skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your thinking, but your understanding and application of networks, as well as your decidedly wishful thinking that they don't apply online, is simply wrong.

Mind: I'd much rather this not be the case, but it simply is.

Metcalfe's function is, by the way, also incorrect. Very few networks are comprised of nodes of equal value, instead the nodal (and inter-nodal) value tends to follow a power function (Zipf's Law), with one suggestion being that the value function of a network with peer-to-peer connections then be:

V = n * log(n) (Tilly-Odlyzko).

I see even that as incomplete, as networks also generate negative interactions, though by their nature, Metcalfe's formula applies, with some constant, such that the network cost imposed by nodes is:

C = k * n^2

Putting those together, a clear corollary is that the maximum feasible size of the network is dependent on the cost function constant.

What you're failing to consider is that the members of a network, including both the users and advertisers, are themselves components of that network, and have their own value and cost calculations to be applied. For large advertising networks, the fact that 1) larger markets with 2) more customers can be approached with 3) fixed costs for the advertiser and 4) efficiencies of scale for the network operator (e.g., Facebook or Google, approximately 2/3 of all online advertising), then there will automatically be an advantage to larger networks, provided k is sufficiently small.

There's nothing artificial about those barriers.

Incidentally, you can find network or dendritic structures in any system in which you have nodes or elements, and links or relationships: transport and communications systems, cities, even knowledge or information itself (think of the terms "knowledge web" or "information web").

I've never cared for Facebook and am finding Google increasingly evil and/or incompetent (and am torn as to whether that last is a good or bad thing on balance), but there's very little validity in claiming that the dynamics which have benefitted them are artificially imposed.
Search for Isaac Arthur's video on "The impact of nuclear fusion", then the video on Arcologies/vertical farms. You'll learn everything you could possibly want to know about why we aren't going to space en masse right now, and how fusion changes the economics of basically everything.

Of course, you might disappear down the awesome rabbit hole that is his Youtube channel.
The customer enthusiastically volunteered for the mission.
I love this one: http://david.li/paint/
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Reading code without judging is a superpower, because it breaks your mental blocks and makes you versatile. You can work on others code comfortably, fix things, and learn the good parts quickly without getting frustrated. My biggest issue was that - I was expecting everyone to think like me :)
First dedicated IDE for React
You mean like in Bangladesh, people will be literally enslaved with debts?
Fingerprint scans are mandatory for all adult guests seeking to enter the parks. The biometric is linked to the ticket permanently to prevent ticket sharing. This is true whether you use the Band or a card at the turnstile.
Yes, I learned that maneuver playing "Lunar Lander" in college. (The original BASIC version.) It was the only way to land without running out of fuel.
Hello,

If this launch is successful, how much money SpaceX would have saved by using a 'used rocket' instead of a new one?
If I'm reading this right, and I'd need more information on the references used to make the judgments, then a MIT License with a definitive statement on patents (positive or negative) would be a fantastic copyleft license that is:

* Easy for nonlegally minded people to read

* Legally obvious with little room for interpretation

* Easy to be incorporated into larger projects
Interesting. It appears you guys had seen the writing on the wall and had adapted your business model accordingly.

Thanks for your insider's take but who was the originator of the old business model? The Deck or Carbon?
The TV based ads are almost entirely targeted towards the rural demographic. I'm not saying it's enough ...And whatever limitation exists is a consequence of lack of funds rather than intent.

The condom issue has been well known for decades. Since the 60s, contraceptive health in India has been entirely focused on women for this same reason .. as a way to give them the choice instead of asking men.

The compulsory sterilization was an extremely tiny slice of history..For which the political party in question is being punished TO THIS DAY.

You are right about the colloquialism around talking about sex. Actually it's funnier than "wee wee". There is a cultural bias against women being "impure" at a certain time of the month - and then being disallowed in the family kitchen. The marketing campaign around this was a version of "don't touch the pickle".

Point being - this is not unusual. But the Family Planning bodies in India are now masters or crafting the marketing and the messaging to bring the conversation out in the open.

They did this very successfully with contraception in villages by organizing women committees..And for sanitary napkins in schools.
Huh, the startups who tried to do this before you (and died) didn't do it manually. Some crowdsourced it, some did recognition. Do you think your timing is better?
In general they've said that launching used rockets will cost customers about 30 percent less than regular price (so ~43 million instead of 62). For this specific case I wouldn't be surprised if they charged SES less than that because of the risk involved in being the first flight.
They mention implementing the model in TensorFlow, so it should absolutely be possible. (Unless they are using a special Google-only version.) One thing that might make reproduction difficult is that they don't describe their initialization procedure. But maybe it just doesn't matter.
It also gives ISPs the cover, funding and motivation to archive customers' browsing data en masse. The value of these data will be huge for both domestic and foreign intelligence.
> How difficult

Very difficult:

1.Machine learning is pretty data dependent, and make those datasets are very expensive. Google is not likely to give them away for free, because it is their competitive advantage.

