skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's part of the algorithm, but it's not enough to offset the fact that a bloated site like weather.com gets astronomical amounts of traffic from all sources (direct, paid, organic).

It's more like if you had two sites with identical traffic and identical content relevancy the faster site would rank higher... which makes sense.

If your site is incredibly popular, it's logical to think that people are finding it useful and therefore it should rank higher. That's less true than it used to be, but it's still valid as one of the primary ranking metrics.
It's both better and worse than that. The FCC has no problem with "zero rating" or "sponsored data" per se.

Instead of paying Netflix $8/mo to stream content from their servers to peering network providers, and then paying AT&T a marginal $4/mo to take that data from the peering servers to their towers and eventually to your phone, you could pay Netflix $12/mo and have them pay $4/mo to AT&T on your behalf.

Annoying and problematic for sure - you can bet that some sites like fcc.gov, for example, are unlikely to pay AT&T for sponsored data, that this makes it more difficult for upstarts, and that this allows AT&T to offer less general-purpose data and more control over bandwidth. But it could in theory be done fairly.

Nonetheless, the clear and present issue is that DirectTV, owned by AT&T, is getting this "sponsored data" class for free. If DirectTV were offered the same deal as Netflix, who were offered the same deal as fcc.gov and news.ycombinator.com, that would be one thing. But they're not. And that's discrimination.
That's awesome! What are the differences between BotPress and BotKit?
EyePyramid – Police arrests 2 for hacking into emails of politicians and masons
I'm on iOS 10.2 also. Searching for something like "site:reddit.com casserole" gives a couple of AMP results. Clicking them just shows google loading circle thingy indefinitely, the page never opens.
because encryption in transit != encryption at rest.
Maybe you don't trust the server you are scp'ing the data to, with encryption at rest you dont' need to.
Many of the students and TAs are also on the slack group, omscs-study. It's far from ideal because it's "non-official" but it addresses a lot of these complaints.
I think some of the confusion comes from people trying to follow old standards (PCLs and PCL profiles) and the bouncing standards as they were being developed and settled on, all at roughly the same time.

For instance, there was a brief point where .NET Core itself was expected to be the .NET "standard bearer" and specification versions might have been derived from it [1]. That idea didn't last because it didn't well account for the history/current states of the other runtimes (.NET Framework, Mono/Xamarin), but I think it did leave lasting and confusing scars amongst some of the vanguard bloggers.

[1] And basically were; the 1.x sequence of .NET Standard do more directly correspond to a subset of the .NET Framework and .NET Core intersection as viewed from the lens of .NET Core, which is part of the compatibility break between 1.x and 2.0 in .NET Standard versions...
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MS DHONI – Great Player – Great Finisher – Great Persone
How you handle good news is important to the success of your relationship
Read a book
So the hardware didn't match the workload and they blamed the compiler? That sounds plausible. I think they oversold the use cases for the Itanium though, they made it sound more like a general-purpose server CPU. The Mill might not be general-purpose either but they seem to be more honest about its niche (it's basically a DSP that happens to support general computation). Maybe that will be enough for it not to be a disappointment.
Why start with snarky sarcasm if you admit there might be more to it than the video? There's also a bunch of copy on the page if you scroll past the video.

* The tabs are represented by little screenshots; nice for navigating. Yet to determine how this scales with MANY tabs (I see, it scrolls vertically... hrm)

* The split screen is pretty cool; many times I need to work between two tabs and alternating between them in Chrome is generally a pain

* Videos can be played outside of the tab; cool if you want to continue browsing while having a video visible (think tutorial while visiting documentation pages)

* All the dev tools are seemingly available – sweet

* The page URL and title are big and nicely visible

* It looks awesome for touch. I don't have a touch laptop though :(

* Screenshots ... meh. I use OSXs built-in tools.
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hey, thanks for your question! Botkit is mainly a conversation management framework. Botpress provides developers everything around bots development via modules.

For example you can build a subscription list, schedule messages, send broadcasts, have analytics, do A/B testing, have a built-in management interface, password protection etc. In fact, Botpress works very well in harmony with Botkit.

I would call it a complete framework (Botpress) vs a single library (Botkit)
This type of design isn't useful. Round things don't fit neatly anywhere on a desk. Air cooling makes no sense when your design goal is high performance in a small space. What would really be useful is something 2.5" thick and as long and wide as necessary. Think about it you could lay it flat on your desk and put your screen on top of it, stand it up behind your screen, hang it on the wall behind your screen, bolt it to the under side of your desk, bolt it to the back of your desk, or bolt it to the side of your desk.
I don't know what happened internally. But if that happened internally and they weren't willing to announce it externally, that shows they are concerned with appearances. And if that didn't happen internally then they have a cultural issue where they are afraid to embrace failure and learn from it.

