skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As jsnell pointed out, newspapers sold tons of ads – and the reason we had so much more resource-intensive journalism back then was because you bought the entire newspaper and so the classified ads, car dealers, etc. were subsidizing the Podunk Herald-Clarion's international reporters.

Further, your description of the past is either limited to a few months in 1994 or needs to include the tons of small “portal” sites which were plastered with ads and ran only content from AP and Reuters or, more likely, lower-tier networks but produced no original content except for advertorial sponsored content. The click-bait headline might have taken awhile to reach its modern form but it was invented shortly after the invention of advertising.
Thank you for clarifying. My apologies for propagating a misconception.
Paid content on the web has been bad because there has been a glut of free content.

But if we look at the history of print, paid content did quite well for a very long time. Books, you might recall, were pretty popular. Many magazines and newspapers used to make a great deal of their revenues from subscription fees.

Video similarly seems to have worked well when paid: movies have always been profitable. The recent "golden age of television" has been attributed to the increasing volume of paid content; the ad-supported stuff is seen as lower quality.

I use an ad blocker because I'm not interested in participating in a system that is based around manipulation of people. I pay for some media both old (e.g., Economist, NYT) and new (e.g., via Patreon). The system of ad-supported print content is certainly in trouble, and if I can help along its demise by using an ad blocker, I'm glad to do it. It'll be exciting to see what comes next.
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I had a similar thought but if it's that critical an index it's entirely possible they couldn't afford the write overhead to keep both copies around.
I would say it has more to do with the fact that consoles now have hard drives and broadband internet connections. Games can be released as "good enough" to meet deadlines, with the bug fixes coming at a later date. This wasn't possible when consoles couldn't apply updates to their games.
+1 Its the same in Finland. Now my kids walk to school every day.
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The same comment suggested "bti" as a sensible alternative, though.
I used to go out alone as a kid in Mexico City, but only within walking distance of my home. I was 12 the first time I rode public transportation on my own. Nothing ever happened to me, but within my social class it was seen as dangerous and unusual that my parents would let me ride the metro and peseros alone (I used to go to the most expensive private school in Mexico City).
> Alternately ... don't gamble on Bitcoin!

It's not gambling if, say, I need to hold Bitcoin in inventory to run my business but I want to short it on Bitfinex to hedge my exposure to currency fluctuations. Not shorting would be the gamble.

> Gemini is attempting to be as legit an exchange as is possible.

Coinbase Exchange is a perfectly legitimate exchange too (I work for Coinbase). But accepting deposits and lending them out to other users to short and/or trade on margin is a whole different regulatory ballgame.

> It turns out that crooks and scammers see an unregulated environment as a golden opportunity

The regulations here are actively hurting consumers as legitimate providers are afraid to step into the space. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy (too many regulations -> only idiots and crooks offer services -> consumers lose money -> more regulation).

Edit: opinions are my own, not Coinbase's, yada yada
The post mortem specifically noted that it looked unused, presumably because the code in master now claimed to depend on the new index.
Restrictions can (and often do) reduce cognitive load.
The Giant Pool of Money episode of This American Life -- on of their most popular episodes in the history of NPR -- does not skimp on the role of low quality borrowers in the financial crisis - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/t...
With their high number of (rejected) applications and subjective criteria they can of course shape these statistics any way they want.

So is this progress or Stanford appearing progressive? There is no way to tell.
No. Not registered here. That's probably partly why I am now represented by a separatist party both locally, "stately", and federally.
Given it was temporary and they said it led to the API running "slightly degraded", it sounds like disabling a feature is pretty much exactly what they did.
Which is why steam refunds make so much sense - as it's all digital, buying and refunding are the same couple of easy button clicks for the consumer. If this where to happen on the mobile app market it would be a game changer (because of the 100x more indie games there).
I have discovered a truly remarkable non nested-array solution which this margin is too small to contain.
From the article: "The ad blocker replaces XMLHttpRequest.open() by its own code and checks the request URLs for keywords on a block list. If the URL matches it would throw an InvalidAccessError."

It sounds like the ad blocker misused a regular expression and matched the string "twitter" in the wrong context. Some ad blockers just use files of regular expressions somewhat blindly. If you're looking at URLs, parse them.
GMail is already a product people can and do pay for. That would surely be fine.

Google is in a different category for me as far as ads go. When people are actively searching for something, offering them things they are searching for is working with their interests. Most advertising, though, is distraction from whatever the user is up to, so it's working against their interests.

YouTube might have a problem. People might, god forbid, actually have to pay to host stuff. I suspect we'd survive.
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Japanese? Kids all over the world walk to school alone. In places ranging from Spain to Singapore, including developing countries like Indonesia.

I was around 9 or 10 when I started riding public transport. Tons of kids my age on the bus too.
You obviously didn't read the article. That's a completely different issue.
Ive been burned on this enough times where I know that any weird error that doesn't have an explanation, automatically turn off adblock. 9 times out of 10... works
I guess it depends on how much of a success you consider Laserdisc to be. It wasn't a blowout success like DVD, but it was a healthy niche.

I got the strong impression that DVDs were sell-through, a market I think Disney pioneered. So maybe video rental wasn't so important for DVDs, but I don't know.

You are of course right that recording was a killer app for VHS, lots of time shifting ... although, hasn't VHS died without most people replacing it with recording to hard disks? I'm not sure TiVo got big enough, but I don't know.

As brudgers points out in his reply in this subthread, recording got big enough to worry the content holders such that they imposed DRM on DVDs and Blu-ray, but it's not clear their fears are realistic. Certainly the cracking of DVD DRM didn't stop production of them.
It gets very hot during gaming, but for day to day use the temperature is just fine. Battery life is good. I dual boot and use Ubuntu 98% of the time, and on 15.04 it gets 4-5 hours I think.
>Retailers no longer have the power to make customers wait. Consumers have too many other buying options.

And yet Apple had a line 12+ hours before opening to release their 9th generation iPhone -- despite also taking orders online.

Hopdoddy in Austin has a line out the door for lunch and dinner; they even have a person dedicated to managing it, along with waitstaff to take drink orders

I think the line is alive and well in America for certain establishments.
The issue Augustine raises is why games have launch problems. He pins the blame on backend issues and ignores other issues. (I think primarily he was just using failed launches as a vehicle to talk about gaming backends, but nonetheless he argued that backends were the primary cause of failed launches.)

Another issue the article failed to address is that many games fail catastrophically when servers cannot be contacted even for online features that are not necessary for core gameplay; or for DRM purposes. This is a flaw in the front end that contributes to the same problem.

All those "causes" are primarily fueled by the following:

"It's a major threat to their business. So why does it keep happening?"

This here should have clued him into the larger context. It isn't a major threat to their business. Getting a refund on a videogame is becoming easier, but has historically been difficult. Try returning an opened copy of a game to any retailer. Even explaining that it is the game itself that is broken does not always result in an accepted return.

The consumer, rather than the business, is bearing the cost of a failed launch.

So Augustine is correct in a technical sense regarding how backend issues contribute to failed launches. However, it is the market as a whole that is the primary driver behind failed launches. There is little incentive to fix the failed launches regardless of the technical means by which they occur.
In what circles of the society? Among hackers, university educated people, naturally curious, etc (and Pulp Fiction fans), sure. But there are vast expanses of the population who don't know even more basic stuff and I would argue those are the majority.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320944
I would not consider 120 seconds to be excessive when you're failing over to a new master from the hot slave.
Interesting. I tried out the built-in terminal and found that I couldn't navigate around panes as quickly as if I just used tmux instead. Are you using the default mappings, or have you made them easier to use somehow?
Yes, Ivote. Usually for the candidate of the party which, in general, believes as I do. If I don't vote, I am conceeding control to persons that believe the opposite of what I believe. All candidates have weak points, but some are deffently opposed to my main positions and toughts. If the current polls prove to be correct, the up coming election for President will have two poor major candidates, but the party platforms will be very different. I can support the one.
That was my thought as well.. I don't think the majority of tasks will wind up much under $10/hr for most people. Only Amazon knows what the average person is making in an average hour of turn around time though. It would be interesting to find out though.
Oh my goodness, 1000x yes. I am so sick of retailers putting crap in front of their checkout counters (Best Buy, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, every Indian run gas station, and thousands of others). Like running me through a rat maze of bookshelves, display cases, and pallets full of unopened stock is somehow going to make me happy about buying from there. Every time I see this in a retail store, it annoys me to death and seriously taints my view on the shopping experience. If I don't have enough counter room to put my purchases on or if I can't find the freaking entrance to your checkout corn maze, I'm going to leave my purchases on the ground.

Ironically, I think "open" stores (like an Apple store) exhibit the same behavior. Even though there's technically no labyrinth to navigate through, good luck finding an efficient way to purchase a product, especially if it's just a small one. You first signal an Apple checkout fairy to grace you with her checkout wand, so that someone else can find you and swipe your card. If your purchase is small, they hardly even give you time of day. So stupid.

And the analogy can be extended to online stores too. Any store with a "just add this too" in the checkout experience invokes the same negative reaction. Though I am a heavy Amazon customer, their checkout process is just barely tolerable in this way. And think about GoDaddy and how miserably awful their checkout experience has been (and continues to be) throughout the years.
Don't be afraid to adopt a position because you think it will make you a pariah, or because you don't believe that other people are likely to accept it. Neither of those things makes a true thing false.

Where would the civil rights movement be if popularity were the yardstick by which an idea is to be judged? Every movement starts out by being unpopular, with ideas no one has heard before.

I make no friends among conservatives when I retweet a pro-choice/#shoutyourabortion post on twitter or express support for gay rights. But the fact that some don't like it doesn't matter to me, and if you search deep down, you may find that the immediate approval or buy-in by the majority of others doesn't matter to you either.

This might sound like an impractical approach to take, but if your goal is to live in a truly better world, it is by far the most practical thing you can do.
Ok, so women still choose CS at a smaller proportion than men do...that's alright for now.

What's awesome is that women are now choosing CS more than any other major, and Stanford is providing them an environment where it's cool to do so. That's incredible.
If you're into any field of applied AI such as Machine Learning, you'll have no trouble transitioning from industry to research and vice versa. It is a very flexible skill set and there is a lot of demand for it.

Just go the best university you can and take as many ML and AI courses possible, there really isn't much you can do wrong.

Good luck.
They call it Simpson's Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
This is exactly what I thought too. From what the author described, it seems that they were just using REST incorrectly. When a view wants tags from a playlist, the solution is not to include tags in every other request. You can simply include a query parameter instead:

GET /playlists/ID?tags=true

This lets the server knows to include the extra information for that request, keeping your original endpoint clean.

We don't know all the details, but from what the author wrote, it seems they were shortsighted to switch to a shiny new tech instead of looking for better ways to refactor what they currently had.
The article is mainly about server-side issues with the database, but those still reflect poorly on the client side.
Probably missed the whole "Maybe" thing I wrote.

In your case those are valid reasons and apply to several "national" layouts -- but there are many people who go for the cargo cult version too.
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Are you sure it blocked the url because the string "twitter", not "sponsored"?
In 1953 a human chimera was reported in the British Medical Journal. A woman was found to have blood containing two different blood types. Apparently this resulted from her twin brother's cells living in her body.[14] More recently, a study found that such blood group chimerism is not rare.[15]
this is why when i test out my app i turn off ad blocker but since ublock no problems
Even your list is missing the US and suggests that kids don't walk to school alone in the US. Distance was the only thing preventing me from walking to school alone as a kid, and I did bike home many days 4th-6th grades. The kids who lived close walked or biked almost every day from an even younger age, though the youngest would be accompanied.
> I really wonder if the actual vs imagined crime rate against children has changed since I was a kid in the 60's.

I'm not sure if the data exists for that period, but violent crimes against children in the US are declining sharply. Assault is down 33% between 2003 and 2011, rape down 43%. Matches up with the broader collapse in violent crime in the US.

Now you asked about the 60s, and for murder as a whole (other violent crime follows the same trend), the 30s and 80s were peaks, and the 60s and right now are valleys; if we assume violence against children tracks violence as a whole, it's probable that the the crime rate against children right now is roughly the same now as it was in the 60s (ie, tied for the lowest level since the great depression).

Conversely, I think it's pretty clear that the imagined crime rate (for everything, including children) is basically at an all time high. Polls routinely show that overwhelming majorities of people believe crime is getting worse, even as we settle in for another decade of collapsing crime rates.

So in short, while I'm not aware of any research that answers your question exactly, the answer is very clearly "yes".
Feedback, ways to clean up code, things to improve on, etc. all welcome! Trying to learn and better myself.
Looks nice, nice to see a good example.

Additional wishes:

Can you pass through Tex style formulas? Also is it possible to footnote listings (add comments that go at the bottom or side of listing, sort of like "page 37" of the following https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/4/f689ed2-... ).
Violent crime rates, including those against children, have continued to decline year over year in Western countries for a very long time now. It is now safer for children to be out alone at younger ages than ever before. The odd thing is that paranoia is at an all time high. Leaving a five-year-old unsupervised, even at home, is flirting with a visit from child protective services. There is less to protect children from than ever before, but parents are more protective than ever. It has reached the point that same are concerned that today's children aren't given enough freedom to experiment and fail.

This is not by choice. It is enforced by society and law. Consider what would happen if you sent a three-year-old out on an errand as is done in Japan. A child that age, alone on the street, will attract attention, primarily of the concerned and meddling kind. The child will be asked where their parents are and promptly returned to them. The parents will be chewed out for reckless child endangerment as a bare minimum.

While one can argue today's child-associated paranoia is a result of fear-mongering by the media, the real problem is that it's backed up by the law. Parents who are too trusting and permissive will soon find themselves in court. That has to change.
This. This dumb article has just invented hot water. Seriously dont journalists do a bit of research before pushing posts?
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While that's..probably true...sometimes the false negative is a false positive (what a fun sentence!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
Here's a good one:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mjmcguff/research/#mcguffin_info...

It combines a tree of decendents from one person with a tree of ancestors of another person, to make a "dual-tree" with two foci. It preserves the property of people of the same generating being on the same level.

> For instance a couple with three kids, each of them marries someone, how do we represent the parents of who they marry without crossing lines?

The dual-tree approach wouldn't be able to show all of this at once, but with some affordances for navigating the tree (see the video) and indicators for where there are more nodes not shown, it should be reasonable to follow the relationships.

Also here's another interesting approach, using a radial tree with time information. I found this while trying to find the other paper:
http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-10-sp10/wiki/images/f/...
Just as we went through the outsourcing phase (with quite a bit of it being brought back to the US), we'll go through the "outsource the datacenter" phase.

The story of how GM outsourced/spun off its IT department and then brought it all back in house once they realized it was a competitive advantage should be required reading.

Aren't fads wonderful?
No listing for vi/vim/emacs/your-favorite-text-editor?

Seriously - does nobody just do simple HTML sites by hand anymore?
This is like the worst case scenario.

If the person can touch type or if there are major pauses during the recordings (which happens a lot during lectures), you make $15/hr. If there are enough pauses, you can do two at a time and get $30/hr.
I predict tape will outlive spinning disk storage.
OK, Haunt looks pretty nice. According to my TODO, i'm still supposed to convert my website from Hakyll to something with parens sometime in the future, so i'll definitely keep Haunt in mind :).
I don't think this is really a case of Simpson's paradox.

What we're seeing is that female students at Stanford are less concentrated on a single major than the male ones. As a result, their top pick isn't as high as the male top pick. I'd guess that the distribution of female majors is higher entropy than the male one.

Simpson's paradox would be if there was some second confounding variable that corelated to gender which was causing these results. There might be, but I'm not seeing it.
https://github.com/bevry/staticsitegenerators-list/blob/mast...

There are License and Language keys for most entries. Sounds like you want to filter out the Commercial and Web ones. If you find any that aren't categorized properly, I'm sure they'd appreciate a PR.
And discussed at length two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270650
In one line of J (both APL and J were created by Kenneth E. Iverson)

life=: (3 3 (+/ e. 3+0,4&{)@,;._3 ])@(0,0,~0,.0,.~])

Given a life instance, the next generation can be found by:

1. adding extra empty cells, surrounding the life instance,

2. tessellating the result, finding every overlapping 3 by 3 subinstance,

3. totaling the number of live cells in each subinstance,

4. treating a subinstance as a live cell iff that total is a member of the sequence 3,x where x is 3 if the center cell was previously dead, and 4 if the center cell was previously alive (that said, note that 4 is also the index of the center cell, with the sub instance arranged as a flat list).
Oh I wasn't aware. Link?
I guess it depends on the task a lot.

I transcribed a few college lecture fragments at one point just to figure out what it's like and i was able to type while listening as I could understand the accent right away.

While giving out Turk tasks, I noticed some people are about 100x more efficient than others depending on the task.
> Leaving a five-year-old unsupervised, even at home, is flirting with a visit from child protective services

Most accidents happen in the home. Most people do a poor job of making their home safe for infants. (EG look at the number of people in the UK who buy socket covers but who don't bolt their TVs to the wall)

Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by "leave a 5 year old unsupervised" - does this mean "parent in the home but in different room"? Or "parent pops out to the local shop for half an hour"?

Because five year old children are far too young to be left unsupervised for anything over short lengths of time, and if a parent is regularly doing that they probably need a chat from child protection social services.
you can drop your wallet a hundred times and people in Korea and Japan will return it to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWW4xzlrOWQ

I've heard reactions from Canadians who go to Korea or Japan and they are puzzled that nobody would steal, even if wallet was bulging with cash and the guy was passed out on the streets, he doesn't have to worry.

To me this is the success of a homogenous neo-confucius brings order in society. Self reflection and honor prevents a cesspool of cultures ready to rip each others throats from forming.

I ponder if Western societies can continue to function if they just keep letting anyone of any background and culture in especially when they choose not to integrate and shout 'racism' when they have to do something that requires the slightest bit of thinking and respect.

Sometimes I look at my city, shootings, the violence, gangs, mental illnesses and ponder what life would've been like in Korea or Japan.
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