skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really silly. LinkedIn produce some really interesting engineering content.

EDIT I'm not sure what Pulse is, but it looks like aggregated content. Anyways, here's an article from the LinkedIn engineering team that's well worth a read https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
That's fine, do what works for you. Many don't care though, and browser vendors are happy to cater to them as well.
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I agree, it should be disclosed upfront.
When you submit your app you can opt for Apple to release it immediately upon approval, or wait for you to manually release it.

Mozilla likely submitted the app a couple of weeks ago and just hit the release button today.
Wikipedia's love of lists is absolutely amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
There are several of these out there. http://scholar.google.com is a good way to find high quality information without all the political crap.

I've liked the roadmaps from Stanford's Mark Jacobson. If you want the high-level general public view, check out:

http://thesolutionsproject.org

Or for more in depth information you can check out the links on his website, including to the summary papers published in the scientific literature:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/WWS-5...
Looks like it's time to switch databases. BLOAT. RIP Mongo.
Let me rephrase. I am proposing that (barring very specific requirements which webdev doesn't justify) there's no such thing as a "good PHP developer". A good developer is a good developer, period.

A good developer will learn a new language in a reasonable amount of time and will be able to be productive and write good code in it.

A PHP-only (or X-only for that matter) developer is, by the definition above, not a good developer.

So why restrict oneself to some random pool of X-only people?
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tl;dr: There's a new "BI Connector" which will allow you to connect your business intelligence tools to MongoDB using the Postgres wire protocol (which many speak). This is somehow bad because Postgres is also popular, and maybe people will use Postgres now. Also: the author (who has a competing connector) knows the names of a lot of people at MongoDB.
uBlock Origin, at least, offers many such lists in its third party filter's page[1]:

Basic tracking list by Disconnect‎
EasyPrivacy‎ (forums.lanik.us)
Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List‎ (forums.lanik.us)

Anti-ThirdpartySocial (see warning inside list)‎ (forums.lanik.us)
Fanboy’s Annoyance List‎ (forums.lanik.us)
Fanboy’s Social Blocking List‎ (forums.lanik.us)

Malvertising filter list by Disconnect‎
Malware Domain List‎ (malwaredomainlist.com)
Malware domains‎ (www.malwaredomains.com)
Malware domains (long-lived)‎ (www.malwaredomains.com)
Malware filter list by Disconnect‎
Spam404‎ (www.spam404.com)

1 chrome://ublock0/content/dashboard.html#3p-filters.html
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You're not rebutting me, but rather proving my point about how skewed definitions of "success" harm equity crowdfunding investors.

There is in fact very little value of a "going concern" to outside investors. These "going concerns" are successes for people directly involved, but are not successes for investors. Consider that distributions are the normal way partners and LLC members get paid, and also a huge source of lawsuits, because when management is just a small fraction of ownership, their incentives are to minimize distributions.

You will find few people on HN more pro-boostrap and anti-VC than me. My last company bootstrapped and ran 10+ years. We're bootstrapping this one. I agree with everything Pinboard says about investment versus funding from customer revenue.

But those arguments only have merit as long as you aren't taking outside money to build the business. As soon as you take outside money, your business plan must make sense to the investors.
Yes, there's an opportunity cost for content, but different people have different marginal utility for their dollars vs their time.

For children, or the unemployed, the marginal utility of a dollar is quite high, but free time is cheap.

Likewise, the unauthenticated, un-paid-for Web has permitted frictionless composition and repurpose of content without the need to 'do deals'. Beyond just the consumer issue, a non-Ad supported web would have severely limited its evolution, by forcing content to require authentication.
If you just let your employer put your retirement savings in their default mutual fund, what you're going to get is some product sold to the company by a money manager who is taking 2-3% of your money off the top.

Given how rare it is for a mutual fund to consistently return even 4% for any amount of time (seriously, if you know of one that does let me know and I'll sign up at once - 1-2% is more typical), you end up with something that's worth less than a basic savings account, but with a bunch of rules attached to it that prevent you from using your money when you want. Depending on the circumstances, that could be a pretty poor deal.
> There are no legal breaches here. Apple's platform, Apple's rules.

That hasn't been the case for Google...

> I have no idea. I don't create browsers for that and many other reasons. Any browser on iOS is still using Safari webkit underneath anyway so there isn't much point.

