skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they're going to loathe that they had no say.

They had a say. They could have responded to the race to the bottom state of ad display tech. They could have recognized that they were in a tragedy of the commons and formed a coalition for better ads.

They didn't. They continued the race to the bottom.

Each day they continued to push awful ads that harmed the user they were voicing their opinion.

I agree with the rest of your comments, though...
I don't see how charging money is any more complicated than serving ads. Couldn't you trivially implement this with a NEED_TIP header and some javascript on the website that makes sure the user has paid (there are plenty of ways to implement that).
Go was retconned into this role, but originally it was marketed as a systems language.
I created http://tracket.com which you might find interesting. It's a news aggregator / timeline archive. No ads and I don't plan on adding any advertising any time soon. I'd rather find a better business model than selling pageviews. Let me know what you think.
Surely the first step should have been to attach a logic analyzer to the cartridge in circuit? For all we know, it might be using a well-known protocol like SDIO...
Two things:

1) Bitcoin isn't new, it has been around for years now, and millions in venture capital has been poured into it. It's still a pain in the ass to use at all and basically impossible to use securely. I'm starting to think that if it could be fixed, it would be by now.

2) Not all those problems are UX faults. A lot of us happen to consider transaction irreversibility to be a bug and not a feature, for example.
There is a 3rd option.

I don't know what I'd do with an extra $100. Maybe a nice dinner that feels about the same as any other nice dinner I can have whenever I want?

But an extra few hundred thousand, now we're talking. I could buy a home instead of rent and save money in the long run. Or travel for a while. Plenty of things you can do with an extra few hundred thousand.

As it stands today. I have more money than I need for ongoing lifestyle stuff, but not enough for long term improvements. Hence I buy avocado toast instead of a house.
The biggest ad company in the world gets to decide what is and isn't acceptable for an ad and actively censor it in the most popular browser in the world? It's funny how some things turn out in the long run. I don't see the situation getting better anytime soon. At this point, Chrome is the new IE6: whatever they choose becomes standard because of their huge market share. Ho well, at least it doesn't break all of my sites.
under this scheme any smart website owner would allow certain amounts of usage to be for free, and optimize discoverability for things that are of high value, a win for both them and the viewer.
The same in some parts of Nepal and just like it happened in some rural areas of Brazil. Very exciting indeed.
hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). I think 5K a month is more than appropriate.

you're greatly overestimating the difficulty of setting up a forum and the costs to have 15,000 active accounts with 1 hour viewing time.
Very simply, Google can ensure its own network never violates it's own rules. But other ad companies don't get to set those rules.
Ha! Try telling this to the current Australian government...

The current narrative is that India desperately needs coal and our coal is the cleanest, so we need to dig it up [1] and sell it to them to help fight climate change, because otherwise they're going to get 'dirtier' coal from somewhere else. If you disagree, then you believe that Indians don't deserve electricity.

And this isn't a strawman, this is almost verbatim what's being said in Parliament. The cognitive dissonance with our current PM is strong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_coal_mine
Right, we know that much of mathematics grew from physics, but the question remains: what is there in the known theoretical physics that is not (applied) math? (Well, I think I may already know the answer: nothing; but it does not matter, because science is not about what is known...)
I come across reports of similar problems all the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/6eydi6/my_leaf_is_goi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/67xw7l/help_needed_mo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/62h18v/tm_system_malf...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/5boton/tm_vehicle_sys...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/41jmzu/i_got_the_turt...

https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/4rooyw/ev_system_warn...

Tons more similar stories on MNL and other forums. These are common problems.
I still have a complete set. Mostly in excellent condition except for the first issue, which had a space shuttle iron-on transfer (which I cut out and ironed onto a T-shirt, which for some reason I also still have).

The ad (and transfer) said: "A spaceship has landed on earth. It came from Rockwell." I still remember it well.
Right. I hate the idea of being manipulated at least as much as I hate being distracted by ads. I would happily pay for ad-free content, at the same rates that ad networks pay to insert ads. But otherwise, I will do whatever it takes to block tracking and ads.

> Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"?

Greed killed it.
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As someone who worked in the real estate industry and was actually a licensed realtor (but never an actual sales agent) I can understand why. Zillow is terrible. Most realtors are equally terrible sometimes probably worse. But I can understand the frustration for actually qualified agents losing a listing because "the internet said otherwise"

TLDR: Zillow is garbage, Realtors(tm) are generally bad at their jobs.
they're scared that rather then end[ing] the fed, we'll make it irrelevent.
I'm old(ish), have worked professionally with C, and I think I have to disagree with you. Certainly, learn some C; it's the language on which all of our platforms are currently built.

