skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this shows that the economics of TV and the economics of YouTube are actually not that far apart.

Breaking Bad's $400,000 per ad spot, at 10 million viewers, is noted as being remarkably high. That's $40 CPM.

Whilst a lot of people are very cagey about their YouTube earnings, if you do enough asking around the numbers tend toward $2.50 CPM. It's frequently noted that popular shows which are able to sell show-specific advertising make a lot more than that.

Even if you assume that a Breaking Bad-level YouTube success would only get a 4x multiplier to its ad value, that's still $10 CPM - only 4 times less than the on-TV Breaking Bad. I would have expected the difference to be considerably greater.
Most traders will try several times until they find the turning point. They will get several small losses and a large profit.
Did I?

This really isn't up to some subjective opinion either. Swing doesn't have a native look & feel on any platform: it's awful no matter what OS you're using.
I also find the methodology lacking.

"This suggests the following design: a randomized dose on day 1, followed by days 2 and 3 off, then on day 4, drinking the second container; on day 7, examine the containers recording whether active/placebo and finally, starting over as day 1 of a new pair of 3-day blocks."

That means that, during the experiment, the subject can learn correlations between the test and the control ("So, I tend to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night in the test.")

If the subject has some (conscious or unconscious) prejudice for the result, he can use that information to adjust his self-reporting (again, consciously or unconsciously). For example, a subject may report a silly thought as a creative one instead of as a stupid one.

Also, given that the period of the experiment is exactly a week, I also would control for 'LSD is the first thing exactly as often as the test"
> If districts were smaller, it would be easier to make them less gerrymandered and pseudo-proportional representation falls out as a side-effect.

Until you get very close to the limit case of 1 voter per district, more districts doesn't really reduce the opportunity for gerrymandering.

Simply using a candidate-centered election system which produces proportional results in multimember districts neatly eliminates the benefits of gerrymandering.
Alexis Ohanian on Solving America’s Innovation Crisis
Hey Josh, please forgive the hyperbole of the post title.

I get what you're saying but I think you're taking this in a different way than it was intended. These tools are all something that hopefully helps somebody out (for instance I get emails and tweets about how useful people find ForAGoodStrftime all the time), and as such are a wildly different alternative to me buying a bunch of Google/Facebook/Banner ads.

This isn't about tricking anyone or any scummy advertising, it is much more: "If you found this tool useful, I'd appreciate it if would checkout this other project I've been working on."
It's overvalued if the current price requires 80% revenue growth YoY for the next 10 years at the highest operating margin in the industry (12.5%). That gets us to a price of $160.
Single-to-noise ratio.

You can put it in there, but I probably won't read it. I basically assume that all javadoc/doxygen-style summary/@param/@return-style docs are entirely noise.

I much prefer the "docstring" style comments, especially though in Clojure, or Python.

Examples...

Clojure:

user=> (doc map)
-------------------------
clojure.core/map
([f coll] [f c1 c2] [f c1 c2 c3] [f c1 c2 c3 & colls])
Returns a lazy sequence consisting of the result of applying f to the
set of first items of each coll, followed by applying f to the set
of second items in each coll, until any one of the colls is
exhausted. Any remaining items in other colls are ignored. Function
f should accept number-of-colls arguments.

Python:

Help on built-in function map in module __builtin__:

map(...)
map(function, sequence[, sequence, ...]) -> list

Return a list of the results of applying the function to the items of
the argument sequence(s). If more than one sequence is given, the
function is called with an argument list consisting of the corresponding
item of each sequence, substituting None for missing values when not all
sequences have the same length. If the function is None, return a list of
the items of the sequence (or a list of tuples if more than one sequence).

And on the far other end of the spectrum, here's some C# / MSDN docs:

Syntax

public static IEnumerable<TResult> Select<TSource, TResult>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, TResult> selector
)

Type Parameters

TSource
The type of the elements of source.

TResult
The type of the value returned by selector.

Parameters

source
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TSource>
A sequence of values to invoke a transform function on.

selector
Type: System.Func<TSource, TResult>
A transform function to apply to each element.

Return Value
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TResult>
An IEnumerable<T> whose elements are the result of invoking the transform
function on each element of source.

Usage Note
In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any
object of type IEnumerable<TSource>. When you use instance method syntax to
call this method, omit the first parameter. For more information, see
Extension Methods (Visual Basic) or Extension Methods (C# Programming Guide).

