skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are good points here and the flow diagrams certainly apply to startups in the Adtech space. And particularly those targeting other startups.

But these startups are trying to take market from the incumbent Google, and increasingly Facbeook. These established businesses have paid back their investment and are now cash cows for their owners. The flows for Adsense for example will be in balance between cash in from advertisers, and cash out to publishers and Google shareholders. I've been in all three of those positions, often simultaneously, and been happy with the outcome.

When the VC tide goes out Adtech startups will be running up the beach trying to cover their white bits. But with less loss-making competition it could be very good for Adsense and Facebook.

As an aside, I see a future where digital advertising is equally split between Google for transactional (buy something today) adverts, and Facebook for brand awareness and engagement. I think Facebook today is in the same position that Google was when it was only selling ads against its search result pages. When Facebook launches adverts beyond its own property then the cash is really going to start flowing.
A couple of months ago, I bought a $300 Chinese knock-off Honda Win motorcycle (~100cc) in Ho Chi Minh City and did pretty much the same route as this guy, albeit with much fewer stops. It was pretty incredible. Definitely the best way to experience Vietnam.

A similar highway exists in Thailand, the Mae Hong Son Loop[1], which I also did on motorcycle while I was backpacking Southeast Asia. Also highly recommended.

[1] http://wikitravel.org/en/Mae_Hong_Son_Loop
If you want to know more about RNNs in general, I can't recommend watching the videos/reading the notes from this course enough:

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

If you want something more basic to get your head around NNs, I recommend Denny Britz's "Neural Networks from Scratch":

http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/implementing-a-neural-network-...

I created a gist with a heavily commented version of his code:

https://gist.github.com/sthware/c47824c116e6a61a56d9
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Because any other null hypothesis has the same problem, but at least this one isn't biased.
Where did you get the 15,000 years number? I have never seen that before and would love it if you could provide more resources.
This reminds me a lot of PG's essay on how Yahoo was a beneficiary of its own advertising bubble that it created in the 90s:

> By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
>"nobody argues that there are zero differences between groups in an experiment"

The null hypothesis (usually) assumes that the two groups are samples from the same distribution.

Do you agree?
OT: Medium's lazy loading feature is super-annoying if you have a less than awesome connection.
It's also part of the well-known Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. It's simply not believable that no future PC OS would have ignored 'beautiful typography' had Jobs not taken that course.
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I think however what they ultimately do want to do is of course make a 1:1 parity between hardware and the license granted. This is a very good thing with regards to protecting spectrum, but it seems to possibly not reflect the trend to push more and more of signal processing into firmware and software. Will it increase parts counts and the bill of materials? Perhaps it has been too optimistic make one globally available physical product supplemented with a software tweak for each locality.
The guidelines don't refer to civility beyond "Be Civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

I already said I would say these things to his face, so we're left with "gratuitous negativity". Gratuitous means "without apparent reason, cause, or justification". There's enough tangible evidence in the article and others related to the topic, namely from the creator of the World Wide Web, to suggest that my negativity is with reason, cause, and justification. Perhaps you disagree with that.

This seems like someone telling me to read guidelines for a second time and then chastising me when it's pointed out that the guidelines don't provide enough explicit justification for his or her accusations and statements. Either you're intentionally wasting my time or unintentionally wasting it as a result of presuming ignorance or failure to read. Again, this borders on a veiled, passive-aggressive personal attack, which you seem to be fine with.

If this is about being "cartoonishly simplistic", that's fine. I can censor my comments if that makes HN happy. In return for my willingness to censor myself, I request that HN raise the quality of its guidelines up from what many might consider cartoonishly simplistic to a level that is more robust and explicit. It's not a matter of making them exhaustive. It's a matter of them currently being ridiculously vague and thin. Some evidence for such a claim is in this thread of comments.
you must not be USA/Euro/Japan citizen?
I agree this has all the info I'd expect right on the initial page and looks pretty.

Small typo in case the author reads this:

"""
Sigma is a JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing. It makes easy to publish networks on Web pages, and allows developers to integrate network exploration in rich Web applications.
"""

Should be "It makes it easy to publish" (missing it) or something similar (I'm not a native speaker).
Maybe just "It simplifies the publishing of networks on Web pages [...]"
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Well, probably the photo is supposed to be taken with the Hangover app in the first place. I don't know app development, but does an app that accesses the camera _have_ to store the photo alongside photos taken with the normal camera app?

