skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him.

The word reportedly is really interesting. Was this reported by the same media that was wrong about just about everything this election cycle? Could they somehow be wrong about this too?

PS: Twitter is smaller than the other companies and is perceived as a failing (or at best stagnant) company. While Twitter is an important company online, if you were inviting the biggest companies in tech, there's some logic to not inviting them to that conference.
You are right. Nothing else even comes close -- right now. But for the first time in a long time, there's an opening for some smart company to come in deliver the sort of user experience that only Apple (/ Steve) once could. We'll see if it happens or not.
I'd bet the biggest hurdle you'll face is getting quality data.

I guess it depends on what you're looking for, but at least some weather/climate/earth-surface stuff can be grabbed right off the air from the various satellites. Some of that stuff is beamed down unencrypted and anybody with the right receiver setup (which can be as simple as an RTL SDR dongle, AFAIK) can grab the data and use it.

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weath...

http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/pubs/Users_Guide-Building_Re...

You can also download a lot of data here, although it presumably wouldn't be as timely as getting it direct from the satellite.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/satellite-data/satelli...
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
Just checked, at least they use "time.apple.com" as default, and the default "maximum of servers" is 5.

https://github.com/lyft/Kronos/blob/master/Sources/NTPClient...

The third-party library used by Snapchat didn't have any "maximum of servers" (using 30 at once(!)) and defaulted to many in the ntp.org pool, across all the continents!
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Most of the changes pertain to Medicare/Medicaid. I haven't looked into it in several years, but this covers it in a nutshell as far as Medicare is concerned: https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/linking-quality-to-...

Pay-For-Performance is the key term there. And while it is certainly the more patient-friendly approach, the problem as I recall is that a lot of patients re-admit for issues that are their own fault due to them not following through on the prescribed treatment. The care provider, however, is the one that doesn't get paid, regardless of why the patient re-admitted.
> I do not see the direct benefit of this for the end user...

The hope is that publishers will understand why they're getting hit by the collateral of the fake-click barrage and move out of the blast range by changing their ads into unobtrusive ones, or even moving away from ads entirely into models like:

- treating your webpage as an investment

- sponsorship / patronage

- subscriptions

- paywalls

Additional hope is that the whole ad industry finally implodes.
What is there to build out? I guess it could be made more obvious for those that don't get it, but it's already being used in exactly the way you describe by Twitter's power users.
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By design.
I don't see a lot of point in making better programming concepts seem accessible, and "try to meet people where they are" sounds like populism which I don't want to understand. So instead of attempting to argue that there's value in the idea in a way that doesn't put people off with an implicit accusation of lazy ignorance, I'm just going to go with the implicit accusation of lazy ignorance.
It's been awhile since I've used the FB API, but one thing that's nice about Twitter is that you have a lot of room to crawl networks of users; for example, I always like getting the list of accounts that U.S. congressmembers follow (based on the Twitter account list maintained by the unitedstates project [0]), as a proxy for such things as perceived political bent of media organizations.

An example of the FB limitations I'm thinking about is how you can't query the graph API by username, e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/mark.zuckerberg

There were other changes made before that, that's just one I remember in my latter days of using their API. Granted, I've always been impressed with the analyses you've done with FB data and have put it on my list someday to learn through your examples :).

[0] https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
What's wrong with reinventing TCP/IP over twitter? Sometimes they even appear out of order.
Assuming they don't know how to separate fake clicks, which can be done within a reasonable level of accuracy. It ends up being a war between digital ad agencies and the users. I can see who has the most motivation here and therefore higher chances of winning.
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So you just follow random links people send you? That seems like a horrible waste of your most precious commodity.

YouTube offers a way to pay for an ad free experience. Are you a paying member?
> I do not see the direct benefit of this for the end user...

Even in the long term? If plugins like this are super effective, then the value of tracking becomes less than the cost of doing it. Eventually, advertising might revert to a less intrusive model like billboards or magazine ads.
Maybe, because building an adtech company is not something he wants to be remembered for?
To me, it felt like the moment after some limb went numb and you start to feel it again, just for the whole body. And I had some visual effects like everything being brighter for a moment. It's not painful per se but very disorienting and irritating and it happens several times per hour.

