skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More detailed discussion of the 4 other datapoints: https://www.gwern.net/Ads#replication (I added McCoy et al 2007 just last night, so now it's 5 total: me, Pandora, Mozilla, LinkedIn, and McCoy et al 2007.)
They started off that way. It was one of the places in America that treated workers nicely and probably one of the first chains to source beans that were fair trade and sustainable.

Then they decided that moving into every big box store and rest stop was important.
Lots that provide parking spots are usually required by law

Don't get me wrong, I'm in agreement that this is a bad use of limited space. But the cause of this bad use is "mandated by law", not "accidentally incentivized by a policy". Tweaking the policy changes nothing if the requirement remains
This is why we have the NTSB, prioror to it’s existence manufacturers were the primary investigators of their planes’ accidents with predictable results like above.
A have been told that I am talented and capable.

I can tell you, I have often failed through fault of my own.

Some would say that failing through fault of your own makes you talented, capable, and in possession of hard-won experience that people who never fail will never obtain... Until they fail spectacularly.

This isn't a TED talk, I don't know what the answer is, other than if you're looking for a job, it's your job to put your actual lived experience in the best possible (but not misleading) light, and it's ok to have some humility about the mistakes you know you made.

Some people would rather hire those who claim to have never tasted of the bitter cup of defeat, others will value your battle scars.

Remember, you only need to find one of the latter kinds of employers, and the best way to prove that you have what it takes to succeed is to sift through however many of the former it takes to find the latter.

Good luck!
No, scientists didn’t just “reverse time” with a quantum computer
On one hand, it's well-established that the Catholic Church was uncomfortable with nude art, not only in Christian works but in Roman-era 'heroic nudity'. On the other hand, the reason that's well-documented is that we know a great deal of art, including statuary, was altered by adding fig leaves and other concealments to hide nudity.

I guess it's possible that lesser works were simply defaced instead of being altered, but given how much hand-wringing was devoted to altering statues, it's the sort of practice I'd expect to be well-documented, and I've never seen any evidence to that effect. I'd guess you're right: it's yet another case of Brown grabbing a random pattern and inserting meaning for it.
For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBFXzyp3sks
Also, at the risk of stating the obvious: clicking on the ads takes you off the site in question. Some of the people who would have been clicking around your site more are now at someone else's site.
Weird, several friends and I have more or less this exact same issue with messages not being delivered for hours with WhatsApp, but never with Signal.

I agree with the SMS replacement for Android and uninstalling causing woes trying to send secure messages, have been bitten by that one on several occasions. Thankfully most people I talk to have multiple apps installed.
Absolutely this. A number of reasonably happy HBO customers will be turned off by the side effects of this strategy.

But a lot of media consumers won't mind or even be aware that they're becoming more of a commodity than the content itself. I kinda do.
I fear HBO Now will get bundled with whatever other Time Warner channels into some Netflix-like app. You can still pay for HBO without cable, but now instead of $15/mo, it’s going to cost $30 with twice the content (that you didn’t want in the first place). And they’ll expect it to compete with Netflix. I expect for none of this to affect GoT last season, but probably by the time season 3 of Westworld rolls around.

But at least if you have ATT phone service, you’ll be able to watch it for free.
> So people in the thread advocating 3-5 years of prison for someone who hasn't even been charged with a crime is outrageous.

I don't see how its outrageous. We're (probably) not judges and we're not likely to be on the jury either. This kind of "I hope he goes to jail for a million years" posturing is quite common when people discuss any sort of criminal behaviour.

Is it beneficial or just? Perhaps not. But it's so natural that calling it "outrageous" is quite a reach.
Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist
Your last point is a strong one - Great TV seems RISKY before it finds success and it should be!

For example, Netflix show "Ozark" is pretty good! But I can pretty much guarantee it wouldn't have existed if AMC hadn't taken a gamble on "Breaking Bad" first.
> didn't take the problem seriously, and that they were biased towards conclusions that weren't their fault.

I think that is malice personally.
I personally have not found the UX of HBO's streaming offerings (I use HBO GO, primarily through an iPad and a PS4) to be appreciably worse than Netflix's. The apps load and are straightforward to find my way around in, I can always find the content I'm looking for, I've never had any technical issues prevent me from streaming that content.

In some regards, I would even say their UX is better than Netflix's -- scrolling through a list of items in the HBO apps doesn't trigger a parade of loud auto-playing videos, and HBO doesn't visually privilege their own original content over stuff they've licensed by giving it huge icons and putting it at the top of every list.

The article mentions that HBO couldn't handle the streaming demand for Game of Thrones in 2014, which is pretty bad, but which was also five years ago. It doesn't mention them having problems like that anymore, so it seems reasonable to assume they learned something from the experience.

