skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a great article on Searchengineland about it but I can't find it now. And it was originally patented by GoTo[1] and Google was sued by Overture[2] with mixed results[3]. It did give Yahoo! which owned Overture at the time some Google stock (2.7M shares).[4] (Which, interestingly enough, if they had held would be worth more than $2B today)

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6269361

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/overture-sues-google-over-search-p...

[3] http://www.waltmire.com/2014/06/02/inventor-of-pay-per-click...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/business/technology-google...
I think that Kaczynski's concerns over technology are different from those raised by your teacher. The issue isn't so much that technology can be put to bad uses, but that it changes how people engage with the world.

Analogical example: people might lie over the internet, but whether the internet has made relationships shallower is a different issue.
That is not how functional data structures work. Check out Okasaki's book "Purely functional data structures" if you want to know what we are talking about here. There is not a whole copy of data being made. They use structural sharing and there is almost never a need for the implementation to make a data copy. You can have a piece of data that "changes" as it passes through the data flow, but in reality very tiny changes are actually happening behind the scenes, even if the perception to the programmer is that large changes are happening.
There are likely some ulterior motives behind the way cryptocurrency is currently being covered. If you have sway in a news organization, it would be quite lucrative to invest in some crypto-related companies, and then encourage all stories written about cryptocurrency to take a positive view. The persuasion works best when it's hidden, like a story about a teenager becoming rich by buying into bitcoin early. This is fine, but only if all such stories come with a disclosure. Otherwise it's an ethically challenging position to be in, like the rating agencies who kept quiet to avoid losing their clients during 2008.
Redesigning Python's named tuples
Show HN: Coffeescript-JSXY – Haml-Inspired JSX Syntax for Coffeescript 2
In the modern language propaganda typically is a subjective descriptor that explains very little outside of your own views on the subject.
Noisy Edges – Red Blob Games
And the technology is the exact reason the OMG token is worth what it is right now. It's to be used for Staking in the Plasma[1] technology sidechains. Plasma is interesting because it's created by two of some of the most influential people in blockchain tech, Butterin of Ethereum and Poon of the Lightning Network. So a new technology from the creators of two already really interesting technologies.

[1] http://plasma.io/
The first ad blocker (that I know of) was Interenet Fast Forward which was a Netscape Navigator plugin made around 1996 by PrivNet.

https://youtu.be/pvzR_bON9qM?t=3m46s
In related news, uBlock Origin has finally (today) been converted to a WebExtension and is now fully compatible with Firefox 57 and beyond.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin
Thanks! We're actually exploring creating a free tier with a link creation restriction. Additionally, we have a 50% discount for students, teachers and non-profits on our paid plans.
Thanks, that's a lot more than I thought.
Ask HN: What benefits do comments on HN have?
I feel that the HN comments are useful as a method to improve the way I think and see the world.

For instance I'll put forward my opinion on one article and I'll almost always have at least one response both for and against my view. These arguments are well thought out. By being exposed to these responses I get a greater understanding of the situation and I grow as a result.

What benefits do the comments on HN have for you?

How do the rules on HN help facilitate this?

What kind of positive and negative behaviours are prevented by the rules?
It's not about biasing news.

It's about using their market share in two businesses (search/news and ads) to force their way into social networking. ie the threat that if Forbes didn't play ball with Google+, search placement (ie traffic) and hence ad revenue would dry up.
Not sure if the requests are faking clicks or sending tracking information.

We had similar incidents before where the requests are for analytics firms to track you:

http://donw.io/post/github-comments/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041
Very neat service.

Thanks for the TinyDNS generator!
The world isn't static though. Evolution and environmental changes over time will cause people to change how they engage with the changing world.

This has happened long before human technology.
I didn't see any ad blocker recommendations in the comments, so I searched and came across a list on Tom's Hardware of the best ad blockers of 2017. The funny part is that Tom's Hardware was FILLED with these exact kind of ads from algovid and adaptv. Even worse, the list is in a carousel / slideshow format so you have to keep clicking if you didn't GTFO like I did.
First of all, it should be noted that it's now possible to boot from USB, bypassing the need for a microSD card, though the feature is classed as experimental:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

You could also use network boot:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

To answer your question directly, yes there are Linux distros that minimise/eliminate SD card usage. Aside from being able to mount the SD storage as a read-only device (like you can with live Linux CDs), there are some minimal distros that boot to RAM. One example is Tiny Core Linux:

http://tinycorelinux.net/welcome.html

Latest RPi build is was released only a few months ago:

For Pi Zero:
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv6/releases/RPi/

For Pi 3:
http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/armv7/releases/RPi/

As a last bit of advice, there are quite a few different storage options available for the Raspberry Pi. Here's one that you may be interested in (you can buy the hard drive seperately if you didn't want to use the Raspberry Pi Zero):

http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/pidrive-node-zero/
Claiming social security if you've left the USA
MBps or Mbps? I'm guessing the latter, but...
Crackdown by whom?

