skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it will be entirely soaked up by corporations raising prices, because people will still have all the same "non-free votes" they had before, along with the free ones, and everything will adjust to the expectation that people spend both.

Is there any evidence for this, or is this purely conjecture?
Plus then you have to support Connie with that report for the rest of your days
I think this is wrong. This idea comes from when humans first tried to program computers to do what we wanted them to do. We failed, and it turned out to be really hard. A grand master couldn't explain the algorithm he used exactly. But that doesn't mean he couldn't give any useful information at all.

Think of it like describing a tiger. I have no idea how to describe complicated edge detection algorithms and exact shapes. But I can say something like "an animal with orange stripes", and that would be useful information to another human.

Likewise a grandmaster can explain that pawns are valuable in situations like this, or that point to a certain position and say don't do that, etc. To a computer that information is useless, but to a human that's extremely useful. We already have some pattern recognition and intelligence, we just need some pointers. Not an exact description of the algorithm.
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As far as the spectrum reuse question, they talk about active phased array tech, would that possibly allow them to get a lot more reuse, assuming they can somehow deal with reflections (with CDMA, or signal processing that integrates multipath signals, or something)?

For weather, what if the base stations only need to work over some distance less than a mile?

For bandwidth, if you consider this to be essentially a last mile tech, and furthermore, if the base stations can mesh network to reach backbone, might that solve the issue?

Just some thoughts. I'm a total non expert.
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Would this site make you want to know more about the human condition?
If SAN certificates make sense for your setup (i.e. all used on the same server or for the same service), you can have up to 100 (sub)domains on one certificate, or basically 500 per week.

Maybe that's how you managed to get more than 5.
Countries with generous (compared to USA) per circumstance income transfers don't generally have a big problem with this. People have a pretty basic need to feel useful to society, and for status. It does raise the bargaining position of the employee on the job market somewhat for the low end of the job market. But it's just much better for everybody if cleaners and janitors get respected a little more by their employers and aren't just a pink slip away from the gutter.

And UBI will do better in this respect than per circumstance income transfers since you get to keep all the money you earn on top of it.
"Does anyone know what this argument is?"

He makes it right in the article:

"It is worth $500 billion" - which is a pretty small group of companies (two)

"Six Google products have more than one billion users" - again a pretty significant achievement. Facebook has 1 or 2. Apple has none - the iPhone has sold about 700M units across all models apparently.

"I use Google to research stories, I email my editors through Gmail, and I use Google Maps to go to meetings." - people in first world countries probably use a google product every day. Few companies have that level of global reach and touch so many people's everyday lives.
You should take a look at Lucidchart. I can attest that it works well for sketching diagrams collaboratively.
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Can you respond to any of the actual statements in the article? I grant you a lack of citations in the post, but my understanding is that much of the science stuff (meditation, will power, conforming to those around us, effects of advertising, etc) is fairly well established. His advice is not vague, and many people have found positive benefits with those or similar strategies. Sure, there is some irony in the affiliate link to a book (it is a legitimate meditation book that is considered useful), but it doesn't affect the veracity of his statements.
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I got this mail today from 8tracks. Thought of sharing it with the community, in case anyone is interested in investing.

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Sub: A message from our CEO

Hi there,

In an unusual turn, I’m not writing today to suggest playlists we’ve hand-picked for you (though I've slipped in a few that our community love at the end of this email). Instead, I’m writing about potentially investing in 8tracks.

Under US law, only wealthy individuals and venture capitalists have historically had the ability to invest in startups. This changed last summer: the JOBS Act now allows anyone to invest in private companies. Unlike typical crowdfunding platforms (like Kickstarter), this new process would allow you to actually own stock in 8tracks.

8tracks was founded to showcase the passion and talent of people who care about great music and wish to share it, delivering the perfect playlist for a listener’s taste, time and place. As our DJs and listeners have both created and promoted this infinite soundtrack, so too should they have the opportunity to finance it by taking a stake in the company while we’re still relatively small.

New funding would allow us to build out a full music library for DJs, make it easier for listeners to find playlists they like, integrate 8tracks on new platforms, and refine our business model to continue to grow 8tracks for years to come.

This isn’t an offer to invest, and as of now you still can’t buy shares. I’d simply like to understand if you would be interested in participating. If there’s broad interest, we may file official paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pursue this new crowdfunding option.

Show your interest: https://www.seedinvest.com/8tracks/series.a

Thanks,

David Porter
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He's not talking about FB gaming. He's talking about mobile games.

Mobile games that are not played on Facebook are paying Facebook for ad space so that they can reel in additional whales. Games like Clash of Clans & Gears of War.
Not really, no. Motherland is a very specific term that's been ingrained into English most likely because of the close personal relationship between people and their native countries, which would have been Britannia for many English speakers when the language was developing. There isn't really that same deep and universal connection when talking about organizations, so a similar term probably wouldn't develop anytime soon.
And who takes care of the kids in the day care, robots?
One said time, which I agree with, but I'll add stability and power. Having enough money to live for 10+ years unemployed is nice when suddenly your current job is driving you nuts. Or you want to hop into a new field. Or start a sustainable privately-owned company that doesn't need / couldn't benefit from VC-style growth.

Having more stuff doesn't make one happier by default. Stability is more important. The tradeoff is status among certain groups of people; and if you care, then keep doing what you're doing I guess.
I do think there's lots of room for growth in this space. Spatial/visual intuition is highly underused relative to linguistic intuition in software development. In visualization we often are limited by our own design to encoding information along three spatial dimensions, but we've got some incredible machinery in our brains for dealing with color, texture, shape, size, relative location. For instance, take the remarkable effectiveness of "memory palaces"[0], or savant Daniel Tammet's description of his synesthetic experience of numbers and arithmetic as operations on shapes and colors[1]. Some applied examples in software might be fsn[2] of "Jurassic Park" fame or the dockercraft[3] minecraft mod. Not trying to claim that visualization would improve our understanding of every system, but I would love to see more work done in this direction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet#Savantism

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

[3]: https://github.com/docker/dockercraft
Presumably by using a one-way pager network it gives you the opportunity to be completely passive (thereby undetectable) until you decide to initiate an actual call.
Given the cooperation between telcos and law enforcement, is there much difference?

There was temporary cell service at Burning Man for the first time this year, supposedly to "support" law enforcement. I guess you could interpret that in two different ways...
The whole font licensing situation is out of control.

It's a mix of creative interpretations of the law and rent-seeking on typeface designs that are a hundred years old (Akzidenz Grotesk, the basis for every Helvetica-like), or 300 years old in the case of Caslon.

Remember that in a lot of countries (the US included) typefaces are specifically excluded from being copyrightable due to their usefulness to the public; they can of course, be trademarked, but it's completely legal to trace any font you like and call it something else. In a nice bit of corporate welfare, it was decided that font files fall under copyright in 1992.
Is not the first time newegg goes after patent troll. I think what they are doing is amazing, but unfortunately a lot of small companies don't have the resources to do the same
In active mode the Stingray will broadcast a consistently strong signal to force targets to connect to it so that it can grab identifiers.

Some detection methods rely on this, as well as fingerprinting the Stingray (they negotiate a drop in encryption and ask the phone to max signal strength)

Current solutions for Android will point out new base stations that stand out and are likely an IMSI catcher:

http://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/

The better method, since the devices change and some are stationary, is to authenticate the real cell phone towers. This would involve either updating the GSM protocol, or having the carriers send out additional settings that make the phone aware of their legitimate sites and only connect to them.

iOS doesn't make these settings available in official API's, but if they did it would be possible to develop apps or features that could detect/avoid IMSI catchers.

The best non-tech solution is to have an anonymous IMSI. The attack relies on linking an IMSI to a real person, or the pattern behavior of a phone to a real person. So - anonymous SIM cards, change them up often, don't have it switched on with any of your real phones or real phones of friends, leave it switched off, etc.
I don't blog, but, what teraflop posted is basically correct.
You sound like a pretty interesting guy. Do a Reddit AMA
> getting dressed can help you mentally make the switch to start your workday and can translate into higher productivity

My gf works from home too (and self-employeed) and does exactly this to get started. It can make the context-switch much more evident, and creates a larger mental barrier between work and not-work time.
Yep, and totally obvious. Most people only discover that feature by accident, and then they're asking me how to fix it because they don't know what they did. Especially on laptops where the "scroll wheel" is just part of the touchpad.
This was the question which originally led me to lose faith in deep learning for solving go.

Existing research throws a bunch of professional games at a DCNN and trains it to predict the next move.

It generally does quite well but fails hilariously when you give it a situation which never comes up in pro games. Go involves lots of implicit threats which are rarely carried out. These networks learn to make the threats but, lacking training data, are incapable of following up.

The first step of creating AlphaGo worked the same way (and actually was worse at predicting the next move than current state of the art), but Deep Mind then took that base network and retrained it. Instead of playing the move a pro would play it now plays the move most likely to result in a win.

For pros, this is the same move. But for AlphaGo, in this completely different MCTS environment, they are quite different. Deep Mind then played the engine against older versions of itself and used reinforcement learning to make the network as accurate as possible.

They effectively used the human data to bootstrap a better player. The paper used a lot of other cool techniques and optimizations, but I think this one might be the coolest.
This is very delightful to read. I can imagine the casual off-the-cuff remark that one of Newegg's lawyers made over coffee one morning when they heard the news that their adversary had dropped the case.. "ha ha, they didn't know what they were in for, no wonder they pulled out... (pause, and a sip of coffee).. heck, we should probably just sue them for dropping the case." laughs all around the table... then, everyone silently staring at each other.
I did a bunch of requests starting with one subdomain, then a second, adding SANs multiple times, setting a cron to do one request a month and testing it, then adding yet one more SAN to the list.
Why not release the code, so the community can take a look and help you improve it?
Wayfinding Sans Pro [1] & [2] from Rulf Herrmann looks like it would be good. It's quirky but with a purpose, to lessen ambiguity by exaggerating unique qualities of a glyph under harsh visibility [not seen it in action on highways in the dark] but will say the current Clearview has something to be desired. In the rain at night letters merge and become hard to distinguish from similar letters [lower case i looks like it could be lower case l under some lighting conditions, for example, if there isn't an l to contrast it with]

[1]http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/19/the-design-of-a-signag...

[2]http://www.fonts.info/store/index.php/en/fonts/wayfinding-sa...
I do hope Aaron Sorkin writes a movie about this.
This is a terrible idea. Something similar to it has been tried dozens of time in the past with disastrous results.

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working...
Thank you so much for the answer, efferifick! I feel very empowered :)
A counterpoint, lest people think that none of the big banks are innovating:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-28/how-goldma...
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You state things with conviction but no evidence. There is a big difference between the brain and therefore needs of a 4-5 year old and a 0-3 year old. I'm not sure why you assume you can infer anything about the needs of a toddler based on the way school works for older kids.

Here in Australia child care is also very expensive, and I agree this is a problem for disadvantaged families (there is some means-tested subsidisation but it only helps to a degree). However: the government has recently lowered the required educator:child ratios, despite the extra cost, because research shows it is important for education (and health, not just when young but into later life). More than this: the research suggests these improvements are most significant for disadvantaged kids.

For more info start here: http://archive.acecqa.gov.au/research-and-publications/.
It's possible to turn off security in the CloudFlare control panel. I think the bigger issue is that CloudFlare has become a single point of interception for MITM'ing huge portions of web traffic.
I'm not contesting that SC makes millions every day from in-app purchases, just pointing out that the money is presumably split with Apple and Google not Facebook. Although you can login to Clash of Clans with your Facebook account, it is not a Facebook game.
HTTP + HTTPS is fine

HTTPS for SaaS and e-commerce web apps is fine

HTTP for normal websites is okay (for me, I have no hidden agenda)

HTTPS-only for normal websites is silly, why not offer HTTP too? Every request is unique, no internet anonymity.
How about web assembly?
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Encryption would be a massive thing to figure out. More precisely, end-to-end encryption with proper multi-device support.

That's also something all the other established players haven't solved, so it would be a great advantage to get users.
The movie ticket receipts go to the studios. Tickets alone don't make the theatres any money. For a bunch of historical reasons (antitrust) studios don't own the theaters.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/united-state...
Amazingly, yes, it is an improvement. Having the code all in one place and not spread across a dozen different frameworks makes it tremendously easier to figure out how all of the parts are fitting together.

It's the difference between having to figure out a few thousand lines of code written by a small team vs. having to parse through a million lines of code written by several different teams, some of which you don't even have because they only distribute the binary module and of course you don't have a support contract (if they are even still around). If they had a support contract they wouldn't be calling you.

The one big thing you lose however is StackOverflow. Usually bugs in frameworks have bitten people before and they'll have posted solutions online. This can be a big help, unless your client has a particularly unusual set of modules installed that are exposing some new and exciting bug.
That's exactly what he or she is doing.
https://matrix.org/ — Matrix is increasingly looking like the only sensible player; they get so many things right:

* Federated

* Fault-tolerant

* Cryptographic attestations of messages
That URL has an "oracle" in it, so I wouldn't trust it.
Yes there is: https://dukescript.com/.
But you can also think of transpiled approaches such as GWT. Personally my favorite is JSweet (http://www.jsweet.org) because you get to write actual JavaScript in Java, and I find that the canvas API and other SVG or WebGL APIs allow much more things that what was done in Java.
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A few news articles say Minero Digital is a shell for Intellectual Ventures. Can someone please help confirm?
Keen to see the improved use of space that you describe. It's senseless to have driveways and garages taking up prime real estate. Or room on residential rooftops used only by a TV aerial rather than gardens.
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I think that's why Newegg is doing this. They try to invalidate the patents of patent trolls so they can't abuse them against smaller companies.
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unless you're talking about really sophisticated fraud, i think advertisers and publishers both care about it.

I'm on both sides of the coin.

As an advertiser, click fraud is obvious when I see a huge disparity between google analytics and the ad network. You'd have to put a lot of effort into sending fake traffic that actually engages with the advertiser's landing page.

As a publisher, I know that if I send a bunch of BS traffic to my advertisers they will blacklist me and starve my website.

Regarding your estimates, I agree for really broad traffic.

If your targeting options are very vague/loose you can buy ad traffic for very cheap, but you end up with a large number of click fraud.

Most advertisers should want to be as narrow as possible with their targeting. The tricky thing is that when everyone is bidding on the golden goose egg demographics the price jumps quickly.

In some cases, you're better off buying the 'general audience' traffic for pennies just because of sheer volume multiplied by chance.
This led me to this interesting Wikipedia page listing public signage fonts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_signage_typefac...
Interesting. I never knew that Rosewill was their house brand. Makes a lot more sense seeing all their products there and gives me a bit more confidence in buying Rosewill in the future.
The article does a good job of explaining this, I thought. In addition to their reputation as a browser maker, they have the integrity of their ad network to maintain.

Wins all around, if you ask me.
Well almost every computer playing chess algorithm uses piece counts to evaluate the quality of chess positions, because barring an amazing tactical combination (which can usually be computationally eliminated past 5 moves) or a crushing positional advantage, a loss of pieces will mean the victory of the person with more pieces.

I would argue you see far more pattern recognition at play in chess than you do of heuristics. Heuristics is more common at lower levels of play.

When Grandmaster's rely on pattern recognition, they are using their vast repertoire of remembered positions as a way to identify opportunities of play. It's not that they think the move looks right, it's that they played a lot of tactical puzzles, and because of this pattern recognition, they are now capable of identifying decisive attacks that can then be objectively calculated within the brain to be seen as leading to checkmate or a piece advantage.

They don't make the move because of the pattern or heuristic. They make the move because the pattern allowed them to see the objective advantage in making that move.

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As for your point about a move being objectively good: Unless you completely solve the game of chess, there will never be always one move in every situation that's objectively the best. In many games (and you will see this in computer analysis), 2 or 3 moves will hold high promise, while others will hold less. From an objective standpoint all these three moves could be objectively better than all others, but it could be hard to justify that one is necessarily better than another.

The reason for this is partly because between two objectively 'equal' moves, there may be a rational reason for me to justify one over the other based on personal considerations (e.g. because I am familiar with the opening, because I played and analyzed many games similar to this line, because I can play this end game well, etc.) Decisions based on those considerations are not what I would call heuristics, because they are based on objective reasons even if heuristics may have contributed to their formation within the mind.
Interesting idea of speed writing... "speed book", "agile book". Removes inertia and barriers to creation. I read through the book (just a skim for _now_). Very well done. I wonder if we will see more of this trend for certain byte-sized topics. (<-- ...see what I did there? )
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