skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point, I think of firebase as nosql and server push, what I'm offering is sql via http POST. So really not related. Firebase limits on connections, I'm limiting on request per minute, greater 1 million per month for the free tier. I haven't finalized the numbers yet though.
> On top of all of that 4G is still so data-restricted you cannot do anything with it that the speed was meant for. The cost of streaming a blu-ray quality film over 4G on many carriers can cost you tens of dollars alone.

Is this a technical limit of 4G, an infrastructure limitation of not having enough backhaul to the base station, or a business limitation of just wanting to make more money?
The 5 ways listed are:

1. Seek Novelty

2. Challenge Yourself

3. Think Creatively

4. Do Things The Hard Way

5. Network
Even more accurate title: Facebook doesn't care about privacy
I self-host the ads on my site in addition to selling the space directly.

Because the content of the site is narrow (photo tours of office design projects) it ends up attracting a certain group of people who are interested in office design and office furniture (self-targeting if you will).
I'm pretty sure you are wrong about having to pay taxes if their are ex-employees with unexercised options.

Citation?
> “I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society,” Browder told VentureBeat this week.

Surely the most vulnerable can't afford cars at all.
I would really like an option of hiding "things my friends liked". I constantly click on "Hide this post" to see if the algorithm can learn from that, but it doesn't happen.
"from introspection I feel that my thoughts are in language"

Have you ever had the experience of having to stop in mid-sentence, stuck, because a word was "on the tip of your tongue"?
I'm referring to the idea that reasoning requires language.
What is the plan name?
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Seems like a good way for the city to get sued for singling out tech companies vs. doing it across the board.
> I wonder what they expect to find?

Paperwork that contradicts statements the company has made, which would be shredded long before an inspector's arrival should a more formal appointment be arranged.

> Or whether it is just a display of force.

This is usually a factor in such raids too, but it only works if there is a chance something might be found so they wouldn't do it purely as a show of force.
Blocking them entirely is fair, and I do so in many cases to avoid accidentally going there anymore, but you can also use uBlock Origin as your adblocker and turn on the Adblock Warning Removal List and Anti-Adblock Killer filter lists, which will eliminate most of these ridiculous scripts. Sometimes so many sites in a short time add those adblocker-blocker scripts that it takes a little time for the lists to catch up, but overall it does such a good job that when people started complaining about such things earlier this year I had no idea what they were talking about because it had invisibly blocked everything for me so far.
This is exactly what http://www.sorama.eu/ does. They have created a large array of cheap microphones to do an otherwise expensive setup. They work, for example with Coolermaster to make their cases more silent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLx9DsNcM6o
They appear to have mistaken "increase your capacity to do cool stuff" for "increase your intelligence."
The best way is with docker. But besides that, you usually only have to mess with uwsgi, and nginx once. You don't need virtualenv if you only have one python app on the server. You could however deploy a virtualenv, I have seen some people use the virtualenv as a large distributable, and just dropped that on the box with the code.
But ultimately, if your not using docker, you could be using PAAS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Google App engine, they all do this for you.
Some people think visually, and then suffer from the problem that the solution of the problem that they "see" is difficult to explain in words.
I'd say the problem is latency/routing. Any data on data?
1. No it won't reduce costs, but it offers a lot more bandwidth which is a consumer demand/necessity. If that need isn't met, people will jump carriers. Take Boston, SF, NYC or Chicago, where you can place femtocells, say, on the top of a building on every other street at every 3rd ave -- even with Siemens markup for the gear, plus city permits, plus installation and maintenance costs -- you're looking at 10-15k a base station (Verizon probably gets bulk discounts, I'm just going by old BS11 Siemens list MSRPs) then double it for the labor/permits/etc listed above along with annoying 'last mile' problems. (Alternatively, I'd imagine they could just offer the city X amount of dollars to mount them directly to municipal poles).

2. Consumers won't be paying more for wireless. You'll still be paying your $200 for an iPhone + $100/mo for internet with a 24 month lock-in. Those ~2k you pay over the course of your contract is what funds these upgrades. The functionality will be bundled with your iPhone $n+1 when the phone-renewal-cycle comes up. You'll have a 4G transceiver + pre-existing wifi tranceiver re-appropriated as Verizon-branded wifi as they negotiate their bluray content to transfer through their femtocells.

