skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely the FCC is doing the bidding of those who wish to squash competition.
Stop Equating “Science” with Truth
It seems to me that we are moving from gender equality, i.e. equal rights, to "gender sameness".
Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
This is quick and dirty, but...

Giving a lot of power to the server is a bad idea. Users should be able to audit, control and modify how the data is processed in a very granular way. Strong artificial limiters on how many resources something can use. Basically, it should be a fully tunable VM for each process. Readable and modifiable by the end-user, without a lot of hoops to jump through.

tl;dr: the more power that the end-user has over the code, the better.
Yes, typical slackers don't write stupid manifestos, you are correct
APM isn't averaged over a minute time frame. I don't know the exact calculations they use ( and it has been changed a couple of times) but roughly, if you go above 5 actions per second your APM will be shown as 300.

I believe the reason they use APM over APS is because 3.4 APS isn't as meaningful as 204 APM.
I gave up on burner phones because they were typically old and terribly vulnerable with no possible way to update - think older Android phones. Although, I did win the WiFi Village Fox & Hound hunt a few years back using a Samsung S4, but I had that thing locked down to using only a WiFi strength meter app and of course it was running CyanogenMod back when that was still a thing.

These days I update, backup, and lock down my daily use iPhone before going. See my post earlier in the comments for more details on that. In terms of what was happening in the last two years at DEF CON that could get you with all the steps I took, OpenLTE networks were tricking phones into attaching to them and the most disturbing thing I saw of that was middling of TLS. However, it was of course with a self-signed certificate so as long as you didn't accept the cert, you were likely fine.

If you had an older phone and one without all the latest updates and wasn't configured to be mostly silent, then your experience could be very different. There are a surprisingly high number of SMS exploits which still work to this day on a large number of phones and of course SS7 has architectural weaknesses which will likely never be fixed.
If Linux dies, it will either be because something better emerged to replace it (yay!) or the civilization necessary to support it imploded (boo!)
Evil? Maybe they think they're evil because, other than in growth of the economy, trading stocks is a zero sum game. If there are fewer transactions, less fees, and fewer losers, there's less opportunity for the rest to take advantage of us.
I think a big component is not really machine learning but more related to how to represent state at any given time, which will necessarily involve a lot of human-tweaking of distilling down what really are the important things that influence winning.

I agreed with everything you said until here. Developing good representations of state is precisely what today's machine learning is so good at. This is the key contribution of deep learning.

You seem to be supposing that a human expert is going to be carefully designing a set of variables to track, and in doing so conveying what features of the input to pay attention to and what can be ignored. Presumably the ML can then handle figuring out the optimal action to take in response to those variables.

I think it's much more likely to be the other way around. ML is really good at taking high dimensional input with lots of noise and figuring out to map that to meaningful (to it, if not to us) high-level variables. In other words, modern AI is good at perception.

What it's significantly less good at compared to humans is what might formally be called the policy problem. Given high level variables that describe the situation, what's the best course of action? This involves planning. We think of it in terms of breaking the problem into sub-objectives, considering possible courses of action, decomposing a high level plan into a sequence of directly executable actions, etc. AIs might "think" of this problem in different terms than these, but it seems like it still has to do this kind of work if it is going to have a chance to succeed.

We don't have obvious ways to model this part of the problem. For the perception/representation building problem, I can almost guarantee the solution is going to be a ConvNet to process individual frames combined with a recurrent layer to track state over time. On the other hand, I'm seeing some plausible solutions to the policy problem emerging in the literature, but it's still very much an open question what will emerge as the go-to. In AlphaGo, this part of the problem is where they brought in non-ML algorithmic solutions like Monte Carlo tree search, and one of the reasons StarCraft is interesting compared to Go is that those algorithmic solutions are harder to apply.
What does this have to do with what he is talking about in the linked video? Does it make him a bad guy or ruin his credibility or something?
Not all companies are like that. I developed an internal admin tool and called it RETARD (it's an acronym).
I thought the question was a bout the original game?

I don't know much about the SC2 AIs. You could play some games and watch the replays to tell if consistently looks like it's responding to things it shouldn't know. I remember it being pretty blatant in BW.
From what I’ve read, all you really need to do is turn off wi-fi, which is already fairly paranoid given that no one is realistically going to burn a serious chipset zero-day on random people at a conference. Fake cell towers do occasionally happen but rapidly lead to arrests.
Discipline is about being aware of your own counterproductive tendencies and being willing to do things that aren't entirely comfortable or natural to you in order to be productive.

For instance, I have one colleague who has a tendency to perfectionism, and will spend months tracking down every tiny possible corner case that we're never going to hit, in a small low-priority feature in a CRUD app that wouldn't destroy anyone's lives if it went down for a week. For him, discipline means checking himself frequently and asking what the actual ROI is of where he's about to spend his time.

I have another coworker who loves to start new projects but getting him to finish them is worse than pulling teeth. For him, discipline is about follow-through.

My own job happens to include a lot of responsibilities other than programming. For me, some days discipline is about letting the Slack conversations around the other projects that I'm responsible for and anxious about slide for an hour or two so I can get in a little flow time with the code. Other days it's about putting down the fun coding project so I can make sure someone else's project doesn't go off the rails.

Discipline is different for each person, and it starts with self-awareness - which is the sort of trait that will serve you well in other ways - both in life in general and in any career.
> the APMs for humans are obviously averaged over a minute

This is wrong. I don't know the exact number, but APM is averaged over around a second. I suspect this is done because APM is a more meaningful compared to APS, for humans at least.

Here is a graph from Scelight that high lights this: https://goo.gl/photos/9cjNxDwWoB1pmWkg9
Even in the short term, an owner of a large (say 10k+) fleet of cars has a lot of opportunities to drive down cost per car that is not available to an average costumer:

- a guaranteed purchase of 10k cars will get a significant discount over retail price

- not paying dealer overhead

- buying gas (or electricity) in bulk will be cheaper than retail price

- in-house repairs and maintenance will be cheaper

- a lot of people buy on credit, which is expensive. A fleet operator will be able to get cheaper funding (e.g. free by doing an IPO) and eventually fund purchases fully from profit

- an average customer is influenced by marketing and therefore over-pays for non-essential items. A fleet buyer will be ruthless about maintaining best-bang-for-the-buck ratio.

In the longer term fleet operator will transition fully to electric, build its own electricity generation capacity (especially in sunny states like texas or ca, where solar is really cheap), use data from past repairs to drive up reliability and durability of the cars etc.
Show HN: Use MicrosoftGraph to read your contacts and write to Excel
vimperator https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/
The $30k will have already been spent though, right? When the ride-calling service is extremely economical, it will be a sub-$10 decision. You'll be thinking "I can take this Uber for $4, or I have to drive my car and pay for parking/valet, get gas on the way."

Where I live, registration and insurance for each car is $1,500+/year.

First, people won't need their second or third car. We use ours 2-3 days a week at most. It's barely worth the registration and insurance now.

People growing up purely with on-call cars may never buy their own - that's an entire generation coming through thinking like that. Once we're out of the commuting workforce, we might ditch our primary cars and instead get everything delivered and use on-call cars for social engagements.

I think those first stages of dropping the second car will start to happen in the next few years.
> No way! Do you know how many Google accounts are out there?

Doesn't matter, I don't care about them. I just care if the person reading right now has initials SB, SM or KAC and might be in a position to say "Sir, have you seen this article?" (note: I have no idea who in the Trump administration might be using non-archived private email or whether rhesus nut or them are actually using Gmail, initials were chosen for names I know are still in their positions at the time I'm writing this)
> Now try decentralizing away from GitHub. If you have to add any steps then you increase friction likely lowering the UX and making adoption harder.

Attempting to justify GitHub as a "win" because git is unwilling to fix its brain-damaged user interface is called "damning with faint praise", at best.
Lazarus is basically a Delphi 2 clone. Delphi ditched the multiple floating windows design starting in version 3 and every subsequent version has been the more traditional "MDI" design similar to Visual Studio. I really like that Lazarus kept the floating window design because it's nice to be able to see your desktop, the wallpaper is more pleasant than whatever solid color background is on the MDI client, and you can access tools and things by just clicking through to your desktop icons. Lazarus is like the best version of Delphi frozen in time.
IMO flutter.io looks a lot more promising (navigation isn't a mess, for example) but really native is the way to go. I'm biased towards native as that's what I do day to day.

React Native is more fun to work with than PhoneGap though (I've shipped apps with the latter and really hated it).
It's possible the executive knew they wouldn't see it and thereby could then use it as an excuse to fire them.
They're discrete with such high cardinality that successful approaches will likely model them assuming they're basically continuous. Neural network layer activations are also discrete after all, but they're often 256+ dimensional vectors of float32s or float16s.
How to build credit as an international student in the U.S
did you loose a 0 somewhere? Even something crappy like RDS will be able to help you with 5TB database. you could do more than 10 on i3.16xlarge or if you are ok running on own/leased hardware you could 20-30 for PG or 100+ for commercial DBs.
This seems completely contrary to reason. Who funded the study? Tobacco?
Nice! Just went back and checked, I subscribe to SSC and read the original version via email, that didn't really get into the math major thing. Scott must have added the note on math afterwards (maybe he reads HN?) - anyway, cool to see it born out by data.
All odd, because the argument ultimately boils down to, "I don't want to wait for X to download."
thanks for this - very useful
I get that they're the same command-line tool, but as a bystander that doesn't tell me whether it's implemented underneath as two separate incompatible compilers that are toggled between with a flag. And even if it's a single compiler with mostly shared components, that doesn't have to imply that the binaries that are produced are ABI-compatible between the two. I'm not implying that I cannot believe that this use-case will work, only asking for some assurance from the compiler devs that it does.
It depends on what I'm searching for. If its an error code or something a bit esoteric around tech then google usually has better results, but for everyday topics the results are pretty decent, and they feel like they have improved over the years.

