skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are articles that actually break out Sales & Marketing budgets (2013 numbers I am excluding J&J since they have a lot of consumer products)
"Next in line is Pfizer ($PFE), long known for its marketing muscle. The drugmaker plowed $11.4 billion into marketing in 2013, $4.8 billion more than it spent on R&D--a difference of 72%. AstraZeneca ($AZN) is close behind with a 70% difference. The U.K.-based company put $7.3 billion toward marketing last year, and $4.3 billion into R&D. AstraZeneca has been pumping up marketing behind products such as its blood-thinner Brilinta as it preps for the onslaught of Nexium copycats.

The next 5 range from a 47% difference in favor of R&D on the high end--Novartis ($NVS), with $14.6 billion in marketing spending--to 27% on the low end. The latter is Merck ($MRK), with $9.5 billion allocated to marketing and $7.5 billion to R&D.

Then there's Eli Lilly ($LLY), with a mere $200 million premium to the marketing side. Its marketing spending clocked in at $5.7 billion, compared with $5.5 billion for R&D. That's a difference of just 7%.""
I can't make it appear on my app (iOS) and the help link [1] shows that's it's enabling comments from Genius about the lyrics, so not the actual lyrics synced.

[1]: https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/search_play/beh...
Gmail outage
Sure, but what I was saying was that what good is a new ranking method, when you only have at your disposal the same set of metrics as the method you are trying to replace? A new ranking would quite often mean adding new metrics. For example, when Lucene when from tf-idf to bm25 they added lots of new metrics to be able to cater for the new algorithm.
That's a great idea. He did break the law, but he alerted this country to things that we need to be aware of. I fully support a pardon for him and will sign it.
Elliot’s reality is murky, but Mr Robot tech advisors say the show’s is not
Totally agree with this, but I can understand why they are able to do it.

Kids don't judge. As a kid, you can meet another kid and get straight in there asking the important questions in life and have no fear about being judged or even to care if you are judged.

Do you play Pokemon go? Bingo. Got an xbox? No? Ps4? Etc etc. Never ending list of stuff to keep asking until you hit the mark with no fear.

As an adult you have to be careful what to say for fear of offending them, or to give the wrong impression. Kids have none of these fears.
The premise about computation being observer-relative overestimates how much meaning we read into a system, and underestimates how much we read out of it. When two 1kg bags of sand land on a lever and counterbalance the one 2kg bag at the other end, that has an objective, logical, correspondence-based meaning that transcends observers. When a domino computer "executes" - same. When a silicon computer computes - same. As the computer gets more complex, it becomes harder to intuit how the physical working is objectively a computation, but this proceeds by straightforward extension from the bags of sand.

We can certainly attach semantics to the numbers (e.g. saying this bit pattern represents dollars, or a spaceship's shield %), and that is observer-relative. But that is completely different from categorizing or understanding a process as a computation in general, in terms of logic.

I'll stop short of implying that it's the same for the human brain, because nobody should be pretending to understand the brain at this point in history. However, this does provide a way to see how it could be true for the brain, if it is ever determined that the brain is precisely equivalent to a computer.
>RE6: The banking infrastructure allow consumers to "subscribe" to businesses

We have this in the US (almost all businesses have an 'Automatic Bill Pay' or similar)

But businesses are very routinely "slightly-corrupt" here, so many don't trust it. Businesses will purposefully withdraw more than they should, and make you fight to get it back. Or will raise prices without telling you. Or will continue to bill you after you unsubscribe (if they let you unsubscribe at all).

Often you have to yell or make threats to people on telephones, or publicly harass a company on Twitter / Facebook, or manually withhold payment, to get any kind of appropriate response.

This creates an atmosphere where people don't trust businesses with "subscriptions" or automation of any kind of bills. Which further perpetuates the antique cheque-based bill payment process. It's not a technology problem (we have the technology). It's more of a "poisoned trust" issue.

> RE: 11) my only tax-related action is to click "Accept" once a year.

We have this in the US -- the IRS is already capable of offering this. It's just illegal for them to do so, because of Intuit's political influence. (Again with the businesses being corrupt...)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/tu...
They get another job
I only use the command line and have no use for Xcode. With LLVM or GCC I can install as many versions as I want side by side - not the case for Swift. Lame.
I agree with most of these rules, however some of them are there for a reason. Sure, there might be some exceptional employees out there, but let's face the truth - Many people these days are lazy, have no work ethic, and some of them are unappreciative of their bosses relative leniency towards being late, missing deadlines and the like.

This is spoken from the perspective of an employee.
Not sure jeonse would work in low interest times. I could rent out my $200k condo for $1,000 per month, but making $12k per year on the jeonse (assuming it is 50%, $100k) seems way too optimistic.
I'm not terribly familiar with this new proposal but I have used the regular async/await features quite extensively and can't really see a problem here.

