skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're a great example of the low informational content. The point of the commercials isn't to inform people of the existence of Budweiser. As you say, the purpose is to persuade them to drink it.
How is advertising spending basically a tax write off that effectively costs nothing?
> phone numbers are not very sticky?

Can you elaborate on that?
I told a lady at my son's school, after I dropped him off one morning: "There's at least a billion people who would love to be wearing my shoes right now."
By natural I mean "unmanipulated". Here, it's sense 6: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natural#Adjective
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your username is stfu.
One rather handy feature of Chrome on Android is showing a small, zoomed window of where you click when there are a few links together; allowing you to select the correct link. I also assume this feature is present on the iOS version of Chrome.
I apologise for my dodgy english, it's 3am in the morning here.
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Yeah, our total goal is $250, and we are at $165 of that
Or maybe it's domain name "front running":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
>There's nothing in there about how lightweight they have to be to not be considered a framework, so I think you're being a tad pedantic.

That would make him wrong, not pedantic.
Have you considered running tests on your marketing copy and doing the math on the hard data you get out of it?

I think I understand your point that you're not interested in having the type of customer who would be scared away by 'picodollars' (as opposed to finding it amusing) but you should at least test it out and get the numbers to verify your hypothesis right?

(As a bonus, if you're right, you get to shove it in the faces of everyone else. If you're wrong - well congratulations - you just increased sales)

Unless you're doing this more as a principled stand (which is fine I guess).
We're pivoting our startup, what are your thoughts?
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It may be just me, but I tried using FreeBSD on my laptop. But sadly some software do not have distribution for BSD. I could not get eclipse working. And Android SDK is not available for BSD too. And it was a downer for me.
But they're also SATELLITE radio. That is a huge value add over traditional radio service. I don't think users were only paying for sirius/XM because the services didn't have ads. It was because the products were technically superior.
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Yes, I find that BSD stability claim does not hold true. My FreeBSD installation crashed sometimes.
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What you just cited isn't a progressive income tax, it's a flat tax. Twice as much income -> twice as much tax. So we both pay, say 0.01% of our income for the haircut. So are you saying that even a flat tax is unacceptable?

As to your point about people getting government services without paying, the chief reason for that is that if we demanded that everyone pay we'd either end up giving their money back to them or letting them starve in the street. So they just get to keep it, which is easier to administer.

And no, no one owes you a big "thank you so much" for paying taxes. Your "thank you" comes in the form of that big paycheck you got thanks, in part, to the government and the society creating an atmosphere in which success can be rewarded.

It has been pointed out before that if you are truly looking for a libertarian country, you should move to Somalia. How much money do you think you could may there?
I'd love to see some evidence for that.

As far as I know, it's just another business expense, which means you deduct it from your profits. Coca Cola paid about 17% in taxes for 2010 [1], so if you squint hard enough I guess you could look at it as a 17% subsidy. But since that's true of any reasonable business expenditure, I don't see it as a significantly distorting incentive.

[1] http://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NYSE/Company/Coca-Cola-Co/F...
So, I suppose you would describe yourself as being absolutely in favor of unrestricted free speech. Nothing is off-limits. All shall be discussed.

Now, what happens when you mix this attitude with a self-moderating system? There will be no moderation at all. Every and any topic is able to be discussed by anyone. The fringe opinions mobilize and are given a powerful soapbox, and so horrible becomes the new normal. You can see this in nearly every thread on reddit dealing with sexism and (especially) race relations.

You can't say that the average internet citizen, wandering into any of the sickeningly racist discussions found weekly on r/videos, won't see the hundreds of upvotes on vile opinions without also seeing an illusion of consensus, the normalization of disgusting prejudice. And you can't say that won't have an effect on their thought process next time they interact with a person of colour. That is the price paid for unrestricted discussion of the worst crap people can dedicate themselves to typing on the internet.

That was just a particularly salient example. Everywhere else you see normalization of mysogyny, normalization of pedophilia (seriously, nearly any discussion of gymnasts during the olympics was disgusting). All this on a website with tens of millions of users, claiming itself as the front page of the internet.

You go on to say reddit has self-examination. Reddit is not a single organism; the self-examination you refer to comprises many disgusted users, yelling at the people spouting crap who carry along regardless. "Self-examination" in this fashion is not a substitute for actual moderation. SRS has started linking to the odd HN comment, by the way.

