skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a small podcasting network called TSRPN.

When I talk to non-listeners about podcasts, I hear two things:

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1. "I don't know how to listen to podcasts."

2. "I don't know what to listen to."

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There are many great podcatching apps out there, and for those of us who "get it" and are motivated to listen to podcasts, it seems like Pocket Casts, Overcast, even the default Podcast app for iOS are easy to use and understand. Yet apparently they aren't.

Discovery is another issue altogether. NPR One, Pandora, Stitcher, et al have tried to do some level of podcast recommendation, but the lack of thorough metadata and text transcripts make it difficult to apply the kind of algorithm that works for blogs or music.

What makes it easy for the average non-techie to use a browser to read blogs, an app like Spotify for music, or their Facebook app, but not to use a podcatcher app?

Is it simple lack of familiarity? Or do we need an entirely new approach? I wish I knew the answer.
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FedEx is not really focused on same day/same hour intra city delivery. Most of the shipping providers have an infrastructure around warehouses set in place. This means that the shipping providers picks up all packages and then brings them to a warehouse where they are sorted and then shipped out again. UberRush comes to the pick-up location and directly brings it to the recipient.
$400k is not even the top 1% for California: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/1-percent-in-each-s...
Oops, I thought too much.
I really would be interested because I started in Python and R and now use R exclusively due to manipulation. R (dplyr) really is the best manipulation system have ever used. Perhaps people try to do loops in R and other non-R like ways and give up. R is fundamentally a Functional Language and people try to band a square into a round hole and give up?
It is easy enough to imagine that the current funding climate in the Bay Area is unsustainable.

It is much harder to imagine a world which no longer wants software built.
We have machine operated lifts and trains, almost self driving cars, aircraft autopilots and having witnessed my own efforts at flying a plane I think a computer could quite likely do a safer job.
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Merely knowing that something often or even usually fails is not enough information to conclude that it's a bad bet -- in order to compute that, you also need to know how much money it makes when it succeeds.

For example, if you expect something to fail 80% of the time but to gain >400% the other 20% of the time, then the bet has positive expected value.
What percentage of the workforce was paid that rate? I imagine it was small enough (and they were wealthy enough) that it was not a big driver.

The article does mention an incentive to provide benefits over wages though:

More importantly, insurance programs benefited greatly from the federal Stabilization Act of 1942 which allowed companies facing scarce labor (during a time of price and wage control) to compete for this labor by offering health insurance benefits and by making those benefits exempt from payroll taxes.
Workstation = desktop when comparing to server.
Once Upon a Time, This Problem May Have Been Hard
Not only is this a contentious idea, it's positively absurd on its face. Your logic dictates that every tool with similar goals cannot be maintained separately, and that a single person or group should hold a complete monopoly on how we do any given thing in computing.

VLC and MPlayer were two of "10 different video players" when they were made, and a great many other video players, some significantly older and with higher support, were eventually supplanted by them (at least VLC, anywway).

In your little model here, that would never have happened. You'd utterly kill innovation and progress with this.

I cannot overstate how mistaken you are here, it is completely and wholly a terrible idea, at every turn. Maybe there's something I'm not getting, I certainly hope so.
maybe this is off topic but all my cs major friends seem a lot more selfish than my non-cs friends. Ie instead of sharing or letting someone borrow something they want the exact cash value. Even if you've shared with them in the past with no strings attached.
That's a pretty uncharitable way to look at it. I don't have kids but it's a lot easier to imagine that they're thinking something more like "I'd rather not take chances with my kids' health". It may not be particularly rational when you consider the time cost, but it's a hell of a lot more understandable than insultingly assuming they're "starved for entertainment or human contact". In general, plausible explanations that don't require being a dick tend to be better.
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"We will see soon how the model fares."

I'm no statistician but "soon" seems unlikely; wouldn't you need a lot of results in order to judge how good these predictions are? I'd like to know if the model can use data capped at any time period, so that matches from the past can be judged against what the model would predict.
That's amazing. It's both awe-inspiring and unnervingly depressing to be reminded that we are ultimately just biological machines.