If anything, I would say HBO's biggest failure is in marketing/branding: naming their offering for cable subscribers "HBO GO" and the one for cord-cutters "HBO NOW" is an invitation for confusion, and the logos/icons for the apps are so similar anyone could be forgiven for downloading the wrong one. They need to distinguish these services better, and provide some incentive to use HBO Now to attract people like me who are getting HBO through their cable company to jump to having a direct relationship with them instead.
It's alright, but it's a standard stoner rock arrangement, so not sure how it fits in the context of my comment.
Good point - while I'd still lump that in as "disruptive", it's more accurate to be a bit more granular.

One of the things that I think got completely overlooked in the recent Cambridge Analytica (and related) scandal was the idea that microtargeting actually WORKED to some degree. (Granted, it's easy to be manipulative when you aren't accountable for anything, but still - the idea went from vague promise to actual implementation). We've paid attention to the CONSCIOUS effects of those ads, but not so much to the subconscious ones. Even the ads that I dismiss as ridiculous are affecting my impressions of certain groups, and when the ads are primarily there to increase division, dismissing them still has the same result.
I am so glad you chimed in. I had several friends in chairs that I went hiking with in parks and fishing with around Los Angeles and other places I've lived.

Most of the people I worked with were straight out of rehab, and I got to work with many of them for years after.

Most all got stronger and increased their mobility afterwards and being able to drive somewhere and get around in their chairs, and get a job, really helped normalize their lives.

They were often more willing to try something new than those who kind of holed up.

I can say with certainty that most were not "Type A", but those I recall that were would generally not be at all apprehensive about learning to drive the vehicles we modified for them. They wanted to go do burnouts as soon as they could :D
I agree that it is an arrogant action, but the cost-benefit analysis doesnt add up.

North Korea just isn't that important. Seems to be connected to a top DPRK diplomat who is involved in the Trump meetings, but roughing up an embassy doesnt have any obvious benefit.

Which doesnt mean the CIA wasnt involved, but the comment you are replying to seems to be largely reacting to how curious this event seems.
That's what I wanted to know, and hearing that I'm glad I've never been interested in an apple phone.

> You don't naturally have any expectations of a right to run whatever code you want on a phone. There is nowhere written in law or regulation that you have such a "right". So there is no such right to give up.

Plenty of things that you naturally have a right to do aren't written in a law. Is there a law saying you can browse and post on hackernews on your computer?
Congrats, the ArangoDB folks are also very nice people other than skilled developers.
This may help explain why many companies focus so much ad budget on brand awareness and generally inserting their brand into the zeitgeist or popular memes and conversation.

Corporations rarely prize loyalty of any type: loyalty from employees, loyalty from customers... they don’t care.

Creating loyalty requires sublimating your own short term desires for the sake of promoting someone else’s interests instead. Corporations, as sociopathic legal constructs meant to encode ruthless pursuit of short term financial gain, are essentially incapable of acting this way.

This is why you have to pay so much to get new employees to join your team, or pay so much to acquire new customers. The corporation never cares to proactively reward existing employees or proactively improve products or reduce prices for customers.

So all short term attention is paid to seeding the necessary details required to acquire new supply of employees / customers / whatever.

Holding on to / valuing what you already have is just not a concept modern corporations have the ability to understand or articulate, despite lots of lip service about it.
I display the full password reset link in the email body which makes each email have unique content.

It still threads the email, but the last one will show up when clicking on it.
Change the rules please.

or don't and I'm giving Matt Christman a dollar.
But it doesn't really know which individual messages inside you have read. So collapsing everything but the most recent one is dangerous because that is a real risk of missing messages.

The current way yeah you might have to see where the conversation left off- but it's the safest to not hide something from the user.
everyone forgets Oz :(
Conceptually this reminded me of "The Feed" from Neal Stephenson's Diamond age book (without the nanotechnology)
> Do you feel that console makers shouldn’t be allowed to dictate what runs on their devices? Yes physical discs still have to be approved by the console maker. It’s been that way for 30 years.

Yes of course. Either allow the user full control of the hardware they apparently own, or call it what it really is, renting.
To be clear, this was one young fox vs. 3,000 chickens, trapped with them in a coop due to an auto-closing door. There was no way that fox was getting out alive.
> See [1] and [2] that I linked in another comment here and check on backups explicitly being denied on iOS.

They apparently have an open issue for this (though it looks like it's locked to prevent people from endlessly complaining in their bug tracker).

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542

It also sounds like they have a branch where they're working on this feature:

https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/ios-backup-kee...

> This has nothing to do with Apple, and everything to do with the Signal team not willing to make it user friendly (for this case).

