skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell that to up-and-coming countries like China. Go ahead, see if they want to slow their economic growth for the "environment", let alone the breathing air of their people. And after you tell them off, take a trip to Africa (e.g. Nigeria) as well.

By all means, we should work to make it an economical alternative. I suggest that a higher proportion of GDP in first-world countries go towards this type of basic research. But until then, it's not going to happen.
+1 =)
While there are obvious market valuation issues at play, I think this signals more about Intel and it's future strategy. The layoffs come shortly after their $16.7 billion acquisition of Altera was completed.

Intel really missed out on mobile and with PC sales rapidly declining it looks like they are going to refocus on enterprise and data centers. ARM and NVIDIA/GPU computing are also expanding rapidly in those areas and that will pose a major threat to Intel.
Very fun – I've already sent 5. The cost is very impulse-purchase friendly, and it's a lot easier than the effort of going to the store to get cards printed out and putting stamps on and such, though less personal because of lack of handwriting. Is the current price introductory pricing or do you think it would be sustainable long-term? Seems low to me for on-demand printing, but I haven't seen the quality of the cards.
To be honest, the EU debt crisis is 100% self inflicted. In a try to unify the European countries around a set of rules (Maastricht treaty) Germany is destroying the EU while France is watching.

The EU is in no position to point fingers. Even the lame QE issued by ECB - a little too late - was so heavily contested by the Bundesbank, it's hilarious. The country that profited the most by boosting it's exports, is killing the whole project just because the other countries didn't abide to some rules written on paper 10 years ago.
For starters, it's different because the US does not in fact hunt down communists,

Does not in fact hunt down communists... today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#Laws_and_arrests

See also Guantanamo Bay, Internment Camps, Lynching, etc.

It may not be the same today, but to think the US isn't above doing terrible things to those they are afraid of is to lose sight of our history.
Sure, I'll get you a list later tonight
> Intel can't try to be a brand the way Nike is or the way LV is

They have a surprising amount of advertising at gaming events which seemingly tries to do exactly that. Even though they are more-or-less the only option. (although AMD was (maybe still is? I'm not following that to closely) better at integrated graphics solutions which were interesting for low-end gaming, most gaming profit is probably near the high-end)

Maybe to promote PC gaming in general, over other activities and specifically consoles?
Try forcing Apt-X codec; I've found it's consistently more reliable than the default.
Since when does the US being a shit justify other countries being a shit? People should just not be shits.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528044
This is exactly the kind of content I love to see -- interesting technical topic, completely outside of any area of expertise of mine, clearly presented, interesting, and pretty obviously useful. Please post more!
There are plenty of PCs.

Here's the problem. Running a five-year-old PC used to be an issue.

Today, running a five-year-old PC is a Intel Sandy Bridge i7-2600K ( Passmark Score: 8,518 ). While a modern i7-6700K has a Passmark Score of: 10,987.

FIVE YEARS, and FOUR generations of processors have created a gain of net 28% in multithreaded situations. Far less for single-threaded applications (maybe 15%). And absolutely negligible for gamers (which are 100% GPU throttled).

If you're running a 5-year-old i7-2600K, there is absolutely no reason to upgrade to Intel Skylake. None at all. Maybe you want a new GPU to play those VR games... but Intel isn't making gains anymore in processor speed.

Intel has been trying to get people to buy their power-efficient designs (Skylake is a hell-of-a-lot more power efficient...) so Intel continues to sell laptops at a decent rate. But no one I know has major issues with their desktop speeds.

The only people I know who have upgraded their computers are those who have had hardware failures. There's still no need to upgrade a computer from Sandy Bridge.
I just repeated your experiment: With my ad blocker disabled, I searched for "google chrome" on DDG. I got two ads above the search results; one was for google.com, and the second was for downloadsem.com, which is distributing a Chrome browser that comes with a lot of browser toolbars. I took screen shots. [1]

Of note is that these ads are powered by, and clicks redirect through, Yahoo.

[1]: Screen shots for the curious: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jiooo37trog860d/AAAgmpY9SMxcLyIVI...
Yet that is exactly the pattern used by decimation.

decimus (tenth) + -ate (convert to verb) = decimate
decimus (tenth) + -ation (resulting state of -ate form) = decimation

It could be used with any Latin-rooted ordinal number. Primate, secundate, tertiate, quartate, quintate, sextate, septimate, octavate, nonate, decimate, undecimate, dodecimate.

Primate, secundate, tertiate, and octavate have meanings other than either "reduce by 1/Nth" or "reduce to 1/Nth". Tertiate is actually roughly equivalent to "threepeat". Those words have about as much inherent meaning as "tenthing", but some had meanings extrapolated from "decimate" as early as 200 years ago. The "reduce to 1/Nth" meanings would be more accurately encapsulated with the "an-" (to) prefix, as in "annihilate": literally "to nothing (verb)". That would give you antertiate, anquartate, anquintate, et cetera for the reciprocal-valued words.

