skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where Facebook succeeded and Twitter failed was 1) building and growing a massive, highly engaged subscriber base, and then b) monetizing them.

Twitter only failed at b); its user base should be enough to generate a nice profit.
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"Some must be silenced or excluded for a utopia to function" and "It doesn't work if you let the wrong people in".

Powerful and brutally honest. Especially in today's political atmosphere of "forced inclusion" and "diversity for the sake of diversity (whether racial, religious, or thought based)". I've witnessed the same thing you're talking about in online communities. They start out being created by one group who adhere to a very specific set of rules (often unspoken rules) and as more people gather the community starts to wilt and die, losing the original cohesion it once had. Those who leave often go and start another community, and the cycle repeats.
There's nothing efficient about centralizing resources. SFAIK, this always holds except for odd edge cases of truly public { nonrival, nonexcludable } goods.
Well... The consensus is that RethinkDB is technically superior (and much more pleasant to use), but unfortunately that doesn't prevent it from being in a hard position business-wise...
Not even that, copyright concerns distribution, Dash isn't distributing anything, it's a tool the user uses to download stuff. Even if Apple misunderstood it, that would still not result in marking the account as fraud.
Not in Europe.
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He put in bank information, assuming that he would be getting +$$$, which looks like and uses the same system (or similar enough if you're 12) as the method for -$$$.

I'm not shocked a 12 year old, dreaming of easy internet monetization, didn't pore over the fine print.

> [family says] the company (Google) only asked for a bank account number and a name, without any more requisites. . .The account was already in red numbers when the bank called the parents to alert them.
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Usenet was pretty much utterly anarchic. It faded. I'm still not completely sure why - the people who got off of it can't really say. Perhaps it's as simple as port blockers on corporate networks and people going around corporate networks with phones.
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>and they should probably be handled by experts

That experiment was tried in Soviet Union. How did that end?
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> KDB knocks the socks off everything else

...but the licence is 250k dollars a year so big fail for startups.
Ha ha! I see what you did there.
After reading this article a second time, I noticed that it's crafted to suggest the suspect had stolen software. The evidence given in the article only admits the suspect had documents, some of them classified, at his home. To suggest that many computers and code was found at a programmers home is quite ridiculous. Late in the article, the F.B.I "suspects" that he may have stolen code. What this article lacks in evidence, it makes up in sensationalism.
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This leaves them being worth ~$10 billion (revenue * (0.1 * growth + 1)) (or ~$18 billion if the 6.4x multiple LinkedIn got is used). It'll be mighty hilarious to see potential bidders grossly overpay for a company that's already steadily slowing/declining.
Well, Bootstrap comes out of twitter, and for awhile everyone was using that, so that's pretty considerable.
Whose lives were put in danger exactly? Was there anyone specific?
Why isn't there a class-action lawsuit against Apple on issues like these?
Is twitter UX considered good? Because my impression is that it's one of the worst UX ever made and has been that consistently for years.

Just one example, trying to view an image on twitter: on the timeline images get cropped to some fixed aspect ration, if you click on them twitter will open its weird mediaviewer popup where the image is not cropped but it is resized to fit an even smaller rectangle. As far as I can tell the only way to see the image at its original resolution is to (1) click on it to open the mediaviewer pseudopopup, (2) right click on the image inside the mediaviewer pseudopopup, (3) select "copy image location", (4) select the URL bar, (5) paste the image URL.

And that's just one example that you would think is easy to fix but apparently isn't, there's many more (threading is shit, clickable areas are unnecessarily huge, sometimes keyboard arrows stop scrolling, there's no distinction between "talking about someone" and "talking to someone", two different "screen name" fields with one or the other being given prominence depending on context...)
> I conversed with the developer of Dash a while back and found him to be a rather cordial and frankly honest person.

Same experience here.
I hope the recent EU probe into this [1] would help the situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618092
Plus, it doesn't highlight a much used feature: search

Right now it's hidden behind a magnifying glass.

I don't find the clickbaity trends they highlight on the homepage very interesting. The content is mostly the same as the MSN homepage.

Just let me search for things I find interesting.

Plus, search can be monitized way better, because you know for sure what the user is looking for.
This is an extremely naive view. The sort of direct democracy you propose will most likely end up systematically discriminating against various groups.

>As long as there are politicians, there will always be corruption

Corruption is unlikely to go away with politicians, my guess is that it'll be there as long as human nature stays the same.

