skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ad blockers is started an arms race where the ads now come in the form of sponsored content so you have no idea what's an ad and what isn't.

"Ad blockers" did not start an "arms race". There has always been people who would rather not have ads intruding on their daily life, including before "ad blockers" came into existence -- content blockers are merely the expression of this.

"Native advertising" and "product placement" were a thing before personal computer, internet and content blockers existed. The end game of an ad is to be seen, and for advertisers there is nothing off-limit to reach that goal, content blockers or not.

Funding through advertisements as business model is not a law of the universe which people must accept with a fatalist mindset.
all I know is he started from scratch(no money passed from family). He started investing after college, after losing money to stocks for 1 or 2 years, he got into low cost index funds. Right now he is 37 and got about 1.5 mil in his account (mostly 401k and individual after tax). He started entry level position in a fortune 500 company (chemical) after college and have not changed job.
I've been in biomedical research for 15 years, and I am leaving the lab atm. Many of my peers are as well. It's not a viable or enjoyable career anymore. Funding is extremely political, and proposal reviews border on arbitrary. Typically, the funding has been decided by seniority and politics, and the review is justification.

I imagine that it will get better eventually, but I can't wait for that to come to pass, and I can't in good conscience advise others to do so.
Perhaps they already do speak from experience.

As a parent, I'm not sure if there's ever a "ready" point, but I definitely feel like my life (and my kids') would have been tangibly more difficult had I decided to have them a decade earlier. Parenting is hard.
A "coin tent", is that something you get when you have too many coins in your pocket? :)
TL-DR: Vine is discontinuing the mobile app.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
I'd like to get the perspective and opinion of an employee in the open salary system, rather than just a recount from the top.
Although a similar content format is available elsewhere, Vine's content and community is pretty unique to their app. I'm disappointed to see it get shut down in that light
I'm a bit pessimistic as to whether this will work, because the crux here is getting the publishers to agree to this model and that's going to require a ton of face-to-face deals.

That said, I've had this idea myself and this is how I want the web to work. I should just be able to pay to make ads go away if I don't want them and that money should go to the sites I read. I currently use Google contributor, but that only works on some sits, not all.

I also kind of like the "threat" that people are adblocking anyways on your site (which CoinTent will know, as their plugin is an adblocker) and you are losing this much revenue because of it. Seems like that could work if they reach enough critical mass.

So I supported this, though with skepticism. Godspeed!
Yeah. I have a lot of trouble imagining what it would be like to have what they're describing.
Any update on the recently proposed USCIS startup visa?
On Aug 26 this year, the USCIS proposed a new startup visa, and mentioned it was open to public comments for 45 days. Now that the period has ended on Oct 10, does anyone have any info/update about when can we hear next from them on the matter?
I can tell you from where I sit at Mozilla, everyone is very excited about Servo. It just takes time to build things! :) It wouldn't make sense to wait for Servo to reach full web compatibility before starting to integrate it into production uses. This is really just a natural next step in the progression of adopting Servo at Mozilla.
Even so, we're seeing more and more companies use ridiculous amounts of debt for acquisitions.

I think this is pretty clearly a consequence of dirt cheap debt, which may lead to another economy crisis in 5-10 years, because not all of these multi-tens of billions of dollars debt deals for acquisitions are going to be successful, and when they'll crash, they'll crash hard.
Donald Trump and the shallow limit of Silicon Valley’s tolerance
They should have integrated these things better though. Instagram photos are so tightly coupled with Facebook (basically cross-posts), meanwhile Periscope, Vine, etc are apparently external cards in Twitter. Consider that in Twitter you can actually tag a person in a photo but can you get a gallery of photos with that tag? I dunno. Easy wins that have been neglected by Twitter for a while.
This is a terrible idea.

I know I will take a lot of heat for saying this here in The South.

Slavery is something that has existed for at least 2000 plus years. Agriculture is supported by it, manufacturing is supported by it and it is no coincidence that the clothes you wear are made by it. Fact is we as humans may not love slavery but it exists because plantations want to make profits, it provides cheap labor to plantations that would otherwise need to charge a ton of money for all that cotton you love. The Southern economy entirely depends on it.

As more and more production including agriculture and manufacturing move to The South do you really truly believe they will remain slave free? Who would toil out in the blazing sun picking cotton by hand, for no pay, to be housed, fed and treated like livestock? Where would the thriving plantation, factory or farm get its labor from? Purely from the free population who buy its products? Do you think we can go back to the ways of charging $90 dollars for a cotton blouse?

Fact is things require labor to make and plantations and factories need humans to labor to keep making things. Slavery whether you like it or not is here to stay.

