skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what marketing automation (MA) software does today (Marketo, Pardot, etc).

It cookies every user and then collates site traffic data per cookie, so you can look up a single visitor and follow all their activity on your site. In contrast, software like Google Analytics collates data only by non-personal factors like URLs, browser, referrer, etc.
I have become less and less of a fan of the software over time.
Anything Is Possible If You Pay the Price
Yeah there's some work happening for this. My personal opinion is that it's misguided and that even if there was a secure way to achieve this, the game-theory of the results is worse than hash cash based waste.

The core premise is that you fill your drive with a special type of random data (can't use useful data, therefore it's still wasteful!) that you then perform checks on regularly.

There's Burstcoin, which best I could tell has some substantial flaws, though I'm not sure anyone has ever taken the time to prove it. (Burstcoin is small and therefore not super worthwhile to break).

Then there's Spacemint, which is not yet complete but has some strong progress. I've gotten to talk to them, and best I could tell they were aware of most of the major weaknesses of their protocol, which generally is a good sign. At that point they still required an external source of secure public random numbers, which is not an easy problem to solve without introducing trust or PoW. But maybe the protocol is further along by now.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/52...
Unfortunately you're probably right. Of course, as most people here understand, the economy isn't a zero sum game, so we should be welcoming skilled immigrants and thanking them for adding to our prosperity, not complaining about them buying homes or taking jobs. (Think instead of the taxes they're paying, or the jobs they're creating, directly or indirectly.)

As far as the "making homes more unaffordable" point, I could see the case for absentee foreign buyers who leave the properties empty. It's still not the real problem, but I can understand the frustration, and support initiatives like a tax on vacant property. That's a big difference from someone immigrating to the country and buying a home though! And anyway, what really makes homes unaffordable is lack of sufficient density. Sure, there's a peak where there is simply no more space, but cities like Vancouver are nowhere near it.
>Natural selection at work. Some make the wrong choice to take too much debt.

That will backfire when enough people have made the wrong choice that the decide to vote someone in office who promises to wipe out the debt.
How Enterprise Mobile Apps Will Help You in Launching Your Startup?
Are they "interest free" in the Government's use of the phrase, or the real meaning? The UK government calls (or called) them "interest free" because the interest rate is linked to inflation (as long as it's positive!) and of course (/s) your salary always rises with the same measure of inflation, therefore it's "interest free"
You assume way too much.
I still thinking developing the first app on iOS makes sense. If the app works out (i.e. people start using it), then I'll consider building an Android version. What I've observed is that if the iOS app is not going to work out (because iOS users tend to buy more apps), then it probably won't work out on Android either.
If you do it with a segment instead of a filter, the effect is retroactive.
Kelowna is nice.
i also believe the op to be anxious and irrational because of the media coverage. i think many people are. the media was wrong about trump, and now they are doubling down by stoking fear in the hearts of viewers. it's insanity. let's not talk about how these outlets are all owned by individuals and groups/interests opposing trump and his agenda.

this is basic US partisan politics 101, and it's scaring people who are not used to it, or do not understand how it works, like this person who has lived here for 7 years and is now shocked that we do not live in a nation that would vote for basically a 3rd obama term. this is literally his first white president (lol, think about that) and now he lives in a racist shithole? come on.

2 of the deepest red states in the nation elected indian american republican governors. louisiana, and south carolina. the entire nation elected obama twice. california has yet to elect a non-white governor, or senator. has new york? i don't know, but i doubt it. silicon valley is still run by nearly 100% white people. the only time i've ever seen open racism was in boston massachusetts.

notice how his justification for moving is "a chill in the air", "people look at me longer" .. these aren't words or actions by other people, these are feelings that arise internally from a heightened state of awareness due to anxiety.

my parents immigrated here in the 80s and faced some really fucked up discrimination and have persevered and succeeded (and so have i) in a great country. if this person is going to throw away their 7 years of work and quarter million dollar income (immigrants making $250k, sounds like an awful place) for a "chill in the air" i say good riddance. they're in for a rude awakening when they meet their first canadian racist and their first canadian tax withholding.
I visited Dongdaemun a few times as well, as well as a similar electronics markets in Beijing and Shenzen. Same for clothes.

