skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this were true, so what? If you have to reach the 60th percentile, or the 80th, before Americans have stock amounts, why is that a big deal? It's clear that many Americans who are not the ultra-rich/utterly-financially-secure types own stock, and own stock in amounts that are relevant to their own financial health.

I don't think it's helpful to anyone's understanding of any situation to try to pretend that tens or hundreds of millions of Americans -- who are on the whole somewhat wealthier than average -- are mega-rich snobs who drink ten-thousand-dollar-a-bottle wine.
I'm not so sure I agree with that standpoint. Sure, there is a population that doesn't watch any TV; but for a while, it was "Breaking Bad" this, and "Game of Thrones" that. People still like to watch their series, they just like to watch it on their time, be it anime (Crunchy Roll), recent TV (Hulu), movies (Amazon, Netflix, etc), recent televised news and pseudo-news (various news and private websites).

TV as an injestible X amount of time where you're fed pre-recorded or live content isn't going anywhere any time soon. In fact, many services exist to provide even live TV in brand new forms. Twitch.TV and LiveStream come to mind. For modern pre-recorded things, there's YouTube, Vimeo, Vine Videos to some degree, and so on.

TV as defined as radio with pictures (prerecorded, 24-hour, jockeyed video experiences) may be steadily shrinking right now; but TV as a video-based communications platform is far from gone.

Funny enough, I wouldn't be surprised if, if the TV as we know it fades away, new internet tools are brought up which create video playlists that follow your preferences, and play and suggest videos all around that concept so you can watch it in the background, like some TV viewers do. See YouTube playlists and a few other services for examples of this already.
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Comments here seem to be missing the larger point; that being surrounded by tech all the time can be a disorienting experience.

Really, this issue isn't specific only to tech circles. You can get used to your own surroundings in any job and forget that a wider world exists.

It is extremely important to stay grounded so that you don't lose touch with the world around you. I think this guy's approach is admirable, though perhaps he should be getting more sleep.
> while web developers are generally in demand

Do you think it's always going to be like this? I see this sentiment everywhere on HN: "everything's going well, therefore it's always going to be like this!"

I'm not saying it's falling apart, but do you think business-owners like paying developers as much as they do?
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Thanks :). We are looking at all three sources.
Sennnsatioonal!!!

> At age 1, Kristoffer got past the toddler lock screen on a cell phone by holding down the home key.

... uh ... pretty sure because that's because he watched his father doing in order to use the phone.
The buy-side does not become the sell-side when it tries to exit a position.

Buy-side: mutual fund.

Sell-side: market maker.
I get email alerts for every like we get. You might want to check your notification settings.
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Its a sad cliche about the engineer who fails socially.
>But Eich promising to only work against gay people's civil rights in his off hours wouldn't strike me as enough if I were a Mozilla employee.

Do you actually have a source of him saying that? Or are you basing it solely on his political donation?

If that's the case, you're engaging in nothing more than pointless conjecture.
I grepped here and the target page for CPC but I didn't get a critical question answered:

What is Facebook CPC??
My company just published our first programming book, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes. I worked with the author to establish a workflow that leveraged GitHub and markdown, but at the end of the day the material had to be brought into Scrivener for the final production steps.

FWIW, Scrivener has limited markdown support that let me bring in the code blocks and terms that are formatted in the Scrivener editing window. But getting text formatted as code to compile properly to various versions (PDF, epub, mobi, etc.) took some work -- specfically I had to freeze the formatting for every block and term. It was a pain, but the final product turned out well.

The only other thing I would like to add is I wish there were a way to get the Scrivener manuscript back into markdown and Git, for future revisions. Anyone have ideas on how to handle that?
Incidentally, I recently noticed that Digital Ocean was also under attack and our servers were real slow for quite a few days, and i was wondering if Amazon/GoDaddy had anything to do with it :)
All the blockchain is local. The time taken to resolve a key->value pair is the time your software takes to decode information from your disk; it's nothing compared to DNS.

Change propagation, on the other hand, is as long as blocks can travel from peer to peer.
I cashed out my 401k to start a company. I was in a unique situation where I started contributing to my 401k at the very bottom of the recession (luck). The returns on my 401k contributions were greater than 100% by the time I cashed out because the market had fully recovered. The company I previously worked for had 100% matching up to 15k. So, I looked at the penalty and figured since I had quadrupled my money, 10% didn't seem like a concern next to the possibility of creating a successful business.

