skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much this.

A little background... the company was in the television industry. The original product was "clickable TV," in which they'd managed to deploy a small Java app to set top boxes over the cable lines, which could display a small icon appear at the bottom of the screen. When a user pressed 'select' on their TV remote, they would get an email sent to them with more information. It launched in a small US city and they approached local news channels ("click now to get the full story") and local businesses ("click to get a coupon code") to sell it.

The product did work (even if you DVR'd the program, which was my favorite feature), but most of the local business that were contacted said "cool idea, but we don't have any TV commercials, so come back to us if you can do something else."

When it proved too hard to sell the clickable TV product (perhaps obviously -- even in 2010 it was 10 years too late), they decided to reach back out to the local businesses with a new idea... a Groupon clone. We ran it for a while and it did "okay," but not well enough to keep the lights on, and the company closed its doors soon after.
Thank you for posting the donation link. I have donated in the past and always think about donating when the Internet Archive is mentioned.

I just set up a monthly donation amount, and I encourage you to do the same if you believe in the Internet Archive's mission!
You can be sarcastic and rude, but you shouldn't be lazy. We aren't talking about something abstract like whether alien life exists. You can visit the website of the company's brands directly. If you still decide to sarcastically ignore this, I will assume you have an agenda.

http://www.monsanto.com/investors/documents/pubs/2007/ar_200...

Top products in the 10 billion revenue segment:

See references that each of these is glyphosate resistent

DEKALB [1] [2]

Asgrow [3] [4]

Deltapine [5]

Seminis [6]

[1] https://www.aganytime.com/dekalb/specialty/Pages/Spring-Cano...

[2] https://www.aganytime.com/dekalb/Pages/default.aspx

[3] https://www.aganytime.com/asgrow/Pages/default.aspx

[4] https://www.aganytime.com/asgrow/weed-mgt/Pages/Roundup-Read...

[5] http://www.monsanto.com/products/pages/deltapine.aspx

[6] https://www.seminis.com/global/us/products/Pages/Performance...
Any word anywhere on motive? Or are we still left to speculate?
How autopilot was enabled for example. It has potentially created a difficult public perception of self driving cars.
Try systemd containers (e.g, systemd-nspawn) if you're on a systemd distro like Ubuntu 16.04.
The Who were the loudest band in the world for a very long time. but Pete Townsend attributes headphones in the studio for most of his hearing loss.
There is this "web" button underneath the link, that does this if you're lazy
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Yep. First time I saw it, I thought, this is a major alternative to TV. Twitter had the tv hashtag space locked up but now you can do live snapchat along side live programming.
I can't quite understand your last sentence -- I publish, as do most academics, so that can't be it. But Cialdini is the "pre-suasion" guy, and that one has certainly failed to replicate. So I guess I have a prior skepticism about anything from a standard textbook publisher covering similar topic. I've found too many errors in exercises, etc. to believe that their editors are doing much of a job; it's a drag when you're teaching a stats methods class and the book questions have major numeric errors so you can't use it for homework. What's the purpose of the book at that point?

Next time I teach (actually the past few as well) I'm not going to bother with a textbook. Go pull these primary research articles, pull the data, and see if the methods were used correctly. The end.

As previously, I've had some surprised looks when students did this with biological data sets. It's not like psychology is some rogue's gallery; it's a widespread problem. Only solution is to verify results before building upon them.
For me it's simple: I wear earphones a lot, I'm sick of dangling wires, and I find earpods comfortable (I don't like the style of Bluetooth earbuds that wedge in tight). And because I'll use them 90% for spoken word content, the audio quality is acceptable.

The only thing I don't like is the loss of volume and track controls. I'm hoping a software update will eventually address that.
I find JMeter's UX and documentation impenetrable. Every time I've sat down and tried to use it I've basically given up and just ended up writing some custom code to run load and soak tests.
That's what the web link does, that user5994461 said they tried.
> Whatever negligible externalities are introduced by Airbnb...

NYC is a dangerous city. Many buildings have doormen to keep transients out. AirBnB introduces transients to our buildings. Please value the safety of children, the elderly, and women.

A Priceline search of Union City, NJ shows hotels for $60 per night. Union City, NJ is 15 minutes from Times Square by transit.
I hated his later Foundation novels because it basically turned down the governing theme of the original series.

(Spoilers)

In the original, there's history, which progresses relentlessly without giving a damn about individuals. Even most capable humans can at best nudge it toward the right direction, sometimes paying huge prices. Threatening the whole plan required the existence of a super-human, because no ordinary human being could do that.

In the later series, there's this guy who achieved little in whole life (other than being a moderately successful politician), yet somehow his judgement is supposed to be "correct", and his single decision is going to set the course of humanity. All the ultra-capable people of Gaia bow to his innate wisdom and promise to make it that way. What the...?
A) What is the application process expected to be like for The Engine?

B) It appears that the resources are spread out across Cambridge, Boston, and South Boston. Which of these locations if any is planned to be the central location for the accepted startups?

C) What existing companies and organizations are planning to be part of The Engine and what will their roles be?
The whole point of an analogy is to ease thinking by using something the reader is already familiar with. When your analogy brings along so much baggage, it completely fails in its task and just serves to disrupt the conversation. It may be technically valid, but it's a terrible analogy to use.
The Estonian system pretty much fully prevents that by allowing to vote whowever many times you want. You can sleep on it, re-cast the vote and sleep on it again. And then, if still not happy, go vote on paper. The last vote cast counts.
How's that? The iPhone 7 includes Lightning EarPods, Lightning-3.5mm adapter, and works with any other Bluetooth earphones.
If companies had that much leverage we would all work at minimum wage. I've seen non-competes in contracts with 150k+ compensation. Getting 150k to do something is not coercion, it's an exchange. As for people becoming homeless, I think welfare should be the duty of the government, not individual corporations.

I agree that contracts can be intimidating, but they shouldn't be. Non competes, like most things, can be spelled out in totally ordinary English that anyone can comprehend. Rather than having to create 1 law against every possible employee-adverse thing an employer might put in a contract, I would much prefer a law that mandates employee contracts be easily understood by an average employee.
I didn't make any criticisms of Trump but I think that many of these "scandals" are things that are overblown and taken out of context. I disagree with him on many policy issues but the main thing I don't like about him is how he does politics. He has picked fights and burned bridges with many major Republican leaders, and is even more disliked than Clinton currently. What is he going to accomplish domestically or globally when he can't even seem to get his own Vice President pick to back him up on stuff?
Yup, exactly what we do.
Also interested in this. Revenue is solid but I imagine a lot of that is pass-thru to the artists? Middle-man platforms can usually only do about 10% margin before opex.
No they don't. At will employment. Anyone can quit any job anytime they want.
Good point, thanks for the clarification.
I've had a Sony SBH20 for maybe 2 years which has yet to fail me in sweaty usage at least 3 to 5 times a week. Cheap as chips as well.
For every Airbnb host voting for them, there are potentially dozens of neighbors who want them to stop hosting.
Close the paywall ad by clicking the x on the top right corner and it lets you read the article.
I came here to ask about that too. From what I've heard elsewhere, it sounds like Google is smart enough to figure out if you are posting unrelated content just for SEO purposes, and that engaging in such practices is a good way to get Google-smacked.
Hi David,

Is the plan/user/payment management also open source?

I mean, if I were to start a small SaaS service written in Python, could I use your code to bootstrap the "boring parts" of it?

Thanks!
In the US, performing a search query is not against the law.

Google is an index of the web, and allows folks to search that index.

Google has a process to remove search results that would links to sites that host copyright material.
$3000 for a machine with anemic specs is going to be a tough sell. Who exactly is this computer for? As for that puck device - I couldn't help but laugh when the presenter, dressed in all black as if attending a funeral, used it to emphasize how passionate his scribbles were on a document. Who does that? Who would ever do that? And more importantly, who ever thought this would be something you would even want to devote time to demo?
But group yoga is zero marginal cost for unused slots in a class. There's not many other businesses like that.
You're trying to convince yourself very hard, as you're all about AR. But nobody will wear those dumb glasses.
No, the response is that we don't want transients in our apartment buildings. NYC is a very large, dangerous city. Many, many buildings have doormen who keep transients out and help to protect the safety of children, the elderly, and women.

As for that market niche, I assume you mean affordable hotels. A Priceline search yields $60 per night hotels/motels in Union City, NJ. Union City is about 15 mins by transit from Times Square.
It's reasonable to imagine that installing 1000 windows in a building could take weeks or months.

If you're writing software and follow DRY, it might take a few hours to work out how to perform some repeatable task, but then only a brief moment to actually do it 1000 times.

The act of making software is all about decisions, there are almost by definition very few repeatable tasks. If you do find yourself repeating things over again, you're not taking full advantage of DRY or automation.

This is why I think a lot of software is so unpredictable in terms of time. How do you predict that which you don't already know how to do?
Even in the case the 2015 model was heavily discounted? Seems like a classic deprecation strategy.
> Dooley says he found the carrot-munching funny.

If you have an open office, no eating at your desk period. Show some respect for your co-workers.

I worked next to an apple eater some time ago, slurping and chomping on his apple every day. Drove me insane. But every so often there was the bag of baby carrots. Which although less disturbing lasted much longer.

Then there's the fish eaters and microwave popcorn eaters. Don't bring that into the office. Keep it in the lunch room, eat outside or don't bring it in!
I would argue that the original underlying problem here is the idea that having execve() increase privilege is acceptable. It's necessary for legacy reasons (sudo, anyone?), but even then, it's barely necessary. "sudo foo" could be implemented by asking a privileged daemon to run foo and handing off access to the console to the daemon.

