skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the third source of bad traffic: Third parties you have no control over heating clicks because of free registration spam, comment spam, generating "legitimate looking" accounts for later credit card fraud, or plain ddos reasons.

And there's no human being to discuss this with, or even get details from.

Note that this blog itself has dozens of suspicious or obvious bot spam comments. If Google can't filter this out, how am I supposed to?
To add to that, in principle Emscripten could use gcc and this backend instead of clang and an LLVM backend. Emscripten itself abstracts over the backend details (it's supported 3 different backends in its history, and currently supports 2). Most of the code in Emscripten is in the libraries, like OpenGL=>WebGL, etc., and JS integration code, which shouldn't depend on the backend.

It would be interesting to get that working and do some code comparisons on the output.
Really? Do you know where you can find that information? I'm surprised that Chase does it given the amount they could recoup from their rewards programs.
I've heard of free energy scammers using this to trick people, you muck with the waveform so the meter reads wrong, and it looks like you have invented a box that saves energy.
Haha, I loved the HK trading day with a 2h lunch break!

2.5 hours in the morning (10:00 to 12:30), 1.5 hours in the afternoon (14:30 to 16:00), who needs more than 4 hours trading a day?

Shame they extended it in 2011.
You may be able to help, but may require you to move and apply for citizenship in a country that has a very mature space program due to ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulation) and EAR (Export Administration Regulation). After you do get citizenship you might be able to work for a private space company (e.g. Tesla) but if you want to work for a government agency or government contractor you will have to eventually get a security clearance.

Now with that out of the way, you would need to look around at the jobs available and check to see if you meet the requirements for the type of work you want to do. If not you can start working on those skill sets now so you may be eligible later on to apply for the job.

I would recommend using your web development skills to help you get in the door as you work on enhancing the skill sets you want for other opportunities.
I respectfully disagree with you on both counts. I have no illusion that FB cares what I think and will take my approaching and it's not perfect, but it would improve FB's situation. To address your other response, that is why I invoke the Pareto principle (you can solve 80% of malicious news feed entries with 20% of the effort).

Anyway, let me also note I find it strange that you are approaching this the way you are. FB is a proprietary, private platform. They will take actions that are best of the long term growth and profitability of the corporation on behalf of the owners (the shareholders). This whole epistemological/political element perplexes me, I think it entirely misses the mark of why FB is doing this.

edit: I should also mention, your comment about groupthink makes me think you misunderstand me. Gaming a PageRank like algorithm is certainly possible, but the eigenvalues of the Markov process on the adjacency matrix of complainants/news sources would take a away a large part of the human bias element. And counter-counter-measures are pretty well researched.
Uber should cost more than a regular taxi considering the service.

When I travel to a city Uber is available. When I travel to a suburban location near a city, Uber is available. There are dozens of different small-time cab companies and regional livery companies none of whom have an app, so they must either hire too few drivers and become overbooked or have drivers sit idle.

The last few times I've tried to book a black car they have been sold out. The time before that the car that showed up had no seatbelts, the driver seemed drunk, and my female companion was seriously creeped out by the experience.

Uber creates a regional market and lets anyone compete. If you drive to the city every day for a normal 9 to 5 job, you can pick up a fare on the way in and on the way home and likely offset most of the monthly car payment. There is just no way to compare traditional taxi/livery with what Uber offers.

One time my Uber driver was griping about how he'd bought his Cadillac before Uber launched and did not make enough money to justify the purchase, since few Uber riders opted for the premium vehicle option.

While this is too bad for him, it shows how misaligned the black car industry was. He thought he had to buy an $80K car in order to make money, but he could have bought a $20K car. For many other people, Uber has made this choice obvious and they can now save or invest that other $60K however they choose (or not be slaves to the debt for that extra few years).

Keep in mind too that Uber was forced to include Taxis in its app for years, essentially training the entire industry how to be modern. In a fair competition Uber would have won handily in its first year or two in business.

But it is the supreme unfairness of the competition that drives Uber's valuation. It's not every day that someone walks in and overturns a massive, corrupt industry on a worldwide scale.

I'm proud to have heard Travis speak at Startup School a few years ago, and I think that we should all try not to forget just how incredible Uber's achievement has been and how many peoples' lives have been made significantly better by Uber's existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ6GoY2_Ujw
I think part of the reason we don't see new designs is they wouldn't be that much better. Often a technology advances rapidly, then hits a plateau where future improvements are just modest.

Think of jet planes, where everything since the 707 has just been a modification. That is why 50's and 60's planes like the b-52 and the a-10 are still flying. Or space rockets, where we are still just duplicating performance from the 60's (but with SpaceX we finally have something new).

