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The way it's going to work is simple: Facebook will bleed engagement from young demographics up, because it's inherently uncool after reaching max audience. There's nothing Facebook can ever do about that.

The way max engagement & max audience works, is that once you hit that sort of level, you have to kill or own every single new and or growing thing that ever exists in that particular market, forever forward, or you lose engagement. That's why Facebook has to try to take share from YouTube (Netflix, Hulu, et al) on video with Watch.

If it hadn't been for Instagram, they'd be in big trouble already. One app saved the day, for now. The next Instagram-size service they attempt to buy, will likely fall under anti-trust review, and that will get worse by the year going forward.

Once you max out on engagement and audience size, such as in the US market, there's nowhere else to go but down unless you start taking from other very big services. Facebook will start dropping little quadrants of engagement, that other services will pick up / steal. Most of those will never threaten the hyper network. Some of them will grow into substantial businesses the size of a Yelp-type business, or a Snapchat or Twitter. It's the gradual subdivision of Facebook; they'll never be able to buy enough Instagrams to prevent it. And to be clear, this process won't kill Facebook.

Unlike search, social has numerous difficult human attributes to it, such as being cool. Those attributes make it nearly impossible to maintain a permanent position. Young people today do not like Facebook at all, they're reluctant hostages to the monopoly for now. Then throw on top the increasing populist anti-Facebook sentiment coursing through the culture, and sooner rather than later Facebook will be unable to buy its way out of being uncool. Their business will get three or four times larger yet, as they figure out ways to ad-abuse their existing user base, while bleeding engagement out of the younger demographics. Peak social monopoly has already been hit by Facebook.
This seems like it would be useful for the program-by-example paradigm.
> turns out most people don't actually want to kill you.

All it takes is one person who does.

> One of the things I like about the sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc) is that we're slowly being reminded that it's okay to trust our neighbors

Except it's not neighbors but complete strangers you're asked to trust, and that trust is sometime misplaced. There's absolutely no difference in that between the "sharing economy" (which has little to do with sharing) and just plain economy.

And keep in mind that it's not in fact random strangers you interact with, there and in many other situations - an activity can be more dangerous than the random chance of meeting a dangerous criminal would indicate, when it attracts such criminals more than it attracts other people, possibly because it makes it easier for them to find victims or evade detection.

None of which matters for Halloween candy, since it's provided by actual neighbors and so common that it really is basically random.
Where does Frasier and Parks and Rec fit into your analysis? From what I can tell after the first season they had pretty consistent runs after a shaky first season.
I 'm not disputing that facebook is an addiction (like many things in life). But there is a big chunk of users who learned to use the internet SOLELY for facebook, they remain there solely for that and would stop using it if it wasn't for facebook. Having the freedom to research any topic, while sounding noble as a thing, is just not something that a lot of people want to do.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-...

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674743908

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/20/science-shows-torture-doe...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/scientists-trump-tort...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jip.1412/abstract

That is just a smattering of evidence for torture not working, and alternatives working. Can you similarly support your claim that, “...It [torture] probably does work” in the meantime? AFAIK no evidence of the success of torture exists, in the advertised contexts. Now, if you want to put on some show trials and can afford to lose half or more of your potential subjects at random, and you want to break them... sure. The USSR proved that much, but that is not how modern democracies use torture. Torture for the sake of interrogation does not work; the evidence to support that claim does exist.

I’d recommmend Torture and Democracy for the bibliography, never mind the excellent book.
>people currently pay for VPNs, and Orchid effectively provides some of the features of VPNs, with the added benefit that there is no central VPN provider who logs your (meta) data and sells it for profit.

When you roll Orchid for use, I think this should be stated prominently on the web page as a way of selling it. Something like "If you are like millions of people, you use a vpn. But vpns have some problems" and so on.
> Nvidia users are shitty consumers and I don’t even want them in my userbase.

Good Lord. I get that the EGLStream vs GBM thing is controversial, but this is childish. How are you supposed to discuss anything with someone who thinks like this.
That reference indeed seems very accessible.
The device looks too fragile to use in extreme sports and would have to be completely redesigned, especially for compatibility with ski/snowboard goggles. The shape also reduces peripheral vision which is an issue for some sports.

I haven't heard many extreme sports athletes complaining that GoPros are inconvenient. The helmet mounts seem fine for most people.
Funny to read this after all the articles about China's "ghost cities" and the follies of central planning.
I'm inclined to dismiss it as confirmation bias, but I've had this experience personally - a conversation followed shortly by an extremely specific advertisement on FB shortly thereafter.
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As a data point, a couple of months ago we bought a 1500 square foot home for $114,000. It's a modular home, but still classified as stick built/custom by the zoning authority. https://www.rochesterhomesinc.com/tiptown

The site work, however, is almost another $200,000.
If your only concern is teachers, then why does loan forgiveness apply to all kinds of government jobs, and not just teachers? Why is it all-or-nothing?

