skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapchat responded saying that its not just Uber.

They're targeting any company that fits into their potential talent pool. Its easy and cheap, the hardest part being the artwork.

We also have no idea where they're targeting, since the geofilters are a call to Snapchat's servers.
I am still absolutely struggling to see a popular use case for these applications. I would be interested to read about how those who financed/invested in these products, Meerkat in particular, came to the conclusion that it was worth a punt.

The only time I heard Meerkat being mentioned was in the context of Periscope stepping into its place at launch time. The only time I've heard about Periscope being used since its launch was in reading about HBO shutting down those streaming GoT on it.

"If you build it, they will come" seems to have been morphed into "If you build it, hopefully they'll find a reason to use it" here.
this one is a different article, but same story.
If you're buying the company for its "goodwill", why would you then very publicly torch that very same goodwill by laying off all the employees?
planets only contain the post; the highest value of sites like HN and reddit is the comments, because that's where discussion can happen and counterpoints can be brought forward.
The NextDraft effect ?
The beacons probably output a continuous wave of a certain amplitude at that frequency. This would be classed as interference on at least the wifi spectrums so it is not allowed.
Maybe this doesn't impress the typical HN overachiever. But I can't help to be both flabbergasted and crushed by the fact this was done by someone so young, less than half my age. Even more after looking at the LinkedIn page.

Congratulations on your work.

Any chance you can make this available in pdf or html? (not everyone has MS word)
http://acuman.us/full.docx

BTW, small typo, should be "Naive Bayes" instead of "Naive Bayens"

And do you intend to publish a complete article describing the tech used by your chatbot?

I cannot but be humbled and have to ask. How can you achieve so much?

Can you just pick an article or a book and just "soak it up" without problems? Or do you possess eidetic memory or any other "superpower"?

All the best
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I am too lazy to try to find the exact numbers and versions but back in the Android 1.x, 2.x days, the latency was in the 200 ms ballpark.
So things have improved a lot since then (even though there is still a lot of ground to cover)
Our brains perceive what we hear trailing what we see by small amounts to be completely normal. If you show people a video of an orchestra concert with the sound of a violin coming 50ms before seeing the bow move, most would immediately notice something is off.

Musicians performing together, however, is a much harder problem than just listening. Ask anyone who has ever performed in a DCI-style drum corps, they will tell you compensating for hearing someone on the other side of field 200ms or so late is incredibly difficult.
Water is not scarce in a lot of areas.

Also, you make it sound like the government is paying for people to cut their yards. People do it themselves out of their own free will.
Cool stuff, followed! Feel free to steal any parts of my work you think may improve it. May be cool to be able to control the polarity of the review you're tweeting.
My point is that all electricity markets, at least in the U.S., will be highly regulated and centrally planned for the foreseeable future, because customers absolutely expect the grid to meet 100% of their needs no matter what happens.

More generation might move to the edges, but that is simply a factor that will be taken into account by the regulation and central planning.

There has to be central generating to meet demand that local generating fails to meet; but the choice of fuel source doesn't have any implications for "free market" concerns. Electricity is not a free market. For example, net metering is only an option for home solar because a federal law says it must be. In a free market, the central electricity utility could simply decline to purchase from edge generators. Or decline to connect home solar people to the grid at all.
Does this mean they'll be launching from another facility? Right now, the trajectory goes over to the sea, and bringing the first stage back to dry land is expensive. They'd have to launch far away from the east coast.
Pearson is horrible, but the educational software field itself is just as horrible. In 2000 I worked for a small startup that created online courseware. Our roots were as a spinoff from a Federal grant to a big name university. Our task was to commercialize the courses the university had developed, and to develop additional courses.

Granted that technology in 2000 was not as advanced as today, but the pedagogy behind online/computer based courses was still in its infancy. It would take us 6 months to develop a basic Biology course, using programmers, SMEs, editors, and graphic artists. We turned out what was a pretty good course all things considered.

Where the real problem lay was the selling/marketing process. School districts are by nature conservative, and new ideas/technology that threaten established teaching methods are viewed with a gimlet eye.

Textbook publishers had a lock on the market and didn't want to give up any ground to an intruder. Teachers were afraid of being replaced by computers, leading to widespread skepticism of distance learning. And the technological competence of teachers and administrators at the time was bad; they had too much other things to worry about than to understand the difference between Java and Javascript.

So to me, it doesn't seem like a lot has changed in 15 years. The established vendors want to protect their market, the buyers, though pushed to embrace technology don't know how to use it well, and the students are left holding a bag of shit.
There are some people who argue anti-fungal and anti-bacterial activity are actually behind the effectiveness of a variety drugs that are not thought of as such. Statins, for one example, clearly do save people from having a second heart attack, even though the official cholesterol story justifying the drug is problematic. Some say the statins are actually killing off a fungal infection.

