skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like an anti trust case in the making.
Eh, the aggregate of all our baseless wants and opinions can make shit fly that normally would not fly.
Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance
In the keynote it is asserted that the optical technology will not use blood flow but some other (more direct) measure of neural activity. It sounds to me like a near infrared form of intrinsic imaging. Very intriguing if it works.
The source code is here:
https://github.com/orionblastar/K666

I work with Procasti to try it out and beta test it, and then work with him on programming when I am able to.

It is currently mobile friendly in that the RSS was copied from the old Scoop software that ran Kuro5hin and The DailyKos. By keeping it a simple design it works with most web browsers as well.

The closed source version we are trying to free up is http://kr5ddit.com/ and it uses Kr5ddits to reward users (sort of like karma) and people can vote up or down a post or comment with as many kr5ddits as they want. But there have been DDoS attacks on that site and technical issues from script-kiddies, etc.
I actually love Firefox on mobile. It allows me to use ublock. Given I'm constantly on my mobile browser (why download an app if I can access it via the web), the ad block feature is awesome.

Edit: This actually pushed me back to Firefox after using chromium for years.
Loop/spam prevention was done by mixnode, I'm not sure how they do it.

The data does not follow a DFS or BFS pattern so pages/site varies greatly by a host's server capacity and anti-crawling configs.

There was a minimum of 10 seconds between followup requests to the same website unless robots.txt had a lower delay. Pretty polite...
Most H1B visas are used by outsourcing firms to move American jobs overseas, in operations such as this one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...

We don't need H1B.
Wait doesn't google adsense occasionally server malicious ads? Especially if we extend the definition of 'malicious' to mean misleading spyware?
Note that this is built-in in Opera, which is basically a skin over Chromium at this point. I definitely recommend it.
Wow that seems like playing with fire for Google. Maybe they figure that Trump's lax antitrust enforcement will give them free rein to screw with competitors for the next 4-8 years.
I agree about the journal but these are the authors: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?start=0&q=%22Marie-Claire+...
[random marketing advice from internet]

Psychologically people will not admit to failing, they will blame the product instead and most won't be wanting to speak to anybody about it. I might be over-generalising, but many techies prefer to avoid telephone calls.

There isn't much you can do about past subscribers to your free trial. Possibly a bulk email about a "new version".

You could revamp your website, include your bit about "Powerful Product requires some learning curve to become proficient." AND include a video to developing a mobile app with your product. I would go about this by coming up with an example mobile app, then video tape the entire spiel as you would do it over the phone, but this time to a video. Make it easy for new users as well as returning users (invited by above email) to follow along. Then include in the video an invitation to call for "your complimentary one-on-one ramp up session".

It would be an idea to update your app as well. Include the link to the video, etc in the splash screen. If possible detect when a session has been exited quickly and display the offer of consulting.

I would even go as far as suggesting that you recruit a friend who has never used your product to have a go and video their attempt, etc. You could even then come to their aid. In the past usability studies often used videos to identify problems with products, you could go further and use it not just to improve your product, but to also demonstrate its ease of use.
Check this post from almost a year ago!

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-is-this-thi...
> Does it imply the computer would not give off heat?

The implication goes the other way: if the computer does not give off heat, it must be reversible.
I'm not sure offering prime position to a relatively random tech foundation that Google donates to will play better than relying on an independent advertising industry group. Given. A choice between indiscriminate regulation by a foundation of my industry, and an independent organization of an industry choosing to self-regulate, companies should prefer the second.
Death to CW. Long live CW!
My first instinct is that this feature will involve google contributor, where users can block ads and still send revenue to sites they frequent. https://contributor.google.com/

I went to check on the status of that program and got this message:

We’re launching a new and improved Contributor in early 2017!
If you're rate-limited, you can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer.
"How is it not" seems like a bad way to start a legal question, since everything is legal by default until someone passes a law prohibiting it. So there's usually no special reason at all for something to be legal.
Google owns the largest ad network... I can't imagine this will be effective, because Google can already do this if they wanted.
> Why should a university deploy it, and introduce all sorts of new problems? Mine hasn't. And I don't blame them.

If your university doesn't have a lot more demand for IP addresses then yeah -- it makes sense that they'd just hold on to their network space, continue to NAT their DHCP pools and keep doing what they're doing. That's not an indictment of IPv6, it just means that the work to deploy IPv6 doesn't provide any benefits to them. However, newcomers and networks that foresee expansion can't just "stay the course" -- there just isn't enough IPv4 for them -- and do need to bite the IPv6 bullet.

