skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The setup you describe is only true of very small publishers (i.e. a single site). iAd is essentially a supply-side platform (SSP); just like DoubleClick. A large publisher like Wired will use what's called a demand-side platform (DSP) -- something like Auditude or Freewheel. This would allow you to manage ad sales between 3rd party ad networks, data partners, internal sales and remnant inventory in a way that provides the publisher with control over what ads get shown. A common setup is to bid an impression against multiple ad networks (and local inventory) based on the user's data profile (obtained from a data provider). Google consolidates all of this themselves, which makes it easier if you're small, but any major publisher is going to handle ad sales at least partially in house. Ad sales are the revenue stream, and you just don't outsource your revenue generation process -- period.

There's just a conflict of interest in doing it any other way. A DSP wants to play multiple SSPs against each other to get the highest priced ads for its content while preserving the user experience (DSPs often include features that allow you restrict the number of times an ad shows to the same user, etc). The SSPs are looking to get the best results for their advertisers at the lowest price.

It's not a brilliant move because platform lock-in is too easy to avoid thanks to the myriad of ad tech providers in the space. Apple will get some app developers and small sites with this, but 95% of the market has evolved past a solution like this into something far more "enterprise".
Title on Hackernews I don't have a problem with, title on The Register I can agree with you...

Clickbait for sure, but that's media.
I wonder if this can be used to study impacts of urban expansion and how natural ecosystems around big cities get affected. Also it can be a great way of exploring natural resources conservation.
Do you mean to imply that reduced performance will upset you more than causing 25x the smog that the law allowed?
It was actually a clever "Slide to Jailbreak" rather than a click.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
How so? Currently known symmetric crypto algorithms are secure against attacks by quantum computers. More than that, hash functions, which are building primitives of password hashing functions, are used in "post-quantum crypto", e.g. for signatures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Hash..., http://sphincs.cr.yp.to/). (Although more research should be done on memory-hard functions.)
There were no government conspiracies prior to Iran-Contra affair?
And where exactly are you getting the idea from that it was 'satire'? Everything I've seen Heinlein ever say about the novel straightly points to it not being satire; he was completely serious his thoughts on philosophy, morality, government, society, etc. It may be hard to believe, but I think he meant what he wrote.
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Details, in case it's helpful/interesting to anyone: https://keybase.io/docs/api/1.0/call/login . Also of note, the hashing is done client side, not server-side.
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You have fallen into the same trap as both sides in taking the radicals behaviour as typical of the movement as a whole. Well done, you are why we cant have nice things.
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digg sold for $500k?
If it's not these bastards, it'll be some other bastards. Companies have to differentiate their products somehow.
> People claiming "harassment!" absent evidence is not proof of said harassment existing

Who said there's no evidence?
I ran into the same thing. Sheetsu apparently doesn't have CORS (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/) enabled so it won't work from client-side JS right now.
I didn't say anything about a free market. I said, go fix the regulating agencies. Way harder.

I'm a libertarian, but I'm not an "anarchist" because I still think it makes more sense to have an industry, and an independent, focused, effective regulatory apparatus. When you fall prey to the regulatory apparatus' ploy to gain more power with yet more "regulations" by responding to their failures to use existing regulations to fix problems, you A: play a part in letting these sorts of failures slip by B: reward the regulatory apparatus' failures, creating more incentives for them to fail later and C: give them another vector to "fail" and need "more power" to fix their failures in the future.

You want regulations to work, stop falling for this obvious ploy and start holding your government servants responsible for the failures they are already abundantly equipped with the tools to solve, instead of playing the sap and joining in with the voices calling for more power, exactly as they want. They've got enough to handle this problem. Go take them to task, don't hand them more power even as they are demonstrating their manifold inadequacy to be given even what they have.
That information was primarily intended for OEMs, system integrators, and service technicians. They weren't really concerned about little Johnny down the street upgrading his computer... they certainly weren't trying to prevent that but it's not why they created those specs.
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnmq4WR83Mw
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I have re-read your comment a dozen times, trying to grasp what you mean, and come up short each time. Do you mean to say that whenever a business makes a decision that you disagree with, you (or someone else) should feel morally entitled to go a kill the individuals working there? Or do you mean that whenever a business makes a decision that you disagree with, the state is entitled to focibly take the company?

