skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you're so bright, perhaps you can enlighten me as to why in a system that works, even with default settings most clicks will come from only 2 countries (but mostly Nigeria) out of 1000 other countries (including low-cost clicks), and why it would make sense from a Nigerian to click on an ad in Italian.

Then, there's the problem of multiple (up to 10) clicks from the same IP within a couple of seconds.

Last, why in Nigeria they only stay on websites for a fraction of a second, even though they scroll to the bottom of the page (which regular users often don't do).
Python is one of the simplest languages to learn. I do this course as a hands-on lab with people who discover Python programming at the same time as they discover neural networks. I ask them to read this "Python 3 in 15 min" primer beforehand and they are good to go: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/
I've long told my recording clients, "real musicians have a day job" because it described so much of the best talent to come through the studio.
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I just read two books that I thought would be unrelated, but ended up being very related in a way that was fascinating to read the two in tandem — The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

The Swerve is about Epicurus and Lucretius — who both helped popularize atomism 2000+ years ago. I never thought much of the philosophical implications of the world being made of up small, somewhat interchangeable parts — but this idea was at the core of Epicureanism, and had many implications.

If you're interested in learning more about the history of atomic theory, I'd highly recommend The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

It goes through the general history of science from the 1890s to the 1950s. There are brief biographies of people who played an important role — Ernest Rutherford, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein (to name a few). Those were exciting times to be a physicist.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13707734-the-swerve

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16884.The_Making_of_the_...
Based on the journalism example in the introduction I was expecting the unintended consequence to be for the professional drivers to lose their jobs. Which will be more impactful on the labor market than any changes in journalism so far and can completely eliminate "driver" (truck, taxi, etc) as job title. Moreover, this is a part of a broader trend of automation that is real but still left out of mainstream political discussion. If Trump hopes to bring back employment with traditional protectionism, he'll just incentivise faster replacement of human workers with robots and automatic systems. I believe this is a more important topic for discussion than the social and antisocial aspects of driverless cars.
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I think such things can be discounted by knowing that motorways never have stop signs (same with the prank stop signs). Of course, there are a lot of things that only cause a change in driving behaviour in very specific contexts. The bus' stop sign probably only applies when the bus is stopped. Similarly, in Germany at least a bus may turn on hazard lights on a bus stop, requiring everyone to drive past only at walking speed. A bus stopped on the shoulder of a motorway with hazard lights on is a different context again and thus should not trigger the same behaviour.

There are a lot of rules and laws and they change from country to country, or in the US' case, even from state to state. Self-driving cars must know these things and react accordingly. So I think the scenarios presented here are just a few (admittedly, more far-fetched than others) more contexts amidst the probably hundreds of others that already have to work correctly for switching safely between city and motorway driving, driving in a living street, observing right of way correctly in all circumstances (roundabouts, weird stuff like four-way stops, signs changing ROW for one intersection, or a stretch of road, lowered kerbs, people exiting a living street even though it's to the right, cars on an on-ramp and perhaps letting them in based on how far the on-ramp still continues, ...).

Stop signs are interesting in any case, since they have a characteristic shape. If we go full autonomous, then snow-covered signs must be correctly observed as well, at which point any octagon shape may be a stop sign (perhaps, again, depending on context). Same with signs that don't reflect well anymore at night.
I might want to own my self-driving car if it is my private space where I sleep, eat, work.

Owning a self-driving car may be cheaper and therfore move viable if they are safe (a few sensors instead of expensive construction and safety technology).

Self-driving cars could be cheaper if they turn out to be domesticated nodes in a network instead of status symbols.

I wouldn't completely rule out car ownership just yet...
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I love browser integration but am not willing to go to lastpass, therefore have to stay with the ugly, but well functioning .NET keepass2 client on desktop and with the nice keepass2android.

> From the text it looks like one of the selling points is integration with apps like browsers so you don't have to copy/paste passwords, as with KeePassX.

Can you provide source please? thank you.

This [1] says the opposite: (quoting from the github issue):

"I removed the milestone for now since we are not sure if we actually want our users to expose their passwords over a network protocol with questionable security record. The security of both KeePassHTTP and KeePassRPC is doubtable and in their current state we would prefer not to have them as part of the main KeePassXC product.

This doesn't mean KeePassXC will never support it, it only means that at the moment we don't have immediate plans and an implementation needs further discussion."

