skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying, if a kid doesn't want to eat his vegetables or go to school, he shouldn't have to, right?

Many people don't have the opportunity to learn how to use a computer. But having basic computer skills is a prerequisite to most entry-level, non-service jobs, and is becoming an increasingly important part of our social fabric.

I would agree with your statement as it applies to people who know about/how to use the internet, and simply don't care. But not for the portion of the population that can't afford the resources or education.
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Exactly. I'm in the middle of a cross-country relocation because we decided that the bay area is just too damn expensive for its own good. Since I telecommute exclusively anyway, the move was a no-brainer once we sold ourselves on the idea of leaving the area.
Note that these tests were conducted on a MacBook – presumably running OS X. Apple invested a lot of time optimizing Safari and OS X for low power usage, so it's not exactly surprising that Safari wins in most cases. It would be very interesting the see a comparison with Windows and Linux (if possible on the same hardware).
let me refactor it!
Unfortunately I don't think the answer is as easy as just letting providers self-police, or following a European model where banks have historically turned a blind eye toward (or even actively courted) criminal clientele.

They should follow transportation/telephone/common-carrier rules, because they're just as necessary to life in modern society.
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How do you prove the cellphone owner was driving, not just a passenger?
What effect would turning off Javascript have on those numbers?
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That was my thought as I read this as well. Despite the title, the article really never said why I should care that they don't use the Internet.
What value do you bring to your company?
How long does this take to run? Could it be done in real-time?
The result doesn't look like Ed Milliband, though...
Good call to start revolution from the another side - from side of web entrepreneurs. If monetization of your web project done with ads, do FIGHT with ad blockers, such as AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and others. Change markup, track html changes after page load, find other ways to resist - don't let them ruin your business. It's important to stay "good citizens" - don't use popups, don't use huge banners, but it's up to users to decide if there is too much ads on your pages - not up to blockers.
Blockers should start with empty black lists and only add records on demand.
I'm sure it's possible, but one way to avoid it -- turn the constant into a method:

> robot.keys.ENTER()

(Not great for key combos, though...)
The core of the problem is right there in the language of the article. As a user installing an app, I want to use it to help me with some problem or task I have. Here are things I absolutely don't care about: "user retention", "engagement", "winning me over". You shouldn't need to win me over; if your tool is useful, I will use it. If notifications are timely and relevant, I will enable them.

I often get the feeling that people making mobile apps have a sales mindset of their users being cattle that needs to be milked, and then act surprised that the cattle doesn't obey.
Apparently no one who knows what they'd be talking about has seen this, so I'll have to take a pass.

A ramjet is basically a tube open at both ends and moving very quickly so that air enters one end and leaves out the other. Because of the speed of the air moving through it and the shape of the tube, the air is compressed in the tube and something sprays fuel into the compressed air, which ignites and produces higher-velocity air moving out the end of the tube. It's a jet engine, although normal jets have to have elaborate turbine-compressor thingys to do the air compression.

The ionizing radiation thing is a goofy UFOs-are-space-travellers thing, where the UFO sprays ionizing radiation in front of itself, which heats and disperses the air in front of it, allowing the UFO to travel faster. Or something. It's goofy.
At this point, I don't know what's more disgusting: the poaching or the slavering, bloodthirsty mob who wants to punish the dentist without due process.
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The mean (or average) is a good choice for data with a normal distribution. However, if your data has extreme scores, such as the difference between an Uber and everyone else, you should look at the median or 90th percentile, because it's much more representative of your sample.
I'm saying that trackers expect constant growth (probably because young people use them mostly). What happens when an older person, around 50+, uses it? Most people at that age are on a physical decline. It's just like the article, where you could be watching your body deteriorate through statistics and bioinformatics.

Not exactly motivational.
Cool tool but kinda ironic that someone built a privacy tool for Chrome only
"what 90% of the people think"

I think a lot of people like to think that 90% of the population have the same rather twisted prejudices as them.
Yeah, totally. I thought that Magic is on demand search engine for human intelligence as well. Not sure that it would easily scale though. Seems like database would be better than on-demand. Thanks for the insight.
I'm honestly more worried Google or an advertising company would be using this technique than its value as a security mechanism. It'd just be one more chunk of information in the browser fingerprinting process.

Changing your natural, habitual behavior is hard.

The sad part is, this probably would be pretty effective at catching bots due to the fact they likely are largely repetitive and/or skip the mouse move to simply click a location.
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I made this this morning in around 6 hours from domain availability to 'launch' and I'll be writing a blog post about that soon.

