skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not change my words.

I am not pretending algorithmic magic will prevent sex trafficking. I am saying that, to the best of our abilities, we will ban it from our platform. At least for underage trafficking, by checking IDs we are already far better than classifieds.

So we will do our part to fight against and not enable trafficking. We are not a free-for-all marketplace.

That is the extent of my claims!

Police are ineffective because they do not control the marketplace, unlike us. If governments wanted to shut down trafficking they have the option to legalize and regulate. That would harm illegal operations.
First of all, there are many open data portals around, so this might be a good source of quality data no matter what.

CKAN is currently the de-facto standard for these kind of portals, so being able to query the CKAN Action API enables to gather metadata from portals all over the world.

Some portals even have an API directly to their primary data (e.g. exposing a CSV as a querable JSON REST API), in CKAN this is called "DataStore". And this kind of data might be something you want to integrate. I can think of a number of datasets that could be interesting, e.g. schedule of garbage collection, public transport timetable or measurements from public weather stations.

Different portals have different data available. I'm from Switzerland and I know these datasets are available here. Is there a geograhical region you want to cover/not cover or it doesn't matter?
Why did you immediately assume the post was a joke about suicide, rather than a clever and witty remark about the dangers of following your passions/ideals in the face of enormous opposition and psychological torment?
Google is now the default search provider in U.S. and Canada.
Portal to hell.
Yeah, what the fuck do they need an entire floor of an office building to be blocked off for anyway? Do they think they run The Manhattan Project?

I just can't wait to see what kind of life-changing innovation will surely result from this endeavor...
There are relatively few billboards where I live, sometimes none.

As soon as I cross some boundaries (city? county? not sure) there are TONS. And instead of ‘traditional’ billboards they are bright LED based ones that draw your attention and switch every 5-10s. It’s horrible.
Ethereum breaks record with $1,000 for the first time
Especially when you blame your investors for how hard your job is these days: "[It] used to be that way but its changed in the last ten years because the activists [investors] have gotten more involved."

Those darn meddling activists!
Nvidia to Power Mercedes-Benz MBUX, Its Next-Gen  AI-Powered Cockpit
Because it is far less used. The techno behind it is the same as bitcoin (with different configuration).
AWS S3 bucket discovery
There's another aspect, unforgeability. The interesting thing about the blockchain is that it is a very hard to forge data-set, by design. You can take a proof of work blockchain and look at the hashes of the blocks in it, and based on the number of 0's in each block (the difficulty), you can know how much energy (and cost) went into mining that block.

So if there's a danger of forgery, or you have an interest in security, a blockchain with proof of work provides a really trustworthy way to know you're getting authentic data, because you can look at the chain, and know things like it would cost about 100,000,000 to forge this full history, and 1,000,000 to forge to last block.
They sure didn't think through this name, at the very least.
No, they made a new deal with google and ended theirs with Yahoo late last year.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-back-its-firefoxs-defau...
Show HN: Simple Recommender System for MovieLens Dataset built with JavaScript
How to chart in the App Store 4.5 years after launch
Finally a fix for forced reboots!
I hope it isn't. My 401(k) won't provide for my retirement using Good Feelings. The best interest of the shareholders is running a profitable enterprise.
Exploiting Spectre with Deep learning
Is using an IRC client any less intuitive compared to using a locally installed Slack client (or, in the past, using something like AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google talk, etc)?
You will look back on the decision to do this with regret. I understand you can’t see that now. I’m genuinely sorry for you.

P.s. if you did talk to lawyers about this, your “opsec” is probably already blown or partially blown. Attorney-Client privileges only click in if you’re their client, which you aren’t. They will remember you and connect the dots if and when the time comes for anyone to care who you are.
And the larger problem is one of knowledge asymmetry.

If you're dealing with technology so complicated that one person cannot simultaneously design and repair / maintain it, then whoever performs the latter doesn't possess all the knowledge of the former.

Maybe they used an flammable alloy under certain conditions for engineering reasons.

Most metal doesn't burn. But do you want repair / maintenance techs making that assumption?

Multiple by 100,000 parts.

PS: A more realistic example was one of the Skunk Works projects. I forget the details, but either tools of special metallic composition or wooden tools had to be used to avoid damaging the flight characteristics of the aircraft.
Assuming making ads illegal actually gets rid of them (a big assumption), content providers and search engines would have to move to a different revenue stream. They could charge users directly:
(1) Micro-subscriptions over a long time span, something like $1/month
(2) Micro-payments; something like $0.03 per day of use.
Transaction fees hurt #1 less, so I think it's more likely. Probably bundled over a year.

