skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's tough to answer. I'd almost have to write an essay to do it justice. But the quick and dirty is "I look up a LOT of topics", where some are related to professional interests, some to hobby interests, and some that are just random crap (like the atheism vs. religion topics, etc.)

Accuracy? Most of what I want from Quora doesn't depend on the answers being "accurate" as such. Usually the answers I value are things like:

* Pointers / links to handy resources

* Mentions of new software, projects, papers, etc. that I wasn't previously familiar with

* Discussion of life experiences / subjective feelings

* Competitors making their presence known by answering questions in the "Who are the top vendors for X?" mold.

IOW, I'm not going to Quora for stuff that I'd go to Wikipedia for. If I want to know the annual production of Pecans in North America in 2012, I go to Wikipedia. If I want to find out what a lot of the vendors in the Enterprise Social Software space are saying about themselves and their competitors, I go to Quora. Or if I want to read about cool new Open Source projects, I read the newest answers to Quora questions like "What are the top Open Source projects in Machine Learning", etc.

Of course, for most any of those topics Quora isn't my only source. It's just a handy place I can go during the day, spend a few minutes there, and find at least a handful of interesting discussions that I'm going to learn something from. In that regard, it's like another Hacker News, just different.
Nothing against Steve Jobs or Apple here, because they truly deserve respect. The person here that does not deserve respect is the guy that beat up his sister - Christian Bale. He is a disgrace.
I'm so curious about this film! Originally planned as another Sorkin/Fincher combo (team behind The Social Network) with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Jobs. Sorkin's written a 3 act film in real time backstage before the launch of the Mac, the Next and the iPod. Now Fincher's dropped out and Danny Boyle's in, which actually makes perfect sense when you think about his treatment of time in 127 hours. And DiCaprio's out and Christian Bale is in, which seems perfect given Bale's assholish Jobs-like freakout on the Terminator set a few years ago.
This is purely from a 30 second look, but if I had to make the case for Netflix being richly valued I'd go with:

1. Very high P/E ratio. Thus strong future growth is baked into price. So, a buyer of the stock today is already paying for strong growth.

2. Based on #1, the risk is higher as you're prepaying for future growth. And the future is uncertain.

3. Institutional ownership is already high, so you're more likely to see outflows than strong inflows. I don't like investing on this metric, but it does affect price during market fluctuations.

4. Price/Sales is high.

5. Low margin

I don't trade much, but if I did I'd stay away due to the lack of shorts, thus no short squeeze to play.

Of course, on the positive side it dominates its market, has strong growth, and generates free cash flow.

Again, I did not do a genuine analysis so I could be way off on some of the above.
In New Zealand, LINZ (government mapping agency) provides all of their data online under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://data.linz.govt.nz/
Can you explain what difference it makes whether it's A or "seed"? Surely ultimately it just matters what percentages people take.
> One thing to note: if you’ve already downloaded the app, you’ll need to download it again — a side effect of them transferring the app from Morrisey’s App Store developer account to reddit’s.

I was under the impression that Apple allowed transferring apps between accounts without wiping out the history…
The reason we'll need turbines for the first generation of fusion reactors is that most of their energy is released as neutrons. Some more advanced fuels release most of their energy as fast-moving charged particles, which would let us generate electricity more directly.
The dark fiber probably isn't near you. If it is, you can usually lease it and trench to your house. Most people don't do this because even after the one time trench fee, leasing the line and connecting at an exchange are just expensive.

I looked into doing this on the Palo Alto municipal fiber ring. Would have cost $700-1000 per month. Pass.
For better or worse illegal cannabis doesn't mean your kid won't be exposed. It means that when your kid is exposed and perhaps tries it, He/she has a good chance of developing a criminal record, going to jail, dropping out of high school, etc. All consequences that are much worse than the drug itself. If you even believe that it is detrimental to smoke cannabis.
Why is the US Navy practising for war with China?
I Worked in a Strip Club in a North Dakota Fracking Town
I think people are missing the big picture on what happened... This is not that the market is giving up on Netflix. It's that most of Netflix's value is based on an enormous increase in growth.