Since async/await deal with promises, there's nothing stopping anyone from not awaiting a dependency at the top level so that some loading logic can be run.

In addition, since these are promises, there's nothing stopping us from awaiting multiple promises at once in parallel like so:

const [dependency1, dependency2] = await Promise.all([promise1, promise2]);

All await does is schedule the resumption of the code following an await later on, so any JS not depending on this blocking dependency can continue to run. That is, await doesn't block the entire execution, unless the rest of the entire app code is sitting behind an await.

I don't even understand why top level await is necessary given HTTP 2 server push. The point is that import statements at the top can be statically analyzed so the web server can determine which dependencies to push down to you with your request. That's not quite here yet, but by the time this proposal is ready I'm sure it will be.

I guess if you need to use runtime evaluation for something to determine you're dependencies it makes sense but I've found that's rarely the case.
Of course no whistle-blower ever got convicted of 'something else' as an act of retaliation for the whistle-blowing.
This is... stupid.

SkyHook had originally come up with the idea of wardriving (as it was then called), and building up a global Wi-Fi location database from the Wi-Fi hotspots. Google took out an evaluation licence from SkyHook in 2005, figured out how it worked, and then allegedly copied it. SkyHook sued for IP theft in 2010 and finally settled the case for $90m in 2015. The company was taken over by TruePosition, a Liberty Media subsidiary, in 2014.

Well, no. There was a settlement, sure, but it's hard to imagine what IP Google "stole". Does anyone really think it is hard to workout the WiFi location thing? I could do it in a few days, and I don't have a background in signal processing.

If behavioural advertising is so bad consumers need an opt-out, how come you can opt out of your ISP's profiling, but not Google’s. How could that be?

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin

Is the author really advocating that ISPs should be allowed to sell ads on traffic they see?
The blueprints weren't altered enough, apparently, and the Iranians were still able to use them to advance their nuclear program. Thus, it was sheer stupidity on the CIA's part.

And you know what you don't do? Point out the big, mean guy's stupidity in public. He gets angry.
>Landlords realized that they can earn a lot more through AirBnB vs classic renting out.

In many cases by circumventing hotel regulation. We seem to like flouting the law, provided it happens in Silicon Valley and not Wall Street.

AirBnB is no longer my go-to; it's just another place I check along with travel and hotel aggregator sites. But at least with hotels I know what I'm getting.
I think you mean:

echo "127.0.0.1 github.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts > /dev/null
>But seriously, nobody at the NSA is going to place* you on a watch list because you are part of a small vocal minority that raised support online for Snowden

I agree. They will not place you on a watch list because you support Snowden.

They will place you on a watch list because they can.
I agree. Of course he should do that if it's what he wants to do. I only meant it as illustrative.
People are very irrational about gas prices in general. People will often go far out of their way to save an extra five cents a gallon. If you have a large 20-gallon tank, that adds up to a whole dollar saved. Depending on how far out of your way you went, that may not even end up being a savings.

The best philosophy is to know where the cheap gas stations are near you. Try to fill up there when you need it, put five bucks of expensive gas in if you're low and you know you're going there soon, but otherwise don't worry about it. It's just not worth going out of your way and it's certainly not worth running out of gas in an effort to save a dollar or two.

In business, there's a principle that's something along the lines of "know your business". Your business probably isn't fixing the laser printer when it breaks, or (for smaller businesses) running your own hosting service. It costs money to do those things in-house, so it also makes sense to hire someone else to do it so you don't have to worry about it.

People often fail to apply that to their own lives. Some things just aren't worth fretting over when you can throw a bit of money at the problem and make it go away (or significantly reduce the scope of the problem). If owning a Roomba cuts down on vacuuming time by 75% then just pay the money and make the problem go away, your time is worth more than the amortized cost of the roomba.

The other one that's really surprising is car repairs. Changing oil is literally a half hour job, and many other repairs boil down to replacing an easily accessible sensor or something. The gains here are large, a garage will hardly look at a car for less than a hundred bucks. It's easy to check Youtube and see videos of someone doing the job.
NASA Scientist Claims Space Mining Is Possible with Today's Tech
Bypassing Providers in Angular 2
No. You use flow management library. Just how you don't manually execute multiple promises with `Array.forEach` and same manual counting. Latter just happens to be in stdlib while former is userland.
It's not a bad plan as the idea is that the victim would spend billions developing a weapon that is flawed from the drawing board. Nothing would work right and they would have to start over setting them back many years from a workable weapon.
Depends on what kind of freedoms you are looking for. Many European countries, Germany for example, have better protections from law enforcement and crime. On the other hand free speech is more restricted by libel or hate speech directives.
My main problem with the simulated world argument is complexity. Take the Billiard Ball example[0]. This means to accurately simulate the universe you can't really get away with approximations. Under close enough scrutiny discrepancies in the simulation are discernible, and we can scrutinize it at the subatomic level. But to simulate the observable universe, how big would your computer need to be? How slowly would the simulation run relative to the simulator's real-time? It just doesn't stack up.

The only way to do it would be to fake it by generating the appearance of a thorough simulation rather than the reality of one. In which case the arguments put forward for wanting to perform a real simulation - to simulate history and so forth - break down because you'd only be emulating the appearance of it not simulating it.

The only way out of this I can see is if the universe containing the simulator were vastly more complex than ours, such that in comparison our universe would be trivial to simulate. But then why would they do it? Our universe would be nothing like theirs. In principle this is possible, but it massively reduces the chances that our world is a simulation because only a subset, and quite possibly a vanishingly small subset, of possible universes would be capable of hosting the simulation. Possibly fewer universes that there are universes like ours. At which point the odds of ours being a simulation collapse.

[0] http://www.anecdote.com/2007/10/the-billiard-ball-example/
Pretty interesting that their recommended Dot + Speaker combos are more than the cost of the Echo by like...50%.
Kids is the best what can happen to your career
Facebook has offices in Seattle and NYC too. In NYC you can buy in NJ, Queens or Brooklyn and still have a reasonable commute.
I'd say VT students are more likely than your average American to build some sort of burrito interceptor.
one thing i've learned over the years is that everyone isn't really as busy as they say they are.

everyone is afraid of not sounding busy.
I could have done that when I was 16, but I wouldn't have had any media attention :P
Why do you consider $30,000 dollars madness, but not $3,000?

$100 for a single dose? Hand-shaken or not, it's still madness.
Well put. Exactly how I feel. So many people are like "Yeah, enjoy your non-customizable iPhone." or other similar stuff about OS X/macOS but those are the beauties to me. The reasons I enjoy it so much. I don't want to spend 45 minutes customizing my devices. I just want to use them. I don't even care about the wallpaper on my machine anymore. I have an app installed that randomly updates the wallpaper using unsplash.com photos just incase there's that off chance that I see my desktop.

Some people like to be productive, others like to control every aspect of their devices. It's okay. Choose based on your needs.
There is money to be made having people buy these warranties separately. Good for business not so much for the customer.
I don't agree with Snowden's actions completely, but, on the whole, he acted in good faith.

I think the mass dump was a little ill advised, and he maybe could have thrown his lot in with slightly more responsible journalists who could have arbitrated what would be useful for the public to know a little more judiciously (I like Greenwald, but he can be unreasonable sometimes). However, on the whole I think it was for the good. I think its important to remember that he didn't have a lot of time to act once he started down this road, so I'm sure some hasty decisions were made.
Alternate and much more depressing prediction: "Normal" kids won't want to use an app for bullied (i.e. "weird") kids in general. Some bullied / non-conformist / nerdy / queer / alt / etc kids will try to use it and probably enjoy it. Then some bully will discover that they can post an open lunch table to find out who's using the app and then humiliate them, perpetuating the cycle.

edit: ... but I still love the idea.
If capitalism isn't authoritarian, that means people can opt out of state application of property rights to land, right? Without going to jail or getting shot, right?
I was never a fan of async/await in C#, I just never found it that useful.

I've seen examples of it in JavaScript and the author is always like, "Look at what you normally have to write and now look at what you COULD write with async and await!"

And it's like the same goddamn code with a few minor differences.

If they axed the whole proposal, I could get through this holiday season without even being depressed a little bit.
"Disappear without a trace"? It's the world's largest IT organization, not the KGB.
I once spent a few months alternating between cooking up a batch of "the concoction" on a weekend afternoon, and eating nothing but that over the next two weeks.

If it tasted better, I might still be doing it. It's actually the same sort of thing prisons feed to problem inmates to punish misbehavior, except they call it "nutriloaf", and put more actual food in it.

Mine was mostly eggs, coconut oil, and chia seed. It looked horrible, but it barely tasted like anything at all. I might tweak my recipe and try it again some day, but the family won't even look in its general direction, so somebody still has to actually cook meals.
What if there was a middle ground where you could run your self-driving software in a Google simulation data set pulled from real world situations, so Google could essentially hide their data behind a testing black box? (Think codingame, etc). They could charge companies for the privilege of testing their software against that data.
Idea-to-funding ops framework and utility for new founders
Noam Chomsky talks a lot about "Manufacturing Consent" (he wrote a book with this title). He says that in a democratic society you can't use force to control people, so you have to control them by controlling attitudes an opinions instead.