My impression was: group of friends are in vegas having a "Hangover (the movie)" style night and agree to only take photos with this app. That way, come the morning they can all review them, but only when they're all together.

Obviously, if they take photos with their normal camera, or if all apps have to save photos to the filesystem and can be seen by the built in photogallery app, this doesn't work. Maybe the app uploads them to the Hangover site and then automatically deletes them from the phone?
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I am talking about an email server, not an email client.
I don't know enough about bhyve or your implementation to be able to comment, but if you assume that any system that has ever received a ZFS stream from a user is entirely compromised, then perhaps you can work around it that way. I'm not aware of a disappearing snapshot problem; has there been something sent to the ZFS list about this? Would have been a good topic of discussion for the OpenZFS Developers Summit a few weeks ago... ;)
I was trying to remain positive, but yes, most likely the military will invent them -- heck maybe they already have.
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I can speak to the power of shadowing for improving spoken language ability. If you check out techniques discussed on the How To Learn Any Language forum [1] where many of the foremost polyglots and hyperpolyglots hangout, you'll see that Shadowing and L-R are basically accepted as fundamental techniques.

It takes real determination to correctly shadow though, like patio11 said you need to reproduce the sample _exactly_. This can cause you to spend an hour trying to perfect <5min of speech. But it's extremely rewarding.
For example, when I was learning Mandarin I chose a 20 episode (1hr each) tv show as my shadowing material. It took close to half a year of working on it almost every night to finish. But afterwards I had "somehow" developed a deep sense of what words/phrases/idioms/etc _felt right_ to say when speaking and how to say them in that oh-so-close-to-native like way. The topic has been extensively discussed on the learn any language forums. But suffice to say, if you want to improve your spoken ability, doing a lot of shadowing would help.

[1] http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum
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"There's more money being made from advertising than consumers are putting in."

Should we care how Google, Facebook and others make so much cash? Should it matter?

Honest question.

(The author suggests the firesales by these companies when things go south will involve internet users' personal information. I agree.)
Given the current economic conditions and recessions around the world, I guess it will take some time for it to register in ad sector. Ad sector is still full of investor money and it will take months (and in some cases, years) for them to feel the pressure from the economy.

PS: Maciej is such a great writer. I enjoy his writing immensely. Everyone should emulate his clear & concise style.
Try doing simple stuff with programming for a weekend and see how you like it.

If you don't like it, well, it's just 1 weekend. If you do like it, could be worth trying more. If you aren't sure, could be worth trying more.

You don't need to take a class to learn to program. I've heard it said that really, all programmers are self taught, even if they do take a class.

Programming is basically putting things together, or feeding things into each other.

"Programming is like any other profession where you spend hours looking into a box cursing yourself for not thinking more like a machine."-swiftonsecurity

A word of advice though: Don't think you can make the next facebook as your first project.

However, try it out. It really doesn't require that much time investment to try it, and it certainly doesn't require much monetary investment (you don't have to pay anything except for the electricity you are already paying for for your computer).

Just try it, there's very little cost.
seems absolutely no vehicular traffic on this route, that would just take out a lot of noise / pain from the ride! Craig, any inputs on that?
Interestingly enough, more and more of my friends and family are registering with and using my XMPP server. Jitsi on the laptops and desktops and ChatSecure on the phones are generally the clients they're using.
No, I absolutely do not. What you are ignoring is that the canonical text of these religions are not equal. Where are the Tibetan suicide bombers?

Ignoring the religious and theological basis for this violence is part of the reason we've been so ineffective in fighting it. Clearly social tensions are part of the problem, but so is the religion itself.
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We're likely to use it in the future to choose the right provider and plan. However, I would definitely want to see DigitalOcean and Linode here.
Say what you will about the situation, but every time something like this happens, I end up being far more aghast at the reactions (see the article comments) than the original incident. It's really gross and a good indicator for why these flare-ups keep happening.
Sounds a lot like AdSense too, honestly.
When cellphones were still pretty new, they offered unlimited call forwarding we would set the phone to call forward to the bbs we want to call then call the cellphone number. It was great until the cellphone companies caught on and limited the call forwarding minutes.
It was my understanding that the US downgrades export munitions because it doesn't want other countries, allies or not, from having the same advanced weapons systems.

Do you have any references?
No, I've so far used too
few words for you to get
my point:

My point is a conjecture that
the purpose of the OP
was to remind enemies of
Israel about the old story
that the US gave Israel
plutonium for nuke bombs
and covered it up with
an accounting error.

