skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This chart is the gold standard for describing the ad tech market, but I actually think it is a bit myopic with regards to the "full-stack" view. You're thinking of a strategic control point, and the networks aren't in as good of a position as you would think. Things like SSL limit their ability to perform segmentation via DPI -- but since browsers are the SSL termination point, it's not nearly as much of an issue. With security becoming more and more important and "SSL everywhere", the networks' ability to collect data from ad networks through DPI is disappearing.

Typically, strategic control points should be thought about in terms of their physical proximity to the user. That is, if it is a device that the user touches, that device and its software stack represents a potential control point. Currently, the devices aren't the control point (thanks to Google's Android strategy), but the OS and by extension the browser is much more promising. If I had to describe a value chain, it would look like this (you can replace "browser" with "app", though with a much more limited scope):

User > Device > OS > Browser > Network > Publisher > Ad tech (most of what is shown in the chart above) > Advertiser

Basically, every company on this chart is trying to disintermediate every other company to the right and left of them. What we're left with is a reasonably efficient advertising marketplace that serves the needs of advertisers and publishers, but the tricks and methods used by advertisers are frustrating to users. The browser vendors have enormous control over what techniques can and can't be used to implement ad tech -- the reason Flash hasn't been removed entirely is because Flash-based tracking cookies offer far more information than the browser, especially with regards to video ads. Google hung on to Flash for a long time because of YouTube, but I think they've recently realized that if they can get Flash off of the web, it would hurt their competition more than it would hurt them.
What are the ethics of this? Though credit score anyway is penalising you, but it is at least based on financial history. There might be a slippery slope here.I can't imagine what would happen if google were to use something like search history for say insurance, mortgage etc.
not necessarily, if you're picking better-than-average apples, why would the outcome be worse than for other categories? also consequently, your conclusion would of course be, these apples > other apples. I'm not saying the data is bad or calling them out. I'm just saying some of their lessons learned might just be a consequence of their selection bias.
It's the ones that know the functions that you have to worry about. Especially finance people. Excel is the software they are most comfortable in, and they never want to leave it. My boss just made our company events calendar in excel. Why not do this in a calendar program? Because he can do it faster in excel.
This Is My Racism
Perhaps a solution to this would be a Kickstarter like anti patent troll site. Patent trolls usually go after smaller businesses at first, businesses who could not possibly afford to fight, even if they wanted. The site would allow a business to post their legal case online, and other businesses who face similar exposure, could contribute to the defense fund.

The "perk" of contributing would be that you would get access to all of the expert witness prepared statements and legal work, so if a patent troll comes after you next, you would have a lot of your defense work already done for you. Plus, once the patent troll looses a case, especially on appeal, that decision can be used as precedent.
And how exactly did you manage to draw a connection between these outrageous facts and a use of an innocent derogatory language?
Slight correction: lobbying spending numbers do not include donations to candidates or PACs. Federal law prohibts organizations from giving money to either.

Organizations can pay the expenses for a "captive" PAC (usually in the form of hosting it within their headquarters with all the costs that implies), but that spending is also excluded from reported lobbying numbers.

Other than that, you are spot on. Once people realize that lobbying expenditures include salaries and media buys, it's not hard to see how the total gets into many millions of dollars.
In winning these cases has Newegg shared any learnings that might help smaller companies affected by patent trolls, or is it almost as simple as ponying up the cash and going to trial?
ZigBee sniffing drone discovered 726 unique IoT devices over 18min flight
Show HN: React Masonry Component
ZestFinance (former employee here) uses machine learning, I imagine Upstart does as well if they are talking about signals. There is a ton of data you can obtain about people from marketing and third party credit agencies, of course you mostly end up relying on your own ongoing loan portfolio performance to train and validate models as time goes on.

Using ML for loan applications is an old idea. There is a whole chapter about credit scoring using decision trees, genetic algorithms, and neural networks in Miller's 1990 Computer-Aided Financial Analysis.
Because they had to deal with all the issues in Itanium Architecture Parts 1, 2, 3,..., n where the sum is a lot harder than this issue. ;)
I had the same issues. Ran a side by side analysis with Nexmo and Nexmo were winning. Contacted Twilio customer support with the data and they "changed some routes" and deliverability was much better, outperforming Nexmo by some margin.

Lesson learned: Create a test case, then contact support with evidence. It's a lot more effort of course, but now I have a system which can flawlessly switch between services if one begins to fail, and Twilio were much more inclined to help!
They are doing matrix multiplications. To pass input a single time through even some very large neural network - it is a relatively fast operation (if compared to training such a network, that is). Training requires data centers and arrays of GPUs. Passing the input through the network - usually you can get away with a single core and vectorized operations. Unless you are doing high resolution computer vision in real time... You can still get away with the single core even then, but that requires some very smart sublinear processing.
It doesn't come with all the languages, you have to download them.
In which case the problem isn't solved as the rich can still spend money to win (but they don't get it back). It makes the legal system pay to win and once again allows trolling. Maybe not as much, but still a lot.
This is going to end in an air disaster. Our reliance on drones and computers will come to a head soon.
It makes me sad that people hesitate to discuss verifiable facts for fear that small-minded people might call them nasty names.
I don't really understand this process of declaring conflicts of interests. The declaration of a conflict of interest seems like at best a bare minimum requirement and one that is abused.

I see posts sometimes where they write about how great X is and then have a disclaimer of (we're owned by creators of X) as if that was good enough. I just think if you have a conflict of interest, unless the value of the news is significant, writing about X should be avoided altogether especially if it's heavy on speculation, analysis or opinion.
>If you don't you're going to want to

Why?
Forgive me for asking, but how is "no default timeout" a sensible default for any technology?
Using Database Views with the Django ORM
For the ethernet port, it is very much Apple's style... but either way, using consumer Apple devices for servers only make sense if you get them for free (civil forfeiture for example)...
There's a whole bunch of stuff in that that's inaccurate/outdated, re Wifi Sharing (opt in, even for contacts).

Not to mention a bunch of stuff (Do Not Track) that is set by default that has been explicitly enabled (or disabled, depending on defaults) to look worse. You can argue about whether you should have an "opt-in" for some of these things at all, yes, but this image makes it look like many things are opt-out, when they are in fact opt-in.

Telemetry is the same diagnostics that OS X and even Linux Mint and other distributions do.
That would ruin half the reason to own a media empire! All the big news sources are in bed with many corporations special interests, and political lobbies. The only time they have to disclose anything is if they're talking about the buying and selling of stock.

Whats surprising, is that it took something so tech-related to make you notice!
Ever been to Odessa? An epic butthurt is guaranteed from an Odessan Jewish peculiar humour.
this use of the word hacking makes me barf
Hammers aren't used to exclude people from a path they might otherwise blissfully follow.
"Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network — and show how to prevent them."

This could've been the title of many, many articles about Tor. You'll see plenty more. It has so many past attacking, due to difficulty of its goal, that it should only be used as one step in a series of anonymity-enhancing methods.
I think it's Android only that you can download the language packs, FYI. The language packs + offline maps are super helpful when travelling abroad.
You can download the language packs on Android and iOS, and each one is about 4 MB in size.
I wish I could see these factors ranked against other metrics, eg. # users, revenues, profitability, exit size, % exited. Their key metric is valuation, which makes sense when judging your performance as an investment firm but is relatively useless to a founder. And their top 3 factors (has cofounders; brand name school; brand name employer) are all things that investors value highly, probably more highly than customers. I'd love to see whether the magnitude of the effect of each of these remains true when ranking companies by more founder-focused or customer-focused metrics.
If they wanted to get rid of those XP boxes, they should have made the upgrade free for XP users as well.
I've noticed a huge improvement over time and am really impressed with how well it works now. I forget when I first used c9, but it was more of a novelty than a productive tool. I'm also really enjoying the way the terminal works, feels integrated.

I've never tried the nested stuff, or would even think of it, but it sounds pretty cool. Hope to see more improvements and features in the future.
No traffic? No stop signs? No pedestrians to run in front of you? No closed roads due to construction?

There are dozens of reasons why an autonomous drone is greater than an autonomous car, use your imagination.
This would only boost behavior that takes advantage of massive numbers of weaker individuals because in the rare case of one of them winning, you are only going to get a minor fee.

If the max cost of predatory practices isn't much higher than the gain from using them in the rare cases when caught, it creates an incentive to use such practices.
i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man (https://github.com/kern/filepizza)
Fortunately, the average American will not be writing the history of the early 21st century. Just imagine how horrible our understanding of past events would be if that was the case. And there's a number of people we idolize today that were demonized by the government of their time; take Martin Luther King for instance.
People don't get that, though. Too vague. If anyone asks, show them the value of anonymity with real examples on this page:

https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en

There are also plenty of situations ordinary people, police, and military might relate to on it. Hard to argue with what you might do yourself. ;)
“How I moved from finance to engineering in a year at AirBNB”
For those unfamiliar with google's deep learning, this talk covers their recent efforts pretty well https://youtu.be/kO-Iw9xlxy4 (not technical)
>no professional mathematician would make such false claims

Well, that's obviously incorrect, because the previous commenter did in fact make those claims and is in fact a professional mathematician. It's not like you can make some sort of no true scotsman argument about his profession: http://people.math.sc.edu/thornef/ .
How I hacked a high-tech rifle
I think OP is talking more about city streets, so high speed literature and the Solomon curve doesn't apply so much. There are two distinct behaviors here. Lane splitting happens when the cars are moving. Filtering happens when the cars are stopped. As someone who commutes on a motorcycle in the city, I don't care much for splitting, but filtering through a traffic jam is incredibly helpful.
Yes, this has a very real likelihood to impact the roll out of the technology.

Obviously supersonic booms are a different animal, but they had a roll in keeping the tech from going mainstream here in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
Enter these guys: https://www.trunkclub.com/

Though even Trunk Club is too gourmet. I just need a service that will send me Forever21 t-shirts and leggings when mine are devoured by holes.
Can you explain why you think patents hinder progress of science and the useful arts? How many cases do you know of that people were unable to advance the arts because of a patent? People talk about patent trolls suing startups and main street shops: How many of them actually do anything technically innovative? Hinder commercialization of some old technology? Sure, patents can do that. Stifle progress? Not so much. There are studies on these types of things that you can find on ssrn.com

Your impression is likely based on what you hear in a) tech media, which is largely supported by ads and hence welcome rage-views, and b) tech forums like this where open source is the dominant religion. But count how many times you've heard of a merit-less lawsuit, and compare that to the dark matter of millions of active patents out there. Forming opinions based on cherry picked examples is not a good idea. Better to look at empirical evidence.

I'll give you some numbers less than 1% of patents are ever asserted, and only a fraction of them make it to a trial. The vast majority of patents lie fallow because there is no demand for their technology in the market. Now does that look like a serious problem anymore?
Biased news does not reveal itself. Great that you pointed this out though.
Guide to FTP Server Replacement and Alternatives [pdf]
http://i.imgur.com/SLZeCmS.png
The tech crunch article has some good details, and no, I don't think they would be able to successfully IPO just yet, the reason is in the Tech Crunch article :

"In February of this year, Twilio noted that it was adding $1 million in recurring revenue every seven days, having ended 2014 with a revenue run rate of $100 million. But like many quickly growing cloud startups, Twilio loses money.

In the first half of 2015, the company booked $71.74 million in sales, with cost of revenue of $32.32 million. Those figures leave a gross profit of $39.42 million for the period. Deducting operating expenses and other costs, Twilio had a net loss of $16.370 million in the first six months of 2015."

So the first half of the year was $71M in sales, and they are running at an operating loss.

They are adding $1M in recurring revenue a week. And we know that it costs them roughly $450K to in costs to service that revenue (cost of revenue).

If we add in $1M in recurring revenue a week, for 6 months that is and additional $26M in revenue, maybe $14.3M in additional income (subtracted off the $450K/million cost of revenue), their 'burn rate' or costs for the first half were 39M + 16M or $55M (that is $39M in gross margin and a $16M net loss), if they keep costs constant (don't add head count, same level of capital investment they had in the first half, etc) then we can guess that their costs for the full year would be about $110M, subtracted from their gross revenue (after paying cost of revenue) of $88M they end up losing about $22M for the year.

You have a hard time IPO'ing if your business isn't paying for itself. And if it isn't paying for itself, you can't IPO if you can't clearly explain why it eventually will be paying for itself.

So the multi-million dollar question which the CEO is no doubt mulling over, is that given the cost of revenue, and the company's costs to get that revenue, is there a point where they make money? In my napkin analysis I made a very charitable assumption that their additional revenue won't incur any additional costs, but that may be incorrect. They may (or may not) write off their equipment against revenue which is not unusual in accrual based accounting but their corp infrastructure and things like leased space come out of G&A. So either they have a story of how they reduce their costs to make money on existing revenue, or they have a story that new revenue adds more gross margin than costs it consumes, and plot an intercept path to operationally cash flow positive and then net cash flow positive. At THAT point they can IPO and stop thinking like a startup.
In addition to the token returned, it'd be handy if it returned the full url as well.
I wonder if they use some kind of (neural) language model for their translations. Using only a dictionary (as in the text) would be about 60 years behind the state of the art...
To be clear, when I say "patent" I'm referring to a legal instrument that secures exclusive rights. When I say "useful patent" I'm talking about the utility of the legal instrument, not the utility of the mathematical algorithm claimed in the patent.
"You're right. People should not care about anything and should just never voice an opinion. Back to your video games, sheep."

