skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually making no profit, but at the same time not losing money is "good enough" for a company like Google. The massive amount of users allows for analyzing behavior patterns and increasing the profile information that later on is used to improve targeted ads like adwords.

Not only this, but being able to have a larger pool of employees without losing money has its own benefits, like easily reallocating the best performing or fitting people on other, more profitable projects or urgent problems.
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First movers don't always win.

http://staffweb.ncnu.edu.tw/clhung/MOT/Mohr02.ppt (slide 19 and on)

First movers have an advantage when they can raise entry barriers (economies of scale, network effects, switching costs).

However, fast followers or late movers have some important advantages, and if the early movers don't have significant barriers they can pull the rug from under them if they have a superior product or better business model.
Why does Youtube not have pay-to-watch channels, or just the ability to "donate" to channels? This is a huge deal on Twitch (channels have thousands of paying "subscribers").
I think he means he banned his child.
By the parents!
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> Genuine question: What on earth is interesting about Facebook, especially why is Facebook more interesting than YouTube?

Quality content. It's a bit like HN, but with more bells and whistles, broader topic coverage, and with most of the commenters being your personal, real-life acquaintances. Of course Facebook experience strongly depends on the type of friends you have, but I guess a lot of other things in real life depend on that as well.
Nice post and promising future for Rust as a web stack.

Just wondering if a simple blog post on a blog would have been enough—registering a domain and creating a dedicated site seems a bit like overkill.
I don't think that is what parent meant, YouTube is not doing the banning.
As a Swede I'm pretty sure Kvikkalkul is not something we'd name a programming language, it sounds more like Norwegian or Icelandish

As a sidenote I heard an anecdote about a guy who programmed warheads. He was writing the detonate code wondering how to exit gracefully when it exploded so he wrote something like:

10: var a=5
20: Detonate()
30: If (a==5) goto 10;
40: Exit;

The logic being that the variable should be empty upon explosion...
Would you know any tool to quickly create such onboarding animations?
Same with "Disrupt all the things".
I really dislike the weird narrative style of this radio programme.
The Freudian perspective!
Well, one step would be to improve the user experience. Because short of having subscribed or being linked to a video I find it cumbersome to navigate videos.

My entire YT browsing is based on already knowing what I want to watch. I proceed to search and hope that the video is what I am looking for. No previous info about quality, content, anything.

Sometimes I have no clue what I want to watch, I just feel like watching something. Back in the day I would flip through channels until I was caught by something.

YT should have a discover mode that is similar to navigating through channels on the press of a button. Maybe give me some filters and then let me "peak" into videos.

Of course the experience is hard to implement when providers are throttling YT traffic. Flipping through channels would then suck, because the video would take 20 seconds to load all the time.

But yea, that's why I don't use it like TV. I use it more like I use Google Search. When I just want to know random interesting things without knowing what I want to look for, Google Search is not that helpful.
“Before I will release the code as open-source, I need to clean it up some more”
When I go to a construction site, I only bring a hammer. I feel a screw driver would weigh me down spiritually. Sure, it could be useful, but I sometimes show up at construction sites and all they have is a hammer. Keeping a toolbox of tools, is just more stuff that I have to keep track of.
I think it had a lot to do with the blow to the head he got when he fell from his horse.

Not that the decisions he made were all bad ones.
i occasionally binge on a specific topic for a few minutes and all my recommends are shot to heck because of it. Also, my country seems to be thrown between Japan, Singapore, India, and china (Hong Kong) pretty randomly, making for even stranger foreign language inclusions in my recommend list.
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It does have them actually, but (somewhat understandably) nobody uses them.

Off-site schemes like Patreon are far more popular. That allows people to donate a small amount monthly, or a small amount per piece of new content. They get incentives (à la Kickstarter) to donate extra.

Patreon has addition appeal possibly because it doesn't make you entirely reliant on Google for your income. Even those making millions of YouTube get shitty support and could have their channel kicked off YouTube (or pulled out of the Partner Program) at a moment's notice for no good reason, with nobody to complain to if that happens.
Works if you paste as plain text (Ctrl + Shift + V).
I'm interested in knowing what trick you use to keep youtube on in the background for music.

I listen to Jazz and this sounds like something I need to know how to do
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It's a massive problem. What's are things that are big on YouTube? Gaming, reviews and mashups. What do Content ID and DMCA takedowns hurt? Gaming, reviews and mashups.
Is that a bad thing in and of itself? How much should pharmaceutical companies be spending on marketing vs. research?

