skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would love to see is putting this whole advertising market into the hands of the webmasters. A system installed on the webserver, where the webmaster offers ad-space which can be bought directly by the advertiser. Ads will be hosted from the same url as the page. I believe, this could be a win-win situation for the website owner and the advertiser.

- More revenue for websites

- Better adds, because webmasters are interested in keeping their site nice and clean.

- To spice this up, there could be a central authority which simply brings together those offers.

The only one who loses are current ad networks.
I block "in-app" ads the same way I block "web" ads.

Most ads use the same third party DNS services which makes blocking even easier.
One thing you're missing though is that a time limit allows for a controlled variable when you're comparing candidates.

The test I was referring to I'm almost certain was not intended to be completed in the time allowed. I've used it myself for in person interviews (not take home) and give candidates 3x the time I was given, few of them actually finish it completely. While it just made me feel like an abject failure at the time now I realize a big part of what was being tested was given limited time what bits I focused on. In fact that's exactly what I tell candidates who I give it to.
Anyone know about getting tested in the US?
Is it possible to argue that these hurdles are in place for some systemic or historically-shaped reasons? Would be curious to hear someone explain the regulation and high cost of entry outside of banking cartel and government incompetence.
Very cool and potentially quite useful for me!

Out of curiosity, have you considered putting up something on the site comparing Erlbus with other options like RabbitMQ?
It could very well be that there's diminishing returns involved but I agree - they should be aiming to surpass the current tech by at last 100x in the next ten years.
You can already buy GaN FETs (although not the exact type being researched by MIT, as mentioned in the article):

- http://epc-co.com/epc/Products/eGaNFETs.aspx

- http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/power-management/gan-overview.page

You could have a pile of GaN FETs on your desk tomorrow morning, if you really wanted: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?pv606=18&FV=fff4001...
Web sites rely on advertising dollars for revenue

Not then. Ads weren't the (major) revenue stream then.

I see.

No, you obviously don't. In fact, it seems like you're not even trying. Whatevs.
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I wonder how many bitcoins can be mined with it :)
Advertisers hate iAd because it doesn't let you harvest nearly as much users data as most platforms. Advertisers can go suck a lemon as far as I am concerned. It is hard for some people to see past their own Apple hate but success speaks for itself. It doesn't hurt that the competition keeps shooting themselves in the foot.
He makes comments about every group, I've seen no persistent bias against any group (aside from politicians who make it less fun to drive).

And he certainly doesn't exclude himself/his own type, as there's something negative about the UK practically 30 seconds.

As for "it's just a joke", yes, it is. Pretty much every successful comedian uses ethnicity/race sometimes. Bad ones rely on it entirely (Ex: Carlos Mencia). But as something that should be off limits for humor? No.
> I strongly believe that many (likely not all) learning 'disabilities' are not actually disabilities

Thanks... this is actually really hard to explain to people and I am very glad that some people actually get it.

I've been trying to explain several times that even the term disease (often used along with disability) is not appropiated to describe autism, but I have had little luck with that.

> So the kid can't spell, who cares?
Exactly!
I'd be nervous about the 98% purity. What makes up the other 2%?

I mean if they're making stuff that is designed to alter your production of red blood cells, is that 2% of stuff likely to be inert or be stuff that has an effect on you?

What's the usual purity percentage of say, OTC aspirin?
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Before the web, it was quite standard for nearly everyone to pay for their daily newspaper. People obviously have no problem paying a little for the news. Take away quality free content, and natural human interest will lead to a successful pay model, possibly.
This makes sense. Thanks for the input.
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I think he added an extra "A" there at the very last minute. :-)
"People are getting p*ssed off with the huge data loads pages impose without their consent"

This is an absurd statement. Users know that many sites are ad-supported. Whether they like it or not is independent of that, but consent is given by visiting them. Complaining that sites need ad revenue to support their operations is childish.

The fair solution is not ad-blocking tools, but a general browser settings that says that you do not wish to see ads at all. This information should be transmitted to the site requested so that the content provider can offer you a subscription if they provide one or to serve you a blank page that says politely to buzz off. Doing an end-run around ads is no different that sneaking into the backdoor of a venue without buying a ticket.
Yup. If everyone starts blocking all ads, I hope you like native ads that look and feel just like content.
How do these drug tests work? I was under the impression that drug tests only found things that they were looking for. How did they know to be looking for this new drug? I'm googling to try to figure it out but maybe someone is familiar with this process?
If you enforce the regulation with automated anti-drone guns, then yes it will make a difference. I don't think it'll happen though, as such countermeasures haven't been developed for existing security threats.
I stumbled upon "Blaise Pascal" on Hulu (they have some Rossellini in their Criterion section).