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Same here - Safari is what I use for everyday browsing, Chrome is what I use for web development. Safari's developer tools are sluggish and awkward to use, but browsing on it is just a faster, more pleasurable experience.
Or detect the user agent and simply serve different content? I'm pretty sure that Google penalties this though.
SV could find ways to increase teacher salaries beyond what the property tax funding ceiling will allow, but this would require members of the community to recognize - and be motivated to action by - a perceived lack of teacher quality.

But, this won't happen because despite all the noise around 'teacher accountability' we don't yet have a reliable way to measure teacher efficacy. This both prevents the out-and-out firing of substandard teachers (unless they're obviously terrible performers) while also undermining a strong teacher's ability to say "by these measures I am having X impact on student learning and require additional compensation".

You can't make a strong argument for additional compensation if you can't demonstrate your value. Likewise, SV families aren't going to push for additional compensation so long as their teachers are considered 'good enough'.

Not a lot of winning here on the wages front, so increase housing density?
One of the strangest part about working at Cornell University - one of the country's best CS schools - is that a lot of people don't use the Internet at all, particularly facilities staff. Their phones just text and call. They live out in the boonies without any internet connection.

And you know what they're missing? The opportunity to pull out their phone and pretend to be a part of the conversation. These people actually talk to you, and they listen, too.

Instead of seeing a problem where people don't use the Internet, we should be looking at what ubiquitous Internet connections are taking away from us.
I love the features! But the language omg. Every time i want to modify my script it feels like such a chore. Would love some js or lisp that compiles to AHK.
>Will also fine passengers which is hilarious.

What about using your phone as a key? To turn on your car you have to put your phone into a deactivated mode (like a drive dashboard) that has significantly decreased functionality. I'd bet parents would be rather interested in this (and perhaps car companies).

>Speeding is most often victimless crime so it's not obvious why it is absolute good for me...

Not always. The stopping distance from 35 mph to 40 mph is a good bit. I haven't found any numbers on 35 mph, but it seems that 30 mph has a stopping distance of ~75 ft, while 40 mph is ~120 ft. If you're going 5 over in a 35 mph zone (which is normally a city) there is an increase in brake time that could potentially put someone at risk of being hit. Is it victimless if you put someone elses well being at risk by being hit by you? Because you wanted to get somewhere slightly faster?

Edit: readability
Definitely. A modern octa-core Exynos shouldn't be chugging along to render a blog post. It's absurd.
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The article is sort of all over the place.

The lede, as you say, is simply untrue. I'm pretty confident that the next 6 adults I meet have all sent an email.

Then there's the matter of providing Internet access to those who can't afford it.

And then there's the matter of those who simply don't see the Internet as relevant to their lives. Is this a problem or not? I dunno but the solution (if, indeed, one is needed) is going to be different from the prior case.
Put "Apple" or "iOS 9" or something in the title.
On that note, I think I'm going to go outside. Thanks for the reminder!
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At this point, I would pay $3 to never see that message again.
>But these remaining holdouts are likely to be the hardest to reach, because you can't just throw money at them. Of non-Internet users surveyed in 2013, just 19 percent cited the cost of Internet or owning a computer as an obstacle to adoption. Many more, 34 percent, said they didn't find the Internet relevant to them (though with seemingly 99.9 percent of the Web devoted to cat GIFs, perhaps they have a point). Thirty-two percent said the Web was too difficult to use, according to Pew.

I wonder how many fell into the bucket of "found a computer (not the web) too difficult to use." I'm quite serious.

My father, despite building TVs from Heathkits, is a high school dropout. My mother did graduate high school but is a bit of a luddite. For decades I would describe their personal computing experience as "clunky". My father understood the hardware (hell, HE was the one who upgraded our 486), but my mother is of the mindset that a computer is a complicated thing you're liable to "screw up" or "break".

She's now 60, he's 66. Previously their computer use was minimal, aside from my dad meticulously maintaining his media library, which mom chides him for ("he's going to break something"). Yet, I give her an iPad, and everything changes. She has no beef with it. She's not afraid of it. She uses it probably 4 to 6 hours a day, every day, managing what she cares about within a few select apps. Well, it was a few select apps. Last I looked at her iPad she has nearly 80. She also now has a Kindle, a FitBit, and an AppleTV.

Moreover, they live in an elderly community. Average age is mid 70s. Folks with landlines, and a surprising number that have never owned a computer. Ever. It was really odd to find out my mother was convincing people to get iPads, and she'd have my father go do a simple installation of an Apple Airport Extreme (since it can be managed via iOS), and giving folks a crash course.