So when I get someone fired from their job for voicing their opinion (regardless of what it is), it's fair game, right? So I should be able to fire you because you are pro-gay marriage and it's against my religious beliefs???

The problem is that it's modern-day mcarthyism. As long as it goes against the narrative of the mainstream, anything is fair game (bullying, death threats, illegal activity and even violence). It seems anyone against the narrative is immediately deemed worthless.

Everyone at some point says things that are offensive. It's high time, I start pointing this out to more employers and getting people fired. Call it, justice....
Are you sure?

On my desktop, the english dictionary is ~1 megabyte uncompressed, and compresses to ~250k with gzip. The download for Google Translate is somewhere around 30 megabytes.
You have to download them beforehand, and offline translating is limited to just a few languages.
Finding the Right Startup Investor
...because there's a secondary step in getting it from a car to the doorstep?
It looks like a surveillance network.
> No traffic?

Not for long, apparently.
The+Lafayette+Campaign:+First+Reviews
Why? If you spend all day designing and writing code, why not view your commute as an opportunity to relax/read a book/listen to music/whatever you want to do that's different from your day-to-day work? Future you will thank you for it.
Like this one:

> "For this reason it is that they all recognize in a most surprising manner the name of Simo and prefer to be called by that rather than by any other"

Although, to be honest, I have an urge to go to a zoo and call a dolphin Simo now.
It's incredibly depressing that insane scenarios like drones piling C4 explosives on mall rooftops has become a major concern to the point where people will reject an entire category of technological devices that can otherwise massively improve (and even save) lives if used at scale.

I guess all the media and government fearmongering since 9/11 has been successful. When someone pitches a piece of tech, people now immediately think of how that tech can be used by Bad People to do Bad Things.

I would expect Hacker News of all places to not succumb to this type of irrational paranoia. But I guess we are all human in the end.
Articles like this really bother me because its really unclear what data here is significant (if any) since all of the data is just quoted as a % without standard error and the sample sizes are very small:

e.g. on comparing companies that do better. You could have a data set of 150 companies whose exit performance (or current value) looks something like this (numbers in millions):

5000,1000,500,400,200,200,100,50,50,30,30,20,20,20,15,15,15,15,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 (repeated 6x to get 150 data points)

Now compare that against a data set that is those exact numbers divided in half:

2500,500,250,200,100,100,50,25,25,15,15,10,10,10,7.5,7.5,7.5,7.5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 (repeated 6x to get 150 data points)

If you compare these data sets with a Two Sample T-Test you have to go down to 91% confidence to get a significant result (http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/t-test.html#!307.2/986....)

That may not sound that bad, but now add a super-unicorn to each one of those data sets, a $20B exit. Now the differences aren't even significant at 80% confidence.

e.g. in Item 7 about technical co-founders: "consumer companies with at least one technical co-founder underperform completely non-technical teams by 31%"

Lets say that First Round has 150 consumer businesses and we're just going to look at a binary outcome of something like "valued over $50m". Now lets say that 100 of these consumer companies have technical co-founders and 50 are completely non-technical. Say 40% of the non-technical teams are "successful" by the $50m metric. That means that 30.5% of the technical teams are successful (if they are doing 31% worse by the numbers in the article since 40%/1.31 = 30.5%). That's not a significant result at 80% confidence (http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/chi-squared.html#!31/10...)

I understand why they published the piece and think it will get a lot of reads, but really wish I could read a version with statistically relevant insights instead.
"""Ivy League School and working at a prestigious company? You don't get either of those by being a slacker."""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
It would be interesting how they plan on detecting smaller moving objects like birds, which would be more of a challenge than a helicopter or a construction crane. Perhaps lasers and radar similar to how Google's driverless cars detect potential hazards?
Amazon Drops The Ball
Don't force any specific layout. Just have defaults plus rebindable keys for all controls.
Do you really a startup to get a t-shirt? Maybe just get an Uber.
I recall learning that the important part of the optimization phase for Itanium was based on runtime performance analysis, not just static optimizations.
Linux Based Solus OS Now Boots in Flat 1.2 Seconds
Foxpass started here as a "Show HN" back in February (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039027) and now we're part of the current batch.

Would love your feedback and of course I'm happy to answer any questions!