skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individual choices are insignificant. The future of advertising is being planned by Facebook and Google. Blocking advertisments is a workaround for a broken web. Surfing the web has always been about discovery. Are we supposed to intuit whether or not to visit a site for the first time based on how we predict it will align to some kind of ad rubric? The fact that many websites have bad business models is noone’s fault but their own. In fact, tools like AdNauseum[0] show how broken this moralistic consumer thinking is:

Block all ads?

> That’s robbing sites of needed advertising click-dollars!

Click all ads?

> That’s robbing advertising companies of needed attention!

This is totalitarian capitalism: it’s not good enough to accept being tracked everywhere, spied on, and burdened with processing advertising. Not good enough even to click every ad. You must love the ads in your heart. It’s your duty, citizen!

0. https://adnauseam.io/
This is a known issue? Great... And, yes, the work machine is a 2016 model.
I choose what runs on my machine.It is bizaarly entitled in fact to believe that viewing a website obligates me to run software of your choosing on my machine.

If operators want something from me they can ask for it. They can ask for money and I'll decide whether to provide it or they can demand I look at ads by refusing to work without ads.

If they want to connect to 37 different domains, ruin my battery life, unexpectedly play sound and video, or mine bitcoin the answer is probably no.

If the resource is valuable enough or If they simply want to load a singular resource that doesn't itself consume much compute or bandwidth I might consent to let them.

How many other industries rely on adversarial relationships with the people that ultimately keep their business running.
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> Those developers that demand JavaScript and WebAssembly have mostly interests that go against the interests of the users.

This is stating the obvious, but...

For anything even mildly interactive, JavaScript is absolutely essential to creating a good (or even bearable) user experience. With purely static HTML, every interaction requires a page reload, which is painful. Users absolutely do want modern, low-latency UX.

Moreover, you literally cannot build things like Slack or Google Docs without JavaScript. Users want these products. HTML-only GMail is barely possible but it's really painful to use. Users want GMail with JavaScript.

Maybe you don't want these things. Maybe you are happy with pure-HTML interfaces, or doing anything interactive through dedicated native apps. But there are very few people who prefer it that way. Please don't presume to speak for all users, or accuse Mozilla of working against users, when it's your specific needs that are unusual.
There is certainly a free water fountain with tap water, but bottled water is not free.
I just skimmed through their subreddit, and it appears to be between an 80% to 90% reduction.

That still makes it a little larger than the average Bitcoin transaction, but the mentality there seems to be that privacy has its price. While next-to-free is preferable, I don't disagree.
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>> It's like the formula for success = preparedness + luck.

Would saying "success = preparedness * luck" be better?
I was going to say the same thing. The 80 20 thing should be reserved to the higher-ups and marketers deciding what to implement. At the development level, zero value is provided by any less than 100 percent of the work. Too many developers just focus on the 20 percent, leaving the project 4/5 unfinished.
CTE - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy[0] for anyone else who was confused. The author uses it countless times without explaining what it is.

More details - Currently, CTE can only be definitively diagnosed by direct tissue examination after death, including full and immunohistochemical brain analyses.[15]
The lack of in vivo techniques to show distinct biomarkers for CTE is the reason CTE cannot currently be diagnosed while a person is alive...[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
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But what if the user needs to login through a different provider?
common table expression?
They don't lose billions because some people hide annoying stuff that makes their pages esesstially unusable and have no extra benefit because ... I personally don't think this kind of online marketing actually works. I cannot imagine someone actually buying something because of some meaningless text snippet, a stupid blinking image or a video clip.
The only company that could manage these subscriptions effectively is one that owns either:

1. The browser
2. The app store or
3. The OS

Oh, wait...
>"Outside of neural networks, GPUs don’t play a large role in machine learning today, and much larger gains in speed can often be achieved by a careful choice of algorithms." [1]

Scikit learn espouses a non-GPU approach. Perhaps the performance gains by using GPUs aren't that significant. Has anyone tried SVMs (or for that matter other non-DL classifiers) + GPUs?

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/faq.html
I could buy 3 old Thinkpads for the price of one of those.
Nah, the chicklet keyboards were all crap. Even the polycarbonate MacBook ones. That old MacBook chassis was at least serviceable so that when the keyboard died on mine (after about five years) I bought a stack of top cases and replaced it.

