skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your humble opinion would be wrong. This is pretty clearly a "derivative work", which requires permission from the rightsholder.

For example, I could totally write a story that had characters named Gandalf and Frodo. But if my Gandalf happened to be a grey-wearing wizard, who walked around saying things like, "A wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to," and my Frodo a hairy-footed fellow of diminutive stature with an extra-special ring, I'd better have had permission from the Tolkien estate, or a lot of money to burn on lawyers and fines.

EDIT: Pre-emptively, yeah yeah yeah, parody. Bringing that up in this context is probably diversionary pedantry at best, however.
You're probably too morally outraged by all this to appreciate the humor in the phrasing of that sentence.
I can't really answer the question with any insider knowledge, but from experience working with the Map Maker product and Google reviewers (those are the ones with G), they use a contracting workforce for local that has little training and high turnover. The Google Reviewers on the Map Maker team usually have better training and retention, and have higher quality standards that they adhere to, but that may be my bias working with them (they are usually quicker to fix their mistakes, and they also QC the LE reviews, frequently (100%) overturning their reviews and approving your edit on MM if the LE denies your edit. It's very frustrating and almost bipolar.

It's all fairly easy to spam Google Maps from other avenues. I've seen bulk uploads of 100's of spam listings, the Google My Business product is also easily gamed, and the LEs don't appear to closely scrutinize locations in order to ensure that the business is where it's claimed to be, even though they have access to more detailed street view imagery and presumably can just Google it. Google in general, and LEs in particular, seem to have a policy of preserving all data, no matter how bad/spammy, and approving new POIs, even if the POI is of a questionable nature and isn't supported by the facts, which, again, points to a deficit in their training in being able to identify spam features for Maps. Once you know what spam is, it's fairly easy to identify, and the actual QC checks, primarily using government licensing databases and other resources, takes about 30 seconds or less to verify listings. The hard part, at least on my end, is removing it. Google loves to hang on to spam.
Show HN: ExperTube – Turns YouTube into biggest crowd-sourced learning platform
Finding Diamonds in the Rough
A couple open source add-ons to do this:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnj... (source: https://code.google.com/p/undirect/ )

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-no-tra... (source: http://matagus.github.io/remove-google-redirects-addon/ )

They sometimes run into issues as Google tweaks the search results page.
Yup, and also, it's oh so difficult to fake a referrer.
Marco Rubio has come out in support of the actions of the CIA; who is to say he doesn't represent the party line on this issue more than McCain?

(and really, McCain is one of few Republicans who doesn't support torture because of his own background as a POW)
You could think of the proposal behind Snowdrift.coop as being the closest we could get to effect purely-voluntary taxation… Of course, if we had better real democracy to set better tax law, well…
As any war on anything is bound to do. You can't push against something and get less of it - you get more pushing right back at ya.

In this sense, US Gov is the primary cause of and is directly responsible for nearly ALL terrorist acts in the past decades, globally.
Weird stuff starts happening when you try to stack all the squares up against the left wall.

http://i.imgur.com/kc51uSQ.png
As far as 24 goes, it didn't air until after the Sept 11 attacks, but it went into production 6 months before, and was first conceived of sometime in 2000. While a few 9-11 truther types would have it that this was part of a long-planned propaganda campaign, I don't believe that - 'two-fisted cop who doesn't go by the book' is a decades-old trope. I do think that the experience of terrorism helped to build the audience for the show and make it a huge hit, though, when it might have seemed absurdly overblown if it had screened a year earlier.

I was thinking more about how there were a whole stack of movies exploring different aspects of torture in great detail, typically with unpleasant dilemmas, eg the Saw franchise, Hostel etc. etc.. Now I don't think these are exclusively a response to American policy either - the opst-2000 cultural context also included things like Al-Qaeda terrorists decapitating Daniel Pearl and uploading the videos to Youtube and so forth.
The brilliance of this post is not in the fact that a AI program can beat another AI program, but if a human conceivable algorithm of this length can beat the raw cognitive power of human users itself. I would be seriously diggin this.
Absolutely! Implementing a Basic Income takes more political power than starting a webite though.
You are under pressure now.

Carrier grade NAT is a nightmare that ISP's will start going down from now. It will be offered as a cheaper option but in fact it breaks how the Internet was designed to work. Think about your external IP being a 10.x.x.x address and you sharing a public address with 100,000 other subscribers. Thinking about how P2P connections like video conferencing would work.

Push for your servers to have IPv6 by default, push for IPv6 at your work place, push for your DNS provider to support IPv6. Always ask any service providers their IPv6 status.
I'm TA for an AI course at my university. They recently had to deliver and demonstrate their system beating 2048. Most people used min/max with alpha-beta pruning, and considered all possible moves and all possible placements of a 2 or 4 tile. This can make your bot a bit too cautious, so some used Expectimax instead, weighting each value with the probability of it happening.

Those who had simpler heuristics did better. Trying to combine 4-5 heuristics is hard, as you have to weight them against each other. The "gradients" mentioned here did alone produce good results for most students. Of the ~50 people, most managed to demonstrate to me that they could get a 2048 tile within a time limit. Some even 8k and 16k tiles.

I think most of them got the "Tetris-effect" by watching their bot play a few rounds, tweak, run it again etc. for a few days. Probably watched blocks sliding around when making food etc. :p
I don't work at Google, but I think they do that to gather click through data for links and positions on the results page. Simply linking to the destination would prevent them from learning valuable information about the quality of their search engine and what users think is valuable.
Rly like that game too, did you try it with alpha beta pruning? should considerably speed up the "look into the future" thing compared to simple min/max
Click fraud works like this:

1) Make shitty blog
2) Put some ads on it
3) Buy some traffic
4) Buy some click fraud traffic
5) Profit.

eg. If buzzfeed wants to make a little extra rev this month all they have to do is buy some click fraud traffic.
posthaven?
>That ignores the fact that ...

and it ignores the existence of dictionaries.
So you're saying we shouldn't engage in torture because it's "bad"? It's okay to blow these same people up in the battlefield, but god forbid we throw water on them and put them in a slightly cold room?
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Torture is a cut and dry moral issue; inflicting pain on a person willfully for an extended period of time is not acceptable behavior, nor is this fact a matter of politics. The people/groups I listed in my original comment have placed themselves on the wrong side of this moral issue, and history will judge them harshly as such.

Obama may have issued an executive order when he entered office, but attempting to block/redact/delay this report betrays his true loyalties.

It isn't an extremist position that torture is wrong, or that the people who support/cover up torture are in the wrong. If anything, it is an extremist position that torture is a valid tactic.
>> Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy.

Less messy, less dirty, less dirty hands etc etc. Yeah right. I wonder how the drone operators sleep at night after a "successful" hit at e.g. a wedding ceromony etc.

Drone kills are still plain evil. And illegal.
I would hope in a scenario like this, they're not getting them at a discount.
Well, I for one, have used it successfully four times (and no failures yet!).

From my experience, if I focus on the domain, and play around with it for a while, I will start to see a structure behind it (different from a relational structure). And, I've found that if I structure it correctly, the aggregates sort of just fall out.

I agree with you to be wary of book authors' ideas. However, the paradigm that Eric Evans documented was truly useful to me. But, I also think that the book he wrote on the topic was a hard trod, overly abstract, and didn't make much sense at first. I mean, it sort of made sense in theory. But, it wasn't until I tried it out on particular projects that I saw its usefulness.

I wouldn't recommend trying it out on a brand new project. But, instead, take an existing project, fork it, and try to apply it. At least you'll get a better understanding if it can and will work for you, or not.

DDD helps me to not go insane. But, on the other hand, I've had to listen to quite a few complaints from my team, who usually want to see something more procedural.
Ongoing donations helps with accountability. But otherwise, funding isn't a guarantee or anything. But if you look at where good software is, really good and robust, you don't find it from totally underfunded projects. Mozilla is way better funded than most other free/open software.
Won't you get targeted by anti-bot systems pretty quickly? Are you doing these changes on the user's computer or in the cloud?
Check the other replies to this. They've filled it in a bit...
Well, I don't get the point.

The conclusion I take from that is that yes, they do work. They are no silver bullet, mind you, but they work. Yet, I'm not convinced that's the point the author is tryin got make.

By the last table, a 6 words passphrase is all that one would ever need to protect something in a civilization that does not have an entire star to spend on breaking it. That's quite good.

EDIT: But then, that strength is a gross overestimation and any serious calculation needs some extra analysis.
Different offset frequencies have different effects so you should do more research and maybe experiment with some different beats before you just put one on repeat.

Some beats made me sleepy others made me agitated. You're probably looking for something to make you focused.
Disagree: For a lot of us (non-Americans at least) we used to think that the reason why why don't do those kinds of things (torture, use chemical weapons etc) was because they were more cruel than necessary.

Also the fact that these conventions were valid for any war the signing country was involved in, not only those against other who signed (correct me if I'm wrong) seems to point in the same direction, no?

Also, downvote brigade: Fine, I totally agree that rayiner was downvoted and flagkilled twice. rayiner deserved that IMO.

However stop downvoting when he or others are providing insights, even if that insight is uncomfortable, OK?
Yes, if I'm doing the exact same job for thousands of other people who may be paying less.
You are making these common mistakes on your résumés
I'm sure they do. They could probably get that data from the vast majority of users using Javascript. I assume a concurrent onclick request wouldn't slow things down noticeably.
Well, that's assuming that the people who did this actually consider these mistakes (they don't) and that they will be held even a little bit accountable (which looks unlikely). As it is, it's as much bragging as it is auditing: nothing bad will come to those who committed these heinous acts, and it will provide no discouragement for those who come after and have to make the decision about whether or not to torture.
https://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/
Wow - can't believe I got in early enough to get one. Awesome. Does anyone know what the difference is between segment.io and Tealium, for instance?

EDIT: It went to my spam box - :( :(. Not a problem for me but its a shame if Watsi is being labeled as spam by outlook.
When the Computer Mouse Was New
I kinda-sorta wrote one of these about 15 years ago. In VB 6!

It simply took your data stream and encoded the message in the first letters of each word in some generated gibberish. You transform the 8-bit arbitrary byte stream into a 26-bit ascii representation to give you your list of first letters.

The gibberish was generated by choosing randomly from a list of common structures. That last sentence would have been encoded as [a,N,V,G,P,V,Av,P,a,N,P,Aj,N] - article, noun, verb ... Each word category (articles are skipped) had a dictionary containing one or more of each type of word starting with each letter.

Wasn't quite as convincing as the fake spam! I was rather pleased with it though, and it was far more interesting than the work I was supposed to be doing, as is writing this post. Back to work....
+1 for the article!
> making you use WinMain() instead of main()

As I recall, there was a different entry point to distinguish DOS from Windows programs. A Windows program started in DOS would have a stub main that just printed out the "this is a Windows program" warning.

It's actually quite a reasonable segregation to do when you consider the different kinds of setup each type of program requires, not that there aren't other ways around it, of course.
Then I must be blind or delusional, based on what I've witnessed during usability tests.

I highly doubt we'd see the same breakdown for new users vs. return users. IE, return-users know they can scroll, new-users don't have that knowledge.
Nope, they donated the full amount of the gift cards and 100% of the donation will directly fund healthcare.
To be fair, that sounds about right for Master Lock...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwMMVPalr0
Oh come on, be serious: Most of us would much rather prefer to be shot dead or blown up in a split second than being even slightly tortured and locked up indefinitely. If not it must be because we don't know what we are talking about.
Ask HN: How can airports wifi know my flight number?
Hello,

I'm here at heathrow-airport and the wifi login knows my flight number is advance? How is this possible? I cleared the cookie from my british-airways checkin session, but the wifi-system still guess the correct flight?

edit: Worth to notice is that I have made two connecting flights from heathrow during the last two days, and the wifi-login displayed the correct flight number both times. The flightnumber field is even disabled, you can't change it...
Any word if these kernel updates will support EFI secure-boot or dm-verity [0]? This is pretty essential these days given how EFI bootkits are a very real threat.

This has been part of the kernel and Ubuntu for a while but this new workflow changes this up a bit.

The only mention of security is the use of user-space AppArmor MAC and sandboxing but no mention of whether image-based updates can support updating a block signature.

[0] http://lwn.net/Articles/459420/
the report included things significantly worse than the one you keep citing.
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Well if I still use the Web Mercator I'm still going to have widely inaccurate feature rendering between zoom levels. Thank you for trying, I guess I should be asking these questions in GIS forums instead.
When you say that the President and VP were in favor of publication, that is definitely not consistent with what we've seen from Obama.

Remember when Obama blocked the release of additional Gitmo evidence because he claimed it would result in Americans being hurt? I assume the exact same logic was used here to prevent this report from coming out.

I assume Kerry's plea for a delay was a result of the CIA pressuring him to protect their assets which are embedded with embassies worldwide. The collaboration between the State Department and the CIA runs deep, like a mold with many filaments.
One might say that Picasso's Bull is a human equivalent of this: he "evolved" a sequence of images and ended up with something that has very few features of a bull, but nevertheless gets recognized by humans as such.

