skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His results are very general. They depend only only on the fact that keywords with more words have lower search volume. For any industry for which this is true (i.e. any), you will find qualitatively similar results.

If you think about it, it's a trivial result. In any other industry if I tell you "I'm going to focus on increasing the ROI of 10% of our sales", you'd laugh. Why not focus on increasing the ROI of the other 90% of the sales?

However, it does depend on the account. On an account where you have the same number of 2 word keywords as 5 word keywords, of course the 5 word keywords will have a tiny tiny percentage of the impressions (say 1%). But obviously a marketer who goes for the long term strategy will tell you that you need 100x more 5 word keywords, in which case the 5 word keywords would have the same number of impressions as the 2 word keywords. But in comes the author's argument that you can do virtually nothing to manage that many keywords (we'd be talking millions here).
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>chins

I linked the article to a friend and she made a crack about Carlos II
"Anything that can fail, will fail."

If someone is getting a procedure, it seems like they should automatically be prescribed required medication unless they have been flagged with an adverse reaction. Sure, review this stuff, but the default needs to be less harmful than the supervised action.

I am guessing there are a lot of historical and cultural reasons why this does not happen. But, why can't we apply basic automation.
The performance didn't suck that much, not for the RISC part.
The problem was that too many IA-64 application relied on the x86/xCPU emulation which was well yeah very shitty.
Where exactly is the appeal?

A startup is an experiment, most of them fail. It will probably also have an oversize share of people who don't mind risk but do like (monetary) profits, very much so. This means they will take risks with patients health and lives that we have already chosen not to accept except in cases where bad outcomes don't matter (patient is dying).

The "politics" can also be a lot worse in a fast-growth company with a lot of success-driven people. The risk of losing out is a lot lower in a "boring" company where everybody just gets their salary and advancement is slow and predictable. This leads to less focus on the product/service, because people are occupied with "positioning themselves".

There will also be investors, and they don't really care about the product at all, or about long-term success - as long as they can unload their shares at an IPO like the hot potatoes they often are they are fine. Which is not so because people are evil, but because the selection function is set up in a way that favors this behavior.

In a sense though you are right, the possibilities are rather mind boggling indeed. I just don't think in a positive way.
I don't use one cause 1. My clothes end up a size smaller. 2.I live in a warm climate where we are allowed to hang clothes out. 3. Dryer is the most power hungry household appliance.

Other than that in my experience clothes do get partly ironed. T-shirt and jeans are fine but shirts still need ironing.
Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader
Nice article about Europa mission:

http://www.popsci.com/europa-or-bust (Sep 2015)
I'm with you on the idea that "cool" and "lifestyle" sell, especially when they're backed by celebs. That said, Snapchat isn't a lifestyle product, it's an app. Moving from pocket to face is a monumental transition with monumental challenges, but certainly one worth trying. My money says the glasses never become mass adopted but maybe Snapchat - sorry, Snap - learns a few things along the way that set it up for success with Hardware Product #2.
The quest for glory I VGA remake was the first game I ever purchased with my own money as a teen; and it made a huge impact on me. (although I honestly think that qfg2 was the best game in the series). Though the mechanics have been explored in other games since, I still like to go back and play through 1-5 every now and then. They still hold up surprisingly well, through the glossy lens of nostalgia.

In fact, just this morning, my little brother asked me if the new dues ex is worth picking up and I described it as "scratching my itch for the old quest for glory series"

It's great to read insights into some of these games, though I sometimes worry about the history of a lot of the influential works in this medium. I'm afraid it'll get lost and unappreciated, and be unplayable. Can there be a "criterion collection" for early video games and interactive fiction. Is something that even matters? Maybe I'm just getting old.
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Luckey on pro-Trump donation: “My actions… do not represent Oculus”
Sure. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer. I just think they should be nervous not because they would lose customers but because they could potentially lose the market segment this is going after.

If Spectales were $99 instead of $129 I think they'd be in solid impulse buy territory, too.

I am not in marketing / sales so maybe GoPro likes being at the top and making higher end cameras and it won't matter. As it is today a pair of glasses that only records 10 seconds of video won't be able to compete anyway.
US Team Claims Solar Cell Efficiency Breakthrough
Not really, deleteLater() will simply delete a QObject at the end of the event loop - and since QObjects have an integrated for of unique_ptr, it will delete its whole object graph with it.
deferred_ptr is more of a memory region together with a form of integrated GC - it will collect unused object (even if they're part of object cycles) and destroy them when you run collect().
With QObject, you need to call deleteLater() to get rid of each object, and the "later" part only guarantees you that you won't have crashes if the object is still involved in slot calls.
With deferred_ptr, you only call collect() on the deferred_heap when it suits you, and it will take care of deleting unused objects.
exactly

> If I listen to music by a particular artist, the recommendations show more music by that artist.