That is another ridiculous restriction...
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What about `$$$v`? Does it handle `$$$v`?
No manual, no explanation of what its features are, no screen shots. Just a scrolling wall of marketing. Seriously, why is there no explanation of what the product does for you?
I feel like someone needs to rewrite Stallman's missives to eliminate the term redefinition and the connotation management. His usage of these rhetorical techniques is far too ham-handed to be persuasive to those who aren't already convinced, even when his message is important.
I'd hate to be the intern or the guy in charge of keeping that thing running.
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Hasn't it already? ;)
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It's a real problem that startup investment potentially further levers capital for rich people, but direct equity crowdfunding is not the right solution. As a way of improving financial outcomes for regular investors, equity crowdfunding is a radium tonic.
Be nice to nerds ("...One day they'll be your boss", Bill Gates), be nice to anyone. There's always someone looking. I have once been the only guy who gave a job to that silent foreigner in my classroom. That got me a surprise invitation to Brazil 10 years later. There's always something to win by being inclusive.
And how are sites going to earn revenue in order to stay up? We've already shown that no one is willing to pay for it.
> 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.

Many of the games at a casino are required by law to payout at a certain rate, though.
Agreed; they tend not to be great deals for the acquiring companies long-term. But short term you can rally that team to build something else, and your likelihood of finding the mythical 10x developer (or manager) is statistically higher in a startup that successfully launched a product in a compressed time frame (even if the market didn't work out for them).

Any acquisition involves a lot of turnover. Guaranteed that this turnover is built into the models they use when evaluating acquihires. Consider how expensive most company's talent acquisition costs are though (upwards of $100k+ per candidate hired for top talent) and it starts to make sense.
> Clearly there would be a significant IQ difference between the average sports fan and the an average D&D player.

Really? What do you base that claim on? The fact that lots of "geeky" people play D&D doesn't mean that the average person playing D&D is actually smarter than the average sports fan. In college I knew some smart people who played D&D, but I knew some dumb people who played it, too.
>In a surprise move, Google has started moving people over to Inbox, a much less powerful app that was seen as another Google experiment.

I distinctly remember reading somewhere that Gmail interface was simplified and inbox was a much more powerful client.I cannot find that page right now.
Traditional product crowdfunding, a la Kickstarter, is meant to act as product pre-sales (debt financing). I think we're starting to move further away from flashy CGI promising us a concept (and subsequently squandering investment money) towards more mature companies able to actually deliver. Though this is taking the magic out for those makers with fewer resources, it's certainly better for the backers.

Equity crowdfunding is... very risky business. This is where mom and pop can get involved. If professional investors routinely lose out of the majority of their investments, Joe Everyman is in for a ride. But should he be protected? The first line of investment are usually the 3 F's -- family, friends, and fools. By making these type of investments more networked and liquid (particularly the fools part), more startups could raise capital at the expense of fools. I guess we saw that didn't work out too well about a decade-and-a-half ago, because there will always be more swindlers than legitimate entrepreneurs.
Wasn't he also involved in an affair? The recent biography seemed to suggested there were a number of factors that drove them apart.
> Pretty much every one of these deals turned into a financial disaster. The biggest of these was probably Mariah Carey, who ended up being paid $28m not to sing

I worked in the entertainment industry during this time.

Great point to remember specific to Mariah Carey was that she was originally signed by Tommy Mottola who she eventually married WHILE he was the head of the label (Columbia) & Music division. This 'business' decision had a very personal side. It was more than just a financial disaster.
Firefox for Android ships with their own browser engine and access to a vast extension library including AdBlock Plus and uBlock. Apple doesn't permit this on iOS which is why Firefox for iOS is using the Mobile Safari engine, doesn't support extensions, and doesn't support ad blocking.
If you want to alter the genome of an already living creature I guess that you have to change every cells. I'm not sure if it's possible.
However, a virus seems to be the perfect tool (it modify your genome to copy itself and infect other cells).
I have issues with nudging, but am unsure of whether I fit in one of your categories. My issues are:

a) When a few people make de-facto decisions for everyone else, those decisions are prone to causing black swans because of a lack of (real) diversification of risk. One example of this would be if 20 countries used the default retirement portfolio scheme (that is often used to support nudges), and in one country, the portfolio was not diversified against a type of risk (i.e. interest rate or mortgage default), that could cause severe malinvestment and economic calamity in one country. It would have been much better for 1 in 20 people to make the mistake than 1 in 20 countries.

b) People's decision making abilities are like any other skill (i.e. language, writing, arithmetic), in that they atrophy over time if they are not used. If the people have no reason to look out for themselves, they may not realize when the nudgers are abdicating their responsibilities. In addition to that, financial decisions give clear feedback and have good incentives for the individual, which allows and requires people to exercise their decision making abilities, that will be useful in other areas of life.

