skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's a way for Google to throw their weight around to multiple effects.

First, it's positively perceived and accepted by end users, which is good for Google and end-users.

Second, it punishes ad networks that don't spend the time to vet what types of adds are allowed. As an end-user, I'm in favor of this.

Third, it boosts ad networks that do spend time vetting ads to prevent malicious ones. Presumably Google, and other networks, that spend time and resources doing this will see a return on that effort. This is good for responsible ad networks, and as an end-user, I'm in favor of this idea to the extent that it should hopefully reduce these malicious ads overall.

It's easy to see this as a way for Google to boost their own ad network, but I think that's too cynical of a take. They aren't boosting themselves specifically, they are punishing bad-actors and boosting good actors overall.
Ask HN: Makers, do you have mentors?
I'm conducting an experiment. It is for people who are working on a project (side project, creative project or a business).

When creating, having someone to talk to, to keep you accountable and motivated is a blessing, especially when you work alone.

Not everyone has an access to or feels comfortable asking a friend to be their mentor. I'd like to match you with an awesome peer, to be each other's mentor and accountability partner.

If there is interest, my hope is to approach the further development scientifically and use data to find what works and what doesn't. I want to keep refining the service and making it more useful for creative professionals.

This simple experiment is a product of my background as a behavioral economist and my own personal frustration of working alone as a creative maker.

What do you think? Does this look like something potentially useful? There are group settings like Slack chats / forums for this, but the problem with loose groups like that is you are accountable to no one in particular, and you get bystander effect.

If you are interested send me an email for more details: gabriela@peermentors.xyz
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He has actually guaranteed that he will make $500,000. If that's nothing to you, then you're doing really well, congrats.
Surely it's a good thing for British teachers to have higher wages? It would encourage British people to go into teaching, become educated and pass on that education. Britain has a problem with stagnant wages and concentration of wealth.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032787.
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The past two days there has been a badge on my calendar icon on the dock. I'll go in and see a new event in inbox but the badge stays..

Such a tiny thing, yet so infuriating.
You're on your way! Consider looking up Stanford Professor Tina Seelig, she's the only researcher I know of that remotely talks about this. Check out some of her talks and blog posts.
True

I think that Healthcare would solve 95% of its problems with a truly Free Market, but to have that you need a very strict law enforcing fair and transparent rules to all (like mandatory transparent pricing), elimination of bottlenecks (like MD graduation and facilitate hiring from overseas), liability and regulation limitation and other things.
>Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.

This is a big deal, and always a fascinating result, but the other 5.5 billion cannot be merely discounted. 1.6 billion is over 22% of the global population, which makes for a very good sample set, but it is definitely biased. I may be 3.3 degrees away from "everyone on Facebook" but that isn't everyone. Almost by definition, those 5.5 billion people not on Facebook should be harder to reach, requiring many more steps.

Results from Weibo would be an interesting comparison.
> learned their art as a means of survival

A friend of mine posted this a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7950190

It's fantastic meeting people who learned to program because they had to. They have a totally different perspective on it.
I think it's just making me turn against blogging rather than Medium in particular. It's as if the world collectively decided in January of 2015 to start every article with "Why I took a bath" or "How standing became sitting". Not every little thing in the universe needs an article written about it. But I'm a hypocrite, I just read that entire post and now I have sour grapes about it. That's more of a lesson for me about wasting my time more than anything.
It's also worth noting that the resale value of a mobile home is next to nothing, due to that stigma. Nobody wants a mobile home if they can avoid it, and even fewer want a used mobile home. One of the main benefits of owning your home is acquiring a valuable asset, but without the hope of resale, it's nothing but a money drain.
Another case for moderation in all things. If you're tired of standing, then sit for a while. If you're tired of sitting, then stand for a while. Don't build a $22 IKEA desk. If you spend 100% of your work day at a desk, then make the investment in yourself and get an adjustable setup.
I believe fast in terms of concurrency. Ruby comes out pretty bad compared to node.js.
This is what makes people frustrated: They feel the need to change their stack. In reality, what matters is that you ship good software. If you are comfortable with Rails and Angular like you are, there's no need to change your stack to Node and React. Sure, it may be beneficial to take a look at them just out of curiosity, but no one's forcing you to use them if you don't like them!
Facebook Messenger has hidden chess game
We're seriously considering this option (maybe for scrapy 2.0?), but no concrete plans yet. It can't be just asyncio - we'll need e.g. aiohttp and other packages.