Piston planes advanced very rapidly starting with the Wright brothers, but then hit the plateau in the 50's, and the next step up, jets, is just too expensive for most private pilots. Yes, it is possible to produce better small piston planes, but the sales are too small to justify the needed investment. Maybe electric planes will finally get us something new and better.
What happens when someone assaults a speaker they don't care for in a concealed carry state?

Peacefully protesting is fine, but flagrantly assaulting a speaker in public? You deserve the consequences of your actions.
I asked Don't show how I'm treated better than others, show how I have power.

Your argument is largely that I may get treated better than others. How, exactly, does that show I have power, as the GP comment suggested?

And did you read my other comment? The overwhelming better treatment is due to sex, not gender. Being male means you're treated much more poorly than being female. Being a minority is just (nasty) icing on the cake.

> Even in Silicon Valley, a woman gets paid less for doing the same work as their male colleagues.

You are are that that's been illegal since the late 1960's, right?

If you want some comments as to where those "gaps" come from, see Thomas Sowell, who's been deconstructing that gap since the 1980's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pQ7KXv0o0

> It just means that they have a cognitive bias that they may not be aware of.

Sure... but how does that give me, the (alleged) recipient of such bias... power? How do I use that bias to become one of the .0001% of society which is ruling the country?

The short answer (of course) is I don't. Saying I am powerful because share the same skin color and gender as politicians is just a ludicrous statement to make.

> Just because the civil rights act was passed in the 1960's does not magically wash away the effects of institutionalized racism. Institutions take time to change

Well, they take a short period of time to change if the people involved are willing. See the changes in the LA police attitude since the Rodney King riots. It's not perfect, but it does seem a lot better;

And you're also discounting my comments about Asian-Americans. If society is so controlled by The White Male, and is so racist, how come Asian-Americans are doing better than white people on average? Is The White Male secretly biased in favor of Asians? Or is something else going on?

I think the answer here is at least in part poverty. If you're poor, it doesn't really matter what your skin color is. You get treated poorly by everyone. And it's damned hard to get out of the trap of poverty.

That fact alone explains why the descendants of poor ex-slaves have a hard time getting ahead. Their families have been poor for 130 years... getting ahead is hard.
If a Rogowski Coil and Hall Effect sensors both give incorrect results - what did the researches use to measure the meters?
Lots of cell shaded games. Attack on Titan is pretty awesome for looking like the actual show while playing. Japanese games are huge with this. There's a big push for non photo realistic rendering 3D now in Blender, we're going to see more of this direction in big budget and indie games. The world is still waiting on the release of cuphead, although a little different than NPR 3D.
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I think there's an inherent collective bias against making interviewing and hiring easier because that would make the hiring market more liquid, meaning their best people will be able to more easily find jobs elsewhere.
> it is still somewhat surprising to me that you can get as good results as people claim without a nearly infinitely dimensional space

As I understand it, the maximum number of dimensions required is equal to the number of words. That is, if you did no dimensional reduction, you have a vector that expresses exactly how close occurrences of the word in question are on average to occurrences of each and every other word.

That's a very large number of dimensions, but hardly infinite.

Reducing the number of dimensions turns "distance from every other word" into "distance from abstract concepts", except that "abstract concept" is overstating the case, as the "concepts" aren't features of human cognition per-se except to the extent that those features are reflected statistically in the corpus that was used. Besides, the choice of the number of dimensions to reduce to is somewhat arbitrary, and no one knows right now what the "correct" number is, or even if there is a "correct" number. I'm not even sure whether much work has been done on the sensitivity of the models to the number of dimensions.

There is probably a lot of productive work to be done on dimensionality reduction techniques that make the reduced dimensions map better to abstractions that a human would recognize, at least faintly, as well as work to create corpora that better sample the full range of human expression in as compact a size as possible.
See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793876 .

I suggest reading Andrea Goldsmith's or Pramod Vishwanath's book on Wireless Communication. If not, Intro to Communication Systems by Madhow is recommended.
How do you measure - measure a job search?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7LRuusFqo
Incorrect opinion? Who gets to decide the incorrect opinion?

The side that thinks Trump is a racist/xenophobe/terrorist? Or the side that thinks Hillary Benghazi/Emails/Charity? Or the side that thinks Bernie Venezuela/Socialist/etc? Or the side that think Stein ... Or the side that think Johnson... or... or...

What makes a Trump Supporters opinion wrong and a Clinton supporters opinion right? Or Bern? Stein? Johnson?

We should absolutely work on getting rid of "Fake" news... but what is fake news? What is true news that is obviously biased (CNN/Fox/etc)? What is satire (Onion)?

Who is producing "Non" fake news? CNN? Fox? CBS? NBC? Politico? I can look at news stories on all of the above and see "True" information spun to make one side look good and the other bad...

