skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering how it works, it seems to be a blacklist. Here's the crux of it:

chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(details => {
// ...

// Is domain white listed
if (isDomainWhitelisted(domains[details.tabId])) {
return { cancel: false };
}
return { cancel: true };
}, { urls: blacklistedUrls }, ['blocking']);

It's kind of sad how much boilerplate is required to write a simple extension. I wonder if there's a framework for saving labor while building cross-compatible browser extensions. Then again, maybe the world doesn't need yet another JavaScript framework.
In other words: Newton, brilliant of a lot of things, not so on many other things. We need to accept that, as his attempts to produce gold and invest his money show.

For the record, something very bad will happen by the third Sunday, of the third month, of the 2033 year. Not necessarily on that day, but by then.
ETF funds themselves do not buy or sell anything. They exchange their own units for the indexed basket of shares.
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Coin Hive already uses WebAssembly: https://coin-hive.com/#hash-rate (3rd paragraph under 'My Hash Rate Seems Low').
You can play with it using ARKit [0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit
The mistake is assuming that sound waves are being used here. You can make the human brain hear sound by transmitting electronic frequencies at it. If someone is transmitting to a satellite using a narrow-band beam that intersects someone’s brain, they’ll be lucky to survive without brain damage from the microwaves alone. At the very least, I would hope that diplomats are being advised by the government to try and record the effect with their phones, to see if it is truly sound-based or if it is actually EM-based transmissions affecting the brain.

I microwaved my skull once with a 0.5 degree beamwidth 15-inch yagi antenna at 1 watt of 2.4 gigahertz once by accident. It was a directional sensation that lasted less than a clock second, as I reflexively snapped around and ripped every wire out of the assembly to kill it with my reptile brain before it killed me. I remember exactly what it felt like, but I can’t say if it triggers hearing or not because it was too brief. The migraine that resulted lasted for hours and I still get sympathetic twinges remembering it.

I’ve also heard stories of a datacenter having a daily failure in a specific rack on weekdays only, that was resolved by moving the satellite dish transmitter next door to point elsewhere than directly through a building.

Combine those two stories and you have a lot more interesting options than just ‘sound’ alone. I hope they’re being investigated.
Jesus that's so repressive.
And I'm sure the laws are pretty subjective as well or at least not something the average chat admin is fully up to speed with.
Essentially the outcome of this will be to kill chats or send it underground to tor or something.
Fair enough. Let's crowdfund a lobbyist.

Alternatively, get involved in the city Democratic clubs and county central committees here in California. Politicians do pay attention to people who organize fundraisers for them, and the local groups are where the next generation of politicians are picked. Politics is a lot like science in that regard: policies last until their supporters die, or are term-limited.
AI that looks at all the medical research in the world, and helps people get the most accurate medical diagnosis and treatment.

Ah, and at the same time, why not create machines that automatically,creatively and cheaply do biomedical r&d ? Or AI that accelerates innovation around technologies that has an health impact ?
This was the solution I went with. As you mentioned, It is incredibly slow.
This is the reason that even the makeup, glasses, etc. that people have come up with to counter facial recognition are going to be completely ineffective in a few years.

Contemplate if you will a hallway immediately past Customs in an airport. Equip it with multiple sensors of this type to provide complete coverage and redundant imaging/sensing. While you're at it, set up gait recognition as well. Then correlate the received profiles with the passport/identity data of the people just passed through customs.

Congratulations, you've just started building a database of everyone entering the country with biometric data that can be checked in the field with equipment costing less than $1000, and which can later be cross checked to find people traveling with false or multiple IDs ("this facial structure comes back as matching (person x) and (person y), and the gait is almost the same. Pick him up."), and it could all be done with technology that exists today.

Edit: autocorrect
> as his attempts to produce gold and invest his money show.

Isn't that just called an "entrepreneur" these days?
That's what was attempted with Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey, wasn't it? Userscripts and so on.
Yes, mostly used units from eBay. Low cost, great performance and reliability. You'll need to make sure you have proper supporting infrastructure as they don't come in standard closed self-supporting enclosures. If you are single-system deployments they don't make much sense, but then again, neither would other rack-mounted systems.
Depth sensor is cool, but I think a better feature would be increasing the EM spectrum the phone could operate on. It would be nice to open garage doors, detect speed traps, or enable push to start on cars.
> Hopefully they will allow some form of direct access to the IR dot projector and camera along with DepthKit or whatever Apple decides to call it

And then the app developers upload the depth data to their servers and use it to track users, and then the servers are hacked and the depth data is taken by the hackers and then the hackers sell the depth data and then someone can use that data to unlock stolen iPhones. Sounds great /s
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Not just predict which ones, but get them to take your money too. AFAIK, many of the ones that are performing really well don't want to expand their AUM that much and so don't advertise and won't take just anyone's money.
> We show that Buffett’s performance can be largely explained by exposures to value, low-risk, and quality factors.