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/88#issuec...
Economics falls under the second category quite a bit as well. In particular its hard to reason about impacts of individual policies on any kind of real complex economy because there are so many confounding variables. And it's not like you can conduct experiments because time travel isn't possible and no two economies are even similar, let alone the same.
How do the people who support this scheme plan to get around Say's Law? All of the wealth that this "income" can demand still has to be produced by someone. Is this just going to be open theft of wealth with printed money or open theft of wealth to be distributed as money somehow?
Haha, yeah. Entirely agreed.

There is, within 15 miles of the continental United States, a Level 4 automated train, that has been running for over 30 years, with 50 miles of track, and 300,000 passengers per day. And it works great. It's off-the-shelf technology backed by a moderately sizable 70-year-old company, so you can just go out and order a system like this yourself next year, if you want to (and you have a few billion dollars).

That doesn't solve any of the self-driving car problems in the article, so it's totally a side point, but Level 4 trains are a solved problem, for over 30 years.
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Middleware has already settled that question several years ago, only FOSS advocates without experience in the games industry keep wishing for a different outcome.
I pay £18/mo to be a member of Prospect, a non-party-affiliated union. The main benefits to me are legal representation in case I were to get entangled with my employer (not particularly likely). However I mainly do it to support their aims and campaigns.
can you elaborate ?
If you want to stay with a solution any moderately experienced developer can audit themselves without investing too much time, but would like to add a bit of user friendliness, have a look at pass¹.

It is nothing more than a script that calls the GnuPG binary and the tree command line utility for displaying a tree of files. It uses your GPG-keypair to encrypt text files. You can add as much info as you like, but by convention the first line of each file is assumed to be the password:

# Generate a 32-character random password.
pass generate sites/news.ycombinator.com 32
# Copy the password to the clipboard; this will ask you to unlock your GPG-key.
pass -c sites/news.ycombinator.com 32
# Find stuff.
pass find news
# Edit the file (e.g., add the username).
pass edit sites/news.ycombinator.com 32

All files are GPG-encrypted plain text files in a directory on disk. Easy to backup as well.

There is a rather sweet feature you can use to share some passwords with someone. You can add a list of GPG key IDs in a file called .gpg-id in any of the subdirectories of your password store, and share that subdirectory using a syncing tool such as SyncThing². My partner and I each have our own password store, but share a directory called 'together' via SyncThing. All passwords stored there are encrypted using both our GPG-keys by pass, whilst our private entries remain encrypted just for our own respective keys.

1: https://www.passwordstore.org/

2: https://syncthing.net/
> "Emotions take much longer to change than thoughts." or something like that. (for communication: "Emotional messages need repeating to sink in.")

If a future generation could start off being able to distinguish between their primal brain-functions and their thoughts, they might progress much faster than we do.
We have a lot of data like that and just use a compound partition key of (year, month, day) tuple and then we can ask stuff on day resolution. We also add exact timestamp into clustering key so you can only ask for more precise data.

With Cassandra (well most nosql dbs that I've run into) you model your data in the db by the queries. So if you want to scan by date then you create a new table (or a materialized view) with the date as the key you query for. Though even for then you have to keep in mind the amount of data to make sure you don't have too much data per partition and hotspots.
We'll see how you feel about that after doing more or less the same thing for 10 years straight.
Impossible may not be the right word, but highly unlikely due to the environment ag automation needs to operate in. Production agriculture is highly mechanical, meaning things wear out and break all the time, which means humans need to go and fix things. In addition, people farm in every environment on earth, with wide variance in conditions in even the most ideal places. This means mechanical equipment needs to be specialized for the crop or location (considering humidity, temperature, wind, sun, crop type, etc), which makes scalability limited. These are the two biggest issues that tech doesn't really have a good solution for.
$100/mo gas is ~1600 miles/month. That's 20,000 miles/year. Where are you commuting from? The moon?

I don't know what kind of car you drive, but my wipers cost $40, and don't get replaced every year, my oil change is ~$50, my tires cost me ~$400, but last for 60,000 miles.. At some point in my car's life, I will probably throw a few thousand dollars into repairs - but its cost of maintenance is not going to be ~1,000/year.

There's also various licensing and registration fees, which are, essentially, roadway and driving taxes. You're going to pay your share of them, regardless of who owns the vehicle you will be riding in.

These are not conservative figures, unless you're driving an M1 Abrams, or, like my partner, a 20-year-old junker...