3. Internet of Things via mesh might be okay for torrents where latency doesn't matter, but no way for comms.

re: your 4g question (I'm assuming you're referring to LTE-A) - No. 4g is limited by spectrally very heavily re: the amount of content you can fit into each hz. Where Verizon is running into problems (NYC, SF, after sports events when everyones taking drunken selfies, etc) they're at saturation. In large cities, I'd imagine Verizon can't just do the ol' "drop more base stations in" because they'll just be spilling tones into their own, over-saturated chunk they bought from the FCC for a few billion. (In the case of 4G LTE-A, these operate at half-duplex within a 6 mhz band for tx and another 6 mhz band for rx, placed up or down 40mhz).
I thought dual n-back had been discredited as a method of increasing cognitive performance. I know there must be some experts on here - would you care to comment?
Well, they paid these fees to their own company so nothing was lost for them.
If it were merely carriers acting in parallel to keep up rates, then the whole thing would fall apart when Sprint and T-Mobile started offering unlimited LTE.
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Cool domain :)
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"Are countries, simply put, afraid to put an end to tax schemes like this, because it would just mean that Ikea or Google would pack up and leave?"

In an "odd" application of market-competition, that is precisely what happened. Countries where Google generally did business wanted to tax Google at some X. Then along came Ireland, or Google found Ireland, and saw that they could do some legal paperwork and pay Ireland's tax rate of X-Y instead of X in the "source" countries.

The point I'm making is that Google did pack up and leave, and it will happen again unless really drastic actions are taken against them. I don't think anyone wants to do that, at this point.

You either bully all countries from allowing loop holes such as this, even though they don't want to. Or you disallow Google from operating in your country if they don't pay taxes on the profit from "sales" you deem occurred in your country. Small countries that want/need that tax revenue from Google, even if it is X-Y, won't like it if you compel them into complying and causing Google to "pack up and leave". It also puts the "bullying" nature of whatever international body is tasked with enforcing this into light.
Nobody has ever been able to properly explain to me what it means to think in a language.
I can see it getting as bad as to demand that much of the content itself be an image, with ads stitched in server-side before serving the whole thing up.
"Founded July 2014 in Switzerland, Stiftung Ethereum’s mission is the promotion of developments of new technologies and applications, especially in the fields of new open and decentralized software architectures."

http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/foundation.html

Why don't you google shit before sharing your uninformed opinion? Especially when suggesting I'm spreading "fear uncertainty and doubt" like we are at war, dick.

They are public figures who write blog posts too and have used that blog to promote theDAO, a security which they were invested in. Its cut and dry corruption.
It is one thing to improve the IQ of rapidly-growing children who have developmental disorders, and quite another to improve the fluid intelligence of adults.

Brain training games don't boost IQ http://www.vox.com/2016/6/22/11993078/brain-training-games-d...
"We can see that the area with the least visual information (the sky) has been reduced while other regions of the image such as the boat, water, and buildings, remain intact."

Except the tower on the right has been "redesigned" by the algorithm.
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Has Chomsky ever said that?
I was just thinking of ye olde self-service in-house ad vendor, server, statter. If the static ad assets were coming from the same domain, how would an adblocker notice them?
I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the lets-ASM mentality because there is a real security problem with most code that can be solved with different language+tooling and is only insecure because of historical popularity reasons like the rise of C in the 1980s.
"I don't really understand how they are putting their reputation at risk this way by letting third parties publish non-vetted content on their site."

I read it as a measure of their financial desperation. They're eating their seed corn (their reputation is their most valuable asset in that without that, what else do they have?), and, well, what other choice do they have? HN has been talking about the other choices for years, but every time I see someone try one, they sink.
Take the Lenovo Y700-15isk for example. It can swallow up to 32GB of RAM, has quad-core CPUs and can have two hard drives (one M.2 and one normal SATA). The noise in normal office use is close to zero, and the keyboard, that is built for gamers, helps longevity for normal use, too. Did I mention the Nvidia GTX 960 with 4GB vRAM? This thing is what used to be the "workstation class" while still providing 6 hours battery life. Full Linux support. Costs 899 Euros in the base model without operating system (Germany). So: if you are a number cruncher and want to do some serious gaming, too, a gaming laptop with Linux makes a lot of sense.
Taxation is the art of plucking the goose so as to get the most feathers with the least squawking. It always involves singling out somebody.
Would love to see the same analysis on Samsung hardware
I'll assume you're right, because you actually work with this.