That is, they used a factor analysis to decompose his performance by its correlation with academic "factors" which explain cross-sectional stock market returns.

In "Buffett's Alpha" by Frazzini, Kabiller, and Pedersen: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~af227/pdf/Buffett's%20Alpha%20-%20...
Isn't this tech more useful on the other side of the phone?

It is true that you may try to catch emotion from the user face but on the other side you can catch the world...
Question for financial types: For a few years I've owned a small selection of shares in FTSE companies (15 of them at the moment). I don't really do this scientifically, I just look for large, well-established companies where their shares look cheaper than long run, and buy those. (Partly I do this so I can see everyday companies that I own a tiny bit of). Is this practically equivalent to owning index-linked funds? Am I missing out? I plan to hold them for many years, and it's mostly "play money".
If that's the case could you please post Nelson's responses

http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k...

http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com....

along with it.
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I don't know what they would have to be mining to make cpu's or integrated GPU's make sense, certainly not bitcoin where even if you pay nothing for electricity to are unlikely to be able to do any useful work in the time someone visits your site.
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Asking people to mine for you on your website is just like asking customers to wash the dishes at your restaurant. Even if you have a ton of them it is still annoying and doesn't pay.
Looks like my original response was wrong, too.

> PostgreSQL development aims for conformance with the latest official version of the standard where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common sense. Many of the features required by the SQL standard are supported, though sometimes with slightly differing syntax or function. Further moves towards conformance can be expected over time.

Though I'll take refuge in the, "where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common sense", clause ;-) .
It is not exactly Google Chrome only, you can run it in any Chromium based browser such as Opera, Yandex, Vivaldi, etc... And I do also have plans to port the extension to FireFox (I haven't read their docs yet but I guess it shouldn't be too hard).

Regarding the custom list for an adblocker, as said in other comments, the idea was to keep it separate from adblocking. Coin mining in the browser is a different issue. Where ads are tracking you and visually interfering with your browsing experience, coin mining, if abused, is eating your computer ressources resulting in slow downs (from high CPU usage) and excessive power consumption. You might be OK with that and not with ads, or vice versa. Or you might just want to keep ads blocked entirely and just enable the coin mining script for a minute to pass a Captcha. That's why I believe having a separate extension is useful.
You'll be the third person under this parent comment to get a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238969

I can't really be held accountable for people jumping the gun and commenting before they're informed.
Here's one fool proof way of countering facial recognition: a paper bag
I loved using those tools, but I think many browser extensions today are more involved than small shim scripts. A lot of them have CRUD operations, data editing interfaces, css/image assets, etc. I was thinking about something a bit more composed like create-react-app.
In Spain, you as a website admin can be found liable for unlawful messages left by your users too. So it's not like this is unexpectedly repressive for me.

A verdict that shows so: http://www.asesoriayempresas.es/jurisprudencia/JURIDICO/1959...
What if some people like that? Why is the link with social cohesion? Why would it be a best interest? Uniformity for uniformity sake?? And at which cost as the OP said??

Different people have different tastes. I enjoy being offline when I am in the countryside. I am fine with a slow connection, as it lets me concentrate on actual work instead of wasting time online.

I pushed the logic further, and since last year, I have no fixed line internet connection at home.

I would love to find a house not too far from the city, yet without broadband. It would be a relaxing place to live. If there is no government mandate forcing ISP to provide connectivity in the middle of nowhere, the savings could be passed back to me in the form of lower taxes.

So basically I would get a) something I want and that is hard to get today b) less taxes.

Sign me up!
You're looking for Google Tango, then: https://get.google.com/tango/
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This is incorrect, especially with ETFs. With an ETF, the seller/buyer (the individual, not the fund) pays all of the transaction costs. So buying and holding an ETF doesn't expose you to the problems which the behavior of panicking investors^. The same is not always true for mutual funds.

caveat: Vanguard index funds may be special and this doesn't apply to the same extent because the ETFs are a dual share class of the larger mutual fund.
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> Google's Tango technology ... which is also based on infrared depth detection

I thought Tango included hardware to process parallax and phone position so it could potentially work outside and in bright open areas.
The US is already moving to overtly image the face of everyone visiting the country during passport control.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/biometric-security-initiatives
So this could be an app, or a new browser, maybe.
Fully agreed.