All-or-nothing only makes sense because you can avoid accounting for the costs today, which is convenient for politicians. It's not convenient for teachers.
I still don't understand why Gamergate was ever a thing and why anyone cared so much about it. I watched people go stark raving mad and embrace full-on neo-Naziism over... actually I'm still not even sure what it was over. The claimed grievances just seemed so trite and silly. I saw other people on the other side (again... of what?) go equally frothing at the mouth insane.

I don't get it. I mean there's nothing wrong with video games but... they're just f'ing video games. I'm not sure I've ever seen so much ado about nothing.

If you don't like something don't buy it. Problem solved.
I support your feelings but I don't think it will be so easy.

First of all, can you offer service in every state, every county? But even servicing a local area could be good for your business.

However don't you fear you're going to pay higher fees for peering? I expect that if the big companies are going to pay for a fast lane then they'll want to make sure ISPs like yours can't help people to bypass those lanes.
Wow. That is horrendous.
Pajero[0] is a SUV made by the Japanese car company Mitsubishi, not by Opel.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
Merely anecdotal, but I've run heavy multi-threaded compile tests on my 1950x for days to check whether the chip was stable when overclocked, and have never seen it segfault. That was my main purpose for purchasing the CPU. I use it for that all day every day.

If I were spending millions on Epyc servers, I'd certainly test this on a reasonably large sample before committing.
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Not yet - there is no display support for that GPU in current Linux kernel, nor in 4.14 that is going to be released in 1-2 weeks.

Users will have to wait for 4.15 - until mid-late January.
Your interpretation is the reasonable one, but the people who matter (a majority of the Supreme Court), don't agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormant_Commerce_Clause

Justice Thomas and the late Justice Scalia, and others before them, shared your view.
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"Jewish supremacy"? What are you even on about?
I love Newsify on iOS. With a yearly subscription, it pulls full text articles (stripping adverts) of all RSS subscriptions for offline reading, and displays them (graphic+snippet) somewhat like a newspaper on screen. It has settings to allow you to mark everything as read as you scroll past it, or save articles forever.

It even has a web version with the same features for desktop use. It's a small enough service that it hasn't attracted the negative attention of publishers.
You're putting the poor in an awfully tight position there. Between no tax deduction for a mortgage and paying the same property tax (what you call land value tax) for their trailer as the mansion next door, they're kind of getting screwed.

And what about old people that have owned their own house for decades? If the local economy goes up, increasing the land value tax, they either leave or go bankrupt. And the kicker is that their investment into their home is now worth a lot less.
Got it, my 2nd read was that 'Always Free' and 'Extended' were 2 product versions. The only super clear call to action I saw was 'subscribe', the only mention of it being free is buried in a paragraph that's well below the fold. The only mention of it being open source is in the footer.

The download buttons somewhat imply it being free, but it's relatively common for crippled/time-limited versions to be offered like that.

Basically - I think you could benefit from making it more obvious that it's free (and open source), with optional extra paid stuff. Probably a clearer link to the online version as well.
> "I run ads product at Facebook. We don't - and have never - used your microphone for ads. Just not true," Mr Goldman wrote.

Personally, I am so used to corp speak and word play by major companies that it is difficult to take anything at face value. Therefore, I think the nature of the question asked to Facebook should be different. It should be on what they do rather do they do X. So, here's my question - "What does Facebook use data gathered from user microphones across any devices for?"
Differences from Tor include, from what I understand, it is fully decentralized, there are tokens to incentivize people to run nodes, and node operators can choose to use a whitelist.

Also, at least for now, it is not a darknet, it is only for connecting the clearnet.
This presentation from 2015 [1] answers your question. The basic idea is to create a list of keywords and/or phrases for your corpus. It can either be done manually or automatically using gensim or a similar tool. Then use word2vec to create vectors for the keywords and phrases. Cluster the vectors and use the clusters as "synonyms" at both index and query time using a Solr synonyms file.

You can also use Brown clustering [3] to create the clusters. It does a good job and is faster to compute than clustered word vectors. However clustered word vectors typically have better semantic performance.

1. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/lucidworks/implementing-co...

