skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My nich market sounds very similar to yours. I entered a market with 2 older competitors who were stagnating.

We talked to a ridiculous number of people about what would make a better product. We then built that.

We charge ~40% more than our competition and have had remarkably few complaints about pricing.

My email is in my profile - reach out if you have questions!
I don't think the entire massed effort of the entire entertainment industry for all time can provide 6 hours/day of "stuff that is not shit." Roughly 6 hours/week is close to doable for the current industry if they don't make too many mistakes.

Reality TV began with GenX/millenials (MTV in the '90s with The Real World) and I'm not familiar with people older than that who watch that. I say that; I'll watch Counting Cars now and again. Reality TV represents a trade of quality for volume. Us boomers endured dreck like "Dallas".

I think the future is in nonfiction. I am biased to like things like BookTv. The costs are relatively low, it's got a pretty high hit rate ( some subjects will simply not engage some people ) but it's not really media any more. Add some "media" to it and you get the execrable TED talks.

I can't see that supporting much in terms of ad revenue. But it might stream on some sort of modest subscription basis.
Maybe you can elaborate?

>Is it also impossible to research matter, because we can't seperate the matter we study ... ? Am I missing the analogy?

You seem to think that it should be possible to research matter, even though the prior argument seems to say it is impossible.
My evidence is not high quality, but it's evidence. Just because I don't have higher quality evidence at hand doesn't make it true. The sky is blue. You can disagree, but where I sit it looks blue.

I claimed my point and my evidence centers on failure rate and personal observation. You can disagree or choose to maintain your own anecdotal/limited evidence. Neither hypothesis is proven invalid until clear high quality evidence is provided.

I find your strawman distasteful bordering on offensive.
Thanks!

What is the process of getting zero-rating like?

Are you glad that zero rating exists in your market?
So how exactly is this supposed to make things better? I want to save, let's say, www.newspaper.com/import-article.html. So I must create a PR, wait for it to be merged so that I get w3id.org/my-project/newspaper-article as a redirect to the URL mentioned earlier.

Now what? What if the newspaper.com URL changes? Am I supposed to keep all my URLs up-to-date (i.e. send pull requests every now and then to update my "bookmarks")?

web.archive.org seems much more useful, by copying the entire page at the time of creating a snapshot and thereby creating a true, durable copy.
Signal: https://www.twilio.com/signal
Or politicians, or anyone who meets lots of people. The original is a "Farley File": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file

These days it should be integrated with an address book or customer relationship management software.
The first link in the article is quite interesting (the current project is named Status-6)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine...

also Russian wikipedia has a longer article on this beast

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83...

it says that this contraption is straight out of Dr. Strangelove

* once it is on its way then it can't be recalled

* also they plan to put Cobalt near the fusion core,
making it a cobalt bomb, just like in Dr. Strangelove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb )

* Russian wikipedia says that this outrage is supposed to counter US Anti ballistic missiles. (Again Dr. Strangelove - the doomsday device was supposed to counter a massive ballistic missile buildup - for a fraction of the cost).

What worries me is that the worlds elites seem to be a bit less rational than what we had during the cold war ... The Russians seem to be a lot more saber rattling than the Soviet leadership. (I may be wrong here; the defense council is said to have considered the nuking of China during the 1969 border conflict http://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved-... )
In addition to nostrademons' point about virtualization, exokernels have influenced monolithic kernels in particular situations. For example, the Linux kernel's graphics stack is moving away from rendering through the X server, towards directly rendering into a buffer using libraries (Wayland is only the most recent step in this direction).
I am generally in favor of the idea of the OP, but the core utilities do differ across environments and this will bite you sooner or later.

I was bit recently by some pretty boring search and replace functionality differing between sed on OSX and on Debian. Like, I would have had to pass a different argument to sed based on the version of sed (So I switched to Perl for the task). But this is certainly an insidious category of bug where you don't discover it until to try to run the script in another environment and then you're potentially stuck debugging the script from the top down.
Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but is that not messed up? It seems wrong, or at least very wasteful, to force people to pay for state-produced entertainment. Even the current TV licensing scheme is bad, because it assumes you watch BBC content if you have a TV.
Adding layers of indirection isn't going to give us a permanent addressing system. This service just adds new points of failure: the service itself, or the creator of an identifier who fails to update it or changes it maliciously.

The real solution is some form of content addressing. Whichever one you want: URNs, magnet links, the "ni:" RFC[1], IPFS paths[2], or my own hash link system[3].

