skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would crowd-funding make a company pay for negative externalities?
There is none... that's the whole point.

The eschewed today's marketing methods for yesterdays, no digitally distributed copies to music influencers, instead they sat down and let them hear it in person a couple times.
It wasn't a film so much as it was the world's longest music video.
The big difference is CapEx - I can setup a linode with my 'free time' and a few bucks a month to prove out a business.

You can't 'free time' a brick and mortar without a substantially larger risk - no bank is going to give a loan and no real estate manager is going to give a lease to a new LLC without personal guarantees from the principals or other backing.
Yes, and some sites do charge $5 or $10 for access or for additional features. But I'm glad the whole web doesn't work that way.
Adblock Plus doesn't deal with ad companies. But with websites that have ads on their site. So if the kind and placement of ads on their website is "acceptable" they can get on the white list. The article in the link of this thread is a little confusing. It's not true that all Google AdSense ads are white-listed, but the ads on the Google search page are.

By the way Adblock Plus has put Reddit and some other smaller websites on the white list for free to support them. But unfortunately Adblock Plus has also to cooperate with larger companies to make some money, themselves. But still, all ads that are getting on the white list are mild, and not the kind of ad that made once everybody of us that pissed off, that we started to use ad blockers.

Another thing I would like to mention is that, around the same time Adblock Plus introduced "Acceptable Ads", a lot of websites at least here in Germany started to detect ad blockers and asked the user to disable his ad blocker. Otherwise the website refused to deliver content or provide functionality. With the increase of popularity of ad blockers, the people running websites driven by ads will no longer tolerate that their ads are blocked. And there will be probably nothing you can do against that. Considering that, it is actually great that those websites can just get on a white list used by the majority of AdBlock Plus users. So the websites can continue to make enough money from their ads and people that are smart enough to disable "Acceptable Ads", like you and me, still get all ads blocked.
I wish Daft Punk would be get back to the shit they were doing the first time the played America, like 1995 or something. In a field, in Wisconsin, in the summer, on a card table.

Live PA stylie
+1. Kanye West sampling them on a single a while ago helped a lot too to introduce them to millions of people. If anything their success proves that easy access to new music helps the cream rise to the top.
He taught Elvis to dance.
Google Op-Ed on PRISM (German)
I'd agree with this.
It's #3 that is evil. Unless there's a large print disclaimer sayong "notice: ad networks pay for whitelisting" in the extension description and next to thethe acceptable ads checkbox, Adblock Plus is being deceptive. The ad networks themselves should never be paying an ad blocker for special treatment. It's either bribery by the networks, or extortion by ABP.
What's really going to blow your mind is the statistics on who gets HIV infections in the United States today:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/ataglance.html

What an un-PC virus. Doesn't it know we're living in 2013? I'm told reality is supposed to have a liberal bias now.
>> "Here, the journalist writes that "[Daft Punk] opted for their own small-scale marketing strategy", having billboards popping up all over the world and TV spots doesn't sound at all like a small-scale operation to me, just creative. I assume that a lot of recording artists out there would love to have access to such small-scale marketing strategy."

I think the journalist means it's small compared to the huge marketing operation a record label would usually put in place for this kind of release.
I think you mean 2013.
I guess it may also be for quality.
For example it's not inconceivable that one could write an audio transcription bot that is quite good and may be good enough for a lot of tasks, but still not as good as a human and may fail quite badly at complex tasks.

Once the market gets flooded with bots, the buyers will work out what's going on and start to lower their offers to cover the risk of getting a bot transcription. Then the real humans leave.

And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.
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I have always loved (J)RPG's. I tend to think of them more as great books than simple games. Graphical quality is typically not of much importance for us who love this sort of game. Old or not, it is a great game, and we'll pay for it.
This looks cool. There's another package for generating html called blaze-html. It's fast and elegant, I like it a lot: http://jaspervdj.be/blaze/

For parsing HTML, I wrote a library called HandsomeSoup. It adds CSS selectors to HXT, which provides everything you need for parsing HTML: https://github.com/egonschiele/HandsomeSoup
Google translate link:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
That sounds like OpenResty: http://openresty.org
I don't run an ad blocker right now, but I'd totally run one that only blocks advertisers who have paid AdBlock Plus.
It's just a server. Many sites sit behind nginx, a web server also written in C, as a reverse proxy but that doesn't make them "web development in C."