Perhaps I fit in to your 'group 3', but either way, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts (if you would be interested in giving any) on these two objections.
I understand the utility of that middle ground but not how equity crowdfunding provides it. The issue here is the failure rate for companies. Good companies fail routinely, and that includes companies that aren't on 100x trajectories. The high rate of failure requires higher returns from the winners. Accounting for realistic failure rates, I simply don't see how you can build a model that makes 2x returns from winners workable for outside investors.
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GE and others have been doing this for nearly a decade with Prius and other batteries.
Ballmer is the younger, which is the funny thing :)

(I actually think he looks quite youthful here, but it's hard to spot at first, because he has the hairline of a man 20+ years his senior.)
If I may be permitted a n00b question, what are the advantages and disadvantages if any to having more than one content blocker enabled? When I installed this didn't have to disable Crystal, which I already had. Do they just sort of function in series?
Except that basically nobody cares about "being tracked across the whole internet", as shown by GA, Facebook, etc being on virtually every popular website and nobody noticing or caring at all. If you care enough to make even the most trivial change in behavior, then you're optimistically 1 in 1000.
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http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningioma/bas...

They are a large growth in your brain or spinal cord. With this one, think softball sized. Though the link states that they may not be harmful if left to themselves, for a few days, I'd want it out asap. They can cause brain damage or paralysis in the spine. I know this as my PI had one and could only speak Spanish for a few days as his meningoma was pushing hard on his Broca's Area, the part responsible for a lot of speech.

That the lady was complaining of childcare is unacceptable and she should be reprimanded for it. Health care as a profession comes with costs that you know about when you sign up for the job. One of those is irregular hours. I can't imagine how she thought it was ok to put a person and their family through more costly time in a hospital over having her kid stay at daycare a little longer.
This is already being done. See the CEO of BioViva doing this to herself. Apparently it only gets introduced into 5-60% of cells at this point, but that's a great start.
That's OK. It wasn't a requirement of my system.
It's emulating Emacs keybindings, where Ctrl-W is cut.

Other than that, it doesn't seem to handle closing parantheses like paredit. When you type ')' it should move you to the end of the list, but this seems to just add the extra paren (or maybe that's a bug with Firefox/Ubuntu).
"Wouldn't a small web business which relies on Ad money be killed with this move ?"

Yup.

"Wouldn't someone who wants to provide content for ad money eventually have to pay Apple some cut for displaying ads on app."

Probably, if they last that long.

"Wouldn't it drive the prices of ad as a result which would hurt small business who looks at internet advertising for their growth strategy ?"

Probably. Keep in mind that most people here don't care about small businesses making money, unless it's raising VC funds.
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And cyanide in any measurable dose is lethal. There just is not data here on micro doses of lsd, therefore, default to no.
My experience with in-house recreations of off the shelf solutions is disappointing at best.
These methods absolutely can alter genes in adult cells, if they can get in to them. The difficulty would be in designing the vector. How do you get the edit commands in to the right cells and only the right cells? When we do this in animals we use purpose built viruses to deliver the payload. But it involves a lot of trial and error and it doesn't always take. That's fine for animals, less so for humans.
> 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.

Has it occurred to you yet that your beliefs here might just be incorrect? You're clearly biased against sports and sports fans, and you're letting that affect your critical thinking.

Less intelligent people might spend 50% of their time on sports. They might also spend 0% of their time on sports. There are a million hobbies that people can have and relatively few of them have anything to do with intelligence. Smart people can (and do) watch sports, just as dumb people can (and do) hike, bike, fish, paint, cook, homebrew, and play D&D.

> it's just that physical and intellectual ability don't seem (to me) to be highly correlated.

That's true. There seems to be little correlation between the two. It's critical to realize that the two are not negatively correlated either, though.

