skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there is a "report a bug" link right on the front page.

But that just takes you to the trac front page.
"Top 9 strategies for disrupting web markets... You won't believe number 7!"

I'm a sucker for irony :)
"I really thought I had made my disinterest clear, but here was a third party observer, convinced he was witnessing a mutual courtship. Apparently begrudgingly answering an extremely talkative stranger’s questions while trapped in an enclosed space is the same thing as wanting to spend time with them on purpose."

Yep, that statement reaks of compassion.

---ooops, missed the part about him asking for her number...sorry.
Many Third-Party Instagram Apps Have Stopped Working
Paris floods: Seine set to peak as more rain forecast
If you don't write anything at all, the "lifetime elision rules" kick in: http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/lifetimes.html#lifetime...

We used to only have the first of those three rules. When we added the other two, almost 90% of lifetime annotations in function declarations were able to be removed from the compiler and standard library.
well argued opposing view: http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/the-difficulty-of-neoli...

"The reason ‘neoliberalism’ appears to defy easy definition (especially to those with an orthodox training in economics or policy science) is that it refers to a necessarily interdisciplinary, colonising process. It is not about the use of markets or competition to solve narrowly economic problems, but about extending them to address fundamental problems of modernity – a sociological concept if ever there was one. For the same reasons, it remains endlessly incomplete, pushing the boundaries of economic rationality into more and more new territories."
>Are they arbitraging by buying cheap porn ads then selling higher priced ads to the same traffic?

Exactly. An advertiser like Walmart won't buy ads on a porn site so toastedballs is buying ads on porn sites then showing the high quality users from those sites ads from legitimate companies.
Are you hiring juniors or interns for the iOS position?
Big News at Chef
9 Helpful Tips for Designing a Flipped Classroom
Are lockdown even legal in the US?
Windows 10 upgrade over satellite internet in Central Africa
I've recently had a recruiter send me emails with clickbait titles, that I've fallen for:

- Java vs Scala - The JVM Battle...

- Elasticsearch vs SOLR within AWS...
Assuming the remix uses the actual recording you need permission from the person who made that recording (the recording is covered by copyright).
I would think that Elliott's acquisition was that an acquisition might happen - what surprised me was that the price barely moved after that. Usually there's some kind of bidding war at the end. Or a chance that the acquisition falls through for a while. (Look at how long it took for Yahoo to finally get moving that way) It's rare that the early information hits a bullseye 3 months later.
Yeah. Consider that recent version of LFS use eudev for their non-systemd variant, because it became too much of a hassle to extract udev from systemd on each release.
Not having this in iOS yet. Will probably try end up using Messenger only via desktop if this happens...
A lot of tooling. Eclipse just works. You don't have to use Intellij. Spring makes most things a breeze. Maven handles dependencies and complex builds easily. A lot of the language issues disappear with the right, battle tested tooling.
The changes were announced ahead of time, but within the discussion there hasn't really been actual consideration around not switching back to MSBuild. They've been pretty set on the it within the Github issues (#1433) and haven't provided too much reasoning for it outside of tooling. Of course it's not that alone either there is just a bunch of confusion around it right now on the direction of .NET Core.

From one of the end comments:

> If you want to work out how it should be made and be in the design team that talks about it... please do. [Link to MS Career Page]
This is where a decent static type system helps. The compiler knows if the function is pure or not, and impure functions are more suspect than pure functions.

"Python Unit tests are a poor man's compiler" is a quote that comes to mind.
> Occasionally I can tell that it's a survey that someone commissioned

Yes, I think that's the point of the app. It's basically selling to customers (businesses) more direct access to information that it'd normally gather through tracking or not at all. It's an interesting model in that it's a bit more transparent, and it does pay the customer directly. I wonder if we'll start seeing more of that in the future, where users actually "sell" their eyeballs directly.

It just sounds more honest to me.
Can you order through their website, app, etc? I'm not going to call in a weeks grocery shopping over the phone.
Hell, I don't care if its XML/JSON/XAML but I don't want to go back to MSBuild/CSPROJ.
Yes, I'm quite aware of this fact. But he's a socially competent developer, and my point still stands about those of us who are not.
And then the next era may be independence. Remember all of the geocities websites in the 1990s?

There was a certain charm to all of that.
Neoliberalism is not a school of economic thought. It's not an actual ideology that anyone associates themselves with. It's a word without any concrete meaning thrown around in order to avoid real discussion.