Edit: This is web development in C: https://github.com/jorisvink/kore_website/blob/master/src/si...
Yeah that journalist is just out of touch. I'm not a fan of them but calling them obscure is like calling Radiohead obscure just because they haven't released an album in a while. And the success was pretty much assured, most fans have been dying for a new album. So the hype was already off the charts.
Flask + MongoDB
> Well by funding, they are helping adblock. And, assuming its true that their(Google's) own ads are NOT blocked, it means adblock(and by extension Google) is negatively impacting only the competitors. So in this case, the comparison is very valid.

If you want to go by that meaning of "funding" then any use of a service is "funding" that company that provides it. While technically true, I would argue that most people would think "funding" to mean "provide capital to an entity without expectation of a service or item which that entity sells as a normal mode of business, and to use it in a different manner without explicit note of your meaning is to invite a misinterpretation of the facts, on purpose or otherwise. I don't believe that leads to rational discourse.

> Obviously they(Google) can't outright put out an adblocker of their own, but if someone else puts it out and they support it, and it just so happens to whitelist their ads, you must admit its definitely worth at least questioning. Plus Google is not the stellar company it pretends to be, with the recent news about its tax evasion in Europe and PRISM participation.

Of course it's worth questioning. But if someone someone states that paying a company to get a benefit yourself is the same as paying a company to cause a detriment to another, a lot of evidence is needed to back that up, otherwise we aren't questioning anything, we are making assumptions.
From a medical perspective, I'd worry that many of these folks suffer from major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder.

This is not to pathologize behaviors people choose which don't interfere with quality of life, but my gut reaction is that many of those described in the article would benefit from treatment with psychotherapy and/or medication. However, I'm told that significant stigma is attached to seeking evaluation and treatment for such issues in Japan (and obviously elsewhere, including the west).
Little Rock Crisis?
Threaded servers are not necessarily slower than asynchronous architectures, though they can be. In fact, threaded models are coming back into fashion these days, and can (sometimes) be faster than asynchronous models when each thread is affine to a particular physical CPU. This is due to cache effects and the substitution of fast stack allocation for slow heap allocation.

Bazillions of threads using too much stack space have been a problem in the past, but these days servers have plenty of memory, and to some extent size can also be mitigated by tail call optimizations.

I don't think your particular DoS attack will work with this server, which implements an idle timer to recover stack space. However, they could go one step further and only allow worker threads to use n% of server memory, and killing old, slow connections when the thread is needed and the memory limit has been reached.
Yes, Manning was in the news. No, you did not hear any statements from him, unless you read the court martial transcript that was made by the reporter who smuggled in the tape recorder against the court rules of security.

Ellsberg wasn't fighting secret courts and secret interpretations of law.
I'm sure in 2400 years we'll have a Mr Fusion™ that we can chuck galaxies into for our home energy needs, so there's really no need for this kind of cynical hysteria.
It was mostly just an observation. I think the situation is that CL is not currently milking everything to the last penny, and other people see those pennies laying there tantalizingly, so want to build some milking apparatus on top of CL's pasture, to mix metaphors.

To the extent that I have opinions about it, probably mildly negative. I'm skeptical of the view that anything you can possibly monetize is automatically a good idea.
Same reason people write things in Var'aq :

http://www.reocities.com/connorbd/varaq/index.html

The more "close to the metal" you can get and more awkward and painful it is to program in, the more cred you get. Actual ramifications of slow connections, long polling etc... be damned.

Come to think of it, how come we don't have a web server in Var'aq?
If they had used video, they would have lost me in 5 seconds.
I suspect we'll see omnipresent, always-on video cameras everywhere.

Forget Street View, we'll have Street Camera, maybe always-on connection to Google Glasses? (I think there were several sci-fi books on the subject).

There are already many obsessed bosses connecting to work even on their holidays, maybe now they'll own a telepresence robot.

I'm sure there'll be a lot of good uses :) but the current mindset makes me think of these possibilities first.
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Daft Punk is one of the most popular dance/electronic duos of the last decade. The article makes it sound as though they're some unknown duo that came out of nowhere.

It was expected that Random Access Memories was going to be one of the bigest records released this year.

Is Business Week really that out of touch?
I honestly never watch demo videos.

They go too slow, they're usually painfully cheesy, and I hate that I have to listen to them. I read much faster than the narrator talks.

A video for this demo probably would have lasted 1:30 or so. I was able to scroll through in about fifteen seconds, didn't have to find headphones to do so, and got all of the same information.
Heh. Should have specified the states I was referencing... I certainly didn't mean california. colorado and washington (off the top of my head) have been labeled by Obama as "will not prosecute", and although the confidence we can put in this statement is questionable, it has yet to be contradicted (to my knowledge, if I am wrong please let me know). This certainly isn't amazing, but it is a step in the right direction, along with most of the current weed legislation.

