skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
water has certain nice properties: cheap, not toxic and very high heat capacity. there are probably more, but i'm not a powerplant engineer.
I feel like Wordpress has too much bloat. It's a full featured CMS now and all I want to do personally is have an organized blog that I can post on. Right now Jekyll is what I've been using which works pretty well, but because ghost is not just a static site, it can do a bit more.
The problem / article is about ADBLOCK PLUS - not with the normal Adblock. Two different beasts.
Yup. Me too. That's the principle I run on.
I was showing this to a friend a couple of years ago when we accidentally discovered, to our delight, that it's orientation-aware. If you're using Chrome on a Mac laptop, try tilting your machine to see how it affects the elements on screen. (Theoretically, it should also work on most iOS devices and other laptops with motion sensors, but I haven't really tested it extensively.)

Prior to that discovery, I had no idea that a non-mobile browser could access motion sensor data. Turns out that on a MBP at least, the data comes from the Sudden Motion Sensor[1], which is also responsible for parking disk drive heads if you drop your laptop. Pretty cool stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor

A couple more links for the curious:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Detecting_de...

EDIT: Almost forgot, but I actually created a little drawing experiment based on this: http://peterjmags.com/accelosketch/. Try clicking around and tilting your laptop to draw.
"Yes, 90% of the web would die without advertising"

I doubt that very much. I think it would be more accurate to say that 90% of the web would change without advertising revenue. People will still want social networks; they will still get social networks, and it is likely that those social networks will be more distributed as the money for big, centralized services will be gone. News will still be distributed, some behind paywalls, much not behind paywalls. Search engines will still exist, some charging a fee, some run by their users (imagine a distributed web search system i.e. a P2P network of people who index the web and respond to searches made by other users).
While I don't agree with the assertion that "Samsung are bastards," they very obviously used a PDMI connector because it looked more like Apple's dock connector at the time.

Not only did they not use micro-USB like most manufacturers, I recall reading that their PDMI implementation was non-standard (i.e., not-quite-PDMI). There was no reason for them to choose such an incompatible connector other than the shape resembled an Apple connector.
Mobile-first Responsive Web Design and IE8
The zeitgeist is around Apple, Facebook, and Google now, since they managed to topple MS. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
How do you make money from your site?
Applying Lean UX
Hah. I recall antispam companies doing the same thing - once they got big enough, they demanded money from major mail exchanges. I'm sure companies paid out rather than risk long legal cases and poor PR.
The people of ADVERT_CO work hard to distract and confuse my attention such that I overpay for the products they push. For every ad-supported site out there, I'd be better off by directly paying them money for their service. This is basic economics, if it weren't true then ADVERT_CO would be out of business.
How do they stay in business? And, what is a CSE?
Seems to be tied to GitHub which is not what I want.
Israel has had several interesting attempts with socialist economic units, most notably the Kibbutzim, whose decline will give economists and social psychologists enough fodder for years. Most of these attempts indeed failed (some more so than others), but they worked quite well for a few decades.

One could argue that an economic structure – any economic structure, including capitalism – cannot survive without a supporting value system. In Israel, all of these attempts took place in a capitalistic environment, both inside Israel and in international markets. It is worth mentioning Max Weber's observations that it took many years for society's value to change enough to support free-market capitalism. For example, he describes how workers traditionally worked less hours when offered a higher wage.
How I Organize my CDs
HN, Next time you want to call something ad hominem, see if it meets this bar.
Use Adblock instead. Adblock Plus is another product entirely, unrelated despite the name trading on the popularity of Adblock.
Sure! It's "Adult ADHD: What You Need to Know" which you can find on Amazon.

It's a bit different from the typical books on the subject, but does a good job (imo, of course!) explaining more about how ADHD appears in adults.

Either way, if you have any questions on ADHD, please feel free to ask; my email is dgurevich5 [at] gmail.com
OpenRISC 1000 emulator written in JavaScript running Linux
> economists are generally idiots

That's the sort of inquisitive, open minded, intellectually curious, fact-based sort of approach to the world that I like to see on Hacker News.
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Get media coverage for startups - Newsjacking 101
Portable electronics that get "better" with age?
Interesting approach, design a portable speaker around the idea of getting better with age the way a leather jacket might. Not sure I buy it can work in the electronic space, but interesting nonetheless.
I question why anyone would think winning a generation (or two) would mean the war is over?

There's pretty much always been multiple competing consoles, and I don't think Sony and Nintendo are ready to throw in the towel.
He isn't giving all his wealth. He is keeping more than any one else (to insignificant approximaton error) will ever hope to see in their life.
I think seeing this is what originally got me into web development.
cityhash - http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/
> But sites are rarely paid “per click”.