The early MacBook Pros and the aluminum and titanium PowerBooks had excellent keyboards. I put up with the subpar keyboards because the rest of the machine was generally pretty nice and OSX is/was leaps and bounds above the alternatives.
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"Manhattan is so gentrified that there are few pockets of poorer communities where gang-related activity can thrive"

This is basically slowly happening in SF as well. As much as SF-natives didn't want the "Manhattanization" of SF, it is happening just with a lot fewer people able to afford it.
It started as a legitimate complaint about user tracking but it was eventually lobbied into nothingness. Meaningful legislation would have hit the industry hard, at a time when IT/web was one of the few sectors holding on in the Great Crisis, so the EuroParliament got cold feet. They seem to have done a better job with the GDPR, which really should have come before the cookie stuff anyway; there is a chance the matter will be reviewed once the GDPR is fully implemented.
Just open in incognito mode. Really surprised if anyone on HN hasn't been able to figure this out yet.

The method you've described works on AFR.com though
I think you’re playing up a false dichotomy here.

Block all the ads?

That’s robbing sites of needed dollars.

Click all the ads?

That’s robbing advertisers of needed dollars.

The end game in both cases is ads become worth less, or worthless. It doesn’t matter which side of the scale you tip to cause that.

It’s so easy to understand what’s wrong with AdNauseam if you look into the spirit of the tool. The problem isn’t clicking every ad, it’s clicking every ad with the intent to throw a wrench in advertising.

If it worked well enough the end result would just be ads are worthless and sites lose money, just like if you block their ads.
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In particular the Lenovo Yoga Book is excellent design and build quality. You can get new ones with Android (rather than Windows) on ebay for about $230. The device is a 2-in-1 with keyboard permanently attached, which some will find a plus and some a con. 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, 1.5 lbs, premium build, upgradeable to Android Nougat:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/lenovo-yoga-book-rev...
>Lack of independent impression counting

AKA

Advertising companies are afraid website owners (and everybody else who can do it) are going to steal from them.
Minor correction but neither project in the story is managed by New York City. Although the city owns the subway, it's controlled by the MTA state agency (which is also responsible for East Side Access to Grand Central).
Is this why living life according to a stupid fucking alarm clock, where I have to blast my ears with noise at 6AM, to snooze until I actually get out of bed at 7AM every morning, be out the door by 8AM, and wade through shitty commuter traffic until 9AM, makes me want to stab people?

I honestly am not worth talking to before 11AM, and I need at least half an hour to settle in and check emails. Oh, you’re taking lunch at noon? Good for you. See you at 1PM. I don’t care. I’ll stay until 8PM. Just give me my mornings back, please?

Why the fuck am I in 10AM meetings? Why are people awake at 9AM? I have to drink a gallon of coffee to make it to 5PM, and that fucks my shit up until 2AM. I fucking hate all of you.
Sidechains are on the research roadmap you can see it here:
https://getmonero.org/design-goals/
Rewriting the pdf content in a latex has to be on someone's todo list
ignore the 'a' before latex
It's harder for mob bosses to intimidate members of the military, for one. Who do you think benefits from 200 nonexistent employees?
Reminds me of Arlington's million dollar bus stops. (the plan was eventually re-evaluated - links in chronological order)

http://www.dailytech.com/Virginia+Builds+1+Million+Super+Bus...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/virginia-million-d...

https://www.watchdog.org/news/fear-not-taxpayers-arlington-b...
Not limited to showing ads
5 Machine Learning Applications Being Used in Business
You can edit the comment for I think 20 minutes after creation. Click on the timestamp to view the Edit link.
What does your prediction have to do with my comment?
Most regex engines build interpreter bytecode at runtime, and then execute the bytecode with an interpreter. Being able to generate the engine at compile time means the runtime engine is running custom compiled code.

So, what it _really_ provides is runtime performance.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
Oh yeah no denying the X improves on the 6, especially screen and camera. And if I took pics regularly I’d upgrade. One of these days...

What would make me personally enthusiastically pay a lot to upgrade would be a blazing fast e-ink display. Or a flexible, paper-like body that goes rigid when you’re holding it in your hand. Or a gizmo you can just keep in your wallet (maybe resting on your finger when you want to project a touch screen on your palm or on a bracelet for your arm).

More imaginatively, I suspect there’s a lot of potential for a new lo-fi platform that makes a different set of trade offs than the iPhone and its imitators. But every aspect of the design and production would need to be nailed though for it to be pulled off. And it would require a bit of a reshuffling of what we expect from our “body computer”.
I live in NYC on $55k/year. I live paycheck to paycheck constantly. My rent takes over 50% of my monthly income.
Stellar started as a fork of Ripple, but has no code in common with Ripple any more. See Jed's comment in this thread:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/29815/what-is-th...
Exercise is good for boosting memory and thinking skills, new guidelines say
as a network engineer the best way is to have excess bandwidth on your entire path on a dedicated link. there is no other way to guarantee anything across the public Internet, yes you can make best effort assumptions but if you are doing something critical there are no guarantees over public networks.
I recently read The Three Body Problem and it surely is one of the most interesting and accessible hard science fiction books that I have read in a long time.
I would answer, but Quora has made it impossible to see any context on the question.
The big problem is so many different versions between operating systems. Everyone wants to fiddle with code.

