skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget that if you see ads online or during shows and movies it's because you are choosing to consume content. The ads are how that content is funded. It's the content makers and/or content venues that buy the ads, not the advertisers. The ads are there because you and I aren't paying for the content we consume. We could get rid of a lot of advertising if we paid for the content we consume, but we choose not to. This ad-driven model allows content producers to get their material in front of many many more people than they would have otherwise since they get to offer it for free.

BTW, ads are taxed, I believe the OP's point was that ads should be taxed in the locale in which they're shown, to give back locally rather than concentrating the tax revenue wherever adCorp is incorporated.

I used to be as against ads as you are, and then I tried to start a business. In today's landscape, it is impossible to get people to try your product. There is so much noise and clamor for consumer attention, and there are so many amazing choices for free content, that if companies aren't sending out reminders that they exist, most people will forget.

Overall, I'm in mild agreement that society would be better if it weren't ad-driven, but that's a utopian ideal we can't change with taxation, that's a brand new society and a brand new government. Taxing ads more won't make them go away, at all, it will just raise a few tax dollars. I'm in favor of using taxes on ads to pay for psychology and statistics education for all.
> How about that stupid TV show with a magical button that turned on and off electricity?

I think you're talking about "Revolution" which had JJ Abrams splattered all over the adverts.

I watched one episode and thought, after Lost, "I'm not falling for this again."
Underestimating their power just makes you a better target.
not sure how much the revolving door revolves in the EU.
Erlang is probably the closest competitor to the JVM and is a fine VM in its own right (especially for classes of concurrency problems that can operate independently).

But if you are dealing with a big interconnected data set that also needs to be concurrently accessed the Erlang memory model doesn't work as well as the JVM one.

For the kind of concurrency model that Erlang is offering it is great, but the JVM offers more variety, so that you can craft your concurrency to your problem instead of being shoe horned into 1 model.

I'd add that the commercial offerings for the JVM (and alternative JVMs like Zing) make the ecosystem more rich than the Erlang one as well.

Finally, I'd say that Erlang suffers from a similar problem to Java, that is, the VM is without peer for certain classes of problem but the ergonomics of the language make people choose other solutions. I think that is a shame as I'd like to see more solutions built on top of BEAM.

I should note, I've not programmed on BEAM for production purposes, only for small projects, but the reason for that is largely those that I mention above.
I followed Hibernate ORM to hell and came back alive to tell you about it
Most companies that hire for those jobs in practice require a college degree to get to the interview stage.

Also: youth with nontraditional backgrounds (e.g. women, ethnic minorities) obviously begin the IT hiring process at a disadvantage. Having a 4-year degree can level the playing field with "traditional" applications possessing only a HS diploma.
Drudge is tweeting about this. Notable because it's apparently the only thing he's ever tweeted about and was simply:

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What do you mean by 10x companies?

There's quite a few big European companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_compa...).
Increasing entropy could signal when a mysterious quantum flip is about to occur
SSHuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
The benchmarking posts were about the previous-generation TPUs, which are detailed in an ISCA paper this year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk...

The previous TPU was aimed at inference. The Cloud TPUs do training. But you're right - I haven't seen any publications about training performance yet. But they'll be available in cloud (currently in alpha), and once they go GA, I'd expect to see a raft of benchmarks by third parties. I can't wait. :)
Kind of. That's the law of course. But freedom of speech, in America at least, is also a principle of our Republic. We should all strive to encourage this freedom. To attempt to quash someone from speaking their mind is morally wrong, and is actually un-American.
not very alluring, the features are OK. but nothing you can't get on free tier elsewhere.
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not usable for companies and secured networks. :-( too bad
Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional company
I have internet access for 10 years.
Show HN: Smart Shifu – weekend project to fool people
Evil Ransomware improvements we may see:

1. New address per machine (easier to detect payments made, hides profit total.)

2. Deterministic wallet stores all profit in a simple 12 word seed "password."

3. Phone numbers directly to bitcoin vendors. (people running insecure systems love phones.)

4. Phone number to tech support company that bills your credit card to walk you through paying the ransom.

5. Delayed symptoms. Secretly encrypt backups (windows efs might be able to do it nonobviously) Then once all your backups are secretly encrypted, it encrypts the key, and now you can't use backups to save yourself.

6. Advertise affiliated antivirus (I hear this is what cloudflare does by hosting bad actors, they inflate their demand from protection from bad actors, just a rumor though.)

