skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total advertising spend worldwide is $600 billion. Online is about 1/6 of that, call it $100 billion.

To a rough approximation, that's footed by the 1 billion wealthy inhabitants of the EU, US, Japan, Canada, Australian, and New Zealand. (I said rough, roll with me.)

That means that the per person costs of advertising are pretty much $100 annually online and $600 annually for all content (mostly TV). Keep in mind, those are real expenses expressed through household purchases.

(This means, by the way, that online content isn't free, you are paying for it, only, you're doing so indirectly, through advertisers.)

By contrast, total direct expenditures on print media run about $125/person in the US. (Audio/video may add to that.)

If you look at what is advertised, an awful lot is very high-ticket items. The FIRE industries (finance, insurance, real estate) were the largest chunk of spend as of a couple-three years ago. Electronics is another large segment.

The notion of some sort of universal content payments scheme, preferably indexed to wealth and income, has a great deal of economic justification. I've been exploring that for the past few years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=universal+cont...
Who cares? Criminals should be made to stop dodging their taxes.
EMF+ has GDI+ primitives in it, which do allow for anti-aliasing and gradients.
Many do. But this is still fundamentally victim-blaming; growing ridership and sensible infrastructure design have been shown again and again to be the drivers of safety, not shame-driven rider-specific pieces of tech.
Well for one thing, they alt-right hate the association with Nazis, whereas Neonazi groups in Western Europe are quite open about that connection. They talk and glorify Hitler, (often publicly, which is where a lot of problems are created), profess their hate on Jews, give the Nazi salute, etc. They don't have much of an economic agenda, if any at all, whereas the online groups such as the alt-right are defined by their economic agenda.

Neo-Nazis are also much more like the Nazis were: they are a youth movement. Most of what they do is not all that political. They organize parties. They go to soccer matches. They organize ping pong tournaments. They have biker clubs/gangs. They hang out in cafes. (I'm talking about North West Europe, don't know about Golden Dawn)

The alt right is much more about extreme laissez-faire, associated with the republican party (Tea Party, etc).

You have the same group on the left, sometimes referred to as the alt-left (as in associated with democrats), but the ideology is the same, they're about extreme laissez-faire and small government. Of course this is "very different" from the alt-right. Except, other than the association with the other large US party I can't find any real difference.

The funny thing is that of course anti-immigration attitudes (immigration, the concept of moving countries, as opposed to immigrants, the people), historically, was far more associated with the left than the right. You can understand the reasoning too: if the state is to control worker outcomes, then of course the state must strictly control competition. Otherwise, companies simply undercut eachother by hiring cheap labour overseas. So the State must tightly control the borders, for goods and for people, so as to prevent that from happening. Immigration, which directly affects the most important market that socialists want to control, the labour market, must be very tightly controlled if the government is to succeed.

I would even go so far as to say it makes very little sense, even today, for ostensibly leftist parties to be pro-open-borders. That is in direct opposition to their stated aims and clearly (and strongly) works against their stated aims.

But of course the solution to that conundrum is simple : the entirety of the US is simply extreme-right, extreme laissez-faire. Including Obama, of course, who "nationalized" healthcare into a private sector solution (leftists worldwide went WTF), and spent (sorry "loaned") almost 8 trillion dollars of government money to keep capitalism running.
Apple's contribution to the Vision Fund is only 1% of the total Vision Fund's raise [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/apple-joins-softbanks-visi...
> it's bloated, buggy, slow

But they said "Shoutem apps are slick and fast", how could this be???
When you know there is going to be too much time between mixing baking soda and citric/lactic/whatever acid is being used, use baking powder. It has the alkaline soda and acid pre-mixed together, but does not fully activate until heat is applied.
I find it is the same with his writing. It just goes on and on. His more technical papers are better, but his blog is just a pain. I guess it takes more work to be brief. (At least for some.)
I'd say it isn't the market that has spoken. Software developers have spoken for the market. Local programs are usually what people want (remember the original iPhone and the backlash against not having applications). Today most business, program managers, and devs prefer to either have the compatibility, fast development time, or full control that a web based service provides. Many times it is a negative for the customers.
> e.g. quantum tunneling is the same as basically measure 0 events.

It is not. Quantum tunneling is just an event with low probability, and when you notice that quantum tunneling doesn't happen (on a macro scale), you're just noticing that events with sufficiently low probability don't happen. The probabilistic analogy is flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads. Flipping a billion coins and having them all come up heads does not have measure zero. It has a positive measure.

Contrast this to measure zero events. Flipping infinitely many coins and having them all come up heads has measure zero.

