skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Every time I hear some company telling they've just decided that they don't need their own e-mail servers and that they do everything through GMail, I worry a little more.

Disclaimer: I use Google's services myself. I can't imagine who doesn't. But somewhere in the back of my mind, I think about it sometimes...
The fundamental issue is a mismatch between crafting and coordinating roles.

When I'm in a coordination role, open concept is better because I can hear everything in the office and route information accordingly.

When I'm in a crafting role, open concept is death to productivity.
I wonder what would be a good big company CEO that is as close to general purpose (in the sense of the legacy MBAs) as possible.
It's called bundling. AMC knows that their AMC network is very popular. People love Breaking Bad & Mad Men & The Walking Dead. So AMC says to DirecTV: We will give you AMC and charge you $0.75 per subscriber. But wait there's more! If you want AMC (and you do because your customers demand it) then you also are required to carry WeTV and Sundance and IFC and pay us $0.25 per subscriber for each of those networks!

So now, with the $0.25 per subscriber subsidy, those networks have lower viewership numbers they need to hit to be profitable.

I chose DirecTV for my example because they got into a very public fight with AMC last summer and AMC was pulled from DirecTV. Basically DirecTV didn't want to pay as much as AMC was asking. In the end AMC won a pretty decisive victory and got almost everything they were asking for.
What is Car sharing models ? It's simple and could be the best use of this technology. Make all the US superhighways major and key corridor stretches hyperloop. Enabling you as a driver to get around the country faster saving energy and time.
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yup tinyletter does that job but misses on some of business requirments e.g. groups within a list.
Mailchimp puts tinyletter as a app for people whereas we are looking at businesses as well who wants to send simple emails to customers and would build a required functionalities around it.
As with many data analysis posts: Give me more information about the data. In this case it could be particularly interesting. You have correlation and you estimate the temperature through indirect measurements. The important word here: estimate

As with all estimates I care about the error and not much else. The only error measure provided is mean absolute error which I find a little bit unsatisfying. It gives only very little information about the behavior of the error.

The easiest is to compute the error for every sample and then show a histogram of it.

Why you might wonder? In this case we deal with varying -though often over time stabalizing- data. This means that sometimes the error is actually greater and then very little. If you take the absoluate value of it and take the average (MAE), you might underestimate (resp overestimate) the error at times. In this case I might expect a tri-modal error distribution if we consider positive & negative errors.

A histogram is much more expressive (and oh so simple to generate) than a simple MEAN, STD DEV, MAE or MSE.
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Ironically, you have essentially structured your comment as a traditional essay:

* First paragraph introduces the topic and states your thesis.

* Second paragraph expands on the thesis.

* Third paragraph makes arguments in support of the thesis.

* Final paragraph summarizes the thesis.

I agree completely that too many people think "writing" means "using fluffy language" but the structure of a persuasive essay is a non-fancy, workaday model that works just fine.
> On the hardware front: I don't really buy the notion that Android hardware is up to par with Apple. I realize this is an inherently subjective argument: I've played with my friends' Android phones and I just don't like the way they look or feel compared to the iPhone.

It's not totally related to this discussion, and I'm not picking on you - but I had to mention this:
I have a friend that bought himself a MacBook Pro (for around 2200€) and then went on to observe how this laptop is far better than any previous he owned, and how it's better than what his colleagues ad friends own. I agreed with him, and then told him that most of them paid way less than 1000€ for their laptop, and probably noone paid even close to what he paid (alas. there are not a lot of MacBooks around here), ofcourse a MacBook is way better than a 600€ HP laptop.

People forget that, most of the Android devices (analog to laptops) are actually cheaper than a iPhone.
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"All you really care about is the % of the company you are potentially getting and the current value of the company."

Respectfully disagree: what you care about is strike price, share price, and quantity. Percentage can be a good indicator, but ultimately, those 3 figures are what will determine your payout. As a hypothetical, getting 10% of a company with a strike price just shy of the share price on exit is still pretty worthless.
What about the personal cost of platform switching? I went to the iPhone when version 2 hit the market and it was clearly going to survive as a product. I hate switching technologies, with all the cost and frustration it involves. I've been able to have a single, constantly evolving configuration through four different phones now (five soon, once I can jump from my 4S to a 5S). It's always backed up. It's survived the physical destruction of a phone. It does everything I require of it, most of that very well.

So to get a user like me to switch platforms - it's a huge personal expense, not just of money, but of time and intellectual bandwidth. I don't need a device that's just arguably better, or a little better... I'd need a game-changer of a device to switch, something that does basically everything I do on my iPhone more efficiently, faster, better, cheaper. I don't see that.

I'll probably stay on iPhone unless Apple really screws up.
Bullshit. Almost every sizable city has programs and facilities for the homeless who actually want to improve their lives. They can get Cell phones for a dollar a month, and a place to stay while they get on their feet. The only rules are they have to TRY and kick whatever habit has already destroyed their life.
Honestly, I think it's a given that web personalization is deeply rooted in A/B testing. But instead of testing for what's best for the aggregate, you're testing for what's best for each individual.
I usually disagree with marco posts here and i'm 99% sure he get's paid by apple :) but this point is pertinent and i'm looking for alternatives for gmail and maps and voice and failing.
I'll avoid making a comment of how NSA talk is hijacking every thread, but I'll attempt to correct your misgivings:

Google's primary business is advertising, meaning that like the publishers of yore they sell "space", now with the advent of technology that "space" gets populated with what the algos determine to be the best suitable ad according to data about the would be viewer of said ad. They don't 'sell their users to advertisers', they offer them a dashboard with which they supply the content of the advertisement, choose the interests they want to target, and measure the effectiveness of it all. Advertisers do not get exposed to user data - they deal with abstractions.
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It doesn't seem very hard to believe that someone uses an iPhone but doesn't use iTunes to manage music. iTunes is next to useless if your music doesn't fit on your device. A service (such as Google Play Music All Access [worst product name ever]) makes more sense if you're always connected.
He consistently writes positively about and supports Apple and consistently poo poos Android. It doesn't hurt that many sites that favor Android in such a consistent and highly biased way are instakilled when submitted here.

He's not quite the shill that Gruber is, but it all adds up that he's popular on HN.
You might consider practicing finishing. Select a book (preferably not a huge one) and read the whole thing. Then read another one. Then start and finish a small project. If you are presently able to finish something that is doable in one sitting, then expand to two sittings. Or whatever.

I'm a random stranger on the internet, and this might not help you at all. But it seems to help me.
Recent Android "Package file is invalid" errors
You can put the factory image for 4.3 on your own Galaxy Nexus – I was having the same problems, running LagFix every night, and 4.3 cleared 100% of that away. The same problem (same cause, same fix) exists on the Nexus 7. Good luck!
> either be like HBO and be an optional premium channel with no ads, or stop making my cable bill go up to subsidize crap i don't watch

Here's the thing. Your idea of "what I don't watch" and someone else's idea of "what I don't watch" are going to be vastly different. By eliminating bundling (the practice of forcing cable companies to carry secondary channels to get access to the primary ones) you'll force a race back to the bottom in terms of content. It will be like the old days of the OTA networks where you have to appeal to the most people to survive.

Things like Science and the Military channel almost certainly would not survive in an a la carte world. Without a subsidy the cost of programming will be too high and ratings too low to be fully supported by advertising.
Apple has the same issues where they slowly taper off the iOS versions that an aging iPhone can run.

What about the updated GMail and GMaps don't you like? The user experience has been beefed up significantly - going between user accounts and organizing mail in GMail has never been easier. The Google Maps interface is really pleasant to use and doesn't clutter up the screen when all you want to do is view the area.

Obviously those are two quick personal observations, but I'm very curious as to what recent features may have introduced friction to long-time users.
It's a phrase, which is something the Oxford dictionary acknowledges and defines. His use of scare quotes only excuses him if someone else had used that phrase before him; instead, he's the one who brought it up. It's quite obvious he wanted to use some predetermined meaning he had for it. Arguing otherwise comes off as useless pedantry.
No amount of abstraction will save you from finally having to determine how to represent the end result. That is totally orthogonal to the ability to delay the accumulation of something to be represented that way (which is just one strategy to achieve efficiency for this case anyway).
Don't ask for advice on the internet. If there is real money involved with stock options, engage a CPA tax accountant to help, now. Really. If you just lazily let things slide, you could find yourself in a deep hole due to the tax rules. (One friend of mine paid no attention and found out he owed more to the IRS than his net worth.)

It's like if you've got a medical problem - go see a real doctor.
This is cool. Possible use cases for those who are not grasping it:
* Under developed countries who do not have a national weather service begin to start tracking historical temperatures.

* People at risk of heat stroke could have an app on there phones that alert them when the temperature is too high. (Most phones do not have a thermometer, and the temperature reading of a room with no A/C is different than the outside temperature)
For some of the cities in the study we had only about 600 readings from 300 users per day. At this level of data the averages work well across 24 hours, but are messy when you start trying to get hourly figures. Even a couple of thousand users does not give great hourly correlations.

However OpenSignal was not built for weather crowdsourcing, and battery temperature readings are only taken when the phone is plugged in, unplugged, turned on, or turned off (since we wanted to calculate average battery drain). So clearly we could more regularly poll the battery temperature. This is what WeatherSignal does.

In this case we would get better spatial and temporal resolution.

It's also well worth pointing out that we tested this in cities where there were already trusted, online data sources (i.e. weather stations), there are population centres where this won't be the case, or where the data is not shared.

Also the case is that for dispersed populations (e.g. North of Sweden or Siberia) while we might not manage to resolve temperature to city level (until we have many more users) we could get temperature estimates across larger ares.

So I guess what I'm saying is: this is the start of the story, already we're getting data that is good, more filters could make it better, but more users and faster polling is the real key.
for a second i thought this came up with direct DOM approach...but i found this is just another Jquery type library with different syntax...In this case, good job but i am happy with Jquery or Zepto..
Can someone explain what this patch actually does? I have an old Macbook Air with a malfunctioning sensor that cause the CPU to always run in powersaving mode (capped at 800 mhz), so it's basically unusable under OS X.

I have walked around this issue by installing Linux which allows me to tune the CPU governor manually, and it uncaps the artificial limit that the malfunctioning sensor puts.

Would this patch allow me to do something similar in Mountain Lion?
Does having a very low TopCoder rating make someone unemployable?
Hello, one question:

How it's going to affect, this raising, to the ansible project?

I mean, I like what I've used until now of ansible. I currently do not need the GUI. Is the ansible project going to continue it's development and licensing model? is there any possibility on ansible (without GUI) going "fremium" or any other functionality limitation with the time?

I just ask because I know that funds does not use to come for free and there use to be directives and guidelines which may affect a project...

I wish ansible is unaffected by the funders thoughts, even if I wish all the best for the ansibleWorks products too.

Congrats for the fund!
I have a relatively small working memory, and I've been coding since I was a little kid. Coding is like thinking out loud for me.

My default way to work is to bang some stuff into an editor and then constantly revise and reshape it. I'll draw diagrams on paper or white-board as necessary. I also tend to cut and paste "code notes" into a separate window so I don't have to keep that in my head.
Windows 8 users are averaging only 2.5 app downloads from the Windows Store
Wanting what you can't have
What is it about people that makes them want things they don't have? Is it really the pursuit of, or the contentment with something that makes us happy? Insights and stories appreciated.
Ask HN: AirBnb for buying and selling houses?
What would be the best site for selling houses / villa's to foreign people?

I am not sure if such site exists. It is difficult to find a site like AirBnB for selling/buying houses around the world.

What is your opinion about that?

Domenico.
Sorry, but wealthy people choosing to live austerely for spiritual reasons is not the same thing as poverty. Poverty is spending every waking hour worrying about money for rent and food, having no access to a doctor when you're sick, etc. There is nothing virtuous or meaningful about it, and it's certainly not something to be proud of.
edit: a modernized version of Win32 not of .Net, it's in C++.
I don't have to do that, because even though I'm usually the conservative in the crowd around here, my worldview isn't that Manichaean.

There is a middle ground between Somalia and Sacramento, believe it or not. It's where most people prefer to live.
He doesn't sound like a Zen master to me either. I know it's probably hard to distinguish between Buddhist sects but "success and happiness" (the subtitle of the book that is promoted in the video) are not terms Zen Buddhism deals with usually.

Normal Buddhism does deal with these extensively, Four Noble Truths are all about suffering. But Zen Buddhism tends to dismiss these concepts as unimportant. They may be true, they may not be true, but while you're looking for happiness and success, Zen offers nothing.

Mindfulness meditation is rather cool, as is general Buddhism. I'm just trying to distinguish a bit here.
The point is, Google isn't just "selling space." They collect the data about you, admitting themselves that they prefer to never delete anything. The key word is "targeting," remember? In process, they still know more about you than your mother or partner. Somewhere in their guts, there is a collection of data about you, the depth of it not even imaginable before.

How we got here: Moxie Marlinspike, 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
As jmduke said, i feel it's pretty silly to compare Facebook to the NSA, when they operate in completely different contexts: the NSA doesn't ask for your permission for the data, while you and your friends are giving Facebook the data. People are angry because the NSA is collecting data on us without consent.

while i see the argument for "facebook is using the data in a way that we haven't given our consent for," i think it's a lot less severe issue because
a) Facebook openly admits how it's using it, which makes the company honest (unlike the NSA)
b) Ensures us that no human other than the ones you authorize will ever see said data. (unlike the NSA)

we can be angry because the NSA abused our trust, while Facebook has yet to break it. it's also very tiring to hear people and see them live defensively and not use facebook or google in case they might break your trust, its starting to border paranoia.
Very much agreed. My point is more that the cost to prepare to switch is very low. We have a high degree of certainty that email will be used for the foreseeable future so why not make the addressing movable?

