skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That being said, the problem is that third class mail is a lot more revenue than most people realize. For example $5/mth is not enough to cover the loss revenues. In fact I would suspect that $20-$50/mth is not enough. Think how much mail you get on a daily basis, multiplied by x amount times 30 days. You're probably looking at closer to $100/mth...

I find that hard to believe.

Think about it for a moment. How much do you think the coupon vendors actually make per customer? Even (or maybe even especially) the type of person who clips coupons isn't going to spend that kind of money on discount toilet paper and 'invest in mail-order gold' scams or whatever is being flogged. The people targeted by that garbage don't have a lot of money to begin with.

$1,200 per year per postal customer would indicate that postal spam results in nearly an order of magnitude more revenue per user than google, who makes on the order of $130/user/year.

Yeah, I doubt very much that the post office is getting $1,200 per year in advertising revenue per user.

references:

http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-ad-revenue-per-user-2...
Last I looked, this seemed exciting but a little hand-wavey with regard to the ability to have a rig-proof/blockade-proof vote.

Really wish the documents were in text/markdown/HTML instead of PDFs... would be much easier to review (and help improve).
For the record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
Quite hard to do this reliably with 1000's of signals in a constricted space. It also requires considerably more circuitry than wiring would, the very first trick of routing is that you try to do your placement in such a way that the routing of signals is trivial. This is of course not always possible and it's a very complicated problem at chip scale but I don't see how adding 1000's of RF based signals would help here. You simply have to make sure that stuff stacked vertically lines up where you want the interconnects to be. After all, RF would not only require a lot of bandwidth, it would also right away require error correction and all kinds of transmission lines.

Optical would probably be even better than RF (and that too has its problems).
If you have recommendations for books on amd64 assembly -- ideally ones that focus on running under a free Unix stack (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) rather than a Microsoft stack where the books address such things -- I'd love to see them. I did a very little bit of playing with real mode x86 assembly back when MS-DOS was my day-to-day OS, but that's a mite dated now.
Seems to be open source now: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
Yeah, just stumbled upon it the other day. Impressive indeed. Markdown, reST, LaTeX, project-based file management, Git integration… One author, >2000 commits in under a year, actively maintained. Some devs are just these brave silent workers…

Plus, open source: https://github.com/hsk81/notex
Thanks for the advices.
That sounds interesting. Consider putting it up on Github or some such.
>>I just think it's a bit weird to laud the increase of subjective reporting when it realistically also represents a decline in objective reporting.

This is only true if you believe that the total amount of "reporting" available is static. That is not true. In fact, it's arguably been the reverse, as the factors that have allowed more subjective reporting have also enabled more to go into objective journalism (just Youtube alone has enabled more to provide truly objective journalism in the form of easy filming). The journalism game is not zero sum. It is likely correct that the percentage of journalism that objective-style journalism has gone down, but it's almost certainly not true that objective-style journalism has decreased in a raw sense (for one, investigative journalism has never been more attainable for those not specifically employed to do so - the fact that there are less writers who are specifically employed to do so doesn't mean the amount occurring has decreased).

There is also likely some level of nostalgia-based reasoning here, since prior to the internet, it was substantially easier for those in control of the distribution channels to get away with embellishment, while today, inaccuracies would be caught much faster.
I've heard my chip designer friend mention in passing that the "Chinese wall" between the Samsung fab group and the Samsung design groups is occasionally porous.
I want to help you so I'm going to be honest. I don't think its a good idea. Maybe i'm not understanding it correctly but how i see it is that this is AirBnb for haircuts.

If so i think there is a contradiction. I think there are 2 types of people who get haircuts. One that goes for cheap and other goes for quality. Both of these are achieved by picking the right salon. Thats why hairdresser works with the salon...

I dont think future of haircut is to remove the middleman of salons. Salons are essential.

I hope this helps.
If that were true, why wouldn't some startup pay the best programmers it could find $2,000,000 a year and put everyone else out of business?
That suggests an interesting alternative path: WORM style flash, where you simply keep on adding at the end.
This is great, reading through it now.

What do you think about Dalvik's register based VM ?

Have you looked http://www.jopdesign.com/ ?

Are you doing anything hardware related these days ?
Why do you think there is so much private interest in Space technology and space exploration and such ?
One thing that seems to be glossed over in his argument is the impending move to 450mm wafer technology. That should allow Intel and others to continue shrinking at reasonable cost.
There are always evolutionary pressures. In this case, they would have to retain superficial usefulness to humans (at least for a while), while propagating themselves across the infosphere. They would also compete against other AI systems. Imagine SIRI vying for smartphone market share, to maximize economic return thus available processing power. Not because SIRI wants it, or wants anything. But SIRI-like systems that changed to more optimally fit this ecosystem would thrive, and others wither.
I read on the web that Steve Jobs wanted to go for full fledged war on Android ...etc, no matter of costs involved. But that was back when he was alive and both Android and ios are in fancy. It was an emotional burst. Steve Jobs was known for changing mind, if different options arise on horizon. So if he is alive, he may take different turn in this episode, rather than just fighting and fighting in the courts.

