skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strong "Yes" vote here is another indicator as to why the media is jumping on the 'native ad' bandwagon: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisperry/2012/10/04/advertisin... (sometimes called 'content marketing', but it's not exactly the same)

Instead of slapping ads around the side of your page that can be blocked, you bust some holes in the Chinese wall and let advertising become involved in the narrative. There are tasteful and tasteless ways to do this (Monocle gets it right - http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/monocle-xs-brands-v-agencies.htm...) but you can choose new sources if you don't like what they do.

It's not an entirely new concept though. TV has been riddled with "integrated" content-based advertising for decades. Oprah doesn't just invite that famous author on to plug their book because they're friends.. ;-)

1004 days ago I was a lot more pessimistic about this trend on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172595 (Yes, I track too many links.) But I'm now somewhat supportive of the move as long as publications do it carefully and focus on the content above all else.
Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the southwest, LA to Phoenix, the modernism of Bauhaus has more sway in contemporary starchitecture than post-modernism.
No panics over package boundaries. Breaking this is almost sacrilegious in Go.
I am surprised that this article is not referencing Tyler Cowen's book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525952713/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...

or at least his blog. It is a pretty interesting analysis that deserves serious consideration. He does point out that communications and the internet are a bright spot of hope in our otherwise slowly growing economy.
I was using an adblocker until a SaaS provider that shall not be named asked me to stop using it so their product could work correctly, the internet has sucked since then.
If tech is so important, why are IT wages flat?
"In the special case of floating overlays, I am a strange, strange person. I will not click on the close button, because I don't like clicking on an ad, even to close it. Instead, I will fire up the debugger and delete the ad from the DOM."

That's actually completely understandable, because in many pop-up ads closing it triggers something else, or something that appears to be a close button actually isn't, and so on and so forth. I find these ads to be the most intrusive and annoying.
I'm mapping through all the concepts I need and try to grasp, at least, basic knowledge about it. It helps I'm math literate (to an extent), but I still have a long way to go before I have a believable premise (+ a magic/unknown factor to make an interesting story) before I contact an expert in information theory to make it even more believable. I suspect this will be the king of "nerd" movies, but I don't care - it's something I would watch, that is all that matters for that project.
Only if you don't start singing the theme tune! :)
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The enforcement mechanism is mostly paranoia. The ethical codes for attorneys requires you to rat out your colleagues at the threat of getting in trouble yourself if you fail to do so. Documents are managed in review databases with time stamps and user tracking. Opposing counsel will go through your productions and might spot inconsistencies. Opposing counsel will also spend hours grilling witnesses, looking for inconsistencies and references to documents that haven't been produced. Opposing counsel also generally has a good idea of what kind of documents should exist, given that corporate transactions are generally pretty stylized.

At the most basic level, the system is built on trusting lawyers to act dutifully as officers of the court. Corporate law firms care very much about their brand for trustworthiness, because at the end of the day their business depends on that brand. Nobody wants to be like Arthur Andersen, which went from a $9 billion company to nothing because people stopped trusting their brand (for the actions of a relatively small group of partners).
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> But most politicians don't know much about technology. Last I looked, I believe we have only one scientist in the entire House of Representatives (Rush Holt, D-NJ?).

I wish everyone who thought, "I wish people in office were more like me" actually ran for office. That's the best way to get people like you in office. Age requirement for the House is only 25.
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Ok, another perspective: why would a PHD waste his time on trivial conveniences alike web chat and voice recognition just because they are hard to solve, when there are unmet needs in a much larger market called media?

Or how about this: the key to solving problems correctly is to solve them as close to the root cause as possible. Why write a speech recognition when you can get the same functionality much more effectively by eliminating the microphone altogether and interfacing directly with the user (just a hypothetical scenario)? Why write it for iOS when the only reason the person is carrying a phone is so they can be connected on the go, and the only reason they are on the go is to learn something they could have read on Prismatic this morning? You'll never tackle any of these problems if you think that the lower layers are already solved problems cemented in concrete, only worthy to be maintained by tech monkeys.
And on Firefox go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true.
Adblocker? No. Flashblocker? Yes. If advertisers start to rely heavily on JS-based animation to get my attention, I can't guarantee that I'll be able to support the websites that carry their advertising.
Mirror ? The link is down.
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You're talking to someone who has parents from Central America and Germany. Believe me when I say that there is so much blame to go around, it's unlikely that any unbiased reading of history would place it SOLELY at the hands of the west.

I'm well acquainted with the history of the world and my point still stands: the oppression of the "other" is a HUMAN problem, not a USA/West problem. As long as there are people, there will be these kinds of problems.

Tell me what country you live in and I'll list all the reasons why you are not the USA.

Your viewpoint isn't informed or relevant.
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It’s far easier to find (and pay for) a top-notch algebra teacher to fill an opening in Boston or Austin than in the Mississippi delta or rural Idaho. That’s why states have long been free to determine their own certification norms and Praxis passing scores. Can a field this big and diverse truly accommodate a single “high bar”?

This underscores what I see as a major problem with education. Some cities/states clearly have better teachers than others for various reasons, but students are for the most part stuck with the school nearest them. Why should some students have to settle for subpar teachers simply because of geography?

If we used online learning for at least part of the overall curriculum, we could partially level the playing field, and open up access for students to get a wider range of teaching perspectives and styles. Imagine learning about Native American history from a teacher on a reservation, or the Civil War from a teacher in the South.
I'll be at my local ski hill to go to the unofficially annual igloo party. The igloo gets bigger every year - last year there were 5 rooms, a dance floor, and kegs...
Nicotine was used as a insecticide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
In my experience with senior executives at $10B+ companies making these decisions, it's not a case of knowing the difference, or not caring, it's more a case of, at that level, the concept of "Right" and "Wrong" are immature concepts that aren't relevant. Executives that have reached that level, frequently take an almost purely game-theoretic position in any decisions they make, where they do a risk-assesment, consult their attorneys, determine what their exposure is, and then simply make a decision that is going to yield the greatest NPV (Net Present Value) inclusive of those risks.

The problem at Best Buy is their GC did a poor job of training the company on the importance of not leaving behind discoverable material. That's the real lesson that I'm sure Best Buy's CEO took away from this who event.

Don't be too surprised if Best Buy shifts to 90 day retention on email.
Can't speak for the author but UIAppearanceProxy is iOS 5.0+, also only a subset of the UI classes respond to the UIAppearance protocol.
Can you point to any current examples online? I'm not quite sure what this would look like. I know in the UK it's obligatory for an advertisement to be identified as such.
Several of us Zite employees are also refugees from academia, it turns out.
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> So, that's the point of view that says that governments should be evaluated in the same way you'd evaluate companies.

If governments should be evaluated in the same way you'd evaluate companies, then companies should be evaluated in the same way you'd evaluate governments. Otherwise you're putting down a double standard.
You shouldn't, necessarily.

I use R almost exclusively and I absolutely love it. But people can get a little carried away with picking and recommending the "best" language for particular task.

If you feel very comfortable and skilled in Matlab, and you aren't finding that there are regular situations where Matlab can't do what you want, I wouldn't really advocate switching. Same goes for someone working primarily in Python.

The biggest reason I would recommend switching away from a language you're already very comfortable in would be the availability of statistical methods that aren't present in your language of choice. Statisticians tend to work in R, so much of the cutting edge work ends up in packages on CRAN.

So I wouldn't dump Matlab if you're happy with it, unless you're just looking to learn something new, out of intellectual curiosity, which is always fun.
Ask HN: What are the core competencies of a good junior front-end developer? 
I'm looking to switch careers from product management to more of a developer role. I feel a little lost when looking at the mountain of things front-end developers should know. I would love any direction into what more experienced hackers feel and junior dev should know.
Thanks!
No surprise: Windows 8 touch screens in high demand, lesser PCs not
Except that tax rates in canada are about the same as they are here in the states.
How is one unable to distinguish ads from content? Even without the visual cues of div separation and "Ads By ____" inset, there's a huge difference between the following:

"The history of knitting, yarns, and crochet"

"Thousands of Knitting Yarns FREE! Get quick and easy patterns today!"
No, but I'm considering installing one and enabling it only on YouTube. Those are the only ones that actually annoy me.
What do you want to be doing? Do you still want to work from home, or do you want to be part of a startup or larger company?
> I am not putting the blame on Prismatic, but on this crazy system that allows machines to post on my behalf.

I would put blame on Prismatic for sure.

It makes sense for Twitter to offer an API for me to authorize a third party application to access my Twitter account to post. This is how we have various twitter applications that post on our behalf. But we are in control of it. Popular Twitter apps on the iPhone for example are used for posting and managing accounts and are in control of the user. Because this API has a useful, valid and ethical use, the blame can not be on Twitter for offering a sensible functionality that benefits users.

What this article describes though is an unethical practice of misusing Twitter's API, and abusing Twitter's auxilliary function as an identity platform, in order to hijack random users' accounts and impersonate them for the purposes of pushing unwanted advertisements towards fourth parties (their friends and subscribers) under false pretenses.

The practice is clearly wrong, clearly fraudulent, and should be illegal, under legal principles banning impersonation for fraudulent purposes. It is a serious crime that should be punished not just with fines but with prison time, as identity theft normally is. The fraudulent purpose of this practice is inherent in posting on one's behalf without the person wanting or intending that, regardless of whether the hapless and naive users were tricked with a confusing and opaque 20 page long dubiously valid click-through legal contract.

Whether it is illegal or not, it is unethical. Companies that indulge in such fraudulent practices, regardless of the desirability of their products, should be permanently shunned in order to punish unethical practices when there exists a castrated corporate controlled legislature and judiciary that is unable to properly regulate companies engaging in fraud.
Not a specific ad blocker, but:

• I do most browsing in Firefox, with no Flash plug-in installed, and NoScript (with gradual whitelisting of individual sites as needed).

• For a few sites, or Flash, I switch to Chrome with its sandboxed and rapidly-patched Flash plug-in, and even there Flash is set 'click to enable' on all but a few sites (eg: YouTube).

So lots of ads don't appear.

I do this for security and performance, not out of any resentment of ads.
"Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things."

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I'm a strange person. I don't use an ad blocker because I despise browser extensions on an ideological basis, but I also hate ads, so I avoid sites where I can see them. When I used Opera, I used to use the built-in ad blocker though.
Yeah, and in some cases "big deal" == "legal requirement"
How about download sites where there's like a million "DOWNLOAD NOW" fake buttons?
Beautiful website.

I highly recommend supplementing a course like this (where you learn about the language's ecosystem) with the R Cookbook from O'Reilly. It's been a lifesaver for me, and helped me learn R over the course of a few months of needing it at a new job.

Now I find that I need to learn something else for data munging- R is terrible at data manipulation and querying.

The querying bit is solvable with the incredibly useful sqldf package from Google. The package allows you to use SQL syntax to query your data.frames (by creating, populating, querying and deleting a psql table in the background).

Example: I have a dataframe named dfrm with columns named "id" "height" "name"

If I want the heights of all people whose names start with D, I would need to use:

> dfrm$height[which(substr(dfrm$name,1,1)=='D')]

Terse, but painful. Compare to:

> sqldf("select height from dfrm where name = 'D%'")

Much easier!
On a car that age, even with the insurance comparison websites in the UK, it is often better and cheaper to go to a specialized broker who specialize in vintage/classic cars. They are often much cheaper and since they are small companies tend not to have online quotations.

The UI really isn't a problem, it just comes down to the company having the coplete set of data, which really is down to them either creating this list themselves or paying someone for it. I'm not sure of the case in the US, but if an online part company like http://www.eurocarparts.com/ or http://www.gsfcarparts.com can do it them I don't see what the problem is.
Right - just for verification in Letterpress. The occasional false positive wouldn't be so bad, and you can tune your bloom filter so that it's really rare.
You make a good point but you're just wrong.
> ...the court supervises a process called discovery ...

Boy, you're sure a glass-is-half-full type, 'rayiner --- my experience in litigation was that:

1) many, many litigation attorneys like to play chicken, doing their utmost to obstruct your discovery (or to demand unreasonable discovery for themselves), stopping just short of making you so mad that you go to the judge; and

2) the vast majority of litigators hate going to the judge, knowing that most judges utterly loathe discovery disputes and basically absent themselves from the discovery process unless they absolutely have to get involved. (There are exceptions; some judges announce that counsel can get them on a conference call just about any time they're not actually on the bench --- not surprisingly, those are the cases where counsel can actually be pretty reasonable ....)
Free Market? Not in Canada. Uber gets screwed.
Is this contingent on users being near each other? If so, you're going to have a difficult time getting enough users to make the service useful, in my opinion.
KCSM.org is playing a lot of Brubeck today...pieces I never heard before. Tomorrow's morning (Pacific time) show will be devoted to Brubeck.

UPDATE: the show starting at 5PM pacific time today will also be devoted to Dave
Yes I do, here is a link to my daily tools: https://gist.github.com/4200994
The sheer moving part reduction going from a full IC engine to an AC induction motor is crazy. You're looking at maybe a hundred moving parts, minimum, down to one. And that's just in the prime mover itself, let alone the entire power train.
Ok good feedback. While technically it is correct that you are sending to a single bitcoin address (your payment can actually come from multiple bitcoin addresses) I agree it's confusing and the the distinction isn't important to more users.

It now reads like this: http://cl.ly/image/2n3Y3F261o1s
Depends upon liquidation preference, tranches, stock classes, etc.. We'll never know unless we are specifically told.
Don't.

I've used both extensively (though not for statistics). R's syntax is a little more C-like and consistent than MATLAB's - however the biggest difference is documentation.

R's, like most open source documentation, is rather terse and often very unsatisfactory. This gets especially apparent once you get into 3rd party libraries and use things like Bioconductor. You’ll have no idea how things are designed to be used, and without a guru at hand to walk you through you’ll be in a world of pain. Googling for solutions is also very difficult (even using something like RSeek). There are some archaic boards that sometimes have what you need, but often you'll get stuck and not know what to do. What’s nice about MATLAB is that all the libraries are made by a competent team of engineers and they put in the money/resources to have good documentation. Even the more abstract rarely used libraries have decent documentation. In R, if you try using non standard libraries, you’re gunna get screwed.

The IDEs for R are also worse. RStudio is quite nice, but it's really bare-bones compared to MATLAB's IDE. The one really neat thing about it is that you can host it on a server and then remotely work on your work by just going to a URL.

Also I think there are legacy issues in R (though MATLAB has those too). So there are for instance matrices, dataframes and lists (which are list vectors, but not at all). Why there are these three formats that fundamentally do the same thing is beyond comprehension. (Maybe someone can give some insight) Functions will randomly return one type or another. I always find myself fighting to keep the types consistent and R keeps trying to mess with me. In MATLAB everything is a matrix, so that makes things a lot easier

Fundamentally the issue is that MATLAB has a much larger user-base than R, so you'll just have a much easier working with it.

If R's documentation and community was on the same level as MATLAB's then I would maybe consider recommending it. If you work in genetics and you need to use something like Bioconductor, then R is a must I guess. Most other libraries are Fundamentally it's just some syntax differences.

The expression "You get what you pay for" is really pertinent here.

Note: I personally still use R for plotting, because I’m personally more familiar with it. Otherwise I try not to touch it. Code organization for me always gets messy, but I guess that’s cus I’m used to writing in OO languages.
They're Stripe for marketplaces, and they're great. (we've used them since Sept at https://crunchbutton.com)

Question though: why doesn't Stripe support marketplaces?
Someone should mske an ad blocker that downloads the ads but doesn't actually display them. Everybody wins!
Out of curiosity, if you want open source, what's wrong with Octave or the likes?
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I'm interested in working with a startup or established company but I would prefer to work in house.
I have to ask: what is your ideological objection to browser extensions?
I just moved in to a house that has a gas on-demand hot water heater and I basically can't figure out why we use so much energy to keep gallons of hot water on hand all the time. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I think the upfront cost was higher, but the savings across the entire system are more than worth it.
I was always under the impression that Europeans love land yachts. (like those kids in Sweden that collect old US cars) It was just the crazy fuel prices that stopped them from buying them.
I block ads, load plugins (Flash) only on click and replace the YouTube player with direct embeds of the video stream (no ads/UI/overlays/other nonsense). Then there's User CSS for a few sites and Greasemonkey to force autocomplete=on because you're not allowed to disable useful things in my browser for no good reason. A select few sites also get their HTML edited on the fly (using GlimmerBlocker).

That's what it takes these days to make the Web not annoy me. Mind you, it's not really the fact that there is advertising that bothers me, I'm just offended by how dumb most of it is. Plus, it makes sites a lot easier to look at.
The problem with all your proposed solutions is it doesn't allow the market to escape from the ever more technologically advanced supply of data because the development time is constrained by how fast you can fail. By the time you've found a vulnerability in their monitoring system, they've already written exception handlers for it and set up team dedicated to finding solutions for exceptions to those exceptions.
I've been thinking the same thing lately. I go to university in Vancouver right now, its not very easy to meet people who are truly passionate about hacking - its just not the vibe out here. Vancouver is about being a weekend warrior.
Corruption is a separate concern from centrality of power. Otherwise Singapore wouldn't rank anywhere near the top.
I've seen heatmaps of the population density of the USA before, so I shouldn't be surprised. But seeing the city lights at night... I feel like that's a real fact now, not just an abstraction.
Am I the only one that read that as "Dear Citi employees, sucks you got fired. You're probably bad at what you do; let us help."?
Looks great, but the price is exorbitantly high for a large number of users :(
The story is kind of slow and pretty set in Japan's social context. If you like to read novels by Haruki Murakami then you can get the story and its context easier.

Japan (or to some degrees, Korea, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) has been influenced by Confucianism. How to deal with shame is a central part in social life. This includes dealing with feelings of alienation to one's social counterparts. And "being wimpy" is kind of shame experiences for teenagers in those countries.

You need to understand "shame" and "guilt" are two different concepts. "Guilt" is based on actions and morality. "Shame" is based on attributes that one possess. That's why you can see a lot of murders in East Asian's dramas having no feelings for guilt, but having feelings of shame.
a second reason, because it's iOS.
My understanding is that large cars are difficult on many of their roads, particularly in some towns/cities.
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