Entertainingly, this is only one of many overloads in the C# version. The
Clojure and Python functions are variadic with parallel traversal of collections.
Those languages spend their precious docs space covering the corner cases.
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Individuals should be able to do whatever the hell they want. But where there are obvious society wide biases in favor of men we shouldn't blame it on the crazy idea that women are choosing to systematically disempower themselves.
> the equivalent of a dog pissing on a lamppost

or a fire hydrant: http://instagram.com/p/fAawhRK-xY/ :)
Oh, come on. If you are going to say things which back up such a potentially sexist and gender role supporting argument, you need to do better than one anecdote you read once.

Read some real anthropological texts, research Sumerians and Ancient Celts. Read Sex at Dawn, there is a lot more to this discussion about gender roles in historical societies than you are touching on.
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There was an episode of Freakonomics Radio not too long ago that discussed risk in different types of societies.

A study did show that a matriarchal society had men who were more risk averse, and women who were less risk averse which implied that it is cultural.
HellMOO (http://www.hellmoo.org) is a fun MUD I've played on and off over the years. If you're in to post-apocalyptic scenarios and pop culture references, this game is for you.
What is your development stack? Visual Studio?
How can you tell? This looks like the kind of thing that would easily appear in Leake Street[1] and I'm sure NY has quality street artists as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leake_Street
http://predictablerevenue.com/blog/a-sell-ideas-not-stuff-ma...
Too often on HN, a "How My Company Did X" post doesn't include how Company actually performed X. They're typically generalized stories about platitudes. Kudos to Groove for following through with a concrete series of steps they performed that helped them accomplish their goal.
Thanks! No more emails now!
Toyota or General Electric are reasonable comparisons, both around 10x Telsa:

TSLA	Tesla Motors Inc	182.14	-1.42	-0.77%	22.13B
TM	Toyota Motor Corp...	129.95	-0.29	-0.22%	205.93B
GE	General Electric ...	24.30	-0.06	-0.23%	247.50B

Of course many slips are possible along the way - not least that Musk could get "hit by a bus".

GE is not a bad comparison: founded by Edison, based on electricity, created power station infrastructure...
You've hit the nail on the head - everyone believes that electric cars will be the predominant type of car sold 20 years from now, but who's to say that Tesla will be the market leader at that point? It would be naive to think that GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc. can't quickly catch up and pass a small company like Tesla.

I wish I could find it, but Warren Buffet had a great quote about new technologies. He said, roughly, that even when everyone knows a new technology is the future, it's still impossible to predict what company will win, and therefore which stock to invest in. He gave many examples: airplanes, radio, television, cars, computers.
Never mind, I misread what you were proposing. The biggest concerns I can see is:

* I doubt twitter will let you just take their API
* No matter how much you try to simplify it, managing this is going to require work. It doesn't seem worth the work just so you can own your 140 character blurbs. I can see businesses wanting twitter on their intranet, but there are already many solutions for this.

I haven't looked too much into it, but you might want to look at the diaspora project as it shares a lot of these concepts.
50-bagger? I'm not that good with the stock market, but doesn't that mean you believe the company could be worth approximately one trillion dollars in 20 years, not adjusting for inflation? Is that reasonable?
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Too much work. Cinder blocks and a wood door.
Right now it's a very expensive short. I would personally wait for retail inflow to peak and short float to dip to 25% or lower.
As a Brazilian, I see these factors (not only for PS4, but for all imported items and some domestically manufactured too):

- Insane taxation ('nuff said);

- Primitive transport infrastructure (bad roads, don't ever try to put something expensive into the postal system (it will be destroyed by mishandling or simply stolen), etc.)

- Dysfunctional economy (change rates float wildly, government manipulation, etc.).

- Inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy (Trying to open a company? Good luck. Trying to close it? Prepare for a nightmare. Needing a permit? Sit and wait, but some public servants may ask money to "speed the things up");

- People are used to pay insane prices for a lot of items (electronic devices, cars, faucets and other bathroom metals (seriously), a housing bubble building up for some years, etc.). This is a major factor, btw. Even there is no real reason for keeping the prices high, they don't fall because people still paying.
The worlds of HFT and the rest of algorithmic trading are very far apart. For HFT pickup the exchange documentation for each exchange. Memorize how order types. Get a copy of RegNMS. Memorize that as well. To be effective an HFT needs to exploit the market structure. Learn how processors work. How do you avoid a pipeline stall or a cache miss? Become an expert in c++. Maybe pickup some verilog for those pesky FPGAs.

The rest of algorithmic trading offers a lot more flexibility. In either case read 'Trading and Exchanges'. It will give you a good overview of the mechanics of all different venue types. Then its thinking about how to build better algorithms then the next guy, or get better data.
What are you comparing? Why is GE a reasonable comparison?
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> I always wince whenever I see a person espousing any inherent gender differences or preferences, because they are consistently ripped to pieces.

