skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think most people have a problem with the concept of ads, after all, every print magazine is filled with them.

The problem is that ads on the web have become more and more obnoxious as click through rates have fallen. The ads have dramatically reduced the usability of some sites, and that's before you get into the issue of tracking and malware.

Had Wired curated their ads to ensure that no full screen popups and other annoying dreck never got onto their site, they might not have a problem. But even then, so many other sites are filled with terrible ads that users would keep using ad blockers anyway.

Maybe their plan will work, maybe it won't. Seems to me that they're going to have to be a little more clever about this than just charging people $52 a year for Wired.com. Maybe they're counting on a very small percentage of "whales" to make it worthwhile but I think the vast majority of people using ad blockers doesn't get enough value out of Wired.com to subscribe, especially considering that it is 2 to 5 times as expensive as the print/tablet subscription.
It's just not a centralized paradigm. Joining an existing server means you'll be subject to whatever moderation policy the admin has. Or you can just run your own server and then federate with the rest, as I do.
> Part of that drop was caused by LinkedIn, a professional social network, which forecast lower growth. That prompted jittery investors to push down LinkedIn’s shares by more than 40% and knocked down prices for Twitter and Facebook stocks too.

[citation required]
Hmm, interesting question whether the exporter supports Maya LT. I'd guess it does, and it's cheap (ish).
Yup, Max still exists. I have it open on my desktop right now :)
Or the difference between function/method and invocation.
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Weev went to jail for literally HTTP GET'ing an AT&T server with a URL that was readily available on any Ipad device. In the RFC there's literally a return code for "Not Authorized", he got a good ol' 200 saying 'come on in' and got convicted of "conspiracy to access a computer without authorization".

Federal prison for what was effectively WGET'ing something that was, again, readily available. Still, in the eyes of the public and the law, hacker and cracker are the same thing. The guy is a racist liar but he didn't deserve federal prison. His conviction was later vacated on a venue technicality, which sucks, because had it been overturned in a higher circuit with the judge offering an Opinion, case law would have been set and Aaron Schwarz would have at least some vindication[1].

[1] In no way am I comparing the character of these two men, just the injustice they both suffered at the arms of the technically illiterate law enforcement/legal system. If I were a medical doctor who was before the board being judged for malpractice, I wouldn't want a jury of 12 of my 'peers' deciding my fate - I'd want other doctors.
Even several years ago rental prices were halfway sane. its not always been this bad.
https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-sunnyvale-rent-tr...
I don't know that this is "something that would matter to a business" per se, but here's something else they're working on with it: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
I think creshal meant run better (on Linux) than it did before (on Linux). C# on linux has been possible for a while now with Mono, but Microsoft is giving it an even bigger push.
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I've taught a summer program in number theory for high school students for the past several years. Each summer, my classrooms fill with high school students that are intrigued by the idea of math and extremely capable. That is nice and inspiring, and generally more rewarding than when I teach calculus classes to university students during the school year.

But my program is prohibitively expensive, and I'm acutely aware of the fact that when my students return to their high schools, they will almost certainly return to lackluster curricula. There are exceptions, of course. My summer program is filled with a far-above-average percentage of students attending private high schools.

The fact remains that students who attend the summer program are introduced to interesting math with no guided way to continue their exploration. Sometimes, students with supportive schools end up scheduling a self-study with some supervision from a high school teacher or counselor; I've been asked to help set up and guide self-studies, and I know at least a few of them have been successful. In my experience, this has been the best outcome for my students continuing exploration of advanced math. I'm not sure what this says about math and American high school education.
politics? power grab? the new guys coming in and pushing out the old?

even battlehack, which started in 2013, which is probably one of the best things PP did for developers in recent years is awfully quiet now
Took me about an hour to beat it, I'm still fairly new to concurrent programming so this was pretty great for showing me the pitfalls you can come across.
Jquery-migrate and XSS
Another Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of
"Someone screwed up"
On today's railways, it is very difficult, deliberate action excepted, for one error to cause an accident of this magnitude. Most modern railway accidents occur following an unfortunate combination of coincidental events and\or procedural breakdowns. Technology and procedures have evolved over the years to ensure that one mistake cannot lead to such an event. Railway authorities are no longer complacent and reactive in their application of safety measures as they once were.
awesome idea!
Seems like they could throw in Assimp[1] and have most of the common formats out-of-the-box.

[1] https://github.com/assimp/assimp
The number is not about "Should I rewrite or not", I should have made that clearer in the post.

Some thoughts

"Is low good or bad?"

As it is a risk in your book, first it's good to know.
Is low good or bad? Depends on your strategy. Fast time to market with a rewrite after Series-A, low seems good. Low growth, tight margins low seems a high risk to me.

