skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first job out of uni was quantitative market research (read: surveys) and at the time I thought it was a waste of time - studying UX you learn that for a lot of questions customers will give you incorrect or unhelpful answers (depending on the wording.) Compared to the more advance marketing technology it is probably better ROI though - I read something recently which I haven't been able to find again that most marketing leaders DO NOT trust their DMP (data management platform).

One of the biggest problems I think of with making brand lift studies more cheaper is you encourage the supplier to recruit people who answer surveys as side-income to answer questions. Places like usertesting.com are now full of "professional website testers" rather than your average customer who may be adverse to tech.

The thing about view through conversions and cross device tracking is maybe only a handful of marketing analytics professionals I know can actually measure the uplift they get from installing the required tracking from these. The first question I think people NEED to ask when investing in analytics is "will I get ROI on this or am I just making more work for myself"?
There might be, but we rejected it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593272
I agree, people fall asleep (or worse) at the wheel, every day. The vast majority of those people don't die or even crash. So what I take issue with is this:

> but all things equal, a driver who does this will fare better with Autopilot than without it.

There's no science or evidence for this yet. Tesla has had the opportunity to release data but has declined, to the point where the NHTSA had to disown a misleading stat that Tesla kept citing in the wake of recent crashes:

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-safety-statistic...

It's not that I have an inherent distrust of automation (being a computer engineer myself), so I don't have a problem with AutoPilot in theory, and I can accept that AP may be better than its current peers. But what Tesla has presented, in lieu of studies and statistics, is a non-falsifiable claim: that AutoPilot increases safety.

We already have well-known examples of AP actively steering off the roads, because of ambiguous road paint. But besides those (perhaps relatively few) incidents in which AP arguably caused the crash, we have many instances where AP didn't prevent what seems like easily preventable crashes. Such as the Utah driver who drove 60mph into a parked fire truck. In those cases, I would agree that the driver was an idiot, but the question for overall safety is: does AP result in a net increase of accidents because drivers are too over-confident?

In the tweet that I mentioned, that's a guy who clearly has the means to call an Uber. Would he have attempted to drive himself if he didn't have Autopilot? Did AP make it easier for him to doze off? I've had a few instances of highway sleepy driving -- thankfully, the feedback from rumble strips or the rough shoulder was enough to jolt adrenaline in me, and get me to pull off at the next rest stop. AP's advantage seems to be that it will just stay within the lane as you sleep. But there's really no evidence that results in a net increase in safety, if Autopilot emboldens drivers who would've otherwise not tried to drive.

The main difference between AP and other safety measures is that, based on Tesla's defenses so far, there is literally no situation in which AP should be assigned blame, because it's ultimately the driver's responsibility. Whereas when an airbag fails to deploy, or just randomly blows up in a driver's face, there can be agreement that the airbag "failed".
Note that they're also deprecating OpenGL ES on iOS:
https://developer.apple.com/ios/whats-new/#deprecationofopen...
Google already has this: https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/

I believe Amazon has something similar.
Nat's a good guy- built stuff with him back in the 90s
Why are you so intent on invalidating other people when they say that emoji help them communicate?
> It takes years of education before people realize that the known laws of physics are just approximations or historically refined by discovering new details.

It's in high school chemistry textbooks. Typically in the first chapter or two. I'm assuming the audience of this site has taken at least one chemistry class in their life. Whether or not they paid attention is their own problem.
>so just because we don't yet have them

I think the strongest argument for positivism is that you can generate arbitrarily many trivial "different but the predictions are the same" theories from any parent theory just by doing algebra. You can also generate arbitrarily many "the predictions are slightly different but our present experiments can't resolve it" theories from a parent theory by littering it with new, small constants and tiny interactions. Occam's razor will lead you astray about that, too: most of modern physics was at one time a small constant or a tiny interaction.
Taxes are really important, even if they don’t really ‘finance’ monetarily sovereign Governments at all. From a macro perspective, it’s basically as if taxation destroys money and new money appears when they spend (unlike private bank accounts, where money transferred between them still stays in the economy). Of course, it looks like taxes fund spending because of the accounting involved (because it actually did in gold standard days, and things are mostly recorded in the same way just because that’s what people have always done) and various policy, etc.

That’s why the idea of a ‘soft default’ doesn’t really exist in the modern economy.

Basically, taxes are the main anti-inflationary mechanism that the economy has. The Government needs to spend money (and the private sector really needs them to spend, because in the modern economy we can’t create new money without creating debt - only the Government can do that), but if they spent without taxing aggregate demand would be way too high and you’d get inflation.

The Government doesn’t need your money at all, but they do need the private sector to not have it and spend it. Some economists looking at these kind of monetary issues call that ‘fiscal space’.

Secondly, you need taxation to have a stable currency, because it creates a baseline demand. Without a population of people required to pay taxes in a currency, it may become more attractive to the private sector to switch to a different currency.

