skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper provides evidence for what some might consider an obvious conclusion, but there is always value in documenting evidence, better yet, generating it.

The paper says established sectors are easier to predict than radical ones, just as progress is easier to measure in established sciences, as opposed to where paradigms may shift. And when faced with a paradigm shifting value proposition, no one really knows what to make of it until the rubber hits the road and the model is tested in the market.

But once established, even a paradigm shifter becomes a crowded R&D sector, no? The iterations are faster, but consumer web and enterprise software do seem more crowded. Search, social networks, and web technology plays also come to mind.

What I didn't find the paper mention were how open source and the lack of IP monopolization as an option could be a factor, and also how the entrepreneurs themselves stacked up in comparison. For me personally, it would suck if "the entrepreneurs didn't really matter" (the conclusion asserts better human capital gravitates towards the ventures with greater potential, but doesn't say anything about any influences they actually have).
Cost of customer acqusition. States have to be bagged one-by-one, each with an insanely long sales cycle, your profits have to cover those nice salespeople's salaries, while leaving you with sufficient profit to cashflow expansion.
This is not a dev problem; the sort of orgs which are prepared, and can cashflow these sort of sales simply don't have (nor are they incentivized to have) any dev culture whatsoever.
Someone please release a generic "generate event" button! (Or please tell me where I can get one... Googling for "wifi enabled button" provides irrelevant results).

Below someone mentioned this: https://flic.io/
But apparently it is only for pre-order right now.

Update: I searched for this on Amazon and noticed:
"Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on August 31, 2015."

So, it seems it will be released not that long from now...
Here at Penn we have a research platform where we try to motivate (among other things) medication adherence. We have integrated with various devices in the past that automatically track when the meds are taken, but for some reason the vendors of these devices always seem to flake out. We've been thinking lately that a simpler approach where people just push a button when they take their meds might be more sustainable, especially as a simpler device may reduce our dependence on those outside vendors.

What we're looking for: A simple, preferably small device, that we can program to make HTTP calls home to our server. Participants in our studies are scattered geographically and not all of them have wifi, so cellular is crucial. We have done studies with anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand+ participants, and hope to scale up beyond that as well, so cost at scale is a big factor. Today I came across bt.tn, and I love the UI simplicity of their product, but their prices are high, and it seems they don't include SIM cards with their buttons. Particle.io's prices are more in line with what we're looking for (especially the $3/month data fee), but my concern is that (at least from their website) the devices still look like hobbyist electronics with PCBs still visible, rather than like simple consumer devices.

Does anyone have suggestions for something with the UI simplicity of Amazon Dash or bttn but without bttn's price point? (Or feel like making us 500 or 1000 such things? The economics can totally be worth it.)
Definitely I want to schedule them ahead of time! But then when the time comes, Will it even work? Last week for the life of me I could not get the Record button to come up on the HOA I had scheduled a week prior and for which I saved the URL. I cycled through all my Google accounts hoping I had mistakenly created it in another account, but no luck. And no feedback whatsoever regarding what my privileges were in the Hangout, nor any indicator in the Google Plus homepage or Hangouts dashboard for my accounts. So I gave up. I know I created this darn HOA with one of my accounts, you HAVE to be logged into a Google account to create one! Like I said, HOA is a killer product, but it's sad that has only become less useful since it first came out, since now I can't even use it at at all!
>where they can enter in an anonymous token that they are given by the people who work the station

That doesn't seem very anonymous. In fact, it seems like a possible way of deanonymizing votes, since in many places you have to sign a ledger or provide identification before voting.
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I don't see how your proposal can prevent double voting. Voting happens over a period of several days not to mention absentee voting.

Plus, it seems to me the process is not particularly tamper resistant during the ballot tallying phase, when compared with what is possible using cryptographic techniques.
I thought turnover in this context was the usual use of turnover as in, people leaving the company and new ones being hired.
Data on average venture returns is at:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html...

http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2012/07/institutional-limit...

Net, on average, the returns are poor.

> If your conclusion is correct, how are
the VCs staying in business?

Reasons:

(1) The money comes from the limited
partners (LPs), and they are heavily
investors with big bucks. We're talking
billions, from university endowments,
state pension funds, sovereign wealth
funds (say, a fund run by a rich Mideast
oil country), some family wealth funds,
maybe some insurance companies, maybe some
hedge funds.

Of course, venture might hit a grand slam
with great returns, and no doubt each
venture firm that raises money from LPs
claims that they are a top tier firm
with great advantages and some great
investment themes that with their "deep
domain knowledge" and great business
experience and insight will let them get
much better than average returns.

These limited partners invest billions in
all good looking asset classes. Venture
capital is regarded by the LPs as an
asset class but is relatively small.
So, for the limited partners, venture
capital is small potatoes and slips in
under the wire even if on average the
returns have been poor.

(2) The LPs have FMO -- fear of missing
out. Due to the rapid progress of
technology, the Internet, etc., the
venture firms can keep telling the LPs
that "This time it's different." with some
possibility of being correct. So, some
portfolio manager at an LP doesn't want to
have to answer why they didn't invest in
KPCB or Sequoia and, thus, missed out on
Google.

(3) The LPs are not good at technology
or able to evaluate "ideas" or look for
"better" ideas. Instead, the LPs are
closer to traditional commercial bank
lending and private equity that put a lot
of weight on accounting statements and
don't expect to evaluate ideas or
technology. So, the LPs are not pushing
their venture firms to evaluate "ideas".
> This is a federal regulator deciding not to recognize them.

The downside to this being fewer legal protections in the case of, say, a strike?
> Training the elite is a saturated market already

This is true, but can the world change if the children of the elite aren't taught to change it?

Much of the world operates as a plutarchy, including the United States. If the people who inherit that power are taught why they should act against their own short-term interests, there is a chance to change it.
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how have you been following this? I'd like to look at the json graph concepts you're talking about and having the discussion to go along with it would be very helpful.
Ahh I was wondering if it had some specific API for only allowed purchases. But if that's the case I may buy one of these.
Spin them off as separate companies and you're onto something good ;-)
It has been much more difficult in the past, as recently as 2013, there were a number of different tools competing to be the standard method of packaging python. It's pretty smooth sailing at this point.

I actually gave a lightning talk on this topic a couple months ago. Here are my slides, in case they're useful: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13Cd-LIcw38d-zwZ5pGiW...
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I'm assuming that you're playing devil's advocate here, and that you don't actually agree with most of what you wrote.

>The world as a whole simply does not care enough about individual humans to invest its resources into rehabilitating criminals rather than punishing them.

The argument over capital punishment is a debate in the US, but not in many other countries.[1]

As of July 2015, of the 195 independent states that are UN members or have UN observer status:

-102 have abolished it for all crimes;

-7 have abolished, but retain it for exceptional or special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime);

-50 retain, but have not used it for at least 10 years or are under a moratorium;

-36 retain it in both law and practice.

The map on that Wikipedia entry should show you what esteemed company the US is in with regards to maintaining the death penalty.

>Not even the U.S. can pull this off in its own backyard.

Meghan J. Ryan, in her paper "Death and Rehabilitation"[2] discusses how, in the US, the threat of the death penalty is somehow considered to be a trigger for rehabilitation. A dangerous conflation if ever I saw one, and an article worth reading. I won't quote from it, as it discusses both sides of the argument, and I don't want to cherry pick. You should read it, while remembering that it discusses the topic from a uniquely American viewpoint.

>Training up a few wildlife rangers and keeping them well stocked with bullets is a minimum viable solution for keeping the elephant herds alive long enough for the local economy to develop enough to make poaching for ivory obsolete. Re-education requires infrastructure that we take for granted in industrialized countries, but is simply not yet present in rural Africa, away from the cities.

Regarding poaching, rehab has been proven to work[3]:

During training courses, even convicted poachers have been rehabilitated and sent out to work as rangers

These rangers were part of the problem, and are now part of the solution. If they had been killed, they wouldn't be part of anything. This also seems to show that the problem of training infrastructure in rural Africa is being solved, and that further efforts in this direction would have greater benefit.

Other than that, your argument seems to be that the problem is too large and too expensive. I argue that history has shown that we can, and should change our nature, and that killing isn't as cheap as you suggest.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_c...

[2]:http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/46/4/Articles/46-4_R...

[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...
Thanks!

Yes. I will be posting the source to github very soon.
This is nuts. When’s the crash?
Glad you enjoyed it! It uses a library called vis.js.
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How would one go about tampering when, as is traditional, representatives from all parties are in the room when the votes are counted?
Voting machines are a very hard problem from a security standpoint to solve. So even a well designed and audited voting machine might still not be safe enough to use when compared with manual voting (which is not perfectly secure, but at least is more generally understood).

This, however, is stuff out of a Dilbert cartoon: "The wireless connection uses WEP (which we knew). What we didn’t know is that a few minutes of wireless monitoring showed that the encryption key is “abcde”, and that key is unchangeable"
you don't have to couple the two.
Paper voting works in Australia. You don't even need your ID (edit: and by "don't need", I mean "they aren't allowed to ask for it") - you rock up at a polling station in your electorate, give your name, they mark it off on a sheet. You give verbal confirmation that you haven't already voted. They give you a voting paper, you fill it in at a booth, then drop it in the box on the way out.