E.g. OpenSSL on OpenBSD does have a man page. But unfortunately no --help, at least on my older version.

Also, on OpenBSD his example of generating an RSA key creates one with a 2048 bit modulus.
As is customary in these discussions, the "Long Tailpipe" idea has been raised again.

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

http://www.casteyanqui.com/ev/longtailpipe/

Mr Musk's criticism of it is in here https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... Section starting "Power Plant Emissions aka “The Long Tailpipe”"

Chinese electricity might be dirty today, but if they're willing to transform the busses, what makes you think that the grid power will stay unchanged?

Solar energy is becoming cheaper every year, becoming competitive with coal even without taking emissions problems into account. And where are those solar panels manufactured again?

And if they stay with some coal generation, I found these on google very quickly:

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/china-cleans-up-its-act-5...
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/15/1563453...
> Did inventing the internet cause anyone grief?

Well it could certainly be said to have caused Al Gore some grief...
Peercoin has fixed transactions fees, for comparison

https://github.com/linalouise9/peercoin-marketing/blob/maste...
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Fixed Transaction Fees for Blockchain
It's going to make things interesting.
My point was both phones experience similar degradation after similar periods of time, but the iPhone 6 is more usable as a result of the performance scaling, so (IMO) I don’t think their original motif was malicious [ftn 1]. I’m actually very happy they’re bothering to do it even though they surely realised the potential to become a PR nightmare.

[1] I could probably at this point even sell my phone again for like 200 bucks and someone would buy it, which could even be hurting them.
Do you really trust your personal opinion on this, versus literally an entire billion dollar industry which has an enormous incentive to get this right, and which thinks this as business DOES work?
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And then what? The criminals will simply tell Coca cola to send it again and be more quiet about it this time.
> it's controlled by the MTA state agency

Which the state controls because New York City ran itself into bankruptcy in the 70s and needed a bailout.
High BTC Fees are hitting lots of legit businesses who were previously making the move to support Bitcoin. If they are halfway thru the rollout, its not a lot of work to switch to supporting BitcoinCash instead, due to the similarity of the apis & protocol.

Median BTC fee has been $10 to $25 USD over the past couple weeks.
Meanwhile, median BCH fee is under 10c.

Regardless of small-block vs big-block ideology, its pretty clear that a 25 dollar transaction fee rules out a lot of business use cases.

From where I sit, we are witnessing the birthing pains, not of the Internet of Things, but of the Internet of Money.
Ever notice Candy Crush and Minecraft getting installed by Microsoft during Windows Updates?
They accelerate quite nicely, so it's not so bad to be stuck behind one.
I think it's a bit more nuanced than that and ultimately comes down to a lack of regulation of what third party advertisement companies should be allowed to do without full disclosure.

It is reasonable to expect a free lemonade stand to print ads on the cups and have sales people around trying to initiate conversations with you while you consume your free beverage. Peeling off the ads and yelling at the sales people would make you an entitled hypocrite. However, if the same sales people would also secretly take a creep photo of you, write down your preference of lemonade and take note of your clothing and body type and compile all of it into a personal file on you to be sold and shared with other businesses in the whole world? Wouldn't you start to question whether they take a bit too much in exchange of that free lemonade?

I would accept it if they wrote the conditions on a sign before entering, but that is not how most free sites today operate. The fact that the tracking is completely automated somehow makes it seem less intrusive to many people, but it is just as creepy as someone spying on you in person.
I was about to join this debate and then ran the numbers and realized I still don't get this right. I was going to say it's about sensor size and bigger sensors have shallower DOF.

Here's where I go when I need a refresher - Tony Northrup's explanations:

https://petapixel.com/2014/05/27/tony-northrup-makes-correct...

There's a lot of criticisms of his series, but they're often shallow (they don't seem to watch his whole video) and actually end up agreeing with him.
It doesn't matter if you own crypto or not. The mere existence of it creates a threat for every relatively rich person out there. They can simply coerce your family to buy bitcoin and give them some, on threat that they kill you.
The keys don't have to come together. Each keyholder can separately sign the transaction from wherever they are on the planet. The transaction to add funds into the hot wallet could have been pre-arranged.