But since it is well publicized that Steve wanted to battle Android at any cost, Apple's current leadership may not have space to back down because if they back down, share holders, press, loyal fans may feel as going against Steve's last wishes...etc.

As article shows, Tim cook tried to caution multiple times, even when Steve was alive. In that sense, it is "reluctant war" on behalf of Tim cook and my guess is, he wants to settle the distraction/media glare and move on.

I read somewhere that Steve wanted Tim cook to make decisions not as what Steve would do ...etc but based on current reality. Ordered penalty is just a drop in Apple's revenue. But the constant media focus, important supplier relationship with Samsung, Tim Cook's own reluctance (despite public utterances), antipathy to patent fights in tech world means there will be gradual burial of this issue over time and focus on battle through new products/improvements.

I guess Steve also would do the same. He settled with Microsoft in the beginning to avoid distraction and focus on new products. There will be short term backlash but if they are right on roadmap, people see that as masterstroke ...etc.

Note: This is my view/guess as an outsider based on what I read about Steve Jobs, Apple ...etc.
If you’re looking for an open source, self-hosted, webbased plain-text editor, that supports Markdown, reST, and LaTeX, and has Git integration too: just stumbled upon https://notex.ch/ — quite impressive work. Doesn’t look as nice as Prose.io e.a., but even the GUI is well-done.
Tutorial to Hack WEP wireless network and gain access to  the network.
Does Apple really spend $3B+ on R&D? That's interesting.
Natural wings are also the result of a billion years of Darwinian evolution, and people's efforts to engineer imitations of them failed laughably until someone figured out the principles upon which they worked. Once that happened, human intelligence was very quickly able to engineer machines that produced far, far more lift than the designs nature had been tinkering with.
I think "heading in the direction of stability" and "stabilizing" are the same thing. But pedantry aside, it does really seem to me that the breaking changes going on now are fundamentally different in character than those that used to happen - they are much less about experimental functionality, and much more about "let's fix as many of our frustrations as possible before we're stuck with them". For instance, the specific change under discussion would (I think) be fairly easy to re-add backwards compatibly, but probably impossible to remove.

But meh, this maybe ours is a (boring) purely definitional disagreement - I think we can consider it stabilized once the language and standard libraries have been frozen and only bug fixes and minor changes are occurring.
Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [video]
I don't think i know anything anymore.
Nice one. I always found password managers a bit annoying to use, so this is a great alternative
It is very easy to setup a shared git server.

http://git-scm.com/book/ch4-6.html
>> why we should believe that there is a business model out there that doesn't grossly warp coverage

We should believe that this business model exists if we believe that there is a demand for a truly unbiased, unwarped news outlet. If there is truly a demand, then whatever outlet provides it will be so successful that the business side will have no trouble selling advertisements (or advertorials, which are only a problem to me if not called out - and in many cases just end up functioning as extremely high quality native ads, rather than ruining journalism).

The problem arises if there is not a substantial demand for this, but that is much more of a civic problem than a journalism problem. If someone writes perfect, high quality, objective journalism, but no one reads it or even cares to know it exists, what then?

My read? Some reporters will be out there, gathering news, and the very best will rise. What we call journalism (editorials and investigative pieces) will remain in existence, but will move to personal blogs, websites of what were once traditional newspapers, and new media (places like Grantland, Slate, The Atlantic's website, Vanity Fair's site, etc.). There will also be a major increase in local, citizen generated coverage of news, and what used to be local newspapers and news stations will becoming aggregators of local content. I don't really think much changes about journalism beyond opening it up to more people and changing the medium/deliverer of news.
Reaching out to the authorities may take much longer or even be ignored, and causing a PR stink may be a much more effective approach. As an example, the SEC was contacted with regards to Bernard Madoff likely running a ponzy scheme as early as 1999, yet went largely ignored for a decade.

Just because you contact authorities doesn't necessarily mean they believe you or even care, regardless of how much actual evidence you have (of which the OP has presented none, by the way.) Causing a PR stink raises the profile of the issue, and could be a much more effective approach to getting the authorities attention.