I personally find both to be morally problematic (to say the least), and unless you can establish a viewpoint neutral rule for this new criteria for nationalization (or murder), it will be enforced arbitrarily and capriciously.
Never heard of him. I thought we were comparing moot with Michael Godwin, not whoever this "Hitler" character you're bringing up is.
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If you look hard enough, you will find specific periods with any values of the correlation. Portfolio is about long-term strategy. That is not to say that I disagree that asset classes became more correlated lately.
If you’re shooting tanks then sure it's a significant advantage, but when the target is a pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on the back you don't need that much penetrating power.
My Dad: "What's this 'News' app?"
Me: "It's new with iOS 9. It's a little news reader. You tell it what you're interested in, and it'll show you articles."
Dad: "Cool" <proceeds to spend an hour with it>

You may be surprised.
The point isn't to force ads down the user's throat, it's to show ads in a way that's uniform and tolerable, as Apple is attempting to do with Apple News. An ad blocker can be built for Apple News too (and has been) but I'd rather that not be necessary in the first place.
Armor is fantastic. It's up there with Ender's Game on my list of military sci-fi.
What it will take to put a human colony on Mars
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Why is it harder to transport wine within Canada than nuclear fuel?
Thanks, interesting. Have been doing the same with hyperspectral aerial images. Did these guys open source their trained weights or any source code? Couldn't see any links
That'll be great. Is CORS support on the roadmap too?
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French regulator demand links removed from dot-com sites, not just dot-fr
> For the rest, I wouldn't know why there wouldn't be multiple medicines. Labs would still come up with multiple compounds that have more or less the same result, and if not, research would continue for the people who fall outside the bell curve of the other medicine.

The issue is that this process happens right now because of independent development due to competition. As soon as you unify multiple efforts into one cooperative effort, you no longer have multiple efforts that produce multiple viable drugs.

You're appealing to unify research efforts to put more wood behind fewer arrows to help people. And that's fine. It just that this has consequences, not all of which would likely be ones you want.

So, yes, the resulting medicine would BE the generic. And that's great! But there is a drawback. And these are just the consequences we can easily predict. We haven't even thought about the psychological effects of enforced monoculture yet.
What interesting about this is that it is appears to be the next wave of PRACTICAL deep learning that can start in image recognition and move the same models into other areas. CNNs have limited (for now) use cases, this can actually be applied to some very large-scale problems using the single layer approach (which is the difference) and scale to massive sets. Very cool. Very.
Well, my point was that tosseraccount's evidence that the claim was wrong did not in fact apply. I was not actually asserting that the claim was true (though I believe it is), merely that the evidence cited against it was irrelevant because it was the wrong time period.
That is all true but we don't have to buy from shady producers. Canadian and European producers supply their own very safe and mature markets. Buy the stuff that the UK NHS buys and at the same prices - their scale gets them good deals (with notable exceptions). This can't be worse than the current deal.
> Quinn's game is unpolished garbage as revied

The fact some gamergaters don't like Quinn's game doesn't make it "garbage". It's not a traditional game. That doesn't mean that rating it highly is somehow a violation of ethics.

The idea that Quinn somehow used personal connections to get literally tens of thousands of people to highly rate her game violates Occam's razor.
Some people have a bit of an itchy trigger-finger with down votes. I wouldn't waste my time worrying about it.
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I have re-read your comment a dozen times, trying to grasp what you mean, and come up short each time. Are you a sociopath?
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I think its somewhat common, and even occasionally successful:

Amazon prime costs amazon money, and the original fire tablets were sold at cost - i suspect the new 50$ tablets are not very profitable either

Walmart has commonly been accused of this practice for various products

Google's original Nexus 7 tablet

I believe Apple ended up losing money at least a quarter or two on the app store/itunes

Granted there are few examples, but its certainly prevalent enough that its a legitimate business concern - the bigger disparity is that it takes a pretty enormous size for a company to succeed in such a tactic, I doubt turing has the kind of capital to lose that the likes of Walmart, Apple, Google and Amazon do.
I bought the previous gen Moto-X and like it. The upgraded camera has me thinking of re-gifting my current phone to one of my kids and getting the new version though :-)
I watched a fascinating interview with a former MI6 manager. This was probably about 10 years ago. The interviewer made some comment about the men she had to manage: the agents. She said, effectively 'men?'.

The Grey Man principle is a good one, as far as it goes, except maybe the gender.

Fictional spies are interesting reflections of social angst, but I think we're about ready now for a fictional Valerie Plame.
Really thorough and interesting write-up. I don't have much to add, but wanted to express my admiration for the author's grit and perseverance on seeing a problem through to its end.
It seems like drug manufacturers should be regulated as utilities in some regard. Sure, you can have competition, but at some point your products become so important for normal societal life that you are regulated as to how much you can charge, or how much you can increase costs.
Sure, I admit I mainly took exception to the wording, not the actual points raised.

I disagree with you that RAF bombing achieved nothing though. Plenty of industrial facilities were destroyed, major dams, V2 rocket facilities, etc. If you lived in London then you'd probably be reasonably pleased by the destruction of a V2 facility, even if the long-term strategic difference was negligible.

You have to understand that we Brits are quite used to our armed forces contribution being erased from history by Hollywood so can be a bit defensive about Americans making sweeping generalisations in this area. We will argue you down to the details.
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I also implemented something like this very recently [1] and I would recommend building in caching from the start as I was consistently getting throttled by the Google API even in development (just live reloading the page as I styled it).

Secondly, while the load page and then load the data in as JS approach definitely works, I found that just pushing the data in as HTML on the server side was easier to cache and faster to load.

1 - https://gist.github.com/mbuckbee/0ad3bd150e705c769c50

This was sufficient to handle thousands of requests per hour with a page load time of less than 250ms
Source for that? I remember reading that something like 25% of paleolithic skeletons bore signs of violence consistent with getting poked with spears or bashed with clubs.
This is 130 lines of code, including whitespace.
I would say the one who automatically tosses out the highest number in a possible range is the one doing the implying...

Edit: Heh. Changing the 40X to a 10X, eh? Nice...

Edit2: Now 25X. Really, dude?
Using Exceptions this way in Python code is common practice and considered "Pythonic" and it's different than goto:

- an Exception only can bubble up the call stack, not to an arbitrary location in the code

- it can be caught whatever level during that path
Yes, mostly because of their brigading, etc.
who are the "leaders of the movement"?
New ownership would presumably clean house.

And this wouldn't prevent those who were involved from being charged as well for their individual role.

>The various index funds and pension plans that you want to penalize were never informed of the scheme.

I only meant this how you'd carry out a corporate death penalty without hurting third parties. Any corporate death penalty would wipe these share holders out anyway.
My biggest concern about F-35's is how quickly they can be made in wartime situations. They have so many sophisticated instruments... can they really be mass produced? In WW2, Germany had the best tanks, but the Soviets and the Americans overwhelmed them with numbers. You can say that WW2 is an old war, but if you're wrong do we really have a reliable plane that we can mass produce anymore?
There isn't much in the list that applications like Hangout or Chrome don't have anyway. It's still a very serious vulnerability, but the overstating is just clever marketing by a security company.
Part of that failure is political. People don't want them to work because they prefer markets do it.

A great example of this in action is the silly Post Office pre pay benefit requrement. It's making the Post Office look really bad because they appear to not have enough to operate. The truth is they operate just fine, and are self-funded. Congress changed rate structures and imposed prepament of multiple decades of benefits, both of which would make no sense to any reasonable organization.
Good, he committed mass murder for money, he should be prison. We should do this more often.
The people who most influence gamergate, the people who gamergate listen to. They do exist. Gamergate may be decentralised, but like any campaign, it does have leaders.
Probably means CARB, where states that have adopted California's emissions regulations require certain parts of the vehicles be replaced by special CARB-approved versions when they fail. Even if they're exactly the same as non-carb approved versions yet cost 2-3x as much.
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I'm clearly asking for some names. You're avoiding the question. who are the "leaders of the movement"?
Nice! There's also this one for getting LaTeX SVGs on the fly: http://tex.la/
OTOH, Apple TV 3 was never jailbroken, iirc. Sure, that may just mean not enough interest.
Yes and no. Many kinds of innovation happen because people are curious... provided they can afford to indulge their curiosity. Of course, I don't know many people who can personally afford to do the kind of research they are employed to do, so there are important limits at work. Funding plays a major role in enabling curiosity.

That said, there's also application. Curiosity may lead to someone discovering a particular complex chemical, but curiosity won't turn it into a cheaply produced pill available at your corner pharmacy.
Error by Systema Software exposes millions of medical claims records
Very cool solution to something that can be really painful. I built a recipe catalog mobile app a few years ago that incorporated a 'smart' shopping cart that would sum up ingredients from different recipes, like '2 hard boiled eggs' and '1 egg yolk' to show them in your cart as '3 eggs'. We had only a hundred-odd recipes so this became a manual process (including entering the structured data in a crappy CMS much like the one described in the article), but I felt the whole time that this was a problem aching for some sort of great solution.
> I often read comments like this about The Forever War and I'm never sure if I read the same book. I enjoyed it but it seemed an awful lot more shallow than it's given credit for.

Likewise. Which is not to say I thought it was bad. I think perhaps it was a product of its time? I could imagine it felt a lot more urgent and prescient when it was released than it does today (I read it for the first time earlier this year).

Personally, I found Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks to be much more compelling when it comes to a sci-fi study on the nature of war. Each to their own, of course.
According to the internet:

A 2015 Chevy Impala weighs between 3,650 pounds, and 3,850 pounds. [0]

A 1960 Chevy Impala weighs between 3,580 pounds, and 3,960 pounds. [1]

Much of a car's body is plastic these days. While features go up, weight generally stays the same.

[0] https://www.google.com/webhp?q=weight+of+a+chevrolet+impala+...
[1] http://www.oldride.com/library/1960_chevrolet_impala.html
Judging from most of my Facebook feed, it feels like a lot of people in this country do not value that more highly than miniscule taxes.
Except for a long time it was the movement as a whole. The is why people don't take it seriously, because last year the group stood for picking apart of game dev's sex life.
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NLP neophyte here: where do trigrams fit in? Do you base your vectors on trigrams instead of characters?
This might surprise you, but conditions that encourage abuse also encourage people to find ways to avoid having their abuse detected.

Yeah, it can be worse than the current deal. Just look at the problems China has with counterfeit food.
> MathJax syntax is LaTeX-enough

It is LaTeX syntax.
How often did Stephen Colbert say his show was satire? He rarely broke character. And I don't recall him ever saying it was satire. But yet it was quite clear that it was. Of course, his method was rather over-the-top. Heinlein's was not.

Here's some reading: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-...
My experience on an i4790k machine with 8 GB RAM after "upgrading" to Win 10:

Chrome tabs tend to get swapped out to SSD quite quickly. Re-opening those tabs takes a few seconds now, compared to instantly before. Am pondering adding another 8 GB for a total of 16 to see if it helps...
Yes, knowing how PR spins work in the defense industry, this is very much likely the case.
I work with many big companies that use open source software, and the answer (as usual) is it depends.

If we're talking about a well-understood open source product like Apache -- probably not. Most companies will just have people on staff who understand those tools very, very well. Same goes for libraries (or really anything in the software dev toolchain). If the codebase is small enough for a single developer to understand reasonably quickly, there's no value in support.

But if we're talking something like a database server or operational software -- absolutely. You want an expert you can call who will help you fix your problem within a certain amount of time (SLA). Customers really only need support for production outages: assume your customers are at least as smart as you are, and given enough time they can figure their problem out. But they don't have time, which is why they want to be able to call you.
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I just finished a fun little Geiger Counter prop - realistic look and sound, but with a slide potentiometer under the thumb so you can crank the radioactivity up or down on a whim.

The Arduino code for the DFRobot Beetle that runs it is here: https://github.com/Qworg/GeigerCounterSimulator
I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about.
Tens of thousands, involved in a scheme? No, of course not, and I have no doubt that a lot of people liked it. That was a subjective judgement on my part - I think it's low effort nonsense.

Here's the thing - would those tens of thousands of people have seen it in the first place if Hernandez hadn't talked up her friend on Kotaku? Would that niche of a title have wound up on the site at all if not for the personal connection between those two?

I suspect the answers to both those questions are "no".
You may view it as sad.

But I think two things are happening:
1. The price of the drug was artificially deflated.
2. The somewhat-free market is deciding how to handle the correction.

If the market for this drug was interfered with and the price was not allowed to go up, who's to say the manufacturer couldn't just discontinue the product? Would that help?
>The practical advice they give is in the form of obvious generalities ("setup your firewalls", "update your OS") without any concrete details on how to best do that

I hope you're not suggesting that security compliance isn't necessary because of the time-consuming external research involved. Sure its a usability problem but does that mean we should throw it out and just stick with Penetration Testing, Intrusion Detection Systems, and Risk Assessments? A security guy actually told me that just doing Pentesting, Risk Assessments, and IDS was good enough.

Personally, I believe the rest of the world doesn't have a reasonable alternative except for going through a thorough cleansing process of security compliance. That's why its been my mission to take out the guesswork from security compliance frameworks like DFARS 252.204-7012, COBIT, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FEDRAMP/FISMA, ISO 27001/2.

However, I understand that these Compliance Frameworks might not be for you. It seems like you're already self-compliant with your security processes and you're so security-competent that you're doing things right the first time around.
Those are good examples, but I would argue that if a practice is sustainable (and often sustained), it is not problematic. If Amazon wishes to provide Prime at a loss to encourage customers to buy products which Amazon will make money on (enough to compensate for Prime), is there a problem? Would there be a problem if Amazon offered to ship things sooner in exchange for a promise that you would shop at their site more often (even if this promise plan cost them money)?
Aren't some new password hashing schemes coming out now?

https://password-hashing.net/