skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you conflating two things: display ads cpcs vs adwords cpcs? Despite google telling us that adwords cpcs are falling, we also know total clicks are rising and it is quite possibly a change in mix: more mobile, and more low-cost countries. Anecdotal reports from developed countries claim that high-value adwords are inventory constrained and hence prices are rising -- from kenshoo etc.
There are benefits for a large organization to standardize on a technology.
That, in general, is not the behavior I've observed on native hardware. Without getting into hard numbers, I routinely see multiple gigabits/second/core.
> 10 free messages * 20 major providers * 93mm computers = 18 billion spams per day

I don't get this, is this assuming all 93 million consumer connections are infected with the same malware?
I can't seem to find it anywhere, so I thought I'd add this here for the non-German speakers:

Flak stands for "Flugabwehrkanone" or "Fliegerabwehrkanone" which consists of the 3 words:

- Flug / Flieger (Flight / Airplane)

- Abwehr (Defense)

- Kanone (Cannon)
It's more interesting than that. The engineer who wrote those 9 lines was employed by Sun working on Java APIs before working for Google. According to his testimony it was a "fix later" copy/paste mistake he made when improving Sun's OpenJDK code while working for Google.
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Generating a gift book with Clojure and LaTeX
Lithium ion makes no sense for storage.
Something like large-scale flywheels would probably be much better. Using gravity for storage is even more sustainable. Flywheels for night use and stored water for long term use (storms, fog, prolonged winter at poles [would need to keep from freezing]) all powered by solar or other low-ongoing-input sources should provide a pretty nice environment.
It supports java 7 syntax. Invoke dynamic you mentioned is a jvm feature, which dalvic isn't one. I think the lack of nio is an annoyance that can be fixed tho.
Hi Joe :)

Conveniently, Amin Vahdat recently shared some content publicly about why it should scale to lots of VMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w

(And, to others, disclaimer: I work on some bits of GCE networking at Google)
The answer to that is to build something like a trouble ticket system for errors in the log. You'll probably need to capture 10,000-30,000 judgements to construct useful machine learning models. In the mean time a power tool for organizing the repair work will get the job done.
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It would also be nice if we could see the chat stream without having to login (read-only of course).
I'd wager that an APL-based language (J/K/Q) would win.
> If my country would do this - and it is very well possible they do

Probably any country that can devote resources to industrial espionage does it.

> I'd be very much ashamed of this

"Playing nice" puts you at an disadvantage against actors that are more uninhibited. There is a reasonable argument to be made about scale and proportion; eg, the use of overwhelming capabilities in extremely asymmetric situations. But that doesn't negate the utility of those capabilities.

The uncomfortable reality is that all things exist naturally in a state of conflict (or "competition", to put a nicer spin on it). Morality is perhaps the greatest of the human inventions, but being unnatural, it does not exist in a stable equilibrium, and is rather irrelevant (and sometimes damaging) from a survivalist game theoretic perspective. Like capitalism, the rise and fall of nations mirrors Darwinism on a macro scale, so with that in mind, what we're seeing here should not be surprising -- it is the struggle for survival playing out over decades and centuries. The morality of an action, on a national scale, is a secondary concern, although it is often invoked if the effect on the nation is at least neutral or positive.

So that's why the US won't launch an outright attack against French industrial interests -- the consequences would be too damaging, not to mention the moral aspects of War Is a Bad Thing -- but has no compunction about stealing industrial secrets or snooping on politicians, where the potential gains outweigh the risks. And vice versa, for every nation that does this.

The "rules of the game" are dictated only by self-interest. Is it fair? No. Probably the only way to solve that is to collectively attain (and sustain!) enlightenment.

> rest of the world (the people, not necessarily the governments / those in power) considers industrial spying to be a negative activity

That is only true when the people/government are not the beneficiaries of the information. In reality, states (and people) will (and arguably, should) take any advantage that's given to them. Again, the reasonable argument to be made here is one of scale and proportion, not an absolutist directive of This Should Never Be Done Because It's Bad.

> 'They do it too' is such a lame excuse anyway

Yes, "they do it too" is a poor justification for anything, but it's not really the argument here. The argument is that not doing it would be more damaging to national economic interests. (I hate having to say this, but I feel like it needs to be spelled out, especially on the Internet: this is not me agreeing with anything the US is doing here, only giving a rationale. Although I will admit I'm not quite as idealistic in my convictions as you are.)
Just read one of his articles from his Website. He mixes physics and mythology with impunity. No wonder, his theories are not taken seriously.
I cannot stress how true this post is. You have nailed it on the head. So many people are building naive projects in Unity and--finding disappointment in the performance--are blaming VR in general.