Third, taxes are useful for encouraging (by tax breaks) or discouraging certain activities (by taxing them more). And finally, taxes can serve a redistributive purpose if you have a progressive system, reducing the financial assets of the wealthy somewhat while balancing it out a bit with spending.

By the way, you still haven’t understood what I mean about the EU...
Was the mantra of Grace Hopper, who I wouldn't necessarily describe as a 'Boy Wonder', however she used it in the context of 'borrowing' equipment and machine time from bits of the navy and academia.

She was being dry witted about tatting stuff, not recommending human testing.
Are you from (i.e. born/raised) the Bay Area by chance?
Codename: NobodyCares
Having “Buy for $10 / Download Trial” on every example is a bit weird, especially since you’re describing use cases, not features.

Also, are you aware we can already do this from Messages? If you have someone’s Facetime contact you automatically have their Messages contact. So what’s the advantage of paying for a third-party app that does the same as a native free feature?
Ask HN: Any free e-mail clients with scheduling and tracking?
I once tried Polymail when it was early in their development, and I thought the UI was pleasant and the features were great. But at that time, it was still buggy and I had a hard time integrating my work and personal e-mail accounts smoothly, so I gave up.

But now I have use for such features but can't find anything convenient/free that does this.

Do any of you use a client or tools that do what I'm looking for?
Do you have any details on the OBL thing? Other reporting seems to corroborate Hersh.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/magazine/the-detail-in-se...
> if you take the T-Rex out, we're back to something I can easily convey in ascii

May I ask if you read fiction in more than one language? There are constructions even in those close to English which I find impossible to accurately translate in a way that preserves the delight of the interaction between their phrasing and underlying meaning.

For T-Rex, two examples:

"I drank too much at the Christmas party.

Not as much as Bob. He puked in the restaurant sink before appetizers were served.

[Dancing eye-rolling T-Rex]"

--or--

"Let's go.

Where?

BarBar.

BarBar?

Happy hour pricing until midnight.

[Dancing eyes-rolled-back T-Rex]"

In the former, the emoji communicates derision. In the latter, playfulness. Depending on the style of animation and context, the emoji could further communicate cuteness versus tactile incompetence, letting go versus a loss of control, subject versus object.

The process of decoding an emoji is analogous to a simplified form of interpreting art. Why is that there? Am I supposed to interpret it using the positive or negative connotation? In some cases, less ambiguity is desired. But in others, the ambiguity itself carries information of a sort impossible to parse into words.
Yes, once upon a time both Microsoft and Apple provided an implementation of OpenGL with their OS.

When Microsoft abandoned OpenGL for DirectX, GPU vendors produced their own OpenGL implementations because doing so provided a competitive advantage that allowed them to sell more product.

The question is, why would those GPU vendors do the same thing now that Apple is following the same path?

Apple doesn't even produce a computer with slots you can install their products into.

>EDIT: Some more research seems to indicate that there are drivers developed by NVidia for the NVidia Quadro GPU line.

Keep doing research, because NVidia provides downloadable Pascal drivers even though the last time Apple produced a computer with a PCI slot was the Cheese Grater Mac Pro which came out over a decade ago.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/27/nvidia-pascal-drivers-high-si...

Making sure nothing diminishes CUDA is very much in NVidia's competitive interest.
> for example, it will randomly recompile shaders behind your back while you are trying to have a smooth frame rate.

What? I've written commercial games with opengl on osx/ios and my experience doesn't show that at all.
Adobe Creating an AR Authoring Tool
> This leaves the BTC utxo set unmanageable and unpredictable.

Although this is true, I don't think this eliminates the possibility of such UTXO commitment. It is iteratively updated every block and doesn't care about predictability.

The code as written could be easily merged into BTC as well.

The only small difference would be in backtracking: When we have full node that uses fast syncing we could implement that they retrieve older blocks until they are satisfied (either by assumevalid or some accumulated work), and verify from that point. They can simply apply the commitment backwards.

On Bitcoin Cash, this would require block propagation that includes the TxOuts being spent by the block.

This is a bit more difficult on Bitcoin to the difference in sighashing: these TxOuts aren't directly committed transactions that spend them.
Blocking a particular browser is much easier than blocking many different browsers that are messing with what is rendered.
Humans are the only animals who can be fooled? I pretend to throw tennis balls to watch dogs run across the yard for my own amusement all the time!

The author doesn't even make an attempt to defend what on the face of it seems like a pretty ludicrous assertion. I know this isn't the central thesis, but, not off to a great start
I feel like this has more to do with the turning of the economic cycle than with tesla specifically.. any debt funded spending is starting to dry up.
I surely don't know. That's metaphysics, not science.

