skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the two-sided acquisition costs, it's also that on the vendor side of the equation, daily deal sites have absolutely horrible retention.[0] No small to medium sized business would repeat, because the massive discounted price of the Groupon deal was never recouped by repeat customers. Instead they just attracted deal seekers.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-survey-results-2011-7
> I can't blame the visitors, because they were here for a cheap holiday and knew no better.

It's fair to blame them, though. We all know Airbnbs are rented out by real people in residential buildings, with real neighbors. It's basic etiquette to treat the apartment as if it were your own and respect the people around you, no matter how much you're paying for it (and Airbnbs aren't always that much cheaper than hotels). I've stayed at a few Airbnbs and that has always been my #1 concern.

Guests being assholes is an issue that's certainly hard to deal with, but it doesn't sound impossibly hard. Maybe if Airbnb had a program to approach the representatives for each building an Airbnb is rented out at, giving them a way to be informed about guests and leave feedback for them... perhaps include some form of shared compensation with the host, at a smaller %. I can see buildings being pro-Airbnb if there's a fair system behind it.
Plug for my mostly ignored version, that runs on Mac & Windows. It processes high res images unlike Prisma, and runs entirely locally. And can process videos of arbitrary length & resolution. http://macdaddy.io/Style/
Then perhaps you should read any of the many reviews by people who have had preproduction units... They pretty strongly lean towards them being comfortable and hard to dislodge - to a surprising extent. Tests in reviews I've seen have included running, dancing, headbanging, and jumping up and down intentionally trying to dislodge them.

Seems that the fact there's no cord to pull on them, and all of the mass is inside your ear makes them pretty stable.
One should certainly tailor their investments to their own risk tolerance. But there are better investments even with very low risk levels. Money market, CDs, gov't bonds, and high-grade corporate bonds are all options that give better returns than savings accounts with minimal risk (well, before some gov't bonds were negative rate, anyway).
This is a huge step forward for Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information. Glad to see this happening. :)

OT: I considered applying to the Internet Archive last time I was looking for work, but their office is too hard to commute to coming from the East Bay. :(
I had the same feeling when I first bought noise cancelling phones.

From what I recall (and don't have any references on me) this is because they tend to filter out the lower frequency sounds, which your brain associates with a pressure change.

After some time wearing them on silent, I've found that the sensation goes away. Still, I usually use rainymood.com to block out the other subtle sounds that get through.
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I've been an editor on Wikipedia for years, and it's simply amazing how many web pages I referenced in 2008–09 have disappeared. Digital archivists have their hands full.
While the klipsch headphones have wires, and don't have beam-forming noise cancelling mics.

Different strokes....
whoops

yeah they're extrapolating to do 4x of this year's theoretical revenue numbers in 2017

I'm not even mad, this is amazing
I have gone through several Bluetooth headsets including Jaybirds, which lasted weeks at best. right now, I am using the Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones and love them. You don't sound as great as my old Motorola us, but they have lasted over a year so far of exercising and no problems whatsoever.
I mean, "Compliant", but autocorrect bunged me again. My bad!
>Gaia made no sense. Especially evident nowadays with global warming.

What kind of sense? Like, whether it was accurate as a model for the real world? Why, did the Mule make sense in that way? Or the Second Foundation? Or psychohistory for that matter, what with the later developments into chaos theory?

I'm also not sure how global warming has anything to do with validating or discarding Gaia, either the fictional or the real theory.

Wikipedia: "The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet."

The theory might not hold, but not because there's global warming, as global warming can be accounted in a dozen of ways within the theory. E.g. humans as intelligent agents are outside the "synergistic/self-regulating" system and throw it off balance with their emissions and such.

>I also noticed numerous mistakes in the novels, sentences cut off, misspellings, etc...Didn't notice that with the earlier stories

Aren't those a matter of editors, as opposed to authors?
This pressure has two other implications, laid out in War and Peace and War:
1. Reflux expansion: a society facing an intractable enemy will conquer or merge with more tractable neighbors. When a durable frontier forms, the societies on both sides will become organized.
2. A frontier is a potential space: sometimes, an enemy of both sides moves into the frontier and destroys or subdues both sides. Turchin's textbook example of this is the Breton-French fighting which made it possible for the Vikings to settle Normandy (and a few cities in southern Brittany).

For China, Turchin talks of how the constant confrontations with unconquerable nomads kept the civilization alive much longer than it would've otherwise endured. Toynbee thought that China should've fallen apart for good during the Three Kingdoms -- that the Han Dynasty was its universal state. China eventually stagnated, but has been the same culture since the 200s BC; the only other civilization to endure like that was ancient Egypt.