I probably do less searching than I used to, but the bang system really helps me search other sites much more effectively. The more common bangs I use are !w for wikipedia, !so for stackoverflow, !imdb, !gh, !tpb, !bm for bing maps, !bi bing images.
>The WSWS has been blacklisted in searches dealing with history, and in particular historical topics related to the revolutionary struggles of the 20th century. These include the terms “Russian revolution,” “Bolshevik revolution” and “October revolution,” all of which returned results in the top 50 in April

That's probably ... correct.
Those are three stories about individuals. There will always be crazy individuals.

I consider the organized attacks by companies, protestors, and other groups, some with the tacit approval of the government, to be worse.
This is the only reason I can fathom why their suggestion algorithm and search UX are so terrible. I always end up using instantwatcher.com instead.
Kinda like the subject of this article! It kills me that this country's justice system allows the wealthy to get away with anything they like while anyone else is crushed under its merciless wheels. What was it? 72 felony charges pled down to 3 and 90 days in jail (although from the article maybe he served a year) Imagine if the roles had been reversed. 10 years in prison? 20? Impersonating federal agents? Gun running? Jesus this system is broken.
What basic research skills does he lack?
"I'm sorry, I need someone with 8 years experience with Server 2016. 2008 and 2012 are not what the client specified."
I don't quite get what your second sentence is trying to insinuate. Is it:

- The media is lying to you: there actually is no lawsuit?

- For the last 12 years, the media and Google colluded to discriminate against anyone above 30 years of age to drive clicks with the inevitable lawsuit, and their payday has finally come?

- 300 people suing the most prominent internet company for employment discrimination isn't important enough to warrant news coverage?

In case you want to chose option (3), you'll need a cut-off for what's newsworthy. I propose scanning the headlines of important newspapers for the most boring article you can find. Boring articles don't generate many clicks, so that article must have been included "on the merits", and presents an upper bound for the required "newsworthiness".

Doing this exercise on the WSJ right now yields "New GE Chief Delays Part of Boston HQ".

More or less newsworthy than this lawsuit, or Uber's bromance with bankruptcy? You decide!
The first few days of working longer hours, I get a ton done. By day 10 of working 55-hour weeks I'm about as productive as I was doing 40 hours. By day 15, I'm getting less done in 55 hours than I do in 30 hours when not burnt out.

Nowadays, working long days is something I do a few days a month when stuff happens to pile up that will slow other people down if I don't complete it.

I recommend thinking more about why you're not productive in the hours you're working. My solution to excessive distractions was to switch my schedule two hours earlier. I now get a solid 2-plus hours of uninterrupted concentration every morning before the office begins to fill up. Then I spend a few hours doing things that require interfacing with other people. And if I'm lucky I get a few more concentration hours later in the day too. I also work from home whenever possible to minimize distractions - those days are blissfully productive.
> And SlayerS isn't a player, it's a team name.

I think the parent comment is fair. At MLG Anaheim in 2011 SlayerS unleashed their TvZ blue flame build and slaughtered with it. Blizzard nerfed it pretty hard fairly shortly after it. 3 of top 4 were SlayerS and they almost excessively used that build against Zerg.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2011_MLG_Pro_Circuit/A...
http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/anaheim-starcraft-2-re...

As a Zerg player at the time, I remember the frustration of having to deal with that.
If that was that clear cut, they would ship tracking protection enabled by default, not just in Private Browsing mode.

The default configuration of Safari is actually protecting you better than Firefox's and most users don't have an ad blocker installed.
has cnet always been this bad? I mean you need JS to read the thing

and the whole article is on a floating div?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQL37AC_YM

A video where he talks about never installing his own OS.
As someone living in China, a VPN provider that doesn't provide direct download links to their Android client is completely useless. The only way for me to install an app from Google Play store is to flash a custom ROM and install the Google Play Store, install another VPN (?!!) to access the Play Store, and then download the app in question.