On Linux, you can do PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS to turn off this type of privilege gain, and it's even required for certain purposes. I would love to see someone develop a distribution that enables no_new_privs for all processes.
Let us know when they have clinical results in a subject(s) that can communicate in a bit more detail than mice. The authors say the trials may start as early as 2017, so I don't expect a useful answer before 2020, maybe 2019 at the earliest.

I'd love to be wrong but I've seen too many promising ideas die in clinical trials. Let's hope for the best.
Your lack of desire for a feature is not the same as a feature having no appeal to anyone.
AT&T Is Selling Law Enforcement Access to Its Customers’ Data
Glyphosate resistance is just one of many traits marketed by Monsanto. Most of the headliners are insect resistance (Bt toxin) and resistance to other herbicides (Liberty) among others.

They're moving their business to focus on value-adds and other things that GMO haters can't torpedo with pseudoscience and FUD. Refuge in Bag solutions, seed coatings, new fungicides, traditional breeding, soil bacteria supplements, mapping & climate data, and other agricultural productivity solutions are the future of their business.

Even if you accept that they make all of their money from glyphosate resistance (which is patently false), the business is moving to emphasis that substantially less than it is now.
I Just Had a Conversation with an AI Lawyer
There's no need to be obtuse.

The advanced noise cancelling, pairing, and synchronization tech are solutions to problems that don't exist (or are less pronounced, in the foremost case) with wired headphones.
This reminds me of a metaphor: "If you want to know the maximum load of a bridge, you don't drive progressively larger trucks over it until it collapses then rebuild the bridge."

I think you're right that thousands of years of experience play a part. But, overall, that metaphor has had me thinking a bit about how much less predictive building software can be compared to engineering and wondering why that's the case.

Assuming building software and traditional engineering are about as complex and assuming that engineering it is easier to predict (construction deadlines slip too,) I'm curious to see if we can overcome fundamental issues like the halting problem to become as predictive.
That they have. I don't really mind them reaching out every 6 months personally...
Thanks for these articles. Great comparison! Monero looks very good indeed.
I think there are two key things here:

1. It's a new product, so sales/revenue/profit figures should effectively be relatively unchanged.

2. It's a new product that they announced with a bit of a fanfare, and has attracted a fair amount of attention, so there's some reputational damage from not delivering on the expectations they set. The damage may be nothing more than a short-term dip of share-price if they soon deliver on their promise, but the damage may be a little bit deeper and more extended if they don't deliver soon. It's still a niche product though, so I wouldn't expect any significant shift in share price.

For the issue around AirPods alone, I would expect a dip: perhaps an extremely slight short-term dip, but potentially a longer-term dip if it went uncorrected. That said, Apple have another announcement scheduled tomorrow, so the impact of AirPods on the share-price could quickly be completely immaterial.
> NYC is a dangerous city

Have you ever been to NYC? In 2016 it's far from dangerous. It's probably one of the safer cities in the US.

Additionally, AirBnB guests aren't typically dangerous (otherwise AirBnB would be out of business).
Usually a "think of the children" argument made in favor of restricting adult rights puts the hair on the back of my neck right up. Luckily, my haircut yesterday removed those hairs.
No, not really, because AirBnB puts transients in apartment buildings that threaten the safety of people who live there. AirBnB seems to have little regard for the safety of New Yorkers: there are children, the elderly, and women who should be able to feel safe and be safe in their own apartment buildings. Many, many buildings have doormen in NYC have doormen who keep transients out.

People are free to take Uber and it does not threaten the safety of New Yorkers. In fact, it has been helpful to help reduce taxi-like vehicle fares in NYC for New Yorkers. AirBnB does not benefit New Yorkers except those who rent out their apartments.
So basically like buying votes on paper? You force someone either not to vote or vote in a specific way by restricting access to their id. See, as the paper ballot trumps the electronic voting, all the attack vectors end up being about controlling the physical voting. Which is the exact problem with voting right now everywhere. Also, if you are already capable of doing this, why not take everything the person has? The digital signature is equivalent to the physical one so all non-notaried transactions you can execute exactly as voting. To my knowledge there has been exactly zero cases of forceful id extraction in the past 15 years. Basically, if you can significantly influence the voting outcome, you can significantly alter the financial wellbeing of the society. Which is, yes, a risk but would be more desirable for an attacker.
"Think of my backyard" is slightly less compelling than "think of the children"
Yet another update: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/791418044975190016
Also similar to a line from the song Up Against The Wall by The Whitlams:

She was one in a million, yeah
So there's five more, just in New South Wales
> So it's distasteful that I don't want to associate with people of my own free will? Are you serious?

