skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to love Flattr's general concept, but from a product management perspective, I'm more than skeptical these changes will drive adoption. They don't make it easier for creators, and consumers now have a default-spending process running with questionable privacy implications, instead of making conscious decisions about whom to support.

That being said, I think the general model of Flattr is really great and I've always wondered why the Flattr button wasn't more widely adopted. It seemed like the perfect solution to publishers' monetization crisis.

- The transaction happens directly between consumer and creator, without a detour through ads (yes, there is a payment provider involved, but it's a lot more direct through Flattr)
- I can pay after I actually consumed the content, when I have full information about its usefulness for me (unlike subscription models and paywalls)
- There is a feedback mechanism built in, that lets content creators know what consumers consider pay-worthy.

What I would have loved to see was an analysis of key inhibiting factors and then a few well-researched product decisions and how they will remove these inhibitors.

I'm worried by Flattr's statement in this post, saying (paraphrased) 'we're not sure how many of you are going to like these changes, but we don't really have any guidance to go by'.

Creators still have to sign up with Flattr, so the only thing that's easier for them is that they don't have to add the button to their sites anymore.

Consumers still have to manage their payment details and amount per payment cycle, what's easier for them is that they don't have to press the button anymore. But this removes the conscious act of explicitly supporting something I liked to a default mode of supporting everyone on whose site I spend a certain amount of time, no matter if I actually liked what I found there (if I understand the new model correctly).

Yes, I can go in afterwards and remove sites from the list of sites I give money to, but that seems much more tedious than pressing a Flattr button once per article/post/whatever that I actually enjoyed and want to consciously support. Now I need to be careful about who I give money to.

I'd like me spending money to be a conscious decision, not an automated process running by default in the background.
Well, children sometimes die, so you need some spares.
Yeah typo my bad.
How many smokers are health conscious enough to know that they have a B12 deficiency but not health conscious enough to quit smoking?
We aren’t talking about people moonlighting as developers. We’re talking about people in the industry working on software every waking hour.

Roughly 220 work days a year, 5 hours a day at work if you are full time, 6 if you dabble a bit outside of office hours, that’s around 5 years out of school, which isn’t too far off from my experiences prior to Malcolm Gladwell.
"When you make money with Flattr, Flattr expects you to give this money back to other authors you like."

Not true, from the FAQ:

How do I withdraw money I have received?
You need to have a valid bank account associated with your profile. You can then request a withdrawal. This works worldwide as long as your bank accepts international bank transfers.
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A lot of people have issue with the fact they allow certain ads through if the publisher pays them enough. They claim that these ads are not aggressive or distracting, but the optics are pretty bad. A for profit ad-blocking company that makes money from ads.
But schools don't have an incentive to hand out a low grade C where the student deserves an A. And schools can't advertise that: hey! We give out high grades then other schools, come study with us!
Ryzen Mobile Is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
Hey guys, this is Jan, co-founder of Apify.

Two years ago we showed HN Apifier - a hosted web crawler for developers - during our time in the Y Combinator Fellowship.

Today we're launching the largest upgrade of Apifier to date - a new product called Actor and a complete redesign of our website. Also, we changed our name to Apify.

Actor is a new serverless computing platform that enables execution of arbitrary pieces of code in the Apify cloud (we call them "acts"). For example, you can have an act to run a web automation job in headless Chrome with Puppeteer, to post-process data from the crawler in order to remove duplicates or to upload new contacts into your CRM. The possibilities are unlimited.

We also launched a library (https://www.apify.com/library), where you can find acts and crawlers built by other people and share yours to support the web scraping community. There are already several acts and people are adding new ones almost every day.

We're really looking forward to hearing what you think about Actor and to seeing what you can built with it. If you have any ideas, questions or feedback, just let us know on support@apify.com or here.
It's important in the way papers are referenced.

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-citations-harvard#activat...

> If a source has three or more authors, the name of the first author should be given, followed by the phrase "et al".

It might be good if this wasn't the case, but since it is, it's a realistic concern for authors.

Beyond that, really the reason will be that this is what people the people who decide your funding see.

Perhaps a useful example would be like saying if you have more than a few people in your team, anyone referring to your project must say "Alan's team" because Alan's name is the first in the list, even if they're a junior or part time. This is what your bosses see come promotion time, all that great work like Alan's team (2016) and who can forget the amazing piece of work Alan's team (2015).
For creators: Because (assuming it gains a decent userbase) Flattr will give you money from people that not explicitly subscribe to you.

For users: because it'll spread your contribution between people who made the content you consume, without individually selecting them and managing that distribution over time. It'll automatically distribute it between sites you visit.

