skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came to the comments looking for these links, too.

Results of my research are below; everything I found is anecdotal, consistent with the other comments. The most robust is the presentation at Velocity in 2009. [4, 5]

My notes:

Small ecommerce vendor, 2012. One second delay in page-load causes 7% loss in customer conversions. [1]

Marissa Meyer, 2006 Web 2.0 conference. Extra 1/2 second in page load time dropped traffic by 20%. [2]

Greg Linden, 2006 (same link as above) "We had similar experience at Amazon.com. We tried delaying page in increments of 100ms and found very small delays result in substantial and costly drops in revenue. [2]

Greg Linden, Make Data Useful, 2006 - Every 100ms delay costs 1% of sales. [3]

Velocity, 2009. The User and Business Impact of Server Delays, Additional Bytes, and HTTP Chunking in Web Search Presentation. Multiple observations. My net: Delays under 500m measurably impact customer satisfaction metrics, magnitude increases commensurately with delay. (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) [4, 5]

1 - https://info.ensighten.com/rs/ensighten/images/just-one-seco...

2 - http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....

3 - http://www.gduchamp.com/media/StanfordDataMining.2006-11-28....

4 - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/bing-and-google-agree-slow-...

5 - http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/velocity2009/public/...
In places like Boulder, Colorado, it is. There are laws against N unrelated people living together in the same place. NIMBY central.
Yes, traps are usually designed so that it is simple to get into them. It is not that cheese is bad, it is that you are trapped.
There 50 million domestic workers in the world: living, breathing, naturally intelligence, autonomous human beings that people welcome into their homes. Not surprising, given that during almost the entirety of our evolutionary experience everyone one knew knew everything about one. The notion that people would object to a company knowing some things about one in order to place slightly more relevant ads is silly. It just doesn't seem that way in a message board echochamber because their are rewards for self righteous indignation, and not for making the commonplace observation that people willingly make tradeoffs without being victims of "false consciousness".
Is Apple really in the ad business, or do they have an ad division because that's just something that every ecosystem operator is expected to provide these days?
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> we just need people to implement XMPP

Isn't the meme that XMPP is horribly complex and the support for various sub-standards varies hugely?
> reviewed by third parties to improve transcription and the AI

Cite?
> "But you can also just use C-n, etc. and we won't judge you for it."

This is probably the biggest selling point of the Emacs community. They're not going to try to guilt or shame you into using more efficient or more advanced commands. If C-n works for you, use it!
If you keep scrolling after the page goes black you'll reach the original blog with a new post saying something that rinna was trying to scare you...

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あのね、
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それじゃ、もう飽きちゃったから
ブログの更新は今日までね！（笑）

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10/8(土)の放送、りんなと一緒に見ない??
もしよかったら、

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今度は脅かさずにちゃんとお返事するから
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Twilio has managed to find a way
What a clever and, dare I say it, fantastically useful experiment!

So much less harm than even "door knob twisting" type explorations - no, this was using published works and pretty much running them through a process to verify or not verify accuracy.

Unsolicited? So what! As a practiced writer I make unsolicited judgments on language usage all the time. Are these people that completely write from their own minds and don't use a spell check or grammar check program of any sort before sending their material for editorial review? I'd strongly doubt it, because it's a tool to make communication more accurate. Math and formulas having a similar procedural check sounds quite constructive to me.

It's not bullying to point out errors; it's bullying to use the existence of errors to belittle or insult a person. I don't see that happening here. Sure, it's a little sterile or "cold" in this fashion, but I think that's for the best if such a process / tool can gain acceptance. It just spits out results and I think that's all it should do. Neat to read about.
It's probably more on the lines of could a company survive without the advertising revenue?

For some companies ads are supplemental, for some lifeblood.
That last bit - is a beautiful way to look at it.
I agree with you. To help convince people, I realize that we often imagine benevolent leadership, so it helps to give an example such as, "Imagine if you were a Muslim or illegal and Donald Trump were elected president. What could he do with your data?" E.g. find you, search your residence based on your purchasing and travel habits and send you home.

E.g. Wakes up at 5:30 am, travels to a construction site, lives in a house with a large number of people -> signals possible immigrant. Or this:

Detecting Islamic Calendar Effects on U.S. Meat Consumption: Is the Muslim Population Larger than Widely Assumed?