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6920

[2] https://ipfs.io/

[3] https://github.com/btrask/stronglink/
Personally I found it disappointing as it seemed to take the view that the only UNIX in existence since 1992 has been Linux.
A better title would have been the Art of Linux Programming or the Art of Open Source Programming. Not in anyway a classic or essential reading.

'The Practice of Programming' and 'The UNIX Programming Environment' are much better introduction to programming and the tao of UNIX programming than the Raymond book.
AVG putting millions of Chrome users at risk
I definitely don't think it added to the dialogue. If she disagrees, she seems to miss the overall point of PG's essay altogether.
There was a research .in 2010 measuring a decrease of 40% in empathy among college students since 2000[1]. And Israeli researcher who talks with teens everyday and deals with those subject recently did an interview in an Israeli newspaper , and he thinks that the cause is smartphones and social media. He frames this as "our children are becoming less human".

If you add that into the calculation, it could be that the total value of all internet startups, Paul Graham's specialty , is greatly negative, and they're not just silly entertainment.

[1]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/born-love/201005/shocke...
why not have a flat 15-20% income tax for everyone instead - rich or poor?

Because the marginal propensity to consume is very different between "rich" and "poor", to start.
Wow that's crazy. I'm sure that usage is not the expectation from the app makers. It almost makes me wonder if there is a strange counter-psychology going on there, as if your acceptance was in part measured by your participation, and that if someone did not see a like from you, it had consequences.
Numba certainly does not obviate all of these issues. I think user `tadlan` is referring to some of the compiler optimizations, like loop unrolling or fusion (e.g. noticing that two subsequent loops can be 'fused' into the subordinate execution block of one single loop). These things can offer speed-ups even beyond NumPy, and they can work even when the Python code you start out with already uses NumPy.

The thing is, which `tadlan` seems unaware of, a lot of this stuff just fails in production environments and hits corner cases that the Numba compiler does not handle (I'm talking about the first part of the Numba compiler pipeline, where it converts to Numba IR, and not yet to LLVM IR, and does things like examine the CPython bytecode to alter the representation from a CPython stack-based representation to a register-based representation that will be compatible with LLVM and ultimately with the actual machine itself). In that compilation step, the only things that are able to be handled are things that the Numba team (I used to be a member of it) explicitly support. They don't support a full-blown compiler for the entire Python language, nor even for every type of NumPy operation. That's not a knock against Numba at all -- it's a specializing compiler and obviously they need to prioritize what to support, and make longer term goals about supporting more general things. But the point still remains that you cannot just assume that if you call `jit` on any arbitrary Python code, it will always become faster. In some cases, it can even become slower.

I suspect `tadlan` is very interested in Numba and enthusiastic about knowing the taxonomy of Numba details, but it does not seem like that user has had real world experience trying to get Numba to work in production, and seeing all of the numerous buggy and missing features. I don't want to diminish anyone's enthusiasm for Numba, so it's probably best just not to engage with `tadlan` about it. That user's mind seems made up already.
I haven't seen any commercials since I started paying $11.98/month, a plan that they say is "No Commercials."
We used an inverter-type with standard 12V lead-acid car batteries recently. Had a plug-in monitoring solution.
Date: 1990.

I wish readtext.org would put the date at the top of the article for context.
No idea why you got downvoted. The author of the article definitely agrees with the basic thrust of you argument, although maybe not your speculation in the parentheses. If you look at arab militaries as existing in-of and for themselves, they appear to be incredibly inefficient and badly organized and should be reformed. But if you look at them from a political perspective, they're still inefficient and badly organized, but there's a lot of solid political logic as to why.

In the case of many arab regimes, having an ineffectual and divided military isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Comcast will have to be reorganized as purely a pipe provider. It won't survive as it is. It's not clear that DSL will not then eclipse cable altogether.

As it is , they feed a lot of cash to local stations and ESPN. Those probably won't survive at all, unless as some sort of premium online content.

HBO/SHO?: Who knows?
Ask HN: 2 page or 1 page resume?
When an applicant sends you their resume, do you prefer it to be one or two pages? Why?
Getting offended by etymology is impractical. I’ll explain.

Faggot and gay are really fantastic examples because they have gone from everyday words to offensive slurs to useful emotional expressions all in the lifetime of many people who are alive today.

