skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My data-weenie hat tells me that this is a silly metric anyway. As an advertiser, you really care about the distribution of viewing times, and in particular what fraction of viewers watch the video all or most of the way through. Arithmetic mean is virtually useless when the data has a power-law or other non-linear distribution, and it's highly likely video viewing times exhibits this.
It's the processes, and tools that enable those things to be done.
Could be biased, but I think we're more careful about bundling breaking changes in security patches though.
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In addition to the many fine recommendations already on the thread, I enjoyed Winner's Curse and Irrational Exuberance.
I'm part of a different targeted-minority. The only times I felt it weighing on me more than as a nuisance, was when I actually had something to hide. Which shouldn't have a bearing on whether or not the police should target me or not, as long as they behave and I as a citizen don't escalate.

Edit: Grammar.
So, does that mean its constantly draining battery when parked? Is this drain significant?
Are you running Quagga or Bird on the director instances then? I'm looking forward to reading more about it.
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Don't over-think it: systemic failure as the result of institutionalized corruption.

It doesn't really matter what the initial justification was, it is what it is. You're increasingly noticing it because it is occurring everywhere and without any negative consequences to the bad actors (quite the opposite: significant rewards.)
I like the analogy of a bag of peanuts is equivalent to a teaspoon of petrol (properly aspirated) or a stick of dynamite
Very true. But for mere mortals, one thing at a time.
It takes a really warped interpretation of open source to claim MIT is a closed source license. Not even Stallman agrees with that. In his essay on selling exceptions to GPL he gave this argument[0]:

"
If that implication is valid, it would also apply to releasing the same program under a noncopyleft free software license, such as the X11 license. That also permits such embedding. So either we have to conclude that it's wrong to release anything under the X11 license -- a conclusion I find unacceptably extreme -- or reject this implication. Using a noncopyleft license is weak, and usually an inferior choice, but it's not wrong.

In other words, selling exceptions permits some embedding in proprietary software, and the X11 license permits even more embedding. If this doesn't make the X11 license unacceptable, it doesn't make selling exceptions unacceptable
"

It seems everyone except you, including the father of copyleft, agrees that the MIT license is a free and open source license.

[0]:https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
The Fuji apple and some kind of peach can be super large compared with ones sold in US and they also taste much better
When did the situation in Chicago happen?
Is that even possible? I got a password reset email for a LinkedIn account that I thought I had deleted years ago. I know that sometimes logging in can reactivate an account, but it's been YEARS now. And it was like I was always there.

LinkedIn is like dallisgrass. pesky stuff to get rid of.
"Reminisces of a stock operator" is delightful.
Then what's the problem? You already have access to their core business software.
Could you implement this with a linked list underneath to remove the max queue size?
Even just drawing in parallel from batteries like this is a fire hazard.

I think you've confused parallel with series; in parallel, the batteries will naturally balance themselves to the same voltage and discharge proportionally to their capacity. It's the series configurations that are riskier and need extra balancing circuitry.

Also, I'm pretty sure the bulk of fires are from the much more fragile pouch "lipo" cells, not hard-cased 18650s like these. You may note the extremely large number of lipo fire videos on YouTube as evidence.

On the other hand, 18650s tend to be quite a lot more robust and difficult to ignite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi5lGtm_ItQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFRrmhXoVw
So the biggest news here seems to be the upgrades to Autopilot. (https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...). They describe a fantastic amount of new technology, including using radar to make a point cloud despite the fact that "[s]omething made of wood or painted plastic ... is almost as transparent as glass to radar." This venture reeks Murphy's Law. I'll let someone else be the guinea pig in this experiment.
Why do you do what you do?
People lived without medicine for a long time too, I'm not sure if we want to live in those days though.
Books about economics- read Keynes and Friedman.

Economic history- lords of finance, too big to fail.

Most quant finance books are low quality and I'd suggest avoiding them.
Doesnt this vastly affect the distribution though? It excludes all views less than 3 seconds.
Mithril is nice.
Awesome. The whole time I was reading I was thinking "they need Rendezvous hashing". And then bam, last paragraph mentions that is in fact what they are using.
Urban areas are great for children. When I was a kid I'd walk outside and go find a neighborhood kid, there was always at least one outside. Then we'd go to a park or do we random shit. There was just tons of kids around all the time, instant playmates. Kept ourselves entertained for hours.

We also had tons of places to go within walking distance and if we hopped on a bus the sky's the limit!

Safer? Motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of children, the most dangerous everyday place for them is a moving vehicle.

