skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not quite accurate. You'd have to figure that if people are canceling subscriptions as part of a random process, then they ought to also be signing up for a subscription randomly too. When it averages out, ESPN should be seeing about as many people canceling as they see signing up if it all just comes down to noise.

If it's not all noise, then there are a few different scenarios:

1. Some exogenous factor is causing more people to cancel in general than to sign up. This would mean that across the board every television content provider would be seeing similar subscriber loss as what ESPN sees. I'd argue that we're not seeing that, even though there is huge rage against the major cable providers. People are tuning into live sports on network TV more than ever ... so if they are doing that, yet ESPN sees consistent subscriber loss uncompensated by complementary new account sign ups, it's evidence that people are indeed choosing to drop ESPN specifically.

2. There could be an exogenous factor causing people to sign up for cable more than drop it -- in which case ESPN's subscriber loss would be even worse. I don't think we're seeing this either.

3. It could be the endogenous factor that ESPN's content offerings are no longer compelling. This is generally directly tied with advertising metrics, so if advertisers are putting a red flag on ESPN, you can bet that they did lots of due diligence to ensure they were measuring the right thing, and not some accidental side effect of exogenous changes in cable habits overall.

On this last point, I think it bears pointing out that ESPN has a lot of different digital properties. There is the WatchESPN app which provides a ton of free content that doesn't require anything but an internet connection, even though it also provides more premium content that does require you to obtain login credentials through a supported cable provider based upon your level of ESPN subscription.

It's very easy to see how they could use the overall viewership statistics of WatchESPN combined with the specific statistics based on the subset of viewers who actually log in via a subscription to watch WatchESPN content. From that you could derive reasonable estimates of the changing number of subscribers.

Add on to that things like fantasy sports accounts, "insider" subscribers, and so forth, and it should give you a decent holistic understanding of whether subscriptions overall are increasing or not specifically in response to ESPN's offerings.
Updated my comment:

> easily capable of hashing and encrypting the data much faster than SpiderOak was handling it

I can believe that there was upstream congestion somewhere outside my network (speeds to Google, Amazon indicated that there were no issues inside) or that their server was overloaded but the engineer who investigated seemed to attribute it to the client:

> Additional changes to storage network configuration will not improve the situation much. There is an overhead limitation when the client encrypts, deduplicates, and compresses the files you are uploading"
It's interesting to see a little from the other side too. I'm in tech, but not "SV pay" scale. Meanwhile many of my friends are in tech at the more SV-like pay scales. It's sometimes surreal the things they talk about and afford. I usually just smile and nod and many of the not-close friends aren't even aware (I presume) that there's a difference.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697045

Piwik is still using (unsalted) MD5 for passwords in 2015, and probably will still be using unsalted MD5 in 2016.
Why you should replace your FTP server
Dont cut the fat: the faults of the low fat diet
How is his work interesting? And how is he asking value?
The user have Instagram permission to reuse the work, no one gave Prince permission, so you can't compare them. I don't think Prince (in the Instagram case) is protected by US law.
There are artists who are born to craft art. They wake up and want to paint, no matter what, they have a drive to refine their craft. They better the world through pure visual joy.

There are artists who are born to scheme. The art is the vessel, the craft is the thought. The concept is king and and to be successful is to create tight, conceptually sound pieces. To craft relevant and provoking statements out of abstract language. They better the world through debate and response.

Many successful artists combine the two but it's not a necessity.

I don't think you should dismiss somebody because they provoked you with their work. Your statement, your imagery of blasting him into space, is ultimately the execution of his piece. He built a frame and your comment filled it in.

Therefor, my review of Richard Prince and 6stringmerc's collaboration...