The degree to which losing ads hurts content providers depends on how much ad revenue needs to be replaced by direct payments. If an average user sees ~3000 ads a month (just a guess) and the CPM is $10, sites will need to convince users to pay $30/month for what was previously "free". The lack of ads would reduce users' mobile bandwidth costs by up to 50% [1], which does free up money, but direct payments would probably weigh more heavily on the user's mind. So a lot of sites with perceived low value would lose their advertising revenue and not be able to replace it. On the other hand, if each user only generates $3 in ad revenue per month, the transition is a lot easier.

Premium content services that people already pay subscriptions for (magazines, Netflix, etc.) would do fine. Content services with insufficient quality or breadth of content to support a subscription model would either (a) give up, (b) continue as a hobby rather than a business, or (c) provide free content to build an audience with the hope of becoming a paid service in the future.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost...
With radio and TV, it costs the same to produce and broadcast a show from a radio or TV station regardless of how many people actually listen to or watch it [1].

With a web site, the more people that visit it, the more it costs for hosting and bandwidth.

Websites having a higher marginal cost for each new audience member compared to TV and radio might have an affect on how effective ads have to be to pay for the content. I could see web ads needing to be more effective than radio or TV ads because of that marginal cost.

[1] well, sort of. If a show is popular, actors on the show might be able to negotiate higher pay, for example.
This letter just seems to affirm that Google made a good business decision with AMP.
Dell’s new XPS 15 2-in-1 has a ‘maglev’ keyboard
It solves some problems, especially when it comes to networks of shared information where no one actor trust any other single actor.

But as usual, as soon as a lot of money is to be made, non-techies get dollar signs in their eyes and --without understanding the tool-- jump in and start using it for everything.

It will be very amusing to watch, for sure.
Slack going down really did something strange at my workplace. My cube-neighbors started talking to me using their mouths, instead of sending Slack messages. It was very disconcerting.
Seems like the real problem here isn't even the privacy issue, it's that we are still prosecuting/imprisoning people for personal drug use.

Seems like a massive waste of time and resources spent ruining peoples lives for no reason.
Yes, because the corresponding pop will dry up a lot of capital that could've otherwise been put to productive use.

Bullshit is shameful.
The area is way too small to generate any feasible amount. If I remember correctly you'd only be able to charge 15 miles per day in ideal conditions.
California Bill Would Allow Unrestricted Housing by Transit
What does it do with blockchain? Picture for bitcoin?
Mea culpa. Trying to prevent him from doing it, and wound up doing it.
They aren't just paying "with their attention" — but also with having all of their behavior, across the entire web, recorded, tracked, and modeled by folks with demonstrably unclean hands, whose incentives are aligned against them.

That is a categorically different bargain than merely having something that competes with the content for their attention. Just because the viewer may be ignorant of it doesn't mean they aren't (implicitly) making it.
For what it's worth, they've been bought out since the malware thing happened, and one of the first things they did was cut that shit out.

But holy crap this is terrible. 101 requests while using an adblocker, 116 without. Of those requests I count 62 of them being to download Javascript. More than half?!

Out of curiosity, retried using pingdom's tools:
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/z7f8e/https://sourceforge.net/p...

It gets a solid D, unsurprisingly. They saw over 200 requests, 43% were javascript calls, and javascript made up more than 52% of the final page content loaded. That's just nuts, considering what the site actually is.

I don't like to pick on websites and developers that much, but holy crap what were they thinking? Did they even consider what the experience is like outside of their dev laptop or using a fast network?
just import a business model that somehow works with no practical basis by adding cryptocurrency
> when you need to be able to easily include people who aren't engineers

Plenty of people were able to use IRC in the past without IT help or training. They just installed a client like mIRC and figured it out from there.
How Birds of Paradise Produce Super-Black Feathers
Climate change is turning some sea turtle populations 99% female
How did we make a similar adaptor in the 80'ies with a microprocessor running 2 MHz?
Fortunately the PLA was invented. A few bits of memory and a little programmable logic. Enough to synchronize to the, in this case 2.35 MHz, Manchester coded bitstream and assemble the data bits into bytes.
The processor was still not fast enough to handle the control bytes of the data stream in real time. It could actually handle the controlling logic, but then it had no time left for looping around. The trick was then to disable the processors address bus during program fetching and feed it instructions from a separate ROM, controlled by another small PLA which also handled the looping.
Eelo founder wants Elon Musk involved with project
I applaud the initiative but when I look at what happened to Slashdot, I’m not enthusiastic about Sourceforge succeeding any better under the same ownership (I have no idea whether Slashdot makes money but it’s a horrible community these days, and nothing seems to be done about it.)
Agreed. Look at where the lion's share of revenue comes from.
For Rust, this benchmark tests Nickel, Iron, and Rocket; all of which are synchronous. Async really helps here!
See what it does on market open. Don't be the pioneer, wait until the path is clear. IOW, if it opens higher and keeps going up, being the contrarian that shorts it only works for those with pockets far deeper than yours. Wait until it starts to go down a bit, and keeps going down.

