skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daft Punk, as a whole, just "get it."

The article would claim the success of the songs is just because of their marketing effort after they were produced, but this isn't quite the case. The success for Daft Punk's product (its music) starts where the success for everything starts - baked into the product itself.

The song is downright catchy, and Daft Punk knows that (although, myself I rather detest the song). But more importantly their songs have been catchy and interesting from the beginning, and they were able to build up a fan base.

It's important to note in a case like this that Daft Punk has a cult following. Calling them an "unknown" band is like calling Radiohead unknown - they're only really unknown if you're completely detached from the music world, and even then you would still recognize their music. If you're an unknown band and you post a picture of your album cover online nobody would care, and carrying around an album in a titanium case would feel very gimmicky. But people have been waiting for a new Daft Punk album for some time, and the possibility of them releasing one is instantly news.

The marketing was, for Daft Punk's situation, spot on. They got word out about their song and album in a way that didn't feel like marketing. But this was really only possible because they have a huge following and have gained traction from their product in the past.

Interesting sidenote - I just read that Lady Gaga is trying out the whole "mysterious" thing for a huge fanbase for herself - she just made her "Twitter avatar the egg and left the message This interface has been shutdown temporarily. Please check back for updates." It's like she's rebranding herself publicly, and I'm willing to bet this will cause quite a stir.
Want to kill health insurers? This start-up is teaching hospitals how.
I feel some charge is acceptable as the ad network needs to be assessed against the whitelist criteria.
Modern day programmer problems
Imagine what 3 times can do if I already see change with one set per day. I'm gonna start doing two.
Ad networks doesn't pay for white listing! The article is little confusing (typical for German press). Certain ads on certain websites can get into the white list. So if somebody pays it is the company running the website. And smaller websites like Reddit got their ads even white listed for free. See my reply to Karunamon [1].

However the comment you replied to was about the accusation that Adblock Plus would be dishonest, which just isn't true.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996565
I wasn't taking issue with the rowing part of the analogy, since that works fine for your purpose of ridiculing "political correctness". I don't agree with you, but that was a fine jab. But the "there isn't an Asian" jab doesn't work because it's not equivalent to a problematic portrayal.

For the record, I don't think that the illustration they used is a huge deal. But it is not a coincidence that the female drawing is the only one that's sexualized, and it's not like it's an isolated case.
Modern threading implementations are pretty good. Plus, a lot of the memory threads use is just virtual address space, not real memory. On 32-bit systems you ran into the problem of running out of virtual address space with a few hundred threads. With the popularity of 64-bit platforms this problem has gone away. Plus, because this is C, it's trivial to reduce the stack size to, say, 512 KB without too many problems.
Some people have a strong contrarian streak which naturally leads them toward the minority position on many controversial subjects. It's often the exact same people saying that AIDS isn't caused by HIV, that global warming is a fraud, that oil reserves are infinite, that evolution is impossible, etc. etc. I've witnessed this firsthand. I can't explain why they are this way, but it looks like a general attitude of "the popular opinion is more likely to be wrong than right".
How about putting the number of available listings in parenthesis below each button number (width, profile and size). Instead of just enabling/disabling the buttons when a selection is made, update the count of available items.
"In none of these cases were the subjects informed about the nature of the procedures, and thus could not have provided informed consent."

This - and not the plutonium - is the bad part. Your comment is completely irrelevant to argument the parent makes.
Strongly agree. It's getting more and more irritating having to watch videos to get information instead of being allowed to read at my own pace.
Work where you are happy
Although I can understand the need to whitelist non-intrusive or "acceptable" ads, it seems shady to base the list on who pays the most. If adblock plus is a community plugin, the list of acceptable ads should be voted on. I have switched to Ghostery (after reports of adblock plus injecting referral tags), so can someone clarify if whitelisting is enabled by default?

Despite ads being the main source of revenue for Google, it is really cool of them to allow ad-blockers on the Chrome extension store (although Andriod is another story). However, paying to be whitelisted puts the rest of the advertisers at a disadvantage. It is a very well known fact that there isn't a good alternative to Adsense and things like this will only puts a dent into the remaining competition.
I think the bad precedent is that AdBlock didn't make this distinction in the very beginning. I believe that requiring ads to be interspersed in the presentation of the information is a right of the entity presenting the information as part of an implicit contract through your request for that information.

I believe requiring authentication, or requiring performing some prior action (such as watching/seeing an ad for some time period) are also examples of this.

I do not believe pop-under ads are subject to this. They try to force behavior (viewing of an ad) after the implicit contract is concluded (you are done consuming the media presented) through altering the state of items outside the presentation experience.

