skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone made an AI that can complete some of the tasks?
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Here is the "non-intrusive" filter https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

It does seem to have a lot of google.
Because crypto libs can't see the future. I'm struggling to think of a case where using cryptographic primitives should be bubblewrapped. Don't use the primitives if you don't know what you're doing.
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Agreed completely.

For what it's worth, on Firefox anyways, there's a fork of Adblock Plus called Adblock Edge that has no such ethical issues, and as far as I can tell, works with all the addon plugins that worked with ABP like the element hider and popup blocker.
Curious: if we call t_0 1981, the Kaposi's Sarcoma article, and t_x 1996, the advent of HAART, and consider (t_x - t_0) "the AIDS epidemic" --- ignoring the ongoing epidemics in Sub-Saharan African and India, which are enormous problems but somewhat orthogonal to the problem described by your book --- what comparably lethal disease in human history was more effectively addressed by the medical establishment? How can we quantify the mishandling of AIDS in the 1980s?
I wonder how many of them have a first name starting with a C and saw this contest.

I'm guessing none.
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Solar is pretty interesting because people (the media) seem mostly fixated on panels where the current potential at bridging the energy gap as far as acquiring and distribution is concerned, seems to be CSP technology.

The storage medium for CSP is typically some kind of molten salt mixture (NaNO3, KNO3, Ca(NO3)2) which is then used on a closed circuit of water to power steam turbines. Right now this is limited to large facilities. In practice, CSP can be done on a small modular scale.

Here's an example of CSP at a large scale in Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWIgwvbrcM
There are also other places in world where facilities like these exist.

Here's an example of CSP at a smaller scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SsJBobMpAk
However, they use glycol (smaller thermal capacity) as a heat transfer medium instead of molten salt.

As for batteries for devices, that wouldn't necessarily equate to a golden age of solar energy because there is still larger issue of how the energy will get to the device and at what cost.
In the movie Forrest Gump, there is a scene taking place in the late 70s or early 80s where Jenny is explaining to Forrest that she is ill and the doctors do not know what it is. She dies a few years later. It is never stated explicitly, but the idea is that she was suffering from AIDS, which she contacted during her years as a promiscuous drug addict groupie.

In my opinion it is one of the most powerful scenes in the movie, in the sense that it does an amazing job with taking the viewer back to that time period where AIDS was a mystery disease.
For those of you wondering what a "third" is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_c...
It's not immoral and dishonest to have a different idea of the core product value than you do. Personally, I run AdBlock not because I break out in hives in the presence of advertising, but because a lot of advertising on the web is just awful, makes sites harder to use and wears down my battery. Whitelisting advertising that is actually consumer-friendly is not at all against the core value I derive from the product. (Though I don't think my AdBlock extension does this, honestly, but I wouldn't mind if it did.)
http://www.tyresum.co.uk/images/sort_both.png
Interesting to see this link about Bakersfield. I grew up there (15 years). I remember every year knowing people that got sick from it. It was kind of like the chicken pox where you'd just have to stay home for a week. From that perspective, this article feels completely blown out of proportion. But maybe we as locals all underestimated it.
This whitelist was highly publicized, I even listened to a segment on NPR that interviewed an Ad Block Plus employee about it(Link below). For all you outraged individuals this was a very openly communicated addition and comes by default, but it can be easily turned off. Oh the outrage...

http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/may/10/adblock-plus-internets...
Very well stated. A few months ago I wrote a post on my company's blog pushing Clojure, and the ideas just seemed to flow. Now I'm getting around to writing a specific post on ClojureScript, and even though I love writing cljs code, I'm having a hard time making a convincing argument to others.
There are however a few things that still stand out about ClojureScript I think, but I don't think they are mature enough to qualify as a killer app, but mostly just something to pique the interest of a certain class of programmers.

One is the port of core.logic. AFAIK there is not a comparable Javascript logic library, although the ClojureScript port does not have all the features of the Clojure base.

Another novel feature is integration with nrepl via the piggieback library[1]. This allows you to evaluate ClojureScript code directly in your running web app if your editor has nrepl connectivity. Again, I don't know of a way to do this with current Javascript tools. But here again, the solution still feels like it lacks maturity.

I don't understand enough of core.async to really comment, but the excitement around it seems to point to another rather exclusive bit of ClojureScript functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/cemerick/piggieback
For the coronovirus, people tend to check the type of infection only when the infection is bad. The people who have died all had comorbidities, meaning they were already sick with something else, so that 50% death rate is a result of a very strong observation bias and unlikely to be a characteristic of the disease.
The biggest problem, in that regard, is they're consuming so much raw data they can't get even remotely close to acquiring actual intelligence from the radical majority of it.

I think it'll take another two decades of software improvement for them to be able to shut down the drug trade even if they wanted to.

For now, there's little question they could easily go after the highest profile targets. I agree they're not trying to.
It's only irrelevant if you capitulate that democracy has failed and is non-representative (ie. protests and other public action would not alter the outcome). While I am somewhat inclined to that perspective myself, it's important not to be completely defeatist, and I think New Zealand is doing relatively well in that department.
Find out whatever the most common tire size is and preselect it. This serves both to explain how it works (i.e. you have to make 3 selections) and lets people see what the site does with just one click (instead of 4).
On the plus side, it's extremely rare. About three cases a year in the U.S. on average.
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How a Non-Technical Founder Built a 6 Figure Saas App
I agree with your points here.

I think a major issue is the lack of understanding of best-practices with regards to security. So we tend to rely on the security of systems that aren't battle-proven. But even battle-proven solutions still have vulnerabilities, so we need to rely on multiple layers of security.

For me at least, this reinforces the lesson to put systems as much as possible behind multiple layers of security such as firewalls and VPN. And I should be careful to architect salt systems in a hub/spoke topology using salt-master and syndics. And encrypt any traffic from the salt-master to groups of servers using ssh tunneling. Looks like pyzmq now supports ssh tunneling, so maybe this would work:

http://zeromq.github.io/pyzmq/ssh.html
Funny to think about. Like in the 80s/90s when digital graphic design got big and everything was stuffed full of heavy textures and raucous splashes of colors. Then we got a grip and started scaling back to minimal. Same thing happening with web design?

Probably indicative of a larger trend too, as the web continues to intrude into all walks of life, we'll see a scaling back on all sorts of levels. Things like the Slow Web movement emerging (whatever happened to them?)
I was able to in FF. The highlight color is black (very poor contrast choice), so maybe it looked like the text wasn't copied? Try Ctrl+A with Ctrl+C. That usually works.
We already had have rudimentary support for source maps - in fact it seems people have already used it to successfully debug their programs. It's not good enough yet for step-by-step debugging - we're getting there.

This is a fantastic tutorial - http://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs

RE: performance. I don't know who you talked to, but they are misinformed we spend a ridiculous amount of time on performance. It's certainly possible to do an HTML 5 canvas game in ClojureScript - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/06/10/porting-notchs-minec.... It is true that if you want to do a computationally intensive game you need to know something about JavaScript performance - but that's to be expected.
"The rich CEOs aren't stealing from the people, they're players within the system just like everyone else. They don't make the laws."

Actually, they do write the laws. They fund special interest groups and give money to politicians to get elected. Big money often writes the law - with those same special interest groups attaching themselves to Congressional staffers and then providing the actual language that goes to the floor. I don't know what world you think you're living in when you can't see how money shapes our politics and laws.
That's incredible. It's always fascinating to see power centralization in government as it always tends to be abused in favor of expanding government power.
This is AdBlock Plus, not AdBlock. They are not the same.
Not much...

I am a avid gamer, but I gave up forever in going pro, because practice to reach pro level is tiring, VERY tiring...

One pro player lived unoficially with me (actually, he lived somewhere else but hated his roomates, so he hanged around my house instead), he would arrive from university, sit on the computer, and play until 4 in the morning, eat delivery McDonald every day, drop on the floor (yes, the floor, not a bed, or a cushion, or anything like this), sleep, wake up at 7 and go to university (without taking a bath...)

Sometimes he would get too smelly or clearly lacked decent food, then I and other roomates would kick him out back to his house, and let him return about 3 days later.

He is a player I still don't enjoy playing against (Because he wipe the floor with me), but even with all that amount of ridiculous practice, and winning championships, he still do not got sponsors... Now he went to do something else, and play for fun only (and his performance decreased accordingly actually... during his pro years, I would lose 100% of the matches against him, now I only lose about 70% of them, and I am sure I don't improved, since I did not play for 2 years in a row and since my return I had in total about 30 matches, while a pro player could pull 20 practice matches in a day)
It's not an incentive or a threat; it's a change in the rules of the game. When they patch Starcraft to increase the damage that a spore crawler does to biological units, that's not an incentive or a threat; it's a change in the rules of the game.
An article like this makes you wonder how many different diseases (answer - over 200) get lumped together under the large "cancer" umbrella.

One wonders if we are doing ourselves a disservice maintaining a term more inline with shared symptoms instead of separating the diseases into shared causes.

At any rate I'm digressing, but cancer is a fascinating (while horrible) concept that exists in our reality. When you think about it, it is probably more responsible for what we are today than any other force on the planet, in evolutionary terms.

As for AIDS: The fact that it was a "gay disease" hampered everything about our response to it. I'd like to think that we would be much more in tune with emerging health threats these days, but somehow I doubt it. I really hope we have HIV licked in a few years though, because Africa really, really needs a vaccine before it can do anything else really.
Also, while "no images" may be special on HN, users don't give a shit. Images used right are enormously useful. In this case, I'd add exactly three, symbolizing width, profile and size. Also, separate the three selections a bit more from each other, and perhaps even add a stylized tire to the top/logo to make it immediately clear what the site is about.
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In Ben's defense: The original article declares random forest a "winner" over neural networks. Ben's comment is a cautionary note that this result only applies to a specific class of problems.

This was a nice post, but it's reasonable to warn users not to overgeneralize the algorithm comparison.
Not only storms or earthquakes...I would imagine Santa Ana winds would help this spread to the coastal regions.
I'm not advocating any right to property or self defence. I and you and many other people simply choose to live peacefully around people sharing same views on what's okay and what's not. And use peaceful methods to prevent violence.
Taking your two answers together, it seems that hiring a security company to provide armed guards to protect me would be perfectly acceptable to you.

What's to stop consolidation amongst the security companies? What would prevent them from using their monopoly of force to set up whatever government they liked?

That's essentially how central government formed in the first place. Why wouldn't it just happen again?
I wanted to, but they specifically forbid this.

As the article mentions, the tasks are supposed to be those which cannot be easily automated and require the attention of a human.
So I logged in to ATT, checked the box to opt out, hit submit, and now the page refreshes with the box unchecked. I highly doubt that I was successful in opting out.
Hi, author here.

Maybe "jQuery for Haskell" is not too descriptive: it is a pure Haskell html dom manipulation tool, mainly useful for templating and/or scraping.

It uses the same selectors and API as jQuery, the only deviations are due to immutability (eg. if you modify a selection, the original graph will not be updated of course, so you have to use "alter" or something similar).

Edit:

Feel free to send a pull request or suggest any changes. The time I poured into the library was mainly focused on getting even the most complex nested selectors to work, because I felt that is the lion's share of the work.
Can someone explain what these are used for?

Are these the colors, in a particular scheme, that go well together, so can be used together in an app (web/mobile/etc.?)

Is there any implied order in these, such as which color should go where, or that is an exercise left to the designer?

Also, just curious if these can/are used when painting house/building?
That is pretty much it. And in many ways creating a shop setup is easier than firing up a Linode because it has both been happening a lot longer and there are literally hundreds of thousands of people around who work to make that happen.

In the US at least there is a quite a bit of excess 'store' space that is not leased. Further it hasn't been leased for a while so there are motivated property owners who will provide customization of the space as part of their 'tenant improvements' or TI. Setting up an LLC had been made more simple by the pre-created legal documents available on the web, Banks are eager to sign up a new business if they are going to process the sales, and there are a number of small business loans currently being pushed by the the US government in order to encourage the economy.

For someone willing to drive around town a bit it is possible to get the business created in a week, and with some work probably have a physical store ready to open in a two months, (less if you either start with one that was a book store before or your new landlord was really excited to get the space ready). Setting up a cash register, an accounting and filing system, all of those things have 'cook book' examples that you can just lift and implement like you might your favorite distribution. And initially the only 'staff' you need is you.

The only question is whether or not you can get enough customers to buy your books to stay afloat long term. And that depends on other places people can go to get books. As you say Amazon is the "Wallmart of the Internet" because they sell product with lower margins than someone who is paying rent on a store can afford.

If Amazon increases their margins (by selling closer to list price) they risk someone like you or I who can sell at that same margin in an actual store. And something the store offers that Amazon cannot is the ability to browse, and discuss various books. (look inside the cover doesn't cut it).

The important thing to realize for this crowd, is that setting up a single person shop is as straight forward as setting up a Linode. Yes, it takes more paperwork, and yes it helps to create an LLC, but people have been setting up shops a lot longer than they have been creating businesses on the Internet, what we do here is considered "mysterious gobbledy gook" by a lot of people, opening up a store is much more comprehensible to them. Further there is a lot of infrastructure out there that supports it.
> People get what they deserve, and the world apparently deserves the US monitoring all of its communications.

Ironically, this is exactly the mindset behind statements like "I don't care" and the 50+% of pepole who don't even follow such things.
Do you have any benchmarks against nginx? http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_spdy_module.html
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Weird. Most free market folks say the problem with air quality is no one owns it, so there's no incentive to protect it. A tax like this is about as close as you can get to saying, ok, we collectively own the air, and there's a $1.50 fee/gallon of gas for use of the air in your combustion engine.

Collective ownership might be an uncomfortable topic, so i'll go further and say, you're using my air in your car, and I expect to be paid for it. I suspect any feasible plan would look a lot like some large organization charging use fees. But maybe there's some simpler structure I'm overlooking.
A given RDBMS doesn't guarantee any data integrity. The integrity is a bit of a lie. I've seen plenty of real world databases with software created by idiots where a DateTime field was defined as a VARCHAR. Or fields that should have been a VARCHAR created as CHAR, then bugs happen with the strings aren't auto-trimmed.

IMHO the database these days SHOULD be fairly agnostic. Also normalization, which is the core of your so called integrity actually REDUCES performance. At my last job, our main VIEW into the data took over 28 join operations for some highly normalized data (much of which had to overcome some bad data in the db).

We setup a MongoDB database for searching against, as well as being able to pull up a single record without dozens of join operations, and it was a LOT faster, against real-time data... the search that was replaced was a batch process that recreated a single table every half hour. In this case MongoDB was a much better fit.

Sorry, but SQL databases don't guarantee any data integrity either. It's up to the developers that implement those schemas... and the fact is, for most of them, they are better off doing that in their primary application code.

Also, if you are using an ORM tool to "generate" your schema from code, then what advantage does said schema's "integrity" give you?
Quite simply it's a copyright violation. The risk is too large for a large firm.
I recommend the movie How To Survive a Plague, which also shows the beginnings of AIDS in New York. Must have been a frightening time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124803
While I appreciate the responsiveness, the page is obnoxious to navigate on a mobile device.
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That they were/are being paid for sending analytics to ad companies. I actually don't mind, but it should be in red blinking 20 point script on the page where you download it.

I can't find the news.ycombinator threads, though.
I don't think you do. Spelling mistakes on front pages tell me that someone didn't pay the kind of attention to their work that I would like them to. If their site is trying to sell me something, I conclude that their product is probably made with similar lack of attention, and that is what puts me off.

It's a bit like going into a restaurant and seeing the waiter not wash their hands after using the bathroom.
It's not just people's desire to shit on something in order to feel superior (although that's likely quite a bit of it).

It's the fact that if you have a website dedicated to good user interface, and you want to be known as an authority on good user interfaces, and the site on which you intend to launch or grow this authority has a completely FUBARed user interface... I think it's fair to point that out.

Orange text on dark background? Whatever, it's perfectly readable unless you have poor eyesight. Footer taking up a full third of the page with no quickly discernable way to close it? Definite problem and cause for concern regarding your purported authority on that very issue.
This was my experience as well. When I first discovered borders they were very well run. They had a lot of interesting books and a very energetic staff. Then they sort of lost their way and suddenly they didn't have any books I wanted and the staff was replaced by people who always seemed to have "just started." I stopped going.

That said, every time I go to Portland I spend a couple of hours and at least a couple hundred dollars in Powell's books.
True, but it might allow the freedom to implement alternative methods that clamp down on such things. Just as the New World allowed for the political innovations that has lead to modern democracy (however flawed), Mars would be a new frontier that could be used to create a better government with all the lessons the past 400 years has taught us. It would be an even better frontier, as Mars doesn't have the pesky problem of people already living there with all the historical baggage that accompany it. It doesn't have the terrible legacy of slavery and the social problems that that implies. It is a fresher start than we as a species have ever had, and we now how the proper perspective to avoid the pitfalls that we're currently saddled with. In time, much as democracy filtered its way back to Europe, a better system of governance could find its way back to Earth.

In any case, it would be a bold experiment. To go in with the intention of building a better social contract, or to rethink what that even means, is something that we should keep in mind. Mars shouldn't just be a joyride in 0.4 g, but an intentional effort to rethink society.
Here in Brazil a stupid law was made that if you have more than 1000 employees you must have 5% of your workforce being impaired/disabled people.

The problem is that for some jobs that is almost impossible (for example, Call Center... you need someone that is not retarded, not blind, not deaf, not quadriplegic, leaving you with paraplegics, but paraplegics, specially those willing to venture shit sidewalks, are nowhere near 5% of the population).

So we have lots of companies with 999 employees. When someone want to expand their company, they instead create a new company (with more 999 employees), and have them both work as contractor to something else or something like that.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682
You can do minimum wage if you write proper english for some of the description stuff.
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No need for accusations of plagiarism. Your post reads the same without the words "direct plagiarism of".
It doesn't help a site if you show text blocks from AdSense since they get paid only when there's a qualified click.