skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about it some more, conservative users are also a factor. If we change anything, we impose additional cost on our customers, which have to retest, redeploy and retrain. So it's not easy for this reason alone.

When you have a platform for internal use only (or a platform that is available free of charge without any warranties), you can decide to make a change by fiat.

We would like to "move fast and break things", but our customers unfortunately don't appreciate that sentiment.
Well, if that’s true, within of months, half of websites will have to search for a new ad network, and we might get a chance at less intrusive ads.
It's even in the title of this thread. 10k progressive @ 120Hz. ;)

So, no, not 144Hz.
Business is at best amoral & often actively immoral. For those of us with a conscience, we must sacrifice profit in the name of not being horrible people, or allow capitalism to turn us into horrible people.

It's not an easy decision.
44. My memory is definitely a little worse than when young, and I think I've probably slowed down somewhat in the absolute sense. But I also have 21 years of experience to build on, which is quite the accelerator.

New tech is frequently old concepts applied in a new way. Once you recognize those core concepts and can find older analogies, you're way ahead. In the end it's a net gain.
As a 30 year old I think of the same. I'm trying to not spend the next 30 years being sedentary in a office.

I'm trying to pick of all kinds of outdoor hobbies I can do year around.
There's nothing wrong with using tape for storage. And nothing wrong with the Empire's storage facility as depicted in Rogue One. I think there's an underlying belief that tape is "old fashioned" which is nonsense.
The good software companies I've worked for had a culture where people are able and empowered to push back on terrible ideas. The best ones are where that behavior is not just possible but expected.
Alarming levels of hypertension found in the general public
I run a network of online vinyl lettering design sites I have written over a period of 5 years. I started with the custom cart platform on asp.net MVC and just one website. It is a multi tenant platform with end to end web to print capability. The designers are built in Knockout in a modular way so bits and pieces can be tweaked depending on the use. The Racing site is written in Durandal so not all of the code has been rewritten. I now have 4 websites on the platform. I also wrote a stand alone cloud based service to handle the image generation (http://ionapi.com) and outputting vector files for production. It was originally intended to be open but I have gotten so swamped handling production it hasn't materialized. Most of the nuts and bolts of it are there, but no documentation. I do have it setup behind HAproxy and load balanced on several servers.

I farm out most of the production process but handle customer service. I originally got into all of this to be a side income to supplement web consulting. I have since concluded I hate all of the baggage that comes along with dealing with small town local businesses. I have been fortunate enough to be able to move into a bigger facility for production now and intend to do some work in house now along with hiring an employee or two rather than farm out.

A few of my sites:

Image Generation API - https://ionapi.com
Boat Decals - https://boatdecals.biz
Race Graphics - https://racegraphics.com
I think it depends on the enterprise I recall when I worked at a big telco in the UK a stat that we delivered 80% better than the average - I though "Huh company propaganda" - but when I worked for other Large companies I was shocked a how crap they where.

Then again my division was the direct heir to Tommy Flowers group and at the time had more engineers than Google had employees.
3x 17.3 inch screens < one 40" screen

The 40" will have double the surface area. And can be had for under $500!

http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-usage/pc-monitor/best
I run https://www.instapainting.com by myself amd it started as a single page with a stripe checkout form.
The dog, in this case, is protecting their property. They're not in your yard, you're in their yard. So get out of their yard if you don't like the dog.
Ok just read through again.. you did allud to some of the rationale... my bad!
If he's been doing serious road biking since that age it's probably not something that he's doing on regular streets. Or, he's not just hopping on a bike and taking a leisurely ride down the street for groceries anyway.
Contracts will soon be vetted by hackers, not lawyers
The question is about places like Boise, ID. Philly is usually considered a large city, even if its tech scene isn't particularly well known.
Better idea: let's not allow dirty ships to enter US/EU ports. close the "international loophole" that enables such egregious pollution (and workers' rights abuses). All ships entering US ports must conform to US emissions regulation, not the phony in-name-only "flag" they stamp on the ship of the nation with the least regulation.
Interested in that blog post, but you don't have your blog linked in your profile or anywhere.
John Podesta.

@pwnallthethings provided good context for this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/81662155364329472...
I've always thought 2.0 was a relatively disappointing upgrade over the previous standard. It felt like it should've had at least twice the bandwidth it ended up having. This is looking much better.

Also, considering how disappointing 2.0 was, yet it still got the "2.0" name, this should be at least a 3.0, especially with a new cable coming. The only reason I see them using "2.1" is because they don't want TV and laptop makers to yell at them for making their devices look awfully obsolete just a few years later. But it's probably going to confuse users and it's going to hurt adoption of 2.1-enabled devices.
Well, since you bring it up, Australia isn't connected to another continent by land like North America is (as are Europe, Africa, and Asia). You'd have to say "the Americas" are an island, or "Afro-Eurasia"
> even though arguments can be made whether it is technically a continent, or merely part of a larger continent also called Australia

A technicality. While people thinking Greenland is bigger than Australia is not, which is the point I was trying to get across.
And they're locking users out of their data.
The upside here is that you can blacklist based on some identifiable information as long as it can be easily confirmed.