I think with the proliferation of ad blocking software, we've only allowed bad behavior to go unpunished more often by continuing to use resources that behave in irritating ways because a large portion of people get to skip the irritating behavior entirely. I think this has the dual negative consequences of not causing feedback for the behavior to reach the originator, as well as causing them to increase the behavior to capitalize more on those that are not immune to it.
'Paraphrase' is a more accurate term.
To be honest I don't expect the results to change; but this is an only way to attach significance to the observed differences and to ensure this wasn't a lucky shot.
There is also Haquery framework for Haxe language, at http://haquery.com/ As far as I know it's a client server framework (Haxe can be compiled to Javascript and to PHP)
they are only supporting? They should immediately cancel them.
That's a good point to raise. Two questions:

Would you agree that opinion manipulation in online reviews is already taking place?

If so, would reducing the presence of explicitly-labelled advertisements result in an increase in covert opinion manipulation?

I'm pretty sure there are already issues with regard to the trustworthiness of online reviews. But if we define the value of testimonial by impartiality, then ads are pretty worthless by default. It could be better to rely on sources that at least have the potential of impartiality. I admit this is definitely a complex issue.

I can also understand the ethical argument that it's better to allow sponsored content because otherwise companies would resort to more illegal methods. It's sort of like the drug legalization argument: companies are going to market anyway, so we might as well focus on harm reduction. But it still feels suboptimal in this case. I guess I'd prefer if we focused on preventing misinformation rather than a strategy of appeasement.
Spot on.

You hire Nile Rodgers to help write a disco tune and this is what you get. A very catchy disco tune.

I thought this article was going to be how Daft Punk assembled their music, not their social media marketing strategy.
good idea, i think we will add that, cheers
Web browsers developed by advertising networks or funded mainly through advertising networks aren't likely to consider it a wise addition to the core features however.
No, it's Microsoft murdering its flagship product by enforcing retarded rules with WinRT and the Windows Store.

I love C# and I love working on Windows. But no way I'm going to pay money for there "privilege" of publishing open source software!

(you can't install Win 8 apps from anywhere except the store. Must you limited subset of APIs. Must pay yearly subscription to let people download your software. Screw that.)
In order to make Thorium successful you have to consider the consequences. The Nuclear Power industy has been under attack now significantly longer than it was "the next big thing" (during the 50's it was 'cool' and starting in the mid-sixties on it has been 'un-cool') Long enough that all it knows is 'attack.' If someone says "This will make all our Nuclear reactors obsolete!" it makes Thorium an enemy that must be killed. But if you say "This works with your existing reactor and the spent rods are more easily disposed." Then its a 'friend' of the industry. So making fuel rods with Thorium that are compatible with existing designs is a Big Deal(tm).
1. "The value is in what gets used"
2. "the value perceived by its users."

Those are two types of value and they are, like, totally, not the same...
Furthermore, isn't Th no better than U-238 for fast-reactors (and we have huge quantities of U-238)?

Also, isn't the neutron economy of LFTR just slightly above unity? IIRC chemical removal of fission byproducts was needed for a feasible Th reactor that generates excess U-233. At least that was my recollection that one of the potential advantages of the FLiBe design was for such very simple chemical reprocessing.
The other thing about plutonium people fail to recognize is that practical uranium civilian power reactors are pretty lousy at producing plutonium. The proliferation risk is non-zero, but processing spent fuel is a pretty nasty business and the amount of plutonium there is so small as to be a big expense for the small yield.

The problem with plutonium is a properly designed military reactor can take the precious U235 you might build only one half a bomb with, and generate enough plutonium to create 2 or 3 implosion devices.

That is a big reason the neighbors to Iran and NK are not panicking. NK might have a bomb or two. Iran might eventually build a bomb or two. In both cases, their expertise is limited to uranium (so far), so the number of bombs they are likely to ever own within my lifetime is very few -- their stockpiles of uranium too modest to create a larger weapons stockpile. To actually use a bomb is so reckless that you need a couple dozen bombs in your back pocket to deter the overwhelming payback. Both NK and Iran are a million miles away from getting there; they need both much more uranium and plutonium expertise to even start an attempt.

If they believed their safety were at stake, South Korea or Japan would build 50 bombs -- they are skilled at the requisite technologies. Likewise Saudi Arabia would write a check $100 billion and acquire a nuclear stockpile of their own -- their defense expenditures are so astronomically high that a modest cut to their conventional forces over a decade would foot the bill.
Of course it's relevant, he was elaborating on the experiments that OP was alluding to and expressing his shock. They aren't having a debate.
Humans are more likely to care about reputation than bot herders who can trivially flood the market with programs which will work 24 hours a day. As soon as you allow bots, it becomes 99% bots very quickly.

You would also get people doing some work themselves to build reputation up and then swapping in a bot.

It would be quite interesting to build a dedicated market for bots. Just let people upload scripts with a documented input/output format and then pay the developer a royalty each time it is run.
Everyone knows you fuse Th-232 with Ni-62 to make Uuo-294
Well, Germany got burned by Thorium reactors back in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

Let's see if this performs any better.
Yes, unfortunately science is rarely PC. Behavior and genetics are by far the strongest determinants of your risk for acquiring HIV. No parade, protest, or law will change that.
A tax on pollution has other advantages - it funds the government in a manner that does not discourage productive behavior.
You can just twist the words a bit then - instead of Google paying for Bing's traffic to be reduced, they could simply pay for their traffic to always be sent first. Not affecting anybody but Google then, right?

Also, sponsoring Adblock is changing the market conditions. Adblock can use the money provided by Google to make sure any non-Google ad is blocked more efficiently. They can also advertise their addon better, provide better support, etc. Google sponsoring Adblock directly affects Adblock's ability to block the adverts of other companies around the world.

To me, this is changing market conditions in the same way as my AT&T example. Google paying AT&T enough money for priority could allow AT&T to build new 'Google only' cables that Bing couldn't use. Google paying Adblock enough money to whitelist their ads could allow Adblock to grow enough to block Bing ads on a large percentage of user's browsers. Very, very similar.
Have you ever actually heard anyone mention the application of anti-fungals to citrus fruit rinds in the first place? Because I've never even heard of it outside of mycology circles, and there are virtually no Google results despite the fact that the practice is ubiquitous.
Human gestures perplex Asimo
Well damn.

Though, it did feel inevitable after so long without news.

If you're not sure who she is, take a moment to read up [0][1].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_Nemeth

1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131480057
It's amazing how much time they put into crafting this song! I guess it was well worth it.
Excuse me?

I'm pretty sure that the "developmentally disabled children" bit precludes informed consent, and I don't see how discussing a particularly egregious case of what was presented could possibly be "completely irrelevant".
It's quite a gift for embedded systems. It's very convenient to have a self-contained solution for a web interface, rather than drag an interpreter and a web server on an already crowded rootfs. Plus, you can get the benefit of static analysis and the like, which is extra useful on such systems.
"Dropbox for VPN"
I think the surprising answer may be: not all that much.

Look at how fast computers are these days. No one (except gamers and professionals) have needed faster computers in 5 years. Once we all got fast dual core machines with 4GB ram it's pretty much all been gravy. Mobile devices are starting to reach that level now.

I don't doubt that there will be some very compelling applications for gigabit speeds, but I don't think it will be a revolutionary thing.
Lapis is also worth mentioning : http://leafo.net/lapis/

Lapis is a framework for building web applications using MoonScript (or Lua) that runs inside of a customized version of Nginx called OpenResty.
Not an example, but possibly the basis for the opinion:
http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
FAA to Let You Use Electronics During Take-off and Landing Soon
The bl.ocks link (http://bl.ocks.org/azundo/5928203) given at the top of the article does not actually contain the finished product. This was rather confusing for me since I tried playing around with it before reading the article.
Perhaps it is time to opt out of AT&T.

All you need is a smartphone,wifi, and your favorite secure chat/voip software like chatsecure, redphone, textsecure, etc.
Do you really like few awful features
BNOTIONS seems cool, I'll hound them for a while. Thanks.
We have recently been dealing with this not even knowing it existed prior. We adopted a flat-coated retriever from Kingman, AZ and he was soon diagnosed with a blown-out knee that required radical surgery. Luckily, my wife did some research and cancelled the morning of the surgery as his behavior was not consistent with a bad knee (lame sometimes, run like crazy others). Almost a year later, still lame off and on, my wife felt odd swelling on his leg bone. A new vet took more x-rays and found large lesions just above his ankle. We are lucky it did not affect his lungs, but it settled in his bones which seems painful. He has been on fluconazole for a couple of months and the masses on his leg are shrinking. He has not limped for a couple of weeks now, but I still have to carry him up and down the stairs because the weak leg could break and it would not heal. Treatment will take at least one year.

Arizona was on the top of our list for our next home. Not anymore.
> this server uses a thread pool architecture.

Is the README wrong? It says:

"Event driven architecture and worker processes for throughput"

To me this indicates using events for the external interface (slow clients), and threads for taking advantage of multiple cores.
They have done that before, with Inter Stella 5555.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PrIzCX5mI
Or an asteroid could hit the earth, destroying all of us, including Robers' Constitutional powers.

If your argument is that Klein is wrong because the very rules of the game could be changed by congress, then we have to consider the likelihood of such an event, probably based upon history.

Has Congress intervened since the court was set up? Are they likely to?