The article didn't even mention toxoplasmosis infection and links to mental illness and other behaviors.

I don't think it's crazy to predict we're going to see more and more health and behavior problems directly linked to infectious agents over time. People bought this simple story that antibiotics saved us from all the infections 60 years ago.
The Ultimate Guide to SaaS LTV
Good point, but domain sharding is just a clever optimization (hack) to emulate some of the parallelism provided by HTTP/2 out of the box.
I'm not signing up for something where I have no idea what it is for.
> Because they were willing to work for $40k.

That doesn't mean that they weren't providing $70k of market value, unless you assume that (at a minimum):

(1) they were maximimizing their pay in choice of job, and
(2) they had perfect knowledge of all the alternatives jobs that they could otherwise have obtained.

These are the kind of assumptions that are typical in Econ 101, but to which real humans do not actually conform, particularly the second.
this is my second time seeing it, and i still dont remember the company name... soooo maybe not
I would say the 'changed your mind' value of a book comes from how analogous it is to your current life situation and the number of habits it imbues on you thereafter. Two of those for me are:
1. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
2. Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin
What happens to our bodies when the bonds of love are breached
The team as a whole becomes less sustainable. Profit margins went from 2m to 500k. That's a lawsuit away from being in the red. Is the entire team going to take pay cuts if profits aren't coming in? Does someone get fired?

I think those lauding this as a morally virtuous move aren't basing this on principle. Hiring 1 employee for 100k isn't better than hiring 2 employees for 50k assuming equal qualifications. The team with two employees will be more productive and stay in business longer than the competitor (who spends twice as much on everything and won't stay in business).
> Now that we have finally gotten the patent filings for this area of the Mill in

How much more to go?
True, and I didn't necessarily mean (for instance) homeowners with mortgages, though the house usually offsets that.

A lot of folks live with debt. A lot of folks don't make anywhere near Silicon Valley money even in a decent career, and many, many people don't have a career to speak of.

I have no idea of the personal situation of the person that actually walked away here, of course.
I just love the term "flight termination system". It sounds so much better than "self destruction system" :)
Instead of not having grass yards, maybe people should just go the full mile and not live in areas completely inhospitable to human life?
It's hard to define what is fair. If you're a CEO, your definition of fair will likely be different from a person working at minimum wage. In fact a CEO's definition of fair could be different from 99% of the population. People in advantageous but unfair situations will justify the situation, while people with the short end of the stick will do the opposite.

With wealth inequality higher than ever before, most people see a CEO's salary as astronomically unfair. Do CEO's really have some super power that a minimum wage worker doesn't have? Can one man's intelligence, good looks, charm, or physical strength actually be worth 1000% more than another man? Hard to say.

Although capitalism promotes incredible growth and works for the most part, there is a reason why communism became popular in many countries. It stems from a fundamental discontent about the definition of fairness and wealth among the proletariat.

So if you want the real answer to the question of "What is fair?" I would say "Ask the majority."
Traditionally, I believe that the district has aimed to go by the bare minimum CIPA requirements.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/childrens-internet-protection-act
Sorry, I didn't see all the comments about Wolfram Alpha until after my post. The words Rank and Fraction come from WA's page about proper names.
Looks nice overall.

I have a hard time reading the light green on grey or white background. Not sure if it's possible to improve the contrast without wrecking your color scheme.
Despite the feel-good angle on this it is a horribly bad and irresponsible decision. Now, if they only have a couple of people doing just below $70K it is a dishonest yet clever marketing move.

It is a violation of a CEO's fiduciary responsibility to pay significantly more than market value for anything. That includes salaries.

Example: CEO announces the company will pay double for all office supplies. Desks, chairs, computers, etc., the company will pay double market rate.

How quickly would he or she get fired?

How many people would immediately conclude he or she was irresponsible or nuts?

Right.
Amen. I'm currently walking around telling fellow parents that "The kids are better with computers than we are" was a transient phase and is not the case any more at all.

Many of us learned the basics of our IT education because we had to fix our first computers to even be able to use them.

This is not the case any more, and we should adjust our perception of how kids learn about computers accordingly.
Not sure, isn't the whole point of pipelining to avoid these domain-sharding workarounds?

This test case shows that the performance is better with the same code. The invert test case would show that the code is more complex (because of sharding) for the same performance (actually not quite, because of multiple handshakes).
I also wonder if this company even has low paid staffers. The business I work for doesn't directly employ anyone under ~60k. Instead the kitchen staff, the cleaning people, the mail room, document processing people, etc. etc. are all contracted out.
People strongly favor secure income over risk, once they have the income. risk-taking is far greater before the safe option has actually started delivering.