I dealt with quite a few mentally ill antagonists when moderating Quora.

The best thing to do though is to let them use your service, but to shadow ban them as much as possible, and ideally make them think they aren't.

Feel free to contact me if you want to chat further.
How about 4k @ 144Hz? I prefer display port anyway but am curious anyway.
Fortunately Chromium is open source. I would hope that linux distros downstream would patch this anti-feature.
I run Pinboard, $257K in gross revenue for 2016. A ton of money for one person, not quite enough for two people.
They might! The case they would have to make seems pretty shaky to me, but legislators have done some things that seem pretty ridiculous to me in the past, and I am sure there is plenty more coming.

That doesn't make acting in such blatantly bad faith until you are able to take legal action forgivable.
I run https://mapchart.net .

It is a simple tool that lets you create custom maps of the World, USA, Europe, UK, France and more. I treat is as a side-project, but I am constantly adding new maps or expanding some features.

The biggest advantage is that it costs almost nothing to maintain it, as it is completely client-side, so the only cost is the basic hosting plan. I launched it almost 2 years ago and right now it is the no.1 search result for queries related to creating maps and gets an occasional boost from Reddit posts or other blogs.
Can you break this one down for me? I'm really trying.
There is a difference between disagreeing with positions and judging past actions. Rice didn't have fringe opinions that she occasionally ranted about on Facebook. The stuff on drop-dropbox.com was her full-time job, her life's work.

> refusing to work with people because you dislike their politics is, in general, not a smart thing to do

Like vaccinations, it can be effective when most people do it. I think (hope) many companies would have declined the chance to work with her.
How? Isn't it connected to South America?
This guy ran a marathon under 3 hours at 70, and under 4 hours at 85.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Whitlock
Try deploying your apps on drie push for free
I have yet to see a chromebook with an SD reader that wasn't USB2.0

Slow external storage that doesn't interface properly is no replacement for a fast internal drive.A m.2 slot isn't that big. There's no excuse to not add one.
Although I despise ads, I have to admit your tech is nice.

Do you do automatic image segmentation, or are these images "hand-labeled" (I can not imagine that would scale)? If it's automatic - is it calculated server-side or client-side?
Most of what I've learned has been from examples from co-workers, but I've also used the IBM knowledge center and the IBM "Redbooks".

I think the Redbook titled z/OS Basics has some JCL examples and exercises in it.

I also found this through a quick search: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm...
Cultural challenges is just as a big of a component as the technical challenges
The BCC was never profitable enough with constantly declining revenues. Patrick ended 2016 with $120,000 in debt and working in Stripe to pay it down.

Probably, revenues started to decline after bragging about them.
May I ask: if one is not "famous" (i.e. popular), why should one expect their site to be profitable from ads alone?

If my limited edition, 250-prints-per-month 'zine isn't making money, is that the advertising industry's fault, or is there an issue with my expectations?

People ask the "how do we fix dwindling ad-based revenue" question all the time. The answer is clear, it's just not what people want to hear: metered paywalls or a subscription model (or, you know, selling an actual product / service).

The inevitable response to that is, 'but I don't make enough money off of that.'

Well, there you go! To me, that's where it should end. You don't have enough of a readership to support your website as-is. That means you can continue doing it as a labor of love, scale it down to something you can manage and that is profitable, or just, well, accept that your site isn't as great as you thought it was, and that you won't be making as much money off of it as you thought.

Isn't this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere.
Use medium for discoverability and readability
Use GitHub pages /Jekyll to keep inline with FOSS
Ideal solution
Host on GitHub pages with cross linking to custom domain medium post
One thing I've always admired about Apple is that they use no third-party scripts. And I thus always think "If that works for Apple, which is arguable the most successful company, why don't other companies follow their successful model?" I still have no good answer to that question.

Also, I followed this troyhunt.com post to the "Ad blockers are part of the problem" post - which I found to be an even more interesting read, particularly:

"When ad blockers are stooping to the same low level as advertisers themselves are in order to force their own agendas, something is very, very wrong. Deliberately modifying sites like mine which are making a conscious effort to get us away from the very things about ads that led to ad blockers in the first place makes them part of the problem. Ad blockers like this need to clean up their act."

And because he is "famous", the ad blocker did clean up its act - for his site. Sucks all around in my opinion.
Celcius makes sense, because 0 degrees is water freezing temperature which is the whole point. So for the rest of the world -1 is negative temperature and +1 is positive. What could be more obvious than that?
This Winemaker Is Pulling Back the Curtain on the Price of Wine
To be fair, there are few, if any, 10-years-old JS frameworks that one can still be productive with.

Well, there's jQuery, which is still fine for very small things (an animation here, an AJAX call there), but is totally inadequate if you need to build a rich UI of the kind commonly expected now. You'll spend less time learning something like React or Vue and implementing things in it than you'd spend fighting with the callback hell and manually crafted state machines.
> I'd rather have national high speed rail.

I'd rather have national "high efficiency" healthcare. Think of how many medical schools, hospitals, and MD scholarships could be created with $112B. That's how you really "fix" healthcare.
But what if you clicked on no ads at all? Doesn't that make the profile equally irrelevant?
I run a site that teaches organic chemistry online. Started in 2010. 7 million visits last year. Most content is free, but has some "cheat sheets" and other study guides that are for sale. I have some contractors for various tasks but am the only employee. http://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/blog
Japanese firm replaces 34 employees with IBM AI package
You can only edit for ~2 hours after you post.
No (it doesn't surprise me). I figured it would be banned at some point, it is essentially click fraud but with a (noble?) purpose. And once it reaches enough critical mass to be annoying (and by annoying I mean interfering with other analytics) it would be dealt with.

I certainly resonate with the issue of advertising getting ridiculous (and love Troy Hunt's response) but don't begrudge Google their right to not help people mess with their income stream.
Except it's on-demand as the bus fills up rather than on set schedules.

It's conceptually a different model. a 10 person van stays at point A, leaves when full, and drops people off along the line on demand rather than having set stops, and doesn't pick people up.
If google bans legitimate publishers, then the advertisers move elsewhere.

Also, increased click fraud on tracking ads lowers their attractiveness, nudging ad revenue toward sites that serve display ads targeted to their content.

This helps funnel money to sites that produce high quality content and away from low quality sites that happen to attract users that view high quality content elsewhere.
And as plutocrats have always done, they will find scape-goats to slaughter.

Until one of the scape-goat Shepard proofs a little harder to steer and the whole fun adventure slides into civil war. Thus ended the lesson.

The funny thing is that right now, the mercenary part of the us-army is another repeated mistake , the old Romans did.
Once the US ceases to be a green-card dream, why should those soldiers fight and die for a unreachable price?
And you do not simply "pacify" those angry plebs with bread and games.
What pacified them was the chance to one day be a patrician- the dream of having your own little thiefdom, with surplus to feast and a future secured.

I think it would be a good idea, to see Trump, Bezos and Thiel learn to play the Lute- and form a band called "Romes End". </sarcasm>
Good thing we're all switching to USBC for everything, apparently, since it doesn't have that problem.

http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/usb-typ...

Oh.... :-/
Sorry I don't know much about this sort of thing. It's just something that seemed conceptually possible? It's no mystery why Google would want all the data GA creates, but I've always wondered why e.g. Piwik isn't more popular.
I disagree: version management of that source is not the job of the JS file but the CDN and/or package manager (npm, jspm, what have you). If the CDN you had been using did not provide a way to version the JS you retrieve from it, I would suggest you look for a better CDN.

I can't say that I've even seen a CDN without versioning support; the closest I've seen is that some READMEs for GitHub packages will suggest the RawGit CDN that reflects the GitHub namespace and point to something like the master branch instead of a version tag. I've sent a PR to correct at least one of those that I had come across, but it's also something to realize that if you are using a CDN like RawGit, check the tag/branch you are using.
Exactly. Dongles can suck, but it's pretty sweet that you can buy a new dongle to upgrade to a later spec or different port. I'm sure we'll see TB3 HDMI2.1 dongles.
DisplayPort works very well for high-resolution and high-refresh-rate monitors (and also support things like FreeSync), why would you want HDMI?
Just issuing a GET doesn't cause a somebody to be charged.

It's a process involving delivering specific tracking cookie along with the ad that should you end up clicking through to the intended destination gets tracked through either more cookies or tags in the URL.
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That is Google AdWords mostly, used by themselves.
I like to adapt food writer Michael Pollan's quote [1] about industrial agriculture to describe cars: by relying on automobiles to get around, we've taken one solution (walking or biking to get somewhere and get exercise at the same time) and divided it into two problems (being sedentary and creating pollution).

[1] See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html
In fact I agree, and if a perfect player were available, pro players would quickly get better at taking handicap!

What I really wanted to express is the amount of headroom available between top players and perfect play. When I say nine stones, I mean, whatever the win rate is between an idealized 9p and 8p player, there would be nine more such steps between the 9p player and god. Probably more. I don't necessarily mean that god would have even odds giving nine stones to top players, because that's a different game.

However, I have seen enough games where strong amateurs are taken apart with shockingly high handicaps by top pros, especially in faster games, to wonder. I think we simply fail to imagine how strange perfect play would be. Even if a pro spent the rest of their life thinking about the next move, they are unlikely to find the one true best move. A player that always played that move would be so far ahead of anything we've seen that we just can't imagine how much better it would be. Imagine knowing at move 10 that the best move, given perfect play by both, leads to a 3.5 point win in 256 more moves, while the second-best move leads to a 2.5 point win after 310 moves. Just stating it this way shows the amount of headroom there is above human play.
Back in August I launched https://IndieHackers.com, a site where the founders of profitable online businesses share their stories and revenue transparently. I actually got the idea after reading lots of threads like this one on HN :D

Indie Hackers is my full-time job now. Is it "successful"? I think so! I've done over 90 interviews, and they've been read over one million times in the past 5 months, largely by you guys! I also made $2239 in December and hope to grow revenue another 50% in January. (As I do every month, I just blogged about that here: https://IndieHackers.com/blog)

I'm working on a podcast as well that I'm really excited about, as I've found it's a bit easier to get famous founders to agree to that format and to speak transparently about behind the scenes details.
This is really cool. I don't have use for it at this very second, but may in a few months to offload some uploads out of my infrastructure.
Yes, the combo of read/data and poke was the preferred way to combine Basic and assembly on the C64 also. Technical magazines like The Transactor consisted of program listings that were nothing but these statements and lots of numbers. I believe 169 is LDA, if memory serves...
In addition to the vertical whitespace, also (I feel) there's too much text there. I would just put

"Headless Browser Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that's free for light use, and cheap for heavy use."

in as big a font as I can without it being annoying and move everything else lower, visible when the page is scrolled. Add a diagram if you could that supports the core product offering. Don't add carousels (please.)

Little bits help in ways we could never measure.
Have you tried Cygwin vim in mintty?

Also, Emacs has a mode where it'll run as a Cygwin process, but use native win32 widgets. I've found using it to be the most pleasant way of interacting with Windows systems.

When I was at Microsoft, I joked that I wasn't so much running "Windows" as GNU/NT. :-)
My Razer DeathAdder (which I bought because it was the top pick on the Wirecutter) lasted about a year before it started giving me phantom clicks. I bought the DeathAdder after a similarly priced Logitech bricked itself after about six months.

These days, I just buy cheap wired mice, because I don't really trust the expensive ones.
aren't there enough male and female soldiers in the military with enough reproduction capacity ?
I don't see we should have to learn a new language for this at all.

The set based paradigm of SQL lends itself very well to reporting and processing files, and is known by 7 million people.

SELECT extension, count(*) FROM files GROUP BY extension ORDER BY extension;

We built a tool, free for personal use, that does SQL at the command line

http://etia.co.uk
Can I ask if there's a good way to keep bookmarks synced between Chrome and Firefox? I know about Xmarks[1] but I'm just curious if there's another way that doesn't involve storing my bookmarks on a third party.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xmarks-sync/
Speaking of growth -- what is Google's hiring position on growth? Would Google hire a "plateaued" senior SWE for a senior SWE role? Or does a candidate have to demonstrate a capacity for growth at all levels?

Internally, I believe we were told that all SWEs were expected to be capable of growing into a level 5 (senior SWE) role, and it was "OK" to not be promoted any higher.

So if somebody was hired in their 20s, it would be reasonable to expect they'd plateau at level 5 by 40, and would have shown most of their growth in their late 20s and early 30s. Would you hire this same person?
Please don't go the web developer (javascript) path; node, react, webpack, etc.. It will drive you nuts, things keep changing radically in a very high pace and can take quite some time before you feel comfortable in this crazy field.

I would choose python, ruby(or crystal), c++, c#, etc.. and stay away from the browser, unless you have a very good reason to write for that.
Where they have external paying users, they still operate the software for them (i.e. provide it as a service), so they have access to all what these customers are doing.

It's not a lame excuse, unfortunately, there is a very real barrier of trust when you talk to a coworker (even from another group) and when you talk to a customer. At the very least, you can agree on a common schedule.

IMHO it's not a coincidence that the blog listed those companies as more "nimble".
Editing might be a good idea, it now sounds as if you have no clue what's going on while in a subcomment you mention it was just a mistake (can happen).
I would have bought the chromebook pixel if it had an upgradeable SSD. You can use regular linux on them and the machine itself was great hardware in every other way (a friend had one). A macbook with 4-8x the storage was the same price, so it became an obvious choice. Once again, Google just didn't know their market...
Life as an adult is fundamentally and naturally about responsebilites and obligations - and most men no longer are able to cope with those because they bought into the illusion of life long youth - aka Peter Pan syndrome.
So, in some cases, you're advocating just closing up shop?