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Simply Measured Engineer here! To clear up your question, we define Brand Engagement as:

"The total number of likes, comments, and shares on Brand Posts that occurred during the reporting period." -- SM Help Docs

I'm guessing that it wasn't spelled out in the post because Contently and our original article are primarily aimed at Social Media Marketers, and the definition is fairly well established.

While the definition is established, we've published some articles that dig deeper into engagement:

Looking into the different pieces/parts:
http://simplymeasured.com/blog/2013/11/18/likes-are-passive-...

and looking at a more relative number:
http://simplymeasured.com/blog/2014/02/19/facebook-engagemen...
I loved Infocom adventures. Harry Potter owes a great deal to The Enchanter.
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Most of the JSON conversions from XML get it all wrong though. XML is not really an object (dict, hash) based meta-schema. It's an array-based meta-schema. XML->JSON conversions should look something like this:

[ {"tag":"something", "attributes": { ... }, "nodes": [ ...] }, ... ]

with nodes being objects with one key to indicate if the node is a text node or an element, and if a text node then a value, and so on.
I love the idea of coding on a giant virtual wraparound screen but I'm not sure even a DK2 is going to be up to it. Think about it: The text in your windows can't look "fuzzy" (antialiased or rendered) at all. It really has to be "pixel perfect". We go nuts around here over fonts that get this or that pixel in just the right place on a given serif.

If you doubt it, try setting your monitor to something other than its native resolution and coding for a while using the interpolated resolution. I'm afraid text in floating 3d windows on vr sets is going to look like that for a long time to come.

I'm still going to try, dammit.
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I think it would be more reasonable to complain about consolidation combined with regulatory capture being a big problem.

In some parts of the world regulation of corporate behaviour is an adversarial process. In the US it is often designed to improve the market for large companies.

(I also find it difficult to view a statement like "consolidation is the biggest problem in the world" as anything but lacking some perspective. I suspect you may like to revisit that idea)
This comment breaks the two most important rules of HN threads: to say something of substance and to be personally civil.

A good version of this comment would teach us something about how sales really works, while being polite.
I was also thinking of Xiki (http://xiki.org/) + jq.

A Unix-like shell with JSON for object serialization could approximate the PowerShell, no? Think of ksh93's awful compound variables... done right.
Then perhaps he was the wrong person to do the article considering thats quite a contrast to Adria's (who has quite established ethos in tasting/food) seemingly positive opinion of meal.
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Do you already have a marketing plan prepared? (And a business plan?)
Exactly. We'd only call the interface 'Mappable' if the method was called 'map', and that's something that's come from mathematical terminology.

(I'd probably have called the 'Map' class 'Dictionary', if that hadn't already been taken!)

I'd avoid 'replaceEach', because it sounds like it mutates the receiver. Maybe 'withEachReplaced'? Way clunky. In Smalltalk, this method is called 'collect', which is better than 'map', to my eyes, but still not all that obvious [1].

[1] Smalltalk has the names collect, inject, select, and reject for its map, foreach, filter, and complementary filter methods, because of a song: http://smalltalkzen.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/arlo-guthrie-an...
> And in the UK after enough IRA bombs in wastebins.

But bizarrely not in Northern Ireland... bins galore when I was growing-up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896621
> who has access to it
You can get the ANPR database under FOI https://github.com/johnschrom/Minneapolis-ALPR-Data
"Likes" are like currency that is virtually free of cost, and I think the younger crowd has no problem giving away likes. They don't have the stigma / fear of spam, data mining, etc. that the HN crowd does.
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and yet the Guardian (in Australia) which is owned by a trust spends the centre of its landing page real-estate on tacky opinion pieces to compete with local tacky opinion pieces.

Article such as "Can you <insert phrase> and still call yourself a feminist (immediate bingo if there reference is to sex/porn)" and "Twerking - everything you need to know" have begun to appear[1]

I am not sure if a Trust, or philanthropic entity solves the problem while we still refer to DailyMail or HuffPo as a 'news site'. 'Trash aggregator' would be more appropriate.

[1] Made up titles.
I remember at the start of the year they were saying they would probably roll out free SSL this year. We are less than half-way through the year.
You aren't a day over 19, are you?

P.S. No, wait, I can't really tell, if you are being sarcastic or not, so sorry if you are.
Only tangentially related: if you like cooking and understanding what you do, Jeff Potter's Cooking for Geeks is a wonderful book.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805890.do
Beyond the reachability limit, there's something even sadder, but possibly even more poetic: the comoving future visibility limit. That's the surface beyond which, although matter may exist, light from it will never reach us. In terms of time, it's very, very early - before the luminous phase of the big bang which gives us the cosmic microwave background.