7. Infect a friend. Get a discount on your ransom if you infect a friend and they pay.

It doesn't seem reasonable that 300k infections= less than 1 in 1000 payments. Are peoples files really so worthless, or bitcoin really so hard, or people so untrusting of unencrypt. I imagine they could have sold their 0 day idea for more money to a whitehat perhaps? Maybe more generalized bug bounties could be deployed to offer financial incentive to harden systems and be non evil.
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The point about infinite training data is potentially useful. The other one I still don't agree with. Your goal is only to understand the NN insofar as it models the original data. Any errors the NN is making are not worth learning about. So it would be better to train the understandable method (DT) on the original data.
What if we organized code by features?
Google does this already[1]. As far as I know, it's possible to boot Android off a mainline kernel - the main obstacle is the lack of drivers in the upstream kernel. Certainly, a lot of the SoCs (especially in older phones) can _boot_ from mainline. Maybe you could even get a serial console, or a picture of tux on the screen. But the OEMs don't really have any incentive to upstream their drivers (or port older platforms to newer kernels) - why bother?

Probably the only instance that I'm aware of where an OEM has actually mainlined support for their own mobile devices is Samsung with some of their Tizen reference devices - "trats"[2], "trats2"[3] (which is pretty much identical to the Galaxy S3), "tm2" and "tm2e"[4]. Of course, these will probably never gain support for certain things like 3D acceleration and the modem in mainline, but it's certainly a good start. (Note: a few Nexus devices seem to have mainline DTS[5], but I'm not sure how complete they are).

[1]: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/
[2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/...
[3]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/...
[4]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm64/boo...
[5]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm64/boo...
> that people commit to

The parent is arguing that people haven't actually committed to them because they clearly haven't paid the cost actually involved in that commitment.
It's a difference in conception...in Europe, the idea of "positive freedom" is more prevalent...we care about being able to actually do things in all cases, even if we are in a bad situation. You have a right to education, health care, political participation etc., and part of that right is to be able to actually do it (i.e., "I could if I chose not to work today, but then I can't eat"). Property is a means to freedom, not an end, and can be touched more easily. Hence, taxes are (more) ok.

In the the states, I feel there is still the idea of property as a basis for freedom. "Negative freedom" - don't force me to do things, don't touch my house, don't touch my money, don't restrict what I could theoretically do if I have the means - is more dominant. Hence, people don't seem to like the idea of having to pay for "other peoples freedom". It's more palatable to think of taking care of just your kids/relatives - there is a limited number of them, and you can probably do that without actually giving up a lot of property. Buy a big house, move your parents in there, you still have a big house afterwards.

Of course, this also leads to (or is equivalent) to a "fuck the poor" mindset
I haven't seen anything on here about the right to be forgotten which I believe is extremely important.

I also think the right to human autonomy is absolutely crucial. I want the freedom to choose to drive my own vehicle. I don't want a self-driving vehicle to dictate where I can and cannot go.

I really think, and this is entering muddy waters, that there should be a right to anonymity. I should be able to say or do things without people knowing who I am.
I am liking it. Use just the latest versions and with Spring Boot, don`t write anything in XML (ignore all old tutorials) and you are good to go.

It was clumsy in the past, and many tutorials are made using those deprecated old versions so be picky about from where you learn it. By the way, Spring help docs are so great and thorough.
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As long as they don't test on the training set it's a fair comparison isn't it?
>It's a bit like writing a best selling novel in a language you don't speak: theoretically possible, but just so far from normal reality that it's hard to suspend disbelief.
Jhumpa Lahiri managed to do this! See http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/teach-yourself-....
How does that work in practice? Do the decryption keys get stored in the block chain as well or out of band?
Agreed. I'm wondering if Richard will get mixed up in far right politics in this season.
Roger Ailes, Who Built Fox News into an Empire, Dies at 77
Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Tell the Alarmists to Calm Down, the Debt Crisis Is Not Coming Back
This is the stated goal of the Explainable AI initiative, (spearheaded afaik by DARPA, though Google tells me corporates have also began work on it). I hope it works out well because there's going to be a lot of AI code in the near future, and the thought of them all being inscrutable black boxes is pretty scary.
Maybe it's "just" because of previous training, but it's still a very useful ability, which programs do not have.

