skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, you do have a point there.

It seems like BuzzFeed wants to do the right thing with its reporting on the new administration -- but it's hard to take them seriously, given all the mindless drivel they also post (much of it, arguably, also very exploitive of the people in these embarrassing photos, in all probability without their consent).
Your list contains the bare-minimum requirements for immigrating into any country, unless you're buying the "Let me in, I'm rich" visa (also available in most countries).
A cash cow is something different [0]. AWS requires increasing capex.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashcow.asp
Bing-fucking-go.

Until advertisers understand and embrace this, the people that use adblockers will never relent. There is one, let me repeat, one website that I disable adblocking on: reddit.com. I've never been abused by them, and I don't regret that choice. Every other time I've temporarily relented, I immediately regretted it and blocked them again.
I really think that the tech world needs a better solution for advertising. The state of things over the last 20 years has been disappointing at best. It continues to grow in the wrong direction.

When I go to a website, I don't want 6 separate companies doing their best to identify me, tracking my activity, and doing their best to predict what I might actually spend money on so they can get a piece of it.

When I build a website - if I put ads up, I'm handing data about my work product off to people I don't know for what use I have no idea. Is someone going to use that data to build a competitive product? Is someone going to abuse the goodwill I build to my end users? Is the ad platform safe or am I putting my end users at risk? These shouldn't be questions. These should be answered by default by every company that would want to spend money advertising to my end users.

The ads are ineffective, the revenue is terrible unless you are a very popular site, and the questions about the data we are exposing are plentiful.

And yet everyone with a blog about Wednesday night prime time TV is clamoring to put ads up in hopes that it might generate them $100 over the course of a year.

We can do better.

The solution isn't stopping ad-blockers or getting around ad-blockers. The solution is to come up with better ways to generate the same revenue.

Google innovated and now look at them. Where would they be without AdWords? Why isn't anyone else truly innovating? Why do all of the ad tech companies look like clones of one another?
> That's trivially fixable. You can rename her to "Echo", "Amazon", or "Computer".

In my experience, this just changes the times that it accidentally triggers. It doesn't actually reduce how often it happens. Our triggers for random crap all the time, both when we say stuff that sounds like "Alexa" and for completely indecipherable reasons. We actually have two of them in our house, and only one regularly goes of at the wrong time. I thought it might be defective, so I swapped them, but then the other one started doing it. It's location-dependent in our house, so it must have to do with the acoustics or something. Regardless, it's annoying, and the less technical family members are far less tolerant of this kind of stuff than I am.

All that said, I still agree that the article goes overboard in exaggeration. Overall I like my Echos, and I think they work pretty well most of the time. There's a lot of room for improvement, but it is a new product.
A friend an I built a ray tracer as a project for school. Found all the math in a book online.

We just did some simple scenes, but it was pretty wicked seeing a sphere lit nicely with a shadow that made sense. I've thought loads of times about picking this up again as a side project.
They are excellent questions. I am one of those people who has lost faith in mainstream media in the last few years. Your question (despite being simple) is very powerful.

The media is manipulative and deceitful. The same prejudice trends carry across almost all media. I've mentioned domestic violence a number of times. Almost all media outlets will show _only_ female victims, despite about 33% of victims being male and many perpetrators being female (source: Australian Bureau of Statistics).

You will see similar gendered bullying constantly from most media outlets. Despite the accusations, my research has found NO PROOF this was the opposite 50 years ago (prove me wrong!!). This gender war has become so extreme that it's spilled over to attacking kids. I can't believe how much prejudice the media has against boys. Code.org, BBC shows like Horrible Histories (eg. Repeatedly saying girls had to pretend to be boys to get books published, then mentioning 3 female Brontes, Beatrix Potter, etc, thus contradicting themselves. For what gain?? Wasn't Darwin boycotted? Why not mention that? Can't have a male victim, eh?).

Or take Ars Technica's recent coverage on Twitter said that feminists have been saying we need to stop harassment, thus implying the only victims are feminists and that feminists do Not harass (in my view, this is very far removed from the truth on both counts, but it's very Ars, very manipulative). One commenter even said that Ars was irresponsible to represent only one group as victims, to which he was unanimously shouted down and asked "How is Russia?", a very popular comment amongst the Ars crowd. This is the mindset created by continued media manipulation that the only Victims are Female and the only perpetrators are Male. Anyone honest knows this is just not true, so why repeatedly say it? A lot of media reps seem to love sexism and gender
Bullying (today).

Now, there are some good things that do come from the media. You find out about social events and new infrastructure. There are some useful facts. However, with so much hostility, lying and downright nastiness, I decided I was happier without most media.

As a few people said on Ars today, with so much prejudice everywhere you look, where do you get good media today? They were all shouted down :) If I thought there was an unprejudiced and quality media outlet, I'd be happy to pay for it, or whitelist them in Adblock.

We are now at a time when many people don't trust the media. I think we would Be better off without most media outlets. However, that may concentrate too much power in a few people's hands.

What's the answer? I don't know. Governments Should hold journalists accountable for prejudice. As long as people don't pay for media, expect the quality to be low. Advertising looks like a desperate stand by the media.
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I personally really like when creators goes the patreon model where you as a creator pick a hard line at what salary is needed and then leave it up to the community to fulfill the requirement.

My best example of this is a very nice painted webcomic that updated once a month, and viewers reached his 4.5k goal so he could hire an additional person to help make it two comics a month. It makes the implicit contract between viewer and creator explicit, and readers would instantly know why and who to blame if the comic went back to only update once a month again.
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I thought so too, but then I looked it up.

Surah al-Mai-dah verse 5 states that "lawful in marriage are chaste women form among the believers and chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture before you..."

This, giving Muslim men permission to wed Jewish and Christian women, has been interpreted by Islamic jurists as implying by omission that Muslim women may not wed Jewish or Christian men. It was believed that such husbands would impart their religion to their children, and may pressure their wives to convert away from Islam.

Since Islam has no central governing authority, adherents largely rely upon the religious scholarship of their own imam, or upon those known to them to have a thorough understanding of Islamic religious interpretations. Some such scholars declared interfaith marriage by a Muslim woman to be equivalent to apostasy. The consensus opinion, however is that interfaith marriages are never acceptable outside of Muslim-establishment countries, as without the support of a Muslim community, both parents are required to reinforce the faith in their children.

The punishment for apostasy in the Islamic world ranges from death to no punishment at all. Under Shafi'i, Maliki, and Hanbali schools, female apostates are executed, whereas Hanafi and Shi'a will imprison her indefinitely, until such time as she reverts to Islamic orthodoxy.

As a result, I must agree that it is possible that a woman in an interfaith marriage may be executed for it, with no other reason necessary, under recognized interpretations of Sharia law.

This is, of course, independent of those who may murder women in interfaith marriages under color of religion, outside of the purview of recognized Islamic judges of Sharia law. I believe such "honor killing" murders are in fact based upon the underlying tribal culture and not upon its majority religion. As such, if you're not from Pakistan, Sudan, or Saudi Arabia, no one will recommend that a Muslim woman be murdered for marrying a non-Muslim. However, it is likely that everyone she knows will constantly be telling her to get a divorce or will be shunning her until she does.
But can we always have enough tolerance ?
If in your country you had a community of people performing human sacrifices on unwilling victims, would you be able to tolerate it ? When something goes against our morality it may be very difficult to accept. The "usual" problem is religious belief, but it is necessarily the only one.

(If you think that the above example is a bit far fetched, consider that it is not much different from what some persons think about other people eating meat).
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Correct. There are quite a few reasons that both the Bush neocons and the Democrats opposed Trump, and one of those reasons is that Trump attacked the "too big to fail" banks during his campaign.

I think it's a mistake to read this as being entirely favorable to those banks. They are still trying to figure out how to profit off the move away from globalism, and while they are likely to be able to do so, there is no question that their core principles are opposed to those stated here.
Good point - cat 2) should be any form of direct payment (sell products or services, sell access as subscription or micropayments, accept donations, whatever)
When things go from bad to worse, the time for complexity is gone.
It was, hands down, the single most clever and
effective use of a technical tool to increase
polarization and hostility online I have ever
seen.

This seems like a nonsensical assessment at best. Use of the script was voluntary, and GG was an organized mass-harassment campaign premised on polarizing and hateful nonsense. The whole social phenomenon consisted of a distributed wave of hostility.

I wound up adapting the script myself at one point to mass-block followers of a YouTube/Instagram celebrity who shares my first name and triggers a neverending stream of namespace collisions. It's a reasonable brute-force hack in an environment that lacks real features for dealing with a large population of griefers.
I can't comment on Reaper specifically, but to those who haven't used audio applications they often have more in common with a game than a regular desktop application.

The software is often generating live displays in response to interactive or live input (ie. the audio being synthesised, processed or played); everything from fancy spectrograms to meters showing levels.

GPU features like texturing works great if you can upload everything you need in advance from the CPU, and then re-use it again and again on the GPU side. However, in the case of these sorts of applications that input is one or many audio streams which are constantly changing.