But you can clearly do science on the technology. People do this with high degrees of success, developing theoretical models with high predictive ability. It's called "reverse engineering." If you're going to retreat into metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, that's up to you. The doing and the results will speak for themselves, and no one will pay attention to the metaphysical mumbo-jumbo obscurantists.
> Law of physics implies a casual relationship in nature

This is simply wrong. That is not what the term 'law' means in physics.
Feedback Requested: Medium for Startups
Hey everyone!

I'm thinking of creating a website for entrepreneurs where they can post their successful playbook and reasons for failure, getting into the mind of what drove them to finally hitting success. I feel that's really missing in today's content - the secret sauce, the framework and story of how people really succeeded or failed.

I always wanted something like this for myself so I could have done things differently or better.

What do you think?
Facebook doesn't sell data, they ads.

Those ads are targetable by categories determined from private data, but Facebook doesn't give anyone else the data, that's literally why people would purchase ads through their exchange and not through another exchange.

Google has the same model, they don't sell your data, they use your data to match you with advertisers through a fairly opaque interface that lets advertisers reach the categories of people they want to reach, without revealing the data to allowed them to put someone in that category.

Kind of like how your Mom will set you up on a blind date based on what she knows about what both parties want, but doesn't disclose all your information because she doesn't want anyone to be upset with her.
I would go with a macbook air, it's super solid quality wise and a great walkabout. Macbook pro's keyboards are failing left and right. Wait till they sort that out and then think about a pro.
I cant understand this policy from Atlassian - if they arent going to try and become the next default OSS Git repo service on the back of this aquisition they need to fire their strategy team.
There are reputable journalists of statute besides Seymour Hersh, and I think you'll have a hard time finding one that believes Hersh's claims about UBL. That people on message boards find him convincing doesn't tell us much; there were people on HN who believed PizzaGate.
System apps like Terminal, Disk Utility, Preview, etc. Yes.

Stocks, News, iTunes, Maps, Photos, Mail, etc, should be optional.
Yeh, same location for me. It's not a great situation.
It just goes to show that NVidia thinks supporting CUDA everywhere is very much in their competitive interest, while creating and supporting an OpenGL implementation simply is not.
No offense. But if you're ad based, you're basically using the business model popular among those who are "...bound and gagged by whatever billionaire is willing to throw money at you in their desperate quest to catch a unicorn..."

I use it too. But that doesn't make it a good model for all involved.
Thanks for all the comments on this - I really had no idea it would be this controversial, was just curious (and wondering whether to be more creative with corp stuff for my next project, mostly whether I grown up enough to have Inc. suffix on it, rather than LLC)
Pet rocks were popular for 5 minutes. Unhealthy foods are perpetually popular because they have the quality of tasting wonderful.

And neither of you tried to address the core argument I made in the parent, that emoji reflect the inherent messiness of personal communications and for that matter personal relationships.

The same reason it’s important (but inefficient) to tell someone you love them in nonverbal ways is the reason emoji are popular. We all appreciate communications that extend beyond the written word. Emoji is just another option among many for achieving that.
The Safari users won't be providing them revenue anyway. The publishers would have everything to gain and nothing to lose by blocking them.
Kiriakou was not imprisoned for ratting out Dick Cheney and his status as a "whistleblower" is contestable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796162
I suffer from social anxiety. There were a lot of times in the past when I would receive a text and fail to reply because I got stuck trying to figure out how to express myself "correctly". Emojis and the normalization of emoji-heavy texts help me a lot.
No, I said a small* proportion of the population. Which means that if someone is behaving badly, you should assume that is likely for some other reason than sociopathy, and get curious about finding out what it is, which fits the author's message.
And the others weren't working on it for a year before their announcements as well?
Well, OpenGL has been removed from macOS. No need to upgrade it anymore!
HN doesn't support emoji, so here's an example: https://cybre.space/@Riley/100149464360818801

The meaning is immediately clear to anyone familiar with the reference. It's basically a pictographic language that leans heavily on a shared culture that's largely internet-based.
Interesting. I've always been attracted to the idea of the Volt, but having both an ICE and EV components struck me as worst of all worlds when it comes to maintenance. I take it you haven't found that to be the case? Do you have to go to the dealership or can a typical auto shop handle routine maintenance on it?
> Is he saying these are unique to Apple?

Yes, and what's more, he's saying that Apple did something that nobody else would do. Not only would Apple's competitors do it, they already did.
> only if someone calls you thrice within 3 mins, it will ring

It’s twice. Under Settings → Do Not Disturb → Repeated Calls:

> A second call from the same person within three minutes will not be silenced.
IG Farben. Yeah, I don’t have the same reaction to Bayer.
There are many. It comes down to what you define as an option, but if we use Tesla's definition as "the same model":

- Camaro. Base: $27k. Fully loaded: Above $70k. Of course, this is mainly because it goes from a 2.0L turbo 4 to a 6.2L turbo V8, but then again, a motor upgrade is also available as an "option" on the Model 3 so... Its the same model, same platform.