You need measure theory to talk usefully about measure zero events. You don't need measure theory to talk about quantum tunneling. Just ordinary probability.
Tax Reform Bill Will Impact Equity Compensation
If you live in San Francisco you should consider supporting Sonja's campaign for the Board of Supervisors (City Council)

http://www.sonja2018.org/
Dream Chaser Glide Test Succeeds
Can someone "explain like I'm 5": why does this need government intervention? My gut reaction is that if these people can't afford to live in/near San Fran, a massive, amenities-filled city, they should find jobs elsewhere? If enough people take that approach, maybe the jobs will move elsewhere too? My family wanted to move to a big city but we saw the cost and decided not to. I don't want to assume it's an entitlement thing, but it sure reads like it.
The thing that bugs me about these commonly cited pieces of information about cooking is I have a hard time verifying them without a lot of experimentation. I took up making waffles in the morning following the common buttermilk + baking soda + baking powder recipe. One day I was kind of groggy and forgot to add baking soda; and I could not tell the difference. The whole food writing / recipe sector lost a lot of credibility for me that day.
More like "for about 150 years".

Advertising, in the modern sense, is, well, modern. You pretty much simply did not have goods to advertise (or the means to advertise them) other than for very specific items -- think classifieds rather than bulk and mass advertising.

The rise of the factory system, of transport networks, and the capacity to create far more of a good than local demand could absorb created the first modern-style advertising in about 1860. The first prominently-featured adverts were the 19th century equivalents of Viagra ads: mostly-ineffective patent medicines.

Hamilton Holt has a delightful contemporary account of this, written (and presented as a lecture, it's short) in 1909, looking back on the previous 50 years or so of publishing history. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/2...
I also question this.

Wouldn't a small bottle of the correct vitamins allow you to live healthy and for very long periods on carbs?

The real poor live on rice and very little else for years. Surly carbs and vitamins pills are enough?
As in for an infraction? Surely reckless or negligent driving rises to a misdemeanor, and video is used for those all the time.
It's been quick this time for Kernel Newbies to come up with the newly released kernel changelog. For many kernel versions it took quite a while for the complete list to show up and some just refers to Phoronix articles or so. It think it's good if some commercial companies can allocate some resources to keep this up-to-date ;-)
Could that be confirmation bias as well? I have no idea how old you are, but quick knowledge graph result said "40% of men have noticeable hair loss by age 35, 65% by age 60, and 80% by age 80." FWIW, if I had a hair transplant product, knowing I could target guys aged ~35 and pique the interest of ~40% of them is a good start. If I cross that with another targeting option (perhaps you're 35 and single, and I assume that maybe getting worried that losing your hair will diminish you chances with women), and run a decent ad, perhaps you'll click. I'd obviously have the pixel code on my page and now you're on my retargeting list for ever more... I could do all that without any photo classification.

Edit: Dwelling on this a bit more, of course - it would make total sense to bucket people with receding hairline photos into lookalike audiences for people who'd engaged with transplant ads... Although I suppose that could be equally relevant for targeting like mentioned above. Right age, relationship status, income bracket... Who knows.
Came here to say this. But then realised my wife.

She did a year of com sci. She learned SQL at work. She can Excel with the best at her bank, with some VBA here and there. Still I had to coax her into learning Python for some bigger-than-Excel datasets. She wanted to for ages but just couldn't make the leap to "real" programming (her thinking, obviously not true).

Even when she tried we had issues installing things. She made good progress and almost got it. I sat an evening with her and we solved the issue. She had a lot of support to get over the various hurdles, support many don't have.

Obviously it's one data point but it highlights the issue. I think we've forgotten how hard it can be. Anything that helps should get a shot.
I suppose it would be good for Facebook if Android had the capacity to show a log of which apps used which phone features when. eg.

12:36pm Google Maps used the location feature

12:48pm Instagram used the camera

1:16pm WhatsApp used the microphone for 34 seconds

etc.
I would gladly spend the hours I spend dealing with the mess of airport travel on a train instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15656931
It doesn't need government intervention. The government is intervening to keep the city expensive and they're trying to get it to stop.
> It stands to reason that a rich person would know more about how to make money than a poor person, unless you believe it is totally random.

But not necessarily about raising kids, choosing a romantic partner, and even less about the work-life balance.
Government intervention is what is preventing housing supply from meeting demand. And jobs are moving elsewhere, hence this new drive for deregulating and building more housing.
Since you're on a bicycle, you should be able mount a reasonably sized battery on the bike to keep it charged? Any common usb phone battery bank should work fine
A lot. I think most of what set us up as a company people liked was marketing/promotion/community management and support.
You realize the NIMBYs have had the law changed for their benefit? Why did that need government intervention?
The author says facebook isn't listening in on your smartphone, but it can get all the information about you it wants by other means. That makes me feel so much better.
A Relational Exploration of the Chomsky Hierarchy (2014) [video]
US also has the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harpers, and a few other very good monthlies.
I've cycling since 2 years old, and when I was 10 I built my own bicycle from scratch with my older brother. He's stil running his bikeshop.

