skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Could HITs (human-intelligence-tasks) compete with in-app video ads?
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is and continues to be an interesting phenomenon; do there or could there be substantially valuable “human-intelligence-tasks” that could be completed and compete with ads as a revenue source for people who show ads for revenue (say we call them “Publishers”). Facebook is fighting ad-blockers and ad-blockers are fighting back. Facebook is fundamentally a company that makes software which turns users into revenue (it’s novelty is that it provides access to the worlds largest social network in exchange). Word on the street in CPC advertising is that mobile ad spends are having better return-of-investment rates than computer targeted campaigns for independent e-commerce sites(I cannot present data to support this claim).

So ultimately, why is mechanical turk a long lived internet novelty? Are ads as a revenue stream for online products and services at risk? Can we better monetize 30 second mandatory video ads by replacing them with HITs? Maybe such a system gives reputation to task completers and skill level increases means fewer tasks. Maybe advertisers just want to A/B test potential products at scale or to targeted demographics instead of just generating leads and customers.
khm, expensive? IIRC nexus 5 had great hardware for it's price.
And with this, they just killed all actual apps for Android.

Anything you can do with an app you can do as well with a website.

Any actual app, not just a website in form of an app, which did computational task, data recording, or kept services available, is impossible to create now.

Run tracking app that doesn’t require you uploading your GPS data to Google Fit? Impossible.

Messaging app that doesn’t route all your private messages through Google Cloud Messaging? Impossible.

EDIT: before downvoting, read the comment below from morsch, he and I explained there pretty well the issues.
"Essentially nobody" is admittedly not well-defined, but I don't take it to mean that a handful of guys doing better would disprove it (and in any case have trouble finding any data points in favor of the opposite position).
^ What she said. There are also the annual events like Barrett-Jackson and the Open, as well. On the tech side, we have an abundance of datacenters, and there is some cutting edge engineering work being done in the Node.js and Docker ecosystems, too.
This reminds me of Elmyr de Hory. I watched him one of Orson Wells last movies "F for Fake" and I have no idea what to make of it.
The headline is probably close but I don't think you can reasonably extrapolate out from only eToro customers.
> What you loose is ease-of-use

After a while using Haskell, I'm not sure about that anymore. I keep thinking that an "easier than rails" web framework is just one breakthrough by some random developer somewhere on the Internet away.

Even if I can't imagine the form such library would take, the features I see every day are so powerful that it just look possible.
Processing Tweets with Kafka Streams
I feel less paranoid now for my browsing process. Almost everything I search is in an incognito window, from shopping and research to programming and how-tos. And when I'm done with looking for a new dog leash or Python module, I close that window. Only things in my main browser are the regular sites I visit and am logged into (email, HN, reddit etc.)

I started this after learning about the filter bubble but I've noticed how helpful it is when searching on Amazon, Wayfair, or Sears. I get non-machine-learned results every time while my wife using her primary browser with cookies often cannot see the same results I do. If I find something on Amazon, I copy-paste the URL without the ?query-string and replace 'www' with 'smile'. It seems like a hassle but it's no different from cleaning your feet before stepping inside the house after playing in the park.

This post just highlights that my practice to avoid unpermitted-profile-building-and-linking is for a good reason. I also have my own @example.com domain that I use and have certainly caught companies selling my info. However, even without being emailed, I don't want algorithms the determine what is best for me based on criteria I choose not to share.
Paris is built in a valley with Montmartre to the north and Montparnasse to the south. When the winds die down for more than a few days being in the city really sucks. All the diesel particulates just sit their. Like you can feel the smog and particulates accumulating on your skin.
JavaScript library to express concurrency patterns
> How many of the NSA's backdoors have ended up in the hands of foreign nations and criminals, again?

Good timing, the day after your message-- there were dozens of them posted to the public with a suggestion more may go to the highest bidder.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/power...

“Without a doubt, they’re the keys to the kingdom,” said one former TAO employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal operations. “The stuff you’re talking about would undermine the security of a lot of major government and corporate networks both here and abroad.” Said a second former TAO hacker who saw the file: “From what I saw, there was no doubt in my mind that it was legitimate.”

If the other example I gave wrt dual_ec drbg wasn't enough.
Let us know what you think. Ideas, critics are very welcome :)
First public release of chyves – FreeBSD bhyve front-end manager
Via https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/4z0ewk/first_publi...
The visualization and instant-modification of kanban boards is really appealing from a task/issue management perspective. It shouldn't replace issue tracking, it can serve as a frontend to portions of it.
It is "smoke and mirrors", but in completely different sense, which is clear now:

Russians have been known for a long time (whole Cold War) for being able to sacrifice one, less important spy to distract enemy's attention from more valuable one.

Now think about Snowden in this context: few years ago NSA must had been sniffing around, looking for a leak.
Suddenly, one of their employes takes few laptops with secret data and runs, ending up in Russia. NSA is furious, but on the other hand their alertness goes down. Few years later it turns out that there's still someone leaking their secrets.
Computers trounce* pathologists...

* by an un-quantified amount using only histology slides -- a limitation not enforced in actual medical practice.
Yes, this happens sometimes with AWS. We're heavy users and have had to respawn instances on several different occasions due to unexpected issues with the underlying hardware. Only once or twice has AWS told us they're moving us because of that, but we've noticed performance issues that after troubleshooting with support, could only be described as a symptom of the hardware.

Everyone should have backups and a plan in place to recover when a node goes offline, but this isn't exclusive to AWS or cloud in general. A robust infrastructure will have failovers standing by and accept the possibility that any one machine could die at any moment. Shouldn't have any single points of failure, as colocated hardware kicks the bucket unexpectedly sometimes too.
Android Police posts the OTA images as people send them in.

It looks like the 6P image is available: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/22/flash-all-the-things...

Download it to your device, and either flash it in TWRP or use adb sideload. Note that if you've modified your /system, you'll need to reflash that partition with the stock image first (there are guides on XDA).
This is why I have the username part of my email address tailored to each site/service I register with. So I have a hackernews@example.org, amazon@example.org, etc. Human beings get my real email though (because it would be weird if I told John Smith to email me at johnsmith@example.org). If people start abusing this (politicians do this a lot), I can just block say timkaine@example.org, and never hear from them or people they've sold and traded my email to.
It's pretty amazing the number of senders that do not obey the requirement for a minimal unsubscribe flow:

> Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your message. You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days. You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request. Once people have told you they don’t want to receive more messages from you, you can’t sell or transfer their email addresses, even in the form of a mailing list.

To me it seems more of an honor-based system rather than one there's any enforcement for. Much like the Do Not Call list.
The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle
Downtown/Central Phoenix is one of the most diverse cities I have encountered. We have many large refugee communities (I think due to the ease of inclusion, Phoenix being a city of transplants), a very large Hispanic community, and people that move here from literally every part of the country. Central Phoenix, again, is a very unique place compared to the mostly very small towns in the rest of the state. It is similar to how any large urban center is much more diverse than some of the smaller communities a few hours away.
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Congrats on the release. Haven't tested this version, but have tried recent versions and if there's one thing that I think GitHub still runs circles around GitLab it's accessibility. If you don't believe me, try firing up a screen reader and see which you find easier to navigate with your eyes closed. In some cases you'll run smack into a brick wall with GitLab. So if there's one area where massive improvement is needed (and would be appreciated) it's accessibility. Happy to help on this front, but I know for a fact there's already several open issues relating to accessibility for GitLab.
Maybe http://r2rt.com/recurrent-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-i.ht... ?
Great line: "The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user."
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Not entirely fair comparison since the 4S didn't get every feature; it was a paired down version. AFAIK, Google doesn't cherrypick features for older hardware - it's all our nothing. Also, the 4S ran terribly on ios9, to the point that two of my friends with 4S's just gave in and bought new iphones instead.
FWIW, I've deliberately kept my Nexus 5 on Android 4.4.4 and it runs as well as the first day I bought it 2.5 years ago. Multi-day battery life, no compatibility issues (because no OS updates), all the latest apps still run on it, etc. Not to mention it was an affordable phone even when it was brand new. Very happy with it overall; I can easily see it lasting me another few years.
Yes. I watch fairly closely and nowadays there's basically nothing. When I moved here there was actually quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. But it slowly eroded away.
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Once had Google kill a Spark job after it was running for about 12 hours because they thought we were doing something nefarious. It cost us thousands of dollars in wasted time and Google spend because their automated system made a mistake. They never attempted to fix it, refund us or even seem concerned.
That doesn't sound like an accident: it sounds like she considered the problem, and thought of a solution, on purpose.
This isn't really useful since it's US-only. The title should be changed to reflect as such.
It Makes No Sense That Word Processors Are Still Designed for the Printed Page
The problem with Google Code Search and the one that you mentioned is, you can never be certain the match is relevant/correct. And the reason for this is, you are always searching against a single branch/timeline.

Definitions can change from one release to another. Function behavior can change from one release to another and so forth.

Searching across millions of repos is not difficult, if you are willing to accept the matches returned may or may not be relevant. What is extremely difficult, is building a search solution that can take into consideration all the changes, on every branch, from the millions of repos. And this is the problem nobody is going to solve anytime soon.
So they're telling us that people who had worse jobs in their 20s-30s were worse off in their 40s? No way!
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> my expensive phone is going to be left behind.