It was totally captivating, somehow simultaneously moving and fascinating, in a way unlike any other film I've watched. Human is a good way to put it. Absolutely unforgettable, almost a religious experience.

I highly recommend his historical films to anyone, regardless of your interest or lack thereof in the subjects; you will become interested.
robot.js, what will happen when we want to publish a js library for actual robots in something like Tessel? (;
Amazon might be looking to expand Prime Video into Australia as well, where Clarkson, Hammond & May have just finished touring Australia with their live arena show. They're so popular, they could sell tickets at $89 - $399 each:

http://www.clarksonhammondandmaylive.com.au/
That may be a selection bias. You just don't hang out with people with severe disabilities as much. Maybe they just stay home, with a family member to look after them. Some of them are in institutions, cared by professionals.

A learning challenged person who was not streetwise would probably stay away from the streets.
There are ad-blockers for virtually every PC browser and for Android. Why is a revolution impending because iOS 9 will have it too?
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No reason Amazon can't sell the show to local distributors in those other countries.
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Some other data points to consider:

a. The AdBlock Plus team has stated, "in it's current state there are still some issues, which render Content Blocking Extensions insufficient" to use as an and blocking platform. [1]

b. Apple states that "if the rule compiler detects that a set of rules would negatively impact user experience, it refuses to load them and returns and error. [2]

So, at least in iOS 9, it doesn't seem to be a complete solution for the type of ad blockers we see on the desktop.

After reading about this, it feels like Apple isn't trying to kill the web in this version of the technology. Instead, it is warning shot across the bow, so to speak, for publishers with really crappy experiences.

[1] https://adblockplus.org/blog/content-blocking-in-safari-9-an...

[2] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/safari-content-blocking-ios... (quote is third paragraph from the bottom...)
Maybe looking for certain things to be out of an expected/naturally maintainable range? Comparing to previous tests for the same competitors?
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> How long will this revolution last if content providers decide to not show content to iOS users?

It's also not just iOS. It's a feature of Safari so it would also impact desktop visits to websites as well.
Theoretically, you could shift the responsibility of displaying ads and tracking users to the publishers, with requirements to publish back to the ad networks granular information about every impression. The ad networks could then check for cheating by randomly accessing the publishing website to make sure all the requests are reported back by the publishers.
ALPR: automatic license plate recognition.

How would that work? Compare the times between shots a large distance apart, like on toll roads?
Honestly, I think that we're already moving that direction-- Patreon is comparatively recent, but more and more people are finding that it's actually a viable "microtransaction/subscription" model for online content. The idea of paying a subscription model for some of the things on Patreon would have seemed silly a couple years ago, but I think we're starting to hit the ads-to-content noise/ratio level where people are actually seeing what the alternative looks like.
HN has ads. They are rare (and mostly job postings), but they do exist.
Actually TopGear has pretty strong following in the US as well.
How is speeding a problem that we should want to solve?

I mean, you implicitly acknowledged that speeding happens all the time. Yet we don't have a huge death rate from it. It's not a safety problem except in fairly rare situations, it seems to me. It's an administrative problem.

I'd go so far as to say that speed limits themselves are the problem. They're set too low to allow easy money from fines.
Drug tests don't actually look for drugs. They look for deviations from normal in your body's chemistry.
I think most architectures are like that.
So looking at facts is a bias now?

How about all the different ways Apple breaks the web for its own sake? Things like the HTTP Protocol are fundamentally broken by Apple, and this is not ok.

They are a despicable company, a dragon only interested in increasing its cash reserves. I do not understand the support they are getting from the developer community, they shit on them constantly, make their life difficult, and forces them to buy Apple.

This latest move is even more despicable as its pushed as positive for the user, landing them good PR, when in fact its all about levering Apple's stronghold on users to push iAds. They are a company for profit, and their history shows they don't do anything for users, they do it for them.

They should be criticized and hounded as a toxic company for the web.
The current trend [1] would suggest that exascale is not on that kind of trajectory. The dominance of non US countries (especially China) in the Top500 rankings is as much a driver here.

1. http://www.theplatform.net/2015/07/13/top-500-supercomputer-...
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At the scale they are operating, those costs are a drop in the bucket.
I suppose that "supercomputers" are all multi-processor these days, so the colossal FLOP numbers are counted as an aggregation over many processors and one has to coordinate these processors in any application that takes advantage of the FLOP specs.