3 out of 5. Deductions made due to the cruelty of your "well-deserved end" bit. Maybe next time consider a scenario in which they are trapped and punished but are given an opportunity to redeem themselves through an exercise of traditional craft. Also a smaller deduction due to your trite invocation of Musk and Bezos. Even the most casual HN comment readers have explored their entrepreneurial motif enough.
Google Research Supported Effort to Annotate Character Relationships in Text
Probably broader than just CS -- wouldn't be surprised if the teams include physicists, engineers, computational scientists, etc.
Is there any analytics solution that allows for on-prem data storage? Only one I know of is Adobe Analytics (formerly Omniture).
I haven't played in twenty years. Is Gehennom still ridiculously tedious?
No care enoufh to know? They were asked about the links and didn't identify them as ads.
Python Pickle Security Risks
This is part one which covers the overview.

Part two [0] goes into a deeper explanation and exacting detail over the implementation.

[0] https://moz.com/devblog/introducing-rogeros-part-2/
I would venture to guess that in-app calling is disabled (in the UAE) to protect teleco revenue streams.

When texting on WhatsApp gets blocked in the above mentioned countries then you'll know it's secure.
>Besides, he's nothing compared to Michael Jordan

He's about to be. He just signed a lifetime deal with Nike[0] which will undoubtedly make him a billionaire, in a similar vein to what Jordan did with the "Air Jordan" brand.

[0] http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2596728-lebron-james-nike...
This is an arms race, not a dilemma.

"The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it." -- John Gilmore

The advertisers will just inline the ads, changing content sites from redirectors to proxies.

Rock, paper, scissors.
> I'm not sure what SIMD refers to. Can you clarify that?

With a name like "asm" that comes as a surprise... Single Instruction Multiple Data[0] refers to low level processor instructions that are able to work across a range of data, e.g. video cards working on changing the values in a framebuffer with one instruction mapping across an entire buffer in parallel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
I rest my case.
You were not most kids
They fund appliance recycling programs for the same reason.
Some people tolerate it pretty well, others don't. The gastrointestinal effects usually lessen after a while.
I'll take "Focus by Firefox" over "Firefox Live 360" any day. ;)
Virtual Reality. Super excited about 2016.
One image, that he actually changed was judged as not breaking the law. Other works, including the Instagram detours, were he merely added a quoted have not been challenged. I personally don't think adding a quote is enough to transform the work
Compare US vs UK violence statistics and the benefits are not trivial.
NASA Open APIs
McAfee ESM software allows login with special username and any password
Netflix was TV ad-blocking for me. I hated TV and stopped watching it for many years. Then when Netflix came around, I discovered that TV production had greatly improved, and it's the ad interruptions that was poisoning the art, making me feel sick to watch it. Without the ads, I could binge watch a multiple-year series of a television show, and not feel sick.
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The three reasons are 1) it's where the science is, 2) it's where the challenge is, and 3) it's where the future is.

This is further described as 1) if we find fossils, or don't find fossils, then it helps us understand abiogenesis, and if we drill and find life then we can understand biology better, 2) it's a "bracing challenge for our society" that will drive a new generation of scientists, engineers, and doctors, and 3) we need new branches of humanity on Mars, just like the European settlement of the Americas.

He does not (in that short clip) explain why humans need to be on Mars to do the science.
With it in house it is under their control: they can anonymize it, not collect certain information, they can't cross index it with your traffic from other sites, etc.
Ideal Gifts: Dash is a three-wheeled robot that teaches kids to code
+ 1 for snowplow. We been using it for more than a year now with high traffic sites and it's working great.
Introducing a More Personal Recommended Feed – Pocket
Perhaps I wasn't clear - his ability to negotiate that deal foreshadowed his (clear with hindsight) exceptional business skills.
Anyone who thinks 304 Not-Modified is mostly-irrelevant in 2015 is mostly-irrelevant.
I don't mind ads inside my content, as long as it's not too obvious.

My family has been watching The Amazing Race. It's an enjoyable reality show with not much drama. Ford and Travelocity are all over the show, but it fits with the theme and isn't overly intrusive.