The grandparent comment expresses a beautiful sentiment -- and one that I and many other colleagues share -- but I've almost never seen it implemented in practice; and on the 2-3 occasions over a 15 years of career when I seen it, it was on a smaller scale and with business owners who had a close relationship with all technologists in the "company" (I use quotes here because an organization with 10 programmers, 1 sysadmin, 1 HR, 3 sales people and 1 CEO can hardly be called a "company").

Truth is, many businessmen don't think of people like people; they remind me a lot of the young military boys controlling drones that do the remote killing -- they think of people like "assets", "targets" and such. This de-humanization helps them make decisions that many of us would find extremely hard to justify in front of our moral values system.
One step at a time...the world will still be here tomorrow.
Use to work on the Kinect so have some knowledge around it - not really. The lenses and power requirements to do more than a couple feet away would be huge. Though I'm sure they'll eventually get it.
It makes sense in context. {} is a dict literal, and * * dict is already used other places to expand a dict into key-value pairs.

Given

a = {1: 1}
b = {2: 2}

This

c = {**a, **b}

is equivalent to

c = {1: 1, 2: 2}
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Happy user of Input Mono ever since it came out back in 2014. Never looked back once!
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If your representatives have already voted the way you want, is there anything to be gained in writing to them anyway?
"Rest Estate always goes up!"

"Index funds will almost always outperform actively managed funds."

Convenient investment vehicles should not stop you thinking. Index ETF were a great idea. But now everybody is pouring tons of money into them. Not sure this is a good idea, at least not on the scale how it is currently done. A stock is priced by supply and demand. There are stocks where there is basically very little real trading. Only ETF and some HFT funds. Yet, the stock is rising with the index. What happens in a downturn? What happens if this stock drops significantly more? Every ETF has to re-balance to reflect this fact, easily leading to a feed-back effect.

Some people betting on it:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/horseman-global-unv...
See: [1]

[1] http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/
Changing the JVM spec has a chance at being applied in future normal JVMs. Using an entirely separate solution has not.
They are free to move to cities any time.
You can try https://github.com/Microsoft/dts-gen now.
I think the point is to externalize the concerns. If you only think about them, they are still "on your mind", whereas if you write them down, they are in a conceptual external storage and you can stop thinking about them.
I tried this as an exercise when they were pushing Google+. Created a new account, was very cognizant to read through all settings and ensured that nothing from my old account can be traced back to this new one. I'm not joking when I say nothing from my old account and tracking:
1. I timed my move (to different city inside bayarea)
2. Changing ISP to wave from comcast
3. Bought new computer
4. Closed my old phone account and only started using work phone. Never used hotspot in my work phone
5. Even changed my coffee drinking habit + free wifi access locations from Starbucks to Peets.
Only thing I couldn't change was my name + SSN. Serious paranoid level of things for my online life, but they still populated my digital life with same info and recommendations. After about 10-15 days of doing all this, I enabled Google+ (because at that time to use youtube account, I had to enable it). You know who the first contact recommendation that was there for me under my family - my brother who is living in a different country. I just gave up at that point.
Probably I did something wrong during the setup (or) slipped and used the accounts for some period of time on same computer or browser (or) the data companies which sell my offline data have really rich data about me. Whatever the goof-up was, it was just disheartening to learn that after all that work my online privacy just lasted at the max 15days. I really wish there were better ways. Considering the number of security/data breaches (e.g. recent equifax one) I feel like, I have little to no control on things.
No face, no access.
Blacklisting was the shortest way to a working solution. I'm looking into other ways of blocking coin mining in browsers. If you have any ideas, feel free to submit an issue or a PR on Github.
What kinds of things would you want proven correct about your code's interrupt handling?
Surely, one logical space of variable width is a tab? I prefer spaces to tabs - but if one makes concessions to readability like variable-width fonts - it's time to bring back tabs, too? (I do think this is a good idea, but "before" spaces won, in no small part because pre high-resolution screens, I think monospace was the better choice. With high dpi comes pretty layout - also of code).
Cool. Put your money where your mouth is.
There's probably a handful of acquisitions in this release cycle:

WiFiSLAM in 2013

PrimeSense in 2013

LinX in 2015

Metaio in 2015

Faceshift in 2015

Emotient in 2016

Flyby Media in 2016

RealFace in 2017

and probably more that isn't obvious to me.

It was reported by Bloomberg, funnily enough in an article framed as Apple struggling in M&A [1], that Metaio took a lowball offer:

>Apple often refuses to work with investment bankers appointed by the seller, preferring to deal directly with company management, according to people who have been involved in such negotiations. Apple also dictates terms and tells targets to take it or leave it, betting that the promise of product development support later and the chance of appearing in future iPhones are alluring enough, the people said.

