skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it interesting the level of monetary value we put on most written content on the web (nothing) vs the time we spend reading said valueless content? Is it truly so valueless, or is it only valueless because similar content isn't worth anything? I click on the links I click on because I think they'll have more value to me than the rest of them, but I'm still not to the threshold of reaching any monetary value, only my attention.

I wonder how well a system like reddit gold would work for webpages - if an article was particularly fascinating or insightful or entertaining I could hit a button to give them a dollar or something else (maybe I set a budget of $20 at each month so I don't over or under-pay what I "think" I value media at). If enough people did this, wouldn't this start driving quality back up? Wouldn't it suddenly be transparent the value people see in an article in dollar terms? Who would make the first Million Dollar article?
I set up chatlio over 5 months ago for my business. I do not have enough positive things to say about it. We close over 20% of our Chatlio conversations. Here are other highlights:

- Took me under 5 mins to sign up and have this running on our entire site. They use a good CDN, because adding it to our site has had no noticeable increase in page load times.

- Highly accessible. Chatlio leverages all of the notification features built into slack. I couldn't ask for more. Our entire team had access when it was set up, without needing to create new accounts, or log into another site on yet another Chrome tab.

- Great customizations. Check their site for full details, but coloring, language, and contextual stuff (what to say when there is no attendant, etc) is super easy to work with.

- John (the lead at Chatlio, I believe) has been nothing but helpful. When I asked for help making the chat appear on a 10 second time delay, he had the code back to me in less than 20 mins. I was impressed.

- They are already making great updates. They recently launched a 'take screenshot' feature, message editing, and have reporting and operator rating features in the pipeline.

My company struggled with implementing and making a profit center out of live chat functionality. Chatlio has been fantastic. Its worth every penny.

If you want to see a live implementation, ours is here: http://sequoiawaste.com. I'll be hanging out chatting with people who are interested for the next hour or so.
> but terrible clickbaity title.

I don't know about that. The clickbait title did its job well and we all clicked on the link and read the article.
No, it really isn't. Pro-lifers and anti-gunners use substantially the same arguments and templates for political action.

Both groups believe their object of interest in an intolerable evil that must be eliminated, and use incremental means to achieve their objective.
Especially so for an investment like housing, where rapid growth due to a shift in the popularity of your neighborhood is about the only reliable way for your "investment" to fare much better than sticking money under the mattress would.

Sorry for the barb, but that meme (your house as an investment) really bothers me, because it has the potential to do a lot of damage. It's like penny stocks. Sure you can make money if you really know what you're doing or get lucky, but by and large the idea that it's a good investment originates with people who've a financial interest in convincing you to buy some.
So, ISIS earns 1/5th the daily revenue of than Clash of Clans, or about the same revenue as ~250 McDonalds stores?

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-11-clash-of-cl...
It just doesn't seem worthwhile to fit ISIS into a startup model. It's a terroristic cult focused on Sharia Law. So the business model would be conquer and impose Islamic law, and start a world wide Islamic Caliphate to serve God by means of ushering in the apocalypse, thru innovative disruption of basic human rights? The only similarities to a startup are that they need leadership and money to achieve their goals. Which is what I said before, the analogy fails after the initial idea.
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Let me tell you a story...board (iOS Development)
How is a store front with a sign having the store's name manipulation exactly?
If we took the name "Brendan Eich" and replaced it with "Comcast" more of us would find this entirely loathsome.

Indeed it is a very loathsome business model.

People have taken exception to it when ATT and Comcast inject ads into your browsing experience and when Adblock Plus removes and then reinjects them.

Why is this not hijacking the web, extorting publishers with buy into yet another ad network and then trying to leverage this into a future payment network?
The advantages of Earth observing satellites in the arena of
- telecommunications
- navigation & mapping
- meteorology
- agriculture, mining etc.
things that are part of both defense and commerce.

>>and I cannot imagine why any country needs satellite capabilities (aside from nationalism).<<
GPS ?
Why not just use org-mode? (genuine question not a smart ass question).
If they get bought by Al-Queda in Iraq, would that make it an AQIhire?
No fingerprints anywhere. None of the victim's blood found (aside from the car trunk). Evidence that the remains had been moved. No murder scene.

All the evidence they had against Avery could easily have been planted. That's very very unusual.
Sorry, you're right. I should've qualified that I meant the colloquial usage of the word "weight".
Exactly, so many people seem to forget this simple fact
I see jQuery mainly as a library to eliminate browser differences.
http://swisscube.epfl.ch/
Your 42 digit result isn't quite right - you need another 2 factors of 3. With that, there are 999 different solutions (Sinan should be pleased with that).