2. Demo source: https://github.com/DiceTechJobs/ConceptualSearch

3. https://github.com/percyliang/brown-cluster
The first thing I worry about reading something like this is how leaky the abstraction will be. I would love to ditch JavaScript for pretty much anything else but if I need to think about the JavaScript part anyway because of certain things that I can or cannot do I prefer to think in JavaScript from the get go.
But given that it is open source, if you decide not to, someone else still could.
> Medical record information is valuable only because it is private. If it were public, it wouldn't be considered as important. Much like wage data.

Ummm, thats not true at all. A whole lot of people would not want all their friends knowning every little detail about their medical history. There are lots of embarrassing issues that people have that nobody would want to be made public.

Think STDs or mental health issues.
> As for why we switch to dynamic typing as we scale up, some of it probably has to do with trust.

I'll note that we switch to 'dynamic' much before the question of trust arises. Whenever you do IPC between two OS processes you fully trust, communicate through a database or file, wire up a multi-process system with config files, etc. Most internal code at an organization is trusted, yet the communication between OS processes within an company uses dynamic messaging semantics.

I'll also point out that if you use a compiled shared library, or any system call you are forced to use the type system of C, which isn't particularly advanced.

It could be that we haven't developed dynamic messaging protocols that can bind safely and correctly. I'm arguing that if we have these, they might apply on a smaller scale too (objects within a 'process' or connections between shared libraries, etc.)

> Static typing enables faster feedback loops.

All of that only works on the small scale - where the type knowledge has to be fully shared within the entire program. As soon as you're writing code to call a service, static typing benefits are moot. The current solution is to create 'stubs', which doesn't scale well either. I am not arguing for 'dynamic typing everywhere', but rather about a different POV where we start looking at 'interconnections' at all levels the same way, and think about making the introspection and safe late binding in a standard, scalable way. Minimizing pre-shared knowledge would be one way to improve how this scales, for instance.
Your cognitive dissonance is simply astounding.
> because it is literally a car?

Huh? It is a vehicle, yes, but how is it a car?
1 year in with the Nexus 5P and it's lagging for upwards of 1-2 seconds in Maps and runs out of battery sometimes in less than a day. The screen width is nice for reading but hard for using in one hand, e.g. when using it on a bicycle. Next time I'm definitely getting a smaller, cheaper phone with less battery use. And an FM receiver.
I was talking about source code, not binaries. And I didn't mean platform specific APIs either (though that is a problem as well). I was talking about differences between processor architectures. But while we're at it, try using wstrings or snprintf across Windows/Linux.
You should probably check your biases.

(The vast majority of antifa are white, btw)
In this case, I’d prefer “D.C.” or “the District of Columbia”, to avoid both the ambiguity of the original and the awkwardness of using semicolons.
Why would anyone pay someone who literally just violated their trust to keep quiet, and for what purpose? The publicity of it plays to Apples favor internally for a long time, and the external impacts are negligible at worst with a one-and-done news cycle.
They don't at all deny listening to conversations in this article. They only deny using that information for advertising.

Now about the confirmation bias thing, it seems more likely to me that your credit card history or the store member card purchase history is being mined.
Speaking as an American medical resident currently in training, please realize that opioids are the only pain medication aside from nerve modulators like gabapentin or pregabalin that have any serious effect after NSAIDs have been exhausted. We routinely use it appropriately for patients with gallbladder, kidney and very run-of-the-mill problems.
If you're trying to say that the uniform distribution represents an average of the uncountably infinite set of possible distributions on an interval, I don't see how you can justify that. "Generate a random distribution on an interval" is not an obviously well-defined procedure, so I don't think you can say anything about what the distribution produced by "averaging" every possible distribution would look like. Which matches the fact that you have no information on what the distribution of X looks like, other than that it is zero outside of the interval [0,100].

Edit: In any case, the process you've described is just begging the question (i.e. it is circular reasoning). In order to prove that the uniform distribution is a natural choice for X, you assume that choosing uniformly from the set of all possible distributions is natural. Even if there was a finite number of possible distributions to choose from such that choosing randomly from that set according to a uniform distribution was a well-defined operation, you're still assuming that it's natural to assign equal probability to all options in order to prove that it's natural to assign equal probability to all options.
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I'm curious if there could be any advantages/disadvantages to using a different, heavier liquid for pumped storage other than water. My physics knowledge is quite poor, but intuitively, wouldn't using something like mercury or iodine create more pressure going down, thus generating more energy by volume, thus requiring less volume, thus making it more practical to use a tower? Surely someone's looked into this.
When I saw that video I assumed it Apple provided them permission to publish since of course without there permission that would be an immediate fireable offense plus any potential damages. Since it sounds like Apple did not provide permission I have no idea what he was thinking, since I don't blame the girl, as its his responsibility not to share anything especially when he knows she is recording it and shares things on her YouTube channel. I feel like there has to be more to this since since had to know he would be fired. Maybe he knew he was going to be let go over something else and decided to do this so he could get fired and gained sympathy. Who knows. Very odd.
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You can use staging kernel from AMD meanwhile. Upstreamed one will be more polished, but it's basically the same thing.
No, my argument is "if you are using docker without understanding what you are doing, you are not only not solving your problem but complicating your stack"

Don't get me wrong I love people doing this. It makes my skills in uncomplicating needlessly complicated systems extremely valuable.
> What I'm very worried about is when a policy ends inadvertently fostering centralization.