"What is the value of being able to migrate to another system?"

I don't know why people migrate or are forced to migrate, it depends on your situation I guess. From following HN people seem to rewrite their systems all the time. From working at startups as CTO, one reason to rewrite seems you can't get the current technology stack stable (e.g. Web Framework does not scale for your type of business) or you can't migrate your tech stack to a new version.

"In additon, this number has no intrinsic value component."

Often when talking to CEOs they are suprised that they need to pony up some millions to completly rewrite a system because it can't be upgraded to a new version of X, which they haven't got in their budget and planning of their long term margin growth.

You're right about the 'improve' wording, I'll think about a more neutral term. Same I'll rethink the KPI wording.
To my knowledge, Yahoo! has always been led by some tech geek from the Valley, too.
Hang on, wasn't it a couple of years ago that people were talking about "Twitter revolutions" in the Middle East? Tahrir Square and all that?

Someone posted a "show a completely random tweet" page the last time this came up, and I noticed that few of the ones I saw were in English and quite a few in Arabic.

Twitter isn't the best tool for family-and-friends; Facebook has that use case covered. But trying to turn Twitter into FB will destroy its usefulness for all the people who want it because it's not like FB. Twitter is best for the question "what's going on in the world now?"
To put this "really devastating blow for the ICS idea" into perspective: In recent years German politicians have shown a growing disregard for legal reality. They ratify laws that violate the constitution, knowing that it will take years for courts to nullify them again. And then they are not nullified but the government is given a grace period to amend the law to bring it in line with the constitution. I expect one of these things to happen in response:

* Nothing. Just go ahead.

* Minor concessions are made, none will address the fundamental flaws.

* A legal basis will be created on European level and all further criticism will be countered with: We cannot do anything because of European laws!
Look at the post I am responding to, it specifically talked about government providing services to the poor people.
Never aim for failing fast
Maybe. But for most people, twitter, like Facebook, competes for our free time. And for most people Facebook is a better distraction. You can't force users to see the product a certain way; it has to be intuitive.
I agree with you and probably should have made that statement more specific (ie the extreme class loading that typically happens in most Java apps and what exactly is a full started up app). A typical closure app for example is well well above 50-80ms time to being ready to receive requests.

As for the threads the same goes. I agree with you that ideally should be the case but in practice there are so many libraries that boot up their own thread pool (for isolation reasons, or because they are using blocking IO... rabbitmq).

BTW I'm a big fan of all your concurrency work and I too agree that subscribers are sort of hard to get right in reactive-streams and could be easier (I think that was you) :)
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It can also mean (and, IME, usually means) that the person recieving the blame was at fault but that the people doing the blaming are also substantially at fault for the same offense, and are deflecting the blame to a particular target as a scapegoat.
spot on. i wrote and gave them feedback saying i was happy to show their ads, but i do not consent to being tracked. their ads are only blocked because privacy badger blocks them due to tracking. no tracking, ads are shown.
They're FBI agents. That's something they often want to hide when hunting down bad guys...
Here's a nice project idea. Visit a page using multiple cookies, then run OCR on it to extract the texts from each visit. Then compare the texts, extracting only the parts which are equal across visits. This should get rid of targeted ads and ads which vary on each visit. For the remaining ads, use a spam filter, or use a crowd-sourced database of ads.
Thanks for the link - just bought it. I've seen some of those techniques used during my time working. P.T. Barnum was right - "There's a sucker born every minute", especially in management.
Yes. Mono was (and is) a rather poor substitute for the real deal.
On Security and PHP
You can check and use many things that Watson does by using trying and using our cloud services: http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud. I know there is a lot of PR around Watson. But there are also real efforts and some state-of-the-art technology in speech, dialog, text analytics, vision, machine translation, etc. I am happy to answer any question you may have.
You should separate your Presentational and Container components [0]. Presentational components can be pure and stateless, containing no/minimal React-specific weird stuff - that should go into the Containers.

[0] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c...
that's interesting -- most of my friends right now are people i met through twitter ~7 years ago. i even met my wife through it!

i quite like twitter more than facebook because it's simple to use, it has really good desktop (even linux has corebird, which is quite good) and mobile clients and the asymmetric part of friendships.
Until the TPP puts them all out of business and they retire (the average age of farmers in Japan is 66)
You are right, I copied the wrong graph for compensation. Here is real compensation per hour:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB

My mistake, thanks for the correction. It's still going up.

The claims that wages have not risen are based entirely on cherry-picked data, carefully choosing endpoints, and ignoring non-wage compensation as well as the fact that CPI wildly overstates inflation in the long run [1].

