skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapchat launches universal search to simplify navigation
Its hard to provide actionable advice without knowing more about you. However, in general terms, you focus on developing and audience through a marketing plan that has a clear content strategy.

Your marketing plan might simply be:

Produce content in various formats for $market. Put call to action on content to urge $market to buy/subscribe/whatever. Then post the content in $community.

The content strategy might be something like:

I will focus on $subject. Will produce blog posts, vlogs, podcasts, whatever. The main subject revolves around it. I will do this three times a week for twelve weeks and measure which content got the most attention.

Its hard to say $advice will work for you because there are many variables. Feel free to ping me (email on profile) if you have more questions.
Given it's a BDP-series player, if you were interested you may be able to get a Linux shell of some kind on it and find out what's taking so long to run on it.

There's a whole lot of Phillips and Sony players that are based off some ancient Mediatek SDK.

Edit: Wow, that's old: Sigmatek, not Mediatek. A makefile in the GPL source suggests there's a similar Pioneer player somewhere, too.
Surprise! Gimmicky non-solution that ignores reality vaporizes into thin air. Who couldv'e seen that coming?
But since education is a market this would lower the reputation of the college thus attracting less candidates and if they lower the requirements too much they may even loose their accreditations.
Do you mean something like Metafilter? [0]

Anonymous users see ads. Authenticated users don't. It costs $5 for an account.

They have run funding drives but, to date, $5/user keeps the lights on and provides a small crew of moderators each a modest stipend.

[0] http://www.metafilter.com

Edit: spelling, grammar.
For better or for worse, the term bullshit has no exact synonym in the English language; we use the term because it precisely describes the phenomena we are studying.

Interestingly enough, the claim about bullshit lacking an exact synonym is false. Not only does bull by itself mean precisely the same thing, but in fact its use predates the compound formation by three centuries. The use of shit in bullshit is an intensifier, as in shitstorm or shitfit, though presumably the rather evocative image of bovine excrement was also a factor.

From the Google dictionary:

bull (3)
bo͝ol/
noun informal
noun: bull

stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense.
"much of what he says is sheer bull"

Origin
early 17th century: of unknown origin.

bull·shit
ˈbo͝olˌSHit/
vulgar slang
noun
noun: bullshit

1. stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense.

Origin
early 20th century: from bull (3) + shit.
Agreed. (Anecdote but) the number of people I know in my personal life who upload to YouTube could be counted on one hand, and all of them are heavy YT consumers as well.
- How can it be possible that someone gets a criminal record for doing something stupid (but not reckless) with a car?

- How can it be possible that when someone calls the police and the police ignore them?

- How can it possible that someone who has problems with the neighbors thinks that the most sensible thing to do is to buy a gun?

- How can it be possible that a discussion in the lawn ends with a dead person?
This comment made me realize that I switched to spotify for a more on demand service, but now discover weekly (an automated curated playlist based on my tastes) is one of my most listened to playlists.
Wow. What do all those people do? What's the difference between a 100 employee music streamer and a 2000 employee music streamer?
Wearable sensors can tell when you are getting sick
Holy s*, you guys are right. I've been using this phone for three years and never realized that ℅ is not percent. I always just assumed it was a display glitch that caused the "break in the circle".
Is Amazon Actually Giving You the Best Price?
I enjoy listening to music with YT Music app. They seem to have many different versions of many songs I enjoy. Though, I am probably biased since I work at YouTube. Definitely check it out though, and decide for yourself.
Maybe it's me but I swear Trump goes out of his way to name people who's personal views are the opposite of their assigned mission.
No clue. But the answer to your question is being a public company. Market participants generally expect publicly traded companies (above a certain market cap) to have lots of employees.
HEALTH FACTS OF THE HEARTS
Do you know of a good tutorial on how to quickly get set up on one of these? I would gladly join but have never really been able to figure out how.

(I'm looking to self host.)
You have some interesting points.