How can we make the preparation for flexibility become a pure technical problem and not a social one?
Both of your links are for the same search terms (google account locked), and they return 67 or 89 million results here.
Interview with Brian Chesky (Airbnb) on mobile & sharing economy
>If only the bitcoin algorithm could have accounted for incredibly various technical and sociological issues.

I think they did a pretty decent job given that "incredibly various technical and sociological issues" is the definition of a wicked problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem).
Was just thinking of a way to be able to code on the subway. While it could annoy some, I'm often annoyed by stupid conversations on the subway. Can't close ears.
A thought I just had, could a hyperloop like technology be used to launch ships into orbit? Why or why not?
Use SDL2, much better and official support for mobile platforms. The only platforms that were killed in SDL2 are old ones like MacOS9 etc.
Marco so conveniently forgot the whole debacle of Apple's developer resources and sites being down for almost two weeks.
'COULD' is a complicated concept. It's something I struggle with too, when I watch movies like 'City of God', where mostly I ask myself 'why the hell don't these kids leave the city. or the country.'

Or The Wire where a kid who 'got out' decides to come back.

There are many factors that play a role in the options we have, and the strongest factors have nothing to do with what's objectively best.

Psychologically speaking, it's a bit dangerous (and too easy) to say that poor people should just stop living their poor lifestyles and leave their poor friends and poor family for a world totally unknown to them. This is also true for addicts, or homeless people. I've come to know quite a few of both, and if anything I've started to respect the difficulty of their situation.
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This is "large bureaucracy 101" and shouldn't need explaining:

1) The letter means the files existed.
2) The government said the files didn't exist.
3) The government lied (illegal) OR destroyed the files (illegal).

QED.
The real problem is if you exercise, but don't sell, you owe tax based on the exercise price. If the stock subsequently tanks, you may wind up owing far, far more in tax than you have assets.

Yes, this happened to a friend of mine. The stock options financially ruined him.

Go see a real CPA tax accountant. Don't wing this stuff, don't rely on advice from the internet.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
> We are done making breaking changes at the Node.js layer. If your

> program runs today, we're doing everything we can to make sure that it

> will run next year, albeit faster and more reliably.

I've yet to devote any significant amount of time to developing on Node but this is a big +1 for more serious consideration.

My memory is fuzzy (this was well over a year ago) but I remember building an app in express and it being completely broken by updates a very short time later (along with a good number of other modules that hadn't been updated either).

Anyone venture out a guess/opinion on how many things in userland will stabilize because of this? (Or perhaps things already have- I don't hear as many complaints about express' api changing lately).
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Could you elaborate on the 'brickification' of your Galaxy Nexus? I've owned a Galaxy Nexus pretty much since it came out and, I have to say, it is as good as the day it came out.

Also – and I don't mean to sound like a fanboy – I personally think that Google Maps and Gmail even better than they were two years ago. At which point did they start to suck in your opinion?
Nice points,

We were told the paper would be published (and open access today) but doesn't quite seem to be up yet: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50786/abstrac...

The paper does have more detail, and I believe supporting materials will be released. You can also download the data and do some of your own digging (either from the big file at the bottom, or just view source and grab the js values that feed the graphs)
A/B testing doesn't necessarily mean "test two subtle shades of the same thing." For a great example, see the Highrise A/B test: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...

This is a good example that disproves many of the false premises mentioned in the OP, as the clear winner of the A/B tests was a bold dynamic design with lots of character, that was completely different from the original designs.
That's not what the article says. Rather, keep away from ecosystems at all. If a company tries to bind you to its ecosystem, stay away, as you are bound to be the one suffering from it in the long run.

It's a shame that the internet seems to be on day four of groundhog day, seeing the same story played out over and over.

1. a dominating ecosystem or a couple of ecosystems exist (e.g., AOL in the early days)
2. increased lock-in makes people yearn for alternatives
3. open alternatives spring up, gain momentum and overcome the dominating ecosystem
4. the previous alternative is now successful and starts to diversify its offerings
5. with increasing adoption and an increased market share, the company tries to connect services, for the convenience of its users (that's what they say) or for increased lock-in (that's what they don't say)
6. over time, now this former upstart becomes the dominant ecosystem, increasingly removing the openness from its services and connecting its offerings so that you don't have to leave them ever (we are back at 1.)
7. users start to feel the pain of being locked-in and yearn for open alternatives...

The only way to break this cycle is by actively pursuing alternatives, by diversifying its providers and by making a conscious decision to forgo immediate convenience gains by using the same provider for different services.
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