As far as the guidelines bit, sorry but... nothing you mentioned is in there. I felt the need to correct your comment and was annoyed. I didn't consider it off-topic, just useless and confusing to the uninformed. Have a nice day!
Many sites in the news media are still primarily on impression-based ad revenue. Often, a print advertising purchase comes with a certain number of impressions on the website.
Thanks for the response! I had known about CSP but didn't think about it in this context, which is a major neglect on my part.
You're welcome. They have certain columns with a pseudonymous byline (e.g. Bagehot, etc), but I don't know whether they are written by an individual or a team.
This made me feel really old, so I checked your math:

2003 1981 - p
22
1981 1949 - p
32
Christ, I used to live a block from Quaker's R&D facility in the Chicago suburbs. They never mentioned anything about radioactive research there. I bet there's all kinds of skeletons buried in the backyard. Oh wait, now there's a Gatorade workout field on top of it...
I've seen estimates of ~90% of their revenue coming from advertising.
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This is really cool. However, I didn't realize the diagrams were interactive in my first reading, leading me to think this page was far more boring than it really was. I'd suggest a quick caption on the interactive ones like, "Move your mouse in the circle to see the flags move around live." Just to help out soft-headed folks like myself.
I happen to be in the US this summer and nobody I talk to has ever heard of them. Unless they're Internet people.
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How did I end up growing old?
And the society reflects the corporatocracy. Our culture and way of life have been deeply shaped by marketing. Producers producing too much are finding ways to make more consumers. So we're stuck in this endless cycle of consumerism that's _just_ comfortable enough we don't complain. Government does a lot, but fundamentally it's becoming a Punch & Judy show between Democrat and Republican extremes while the groups with money divide and conquer global resources.

Oh wait, shhh settle down and pass me that KFC bucket, my favorite TV show is about to start.
There is such a framework: openresty

http://openresty.org/

It uses a wide range of 3rd-party nginx modules, and Lua as a scripting language, to form a nice little framework. Extraordinarily fast by any standards.
Your point is completely valid on a technicality level.

On a pragmatic level however: Congress has already signed off or rather abdicated responsibility (I think for purposes of plausible deniability) of the FISA courts to Justice Roberts. Meanwhile as he is in a nutshell controlling the appointees and as such general direction of the program, while at the same time leading the majority of the one court that technically has the ability to overturn the program on constitutional grounds...

Pretty much congress has abstained and he is in effect the check and balance on himself, which is troubling.

The thing about the NSA scandal isn't really the lack of checks and balances though, every branch has had an oppurtunity to strike down this program, and the people themselves have been given enough information to rise up... its just that the vast majority of executives, judiciary, legislative, and the citizenry just don't have a problem with it, and think its a necessary trade off.
Heroku is pretty much standard for getting web apps up painlessly. The last things you want is for a novice to get buried under devops hell. For simply hosting static HTML/CSS/JS, I would use GitHub Pages.
It actually didn't suprise me at all that oppressed groups have the highest incident of HIV infection.
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> The fact that Thor Energy is Norwegian might just be due to the country being at the same time very wealthy and environment-minded. The Norwegian reserves of thorium are far smaller than those of other countries.

Norway is also only nr. 22 when it comes to proven oil reserves :) (dunno about previous figures)

From the (few, probably inaccurate) estimates, Norway seems to have a sizeable enough amount of thorium for a country of its size and population.
They call it "valley fever" in the Valley of the Sun (i.e. Phoenix metro area) as well.
> not under any obligation to accept work they don't want to do

The fact they are choosing to do it shows they have no viable alternative, which means things must be pretty bad where they are living
"I think we would all like to live in a world where purchasing decisions are based on reviews from people that have actually used a good or service, and I would think that the ubiquity of the web has made this kind of crowdsourced intelligence quite feasible."

Would you really like all advertising to move in that direction? You should realize it's impossible to know if a person really owns and likes a product or it's just a sponsorship. Nobody would be trusted anymore.
A safety deposit box at a bank is a great example. You have 4th amendment protections for your property in one, because you're essentially renting a private space (you also have a 4th amendment interest in a rented apartment).

But compare a safety deposit box to the kind of digital communications the NSA is collecting. The bank cannot open your safety deposit box. You have the key. Hundreds of strangers might work at the bank (just as hundreds of strangers might live in your apartment building), but none of them can access the contents of your box (obviously you have no privacy interest in the box itself, e.g. anything on the outside). It would be illegal for anyone at the bank to access that box. Generally the bank doesn't know whats in your box. You put it in there directly, you don't hand it to a bank employee to store. Certainly, they don't rummage through the box as a basic part of the service they provide to you. Compare that to an email in a gmail account or a Facebook profile or even a phone call made over a cell network. Your information is exposed, unprotected, to potentially hundreds of employees at those companies. And they rummage through that data as a matter of course, whether to target advertising or to do traffic shaping, etc. You have no property interest in that data. You can't sue the company for losing it, you can't sue the company for accessing it, etc.

I can certainly conceive of a digital equivalent of a safety deposit box. It would involve a provider hosting encrypted data that they themselves cannot decrypt or access in unencrypted form. But the services cooperating with PRISM are nothing like that.
How did two obscure, older French guys

Yeah, that's BS, Daft Punk are regarded as the kings of commercial dance music. You don't have to be into them (I'm not, though I too like their new work) to recognize this and respect them for it. The writer omits to mention that DP also scored (and appeared in) the long-awaited and heavily-promoted Tron: Legacy film released in 2010.

The mystery of it — What did it mean? Was Daft Punk announcing a new song? A new album? Something else?—attracted millions to the site on the first day.

...which should have been a clue to their pre-existing popularity. The marketing campaign for the album was very conventional, indeed old-fashioned; straight-up saturation through old media channels like flyposters, billboards and TV. But rather than being a throwback to the 60s or 70s, this is how (mainstream) music used to be marketed up to the 00s, when file-sharing, recession and war sent the industry into a general funk.

Part of the signaling here is to position DP as a big, established act - a classic example of 'the medium is the message.' Another part is that the band members have never been into personal publicity, so TV interviews are not gong to happen and they're not especially video-oriented either.

For a less well-known act also doing a 'comeback' release but taking a much more viral approach, check out Warp Records' low-key campaign for the new Boards of Canada album, which started with a few records placed and then found by customers in record stores on 'Record Store Day' and used cryptic clues hidden in places like web page headers to guide fans to an un-advertised website, culminating in a livestream of the whole album on YouTube. See for details: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1560063/boards-of-can...
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Yes, the rest of the album is a sort of primer on the elements of disco and that track is the example of what happens when you put all the elements; hooks, beats, bridges, vocals and feelings together.

I expect that in a couple of years, people who obsessively listened to this album in an analytic manner will be producing the chart-topping hits.
And it looks like that KKK reference is actually a reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, famous Confederate general and early KKK member.
It's important to remember that AZT (the first effective anti-retroviral treatment for HIV) was invented in the 60s as part of cancer research. It wasn't until the mid-80s that HIV researchers started testing it.

In other words, it's not as if the drug was invented in response to the AIDS crisis. Once the NIH/NCI made AIDS research a priority, it was a rather straightforward matter to start testing known anti-retroviral drugs. One can reasonably argue that if the government had made HIV research a priority in the late 70s and early 80s, the effective treatments would have been found before the epidemic exploded (for example, contrast to SARS or bird flu, where the index patients are chased down and isolated, and immunological research begins before there are even tens of thousands of patients.)
Amazon has to deal with the quality of human workers, too. It shouldn't matter who is behind the work.

>And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.

And that's what Amazon should do if they could.
I would like to see an implementation of our test suite [1] for CppCMS in order to see the CppCMS vs CPoll-Cppsp cage match. Any C++ experts who would be so kind to send us a pull request? :)

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
wallunit's response was in direct response to someone who claimed this feature was "snuck in".
Your employers actually track your StackOverflow karma??
There's an excellent program called 'Geogebra' (google it).
It takes about a minute to reconstruct the pirate problem; see file here: http://ubuntuone.com/37Y5UbvN6wqbYOWYPcict2,
you can move around the point of the grave and see how the point of the treasure reacts (or doesn't)
Interesting - I had the opposite experience. I had In N Out in San Diego, and then flew to DC, and have Five Guys. I much preferred the Five Guys. In N Out tasted/felt low quality.

I do agree about Shake Shack though :)
I think the damage this causes is far greater than setting up two tiers of advertising.

This is a shining example of how those with money are able to influence the system by corrupting the very mechanisms that were implemented to protect the "regular people" in that system.

If Google had paid a politician to exempt itself from certain laws, we would call it bribery. For the exact same reason, we should take issue with them paying Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads.