skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> gets priced into what companies pay for ads.

This causes adverse selection which devalues high value impressions, which ultimately means more of the advertisers money is wasted on fraud, arbitrage, and poor placements. You can assume that it's all good because they price it into their bids...but if you really think about it, a 3% conversion rate is a 97% failure rate. This massive inefficiency should not exist in todays world of Machine Learning...problem is, the stakeholders all benefit from bad behavior.

> the idea that buyers don't push on how conversions are calculated plus run their own calculations is true only in a fantasy world.

This is true in a broad sense, but those "conversions" are not always based on whats actually driving sales.

Everyone wants to be in a defensible position, so they push for accountability...but its not real accountability, it is anecdotal storytelling that aligns with their interests instead of the bottom line sales.

I have clients that are publishers who only want to show growth in unique sessions.

I have clinical trial clients who want to make sure their executives and shareholders see their ad, Retailers constantly force manufacturers to invest in TV, OOH and other media in order to even get shelf space, big brands are spending money on the recommendations of kids a year out of college who got dazzled, wined&dined, and flattered by account executives at agencies and ad tech providers, or their friends who got a job at a hot new startup.

The incentives to truly be disciplined instead of just telling a good anecdotal story simply don't exist in the real world. It only exists in private companies where the decision maker is spending his own money and actually knows better.

I really hope you don't believe that digital advertising today is mostly accountable to statistically significant and disciplined calculations about direct correlation and indirect impact on sales. They spin their tales with data that makes everyone feel good, but doesn't really reflect the true impact of their advertising.

It is an industry with incentives aligned with all sorts of things besides true performance.

Worse is the first party data movement that is essentially tricking brands into spending money they dont need to spend to drive sales they would get anyway.

Find me an ad tech company who says, well save you money and Ill trust them. Find me an ad tech company that says, start with $50k and than next month well do $30k for the same volume of sales and leads... and ill trust them.

For now, they all say well make you money, and than they scam their way into taking a piece of a pie they never really earned.
Air-gapping SCADA systems won't help you, says man who knows
it verifies the funds are there, at that moment, but what about when the batch closes... will the Funds still be there?
Point is you should be able to purchase good tickets primarily and not from resale. Add to the conversation the outrageous fees charged for the tickets by Ticketmaster and the likes... it is pretty bad right now and it has to change.
Yeah, I don't quite follow what the blockchain is adding to the equation. In their examples, it is still some central authority vouching for someone (saying, yes, they earned that certificate). That is exactly what PK signatures are for, you don't need a blockchain for that.
Former CEO of Ticketmaster (and the now defunct Twitter commerce group) so you gotta take him seriously. But the article is a little ridiculous.

First, the converse is that very few events actually sell-out. Just the hit ones.

Second, you've got a million Warriors fans from the bay area alone. Yes, it's going to be hard (but hardly impossible) to get 1 of the 20,000 tickets.
I've got a small list of Elixir links, including editor support:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/eli...
The rationale (which I don't agree with) is "what if their range is a lot higher than your guess? Then you're losing out!"
Don't forget 'a joy to work with'.

Sounds like a line from a new episode of HBO's Silicon Valley.
Indeed knobbly tyres and MTB-style frames are one of the worst things to have happened to non-leisure cycling in the UK.

People buy a cheap MTB from Halfords, use it casually a few times out with the kids and then try commuting on it perhaps as part of a Cycling Week. After a couple of attempts it goes back into the garage.

Outside Oxford and Cambridge, traditional road-going non-racing frames are quite rare.
thank you! fda is a leading cause of death in US in my opinion; from killing off inovation that would prevent death.

I worked at a medical startup that was bought by JNJ, it was high end surgery technolgy.

We made the first gen of our product, and it took 14 months to clear fda. Even though we made lots of improvments to the devices after, we never released them; that would have caused another horible fda clearance process.
For the hottest event on the planet? And the fees actually aren't that outrageous when you're seeing the tickets being resold for 2-10x face.
How WWII scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism
Serious, straightforward question: what was Appelbaum's operational role with Tor, that his departure would be something they'd need to "survive"?
You can't make personal attacks like this on HN. Also, gross.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832595 and marked it off-topic.
> You don't lose fan control with the ecobee3 Power Extender Kit.

Read page 12 of their guide. The PEK requires additional connectors that not all systems even have. A lot of people will lose fan control, just like the Nest.

> Also, the C wire is not rarely available, basically any house since the early 90s will have one already wired up

Our house was built in 1998, doesn't have it, a coworker's house was built in 2005 and had to get it installed for their Nest ($120 callout + $120 in time), the in-laws returned a Nest because their home from roughly 2001-02 lacked it. Where are you getting this information? There's nothing in building codes that requires running the C wire, so builders will only run it if the thermostat requires it and most included ones do not.

> any house that has upgraded hvac unit in say the last 15 years will have the capacity to install one by running a wire to the mainboard.

Running wires behind walls isn't trivial in an already built home. Least of all if you're going up two to three floors.
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Many countries can get work-holiday visas to Canada. It's a very nice deal, and you can get "serious" jobs with it, too.
So THAT'S the Difference Between Vacation, Personal and Sick Days
I love the extension of the metro line. I use it to commute from culver to Santa Monica.
And you paid for gas and everything else in cash only, right? It's trivially easy to track a person's movements if they use credit/debit for most payments.
I don't even know what there would be to discuss with this story. It seems like the only possible outcome of it is a lot of personalized Internet drama. If there's an important story here, someone will eventually write it, and maybe that will have a place on HN. But this one-line page isn't that, and I flagged this story, and hope others do too.
Yep. My little apartment (400m²) in a low-rise in Canada, built just five years ago, has no in-unit ventilation whatsoever. If I want a cross-breeze (and I always want a cross-breeze), I have to open the outside windows and the door to the hallway, and let a ton of dust and pollen flow into the unit from outside. I have no idea who thought building an apartment building today like this made sense, but it seems to be a common perspective.
As it turns out, your typical 5-2 programmable thermostat from Honeywell (or whoever) costs about $20 works pretty well. Set the schedule, 72 when you're there and lower/higher when you aren't there depending on the season. I think I interact with mine maybe 2 times a year.
Probably a misprint. But it wouldn't be at all out of place for a senior programmer at Walmart's HQ to be making $200k a year.
Unlikely. When you're buying a wifi-dependent, $300/unit thermostat, you're basically buying a device with a 5-6 year life. So you need to save $50/year to break even.

Meanwhile, an un-smart thermostat with a timer can be had at Home Depot for $25, and will achieve 80-90% of the savings assuming you have a typical schedule.
>Software engineerings in Calgary are lucky to make 70k canadian

I have to disagree with that statement. As an example, here is a system admin job posting by City of Calgary. The pay range is $77,891 - 117,609 per annum

https://recruiting.calgary.ca/psc/pdhr/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_H...
Go on 2 interviews a year no matter what.

Always ask for more than you think you'll be able to get.

Ignore talk about culture if they think that makes up for salary - it doesn't.
This is actually a crucial point in the later parts of Neal Stephensons Quicksilver/Baroque cycle.
That's actually all available at data.cityofchicago.org. My first thought was along that line. Turned out to be about 60 different people, so it was still a bit much.
> Software engineerings in Calgary are lucky to make 70k canadian (54k usd)

That sounds low to me. Rates in Edmonton are considerably higher and I doubt Calgary skews that much lower.

Hand-wavy, since it varies by exact variety of software you're doing, but I'd say that was more than 20k+ below market for intermediate-senior exp. Still lower than the US, of course.
It's safe to say the target audience of this piece was not the Hacker News demographic. More product dev detail would have lost most people. Unfortunately.
> the fraud gets priced into what they pay anyway.

Does unsustainable medical costs worry you? Because all they did was price in the malpractice insurance and fraud.

It's just not good enough to say, its ok to pay for fraud because we dont care to fight it.

There is very real opportunity cost for every dollar going to all the stakeholders in the advertising chain.
He has a problem with the word "activist" being substituted in by journalists, for other journalists. Not with the concept of "activism".
Jeez, Bill Campbell taught people to be nice! He has stories of sending abusive execs home to calm down.
slightly OT but clicking at all those twitter threads, and not being a twitter user myself, I'm having an extremely hard time understanding how the conversation(s) flow. What a terrible interface !
wow. This is posted several times a day, for the past week or so.
simple, clean, lightweight
"Trying to mass-produce [delight] and inject it into interactions is like forcing waiters to wear 37 pieces of flair on their uniforms."
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042849/delightful-interaction-d...
Gregor Kiczales told me he had no bachelor's before his PhD. I expect this has been getting rarer over time.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes, this is completely accurate (except that the competitors aren't necessarily college kids, as a demographic they are closer to taxi drivers).