The problem is that VR inverts the concerns for graphics developers. It used to be that fidelity was paramount, performance was secondary. Now, with VR, performance is paramount, fidelity is way, way secondary. It would be better to make PS1-era graphics that hit the high framerate, low latency requirements, and satisfy the proprioceptive issues than to try to push Unreal Engine to its limits if it means you're "only running at 30FPS".

I mean, we still accept 30FPS in desktop gaming. People are willing to run that slow if it means they can crank the latest AAA game to the "High" graphics settings. And it mostly falls into the same sort of hair splitting that audiophiles engage in if we were to argue that they aren't having a good experience at that point. But with VR, if you can't hit the native refresh rate of the display, you're going to have a bad time.
Real science is ugly because there are a bunch of theories that kinda sorta fit, but not really well. I think Maxwell had something like 40 equations for electricity. Give it a hundred years and hundreds of thousands of grad student hours, and something quite clean emerges.

The unknown edges are messy, but as competing theories get winnowed out, merged and refined they become clear and concise.
Are there penalties for invading those kinds of homes in the UK?
Where I used to live (a city of ~100K in Israel) there are probably 500-1000 properties on and around the marina owned by foreign nationals that are conspicuously empty for 9 months of the year, I considered squatting in one of those but if I'm discovered I'd be liable for the something like 3 times the rent for the period I lived there.

Presumably if the penalty for squatting unattended apartments were lower, the owners might be more motivated to find occupants.
So Verizon just took over Microsoft's ad business?
That is the state of the art for energy storage today and basically all the sites are taken. Sure, if energy costs go up a LOT a few more will become viable, but if you look around, for example, Californa, it's hard to find another viable site.
Because it effects american business success. That bribed contract that went to an 'inferior' euro corp instead of the 'superior' american corp.

So by finding evidence of corruption, they can leverage that to potentially get the contract to the american corporation, increasing US wealth.
Those are just 'disruptive' lefts.
Okay, so I haven't published anything on this, but I have asked several optometrists explicitly. They have all said that the worst that can happen is you get a headache from eyestrain the first few times you use it, that you might feel tired, but ultimately it goes away, there is no chance for permanent damage. Their view was that the muscles tire out, that you can't strain them to the point of injury, and it just becomes uncomfortable and unworkable, but not damaging.
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Private schools that entirely lack unions (or protected tenure) actually have significantly lower teacher salaries than public schools, so your theory is incorrect. Add to that the fact that public schools in most states are terribly underfunded, and teacher salaries are pathetic across the board.

Administrator salaries, on the other hand, are often way too high. A law (covering government-run public schools) that limited administrator salaries to 120% of the median teacher salary at that school would likely to more to raise teacher salaries than a union could, I think.
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Thanks! I visited those mines about ten years ago, and it was an eye-opening experience. I have no idea if this project is technically feasible, but I'm really glad these engineers are taking on a clean water project in that area. The people in that area have been getting the shaft for hundreds of years.
Hawaii got bought up by the Japanese when they were flying high and then they crashed to earth. I remember playing golf once in a beautiful country club that was now public. Glorious gold everywhere in the clubhouse and no one would ever use it again. Eventually things will crash and all that golden London will die.
And once you hit my age, your have have stopped accommodating for quite a while. I also wear glasses with two quite different prescriptions. I wonder how many of the VR systems will work for me.
> Destroying them is pretty much impossible owing to their proximity to urban spaces—and the sheer amount of explosives required.

This bit also annoyed me. It's not the amount of explosives required, it's that it's too expensive. Destroying large lumps of concrete can be done with technology we've had since the start of written history - a quarry isn't all that different. It's just that it's really labour-intensive, and hence, expensive.

It's interesting also that the pictured 'renovation' idea does very little to mask the shape of the tower. If you want to stop it looking like a lumpen fascist monument, add some new lines to it, make it look visibly different, rather than overgrown.
> These then gets put back on market with extra-ordinary rents (typically 5% annual of purchase price).

Why do you think this rent is extraordinary? Unless you meant that it is extraordinary as a result of extraordinary purchase prices. As a proportion of purchase prices, these rentals are nothing special. Rental prices will lie within a relatively narrow band near the cost of maintaining a mortgage for the simple reason that if they get much higher, people can finance more property purchases and hope to gain on price growth, and if they get much lower, a substantial proportion of investors lose the ability to leverage and so the returns won't be attractive.

> If you walk through Knightsbridge in the evening, at a time when people in well-adjusted cities might be having dinner with their families and friends, or at least watching TV with their kids, you will see a wall of black, punctuated by the odd square of illumination.

Try walking around the wealthiest area of any city, and the patterns will be very different from "normal" areas: Flats will be larger, and someone at home does not necessarily mean the building will look very lit; more people have second homes, or travel a lot, or work late, and so an inhabited flat may still have people at home more rarely. You can easily find rich areas that look almost black even when most houses are occupied.

I don't know if Knightsbridge is an aberration, but I do know London in general does not in fact have a lot of empty properties in proportion to its size/population. I don't have a source handy, but the last time I looked at the stats it was small. More importantly, the vast majority was empty for other reasons than uninterested absentee landlords.
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_cipher
Is there a better way to work with promises and callback?
some examples: https://gist.github.com/emersonbroga/1fc25bce61dd0035990a

people say to avoid callback hell, using promises but it feels the same hell.
Maxwell had 20 equations for electromagnetism, because he didn't use vector notation, so he had to do the equations component by component. But that had nothing to do with having multiple theories. The current "Maxwell's equations" are exactly the same as Maxwell's 20 equations, merely expressed in a more convenient form.
Display ad business, yes.
Amazing. I always knew him as the discoverer of the Tutte Graph, which was the first known counterexample to what at the time was the most promising route to proving the Four Color Theorem:

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

Later I learned about the Tutte polynomial of a graph, which I believe ranks up there as one of the deepest and most unexpected relations in mathematics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutte_polynomial
Hey Founders!

Is there any way to embed your player on another website?

I see you use jwplayer, and I'm not sure how to embed that unless i mangle together some javascript myself.

Something like an iframe that i cant feed

livecoding.tv/:streamer/:embed

would be nice

(Background, i work on a stream browsing website: overrustle.com and some of my users requested to have streams from your site embedded there)

PS: chat embed would be great too!
Cool! Looks like they're free to use with attribution.

Direct link to the collections: http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/#nav_top
Make no mistake, the benefits don't ever impact the general public like they do for insiders. They get rich while we pay all the bills.
I would LOVE to chat about this for hours. In fact, I applied at Treasure Data just a few days ago for that very reason.

My email is in my profile if you'd like to chat. :) Hope to hear from you!
Because Cortana is the manifestation of engineering capacity to crunch user data to make deeper decisions and better offerings to end users. That capacity is why Google, Apple and now MSFT are all chasing the ability to do voice, because that means they can do highly sophisticated data crunching on their massive computational capacity.

It aligns directly with each's desire to deliver products and services (yes, even Apple - music suggestions is one example) rather than just be a hardware/software retailer.
It's about R, data science, etc. So that's a fair point, but "the search engine used by people who don't know they're using it" doesn't seem like a winning business proposition.
PBS has an old special you can find on Netflix entitled Nazi Mega Weapons. Included in there is a story on Fortress Berlin which covers towers like this. The other more impressive construction project would be the submarine bases along the coast. Even the hidden manufacturing plants for ME-262 are impressive, not only for the scale but ingenuity in construction
Any DSL/landline assets they obtained from AOL are just going to be dumped like the rest of their non-wireless subs. They wan't everyone to move over to their far more profitable wireless business with overage fees.
There's a great quote form John Wannamaker: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”

Marketing is a case of art meets science. You need to make sure the total spend is net positive. Also it sounds like you do this a bit on the side. I'd really recommend getting a professional to help if you have the scale or a scalable business. Treat it like an investment. If you can get $1.30 back for a $1 in, go nuts and grow. You'd be amazed how common I find businesses that treat marketing as a cost center, refusing to invest more even when it's proven there is a significant positive return on their spend.
What would be a good way to find companies that try to address more "pressing needs" and need strong technical help? I am currently in Indonesia, on a break after 20y in Silicon Valley, and would have time to help. I've thought about NGOs but I suspect these may be hard to navigate? Thanks in advance for any pointers and ideas
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It's possible to do manually in all those languages, but I'm not sure it can be done without programmer intervention: C++ and Rust both allow interior pointers/references to point to fields, which inhibits automatic application of many of the craziest layout changes.
where is nuclear in your theory?
Personal Technical Websites and Blogs, Worth the Risk?
I wanted to know what you all thought about Personal Technical Websites and blogs [1]. I see them as an opportunity to create a known public persona, work on improving my writing and technical communication skills, and possibly create opportunities for public speaking at conferences and suchlike. These are all in the hope of increasing my personal brand for networking and for future job hunting.

However recent events [2-7] have suggested that having a public persona linked to an actual identity is perhaps not the wisest course of action.

A negative example is what happened to Ben Noordhuis. [2] Or the aftermath of the donglegate controversy [3]. Another chilling example is Anita Sarkeesian's experiences [4]. She gets legitimate death threats for speaking about her ideas.

