skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but there was the concept of intraLATA toll calls. Or "local-toll" calls. These weren't long-distance, but they weren't free, either.

I remember calling my grandparents in Arizona cost 5¢ a minute, but calling relatives in the next city over—about 10 miles away—cost something crazy like 29¢ a minute.

This was in California. I'm sure the rate structures varied from state to state.
What are you looking for funding for, a sales team? I watched your video, interesting stuff.

Have you done consulting to see how well 20fold works in practice yet?
No, quite a lot, if not most, firmware these days can be changed. dd-wrt/openwrt etc. is considered firmware.
> I don't know how Amazon decided that visitors to a programming site wanted to look at Batman ads.

NaNaNaNaNaNaN Batman

More seriously: "20 to 40 year old male"
Perhaps we should just wait for one to become a solid monopoly and then our anti-trust laws can take care of it. That seems to be the good middle-ground between freedom from regulation and freedom from monopolies. And it worked out pretty well for our phones.
Must answer question: Worth to whom?

Not every potential buyer will agree on the "worth" of X.

Ultimately X is not worth anything unless and until X is sold.

Perhaps the tense is wrong.

Not what _is_ X worth, but what _will be_ the worth of X (when X is sold).

In the end, "worth" is "price paid" (by some buyer).
Not a stupid question at all! Not exactly the same approach, but there's been some recent interesting research on neural net and ML driven global illumination:

[0] http://www.jiapingwang.com/files/shadebot_sig13.pdf

[1] http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jirka/papers/2014/olpm/On-lineLearni...
Guys NPM is not the problem, Javascript is.
There's no way I can tell Google "display ads in these categories".

Actually, you can: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Yeah, it thinned out to about one passing vehicle per hour in the most remote parts.

The section I recommend (Day 5, Mile 70 to Day 10, Mile 64) is pretty light on traffic, especially trucks + buses.
Isn't it a bubble, when a lot of startups provide free services that are supported by online ads? Wouldn't a crash in the online ads market have a resonance cascade through all of those startups?
That's not a lot of analysis. Why not ask:

Which Bond actor was the most profitable per film (i.e. the average box office rating of an actor)?

Which actor was the most efficient (i.e. the average actor salary subtracted from the average box office rating)[0]?

Which actor turned the best ratings? Can we predict whether the next Bond film will be good or bad, based on data first from the Craig era films and then all the films?

The article doesn't even mention what is the best Bond film, i.e. the film that performs best when both rating and box office is taking into account. I find the problem interesting of how you add a box office amount together with a rating percentage to get a 'film score'.

This article seems to be more about the technical aspect and not such more about the results.

[0] Yes, I know there are five Roger Moore films where the actor salary is unknown, but then we could just skip Roger Moore or only calculate on the films we do know the salary.
> I'd stripped my stomach lining from taking them too regularly.

How regularly were you taking them?

This thread has me terrified over the possibility that one day I won't be able to take ibuprofen.

(For reference, on average I take around 2 a month, but the value I get from them is huge.)

As an aside, I also like whisky, and I've recently moved to Japan.

Are you me?
Assuming the conclusions are true, then it probably matters to you if you are employed or investing in a company trying to make money from this sector. Potentially, it could affect the investment community in general like the dot com bust of the 90s as well. People investing in or working for marginal startups may find themselves looking for work.

More generally, as companies die their assets will be sold off. These kinds of startups have virtually no tangible assets. Instead they have personal information. This will be sold, regardless of any previous policy. So if you were banking on the data privacy policies of an ad company to keep your data private, you might find that it is no longer in effect.

Of course, if there is an implosion then the price of this information will dwindle to almost nothing (given that there will be so much of it available). So it might not be so bad. Hard to say...

Still, hating to be the bear, but I really am expecting a correction in the start up field some time in the future. Personally, I wouldn't touch any SF real estate. But these kind of things are so difficult to predict ;-)
I really need to choose a service to host all my photos on. I was a singular archive of every photo I've ever taken.

I'm seriously considering setting up a camlistore[1] server but it would probably mean writing my own Android/iOS apps to do auto-upload.

Also, I do rather like all of the features that Google Photos comes with...

[1] https://camlistore.org/
I implicitly agreed to Googles terms when I used Google. I never asked to be born in the States.
A lot of industries follow a cycle. That doesn't mean they're not bubbles.
> If we didn't have greater security for air travel aircraft would rain from the skies.

Did something changed fundamentally about human condition after 9/11? Planes didn't generally get attacked before, and they didn't generally get attacked after. There were a few incidents on both sides of 9/11. I don't see any reason to attribute things going as they always have been to security theatre erected around the 9/11 events.

> I think you might be blind to a whole layer of the infrastructure because you never have visibility into it.

I might be. Please share some details then, I'm always eager to learn something new and reevaluate my opinions.

> Today, not so. I don't know how much you travel. If you do, be thankful there are people who did their best to ensure someone isn't shipping an incendiary device on the same plane you and your family happen to be on.

I do travel enough, mostly on business. I am very thankful to all people ensuring my safety in air and on the ground. But I do question a lot of the efforts that were introduced as a reaction to events of 9/11.
MLK didn't have to deal with today's world. The world he lived in had a stark contrast of right and wrong, and obvious injustice abounded. The closer you get to an equal world, the harder those with privilege will fight to make sure that it never happens.

Today's world is one where we've made progress, but now the majority is tired of the minority pointing out its flaws. One side wants equality, and the other side is tired of hearing about how the system that clearly benefits them in ways that they don't even see is flawed.

It's hard to get a mediocre white man to agree that affirmative action is necessary. All he sees is the opportunity that someone else got because of their race and ability to keep up with the privileged.
That influences ads served to me. I wanted to influence ads served to readers of my web pages.
What language would that work in? C# only does compile time dispatch of overloaded methods and Common LISP doesn't have overloaded methods at all.

I honestly can't think of a language that even support overloading of methods based on run time types.

And the moment you don't have overloaded methods based on run time types you have to do something interesting like this to do the work.
I'm not sure how you'd capture such.
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Thanks for replying. I checked out the links, thanks again for them. However nothing looked like anything I can use.

In theory .NET can do a whole lot of things, but I have been waiting for this hole to be filled for a long time. So far there is nothing even remotely useful as Eigen, Armadillo and their ilk.

Heck, there isn't even a standard sin, cos exp log etc. for floats. Not a place where a number-cruncher will feel at home.
Why does the ad sector trail so far behind the rest of the economy? Poor signaling?
President Dilma Rousseff compared the damage to the 2010 oil spill by BP...

A better analog is the Gold King Mine botch by the EPA.
Snapchat's valuation falls by 25%
I think the flaw was mentioned in the first sentence of the parent's response: "XMPP lacks a fundamental feature: it does not echo your messages back to your other devices." This capability was indeed one of the major selling points of Apple's messaging system in the most recent iOS & OS X releases. If XMPP cannot keep track of multiple clients then that is a huge flaw in todays mobile world.
> Goodbye Google+ Photos, hello +Google Photos!

This line represents everything wrong with Google right now.
"we had RSS/Atom, but these have all failed as companies pour massives investments into "winner take all" approaches to their products"

One area which hasn't (yet?) succumbed to this is podcasts. The podcast clients I use (Overcast on iOS and Pocket Casts on Android) will accept an RSS URL, and most (all?) podcasts provide such a URL.
Nvidia Sets Deep Learning Loose with Embeddable GPU
aka the framework behind GitHub for Windows and various other applications. #FRP.

https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI/issues/687
That, and wash outs or fallen rocks can block the tracks.
Why do users have to make a switch? Why isn't this just considered a rebranding from a user perspective?
It's very interesting. I looked at the video and I'll try to download and make it run. I played a little with share.js time ago so I have great expectations.

I see that you support basic authentication and oauth is marked as experimental. Authentication is not the core of your project but it's very important if you want that people downloads and use your software for something real, collaborating over the internet instead of playing with it locally.
> Our original lab guidance document released pursuant to that Order asked manufacturers to explain “how [its] device is protected from ‘flashing’ and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT”. This particular question prompted a fair bit of confusion – were we mandating wholesale blocking of Open Source firmware modifications?

> We were not, but we agree that the guidance we provide to manufacturers must be crystal-clear to avoid confusion.

Can you feel the wind off of that backpedaling?

There's no possible way they asked how devices were "protected" from "third-party firmware such as DD-WRT" while not expecting blocking of Open Source firmware modifications. It sounds a lot more like they got too much backlash: "...no, of course that's not what we meant [looks around nervously] you believe us, right?".

While this might result in a desirable outcome, I think it would have come across as far more genuine if they'd directly acknowledged that they originally suggested blocking all third-party firmware, and subsequently decided that they'd need a more nuanced approach. That, at least, would not come across as a (transparently bad) spin attempt.

Why does this need any kind of new change in the first place? The FCC can certainly go after people who actually transmit in violation of FCC regulations, and they do, no matter what device they use to do so.
How so? It's an acknowledgement that forcing Google+ on people was a bad idea and that you can still continue to build awesome products (Google Photos) without a social network. If anything, isn't it a step in the right direction?
IMHO, "Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data" by Charles Wheelan is the best book to start with Probability and Statistics(you can buy it using the link below). I've studied those fields when I was at Uni, but never really got the intuition right. I wish I would have read that book back then. The book is short(~200 pages), and focuses on providing both the context and the intuition behind Probabilities. Once you get that right, the formulas just make sense. After reading that book, you will be way more comfortable to read books about Machine Learning, or any other fields where Probabilities and Statistics are a prerequisite.

