skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are no "good guys" on the other side. People shouldn't track me, that one's obvious, but they also shouldn't advertise at me, ever.

Agree. I think it's unfortunate that so much of the debate around advertising, especially from many on the side of ad blocking, focuses only on the evils of tracking and privacy erosion. This project does it too. From their FAQ: "It is not advertising we are protesting, but advertising insofar as it represents a dominant means of tracking users without their consent." But advertising itself should be protested. I don't know why so many shy away from that. I've been working on a project to promote ad blocking. It's been discussed here on HN before, but I'll link to it anyway. https://blockads.fivefilters.org/acceptable.html
He wasn't even the head of the engineering organization before Roetter. He (Messinger) was sidelined by Chris Fry before Roetter ever took over.
Thank you for this! I'll read through it!
Women would of course also suffer from the lack of sleep, so I don't understand your point.
Then do it well and become a billionaire. I think many have tried and there's a fundamental problem with the idea if it never works. It's not just a matter of doing it well, you have to fix whatever everyone else has missed. I think the problem is the idea itself, it would explain why nobody gets it right.
It's probably harder than we think because of the scale of it.
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Thanks for the explanations, they've broadened my viewpoint on the matter.

FWIW, I never said it was easy. I also never said I didn't want additional punishment on the crime. I do; and in addition to jail time. That way you hurt the criminals where it hurts. If the BSA, RIAA, MPAA can claim missed income with ludicrous amounts, why can't the tax departments? Oh wait, reading the article, they did, and apparently that is just 100% + interest. For maximum efficiency, go after the big fish _first_. But there's so much fish slipping through with regards to BSA, MPAA, RIAA, and also (corporate) income tax. Tech can help us here, but the legal system is flooded as it is. In practice there's out of court settlements which is less ideal since it creates a shadow justice system.

Now, if we do what you suggest, abolish income tax, VAT will go up due to loss of income from income tax, and the state needs income from somewhere. However the effective income of the consumer would go up as well which I forgot. Since there's so much corporate income tax evasion, the consumer and honest businessmen end up with a net advantage of purchasing power compared to the current situation, and we save money/time/lawyers/experts. Although I suppose some lawyers/experts lawyers need to respecialize.

A caveat is that we must implement it on a global scale. Else the VAT is higher in certain countries, while lower in other, which increases the incentive for fraud (buy by proxy). Also, it is too bad it won't work with any of the progressive tax systems. Which is what we in Europe have (YMMV). We could however, while abolishing income tax, move the weight of the progressive income tax to VAT, but what's gonna happen then? With physical items people would end up buying items for others. But like you said it is difficult on a large scale, and for something like a car that wouldn't work very well, since its pretty much bound to a driver's license and its movement is tracked via GPS. With items bound via DRM or service w/o resale value, there's no problem either. In other words, progressive VAT on service would work.

There's also the side effect that people sit on their money. If they spend it, it is (more) heavily taxed. I think that is going to create a massive black market, but perhaps that could be tackled in the 21st century. My main beef with your point is that you believe people are gonna keep getting away with it. I disagree. I believe technology is going to force^H^H^H^H^H us, on the longer run, more honest. But if we were to swap to a progressive VAT-only system we'd also be able to use tech.

EDIT PS: A way to avoid progressive VAT problem would be to rescale incomes. Well... yeah... I just don't see that happening...
I'd heard of brain zaps before quitting Zoloft cold turkey[0], but the actual experience wasn't what I expected from the term "brain zaps". Kind of like a dizzy spell that lasts 0.1 seconds, with a sort of buzzing sensation, like someone had turned on a step-down transformer in my skull. I've never experienced anything else like it to compare it to.

[0] in hindsight, not tapering gradually is a really bad idea
Maybe. But at the same time, Twitter has a lot of influential and/or affluent users, which a lot of companies would like to reach.

Maybe they shouldn't try to grow absolute user numbers and instead focus on being a publishing platform for influencers (keep in mind that lots of people who aren't Twitter users see popular tweets on other platforms). Then they could focus on providing great advertising and targeting for companies that want to reach influencers.

At the end of the day Twitter's customers are advertisers. It seems like they are trying to sell these customers a way to reach a mass market audience. Maybe they should play to their unique advantage and focus on selling influencers' and/or business decision-makers' attention.
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Patreon is not going to replace all of the advertising supported websites...
Very related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13149944
Agree entirely. I actually think the title would be much more accurate if it were changed to *How coverage of Apple has created the Illusion of Apple Alienating Mac Loyalist' because I've been a mac user since the Mac Plus days and I'm pretty much the definition of loyalist, and for me non of this rings true. My new MacBook Pro 13 is a great machine (and I'm a developer...).
I think it's the overall market for smart watches? For sure, it's not the next iPhone or iPad in terms of revenue.