As I said, "decimate" is the most well-known of the bunch. "Annihilate" is also well known. But every last one of them is a perfectly acceptable English combination of Latin roots, and should be understood easily enough.
The 97% repeated lie has been debunked multiple times

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/debunking_the_97...
The particulars of Intel's situation aside, there are some (notably not all) watching the markets that believe we may be well into the prelude to a market recession.
Microsoft's RxJS does all that (and more): https://xgrommx.github.io/rx-book/content/getting_started_wi...

See this specific blog post for more details (though the Rx Book is fantastic): "That said, a sore point for Promises has always been their lack of cancelability. This leads to some interesting design patterns where you have to "protect" your promise callbacks from context-dependent changes. Because of this hoop-jumping, the most attractive RxJS feature that I've seen so far is the simple ability to cancel (aka, unsubscribe, aka, dispose) an RxJS stream before it completes."

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/3030-canceling-rxjs-observables... (Though there are RxJS interops with more than just Angular)
So when the user is tricked into scanning an arbitrary QR code, they are authorizing the attacker's copy of WhatsApp (or whatever) as an additional device tied to the users account, right?

That makes sense. Sounds like the solution is a warning message in the app. "Do you really want to grant full account access to a new device or service right now?"
This is an awesome thing to do, and I think if people knew that was the case they wouldn't be upset by not being able to use another promo. I started using DO with a $10 credit years ago, and still love the service. Thanks guys!
Highly recommend this video on the Deep Visualization Toolbox to anyone interesting in understanding more about how convnets work through visualization:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM
Perhaps they are referring to the growth of volume one would see with the fibonacci sequence.
Difficult? I have a few lines in a namespace that grabs `git describe --tags` and a few other things and places them in a json file. This is served up internally by all http-speaking applications as `GET /_internal/build-info`.

https://gist.github.com/emidln/8f5993a37ff300e36897debe9c5bf...
> ...What? Double the size every tick? As in... 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64?

> Don't explain it to me like I'm five. Explain it to me like I'm a developer. Please?

It doesn't seem you need it explained to you; what you say is exactly what it means. For example, if you imagine a cube whose side increases by approximately 26% each clock tick, then each tick increases its volume by approximately (1.26)^3 = 2.00 (to 3 significant figures).

(I am not a physicist, so I may be misrepresenting, but, as far as I know, it is backwards to imply that it is somehow the ticking of a clock that causes the expansion. Rather, in the early universe one can use the logarithm of the size of the universe as a measure of time: "the universe is currently 64 times its original size, so it's log_2(64) = 6 ticks since the beginning of the universe." This is much like how the equation `E = m c^2` allows one to speak of the mass of a particle as a certain number of electron-Volts, which naïvely would be units of energy.)
A tax prep startup that ignored IRS regulations. :) I'm just thinking of other examples that make me laugh.
Pacaur explicitly asks you to review it, and you can easily check to verify the origin is https://dl.google.com for the deb the installer uses.
The FBI has gotten no new leads from the San Bernardino iPhone
Stormpath and (I think) AWS API Gateway can give you out-of-the-box OAuth2. Start there.

Username/password is not mutually exclusive to API key and OAuth. Also, API key is also not mutually exclusive to OAuth. All of these things can be intermixed for different purposes. In some cases, API keys are only used to identify the client, and not for any type of security.

> mainly because I want to learn how to do it

Don't do this unless the security isn't important for this project. Writing secure code is really hard. You don't write an SSH library every time you need SSH, do you?

I can also tell from your question that you don't have even the most basic understanding of web app security (saying that OAuth is complicated for "nothing").
You can't get mad about Uber's surges, it's fundamental to how their system works.
Right now we've got the fully-trained convnet deployed here: https://developer.clarifai.com/guide/tag#nsfw

I have not quantified how robust this net is in the face of noisy labels.
Lob charges $0.70 per card, seems sustainable.

Edit: Stripe charges a hefty 2.8% + 30ct, so 35ct fees for that. 1ct for Twilio.
$1.06 in costs, so a $0.94 margin. Seems ok for a (probably small maintenance side project)
The difference is any AUR helper worth using tells you to review the pkgbuild. In this case, I can easily see that the deb the script uses is pulled from dl.google.com and that all it does is decompress it and rebuild it as a tar.xz package.