2.The infrastructure to train those models are hard to get outside of Google. Pretty sure it is 10s or 100s of GPUs, with Infinity Band connected PS server, running for days and weeks.

Even with source code published, people will still have to scratch their head to duplicate Google's performance. Until the day, some equivalent organization as GNU that democratize data access to the public and some mighty algorithm being discovered dramatically reduced the computational requirement for training those models, Google succeeds by just being Google is unlikely going to change.
Because ideologically-driven individuals don't work for profit-driven multinational corporations? Because they're never hacked by ideologically-driven individuals? That kind of safeguard to me sounds like the worst of both worlds: Not meaningfully safeguarding anything, and lost business. A "clearly profit-driven multinational corporation" will (practically by definition) care about the latter.
http://www2.rdrop.com/users/wyvern//data/
My understanding is that Amazon makes their money from aws, then builds their brand through their eCommerce site and other gadgets/projects. Those projects (like aws) have the potential to make bucko bucks, but as long as Americans income continues to diminish, the profitability of Amazon's core business will stall.

But I agree that Amazon will become the first $1 trillion dollar enterprise, but after weathering another economic downturn. Amazon is the Walmart of today, and is ruthlessly out competing every retailer (retail is in a recessive state, and I'm wondering what happens when SEARS goes under).

To throw a curve ball back, I do think Amazon is politically vulnerable. I don't shop with Amazon, and I tell everyone not to shop at Amazon. The company doesn't treat their average employees well, and should allow all their workers to form and join a union if they want. USPS is a great place to work, FedEx and USPS are pretty great too, Amazon is a garbage place to work---
Deep Learning with Emojis (not Math)
web browsing was slow and laggy, navigating maps was slow and laggy and unintuitive
Cars and second order consequences
Rerere Your Boat
The landing gear would also need to be retractable, a big increase in weight and complexity. The complexity will add a lot of failure-critical reliability problems.
That's pretty cool; any info on a release date?
"It looks like you are trying to create an extremely large black market. Would you like some help with that?"

In other words, renting would remain, supply would decrease, prices would go up, but they would now go to criminal organizations (by definition!). Oh, and of course that's now money that wouldn't be taxed.

In other words, this would only help established crime rings, everybody else would be worse off.
Ask HN: Using Cognito with Stripe subscription
Hi, I'm new to AWS + Stripe and trying to figure out how I'm going to make this work for the monthly subscription system with using AWS Cognito and Stripe on a serverless web app.

I set up Cognito User Pools for my app to have users sign up. My thoughts on the monthly subscription system.

1. Create User Pools groups ( paid_member and member )
2. Assign user to member User Pools group on signup
3. Move user to paid_member group when user enter credit card information
4. Implement Strip subscription to paid_member Cognito User Pools
5. Cancel subscription, move the user back to member User Pools group

Does it make sense and will actually work?
I would love to hear other solutions on this too.
Standard bitcode does not, but there are people at LLVM and Apple working on a portable version of it, if you check LLVM talks.
You are right about the situation today.

But the question is - how do we change this situation?

Because there must be a way, since there are a lot of tools that can be combined for solution -crowdsourcing, including crowdsourcing engineers analysis, the easiness which one can create a niche retailer, the rich chinese manufacturing ecosystem(where there are even small companies making electric cars), the ability to order customer parts to replace the weak link in a product before breakage or just do preventive strengthening with some glue(I.e. earphone hinges) , etc...
It's kind of interesting that self-hosted direct advertising hasn't taken off as a technical problem to solve.
aka legalized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
No, it won't and yes, you are, respectively and unfortunately.
> If Walmart retail labor costs went up 25%, their costs wouldn't go up 25%, a tiny percentage of the cost of goods at Walmart is in the cost of labor

Oh, please! If you are going to write something like that at least pull-up a recent Walmart annual report and study it. Do some research and educate yourself before forming opinions so far out of alignment with reality.

Walmart employs over TWO MILLION people in the US alone. Labor cost is, in fact, one of Walmart's largest liabilities. There is NOT WAY they could survive a 25% labor cost hike without rising retail prices AND laying off a bunch of people because nobody is going to pay tons more for their products.

Please, do yourself a favor and learn to read a financial statement and play with it in a spreadsheet in order to understand how the real world works.
How to avoid out-of-memory errors when using Java inside #Docker
Playing Tetris can prevent PTSD
I've used AT&T's Natural Voices SDK about 10-15 years ago? It allowed you to create your own voices, but it's a hell of a lot of work.
Initialization is random according to abstract.