Even in the smartwatch category, Apple isn't doing too well. Going from 70% in market share from last year to 41% this year. They're still the market leader, though.

source: http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/26/technology/smartwatch-sales-...
In the higher tax bracket, he didn't work enough overtime to offset the increased taxes and ended up with a smaller check than if he worked less. At least that's what he claimed.
> No clear path to revenue

I don't know about that. They have $2.2 billion in revenue last year. Get the employee count down to 300 people and you have a great business.
Sorry, but v18 to v18.1 on the same Ubuntu 16.04 base is not a major upgrade.
Maybe not in anything they've shipped as a consumer product, but what's powering their services?
This has much simpler solution: user tagging. I think Reddit Enhancement Suite has it. I am working on a C Reddit/HN client (basically RES on steroids) that would implement these user remebering features such as usertags, usersets, bad/good users, total_upvote/downvotes_given_to_a_user etc.
The smallest dose of buprenorphine is 0.4mg.

I was a heroin addict from 16yo, until just before my 22nd birthday. I've been clean ever since, 4 years this past August. This is entirely down to my state government's excellent opiate replacement therapy program, and buprenorphine. It literally saved my life.

The clinic builds a plan for you specifically, and adjusts it every few months. They provide counseling, advice and medical help. We don't pay them, the government does. The doses themselves cost $5 per day.
This is a book review of "Marriage as a Fine Art". It just doesn't get to mentioning the book until about halfway down.
Yeah, can it really do both properly?
Eh, c in many cases includes govt built & maintained toll roads, cause as it turns out roadways can cost tens of billions to build. Makes rail look cheap in comparison!
The end of cloud computing [video]
> 0. Do not pursue certifications at all.

Why not?
> Suboxone is commonly prescribed at FAR too high a dosage, 8 to 16mg or even 24mg, when in reality 4mg is plenty for almost everyone, and 2mg will work in many cases.

Says who? We tried that when I got clean. I required 26mg to hold my withdrawals at bay for a full 24 hours.
Did not know this! A little cumbersome, but it works!
Yeah I know just what you mean. Check out the feedback from Christopher Kelly here, who describes something very similar: http://course.fast.ai/testimonials.html . Perhaps you'll find some inspiration there...

I really hope that you get past the wall! If you do find yourself getting stuck, demotivated, etc, please do come join the community on the forums, since they can really help overcome any issues you have: http://forums.fast.ai/
Your post implies they made the libraries you listed, but they certainly didn't make Mesos or most of those things.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind if we saw an end to Trump's tweets. Not because of their content, but because of their impulsiveness, which is a behavior that Twitter's design encourages. Which is cool when it comes to celebrities and such in which it's fun to see what they think about sans filter.

But the president of the United States speaks with the executive authority for an entire nation. It's questionable enough when a company's stock falls because Trump lashes out at them, and means it [0]. But what about the times he makes a typo, or just doesn't have all the info he needs at that moment when his emotions arise? Even asking that he types something to be sent through a Wordpress-powered system would give him the same megaphone, but adding a little more friction so that things that deserved to be trashed/called-out in his voice actually deserve so.

For those who say this amounts to making Trump less "real" of a man...sure. But he's no longer just a man, he's the chief executive of the world's greatest power. He gave up the privilege of "just sayin what I think" for the privilege of being able to unilaterally launch a nuclear war. Keep in mind that there are no checks and balances against this power -- it is utterly unilateral: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/11/18/the-president-and-...

Giving up frictionless communication in 140-character-sized comments seems like a reasonable thing to pass on, given the many extra responsibilities he has, and the extra weight each of his words have.

[0] http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threaten...
So these are the two subsets of those maths needed for this course but in general is Deep Learning largely based in just Calculus and Linear Algebra?

Are there any others you would recommend learning and/or brushing up on in a more general sense for ML/DL?

Thanks for making this available by the way!
In my opinion, it's easy to feel that way when you are used to gas cars. You are already comfortable with the downsides of gas cars and less comfortable with the downsides of the tesla. It would be easier if the tesla were strictly better than comparably priced gas cars, but it certainly isn't.

However, if you already had a tesla and the competitors were offering you better interior materials and longer range as long as you were ok stopping at a gas station every week or two and having service appointments at a dealer at least once a year (or more depending on model) and losing a lot of the satisfying low end torque you might not think it was a great deal. Oh and you have to stop getting software updates also! Your phone will continue to be better than your car's computer in every way and the car won't even try to mitigate that problem.

Anyway, I think the idea that some competing car is MUCH nicer is mostly about your prior assumptions or at best what particular aspects of vehicles you care most about.
Yes, but speaking as someone who has used Google's great advertising tools as well as mailed a money order to a niche forum owner to run an ad, the advertisers will put up with anything if you can deliver converting users.
> Now it still stucks somewhere at 32GB for performance reason

Short version: No it's not.

Long version: Heap is under 30 GB or over 40 GB. Never between. There is a JVM optimization that allows it to use 4 byte pointers up to 30GB of heap.
Hillary Clinton had John Kennedy junior killed so she can get the Senate seat he was designated for. She definitely had motive.
The foundation of the Web - the Hypertext Transfer Protocol - is that I request a piece of data from a given address, while also providing relevant information about my capabilities and media I'm willing to accept, and then you send me back that data.

What I do with that data isn't up to you. That includes viewing all, parts, or none of the information I received from your server. That especially includes deciding about what code gets executed on my machine.

If advertisers want to control what I am doing with the content I get, please find yourself a new protocol and DRM it to your hearts' content. Just leave the Web alone.
Now that you can upgrade it directly from one release to another is a Big deal.
The difference being that the touchscreen doesn't take away anything, while the touchbar replaces function keys. You could circumvent this by getting the smaller pro, though.

I own an SP3 and the touchscreen is a blessing. Ironically, even more so because the touchpad on the sp3 is crap, but either way, I seem to know my fingers more than mouse pointers on the screen and prefer to touch the screen as often as possible.

It's not for everyone, but for me, I can dual boot Linux on it, write code, still keep MagSafe charging, have a USB port, AND disconnect the keyboard at the end of the way to watch a movie on a kickstand tablet, AND throw it in my bag and forget it's there, for much less money than a macbook. I love the thing to death.

Also, the screen can be cleaned with a cloth or the bottom of your shirt, like most of us do with our phones. That might be annoying but doesn't sound like a deal breaker.
I completely agree that it is complicated. The whole debate is strewn with staw men, which does little to help move things along.

Still, fun to think about. If you know of any studies, I'm interested.
That is actualky a valid concept. Many commwealth nations have slightly different rules for sucession. It would be very possible for Canada and England to recognize different queens. The queen recently sent an amassador to Austrailia specifically to ensure that charles be recognized there after her death.
Can't reply to the child comment -- but worth pointing out that open sourcing your growth magic would be considered pretty dumb by most/all of SV. In fact open sourcing your scaling magic is considered dumb by most of SV. Finally, Twitter clearly doesn't have growth magic (or they'd be growing faster) -- but is that an engineer's fault? At the end of the day, any user facing engineering is beholden to the product team. Engineers at Twitter can run experiments, but they can't get those experiments shipped unless a PM is behind it. I'm not saying the PM team at Twitter are blocking awesome ideas -- just that there's a real shortage of awesome ideas that have been proven to work in the Twitter context. It's tough.

[full disclosure, I wrote one of the projects mentioned above.]
Companies that reinvest most of their revenue make small profits. Companies that don't make larger profits, and thus pay more corporation tax where corporate taxes exists.

(By extension, those wanting to abolish corporation tax should come up with an argument why companies that reinvest profits to research or expand should pay more tax - on the goods and services they buy to improve - than companies that do nothing with their large piles of cash except hope it's enough of a war chest to deter others from investing in competing with it)
How do security professionals study threat actors, and why do we do it?
Why Exceptions Should Be Exceptional – The Cost of Exceptions in .NET
My wife was a surgery resident when we had our first child. It was tough with her working 30 hour on-call shifts. Plus the normal 80+ hour (sometimes it would be as much as 130) work weeks. She eventually decided that instead of killing herself for a job she would stop being a doctor and focus on the kids. This worked out for us but it took some guts to call it quits after 10 years of training to get where she was at. We have a ton of debt because of it as well.

Besides the tough work schedules I find it kind of crazy we require 20-something year olds to choose a speciality and stick with it. Very few people can do this and not have some regrets. On top of the insane work hours they also put up with people dying on them and delivering the bad news to family members (at least for surgeons this happens a decent amount).
I'm easy to track down if you have questions about it.
I used to work in a hospital laundry (where we were understaffed, of course), and I spent my lunch hour talking with nurses. Many were actually NAs and had to work second shifts at different hospitals to make a living wage. So even if the hospitals are reporting normal shifts, the personnel are actually working up to twice as many hours.
when will we see the same for Facebook? If Twitter falls then it's a shift in investor's attitude towards "should make lots of money at unknown time down the road".

Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow. Tech seems to have been a curious exception as it was in the 2000 bubble.
I started reading the article, but it kept droning on and on. Eventually I found myself staring blankly at the page, nodding every once in a while to give the impression that I was paying attention.
I like this idea of zero-overhead interfaces at compile time, but I wonder if it would make sense to translate into these features into another language with less baggage.

Kind of like EvilML maybe: https://github.com/akabe/evilml

Everything is generic in ML but it's not clear what runtime overhead there is. The compiler does so many transformations that it's hard to reason about.
Yeah, but that only really applies to specific engineering teams like backend services and ops right? Web (frontend), iOS, Android, etc. don't really care about scale.
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Ask the fine people here: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/

You'll get a lot of answers.
> The understanding is that if we taxed more, they'd move somewhere else and we'd actually receive less. e.g., biting the hand that feeds you.

This case is not about Ireland taxing more or less the companies, it is about a sweetheart deal with one company
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You got a developer job after 1 night class in python?

Forgive me if I don't take that story at face value as evidence that everyone can pull themselves up by the bootstraps by becoming a software developer/engineer.
I think a lot of Mac users are forgetting how awful the Windows ecosystem still is. One gets used to everything mostly working and think that that's how it is on the other side, too.

Meanwhile, one guy I know bought a new Windows laptop to replace his flaky older one. On the new computer, audio doesn't work. Programs load slowly (~10 minutes to start up software that takes 10 seconds for me). It turned out the flakiness of the old laptop wasn't its age or power, it was the software. Lots of folks have stories like this. There's still a huge amount of uncertainty in that world.
> But equally there might be a problem with what you're writing if you're attracting trolls. This is certainly true of Vice.

Can you explain your reasoning behind that?
Perhaps today is a good day to stack.
Integrate it with W3C annotation standard, extending the standard to incorporate tweet storm strengths.
Yeah, returns from bus feeding commuter rail will be limited, need grade separated mass transit, or at the very least Bus Rapid Transit with dedicated lanes.
Posting to Digg's front page and a new subreddit are completely different beasts, though.

EDIT: a non-default subreddit.
They're not WASPs - the closest label you could put on them would be "hipster" or "liberal". Plus, most of the writers don't even work at VICE. Articles are contracted out to freelance writers so they don't need to pay benefits or provide office space. Only dev, strategy, management, analytics, marketing, and video/tv production are kept in-house.
You can query users on Facebook by their userID though, which is enough to uniquely identify users atleast. However, you can't easily scrape public user data even with Graph API.

That is probably for the best as people have messaged me about that functionality, with not-very-ethical intentions.
Also a surprising fraction goes to data science and advertising infrastructure. Stuff that would go away if they weren't worried about making money. :)
Stating an untrue statement as fact and hoping your opposite number will debate it, thus tacitly accepting it, is an extremely low quality argumentative technique, sitting somewhere between "responding to tone" and "ad hominum" on the hierarchy of arguments[1].

You strike me as a standup chap who would not resort to such techniques, so I'm sure you'll now be willing to explain to me how you came to such a conclusion, so I can help dispel your misconception?

[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Find someone to trade code review with?
Python is using reference counting.
I wonder how returns of real estate compare to REITs when you factor in the extra time and hassle of managing property (or paying somebody to do it)
Honestly, you should probably ask what you want to accomplish with the invested money before deciding how to invest it. Are you planning on mitigating variance in income/employment? Then you're much more adverse to variance and illiquidity. Are you planning on setting yourself up for financial independence? Then you can probably handle risk much better and something like an equity index fund would work well. Want to make sure your child can go to college? Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_Education_Tuition_P... would be an excellent choice. Want to generally make the world a better place? Investing may have superior alternatives, such as donating to an anti-malaria charity.
I subtract all their taxes. If Exxon pays $100bn/yr in various normal taxes, and the government pays them $1bn/yr in fossil fuel subsidies, that's a net subsidy of -$99bn/yr.

How can it be a fair representation of their situation to only say they receive $1bn/yr in subsidy?
If you're working in the Bay Area and making average wage for a software developer, your marginal tax rate is going to be 28%+. If waiting 12 months means you can lower your tax burden to the long term capital gains rate of 15%, that's a no brainer.
Are you talking about something stronger than they said here?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/11/...
yeah this article has nothing to do with the IRS or the United States. The IRS isn't raising any issue at all. They're pretty cool with it.
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I tried to use the FB API, expecting a mature API with bindings and libraries all over the place, lots of simplifying modules etc. I was left with the impression that I wasn't really allowed to use it all, because I wasn't writing an "App" (or perhaps because it wasn't running on a "Device"). Totally confusing experience, where – even if I'm not particularly accustomed to walled garden situations – the terminology and workflow just doesn't seem to match expectations at all.
> Actually C++ got a tracing GC API in C++11.

Technically true, but in reality it is just a token effort to please Hans Bohem and get him to focus on designing the C++ concurrent memory model instead :).

As of today, I don't think any implementation actually offers optional GC, so those functions are alway just trivially implemented.
Is his "new" machine using spinning rust for Win10? Cause that is what it sounds like, I don't get why people inflict non-SSD computers on themselves, its just a positively awful experience.