skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen Clicksor recommended in advertising circles as a source of cheap traffic. However that doesn't rule out good earnings for high quality publishers. No experience with them myself, but contextual ad networks have been among the highest converting traffic sources for me in the past. I'd say it's worth a shot.

Just curious, why don't you like AdSense? I've heard that it's pretty hard to beat on the publisher side.
I get them all the time on my Google Voice line, although that number originated on Cingular and was ported twice before landing on Google. I get about two a day from people mostly asking me to change my home electricity provider and political surveys. I actually shut off incoming voice calls on my main phone number through google voice, because it's at least 75% junk and the 25% I care about will leave a voicemail and I can call them back.
> Arbitrary thing you are told to believe in.

More than that for some, but a part of a court case that has implications in the law.

> Not telling people you were gay was a "pretty good guide to life" 20 years ago.

No clue where that came from, but I guess if you don't believe in oaths, it might work for you.

> You are right, but that doesn't mean you should disrespect people who break societies rules just for that.

> If you believe in the 'oath' it's different, but I feel like you should say that.

When you are "under oath" and lie, even if you think it is a joke, there are laws and penalties. It is an event in court room procedure. Even if you personally don't believe in oaths, the law and court procedure don't care.
That's not what Worse Is Better means. Did you read the Gabriel paper?

/nitpick
Difference between US and Europe, maybe? In Europe so far I haven't seen the case where lunch time doesn't count into work time (assuming you get lunch time at all - many employers in low-skill fields use every dirty trick in the book to extract work out of people).
Assuming that you have only filed for a provisoional, the problem is that you have nothing that is of value.

The most valuable IP is a patent which has been successfully defended. Less valuable is an issued patent that has been licensed. Less valuable than that is an issued patent. Less valuable than that is a patent application. The quality of the patent is also major factor of the patent's value. Having a realized implementation is also a major factor in the patent's value.

A provisional patent (N.B., this is not an issued patent nor a patent pending) establishes a priority date, but there's a very long and treacherous road ahead. It's not fait accompli that your patent will be issued, nor that your preferred claims will survive prosecution.
Upvoted for truth. A small minority, such as myself, care about user privacy. The vast majority are willing to sell themselves into bondage for the chance to use the newest, shiniest technology.

This is why, now that I'm the BOFH, I force my politics on my users.

My company bans microsoft products connected to (W)LAN, and intentionally breaks our intranet sites on anything but Gecko or (Gtk/Qt)Webkit browsers. Chrome redirects to a blank web page with the word "no" on it, as does any browser identifying with a Microsoft OS on it. All outbound traffic is routed through a Tor proxy by default.

If they're too complacent to switch, I can stop their herpes from spreading to networks I control. The effect has been wider adoption of Firefox, and the occasional question about why Google is in Dutch.
It's not simply because he doesn't agree with you, it's because of his long and vile track record of racism, bigotry, misogyny, and attacking people by twisting facts and outright lying, and of course trying to make a career out of destroying Richard Stallman and his work.

I've known him for decades, since the 80's, and while it's true he totally went off the deep end after 9/11, he has always been a vile awful person.

And remember: Eich wasn't "removed", he CHOSE to resign of his own free will -- Mozilla even begged him to stay and offered him a well paid important position! But ESR's revisionist history never mentions that.
I'm curious what age range you are - When I got into the coding field in the early 90s, almost EVERYONE came from non-tech education fields. I've had a sysadmin with a masters in chinese philosophy. I've had coworkers with degrees in fashion, linguistics, and of course, a few people that hadn't finished college at all. I myself did a "make your own major" that combined Comp Sci & Philosophy. My degree has never mattered (though some places did care that I _had_ a degree of some sort). And I can think of only two classes I had that ever directly contributed to coding.

For the curious, one was an algorithms class, and the other was "Group Software Design", where we had lectures about the Waterfall method "which all serious companies use" (it was the early 90s) and had a team that was supposed to code a final project according to the methods taught: so, weeks of requirements and documentation, then a quick spurt of work to actually code it. What really happened was weeks of debating what language/libraries to use, then with 2 weeks left one of us actually stubbed out the code, so his language choice won, then we pulled all-nighters for those 2 weeks to code it. The guy that skipped the coding sessions was told to document it after the fact. It was a highly educational experience that was directly applicable to real coding work :)

I've noticed that coders more often have CS or SE degrees now at work, and that the education is given more attention, though I don't particularly value it - a degree simply assures me that you've done X hours of coding, not that you learned anything nor that what you learned is applicable. Show me anything you've coded on your own time and it's immediately more telling. (and I've interviewed too many college grads that have never coded anything that wasn't for a school assignment)
Every time I read this I hear it read in the voice of the villain from the movie Hackers. Which I have to admit was totally a guilty pleasure of my teenage years.
As for me, it often comes down to a question of who needs who. If a client provides more value than you could possibly anticipate in the foreseeable future and as long as it isn't too depleting(and only you can determine this and only for a limited period), then you should oblige. It's easy to say, say no, but when times are tough you should trust yourself when coming to a conclusion on such an issue since there aren't any unbendable rules after all.
Quicktime, what gives?
> If Linux tools used Microsoft utility names, someone would've been sued.

