skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be the only one here but I have been waiting for a long time for something similar to what Google is attempting to do here.

I don't want to block ALL ads. Only the annoying ones (mostly popup and popunder).

I am ok with being displayed ads by defaults for the sites I consult (especially the ones I like) since it is an acceptable form of micropayment (I should mention that I don't see ads no youtube since I pay for play music).

Sadly, such a selective ad blocking takes time to setup and maintain and with the extensions I always end up realizing that I have been blocking ads on one of my favorite sites for months.
In freshman physics at Caltech I cancelled out the d's in dx/dt. But I knew something was terribly wrong, and I sought out the professor after lecture. He asked me if I knew what a derivative was, and I said no. He suggested I come to his office later.

He gave me a half hour lecture illustrating the basics of integration and differentiation. It was the most useful half hour of my life, and it got me through the semester. Prof. Gomez pretty much saved my @ss.

No, my public high school had not offered calculus in any way, shape or form. My fellow freshmen couldn't believe I had come to Caltech utterly ignorant of calculus.
> Also, is it illegal for a civilian to own and use one?

I doubt it, it's basically just a large beamforming loudspeaker. I'd consider deploying them if I had a property I wanted to secure against wildlife or criminal elements. Granted, in cases where you operate it in a way which caused illegal harm to a person's hearing, you may be subject to negligence litigation. It would be wise to operate it at the lowest level which generates the desired effect, I suspect the police are more haphazard with their deployment because (fair or not) they are subject to less strict standards of behaviour in practice.

Added: LRAD corp. markets the device mostly for law enforcement/public safety, military, and emergency notification, however they also market it for private users in wildlife control, and there doesn't seem to be anything said about legal concerns (though it's possible that there's an existing process controlling use of devices for similar purposes such as propane cannons). Obviously any law concerning the propagation of loud noises in general would apply with LRADs all the same. A civilian user would not likely have an opportunity to use an LRAD outdoors in a populated area.
AI: How soon will computers replace The Economist’s writers?
Ehh these theoretical results have questionable application to real life. Sure it might be very easy to learn simple correlations like "this patch of pixels correlates highly with the output '8'". But it's trivial to construct examples where neural nets get stuck in local minimas. For instance, try training a net to multiply two binary numbers.

Maybe with a billion neurons, just by random chance some of them would correspond to the correct algorithm and get reinforced by backprop. But very few NNs have layers larger than a thousand neurons. Because the cost of layers that big grows quadratically. And the chance of random weights finding the solution decreases exponentially.

One of the biggest reasons things like stochastic gradient descent, and dropout are used is because they break local minimas.
Vi Hart is an amazing math communicator, and is a model of what teaching math in fun, hands on, intuitive ways looks like.

I’d pay a lot of money to see what she could do with a full television crew to produce a PBS style math show.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg
Reddit Secret Santa is also a master scavenger hunt creator
Facial recognition will not make a dent in "mistaken identity, fraud, he-said she-said issues" without displacing something like "the entire military budget," which is not going to happen. Facial recognition also doesn't work.
There's no reason for this content to use JavaScript at all. I'm going to start holding this up as an example of why browsers shouldn't have JavaScript at all - many developers simply don't understand when not to use it. Educating them one at a time won't fix it.
no shrugs we must litigate this to its full conclusion i'm getting in the car now
Would it make any difference to you if a site notified you that they monetize with ads before they display content?
If your definition of a solution is "infinite scale", then it will never solve the scaling problem. In the meantime, potentially huge improvements in scale from raising the block size limit to much higher but still sane values, that would make Bitcoin accessible for everyday transactions for millions/billions of people, are not even being attempted.

In other words: even if raising the block size limit doesn't provide a solution for infinite scale, it could potentially still provide significant benefits, yet Bitcoin Core doesn't want to try it to find out.
Have Yourself a Dismal Christmas
You need something with a counter/timer, sum the anemometer into a register. Wakeup when it overflows. Some chips can run the counters while the MCU is in sleep.

Your idea to offline sensor handling to an ATTiny is perfect. I'd use

https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATtiny85

as it has timer/counter.
What happened to ad block blocker blockers?

Also it was bound to happen, ad blocker/privacy co.'s selling out to block ad blockers/sell personal info, drawing from a very typical criminal enterprise behavioral pattern.
With the way districts are Gerrymandered, the electoral college and the amount of money required to even come to the fight: This is an oligarchy.

More people DID vote for Hillary. Fat lot of good it's doing us.
An Experiment with In-Home Deliveries Is Underway
https://archive.is/3HgG5
I had other problems too - did not know how to study, did not know how to take notes, did not know how to organize my time, I'd never had to work at school before, thought I could skip lecture and wing the exams, etc.

