skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the lessons of economics that seems to be largely lost:

To discourage use of something, make it more expensive (or less efficient).

To encourage use of something, make it less expensive (or more efficient).

Increasing efficiency increases overall consumption: the Jevons paradox (1865).

Jevons was also an early peak-fossil-fuels theorist, though his area was coal (oil had just been discovered, the 4-cycle internal combustion engine was 20 years off).
The article title makes it sound like they're going against the FCC rules. The article itself however states they're complying the the FCC rules but are taking the more work for them option of just locking out the radio parameters portion.
Some of that was (emphasis was) pretty explicit racism, but some of it was about cost per square foot of land and the desire for the new.

I'd say that things are moving away from racism fairly rapidly.
Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. The Modifications that You create or to which You contribute are governed by the terms of this License.

Which license require that other code needs to be relicensable under its license? this license really means, this license. Modified code is required to be under, and I will repeat myself here, this license. If source code is not under this license, then it is infringing on this license condition and this license will no longer permit redistribution.

This license has a condition, and this license condition makes it incompatible with every other license that has an identical condition.
Not if the revenue is spent on something worse than the externality.

Also not if the revenue creates a self perpetuating monster that will devour more revenue even when the externality is gone.

And while we're on the subject, doesn't it seem the least bit concerning that funding specific pork through taxes on diffuse externalities creates a pretty huge incentive to keep that externality going? Who came up with the idea to let the people responsible for eliminating the externality also benefit from the taxes you get from it?
I was thinking more like Minority Report.
> somatic.io will pay: $1800 US to the student to work on this via paypal.

This went from cute to sketchy fast.
> Why are security-aware people not bothered by this idea?

I personally don't think we can stop the tide of devices like this. I'm very selective about which devices & services I choose to partake in.

> gizmo that I can't audit

This is where I believe we can have some potential (if minimal) input. Granted, once it's in 'the cloud' we've lost all control, but at a minimum I think we're going to continue to see a rise in tooling to be able to critically assess the devices we have in our lives.
I tend to open obvious scam ads to new browser tab. Site owner gets a few cents, scammer looses some money.
Relativity was complete before 1920. Special relativity in 1905 and general relativity in 1915.
Glad to see so many others liked Adobe Fireworks as much as me.

It was my go to for web image editing. As well as prototyping with clickable pdfs.
Is blockchain.info really a scam ad? Because it's the first result here; the first link is an ad, not a result.
Wild irish seaweed helps cure skin problems
I can't see how it would change anything if I happened to use Hindi (for example) in my everyday life instead of English, all other things being the same. Watch Seinfeld in Hindi, surf the internet in Hindi, talk with my friends in Hindi.

I think languages serve as natural barriers to cultural homogenization, which otherwise tends to occur.
So 2/3rds of citizens are incentivized with hard currency every year to want MORE carbon emissions?
You skipped the second part of that. Unless your web application is running on the database server then you are no longer running single node, your web app and db server can become partitioned.
Why not just use nmap?

$ nmap -Pn -p domain e.gtld-servers.net

Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-05-15 13:32 CDT
Nmap scan report for e.gtld-servers.net (192.12.94.30)
Host is up (0.072s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
53/tcp open domain

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.22 seconds

The repeated ping function -- which is intended to display packet loss or delay -- isn't useful for TCP services.
To be a good googler, first they need to be good developer
Intellectual Ventures had done this.

It only provides value to the employees/owners, though. Ideas/patents are worthless without the right person/people to execute.
I simply asked a question. I see nothing in your argument which distinguishes between protectionism motivated by racism and protection motivated by nationalism.

What principle do you use to distinguish between them?

(Incidentally, if you want my view, it's the following. Racism and patriotism/nationalism is just a feeling and is intrinsically harmless. However they often motivate intrinsically harmful behaviors such as protectionism or other more direct forms of tribal violence.)
Hmm I wasn't trying to make a circular argument, as just a user I see no need for that paid ad with a virus to be there in the first place, even if they take it down now why wreck your users experience from the start at all ? If you cant do business right, don't do it at all, but that's just me.

Imo if you cant serve me up non virus ridden ads GTFO, and I really enjoyed google search before so I am not bashing it because of some personal agenda, I used to find it the best search engine by far and would continued to use it if I found it worked like it used to, prolly despite virus ridden ads that I have encountered personally on the google.
That statement from Google would only be a lie if the students were getting ads. The article says the complaint is that "the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their consent". I could not determine from the article exactly what harvesting was done or what commercial gain derived from that.

