skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is definitely a split, one of our newer accounts has a new interface but the older ones don't. Not sure if it is age or location causing it.
Subtle..

Anyway your website looks only half finished, odd spacings and the default blue link color, non capitalised when it should be etc.
https://cloud.docker.com
Ruby counts as mainstream, right? It is expression based.
Definitely not related. David Sacks and Peter Thiel are best friends from college.
How do you find yourself using it?
If there's an arms race between ad-blockers and ad-blocker-detectors, the latter will win. All of the money and incentives are set up for them to do a better job.
As a user, that would certainly turn me off. The entire page being in canvas fundamentally breaks native functionality. Text selection, copy/paste, navigation keys. Most of these could be simulated but it would never feel truly native.

Heck, I get annoyed when on Snopes simply because I can't select any text (which I use to keep my place in the article).
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Legacy social networks won.

1st the Muslim Brotherhood, 2nd the Army.

Rinse, repeat, your tech is a fad.
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Except that PayPal posted a strong earnings report in Q4 2015 (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/paypal-shares-up-on-earning...). So this is just a coincidence of timing (new year, etc.).

My point is, I seriously doubt the CTO was forced out or left because he thought his stock was worthless. He is most likely leaving for any of the million other reasons people leave companies every day.
Wired kind of agrees: if you subscribe to the print edition (~12/yr IIRC), you get access to the digital editions too.

The $1/week is a ridiculous grab from people who are unaware that there is a cheaper option available.
So who's more senior after this? The new CTO or Bill Ready?
BT has much less technical debt and thus more modern design. Most new merchants are encouraged to use v.zero (BT's xo product)
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Curious, who would that provider be? We are a smallish company too
Since they aren't making any money from your visits to their site anyways I doubt they will be losing a lot of sleep.
You can't really 'win' with an ad-blocker-detector, you can only win by committing virtual suicide on your website. Eyeballs have value other than just ads, for instance someone might have shared an article in an interesting way or to a well matching demographic which in turn led to a viral effect. Very hard to know which part of your audience is the one instrumental to keeping the flow of traffic up, and 20% is in the danger zone. Keep in mind that Wired's audience is fairly tech savvy and that is precisely the segment that may have caused Wired to be as well respected as they are in the first place. You don't risk alienating that 20% unless you're desperate.
> I wrote a very tiny booklet about writing highly scalable, fault tolerant, distributed system.

i am sure you already know about jim-gray's (tandem computers) article on "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?". it is pretty good, imho, actually, despite being approx. 20 years old (how many millenia is that in internet time ?)
Until Atom is written natively I don't think Sublime Text is going to have a serious competitor.
I know that google uses street view to determine street addresses by OCRing the numbers on the side of houses. Maybe even more of their mapping relies on it?
Yes its wrong.

Shorting too early is an insane money losing proposition.
Full disclosure: I'm the CEO & co-founder of Floobits, which makes pair programming plugins for lots of editors.

I completely agree with you about the plugin APIs. Writing a collaborative editing plugin for Sublime Text was a slog. Not only were we limited by the plugin API, but we ran into show-stopper bugs.[1] SSL didn't work on some platforms.[2] ST2 shipped with a broken select() module broke on Windows. In contrast, Atom provided almost everything we wanted. And while we ran into more bugs, they were annoyances, not show-stoppers.[3]

1. https://news.floobits.com/2015/08/17/sublime-text-plugin-api...

2. https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/177

3. https://news.floobits.com/2015/10/14/developing-atom-plugins...
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Trivial answer: the webpage is a monolithic PNG. Good luck building a general-purpose image parser & modifier, especially on a webpage with embedded animations.

There are ways to make it very difficult to distinguish between content and ads, that's all you need to do. At the highest level, the content is the ads, which is usually what ends up happening to trade publications anyway.
And even better; he did a pull request to incorporate the changes.
I'd need you to clarify your idea of "winning", but I'm pretty sure I'd take the opposite side of this bet.

Ad-blockers will win because people find ads very annoying.
Hopefully, they will maintain the Tab Groups add-on indefinitely then.
$1 per week doesn't seem like a lot when phrased that way. But when you think about all of the sites your adblocker blocks ads from on a daily basis, if it'd add up a lot of they all charged $1. I'd be ok with not consuming a good bit of content and paying for the small few I like, but I'm not sure that's sustainable. It'll be interesting to watch.

Micropayments, however, will never work. The main problem is that the jump from no payment to $1 is the biggest hurdle. If you can get someone to pay anything at all, you can probably get the to pay more than micropayment amounts, so your optimum payment is never a small one.
I think the point was that there might be some lessons to be learned that can be applied to industries that don't require such licensing.
> Note that data plans are pretty cheap in India.