Now I am curious what is the fastest single processor?
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That makes some sense. So if I understand the logic, loading the resource (perhaps executing some js) = verified impression. Its interesting because it seems like you could come up with some sort of phone home to the original contents domain to validate the ad loaded as well. So it sounds like the real innovation here is going to be figuring out a way to validate impressions through the content sites. It doesn't seem much more difficult than going to the independent directly but can't say I have a super obvious solution in hand. With that said, I can think of at least a few ways it could be done and in fact might have some interesting incentive changes for that industry. Seems like a big opportunity.
Use another deep learning network to supervise training of your DLN. You can also use it to supervise itself. It is simple idea invented about decade ago (at least I heard it about decade ago here, in Ukraine).
Everything that Apple releases is a "revolution" according to Apple fans. I had guessed it was going to be about Safari from the title.
That's very considerate of you, thank you. I just clicked an ad on your page as a reward :).

I don't think people are really bothered that there are ads - everyone learns at some point that under current system, people need to earn money to live and websites cost money to keep them up. The problem is with a) the amount of ads, b) obnoxiousness of them, and c) that quite a lot are actually dishonest, annoying and downright malicious. It's because of those people started using ad blockers. The Internet really looks much, much better without all that crap. I'm pretty sure for most the resource use is a secondary consideration to the amount of frustration an ad-laden site can generate.
Which will likely, hopefully, just create a new media. Things like Periscope. Newer generations will ignore the big media garbage and follow citizen reporting. This is all speculation and I'm sure there are problems with it but these big companies will just be digging their own graves with bull crap like that. They already have enough trouble selling print media who's going to pay them for their content (which is 80% useless filler anyway) when they start doing that.

I do understand smaller bloggers and stuff will have a similar problem but it's people like those that will actually GET subscriptions and who I'd actually be willing to pay for their content if they didn't bombard me with bull crap when I loaded their pages.
Yes, it is not a coincidence that Apple introduced ad blockers at the same time as their own News app that doesn't allow you to block ads.
> Things like the HTTP Protocol are fundamentally broken by Apple, and this is not ok.

What do you mean?
This exact suggestion is referenced in the article.

"To prevent the spoofed reflection attacks, all network operators should implement anti-spoof address filtering [RFC2827]. This prevents the trigger of the DRDoS."

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2827

"This paper discusses a simple, effective, and straightforward method for using ingress traffic filtering to prohibit DoS attacks which use forged IP addresses to be propagated from 'behind' an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) aggregation point."
The extrapolation on the top500 supercomputer list [1] estimates the first EFlop computer in 2019. The math in the article is weird. They say 20x faster, but 20x33 PFlops is quite a bit less than 1EFlop.

[1] http://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/
>> The license you propose is NOT FREE SOFTWARE. I am astounded the OSI
has gone and decided to become an organization that just rubber stamps
things which are not free. I don't know who they are talking to, but
these "licenses" which they approve are chock full of constraints
against various segments of the user community.

OSI is not about free software. It's not even very good about open source. They seemed happy if people had access to the source code regardless of the terms around it. They approved lots of licenses that had crap in them.

IMHO BSD/MIT or GPL/LGPL are pretty much it. If you need a different license than those, you've probably got an agenda. OSI gave a rubber stamp to different agendas.
I think a better analogy are those processor flags found in /proc/cpuinfo in Linux systems.

If your processor doesn't have the vmx or the svm flags, for example, you can't use hardware virtualization but can still use software virtualization in its place, with a performance cost.
I agree with your assessment that this piece is a big deal, politically.

I disagree with your "undoubtedly". I think there's a fair to middling chance Bezos did some meddling in the editorial process - made a few phone calls, dropped some hints, bent the ears of an editor or two. Newspapers always protest that financial interests don't interfere with their reporting, but time and again, we find out otherwise.
I think there can still be "emulation". For instance, when I was in elementary school I thought it was hard to remember the full multiplication table. Instead of remembering 7×9 I would think 7×10-7 = 63. That's IMHO a type of algorithm (software) of breaking down the multiplication so it requires less rote memorization (emulation).

I can give you another example. When I first had to learn what was my left and right hand, I instead visualized that I sat on a particular chair in a particular room. Then the window would be to the left, so the hand closest to the window would be the left hand. IMHO, also an emulation.

(Edit - In the second example, I visualized myself in a 3rd party perspective, so it also involved rotating the room in my head. My problem was that I couldn't apply left and right to myself at that age, only relative to other things)
My own personal opinion as someone who has been both sides of a hiring desk, the GE are at least as valuable as the relevant coursework.