A few questions on the Snapchat thing, if you don't mind: Aren't you just "buying" interaction with the prospect of a potential price? Does it actually increase sales figures significantly, long term and beyond the people that participated? Wouldn't the participant have been very likely to buy the product anyway? I mean they already follow the brand on Snapchat.
It's a great deal simpler to have a process that runs when code is merged in to a repo than to have a manual process of copying files to a server that relies on a human getting things right. "Dead easy to deploy" these days means "create a process that can run automatically, that checks things worked correctly, and rolls back changes if things go wrong". Doing those things manually is not simple.

If a deploy fails and a client is panicking because their app isn't available, the last thing you want is a team of stressed developers trying to work out which files they need to revert.

"Simple" doesn't mean "easy".
Since when has Scientific American resorted to listicles?
Even Google Campus :/
I pay for NYT access. If they block me because I block ads, then I'm leaving. These people do nothing to ensure the security of the ad networks they use. I'm not an expert or have any contact with that industry, but my impression is that at best the idea of security is an unacceptable cost.
Not particularly the type of AI I would teach people (neural networks, and some symbolic AI) but this looks good for working with kids to learn some programming. My grandkids are visiting and I might see if they are patient enough to try this.
To follow in the best way possible Bitcoin's situation, don't use /r/Bitcoin because it's censored. Only positive propaganda is allowed there. Use /r/btc instead!
See this very thorough article on gwern's [1] website: https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gwern
i think everyone ought to read whatever books they fucking want. what's with pretentious assholes always telling everybody what they should and shouldn't do?
I'm not going to speak for anyone else on HN, but for me and most people around me, blocking ads while still consuming content is normal practice. Do you mute the TV, or leave the room during commercial breaks? Commercial TV is also funded by advertising, so if your position is that blocking ads is wrong, will you also argue that it is morally wrong to not watch TV commercials?

For me, blocking ads is a form of civil disobedience: I disagree with the predatory tactics of the ad industry, so I feel morally obligated not to support them. Arguing your case like it is just "consumers vs poor publishers" is ignoring the negative effects that a third party has on both the publishers and the consumers, and dismissing those arguments as "comical" might be part of the reason why it's so alien to you. It's the same as the case against music piracy: those arguments are also framed as "consumers vs poor artists" while completely ignoring the effects of the copyright-holding businesses.

Also, I don't think many people will tell you that they have a legal right to do so. The legal argument boils down to "there's no law against it", which is a different assertion than "there's an explicit law supporting me". Most people will instead tell you that they have a moral right to protect their computer or their life from the shady practices of advertisers.

For a more extreme viewpoint (but still one I can get behind), I'll gladly refer you to http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2015/07/advertisers-should-...
EM drive is not an argument such that it might be refuted. It is a device. As such it has fitness for purpose, which depends entirely on the purpose at hand.

Snarkiness << skepticism.
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If you have XDebug enabled it will slow Composer, but also several patches near the official 1.0 release improved speed massively. If you haven't tried it recently, you should try Composer again.
Damn, so much negativity. This library actually looks well designed (and I'm saying this as a virtual dom library author)
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See http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/10/16/piraha_...

'Among Pirahã's many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic trait of which there are only a few documented cases. The language contains no words at all for discrete numbers and only three that approximate some notion of quantity—hói, a "small size or amount," hoí, a "somewhat larger size or amount," and baágiso, which can mean either to "cause to come together" or "a bunch."'

...

'We can only count so fast, after all, but the Pirahã appear not to be counting at all—because, well, how could they? Instead, they're employing what Everett calls an "analog estimation strategy," which works well for a few items but breaks down beyond that.'
Some increase is warranted but constantly increasing the block size is not scalable and the block limit incentivises the payment of fees which makes it harder spam the the network. There has to be a price for using the main bitcoin blockchain.

The proposal to be able to increase the fee by creating a child transaction is needed and means that real transactions can still get processed, if they pay for it.

Anybody with small transactions not worth paying the market fee for should do it off-chain using the lightning network or other exchange. Yes, that means reliance on centralised exchanges but most users don't care and they can be regulated which most people prefer. If you are a diehard libertarian you can still stay decentralised and somewhat anonymous if you are willing to pay the price or take the volatility risk of using another blockchain like LiteCoin.
Are there salespeople in this area anymore, or is it all automatic? Shouldn't the salespeople be working harder to sell unsold inventory?
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Seems like a reasonable thing to decide at international level. We have already more or less forced (or come to an agreement with) Switzerland to not hide "dark money".

