skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the whole point of selling user data is that advertisers want to profile you, using a VPN just lets the ISPs tell the advertisers "this guy is a techie, send him ads for computer stuff".
I definitely see downsides, but I think the sad fact is that most people don't care. If it also makes their internet cheaper, even fewer will care.
Internet censorship: making the hidden visible
I like understanding new teaching models but don't like having one sold to me.

Discussion of alternatives was superficial.
> Contractual. Not a moral issue, not an ethical issue, just that Google doesn't want to deal with people that way.

And, even if they did content owners would set pricing that would be prohibitive for the first copy if it was likely that it could be purchased by a giant sharing community.
I believe he used Qt Creator.
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I used VM/CMS quite a bit in the '80s; CMS is nothing remotely like Unix (or much of anything else outside of the IBM universe).

VM/IX (nee IX/370) is not the same thing as AIX/370; IX was a joint development with ISC (who also wrote PC/IX) while AIX/370 was a joint development with Locus (who also wrote AIX for PS/2 and PC/RT). IX/370 faded away and AIX/370 evolved into AIX/ESA which allowed it to run as a guest VM.

History lesson aside, since the OP specifically said he was using an Amdahl, he was almost certainly runnig UTS.
Monetizing content with DISPLAY ads is no joke.

The sheer number of tools display networks have at their fingertips to try to unlock value from your visitor's eyeballs are astounding - RTB exchanges / re-targeting / user profiling / etc / etc.

And even with all of that most content producers can't make a living off of their cut.

I always loved the simplicity of The Deck, but their end was inevitable.
I would love it if the site was encrypted so that I could input raw commands at work without modifying sensitive information. (Yes I understand the host can still record this sensitive information, and no I have not looked through the source code yet to see that this doesn't occur).
How many of you actually read the original FCC document? :-)
As it happens, this is about a month in!
Not widespread, but they do exist.

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2017/3/16/pwn2own-201...
You're welcome. I know how challenging it can be to launch a new product and all you want is information from the market regarding where to go.
Actually, it's pretty hard to eat a whole day's worth of calories in a single meal. I know this because I've tried to, regularly, as part of a longer attempt to gain weight. If you're ordering at McDonald's, your best calorie/dollar ratio [edit: s/your best/my preferred] is the ~800 calorie double quarter pounder with cheese for ~6 dollars. My daily caloric requirements are estimated at 3000 calories based on my age and gender, which means I'd have to eat a little under four of these. The best I've managed is two, and that's even with smoking weed to increase my appetite.
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This is just an arbitrary human whim that goes against nature.

That's not to say we shouldn't try to control where animals do or do not live.

But do not fool yourself into thinking that removing 'invasive' species is anything other than human avarice.

The natural order is for anything to live anywhere it can (like we do).
This is a shame.

I really liked the deck - it was one of the few ad networks I actually wanted to get on my site. They had both really high quality ads, and really high quality publishers.

This is also a pretty big blow to the publishers - they'll feel the revenue loss, and there isn't an equivalent network to take their place. I'm sure they'll find something though.
It's true. Here are two pages of references from Bruce Schneier. https://books.google.com/books?id=MwF-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT194&lpg=...
The problem is that your body is highly adapted for survival, and it frickin' loves calories, and we have a food industry that has perfected the process of putting as many calories into as small a package as possible, with a composition that sends your brain hormones into overdrive and tells you to shove as much of it into your face as you can.

Obesity is epidemic in our society because the food available to us presses all the "this feels good" buttons. Most people eat what feels good to them; the healthiest are the ones who intentionally restrict themselves from eating what their brains tell them they should be eating.
I don't think you understand just how painful some women's periods can be. I take birth control NOT to have unbridled sex, but to live my life normally without excruciating, debilitating pain every 23 days.
Thanks for that update. That article was in my weird stuff file, and I had no idea the evidence presented was controversial.
Would it have killed them to at least mention his name is Joseph Bankman in the summary?
Eggs, oats, bananas, and yogurt are all good options.
Even better work on something involving families, names and times and dates across the world. Prepare to go nuts. None of those concepts are easy to define. For example, if you cross time zones on a mobile app and offer services (such as a hotel room) wtf is tonight? How do you define a set of name fields for any country?
This, and the original article, makes the assumption that your ISP continues to transfer your VPN encrypted bits with the same priority that it transfers your HTTP and HTTPS bits.

There's nothing that says this will be the case. It would be very simple to deprioritize VPN connections, and recommend an upgrade to their "business" ISP plan if you need your VPN connection prioritized.

