skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've pretty much stopped watching TV because all they show are make-up and tampon commercials.

You base your TV viewing on the advertising?
DI is a design principle, not a class for frameworks. DI just means to "inject" the dependancies of an object through constructor arguments, setters or by simply setting instance (aka member) variables. In other words, DI means that you don't use global variables (aka singletons). DI does not provide any more flexibility itself, but most DI frameworks encourage the usage of interfaces instead of concrete classes (which is a good thing) when it comes to defining dependancies. Sadly however, the fancy pants therm for using interfaces is "dependency inversion", because when using interfaces, the compile time and runtime dependancies of a class point in opposite directions. As you can imagine, this lead to a lot of confusion.
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Word 2007 (and 2013, for that matter) doesn't have much useful online support.

The Dropbox 'badge' as they call it adds a bit. It'll tell you who else is editing, let you comment/annotate, do 'automatic' versioning (i.e. not make you save versions manually), and share from within Word/Excel. It's about as much 'cloud' as you'd want. Maybe the realtime collaboration will work well, hard to tell. That would be a major selling point, if they manage to sync edits well.
What, by All That Is Curried, is a space leak?
> We did not have detailed enough monitoring for this dimension (membership size)

It is often the case that you aren't monitoring the metric that would have told you the world was about to end. However,

> their processing time was near the time limit for retrieval

This is a specific response time with a known, fatal, limit. Not seeing that trend seems unfortunate.
It sounds like most of the remediation is "we'll make sure this service keeps working even if Dynamo is down". It's telling that so many services are relying heavily on Dynamo now. If anything, this event just makes me like it more. (I have several things built on it).
Why GOV.UK Verify matters
Agreed. If advertising was implemented as the author suggests I doubt there would be any need for ad blockers.

But we have popups, in-page popups ("sign up to our newsletter!"), blinking, flashing, audio and video. As realistic as the article is about the approach to advertising; that is never going to happen. If anything advertisers are going to be more aggressive as the market that does not run blockers diminishes.

I'm guessing that eventually the internet is going to become unusable without blocker; at that point blockers will become de-facto and universal. Advertisers simply aren't learning.
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Seems like just another case of a businessman enjoying a slice of "American way" pie! We can loathe or love him for it, but he is only guilty of greed. Last I looked, this crime against our brothers and sisters is not recognized by our legal system as a violation. Do we want government in the business of setting prices and controlling such things across the board, or not? I am but an ob/gyn fighting a losing healthcare battle. Both drugs discussed here directly impact my women's care; their potential well-being. Thankfully, I have alternatives in my armamentarium. I don't know about general practice colleagues.
Personally, the title just told me that it's probably one of those "you won't believe what happens next" YouTube videos.

The URL told me that it's probably a talk (maybe about that category of videos?) using words that don't do anything.

Skimming the first screen worth of text led me to the conclusion that it must be about privacy or hacking.

And here I see comments about advertising?! Two or three words, one being "Talk", the other being whatever this is actually about, would have helped tremendously here.
Glad to see I'm not the only one whose primary concern is tracking.

I do not want you to build a dossier of everywhere I go on the web. I don't want to be tracked by dozens of shady javascript includes on each page, the way it is now. I don't want to be tracked by a nice efficient consortium either. Do not want.

If the ad industry isn't ready to give up pervasive tracking, they're not facing up to the hard choices yet. And if they think the only way to support the modern web is with a massive database of everything everyone reads, then yeah, their apocalypse is coming.
At least in Germany it's not possible to override laws by writing something different in a privacy policy or EULA. Even EULAs are mostly invalid. I guess it's the same in most European countries.
> They kind of solve the same problem

no they don't. That's a fundamental mistake to say that. DI is about inversion of control , modules don't do that.
I can't wait for this apocalypse to happen ! To me, ad blocking is holy work - for twenty years I have been expending efforts above & beyond what would be strictly necessary for sufficient comfort... Ads invade my display real estate and the only reasonable response against that is of course jihad !
This was the first time we had actually seen red icons on the dashboard. We joked that they had to furiously photoshop them up Sunday morning.

(I'm sure it had happened before, just the first time we had seen them.)
React encourages a certain style of development/architecture to a degree. Sure, it doesn't compete with Angular feature for feature, but it does encourage a style that IMHO is different enough to be interesting as a conversation topic when discussing alternatives to Angular.
Content Blocking is the Web at its Best
Yes, "if you block ads the terrorists win"... but I am not so sure that Netflix / HBO and Wikipedia are models for the internet as a whole. Google runs the biggest ad exchange on the internet and Appnexus is a distant 2nd. I think the article might be right that advertising is the main revenue generator on the internet and keeps the internet free (as in 'tracked', not beer).