Furthermore, the fact that Apple has just pulled VPN apps from its App Store and the unfortunate fact that you can't sideload apps makes iOS an untenable OS choice.
"The Great Sort". Americans, the readers, are sorting themselves.
Losing Alpha: Why Most New Crypto Funds Are a Shit Deal
> the same reason we don't have cat and snake hybrids in nature

I think you've just created the film series that will succeed Sharknado.
It's a game of whack-a-mole, to be sure, but I have a high success rate with NordVPN. FWIW.
You seem to forget that the freight rail companies all used to do passenger rail and purposefully divested themselves of it.
How Captive Portals Interfere with Wireless Security and Privacy
Elixir's Phoenix is where a few former Rails folks have migrated to, so it shares a few of the ideas that made Rails so appealing: https://hackernoon.com/phoenix-is-better-but-rails-is-more-p...

A list of companies using Elixir/Phoenix: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies

Discussion on how Bleacher Report (1.5B pageviews/month) moved from Rails to Phoenix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13606139
Blaming their own SEO failure to censorship. Sounds pretty left to me.
I don’t know that Uber will take down the to grocery store for $4, let alone get me anywhere useful like work. Probably someday, but not today, not in the eight years the author predicts, and probably not within my lifetime (middle-aged oldster here). I think the author’s mistake was applying iPhone timelines to cars. What the article says will happen, of that I am confident. But I think the author is off by an order of magnitude in many cases (like oil companies going out of business).
This got flagged as a virus on my machine
Fired Google memo writer gives first big interviews to rightwing YouTubers
Are you saying Germans and Slavs and Italians aren't the same race, i.e. Caucasian? That's what you were stating. I understand the origins of race, but you implied they weren't the same race.
As someone who lives in a very expensive area, I would happily live in a more rural or less populated area if there was decent infrastructure to do so. I don't think that internet alone is the solution, but faster internet across the country is one of the hurdles for remote work and (theoretically) better distribution of the population.

I know that a lot of other pieces have to fall into place to make this happen, but the entire country wired with strong backbones and last mile service will definitely help.
If you're gonna be like that, our 'real' universe may well be discrete given that there are minimum possible lengths and time intervals.
lololol. Half of these VPN vendors show up on Kenn White's VPN Hall of Shame for offering unsafe configurations:

https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/1f3bc4d889b02b35d8aa

For anything actually sensitive, you're better off not using a VPN than using a VPN which provides an unsafe configuration.

If you'd rather not do your own pager duty for something like Algo, here's a recommendation I put together a while ago:

https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-d...
Creating an Army of Docker Containers Using SaltStack, Boto3 and CloudInit on AWS
Filling out online job applications, I noticed they often require graduation dates and won't let you proceed if you leave it blank. Allows them to quickly estimate your age.
If nothing else, it requires a computer and a network connection. Yes that may be just a smartphone of some type, but that's something that paper currencies do not require to use. If nothing else, that leaves what, a billionish people* out of Bitcoin?

It certainly is much more elitist than typical currencies if it requires a certain level of capital and knowledge to use.

*Scientific Wild Ass Guess on amount of people in the world lacking a device capable of dealing with bitcoins.
Amen. Linux and much of all the open source code in most language ecosystems that people rely on are usually written by such people. Purging them is akin to purging the giants whose shoulders many product engineers stand on.
Firefox 57 should be a much, much improved experience. e10s with multiple processes started rolling out to users in Firefox 54 and tons of small performance issues have been fixed in 55-57.

On Linux, manually enabling GPU acceleration as user ac29 describes below can a big difference. Unfortunately, a lot of Linux GPU drivers have issues that prevent acceleration from being enabled by default for some users.
For now you can use userchrome.css to hide it, can't you?
Also, current Firefox has `about:performance`, where you can diagnose what addons and tabs can be slowing down the browser. It's quite neat.

I just refreshed my profile and performance improved immensely.
Oh please, do tell me how you are so in tune with how a "large population of females"(weird wording btw?) feel.

I've been in that position and I felt the same as the author in this particular regard. Obviously sexist clients made me angry to deal with in the moment, but they're the same as any other type of asshole when you come right down to it. And sleep time is too precious to waste thinking about assholes.

I still loved my job and coworkers and would recommend it to other women. Sure sexism exists, but it exists everywhere. Why miss out on a good gig because bad customers exist?
When Google, Facebook, and others announced that they were banning "fake news", many on the left cheered.

But it was probably naive to assume Google would limit itself to censoring political opinions with which one disagrees.
This is the sort of convenient take on things that incites immediate curiosity. Forced to its conclusion, you're arguing that people who code for fun in their spare time don't see any substantial increase in their chances of success as an engineer at all. Do you think that's true?

I would agree with your original comment that you don't have to be obsessive, but without further substantial reasoning, xienze's position sounds like the more reasonable one here.
awesome, DDG rocks

just tried !spi and it works as image search :D
Firing someone on the spot in a public setting is either a drastic overreaction (and why that's fireable is obvious), or a response to a complete blindsiding … at a level at which the job is to not get blindsided.
Companies have lobbies, people typically don't. The FCC is speaking for the large ISP's that lobby politicians to do so.