skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy gave consent to have his account logged into. Almost every service can do this. Logins are almost certainly audited. There is literally nothing wrong with this.
I'd bet they've also benefited considerably from the work done with the WebKit FTLJIT project, too:

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/FTLJIT
As the title is a bit vague, I'll clarify for those who may be interested:

This is about people who collect objects and information, things such as antiques or items of curiosity.

This story is not about why the world needs more _debt_ collectors. :)
The differences between twins who grew up together and were exposed to the same environmental effects were subtle, not necessarily so for the difference between a person and a prediction based on their genome. The comparisons of predictions to real faces from the article showed that (so far) predicted faces miss tons of little details that make people recognizable. Genes do not work in a vacuum, different environmental factors can trigger the use of different genes, and many genes are expressed to varying degrees depending on chance. Say one twin grows up in a nutrient-rich environment while another grows up in a nutrient-poor environment. The nutrient-poor twin will most likely have more developmental issues than the nutrient-rich twin, which can have a wide variety of effects. Perhaps a model trained on more data would be more accurate, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Tor's transparent and only my problem, Signal is easy to set up for laymen, GPGTools isn't hard to walk through (I know attorneys that use it just fine), OTR has plugins for everything that supports XMPP...
So... two poorly designed sites?
The color ePaper thing is interesting to me.

If its like my brothers older sony reader (b/w ePaper), the refresh rate was slow but the battery lasted a long long time. If I remember correctly it only uses power when the display changes.

I guess the minus would be its harder to read in the dark. If the refresh rate is too slow it might be annoying but I for a watch I don't think its going to be a problem.
Yep, definitely do, as you can probably guess from my username.

Full disclosure: I'm from the team behind a leading CAPTCHA alternative and our concerns are two-fold -- privacy and vulnerabilities.

a) New reCAPTCHA relying on a 'black box' to verify users is of course, naturally concerning privacy wise.

b) the technology that has been implemented to cater to this black box has actually opened the door to more vulnerabilities.

Our Design Director explains the reasoning behind the concern regarding the 'black box' here: http://www.funcaptcha.co/2014/12/04/killing-the-captcha-with...

And I myself go into more detail about Egor Homakov's findings regarding the new vulnerabilities here: http://www.funcaptcha.co/2014/12/04/killing-the-captcha-with...

Apologies if this feels promotional - if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. This is an area of web sec that we're, obviously, very dedicated to.
great story, although the whole time I was thinking of the appended 1994 explanation. wouldn't that be reasonable? too bad no one thought to measure the magic...
That would be fine, if the 'people who perceive' would realize perception is much more variant and undecidable than 'people who perceive' acknowledge.
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Regular employment still has one thing going for it - the unbounded term. Contract employees have to renegotiate every so often. Employment - no issue. Also your insurance keeps renewing, which is convenient.
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Love this. Great post!
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I can barely see the text on that page!
Um, no AFAICT? Unless things have changed Unreal is no where near as interactive as Unity. Unity is an app (a game editor) designed to make games. Unreal is a game engine with an editor tacked on to make it editable. That difference in approach makes a huge difference in the experience of using each to make a game.

I'm sure you unity devs will laugh at this but in general Unity is designed to not crash. It's an app. Its document is a game. Unreal on the other hand is a game that assumes you have no bugs. By that I mean being a game it assumes the end goal is shipping code. It's not designed to be an editor so it not designed around being stable. It's designed around game code not editor code. If you want to edit code live requires you to use XCode or Visual Studio. If you make a mistake the game crashes taking down the editor (since that's running in the game) and everything with it.
But the universe isn't a zero-sum game, and R&D is like a lottery whose expected outcome is strongly positive: the majority of tickets still lose, but the winners far more than pay for the losers.
Can it solve the halting problem?
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Indiegogo started making a lot of money due to that differentiation, because you could sell many items on Indiegogo.

My understanding is that the Kickstarter policy came in BECAUSE of the original Pebble selling packs of several devices. It's ironic that the policy was reversed and the same company is using that same "multiple products" trick to make a new record on the platform.

Ultimately it DOES change the Kickstarter brand. New projects use "Kickstarter" in their press releases and they're set to the same bar of selling millions of items. I feel like the whole concept of "a kickstarter" is no longer what it used to mean.

They should have stuck with the "Kickstarter is not a store" policy.
I grew up in Champaign, spent two years in college there, and fled to Chicago in 2009 because there were absolutely no programming opportunities available. Thank you so much for investing in my home town -- I belong in a big city, but I still think of Champaign fondly.
> Tesla is the Beats of cars

I cringed. Seems like an insult to Tesla.