An interesting issue would come up with the adopocalyse - internet content would be for those who could pay for it. What % of Brazil (or US for that matter) would lose access to free/adtracked services like gmail, twitter, etc.
I just spent 10 or so minutes and it looks like they do use ECC, and per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786695 see ECC corrections reported in their log files.
> The money is more of a token to show that the company values the candidate's time and is not having them complete this coding challenge lightly.

That's my point. If a candidate takes it lightly because you didn't pay some dollars, does she care enough? If not, is she still a good hire? Do you want to hire someone who doesn't care about the job or the company enough to even fail to provide full effort on their first assignment?
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eBook prices are too high for what you are buying. There are no printing costs, no shipping cost, and for most books, miniscule marketing costs.

Why are most eBooks more costly than their paperback counterparts?
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You can very easily implement eye tracking to determine where they are looking.
Well, the lyrics were what was being questioned, not the music...
Yes true. There is no way to have targeted advertising w/out tracking.
CORD Leaders Dress in School Uniforms in Support of the Ongoing TEACHERS STRIKE
http://www.skywatch.co/

SkyWatch is doing something similar. If you're into this sort of thing, check them out.
Shit's Easy Syndrome (2009)
Since the \A\ in ACID is atomicity, I suspect the reading context for "availability" is CAP.
Here, here!!
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The claim is not really about "motivating" people to create, but making it easier to make a living off their works. People may well create new technology and art for other motivations, but ask yourself: how do they make a living, and would this income be likely if there was no way of protecting their works (whether the protection is enforced by themselves or their employers)? If they don't care about making a living out of their works, it's just a hobby, but the world is not run on hobbies.

There are studies on these kinds of things. The picture is quite complex for patent systems, where economists struggle to prove whether we're better off with them or we'd be better off without them. There is no such question about the need for a copyright system though -- most studies are more about how much copyright protection is enough.
Not to mention his example is just straight wrong about $scope and ng-if.

His JSFiddle examples are all using angular 1.1.5. Angular 1.2 properly binds scope inside an ng-if.

I agree that angular 1.1.5 had it's warts, if that's what this is supposed to be about. The current release version of angular is 1.4, about to be 1.5.

Edit: After fully reading through this blog post; it's almost all wrong.

Dirty Checking: Yes, we have have to sacrifice ease of use for performance sometimes. So keep it in mind and don't make so many simultaneous data bindings. Why you would need 2000+ in any given state(ui-router)/route is just mystifying. Don't abuse ng-model.

Dependency Injection: Are you kidding me? He's not even using the array notation for proper DI with minification.

Pointless Complexity: This is an actual valid argument, and the only one on the blog. Google has some pretty bad documents for angular, especially when describing directives that isolate scope.

Server Side Rendering: Uh, the whole idea behind stuff like angular is decoupled frontends from your server. Build a REST API and point angular at it; no need to ship layout code with services.

Angular 2: There's an upgrade path that should allow the two to exist in tandem. There's no reason to not keep writing angular 1.x code right now. It's not like Angular 2 being released means all your previous code is worthless.
Most exponential backoff implementations I've seen have an upper limit, where the initial (fast) retries work around transient networking blips.

My guess is that a case like this you'd hit the backoff's upper bound pretty quickly, and, given the large volume of servers hitting a comparatively small metadata pool, experience exactly the same failure mode.
CloudWatch is a monitoring service that AWS offers publicly. It is different from the monitoring service that AWS services use internally.

source: was on an AWS service team for several years
Ask HN: Company offers to pay for sth to improve our skills, what to propose?
My boss told me our company wants to invest on our education/skills: improving and broadening our skills, mastering something specific, etc.
He gave me a few examples: buy books, attend a conference, etc. But he didn't have plenty of ideas and asked me to propose something, and I do not know what to propose.

If given this opportunity, what would you guys propose?

Some background: I work in a startup in Berlin (we broken even with our first product and are now working on a new one). We are a small team (<10), and each one of us works on at least a few areas (mobile, backend, devops, etc.).

Thanks!
It has nothing to do with the "rigidity" of Java, and everything to do with the complexity of the problems solved in Java land.