You now have octogenarians, who never previously used a computer for the previous 80 years of their life, playing games with each other online, sending emails and IMs, looking for funny cat GIFs, streaming movies and TV shows on Netflix, filling their Instagram accounts with new photos, managing recipes, tracking their health/nutrition, connecting with grandkids on Facebook, browsing the web and shopping online, and so on and so forth. I think my folks have brought nearly twenty people into the 21st century in just three years, with my mother of all people leading the charge to get them on board.

Some have gone further. Some now have Kindles so they can read on the bus or at the doctor's office. Some have set-top boxes which they use to stream with. Though a computer? Zero. For the older generation, tablets don't seem to have the stigma a full-fledged personal computer does, and with only a little nudging and demonstration of how simple things can be, they're damn willing to see what they've been missing.
The World Anti-Doping Agency constantly update their list of prohibited substances and develop new tests on a proactive basis. FG-4592 (and a number of similar compounds) have been on the prohibited list since the beginning of 2015. The list can be seen at the list below, and it is extremely comprehensive. Several other substances are not currently prohibited, but are monitored for their possible use as performance enhancing drugs.

Alongside track and field athletes, cyclists are the most tested athletes in any sport, and are subject to three core testing regimes.

Firstly, cyclists are subject to in-competition testing. The winner of any race (or the stage of a race) and a random sample of other riders will be subject to blood or urine tests.

Secondly, the whereabouts program requires cyclists to notify the authorities of their location every day to facilitate out-of-competition testing. Athletes are randomly sampled, with extra scrutiny paid to the strongest performers.

Thirdly, the biological passport scheme creates a long-term profile of a rider's physiology, to track changes in markers like testosterone/epitestosterone ratio and hematocrit that may indicate the use of performance enhancing drugs or methods. A sudden change in any of these markers or deviation outside normal ranges is grounds for sanctioning.

In all tests, two samples are taken to safeguard against anomalous measurements or failures in the chain of custody. A portion of both samples is stored indefinitely, to facilitate retroactive testing if new drugs or methods are discovered.

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The Facebook Instant Articles thing is in a good position for this. Move content to special-purpose browsers controlled by the company serving the ads.
Is that actually accepted thinking now/still? I was taught this logic by my prep. school geography teacher ~15 years ago, but I haven't heard it touted much lately, so maybe it's no longer the most common expectation?

A (very) little googling didn't bring up that prediction, generally it's thought that the UK's temperature will indeed rise from global warming. For example this [1] piece in the Guardian from a couple of years ago suggests that global warming is likely to lead to wetter winters and more flooding, and summers that are both dryer and hotter. Similar stuff from a random city council's website (Bradford)[1].

Obviously the recent anecdotal data also supports rising temperatures (the five hottest years on record for UK are 1995, 2006, 1990, 2011 and 2014 with the latter being the hottest, and I think 2015 set to top that), but doesn't necessarily mean that the ice melting won't cause UK temperatures to drop again... but the fact that predictions don't seem to take it into account, my assumption is that either it's plain wrong, or it used to be the commonly accepted expectation and is no longer, or perhaps it's still expected but over a larger timeframe than the next 100 years?

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/08/potential...

[1] http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/the_environment/climate_chan...
But aren't iOS users most likely to spend money? Thus making them the perfect users to target if you're eventually going to show ads, or rent their information, or monetize in any way?
Yeah, it'd be a lot more interesting to see results for Linux and Windows, too.

The test that'd be the most interesting to me is actually Chrome on ChromeOS vs. Chrome and Firefox on Linux on the same hardware. My subjective impression from using ChromeOS is that it's much faster and more efficient than Chrome on other platforms, but I'm curious if that's really true.
Neat project, but actual construction costs aren't what are driving bay area housing prices.

Edit: and looking at their website (http://www.boxouse.com/), solving bay area housing doesn't seem to be the actual business proposition.
Well, it looks something between Milliband and Voldemort...
I think one of the primary motivations for doing this is to break cryptographic keys, and using that for surveillance and to hack into Chinese websites.
"Social media vigilante justice is fast but not fair."

That's because "social justice" isn't about justice. It's about punishing an entity with a real or perceived advantage, in order to appease a victim-mentality group. Righting any possible wrong or establishing true equality has nothing to do with it.
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Can I interest you in the original Plan 9 compilers? Their source should be around somewhere and they don't do much in the way of optimization, if any, so they shouldn't any giant memory use problems.
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Google definitely penalizes keyword stuffing via white text/small text/etc. and have done so for years and years.
This concept was used in _The Dosadi Experiment_, by Frank Herbert. The Dosadis would input all available information on an adversary into a computer, and build a personality model of them. They would then run game scenarios against the model to find the optimal strategies to achieve some desired goal.