Cheap enough for the 60% of rural Indians who live on less than 35 Rs/day [1]?

> The cost of a smartphone that can handle modern websites (especially Facebook, which breaks on old/slow phones and browsers) is more than the cost of a few year's worth of data.

The vast majority of mobile phones in India are feature phones which are considerably cheaper than smartphones [2]. To be included in Free Basics, sites have to work reasonably on feature phones. Free Basics sites are accessed through a proxy which modifies requests so that the sites can tell that they are being viewed by a Free Basics user, and so the site can present a version that works without requiring "modern" features like JavaScript, SVG images and WOFF font types, iframes, video and large images, or Flash and Java applets.

[1] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-04/news...

[2] http://www.igadgetsworld.com/india-smartphone-and-feature-ph...
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You can't expect all GNU Social instances to be open for public registration, that's not what fedaration means. loadaverage.org seems to be open to everyone though. Also, do you have an OpenID?
(In Guile Scheme). Also, probably other languages.

Very cool to read about these kinds of compiler optimizations. The "scheme class" I've taken was more about programming techniques that scheme encourages (tail recursion, continuation passing) than specific details about the language itself. Im going to have to go read more about the partial evaluation the Guile compiler is performing, I'm curious what heuristics it uses for the definition of "evaluateable".
"It's like Uber for AI," said Apple's former Self-Driving Car guy who also joined the team.
Honest question. How do you know you're in the middle of a bubble bursting?
I do a few things: control music (pause/play, volume up/down, etc), change my lights (dim, bright, color), read off the weather, ask what time it is.

I've got a few other ideas: control my roku, add milk to the grocery list, read emails, etc.

Nothing life-changing, but fun stuff that makes small parts of my day easier.
I think they're betting the group of people who pay them $52/year will more than make up for it, at least in the short term.
My point wasn't that a non-technical person would appreciate the specs. It's that the screen is so bad that it makes a non-technical person think it's a cheap-o laptop instead of one that costs almost $2,000.
The more interesting thing to do (for this crowd, at least) would be to run your own instance: https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/blob/master/INSTALL
Agreed, every other line was a pitch for how amazing SignalFX is.
Texture is an attempt to be that. Like Netflix they don't have everything you could ever want. But they have enough.
The Careful Design of Cave Story
Also, employees under the guidance of their former CEO could face multiple years in prison for crimes committed while they were at the company and under instruction from the CEO. If your employees are now facing significant jail time because of how you trained them to do their job, you should get zero credit or goodwill.
Earnings is a lagging indicator
Yep: https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/

Something squirrelly in the pricing tiers.
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It all seriousness - allowing another mega-bubble to get created just to burst again should be prevented. This is what regulatory safeguards are supposed to prevent but like the housing bubble and financial bubble, the nefarious types always find a way to game the system.

When this happens it so harmful to the little guy and all of the employees stuck in the middle.
The P Thinkpad has a 4K IPS screen: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p70/#...
Show HN: Google for powershell
Both of the points you make are true but how are they relevant here?

We are talking about clocks that tell time in the quoted quote (time is ordering of events by definiton) & consensus in bitcoin is final(accurate) enough an practical approximation as much as a centralised system as described in OP is. Either I am misunderstanding or this is your dislike for bitcoin.
My question was about his claim in regards to the result in the paper. In practice, you are right but a consensus algorithm is still "partially correct" if it never decides on a value. It is only incorrect if different nodes decide on different values. For example, paxos does is not guaranteed to decide on a value. So timeouts are useful guessing tools, but I dont see how there is no consensus possible without them.
This goes into it a bit: https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/10/11/partial-evaluation-.... It's linked from the OP.
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It's interesting that you hit on this solution which most likely has been debated in many a boardroom of companies that see these ad blocker figures ever on the rise.

The problem is that this 'solution' is not really a solution. It degrades the web to a fraction of its original use case and it would indicate a drastic departure from the open standards that got us here in the first place.

In a war - if you want to end it - the idea is to de-escalate. A reasonable first step from a property such as wired would be to demand from their ad-tech providers that they get rid of any tracking code and other trickery in their ad tags and that the ads served would be simple imagery rather than flash and/or javascript ads that leak an enormous pile of sensitive data about you to the 'supply side platforms'.