One of the keys could be controlled by a law office on the other side of the planet with contractual obligations to only sign the hot-wallet-refill transaction with a certain amount when the hot wallet falls below a certain amount and when the exchange requests it. The cold-wallet that they're funding from could itself be funded by a timelocked transaction to guarantee that the cold-wallet isn't emptied out too fast, and an entirely different set of law offices that the exchange doesn't regularly contact control the keys that allow the cold-wallet to be emptied out faster. If the different types of on-chain controls like timelocked transactions aren't enough, then some of the keys could be in tamper-proof hardware-security-modules that further restrict how the keys can be used.
Oh how many fun things have been skipped! For example, errors in message header are a nibble. There is compression of sorts, and labels referenced by an offset. There is an unique notation of emails in the SOA records; and some domains and nameservers are just plain magic. If you set out to implement a complete DNS resolver, you are IN for a fun, fun, fun time with printouts of quite a few RFCs dating back to 1987 IIRC. But the most fun part is reading these documents and seeing a story - of networks that never came to be, of dawn of the internet, of very much constrained computers and networking equipment and the genius of the thing that still is the root of the internet as we know it even some 30 years later.
I didn't grow up playing or really understanding sports. I was one of those guys who joked about "sportsball" and stuff like that. When I started really taking weight training seriously I started having a frame of reference for understanding sports and started really appreciating them. Football is a sport that is designed to really allow people to showcase the limits of the human body. The most impressive athletes in any sport in the world are in the NFL and when you think about the things that happen in any single game, they truly are spectacular. OBJ's "The Catch" is one of the most impressive things in the history of sports period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=818_M8gOnqQ

But the NFL is finding itself in a really tough position. I love this sport, but I find it ethically difficult to watch now. It would be one thing if the NFL was doing everything it could to protect its athletes, but it's absolutely clear they are trying to bury their heads in the sand on this one:

> “We need a couple million of dollars. What is stopping us is the money. We’re ready to roll.”

Think about this: we currently have no way to diagnose CTE in living people, we think we may have a way, the "we" in that is pretty credible as its the person who discovered CTE, and it will cost roughly $2mm, and the NFL isn't tripping over themselves to write the check for some reason. It would cost 12 seconds of superbowl ad revenue to fund this, and in fact the NFL has pledged $100mm to investigate CTE, but basically they just aren't doing it:
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/20509977/nfl-takes-c...

This is kind of shameful, and as a fan of this sport I really hope they figure out how to have a better position on this issue, because what's going on right now is not sustainable.
This would be a game changer and potentially life saving for hundreds of athletes in all contact sports but mostly American football. I they can find the funding they need to further their research.
Very cool project, and I greatly appreciate the Linux support!

However since it's just a packaged Java project with an embedded JVM, would be nice if they could provide the Jar as a stand-alone download for those of us not running Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu (only a .deb provided).

Or, at least I cannot seem to find a Jar download, or even links to the sources for me to compile on my own.
Linux is a kernel though.

you don't need to comp through the windows NT changelog either. Its the bundled adware that's the problem, and you can get that in some linux distributions as well.
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It's actually not unusual for a car to perform better after a year. Check out some of the C&D long term tests (e.g. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-honda-civic-sedan-... -- both acceleration and braking improved at 40k miles).
Pretty much all hotels in the city are around the Tenderloin. You can't really avoid it, it's in the heart of the city.
This is the first time I've heard about The Tenderloin being a desirable neighborhood. Are you sure you were actually living in the Tenderloin and not one of its adjacent neighborhoods?
Thank you for this. A great talk in youtube equating winning lottery ticket with a successful business / startup. (want this indexed by my bookmarking site google.com)
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I have been wat hung football since i was kid but like you the past couple of years it has become harder to justify watching these big hits and traumatic injuries knowing the damage it is doing to players when they get older.
>doing nothing and just letting the batteries degrade would sell more phones

Or have people decide that they don't want to buy another expensive Apple phone that "expires" so quickly.

We can theorize about elements of their execution, but the question remains open as to why they opted not to simply tell customers that they were doing this wonderfully benevolent thing for them to extend the life of their phones? And, the idea that they were concerned customers wouldn't believe them doesn't wash. It's just not a sound-basis for a corporate decision like this. And, if that were the case, then why would they expect customers to believe them now?

They created the "problem" in the first place, and chose to clandestinely solve it in a way that happens to benefit them.

I'm going with Occam on this one.
What would you recommend for mobile? Browsing on Android with Chrome is a nightmare, and the last time I tried FF it was a bit sluggish (although it did allowed me to install extensions!)
That's extremely cheap dude...
> you have to step back and ask yourself if the expenditure is worth it

I don’t think our $4 billion train station that looks like a reptilian carcass is worth it [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168484/inside-the-oculus...