skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love companies that get their start on Reddit. While I'm not familiar with yours specifically, generally speaking you are having a dialogue with your target audience. This is critical for validating product-market fit and learning about who your target audience is and what they care about. I mean, people will literally tell you if you ask them.

Beyond that, if you are able to harness the goodwill of the hive mind, you can reach that critical front page trajectory pretty quickly. If you are one of the few brands that lucks out in dominating in a given subreddit for a period of time (not through advertising), that's a huge validator. Further, pleasing that audience can result in lots of earned social activity which is great for a nascent brand.

For FB specifically, Lookalike targeting is very powerful, and banner blindness is a very real thing that requires constantly refreshed creative depending on your reach (excluded audiences can be important here to avoid wasting impressions). Unless you are using a FB PMD (basically a tool to manage FB that offers loads more than the basic Power Editor), splitting stuff out for granular targeting can be a PITA. Break out your audiences in meaningful chunks where you can gain insight and better improve your creative. More importantly, make sure the rest of your analytics are in order so you can understand what people exposed to you through FB are doing on your site. For a brand that may not be well-known yet, you might avoid a lot of bigger attribution issues with conversion tracking, but make sure you think carefully about whether you want view-through attribution settings enabled for conversion tracking. They are by default, and that can skew things and they may not be worth as much as you think they are based on the stats.

In terms of hiring for marketing, most strong marketers know there's a lot outside their control. There's definitely a difference between marketing a sales. As such, I would actually avoid focusing too heavily on commission as that can be a turnoff that says you aren't putting your money where your product is so to speak. That said, if the person has significant control over the full funnel and relevant touch-points (a requirement to be successful when it comes to online marketing), they might be willing.

The other side of that is the affiliate world. These are essentially 100% commission marketers. You can get mixed results, but it manages your direct financial risk a bit better than hiring someone internally in some cases. There are real benefits to having an internal hire though that you simply won't get with affiliates as they are by definition mercenaries.

Like many professions, comp can be relatively simple. A competitive base plus a well-detailed bonus structure, solid benefits, potentially equity if appropriate, and a great culture coupled with a product with lots growth potential are all things that can land a solid marketing hire.
While we are already witnessing the effects of unrestrained government interference and surveillance in our lives I shudder to consider the world the next generation will inherit from us and grow up in.

That said, F..k the NSA. I just opened all the listed links in the article.I am on at least eight more lists now.
Hey, I'm curious, you mentioned that you've just opened a Ltd., so, what form of company have you been running until recently?
I'm reading the code as a Primer. Fantastic stuff you don't see often.
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I use both Pocket and Pinboard. For me, Pocket serves as a "I'll read this later" service. If I find the article noteworthy, I'll bookmark it in Pinboard (using the email gateway).

Pocket has released a number of premium features that put it more in Pinboard's area of strength, but at this time I'm happy to continue using Pinboard.
Do you really compare DNA and phone numbers? If you want to pay more for insurance, give some company your DNA and install a GPS tracker in your car (provided by the insurance company)... Anyways, for phone numbers, if I don't need to be contacted by a company, I give one of my free number that never rings... they can still track me but...
Exactly. That's what globalist like Brookings want. To remove 'baggage' like community, family, heritage, and loyalty to one's fellow countrymen; and replace those things with their own ideology.
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can you please elaborate more? I am looking to setup something similar. I have minimal linux knowledge and I have done a basic setup of weechat+screen.
> increased time from atmospheric nuclear bomb testing (and the various dispersals of plutonium in the 60's and 70's)

Ambient radioactivity, under a certain threshold (which is disputed) has actually shown some positive effects. If I remember correctly, folks living in naturally more radioactive areas have been showing lower cancer rates vs the average.
Also, network effect amongst the teachers. Do you want to teach or do you want to pretend to teach?
Cool. If you find a new issue please leave one here: https://github.com/DavidLGoldberg/qolor/issues
I'm using data from the link, which disagrees.
Your hypothesis assumes that, historically, all human societies had a massive social pressure against homosexuality. But it contradicts what we know about our history - there were numerous societies that treated it ambivalently (e.g. China, Japan, Native Americans) - and it didn't seem to produce any noticeable effect.
We don't use that word anymore.
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Condemning the entire white population of this world into collective guilt and perpetual servitude for the actions of others is the epitome of racism.

> Well, checking for the crime rate between different races and attributing it to "race", instead of looking for the underlying causes, is the epitome of racism.

Unless that underlining cause is race. And there are quite a few studies backing this up, that did take into account all the typical factors (such as socioeconomic class).

