skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite, there's also ordering and indirectness. They've proved that all letters in the English alphabet have at least one word where either appending or prepending that letter does not modify the pronunciation, or have at least one word where changing the first or last letter to the one in question does not modify the pronunciation and that these are not disjoint sets.

Someone's silly Friday project, I think.
> resulting in a generalized cacophony where it's so hard to find quality content that people are giving up.

I've never had an easier time finding great new music.
I'd echo the other reply. Do as much as you can using online sources (Coursera, edX, plenty of CS and Algorithm courses etc) but just make sure the problem sets and any 'academic' programming is on your Github.

FWIW, I started a Maths degree with OU, and the material was excellent. Then my life took over...
"preying upon his prisoner's fears of the infamous Gestapo". Would you say then that torture (of other people) eventually played a role in the effectiveness of his technique ?
So much for engineers and their morals. People indirectly died because of their tampering.

Seems money can buy you all.
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Can you give an example of how this wouldn't work out? I can't even figure out how to make one up, and would like to see how it would look.
I don't think you can include the mazeltov type there - I cannot think of a native english word that uses that pronunciation. Happy to be proven wrong though.
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The whole auto industry needs a checkup.
> That requires a website publisher to act against their visitors.

Some do try, but then Google stepped in and told them that if you want to paywall stuff, get ready to disappear from search results.

> If they wanted to fix this situation they could simply stop digging the hole any deeper. (...)

> (...)

> One of the problems that is hard to address is that the advertising industry is in an arms race internally, if one party starts using a new and even more invasive technique to outperform its competitors it gets all the business and this then results in adoption of that technique across the board.

Indeed. This is your standard, garden-variety coordination problem. They are not able to execute your plan even if every single ad company was internally on-board with it - because they don't have a way to enforce coordination. Proliferation of ad-blockers may force them to by basically destroy their business model. Typically a government entity is another proven way, but it's hard to enact and enforce something like this on a global Internet sector.

Traditionally, I feel obliged to link to this excellent treatment on coordination problems: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
> People indirectly died because of their tampering.

How?
A really simple "hack" of a car park with an entry barrier that issues you a ticket is that you can usually exit the car park with an unpaid ticket if it's under 10 min old. So just get a new ticket from the entrance when you want to leave.

They do this so you can get out if there are no spaces.

I haven't done this myself and don't condone it. You will probably get in trouble and it's not nice.
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Yes, I think that's true. I certainly won't remove a single ad blocker - I currently browse with 4 blockers installed (LoL). Whatever one of them doesn't block, another one usually will.

I've previously advocated for a different kind of reform. I want advertisers to start paying web users directly. Then web users can reward publishers with their traffic.
It's not a perfect solution because it probably means that web users will still see advertising, but at least they would be somewhat compensated for it.
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I've seen that before, that's a great link for individual submission.
Air pollution leads to increases in various diseases of the respiratory tract (and other kinds too). Some of those are deadly. The difference is measured in thousands or maybe tens of thousands of people per year (unverified stat, but I think it's in the right ballpark).
Known dependencies can be taken into account by treating joint A&B occurrence as another feature. The result can sometimes be significantly improved with this simple hack.

This is an example of why feature engineering is very important, at times more so than the algorithm choice.

Learning to develop features that go together well with an algorithm is essential to practical machine learning.
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Yeah, and photon is not native english, but greek. But what's native english? All the -gh are old constructs and new english word never follow that pattern, is that modern english? Or a barbarism taken from another, old english language? What about french words, like garage, are that english?
Partially. Some editors can infer things like indentation and new lines by looking at the existing file, yes. Crucially, what about new files?

For charset, this needs to be defined since charsets share byte encodings:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/UTF-8/list.htm

http://www.fileformat.info/info/charset/US-ASCII/list.htm

Same goes for new line at the end of the file, how do you know ALL files of this type are meant to end with a new line or not?

Inference doesn't completely solve the problem that editorconfig solves. That said, if you don't want editorconfig then don't use it. If you're working on a project that uses editorconfig, feel free to ignore it - as long as you adhere to the code style of that project. editorconfig is simply a tool to help you adhere to a project code guidelines.
So are people who work on huge V8 engines morally responsible for people dying due to air pollution?
The communist party was the largest political party in France after the war and it was fully and openly aligned to Moscow. You may (and should) interpret being a stalinist as a bad thing today but it wasn't at that time for a large portion of the left.