Well, there are studies demonstrating the effect of sex hormones on cognition. Also, if there weren't gender differences, there wouldn't be genders.
http://www.shatteredkingdoms.org

Of course this is a MUD and not a standalone game.

"Where Roleplay and Tactics Collide" -- highly addictive, beware!
I bet if you polled the women in Saudi Arabia lots of them would say that they absolutely prefer wearing clothing that reveals nothing but their eyes because to do otherwise would unnecessarily incite men to acts of lust.
VRA is just a law, like this would be.

VRA is used in court challenges to overturn STATE redistricting efforts, but isn't inherently more powerful than any other federal law when "head to head". This law would change/supersede parts of it.
Phil Greenspun's review of Lean In:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/05/12/lean-in/
I'm very glad you're making the executive decision as the CEO to remove the chat feature off the blog as opposed to just doing it.
> What's the solution? I'm not exactly sure, but the list includes term limits

Sounds like a good solution to me.

With term limits, you restrict the benefits of lobbying, reduce corruption, and bring a new vitality to the political process.

I can't even think of a single downside. What benefit could there be in keeping a politician in place for decades? Certainly they will learn how to be a better politician, but how does that benefit the populace?
For HFT the learning requirements are extensive.

It is /almost/ essential to have a PhD in CompSci/EE from a top school to do HFT. Alternatively one should demonstrate extensive hardware/networking and optimisation skills obtained from other low-latency industries.

All of the top work is being done on FPGAs and latency is now on the order of microseconds (probably lower).

As for lower frequency algorithmic trading, that is a game that one can play at the 'retail' level if you're willing to spend (quite a lot of) time learning.

I run a website about algo trading. If you want to get a taste for what is involved have a look at some of the articles here: http://quantstart.com/articles/#algorithmic-trading
> Szasz's "Rat Park" study

I don't believe the study has anything to do with Thomas Szasz, although he may have used it as a supporting example in some of his writings. The study was conducted by Bruce Alexander and his collaborators, at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Lean In Review - Phil Greenspun
I'm sure it does, but does it negate the need for an extra (possibly tiny!) link nearby to a text alternative?
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Why have long lived branches at all?
I'm a little confused by the ending regarding Netflix. I thought Netflix went pilot-less with House of Cards and just paid for a limited exclusive for the whole season. This is pretty different than the described network system.
While there would be some positive aspects of something like that, you'd either have to have it moderated strictly by a trusted moderator or make sure every user understood every line of all code they were executing from the site.

The potential for scripts that did very bad things is immense, especially given how easily you can massively obfuscate JavaScript code.
The FTC is more responsive than NASA
While I am a huge fan of Tesla, and Musk, I think your reasoning is a bit unsubstantiated. While most analysts who don't have their head in the sand would agree that Tesla is an awesome company and has years of explosive growth ahead, there has to be some numerical concept that helps you distinguish a good company from a good investment.

The key concern is all your points still apply if the stock price was $500, instead of $180. At that point would you still invest?

Another way to think of it: If I were to give you one lump sum for half of all of your future earnings (salaries, bonuses, gifts) what would a be a reasonable price that you would sell that to me for? You could be a very capable professional with a lot of earning potential but there is still an upper limit on what I should pay if I plan to come out profitable, correct?
I use CoffeeScript in my day job for the last 2 years.

I've been using TypeScript in my startup the last 6 months.

They are definitely not the same. TypeScript is JavaScript + types, whereas CoffeeScript is a new language, a mashup of Ruby and JS. (For example, you can take any JS on the web, paste it in a TypeScript file, and it will compile. But you absolutely cannot do this in CoffeeScript.)

CoffeeScript tries to do clever things for you, which often results in inefficient code. For example, say you've got a function that ends with a for loop. CoffeeScript will actually convert that into an array allocation and return the result of the array. (Looping over 1000 elements at the end of a function? CS just allocated a new array which will be dynamically resized at runtime multiple times, allocated 1000 buckets for the elements.)

CoffeeScript also can't make up its mind about whether parens are necessary. Function with multiple params? Not necessary. Chained function, like jQuery? Necessary. Most of the time. Function with no params? Necessary, unless you use the 'do' syntax.

It's a mess.

TypeScript, on the other hand, is designed by respected, experienced language designer Anders Heijlsberg. His language wisdom and overall vision for the language shines through.

Bottom line: Both are better than vanilla JS, I'd say. But I work with CoffeeScript when I have to. I work with TypeScript because I choose to.
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> Congress was as unpopular and as full of bad incumbents before the tea party organized.

No, it wasn't. Whatever you think about the opinion claim ("as full of bad incumbents") the fact claim ("as unpopular") is wrong: Congress' current approval ratings are at the lowest since approval of Congress has been tracked.