I don't think we are ever going to agree, but I am curious of what you think a middle ground solution would be?...

I would gladly trade some type of payment (reparation) for absolute freedom of association (in all aspects of work and life).

> And some caused endless bloodshed and massacre all over the world for profit and control, and those tended to be whites, from them, to the modern world and wars for oil and strategic interests...

That is because white societies had the technological and strategic platform to do so... If you where to give that same platform to any African-country president/leader/warlord/etc, you would find the end result 10x worse.
It's worse than that. When a serious drug user ODs and the tox screen comes back with opioids, cocaine, and barbituates, how could you possibly assign a particular drug to the death?
sounds like those Udemy courses...which are really hit and miss
awk is a full blown scripting language too. It has a versatile implied top-level control structure + code golf qualities (which is a plus for livecoding). But it's also crazy that we switch a language when its top-level structure is a good fit.
There's a minimum karma required to be able to downvote.
Yep, how could it fail? http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/cb100515dAPR2015100...
Our genes are somehow improving in quality (survival longevity, quality of life, IQ), and this effect is cascading over generations. I don't know if it can be explained using pure epigenetics, and natural evolution is certainly too slow to explain this, so there might be mutagens in our everyday environment that directly modify the DNA sequence. We recognize cigarette smoke, heavy metals as mutagens, but are there more subtle mutagens that lead to better DNA?
If these cities weren't "affordable", wouldn't there be a lot of empty houses because people couldn't afford them? Clearly they are affordable.
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Marketingland is a good industry resource if you want to stay abreast of the latest and greatest. Usually has a fairly decent signal/noise ratio. Beyond that, find companies that are successful in their marketing and study them. Learn from them.

Go to marketing industry tradeshows and see what people are focusing on. Read Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report and other research to understand macro trends. Pick up a recent college textbook on the matter to brush up on the basics. Talk to people in the space and learn what works and what doesn't. Find blogs and read enough where you can separate the truth from the bullshit.

Oh yes, there's a lot of bullshit. Any marketer worth their salt will be the first to tell you there is a lot of snake oil out there and there is unfortunate overlap with the "get rich quick" community in many cases when researching this stuff online.

Like any industry, there is a spectrum of good and bad actors, and quality/crap products and services. Sometimes that is difficult to determine because your own situation may be the barrier to success.

More to your point, my personal motto is "the right message to the right person at the right time." This seems to align with your view. It all comes down to understanding your audience and earning trust--not tricking them into your message with a clickbait headline.
Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !
1) I use Pingdom and hadn't seen Apex. Looks really good. Will definitely switch over.

2) Hey you're TJ Holowaychuk. I know you've since (mostly) moved on from doing a ton of Node contributing, but as someone who uses projects you've started and maintained for a long time, just wanted to say a big thank you for all your work in the open source community.

I'm also going to link your photography site (a) for those who haven't seen it. I know this it's slightly off topic, but everyone should see it.

(a) http://tjholowaychuk.com
>Countries like Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and the US, also known as the "Five Eyes", are exempt from surveillance, however.

If you're in one of those countries, you should be in the clear?
It's easier than you think -- the problem is to find a characteristic or rule that all of the lefthand objects conform to, and that all of the righthand objects do not.

The problem is not (as is sometimes the case for similar-looking IQ test problems) to find a rule that transforms the left side of each pair into the right side, or that generates the whole sequence of six iteratively. That might have been what you were searching for; I tried to do so in vain before reassessing the problem!
A friend and I have been running WeScreenplay (https://www.wescreenplay.com), a very niche service for screenwriters, for about 2.5 years now. I recently separated the backend platform that manages and coordinates everything and spun it off into Coverfly (https://www.coverfly.io), which we sell to film festivals to manage their screenplay contests.

Between the 2 products (which use the same codebase), we've tripled in size every year. $27k in 2014, $80k in 2015, and we're projecting to do $250k+ in revenue this year. Hoping to do $1m in 2017.

For marketing: affiliate programs, paid SEO, organic SEO, Facebook, Twitter, cold calling, sponsoring events with writers
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Intel Israel employs about 10,000 Israelis. Many of the intel processors are designed there and they are converting a 22nm fab to 10 nm there as well.

Much of Apple's computer chip design operations are in Israel and the head of the computer chip design group is an Israeli Arab with a masters degree from Israel's Technion University.

Israeli drones protect NATO troops in Afghanistan. Germany will be leasing the newest Heron missile drones from Israel for over $600 million.
GRW (spontaneous collapse of the wavefunction) is a different theory and theoretically experiments could get good enough to prove it wrong.

