skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say, you don't have a traffic problem. But what you have is a metrics problem.

Do you have any metrics associated with the flow of traffic.

1) Are you seeing what happens when you place banners on facebook?

2) What demos are clicking (if any) your banners.

3) Where are you losing people. Are you direct linking to your home page, or are you pairing a banner with a product page?

4) What is the title of the headline that you are using?

5) What is the copy of the product page that you are using after the FB advert?

6) Are you doing any sort of re-targeting? Do you make the checkout process easy or easier on revisits?

7) Are you capturing any data from people who are visiting?

8) Do you have any type of newsletter?

9) How do people know you have slashed prices, are you telling people why they should buy at your site?

So many things I could go on. Put it this way, I have sold other peoples t-shirts on facebook as an affiliate. It's not terribly difficult, but the devil is in the analytics.

1) Images

2) Headline

3) Copy

4) Call To Action

5) Devices / Useragents

6) Geo-location

7) Retargeting

8) Opt-in

9) Funnels.

All of these matter and if you get it done right, not only will you start making sales. You'll start to make a lot of sales!

Good luck!
Note that going by the Torvalds email, this is far from the first time him and Sievers has been at odds.
That also makes the assumption that there is only one "technologically most useful solution", when in practice every application has its own unique requirements, and trying to satisfy all of them just makes a system which is not particularly good at any one of them (systemd seems to be moving in that direction, not unlike other "enterprise" software.)
This is a rerun of one part of a four part series. Here are all four.

1. http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html
2. http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html
3. http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
4. http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N19/dubai.html
Falsifying evidence is a crime already. Negligence is professional misconduct and a firing offence. Mistakes in good faith will happen from time to time. There certainly should be oversight to catch them ASAP, and incompetents should be fired.
Yes but how certain are we that it wasn't an automated program that flagged it causing a rejection [possibly by a human who just obeys the flags most of the time]?
Does this really matter? Think of the App Store like Apple's physical retail stores. They are only going to put products in there that show their best, that they curate, and products that they like.

This is exactly the sort of app that anyone interested in using could pull from Github and install on their own device.
At this point RedHat has consumed de-facto governance of some core projects that make up the Linux desktop system that sit atop the kernel. They pay developers to work on these projects and there employees have decision making authority. SystemD is almost entirely driven by current/former RedHat employees.

The fact of the matter is that "Distros" like Debian etc are dependent on upstream developers to provide new versions of there system. If a large portion of important subsystems are developed by RedHat developers then they will adopt that code and be driven in the direction upstream wants to go.

"Distros" do not develop, they package upstream into compiled binaries and add there configs and perhaps package management. In short most of the distros will bend which ever way the upstream wind blows.

Thats why I use a "Distro" Like Slackware or Crux that is built from scratch and not based on another system. What limited autonomy there is in Linux land is with the independent Distros.
The purpose of marking a test is to communicate to the child whether they understand the topic. Marking an almost correct answer wrong (without elaboration) is bad feedback.

The problem that people are raising here isn't how the child feels, it's how the child thinks. And one thing they might think as a result of this answer is "Oh, I guess multiplication isn't the same both ways. I must have been mistaken." and it might take some time for this misunderstanding to clear up.
Indeed. Good copy is tough. Hope you see sales soon!
Disagree there also. Bringing the budget down lowers the barrier to entry for other players. Budget, yes.
Correct. Peter Kovac wrote the entire realtime risk and clearing system that is now live at Virtu (formerly California Applied Trading Science which split into EWT and Madison Tyler, which became Virtu. This is all public knowledge if you dig deep enough). Again, the source is I worked with him for several years.
Systemd is pointing out the truth about lots of "emperor's clothes" in the current Linux ecosystem.

When there were problems about a desktop manager revamp or some crashy audio daemon, you could liquidate certain choices as irrelevant or lazy. Now the entire ecosystem's guts are being rewritten by RedHat for RedHat, and the developer community is simply going along because, in practice, they have no other choice. Nobody else has the appetite, the manpower or the political weight to put together a competing project with a single chance of success.

When chips are down, Red Hat owns Linux more than we like to admit.
I'm not totally sure what you mean.

I would not expect an atheist to consider themselves "God forsaken", and I would not be surprised if one was kind of offended by being called that.

(I myself am not an atheist, ftr)

Given that,I am not sure why you would be surprised that people reacted negatively?
Technology spending isn't all its cracked up to be
It's never a bad idea to think about how these ideas play out when taken to their logical conclusion.

Kurt Vonnegut on the subject: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
I like your proposal in theory but I doubt it works in practice. I'll try to explain: in practice what First Round has done is measuring post investment performance. I'm pretty sure that if the sample is big enough you will have an "all male" startup and a "with female" startup that failed thus the min being zero in both case. This doesn't mean there's no bias.

The point is that when you decide which company you finance (the source of bias) you make an estimation of future potential. But your test (and PG's one) measure ex-post results. Since there's a lot of uncertainty between the ex-ante and the ex-post measure, your test doesn't work.

Let me put in another way. The measure you are able to perform is not H(x-C)f(x) but a * H(x-C)f(x) + (1-a) * random where random is a random number and a is the weight of f(x) on the final outcome. You are right if a is 1, you and pg are wrong if a is 0 (but it will be a problem for the VCs), for everything in between you have to make assumption on the distribution of random.
>Teaching necessarily forces a rigor not seen in most actual usage. This is because there is a need to build concepts on top of one another.

To be honest, what I take away from this is "It's easier for the teacher to keep track of progress if everyone takes the same path to understanding". This might be true, but is precise knowledge of progress more important than the benefits of allowing different paths? I'm inclined to think it will stunt their creativity and exploration in ways that slow them down overall.
I think there's a big problem with this counter example. Which is that you're selecting for one thing and judging whether or not you were biased based on another.

> Now suppose that we select without bias or inaccuracy all the applicants that have an 80% or better chance of graduation.

This is subtly different than selecting for the highest graduation rate possible because it's binary, you want a group with >80% chances not a group with the best chances. Imagine if instead of the distributions you had group A was composed of people with a 100% chance of graduation and B was composed of people with an 80% chance of graduation. Our process does nothing to distinguish between those people because that extra 20% chance of graduation doesn't matter.

This brings me to what I think is the fundamental problem with your criticism, it's not clear to me what it means for a group in your example to over perform. If you select a group with the goal of 80% of them graduating it doesn't make sense to call 90% of them graduating an over performance. That only makes sense if your goal up front is to maximize the graduation rate.

I think if you rerun your example but instead assume an unbiased strategy that selects for the highest graduation rate possible you'll find that pg's essay makes a lot more sense.
Ricardo Semler's is indeed a true visionary, he started applying the principles of democracy and trust to industrial production decades ago, his first book Maverick[1] was written in 1995, it is full of interesting anecdotes on how he implemented his ideas in his father's business. I find his methods very similar to what is now being called Holocracy [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ricardo-Semler/e/B000APW260
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holocracy&sort=byPopularity&pr...
This is a smart insight, although in fairness the article suggests, in its female founder example, that there was discrimination against women -- that given men and women of equal ability, men were more likely to be chosen.

Condemning that inequality is different from affirming that selection should be altered to produce the outcomes people view as fair. One is saying, "Don't discriminate against Xs." The other is saying, "Not only can't you discriminate against them, you need to ensure that Xs have outcome Y. That is, you may be required to discriminate in their favor."

The latter is a value, and your point about mathematics being irrelevant stands. But the former is a mathematical claim, and pg was making a mathematical claim, so the mathematical argument you replied to is relevant.
I worked for a brief time for a company which was very inspired by Semler. Autonomy! Great! Wrong. Phone calls at all times of day and night and working from home in NYC where my room was also necessarily my office left me burnt out super quick.

Also, plenty of meetings I didn't need or want to be at (unneccesary context switches constantly) as an engineer conducted over google hang outs because of the "flat" hierarchy.

In the end the openness of seeing the companys finances didn't work for me because in the end, what do I care?

I burnt out quick there and moved on.

That being said this was a super small start up suffering growing pains and working across major time zone differences, so in the end, YMMV, and I'm sure as they continue to work out the kinks and can pay their engineers in NYC an engineer in NYC's salary (in Amsterdam software engineers don't appear to make as much, which is where they were primarily based), the experience for their workers will improve.

And trying to work through the NYC summer in a room with no air conditioning is just awful and I don't recommend it. The lack of meaningful social interaction, your body sticking to your chair with sweat. An office set up fund needs to be provided for all remote workers at the end of the day, and that was not the case here (to be fair, they liked the idea and once funding and the bank account were both fuller I'm sure they'd do it).

The two founders worked for a year without salary to get it going so there were definitely people with skin in the game.

Now I have a strict 9-5 with a nice office in Midtown. I get the requisite amount of social interaction required for my neurons to maintain a happy state and the quiet of an office for when I want to get into the zone and get things done.

My coworker is pretty uninspired... But that's a story for another day.
Aaand it died, after 5 hours. https://twitter.com/xrobau/status/660617694840885249
OpenWrt Summit Wrap Up
RH is the 800-pound gorilla of the Linux world. They employ a sizeable portion of the developers working on various projects within the Linux ecosystem.

Canonical revenue is 67 million according to wikipedia, by contrast Red Hat is 1.5 billion. That is 3 extra zeros (and even then it is almost 1/100 of Microsoft's revenue).
Interesting that you should single out two Republicans, both known for being reformers rather than abusers of the system.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Christie:

Besides doubling the size of the anticorruption unit for New Jersey,[61] Christie also prosecuted other federal crimes. For example, he obtained convictions of brothel owners who kept Mexican teenagers in slavery as prostitutes, convicted 42 gang members of the Double II Set of various crimes including more than 25 murders, and convicted British trader Hemant Lakhani of trying to sell missiles.[62] Despite claims of entrapment,[63] Lakhani was convicted by jury in April 2005 of attempting to provide material support to terrorists, unlawful brokering of foreign defense articles, and attempting to import merchandise into the U.S. by means of false statements, plus two counts of money laundering. He was sentenced to 47 years in prison.[64]

Giuliani made his name prosecuting the "Five Families" back in the 1980s, the Mafia Commission Trial which helped put away the leaders of the most notorious Mafia families and some of their associates. Giuliani also prosecuted Boesky and Milken, the infamous Wall Street financiers.

There are indeed quite a few very bad players, like U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, whose notoriously overly zealous attack on the MIT Library hacker Aaron Swartz drove him to commit suicide.

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If I was running a store that represented my brand I would make sure every piece of third-party content was curated, showed things that catered to my audience, and minimised my legal liabilities. I would want my store to reflect my brand's values and culture.

How is it that we expect app stores to show anything and everything anyone submits? And how does this prevent the open web from continuing?

You seem to be upset that people like curation and are drawn to heavily curated App Stores. Meaning that such things gather large audiences.

But people can compile and run their own code on the platform. And it has actually gotten easier and cheaper — not more difficult — over time.
Ask HN: What bot detection module should I use with Nginx?
Hi -

I'm looking to protect my website from other people wanting to scrape the content I have on the website. I'm using Nginx and was wondering if there's a module I can enable in Nginx that would keep track of requests coming from different IPs and block the IPs that make too many requests per second.

Thanks!
What you said. I love seeing changesets like that.
Except here we are talking about traditional architecture (that is, for physical structures).
I am one of the most humane persons you will probably never meet. I am in total support of taking care of older people, I just think they hang around too long and impede technical progress. I would posit there is a strong correlation between youth of faculty and innovation of a given university in any research area.
Interesting Mailing List Disc: Streamable AEAD in GPG
Just to add to the others CentOS was essentially bought by RedHat and there Core developer is now a RedHat employee. Magically there was a new major 7.0 version bump adopting SystemD as the one and only init system. A new flashy website and a refusal to allow any alternative init system into the official packages other then SystemD. Needles to say CentOS is no longer an independent alternative to RedHat Linux.
Well, good to see which smart tv box I don't need to buy then. I usually like and prefer Apple's products but if they ban content that is highly interesting to me then no thanks.
There's plenty of Intel people involved as well, but their goals are mostly aligned.
So I fail to see how a system that provided the best possible treatments for 99% of health problems for every American at a fraction of the current cost wouldn't be vastly better than our current system.

If you're excluding patented drugs, you're excluding some of the best possible treatments out there.

Also, your statement that "the vast majority of new drugs have few if any benefits over existing drugs" is not true. Some drugs are not any better, but most are better, although many only slightly.

You have to realize that similar to tech, not every new drug can be a breakthrough. Most new drugs have incremental benefit, but it expands the boundaries of what's possible. If you look at the treatment of colon cancer, each new drug only added a few months of life, but after 10 years, the benefit had extended to over 5 years.
These are all good suggestions/insights. Some of the things you mentioned we do, others we don't. I'll be spending the next few days trying to optimize our campaigns and define a clear demographic for the people we target.

I haven't yet implemented retargeting as it requires quite some time and I need to understand how it works. We do use cookies to rebuild the checkout when a user returns on the website (at least something!)

We tried building a newsletter, but we wasted a lot of time as people simply would not subscribe. We might want to try again but we will need to understand exactly what we can offer people and what would motivate them to give us their email address.

In order to let people know we are reducing prices, we run campaigns with specific collections and landing pages (so that we can track at least what people is doing as soon as they arrive on the offers page), an example here:
http://polghi.co.uk/collections/winter-is-here

Tomorrow I will do a long list with some of the stuff you mentioned and will try to further optimize what we have, thanks a lot for your suggestions!
Not Getting App Store Downloads – Here's Why
From a cursory read of its website, it looks like a pre-internet app, basically a glorified text editor. There are zero network-enabled features. The only groupware-oriented feature is coloring pages differently if someone else edits the document. There is plenty of scope for disruption here.

The only "key feature" they have is that everyone in Hollywood uses FD. They say so themselves on their website! The "Key features" screen does not list any actual feature, it's just a list of variations on the concept that "everyone in Hollywood uses FD". In that sense, the main challenge is clearly political rather than technological.
That commenter was replying to me with more nonsense like your selective example of Enigma that barely fits into the discussion at all. Worse, your example actually supports my side's position: they cracked the best crypto they had the second they knew how it worked and no methods were in place to reliably detect this. Today, they crack the complex systems and protocols people are using shortly after figuring out how they work as quality is so bad and everyone uses same ones. The modern example of enigma would be people using Linux desktops instead of Windows, Foxit instead of Adobe, unusual-but-good web servers instead of Apache, and so on to hope attackers not knowing will keep them safe. And it usually works, too, unless it's a targeted attack by pro's. That's saying something. ;)

My method combines vetted mechanisms with ways that adhere to their guidelines for secure usage, is directed by tools designed by security pro's, largely invisible to users, require a hack on system to find, and force custom, difficult attacks. One can mathematically prove that my strategies possess the traits I claim along with immunity from some issues and vastly improved probabilistic security against most others. So, all the evidence is on our side in theory and the field results where compromise is rare for us even in face of pro's whose bonuses require it.

Feel free to refute this by showing me how everyone using two browsers, OpenSSL, or a desktop OS (Windows) with no changes on the same platform kept them safe from major attacks. Or led to such a high failure rate for attackers that hacks were actually worth of news rather than scaremongering. My people were safe with my methods: some systems crashed or raised exceptions while many had no problems. I'm guessing you standardize-and-open types had the same experiences? No? :P
Their "private closed platform" that is based on monopolies and privilege provided from the public coffers - spectrum auctioned off by the FCC, publicly subsidized student debt used to buy iphones and macs, off the rails "intellectual" monopolies through off-the-rails copyrights and patents, and soon to be legal immunity from CISA for sharing info with the government. They clearly like to pretend that they are a "commons" deserving of public support... except when they don't.
Having a list of youtubers or bloggers is probably the next thing we will do. We will try to get in touch with them and see what we will need to do in order to get some coverage. The hard thing with our core business is that our stock is limited. Because everything was made by either artisans or local family-run laboratories we had to place our orders with months of advance (in order to make sure they had the time to prepare everything) and products are still limited.

Before sending out samples, we need to make sure they are well-worth it!

You made a good point saying that we should show straight-away products that relate with the current season. We will probably remove the "Bestsellers" (which actually are not bestsellers at the moment btw) with something more relevant.
I suspect many didn't see it coming because systemd was under the freedesktop.org umbrella rather than a Red Hat fronted project.

Thing is though that while freedesktop.org is presented as being about cooperation and compatibility between desktop environments, a very large portion of what happens there is dictated by Gnome.

And Gnome is yet another project that on paper is independent, but with big RH contributions in terms of programming manpower (its the primary DE of both Fedora and RHEL).

Probably the worst part is that none of this is planned, there is likely no grand conspiracy. Its just that so many of the people involved walk in the same halls, share the same cafeteria tables, and sit in on the same meetings that a internal consensus ends up formed about what is the "right" way to do things.
I suppose PG really should have said:

>the groups of applicants you're looking at have exactly equal distribution of ability.

Rather than "roughly equal".

But obviously that makes the whole thing infeasible.
I haven't read the article and I am curious too. I think tripe is weird but that's because I don't really eat it frequently, but it's animal flesh and it has a good amount of macronutrients.
The Law Can’t Keep Up with Technology, and That's Good
Bisect is by far the the most useful feature of git aside from "git commit", in my opinion. It's my first port of call when tracking down complex bugs, and it is amazingly useful in that case.

Interestingly, overuse of "git rebase" and squashing commits can lower the effectiveness of a bisect. Does anyone know how to avoid that, aside from "don't squash all your commits then"?
I Am Not A Screenwriter, but from what I've seen circulating in fandom over the years, most professionals write plaintext-over-MSWord or plaintext-over-FinalDraft. The result is pretty much just plaintext, once it's printed out (which it will be).
Is Apple filtering YouTube?
Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”
Thanks! I'm definitely planning on adding some more filtering options while keeping it as simple as possible. I'm currently considering using some other lib for the table too, as the one I'm using only allows sorting by single columns.
In this case the decision does influence other people, because as pointed out, systemd has taken over many other components' roles, not just init, and if those components are no longer maintained because RedHat pulls its support, then other distributions (with far far fewer resources) are forced to use unmaintained code or switch to systemd.
The Interface Theory of Perception (pdf)
Evidence? https://imgur.com/WLEt2iz
A Proven Framework for Exporting Your Medium Followers