skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK fits within the Gulf of Mexico.

http://i.imgur.com/aTnhSpp.png
> no publishers left

They become the publisher. In the grand scheme, this is a misguided effort that will further monopolize publishing.
That would be a hell of sight. Bonus points if they have all the displays folded out while reading their kindle :p
> Our city

What city is that?
Yes because Owncloud will never get the kind of adoption that Dropbox has specifically because it isn't consumer oriented.

It's just like Linux. It can own the backend / developer world, but Linux is still no where on the desktop for the average consumer.
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With more money chasing after the same quantity of equities, I would have thought the market prices would have been going up. But they've been essentially flat over the past year. Even though firms have been buying back their stock. There must be another reason why they've been stagnant.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324514
Some countries seems to be impossible to move for me. Morocco and Ghana for example. Also, The Ivory Coast is only searchable by its French name, Côte d'Ivoire, while having its English name on the map.

Edit: Oh, the move issue is not by country. When I reloaded I could move a country I previously couldn't.
> Going forward, it will be much easier and more enjoyable to implement new CSS properties. Which makes it easier for folks in the open source community to contribute. Which makes new things come out faster.

I had never really thought of Servo in these terms before, but it makes a lot of sense.

Mozilla, being a nonprofit, can't compete with Google / Apple / Microsoft doing things their way. They inherently have a greater need for the free-time contributions.

Given that, if you can make contributions easier and "fun", by choosing a more modern language and toolchain, it could theoretically be a competitive advantage.

Thinking about it like this, the recent Rust marketing articles make a lot of sense. Rust marketing matters because the more Rust developers there are, the more potential Servo (and thus Firefox) developers there are.

Whether it pans out or not remains to be seen, but as a way to attempt to hack a problem, I really like it.
TedPage: Snapping Unity8
Let him find out himself. Maybe he can hack it, maybe he can't, but also maybe he'll be okay with partial success. Better to let him explore and decide than decide for him.

Yes, I am a software engineering by profession :)
YMMV; I have a Razer Diamondback that's seen almost daily use since 2005 with no issues.

Conversely, had a super nice Logitech MX crap out on me in a year or so.
Does your income come from donations or is there another revenue source? I ask because OP said that successful meant "provides the majority of the person's income" in this context. I'm curious if donations were enough to provide that or if I'm missing something.
On ephemeral Hadoop and Spark clusters
I run a Canadian price comparison site: http://pricefu.com
Show HN: Hacker news clone (for car news) built with Telescope
http://www.simplecarnews.com

Built in about 6 hrs - would appreciate any feedback/comments.
There were few enough instructions in 6502 that you really could memorize them all (I did back in the day). That really isn't possible with a huge instruction set like in X86. Yes, as you say, you can look them up, but that's no fun.
I have noticed this. I have also noticed that reddit is a lot better in this regard - good stories tend to get picked up - e.g. in subreddits that have a comparable new post volume.

Here it often seems quite random what does get picked up.
> I decided to go one step further with my personal site and eliminate all JS completely. I don't get enough traffic to make any kind of analytics or ad code worthwhile.

I did the same a little while ago; if I want stats, I'll render them from the access logs, webalizer-style[^1].

Static HTML, with inlined CSS and SVG can get ridiculously fast on today's network, so if you don't have any actual reasons for JS (there are a lot of things CSS can do these days), just leave it behind. (You can also safely leave fonts, Google Analytics and all those external monsters behind.)

Here's my summary on the experience of moving from WordPress to static HTML for longetivity and robustness:

https://petermolnar.net/going-static

[^1]: http://www.webalizer.org/
Well 37 isn't really that old.

The difference between you and a 20 year old might be measurable, but negligible, when it comes to pure learning. IE you're both learning a task, subject, skill neither of you has knowledge or experience about.

Clearly experience and knowledge has great value, and coupled with any normal sort of learning ability is a solid combination that is superior to increased learning alone.