Some links:

* POC for aiohttp as a http handler: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/1455

* some thought about how to make async/await API for Scrapy; it is not all roses: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/1144#issuecomment-14...
Nobody forced the banks to participate in those markets. The government interference has been limited to demanding that banks treat the public equally instead of reinforcing structural discrimination.
Suddenly? No, it was more when it came to part of the project that was no longer interesting or was out of my comfort zone. I was dropped an entire app design simply because I didn't want to talk to potential customers :(. I'm learning though.
I wouldn't call them "fools".

They're just vested in a system which (seem to) promise some semblance of security and (a feeling of) group belonging, in exchange keeping their heads down, and their nose to the grindstone -- and not rocking the boat, generally.

It's a trap that's very, very easy to fall in. Especially if you have people who depend on you -- you know, kids, older family members -- that sort of thing.
Wealthfront's list, cited in the link, constantly misspells "SAN FRANCSICO"
What website?
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As someone running Arch, I have no idea how devs can put up with OSX or Windows. Both are awful, both you cannot fix yourself, and both get in the way all the time of what you want to do.

For me, if I'm missing something, its a pacman or AUR search away. If I need development features of anything it exists as a -git repo as well, and I can super fast insert my patches and get what I need immediately. No updates or any of this insanity stand in my way, and my systems been stable for almost three years since I built it, I just subscribe to the Arch announcements mailing list for major updates that might cause problems. We just got Linux 4.4 yesterday, and I booted today and kept on rolling as per usual.
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I've actually built an advertising network[1] that is not focused on serving display ads, but linking to content directly in images. Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss

The thought is that if "advertising" is actually a feature of a website, then it solves the problem of users trying to avoid being shown ads. If you could hover your mouse over an object on any image on the internet and be taken directly to where you can buy that without all the hassle, I'd see that as a big win.

Note: Just onboarded our first customer yesterday. He's using it to promote iPhone cases based on his instagram feed[2]. Hover over the cases on a desktop, and you'll see what the case is. Click on it, and it takes you directly to the product page.

[1] http://pleenq.com

[2] http://www.obeythekorean.net/pages/instagram-feed
A wrapper for the exiv2 library (for editing metadata of picture files) that works on Windows
Yes, there's good reason why I'm posting this from https://www.palemoon.org/ which is Firefox without the politics - Chrome is too intrusive and non-transparent about its intrusion to boot.
I know reposts are allowed in HN, but this was the top post here two weeks ago. Why are people voting it up?
US rules aren't at all comparable. They're based on the poverty line and are pretty low. You can be earning below the UK threshold and living a great life, especially outside London.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035423 and marked it off-topic.
FWIW, the Android edition of the same device is 279 EUR MSRP.
did they disclose the standard deviation or spread?
Your other comment was flagkilled because it said something like "Fuck off, JTRIG shills", which as you know is completely unacceptable on HN, regardless of how correct your cause may be. So please don't do that again.

More generally, accusing other users of being astroturfers or shills—when you have no evidence for this other than that their opinion disagrees with yours—is a serious breach of civility that is not allowed here. You can and should and must make your point without stooping to that, if you comment here.
On the other hand, buses can adapt to changing needs. You can easily add or move stops where the activity warrants. Rail demands that everything else conform to its physical installation.
Vendors very seldom sue customers for publicly saying their product is defective. The negative publicity tends to backfire. Legal action can backfire even worse. If the vendor claims the product isn't defective, they have to prove that in court to win a libel action. That means discovery and examination of the company's internal documents and the complaints of other customers, all on the record.
I always view a large number of copy-and-pasted Glassdoor reviews as indicative that there's something wrong with a potential employer.

At least one of the non-clone ones mentions a strong Palantir internal push to pad GD with positive reviews.
There has been some discussions and a proof-of-concept with asyncio + aiohttp: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/1455

However, as you said, it'd be a major change and it would affect the whole ecosystem (plugins and extensions), so it's complicated. We'll see what happens. :)
I use a lot of Apple's software and, for the most part, it works great for me. The only outstanding issue I can think of at the moment that I'd like to see fixed is Safari/OSX is slow opening new tabs because of the new 'favorites' page. Temporarily I've gone back to opening new tabs with 'empty page' to solve the problem. On a daily basis I'm using OSX for 8-10 hours and iOS for 2-4 hours. Everything pretty much just works as expected.
It's still hideous. Case in point, although this is a combination of things I guess but, when I upgraded to a iPhone6S+ 2 months ago I backed up my 5s in iTunes then restored on the 6S+. 22 apps could not be restored, among them 6 of Apple's own apps.
That's not multiphoton ionization or any chemical effect at all. The microwave auditory effect is caused directly by inducing thermal expansion in the skull due to rapidly heating tissue from extremely intense microwave pulses. I've never disputed that a microwave oven can heat you up.

Microwave heating is also well understood. So the question now is "how much energy can be deposited into testicles from a cell phone?" This is an easy question to answer, either theoretically or experimentally. The answer is "not much".

As retric noted, it's far more likely that if any effect exists it's caused by the cell phone making your pants tighter.
npm is quite possibly the worst package manager I've ever seen. It encourages unfathomably large dependency trees, using multiple versions of the same damn thing in the same software, duplicates things like crazy in the nasty tree structure that is the .node_modules directory, and cannot reasonably handle the full dependency tree of anything non-trivial that uses native extensions. I really don't understand what people find to like in npm. It's fundamentally broken.
It seems at Apple, engineering and software quality has taken a further back seat since maybe iOS7. Success can do that to the company, high flying bizdev starts to dictate over engineering and solid deliveries, sometimes forgetting what business they are in. Similar to what happened to Microsoft under Ballmer for a decade with Vista/Windows Phone etc.

Apple computers in 2005-2006 became awesome when they went Intel and OSX was solid, everyone loves to code on a pretty front end backed by *nix. Then iOS in 2007+ was solid for many versions. Slowly, it has been getting worse.
Maybe interesting trivia: East Texas is actually really green: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Marshall,+TX//@32.4867717,-9...

Great place for camping (45 minutes north-west near Gilmer, TX has an awesome OHV aka off-roading park). It's also got fairly mild weather (though doesn't freeze as often as I would've expected): http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/gilmer/texas/united-sta...

Anyways, no pro-Marshall or anything. The idea of East Texas being a poor-ish "backwater" isn't far off the mark. But if you like nature and goofin' off, it's a real nice place to do it.
I'd say WebOS if I have to choose one. I don't know the reputation of WebOS, but given Mozilla is behind FFOS, a lot of the contributors are drawn from existing active Mozilla contributor pool. I don't expect an immediate drop of contributions but I can bet within a year many contributors (paid or not) will put time into other new Mozilla-branded open source projects. Just look at Persona, huge community love, but very little activity (there is always something you can improve but why so few?) Because so few people actually use Persona at large scale (maybe a few), and those who do have to seek for a migration path.
Am I My Blog?
If anyone is looking for a good, buy-it-for-life floor mat, I highly recommend the Topo Mat.[1] It is like a playground for your feet! It encourages constant shifting of your feet and has these rubbery ridges that are fun to stand on. I am not affiliated with them or ergo depot.

http://www.ergodepot.com/Topo_Standing_Mat_p/afmtsm.htm
There are very few people that have the philosophy you describe. In the JS world, I think the Ember team has decided to do that. They have and are improving Ember with new technologies (virtual dom, server-side rendering) but it's still Ember and they take care of backwards compatibility (for the most part).
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This works for small projects or sites (or if you want to ensure job security). But if you want to make something more complex, many of these JS frameworks can really increase productivity.

Ember.js, for example, has all kinds of nice buffering features, so you aren't making multiple un-needed ajax calls back to your server.

You will also end up needing to re-invent the wheel if you make anything complex.
The author spends a lot of time discussing the findings that moderate walking is so good for your health, but then doesn't ever try to throw a treadmill under the desk. I've been working at my treadmill desk for about 3 months and I absolutely love it. However, I can't stand stationary for very long. That hurts my whole body after an hour or so. But let me walk slowly at about a mile an hour and my body feels great all day.
As far as I can tell, the Australis work dates back roughly to 2012 (that's when their wiki meeting notes start, and when the Australis tracking bug in Bugzilla was opened).

You may be mixing Australis up with the theme work done for Firefox 4.0 (which moved tabs to the top by default and added the orange Firefox menu button). The early work on that would've been contemporaneous with the earliest public versions of Chrome (2/3/4)-- the design that would become Firefox 4 started being shown off in public around the fall of 2009.
I'm playing with a cardboard, a cutter plotter and 2 LIFX LED light bulbs
This is great news for Python 3. We're almost there! -> http://py3readiness.org
Related: "Brain Crack" by Ze Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
Not everybody hates skeumorphism, especially when not taken to an extreme (okay, Apple under Jobs often did take it to an extreme... like the leather Calendar app). But skeumorphism, when used properly, provides affordances and hints to the user.

