skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better question is what is the purpose?

Don't apps sell themselves?

This seems incredibly similar to pay per click.

Just because someone downloads and an app doesn't mean that they're going to use it.

If only there was some sort of retention statistic on how often an app is downloaded and deleted.

I just hope that quality does not suffer. I'm genuinely curious to see if this will drive user engagement/retention
It's been available in non-US markets for a lot longer, which explains the number of reviews.
The US Claims No Court Order Needed to Ask Tech Companies for Crypto Backdoors
Is the Play store better about this?
I'd say it's less bad for the people involved - it "only" trashes their credit. It makes life difficult, for sure. I'm sub-400 I believe. But a mortgage foreclosure trashes your credit and you lose your home. I /just/ need to come up with 12 months security, so I essentially can never move.
clearly i was not playing neopets right
The blood of the martyrs /
Will water the meadows of France!
Do you have any numbers that prove the general public wants harsh drug laws to be enforced in the US (or anywhere)? As a counter example: the last few major elections for marijuana legalization have all gone overwhelming in support of legalization.
Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari is a really good book for anyone who's more interested on learning more about how Portugal went about the decriminalization and just a really interesting book in general on the war on drugs.
Meanwhile a human player considers <1 position per second, so there’s a few orders of magnitude left to go in that direction.

But unsettlingly few, nonetheless.
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What's so hard about `pip install tensorflow`?
it wasn't possible to short subprime in the past?
That sounds amazing, I can't wait!
I've had a Prime Video app on my Android devices for years...
This is about risk. You want less risk and so does Apple. Since app quality is a crap shoot, they won't and don't need to offer that kind of model. Likewise, you should build into your model how much you can afford to spend knowing some subset of installs will be lower quality.
So you would rather watch your children eat mud to fill their bellies, slowly starving to death, and keep your freedom of speech?
Also, think of the extra mental effort to find ways to incarcerate minorities and the lower class! We can't have our justice system burning out their brains.
One impressive statistic from the paper: AlphaZero analyzes 80,000 chess positions per second, while Stockfish looks at 70,000,000. Seventy million, three orders of magnitude higher. Yet AG0 beats Stockfish half the time as White and never loses with either color.

A stunning demonstration of generality indeed.
Circle Medical (YC S15) hiring primary care physicians in Austin
Internet is a utility, and it is controlled predominantly by 6 companies.

There is simply not enough competition to rely on the free market to keep net neutrality as a fiscal priority.

Until the oligopoly is broken up, and everyone has competitive access to the internet, we need some way to ensure that net neutrality happens.

Without net neutrality, businesses using the internet itself , and even free nonprofit services will be unable to compete with large corporations like Facebook, Google, etc. because they won't be able to afford to pay ISPs for the right to reach customers without unreasonable bandwidth constraints.
What about my other points?
Sorry, trying to read this was so painful and time wasting on mobile.

For anyone else not interested in scrolling:

Conclusion: It’s obviously a simplified model and you can play around with the numbers and get marginally different results, but the key insight is that even if you’re a fervent crypto believer, if you think there is a nonzero chance a crash might happen then in order to maximize your EV (i.e. make the most money) you should keep some % of your money on the sidelines to invest once the bubble pops and lower your average buy-in cost. The higher the probability you assign to a crash, the more money you should keep on the sidelines and vice versa
>>Second, it's interesting to see people who were in favor of tax increases suddenly change their mind when it hits them.

Deep down humans just optimize for personal profit.

Which is why one must always see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires and not exploited proletariat.
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson
That package name is relevant enough to be mildly amusing.
Dolly Parton: basic income trailblazer?
Couple who turned their eight-acre Wayanad property into a forest
I would expect that for marijuana usage would increase. I do have my doubts we would suddenly see a rapid spike in meth usage.
Go improves on C substantially, especially for high level programming. GC, interfaces, slices, maps, cross-platform types, expansive standard library, high performance cross platform concurrency, memory safety, runtime type information, etc, etc. So I wouldnt write web programs in C, but Go is one of the best options today, especially if you care about performance, maintainability, or operational complexity.
Each Android TV OEM has to have a separate agreement to permit use of the app. So far only Sony and Nvidia have done so. The sideloaded version doesn't work on other devices.
Ironically, both of these firms are strong advocates for "net neutrality" while they practice such childish behavior.

My personal view as a user of both companies' hardware and software is that Amazon is taking the lead. I bought a Fire TV a few weeks ago and it comes with a remote and turns any monitor into a useful, standalone entertainment device.

I also have a chromecast, which requires an app to stream (and the streaming tends to freeze or hang and frequently gets confused if you try to stream something from a different app while another stream has hung).

