skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1-5% click through rate on a display ad is pretty normal. If had impressions on 400k sites, the distribution of impressions per site had a long tail, and then you removed all of those that had no clicks, you'd expect to have a small set of placements with clicks. It doesn't mean they're spam sites, it's just math.
Indecipherable Medical Bills Are One Reason Health Care Costs So Much
I assume they added more bitcode so they can add better IPO jit optimizations in swift, across modules. Or optimize per target on those small devices.

bitcode is already compressed.

But the regression is huge, there needs to be a command-line switch to turn that off.
Maybe you meant MPL2? IMHO it gets the perfect balance between "share your changes" and "anyone can use this, even in a commercial product".

But it doesn't have any language about patents.
Upload all my code to your cloud first.... erm, hell no - uninstalled. Enterprise wont use this at all, way to big of a risk.
>It turned out that parachutes are great for soft uncontrolled landings, but if you want a soft controlled landing you need some form of propulsion.

They could do something like the Russians do with Soyuz - small solid rocket boosters that fire right at landing. But yeah, that's a lot more things that have to go right.
Some countries have even made such data retention a legal requirement. For example in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34715872
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For a brilliant rant on the horrible, useless design of the Space Shuttle, it's hard to beat Idle Words: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
> a troubling amount of wealth and power

Any rookie cop can force you to pull over in your car, and confiscate any cash you have with you. Bezos can do none of that.
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ok, but I don't think that is what Xcelerate is quite saying here
Interesting article, showing how important material science is for improving our lives.

I was surprised to read "older customers need a range of multifocal options". Did not know that multifocal contact lenses even existed!

Also, it really is a pity that only glasses and contact lenses are available for people with myopia, laser surgery having a high risk of various complications, most prominently eye dryness.
This is an argument I haven't seen before, and I've been trying to follow the tree of wikipedia links, but I'm not understanding terminology like "patterned principle." Is it a fixed distribution of wealth, or opportunity, or some other thing? Would Wilt spending all his excess income bring things back into balance, or do extra possessions also violate the principle? What if he spent the money on experiences?

Or better yet, can someone translate it into plain old equations for me? Words get very slippery, especially since this is a proof by contradiction and it's hard to make sure you've eliminated all the possibilities without enumerating them.
Sure, I know there are lots of differences between GNU and macOS; that's not what I'm asking about.
I was thinking the same thing. Who would waste an unpatched vm escape bug just to nab some poor souls laptop, which can be wasted and reformatted in an hour? Sounds like a colossal waste and I bit there's very, very few (if any) examples of it happening in the wild.
There is lots of undefined behavior in the code examples, where x-1 is used as an index although x starts from 0. I guess he didn't want to talk about boundary conditions?
Didn't know about this, thanks for reposting!
Sorry, I disagree. Kindly enlighten me.
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They get bragging rights. It's also very much in their interest to support development of reusable launchers, since once the technology is proven they'll save on every launch going forward.
Right, even a good diphone voice needs lots of data. And I noticed they trained it with the existing Google Home voice actress, from whom they must already have many, many hours of recordings. I was mostly asking about the model itself; whether you could download TensorFlow and put one together based on this paper alone.
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Ockham is arguably the proper spelling when the name isn't being rendered in Latin; Ockham is where William was from.
> You can’t buy Congress’s web history

They probably don't understand or know that, though, so why not give them a scare?
> it didn't end because it wasn't profitable.

Actually, it ended because it could not compete with free labor. It was dying around 1800 because of that, and then the cotton gin revived it. It was dying again in the 1850s, and a big driver of the Civil War was the slave states trying to protect their economy from free labor competition.

I don't think it's a coincidence that social justice has tended to follow what works best economically.
Also, why the quotes on community?
It's the reward for past work, not current.

Imagine kid A studies really hard during his youth and doesn't get to have any fun because he's working so hard. Kid B likes to slack off and party and do drugs. If Kid A grows up and makes it big, why does kid B deserve half? Why should he deserve any portion? You could tax kid A's wealth but you can't tax kid B's youth and pleasure. Why put a cap on on kid A's wealth if you are not putting a cap on kid B's leisure time? We put no such caps on anything else whether it be beauty, intelligence, number of friends, popularity even though all of these things cause disparity.
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What about a profit-driven multinational corporation with political ties?

Say it is indeed possible to pinpoint individual congresspeople, as the grandparent suggested. If some of these congresspeople have a browsing history they'd rather not have made public, identifying them could leave them open to blackmail.
The source code for Research Unix 8th, 9th, and 10th Editions are available
The article disagrees with you. It references a study that says 30% of women stop using the pill due to adverse side effects. Fewer than 10% of men in the​ male pill study stopped use due to adverse side effects.
I am yet to be convinced that domestic recycling is the way to go, as opposed to putting all the trash to one huge landfill and subsequently unleashing mining robots on it.

