skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find them in a few anthologies.

Those two were published originally in Different Seasons, which had three of its four novellas adapted into movies. (Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and Apt Pupil)
For the world of me, the C# folk keep parroting about how much "better" C# is than Java, and having worked _extensively_ in both, I can't seem to see it, especially with Java 8. Maybe if you said C# is "so much better than Java" in the days of Java 6 I would agree.

I also hear the "faster" argument, but have yet to see any meaningful benchmarks proving this. In fact I see more showing the opposite, but maybe I am not looking hard enough?
Generally, perhaps - not in our case. We pay what we (meaning, the staff, who decide their own pay) believe to be a good wage, and we have excellent work-life balance - we have a number of new parents who have commented that GrantTree has been a very supportive culture for them in the first 6-12 months (which are pretty hard apparently). And we have remote work, flexible working hours, etc.
Openbook: an open lilypond real book for Jazz musicians
They are buying pop ups so the user doesn't need to click anything. The ads on the publisher's side are sold on a CPM basis so they don't need to click there either. The math just isn't going to work if you need to buy clicks on one side and sell them on the other.

The big magic was basically video ads on the ad exchange. The advertisers paid more and had no actionable metrics to track, much less tracking clicks. There is some smart pricing, so the CPMs do get driven down, but not to 0.

The hard part to this is what happens when you don't get paid or worse you get a bill going back months for money already paid out.
Sorry if I sound like a bit like an asshole, but there is a bit more to languages than how they do Hello World.
> 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.

Yes, my brain has a weak spot for cat pictures, but I don't want to have it challenged all the time.
Advertising is not about showing you the most relevant advertisement, it's about showing you the most profitable one. Unfortunately, the most profitable one is usually a fake download button to malware, or a site selling an e-book to lose 10 lbs in 10 days. Yes, you would be much happier seeing an ad for a cool new pub down the street that just opened, and you're more likely to click the ad as well, but they don't have the budget to compete for your clicks or impressions.

I think a major change needs to happen. Advertising is falling to rock bottom, ad blockers are on the rise, and I think we're going to see more and more online apps and content sites going out of business.

Users need to start paying for the sites they visit. Why do people pay $2 for a simple mobile app they only use 2 or 3 times, but they refuse to pay a news site they read daily, that has a staff of writers and high quality content? I wonder if we'll see the majority of the internet behind a pay wall one day, where every site gives you a small preview of content or limited features, and you pay for full access.
>> ((strcmp(a, b) == 0) != false)

>I have never seen that. And would never advocate for that, why are we doing it that way again?

I think a more reasonable example would be (with some reasonably namespaced define, blah blah blah):

strcmp(a, b) == CMP_EQUAL;
Lend to 3rd world plutocrats, then hold their countries responsible for the debt when they run off with the money.
It really boils down to trust, honestly. What VPN you wind up going with greatly depends on the ethics, availability, and reliability of the provider, among other things. Sure, you can always run your own, but that is still ultimately going over someone else's network at some point during transit, plus you still have to be able to trust their ethics and consider any potential disallowed content. From a reliability/availability standpoint you'd be better off getting a VPN service, just have to do some thorough research and/or peruse the great list maintained on thatoneprivacysite.net

Edit: words.
If you go through his blog you'll find that he was a very shy engineer himself who couldn't look people into the eye. I guess we should all understand that there are only very few things / skills that can't be learned.
One of his essays has a counterpoint to this.

It's an incident that takes place early in his career. He's pretty proud of his newfound success as a writer. While talking over his finances with his accountant, it turns out that after taxes, expenses, and his agent's cut that he made about as much as he would as a plumber.
Wait, it was his wife who 'changed his life' (by rescuing some pages from a bin). But if they said 'wife' it would be too boring I suppose, so they went with 'misfit high school girl'.
I'd wager that python's ease of expression is enough to beat C/C++'s strict static types as far as reducing bugs. I'm all about strict static types, but C++'s incarnation of them is surprisingly un-helpful. Several other languages(swift, haskell, etc) actually deliver on at least most of the promise of static typing, with nearly the ease of use of python, and nearly the runtime performance of C. Maybe the newest flavors of C++ are better, but the C++ I coded in 7ish years ago was a morass of boilerplate and foot shooting.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm excited to try this out because I use the YouTube iOS app with Chromecast exclusively because of how easy it is to create ad-hoc playlists and queue up items while you're watching.
Oddly, I, too, remember watching it in the US as Project Blue Book, contrary to Wikipedia's description.
At some point it isn't really an advert but actual content. A lot of people enjoy shopping online and use instagram etc. to find products. There are lots of sites that push a particular view of amazon products to make finding things easier. In comparison it seems impractical to use an algorithm to guess at what someonce may want to buy.
Why are developers NOT paid proportional to output? A 5x developer should get paid more than a 2x dev but that doesn't seem to happen
Pop stars are already engineered. You have guys like stargate, dr. luke, etc.
If you banked your cells today at the age of 30, how much therapy can be hypothetically produced from that in the future?