You bought a $350 phone and received updates for 3 years. I think you're in for a surprise when you price out a new iPhone.
GitLab looks very tempting, congrats to their team.

Question: I would like to migrate from Github to Gitlab, but can not really move. Is there some bridge, which would mirror Github repos (with Issue tracker and pull requests) on Gitlab?
Indeed. The Nexus 5 was not expensive relative to the iOS devices he is consider getting. 3 years worth of updates was just about worth the device's price.

On another note I hated the Nexus 5 and that LCD screen always felt washed out!
I'm interested in this and I have bookmarked it to try out some time.

Maybe in the not-too-distant future the days of standalone audio software will be gone and everything will be run in a web browser. This would solve all the piracy problems, no need to update ever, and no compatibility issues.

I never tried the hardware MPCs, but I recently splashed out on an MPC Touch and I'm having a great time with it.
Meanwhile many phones (especially vendor-locked ones like the Droid Turbo...) are still stuck on Lollipop.
Among the ones I saw this one is the best http://r2rt.com/recurrent-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-i.ht...
The first thing I tried to do in Tensorflow was RNN and I had quite a hard time with other tutorials.
No, it matters. Inefficiency adds up, and CPU cycles you waste on useless overhead aren't available to spend on something that actually matters -- like Garbage Collection.
Thanks for humoring me. You have a good one too!
It doesn't take interpersonal interaction skills to be genuinely interested in what a person has to say. And if you can't manage even that much, trying to appear interesting is not going to help. Just give up and be yourself, awkwardness and all.
After enjoying alcohol most of our lives, my wife and I decided to stop drinking about a year and a half ago.

The big advantages are making better use of our evenings and also saving a ton of money. We eat out a lot more, and in probably better restaurants, because even one glass of wine each added significantly to the bill. When we drank two glasses of wine each, alcohol could be half our restaurant bill. We ask for separate checks when eating out with friends but no one seems to mind.
While you _can_ import data such as issues we do not have any automatic mirroring system for this in place. We do however have repository mirroring, but this _only_ mirrors the repository data.
Agreed (and that is why I qualified it with "more or less"). Docker is sort of a halfway solution, but it's after the same end goal as functional paradigms- Deterministic behavior that can be understood by a programmer (thus leading to a reduction in bugs) thanks to its known state(s).
The sprawling Phoenix area reaches four rivers in Arizona: the Salt, Verde, Gila, and Agua Fria rivers.

And it's mostly flat land that's easy to build on and farm.

That geography made it valuable to the Hohokam people, and I've heard that their irrigation systems supported the largest population in the Southwest by 1300. [1]

It was a good place to build a city, until it outgrew its water supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohokam
The researcher having a live demonstration of its effectiveness was serendipitous.
This. Battery life on my Nexus 6P is just fine, at least equal to my friends with their iPhone 6 Pluses. My Note 4 also had solid battery life before that. For the most part, modern Android phones are much better than their predecessors in terms of battery. The UX is also quite nice as well.
What on earth are you talking about? All of those things you listed as impossible will still be possible.

All Google did is restrict what apps can do in the background, and announced that there will be further restrictions in the future: all background tasks will have to be done through the JobScheduler API.

This does not prevent apps from doing stuff in the background, it just prevents them from doing whatever they want, whenever they want -- they will have to follow the proper procedure.
> Nexus 5

> Expensive phone

Really ? That phone costed less than half of what an iphone costs and you can easily get a well supported ROM if you wish to.

Granted the situation sucks, but Google has been upfront about their support timeline.
Uh, it's an odd way to end a rant on software architecture. How about: "The only thing that matters in software is abstractions/interfaces". The end user only sees the top interface.
Please provide a link to this if you can.
React-music: Make music with React
You also need to retain a significant set of slides the classifier wasn't trained with so you can verify that it does work for data outside the training set.
Announcing the GitLab Issue Board
The Nexus 5 (16gb - $349, 32gb - $399) was released nearly three years ago for a fraction of the price of the comparable iPhone at the time (iPhone 5s: 16gb - $649, 32gb - $749). I think you got a hell of a deal. Upgrade to the 5x for another $350 be happy with another few years of support. Or wait for the new Nexus phones to come out this fall...
Manage and reload spring application properties on the fly
This is actually easy to do, you just need to generate the IR and then merge them into a Module, after that you apply passes over the entire module to optimize, to do function inlining, etc.
I'd agree - however after nearly 3 years the speakers on my N5 are nigh on unusable (phonecalls are only really possible with a headset or loudspeaker), the power cable refuses to stay put and tries to make a break for it every 5 minutes, and there's still an annoying bug where the screen is flaky/unresponsive when it is finally plugged in. Not sad about missing out on Nougat at the moment, but the sheer number of N5s I see in the wild it's annoying that a popular phone is being left behind.
I dislike shitty languages and successfully avoid using them myself, but I do have to be a bit happy with NPM ecosystem teaching people to reuse more code.
> Should i get a donut and nothing to drink?