The HN crowd (especially founders) probably skews toward risky, but that's not the general mode of behavior.

And people are pretty good at spending the delta of $70k-$50k/yr, especially on things like mortgages that have a many-year lock-in, or past accumulated debt.

This is a different story from the webtech world where a $100K to $200K (or even $1M+) bump creates financial independence (not just security) in the near term.
If the effect is that

1. he'll actually take $50,000/year in direct salary, and

2. that all of the call center etc. employees got bumped up to $50k/year immediately, and

3. that, as the article states, it indicates cutting profit from 2MM to 500K,

I don't know that I'd call it a publicity stunt.
How does a blind computer programmer do programming?
Agreed. For 'the regular web' (outside those organisations that have the nous and resources to optimise) this is a really clear demo. Roll on HTTP2!
> I can't figure out whether you're feigning ignorance or whether you really didn't pay attention in Econ 101.

Actually, neither, I'm saying that the claim made by the post I was responding to doesn't work unless you assume that the general assumptions of Econ 101 and the conclusions drawn from it in terms of overall outcomes are assumed to apply not to overall outcomes but to every individual decision in the marketplace.

Which I agree is ridiculous, which was my point.
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Could be because of EME:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2015F...
The FEC is implemented in the hard drive firmware. You're going to read back a full correct block or the whole block will fail. You're not going to read back a block with a single bit error, so it is insanity to protect against that at the FS level.

Also read up on RAID levels. RAID5/6 or ZRAID7 uses error correction not duplication.
It's not "making up work". People value a lawn, and put in work to maintain it. I find it funny that so many people on hacker news don't understand this concept. I'm sure a lot of people here would love to live in a concrete cube and drink soylent all day long while plugged into the internet on their oculus VR, but it's shocking to me that you can't comprehend how other people can value different things from yourself.
> purposefully hire candidates with less experience

that's not required at all. Only the budget is needed.
can we really make this assumption? if everyone is paid the same where is the incentive to do more? how is morale affected in the reverse when you know you make as much as someone else who decides to slack?

while there are some benefits to increasing salary very large increases may negatively affect those already at a higher pay scale and some may dissociate effort with reward.

now if you dangle the carrot out there as a truly obtainable reward for meeting fair targets, then it truly becomes incentive for both retention and reward
Great points. I had some sketches on the home page initially, then pulled them off to keep it super clean. I'll look back into that.

Sign in and accounts are alwlays a hurdle. I'm bummed to hear that the social sign in options turned you away.

I purposely used those instead of dedicated account creation so that it would be easier/faster/simpler for most users. Oh well, your feedback is much appreciated, and if there are others in the same boat I'll look into a dedicated account option.

Cheers!
Adam
Utility API or Ecosystem API?
Um...they were. Quote from the article:

"And as such, it is not without competition, with much larger companies like Mulesoft also making some big strides in providing platforms to connect APIs and others like Tibco, as well as smaller startups like YC alum Zapier. Tray.io claims to be easier to use and less expensive than the rest."
If the alternative is some more appropriate local plant or plants, then great. If the alternative is concrete or astroturf, please don't.

The trend of people paving over their front gardens for car parking is causing a lot of flooding problems in the UK (because water runs straight off concrete, and isn't absorbed). It also makes the general environment much less pleasant and human if everything surrounding roads is paved as far as the eye can see, rather than filled with gardens, whether they're wild or highly tended. You end up with these grim concrete tunnels of development where no one wants to spend their time. That in turn damages pedestrian culture, and the health and social benefits which go with it.
I think there's something relevant going on with search optimization, or if you prefer, marketing and advertising. A Wikipedia user who is somewhat active just now is using mentions of the website to boost the references to a particular consulting firm. This sort of activity is not much beloved by many habitues of Wikipedia, as you can see in the essay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SPA

Here I'll leave it to others whether this is smart and laudable or sneaky and regrettable. Perhaps it's normal and unremarkable, but I find it interesting. It is only a guess on my part that this is intentional and coordinated.
If the gambit is that, in the recent future, they expect new business from the publicity to increase profits and cover part of the loss, I think the hit is not so large. And ultimately if it doesn't pan out, he can sell the company to a larger processor and cash his 100% stake out.
A question that springs to mind when reading this (and stories like it) is