It took until my sophomore year to get my act together. Fortunately, freshman year at Caltech was pass/fail, and I barely scraped by that year.
> Geeks always seem to want to erase the human factor out of everything.

it's likely that they have to rationalize their inability to understand/connect with "regular" people by feeling superior about not caring about "status symbols" or the like.
maybe it's vision more than anything.

you've got a thing you want to make, but you get stuck along the way. it's too slow, or doesn't fit in memory, so you have to figure out how to optimize what you've got before you can keep building.
It is costly, which is exactly why Universities and Colleges favor it.
So, the "facial recording" worked, but the recognition didn't?
I'm not sure how you got from "Amish" to "burka-banning." The Amish do not actively work to add outsiders to their group, and hardly seem outlandish in their interactions with the larger society.
Thank you for your comments. You are right. What with the now ultra-cheap Amazon and Google in-home devices, it's increasingly difficult to have a "safe" space. Like you, I will not invite this nonsense into my home. I don't use Siri, won't use any Google product, and I don't have any iot devices other than my iPhone, and I don't use non-Apple apps.

I use OpenBSD and Fedora Linux for the majority of my work and I heavily filter my personal and work connections. Being I run the firewall at work, I took the liberty of blocking all advertising connections to our buildings to save on bandwidth. My boss was thrilled to learn this could be done.

People are horrified to learn that I, an IT veteran of now 20 years have the attitude I do towards technology. It seems everyday there is a new startup offering the same old dreck that all of them seem to offer--ways to divest you of your privacy, freedoms, etc. I never bite. I stick with the minimalism I always have.
>If this effort by Google can somehow raise the quality of online ads from horrendous to just terrible, I'll reluctantly support it

I think the rationale for this move is to stem the growth of adblockers rather than anything else. Google Chrome on Mobile does not allow any extension so thats safe for their monetization. Its only on desktop which is dwindling and they are using this opportunity to make sure this is contained
It's just technology: Some will use it for good and some will use it for evil. Isn't that the mantra we've been repeating since forever within the hacker community?
Ishmael
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
> Creating List slices ... with some sort of copy-on-write semantics

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#memoryview
If it makes you feel any better, there are surely other people who thought that way, and they'll be enlightened upon reading this comment chain.
http://www.osnews.com/story/29698/Nintendo_Switch_runs_FreeB...
Let's say I make frequent visits to mosques, and there's a government unfriendly to Muslims in power, as one of many hypothetical scenarios where this could be a real problem.
For nonenglish speaker KAR and KUDER were of course as good as any other foreign symbols. First derivatives were KA-AR, KADER and KUD-DER (for CAAR, CADR and CDDR).
Measuring and Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis [pdf]
1. If LN works to scale, it should be deployed. It's not, and has not for years.

2. You have absolutely no way to accurately verify or anticipate that claim.

Feel free to provide a retort to my claim that Bitcoin is flawed from Satoshi's implementation and upon examination of the computer science and codebase behind BTC, the false equivalence to gold and store of value will fail as it becomes obsolete to something else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15991762

3. Brahm Cohen is suggesting a prerequisite of 3 escrow deposits, which would require 6 transaction fees.

This is a bizarre answer to the article he was responding to, as it fails to avoid the gravitation towards payment processor style hubs.

Also there’s nothing wrong with long routes. They settle
out in the middle just fine, despite the author’s
dismissiveness to the possibility that they can.

With Brahm's prerequisite, the LN will still be diverted towards the single large payment processor style hubs which can supply enough liquidity to open up routes and deposits with many other users.

https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/mathematical-proof-that-...
> A hybrid species forms when two parental species mate to produce a hybrid population, which then stops being able to freely interbreed with the parental species. In this case the two parents are the snow-capped manakin, named for its bright snowy-white crown feathers, and the opal-crowned manakin, named for its brilliant iridescent crown feathers.

Does anyone have photos of the species of birds and the offspring? or is the photo of a feather in the article the only thing that has been found?
There are legitimate (IMHO) uses for these. For example, a crowd panics and people start getting trampled. An LRAD can be used to communicate directions quickly at long range to help stop the panic.

The report sounds like the police were doing what they should be doing. Have the organizers of that March complained about police actions or disputed the report? If not, then I would tend to believe the report. If correct, then the use (or lack thereof) of the LRAD seems reasonable.