Also, the graph I provided is industrial production, which is going up. You might be right that capacity grew faster than production (cite?), but production has also gone up.

[1] See, e.g. Boskin commission, the lack of hedonic adjustments in healthcare, and the variable basket of goods used in chained CPI which prevents it from actually being a long term inflation measure. (I.e., inflation from 1970->2015 should only include goods invented in 1970, but chained CPI adds new goods yearly in order to accurately measure 1983->1984 inflation.)
Yeah...as a tireless social media critic & privacy fanatic, I imagine I'm in their target demographic. But the presentation was so confusing that even I ran out of patience trying to understand what's going on.
The GPL couldn't work without one of the common features of capitalism: protection of intellectual property. Also, Stallman has never gone record saying capitalism should be abolished. He simply didn't feel computers should be constrained by IP. At worse, he's a Georgist on IP since IP to most modern Georgists is held in common like land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

No, Watson cannot save IBM.
Meaning absolutely no offense, I don't understand how this is possible. The whole point of twitter is that you choose who you follow - if someone is noisy, why not unfollow them and never hear from them again?

Is it maybe that you haven't followed anyone yet, and twitter is showing you miscellaneous junk because they're too daft to show you a "hey you should search for some people you're interested in" dialog?
Exactly! When I see all the hand wringing around twitter, I'm surprised how rarely it's mentioned that the natural market size for twitter is just much smaller than Facebook's.

My theory is that there is basically a personality divide, probably along the introvert/extravert divide, among those who like twitter, and those who don't. Thus, those who like and use twitter frequently blame all its problems on technical details, because they can't grasp that those who don't FUNDAMENTALLY have an aversion to the push model of 140 char limited thoughts. I look at twitter and think "Random short distractions are things I'm actively trying to remove from my life."
I take a different view – Twitter is 'in trouble' because people expect it to be far more than it should be.

It seems like it could be a really simple product – an asynchronous method to receive small updates, recommendations and so on from people or organisations you are interested in. And I love that! I follow a good selection of people who share things I am interested in. There's nothing wrong with that, and there's an obvious path (through advertising) to monetisation.

The problem is the wider perception of failure – the "Why isn't Twitter like Facebook!?!?" issue. Instead of a solid, well-delivered, sustainable product, we are witnessing a push for 'growth' and 'development' which I quite honestly think are exactly the opposite of what Twitter needs. What is frustrating me most about Twitter recently is:

- Poor technical choices (the Mac app is shit and they have repeatedly fucked over the technical community)
- Fucking-up of the core timeline concept (the introduction of the 'algorithmic timeline' will be the day I leave the platform)
- Arbitrarily inserting tweets from people I don't follow, nuking the whole point of it

I'd be much happier if they just slashed the headcount and built a sustainable business, but I guess that's not going to happen at this point.
Yes, because Twitter is not meant to be a friends only space. Its tapping into the neo-cortex of the hivemind, in real-time.

Seriously I get so tired of people who don't use Twitter and can't understand why anyone else would: the product isn't meant for you.
I know that there is a lot of PR around Watson but it is not just PR. There is a genuine effort to put AI-related technologies in the hands of as many developers as possible. If you want to check for yourself what we are doing, please go to: http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud.

We are trying to expose state-of-the-art technology in speech, dialog, text analytics, vision, machine translation, etc as a coherent platform. I am happy to answer (without any PR BS) any question you may have.
One of the Pirate Bay co-founders launched www.flattr.com long ago - they're still around, but I don't know if they're gaining any real traction.
> ... when open source projects opt to use Slack as their chat platform instead of IRC; it's [sic] sends the signal that FOSS is good enough for us but not good enough for them.

It couldn't possibly be because Slack is better than IRC?

I mean, come on. Sometimes there is a better closed-source alternative. I don't know why FOSS attracts these people that think all closed-source software is literally the devil or whatever, but if you're not using the best tool for the job you don't have the best interests of the project at heart. For most use cases, Slack is objectively better than IRC. For a minority, IRC is better.

The dogma from the FOSS community is a large part of why many people are not involved in it at all.
This article considers "closure" to mean a type of internal representation of a function which references free bindings which would otherwise be stack-allocated.

This goes against the usage of "closure" that I've seen elsewhere, including the current wikipedia page for the topic[1]. Ususally I see "closure" used to denote the concept of a function that references free variables, not any specific implementation. Maybe within the guile codebase they have a construct called "closure" which implements closures in the most general way possible (which involves heap allocation no doubt).

But it's true: lambdas ≠ closures. "Lambda" refers to the syntax that a language uses to allow anonymous functions. A "closure" is a type of function that references free variables. Java 8, for example, has lambdas, but they are not full closures, because they can only reference local variables declared in higher scopes if those are declared as final.