Are we going down the etymology route only so far as it fits your argument? Are we going down the etymology route only until someone gets offended? Because if I wanted to play that line of reasoning I would just say a faggot is a cigarette and to be gay means to be happy. Now we both know those words don't mean those things anymore. But are we both willing to admit that when I call someone a faggot or say something is gay I am in no way referring to boys who like boys?
I still find it baffling that the USA has not had a Federal income tax for about half of its existence.
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Not sure how this fits in with HN, but since it's here... there was a great documentary made a couple years ago on the whole series of events that led up to the final standoff and the aftermath: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119463/
Piketty points out that the post-WWII American confiscatory taxation regime was also a way to prevent the principle-agent problem[0] with corporate executives.

Why, if I control the company, would I not just transfer all the valuable assets of the corporation to myself and leave the shareholders holding a sad sack of debt?

Under postwar taxation, I wouldn't do that because I wouldn't actually personally end up with anything: it'd all go to the taxman.

Now that the top marginal income rate is so low and the capital gains rate is even lower, we see top executives transferring vast amounts of corporate assets to themselves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
Silly. The traffic from the Echo has been studied extensively. Detection of the wake word is hardware-based. Nothing is recorded and sent until the wake word is uttered and after that only the part until you finish your question. If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet.

(Yes, I love my echo)
Unikernels don't run on microkernels, they run on hypervisors, AKA exokernels.

The difference is that microkernels move abstractions like the file system into server processes that still have to be trusted, but are at least isolated; exokernels and hypervisors remove the abstractions from the trusted code base entirely, and just multiplex the hardware directly. Unikernels thus simplify the typical virtualization stack so it looks more like MIT's exokernel research projects, with abstractions in untrusted libraries.
"and an absolute must for anyone starting out on a programming career"

How does a person starting out know which parts of this are relevant and which are not? For example Mac OS is addressed pre OSX. Ok so maybe that's obvious to anyone as outdated but what about other things that have changed since 2003?
I want to second leesalminen.

Do the analysis and figure out where there is a lot of value to add, then ask for that value in your pricing.

To be frank, say you make a "me too" product. Not that I'm implying that is your intent. I'm not.

You could roll it out, cut the better product pricing by some amount, promote, and score some revenue. The expectations on this may well result in a race to the bottom, though it could also fund you making some real improvements too. However, your better competitor will likely respond and you've got an arms race where your first move would be just to cut cost.

IMHO, adding more value is a harder sell, but when you are successful, you have a lot of room to move, and this is very likely to fund keeping the momentum up. Start out ahead, and the other guy is playing catch up, with market expectations moving up on price / value, not down.

You might also, while talking to those people about what would make for a better product, find out what "better" means to them, and price on some fraction of that value added.

Things are worth what people will pay for them, and a high value perception often means more dollars. Further, setting that expectation means generally higher margins and maybe you don't have a corner on the market. That's fine. You will be earning your keep very comfortably.

Look at Apple and it's smartphone profit / market share, and then Samsung and it's profit / market share.

IMHO, doing the work to establish a clear, high value proposition early on has many advantages over a more streamlined, "hey we are cheaper" approach.

In this case, given the better product is backed by someone well liked and who gives great service means the market is very likely open to the high value per dollar proposition, and a discount or maybe just aggressive price to gain entry might not be seen as a favorable thing. Or, you may find this "A" person has those connections somehow, or has found some of the market will pay more, or is more profitable. The "B" competitor may do more deals, but might just not make anywhere near the revenue.

Find this out.

Given the connections in play, a high value / dollar play is likely going to require some real sales effort, and the numbers you put out here are doable by an aggressive person, and that's all fine. Get the value add done, and it will be something to sell.

Finally, it's awful hard to bring pricing up. It's a lot easier to either bring it down, or bundle more to maintain value / dollar in the eyes of the users.

Start aggressive and high value. You can always take a different path should you find it's just not going to make sense. This also leaves the door open for tiers. Adding higher price tiers to what is seen as a lower price offering has different dynamics than adding lower price tiers to a high value / price offering does.

Your discussions on "what is worth what?" with the market should help you understand which of those dynamics makes more sense.
That depends on the sub. Many are quality groups. Most that have very large subscriber bases like the default subs are not.
Suppose you are the thief. In a crowd of people, no one but one person is touching is pockets to check something. You will be attracted to that person and become curious as to what is in his pocket. He's the odd one out.
Url changed from http://www.livescience.com/53227-plutonium-238-created-for-s..., which is cribbed from this press release. Like most of the science PR mills, that one does not link to its sources.
It might be a cultural thing - I grew up in Canada where there's a similar setup for the CBC and I largely think it's fine.