Re: DaVinci, do you think it's possible that he knew most of his ideas were bad? I write down every product idea I have, but I know that maybe 1 in 10 would actually be used by people and maybe 1 in 10 of the useful ones would be good investments of my time to work on. I think that writing down all the bad ideas helps me think of good ideas though.

Re: Scientific geniuses are admired too much, I think you're right. The Media totally picks out the success stories because that's what interests people. Then The Media is incentivized to make these successful scientists seem really smart, also because that's what interests people. Sam Altman has talked about a similar thing. When you meet the Brian Chesky's and Mark Zuckerbergs today, you see brilliant, confident entrepreneurs that seem like geniuses that must have some special DNA. However, the reality is that 10 years ago these people seemed totally regular, just struggling entrepreneurs like so many others. Though they are clever and hard working, it's not like they're made of a different thing than everyone else.
Oh, I see, so not everything is 1:1. That makes sense then, thanks.
Pg was probably narrowly talking about Theology as studied by Isaac Newton.

I think we can all agree that that was a waste of time. (hindsight is a wonderful thing).

Relevant smbc:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-12-27
Most of the newer ones I see these days are just Android tablets with capacitive digitizers and a pretty decent shell.
> I’ll start with a confession, an embarrassing but relevant one, because I would come to see our history with Neanderthals as continually distorted by an unfortunate human tendency to believe in ideas that are, in reality, incorrect — and then to leverage that conviction into a feeling of superiority over other people. And in retrospect, I realize I demonstrated that same tendency myself at the beginning of this project.

A humbling confession.
Ask HN: Common Lisp or Python for Quantum “Hacking”
As far as I know D-Wave Systems are still the only source of computers that are identifiable as "quantum" (although what constitutes a quantum computer continues to evolve). The D-Wave line of adiabatic quantum computers contain an OS programmed in Common Lisp (Steel Bank SBLC). This leads me to ask whether someone who primarily programs in Python can hope to branch into quantum code hacking or if CL will be the norm in quantum computing software development, meaning proficiency in Lisp should be obtained. I realize the question will be asked "What do you intend to program under the quantum computing umbrella?" In short, I don't know yet, but as a security professional who does pentesting, I know this will be the heart of my activities.
App.net came out in 2012, and while I can't really remember the specific areas of discontent that I experienced with Twitter back then, here's an article I found:

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/01/14/twitter-in-2012/

I think what everyone was worried about back then was that Twitter was changing the nature of what Twitter was. Twitter started placing limits on API tokens, introduced new UI in the form of cards, which could also be used for ads, etc. There was a sense that the freedom and openness of the Twitter platform was quickly diminishing.

Twitter's response was basically no response, but in a good way. They slowed down making those sorts of radical changes, and to this day you can still browse Twitter with a 3rd-party app like TweetBot and never see cards or ads.
Starting out in x86, AMD had a license from Intel.
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"removing list view" is not innovation.
Don't you think the fact that it was submitted to /r/talesfromtechsupport implies that it was something of note, and that a handful of people offering of anecdotes of their own bizarre encounter with a tab hoarder support my claim that it's not the way most people use a browser?
Same goes for Prime Video. Almost nothing I like to watch, though some HBO shows are (were?) available as part of Prime for awhile, which was nice. Beyond that, I find their catalog to be quite lacking in comparison to HBO Now and Netflix.
Whether you believe it's real or not, it's interesting to note that the buzzfeed Trump dossier claims that FSB has broken Telegram.
I don't care for SystemD for the same reasons that I don't like MacOS's init system: it an opaque, confusing mess.
SomethingAwful does this, it works.
Right, I never meant to defend the CR test methodology here... it's pretty absurd.
Aussie shares home fibre (NBN) with friends over wireless bridge
>"but their work is largely restricted to sponges and any construct that can be formed out of it"