I'd be interested to know the precise reason they have for not implementing this. You seem to have a pretty negative opinion of Signal, but I doubt they've avoided implementing backups on iOS just because they're "not willing to make it user friendly" (which is really uncharitable take, btw). Perhaps there's some nuance to iOS that makes backups far more difficult to implement than on Android while providing the same security guarantees.
but can you rephrase that in terms of revenue? and tbh 10% is right about the amount of pain you 'd expect to inflict to monetize your traffic.
That's exactly my point. The statement "if you add something to a system that introduces a negative effect, you remove that something" is borderline nonsensical in any kind of realistic engineering environment.
Do you mean a specific variant 747? Because 747s are still definitely flying passengers in the U.S. They are still making new ones.
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
The Corporation Wars trilogy has some interesting ideas about what this could look like.
They're both computers. One is smaller than the other, therefore it shouldn't allow you to run whatever apps you want? That's a ridiculous idea.
I know, right??? I was gonna say the same thing.
This is quite timely! I'm in the middle of transitioning away from google analytics for my apps/sites (to de-google-ify as much as possible). However, my plan was to implement self-hosted matomo/piwik. In fact, i was considering only implementing the server log-reading feature (and not the javascript tracker script) primarily to lessen webpage bloat but also because my analytics needs are quite basic and minimal. (I'd like to say that i'm some awesome digital marketer, and "need all the data things", but honestly, i really can't justify all that for my small apps/sites. ;-)

That being said, i do love seeing "roll your own" examples - which help foster creativity, remind us that the big silos are not the only ones that can actually produce helpful utilities and platforms, and to further de-centralize stuff on the web (indieweb baby!) Kudos @pcmaffey!
A bit of a plug, I know, but here’s a tool I wrote to make selective committing a bit easier and more interactive:

https://github.com/andrewshadura/git-crecord/

Those familiar with Mercurial will surely notice it is, in fact, a port of a Mercurial’s interactive commit functionality, previously a separate extension called crecord.
This was uploaded in January 7th by the way if you check the date, not recently so this isn't to explain the Lion Air issue but rather Boeing's history
"Taxing money out of the system" requires Congress to do so. Do you actually think Congress will have both the wisdom and the political will to do this right? I don't.

So under this scheme inflation is perhaps not inevitable, but it is almost certain given the dysfunctional mess that Congress is.
While I can appreciate "HBO Now", which is netflix-esque, I fear HBO is still too bogged by the legacy of being a premium cable channel. "HBO Go" is just that, restricted to the cable TV bundling problem. With AT&T in the mix, I can see it going to needing Cable TV or AT&T wireless internet as the requirement to be able to buy HBO. If that happens, they'll still not be as good Netflix at distribution.
http://archive.is/Fmw2O
Not having ads costs you 100% of your members if it's the only way to monetize your content (not all content is suited to be supported by paywalls or Patreon).
They're quoting the movie "Fight Club."
The coolest part about this is probably how little energy it needs. It's about 20 Watts. Current node sizes are already smaller than axon diameters. If it weren't for power, we could probably scale up manufacturing processes of current semiconductor technology to build giant room sized chips but we simply wouldn't be able to cool those things. Instead we are forced to wrap a ton of metal around them and plastic and air and provide extensive cooling.
That might not actually be enough -- I've seen gmail collapse emails with distinct subject lines. The format was something like "[foo] Password reset" and "[bar] Password reset".
Doing Data Science for the Common Good: Part One
Sounds like great resources, thanks.
Nice! This is also what every question looked like when I was new to programming.
The Economist itself doesn’t have this style, btw. 1843 is some newer magazine they’re putting out that’s much fluffier.
> The UI isn't as perfect as Whatsapp's, but close enough.

WhatsApp's UI is aweful compared to telegram. So if threema "isn't as perfect as WhatsApp", I'm a bit scared.
No, the policy is to use your google.com address, with some exceptions[1]. This confuses a lot of people, as things done for fun by one person on weekends (maybe not even official 20% time) are mixed in with official projects.

[1]: https://opensource.google.com/docs/patching/
Animate on Scroll Library
You are a technologist with hands on business/startup experience.

This is unbelievably valuable especially in leadership positions. Especially in the case if your startup wasn't just you.

A lot of this also depends on what you are looking for as well. From your statements you may be thinking looking for a job as an Engineer which is great if it is what you want to do.

I believe you have other options if taking a job as an Engineer does not sound ideal to you.
and UBI is an excuse to write off the bottom half the population.

All 3 are popular with the HN crowd. Not surprising.
I think "intrusiveness" is pretty subjective and has a lot to do with the content of the ad.

If HN ran native ads for reverse mortgage companies instead of job ads for YC startups you'd feel very different about them even though the format is the same.
Are there any corporations that do have a demonstrable track record of placing human lives above profitability?
The whole scandal is around faked credentials – faked sports accomplishments, fake standardized test scores. The schools, from what I’ve seen, were kept totally out of the loop.
If only there was a way for email messages to indicate they were part of a chain or not…

Sarcasm aside, it stinks to have to workaround email clients that deliberately don't pay attention to convention. Putting the date in the subject should be a clear indicator that Gmail is in the wrong here—there's already a date field in the headers.
Virtual assistants are doomed without a new AI approach
> But using less javascript is the hype today...