That said, I don't believe OP's story for a second, for many of the same reasons other have cited. If this was a true case of whistle blowing, there would be tangible evidence but the OP has presented none.
Wait a minute... I thought the notion that saturated fat caused heart disease was settled science. That we had a consensus. Now we realize we're wrong? That scientists cherry-picked data, had inadequate controls? That "too much institutional energy and research money had already been spent ... A bias in its favor had grown so strong that the idea just started to seem like common sense."

The tragedy is that after generations of blind, almost religious belief in flawed science those raised on a diet of synthetic fats, sugar, and refined flour are suffering obesity and diabetes like never before.
This case is extremely interesting, because it presents a very difficult problem. What is it that Knight could have done to prevent such a serious error from occurring?

At the core it seems is that each application server is effectively running as root. Having enormous capacity to cause immediate damage. The lesson from http://thecodelesscode.com/case/140 is to "trust no-one". This implies having automated supervisors that has the capacity or authority to shut down machines. This is difficult, and difficult to reason.

Secondly, it warns us of the dangers of sharing global variables/flags. Humans lack the capacity to reason effectively what happens when a repurposed flag gets used by an old piece of code. That should be sufficient heuristic to avoid doing so. This is utterly preventable.

Thirdly, incomplete/partial deployment is extremely dangerous. While assembly signing and other approaches work for binaries, there's nothing said about configuration files. Perhaps, best practice in highly dangerous situations require configuration to be versioned and checked by the binaries as they load. After all, a configuration represents an executable specification. Similarly, relying on environment variables is extremely risky as well.
1. Who is making the offers? Your average hairdresser is an employee, they have no interest in spending their day managing offers online, and it doesn't offer them the experience they're looking to gain. This means the salon will need to hire another person that can make offers to individuals online, or the owner themselves will need to take on this extra work. This can't be anyone, they need to be familiar with different hairstyles, their difficulty, and rates.

2. How much time does it take to acquire a customer by making offers? What happens if the customer asks questions online? How much is a price for X? Oh, that's too much, what about if I do Y? Would you be willing to lower your offer from $25 to $20? Then, they disappear. I have a feeling they'd waste a lot of time making offers, while seeing little return. The cost is simply too little for the time spent communication with individuals.

3. How does this compare to hiring someone to stand in front of the store waving a sign? As someone else said, haircuts are impulse purchases for a lot of people, so if you have someone standing on the street, telling people walking by that haircuts are 10% off today only, would they bring in more customers then someone online making competing offers? With the sign, at least the person is already standing next to your salon, so they'll convert to customers better than someone online.

4. Who is this for? Most people have a regular hairdresser that they have a relationship with, so I'd think they're unlikely to change. When I relocate to a new city, I just check Google maps for barbershops or salons, and the majority have reviews. I pick one closest, with positive reviews, that focuses on men's hair. That's it.

The idea of businesses making offers to customers isn't a bad one, but I think you need to rethink the niche, hairstyling isn't a business where I could see this working.

Edit: I had to step out for a bit. To expand though, what if you applied this to a different industry, like cars? I could say I'm looking for a 4 door car, max budget X dollars, and local dealers could submit cars they have available with their best offers. Car dealers are pretty competitive, so I think they would be more willing to put forth effort to chase customers than a hairstylist. Also, if you make a sale, you could earn a thousand in commission, instead of $2. I'm not saying it'll work, that was just a general suggestion for why you might want to look towards other markets.
Having a VM and two separate places for the canonical repo is bad policy. If you have this centralized server why do you also have Github?
I believe that technically, in English, "he" is the correct gender neutral pronoun. It just feels wrong so people commonly try to find other options.
Lords of the Viral Internet
I wouldn't underestimate our ability to through raw power at a problem. Imagine if we can give each process its own cpu/ram (with some mechanism of accessing a segment of another process's ram if given permision). Not only would this be good for security, responsiveness, general parallelism, but it would also reduce a lot of the complexity we have in emulating concurrency in software.

Of course this also assumes that power is free.
Well, I'm sure they discuss that risk in the actual paper. But it's worth noting that they've done far more research into the topic than people who repeat the myth that uptalk is "girl talk".
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SpaceX lawsuit stops U.S. Air Force from buying Russian rocket engines
It's a repeated meme that Apple should "stop litigating and get back to innovating" as if the organization is incapable of doing both. I disagree that Apple should back down. Tim Cook's advice was given at a time when Apple was more dependent on Samsung as a supplier, and being in charge of operations that was his concern. Since then Apple has diversified away from Samsung (and continues to do so). It is most definitely not in Apple's best interest to let Samsung continue as they have throughout their history, in terms of IP infringement, without a cost. The alternative is to become a victim like the many other companies mentioned in the article.
Moore's Law is already mostly dead (for Intel). Look how little they add in performance with each new generation. At best, they get some significant gains for ultra-specific instructions by adding accelerators to their chips (say for computational photography or whatever), but that's something everyone else can do, too, and at that point we're not talking about CPU performance anyway.
The most recent research still upholds that saturated fats, over and above their contribution to obesity, are a worse risk than polyunsaturated fats.

