skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other ironic factor is that Google derives revenue from many of these sites in the form of AdSense revenue (or Search Partner Network and Ad Exchange inventory).

So many intangible factors here. A big one being "does improving the overall search experience by providing the most relevant results in the SERP outweigh the opportunity cost of the lost display revenue?"

I wonder how this game will play out though since well-optimized sites tend to be very careful with what they put in the title/metadescription to encourage the click through, and ultimately an entire subset of sites have no incentive to create content if Google starts publishing results that don't necessitate further investigation (ie. clicking through to their site).
Sorry, I can not take any organization seriously that complains of "torture" while fully supporting the act of siphoning out an unborn child's brain.
It's hard to tell from the article what was actually said or meant. But to be fair to Mayer, Paltrow sends out a weekly newsletter (Goop) that contains lots of bad dietary advice, such as "toxin cleanses," and other pseudoscientific nonsense. She could have meant literally that Paltrow is uneducated about food and her food advice is harmful, so she didn't want her associated with Yahoo. That's certainly what I would meant done in Mayer's position.
Oh, did you use Charles Mingus' cat training guide? http://mingusmingusmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program

(It is the jazz musician Mingus, and some friends are very find of this bit of trivia.)
It's pretty interesting to see this in picture form, but it wasn't a big secret that you could eat a days worth of calories in a single meal in most chain restaurants.

The comparison to home-cooked at the end is a little ridiculous. A 22oz steak will be a lot of calories whether you cook it at home or have it at a restaurant. They intentionally picked healthier options for the home meal, and always included large sugared drinks or milkshakes with the fast food options. It would be interesting to see the same article, but comparing each individual meal at a restaurant with a home-cooked version of the same meal (and I'd imagine you'd mostly be shaving off a couple hundred calories unless you're really messing with the ingredients.)
If your pet eats something it shouldn't the absolute last thing you want is "manual intervention". Have you ever seen how potters cut lumps of doughy clay? They do it with wire. If you pull you can do the same to your pets intestines.
I am saying that if the state said something is legal, it should not then prosecute people for having done it while the state was saying it is legal. If you have a problem with what another state is doing (and you are a state), then you should apply diplomatic/military pressure; I do not know what other recourse you have.

In this case, what was done is illegal under international law, and was illegal under international law at the time it was done, so people can be tried in international court without ex post facto concerns.

I am one of those people who disagree with the Nuremberg trials. If something atrocious happened, but was legal, then we should make it illegal and accept the fact that some people got away with doing horrible things.
Out of curiosity what would you propose as an ideal solution? Of course with the understanding that it is unlikely to exist unless there is a way to monetize it.
Thanks for the answer, but unfortunately I don't have the time to do so. Actually I do teach his occasionally, but I don't have the time to do some systematic teaching - which is what he really needs.
That's good to hear. It (and a python-based rewrite) was one of the first software projects I looked at and had a chance to mess with when I began to learn to code.
Here's how my rep replied to my email today:

"Schwab takes online security very seriously, and all clients are protected against fraud with our SchwabSafe guarantee. This guarantee is available to review online at www.schwab.com/schwabsafe.

"I reviewed the website you referenced in your email, but this is well outside my area of expertise. To discuss these items, I would suggest you contact our Technology Support Group at the Help Desk. Their number is 800-433-9196."

Uh, no. I'm not going to sit on the phone waiting to tell your Help Desk about why they shouldn't store my password in their DB; that's your fuckin job. I'm much more inclined to spend that hour and a half moving my accounts somewhere secure.
> I'm baffled that people are willing to squander so much money on cars, especially people who have relatively little of it.

Yes, but if you have to have a car, and some people do (to commute to work, etc) then what a car costs is what you have to pay. It's not squandered money if there aren't any other options.

If you pay too little, chances are you end up with a lemon that will just die on you after a week, and then where are you?
Now, note what I said that started this thread, that you can do FP in any language. I never said you could do it well or maintainably. For some languages (I am thinking of Java in particular, but C++ seems similar there), I can't imagine it being more than useful as an academic exercise.

Certainly there are languages which don't support FP approaches well. But lack of utility is not the same as impossibility. If nothing else the exercise ("How far can you take FP in Java?") will teach you all kinds of things.
It's interesting since Hinton's approach seems to be more inspired by the computational geometry aspects of vision (reverse computer graphics, invariant representations) and working backwards towards the neural superstructures.

Hawkins' seems to be inspired by the biology itself, working from the "common computational substrate" hypothesis up to the cortical units required.

They both seem to meet in the middle at the need to figure out invariant representations for the intermediate features presented to each level of the hierarchy.

I do wonder what an argument between those two would look like concerning the applicability of back-propagation, which I remember Hawkins' deriding as totally artificial compared to the feedback structure of the actual neocortex.

Anyone more up to date on the state of the argument regarding that?
You can support an end to the 2-party oligopoly and vote for the lesser evil. Doing both does greater good.

I don't support revolution, because it's not the best viable way to improve things, let alone very viable at this point. A much better way is for the good people to ostracize (as much as possible) the bad people. Imagine if Bush's daughters had disavowed love for him, over his needless violence. It may well have had an effect, and if not then at least been a consequence to him, serving as a warning to others.
ok, I accept. I know that it couldn't have been that easy to accept, given that it relies on the specifics of zero on drop etc. No better coder than strcat to do it though.
I can't speak for patio11, but basically, having publicly available numbers reduce your choice: if it wasn't available, you can give it out as you want to. There is no choice to take the number back
> If you haven't spent the time to figure out why Redis is so successful, it's very much worth sitting back and thinking about it.

For anyone who hasn't explored the Redis source, do it! It's very approachable and strikes and interesting balance between cleverness and maintainability.
E-readers and tablets really do seem to alter your sleep schedule
oh I sure hope it takes more than a pigeon, but I see your point
I have a lot of faith in the Go folks, as I've found the language to be a pleasure to work with in practice -- basically very well-thought-out.

But man, I don't know...having to manually run a generate command when eg changing string constants seems pretty weird. And if you change the constants without rerunning go generate (manually!) you may get nonsense values. It seems pretty creaky!

Maybe it will end up working out well in practice. (As Go tends to do.)
Unless you're envisioning spacecraft with literally hundreds of astronauts, the first will be anything but easy to solve. Doesn't help having an awesome spaceship if everyone on board goes batshit crazy after six months.
The Ideology -- and to a lesser extent Party ID and Race -- breakdowns tell a different story.
We still have the manual version, but this fascinates me. It seems there is still an opening for a high end solution.
The race is on.....
That was a good read, thank you!

If they are running Cisco up front I wonder it's possible their network was brought down by a zero-day exploit that only uncle sam knows about? (vs. a more mundate DDoS?)
Bandai Namco filed a DMCA complaint to get DSFix 2.3 taken down
Oh you're so cute.

Do you understand why it makes you an asshole to lose your head about abortion and not give a shit about the actual human lives that we ruin in ways that are arguably worse than simple death before consciousness?

I'm guessing you don't.
Not a chance. The US took the necessary measures to authorize military action against the International Criminal Court if one of its criminals is brought to justice there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
Usability testing tools
How about the part of Schwab that's literally called "Charles Schwab Bank"?
Easy to guess: same money would be redistributed differently and there would be less of healthy kids (statistically speaking).
Yes. I always thought it is like this.

As a front-end developer :

I've been doing JSPs, but I've rarely modified .java files.

I've been doing JS, but I would not be confident in pushing commits to the server-side code of a NodeJS project.

I've been doing REST API calls, but it would be hard for me to change database queries.

etc.

That's what I think I'm best at. ( You know as every developer it's not a big deal to dig into any problem, but professionals usually rely on experience ).
More informative article from Huffington Post:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6367654
C) The Iraq War WMD-dossier-fairy told them.
How do the other big consumer trading services compare? i.e. Vanguard, Fidelity, etc?
Giving up is also a security feature.

Whats more likely? your system clock sped up by a factor of 2 and everything kept working, or some guy on your network is trying to dork around with your time so he can bypass some time limited authentication?

Of course, the software needs to correctly handle cases like suspend where the time may honestly need to step. If it doesn't thats a short coming of the software, not a reason to eagerly make "presumed impossible" leaps just because some unauthenticated packets on the network tell you to.
It is not like they are showing only their lyrics block and not a list of links right below it. With or without their lyrics block, they still show 10 results, so their lyrics block isn't bumping other sites off the first page. If you still have endless love for AZLyrics, fine... click their link. You still have that choice. I'll choose to take advantage of the much cleaner UI at Google Play.
No it's not if you ever intend to type `go`.

The go team has decided that the go language doesn't depend on any build system, but pushes a single build system one that requires source code compatibility and provides no benefit over many existing and easy to use build systems (makefiles, tup, etc).
I don't have a firm enough understanding of how the LIDAR and laser's work in these vehicles, but it occurs to me that it might be possible for a malicious actor to confuse the cars and cause accidents. That's concerning.
Google Now summons your car to pick you up in front of your office...
...and, upon entering, you're met with a horrific scene of blood, urine, and feces left behind by the previous person the car picked up.

You sigh as you clean up the mess, "At least it feels like I'm living in the future now..."

But, most likely, the cars will keep track of who is riding in them and you could hunt down whoever made the mess and make them clean it up. Or maybe it has cameras installed? Talk about an invasion of privacy! Plus it's not like they ever signed a waiver saying they WOULDN'T shit in the car.
If you abstain from voting, that doesn't remove you from the process or relieve your implicit obligation under your government.

Even if it did, why would you remove yourself from any philosophical obligation to your government, but live within its laws and regulations? You're basically trying to be separate but, by choice, not really separate and not really equal.
Why don't you post the source of the script you ran against your repository? I'd like to run it against mine.
As an norte american who was an expat for many years I agree. IT's amazing how different the perspective is when you get out of the US media bubble. Nobody, not CNN, not Fox, not MSNBC, etc, none of them really are critical of the US government. It's all whitewashed in a way that's hard to see when you're inside the bubble.

And that whitewash is not just to defend the national government, but to defend the parties.

I believe this is exactly the reason that the founders didn't want to have a party system. Some of their choices (like the original make up of the senate) I believe were specifically to prevent this.

Further, the entire goal of having strong state governments and a weak federal government was to prevent these kinds of crimes.

For the very reason that the federal government will not prosecute itself, a strong federal government is bad. (Principle agent problem.)

Can you imagine if states were doing extraordinary rendition and torture? Highly unlikely. While at the same time, for a real war, there would be no problem fighting with a bunch of state militias banding together (and it would cost us a lot less... much of our problem is due to the adventurism of our permanent military-- hard to justify keeping it around if you aren't constantly finding wars to start, er, fight.)
Small Colleges Get an F in Finance
I've been coming to an opinion on these issues that may be unpopular with the tech crowd: The big banks have the right idea when it comes to security, and we are misguided at best with our obsession over the minutia of password handling.

Why? All of these big banks and investment houses have holdings in the neighborhood of billions of dollars. Like billions in actual cash. If they are so vulnerable and insecure, why aren't all of the hackers targeting them, with their potential upside of billions of dollars in cash, and instead target little web apps to steal some credit card numbers or user data, worth tens of thousands to maybe a few million on black markets? Think about how much effort we've seen put towards stealing cool Twitter handles and other such trivial things. Does anybody really believe that there aren't many more people working much harder to hack banks, with their billion dollar paydays?

They may not be the greatest on password handling, but the evidence suggests that they have a much more healthy security culture overall than your average internet startup. Apparently, they are worlds better at making their systems secure enough that nobody can steal these user databases in the first place. They most likely also have a pile of fraud detection and validation on account activity, especially anything involving moving significant amounts of money out of the accounts. They are probably in the right on this - what's the point in building a perfect lock for the front door if, once an attacker gets in, they can transfer the whole balance to a Russian bank and nobody will notice? Consider how, with some well-publicized recent hacks, you can apparently do anything at all once you get through that front door at most major tech companies.

I'll happily change my tune if any of these banks get hacked and lose big money. Until then, maybe we should ask these banks how they get it so right overall instead of worrying and hassling them about how long their passwords are and how they're storing them.
fixed:

tl;dr Go has its own version of the make tool set that doesn't allow dependencies outside of Go source files, and doesn't rebuild dependencies on file updates.
No, while I was familiar with Mingus, I didn't know about his cat training when I started!
These Startup Founders Think the New Year Is the Best Time to Launch That Idea
> Won't rights owners try to sue Google the same way they whine about lyrics sites?

How do you know that Google hasn't acquired the rights to use the lyrics for promotional purposes for sale of the song and the Google Play Music service as part of the whole package of getting the songs on Google Play in the first place?
Approval may be given in countries which are free, but it is not required. If it is required, then that country is not free. Members of the government may chose to praise or condemn any work they please, but in that capacity they are no different from anyone else. We do not strip our elected officials of the right to comment on art.
CoinTerra is dead and karma is a bitch
It's completely understandable why Uber would want to patent its surge pricing algorithm. However, the mere existence of surge pricing (especially prices that are 2-3x+ the normal rates) will allow for further innovation in the ride-sharing space. Expect to see more emphasis on 'ride-share pooling' and even on scheduled rides. Consumers will also become smarter as they are given tools and data (like whatsthefare) that help them better plan out their trips to avoid the price gouging. Extreme surge-pricing will be less prevalent as consumers get smarter and as competitors better forecast and communicate demand spikes more rapidly to their drivers.
Yes, runtimes and libraries can have bugs, too, agreed, but at least you will have to just recompile with the patched version vs having to fix and test your code as fast as possible. It's more efficient as well as fixing the core will benefit many (well, of course, that would have compromised many as well... to start with).
I used to have my retirement accounts at Fidelity. One day I needed some assistance with something I was seeing on their web UI, so I called them up. The support person said (not an exact quote, but the gist), "in order to see what you're seeing, I'm going to need to log in as you. I need your permission in order to do that. Security precautions prevent me from being able to see your password, so I will need to change your password to a temporary password of '123456fidelity' to proceed. Is this ok?"

I was kind of speechless, but I said, no, that's ok, I've decided I don't need help anymore, and shortly thereafter I closed all of my accounts. I've moved to a smaller firm where I've specifically asked for my accounts to be inaccessible from the internet in any way, and I have a financial advisor assigned. If I need something done, I can call him or his assistant. I can't make big financial moves at the click of a button, which suits me just fine.
Fast code deployments with Docker
Accusing someone of hypocrisy is not a refutation of their idea. It's base rhetoric, used when one can't address the actual argument being put forward. The fact that someone does not devote their life to a goal they put forward in no way makes the goal wrong. If a smoker tells you to not to smoke, is he a hypocrite? Sure. Does that mean that he's wrong and you should smoke? No.

I'd like to think that HN can do better and actually examine ideas, and not dismiss them because of hypocrisy. Your second paragraph is much, much better in this regard.
That is already common in most places. Most parking structures I know have different rates for different arrival and stay lengths. A lot of street parking has free and paid times. Demand based parking has been around a long time.
Ask HN: What should I learn to create my project?
I have an idea that I want to transform into a MVP, but I can't properly code. I know the very basics of CSS+html and Javascript, just enough to know that I am capable of learning to code.

I want to know not only what language and framework to learn, but what should I use to actually deploy and publish my product (a SaaS, more on the idea below). As I see on regular beginner's learning platforms - codecademy and etc - this is a most overlooked field. Should I use AWS, a server on Digital Ocean, some Platform as a Service that I don't know yet but is more user friendly?
In all of this the only thing I know is how to buy a domain. After that, i need to learn.

About the idea:

I want to create a tool that transforms a list of links on a visual board.

Imagine you want to learn about quantitative finance. You ask a friend who happens to know a lot about it and he emails you back with a list of links to pages where you should begin to learn. Among these links there is a diversity of pages: a wikipedia article, two youtube videos (one is a lecture, other an interview), three books' Amazon pages, four twitter accounts to follow, two blogs, one podcast, a particular post of another blog and a project's github.

I would like to build a tool that take that list of links and transform into a one-page visually attractive and didatic board, summarizing and giving a small taste of all the resources.

Think of what Facebook do to individual links when you post on your timeline: youtube videos can be seen on the spot, twitter accounts are shown the avatar and description, blog posts are shown some thumbnail image and the beginning of the post text, wikipedia is shown the title of the article and first paragraph. You get the idea. Most are just the <title> and <description> of the linked page, a few relevant sites get special treatment (like Youtube or Vimeo).

The MVP would allow anyone to transform your hyperlinks into a public, temporarily available board.
Obama already calibrated the governments stance on this ordeal when he said the Sony hack was vandalism and NOT terrorism. I don't believe the government being responsible for NK's internet problems is in line with that.

He also seemed to believe that the fault for any censorship as a result of the hack lies squarely within the US.
George Price created a mathematical theory that altruism works with game theory in evolutionary terms. In an attempt to prove the theory either way he adopted increasingly altruistic behaviour and become more religiously devout. He ended up broke having given away all his possessions, becoming depressed due to the number of times he was taken advantage of. He killed himself in 1975. His atheist colleague converted to Christianity.

There are plenty of ways to interpret the models that economists create - if the Price equation can model altruism in terms of game theory, you're perfectly correct that the definition of "best interests" is a variable.
> Spares you ads? The whole thing has been turned into a Google Play ad.

One ad is less than many other lyrics sources display, so even accepting your description, it still spares you ads.

> Nobody wants to go to Google Play for lyrics

If I want lyrics, I want accurate lyrics. If Google Play provides accurate lyrics, in a low-distraction format, then I definitely want to go to Google Play for lyrics.

> this is Google giving priority placement to an inferior search result.

inferior to what?
The current reality is that the Norwegian Nobel Committee is a private body, and it is not currently the role of Norwegian Parliament to dictate to it who they may or may not award prizes to.

Nobel may not have set it up that way personally, but that is how it is currently set up.
One can do both, although making a worse choice at the polls usually goes hand-in-hand with a closed mind, in my experience.
It doesn't really happen all that often in practice, and when you're hacking on a package that relies on this it's easy enough to have `go generate && go test` sitting in your shell history for that iteration cycle.
Yes. The cat's digestive system isn't that efficient, and they end up excreting a lot of fat. Some dogs seem to regard it as candy. Yuck, I know. Probably a good way for them to get infected with toxoplasma gondii too.