Google has maintained that the email scanning for targeted advertising is not a privacy issue in that it is automated and there are no details leaked outside the system. If it turned out that the scanning was done and no actions resulted from that then the whole thing would become philosophical.
A Google ad isn't a (top) result. It's an ad. With Google, ads are always at the top.

If you want to avoid ads, install uBlock Origin (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock). I'm shocked people who visit this site don't already do so.
Where do those taxes go without creating a situation where the beneficiaries of the tax no longer want oil consumption to drop? And most alarming, how do you avoid politicians (who are best suited to solve the collective action problem here) not wanting to give up big sources of income that the taxes provide?
Teacher gave the kids an impossible problem. Poor kids, I guess.
They don't... private property isn't the same thing as personal property. Anarchists aren't against personal property.
By GDB, you mean the GNU debugger? I have not used it for over a decade. Is it a convenient interface for toying and experimenting with x86 assembler?
Human intervention doesn't make it a circular argument, because "what Google is" has to do with algorithm and automation. You can give them the benefit of "all's well that ends well," but that consequentialism hides a chain of causality. There were a lot of steps needed to get to this point of human intervention, steps engineered and implemented by "the best of the best."
When comparing just technology, EV cars are superior. Far greater engine efficiency, less complexity and moving parts, efficient transmission of energy from power plants to vehicle, etc.

But we live in an oil world. There are billions of cars out there. Cars are big investments that are handed down generation to generation like houses, especially in developing countries. EV car sales are still a drop in the bucket compared to ICE car sales.

If we want fast and rapid action on climate change, the quickest path is not pushing EV. It would be massive investment in reducing the cost to make synthetic oil. This may seem impossible, but that's what many said about solar competing with fossil fuels. EV car enthusiasts often talk about how EV cars get immediate environmental benefits from power plant upgrades such as burning coal to solar. But how much more orders of magnitude environment improvement would we get from carbon neutral oil creation? If a cost effective way was found that could compete with fossil fuels, billions of cars would immediately benefit environmentally.

Again, another computer analogy. Imagine someone invented a beautiful new elegant programming language that reduces CPU energy use by 50%. At the same time, someone found a way to reduce JVM CPU energy use by 20%. If we wanted the shortest path to worldwide energy reduction in CPU, what would be faster, just update the JVM for millions of servers or rewrite everything in the new programming language?
For those interested, here's an integration with Alexa and One Bus Away, with instructions on how to build your own skill that uses the library.

https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-alexa
Over time I've developed a speed-reading technique where I skim quickly past the common introductory/padding words of no substance. I just found myself at the end of the article feeling like the whole thing was just an introduction with no substance or conclusion. Then I came here and saw your comment, so I know I'm not alone.
It is a rather complex problem and it needs to be solved, but I do not see how it's Tesla's fault. . .
First off Tesla chose Eisenmann for the expansion and in return they subcontracted another company which then brought in the the workers for the illegal work. Given those circumstances I believe Eisenmann knew what was going on if not they would have never made such a low bid, because they would have risked paying out of their pocket. Therefore, Eisenmann is responsible and Tesla should not be held accountable. . .
Aside from that what would be a good way to counter this specific problem? The people applying for the visa obviously can lie so it would be pointless to start from the application process because anyone from any other country can lie; it would be harder to verify if they really are coming as supervisors. . .maybe the companies that are working on large projects should be audited by their local authorities to make sure they have qualified workers? What would be a good solution for this problem of H1-B workers being used for cheap labor which in term is stealing Americans jobs?
From the article:

> However, the suits by the students, including 68 from Berkeley and 243 from UC Santa Cruz, have been thrown into uncertainty by a federal judge's suggestion that each student in the largest claim should file separately so the court can collect 710 individual $400 filing fees.

> "Our clerk's office is really unhappy you are circumventing our filing fees by adding 710 cases under one case number," U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh told the students' lawyer, Ray Gallo, according to a court transcript.

> Gallo, who is representing the students in both cases, said he expected Google to file a request to separate the 710 claims individually.

> "This is a mass case and the question is, 'Can these people who all have essentially the same claim bring it together so that a lawyer like me will agree to do it?" he said. "If these cases have to be filed individually, no lawyer would take it."

In one hand the lawyer is right, filling what amounts to the same complaint under 710 different cases is burdensome and adds unnecessary complexity in the process.

On the other hand it signals a very bad start by the part of the complainants legal team. Not following judicial (and clerical) procedure to the letter is a very easy way to have the case lost on a technicality.

Being a layman in this area my question is: what prevents them from filling a proper class action?