But I would add that on net this is a good thing, and the beneficiaries are not just consumers, but the new drivers.

The logic of the free market is fairly simple and intuitive. One reason people shy away from it is that they are subconsciously afraid of organized labor. The left have drummed it into people's heads that these people mean business, and if they beat you to a pulp it will be your own fault for threatening their livelihood [0].

[0] e.g. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7L_cuQJ1pQ
Totally agree... This is where the e-bike diverges.

Casual peddling on the sidewalk is one thing, zipping around at nearly 20 mph changes things.

Right now fast bikes are the province of serious people in spandex. When some overweight IT dude like me is moving like Lance Armstrong, that's a different story!
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I don't follow this train of thought. Did those users make facebook? Run it's servers? write it's code? Sell it's ad space? Every product and service in the world only exists because of consumers, but there's nothing owed between the parties. Facebook provides a platform for it's users. The users use it. They don't own it anymore than you should "owe" your local grocery store because you buy vegetables there
Wow this awesome! The integrations section really shows off the power of react:http://smaato.github.io/ui-framework/#/grid-view
It may be more commonly used in British than in American, but even in British, i think it's less commonly used than 'triple'. For me, a native British speaker, the only things that are ever treble are twenties, whiskies, and clefs.
Offtopic, but this is a repeated offence. Why not suspend or terminate the account?
Why not simply tell which specific versions are tested to work and/or build a testsuite that tests new source code versions automatically (while executing exactly the instructions in the LFS tutorial).
> How about Facebook’s first version of Search... mostly useful for checking out your friends’ single female friends

A minor dig but this is the sort of subtle male-centric POV that should be filtered out of tech journalism. Straight women use Facebook too, check out profiles. What's more, they constitute 4/5ths of Vanity Fair's readership.[1] This is speaking to women, subtly telling them that tech is mainly tools for guys.

Comes up all the time in other contexts. Like I was watching Tinker Bell the other day, and it's basically 100% femmy fairy girls EXCEPT they made the nerdy techy builder characters boys. I'm like, come on...

[1] http://www.condenast.com/brands/vanity-fair/media-kit/print
Pretty sure the "right to roam" here in Scotland prohibits access to other people's land on motorised vehicles.
I recently came across a system in a bank that is available from 0800 to 1500 and 1530 to 1700. Apparently it not only needs to sleep, but it takes a tea break in the afternoon.
When you're up against a strong incumbent, don't attack your opponent where he is strongest, or at least don't do that in the opening game. Look for where he is weak instead.

Google+ didn't lose because Facebook used any particular counter-attack. It lost because it basically set out to copy Facebook, which constituted an attack where Facebook was strongest; why would anyone use it when they could use the original, which had more people on it? Google should have tried doing something different. Maybe drop the real names policy, maybe allow open programmatic access, I don't know enough about the domain to be able to say for sure exactly what, but they needed to provide some reason for at least some percentage of users to switch.
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Even Python, using ctypes.
Thanks. :) & <3
I respect your work and I have no intention to challenge your authority.

That said, I fail to identify the guideline that lead to this decision. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

I'm also willing to justify my claim, if it seemed gratuitous to any.

EDIT: I'm unable to justify any of my claims. I'm unhappy about living in Canada, and I can't help but feel jealous of american people when being exposed to HN or mainstream media. I was wrong for claiming that OP's friends would lie to him. I was wrong for claiming that Canada is a third world country. I'm sorry.
Universal Basic Incomes
Ask HN: How much would you charge to write an iphone app?
How much (as an individual) would you charge to write an iPhone app for a "client"? Let's say it would take one month to write the app from A to Z. Without going into technical details...
> Even if its never mentioned to the recruiter I just happen to negotiate better with the mindset that I have other options.

Playing the game like you've got nothing to lose is what breeds the best. This applies to a lot of subjects.
> Uh, pretty obvious that Google Plus just wasn't a product that could stand on it's own merit.

Honest question: how was this obvious?
Every time Jamie Dimon faces something he doesn't like, he threatens to lay off 1,000s of workers. It's his go to threat.

Jamie Dimon Says a Brexit Could Cost J.P. Morgan 4,000 Jobs

http://fortune.com/2016/06/03/brexit-jpm-job-cuts/
Can you point me at a concrete example of an application or protocol that does this? Thanks!
I rode a manual bike for several years, and bought an e-bike about a month ago for my 25-mile (round trip) commute. It's been amazing. I still get cardio (albeit not as much), I don't have to change in my lycra, don't have to shower when I get to work, and the commute is actually faster than driving (the 101 sucks). I'll still do the occasional ride on my old bike, but it's mostly e-bike now.
I recall NPR did a story about how Kid Rock tries to fight scalpers.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/27/196277836/kid-r...

TLDR; The best seats are raffle-only. The next best seats are market priced, all other seats are dirt cheap. Reselling dirt cheap seats is discouraged by offering slightly more events than there is demand for.

In other words, that strategy will have less (maybe even no) success for high-profile events which cannot offer more showings.

Bots COULD still kill you, but if everyone who wants a seat can get one, bots will disappear because no one will buy them.
Shout out to Shellcheck (http://www.shellcheck.net/), a linter for shell scripts
I absolutely cannot agree with that.
My house and all houses in my development were built in 1995 and have one. Most programmable thermostats recommend using a C wire(or batteries, but if they're being put in a new development they generally put the C wire in), and programmable thermostats have been "strongly recommended"/mandatory in many states for new developments for quite a while.

Also have a relative in an older development that used the PEK and he can control his fan independently of the hvac just fine... I've actually more commonly heard of some control boards that mess with the fan if you use the C wire rather than the power extension kit, since the control board basically fakes the C wire using the G wire as the Nest does if you don't have a C wire. The PEK works differently.
I can only hope, but i'm not optimistic. Diversification seems a long way off.
It's not a motorcycle.
Nitpick:

AK is Alaska

AR is Arkansas
Recurring funding for groups
> The general critique seems to be: the only way to study BI at any level is to run experiments that last for a person's full lifetime.

No, the experiments don't need to run a persons lifetime, the benefit, however, needs to be believably of indefinite duration, because we already have both an understanding of the economic rationale and empirical studies showing that explicitly-limited-term benefits or costs induce notably different behavioral impacts than open-ended ones.

Its the benefit, not the study of the effects of the benefit that needs to be open-ended.
The web page's original title is perfectly good. The new one is like an early investor is seeing AirBnb early on and saying "Oh, it's just like VRBO but with higher fees." True but not helpful, and not likely to result in a correct investment decision.

* it's Elixir not Erlang
* to the people who would use the project, it is "firmware"

Nerves is really cool. And the cool part is that it's becoming possible to do what firmware programmers used to, but using higher level more productive languages/OS.
I would have thought the solution would be to put the general public (true fans) allocation into a lottery that was drawn a limited time from the day of the show. If you wanted to be clever about it you could charge a small fee to enter the lottery that would in aggregate amount to the true market value of the tickets on offer.
Of all the industries/technologies that need to push people to their wits end, I just don't see how it applies to a thermostat company... I mean, all the technology for it is already easily available practically off the shelf (mobile phone technology). I can give a pass to the guys that were creating the IIe, the iPhone, rockets and electric cars... But seriously, what is the big challenge here. Why can't people execute this product in fairly short order working 8-5?
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This is how it works at that level. You get paid to not make noise or give bad PR on the way out. (Too bad it doesn't trickle down to junior levels) In some cases the golden parachute is just ensure that people don't fight the change legally or otherwise. The good PR then allows them to get the next job.

I'm very surprised that word of Fadell's Jobs-in-training style didn't precede him. Was this behind his departure from Apple?
If you needed cryptographic verifiability, a PGP signature could have done that, no?
this really is the reason. He wants to remake Opera and is pretty clear about that. I never used Opera's email client so I don't really care but I know there are a lot of people who do.
A high-frequency trading (HFT) programmer/analyst?

I've gotten a lot of spam from HFT recruiters, and one even went so far as to promise me $50M in compensation. I deleted the email, and blocked the recruiter from my LinkedIn profile.
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