Deploying IPv6 does indeed require work in terms of management (all tools that assume the length/format of an IP address need to be updated, netadmins need to learn and deploy RA guard and friends) and your network silicon needs to do IPv6 in the fastpath -- but even with all these pain points, carrier-grade NAT'ing IPv4 is nevertheless more painful, expensive, and slow.

Forward-thinking network operators have been taking advantage of the LTE and DOCSIS 3 transitions to enable native IPv6 everywhere, and Facebook is moving to IPv6-only infrastructure -- and it's paid off! About 80% of network traffic (to Akamai) from T-Mobile and Verizon is IPv6 (from Comcast it's lower -- around 50%): https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter...

The future is IPv6 -- it's just not quite equally distributed yet.
> [...] are totally overruled by some external force that wants to run some experiments?

That would imply there is some kind of larger plan, but there is not. This situation is a result of the government's unwillingness to protect our borders. The journalist Robin Alexander recently wrote a book about the events of fall 2015. Fact is, the government had a plan prepared to close the borders to immigrants. But Merkel was unable to find a fall guy, and she did not want to take personal responsibility for pictures of armed forces turning people away at the border, so she just let it happen. This is not an experiment, this is simply the result of an utter lack of leadership.
Why didn't WSJ block access to this article?
There are millions of people travelling to these areas every year. As this article outlines, even a few thousands of people per year travelling unrestricted in this park in its first few decades of popularity has lead to long-lasting damage of park features that we are still deprived of experiencing in their original states more than a hundred years later. Visitors today continue to pollute the pools with garbage and wander off the marked areas to 'soak' in them despite the pleas, warnings, and boardwalks meant to deter this behavior.

Allowing millions of tourists from around the world, many without any respect or knowledge of how to conduct themselves in the wild in such a way as to leave minimal impact, would lead to a rapid and permanent destruction of the very park features that make the area worthy of preservation and visiting.

Your perspective on things doesn't work in a world with 7+ billion people who are increasingly able to travel to popular destinations. The trail and boardwalk restrictions in the park make it possible for all visitors to enjoy park features in perpetuity rather than all features being destroyed by a single selfish generation.
Seems cool! Given the example talks about "redeploy," I assume this was built with longer running tasks in mind? Is there a way to see what hooks are processing and get output from them (or send that output somewhere)?
> Friend relationships require active work to ensure they remain friends.

Isn't it the thought that counts, though? Seems very shallow to maintain a "friendship" using an app.

It's weird the things that we're automating away.
"Prosecutors said Dookhan admitted "dry labbing," or testing only a fraction of a batch of samples, then listing them all as positive for illegal drugs.

Her motive, they said, was to lift her productivity and reputation. She was sentenced to three years in prison and was paroled last year."

This is sociopathic level of aspirations. Law enforcement seems to keep gaining power by justice system hasn't improved too much. I would like it if governing systems also improved like some softwares with iterations over time. Release patch every tuesday or something.
I cannot comment on the Java release schedule, but Project Valhalla will be done when it's done, and it is not a small task. Project Amber is intended for smaller changes that may have been investigated as part of Valhalla and can be released earlier.
A small percentage of users click ads that I assume make up for the users who don't.

And for the record, I click ads sometimes. Mainly on Facebook, because they're impressively relevant. I've discovered quite a few apps and products that I like through ads.
Apperantly. But it's outdated. I moved to Eudora. Never looked back.
Ehhh. This is an unpopular viewpoint, but to be frank: I've rolled up k8s at scale, and to be honest? I think you might as well just use ECS if you're going to already be into AWS. And it plugs into pretty much everything AWS does without having to either reinvent every wheel or having to build translation layers (or use ones you don't fully understand). Failing that, use EC2 and run singleton Docker containers on each instance (easy enough to do with a short cloud-init script). You already have resource segmentation. You shouldn't have enough headroom in your cluster as-is to not be using all of it (otherwise it's just deadweight loss).

The set of shops that actually benefit from k8s or the like are a rounding error and so many person-hours are burned building stuff like this that it hurts. Simplicity is better than complexity until your needs require complexity.

If you'd like to chat further, feel free to reach out - email's in my profile.
But honestly better than using the same password across all services for the last 15 years, which to my way of thinking, is the norm.
Cool, but I think it's very unfortunate that the HDK license is so unfree -- it looks like you can't ever use the HDK outside AWS (https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga/blob/master/hdk/LICENSE.txt#...).
> these species have plenty more brain calls than ants

Much less complex societies though, for what it's worth.
ETC adds a touch of magic to Aladdin in Hamburg
I like this approach as well. But sadly it will be fought by many who believe all ads to be "offending", and will declare Google as even more "evil" because of it.

But I think this is a great step to stop the "race to the bottom".

Right now there is no incentive for an ad network to make "well behaved" ads. Most of the "ad blocking crowd" will block them regardless of how nice they are, and advertisers will pay less for them, and site owners don't care because the money gets better the scummier the ads are.

By auto-blocking sites with the worst offenders at the browser level they can start to push all sides toward wanting "better" ads. It gives networks, advertisers, and site owners all incentive to make sure their ads are unobtrusive and safe.
The icon in the readme looks like the heroku logo
Pac Man is a Japanese game, not American.
Do you mind spelling out the few lines of code needed to do this?
As a side note, there is this board (and others):

https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/iCE40/iCE40HX1K-EVB/ope...

which has a much-smaller FPGA on it. However the advantage of this board is that the entirety of the toolchain you can use to program it, is open source.

This board is a little more powerful (but still way less powerful than the AWS FPGA), and will use the same basic toolset from Xilinx (EDIT: see comment and recommendation for a better board, below from aseipp):

http://numato.com/mimas-v2-spartan-6-fpga-development-board-...

The LISPM FPGA implementation, may work on this board, but I have not bought one yet to test it.

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Looking at it more, I think I was sure that it was a $2K part because I thought the AWS instance price was under $2 per hour - so there was no way they could make their money back!

Now that I see the price is about $14 per hour, it makes sense that (making a guess they won't always be utilized) they could in fact recoup their costs after about 18 months or 2 years.
Human Cord Plasma Protein Boosts Cognitive Function in Older Mice
Two instances where side projects caught an employers interest just fell through with an offer in the last minute. In both cases, they over-estimated their need and funds to hire a new employee. So I'm just chalking that up to bad timing. Hoping to get the attention of larger, more financially stable companies with my projects.
Thank you for the links. Simply amazing.
Let's say you have half of this spare time to work on your side project, that is 3 hours. Excluding weekends, how much time would it take to build a business out of your 15-hours-per-week side project?
I think you describe well the perception but not at all the reality. Rural Americans have not been served well at all by the "one side that cares about the majority", its the total opposite. This is not a policy problem, this is all a perception problem.

First off, the majority of all people understand that there are poor white people, especially in rural areas that have had similar economic issues to minority groups for a long time. There is no economic issue (that I know of) that entirely effects any one group. Long standing race-based discrimination however has caused the left to focus more on minority groups however because they have generally been worse off (especially when compared against non-minorities as a whole). This doesn't mean we don't care about rural white Americans, its possible to care about many different things but also take into consideration that caring about minorities has been a great way to lose the votes and support of rural whites (welfare queens anyone?). It shouldn't be mutually exclusive but effective marketing has made it so.

As many people have pointed out, the problems working class white people are facing at increased rates (its not new, but its getting noticeably worse) have been a reality for minority groups for a long time and generally they are in fact worse off in every measurable metric as a group. The kinds of policies that the left propose that benefit people of color generally benefit poor and working class people in general (healthcare, education), but the left hasn't found a way to market itself to rural white Americans while also being the only major party to support minorities in general.

Also, I can't personally take offense at this but I've been seeing a LOT of statements like yours lately (race fatigue I'll call it) so I feel the need to address it. I'm quite sure that all people of color would be more than happy for race to no longer be an issue, and to make it out as if minorities are playing the race card when "the majority" are simply trying to move past race is ignorant if not downright insulting (my optimistic nature makes me want to think that it is accidental). Does that make sense? I understand where it comes from - you like I probably don't directly experience or observe overt racism or discrimination in our daily lives. We might see more occurrences of the opposite but that doesn't mean its not there and that our experiences are Representative of the country as a whole. If it weren't for good journalism and educational resources I wouldn't be really aware either.
The next, obvious step, is a bot that reaches out to your friends for you.
They're following a standard: https://www.betterads.org/standards/

Seems like a safe bet they wouldn't serve ads that would get blocked.
Is there a link to what you describe and some way of training the brain to produce synesthesia? That is an interesting trait I'd LOVE to experience. I've always envied the idea that one could look at numbers and just instantly and innately visualize some characteristic about them, or be able to see if music were "right" or "wrong" with some aspect of it.
Residential
It would take me about 30 years of traveling to spend the down payment on a house in Palo Alto...
So these ingested files are JSON or something semi-structured? I saw how the table was created, so maybe is was doing the schema-less key-value pair thing on table creation and running queries against that? I'm sure this is all in the docs somewhere, but while I have a lot of big db experience, I have about 2 hours of AWS.
I like it too, but isn't Google in a conflict of interest here?
>If they don't have a use for them, they should make them available for someone who does. Not just sell them to be used for some corporation's infrastructure.

Isn't selling them off to someone who will pay money for them pretty much the definition of making them available for someone who has a use for them?

It's not like you can't buy an IPv4 address if you want one because Amazon and Google own them all.

We just have this situation where a few universities, the US DoD, and a handful of corporations own a disproportionate number of IP addresses because they were early to the game. They all got cheap IPv4 addresses. So HP owns two /8 addresses while Google does not.

I'm not seeing a situation where donating millions of IPv4 addresses to someone is going to improve society relative to Amazon forking over a bunch of dollars to a university.
Coincidentally, I'm age 34 right now. So at that point where you were at a crossroads you turned things around. Did you work at large companies to correct that? Do you think development team size make an impact on your career growth?
some terrible ads don't look terrible, but instead behave terribly. Violating your privacy, Consuming your bandwidth, ect. How would you recognize these except to audit them yourself? If you read the criteria from the coalition for better ads:

...the following types of ad experiences fell beneath the initial
Better Ads Standard: pop-up ads, prestitial ads, ads with density
greater than 30%, flashing animated ads, auto-play video ads with
sound, poststitial ads with countdown, full-screen scrollover ads, and
large sticky ads.

In other words, privacy compromising is not considered bad behavior. Nor is exorbitant use of bandwidth, It seems their focus is merely on what the average consumer would consider toxic.

same source as the story: https://www.betterads.org/coalition-for-better-ads-releases-...
Who responds to Advance-fee scam emails?

Most people don't. Enough do that make the practice profitable enough to fill our mailboxes with spam.

The same applies to scummy web ads.
What a fantastic demo! Thanks for sharing your in-depth notes about reverse-engineering the hardware's behavior.

I admit, previously I didn't understand why some emulators promoted so heavily the fact that they did more hardware-accurate emulation.

My relationship with old consoles is one of casual nostalgia, and a crash-free experience was all I asked for, one devoid of glaring visual glitches or inopportune jerkiness as you're being attacked by a boss.

That's a decent goal too, but just like the demoscene attempts to push the hardware and software to the ultimate edge of the envelope, I now better appreciate the developers who have taken extra care to mimic the exact operating quirks of the original. Resources like these help build the body of knowledge for new and existing developers, and help raise the bar of what the community desires as well.
The US Civil war did preserve a powerful United States but its impact was probably much greater in showing how modern wars would be fought, with much less lining up with muskets and firing in orderly lines and far more repeating rifles and rapid movements. You could also say Sherman's march presaged "total war". Railroads and steam power changed logistics forever. The transition was far from complete though.
Pretty slick! Though half the keys (and many keystrokes) could be removed if Morse code were used.
Something I found surprising was the 1.5 GB limit per process when used on Heroku (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-concurrency), which afaik can be circumvented elsewhere (https://futurestud.io/tutorials/node-js-increase-the-memory-...).

This can be problematic at times if you need to open a very large number of concurrent connections (crawlers, slack connections etc), and can force you to organize a "cluster" of processes before you really want it.
http://allthingsd.com/20120103/after-chrome-ads-flap-google-...
Whoa. A company where 85%+ of its revenue comes from ads and over that owns a really popular browser is going to block ads? Could be a power play to give Google even more control over advertisers
Bose headphones spy on listeners
I don't think there's anything wrong with being organised about staying in contact.

Perhaps it is something best kept as a one sided thing though where only the organiser knows that they are being systematic about maintaining their friendships.
Cassini will make its final close flyby of Saturn‘s moon Titan on April 21
"When we signed up to pump money into this juice company, it was because we thought drinking the juice would be a lot harder and more expensive." Priceless.
I'm liking the mid century modern vibe
> Even WWII there was no indication the US would actually enter the War directly until the Japanese forced the choice.

...and even then, it wasn't entirely clear that the US would enter the European war, until Hitler declared war on the US.
Yes, but doesn't the 'occasionally' arise because Google does not want them, tries to avoid them, and removes them if it agrees with user reports?
And that help might be a schedule (work friends, social sport, regular get togethers with others who have kids) or it could be an app/site prompting contact. However you can make it work, do it IMO.
What do you mean by exportable?
"Finally, the above code is less optimizable; absent compiler heroics, it will have O(n) time complexity, even though the underlying problem is often O(1)."

Is this addressed with pattern matching?
In a Setback for STEM OPT, Judge Issues Final Decision to Proceed with the Case
> It punishes site owners for running malicious or badly-behaved ads.

There's no way that Google can effectively be police, judge, jury, and executioner all at the same time, given their own massive conflicts of interest.
parquet is much less well supported by presto. Facebook is ORC, so ORC gets implemented and optimized first