skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that's useful information, but it looks like it's already heavy on one one of the spectrum. 40 unit and 160 unit comparisons are interesting, but I assume those are already from 6-8 floors to 30-40 floors. I'm also interested in the costs of units between 2-3 floors to 5-6 floors. As floors increase, that report shows an increase in construction costs (I assume because of the pain of building higher and the extra support needed to bear the load). If it's not always an entirely smooth curve of cost as floors increase, there may be some sweet spots (local maxima) in there were you maximize per-unit value. E.e. if an 11 floor building requires different, more costly building methods, it's entirely possible that a 10 floor building may be a better investment than 11, 12 or 13 floor building, and then at 14 floors it's a better value than 10 floors again. It would make sense to have building and ordinance codes line up with building realities, but they likely don't.
> We're all carrying around smartphones

No, we're not. They are popular, but that doesn't extrapolate to "all".

> surely that's how you "normalize tracking"?

Problems can occur in more than one situation. Also, while the actual tracking done by a cellphone is probably worse, many people still do not understand exactly what is being tracked. With Disney's device, tracking is the intended purpose, which may create a larger conditioning effect.
No, that's the wrong side of the store you are looking at :)

That's the size as uploaded by the developer, not downloaded to user.
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If you're worried about people recording your fingerprints, presumably you are careful never to, like... touch anything?
Lying is free speech, but you can already sue if someone's speech is false and then damages you. A candidate's lies should qualify as damaging to someone who votes for them under false assumptions.
The Deck was one of the few clean players.

I still fundamentally think advertising is slime, a form of mind control, and a symptom of excess consumption in society, but that's not changing anytime soon. In the meantime, I'd be very happy if everyone were like The Deck.
Short answer, yes.
Long answer: Learning how to read other people's code will help your literacy of the language and you may even learn a new trick along the way. It might seem like an arduous task now, but as you get into the habit of reading more code, you'll be able to recognize patterns and processes much faster thereby improving your velocity.
"A bit isn't a divisible unit"

What ? Sure it is. When you measure the information content (or, the entropy) of a message, you very frequently get non-integer numbers of bits per (character/unit/message/whatever).

Written english, for instance, has 1.46 bits of information per character.

Or 146 cb.
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I've never encountered this concept before, but I appreciate the introduction greatly! I love this idea.
I'm not full on tinfoil hat, but.. but.. I mean.. Uhh.

WHAT?

Maybe I'm more paranoid than most, but I've definately been getting more defensive about my privacy in the last two years or so. I don't do social media, I at least tell my phone not to do location stuff (I have no idea if it obeys this) and noscript etc etc. Even before that, though, giving fingerprints away without being forced to do so is completely mind bending to me. I would never do that.

Maybe I would have once before I got more jaded about this kind of business, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. I find it especially toxic that they'll refuse entry if you don't do it.. It's making you chose between your crying children and a ruined holiday vs giving away one of the only things that can physically identify you to a random corp.

I used to not care so much about these things, but then I started working for a big marketing/tracking/data broker company. Going from 'Yeah, I know this stuff is going on since I read the tech news' to actually building that stuff and seeing the kind of data avail would make anyone take similar steps..
I grew up on a farm in Northern California, so there really wasn't the option for a "faceless" meat. I decided when I was 15 that I wanted to try to be vegetarian, I quit cold turkey and have been vegetarian or vegan ever since. I'm 40 now.

My advice:

- Learn to cook. You'll want to eat unprocessed foods that come from good sources. Don't worry about how much protein you're getting. There is no need to supplement with protein shakes or fake meats. Amino acids are plentiful in all whole foods except fruits. Nuts, peas, beans and whole grains are all rich with protein. If you're eating whole foods you shouldn't really have to worry about it.

For example, why buy isolated whey protein when you could purchase ricotta (made from whey) or pea protein when you can have split pea soup. The whole food will be more nutritious and hell of lot cheaper to make. On that note, purchase an electric pressure cooker, an immersion blender and some basic cooking utensils if you don't already have them.

- Learn how to ferment foods. A lot of grains, legumes and vegetables have mild amounts of phytotoxins that are removed during the fermentation process. Sourdough breads, yoghurt, kefir, kimchee, sauerkraut, etc. are all great sources of vitamins, minerals and umami flavors that are not in the "fresh" sources.

