skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the points they make are even less than that. I've worked places with a subscription to get abstract:

http://www.getabstract.com/

Very nice; you can just subscribe to the business books feeds, read the 3-page PDF summaries, and decide if you care to read any deeper.
You can do the automatic sign ups with extensions pretty easily.

As for the offline access native apps: does each site then have to write a native app module for your browser for it to work. This doesn't sound like something you can do without work from each site owner.

The same for locally stored data. You could keep a local copy of any files you upload to sites, but if you are uploading, you already should have a copy. But you can't do anything in a browser to make facebook serve images from your computer instead of theirs. This is another feature which requires work from every site to make happen.
This is interesting because I've got the reverse! My CTR on AdMob is far, far lower.
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Just to throw out an extreme example, I definitely wouldn't hire a wedding photographer who charges $100 for a day's worth of photography. If they have to charge that little, they probably aren't very good. And given the importance of the occasion, I want to be sure that the photos are excellent.
The graphic would be much more interesting if we could see the indirect links targeting Google. I believe that patent suits targeting B&N and Samsung (a subset maybe) are really targeted toward Google.
Thanks for all the feedback. Email me your address.

>> I personally think your domain is somewhat subpar. If you owned cilantro.com, it would be incredibly brandable. CilantroSites.com is a bit awkward and long.

Yeah, I don't love it but I'm not trying to get too hung up on it for the time being. I own CILANTRO.ME as well and CLNT.ME is just intended for short URLs.

>> Out of curiosity, how are you planning on monetizing?

a. monthly fee for premium sites (multiple menus/locations)
b. other plans in the works
Centuries ago, you would write that all paths lead to rome.

Today, all paths lead from Apple.
God, please, anything but Vimeo... I can't watch it on my phone. I could use a PC, but I cannot do it right now.
In the "be careful what you wish for" files, the glut of mobile inventory is about to bring a scourge of affiliate / direct response driven solutions.

In the world of TV & Radio the "remnant", or unfilled inventory, has shifted in the last 10 years to performance advertising / per inquiry.

Fantastic stuff like payday lending, marginally legal insurance schemes, weight loss pills, etc have all gotten major traction due to an over abundance of ad inventory.

I'm mentioning this because with the excess of unsold mobile inventory app makers are looking for solutions, and affiliate marketers and direct response guys are going to start coming on strong.

At Affiliate Summit last weekend this was the topic du jour.

Reminded me of the last go around when the affiliate marketing world was fired up about the new "advertorial" format.

Hold on to your crash helmets, I predict ugliness ahead.
This tactic might exist in the wild, based on some stories I've seen on DailyWTF, but I would be amazed if it didn't result in lawsuits. One of these days those "no liability" clauses are going to be removed by legislation or a blockbuster court case and whole sewerage plants are going to smash into fan factories.
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How would that work? Is Excel also running in that VM? Not much of a sandbox.
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Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, I shall indeed begin with acquainting myself with various art-forms that you've suggested, I've always been fascinated by Van Gogh, I'd be grateful any idea how I should grow this fascination into something more!
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Being a newbie in any field would never be easy. You are nervous yet excited to carve a niche for yourself but as I said, it is not an easy thing to do. Finding your first few clients is the hardest thing to do.
Sandboxes are a fairly new idea, and they are hard to write, and hard to get right.
Hey, that's a really great point. Thanks. Email me your address and I'll send you a shirt.
This is MIT - I'm surprised it ever needed to fit 2 :-).
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Regarding compiler passes in LLVM:
Depending on the optimization level, different passes are run: for example at -O0 (no optimization) the Clang compiler runs no passes, at -O3 it runs a series of 67 passes in its optimizer (as of LLVM 2.8).

http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html
If one wanted to jump in and write one, what's a good language to write a compiler for, provided the resulting thing would be of some use to the developer (and maybe to others) and not a toy? Coffescript? Scheme? Or just write a parser for, e.g. Markdown?
Hey that looks really nice. I've actually done your exact business model for photography sites and made a pretty good chunk of change.
I think that starting the conversation about what to do in your life with marks from school is a huge mistake. What will make you successful and happy is working on something you are passionate about, marks may show aptitude but they don't tell you much more than that. Not to mention your experience in these classes probably far from demonstrate what it is actually like to work in any of these fields. You need you get out there, gain experience, meet people. People can be successful in an field, so Lon as they have the passion to go the distance.
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Funny, I actually had the premium plan at $9/mo. I've been trying to recruit some advisors and network on AngelList, and a couple people told me to raise the price.