>That was the case when Apple acquired Metaio GmbH in 2015. Bankers appointed by the augmented-reality firm to negotiate weren’t allowed in the room, and while Metaio executives felt the offer was low, Apple’s vision for the technology convinced them to sell, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

>Apple’s current M&A strategy works well for acquiring startups developing new technology that can be added to existing Apple products. It bought 15 to 20 companies per year over the last four years. But buying larger companies presents a different challenge, particularly if there are rival bids. Bankers often diffuse tension between bidders and targets, but Apple’s approach can make that process difficult.

>“There’s a swagger -- you may call it arrogance -- about the culture there,” said Risley of Architect Partners. “They’re used to being able to muscle their way in and get attractive economics.”

Which seems completely logical on Metaio's part. It's obvious a lot of these startups working on fundamental technologies are just going to toil in obscurity, and selling to Apple is a chance to have your technology deployed and used in the biggest way possible.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/apple-str...
What would ML do with an empty bag of chips with banana peel inside? Or with a bag with some trash and more bags of different trash inside of it?

If it would send it to separate process of separating the bag from its contents then I will up the game. How about a can with something in it. Or a cardboard box with bags in it.

I think you can't just slap ML on the problem and say it's done.
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I'm a software engineer who is passionate about online education. I'm thinking to create my first ever online course on technical interviews.

I'd love to learn from your experience if you ever created an online course (MOOC):

1. How much time did it take you to create the course?

2. How much did you earn? Can you share any numbers?

3. Lessons learned.

Thanks.
Discussion from the post yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15263575
From another comment: "The idea was to keep it separate from adblocking. Coin mining in the browser is a different issue. Where ads are tracking you and visually interfering with your browsing experience, coin mining, if abused, is eating your computer ressources resulting in slow downs (from high CPU usage) and excessive power consumption. You might be OK with that and not with ads, or vice versa. Or you might just want to keep ads blocked entirely and just enable the coin mining script for a minute to pass a Captcha. That's why I believe having a separate extension is useful."
For anyone interested in this bet, Ted Seides (the losing party) did a good podcast on the topic: http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/BetwithBuffett/

My layman's understanding of hedge funds is they are better at hedging losses than increasing gains. So in good years they might underperform the broader market (e.g. gain 9% instead of 12%), but in bad years they should lose much less (e.g. lose 5% instead of 15%).

I think this bet was largely a bet on the broader market dropping after a long run-up (which would theoretically favor hedge funds), but instead the market kept rising more and more.
It might be the law, but WA state is the poster child for left-lane bandits. Easily, with no doubt in my mind, the worst of the 50 states for a general contempt and ignorance of left lane (or lane discipline in general) protocol and law. IOW, it is not uncommon to see a line of cars in the left lane doing the speed limit or under, and a total two cars in the other lanes. Oregon is a close second.

The state police had a campaign a few years ago, stating that they were going to crack down on this. Not only did I not see any cops enforcing it, not a damned thing has changed regardless.

The mystery to me is how a geographical demographic of drivers somehow all got together and said, “fuck it, I’ll drive in whatever lane I want!” I know that’s not how it happens, but how does it happen? Taking the example of the worst drivers? Urban legend (“oh, no, it’s against the law to...”)? Some misguided attempt to stick it to The Man?
Out of interest, does anyone have a ballpark figure for an entire rack of OCP boxes?
I've been doing this for the last 5 years. These days, we average about a 1 TB / month on 4G LTE. Somehow, we've avoided carrier throttling. Although we live in a rural area, so there is little congestion anyway. A single hotspot is sufficient for all our home internet devices. If you're going to do this, it's important to have a (preferably grandfathered) unlimited data plan.
I think the reason why standards are created is to be able to choose among various implementations on the basis of something other than what is the set of technical features. In this manner one can choose performance, convenience of licensing or something else and not to worry about will his program work the same or work at all with different DB engine.

If we don't have standard compliance, this becomes that much harder. Now engineers and whole companies have to choose in advance what to base their systems on, and evolve further often with keeping that constraint for the whole project lifetime. More, different DBMS vendors feel the ability to market some features while paying less attention to standard compliance, which leads to bigger incompatibilities between DBMSes. So the whole point of having standards in the first place gets eroded.

In this light both mentioning a long list of supported features and pointing that other databases do no better is a poor substitute to leading the industry in standard compliance and all associated benefits.

I think PostgreSQL can do better.