Getting some stronger wording in the tax legislation on EU level should be doable, but of course the Netherlands would squirm a bit.
But how do you deal with the fact that there aren't any people to view your video because you are buried in the search results? My case. :(
Cultural debugging is an interesting idea.
Security record: https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Also worth considering: https://tls.mbed.org/ I've used it and it is indeed very easy to use.
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I wonder what was causing the measurement, then. Magnetic repulsion due to the current flowing through the cable?
I would expect google to keep all financial documents inside Google Drive. In doing so, I wonder what is left in the office for the Spanish authorities to find in a raid? (Google is ruthlessly paperless internally.)
This article really overhypes the Kiva robots. I work in the warehouse automation industry for a fortune-500 retailer with several large e-commerce brands. Robotic goods-to-person is only one of many applications of robotics and automation in warehouses. It is also really only useful for certain types of long-tail operations - many SKUs, low volume per SKU. It also still very labor intensive because someone still has to pack all of those orders.

I think the Kiva robots are an important part of Amazon's fulfillment efficiency but I don't see a huge market for that technology across the warehousing industry because there are a lot of other problems that it doesn't solve at all or doesn't handle very well.

From my point of view the automated storage and retrieval and shuttle systems are much more interesting and more widely applicable. They are also a much more efficient use of vertical space.
My point was that anyone would look at theDAO concept and invest 115,000 is a mind boggling to me. Its not a good arrangement for the investors.

The developer who works on the protocol should have known better and also read the code.

I also personally think that anyone working on the protocol should not be holding securities that the non profit foundation they work for is promoting. And they should then not be using those non profit funds to change the fundamental principals that were advertised to raise the funds.

The whole situation is a mess
One of the most consistent ways research has demonstrated to increase connectivity in the brain is to learn new physical skills. Controlling the body in space appears to be particularly good at stimulating the growth of new synapses (and possibly new neurons as well, though the research is not conclusive here outside the hippocampus). Yoga is a good start. Modern dance, breakdancing, capoeira and gymnastics are all excellent if you're slightly more athletic.

Beyond that, practicing thinking in different ways really helps your brain develop. One thing that most people neglect is geometric/mechanical intelligence. Get some 3D puzzles, and once you get really good at them, start building simple machines. If you never got good at math, trying to pick up some advanced mathematics can be a good exercise as well.
As the article is pretty old I suggest looking at a more recent discussion of the topic:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592_supp/full/53...
Advertisers have not cared much to date. For example the amount of money they pour into Facebook ads despite massive click fraud.
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I wonder how this will affect newly IPOed twilio
It should build with 1.0 since a recent update, but your other points are valid. That said, it's a PoC and kinda like a MVP. Granted this is from a domain expert, so the time it took Ralph Levien to code this is substantially shorter than it would have taken a beginner in the field of font rendering. However, it's easy to see that something like font-rs can be incorporated into Firefox in the future even before Servo is complete. It's already happening with image decoders.

To answer the parent's questions, which I unfortunately forgot to: if we translate Harfbuzz and FreeType to Rust, it won't take that long. See Dropbox's recent blogpost about their translation of Brotli's C code to Rust.
Right, so 4G isn't actually data constricted and there's (supposedly) no need for 5G yet.
Social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram) ads are self-hosted, and while they evade adblockers it has not kept users from being annoyed.
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I can relate to that. I am not super-intelligent, I have ADD, and generally consider myself to be lazy and distraction-prone.

However, for some reasons unknown, I have excellent working memory, which allows me to perform feats. Multi-choice exams? Can prepare for anything in few hours. Learn Scala (and another 5-6 programming languages) in a few months? Easy! I don't use password managers, as I remember all my long passwords. And credit card numbers. And phone numbers. This multiplies my intelligence quite significantly.

If only I could be consistently productive...
Yes, Standard Oil is the typical example, which is why I remain unconvinced. They didn't "destroy or buy out all competition" (they had more than a hundred competitors), which is why - as joslin01 points out - their position of dominance was very short lived. And did they abuse that position by charging exorbitant prices? No, the evidence was that they had generally lowered them.

And finally, this little tidbit: "The dissolution had actually propelled Rockefeller's personal wealth." Hurray for the Sherman Act..?
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>Google is ruthlessly paperless internally.

Not if they have to keep information on paper to comply with the law.
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AI lawyer is overstated... it's more like a questionnaire with immediate results, but hey! It's still in the cloud!
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Android supports OOB via NFC, but only as a special case. You should just be able to call `createBondOutOfBand()` but the method is hidden:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.gi...

I'm pretty sure iOS doesn't support pairing via NFC.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfc-speakers-from-apple-you-c...

http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-business/iphone...

So, no, they don't support OOB (except in one limited case on Android).