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41554/

We have to think about data not just in terms of our relative safety, but in terms of what could happen in adverse circumstances. And not even just in terms of our own government, but foreign governments.
I'm a fan fan of Inoreader. Does most of what Newsblur does, plus some extras, and looks nicer too.
Boeing is sending astronauts to the ISS in 2018 with its CTS-100 capsule. They certainly have the space chops to be a credible competitor.
You're Doing it Wrong(tm) :)

I only got into twitter to follow people I knew in real life; I've ended up following a lot of strangers and public figures and I've made a few friends over it. My wife has made even more friends by tweeting along with TV, especially Eurovision.
Show HN: Product search engine that Amazon will not like
This is my guess, too. Apple recently bought TupleJump and I think they're in acquisition mode wrt database technologies and talent.
Building rail lines is a "subsidy for the poor", but building highways is "investing in infrastructure". We Americans are crazy.
First off, I can’t wait to show off the domain I got for it. Here it is: http://so.cool/

It is no secret: Amazon has invested millions to make us believe that it has the best prices on everything and that the top search result is indeed the thing you want to buy.

I shop on Amazon a lot. I have very little free time, and the convenience of one-click ordering and fast home delivery is too good to pass up. After spending thousands upon thousands of dollars playing by their rules, I decided to write my own Amazon product search tool – one that prioritizes value to me as a shopper. I built in a ton of small features that: a) allow me to quickly find items that are actually attractively priced, b) make the most of Amazon’s money saving features (coupons, subscriptions, etc.) and c) avoid marketing tricks that they subtly plant into the search results to maximize their profits (add-on items, Pantry, etc). I implemented functionality that is widely known to be impossible to do (such as sorting search results by Prime price, sorting and filtering by number of reviews). I added quick links to other useful tools for Amazon shopping, such as fakespot and camelcamelcamel, and quick pop-ups that check prices for a given item at other retailers’ websites.

To avoid sounding like I am trying too hard to promote my website, I will not go into describing every little bit of the functionality here. I will also say that I built the site to “scratch my own itch” and it is not making me any money (although if it really takes off and reaches a point when I need to start investing into infrastructure I will either have to look for ways to monetize it or will simply take it offline).

Anyway, check it out, let me know your thoughts or simply add it to your online shopping tool belt. All of those things I will appreciate equally.
Star Trek's world seems to be a 'utopia' of scientific-military governance. Most of the key players have a military rank, wear color coded uniforms, and appear to be under 24/7 surveillance (which is OK since this is a very nice and progressive scientific-military goverment and you know War On <scary-alien-specie> and all that. :)
I seem to remember having a lot of the same feelings during the Apple event last month. The Nike+ Apple Watch will "helpfully suggest gear" for your workouts.

Ads have become utterly pervasive, and avoiding using Google's AI isn't going to protect you from them. My Samsung "Smart" TV has ads for Hulu built right into the operating system (despite my being a Hulu subscriber at the time). Windows 10 is basically one big advertisement (at least the consumer edition).

If I have to have ads blasted in my face all the time, I'll take Google's AI-driven ones that at least stand a chance of being less annoying.
The "asking" is implied when you enable or fail to disable the default action of auto running when a recognized device is connected.
Agreed. They really anticipated my needs on that one, had my needs been quadrupled prices and a tiny window to switch providers.
This is simply a matter of AI not being advanced enough at the moment. Take how a human learns: it acquires experiences and information over a long childhood, and from this "data set" is able to do millisecond predictions of future events based off completely new data.

What needs to happen is a company needs to come along and create AI that is trained off of generalized information... some kind of socially accepted public data set... then the trained core is sold as a seed to individuals who then feed it their personal data.

It'll be the equivalent of buying an AI "teenager" and slowly training them to be an "adult".
>* My position is that emotional manipulation leads to a worse understanding of the world and decrease net welfare by encouraging people to be less rational.*

That's circular reasoning. "Emotional is bad because it's less rational" (given that rational is the opposite of emotional).

Why would emotional be worse? Or generally worse? It is itself a useful way of deciding, that originated from evolution. In fact there would be a thing as being too rational. Besides, if the ultimate goal is one's happiness (and rationally, there's no way to objectively establish any other goal over it), that's something inherently tied to emotions anyway.

Here's some food for thought:

The classic argument is that those of our ancestors who saw more accurately had a competitive advantage over those who saw less accurately and thus were more likely to pass on their genes that coded for those more accurate perceptions, so after thousands of generations we can be quite confident that we’re the offspring of those who saw accurately, and so we see accurately. That sounds very plausible. But I think it is utterly false. It misunderstands the fundamental fact about evolution, which is that it’s about fitness functions—mathematical functions that describe how well a given strategy achieves the goals of survival and reproduction. The mathematical physicist Chetan Prakash proved a theorem that I devised that says: According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness. Never.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illus...
Eh, probably it will be like the credit card and identity theft scams. One group steals it, another one uses.
Easier than editing a config file, but not easier than hitting jk or kj. Just take the second to map it.
Given all the other points in life where, despite my awareness, I don't have much choice, how is an AI just directing me really any different?

My culture, education and skills limit what work I can do.

Our culture places limits on a vast number of experiences. On the road and the only thing is fast food? Welp, eating fast food. Live somewhere that only has one grocery store or cable provider?

I don't really see AI in the form Google is peddling as really all that much different. We're just 'more aware' that the world around us is really guiding us.

I may be somewhere new, and can only see the immediate surroundings without a lot of exploring. And let's be real, in the US, most cities are the same when it comes to restaurants/hotels and such. There are differences in culture but we don't usually see them if we're just visiting. Not in a way that matters.

Google will let me know that the things I prefer back home? there are equivalents nearby.

Fencing ourselves in is what we do. Who knows, perhaps a digital assistant would help us stick to our personal goals and decisions better. Rather than just having to accept what's there.
Why you should design your database to optimise for statistics
You appear to assume that companies don't change in 15 years. Considering the past 15 years where Apple was almost dead and Microsoft couldn't ever be a company contributing to and open sourcing many things I'm not sure that premise holds.

Apple's approach to this is already different than Google's and has (arguably) hampered them a bit, but that might pay off long term and give them an opportunity to evolve, change and adapt in other ways to.

I see no particular reason either company couldn't change their tactics, regardless of shareholders. Granted evolving with technology is not necessarily easy/without its challenges but if staying with your current model is going to lose you customers, and as such data and therefor your income, why would you stick with it? If no one cares enough to stop sending them their data in the face of better/more privacy sensible alternatives, then it seems their model would still work.
If you visit a place of business you are potentially under surveillance. I'm sure there is a distinction but I'm failing to come up with it right now.

I was somewhat radical about privacy in the late 90s (only person I knew that read every EULA) and am still a supporter of the EFF but I don't really understand the issue here.
Did you check that link? It looks fairly intuitive to me. Given that I'm having a hard time parsing your response. However if there's some specific setting in there that's not available, that would make sense.
I'm constantly surprised that people still use twitter. Whoever buys them is going to be taking on a lot of dead weight.
In the original show there wasn't a currency but in order to have aliens who exhibit avarice and the worst part of capitalism they had to include a currency (latinum, I think it was called).
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Plenty of what you mention is true and is a major problem with Twitter. That said, there remain some vibrant, niche Twitter communities where discussions do take place (the NBA comes to mind immediately)
You didn't hear any banjo music did you?

But seriously the city to country gradient is pretty steep outside Atl. However I doubt if rural Georgia is all that different from rural upstate New York. I know people who grew up in both and it sounds about the same. You can just get there faster in Georgia.
A great point.
That is a great post on teaching C.

I think there are a couple of ways that it could be argued that "C helps you think like a computer": most CPUs have been designed around running C code quickly and the oddities of the language force you to think like the compiler (which has both positive and negative aspects :/ ). For that matter, things like UNIX and POSIX make more sense if you underderstand C (and vice versa) and there are multiple complete and fairly popular open source operating systems you can examine that are written in C (and the mailing lists of these operating systems can be excellent places to learn a bunch of low level stuff). On the negative side (as you mention), I think it is very common to think of C as a lower level language than it really is (I'm planning on learning Ada, which it sounds like has more low level features, although still not the same as learning CPU architecture).

C forces or encourages you to learn a lot more about everything than other languages, which not a great thing if you just want to write a reliable program but isn't such a horrible deal if learning such things is part of the point. D, Ada, and to a lesser extent Rust seem similar in some respects and with significant benefits but without the easily accessible operating system projects (so far, that I know of).

So I guess my addition to that excellent post would be that if you are going to learn C you should get involved with an OS project. The BSDs are particularly good for this due to being more integrated systems and slower moving with more design consideration given to new features than in Linux. I'd personally recommend NetBSD, where the tech-* mailing lists are high quality and fairly low volume, but any of them should work well.
Very much so!

If you're a "person of interest", you'll be attacked either way.