Ended up working out. Was able to make that money back 5x in 6 months. It was a risky move and I could see it not panning out more often than not. But, to go against the grain here: there is no such thing as 'never'.
Yes, you can transfer names on the blockchain.
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Yeah the second problem was easy to solve with a dilation of -1 about the origin, but then I couldn't do a negative number through the drag interface.
Have you heard of this service called The Internet? It has fantastic weather information and news as well :)
Where can you find affiliate arbitragers like this? Totally get that he/she should be doing this, but how do you find the people doing this effectively? I'm all for paying when someone has figured this out, because the installs I get often make me want to give up trying. Thanks!
So the root cause of the problem "why can't we play outside?" is because "god is dead and we're alone".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idwyuVJ4ug
I took a look at your book and was immersed unil my eyes started itching from strain, I got to the variables chapter.

Very well written, fun to read and immensly useful. Wish I had your book 10 years ago.
Thank you.
Netflix is probably better for kids than adults. For one, they don't have to worry about people spoiling their favorite show in the 1-2 years between airing and arriving on Netflix. For another, kids generally don't mind if the selection is limited because they're OK with watching the same thing over again.
When people honestly see how animals are treated, they are disgusted as well. Those industries go to great lengths to keep their operations private.

Consent is a real issue, and should be part of the equation. Certainly with Children, but with animals as well.
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This may also be a product of scale. Cost per install is likely to change vastly as you increase spend from 40 to 40k.
When something isn't right a long period of time, it's easy to lose perspective on what being well looks and feels like. It may be well worth it to explore your options now while it isn't urgent, until waiting until something changes and you can't deal with it anymore.

Therapists don't prescribe medication- the best they can do is refer you to a doctor or psychiatrist. They can often answer questions about medication though, and help you decide whether that path is right for you. Therapy isn't about medication, it's a different tool altogether.
That's a neat feature! So my aside about single dispatch was misplaced.

What I'm really after though is somewhat the opposite, which is static dispatch so that the functions called are known at compile time and can be optimized that way (I do a lot of numerics coding), so avoiding any method resolution lookup and even the vtable jumps and resulting target mispredicts. That's a nice feature of both type classes and ML's module system as usually implemented in functional languages. One really nice thing is they can also typically "dispatch" statically on return types of functions too which makes for some neat patterns as well using type inference.

Anyway thanks for pointing to that. It definitely beats the visitor pattern as is necessary in Java. And I assume it would work for more than two parameters too, which is another advantage over standard visitor.
Are you saying that you believe he did not spend his free time deciding to donate?
The biggest reason why drug companies don't invest in antibiotics is because if you come up with the best antibiotic ever, it will never get used because docs will save it for the sickest patients.

Hence, you'll never make much money on an antibiotic and likely not even turn a profit.
Your uses of the terms "buy-side" and "sell-side" do not conform to how the financial community (of which the author of this blog post is a member) uses them. It's not the buying vs selling of securities. It's the buying vs selling of financial services (of which liquidity is one).
If HFT GUARANTEES profits, why are the profits to HFTs declining so sharply, and why do HFT firms make such a small fraction of what the buy-side firms make?

Much more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531429
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Well, thank goodness it was only over technical issues.

I was afraid that Linus had discovered that Kay Sievers is (or previously had been) a known acquaintance of Brendan Eich.
I worked for years without an "IDE", within Emacs, spanning multiple languages, including Java and Scala. I was defining snippets for boilerplate, I was using ctags for navigation and the agility with which you can jump around and edit text makes up for the lack of intellisense, etc...

Got used to IntelliJ IDEA for about a year ago. It's nice, but my actual work productivity hasn't increased. Seriously, I now use an IDE because I feel more comfortable within IDEA, as when you're using a text editor, you don't just use a text editor, but rather the entire Unix toolchain and I got tired of stressing out my memory. And btw, I still open Emacs a lot because I'm missing Emacs' macros and undo capabilities amongst others.

If you want an IDE, sure, use an IDE. Learning a new language with an unfamiliar IDE on the other hand is a really bad idea, since instead of learning the actual language, you end up dealing with the toolset.
Well, that's a lot! I didn't expect it to be significant compared to the bitcoin pool.

Do you know how that came to be? i.e how did they convince everyone to start mining namecoin? Or was it just good timing WRT bitcoin?
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Spend 2 hours per night. Don't spend your 401K.

This is basically the equivalent of going back to school and retraining.
This is not a good Hacker News comment. It's glib when it should be substantive, and tries to drum up indignation when it should be reflective.

One of the best things PG ever said about HN is that comments "should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something". I intend to add that to the site guidelines.

Please re-read what you post and, if doesn't have this quality, edit it until it does. If, after editing, there is nothing left, you should have no trouble deleting it (or just not posting). In my experience, this approach works—when one remembers to take it.
I don't really blame them either. Android will not automatically update apps that ask for additional permissions.

