skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never really understood the advertising business model. It seems like a reasonable approach for some companies and services, but somehow it has become the cornerstone of the tech industry. Free services with ads.

This always seemed completely unsustainable to me.
Well in my case we already have the mounting equipment on the roof and wiring. And we were looking at new panels and a new grid-tie inverter, so 16 x 325W Kyocera panels was $5,600 and the SMA Sunnyboy 5Kw inverter was $1900 (total $7,500).

I would not expect a company to quote a new install for that price since they will have to add the mounting system and pay their installers for a day's labor getting everything set up.

[1] http://www.solar-electric.com/
Maybe they haven't been to any Android forums recently? Users are massively excited about new Android releases, often going to great lengths to attempt to obtain it before their carrier releases the update, and even attempting to port it to older phones.

The problem is the carriers and manufacturers, not the users' wants. They aren't updating enough. And I can totally understand the pain for them, having to QA all those new versions and release them.
I think people forget how quickly the matrix expanded outward again once Apple got its financial house in order.

Jobs famously reduced the product range to a 2x2 grid--desktop and laptop, pro and consumer.

But in each of those boxes, there were a number of options. In addition to different "speeds and feeds", there were even color differences. At one point, taking into account configurable options, there were over a dozen versions of the iMac alone.

The iMac came out in 1998, iBook in 1999--and that filled out the matrix. But then the iPod came out in 2001, and the Xserve in 2002. And then of course each of those expanded into different versions and options. Think of the variety in the iPod line.

Jobs also took Apple into entirely new businesses fairly quickly, like Internet hosted services. Itunes is the most famous, but Apple did not even have an online store until they built one under Jobs' leadership.
I hate how people always use the cognitive shortcut of dystopia.
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Afaik this has been broken for me for December 8, 2015 when I first received: {"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403}
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There are different kinds of ads though, e.g. check out Seth's post on this: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/11/direct-marke...

I think it was the CEO at BMW who said that if he only showed you BMW advertising the day before you bought a car, they'd go out of business because no one would ever buy a BMW. The brand only works because they start showing you the ads when you're three years old, in hopes that you'll buy one when you're 35. And when they sponsor TED or whatever it's not because they think anyone there is going to go out and buy the car, it's to prove that they're a luxury brand by showing that they can afford to spend a lot of money on advertising that everyone knows isn't going to work.

If you look at brand vs direct response, you can see that it's roughly split among digital advertising.[1][2] But as Seth mentions a lot of people use direct marketing to try to do branding and so don't bother carefully measuring their funnel, and most non-digital advertising skews toward brand advertising because it's obviously harder (or impossible) to measure. And digital is less than a third of total advertising.

Also look at companies of the Uber/Handy sort, who spend huge on direct marketing purposely at a loss in hopes of later creating some sort of lock in through network effects. In that case it's part measuring and part gambling in a way that's not straightforward to classify.

[1] http://www.emarketer.com/Article/How-Much-Industries-Spendin...

[2] https://www.comscore.com/lat/Insights/Blog/On-Branding-Versu...
Interesting point, but easy counter argument: program the DRM scheme to expire once the work legally enters the public domain.
Wrong: everyone wants new releases if the OEMs got it to us in a timely fashion, but consumers want less to buy new phones every year.
The term "hedge fund" doesn't really mean anything anymore. It's just an actively managed portfolio with a lower AUM on average than a mutual fund, the legal option to take on more risk, and a certain fee structure. There are a few main investing "disciplines" or "strategies" [1] that each fund manager tends to subscribe to, but it's impossible to talk about them intelligently as a group as they all make wildly diverse bets on different assets across the globe.

[1] See figure 3: https://wealth.barclays.com/wealth-management/en_us/home/tho...
Can also be read as "spine".
I'd argue that you can get rich, just slowly.
This is a great idea, but is there an analogy in meatspace?
I'm sure it'd be impossible, or foolish, or just plain silly, but I'd really like it if a SpaceX launch could be "crowdsourced". Not money or ideas, but the actual process of the launch itself. Set up a website with a big red "launch" button that links to the physical launch process, and only launch the mission once, say, a million people have clicked the button. All those people would get to say they've played a tiny part in launching a mission to space.

It'd certainly be about the closest I'll ever come to participating in an actual space mission, and it'd be a heck of a lot of fun.