They have no reason not to, and every reason to. Either way, they get more money out of your existing internet use. It would be a pyrrhic victory at best; they wouldn't be spying on you, but you're paying twice more for that "right".
There are forums out there were women discuss best ways to entrap a male into paying support. If state also pays good benefits this is a way for these women to make living.
The entire gist of the article is that nutrition cannot be executive-summarized and that it is likely the confluence of many many factors that determine how our diet affects our health.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to model the fat+sugar problem I keep hearing whispers of. I know from the research I did with my wife's gestational diabetes is that the glycemic index of a food went down if you added just about any other food volume that with a lower glycemic index. The best example I found was that toast is like the worst possible food you can eat in terms of GI, it was higher than anything but pure glucose . But toast with jam, actually had a lower GI, since sucrose has ~half the GI of glucose (makes sense since sucrose is glucose+fructose, and fructose requires time for the liver to process). Toast with butter was even better, since butter fat has 0 GI.

I still don't know how much I trust the claims that fat+sugar is particularly bad, but I suspect it may have to do with some kind of second order insulin response. Like, the presence of triglycerides in the blood cause fat cells to be more likely to respond to insulin, storing fat, instead of releasing it. I dunno.

Also keep in mind GI is falling out of fashion as a key indicator. Glycemic Load seems to be more indicative of poor health indicators. That is to say, that the area under the curve is potentially more important than the max height of the curve. I'd say limiting both is probably important as well. I also highly suspect that the slope of the curve is very important in how we perceive hunger, which is why we tend to feel hungry shortly after eating foods with fast carbs...

FWIW, at the end of the day, in order to keep my wife healthy, we ended up giving up fast carbs, and she had to keep her carb count low in general. Her basic formula for a snack was to add the grams of fat+ grams of protein, and if that was bigger than the grams of carbs it was safe to eat.

Sorry I don't have links to this stuff, this was like 5 years ago, and I'm not sure if I ever saved those bookmarks. I can say it was really hard to find credible data sets. There didn't seem to be anything from America (draw your own conclusions :) ), most of everything I found was published datasets from Australia and New Zealand. Also, don't take this for anything other than anecdata, do your own research. You'll find very quickly a lot of really bad nutrition information. I had to plow through most of it, and might have given up if it wasn't for my pregnant wife, coupled with a friend with a digital signal processing background pointing out engineering problems with most of the current thoughts on controlling diabetic blood sugar levels.
Not really. Common sugars begin to be broken down in the mouth by enzymes in saliva. Insulin (a hormone that promotes storage of energy!), is the last thing you want to stimulate while consuming high fat, energy dense foods.
Blame Christianity for what? I don't think there has ever been a time or place in the course of human events where there wasn't vulgar graffiti.
If you use that $6 to get 6 $1 McDoubles (are they still $1?) then you can get 2280 calories at 380 per burger.
In the US most folks only have a handful of service providers to choose from. There are a huge number of VPN/PaaS/HaaS providers you can choose from, it shouldn't be hard to find one that respects your privacy.
Google don't just have access to what you opt in to use. They also have access to whatever anyone else you communicate with effectively opts in to use on your behalf. For example, even if you don't want to give Google any data at all, there is a very high chance that they already have a lot of the emails you send via one of the other parties, and a fair chance that you won't even know it's happening unless you look at the MX records for their domain or something along those lines.

This is, IMHO, one of the biggest unresolved ethical issues with data protection and privacy today. On the one hand, it would be a great burden on society to stop everyone from using any third party services for anything involving personal data about someone else. On the other hand, when those services are no longer neutral and will process any data they receive for other purposes without the informed consent of some of the data subjects, that's a dubious practice at best. Another example is a social network's mobile app uploading your phone's entire contacts list, and just like that they've probably got a unique personal ID and a great deal of networking information about everyone on that list.
It's worth noting because this was an ad network that tried to do the job the right way. The heyday of the indie blog was already over, this is just a reflection of that. It worked for a while, and the wold has moved on. It's not a matter of "grinding it out" or persistence, the market factors have simply changed.

I wonder what Daring Fireball (AFAIK by far the site with largest readership on the Deck) will do. I'm sure that's still quite a profitable enterprise, to be clear.
It's not a matter of willing workers, it's a matter of funding. The problem is if you start demanding money in the form of taxes. I find it highly dubious that one rich person could fund such an endeavor all by himself; this kind of thing is a project of enormous magnitude, and just as with the Apollo missions, normally require the funding only possible with a very large nation-state, which gets that funding from taxes and has to answer to its voters.

If you can fund a Mars colonization mission all by yourself, then more power to you. But I just don't think it's possible, at least not any time soon. As a species, we haven't even managed to do any better than landing 3 men on our very nearby Moon for very short missions. We have zero experience in building and living in actual offworld habitats. It's never been done, not even in the one place where it's so close by that a rescue mission wouldn't be hard to do. The closest we've come is Biosphere II, a glass building in the Arizona desert, and that was a big failure.
Seems like a good opportunity for a crowdfunding campaign.
How many Brits voted for Theresa May?