The point of the underlying John Oliver piece was how marketing money influences doctors, such as using drugs for off-label uses where there's no evidence that it's useful, and sometimes where the evidence says to not use it. It wasn't (as I recall) about the budget differences.
> It was a masterstroke, not to be equalled by the actions and strategic abilities of any subsequent kings or queens.

If England was the only European state to separate from Rome you might have an argument.

Henry was a decent King as Kings go, but honestly his daughter Elizabeth was the most kick-ass monarch in the history of Monarchs. I'm struggling to think of anyone who even comes close.
Every time I see that critical systems like these are running on very old tech I am wondering whether or not the programmers that built these a couple of decades ago are way more capable than the ones from today.
This really puts the whole Music Key controversy in perspective.

If YouTube isn't making money, then of course they're going try to alter their deals, no matter how many indie musicians it pisses off.
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Who?

I understand why the uploader would want this, but if it results in me watching less Youtube, I do not understand why Youtube would want this.
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> I would add that part of the reason YouTube is struggling is because it has become a pretty lousy product for today's standards.

Add to that list:

- searching for music is completely (but silently) broken after Youtube music was launched and geo-restrictions imposed on the serarch-results.

Knowing what used to be there, it just seems like someone took a format c: over entire youtube and nobody running the show noticed.
Patreon-style payments are what I meant by donations, but I guess people just won't trust Google enough for that.
The only satisfactory solution I have found is where people upload multi-hour mixes. Autoplay is pretty decent at first, but it wanders too far, too fast, and it's too personalized.
We restricted the site on iPad and removed YouTube app. App store is already password protected so he can't install it back. His PC is on MS Family Safety, so similar measures there. Sorry for my unclear narrative.
I wrote a minimal Lisp compiler (targeting C) when I was a bit younger. :> My GC was just a really bad reference counting implementation though. I dare you to make fun of my "hash function". Hehe.

https://github.com/eugeneia/microlisp
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Which is why I start from integration testing of the whole system, with frenemy tests for any foreign services that I must rely on.

You're right that tests don't make Byzantine failures go away. But neither do static types. My point that distribution turns all systems into analogies for dynamic language programming remains, and so the emphasis on tool support changes along with it.
> It doesn't mean its bad tech or a bad attempt at all, heck, I would LOVE for it to catch up. But I seriously doubt it has 4 millions active users or more.

The 4 million figure was total users of GPG ever, not TextSecure. TextSecure for Android has had about 1 million installs.

However, it's also been integrated into the Cyanogen mod which added about 10 million users, and the tech has been integrated into WhatsApp, which got the underlying crypto code (though not the UI) to about 400 million+ users.

So if by "TextSecure" we mean the technology rather than the actual UI widget code, which is generic anyway, then it's in a whole other league by orders of magnitude.
It's not that there is a lot of junk on YouTube. There is a lot of junk on my 900 channels of TV, too. But I have a handful of go-to channels, DVR and a huge schedule showing me what's happening across all of those channels. Problem solved. YouTube has none of those. That's why I use YouTube exactly like they said, I'm linked to it elsewhere. Or I go and search for something specific.

Discovery is the problem. Not a lack of quality content.
So, as you touch upon, I think mergers are the most likely reason as to the formation of this hole so early.

It didn't start as a single singularity - it started as many, in a matter-dense region of space in the early universe - possibly primordial singularities, or first generation super-massive stellar formed singularities, in a cluster.

If these each then accrete matter from the space surrounding them, they do so independently and each can accrue mass faster than a single singularity of equivalent total mass could while adhering to the Eddington limit. Once the space surrounding them ends up mostly devoid of other matter, the only remaining gravitational influence on them is each other, and thus they start to fall together, coalescing and increasing in mass, changing spin and vector, and potentially causing further coalescence and the availability of fresh matter to consume.

Ultimately, this process would result in a single supermassive singularity which would be exceedingly hot, as it would be massive enough to take in matter from a much larger area than its ancestors, and would do so at a vast rate due to the matter previously being relatively untouched.

Anyway, that's my armchair physicist hypothesis.
Ooo! That's quite the collection of classic works.
Germany is not "under the thumb" of the U.S as much as you seem to think. Just look at Ukraine or all the anti Google action that reeks of protectionism. There are simply too many rational arguments against starting a trade war over NSA rigged electronics.

Neither Germany nor Europe as a whole makes enough electronics equipment to replace everything that may have been rigged by the NSA or other nations' spy agencies. The NSA does not restrict itself to equipment clearly marked as "made in USA" either.

We cannot solve this problem by rolling back globalisation and division of labor, aiming for national self-sufficiency.
Even if it's the second, it's still a failure of the US government because of NSA's overreach, which has given the Chinese or Russian governments the excuse to do this.