I also bought a $29 Kindle Fire that strongly outperforms my $200+ Nexus 7. When Google started getting into the hardware market I was hoping we'd see affordable, subsidized hardware, but instead we're getting high priced "luxury" phones which happen to be a bit cheaper than those sold by the market leader.

Of the two companies, I think Amazon has a strategy that is poised to take the lead in hardware. I say this after also buying a BLU Amazon ad-supported phone for $59 that has a super large screen and performs somewhere between an iPhone 5 and iPhone 6+ (I bought it a year ago).

One nice thing about the Alphabet reorganization is that we can see how hard this sort of competitive landscape is really hitting Google. We've already seen lots of free tier services getting taken away and many other signs of lower margins, and so the threat to block Youtube feels like an admission of weakness.

Also, FWIW, the minute Google blocks the Fire Youtube app, Amazon can simply make the icon load Youtube in the web browser.
For anybody interested in the totality of their garbage output, I can't recommend this book enough:

https://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Land-Secret-Trail-Trash/dp/03...?

I had my book club read this book, and so many times, for so many other books this books came up in conversation.

Interesting facts:

* Glass is recycled in order to grind it up and spread it over landfills to keep down dust. In this way the glass is counted as recycled and not garbage despite it ended up being in the dump.

* Roman era landfills are still leaking effluant.

* Plastics might be marked and marketed as recyclable but many plastics are better off as garbage. Better yet, never created and used in the first place.

* Whenever a natural compost toilet has a problem, more sawdust is almost always the answer to fixing whatever ails it. (Not really in the book, one of our bookclub members had hippie parents).

I would follow up this book with another set in Mumbai:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400067553/ref=as_li_ss_tl

Somehow we need to do a better job at reducing poverty and imroving consumer recycling habits. No miracle solutions in this book. Just griding, abject poverty, living in the garbage of Mumbai.
Nice Chinese propaganda trying to justify their Orwellian nightmare by chanting it into your head that their shit is just as same as the West's and that 1984 is the only possible future.

Stay vigilant.
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Generics. You can't write good containers without generics. And it's the #1, #2, and #3 Go issue that people complain about.

(Unless of course you do code generation...but then you're not writing Go, you're writing a program that writes in Go.)
No, but Apple is supposed to be better than Google about this.

What a shame.
>in-browser

Works offline? How do you do git?
An Exploration of How I Learned Growth
I don't think that something as harmful as heroin should be legal to sell, even in a taxed and regulated scenario.

Other options that, in my amateur opinion, would be better, would be to more heavily penalise adultered drugs, or to have pharmacies supply, with a prescription, addictive drugs, but only to addicts. The latter idea is basically an extension of safe injection clinics.
Ah, so you're just talking about Android TV devices? I thought that the Shield was a kind of portable game system, and that it might obey the same "rules" as phones do.
You make it sound as if dedicating 4 years to studying say, latin art history, is a waste to society.
ELO ratings level out eventually for a given pool of opponents. If a player already wins every game against all available opponents, there's no evidence that can tell you if they suddenly got twice as good.

If tracking improvements past the state of the art is important I think they'd have to freeze the algorithm every 400 ELO or so and rate the improved versions against the last snapshot.

(Doesn't really apply to the stockfish case, but it does to the other two games.)
Howdy, in a former life I co-edited this documentary: https://www.travelightfilm.com/ It's been doing the festival circuit and should be released digitally in 2018.

I didn't walk the trail myself, but it was amazing to steep in these stories during the editing process.
The Linux kernel has had innumerable man hours poured into it. (Estimated at $3 billion to recreate.)

It's so large its creator invented a sophisticated VCS to manage it.

There aren't many projects like the Linux kernel.
This scenario doesn't just happen with drug policy, but with practically any divisive policy discussion.

People will debate something that is done elsewhere, and ignore completely that it's done elsewhere.

Gay marriage is a prime example, as it's something that has been legalised in a lot of countries now. Every time a country goes through the process of debating whether to legalise gay marriage, there's a bunch of people that say it's going to cause the corruption of society, or ruin the sanctity of marriage, or cause God to punish us.

However, legalising gay marriage in other countries hasn't caused the sky to fall. But anti-gay marriage people conveniently ignore this.

The same wilful ignorance of existing examples is also applied to Universal Healthcare, drug laws, minimum wages (for either raising or lowering/removing), criminal justice, firearms, and education.

Obviously countries are all different, but the general ideas are the same. For example, it's fairly well established that the less guns there are, the less gun crime there is, however, an Australia or British-style "ban handguns and buy them back off owners" isn't going to work in America. But the same principle applies, less handguns = less deaths.
Ask HN: Advice on seed stage valuation/cap
I need advice on whether the current valuation/cap of our young startup makes sense.
We started months ago, in San Francisco, and personally put $150k of our own money. A team of 5 has worked on the company for a few months with zero or reduced salary. We are a platform to digitally handle real estate titles (to start!) leveraging the blockchain, offering an API for companies so that they can provide their services to homeowners. Think of it as, in principle, a Twilio for real estate. Our solution is fully legacy-friendly, and doesn't require any change of law, or any agreement with a county. Yes, we're focusing on the US market initially.

We are now raising a seed round of $1M, at a $12M cap. We believe the $1M is enough to build the product. We also believe that the $12M cap rightfully represents the amount of work and money already put in the company, and the de-risking made possible by these months of work.
The team is quite senior, with exec-level roles at Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Vodafone, etc.

Some seed investors have objected that we should reduce our cap to something like $6M, and possibly raise a slightly larger amount ($1.5M or so). Other than that, they like the team and the value prop quite a lot.

Do you think their objection on the cap makes sense? What kind of reasoning can be done when evaluating these two numbers (amount raised, and cap), in this particular situation?

For full context: I have invested in more than 60 startups in the past few years with a small seed fund (never lead investors), plus another 6 as an angel. I am quite familiar with the process.

Happy to get some good feedback or suggestions.
I'd be also happy to share a bit more details in private, email me at $hn_username at gmail.

Thanks!
OMG That movie just went on and on...

Also got to say Al Pacino is so insufferable. De Niro was excellent though. My favorite scene is the end in stand up guys (also Pacino is far more mellow and tolerable in that one)
I do believe you've hit the nail on the head there. It seems one of the big initial reasons for calling cannibis marijuana and criminalization was part of racist legislation against Hispanics.

'Numerous accounts say that "marijuana" came into popular usage in the U.S. in the early 20th century because anti-cannabis factions wanted to underscore the drug's "Mexican-ness."' [1]

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/14/201981025...
I suspect you don't know how := works.

./test.go:14:15: foo declared and not used
> The STL could seriously use some improvements. std::string doesn't do most of the stuff you want with a string

std::string predates the STL and most of unicodes history. It was supposed to a be an alternative for using C functions for manipulating NTBS's, nothing more. Since then we've only really had 3 standard revisions, and most languages that see constant evolution still haven't got unicode right...

> Having a std::vector::append() would be really nice, so I don't have to remember that C++ uses something completely different from every other language

I can think of a bunch of languages that don't use "append" for pushing on to the back of a dynamic array. JavaScript for instance, which uses "push"

> I'm wondering if we ought to start thinking about a C++2.0 where we can write the C++ that we've learned we want.

The Ranges proposal/TS goes quite far in this direction. See Eric Nieblers range-v3 library as a testing ground.
Same with the Military Industrial Complex, Big Agriculture, & mass prescriptions of Pharmaceuticals. Funny there aren't any complaints there from this outlet. I suppose it's not in their priorities to notice...
How to design a web page like this
> Crystal community is growing rapidly. We’ve got a steady growing user base with a lot of new Crystal developers joining every week.

That's an interesting correlation to draw from 35% of developers using Crystal for less than 1 month. I would draw from it that there's a high amount of churn in Crystal developers, most developers drop Crystal after a short amount of time.
There's a lot here that needs to be picked apart. Here are the major things you're missing:

1. Marijuana has been researched extensively and its health effects are at worst similar to alcohol, at best significantly less bad for you. In that context it makes sense to think of marijuana as a consumer product, and it makes sense that requiring a consumer product be sold in a dangerous and unregulated way would reduce demand for that product. Under these conditions we can expect legalization to increase demand, and it has.

2. Portugal's policy is decriminalization not legalization, and its success has not really been about soft drugs, it's been about hard drugs. People who do not have some kind of mental illness do not use hard drugs frequently for the same reason people without mental illness do not drink bleach: it's bad for you and if you care about yourself self-preservation is important. Portugal's solution is about the people who don't or are unable to care for themselves, and recognizing that the drug use is a symptom of that, and that you cannot fix the underlying mental issue by putting people in cages. Their solution is not "stop doing anything and fully legalize," it's "require people to be treated" instead of "require people to sit in a cage." Under these conditions we can expect decriminalization to decrease demand, and it has.