Whether the old story
is true or not, my conjecture
about the purpose of the
OP can still be true.

Again, have had to know the
old story, which I assumed
nearly everyone at HN would,
to understand my first post.

Or the obscure part, sure,
my conjecture was that the
purpose of the OP was obscure,
so, as a joke, my post
was similarly obscure --
apparently too obscure.

I just tried to make
an interesting post.
I hurt no one.
But I've been attacked --
lost about 30 points here.

But, maybe I've learned
a lesson about the HN audience:
Got to write for the
highly sensitive HN
audience or will be attacked.
Okay. Likely the same reason
politicians say so little. Once
from a very socially astute
person I heard the advice, "Never
tell anyone anything.". Hmm ....
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This is probably a stupid question, but could an approach like this be used for more efficient ray-tracing?
>> "stuck a mosque on the roof"

If you've been to the old city of Jerusalem, you will note that there are 4 different religious groups each living in a very small .9 square kilometers walled city, and naturally everything is built right next to each other. Building a mosque on the roof of a holy area shared by two religions seems relatively amicable, honestly. Anyways, it is not a false statement that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in Palestine.

>> "I wonder which faith of the two is known for killing unbelievers."

Umm...both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_conflict
Yes. Isn't that fundamental to experimental design, that group membership is random? (You certainly know this as well, so I'm again confused about what your question is intended to provoke.)
Someone should study what would happen to Facebook/Twitter's financials if startups stopped buying app install ads.

Startups will buy more of these (out of desperation to get growth from their remaining funding) before they buy none (because they will finally run out of cash). See AOL's 2001/2002 financials for a past example.

Oh, and by the way, we are at the beginning of a huge funding crunch (perhaps someone else can pitch in with some citations on funding activity etc), so this WILL happen.
As a fun heuristic I have come to believe that mmap advocacy and use for storage is somewhat correlated with medium experience level.

At first junior developers don't know about it, then, they read a blog, hear something at a meeting about it and all of the sudden they fall in love with mmap. Then they want to re-write every storage related thing using it claiming it will be lightning fast and efficient. "You just write to memory and kernel writes to file, that so awesome, here I refactored your storage backend to use it over the weekend!"

Some might even venture to write whole database products based on it.

But then one day they "grow up" and realize what a great pain mmap can be, their storage backend is being hammered constantly by input data and dirty pages are not flushed fast enough, and then they are they start blocking other processes for seconds at a time. THey start tweaking madvise setting trying to control behavior, adjusting number of pdflush threads, etc. Or, and also sigbus errors are fun...
In 2010 Jobs promised "We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."

Afaik it didn't happen because of patent issues.
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Is there a reason why the pictures are so small?
As a Vietnamese, I don't want to say the land is awesome or something like that. If you want to go, just go. We do not have good infrastructure but safe enough for tourists.
Why are people using infrared to look for new chambers and passages? Muon detectors, using cosmic rays for the source, were used in the 1960s to conclude:

> We can say with confidence that no chambers with volumes similar to the four known chambers in Cheops's and Sneferu's pyramids exist in the mass of limestone investigated by cosmic-ray absorption. The volume of the pyramid probed in this manner is defined by a vertically oriented cone, of half-angle 35 degrees, with its point resting in the Belzoni Chamber. The explored volume is 19 percent of the pyramid's volume. We hope that with minor modifications to the apparatus the complete mass of limestone can be searched for chambers. - http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf

That's one of the reasons we know for certainty there is no large, unknown grain storage chamber in those pyramids.
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Add to this that maybe in former times you could change places and start anew. With privacy being dead, that's not possible anymore...

Chilling effects on a huge scale. Things are getting weird.
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Did this Twitter bot predict the Paris shootings 2 days before they happened?
impressive facts.
It constitutes copyright infringement, but of the copyright to the recording, not the "composition". AFAIK the band doesn't own the recording.
If you mean the graph images, they're slightly larger on the original post: http://opiateforthemass.es/articles/james-bond-film-ratings/

The code is also much more readable there.
Don't they already? Gmail was the embrace-extend phase. Now we are into extinguish. Try setting up your own email server, it will be marked as spam by most major webmail providers.
Recordings are copyrighted.