>Ideally of course we'd have AI deciding our best course of action because humans are inherently biased

AI can be as biased as the training data you feed it.
Edit - I actually meant for this to be in reply to jnordwick's comment further down thread (the one with all the rhetorical questions), but apparently I suck at clicking the right things.

You seem a bit worked up, and it's hard not to read your comments in this thread in a tone which suggests you feel like you've been robbed of something.

These people don't owe us anything. When a company decides to open up and publish a postmortem it's a great and wonderful thing, but it's in no way obligatory. Even if their technology doesn't hold a candle to your expectations or the market's needs, it's still not without merit. If you want to learn, they've already given plenty for you to learn from. Rather than demanding more from them, be thankful for what they have already contributed.
I've road tripped through Atlanta at least a few times now, and without fail, no matter where the other people in the car are from, Atlanta drivers always inspire misery.
Thank you all for that help. Did not see definitions elsewhere in post.
VirusTotal scan of the installer, in case anyone is interested: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c825f1c56df8802215011f31c...

(1/56 detection ratio and it looks like a false positive)
> Then these scientists should be devoted to producing textbooks and courses ...

Textbooks and courses exist for everything but the most cutting edge stuff (which are still in flux anyway), but they are a very inefficient way of transferring knowledge. I would say they are practically useless without expert guidance. At the most basic level, there are so many of them that an expert has to tell you which ones are both good and relevant to what you want to learn. I've once seen a student waste months of his life studying a book he thought was relevant, only to discover that book wasn't building towards the sort of knowledge he needed in that subject. The book was about the correct subject, but was focused on somewhat different aspects than the ones he was interested in. There was no way for him to know this in advance without guidance.

So we don't know how to organize existing books. Also, even the books that exist are usually pretty bad at conveying knowledge. Or perhaps humans are just pretty bad at learning things from books. Either way, no one knows how to write textbooks and courses that are much better than what we have today. I really don't know of a better way to preserve knowledge than the current one. Perhaps technology can improve the situation by making access to knowledge more interactive. But I suspect this would require a real breakthrough.

> We can't afford to live in a world where only 1.7% know how things work.

Why not?
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That's not a choice. Browser technology is still a long way from native performance.
While RethinkDB looks amazing I'm glad I didn't listen to the people here demanding me to switch from MongoDB. In the future I will just stick with what works.
I think any company with the resources of Google owes it to themself to at least listen to the pitch. Twitter, while struggling to make money, still has business potential/value.
to;dr denormalise a bit so that primary keys represent a full ancestor path to the "usual" primary key, making shardingnand collocation of customers much simpler

And use Postgres:-)

Seems a nice article but I kind of assume that to be basic knowledge amount DBAs ?
Maybe they used this: https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team
Not necessarily... 'course I'm well over 40 and my kids have moved out. FWIW, my kids don't much seem to want these things, either.
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Truly inspirational in showing what largely one person can do even in these times of huge fabs, expensive masks, and difficult, modern design rules

http://meanderful.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/adapteva-tapes-out...
Unless the architecture has changed drastically from the earlier Epiphany, they can't be virtualised like that, and each core are way too slow to be suitable for lambda except for software written specifically to take advantage of the parallelism of the architecture.
It's not such a good thing to have to update each and every application whenever there is a vulnerability in a library.
Was 20% - referring to future growth, based on guidance for upcoming quarter it is ~5%

This is, afterall, the problem that sparked all the acquisition talks
Oh guys, thank you so much for new food for my vim-addiction. I'd hesitate to call myself anything but an interested beginner, so it's always very welcome to learn new stuff. I distinctly remember running vimtutor the first time as a teenager fresh of whatever Windows came before and thinking 'goddamn, whyyyyyy is this hot mess so popular among my mentors and idols?'...

Quite some years later, I don't think I could ever do without vim. Not saying that emacs wouldn't probably fill the same role, editor wars considered and all. I just had somebody tell me to pick an editor and get good with it, some blog or forum posting made me go with vim and it's been one of my favorite pieces of software since.