The free market is not failing. Current markets that are failing are hardly "free." What is failing is a system of government regulation and control that supports wall street and the rich at the expense of the middle class.

The governments and their federal banks created every single problem called out in the article. To turn around, blame free-markets, and propose more government as the solution is disgustingly disingenuous.

The IMF itself is not a proponent of the free market. It exists precisely to support excess government spending and to bail rich bondholders who make donations to politicians. Nothing lassiez faire about that.

The laissez faire solution to an overspending government would be bondholders losing money, currency depreciating, and poor leaders being held accountable - to which the IMF is diametrically opposed.
Heck ya! Now if only I could get Jason and Zack to catch up to my steps ;-)
I've struggled with this a lot. I used to believe in making it a negotiation. The more I've seen, I've switched to paying for the position. Unless hard negotiation is part of the job description, it shouldn't be rewarded. I've also found that rewarding hard negotiators pushes companies down the path of paying men more than women for the same job.

If you can't stay in business without underpaying a lot of people, your business is in trouble.
Yes, I realized that may be the case. And may I add that I love your blog! Learned a lot from it.
Re 1: The trouble is that (by far) the most common thing that consumers do after buying X is to buy another X. The second most common is to buy another thing in the same taxonomy as X (something very much like X, but slightly different). This is the case over a very broad range of taxonomies. So when you build a purchase propensity model, you often have to explicitly tell it not to recommend X.
Yeah, I do ocassionally.
AC is a bit of an high expectation for such large warehouses.

But when working at static points(as with the kiva robots), there's no reason why they won't provide fans, at least.
Title needs to be improved, replace Britain with Britain GDS, maybe add "and use websites instead" (but that might spoil the article).
On Writing is a great book and I recommend it even if you have no interest in writing.

As far as King's writing goes some of my favorite work of his are his short stories The Body (basis of the film Stand By Me) and The Breathing Method. You can find them in a few anthologies. The latter is actually my favorite for the odd way it's split into an inner and an outer stories and his vivid description of the 'club' and what it means to the character. I'm still puzzling over the possible metaphorical meaning of the story encapsulation there in relation to the symbolism of both. Or maybe there is none. Shrug. But it's an awesome piece.
Only on 32 bit IIRC, headers are 12 byte on 64 bit with CompressedOops (the default for heaps <32gb) and 16 bytes without. The bit layout of the markoop is here:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/file/87ee5ee275...
Maybe that's what it was. I usually stick to Safari when I can, and I used uBlock because it doesn't have uBlock origin. That blocked everything except video ads, which if they should have been skippable it could have been making them unskippable. I switched to Wipr that uses the content blocker API and that removes the video ads too.
His "vague advice" is very useful. It's a reminder that tech isn't the only thing that employees are selling. And that selling includes an interpersonal component. It can be ignored, but the results will be far from optimal. The best thing for an engineer who underperforms in conversation and negotiation is to realize that there is room to improve and to get moving on doing whatever it takes to have a package to offer that includes technical ability and the social ability to negotiate appropriately.

I'm not even going to touch upon the fact that the skills that a person can use to negotiate more effectively will almost certainly make them a better and more valuable employee (even if they are just a developer/engineer).

Tech workers are not islands unto themselves. The faster they learn this, the better.
Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not. It might seem pedantic, but one must suggest distro's: CentOS(Use RHEL docs), Ubuntu(I recommend Ubuntu Studio for Desktop), Debian, Fedora, GNU/Linux/.*. I might even be as progressive to name freebsd, pc-bsd, RaspBSD.

But sorry, I'm just unwinding a bit on HN, after work.
Third paragraph in has a typo:

> It also have remarkably little user interaction with its content.

Who is Kalkis Research? How am I supposed to take them seriously?
Glad it's not just me. Approaching 30, I've been using twitter for 2-3 years, yet I still have no idea how to view the tweets that are relevant to me, or why, suddenly, twitter insists on pushing updates to my phone when people who _aren't_ relevant to me 'like' something.

I know there are 'lists' on twitter. I tried adding my friends to a 'friend' list so that I could actually see their tweets amongst the sea of noise. However, that seemed to accomplish absolutely nothing. The only time I see tweets relevant to me are when I happen to already be looking at twitter when they pop up. And since I only look at twitter when queueing in a line, I almost never see the things that would make twitter useful for me.

But hey, PracticalDeveloper retweeted _something_ today, Twitter told me that. So... there ya go.
Telemarketer accepts offer to send $30 in Bitcoin
Socks: On Translating 'Anna Karenina'
Reminds me about an interview I heard with a Israeli veteran from the 6-days war I think. He was speaking about how the Arab fire had suddenly stopped and when they finally dared to recon after initially suspecting an ambush they found everyone capable of running had run in panic without even caring about footwear.

According to him wounded Arab soldiers left behind told a story of seeing sightings in the sky that had caused the mass panic.

Of course this is to be taken with multiple grains of salt as this is an but maybe someone here can find more.
In my work I rarely find this sort of thing relevant. It's much more important to make sure you don't have object references lying around. I mostly do server stuff now. Maybe this kind of optimization is still important for devices?
Then treat it as an engineering problem. Or be content making less than you should.
Costco is primarily B2B. This allows it to have membership fees and to combine bulk purchase with retail.

Here's the page for "pork": http://www.costco.com/pork.html The least expensive item [in my browser] is ten pounds of bacon $6.50 per pound. A cash flow that allows allocating $19 to toilet paper is necessary to shop at Costco: http://www.costco.com/toilet-paper.html

The $100 shopping cart doesn't contain the diversity to cover fairly basic human needs, even ignoring the membership fee [I see $55 today].
> You say I'm worth $X. I go get a job offer for $Y. If $Y > $X, you were mistaken.

Not necessarily. The first employer says I'm worth $X to them. The fact that I may be worth more than $X to another employer is not a contradiction.

In general, there is nothing "wrong" with a particular employer and applicant being unable to agree on a mutually satisfying salary. It doesn't necessarily mean either party made a mistake in the salary negotiation.
> I accept that the computer controlling the VR might be conscious of something while it runs the AI software

But the AI software/algorithm is exactly what would produce the consciousness, if it were possible to do. So if it runs this algorithm individually for each NPC, then each NPC is conscious. And it clearly must run the algorithm individually because each NPC finds itself in different circumstances, and so must respond differently to its environment, even if they all share the same "personality".

> It doesn't use senses the same way you do.

I still don't see why that's relevant. Sensory inputs are still just inputs. The AI algorithm also has such inputs since each NPC must respond to its environment.
Ebay bidding theory is a convoluted mess once you start considering multiple concurrent auctions for similar items that may or may not be perfect substitutes for different bidders.
Silicon Valley on HBO often shows real UIs.

What's interesting is that one episode in Season 1 was using Jenkins (a continuous integration tool) and they took the logo and name but made a new UI that was simpler with a giant progress bar. My guess on the reason is that showing the full Jenkins UI wouldn't allow casual TV viewers to grok it quick enough.
What's stopping mass adoption? too expensive and 99% high end gaming.
I guess even the NYT is using BuzzFeed headlines nowadays. The question is:

> "What do you think the unemployment rate is for 25-to-34-year-olds who graduated from a four-year college? (Hint: for those with only a high school degree, it’s 7.4 percent.)"

The answer is 2.4%. Most people in their survey guessed higher.
> The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept.

A lot of people seem to enjoy it though, I don't think you can generalize this. Different features for different types of users.
As a general rule, I'd be very cautious before assuming that a columnist for The Economist doesn't understand what he is talking about. You may disagree with his conclusions, but that's a different matter.

What I believe he's talking about is the introduction of free market dynamics to schools and single-payer health care, two institutions that have been resolutely socialist (in the classical sense of the word) for a long, long time. His belief is that these "modernizations" are destroying the institutions.
"Why the UK Government Digital Service chooses not to build mobile apps"
That's a really good point, there's a market opportunity for a soundtrack generator that does a decent job of producing usable generic music for video productions.
What a dumb title.
Internet Speed Test App for Mac Menu Bar
It's interesting how it's always "women prefer higher-status men" and never "men prefer lower-status women".
Buy traffic from porn ads at say $0.05 (I am making these figures up) per 1000 impressions with the hope that perhaps 5% click through to your site (again, making up click-through rates).

On your page (i.e. the page where people go if they click your ads), you host advertising from others - that advertising might be pay-per-click or pay per 1000 (CPM).

The numbers:
So lets say you pay 5c for 1000 ads and you get 50 visits to your site, or to think of it another way $1 gets you 1000 visitors to your site.

That means that you either need to find a cost-per-1000 advertiser that is over $1 per 1000, or you need to find an advertiser that pays enough per-click on their ads to cover that $1 cost, e.g. if you get a 1% click-through rate on the ads on your site, that $1 to get 1000 visitors will also get you 10 ad clicks, so if you can find a pay-per-click advertiser that offers more than 10c per click, you're making money.
Twitter and Yahoo held merger talks
Sorry, this is faux outrage. Some real world perspective:

- Content promotion is different than display ads, at least in terms of how receptive the audience is to buying. There's lots of research around this (nobody trusts display ads).

- Most content promo widgets run way below the fold and are a last squeeze on the traffic before it leaves your site. The alternative to not running it is earning nothing, not swapping it out. Generally you've already flashed your own related content widget at the visitor.

- You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want. If you like looking at stupid cat pictures (or worse), someone will give you stupid cat pictures. We're not paid to provide moral or intellectual censorship...

- Old School Traffic Washing... so what? You take a bunch of junk traffic and filter it into real humans who are in a relaxed and receptive frame of mind. Often with some level of intelligence about what they are interested in, via the stuff they click on. That's actually a good ad audience.

Seriously, do Google display advertisers reduce their rates because the last search on Google was for "my filthy secret"? No, that space runs at the same rate.

What's next, you gonna ban advertising from stupid TV shows too? There's stuff on cable that's easily as bad as many click-bait sites, in terms of intellectual content.

As long as it's not a bot and the brand ad is running next to content appropriate for a brand ad, not seeing what the problem is here. If you don't like it, don't place it on your site or click on it.

[I'd be more outraged about pop-ups and toolbar widgets; that IS a UX interruption and often non-consensual...]
The Campaign as a Startup: A Conversation with Hillary Clinton's Digital Team
I guess it depends on your background and field of interest.

Maybe this helps: http://r4ds.had.co.nz
But note it's a blind recommendation, I didn't know about this particular book before.

I found a long list of books here: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/r-recommended-re...
Did you come out of the womb knowing how to program or is it something that you spent some time on, reading, practicing, working your way through uncomfortable situations?

Social competency is a skill just like any other and requires practice and learning.
It's definitely true to an extent that when the founders doesn't have any control or motivation, the outcome tend to be subpar. Also, the post highlights the obvious difference between PE and VC that PE mostly looks for min guarantee return and companies which are predictable to get them returns through either a sellout or IPO. What i wonder though is, why would founders in general go for this buyout(apart from the obvious reasons like money). Is there any reason companies are sold to PE investors in general?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11763888
Weird question. I don't know what you mean with "it".

As a user you can delete an open file, if you remove the file handle. A convenient way is the unlocker.exe tool.
Agreed. Terrible link-bait title, and the article is mediocre. Please change it to something like : "UK GDS bans apps in favor of responsive websites"
> Agreed that most of the catchy headlines are actually clickbaits, but there could be always some that are genuine.

Can you think of an example? Make one up, I don't mean scour the internet for one. I thought about what you said and I can't think of an instance where the crappy clickbait headlines we're used to seeing would actually be a well-descriptive headline for its content.

Like, I can't think of an instance where something like "I bought this camera, and you won't believe what happened!" [or other clickbait formats] is a reasonable descriptor for its content, where you just can't write title without titling it like that.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you?
To be clear, it's why the British Government banned mobile apps for government agencies. Good article though.

This actually goes back to Steve Job's original vision for the iPhone. He didn't intend there to ever be 3rd party apps for the phone, because he saw the internet as being the perfect platform for them.
Most discussions about salary negotiation are about postponing the money discussion until we know there's a fit. But what do you do when you-as-applicant need to be sure you're not wasting your time (or theirs)?

That is: I'm really senior in my field, with 25 years of experience, and for several years I've been commanding top dollar. (I'm worth it, too!) But often I start discussions with would-be employers (or clients), wherein the work sounds enjoyable, and they clearly are falling in love with me... and then a half hour later (or three days later) we come around to money ranges, only to discover their budget is half what I'd consider accepting.

I can end off with, "I hope you do really well, so that you can afford me sometime soon!" but I'm always saddened and frustrated by the process. Because by that point I'm imagining how cool it would be to do that job.

How do I signal to a client, "I'm expensive -- and worth it!" without saying, "Hey, can you afford me? Because otherwise let's not even talk."
I'd say your right about the author of the study (which I am not going to waste time reading) and his NHS/Uni examples - but wrong about the author of the editorial - because it's definitely an editorial, not a piece of reporting.
I wish Ebay would extend the auction for ten minutes every time there is a new bid, the current situation isn't good for sellers.
These days you have ALFS.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/

And the most recent Gobolinux release made use of a modified version of ALFS to bootstrap the kernel and console environment.

Apparently the real troubles came when trying to get a DE going...