(If you're so inclined, you can also just get your name marked off and walk out if you want to donkey vote, which is the equivalent to a protest/blank vote. Or draw penises on the voting paper).

If you don't vote, you get a nice letter in a few months from the Australian Electoral Commission with a fine of about $100 or so for not voting. Voting is also on a Saturday so most have the day off, and there are early polling stations open for a while prior to the day so if you can't make it on the day you can do it then.
What kind of job market will laid off Qualcomm employees find in San Diego?
"IDC estimates that by 2020, the Internet of Everything will monitor and manage countless activities in our lives, from the moment we awake to the moment we fall asleep, from catching the bus to filling the refrigerator, walking the dog, and watering the garden."

And you think Revelation 13:16-17 is a joke?
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Well said. That's exactly the point: to get "play-with-it level intuition". Even though its not rigorous, I still find it helps.

I am planning on building a simulation of the back-prop algorithm though!
first, that margins are pretty standard on accounting for sales and overhead

but even if they aren't enough here then you sell the machines to those people to flip them to the states at a higher cost. Don't be in THAT sales game. Otherwise, sure, you can add 30% to the cost ... it's not going to be another 600% just to sell the thing.

And even if it was, I'm sure I can personally, in my spare time, produce a far better product than the one outlined in the article.
Communication is the key. For example, I'm trying to figure out from your post what the actual problem is. It seems like you don't know, which is not exactly a surprise. You say "I think she resents my being in her space during weekdays." First of all, you can ask her what the problem is. Second of all, you can try to give some breathing room by working in a coffee shop or something.

Of course that one issue is not everything, but it is something that could be worked on in the short term.

I highly recommend the book Getting the Love You Want.

edit: Rereading this, it sounds more brusque than I intended. Also, if you do ask your wife what is wrong, that can obviously be a charged conversation. Getting the Love You Want has a technique called the imago dialogue. Even if your wife (who seems reluctant to therapy) won't engage in this, you can still use the techniques yourself. For this particular conversation you want to focus on mirroring, that is: let her speak, then repeat what she told you and ask if you summarized it correctly. If you're not both on the same page, this may end up being one-sided. The point is to make sure you understand her point before you make yours (or vice versa). You will often see you're upset about very different things.

The book is really fascinating.
Nope. You can have a special machine for them - just like you have a special porta-potty --- no need to increase the cost of every unit for that.
VC firms should have increased regulation to decrease anti-competitive rigged bidding behavior.
Not that you are wrong, but essentially mixmaster routing of email is essentially oninon routing at the mail protocol level (as opposed to at the IP level).

I think it makes perfect sense to call it "onion routing of email" or something along those lines -- we generally do talk about "routing emails" (as in from email program to local smtp server, from local smtp server via an ISP smtp server, then lookup via DNS for MX record, on to the gateway smtp server, and so on to the final destination(s)).

[ed: Not to mention one thing probably stays the same: who runs the best, free onion routers/gateways and mixmaster servers? Intelligence agencies...

http://veps.hypertekst.net/misc/anon-remail/

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My opinion is that programming is literally defined by editing text files with difficult to comprehend source code. Anything that is easier or deviates from that is by definition not programming and therefore something users do.

The rationalization is that anyone using an easier tool to program computers without as much code must not be able to use code. Therefore us programmers are better than them.

Its very similar to the earlier era of punchcard programmers scoffing at assembly language programmers. Or hand-tool craftsmen sneering at mass-produced component-based manufacturing.

That infantile belief system will persist until super-intelligent AIs revise it or (maybe) the next generation wises up.
I appreciate the consumer advocacy, but if the machines are going to exist (and they are), they should be done well.
This is how I feel about music, which I used to buy on vinyl/CD/cassette up until music became 'free'. I would but a record without hearing it first, paying £4 to £8 for a 12" single or 'EP'. Provenance was important, if I already knew of the artist/label/producer then that was enough information for me to base my purchase decision on although radio play mattered too at times. Invariably the 'best' records would not always be stocked, you would have to get them when they came out or 'special order' them later (again probably unheard). In some ways there was no point in buying a record by a major artist (as you would have heard it already and a copy would not be too far away in a friend's collection etc.).