It seems to me that sorting stuff (recycling) at home is prone to errors to such a high degree that it is just a feel-good thing, as opposed to something useful for the environment.
Grocery stores throw a lot of food away due to regulation and liability issues, not for bargaining leverage.
I truly don't understand your response. There is no ideology here, just math. Yeah, the it is a shitty business in that costs are ridiculous. It is in all of our interests to understand this and try to provide a better operating environment.

No, this does not mean throwing all regulations out the window and letting companies put out unsafe product.

There's a huge continuum between the scenario you envision someone like me "pushing" for and our current reality (which is getting worst every year). Somewhere in there there's a better place where drug company costs are reduced, approvals don't cost so much, frivolous lawsuits are reduced and the regulatory framework achieves a good balance between promoting R&D and serving the common good.

You are stuck on "they are all evil", which simply does not align with reality.

Here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/08/11/how-th...

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/30/the-cost-o...

I am astounded at how illiterate our population is about even the most basic aspects of business. We give our school system our kids for, what, 13 years or so and they come out without any real skills to hold a job, start a business or even understand finances. This is truly terrible.
I never suggested such a thing. Natural rights don't exist. That's just something some people make up. So what prevents me from taking someone else's stuff, if I really wanted it?
It's a far cry from forbidding campaign spending on media to forbidding media from discussing a campaign. And I highly doubt the most discussed campaign wins.

Democracy rests on only 2 pillars: the freedom of speech, and a fair vote. Everything else we call democracy flows from these two things, and we cannot afford to ever give them up.

It turns out, though, that if you say something often enough, people start to believe it. This violates the spirit of the law, because "free speech" is about sharing views, not programming dependent (as opposed to independent) minds. Note that the notion of "free speech" arose in a time when it meant actually speaking in front of a crowd, or printing and distributing an anonymous flier, critical of the current ruler. It did not mean protecting the right of the ruler to use his power to repeat something so often that his people start to believe it.

It is time for a revolution in the way individuals relate to information. It is time for individuals to assert their right to refuse input that is not in their interest. It is time for communication to be by consent only. It is time for us all to stop defending the right of institutional oligarchs to use power-tools to force-feed us speech in the name of defending free speech.
How is this different from the DeepMind's [0]WaveNet?

[0]https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
I see your points. But it is related. Even if u get what you think the paper describes, it is hard to know whether you did it right or not, because you cannot replicate the result easily. This happens in a lot of CV papers already, where people reimplement the model, but it never get as good as the paper demonstrated

But, you have a very good idea. Since it is Google Home, will it be possible that some people just buy hundreds of them, and infinitely ask them question to gather the training data? That will be interesting to see.
They - and Carbon Ads (mentioned below) to a lesser extent - had ads which were actually interesting to me. In a way computer-chosen ads (Google Adwords) never seem to be.

The fact there was no tracking so the same ad didn't follow me around, and wasn't tailored due to my web browsing history made them far more interesting, because they exposed me to new services.

That (for me) is the major annoyance of retargeting in particular. Just because I've looked at something once I'm shown ads; they can't determine whether I looked at it or I'm interested in it.
Because that's a business problem, the technical side of it was solved a long time ago.
Yeah, I generally agree with everything you've said. And no, I can't propose any alternative system with those requirements. I'm not even sure if it's possible by definition.
We can't even build an OS that isn't broken in significnt ways. What makes anyone think we can build a bug-free self-replicating global technology/manufacturing stack?
It's interesting that his perception of the GPL v3.0 and LGPL v3.0 is that it has higher "confusion" than the v2.0 versions (and the highest confusion rating of any of the licenses, only matched by WTFPL, which even I, a laymen, lack confidence in).

I get that the 2.0 versions have been in use a lot longer, and have had some tests in court. But, my understanding was that part of v3.0's purpose was to clarify the license and remove uncertainty about its meaning. They certainly had a lot more resources and experience when constructing the v3.0 versions. It's been many years since I read them side-by-side, but I recall liking the language in 3.0 more than in 2.0.
I want orange to appear on a google search, what bytes need to be sent over the wire from my brain.
This is very interesting. I sight read western notation but never learned anything else. To be honest, I didn't even know Byzantine notation existed. Time to go learn something new. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What are the real, non-hyped consequences of losing privacy/tracking?
The topic of privacy and tracking resonates with many here on HN, and is discussed frequently.