I suspect that a lot of users end up never updating apps like this. It makes a lot of sense for the developer to request everything that he might want upfront.
Much like the music industry ~15 years ago, their model is still very profitable. As mentioned in the linked article, their disruptive competition (Netflix et al) has much less revenue per hour of content consumed.

To explore alternative business models would potentially cut into their revenue and threaten relationships with content creators (who they would no longer be able to pay as well). I imagine that this inertia towards change will allow disruptive competition to eat away at their customer base for a few more years, until their attrition is so high that restructuring and providing a-la-carte/on demand service is not just a good, pro-active move to secure their future, but instead an important step to stay in business at all.
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Why don't VC invest in Intl Logistics Companies
I am always baffled, why don't VC invest in International Logistics companies, which are insanely profitable everywhere. I am not talking about Carriers, instead, the 3rd Party logistics companies like us. They are not only profitable, but they also grow like weed. Everytime I see, a random social app, generating tens of millions, I become sad. Because the social app in question, would barely make any tangible profit in any foreseeable future.

Where as in our industry a medium sized company with $1-$5 Million funding can easily pay back the entire investment in 10-15 years. Which one can further invest to open offices in other countries such as China, I don't even need to mention, how much potential China holds for the freight industry.

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People have been writing stuff like this for like 20 years now, ever since the internet became viable for a future of streaming video.

But cable TV has continued on strong. If anything I feel like, despite cable-cutters, the vast majority of people out there still regularly consume cable TV in one form or another. Perhaps what's changed is that the "golden age of TV content" right now feels more like the movie industry, in that big cable networks release big TV series and market them heavily almost as if you were going to the theater to watch a blockbuster movie.

The online streaming services actually seem diluted now, while cable networks have very strong brands; I don't really have netflix but my wife and I have ondemand and a dvr through time warner and 3 different devices to watch amazon through. The fobs you can get from google and amazon and whomever else will continue to dilute that access to streaming (which is good for competition and for DIYers at some point, I suppose)

But really the battle is about whether cable TV will continue to be an always-on service, and in that regard I think it will. Just flip on your TV, which you may have in several rooms in your house, or at your favorite sports bars, or in the office lobby, or wherever. It can be background, it can be a social experience for live sporting events (probably the most compelling reason for keeping cable), etc.

The other component is that video games are now more compelling to play/watch, and in fact a lot of youtube and twitch channels are now regularly consumed by viewers.

I would argue that the "disruption" already happened a long time ago but the cable networks and service providers have adjusted and assimilated to various degrees, such that we now have tons of avenues for stuff to watch.

Maybe this just takes some perspective to see because I feel like people keep predicting cable TV will just die or something, and that seems like such a naive way of looking at the world.
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Does this actually help?

When I'm asked to help screen resumes for potential new coworkers, I mostly care what skills they think they have and what they've been doing the last few years, or if their grammar is particularly bad I worry about possible communication barriers. Pretty formatting or graphics only matter so far as they make it harder to find those things.
When HBO and live sports are online there is no need for broadband provided content.

We just need the pipes and they should be required to have multiple companies in an area. The squeeze will be on GB/per month and they will add capacity very slowly to keep users bumping up against the limits.
Sounds like G+
I have never subscribed to cable TV. TV programming quality sucked in the past. The rise of higher quality shows has coincided with easy availability online, illegal or legal.

Live sports were probably the best reason to keep a cable TV subscription over the past few years, but even that is being replaced by live streaming (see NCAA basketball tournament).

You'd be crazy to bet on anything less than a fully on-demand future. Always-on channels will just be a menu option in the monolithic on-demand service.
I think the somewhat sparse academic research on this topic is quite interesting - "The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch: Auctions as a Market Design Response" by Budish et. al at Chicago (http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...) is one such paper.

The key results in this paper are that:

- market correlations 'predictably' break down at high-frequency horizons

- these correlation breakdowns create a winner-takes-all speed arms race to exploit these opportunities

- a theoretical model can be built to explain the investment in speed as a function of these opportunities

- this model reduces to the prisoner's dilemma from game theory

- the equilibrium state of this model is an environment higher spreads and thinner markets than is socially optimal (without the arms race).

It's a very interesting and readable paper, peppered with interesting market observations and theoretical insights.
The CO sensor in Nest is designed to last 7 years. The Nest has a built in timer that will start chirping after 7 years, forcing you to throw it away.

Most modern CO alarms last 10 years. Nest chose the smaller sensor, which dies sooner. Very poor decision on their part.

For more detail:
Nest uses a CO sensor by Figaro, TGS5342. This is a smaller version of Figaro's TGS5042. The CO sensor is filled with a water reservoir, with some air inlets to let gas enter. Over several years, the water evaporates out of those air inlets and the sensor dies.

Nest's smaller sensor has as smaller water reservoir, which means it doesn't last as long as the other alarms with a larger reservoir. First Alert uses the larger TGS5042 sensor, therefore it lasts longer. Kidde uses their own sensor, which also lasts 10 years.
Wonderful idea!
Okay, now I understand. Good point. I wash my hands more frequently, because I eat with them, and I sometimes wash my body including ....
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First, I'm very sorry about that!

Second, wow, a scale factor of 256! Off the top of my head it might be numerical error building up. If that's the case, I'm very sorry. (It's also sometimes possible to get infinitesimally close to the target without technically reaching it mathematically, in which case the interface unfortunately looks like the answer is correct, when it's not.)

All of the puzzles are solvable with dilations of scales only 2 or 1/2.
The shower in my parents house has this. Since 1984. Mechanically. And working perfect.
That's probably obvious to just about everybody, but here's an important question: when does that fully on-demand future come? You'd be crazy to put your bets in on-demand if it's still 50 years out. That's where most of the disagreement stems from, and as a result that's the real opportunity for money to be made.
App install advertising is totally different from CPC.
Not qualified to comment on the logo design.

It's just in a haphazard location. Humans read left to right and are attracted to faces. The logo is off there in the lower left corner. The lady is to the right of the copy. If this ad were in Hebrew, that would be fine, because that language reads right to left. English goes left to right.

'Better' copy is what tests better with the market. I do not know what is better. I have inklings on what direction to move in to improve the campaign.

I would test the current image copy vs. 'Join the 100,000+ people like you who have saved money with BudgetSimple.'

Body copy test: You can become financially secure using our free budget planning service.

Button test: 'I want my free budget' or 'Teach me to save money' -- 'learn more' is too generic.

Like most ads for tech of most kinds this is a little too heavy on the features and not enough on the 'what's in it for me?' No one cares about 'getting a better understanding of their finances' except accountants. No one gets excited about budgets except for politicians eager to spend money that belongs to other people.

Individuals want more money. They want safety. They want financial security. They want control over their own life.

If the OP wants to run a female-targed campaign, it'd be a great opportunity to pose as the authority and quote a magazine article about the problems that some women have with credit card debt or general financial planning, and reference that in the ad. This just comes to mind because a friend of mine wrote a feature for Cosmo on this topic a couple years ago. Ads that do not come off as pushy and instead present themselves as trustworthy, useful information can win over the trust of the target audience better.

If it is really just Oz, then Oz up the ad. Australians would care more about joining 20,000 other Australians just like them than 100,000 Yanks, for example.

There is a dude who runs a budgeting business off of Something Awful banner ads that I remember from a few years back that uses goon jargon to establish rapport with the target audience. He succeeded by matching the tone and content of his message to the readers in the right context.
> which also means you can not go whenever you don't want.

So ... I still have to go?
wow! minus-4 on that post!

hey, _i_ wasn't responsible for the fact that
atwood's call resulted in _nothing_happening._

i was one of the people who hoped that it would!

but the hard cold truth is that it went nowhere.

it produced zilch, nada, zip. nothing but hot air.

gruber basically squashed atwood, and that was that.

so let me see if i understand this correctly:

if you _ask_ the question, you get 11 points of "karma".

and if you _answer_ it, truthfully, you get -4 points.

-bowerbird
When I was a kid someone slashed the tires and cut the brakes of all the school buses. Even if it was to get out of school, that's a very fine line between "just for a giggles" so while the probability may be small it's certainly nonzero. I would put the probability of your two identified events at closer to each other than you'd both expect and hope.
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Note that you can use namecoin blockchain with your DNS and HTTP tools with dnschain [0]. Check this out:

$ dig @dns.dnschain.net okturtles.bit

$ curl http://dns.dnschain.net/d/okturtles

Both of them will resolve to whatever info is stored in d/okturtles domain.

With the (soon-to-be) DANE support (for those who forgot: DANE is about distributing TLS keys through a channel you trust (it comes from the domain you're visiting) but that is not the same as the final application (it's DNS, not HTTP/SMTP/IMAP/XMPP/etc), so you can prevent MiTM), I don't see what's missing technically to have our own internet.

[0] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
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Let's use an example that everyone is already familiar with.

Everyone knows you can get more for a used car if you sell it yourself instead of trading it in. Yet millions of people trade in their cars. Why? Because it's easier and faster.

The difference in price they get from the dealer vs Craigslist is the price they are paying for liquidity in the transaction.
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