But my point is rather that being good at math and at creating mathematical representations of nature doesn't qualify someone to make decisions on how other people should live their life.
According to this report: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25450615

In 2014 Android had an 81.5% market share compared to 14.8% for iOS.

So by being iOS only, you've given up on any revenue from 81.5% of the market.

So, to your question "Is it still necessary to be on Android?" - the answer is yes.
Does anyone know how putting diesel into the motor oil causes the engine to "[run] more smoothly and [use] less fuel"?
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I have recently become interested in data visualisation and the various excellent javascript libraries available for this (e.g. d3.js, dc.js).

I'd like to put together a small portfolio of data visualisation examples. Can HN recommend where I can download interesting data sets to work with? It doesn't really matter what the subject matter is (please interpret "interesting" however you prefer) but it helps if the data has some "meaning". I always find data visualisations most interesting if they help to make a point or support an argument.

Data sets don't need to be huge, 100s or 1000s of records is probably enough. Ideally downloadable in json or csv format.

HN always has something interesting to say so any other comments about the wider subject of data visualisation would be very welcome!
Reminds me of "Midnight Commander" and derivatives. A colleague of mine is a big user of "Far".
Does it maybe have to do with how long a loan-word has been in use, or how commonly it's used?
You guys ever heard of a thing called Explorer/Finder?
And let's add the legal term for it here, so it's clear what this "hack" actually is: Fraud.
It's interesting how problem-solving paradigms can lead somebody to places they probably wouldn't go otherwise.

"... In a wide study to be conducted globally in the coming months, Google will try to ascertain what exactly motivates a web user to install an ad blocker..."

I have many friends who train people. We agree on some things and disagree on others. What I find among some of my trainer friends is that if I disagree with them, the problem must be that I haven't been "trained" enough. They use training to change the world. If the world doesn't look like it's supposed to, then time to do some more training.

Google are data folks. If their business model doesn't work any more? Must gather more data.

Why do people install ad blockers? If we could only identify the top 3 drivers, then make some kind of short-term trade with them to prevent this behavior (The kid of short-term trade that looks good in the beginning but sucks for the user later on.)? We can fix this.

We must be careful that we don't approach problems already knowing what the solution is. This is especially tough in an established and crazy profitable industry. If your tool is to give people free stuff while collecting data to present them with ads, when presented with a problem, odds are that your solution is going to involve giving people free stuff while collecting data to present them with ads.
Well of course you see no reason for that. You are looking at it from an economic perspective not a technological one.

And so until you change that perspective you will keep applying the same ideas of incentives to your thinking.

Humans wont need to either gain resources or distribute it. Instead some will just own those resources and the system that distributes it sans the humans.
It thins the oil, so there are less frictional losses, at least until the bearing surfaces get damaged.
Interesting question. Depends how you working on it. If you are working on improving the efficiency then I would say its ok. If you are tampering with the actual values because your engines are bad to environment then yes, you are directly responsible. Are those workers who put the engine together responsible? Absolutely not. Unless they are aware of such shady actions.
Angry rich white people I would bet
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Too many entries to sift through if you sort by all time, but I recall him being called a charlatan here, which is what Chomsky once called him (which might explain it).

Otherwise I feel the tech community in general rejects the field of critical theory. I don't think Zizek is just a critical theory guy - he identifies primarily as a scholar of Hegel - but he's certainly the best known among critical/ literary theory types.
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They have, and the bodies responsible for that decided "It's cool guys, we'll just raise the emissions levels in our tests so you can 'meet' them". Problem solved.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/09/mercedes-...
And they optimized for those numbers at the expense of everything else and now they're somewhat surprised there is a counterforce to their optimizations.
Last time I checked my codebases were all plain text files.

But yes, having a syntax tree would solve this problem quite nicely.

(But to make it work universally you have to decide on a representation of this syntax tree to be able to represent it in plain text files to make it work with all the editors and IDEs that don't support that syntax tree stuff... And then we're back to .editorconfig, aren't we?)
I don't like the selecting up and down, it's much faster to just type a few characters. I wonder if it can use peco to select a directory by fuzzy search.
Not to let VW off the hook but this specific revelation is related to increased CO2 emissions.