I'd really strongly advise that you look up War and Peace and War. It sounds like you understand the book's premises well, and could get a lot out of it.
I'd say minimal for the fact that the new iPhones don't have a headphone socket alone.
Can you elaborate a bit on how they use SLAM? I was my (mis?)understanding that SLAM required a pre-existing map. If this is true what are the source of the maps? Are the maps built from previous users's snaps?
They didn't raise crops, but still practiced a considerable amount of agriculture based around grazing herds.
A better headline would be: "A desperate yellow press will grasp at any BS straw".
I'm invested in forex (foreign currency trading). There are 3 buckets I'm in:

- $3500 deposited, run since Jun 3 (~5 months), current balance is $5200 (48% total profit, 8%/mo).

- $5000 deposited, run since Jun 28 (~4 months), current balance is $4590 (8% total loss, ~-2%/mo).

- $3000 deposited, run since Sep 2 (~2 months), current balance is $3218 (7% total profit, ~3.5%/mo).

It's certainly not for everyone but it's an amusing hobby. I've made a net profit so far so I'm happy.

I came to this after stocks as the research I'd found seemed to show that foreign currency fluctuations were significantly easier to predict (and profit from).
Graduate-level physics students routinely do more complicated work than either of those two did at the height of their careers, and with a better understanding of why. Just as they Einstein did relative to Newton, and Newton to Aristotle, and Aristotle to countless people before him.

You cannot use Newton or Einstein as an example of a knowledgeable perspective and simultaneously ignore the fact that there exist more knowledgeable people today. That is a fallacy; you could just as well cite Aristotle or Thales or Zoroaster. They get worse as they get older, and that's not a coincidence.
I had the same issue with noise-cancelling headphones (the bose qc 20 in-ears) where I couldn't wear them without sound pumping through them, so I ended up buying a pair of custom-molded in ear monitors (IEM is the search keyword to learn more). For a little cheaper than the price of the bose headphones, I had an audiologist take molds of my inner ear and then sent them to a guy in Poland (http://thecustomart.com/music_art-custom.php), who made me the best pair of headphones I've ever used. Noise cancelling is on-par or better than the Bose headphones, but all passive, and they sound fucking amazing. Highly recommend looking into this or another custom IEM solution -- it's made me a lot happier and more productive and less worried about hearing loss.

One question that the audiologist answered that you might want to know -- the noise-cancelling hiss has no impact on your hearing in a short-term or long-term way, so it is totally safe to use them without music or with low music all the time.
A Swedish woman has given birth from the same womb that she was born from
If what you were saying were true, neither of us would even know what a photon is, let alone that they exist.
What do you think about http://sidekiq.org gem approach where you have free open source tool and paid pro version.
I did similar thing with my open source gem knapsack for test suite parallelisation in ruby. I run pro version at https://knapsackpro.com
Although the licenses and in some cases even the software is the same, the communities are very different.

The Open Source community is creating high quality technology for techies to build great things.

The Free Software community is trying to protect end-user rights.

Those are very, very different things. Both have value, and they often overlap, but claiming they are the same is in my opinion quite disrespectful to the motivations of the people doing the work.

Free Software advocates will as a result tend to prefer copyleft style licenses that protect users, while Open Source people usually prefer liberal "business friendly" licenses that let them do whatever they like with the technology - including creating proprietary cloud-based or closed-source products (which deny the end-user rights the Free Software folks want to protect).

(edited slightly for clarification and to be less judgemental)
MIT launches the Engine
Ugh, pork belly buns. I miss those so much.

Have you tried Cabot's whole assortment? For a few weeks a year they lay out a truly ridiculous assortment of cheeses, all free to try. Their hyper-local stuff kicks the ass of the (still fantastic) Cabot you'll buy in the grocery store. What you guys get in Wisconsin trucked across the country is probably not even close to what I ate when I lived a stone's throw from Cabot.

Also, my tastes run seriously sharp. Does Bobby Nelson have anything really sharp? If so I've got to check it out.

Secretly, my favorite cheddar - which I'd bet trumps Bobby Nelson, even if Cabot's hidden stuff doesn't - is made by an older woman who wraps all her cheeses in black paper and sells them at various markets around the Quechee Gorge. But it's somewhat expensive and very hard to find. The last time I bought some I weighed it before and after eating to make sure nobody else touched it, it's that good.

If you want to get more global, try obscure Welsh cheddars. Amazing but expensive. They go very well in between scotches.
I'm in the process of looking for a secondary DNS server for a client but because they rely heavily on geolocation load balancing it's not simple... I wonder if anyone has other recommendation beside UltraDNS for a good slave?
To be honest Microsoft has a habit of layering on functionality on top of existing functionality in a piece meal approach so that you end up with a solution which is 75% compatible with the standards but not quite.