Either that or what prevents them from filling the case with a single complainant and, in case of success, using the precedent to get an easier time for the rest 709?
I wrote a skill that lets me ask what tech events are coming up, or are on a given day. Took half a day, and most of that time was spent figuring out aws lambda for the first time and writing the scraper for the event list I was pulling from. Now before I leave for work I can ask if anything is happening tonight.
Northrop Grumman won't bid on next state IT contract
They lied because they claimed the emails weren't being scanned:

"which means your school's content is not processed by Google's advertising systems"
The fact that i know what i see and what other people see is one of the major points i see to using Instagram instead of Facebook for sharing stuff.
Couldn't agree more. The quality of results has dropped significantly, to where often the best results are 2 or 3 pages deep in results. I don't blame it on the ads, but something is definitely amiss in their algorithm that is allowing low quality results, outdated, or unrelated results to rank high. To me the results seem to take a drastic turn about the same time that Matt left the spam team in 2014/2015. I don't know if there is a relation or not, but just seems odd.
It is also quite a nice way to shape your purchases. Buy very few things, but get the best quality you can afford. For me, it aligns nicely with a minimalist approach to life. See the Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
A recent example was an obscure laser etched item, I used to just be able to put the 3 words together and bam I could find website containing it. Like very few people talked about it etc and no one was doing the same thing so it should be an easy find. Now when I search it I get tons of laser etched this or that yadda yadda but its as if its only keying on that word and ignoring the fact that not one of these top/all posts even contains the other words.
5$ per hour is practically minimum wage here in Slovenia except that you also get compulsory health insurance and pension contribution on top of that. And it's not extremely hard to get a job.

I wonder why anyone would repeatedly fly to the US to work for that money. He was maybe getting or was promised something more.

Also funny how they call us an "impoverished country". In my eyes an average Joe has much better quality of life in Slovenia than in the US :). I would say the problems start if you want to me more than the average Joe.
If you read the next sentence he says

> But practically speaking these are rare; add remote clients to the monolithic Oracle server and you get a distributed system which can experience a network partition (e.g., the Oracle server becomes unavailable).
Depends how you look at it. ;)
Concise notations are great, and this is why regexp are so much used IMO. I am by the way a fan of sed, which is clever enough to give you the choice over the delimiter you use (s+/+_+g).

On the other hand, there are so many additions to the core formal language, like backtracking or Larry Wall knows what, that syntax has become cryptic. Besides, building regexps out of smaller ones is generally a pain with strings, because you need to quote special regex characters, along with any character that might interfere with the host language's syntax (e.g. emacs regexes with four backslashes in a row). I prefer to read actual words, so the following is fine for me:

(defvar *email-regex*
'(:sequence
:word-boundary

;; IDENTIFIER PART
(:regex "[A-Z0-9._%+-]+")

#\@

;; DOMAIN
(:regex "[A-Z0-9.-]+")

#\.

;; TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN
(:greedy-repetition 2 nil
(:char-class (:range #\A #\Z)))

:word-boundary))

After the recent discussions about Lisp, here is an actual example that can be used by CL-PPCRE to scan "\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b". The list structure allows you to compose your regular expression like any other list, with intermediate functions, etc. without having ever to thing about escaping your characters. When you need to use the string based, concise regex, you wrap it in a ":regex" form and you have the best of both worlds.
Google Analytics and Google Developers Now Accessible in Iran
Sell Server Software and Services That Run on Docker
I wonder if the Internet is getting worse. As in the magazine/news content one used to get for free that search helped index has gotten much worse as standards have been eroded in the quest for click bait.
HN is exactly the kind of strategic target for these guys. HN is not widely read in Russia, but it's widely read by power users, people who translate and re-print tech news on russian websites, etc. Hell, I'd say that half of decent articles from Habrahabr (one of most influencial russian collective blogs on tech) are translations from HN frontage. So, it's only natural to create a left-leaning, anti-US climate in a website like HN and others.
There were major problems at Walter Reed medical center, which is where seriously wounded active-duty soldiers are treated IIRC. Just skim these headlines:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=walter%20reed%20scandal%20site%3An...
Typing this on a C201, 4 gig version. Was just working in Linux earlier, I have crouton with the default xfce4 setup.

Keyboard is good, but it doesn't have a delete key or a meta key (this might be true on all chromebooks). The touchpad is above average IMO, but it doesn't seem to work great in Linux (haven't tried tweaking it yet).

Know that running linux via crouton can be a pain in the ass if you're used to having a full-blown linux install. If you want to be in Linux > 50% of the time I'm not sure I would use crouton, you could maybe explore the dual-boot option which I haven't tried.

