skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your local hospital doesn't have a vastly disproportionate number of nurses from the Philippines, it is... atypical.
I read somewhat that this budget also covers around 9k people in shelters (or housed through some other form of aid). If you consider that, you get about $15K/head/year, which is not entirely ridiculous.
If social structures are "clearly" in an evolutionary process, what's the fitness function, and what's the unit of selection?

This is an honest question. I can see plausible answers, but I don't think that the plausible answers suggest that fitness = utopia.
Just a nitpick but "tithe", by definition, is 10%.
During Google's hardware/AI Assistant a point was made about wanting google assistant to emote based on context and be personal to the user, 'A personal google for everyone.

This plays to your suggestion of emotional bonding being a key need for AI assistant's.

Though having it called 'Google assistant' seems to break that connection, though imagine something is in the pipeline being tested and analysed over and over to see what works with AI connecting with a user.
I can't describe how sad I am over this. RethinkDB is not just excellent db, but it is yardstick on how future db's should look like. What you accomplished there is excellent balance on features, great ui. We really need this project to go on, even if slower.
And I'd be remiss to not mention that disclosing said conflict of interest actually makes people trust you more—even though they shouldn't.

So not only does that regulation not accomplish what it is supposed to accomplish, it actually causes the reverse.
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Seems like all they'd have to do is add value to advertisers using the existing ad-word engine. The plan is always the same for any internet holding - build up user base, then invest heavily in the advertising engine to add value for the true customer, advertisers. If you listen to FB conference calls, it's always "we want to build the service to over a billion users, then we'll work hard to create the ad engine to get advertisers as much value as we can."
Not sure why you're downvoted (you've since added to your sentence; it was just fine alone though). Twitter's has way too many people on payroll. I personally know some buffoons they hired in the past year or so, and I doubt I'm alone.
Recode reporting Disney is out as well.
Still getting a 404: https://www.theranos.com/technology
Interesting. Do you have a link to a study about this? I personally ignore any research from people in stock positions.
> Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux?

I think my personal benefit is that I don't have to make a bunch of new SSH connections every time I want to split files in vim, I can just open up a new buffer.
Twitter have $4.4bn of current assets, half a billion of current liabilities and $1.5bn of long-term debt. That leaves $2.4bn unencumbered (of which $900MM are trade receivables and prepaid expenses). Meanwhile, they're losing half a billion a year.

Google is saying no to paying $18bn (just under $15bn in enterprise value) for that. I have a tough time valuing it north of $5 or 6bn EV, and that's assuming $500MM in earnings within 6 years (and break-even in fewer than 3).
Right. But as they are describing the "lab", it seems to be for doing blood tests with microliter volumes. No?
This is actually directed at the sibling comment from Houshalter:

I'm pretty sure that people who aren't members of the "rich upper classes" do make use of most of those services. To take just one as an example, nail salons are actually more common in the poorer parts of town in most cities I've been in.
No a storage engine change doesn't help with consistency.

This is the JIRA tracking that Jepsen stale read issue:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17975
Two words: revenue stream.

Where Facebook succeeded and Twitter failed was 1) building and growing a massive, highly engaged subscriber base, and then b) monetizing them.

The reality is, Twitter's DAU growth YoY has flat lined at around 300M while Facebook is nearly four times that and growing steadily.

Meanwhile, Twitter user engagement is somewhere around 3 minutes a day. Facebook? 10 times that.

The result: Twitter's ARPU is around $6. Facebook? Over double that, just north of $13 (both US numbers).

So while the media may love to mention them, my view is this is just a reality for the product. It's niche to begin with, and its focused on very small, bite-sized content that doesn't encourage prolonged engagement.
Slava is awesome. Rethink is awesome. Hope Stripe realizes investing in Rethink dev could pay massive dividends in developer goodwill.
Universities are still businesses. Grants, tuition, other fees, donations, endowments, etc all generate plenty of cash.
Agreed for that example, especially in light of what Google later became. Pre-Google, what would the custom conference table guy do? Presumably cold-call and place ads in trade papers. Not an insurmountable problem, assuming there's demand. All Google does is in this scenario is put you in front of office managers searching for "conference table".

But I think the larger point stands - the real change is in indexing the public internet, making it possible (in theory) for a small player to reach the larger world without the capital investment that would've previously required.

Reality is not living up to the early optimism over the so called "long tail", but I believe that only reinforces her point about the dangers of centralizing the internet.
Glad someone mentioned this. LANGSEC encourages you to think about computational power as privilege, and the principle of least privilege will guide you to constructing machines that are easier to reason about, leaving less room for ambiguity.
I think that must be Latin for "ditch weed". The latter being the wild, low potency marijuana you can find growing by the road in places like Idaho...