Taking a look at their financials [0] their PE was 139 pre-announcement. It's still north of 100. Compare that with 27 of Google. Very high growth assumptions.

Another way to look at it is they are still up ~250% over the past year and a half.

When you're this highly priced, there is no room for mistakes or missing Wall Street expectations.

One other note... There is a lot of hedge fund activity on Netflix, which can increase the immediate pop before or after a hit.

That said... Speaking as a subscriber... I'm still paying, but I'm not using nearly as much as I used to, and I'm using Amazon Prime more and more.

[0] https://www.google.com/finance?cid=672501
It's actually a very big priority right now, though Congress has been blocking funding for the project.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/alaskas-outda...
I would say mostly about the lower subscriber growth.

When expectations are high, if expectations aren't met, the adjustment can be abrupt.

Time Warner (HBO + Warner Brothers + numerous cable channels) is in the same content/TV distribution business, $4.3b in profit, market cap of $62b.

Netflix, $0.2b in profit, $5b in REVENUE, market cap of $27b (well, now $20b).

Netflix is competing with Amazon streaming, Apple TV/iTunes, to a lesser extent Google, Hulu.

Also now HBO, they announced today they would start letting people subscribe over the Internet without a cable subscription, all the other channels are getting in the over-the-top streaming business.

Comcast + Time Warner Cable (different from Time Warner) are looking to merge and perform a cashectomy on Netflix via 'fast lanes', before TV subscriber losses from cord-cutting really start cutting into their flesh. (Can anyone doubt that's about to happen? Anyone who has compared the experience of e.g. Roku with a cable box can see over-the-top is a 10x improvement in UX at a lower price. And with even HBO available over-the-top, literally the only reason left to subscribe to cable is live sports.)

Growth is not a given. It's a tough landscape and no guarantee Netflix will be the last one standing.

$20b is still a lot of money for a company with no profits, in a fight for its life.
That raises the question of what it means to "compete" with Netflix. All three you mention currently have severe deficits compared to Netflix.

HBO won't be available to non-cable/satellite subscribers until next year, has limited content, and at this point unknown pricing. (Seems unlikely to be less than Netflix, might end up being 2x Netflix.)

Amazon has limited content, a crappy UX, and a pricing perception problem (your only option is $99 up-front).

Hulu has very limited content, ads even for paying customers, and a crappy UX, all while charging the same amount as Netflix.

A cord-cutter is almost certainly going to be paying Netflix. They might pay some of the others, too, but maybe not, and probably not all of them. It seems unlikely they'd pay any of the others without paying Netflix.

Is it really competition when your competitor's customers are your customers?
I was wondering if Amazon's poorly implemented interface on Roku was intentional. Now that you comment how much better it is on Fire TV, it seems that might be the case.

This strikes me as a poor decision, as Fire TV is akin to the "razor" with Amazon Prime memberships being the "blades" that should bring in the recurring revenue.
So, with my meagre understanding, is this emerging evidence of some form of supersymmetry?
I'm still very concerned by problems like this which have exponential growth rates. Eventually they get out of hand. It's not like we can write off an entire quarter of a continent.
It's your brokerage. For example, Tradeking allows trading from 8:00-9:30 ET and 4:00-5:00 ET. Some other brokerages, like Interactive Brokers, allow trading to 8:00 PM ET.
Price increase killed their U.S. growth. Hulu makes over half their money from ads, I'd expect Netflix will eventually go down that road -- $4.99/mo or free with ads and $9.99 without.
Not just that, but AIV barely exists outside of the USA. As a Canadian, I can buy Netflix or I can use cable (ick).
I suspect this is more reflective of a scale issue than a direct decline attributed to the capabilities of the company.