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Statistics-Stripping-Dread-Data-...
Why not Google Photos?...
As far as I know, Agora is kind of what you are looking for: https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/agora
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WTF Visualizations
I think they're separate apps. People who are used to using the Google+ app to access their photos are now required to download the separate, optional Google Photos app.
I find #PrayForParis particularly cynical because we are in the mess we are because of, mainly, two evangelical christians' little crusade in the middle east, Bush and Blair. Which not only were never put on trial for war crimes committed, were able to get away from any level of accountability. It took so many year for Papi Bush to come out and say his son was an idiot. Imagine how many lives would have been saved if he had the courage to speak up before.

Also, the right has succeeded in sanitizing and de-contextualizing the discussion about terrorism, whereby we don't talk anymore about why the world is where it is today. If we don't accepts the chain of events, but particularly it religious motivation (directly or indirectly), we're not even on a path to identify the problem.

A public/international trial of Bush and Blair should be a priority and probably a first step in reconciliation and accepting the humanity of everybody, not just Christians.
I'm not a marketer so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure I agree that it's even possible for advertising to bubble in the traditional sense.

The biggest budgets are all pretty tightly regulated. They have surprisingly good information on exactly what impact their ad buys are having, and that information informs their allocation.

The smaller budgets don't necessarily have that, but I assume they consistently churn as businesses open and close. Is this article suggesting the churn of new businesses is going to suddenly drop to zero?

How could advertising bubble with that level of transparency?
Well, I think it's easy to overestimate the damage "hideous monstrosities ... left flopping on its muddy bottom" will do if and when money leaves adtech. Sure, they've been surveilling me. But what damage can they really do?

They probably roughly know where I live, roughly where I work, and when I move between A and B. They know my age, race, gender. They may know a sizable chunk of my social network. Maybe the porn I like. It seems possible, but unlikely, that they'd know my bank, ISP, or actual home address.

So they sell my info. What will the purchaser do with it? Send me more, better spam? So what - I'll block it and move on.
You never asked to be born, period.
As I pointed out a few weeks ago, only three of the top 50 current "unicorns" are ad-supported: Snapchat, Instagram, and Vice Media. Since then, it's come out that Snapchat isn't doing too well and their valuation is down; we may be down to two ad-supported unicorns soon. The current startup boom is not ad-supported. That's a good thing.
There's a subtle but important mistake here: You saw those adverts because you looked at faucets online, not because you bought one. The reason you saw ads for them is because advertisers don't know you bought one, not because they do.
Flickr is what, 10-15 years old. Why not Flickr?
Dropbox (YC S07) Is Hiring Presales Solution Architects in Sydney Australia
Hi HN'ers,

Here at Dropbox, an old YC alumn, we're hiring Presales Solution Architects to join the growing team here in Sydney Australia.

Here is a chance to be part of a fun, fast moving household brand in a very exciting space. With 400+ million users and 150,000+ business customers and growing you get to spend time with a lot of interesting people and business situations, helping our customers improve productivity, collaboration and innovation through the Dropbox solution!

As a Solutions Architect (or Sales Engineer if you're familiar with that term) for our Strategic and Core sales teams, you’ll play a huge role in helping companies understand the value of Dropbox Business and Dropbox Enterprise. It’ll be your mission to demystify technology, optimize the sales process, and bash down any technical barriers that keep our customers from evaluating and adopting Dropbox.

Requirements:
- Role is based in sunny Sydney Australia
- Strong presales or consulting experience
- Outstnading communication and presentation skills
- Good development skills (Python, Java, C#, Powershell etc.)
- SaaS product experience
- Australian work authorization is a plus

For a full description of the role:
https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/100296

Wanna know about Dropbox Australia and our APAC HQ in Sydney:
https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/sydney

Want to get a glipse of the vibe and culture at Dropbox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuxQcp84o0

YOU CAN APPLY HERE (make a strong pitch!):
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Feel free to ask questions below or find me via social media :)

Cheers,
Daniel
Link should be to the much more informative http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-... , which this article points to.
To sum up, with less snark, because I'm not directing the snark at you... It's directed at Bell, as posthumous snark, since I'm sure he won't feel it.

Anyway, I don't ascribe to the school of thought that tells us that simply because superposition works on paper, that such a predictive tool accurately reflects events occurring in reality.

