skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I think it's well known that Chrome isn't nearly as efficient as Safari but I'm amazed just how big the difference between some websites is. Some sites are worse on all browsers, but I wasn't expecting the effect to be by hours.

So you look a site like Mashable and with Safari you're getting 1/3 the battery life of Cult of Mac. That's crazy.

But then on a few sites things are really nuts. What is going on with Forbes where Chrome's battery life is 50% what Firefox and Safari get? Something is going on there.

This was neat to see.
How many of those are retired seniors (pre-boomers) who have no real need to use the internet?
I think in the not too distant future, if "using the Web" equates to "using Siri or Google Now" then that number will drop dramatically.
Well, I do as well, so that's two at least.
I did not see it - but I read the Wiki article about his controversies.

All of them appear to be no more than play on words, there is never any ill will or desire to humiliate anybody.

The reason these particular jokes get noticed is because some people are obsessed with crying foul when certain groups are offended. He could make 10 jokes about the English/Scotts/Welsh and nobody would bat an eyelash.
Yeah, we definitely won't be writing a web app in Go. We can just build it with Drupal and it'll be fine. Most of what we'd use Python or Go for are small services that handle one thing that run in their own container. https://github.com/progrium/gitreceive is a good example of the kind of services that we'll be building (we didn't build gitreceive, obviously, and we probably won't re-implement it because it's already pretty good. Just wanted to give an example)
"Professionalism" is usually nothing more than a euphemism for using PC/CYA language and avoiding any type of discussion of hard truths because they might offend someone in power.

Technology as an industry would be better if we discarded it.
The interesting thing about Armstrong wasn't the testing that got him - it was Floyd Landis.

The scary thing is had Armstrong not tried to come back to cycling the last time he would've been in the clear. The reason Landis turned him in was Armstrong refused to let him on his team.
I believe Google is moving towards graphical understanding of the text as well and it should be able to render the pages and see what is going on the page... those days will soon be over and technical excellency in SEO will talk.
The difference is that the forms of entertainment you list are things you learn to do. You must be taught. Tv, music, audiobooks and some other new forms of entertainment don't require thought. They are shoved at you. They may provoke thought but don't require it. Then you add other advances on top of that, the internet, the avialbility of cars, planes, cellphone, etc. It changes society.

To argue that these things haven't changed society and that the older generation hasn't lived through it is ridiculous. Is it better? That's an opinion, and the older generation may think so. My dad LOVES working on old cars, but hates working with electronics (i.e. new cars)... Does he miss the "golden age". Heck yeah, but does he also love watching TV at night, heck yeah.

>And you know what? I can't stand life in those places. I found them incredibly insular. Stifling. Conformity-enforcing. It's not something I found to be beautiful, uplifting, or pleasant. They are not a thing I wish to encourage or would call a desirable model.

Again totally an opinion, but society has changed even there with the advent of the car/tv/internet/cellphone. These are things that expand our world, but shrink where we feel comfortable (I.E. I feel more comfortable driving an hour to see my friend then hanging out with my neighbor). Some people have adapted to the "new world" very well and others would prefer to reminisce about the golden age.

I'd like to take the best of both worlds, which is why I'm working to get to know my neighbors better, but also to enjoy the community I've found here on that interwebs thingy.
Why won't it ever be cross-platform? Would the effort just be too gargantuan?
is there anything like this for browsers? I know theres things like casperjs but that seems more "browser test" specific, not "browser automation"
The Eclipse curators have a great eye for overlooked amazing films. It's like the main Criterion line, only moreso. The MA to Criterion's BA in film.

Criterion also deserves credit for making so many of their titles available for streaming on Hulu. More in the Criterion line than in Eclipse, but some of those are there too:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/231667?utm_source=site&utm_medium=...

Given Criterion's mission to make more great films more widely available, I hope they'll fight to overcome whatever rights issues are keeping parts of the collection offline, and expand their agreement to other services, like Netflix and Prime, and sites around the world.
https://www.criterion.com/hulu

It's a shame that I can use Hulu to watch some of the greatest Italian films ever made, but I can't do that in Italy.
On the flip side, making a big deal out of an attempt at comedy shows the world that these words bother you, which gives malicious people more ammunition to attack you with.

Did you know the word idiot used to refer to someone with a mental handicap? They stopped using it because it was being used as an insult and was no longer politically correct. The new politically correct term was "retard", which of course became an insult as well, so the term had to be changed again. And these days, no one would cover their child's ears if someone said the word "idiot" on television.