Also stranger violence is rare.
I thought that this metric is supposed to measure the quality of the views that the advertiser is paying for. In that case maybe advertisers shouldn't pay for views under 3 seconds, but if they do it should count towards the average.
You could ask him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangdu

I don't know what the final dissertation title/theme ended up as, but we talked a lot about guanxi vs other similar cultural behaviours while he was writing it.
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It seems to have worked; at least the recruiters have stopped sending me emails every day about jobs that don't match anything in my resume.
Thermite :p
There's also a possibly huge amount of possible applications for DL or ML in general, someone just needs to connect the dots. So it's not entirely limited to a finite number of big companies who will be hiring them. Just having that skillset (or enough knowledge of how it works) could create your own opportunities by going out in the world and finding applications.

Just like how there were countless excel spreadsheet business processes that birthed CRUD applications.
why don't they die already?
"Tesla keeps temp below 40C/105F by automatically venting cabin & turning on AC when needed. Can do this for up to a year on a full charge."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/778602694399320065
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The fact that this is pure, raw packets and not using a DNS amplification method sounds to me like the attackers are advertising. "Hey, look at my capabilities. Look what I can do. Hire me for your next DDoS attacks." If these guys don't get caught or taken down, they could easily become the biggest players in the market. Twice the size of the last biggest DDoS, with no trickery. That's insane.
OK I looked at the link and now want more Spangler. What made you recall that quote?
The <bad thing> is this: "I've been using this nice program for a while now and started redistributing it, and now my organization/customers/whoever are giving me grief due to its weirdly modified BSD-ish license." Grief is grief, even if those people are inflicting it for an unsubstantiated reason (fear of the unknown).
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Software that writes and evolves software
That distinction makes all the difference to me. IMO one answer is fraud and the other is borderline valid / no big deal.
It looks like they didn't count it in either metric. Peoples' complaint is that they excluded it from all averages and all reports, which inflates their average duration of video watched because videos less than 3 seconds aren't included at all.
It would be much more useful if they released a pretrained model. Most people don't have the tech required to train their own- unless you want to wait months.
Why is every article about the right so negative? Soros is rarely derided on HN like this
I built this: https://github.com/dylanized/minimos
A Random Walk Down Wallstreet.

Great introductory book on investing, especially if you're interested in personal finance.
I don't think this is overblown. Considering that issues of money and trust are on the line, (and the inverse of trust which is fraud), and we are talking about a company that deals with over $17 billion a year in ad revenues, I'm surprised there isn't more scrutiny on this kind of thing in general.
you mean the views that don't count at all? why would you want metrics about non-views to pull down the average view time?

shut facebook down.

you're all idiots.
I don't believe for a second that this was unintentional. The amount of press and mind share that Facebook has received for their "rocketing video efforts that rival YouTube" was totally worth pissing off some ad exec. Very few people will see this news compared to "Facebook dominates video" headlines that have been everywhere. This was a smart play on their part.
I travel a lot out of town.
A nice place to start might be the CFA study guide

https://www.cfainstitute.org/programs/cfaprogram/courseofstu...
The best thing that could happen to Windows is a user-privilege level where instead of providing a UAC prompt to the user when a program tries to elevate, the UAC daemon instead sends off a push-notification. The "real sysadmin" (e.g. nephew) would then install some app on their phone, which will catch these notifications and prompt them to remotely approve/deny the elevation requests. Or maybe even just make it non-interactive: default deny unless they've given an explicit elevation authorization in the last 30 minutes. "Phone me when you want something installed and I'll enable it." Sort of like a remote version of wi-fi router WPS pairing.

(Obviously, you can also build this for corporations, where the notifications are emails and managers can approve software installations on workstations and such from their email client. But corporations already get the benefit of "managed app stores" for frontloading software approval; they need this much less than individuals do.)
If you like this, watch the videos from this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/user/jehugarcia

he methodically tests old 18650 laptop cells, sorts them, builds battery packs and so on. He's converted a classic VW bus to electric power using his home-made battery packs and packs salvaged from wrecked teslas.
Channels are inherently FIFO queues. So why not just use the usual `select`/`case` method and cast the `struct` you need into a chan with `make(chan, struct)`?

See: https://gobyexample.com/non-blocking-channel-operations
As someone who helps make decisions around ad spend... not really. I would take a distribution if I was given it but it wouldn't substantially drive my advertising strategy. Views (over 3 sec views is fine), clicks, viewthrough conversion, clickthrough rate, and conversion rate are orders of magnitude higher signal measures than the specifics of how far they got through the video.

I'd imagine that view time distributions are way more important to new media companies that rely heavily on video media like Buzzfeed or anyone putting out content on Youtube.
> (Alternatively: the most powerful air conditioner you can buy running full blast for 30 minutes.