Now, Nissan's Rogue ad in Heroes? Good god, I hated that.
That's an interesting choice. I mean, it's not like you can hide from the web server that you are making the request. But then again, I'm assuming -- by the sheer necessity of having a JS file -- that they are collecting some additional metrics not available to the server in the request.
(my apologies for the tone - I have edited the post to try to keep it purely fact based)

From EasyPrivacy[1]

/piwik-$domain=~piwik.org
/piwik.$script,domain=~piwik.org
/piwik.php
/piwik/js/*$domain=~piwik.org
/piwik1.
/piwik2.js
/piwik_
/piwikapi.js
/piwikC_
/piwikTracker.

This doesn't include any renamed versions, nor does it include the numerous domain-specific variations.

[1] https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt
Free global list of robot-related business and edu/research facilities exceeds 4K
Not sure what you mean by this? You're comparing him favorably to the modernists? Picasso, Braque, Miro, those guys? Or do you mean specifically abstract expressionists, who seem to get so much flak in this community? Pollock and Rothko are actually pretty miraculous if you see their paintings in person. So yeah... This didn't make much sense.
So yes.
“Did Google Shutdown ____ Yet?” – App tracks status of Google's many projects
"Focus Mozilla" worked for me.
> valued at about $15.5 billion, which is $1.6 billion more than Gates’ remaining holding

1.6 more, not 16 more.
Steve Swanson is a CS PhD: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swanson.html
The Robot Report has been compiling and vetting companies that manufacture robots or are directly involved in their making since 2008. Today that list has exceeded 4,000 manufacturers, integrators, service robot providers, startup companies, ancillary businesses and educational facilities. The list is global and free.
While quite true, that is a "business and policy decision" for the most part.
FWIW I read this[0] here, but IIRC it was not well received. Most of the complaints where about Nuclear's Profit model issues, not the actual presentation of data.

[0]http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear...
>Can anyone seriously make the point that a picture of a smiling woman is worth 1 billion?

Just as easily as i can make the point that a 100 dollar bill is worth 100 dollars

Because other people believe that to be its value.
> I don't think you should dismiss somebody because they provoked you with their work. Your statement, your imagery of blasting him into space, is ultimately the execution of his piece. He built a frame and your comment filled it in.

Which, according to logic, makes people who successfully provoke others already artists half way. Not a very good definition of art in my opinion...
I could install an adblocker on iOS9, and you can customize the block list.

I don't think you are a minority. I understand adblocking usage is around 20%-ish now.

What I don't understand is people who use adblockers but still login to their google account on chrome. It sorts of defeat the purpose...
Just like teens were much more car savvy in the 70s than in the 90s. And for the same reason. Appliancification
It is, until it isn't. I wonder how long would English last as the lingua franca of the west if the USA focused inward like Canada.
> So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?

Yes. If you can't judge an app based on its website, why would anyone make a pretty, usable website? Its trivial to downsize that image based on browser or os.
Surely you realize you can't just say this in a vacuum. This is a huge topic of debate. At the very least, you need to recognize the two basic challenges of this argument:

1) Violence is no less typical in the UK; as I understand it, you are more likely to be attacked with a knife in London than with a gun in any US city, and

2) In several crucial ways, the UK and the US are completely different - not least of these is that the US is the center of hegemonic influence in the world. For sociopolitical reasons, it may not be wise to allow this hegemon to be armed and unchecked, and this might not be so for other developed nations.
Who makes these lists?!
> It's just that non-stupid people aren't so interested in sports. Got it.

No, it's that they have other things they are interested in. Rather than spending 50% of their time on sports, they might spend 10% of their time on sports and 40% on something else. That's not a negative thing: it's just indicative of the fact that the brighter one is the broader one's horizons.

> There has been and still is something of a shunning of sports among the "intelligentsia".