Additionally, the AUR is about as curated as Google Play, and I trust Google Play exceedingly more than random download links on the Internet. You can audit AUR packages via its rating, the number of comments it has, its popularity, and the website enables you to flag packages as malicious, the same way you would flag APKs on Google's service.
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The solution to me is to not provide free credit, but to credit the creation of a new droplet for existing users. Many will scale up and not scale back down. If im on the edge if i need to throw another droplet behind the loadbalancer and your like DO IT, you've been a great customer so we'll give you a month free for the new capacity, am i going to risk removing it.... not if my product is doing well. its a WIN WIN. an offer like this would be awesome to roll out to loyal customers with semi-produciton work loads (2-4) medium+ droplets already. It solves the problem of incentivizing loyal exisiting customers, along with driving business needs of not burning money without a return. Also HMU if your looking for a SVP of Product or something like that, I clearly have some good ideas for you.
Could you make it faster if you had no ego?
I'd like to see average payment size data (median, mean).

Is it necessary for the average person to be able to instantaneously spend hundreds of pounds? I don't see why all retailers need such high security (e.g. sandwich shops).

I personally rarely spend more than 50GBP in a store. Large amounts of groceries in bulk, full fuel tank when I owned a car.

The contactless limit is 30GBP and that makes sense to me. If I cared about losing that amount of money I wouldn't go outside. I can sit on the metro and see that 25%+ of the people there are playing with smartphones worth 300GBP+.

Given all of that I don't find the US stance on security very odd. I want large payments to be verified, I don't care if someone buys a sandwich on my card, even if I never get that back from the bank.

To put it another way - huge payments should not be possible using a physical object that is used all over the place. I'd be happy for my bank to call me (2FA) for all payments above 100GBP, and for them to freeze payments if many many small payments happen in a short time span.

Otherwise, I'll see problems on my statement, cancel the card, and carry on with life.
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Dutch sources say this is the 11th record-hottest month in a row.

edit: source appears to be http://www.noaa.gov/11th-straight-month-globe-was-record-war...
If I were learning C++11 and/or SDL2, I'd be really interested. Or if I were versed in C++11 and wanted to learn more about how the C64 worked. Sometimes you're more in the mood to read/experiment with code than to read technical docs.
From the "article": (Emphasis mine)

> First off, companies are realizing the huge potential of big data, which can help them understand consumer behavior, better target their marketing strategies and build customer trust.

Wut? Since when is hoarding gobs of personal information so you can profile ever detail of your customer "building customer trust". Unless you mean "building (wealth provided by abusing) customer (privacy so your children can live off a) trust (fund)"?
Need to also detect wget | bash, which should cover most cases that I see on the web
> CO2 is what every human breathes out; every plant, in turn,consumes CO2

That tweet from Ted Cruz is bizarre. We've removed 3.6 million square miles of forest (from the original 6 million)[1], not to mention the billions of tons of CO2 produced annually through fuel combustion. What does the fact that humans expel CO2 have to do with it?

[1]: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/habitats/rainforests/in...
Shouldn't they improve the terrible mess that the app store is, instead of "educating" developers?
I was thinking about this recently. A friend of mine started selling cupcakes and made a website to do it. I don't really know what it takes for Little Debbie to get a new product approved but I would assume some regulatory body has to be appeased before they start selling. I can't imagine my friend went through any of that. If anyone knows about the regulations in this area, I'd love to hear. I'll dig around and report back if I find anything of note.
no worries the FED will do SOMETHING and save us, SOMEHOW. no moral hazard to see here.
Movie decoding is substantially offloaded to dedicated hardware circuits in the GPU that can do the job with minimum power. HTML rendering runs on the CPU.
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Not everyone lives in Finland, unfortunately.

Finland? T-Mo in the U. S. (you know, the country that is sooo much worse than Europe when it comes to mobile?), two lines with combined 14Gb data, $120/month. Not quite 10Gb per phone, but close enough for our use. We had the unlimited data, but we didn't use enough to justify the extra $30/month.
What OS? I've had no problem on both win 8 and arch, though on an admittedly powerful computer.
Ha! Well done.
You should, I went through it and found it really useful. The main ideas in the program is to start extremely small then celebrate and consciously practice doing that habit for a few days. The tiny part is literal, he suggests taking the smallest possible unit and making sure it's less than 30 seconds. For instance if the habit was brushing your teeth you would just need to consciously practice brushing one tooth. And then the celebration is equally tiny, such as just saying "awesome" when you consciously do something.

It sounds kind of corny, but it's effective. The idea is to get your brain to automatically associate a new habit with a really tiny action that will instantly give you a reward. So if you wanted to create a habit of brushing your teeth after getting up, you'll do it without much though even thought you only consciously brushed one tooth when you were trying to create the habit.
I think that environmentalism is more akin to a civil rights movement. People must change their behaviour not just practically, but on an intellectual and emotional level. Actions that seem trivial can impose a horrible burden on other people. Their is a huge reluctance to take personal responsibility for this, even among climate change believers. Climate Change Deniers simply don't want to accept responsibility, and the conspiracy theory is a neat way to do that.
Tech fatigue. This isn’t a rant post
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It's quite horrible. I've moved to NYC recently and had to get an apartment close to work to make sure I don't have to use the subway system.
Too many naysayers in this thread (get burned before guys?).