The world needs a bicycle for the current age. I see many new ideas on kickstarter and news outlets presenting new bikes with all sorts of features. Most take one idea and built a bike around it. Some take more ideas but none actually solve my day-today problems with bikes:

- They get stolen

- They need regular maintenance on the drive train

- Lighting breaks easily

- Not robust enough

- Traffic lights cost a lot of energy

- Charging is a hassle

On top of that, I'd like some tech bolted on top of my bike:

- Camera's

- Safe & usable mapping system

- Citylight & countrylight

- Electronic lock

- Electronic tracker (when stolen)

Lastly, it should use mostly standard parts.
It sounds like the "remedy" for app dev.
I've learned my BASIC with Turbo BASIC on DOS, which already had WHILE/WEND. I don't recall any trouble with this concept.

When I moved on to QBASIC, which had a wonderful DO..LOOP construct which generalized loops with positive and negative pre- or post-conditions, also allowing for no conditions at all, it was really awesome and just felt "right".

I also remember how befuddled I was by GOSUB/RETURN, having seen it after learning DEF FN and SUB. The idea that you could just fall through the "end" of a procedure by not returning from it seemed nuts.
Does anyone else think it is possible this could explain the 'surprise' part of the loss by the presidential Democratic campaign?

Considering Democrats probably are also the most social media savvy/participant of all the voting participants it just seems plausible.
The article seems to suggest that turning to carbon capture is our best option currently. If that is the case then what is the best carbon capture technology we have right now and could it even make a dent?
I got a hardcover of this book when I bought a used C64 off eBay. I was hoping to see it mentioned!
Also, didn't the FOR..NEXT loop show up really early on?
Not sure about Facebook, but Google don't yet look at my photo stream as much as I would expect. Recently I saw an ad for cat food even though I don't have a cat (and Google has all my photos going back 3 years).
In San Francisco, I think the real story is what YIMBYs are looking to do on the 2018 ballot: An initiative (https://yimbyaction.org/prop/) to allow affordable housing and teacher housing to be built "by right" -- which is wonky terminology for "The architect will be told the rules (zoning, etc) in advance, and as long as they design something that complies with all of them, a permit will be issued easy peasy".

Under current law, even if you abide by all the rules that were stated in advance, you still have to wait years and might be denied in the end anyway.

The reason I think this is such a key move is that until now, the landlords and homeowners who reap all the benefits from the status quo have somehow been able to dupe the housing have-nots who suffer from it (low-income renters, etc) into thinking that blocking housing construction will somehow keep their rents low or stem evictions. But anyone who stands against this measure won't be able to pretend they're doing so in the interest of the less-fortunate. They'll have to admit that they're really just looking to protect their view / parking space / skyrocketing property values.
Is there any actual evidence of "winning" outside the headline? The best the article can muster is a single pending lawsuit that, if successful, would allow the construction of one (1) home in Sausalito.
This is exciting. Eventually well all have a quantum computer in our pocket (or body?). The exciting thing is what possibilities does that bring? I guess we don't know yet.
Sales tax results in the poor and middle class paying vastly higher tax rates as a percentage of their income compared to the rich.
Government intervention helped create the problem. In California, there is a protectionist tax policy that helps keep houses bought long ago affordable to stay in. If this didn't exist, a lot of old people would sell their houses because they couldn't afford the taxes on the current assessed value. They would take their winnings from the California real estate lottery and move someplace cheaper, freeing up supply.

The insane house prices kind of only apply to newcomers on the scene and the system is rigged. It is inherently unfair and also undermines a functioning economy.
It should always flush at the end of the line though, no?
"why does this need government intervention?"

why aren't there more houses? maybe the government intervention already happened. anyway, they're just using their first amendment right to lobby the government, so yeah, it's an entitlement thing, in that they are entitled to do that.
I'm surprised this isn't used in privacy arguments more often. Every time governments and politicians suggest tracking everything we do for our safety with the assurance our data is safe, surely it's prudent to point out that if (arguably) the most secret and advanced cyber command in the world can't keep their weapons and secrets safe, what chance do you have?
> For most newspapers, classified ads long served the same purpose; craigslist and other Internet resources are possibly the leading reason for financial troubles in journalism today.

Well, that's inherent in capitalism: something inefficient (which non-instant, non-searchable classifieds certainly are, compared to CL and friends) gets driven out of the market in favor of the more efficient solution. Generally, this principle works fine from an evolutionary point of view.

The problem is that we as a society have not yet figured out what to do with the losses that originate from the implosion of the "obsolete" infrastructure. With the manual labor replaced by machines in the early industrial history and even with pre-Internet modernizations, societies could shift the labor resources into other jobs that could absorb the load. At the moment, however, there are no labor-intensive "new" jobs available any more for all those whose jobs have been/are/will be replaced by automation, and we do not yet have a concept what to do with societally important stuff such as journalism.

This is a significant factor in current politics, actually - the "flyover states" voted for Trump, and "bloggers" without any journalistic knowledge or even journalistic ethics are a massive counterforce to actual journalists and newspapers... after all, it's easier to spew out fake stuff and nonsense fabricated in minutes than real journalistic articles backed by sometimes thousands of hours of research and work.

The Internet drastically lowered entry barriers (no matter if for journalists, for politicians or for startups), maybe more so than any technological progress before in history... and that has its upsides as well as its downsides.
Tax planning/tax avoidance as described in this article is completely legal.
15% is still more than 0%+overhead depending on the total amount we're talking about.

Should only the very biggest player, to whom the overhead is inconsequential, be allowed to avoid taxes?
In particular, the state government is stepping in to prevent local governments from passing rules that artificially restrict housing supply. As an example, in Dec 2016, the state of California issued a memorandum [1] that explicitly forbade cities from passing rules that outlaw the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), which are rental units people build on their own land adjacent to their existing house. Previously, cities had a lot of latitude to prevent these sorts of infill developments outright. Now they can't.

[1] http://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/docs/2016-12-12-ADU-TA...
Mei Hong’s group among others do well enough at PKU in SE. Never saw anything out of NJU, interesting.

China’s normal research faculty system is really messed up, more so than the American system. Special labs like Andy Yao’s are actually funded well (so no need to body shop your grad students to make ends meet), but seem to be the exception. Let’s see what happens.
woah! where do you live?
Govt intervention via tenant laws, homeowner's laws, zoning laws, city councils/planning commissions are preventing new housing from being built- also shielding long term residents from increased property taxes- Prop 13

Therefore govt intervention/reform is needed to allow more housing to be built.

It is entitlement on both sides- but the law currently favors long term residents extremely- homeowners feel entitled to keeping their neighborhood the way it currently exists.

Most love the high property value (and low property tax!) for potential retirement and rental income- but some are frustrated their adult children cannot purchase a house and enjoy stability.

New residents feel that the law has been rigged against them and has created this situation.

>If enough people take that approach, maybe the jobs will move elsewhere too?

That is what is starting to happen now, but then there are millions of people desperate for jobs that are willing to put up with terrible conditions to make the finances work.

Given current trends of homelessness (both on street and in vehicles), extreme housing inflation, it will be interesting to see what happens without significant changes.
Raft – Key Concepts of the Consensus Algorithm
Emojis, which get converted to constant width images, seem to be more predictable though. usable max width here is 14 for single tweet view.
I know that is the narrative some are pushing, but given that the bots were promoting Bernie Sanders too, that doesn't seem quite right.
From the people I've met in start ups so far, the most likely to use it would be Designers and Product people. The Product manager I work with knows what an API is, and could probably hack out a solution to something, but really prefers not to.
Everything being equal, sure. China is still in danger of hitting the middle income trap. They’ve tapped out almost all of the easy growth, now to make it to a high income country, it gets harder, growth is already tapering off obviously.
> So why is this not being dealt with?

It's talked about and being dealt with constantly!

President Bush had a repatriation holiday for lowered taxes of repatriated capital.

President Obama tried to get assets repatriated.

President Trump's tax plan has a lower corporate tax rate in order to stop the movement of capital to lower tax jurisdictions. Also, this plan attempts to close this offshoring move, for multinationals, by requiring the repatriation of assets.

There are valid reasons that so many companies decide to offshore profits to a lower tax jurisdiction from what is onerous taxation by the US.
The Fly 12 (front model of the rear Fly 6 mentioned in the article) has 8+ hours of recording time and with a small memory card only keeps the last two hours (discarding older video), also, less video time if used as light.
The author was a Berkeley PhD in physics, modeled derivatives at Goldman Sachs, and was a research scientist at Adchemy before going to FB. I don't think we should just assume he has limited technical knowledge.

http://www.antoniogarciamartinez.com/about-antonio-garcia-ma...
> Is there any actual evidence of "winning" outside the headline?

The legislation that Scott Wiener was able to recently get through the state government, for one.
Probably a better question to ask is, "Should I learn Python or Ruby"?

https://github.com/mjhea0/python-ruby
The activity discussed in the article is far from criminal.
I've used lights on a bike and it's a necessary nuisance to have battery packs with cords - more cords and attachments is enough to discourage usage.
Maybe we are just being pedantic, but it sounds like you are looking for autocracy. I would class china’s system as more aristocratic now with multiple red families running most of the politics and much of the economy. But even that isn’t exactly right, china’s political system is difficult to categorize.
Linux used to be a thing on the Playstation 3 too until Sony's management intervened.