And, of course, if you're driving 100 miles/work day, I doubt those uber trips are going to cost you $5.
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Not that I'm aware of. There's a bunch of commercial ones, including ours, but development costs make it hard to just open source it if we don't have assurance that people will actually buy whatever value-added services around we can come up with.
Nothing is settled, until the tax of supporting multiple APIs exist. Don't imagine it comes for free. The price is paid, whether it's in the middleware or not. You pay this tax in various ways, from slower progress of game engines, to more bugs in your games. And it clearly demonstrates the intent. Those who push this tax on developers don't want faster progress and higher quality. They want lock-in.
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I always thought that the first real application for level 4 would be highways. Aren't we really close to that? They should be much easier than urban driving.
>treat others as you would wish to be treated

This is particularly problematic because it assumes you know everything about the other person's situation.

"If I were acting like that, I would be thankful if someone hit me in the face to make me realize how rude I was being."

"If I were poor, I would be grateful for someone who took away my government handouts so I became self-sustaining."

"If I were rich, I wouldn't mind being taxed at 98%."

Etc
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Do you use Vim on your phone?
Amazing there hasn't been a single mention of transferwise in this thread
Oh look everybody, we wrote like 25 lines of python snd now we're gonna call it a company!
I don't know if I can relate. When it really bothers me, I try to do something about it, go out, have fun. Surround myself with people whose company I enjoy.

Sometimes the feeling persists. Its usually when I try the above and fail though. When its not satisfying, when the people I'm with are just kinda whatever. -shrugs-
At some point, we will debate against manual driver cars. As a petrol-head, I love driving and riding but that is the truth. the sooner we get rid of manual-drived cars, the faster we switch to self driving cars because the existence of manual cars are a big problem for self driving cars and they limit the potential the self-driving cars can achieve. We should at least do that in some cities. Imagine a town with no traffic lights and cars move in a harmony and scary precision in traffic.
You're 6x more likely to get a click-through from email campaign than a tweet?
You mean the KeepassX which did not require .NET and was also cross-platform?

https://www.keepassx.org/
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A major tenant of Chrome is the rolling update model, nobody has ever got the android vendors to do anything slightly like that. My Moto E gen2 got 1 year of updates that's it.
There's self-hosted team solutions around, they just don't get as much exposure.

(Like mine: https://pave.software/ )
Are you suggesting car manufacturers should forego airbags and seat belts because self-driving cars obviously would not crash? You do realise that someone else could still crash into you? Like getting T-boned in a busy junction.
Two reasons to own a car, even if level 5 autonomous is available.

1. Storage. As a family with little kids, the car is a mobile storage for diapers, toys, and other stuff. This was the main reason, why we got our own car. We used car sharing before.

2. Customization. Cars are still a status symbol and for heavy commuters also living space. Car manufacturers already provide more and more options to customize.

The second reason is not that strong. I can imagine that cars lose the status symbol appeal, because economic reasons always win. Eventually, only rich people own their cars.

The first reason is difficult. My prediction would be that many people will switch to car sharing. It is already happening even without autonomous cars. Families with little kids still want their own cars. Effectively, it becomes more expensive to have kids due to autonomous cars, relatively.
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KeePass uses an encrypted database file to store your passwords, which allows you to store custom fields for each entry, search by field contents, have protected fields, attach files to entries, or keep a revision history of changes made to an entry which enables easy syncing of the same database stored on multiple devices.

You could do almost all of that with a plain text encrypted file, but KeePass keeps it all neat and sorted.
Amazing there hasn't been a mention of TransferWise in this thread

You get about 1.5% more money with them when you do a transfer.

Their low cost model is driven by using automated KYC checks and the kinds of fraud models you'd expect from a web startup

More here

https://transferwise.com/gb/compare/western-union-exchange-r...
Disclosure - I'm an employee - but the hype in this case is warranted
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Depending on the use case. If you're working in a company and need to share something with a co-worker (like credentials for some web service), team-based solutions are the safest solution.
I found that Facebook lost all relevance and provided really... nothing to me, my life, my friends or my family around about 3 years ago. I'm not one of those elitist 'I quite facebook' people but, I did and my life did improve, and guess what? It wasn't social media or the distraction that was the problem - it was the medium. Since then my twitter usage has grown like crazy and I absolutely love it, I learn things, I laugh, I ignore some things but over all - I really love the platform.
Algae-based bioreactors are pretty recent and are a great way to produce healthy fats. Sucks that one of the best suppliers of this, Solazyme, has cut off supply to Soylent.
First of all, health care is definitely a part of society which needs to be reinvented, so kudos for contributing to that. You say you are looking to build a platform with a great value for society. Why not focus on the big issues? Smoking is still the number one cause of death in many countries. In my country, 1 in 10 people has type 2 diabetes, and 1 in 3 adults will develop it at some point.