However it seems to me that comments are often an expression of sentiment or principle (e.g "I don't like it that G/FB know everything about me" / "If it's free you are the product" / "Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither" etc vs. "I don't care because I have nothing to hide").

I think it'd be helpful to consider what are actual (or potential) real implications of having your personal data online and in the hands of big companies/government. This can help show the real picture and judge for one's self if the pros outweigh the cons.

A few obvious ones are:
- If you do/buy/search for illegal things, the police can find you.
- In a totalitarian regime, if you express opposing thoughts, the government can find you.
- You will be shown extremely targeted ads / personalized recommendations.

What are some specific, non-principle concerns we should have (today or down the slippery slope) regarding privacy?
Stop worrying about inequality. It fixes itself.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/apocalypse-is-the-only-path...
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Sounds like it will work. Keep it simple.

User signs up for your website, becomes a member.

User likes your app and pays a monthly subscription: they click on button, pay with their credit card, and you change them to a paid user.

User unsubscribes, you move them back.

I'm currently using Stripe and PHP.

So here are some technicalities that I came across when building my saas:

Credit cards have an expiration date so you need to either capture this and store it into the database and do a check for it.

Upon credit card expiration -- like 5 days before, email the user, or pop up a form alerting the user their credit card is about to expire.

You should also be checking the actual card to make sure it is valid.

You will probably need to build an area for the user to have the ability to update their credit card.

There are two ways you can use Stripe and I spoke with a Stripe representative to confirm both were okay.

1) Stripe Webhooks will tell you what is going on with a user.

Upon receiving these webhooks, you will need make your program do something.

https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks

https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/stripe-webhook-event...

Those 2 links will pretty much give you everything you need.

2) Store all your data in a database and use that information instead of relying completely on Stripe.

Before I knew about web hooks.. I actually use(d) #2. And I'm still using it for my web apps.

I use webhooks to capture the moment the third attempt of a credit card charge fails just so I know this user is not actively engaged anymore.

Other than that, I offer a set amount of X a month and I set a monthly renew date.

When the user subscribes, this becomes their new renew date. I grab this info:

$period_end = $subscription->current_period_end;

I add a day to the period end since the actual renew day is 12:00:00 AM the next day.

So on the day of their renew day, you need to check for that credit card expiration and to see if they are still active (Stripe will do all the work of making sure it is an active valid credit card and let you know if the user status is "active" or not. If the checks fail, you have it switch the user back to an unpaid account and you should probably have it send an email that their account has been reverted back to free "due to issues".

Implementing these checks and balances will protect you and save you a lot of time and work, especially from fraud.

IF you choose #2 route, Stripe support will do very minimal in helping you with anything that goes wrong.
1 - depends on volume. high enough and you can get goodp-value of the population even in a few days

2 - still a win-win-win-win, Chase get more views for the same budget, few website of good content that attract good traffic get more money out of ads, bad website spamming keywords get less money and the exchange gets the same money but displaying the ads few times as the unit price increase so it has more margin.
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It occurs to one that elevator doors are every bit as complex as what you ecan scribe and have been doing their job for over half a century at a cost of far less than that.

But really, you don't even need a door - a simple gate like on a ride at Disneyland, or heck even the gates at the station entrance would do nicely.
Really cool project, this inspired me!

FYI: ZenRobotics has been developing waste separation technology for years now. Not sure on what stage it is now but according to their website, they seem to have some working solutions already. http://zenrobotics.com/
Note there's an exploding literature that reads these models as causal models: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r350.pdf
I wish he would of included the MS-PL which is not as common but a very decent license if you worry about patent based claims, otherwise has an MIT License vibe.
Oh they should - I just don't have any expectation that ADA compliance regulations will change to the extent this would require in my lifetime.
We call it 'ringing' in Hungary and it's a pretty common practice.
Any way we see this new development, this weakening of privacy is a big win for telecoms and its sustained and vast efforts at lobbying Congress. Bluntly, Congress sold out the American people...anywhere else (I believe) and the ability for entire industries to buy votes would be called corruption, especially when elected representatives remove consumer protections (whoever gave them that mandate?!) in favour of (a paying) industry.

[0]- The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them (http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-...)
I've seen no indication he doesn't think it's correct.

The Tilly-Odlyzko correction (the paper establishing it gives it as a "refutation" of Metcalfe's law) strikes me as eminently more sensible.

The cost function amendment is my own work.
This is an old famous paper which got a lot of arguments wrong, and a lot right.