I'm apposed to abuse of power. Not power in and of itself. I think there have been significant abuses by police lately and in years past. But I also believe that these abuses do not represent all police.
I was expecting a link to amazon at first. I do not feel smart currently.
From the report and article, it doesn't sound like the LRAD was used as the first line option.
These anecdotes from smart foreigners contemptuous of Americans never make any sense against the stats. White Americans outperform all of them in the PISA tests. America only performs poorly in the PISA tests when you don't exclude non-whites.
I'm confused. You used an example of not realizing you were blocking ads from a site to support a less transparent blocking approach? Why can't you just take the list from this better-ads program and use it in your extension? (And if you can't, think about why you can't)

I can't figure out whether your problem is with the current crop of extensions or the filter lists. Regardless of which it is, I'm not sure your concerns will be alleviated by unnecessarily-built-in, likely non-extensible, likely non-customizable blocker using an opaque set of filters.
Bush and Trump both will be remembered for a long time. We’ve only had 45 presidents, the English learn about god knows how many insignificant kings in school, so the notion that two of your least favorite presidents will be forgotten in short order seems to be wishful thinking.
This article is full of funny things. If you want to teach people Computer Science just teach them Computer Science. Why waste people's time with math they will push out of their minds as soon as they're finished with the class? I wish we had a specialization-based curriculum for high school. I wasted a lot of time there that I could have spent learning more.

Some funny things in the article:

> Discrete mathematics deals with such problems as...

No it describes solutions to those problems. You could also describe those solutions with other types of math. A computer Scientist wouldn't think of this problem in terms of a formula first. They would likely think of this in terms of a Data Structure and thing about the most efficient way their representation's strengths can be leveraged to obtain a solution.

A "calculus-track" Mathematician may think of this as a shape and attempt to frame this problem as an equation that describes the changes occurring in a subset of the problem. Luckily 3B1B just posted a video demonstrating this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCytJvd4H0

> Students need classical math more than ever.

I'd say this is debatable. What's the work/value trade off for teaching someone calculus? I just aced my college's calc program and I've already pushed that crap out of my mind.

I'd say it's much more important to be able to learn how to do these things as needed. Learn how to pick up a book, find the chapters you need to read, read the material, apply it, and test your output.

> But discrete math is fundamental to computing and ubiquitous in the real world

I'd say it's not the only way to express those ideas.

> To understand software, you need a basic understanding of computers; for that you need some basic electronics education. [...] There are many ways to build a von Neumann machine—the world’s standard digital computer since World War II...

Lol. Who wrote that in the press release? I'd consider many micros with in-chip roms as Harvard architecture.

I'm getting ready to laugh at the development and implementation of Common Core 2.
If you haven't seen one in nyc, then you're either blind or don't know what the iPhone X looks like.
Eh. I wrote a quake-like engine at 17. But that cuts out the 4 years of fumbling that it took to get to that point.

There's probably a lot of fumbling common to all computer users in their early days. But what separates people is how far you can go in a short time.
Maybe not facial recognition, but why not chip everyone with RFID and GPS and track people? Require biometric auth to use computers or enter buildings? Stop using cash and require all transactions to be electronic. I'm just asking the questions about what is so awful about massive transparent surveillance? We're never getting this back in Pandora's box so we might as well acknowledge it and make it a part of our existence.
If you limit power you limit the potential harm of its abuse.

I think the bigger issue is legality of protest and the police's role in governance.
Notes on the CPython list implementation
To put this in a slightly different light, suppose you entered a contract with a startup and got some equity. Now suppose the owner decided he wanted your equity back in case you left the company. How’s that make you feel? (Any similarities to Zygna is purely coincidental.)
Most foreign people tend to overestimate the impact of hukou on normal daily life. You don't need it for anything, except things like getting your kids into free public school. You can totally go to another city, find a job, rent a room and work, save money, get a mortgage, buy an apartment, marry, have kids, put them in a paid public school and generally live your life.
Yes voluntarily sharing (10%) and why not "obligatory sharing" by law (although I'm not a partisan of it right now)but if this idea of businesses sharing with those left behind spread it could forced businesses to share by public pressure. CSR is too often a joke, a token contribution to give the illusion they care. If the ratio of need to "sharers" goes up maybe the sharing may increase. But it is a whole new culture that would have to be nurture. Most of investors, shareholders are let's say a bit selfish. But if we can convince them it is in their self-interest to learn to share it may work. History is a constant reminder that when people are too unhappy the "elite" is in trouble. People need hope they can move up the social ladder.
Sure. Some clients prefer us to use Linux, since their teams large or small are comfortable with it. OpenBSD is still a rather esoteric OS for most. I've been using both since 1998, so I can go either way. RedHat/CentOS offer support for 10 years is high up on the totem pole for me and plenty of others. OpenBSD releases every 6 months like most Linux distros, so some mission-critical users are uncomfortable with this pace, and I cannot say I blame them.

SELinux is great for areas that are into DAC/MAC/RBAC, plus the aforementioned lengthy support. I see more and more customers wanting Red Hat/CentOS than any other Linux distro and for good reason. It just works. Things like CPanel only run on these distros. Red Hat/CentOS are also very predictable and they offer superb documentation. More and more people are uncomfortable with things like Debian because there is no throat to choke if they need support or if something goes pear shaped.