Is it? This article on npm weekly (https://medium.com/npm-inc/npm-weekly-133-billions-of-packag...) says 4 billion packages were downloaded in a single week - representing multiple packages per week per human on earth. (Granted, this was Feb 2018, which is 2.8 millennia ago in JavaScript years.)

This site (on which you can't use the back button after choosing a graph) seems to show downloads still growing for popular packages. https://www.npmtrends.com/
Show HN: Packagr-CLI – A CLI for Packagr
It has better grammar than the real one anyway.
I came to say the same thing, but you said it first and probably better than I.
Good stuff here! Adding another layer to security is a good thing. Thanks!
Cats overeating is 100% genetic. I've raised 12 cats in my life, all fed the same way. Only 2 ever got fat.
No, it's not. I worked with a diversity program associated graduate programs at an "elite" university, so I have some insight into the application process, which differs from undergraduate admissions.

The first golden rule in these programs is never go after nor accept any student that is not qualified for the program. This does not benefit anyone. It doesn't benefit the student because they will ultimately fail. It doesn't benefit the department because they lose a slot for the student and the time investment. It doesn't benefit the school because it harms its reputation. Within the program that I worked, the idea that we had lax or easier admissions criteria for underrepresented students is categorically false and I mean this is the strongest possible sense.

Alright, so what did the program provide? A variety of things, but largely a support system for students who did not have peers from the same cultural background, which is important when you move away from your support system. It also provided resources for us to recruit at conferences, schools, and events that were overlooked by the departments themselves. Finally, it provided money to the departments assist in the cost of the tuition waivers for the students.

And, look, these programs are not perfect. However, let me be extremely clear, any notion that these students were not qualified and somehow tarnished the brand of the university are false. They were and are good and have been an asset to the university as well as their employers after graduation.
> The only problem is that A/B and X/Y is different between Xbox and Nintendo controller and you need to press B when the game tells you to press A. But it's a minor issue.

It's also different with Xbox and PS4 controllers. It's something I got used to a while ago after using DS3 controllers in Windows games.

Lots of PC games nowadays detect PS4 controllers and properly adjust UI (or even work with the lightbar), but I doubt Project Stream / browser controller APIs get that level of info.
There is no difference in terms of building something on top of Bing or Yandex as your private data never touches their servers. All they get is anonymized stream of queries, in this case from DuckDuckGo.

And yes you can compete with Google (for a certain target group) by paying them for their search results. Results are just a distribution channel, it is what you do with them that matters. For example Google and DuckDuckGo both choose to show you ads and affiliate links but that is hardly the only option.
Curious, will this encourage more people to play around with and develop addons for Mozilla's "Send"? [1]

[1] - https://send.firefox.com/
And that was a mature response from you. Glad to see this exchange :D
but on the other hand you can't go too far without annoying the users

Back in the ancient history before Google and search engines, a web site I built was submitted for inclusion in DMOZ. At the time, all web sites were hand-approved by an editor who also wrote a description of the site.

The site was included, but the description noted that it was "covered with too many ads" or something similar.

The site had one 468x60 static image banner ad, and one 236x60 static image ad.

My how our standards have changed.
Reminds me of https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/, which I always found hilarious :)
Ugh I hate admitting to this, but I still haven't watched it
My advice: don't look at "big" companies. They optimize to avoid hiring the "wrong" person, which means to hire only people that come in with the exact set of skills they should be training for but won't. They won't value any of the incredibly valuable skills you've developed.

Instead, look at mid stage startups. But, find them through your connections and not by applying through job boards. People at those startups will get the value of what you've been doing. Shipping and getting harsh customer feedback is something you can't get in school and something people in big companies generally don't care about, which is why those companies can't innovate, despite hiring Chief Innovation Officers at 7 figure salaries.

Nothing wrong with wanting financial stability after seven long years. But if you go to a big company, practice your algorithm skills above all else and minimize talking about your startup experience. Sadly, it'll be either ignored because they won't understand it or they will bury it because it reminds them how they can't be innovative in their environment.
Ask HN: Where do I find part time remote programming work?
Hi, I'm looking for a part time work related to programming. I have web front and back end experience and looking for sharpening my skills while earning. I can spare about 20 hours a week.
I assumed this would be the case and removed ads from my web game about a year ago. But didn't see a difference with traffic or retention (granted, I didn't A/B test it! I removed them 100%). Which was disappointing. The only difference I noticed is that I lost that revenue (5 figures).

But probably depends on volume and/or type of ads?

[EDIT] Clarified re: traffic