- If you decide to be ovo-lacto vegetarian, find a good local farm for eggs or dairy (local for milk, not so necessarily local for cheese). You'll be saving a lot by not buying meat, so make sure you're purchasing ethically raised chicken eggs. Eggs are great foodstuff. Chickens are also easy to raise yourself if you want to feel closer to your food.

- Don't evangelize. Over the years your reasons will change. Answer peoples questions when they ask (and they will), but don't push YOUR personal decision on others.

- Have fun with it!
This is infuriating because the simplified tax system is objectively superior. Any Congressperson who voted against this was either 1. stupid or misinformed 2. bought out by Intuit.

It seems to me that the only way to mitigate the effect of lobbying, aka legalized bribery, is to publicly call out the politicians who sell out.

Is there a list of representatives who voted against this bill?
https://youtu.be/z8wWuLnj6JI
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+1

I left Toronto for the US in 2015, and my compensation increased by 3-4x (currency conversion taken into account). I have been working for large well-known US companies in both cities.
Edited for elaboration:

The article doesn't mention the precise methodology for reaching the 5000 sites number, other than some human filtering being involved.

The precise wording of another section is also vague, the 'cost of an impressions' could mean either their total Internet marketing expenditure is the same (thus 395000 sites were largely ineffective and merely exposed them to risk and complexity) OR that they've reduced their spending by around 98+% with no appreciable change in effectiveness.
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If you believe in your idea get a loan from family, friends or banks or get a high paying job save money and then start your business.

Starting and running a successful business is not easy which is why the rewards should go to the risk taker.
These numbers matched exactly to what is currently in the AppStore for the last release we have ready for sale
Yup. US system of passing laws through congress is now broken to such an extent that the only things that can pass unmolested are esoteric bills that (usually) shift money from the taxpayer to big corporate lobbying group in such a way that the common person can't (or isn't bothered enough) to understand. That's one of the reasons most of a President's power is expressed through executive orders directives to federal agencies selectively enforce or ignore laws passed by congress. That is also why passage of Obamacare will forever be remembered as a huge legislative accomplishment the likes of which will probably not be replicated again in our lifetimes.
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Fingerprints can be taken from loads of things I touch. They're useless if they don't have my fingers to compare them to, and they can only have my fingers with a court order.

Or, I guess, if I want to see daffy duck with the kids... >_<
I remember looking to host their ads and it was more like they would call you not the other way around. Was this always the case?
This is really awesome! Anyone has any resources on learning TTS synthesis?
The CEO can die and the company will continue functioning 95% as well. Or maybe 105%, or 10%, or 1,000%.
Is not that meaningful to compare salaries without considering cost of living.
Comedy option: Gilbert Gottfried.
"Interesting. the solution should be to just to tax Wilt Chamberlain at a rate high enough that the astronomical net worths become merely "stratospheric"."

The solution to what ? Could you describe the problem in the (above) Wilt Chamberlain example ?
Lying is a felony in several situations.
Amazon already went through 2 downturns. Dot com bubble and the last recession. During the recession they faired extremely well.

they've been facing tough competition from Walmart since the late 90s. Alibaba is still miles away from competing in the same areas as Amazon although that will change with time. For now, if you're a consumer, aliexpress is only good for buying cheap low quality items.

If there's something they've figured out, it's logistics and how to deliver a product as fast and cheap as possible. Everything about their system is optimized for this. Now with their venture into contract companies to deliver goods they can bypass more expensive UPS delivery.

Now do I think they're stock is overvalued? Yes, but I don't see a doomsday scenario happening.
I was wondering the same thing! I think, in the future this might be a problem for national security
Yes, it's TOTALLY different. The U.S. power globally is EXTREMELY tied to the use of the dollar internationally. Everyone else who uses dollars (or has currency pegged to the dollar) is under major economic control and influence of the U.S. Oil priced in dollars is huge.

When the U.S. left the gold standard it was giant fuck you to all the countries who held dollars and could no longer exchange them for gold. The U.S. maintains and exercises military power globally in part to protect the dominance of the dollar.