"Could the company have gotten to the point of $2m in profit by starting everyone off at min $50k+?"
Because revenue needs to be greater than cost for a business to survive.
Etsy starts trading on the Nasdaq at $31/share, nearly double its original price
Easier, maybe? But it would cost tens of thousands of dollars and be subject to even more regulations, so I don't think that is a good solution.
If you really want to trap someone into working for you forever, pay them way more than they could make anywhere else. The goodwill and loyalty that engenders are really only minor components in keeping the person on-board; since people tend to spend (and get debt based on) however much money they make, you're essentially buying lock-in and making it so even if they want to quit and get an analogous position at a competitor, they probably won't be able to afford to do so.
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Los Angeles school district demands multi-million dollar refund from Apple
It would be nice to crack down on the lawnmower and, especially, leaf blower emissions in the 40Hz - 10KHz band. Where's the outrage?
It should show the temperature in Celsius for non-US people.
England Is the Latest Country to Allow Driverless Cars on Its Roads
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Good advice all around. However, its somewhat ironic to be lectured in job happiness by a blogger who's pic is undoubtedly the most dour, unsmiling I've ever seen.
Certainly, but comparing X-as-almost-never-practiced[1] to Y is pretty disingenuous unless you're going to very clearly state up front that that is what you're doing.

Of course, the hackiness of X-as-practiced is a valid point of qualitative comparison and should indeed be brought up.

[1] Ok, I'm exaggerating a little. It's not quite "never", but most large sites where image loading time is an issue are using some form of workaround, be it spriting, multiple domains, or something else.
Dave Pell is really influential among people who read hn imho, so yes NextDraft network effect could have played a role here.

That said I think jurnos really like this kind of narrative and subject, since it's really appealing to theirs audience.

It's a sort feedback loop that time will help to "break".
I wouldn't say so. Domain sharding is a hack, and not every website implements it, so I think this is a fair comparison.

Adding a third option with domain sharing might be reasonable, but I would expect that http2 still has the best performance.
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You're absolutely right. It's not needed by the general public. Marketing it as such might be holding it back.

I googled it. The top hit was CNET's "download.com" where the typical package might be bundled with crapware or worse. Allowing them to provide it taints your product's perception.

I went to the website. The positive connotations of Windows XP are gone with the passing of Vista. The screenshots look dated. Windows built in search catalogs MSWord documents. It's not a defining feature.

What are the defining features? Things like what you listed in response to my question. Things that can remove a world of hurt, not the 90% that's redundant or a visual interface from 2001.

I went to the pricing. $10 is too high for anyone who wants free and too low for anyone who correlates price with quality.

My two cents:

Raise the price.
Get rid of the trial version.
Target it at business.
Emphasize the PDF search.
Target it at IT.
Emphasize the Network search.
Price it as free or expensive.
Ten bucks for shareware is dead.

Good luck.
>So why are Google disbursing $124m in executive compensation that could be used to build the business?

I understand that you said it was a rhetorical question but I'll attempt to answer anyway.

To the mindset of Larry Page and the board, they are building the business by paying the $124m to those executives. They may be proven wrong but that is how they think. Those payments are not gifts. They are not a free ride to let the executives slack off. The compensation is to prevent key people from leaving and incentivize them to create additional value. This is another component of "building the business" and they would hope that $124m will multiply itself if the managers execute the business plans in a competent manner.

(Btw, I didn't downvote your posts.)
The CEO also owns the company. "Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"
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IANA neuroscientist but it seems reasonable that the brain will fix up small errors. It has to anyway, because it has its own input latency. Besides, the article is referring to discrepancies between multiple audio tracks, which don't depend on vision at all.

For a real-world example, listen to 2 TVs several meters apart and tuned to the same channel. At least with OTA or cable you can expect them to be playing ~simultaneously but the skew between the received signals is easily perceptible.
The use case is narcissism. Narcissism is a huge market, especially in Silicon Valley, which is how Meerkat took off in the first place. (I am not a fan of the "influencer" culture.)

There are arguments that personal live streaming can be used for "empathy," but that's not a typical use case and would not be worth $50M-$100M anyways.
Is it "finance"'s business what the CEO chooses to do with his compensation?
The Next Generation of Currency
Part I - http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/

Part II - http://hackaday.com/2015/03/12/arduino-v-arduino-part-ii/
Yes and no. It would speed up the client receiving the images but at the detriment of flooding servers with connections (even moreso bad if HTTPS). I assume since this is on golang's site, this is also trying to show off the difference with just using the HTTP2 vs HTTP package.
Actually, it's a significant chunk. From the article:

> After Monday's announcement, anybody making less than $50,000 -- more than half of the company's 120 employees -- immediately got bumped up to at least $50,000, according to a company spokesman. The minimum will increase to $60,000 by the end of 2016 and $70,000 by the end of 2017.