I'd bet you /could/ implement more of the processing on the GPU itself. But audio apps like this are often multi platform and based on existing codebases or plugins. Pixel-pushing to the screen seems rather boring, but it typically throws up fewer bugs; I'd say it makes more commercial sense to spend time working on audio features than debugging GPU issues on a wide range of platforms.
It isn't anywhere in this EO. It is only in the NYT's reinterpretation of the EO.
Fascinating content. Not a great user experience. It would be really cool to have a better, more 'artistic' way of discovering this content.
This isn't as much fun as I thought. The engine pursues a primitive attacking strategy, often missing the best moves. I got the first five right, not because I did deep analysis of the position, but because I simply started picking whichever side could jam its queen into some sort of attack in a hurry.

I picked draw on the sixth one, which was an intriguingly well-balanced position -- and the engine managed to turn it into a crazy slaughter-fest within five moves and an eventual 55-move win for white.

With a better engine, this could be quite a good test of chess skill and strategic insight.
I can think of a couple that seem meaningful, like cluster state management architecture (borgmasters/checkpointing vs. everything lives under consensus in etcd -- ish), which seem to have introduced real difficulty in bringing Kubernetes to parity with Borg, particularly in the scale department. Then I see a comment like yours and realize again that thought was put into it by much smarter people than me, but that one remains a perceived change that confuses me as an outsider. I'm familiar with the flaws of the borgmaster architecture, but the etcd architecture seems like an oddly drastic rejiggering to address them; I say that with a surface-level understanding of both systems based on a very short exposure to Borg several years ago, so I'm probably completely wrong or out-of-date here.

Am I totally off-base, if you're able to speak to this? (Maybe it exists and I've missed it, but I'd love to see a blow-by-blow of the differences and their rationale, too, because that'd be valuable insight on how Google learns.)
This is just a proof of concept, but it's pretty close to being usable. We built it with real time data via Twitter's streaming API and Firebase. Converting the attachments into data was done via Google's Cloud Vision API.

We wrote a bit more of an overview of the campaign as a whole on Medium as well https://m.patronage.org/sacca-and-the-700k-twitter-match-76b...
Depends, CI servers are sometimes setup to do a fresh OS install on a regular basis. Formatting a machine that was formatted last night and will be formatted tomarrow is hardly suspicious behavior.

Now that's unusual for web servers, but client software that gets installed is it's own little world. VM's snapshots are generally better for this, but 3D software can have issues with VM's.
It's true, determining a) what's required to prevent deficiency and b) what's optimum for health are subject to interpretation of available (and often incomplete) data, hence lots of controversy.

I'm familiar with these issues surrounding vitamin D. There's no doubt it's essential, but the optimum intake and blood levels remains uncertain. Nonetheless no shortage of opinions are out there despite the uncertainty of findings backing up any particular stance.

IMO the problem in pinning it down is the wide range of effects of nutritional factors like vitamin D. Body systems are in constant flux, and need for vitamin D and optimum amount in circulation varies accordingly. The situation with trace minerals is somewhat similar when the mineral is an essential cofactor in specific enzyme-mediated processes--effects of low intake of the mineral element may not be easily observed from a whole-body perspective, and attribution of particular body manifestations to a mineral deficiency can be hard to establish.

I think that's the case with copper and other trace minerals and I don't expect the questions to be unequivocally resolved any time soon. Your idea of a "balanced", intake of diverse good quality foods is the only sensible recommendation we can make, especially since there's quite a bit of research showing merit of that approach.
I don't get this rant. Alexa is still bleeding edge.

But it's being sold to relatively unsophisticated consumers, on the front page of the world's largest e-commerce site. This is not a bleeding edge release like Google Glass; this is a broad market release to all kinds of users.

Like I said in my other comment, I do like mine, and I think the article goes overboard. But I don't think Amazon has the luxury of saying "hey, it's bleeding edge!" when it's a top selling item for them, and front and center when you go to their site.
you left off an important clause of what s/he said

> Being forced to sell your labour in order to survive

we sell our labor because we live in a complex society where our skills our specialized and our lifestyle is massively interdependent. we need to use the money abstraction to mediate trades because of our specialization and interdependency. thus we sell labor. selling labor for profit, for providing specialized services to your community, or for the pure joy of it is one thing. selling labor from a position of alienation and need for subsistence is another.

an advanced industrial economy has much more productive capacity than is needed for pure subsistence levels of existence. we could supply survival essentials to everyone in the U.S. and still be hugely in the surplus. UBI is a popular idea among economists for exactly this reason. it's a proposed solution to a major problem of distribution of wealth.
I did know that oysters are high in zinc. Interesting that zinc and copper are antagonists. Another great reason to eat more!
I'm trying to understand why seeing what the brain looks like after hearing someone eat an apple is not interesting?
We ban accounts that were created just to violate the guidelines with, so please stop.
Would it be alright if I PM'd you?
> I install ublock on my parents computers

I hesitate to install ad-blockers for non-technical users who would need support every time a website doesn't work. Many wouldn't be able to pin down the problem to the ad-blocker; they'd just think something was broken (seemingly randomly attributed to web browser, website, Internet connection, computer, something they clicked, etc.).

How do people here deal with that? I don't want support calls daily, and even if I did it wouldn't be a good experience for the users.
What does the rescission of the Social Security rule against gun ownership have to do with this EO?
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I never said it wasn't the first step, but it's heralded (by the media at least) as much more than that -- an explanation or a conclusion.
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> In the 19th and early 20th centuries

Do you mean this as in before WW1, or after?

If before, then Austria-Hungary was still a thing, and it was a massive multiethnic empire. Ditto Russian Empire in the east, incorporating Poland and Finland and a lot of other stuff.

If you mean after WW1 and before WW2, then we're talking about nation-states that involved large minorities from other states - like Germans, Ukrainians and Belarusians in interwar Poland, Germans in Czechoslovakia etc. There were massive Hungarian minorities in areas separated from Hungary and attached to neighboring countries after WW1. Yugoslavia was a new multi-ethnic country created after WW1, with a bunch of internal conflicts brewing. And USSR regained most of the imperial possessions lost after the 1917 revolution.

On the other hand, after WW2, the Allies didn't just redraw borders, but they executed a massive population transfer operation to avoid large ethnic minorities on either side of those borders. These mostly involved expulsion of Germans from various areas of neighboring countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland etc), but not exclusively - in Poland, for example, there was also a big population transfer between the areas that USSR annexed (Western Ukraine and Belarus) and eastern Poland, so that ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians would end up in the USSR, and ethnic Poles would end up in Poland.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_population_transfers_(1...

So I think it's not incorrect to say that post-WW2, European states became more ethnically homogeneous, at least for a while. Whether it actually had anything to do with the period of peace that followed is another question.
I realize now that I wasn't clear, but leaving out the first sentence and other name-calling was just what I meant.
I blocked ads on pc after getting infected.

I blocked ads on mobile devices when they started buzzing my phone, sending me the the play store, giving me popups, etc.

now I block everything on all my devices using pi-hole
I just want to say that I at least LOVE the new scheme!
I thought this was a given. Not everyone likes the same thing, but many people have simply never tried something or default to green, leafy vegetables taste bad.
This capability still exists, and is in fact often used for libraries. The lipo command-line tool lets you bundle code compiled for multiple architectures into the same physical file (or extract the code for a specific architecture, etc.).
I use Android and I'm not interested in messing around with custom ROMs. This really chains me to having a google account unfortunately. I really wish the Firefox phone had worked out. Maybe the Ubuntu phone will succeed there.
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Totally agreed. The payment bit is the only thing that ever gets people talking about the Apple Watch.
This was none other more apparent in college

See someone from your hallway in your dorm in the library you never spoke to before? Oh dude that's my boy from my dorm right there!

See a classmate out at the bar that you only asked for homework a few times? "Sup dude! It's your boy from chem class!"

And hundreds of other examples similar to this.
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I've spent far too much of my life playing you're damn game, and now you just went ahead and ruined my weekend.

Thanks! Keep up the great work ;)
> is there a space for good ads

If they don't violate my confidentiality and track me.
> You can't write a blog post on how to build a statistical model without stating how good the model is in actuality

> it is disappointing to see this post only do a high-level overview. Yes, it may be a Google trade secret, but there has to be give-and-take.

Why exaclty? This is not an academic paper. People who get this feature to show up might be curious about how it works, and 99.9% of them won't understand anything about independence of features, train/test split, etc. Worse, they would find the article too boring and technical. Just knowing that it is powered by a ML algorithm (and not some human input) is enough. I'm not sure why there has to be a give-and-take.

The fact that they put links to wikipedia for what Logistic regression is should give a good idea of the intended audience of this blog post.
And in EU, the most useful feature face recognition, doesn't work because Google is afraid if privacy laws. After all the data I have given them suddenly the data I do want to give is kit possible.
Would be an interesting project to follow. An even more interesting journey would be to document the entire process and only use/make open source products as a replacement of each Google product.