> Given <text, audio> pairs, the model can be trained completely from scratch with random initialization.
Still, it could have been 10 or 100 rich people instead of just one.
While the premise of the article is reasonable, the evidence is flimsy. This seems like an example of NY Times defending their turf. We've seen numerous [1] examples [2] lately of legacy media companies trying to drive advertisers away from new media sites and Youtube by discrediting sites as "fake news" and by running hit pieces on popular Youtube personalities.

I mean, just look at the author's latest articles. 5 of the last 6 (including this one) disparage advertising on new channels! [3] Targets include Youtube, Snapchat, Breitbart, and Google (in general).

The legacy media is just not well suited for the current state of the world. Breaking news comes first through Twitter now. Investigative journalism doesn't require a big budget to make high quality content any more. As for political commentary, many people would rather listen to a well-educated everyman craft videos on Youtube than listen to the millionaire personalities on Fox News talk about how the Democratic party doesn't understand the proletariat.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/feb/24/zoe-sugg-zoe...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube...

3. https://www.nytimes.com/by/sapna-maheshwari?action=click&con...
This is common at places with ticketed entry in the US. Even my old gym used a very similar fingerprint scanner.

Pretty sure the tech is all from the same one or two vendors. They claim that neither the raw fingerprint nor a unique identifier derived from it is stored. Instead, one of seven possible values is computed from it and only that classification is saved. If true, in practice, there is a 1-in-7 chance that your scan will match someone else's.

Resistance is futile.
Russians played with exactly such a stage, that had wheels from Mig-29 and engines from Yak-40. It was called Baikal and was feasible, but eventually never flew.
MIT is not copyleft. It's one of the most permissive licenses out there.
> With improved laws, no one would be able to hold the web-accessible data hostage

Could you explain this statement further? The way I'm interpreting it, it doesn't make any sense at all.
Graphical explanation of how Containers work, and Dockers role in it
I've been a fan of ISC over MIT... but yeah, imho that would be a nice license for code that's meant to be embedded.
You should have included the whole window in the screenshot to prevent confusion: http://imgur.com/a/e2wb3

Specifically to those who don't use iTunes Connect, this page is titled "Estimated App Store file sizes for Build", and the (?) callout says "This is the amount of disk space the app will take up on the customer's device."
From the article:

> Of the 400,000 web addresses JPMorgan’s ads showed up on in a recent 30-day period, said Ms. Lemkau, only 12,000, or 3 percent, led to activity beyond an impression. An intern then manually clicked on each of those addresses to ensure that the websites were ones the company wanted to advertise on. About 7,000 of them were not, winnowing the group to 5,000.

They're pretty plainly saying that 388,000 sites were trash. How else to interpret no "activity beyond an impression?" I could print their ads on toilet paper and have the same result.

> Do you find it unbelievable that there might be 400,000 legitimate websites in the set of available placements for Chase's ads, without spam? Why?

Yes! I do find it unbelievable! The customer did! Everyone should! There just isn't that much valuable content on the Internet. There really isn't. Not valuable for you, not for me, not for Chase, not for anyone with a brain!
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> The small size of the customer base also means drivers spend much more time than usual traveling to a pickup.

Wouldn't a service like Uber avoid this issue? The cost for a disabled persons Uber ride won't be significantly above the cost for my Uber ride. While the cost of a dedicated service, per ride, will be significantly higher.
And yet your math is nonexistent. A lot easier to be right that way, I get it.
Advertising is the propaganda of capitalism.
Kyle Mitchell's blog is an excellent source for the intersection between copyright law and software. Some of his recent interesting posts were on the MIT License[1], his takes on 'open source'[2] and on the ubiquitous LICENSE file[3].

[1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b...

[2]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/05/13/What-Open-Source-M...

[3]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/05/13/License-from-Who.h...
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Is it just me, but when I hear a Bank, or Insurance company advertisement; I always think, I wish they would save the money; and lower rates, and fees, or offer higher interest rates, or lower premiums.

Whenever I do a cost comparison, the business that does a lot of advertising is usually pricier.

I fully understand the need for new business to get their name/location out there, but Chase? I see them everywhere.

(If anyone from Chase is listening, drop the monthy fee on checking accounts. Be one of the first one's? Then I might come back to you? Yes--a it off topic, but in the ballpark?)
After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found Its Purpose – And Profits
Thanks, I just got some extra books. :)
Then that's pretty confusing when the (?) button next to Install Size says "This is the amount of disk space the app will take up on the customer's device."
There are a bunch of projects dual licensing, such as "MIT or Apache 2.0"; I'd love feedback on the legal aspects of this.

That is, does a downstream user have option to choose either license ever, or would best practice be to announce which license you default to on usage?
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I really don't think you can apply any sort of free market principles to ISPs.

They're almost all regional monopolies or duopolies -- with franchise agreements and, in many cases, state regulations/laws that make it hard for anyone else (including municipalities) to enter that market.

