skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who runs a business relying on driving customers via google adwords, I'd say use it.

Right now, google adwords are the best way to get my products in front of people. It works and is worth it. I'd love for that not to be the case. Ads are intrusive. Conversion rates are low but the math still makes sense.

As an aside, my business recently started more aggressively running email campaigns for previous (ecommerce) customers to get them back. We saw a huge return for emailing our customers multiple times in a month rather than once a month.

This is awful, as the conversion rate from email to purchase is something like 0.5%. It's still worth it. All those people are opening email after email. So much wasted time. But in the end, email marketing works and is cheap.

Marketing is one big tragedy of the commons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
She does sound younger. I think it's because the 's' is more... lispy. She sounds a bit more valley-speak-ish, although that could just be a result of sounding more natural of course.
No, a backwards religion needs to be stopped. Just like the other backwards religions that are becoming less relevant. Islam is the last bastion, and it encourages other idiots from other religions to use their imaginary friend as a tool for justifying abhorrent behavior.

Before you complain about secular dictators, they're needed to be brutal dictators because of the primitive attitudes held by the people.
It's too bad they don't address state management. Right now it's just showing how to bootstrap a static app without state changes. How do you even update your data in Mithril?
I accepted a lower salary because I went from maintaining a shitty VB6 apps to a company that uses .NET, hoping I could learn something more marketable working there.

It wasn't worth it, they had a bunch of incredibly stupid systems and maintaining these was even worse than the VB6 apps. On top of that they lied to me - I was supposed to work on a new project and instead I worked on sorting out the mess that other programmers made. I noticed that some other people on the team did more or less the same kind of a job, expect their pay was better since they didn't have "junior" in the title.

I will never accept a pay cut again.
should we also keep using COBOL such that those poor COBOL programmers aren't ending up unemployed?

I know this is a contrived illustration ... but you get my point.

it's good if bad bad bad infrastructure is teared down mercilessly. especially if the worst case consequences are first world problems. you're not going to die or starve.

i work in ad industry and it's utterly mesmerising how zombiesque many people do their job ... best thing that could happen to poor schmucks making money by configuring ad network setups is to lose their job and be forced to think about the life and if there is maybe something more worthwhile.
> we have a single unobtrusive banner yet 85% of our users are adblocking; it's not an issue of 'bad ads' as so many like to argue.

Well. I had an idea to fork µblock and add a function to white-list sites that are OK, not flooding me with ads and popups, don't have 4 trackers and have max. 3 social buttons. Whitelist would be made by a community, so you could add your domain, people would visit it and vote to whitelist or not.
wow they really understand moms
In large part thanks to the CAN bus and how jump starting is likely to cause enough spiking to fry the boards.

Was trying to help a relative with some issue with their car the other day, and the wiring diagram for the part and related controls almost seemed to run in reverse depending on how the switch was set.
I think moltex is among the best.
identity politics?
People are against the US/UK from selling weapons, do not feign ignorance that they do not. Selling weapons to terrorist groups is a problem, funding terrorism is a problem. You can not justify one because of the other.
This is basically true, but it's not a perfectly efficient market and it doesn't react immediately. But basically yea, every network has ad fraud and you just build that into your max CPC because at the end of the day everything runs on a CPA/cost-per-conversion basis.
I have used boost::python a lot and later tried pybind11. A lot of people prise it because they consider boost bloated, but in my experiments boost::python is actually 2X faster at runtime (not at compile time). I think I'd rather use boost::python.
The study was done on 13 people for one night in the lab. It's an interesting result, no doubt, but to make any practical conclusions I'd wait for someone to replicate it for thousands of people after months or even years of at home use.
> a legitimate reason.

Which is?

Please don't keep us in the dark, you obviously know something most of us never heard of.
David Moon designed a post-Dylan language called PLOT:

http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/

(Not implemented as far as I know)
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Isn't all this kerfuffle counter productive now? Yeah, no one should like or agree with neo Nazis. But you're giving them free publicity by constantly trying to attack their site and take it down through DDOS attacks and complaints. Seems like a completely pointless waste of time.

On another note, I'm now wondering what would happen if they ever use Nearly Free Speech. According to the FAQ, said site never takes down anything with a court order. Could be a fun 'test' of their free speech claims...
Are you sure newton's method or conjugate gradient isn't going to solve this problem?
I believe that the article is demonstrating some point, and this point is obvious. It's not a scientific article, and even though author does not provide information about data source that doesn't mean that there is no data source.
My biggest recommendation is: form your own opinions and make your own informed decisions around tooling/frameworks/libraries and so on. Front-end development is very opinionated, there are a lot of egos flying around and everyone like a used car salesman wants to sell you something and tell you how great it is.

Don't let anyone tell you Javascript is a mistake learning, because while it has its flaws so do many other languages. Learn the bad parts and then avoid them like you would any other language.

My front-end stack at the moment is:

- Webpack

- Aurelia Javascript framework

- VueJS

- Sass + Autoprefixer

As for posts, books and whatnot: those are constantly changing and being outdated, so I have no recommendations.
Have to admit, I expected a slightly more general look at the situation here, not just the places where an electrical car does less harm to the environment than a normal one. For example, it might reduce CO2 emissions to have an electric car in London... but at the same time it may be better (and more convenient) to just not have a car there at all. Who cares how good it is for the environment it is if you can't find parking, traffic is a nightmare and there are many better options involving public transport?
Aka "javascript is not a real language", I thought we were done with that since almost a decade :)

Maybe you should consider that just because a language doesn't work like what you're used to, it doesn't mean it's a bad language. Because saying nowadays that javascript is not worth learning sounds pretty absurd. Sure, you can live without it. But that's probably the most useful language to know as a "second language", for all its various applications and because when you want to add scripting in your tool, you know javascript is a solid choice for its penetration rate.
Ok, it may require changing to a two rate meter then :)

Never actually used an economy 7 tariff myself so I don't know the details but the point is most houses in the UK aren't equipped to have one. However a home-owner choosing to install a charging point for an electric vehicle will probably switch to a suitable metering setup for economy 7 whilst they're at it.
Jay, sorry to say this, but I don't get your product. I'm coming from the IoT space myself and I'm having trouble understanding what your offering is. Is it a reverse proxy for my home IoT devices so I don't have to expose them via PortForwards? If yes, how does that work?
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> It's hard to understand the level of _schadenfreude_ that warrants use of AdNauseam.

Have you seen modern ads? They're a direct security threat, a threat against privacy and, many would argue, a considerable social ill. AdNauseam represents one of the few available means of direct action against the ad industry. Personally, I think it's a great idea.

In fact, I would argue that until the ad networks take responsibility over the security implications of their actions, using AdNauseam is the ethical thing to do.
Nuclear power plants are vaporizing WATER, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas! :)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Barnett Cocks
That should be relatively easy to detect, since the actors must have an account with Google, through which they receive payments for ad clicks. Google would just have to find a copy of the malware, and see which accounts the clicks are targeted at.

What I’m talking about would be impossible to detect, since it just amounts to regular users clicking regular ads. But it would also be more challenging to profit from, so it would amount to sabotage more than a profit scheme, unless somehow coupled with short-selling Google stock (a bit more far-fetched, admittedly).
Static? That's half true.

let planets;
let planetFilter = planet => true;

The planets variable is static in this example, but planetFilter changes. The "Voila, it works" link near the bottom of the essay leads to a live demo: https://brlewis.github.io/2017/planets.html

Was there a particular aspect of state management you want to hear more about? I'm thinking of a follow-on post. Not sure whether the next one should be state or build system.
Mithril does a global diff, so if the data used in your view functions has changed the view will be updated..
Does that work in several versions of different rendering engines that date back a decade, at resolutions from 800x600 to an iMac 5K screen? How about on tablet and mobile devices? What happens when the user's scroll position is half way down the page? Does it listen for events to update or close itself?

A good modal library is going to weigh in at a few thousand lines of code across JS, CSS and HTML for a reason. If you have a simpler use case then you don't need all that extra edge case handling, but that doesn't mean it's not pointless code.
It's end-to-end-encrypted between the proprietary WhatsApp clients, but they might very well scan things inside of the WhatsApp client.
I feel like every time you point out a design flaw in go, the response that hand-waves away your concerns contains advice that's even more absurd than the problem you were originally pointing out.

Can't get stack traces from third-party errors? Maintain all of your dependencies! Tired of reimplementing common math functions? Just cast all your numerics to double! And so on...
Also consider what to do if you don't like your new job. (My situation). After spending a ton of money and dragging family through untold stress to make the big move, you're stuck in a job that isn't that suitable to your strengths or interests. You have to worry about your performance all the time, work late, and have no particular interest in the subject beyond making the next mortgage payment. Any financial buffer you have now will be shot in no time in SV, whereas presumably in the midwest you have enough buffer to take some time experimenting.

That said, perhaps that's one upshot of SV over Seattle. If you don't like your job in the big 5, there are lots more options from startups and mid-range companies to choose from. Seattle isn't quite as deep, especially east side. Granted, I haven't tested those waters, so maybe it's deeper than I realize.
I've had on/off problems for a couple years now with a usb powered audio interface (focusrite 2i2) causing popping sounds from speakers--recognisable as a DC thump but happening every few hours. Once I fixed it by using a powered usb hub, but a change in PC hardware made it come back. Eventually I found a support post from the manufacturer saying that you had to use the provided USB cable, and that others weren't supported. I'd changed mine for ergonomic reasons (it's short as hell) and this turned out to be the problem.

I've been wanting to know exactly what's different about the usb cable for a while. And if other devices expecting a standard cable might have problems using it.
I just realized that I've worked with quite a few CIA plants, especially in the insurance industry.
Nah. These are emulators built not to just run the games, but to be have as closely as possible to the real hardware companies were shipping for years.

This means that if a game that worked on actual hardware is not working in emulation, the emulator is no behaving accurately enough compared to the hardware.
Oh, you're right. The state management was so subtle that it actually didn't click when I read it. I don't understand how it knows to rerender though? From what I can tell you're just setting the variable planetFilter and that's it, while with React you would have to do a setState to register it.
Do you prefer spreading the pollution over the vast area around the thermal power plants? Because that's the current alternative in most of the countries. Nuclear waste is treated securely enough for now in Europe, and future may bring us scientific development to resolve this problem in future.
If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if to many users websites are much shittier than they were five years ago. No wonder so many people I know pretty much exclusively stay within the clean confines of facebook for much of their information consumption...
> Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream.

It wouldn't surprise me if a Western government (probably the UK's) considers introducing legislation to require exactly this in the not-too-distant future, most likely under the guise of preventing the spread of extremist propaganda.

If they do, companies like Facebook and YouTube will face a choice between acceding to the new regulation or incurring punitive fines. Guess which option most of them will choose?

The only way we can prevent George Orwell's vision from becoming a reality is if we build a more decentralised web. However, that also threatens the walled gardens' revenue streams.
What triggers these global diffs?
I don't think the trouble of scavenging, testing and grouping the laptop batteries is worth it. The cheapest quality cells I've found costs around 210 euro for 1 kwh. To reach the same capacity you would need ~17 healthy laptop batteries @ 60wh.

With all the added work, buying just one type of cell seems way better. But really, why not buy deep cycle lead acids and an auto-watering system? No hype!
And the study had 13 participants. They did two runs one with the snake-oil noise and one without. Can you even call it a study? With such a small numbers the study can show any random thing you want, from reducing feet odour to increasing yawn count. Even if it worked it's poorly designed because it assumes that the benefits fade away, ie. are not present on the 2nd day. Would be probably better to split them half and give stimulation then sham and for other half other way around (tip. don't split one senior in half!).
That's the usual mental gymnastics I often see on HN.
The part of a system which monitors these changes (well, it mostly monitors single number, performance on a test set) isn't represented in the network itself.

You can train dialogue NLP system as much as you wish, but you'll never get answers to a question "Have you learned this training set already?" which correlate with whether performance on the test set have plateaued.

I wouldn't call it awareness. We are certainly aware that one part of the system monitors another part, the system itself isn't.
Not to mention that if I understand correctly, even within Christian circles Mark is considered the 'lesser' gospel as far as accuracy goes. I might be wrong about that though.
I enjoyed the refills because they made the strategic aspect more interesting. Also, the two tyre suppliers.
I sympathise with your need to earn a living, and struggling to do that without advertising revenue, but asking people not to block advertising on the web is asking them to run their systems without a crucial component of their malware protection.

However eloquent your case, I will not disable my anti-virus for your sake. If your site makes an effort to prevent my visit as a result of my security choices, I will respect it, otherwise I am ignorant of who runs third-party code on their site that has proven time and time again to be unsafe.
Dockerfile is the best thing Docker has to offer. Simple, text-based, easy to learn, consistent enough for practical use. What's the problem?
I think each of those are broad and sweeping and show just how bad the advertisement has become.
>pricing would reflect acceptance of a certain level of fraud, and that the price would balance out at a point where these fake clicks were part of the equation.

This is how it is, bur nobody says it aloud
Very much this. In fact I would suspect the extreme opposite is performed, by anorexic hyper miling people looking at the wind directions for any possible advantage - the brake pedal never to be touched.

I took my old (APR ECUd, rear sway bars, otherwise stock) turbo charged Polo GTI on the Winston racetrack once (V8 trucks practice day) to work on my driving skills, and it was surprising - but not at all unreasonable - to see the remaining fuel in KMs estimate perform a complete nosedive.

The fuel efficiency numbers of the F1s are truly awesome.
Fermi and Szilard (2003)
Interesting. From my own experiments a pair of soft earplugs and night blinders on eyes does the trick for me. Sometimes when I am under massive stress, adding a winter cap helps a lot to get wonderful quality sleep.
I hate the idea of AdNauseam clicking ads, like another thread says the big ad-covered sites will have the resources to protect against this. This just punishes the random bloggers who have slapped adsense on their site.

Allowing loopholes though - Isn't that how Adblock Plus first introduced their pay to win system? My bet would be these guys are going to start taking payments for whitelisting.
Then I don't understand.

If (say) 20% of the 85% now using ad-blockers were convinced that they are hurting you, and stop using the ad-blocker, what will change?

I am assuming that the "conversion rate" (i.e. people actually clicking on the ads that they now see) will be very near to 0%.
"In practice, the forced revelation of information makes individual privilege and power more important. When everyone has to play with their cards on the table, so to speak, then people who feel like they can be themselves without consequence do so freely -- these generally being people with support groups of like-minded people, and who are neither economically nor physically vulnerable. People who are more vulnerable to consequences use concealment as a method of protection: it makes it possible to speak freely about controversial subjects, or even about any subjects, without fear of harassment."

-- Yonatan Zunger, former chief architect, Google+

https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/WegYVNkZQqq

There are further historical lines of reasoning. Hacker News and its editors don't care to see them discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105784
> This is why I am orienting my frontend work towards Web Components.

...

> There are several libraries/frameworks
> browser support for the spec isn't fully there.

The irony is lost on frontend developers
Small time bloggers switched to affiliate schemes ages ago
https://libraries.io/
I've tried suggesting to smaller teams on social media that they make their data public. What do they have to lose? No responses.
They would, however the implementation is now reduced to something you'd happily copy and paste into a code base. Part of what's novel is how the iterative step size is chosen. The Distance function can be very shallow in some cases, so if one wanted to use a root finder it would probably be wise to use an off the shelf implementation.
yes but for non trivial us of ev's you have to upgrade the grid and domestic supply which is not going to be cheap and don't for get that a lot of uk housing stock (flats older houses) does not have of street parking
I'm not. Several of the people in the centre of this drama have a number of Twitter posts saying things like "kill all men" and "all men are terrible" etc. I'm completely willing to believe that these 4 people have a lot of fun, and a lot of invested identity, in being "offended" by things white men do. It doesn't reflect on his character all that much to me.
To create a facebook account, you need either mobile phone number or email.

To have an email, you still need a mobile phone number to register for gmail (the most popular choice).

To have a mobile phone number, you need your passport or ID.

Yes, in some cases you can get phone numbers without passport, but then again you can also get IDs and fake passports easily in China if you want.
This is already the case for any substantial public posting. In order to get a crappy virtual web host that's not even on your own domain name one needs to supply a national ID number. For a virtual machine a corporation with an ICP license is required. This number must be displayed on every web site. It's evil. Their Twitter copy already requires ID. Anyone with a substantial following is known to authorities. I wonder if this new push to cripple the internet will kick off unidentified WeChat users.

Leaving aside political effects, this regime makes it very difficult to innovate. A Chinese developer just starting out can't just just rent a VM to show off his work. I helped someone get a webapp running on one of the big Chinese cloud service and it's really, really awful. Exactly what you would expect from an industry completely protected from competition by government.
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so preact for vue? how is this not called prevue?
It's practically impossible for any type or reactor to "blow up". Nuclear weapons are very different from reactors.

The most dangerous types of reactor is graphite moderated ones. (Because graphite burns lot more readily than water.) Practically all of the actually severe accidents happened with those. They have not been built since Chernobyl.