skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do find ads very mildly annoying, I don't tend to visit too many sites that have very intrusive advertising. My primary reason for using an adblocker (I don't use an adblocker actually, I use uBlock which is more general) is to reduce tracking and increase privacy.

I would previously have assumed that this was the same motivation most technically proficient adblocker users, but the comments here on HN seem to bely that assumption completely. Are people really that bothered by ads that they would pay Google to continue to track their every move on the web without visible Google-run ads???
Pivoting after failed Syngenta bid, Monsanto to build big data business
An idea explored quite deeply in Stross's Accelerando.
Am I the only one who sees this as a defence, and a try to tackle that Apple is promoting an ad free web?

If Google could get a % of the cut, it could help with lost revenue from the many ad blockers.
> The nuclear family is part of patriarchy, for example.

So in your view, basically patriarchy == culture? Why use a new word then?

> Also, actually, there is still a cabal of men in America forcing women to behave in certain ways: The systematic, coordinated campaign against women's reproductive rights.

You could equivalently claim that there exists a cabal of women that is forcing unborn babies to die. Populist claims are populist.
You can get Class I by preventing human access, I'm guessing the Pro can't have the same interlocks for some design reason.
>> there will be times when you subconsciously notice an ad and do nothing about it. Many advertisers are smarter than people give them credit for.

And this sort of brain-hacking is precisely the reason I find advertising unacceptable and will not allow my computer to render ads.
>This is a nice way of saying "will be taken advantage of".

Or it's a recognition that if you are serious about growing your career you need to do so by demonstrating you are capable of handling greater levels of responsibility. If you think you are being exploited then don't join the copmany. But the idea that more responsibility means more exploitation and that you don't gain anything from that is incredibly short-sighted.

> The issue I have taken with your stance is that it seems to presuppose some business that is automatically a big hit were it not for a potentially terrible hire, instead of a business that won't go anywhere without good execution by a team.

I don't agree that's my stance. If you've never run an engineering team and you get an opportunity to do so out a startup that fails, you've still gained from that experience significantly. The company paid a lot of money for you to make mistakes that you wont make when you go on to lead your next team. It's difficult to calculate the value of that, but it's absolutely real and it's why a lot of people transition to smaller companies in order to grow their careers.

Early employees (and I am one) are absolutely not later stage cofounders. My suggestion to people who are in a position where they feel like a later stage cofounder without the upside is to leave that position. I'm currently at a company where I absolutely know I could not do what the founder/CEO does, and I don't feel like the deal I got is exploitative at all despite having, of course, significantly less equity than the founder. YMMV.

Edit: to further clarify the last point: this company absolutely could have succeeded without me, it could not have succeeded without the founder and a few key hires. If you are joining a typical "lean startup" that is just some engineers who are trying to figure out a business, then yeah, sure, you are a fool to join as an early employee. If you are joining a business with a founder who deeply understands an industry and how to execute, then it's a completely different deal you are signing up for. Apples and oranges.
I typically charge my US clients in dollars and eat the exchange rate. For my German clients, I charge in Euro. For my Swiss clients, I charge in Euro.
- Most updates are being reviewed within 7 weeks.

- Most preliminary reviews are being reviewed within 10 weeks.

I know people have complained about the long approval processes for Firefox addons, but I had no idea it was so absurd.
Reminds me of Sikes fighting the fire in Oliver Twist:

http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/olivertwist/49/

(search on page "And here he remained" for the start)

(spoiler alert?)
As the authenticator would essentially need to maintain a list of verified providers, you would have to do a lot of work to figure out which providers are legit and which are fraudulent. Even distributed across a whole bunch of transactions, the cost is likely too high when each transaction is a fraction of a cent. That's just a show-stopper for microtransactions.

The technology is the easy part for microtransactions. Simplifying the business rules to the point it can cheap enough to operate financial transactions safely is the hard part.
NACHA Same-Day ACH Gets Federal Reserve Support
That's interesting if true. It's going in that direction, too. However, I think the list is still the same: most tasks have proprietary applications that do it better with OSS mostly trying to clone them and more rarely innovating past them. I mean, MS Office vs OpenOffice? VMS or NonStop clustering vs whatever's on Linux? Windows or Mac OS vs GNOME?

Most OSS just sucks compared to best proprietary stuff. It still can't do better. So, proprietary tools are the ones that OSS is still judged by. Certain categories, esp in infrastructure, have OSS kicking serious butt. The dynamic works the opposite way. Even stronger are the hybrids of proprietary and OSS that make the argument less meaningful. Many of us have predicted that hybrids would smash both with some evidence of this in cloud sector. OSS still isn't in that dominant position in general, though.
> I am literally a worthless view to them. In fact for any ad that's beyond static text I am more likely to remember your brand and deliberately not buy your stuff in future. So effectively, any site that was being supported by my visits would be scamming the advertiser.

The cost of non-engaged viewers is baked into the CPM of the ad already. You aren't scamming anyone, you're just fulfilling expectations. :)
If I've understood this correctly, the one main flaw this has is that the probability to live to your next birthday is dependent not just on your current age, but also the current year. In other words, if you're 30 right now, the probability you'd need to look up is "the probability to live to my next birthday at age 30 during year 2015". When you're 40, you'll want to look up "the probability to live to my next birthday at age 40 during the year 2025", which could very well be different from "the probability to live to my next birthday at age 40 during the year 2015".

Obviously, though, we don't know how this value will change in future years, so this isn't really a fault of the chart so much as it is an unavoidable limitation. Some sort of model could be introduced for predicting healthcare advances, but I doubt anyone can do so reliably enough to produce a net increase in accuracy here.
The human brain is actually wired to remember visuals over abstract concepts. This is why you're so good at remembering faces and the places you meet people, but not names. Names are abstract, so they are hard to remember,

The best way to remember names is to actually turn that person's name into a mental image, then tie it to the location where you met them. This gives your brain a mental image of someone's name, and when you see there face again, you'll recall the component cues of their name.

For example, my name is Andy Cook, so you might imagine me standing next to a life sized Raggedy Andy doll wearing a chef's hat + apron. When you see me again, you're likely to remember the image and put the name together. The other nice thing about this technique is that it forces you to stop and commit someone's name to memory instead of letting it go in one ear and out the other.
Especially since he has almost certainly seen Netflix ads, and proclaims himself to be a customer.
Take a look at the specs -- you can either vent them out a window or buy the air filter (which I'm guessing is a fancy charcoal scrubber, don't know for sure).
Snapcraft 0.2 is now available
> To put it another way, here's another study that could be done: Women view walking alone at night equally attainable, but less desirable.

I wonder why that is... After all, men are more likely than women to be assaulted (beaten up, robbed, murdered).
> Not in equal amounts, certainly, but not at a ratio of 50-5000x from founders to every other individual.

I'm not sure I can agree with that statement. All I can say is that if you think you have a deal that isn't fair to you you should leave. But I can certainly imagine scenarios in which a founder contributes 50x more value than an early stage employee.
Source? How do you get 80% CPU utilization if you have to physically separate all your job types?

http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2015.heracles...
Cool idea, I look forward to seeing more. FWIW, I think your anticipated pricing is pretty reasonable (maybe you want that feedback?). I put my name on the mailing list.
> Much of the web is noise and regurgitation.

Much of it is, yes. Meanwhile, publications like the New York Times still depend on online advertising to continue to exist in the way they do.

Not that I have any answers here - I think your DVR comparison is fair.
If anybody has used these for serious coding, I'd love to hear more about the experience.
Prosper Acquires BillGuard
It doesn't just cut. It has variable focus of 13mm, allowing it to carve out any desired shape within that range.
I came to say the same thing.

My lab uses an industrial laser cutter a lot, and perspex fumes stink. We have a large extraction unit to capture the fumes.

Filters only capture a limited range of compounds too. Important to always check whether the filter can handle the material before cutting.
Starting Sep 2016. This should help create some interesting payment startups.
From Steve Jobs to Grace Hopper: 12 scientists and techies who tinkered as kids
> In OO terms, if you have N types and M functions, with M different behaviours (function code), you aggregate the N types into an inheritance tree that makes you write 1xM functions (one function against the ancestor of the N types).

In general, its O(M+N), because you write the M methods in the ancestor that you talk about, and then O(N) class-specific implementations of the underlying functionality on which the M methods rely.
It's not a biological determination (as in biological determined desire), it is a biologically determined wider range of options. Women can bear children, men can't. This gives women the first choice to spend time with those children, and also gives them bargaining power in relationships. An option men don't usually have. Since women have more options, they can also consider more possible ways of life.

That's just my take, though - but it's only a matter of time until some unbiased gender researcher (who is not predetermined to prove suppression of women) will set out to confirm it.

Edit: honestly, downvotes of this comment make me laugh. Do you feel so threatened by an opinion that does not require suppression of women to explain our modern reality?
Well, I understand an organization that sets up a network where content creators get paid incurs some costs. I was curious as to what people think is the appropriate amount of fees they should charge for that service.
Sure - I'll do a write up all about it some point soon. The short of it is yes, Nombre helped me. When my startup was acquired by HubSpot and I went from a three person company to a 700 person one, Nombre was super helpful for remembering everyone's names in product + engineering. I basically memorized 75+ people in a week or so.
I feel the same as Nursie and can give at least one concrete example - I purposefully avoided buying any Groupon ever only because once upon a time they spammed living shit out of the Internet with pink animated ads.
They need to track you to associate your contributor account with your browsing.
> ...you should be relegated to fighting on the margins making returns in the window between your code-release and your competitors' reverse-engineering?

One's ability to profit from reverse-engineering a competitor's hard/soft/firmware is not unlimited. IIRC, if the purpose of the product of the RE isn't to be compatible [0] with the RE'd 'ware, then you absolutely have to do a dirty room RE and documentation followed by a completely independent clean-room reimplementation. This raises the cost of the endeavour by at least 2x.

See, the original holder of the copyright on that 'ware still potentially has a real claim on the product of a solely dirty-room reverse engineering endeavour.

Additionally, AIUI, many software licensing agreements make the situation a little more difficult and uncertain for our would-be reverse engineers.

And, if the thing you're RE'ing makes use of patented material, I suspect that things get rather expensive rather fast.

[0] That is, to work alongside or enhance the 'ware.
The Curious Case of Brett Bielema
I introduced core.typed to Circle, and I was responsible for most of the early type annotations in the Circle codebase. Because of me, Circle was also the first large contributor to core.typed's kickstarter campaign.

Other commenters are speculating that this kind of tool needs to be built into the language, and planned ahead of time. IMO, this is completely wrong. core.typed fits surprisingly well into the language, and there are no fundamental reasons in Clojure or core.typed preventing it from working well.

I largely agree with the criticisms raised in the post, but it's worth pointing out that core.typed is developed by one guy, part-time while working on his phd. The problems are all related to maturity of the project, and bandwidth. core.typed's version number is currently 0.3.11, which gives you an idea of its state.

Ambrose has shown what is possible; I'm confident that with more help, core.typed can become an amazing tool for finding bugs in production code.
Design documentation at small companies
This still gives Google the ability to track the web pages we visit, and many of us block ads because of tracking, not because they're ugly.

That said, I do think that solutions like Google Contributor are the way forward if it can become an open standard that supports anonymization. I'm willing to trust my browser and a local, open-source wallet to watch the sites that I visit and authorize micro-payments via an anonymous currency. Those payments could be delivered to websites via middlemen that include ad vendors like Google or other processors.

It would require careful design and numerous security considerations, but it seems possible to use this model to support publishers while maintaining privacy.
It's a computer science academic paper, so it's still inside that area.
Creating Custom Xcode File Templates
I'm a huge fan of flask, but my projects tend to be too small for Django to be a reasonable choice.
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I haven't set one up but I did some research a while back and heard good things about Five9

http://www.five9.com/products/virtual-contact-center
So what?

The journal isn't citing itself per se, but the works of authors that it published. The editor making the citations isn't citing his or her own personal prior work.

If the citations are useful and relevant, that's fair game. The journal has published a lot of papers, and the editorial references those papers.

It was probably convenient for the editor, owing to the familiarity with the published content of their own journal.

(If some of the references were circular, that would be comically noteworthy.)

Presumably the point here is that the editor doesn't care about researching papers which do not appear in their journal. That's could be a justifiable, if arrogant, point of view. ("Anything potentially worthy of publishing in this field arrives on the doorstep of our journal, and anything actually worthy is published. Ergo, if we need to cite anything, we mostly just need to look through our journal.") If that is actually true, then the editor is justified in heavily citing from their own journal. :)
You need more than this. GM just off scott-free after killing and wounding hundreds with the ignition switch malfeasance. The company plead down to do some PR and pay a teensy fine. Meanwhile, the murderers among them were not charged.
I've done some CTA wording tests for a client selling event tickets. We tried "Buy Now" vs "Find Tickets" - "Find Tickets" gave us a huge lift in revenue (not just clickthroughs), probably because the language was less committal and was more successful in driving traffic down the funnel. /anecdote
> I have a patented protocol

Fuck you.
So a paywall, except it's intentionally obnoxious/dangerous to the very people it's trying to get to pay them money? I don't think this is a realistic thing to worry about.
That's not really relevant to this subthread, though.
I don't think I have actually. I signed up after a friend showed me the service. I also know about them from reading tech sites over the years, it was big news on places like slashdot when services like this started up.

Prime I use because it's free right now, though I'll probably cancel it at the end of the month because I don't like it that much. NowTv I subscribe to because it turned out to be the easiest way to get GoT when I decided I probably shouldn't pirate any more. I found out about it because I searched, not because someone intruded into my life and demanded my attention.
There is a simple, although probably incomplete, explanation: men gain more from being successful.

In particular, that's basically the only way for men to get rich (while for many women marrying a rich men is also an option), and women view more successful men as more desirable, where men don't care as much about women's successes.

It would be interesting to explore if there are any differences in the gay populations.
Slightly offtopic: anyone has a similar setup for Python?
The idea is a joke.
There are literally thousands of ways to trick users to visit a site, from clickbaiting to rickrolling. Suddenly these methods pay out some real money.

What do you think the possible consequences of this are? Will that be a net positive or a net negative for content quality on the web?
A recent conversation with a company selling proprietary hardware with open software gave another angle: fixing stuff. Many, many organizations like having source code so they can investigate and fix problems. Whole projects have been burned by an inability to do this with something they acquired and built on. So, from an economic sense, maybe people discussing this should factor in avoiding liability.
Patriarchy is a gendered term that implies men are in control. Traditional gender roles are reinforced by men AND women.

If traditional gender roles included things like women can't vote or own property, then I could see making a case for calling that patriarchy. In the west there is no such thing though.
I think what you think you'll do, what you swear you'll do, and what you actually do aren't necessarily always aligned.

But that's also irrelevant. If they are paying to have pictures put in front of you for brand awareness, then that's what they are paying for,not ad-clicks. Assuming you can completely understand their business, strategies and intentions to the point that you can accurately judge what is best for them is not just naive, it's hubris.
Unblock ads served from google, keep the rest blocked. Eventually websites will just have to use google as their ad platform if they want to receive revenue in a mostly ad-blocked world.

It's pretty brilliant really.
Huh? Someone has to manage and pay for the software running on "Google's cloud".
It seems like something like the dependency tracking and selective reloading in Stuart Sierra's tools.namespace could be used to mitigate their first problem.
Yes, but before Go 1.5 you had to build the toolchain for each target manually, and with Go 1.5 it comes by default.
I'm still waiting for XKeyScore to be generally accessible by any script kiddie. When it is they'll realize how utterly stupid it is for such a system to exist.
I wanted to hook other services up to it but never got around to it. I also realized it needs to be a mobile app to be truly valuable, which I just didn't have the time to build on nights and weekends.

The circumstances it is really helpful with is when you get thrown into situations where you're meeting lots of people - new jobs, new school, new relationship, etc.

Ideally there'd just be a "human" API that had high-res headshots of everyone in the world, but that doesn't exist. The closest is LinkedIn but since they shut down their API's developers can't use it anymore.
In theory, the journal could also tell authors who have submitted articles that their submissions don't have enough citations. And to go back and revise until they do. That wouldn't be so entirely out of the ordinary.
Denying birth control based on your employer's religious beliefs, defunding women's health initiatives, ect.
Apropos: Palantir crows about being able to use multiple sock puppet accounts to spam social networks - "persona management" [1].

It's a big market - and there are vendors who specialize in fake accounts - that means there's a lot of interest/money in being able to fake popularity.

The future ground of all social networks is Astroturf.

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...
Try compiling a real big project, enterprise scale e.g. Linux kernel.
My real objection is profiling. I've mentioned it in a half dozen comments in this thread. Why is it so hard to understand? And why on earth are you so aggressive?

And by the way, we're paying for content. It's called books, magazines, newspapers, kindle shorts, you name it. Half of the original content out there comes from established news agencies, and most of them don't even run AdSense.

And please, spare me with this false dilemma, we're either bombarded with ads or the web will cease to exist. I've been hearing that for more than a decade. Advertising evolves. Even if 80% of users adopted ad blocking technologies advertising would find a venue to reach users. It's doing that for decades.
I want... NO.... I NEED this! The price seems surprisingly reasonable for the amount of household items you could create that you "Forgot to get from the store."
How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name (2014)
I don't think many employees have a 1 in 2000 chance of a $10M outcome. I'm OK with the 0.005% odds on a multi-billion exit. Let's stick with that. The problem isn't the odds, it's the returns. As another article on HN pointed out, currently, 100% of billion dollar startups (every single "unicorn") have significant investor liquidation preferences.

As a result, for a non-founder, a 1% early-stage stake, at the exit of a billion dollar "unicorn", is quite likely to come out as a nice annual bonus at a "normal" firm: $10k to $100k. The one-two punch of dilution and liquidation preference eats up employee equity.

a %0.005 chance at $100k comes out to an expected value of $500. Even after we consider the odds, that $100k is four years in the future, with a one year cliff and a lot of individual risks involved, unconnected to the firm's fortunes. The present value is conceivably much lower than the expected value of $500. It's essentially nothing.

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As a postscript: There's nothing intrinsically wrong with offering equity stakes with a negligible present value. Clearly, startups still find talent that satisfies them. The system is working.