Note also that state/local taxes in the U.S. are completely different from federal because they can't just make dollars and can only spend dollars received through taxes (which are not deleted in that case) or received from federal spending (or in some cases through the state itself doing business in the market).
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I think that there are 3 or 4 companies who would have happily paid that for say Alex Krizhevsky ("Alex Net") a few years ago, and it's pretty clear that would have paid off (it certainly has for Google).
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This is awesome. We are using Nginx + HAProxy here. A new option is always welcome.
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replied in other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992751

but YES, different
Well, there are legit reasons for your govt making you do so.. Say you're a suspect in some murder and they have some prints on the weapon; they want to compare with your hands right... That's a reasonable thing for a govt to compel you to provide and we're all pretty much agreed that this is ok.

Private companies taking that data at childrens amusement parks not so much. I'm not sure we can compare that with drunk policies...
>hopefully he will go all in on some crazy idea eventually

Blue Origin? He does have his own space ship company.
Probably, but it doesn't protect you against bad edge cases, like screwing with your own mind so much that you no longer can or want to activate the backup.
Your numbers are way off base. 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, it's part of why they've been so successful. Most people making <$15 an hour work in the service industry. If everyone is forced to bear higher costs simultaneously, it's a lot easier to raise prices and pass that cost along to the consumer.
Honestly this sounds terrible. From what you have said it seems fairly clear that you are being exploited by the CEO / others. And what does it even mean that the CEO (who presumably owns a large portion of the company) went without pay for two year when he is independently wealthy? You sound quite intelligent so just think about it, if he was paying himself a salary it would just be transferring money from his bank account to his bank account again, all while being taxed. The fact that this is used as a mitigating factor to argue that you are not getting screwed is absurd, for your sake I hope you go out to the marketplace and get paid what you deserve.
>Meh, if an attacker can sniff your packets, they can already tell what IP addresses you're talking to, which certainly narrows down which domain names you're talking to.

Honest question: with an increasing amount of sites being hosted via cloud infrastructure, does an IP really let you know if you are talking to Amazon, Google, or Microsoft vs the multitude of sites hosted by AWS, GCP, or Azure?

I'm assuming they use their own infrastructure, but I could be wrong.
Huh, you weren't kidding:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/periodic-abstinen...

although we do have this:

> "You really can't extrapolate from this paper," says David Grimes, an obstetrician-gynecologist and vice president of biomedical affairs at the nonprofit public health organization Family Health International. "Naive readers see these results, and they think [STM] is the greatest thing since laptop computers. The researchers on this paper went back and cherry-picked this data from an ongoing study from the past 20 years. They chose the users who were the best users for this method."

and there aren't any references there at all. Besides, the requirement that a couple perfectly adhere to the rules is pretty ... unergonomic.

(caveat: I'm of course not remotely anti-contraception, but it was a fun couple of searches)
Just because you can buy it doesn't mean you can't be sued if you use the information to harm or embarrass someone... right?
If the result would have been the same with zero sites, the 5000 can be selected randomly.
I agree, regulation is largely what's keeping supply down. That being said, I think there's something wrong with purely living owning 10+ investment properties while millennials in Syd and Toronto are being priced out of buying a dwelling.
Just adding on to this with an anecdote. My mother had something called norplant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levonorgestrel-releasing_impla..., it has been rebranded recently and there were class action lawsuits filed in the late 90s and early 00s due to awful side effects that were not listed) and had ovarian cysts later in life due to this device (she also had emotional problems while she was on them). It became completely debilitating to her health and required extremely invasive surgery to rectify (and prevent from ever coming back). It was actually shocking how much different she was after the surgery. The cysts can be extremely painful for up to a few weeks if they don't burst (her's didn't burst at ALL). She is more energetic after her surgery than I've ever seen her, despite being almost 50. Please be careful if you are gonna use these kinds of things and understand the risks (I know my mom's case is exceptional and not necessarily indicative of normal problems/use).
That was proven to be "fake news". Essentially someone talked to a source (Michael McKenna) that hadn't even talked to Perry after his name was floated. Later interviews with McKenna even had him saying that he was misquoted.

The DoE does lots of work in Texas, and as former governor Perry had experience in working with them on managing the US's nuclear weapons stockpile. Part of his campaign platform in 2011 was to split the National Nuclear Security Administration out of the DoE and give it to the DoD.

In his statement accepting the nomination, he specifically called out the role of the DoE in safeguarding the US nuclear arsenal.

Otherwise don't let me stop the "hurr Durr stupid Republicans" circle jerk.
I guess I live in a small world because I have no idea how to type an umlaut on a US Qwerty keyboard but I can easily type Paul Er\"{o}s.
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As usual, /r/SpaceX is a treasure trove of information about this launch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/62aqi7/rspacex_ses1...

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/

Here's the SpaceX press kit:

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/finalses10presskit....
Over my head. Who is she?
He can only buy it if someone's willing to sell it. ISPs won't sell information this granularly - not directly.
Writing prose is easy no matter what tool you're using. Now try to typeset a matrix that has annotations for its rows and columns. Say something like

m n
[ A B ] m
X = [ C D ] n
[ E F ] n

Achieving this in LaTeX deserves a dissertation in and of itself.
If we take into account the time-value of money (which would be natural since we're talking about savings/investments that are subject to inflation and compound interest), higher income + higher COL remains favorable even if the cost of living ratio remains constant upon retirement.
> Surprisingly, the company is seeing little change in the cost of impressions or the visibility of its ads on the internet, she said.

If/when other companies switch to this strategy, they’ll all be competing for less inventory and cost will go up accordingly.
Harm, yes, but embarrass - what would be the grounds for suit? (Not a lawyer, just can't fathom any legal grounds for action here...)
I'm curious to understand how you've decided that your desire to take someone else's property makes it a trivial truth that only violence prevents you from having the natural right to take it.
I have no industry wide view, but...

All existing nuclear powerplants are shitty Fukushima-style pressurized light water reactors in the US, are they not?

I'd have to think this company is an incumbent blocking entry of modern designs. Is this really a bad thing?
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It's pretty simple. The market has been valuing Amazon - from day one since its IPO - with an eye on the future value of its cash flow / net income. Certainly many investors and competitors have regarded that constant pushing off of the profitability expectations (for two decades), as unfair.

Since Amazon began showing off AWS financial figures, the stock has more than doubled. The market has priced in AWS as being worth perhaps $150 billion or more. AWS is making a lot of money, and it's going to make a lot more over the next five years.

Investors likely expect that given the immense scale of the business and the fact that it's still growing at 20%+ (remarkably), the future prospect of Amazon generating, say, $16+ billion in net income, is reasonable to expect. One can then debate whether it's rational to be granting that valuation to Amazon today, if it'll take another ten years to produce the $16 billion annually (pulling future returns forward, the cause of Microsoft's 15 years of stagnation in regards to its stock).
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Eh, same would have happened with billboards, newspapers, radio, etc. Bad marketing cannot be fixed by mass deployments.
As amusing as it would be, the ISPs are only permitted to sell aggregate anonymized data, not anything personally-identifiable (as per the 1984 Cable Act).

They wouldn't get actual Google or Bing searches as neither company would sell those on - I imagine at most they'd get top-lists of DNS resolutions in a given geographical area, possibly with some demographic data thrown in - still valuable data for some marketers though, but unlikely to be anything juicy.

I wonder if any ISPs would sell that data for any price, given the risk of backlash.
I may not convince him but maybe I can show another side of the debate to the lurking readers.
Since you are moving to a subscription model, I'm curious as to how updates and support will change. I usually equate subscriptions with better support and/or more frequent updates. What differences can users expect on this front in comparison to C2?
That isn't how the data sales work at all.
The reason to care about getting the same binary as the rest of the world is that it increases the likelihood that an attack will be detected.

In the case with neither binary transparency or reproducible builds, a nefarious actor can target a single user with a tainted binary and it's unlikely that the user will find out and difficult for them to rule out the possibility of tampering up-front.

In the case with binary transparency but no reproducible builds, a nefarious actor must target all users which makes it more likely that someone will notice, but still difficult for people to rule out tampering up-front.

In the case with reproducible builds but no binary transparency, it's easy for people who are paranoid to rule out tampering with the binary, but people who aren't paranoid are unlikely to discover that their specific binaries were tampered with, so a targeted attack will still probably go undetected.

In the case with both reproducible builds and binary transparency, it only takes one paranoid person discovering a tampered binary to alert the whole world that their own binaries have been tampered with. It's safety in numbers, even for those not technically-literate enough to determine (or even suspect) tampering.
I'm not familiar with any of it, but...

I would expect any central economic plan to miss consumer needs/desires by a fair margin on a regular basis. Was such advertising also trying to sway consumer behavior back to what the economic planners had original anticipated (as to avoid shortages/surpluses of goods)?
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What's the shape of the long tail distribution? Does the top 5000 get 99% of the traffic?
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