It does wonders to really make you feel globalization and industrialization at scale in a way that can't be explained or grasped in a classroom, and how much markup gets added before you see the items landing in your local luxury shopping mall, together with nice looking sales people telling you what a bargain you're getting or how special the items are. Don't be fooled.
This is a great reply. If everyone were as reasonable as you sir, the world would be a better place.
I'm not a lawyer, nor have I studied the contract, but a superficial reading would imply that complete revocation is indeed the outcome of acquisition of either party. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312509236...

5.2 (c)	Termination Upon Change of Control. Subject to
the terms of, and as further set forth in, Sections 5.2(d)
and 5.2(e), this Agreement shall automatically terminate as
a whole upon the consummation of a Change of Control of
either Party.

(d)	Effects of Termination.
(ii)	In the event of any termination of this
Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2(c), and subject to the
provisions of Section 5.2(e), the rights and licenses
granted to both Parties under this Agreement, including
without limitation the rights granted under Section 3.8(d),
shall terminate as of the effective date of such
termination.
Here is the main problem IMO: To get reasonable performance (i.e. comparable to GPU), you need to make use of vector instructions as well. And it's still not easier to vectorize your x86 code rather than to just port it to CUDA. With CUDA you get two parallelisms done in one programming paradigm: Both vector and multiprocessor parallelism just gets mapped to the kernel scatter initialisation, and the kernel itself is just written as a scalar operations plus some index calculations. In terms of readability / ease of use it's [naive x86] > [CUDA] > [performance portable parallelized + vectorized x86]. An if you don't have the last version of x86, which almost noone has, then Xeon Phi will be just as much portation work as GPU, if not more (because Nvidia has a considerable lead in tooling support and has actually even gained more lead since Intel's Phi came out because Intel is just not very agile).
That's the old distinction between the American Federation of Labor, for skilled trades, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, for low-skilled factory workers. This was a big deal around 1950. In 1955, they merged to form the AFL-CIO.

There are still classic craft unions, with apprenticeship and training programs, but not many are left. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is still around. The Plumbers and Steamfitters have apprenticeship programs. The Animation Guild (Local 839, IATSE) represents animators at the major Hollywood studios. They give classes for members, both on using new technology and on classic techniques. Read The Animation Guild's contract, which applies to most animators in Hollywood.[1] This is for a job more creative than most programming.

[1] https://animationguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2015-2...
Harvard and company are doing massive amounts of needs-based scholarships now. If you are a high-flying middle class person you can probably pay either nothing or very little. They have massive endowments, to the tune of many tens of billions of dollars, they can fund their operation out of the interest.

On the other hand this benefits them as an institution since they can soak those legacy students for every hundred-thousand that daddy is worth and let them coast through on the reputation of those high-flyers.
Yeah I didn't get it until I read this. I've read a few papers before and some of them have been too abstract / unfamiliar for me to understand. I've had to read them slowly 3-4 times just to get it to 'click'. I think it takes practice to read papers, but once you have the habit, maybe you won't be able to stop.
Ah, good point. One more reason for me to hate VLAs. ;)

The negative-length array trick is used in the Linux kernel source code [1]. I expect it's compiled with -Wvla though.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.5/arch/x86/boot/bo...
9 productivity tools I use to add more hours to my day
An Android Spyware revealed the existence of a new Italian surveillance firm
That's a naive solution that has dramatic centralizing effects. By owning more coins, you are stronger than the competition. The miner with the most coins will out compete the rest, and you will be left with one miner.

This problem has been very well studied and there are not any simple solutions available. Many academics believe that it's fundamentally impossible.
This is very interesting. Especially when you have a large volume of trivial requests, the cost-per-request of AWS API Gateway dominates overall cost (the Lambda functions themselves are cheap by comparison). Rolling one's own in EC2 can potentially be much cheaper.
elections over fiy
Benefits of Creating Testing Centre of Excellence
I heard about this way back in 2014, why hasn't neo900 progressed much? It seems like Xunlong is able to turn out new boards based on the A20, H3 and H5 in a matter of weeks at a price point of $7 to $35, with the Linux sunxi community building a fully free stack for them in rapid order.