Reminds me of that procedure where a surgeon can freeze you, drain your blood, take out all your organs and then put them back in, stitch you up, pump blood back in and then warm you up and awaken you. It was like unplugging your PC, taking it apart and then putting it together and turning it back on.
I've been pointing out the bursting of the app bubble for a while now, this is a trailing indicator. Progressive Web Apps make way more sense.
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This is such a great comment! It should really be an article in itself. I pretty much agree with everything you said here.
Let's hope they remove "master" while they're at it.
This is such a useful concept! Surely someone gave it a name much earlier, right?

Edit: The closest thing that came to mind is the idiom "penny-wise and pound-foolish".
When I started at my current job (back in 2011) they were using Tevron's CitraTest product to automate software hosted on citrix. The first task I was given was to see if we could find an alternative to CitraTest, well Sikuli was the answer. All of the existing code was written in VB.NET, but with a simple wrapper class and use of XML-RPC, we dropped CitraTest completely for a free MIT-Licensed software. It has worked great for years actually.
The on-demand aspect of the service is what I believe to be most important. FedEx et all will deliver to my doorstep, but can they be here in an hour?
I've been using the Remarks social podcasting app for the past week. They are trying to address the retention (for sure) and monetization (I assume they're going to roll out an ads platform) problems mentioned in the article.

I've been posting my thoughts as I listen and really like when the host is on the platform and I can react to their posts. Only challenge for me is that I listen to a lot of my episodes while driving and can't scroll through posts.
I had heard that one of the issues was that the Germans preferred to do the fission calculations in the context of a plane rather than a sphere because the math was easier. I read that at one point, but I have absolutely no idea where it came from. Maybe that was why they overestimated the required amount of fissile material?
maybe this is cynical but I can imagine a steady stream of litter raining from the sky's as people toss trash out their windows
But even those "100% users" will happily task third parties with improving their tools. "Freedom to tinker" is also important because without it, you don't have third parties that can help you. Your friend won't be able to do it, and there will be no small repair shop down the corner of the road, etc.
That is only one of many possible snakes. It was not known to exist in thesis defenses before circa 1995. Since that time it has become a regular foe.
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no, Schroedinger approached QM via differential equations
> Vertical integration is actually incredibly common these days.

It is more common! Some companies have gone a bit crazy with it, YKK zippers being a great example.
The battle is for the heads, and the future battlefield are the minds of tomorrow. The defeating blow is that Microsoft owns now minecraft - the first experience of the hacker culture a kid could have today where tech has become magic. This "Do-it-yourself" could have educated a million freedom demanding, because limits not accepting citizens. Now its hugged to death.
Reminds me of their approach to javascript.
Unemployment benefits in California* last for 26 weeks, but the maximum benefit is $450/week, enough to cover about half the rent payment on a studio apartment in the Bay Area. Prudent workers save on their own for the possibility of unemployment.

*(corrected from U.S.)
Personally, I think more healthy skepticism like this is needed in startups. Everyone being completely convinced they can pivot to the next Uber for X is what scares me that there's a bubble and makes satires like HBO's Silicon Valley so poignant.
I think the point is that sociopolitical struggles continue outside of what we do as free software authors, and so we regularly need to re-examine the greater context in which we operate.
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Ya, the Pebble Time is awesome. Their appstore is fairly deep too.
Oh, the person writing this blog post hasn't actually STARTED yet.

He sounds very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed optimistic eager to improve their software. "I'm going to make Edge as good as Chrome/Firefox!"

The people who join Microsoft going in with THAT kind of attitude are the ones whose souls are crushed the most by its oppressive culture.
Q: Do I have to kill the snake?

A: University guidelines state that you have to “defeat” the snake. There are many ways to accomplish this.

I'm pretty sure that I just waited the snake out until it got tired.
Most parts of the NT API have never been officially documented, officially supported, stable (in the "won't change" meaning), and the tiny parts that have actually been documented come with caveats that they are susceptible to change. Supporting fork through the NT API forever makes no sense if there are no users anymore. They could continue to do it for no specific reason, just because fork is internally needed by WSL for example, and so because it is easy to export the capability through the NT API, but I really don't see why they would necessarily do that.
Thanks, I keep mixing them up...
This is exactly the reason I created https://touchingbase.io for.
A related blog entry by a WeChat dev. http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps....
I have to say this was one of the more "fun" ML articles I have read lately. Excellent visualizations as well. Great job!
Does anyone have any experience with how this compares to Prime Now from a sellers perspective?
that is my point - we have very good suspicion and experimental data (successful deep learning CNN as well as visual cortex) that it is optimal, at least in some very wide class if not global, and that warrants investigation for a proof of it. Proven optimality would be very telling, especially for biological visual cortex. Even if optimality doesn't happen for CNN Gabor, there may happen to be discovered reasons for why not, and thus that would help to construct even better, probably optimal, approach.
And if the doctor is unethical or is trying to CYA in the case of a malpractice lawsuit, and therefore doesn't properly indicate risks, effectiveness, etc?
What cities is this available in?
Yup, basically it's now a mature market rather than a gold rush.