Is it a store that depletes as you use it? Or can banked stem cells be replicated to create more reserves?
If you have many erlang actors waiting on IO, does the runtime automatically epoll all those file descriptors?

Most things in Haskell work this way. If you wanted to get epoll behaviour without actually calling epoll yourself, you could spawn a ton of processes to wait on different sockets or whatever and then just have them write into an STM container when they receive anything. The thread receiving from x million different clients or whatever just keeps reading from the STM container.

Of course, at large scale you would probably just use epoll directly and save on the few hundred bytes per thread overhead.
I am glad the author cites Red Plenty. That is a really excellent book that I think a lot of HN readers would like. It really takes you into frame of mind since lost, with poignance and good characters.

It is important to note we live in an age of diminished expectations not just for what capitalism can do but for what government can do, too. Thus, I'm not sure if the fact neoliberalism is disappointing actually means we need a new system.

Do we need bigger government, than the current trend, in the US? The government is projected to grow quite a lot as is. We spend more and more money on education and health care every year, with disappointing results. Look at the Medicaid experiment in Oregon: Finkelstein et al (2015) find very little positive health impacts. Obamacare has cut the number of uninsured, but I would guess its impact on actual health will turn out to be very mild. Access to health care and spending on health care are not very much correlated with health outcomes, as the more costly health care is based on deliberate obfuscation or sloppy statistics or promises meager gains (e.g., slightly shrinking a tumor) in the first place. Neither charter schools, on average, nor public school reforms seem to have helped close the opportunity gap much. The Iraq/Afghanistan wars cost like $2 trillion. Many of the largest public pension plans around the US do not have enough assets to make ends meet, even counting on delusional 7 percent returns! Prisons exploded, and nobody seems happy with that. That land-use regulation has become baroque and suffocating shakedown is something I don't think I need to convince anyone in the Bay of. The best cars are made in non-union shops (e.g., tesla and all the new southern factories).

It is interesting that things generally are moving slowly on all fronts, but I don't think that's necessarily a reason to change course. If you are stuck in a slow left lane of traffic, it doesn't necessarily mean you should get in the right lane.
The author of the editorial is from the guardian, not the Economist.

The individual using the NHS/Schools as examples was the IMF author, not the editorial writer.

I never said either didn't understand economics. I said he didn't understand some of the words he was using. I was referring to the use of "neoliberalism" & "laissez faire"
That's true, but it's not supposed to add up to 1. Likelihood represents the probability you assigned to the actual outcome. So the probability of every possible outcome needs to sum to 1. But because each question increases the number of possible outcomes exponentially, the probability you mass you assign to any specific outcome must become very very small. And it also becomes uninterpretable, because it is such a small number.

You can recover the likelihood from the geometric mean of likelihood, by exponentiating it to the power of the number of questions. So if you were predicting 10 coin flips, and the geometric mean was 0.5, you can find the original likelihood by taking 0.5^10. Then if you do that for every possible outcome, the probability will sum to 1.
That's standard issue in the book and movie contract experience, especially for new entrants.

The tech industry is really remarkable for not being abusive to founders and developers. If you think VC terms can be bad, look at what musicians and writers get dealt. Even onerous VC liquidation preferences and ratchet terms or down round dilution is nothing compared to what gets done to your favorite band.

I think it's because techies, while not necessarily MBAs, tend to read the fine print and not be quite as ignorant of business as your average artist. It's also because it's a new growing industry, while art/music/writing is a stagnant old one.
Not sure when you tried it - but my attempt ~4mo ago starting from debian stable worked as per the instructions - and there are at least 3 mirror sites that keep all the required packages listed ...

See the bottom section of the page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp
What does lending government money to other governments have to do with the free market?
Sometimes the most obvious reasons are obvious because they're the reasons. PE companies are quite happy to buy founders out and let them sit back or earn out. As another user has pointed out, that's essentially an exit. It's much more attractive to many founders than the VC offering them at best a 50/50 chance of cashing out in future once liquidation preferences are factored in and demanding much more performance, probably over a longer period, to get to that stage.

Also, there are plenty of companies which are attractive to PE companies (profitable, steady growth which could be a bit faster) but not attractive to VCs (market is pretty well defined and never going to be huge) so the PE investors are the only ones approaching them.
why be compassionate for someone that show's no compassion for others. Not saying I wish them ill but it goes both ways.

-miss read the original article.
That is so interesting. I wonder if there is a way you could model that over time / give a rating. You could have a large list or controversial words (prob better would be doing NLP phrases) and look at all content of a site has over time, and get a count of how much "controversial content" it contains.

To get the list of what is controversial you could look at the content guidelines from top sites around the world and compile a list.
> Why are developers NOT paid proportional to output?

Because measuring business value of output of individual developers on a team is not easily done, and other output measures (e.g., SLOC) tend to be things that, if tied to pay, would create obvious adverse incentives.
I didn't see anything particularly trollish. Annoying perhaps, but nothing deliberately disruptive.

Life is not a walled garden, you have to learn to deal with annoying people.
You can argue all you want "how they're destroying the web, but the fact is they can purchase cheap traffic and remonetize it for gain. That's the definition of arbitrage"

People don't have a problem with arbitrage. It's just the annoying ads when you're surfing the net.
Find a mentor - I've been through a similar situation years ago (happy to help if interested). As others have said, make sure to get a comp/title change in response to you taking on additional responsibility. What I think you'll find as you grow in your career, is that what you say no to (and your ability to focus) will become much more important than your ability to take on more and more tasks. We're all human and will have breaking points, so maintaining the ability to focus is crucial.

Don't let your lack of degree or business training discourage you. A lot of leaders at start-ups today have similar backgrounds, and are learning on the fly. One area I found difficulty assessing was identify which stress was me growing into a role versus which stress was self-imposed. I worked with an executive coach to help learn the difference and make some small tweaks to my behavior.

Hang in there, say no more often, and reach out to others who have gone through a similar transition for help.
When you get a PC and there is “FREE” preinstalled software on it
Nazi architecture, then and now – in pictures
Book Review: Age of Em by Robin Hanson
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? [pdf]
I agree, this title sucks. How about: "How Steven King's wife's unwavering support saved Carrie from the trash can"

Or really anything other than this title.
We have to actually have laissez faire economics before we can replace it with something.
I agree that the title is misleading or at least unclear but I believe the misfit they are referring to is not Tabby but Carrie.
I'm confused too. Maybe they're referring to the fictional character the book is about?
I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?
And removing the government would give the rich 100% control. So what would be a solution?
Leaked Documents Reveal ClassPass’s Plan for World Domination
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https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#link-t...
​​​​​​​Why Some People Find Crowded Cities Relaxing–And Others Don’t
OwnCloud closes US office, blames Nextcloud
Functionally, it doesn't make a difference if the patents are expired if licensing fees are still being extracted. And they are.

It's still way too expensive for the little-company or little-man to go to court over it, even if it's obviously false.
C++17 is taking shape
as outlandish as this sounds, I could see it totally working
But the bodies had no external injuries to match the internal ones.
This is true. The problem is stupid buyers. Many people here would be shocked at the lack of sophistication (or 'sophisticated buying theater') some marketers use to deploy 8 figure annual marketing budgets. It's getting better slowly and as it does we'll see less of this kind of crap.

To their credit, many of the DSPs (at least AppNexus) are trying to clean up their own systems as well and automatically block this type of traffic from being purchased. The trend in ad-tech right now around viewability and viewable eCPM metrics is also a step in the right direction.
Measuring Marketing Impact: Key Performance Indicators
I'm not agreeing with the strategy, it just seemed like the OP had a problem with what the IMF does. For the IMF to stop, it would have to dissolve.
Definitely found this too. Josh Doody sounded crystal clear though.
Does no one use Diigo? My favorite part about it is how easy it makes it to add tags when you bookmark a page. You can easily call up things you've saved many years ago with a simple tag search. It's kind of like a better Delicious, back when Delicious was actually good. But I imagine it's also like a free version of Pinboard.

Plus it doesn't have that ridiculously large "modern" UI style that takes up so much space. Just a simple, no-frills interface with superb tagging and search.
> However an intrinsic part of the music (to me, anyways) as an art form, is the humanity of it.

I agree with the sentiment. But from a perceptual perspective, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish what is synthetic and what is organic. The trumpets, strings, and keys you hear on a song you like on the radio? It's very probable that they weren't played by humans: they might have been programmed and the sounds come from a massive, hyper sampled sound bank.

If we did an experiment, and recruited even expert musicians, and we asked them to classify sound clips in 'played/programmed' categories, I bet they wouldn't get them right.

David Cope's experiments showed that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/11/david-cop...
2Wk Sleep Experiment: Everything I Learned from Getting Eight Hours a Night
You're blaming government regulations! That's absurd given many people at this point have said that the deregulation of the 90's on the financial sector is what lead to much of our housing financial crisis, not to mention the widening pay gap.

Your comment might actually be a good representation of how Neoliberal ideas of deregulation will continue to flourish despite them hampering to middle and lower classes. People will just say it's different sorts of regulations causing the problem, going even further down that path...

EDIT:

What's scary to consider is the era of strong wage increases and financial regulation from the 50's to 80's only started by a cataclysmic event, the Great Depression. Given how many large corporations and well off people benefit from the current system it's hard to imagine how we will see real increase in financial regulation similar to the Glass–Steagall Legislation until something of similar magnitude happens.

Given climate change is only going to get worse, I guess a pretty big catastrophe coming our way and causing similar change soon-ish isn't that far fetched.
Markets don't exist without States. You cannot have a market without a State, and therefore you cannot have a "free market". They don't exists. The idea that there is or can be a free market is one of the great myths of our civilization (along with the idea that humans started out with barter based economies. We didn't. The earliest economies in human history were based around credit).

I highly recommend the book Debt: The First 5000 Years. It's pretty life changing.
Yea well, that's like, your opinion, man.
LetsEncrypt middleware for Express
Actually stripping debug information (or compiling without -g) makes it very difficult to troubleshoot a problem in production, where the binary might be deployed at a customer's site, and where the source code might not be available (firewall, no network connection, ...) The additional information is encoded into the ELF header, but ignored by the runtime linker, so it does not hurt the performance of the program.

The space savings come nowhere close to the benefit of having the additional information available when debugging.

Some operating systems, for example SmartOS, and any other OS based off of the illumos's source code, even inject the entire source code into the ELF binary and library in a special compact format during the build with the ctfconvert(1ONBLD) / ctfmerge(1ONBLD) tools[1][2].

If you are ever considering stripping the binary just to save some disk space but do not have a good reason for it (like building for a space-constrained appliance), please abstain from doing so; every developer and engineer trying to debug your program will be thankful to you if you do not remove the debugging information.

[1] http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/mdb-ctf-dwarf-and-other-an...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2013/11/14/userland-ctf-in-dtrace...
If the assumption is that employers tend to quote a higher initial number than prospective employees, then the anchoring effect supports the claim that the first person to quote a number loses.
Tremor, the fixed-point decoder of Ogg Vorbis, came out in 2002. According to the Rockbox performance data, it requires about the same clock speed as AAC-LC. iPods and similar generally don't have fixed-function audio decoders. http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison
A Lot of Weird Stuff Has Been Happening in the Oceans
To be fair, without knowing what that API does, I could see a situation where it itself doesn't know how long the data would be.

This was to get a message out of the API. At the point one is making the call, it does know how long the message is. (Having already gotten a callback.) It looks like the author forgot to write the function that would return the length, then improvised.

Furthermore, the API probably doesn't want to allocate and buffer the data itself since it could be very long, nor does it want to impose a fixed limit since the application should decide that.

This was probably the case.
Because a lot of the story's details were suppressed initially...
If they do that they should also allow the seller to accept bids and end the auction.
This exactly. I'm senior in my field (and pretty damn good), and many times recruiters will contact me about a position that sounds like a great opportunity - for example, I was recently contacted by a large financial services company who wanted to hire a senior manager to lead a cloud services team. When I told them my salary expectation, they said their range topped out at half that.

First, I was a bit shocked to hear that Fortune 500 companies with $USD revenue in the billions would hire senior managers and want to pay them what would be considered an entry level salary for a good programmer right out of university, but honestly, I've defaulted to just telling them my salary because I want to avoid all the time wasting that multiple interviews would require, just to get to the point where they really like me, and would I please consider their great position where I'd have more responsibilities, longer hours, at half the salary...
You're right. There should be a another terms for it though because 200k is 200k if you put it in yourself or took it from a VC. The last company I started we had €20 starting capital which we spent on a domain name and a server. Clearly there is a huge difference between those 2 cases as we had to be profitable from day 1.
> why be compassionate for someone that show's no compassion for others

Because compassion is not a transaction. If you give someone compassion only when you get it in return, you're basically asking them to pay you for it, and it's not genuine.

Wanting everything to "go both ways" is a recipe for having a lot of negative interactions.
This was true with my employer. The first PE transaction was the owners/founders cashing out. The company was about 40 years old at the time (and the founders, while on the board, were no longer part of the executive team), so not quite the same as a start-up doing a PE deal.
Figure out which works better for you: Immersion or Paired-Word Association. Then hammer home whichever you need to, and ignore the other as much as possible.