skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a user I hate ads (or how they are displayed) but I'm interested hearing about a new restaurant opening nearby, new groceries being sold, new computer hardware etc. New restaurants tend to be advertised before movies at the cinema here, or I have to walk around to see if there is one. New groceries tend to be aired on TV or posters inside the grocery store. New computer hardware tends to be reported by tech news.

A central place for new products largely driven by a community + pay to keep ads up longer (or something) would probably be one of those websites I'd go to for my daily product news.
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Integrating Twilio Voice into a Ruby on Rails App
> or we may just post the commit in chat for review before we build out.

Isn't that 'after the fact', considering your teamcity polls the gitlab repo a lot, so a commit will trigger a build right after it, and if everything goes well, deploy it too?

So you have to know up front whether a thing is 'risky', but that's a subjective term.
How to Integrate Twilio SMS (Sending/Receiving) into Your Ruby on Rails App
Why you're always at least three steps down your HTTPS certificate chain
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Siete tendencias que marcarán el mundo de los eventos en 2016
yes, one can google a lot on crack cocaine and its correlation with crime back then and later.
Ugh. I'm all for modernizing msdn, but those mouse-over comment bubbles cause a the text underneath to shift - that's just really, really annoying. Mousing over the text causes everything to jump around.

Also, the marked-text context menu: that only works within a single paragraph. Cross over to the next and it's not showing any more.
It's not so hard with gateways like braintree or stripe actually. If you have the experience, you can do it in hours / minutes. The other part is fraud prevention, which IMO is a more complicated problem per se.
Dealing with a hacker, more or less
Note that the 20% is only for the first $500 with a client. After that, it's the old 10% rate.

They have also added a new tier - if you do more than $10,000 with a client, the the price drops to 5%. I know of companies with several full time remote contractors through upwork. This will be a nice improvement.
1) Not necessarily. Most exchanges allow the publisher to supply their own domain, either explicitly, or because the real information comes from JavaScript that the Publisher can subvert and control. This happens.

2) Many (most?) markets don't have direct response, making measuring return very difficult.

3) That's basically everybody. If you know someone who actually knows what they're doing with ads, then I've got a bridge to sell you.
Looks good. Wonder why these benchmarks never include an actual database. I'm using firebase with nodejs and no matter how many requests per second my server can respond with, it's ultimately constrained by data requests and memory (ie how many connections can I wait on).

When I see numbers like 50k requests per second it's meaningless, unless I have no database or some kind of in memory cache only db.
Author here. One thing I'm intending to look at in future is the performance effect of longer chains: there's a bunch of articles talking about how longer chains have a performance impact, but people generally overestimate the overhead of RSA (long chains are almost always RSA). It would be good to a real test on a typical 3 part chain vs a 4 or 5 part cross-signed chain.
more like rightness
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It only deploys to our development/CI environment automatically. Deploying out to the production tier is a button press still.

So yes, it will build to dev, but we're using this in situations where we're very confident the changes are correct already. I'd argue blind pushes are the problem otherwise. If the developer is not very certain: they can open a merge/pull request or just hop on a hangout to do a review.
Now, I understand why Apple allowed and encouraged ad blockers on iOS, they are hurting Google, of course.
Doesn't this only allow you to search your own page, as mentioned at the URL you linked?

"With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website." (emphasis mine)

Their video also seems to indicate the same thing: https://youtu.be/Qd9z48Bo8ZA

They say you can search "one website or even a specific topic across multiple websites". This is specifying multiple domains, not a full-index search.
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Solution: Move things over from one into the blessed solution, and then kill the other one. Repeat as necessary. Accept that nothing will cover 100%

Sometimes you have to push to fix the process
Would recommend reading the mailing list entry above...it has much more detail than the imagetragick.com site. The "unescaped shell characters" is only one of many issues.
Care to elaborate on 3)? What do you consider "knowing what you're doing" if you think no one does?
Even if the customer doesn't demand it, you should have your own standards for quality and performance and never compromise on them when it comes to your deliverables.

You're actually harming your business if you choose to do shitty work for small bucks and good work for big bucks. If you take your standards very seriously it improves the capabilities of your team and let's you take on more lucrative contracts.

> And developers don't like to work for free.

Oddly enough, the highest earning developers I know don't think like that.
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Doesn't Conda help with that problem, allowing you to precompile rust extensions just like C extensions?
We absolutely treat pain and air hunger with opioids in the US, if it is consistent with the patient's wishes.
Come on now. I specifically mention via Stripe, so suggesting a developer would have to write a billing and tracking system is a bit analogous to someone saying Stripe is better than 21 because a dev would have to write the whole of what 21 provides. Stripe is awfully quick to setup in many cases.