Could we just agree within the current rules of the game specified by Congress, Klein is correct?
I don't want to live in an ad-free, review-only world myself. Advertising and reviews serve two different purposes. The one gets the word out about a product or service and lets the creator point out why their audience would like it. A review's purpose is to let others know if the product or service lives up to the advertising and lets you gauge how good a fit a given product is in relation to competitors or on its own.

We need both. Advertising can be unethical at times but its no reason to do away with it all together. Reviews cAn be flawed too.

As far as AdBlock goes, I'm still uncertain of why people dislike advertising so much to begin with. Okay, they collect information about you. I understand the desire to not want to be tracked like that. But lets imagine for a moment that advertisers are collecting your information but they're not doing anything unethical with it. They're just trying to show you add that are relevant. In that situation I really don't care if I see advertisements online at all. I also think the definition of unethical comes into play here too though. For me, advertisers sharing my data with each other is something I don't see as unethical. Others I suspect do. Living the lifestyle I live, I can't think of anything advertisers could know about me that would be at all harmful. I suppose everyone's mileage may vary.

My question is, in the end, what part of online advertising is so distasteful to everyone? Is it the data collection or is it seeing the ads?
It seems there's no documentation?
Yes I've heard that there is new research that shows oppression gives you HIV.
AdBlock Plus lets some advertisers pay to play
Great Paper - TAO Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
Point taken, you're correct - 1.1 is bigger than 1.0, and if the choice is open, choosing the 1.1/semi secure option is definitely better.
Only a small percentage of workers are using MTurk as a primary source of income, so I wouldn't agree with the assertion that "things must be pretty bad".
Phrases that make me think of assembly-line software construction:

Design process: "it's about the result of the process of designing for something that isn't a final composition but rather an ongoing process."

Process standardization: "It doesn't matter whether someone is a brilliant designer. What matters is that the de-facto way most work is creating friction"

Process philosophy: "but rather a process philosophy if you like. And for something very specific namely app design"

Process optimization: "It's such a bloated process, full of wasted energy. It might work for selling billboards but it certainly doesn't work for building software."

To be clear I don't disagree with any of these statements. But they trigger my PTSD flashbacks of Deming and TQM.

Additionally, if this friction is such an up-front one-time event early in the life of a new product, how important is it really to software development? How often does your development shop experience this friction really?

The article is arguing against the entire business model and workflow of these agencies: ...most of it comes from traditional marketing and design. It's an approach that's worked for creative agencies: magazines, TV advertisements, advertising campaigns – all these things are planned meticulously up front. In some cases, it's necessary – after all, it's harder to change an advertisement that's aired, or a magazine that's been printed then it is to change software...When dealing with traditional creative agencies it’s a well known fact that designs will not go back once they are pronounced final because they are too expensive to re-engage.

What he's advocating for is a change in the contract terms for their creative industries. So phrasing the solution in terms of "NoPSD movement" makes for good blog, but even as a metaphor for asset workflow it just totally understates the fundamental-ness of what he's asking. It's as if we were going to reign in unrecognized cyclic dependencies on Wall Street in the from of credit-default swaps by advocating a "NoXLS movement".

Of course this is largely innocuous in the grand sceme of things. But the danger lies in Dilbert's manager thinking himself cutting-edge by decreeing "OK team, from this day forward nobody uses Photoshop".
> I'm willing to forgive Ezra his hyperbole here; the rest of the article was fairly illuminating

It's not just hyperbole it's non-sensical. E.g. the whole thing about not hearing opposing testimony makes for great reading, but it doesn't make any sense. FISC doesn't hear opposing testimony because the only power it has is granting FISA warrants. Granting warrants isn't an adversarial process in any U.S. court, neither are similar things like grand jury subpoenas.
Using word 'denialist' in connection with scientific hypothesis seems somehow wrong.
I've never understood why hydrogen is not considered as an energy storage medium. Energy produced by solar panels could be used to create hydrogen, via electrolysis, that would later be burned to create energy at night. I guess the risk is that hydrogen is very explosive and maybe it is too difficult to mitigate that risk.

Update: I did find that people are using hydrogen as an energy store. http://schatzlab.org/projects/archive/schatz_solar.html
It has nothing to do with state versus federal and everything to do with the core issue here. Congress can't make murder legal because to do so would be unconstitutional.
I had the opposite reaction. I quite like Get Lucky, but the other songs from the album felt really bland without anything that made them memorable. Not even worth pirating... No offense.

I also would have liked Get Lucky to have more of Daft Punk in it. As it is, I can only tell it is a DP song the last half minute of so when the vocoder section starts.
I believe there are relatively many AOT-compiled-to-native-code languages other than C.
AFAIK culling like that is standard in any mesh-based 3D engine, and most minecraft landscapes aren't uniform enough to benefit from the adjacent-face merging described. Standard 3D engines handle landscapes with way more polys than I can imagine fitting into a minecraft screen. I don't see what the big deal is here.