That's what I'll be doing, anyway. But the more likely scenario is that the market wakes up and asks, "what the hell did we just do?", a bunch of sell orders stack up before the open, and it just opens down and stays there. So the good time to short might have been today, but great googly moogly that would an awfully risky trade. Something something irrational markets and solvency.

I don't know if you were trying to point out some assumed hypocrisy or not, but the summary is that at least one person on HN is looking at the possibility of shorting Kodak.
What’s the essential difference between the approach described in the linked paper, and the one Haskell is taking? And what makes you favor the former?
>Since white males are not protected class.

Yes they are. Or at least whites and males are a protected class (at the suit alledges discrimination against these classes independently, not just their intersection).

It is true that the intent of the anti discrimination laws was to protect non-whites and females, codifying that into law would be a clear violation of the equal protections clause and make any such law unconstitutional.

>My personal unqualified opinion is that they will settle out of court for wrongful termination.

The wrongful termination argument defiantly seems stronger here. However, it is worth keeping in mind that they have not settled yet. I assume Damore's laywers would have tried settling before even filing [0]. If Google wanted to settle they should have done it back than, before the PR hit of the suit being filed happened. Coming up is the PR hit of discovery, which is going to bring to light a lot of skeletons that Google would rather keep hidden. (Even if Google did nothing wrong with regards to this case; no organization the size of Google can go through discovery without something coming out)

[0] Assuming their actual goal is just money. They claim to be doing this to effect change. While their public statements on motivation are highly suspect, it is within the realm of reason that they are actually interested in this case for the political agenda, in which case they would want to take it to court.
From what I've heard updates just renable it too don't they?
Because the post was a joke about suicide.
> The idea of an "Old Testament God" and "New Testament God" is rejected by all the Jews and Christians I know.

How many Jews and Christians do you know? How many theologians do you know?

I could just as easily state that it is abundantly clear that the Old Testament and the New Testament are written by completely different people at completely different points in time.

Are you saying that all acts of cruelty by God in the OT are acts of judgement? And what kind of judgement is that? The story about Sodom and Gomorrah basically tells us that:

A) Any kind of sin can be punishable by death.
B) Collective punishment is OK, including innocent men, women and children.
Buffett calls investments bets all the time. Let’s call it what it is.
I gave my 90 year old grandmother an Echo Show for Christmas and she loves it. My main goal was video chat (which she can also initiate herself), but she’s actively using it as a radio, weather station and calendar for the trash pick up.

To help her remember the commands I made a reference sheet with the most common phrases, but what mainly helped her was to think of talking to Alexa as if she was talking to a dog: Giving clear, loudly spoken commands.
Security and performance are just two of many linked variables in the ongoing trade-offs made when designing software and hardware. The silver lining in this incident maybe that the ubiquity of the problem means security issues gain more mindshare in the public consciousness, and the pendulum swings towards security a little stronger.
You don't have an inalienable right to watch people's uploaded YouTube videos.
How did you create a free private repo to begin with?
I imagine it narrowly beat out "Telescreen".
>Traditional Republican philosophy is generally to seek out one or two major storefronts to anchor an entire town.

How can you make a generalization like that with a straight face? I spent a significant number of years in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and most of the Republicans I interacted with there were pro small business and disliked dominating large chains owned by out of state corporations. A single store without meaningful competition is antithetical to the message of the Republican party.

You are confusing what naturally happens when you have small cities (<200k) not filled with rich people with a political view. When you have small cities, anyone with a large war chest can pretty easily bully everyone else on price and a regular middle class population will not pay a significant premium to 'support local'.

Talk to folks in a town dominated by a Walmart. Tons of people hate going there but still do because it's the best price.

Finally, the only thing that gets a smaller city on the right track is businesses that attract outside money. A small city will never thrive regardless of building one huge retail store vs tons of small ones if the same small population are the only folks shopping there. The easiest way for city to get external money pouring in is to accept a deal for a big industrial operation.
It is blindingly obvious we are in a bubble. I find it crazy that everyone cannot see it.
Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs
The publisher just needs to deliver something that has 6 bananas of value to me to make this example work. That's exactly congruent with a web where high-value content is rewarded and clickbait and spam is not. Sounds like a win-win to me.