So the argument doesn't come down to what courses you are taking, it comes down to time value of money. How much does the degree cost + the opportunity cost of being in college vs the lifetime wage distinction and intrinsic happiness of the degree.

That is, if you are going to drop out to start working, the argument is to do it as fast as possible. Taking the time to do technical coursework vs general electives has marginal utility advantages (and I'd argue actual disadvantages) over just dropping out now.

That said, I'd actually suggest that barring resource allocation issues, finding GEs that are interesting and relevant and finishing the degree is the right move forward.
>"A serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact." Would you not call that an illness?

First that is not an appropiated definition that would cover the whole spectrum. It is not "serious" for people with High Functional Autism (Umbrella term that covers deprecated labels as Aspergers, PDDNOS, etc).

Second, "Illness" is not the preferred term in this case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Concepts

"(Medical condition) As it is more value-neutral than terms like disease, the term medical condition is sometimes preferred by people with health issues that they do not consider deleterious. On the other hand, by emphasizing the medical nature of the condition, this term is sometimes rejected, such as by proponents of the autism rights movement."
Right, its basically just inserting the publisher as a man in the middle and coming up with a decent enough validation scheme. And I don't think the current system is perfect, so the bar not be any higher - seems like right now its easy to fake impressions with scrapers/virtual devices etc.
I'm not a physicist, but I would hazard:

it would require a very non-spherical object to create an a-circular crater because ground resistence forces material to move primarily parallel to the surface of the planet/moon, which tends to regularize the shape. Any atmosphere will make the impacting object more spherical through resistance. Lastly, large bodies in space tend to spheres naturally as their mass converges by gravity.
> I've seen terrific innovations from Nokia that were never monetized and were never implemented in a product

Do you have any examples? I can't remember having ever heard anything innovative from Nokia, and I'm interested what this might be.
> success speaks for itself

Our experience as developers should tell us that this isn't true. Success often implies popularity, and popularity is not a very good indicator for quality.
It's not consent when you go to a mostly-text site and are served 14-15MB of content that you don't even see. Not when I have 2GB of available data a month. I am referencing a previous post on here but I don't remember any of the details except that the site they were using as the demo used like 14MB of data but was a page with a couple paragraphs of text on it because it was pulling in a bunch of ad information.
> Perhaps the idea is for Apple to get the content providers to make apps so they get their cut?

I don't see how that would work. When you visit the New York Times website on iOS it will simply say, "Sorry web not supported on iOS; please download our app". The NYT app will be free but will show NYT ads - Apple will not get any extra revenue.
I think the worst are social clickjacking ads. This is a whole new genre of scumbaggery. Every now and then I see a friend of mine embarrass themselves on social media. You open your Facebook and suddenly see the newest status update of a lady or a gentleman that says something like "HEY! I JUST GOT A $10 FREE TOP UP ! HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT?".
Apple has at least mentioned ad blocking to developers - the example given on the Apple Developer website for how to make a Safari plugin is called "Declarative Ad Blocker":

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
Installing was a piece of cake. The only thing that annoyed me slightly was a dialog that said 'We will be done soon' and it took a few minutes.
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Thich Nhat Hanh (the Vietnamese Zen monk whom MLK nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize) wrote "Living Buddha, Living Christ" drawing more extensive parallels.
I am not autistic, but for me, maintaining eye contact is like trying to stare at the Sun.
All-FOSS Android is possible, but you're going to make a lot of tradeoffs
Thanks for notice, we will think about that.
Actually chart API allows to configure color brewer and I hope we will have several themes soon.
Nice to see Swedish startups getting traction. Godspeed!
As is the $100....
How can game developers use analytics?
Word had massive amounts of competition. WordPerfect dominated the market well before Microsoft Word, was the biggest competitor for a long time, and still remains popular in niche applications. Lotus Word Pro, WordStar, StarOffice, and countless other lesser used products.

Arguably, word processors are the one piece of software that probably has had the most competition throughout the years.
Wow some people really have short memories.
- Webkit
- Thoughts on flash and the promotion of HTML 5
- Canvas
- CSS animations
- Web video
etc
etc
That or NVD3 (http://nvd3.org/) They didn't take it as far as DC.js but it does allow at least some sort of filtering like options.
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When hidden text and query are exact matches as well as unique, of course Google has no option but to show the only result it has.

What's important though is not that it's indexed or not. What's important is the weight that the text has on SEO ranking. I'd venture to guess that if two sites had the exact same text and one was hidden and the other wasn't, the latter would show higher in Google results.
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I have a Windows ME pen lying around here somewhere.
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