That said, your point about chargebacks is certainly a good one.
can be overwhelming because of its length

This makes no sense at all, even if you think people's attention spans have shortened. You see the same amount of content at once regardless of whether it's been paged, unless your browser window is ridiculously large or the content has been literally split into paragraph-per-page levels of fragmentation. You'll eventually get to see all the same content, but you have to spend more clicks (and possibly scroll) to get to the part you want instead of just scrolling. I have the same gripe with some other sites that love click-toggling sections (especially when there is no "expand all" button, or expanding one collapses the others, or even worse --- they default to collapsed without JS.)

Maybe it's the result of some stupid "engagement" metric that awards clicking around? That's completely counter to the point of documentation; it's not supposed to require much interaction, it's supposed to be something you passively read while doing whatever it is you need to with the information you've consumed.
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FES is used in non-kill-zone habitable solutions like datacenters, bottoms of passenger trams/hybrid buses and electromagnetic aircraft catapults. The historical issue with FES is unscheduled, rapid disassembly, but carbon/kevlar composites have been shown to have greater integrity with least unsprung structural mass (because you want the most mass as close to the rim as possible to ensure highest moment of inertia.)

FES has 10x specific energy than supercapacitors or batteries with no memory and precise state of charge. Magnetic bearings and hard vacuums make them quite efficient.
Well, they check the filetype. I wouldn't be so certain that covers all the bases. Read this: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/18
>If I walk into a store, the assistant asks "Can I help you?" and I reply "I'm looking for a crimson-coloured nail varnish" and then she says "Sure! We have a new line in this week, can I show you?" then I'm more than happy to let her show me. That's what google search ads feel like.

Is it though? Because I always thought it felt more like a used car salesman crossed with clippy.

"I see you're trying to paint your nails, would you like to buy some nailpolish for that?"
Just from quickly skimming the literature, it looks like you can measure it in vivo with X-ray fluorescence. Getting access to one of those would be hard, but you might be able to persuade a researcher to use you in a trial? I imagine you've already looked into this a fair bit.

Are you on medication to help with the (diagnosed) bipolar disorder? Do you find that e.g. lithium eases your symptoms? If so, I'd be inclined to think you're bipolar -- irrespective of whether you also have low-level lead poisoning.
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The original story in The New Yorker, by Morgenstern, has quite a bit more detail

http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm
Why Myntra ‘lost conviction’ and went back to the website (yes, finally)
It seems to me that they shot themselves in the foot when they accepted Google's 1 billion offer to keep their search bar on iOS. That right there bypasses any ad blocker and provides Google with much more consumer insight and metrics than any ad could ever do.
Opera officially launches its browser that blocks all web ads -except on 4 sites
Removing Signup from devise in Rails
Impending death of the java browser plugin
Yup. Having many distributed li-ion battery walls charging at night for peak assist during the day is one way to level out demand and make the energy infrastructure more resilient in a Google-servers-like way.
> With the foreign key table, performance would suffer, but probably not enough to matter for most use cases.

Citation needed :) That's going to really depend.

I'm not for or against NoSQL (or any platform). Use what's best for you and your app!

In our case, NoSQL makes for a bad database approach. We do many cross-sectional queries that cover many tables (or documents in that world). For example, a Post document doesn't make a ton of sense, we're looking at questions, answers, comments, users, and other bits across many questions all the time. The same is true of users, showing their activity for things would be very, very complicated. In our case, we're simply very relational, so an RDBMS fits the bill best.
Genuinely curious:

Why does anyone care about who Satoshi is IRL? Is it the mystery? The hunt? Is there a Bitcoin prize to be had?
Well it would be if there weren't so many broken links to MSDN and Technet. I don't have to use those sites any more, but it always seemed like they were constantly changing the urls for stuff. Even links from product help pages or error messages were usually always broken.
If the spot market was the status quo, and someone was suggesting a change to the current system of flat prices, one could make the same argument. (Ie already well off people are flexible enough to make use of the new system better.)
Galaxy Note 6 will come with a giant battery
A lifestyle business can kill you
We all cry at a funeral... that is not what the family or loved ones remember. They remember the speakers, the speeches that offer something useful to explain the occasion.

No disrespect to the parent poster (or author) but... acknowledging that something that is obviously sad is actually sad is not a very useful observation.
Or the 420 edition of Gena and Cheburashka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpHp9jzUDM
The founders and first devs were proficient in it.

It works well enough for our needs (e.g. C# has one of the best GCs on the market), and no one is a platform/language zealot, so we keep on using it.