If you can assemble an AI copy of someone, you have an almost unbeatable weapon against him. You can make him do things that he thinks are his own ideas, just by adjusting the input parameters.

If you want someone to walk on one side of the street, and you know he avoids panhandlers, you put a fake panhandler on the other side. If you want him to slow down or stop at a certain point on that side of the street, and you know he likes motorcycles, you park a custom chopper there. And while he's gawking, you pick his pocket, or bag his head and shove him into a van, or stab him with a drugged needle, or whatever other spy movie crap you might have in mind.

If you have a detailed enough model to authenticate someone, you may also have a good enough model to impersonate them, or to influence their behavior for your own ends.
What do you base this on?

Every measurement (not many) I've seen suggest that screen (size/resolution) and network are the main culprits, outside of very intense CPU/GPU client (e.g. games). I don't think I've seen a really good analysis, though, so would be interested if you've got a reference.
"Professionalism" is expressing yourself without using ad hominem attacks or insults. Using professionalism actually makes your points stronger, since people are forced to discuss and debate facts instead of how focusing on how you are behaving like a child.

I'm sick of this idea that "professionalism" == whiny or politically correct and being "honest" allows you to be a jerk. The entire thing is so unproductive.
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"But wait, what about the moral dimension? The fact that if you block the ads, the sites lose their income?"

What a ridiculous point. Sure the advertisers want to make this into a moral issue, but is it? No. It's not. Advertisers just feel entitled. They are not actually entitled to display their ads or make money. Even bringing up this point like it's a valid point for debate drags the quality of the article down.

Advertisers not making money off people using ad blockers is NOT a moral issue. It's a failing of their business model. Nothing more and nothing less. Are we now going to say that they are too "insert adjective of choice here" to fail? Insanity!
Rubinius doesn't want to join is not because they don't want to invest the effort, they actually invested a lot of efforts before.

That being said, they bring up this project more for political reasons, that they want to control the language, e.g.
If MRI fails on the rubyspec, whose fault is that? It would be MRI if rubinius controls the project.
Now rubyspec is part of the ruby (MRI) project, and they have made a lot of changes to conform MRI, and in return rubinius would need to adjust to conform the specs, for a project that has 24K commit and still doesn't work on windows, you can imagine why they don't want to join effort.
tbh, the OP never mentioned published research, just asked if MIRI's been able to engage the AI Research Community
Nothing would prevent content providers from sending ads even if you selected that setting.

In fact, that is almost certainly what would always happen, since it would require exactly no change from the current state.
I wouldn't be surprised either, but the methodology for the testing doesn't seem to be fully explained, so it might lack rigor. Is it a fresh install of the OS? Are all of the caches and histories clean? What plugins are enabled?

Performance can vary based on how you configure your browser and what extensions you have enabled. I get less battery using Chrome, but it's configured in a way that I think is a superior experience, and most of the time my notebook is plugged in.

There might be unsurprising trade-offs between speed and battery life. (And if you get things done faster, does that offset the drain?) For me, usually time, not battery life, is the most scarce resource. Obviously I'd prefer to have more of both.
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Yes, it's been my experience that those people share closer personal bonds and have a greater sense of community too.
Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords, even if some people use them as passwords.

What's the point of a password you can't change? Once it leaks, you're screwed forever.

In the autenticaion realm, there's three main things used: a) who you are ("username") b) what you know ("password") and c) what you have (smartcard, various kinds of dongles). Biometrics of any kind only fit in the first category. The other two must be changeable, or there's no point to them, since they become aliases for the username. Any authentication system needs to assume the password or the what-you-have thingy leaks or is stolen. If they can't be changed, it becomes rather difficult to lock out an attacker while still allowing the legitimate user access.
"My point is that by exaggerating the importance of frameworks, we’re ending up with an army of technicians and no engineers"

This will continue to happen. Now, companies only need to hire one engineer to oversee all of the decisions and the rest can be technicians, which also have a much lower salary.
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This is sort of easy to explain, the United States makes the processes difficult because it wants the money kept here.

What interest are you to the United States if you work here and then don't spend any of the money in the economy? If a majority of your paycheck is being spent in other markets, then you're actually running against the US economy.

This is just a short lay-man's terms explanation of how I see the situation, but it seems to be somewhat true.