I love how people think their opinion is OBVIOUSLY right... their opponents opinion is OBVIOUSLY wrong and anyone who doesn't agree with them is a Terrorist/Xenophobe/Islamaphobe/Racist/etc'ad'naseum.
That probably works approximately as well as how merchants weren't allowed to store the cc number itself.
I was hoping that clicking on the tiny version would go back to the previous one, but no such luck.
Are there any examples of cities where Uber operates with multiple viable competitors? I'm aware of cities where it's Uber v Lyft or Uber v Grab, but have yet to hear of any 3-way races.

Groupon is an example of a business that truly had very little competitive barriers. As a result, every second startup was working on a deals site. Even so, in the end, it wasn't even the competitors that brought Groupon down. Groupon brought Groupon down.
> Try taking a taxi in the bay area to understand a truly dysfunctional taxi system.

Absolutely true. And it's worth noting that Gavin Newsom got his start in politics as SF Taxi Commissioner.

It's hard to estimate the scale of under-the-table dealings or the amount of money taxi companies skimmed from the system before Uber came in and imposed order.

Uber essentially provided oxygen in a market that had been strangled for so long by corrupt public/private deals.
Google banned my Play Developer account business account and everything associated with it. My colleague got everything in Google banned because he had a college project uploaded in his developer account which apparently used a hollywood star in his app screenshots.

He lost his play dev account, gmail, google docs and adsense. Banned FOREVER.

Do NOT trust google with your business or use their business suite. They have no interest in customer support

I have customer support for business account but apparently the banning is done by some other team and this customer support has no way to reach them. They don't even respond to emails.

I spoke to Google senior engineer on his reddit AMA thread who agreed that I was banned due to mistake in their bot but he never logged on to reddit again to help me out.
My problem with Electron isn't with Electron itself, it's with needing a whole operating system (nee "browser") to work. Visual Basic apps were at least moderately sleek and didn't consume too many resources. I don't want to have each app take up hundreds of megabytes of RAM, things are already bloated enough everywhere :(
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It's really a great approach that they're taking. I do think classification of "True" is very difficult, although "Disputed" seems reasonable. For instance, if I wrote an article saying I was a billionaire, I'd assume this would eventually receive the "Disputed" label. Articles not marked as "Disputed" are clearly not necessarily "True".
What would it take to get this to support other ARM boards? (Especially the Orange Pi in my case.)
Unfortunately, this also hurts the employees of the company, most of whom had no connection to the criminal act. I'd rather hold the decision-makers who perpetrated the crime personally responsible.
Protesters at Middlebury College shout down speaker, attack him and a professor
> Also, Firefox have used XUL for a long time to create its interface. XUL is not much different from what Electron is: XML-like markup to design your interface and JS to manipulate it.

Yes, and XUL is terrible too. Firefox is very resource-intensive and quite slow, and I'm a Firefox user. I wish we could get the values of Firefox with the performance of Chrome...
Similarly, once we did away with legacy electromechanical phone switches, the (phone area code) NANPA started allowing area codes with non-[0,1] middle digits. The big form of 10-digit numbers was retained and extended by relaxing a legacy constraint.
The thinness wasn't the problem - there are hundreds of phones thinner than an iPhone 7 that still have the 3.5mm jack (e.g. Galaxy A8 is 5.9mm compared to iPhone 7's 7.1mm).

The problem was the increased space required for the taptic engine.
It is possible to completely avoid syntax, period, by putting boxes of various colors on a whiteboard and labeling or connecting them with pictographic symbols representing what you want to do.

As soon as you do so you will realize that all modern programming languages are as dumb as a sack of rocks, and the functionality you are coding is trivial.

You can then design the syntax, which is what separates your language from every other dumb as a sack of rocks language.

Quick, name a language where I can do something simple like mention "Whenever this function is called, make sure there is enough free memory (at least ---- MB) before actually calling it; if there isn't, first swap out any objects from memory to disk, starting with the ones that had been used the longest time ago, and after the function has finished running, swap those back into memory."

That's pretty straight-forward and well-specified. Name a language I can do that in?

Or how about this: "analzye this library and include a logically simplified version that only needs to address these cases:" (a list of conditions.). What language will even try to simplify included source code?

Or take debugging. Name a language I can add this line to: "if variables A and B ever both change as a result of the same function call, print the following debugging message:" trivial. Name a language that can do it.

Languages are dumb. They do almost nothing. I can't wait for the future, it can't get here fast enough.
This is basically what a docker image is.
The first two questions are tricky. The third is really the reason we're reading about consciousness so often. But I'm not sure that questioning consciousness reality itself is so useful to replicate it.
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world
An oscilloscope.
IIRC the focus of these kinds of infrastructures has shifted towards protein folding [1] which could IMO prove more useful than astrophysics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
Thanks. I should've remembered that the connection to an agent's credences and their judgments of probabilities is complicated.
WebAssembly in browsers hasn't progressed all that much over the last 5-6 years (~2011 was The Big HTML5 Hype Year =) .. if it's out of preview in another 10 that'll be plenty!