The value comes as you scale the number of developers, the lifetime of the software and the complexity of the product. This holds just as much for Java as it does for Ruby or Javascript.
Because books are generally monopoly goods rather than commodities -- because of copyright, there aren't interchangeable substitutes from alternative providers -- so process aren't driven down to marginal costs by competition, but instead are driven by value to purchasers, and ebooks are more convenient to store and transport, and less vulnerable to degradation, than paperbacks, making them more valuable to enough purchasers.
>The correct answer is to never

Ah sweet, it's that one commenter who can prescribe the absolute correct answer to very complex situations with a couple of simple platitudes! Since you seem to be in a mood to drop the correct answer, maybe you can help me with some difficult decisions I'm facing:

what programming language should I use?

what should the next move of my business be?

is she really the one, or should I move on?

Regardless of how good your advice is, proscribing a thing for every possible complex situation with the wave of a hand is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.
https://fantasysupercontest.com

The Las Vegas SuperContest is a largest NFL picks contest. Last year winner, CH BALLERS, took home $726,000 in prize money and got a record of 76.1% win percentage. (52.5% to break even in sports gambling for the uninitiated.)

The interesting thing about the SuperContest is that very contestants picks are made public every Saturday and my site keep track of their picks and does consensus analysis. This give users 1 days to act on the information.

I just released it 3 weeks ago for the start of this year NFL season. Not really looking to monetize it yet, but traffic is increasing every day.
I wonder if it would looks a bit nicer with .jsx support.
Of course it has no such thing, and the headline is misleading.

It has 421 words that to varying degrees are related to snow.

If you look at the actual online thesaurus [1], and expand the subcategories, you see that this includes e.g. specific types of clothing worn in snow or stormy weather.

[1] http://scotsthesaurus.org/thescat/873/
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I expected Google to be in this but not Apple, weren't they about defending the privacy of their users?
Note Program Manager != Project Manager != Product Manager

IMO Program Manager < Project Manager < Product Manager.
In English we probably have 421 words for "Penis"... Tells you where our priorities are.
Do you mean: "Why won't this eventually be available on a drugstore counter so I can diagnose myself?"

The FDA's response for decades is this: you don't have a lab to perform a more detailed confirmation (because false positives sometimes do happen), and you have no doctor or counselor to be there with you when you get the results.

I worked for a biotech firm that had an instant HIV test available a long long time ago. It was deemed too irresponsible to let people to check themselves at home because the company (and the FDA, and everyone's lawyers) were afraid of people doing rash things after a positive result. If a false-positive HIV patient killed themselves and the family sues, that would be...bad.

Even today, the home-HIV test that's on the market involves you sending in the sample and then getting a phone call with the results.
If they determine that the random signal contains any sort of information, even if we can't understand it, I think they'd simply be happy to have confirmation of another civilization.

Getting a chunk of signal with modulation or one containing repeated patterns would be a world changer.
Or for older readers, crowdsourcing Sharper Image.

(Innovations Catalogue in the UK.)
There's seems to be quite high supplies of both comedy and fashion in today's world.

Before imposing a system of copyright to "promote" them, you'd want to be EXTREMELY fucking sure that
a) the quality/quantity will go up
b) you're fine with massive new amounts of money being siphoned into rent-seeking industries (legal, rights holding companies, etc)
c) you don't create side-effects that actually decrease output and/or lower quality
"Ian Lipkin, a virus hunter from Columbia University"
How to avoid(or stall) someone from pirating your android app?
Funny that the last complaint is that Angular2 will break a lot of stuff, when it will actually fix most of the issues he's mentioning above. One can never win.
Android privacy is a huge concern, with almost all apps in the store being vulnerable to it. It gets expensive (often useless!) to implement a new anti-piracy measure. The common advice found on the Internet is to always implement anti piracy measures that are not too time taking to implement. So, here are some of the anti-piracy measures that you can implement easily in your app.

PS: Psst!! What other anti-piracy measure do you guys use in your android apps? Would love to learn more about them.
I swear there are like 100 different words for management in Japanese. At least in my Anki deck.
Resting on their laurels? How about hollowed out by the demographic losses?
I think the point is that is a false argument to say that advertising on the internet will end abruptly with nothing else to do unless regret our decisions. This is not nuclear weapons under the control of dellusional men. This is a complex, descentralized industry with lot of incentives to change and adapt if it starts to crumble.

And it won't be necessarily copying Netflix model, that is just a past example. It will be by inovating in ways I can't predict.

If the people start loosing access to beneficial things because of their behavior, they will change behavior.

There is a term for this fallacy I guess - when you threat with an absurd proposition "imagine what happens if all advertising is sunddenly completely banned from internet, bad things will happen", only to push forward your proposition of "hey, let's just keep everything as it is right now, it's all fine, we don't want to risk imploding capitalismo do we?"

That is what this guy is doing.
100 Percent Yes. It was for one department that makes reports from visiting peoples homes that are just written documents. We didn't go with Docs but it would have worked fine.

I would say our company of 400 people have very little need for Word and they don't know how to use Excel besides making budgets with no real complected formulas.
> As abetted by for-profit technology companies, ad blocking is robbery, plain and simple

My stand on this:

1) I have an ad blocker in place
2) Sites can detect my ad blocker and ask me to disable it before they show me content - I know it's feasible because I already saw that happening several times.
3) Then I can decide if I want to disable the blocker and see the content, or not.

So if a site does not block it's content in response to me blocking their ads, I will assume they are fine with it. For sure I am not steeling the content because they basically provide it for free - as in free beer.
Astrodynamics, not Aerodynamics
Fantastic; I was unaware of row polymorphism, and I'll certainly dig into it deeper. Partly, I intentionally wasn't thinking about the typing because so many incredibly intelligent people are already working on that.
Awesome! How long do you work on these per week (approx.)?
Are 'quotes and questions' the 'best clickbait'?

More seriously - is the headline supposed to be a statement of fact, i.e. "Scots have 421 words for snow"? The article would seem to indicate it is indeed a fact, and the 'quote' is not actually a quote.

I honestly 'hate' the use of these 'quotes'. Does anyone with any BBC knowledge know what the reasoning is behind these?
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This means that, as user, OP doesn't consider his opinion on the subject qualified enough,
despite being fluent in the use of web browsers, and being a potential target for sites implementing this effect.
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Followed by a conclusion that communism would be the solution, which makes a lot less sense...
"BazarJS" is a series of articles about JS frameworks, pre-processors, etc... they already published the same in italian language some months ago. now they're re-publishing (with eventual updates) the same in english.
WOW I would have never thought of using Knitr for that but it actually would work great as long as you don't need Unicode support for left to right languages and even than you could just throw in Latex.
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Paul Graham discussed this in the Ongoing Diagnosis section of his Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas article at:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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I had no idea this many people cared about this sort of thing! I'll totally follow along. I think there's something real in all this; we just need the right combination of ideas, and perhaps the will to collaborate.
There is plenty of discussion out there and no conclusive results. However there is a vague set of privacy notes in an EULA, a dodgy looking agreement between the EU and US over data export/sharing, data shooting out even if everything is turned off and most importantly....

... not a word from Microsoft on the matter.

I'd expect them to conclusively defend themselves from such allegations, but no, the marketing mill is still going on non stop.

To be honest it's like a toddler talking incessantly to avoid talking about the puddle of piss he/she is trying to hide.
The abstract the article talks about:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/09/15/1507803112.abst...

Or by DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507803112

I Had no idea things had moved so quickly. Not sure when the full paper is being published but am excited to read it!
The Ad industry is the new Record and Music industry. Figure out a new model, adapt or die.
> But I'd like to hear from people hosting AdSense on their sites. Has profiling raised CTR rates significantly?

Probably hard to tell, since there are a lot of confounding variables. Most notably, conversion across the board has plummeted in recent years (I forget the exact percent, but I think it's about one third).

So if you're a website funded by ads and your traffic has grown 10% since last year, you've actually taken a pay cut!
Feel free to write to them to complain. They might change their methodology if enough people do; as it stands, their metrics keep telling them these 'articles' are popular.
> The fact that the copyright is dead does not necessarily mean licensing contracts are also void.

i.e. licensing something you don't own and have no rights to is fine, legally speaking.

The more I learn about the law, the more bizarre it is.
Yes, succinctly put. The 'hard choice' though is between suffering though bad or irrelevant ads or being tracked. I do not think there is another way of targeting ads. We haven't evolved past the DoubleClick/ Google way of doing things.

So no - I don't think the ad industry is capable of going away from pervasive tracking. I do not know how else they would do it.
As a Bostonian I hated the Yankees. But I loved Yogi.
You want the ads to be better targeted for you but you don't want to be profiled or tracked? That is going to be difficult for most publishers.

My company could do that because we sell our ads directly and approve each one by hand and therefore have our own sales and ad operations staff. A lot of sites don't have the resources or scale to do that though.
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Yes.

Ludendorff threw the responsibility for the armistice on the politicians. But Austria-Hungary and Turkey were collapsing even faster, and America was shipping fresh divisions to Europe. By September 1918, Ludendorff said that the government would have to seek terms for peace. He held a somewhat higher position in the German Army than Hitler did.