I've had disappointing experiences of that, where the recommendations try to know what I'd like even better.
How do I read the full story? I tried signing in with Facebook, but it redirects to http://www.wsj.com/europe.
Great question, but you should re-post this and prefix your title with "Ask HN" so that it can appear in the ask section of this site.

For posting guidelines see here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I hope your repost gets some traction because I'd like to know this as well :-)
> aesthetic surgery

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.446201.131459328...
>And this shit's very close to the last straw.

And then what? Unless you're a Youtuber I don't see how any of the issues with Youtube (copyright strikes, demonetisation, this fiasco etc) affect you.
Correct.
The Glass is a way to interact with the web, this one just goes: "fucj you internet, my input is the only one that counts."
I was running into this doing requisitions for a precision approach radar that was commissioned in the late 60s. By this point, all of the part suppliers had long since moved on to other things or gone out of business, and the usual avenue became "Order the part, and wait for enough air stations to also need the same part. Then, and only then, will the government commission a custom fabrication job to manufacture the parts needed for an obscene amount of money."

Two results happened. First, we ended up paying $15k for parts that were worth $500 because that's what it costs to set up a fabrication job when you only want 50 circuit boards. Second, we did whatever the hell we could to avoid having to spend $15k on a $500 part, and the radar was therefore held together with gummy bears, duct tape, and black magic. It was a clusterfuck, and we were always putting out fires with that thing, sometimes literally.

Horrifyingly, the military has never been able to create a better PAR, which is why it's been around for so damn long.

I got out in 2014, and last I've heard, they just re-extended the EOL for the radar to 2025. They'll probably be sending out lance corporals with binoculars and walkie-talkies to yell "TOO HIGH" and "TOO LOW" by then.
Aren't optical transistors another option though?
One of my friends started a company that basically does that. It's called Qualaris (http://qualaris.com/).
Hopefully more geysir activity.
Tips of how to startup your company
Most of the apply reasonably well to a business setting. A couple in particularly interesting ways:

* You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?

* I want to avoid the hecklers.

* Always leave them wanting more.
The main page is the main stream and diverting from the main stream would probably be a loosing bet in most cases.
I live in Oak Park, right on its eastern boundary with Austin (near one of the most homogeneously black neighborhoods in Chicago). One of the things I like about my block is that it's almost evenly divided black/white.

But the more expensive center of Oak Park is less well integrated, and some of the same city dynamics that produce disparities elsewhere are at play in Oak Park, too.

It also helps that Oak Park is tiny. You can walk across it in like 20 minutes.
As a non-American, I find the recent US trend of publicly punishing high-ranking tech people for their private, legal political speech scary. (The previous example is Brandon Eich being forced to leave Mozilla.) The prospect of successful tech being filtered by the political opinions of its creators does not appeal.
Your best bet is probably going to be joining an open-source project of some kind.
SpaceX: “large breach in the cryogenic helium system” caused accident
Spidey thought

Hey Amy - just a couple of rando thoughts from 35,000 LAX-JFK:

- A rising trend we see with Millennials are the really extreme forms of experiential exercise like Tough Mudder (a sort of filthy triathalon), the Color Run and even things like Hot Power Yoga, veganism etc. Millennials will often post “N.B.D.” on their social media after doing it , as in No Big Deal, also known as the “humble brag”.....wondering if Spidey could get into that in some way....he’s super athletic, bendy, strong, intense....and it’s all NBD to him, of course.

- EDM (electronic dance music) is the defining music for Millennials. Wondering if there’s an EDM angle somewhere with Spidey? His movements are beautiful, would be awesome with a killer DJ behind it

- Snapchat just launched a “story” functionality, which is sort of “day in the life of me” told in a series of snapchats that expire after 24 hours. It has a very VIP quality about it, since invitation only. Getting invited into Spidey’s Snapchat circle would be huge, and very buzzworthy and cool.

http://www.avclub.com/article/spider-man-should-be-snapchatt...
...Just realized this was discussed in several posts yesterday. This one from today is about Luckey's forced public apology. Don't think it adds anything to the discussion; it was obvious from the outset that an Internet outrage mob of this kind can get anyone it likes fired or otherwise humiliated.
Looks like it's a NodeJS app wrapped in Electron shell, parsing/analyzing packets via "packages" (implemented via ES6 modules).

I guess that what makes it "Next generation" :)

Maybe the article poster or the author could enlighten us on how and why this implementation might match Wireshark's proven track records...
There is always the possibility of a deal not getting approved, but no trade deal would ever be negotiated in public. The problem with such public negotiation is that instead of a single deal where a country can decide to sacrifice industry X in favor of industry Y you get astroturfing and publicity campaigns from both industry X and industry Y seeking to gain favor in the negotiations. A pre-negotiated package may be a bitter pill to swallow for some, but the alternatives are non-starters; no one is going to bother to negotiate a deal with another country that tries this sort of public horse-trading so asking for the deal to be done in public is no different than simply asking for no deal in the first place.
I think it depends on whether you can get over its style (which is probably also chosen due to budget constraints). For me it is one of these films that get my imagination going, and I actually prefer that to one that just feeds you everything on a silver spoon. It's certainly a matter of taste though, I totally understand if it's not for everyone.
Sheraz wrote "(and whinging) on both sides". I repeated that use to point out the apparent contradiction in complaining about wasted time by further complaining.

This thread came because I earlier pointed out that the arguments against the change sounded very much like people who want a safe space where discussions of slavery and its lingering effects are not brought up. Discussion of these topics seems to offend many people.

For some reason conservative and reactionary politically correct language is never called "politically correct", even when it otherwise has all the attributes of being so. This is of course because it was created as concept by conservatives to chastise the liberalism. But I feel like making it something other than a politically one-sided label. What is 'Freedom fries' but an expression of conservative political correctness?

Sheraz responded with the classic both-siderism from Romeo And Juliet, "a plague on both their houses".

Now you come by and ignore both observations of the conservative P.C.-ism in the opposition text, and the underlying argument for the change, as well as Sheraz's complaint about whining on both sides.

Perhaps people like you should recognize the problem that conservative politically correct speech also exists, and learn to analyze the underlying arguments and trade-offs? That's why I pointed to previous history of the topic, as well as the observation that we're talking about 81 lines of documentation.

Is there no level of change which can be done which won't upset you? Why should your sense of outrage take priority over those who prefer "primary/replica"?
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Ugh, those reply tweets are worse than Youtube comments.
Dangers and benefits of the freemium model
Is that the reason for the slow fiber roll-out in Germany? I just looked at Berlin and there's a small neighborhood in Mitte that has it, otherwise there's nothing. Can't any other company than Telekom lay out fiber?
In many ways, I'd rather eat a flaming ball of excrement than work with 1960s technology again, especially when the code was written by programmers in the USG. These systems are horrible kludges.

They're like the crumbling ruins of an ancient Roman city beneath a metropolis, beautiful only for their history. It's a nice place to visit. But you wouldn't want to live there.
Article from (2008).
Finding Role Models and Exemplars
When you are swinging, swing some more!
As Google learned with glass and Twitter still needs to learn:

If you don't know what your product is for, your customer is unlikely to figure it out for you.
For those interested in the series, and classic sierra adventure games in general, be sure to check out AGDI's remake of qfg2

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/qfg2/

They are a super talented bunch and its a worthy remake/homage/labor-of-love to finalize the series. I kind of wish I had the talent and dedication to tackle making qfg 5 into the vga style of the rest, and implement some of the other features that got cut from the final chapter. Cest la vie
One tenth the cost, one tenth the functionality. This is just a wireless camera for your smart phone. Point and shoot, that's it. It really reminds me of the cheap "Spy Sunglasses" I had as a kid.

Glass had a camera but it was secondary. Glass was about AR, it was an interactive experience.
Of course, there is overlap there. Technician->engineer used to be a fairly common career path.
Going after authentication info (esp. the security questions) _is_ a narrow target. You are probably looking at a couple of tens of GB total. If you get away with it clean you can also then go back in and hit specific targets using that authentication info, so you walk away with a useful basket of data that does not reveal anyone you might have targeted but in turn makes it easier to go after those targets in the future.
The Chubby Programmer Diet Part II – Feedback
For #4 check out The School of Life: https://www.theschooloflife.com
The $2 trillion black hole in China's economy
I've hired a brilliant young man at low pay (but appropriate for entry-level). 32 hour work week, flexible schedule (he starts at one p.m.), plus profit sharing on side projects and I'm mentoring him.

He spent the first two months studying, at my expense, to qualify as a novice sysadmin and gain a contract at my client.

This arrangement is working for us both. He's making more than ever before.

He's asked me to 2x his rate on the next contract.
Animals have not created the concept of "wealth" and "money" to justify the death of other animals. In this regard, other animals are way ahead of our species.
How do you propose tapping a line on a piece of silicon with a 14nm feature size?
YouTube Music is a separate offering and with its own music recommendation algorithm
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The first quote by Corey Cole on that page is brilliant, and is something so many game designers shoud probably keep in mind:

> Rule #1 is “The Player Must have Fun.” It’s trivially easy for a game designer to “defeat” players. We have all the tools and all the power. The trick is to play on the same side as the players, to tell the story together, and to make them the stars.