> 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.

I'm doubting that's really the case. Has interest in sports declined since the 1930s? Because measured IQ has certainly risen.
Also, on a more technical level 4chan's ads aren't served from a well known ad host like Google, so they wouldn't be blocked by a typical blacklist without filtering URLs containing ad -- which some adblockers do, causing [all kinds of problems] [0].

[0]: https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-unluckiest-paragraphs-751d...
Evolution as optimization process has a lot of problems though. Most importantly, it's optimizing for fitness. As Richerson & Boyd memorably put it, "All animals are under stringent selection pressure to be as stupid as they can get away with." Fitness is not necessarily something we're interested in.

Second, evolution is susceptible to getting caught in local maxima/minima. Though it's hard to argue that we could engineer ourselves to a higher peak, because we can't really see any other peaks at the moment.
Static analysis doesn't have to involve typing, but it is only about a program reviewing your code for potential issues. Whether or not it is interpreted isn't important.
Sorry, I was not aware of that feature.
I also appreciated the fact that they overrode the browser's default scrolling to a less natural speed, and in doing so, also prevented me from being able to use gestures to return to hacker news.
A comment below the WSJ article by a crowdfunding lawyer says that "or" should be an "and", and that makes a huge difference, since a startup doesn't have to worry about the disclosures until they hit $25M.
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So? Do you put effort into things you don't really give a damn about? It would appear that you don't.
I'm sure this will work as brilliantly as VATMOSS...
One cool thing about crawl is building conducts into "banners" during their tournaments: http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.17/banners.html
Apple won't let full third party web browsers into iOS, all web browsers have to use the Mobile Safari engine underneath. Apple added ad blockers to iOS but will only permit them in Mobile Safari proper. Third party "browsers" aren't permitted to use the ad blockers you can install in iOS.
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Maybe try https://www.statuspage.io/ ?
You only need to alter it in the cells you care about.
They're using an open source analytics software package to analyse the very data it was designed to analyse.

I don't find it using poorly implemented hashing in the administrative interface to be at all relevant to what they're doing, or why they shouldn't be using it.
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Tried to sign up, but got:

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This would be a good occasion to have scrutinize the compression algorithm in BPG image format http://bellard.org/bpg/ .
Those tools all make use of a pool of workers. Say you want 1000 RPS, they'll make something like 100 workers and make them do 10 RPS each. To make 10 RPS each, their requests all must take at most 100ms each. The issue of coordinated omission arises when those requests take more than 100ms each and the rate of requests your measuring becomes distorted. This is well explained if you read Gil Tene:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mechanical-sympathy/ic...

How to avoid this error yourself? Don't make a pool of workers, have each 1000 requests be their own thread/goroutine. So you'll create 1000 goroutines per second, each of them doing their own request. This way you won't omit measurements by skipping beats.
I persist with GA, because every now and then I work with partners who would like to verify the activity on my websites (and yes my user agreements and privacy policy allow this) and have a means to compare this with historical data or data from other sites.

Those partners frustrate me, in that they won't trust me to provide stats generated from server logs, but they all default trust GA.

This technique allows me to use GA, produce the view of the content they need, export the PDF, and share that... and they trust it.

GA is the de facto store of trusted data when it comes to web site activity. For my sites that is tracking content page views.
I should have been more precise.

The aesthetics doesn't match the standards introduced by Apple, nor does it match the quality of apps you're competing with.

There is an obvious lack of consistency, concerning icons, colors, margins, etc. It seems like it has not been polished in any way.

Here are specific design decisions that I don't agree with in your application:

- Why is the title of your pages black while icons are black?

- Why is the overscroll color gray?

- Why is there a padding/margin at the left of items that reveal that gray background?

- Why alternate the colors of the items?

- The right side of the title of items is cut.

- Every time I refresh the items, a dark overlay is added (and never gets removed)

- The horizontal swiping interactions between the side menu, the sliding to reveal comments and the fact that the content of an item itself scrolls, make these interactions difficult to predict and non-intuitive.

- Why is the HN logo different when you're in the item details?

- Why is the comment icon different in the details?

I'm sorry, there are just too many things wrong with this app. I lack the patience to go through every issue, and I'm now convinced that it's not worth the trouble.

If you ever want people to use your software, seek the help of a person that understands design.
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