Overall it's great for my purposes - most of the time I'm just in Chrome or sshed to my DigitalOcean box. if I need to do something else with a real OS I can switch over to crouton. Super cheap, it's super light, and the battery life is great.
Perhaps it was being scanned by a different system which is not part of the advertisement systems?
Ah, okay, I didn't understand that next part correctly the first time. So that does account for why the author says such systems are rare.

But that doesn't really help me understand why CA can't exist. There are still systems that simply don't have network partitions. SQLite on the same phone as the app using it? As I said, it doesn't seem like we ignore the rare or uninteresting cases.
I was very interested until the mentioned parsing resumés. The resume (declarative) is user-input and should not be trusted. The key is collection of objective analysis from an trusted interviewer (something like RBS [1]).

This neural model applied to analysis, trained, using perhaps, the inputs on previously hired candidates based on their current performance, would be outstanding and very interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_recruitment
I'd call Meetup a different case; as someone who actively uses the service, both as Organizer & Member... I need to know if someone knew signed up to my Meetup so I can send the a message and engage them. Or if a new group started up competing with me (or groups I'm a member of). My own RSVP notifications are obvious. Sorry, but the email Meetup sends is literally integral to the function of the service.
Honestly, I'm bewildered that the Google ad slot is worth anything. Even when I search for a commercial product, I skip the ads for the store because the ad links to a useless homepage while the organic results link deep in to the exact product.
That's an interesting exploration of the past 50 years or so of US domestic oil consumption politics. For a rather more detailed history of oil, I recommend Daniel Yergin's The Prize. It's rather the epic book (there's also a PBS/BBC miniseries), and it wraps up in 1992 with the first Iraq War, but really hammers home the impact of oil.

As to consumption, conservation, price, encouragement, and discouragement, the problem's complicated.

As torpfactory notes here, oil is close to a perfect fuel. It's high in energy density (by weight or volume), exceptionally stable (proven multi-million year stability), liquid (so it flows, unlike solids, but stays in what you put it in, unlike gas), safe (little or no protective equipment is needed near it, and while I wouldn't advise bathing in it, you can touch it with little harm), and works in thermal and motive systems ranging from thimble-sized to the size of a large house. The immediate exhaust products are mostly harmless (CO2 and water -- though yes, over time the CO2 becomes quite problematic).

There's little else that's so immensely attractive as a fuel.

It was also abundant and cheap, for a time. But it's ultimately finite, supplies we've used took tens, possibly hundreds of millions of years to form, and we're consuming them at the rate of ~5 million years of formation per year of consumption. Jeffrey S. Dukes' paper, "Burning Buried Sunshine", describes this calculus in detail, and I highly recommend it.

If you want people to use more of something, lower prices and increase efficiency. If you want them to use less, increase prices and decrease efficiency. The fact that increased efficiency increases overall production has long been noted, William Stanley Jevons is credited with describing his eponymous paradox in The Coal Question, 1865.

Oil's price is another problem. Carbon taxes address externalities on the consumption side, but in extraction, I'm coming to the conclusion that typical market forces tend to ignore, to their error, the embodied creation costs of oil. It's as if you were living off a trust fund but considered only the cab fare to cross town to the bank to make a withdrawal, and not a depletion allowance based on actual costs of replacement for the funds removed. Properly accounted, oil would cost hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of times what we account for it.

There's also the problem that a democratic populace is an ultimate "shoot the messenger" manager. The public wants to hear what it wants to hear, and the lessons of US presidents Carter and Reagan should be closely studied. Carter told the inconvenient truth, Reagan the attractive lie.
> if a man feels that it is inappropriate for him to show emotion, then that says more about his own self-perception of manhood than about others' perceptions of him

Not really. There is still an enormous amount of regressive social pressure heaped on men to never show or admit weakness, not even with a spouse or close friend, and crying is one of the most widely stigmatized actions within this framework of pressure.
Well, it did hurt the FB platform... It's just resilient enough to handle the loss of interactivity it's caused. At least for now. (This is discussed ad nauseum here on HN...)

Time will tell how resilient Instagram is. Userbase may revolt more than Facebook because this is the ONE component of network. So 100% of user functionality is affected... Bigger risk for them.
I don't understand the image denoising. He put noise in the images, but never use them in the code.. It's an error from the author or I missed something?

edit: Author fixed it
Can you elaborate on how that might work? All I'm thinking about now is Boaty McBoatface on a policy level.
Even if your web app and database are on the same server, you may experience partitions between the client and server.
I agree. The clickbaity title actually makes me want to skip that article, whereas an informative title like you proposed would make me read it.
Wow, I did not expect to see this. I imagined Tesla, a poster boy for American innovation, would do its best to stay away from shady labor practices. To their credit, they claim to know nothing about how their contractors employ people.
That's the feeling I get too.