But massive centralization in the private sector (Google, Amazon, Facebook) doesn't concern you? Or you don't think it's the purpose of government to regulate that?
I believe you're right that Mypy only offers compile time type checking, but not runtime.

It looks like there are some active projects for runtime type checking in Python and while I don't believe Mypy is related to any of them, enforce [1] looks to also use the same standard type hinting syntax from PEP 484.

[1]: https://github.com/RussBaz/enforce
Ok, so we have two groups of people who could do it

People who are concerned about surveillance or internet freedom. The latter includes people who are in a country that is censoring the internet.

People who want to earn a little money.

That's good. The more different types of people who are motivated to adopt something, the more widely it will be adopted.
Even just having one service such as Netflix not count against a data quota is terrible and completely undermines competition.

I don't think there is any major difference between that, and any other version of a non-neutral internet. Its barely a slippery slope.
In Europe, wine and beer and cider are not alcoholic beverages. They're foods. You can also safely ship wine from Spain to Germany and beer from Germany to Spain.

In the US you need to be 21 to drink beer or vote, yet 18 is fine to join the army, meet new and interesting people and kill them.
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So are transducers basically this Java, but in Clojure:

https://gist.github.com/tomwhoiscontrary/e41d52e9c98a706552b...

?

I've done that in terms of Consumer, but it might also be possible, and perhaps more elegant, in terms of flat-mapping functions (Function<T, Stream<T>>).

If i've understood right, then from a Java point of view, transducers are an attempt to reify the various operations on streams - mapping, filtering, etc. To do that, you have to figure out a type which is general enough to model all those operations.

The need for a general type is where you get the perilously-close-to-general-abstract-nonsense "a transducer is a transformation from one reducing function to another". Here, "a reducing function" is what stands in, in a very oblique way, for the stream - it's ultimately a conduit for values, and transducers take some existing conduit, wrap another layer of processing round it, and give you the resulting conduit. So they're a bit like backward streams, i suppose. If anything, it's like how you go around wrapping up layers of OutputStreams when doing IO:

new PrintStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new GZIPOutputStream(new CipherOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("file.dat"), cipher))));

Except instead of explicitly constructing wrappers, transducers know how to do the wrapping.
GoPro and third-party vendors sell a bunch of mounting accessories to put on your head or chest or wherever. Why don't you buy one of those instead of holding the camera in your teeth?
Especially since it's nowhere near where Tcl was with Starpacks nearly a decade ago.
yeah alright its a vehicle, not an automobile (because only motor-cars are real cars), how does that change the meaning of what i said, that for a lot of people who can't afford the car it's the affordable substitute?
...and fungibility, and states-secrets.
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A what3words employee saying what3words is a good thing? Especially one whose position is literally called Chief Evangelist[0]? How shocking.

Conversely, (as another HN user pointed out), OpenStreetMap's opinion of what3words is quite negative: "what3words is a commercial, non-open, patented location reference schema. Open data advocates (such as the OpenStreetMap community) would generally advise against adopting it at all."[1]

0. https://www.directionsmag.com/pressrelease/5831

1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words
Its time someone starts an initiative to build a database of these locations outside of what3words. Once a location (3 words) is added, translated into a lat lon, it just a matter of looking it up.
I wonder how likely it is that this sort of thing happens without a mic being involved. Consider that Facebook already mines all sorts of Facebook data, as well as data from websites you visit. They much have a pretty good profile of people's interests.

Given that, it's fairly probably that you will be shown ads about things that you are interested in, and it's fairly probably that you'll talk about these topics with friends. Given this and the number of people that use Facebook, it's probably not that unlikely that your experience happens simply by chance fairly frequently.
precariously or intentionally depending upon your level of paranoia....
What are the odds that this regulation effort gets compromised into something that is spun by politicians as a pro-consumer/citizen victory while also digging Facebook's and Google's moats a bit deeper? Basically, something where compliance is a small cost center for them, but a big hurdle for any would-be competitor trying to scale up. This is a pattern I've definitely heard discussed in the past, though I'm failing to come up with any concrete examples.