skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I work for media news group. I can look out the windows in that pic from my desk.

While the article is true, it doesn't show the whole picture. Alden capital recognized an opportunity: Hundreds of newspapers with brand recognition and skilled employees. While the newspaper will die, these two things can be used to make money / slow the death a bit.

The solution is "adtaxi". All the MNG newspapers act as local sales people, account managers, etc and use their local newspapers brand recognition to generate sales. Adtaxi is the digital fulfillment agency - so newspapers can sell social, search, and programmatic advertising.

This is a growing chunk of each newspapers revenue, but something I haven't seen mentioned. If Alden capital really wanted to make money, they'd recognize the viability of this model to scale, and that would in turn save newspapers. The problem is newspapers are stuck with tons of old employees, old money, and old ways of doing things. They don'y want digital to save them, they'd rather die doing what they know.
I would agree with one caveat: focusing anger at causes of human suffering is A-OK.

Although, maybe it's too hard to efectively generalize social media usage like that.

Is it possible to design a system that can ONLY be used responsibly? At lease in matters of expression?
Same thing with my 280! Unfortunately it was a BFG, and the company folded about 2 days after I submitted my warranty claim.
While I really liked The Right Stuff, this is the basic problem I have with elevating it above, say, Bonfire of the Vanities. It’s presented in the vein of a historical account but you’re also presumably not expected to put too much faith in specific details and characterizations. Everything is subjective at some level of course but I’m not really a fan of it’s factual except when things need to be colored to make a better story.
That's a legitimate question that someone should try to answer. But to be honest, I don't care. We live in a world where margerine was touted for decades to prevent heart disease.

The fact of the matter is that even if we can find no safety issues now, they can't rule out everything. Health and nutrition is complicated and I don't trust unnatural additions to my food that merely seem safe. I'll opt to ingest zero pesticides any time I can.
FYI- MidAir is a new TRIBES like game that is using dedicated servers.
web.archive snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20180515192640/https://newsroom.f...

Purpose of the piece seems to be about how FB has proactive measures in detecting spam/fakery, and the quantity that it manages to process. Key numbers:

- We took down 837 million pieces of spam in Q1 2018 — nearly 100% of which we found and flagged before anyone reported it...

- In Q1, we disabled about 583 million fake accounts — most of which were disabled within minutes of registration.

- Overall, we estimate that around 3 to 4% of the active Facebook accounts on the site during this time period were still fake.

- We took down 21 million pieces of adult nudity and sexual activity in Q1 2018 — 96% of which was found and flagged by our technology before it was reported.

- For graphic violence, we took down or applied warning labels to about 3.5 million pieces of violent content in Q1 2018 — 86% of which was identified by our technology before it was reported to Facebook.

They also mention that their hate speech tech "doesn't work that well". Of the 2.5M hate speech pieces it removed, 38% was flagged by FB's tech.
HPE Buys Its Way into Virtual Networking with Plexxi
yes, I'll even feel angry when a new faster drive has a worse sound. Some old hdd had a very nice gratting that wasn't threatening or annoying.
Anyone have an idea what happens to home prices as rates rise. Prices going down is a simple answer but with people leveraged to the hilt to buy expensive single family homes, it seems more complicated. Underwater mortgages get complicated quickly as we saw in 2008.
You might be referring to Deep Impact [0], which wasn't even quite that long ago.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)
Nah they can do full windows on arm now, no need to go the hobbled route
In the UK 16% alcohol wines attract a higher rate of duty, so being accurate is pretty important. The higher alcohol percentages in fine wine are due to more sugar in the grapes from variations in the weather rather than any choice by the winemaker
Looks very cool - How do you see permissions/roles/authenticated access being managed for APIs where say most gets are public but most puts and a few gets are private? (I apologize if I missed that in the intro)
CoreOS Is New Linux, Not a RHEL Classic Killer
So now institutions can trade this bullshit, too?
I also think this has an impact on inflated asset/stock prices:

The total number of U.S. exchange-listed companies peaked near 8,800 in 1997 and has since sunk to 4,900 as of year-end 2012, according to data furnished by Strategas Group.

https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/michael-santoli/the-stock-ma...
At the risk of me too! I have a Dell T420 with eight spindles in the loft above our bedroom, plus assorted UPS, APU2 based router, switches and a mini ATX based thing for MythTV.

I screwed four lengths of 4" x 2" between two roofing joists to make two trapeziums. I then screwed a 3/4" thick sheet of chipboard to the bottom and then wrapped the top and sides in roofing felt (some protection in case of roof failure).

The loft is lagged 200mm deep with 3/4" chipboard on top which deadens the noise nicely. The Dell was running the fans quite a lot today when I went up to check on something - 25C outside in Somerset, UK today.
Supposed 1080 video would require ~100x50 resolution image (20x20 super-pixels) transmitted 30 times per second, rest of the ~3Mbit of bandwidth would be dedicated to actual video data. 3Mbit is enough for one "I" frame every 5 seconds, paper speaks of sending I frames every 8 seconds. That leaves 140KB per second for your magic compression, incidentally LESS than required by 100x50@30 L frames alone, and what about actual useful data? We didnt even mention color (~3x the data).

Lets try 720@10fps. Budget is 3MB per 8 seconds. 64x36@10 L frames = 184KB, 921KB I frame, leaves us with 236KB/s, enough BW to transfer at max only ~20% of changed super-pixels per second. Even their simulated demo video doesnt appear to be real.

Things just dont add up.
Thanks, Fastly. But here's the thing - you are a pipe. You maybe a pipe with some brains and ability to do request collapsing but you are still a pipe. Just like I do not care that these headers may be upsetting Comcast, I do not care that they are upsetting you. If you don't like it, there other CDNs out there. And if I need to change any of my software to make you happy, you are just not going to have business, which is probably why your sales people are giving 20-30% discounts with $500 monthly commit. That level of a discount on that level of spend is unheard in a CDN industry.
> Unless a candidate is single-mindedly targeting the author's company -- like, they get rejected and come back with a fake resume -- then they decided to fake a resume before talking to the author

You think it was just a coincidence that the fake job/reference the catfish had listed was one of the hiring manager's past employers?

> Make the strongest case you can about your true history, and you'll eventually connect with a company that values the actual you instead of a fake that will eventually break down.

This is definitely true and the right advice for candidates who are considering lying to get through the recruiter filter.
Well no material is unbreakable, either, but some are a whole lot more breakable than others.
No you see you imply that I've given a value to the people here. Which is not at all what I said.

I exactly said I can't understand the line of thinking that leads to the decision. That's pretty much all.
>Rule #2: Take a long hard look at a candidate’s social profiles.

That worries me if I need to enter the job market. I have no social media profile with my name attached to it. I don't enjoy the facebook/twitter/instagram style sites.
Taking back control of my digital life
It isn't enough anymore to put this into a PP. If the subscribers did not gave consent for this it cannot be tracked (at least I think).
Perfectly convenient, safe and fast. Pick any two.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html

I've told developers that if I catch them writing shell scripts in python they must commit a shell script doing
the same set of operations. 2x the work usually dissuades
from this type of nonsense.
What about all the open source? I'l hazard that that quite a few instruments of war and mayhem run on FOSS. Is there a moral dilemma there? Should FOSS licenses make provisions for the type of use packages can be used for (I believe they should)?
In cold parts of the world, warm has connotations of comfort, not cold...
This article reads as more of a "My idealized view of how to constructively review a research paper", rather than a concrete foundation to evaluate papers.

From the reviews my publications have received, it's quite clear that almost every reviewer (including myself!) has constructed their own ad-hoc mental criteria of what they're looking for in a paper. This encourages the evolution of highly-specialized, ultra-niche subdomains and conferences, where one wrong word can disqualify you as a "bad venue fit", and when you're writing your paper, you're trying to predict what the reviewers will think more than about the technical information you're presenting.

If a more objective, standardized review process (as implied by the article title) could be created, even if it was only applied at the meta-review level, I think this could provide some benefits.

Of course, that would require everyone to throw away their own mental models and learn a new system, so I think it's highly unlikely. But it's nice to imagine, isn't it?
Musk Says Tesla Will Build 500 Cars per Day Starting This Week
A couple non-starters here for me is the immediate asking for location data and login method. Perhaps you should delay the location request until the user chooses a 'Current Location' option? Otherwise you're asking where I am, but even if I told you, I would still have to give you more information (login) to get anything useful. Regarding login, maybe only require logging in for route saving, or other features. This would allow a user to actually try the app before giving any of this information. Maybe you could have a landing page before the application, to give the user an overview of what it actually does first. Great job on shipping a product!
they'll comment on different 'subtle notes of chocolate' in a product that is entirely made of grapes and yeast.

This, at least, is IMO not a valid criticism. I make beer, and two easy examples are cloves & banana. Fermenting beer too warm leads the yeast to overproduce esters, which taste like bananas. Too cold leads the yeast to overproduce phenols, which taste like cloves. It's very real & very obvious.
> they'll comment on different 'subtle notes of chocolate' in a product that is entirely made of grapes and yeast

I think you're deliberately misunderstanding what is clearly just explaining aromas by saying they're similar to those you'd find in food that you'd be familiar with.
I wrote a small python shell script for searching Firefox bookmarks directly from the SQLite file. It is very primitive, but it works great. Feature requests and pull requests welcome.

https://github.com/dotancohen/firefox-bookmarks-finder
I'm glad we're again concentrating on newer language models.

Curious how it'll perform compared to fasttext when used as encoding network in larger tasks. I can't help but notice the trend of going back to simpler models with smarter optimizations and regularization to achieve better results.

This is a frequent question of mine, which I ask to everyone using RNNs - what do you think of the idea that CNNs will be able to replace RNNs for sequence tasks [0]? CNNs are less computationally expensive too, so there's a definite benefit of switching to them if the performance is on par.

[0]: https://twitter.com/lmthang/status/989261575482560513
One of the people involved in the project and answering questions in the article. Happy to answer more questions.

We talk about reasoning for Cereal in the article and in my case study too[1]. In large organizations, you often have tens or hundreds of designers, support multiple platforms (ios, android, web(mac, windows, linux) and do ad campaigns around the world. When it comes to typefaces, there really isn't any universal system fonts (other than Arial maybe), that are available on all platforms. If you use different fonts on each platform, the design will be slightly different, trying to manage a cross-platform design system (like we do [2]) becomes challenging. Every time, designer has to pick the right font, potentially do 2-3 designs with different font to make sure they all look how they want them to. Also then each time user or anyone in the company looks at the design on their device, it look will slightly different. If the marketing then also uses different type, it will look slightly off if you include product shots (one reason why Apple now uses SF everywhere). Short answer: having multiple fonts causes additional work and can confuse people, especially inside the company.

Since there isn't universal cross-platform fonts, it means you often have to embed fonts, and in some cases license them. Licensing fonts is different than just buying a font file. Even for small developers quality fonts can run up to $50,000 per app (imagine what the licensing costs are for a global company with large userbase!). With licensing you never get exactly what you want in terms of expression and functionality, and other brands can easily buy the same thing.

As the last point, what I find really exciting that we can now consider font kind of like a software. We change it whenever we find problems or just want to improve something. That is usually not possible with licensing. Obviously, you would and should only do your own typeface if you have these kind of issues and care enough wanting to solve them.

[1]: https://airbnb.design/working-type/

[2]: https://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/
Probably! My biggest issue with all this crypt hoo-ha is that the pigs from Wall Street who know a great scam when the see one went into cryptos with both feet. What does that tell you?
MTV's "Catfish" series has had seven seasons so far and is shown around the world. It's not obscure at all.
Will do, thanks for the advice!
I wouldn't agree with that. But the article is about employees.
> But the culture around it is elitist and unscientific

Maybe the culture on the lower levels, but certainly not at the top.

> And they'll comment on different 'subtle notes of chocolate' in a product that is entirely made of grapes and yeast.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2204371/
I use the 2nd point a lot for debugging 3d transforms. To expand upon it, for example in three dimensions the three axes are:

(1, 0, 0)

(0, 1, 0)

(0, 0, 1)

To find out where those axes are after a 3x3 matrix transform, you just read off the first, second, and third columns of the matrix respectively. Then you can mentally visualize another unit cube in the new coordinate system using those three vectors as the edges of the cube.

Really basic change-of-basis stuff but academic lectures don't emphasize how useful it is to be able to look at a matrix of numbers immediately know what it does.
Crysis 10 Years On: Why It's Still Melting the Most Powerful Gaming PCs
A higher wattage than 400W is utterly pointless for a fanless PSU; if you need to dissipate constant loads of >400W of heat, you will need a fan somewhere (exotic options like mineral oil cooling aside).
If it's an edition-independent feature, then it doesn't require the newer edition, so a compiler that doesn't support the new edition wouldn't have any problems.

Maybe it would help to step through a strawman?

Let's say that "impl Trait" didn't land last week, but lands six months from now, after the 2018 edition ships. Alice is working on a library project using the 2015 edition. She uses "impl Trait". Since it doesn't require the 2018 edition, it just works. Bob uses Alice's library, and uses a compiler that doesn't support Rust 2018. That's fine, as Alice hasn't used any 2018 specific things.

That's my understanding of the scenario you're talking about. Did I get it right?

The other scenario would be this:

It's 2019. Alice is working on a library project using the 2015 edition. She tries to use the "catch" keyword, which requires edition 2018. When she tries to use it, her code will fail to compile. She has two choices: 1. not use the feature 2. update to edition 2018. If she chooses the latter, when Bob tries to use her library later, but his compiler doesn't support the 2018 edition, it will fail to compile.

This is basically all of the usual backwards and forwards compatibility stuff, even without editions. If you try to use ? on a 1.0 version of rustc, your code won't compile, as that was added much later.
But no, the author knew Jim, if he had dialed that number and did a bit of small talk he would've known that's not Jim on the phone (unless the fake Jim is quick on his feet about pretending to be someone else).

The catfisher is stupid, he should've looked through the author's LinkedIn profile and saw that the author is connected with Jim, he would have not used Jim as a reference if he had done that.
> backdoor reference checks aren’t always considered kosher by everyone

?? These are the most important references. Many excellent candidates won't have a back connection but when they are possible they can make an important difference two ways: One is the way described here (or, "this person was OK but doesn't sound like they would work out for the kind of thing you want -- that was where they failed with us too."). The other is the opposite, which has happened to me twice: "Oh that person? Look, if you don't take them let them know we'd really like them back" (on a candidate who barely made it through the interview but there was enough something there that we decided to do some background checking. Turned out he was simply nervous in front of people he didn't know and gave a terrible interview.). Without the background check we might have missed an excellent candidate with poor job-seeking skills.

Whenever I get a resume with a school on it that I or one of my colleagues attended I always check. I also once had an amazing candidate with 20 years experience in the lab doing just what we wanted. Their resume said that they had a degree from my schoo in X. I of course looked them up on the alum site and saw they had a degree in Y. Now both X and Y were in the set {Chemistry, Physics, Material Science, Chemical Engineering} so clearly had they simply told the truth it wouldn't have mattered -- the 20 years of experience would have said enough for anyone who actually cared about degrees after all that time. But since they lied...the resume went into the trash and the candidate was never brought in for an interview.
It's only well paid when you're away - when you're onshore the pay goes down.
I read somewhere that essentially any wine that retails for less than $15-20 is generally the wine equivalent of fast food and industrially manufactured, wines from $20-$40 vary considerably in their process, and wines $40+ are generally made in ways that conform to ones "mental notions" of how wine is made... same article also said that at ~$100 there stops being any quality difference among wines and it is all taste/preference/supply & demand
I would be very surprised if football survived at the level of popularity it enjoys now without the violent hits
A computer with no input mechanism or output mechanism would be secure. Just not very useful.

I imagine any computer that approaches maximum security also approaches minimum utility.

Presumably the author just thinks that Intel is a little too low on security compared to the other offerings, and not that the other offerings are actually "secure".
Very similar in some ways. There are a vast number of interconnected details that have the potential to be wrong and far fewer automated ways to catch any errors. Your "users" inevitably catch a lot of them at "runtime".
It's less powerful, but personally, I've replaced my Intel NUC case with one of these Akasa fanless chassis:

http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.list....

The thing is not perfect, the case can get quite hot, specially in summer, but it works reasonably well.

I use the thing as a media center (xbmc/kodi), and it's quite nice to have a fanless/zero noise setup for this usage.
I'm kind of surprised nobody meantions "Envy Code R", I've searched for a while and it's the only one I really like a lot
I once did an experiment; I brought a 100EUR bottle of wine (probably $400 bottle in the US) to a party at my language school just for fun to see if people would notice. Except for one lady, nobody noticed anything (out of ~80 people) and those who drank it took it as a regular, uninteresting wine.
I go to Austin now and then. It gives me hope for the future when I see the organic hemp reusable tie-died bags. Amazing how many plastic bottles, plastic packaging, plastic garbage sacks, and plastic tableware can fit into those bags.
Let's also not forget that North Korea's nuclear weapons facilities were recently damaged in an earthquake.

No, their test facilities were damaged. It was a hole in a mountain used to test their warheads, and the hole in the mountain has collapsed.

NK completely retains the ability to produce and launch warheads if they want.

More than likely NK doesn't need to test their weapons anymore. They're a fully capable nuclear power now and they will be bringing that fact to the negotiating table.
It's not in the best interest of the wineries or the distributors to advertise that unless legally obligated to do so, which is why it isn't really common knowledge. The whole "natural/organic/non-gmo/no-pesticides-added" labels common in the food and beverage industry would likely cause unwanted contrast to wines labeled as "from concentrate".
or LCROSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS
I went from not knowing anything about Chess Boxing-to-seeing it multiple times today. I came across this: Chess Boxing's role in empowering young women in India.

https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/articles/2018/0...
Isn't Google Photos / Google Camera App doing that, automatically or semi-automatically? I recall they had a feature that could magically merge multiple photos into one that has a combination of details from the source images.
Developing Console Applications with Bash
But how did they get the name? From the movie.

I saw the documentary on a flight. I guess I'm part of the 6.57x10^-7 percent!
I think the announcement melted the database, but will be sure to check out that link a little later. :)

It's a solid typeface, so great job.
The place I'm at now forbids employees from being references for past employees (or current employees discreetly seeking other employment). Is this normal?

It would have prevented "Jim" or anyone else at ACME Corp from being a reference to catfish-er, so requests for a reference from the company would have been denied right off the bat. That would have made it harder to spot the fake.
Do you know why they stopped?
If a data-subject subscribes to a mailing-list by giving your email and you have a "request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters" which can be clearly describe in your privacy policy, you are totally inline with the article 7 for the condition of consents.