But, building new things in C? Nah. I don't see any reason for that. Since C was designed, we've ("we" as in our industry, not specifically me and you) learned a lot and our systems have grown massively in all dimensions. It would be optimistic to assume we don't need different tools 40+ years on.
I think it will. I'm aware of two somewhat related experiments: upside-down vision and magnetic field vision. In first experiment, participant wore vertical flipping glasses for a week. He was walking, eating, cycling and so on, never taking glasses off. At the end of experiment he was pretty good at it and it seemed natural. When glasses were finally off, he felt very discomfortable for some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_adaptation#History -- one of these experiments.

In the second experiment participant wore belt (iirc) that signaled north pole location to his skin. After wearing it for a long time, that feeling turned completely into new sense of magnetic field. You simply know where "north" is, anytime. After taking it off, he responded that it was pretty stressful, like you lose one of your senses or limbs. Experiment group was concerned to that they stopped these experiments. (no link found, but seen on HN)

All this shows that our brain is probably not specific to available senses/setting and can "grasp" any concept, if exposed to it for a long time, but both in and out may take a hard time.
That and Larry Squire's Fundamental https://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Neuroscience-Fourth-Squir... are the bibles. Don't be intimidated by the size of the books they are actually easy to read.
This is an exact example of Google abusing its monopoly position to push competitors out of business, and Google is currently under antitrust investigation in several countries (including three separate antitrust charges in the EU).
> 1) Bitcoin isn't new, it has been around for years now, and millions in venture capital has been poured into it. It's still a pain in the ass to use at all and basically impossible to use securely. I'm starting to think that if it could be fixed, it would be by now.

I think it's improved quite a bit in that time. Especially so if you consider some of the newer cryptos. Is it there yet? No. But these things take time. Computer interfaces took a long time to get where they are today. It takes a while to find the right abstractions, and people are constantly iterating on these things in the crypto space.

> 2) Not all those problems are UX faults. A lot of us happen to consider transaction irreversibility to be a bug and not a feature, for example.

Well, I respectfully disagree. You may want to build reversibility as a layer on top of Bitcoin. Perhaps something mediated by trusted third parties. But that should be opt in. You want the underlying financial infrastructure to have immutable, irreversible transactions. On top of that base, you can and likely should build support for reversibility in certain contexts.
You're welcome. Thanks for considering my viewpoint.

With respect to complexity: the world is filled with complex services where a purchase is a bet on outcomes that will unfold over many years. This myth that people cannot organise themselves to procure complicated products/services without mandates, price controls, central economic planning, etc to best serve their own needs is outdated and needs to be put to rest.

People in a complex economy delegate analysis and assessment of complexity to others, and this happens whether the delegation is mandated by a government regulation, or a result of voluntary decisions. To go back to my Apple example, the reason the typical consumer came to believe Apple products are long-lasting and well-made, and that Apple provides high quality support, is not because they personally interviewed everyone who's ever owned an Apple product. It's because public knowledge, like Wikipedia, or the reputations attached to particular products or companies, is a product of millions of minds, finding and filtering out information to produce an accurate picture of the world that can easily be digested by a typical person. It's a spontaneous bottom-up process that trumps anything that could you created by centralized committee.

I think the most regulatory restriction that can be justified is labeling restrictions that codify common law. For example, if a court finds that a particular kind of advertisement claim is misleading, it would be useful to make a law stating any claim that follows this pattern is illegal, and for government officials to police commercial communications and punish parties making such claims.

Beyond that though, I don't believe the complexity of our modern world can be addressed by mandatory solutions imposed by central committees. I think there's a very high cost attached to the centralized regulatory approach. For example, consider how much less health care spending may have increased if decentralized bottom-up processes predominated, instead of top-down organization:

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/why-cant-the-market-for-medical-c...
He's asking about base-emoji, not Base65536.

>The emojis used are in emojis.json. There are 843 emojis there, but the converter reads sequences of 8 bits at a time, and so only maps the value to the first 256 of them.

One byte per emoji means 140 bytes per tweet. Since it's just a joke format they're not trying to be space efficient.

Using all 843 emojis would result in 170 bytes per tweet (ln 843 / ln 2 / 8 * 140).
Is there a Korean cultural bias in the choice? The iOS emojis (I'm an iOS user so I"m speaking generally, and not from this article) remind me very closely to the DoCoMo emoji I had in Japan in the 1990s.
Zillow makes their money in advertising paid by real estate agents
This is pay the site to replace what they would get from an advertiser.
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... promised to install both a roller coaster and free frozen yogurt machines throughout the facility.

I had to double-check that I was not reading a satirical website after reading the above statement.
I'd love to be able to code at the beach, or just outside in a nice park... But due to the glare on the screen I've found it almost impossible. Is there a solution?
I have lived on California my entire life and all we have managed to accomplish were feel good initiatives which made for great PR puff pieces and were quickly shuffled down the road.

I remember the first electric car, hailed as a true step forward, that was subsequently killed. Go to Santa Monica beach patrol stations and see all of the failed electric car station plug poles that were sawed off and tossed onto a heap to rot. The end result of an economy that pushed SUVs over what we are currently seeing. And yes, for the most part those status junkies traded their SUVs for Priuses.

We are asked to conserve water when the wasteful farms and elites use more water than every citizen combined and our efforts (I recall as a youth, if it's yellow let it mellow as an allusion to not flushing if you don't have to) are literally a drop in the bucket. I remember my dad putting a brick in our toilet tank to reduce overall water capacity in an effort to 'do our part'; all the while our neighbors ignored the lawn watering rules (like our officials watered their estate grounds).

San Fernando Valley stopped watering or used minimal recycled water on the median's vegetation and trees in "an effort to save water". They even went so far to print signs everywhere along these plots and all advertising spaces (bus stop, billboard, etc) which have their own environmental impact that's conveniently ignored. End result is that all of these well matured trees died and cracked or burned in the subsequent year's end.

We also get billboards about food waste costing us water (one about eggs is fairly prevalent) which goes back to ignoring the actual major sources of waste.

The Nestlé corporation was allowed to do this:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36161580
And yet we are expected to 'do our part' to help a corporation's profits?

Lastly, recycling. We are asked at every turn to recycle amd separate garbage to an extent, yet there is no punishment for recycling thieves like in New York. So we taxpayers fund recycling efforts, containers, centers and trucks only to have the proverbial gold stolen each night by thieves. I stopped sorting my garbage when I was driven to the brink being woken every trash day at 3 am by opportunists raiding every can thoroughly. I had compassion until then. Most who still do have not had first hand experience in their ivory gated communities.

In summation, the best laid plans if the misguided bleeding hearts.
How about Zillow goes even further and cuts the realtor out entirely? How is a realtor anything more than a middle man? Why should they get large percentage of a sale when everyone finds their own homes online nowadays? All this does is add cost to homes.

Shouldn't buying and selling a home today be a flat rate of $500 or $1000?
I've done this, but I would only do it to people I already consider friends. If it ends up being over-stepping, you apologize and move on. It shouldn't be a big deal.
Do you have a public email for getting in touch with you? I'm interested in chatting.
Well, I've read that Google coded XKeyscore for the NSA. And in retrospect, Shumeet Baluja's The Silicon Jungle almost confirms it.
> Code What? To Do What? And Why?

Seriously? Our infrastructure is crumbling, billions of people still don't have enough food or clean water. Diseases, even curable ones, are killing people every day and you have to ask "To Do What?"??

Give me a break. Stop gazing at your navel for 10 seconds and go out and interact with the world. I guarantee you'll find a problem that needs fixing.
NASA May Build GPS for Space Travel [video]
I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.
Projecting the Price of Bitcoin
First, the market is 0 sum only in the very short term. But over the long term it always goes up, even when accounting for inflation.

Secondly, you can still use this because there are many trades that the big guys just can't profit enough from. For example if your algorithm can make only $200 a day, the big guys won't bother with it. So look for small stuff that doesn't scale and you may be able to do it.
My parents don't realise that when they click on the top link of a google search result, they are clicking on an ad. I'd guess that many many other people don't realise this either.

That would seem to categorise these adverts as deceptive, right? So, when will Google be blocking these adverts?
And the Internet is for porn, but some of us would like to avoid paying currency exchange fees and would also like a hedge against their local government's currency.
Of course, the wild fluctuations in value don't make this much of a reality today, I think the promise is real.
Look at all of the people that lost everything during the cuban revolution, argentina, greece.
Low interest rates inflate real estate prices and rents. This is murdering the lower and middle class, especially those who do not yet own a home or who had to take out some kind of ridiculous suicide loan to squeeze into one.

I know people paying >50% of their income on an over-inflated mortgage for a starter home.
> Do unions have problems? Yes, absolutely, and we shouldn't neglect those either. At the same time, scrapping them would be a very bad idea.