Edit: Nope, apparently it's its own species.
You should investigate the RISC-V project.

It is an open source RISC based ISA along with open source implementations of example processor cores. Then you could have had a processor that was completely open and did not include any proprietary code.

https://riscv.org/
I don't see this deal happening. The board are going to want a premium on a price that is already inflated because of the speculation and I can't see Disney going to $25-30B nor Salesforce being able to construct a deal around stock

Salesforce: in exchange for ~50% of market cap would be adding $2B of Twitter revenue growing at ~5% to their $6B of revenue growing at 25%+

Disney: for 16% of their market cap Twitter's revenue is half of what Disney's top-line has been growing each year - and again not much growth

Can't see a case where either would unlock user or revenue growth

Not sure what is next for Twitter, but it looks like another year of plodding along trying different things.
Honestly, it hard to see why. She does have name recognition, but it's like Martin "I'll jack up the price of your drug and laugh about it"-type notoriety
Thank god nobody around here is saying that!
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>gutted all the needless features in order to produce the small programs I want.

Which is fine for you to do of course but it is probably inaccurate to assign no value to the code you are removing. Someone took the time to write it. People don't spend their time writing code for no reason. That code may have no value to you personally but it has value to someone.
That number's not correct.
An infinitely growing population with increasing health concerns does not sound cheap.
Sure, but with flat lined subscriber growth and very low user engagement, it's very tough to build a revenue growth story built around ad revenues.
And 2B in revenue - it's worth it for some private equity firm to come in, pay more than 10B, fire everyone except an essential staff and milk the revenue stream.
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Maybe Donald Trump will buy it, he seems to be a fan of the service.
I hate to admit it, but you have great points here!
Politicians like wearing hard-hats. Doing so at a software company looks weird - usually.
KF is essentially a symbolic unrolling of a LU decomposition. There is a graphical algorithm which makes all the minutae trivial [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.00952.pdf
I use that a lot as well, along with K to look up the current word in the man page.
Why does everyone assume they need growth? I'd be plenty happy to have a company with a 2B revenue stream, call options on other assets in Fabric and Periscope and there's like 0 secular decline.
I have a concrete counterexample. Let's say I write a paper presenting a model, plus some numerical results of large simulations. The code is based on gluing together various pieces of open source code. All these codes are typical scientist codes that are held together with duct tape. My paper is short, but I spent a lot of effort munging things together, and I'm fairly certain nobody can reproduce my results without my source code (preferably the whole environment) unless they spend a lot of time on trial and error like I did.

The tweaks I did to glue things together has no theoretical value and don't belong in the paper. As a practical matter, I can't fit a lot of source code into short paper format.

What do?
Imagine the storage implications - i mean they have a hard time to store every click we make with the mouse, now they will have to store every noise and breath we make as well. I see a data store with the size of Canada.

Also how do they plan to make money besides the initial cost of the gadget? Can they push adds while driving? would be too intrusive, or is this supposed to be based on monthly payment, or a tax? Google for government! Wall-E might be needed to clean up the mess after them.

i didn't know that Sting said in 1983 that his song is really a nasty song about surveillance; at least they have an anthem for promotion purposes.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548

Now i really don't think that personal assistants are going to be a success. They do descriptive modelling based on what you do, there is no way to evaluate if the suggestions are any good. Without such an evaluation they can't do reinforcement learning. Also they might suck in too much data - that would make it harder to make meaningful suggestions.
It sucks because the Rethink site is well designed, they have a good brand design and mascot, the docs are great, and the team is (was?) open and responsive. They talked at conferences, did podcasts, etc. A little bit of sales work and marketing would've gone a long way.

Of course, it's hard to be profitable at NoSQL after Mongo either got all the hype years before or turned people off the concept entirely.
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> You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house.

In the year of pokemon go players everywhere? And even then, who cares about a person with a mobile phone? We're a good decade after anyone is a "strange man" when taking photos anywhere. You don't even have to show yourself. Just order a cab and go through that street without stopping.

> dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters

I'm not convinced. The only thing the blurring did was prove that this is the interesting house, rather than a name coincidence. What is that supposed to dissuade me from if I was already going to go there and do something potentially illegal?
Interesting. As a physicist, I tend to put extra trust in PNAS credibility due to their history of critical editors and reviewers, and therefore am less likely to question results published there. Maybe it's the same fallacy, but at the same time we can't all be experts at everything and have to defer to trust at some point. Anyway, thanks for the contextual tidbit.
I disagree. He has a point about the book, but this review is simply not good writing. It's needlessly verbose, meandering and self-indulgent. It attempts to be snarky but is devoid of cleverness and wit. His point is simple -- Wolfe's knowledge of the subject matter is scant and shallow and thus he has written a crap book.

I don't necessarily disagree with that at all. However it could have been more effectively said with half as many words and fewer clever quips.

I am very willing to put in the effort, if I get any sense that the author has put in some as well. Don't blame readers for not wanting to slog through lazy writing.
> HW design is not that different from SW design.

reminds me of alan-kay's comment "hardware is just software which has crystallized early"
I don't know how much I should believe you since a comment above you said "(I've had to deal with such from both of them before.)" and now you say you have read about it with Google.
What is the correct number?
Maybe Samsung will buy them.
I wonder if it's too late to short Samsung.
This is just a database of normal driving. That's useful for learning how to follow the car in front and avoid stationary objects, but not much else. It's going to result in systems that drive like humans right up to the point they do something really bad.

A more useful database would be the one Nexar is accumulating.[1] They collect dashcam imagery of events where the driver did a hard brake or the system detected some other hazardous condition. That database could be used to train a system which recognizes trouble before braking starts.

Both systems need a much wider field of view. Probably at least 160 degrees, so cross traffic shows up before the collision.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sens...
Haml or sass isn't css. So that pretty short "code" for the cube demo isn't possible in vanilla css -- without the preprocessor.
"Stop breaking the law, asshole!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx40udwQvZI
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I do agree with everything you said, but a) I'd still rather the giant than jupiter and b) Nim still has a long way to go to prove itself. Just like D, it is in the awkward position of being high performance without fully addressing either the performance or safety concerns of the preceding languages. This may be an acceptable tradeoff but neither have any killer features that make it an obvious good fit for a given problem. Rust has memory safety-like, actual memory safety-and go has utter simplicity. What is the Nim two word pitch? Small binaries isn't going to win anyone; that's what deflate is for. Meanwhile, you don't have the language stability and, erm, prudent design that D has hammered out for over a decade. Even if I don't agree with the decisions I can't say D has executed poorly.

Nim though? Who knows! I've never seen it in production, so I can't tell the downfalls!
> Could we define a language so that it uses static analysis to maintain guarantees about a function's use of gas?

Have a look at areas like "cost semantics", e.g. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5021

This takes a language's semantics, i.e. how to evaluate each sort of expression, and extends it to include extra information which can represent time taken, memory usage, cache usage, etc.

A simplistic way to track big-O complexity in types is given at http://twanvl.nl/blog/agda/sorting

Note that "gas" systems don't need to produce their result within the given gas limit; it's acceptable for the gas to run out and no value to be produced. This is trivial to prove correct, as it only requires that the language/DSL correctly keeps track of the gas, which can be done "once and for all" since it doesn't have anything to do with whatever algorithm you're writing to use the gas.

The machinery for doing that is old hat to functional programming: tracking gas usage is basically a Writer; stopping when gas runs out is basically a Maybe.

Statically ensuring that a function is within a gas limit is like statically ensuring that a "Maybe t" value contains a "t" value (as opposed to "Nothing").
I think in a better world/internet (need not be perfect), you would post your content (posts, tweets, whatever) on your site first. Or, maybe a decentralized site that you might not control alone, but is a separate community from the big silos (e.g. https://quitter.no)...And then, your content is accepted (pushed out) and able to be read by users who only live (or spend most of their time) on the big silos. In other words, it is possible to have both worlds that you noted.

This would allow freedom for indie authors to own their content (in the scenario where one of the big social network silos shuts down, or the big boys for some reason wish to censor an author's content, etc.) and post their content however they wish and from wherever they wish, but still allow them to retain audience (those users who are fine just living on the big social network silos)...This is not unlike email, where i can send a message to pretty much any legitimate email address regardless of the silo (I'm leaving out spam blocks out of discussion of course).
And then they want $770 for a phone... I can understand selling information to some extent, but this omnipresent surveillance is ridiculous.

Their "slogan" don't be evil was always meant to be ironinc.
Google is evil. Always has been.
Yes, lots of social science studies have been done on it.

The book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr. Robert Cialdini covers this (and similar) phenomenons in detail. Huge eye opener.

> I personally ignore any research from people in stock positions.

I (and everyone, if asked) agree that's the rational thing to do. But most people don't behave that way in practice, unfortunately.

I don't have a good solution, the law benefits people like you and I who will act correctly on the information, but hurts people who are vulnerable—those who acts incorrectly on the information.
Human desires are more infinite though. We all want a bigger house, faster car, cooler phone, a masseuse appointment every week, etc.
I know it's not a secret site, but my reading consists of paid subscriptions:
- NY Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Hacker News for tech related news

A lot of people are against paying for news - they feel it is free elsewhere or they can google the title of the article.

For me I noticed that reading the NYTimes and Wall Street Journal provides me curated news with the in-depth high quality coverage I like and leaves me feeling informed.

I avoid reddit as I find myself spending a lot of time on it, similar to facebook.

Newsletters like http://allthesmallthings.co/ is great has also given me some info on design which I find interesting.
To be clear: As part of shutting down, you guys found new jobs as you could for employees? That's rad!
Maybe a paper does stand on its own, with the large list of citations at the end. But, maybe some of those citations are journals that your institution doesn't subscribe to, or are historical and in another language, or et cetera.

There is a page limit to publications in high impact journals, and generally it's not great practice to utilize the limited space on the details of hurdles overcome.

I would argue that some of the most important papers in science don't really stand on their own... they need context and expertise that the paper can't and shouldn't cover.
It's not really about adding up time saved, it's about staying in the flow. I think you can probably achieve that by being really good at almost any editor, but vim probably does it a little better than most and it has the advantage that it's everywhere (including IDEs).
Advice to Twitter:

1. give on on this acquisition thing for now

2. fire half your staff - what do all those people do?

3. you're a utility - charge for it. One penny per tweet would equal $2 Billion in annual revenue

4. after #3, there's no reason not to invite 3rd party developers back to the party
A friend of mine once commented that if you're not Google or Facebook, you don't have big data.

Is this adding a tier to that? A gigabyte a second, per car?

(I know, Google has self-driving cars, but forget about that for a moment)
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I would like to see what is the size of this page in countries with slower internet.
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You are at absolute liberty not to do any of this. Don't like the non-monetary cost of free services? Don't pay! And, as already noted, there is always a trade-off between utility, security and privacy. You want an efficient well-functioning state that talks to you digitally? That assumes you trust the state with some of your private data. Or keep paying for the inefficient services and absorb the cost of identity theft and such. It is your iwn choice.
Plenty of software companies build their businesses around opensource software and pay their employees well. The list is endless
If letting them use equipment that was never seen by regulators and hidden from inspections for 2 years before sounding the alarm is "coming down hard" then you're right.
Turn your smartphone into a sensor and an actuator
I never knew that it was an accepted practice to have MITM techniques for monitoring activities in cases like the author notes in that thread. I'm not an expert but is this common? I haven't heard something like this before.
Patrick, I am curious why Stripe didn't just acquire RethinkDB completely? Seems like you could have gotten a bargain. Their investors get some money back, you'd get their excellent intellectual property, and finally the entire functioning RethinkDB team joins Stripe. Win-win right?
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>One penny per tweet would equal $2 Billion in annual revenue

I think you're overlooking the fact that if they began charging to send tweets, volume would probably drop to less than 1% of what it is now. Even 1% is likely a generous estimation of the percentage of their userbase that considers sending tweets to be indispensable enough to pay for it.
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The people that use HN aren't the people that sign checks for enterprise support contracts.

Guess what - database vendors like Oracle, MongoDB (to a much smaller extent) that get a bad rep on HN actually sign deals for real money.
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Disney isn’t going to bid for Twitter, either
If you think people are concerned with privacy now, an AI that people -kids- are spilling their deepest darkest secrets to will really creep us out.

It's probably best left to a third party to skin the Google assistant with soft skills. A small startup can afford to gamble on these things. Google (or Viv, Facebook, Cortana et al) need only provide the underlying capability, in such a way that they can wash their hands of it should it invoke a public backlash.

Just so long as they're collecting the data they need to ultimately know you better than you know yourself.
I haven't spent all that much time in Atlanta (and its suburbs), and I've heard/seen overt racism there. It was shocking enough, to me, that it stood out and has stuck with me. I can't imagine how someone who lives there hasn't experienced it, but I don't know your experience. In my experience, Atlanta is very much a southern city, along with all the good and bad that comes with that.

I'm sure it's getting better over time; most places in the US are. But, it's only been a few years since I last saw someone behaving in an overtly racist manner in Atlanta. I can't imagine it's changed drastically in that time. I'd appreciate if you'd read everything I've written on racism in Atlanta in this thread (and the other child thread). I'm not trying to paint it as a black and white thing, or suggest that Atlanta is the only city that suffers from racism.