Then again, unlike the neural networks in the paper, humans would be capable of classifying abstract images into a separate category if asked.
I agree with the author that it would be better to have alternative coding challenges, even though interest in soccer is obviously not a male-only thing.
The second half of your statement is untrue. Google "prison rape reduction act" - this has resulted in a significant improvement as reported both through scientific surveys and anecdotal accounts.
Thanks
I use it exactly for API of my apps
You are welcome.

That's great, I totally missed it on AngelList, my bad, glad you posted it.

I have never heard of or seen a growth pattern like that, it is strange. Maybe someone else can comment on it. Usually we see clients that have much more rocky patterns with the overall trend growing but it is up and down and of course has spike trends near events, press coverage etc. Our own growth has seen that same trend so that seems more normal to me, but hey, long as you are growing it is good.

On your website, it isn't horrid, but I just don't think it puts your best foot forward or gives you the first impression of a professional firm yet.

I am in the same position you are overall, solo founder with a wife, kids etc. That is part of what stopped me from taking some investment dollars earlier this year for my product business. We had been seeking out interested investors because we have some traction, but both groups that gave us offers (term sheets + details) were limiting me to such a small founder salary I couldn't support my family on it. Literally one of them was around a $50k salary, which I don't mean to scoff at, but just isn't realistic for this point in my life. We don't live the high life and have little debt/bills overall, but that is just too low for us. The catch is I couldn't be pissed at them because they are focused on making money, it just didn't work for us and they weren't willing to budge. So instead I changed the plan, pulled back some and am regrouping to pull more consulting income again. And I will just bootstrap more until either I make it, the product fails, I fail or I decide to try and raise again. The only part that really sucked to me was that sadly rejecting those offers meant I had to change my team up for that product because I just couldn't support them full time without enough revenue or investment.

Good luck, my email is in my profile if you want to chat offline any.
So in other words, it's a tracking script also serving as a captcha.

"Google servers will receive and process, at least, the following information:

Plug-ins
User-agent
Screen resolution
Execution time, timezone
Number of click/keyboard/touch actions in the <iframe> of the captcha
It tests the behavior of many browser-specific functions and CSS rules
It checks the rendering of canvas elements
Likely cookies server-side (it's executed on the www.google.com domain)
And likely other stuff...

"

At least the old captcha was a more simpler image.
So you went to another host and how much do you pay now?
That's some wishful thinking right there, I love it.
At the end of the day only google.com cookies make sense, everything else can be routinely faked just like author says "Programmatically bypass the captcha by simply executing a rendering engine and automating movements of the mouse." What google was trying to hide? They seem to put a lot of effort in it.
CERN-Inspired Outfits Using 3D Printing and Magnets
no, not at all. even with a keyspace of 2^256, the number of possible plaintexts that make sense is an infinitely small portion of all plaintexts - you can say with reasonable certainty then, that only one plaintext, combined with the the key could produce that ciphertext.

the only system that has this same property (as far as i know) would be the one-time-pad.

my crypto is a bit rusty, so i may be wrong..
wow . That looks great
Ghost seems very popular.

https://ghost.org/
This is pretty trippy, kinda like playing a psychedelic version of Sisyphus.
I got way too hooked on the game but never actually managed to beat it. This makes me wonder whether I could write something that could faster.
One step at a time. Showing people that others also care is huge. It's easy when isolated to feel helpless. Big corporate multinationals are all connected and have strong business ties and networks and work to actively divide consumers so that we just choose what to buy when we go to the big box store or surf Amazon etc. That's why cooperatives are so important, and we need more of them on a large scale on the internet.
Chase this is super awesome! However, I hit a small snag. I wanted to go above the $20 and donate a total of $50 but Watsi won't let me because my gift card only has $20. I tried to sign up but couldn't find the button and eventually had to Google to find it. Maybe add a sign up button next to sign in, or allow me to donate $50 by adding a card now (when I hit donate).

Bilateral club foot is something that I struggled with as a child, I am extremely happy that I will help someone else to have the corrective surgery and lead a normal life. Thanks for that opportunity.

Thanks to you, Chase, for Watsi and thanks to Segment for making my life as a developer much easier by taking the pain out of implementing analytics in my software. Much love to both of you!

EDIT: Even after signing up and adding my credit card, I still can't donate more than $20 until I spend my gift card. Guess I'm making two donations.

EDIT2: Let me give Watsi more than a $6 tip! :)
a steam valve to relieve pressure keeps the great death machine running smoothly.