skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that TV advertising will go away, but keep in mind when I say "advertiser" I'm speaking of companies purchasing advertising slots (not the ones selling them - they're typically referred to as publishers). The ones selling TV ads will definitely go away. Digital ads have a totally different sales model and level of "prestige" that is unattractive to the type of advertisers who make up the bulk of the national TV advertising market where the majority of the billions are spent. Most TV advertising falls under the category of brand marketing, where you just want to get your company's name out in front of consumers X times per week so that they remain familiar with your value proposition. If you see 10 ads for "$5 Footlongs" in a week, Subway will be at the top of your mind when you are hungry and want to eat for like $5. Digital impressions are much easier to ignore, so you risk overexposing your brand in order to get the desired effect across all consumers in the market.

Basically, if you have a $100 million advertising budget, you're going to try to spend that in as few places as possible while getting the most bang for your buck. Digital is already a component of total ad spend for these guys, and they're probably not going to increase digital ad spend significantly because most of them are already at the point of diminishing returns on their digital spend. There's just too much inventory and not enough advertisers, so the pricing pressure in digital leads to a race to the bottom for publishers who don't have other revenue streams.

My hypothesis is that this money will end up in two places: outdoor advertising (billboards, bus stops, etc.) and on actual content production. Why make an ad that nobody wants to watch when you can hire RoosterTeeth or PewDiePie to make entertaining content that prominently features your products? The problem for the advertising platforms is that this money bypasses them completely and ends up in the hands of the production houses.

Not to say that digital advertising won't continue to be a component of total marketing spend -- it will be, and in a big way. But not to the same level that TV is today, because the power in the relationship has switched. Digital ads aren't a limited commodity like TV ads are - you can only show so many 30 second spots during the Super Bowl. That means advertisers can apply significant downward pressure on pricing, which is much harder for them to do when there is a limited supply of ad inventory that has to be sold in large chunks.

All of this leads to a situation where the publishers have less of a monopoly, and thus less ability to dictate pricing. Which means prices will go down until margins hit commodity levels (3-5% above cost).
Tipping a driver is not expected, now?
Heavy in relation to trucks is usually linked with "heavy duty" which is a good thing. Many truck manufacturers use "heavy duty" in their branding.
i have over 100 fake FB accounts... none have ever been detected or deactivated. i don't post anything on them... just use them to log in to stupid things that require facebook integration. i don't have a personal facebook account.

you are all idiots.
It's fine to get on a bus or get in a taxi while drunk, I don't see any reason a 100% autonomous car should be any different... in theory. The dilemma here is can the person take control of the vehicle?

Being able to get hammered, and then pass out in the back seat of your car while it drives you home is the dream. But in the slim chance it does get into an accident, there needs to be a way to prove you really were blacked out in the backseat, and the car crashed on its own. And not that you drunkenly grabbed the wheel and tried to do a u-turn to McDonald's.
How about starting by taxing many people's main part of wealth, their house, at market value (i.e. no Prop 13)? Let's not let perfect get in the way of good..
EME is not enabled by default in Firefox on Linux.
A Princeton professor has published a CV of his failures online
Oh that's easy, as the hypothetical rich guy in the equation; I personally own nothing but the many, many companies I work for own the stuff I personally use.
Mozilla Begs Court for Details About Pedophile Tor Hack to Keep Firefox Safe
How about not bailing out private enterprises with public money? That'd cost Buffet a few tens of billions.
Are you on Linux? The "Play DRM content" checkbox is shown by default on Windows and Mac OS X.
When I visit Europe, my main complaint in restaurants is that I can never seem to get the wait staff's attention. I have been dining at a restaurant by myself, had all my food and drinks cleared and after waiting 5 minutes for someone to come by I had to get up and go ask for my check. It wasn't busy at the time. I guess the culture is different and I need to flag someone down? That always feels rude to me.
> The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes

It's really a question of political will.

Just think about the amount of resources the US spends on the "war on terror" or the "war on drugs" compared to the "war on tax evasion."

If the US gov wanted to reform the tax code and enforce everyone paying their fair share, they most certainly could.

The real issue, in my opinion, is that certain people have disproportionate influence in the legislative and rulemaking process, alas, we have the system we have.
Wow I didn't know about the feed/subscriptions page. You're right, this is infinitely more useful than the default frontpage.
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I could see them cheating with embedded cards saying they're not physically servers. HYRDA did that (me too) for security/efficiency purposes:

http://www.sentinelsecurity.us/HYDRA/hydraRTOS/hydraRTOS.htm...