To contribute a little bit, what I've really come to learn recently is the 'hybrid line numbering mode' that was added with 7.4 iirc. When you add both.
set relativenumber

set number

to your .vimrc, you get relative numbers for all lines except the current, which is displayed as absolute. Helped my navigation game a huge deal. Just in the unlikely case anyone here hadn't heard of it.
It's strange that there are so many people at the company. If I were one of them, I would jump ship long time ago.
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Then why do you reply to comments directed towards somebody else and act like I was talking to you?
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nah, I'm still right where I started - arguments that ignore emotional impacts are great little learning exercises but pointless if you are trying to achieve something in the real world. Good luck out there.
Exactly. It's sad that a technical superior product can't make it while something like Mongo can.
The thing that bugs me about Brave New World is that the world it describes actually appears to provide a much better life for the large majority of its citizens than our own. It has a lot of serious problems, but so do we; it's just that BNW's problems are weird and unfamiliar, where we've gotten used to our own problems and no longer truly see them.
Thanks for this article. I'm interested in the way you marketed your product to developers in early daus. What problems did you face and how fast did you grow in the first year? I'm currently looking for kind of a benchmark to compare if our API-first platform is on a good track.
In the 19th Century a lot of people were "physiocrats" - people for whom all progress had to relate somehow to the agricultural production of food. This was most stridently expressed in the denial of ( some ) patents to Cyrus McCormick for the combine harvester.

Manufacturing ended that, especially "factory farming".

So now, the logistics and communications revolutions are doing to manufacturing what manufacturing did to agriculture.

It's the circle of life...
It's slow and not all that reliable on desktop as well...
The hive is the new network
And this thing was supposedly off when it started smoking:

"Green said that he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when it began smoking."

What's the remedy here? All Galaxy Notes in the airtight metal box until we land?
Try doing a VWAP in a group by 5000 stock symbol over a LAG of last 30000 - basically a sample every 10 millis for 5 minutes. This is the simple case where you can actually use LAG of a fixed amount.

(When the query returns tomorrow morning you realize that LAG was actually useless because your observation arrivals weren't periodic and you need to deal with / bucket for that to actually get usable results).

We used to run a lot of LEAD/LAG queries on a very, very large Oracle install could never get the performance we wanted out of it. Basically turned it into a very expensive file server that spat out HDF that we then processed by a mix of shell and python. Should not have been faster than the overpriced heater in the corner we called a database but was.
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> 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.

This simply says that functional languages could be assigned cost semantics, just like imperative languages have, and so may be used for algorithm analysis. It has nothing to do with verification.

> tracking gas

Yep, but that's a trivial property that could be done by any runtime. It doesn't help prove any other correctness property.
Indeed, I think at least for most older people their phone is what reads on it. If it says Nokia, it's Nokia and they likely have no idea what Android/iOS/Symbian/Tizen even mean.
> one should not be allowed to vote on something like climate change without knowing the science and data behind climate change

Okay, so in states where the majority don't believe in climate change and evolution, you'll have them design tests to exclude voters who believe in evolution/climate change from voting?

> This could be in the form of an exam on a topic (eg. economics) and/or logic test

We already have a long history of stifling voting rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...

Some that stood out:

* Poll tax prevented the poor from voting
* At one point, religious tests prevented non-christians from voting
* Literacy tests prevented blacks from voting
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Did you also adjust for inflation in there? If not, there's an additional ~10% that can be adjusted for. $44.6B in 2008 would be $49.84B in 2016 USD, an even wider gap.
This is literally the reasoning of the German Health Minister
The initial plan was to sell the technology to the Defence Department for use in battlefields. Theranos might still be able get a few billion out of them.
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Dag kittlaus & friends placed two successful AI exits in ten years. Just wow.
It might be among DBAs, but not so much among others who might be interested. You have got to see the "clever" tricks some people come up with to solve some basic db problems.
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Like the GP said, a major engineering mistake.
"Lack of robust first-class support" is no reason not to become well-versed in them. Static analysis is just as possible with them as with any other style in the chosen toolset.

Debugging is particularly straightforward - events cross states, yo. :) All you need is logging. Event detection code is particularly amenable to rigorous verification.

Toolchains like ObjecTime and Rational Rose had direct support for "coding using graphic representations of FSM" but the tools themselves were somewhat unwieldy and expensive and they sort of dinosaured.
My favorite is mapping '()' to 'vi)', '[]' to 'vi]', '{}' to 'vi}'. So I can read is as "grab parentheses" instead of "visual inside parentheses"
This is an unnecessary generalization. There are many thousand patients today that suffer from pain relievers that wreck up your bowels.
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Society can decide what behavior is allowed and what isn't. Just because a company is a company doesn't mean it's out of reach of judicial rules.

A company can't dump chemicals in any river without oversight; it could be compelled to accept an appeals process when terminating a contract with a developer.
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Bad software is already expensive. This is just poorly understood.