Consider all of the modern content industries that aren't primarily ad supported - movies, music, AAA video games, books. In this context the ad-supported nature of web content looks like an aberration, not an ideal to strive for.
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There are other publishers. Authors, as distinct from publishers, will find other outlets. Outlets that make my life as a user less miserable.

And the net will be a better place.
Except busybox allows execution of external binaries. And BB is much (MUCH) more complete. Let that sink in.
Whoa there: fixed top banner with an actual banner at the top, covering a whopping 20% of my screen height and 80% of width. Didn't see something like this in a long time.

I'm never going to interact through that as a developer on daily basis. Not even considering the poor UI for just every feature in SF.

The only thing SF has for it, currently, is a mailing list for each project. GitHub and GitLab should have this. Interaction and discussion though "issues" is horrible.
> These silver-bullet projects that promise to bring large number of high-paying jobs rarely pan out. Remember when Yahoo put in that data center in Lockport (just outside of Buffalo for everyone not familiar with the area)? It was touted as a big win...as of two years ago they have a whopping 98 employees (most making less than 6 figures according to Glassdoor.)

Meanwhile, Wisconsin is bending over backward to give somewhere near $4Billion to foxconn to build a new manufacturing facility in Wisconsin, and everytime someone asks if they should spend that much, they get "10,000 JOBS" shouted at them.. (even then, that seems like way too much per job, at $300,000 in direct state subsidy per employee, if they get to 10,000, but its an impressive sounding number). then they have local subsidies, promised freeway widening, etc..
Being bullied sucks. I will teach my kids to use any tools available to stop them being bullied. If resorting to authority solves the problem, then thats great. That's how you deal with bullies, by using whatever works; not by following some arbitrary code about doing things yourself, or not tattling etc. (Note though I live in Ireland where involving the police sounds pretty bizarre/extreme).
It’s the word Shipped in the title that’s getting me.
The edge program is essentially a beta. And now we’re redefining “shipped” to mean “available in eval builds”.

I suppose it’s been 20 years since we ruined the word Beta. I am not surprised that it’s happening again, but I am a bit disappointed.
the other reply is correct, but i had a hard time understanding the point without a concrete example: making the roads narrower with visual cues regarding your speed causes people to slow down.
Firstly, thanks for the question. As mentioned, not a CPU designer or trying to teach Intel what to do. More like relying on the hive mind to see if I have the right idea.

A second instruction in the pipeline would read from the above mentioned L0 cache (let us call it load buffer), much like it would for tentative memory stores from the store buffer.

Also, two memory fetches in parallel are not twice as long as a memory fetch, if that would be the solution (which I guess would not be the case, as I imagine race conditions appearing)
Tracking ownership of some intangible set of rights is actually basically the one thing that BTC/ETH-esque tech is really useful for, so the Kodak thing is far from the craziest coin announced. A sane thing to do would be to piggyback on one the existing blockhains and their pre-existing hashing power. In this scenario, Kodak would create some kind colored-coin or side chain representing ownership of certain photographs and take a cut as basically a notary, providing easy tools to store a [ image_hash, owner_id ] tuple on the blockchain for posterity. This has the advantage of /continuing to exist if Kodak goes away/, which is what you want as a rights holder.

Trouble with that, is that then Kodak doesn't get to issue its own token, and therefore doesn't get to indulge in securities manipulation. It also means they can open themselves up to competition on ease-of-use, since now anybody can run a company doing the same thing.

There is also the VERY BIG question of whether or not such a distributed ledger would ever be accepted in a court as proof of ownership of rights to those photos. If it can't be, there's no point in any of it.
SF per se didn't. Most of the worst decisions were done TO Sourceforge by whomever bought it and the team. Frankly the site was dead to me after the last of the original four founders bailed.
None of the stories in the Discover section ever appeal to me. Snapchat is great for sexting and in the gay community is used by a lot of people to create/share amateur porn. Maybe they could monetize that somehow.
Miraxess is introducing its third-party dock at CES2018 – compatible with DeX
I wonder if the personal trait to see problems and act is because the problems seem bigger or because the "activation threshold" of that person is lower. If the former, I could see that the same trait also makes it more likely that the problems feel overwhelming.

Ignorance is bliss.
You're on a free website that has no (explicit) ads right now.
So is having an ICO or tagging blockchain to your company name like a holy blessing that brings back failed companies from the dead?
git pull --rebase doesn't rebase a pushed commit. It only rebases commits you have made locally, which therefore have not been seen by others.