It probably needs to be more rigorous than that though.
Driving will be the new smoking
Ditto, along with Nu Pogodi - which is also great because it doesn't require working knowledge of Russian!
I can't help it, but I'm simply not against DRM. My problem is with the laws that make it illegal to break it. DRM is an art, and a form of expression. If someone wants to use it to delay alternate distribution channels, or to keep people from looking at things, I find that intriguing and mysterious. To keep it from being broken within a couple of years would involve an enormous amount of creativity and effort, and be well deserved.

If we could end copyright, I'd be happy with DRM wherever people could manage it. Ending DRM feels to me like ending riddles. Buying a locked box isn't morally bad - the badness comes when the government threatens to drive you to prison with guns and sticks for trying to open the box that you bought, or helping someone else open the box that they bought.

Yes, all copyright.
What if somebody makes an analog "cam" copy of the work?
There's a bit of a push for "per led support". Some of the jargon includes "co production" and "co delivery".

Here's a nice introduction to co-production: http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/your-stories/co-p...

>Co-production is essentially where professionals and citizens share power to plan and deliver support services together, recognising that both partners have a vital contribution to make. One example of a co-produced approach we reviewed is the Service User Network in Croydon. The network has been designed jointly by psychiatrists and service users who work together on an ongoing basis to deliver it. The network combines professional and lived experience and creates active networks that support people’s recovery.

You're right that it's a bit scary, and that care needs to be taken around clinical governance and data governance.
Not really anywhere near enough information to answer the question as it is stated, but in order to provide you with an answer, it could come down to how you identified and/or fixed the bug.

Did you put a bunch of print statements all over the place or really, any at all? Did you comment out some lines of code and repeatedly run the sample? Did you make changes of any kind and repeatedly run the sample to understand what was happening?

If you answered Yes to any of the above, then you went about it the hard way. You could have introduced additional errors into the code in a non-trivial case. You could have left debugging/print statements in places they shouldn't be. There are probably other good reasons why you shouldn't do it this way.
Yes, but JavaScript is still a dynamic, garbage collected language.
Anyone have more information for the NS library included in src/Lib? It looks very similar to Batteries or Core so I'm interested in why Microsoft chose to develop their own solution instead. Also, Microsoft hasn't released it as a separate library from SLAyer. Is the whole library being open sourced here (or are they only sharing a small part of it?)? And if so, why doesn't Microsoft create a new repository for it and publish it to OPAM?
The main problem I have with index funds is the otherwise financially savyy people who tell me that index funds will get you on average x% a year. No! Index funds, in the past, gave x% a year. However past performance is not a predictor of future performance.

There is no law of physics/economics that says the S&P500 has to rise at x% a year on average.
People would probably be more excited about updates if they actually received more than one or two minor updates from their OEMs and carriers over the lifetime of their device.

I'm very happy now that I've switched to a Nexus device.
Safe spaces are children moves...
> Yes, people who were raped or abused or assaulted could have PTSD, and yes it does mean we're doing something VERY wrong to them.

Yeah, I would expect some of the worst possible things that could happen to someone would leave a mental mark on the victim. I think most people would. These aren't the people I'm talking about and you know that.

>> Life doesn't have warning labels

> Well, it could, right? Life didn't have a safety net until we created welfare and social security. Life didn't have training wheels until we created a robust schooling system.

The more you hold someone's hand through life, the less they are able to do for themselves as adults. Research is continuing to prove this out, how helicopter parenting is destroying kids emotional IQ. They don't know how to deal with life, mom does that for them.

Things like outlawing two hand touch football, dodgeball, even tag and king of the hill at school in order to keep kids safe are rendering them unable to navigate social constructs on their own. Free play allows kids to participate in rule making and enforcing on their own, generating their own social constructs, and dealing with the consequences all their own. Think about all the shouting matches of "I tagged you, your out!" and "No you didn't!". These are all ridiculously important to the development of kids and it's the thing schools at all levels are cutting the most. Recess and PE are essentially gone from schools. PE teachers have been axed and the regular teachers, with no interest in or time to study PE now teach the classes. If kids start playing tag, they're suspended for aggressive anti-social behavior. It's possibly the most social thing they could ever do at a young age.

The notion that everyone should be coddled so that no one may suffer is not only belittling to everyone in society, basically affirming you believe that no one is capable of handling their own affairs without help at every step, but it leads to a bunch of people with their brains half turned off and under developed.