Being able to solve quickly the most common cases (which rely in such "common knowledge") would automate a lot of work that now requires writing a complex program in advance, and would allow the user to concentrate on the outliers that require more thought.
Fair point. When in the office, we talkt about SELinux, it's always in the Red Hat/Fedora ecosystem. So I conflated the two.
Someone does need to watch and click the ads though, otherwise many of those websites you're visiting (and apps you use) will have to shutdown.
I think you might be referring to the Musical Offering.
The Goldberg Variations were after the aria in Anna Magdalena's book.

Also, research suggests that the story of Bach dying before finishing the final fugue in Art of Fugue is inaccurate. An analysis of the paper in the extant manuscript, the tools used to draw the staff lines, and the simple realization that there is no way even Bach could have undertaken such a huge work without deriving the final combination of the fugal subjects before hand, all point to a completion in the year 1747 or 1748, but lost. The fragment that survives is likely to be a rough draft.

I wrote my senior paper in undergrad on this.

In fact the last work completed by the master is believed to be the "Et Incarnatus Est" in second (later) half of the B minor mass.
"- Market failure: not the "best" product wins, but the one with the biggest advertisement budget behind it."

This is actually a beneficial outcome. Similarly to how genetic algorithms and simulated anealing require and element of randomness to avoid getting stuck in local minima, so I suspect advertising serves the purpose of preventing us getting stuck in local minima.

Equally too much randomness and the algorithms fail to converge on the global minimum and so perhaps, too much advertisement prevents us truly discovering the best products and services.

Either way though, it is in finding the balance that real value is found.
Of course it is. They provide you hosting, since the very beginning of the internet there has been companies providing this kind of service with success and if you wanted and had enough time and funds you could even do it yourself...

Now there's only virtualization on top of that.
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Please can you explain that? If household debt is 1.7 * household income, and household debt is 2.5 * GDP, then household income is >1.4 * GDP. Surely household income is a subset of GDP?
We are using it for a series of sites that get about 5K unique visitors/day if that helps.
Everyone needs a music break once in a while. And if HN would have background music, it would be Bach... :) Also, it's a nice website.
DigitalOcean is quite expensive compared to GCE AWS and Vultur, but to answer your question yes it is. I ran a website with 2M monthly active users on their 5$ VPS
> and those aren't used that much anymore

There's still a lot of active research going into magnetic tape storage, I find it very difficult to believe research into hard drive storage is going to slow any time soon.
It's a miracle. How do they work?
You seem to be projecting human emotions unto animals. Captivity for animals is not the same as for humans.
I think a counterpoint that often gets overlooked is that, since denialists express doubt in current predictions, can we afford to take that risk? Can we afford to keep increasing CO2 levels, until we know it won't lead to unwanted and/or irreversible changes?

I.e. prove that more CO2 is safe, not that it's dangerous, before emitting more.
> (And I wonder how long time it will take before the JS-world re-implements this XML-wheel, while again doing so with a worse implementation)

I'm going to guess never. I'm also going to guess that there isn't a single flamewar in the entire history of JSON where someone was trying to figure out how to implement anything close to XML namespaces in JSON. And by "close", I mean something that would require changes to JSON parsers and/or downstream APIs to accommodate potentially bipartite keys.
If Not for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Clear Winner Over Native
The amount of debt may surpass the 2008 high, but the debt service required is still near a four decade low.[0]

[0]http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/tell-the-alarmists-to-c...
if you can learn on mobile you can have the model update it self with user specific data without sending that data back to a server.
I had this discussion with my boss the other day, his position was that as engineers we should be able to write our own security, we're not "just" web developers. My position was that as an engineer I might be able to, but I should know that if I do, it's a huge liability - and there are plenty of examples of the best of companies that did it wrong.
How do I delete this? The Live event ended long back.
> I think I wouldn't necessarily put that I use Hitler on my CV, due to the negative feedback I would receive from others not in the field.

But Kotlin IS NOT equivalent to Hitler AT ALL, Kotlin is like if you named your programming language "Texas" and somebody objected to the name, because "there are defence contractors located in Texas".
to the university, moron.
It's rubbish. Worst IDE I've ever worked with, sometimes I consider just using Notepad. No day without crashes, random errors, intelliSense not working, debugger suddenly not showing variable values, code navigation not working...

Embarcadero is just milking companies that need Delphi for legacy code.
> primarily because it is less pain than managing own servers

I would take a good, long, hard look at any decisions you've made on this basis.