Advertisers and publishers are generally in favor of it, consumers don't care, watchdogs are toothless.
Oh yea, absolutely, I'm not going to accept those pitches at face value. Been around the block enough times to be skeptical, but its at least something that it seems to be a thing that companies are advertising as a feature.. maybe.
Haha thank you! Honestly yes it has been, and continues to be a tough product to build. The first proof-of-concept iteration was not bad, but getting the thing working correctly in most browsers has been difficult. We've learned a ton about browser internals along the way though, and it's been a lot of fun. :)
What does error correction algorithms have to do with whether the disk spins or is solid state?
The thing is, it's pretty good at telling you when you haven't been paying enough attention.
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I agree with everything you said except "there is no real value in Bitcoin or even Ethereum/Ether".

Bitcoin does seem to be the best payment technology for online illegal transactions. Albeit, one could argue those shouldn't be 'real' in the first place.
"engineer productivity remained constant for both Android and iOS, whether measured by lines of code pushed or the number of pushes."

Both of those metrics are incredibly shit ways to measure productivity.

I guess thats one explanation as to why the facebook app is 200mb+. They've been superproductive with all those lines of code.

A better metric would rely on actual features or bugs, imo.
I imagine the author took all required maintenance and the time required and added it up. I imagine some maintenance can happen concurrently which was not accounted for in the article.
Sebrings, as I recall, require either completely removing the front left tire, or pulling the wheels to the left as far as they go in order to remove the battery, which is housed under the wheel well.

Not everyone builds Corollas.
Counterexample:

$ ghci
GHCi, version 8.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Prelude> let ones = 1 : ones
Prelude> take 50 ones
[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]

You can take as many as you like. (The 'ones' list contains a tail which links back to its head, producing an infinite list.)

Obviously, this is a trivial example, you can do much more interesting things with mutually recursive bindings.
For the record, my Toyota, being one year old, has been 3 times already for repairs, due to the Diesel Particle Filter. 25K Euro spent on the car, and 300€ in maintenance and repairs on the first year, with 21000 Km driven.
ImageNet now has 1000 classes.

And I used to think this was a bottleneck before I really got into deep learning.

Actually, adding categories is very easy and does not require a crazy amount of data. It does not even requires a lot of retraining as a lot of the lower layers of a typical ImageNet model can be reused for new categories. I have made classifiers using an old model (VGG16) and less than 100 images in each new category.

If a project like wikipedia for instance started to promote the goal to have 100 different pictures for each of its articles, a classifier could be trained with any arbitrary number of categories.
I've had a deployment cycle like this since I started using Google App Engine... 6 years ago.
Could someone with a grudge be following him around downvoting him? Is there a mechanism in HN to flag that?
I wonder how many people are making 5 years salary in a month or two getting in on these ICOs?!
I'm the owner of an EV who benefited to the tune of 10k and I have to admit in this specific case I agree with the parent comment (but maybe not the tone).

I feel like the rebates should only apply to EVs under 30k.

And maybe be a percentage off the price of the base model, since there is no reason the taxpayer should have subsidized my EV by 10k when I spent 7k on features that are completely optional.

I don't think subsidizing 90k EVs is going to bring EVs to the mainstream. The people spending 4k on FSD while AP2 struggled to catch-up with AP1 are usually not people who would have balked at a 100k Model S.

Subsidizing a 30k Nissan Leaf on the other hand, which can be a 15k used car in a few years helps get the people buying in the segments with the most cars being sold into EVs and normalizing the idea. I think EVs will really take off when people connotate EV with entry level mid-size sedans instead of top end luxury sedans.
Laugh now, while you still can. There will be a time when our age will be seen like we see the stone age.
Ad security is very weak by design because it allows any fourth-party to serve html/javascript on any website. As long as this is the norm, we'll be around to protect publishers and their audience. Beyond ads, everything we built applies to the web in general so if we ever run out of bad ads, we'll expand in different directions.

edited for clarity
Newton, Nietzsche, Beethoven, Tesla, etc
I have had a 1996 R33 Skyline for 7 years, more than 100,000km and haven't had a single issue asside from a worn suspension boot. Given its age, that should be remarkable, but it is my second R33 and the first was just as uneventful maintenance wise. I am not particularly kind to them either.