Despite being a software company (or because of it), I think innovating on the internals of Windows and its APIs and cleaning house on the software front will be the real challenge for them - making incredibly beautiful hardware might prove to be the easy part!
And which path leads to buyers remorse.
When your production is low-volume, large percentage increases result from modest actual increases.
It almost sounds like Zuckerberg came to him for advice and Z took it.
But tribes fight better than civilizations (less concern for social status, less internal dissention; read War Before Civilization for an interesting discussion of this) -- so over-civilization is self-correcting in a way. Turchin sees his ideas as an elaboration on ibn Khaldun...
The timescale, basically. It's only 2016. There's no telling where we'll be in 20,016.
Any statistics on how each of those are performing relative to each other.

I've never traded real money,only paper trading freshman year and played a game on MarketWatch where I traded like a monkey and made profits. I also put a prognostic on AAPL when it was in its 52 week's low and on ORCL and the outcome was as I had predicted. Maybe because there was no real money at stake.

I'm just curious and find this interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798868
Another take on the Tesla financial story:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-26/tesla-earnings-smas...
I agree that it's a big step forward for encyclopedias. Not just as a 'source of truth' but also in terms of automating away a lot of the routine editorial maintenance that needs to happen at Wikipedia's scale.
I'm the guy who wrote the article and I totally agree with you. Wizard of Oz MVP would have been great. I learned the hard way. No regrets.
Ok, what New England cheddars do you like? (See my reply to x0x0 for my defense of Cabot.)
I personally like the idea, if not the implementation. I'd buy a pair tomorrow if they were made by someone like Etymotic, but I've always found the comfort level of Apple earphones to be something akin to trying to wedge a spoon in my ear, with related levels of acoustic isolation.
In Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, voting is entirely by mail.
> We began to see elevated bandwidth against our Managed DNS platform in the Asia Pacific, South America, Eastern Europe, and US-West regions that presented in a way typically associated with a DDoS attack. As we initiated our incident response protocols, the attack vector abruptly changed, honing in on our points of presence in the US-East region

Interesting. Much of the reporting on the day of suggested that the attack was felt exclusively in the United States, but this says otherwise.
I was pretty close to ordering a gift for the holidays until I saw the charge of $3.00 to NOT appear as a sample on your website. [1]

Why are you making people pay $3.00 to NOT appear in your gallery of samples?

Sorry, but that seems absolutely ridiculous and is a deal breaker for me.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/RMcvV
Run the cable down the back of your shirt, secured at the collar with a bobby pin.
I meant, as opposed to space travel. I actually don't care much for travel at all.
I don't think they can. They can't exactly leave iPhone7 users without a way to listen to music.
Ditto! And it's awesome to see all the cool things David's accomplished since his early MMOing days :P (I worked with him back in the day on Warcry)

Sentry is a fantastic tool; use it every day.
And here comes the paywall.

Can't read it from direct link, can't read it from web link, can't read it from private browsing.

:-(
Turchin's pretty embarrassing for everyone, except ibn Khaldun of course. Even Hitler wouldn't want to hear it, since race is a rounding error in Turchin's model... (Think of the War Nerd on Eritrea; as he tells it, that's a classic Turchinian story.)
> The less gentle explanation: If you think you're the second coming of Steve Jobs, part of securing your legacy is starting a company simultaneous to turning around your old company. It ain't easy being Steve Jobs!

Wait, does this mean Twitter is going to buy Square?
You don't need to use CloudFlare DNS to route HTTP(S) to them. They would just strongly prefer that you did.
We detached this subthread, which spends much time in meta territory, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800653 and marked it off-topic.
My mistake- I thought they had the option to use KVM, LXC, or OpenVZ all at once. I see now that in adding LXC they dropped OpenVZ.
Pretty much the same. Do some work, create resources (money, website, app, property, knowledge), put the resource to work for you.

No doubt using resources you already have, which in your case is money, to generate income would fit the definition of passive income. More accurately, it's investment income, which also is not guaranteed. And you did have to perform work to get that money in the first place. Are planning on injecting more funds into your portfolio? That likely means performing more work to generate those funds.

Likewise, I have sites that generate income that I have not touched in months, maybe a year or more. Like you, I had to do some work to begin generating the income. Now, it's passive income. Not a business.
Our only question is more of a usage survey. Not sure it's our place to perform those on your mailing list. :)

So far the command line building is more pro than con. It's so nice to be able to copy & paste commands out of logs to see exactly how rkt is being run.
Seriously, as if it were posted on April 1st. Mine as well should've added another disclaimer:

+ Assuming you read this far and be able to cover your own airfare to meet us, we will buy you one Mai-Tai in Bora Bora next week as a thank you.
Not a duplicate, but got discussed extensively yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791672
God I hate paywalls.
I work for a legal software company so I can tell you that there are still lawyers practicing now who cannot use computers almost at all despite being very smart people. It's just a matter of perspective. She talked to the previous person in her job to figure out what to do and then she did what he said. There was nothing found that was marked classified, which would have made is so she obviously knew exactly what she was doing, so it just seems to me that she didn't really understand the situation and was lax in dealing with information that should've been classified. I haven't seen anything not circumstantial that she purposefully put classified information on this server.
Well.. why are you using headphones connected some place not on your body?