Obviously I have limited information and I am not trying to define X based on this one event. But I do think it says something about the culture there.
In one of their talks they show what strcpy would look like on the Mill: https://youtu.be/DZ8HN9Cnjhc?t=3416
Thesis track isn't offered and I don't think there are any plans to offer it.
That does not change the fact that new regulation usually tends to do little against information-gathering entities or even mandates more of it while there's little regulation strengthening privacy.

The thing is, anonymous cash transactions work. They have for millenia. And yet there are 0 motions to enable them in the digital space and >0 to restrict or abolish them in meatspace. The privacy they enable is practically treated like a historical accident that needs fixing.

Maybe part of the problem is that it's easy to assign monetary value to the law enforcement effort saved if you could just have more surveillance or the additional tax revenue if only every transaction were traceable. But it's a lot harder to put a value on privacy.

> they're almost always responses to real problems.

Problems may be real, but if the solutions fix that problem by creating new problems then it's not obvious that we should actually fix those problems. Maybe some youths setting bus seats on fire a few times a year is a price worth paying to not have surveillance cameras following every step you make.

Just because there are reasons behind those regulations does not mean they are good.
Time-saving technology destroys our productivity
Given that, having no growth is great news.

Uh, no.

Productivity is a measure of the number of widgets you can make with X people and Y resources (the most common measure being GDP / hours worked).

If you can make the same number of widgets with X/2 people, you've doubled productivity.

Increased productivity doesn't strictly mean an increase in the number of widgets the world makes or the amount of resources the world consumes (in fact, increased productivity can be a result of increased efficiency, which would mean fewer resources consumed). As the article points out, increased productivity is going to be key in those places where the demographics project a declining working population.

As an aside, the lack of productivity growth isn't exactly news. I've been seeing articles about this phenomenon for at least a few years as the numbers from the 2008 recovery started to firm up. I was hoping this article would add to the conversation, but it doesn't seem to have done so...
For GPG symmetric encryption, the kind the article describes, here are the best options I've found for my typical case:

gpg --symmetric \
--cipher-algo aes256 \
--digest-algo sha256 \
--cert-digest-algo sha256 \
--compress-algo none -z 0 \
--quiet --no-greeting \
--no-use-agent "$@"

I keep this command here:

https://github.com/SixArm/gpg-encrypt

The options are chosen to balance tradeoffs of convenience, strength, and portability.
Clickable: https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.37950
Calling him a game designer based on [1] seems too limited. Yes, those renders you can find are about gaming. But he's done more than that, see his resume.

[1] http://pascaleggert.de/aboutme.html
Make sense!
The 3rd and 4th pictures, with the center panel removed...the angles are reminiscent of Alienware with the prominent angles.
I don't think this theory has a lot of evidence for it. I'm not sure what needs to be destroyed to create Dishonored 2.
PWA FTW

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
I finished in December. Definitely rigorous and challenging.
Much like aircraft-delivered nuclear weapons, are these being quickly replaced by impending low orbit micro-satellite constellations under development now?
Absolutely doable. The modern i7's have 40 PCIe lanes. If you built a quad processor system you would have 160 PCIe lanes... Have a look at the obscene number of PCIe lanes in modern server architectures.

The bigger issue would be memory bandwidth, but I think that could also be engineered around.

Edit: SuperMicro sells a system with 8 PCIE 3.0 x16 + 7 PCIE 3.0 x8 ... 184 lanes not counting the other onboard peripherals. So it basically exists minus the Apple form factor.
If you can't call callingbullshitdotorg bullshit, you've learned nothing!
So it is an application of the Law of diminishing marginal returns ?
Not a particularly well-written article, but some interesting points.

The constant "Linux isn't good enough shots" in all these articles is annoying, though. I was on Linux full time in 2010, and found it far more pleasant than OS X.
We had that with Dragon Naturally Speaking and had it working on Pentium-4 Class hardware.
Apple Joins US Department of Transportation Automation Committee
They don't load. Ever. 100% of the AMP links I've tapped in Safari on 10.2 just show the AMP header with a blank page beneath it. I don't have an ad blocker installed on my phone, or anything else that should be screwing with it to the best of my knowledge.
As someone who went from GIMP to PS (I was young and the concept of piracy scared me back then), I wouldn't say it was hard, I spent more time going "why didn't GIMP work like this..?" than "how do I do this?".
From what I gather the ONE great thing about the trashcan design is its cooling system.
The old Opera rarely had this problem, it would usually cache the input text. So if you accidentally went 'backspace' or closed the tab entirely you could easily recover your data in most scenarios.
One could argue it's the user's fault for losing data, because using a sub-par browser is a choice. Just my 2 cents.
Yes, a mod changed it from https://thebittheories.com/masters-versus-ph-d-2b26ef33f883#... a little while ago.
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Show HN: CloudRail's New Advanced Request Feature to Extend Unified APIs
As someone who completed a (on-campus) CS masters at GT, I really wish I didn't. The classes were of very poor quality - it was clear that they were a low priority for most faculty. Andrew Ng's Coursera class on Machine Learning was the pedagogical highlight of my time at GT, and I did it on my own initiative (and it's free).

I know people have many reasons to get a Masters. If your goal is to take some higher-level classes, you can do better than GT. If you are self-motivated enough to do an online degree, you can do it for free. Aside from free offerings from sites like Coursera, you can find whole courses up from many institutions - with syllabi, lecture slides, homework assignments, etc.

If you're planning to do it for the salary, in my experience the degree ended up being worth a $95K to $115K bump in starting salary. Compare this with the 2 years of industry salary that I would have received, and the 2 years of experience (and raises that come with that). I know I wasn't paid better than the folks who had been with the company for 2 years more than me.

If you're thinking about it for the sake of your resume, I do hiring screening / interviews now (for Data Science and Software Engineering positions) - and I really don't care if the applicant has an MS or not (or what classes they may have taken). Most folks I know that do hiring think similarly. My main signal from your resume is projects you've been on and how you contributed.

From my point of view, this program is a losing proposition for any potential student.
I've taken some of the courses that exist online on campus and they are the same. I used the videos for review.
> What if I can build fast mobile sites without following the AMP spec?

Then it's harder for google to make _more_ money out of you. It's all about growth, and since they won search, they are desperately trying to grasp something.
There are, but I found they don't help much.

I had the same attitude coming in from Softimage but eventually had to bite the bullet because I was screwing up a lot of Blender's workflows just because I remapped a few keys to match SI. But once I'd internalized the default ones (which took a dozen hours), I never looked back.

EDIT: YMMV and it could be different for Max - I haven't used it in a long time, so I can't compare.
I am in my final year of a BSc in Mathematics with the Open University in the UK. I have been working full time throughout. The first couple of years it was fairly easy to stay on top of it but as the complexity increased it has definitely been a hard balancing act.

However, if you have the motivation then it's certainly do-able. My work was fairly intense too so as long as you are comfortable with giving up your weekends and have supportive friends/partners then it works just fine in my opinion. You get used to studying as your "fun time" - eg when I commute I spend it reading course notes, I play next to no PS4 games these days and I watch very little TV. I did think about taking a work break to totally focus on the course but in the end I've not needed to and find I prefer the brain ping-pong.

As someone who was in a relationship for 5½ years and is now single if you have a partner do talk it through with them. Be as supportive as you can of them on your journey. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons I lost her was the intensity of the last year or two. That was definitely exasperated by the workload and my general need to dedicate my weekends to exams/coursework/studying.
> To be honest, I have a hard time singling out the kind of book that cannot be adequately (and attractively) represented in a digital format.

I can pick up books for a couple bucks at the used book store, and for free or maybe a quarter or two at garage sales. I don't care if I drop them or lose them or if someone borrows them and never gives them back. I'm not likely to be a target for mugging for reading a book the bus or train. I don't have to worry about some web store going out of business or some business deal changing or DRM breaking and invalidating my books.

Sometimes digital is better, but not always.
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The implementation worked great. You walked up to your computer, turned it on, and looked at the camera. Bam! You were logged in, assuming you had enough proper light on your face for the software to make out your facial shape.

It was just bloody annoying because you had to wait about 15 seconds for it to figure everything out. It was far faster to just use the keyboard.
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As a rule, you don't have to achieve any original research for a master's degree, doing research on the current knowledge and summarizing and/or applying it is considered sufficient.

Good students often manage to get some original research done during their master's years, but many (most?) don't.
Apple's pattern seems to be small "bursts" of innovation followed by long periods of "dormancy" where they just make smaller/bigger screens. Their "walled garden" cow is just about milked out as the Open Web is enters its new rennaisance. They'll be back in 10-15 years with somethinh that looks like real innovation again.
Scott Adams is also a MRA who equates being a woman with being mentally handicapped.
http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adam-sexist-mens-rights/

He is a climate change denier with the senseless circular reasoning, that if he can't understand the science of climate change himself, why should he ever trust climate scientists and other experts in the field, because their models are complicated.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/814133681711263744

Later in the thread, when presented with any scientific explanation of climate change, he reverts to repeating "how can I trust it?", all the while accusing climate scientists of having a financial incentive to push climate change, not providing proof himself.
Interesting way to make unique context values with context keys.
At least in the US, Saturday is a workday too for millions, if not tens of millions, of people, most of them working class or poor. [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/TUS/CHARTS/WORK.HTM
Contrarian view: I love AMP and I find myself clicking AMP links far more often because I can get the information I want much faster. And this is on LTE.