Existing unions are not taking much in the way of steps to address those problems or clean up their image in the eyes of the public. Until unions can once again demonstrate openly and conclusively that their primary concern is the welfare of the worker rather than just being another power player jockeying to get their share of the pie, scrapping them would be a very good idea.
Ive stayed in what could only be called illegal hotels in NYC. In one case I was furnished with keys in a real estate/property mgmt office. Probably depends a lot on your price point tbh.
Pandemic v1.1
I have seen many people - young and old - do the exact same thing, not knowing they are ads.
It's worth noting. However, I can't be too harsh about it since a number of vendors were constantly bullshiting me when I was trying to get to the bottom of what they did. I had to dig deep into protection profiles, BS marketing, comments online, interviews, and so on. I also called out Green Hills through proxies about a fake, "independent" blog they set up basically to bash Lynx and talking like INTEGRITY (not INTEGRITY-178B) was EAL6+. I ended up telling people to watch out for politics with evaluators for the proprietary companies then straight up read the research reports or source + docs for the rest. It ain't quite what it was under TCSEC which had more technical stuff and less politics where technical requirements where main form of political argument back then.

Far as your paper, I'd guess they did what I often do by typing in common keywords into search engines. "Formal," "security" "policy" were three that were in about any certified project. On the policy side, the words "policy" and "model[ing]" were used interchangeably here and there. I got a lot of results with these in a few, quick Googles although not yours. I imagine your paper was in a search or a citation of something with similar terms. Just speculating, though. Cool that you got to see your work surface on HN front page, though. :)
Is there no way to buy/sell a house without a realtor in the US? Here in Canada we have a couple of companies that charge a flat fee (from a couple hundred to a couple thousands depending on what you choose) in exchange of professional photographic service, listing and DIY documents to facilitate the selling. There's no commission to pay at the end so prices are usually a bit lower than houses sold with a realtor. Of course a lot of people are still using realtors, some of them because of a lack of time and others for the sense of security it brings.
What is the thing you found confusing that you wanted to ask about. I'm not in the slightest bit upset to think someone is being an ass. Or, as in your case, a condescending twit. I'm just curious about this supposed question.
> OTOH, having watched the field of computational neuroscience there has not been a lot of progress since , basically the 80s. So i believe it would be best to leave each of the two fields go their own way.

I wouldn't really say that. There's a lot of progress being made in using and understanding biological processes for useful tasks. Not surprisingly, the biological mechanisms are surprisingly complex and rich and vary a lot through the brain (like you mentioned with the dendrites. Dendrites also work like coincidence detection mechanisms sometimes in some layers of the cortex [1] for instance)

[2] gives a very nice overview of what is needed from both machine learning and computational neuroscience to solve the entire problem of understanding the human brain.

There was the liquid state computing paper [3] in 2002 which showed that random networks of spiking neurons can perform some computations and have memory even in the absence of special learning rules.

There has also been quite some work on understanding e.g. the role of assemblies of neurons (groups of neurons firing), assembly sequences, plasticity rules, theory formulating neural activity in a probabilistic manner, a better understanding of the role of inhibition, dendrites etc.

And lastly, there have been huge advances in neuromorphic computing, both digital and analog. In some cases, the performance on these chips (that use spiking neurons) approaches that of state of the art machine learning. e.g. [4]

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223612...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021692/

[3] http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089976602760...

[4] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/41/11441.abstract
This seems quite interesting, but as a college student I have no doubt this will be outside my skill level. Any suggestions on similar, but easier CTF and similar events?
>The complex numbers are not a two-dimensional Euclidean space directly, but are a space of transformations (scaling & rotation) on two-dimensional Euclidean vectors, where 1 represents the identity transformation, and i represents a quarter turn anticlockwise.

You might be right, I don't know. Could you explain a bit more how you mean?
Way ahead of you: "With Funding Choices, now in beta, publishers can show a customized message to visitors using an ad blocker, inviting them to either enable ads on their site, or pay for a pass that removes all ads on that site through the new Google Contributor."
Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code
I like your script naming scheme...
Solar panels aren't green.
The carbon implications of burning your garbage are... Secondary to the air quality implications.

You are mostly burning products that were made using renewable sources of carbon. Burning plastic is an exception, but the carbon footprint of plastic is small, compared to coal and oil used for heating, electricity, and transportation.
Paris, Texas!
I just did, I consulted https://blockchain.info/pools

The 4 top pools are chinese and amount to almost 40% of the latest blocks mined.
It's almost as if Hacker News is some kind of unusual bubble that doesn't reflect the opinions and viewpoints of the general public.
False, there is no such thing as better ADs.
No, it isn't. Read the actual Better Ads Standards site. There is nothing specific to Google about it.
Eh, I'm using adblockers forever. There is zero content that I absolutely can't live without. I miss the "old" days when folks were publishing sites for the love of what they were doing.
You're equating value with money. I wasn't.
interesting, but not much substance. its a tweet.