No doubt because sports is something at which one can excel while not being particularly intelligent. Again, that's not a negative statement: it's just that physical and intellectual ability don't seem (to me) to be highly correlated.

> I work with a lot of really smart people. A big chunk of them are invested in sports and discuss games at work, wear jerseys on Friday, etc.

I was very careful not to say that intelligent people hate sports, because I too know many intelligent people who enjoy them. All I'm suggesting is that I suspect that as IQ rises people will spend less of their time on sports because they will spend more of their time on other pursuits.
> reduce their potential storage liability

Its to reduce their maximum bandwidth capacity required. I don't see it as a problem, considering their price points. They're selling you storage, not "slam 1TB of your data into our storage system in a day". If you're looking for that, ship a hard drive to Iron Mountain.

EDIT: Even AWS limits how fast you can upload to S3, and built an appliance for you to rent and ship back and forth if you need to move data faster. That station wagon full of tape is still alive and well.
It's 100% Swift, with some Obj-C libraries.
It's always a good advice, but you're ignoring GP's point that I believe the discussion around ads should be focused on: that a lot of advertisers are malicious actors. They are bunch of liars who want to profit by hurting people, and this is somehow not only totally legal, but a respectable occupation.
Mozilla to Kill Sponsored Tiles Program in Firefox
Can it block 7254k images as well?
You know, I cut the cord years ago and felt the same way, but increasingly, every video on the internet has forced pre-roll ads I can't escape from (especially when watching YouTube on iOS), and it feels WAY worse than TV ads ever did. There is no free lunch...
Bummer, I'll try and hunt down the crash logs and see what's happening.
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Boxlet: Open-source online backup for iOS photos
Homotopy Type Theory: A synthetic approach to higher equalities (Draft) [pdf]
ISIS can only exist in a physical space, because their raison d'etre is a caliphate. For the existence of this physical space was necessary the removing of the previous controlling power of that physical space. Who did that?

Al Qaeda used Afghanistan as base of operations, but they are foreigners there. The Talibans and Al qaeda are different animals.

Al Qaeda has its origins in Arabian Saudi. The family Bin Laden is well situated there and, by the way, has strong connections with the family Bush business.

The Talibans have their origins in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the dirty war of the CIA there.

Of course all those groups of people are adults and responsible of their actions, but to say that "the west is just a nice useful excuse" is just a very nice convenient excuse.
There are only 8 commands in Brainfk, all of which are punctuation. i.e.: <>[],.+-

Krzysztof Gabis's Business Card Brainfk ignores all other characters, including whitespace.

Panu Kalliokoski's archive of information re the language at: http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/

A good beginning page is:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/
> We would be much better off effectively banning guns in the US, but that's not going to happen.

The government's guns, too? Yeah, let's freeze hell and make that happen!
Blocking js from cityam.com fixes it.
No, Companies buy the ad because it pushes the 5th or so organic link off the screen, and doubles their screen space
I do the same for stories about systemd.

The target market for the comment was fence-sitters, or people that aren't iOS addicts that were brought to the comments by the word "firefox".

To paraphrase Gabe from penny arcade[0]: You'd like to judge the comment, wouldn't you, critics? but you can't. it's not for you.

0. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/
"Seems pretty clear"? Maybe you should give some examples of what you're talking about? The Hugos reflect some kind of merit (plot, worldbuilding, plausibility) but it's in areas that the literary establishment places very little value on, and winners IME often have less of the literary virtues - less characterization, much less exploration of characters' mental states, often even less polished prose - than other works of (nominal) SF, simply because there isn't time for both.

Foundation's Edge is possibly the least literary book I've ever read; I don't think Asimov wrote a deeply-characterized human in his life. The same applies to most Heinlein, a lot of Dick, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and IME most Clarke (though it seems I haven't read either of his Hugo-winning works); it's true of David Brin and Kim Stanley Robinson and Vernor Vinge. I've heard Neuromancer described as an "obvious first novel", and while there's something distinct about the Ender series, I certainly wouldn't call it literary.
Relevant XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/1605/
Distracted Walkers Pose Threat to Self, Others
I just don't seeing this ending well for inexperienced investors.