I have a blog entry about a similar solution at https://matthewarcus.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/excellent-numb...
I think it's likely SLAM is one of those things (like Motion Planning) that will continue to be done with more formally well understood algorithms, but indeed will be integrated with Deep Learning for feature extraction/scene understanding/many other things.
Yes. The solid angle subtended by the planet (and hence the amount of reflected light) goes as 1/r^2, and then the apparent brightness of the reflected light to us goes as an additional 1/r^2. The total dependence is then 1/r^2 * 1/r^2 = 1/r^4.
A tutorial introduction to programming PDP-11 Macro-11 Assembly in RT-11 v5.3
Hacking a Tesla Model S
This is the classic Civ IV problem; you add too many cities too fast and your economy can't keep up.
I don't think the protocol was actually changed. The article just describes an equipment swap.
The NY Times covers the story well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet...

EDIT: After reading the comments in this discussion, many of which are addressed in the NYT article, I'd say the NYT article is almost certainly worth reading.
There are two separate things here. First, there's the Dev Share program which is opt in to allow projects to make money. This puts a bundleware installer up first that then downloads the main installer as the primary "Download" button with an alternate main installer only link alongside. Projects like FileZilla do this to support their development.

Second, there was a program where some of SourceForge's mirrored projects were distributed in the same fashion. SourceForge does mirroring of open source projects not hosted on SourceForge. SourceForge, in an effort to make more money, used the same bundleware style download installer for projects like GIMP. As GIMP wasn't repackaged in this installer, there was no GPL impact. However, it was distasteful to say the least. After both publishers like GIMP and the wider open source community reacted negatively, SourceForge discontinued the program and announced on their blog that they would not reinstate it. They also stated that they would form an open source community advisory board before implementing any additional open source monetization strategies in the future.

SourceForge currently has about 10 projects that opt in to their Dev Share program. Every one is available for download without using the bundleware installer. And their custom bundleware installer is far clearer about what it is than the majority of the commercial bundelware installers out there, though, like all bundleware installers, it does still make use of dark patterns which I am not a fan of (see also: Avast updates, Flash updates, Java updates all of which pre-bundle Google Chrome and trick you into installing via dark patterns).

So, all 400,000 projects on SourceForge are blocked permanently with no possibility of unblocking because of a few weeks of legal but unethical bad behavior that SourceForge publicly backtracked from and no longer engages in.

Punishing bad behavior makes a lot of sense. But when someone reacts in a positive way to that punishment (stopping it, publicly talking about it, setting up a committee before exploring further options, etc), it makes sense to remove the block. Otherwise, once you're blocked, there's no reason to reform.
Poor people don't make enough money for companies to target effectively.

Poor people also do not have the skills to make them employable- as in the minimum requirements for a human life are not equal to what their economic output is.

Automation also provides a significant downward thrust lowering wages and sending people to unemployment or unemployability. This causes the the non-higher classes to be slowly, inexorably be shoved further down, thus creating more in the lower classes.

Therefore, the longer we go, the more poor people (per capita) will exist. And poor people will continue to be dismissed, other than hand-wavy good intentions that really fail to solve the issue at hand.

Once this cycle goes long enough, then that is the beginning of a national collapse, ala Depression. (No money to do things, no way to get money.)
The alternative is for our culture to have standards and expect more, and to build the technology to support that level of transparency.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could instantly have a high level analysis of every refrigerator available (new or used) in terms of its objective qualities? With scientific units of measurement and everything? How about information on how the parts were sourced and manufactured?

Unfortunately the majority of the world aren't even close to being in a position to have such standards, expect more, and have the education to evaluate the evidence. The power is in all the wrong places.
But everyone complained that Microsoft was slow to change and adopt the new software practices that the world wanted. Can't have your cake and eat it too. I agree the enterprise-y applications need more polish and stability but MS needed a massive change quickly and this is it.
These are the world's best countries
Very classy visualization! Have a look at the code that determines the visual flow of data between relays: https://github.com/unchartedsoftware/torflow/blob/master/pub...