Current spec is extremely limited in capabilities anyway for the full RIA spectrum of needs (strings, objects, dom), at this stage practically useful mostly for numeric calculations and such. Certainly there are loftier goals and a lot of optimism with regards to implementation timelines, "buuut"...
The larger perspective is that the human brain is amazingly well designed for the sort of specific tasks involved in living as a hunter-gatherer, but these tasks are quite different from what is involved in choosing among investment options, and so most people tend to make bad decisions.

The other side of this is that about 1% of the population are sociopaths who make it through life threatening or fooling other people, and many of the the really bright ones realize they can make the most money through trickery in finance.
There are a lot more cars sold (82.8 million in 2014), then planes sold (2331 in 2014), so the cost of the autopilot is distributed over a much larger userbase.

Not to mention that a plane crash is a much, much bigger disaster then a car crash, and that the salary of the pilot is only a small component of the cost of a UPS/Fedex flight, compared to the cost of the driver for Uber.

As for Uber benefitting more then Lyft, it comes down to who gets them on the road in scale first. If Uber is the one who creates the software behind the cars, they dont have to share. Of course the risk is that the car manufacturers will create their own network (Tesla has already indicated this is what they will do).
Perhaps just "The liberals are left of the conservatives. The ussr, Cuba and Venezuela were left and didn't work out. Hence liberals aren't always right."?
Not really - what you describe is a prisoners dilemma.

If it gets me good people to defect (make my hiring easier), I win. The world won't copy me so once I hire people, I can still keep them.

I don't do this because I don't think I'll get good people.
> Use homework assignments to assess the candidate’s engineering skills

while homework problems can be better than in-person interviews, they can also be a lot worse. for one, because they are NOT time-bound. secondly, they are much more difficult to setup and evaluate: do you provide a spec? code to modify? third, asking people to do work for free in order to explore the potential relationship is a big ask. lastly, they are very time-consuming for the company.

in grad school i learned the hard way to always ask for in-class exams instead of take-homes :-). time and scope constraints can be favorable both for the company and the candidate.

> Enough with the graph traversal problems.

the point of asking graph-traversals and similar algorithms questions is not that they are the relevant job skill. it is that they are a way to gain information about the candidate's problem-solving ability in a limited amount of time. unavoidably, these questions test for speed and familiarity along with problem-solving. that makes them a lot less than perfect, but i've generally found them valuable.
Without anything in the universe that could change over time and therefore indicate the passing of time that seems to be rather inconsequential to me at first glance, if it is even meaningful to talk about time in such a universe. I'd say I leave that to your choosing. Also have as many space dimensions as you like and whatnot, I don't want to be to picky. I just want to take away all the objects you could use to implement sets with and on top of which you could then continue to build more structures.
What Trump's latest H-1B move means for workers and business
The person who won made repeated claims the system was rigged. I can't say if the correct person won. I can say it's clear to the winner there is a public system for show, and a secret system for actually selecting the president.
Start downloading like mad, and archive this stuff to S3?

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md
Wouldn't this logic apply to their previous reporting feature?
Demand doesn't stay the same... "hot items" over the Christmas season don't necessarily stay the hot item in March. Hot items LAST Christmas won't necessarily be hot NEXT Christmas.

Look at any number of "ZOMG MY KID MUST HAVE THIS!!!" items - from Tickle Me Elmo to Pogs to whatever the flavor'of'the'year is... that everyone had to get last year and now no one wants.

And... if they sell 1 million in December... then make another million for January... whats to say the "Market" is 3 million? or 30M? or 300k? Are the millions that wanted it in December still in the market or has the fad faded?

Companies have lost busted from making too many unsold items...

Ramping up demand doesn't happen over night... and sitting on unsold inventory isn't something companies want to do.
I'd agree that there are some investment opportunities that can "beat the market".

But typically, the average retail investor doesn't get access to them. There are some hedge funds or VC/PE firms that might have alpha, active management skills, the golden touch (or just such a reputation that they get the best deals), but they tend to be closed by now or require huge investments. If you're a Goldman partner, you'll come across some excellent investment opportunities.

Furthermore, as you highlight, just like it is difficult to evaluate single stocks ex ante, it is difficult to evaluate active managers ex ante. Thus, as their expected contribution is negative, I think the advice to most retail investors to go for cheap, passive funds is sound.
Virginia is the first state to legalize delivery robots
SunRail ticket revenue is less than ticketing expense
It will be interesting to see how this will evolve and what impact will have it on US in long term.