You want Idiocracy to come true? Don't worry about Trump, keep up with the safe spaces and trigger warnings. Keep screaming at your kid's teacher until they get that A instead of a C-. Keep letting your kid think that the world should be smooth sailing and if it's not you should give up. Keep that up and we'll have it during my kids' generation.
Also note that there are cheaper energy storage methods than batteries. Compressed air, pumped water, flywheel and the recently discussed Ares gravity-rail systems have various price points for storage (kWh) and delivery (kW). Here is the ARES discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11595195

I agree storage (if required) and environmental impact should both be considered when comparing different energy options.
Cool PR bit.

Not really
True - but it is also following the same cost reduction curve as Solar.

See this for a comprehensive annual survey by Lazard on storage technologies and costs

http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2016_01_21_how_much_does_storage_re...
I didn't take full advantage of what the university had to offer me. I was very focused on learning as much as I could about computer science, software development, and systems and I mostly neglected the humanities (although I did take economics and loved it).
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What happens when you train a deep recurrent neural network on a quantum computer. I wonder if you get consciousness
android forums represent such a tiny fraction of a percentage of overall android users though.

I wish it was disintermediated from the carriers. I bought a generic android phone from BLU last year for $99 and wanted to update on my own to latest version of android, and it was such a pain to figure out how (I gave up).
I have no intention of confusing you. I mean 20 "sales" out of 100 visitors. I was a tech lead for the partner network so have no skin in trying to impress anyone by results of external partners. To me a 20 year old dude making 50-60K per week is pretty impressive, I can't speak globally of what was the cost of traffic acquisition for all of them but for the guys I knew that was their net profit on +- 100K payouts.
Phenomen Films | London, UK | ONSITE | Frontend / Full-Stack Developer

Phenomen Films is an independent film production company currently working on DAU, a film project conceived and directed by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy. Shot over several years in Russia and the Ukraine, DAU is now post-producing in London. The setting is 1938-1968 in the Soviet Union. We have 700 hours of material (all shot on 35mm) out of which we are making feature films, TV series and a slate of science and arts documentaries, as well as a multi-media project.

For the media project, we have been working on a web application to let viewers explore the raw, unedited footage (using time-based annotations compiled by a team of analysts) and interact in real-time with other viewers. The footage and annotations are stored using a slightly-customised instance of an open-source video archive platform, built with Django, PostgreSQL and friends.

We're looking for a frontend (or front-leaning full-stack) developer to focus on, well, the frontend: iterating on the current design, informed by user feedback, towards an immersive and intuitive navigation system. You'll need strong web frontend development skills (HTML, CSS, ES6). Some UX design experience would be very helpful. One or more of the following would be great, but not at all essential:

* Experience with Django and PostgreSQL (for the archive platform)

* Experience with search, multimedia, real-time communications, or recommendation systems

* Experience with data analysis in Python using pandas, scipy, and friends

* Some Linux sysadmin skills

* Strong opinions about any of the above

This could be a full-time or part-time position, depending on your situation and availability. Most, if not all, of the work will need to be carred out on-site.

Contact recruitment@phenomenfilms.com to apply for this position.
That might be slightly offset by being able to reduce your tax liability due to the interest payments of college loans.
Apple would have to borrow heavily to buy itself back, just like every other company that buys itself back. But if any company could go borrow $400bn in cash, it's Apple.
Is it this cheap because it is subsidized by oil revenue tho'?
They bought the exclusive contract to the NFL when they faced a challenge from 2K games. That's how this dynasty stays around.
Someday something won't suck. I'll wait to learn anything till then, to make sure I didn't learn something that sucks.
This is why I hate SaaS software that could also run as an ordinary application on a local machine. Basically, it has DRM built-in by means of the cloud.
Comprehensive annual report on the state of various deployable grid storage technologies - and answer to your questions here:

http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2016_01_21_how_much_does_storage_re...
Yeah, I don't know too many companies spending more than paltry amounts of money ads who aren't closely monitoring performance. $1m+ is probably overstating the line at which most companies want to see performance by several multiples.
How would that be implemented? What's to stop me from simply changing my computer's clock to a future date to disable the DRM?
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I'd also argue that Baba Yaga is also unequivocally evil in every tale I've ever heard.
> Steam, Netflix, Spotify

I use and enjoy all of these things but the DRM they include isn't why they are successful - it's the fact that they make it so much easier to deliver content to anyone, immediately, bypassing the normal 'store shelves' systems of distribution. (well, as long as you're in North America or some parts of Europe.)

