skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Micro payments are an interesting idea, but they just have too many issues at the moment.

Like say, being awkward to set up with normal payment processors. Things like taxes and fees mean that genuinely 'cheap' articles (read, a couple of dollars or less) are prohibitively awkward or expensive to set up.

They also don't have popular appeal as a concept, since free competition is just too high. Yeah, some people will pay for 'quality'. But a lot of people will just find free alternatives regardless of how accurate or well written the content is. Or if they're like a lot of people now, they'll write off the sources charging for content as 'fake news' and 'propaganda'.

And it also doesn't really fix the clickbait issue. It makes it slightly less convenient for some people (since you can't trick the 1% of people that see through your shoddy reporting any more), but most people just want content based on their own biases. Even when the content is something they're paying for.

I mean, look at a print newspaper if you need proof of that. Over here in the UK, questionable quality tabloids and gossip rags like the Sun and the Daily Mail sell a whole lot better than the likes of the Telegraph or Guardian. If micro payments caught on as a concept, I suspect the same thing would happen there. People would buy poor quality articles that support their own views and don't challenge any of their beliefs.
The external signalling power used by computers is completely neglible compared to the heat output. Computers and IT equipment in general are essentially ideal heat converters.
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How can they unpardon them? The conviction has been undone, and we don't permit double jeopardy (constitutionally prohibited) so a second charge for the same crime can't be filed.

From my brief google searches, it seems that it cannot be undone, by the Congress, by the Courts, nor by the President.
They didn't manage to do anything. We did that for ourself.

Often I'm told "I know about issue x, but I can't do anything". To which I reply "well, yes you can. First dump your TV. Use the spare time to read books and choose a hobby than make you gather with others. Start trying to spend your money like every note is a voting buletin. Then get involved in any social/political activity at your local level".

Of course this has no impact. Most people do want TV. They want drama. They don't want to spend time and energy learning, thinking or taking responsibilities of their life.

If you let a cookie jar open in your garden and ants come to eat it, it's not the ants fault. ants are just ants. They see sugar, they try to get it. It's sucks, but you are the giant and they are the ants. You are responsible to understand the situation and make proper choices.
AI is a flaky term changing its meaning every now and then, and indeed, as the backbone of the hype, Deep Learning itself is rapidly evolving unlike any other fields I have witnessed.

Take CV for example. AlexNet is wakeup call for deep learning renaissance, however no one has predicted that we would go beyond human-level performance in just 3 years(ResNet developed in 2015). Same goes for AlphaGo/Machine Translation/Speech Recognition, or the latest photo-realistic stacked GAN.

All in all it is hard to predict what we will end up with by looking at history because we are in such an exciting time of ML/AI development. No matter how prestigious that person might be, his or her words affect very little what the future will actually be, only technology itself could.
"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ (US Department of Justice) case," WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter.

- https://www.yahoo.com/news/assange-agrees-extradition-us-rel...

What is the difference between a commutation of sentence and a pardon?

In the federal system, commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency, which is a broad term that applies to the President’s constitutional power to exercise leniency toward persons who have committed federal crimes.

- https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions-co...

I.e.: commutation ∈ clemency.
> Aluminum is the most common material for heatsinks,

Aluminium is the most common material for heatsink fins. The cold plate is almost always (nickel-plated) copper.
Young women are the group who self harm most, but who are at lowest risk for death by suicide.

This appears to be slowly changing. It seems that women are choosing more lethal methods for self harm and attempted suicide, and thus dying more frequently.

There's still a 3:1 male:female ratio. But (at least, in the UK) rates for men are slowly falling and rates for women are slowly rising.

For a group supposedly at low risk of suicide, who also have higher than normal health risk, (and who are at higher risk of domestic violence) it's disturbing that death by suicide is a leading cause of death.

Tackling mental health stigma, especially around the perinatal time, is crucial to save lives. In England there's informal peer support from Twitter @PNDandMe. Watch out - this is informal and there's not much in place around governance or safeguarding. There are other things happening - there are national programmes to improve perinatal access to MH services including tackling the stigma.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/perinatal/

Here's the NHS Chocies pages for PND, and Post-partum psychosis.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Postnataldepression/Pages/Intro...

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/postpartum-psychosis/Pages/Intr...

Finally, a reminder that men can get post natal depression too.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case"
It won't be undone under Trump. If anything, he would grant immediate clemency or a pardon (though I don't expect either).
I subscribe to both the WSJ and NYT and find that my bounce rate is probably pretty high. But I tend to save articles that are interesting and I might want to read later on my device. I'll later read the article on my iPad or laptop. I can't stand reading a long piece on a small screen.
Map of White Supremacy Mob Violence
They're amish they build everything by hand
We buy market data from two sources every year. They get their data by collecting it from the companies that buy their data. Obviously that's not perfect, but it's more objective than most other methods.

That hardest part is figuring out which generic categories match our specific positions, since every company in the survey has different definitions and requirements.

Our employees seem pretty happy with the results, and we've had very few offers rejected for salary range reasons. So it seems like we're pretty close. If anything, we're probably a bit above our local market.
Precedents set for whistelblower treatment have not been very good the past decade.
Barack Obama commutes majority of Chelsea Manning's prison sentence
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I sort of wonder if it would matter. Whether they should or not, I really doubt the parts of the government he pissed off will forgive him just because they are told to.
Interesting historical note!
It's actually explicitly in the Constitution:

"The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."

Article II, Section 2
> He always seems professional and articulate.

Yes, especially in comparison to you-know-who got elected... what a massive contrast.
Certificate transparency fits right on top of postgres, see crt.sh https://github.com/crtsh

Or on top of LevelDB or sqlite if you look at google's implementation of it:

https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency#software-...

The source of truth for certificates is certificate authorities. Certificate authorities by definition must trust the claims other authorities make about what they issued. There's no need for "proof of work". There's not even any distrust.

There's a need for an audit log, an append-only database, replication, and distribution of data.

There is no need for solving the generals problem, for hashing, for confirmations, for any of the blockchain really.
I lost interest when certain other ideas made me think his basic project of accounting for consciousness mathematically was deeply flawed (and it wasn't Penrose's argument about formal systems!). I did find it entertaining though, so maybe I'll revisit before too long.

I'm curious what shift it caused for you, if you don't mind saying.
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And now let's see if Assange keeps his promise to extradite to the US. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713
Highly Recommend Michael Feathers' book

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
Historically that is true, but times are changing. Specifically, the Internet makes the flow of information (and therefore propaganda) a lot more symmetric. We saw this with the most recent election. It will only get worse.
The thought process that went into the design is very enlightening. Thanks for writing that up.
That sounds like hell. A buggy machine talking down to me hits quite a few of my buttons, but at least it doesn't interrupt my checkout process when it thinks I'm stealing groceries. (And given how often the alarm goes off, the loss prevention guys just ignore it.)
There as been more marijuana prosecution under Obama than under Bush. The idea they have been less hostile is a myth. States have simply been doing better at fighting back.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/crime/47303/why-barack-obamas-marij...
I hope Obama stays around. He's done so well at building up the Democratic party in the past 8 years, here's hoping he stays around and does the same thing for the next 8!
If you read the statement again, it sounded like they gave them a review after 6 months, but told them the raise would come after a year review. So he did have a review, but no raise.
There was no collateral damage to people in the field due to the Manning leaks, so I guess she figured it out.
> The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench."

Obama led the Democrats to political disaster; I wonder if any party since WWII has been in as bad a political position. Why would they want his continued leadership after he leaves office?
I remember reading something some time ago about Grant having reversed some of Johnson's pardons, but I'm not finding a reference to specifics, so I may be mistaken.

EDIT: Found it. See my post up-thread for a link.
This is actually very clever, and really solves their problem pretty neat!
I commented above, but I don't think you need to get this perfect. What you want is a baseline number, even if it is low. If that number is $X to replace this person (fully, including estimates of rampup time and lost productivity), and they want a raise of $Y, and $Y < $X, the rational employer will give the raise. Heck, the rational employer would give $X-1.

Now, is the world full of rational employers? Nope.
So it's only possible if it was something that was done against the US?
Bitcoin may very well be fraudlent-transaction-free. It has plenty of fraud elsewhere in the ecosystem though.
Wouldn't it be outrageously unconstitutional to undo this?
Verbal agreements rarely work out. Even among well-meaning parties, it's far too easy for someone to misremember or misinterpret the agreement. If you do enter a verbal agreement, write it down in an email and send it to the other party. That way there's a paper trail to clarify any disputes.
To be clear, you're saying that pitch can change due to regional accent, as opposed to distinguish between homophones, which is which is what 'singhblom was implying, correct?

I thought 花 and 鼻 were ambiguous … yet the pitch accent differs. No?
It's not a pejorative. It's a common phrase meaning "the quality of your output is only as good as your input data".

In this case, input data was skewed/biased/inaccurate for a number of reasons (sample choices, underreporting, etc.). Thus even the best predictions were wrong.
Qualcomm Forced Apple to Exclusively Use Modem Chips, FTC Says
Read the PDF: they're working on a chameleon hash scheme so that their blockchain can be undetectably modified, not unlike making an accounting ledger with dry erase markers. That's going way beyond disagreeing with Bitcoin; what they're doing doesn't have the strong auditability that you'd expect from a "blockchain" solution. It's closer to a bog standard database really.
Except this is a mobile only feature, and you never see an x on the page otself to close the page on mobile.
I have mixed feelings on this. Manning did commit a crime. They were entrusted with classified information and they released it on purpose. For all of the corruption and wrongdoing the release of those cables uncovered, didn't it also do things like give away the positions of some undercover agents? And harm US diplomatic relations with other countries? Look at it from the POV of the government: How could they not punish Manning? It would do a lot to encourage others to indiscriminately leak classified info. Which would be bad.
He has male parts you scientifically illutilerate dumbfuck.
I can't possibly disagree more.

He is arrogant and condescending, with a complete loser mentality.
I don't think the free version of Nylas Mail is storing IMAP passwords, plaintext or otherwise. For Gmail, at least.

1. You never enter them into the client. It uses Oauth to authenticate.

2. By the comment here, it seems that they're using Google's Gmail API. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417904
I don't think you know what fake news is. It isn't biased news, its not incorrect news, or unsubstantiated rumors.

It is websites that steal CSS and styles from official news sites. That then create a fake news paper and publish 100% fiction. The Denver Guardian http://www.snopes.com/fbi-agent-murder-suicide/ is an example of "Fake News". Nothing published by CNN or FiveThirtyEight is fake news. Incorrect, sure, possibly biased but not "Fake News".
Pumping Our Arms for Points
yeah, maybe, but I guess I would also say that maybe he did the decent thing when he judged it would no longer bear a political cost to do so - because I bet being a politician means you have to take those political costs into consideration. (certain exceptions do spring to mind)
The president is granted the power to pardon by the same document that establishes the separation of powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...

It's not a super long document.

http://constitutionus.com/
Well either way that wouldn't result in closing the page.
Quad-Tree vs. Spatial Hashing
As the son of a murder victim, 7 years is not enough for horrible, violent crimes.
If they're old and junky I recycle them through Apple's program.

http://www.apple.com/shop/help/recycle

if they're horribly trashed, they get taken out and used for target practice.
Why would you run your robot arm for only 8 hours a day? Does it also ask for sick days, weekends, holidays, and maternity leave? Why does it irreparably break after 4 years?

Even if all of those assumptions hold today, what makes you think the the robot arm of a decade from now won't cost $20,000, but, with minor maintenance, operate for a decade?
One thing that amazes me is that to this day, its Layers palette offers no way to select multiple layers. At least, not through any UI convention used by major operating systems in the past couple of decades…

Under macOS it also has this funny little issue of picking up on the most recently added input method for setting the UI language instead of the system's default/current selected input method. As a result my copy of the GIMP runs in Japanese despite the rest of the system being NA English.
>Researchers also found that many of the women had documented social stressors, most notably unemployment (64%)

one more piece of evidence that our economics are killing us
Or, maybe they have. Maybe they lost some non-trivial amount of money from one of the half dozen former exchanges that had coins stolen out of their hot wallets. Or had someone hijack their AWS account credentials from GitHub to spin up hundreds of dollars of EC2 instance-hours to generate pennies of bitcoin.
In that case no, you cannot set multiple tiers over multiple territories for the price of an app. There's no override for Apples default "1 tier fits all" pricing system as far as I know.
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Right, which means federal crimes, not state crimes. The President won't be granting pardons to ordinary murderers, unless the murder took place on federal lands.
This was an evaluation I did between Quad Trees and Spatial Hashing. It was an EE for the International Baccalaureate and while I enjoyed coding it I hope that some people may find it interesting or provide feedback reguarding my paper. Hope you enjoy!

Source Code: https://github.com/ProjectBarks/EE
Upon digging, you're correct, though it seems I found more references to 2SV, but point taken.

I am staunchly of the 'don't allow my machines to remember anything' variety, so likely not. If this 'remembering' is flagged in an app default, I'd be happy to clear it out and re-test.

I went to retrieve the 2SA/V code, and when attempting to switch back to the dialog, it failed/crashed to the launcher. The dialog was still present in the application switcher, but repeatedly failed. But directly starting gmail bypassed the auth request and logged me in.
Building a Web App in Julia: DifferentialEquations.jl Online
Women that age tend to be at low risk of death by suicide.

I'm not very good with the CDC WISQARS tool, but I think this is relevant:

https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/index.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2013/womenall_2013.pdf

Unintentional injuries, cancer, heart disease.

We probably need to be a bit careful with definitions here. CDC are very precise with their definition of suicide (Something like "death following self injury where the intent was to die"), other orgs use "death following self injury".
DNS Monitoring for cloud-native applications
Almost. TS2 was originally a direct to video film. But Disney liked the work-in-progress so much that they approved making it a feature film. And Pixar management at the time wasn't really thrilled with the idea of having an "A" team that made feature films and a "B" team that made DTV films. That could lead to morale problems in the B team. It was much later that problems in the story lead to replacing the director and doing the restart.
> Obama is trying to leave a positive view of the Democratic legacy with this lasting memory. It helps people forget

How do you know what Obama's motive is? Were you at the meetings? Did you read the memos? Do you have a brain-to-brain interface or have you hacked his Blackberry?

Should he do nothing good or positive, so that you don't suspect him of manipulating people?
Do you use it though? I really like the concepts, but the speed could be better (I know Alexander talked about this), and docs could be more beginner friendly. It's a small expert community.
Mark Zuckerberg, in Suit, Testifies in Oculus Intellectual Property Trial
Zoom Partners with Sequoia in $100M Funding Round
Its a hobby project, its not nearly done, don't use it in production.

But, that said, that is basically what it is: https://github.com/clojit

I would love to write a JIT for it, but currently its a half done interpreter. You compile Clojure to Bytecode (of our own design, see clojit-doc) and a C interpreter (we started in Rust but the pre 1.0 chances and some other stuff killed that).

All of this is inspired by LuaJit, specifically my goal is to work on a tracing compiler. It just takes to much time to get there.
Seriously. This is such terrible backroom political manipulation. The real thing that worries me is what exactly are we using to leverage sweden to go after assange this hard. What damage has obama done to our relationship with them?
Ask HN: How to Emigrate from Europe to USA (Sillicon Valley)?
I found process of migration to USA quite complicated. I tried to do some research, but still I don't know how to approach it:
1. should I find a company in SF Bay, which sponsor visas?
2. should I find a company in USA and then migrate to SF Bay area?
3. or maybe should I find an international company in Europe (like Google), try to get a job there and then migrate to USA?

What's more, I don't know which visa should I get - H-1B or another one?
Where can I look for housing?
Where can I look for a company? Especially that even those big companies don't want to sponsor visas.

Any ideas and advices?

BTW I'm 24, with BSc in computer science and 2 years of experience as Scala developer
My parents used to have some "junk" computers out in the garage. One of them had a Cyrix 486 clone. These are the pins on that guy: http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cyrix_cx486dlc-40g...

While trying to get as many of those machines working as possible, I unseated the CPU (can't remember why), and I guessed the orientation wrong when putting it back into the machine. I don't remember seeing or smelling any literal magic smoke, but it must've gotten let out, because that machine never booted again.

Luckily, that wasn't any kind of new hardware. I've got an active imagination though, and it always comes to mind when I am working with new and expensive equipment.
Yes the Great War was a continuation of British foreign policy of the last 500 years. I think the Germans would have had their hands full intergrating their EU that the UK would have been allowed its slow decline in peace.

I really do think the Great War broke the long slow march towards democracy and moderation that had started in the 19th C. Germany in the early 20th C was the centre of modernisation and Liberalism and if it wasn't for the war there is nothing to suspect that this wouldn't have continued.
That's true, but the trouble is that if you look back to past elections, those polls are also wrong in very similar ways. They were just wrong in a way that overemphasized the success of the right candidate, whereas polls this year were wrong in a way that suggested success for the wrong candidate. So the errors have existed for a long time, and in fact they were lesser this year than in previous years. Polls are getting better, not worse - but the narrative has become "never trust polls again because they were wrong" when the truth is closer to "learn lessons from the polls because they got close but made serious missteps."
If the whole point is to make the Times more efficient and ultimately profitable and self-sustaining, VR isn't going to bring home the bacon any time soon for them. Will it eventually? Maybe. But you're not going to see print (or TV) ad dollars suddenly flow into VR that is used (i.e. owned or simply tried once) by a small fraction of the U.S. population.

This kind of study is essentially a recommendation for layoffs in the newsroom and investments in other areas. Having worked at 3 magazines, I don't personally believe the current VR market is big enough to be a viable source of persistent and growing revenue for them to pay salaries. I do think there is an opportunity on long-term, expensive-to-produce feature stories where VR is offered more as a package deal to an advertiser rather than the sole output format of the report. That aligns an advertiser with innovation, even if those that actually experience it is statistically small. But those types of sales deals are expensive tactical one-offs, not strategic plans. Not yet, anyway.
Please try to not dismiss my question, but what skills does a truck driver have that can't be learned in a couple of weeks?

On the other side, I agree with the manufacturing comment. There is a British documentary about building steam locomotives on Youtube. Watch what the skilled workers do, they just move things from side to side so a machine can do the hard work. Hell, I can learn to do that in a week.