- Mercedes C300. Base: $40k. Fully Loaded: Above $70k. No engine or platform changes, exact same trim level, just options; exterior trim, premium leather, sound system, tech, etc.

- BMW 3-Series. Base: $35k. Fully Loaded: $65k. Both an engine and drivetrain upgrade included.

- Ford Mustang GT. Base: $35k. Fully Loaded: $55k. Not as drastic, but significant because again no engine change; Ford sells both a premium "trim", a complete interior upgrade, and a performance pack that modifies things like the diff ratio, bodywork, etc.
Microsoft deprecated OpenGL back in Windows Vista over a decade ago. They still have to support it, because many major packages didn't switch to Direct-X.
What's more, you don't need to pay anybody $99 per year for that privilege. iOS betas are only available to people with a developer account.
You can sell the app itself on the store. The idea that developers are pigeonholed into using ads is nonsense: it is just easier to “sell” a free app with marketing than to sell an app for real money sans ads.

No offense taken :)
Is America Ready for the Next Superstorm?
"what would have been Assad's motivation to bring down the wrath of the US on himself "

What wrath?
Maybe the games were not very complex? Professional game programmers building games with lots of shaders are very familiar with what I am talking about. See for example this thread:

https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/1998...
Ask HN: What does it mean when managers start making all the tech decisions?
Recently I've noticed technical decisions at my company have been moved from developers to managers. Developers only fulfill the desire of the managers instead of setting the path and carrying it out.

Never before have I seen this model. What does it mean?
Anyone know what type of breast cancer was treated? My mother recently passed away from Metastatic Inflammatory Breast Cancer and I wonder if this treatment could have helped her.
Maybe it just depends on what documentaries you’ve watched... Thinking back, I don’t think I ever learned about it in school but later just watching WWII documentaries about it. I guess it’s probably not actually common knowledge.

(IG Farben manufactured the Zyklon B that was used in the gas chambers).
> And if you really think about it, I cannot see how you can justify the model3 being worth 60k$ !

I agree with everything you said but that statement. What in your opinion constitutes a 60k car?

I am always amazed by luxury cars whenever I ride in them, not by how nice they are, but by how they're just tacky "luxurious" material cladding slapped on a cheaper car. Lincoln, Cadillac, Lexus, Acura, and Chrysler cars are just Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Honda, and Dodge cars covered in tacky leather and lick&stick wood paneling costing 30k more.
I don't really see Tesla lasting another 5 years.
That piece goes out of its way to concur with just one detail of Hersh's story. And both the official story and the NYT reporter's story can be true at the same time: there could have been a Pakistani military source to US intelligence and a parallel operation to establish UBL's location without relying on (and thus compromising) that same source. Hersh had a lot more to say about UBL's killing than just that.
This sounds similar to Peter Thiels views. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzdiWDw4teo )
I'm hoping this is a good thing for us since it should give us the ability to tell iOS how to manage screen time better. Our product pushes the idea that screen time management is only half of the equation, since technically you could have already taken the phone or tablet away from a kid, but most parents don't do that because it creates an enormous emotional conflict. It's all about agency.

There is an old child psychology example where a kid asks "Can I have a red popsicle?" and the parent knows there are only blue ones in the fridge. If the parent responds "No, there aren't any red ones left, but you can have one of the blue ones" then you're instantly the villain and you only exist in this world to deny them of their right to popsicles. But if you respond "Yes, you can have a popsicle whatever color is left in the fridge" you're their hero and it's the fault of the fridge for not providing their desired color of popsicle.

Our system gives kids the ability to access more screen time based on them making measurable progress in studying and because of that parents are less villains and our app/system absorbs most of the hate. If a kid says their phone or tablet won't load a page a parent can essentially say "Looks like your phone says you need to do XYZ before you can access more Internet"

Are other HN parents struggling with these issues? If so, do you think setting rigid screen time limits will help?
If x and z are strongly correlated you can't determine causality for either within linear models. They are practically interchangeable and removing one will not decrease the effect of the other. "Controlling for", or keeping both on the right side, will decrease the effect of one over the other in unexpected ways, and why strong collinearity yields strange results in linear models.
You will think it's less beautiful when you ship that game on several platforms and find that it has different bugs on each platform, on each hardware version, and on each driver version. And most of these bugs you can't fix or work around, you just have to bug the vendor and hope they ship a fix in a few months, which they usually won't because your game is too small for them to care about.

This happens in other APIs too (we definitely had it happen with DX11), it's just that OpenGL is a lot more complicated than anything else due to its history, so it has proportionally more bugs.
Very little good this year.
Yeah, but GM products are not exactly fashionable among people shopping for Tesla alternatives.
My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement