skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have the wrong model. You're betting a different amount each time. Say you start with $1 and get a heads then a tails:

($1 * 1.5) * .6 = $.90

What if you get a tails then a heads?

($1 * .6) * 1.5 = $.90

Doesn't seem like such a great game now, does it?

The Kelly Criterion sets a limit for how much of your total wealth you should bet when the odds favor you. If you bet more than that limit you increase your odds of losing everything without improving your expected return.

So imagine a better game where you could bet any amount, and you still got paid $5 for every $4 you risked and had a 50% chance of winning. The correct amount to bet is 10% of your bankroll. If you bet more than that in the long run you will go broke.
They realized it was a risk so they built their own browser to have more control. And it worked. Only now, users are wising up and moving to Firefox.
I disagree that most people use ad blockers because they “don’t want to see [any] ads.”

Meaning, if advertisers hadn’t built more and more intrusive ads and had stuck with static ads that don’t severely harm the UX, then I doubt most users would bother with ad blockers.
Oh yes. My wife is the worst offender. The amount of times I have had to cancel important things to get a taxi to our kindergarten because she had our car (and thus the agreed upon responsibility to pick up the phone) can't be counted on 2 hands, and he has only been 2 years in kindergarten.
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It's a slightly different place of articulation. The Arabic <ع> is pharyngeal, while the "R" you are thinking of is uvular.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_of_articulation#/media/F... (9 vs 10)
That's fair, my point is that in many cases (a rapidly growing number of cases), the entire site is JS. If you need to service, then you have to accept the tracking.
Nobody's coming for the Trump Supporters.
They did not play by the rules that all voluntary users of a private website agree to abide by.
They are still free to support Trump on other sub reddits, are if banned from reddit they still have the rest of the internet to play in.
Weird... maybe they are different where you are? Older models, or not installed/adjusted correctly?

I use these all the time (they’re pretty much everywhere in the U.K.) and haven’t experienced this unbalanced pressure issue.
They always seem pretty much equal pressure on each side to me.
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Nyanko is just a name. The usual name for cat is "neko". There's nothing grammatically wrong about using nyanko in place of neko.
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I have been using uBlock Origin for about three years and I browse the web heavily (4-6 hours/day). In that time it has blocked 13% of requests (10% on mobile).

I don't have enough info to quantify the amount of data blocked though.
NRA splits with PR firm, lobbyist and TV amid infighting
Sure, but you didn't have to visit it. The worst part of the increasing corporatization of the public-facing internet is that we no longer seem to be content leaving well enough alone.
I don’t get how it can get the fingerprint to be so unique as to attribute ads. Most mobile browsers are exactly the same, you have the same screen resolution and so on. And most desktop browsers when maximized are the same resolution. I mean there must be groups of thousands of users for each combination of fingerprinted features. So it’s not all the way down to the person, right? It’s just correlations?
Hackerrank has some fairly no-joke problems on it. Is https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/decibinary-numbers/pro... too easy? I enjoyed that one a while back.

I think I have a list of curated DP problems bookmarked somewhere, I'll see if I can track it down.
I don't think it's a scandal. It's not new or surprising that ads use tracking techniques like this. Stack Exchange recently announced [1] that they will use ad networks as an experiment. That announcement was quite unpopular and met with resistance and pleas to allow only static images to avoid annoying ads as well as sophisticated tracking. So this is no scandal since they were open about it and knew the risks. It seems they ignored the community though so they probably lost some trust by the community. I wonder if they will take action and stop the experiment.

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing...
Has anyone made a plugin that does a DOS on each ad server(s) detected? Then, we have built-in DDOS on the ad servers, if enough users install it.
>climate change is going to end the world in twelve years

That a position that is supported by nearly all peer-reviewed evidence is not considered centrist, is another sign we've shifted the window towards an ideological rather than rational/observational politics.
On Firefox I just use 'Remove Youtube's Suggestions' addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-youtub...

I'm perfectly capable of finding wanted content on my own, thanks, Youtube! :)
Most of those problems would go away if they a) eliminated the gamification (displaying numbers of replies, retweets, and likes) and b) required textual comments of a particular length.

But then so would the engagement and ad revenue.
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It's ok. SO's policy on abusive ads is to mention it on mets and hope a moderator notices and then acts upon it.
The expert quoted in that article disagrees with the idea that you can't do it:

"People talk about a 'window of opportunity' for learning language," Kuhl says. "The implication is that if you miss that opportunity, it's too late. I don't agree. It is more difficult with the years. But not impossible."

Personally, I think the largest difficulty is the amount of practice required. Kids can babble about all day, but as an adult, even investing an hour a day into language practice is hard to find the time for.
> You think Google is handing off data about all of these searches to the government?

Snowden's leaks showed the NSA collects data from google. Google would have no power to stop them from taking whatever they want and they seem to want everything.

Lavabit tried to provide a service where everything was encrypted and secure but the government demanded they compromise the service so they could spy on people or shut down. They decided to shut down. You think our 3 letter agencies are shaking down small tech-savvy email providers while ignoring a target like Google? A company that is devoted to collecting our personal info?
Can you walk through a complete use case?

A user wants to find a "relevant document".

What is that? What information does the user provide to specify the document?

Why does the user trust the result?
everyone should be running the same container though.
China strip mines political prisoners for organs
> This is a very common habit of our modern propaganda, to use the position of an expert in very narrow field as an authoritarian position to promote political agenda

Examples? I can't think of any. But I know the article isn't one, so why even bring up what is supposedly "common"?
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Also, Southeast Asia probably means drinking green tea, which equals fluoride, thus good for teeth (up to a point).

Relatedly, I remember hearing of archaeologists finding skulls of "cave men" (can't remember the time or place) with perfect teeth and signs of tooth picks (grooves around the gum line). The implication was that cultural knowledge (or perhaps just personal habits) had solved bad dental hygiene at times throughout history--and it was repeatedly lost and found again. Could have also been happenstance with natural fluoride in the water (how the effect was discovered, I believe), or non-intentional as with the green tea.
The revelation that misinformation campaigns catering to preconceptions are not actually reality based is an existential threat to extremism. Any post showing that will draw them like flies.

The other popular response seems to be "the article and game are bogus". Not sure how the two are reconciled of course.
Judging by the fact that there are multiple watchdog-style subreddits dedicated to policing Reddit content (Against Hate Subreddits, Top Minds, SRS, plus others) I wouldn't be surprised at all.
If I were running for office I might be a bit careful about how I expressed such things, but having a degree of belief proportional to the degree of evidence appears the opposite of foolish to me. I hold that belief moderately strongly.
On Linux-based systems, Firejail [1] is designed specifically for that (originally for Firefox?). However, it's had quite a few CVEs of its own, and I don't know how effective it is in practice protecting against 0-day-type problems.
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Winston is a hardware filter designed to take back your privacy online
I've had no problems when on a desktop with both monitors plugged into similar interfaces. When you've got one on VGA and one on DisplayPort, or a local laptop display and a VGA on a dock and a DisplayPort also on the dock...it gets confused. Use seems to have largely corrected the VGA monitor + laptop combination, that usually works OK, but digital/daisy-chained combinations with laptops and docks are definitely buggy.
One thing we can all agree on: Donald Trump attracts attention like no other.

Years from now, controversy will still roil. Historians will have a colorful character to teach about.
Maybe, but that seems better than the current mess. I'd rather no features than features which act against my interests.
Did you have very specific hypotheses to test before doing analysis of the dump? Sentences like "Websites with feature x rank y percent better" are pretty meaningless if they're just patterns that appeared from the dump. Any large enough sample is going to have significant looking patterns which can have a likely reason back fitted to them, but which are simply due to randomness.
Because if you live in a country there's only one government. Business provide a service and you can find another service that meets your needs.
Is this a marketplace or an agency?

The fixed price point of $99 seems like it would have to rely on some geographical arbitrage to make any sense. Why not establish a quality baseline and let the marketplace take care of the price points / team sizes?

I think the focus on tech debt is an interesting take though.
Thank you for trying to find it and for replying.

Please note that you getting strong headaches while traveling due to caffeine withdrawal really doesn't fall under what I was describing.

I'm talking about people with much more serious, chronic conditions where the entire world would like to act like "Your genetic disorder would totes go away if you would just eat this thing here/take this supplement/read this article!"

And I struggle with this myself because I actually have a genetic disorder and it actually has responded well to dietary and lifestyle changes, so I am prone to wanting very much to spread the good news and it tends to not go over well with other people. So I've had to learn to curb my own enthusiasm.

I'm not suggesting no one should ever offer unsolicited feedback on Hacker News. I'm just suggesting people be a little sensitive when talking to folks with overwhelming and incurable problems who have probably heard your suggestion umpteen other times and will probably just find it to be an imposition, not a brilliant insight.

Most of the time, they aren't commenting about their condition because they are hoping some random stranger will know the miracle cure that they hadn't heard of and be able to somehow back it up credibly. Most of the time, they are just trying to distract themselves from unremitting agony by engaging in a little discussion and their medical situation is something they happen to know something about, so they offer their two cents worth in hopes of feeling like a normal human being for thirty seconds.

Intruding on that with "Have you tried X! You should totes try X!" tends to be a super negative experience in most cases for such people. It robs them of their moment of normality that they were reaching for as someone who can simply talk to other people, just like anyone else.

You have a great day.
I've definitely heard both sides of this, so I'm not sure. A lot of the history of the release has been retconned by Nike to improve its legacy
Last time I was in San Francisco about a month ago, I saw these creepy newspapers from China that advertised plentiful human organs ready for transplant.
That sounds annoying. I don't think I would want my desktop environment to do that.
It would be interesting if you can evaluate the UI spam lately somehow:

- Sign up for newsletter
- This website wants to send you notifications

and more, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bx5a3PMks
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Oh, absolutely. That's precisely why US is so upset!
That particular "fact" does have some substance to it- In the past, Apple has switched as they feel that CPU horsepower is holding them back (keep in mind that they really want people to buy new every year) and they have already started moving their lineups over to ARM- their iPads have been ARM forever, and they have a pretty big knowledge base in it now.

EDIT: I think you may have been referring to the 9to5mac article- I'm going to leave this comment here, but the current article is way more specific.
This really disturbs me. Why wouldn't surgeons be constantly retrained on newer surgical techniques? Shouldn't this be standard procedure? Why should any patient have to suffer with the scars and complications from an old-style surgery instead of a newer less-invasive technique just because some surgeon hasn't bothered getting trained on the newer technique?
Except in this case, Einstein very much was a philosopher in addition to a physicist. His philosophical writings weren’t as stand-out as his physics, but they weren’t shabby either. He was offered the job of the first leader of Israel, not because he was a great physicist, but because he thought deeply about philosophical and political issues.

He did write quite a bit in his own contemplated voice in these subjects. It is true though that a reinterpretation of his voice can become problematic.
The original meaning of engineer was: "A constructor of military engines; a person who designs and constructs military works for attack and defence."

It is first found in English in 1380, when I doubt any professional certification bodies existed.

Eventually it evolved to mean what you got your license in, and then evolved further to include things like "software engineers".

Unless you build engines, the word engineer to describe what you do is etymologically inaccurate. So why is your particular stage on the path of organic evolution of this word more valid than anyone else's?
It's not really surprising, as Pong was the first one that really got into the general consumer view and consciousness.
I just wanted to chime in from Stack Overflow here and let people know: we are aware of the issue. And we're NOT okay with it. We're trying to sort out how to kill the audio behavior now. It's not very straightforward to find where it's coming from, but we are working on it. We've also reached out to Google for their assistance in tracking it down. If anyone can offer advice, we'll more than happily take it.

- Nick Craver, Architecture Lead at Stack Overflow
Some of us still use it...

Shameless plug:
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I can't say I've ever experienced this. In fact, I would occasionally browse r/T_D just to temper the overtly left-leaning bias of /r/news and /r/politics.
> Among social sciences a single study has very little weight.

Sure. "I feel like ..." has absolutely no evidentiary weight, though, so in this case, a little weight is strictly preferable to nothing.

> Given how often it is quoted despite this signals a flaw in popular cultures relationship with the field.

I'd say rather it signals a blind spot in the social sciences, where researchers are failing to investigate emerging online phenomenon wrt communities and moderation in significant numbers.

More studies confirming or disproving the results of this one would, of course, be preferable. But we should hardly apologize for turning to what little study and evidence there is rather than pulling "this will cause X to happen" assertions directly from our asses.
I'm lucky enough not have the bacteria that cause cavities - I'm awful with going to the dentist, but every time I do I walk out without any cavities. However, I do walk out with a stern warning about the dangers of plaque - how it's constant inflammation that causes tooth decay, gum disease, and a multitude of systemic problems - having teeth covered in plaque seems to be a problem in and of itself.
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

TJ was pretty succesfull...
I cannot work directly into TeX but I love fiddling around with it once I've done the work. When I'm slamming my head again a QFT textbook I feel like I need to work on paper so I don't lie to myself with the symbols (When I don't understand it yet)

I plan my code on paper quite a lot, and actually quite enjoy talking about what I'm doing (Whiteboard or not) [I think some whiteboarding at interviews is a good thing]
Estimation should be taught as a respectable discipline and one worthy of serious study. Even aside from the fact no intelligent educator can claim with a straight face that most of their students will need to do arithmetic by hand in a real scenario, estimation is vital for getting an intuition about orders of magnitude and how quickly addition and multiplication increase a value.
There's a (not so) fine difference between the rolled/trilled R [1] and the guttural/uvular R [2]. The former is indeed produced by vibrating the tongue

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental,_alveolar_and_postalveo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R
I'm not a car guy, so maybe I am getting some technical terminology wrong.

But Toyota's software did cause acceleration even without pushing the accelerator, and even while pressing the brake. They were legally proven to be at fault for that.

You can speculate all you want if I was being an idiot and mis-remembering what I personally did, but these facts still stand regardless of my personal experience:

1) Toyota was legally at fault for software caused unintended acceleration in the USA

2) Toyota Thailand never issued a recall for similar makes/years

Now maybe the software of cars sold in Thailand is totally different from the software of cars sold in the USA, but the cynic in me thinks it's just that Thailand's lack of consumer protections, plus Toyota's indifference, is the real reason no action was taken.
the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA

That's a pretty big statement.

I remember hearing a bureaucrat say that the best way to prevent another terrorist attack was greater "intelligence". That is their word for monitor everything everyone does. The war on terror means common sense privacy laws which again means that you don't have any online ... for your safety.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282246
These look totally cool through a submarine periscope because of the excellent optics and magnification levels available.
it's a tutorial on how to run a fake news profile that kinda turns into a game in the last 3 minutes where you actually have to skip a few memes to increase your score
They don't have to worry because they control the browser too, and so those tricks will continue to work for the foreseeable future.
Hebrew never "died." That is revisionist propaganda. People have been continuously speaking Hebrew in Jerusalem, Judea, Sumeria, and nearby in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Gaza for the past 3,000 years, as well as using it for prayer and study while in exile.
This happened to my wife once for something she was thinking of purchasing. While she was deciding, I went to my own computer and opened the web site and watched it. After like 3 minutes, it started repeating names, which led me to believe that they had only sold a couple dozen units! Also, it's pretty awful if you have a fairly unique first name. "Adolph from Palm Springs just bought our hemorrhoid cream!" Great, now the only guy named Adolph in Palm Springs is outed.
Yes, but generally you're not going to be injecting yourself with glucagon, as if you're lucid enough to do that, you're lucid enough to eat/drink some carbs.
Why would an amoral view of user engagement be a surprise for a company's whose goal is to show as many ads as possible?

And on top of all that, Twitter's own editorial team regularly stokes political/cultural controversy by boosting non-issues in Twitter Moments and Trending topics.
I also wonder about research direction, such as the hydrogen fuel cell mirai, which doesn't seem practical.

(of course it could be that when they started down that path, it was not clear that battery electric vehicles were practical either)
Skepticism should be the default position on every issue. We should be teaching the Socratic Method to our children rather than a "core curriculum" that is designed to program them to become workers in an economic system that is rapidly crumbling and will no longer exist in a short period of time. Teaching people how to think is far more important than any specific piece of information. The problem those in government and the upper echelon of society has in this regard is that they want it both ways. They want a population that uncritically accepts government propaganda, but rejects "fake news" (propaganda and disinformation from other, non-governmental sources). Since the creation of the public school system, people have been conditioned to uncritically accept information (which wasn't a problem for the government when there were only 3 television channels that all broadcast permutations of the same government-approved message). With the explosion of the internet and social media, the government has lost control of the narrative, with a population conditioned to uncritically accept information being blasted by a variety of actors from a multitude of sources. The election of carnival barker Donald Trump (and the rejection of Hillary Clinton, universally backed by the entire establishment) was the ultimate warning bell. Those at the top are desperate to regain control of the narrative (rather than teaching people how to think, which would also preclude government propaganda from being effective). This is why we see such an avalanche of censorship, information control and an attack on free speech (on Wikileaks and beyond) coming from government officials and their allies in big tech.
It took me a while to understand what BBB is, maybe the author should have taken into account that non-american readers don't know what it is.
This is kind of like how the value of information is how surprising it is. Classic information theory, but with a twist, because in these cases the "surprise" element is often not the value of the information itself, but the way it is presented. So these algorithms are quite good at recognizing when things are surprising and thus perhaps deserving of wider sharing, but bad at recognizing what kind of surprise it is - is it actually new information, or is it just froth?
Apple already makes the best custom ARM chips.. why would they need a dude from ARM?

I think this is news for the sake of news. It’s just head hunting
Where is the valuable ipv4 information? I knew my IP address and user agent already.