Edit: Also, I do very much agree with your larger point re: overconsumption, and I'm not saying we should ignore that problem either. Mental health in this country is a disaster, I just don't think putting people in cages is the solution.
The way coroutines are implemented in C++17 is just beautiful. Minimal language changes, compatible down to C function pointers and void*, and extensible to almost any existing asynchronous library via trait specialisation.
>puts the cart before the horse.

to put the cart before the horse is an analogy for doing things in the wrong order.
>'Not being able to get a hold of your secrets' is a much better line of defense than 'I think I can make it hard for something to exfiltrate my secrets that they've pilfered'. Especially since the latter is probably not really true.

reminds me of this:

> Air-gapped networks are isolated, separated both logically and physically from public networks. Although the feasibility of invading such systems has been demonstrated in recent years, exfiltration of data from air-gapped networks is still a challenging task. In this paper we present GSMem, a malware that can exfiltrate data through an air-gap over cellular frequencies. Rogue software on an infected target computer modulates and transmits electromagnetic signals at cellular frequencies by invoking specific memory-related instructions and utilizing the multi-channel memory architecture to amplify the transmission. Furthermore, we show that the transmitted signals can be received and demodulated by a rootkit placed in the baseband firmware of a nearby cellular phone. We present crucial design issues such as signal generation and reception, data modulation, and transmission detection. We implement a prototype of GSMem consisting of a transmitter and a receiver and evaluate its performance and limitations. Our current results demonstrate its efficacy and feasibility, achieving an effective transmission distance of 1 - 5.5 meters with a standard mobile phone. When using a dedicated, yet affordable hardware receiver, the effective distance reached over 30 meters.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
Your ass-pull laptop theft rate of 1% is still roughly four times the use rate of Linux in the Steam Hardware Survey. Installing your own OS is not a common use case at all, either.
Since others in the thread are discussing a lack of "targeting" and such, see also "Search Ads Advanced" [0], which allows you to "refine your audience" -- "by gender, age, and show your ads only to devices located in specific geographic areas."

[0]: https://searchads.apple.com/advanced/
Ehrlich predicted worldwide famine in the 70s due to the population. he was wrong. Malthus predicted worldwide famine in the 18th century. he was wrong.

Populations become more educated, have fewer children. The power of technology and bio technology grows at a far faster rate than population. In the 1920s an acre of land would get you about 40-50 bushels of corn. A short 100 years into the future and we're averaging 180-190. We have barely even scratched the service when it comes to advancing the base breeding stock with genetics. Biotech traits (roundup ready, etc) have given us a big boost, but they too are just the tip of the iceberg. CRISPR is going to make yields skyrocket.

I know the news loves showing you doom and gloom, but really, humans have never had it better and it isn't going to stop.

More awesome statistics here: http://www.humanprogress.org/
Dealers are fine (after all, consumers aren't expected to grow it all themselves); the problem is the flow of money back to the cartels.
Dont forget the private, for-profit prisons themselves. If there ever was an industry that didn't need a profit motive...
Technology Innovation Isn’t Just for Tech Companies
Charlatan by Pope Brock. It's a thrilling non-fictional account of a medical quack who got rich putting goat testicles in men's scrotums. Due to his talent for speaking straight to the people over a new communication medium that nobody understood the power of (radio), he very nearly became the governor of Kansas.

I heard about it through the excellent Reply All episode from late last year, and the book is even better.
Opponents would argue the inverse: We criminalize something to have its consumption decrease. So the idea that consumption would rise if legalized means to people of that mindset that the status quo is working. (I don't share this view.)
“I think” marks what follows as interpretation or opinion, so it’s not redundant. Removing it would change the statement to one of fact or make it prescriptive when it may be better taken as descriptive or a possibility among many.
These Technologies Will Shape the Future, Acc to Silicon Valley’s Top VC Firms
Presumably when redeemed for money they go back to tether/bitfinex?
If they produced a device that was compelling or competitive, remember with Chromecast, content must be sent from a compatible device.

But a quick search shows that the Chromecast Ultra is available at the following locations near me.

Fred Meyer, Best Buy, WalMart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target etc... Plus thousands of online stores.

It isn't like Amazon is the only place to buy these devices. The difference is that to sell content they need to be inside peoples homes. They just made the decision that they don't want to sell content/ads to Fire TV users.

Except for vendor lock in, which is why they want to sell ChromeCast devices, they have made the decision that their content consumers are less important to them than their device sales.

Last I looked YouTube made money from ad views and/or subscriptions and not through device sales.
I think the point of the parent comment was to say that people never get denied because of credit history, choice of major, etc. in the way that they might be denied for a credit card.
Gene technology could exterminate rodent vermin
As you say, they are already controlling the routing table on the user's device for voice calls. Does the user opt-in to that or is it automatically turned on?
Is human emotion Entropy-growth-based?
The C++ draft and published standard are so similar, the only parties I imagine would need the published copy are gcc frontend developers, technical managers at IBM, etc. As an individual who gets into the deep dark crevices of C++, I've never needed the tiny details the published standard offers. They are mostly typographical.
Google has developed an AI system that has created its own “child”
Search Ads aren't a new product. Apple says they have 50% conversion on average.