It was a little PCI card. Even so, I'd ask the marketer or developer: could you please draw a logical representation of your client and services with lines showing data flows? Followed by (points) "there's the server(s)." :)
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pg_upgrade in link mode typically takes less than a minute to run unless you have a lot of tables; the runtime is dependant on the number of database objects, not rows or size of the database.

Database statistics are not preserved across pg_upgrade so you'll have to run ANALYZE on the database after the upgrade which may take a while as it usually needs to read all or almost all of your data.

I just recently upgraded a ~1 TB database, the actual upgrade process took less than a minute but analyzing it took much longer.
Yeah, but how many of them can accommodate several trucks coming through each taking 150 gallons?
You can compare apples and oranges alphabetically.
Yeah, i recall that when i was in Amsterdam visiting some coffee shops most of the employees were pretty dismissive, I can see why though because of the crowd of people that it brings in... But when I found one that I liked, I started chopping it up with the worker there found out that he was from Santa Cruz, CA was a stellar experience. EVERYTHING else about that trip was meh.
The LetsEncrypt Client has rebranded to Certbot
If bought as an investment in my freshmen year, and sold today, those books would have given an annualized return of around 8%.

I very rarely need calculus in my work, and so over time tend to forget an embarrassing amount of it. Three or four times I've decided to remedy this by rereading these books (although once, for variety, I used Spivak instead of Apostol). Of course, I always end up forgetting again.

The latest time I did this I tried to burn it in deeper by doing every exercise from Volume I, and every calculus exercise from Volume II. I probably should have kept my solutions and put them on the net. They might have been useful for people who are using these books for self-study.

My originals from the late '70s have physically not held up well. Loose pages, and the cover pulling away from the spine, and stuff like that.

There is an international paperback edition. The publisher does not sell it in the US, but numerous independent booksellers outside the US will sell and ship to the US, and several independent booksellers in the US import it. Same content as the US hardback, just thinner, a bit coarser, paper.

The US booksellers selling the imports typically sell them for about $18 per volume (including shipping). You can shave a couple dollars off that buying from an Indian seller, but personally I'd rather pay a little more to avoid a credit card transaction with someone who is under a completely different legal system just in case something goes wrong.

abebooks.com and biblio.com are good places to go for this kind of thing.
Why? Why do you need to tax everything? Tax the land and the people who own the most valuable land pay the most taxes.
You will be able to use leveldb with Mnesia in R19.
Bay Area attracts the most startups – but NYC, Boston, and LA are catching up
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It's also refuted by the existence of Devon Energy:
http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interview/nichols-larry/
Along the same lines, there's the ridiculous cultural meme that is recited to kids: "Follow your dreams" implying that it's a perfectly reasonable and even admirable idea to fixate on some particular career early on in life and pursue it despite any setbacks.

This is awful, because a young kid may only have heard of a handful of well-known "classic" careers like journalist, lawyer, athlete, nurse, and then they end up fixating on achieving one of those simply because they committed too early -- before they had a chance to hear about careers less likely to be in a Richard Scary book like forestry, mechanical work, system administration, helicopter piloting, whatever, even though one of those might be just as exciting or more.

As a result the "popular" careers that everyone's heard of by the age of ten are all oversubscribed, and all other careers are undersubscribed. Because "follow your dreams"
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I tried to install it, but it's US only. Any idea why that would be? This seems like something that could easily be rolled out worldwide. Is it a language support issue? (i.e. in Canada, they would have to support the French keyboard).
It's .... like negging a corporation for a job. This is absurd
Isn't this the point of Capital Gains taxes?

I've never understood why the capital gains tax rate is lower than the rate for normal income. Capital gains are basically money you earn for having money and not being an idiot with it. It's one of the major ways the rich get even richer just because they are rich and how the wealth gap widens.