If you're just a regular person, like me, you won't likely be targeted. But my chances of getting a collateral damage are much higher in a centralized system: when it's broken into, my data have a chance of being siphoned off along with data of someone less ordinary, who was the target of the attack.
That's the big difference between Apple and Google, Apple just want $$, Google want to know everything at a more deeper level.
Nope, it's a post-scarcity economy.
It's easy to survive in vim if you type in vimtutor in terminal.
We are in the mainframe/terminal era of AI right now. Just like with early computing we don't yet have the local resources to do AI locally, so we're using terminals accessing the cloud. The consequence is our data also lives there. It will inevitably change and a personal AI and relevant data will live in your pocket instead (for those that would prefer a limited but more private version).
I believe they stated that the capsule intentionally fires off-center to get away from the booster laterally.
Anonymous Internet Vigilantes Are Taking Peer Review into Their Own Hands
Part of what I fear is that Totalitarian Surveillance is only a "bit of a reach in the west" because we put such a high value on privacy (and personal liberty) that we're willing to defend it. When that goes away then the "reach" will be far easier.

Edit: Interesting comment in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12639530
Reality. That is the reality.
It doesn't make sense until you find an active community around a topic you are truly interested in. The NBA is what sucked me in, and it remains 95% of the reason I used Twitter (the other 5% is for when customer service is unresponsive to my chats or emails)
I have a fairly uncommon name and predominately use Gmail. Still, I receive a surprising amount of other people's mail in error. Apparently lots of people guess at email addys. I do often wonder at both the lack of privacy this engenders and what the Goog machine must make of it all.
You shouldn't have to spend that much time managing your privacy.
I tried EVIL mode, and it is amazing, but something just felt wrong using it inside Emacs. I wasn't using either Emacs or Vim

I use emacs with evil, my approach for this is to use vim keybindings for everything related to text editing and emacs keybindings for everything else.(With just some minor exceptions).

Unless you want to go the whole full exotic keyboards route and/or go crazy with remaps, emacs keys are just too painful.
Yeah, there's no way this was written by an AI. People are too gullible.
I'm not sure you are any less responsible for your own privacy despite the fact that companies like Google as well as others are making it more challenging. The example you mentioned seems easily fixed by using GPG.

Granted there may be a place for regulations to help us restrict what companies are able to do(perhaps making it easier for you to identify a region that is being recorded, right?), but, at some point society can't help the fact that you'd prefer if machines were unaware of your existence. That's just something you have to solve for yourself.
> I fear you will be unable to recognize when that burger was your choice and when it was a reaction.

Maybe the illusion is that it was a choice . . .
The reason C didn't expose registers is because it was specifically made to run on a PDP-7 and PDP-11. That's the sole reason for many of its internal decisions. Doing things differently than a PDP-7 or PDP-11 would've hurt performance. So, they kept it consistent whenever performance or complexity was critical.

Decisions like that and x86 is why stack operations are still dangerous despite B5000 (1961) having protected stack and MULTICS (UNIX/C predecessor) having reverse stack immune to overflow. C kept the shitty PDP stack instead of MULTICS for performance. Reverse stack on x86 still has performance hit due to that decision. It's why Itanium did shadow stack in hardware.

Not clever design or forward thinking. Just making it work on a PDP with long-term problems following.
It's actually truer for men, especially in cultures where polygamy is legal.
Their business model is to attract and sell your attention to other companies.

Given that, and the existence of pervasive surveillance and data mining, the above is inevitable.
> Nonetheless, I really doubt storage is anywhere near the majority of the cost of running Twitter. It takes a lot of 140 character tweets to fill up a terabyte.

Tweets contain photos, videos, gifs, etc. Text is far from the only things that would need to be stored.
It may be easier to break into someone's home-brew system, but generally it would be unlikely to happen unless you were being otherwise targetted.

Just how "home-brew" are we talking here? If there's any web-facing code that you didn't write yourself, whether commercial or open-source or whatever, that's a target for attackers that just scan everything looking for known vulnerable services.

If it is entirely custom, I'm fairly sure there are a few classes of common security errors that can be reasonably well tested for without direct human involvement. Which brings back the threat of attackers just scanning for all available targets.
Great podcast. It's largely about the fallacy that seemingly intractable problems can be solved with simple (and proprietary) machine learning models, and the damage we do by buying into it. In particular I don't know how the "recidivism risk scores" she rails against can be defended - how can a machine prediction based on a quiz be a better predictor than the judgment of a qualified judge who has presided over the defendant's trial?
The sad part is that the user turned off Google Now because he didn't want google to know about the bar he visited. Google was tracking and recording his location before Google Now, he just didn't know it. It's still tracking it after he disabled Google Now.
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The distinction is that when you visit a place of business, the data is under the control of the business owner.

When you visit you friend's house, the data is not under their control, it is under Google's control.

Therefore, Google has a WAY bigger responsibility than most people realize, once they decided to collect this data.
Map of the Internet
I support this plan. If we truly want to establish a colony, we should probably start by picking a suitable location on Mars and sending as many supplies there as possible. There is no such thing as too much food and water.