Edit: What this guy writes is crazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706
And how's that working out for them?
The cost of education (Fees) are going higher. Research/Researchers are not getting funded. Where is the money going to? Infrastructure of the universities?
Reminds me of the guy who gamed a pudding air-miles promotion to great benefit:

http://gizmodo.com/how-an-engineer-earned-1-25-million-air-m...
I believe Instagram uses Django https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-... In any case it's still a pretty popular site/app on it's own. I don't see Facebook killing it anytime soon.
FCC imposes ISP privacy rules
I played a game that had communication like this, and the conversations were often quite odd because of it, hearing half-conversations a fair bit of the time.

And relaying messages to people further away... Though it wasn't anonymous, and people knew where to tell people to send the messages towards.
Seems strange.

If nothing else, it seems like a fantastic ad platform addition.
Some people prefer a compensation model with a base pay + bonuses. Others to have a peer review process like this one.

The problem is that those processes work only when there is certain level of mutual trust, selflessness and honesty. If you have really selfish people this thing can start being gamed... e.g: I refer 100 friends in exchange and have them recommend me for a promotion, raise and bonus every quarter.
yes -- for most topics, the curated information in a wikipedia article is better than the first page of G results.

This is partly because curation still works in 2016, but also because G results are easier to monetize. A significant portion of web content is some form of clickbait, i.e. ad-supported pages with no new information on their topic.

For now, viral content seems like a bigger threat to search results than abuse by the index operators. (Though that can change in a hurry; some studies have shown that search rankings can be used to influence get-out-the-vote numbers).
Ear plugs then? (Bose noise reducing headphones actually do a good job at drowning out office noise, even with no other audio playing)

The point is - its just as easy to block noise, so take the responsibility on your side rather than asking others to change for you.
Is that a dig at climate research?

If anything, more likely string theory.
I had a recruiter call my references (when I wasn't looking for a job) as a pretext to see if my references had any positions they wanted to fill.

Now I don't send references until an actual offer is in the works.
Servo is still being developed with the same manpower. Quantum is not de-emphasizing Servo. It would make little sense to do so, since the lack of legacy in Servo is part of what has given us the freedom to experiment with things like parallel restyling in the first place. And Quantum helps Servo, too—by giving us real-world Web compatibility experience with portions of Servo's codebase sooner, it helps us shake out bugs faster than we can with Servo alone.

(Disclaimer: As always, I speak for myself, not for my employer.)
I'm really curious how this was built. Quartz Composer got a lot of things right, but it's showing it's age. Was this rebuilt from the ground up?
Religion and War: “It’s Complicated” (2015)
This appears to be continuing research by a group which previously released a paper in 2012 [1] that got some coverage. This trial put numbers of shelf life, and demonstrated successful in vivio animal testing. For anything beyond short term usage it would also be necessary to deal with CO2 build up to prevent acidosis, but in a poor blood oxygenation situation even a few dozen seconds can count, and the ability to directly introduce oxygenation in the minutes before someone could be hooked up to artificial respiration might result in dramatically improved outcomes. Given the relatively long reported stability (2 months) I wonder if an "oxygen injector" might have a place in emergency kits in certain occupations as well, even if it only can add a couple of minutes of performance.

1. Oxygen Gas–Filled Microparticles Provide Intravenous Oxygen Delivery http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88
Angela Merkel is extremely upset that the population management techniques she is familiar with from East Germany are no longer effective when people are able to search out opposing points of view. That's why she's leaning so heavily on tech companies to implement censorship apparatuses, with the threat of "audits" and "transparency" monitoring should they not comply.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/angela-merkel-caught-on-hot-m...
If you're any good at your job, you should avoid these open companies like the plague. Don't piss away your leverage..
Imagine that there is a distribution of valuable output from employees. That not every employee contributes an equal amount to the bottom line, when you measure everything that you can possibly think of, every externality and intangible.

If you believe that there are those differences, that you can judge those correctly (but elect to not act on it), and that other employers can also judge that well enough to offer differentiated higher salaries to the most valuable employees, then you will be left holding an adversely selected set of employees. (Other employers will cream off the most valuable by being able to offer higher compensation, and you will see more of the left side of the distribution applying to your company once it becomes known that "everyone is paid the same".)

Not in every case (maybe a high-value-creating individual believes in your company and mission enough to forgo a higher salary they could command elsewhere), but in aggregate, I believe you signal to the highest performers that they should look elsewhere and your lowest performers should stay, because you are more interested in equality than fairness.
> Servo has always been and still is a research project. It was never intended to go into production as a fully-fledged Mozilla product.

That's not true. Servo is designed to be production-grade.
An accident that occurs just as planned, perhaps?
I read on Reddit that they made an attempt to sell it but nobody was interested. I'm not sure how true that is, but it does seem very weird to kill off Vine.
Yes!!! You will undoubtedly make a greater impact by earning as much as you can and donating it to causes later in life.

Some people think research or science is the only path to a better society but in all honesty it may just take paying people in a poor country to plant trees.
I think performance of the style systems in Blink and Firefox are similar. Since Servo's style system is linearly scalable, we expect most users to get a ~4x speed improvement on styling.

Users's don't care specifically about style performance, though, but about things like interactivity. We think Servo's style system will improve those things, but don't have numbers for that on hand.

To give a concrete example, it takes Firefox ~1.2 seconds to restyle the single page HTML5 spec with it's current non-parallel style system. Firefox with Stylo can do this in ~300ms. That is close to a full second off of initial page load.
Martial arts helps me. It builds discipline and gives me more energy that cascades into the rest of my life, and it's fun just on its own. The structure, community and obligation of it makes it more powerful than say, going bouldering on my own for an equivalent amount of time each week.

I spent so much of my life living in my mind without realizing my mind is part of my body and the whole thing needs taking care of and improving.
Spurious correlations
Quite the interesting read. It sounds as if there was some rather questionable behavior on both sides. That said, it's a good lesson about a couple of things:

- Be careful about grabbing revenue today in exchange for incurring not well understood costs more or less indefinitely into the future.

- Characteristics like unlimited/completely free/etc. can lead to unexpected behaviors that are pretty far outside the norm.
I feel like the best way to do this is to just use cornice or DRF then use js scaffolding that is completely unaware of your backend. No need to join them at the hip like this, except maybe for the token based auth?
I'm posting my own too:

http://javier.xyz/

It's an auto updated portfolio with my github, dribbble, and some other social networks.
What was the bad experience you had with gorm, out of interest?
I don't know, there may be too many problems and sources of unhappiness in the world to take that approach depending on your perspective. I think this is actually one of the causes of some really bad biases (just world hypothesis) that people have: they tie their happiness to their projection of reality, and are then compelled to keep their projection of reality to be very positive to stay happy.
Why are you having children in grad school or as a postdoc? And three at that..
Actually, no. You're asking them to behave in the way you prefer. You see, humans aren't naturally driven to be quiet - we're a social animal. We have inbuilt need to communicate, and we're not built to sit in little boxes and stare at a screen in quiet all day. You're asking others to do that though, rather than embrace the natural way our minds prefer to work for many of us. You can use ear plugs, listen to white noise, use good noise canceling headsets, etc. You aren't at their mercy, no more than they are at yours. Your desire for quiet shouldn't overcome their desire for socializing/noise. Everyone should handle themselves, and not ask of others to concede to their wishes.
Agree, but you missed one big factor (kind of related to price transparency):

-have individuals/families pay for healthcare, not employers.

Only then people will start caring how much things cost.
Andrew Ng: Why Artificial Intelligence Is the New Electricity
What is actually distorting perception is pressuring Facebook to delete free speech without any legal basis, because the government defines it as "hate speech". No one knows the exact definition of "hate speech" though. Political correctness to the extreme.

She's not exactly a fan of freedom of expression.
I'm sure it's referring to string theory.

The theories behind climate science are easily testable and frequently tested. Accurately modeling future climates is difficult because of the immense complexity of the system being modeled.
I do the same. So much more conversation is provoked by asking questions like "what made you happy/sad today?" vs. "how was your day?"
That gives managers an additional incentive to fire those disgruntled employees, and contributes to a mono-culture of thought, which can be worse off for everyone.
I use https://github.com/owais/django-webpack-loader together with https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack-bundle-tracker to handle (hashed) file loading from webpack
Show HN: Cross-promotion for small software business
No, I'm talking about Vine. They use Flask, and if they are not going to use the codebase any longer...

Personally I like having a big codebase as an architectural reference when I'm trying to learn a new framework. The Patreon source code (Flask too) is public, by the way.
I once heard that our senses primarily function as filters. I.e. our eyes only see by filtering out all sorts of other visual stimuli, our ears hear by filtering out other noises, etc...

That means that we are only capturing a "tiny sliver" of whats actually happening around us.

If we only keep this small detail in mind we can be sure that lack of evidence is never proof of anything and that any evidence we do see can only be used to find the most probable of competing hypotheses and its diagnosticity should always be considered. (i.e. fever might mean you are sick but has no diagnostic value to what particular ailment you have since its consistent with other possibilities.)

Same goes for using bounce rate as a metric for web analysis...its diagnostic value on its own doesnt tell us much, but with other context, like time on site and conversion goal of site (i.e. a phone call conversion will register as a bounce if they dont navihate elsewhere.) It can tell us a lot.
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On that level, even the Termux app on Android gives you a workable environment. Also the other necessities like git and Node.js.

That's the reason I'm currently working on an Android tablet, though Chrome OS is also promising.
Seems that Periscope Data Research from 10/21/2016 agrees with the article's premise. Data driven information is always best when making any comparisons, and since these data points are from a 3rd party I figured this article would be great to share:
https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/10/21/periscope-touts-redsh...
Thanks for the reply.

I'd forgotten about, mostly because I don't use them, their applications. I'd used Pages ages ago in grad school, but that's before 2013 so I didn't experience that transition.

I do realize I'm probably a bit of an outlier. I primarily use Safari, Mail.app, and a terminal with tmux and emacs. Scrivener, as well, when I'm in a more creative phase. The handful of other apps I use haven't had any problems (that I've noticed) with recent OS updates.

I will concede that, regarding hardware, they're heading towards a gray area for me. I really like the idea of the MacBook, but dislike the single connector (we'll see what happens today). And the relative stagnation of their hardware is annoying for many. But the 2012 rMBP has lasted quite well for me, I've only recently begun to notice issues with the battery life and I'm pretty sure that's because I forgot to turn off Docker (wanting to understand containers/VMs better, trying to bring my current office's development workflow into the 21st century).

EDIT: Given my relatively low resource use on the laptop, the reason I don't go with Linux is (from another post the other day), I got tired of trying to make things work on laptops. Along with rayiner, the MBP is a really solid and reliable laptop, and I want the Unix-underpinnings of OS X, without the hassle I experienced in Linux. Building a new desktop soon so I'll install linux there, see if things have changed enough for me.
Hi, I can give it to you since I work for Lunar Logic. How it looked: everyone felt a bit anxious and not 100% sure if it will be the good decision, but we decided to go for open salaries anyway (it was a collective decision after a series of long discussions of a whole company, not a decision at the top). When the salaries list was released, everyone took a look and there was no disaster. Most of the salaries felt just fine and we fixed ones that were bit too low soon after the list was released. We all treat it as a normal part of our job now and I think no one regrets that we went for it. Being transparent about it makes everything easier to be honest and we treat it as one of the coolest things we did last year.
This got downvoted, and the tone is a bit harsh.. but it does speak a bit of truth.

What happens to the guy in open salary co who is legit 50% better than everyone else? Do his peers vote to give him 50% more money? Or does it settle on sort of a union style pay scale, where everyone with the same # of years of work makes the same money (which is great for the worst performances, and terrible for the best performers)
Ah yes, very true.
Lektor?
The maxim of the software company manager: "If it takes more than an hour to do, it isn't worth doing".
"Vote for people who will increase research funding"

This. You don't owe anyone anything for being smart and diligent. If you were a lone wolf and enjoying your workload there would have been nothing wrong in your previous situation if you felt it wotrthwhile yourself.

Family changes everything. Having to fight to reach ends meet is not beneficial to anyone. Raising three kids means you are responsible for their future. There is nothing more important than caring for your kids. Someone might say that you are responsible for the reduced outcomes of epileptic kids whom your research helped but that would be completely lacking in human perspective.

Humans cannot live like supermen. That's why we have organizations with long term goals and mandates to affect society wide effects. An individual can make a difference, but that individual can be anyone.

A person who claims you should have stayed in the academia can do that if they will pay your loans and provide you with a sufficient life time grant. Otherwise they are full of excrement and lack a sane perspective.
Im going to be frank. I block ads, and will not start paying for content. I have had an advertising free web for a long time and will not:
a) accept ads
b) pay for content

What will you do for people like me?
Wonderful read, thanks!
http://www.Gamesutra.com is where I regularly go ;)
Another thing to take away from this election is that Scott Adams turns out to be somewhat of a moron when discussing the topic of presidential politics.

I followed his arguments in the primaries and found them somewhat compelling, the idea that Trump was in better shape than people thought. But he's lately gone of the rails totally and completely.

And more to the point of this post, he completely misuses the phrase cognitive dissonance, having apparently defined it to mean something like "a way to tell people who disagree with me they don't know what they're talking about" rather than an actual psychological characteristic.
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> It is usually defined in terms of your last salary, that is usually disclosed as a part of your background check.

This contradicts the claims of US being such a free and free market country... Sounds Kafkaesque. How does this background check really happen? Can't you deny the disclosure of your previous salary?
Sorry if my question came off as sarcastic - it wasn't. I love Linux, but I always have trouble getting it to run directly on hardware (mostly laptops).

Did your laptops have dual graphics/Optimus (Nvidia+Intel)? Every spare laptop I've had includes Optimus and that's one issue I couldn't overcome and tried with various popular distros.

I have one old IBM desktop workstation that I can install most Linux distros on without problems. It's usually laptops that I have a problem with and I asked because that's what I hear most working devs are using these days.