But most interpretations have the same statistical predictions as standard QM. The standard Copenhagen setup can be argued to not actually be a theory (the split between quantum and classical in a fundamental theory is an absurdity since the classical is made up of quantum ), but assuming that an interpretation is clear enough to be called a theory and has the same statistical framework as standard quantum mechanics, then experiments will not distinguish them.

The different interpretations, however, may lead to different insights for extending the theory. And in that game, one may pull ahead of the other. For example PWT inspired Bell's results. PWT can also explain the impact of the topology of configuration space convincingly since the configuration is a fundamental part of the theory. It leads to many insights that the others just have to assume.

GRW with a flash ontology has a relativistic version with no foliations. So that's cool.
23andme does not sell clinical diagnostic services, period.

If you are going to make really important decisions regarding your health or that of your descendants then you should really look elsewhere. You're not capable of interpreting the results and without a second scan you don't even know if the results are yours.

This is really not an area where - unless you are qualified in the field - you should 'self medicate', the risks are way too large.

> The 23andme results let us safely skip having an extra procedure performed.

I think you're putting much more faith in them than is warranted, and that's where for me the risk lies of services like these (besides the very obvious privacy issues).

> (Note that this is not going out on a limb: screening for Tay-Sachs is strongly recommended by ACOG when both parents are known to be carriers.)

Yes, it is.
The amount of harm that a government can do to you is virtually unlimited. The amount of harm most companies can do to you is very small and effectively restricted by the law, even in the very unlikely event that they have some incentive to harm their customers.
In other words it handles this by not actually using JSON. Sorta proves the point.
We don't assume it; we are still studying this extensively, and so far more evidence seems to be in favor of nature vs nurture.

If it were a matter of "relaxing", you'd expect that children raised in homosexual families would tend to be more open about flexible sexuality, and more would identify as gay, or at least as non-hetero - but that is not the case. The ratio of children becoming homosexual vs heterosexual is the same in both homosexual and heterosexual families, insofar as our studies can identify. At the same time, there have been some observed correlations between sexuality and specific genetic markers.

Really, the more interesting question at this point is whether it's mainly genetic, or mainly epigenetic.
Sometimes it is very easy to tell but Amazon will ship it to customers anyway. Imagine you are looking for a "85W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter" for a MacBook Pro at Amazon.com. First link after search for "apple power adapter for macbook pro" goes to:

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MagSafe-Adapter-MacBook-Display...

Now read this review (verified purchase):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RNA9AYHGA5JG0/ref...
It's also not terribly difficult to get a legitimate prescription for it, if you have chronic needs.
If XML didn't have those idiotic verbose closing tags, this probably wouldn't even be a discussion. Or if JSON had comments and didn't require quoting all keys.

What's funnier is seeing the HTTP/JSON folks re-invent SOAP. But maybe this time it'll actually be Simple.
Do you have a way of treating severe pain (such as cancer pain or post-surgical pain) that is not habit-forming?
I'm not familiar with this model but what OS does it usually have? I know there are other oscilloscopes which already run Linux, and some of the high-end ones use Windows. VxWorks is also used. The low-end ones seem to prefer Linux --- and tend to have rather long boot-time as a result.
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Help me understand. Why sign resources? To prove authorship? What prevents me from signing a resource that's actually "someone else's"?

Your idea about content-addressable storage (ie. by hash) has been implemented in networks like IFPS [1], Freenet [2], and Bittorrent [3]. With the introduction of a recent spec called subresource integrity [4], a content-addressable cache/database was proposed, but it has an interesting security implication (failure mode) discussed in this HN thread [5].

[1] https://ipfs.io/

[2] https://freenetproject.org/

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3844502/how-do-bittorrent...

[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310594
I think a more accurate classification (from the popular journalism viewpoint) would be that a startup is a tech company that hasn't gone public yet.
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This has been answered by the field of economic geography; if you keep asking the question, read Glaeser's Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier for a definitive answer (https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt...).
Dear op, you're seriously late to the game https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/dropbox-acquires-cloud-pho...
Digression: There is some reason to believe that "religion" has no real epistemological grounding outside the Abrahamic world.
Hi there!

Even though I'm a full-stack developer, during the previous year I had to build several Bootstrap UI Kits. I think I became pretty good at it so a week ago I started http://www.bootstrapuikits.com (worked on it for a couple of months before launching). Currently I run it as a store where I sell my own Bootstrap UI Kits (OK, one kit for now, but two more nice ones are in the works!) but the idea is to expand into a marketplace so that others could sell their own quality UI Kits.
Besides that, the idea is for each UI kit to cover at least 10 cases (in at least one version) through example pages (store, social network, portfolio...).