I think it doesn't exactly reflect how paths are chosen based on relay bandwidth scores, if we compare to the actual path selection algorithm: http://tor.stackexchange.com/a/114

I might be missing something, but it seems that relay same-family and same-/16-subnet exclusions are ignored. This might bias the visualization to increase the apparent traffic between popular nodes, while in reality, the traffic should be slightly more evened out with less popular nodes. Hard to tell if this effect makes any visible difference without analyzing the data, though. Either way, because of the way the code is structured, it shouldn't be too hard to fix: just simulate full paths instead of single connections between nodes.
Kill your blog: Why side projects are the future of marketing
Slightly? Considerably.
Why would they lack those professions? Aren't those some of the most likely groups to become terrorists?
It's not just street merchants. At least in my area it's also steadily taking over at independent brick-and-mortar businesses too.
You cannot buy a handgun in a state you do not reside, and a gun must be legal in both the state where the transaction is occurring, and the home state of the buyer. (that's federal law)

Although it's illegal to "knowingly" sell against those rules, most buyers don't live by the "don't ask, don't tell" methodology. So in a lot of cases (don't have statistics on it), sellers will want to verify the buyer's home state, and probably even keep a receipt with the name incase the gun is used in a crime, and the ATF comes knocking at the buyer's door.
Google Play has already had this for a little while:
http://ccm.net/faq/30199-google-play-movies-tv-now-integrate...

It's pretty trivial since you know the actors in the movie and can do the face recognition for the people on screen using the existing methods when the video is paused, but still quite neat to see it happen.
.NET Core wasn't exactly built for cross-platform, that seems to be a (very welcome) side effect. The big deals for .NET Core (versus .NET Framework) is that it is: A) Open Source (yay!), and B) Componentized (.NET Framework is a giant monolith that roughly followed Windows versions; .NET Core is a set of libraries that each can independently iterate with semver).

The new componentized nature of .NET Core (and the other *Core projects here) is really the big deal here, even without the added benefit that it is Open Source and cross-platform. The benefit for developers to switch to .NET Core (or to support both for the time being) is that you are a lot less reliant on/restricted by the version of Windows your users or servers are running. With .NET Core now things like even the System namespaces are now available as semver-versioned NuGet packages that you can upgrade as a developer, rather than wait for your users to upgrade their Windows version (or install a massive .NET Framework upgrade), or your corporate server to upgrade its Windows Server or .NET Framework. This is especially great for ASP.Net developers as it makes it easier to run servers and easier for your applications to run on whatever servers you have available. It's useful to application developers because .NET Core very much is the .NET supported by the Windows 10 "Universal Windows App" platform, and things like .NET Native are made possible thanks to the componentization efforts of .NET Core.
I don't disagree with the cost of context switch and I see value in limiting the work in progress, my argument is against focusing on throughput and measuring it by units of work, and particularly using estimates as the base of the measure
> would this actually be a planet? Or still a dwarf planet

The NY Times article covers this question in some detail, and says the experts are certain this would be a ninth planet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet...
cool story brah, you won't be missed. should have negotiated options at your job.
> And it's also not cynical to say that those extra sales would not have occurred without the ad, hence they were for goods people could have done without

Here's the error.

Yes, they were products the target could have done without, but not something they can do without once they have the product.

Consider: The first iPhone. A device that opens possibilities to improve your life that never existed before. You could do without it, but once you have it you can't do without it.

I think you'd have appreciated an ad for the original iPhone if it eventually led to you buying one.
The same thing can be found in Paris, too.
Oh, I agree. I think it's totally misleading, but this is the way they are describing the surveillance that we have.
I am not familiar with details of technologies related to privacy management. Wondering would they be able to track even if someone uses a VPN ?
There does not seem a day to go by without a NodeJS-based framework/library get the heat from the community ever since December 2015.

It appears that 2016 is the year when the hype from NodeJS died down and vendors/OSS-community must now deal with the hard, un-glamorous, work to clean up, maintain, prepare roadmap, and so on. Which is good!

Or it could also be the year where people realized that the use-case for NodeJS is fairly very very specific/niche (unless if they love JS so much that they're willing to absorb the pain using NodeJS + its ecosystem).

SailJS vs TrailJS, ExpressJS is dying, NodeJS vs io.js, StrongLoop+IBM fiasco (and SL reputation), now MeteorJS!. I had high hopes that MeteorJS can be one of the premier NodeJS frameworks (Rod Johnson, who created Spring Framework, invested in the company. I hope they listen to him...).

I love to see competition in NodeJS ecosystem and hopefully sooner than later, a few solid options emerged because right now, everything is not a good option except barebone NodeJS and roll-your-own-framework.
Just a minor correction: it is called Interac [1] not Interact.

By the way, which bank are you with now? Tangerine?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac_e-Transfer
To be sure, there was. I had in mind, principally, the monastery in Brno, where a certain monk did some breeding experiments with peas in the mid-19th century. (I am the author of the article.)
If you are going by that logic, Pluto was at least the 10th planet discovered and this is at least the 11th. Ceres was discovered before either Neptune or Pluto and spent 50 years as a "planet". It eventually went through a similar reclassification process as Pluto as other similar objects were discovered. The only reason you don't see the same controversy around its classification is because it was recategorized a century before any of us were born.
Sadly, "deep learning" (much like "AI" itself) has become more of a marketing term and less of a technical term these days.

