skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting question. Given the incredible latitude that courts have afforded to the CFAA, if a site put in its TOS that accessing it with an ad blocker enabled is prohibited, would that be actionable? Could ad blocking companies in such a case be held liable for tortious interference and/or conspiracy to violate the CFAA?

I don't know the answer, but I can certainly see a lower court ruling that way before it is decided by the Supreme Court. To be sure, that's where this would be headed if this kind of technology becomes ubiquitous and effective.
An ad blocker is worthless without also clicking on ads to inject noise.

Use Ad Nauseum.
As opposed to open minded people like you who just post shit like this?
It's a 16-bit CPU with 32-bit extensions running in 64-bit mode.
This is why I get so excited about the (very rich) iOS music ecosystem: Audiobus, Ableton Sync, etc.
You can see what audio is flowing into what, you can use touch to change things, and you can use Bluetooth and MIDI to outsource controls to different hardware as needed.
Ask HN: Is Uber or other higher burn rate startup are ponzy schemes?
We're close to the same age. I remember that I had certain games with awesome boot disk creation utilities, and I knew which disks would help with which games. Although, those were always just the next step after running memmaker again, hoping that it would find just a little extra (but not really understanding what it was doing).

And I remember being a little disappointed when a game only supported the PC Speaker or Adlib, but shrugging, and deciding to be grateful that I didn't have to worry about getting digital audio working too.
Well, an original PC cost, what, $5K back in the day? A new 3081 370-compatible from the early 80s was multiple millions (can't find hard prices quickly, so guessing). I'll bet the CPU in the mainframe alone cost multiples of an entire XT. Mainframe engineers had a little more breathing room when making their design decisions.

So we can look at it one of two ways: those kids today, all excited about VMs and stuff we had in the 60s. Or, holy crap, I can do stuff on my phone that used to take a multi-million dollar mainframe.
OCaml 4.04.1 released, dedicated to the memory of Emmy Noether
Interesting, I hadn't thought about C#, though recently I was talking to a recruiter who wanted me to interview for a C# position. :p
https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/65bnx5/ocaml_4041_re...
To get a module marked as "covered by the Drupal security team" it is required to go through a community code review.
For new grad (B.S.) software engineers this year, the standard offer is ~160k total compensation amortized over the first four years, including signing/target annual bonus but not including any raises or stock refreshers that may happen.

I'm graduating with an M.S., starting this summer. Using competing offers, I negotiated up to 190-195k amortized over four years, including 215-220k in the first year (because of signing bonus). I ended the negotiation a little early because of stress and likely could've pushed 210k amortized.

My resume isn't anything special, but I practiced enough to be good at the whiteboard interviews. The best-of-the-best new grads are probably getting close to 250k, but there aren't many of them.
Tailor your resume from Job Description Link automatically
AMD was the second source BTW. The licensing agreement allows cross-sharing which is why Intel was able to adopt AMD64.
The machine can learn that someone named "Jamal" is more likely to be associated with the word "perpetrator", particularly in corpora centered on American news.

This is likely a true fact about the world: one that results from racial profiling and unequal enforcement.

It's not desirable to learn that, because encoding this in an AI system's belief about the "meaning" of the name "Jamal" will lead to more racial profiling.

Just because something could be considered "true" doesn't mean it's good to design systems that will perpetuate it being true.
>I mean, how about this last quote: “It’s boom time for the next 10 years,” Mr. Drury said. The more immigrants, the better. “We’ll take a lot. We’ll take hundreds.”
Woah, not hundreds?

That was the CEO taking about his company not the country.
> If Google, Facebook, or other multi-billion dollar entities detect an existential threat arising from this or any other technology, rest assured that the laws will change as quickly as is necessary to keep them happy. Lobbyists will be paid, and donations will be made

Money will be paid and wolves will be invited in the house to essentially bring a legislation that is not enforceable. As a profit hungry business owner that sounds like a real bad move.