Why has it taken so long, and additionally cost so much to produce a single board? I feel like a project like this needs to just partner with a Chinese business like Xunlong and specify what they want & with what chipset, like how the OrangePi Plus 2E was built.
No! R and Julia, or straight APL! /s
According to wikipedia, wind kills about 150 per trillion Kwh. This is significantly more than nuclear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
2Tb per month seems like a very reasonable amount of bandwidth for a single server.
It's part of the immigration requirements (i.e., prove you're not a criminal).

I think OP mentioned it because it's fairly annoying to do, and thus indicates his seriousness.
This is categorically false. People who love and want to defend free speech go there. If you want to continue living in a bubble world, stay on Twitter.
Quite a few people have tried; AFAIK, no one has succeeded. There are storage-based blockchains, but they just use traditional proof-of-work with storage-focused smart contracts.

In most schemes I'm aware of, the nodes are storing useful data. But perhaps you are suggesting that they store arbitrary data, e.g. deterministically generated data?

My colleague and I wrote a paper about something like this a while ago. We called it "proof of capacity." The basic idea is that you deterministically generate a bunch of hashes based on some seed. Then, at a later time, you are "challenged" to return one of the hashes. Pretty standard so far, but here's the trick: you aren't asked to return, say, the hash at index i. Instead, you are challenged to provide the hash lexicographically closest to some random hash X. This obviously requires sorting the generated hashes, which is why you can't just regenerate them on the fly. And you can get a rough estimate of the node's capacity by seeing how close their hash is to hash X: the more capacity, the more hashes, and thus the closer their hash will approach X.
The US got a huge boost in sci and tech in the forties by bringing in fleeing scientists from across Europe. If Trump guts the h1b program as he's promised to, carries in with the Muslim registration lists, and continues to escalate xenophobia, we'll see a huge outflow of scientists from the US. Canada seems pretty well positioned to pick up a good number of them.
Backwards. Top colleges have the best need-based financial aid. You rack up enormous debt at average colleges (or by going to a top college when your parents could pay for it but won't).
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967630
Indeed. I should have clarified this in my comment instead of just ranting.

The ACM Code of Ethics is important.
It was one of the reasons I joined ACM.
However, (IMHO) ACM [1] has not necessarily practiced what it preaches in the past.

Given that much of the discussion in this thread is about unions and professional organizations, I wanted to clarify that ACM might not be the best organization to join if you are concerned about ethics.

[1] I'm talking about its administration and committees, not its members. There are quite a few highly ethical and motivated people in the SIGs.
I'm an immigrant too. Actually, more like a refugee. I've moved from one country to another twice. Once escaping from Islamic nationalists and once more fleeing from Russian nationalists and skinheads. Have I ever seen people looking weird at me in my 16 years in the US. Sure, plenty of times. Have people ever talked down to me because of my heritage or the way I spoke English and etc? Yep. That happened too. Has it bothered me? No. Believe me this is nothing compared to the shit me and my family have gone through. This country has built me from ground up and given me and my family unbelievable opportunities I'd never otherwise even dream about. There is nothing that I've experienced here that will outweigh the good things. Good luck with your move, but If you're looking for a land of cupcakes and rainbows you'll be very disappointed.
I live in a shithole and the only complaint that I have is the health risk from using a shared toilet and the noise in the city. Other than that, I really dont care. I have everything I need and it's cheap. If I could get something even cheaper then I would.
Cygnus OA-5 mission prepares to depart station after one month mission
Sure. For Sia we've used smart contracts to build a secure marketplace for cloud storage. Basically, we use the blockchain to create a contract between a host and a renter saying that the host will store X data for Y amount of time. The renter pays immediately, but the host only received the payment after Y time and only if the host can prove cryptographically that they still have the data.

You can combine this with encryption and erasure coding to create a near-perfect marketplace for cloud storage that's very competitive, private and secure, and extremely reliable.

Here's a good place to get started for more technical information:

http://forum.sia.tech/topic/107/interesting-threads

Our network today sells storage for less than 1/10th the cost of Amazon S3.
I like the Code of Ethics. I have trouble with ACM's handling of ethical issues. With my comment I more or less wanted to point out the difference between both but should have elaborated on this.
Casino pit boss “catches” a blackjack card counter
The firm that starts work at 9.06am
"out of stock" - oh god dammit
IIRC, Chevron at one point operated one of the largest Hadoop clusters in the world.
Accounting for hyperbole I agree to a certain point, however:

> The problem is getting three hundred million dumbasses to use it.