One of the important things to note is that the US absolutely dominates world media, from TV to movies to music to everything else. For countries that are linguistically compatible (UK, Canada, Australia, etc) this is extra-true. You get into a weird situation where the bulk of the entertainment being consumed by the populace is foreign-made, and there's increasingly less room for expressions of local culture.

The funding of the CBC in Canada for example is less about making you watch the CBC but more about state funding to create local arts and culture in an environment where foreign culture dominates. It's about making sure "Canadian TV" and "Canadian music" even exists (sorry about the Bieber).

I can't speak for the BBC, but it's also important to note that unlike public broadcasters of the US like PBS, the CBC is not a giant money pit. It creates programs that are highly successful, generate revenue, and have viewership competitive with major American programs. The CBC is a mainstream cultural institution in a way that the PBS can only hope to be, so it's not as if taxpayer money is being spent to create shows nobody watches.
I'm a prolific pirate. The Amazon offerings as pointed out by the author (Transparent, High Castle..) sit on my HTPC - downloaded from torrents because Amazon's streaming services are not offered here in Canada so how else would I get them.

I haven't pirated any Netflix shows because it's simply too cheap and too easy to just do it legit.
I suspect that some of the insults inside this article are because the author didn't have such big reach like PG , and those might be a way to achieve that.

But a few of the main points are correct - for example, the way that silicon value measures value doesn't have a lot to do with social value.
The classic comment on the Soviet military was that units improve markedly after they've been banged around a bit in combat. This is typical of militaries that don't train as they fight. When they actually do fight, they get pounded into something that works. WWII was a long, slow slog for the Soviet army, so they had time for that to happen.

There are a few Arab military organizations that work. Hezbollah is respected by US special ops organizations. They're tactically innovative; they've deployed squads with three RPG gunners and one rifleman, which gave them enough firepower to take on Israeli armor.
When I fly to and land in Germany I know I'm in Germany because I have an easy to use map that tells me so and the odds are that 90 percent of the people will identify as German.

Is there such a map for the First Nations? Can I rely on that map to identify with the people?
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> Internet service is on the order of $50/month.

This is bullshit. 1GB of 4G LTE costs less than $4 in India.

http://www.airtel.in/4g/
Keep in mind that the rest of the developed worlds' infrastructure and productive capacity had been bombed to oblivion. Of course it was a boon to the American economy, despite the political situation. The US was the only place left standing that could mass-produce complex goods in conjunction with its new-found standing as the most powerful military. The world we live in now is very different - it's flattened out. A large number of nations have either matched or surpassed the US in both productivity and standard of living.
In what way does that sound dysfunctional? It definitely functioned, it just had very different goals and priorities.
1 page because recruiters didn't have time for you to turn to next page. Make use of appropriate font size and font style to cover as much as content as you can
You could think of it as a development to handle the absence of "dislike". Those 10% of posts which do not receive a "like" can be assumed to be "dislike".
I love my echo (alexa), especially the convenience of "no button but wake word" when I have my hands full in the kitchen.
That said, google voice is so much better at parsing my questions that I'd pay a bunch of money for another standalone device with wake word which would integrate with with google voice.
Any chance of hacking that, or linking your device with both? (Ask Amazon / Ask Google)
>You also wouldn't have these endless discussions about whether you should tax the poor 10% (because the tax affects them more)

>No deductions for any special interest.

>I'm not a huge fan of subsidies either, but if you really think you need to "make it easier" for some vital or up and coming industries, then you could give them some subsidies for a while.

Er.
[DebConf16](http://debconf16.debconf.org/) but that is for Debian geeks and general FLOSS hackers :)
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Yeah, that's why I didn't google it.

Like all words its meaning depends on what most people think it means. I'm not all that surprised that you never heard of it. Maybe I just had rude friends when I grew up.
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Oh man, my dad and I went to compUSA all the time when I was growing up. Great memories.
Failure rate is in no way any evidence of whether or not startups create value. Failure rate of drug discovery is also high, would you say drug discovery doesn't create value? I'm sorry if you feel offended but I'm not trying to offend you personally, I'm just pointing out that it is a nonsensical way to converse, to offer up claims that make no sense outside of personal observation
"I want to live in a different city" is a management challenge that belonga on the list. Managers have some measure of control over where they allow employees to work.