If I were google or facebook I would rather have a much more robust plan B that would involve using technology and size to benefit from the strategy.
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM
That's literally the entire PC (and now mobile) evolution.

PCs have always been about shrinking down mainframe technology into a much cheaper package.

Mobile (since the iPhone) has been about shrinking down PC technology into a much smaller and lower power package.
You do not have to go through all the questions if you know your tax situation. It is only for people who are clueless about their tax situation that they have to go through all the questions. If you know you are going to take standard deduction there's no point in going through the entire list of itemized deductions only to find out what you already knew.
Right, It basically boils down that the senators and representatives are essentially slaves of the party and the system. There's not much they can do if they want to keep on bringing food to the table every evening.

Wall street knows this, the politicians themselves know it, its a democracy purely for display purposes. Its essentially been hacked.
They are never going to be profitable period. Then why?
Direct link to the leak: https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/lost-in-...

RIP Windows users.
> One of the most unnerving aspects of life at Tanium is what’s known internally as Orion’s List. The CEO allegedly kept a close eye on which employees would soon be eligible to take sizable chunks of stock. For those he could stand to do without, Hindawi ordered the workers to be fired... which would help Hindawi defend his ownership by limiting the number of stakeholders...

The suggests one of two things: Either Tanium has a really strange vesting schedule or Bloomberg blew the reporting here.

The typical vesting schedule is distributed over four years with a one year cliff. That means, with typical vesting, only <1 year old employees could possibly be on this list. Furthermore, only 25% of their grant would be at stake. With Tanium being a relatively mature $3.7B startup, we can infer that the typical grant size at this stage would not constitute more than a small fraction of a percent, even for fairly senior positions -- and we're talking 25% of that.

It thus is highly unlikely that firing right before the cliff would retain "sizable chunks of stock" big enough to materially affect the CEO's ownership. It's entirely possible that a List exists, but the stated motivation doesn't add up. Bloomberg should really follow up here with details on the vesting schedule.
While I see somewhat where you are coming from, I'm not sure I agree. I think there are a lot of people who would be very interested to know more about me and get information about my ideas and feelings, but my social anxiety is preventing them from getting to know me. I'm not really blaming myself that I have social anxiety, but at the same time I don't think that "society" is beating me down to keep me shy.
Personally I wouldn't be offended if users of these services were denied access to websites that for example depend on ads. Its something like a violation of contract by the user.
It says right on the tin that this is meant for IOI/ICPC-style contests, whose participants are high school and undergraduate students respectively.

As a former competitor in USACO, ACSL, etc., I would have loved to have resources like this around for practice and self-study back in high school.
> Here's the thing. Would New Zealand stay that way if it pursued a policy of large scale immigration, they way the US has?

Both NZ and Australia take in a far higher rate of immigrants than the US. You should change your question to "Imagine if the US took in as many immigrants as NZ".

NZ has a serious problem in that because it's easier for an NZ citizen to become Australian, a lot of immigrants use NZ as a 'stepping stone' citizenship - NZ spends resources on integrating the immigrants, and then they hop the ditch.

NZ couldn't take in the absolute numbers the US does, simply because of infrastructure. The US has an entire continent, full of roads, houses, and lots of wide flat arable land for agriculture, all of which has been built up over centuries. NZ has a pair of hilly medium-sized islands, one of which isn't great for large-scale habitation, and the country only has a little more than a century worth of infrastructure - and doesn't get the benefits of economies of scale that the US does.

In short, NZ gets the reputation it does because it consistently punches above its weight.
Already you have restrictive software/firmware running on your computer. Look into Intel ME (Management Engine) a likely backdoor into your computer you have no control over, don't know what it does, and can not disable it. It already helps many DRM applications to restrict what content you can play and how. Legislation to disable adblocking could be reinforced already be implemented into the next generation of Intel/AMD chips so you bet this could be enforceable.
I can see it now... "Advertisements are a form of free speech. Corporations are people too."
Just change the alpha values in the `coverContainer` function in `utils.js` and it actually blocks ads.

Patched `utils.js`:
https://pastebin.com/YLyN2uJ8
Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War
Nope, sure isn't!

Here you go:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/07/31/los-ang...
I had to compete for my job, in which I get to spend a lot of time working relatively unconstrained on scientific problems of my choosing, as long as they're quite broadly mission-oriented. I like working on questions no one else is asking and avoiding the 'a large debate exists in the community as to whether X or Y' messes that Nature loves to publish.

I had to compete for my wife, who supports me and inspires me and etc. me, with few constraints (such as no others compete for our affections).

I hate games of all sorts (they have rules and the fun is to remember them and play by them?). But nonetheless I realize:

Competition is for organisms.
Real mode is finally becoming a vestigial feature; some modern EFIs have a tiny assembly stub that immediately enables protected mode; from there EFI, the boot loader, and the OS can all be 32/64 protected mode programs.
Assuming this is true, why do we need AI for something like this?

We can build a repo of images that's used to show ads, and just block by images. There's a pretty big multiplier on number of visitors to the number of ad pictures.
There is no regulatory cap for voluntary payments. From the law:

> A “volunteer” is a person who responds to the carrier's request for volunteers and who willingly accepts the carriers' offer of compensation, in any amount, in exchange for relinquishing the confirmed reserved space.

See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.2b
No IP addresses for countres that shutdown. internet acces – New proposa
I actually don't mind that. The filter works both ways - it tells me the company in question is clueless about hiring tech talent, so I can ignore them.
> Uber is demonstrating that they can sell $2 bills for a buck and that there's demand for that.

I think the consensus is that rides are subsidised by around twenty cents on the dollar.

Ubers bet is autonomous cars. They pay a 75% fee to the driver. When autonomous fleets launch in the next few years they'll normalise prices at around 50%, meaning your $10 ride costs you $5, and each ride has wafer thin profitability (the additional 5% margin will be chewed up a little by maintenance costs).

And let's be real: Lyft did $600m of sales in 2016. Uber did $5.5bn. This isn't just a race to the bottom on price, it's about building a brand.
I don't think it's reasonable to characterize the war in Afghanistan as "imperialism".
Consider exactly what you are proposing. One table to store the entire history (one billion or more rows). A second denormalized table, whether updated at the application layer or via triggers, to store the most recent update to each of the one million cells (1000x1000 pixel grid = one million data points).

The simple fact of introducing a one-million-row read for the latest data of each "pixel cell" is fairly insane. You must have a cache for such data. "I'd still have have Redis cache, though" is not even debatable. It doesn't have to be Redis, but is definitely has to be a cache of one kind or another.
Even mentioning /r/HailCorporate in a Reddit thread generates hostility and defensiveness from people angry at the thought that they upvoted what amounts to an ad, even if it wasn't overtly one.

Ads as content works really well, so well that people refuse to believe it. Huh? It's just a funny picture of a tall, frosty bottle of Coca-Cola!

Soon Adsense will offer server-side content placement instead of just 3rd-party-served banner ads. People act like the arms race is over because they added some entries into a hosts file. Not even close.
There was a fourth choice: they could have ejected another passenger, and then had him arrested for trespass on arrival at the flight's destination.
American Airlines once put me in a cab from Baltimore to Philadelphia after my flight out of Baltimore got cancelled (and the only viable alternative flight was later that day in Philly).

Chicago -> Louisville is a little further than Baltimore -> Philly, but it still seems manageable. The only question is, would the crew have been "on the clock" (counting against their hourly limits).
There are professionals that are trained to deal with this situation.

They have both the training, tools and experience to deal with this.

I'm not sure what happened here - apparently the officers were "Chicago Aviation Police" - which is different to the "Chicago Police Department" (i.e. what you and I would know as real police officers). Surely there was somebody they could have escalated to (or simply called in the actual Police Department) if they thought it had to come to this?
> be me

> go to grad school, get PhD in mathematics

> get hired at Google (also works anywhere else)

> 300k starting

Pretty sure this is how it works (just ask around on 4chan).
What do you think of Bolukbasi's approach that's mentioned in the article? In short, you let a system learn the "current state of the world" (as reflected by your corpus), then put it through an algebraic transformation that subtracts known biases.

Do you consider that algebraic transformation enough of a "morality system"?

I hope you're not saying we shouldn't work on this problem until we have AGI that has an actual representation of "morality", because that would be a setback of decades at least.
> In short... can you compare the success of top products who feature a character in their logo and top products which do not. e.g which one maximizes the probability of a 'unicorn'.

Why don't you do your own research to compare the success of products with and without a character in their logos.
How about you listen to the specialist you hired for this specific purpose?

You can have a character, just not as part of the logo
I don't think people will understand the point you're making here, so let me recommend the absolutely fabulous analogous exploration of your point in David Brin's Existence. http://www.davidbrin.com/existence.html
If they want a family they don't live right beside work in the middle of a busy and dirty city. They move out to the suburban south bay (which has more tech jobs) or east bay, have 30m-1hr commutes and are dual income families.

TBH the harder part of the bay area and kids is actually finding an affordable place to live that have good schools.
Yep, http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2017/01/13/selinux-mitigates-cont...
After the lawsuits against United and the City of Chicago are settled and the damages are paid, I predict that no one at the top will be held accountable and no structural change will take place at either United or the Chicago Aviation Police. We live in a plutocracy and the wealthy take care of their own.
7 Pay-Per-Click Ad Myths Costing You a Fortune
There were effective 286 DOS Extenders. Zortech included the Rational Systems 286 DOS Extender with the Zortech C++ compiler.
Ah ok.
So let's say that you are getting married the next morning and you are removed from a flight that you boarded (that is illegal and in breach of the contract).
I guess that you'll be happy to miss your wedding for 4 times the fare and a night in the hotel.
As far as I remember this is the first time that I've seen such an abuse, with a company removing a boarded passenger on a whim.
But apparently you can always find people that are ready to justify such abuses.
I'd be curious to hear your opinion in case the hypothetical scenario that I presented happened to you.
Of what relevance is the ethnic or religious or hair colour or eye colour make up of a nation to the ease of filing taxes?
Not only is this an excellent introduction to competitive programming, it's also a very nice overview of some of the nuts and bolts of C++. I recently have had to deal with a large C++ codebase and this is a really good little refresher.
Or simply a hardened browser DMCA, with signed write-or-execute JS VM that ensures that integrity of the page as rendered cannot be messed with by some pesky extension.
You can't answer a question with a question. I'm interested in how people generally feel about it.
Maybe you shouldn't persuade her but listen to the expert you hired?
Pinterest adopts AsyncDisplayKit and renames it Texture
Virtual reality and augmented reality have so much potential for innovative interfaces. I'm really excited to see what full-featured, professional-quality music production applications will look like there.
Too much email. Too many people I know don't want to share their phone numbers. Forums are generally terrible.

Try using Mastodon and you'll find it's twitter with meaningful conversations. 500 characters is a game changer.
Agreed, I've always thought this, CTE's kind of do this, but unfortunately Postgres does not optimise them (one of it's few failings).
The SQL standard should be changed to optionally allow FROM to come first.
SQl is amazingly powerful, sometimes over verbose though e.g windows functions.
Also Natural join should be improved, with an option to use Foreign Keys to determine columns to join on, instead of just common column names which can be risky.
Snapchat to host its first ever earnings call
IMO great products come with mutual agreement.
We've known the NSA compromised SWIFT since 2013, that the US has control over SWIFT transactions since 2012, and that the US had been failing to guarantee the privacy of EU citizens' transactions on the network since 2011.