It works well, and the people of the United States are heavily controlled by the elite, who in this case are the corporations and the media companies they control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG5YTEOWCpE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusAX4Th4N8
Can Obama really pardon Snowdon? If so, I'd think that he can be arrested again for something or the other by the next power.
I haven't seen anything biased against Tesla, GM did pull out a "wonder" a 30,000$ car with 200+ miles range (reportedly longer than the Model 3) which is fully electric.

The overall sentiment of the article isn't different than other coverage of the Bolt like from Wired for example:

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mar...
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/chevrolet-bolt-range-epa-ratin...

Effectively GM "beat" Tesla to the punch, while the Model 3 might have some additional features and luxuries over the Bolt they also won't be available for the base 30,000$ model.
Without Tesla neither the Bolt nor it's predecessor the Volt would've existed but it doesn't diminish the accomplishment that GM has pulled off.

Also while it's very nice that Musk has published the Patents it's not exactly "open-sourcing" them, they were released for "in good faith use" which is actually a pretty clever strategy that can be used against competition if the need arises, don't get me wrong this is still a huge deal but this isn't a pure altruistic move on Tesla's part either.
There are a lot of people (mostly in NA, it seems) who reflexively call every hatch ugly. I guess. Eye of the beholder, and all. But I'll take a _better_ car over a _prettier_ car every day. And that's assuming that I even think hatches are ugly, which I don't.
I was referring to exploits in the context of malware, but that's a good point anyway.
Agreed, with conditions. It is still possible to live in the moment and still have all of the tools that the higher brain functions give you, i.e. planning, forecasting.

The key is to plan in the present, then do the next thing and the next thing, each time in the present. Living like this requires adult versions of faith, agility and resourcefulness.

Even with planning, there can still be time for: "when you are hungry, eat. When you are tired, sleep". Not everything needs to be planned. Big things do, but not everything does. Know when to deploy the higher functions and when not to.
I think you are mistaking the resulting meta-consciousness created from the game theory in society and government with individual's based consciousness and some internal intent to deceive. While I would agree the government may try to deceive us, it does so by formally rationalizing government individual's actions as needed to "protect" us from threats. There is likely not one or two people "plotting" out what is happening. It's more probable that something like the angry meme phenomenon[1] has taken root in our government and is now attempting to isolate itself from harm. I think this came about because we tend to become fearful about things that may happen if we don't do X, Y and Z to stop them before they happen and those X, Y and Z things are now hard coded into our government and affecting the game theory around it. As a result, you get a meta-govt-conscious thing acting irrationally and making everyone very nervous as a result.

Or as Gene Belcher put it, "Everything is randomness and chaos."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Curious to know why you think WebSphere is a pain - I find it about as good as any complicated piece of software can get - it's reasonably documented, works most of the time and performance is good.
There are multiple approaches to structuring society consistent with the idea that violence shouldn't be used to coerce people into desired behavior. There are multiple libertarian worlds.
Though I won't name any names, I have heard a big reason is that he was indiscriminate about what he leaked.
Yes. Compare and contrast:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/152-Sagamore-St-San-Franci...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1055-Gilman-Ave-San-Franci...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15320-Swan-Ct-Gulfport-MS-...
Just posting to let everyone know what a genius I am and how I could have been the next Bill Gates if somebody had done something different when I was a kid.
From conversations I've had with Americans raised in the American schools system, at least through the 1980s and even early 1990s (I'm less certain of more recent experience), yes, that's quite common.

Public school history education is grossly misbilled.

Between the politics, poor understanding of many (though not all) teachers, texts, and more, it only provides the barest outlines of reality, and often only a highly distorted image of that.
The gig economy is simply an end-run around the rules.
I see this beyond the issue of tracking. It is one of relentless collection of data. Google is a private company, even if it were a government, it has no right to all that personal data. It collects it because it can.

With a little imagination it can become clear that so much data cannot be a good thing. Can the information be used to repress political opposition? Can it be used to enforce an agenda of say eugenics? Can a business be given undue advantage by promoting its "recommendations"? Can minorities and their views be suppressed?

In a few years with the maturing of AI to fine-tune the processes we will all think alike,behave alike, conform alike, to the wishes of our overlords who know who we are, where we are, what we eat,what illnesses we have who we f..k, what religion we practice, what books we read, and so on ...

Maybe that fellow Orwell was on to something.

See also fixermark and jtrip below
Looks like they found the dark matter.
Which system did you choose?
Even the Model 3 is too big for many European Cities, the Model S is a complete giant.

The Bolt can even be considered a tad too big, but at least you'll be able to park it in London or Paris.
Slavoj Zizek had a great talk with a talk show host from the Netherlands precisely about this matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPjmmmh_os

Fun watch imo. There's also another session between them two.
They are optimizing their ads for effectiveness. Patently offensive garbage ads weed out all but the most gullible of customers. Show them to enough people and the idiots come flowing in, cards at the ready to buy miracles and snake oil.