It's the very last thing on the map of the universe:

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
For a very long time newspapers and local television stations had a near monopoly on local media. That put them in a unique position to serve as a conduit not just for news but also for things like business advertisements, all of which was enormously lucrative. Many folks fell into the trap of thinking that because local reporting was highly needed and very popular that it was good. You see that in the way that newspapers and journalists are portrayed through most of the 20th century.

And then along came the internet, the king of all disintermediators. First local print news lost its readership and ad revenue, and many thought it was a matter of media, printed matter vs digital matter. Then over many years a lot of newspapers shut down, while others attempted to modernize and enter the digital age. And now we're at a stage where the truth is harder to hide from. The fact is that most journalism just isn't very good, and never has been. But when it was the only thing available it was better than nothing so it was consumed regardless.

Now the regurgitation of wire reports, simple duplicate coverage of a story, and uncritical passing on of news releases from 3rd parties holds no value. Those are things that rely on distribution, and in the internet age that is trivial. This puts into sharper focus the kernel of original, serious reporting that journalist do. And it turns out they have historically done very, very little, and even less of it of any serious value.

The problem isn't that print journalism uses an outdated media, the problem is that the vast majority of what used to pass for journalism is now largely redundant. And most traditional news organizations still don't realize this or understand that the news organizations which will be able to survive in the 21st century will be very, very different from those of the past, and not just old organizations with a few modernizations bolted on. That's a tough pill to swallow because it means both that most journalists have quite frankly not been doing worthwhile work, it also means that there is no place for the vast majority of traditional journalism jobs. People within the industry naturally flinch away from such hard truths, but it won't stop them from being true.
Seriously: why is the fathers day on different days in different countries? Here, in Austria, Father's day was last week on sunday.
But using the Gatorade example, if I already like gattorade, presumably I buy it already so I don't need incentives. It is almost like finding out who doesn't like Gatorade so tthey can be targettted.
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Same as always, miners realized GHash had 51% and some subset of them moved to a different mining pool.

Tragedy of the commons averted, for now.
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This is pretty cool as far as tech goes, but also seems rather ridiculous practically. Productivity with a HMD will likely amount to a lot more than the same 2D dynamic images we already have(screens) being placed arbitrarily in 3D space. What will it look like instead? one may ask, to which I have no definitive response.

What we have here seems like an extrapolation of what we have now, which may prove fruitful if we have nothing else to go off of (and is the nature of incremental progress). If I had many more monitors I'd place a class (or any other abstraction) on every screen, so maybe every class will have its own 2D plane of text and they'll be organized semantically & dynamically in 3D space. Also resolution here needs to be really really high. Idk, just interesting food for thought.
I think the most straightforward way is via a phase diagram that is contoured for density (lines of constant density are called isochores).

For example: http://eurjmin.geoscienceworld.org/content/15/5/773/F3.large...

A straightforward way to distinguish between liquids and gasses is their density. Liquid water is a high density fluid and steam is low density fluid.

There is line on the phase diagram that separates the liquid field from the vapour field. On that line is the only place on the diagram where liquid and vapour can coexist, i.e. where boiling can occur. It happens to be the case that the surface of the earth is in the liquid field, but within vicinity of that line, so if you heat some water up, you can watch it boil. However, at ~250°C, you need to be at a pressure of ~4 MPa to observe boiling. At those conditions the density of the liquid will be ~0.8 g/cc and the vapour ~0.2 g/cc.

The liquid-vapour phase boundary (the boiling curve) terminates at the critical point (647 K and 22.064 MPa). Above the critical point H2O is supercritical. On inspection of the phase diagram we see isochores radiating out from the critical point. Above the critical point the density of water can vary smoothly as a function of P and T, and there is no boiling, condensation, etc.

I don't know anything about power generation, but presumably when you can maintain temperatures higher than the T of the critical point, you don't have to worry about losing energy to phase changes.
The companies are pulled from Interbrand's top 100 Global Brands 2013, then sorted by Engagement on Facebook.

More info in the study we released last year: http://simplymeasured.com/blog/2013/07/23/facebook-study/ (click the 'Download' to get to the PDF, look at last page.)

I think what you're asking is, why care about these companies, when there isn't a single post that'll make a sale. The difference is the line between Advertising and Marketing... These are companies that had created content compelling enough to convince the public to engage with their Facebook Brand. They aren't there because they post the most, or because they spend the most... it's because their content engages the most.

And it's the companies that were the best that were hit hardest. While these companies certainly use advertising, their brands had been strong enough to sustain engagement numbers that make you pause, and wonder what the hell is Intel doing that gets people to like/share/comment their posts more than BMW, Harley-Davidson or Starbucks. But you're right... ALL of these products mostly sell themselves... because they've built such a brand that it's hard to imagine anyone making a decision to NOT buy their product.
I found that changing your mind is heavily dependent on one's internal honesty. If you care more about the truth than about your own opinions, if you avoid being attached to your own beliefs, then it's actually not that hard to change your mind after encountering new evidence.

Actually, that's one of the main reason I frequent HN - in the comments I quite often encounter knowledgable people arguing for beliefs different than mine. By reading and sometimes participating in discussions here I get to constantly re-evaluate the reasons for what I believe and, occasionally, to change my mind.
No, the ASU (which is part of the government) is doing its job. Starbucks is forking over a few hundred dollars per worker as a perk.
Another 3D Wayland compositor example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjuPn7MXMs
Starbucks didn't crawl to the cushier half of the Fortune 500 on a corporate mission statement of "chill vibes". Would of made them has-beans (had-beans?) long ago.

You're right in that all parties win. But we would be all joshing ourselves if we didn't acknowledge that the muse beckoning to the boardroom here was the profit-motive.

I'm not doubting their were some well-intentioned individuals involved in this initiative - hats off to them. Just saying let's be realistic about why this is happening.
I believe his comment was very tongue in cheek.
Why are people down-voting this comment? Is being correct not allowed? In Australia it is often not sunny for days on end, also it is often not windy for days on end, over huge areas of land - you know, like, bigger than a lot of European countries.

For wind and solar to be economically competitive with coal / gas / nuclear they have to be at price parity including 24+hrs storage. This isn't going to happen any time soon without massive government incentive.

Professor Barry Brook of Adelaide University has been blogging about this for a good few years now. We need to think critically about 'sustainable energy'. I encourage you all to read his blog [1], particularly the TCASE [2] (Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy) series.

Let's level the playing field: ultimately there are only two good metrics worth considering a) life-time cost per kWh and b) life-time CO2 emissions per kWh --- but to level the playing field you need to consider each generating technology on a base-load comparison. It's no good comparing a 1GW gas plant and a 1GW nameplate solar installation because the sun only shines about 6.5hrs per day averaged throughout the year in, say, Adelaide for example, so you typically need to over-build solar by a factor of 4 and then add storage. When you do that the life-time cost and life-time CO2 emissions aren't so crash got because of the massive amounts of energy intensive stainless steel, steel, and concrete required, plus new transmission lines.

If you want to see a real-world example of how wind does work, check the UK National Grid Status site [3] - the wind hasn't been blowing in the UK for weeks, presently their 8GW of installed wind is generating 0.82GW electricity.

The data speaks for itself, look at the graphs. A vote for wind / solar is a vote for new gas _because_ gas is easily load following. Of course, the gas plant owners don't like that because when the wind blows their plants sit idle.

The whole renewable energy push is an expensive mess. I've commented elsewhere on HN about this, so I'll stop repeating myself now.

1. http://bravenewclimate.com/

2. http://bravenewclimate.com/?s=TCASE

3. http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Edit: formatting
There's a hole in my abstraction, dear Liza, dear Liza
It's nice to see so much activity around Rust. On the other hand, the frameworks I've seen seem to all suffer from the same issue: they seem to be intended for very simple use cases. How do you plugin an authentication middleware? How do you do resource traversal?
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Doesn't the second part contradict the first? First part: "It isn't about delivering, your product sucks." Second part: "People have narrow interests, they want to see relevant content and you send them everything mixed up". It looks like the second part is about delivering after all - about better filtering in particular.
See, this is what I love about some nice corporations. Get big, then return back to the society by giving them the most valuable gift : Education.

A very good initiative.
Author has great points but too optimistic we're screwed, there's no fixing it as long as politicians are our only hope for change.
"It's security through improbability", BTW, is a useless term: pretty much all cryptography concerns with improbability of something.
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>[...seem to think] college is the answer to the current economic malaise, but I think it just leads to more and more people fighting over the same sized piece of pie

That's a pretty outrageous statement. You're still a person if you don't go to college.

Furthermore, if those who go to college earn a greater share of the pie, then it is because they are more productive. If they are more productive, then the pie gets larger by going to college.