I could go on with the remaining references, but there seems to be a trend that if you have a public persona that people can find [5, 6, 7] and if something goes wrong you can be at the center of a controversy.

One option that I've considered is to create an alias. A public persona for the sake of professional interaction that acts as a firebreak between my actual and public identities. This has been done by technical people in the past, but doesn't seem that common. [8]

However in the age of the Internet, I'm not sure how to create such firebreak, or would it be enough / useful?

Please let me know what you think, are blogs/technical websites a good idea and worth the risk?

[1] Personal Technical Websites
http://bit.ly/1Hrc9ob
http://bit.ly/1vcL9Ct

[2] Node.js and pronouns
http://bit.ly/1zfKrs9

[3] Donglegate
http://bit.ly/1oD0pVw

[4] Gamergate
http://bit.ly/1DbDSp2

[5] Doxxing
http://thebea.st/1KlNIJH

[6] Being in public is hard
http://rol.st/1culmyJ

[7] Germanwings
http://bit.ly/1RNHGlM

[8] _why
http://bit.ly/1Nr8Xd1
This experiment has been posted to HN a few times in recent weeks, but I'm not sure it's had a real discussion yet.

The paper is at http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys.... We changed the URL of this submission from http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new....
Need to tax unoccupancy. If an entity is preventing people from living in the city, they should be paying more than those contributing to the well being of the city.
Aristotle wrote that laws are for the general case and judges for the specific. In other words, they are guidelines but you want a human to interpret them and apply them to a concrete situation. Hence "hard cases make bad law." And just the other day someone here was asking about the value of reading the Classics. :-)
Of course we still have a lot to do. The point is we have been, for the last half century or so, moving in, generally, the right direction. We live in a time when every single skirmish around the world shows up immediately, 24 hours a day. That provides a skewed view of the world, making people feel like they are surrounded by major conflict all of the time.

This doesn't mean we stop trying; it just means that we don't have to lose hope because it feels like an impossible task. Conversely, it also means we need to really need to push to keep from losing ground. We can't go back to what the world was like in the time around WWI and WWII.
The next real estate crash will be very interesting. It's not gonna be the whatever estate saddled with an unpayable mortgage, or banks saddled with a a ton of unknown/questionable mortgages... correct me if I'm wrong, but it will be a lot of rich people, especially foreigners who will get hosed.
Not my start up but http://stage3systems.com/ seems to do what you are asking or no? Are software like this common? I guess the tough part is

1. Acquiring Industry knowledge
2. Getting a sale
3. Developing the software
Jolly good article.
I am in-between on the extrovert-introvert scale. I have attended conferences by myself. It can be hard work for a shy or introverted person to deal with the 'social' moments. One solution is to ration your effort to be sociable...

For example, I don't feel the need to try hard to be sociable at coffee breaks. Everyone is busy getting coffee, looking at the conference schedule, checking email, etc. It is very normal to not be sociable at coffee breaks, so you can fit in without problem by getting coffee and then finding a comfortable place to sit and just study whatever you want.

I almost always skip the "party" if there is one. There's nothing wrong with that.

In my opinion, you might want to reserve your main effort for lunch. This is a time when people are resting from going to sessions but are relaxed enough to talk and may have just learned something interesting, too. The two issues here are where to sit, and what to talk about. My advice on where to sit is first of all, do NOT sit at empty table by yourself. This will feel uncomfortable, while waiting to see if anyone will sit there. I also avoid taking the last seat at an almost-full table where everybody is talking. They may be busy with their conversations. I look for a table that has a few people but is perhaps 60% empty. I don't sit on the opposite side of the table far away from the people, nor right next to them; I pick a spot that is one or two seats away. As soon as you sit down, shake hands and introduce yourself. Other people will come and fill in the empty seats. It is normal when someone sits down near to you to immediately say hello, and introduce yourself. They will do the same.

Fortunately, at a conference, everybody has in common an interest in the subject. This makes it easier converse, using standard questions to begin: "Have you been to this conference before?" "Did you travel far to get to the conference?" "Have you used React a lot?" "What did you think of the keynote speech?" "What does you company do?" If the conversion moves to a technical discussion, you may find it easier to talk.

If conversation becomes difficult, you can just listen to what the others at the table are talking about.

Also, people are always busy at conferences and running off to take care of tasks or business, so if it is too uncomfortable is OK to finish lunch and leave; you are not trapped!

If there is a dinner speaker, then dinner is easy, since most of the time everyone will be listening. After the speaker, conversation can be about what the speaker said.

Good luck! There are many people who exactly understand this anxiety and are wishing you the best.
There's also the assumption that null is address 0. Notably breaking the purity of C++s type system with magic 0s for 20 odd years before nullptr came along.
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