From a 10,000 foot view it seems like it should be taxed at a higher rate than normal income, since theoretically the person had to actually work for their normal income which directly helped the economy and the country as a whole.
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They are referring to Tesla the car company. Not Nikola Tesla the person.
I'm a little surprised they were afraid to say "mitochondria" in the headline. No more obscure than "eukaryote".
Land values aren't particularly easy to calculate, but the people at your local tax assessor's office do it all the time anyway.
http://arstechnica.com/

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/

https://www.reddit.com/new/

http://www.clickhole.com/

http://www.theonion.com/

https://lobste.rs/

http://appleinsider.com/

http://9to5mac.com/

http://drudgereport.com/
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

https://dribbble.com/ via http://usepanda.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_a...
I stopped going to the general reddit homepage and only go to a couple subreddits. I have found the subreddit for my city is a great supplement to local news sites - it often aggregates local-focused content plus discussion very well.
Counterpoint: the tiny turbine Jay Leno has in his motorcycle is tremendously louder than even the loudest semi truck.
And they are in the "gold standard" tier of journalism...
Funfact: reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/ is larger than reddit.com/r/kickstarter
"Tradition in such plain text messages is to surround the URL with < and > as kind of quotation marks (as the latter can be problematic too; depends on the algorithm of the URL detector): You can see that in <http://example.com/foo>."
All their products seem target at city stop-n-go usage for some reason. Which is an interesting contrast. (As is already having physical products/prototypes.)
"The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can't foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code."

What if this is the entire tax code:

All US citizens must pay a tax of 40% of all the money they receive from any other entity for any reason.

I haven't thought through the wording completely, but if we replace the convoluted tax code with a MUCH much simpler one, lots of these problems would go away.
For federal taxes, yes. Was there a distinction by Buffet that he was referring to her federal tax burden, and not her combined federal and state burden? Nebraska's and New York (the places I figure she's likely to live/work out of) both seem to have state income tax rates between 6-7%. It's significantly easier to hit the 28% federal tax rate.
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I don't know, it seems like a valid figure of speech to me. But I would agree that the writing in the article is distractingly amateurish.
But then if the service is not as you wanted it to be, do you first tell them and then lower the tipp, or do you just lower the tipp? Even if something was bad, I'd just want to get out there, having to create another awkward situation is the last thing I would search for.
Wow, pocket is rad, love finding new things of use, thanks!
Was it possible the tax laws made the rate higher but allowed more ways to avoid paying the highest rates?
After reading the article for about 5 seconds, a giant pop-up obscured it, so I hit the 'back' button.
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Oh. Not so far fetched from an economics standpoint. We've been burning natural gas into the air for years because there's no demand for the supply. Build a product to create the demand for a surplus thing that needs a market.
Big trucks are understood. Battery systems at this scale are understood, also natural gas motors that run at this size are understood. It's imminently buildable.
Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately, I still don't understand what exactly the question is about.

Good luck.
I think you're talking about how you want tipping to be. In the real world, it is often more a measure of folks unconscious bias than the worker's performance. It's also a great way for management to shift risks onto workers. [this might be the one time Uber does something that isn't designed to shift risk onto their employees]
Cave Diving
I saw (2) submits being up-voted or got plenty comments here on HN about caves and diving them. I do make a living as an "hacker" or "engineer" what ever you like to call it. But my passion is diving. Me and my business partner actually working on a start up focused on that sport. For myself the recreational sort of diving became less challenging for several reasons over time. Now I do caves and/or very deep dives mostly into caves or wrecks. I just uploaded some of my videos to YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB-fZxXha894oN8gPjS_VdA). I had them on my Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/user3271006/videos) channel only before. I found the comments about these stories (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658110) very interesting. I'm still transferring some of the videos from Vimeo to YouTube. AMA.
This idea has some merit. However, it's not the restaurant that's providing the experience, it's whoever your particular server happens to be.

By paying a "fair" wage to the server, you do remove some problems, but you may introduce others.

When I was younger and worked as a server, it was commonplace for fellow servers to end the night with $150-$200 in tips (in addition to minimum wage, as this was California), which is decidedly above a "fair" wage for maybe 4-5 hours of work. It was a bad night if you didn't break $100 in tips. Changing to a salary system, for some, would mean a net pay decrease (or far more expensive food, which may decrease patronage).

In addition, many feel a salary system would remove any incentive to deliver excellent experiences above the bare minimum. If you're a server, and you know no matter what happens on the floor tonight, you get paid exactly the same... perhaps you don't refill drinks quite as often... or you don't put on your best friendly face when taking orders... because it doesn't matter (think of your Fast Food experiences, where employees don't really care about quality in any regard, food, service, cleanliness, etc). We worked hard for those tips, because it produced immediate, tangible results.

I know this is partly anecdotal, but for me back then as a server, I prefer tips over salary.
This is exactly the problem that Uber's rating system solves, but without all the arbitrary factors that tipping incidentally includes.
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The problem with that is that many people bought their houses back when they were much, much cheaper. So doing that would cause many, many people to be forced from their homes only for the crime of being one of the early people in an area that later became popular.

Any policy that would cause people to be forced from their homes just because should be viewed as a failure.
Nobody hasn't mentioned http://www.anandtech.com yet?
If only that would happen. It just seems corporations even outside of Facebook feel they have to lock people down as much as possible. It's annoying as hell. Like I've noticed there's very few apps on Android or iOS where you can just type in an Internet stream URL like you can with Screamer Radio on Windows (I don't know if there's a Mac equivalent). And one of those apps, TuneIn Radio, is becoming more locked down. Like I've had a hell of a time adding DRIVE Radio to it a week ago. This is just for internet radio of all things. What possible reason could there be to lock down such a thing? What real profit can they squeeze out of approved internet radio stations? Sorry for the digression into this pet peeve of mine but it seems it's all tied to the whole Facebook being the Internet concept. It's like they can't deal with just being a service or an app anymore. Gotta control the whole process from inputs to outputs and/or consumption. Can't have it your way. "No sir, that's not an approved fork for your meal, you must use our Brand X Ultra DeLuxe fork.." Bleh!
Math Explains Why Uber Is a Scam
Yes, there is. Modern philosophy is judged by it's intellectual consistency, the simplicity and intuitiveness of it's underlying principles, and how those underlying principles lead to conclusions that make sense.

Many philosophical traditions simply don't measure up. That's not a crack at non-western traditions, most western traditions have also been discarded due to being nonsense. Quite a few more probably should be but are kept alive for non-intellectual reasons.
Fair enough, I was thinking about Apple Maps.
They acknowledge it, but they fail to address it. The fact is, if most academic philosophers around the world are largely focused upon the works of the Euro-Americans instead of non-European philosophers, then it stands to reason that the others were simply inferior, less useful, incomplete, or less impressive. Otherwise, they are implying that the academic rigor of an entire field of study is tainted by cultural bias - the very thing that academic structures are designed to counter. That is a bold claim and would require far more than an article like this (which is essentially just a complaint, not an actual counter argument) to justify.
> side-effect-free

How is SQL side-effect-free if it has INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE?
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* https://www.producthunt.com/ (through newsletter)

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* Local news (through newsletter)

* Facebook (through nativifier app)

* Twitter (through desktop app)

* Pocket (through desktop app)

* My personal JIRA instance.
Then they'll arrange to be paid in mansions and private jets and yachts.
Flat Tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax
California's generation of electricity from coal drops dramatically
They might not be comfortably sure it will remain legal if they don't minimize the visibility of their technically legal activity.
Just a heads up: you're trying to judge continental European cultural practices by Anglo-Saxon cultural norms, and that's pretty much always going to lead to nothing but misunderstandings. There are many things (like a waiter not coming to your table unless called) that are considered polite in e.g. Germany that would be considered rude in America, and vice-versa. (Source: I've lived in both of those countries.) It's part of the joy of travel to discover which parts of your culture aren't as universal as you assumed.
Dark Sky App is finally available on Android
Hang around HN until the subject comes up, and then post a question asking "What's the best way to get an invite to Lobsters?" :-)

Seriously, drop your email address here, or email me directly if you'd prefer, and I can invite you.
They can be implemented via method dictionaries but, sans type system extensions, polymorphic recursion and separate compilation, all uses of a type variable constrained by a type class could, in principle, be monomorphised and the dictionaries eliminated. This is not true of dynamic dispatch.
#kik is also in that list
If I had to guess, they're measuring 2x based on the cab alone - no trailer. I would guess the combination of 2k fewer pounds and better weight distribution would potentially do it? Not sure.
Refunding can be very hard if you have to write the check that you are hoping you won't have to write.
I upvoted you since I don't know why you're so far down the page. What you say is essentially correct. The error most people make when trying to understand quantum mechanics is assuming that the measuring system is independent of the measured system. But the overall composite system can't be factored like that since it evolves unitarily (and deterministically) into a state that isn't representable as a tensor product.
I mean, it was written by a writer, not a developer/software engineer...
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divests entire $187m holding in BP
Cool. You might also want to update the link in your profile :)
Tax competition is a good thing, as it prevents governments from imposing excessive taxation.

If we didn't have that, taxation rates would be a race to the top.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

> The goal is to define a datatype by cases, where one can add new cases to the datatype and new functions over the datatype, without recompiling existing code, and while retaining /static type safety/

So, while there's an easy way to write something with lispy multiple dispatch, it is not a solution, sorry.