(If you don't want to look it up, she got about .12% of the popular vote.)
A McDouble is 390 calories for $1.39 and I think you are also missing the fact that a "large" coke is around 310 and we haven't even gotten to the fries yet.
> uBlock Origin will block the article by default.

Seems short-sighted! And, also, an indication of where things are today.
She somehow managed it - I can only think is that she practised it a lot to get it right.
Now add a 32oz coke (320 calories) and a large fry (510) and you're at 1,652 calories for what many people would consider a "small" meal. Throw in a 510 calorie McFlurry for dessert and you've just blown past 2k calories in a single sitting.
If your problem can fit in RAM then this is probably not something that would help you. This solution is for people who are looking for massive scale. Also you are running a query from memory. We can run from memory as well and get much better throughput. The new version of BlazingDB also incorporates skip data which can improve join performance by several orders of magnitude for complex joins.
Or it takes someone reading things far too literally to think a narrow mind is asking these questions.
And if for whatever reason you're not eating enough fat, your body will crave sugar.

That's in contra to how my system responds - it craves fat when I'm not eating enough of it. Since I gave up eating (refined) sugar, I don't even think about it.
Yep. Anyone who has ever trained for a marathon or other endurance event understands that eating 4000+ calories a day is a chore. On top of the fact that you want these to be "good" calories... Let's just say I ate a lot of rice with veggies.

Which leads to the blunt advice I give most people seeking to lose weight. Sure, you might be genetically predisposed to have a slow metabolism, but at the end of the day "calories in / calories out" is as absolute a fact as it gets (of course, all things in moderation). So I say "You have two options: Eat less, work out more, pick the one you like."
I found this: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32798569
Yup. Reading their post, it appears they didn't want to play the contemporary adtech game because it felt scummy, so they became unprofitable and quit.
> that's even with smoking weed to increase my appetite.

All in the name of science, of course.

I read a large milkshake at McD's has 850 calories, and I cannot imagine it costs more then 6 bucks.
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Two big threads from 2013:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6834791
A lot of nutritional studies have a common flaw:

1. Various health outcomes and indicators are caused by a food or combination of foods that you regularly eat.

2. A diet is studied where these foods get removed from your diet, to be replaced with whatever the diet under study is.

3. The participants in the diet study have poorer than average health outcomes and indicators (otherwise, why would they try changing their diet?)

4. Regression to the mean happens, and all sorts of dietary changes appear to be good for your health.

Basically, if you're fatter than average, and it's caused by the foods you eat, you can fix that by making a list of everything you eat and not eating those foods. "Whatever you don't eat" is a more average diet than what you're currently eating, so you'll get more average results.

(This idea shamelessly stolen from HN user jimrandomh. Hopefully I didn't butcher the details too badly.)
So true, the one thing that people leave out is the human factor. It doesn't matter how "perfect" a diet is if the person can't follow it. Switching to vegetables, lean proteins and good fats (olives, almonds) is not complicated, just hard and hard to sustain for most people.
I wish they included an actual picture of the cane toad in the article.
Agreed, we need data, not just anecdotes.

That said, I imagine a lot of skilled workers are going to reason differently than you and leave.
Have you ever tried to eat that much? The whole point of my comment is that it's very difficult to "blow past 2k calories in a single sitting." Not that it's impossible – obviously McDonald's has a lot of high-calorie foods.
Only in the fairly reductionist view that every human thought is a "lie" [1]. There is some meaning in this idea, but it clearly bulldozes over lots of useful distinctions that can be made when considering​ all human thought.

[1] This brings to mind the famous quote: "The map is not the territory"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation#.22Th...
There's a vast ideological difference to you.
They're trying to make that case. Healthcare plans (for the time being) are available outside of employers but are not inexpensive. If the company can't either provide a plan or pay employees enough to buy a plan on their own, they're simply providing inadequate compensation.

I've worked for smaller companies in the IT industry and salaries haven't been Google level but I've always had a decent benefits package, including healthcare.
OSPF routing protocol(IGP) on network gear use Dijkstra. Most network within mid/large enterprise use it.
On a unrelated note it's fascinating to me that the some obscure algorithm came way before actual technology implementation. reminded me of https://xkcd.com/435/
math -> algorithm -> tech
I don't see why we should give up on breaking up monopolies/oligopolies just because they have a tendency to consolidate again. These solutions aren't meant to be permanent. They are meant to be regularly applied every couple of generations.
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At least the street defecating problem seems to have improved.
There's a lot of food on the menu I refuse to eat because it's far too gross. McDoubles are one of them. Should have mentioned that in my earlier comment – some taste preferences are involved.
Certainly true from a direct-deaths standpoint. There were zero killed by the Fukushima explosions, and zero acute deaths due to the radiation release. (It's a lot harder to settle on long-term chronic radiation sickness effects.) 11 were killed at Deepwater Horizon.