Motley Fool Investment Guide is where I started. I've subscribe to their Stock Advisor newsletter for nearly a decade and have picked from their recommendations in that newsletter. Basically i've invested money in one of their picks once per month with the expectation to hold that investment for 10+ years. That portfolio has gained an average of 25% PER year and I've never researched a stock.
I think Painless1099 IS on to something: taxes for freelancers are a pain, and no one wants to learn how to do it.

However, I think asking some people to change their bank accounts is going to be resisted. Also, waiting an additional 2-3 days to access your money when you're living paycheck to paycheck (as most independent contractors are) is not an option.

My cofounders and I are working on solving this same problem, however we took a different approach. (https://www.track.tax)

Track.tax creates a savings account in the user's name (same as Painless1099), but we also connect to the user's existing financial accounts to calculate taxes. Our chatbot (named Aida) communicates via SMS to ask simple questions to hash out the gory details. This means:

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I'm not a fan of the clintons, reading about the whitewater scandal was enough for me to determine there's corruption abound with them; and I also support reducing oil consumption and further taxing of oil companies, but I have to say the arguments you outlined are not that good.

1. New technology leads to greater efficiency therefore reduces carbon output - So what's wrong with that? And Obama proved blocking pipelines does not stop the oil from flowing - right?

2. Taking money from oil companies doesn't mean much other than she's not anti-oil, which as a leader who understands the current dilemma, is probably not all that bad.

Obama came out of his first election pumping money into coal which was just a waste of money. Obama blocked keystone yes, but that just pushed it through via train cars and trucking (which adds more pollution). Also, Oilsands production only dropped by 0.1 percent during the whole price plummet, so not much happened there- did it? So was Obama a good investment on that front?

If you want to change the world for the better we, the people of the world, have to stop choosing to consume so much of it, but no one wants to discuss that, not even in politics.
After reading many of these articles I never thought that either. No body ever seemed to mention it.
> The whole market is overvalued, not just the tech unicorns.

To the extent that Intel and the tech unicorns are complements, Intel's profits declining may actually signal that tech unicorns are undervalued.
No we're not. We're running out of ingenuity.
This thread[1] is the one you want. The EU allowed "offline" transactions, where the chip was used only to verify the pin. The "quick chip" method you describe may be secure, but I have very little faith that these companies can architect a lasting secure solution, the incentives just aren't aligned in our favor.

Simply put, requiring the authorization token (card, phone, etc) be present and accessible for the entire transaction is not a bug, it's a feature. I surely do not want transactions happening after I've left the store, and while you can sign a verified transaction request with everything needed to process the transaction on okay from the bank, that's an extra level of complexity on top of a system I already don't trust them to get right.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414994
>> i7 2600k

Sure, that's the top of the line $300 chip in the days of a whole PC being able to be bought for $300. What if you're on a five year old Pentium G620?
I have a filter that ignores pessimism.

Here's why you are wrong.

China is adopting solar on a massive scale. In fact it's the Chinese solar industry that broke the grid parity barrier.

And yes, their people are and will demand cleaner air.

And most importantly, new solar is cheaper than new coal plants, even in India.

And as far as countries like Nigeria, I propose that the developed world begins to enact sanctions against reckless polluters to incentivize social nation state behavior.

I think that we will find, just as transnational oil companies have found, that the governments of countries like Nigeria are easily swayed by outside money.

And this idea that controlling carbon will slow economic growth is ludicrous.

What do you think having NYC and Miami flooded will do to growth? What about 100 million refugees from Bangladesh. Look at the problem of Syrian refugees for Europe.

We did one thing right, and we got solar pv cheap just in the nick of time.
Oh, this is what I'm (currently) doing. I got the same message, and it most assuredly was surprising.

Admittedly, having that many boxes has been kind of fun...
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Looks like a very interesting little language, I enjoyed working with TCL a fair bit due to things like wish being so interactive. It's also interesting that they added pointers to TCL, which solves my biggest gripe with TCL.
I feel inspired to use this line of reasoning to discover what to work on next.
It's a Playboy centerfold...
Of course I use VS for my Stepford wife work, but always used LiteIDE for my golang stuff. I'll have to check out VSC.
Which aspects are you referring to?
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Is Dr. Hansen really more credible than Sec. Clinton?
Large enterprise companies like this can lay off 10% anytime they want with little effect on output -- there are oodles of people slacking in big corporations basically not doing much of anything except collecting a paycheck.
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