There's not the same amount of visibility and accountability in startups as with companies on a publicly traded exchange.

Someone will lose their shirt, sue, and set precendent for how startups should now behave with unsophisticated investors.
That's an even better example. Thanks.
"We have to make sure there are no monopolies" (or that monopolies don't "spread") is a dangerous approach, since it leads to the politician's fallacy. It may not even be possible to keep a relatively free market while making sure of that.

The question to ask is: are these EU investigations effective at reducing the number and spread of monopolies? And if they aren't, what should we do?

Because looking at the Microsoft case, the effectiveness seems dubious.
I agree. I'm skeptical and would like to see what data might support that claim. I've not been able to find any myself.
I disagree. The will to push the programming industry forward is what created SO. Web advertising is what created all the sites that scrap and repackage content from SO.
Just because the Washington Post (who makes their money from...) says there is an ethical dilemma doesn't make it so. I once tried to make it an ethical argument, then the sites and advertisers decided they weren't going to take part in that argument ("'do not track'? Nah, we decided that's not going to work for us."). Works for me, I'll not have the argument, either.

So, thanks web sites and advertisers, I lose not a minute of sleep as a result of surfing the web ad-free.
Gmail is listed as dying. Did I miss a memo here?
You are a rare gem, like my teacher who taught us to play the WFF-and-Proof nerd-game "Propaganda"
Slow down there guy, it was a simple mistake. I've been using uBlock Matrix for too long is all.
I've tried to do that comparison, and the best I could come up with is that I'm not convinced it's possible. Crimes are both reported and categorized differently between the two countries, which is a major cofound, and the reporting rate differs greatly between the two. It's a general problem really with any comparison study. If you have a source for a thoughtful comparison you can share, I'd be very interested.
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Then you are free to subject yourself to ads. If I don't feel I owe these companies a successful business model, then I certainly don't feel I owe you successful companies using that model.
No, but plenty of people (stupidly) gamble at a casino and hope for returns to fund their retirement, and no one is clamoring to outlaw gambling.

To expand on this analogy - gambling is legal because, as a society, we've decided that the upside of "entertainment value" outweighs the downside of "unsophisticated 'investors' (gamblers) may lose more money than they can afford to." If this is the case, it seems obvious to me that we should also accept crowdfunding, which has exactly the same downside, but infinitely more valuable upsides: normal investors get more opportunities for investment and businesses get access to more capital.

Securities regulations should protect investors from shady businesses doing illegal things, not from themselves.
> I am only passing a page view event. "Page /foo/bar?bash has been viewed".

I would like to say, as someone extremely hostile to tracking of any kind, that if this is all you're sending to google, that sound perfectly fine from a privacy perspective. (Google gets your information, but that's between you and Google)

Thank you for choosing a method that respects the privacy of your readers.
If it takes you more than a few days to put together a basic analytics platform and reporting system, you're a script kiddie.

Not hard to track page hits, time on, time off, and arbitrary events.

EDIT:

Seriously? Folks, it's a table for analytics events, a few SQL queries to do basic reporting (at least in Postgres), a little bit of client-side JS to post the events, and a bit of server-side code to create the routes and maybe display the report page.

I guess if it doesn't include Kafka, Mesos, Kubermetes, Neo4j, and Docker, it isn't delivering business value.

ffs.
IoT, Software Development Heat Up the Gig Economy
Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to lung disease
I thought about doing some sort of free version of the app with IAP, but it was very hard to find a way to do it that didn't make the app feel too restricted. I might toy with the idea in the future, are there any good examples that you like?

I get the items using the GeoData extension of the MediaWiki API: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData
> Coffee always made me stressed out.

Does coffee really increase stress?
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