Either everything can be made fun of or nothing can. Where do we draw the line? Family Guy makes jokes about Catholics vs Protestants, but South Park gets censored when talking about Muhammed. Chris Rock can say "nigger" in his comedy, but no one else can? Gabriel Iglesias is "fluffy". Can I, a city-dweller, make jokes about rednecks like Jeff Foxworthy?

No one watches Top Gear and says "oh hey it must be okay to commit violent acts against people who are different than me". At worst, it's a tasteless joke that some might find funny and others might roll their eyes at. Or maybe people like Clarkson are removing the power of the word much in the same way words like "idiot" or "lame" are no longer pejoratives against the handicapped.
Is the argument that Google doesn't index hidden text, or that Google penalizes the use of hidden text?

This experiment proves what we knew -- Google indexes hidden text; however, it doesn't prove or test what people want to know -- if Google penalizes results that hide text.
One optimization I do often - don't load the FB scripts until someone actually hovers over an FB like button or share box. 99.9% of the time, they never do. In the meantime, just mock the look of the button. We even mocked the like counts et al by polling FB's API from teh server.
https://dhowe.github.io/AdNauseam/
Honestly I haven't fully formed my opinion on this, I was really just curious. It sounds like an interesting problem.

Right now, I tend to lean toward the idea that rather then fighting people tracking me I'd prefer to add white noise so they can't really tell where I'm at, but I really prefer this more for GPS then ads. I don't really care if ads know what I'm doing, if I want someone who won't track my searches I go to duck duck go.

EDIT: If I REALLY don't want to be tracked I go to TOR + VPN, but I don't typically want to go through all that.
uBlock doesn't click ads in the background.

That would be https://dhowe.github.io/AdNauseam/
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I find it odd that a president would sign an executive order for a new kind of computer (even if the new kind of computer is technically impressive). Call me cynical, but I'll bet that there's a number of quid-pro-quo arrangements with big party donors (or soon to be donors) -- regardless of which party is in office.
This. I really wish I could get paid to use it but everyone wants Linux and Microsoft shufflers. I can live in hope.
No download and install option... yet.

We deploy multiple times a day right now. Clubhouse is built with the option of a hosted version in mind, but we'd have to get to the point where we felt that things were stable and complete enough to say "ok, let's call this 1.0 and ship it."
(I'm the author.) You're right that there isn't (yet) a medical test like a blood test or an MRI to detect autism. In France, the official "diagnosis" is established by a psychiatrist based on interviews and questionnaires with the person, and some of their family members if possible.

That's how it happened for me, and at the end of the evaluation process, they said I met "the criteria (CIM 10 and DSM IV) for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, and in particular for Asperger syndrome (CIM 10: Axis I, F84.5)". I haven't looked into what those numbers refer to exactly, and I don't like all the medical connotations, but that's how it's done in France.

There's a screenshot of the report in an post I published earlier this year (in the "self-discovery" section: https://guillaumepaumier.com/2015/02/22/2014-in-review/ ).
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The article notes that older americans are among the fastest adopters today.

If you've looked at Facebook recently, you'd see why, its the best way to stay connected with extended family members and see pictures of grandchildren.
I use Privoxy at home to block Ads, only works connected on wifi at home but it's easy to setup.
iAds is a rounding error on Apple's business.

It may be now, but I'll bet they don't think it will be in the future.
I use i7 2600k at 5.0 GHz for some time. Probably best option for ordinary human.
Why do they need a deep learning model for this? They are obviously targeting signs, product names, menus and similar. Model will obviously fail in translating large texts.

Was there any advantage of using a deep learning model instead of something more computationally simple?
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These numbers don't surprise me at all. Poorer, older, and less educated people don't use the internet.
If they don't want to use the internet, they don't have to, right? The benefits and cost of internet use are concentrated on the individual, so I'm not sure that we should expend a lot of effort to force them to "join" the internet if they don't want it.
We also can't be sure that "literal searches in quotes" are considered the same way for SERP ranking etc, which I guess would be the motive for hiding text.
Regarding ajax, I've heard Google was indexing high profile sites, not _every_ site, due to the cost of running JavaScript.

Is that still the case? It would have been better if the test was done on a brand new domain.
I wonder how using ublock and umatrix affect battery life.
It is difficult to summarize video chat or phone call for documentation purpose, that is the only situation I can think of where this can be useful! A bit more than just texting.
How a polymer component would be better than a react component?
This can be done with Pay per action and referral links

such as site X has sent us 1000 users and 10 of those have signed up so we pay them for these 10 signups/purchases whatever

interestingly amazon are the leaders here...
It is good that retired people don't have the time to learn anything new or the need to connect with people.
He's talking about the current version. The first version was rejected by OSI.
The article doesn't answer why I, a non-American, should care.
Mechanize might be something that fits that: https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize
I don't think racial slurs are Top Gear's primary appeal. They're just slipped in by the hosts (and clearly with the approval of the production team in some circumstances) as a (quite sinister) wink-and-nod to appear chummy with viewers who "think like them". It validates their behaviour and views.
Selenium can be used for browser automation.
It's pretty clear that adoption of any technology nowadays follows a logistic curve. That is to say, giving the same amount of money gets less people onboard every time you do so. At some point, it is no longer economically worth paying to introduce more people to the technology (because moneyInvested > moneyEarnable as you get closer to the asymptote).

Clickbait title, 4/10. Article doesn't even tell me directly why I should care besides "poverty and inequality" while a couple of paragraphs before stating "34 percent said they didn't find the Internet relevant to them".

Also, it's worth considering: maybe people just don't want to use the Internet. Plenty of libraries carry access, and plenty more will soon. What else can you do, at that point?
Mobile Safari account for 10% of the whole browser market share (desktop + mobile) and ALL other platform already had the possibility of installing an adblocker, so I don't share the sensationalism of the article.

what is pushing the adblockers is the resurgence of annoying ads that spam windows all over the place and/or redirect the current page to a temporary site.

internet population at large can now use a search engine and look up 'block annoying advertisement' (first result, adblock plus) and 90% of them are in a position of installing an adblocker, Mobile Safari is just jumping late on the trend because awareness of it's customer, not because apple is ahead of the game.
Come on, Apple didn't want DRM, labels insisted on it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080107121341/http://www.apple....
It looks as though the UCI has finally caught up wit the dopers. For decades, the cycling teams were always two or three steps ahead of UCI testing methods.

Good to see they're developing the means to uncover these new drugs before they become widely used.
I see the future as being one in which strong AI
emerges from whole brain emulation, starting around
2030 as processing power becomes cheap enough for an
entire industry to be competing in emulating brains
the brute force way, building on the academic efforts
of the 2020s.

Computational power is not sufficient for whole brain emulation. You also need to know how the brain works in a huge amount of detail.

For example, we've had fast enough computers to emulate nematode brains for 20+ years but we are still not able to emulate one and have it learn.
It depends on your risk aversion level and your goals.

Do you want a business you can run yourself? Maximizing revenue? A "safe bet"? Passive or active investment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%E2%80%93return_spectrum

http://personalfinance.duke.edu/prepare-your-future/savings-...

It also depends on your location / country, 100K gives you a lot more runway in my country than in the U.S.

Since you're a "college grad" on HN I guess a software-based startup is your goal.

Personally, I'd bet on the Oculus Rift, the guys I knew that struck it rich rode a wave of innovations / new hardware (for example the iPad), I believe the Oculus will open a lot of new avenues (virtual shopping, virtual sightseeing, virtual training, data visualization, virtual everything :) ). 100K might not get you very far in the U.S. however.

Non-software, there are plenty of franchises that give an interesting return on investment.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/206466
Would this also significantly reduce the heat produced by data centers as less of the current going through the transistor is converted to heat?
This confirms my unquantified observations. I use Chrome only when I have to — for ClojureScript development, because the developer tools are better.
Great product, I'm on waiting list!
See also: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html

Java had this, like, forever. Long live "Write Once Run Anywhere"!
I'm assuming you have no data to support your assumptions?
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Yeah, ultimately this doesn't demonstrate anything. We know Google can index text if it's hidden - the only issue with hidden/obfuscated text is that if Google determines it to be so, there's likely an SEO penalty to be paid.

The searches done here are so explicit that all it's demonstrating is that pages that are indexed by Google exist in the index. We have no information on how that would compare against competition (poorly, likely).

And to boot, OP may have degraded his/her own blog's overall SEO.

In short: not very valuable.
I started this project as a way to dive into learning web development. I wanted to build something a little different from traditional race prediction calculators where you just enter a single time for a recent training run. Accessing all of a runner's GPS data from Strava allows me to put a rolling window on each run and find the fastest sub-segments and build predictions based on that.

