's probably somewhere between a time trialist and a pure sprinter.
40 PB a day for photos...
Promoting to a queen would result in a stalemate as the black player would have no legal moves. Promoting to a bishop allows the king to move to the the 8th row, allowing the final checkmate by white
Linked Lists in JavaScript and Python (18 problems)
It appears I was mistaken!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas_recirculation

"In internal combustion engines, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is a nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions reduction technique used in petrol/gasoline and diesel engines. EGR works by recirculating a portion of an engine's exhaust gas back to the engine cylinders. This dilutes the O2 in the incoming air stream and provides gases inert to combustion to act as absorbents of combustion heat to reduce peak in-cylinder temperatures. NOx is produced in a narrow band of high cylinder temperatures and pressures.

In a gasoline engine, this inert exhaust displaces the amount of combustible matter in the cylinder. In a diesel engine, the exhaust gas replaces some of the excess oxygen in the pre-combustion mixture.[1] Because NOx forms primarily when a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen is subjected to high temperature, the lower combustion chamber temperatures caused by EGR reduces the amount of NOx the combustion generates (though at some loss of engine efficiency).[2] Gasses re-introduced from EGR systems will also contain near equilibrium concentrations of NOx and CO; the small fraction initially within the combustion chamber inhibits the total net production of these and other pollutants when sampled on a time average. Most modern engines now require exhaust gas recirculation to meet emissions standards."
The Universe Is Not a Black Hole (2010)
s/retains/inhibits.
I'd say that it's likely that Jasmine's more common, but both are quite popular. I personally prefer Mocha/Chai syntax.
Let me give a (probably very leaky) programming analogy: You have one library, and it solves 1 class of problems. You use a second library on top of it to try and address some bits introduced by library 1. This may well move the core metric needle to get you what you want, but you will undoubtedly incur unforeseen interactions, and additional potential edge cases.

When you add the brain into the equation, it removes all of the (comparatively flawless) understanding we have of the system the libraries are running within, and then when you add benzos, one of your libraries is now an enraged bobcat.

In a perfect world, I'd agree with your statements. I do not think we have an effective enough understanding of either the compounds we're using, or the systems we're impacting, to be as laissez faire with cocktails as we often are.
Imo, no. I try not to buy into any concept if there is no way for anyone to ever understand it.
Honestly, would doing so even be considered intellectual?
This isn't horribly safe, either. Wiping out at 85 MPH would suck.

I'm curious what multi-cyclist vehicles could do, now that you suggest it. With the lightness of these vehicles, at what point would you have to add spoilers?
> Ad blocking is really a war between regular users and criminals

Oh, not wanting advertising networks all over the world sharing data about my internet usage makes me a criminal eh? Hyperbole much? It's free content, there's no assumption I am going to actually look at advertisements (or watch a commercial on TV, or listen to one on the radio).

If somebody gets up during commercials to use the bathroom while watching Cheers reruns, are they also a criminal?