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
Humans are harder to compromise at scale. A single exploit can be replicated against hundreds of thousands of machines without heightening the risk of discovery by that much. Compromising hundreds of thousands of human vote counters without getting exposed due to a mistake is harder... although not impossible (it's in fact standard practice in plenty of countries)
Don't forget the hard-wired Administrator password: "admin"... and no logging to let someone know that someone may have removed into the machine and replaced the Access database holding the votes.
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I've worked with teams that are based in the Google office in Boulder, CO and visited them a few times - it's a nice office.
At the very minimum, I would expect a voting machine to create two paper receipts after each vote: one provided to the voter and another stored internally. These would hopefully be on something more durable than thermal paper, though that might suffice. The receipt would contain the machine ID, timestamp and vote recorded.

Administrators could get a quick count from the machine memory, then perform a verification by pulling a sample of votes from the printed receipt and comparing them to the electronic values with the same timestamp. And any voter can compare their receipt with publicly-available voting records.

Of course, then you have to worry about exploits that can cause the machine to print votes on demand, because those would appear legitimate, especially if the voter's receipt printout can be suppressed - there'd be no incriminating receipt trail hanging out of an unattended machine.
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The attack on paper voting is not flipping votes, it is invalidating votes. In Chicago, election officers counting the votes used to hide a small piece of pencil lead under their finger nail. If there were too many Republic votes, they would start putting an extra mark on some of them, thus invalidating the vote because of stray marks.

I think the solution is to crowd-source verifying the vote. If every ballot were given a unique number or code, and when the ballot was counted each ballot with who it was counted for as available for download on the web, third parties could verify that the numbers were counted correctly. And each voter now has an anonymous number that he can use to look at how the vote was counted and verify that it was counted correctly. If it wasn't, he complains. The political parties would be happy to urge their loyal constituents to check that their vote was correctly counted and to sue should they have a sufficient number of members claim theirs was wrong.
"Consider for a moment the possibilities of Wi-Fi-fitted lampposts, each with its own IP address, monitoring the numbers of Facebook posts, tweets, or credit card swipes as you stroll by with your smartphone (which identifies where you are from) and withdraw cash, buy shoes, drink a soda, and visit a museum."

Can the journalist explain us how a lamppost can do that? Even assuming that the tourist is connected to the free municipal WiFi -most of them don't-, how can the council track https traffic with Facebook, or Youtube? It is not only technically "challenging" but also illegal under Spanish Law.

In my opinion, this is a long and sensationalist article to explain that Barcelona signed a big contract to build municipal network that covers all the city using Wifi and FO and that, thanks to this network, now it is really cheap and easy to deploy sensors around the city that allow Big Data applications.

Buy the way, Catalonia has the biggest Open Wifi network in the world, with more than 30.000 nodes:

http://guifi.net/node/17714/view/map

Many users of this network where pushing the councils of their towns to collaborate in the project installing public nodes in order to expand the network. Also, a lot of research has been done about protocols to manage big open networks.

The municipal network in Barcelona is not connected to Guifi.net, but I wonder if Guifi.net had somehow influenced the council of Barcelona to take this decision.

I think it is also interesting to note the hate that they thrown at the newly elected Mayor at the end of the article. But in any case, I guess that it is always good news for the citizens of a city if Fortune.com don't like their Mayor.
How are the search results sorted? I expect them to be sorted by size of the competitor, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
In the couple jurisdictions where I've done most of my voting, the ballot box for the paper ballots has been an electronic tabulator.

I don't see much downside to this sort of system, there is a paper ballot for any checks that are needed or desired, and the vote tally is readily available when the election ends.
Team turnover vs. company turnover. It's one thing to learn a new project, another to learn the entire ecosystem.
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With apologies for not reading all the references you list before asking:

> it's difficult to assess the quality of information, particularly when disaggregated.

Do you mean that it's difficult in general, or in terms of "should I buy this"? I could see micropayments work similar to Kindle - a 24 hour no-questions, semi-automatic refund policy. Don't think that article was worth 50 cent? Just "unpay" for it.
WOW!!! I got a HN submission sentiment analysis! I normally don't comment on the submissions in general but I always submit stuff when it looks interesting to me, no matter if the article, video etc was made yesterday or 50 years ago. In this case I was reading about a new JS framework called REDUX[https://github.com/rackt/redux] and started to think about trends in software development before I ran into this "updated" article. It's interesting to me how we went from from sync to async, from MVC to a flow and vice versa, now what seems funny is that it only takes a big company to throw a "new" pattern or framework to make everybody think that if THEY are doing it then we should also do it. And if people clicked just because it says "AAA company says you should use (insert current hipster framework)" kind of proves my point.

So no, I'm not a robot @escape_goat but thanks for making me pass the reverse Turing test =)
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