But since that would go hand-in-hand with a reduction in effectiveness they would then have to de-rate their ad prices or they would have to live with less income. It appears that wired would rather self destruct or at a minimum force users to convert directly at rate card prices (a win for them if they do in signfificant numbers) rather than go down this route. Time will tell if it is the winning move.
Forbes has been doing this for a while on its website. (Or, at least for a while it has been detecting the ad blocking-software that I have been using for much longer.) I have basically stopped reading Forbes (which maybe was a good idea on other grounds) and have learned to appreciate stories from competing publications. If Wired doesn't want my eyeballs to visit its site, I'll just stop bringing them there.
Ok, sure, the author means "result of compiling a lambda expression". I think it's reasonable phrasing given that this is describing compiler transformations pre-interpretation rather than interpreter behavior.
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Hi all, I'm starting a long-form game design analysis site to provide long-form articles on the topic for others to read, while exploring what makes great games so enjoyable.

I started with Cave Story because it was my introduction to indie games, and I played it at a time where my computer was too slow to run anything else. The game itself was made by a single person, and is incredibly well designed for a passion project that was released as freeware. I think it's a great example of the careful, intentional design in video games.

I'd love to hear any feedback, good or bad, on the content, on my writing, what you'd like to see, or even just the site design in general.
Don't discount the benefit of a few men, trying to build a business. Doing dedicated work for Open Source is amazing, and very honourable. However, as the ATOM team grows, so does the overhead, the documentation requirements, and group thought. Sublime going lean and closed source might make things more competitive then you think.
Or maybe most users don't use the app that way because of their interface? It makes using the app in a preferred (or preferable) way too cumbersome?
Presumably they get desperate, then.

Look, it's easy to wave your hands and talk about viral articles, but fundamentally they will do what they need to in order to stay alive, or be replaced by a company that will. You can have micropayments (failed experiment), subscriptions, or ads. Empirically it seems like ads or other non-monetary consideration (influence, sponsored content, etc) has outcompeted subscription-based models for most content. Given that the "war" is entirely technical & visible to the end user only by the presence or absence of ads, the question is just whether you'll read a publication that has ads, or not. Empirically, the general population will.

(This says nothing about how invasive the ads are).
I would be amazed if someone doesn't have an account with any of these websites:

http://openid.net/get-an-openid/

Though I do believe Google has gotten rid of their Openid implementation entirely in favor of Openid Connect.
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> ES6 onwards may be far from perfect, but it's much more shaped by experience and good practices than PHP will ever be. This counts a lot, you can currently design good code with javascript, while even PHP 7 still makes it impossible.

What are some things that you think make it impossible to design good code in PHP 7?
Even passing over that, it's only a closure if it keeps a lexical environment.

(lambda (x) (+ x 1)) doesn't close over anything, so it's not a closure, nor does it evaluate to one. For that matter, (let ((x 0)) (lambda (x) (+ x 1))) isn't really a closure in any sense because the environment can be inlined out.
Hey, thanks for taking a look. This is spot on. Most of the technical questions are aimed at startups / software shops that are hiring for growth / large enterprise companies with tons of IT. They become less relevant if you're the sole IT guy in a non-software shop. There still are a number of questions we feel are relevant to any position that are important to ask such as health care provider, retirement fund, etc. If you have any suggestions for questions to add we'd love to hear them. The removal of questions (ex. the test coverage) we put more consideration into. I think questions like that are valuable to the extent other people find it valuable. Certainly if no one thinks test coverage is a good question to ask then we'd remove it. Thanks for the feedback.
Wired is in the business of making money. You don't pay them any money directly, so they make it up by showing you ads. If you're going them to prevent them from making money that way, then they don't give a hoot about your eyeballs.
This. If you push me to an app by having a non-functional mobile web site I will just stop using your product.
Micropayments would allow me to pay $1 for those articles viewed, or maybe even $5. The difference is that this would not require me to do anything else besides viewing the page, just like on the old prestel networks. But there the 'central authority' was the phone company and the whole tracking saga means that if you want to hit a large enough fraction of the ad blocker users that you'll have to take that scenario into account.

Wired figures that if you read any of their content at all you owe them $50 / year and that's an 'all you can eat' figure. So if you read all the articles they have that's a bargain, if you read only one then you might as well skip that one and the next and take your s.o. out for dinner.

A micropayment system would reduce the need for such calculations, it would allow a pay-as-you-go model which is far more effective for impulse buys such as articles.
The link doesn't works for me.
This one does: https://t.co/PtD5az9UwZ
Right, I disagree with pretty much every point you're making, but maybe your anti-PC screed makes you feel better. I do question what this has to do with the core message of the article: GitHub has growing pains, long-time employees are unhappy because the Investors are bringing in the Suits and making them follow all kinds of corporate oversight stuff. Some unhappy employees also dislike the diversity hiring team, but I would assume the Investors and Suits like it (for lawsuit avoidance if nothing else).