Not sure how you could quantify the respective environmental damage, either financially or ecologically.

But there is another effect to consider: total monetary damage. Deepwater Horizon cost BP $62 billion pre-tax[0]. The total cost of Fukushima including victim compensation is currently estimated at about $180 billion[1], but the estimate has skyrocketed over the past 6 years, so one could suspect further escalation.

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/07/14/bp-deepwater-...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38131248
If you look at your description all the methods of selection bar one are nothing like methods for publicly elected officials and as such massively subject to cronyism. This is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission#Appointmen...

The one that isn't is the European Parliament which as we've already established is pretty toothless.

On a slight tangent you'll also notice that none of these bodies are s/elected with any commonality of purpose. Hence why IMO the EU struggles to agree on any difficult issues. Just wait and see how much indecision and infighting will occur over Brexit negotiations.

Why on earth would we give up a successfully evolved system of government for this?
It isn't, and Discord's group structure is less flexible. For example, any rank with the ability to assign ranks can assign any rank below it. In comparison, a teamspeak server has different groups and people can only assign people to their own groups.

Ultimately, I don't think this is as much an obstacle to long term success of Discord. These kind of servers tend to come around because running TS/Mumble servers require expertise certain groups don't have, so groups tend to colocate over some overlap in membership, and may still be colocated over inertia even if the overlap goes away.

The example I'm thinking of is a server I'm still on which is nominally owned by a battlefield clan, but also has a ffxiv guild, wildstar guild, eve corp and minecraft server chat on it. Each of these are effectively seperate entities and need to manage their own permissions, and if they were setting up fresh now, they'd all be seperate discord servers. The battlefield guys have some crazy rank structure based on time on the server or some such, the ffxiv group just has admin or not, and the minecraft group is a yes/no access perm.

The colocation is particularly not ideal as the battlefield clan and minecraft server tend to bring occasional DDoS attempts on the server, and there's not really much overlap in membership nowadays.
the $6 range includes the 'meal' with drink and fries - add at least 400 more calories.
I think that when people talk about "AGI" what they often mean is artificial personality.

Sure, your NN learns facts and processes like your toddler learns facts and processes. Those are a tiny part of who your toddler is, though.

The essential component is their will. You don't have to set them up and feed them data. They don't sit quietly until you ask them to answer a question. Kids have distinct personalities from very early on, and demand input, and produce opinionated output (to put it mildly)--from day one.

Emotions are a huge part of that. But to my knowledge, we have less understanding of emotions, and spend less time trying to create them with computers, than conscious processes like "which picture has a car in it."

But there is evidence that if you take away a person's emotions, they have great trouble making decisions. They can consciously evaluate their options. They just struggle to pick one.

So how will AI research focused on replicating conscious thought result in AGI, if we don't know how to generate emotions? Is anyone even trying to do that?

My standard joke is that a lot of people are working to create a car that can drive itself, but who is investing to build a car that will tell its owner, "fuck off, I don't feel like driving today"?

But can a machine that always does exactly what it is told to do really be thought of as "intelligent" the way we think of human intelligence? Do smart people always do exactly what they are told?
I am not surprised at all. Intuit, H&R Block etc. spend much money in D.C. just to keep tax codes complex so that they can sell more copies of tax filing software, at the cost of all tax payers.
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Does the PE standard differ for x86 and ARM? Windows runs on ARM now right, but in ARM I believe the stack grows up (to higher memory addresses) and in x86, as most people know, it grows down. Does anyone know if PE accounts for this? Or is it just abstracted away in PE?
all things in moderation.

not too much sugar.

not too much fat.

not too much food.

eat more green veges.

not too much carbon/charcoal.

avoid processed stuff.

but most important: don't tell anyone else.
If everybody does it then the food industry will insidiously alter itself to pull people back in while finding a way to make good things bad.
Yeah, I've found the McDonald's nutrition calculator to be fun to mess around with:

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/nutrition-...

For example, if you eat a breakfast of a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit with a hashbrown; a lunch of a quarter pounder and cheese with medium fries, and a dinner of a double quarter pounder with cheese and medium fries, that ends up being 2,580 calories (2,500 is considered the norm for a man to keep his body weight).
Ask HN: Have you had a sign-on bonus lately?
For those who recently landed a dev job (in 2017), did you have a sign-on bonus?

(bonus question - how much was it?).