The first one was rear ended by a Suzuki Vitara, which wrote off the car, in case anyone was curious why I have had two.
Apple Special Event (Sept 2017)
Seems like that's the idea behind the Brave browser [0].
If I could have some tool that I could put funds into and then frictionlessly pay publishers as I read articles (preferably in a way that didn't let my spending habits be uniquely tracked everywhere) then I would sign up in a heartbeat: I do want to support content producers, don't really want to sign up for n different accounts to do so.

[0]: https://www.brave.com/
Interesting. As a contra data point, I grew up in Sydney with 86 2050 as our landline (as if there were any other types of line! :) and I never saw hyphens used within phone numbers. I worked for Telstra during most of the 1990's, and didn't see it in use there either. Might be a regional thing? I note that our North American cousins enjoy splattering hyphens through their phone numbers. I like the space approach.
I think it's obvious that they're bad at a small scale (individually or for smallish teams, maybe < 30 engineers?), but I don't think they're _obviously_ bad for teams of 50+ engineers.

Also, there is a difference between using them as metrics that you want to raise vs metrics you just don't want to drop or fluctuate wildly over time.
Why doesn't it look great for Google? Google is a company and it moves according to its interest.

The weird part is to expect a company to fund a group for the love of truth and public good. Companies are in a competition against each other and the amount of genuine benevolent collaboration they can do is limited by nature.
Is someone shy and embarrassed in that context also likely to be similar when making new friends, negotiating in a business context, etc? The people I know who have been reserved at first, have generally been more reserved in all situations.

That might be more attractive to other shy people, I'd guess.
> I'm actually rather surprised that companies like Google aren't offering solutions to integrate ads into the delivery of the page content itself rather than JavaScript at this point, as it's pretty easy to block the specific domains serving ads.

You mean native advertising?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising

https://developers.google.com/doubleclick-publishers/docs/na...
What's wrong with socialism?
You asked for something more specific now than you asked for earlier.

But here's an article that mentions Google is a monopoly and also mentions net neutrality: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/30/16226616/b...

> New America eventually emerged as one of the most forceful voices in favor of “net neutrality” — a key progressive advocacy goal that also aligned with Google’s corporate objectives.

It's not surprising it mentions net neutrality because New America was focused on it (as was Google).

The article is also critical of telcoms,

> And, indeed, for years it was common to hear telecom industry lobbyists complain that it was inappropriate for journalists to take New America’s policy expertise on these subjects at face value — arguing that the think tank was basically just a cut-out for Google. Telecom companies, too, have their own favorite think tanks.

It's not rare to see think pieces that support net neutrality and/or oppose telcom dominance, so it's not surprising there are articles talking about Google's dominance that also mention those.
So? His issue was with technologically induced behavioral change, not evolutionarily or environmentally induced behavioral change.
The funny thing about the imperial remnants is that for almost all general tasks, Canadians still use pounds for weight (groceries, body mass, vehicle weight), but we don't use ounces. We use feet and inches to measure people, but metres for almost everything else, except nautical speed. Litres for gas in cars, sometimes gallons or pounds instead of litres for gas on boats. Pints for blood and beer, ounces for hard liquor, litres for all other service and retail fluids.

People complain about inconsistency and lack of standards in the use of measurements in the U.S, but it is actually much more consistent there. It turns out that decimal units aren't really better for any practical purpose in a typical person's life, and it's certainly worse if you need to know both!

Even in the U.S. of course, engineers, mechanics, plumbers and others still have to deal with a mix. Think metric-based and imperial-based bolts, metric v. imperial lumber sizing.
There are at least a dozen companies trying to do exactly that. Thing is, Tesla was exceptionally lucky, and it is still incredibly hard to build a car company. Tesla managed to squeak through to the Model S, which was absolutely critical.

For companies that are trying to make a Tesla killer, they have to hit the price point above a Model S with zero volume. That's means no factory and hand building almost everything. That destroys any ability to price reasonably. Tesla killers start at 300k and range up to 2 million. Nobody at that price point wants electric cars right now, or at least very few people. It doesn't come with the same bragging rights as a Ferrari or Koenigsegg. Those have brand and absolute, vastly supreme performance respectively.

Also, I suspect people are aware that as soon as Tesla announces a new roadster the game will be over. Nobody will want to buy anything else.
Are you suggesting cryptocurrencies are banks? Please explain that logic. I also suggest you read up on the tulip mania [1].

Note: I do think bitcoin has value for illegal transactions but that's the only place I see cryptocurrencies solving a problem more efficiently than current solutions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
> It is arguable that when you watch a quarterback or a cornerback play well in 2017 you are watching someone do something better than anyone has ever done anything.

"Better than anyone has ever done anything" is debatable, but those young NFL men sure can smite their foes!