Python, on the other hand, sort of has lambdas, but they are limited to a body consisting of a single expression, which doesn't allow e.g. conditionals. Even if it didn't support the lambda syntax, though, it would support closures, because it lets you declare a named function during a function call, then pass it elsewhere by referencing its name. These functions can reference free variables:

def mkincer():
n = 0
def inner():
nonlocal n
n += 1
return n
return inner

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming)
I was about to whitelist the site (which I only visit occasionally), and as I approached the little uBlock Origin icon, I noticed the little supertext number: 28. I click on the icon: 28 requests blocked or 42% of the requests for the page. Thanks, but no thanks.

The absolute first thing one must do before asking people to whitelist is to reduce the ad footprint.
I think the regulations for selling insurance are reasonable and necessary, but it looks like both Zenefits and Conrad will have benefited more from flouting them and getting caught than they would have if they followed the law from the beginning.

It doesn't bode well for regulation and our society in general when flouting the law has a higher return than following the law, even if you get caught.
It took me awhile, but I found 3 use cases for Twitter.

1) Follow interesting people in the tech industry to see what they are thinking about semi-real time. I often see links on Twitter days or weeks before they end up on HN for example.

2) Add to the entertainment experience of TV. Watching The Walking Dead, the Super Bowl, or the debates with Twitter going in the background provides insight and comedic relief.

3) Publicly shaming companies. I've done this multiple times with Comcast and they have reached out and made it right.

What I don't do is follow friends or people I know well for the most part. I already know what they think, so a stream of their thoughts does not provide much value.
I totally agree with the Dad comment here. Both my Mother and Father are hugely into Facebook, but don't understand twitter. They have both signed up for accounts, but haven't really used them, because they don't get it.

To be honest, I also didn't really understand twitter until I had to sign up for it to promote a talk I was giving at a conference. Then after playing around with it a bit, I found some interesting people I ended up following. Before that though I didn't really see the appeal. And this is coming from a tech and news junkie.
Isn't that public data? name, country, phone number, email...
“Smart”
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1048576 bytes) in /usr/local/zend/var/apps/http/devzone.zend.com/80/_docroot_/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1774

Oh the irony...oooh, the irony!
Doesn't this look more like an un-optimized edge case than anything else?

Loading a 100MB text file is not really common, even among developers. Only logs and DB dumps are really that big.
At least this post on HN drove your average CPC down ;)
Also, diversity as it pertains to "hiring people who dislike Twitter and don't use it," which would be a great source of change from the inside. However that's very hard to do, both for the company (you want me to hire this guy who hates what I built?) and the employee (why would they join?)
Solar powered vehicle enables disabled people to earn a living in India
I am continually surprised by how many emails I get from teenage students thanking me for writing my math blog.

On top of that, I try to occasionally make it out to high schools to give guest lectures. I posted an example experience from one of these online [1] and I am usually looking for other opportunities to do this sort of thing. I think that if every math graduate student who is a reasonably good teacher took a day or two out of every year to visit a high school math class, we would see much more interest in math. Many of us (myself included) were not particularly interested in math in high school and didn't discover the cool stuff until college. So we were once the audience we'd be appealing to.

[1]: http://jeremykun.com/2011/06/26/teaching-mathematics-graph-t...
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Lambda with the API Gateway (the Request/Response control flow, as opposed to the Event triggered control flow that Lambda uses with other services) is basically like a distributed, virtualized implementation of CGI.

However, being distributed and virtualized is a pretty big deal. In practice this means Lambda apps perform differently than traditional CGI, and also require different app architecture to support them.
Yes, it also happens in the reverse direction. Foreign nationals going abroad with the goal of gaining intelligence from professors.
You can't delete information from blockchains, which makes them problematic from a data protection or simple error point of view.
Yeah but it basically lived on contracts from traditional media and ad companies, which they proactively courted. When those markets tanked, so did Yahoo.
> it reconfigures the machine in such a way to disable legitimately useful functionality.

???? What are you talking about? Everything it does is pretty bog-standard troubleshooting in the PC tech space. chkdsk, sfc, rebuild the DISM store, run some anti-virus engines, etc.
Infogram founder announces new startup to make app building easy for everyone
There's a typo on your home page:

"Stackfield offers you a selection of tools that every team needs to get the dayly work done."

Dayly should be daily.

Also cool post!
By used to, do you mean in 2012 when corn was around $7 / bu?

Your typical "field" in the Midwest is a quarter or 160 ac. Iowa has a yield of around 170 bu/ac and a typical farmer might have around 8 quarters. If corn is around $4, that works out to 8x160x170x4 = $870k revenue by a farmer for a year (and almost 2x that in 2012!)