You would probably be more likely to succeed in that if you start thinking of them as humans, humans who aren't familiar with computers, don't have much time etc etc ;-)

Oh, and that guy with the social network said something like that at some point and it is now the most famous quote from him.
Rust discussion of a similar feature: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6676
Well, you are not wrong about the schism, the schism is indeed about the protocol and not about the mining.

But I don't think you'll find many of the developers agreeing with the idea that the mining has worked just fine. It's horribly centralized, and while it gets better and gets worse, at its best it's "jeez this is really centralized and I don't feel comfortable at all" and at it's worst it's "only two entities who happen to be in the same legal jurisdiction need to collaborate to do a 51% attack on the network, oh yeah and they are already collaborating in other nontrivial ways".

Miner centralization is still a huge issue for Bitcoin.
This is walking distance from my place, which is a very commercial area of the city. Trump Tower is one of many high rise buildings in this area and I don't think people who already can't afford a downpayment on their real estate targets are gonna swayed by the POTUS connection.
More than that, by mass anyway. :)
Java to Typescript converter
>Because nuclear leaves toxic waste that lasts over 10000 years in the best case;

That might be theoretically true for the moment, but not in the near future. Right now waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

>...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

>...and because wind, hydro, solar, and tidal are better alternatives in most cases.

Most cases? How is that? The issue with most of those sources are the very low capacity factor. There are obvious reasons that (except for hydro) that currently they generate very little percentage of the world's electricity. In the case of hydro it has caused more environmental devastation than almost any power source except coal and the accidents have caused orders of magnitude more devastation than other power sources.
What the Tesla sees
Immigration generally increases unemployment in the short term, and is only a job creator in the long term. The question: can Canada absorb enough new immigrants to reach the point where they add to our prosperity before the social and economic issues become too much for us to bear?
Yes on Kubernetes - it's not a platform in and of itself, but an excellent place to found a platform.
Automation everywhere. Chef and Ansible, but not on the same project.
It's all AWS-based. We do use ECS on occasion but it's not great.
As others have said, the main issues are developing the entire CI/CD pipeline.
Here’s How Facebook Actually Won Trump the Presidency
> At the big 3 the unions practically took al firing capabilites away from the company. Unless the union agreed, the employee stayed.

That is 100% on the employer, if they can't be bothered to follow the firing process they have negotiated with the union, or fight for a better one, its their own damn fault. They deserve what they get and have to live with the outcomes of their actions, just like any other company or person.

> And no, unless an employee has a case, they can't sue an employer to keep their job. Not unless they have the cash to keep paying lawyers.

Sure, but you'd have a case if your employer can't be bothered to document your dereliction of your job, and employers in cases like the one I linked to often work for a cut of the judgment due to how clear cut a case like that is.
Thanks, based on what I've seen this makes sense.
Vancouver Island is stunningly beautiful, and has the most temperate climate in Canada. Snow rarely sticks.
>
Is there any evidence for a government having a backdoor in Cyanogen or another Android OS fork? Or, for that matter, a backdoor into iOS?

Didn't they backdoor a crypto standard on the said OSes?
There's no cupcake shortage in Canada. We have the occasional rainbow, too.

The most unpleasant thing I can think of about life up here is that occasionally some YouTube video you want to watch is region-blocked. It's not "being chased by a mob of nationalist vigilantes" bad, but it's still annoying.
We use it at https://iotsky.io/ for all backend interaction with aws IoT.

Wrote a blog post about it too: https://medium.com/@iotsky/how-we-built-the-iotsky-backend-u...
And what will they do? Honestly, the real reason the US has such a robust economy is that they invest in companies at home. There's far less venture capital dollars here, most wealthy Canadians park their money offshore, and have zero risk tolerance. This means no engineering and science start-ups. Even the one industry where start ups are a thing here, tech, there's hardly any money floating around. You might get funded in Vancouver, but there's half a dozen markets in the US where you'll have an easier time.
The author seems to focused on the improvements to web apps, but ignoring potential improvements to native apps.

In particular, if Google were to support (1) Android apps running on Chrome for Windows and Mac; and (2) Android Instant Apps (coming soon [1]); then it would significantly swing the pendulum towards native apps.

[1] https://developer.android.com/topic/instant-apps/index.html