It may help us, to understand and deal with curious events, but Bell hasn't accomplished anything profound in making his pronouncements.

All he did was insist that people shift conceptual placeholders about, to help reorganize a mental model for imagining representations of an idea. To regard his hand-wavy declarations as a crystallized description of reality is nonsense.

Ask this: If something cannot be touched, known or inferred, then how can he assert that reality reshapes itself in reverse upon reaching an event, or that an untouchable relationship persists behind the facade or our reality?

Furthermore, his arguments are pure semantics. One is not allowed to presume independent unrelated inaccessible slots, one must assume related inaccessible slots. Even though the relationship of the slots is not actually revealed until after it no longer matters whether there was a relationship or not. Oh, and by the way, that relationship transcends reality as we know it, possibly implying a parallel channel of communication, external to our world.

Sure, so much better than just stating that there is information missing from our representational model at certain moments in the sequence of events.
They have found grain in the pyramids, but small amounts buried along with the other treasures as part of the burial ritual. Since grain was "stored" there then they were technically used to "store" grain.
I like Lightroom + Lightroom Mobile (which has automatic sync). When it syncs to my computer it gets into Dropbox, but a creative cloud subscription will have Adobe back things up for you too. Not free, but I put value on my photos and am getting pro-level editing tools at the same time.
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Calling names and personal attacks are not allowed on HN, so please don't post comments that do those things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> The reason you saw ads for them is because advertisers don't know you bought one, not because they do.

Given the amount of tracking they do, I'm surprised this is still a problem.
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You could do it step by step. First step is to get a decent amount of material together. Without that you will have nothing to analyse.

If the data is available as a bulk download, you're all set to move to the next step. If not, next best is if they offer an API. In that case, learn how to use Python or something to pull each document using that API, and storing it somewhere (either the filesystem, or in a database). If not, get the book 'Web Scraping with Python' and use that.

Once you have the stuff together, Udacity has a gentle introduction on cleaning document-ish data (using JSON/Python and Mongodb): https://www.udacity.com/course/data-wrangling-with-mongodb--...

Then the analysis starts. If it were me, I might start by splitting documents into chunks (paragraphs?), and classifying them somehow. Maybe use NLTK: http://www.nltk.org/book/ch06.html

Let us know how you get on :)
R-bloggers is an aggregator. Should link directly to the original.
Responsiveness is excellent when your Julia process is on the same machine as the browser - which in itself addresses a large set of use cases scientific computing audience has (such as presentations). When the Julia process is connected over the network, there is obviously a lag between updates. But it's no better or worse than an AJAX/WebSocket application. The intention is to use web components to encapsulate UI components and their behavior (including self-contained animations) and Julia to read from them and update their attributes. So one can switch to writing web components and using them in Escher if responsiveness is really a concern. With the programming model in Escher, it will be easy to hoist some computations to the browser once there is Julia to JavaScript compilation. However, I don't plan to write the transpiler (yet) ;).
in 1998, google (er, alphabet) got its initial round of $100,000. You're not wrong but things in 1998 were weird. it wasn't clear that the internet should or would be commercial at all. 1998 was a big bubble, because we didn't know, at all, how the internet should work. c10k wasn't met yet. Parents (not grandparents) thought the internet was scary.

Maybe big G (er alphabet) is indeed cannabalizing it's own resources to juice adsense revenue. It's different than the late 90's though. For example pets.com, or moo.com. There are ideas that were tried that make money now. In the beginning it was just weird. all sorts of crazy stuff was tried.
Funny you should mention that, the mlk family retain copyright of the recording, after a lawsuit with CBS, of that speech which is why you don't hear it in full.

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

Though I suspect you know that already.
Don't you think that the symmetry with the '+' is done on purpose, to be comical?
It seems that you ate a lot of egg bánh mỳ on the trip :)
Google Plus was a bit of a shame, having used it a little bit when it first came out, it was actually quote a good social network in terms of functionality. It just never achieved that critical mass of users to make it worthy of dedicating alot of time to.
Golang on ARM
The problem is we went from Picasa -> Google+ Photos -> +Google Photos?

Why does google keep on throwing out branding, spinning down a project, only to spin up another one that does the same thing? Why didn't they go back to the Picasa namesake, with all the branding it has?
> When Facebook launches adverts beyond its own property then the cash is really going to start flowing.

They already do this: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/audience-network
And yet it exists, and works gloriously: http://symas.com/mdb/doc/

The kernel is smarter than your app. Trying to force it to do something it doesn't want to do is a very bad idea.
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agreed.. as if its really benefitisl to show an extremely gaussian blurred placeholder image. at first, i thought they were blurred due to gory content.