This is actually a good thing but not if you were looking for a quick buck.
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> I don't really know of a defense other than ...

One way is to make sure you (a) provide real value and (b) know how to convey that knowledge effectively in tense situations. If you're not sure you provide real value, then BS talk may be your only hope. Even if you know you provide value, you need to be able to convince others of this or else you may be in trouble.
jfc... not everything is a bubble. This was just an initial boom phase of growth which was to be expected.
>> Lots of things inside Windows emit ETW events, which is Windows equivalent of DTrace

It'd be less wrong to say "like Windows equivalent of syslog".

ETW is nowhere near as sophisticated as DTrace. ETW is more or less a simple logging subsystem, it's not actually modifying any code in memory to dynamically (that's what that D is for) insert instrumentation.

So if something is not compiled to emit ETW events, ETW can't trace it at all.

DTrace can trace anything that runs on the system. No need for binaries to emit any events.
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The title seems to imply that selfishness is something externally imposed on people, and that they would naturally be cooperative instead. While both could be true, its more about which is more true. (Although I don't think selfishness and cooperation are necessarily opposites either.)
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Founder of Remarks here. Currently, we're focussed on building a great platform for people to discuss the podcast their listening to with other fans and the host. We're trying to get as many hosts as possible on board.

An ad platform is something we've talked about, but I'd need to see a huge upswing in usage before building that out.
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those papers should be, if not 101, at least 201 for neural net track as it would help to establish common framework and basis for thinking, talking and analysis of neural nets machinery.
He's saying google now and cortana are better at being voice assistants than siri.
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And just as an elaboration, shared only counts if you're sharing mutable state. We have a fair amount of shared sensor data but only need to return a relatively small plan so thanks to the wonders of copy on write multiprocessing works just fine for us.
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Get better friends, maybe? I noticed the same thing among capital-L Libertarians -- down to calculating the exact amount of money needed per pizza slice when buying pizza and sharing among friends. I prefer to hang out in mostly gifting/sharing circles these days ;)
If an investor needs 70+ hours a week of work from one person to consider them determined, I'd question their intelligence, commitment, or financial security, because hiring some help seems like the wiser decision.
> it seems like Pocket Casts, Overcast, even the default Podcast app for iOS are easy to use and understand. Yet apparently they aren't.

That boggles my mind, at least in the case of Pocket Casts, with which I have experience. It has a "Discover" section, which makes it fairly easy to find at least a few that should interest anyone, and I find the best way for me to find new podcasts are recommendations by hosts of other podcasts (or better yet, where a segment of the podcast in question is replayed). Once you're in the ecosystem, I think the available interesting (to you) podcasts increases exponentially over time, as you listen to more podcasts and get more recommendations.

I imagine people complaining about being unable to find anything to listen to are more likely having problems committing a small portion of time to actually try something new, which is not a new problem.
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This is really cool stuff!
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I like the concept of views. I think it is the best part of CouchDB. Saving data and later defining views (that should be very fast). Once I wrote an app that stored massively enormous documents with lots of data, the views were used to turn that data into queriable information later.

I like what you suggested very much, because what CouchDB can currently do with views is very limited to what a powerful views implementation would, and the one you've suggested is a good suggestion of how to do it better.

Thank you. I'll give this a lot of thinking when I restart writing my https://github.com/fiatjaf/summadb/
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I don't disagree with your thesis here, but "for every command" is substantially overstating the case.
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They have changed that based on user input and that's about the only "bad" thing they have done AFAIK. That's why I wouldn't put them in the same bag.
I love being in the middle of nowhere (relative to Silicon Valley) for that reason. It makes each of these very accurate points so much easier to attain.

It's easier to make something people want because the people I spend my time talking to every day are my team and my customers. With all of the time spent talking to my customers I am incredibly in tune to exactly what they want.

It's easier to stay focused because there is no outside pressure of people to grab coffee with, potential acquirers down the street, "networking", board of advisors, "partnerships", or any of those time sinks.

And lastly it is much easier to "keep expenses low" when you don't have to pay for you and your entire team to live in one of the absolute most expensive places in the world. I have a top team of people recruited from top universities in the area, I have a beautiful office on a harborside pier right in the heart of the city with most of my team in walking distance, my expenses are a fraction of what it would be in Silicon Valley, and I'm still in a US city of comparable size to San Francisco.

In my opinion, Silicon Valley is one of the worst places in the world to hit all of the points Jessica Livingston brought up.
you bet
The only people that are hindered are legitimate costumers.

No, also third parties that have nothing to do with the content industry. At work, we have massive 60" touchscreen in all our conference rooms, and we use them daily for presentations/meetings. Those presentations are regularly interrupted by 20 seconds of black screen.

The problem? HDCP handshake incompatibility between the newest batch of laptops and the TVs.
What do you think the VDSO is used for? It also exports "functions potentially useful when called from the program".

The approach is a little different though; ntdll exports all of the NT API, and you need to go through it to reach the NT API in a somehow more stable way than using syscall numbers. OTOH, the VDSO exports only virtual syscalls that gain (or have gained in the past) from being performed in userspace, and even then corresponding syscalls still exist in the kernel, with both stable numbers and even a stable API.
I'd imagine it comes down to multitasking - could Dominos successfully deliver pizza at the same time as other items? Each delivery fee would only have to make up the difference of the distance they were already traveling to the additional destination. Considering their coverage, and the fact that the drivers have central hubs and don't have to spend time idling, I think they could offer more competitive pricing while still profiting. They also have more freedom to prioritize pizza/packages as needed, where an Uber driver can't (reasonably) add a stop to their to route with a passenger in car.
Great insight.

> But MEN hired these showgirls, and WOMEN are actually fufilling [sic] those roles. So both parties are at fault.

There was a pretty good article written by a woman who was hired as a dancer to attend a convention who was lectured by one of the female attendees. Her point was that she had a right to make a living too, and it's just as destructive to bash a woman who works for a conference floor, as it is to assume a woman who attends a conference is there as a "showgirl."

Not everyone can be an engineer, and not all jobs make ends-meet, so throwing women who are working tradeshows under the bus is just another form of sexism.

edit to add:

https://makirollschopshop.com/2016/03/21/a-dancers-thoughts-...
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Ask HN: Early startup – equity to a marketing person?
I just recently launched my startup and need a person who would be able to help me to promote it in social media, blogs and through the other channels to basically get more users to sign up. I'm currently facing the "chicken and the egg" situation where in order to get more users I need more users. So obviously I can't pay this person, what is the reasonable percentage of equity should I give out to someone who potentially can become CMO if all goes well?
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In theory, a larger organisation would have more communication going on, and having messages that stand out among the noise would definitely set you apart. Moreover, the more people you communicate with, the less you know each person on a personal level -- the more impersonal each correspondent is. The less you know someone, the more important proper, clear language is.
> "The Unix philosophy is bottom-up and not top-down. It is pragmatic and grounded in experience."

Something that seems to be lost on a solid portion of the current custodians of that legacy...
It's easy to forget the early days of Linux. If you go back and read the articles of the time they often pointed out that Linux made a good print server. But that was about all it could do - get lpr-style requests and talk to a printer driver. I did a test port of Oracle to Linux and wrote up a white paper for Larry. Larry was trying to figure out how to get Bill to kill important features in SQLServer. So Larry and Scott and IBM and HP had a couple of floors of kernel engineers at Redwood Shores fixing Linux and submitting the changes until Bill agreed to make SQL Server work more poorly stop competing so aggressively. But by that time we had already submitted enough to make Linux into a functioning product.
Thanks! I was tempted to go way more technical but we decided it would be fun to let more people get some intuitive grasp of these kinds of algorithms.
You can't really talk about unemployment benefits in the U.S. because unemployment is a state matter.