Homer sparked that idea, and the Romans perfected popular gladiatorial combat in front of 50,000 spectators in the Colosseum.
But it just got so damn messy, spectator-wise, when "enormous economic incentives" led to mass state wars with 10,000, 50,000, or 6,000,000 million dead.

My personal favorite public spectacle combat is Slim Pickens riding the H-bomb in Dr. Strangelove. Now that was "amazing to watch"!

But back to pro sports, using the Olympics as an example. I notice that the rise of intersex/gender-uncertain competitors such as Caster Semenya is challenging the status quo of sex-differentiated mass sporting events. Maybe more people will just throw up their hands at the hypocrisy of it all?

And if the Olympics come under question, who knows what other multi-billion-dollar sporting series might be next?

But please, Olympics, leave the modern pentathlon as-is. And the sailing and equestrian events. But consider adding a gliding competition :-)
Why Users Make in App Purchases
So, well, couriers aren’t employees and they don’t have time to do things like this. Customers are extremely vindicative for every minute they perceive as wasted. Time is money, unfortunately.
> Do you think the assumption that the content was created by the organization who owns the domain should be default?

Sure, and I think that is the current assumption. What's missing is a way to specify UGC content that wasn't created by the organization.

> Wouldn't it be better for the organization to provide a signature for the content it did create?

I don't think this would be viable for two reasons:

- It would require people to do the work to opt in, without any obvious incentive for doing so.

- No obvious way to different UGC content from javascript dependencies, fonts, ad trackers, etc.

Whereas there are good use cases for allowing folks to mark content as being UGC. For example, let's say the game Draw Something wanted to let users upload their creations. So no security issues, since images are created through their own app, but they don't necessarily want everyone thinking that they're spending all day creating and uploading millions of dick drawings either.
I think the parent was legitimately uncertain which one you meant. After all, this is a discussion about an article on American football on a forum hosted by a US-based company.
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I started a company, Corvus Systems, that sold 5 MByte hard disk drives for $4000. We sold a zillion.

Of course the competition was 74 KByte floppies at the time.
The main problem imo is the amount of money they are getting. You need to stay a little hungry to be motivated to build a great product. They basically have "FU" money off the bat and no legal obligation to the token buyers from what I understand. The human economics don't work out.
Yep, especially with the advertising industry: if you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

Unfortunately we're in the annoying position where they view themselves as top-shit and "gods gift to the internet" (and admittedly they do provide monetary support to a lot of things) but I don't think that excuses them from behaving as poorly as they have and do and it's long overdue that they're brought into line.
First, you're trying to make two wrongs into a right[0].

Second, why isn't this an expectation. Obviously we can't make news orgs be completely unbiased, but we can push for more transparency. Heck, even breaking up monopolies would allow for more owners with more nuanced points of view getting prime time in each smaller organization.

For comparison, consider what Clearchannel Media did to US radio stations. (basically it turned everything into a homogeneous top-25 repeat station)

[0]: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/twowrong.html
Hopefully you won't be using bookmarks much longer :)
I really don't mind the extra couple of bucks. The value of subsidies is the increased adoption. The actual cost is probably lower than the cost for toilet paper for all the federal prison inmates.

I hope my taxes encouraged you to upgrade to ludicrous mode. That would make me happy.

To put it another way, I also don't mind if someone buys a candy bar with their EBT/SNAP card. Of all the tax dollars we spend, this pretty much falls into the couch-change category.
I know what you're saying, but think about things like jquery that every site uses. It's reasonable to source it remotely because everyone has it cached. Unless you had some content ID system in the browsers to pull locally sourced scripts up, we'd lose that instant CDN effect.

That said. It's hard to compare the benefits of that to the cost of the nonsense in OP's story. For every 50ms we've gained from cached jquery we've lost 3s to stupid advertising.
> You cannot invent drones and tell people it should only be used for good things, not bad things.

Sure you can. This is the purpose of laws and law enforcement. Try to fly a drone with a knife to stab people and people will destroy it and arrest you.

Internationally we have a lack of laws and a lack of enforcement, therefore we had only limited success at preventing nuclear proliferation or chemical/bio weapons uses but the will is there and successes do exist.

Both Antarctica and outer space are military-weapons-free (they do have a valid excuse for that handgun on the ISS)
The ad auctions that happen on Google (and Yahoo etc) are a simpler version of what happens on the web since there's only one publisher (i.e Google) and a single 'ad network' (i.e. AdWords).

On the web, there are multiple publishers, served by multiple ad networks and multiple exchanges (and it's turtles all the way down)

Nowadays, bidding on the web happens through the OpenRTB protocol.
See https://www.iab.com/guidelines/real-time-bidding-rtb-project...
http://sharethrough.com/guides/programmatic-native/