After all small children can learn amazingly fast compared to adults. But without knowledge and experience to see how to use what they learn or how to combine it to get new ideas they're at a disadvantage.

I mean as a software developer at 35 I know a lot more than I did at 20. I was able to learn pretty quick back then, starting from scratch. I can learn pretty quick now. But with the advantage of knowledge and experience, I'm really only learning a couple of new things at a time to add to an already immense store of knowledge, so yeah it's easy. One new thing and I can see right where it fits into my existing knowledge. It's kind of a different ballgame now compared to when I was 20 when I was still getting a handle on the basics.
I'm not planning on Social Security being around by the time I'm old enough to tap into it, and I'm also not planning on having any kids to bail me out when I go senile, so yeah I'm putting a lot into my 401k. I think a lot of people my age (turning 30 next week) are feeling the same way, so I wonder if it's younger workers driving this trend.
Good point. The worst-performing companies I've worked for had one thing in common: they were small and unable or unwilling to push back on toxic customers.
On http://bowtifulties.com/behind-the-bow/ a picture is not showing.
Another point: Facebook is increasily adding features so people don't need to leave to read or anything else.

How ad networks will adapt to that? In a short or mid-term future aren't just the famous and niche content blog that will survive?

Just thoughts...
What I really enjoy about being 51 is being able to understand both extremes you describe -- as well as being able to understand and remember what many other segments of life was like.

It gives you quite a broad view! At times it feels like standing on a mountain and seeing a vast landscape that you've crossed to get here -- and the mountain path ahead that leads to new heights.

There's also the joy of playing to type for the kids. So many times, they look at you as if you were some weird creature from a zoo. It's quite funny because you can get away with a lot. Hell, they don't know.

I have no doubt that skills and abilities decrease with age, but quite frankly, if you started out way ahead of the norm, by the time you hit your 50s and 60s you're still going to be on par or ahead of most of the population anyway.

So when a dear friend that's in their 20s or 30s asks me how I'm doing, I have quite a bit of fun describing some sort of horrible body issues -- until they realize I'm pulling their leg. And when I hit my 60s and 70s, if I last that long, you can be sure I'll be screwing with people who might think I have dementia. Screw 'em.

More fun times ahead.
That mystery Go player crushing the world’s best online? It was AlphaGo again
The bandwidth for a higher refresh at 4k is obviously available. But all of the information available so far points to a maximum of 120 Hz at all resolutions. The actual spec is not available, yet, so there's that.

From http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_2_1/index.aspx

Q: What are the support resolutions and frame rates?

A:

4K50/60
4K100/120
5K50/60
5K100/120
8K50/60
8K100/120
10K50/60
10K100/120
Just choosing the White Knight Suit for yourself doesn't solve it though, since too many morally good decisions also F up other people around you.
Helge Klein wrote an excellent article "What I Hate About PowerShell": https://helgeklein.com/blog/2014/11/hate-powershell/

Be sure to read the comments where PowerShell guru Jeffrey Snover politely addresses them.

I share many of these same frustrations that have prevented me from adopting it as a Windows scripting language. I use it when I have to, but I still will choose csharp compiled EXE's, vbscript, or even Py2Exe'd Python programs over PowerShell for sysadmin type tasks.

I was in the audience at MS TechEd 2005 in Orlando and watched as Jeffrey Snover presented Monad and highlighted it's Perl, awk, sed, and unix influences. I was immediately impressed.

However, PowerShell seems to best fit as a REPL shell, and for me, more mentally cumbersome than using csharp (which of course can technically do everything ps can).

My gripes with PS are kind of minor (a bit like my dislike of Python's whitespace enforcement), but it's kind of like a death by a thousand annoyances with PowerShell for me.

For example (stolen from Helge's article), these are some WTF's for me

* Testing for string equality: "abc" -eq "abc"
( why isn't this "abc" == "abc" )

* Greater than: 8 -gt 6
( why isn't this 8 > 6 ?)

* Functions can only be used after being defined. Leading to scenarios where a script begins waaaay down at the bottom.

* dynamic scoping: http://ig2600.blogspot.de/2010/01/powershell-is-dynamically-...

* No way to syntax check a PS script before it's run

These aren't all major, but the last one is a show-stopper for me. If I'm running a script on a couple hundred thousand machines (and I have) I can't afford to have my script bail out on an unexpected code-path.

I really like the idea of PowerShell, and I am honestly glad it exists, but I think it would benefit from some changes outlined in Helge's article.

And this is why me, someone working professionally with Windows for over 15 years (sysadmin, developer, security) doesn't choose to use PowerShell very often.
> "It’s the best writing environment on the web, and they sweat the details like nobody else."

> "Especially for anyone who moved to Medium but hedged their bets by keeping their own domains."

The claim here isn't that Medium is bad, or even not excellent. It's that they took >$100 million in VC money with no real plan to monetize, and so they're doomed regardless of product quality.
How do you make money? I didn't find any pricing page or premium plan.
Maybe you should license it to the company. I think it would be harder for them to pull the leg out from under you if they were paying a monthly fee. Even if it was something marginal like $5 a month.

(Note: I'm not a lawyer)

Here's one thing you should keep in mind. The lawyer you are meeting with is not on your side. That person is looking out for your company's best interests - not yours. If you're serious about this, I would make sure you have your own counsel.
I feel a bit sad to read this.

The CCC is a super-cheap conference. It costs 100Euro (about 100USD currently?) to attend a 4 day conference.

The venue is massive, and roughly 13,000 people attend. There are often 3 or 4 talks going on at the same time. The talks are among the most technically interesting available anywhere.

In top of that, they have areas where people can hack on group projects, and the venue is open 24hours during the conference (some people even crash there over night).

This is all run on a largely volunteer basis. And in my view to a very professional standard.

Someone screwing up and delaying one talk seems pretty insignificant in light of the amazing work they do.
Having a somewhat paranoid personality, I find myself wondering if auto-enroll and (especially) auto-escalation - which my job has - are designed with the employee's well-being in mind, or just a ploy to prop up the stock market?
Many companies do not know how many contractors they employ
Probably that should read, "ONLY repeated negotiations benefit from random behavior." Random choice among N possibles will select the best only 1/N of the time.
That an empty slogan like "transform through delivery" should seem meaningful speaks volumes about the sad state of enterprise IT. Alas, in my experience, there is often little delivery of new systems and features. Too many egos, careers and vested interests are invested in the status quo. Change brings disruption and the prospect of unhappy users. So ass covering political IT managers pretend to "risk manage" the enterprise IT portfolio by attending endless meetings at which they resist any change then claim to have "delivered" a stable service offering to "the business".
> Fork doesnt make a lot of sense on win32 processes (how do you handle a forked message loop?

Message loops are per-thread and per-HWND (which are thread-affine) anyway. One way of making fork "make sense" in win32 processes is to say "Okay, you can fork, but your new process begins execution in a new thread, and none of the old threads survive."

New thread means new message loop. You could even do things like automatically tear down single-threaded COM apartments in the child process.
You are absolutely correct about that the water aspect is not vertical related in any way. I'm just used to seeing vertical and aeroponics going so hand-in-hand that I totally forgot about the possibility to have horizontal aeroponic greenhouses.

I'm very curious as well about all of these water reducing efforts, since that may well be the largest thing that threatens the food supply in the coming decades.
How Well Do You Know the Language of Startups?
A lot of things costing a company money are perfectly reasonable and we rightly complain if a company sabotages them. Things like leaving negative reviews/ratings, receiving refunds for defective products or shopping around to compare prices ultimately hurt someone's bottom line, so I think we can expect better from an analogy here.
As many have pointed out, Google could handle this in their end and avoided pissing off a small but well defined group of users/developers. My guess is that they decided it wasn't worthwhile because they have some privileged ideas about the direction web marketing will be taking in years to come. As user behavior tracking and analysis techniques become more refined, ads won't be needed as much as they are now. Instead, ads will be placed in high impact areas/sites, and the intel to decide who sees what ads will be acquired even from sites with no ads. Better UX, deeper knowledge of users, simpler monetization strategies for publishers. Sure, it will be even more invasive of privacy, but it won't _feel_ that way to most users. This will require heavier use of NLP and ML, two things Google devotes a whole lot of time and money for.
The extension clicks every ad on a page. This is almost certainly extremely atypical and could be detected.
True. But for the consumers there is typically no 4k but UHD (3840 / 2160). This matches the 16/9 aspect ratio in other resolutions.
Either that or tracking clicks is a terrible way of keeping track of ad effectiveness, and therefore cannot rise to the definition of fraud.

What if I had a billboard with a camera that used face recognition to determine how many people looked at that billboard. Is it fraud to put on a mask to prevent my face from being detected? Is it fraud to put a bunch of faces on a poster-board and parade it in front of the billboard to confuse it?

Websites only provide information that I then can choose to render/manipulate however I want, and what I do on my application on my end with that information is my business.
You're right, it should probably be a bit more muted. Perhaps "When enabled, [significantly less] driver attention is required." The driver can't go to sleep, for example, lest they miss the alert that indicates "oh no I can't figure it out anymore." Though the car would likely be designed to timeout on driver response and execute a safe deceleration/pull-aside maneuver.
In addition to build quality issues, Razer's products are often inherently broken by design even if you get a "working" one.

Their Core dock, the Stealth ultrabook, and the Orochi mouse, are all currently sold and not one of these products is fully functional with itself/its counterparts, even if you get a "good" unit.

Their designs are often neat / interesting / innovative. But until they learn how to create and ship working functional products, it's all just pretty artwork.
This doesn't match my experience at all. What I have seen over and over, for 20 years, is more like this: The local guru is asked to help out with an area that's falling behind, even though everybody knows it's not their thing. They start out awkward, self-deprecating, asking a lot of questions. Yes, they suddenly seem like a newbie. A week or two later, they check in something brilliant that works perfectly and blows the "specialist's" work out of the water.

This concept was never meant to be precise. It just expresses that some people's productivity is hard for others to understand and hard to duplicate.
A good way to force this along is to have a champion for the work, and an automated burndown metric that random devs can watch and influence.

Mozilla is pretty good at the latter, cf. https://arewefastyet.com
Extrapolating from a few data sets at that link, the road network for the entire US is probably on the order of 100M nodes and around 250-500M edges.

I would imagine real biological data isn't quite there yet, but it's certainly not for want of trying. Simulations might get pretty close. Blue Brain was aiming for 100M neurons and (presumably) a few orders of magnitude more connections and I think there's another simulation floating around with 10^11 neurons (but presumably less biophysical accuracy).
Finally, I can program on the go :^)
Oh, I don't doubt that at all. Are those standard "senior dev" salaries, though?

What's interesting to me about the startup-tradeoffs article (top link of this thread), though, is that you don't need to enter stratospheric levels of career advancement to hit these targets at bigco's anymore.

You can't be a lousy dev, but you don't have to be an amazing one or ascend into higher management levels. $250k a year is now a reachable salary for an employee of ordinary advancement (well, a SE or related). You get to senior level, and top out there, and your salary is now high enough that earnings start to rival very good exits from startup. No, not founder level or huge (and rare) IPO successes - those are still out of reach on the "work at a bigco and accumulate". But better than being an early employee at a startup that has a decent buyout or "exit".
I heard about it before, but wasn't really motivated to check it out. Just installed it in Firefox and it seems to operate as you'd expect. This might be an opportunity for Firefox to regain some market share.
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Product Management
Looks very nice, may I ask why you don't use https? Setting up the certificate should be easy and free with letsencrypt.
I don't really have any experience with the specifics of the deal you're trying to arrange so id only be guessing, but its essentially a licensing agreement? you're licensing the company to use your software under particular terms, so perhaps research into that a little. Hope that helps.
You people are silly. If Australia is an island, then Antarctica wins. 'Nuff said.

ANTARCTICA 5,400,000 sq mi
AUSTRALIA 2,969,900 sq mi
GREENLAND 836,330 sq mi
Who is the user defrauding? If they're not the site running the ads, they have no business relationship with the ad company, so the ad company really can't reasonably demand of them to only click certain ads.
Modulo the Panama canal.
Same here. was click-baited to another Rust article :D
Kingston will release massive 2TB thumb drive
> 4K 4096 / 2160 = 1.8962962962962964

What most people call "4k" is 3840:2160 (typical 16:9 = 1.77… aspect ratio). At least that's the amount of pixels in most TVs/Monitors I've seen.
Say what you will about government incompetence, but the idea of tying things like my retirement and healthcare to my employer just sounds terrible.

Also, auto-enrolling people into 401K sounds kinda like... ya know... social security.
The documentation site, including the rendering of the page, the accordion menu on the left, and the diagram renderings look a bit buggy and jumbled to me. Would be awesome to use a better solution for documentation. The accordion navigation keeps closing before I can click, clicks don't work etc.
Wow that is a lot of bits. Seriously, that is a LOT of bits. Its almost like they said, "We're sick and tired of people complaining the cable is holding them back, here beat that suckers." :-) I guess the margins on 4K televisions have done better than expected, certainly as a 'feature' driving upgrades they have out performed '3D'.

For me it starts to push up against the question of whether monitor resolution has hit the top of the s-curve. A 9600 x 5400 (10K) screen at 200PPI is 48" x 27". That is a 55" High DPI screen. And while glorious and amazing as that would be, I'm wondering if that would be "main stream" any time soon.
Really? Its been a very good year for me. IIRC approximately 13% returns.
There is a lot of ancillary information provided when you read the news on Reddit. You can see a lot more information about the link, i.e. how popular was it, what do people say about it etc.

That gets lost here.
I kinda agree with you; I run a personal website, it isn't very popular (and I don't update it often - hmm, maybe there's a link there!) - but it is my website, and I've kept the domain active since 1998 or thereabouts.

ie - a "labor of love"

How do I pay for it? Well, I reach around to my back pocket for my wallet, and...

I don't have ads, I don't have a sponsorship, and I don't care - what I have and what I put on my website is strictly for myself and others to use or read as they see fit; I consider it a "giving back" to others out there for what the internet has given me over the years.

...and I am fine with that.

Other sites need to realize this too; not everything is worth money, and if you really love what you're doing, you'd give it away free. Like the internet used to be - everybody doing it for the love of networking and computing and knowledge and information transfer.

Not AOL spam making money crap.
Sales are a big struggle to me. Where did you find this partnerships?
DPRK is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as "North Korea".
Where are you seeing markets as flat over the past year?

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
There was a dozen plus last I worked in the field. There are scores of horror stories related to ad fraud. In particular:

- PPV ads that get stacked. That, several ads laid out on top of each other so that only one (if any at all) is visible.

- PPV ads that get served to bots. Sometimes purposely so, other times as a result of phantom users who replay sessions to build fake profiles for PPC purposes.

- Ad injection that replace legit ads or include new ones via browser toolbars or compromised devices.

- PPC fraud, of course, including some combined with all of the above.

- PPA fraud through cookie stuffing, meaning flooding browsers with cookies to make it look like the traffic originate from where it doesn't.

- PPA fraud through ad injection. Nothing converts better than a popover served via ad injection for the very site you're shopping on.

I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few, but at a high level those are the main ones to be aware of. As an advertiser you generally cannot rely on the stats you're provided with.