I suspect that when a company reaches a certain amount of market penetration where the number of active users reaches into the 100s of millions, that number of eyeballs over that many devices begins to show the cracks which maybe got glanced over previously.

My comparison for this is, of course, Microsoft. As they were coming up, we were forgiving of their set-backs, but into maturity, people started looking for alternatives, their had to be something better because their stuff was SO buggy. I point to the Vista 'fiasco' as an example. Was it really a 'fiasco'? Or was it just that, even when what was considered a small number of people upgraded, and recognized issues, that small number of users was so large that it brought major attention to the issues.

When 10% of your users have issues and you have 10 million users, that's 1 million voices.
When 10% of your users have issues and that's 100 million users, it's considerably larger.

Diversity of hardware platforms further exacerbates this issue. When it was just the iPhone1-3, the hardware wasn't considerably different. Bring on the iPhone 3, and increased pixel count, and you start to notice a few more minor issues, then iPhone 5 with different screen layout, handled well by apple, but not seamless. Now start adding some devices having fingerprint scanners and some without, some with health data gathering and fingerprint scanners some with one of these things, some with none. Sure, you 'should' be able to test for these small differences, but it gets considerably more complicated with each iteration. Apple has done a good job of getting people to retire old hardware, or not cause a fuss about not being able to upgrade, but they're still getting into a realm of device numbers they hadn't experienced before.
Apple Pay Launch Tipped for October 20th by Panera Bread
The Apple cut might be "officially" 30%, but less well known is that developers who are doing their own marketing can recover an additional 7% through the Apple sanctioned affiliate program, bringing that closer to 23%.
I wonder when Google will put Dart in Chrome (note: not Chromium where it's been for a while)?
That's pretty cool. I'm a casual user who might go on a hike a few times a year; thought about picking this up but $20 plus IAP (do I need to buy maps?)... is there a trial or lite version?
Not 1 person after all this work? Is a sick joke being played with me?
I don't know if this is a rant or whatever, but it's my story about my iPhone app.

I started out around in March, 2014, and pivoted a few times, and finally started working on this idea of anonymously sharing pictures in August, 2014, and have been working it insanely hard, long nights, my weekends, and giving far more than 100% to complete my app.

Now that I've completed my app, I started contacting people I knew. Result? No reply, no signups, no feedback.

Read through how to pitch Mashable/TechCrunch, how to write that pitch email, what they need, a story, screenshots, etc. etc. My bookmarks are all filled with this stuff now, advices from people who have gotten covered, and I do thank you for those tips. On top of them, contacted many many review sites. What happens? Absolutely nothing.

I'm not angry, maybe a little sad, but more than anything else, I'm extremely surprised.. especially when I see some apps getting covered to death. Sure, TC, and Mash have very high caliber, but no one else?

I understand, esp. now that iPhone 6 and 6+ and the new iOS are out, that the amount of apps getting submitted have increased a lot, but not a single person has interest in my app? The very few who do, just look at the screenshot or whatever - I don't know what they look at - and just say, "not interested". Okay? So, just by looking at the box of pizza, you're going to judge that the pizza tastes bad? Jesus Christ man...

Anyways, here's the app store link: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=905151810&mt=8

I would really appreciate if the community could check out, and provide feedback. I've put a lot of hours into this, and tried to make it awesome. I don't like boring things myself, and I've got 186 broadcasts, so obvio. it ain't boring. :D

Thanks.
Cheers!
They're also offering a free upgrade to the paid version for the first week, but you need to get it this week.

From the blogpost on reddit
"Current Pro users, please make sure to get the new Pro upgrade now (free for one week). Unfortunately, due to the limits of the app transfer system, we have no other way to verify, credit, or transfer your old Pro account."
Indeed, believe me I hope I'm wrong and that fusion power really is around the corner. It's just that, according to the article, they aren't even at the prototype phase yet. That's where the real problems for fusion reactors arise. I'm sure that they've done something interesting, but my (semi-expert, I'm a nuclear engineering PhD, but not in fusion technology) opinion, this doesn't look like The Big Discovery.
I moderate a midsize subreddit where many of the 35k daily readers use Alien Blue, and this is a bit of a headache because Alien Blue makes it hard to find the subreddit sidebar, where we list important FAQs and rules. Our sticky post is dedicated to explaining how to find the sidebar in Alien Blue (http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/2ic349/how_to_see...).

I actually installed a bunch of other iOS Reddit apps to see if I could find one that supported sidebars better, so that I could officially recommend that app to my subreddit instead. The other ones didn't support sidebars at all though!

What I want most is for Alien Blue's tiny arrow buttons that lead to subreddit sidebars - http://i.imgur.com/ygWOV91.png - to be detail disclosure buttons instead, with a tiny "i" (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex...). I believe that icon makes more sense and will help readers realize they should tap there for sidebar information.
One of the reddit admins said that it would have been prohibitively difficult because of something relating to ownership rights: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_...
Yep, both of your advice about getting this in front of the wire department did the trick. They found that the payment was held up because it was somehow not being routed through the correct overseas entity (this is for an overseas client). Having a good point of contact at the branch where I opened the account helped a lot too. Thanks!
The comparison has nothing to do with the change in their market shares, or who will dominate in the future. I'm purely giving an example of how consumer awareness is completely different between nerds and the general population. Just because everyone on HN knows about AIV doesn't mean that the average consumer knows about it.

Predicting whether or not AIV will gain consumer awareness is a completely different matter, and I don't think that comparisons between iOS and Android have any place there, since the markets are completely different.
I subscribe as a mentor, and then I realized that I could do with a mentor in Common Lisp or Assembly, but then I was unable to change my status.
There's no clear selective pressure on the virus, and there are no candidate proteins in the virus that would easily be changed to make it more contagious. I wouldn't worry about it.
This is much more complicated than "content companies can raise prices at will".

Netflix makes ~$5.6 billion per year.

A big chunk of that goes to content licensing so they spend several billion dollars a year on content.

That revenue is pure profit for content companies.

If you're a CEO of content company and e.g. Netflix is willing $100 million a year for, say, license all seasons of "Friends", you can't simply say "I want $110 million" and expect Netflix to pay it.

If you're not willing to license for $100 million/year, then you're loosing $100 million/year of pure profit and shareholders like profit.

The more money Netflix has to spend, the more they can shop around so content companies don't have as strong of a negotiation position as many seem to believe.

And Netflix is being very smart by investing aggressively in their own content, which they'll own forever, which is an always growing asset.
yeah, I think the 16:9 form factor works for devices that are small-enough to thumb-type when held in portrait orientation (n7 is great at this) but once you go above that size I love 4:3.
What about windows 10 actually having a usable console with features such as selecting text and line wrapping?
Is Reddit going to make Jason Morrissey move to SF from Melbourne?
Remember when Twitter bought one of the more popular iOS clients, and ever since, people have just known of it as Twitter for iOS?

I think it'll just become Reddit for iOS. The default, official client. The one 90% use.
> I'm taking bets on what the name of the next revision will be when Android TV fails.

Chrome TV
1) There are no additional map costs, which is one of the big differences between Gaia and a Garmin GPS.

2) No lite/trial version besides the website (but email for a refund anytime). There will probably be a free app along soon though, useful on its own, to help market the paid products.

3) As for Gaia's IAP (GaiaPro), we added that much later, so I would call it "optional."
Holy crap yes my old n7 just crawls. Makes me seriously suspicious of Asus hardware in the future. My only thing is that I love the n7 size. Maybe I should suck it up and buy a galaxy tab but I want stock Android.
An external company driven by members of the Firefox OS team. So not Mozilla, but close enough.
The misalignment of interests is deeper than you think. That shouldn't affect this particular arrangement though; good luck!
New Wearable Can Call and Text Without a Phone
Non-US employees are apparently not required to relocate: https://twitter.com/micheletitolo/status/522531272258621443
I was in the beginning stages of working on an open source passwordless system like this, and this is immensely helpful to me.