Unless you're someone big like Google or Verizon then you're not going to be able to enter the last mile ISP market and I don't see much incentive for companies even attempting to do that outside of highly populated urban areas.
It was probably the only ad network I have whitelisted on every adblocker I use.
Humanity is inherently violent.
Worth noting that Metcalf didn't actually think his "law" was particularly correct or insightful; he made it up for Ethernet sales pitches.
MagicBands are a very handy convenience item. Tracking is not their sole purpose. Most guests are not aware that the bands​ act as transponders, though there are tiny informational signs posted around the property. MagicBands are also not mandatory, and in fact, cost extra for day guests (they are included if you book a hotel room or get an annual pass).
Never got that link on Daring Fireball though!

Should I care?

Hint: Click his username, and read his profile. We'll wait.
I can't imagine anywhere besides Google that would actually notice or care about that.
Occam is the Latinized version of Ockham, as in "William of Ockham" [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham
Combine the data with publicly available information about politicians and other public figures, feed it to a machine learning algorithm and I bet you could get very high accuracy results very, very quickly.
Cloud 9 IDE is being blocked by Comcast
>Why would you want to be tagged and tracked like an animal?

Because you're paying through the nose to go to Disney and hope they can use the data to improve the visit for the next time.
Which seems to be fair if those ads don't provide any real leads.
No source code, as usual.

So why is it on Github?
It's kind of surreal to see this post and this comment here, because that is literally what I did last weekend - adapted that book to Rust!

https://github.com/xmonkee/rusttracer
+1 for dnSpy. It's not only a decompiler, but also a debugger. Additionally, it has the best IL editor I've ever used. A parser for the native parts of the PE file (headers and sections) is a great feature too.
With the magic of computers you could deliver 400k versions of your ad. Each tailored to the site where the ads are being displayed (or even more - tailored also to the specific user). Probably most of these sites have very distinct audience, so you could build quite targeted ads.

If you are just spamming the same ad everywhere, then I can certainly understand why it does not make difference if it appears on 5000 vs 400.000 sites if the ad display count stays the same.
The kinds of parachutes you'd need for a first stage are surprisingly heavy. I doubt they would save any weight, since you have to use the rocket anyway to slow down to the parachute's operational range.
There are two India's if you look only from rate of population growth. The four southern states have a similar accrual rates that of the west, and rate of increase in the "northern" states.

To quote the article referenced below:

"..Nine Indian states (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra) had fertility rates less than the replacement level of 2.1.

Kerala and Tamil Nadu, at 1.7, had lower fertility levels than Norway and the Netherlands, at 1.9 and 1.8 respectively."

http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/ageing-india-south-ind...
> Discrimating between companies leads to communism.

Pardon me for being blunt, but that is complete nonsense. If that was the case, the US would have become a communist state a long time ago.

> Good opportunity for isps to gain market share by offering privacy protection.

By that reasoning, one might allow car manufactures to leave out seat belts, so they could "gain market share" by offering to install seat belts as an expensive upgrade.
Binary transparency seems to be a nice thing to have though quite limited in scope for linux as distro usually compile from source. Even more limited as mozilla knowingly makes controversial choice stating unhappy users and distro can recompile with a build flag until we strip the code.

IMHO mozilla should orient its transparency effort towards its decision process first so we don't end with a binary transparent browser no one use because management decided to remove user choice and break the UI (to look more like chrome), break extensions that contributed to firefox success (to be more like chrome), require pulseaudio and drop alsa and so on.
> if you've spent any amount of time actually trying to get those images placed correctly

I had to learn LaTeX as part of my education, and as much as I like it this is one of it's weaknesses, not it's strengths. I saw my fellow students struggle to get all the images on the pages they wanted, and if they asked for help the answer was "Let LaTeX decide where to put it".

Don't get me wrong, I still love LaTeX. It let's me:

* Keep a whole document in a consistent style I can change at any point in the process.
* Produce pretty mathematical formulas and proper justified text.
* focus on writing instead of fiddling with where images go (I let LaTeX decide, it's usually pretty smart about this)
* Write code that writes part of my document. I used to write code to do the boring parts of certain proofs, and it would produce the LaTeX for me.
In this case, yes. Not because of personality cults, but because jgruber is the person behind DF.
Hah, I haven't thought of Eircom hosting in a while.
I'm seeing a 3x increase in on-device binary sizes. 20MB to 60MB.
So I get that they equal Strictness with Pain. That's just the perspective of somebody who want to include free software in their nonfree software.

However I don't get why every copyleft licence get a minimum of two ?'s. They write that it is a measure of popularity and quality, but for example

"EPL-1.0 Best copyleft license. Clear patent license. Professionally drafted."
"GPL-2.0 Most popular “community” copyleft license. Can hire compliance pros."

Those have quality and popularity, but they still get a double ?? in Confusion?