That would surely be more related to global warming issues than respiratory desease wouldn't it?

To the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever had an asthma attack from breathing in the fumes from a glass of Coca-cola.
Which adblockers would you recommend using?
I think the future model will be built on compromise. If you tell the users "Please turn the adblocker off for my site, I promise to be reasonable", most of them would actually do it.
The unemployment is so low because the way they calculate it. The amount of people not being counted is increasing. Also the wages a lot of the jobs provide is less than adequate to provide someone with a stable income.

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> I don't think we can safely suggest a majority of media consumers on the internet are using ad blockers.

Yet.
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Prometheus with grafana for visualization. I've got some ideas about trying to run automated correlation queries for peaks and the like but they're probably above my skill level.

I have had some decent luck with sending syslog into mtail and counting generic word events like 'error' and 'warning' as a way to do "something might be wrong" alerting.
Wow, this site is blocked in the UK.
If they declare that those V8 engines have been manufactured to meet emissions standards set by governments to try and reduce the health and environmental toll of emissions, and therefore allow those V8 engines to be mass-manufactured and included in hundreds of thousands of new cars that would otherwise have contained less polluting engines, then obviously yes?

It's not working on the V8 engines that's the problem, it's lying about their emissions.

I'm not sure how you don't see this? Based on your tone you seem to think you're making some sort of sarcastically clever point, but I'm not sure what it is? (or maybe I'm misreading this)
I didn't understand this either, the quality and diversity of music has never been better
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I don't like it. Is it for personal blogging or general-purpose websites?

Why rethinking if you are doing what everybody does, generating sites that seem like everyone else's?
I was thinking the same.
The text was pretty gray without any questions or comments on the content.
I thought it was a good story, with solid arguments.
It's called 'institutional blindness' and the advertising industry will go down in history as the poster child for that particular affliction.

Now let's hope they don't take a whole raft of publishers with them.
XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing
I'm using this to evaluate scientific data with different versions of our python scripts. This way we can rapidly reproduce for example older results.
I always wondered why Google didn't build a micropayment system for that. But then again, that might blow up in their face.
> So just get a new ticket from the entrance

Getting a new ticket from the printer before the barrier will be hard if your car is inside the car park. Often the ticket printer will only work if it notices a large metal object (such as a car) in front of the barrier.
The problem is this would be admitting that the big lie (user targeting produces relevant more effective ads) is a big lie.

User targeting destroys the social fear of missing out mechanic -- nobody believes advertising affects them, but everyone believes that advertising affects the other guy. I have to pay attention to untargeted ads because anything they claim is something "everyone knows", even if it's a lie.

But once retargeting pulls back the curtain on the wizard the user realizes that the ads they're seeing are individually selected just for them. Digital ads drop from (pretending to be) a primary cultural information source to the equivalent of a pushy door-to-door salesman, individually lying to you.

But if you admit that all user targeting does is goose vanity metrics while damaging the value the ad inventory generates, most of the jobs in the digital ads industry evaporate overnight -- including most of the ad-adjacent staff at both the publishers and the brands -- so everyone is incentivized to keep the charade up.
That sounds like a bug. Is there any way for people to report that bug?
But a 6.0L V8 engine will always release more pollutants than a 1.0 3-cylinder engine. One could argue that unless you actively need so much power(drive a truck, tow caravans/boats/trailers), having a huge engine serves no purpose apart form personal pleasure, and it pollutes a lot. So with this logic in mind....is working on production of such engines morally wrong? If you are working for Mercedes and design their 6.3L V8 that goes into AMG63 cars, it that morally wrong?
The problem is that the 'future model' will still involve an ad network (because publishers can't be bothered to do their own direct-to-agency sales and agencies can't be bothered to negotiate directly with publishers). And as soon as that happens the responsibility for enforcing the 'reasonableness' has been passed to a third party and we're back to square one because at least one of them will figure out they can make more money that way.

That's what got us into this mess in the first place, we already had your model and it slowly got replaced by the one generating this backlash.
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I actually quite like adverts in the underground... in London I always look at the posters when on an escalator to see if any shows (musicals/plays) look interesting, and I still enjoy looking at adverts on the Paris metro now I live here, again mostly for shows/art exhibitions/music (but also partly to absorbe French culture).

I work in marketing / previously worked in more direct advertising, yet most of the time find adverts annoying. But not on the underground.
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Yes, as an example of excessive advertising, the biggest concert hall in Paris, which people just call Bercy because it's the landmark building of this neighbourhood, has been renovated and is now named Accorhotel Arena. Stupid marketing people believe they can be perceived as the benevolent pygmalions of arts and sports but they so obiously want free advertising whenever journalists will refer to this place. It only makes me want to boycott their hotels.
Its a form of Tonic Immobility, or animal hypnosis https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_immobility
There's even an entry on Trout tickling on the page.

What quite impressive is putting bigger sharks into the tonic state. Here's a pretty crazy clip from the Sharkman doco where he puts a feeding Tiger shark into tonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0HnUvXMH7w
59 premature deaths estimated according to a study:

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STEAM (STEM + arts) allows entrepreneurs to design beautiful products like Steve Jobs did with Apple.

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In my opinion SC has suffered from extreme feature creep. They should have stayed focused on a core of space sim functionality (whatever was in the initial KS promise). Talk of FPS functionality, for example, was a needless distraction.
I think retargeting was the turning point. Up to there the ad industry could get away with what they were doing without the users wising up. But once retargeting became the norm people realized that they are being targeted individually and a whole raft of them switched on adblockers in response. Nothing more irritating than an ill-timed retargeting campaign.
Your're saying that higher pollution causes more deaths and is therefore morally wrong, so have a look at Mercedes C-Class - you can have it with a relatively small 2.0L petrol(or even 1.8L if I remember correctly) or a massive 6.3L V8 petrol engine. The V8 will always pollute more. So why would it matter, if the V8 is "meeting emissions standards" - it's still poluting more than the 2.0L engine. So my question is - if lying about emissions of the 2.0L engine is "being morally responsible for people dying due to pollution", how is that not true for their 6.3L V8 engines(which are fully compliant, but pollute more nevertheless)?
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For me the quoted part is true: I've just ignored online ads until Google went malicious with their doodles:

I refuse to have every famous person of the past and the present to be subconsciously linked to six letters of a brand name.

So I installed adblock. This is quite ironic, since Google depends on people looking at ads.
And do they have a self-hosted solution?

The proprietary vs open argument is less important then the argument over where the data is physically held and ownership of it.
It's like I have glasses, and most of the time I don't see them and I forget about them. That's a good thing I guess. Sometimes I wonder if I haven't forgot my glasses, while I am wearing them. Then I have to look for them, really look for the frame until I'm assured they are there. Stupid, but this is how it works over here! ;-)
Not the person you're asking but I'm using ghostery, abp and umatrix and between them they seem to do a pretty good job of improving my web browsing experience. umatrix takes a bit of getting used to but is very powerful.
I would continue making waves in the high end walled garden for a few more months.

You will have a larger audience in Android, though there will be a lot more competition. Your app is already free, so there will not be a major culture shock moving to Android. Cement your name and gather a strong following. Start work on an Android port but don't rush it. A small amount of dev time to get started, like a day per week, would be enough to start understanding the challenges your team will face in the porting process. It doesn't have to be a major focus at this point, but the early time investment in exploring the next phase would give you a potential to move forward faster when the time is right. Think of it as the hobby project for the business.
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This is quite interesting and if in 1966 Sacks was encountering this unusual case of prime numbers in his patients, then this undoubtedly led to his life-long fascination with prime numbers, I suspect. He is well-known to have enjoyed a book on prime numbers published nearly 50 years later, The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, saying "I could not put it down once I had started." I like to think that two autistic twins inspired in Sacks a life-long enjoyment of this area of mathematics; that random encounters that can shape your thoughts for decades.
Many automated garages ban motorcycles because they're unable to trigger the sensor.
Depends on your favorite measure for atrocities, there was a civil war in Russia, there were the Stalinist purges all over the Soviet Union, there was the colonization of the Asian part of Russia and there was Holdomor. Each of these are among the worst human rights abuses, but actually I am not sure if you can really argues which one of them was worse.
The bigger issue here is that agencies like the EPA, FCC, FDA no longer run their own tests but instead rely on the industry to do the test for them.

How many cell phones don't adhere to set radiation safety standards?