I wouldn't say it's distasteful, but I would say that it's comically oversensitive that you wouldn't want to associate with people just because of political opinions. There is no such thing as a wrong political opinion.
Well Harvard iLab is a University-wide incubator that has its own building. They offer advising and limited resource support (e.g., a small lab filled with hardware hacking tools), but no funding as far as I'm aware.
This email does not mention anything about discounts. It does not even mention sales. It does talk about "building and delivering every car we possibly can".
Some plots start the y axis at 0, and some do not. The "Oort Online" plot is especially misleading.
Compared to landline telephones, cell phones:

1) Are more than twice as expensive

2) Have significantly worse sound quality

3) Look ugly as sin; wired telephones look just fine

4) Require regular charging; wired telephones require no charging at all

5) Are considerably easier to lose or misplace

6) Will have a finite life, as the battery wears out; standard wired telephones will last forever if you look after them

7) Are only compatible with current generation cellular networks; standard wired telephones have universal compatibility

8) Will likely be depreciated within a couple of generations; wired telephones will endure
In my last job, it started out with all offices to accommodate devices under test and test equipment. It went to large cubes still with enough space for test equipment.

Then all the equipment had to go into the lab, with a network connection. Fine, I pressed little ARM boards into service doing what we had to do near the target. On their dime, without an approved project. They we lost that lab and had to reuse a chem. lab where you had to wear goggles for no good[1] reason.

[1] they closed the building with the offices and good labs. It sat there literally mouldering. It will have to be torn down. That design of building cannot be "stored" with no HVAC.

At some point it's not about cost - you're the bloody Ogallala Sioux and they're "pushing you off the land."

Did I mention I don't work there any more? They are free to six-sigma the remaining nothing into the purest of management oblivion.
> It's not about what you produce, it's about how much torture you're willing to self-inflict.

Could it be about social dynamics? It's like caching. When you're thinking about whom to give an opportunity to, are you going to think of the friendly person that you see every day, or to that guy you've heard of once who's always in his office and might be a myth?
How is noise related to wireless? I was not aware that wired headphones enjoyed any advantage there, and I can't see how they would.

The others are certainly wireless problems, but some people prefer wireless for a variety of reasons. Lots of manufacturers sell wireless headphones. To say that Apple created those problems makes no sense.
Main takeaway from that article - Alex Karp is a really odd guy.
Xbox One Scorpio update: PS4 Pro rival gets release date BOOST
Also good on that topic: The Futurians, by Damon Knight
He softened his stance, they soften his balls pressure :)
the war on vi continues
What if he offered a discount of $3 if you agreed to appear as a sample instead?
As a user, I don't like have two schedulers (nomad/docker) on my nodes. I don't like having two daemons taking care of the overlay network either. And I don't like magic and things that break from time to time. We've had our fair share of broken Docker upgrades.
Would you have agreed if it were a discount instead of an added charge? i.e. Yes is -$3?
Agreed. I've seen "hard work" create more problems than it solves.
"They mention 100k participating devices/IPs - that would mean an average of 12 Mbps upload"

I doesn't have to be. An attack can be highly asymmetric such amplification/reflection attack. I am not saying this is what happened in the Dyn case but rather addressing your average comment. Just an example having hosts in the botnet send queries to non-Dyn open resolvers on the internet and in those queries they spoof the source IPs of Dyn DNS servers. Now all of those open resolvers on internet start sending return traffic to Dyn. If in those spoof request they request EDNS0 those responses could be up to 4K. Compare that to the size of query packet and you have a lot leverage.
I haven't used it myself (no second Windows 10 PC), but that sounds correct.

I believe it's designed to let you use your Surface as an external monitor with pen/touch support for another Windows 10 PC.
It may rob the original URL some traffic,

That is an advantage. It reduces extraneous incentives to post links, which should be only about the information they provide and not about page views. At wikipedia's scale, and sensitivity to information purity, that's relevant.

See also the rel="nofollow" decision from a few years back.
If I knew that answer I could stop working. :-)
"I simply cannot understand why anyone would prefer these to existing wireless headphones."

One example: people with a major investment in the Apple eco-system. Pair it once with your iPhone, and it's also paired with your laptop, with your iPad, with your iPod, etc.

I've had plenty of frustrations trying to get bluetooth headsets to pair with a single device, let alone multiple devices, so anything that makes that easier is valuable to me.

How valuable is another question: another $10, another $50, another $100? That's pricing for the market to decide. I can recognise the technical improvement, which just leaves the question of the monetary value of that improvement.
Most of the monthly fee you pay does not go into paying off the initial investment. For example, Verizon wireline's EBITDA margin is 25%. So out of your $100 bill, $75 goes to maintenance, customer service, etc. and $25 is left before paying interest in debt used to build the network, paying taxes, or accounting for the depreciating value of equipment marching toward obsolescence.