skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what I'm proposing to do is run A/B with a 50/50 split for a full week, then when B wins shift to 0/100 in favor of B.

You seem to be proposing to run A/B with a 50/50 split for a full week, then when B does a lot better shift to 10/90 in favor of B and maybe a few weeks later shift to 1/99.

What practical benefit do you see to this approach? From my perspective this just slows down the experimental process and keeps losing variations (and associated code complexity) around for a lot longer.
I put all sorts of asserts in the state machine logic (this is the 'check the return values' part). When sufficiently clever, such checks can confirm a surprising range of high and low level behavior.
There's also several links to sites that already have the financial data from Uber. Either you believe that those leaked financial data is real, or you believe they are fake.

If you believe the numbers and the scope of the loss, are you saying that they would have that data and allow that data to leak, but they wouldn't provide it to JP Morgan or DB?
> because a simple traffic ticket is nothing to their pocketbook

Finland has a system where a traffic ticket is a certain percentage of your monthly income. For example, running a red light is typically fined for 25% of your monthly income.
If no one actually knowledgeable answers, I'll say I liked what I read of Doing Bayesian Data Analysis -- early partial draft here: https://faculty.washington.edu/jmiyamot/p548/kruschkejk%20ba...

I didn't persevere because the R language rubs me the wrong way and I'd be comfier with Python or Haskell or something. http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-... looks promising in that vein, but I haven't read it.
Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates
I think it didn't adapt to the times. It was the Amazon of a past generation, with its own very high quality version of AmazonBasics. They didn't make the transition to a new reality though.
My understanding is that Palantir sells analytical tools, not that they do data collection themselves. I'm sure there are a few three-letter agencies that could to that well enough without them. It's also why I find it kind of ironic that Facebook employees were among the protestors.
Yes many people won’t understand this article it but there is a strong and subtle point that Balaji makes. It is the power that technology brings to the common people. Technology will one day make food shelter healthcare clothing ie all the basic necessities so automated and so cheap that everyone can be guranteed free access to these basic needs. Already certain countries have started experimenting with annual basic income. This does not stop people from excelling or working hard to do better but will help us to stop worrying about going homeless or going broke just because one loses ones job. This is where technology can take us and this is what we dream about. Thank you.
VWO, you mean Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF?
Yes. In many ways they grew more in the vein of many traditional mail order catalogs than Amazon.
" I don't care if it hurts somebody's conversion rate.
All I care about is the quality of my browsing experience"

In the short run, it won't matter, but in the long run, it may likely affect your browsing experience on the whole.

Google doesn't do anything well but search. So you are trading a slightly better search experience - which may cost you the death of several brands that provide much more than search outcomes.

Trip Advisor, Yelp etc. ostensibly provide a useful service, beyond whatever Google will do. So when those companies go, we lose those greater services.

The impact of Google's monopoly is something we cannot ignore.

It's like 80% of Russians still support Putin, because he 'seems strong' - but Russians also don't realize how much he has de-facto degraded their standard of living. Russians would be a lot wealthier if they integrated into global markets, stop invading neighbouring territories. There'd be massive growth and opportunity for Russians - at least in globalist terms.
I like the way he's thinking and core argument is a good one. But there's one reason it won't work: Taxes. You can't have a new country when every single economic transaction is subject to an extremely onerous 35% income tax - you still have to pay this tax even if you live in another country.

There's probably still a lot of good stuff you can do though: low cost housing and transportation, just for starters.
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No problem. For reference, here's what Wikipedia [1] says:

"Si Mi - Hokkien - "What?" - From Hokkien term 甚物 (sím-mi̍h) (may also be written as 啥物 or 啥咪). Mandarin equivalent of 什么.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary
" to harvest the phone owners private data directly"

And Google is the king of that.

While you make a good point - it's not like Google can take the high road on this.
This is great news... I'm normally not always a fan of Google's every move but when they use their position to encourage a better web, their power is awesome and we can look forward to the effects.

The headline was confusing. Google has started using intrusive pop-up ads to penalize mobile sites? This writing has clarity issues.

>Web pages need ads to operate, but...

Plenty of web pages (websites?) are operated without ads, out of love for a topic, desire to build a name, or other reasons. Web pages don't NEED ads. Well some have been built to rely on them, and can only survive with ads, but certainly not all web pages.

Aside from that and the headline, great level of detail in this article about the exceptions, the general sizes, and the rollout.
On Android 5.x and earlier, you had to grant all possible requested permissions up-front during installation.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Sues to Gain 'Quiet Title' to Kauai Lands (Hawaii)
I'm curious why would people use a closed source software, when you can use something like https://riot.im

Please let me know. I may be missing something.
Not the parent, but the linked material is more foundational than the subject matter raised in the post. There is in fact an appreciable lack of good, battle-tested, non-secret, sometimes-but-not-necessarily anecdotal public info about the part of the design process where you have a working system doing fairly okay, but you know you're inches away from a very unpleasant wall. On fire [1].

It doesn't help that distributed systems are a dark art, that many open source and free-to-use tools that developers have access to gate the HA/clustering features behind steep pricing (though I sympathize it's one of the few effective ways to make money in open source), and that expertise with scaling is very often a competitive advantage.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/iammutex/scaling-instagram/25-404i...
I can imagine a scenarios where modal can be conditionally shown based on URL query params.
Well, certainly not as of tomorrow!
Sears was the Amazon of its day (around the early 1900s) where you could order almost anything via mail (including housed!). I guess the felt that products via the mail was so 19th century.
The "Use compose-files to deploy swarm mode services" is really intriguing to me, especially when they quote this one liner:

> docker stack deploy --compose-file=docker-compose.yml my_stack

But there's no links to further documentation or anything. Can this be used to deploy easily to a cluster of Droplets for instance?

I feel like the low end/longtail deployment of Docker is really underserved. I want to use Docker for its devops merits, but I have yet to find a clear, concise guide for deploying a simple web app to one or a cluster of VPS instances for a modest traffic project.
From the chapter by Michael Tiemann in Open Sources:

"At first I tried to make my argument the way that Stallman made his: on the merits. I would explain how freedom to share would lead to greater innovation at lower cost, greater economies of scale through more open standards, etc., and people would universally respond "It's a great idea, but it will never work, because nobody is going to pay money for free software." After two years of polishing my rhetoric, refining my arguments, and delivering my messages to people who paid for me to fly all over the world, I never got farther than "It's a great idea, but . . .," when I had my second insight: if everybody thinks it's a great idea, it probably is, and if nobody thinks it will work, I'll have no competition!"

I still find it interesting how many people dismiss Cygnus's business model out of hand when entering the open source market. (Cygnus was acquired by Red Hat for $600 million and Michael Tiemann is still VP of Open Source development IIRC) What is interesting to me is that I've never heard of anyone else even trying it. No successes. No failures. As Michael Tiemann said, no competition. And Red Hat enjoys that competitive advantage even today.

I highly recommend reading that chapter for an alternative view on how to approach open source development.
If you're on Mac, it's still a bit of a problem; hopefully the SSD-gobbling Docker.qcow2 file problem[1] is fixed soon!

[1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371
Could you explain? Is it the mozilla part?
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A Plea for Responsible and Contextualized Reporting on User Security
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The article says CSP seven times in the first two paragraphs without saying what it stands for; it would be much more readable if they did. (It stands for content security policy for those wondering.)
The Changing State of MPEG DASH Royalties: How Bad Will It Get?
Interesting quandary: How to respond to an opinion I disagree with, while still satisfying the criteria that I don't come across as "not anti-racist enough?"

HN really doesn't need to politicize the way a 24 hour news organization might. HN is a tech resource, with tangential angles into political factoids. It isn't a journalistic news outlet with a tech blog. While there should be responsibility, focus is more important.

With that in mind the tide here is overwhelmingly non-racist even if not precisely anti-racist. Racism is swiftly downvoted around here, and not readily preserved.

Opening up racial discussions is downvoted, because unless an article and discussion is patently race oriented, it's probably going to politicize and steer discussion away from tech details and into a sociological premise.

Meanwhile, the race politics that do get discussed are almost invariably the familiar territory of how bigoted America is. It's rarely any other sub-topic of racial discussion, and none of the discussion that occurs here solves a problem or highlights surprising facts.

Turning this site into the frontlines in a war waged by either side, will destroy the site. Battlegrounds, after all, are not beautiful places.

By choosing to foment strife, before doing so, ask yourself if your taking something away from more enemies or friends.
we know, he's a douche
The channel log permission only applies to logs before you joined. You can always scroll up to the point you joined the server.
I know Singapore has very high car taxes, but is 300+ rides really less expensive than owning a vehicle yourself?
Once you've maxed out your abilities with the resources available in one place, then you'd probably start specializing for different abilities in different places to the extent you can gain additional value through comparative advantage. With that in mind sharing the unique results of the different specializations means location is still important in the absence of instantaneous communication over arbitrary distance.

P.S. Your name seems strangely familiar. /s
Totally fair. :) Parent just mentioned using queues/messaging effectively, and EIP is arguably the gold standard for that.
Show HN: Offsetmyride.io – Carbon offsets made dead simple
Link: https://offsetmyride.io

We're trying to make it dead simple to offset your carbon footprint, starting with your rideshares and eventually expanding into other integrations (airlines, electric grid, etc.).

It's currently a soft launch, very much alpha at the moment. Everything is functional, but our onboarding could be better. Right now our only integration is with Uber/Lyft.

We'd love to get feedback on a couple things!

* What we're trying to figure out: Would a set-it-and-forget-it style service work for carbon offsets?

* Do you find the information in the offset review page useful?

* If you didn't know about offsets before, do you feel more informed?

* Does a $5/month price point seem reasonable for handling offsets + calculations + a nice report sent to you?
Games vs general use. By targeting gamers Discord is able to customize the experience to make it better for games.
With just a few exceptions, the people who signed this are sort of a who's-who of practical cryptographic research and, in particular, of research into cryptographic backdoors.
To that end, it might be worth spelling out in the title here. I got my hopes up thinking it was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce....
I respond to undismissable email popups by entering abuse@theirdomain.com as an email address. I'm sure their network operations team doesn't want to miss out on the incredible rewards.
Maybe it's just me, but attempting to restrict the geographic location of where something can be cleared seems completely delusional to me. Isn't the EU basically asking the UK clearing firms to "give" their customers to the EU -- whatever that means?

I would assume that moving EUR clearing to the EU would involve setting up a company in the EU that can compete with the clearing services of the UK companies, thereby winning over customers, rather than attempt to put a restriction on which kinds of contracts (Euro derivatives) other people can enter into.
"Uber has created more jobs faster than any company in history"? Walmart currently employs more than 1M people right now, in the US.
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Visual website optimizer, vwo.com. We are an A/B testing vendor and analytics tool.
Do you have any data to back any of these claims up? Even if your claim that Google is destroying SEO traffic to these sites is true (which I am not convinced it is) and my site is getting less traffic from Google, the last thing I want to do is make the experience shittier for the less traffic that I do get. Making my site less usable is pretty much the dumbest decision I could make at that point. I should be working on ways to better convert the traffic that I do get so they are more likely to use my product and maybe even download the app one day.

Who the hell goes on a shitty site with annoying ads and decides, hey, I want a dedicated spot on my home screen for this shitty service.
Is there a reason you're calling your non-free product something with "Community" in the name? CDB is intriguing but this feels like intentional doublethink to me.
dupe, please check before submitting... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433029
Not necessarily, even small datasets can benefit from a distributed database. Configuring a HA database setup for any of the open source DB's requires a lot of work. For a startup, a small cluster can provide HA, redundancy, and ease of scalability should the need arise.
> Here's the thing: I don't care.

You will care when nobody's in the business of providing hotel/restaurant/etc reviews...except Google.
Even so, Tesla should be able to tell whether or not you're driving on a highway with all of the data they collect. Why not compare that data to the Autopilot data? This report wasn't made by Tesla, it was made by the NHTSA. So why not do a more meaningful comparison?

It's weird.
Hmm, do we distinguish leadership from management?
After Faulty Charger Issue, Barnes and Noble Is Back with New NOOK Tablet
In the UK there has been a move away from giant supermarkets over the last few years. The consumer electronics and other non-food items that pad out the giant supermarket and make it hard to get to the milk, people buy that stuff online now so it is not possible to 'pile high' in the big box supermarkets.

With this move has been a growth in convenience stores that are operated/franchised by the big supermarket brands. People go to these places for their milk. (And do a big online shop for the bulk of their groceries).

So people are just deciding not to go to the big box stores in the first place.

Anecdote, but this happened to me. Where I was living the largest 'Tesco Extra' imaginable opened up literally across the road. This was AMAZING. Well, not really, within a week we were back to the convenience store buying everything there, it really was too much hassle going to the giant Tesco. Didn't need the kilometre walk past the TV's, clothing and other stuff that was placed between the store entrance and the milk. The 24/7 novelty wore off too, didn't actually need to go shopping for that pint of milk at 2 a.m.

Another part of the problem was that the customer service in the local store was more friendly. They didn't have people to greet you or people giving you free samples or any coupons at the checkout or any loyalty cards. Just polite 'how's your day?' chat with the small team of staff - all known by name - sufficed.

With the big supermarket I don't think there was this inate customer service aspect, 'customer service' was contrived marketing, nobody cared about you. And so it is online. People that do marketing online care more about their Google analytics and loading up websites with spam-scripts than they do about 'reality'. They may have one result per quarter from that pop up, that extra sale is good, a result, success even. Not on their dashboard is how many people didn't buy because of the stupid 'enter email address now:' popup they had on there. Marketing people are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, far too often they lack the skills of empathy and cannot see things from the customer's perspective. Hence they have to use things like statistics in an attempt to make up for their lack of intuition and appreciation of customer service.
Show HN: My Labyrinth Video Game
Hello All,
I'm currently working on a very simple video game that I'm planning to release on the Android Play Store. The purpose of the game is to complete a labyrinth before time runs out. There will be around 50 labyrinths. The link [1] below has a video of the game play. As you can see it is still very rough but I think that the game mechanics are pretty much all set.

It has taken me a lot longer than expected (9 months so far) to complete this because I decided to go the crazy route and create everything from scratch. I even created a level editor so that it would be easier to create each labyrinth. I may show a video of the level editor if there is any interest on this game.

I'm currently going to spend the rest of my time polishing it as much as I can and creating new levels.

Any feedback is appreciated.

[1] https://youtu.be/AA4GSmYAQyk
I'd guess the majority of p-hacking is not intentionally fraudulent, yeah. The first few intros to stats I tried to read had trouble sinking in -- it felt opaque and authoritarian somehow. Easy to treat it as a cookbook until I learned of the bayesian approach.
Personally, I think the database market is closed and the opportunity has already been captured. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
To be fair there have been a drive of exposing web API for everything on the local machine, including USB, Bluetooth, etc. However, just like with location, camera, microphone, etc. access to vibration should be granted by the user, not automatically granted like right now.
The fall of Dick Smith Electronics makes me rather sad.
I use LinkedIn to promote my training activities and to find connections -- for example, I used it to find a connection to the CEO of GitLab which resulting in a partnership that has already brought in additional training income (plus a really cool partner!!).

I used to write recommendations and have gotten some nice recommendations back. But then LinkedIn changed their UI and buried the recommendations.
As a contingency plan in case this article gets the HN hug of death: http://archive.is/ACTOT
Flask-Assistant: A Flask extension for writing Google Home actions
This reminds me a little bit about one of my favorite philosophers, Alain de Botton. Sometimes, he discusses meritocracy and meritocratic societies.

Basically, in a meritocratic society, such as the US, people tend to believe everyone's lot in life is deserved; luck is not considered a big factor. This creates a problem where the poor believe the rich made it through their hard work, while the rich believe that poor people deserve to be poor because they are lazy or stupid. People are where they are because they deserved to be there.

I used to place a high value in the concept of a meritocratic society, but experience is convincing me that the lack of compassion that such societies experience is not worth trade off.
Movie theaters make no money on tickets---it's concessions where the money is. That's why it's $10 for a small bag of popcorn and a drink (which costs the theater pennies on the dollars).
The intrusion techniques weren't novel but the overall execution was masterful enough to raise his botnet into some of the largest and most powerful in history.

Innovation is not the only route to talent. And I'm unsure whether they do or don't, but people should care. I hope he gets extradited.
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Show HN: Serverless and Auth0 API/UI
>> "...people in the drug discovery business do not see the FDA as an obstacle to doing business."

Let me play devil's advocate here and suggest that entrenched market participants love high-barrier-to-entry regulatory regimes. The FDA is "people in the drug discovery business'" moat.
In, say, 2006, $884M was spent on shipping and $567M in shipping revenue[1], so there was a subsidy of $317M. This was in total revenue of $10.71B[2]. That's a 3% subsidy, and is within a profit margin.

Uber is a bit harder to pin down from a quick google [3]. I'm seeing $750M loss in the recent quarter, which are "largely" attributed to driver subsidies by third parties, but Uber isn't talking. Let's say $500 as a rough estimate, which is 10% of the $5B in bookings that quarter.

So I guess Uber's subsidies aren't as high as I thought, but are still significantly higher than Amazon's. They both operate in cut throat industries with slim margins. Whereas Amazon invested in warehouses and their infrastructure. Uber may have something up their sleeve, and I hope they do, but it's not clear for an outside observer how they are anywhere as likely as Amazon was to have profits to justify their valuation.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236503/amazons-annual-sh...

[2] http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Amazon.com_(AMZN)/Data/Revenu...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose...
The knee-jerk reaction you are talking about is what is consider by some scholars as an Ontological Functional Constraints [1].

The constraint is considered deadly for the effective exercise of leadership. The constrains can however be removed or at least relaxed in a reliable way. :)

1). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406
I would love a Chrome extension that does this.
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There's even a tag for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...
Looks like a potential opportunity to use something like node-unfluff [0] to scrape page content. Pull request anyone?

[0]: https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff
There's a Chrome plugin that disables HTML5 video autoplay, with per-site toggles available. Most sites don't get that permission, but things like Youtube or other video sites (ahem) can get it easily.

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/
Looks like it is fixed in https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/82223709949555097.... Im looking for official changelog for confirmation though.