You haven't avoided the pain, you've deferred it. Would it be better to deal with that pain now when you have no users and no critical data, or later when scheduled downtime is a major issue?
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Interesting link. One of the relies to the review of fuchsia gives a different view as to why there are inefficiencies in it:

..."All of the things you mentioned have known solutions making it easy to improve down the road."...[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6a026o/googles...
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Regulatory arbitrage is when you profit from a difference in regulations. If someone could figure out how to run a train but have it regulated as a car (with car-like safety properties) they would be able to run an extremely high-capacity service; I suspect this is Musk's gameplan.
From my read of that Volta picture (here's a close-up glamour shot of the V100 module: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/wp-content/upload... ), that's just the chip module itself. Note how none of the interconnect hardware is present? The V100 supports NVLink just like the P100. When you actually assemble that chip module onto a board, it looks more like this:

http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/37034/content/...

(That's a P100 server, obviously, but it's the same kind of design. The P100 module looks a lot like the V100 module.)
Original article, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
It's all relative, of course. I have only used DigitalOcean for side projects that served at most thousands of human users per day, and I didn't have any real issue with their stability. In the general case, I would say that DO works fine.

Since it sounds like you haven't even launched yet, DO should have no issue getting you started.
Where are you at geographically? I've never had good luck with the local recruiters in Silicon Valley, but maybe they're better in places with less info about market rates?
> I used to be as against ads as you are, and then I tried to start a business

> Overall, I'm in mild agreement that society would be better if it weren't ad-driven, but that's a utopian ideal

Sounds like the typical conservative spiel. "I used to be idealist like you once, but then I realized how the world really works and sold out".

There's a short mini-doc freely available out there, made by an heir of the Johnson & Johnson family, about the 1%. He was inspired to do this partly because his father had, in his day, gone out of his way and caused trouble by participating in some controversial (at the time) anti-apartheid demonstrations. However, he was now berating his son for his "idealism" in discussing the issue of inequality, coming off as insanely hypocritical in the process.

It's a really poor way of arguing a point, imo.
But even if these magnets were only as powerful as rare earth magnets, the benefits to the environment are huge.
I do remember when ILOVEYOU was making the rounds...and to paraphrase, it's not like 'stop clicking random shit in emails' is useful advice.

Yes, it would help - but do you see fewer people clicking random shit? Me neither: "Ugg click attachment for dancing hampsters, now Ugg virus, halp!" is still the prevalent vector, two decades later.
True, but that may not mean much in the modern era, where celebrity status often confers greater power and influence than mere royal lineage.
It's muddied slightly in the UK because of Employer NI, if you include that it gets a little higher.
I'd post on Facebook and see if there's anybody I know and trust who has bitcoin they could sell me in return for a promise of cash payment. Or I'd use a service that lets me purchase using credit cards, such as Coinbase, although the issue there is that they limit _how much_ you can purchase by credit card at a time. So maybe i'd have several people sign up for coinbase accounts and then aggregate the bitcoin together into one account.
Right to be forgotten is iffy, because we should have the right to hold public figures accountable, and that is where it would be mostly used. If you get arrested for drunk driving, lose all respectability in your community, and then remove it form the net, your life is still fucked. But if you are Donald Trump, having the right to immediately depublish things until it is proven that you are person if interest is usefull.

A right to privacy and a data letter (every outlet and company must inform you via mail about any data, articles etc on their servers/in their publication in which personal information about you is involved, if they are either supplying a service or writing the story) would fill most of that niche in my opinion

Right to autonomy I agree, that is basically stallmann. First sale doctrine, freedom to tinker, software freedom...things like this

Right to anonymity goes into dangerous territory again...you should have a right to not be surveilled(privacy), which makes it harder to connect you to your speech (good). But if somebody figures it out,having the right to stop that is ...dangerous again.Especially with the bullshit idea that corporate money is speech, that right would make it illegal to unmask bribery
Kotlin is not the military base, it is an island. Would you object to a language named "Cuba"?
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The comments on this page remind me why I've never posted any of my projects here.
Did these happenings had any effect on windows market share? Hope somebody will blog on that too.

I hope many people have understood to not have public windows servers at least. It could most probably affect their business in the long run (Not saying that GNU/Linux is safe. But it is safer).
Consider just-you personal retrospectives. Do them at the end of sprints or projects, and consider a weekly one. I do this both professionally and for personal stuff.
A simple analysis of the output file size of the visualization tool
It takes special effort to configure a variable width font in a code editor. I have to wonder if they do this to troll observant people like you :p
I was confused on selection patterns too. But now that you mentioned that it was meant to be used by 'tapping' (started out on touch devices), selection behavior makes much more sense. Tap to select, tap again to deselect. Tap another item to add to current selection. Thanks!