In fact, the fundamentals of pricing theory suggest that the value to an individual, in terms of compensation for greater productivity, tends to be the floor in how much it costs employers and therefore the aggregate economy. For example, if you acquire new skills that make you produce an extra 1M per year, then your change in compensation will not exceed a $1M increase if you are negotiating with sane and informed people.
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If there's any possible way to corrupt spacetime, resulting in a sphere of destruction that expands outward at the speed of light, then maybe an accelerating universe could act as a firewall. What if we're here because the non-accelerating universes with intelligent life tend to get wiped out?
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I don't care about the survival of newspapers from a financial or economic perspective, I care about the survival of newspapers from a social good perspective and it's not clear to me that targeted news can supply that since it filters out everything you weren't inclined to already view but was still important. If I bought a newspaper and it had a bunch of stuff in it I didn't care about, I might still pick it up and read an article or two if I got bored enough or was using the bathroom. With targeted news and a smartphone, I don't ever have to do that again.
As maaku stated there is no static point in the universe.

This is core point of relativity. There is no absolute coordinate system whatsoever. Everything is defined as in relation to something else.
Quite common, in my experience:

Landlord has been using the same faded form contract for a decade; doesn't even know for sure which provisions are in it, or still legal under recent legislation or court decisions. (But, a standard 'severability' clause protects them when they've got illegal and unenforceable terms inside their template.)

Renter skims contract, but doesn't consider its terms negotiable, practically speaking. They often ignore the precise terms regarding notices, houseguests for more than X days, small pets, drugs on the premises, new roommates, sublettors, etc. In many cases the local law, or tenants' legal support groups, will defend them for violations of such terms - because the signed lease was illegal or unreasonable.

During the course of the lease, both the landlord and the renter may deviate from the exact terms from time to time, by tacit agreement, or occasionally verbal agreement (even if the contract stipulates "no verbal amendments").

Many renter violations are essentially in the realm of "don't ask, don't tell". The landlord doesn't really care and also doesn't want to know, because knowing would force conscious acknowledgement, perhaps encouraging further violations or incurring liability. Only if there's actual property damage or risk of harm/liability (or other adversarialism has begun from other factors) does the landlord become interested in monitoring and enforcing every clause.

Into this mix comes AirBnB. Many landlords won't notice the activity. Or they'll suspect it but don't want to pry. Or they'll know, but don't want to be known to "know".

Yet they may notice the rental rates the market will bear go up, benefiting them for looking-the-other-way. They may notice the renter's treatment of the property improving – as they now share an extra interest in its appeal. Compared to an empty room/apartment, the presence of good guests can make the property and neighborhood a safer and more pleasant place. So landlords can benefit implicitly even without an explicit renegotiation of terms.

In fact, they may prefer this sort of indirect benefit – because they retain the optionality of enforcing the terms, if things go poorly, without the risk of formally approving the activity.

Real economic and social relationships are way more complicated than, "the letter of the rules is X so everyone is duty-bound to do no more nor less than X".
Plex[0] is a pretty big media server / player..... Very big coincidence.

[0]https://plex.tv/
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The issue is simple. I know what the times is. But I don't know why I would want to read the times. I use news aggregators because other readers seem to be the only ones to know how to deliver what I want to read . Reading the times directly feels like rolling the dice on finding interesting or important news.
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Luckily these goggles won't stay at the current resolution for long, we should be seeing 4k and higher in the next few years.
But barring that, I'd settle for a couple thousand years.
The problem is that Facebook forces brands to create engagement. You get rewarded for posting easy to consume content that generates a lot of likes and but not for a few quality posts.
Yeah, that's true for programs, i.e. things that accept no arguments. Lazy evaluation provably makes more programs terminate than any other evaluation strategy. But it's kind of misleading for functions that accept arguments, like numbers or lists. Most functions in a lazy language can fail to terminate, because the arguments could fail to terminate or could be non-standard entities like omega. So, for example, the statement "computing the length of a list always terminates" is true in a strict language but not in a lazy one.

In general, strict languages allow you to say more about termination and time/space complexity of functions than lazy languages. For example, the statement "computing the length of a list takes O(1) space" is true in a strict language, but in a lazy language it's difficult to say what the statement even means, and in most practical cases it's false. Computing length with either foldr and foldl uses at least O(n) space, and the usual advice is to use foldl', which has a strictness annotation. I think this should be alarming to anyone who recommends lazy evaluation as the right default.

In slightly more complicated cases, like sorting a list, there's no sensible way to assign a time or space complexity at all, because it depends on how the function is called and how much of the result is used by the caller. People sometimes claim that's an advantage of lazy languages, e.g. implementing quickselect in terms of quicksort and claiming that quickselect will only evaluate as much of quicksort as needed. I think that's a hack. We need to be able to reason about the time and space complexity of a program in terms of its parts, without relying on implementation details of the parts.
Even the website layout is copied from popcorn time.
Seems closed source..
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I think Starbacks have enough tax benefits don't they? For example, "not having to pay tax".