What interests me most about the Apple car is the pricing. I do see Apple wanting to create a kind of "mass market" for Apple cars, and turn the Apple car into a kind of iPod of cars, but at the same time I don't see them selling one for less than $30,000, which I don't think is a mainstream enough price, especially outside of US.
I can also confirm that this is extremely common and basically standard practice. I frequently emulate my users when doing tech support. Even if this wasn't the case, unless everything in the database were encrypted per user, I could just query for their data.
Huge fan of DDG, but overseas speed is a problem for me. I find DDG amazing in the States, but when I'm in Australia the extra tiny bit of latency can be frustrating (in the most First World Problem kind of way, of course).
And this one made me smile:

"... I really should just learn another editor, rather than continue to polish this turd."

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/commit...
He took his picture while standing on a flat platform next to something scary. You cursing him out and imagining how "passive-aggressive" his behavior is seems utterly bizarre to me and I could not disagree more with how you're portraying the situation.
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Firefox renders text using whatever text rendering settings you have set up on your computer. These differ from platform to platform, and from monitor to monitor. If you don't like sub-pixel rendering, you just turn it off and all the programs on your machine, Firefox included, stop using it.

Others have also mentioned that the subpixel order differs from monitor to monitor, so if the screenshot was taken on a monitor with BGR subpixels and your monitor has RGB subpixels, the text will look much, much, worse than if there had been no subpixel rendering at all. Or perhaps you, like me, have a CRT and subpixel rendering always looks wrong. It's hardly Firefox's fault.
Impressive. Could be useful out of the box for cheap 10Gbe load-testing.

I'm also curious, how you guys did the test, that you've actually achieved line speed? In my book, line speed means that you don't have millisecond-level gaps between packets from time to time, and it is fairly difficult both to test and to achieve on a stock kernel.
Right, I should have mentioned that. Though as the WebKit-related patchpoint and other bits happened more recently, I had (still?) assumed that Pyston hasn't gotten to leverage those much yet. Turns out I'm wrong: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/blob/master/src/codegen/pa...
And do you qualify those viruses as alive? Why do we have more claim to the tangle of DNA in our cells than they do? Why do we not simply qualify as vehicles evolved by the virus to accomplish its travel through the centuries of reproduction? Obviously, we very well might.

Perspective is, at best, meaningless, and, more often, misleading. The view that the evolution of oxygen-bearing organisms was a boon which unfurled the history of organisms which resulted in us is exactly equivalent to the view that the evolution of oxygen-bearing organisms caused the most calamitous tragedy in the history of the planet, wiping out nearly a whole planet of life and dooming the future to a lack of complex anaerobic organisms.

Objectivity and a dispassionate approach to knowledge isn't just a personality affect of scientists. It's a vital tool.
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In that way, it kind of is like Obamacare for the internet.....
I would be very interested in seeing a list of diagnoses from cases that were solved correctly. It seems to me that once someone with a difficult to characterize condition has gone through 5-7 physicians, any 'diagnosis' that comes out at the end is either wrong or a placeholder until technology advances.
But it's so hip to do!
I think they focused on hitters because in general a lot more attention is already paid to fatigue with pitchers (carefully monitoring innings pitched, pitch counts, rest days, and so on). It's possible (although not guaranteed) that there is much more room for improvement in the way teams deal with fatigue for hitters.
I can vouch for this. Not with the emails, but came across bdunn's free blog and podcast 2 months ago. They earned me an extra $8,000 last month, and a better end product for my client. Spending a fraction of this to get more advice (the paid course) was a no brainer.

(Brennan, feel free to use as testimonial / ask me to elaborate.)
Their budget during the Apollo program was 50% higher than it is today. I don't think funding is the primary problem.
Business and IT have no good reason to fight over the cloud
That's what OMB is supposedly going to release.
It's very true. Companies pretty much provide healthcare that may be a better deal than a freelancer can get, paid vacation, and stable income during periods of time when it might for one reason or another be difficult to find work.

In exchange for that, you take on the high risk of only having 1 business paying you at any given time, and only learning about the world via 1 business. If something goes wrong with that business, or they end up doing things in a way that is not relevant to the wider world, you can get screwed.
Hi Jeremy, author here.

Firstly, thanks for all your great stuff on Math/Programming, it's been a great source of inspiration!

I would have liked to include Universal Properties, but I decided it was just too much to grasp for one session.

The audience were professional programmers, so there was a strong underlying message of "this is directly applicable to what you do". UMPs have got something important to say about abstraction -- what it means to have only what you need and no more. It just would have popped heads by the time I'd built up to it.

Cheers! Keep up the blogging :)
I hope i don't see very irrelevant results again cause i might not return again if it fails again.
That's far later. You might not even get there. Download it and start tinkering around if you're interested.

There is also a free 30-day trial. That should be long enough for you to realize if you want it or not.
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I'd love to read a blow-by-blow on how you put together the site, course and explainer video. How much did you do yourself, how much did you contract out, did you use any firms as opposed to individual freelancers, how did you decide, and where did you find your team?
Von Neumann and Morgenstern showed that, as long as people can consistently order choices (ordinal utility), there is a utility function (cardinal utility) they are satisfying.

What Kahneman and Tversky observed is that people don't even choose consistently. It depends on how the choices are presented. For instance, whether the subject frames an outcome as a loss or a smaller-than-expected gain. No matter how you define a utility function, it will not always be maximized. So, it's not a question of defining the function less narrowly. You can present two games with mathematically identical sets of outcomes and people consistently rank the outcomes differently.

Anyway, it's a very good and important book, and doesn't have much to do with Bayesian statistics.

[Ninja-edited since HN doesn't let me respond further below...if you can show the outcomes K & T observed are in fact consistent with a more broadly defined utility function, then you too can win a Nobel prize!]
Pretentious Photoshopped bullshit with no reason anyone couldn't do the same thing. A harness and a camera on a pole. Truly the Davinci of our time.
Open Source = source is available and free as in beer. Examples: libpng, zlib, apache, python, llvm, chrome, firefox

Free Software = source is available and free as in beer and copylefted (you must also release your derivatives as free software). Examples: gcc, mysql, linux, gnome, gimp

Unreal is neither of these. It's not free as in beer nor copylefted. It's just that if you are allowed to use the source if you license the engine.
> That cause is not pre-graduation -- its effect is. Low participation in the industry causes fewer women to be drawn to the field, to be less interested in math etc.

If it's just that kind of feedback loop, how would the fall have started? Mathematics was once almost exclusively a men's game and early computer science fell in with that; the kids of the '80s would have had more female role models in the computer industry (and certainly as you say more in biology or physics) than those of the '70s or '60s, so why would they have been less interested in numerate fields?

I'm not saying that the feedback loop you describe can't amplify things, but I think the underlying cause has to lie outside it.

I've been thinking more about your decline-since-the-80s point. The narrative I've heard most often is that '90s compsci classes contained women with lower GRE-type scores than men (either through explicit positive discrimination/affirmative action, or because there were plenty of applicants who passed the admission criteria and a roughly-even split were accepted), who went on to do less well in industry (in line with their GRE-type scores), and the crash of the early '00s prompted an adjustment to more natural levels. But that leaves a lot of unexplained questions.

Maybe Yvain's page is right about academia, but those results don't extend to SV where there is more outright discrimination? Maybe it's about men being more able or willing than women to move to SV? Maybe SV's standards are stricter than the GRE cutoff and the difference at the end of the bell curve is even starker?

I still feel like we must be missing something. The simplistic explanation of "it's all innate ability" doesn't fit, but neither does "it's all discrimination/hostility", nor even "it's a 50/50 split between the two". Something remains to be explained here.
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Xamarin supports C# for Unreal with Mono:

http://mono-ue.github.io/
This is probably just me, but the fact that the page does not even load with Ghostery running is kinda a red flag, and makes me infer that the author is much more worried about his experience than mine.
I love things like this.

In my old Dreamcast, I found after I'd packed it up and moved it a few too many times that it wouldn't start, but would show signs of life when the lid would open and close. I found that there was a position you could put the lid in at which it would boot, and that position could be reliably reached if a SweeTart was placed in the tray near the edge of the disc. I licked the flat side of the SweeTart a few times and it stayed where it was, and it's there to this day. Of course, the lock doesn't engage so I have to keep something heavy on top of it.

And on my PS2, I'd fiddled around with it too much trying to mod it, and messed up something in there, but not bad enough that it wouldn't boot and play a game. But about 3/4 of the way through Resident Evil 4, I found it would skip and eventually reset if you didn't tilt it up by 20 degrees or so. As I progressed in the game, the angle at which it had to be set increased, until eventually not only did it have to be tilted in a second direction as well. Believe it or not, it finally reached the point where no tilt could save it in the middle of the final boss, with my friend moving it this way and that like we were trying to get reception with bunny ears on an old TV. I never beat the game.
In test case in the article they are sending the smallest possible ethernet ethernet frame at 84 bytes. Further, the caveat here is that they can do that on a single CPU only in the kernel layer. Once you involve userspace at the same packet size you need 11 CPUs to drive it.

If you're using more realist payload (eg. larger packets) you should be able to scale it further. eg 40Gbit

Bottleneck in this ongoing story has been CPU... that's because of how the software was written. So the issues have been package scheduling, synchronization (locking overhead), high level software (TCP layer, and packet filtering).

Here are more details about the original problem and the test case: https://lwn.net/Articles/629155
Of course, there are actually a great number of questions, not just one. One of the biggest problems is that there is not enough knowledge in general society yet for markets to work well enough wrt privacy. One thing that lawmakers should be keenly aware of, is that broadly written regulations can be helpful at first, but then become burdensome in a mature market or in the face of technological change.
For clarification I wasn't saying that it's 'too high', but just that it allows for more drinks than people think.

If the parent commenter was a European who doesn't drive that much and was surprised about how Americans drink and drive, they're usually not aware of how many drinks effect BAC and what the laws are.
I have never understood concerns about bitcoin misuse.

We haven't abandoned cash because it is untraceable by the government, used for buying drugs, or otherwise involved in crime. The idea that because a digital currency COULD be developed with the tracking of its users inherent to its structure creates a moral obligation to utilize that structure is, pardon my language, fucking idiotic. Read a history book.
I agree fully, although IMO there's another factor at work here (albeit a side effect of your point anyways).

Not only are there so many games, but they're all on TV. The NFL mostly stacks their games on Sunday so "football sunday" has become a social event for people. Leagues like the MLB, NBA and NHL spread their games all over the week and with modern cable packages on pretty much any given day you can find a game to watch - the specialness is lost.

This is one reason why I think it's a bad idea for the NFL to start spreading games around - sure there was always MNF but they've had TNF now for a while and there's always talk about adding more. They want those primetime slots but all it does is weaken The Event effect of sundays.
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There was actually a lot of tricky paint getting the safety wires out of the reflections at Imax resolution.
Well, it's very unusual in this day for a company to proactively protect your privacy. Whether they actually do is unknowable without encryption.
It's tough to switch if you're already unconscious due to hypoxia. You really can't notice the onset of hypoxia fast enough to fix the problem. In theory that shouldn't happen if the diver sets up the gear correctly and pays attention to the alarms, but in practice sometimes divers make mistakes and end up dead.

There was an incident in my area several years ago where a rebreather diver missed a step in his pre-dive checks and jumped off the boat with his oxygen valve off. By the time he swam to the anchor line he had consumed most of the oxygen in the loop (while probably not noticing the alarms), passed out, and drowned. That was user error but the fact remains that if he had been using open circuit gear, a simple error like jumping off the boat with a closed tank valve almost certainly wouldn't have killed him.
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Here's the "making of" video. Holy crap, he's insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16BFrEBZQS4
After seeing positive response on CrowdMed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9101622 - thought this would be really enjoyed.
> As Republicans Concede...

Do they ever do anything else?
We thought about using the framework and components to make an app and sell that instead. The only downside is that we'd have to focus on two things now: the open source core framework and components, and the proprietary app. On the other hand, what you said makes sense, maybe an app is a better starting point in terms of strategy. We'd have to think what kind of app we could build too... these decisions are giving me a lot of headaches (in the literal meaning of it).
Just did a surface audit.

They set and read no cookies. You can test this yourself.

They set etags on static assets, and those theoretically could be used to track you as an identifiable visitor.

How else would they track you? By IP address? That would make any kind of tracking useless -- how would you deal with trying to track 100,000 connections from behind NAT, individually, other than cookies or etags?

There's browser fingerprinting, but I don't see any evidence of that either.
1) Apple deletes associated data when the user turns Siri off.

2) Apple dis-associates data after six months.

1 & 2 = data older than six months is not deleted, bit is not directly associated with you. So that Siri search for that topic only of interest to communist homosexual terrorist Jews will not have your user ID but might still be identifiable from voice analysis.

You can't escape Macarthyism that easily.
150/hr * 2080 hours is an annual gross of 312k. Divide by two to estimate an equivalent annual salary of 156k. A good salary, yes, but not out of reach for someone who builds websites front to back. 150/hr is probably too low to account for downtime and the added risks of going on your own.
It's like a 7 year old with a hunting knife in each hand driving an F1 car.
Uh... How was this not obvious from looking at it? Every geek who's put together or taken apart a computer knows the metal frame is grounded, and most geeks have enough basic understanding of electricity to understand you only need one wire for a ground. The switch enables or disables grounding. Since that is literally the only thing it can do, that is what it does.
Locking is indeed nice to have. We're considering adding locking to the web interface of GitLab. But we'll probably wait for a customer to sponsor this.
Just curious about your data sources, could you tell us what you are basing your recommendation on?
Are you using review sites (Facebook, Google, Yelp) or is it something completely different?
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Hi everyone, author here.

One thing to remember is that each slide had a lot of verbal explanation around it, so I'm not surprised that it's confusing by itself!

We took a video, so hopefully it turns out OK so we can put it online.