In a universe where Wine exists, you think someone would be sued if they released an app with a default alias mapping dir to ls?
Facebook’s AI Research lab releases open source fastText on GitHub
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https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/309990/why_does_spa...
Saving money to be able to survive when you can't work anymore is unethical?
IMO: With so many nonsensical things being in the article, it still seems like we already have AI -- making organisms that grow into brains (humans). And this so called AI still seems like ever more complex machinery. If the computers are learning, I doubt its from a vacuum, its from things (language, etc.), created by humans. I guess my point here is that AI suggests that the computers are "alive" conscious "entities". I don't see it.
Same here, based on my own experience it might have something to do with how I give my "real" number when I sign up for "real" services and give out gVoice number to strangers, who are less likely to sell my numbers?
Yes, you might have to do without some things.

This is why some of us were making a lot of noise about this problem 20+ years ago, when sending the message that "leasing"/DRM isn't acceptable didn't require a significant sacrifice. Unfortunately everyone - including engineers that should have known better - was more interested in the media industry's shiny baubles than investing their future property rights.

So now that same fight will probably require some amount of sacrifice. Are you willing to pay that cost now? Or do you want to wait while this transfer of rights to continues? This cost will only increase the more we allow DRM to spread.
I don't see any reason why the same principle shouldn't apply. For a senior manager I'd probably give them a series of (as realistic as possible) scenarios and ask them to make a series of decisions and then judge them on that basis.

If the role of senior management is actually more about bullshitting then by all means just make the interview all about having a chat.
I was expecting an announcement for a new Cloudflare CDN location in Cuba.

What I found instead was extremely interesting and funny.

I won't spoil it, so go read the article :)
> Just because those tools exist doesn't
> mean people use them.

But, oh, they do! At least there in most of the jobs you will deal either with Symfony or with Laravel.

> here were decent libraries and high quality code back in
> 2008 (and 2000) but people didn't necessarily use them.

Please, name a couple from each year. PHP started to mature since PHP 5 and that was released in 2004. While you could have working and tolerable code before that the language was lacking features for high quality code. Maybe if you reframe that as "high quality given the limitations" I'd accept that. But I am seriously curious what would you consider high quality PHP libs from 2000.
14 of the Dumbest Superstitions from the Philippines
Not enough sunlight.
I guess I have never had a job that counts lunch as an hour, or heard of such a job! My wife, friends, etc. all seem to do a 8-5 with breaks and a lunch hour. I guess I've technically been working 45 hours all my life if that's the case.
JPEG decoder in 250 lines of simple python
A "broken political system", please. Like Syria? Most of the Arab Spring? Even Brexit? There are people literally laying down their lives to get an opportunity to participate in such a "broken" system as ours in the US. If you don't like the system, work to change it. In the US at least you won't go to jail for doing that. Good grief!
actually the screenshot you linked shows that he didn't say blacks have lower IQ than whites. He said haiti has an average IQ or 70, and its not because they are black.
That's a special case because C# and Java are so similar. Amend my advice to include actual code in a reasonably similar language to that used in the job.
The FTC ran a contest at Defcon last year to fight robocalls:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/contests/robocalls-humanity-...
When someone abuses the legal process to copyright something, and then aggressively protects those bogus rights, they need something that dissuades them from doing it again.
> This discussion is about PowerShell, which is primarily intended to automate server management

Many (me included) find PowerShell extremely useful for automating any sort of Windows management, client or server. So I disagree that the discussion should be implicitly assumed to be limited to Windows servers.
NASA just made all the scientific research it funds available for free
Stable in the 70s? I keep hearing this but I don't buy it. Rolling off of Vietnam. The oil crisis. Inflation. Decimation of manufacturing.

I wasn't around then but we're they actually good?
Bill Gates: A Teacher Who Changed My Life
I hate to blame the client, and I think it is a valid problem but maybe the Malware is also an important part of the content.

That email can give your windows machine Malware is not Wikileaks fault tbh.
Fun fact -- I originally wrote "80 hour weeks" in my post and thought, "Nah, that's too much," and bumped it down to 70. Looks like I was way off, haha.
DRM is acceptable to me as long as it is removable. I'll let them think that they are getting one over on me when they are not.
If you can't see that comparing welts on your butt for a week vs. lopping off a hand is hyperbolic, then I doubt that you're coming into this in good faith.

Harsh punishments do work, when you apply them consistently and early on. While you may think that being caned is harsh, most people I've talked to would prefer to be caned over a month in prison.

Singapore's use of the death penalty is a fairly good example. Kidnapping is a capitol offense -- consequently you see young kids walking around the Singapore alone and taking buses on their own.
I think this comment is important in understanding why so much open source software doesn't have backwards compatibility

> If removing these aliases (retroactively, if you want to clean up your act you have to remove this from all versions in which this was ever released) breaks things for some people, then you can go and send people out to help them fix their issues. You knew it was a hostile action, you broke things, you fix them.

retroactively remove things from old versions? This is crazy
> When I knew him during the 80's, he would go on and on ad nauseum about his beloved "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle NetNews Reader" and how so much better than every other netnews reader. But he never collaborated with anyone, and he never released it under any license. Much more Bizarre than Cathedral.

The world is full of such things, and was much more so back in the 90s and early 2000s. People brag about how great their tool is, but refuse to share it. I've never been sure if they're exaggerating the features, or if they're insecure about criticism on their magnum opus, or if they just have such a weird and idiosyncratic evolved setup that they cannot effectively package the software for others to use.

Edit: I mean, it's not like ESR had qualms about releasing fetchmail, which has always been a buggy pain in the ass and far less impressive than he makes it sound.
More often than not, when I have inherited a project built on a common PHP framework the documentation and community knowledge available is limited because the framework used is, most commonly, not the latest version. So you are basically wading through the tall grass of online resources trying to ascertain what knowledge applies to what version, which for some frameworks can differ tremendously between major releases.

Many developers love a particular framework and they use it as often as possible and it works well for them, one reason being that over time they become familiar and accustomed to it's strengths, patterns, flaws and idiosyncrasies. But I personally find no pleasure in having to familiarize myself with a crusty old framework that I will never touch again in my career versus well-organized vanilla PHP.
There are a couple of reasons. First, there are sane rental markets in other places without prop 13 or anything like it. This makes clear that prop 13 is neither necessary nor sufficient for a sane rental market. This raises the question of whether prop 13 is really needed at all.

Second, prop 13 has contributed to the current insanity by created a privileged group that acts to protect their privilege. They protect their privilege by becoming ferocious NIMBYs and other means. This means that housing for people not currently covered by prop 13 is more expensive than it needs to be.

Changing prop 13 is not sufficient to fix an insane rental market, but we really should consider a potential re-examination of a policy that has helped push a great many people out of their homes. Pushing people out of their homes is not cool. We should consider maybe doing less of it.
It's not out of the question that we'll have a PoP in Cuba.
>Just curious, why don't you like AdSense? I've heard that it's pretty hard to beat on the publisher side.

I do like Adsense, but not all my websites can be monetized with Adsense, the main reason is that they focus on content website.

For example, I have an API explorer app, with no other content then APIs listing, and it was refused by Adsense.
Indeed, and what better way to improve society by requiring lawyers get paid.
China, Japan, CERN: Who Will Host the Next Large Hadron Collider?
Maybe with a less stress, fewer hours culture they would have even more success in the long run. But how can we know that? I think we need leaders willing to take this kind of risk at their companies. Because the outcomes could really change the world.
>There are companies where this won't fly, of course, where management is so bad or norms are so out of whack that even a 40-hour work week by a productive team member won't be acceptable. In those cases you need to look for a new job, and as part of the interview figure out the work culture and project management practices of prospective employers. Do people work short hours or long hours? Is everything always on fire or do projects get delivered on time?

I have never figured out how to ask this. It always feels like I'm asking, "I don't like to work much, is that ok with you?"
The most (professionally) successful persons I know worked very hard at least at some point in their life. For instance, I know tons of professors that pretty much work all the time. Same thing with former schoolmates working in finance now.

I'm not saying it's the road to follow, and obviously, not all careers are comparable, but I think that in order to reach their full potential, people have to (and can) work a lot.
Ugh, I haven't played Black Flag in awhile so thankfully no. I do have fond memories/battlescars.
I feel like "GMO" would have made all the difference
Here is the new research portal: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/funder/nasa/
Part of "working to change it" is by publishing articles that point out that it's broken. Good grief!
don't forget https://www.ottoradio.com/
How should I store data that I want to be able to use in 50 years?
For another view on how the Prisoner's Dilemma should affect your worldview beyond academia, see this recent article by Tim Gowers on the Brexit: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/
It depends on who you ask. The narrative here is of precarious terror. Other people will have a different story.

Seattle attracts a lot of people, and they often have sticker shock because they didn't do enough research. And, a lot of people feel entitled to live in the hippest neighborhoods very cheap.

That said. The writer needs to contextualize this. In 2001, the year I went to college, the Twin Towers fell and a plane crashed into the Pentagon: being someone who had read some history, I was sure that day that, attackers being intelligent, a wave of guerilla attacks would go off against major military and civilian targets. Surprisingly, that didn't happen.

In 1983, deep fear of the USSR was playing out.

In 1974, the US was in Vietnam. Many people were dying constantly, and it was on the TV nightly.

In 1968, campuses rioted. Bewilderment set in over the nation.

In 1961, the Soviets/East Germans put up the Berlin Wall.

In 1948, the Cold War started.

In 1939, WW2 started.

In 1932, FDR became president, in a profound economic situation far worse than what we've seen since.

I could go on. The future is scary. But since it happens regardless of our personal choices, our best bet is to keep a stiff upper lip, our chin up, and wade into the stream, keeping a weather eye out to maximize our luck surface.
Hahaha thanks everyone there's lots here for me to consider. The peer model is probably better suited to ephemeral stuff like gaming than to document collaboration.

What I'm wondering now is, where is sandstorm going to run? If it's on AWS like everything else, I guess I misunderstood the point...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.en....
Who's winning the messenger app wars? A review of popular chatbot platforms
> Yeah, but streams of text are standard: every programming language can handle text streams.

What makes you think PowerShell can't handle streams of text? You'll get an array of System.String objects, one for each line, to do with as you please.

> PowerShell objects are PowerShell specific.

PowerShell objects are .NET objects living in the .NET runtime, and can be passed to any other .NET code. Yes, some object types live in the PowerShell namespace, because they expose PowerShell-specific functionality. But, for instance, `ls` returns System.IO.DirectoryInfo and System.IO.FileInfo objects, which is exactly what you would use in C# or VB.NET or managed C++ or F# to represent the same information.
.. if this is you not getting started, I'm kind of frightened for when it does happen ;)
To me, there are so many technical details absent from the web page that at the important level of abstraction I have no idea what malleablebyte does.

By which I mean the site does not provide a basis for making a technical decision. It seems targeted at 'my manager' and when 'my manager' comes to me after watching the video and directs me to investigate, there's no relevant information. I can't even tell if it's software I install, a service I subscribe to, what data I need to provide, or how I need to provide it.

There's no information upon which to base a business decision.

Good luck.
That is just the tip of the iceberg, one of his MANY racist posts from his blog. I won't link to it, but go read the whole thing, including the comments sections, if you really want to know what he and his followers are really like.

His favorite technique is to play this game of Libertarian Chicken, where he says something that's totally racist on its face, just to bait people, and then attempts to argue that he's actually operating at a higher level and much more clever than everyone else, and is really right, but just misunderstood, because everyone else is an idiot.

Russ Nelson made a ham-fisted attempt to emulate Raymond's standard technique in his "Blacks are Lazy" posting, but it cost him his job as President of the Open Source Initiative.

But ESR threw down the gauntlet and made a full throated public defense of Russ's "Blacks are Lazy" premise, by attacking the people who wanted him removed as "fools" and "thugs" (dog whistle for the n-word).

Raymond actually wanted OSI to get into a public knock-down drag-out fight with the "social justice warriors" who wanted Nelson to resign, at whatever cost in cash, credibility, alienating minorities, and endangering the mission of the OSI. Not exactly a shining example of leadership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Russ_Nelson#Blacks_are_la...

Note that although Russell withdrew the article, and admitted it was badly written, Eric S. Raymond is on the record as having defended it by accusing people asking Russell to step down as being "fools and thugs". Note that "thug" has been called a "dog whistle" term for "n*gger".

https://web.archive.org/web/20140126142113/http://aattp.org/...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/New-OSI-Presi...

Eric S. Raymond wrote: “The people who knew Russ as a Quaker, a pacifist and a gentleman, and no racist, but nevertheless pressured OSI to do the responsible thing and fire him in order to avoid political damage should be equally ashamed,” Raymond said. “Abetting somebody elses witch hunt is no less disgusting than starting your own.”
“Personally, I wanted to fight this on principle,” Raymond said. “Russ resigned the presidency rather than get OSI into that fight, and the board quite properly respected his wishes in the matter. That sacrifice makes me angrier at the fools and thugs who pulled him down.”
> One programmer I know made clear when she started a job at a startup that she worked 40-45 hours a week and that's it. Everyone else worked much longer hours, but that was her personal limit. Personally I have negotiated a 35-hour work week.

Wow, what a depressing time to be employed. The old standard (35 hours) is now considered a "short" workweek, and only the most desirable employees have the leverage to request it. Not to mention stagnant wages, rapidly rising costs of living, and off-hour availability expectations.

How did we end up here?
Or maybe stop reading news like that and enjoy life in one of the safest times and countries with life expectancies at an all-time high in the entire human history. Take a step back and look at things on a larger scale. Don't nurture your neuroticism and anxiety.