So many game designers (especially amateur ones) seem to think game design is about screwing over the player at every opportunity. That it's a battle between the designer and the player, with the aim to make things as difficult as possible.

And the point about a lot of Sirerra's designers not actually having much experience playing video games kind of says a lot, doesn't it? Certainly explains how brutal most of their adventure games were.
One important aspect to apple's position is it had a new set of limitations other processor designers weren't dealing with; power consumption and size. Yes there were small processors and there were processors that didn't use tons of power, but they weren't fast. Apple had a very specific set of needs and apple being apple, was able to completely costomize its design and supply chain
The US State Department Endorses Impact Investing at the UN General Assembly
Use Google Hangouts Through IRC with Bitlbee
Quitting Facebook made me a happier, more productive individual
Yikes. If Twitter starts to insert ads in newsfeeds, a lot of people are likely to quit right away.
Highlights from a Decade of the Hinode Solar Observatory
I think there is definitely a demand for a beautiful Linux desktop system, but it would be a tough ask.

A few open source projects have had success with the crowdfunding model, when something non-trivial is in demand. If there is a possibility to get someone with a history of stunning design and UX on board, I could see a ton of money being donated for that persons time to build a rival desktop system.
Build an API. Allow free use up to N requests per day. Sell higher usage tiers to businesses.
Helium is the closest thing we have to and "ideal gas" as far as the ideal gas law goes when it's at STP.

It can still somewhat behave as an ideal gas as low as 50K or so granted it is not under pressure.

Once you increase the pressure the ideal gas law breaks down pretty much completely, and is not applicable to liquid helium at about 6000PSI.

People also forget that the tank is made out usually titanium or aluminum (i think aluminum can't hold helium but am not sure about that) wrapped in a composite material usually Kevlar/Epoxy or some sort of carbon fiber composite, extreme low temperatures are well a bit tricky for these materials.

NASA had issues with that during the shuttle program, and it seems that even the new Orion has encountered issues with the effects of low temperature on COPV's which required them to develop new resins and composites http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/orion-composite-tank...
JC is one of the few people who still believes in democracy-10%OFF (code-PR01)
Microsoft patents a way to copy IPC to a search engine without user approval
I've been saying for years that we need mandatory career counseling for the young people. At least once a year.

Young people need to know what choices to make instead of the "follow your dreams" nonsense that works out for 1 out of 1000. Young people need to be aware of how many artists / historians / gender study / english students graduate each year and how bad they end up on average.

We need to show them that if you study X, your expected starting salary is A, and salary after 5 years is B. We need to show them trends and possible future skill demand.

They also need to understand what poverty looks like. Nobody thinks they will end up flipping burgers when they are in school / college. But many of them do, and the only reason is poor career choices.
SpaceX has released the initial results of its investigation
See proper engineering and the distinction between an engineer, a technician, and an assembler. There is overlap, of course, but designing and producing the product is a collaboration between all three. The engineer is primarily responsible for designing the system, the technician for helping the engineer translate the design into a realized system, and the assembler for actually realizing the system.
Harmony – Music player with sleek interface and cloud compatibility
Does the title "Are Video Games Weakening the Workforce?" not sound like click bait to you?
Yeah, there are an incredible number of positive posts in this thread. All this support for Spy Kids sunglasses is very... surprising.
That wasn't production ready at the time and I'd argue it still isn't.
Sierra games were some of my favorites. Too many games do way too much hand holding.
It doesn't prevent me from enjoying his music though. I'm a proponent of decoupling the person and the ouvre. I can delight in his music and at the same time think he is a violent shitbag. It's not mutually exclusive.
The issue with "architecture astronauts" is that most problems in software just aren't complex enough to warrant formal design. The core failing of these people is that they impose unnecessary design complexity in order to force the design to be complex enough to warrant formal design.

If the problem is inherently complex enough, particularly if it is multidisciplined, than it is the correct approach.
Serverless architecture: Driving toward autonomous operations
Please send a pull request.
I'm still processing the presence of this on HN's FP.
Ask HN: If you've successfully outsourced software dev work, how did you do it?
I've tried outsourcing work in a variety of ways on dozens of occasions over the past decade. I've worked with local developers and foreign coders using outsourcing websites. I've created detailed specs, chosen virtual coders with good reputations, or local firms that come from a recommendation. And yet the vast majority of these projects have failed.

Local development firms have gotten the project to 95% done then failed to eliminate crucial bugs, or else done the low hanging fruit and pocketed the deposit (I'm willing to name names here).

Outsourced developers have treated me like their personal QA worker, required dozens of reminders to get their work done, or ignored key parts of the spec (in the most recent case I listed two bullet points under the heading "Important", the coder turned in "finished" code that failed point 1).

For those who have successfully outsourced, what was your secret?