We've also known since last year that at least three separate hacks by three separate thieves stole millions of dollars from multiple banks after compromising the SWIFT network.

All 11,000 financial institutions connected to the network should just switch to sending their 15 million messages per day using iPhones. Problem solved.
I suspect it would be ok to do so whenever, but talking with mods using the |contact| link is an alternative.
Advertisements are a form of free speech.

6 vs 3 Supreme Court

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrell_v._IMS_Health_Inc. "
Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals – An 'Explorable Explanation' to DSP
How many of these companies were successful because of a character in their logo?

http://fortune.com/unicorns/
I'd watch this space too. Congress likes to find ways to be heroes during this sort of PR storm. So I bet you see a bill bumping that compensation number up, and maybe making the terms more friendly overall. Who would vote against it?
> The problem with one-off payments is that payments are just that... one-off.

That makes it pretty similar to ad-supported sites now. The difference is, the revenue comes from the user, who is more likely to incentivize good content.

> In fact I'd point out that when it comes down to it, the incentives created by pervasive, automatic micropayments looks almost identical to what we have now.

That's a really good point, and as you mention that's pretty much what we have now. I would think that in a micro-payment based world, where you have to pay a bit to read an article, publishers would gain reputation to protect against this.

If it cost a teeny bit of my own money to look at a buzzfeed quiz, I'd probably stop doing that pretty quickly.

But I do agree that it isn't the best model for all sites, and it would be nice to offer micro-payments along with Patreon-style subscription, for those who know they'll want content from this site a lot. Kind of like how newspapers used to work.
A Benchmark for Streaming Anomaly Detection
I had exactly the same situation while at a startup, which got spotted by myself ("Woah why did my taxes jump?") and my employer ("What's this weird tax code?"). Getting it fixed with HMRC was almost trivial, and the refund was very nice.

Years later, I moved to the US. I'm sure it's probably less bad if you've grown up with this system, but I still have no idea what to change (or by how much) to make sure I don't owe taxes next year. I don't understand how to play the tax game, so I'm pretty sure I'm paying much more than I should.

However, a friend has an interestingly different approach: pay as little as possible in taxes throughout the year, set aside what you estimate your tax burden will be, keep the interest, and pay it all in one lump sum at tax time. They refer to this as "not giving the government an interest-free loan".

Edited to add: I never thought I'd say this, but... I miss HMRC.
>If you paid $2k for the ticket the cap means the airline can steal from you.

I don't have a real opinion on what compensation levels should be. (Although there are enough IDB's that the answer is probably "not enough.") However, in addition to the compensation, the airline still has to get you to your destination.
> So many armchair lawyers

The author is a real lawyer, not the armchair kind. So put away your misdirected rant.

> And guess what. I have been bumped off a flight after I was sitting down for unknown reasons.

I'm not sure why you think that's relevant. "I obeyed a direction in circumstances which may or may not have been similar in any relevant manner" has no bearing on whether the order, the passengers response, or the law enforcement intervention were appropriate, legally, morally, or otherwise.
Unless the display technology is changed from html, css and js to something opaque for a client, like a video stream of content, ad blocking will always be there and effective even if there are laws against it.
Google deprecates Octane JavaScript benchmark, because everyone is cheating
hackernews.. the place for uber quarterbacking.
You mean people like extremely well-paid developers with in-demand skills who get contacted by recruiters multiple times a week?
You're not a designer, so come off it.
Autonomous cars are not going arrive for 10 to 15 years. If Uber can't reduce costs by 20% or increase prices by 20% or some combination of the two, then they are making the wrong kind of bet's.

Personally, I believe their bet is on not needing a large advertising budget once enough people know about their service.
At the very least, the law is applicable only to "Involuntary Denied Boarding". They can offer whatever they want for volunteers.