If I tell someone I made a deep learning system, it conveys no details other than it's something besides a single linear discriminator.

deep learning is in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" phase of our never ending tech hype cycle. Like most buzzwords, it holds meaning for practitioners, but when marketing dweebs with no knowledge are hired to write endless clickbait about technical terms with no underlying understanding, it dilutes the entire vocabulary ecosystem until even the practitioners can't describe what they do using their own terminology anymore.
And, so far, we've done a really shitty job of that.

That's somewhat true because housing restrictions in major coastal cities have become so draconian, raising prices; moving to cheap places like Texas, Phoenix, or Atlanta is one way to increase leisure over consumption. But there may be other issues around the productivity hits that dividing up brainwork creates: http://jakeseliger.com/2016/01/09/the-more-you-do-it-the-bet....
> We also found a number of vulnerabilities that allowed us to, with physical access to the vehicle, to gain root access to two of the infotainment systems

You should not have to depend on vulnerabilities to gain root access to a computer you own.

I'd rather like to see e.g. a system protected by a unique ECC SSH key, and you get the copy of the private key in paper together with your manual, as well as instructions on how to regenerate it.
I'd like to hope an "average" person would not gloss over gaps in their knowledge and jump to a hostile conclusion.

This is what many "average" people do, and people have built businesses and political careers out of this.
Yes, it will take a very long time. But it will take much less time than solving the halting problem!
> ISIS isn't a startup company

Why do you say that?

I think that's exactly what it is. It's a shitty business though. It's business is war and conquest and rape and pillage and destruction. But in the end it has a budget, it has a start date, it has employees, it has a stated plan, it recruits, etc... What else do you want in an organization to make it a company?

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck...

https://news.vice.com/article/a-leaked-budget-may-finally-sh...

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459249994/leaked-budget-docume...
There have been some economies that ran on the idea that most people should only have what they need. At best they seem like dystopias.
If the means of production were in the hands of the citizens, then there's no reason to make "profit". And if the production was completely automated, then everything would be easy to obtain and at very low cost.

Now, we don't have to take away production facilities from companies or individuals, although progressive taxation is probably a good idea. Instead, the federal Govt already owns a great deal of land. We could urge to start developing on a small portion of that, for the needs of all the citizens.

This isn't a communist/socialist/capitalist issue. We've been ignoring other economic systems for 2 centuries now, and flirted with communism back in the 20's. It's time to see what's out there that matches with our current technology.
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Sad, truth is our best day's our past , as a kid of the 60's I wasn't alive to see the 50's and the top of what a demand side economy , provided the average citizen ,however to compare life today with the average back then , is apples and oranges. I lived in rust belt urban city , neighborhood is extremely, far worse now. Grandparents lived in very rural town it is far worse now, 46% unemployment , working age men,last time I checked. Glad my grandfather and his buddies are not here to see their town now ! They , Greatest generation sacrificed so much for their country , the baby boomers should be ashamed. Going forward ,the younger generation should look towards decentralization ,self-sufficient ways to survive , and thrive. In Tao's NM they are building many types of efficient housing , allowing a ecco-friendly way of life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939306
Gloria Steinem is hosting a session now
As a sanity check: ISIS soldiers earn between $400 and $1,200 a month, plus a $50 stipend for their wives and $25 for each child, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Call it ~1,000 / month or ~30$ a day. Let's assume 1/3 of that 1 million / day goes to fighters and the rest is overhead. ~= 10,000 fighters which is a significant force and importantly it's replaceable with new recruits.

PS: Though that could significantly understate things if the average is closer to say 500$ per month and / or overhead is lower and paid with other income sources.
The Stickeronomics of CS:GO
A cartoon guide to Facebook’s Relay, part 1
When you say "all the evidence", you mean "all the forensic evidence taken from the site". There is other corroborating evidence.

These kinds of arguments seem thematically identical to the ones used against Hans Reiser.
The article has small bits of useful info but the article and site reeks of submarine (Microsoft Azure) advertising for me..

Their homepage has a testimonial/review-blurb of the game as the very first thing from a Microsoft "White paper".

Below that there are 2 videos, one of which is an "Interview Rob Fraser - Microsoft".

And of course the article itself focuses on Azure with another 12 mentions of Azure and how it runs Windows, .Net and C# so well (I'd hope so).

Also, the 7 mill requests/second aren't real world numbers but just a software benchmark.

Oh and the benchmark was run on an instance that has 16 cores, 3TB of SSD storage, and 224 GB of RAM. That's more like a dedicated server than a single cloud server instance (and waay more expensive than dedicated at $3061 per month per instance).
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