The crux is that tolerating and analyzing horrible opinions only serves to normalize them. There are some ideas that quite simply don't deserve to see a soapbox. You'll probably play the slippery slope card here. I don't care. We have many excellent moral frameworks with which to analyze ideas, and they are more than adequate for sorting out the grey area of what should and should not be allowed.
Is this advocating more effective DRM in lieu of legislation?

I'm not sure how to rework the analogy, but what MPAA needs most is a forward thinking set of business models.
Our purpose in life is to spread our genes as far and wide as possible. As such, it's not far off to say that "striving for more" is a facet of human nature; having more money, a fancier car, more goats, bigger muscles, etc is a great way to get more mates, and fulfill your evolutionary goals to a larger extent.
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Yes, the core C part of Emacs is actually surprisingly small.

Sadly the vast majority of the C emacs core is platform-specific code, the sort of thing that emscripten would be worthless at.

That being said, a manual port of the VM and C modules is not inconceivable.
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Yes.

The one area where I see advertisements providing value to those viewing them is in search and search-like contexts. In user testing, one of my colleagues was having a guy go Google searches for particular products. The guy said, "I'll tell you a secret. I ignore the stuff on the left. The really good stuff is in blue on the right."

But everywhere else, the purpose of the ads is to distract you from whatever you're trying to do. Which is a real struggle for Facebook; gossip is so much more interesting then your average ad that their click-through rates are terrible.
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Stating his opinion is not being pedantic, quoting the definition to make a point is being pedantic. I think what he's saying has merit; I would call this a utility, or something more along those lines, rather than a framework.
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the sarcasm tag is also not semantic
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You're right. But the fact that jQuery has a much simpler API than using just javascript makes it easier for programmers to use it. It's a library and that's what libraries are for, it takes care of notorious cross browser compatibility issues (how well is another question..)

jQuery UI similarly helps implement features such as autocomplete, etc. which while you could take the time to implement again offers a simpler API with cross browser tested code.

I don't think there's any argument against the fact that jQuery has definitely made a massive impact on the use of javascript on the web. There are plenty of programmers who wouldn't touch javascript with a 10 foot pole before jQuery due to the cross browser issues. I think that's actually been a good thing for UI for the most part.

Can it be done faster and better ? Yes.

Can it be done cheaper ? Probably no.
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The 80% case:

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amount of Bob? What does it mean?
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A luxury vendor charging luxury prices is not necessarily high pricing power.
That Sinatra application can be run locally. From what I have gathered from the article, the Sinatra application is a pretty form for putting your phone number in, nothing more, Twilio calls Iron.io directly.
You are right.

The evidence on that correlation is actually very strong. However in our society there is an effect that goes a long way to hide it. For a number of reasons (including earlier puberty), women have a significant academic advantage in high school. This means that about 60% of people heading to college are women.

So if you're in an environment with lots of young college educated young people, all will be reasonably smart (they had to be to get into college), and you have on average about half-again as many women as men. If you just take this population and look for the top quartile, women are still over-represented relative to men.

What about the smart men that I said existed, where are they? They are everywhere. It turns out that if your IQ is in the top 2%, you have worse odds of finishing high school than if your IQ is median. Lots of smart people make it nowhere near college for various combinations of reasons. If you mostly hang out with college graduates, you might never notice that, for instance, there are some really smart car mechanics out there.
Give your co-founder (1/48)(50% equity)(# of months working on the mvp). This is basically saying that your co-founders 50% stake vests monthly over 4 years. If they've worked 4 months on the mvp, 4 months worth of equity is released to them. If they leave, the remaining shares go back to the company.

For future reference, you really should have figured out the arrangement with your co-founder prior to working on ur mvp.
Here's the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius#cite_re...
A great resource discussing this is Joel Spolsky's answer on how to dole out equity/compensation:
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

More specifically, this passage:

"Now that we have a fair system set out, there is one important principle. You must have vesting. Preferably 4 or 5 years. Nobody earns their shares until they've stayed with the company for a year. A good vesting schedule is 25% in the first year, 2% each additional month. Otherwise your co-founder is going to quit after three weeks and show up, 7 years later, claiming he owns 25% of the company. It never makes sense to give anyone equity without vesting. This is an extremely common mistake and it's terrible when it happens. You have these companies where 3 cofounders have been working day and night for five years, and then you discover there's some jerk that quit after two weeks and he still thinks he owns 25% of the company for his two weeks of work."
Charging for a service is fine, but I agree that it is legitimately insulting to charge for use of a consumer-owned device.

That said, what wattvision lists in its FAQ is extremely fair. Using data from the last three months is free, so if you want to do your own processing you can easily download from there even if the device is difficult to directly access.
Also https://gist.github.com/984375
Are you referring to the article? It's not off-topic if it's worth reading. I'm sure many here are rather well-off but still struggle with happiness.
Thank you... and sorry for the rant but -- the word "pedantic" is incredibly overused of late on this site.

According to some quick Google site: searches:

WORD USE ON HACKER NEWS
pedantic 3340
thoughtful 3750
f*** 9930
idiot 6180

Which seems quite frequent, but is obviously highly anecdotal. On the other hand, it appearing 1/3 as much as f* may indicate that this is at least a fairly civil community -- even if prone to pedantry.

Edit: formatting.
> I'm inclined to believe you if we are talking about a Qt-style C++, but that is only a subset of possible code. I would be happy to be proven wrong, too.

If the alternative is to use a separate language altogether to implement extensions, then you are already limiting yourself to a subset of all possible (in C++) code, so what's wrong with doing that in C++ instead?

That being said, most of your problems can be solved with header optimization, we had gotten a full-rebuild of our multimillion line code-base down to about 2 minutes. So if an extension is only a file or two I'm sure you could manage very reasonable compile times, esp with optimization turned off.

> Even if I didn't, a single header that pulls in a huge preprocessor library could ruin speed.

In the case that you really need that header (If you are using as an extension language, it should be designed so you don't!) precompilation of certain units can greatly improve speed. clang in particular has very impressive precompilation support.
Jack Dorsey tweeted this a couple days ago and I thought it was pertinent: "Be happy, but never satisfied." -- Bruce Lee

http://twitter.com/jack/status/233963752347795456
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I get your perspective, but I think Facebook is basically correct in the long term. Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology.

An excellent read on the topic is David Brin's "The Transparent Hand". He basically makes the argument that we face one of two futures: either all of us know everybody's business or a small elite controls the flow of information. Basically, our choice is a surveillance democracy vs a surveillance state.

I think he's right that there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle. That's not to say that Quora's moves aren't fucking annoying, but I do think just refusing to participate won't make a long-term difference in how things turn out.
Help my friend run across the USA.
> interesting Real World C programs make use of undefined behavior

I assume you've worked with a significant amount of real world C programs? Because they surprisingly often do. The difficulty with porting many programs to 64-bit for instance, is due to relying on implementation defined behavior.
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I tip my hat. The passive-aggressive corporate speak that commits to nothing while cutting a throat is a master work.
Yes, we know that you work for WePay.
>this has nothing to do with hard work, and everything to do with the way mathematic is taught. I am a programmer and I would love to understand mathematics the way I understand programming.

How much of your understanding of programming has to do with:

a) teaching/exercises in a class

vs

b) time you've spent hacking on programs, either for a job, or in your spare time

?

Now, how much time have you spent on mathematics compared to time you've spent on programming?

The grandparent's point seems to be that fretting about not having "royal road"[1] is less productive than just spending time working with the ideas.

Good pedagogy can make a difference in how far you get in the time you spend, but there's just not a substitute for putting time in.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road#A_metaphorical_.E2.8...
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The money part of App.net is a red herring
How much work have they done? A few hours, or several full time months?

If they've just done a few weeks and they're leaving, it's less of a co-founder, and more of a contractor arrangement.

If it's a few weeks, how about a structure like:

"Zero equity. $150 per hour worked, payable on any funding/liquidity event, or within/over 5 years."
"...having more money, a fancier car, more goats, bigger muscles, etc is a great way to get more mates, and fulfill your evolutionary goals to a larger extent."

Indeed. Being rich and famous is a way to compensate for the lack of genetic traits that are typically attractive to the opposite sex (be it height, facial looks, or even race). Salman Rushdie, Jay-Z, Tiger Woods...
I can attest to this. Having run quiet a few freemium model sites, the time and energy wasted on unwanted support is astounding. God forbid if something goes wrong, some people will take time to email you just to yell at you. Still can't understand how people expect absolute perfection for something they aren't paying a dime for?