It doesn't handle the exact same thing as Patreon, nor are they mutual exclusive.
> In terms of stress, moving ranks just under death and divorce

Even more accurately, moving generally accompanies these events, and other painful life disruptions.

Meeting someone in the process of moving is often to meet someone on one of the worst days of their lives.

Source: worked at a U-Haul rental counter throughout high school
The drug industry is actually fairly close to that model:

1. You can't advertise any benefit without having a clinical trial (funded by the company) showing that benefit.

2. A strict (every 6 months) inspection of manufacturing facilities.

3. You're required to list the ingredients, and the inspections make sure you're using them.

4. All known side effects are required (found during aforementioned clinical trials) to be listed.

By contrast, the FDA is specifically prohibited from applying these regulations to the supplement industry. Unsurprisingly, many studies have found that the companies involved don't even bother to put the active ingredients in the pills.
I don't get that either. Eyeo is a german company, so the rather strict german privacy laws now apply to flatter. I think thats a good thing.
AMD Introduces the World’s Fastest Processor for Ultrathin Notebooks
>Communism is anti-worker because it leads to rampant rent-seeking by political organizers responsible for coordinating the provision of collectively owned capital goods

Can you expand on what you mean by this, please? If I understand it correctly, you're saying that organisers of the means of production would draw benefit which is not distributed to the collective of people who "own" the means of production. How would they do this?

I think it is important also to note that capital requires circulation, as in M-C-M', which not only requires money but also the value-form - these two things are what the Communists desire to render useless through the collective control of means of production.

There are strong currents in Communism which are anti-bureaucracy, and insist on models which do not place the economic organisers of a lower-stage Communist society to be above others in terms of access to goods. As I understand it, within Communist society a line is drawn between end goods and goods which will be used for further production.

What is the justification for separating natural resources from other forms of capital? They require labour to extract, transport and refine so in my view they are as much capital as outputs from previous industrial processes.
Based on title I first assumed that this is about signal processing, but then came the disappointment.
That was really interesting, thank you for sharing!
Can Microsoft’s “Hologram” Maker Become the New Sears Portrait Studio?
So actually you will see ads as long as Adblock Plus is making money.

It's literally one checkbox to disable the whitelisted ("non-intrusive") ads.
VoltDB is moving more features into the open source edition
This is true not just of social networks, but decentralized technology in general. There's incentive structures that make it cheaper and easier for everyone to outsource everything, and outsourcing in the realm of technology has large economies of scale. Even though email is listed as a premier example of decentralization, it is also de facto centralized around gmail and a few other major providers.

Although, the open standardization and lack of lock-in that email provides is something to shoot for, and seems to be attainable.
Ha, maybe that's why they say "Wild Caught" and not "Wild".
More likely that long-term consumption may be unhealthy for you due to the elevated levels of Red Bull sugar-free you're getting.

Try water.
Regret is not ever rape. I question from what sources you are getting your information if you believe so. What can happen is that someone who was too intoxicated/incapacitated to give consent to sexual activity can make a complaint because sexual activity occurred without voluntary, freely given consent.

If you have power, many things can be considered harassment, which is different than assault. It's similar to the reasoning behind prohibiting psychological therapists from engaging in sexual acts with their patients.

Really, it's pretty simple. Make sure a person can give consent. Don't abuse your status to obtain sex. Don't rape.
The article mentions the farmed fish spread parasites because of the cramped spaces. I’m assuming a greater chance of parasites in farm than in the wild?
However there is no way to switch pages, but simply updating the URL with ?page=3 worked.
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

They're wishy washy with language, but the long and short is that they charge companies to whitelist their ads.
Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti takes fight to AMD RX Vega 56 for $450
Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
This explanation with examples in Python is also pretty awesome IMHO: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/on-recursion-continuation...
P3 instances no doubt provide a powerful platform and is going to be useful for data compression.
Another greeedy group willing to "steal" others' hard work while doing absolutely nothing to contribute value.
Alternative milk types(soy,rice..etc), breakfast cereals also have a lot of B12 supplemented
I use IntelliJ, with LibGDX/Gradle (game development)
I think this is the main reason basically everyone has switched to uBlock Origin. Which, by the way, works quite well.
I met an amateur comedian recently who mentioned he's almost done with his PhD, but will never make back the lost earnings from the time he's invested. Whilst he talked, part of me was thinking 'man, if only your PhD were in machine learning'. I didn't say it out loud, though.

It turned out he's about to complete a PhD in machine learning, but doesn't want to work in Silicon Valley, or for a big company, or in finance (he lives in a financial capital).

Different people have different motivations, but I find it hard to imagine myself choosing the same constraints were I in the same situation.
> To be a modern country, it is hypothesized that the developing country needs immediately adopt American systems, laws, behavior & structures (the Washington consensus, etc.).

Rather than immediately following american "style", it is conjectured that you need to be given america's blessing and be allowed in our international world order.

> China: China is the egg, because they view modernization more or less independent (i.e., democracy is not a necessary).

Britain, Japan, Germany, France, etc all modernized when they weren't a democracy. If we are talking post ww2, south korea, taiwan, singapore, etc all modernized while they weren't real democracies.

You could be a dictatorship and still be part of the american world order - saudi arabia, kuwait, SK/taiwan for most of their history.

> that means more data points to understand how to modernize other parts of the world.

Modernization doesn't require data points. It's simply a political choice. As long as a major power isn't actively preventing you from modernizing, any country can modernize. It's simply a matter of political stability and investing in education and industry.

What makes china unique is that they are building institutions outside of the US world order ( AIIB, RCEP, BRICS, SCO and of course the belt and road initiative ).

https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-emerging-instituti...

But world order doesn't necessarily have anything to do with modernization.
It's not magical to assume that the Chinese are as capable of managing their economies roughly just as everyone else.

The basic rules for managing an economy are well known - all you have to do is follow them.

If you do this - you'll get a minimum level of GDP/wealth etc. just like Poland, Mexico, Serbia or wherever.
Wow this is awesome, It bothers me that one computer on a LAN making a big download, takes over the other devices, causing high latency and connections disruption. I mean we are talking about connectivity, it should not happen.
Yeah, the older you get the more likely you going to get absorption issues.
Still a scam.
As much as I hate it, the problem with taking the github profile as evidence of proficiency is that it's easy to plagiarize, and the applicant has a significant financial incentive to do so. Obviously plagiarizing code samples would be a terrible career strategy, but that doesn't protect you as an employer if you get the one in a thousand con artist who can collect six months' salary before people start to ask difficult questions.
As a European user, that surely is motivating me to sign up. yeah, we got rid of an efficient payment method so you'll be paying even more. But it's userfriendly that way!

Given that the amounts are going to fluctuate anyways, I wonder if tracking multiple currencies would really be so bad?
They are a company so they have to make money (Most of HN readers should relate to that).

Some of this money is also used to fight law-suits, keeping ad blocking legal (at least in germany [1]), something a free solution like ublock origin can not do.

[1] https://www.golem.de/news/adblock-plus-olg-muenchen-erklaert... (german)
My issue here is that screen content today often of very low quality.

It's even worse than TV was 25 years ago (actual TV became worse too during that period).

Even what I'm having on my screen, non-work-related, is information equivalent of trash food.

I now have doubts whether I am comfortable in letting my kid on this crapfest. Case in point: games that have no gameplay, no difficulty, no plot, no information, and exist solely to make spend money via in-app purchases. This of course lets them kill off everything else on market by putting half of that money into advertising.
I agree with everyone that is saying that he is not using the iPad Pro as his main computer, howeve I wouldn’t dismiss using an iPad Pro in a similar method with GUI based development. I’ve done remote troubleshooting with Windows environments with nothing more than my iPad and RDP -even remoting in Tony own desktop and using Visual Studio.

After seeing how badly running a Windows VM on a Mac laptop kills battery and how cheaply you can setup a VM on Amazon, I will probably just use that for Windows development when I get another a Mac. Then again, I have a gigabit internet up and down at home so maybe not.

I could also see using an iPad Pro for a terminal because I have “unlimited” data on my cellular equipped iPad for $20 a mont but I can’t get unlimited fast tethering to a laptop.
And from the middle of the article: two backup servers were also wiped clean on Aug. 9, just as the lawsuit moved to federal court.
This was before there was a concept of Rome's invincibility, their peace with Parthia was not built on Roman success. This was just a lost battle, most noteworthy for setting up Germanicus' retrieval of the lost standards. Not comparable to the hell that was the crisis of the third century.
Probably so! To me, anyone working those kind of hours for any institution other than an enterprise they own is almost surely being exploited. It would help things along if the person were passionate about it, to be sure.
I understand but the students are the ones struggling due to an absent teacher. I’m greatful he wants to do research but jaded due to the fact he doesnt care about the class or students.

My education was subpar due to his lack of effort.
Mobile App Infomania – Infographic
Bittorrent works quite well, in fact.
They have enough cash to not work on a brink of bankruptcy[0] all the time – Valve has great working conditions too.

[0]: http://www.lostgarden.com/2015/04/minimum-sustainable-succes...
How to use Firebase Hosting as your personal HTTP 301 redirector
There is always MethylCobalamin that one can opt for. And also it's manifold more effective.
Are they claiming that installing local spyware is somehow more secure than if they just used third party cookies to track their users usage?

I mean its bad enough that an ad network knows when you goto a participating site, but this would have access to so much more. With zero benefit over using the same techniques google and facebook use to track you.
That's a good distillation of the issue. I have been noodling this idea for a good decade now as it's a huge problem to solve. Even micropayments are still payments that you have to decide to make. Really there should be a 'meter' on your media consumption and your $5/mo (or whatever) gets doled out to the creators of the content you consumed over that month. The problem is how do you equate a small single-authored article that takes me 5 minutes to read versus a 4K professionally-produced video that takes me 5 minutes to watch? Also, how do you handle the rise in fake content that will be even more incentivized to scream for eyeballs?
Once had a huge screw in a brand new Austin Air that I purchased. As soon as it was first turned on, it produced a large banging sound where upon inspection, the rotors of the intake fan had violently been broken off, and a 3 inch screw lay. Austin Air refused to assist with repair or replacement and instructed me to contact Walmart instead. Austin Air used to be my goto brand but their quality has eroded. Many of the newer units have bent metal joints and other abberations but are still sold. Go with another brand, Austin Air does not deserve our business.
I got a Surface Book 3 for $600 and runs Windows 10. The keyboard detaches, and you can install a full dev environment (Ubuntu Linux).
I enjoy providing mentorship and helping out younger developers, but I certainly don't have any responsibility to do so.
If that is the case, I have over-represented the pool of professors, which strengthens the point
I've heard this elsewhere too...but it still boggles my mind that in this day and age, after an airliner crashes in the ocean, it is so often difficult to find.
Off topic but, any tips on stopping? What method worked for you?
And ghostery
Some things to consider about Flattr: you have to install a web browser extension; the extension requires access to your full browsing history; it was bought by the parent company of Adblock Plus, Eyeo.
The meat looks significantly different when comparing wild pacific to atlantic.

But yes, shady fish distributors have been caught selling cheaper fish as the more expensive.
This series perfectly sums up my experience with Android Studio. IntelliJ itself, on the other hand, works every time.
I agree, but the problem with this is that visual design is publicly available, and most professional code is locked behind IP and copyright laws. I can't bring my employer's code base to an interview with another company without risking a heap of legal trouble.
Completely agree with you. Part of the big fight is getting people to understand that tests are an asset and not a liability to working quickly and safely. There's a huge visability problem, in that management doesn't have insight into all the times when a bug wasn't committed because of a unit test. Functional and integration testing doesn't have this problem as much, because those typically have much better visability.
There's always tradeoffs; serious academic pursuit means neglecting physical fitness and life goals (relationships and fun and such). Its easier to recover from time lost on the sportsball path than time lost on the academic path.
I'd never seen/heard of this! Its cool, though humbling...reminds me that we're so small.
Might work. Context here is I prototyped a json dsl to do similar graph-like resolving right on top of a python app as a wsgi middleware. Worked pretty well right on the metal.

With this sort of graphql extension, having generic query power for restful clients is awesome. TBH I think that's pretty great compared to baking graphql clients.
As I commented above, I think they're providing a service with fighting law-suits for ad-blocking.

I use ublock origin myself, but I don't think my parents will ever install it or even read about it.
And a company with an interest to make money might reach them and spread the usage of ad-blockers in general.
This was also a period of time when the USSR was attempting strange, non-traditional methods of espionage and intelligence gathering, which, like the space race, arms race, and everything else during the Cold War, prompted imitations and a race-to-better from CIA and the military. Who knows how many arcane, incredible projects were initiated on either side just for the benefit of having scattered, incomplete information filter through spooks back to the opponent's intelligence agency. There it would cause confusion, fear of being severely outpaced, and an urgency to throw resources into their best-that-we-can-piece-together version of the project in an attempt to catch-up and surpass. In existential warfare any and all bets are always on the table, and particularly in one that was already defined by massive resources spent in the pursuit of previously unbelievable scientific discovery.
Exactly. Information is never the cause. It is only the trail. The most information can do -- and is meant to do -- is influence people. Ergo, the bad or good feelings (or decisions, in most cases).

Except, the problem is then the inability of the person with that information to attack those problems.

Anyone with the capacity to do something about those root causes should know everything. For the rest, that information is irrelevant to their job, and distracting at best.
How we started sharing components as a team (Hackernoon)
I made a babel plugin to do TCO in JS https://github.com/krzkaczor/babel-plugin-tailcall-optimizat...
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I specifically said gc was not an issue but that Go's weird threaded runtime was more of an problem. You missed Mirage from your list, among others.
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