It's basically the same argument civil liberties activists have for when a "freedom" country like US starts torturing people or censoring information. Doing that gives other much worse states the excuse to do it freely as well. If US then comes out and says "hey, you're such an awful government for torturing your people and whatnot", they will respond: "oh yeah? Right back at ya, buddy! Now will you get off your high horse?!"

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-us-senate-torture-report-americ...

That said, NSA spying is very much a national security issue. Why would you allow other countries to spy on you, hack you, and steal your secrets? I think it's natural to want to take any actions you can against that. It's actually disappointing that only "rival" countries such as China and Russia are taking measures against it. All the European countries should be doing it as well, especially since US doesn't seem to make any difference between China or say Germany.
I did an M.SC in CogSci a long way back (1998) and funnily enough my thesis area was very very close to this (reinforcement learning with different network topologies).

The core area is pretty simple stuff to be honest. Obviously DeepMind are completely next-level but you can get pretty good results with basic understanding...
Methodological flexibility in statistical modeling has gone trough the roof. New tools and estimation methods make Bayesian methods easy to use: Jags and Stan, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, the variational Bayesian approximations, expectation propagation and even probabilistic programming (note: Bayesian in this context does not mean subjectivity. It's the ability to quantify uncertainty in the results and increased flexibility in the modeling).

New methods and tools are faster to use and give better results, but they require more statistical knowledge. If the scientist applying these methods or peer review can't understand the advances, it's all for nothing. Many sciences are methodologically very conservative to the extent that it holds the science back.

How do you increase the statistical knowledge of the field so much that peer review and researchers can be expected to understand and use the new methods if they can't be trusted with p-value?
Sounds like it’s more like "Happy to answer _some_ questions”...
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Oh thanks!

I'm intrigued. Today you have found two dupe posts coming from me.

How can you be so fast finding the dupes and replying with this info?

It has to be a very time consuming task if it is not automated (appreciated anyway).

If you have automated the task I want to know how! :-) (If you could briefly explain)

In both cases I've just posted it and expected to upvote the most recent thread, but a new post was created and I have directly supposed that the stories were new (from the forum perspective).

I don't understand the mechanics by which the forum allows dupe posts. Maybe it should only allow to dupe a previous post when it's very recent (less than a day) and don't have any upvotes, or automatically show the previous discussions when is old (months)
The goal is to write something that people can rally behind but that's at the same time not divisive. So it needs emotional impact without meaning, and thus we get corporate bullshit.
It's the reason why Microsoft has always turned a blind eye to the extreme Windows piracy in China. If the Chinese couldn't pirate it (somehow), then Windows would have a much smaller market share, perhaps of 50 or 60 percent. And Linux would have a thriving ecosystem of programs. The lack of that is why Windows has such a strong lock-in now.
Yeah. I love the gray screen with a smiley face - this is not allowed in your country.

I have spend so much time enjoying the content. Also content ID take a lot of parodies and analyzes and gaming reviews.
India – no country for Internet freedom
Entropy is a massive problem, especially on headless servers.

Timer EntropyD [1] can be extremely handy (as can the audio-entropy gathering)

[1] http://www.vanheusden.com/te/
I think this was because of the contenteditable div. I now stuck a plain ol' textarea in there, that should fix the problem.
I'm not arguing with you (my second paragraph says as much).
So, how can I read this article? I get "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Log In" even when viewing the page in a clean session.
Language development has since been taken over by IKEA and it's main use right now is programmatic furniture generation.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/series/18329/
It's not that simple. Breaking even may be "good enough" strategically for Google, but, tactically, it is a problem for YouTube and everyone that works on it. The harder it is to concretely demonstrate YouTube's value to Google, the harder it is to make the case for investing in YouTube, rewarding employees competitively, against unwise cost-cutting and so on. Things don't fall apart overnight, but over time...
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.
Very recognizable. I often write somewhat decently abstracted code for a client problem. The quality requirements for this stuff aren't very high so it's not 'open source quality,' and I definitely don't want it to be judged as my 'digital resumé.'

If I were to publish it it would still definitely make someone happy at some point in time though.

I've been thinking of creating the a manifesto for those cases: CRAP: Code Rushed for an Actual Problem. That way you could include it in your README and let the world know it's just a throwaway piece of code that might be useful to someone someday.
Thanks. I think the contenteditable div was to blame. I changed this to a textarea, should fix that problem.
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I use an Olmex isolator [1], which I believe is also based on Analog's ADuM chip. Its worth knowing that the ADuM only supports USB "Full speed" mode (12Mbit/sec) and not the normal "High Speed" mode (480Mbit/sec).