While I agree that the EFF's message is often more reactionary than necessary, the DRM in these services serves no purpose except to make to provide a placebo to traditional commercial content owners, to get the content on those services. Ultimately, this is only a placebo. Netflix exclusives appear on the Pirate Bay minutes or hours after they go up on the service. Yet Netflix not only survives, but thrives - to such a degree that people use VPNs to circumvent the region locks, not the payment system.

How many years has it been since iTunes music went DRM-free? Yet it's the most popular means of acquiring paid-for music. Build a successful distribution system, make it available to everyone, and people will pay for content.
my dad always used to joke that the key to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Which is surprisingly an accurate representation of how orbit works.

I find that the biggest thing that is often mistaught/misunderstood is orbital mechanics. You dont get to the moon by aiming directly at the moon. You dont get to mars by aiming directly at mars.

Watching lil einsteins with my kid the other day. and in episode one they say "we've left gravity!" as they travel to space. Which clearly is not how it works.

I think the falling past the edge of the world repeatedly really helps people get a grasp on how orbit works. and once you get that concept down, you can move the sphere of influence to the sun and get space travel down.

Might depend on what grade "elementary" is. Kindergarden might struggle, but I bet 5th grade could handle it.
Meh. I appreciate the effort that went into it, and it's written well enough. Just not sure how useful this is anymore. It also neglects using `bind` instead of `call` or `apply`, which is often a better approach.

I think the general consensus is moving away from callbacks and towards promises, especially since they're now in core JS.
Sort of, and sort of not.

I am already "in the black" as it were since the system has already provided more value than it cost to install and maintain. So no worries there. But 325W panels are physically larger than 185W panels (not twice as large but still) so replacing the 28 panels on the roof with them would get my raw input up to 9.1kW but I'd need roughly 33% more surface area. That would add another strut on the mounting system and the top row of panels would extend beyond the peak of the roof (now disallowed by the building code). However, it would be "easy" get get 16 in there, which would be an equivalent raw foot print (5,200 watts)
Oberon and its siblings are awesome. I believe that to fully appreciate Oberon & friends, you need to have a bit of context on its creation and usage.

Oberon is a language by Niklaus Wirth, so it is not a C-like language, it is a different branch of the Algol family, it is the Pascal branch were we have Pascal, Modula and Oberon (in their different versions).

This family of languages are very easy to port and to construct performant compilers. They are not only easy to learn from a student point of view but also can be used for real useful work.

In its home university in Zurich, they created the oberon system which is a computer hardware, operating system, programming language and userland applications solution that they used all over the university. This was done when GUIs and the Mac were in its starting years (circa 1987).

Sometimes I feel that Pascal and its successors are not fully appreciated by our world that grew too enamored with C. There were some awesome ideas and solutions created there in Switzerland at that time when create a full package of hardware and software was something that people still tried to do.

If you're interested in exploring things further here are some links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

http://www.projectoberon.com/
I believe the problem was that if you did /google or !google on your bots for various chat platforms, you were able to find the top hit or two without ever looking at Google's Ads.

Most of their revenue is ads.
You could run Grover's algorithm on a database with 2^5=32 elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm Or Shor's algorithm to factor a 5-bit number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
What do you think about the IB program? My daughter is on a track that leads to IB in 11th grade and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Hey there! There is no interns section, where can we apply?
"whatever is announced will essentially be an irrelevance since a year from now it won't even have hit double-digit usage share."

I don't get the logic there. Why is it "essentially an irrelevance" just because it takes time to reach a wide user base? Today's releases will have tomorrow's wide user base and be as relevant as last year's releases are today.
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Actually it is possible to bring the whole bitcoin system down with a (general purpose, large enough) quantum computer. The whole bitcoin system relies on ECDSA signatures, which can be broken with Shor's algorithm.
You can't mine bitcoins faster with a quantum computer, because that's basically hashing, which you don't get a significant speedup. But you can steal everyone else's bitcoins.
Larry Summers is wrong. Harvard should be spending much, much more of its money
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Training a deep neural net on a quantum computer
What happens when you train a deep recurrent neural network on a quantum computer. I wonder if you get consciousness...

Roger Penrose has hypothesized that consciousness could be a result of quantum effects in neurons..

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_consciousness
Companies do this with trade secrets and patents all the time. Rather than obtaining a patent, they guard the information closely, so that the implementation details aren't disseminated to the public. Otherwise, the information would be fair game after the patent expired.