Sure, why not? I don't drink coffee (or tea either), and if I'm not in the mood for hot chocolate, I get a pastry of some kind, and maybe a glass of water if I'm thirsty. Nobody thinks anything of it. You're way less weird than you think you are.
What you can learn from campaign tracking and how you should use it?
bit of an overstatement if you ask me
Ahh, I missed that.
For a typical non-heavily-trafficed-commute or a weekend ride-in-the-park - there's very few accidents.

When there's an accident, the helmet makes a difference.

"It seems intuitive that bicycle helmets would be an effective means of reducing head injury, and indeed helmet manufacturers and standards associations worldwide conduct rigorous tests to determine the impact absorption and other qualities of helmets. It is however, important to go beyond laboratory tests and understand whether helmets reduce injuries in the event of a crash in real‐life; hence the review by Thompson et al.1 This review included five well conducted case‐control studies and found that helmets provide a 63–88% reduction in the risk of head, brain and severe brain injury for all ages of bicyclists. Helmets were found to provide equal levels of protection for crashes involving motor vehicles (69%) and crashes from all other causes (68%). Furthermore, injuries to the upper and mid facial areas were found to be reduced by 65%, although helmets did not prevent lower facial injuries. The review authors concluded that bicycle helmets are an effective means of preventing head injury."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598379/

And then my personal anecdata: 25 years ago I went over the bar as I hit the brakes to stop before a child that ran to the cycle path from a bush. I broke my radix but not my head - I did not have a helmet. I realized how lucky I had been. I started to wear the helmet.

Last winter I fell when I didn't notice ice on my home road. Before I could unclip, I was falling sideways. I bruised my ribs and hit my head on the ground, but avoided cracking my skull because I did have on my helmet that I've been wearing the 25 years since the previous bone breaking fall.

Don't be stupid. Wear helmet when riding bike.
The alternative is the iOS update process, which has the result of non-techies complaining that their iPhone 4 is now slow after the update, and the techies they know pleading with them not to update even though the number gets bigger.
Happy to chat--traveling this week. You can find my email address easily enough; feel free to email me. :)
GitLab's been going at it for quite a while now, congrats for another awesome release! And keep up the great work guys, it's much appreciated!
Okay, but there's plenty of highly liquid things to trade. For example the SPY has a spread of 1 penny, same with SPY options.

You mention a potential strategy for manipulating the market like pushing prices to hit stops, well if these strategies are common then it seems there exists a potential strategy to take advantage of this.

It seems like so long as the market's next tick price is not completely uncorrelated from its previous tick price, then there will always be a way to 'beat' the market. The market price is not completely uncorrelated (as you mentioned, there's price manipulation driving it to certain prices throughout the day).
This kinda sounds like the old tradition of dicing for double or nothing over purchases (though whether it's only a tradition in novels I don't actually know) - except with the addition of people who can't afford the original purchase price as extra suckers to help add to the house advantage/profit margin.

Not sure I'm entirely fond of the idea but it just seems like yet another borderline form of gambling to me, and no morally worse than the rest.
Lollipop? I wish! My Samsung tablet is stuck at KitKat unless I'm willing to try a Cyanogenmod nightly.
Have you looked at dedicated server options? You could rent hardware with those specs for ~ $200/month.
Love that post so MUCH !!!!
i use nix to build my docker images and love it for that.

http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools
I have been on Android Beta on Nexus 6p and if I turn off the Now Cards, the phone takes 2 days to go from ~95% to ~45%. I do have to pay attention to how I keep the phone charged though... I always try to not charge beyond 95% and never let it drop below 40%.
This is basically what iOS has done from the start.

If you don't see the app in front of you, iOS will very quickly kill it if it has any background tasks.

It's a leaky abstraction, but honestly I like the implicit promise/guarantee between the scheduler and the user.

I only get annoyed when I want some batch task like uploading photos, but even then it's not too hard to leave the phone powered on and unlocked on my desk until the photos upload...
Not sure about TypeScript but with Flow you can get HKT through some contortions https://github.com/gcanti/flow-static-land (in Elm too)
Wow! Care to share what type of work you do and how you get your clients?
Three companies to plead guilty in U.S. to fixing capacitor prices
Serious neurological problems or abortion in fetus. In adults is generally harmless, except some cases with loss of vision and so on.
I always wonder what would have happened if the New York of the 1970s and 1980s turned out differently than it did
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