I have worked on Linux for 20 years now and I have never, ever seen Debian or Slackware or even Ubuntu in a TRULY mission-critical role. People may disagree, but there are reasons why Red Hat/CentOS are chosen. They are typically very stable, use tested software, and are well documented for the use cases they excel in. Red Hat runs some truly mission critical stuff like power grids, and more and more SCADA systems, now that they are being upgraded due to threats.
I still think that in the next hundred years some gene splicing cowboy will cut and paste a bad sequence that gets out in the wild and changes everything.
The DDR "let" people cross the wall. If they had not wanted to allow the people to cross, they would not have let them cross. I mean, it's not like they didn't have storm rifles or were unwilling to fire upon civilians. That is to say, they had more powerful weapons and were willing to use them. They made a choice to let people cross.

So it was only after the spokesperson for the Berlin Communist Party announced they would allow free crossing of the wall that people began crossing (en-masse).
I personally think that Bitcoin will eventually be taken out by Ethereum, which will then give way to the likes of Cardano or something similar that will figure out issues with scaling, sustainability, governance (ie civil resolution of conflicts and end of hard-forks) and interoperability with legacy financial systems (ie Banks). It's really quite amazing to follow the innovation in this space, once you get through all the shit coins and ICO scams that is.
This article is NOT about M&Ms. While superficially similar, they are made by different companies. Smarties predate M&Ms by decades.
A kid that hack entire university network with High-performance wireless router
Most antennae are retro directive. Gain is gain.
>At this point, I'm dealing with so many pop-ups asking me to turn off my ad-blocker that the original purpose of the ad-blocker (don't bother me) is becoming moot.

Use this specific list in your adblocker to subvert those messages:
https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/blob/master/anti...
Ask HN: Any recommended podcasts for thinkers?
Instaparse in Clojure (https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse) seems similar (although I don't know Rebol/Red so I'm purely guessing from looking at parse examples).

You can get close-ish results with parser combinator libraries as well.
related I guess?

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mshafiq/files/adblock-imc20...

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mshafiq/files/adblock-pets2...
http://www.marscoin.org/
Sure but all your activities and everyone else's activity would be tracked. Assuming rule of law continues to be upheld and we don't devolve into something worse it should be pretty easy to show innocence if needed.
What they need is batteries that can store the energy until it can be sold at a higher price. Tesla built a giant battery station for Australia I believe. Negative prices make sense as they need people to use the electricity, but encouraging people to waste energy by paying them to do so is not good environmental policy. Would be more efficient, profitable, and greener to store the energy until it's needed.
there are barely products for sale with bitcoin much less bitcoin exclusive products. only things i can think of are ransoms and drugs. i'm sure there are others but this isn't super common.
Store it in a set of batteries?
Great response! Reframing the problem is an especially important and well-known technique in applied mathematics and physics. And the others can arguably be generalized into "solve the easiest part first". If the easiest part is at the bottom, start at the bottom; if it's at the top, start at the top. Keep solving the easiest part remaining until there's nothing left to solve. This inherently requires breaking the problem into achievable sub problems.
As long as we can stop dancing around the fact that most of us drive faster than the speed limit, smoke dope, and/or have unconventional sexual relationships at some point in our lives.
unless the entire government is as transparent as your massive surveillance, no thanks. our democracy is extremely fragile. if information collection goes into a black box it's a turn-key solution for totalitarianism.

for instance, see the Stasi.

...however, if intelligence gathered were all open-access, and classification abolished, I'd be into it.
Obviously Windows should be free, with all the huge companies that use that. The logic makes no sense.
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Why trigrams: (cl x) (cr x). cell left, cell right.

I don't think car and cdr are newbie hostile; they are rather troll-fertile.
> that would make Bitcoin accessible for everyday transactions for millions/billions of people, are not even being attempted

I'm not sure if that's correct. There's absolutely no way bitcoin can support that many transactions with just sane blocksize increase.

As I've said in my other comments, bitcoin is a research facility, not a product, so it's somewhat understandable people are going with their own research directions.

People currently have huge expectations out of an immature technology. It's equivalent to expecting the Internet of the 80s to support MMORPGs with thousands of players, the protocols just weren't mature enough.
It seems like common sense, not shilling: if what you're buying is only available with Bitcoin, then you get more of a reward than when you pay for expensive shipping -- if you don't pay whatever the transaction fees end up being, then you won't get the product at all.
Yes, if there's any kind of educated people left, guys like Pythagoras, Euler should be known.
Ask HN: Babies and screen time?
What are your thoughts on babies and screen time? Should there be a total ban or is some okay?