However, one thing I noticed is that freemium clients are more likely to click on ads and subscribe to your social networks than others. Some pain for some gain I guess.
Someone shared a couple links on this topic before but I didn't see them here

http://www.erica.biz/2012/pricing-strategies/

http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-kn...
This reminds me of the crazy movement now that is against smartmeters. I really do not understand people sometimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/science/earth/31meters.htm...

http://stopsmartmeters.org/

I'd love a smartmeter as long as I get access to the data myself for free and no-one else but the power company.
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It depends on who you are. If you are a government, for example, you can allow people to use bitcoin2 to pay taxes, and you can use it to pay government contractors.

I suspect some large companies could also do something like this. Amazon or Walmart, for instance. They could give discounts to people who use a digital currency they are trying to push, and that could be enough to bootstrap things.
They want us to watch what branch/twitter employees talk to one another. Hey, @ew its not public until I can create an account.
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Thanks :) Very interesting. This makes me want to try Slackware.
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It significantly reduces the symbol noise of JS. Typical JS is a dense forest of nested "function" expressions with a ton of (){} and it takes a lot of effort to fish out the logic.

CS strips out a lot of that and makes the intention of the code clearer.
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Thanks for your response! What you're doing sounds very rewarding and interesting. I'm assuming that the families you are helping have loved ones who are elderly or may suffer from conditions that prevent them from properly taking care of themselves. Is this the market you're addressing?
Let people call it art, if that is what keeps them developing and maintaining it.
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Pixar's technology is remarkable in that it's usually ahead of the curve, but it's not beyond the capability of other studios.

Rango was done by ILM and demonstrates what they can do when trying to out-do their quasi-sibling company.
Here comes the glorious HTML5 revolution, reinventing things that were around for decades, but now that it's "a standard" and "in javascript" it changes everything. First it was sockets, then it was WebGL now P2P. I wonder what revolution we will have next - a standardized file system access.
Apparently I fail at irony :-) Since we are mostly programmers here, I meant people to read the second sentence, say, "Wait... what? That doesn't do it justice," and then reread the first sentence in light of their understanding of the difference between what computers do and what programmers do. Symbol manipulation is what we design our computers to do, and the power of mathematical systems can be described by mathematical logic, which reduces mathematics to symbol manipulation, but what goes on in our heads as we work with these systems is very different.
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I assume you've worked with a significant amount of real world C programs?

Only embedded systems (AVR & PIC24). I have much more experience in C++, which I've used for both Desktop apps and telco server components.

The beauty of C (over C++) is that the standard is actually readable. C++ especially is a quagmire of undefined behavior. The scary thing about C/C++ is that its easy to hit undefined (or, at least, as you state, implementation defined) behavior and not even realize. Often the code looks valid, does what it looks like it does, yet is actually undefined or implementation defined and will break elsewhere.

With that said, while I don't expect everyone to have memorized the standard, I do hope most would have at least enough familiarity to avoid most cases of undefined behavior.
Consider all your communications, and think about the most ambiguous statement you've ever made regarding illegal activity, whether it was a joke or not. You have to be naive if you don't care in the slightest whether the government has all your IM history. At best, they'll realize you're not a criminal and ignore you. However, at worst, you'll be made a target of some investigation, they may very well find some other ambiguous or over-broad statute you're in violation of, and then it's off to court.
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Seems like a regular Quora thread sans voting.
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At this point, it seems like there is more people talking about App.net than people potentially using it.
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I second the ROI comment. The Queensland Govt ran a scheme here for a while called Climate Smart http://www.climatesmarthome.com
The meter cost $50 and was one of those clip on passive devices. Ended up identifying about $300/qtr of wasted power for me. I had faulty Kitchen appliances and an incorrectly wired hot water system.
Empirical evidence supports your first two paragraphs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

This experiment was not well-received in its day, but in recent years, the line of thought is becoming popular, as people who work in drug treatment realize that the paradigm is very helpful when treating people in recovery (ie, you have to identify the reason why people feel compelled to seek external relief, be it anorexia/bullemia/marijuana/alcohol/heroin, or else you're just patching over the symptoms).

As for your last point, I'd point out that what most people don't ever see are the people who use drugs responsibly and without any problem - there's a selection bias afoot which causes society to overestimate the harms associated with drugs (and underestimate the harms of the policies associated with them, since they also never see the people locked away).
Actually yeah. It does make a difference if it runs in a browser.