skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would your company sponsor a science fiction story?
I'm the publisher of http://compellingsciencefiction.com, and I'm working toward achieving financial stability for the magazine. Readership has grown to the point where I'm putting out feelers regarding tasteful ads, and the model I'm testing right now involves individual companies sponsoring stories. The idea is that a text ad will go directly under the story title/author name, with contents that look something like "This story was made possible through the financial support of <company>. Sign up for their service at <company website>". My theory is that having your company name on a story would do more to foster goodwill and name-recognition than other types of ads. I believe people will be grateful toward companies that sponsor the content they love. I don't have any data to back this up yet though, because the issue we're releasing in the first week of December will be the first time we've tried this model.

This model is limited by the number of stories we publish -- right now two out of our five stories are already sponsored. The going rate is $360 for a story. The most interesting part of this model is that the sponsorship will last forever, so even in the future when our userbase is larger people will still see that you sponsored the story when they go through our back issues. That means the value of this sponsorship is unbounded.

Please send me an email at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com if you'd like to sponsor a story in our December issue or would like more information! Please feel free to provide feedback in this thread as well, I always welcome the advice of experienced entrepreneurs.
Not in my observation. Where I work there is a low paid call center on another floor of this giant building, and they all have iphones. Its like shoes.

At my socioeconomic level when I want to blow some cash or show off some money I go on a thousands of dollar vacation travel or maybe buy a new car, for me its enough to show I have some dough, but its cheap enough to fit my cash flow.

Likewise a step or two or three downward, their way of flashing cash is the $400 sneakers or $400 video game system or in this specific case, the $400 iphone. They may have saved from months of paychecks to afford it, but I'm not really all that different other than I went to Ireland instead. Or I bought a car mostly in cash. Its the same behavior at a different scale.

Android is definitely in the middle, from what I observe. No one over $400K or under $40K has an android phone, at least not that I've seen.
How is speech freer than ever before? It seems these fascist views exist because they were festering below the surface. Most of my conservative red state friends quit engaging in dialog for fear of being shamed but still talked amoungst themselves.
OStatus/GNU social.
I've heard this phrased as "objects in high dimensions are mostly surface", which makes clear that it's not that there's a less dense "core" but that every interior point is near the surface.
What's worse is that those blaming the RAM and being defensive can't even get their facts straight. Explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998629
This is a very welcome improvement to an awesome service that I use daily. Now if we could just get a smoother bundling / deployment workflow or a way to edit uploaded bundles on the AWS Lambda dashboard.
Is gab.ai an implementation of OStatus?

https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
> "Yours is yet another comment arguing from the faulty premise that "fakenews" describes sites like Breitbart."

No, that's not my argument. My argument is that what can start with filtering out spammy clickbait can easily evolve into filtering out sites that other people take seriously.

For example, Huffington Post is a news site that uses a lot of the same tactics as clickbait spammers, and tends to be fairly one sided in their worldview. To someone who disagrees with the worldview of the Huffington Post, why would they be less inclined to block it once the tools are in place?

In other words, once the tools are in place to block content everyone agrees is spammy, I can pretty much guarantee that those same tools will be used for semi-spammy content that some people treat as real news. This will almost certainly lead to increased political polarisation.

There's an alternative tool that works fairly well... if you see clickbait, remember that's what it is. We should aim to rise above low-information sites by providing better-thought-out counter-arguments.

As for your cialis example, if it was posted in a public forum like Facebook then responding to the article might not change the habits of those trying to sell you something, but it might make other people who read your comment think twice about signing up.
Winning the Information War
It is a cunning plan!
After seeing the amount of shoddy, insecure, dangerous code that gets shipped into production at a supposedly high-quality code shop, I've become increasingly of a mind that software engineers need to professionalize. I try to project a professional ethic in the workplace of not shipping broken or harmful shit, which extends to refusing to cut corners on testing, automation, and maintainability.

I think it's important that I exercise professional integrity because I personally have the luxury of being able to afford being fired. If I lose my job because I refuse to do something, nothing bad will happen to me:

- I am a citizen in my country of residence (can't lose green card / etc.)

- I have a deep financial safety net

- I live in an area with high demand for my skills (if I spent more than a month looking for a job I would be shocked).

Not everyone is in this position. I respect that, so I'd like to use my privilege to make it more of a professional norm.

I think not shipping shit extends to everything from the obviously immoral to code that will hurt the customer (or their customers) because it is insecure or unmaintainable.
I've noticed a trend where companies encourage employees to leave positive reviews on GlassDoor, artificially inflating the score, positive feedback and salary information on the site.
Here is how it works in traditional engineering:

1. Works that potentially affect public security need to be approved by licensed Proffessional Engineers.
2. Therefore, businesses and managers need to be hire Professional Engineers, or be punished by law.
3. Professional Engineers are held to an ethical code of conduct, else they lose their license.
> You've now provided two examples: firing and voting.

Voting someone out of office is firing them. We're talking about firing.
Needs a "last update" column - my Moto X Style is near stock, but is on 6.0 and a May 2016 patch level.
the entire newscycle is complicit. if trump tweets something, 500 news agencies write a variant of a story around the tweet.

the majority of news agencies dont seem to have the self discipline to NOT cover a story the others are, out of fear of lost eyeballs. news agencies could be even more powerful if they stopped amplifying bullshit, and were selective over what deserved attention. instead every company covers every viral event, creating a feedback loop of displacement. noise noise noise.
Absolutely no need to buy the book. Just read his original blog post that is more or less a TLDR; version of this bloated Amazon book. It made a huge difference in my work life. Everytime I found myself in a dumb user or arrogant dev or inept manager type situation (in meetings or emails or face-2-face), I would think back to this blog post and instantly feel better.

Mark Manson "THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F_CK" (12 minute read) => https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck
If they don't do it then buzzfeed will, and then they'd get the scoop.
High-speed electrons have been spotted outside Earth's magnetic field
Android and iPhone do it, so....
I think a lot of people just want problems to go away without having to pay anything.

You can very much see it in the attitude in the US towards taxes. People do not like taxes. Without taxes, you can only do so much.
No, but particulary more comprehensive and informative than any one video. These links (to #OER) would be useful for anyone intending to try and replicate the form and style of the "Cosmos" video series with Computer Science content.
Dear liberals: You Fell for the Oldest Trick in the Propaganda Playbook
> you get a Gaussian distribution as the dimension goes to infinity.

Wow, that's really cool. I wonder, I'm sure you could prove this in more direct ways, but is it also a consequence of the central limit theorem?
Ask HN: As a developer, how can I take advantage of time spent driving to work?
I work as a developer (Java full stack if it makes any difference) and live quite far from my workplace: it usually takes me one hour and a half to and from work by car. Moving closer to my workplace is not an option nor is it using other means to go back and forth (eg train/bus).
I feel like my time spent on the road is mostly wasted: I'd like to find something IT-related to do (both listen to and reason about) that can help me learn new stuff.
Since I'm passionate about Linux, I usually have a few Linux (or BSD) podcasts to listen to while driving but I found that to be not really instructive, just more enjoyable than listening to the radio or some music playlist.
I'm looking for any kind of suggestion from fellow developers who are in the same spot and have found any interesting way or resources to 'spend wisely' their travel time.
What resources would you suggest (if any exists) to learn something while driving (much like you would do with a foreign language audio course)? Is it even possible? Has anyone tried or can share an experience of 'audio learning' IT related?
btw. I never edited in Obamacare, it was in there from start. The US has enormous wealth, with a purchase power per capita almost as high as an average Swiss, times 300 million. I think Americans should stop making excuses. I don't see what's wrong with comparing anything internationally - you have 150 experiments with different parameters, there's no reason not to use that knowledge if you want to figure out on how to improve or what not to do.
WFM on Mac: http://i.imgur.com/67G6R1p.png
Even if you aren't able to recall useless events in your life, you still have memories of most of them with the appropriate cues. Tgat doesn't hold for early childhood.
Crashplan with user-specified encryption key.
I feel like this is a fair criticism of my talks.

There are two point I would dispute. First, I do give large tech companies (and the NSA!) credit for being internally heterogeneous, and doing good things along with bad.

Second, it would be ridiculous to give Facebook or Google credit for making anti-surveillance tools. That would be like praising tobacco companies for inventing a better cigarette filter.
I didn't realize you're talking fiction. The "algorithm" I applied works best for nonfiction, because those you choose by objective criteria.

As for recommendation engines for fiction, I don't know any that don't have this conflict of interests you described with Goodreads. Personally, I tend to pick up books that are recommended by friends, writers I like reading and people on HN. There's way too much fiction to read all of it, but I try to aim for one (or both) of two separate types: insightful and genre-popular. Insightful, because I love to read new ideas, and genre-popular, because culture is pretty much defined by your ability to talk about it with other people.
I found unfollowing everyone on facebook helps. I now just look at my friends list to see who has new posts a few times a month.
stoicism underlies modern cbt therapy and military training(really any bootcamp).
The middle managers are given directions by the CEO. The CEO needs to meet profit targets, or she'll be fired by the board. The board is beholden to the shareholders. There's always someone to pass blame to.

When you go to work, you don't give up your moral agency.
I've looked at Apex a few times. I was going to ask you for a hacker plan but it sounds like you're already doing such numbers it might not be justified. It would be really nice for me to be able to have a master subscription for my contracting work for client projects.
Gab is predictably filled with Nazis, which isn't unrelated to that idiotic Pepe frog they use as a logo. Who would willingly go there?
>> I always assume I write code just to throw it away and replace it with something better

In my understanding this comes with the combination of critical thinking and laziness. If you know that the "future you" may try to get rid of the garbage you are writing now you end up writing code that is easier to manage and to refactor without rewriting everything around it.

Being right all the time sometimes means knowing that you can not be right today but may be righter tomorrow.
Can you elaborate on the slight latency you've experienced?
Is there a better descriptor for what Eich was put through? I'd like to hear it.

Brendan Eich contributed to the Prop 8[1] traditional marriage campaign that the California electorate voted on. It was a constitutional amendment and it passed which, in 2008, was simply stunning.

In any case, Eich was shamed retroactively for his contribution. The hate and vitriol I read directed at the man at the time was incredible. If I were him, I would have been more in fear for my life and my family's, much less holding on to my CEO position. I don't know Brendan except hearing heard him speak a bit on youtube on technical topics, maybe he's a braver soul than I am IRL.

In any case, "the use of violence or threats of violence in order to coerce, especially for political purposes" is the #1 definition of 'terrorism', which describes what happened with Eich pretty well. Fear is as powerful a weapon of terrorists as bullets or jet planes or pressure cookers are. Is this definition of terrorism and its implications well understood by you, and are you simply resistant to empathizing with someone with different politics than yours? That's all well and good until it's your ox that gets gored.

Eich wasn't fired, at least not publicly. He stepped down because the cowards/traitors on the board let him dangle with no support.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008...
In fact WalMart's European arm, ASDA, is heavily unionised and management have a love / hate relationship with it but on the whole put up with it. At one point ASDA management tried to induce workers to waive their right to collective bargaining in return for a pay rise; a court found that unlawful and fined the company and made them compensate the affected workers £2,500.

So they have largely buried the hatchet but it is the only place in the world that WalMart tolerates unions.
Google: Make Android Great Again.
The WSJ is owned by News Corp, the same company that owns Fox News. So this is probably not plagarizing, just a company printing an article in their various holdings.
Ultimately right, but for the very wrong reasons :). Happens sometimes. See e.g. Galileo.
I think that people should give the Trump administration a chance. The GOP knows that blue collar whites were the force behind his election. He's going to have to deliver for these laborers if he wants to have a chance in 2020.
Yeah I saw, rogue c&p in the "hide it from most of the internet" script.

It's an old site migrated from my first machinations back in the early 2000s.

And I make no claim to "absolutely authority".

But take your pick which "expert" you want to listen to.

The experts rolled out by the "love thee blue blooded leader appointed appointed by god" channel.

Or some random guy on the internet who likes downvotes and says he's been doing it so long it now pays for him to do this every other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYAv--inN0
> Probably overkill,

Yeah.. I was about to say. LOL. Have you even been in a situation where you had to restore?
And I'm not disputing that. Different people have different needs. What I'm suggesting is the option of 32GB. That way at least you have a choice, and can make it according to what's more important of you.
Not to my knowledge. The platform is very young though. You could propose this idea to the founder.
Maybe a modern Usenet? Any idea what are the pain points of Usenet?
All the positive reinforcement of gossip, with none of the historical negative connotations because of the new name.

As with all renaming strategies, eventually the new name gets enough tarnish that its either given up, gets yet another new name. There was a pretty concerted push a few years ago to rename everything online as "viral" regardless of the original source and meaning of that name. Wasn't time yet, but soon enough "social media" will be for old people but the cool kids will continue doing the same old thing with a new name.
The hard part is figuring out how to make the plough float.
I understood perfectly how it works: it works how you explained.

My example was for a system that doesn't work in that way but switches from 14% to 30% for all the income, and not only for the amount above the threshold.

Maybe I should have worded it better but I take the downvotes I got as a demonstration of my point, that it would be insane.
Has anyone been able to get Chalice to work?

https://github.com/awslabs/chalice

Basically, I'm interested to know how the Swagger template file will look a like. It'd be nice if you could use Swagger to quickly create REST api on Lambda stack.

Being able to quickly generate scaffold CRUD REST api on Lambda behind Authentication + DynamoDB would be an absolute killer app.

I'd imagine that Azure is not far behind. But one thing that's killing it for Azure is the Visual Studio IDE. Edit my ASP web app, one click deploy to Azure from inside VS is a killer app as well.

I really wish AWS came up with their own IDE where it would be tightly integrated with AWS. Imagine if you could write code and deploy it instantly without setting things up yourself through the AWS console (not that it's bad or anything).
I'm not an expert, but I have read few books about brain development. It's amazing that we can remember things from the childhood. Retained memories have likely result of multiple recall-rewrite cycles.

Human brains practically rebuild themselves few times during development. Neural migration stops when the child is born, but synaptic pruning, myelination, synaptogenesis, apoptosis continues years after the birth. Cortical white matter continues to increase until the child is 9-12 years old, grey matter development continues in phases. Superior temporal cortex is not mature until the child reaches adulthood 17-18 years. Our first memories are from brains that were very different.

This is why child neurologists are their own specialty among neurologists. Child brain and adult brain are different things.
Nowhere did he say that "facebook couldn't query user data".

He's saying that it's probably not in a form that's easily queryable. With that information in an ill-secured data store that's highly categorized you can do all sorts of mischief.

And how is it FUD? Once you cleanse and normalize data, fraud opportunities become very apparent.
Honestly, I'm really tired of all these 'Let's replace Twitter', 'Twitter is dead' etc. stuff.

Yes, Twitter is not perfect from business perspective, but users should not care.

Twitter is also not perfect from users' perspective, but it works and people use it. That is enough.
Tesla partners with grocery chain on Midwest Supercharger expansion
People who believe in freedom of speech.
https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-profess...
Trump is not the GOP, he is a self serving billionaire. Two days ago his daughter, who oversees the Trump organization, is invited to a meeting with the Japanese PM. Today he is cutting deals with Indian businessmen who say they are more interested now that he is president.
Yeah, that's closer to the WISP model, which works well, as opposed to what Dylan and Nim did.

As for the lack of infix in WISP, IIRC WISP supports use with SRFI-105 (a part of another project to introduce a different syntax to Scheme, SRFI-110, aka readable), which provides exactly this.
One thing I like and heard for the first time on public buses in Bamberg (Germany) is prerecorded station names as in "next stop X" where each stop was read by a different school child. Made it a lot more friendly than the standard same voice for everything...and I'm assuming it was a local school class and they probably enjoy having their stations :D
In case anyone is wondering, this is the specific formula:

def KincaidGradeLevel(syllables, words, sentences):
return 11.8*(syllables/words) + 0.39*((words/sentences)) - 15.59
Ronda Who? Meet MMA’s Next Superstar, the 'Evil Princess'
Pepe is not a Nazi symbol.
I'm a huge fan of blogs, agree with the author in general, but think he's defining "something much better" in a way that doesn't make sense to the average person.

Twitter is at least easy enough for the average person or even dopey + clueless non-technical celebrity to add to their phone, search, and use normally.

Blogs give infinitely more customization options, and in theory are easy to setup, but in practice are still a lot more work and harder to setup. All of their advantages are for nothing when it takes a lot more work to setup compared to a Twitter account for the average person.

Regardless, Twitter is done for. They're trying in vain to achieve an impossible politically correct goal (all of their new safe spaces features to eliminate trolling and name calling) rather than actually innovating or coming up with a business model that can sustain them.
That's a fair point and it wasn't my intent to start a "real men need X" style of discussion. Nevertheless, VMs, and particularly Windows VMs with VS and the rest - at least on the kind of systems I always seem to end up working with - are resource hungry. I'm not suggesting that 32GB is for everyone, but I'd at least like the option available knowing that I might be trading some battery life by selecting it.

(Worth knowing about the 2TB option - thanks for the tip. I refreshed last year when 1TB was the top end. Fortunately I think the drive is still user-upgradeable.)
Reddit is the modern Usenet. And it's about 1000x better, from my own personal experience.
I think there should be a separate category for "Contrived News" where the story/controversy seems to be made up by the media as entertainment.

The Fourth Estate has lost the "should people actually know this to be informed" part of their job, especially considering how every story now starts with "why you need to know, 5 things you need to know, why its important to know" some dumb useless bullshit.

It's not good when the NYPost steps in asking the rest of the media landscape to stop sensationalizing. http://nypost.com/2016/11/20/keep-crying-wolf-about-trump-an...
I try to engage in dialogue, reach folks, provide factual information, and gather feedback on how we can do better. I offer folks to contact me directly. I also try to make it very clear who my employer is, through either direct note or clear context.

I certainly am not in a habit of disparaging my employer's competitors' cultures and technologies through anecdotes (the last ex-AWS bit was the notable exception in the heat of the moment).

I urge both you and "ignoramous" to get into this habit as well :)

(work on Google Cloud)
Warming it every minute seems kind of excessive. Did you really have to do it that much? I haven't experienced this with Python but my jobs are more cron-ish so an extra 100 ms doesn't make a difference.
Ask HN: Pricing SaaS based on how much it cost to develop?
I'm trying to make sure that pricing for a SaaS is correct.

Is there anything like finding a price based on how much it cost to develop the service?

For instance, if it cost 500K, $100/mo. at a minimum, or things like that?
Do you want to bet? The Trump administration will not be pro-union.