> Also, the tea party republicans have all been reelected recently, so they can't possibly be caused by the high reelection rate.

Assuming that you mean "first elected" when you say "reelected", which is the only way this claim even makes sense, then, yes, that's true. What they are a in part a product of is not "the reelection rate", per se, but a particular factor which also contributes to the reelection rate, specifically, districts in which there is no substantial party competition.

These districts mean that a committed faction of the dominant party, even if it is not itself an overall majority faction, can keep a candidate in office quite easily.
It's probably on apple's homepage in the same section for the iOS windows dev tools. Please share the link when you find it.
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You seem to regard programming as the act of writing code. I, however, view programming as the act of creating software. And using branches heavily definitely helps me to be better at creating software. Having small feature-specific branches makes it much easier for others to review my code, which increases the quality of the code that gets merged. Improvements in code quality seems like a pretty good definition of getting better as a programmer.
I unsubscribed from all emails and still get them.
The about us section is very broad and I personaly feel that the site needs a few case studies (live or made up possibilities) to outline the service they are or are not offering.

Beyond that if anybody in this feild care to comment as "big data startups" too me covers so many area's that gets down to industry knowledge for leveridging such data. That said whilst they have a nice set of people in the team, they will need industry specialst consultants to help advise in some `big data` feilds. Healthcare, enviroment and goverment being feilds that will only carry on and need better data interactions. With that I did not see anybody catering in the security and legal feild. Many data protection acts and knowing your liabilities and risks via analysis would be huge area which many budding startups will overlook and fail to register with the appropriate legal obligations for the countries involved, which vary from nothing to having to send of in tripplicate forms if you so much as add a extra character to the name feild allowing first names that are 51 characters long instead of 50 (bad example even if it can and does happen).

Still I like the site layout and approach, though does have a business card feel too it in the lack of details and as said some case studies would go down a very long way over having to spoon thru everbodies linkedin profiles and feel old having started with punched cards.
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What's stunning to me is the $110 million dollar judgment. Did the site really make that much money, or is this a decision designed to condemn the founder to a lifetime of poverty?
VS6 was a massive downgrade on VS5, in that the help system was no longer treated as a dockable window within VS. I relied on the documentation at that point, but when VS6 came along it was no longer something I could easily have in front of me, with my code, with the VS window full screen. </nostalgic rant>
The thing I most remember about having to program with Qt was having to convert all my standard C++ types back and forth to QStrings and QLists and QFiles in order to work with the library's APIs, and witnessing what happens when all the QThis and QThat objects start leaking over into your non-UI code if you're not careful.

I've always found it annoying to have to work with frameworks that invade your project with their own type defines, particularly when they are just parallel versions of types already in the language's standard library.
Hi! Author here.

You raise a good point. Indeed, Netflix went pilot-less, but they still paid network-level prices to make the show. Essentially, they skipped the pilot and went straight to the series order (and 2 full seasons at that). In some ways this was a riskier move than the network model.

My argument is mainly that Netflix has the tools at its disposal to get smarter about this process. To be fair, I believe a lot of that $100M was a signaling tactic -- both in Hollywood and as consumer-facing PR -- almost as much to do with marketing the fact that Netflix has originals as it had to do with investing in them.

But the investments needn't always be that big up front.
I second the recommendation of 'Trading and Exchanges'. It's a great book to get insight into how the underlying exchanges work and how to exploit certain architecture to produce profitable strategies.
Do you believe it could be explained eventually by future discoveries utilizing the scientific method?

This is, by the way, the major weakness with Physicalism as an ontology; the scientific method is a great methodology, but it would be foolish to say "the only things that exist are those described by science" since science is, by its very nature, incomplete and continually evolving. One could say, of course, that the only things that exist are those described by some future perfect physics, but this claim is kind of circular/meaningless.

This issue is known as Hempel's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma
Depending on where you live, though, a minimum wage sallary is not a realistic measure of poor people's income. Living in São Paulo for about 6 years now, I've yet to find someone who makes minimum wage. The janitor who cleans my building makes about twice that amount. I think minimum wage is more common in interior cities and in the northern states.
And yes, the contrast between rich and poor is too high. We've thought about moving to Europe, but I think I'll miss the sun too much... I know it sounds silly, but I'm just about to leave São Paulo for its crappy weather, which isn't even that crappy (I can sunbathe in my living room during all winter).
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seems like the more functional-style way of doing it
Agree 1000%. Aside from the extra time playing a video takes (far slower than reading), I wouldn't be suprised if more than half of web users, at any time, are unable to listen to audio.

At work, or on cell phone, it's not like a majority of people have headphones plugged in.

Do the numbers show that videos are so much more effective for engagement and conversion, that it trumps all the people who are unable to watch them?