> told developers that they don't need native apps because using HTML + WebView is enough

That's because the SDK wasn't ready for developers yet. You must remember that, first and foremost, Jobs was a great salesman. If you don't yet sell it, it's a piece of crap and unnecessary, right? And when you _do_ sell it, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
People continue to apply to Harvard. The problem YC has will be similar. At some point the thing changes from being a thing that improves its students to a credential or at least a marker. Once you make that transition, smaller size is needed to maintain the perceived value of the marker
If you want concurrency with Ruby-ish syntax (but a vastly different paradigm), check out Elixir.
Wasn't there an article some years back that pointed out how whenever someone dares criticize Apple, they're always careful to mention how they use Apple products everywhere and Apple stuff is still very nice, but please Mr. Jobs if you could refrain from deleting everything on my phone when I plug it in I'd be ever so grateful...
Apache Flink vs. Apache Storm and Why I Left Twitter to Work on Flink
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Fred Wilson: My VC buddies are in desperate need of cash.
That isn't the case he ran before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention though.[1]

Judging from his written submissions, he says that the UK has caused him to face "an impossible dilemma", namely, choosing between confinement in the embassy or giving up his (inalienable) right to non-refoulement as a refugee. Apparently the WGAD has previously held that putting someone in that position involves unlawful detention. So it turns out that is the significance of the fact he is in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

[1] https://justice4assange.com/IMG/pdf/assange-wgad.pdf
Good point. Another way of looking at it is how the cost of surveillance goes down all the time. Collection and storage particularly. This is one of reasons NSA and private companies are doing so much of it. Yet, people fail to make the connection that this means anyone can do more of it. Including adversaries.

Getting specific numbers would reinforce this if they allowed for disposable surveillance. I'd love to see what one could do with custom devices, SOC's designed specifically for this with flash storage, or little VIA Artigo-style PC's that have that plus a HD. I wonder what the real cost is for (a) just metadata collection on a fully utilized store or branch office plus (b) full data collection on one.
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Absolutely. I still get cool ideas. It's a constant. But I don't often devote time to them, and fill most of my time in front of a computer on contract work. It's a frustrating thing for me, somewhat, when I hear and read of this obsession and expectation among developers (at least here on HN) to be working outside of work on side projects, as if that really shows you're something great as a developer.

My teenage sons are my primary project. Work is the side project.
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The 'maximize' button now making a window take over your whole screen being one of the oddest.

And disappearing scroll bars - why?!

Didn't this company write the HIG book?
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Yes, but the amount of difference you make at a company isn't directly proportional to the career value of making that difference. If you make a difference at a company with over 50% growth, that's almost always going to be more valuable to a career than making an equal difference at a company that's going to go bankrupt in a couple years. Similarly, making a small difference at a high growth company will arguably have more value than making a larger difference at a low growth, stagnant, or failing company - assuming your difference doesn't reverse that trend (which it likely wouldn't, regardless of magnitude).
Honestly, I'd just return it and get a computer monitor. I'm not putting that much work into my TV
The reason QM rejected existing classical theories is because various experiments were wildly inconsistent with classical theory. I.e., if you repeat photoelectric experiments enough times to rule out experimental error, you've pretty much refuted classical physics with p < exp(-N) (where N is O(# of particles)).

This study has p < 0.02. It makes an highly unlikely hypothesis about 50x more likely, i.e. still extremely unlikely.
I'm rather firmly convinced that the "they don't need native apps" was Jobs merely stalling til the SDK was stable enough to release to the public.
Thank you for that link - I haven't come across a well researched analysis of all of the entire legal history up to this point. I'd say this was required reading before commenting here.
A friend wrote a really nice blog post about this in 2013. It's always felt like the white elephant in the room of iOS apps.

"WebViews Are Not To Be Trusted" https://web.archive.org/web/20140213214723/http://matthodges...
or just get yourself a bar stool… I’m a little baffled by why more folks trying this don’t keep one around at least for while they’re adjusting to it
>>Second, it punishes ad networks that don't spend the time to vet what types of adds are allowed. As an end-user, I'm in favor of this.

It punishes the sites using those ad networks directly, the networks themselves are indirectly punished.
It isn't valid when it's directed at a specific other user without evidence. That's a personal attack. We can't have a functioning community if people are allowed to do that, so they're not allowed to do that.
Although this is pretty interesting https://medium.com/@lux_capital/from-wasteland-to-fund-maker...
This is a great point. If you're running a small site with mostly static content, then you don't need all this dynamic stuff. Yes, it's fun to work with in, in a certain way, but it's like using a nuclear missile to swat a housefly.

Seems like a lot of people being a bit depressed that they're not working on a big problem and hence trying to make even the simplest websites into gigantic software development projects.

The point about WYSIWYG editors is interesting, though I suspect the complexity of generating decent HTML/CSS/Javascript/whatever is what originally killed them. That said, surely someone is able to figure out a decent system now, right? 2015 technology has to be at the point where a program can figure out how to code a (semantic, well coded) layout in CSS, right?
You should write a blog post! :)