It's easier to lower prices than raise them.
That's all well and good until people start wanting more power over the development. It would be nice if these projects that started out with a clear goal and intentions stayed this way.

The unfortunate truth is CMS's are ten a penny these days and to knock the big boys off is near impossible

Yes it looks good, yes it looks promising but yes there are 100's of CMS's already built out there that do this exact job.

Good luck with the endeavour but I think you are about 5 years too late
your fill rates cant be accurate - admob fill rates should average about 70-90% (I run an app with admod and have an average fill rate of 84%). are you sure you're not talking about CTR? Or maybe your language or category filters are too restrictive. Admob is one of the largest advertisers, they should be able to fill most of your requests.
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I don't understand why there wasn't an air gap between this accounting desktop and the production key servers. The Excel 0-day vector is interesting, but what this tells me is that even without that, all those secureid tokens could also have been hacked by one malicious janitor.
Hey, so while we're talking about it, what WOULD be some good resources on the internet (and maybe in books) for understanding "this sort of thing" better? I assume "this sort of thing" is runtimes, VMs, compilers, languages, dynamic and otherwise?

Rich Hickey's Clojure bookshelf includes Lisp in Small Pieces, which I've read most of, and I understand is sort of the go-to Lisp implementation book nowadays, but is possibly out of date for compilers in general. It also includes Essentials of Programming Languages (2nd ed?), Concepts Techniques and Models, the T Programming Language book, the JVM spec... but are there other books that would be crucial to enabling someone to open up the Clojure source and understand some of the optimizations or understand some of the issues re: dynamic languages on the JVM, compiling dynamic languages, and/or making dynamic languages fast in general (see SBCL)?

I know there's "Clojure in Small Pieces" which aims to be some kind of literate treatment of the Clojure source, but I think that's a WIP last time I checked.

Thanks!

edit gee look at this, I commented without looking at the rest of the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927784
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And thus appearance is influenced by your worldview, moral choices, etc.

Some call it 'charisma', which sort of implies that it is a lottery win, like having good genes, but it really isn't.
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I am fairly set, yes, but not totally inflexible.

I have "event calendar" on the roadmap if a lot of people request it ... that could definitely warrant a separate page.
Was not the guide to symmetric and asymmetric positions that I expected. Would not read again.
Hmm.

(Warning, ascii math is confusing and ambiguous to read. Sorr.)

Exponentiation of group "multiplication" does not immediately seem amenable to the reals, sure. But real exponentation does form a group, as shown here:

Define x_g(r) = the function that raises a Real/{0} (non-zero real) number r to the exponent x (in the sense of of some reasonable definition of exponentiaton of continuous functions). Define X = the set x_g() functions corresponding to all reals (including 0)

Define x_g y_g as composition: y_g(x_g(r)) = (r^x)^y = r^ (xy).
Then we have 0_g x_g = (r^0)^y = r ^ (0 y) = 1 = r ^ (y * 0) = (r^y)^0) = y_g 0_g -> identity

y_g (1/y)_g = r^y ^ (1/y) = r^0 = 0_g -> inverse

(x_g y_g) (z_g) = ((r^x)^y)^z = (r^(xy))^z = r^((xy)z) = r^(x(yz) = (r^x)^(yz) = x_g (r_g r_g) -> Associativity

That makes a group.

Now, I explicitly left out the 0^x case. Can we fit it back in?

Not particularly cleanly, as thoroughly discussed in this thread.
When I wrote some cpu-bound code in Clojure which also used several java classes and libraries, I've found that the naive implementation 5x as slow as Rhino implementation, but when I've added some type hints (which I found out by enabling warn-on-reflection), code became ten times as fast, beating rhino twofold.

I wonder if it's possible to use invokedynamic when there is an unhinted java interop to avoid drastic slowdown that I've experienced. Because it's obvious that many necessary type hints would be absent in a big real-world program.
Thanks, that is a really interesting interview. It's long but worth a watch, even with breaks.
Care to elaborate what you loathe about the terminal?
I'd like to know more about this. My understanding is that every method in Clojure has this sort of signature: Object F(Object, Object,.. Object)

So Add looks like this: Object Add(Object, Object)

Now if Clojure recognizes that this is often called with longs, then it would make sense to produce what is C++ would be a template specialization: long Add(long, long). As you pointed out, that could then be inlined.

As long as we can specialize all the way up the call chain, we don't need any JVM magic. But that would be a lucky case, and I believe invokedynamic can help with our problem case: an argument-dependent transition from non-specialized code to specialized code. i.e., call Add(long, long) iff both args are Longs, otherwise call Add(Object, Object).

So, Clojure would profit from invokedynamic if it (transparently) introduced specialized methods for optimization. Of course, this is not exactly a trivial optimization to implement - it may be that the most practical way to implement it is to look at the runtime behaviour (sort of like what the JIT compiler does). Ideally the JVM would be able to do all this magic specialization for us (given the parallels to JIT compilation), but I doubt that it can do that at present.

Anyone know if I'm off the mark here, or whether Clojure would benefit if it did what I've termed "specialization"?
I 100% get what you're saying and see there is less risk - however, I'm just not buying mobile will work for online->offline phone calls after our massive failures (yes - we tried more than once). Are there any case studies out there of mobile campaigns bringing in real calls?
All that music Don Henley recorded wouldn't belong to musicians.

That was already happening. It is (or was) rare for artists to own the rights to their own works.
The general issues I've had:

Flash is installed outside the package management system (particularly on distros emphasizing Free Software: Debian, Ubuntu, etc.). This has improved through packaged installers (the plug-in's still fetched from outside of repos), but only in very recent times.

Flash content fails to load at all. I actually have this problem on several platforms, presumably because I limit JavaScript execution, and many sites now rely on third-party scripts for content generation (hello, Gawker, yes, you).

The player is very resource-heavy. I'll browse with several score tabs open. On a sufficiently beefy box, that's tenable, but with flash, memory and CPU utilization go through the roof.

The browser plug-in crashes, frequently requiring a browser restart to restore it. Given that Flash is virtually always at best ancillary to my browsing session (where I use it it's almost exclusively as a video player), my preference would be to have an external video player (I have several excellent free ones at my disposal). The crashes are addressed in Chrome as tabs and plug-ins run as separate threads/processes, but this still affects Firefox/Iceweasel.

There are numerous security and privacy issues with Flash, for which we're wholly dependent on Adobe to please, eventually, maybe address these.

64 bit Linux support was a long, long, long time in coming (and IIRC it's still weak). Until Linux itself got 32/64 bit library support sorted (again, only in recent years), this was a significant PITA.

Given Nielsen's criticisms (which address Flash as a website UI element, not such things as Flash video and games), yes, Flash is at least 99% bad. Most use is still advertising (yuk) and idiotic slideshows (infuriating). Its valid uses (videos, maybe games) would still be better addressed through standalone utilities rather than in-browser plug-ins, IMO. I use my browser for work and information, not entertainment. I keep a lot of state in my browser sessions, and they tend to live for days if not weeks.

All in all, as a Linux user, up until 2008/2009, Flash was sufficiently a pain in the ass that I'd generally just not bother installing it. I install it now (it's gotten easy enough) but block the hell out of it, with my rare use-case being YouTube videos and the very occasional informational graphic which makes valid use of Flash.
That wasn't exactly my point though.

Native development opens you to a whole new world of technologies. Having nearly direct access to the hardware means you can do a lot more than the browser sandbox allows. Like, I am currently playing around with computer vision to do some pretty neat things with video cameras. Something that is difficult to nearly impossible in a web browser.

I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, but the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
I was thinking the same thing some 15 years ago when I bought ny first 750Mb hard-disk. Some things will never change and the disks will allways end up filled. :)
Like you, I have switched to using different user names for every site for which I register, and I've done so for the same reasons. However, I've taken things a step further by choosing user names that I find on other sites. If someone googles for the user name, results at many sites might come up but that doesn't mean we are the same people.
Actually, this is pretty much in line with the advice I give to entrepreneurs when they're pitching me for a story on Mashable.

The big things to remember:

- We get hundreds of emails per day. I can barely keep up, so I need to use personal filters to weed out stories I'm going to follow up on. That means I trash long emails, emails that don't get to the point, and anything with buzzwords.

- Best thing is always an intro from somebody I know about the company/product. Cold pitches have a much lower chance of working.

- Short, pithy emails. Get to the point in less than a paragraph and then ask if I want to learn more.

- Know the audience. Mashable is a consumer-centric publication -- we don't cover a lot of enterprise news or startups. Our readers DEVOUR great consumer products that help them manage their digital lives though.

- Know the reporter. Mashable has two reporters that focus on startups. Most of my time is spent editing, which means I have less time than I'd like to write about startups. Some reporters focus on entertainment, others on mobile. Know which one focuses on what and try to get the appropriate person to pitch.

- Don't pitch via Facebook, Twitter or anything but email or in-person if you're at an event and find me. Even then though, I'll ask you to email me in case I want to forward it to another reporter.

~ Ben
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Thanks for the information!

Ur/Web syntax seems closer to OCaml syntax, so it might be a bit easier to learn. However, Opa documentation seems more polished and complete so it might even the odds.

Nice work, and thanks for bringing static guarantees to web development. It is much needed.
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I agree the menu management needs to support lists/tables, but I'm also wary of too many controls/options.

I've been pretty successful doing other niche websites and one thing I've notice is that, if you're not careful: CONTROL ∝ 1/EASE. I will try to work out a good balance but I'm being very mindful of not confusing people and/or causing a lot of support tickets.
I think it is interesting you point the parent out for not lining up with reality. Can you elaborate on how the benchmarks in the above posts are a more realistic way to reason about the performance than the experience of the language used in a real life project?
I think the confusion is due to the attacker's focus on RSA customers like Lockheed (who were apparently compromised).
Nice! Photography sites came up during the product visioning as ones that suffer many of the same problems as restaurant sites, it's good to know something has happened in that area. Can I ask how you approached selling it? I'm still going one by one but also seeing interest from web developers looking to re-sell as part of their ongoing relationship with restaurant clients, which I want to support better.
In a big real world Clojure program you would probably control the amount of interop, or abstract it away. Lots of type hints is not indicative of a well-written Clojure program of any size, a good example of how this can be done over JDK 7 ForkJoin, https://gist.github.com/888733#file_forkjoin.clj. Note the code at the bottom has no type hints yet will be nearly as fast as if you littered code with such noise - this is because of the lovely thing that is JVM inlining.
The real problem is Excel executing embedded flash. Without that, the exploit has no purchase, or at least would require an additional step from the user.
Isn't it already opened up? EA games let you login to Origin Online, Ubisoft games let you log into Ubisoft...

I don't think this really does much for customers except make it harder to fully enjoy the game. "Sign into our network for a free exclusive item/map!" - no thanks.

Maybe he's talking about restrictions about releasing free content on Xbox Live (you're supposed to charge for pretty much anything)?
Wow I did not expect to hear from the Editor-At-Large at Mashable. Thanks so much for the comment - really valuable to stuff :) Interesting point about not pitching via Facebook. Maybe I should remove that. Do you think that it goes over the line, or is it just annoying?
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These exact same techniques used in these benchmarks are used in "real life" projects, for example this one that I work on: https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

This is a Prolog-like engine that I benchmark against SWI-Prolog (written in C). It comes close on some benchmarks, and surprisingly surpasses on a few.
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No, that's what I'm seeing. I had 'age appropriate ads' turned off but every other category and language enabled. I'll switch that one on and see what happens in the next week.
There's a positive feedback loop involved as well. Beautiful people are more likely to have others want to befriend them. This social practice makes them more sociable. Which makes more people want to befriend them.

I don't know if anyone here has lost a significant amount of weight (50+ pounds) while they were still young, but they will confirm this effect. In fact, this effect is often so strong, that people who have lost weight often become very skeptical of people's motivations. People who had never noticed them are now suddenly nice and friendly. This starts to make you wonder if the interest of other people in you, is purely based on your looks or who you really are.
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