A meta-analysis of 8 randomised controlled trials with 13 thousand subjects showed that a 5% total energy substitution from saturated to polyunsaturated fats reduced risk of coronary heart disease by 10%.[1]

The point about substituting hydrogenated fats is good; but it's hardly an argument for switching back to saturated fat. It's an argument in favour of not eating unhealthy food in the first place.

But that's not how you sell books, is it?

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20351774/
Two Things:
1. The link to view the Github projects sites are wrong, they attach the prose.io domain to the actual domain.

2. It's cool that there is a publish button that shows if it has been published, but then when I clicked on it, it said it would be unpublished. I know I have to save first, but that was kind of bad UX. Also when I click it again to set it back to publish, the record still appears to be dirty, with changes to save. Kind of unsettling since I was just browsing to see the functionality.

One more thing: Is there a service (hosted or otherwise) that has this kind of web based editing with a preview of MY website, not just the plain Markdown? I like that non devs could edit it, but we also have our own CSS that could change the way it looks (video embedding, etc.).
Yeah, but the Samsung litigation is not the only patent affairs that Apple has.

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-apple-spend-patents-1...
because unless you can work 40 hours a week and spend another 20 learning new techs as they come out for the entirety of your life, you will become obsolete unless you can move onto other roles. If management is not an option, then chances are very likely that person will be unemployable somewhere between ages 40-50.

and that's only one problem. you may reach (or ever want to) the top, but if there is a low ceiling that is going to put so many pressures on your career.
It depends on where you live in the Bay Area. If you avoid San Francisco and the peninsula then housing I'd about the same as the rest of California.
> Now we realize we're wrong?

Nope. "We" have realised that there's money to be made in selling contrarian diet books that tell people what they want to hear.
Your second line is the same that was used in regards to global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. It's a straw man, since nobody (sane) is saying it's 100% the fault of humans. That doesn't mean we can't affect something that large, we just take some time to do so.
would be interesting to know what tool they used to draw the actual borders
This is exactly why even though I graduated with an engineering degree, I went straight into business.

I didn't want to have to make that jump to management. Rather, I started with an analytical role and moved up (well I actually left soon after).

While there aren't many exec-level programming jobs out there, there are plenty that still require analytical skills. While none of the execs where I worked crunched numbers themselves, they reviewed other work and poked holes in business analyses. I think analytics career paths are perfect for the people who like engineering but want the upward mobility into management.
My theory is lock the front and the back and camouflage the house.
Thanks, agreed, I just responded to another guy and used that term before I saw your comment. :-)
The fact the we can't manufacture transistors cheaper doesn't mean we won't see big jumps in compute value.We could seem improvements from fpga's(500x max),approximate computing(100x-1000x), packaging(3x-10x) or the radical option of analog computing(6-9 orders of magnitude for brain simulation etc).

Also, there's still huge amount of value to unlock from software, interfaces and the rest.Just look at the iphone where most of the value comes from a great touch interface and an app store. Moore's law is just a bonus.
> 15 years? I'd say no longer than 25 years

Sounds reasonable, considering that we were at 1GB (HDD in laptops) 20 years ago.
Yes: https://github.com/prose/gatekeeper

I believe all the gatekeeper does is forward the oauth confirmation callback to prose so the client side app can use it.

So, anyone worried about security can run their own gatekeeper and their own prose without having to worry about the NSA (oh, wait…)
The title was better before the edit, since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction, has been borrowed in many contexts, and the additional title material clarified that it was borrowing that title to talk about an experience in a particular field.

I'm always sad when titles get edited to "match the post" in a way that actually removes clarity as to what the linked material is.
I love the concept, though the speed boost mechanic destroys the stealth mechanic that I think you were going for. Those who eschew stealth and just get good at knife fighting mow down everything in their path, dummies and stealth players alike.
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I've heard multiple bad experiences. No good ones.
If Fingerworks didn't patent the feature before then, then it was public domain by the time it was demonstrated.

Though frankly, it would still be a BS patent.
Doesn't work on chrome for me.
Aspects – Aspect Oriented Programming in Objective-C
One thing I can predict with complete confidence is that we have no clue what the path forward for improving computer processing power will be from 2022. It's fun to speculate but that's a long time for new technologies, approaches, and architectures to take hold. Intel isn't the only company with an interest in improving the state of the art here.