The famous result is the old computed goto vs switch argument, which basically comes down to switch adds bounds-checking overhead. He didn't get that. Most commenters neither. He also cemented the poor wording "threaded interpreter"
and "indirect branching" for different concepts.
It's also a totally unimportant feature of making interpreters fast.

Indirect call overhead is significant and measurable. Jit compilers made that obsolete.

He didn't get the case against perl. perl has a huge op and data overhead, as is way too dynamic. But the dispatch loop is better than the others, as perl always returns the pointer to the next op already. There's no dispatch.

Much better interpreter optimization papers came later with lua, reiterating old lisp results. Note: not luajit. lua already had a perfect interpreter loop. lua uses the lisp architecture of small tagged dynamic data, plus a tiny opset, efficiently stored in a single word, with 2-3 arguments. python with its linearizing cfg optimizer tried to mimic it a bit, but is still too slow. Many one-word primitives allow fast stack allocation and updates, and one-word ops allow fast icache throughput.
One should check out the talk of 33c3, where a group of german journalists bought this type of data and deanonymized some users.

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8034-build_your_own_nsa
Yes, we've had this "problem" for 200 years now.

"The Luddite movement began in Nottingham and culminated in a region-wide rebellion that lasted from 1811 to 1816. Mill owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was brutally suppressed with military force."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
> I'm not understanding terminology like "patterned principle."

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/34r4vg/endst...

This awkward terminology is something that infuriates me about Nozick.
At some point the threat also just takes the form of "here's a list of random sites we totally made up and will tell people you visited". How well does blackmail like this even work? Even if somebody has every naughty site Trump has visited, where will you publish it and why are his supporters going to read it and believe you? Why will they not assume you made it all up?
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Does anyone have an idea where to find the original texts (Latin)?
No one think of it in another way: they were originally talents in their home country and it is actually the recovery of the "Brain-Drain" of their home country...
Anytime I hear of MIT and Patents I think of the MS-PL:

https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL

Not sure how "easy" it is to read, I think it's fine? I'm no lawyer, just another developer.
This model sounds so cool. Any idea of a high level software package where you can feed pairs of <text, audio> and build a TTS model as a result?
Money is fungible. It doesn't make sense to say that these dollars that "disappear" are completely separate from these other dollars that magically "appear" out of nowhere. In real terms (we'll call it wealth, but you can call it purchasing power, or whatever other term you want to use for what dollars represent or enable), the wealth the US government spends comes from the actual people who get taxed, in the proportion in which they are taxed, plus the extra provided by inflation, which comes from everyone who holds dollars.
I feel that `/s` usually should be included at the beginning of the statement. Could save some momentary triggers.
Thanks for releasing this. How does this differ from just combining a CDN like Cloudflare, with an API gateway like Tyk or Kong?
Also entirely possible that the balance of the 400k websites account for a miniscule percentage of impressions.
It would be an overstatement to say that it's way beyond our technological ability to get to Mars. That's just a long trip in a rocket away. Making it habitable is also within our ability - Live in the lava tubes, or radiation-protected inflatable shelters. To live on another planet is to take a collection of solved problems and engineer the solutions into existence.
But the Carbon site says it's invite-only.
Also, how do you go about advertising on a site with user sub-sites using Carbon?
Most variational inference are not full-Bayesian as well...
Yeah, success of this entire pivot relied largely on this intern's audit report. I imagine that the intern had a massive list of 12,000 URLs and would click through them, taking care to note why the site passes muster or otherwise so that management can add a layer of justification to the final decision. Even at an average of 3 minutes per URL, that still amounts to >600 hours of repetitive and sometimes traumatising work. Remarkable that they only selected a single (unpaid?) intern to deal with this...truly remarkable.
Big names outside Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has built a reputation of unparalleled tech dominance. But places like Boston, Austin, and Seattle have some name in tech also. I've been considering what it takes to claim a presence in the tech industry. So, for fun, please help me build a list of cities outside Silicon Valley, and their most prominent tech names.

For instance, Seattle's biggest names are Microsoft and Amazon.

Atlanta:
Austin, TX: Dell
Boston: MIT
Chicago:
Denver:
Dublin, Ireland:
Huntsville:
K.C.:
Lagos:
Las Vegas: Zappos
London:
Moscow:
Orlando:
Paris:
Portland:
Rome:

Add your favorite city and its well-known native.
> Amazon quite frequently makes my life better

because you can finally buy more things and own more things and consume more things. how does this make your life better?
>The fact that you harbor a resentment as if the former is anything like the latter is slightly terrifying.

[0]The "half poor" rally don't care about the top 2 rich.

[0]https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...