AMP should be supported by CDNs and toggleable in the browsers though.
CVS just announced a cheap generic alternative to the EpiPen
Sorry for getting off-topic but:

Is there any business in creating a better "classroom" experience that what ex. Piazza is doing?

It seems like an are which could be improved immensely design/ux wise but it also seems like it could be an area where that's not really going to make you successful because the distribution is already owned by someone else.
Except with Google's stranglehold on Google Search Engine results, not publishing an AMP version means you will probably rank below a similiar AMP-"enhanced" version from a competitor.

That's not really an option, unless you're trying to go after the Bing/DuckDuckGo market.
That's not what the documentation is about, though:

====

Use GPG with the cipher AES256, without the --armour option, and with compression to encrypt your files during inter-host transfers.
GPG

Encryption helps protect your files during inter-host file transfers (for example, when using the scp, bbftp, or ftp commands). We recommend GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard), an Open Source OpenPGP-compatible encryption system.

===

scp shouldn't be in that list.
>> It is not the same degree that's awarded

Very easy to disprove this. And as an OMSCS graduate I can tell you that at least the CS degree is not a second class citizen.

It's these sort of stereotypes, which have been reinforced by schools like Ashford and University of Phoenix, that we need to shirk. Online programs of this caliber enable the higher education of thousands who would otherwise not have the opportunity.
For AMP? Hell they are.

For bloated [anything involves computers]? No. That's on us.
It looks like your posts are being autokilled (and mostly for good reason). I vouched for this one.
I think this would implement factorial. I can't remember some of the specific mnemonics, but this is the gist:

# entering factorial: argument n is b0
# drop initial accumulator to belt; bail early if n==0
con(1), cmpeq(b1, 0), brtrue(end);
# now, b0 == 1, b1 == n
loop:
# multiply accumulator by n, then decrement n, then check if n stil not 0
mul(b0, b1), sub(b1, 1), cmpeq(b1, 0), brfalse(loop);
end:
# no matter what, the most recent accumulator is b0
ret(b0);
Symmetric is easier to teach to people, especially large groups of people doing tech training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_development...

"After a design is created, taped-out and manufactured, actual hardware, 'first silicon', is received which is taken into the lab where it goes through bringup. Bringup is the process of powering, testing and characterizing the design in the lab."
I'm not sure how it is now but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes more conservative in the future. Demographically rich old white men in isolated communities tend to be conservative.
Lily Drone is dead despite $34M in pre-orders
At work I constantly deal with people who can't remember passwords as short as 8 characters, you have to remember we're not representative of the average person.
> 5 different JavaScript frameworks

This is not the problem. You can easily use i.e. React and some related libs on mobile without slowing down the experience at all. Everything will be fast and responsive, loading times and the mobile site itself (if done right). The problem Google tries to address (and this is a real problem) are the cascaded ad networks on webpages which load hundreds of JS libs once a page is loaded. This is a huge problem and yes, it needs to be solved. Just go to any news site and open Chrome Inspector's Networking tab, then you'll be shocked about the millions of resources still being loaded. AMP is solving this by putting Google as the gatekeeper in front of all this networks. I am ok with this, those ad networks created the problem and I am fine if they now need to deal with Google's monopoly but I am not fine with being restricted in using JS in general because you can do it right, even on mobile.
But that's the point: if I want to buy non-Intel at my company, I've got contracts, lawyers fees, upper-level management etc. to convince to do it. Intel is probably sending me support personnel and sample hardware.

And I'm still looking at recompiling, debugging and deploying a ton of software to see advantages from the Mill.

So whatever advantages it brings, they need to be very substantial (i.e. if the next-gen of Intel x86 chips still out-perform it, I'll buy them) and quite quick - because I can go 5 years not buying the Mill while Intel promises to support me for their awesome new architecture. I mean, probably we buy some Mill machines, but how likely is it that it's game changing on my codebase?

That's where I see the problem. There's this whole huge assumption that the Mill will yield a bunch of benefits. If they're clear cut (a huge if) then they still have to beat their competitors being able to brute-force performance improvements until they come up with a new architecture themselves, which can take advantage of the very compensation they're asking from their customers ("switch architectures, it'll be great we promise").
But then you are limited by the number of connectors on your motherboard. I know people who have more cards to support more monitors(not in SLI, just side by side)
The population is growing[0] but the total productivity is stagnant[1], something is amiss.

[0] As per U.S. census bureau, population growth rate for years 2014 and 2015 is higher than 0.7% http://www.multpl.com/us-population-growth-rate/table/by-yea...

[1] As per article, total productivity growth rate for years 2014 and 2015 is 0.1%

[edit] formatting
Is semantic web just a branch of SEO? I don't really understand the point aside from making your site nicer for e.g. Google/Bing.
Lux – A functional programming language in the Lisp tradition