I can easily buy a 16 ton (1 ton = 12000 BTU/h) air conditioner, it uses a great deal more than 1kWh in 30 minutes.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carrier-16TON-R-410A-Puron-Air-Condi...
This year it is especially weird considering it is Hillary that is really making a killing from the billionaire club and massively outspending Trump too in virtually every market.
If you know that the number you're dialing is a detonator, why isn't the phone call itself illegal? If it doesnt detonate, doesn't that make the call an illegal act itself (attempted murder) and if so, why isn't a call resulting in successful detonation illegal by the same reasoning? IANAL but I'd think the former would be just as illegal as the latter except that the successful phone call would be lumped into the greater charges of terrorism/homicide alongside any violations for actually building and placing the explosive device.

I don't know much (or anything) about the prevailing criminal justice philosophies among the judiciary but this sounds like a question that can only be answered by a thorough review of the criminal code and precedent. Wire fraud, for example, is one of those felonies that you can be guilty of in the process of committing other more serious crimes so obviously some components can be broken out of the larger crimes.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

I can see exactly how things like this could happen in large corps. You'd be surprised.
How recent is the trend? Most of the units I know are named for people: Joule, Watt, Volt, Ampere, Newton, Angstrom, Ohm, ...
With Oracle that team is know as the A-Team. http://www.ateam-oracle.com
> It is then justified that their creation is needed because "no one else has these kinds of problems" but then they open source them as if lots of other people could benefit from it. Why open source something if it has an expected user base of 1?

Two reasons.

1) Recruiting. Check out our awesome code! Don't you want to work on this too?

2) Our unique problem today will be the problems of everyone in three years.

This has borne out with the Netflix opes source. At the time it was a problem unique to Netflix -- now a bunch of people are using that software or derivatives.
I don't, but how do I block ads like this disguised as articles?
There are a few open-source companies on Indie Hackers. You might be able to hit up their founders and ask them for pointers:

- https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/action-pages

- https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/amon

- https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/smg-music-display

One thing to keep in mind is that, as a developer, you feel very comfortable dealing with code and writing things on your own. This tremendously devalues having other people host/setup/maintain your software in your mind. However, most people are not programmers. They look at code the same way you might look at tax law -- you just want to hire some decent attorneys who you're confident will do the job well and be done with it. That's why people will pay more for a trustworthy name.
I think the poster means the EPA test cycle for miles, they have a pre-defined "cycle" of acceleration, braking, coasting etc for Highway ratings and City driving.
This sounds like you're comparing driving a car to flying an airplane. From my understanding, much like before flying, you need a lot of foundational knowledge to work with ML and be productive on your own. You could learn to drive a car, like you can learn to build a Rails CRUD app over a weekend, you'll be bad at it still but you can get to point A->B with little investment.

The barrier to entry for AI stuff is quite a high. And IMO will be limited to certain kinds of people who like working on the hard science /math stuff, and have a strong enough early education to learn advanced linear algebra and statistics (for example) .
> wrecked teslas

Wait what? where is this supply at
I don't get it, it makes sense?

Less than 3 seconds is not a view any more than seeing the picture of the video is a view. It doesn't count I'd say?

Or do advertisers have to still pay for a 2 second view?
Powering a decent computer with an exercise bike should be fairly easy. A washing machine, less so.
>There has been a disturbing level of contempt for the people that were concerned about the future of Free Software.

Rather few software professionals care much one way or the other about the idea of Free Software, you know. It's really just a source of free-as-in-beer libraries & programs.

>"...it is prudent to be extra vigilant about anything strange that happens in the boot process."

As I pointed out in the previous thread, modern x86 PC architecture is defined by Microsoft's "Windows Hardware Compatibility Program" requirements[0]; it is not and never was an open standard. Much like Apple or Google, if Microsoft chooses to close their boot process, there's not much that anyone else has a right to say about it.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/dn922588...
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In France, Statistics is considered part of engineering.
If you want to get a picture and understanding of the development and history of economic thought I second this suggestion of the Worldly Philosophers. It is very readable. It won't help you at all with a job in finance, but it will make you a more informed citizen, and better able to understand 'how the world works.'
"likely overestimated average time spent watching videos by between 60% and 80%"

Soooooooo... fraud? They say it didn't impact billings/revenue, but I have to imagine they will now be in a position to give discounts, if not refunds.
Is that your only complaint about JS?
Thanks for sharing, I have UC and am always looking to see what others are doing. I know There are differences but I suspect the root cause is similar.
What's the clickthru rate on a movie trailer? What is that going to tell you? Do I click on ads on TV or in the newspaper?