[1] http://uk.farnell.com/olimex/usb-iso/usb-isolator-1000vdc-fo...
I think that the context makes it pretty clear that he's talking about borrowing and lending between friends. Shakespeare would indeed have been aware of it, as it was commonplace for young noblemen to run up ruinous debts from gambling and borrowing from each other and moneylenders (who were only too happy to lend to the heir to an estate). Families lost their wealth and estates because of it. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" is extremely good advice in this context. And, frankly, remains so.

Also, I reckon people are generally too harsh on Polonius. Sure, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but in this scene he just seems like an old man who's worried about his son leaving home and trying to give him good advice. That he can't come up with anything genuine to himself is, I think, a little sad.

But I suspect most of us have endured our parents sending us off with good advice on our first time leaving home. And generally that advice seems to be similarly cliched ("Remember to eat properly...and make sure when you're going out, you know how to get home...and wrap up warm when it's cold out..."). I doubt I'll do much better when my time comes!
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I get a single RSS feed of all my YouTube subscriptions. Then I sift through them directly in my feed reader. Granted, it's not via the YouTube site, but it works perfectly.

http://scottnelle.com/466/youtube-subscriptions-rss-feed/
Ask HN: Link to measurement scale of startup disruption?
Quick question, don't upvote.

Some time ago there was discussion about a logarithmic scale of disruption, but I don't recall enough keywords to find it.

The gist was assessing ideas based on maximum potential disruption, whether they could disrupt a single company, an industry, a societal foundation, etc.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?
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I wrote a partial quicksort for Newzbin - once I saw how simple it was to add I was surprised it wasn't more widespread: https://github.com/Freaky/pqsort
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Do you have EU customers? And if so, how do you deal with data protection?
Most of it comes from AdWords, i.e. Google Search. Angular, GWT, Closure, and Dart have nothing to do with it. They're also all essentially abandonware from Google's point of view, because management has rightly realized they have nothing to do with their core business.
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This should give European tech companies a chance to get back in the game.
A police office would be more likely to overreact to a situation if he/she believed a suspect carried a firearm (in fairness, for the sake of the officers own defence). In a state where guns aren't common, the police officer would feel less threatened and be less likely to overreact.
It did felt pgish - I don't like this way of trying to structure the world too much though. I think patio11 would agree with me...
It would be nice to find and share if React infringes any of the patents.
Could you expand on what you mean by "interconnectedness within website traffic"?

If one person visiting the site has no influence on other people visiting the site, then measurements of their behavior will be independent. If Facebook tests a different interface on half of their users and the changed behavior of those users indirectly has some impact on the behavior of the control group, then your measurements would have some level of dependence – I can imagine that this could happen but it's not clear to me that this would be a common scenario. The same would happen if you measure the behavior of the same person more than once – but in this case there's many procedures for working with paired or autocorrelated data.
I would think it is also that Microsoft cannot do much much about it. The pirated versions of Windows XP are already out there. They could have tried to block updates, but that just means more unpatched Windows machines and bigger botnets.

Macs are not an option, and I really doubt 40-50% of Chinese users would start using Linux.
You might have a weak link somewhere in your connection to YouTube. ISPs have been known to throttle YouTube to reduce bandwidth costs.

Almost all of the content I find on YouTube is 1080P, and some of it is running at 60FPS.
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We use a similar tool during phone screens: http://rextester.com/runcode Doing so has dramatically improved the screening process for us. This site allows real-time multi-person interactive coding sessions in a variety of languages (note: If you try the "live cooperation" mode, you need to click the link yourself as well as give it to others. This wasn't obvious for some people. )

As for whether or not coding problems on the phone or the whiteboard are a good idea, in my opinion they are when applied properly. There is no way I am going to hire someone for a software development position without seeing them write some code, and there is no way I am hiring someone for an embedded C position without knowing that they understand how pointers work. There are not that many reliable ways to do this in a controlled environment. We know that everyone can use google to find answers - I'm more interested in where people are starting from.

There is a balance though. I do not ask interviewees to solve brain teasers; that sort of problem only serves to increase stress in the interview. Most of the problems I ask are simple, such as printing out multiplication tables or simple string manipulation, or linked list type questions for embedded C. When doing these on a whiteboard, I am very clear up-front that trivial errors like missing punctuation or spelling do not matter. I am interested in seeing how the candidate approaches the problem logically, and it is surprisingly obvious what sort of candidate you are dealing with when seeing them attack a problem.
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