Stuff we added later runs on other platforms, as needed (e.g. we run redis and elastic search on CentOS, our server monitoring tool Bosun is written in go...)
> Code review is overrated.

Scientific research suggests otherwise though.
Creating a welcome email on Signup in Rails
Not really:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_battleship#Combat_Experie...

In skirmish you can do the "dreadnought" thing: outgun anything smaller, outrun anything bigger than you. This was the idea behind cruiser warfare. But jutland happened in relatively narrow area. In "line of battle" you get nothing from speed. The enemy can turn faster than you can run around him, so no "crossing the T". It's better to bet on armor and guns.
Security is a spectrum, beware of falling into a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
> It only deploys to our development/CI environment automatically. Deploying out to the production tier is a button press still.

Ah missed / overlooked that!
> https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search. I want to clarify that the page includes the old Bing Search APIs
> that are still in use, but will be deprecated in the future.
>

I just migrated to the Bing API when Yahoo BOSS closed 31 March :-(

Will there be a new image search api similar to the one you offers now? Can you share any timeframe for the deprecation?
the text in [1] is not justified, that seems to make the comment icon behave differently.

It goes to the right of the paragraph in that case instead of the last sentence of the paragraph.
Greed:+Is+It+Serving+You?
Compare:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111228110049/http://msdn.micros...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130422112102/http://msdn.micros...

http://web.archive.org/web/20150102192514/http://msdn.micros...

I very much prefer the first design too.
Just human curiosity, I am assuming.
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What would be paying for most of it?

An awful lot of the content out there exists because there's money in it (or at least the hope of money). And most of what pays for that is ads.
I guess it depends on country.

Some countries need AC, others need heating.
Thanks for the reply. I guess you (and others) were confused over who might benefit from who will pay. I guess I assumed that everyone recognised that no employer will pay for this service because of the way it works - you can hardly pay to have candidates tested when the testing might not occur for another 12 months.

Not that it matters too much at this stage, but I would encourage you to read through the whole discussion - the idea is not as obvious as it appears on the surface.
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"Have you seen the swimming pool on the roof?"

;)
Becoz Satoshi owns approximately 1 Million Bitcoins - that is 6% of the total bitcoins.
'Anonymous': a non-elected agenda-driven group with zero accountability. You can applaud their actions when they're aligned with your own beliefs but what do you do if they're not?
As a consultant, my clients do not dictate at all what my priorities should be. I work with them to identify what their priorities are, what they'd like to see done. I train them to value performance and quality, not the lowest bottom line. I also train them to learn how to identify performance and quality. I give them feedback on their ideas/priorities, and always include my own suggestions for platform/software maintenance/improvement/enhancement. I'm their consultant and vendor, not their employee.

I probably take this to a weird degree for some, but I actively think about my client's software quite often, and frequently toss ideas their way whenever they hit me. You'd be surprised how often those ideas--which I thought were cool, hence the sharing--come back later as something they want. It's just basic sales.

Of course, I'm always building large, custom projects from scratch, not taking on projects that ask me to optimize "working code without any financial imperatives". On the other hand, when I identify a part of their software that can gain performance or some other kind of improvement—say, some dependency has improved that will ease X, making priorities Y and Z easier to implement—they listen to me and put it in their list of priorities.

Everybody wins.
What a load of BS. From all the demand side platforms I've dealt with, Google is by far the most serious about fraud prevention. They realized early on that while fraud boosts their short term revenue, they'd have a massive PR problem afterwards if this stuff continues.

Nobody's vetting both publishers and advertisers as extensively as Google, their automatic ad verification and fraud prevention algorithms are top notch.

On top, even though "Online" is slowly declining for sure (though not as massively as stated), everyone seems to ignore that both Google and Facebook more than made up for the loss of online with mobile ads that are orders of magnitude harder to block on the closed smartphone ecosystems.

Whoever paid for this piece, it's someone who very obviously has no clue at all about Adtech.
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One I would pay, because he values quality over ROI optimization. Something I look for when choosing craftsmen to work for me.
Would you say that the "1%" is above "upper class" or an upper-upper-class? Why not just say "he earns $200k" or "he inherited $10M" rather than "he's a part of the upper class"? The former examples seems to provide much more info.

[Answer is probably "language isn't logical" but I'd settle for your reason not to use the more informative approach.]
Also, the German tax office will look at your UK registered company and your dividend payments and artificially lowered salary, and your German tax domicile, then tax you after the fact directly as if no company existed. Single ownership UK Ltd companies are a black flag to the Finanzamt.