What does "sponge" mean in the context of crypto implementations? I haven't heard this before which is why I ask.
I really think Pandora should start full on-demand music service for additional subscription fee instead of just being radio. Playlist creation and sharing is becoming huge but still in fancy from tech perspective. Lot of people are stuck on particular service just because of their carefully created playlists over long time. That generates significant sticky factor. I've personally paid Rhapsody subscription for couple of years without much using it just to keep my playlists alive. This in addition can massively help improve radio itself. Also it can eliminate all that nonsense of not allowing to skip unlimited number of tracks. In my opinion, Pandora still has best of the best radio service (although far from perfect) and if they can supplement that with huge catelogues like Google Music with family subscription, there would be one more reason to stay there.
Yeah America has a totally irrational credit scoring. It makes no sense whatsoever. If I never needed credit, then I don't have a history thus I have a bad score... go figure.
Sorry for not seeing your comment until now. Amazingly great vuln BTW. It's early in 2017, but this is probably going to be one of this year's best.

It's very important for everyone to understand my advice is RHEL/Fedora specific, which is---I think---the source of the misunderstanding here.

Putting aside `ptrace` being the best way to guarantee a race win, the reason for my focus on `CAP_SYS_PTRACE` is that with SELinux enabled there is no other way to exploit having access to the file descriptors. Even if you explicitly try to pass a containerized process an external file descriptor "legitimately" (e.g. with `sendmsg`) SELinux will still ultimately block the access due to the type restrictions. This means that with `setenforce 1` you need to use something like code injection to get the external process to access the file descriptors on your behalf.
I meant re-institute the ecclesia, not slavery. Sorry for not being clear.
I would assume it's just a case of installing your chosen software package on a web server. I don't know how easy that is. The more mature packages are probably better-documented in this regard.
This reeked of being dead the day it launched, so it's hardly surpising, but it's also tragic.

Why is it so hard to create a Twitter alternative that's popular and effective? Does the world tend to gravitate towards single standards for these things, like Facebook, HTTP or email?
I understand the licensing deals with record companies set much lower prices for radio-station-like ux compared to on-demand ux. ML-built playlists aren't necessarily ideally equivalent to the playlist you'd make yourself with infinite time and patience, but... I wonder if licensing terms influenced the pivot.
Pandora acquired Ticketfly and The Next Big Sound a couple of years back so they're not just a music streaming company. I still can't tell you what they all do though!
So is video. Netflix shareholders haven't realised that yet though, so they're still buying more shares at 350 times annual earnings.
The advertising model is "lucrative" because that's where all the money is shunted, because that's what MarCom knows how to do. There's a century and a half of advertising agencies who need to capitalize on their training, and the newspaper/TV model is what we've gotten for it.
Yeah, for app.net I think it was more chicken and egg that killed you than paid per se. Pay presents an especially difficult chicken and egg problem because not only do you have to get people to part with their time to sign up you have to ask them to pay for what may potentially be no value provided.

I remember trying to explain why it wasn't a stupid idea to people way back when it launched on HN, and had kind of assumed that it'd died years ago.

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Hypothesis: If you can find a way to provide value while you build up the network, the product would do better.

Second hypothesis: If you can find a way to acquire valuable users with a low-effort funnel and 'leech' users with a paid funnel that would also make the product perform better.

Taking these as assumptions for a moment, this would imply a natural advantage for federated networks if they provide interoperability between different services that have value on their own without network effects.
The Revolt of Working Parents
The Dark Souls (Demon's Souls) series did this very well I think. You essentially learn the physics and limitations of the game to beat it. You are put in tough situations, and only through trial and error can you learn the best way to exploit the situation. That gives you skills moving forward to use on later situations. Not much of Dark Souls comes down to luck.
Virginia man spends $1,000 to deliver 300,000 pennies to Lebanon DMV
It is kind of funny in a post about a program which costs under $10k to have the top rated comment complain about a similar one _only_ adding $20k/yr of value.
The thing is, I would actually tolerate a larger body/battery if it would realistically get me 9 hours. I know that it's not sexy, and Apple needs to retain its image.

I would think that laptops with insane battery lives would be desirable, particularly in the business/enterprise/travel markets. Maybe not.
you really can't break even without ads or selling/analysing data with a centralised social network

I don't think we actually know that as a fact, it's just that not much else has been tried.
You need to spend $3333 to earn back the Prime membership for 3% cashback, or $2000 for 5% cashback, not an amount I may reach every year..
The main issue is that every transfer of energy incurs losses, thus ineffeciency grows.

Though the practically can be examined to determine how efficient an energy storage process can be versus no storage.
Why It Takes So Long to Connect to a WiFi Access Point?
Building the Supercharger Network for the Future
As are most Bash init files with InitV... At some point we should consider that the init system as a whole (including the configuration scripts for each daemon) _is_ complicated and often confusing. In this regard, writing something like SystemD to elegantly handle most of the usecases is actually a good idea.
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Github's error pages have a fun parallax mouseover effect , which this screenshot doesn't capture!

https://github.com/500

https://github.com/404

https://github.com/502
In Better Shape Than Ever at Age 39:  How Tom Brady Does It
A day in Weex Conf 2017 in Hangzhou
Network effects, and the existing services being "good enough"
I'm a big XCOM fan so I can say for that game that the RNG is messed with on lower difficulties to protect you from a bad streak. So if you miss 3 70% shots in a row, the next one will actually give you an 80% chance, escalating as your bad luck streak continues. On non-easy difficulties the chance to hit is honest as far as I know, a 30% chance to hit is actually a 30% chance.
I didn't notice until some of my texts only allowed half as many characters per message due to switching to Unicode.
I think Reddit is flawed by design and avoid it whenever possible, but I love r/SCW. If a community like that existed for every topic, journalism would be in a much better place.

One side effect though: I now find myself involuntarily gritting my teeth whenever I read more "respected" publications like the New York Times. The disconnect from reality is extraordinary.
A User's Guide to the Lout Document Processing System [pdf]
I'm not sure how much ML applies to Pandora. They apply a list of characteristics to music, which is done manually, and select music with similar characteristics. Their algorithm seems to favor music is cheap to play from an unknown artist and small label.
JLO THE FLY GIRL
According to Trump, the problem with solar energy is it is "very, very expensive." That was true twenty years ago, but nowadays it is cheap, and getting less expensive all the time.
I currently have a Honda Civic with lane keep assist. It doesn't slow down before curves and disengages frequently. Tesla's autopilot works much better from what I have seen.
That justifies my use of it even more. Even with the license requirement, they still succeeded quite a bit. Even led on the 64-bit part since Intel screwed that up.
Indeed. They spent ~$1m of engineering talent and took on some significant technical debt in order to save recurring annual datacenter cost.

I'd say if they reduced their datacenter annual cost by at least $5m it was money well spent. From the sound of it they actually saved a lot more than that. And by increasing their overall storage efficiency it's a feature that pays dividends even when they do ultimately add more storage in the future.
Music streaming/distribution has to be a heavily commoditized business.

Moreover, even the music itself is heavily commoditized, it's hard to eke out a living unless you build a major brand, or can 'roll your own' fanbase.

I don't even understand how Spotify can stay in business in the long run with competitive margin erosion.

Perhaps when the industry shakes out, the major streamers will have some value chain power and hold onto their margins.

In the meantime, I'm weary of Spotify's valuation as long term credible.
Off-topic (apologies):

From Xcode, I have the choice between "-std=c++14" and "-std=gnu++14" and I am not sure which I should choose ...
Museo de Historia de Madrid, Spain
Comparing Aurelia to Svelte
The symmetric algorithm aside, if we just look at the key derivation, the --s2k* parameters go up to 65011712 rounds of SHA512. If you maxed out the --s2k* settings, its difference from the 1.4.12 default of 65536 rounds of SHA1 is not staggering, but not trivial either: 10 extra bits from the additional rounds and an additional 3-4 bits from straight SHA1 to straight SHA512, on modern GPUs (https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...).

An additional 13 bits of safety margin basically gives you an extra Diceware word (log2(7776)), which, I agree, isn't a magical solution at all, but would to me cross the threshold of "it has some actual impact".

Of course, having much better usability for the average user, or just breaking OpenPGP compatibility so there are clean modern robust constructions like NaCl/libsodium running underneath are way better ways to get at good security margins, but here we are.
It's still nowhere near as smooth as the native macOS app :(

EDIT: smiley
Interesting. How young would you suggest?
Their algorithm seems to favor music is cheap to play from an unknown artist and small label.

One exception I noticed a couple of years back is that Pandora started playing Mumford and Sons on pretty much all of my stations. I like their music, but it is definitely not dubstep, so something fishy was definitely going on. That year M&S was Pandora's highest paid artist.
Beautiful Weather App with Smart Animations for android phones
I applaud Dalton and Bryan for keeping ADN running for nearly 3 years after it ceased development. In truth, I think most of the users left back in May 2014, but it's still admirable that they kept it running.

If you'll excuse the self-plug, I wrote about the death of ADN back in 2014 and re-reading my post, I think it holds up.

http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/app-net-potential/#P8.bAcE8NO...
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we just launched our beautiful weather application for android phones and would be happy to have your comments.

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I was a programmer on several baseball games on Playstation (1) & Windows. Among my duties was AI. That meant consuming, encoding, and deploying a lot of historic stats. They'd be sliced and grouped and accessible across interesting combinations of team, opposing team, player at bat, player pitching, players fielding, stadium, inning, absolute score, score difference, time of day, and really just a fascinating set of inputs. We'd license the historic stats.

Baseball is a game of obsessively recorded stats anyways, and we'd use that to our advantage to model pitches, plays, games, seasons, etc. into something that 1) reflected what truly (historically) would/could/should happen in a given scenario, and 2) was fun and kept the player coming back for more. (Or else we'd hear about it in reviews!)

Well, turns out #2 is really, really important. Playing to statistical misunderstandings had to be part of the consideration. "That pitch/play/decision/outcome would never happen as often as it does! Fix it!" a producer with more baseball knowledge than I would claim. "It's happening exactly as frequently as it does/has historically," I would counter. Doesn't matter. Games need to be enjoyable and that means playing to common (mis)perceptions even if they're statistically wrong. But not too wrong. (Or else we'd hear about it in reviews!) :-)
The entire HBO back catalog is free on Prime. Prime has a somewhat limited selection but Amazon Instant Video in general is excellent. If you think of it as pay per view you'll be a lot happier. I for one do not mind shelling out a few bucks for a movie.
Chimeracoder appears to have edited it. It originally said "stomach irritation".
I enjoyed your writing style and wish you can best of luck in this endeavour!
I've often wondered what it would take to have a linux environment with setuid completely turned off, and this is actually a really interesting thought on how to achieve part of that. Nice. :)
Valuable and actionable advice, I really appreciate it! I continue to see content marketing pop up, so I'm definitely going to try and explore that much more.
Chinese Tech Company Takes on Microsoft with Super Cheap Tablet
I use Google Music. I have the family plan and I use role accounts in my "family" for my car and for my Sonos. It includes YouTube Red in the same subscription.
Off-topic: I have 10 Keybase invites — does anybody want or need one?
Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Superchargers
Netflix has been pivoting away from being just a video streaming service for a while, that's why they've been working so hard on their original content.
With Chacha20 the worst that can happen is plaintext recovery, which is a lot less bad than full key recovery.
As a baseball fan I'd love to hear a little more about this if you have the time.
Awesome! And just in time, too :D
Thanks for the great post, Kalid! Both useful and inspiring.
While true, both Gates and Panetta had military and intelligence experience.
I hated systemd when I had to start using it. It tries to do way too much. The antithesis of the the Unix philosophy. Journalctl grew on me though.