I probably would not have avoided the drugs based on the description, because it doesn't sound as bad as it feels, but I would never quit a SSRI without tapering off again.
And Javascript:

https://tweetnacl.js.org/

And Python:

https://github.com/pyca/pynacl

This is one of my projects using these libraries, a PGP replacement based entirely on the NaCl API:

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4
Part of Daala will be reused in AV1 http://aomedia.org/
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k-anonimity is an awesome concept, and truly the only way to protect outselves these days - it's however difficult to successfully implement.

glad to see more software out there based on this concept.
Anyone have any experience getting this working with omniauth? It seems like one ought to just be able to change the config to:

provider :instagram, ENV['INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_ID'], ENV['INSTAGRAM_CLIENT_SECRET'], response_type: 'token'

But that doesn't seem to be working
Since the US election, Twitter has been headline newsworthy nearly every day. Whether you think that's a bad thing or not, it's still a potent force in the world, surprisingly to me.
Daala uses quite a few innovative approaches to video encoding. There's a good set of articles on some of the approaches they've tried at https://www.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/.

Since the formation of the Alliance for Open Media, Mozilla/Xiph's work has mainly shifted towards helping them develop AV1 (for standardization by the IETF hopefully next year) which is mostly based on what would have been Google's VP10. That said, their work on Daala was not wasted as they are working on integrating the most successful parts of Daala into AV1 where it makes sense, such as their entropy coder.
While it's a topic about twitter I'd like to ask a question that always puzzles me. Twitter has 3900+ employees and good portion of those are developers, I just don't understand how can such a basic product that almost never pushes any updates or radical changes/improvements require so many employees. What the hell are they doing except for burning investors cash? Just curious...
The relationship described in the majority of the article is probably better described as 'friends with tax benefits.' It is to marriage what fine art is to reality: an interesting exploration of interpretative possibility. But it is not what people describe when they use the word 'marriage.'
You seem to think that all content costs only the creators time to develop. I think that says a lot.
I have mixed feelings about twitter. On the one hand I see it as a nice way to make interesting conversations surface and reach a wide audience. On the other hand I see it as a constant stream of ads. I don't know if I'd be happy if it all goes down, or if something better comes along. Which problem is twitter actually trying to solve?
This is rather wishful thinking, because a high proportion of the "moving money around" transactions that take place either won't take place if you charge 0.01% to do it (market making/HFT, day trading, shifting money between theoretical business units that can be consolidated) or are directly or indirectly taxed at a much higher rate at present.
Don't forget finagle and scalding.

At the company I work at, various of the above projects are integral to one system or another (though to be fair, there are quite a number of ex-Twitter folks floating around). I'm not a Scala expert, but as far as I can tell Twitter also has a large footprint in that community.
I read the whole article.

I don't believe you for a second, though.
And users aren't important, just their eye balls.
While I don't believe this works (clicks filtered etc) I don't mind screwing over the advertising websites in addition to the ad networks and the advertisers.

If you try to finance your site using tracking ads, or if you advertise through networks that use invasive tracking ads, or you are a network that distribute such ads - then I have no problem helping taking you out of business.
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He was not the VP of product, he was a VP of product, specifically VP of product for Twitter's advertising arm.
I listed them and my doctor said they were actually in the most common side effects. I have not pursued information beyond that.
Tangential, but makes me think: could all those happy campers who like to DDoS GitHub and Freenode in their spare time target an ad bidding node instead? I'd love to see that happen. Do it for teh good old-school lulz.
Actually, speaking as an editor on "Mad in America,"I'd say that we would be interested in making a fuss about the long-term effects of lithium. We would welcome that and any other stories from the commenters posting here.
> Someone will have to pay for those clicks. Not to mention that if something like this gets wide adoption then it will make click fraud detection even harder. A bunch of browser sessions randomly clicking on ads will have no difference from a bot doing the same thing.

I believe that's the point of it.
If your code adopts a convention of reading secrets from the environment, you get a lot of flexibility in how they're actually stored; you can put them in protected files and export the contents of the file before running the service, or you can have a tool that works like "env" that populates from a secret store. Your secret storage system can get more sophisticated without your code having to change.

I wouldn't recommend putting them in /etc/environment or /etc/profile or /home/service/.profile where you'll forget about them, though.

Just as a strategy for passing secrets to code, I like the environment a lot.
He actually wrote about his experiences with MAOIs in an early short story in a college journal. This was in the early 80s, well before Prozac and SSRIs made it to market.

https://quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wallace-am...
This is the company that leaked they were doing an algorithmic timeline, it was really unpopular and they said they weren't doing it, then it turned out to be a lie when they started rolling it out 2-3 weeks later.
Like I said, its a small firm (also not in the US so I don't have anywhere near the pool to pull from that you have I am sure). I also don't disagree with you like I said, I am just pointing out that it can be a legitimate way for some people to get a foot in the door at a smaller firm, or less 'reputable' one, before moving somewhere else. You need to pay your bills while you wait for other opportunities, or develop your skills.

I am slowly working towards moving us into a position where we have more practical methods of finding out if candidates understand the above, but it takes time for me to develop testing methods etc. while simultaneously completing everything that needs to be completed.