This was built using Ruby on Rails and is running on Heroku. The biggest challenges for me were:

- Connecting to an API (Strava) and consuming the data

- Figuring out how to efficiently use Sidekiq (especially on a single Heroku dyno)

- Design (this is still a work-in-process)

If it's not clear, this is for Strava users only at the moment. I plan on adding additional API access when I can find them. There are also a few more prediction calculations that I would like to include as well.
also these text contain double-quotes so I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't even considered

few examples:

Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"

140-character messages called "tweets"

LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD"
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Dependant on where you live, 15-50% of the money one makes.
Depending on your target date and algorithms needed, I would say stick with PHP as your front end and move your backend to either a Go based service or a Python one.

The single binary feature of Go makes deployment really easy. And the standard library has everything you need to do an API. I chose the gin framework in my case with the standard html/template. The front end uses knockoutjs.

If you need some specialized library like machine learning or natural language processing, I would choose Python as there are many great libraries out there.
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It's too directly tied to the Windows API. The vast majority of non-language code would have to be rewritten to run correctly, unless they emulate the Windows API instead.
But Apple users (who do not "jailbreak") are prevented from accessing their own device's files, e.g., the HOSTS file.

Apple denies the user reasonable control of the device they purchased. (Denying access to the HOSTS file is unreasonble in my opinion.)

But Apple does not (yet) exercise control over the network(s) that the user has joined.

As long as the user can still control at least some aspects of her own network (yes, she still can), then the user can block ads.

In my case, I use DNS to block ads. It is remarkably effective. But there are certainly other ways to do it.
Walk without rhythm/and it won't attract the worm...
> In that case I wonder if we can't solve the problem in the community, e.g. by requiring a [sound] tag in the title or something. I enjoyed this link and there is a risk of people downvoting it for the sound alone that might cause interesting links like it to be removed in the future.

Solving it in the community can solve the problem of people unwittingly stumbling upon it from here, but it doesn't solve the bigger problem, which is that autoplay is rude. (Surely we've all had the experience of not being able to find the tab from the huge group we just opened that's playing the sound.) It's good if sites see that they get fewer visitors with autoplay than without.
Just because someone decides not to learn the Internet doesn't mean that they're not learning a bunch of other things. Like reading printed books, magazines, being part of clubs, etc. It also doesn't mean that they don't have a need to connect with people. They probably do it over the telephone or in person (or even through handwritten letters).

The older generations went through many decades living without the internet. Do you really think that the internet is necessary (or even desirable) for them to live productive and happy lives?
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What if you use custom blank fonts? Or simply detect the User Agent and serve a different CSS file?
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And why should I care?
The last line is related, but is based on some faulty logic. The penalty isn't going to be evident if you're doing a search like:

in:mysite.example.com "explicit text search"

All you're seeing is that your site was indexed. The author posits that since the page is visible in the index, there was no penalty. That's not true at all, of course. If there were 1,000,000 results for a more generalized search like "explicit text search," the author's pages could well be very, very low and that could very well be due to gleaned greyhat techniques.
You are thinking like a mathematician. When we are kids we are taught that math involves memorizing algorithms and formulas but when you get up to big-boy math you realize that no one can memorize all that shit, but if you are familiar with the territory of math you can figure out the parts you're missing; and only familiarity with the territory lets you generate new proofs, conjectures, and applications. Unfortunately educators confuse "memorizing facts and formulas" with "becoming familiar with the territory" because it seemed to work so well teaching grade schoolers how to use the four basic arithmetic operators.
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You, race does not matter, might care if your target audience is among the mentioned ones and in that case according to their numbers would have 20-25% of your audience you can't reach via or market online.
Not sure what the fuss is about, the same old rule applies: if you want your data to be private, don't use any form of cloud services - server based voice/video chat, cloud storage services (google drive, skydrive, icloud), digital assistants (siri, cortana, google now), any contextual based delivered services which "learns" anything about you to provide you with any form of automated and/or dynamic experience.

If you want to be treated like you live in a box, then you're going to have to live by it.

Everyone complaining and "fed up", closing their MSDN accounts, boycotting MSFT products - you're in an echo chamber which won't be felt as our devices become more service oriented rather than boxed solutions. MSFT is trying to stay relevant, not undermine their massive user base. Whether it is right or wrong, I don't have an opinion on, but if you think MSFT is a pioneer in this space, you're being unjustly biased.