Most video ads I see are more informational than a call to action. Who really wants to click on an ad while in facebook on a phone?
FWIW the person you're replying to represents everything that is bad about HN. If you read his post history you'd be lead to believe he's an industry insider in: Shipping, Irrigation, Crypto Currencies, Genetics, Nano Technology, Manufacturing, Microkernels and a lot more if you keep going back.

There was a time I believed his posts, until I read one of his mini-essays on a topic I happened to know about (cryptography) and it was painful obvious that it was someone who spent 10 minutes googling the topic and took it upon themselves to give a dangerously incorrect "authoritative" lay of the land. Since then I've tagged those people as "faux experts". I don't blame him, I did the same thing for high-school essays, albeit with a more jilted writing style. Just be careful who and what you believe
The Newton unit has been around since 1948. But that was hardly the first term to be named after someone: Watt has been used since 1882, Farad since 1881, Fahrenheit since 1776...
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> Cabin Overheat Protection

I hope that besides cooling the car it includes a feature that pulls down some signs in the windows that says "no really the A/C is on and my kid/dog is fine, don't break the glass".

I mean I'm kinda joking here but not really. This has been a problem for Prius owners for a long time (they can have a/c on manually when the car is off)
"At big companies, it's more important to not be wrong than to be right. This is not conducive to the sort of mistake-based learning that really advances people. "Move slow and don't break anything!" is what the corporation wants, whether or not they phrase it that way."

This is a perfect summary of working at corporations
Congratulations.

Q: Have you considered decoupling writes from reads workloads. Separate logical clusters for write and read roles ?

The CQRS [0] model is really intuitive for web scale backends.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
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"Gladly, an adtech startup, surveyed 243 random users of the ad blocking program Goodblock"

So, it's a pretty worthless survey. Got it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557754

50% Loss ratio
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John Hull

Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen

Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives by Satyajit Das
I don't think this is overblown at all.

I expect to see a class action lawsuit because of this. If you are a big advertiser and you can somehow show damages because of this error there may be a case.

There are some adtech companies recently who focus purely on reporting the metrics of your ad purchases. Kind of like acting as a third party. I forgot exactly what they are called.
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"think of the children!"

It's like a all-access pass to unlimited trampling of privacy.
Traders, Guns and Money - Satyajit Das

Debunking Economics - Steve Keen

The Volatility Machine - Michael Pettis
Here's my take:

First, how do you define success? Is it making a lot of money? Is it being happy doing what you do? For me it is to eliminate the need of working for someone else 8h a day and invest my time completely into myself and the things I want to do. And for that, passion is something that drives you to this success. But even more so: You need to work your ass off - and that is the hard part.

To go home after a long work day and STILL work on your own ideas, on your own business or similar. And if it fails and you crash, you continue with the next idea and push yourself up. Maybe you gave up your job to pursue your idea and it fails? Find a new job, get money, get up and keep trying. That's why you need passion - to keep you going and bear with the stress.

Sure there are lucky people who make the big hit in their first try but for most of us that won't happen.

I am nowhere near successful. I was almost there with my first project but not anymore. But I love what I'm doing and I love coding on interesting concepts and ideas with friends even though it eats a ton of time and pushes stress. If I didn't have passion for it, I would have probably already burned out and given up.

That's the important difference in my opinion: Are you someone who has the will to succeed and willing to keep trying and trying again? Or are you someone who is happy to rely on someone to give you money and hope to get successful through that? (Be it stocks, big paycheck, buyout, etc)
One more question: do you accept services oriented companies? I am confused by the typical YC mantra about scale and by this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12275696 . Services companies like consulting are difficult to scale but they can be interesting.
How to convert video to MKV Passthrough
Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek?
Even a single AAA battery has a lot of energy 5,071 J according to http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Energy-tables.html.

My point of reference I use to imagine energy is a major league baseball player hits a baseball with 1,234 J.

1KW/h is 3,600,000 J.
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I didn't see anything in the guidelines area, but our company is looking to expand its AI division and we are looking for employees, is it allowed to post something like this here?
They just need to use that one weird trick to stop spammers!
Correct. Amazon understand this dynamic and how to play the game. They can take something like Oracle's DB, turn it into a service, and manage it end to end for the customer, and even provide tools to do the migration. This is a straight attack on Oracle. Once in the AWS ecosystem, it becomes easy to follow the logic described in the CIO using MS products in the article.

One real risk is lock in. Larry has been harping on this. The counterpoint, of course, is if you are running on the best platform, lock-in is not a problem because you don't want to switch.