If you have any recommendations, I'm more than open!
the article talks about the Mac Pro, I considered it but never pulled the trigger in part because OSX slows down dramatically when it is multitasking too much.
Using large Linux machines for computation seemed much more appropriate.
>I just clicked a link.

Because you want to consume what they've produced. That is how they are paying you.

You keep saying "I did not enter into any agreement" like it changes anything. It's juvenile.
I agree that telemedicine has the potential to be revolutionary, at the very least in the primary-care field. Not sure what it could do about in-patient care, however. The other issue that telemedicine does not solve as far as I know is there are diagnostic tools doctors use beyond sight/sound - what can be palpated, what is the smell? Perhaps that's where nurses could step up?
Technically, the Crown, which is personified by but not limited to the Queen.
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I'm not saying it is easy or disparaging the work of the engineers there. I am saying it seems like they have a different approach to how tech fits in with the goals of the company. To oversimplify, Twitter is focused on efficiency while others are focused on growth. Maybe the actual goals are different, but that is the impression I get looking at their output.
> I believe this is a matter of the frameworks choosing first-class support rather than Microsoft.

The problem has generally been the license and the environment.
Any framework wanting to support MSSQL needed to have MS Windows and MSSQL licences for CI (+developers), plus the infrastructure to run windows on the CI (I've no idea how you'd do that, so there's also a knowledge barrier).

Hopefully this will change now.
In the beginning, USB1 was no competition for Firewire. 12Mbps vs 400Mbps.

USB2 was more competitive, but Firewire stuck around due to its lower latency for audio applications.
> Which problem is twitter actually trying to solve?

Somewhere between a real time news platform and wasting time ala social entertainment?
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It's amazing from a business perspective, but at a certain point ethical questions arise. Should Twitter give a world shakingly powerful lier an unfiltered platform to the public? If he had to go through the press, everything he said would be filtered by editors and fact checkers. Incredible business opportunity, but frankly, the fate of the world is in part being determined by Twitter's granting him a platform. I can understand their vacillation around this issue.
Thanks for sharing this -- I've been doing hobby-level work with computer vision on the side for a couple years now, but always kinda hit a wall when moving beyond anything trivial. I'll give this a shot and see where it takes me!
> The solution is quite simple: get rid of corporate income tax, focus on consumption taxes.

I feel the better solution is a global tax treaty. Where WTO nations or appropriate group all agree to have a minimum corporate tax rate if they want to trade. This will stop any race to the bottom by countries trying to attract companies via a double Irish type method and remove the incentive of corporations for this. All while allowing taxes to be collected at the corporate level in a global economy.

The problem of removing corporate tax is corporate vehicles will become a holding vessel for profit hoarding. E.g for someone like me that likes to save rather than pay my tax bill each year on investment earnings I'll set up a company and put all my savings into this. Each year these invest profits will be retained tax free as I continue to save. This will pull massive tax revenue from the economy as people do this at scale. For this reason shifting to consumption tax only will just open another tax avoidance option.
"From our price studies, we're on par with other fast turn shops"

Your studies are cherry-picked to make you look good then, as that just isn't true.

"funding isn't a vanity metric when your company needs financing"

Needing to raise money and bragging about it as a sign of success are very different things.

Turn off the pitch, dude. I've already told you several times I'm not your customer. I'm bowing out of this conversation now.
cough, linux, cough, android, cough .....
I don't understand your comment. Since 100% accuracy is unachievable we shouldn't try at all?

Wouldn't a prediction with 80% accuracy still be enormously useful in most use cases?
You're both right in that people make good content for free and for pay websites, but you're dead wrong if you think advertising dollars is not also a motivation. You will lose good content.
In fact, I do: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
Working over 80 hours in a 7 day period is just insane in and of itself, unless there is a major crisis you shouldn't be working more than 40hrs a week.

People fought and died for an 8 hour workday, and here the AMA and hospitals are shitting all over it, putting everyone involved at risk. Should we bring back child labor while we're at it?
I don't have anything genuinely new to contribute to this conversation, so per HN guidelines on classic flamewar topics, I'm bowing out.
Don't forget Bootstrap CSS.
Nintendo's first party output has been split between the 3DS and the Wii U, and it's been a been a bit sparse on each. Individually, the platforms has a few really great games. Combined, they have one of the best libraries this console generation. With most of Nintendo's effort focused on a single platform, the hope is that their output on the Switch will be significantly more frequent.
I strongly prefer Gnome or XUbuntu myself and I still hate losing focus-follow-mouse, but Mac is at least less brain damage than Windows. I do everything I can on the command line and with Unix or X programs, of course, so I don't even know what the mouse-based interface is supposed to be like.

And Mac does high resolution very well.
My wife has been on venlafaxine for years, and has been tappering off it for the past year. She has had horrible withdrawl symptoms from missing a single dose, like you describe. Each time the doses town (tapering), she has a rough few weeks.

How long were you on it? Do you have any advice? Thanks.
Ah, well since the only thing I ever used the 4WD for was snow/ice on the way to Tahoe and to pull a boat up a slippery launch, it's probably totally sufficient for what I was using the 4WD in my Explorer for. I agree it's probably a better match for the actual expected use for most other people as well. I'm not sure the explorer was ever the platform of choice for people looking to make a rock crawler...
Technically it's the National Postal Service, France isn't a Federal government. (Apparently it's a Unitary Government[1] )

[1] http://www.lewishistoricalsociety.com/wiki/tiki-print_articl...
Since when was the EU supposed to be about making things "fair" between countries? The EU does not advertise itself as a club that requires you to become less competitive in order to avoid upsetting the French.

Tax competition doesn't harm the EU, it makes it stronger. Because you realise, that there are countries outside the EU too, who can also lower their tax rates ...
IMHO Steve's vision of small and beautiful devices finally came at a time when the technology was allowing for it to be possible. CPU, storage and battery improvements along with good/clean design allowed the iPod to become a real product and not just a design in a notebook. Then the iMac, unibody laptops, iPhone, etc.

Steve always thought big whereas Bill (Gates) thought practical. Steve got back into Apple at the perfect time to finally take advantage of the technology for something that a non-geek wanted.
> So you just follow random links people send you? That seems like a horrible waste of your most precious commodity.

See my point about social objects.

> YouTube offers a way to pay for an ad free experience. Are you a paying member?

They don't offer it in my country, so no. But I do am a paying subscriber of Netflix, Spotify and Amazon Prime Video, FWIW.
Services are a good idea. SOA (serviced oriented architecture) has been out for more than 20 years and it's not going away.

Micro-services is just a new hype buzzword. Classic case of "smaller is cuter" http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2932
Robert H. Frank's Luxury Fever[1] advocates for a progressive consumption tax, and has some fairly compelling arguments. One of which is that it flips the "save money" incentive to consumers. This coupled with Piketty's wealth tax would be difficult, but probably effective in combatting wealth inequality, and making taxes a bit more "fair"
Every "tax rich people" discussion turns into politicians appealing to the non-rich masses by taxing higher and higher levels of income. When the politicians themselves and the other rich people, simply don't categorize the bulk of their annual earnings as income.
If I don't have to worry about the police coming and knocking on my door then it is not vandalism.
Thanks, Jeremy! My background is in chip design verification; Looks like a great starting point for me to dabble in Deep learning.
Look, my position is simply anti-absolutism. I don't know what will be best suited for a problem before I understand the problem. The free market isn't always best, nor is any other system. I'm not against markets - I'm against it being the square peg for all the round holes of society. If it's a square hole, then go ahead, be my guest.

I'm anti-capitalist, anti-communist, anti-statist, anti-socialist ... anything with an "ist" - these are tools to solve different kinds of problems. We need to acknowledge their applications and limitations.
I'm not a Mac user, but having listened to friends who are, their complaints fall into:

- so many dongles required (ethernet, Adapters to HDMI, DVI, etc, sdcard readers, USB C to USB A, and another one to get their iPhone to connect) - some of them need to be genuine Apple to get decent performance, and those are all hideously expensive.

- lack of ram (tops out at 16GB even on 15" model)

- not the best battery life

All of this seems to have been sacrificed in the name of thinness.

Folks who wanted thin could already get that with the Air / Non-Pro variants.
To both parent commenters, my wife has been on venlafaxine for years, and has been tapering off it for the past year. She has had horrible withdrawl symptoms from missing a single dose, like you describe. Each time the doses town (tapering), she has a rough few weeks.

How long were you on it? Do you have any advice? Thanks.
Let's not ignore how a great many people got hooked on these in the first place: Through their doctor.

Here is a relevant article from today:

http://thehustle.co/oxycontin-global

Like tobacco, too much resistance in the US means Oxycontin is going global.

A shame the presidential candidates don't seem (as far as I'm aware) to have mentioned this epidemic as one of the important crisis facing America. Might have resonated deeper than ISIS or some other things.
As an editor on Mad in America, I appreciate the thoughtful and thorough discussion here. We would welcome any stories or analysis that the commenters here might venture to contribute to MIA.
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The history of the web is littered with the corpses of tipping companies because almost no one wants to tip on the web.

Same for micropayments. No one wants to think about if they should pay for an article even if it is only 1c.