Of course, it's not profitable yet, but I plan to offer great support(!) and great Bootstrap UI Kits (each with 10+ themes) so we'll see. My analysis tells me that I could probably earn $600-800 per UI Kit (created by me) per month. I'm thinking about publishing the results in 3-4 months on Bootstrap UI Kits blog (soon to be created) so stay tuned.

Hopefully that would be enough for me to provide for my family so that, as some people mentioned, I could work on some other things I'm interested in like A LOT (like mathematics, physics, chemistry, electronics...).

Wish me luck! Nah, kidding... I don't believe in luck, just in hard work.
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> Isn’t teleportation more practical than a Hyperloop? It doesn’t require the land, nor the power to make and sustain the vacuum…

In a thread about the Hyperloop (transportation device for physical objects) you attempt to ridicule Putin with your comment suggesting that he plans to have teleportation ready by 2035 even though Putin never said that (that much you have already conceded) and that the type of teleportation in question is about a quantum effect that could be used to send information. (how is that related to a transportation device for physical objects like the Hyperloop?)

You do understand that I was criticising ridiculing persons based on manufactured nonsense and lies?

This is exactly what you did here. The problem that I see is that no amount of good arguments or open discussions with you will ever change your smug disregard for truth and honesty.

You just believe you are on the right side of history and politics and this is why you are still insisting that your comment was relevant even though it clearly has no value whatsoever regarding this thread and is just an attempt to spew hateful ridicule against a person.
Fatal car crashes are common, and car crashes that would have been fatal without a seatbelt are extremely common.
"Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt"

About what?

Privacy?

The blog entry is focused on monetization, not privacy.

23 also has a deal with Pfizer.

And they have hired people, e.g., from Genentech, that will help them try some drug discovery research themselves.

But does anyone outside the company seriously believe this is going to lead to anything? They are not a therapeutics company.

They are a data broker.

Why not just submit DNA samples directly to a drug company instead of a data broker?

The only thing we can call "shoddy" here is 23andme's original business model: selling genetic test results. The question some are asking is whether they knew that when they started.

With the collected data, they now have value. There will be buyers.

Whether that value is ever passed on to patients is less certain.
"Whatever happens, we have got
the Maxim gun, and they have not."

The exact name and nature of the "Maxim gun" changes from era to era, but the basic premise holds. There are ways to provide security, and even assert dominance, that do not rely on massive population numbers. In fact, looking at the world history of the past several centuries, one could say that relying on massive population numbers have been a losing strategy for pretty much everyone who tried it for long.
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By killing terrorists, drones save lots of lives. By killing terrorist remotely, they save lots of our soldier's lives.

Most of the elites that complain about drones are probably not from the class of Americans that go into the Army to protect our country and/or to pay for college through the GI bill.
A while back I'm sure I saw a HTTP state diagram posted here that showed writing a HTTP parser is anything but simple. I guess if you only have to be a (reverse) proxy you might get away with it.
Very interesting. How is the tech job scene in Denver compared to Boulder? Is there a ton of opportunity there in comparison? Or is it pretty much Boulder or bust?
Maybe my comment wasn't clear; I think these drugs are fine, and I think drug-related patents are at least somewhat defensible as a way to fund R&D, but in this case they're really not working very well. There shouldn't be such a huge profit incentive to ruin people's lives like this.
Forgetting the One Child Policy, are we?
You're thinking of https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram
Xenophobia
The US has plenty of flexibility in the labour market. When I hear about people moving city to get a job, Americans seem a lot more casual about it (maybe not 'casual', maybe 'accepting') - there's a lot of mid-sized cities there, and the local culture is fairly uniform in a given region. Moving to the next city across is normal. When I hear Europeans or antipodeans talk about moving city for a job, it's usually either extremely lucrative or as a last resort.

Anecdata, impressions only, etc.
You're extrapolating current trends as if they won't change in the future. Who is to say the Amish will continue to have as many children in the future? What if it turns out that reproduction is intrinsically tied to economic success, and the most successful groups of people always have declining birth rates?
Github! This should be on github
Freakonomics also did a fantastic episode about universal basic income: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/.
Huh, that's interesting. I wonder if drug education pamphlets have the same effect for recreational drugs?
Do they have race riots in Japan like they do in the USA?