I plan on using this for the small things. Want to authenticate, purchase something small, and maybe never use my service again? This lets you do that.

And if you want to create an actual account to do more advanced stuff, that is also an option.

I think a hybrid approach is very useful for outward facing web applications.
It should fallback to the Three.CanvasRenderer - https://github.com/phenomnomnominal/tic-x-tac-x-toe/blob/mas...

What did you use it on?
A nexus 6 wifi-only device could be a nice successor to the n7 and a nice shot at the oft-forgotten iPod too. But android companies seem to always forget the iPod exists.
How so? What browser did you use?
http://caltopo.com is the most powerful, free online topo mapping software I know of. It essentially provides a google maps - like interface for navigating an array of different maps, including USGS. The print function is amazing.
That is a module with a connector and PCB, and also sold at a rather high markup. Prices are actually quite a bit cheaper for the actual IC itself:

http://en.chinaflashmarket.com/pricecenter/emmc
I think credit is due to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention. They are putting out great public education materials: http://i.imgur.com/PY9cZy2.jpg
Renaming a FAT filesystem:

mlabel -i <device> ::<label>

Renaming an ext filesystem:

e2label <device> <label>

You can detect whether it's one or the other in the mount table. It amounts to maybe a dozen lines of bash code at maximum - maybe a few more if it's C++, depending on what abstractions already exist.

I can't actually see where in the bug report it describes an issue that's specific to extfs?
Please do! Why Firebase specifically? And (more importantly to me) do you anticipate moving off later?

(If you'd prefer to move this off HN, can I email or call you? That way I'll also get to send you a thank-you package!)
I'd add as a cable-cutter sports fan that even live sports is not a big deal without cable. Buy a HD antenna and you get ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, which covers at least the NFL and a bunch of other prominent sporting events. Buy mlb.tv if you're into baseball, NBA league pass if you're into basketball, or NHL center ice if you're into hockey - or just find live streams of the games online (but YMMV on the quality of course). Throw in a shared login with a friend for Comcast/DirectV/whatever, and you get ESPN/ESPN2, TBS, Fox Sports, NBCSN, and others.
I think the difference is Google TV was built by the Youtube division, Android TV was built by the Android division.
There's quite a lot of evidence.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/2eub5g/anita...
http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/2eub5g/anita...
There's one big difference here: with Bitcoin's multi-signature transactions, you can require the agreement of two of the buyer, seller and arbiter in order to release the funds. The arbiter cannot move funds on its own and must have the cooperation of one of the other parties, which means that he doesn't actually control nor hold any funds. The legal situation here is a classic binding arbitration, and not an escrow - which are very strictly regulated, require licensing in some parts of the world and have a very high costs of operations due to bonds and securities.

Dealing with arbitration services rather than with escrow makes this much simpler, drops the entry/operational costs to nearly nothing and does not even require a lawyer to assist you with the process. This lowers the barriers of entry significantly and allows to create a competitive market for arbitration services in a way that's simply not possible when an escrow is required, leading to reduced end-user costs and improved service quality.

Source: I'm the founder of Bitrated [1], a service that enables exactly those kinds of arbitration services, and received extensive legal advice on this matter from my attorney. Do note, however, that this is a new and somewhat gray territory that can be interpreted in multiple ways (and of course, IANAL/TINLA apply - ask your own lawyer before doing anything.)

(P.S. Bitrated v2, a complete rewrite I've been working on for the past 6 months, which now includes an identity & reputation management system, is about to be shortly released. If anyone is interested, you can follow @bitrated on twitter for updates. </shameless-promotion>)

[1] https://www.bitrated.com/