It might be too difficult for a one man project, but anything that does not tackle these problems feels like premature optimization to me.
Well, "I haven't bothered to check so for all I know it could be doing tons of bad things" isn't really a valid argument.
It don't change drastically the features of the application.
As someone working in adtech, some of the megabytes of JS you get sent involves viewability tracking to catch stuff like this. Sometimes you'll even have two or more copies, one from the advertiser and some from the companies in between.
So true. I used to work closely with investigations department during my tenure at Western Union. There have been so many heartbreaking stories of people emptying their retirement accounts and sending all of their money to "lovers" from Nigeria or other non-US countries.

We tried to stop these payments but they would find other ways to send cash directly. Dealing with international wires is tough. When we stopped payments and tried to protect people, the story wouldn't end there. The people would find other means to screw themselves over. That's what loneliness and desperation do to gullible people.
No. Toilets are the most important idea.

I am a physicist by education and value the subject highly but let's not take things for granted. Where would we be without toilets? In the middle of a pile of ...
That is suspicious to me. No address, no contact, no support.
The argument I've heard against the former is that everyone ends up paying taxes and otherwise indirectly contributing to your business, so it isn't right to deny them access.

At the same time, though the business owner also contributed their own taxes to the situation.

I think I agree with your distinction and stance, with the idea being that the market will correct because it's shitty business to turn away a customer over an irrelevant detail like that
Eliminating the passenger lets you make the tool more expendable. The attacker can control more than one and afford to lose a few.
They've been around for a long time and have a very good reputation.
> OPs have datastores confused with databases.

The other way around. All the in-memory stuff is nothing but a cache, distributed or not.

Datastore is a layer, a set of routines and interfaces, which maintains persistent storage, such as Informix C-ISAM.

I am old-school Informix DBA, so we knew that Larry has been a cheater.
I also use this configuration and it works well.

"Central server" for Syncthing sounds a bit weird though.
c) you are able to pull it off in a calm manner, preferably something that could be perceived as you just asking for a clarification, but still leaves the meeting in a slightly uncomfortable state because the bullshitter's "explanation" seems so obviously fake to anyone with half a brain.

This seems like a great idea until you realise that these bullshitters thrive together and the meeting is full of them so they are going to hang on each others claims.
> I'll take that as implying that the underrepresented groups are not victims of widespread discrimination.

That was not my intent, as I certainly don't beleive that. Rather, I wanted to disambiguate the GP question (which could be taken either way).

Perhaps I should have shortened my request for clarification to "which culture and what effect are you asking about?"

Anyway, over/under representation happens through many avenues, some through overt and intentional discrimination, and much more through secondary and tertiary effects, many of which reinforce each other through positive feedback loops (not to mention reinforcing the overt and intentional sort as well).

eg. once you control for sibling order, parents' educational background and income, etc., it is clear that on average girls get their first computer at a later age than boys by several years. If a computer is supposed to be shared between siblings and it isn't in a common area it will tend to go into the boy's room. and so on.

Parents aren't deliberately reinforcing gender stereotypes to reduce their daughters' opportunities to discourage them from using computers, but that's exactly what is happening, and this is entirely a cultural phenomenon.

You can in many other cases measure a discouraging effect from within the culture of an underrepresented group, but just because it is worth noting however and whenever a group is complicit in their underrepresentation, it does not magically shift responsibility away from members of an over-represented group to accept changes to their culture to stop discouraging and excluding others, most specifically in this case any beleifs that participation in Free Software is entirely based on merit.
huh, totally unintentional! colah is a colleague. His blog posts are great and were part of the source material for building these sessions.
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> They're who's at fault, but you're the one who's dead.

This is what my dad taught me too and why I've since always been cautious both as a driver, bicyclist and pedestrian even when I'm in the right to drive/go. Being right isn't as fun when someone's on their way to the hospital/morgue.
What about privacy?

There could be some serious privacy issues introduced by self-driving cars if they take off.

Cameras and microphones patrolling neighborhoods of the world, constantly feeding data into "the cloud" with absolutely no accountability?

Just no!
What?

http://www.rsync.net/resources/index.html

"Unlimited Support From Real Engineers: support@rsync.net - +1-619-819-9156"

The address is in TOS http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/tos.html
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Never use forks of popular browsers (exception: when browser libraries are dynamically included from official sources). Forks never get security updates as timely as the originals. This is pretty significant if you are important enough for someone to use their zero-days on.
Nope. Old definitions still holds. If some hipsters are re-using the word to bullshit people it does not mean that correct connotations are deprecated.
So now all the "NDA" excuses for not releasing graphic drivers source code are gone?