The dichotomy isn't "wireless" or "long cable to some stationary box", it's "wireless" or "in-ear to music player in your pocket".
Griffin recently released a new Bluetooth adapter called the Griffin iTrip Clip. Initial reviews for it are positive.
Apple created noise and wires? Impressive.
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I disagree. Having wireless headphones is a lot more convenient and wired headphones for some use cases, such as exercising, where the cord tends to get tangled up with either you or the exercise equipment you're using. More generally, not having to plug things in is obviously more convenient than having to plug them in, all other things being equal.

The problem is that the user experience of Bluetooth is absolutely terrible. Every BT device I've used is plagued by frequent disconnects, and it's somewhere between hard and impossible to use a single BT device with multiple other devices (e.g. headphones with both phone and laptop). I own and regularly use a number of BT devices, but I use them because the benefits of being wireless outweigh the considerable frustration of using Bluetooth.
Good question. I had a look at the code again, and... it didn't look too bad? My recollection was that the lack of a base+index*scale+disp32 addressing mode (like on x86/x64) was annoying, but I'm not sure why any more.
They can't buy first and fire people afterwards. The cleansing would have dire effect on the alphabet parent company.
humanity is getting out of the deal, they already got the Model S and X, it's soon going to get the 3

Let's not be too breathless when we describe the cars that a few hundred thousand of the wealthiest people on the planet have purchased.
Not sure what your point is (or the point of that presentation, for that matter).

Of course there are binary serialization formats that are faster than XML or JSON, and of course they're less error-prone. This has been known for about 40 years now.

JSON/XML are used precisely because people want a human-readable interchange format. For high-performance uses, consider Google's Protocol Buffers or Boost::serialize. You're acting like you just hackathoned the biggest thing since sliced bread, but that's exactly how payloads have been sent (until high-bandwidth made us all lazy) since the inception of the Internet.
One large difference is that docker has a daemon that exposes an HTTP API and acts more or less like an init for containers.

The docker daemon has historically had some stability issues as well as some security implications. Running a command line tool like rkt is a vastly smaller attack surface and less complex stack overall.
Production bottlenecks.

Tesla is constantly behind on producing cars for its customers. They just wanted to generate money now rather than later.
The jaybird X2's run half that price now.
And almost immediately found: sometimes wires are annoying. It's not hard to think of scenarios where it's nice to have a wireless connection to your mobile device.

For me, it's simply easier to wear them while on a motorcycle, since otherwise I have to thread the wire under my clothes, which can be a real mess in the winter layers. It's positively infuriating to have a wire get caught and tug an earbud while fully suited up with a helmet on while on a highway in the winter.
You can! They have great noise canceling headphones these days, so go ahead and put those on and let everyone else do their thing?
The designers didn't design one set of headphones and say "we're done, sell it Phil". They designed a bunch of models and then they iterated on the best received of those until they had something better than the competition.

If you can't fathom why anyone would want them how do you explain the consistently positive reviews?
Yeah, I think that's what I'm going to do going forward. If there's a non-compete in an otherwise viable contract, I'm going to strike it, sign, and if it's of real value to them and they still want me, they can pay me to agree to it.
Copy the title of the article then put it in a google search and click on the first result. You should be able to bypass the paywall.
The mentality of "if your opinions don't align with mine, you should be silenced and banned"

No one's talking about "silencing" or "banning" him. That's quite a severe misattribution of what people are actually saying.
It looks like JMeter itself has been updated recently which is nice.

It's always been one of those tools I hate using but can't live without because it's job so well.
>You can implement almost anything within CL because you have control over every part of the code-processing process.

Almost. There is one big missing piece. Standard code walker. If CL had standard code walker that could correctly walk trough any piece of standard CL code, it would implement fully the promise of Lisp and you could build almost anything on top of it with ease.
Is the reason AR benefits from billions of photos of the real world a secret, or is there something you can point to to read about that? I'm intrigued :)

Also, you probably know better than me, but to me it looks like the beauty filters are the ones that have really stuck for Snapchat. If I'm right and their users only really care about filters that make them look better, does that affect your outlook at all regarding their users showing an interest in AR?
Fixes for many of the issues raised by this post have since made it into crystal master: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/7eb738f550818...
There are reports that the market for wired vs wireless shifted in favour of wireless back in June 2016 [1]. Perhaps Apple looked at the market, saw the direction it was going in, and chose to focus on the majority, encouraging growth in that direction.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/28/npd-wireless-headphones-sales...