My best advice is to walk into the local Finanzamt and speak to someone. I've always found them to be knowledgeable, courteous and genuinely interested in helping. Explain to them your goals (minimising tax liability / indemnity / etc) and they will advise you where they can (for free).
> Livefyre: The Leading Content Marketing and Engagement Platform

Looks like something to block regardless of whether it creates annoying menus. Is anyone else a little surprised (and perhaps repulsed) by Microsoft putting semi-shady 3rd-party scripts like this on their site? This seems completely opposite of what the Microsoft I knew would do.
Enable 3-finger drag on the trackpad and relive the old days.
Apple is now run by a guy who is more like John Sculley than Steve Jobs
It's hard to read for me too. I think it's because too little contrast for such thin font.
Main page is bad too, especially this blue boxes.
> Left relatively unsupervised, the kids today will voraciously seek youtube videos to teach themselves how to make a Turing machine in Minecraft

I am currently teaching middle school and high school and I think nothing is further from the truth. A few kids do, maybe most children of HN's parents, ... but most kids don't care at all about programming, science or building anything.

It's a lot harder to do differentiation than it sounds. After 10 min of hour-of-code many are bored out of their mind, say they don't like video games and want to do something else (acting, paint _without code_, do sports, take selfies, gossip, read a novel, etc ...).
Thanks for sharing it. Let me check it out.
Extreme YAGNI
FBI vs. Apple  what about Android?
If the FBI fought with Apple for opening up the iphone, and not android providers ...
Then they have a free pass to Android devices, don't you think?
Actually, there already is, it's called OpenADR.

http://products.openadr.org/?posts_per_page=-1

See also Ecobee vs. Nest: http://controltrends.org/controltrends-news/news-and-informa...
How much do we believe that the Dorian Nakamoto denial comment on p2pfoundation was from the real Satoshi?

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...

Because that was posted in 2014, and Kleiman died in 2013.
I think it would be entirely reasonable for the person maintaining a Ruby binding for sqlite to follow the sqlite documentation and close any bugs telling them to go against that documentation, yes.
> Seriously, switch browsers or fuck off.

Har har. The IE blocker is really funny. How about not basing this stuff on User-Agent headers?
Check out enbrite.ly they have a good tool to fight ad-fraud. The team grew up at Live Jasmin, you can imagine the volume if fraudulent activity in that space...
Is it a symbol or an actual game that's used? I've had them in many offices but rarely seen them used.

To me the ping pong table and exposed surfaces in startups reflect wood paneling in law firms. It's symbolism rather than functionality. Symbols do matter.
Because there are many benefits to using GraphQL that aren't supported if you explicitly tie the schema to the data source - one of them being the relative ease of supporting out-of-date clients. Another being the ease of supporting multiple data sources in the same schema, like Elasticsearch, Redis, etc (though I guess you can have PostgreSQL talk to those data sources instead).

My use of "real project" was perhaps a little unfair. What I mean is that as soon as you go beyond the simplest requirements of a GraphQL server, a solution like this is going to present more problems than it solves.
> Additionally, there are probably going to be big repercussions to the web/average person's browsing experience as a result of this. A massive number of sites (and programs, bots, etc) were using this API because of its simplicity (and absence of registration/authentication).

Yep. My harmless little IRC bot can no longer Google search anymore :(
glibc does something similar. I'm not sure I see the problem. It's different, but I wouldn't call it bad.
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You lose support from many people if the plan doesn't include dismantling massive government agencies responsible for other support/giveaway programs.

You can't dismantle those until you're at the 90+% range of any reasonable UBI payout.
There are ways to get close to a true value of viewthru to compare to clicks, especially as you start spending more. Throw a small % of your creatives in your campaigns to a non-profit. See how those banners perform compared against your brand (they use same targeting, remarketing, etc) and you can write off the spend on the NPO banner.
Didn't the Satoshi Nakamoto account comment on the Newsweek article claiming Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto was the man?[0] That was in 2014. Since Kleiman died in 2013, then someone else would have had access to the Nakamoto account, right?

Indeed, I wonder why the Nakamoto account haven't made a comment on the Craig Wright claims.

[0] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/m/discussion?id=2003008%3ATopi...
Is the repo open? There's no trace of it in your GutHub profile. I'd like to contribute to it.
You're assuming your points were valid. Since you didn't really argue them, they might not be. In that case, you aren't justified in getting angry at this article any more than you are in getting angry at every paper using stats ever published. Perhaps this is one of the rare good ones.
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Ex Amazon syseng here. Please be advised that the questions are really basic, even the "hard" ones and won't get you very far in an interview in various companies.