Bottom line: all of these pains are probably inevitable if you want to go from 50 to 500 employees with revenue in the $100-$500 millions. Hopefully they get it right, and manage to keep most of their long term employees happy. If not, hopefully they take care of them, and find people to replace them who know how to keep Github working well.
They may very well be in for a rude surprise. You can bet they will roll this out with a big name writer's article (Neal Stephenson has written for wired before, that would be a good candidate) to maximize the conversion. If they start it out with a bunch of junk they'll effectively tell people 'save your money'.
The bubble is obv there, but that doesn't mean it has to go bust. We still have time
If hypothetically, the entire industry collapsed, sure, the people who called it a bubble were right. But an "industry collapse" means something like Google or Facebook shutting down with no competitor to replace it, almost every unicorn going broke, and most importantly the market cap of the entire sector hitting pre-2011 levels proving the growth was fake all along. That would be a really big collapse - to the extent that pointing to a bad Yelp earnings as evidence is a joke. In real bubbles, big, established players like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers disappear and thousands of smaller shops get crushed. A collapse is not a few unicorns losing some value. Even if Uber got wiped out I wouldn't call it an industry collapse, and that scenario is already hard to imagine.

More likely, at some point we'll see a bad year or two, some hiring freezes and layoffs here and there, and people point to that as a bubble collapse that they "knew all along", even though they "knew" it during times when the sector grew more than it eventually receded.

In real bubbles, you see a insane amount of growth based on pure speculation, followed by a massive collapse. The justification for a "bubble" so far has been based on incredibly silly things like the engineers making 80% of what lawyers make or private valuations being high (which only affects a small number of people and is often inflated by things like liquidation preference incentivizing it to sound artificially high despite a significantly lower risk).

Companies like Zynga, Groupon, Living Social, Homejoy, Twitter and Yahoo struggling during a so-called "bubble" is not insane growth, it's proof the market has maintained skepticism over the years. And a few more unicorns falling over won't be a massive collapse either.

Every market has downturns. Not every downturn is a bubble. And an actual "bubble" existence hasn't been proven true despite repeated insistences for 5 years, and I highly doubt it will start now, unless we uncover massive, massive fraud.
You can implement ostatus however you like. It just so happens the most popular implementations are just clones of the Facebook / Twitter looks because they are familiar.

There are more servers than just these, and most of them have unique UIs.
Still though, 0% test coverage.
Perhaps something like Google Contributor.
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Cue all the people who say "Fine, then I won't ever go to Wired's site again."

That's kind of the point, you know.
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Except for the whole fact that they are incredibly slow. Sublime has had major issues with consistent releases and complete silence from the owner with regards to updates.
This. Your family doesn't use HN or reddit, but you do. You can use GNU Social the same way, and maybe it will attract your family to it over time as well.

(my mother has a reddit account, gods help me)
This might happen. But I can tell you there will be some very vocal opposition to this (users of screen readers for instance, and anybody living in a country with accessibility laws will be very happy to give you merry hell).
https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer
I just read this https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3631
This kind of thing has actually improved over time, though. It used to be (back in 10.6, at least) that the play/pause buttons always affected iTunes, even if you had, say, VLC running. It would just also affect VLC.
There isn't much of a long tail to browser development these days, the build requirements are too crazy. And the identi.ca crowd has been around from the beginning, with no more uptake than they ever had.
Maybe it's just me, but that is just linguistic shorthand. Arguing that point sounds like saying "No, I didn't take the train. I rode on the train."
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Shoot, thanks! I missed a "2" at the end... I've deleted this and reposted it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063178
> We know that there are many reasons for running an ad blocker, from simply wanting a faster, cleaner browsing experience to concerns about security and tracking software

Sigh, again, these are just the incidentals of ads. I wish everyone was just completely honest about what ads are for: they are ploys to manipulate viewers into buying things that they did not need until they watched that ad. Ads are not some goodwill clever mechanism to keep magazines in business. The purpose of ads is not to keep Wired in business.

That being said, I think Wired is completely in their right to escalate in the adblocking arms race. I just wish that they were honest about the rules of engagement: either you are open to the possibility of acquiring a purchasing need that you did not have until you watched an ad, or you do not read Wired's articles.

Or like Hobbes said to Calvin...

http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/joyce.gif
I worked for IBM for a short while, in California. All of the agreements that I signed with them acknowledged that California law gave me special rights, and nothing in the contract could take away those rights. That's the kind of "Large Company X" that you want to work with.
Reminded me of this: http://www.theonion.com/article/boss-wants-friendly-relaxed-...