I don't think anyone's suggesting that the Winstons own the pattern, just that they deserve more compensation for this particular rendering of it.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, why is it an issue if the signal processing is done in firmware? Isn't the idea of firmware that it's factory set and read-only?
I spent a few weeks in Vietnam. At one point I saw, within the span of two days, the immediate aftermath of two separate incidents of motorcycle riders crushed under buses. I know it's anecdata but it shook me enough to never want to be there on two wheels.
I tried using it for one of my projects, but the feature support is very little, and I had to actually manually draw the nodes.
Reverted back to using D3.js, which, though having a high learning curve, gracefully solved my problem.
That's why there should be a way for people to voluntarily designate that what they are writing is not worth reading!

I know sometimes I want to respond to something, but know that my response does not contribute anything useful, and so I wish I could respond in a way that would only be shown if someone opted in to seeing messages self-described as useless.
I'm not convinced that targeted advertising even works. I see the advertising targeted at myself, it's pretty obvious why I get those ads. For example, I bought a kitchen sink faucet on line. For months afterwards, I received constant ads for the exact same faucet - as if I had multiple kitchens.

I've tried running context sensitive ads on my own site. I happen to believe that appropriate advertising is something users want - for example, I buy hot rod magazines specifically to get the ads for parts and other cool stuff for my car.

The context sensitive ads Google servers are just not interesting, and they happen to be one of a small handful of ads repeated over and over. There's no way I can tell Google "display ads in these categories".

I tried running context sensitive ads from Amazon. I wanted ads for programming books in various categories I'd select. What I'd get is ads for the latest Batman movie, over and over, I finally removed them. I don't know how Amazon decided that visitors to a programming site wanted to look at Batman ads.

There is a way to put an Amazon ad on the site for a specific product. But those get stale after a while. Again, I want to be able to list categories of the kinds of ads that would be appropriate for a particular page, but I can't. Ideally, I'd like to specify a list of categories for a context sensitive ad, like "programming books", and have Amazon scrape the page for keywords and then display programming books that are related to those keywords.
Patents prevent you from documenting, what is already documented in the patents ?!? I do however recognize the usage of the open standard would be limited by this. But one has options: other users could get a license, or one could try to change the protocol, to be able to avoid (some) patents, allowing both the patented and non patented way.

To me it just feels like they just don't care enough.
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Or it could require you to manually delete the phone's regular copy of the photos, which your "friends" can verify since they're in the same room.
Essentially the same point made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10572766 Being associated with STEM is lucrative (money, respect, ability to effect change) and STEM explicitly leaves out the more numerous artists, lawyers, political theorists, english literaturers, gender studiers, etc. that are part of college-as-is. The benefits of STEM association are enough incentive for any groups within those left out to try and get themselves in and have a share. Hence, the Rhode Island School of Design (which ought to have no business in STEM: http://www.risd.edu/academics/) has been trying to steer things. Hey, at least if they win, there will be no gender representation problems in STEAM...
A counterpoint to this is that adtech startups that have gone public have been crushed. Look at Rocketfuel, Yume, and Tremor for examples.
And interesting thing is how people are all up in arms about the NSA tapping private information, but are completely oblivious to advertising companies doing the same. At least the NSA's objective is to fight terrorism, companies like Google/Facebook invade people's privacy for the sole purpose of making money from it.
Glad to hear that it's still possible to do motorcycle tours in VN! I did a northern loop in 2011, it was my first real motorcycle experience: http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/7-day-north-vietnam-ri...
Two insightful previous discussions about XMPP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541

I'd highly recommend people read through them, especially if you're interested in fixing the issue.
for 11 years,... at least around 100 people have been killed each day

400,000 dead from terrorist attacks? Your source for that statistic is... ?
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It's not a bubble, the advertising industry has always followed this cycle:

The post war television boom in America begat many new Madison Avenue ad agencies in the 50s who reached a high point in the 60s and the 70s, but then by the 80s and 90s were consolidated via mergers and acquisitions.

Even the great Ogilvy & Mather was swallowed by up WPP in 1989. In fact one of the David Ogilvy's greatest regrets was taking the company public which allowed the take over years later.
There is also just different sound frequencies, x-ray and radio waves.
And I suppose one could also empower a really powerful laser to make a tiny hole trough the pyramid :) but this would cost quite some time and energy. Might be better to use a expandable drill then.
Google really betrayed XMPP effort, and Eric Schmidt should be blamed for it. Others aren't any better - just greedy gardeners of their walled gardens.
And so what? Forget the math, say the two groups come from different distributions. Omniscient Jones told us so. What can we learn from that?