It's simply not fair to non-specialists to expect them to have a working knowledge of how cost works in software.
Wait... Twitter has about 1/10 the engagement of FB but lags in revenue per user by only a factor of 2? I might be going crazy but it sure sounds like you're making an argument for specialness of twitter here.
> "'We have a new theorem--that mathematicians can only prove trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.'" - Richard Feynman

Sigh.

KF is essentially solving a QP with equality constraints (Boyd's course is a good place for details), which can be solved exactly with a single decomposition of the KKT system - picking an ordering is all that matters for complexity.

This is essentially the principle on which all of Sparse Linear algebra and Graphical models work. There is nothing special about the structure of KF, nor in LQR, nor in their non-linear generalizations.

One can symbolically unroll Schur complements multiple times to make block-LU appear opaque and sophisticated, but it really is not (this of course is not to say this is done deliberately). KF can also derived from the Bayes' network model, but extending this to non-linear forms like EKF, and to things which are not first-order becomes rather troublesome (or impossible).

I'd have appreciated a post asking for details rather than infantile derision.
I understand all but the last of your arguments:

"the majority of the money invested in these kinds of companies ultimately comes from Banks. "

I suppose from the point of view of economy this is a problem if the funds exit circulation. If, on the other hand, the funds are mostly used for payroll and purchasing goods and services to maintain the business this means the whole economy benefits. Or am I totally clueless of fundamental economics (which might be the case, computer science and physics are more familiar to me)?
No. I sold a bunch of stuff on Amazon. Then one day a lens I sold arrived three days late. The buyer complained. Amazon blocked my account from seeking. I appealed, said I was willing to be FBA only (Fulfilled by...). "After a review we have determined that your seller account will remain permanently closed". One complaint on thirty things sold.
I should rephrase. We, the community of people using Elm/Elixir/Phoenix/RethinkDB, tried to get the name REEP to catch on.

As far as the stack itself goes, it's wonderful.
Brings a new meaning to "treat your servers like cattle, not pets"
I secretly (not 'secret' anymore I guess) and irrationally trust Stripe to do good on RethinkDB.

Also, TIL: Slava is defmarco. Yeah defmarco, that's how I read it for a long time. I especially love this piece from defmarco http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
>"Some of them do not even require user action to be able to cause harm." makes me trust this even less. If the ad is opening a new browser window, that browser window is sandboxed. Sure it can ask the user to take an action, but it can't take an action on behalf of the user.

Google "drive-by download" and see how that is precisely what can happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download

" Any download that happens without a person's knowledge, often a computer virus, spyware, malware, or crimeware.[1]

Drive-by downloads may happen when visiting a website, viewing an e-mail message or by clicking on a deceptive pop-up window:"

Personally I would never trust that anything browser related is truly sandboxed. If that were the case, why would I need anti malware scanners and tools?

This is, by the way, another reason why I use adblock and noscript. So that when I visit a site for the first time, nothing active element related will automatically run.
So, in this case, even if the ads from spotify open my webbrowser and a tap to a malicious site, I would just close it and be done with it.
It is still weird why an ad should have the ability to call an open url command at all.
Twitter are missing out, they could have become the next Buzz!
Genomics datasets can be several hundreds of petabytes. I've heard about an exabyte+ dataset too.
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For how much they hyped their product this is a pretty inconspicuous exit.
You can install other maps/browsers/assistants on iOS too, and other apps can interface with them if they want to. For example Chrome will automatically open YouTube links in the YouTube app. I agree that iOS is more restricted in that it doesn't let the user specify the default browser etc. for links from other apps, however.
The CVE database shows how easy it is to use correctly, bah.
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easy: take a thousand pictures of each photo with your cell phone, adding some variation, use as training data for a CNN, tweet result to @boredyannlecun for debugging, decide to take an uber instead of buying a car on ebay
I like the data science angle where they're using their large number of deliveries to make predictions for customers on when packages will arrive depending on carrier, route, day/time. Would be nice for a future blog post to show some stats on how accurate their predictions are.
Your giving up lot of personal information and potential freedom of choice to have "AI" (not sure that's the right word for it anyway), do a bunch of these tasks just for, what you perceive as convenience.

For example, having content fed to you is potentially unhealthy, "Google, read me today news", are you telling me you just want to be fed any kind of information based on some kind of "preferences"?

As you said it's a choice but don't pretend people totally know what's being done with the data.

I hope there is age limit restrictions placed on this kind of thing.