Doesn't google AdSense alone count for a non-trivial portion of internet advertising? Unless the rules are different for bigger partners, all AdSense revenue is per click.
Yes, but. Having a non-offensive business model guarantees nothing about the quality of the services provided -- they are orthogonal concerns. I would be very happy to pay for what I like, rather than be subjected to the grotesqueries of advertisers (still less to be packaged up and sold on like a shitty mortgage), but a lot of good would be lost in that 90%.
I will reply to all collectively:

> Why would you turn off foreign fonts?

Because I don't want foreign fonts. They are usually either just bad (e.g. worse than my OS font) or render badly.

> It's an edge case, 0.0000001%, ....

You are not downwards compatible. It's an edge case because you make it one by deciding on web "standards" by thoughtlessly applying these short-sighted idioms.
There is a difference between pure advertising and informative advertising. While I'm completely against the former, I support the latter, but in a severely limited format (i.e. such ads can appear only on special billboards, e.g. one for concerts, one for art exhibitions, one for new restaurant openings; that people can only see on purpose (not just by driving by), and without any extra information (i.e. without semi-naked women enticing you to "need" the product)).
Off topic, but someone please explain to me what Grunt does that is so special? It seems like it's re-inventing Make for no good reason.
do you ever get a headache from sitting in this echo chamber all day?
> For scheduling use sqlite.

Well, scheduling and static generation require a cron job that writes the static asset at the predefined time. It all gets complicated from here. You can write the static asset when it's first accessed for example and from there on serve the static file, but that requires a database/storage as well, so you're basically back to square one.

I'd not restrict myself to sqlite here either, but that's a minor nitpick.
MVP hosts file blocks ads on Windows machines by editing the hosts file. No 3rd party software needed. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
I just recently started using pry and it has already made a big difference. Couldn't recommend it more.
Actually I was trying to use a coding analogy to explain to a technical audience. I apologise, should all future contributions be in the form of a mathematical proof? perhaps latin?

Seriously, you have no idea what an economy would do given different changes, as no one has tested it - we don't have any good[1] evidence for anything at all in the sphere of economics, except perhaps that people don't behave as economists model them.

As I said in my previous answer, different levels of risk are given different levels of reward already; changing the tax level of each won't make any difference, relatively speaking. (I won't bother explaining how VC funds spread risk to make it acceptable to lay-investors, because you doubtless already know.)

If markets are to be trusted for anything, putting correct prices on different levels of risky investment should be it. If not, as you say, no one would ever invest, and we would need to ask the government to run all our industries for us.

[1] from the point of view of physicists who actually care about uncertainty values.
Whatever is `1000" long`, hardly "takes up no space". We can go on about theoretical size, etc. In practice 1000" is a lot and not possible to comfortably store in any way by an average person.
Yes, thanks for the correction! And for the sake of posterity, it's "Does the Brain Consume Additional Glucose During Self-Control Tasks?" by Robert Kurzban
Alright, that's enough, I don't trust these guys to tell me which ads should be blocked and which shouldn't. Uninstalled.
Establishment journalism has long slipped entirely into infotainment.

I would imagine having to report on actual non-infotainment news must infuriate those self-selected and heavily hyper optimized to report pure infotainment.

This is the root of establishment journalist anger toward Snowden etc... They're sitting there fuming that they could be making money doing their business as usual showing Kardashian bikini pictures, talking about Apples new iPhone, cross promoting their networks primetime sitcom offerings tonight, celebrity guest interviews about lasagna recipes, all the "greats" of infotainment, but this bastard is forcing them to talk about non-profitable non-infotainment topics, so he makes them mad. Just like forcing me to write about ladies fashion would make me mad.
Well you could build one quick with fnordmetric https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric
In fact looking at the screenshots of reportr it looks very like fnordmetric as well.
> and the entire book publishing industry apparently exist in a cognitive blind spot

Books have tried it, and ebooks may well have ads at some point. Luckily, the experiment for print books failed.

I wonder how you'd react if someone approached you with a deal to mention a product X times in a book? (I imagine it would be a colourful and robust response!)

I ask because Fay Wheldon did this for Bvlgari.

http://www.kottke.org/03/04/advertising-in-books

> In September 2001 the novelist Fay Weldon wrote what was, certainly at the time, the world's first sponsored novel. Entitled The Bulgari Connection, it was, you guessed it, sponsored by the jewel house, Bulgari. According to this article in the Guardian, Weldon was required to mention the name of Bulgari at least 12 times. It was originally intended as a private venture, but was then released for commercial publication. Nevertheless, fairly scary stuff though it is, the fact that this was a year and a half ago and doesn't seem to have spawned hundreds of similarly-sponsored books gives at least some hope that this won't be a trend throughout the publishing industry...

Salon has a nice piece about it. (http://www.salon.com/2001/09/05/bulgari/)

War time penguins had ads, at the end of the book.

http://www.nevillehobson.com/2010/08/22/are-ads-in-books-suc...

Here's an article about tobacco advertising that shows glossy inserts in Kurt Vonnegut books.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Collins-t.htm...
The Running of the Bulls and a Volvo…Wait What?
How people find energy to create yet another blogging platform.
The concept of advertising does not require that the ad viewer "overpay" for the product of the advertiser. It only requires that in the long run, the average additional revenue for the company is greater than the average cost of the ad.

If Alice spends $1 to show an ad to Bob, who then spends $2 on $product (which has 0 marginal cost to Alice), which is so wonderful that Bob obtains $3 of value from it, everyone is a winner.

Lots of ads try to convince the viewer to spend money on something not in their best interest, but it is not inherent to the vehicle of advertising that this be so.
> But unless you want to pay a subscription fee to every site you use, it's not a bad deal at all.

Considering how little money sites get per advert view, (not even whole pennies IME,) I'd happily just pay them double the money not to advertise to me. Remove all the ads, all the associated tracking shit - keep the prices per view at double advertising sort of prices. Yeah, I'd pay. Happily.

What we really need is a way to do secure efficient micro-transactions - I don't want to be having to enter my card number every time I view a page. Or have some sort of trusted intermediary so we can tally up the pageviews and pay everyone appropriately at the end of the month. But the no-advertising model needn't be a bad thing.
Hell, if you're logged in, you'll see a bar at the top of the screen with "+ New" on every single page of your site.
I Grew up Richer than the Rich Kids
No one seems to agree with you. Everyone wants online and mobile content for free, and very few care how it happens. So either someone else pays for it (advertisers) or those people become the product (selling their data to marketers). I don't see that attitude ever changing, but I do anticipate traditional approaches to paying for content getting more intrusive or slowly disappearing in favor of other models.
Please note: This article is about Adblock Plus. AdBlock is a completely separate extension with different developers, and is 100% user-supported.

Details: https://getadblock.com/adblock-is-not-adblock-plus
Ironic that it's coming from the "Independent". They probably don't even realize the irony themselves.
Ads are fine, up to a point. If the page is almost all ads and not marked clearly as so, then F that company.

But these AdBlock PLUS guys are extortionists. Google paid and their ads are "acceptable." all of the sudden.
(Disclaimer: not a fan of Google at all)
Google being the world's largest advertiser is leading the way in putting the entire business model at risk, ruining ads for everyone. They started with no ads, then a few ads on the side, then on top, then 2-5 on top and 12 on the sides, now ads everywhere and just a few results hidden by ads. Now the product search is 100% ads and I doubt that most people know (not everyone reads HN and Ars)
I posted them before but this is a disgrace and it's not receiving the needed attention from the media:

http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png

http://ho9od35yvs05ejqn.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/u...
At least part of the problem is that I've noticed Apple store employees think of the 5c as old hardware too and, as a result, their pitches steer customers towards the 5s.
Not sure why it's "sad" that Hotmail is a top three provider? It works well and has a simple layout that is easy to use for most people, even those who are less technically minded.
I'd say that was quite an achievement.
There are a lot of LoS wireless networks in use all over the place (at least in the US). They're only a small fraction of the wired networks, but they're still important links.

For example, the City of Melbourne (Florida) uses wireless links for intra-city WAN traffic. The cost analysis versus building a fiber network was laughable. Granted, you don't get the speed and latency of fiber, but even when they built in extra software (to provide LAN nodes for latency sensitive services), wireless came out ahead.

This development won't help with latency, but more throughput is always welcome.
Maturity is peculiar because it has only the definition that you make yourself.

If you're mature, you're able to define maturity and your life goals yourself independently from "the pressure young easterners face from their parents and their families to live to the ideals of their parents and extended families". If you can't - then it's simple, you're not mature yet.
Company Lifecycle And Culture Change Too Fast Today
CPC and CPO agreements with the merchants... I.e. the user visits the merchant from the site (sometimes buys something) and we get paid for that.
My problem with economists is they call themselves scientists, yet have very little actual "science".

Science means, reproducible, testable and predictable ideas.

Economists use curve fitting formulas on past data, then call it science.

And, worse, they defend each other. I have taught economics, worked at hedge fund and studied economics in college.

They work at banks and governments, then use "science" to justify stealing money from the people they are supposed to be helping.

What happened to all the economists after the recent world economic crisis?

They didn't lose their jobs. They weren't held responsible for their horrible risk-analysis.

So, yes, they are idiots.
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Yes. AdBlock (https://getadblock.com) is actually the most popular extension on Chrome, more than Adblock Plus. It blocks solely based on your filter subscriptions and custom rules and is funded solely by usrs.

https://getadblock.com/adblock-is-not-adblock-plus
This looks pretty incredible! I was initially slightly sceptical (3D printed glasses, slightly conceptual looking design), but reading what they've accomplished so far pretty much eliminates that scepticism. The project founders (Jerri Ellsworth in particular is a huge name in electronics) bring a lot of credibility as well. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes! Hopefully they can raise enough money.
Why does it require a database? Ghost has a Markdown editor and presumable stores posts in the database as markdown, just write the markdown to the file system instead of a database? I'm really not seeing any requirement for a database here.
Meet the man behind gaming's greatest tunes
Given that the business model in question has come to revolve around highly targeted advertising achieved via extensive tracking and profiling of users, it certainly deserves to be threatened.

Unfortunately, the AdblockPlus "acceptable ads" criteria don't address the privacy issues. So the ABP folks are actually promoting advertising standards and ads that are intrusive. To make matters worse, this "ad blocker" that supposedly "protects your online privacy" is purposely equipped with a material defect in the form of an enabled by default whitelist that allows many ads through including those that are harmful to your privacy. Those unsuspecting users who fail to learn of this and/or those who forget to opt-out can get burned.
> You cannot play first person games.

As an Oculus Rift owner I've been able to play HL2 for three hours straight with zero breaks. It was hands down the best gaming experience of my life and this is coming from someone who really doesn't appreciate single player games.

People don't believe it but you DO have to gain your 'vr legs' before diving into fast paced games like FPS.

You have to gradually work your way through games that are just at your limit until you find yourself able to handle something fast paced like FPS. For me it went roughly Blue Marble,Alone in the Dark,VR Helicopter,War Thunder (for 2 weeks), DoD:Source, HL2.

I think what may have been key to my transition was when I played DoD:Source, I just treated the Rift like a big screen in front of my face and used my mouse to look around the world rather than my head (DoD currently does not have separate head look/mouse look so where your head moves your cursor moves and vise versa). When I finally got around to playing HL2 (which has separate mouse look/head look so you can look up a flight of stairs, and than bring your cursor up to shoot) it was a small enough jump from DoD that I was able to play a half hour my first night, an hour my second and 3rd nights, and 3 straight hours on my last when I beat the game.

I think the greater issue Oculus Rift faces is that, even if you are careful to slowly acclimate yourself as I did, over time you will build a slight aversion to the Oculus Rift as your brain associates the odd glitch of nausea that are inevitable in any game with the Rift. So while I did say that HL2 was the best gaming experience of my life, I do admit that I haven't been back to it since. I don't know if thats a function of me beating the game or nausea, but I'd probably put it at 80/20 respectively.

I think that it will just be a matter of how compelling a game is to overcome the nausea/aversion. I suspect that if GTAV releases for the PC that I'll find myself logging multiple hour session in the Rift again.
Still... Korea+Taiwan vs US.
> How do they stay in business?

Make users happy, provide useful content, help them save time and make informed choices when purchasing. Has worked for 14 years so far.

> what is a CSE?

Comparison Shopping Engine.
On OS X there's GlimmerBlocker, which is hugely superior to AdBlock Pro or Edge.

[1] http://glimmerblocker.org
What's so fascinating about the momentum that gathered behind Ghost and it's funding campaign was that they selling the feature-set in part, but maybe in even larger part, the fact that it wasn't WP. My sense was that people backed it as much out of a sense of "sending a message to David" as they did wanting something better.
This is a neat thought experiment, but it seems to me it's looking at a different part of the curve than software complexity. The "phase transition" the author discusses occurs between 0 and 1 threads/button. In a software project, you wouldn't bring in a new component unless it served some use to the existing pieces, so software projects start at 1 "thread/button," and unless you've got orphaned code, the "cluster size" is always 100%.

Software complexity strikes me as a graph-coverage problem: given a graph of N vertices and M paths (i.e. software components and dependencies), how many vertices and paths do we need to traverse (i.e. understand) in order to make a change to component X? How does that parameter scale with different forms of graph -- linear, n-ary tree, DAG, cyclic (yikes!)?

Or is there a homomorphism between the two problems?
When I played around with the Rift I got sick. But taking pills against travel sickness helped.
I'm curious, why would the accelerometer invade your privacy? Is there a significant difference between your mouse or keyboard and the accelerometer?
Everytime I read one of these stories, it's always someone without kids. This guy has an economics degree. He has the luxury of going back. If he had children, and they had to live like this, could he still do it, and would it be good for the children?(honest question) It's also always someone not in their 60s, when they start needing more medical attention, more access to medicine, etc.
One thing that I can see right away that I like is working with themes. Other comments point out the WP bloat. I don't care about bloat as long as the software is easy to install and generally stays out of my way after that (the bloat stays hidden) but one area Wordpress can get to be a bit messy looking is the themes.

If Ghost is easy to theme and the templates easier to read / build / maintain then that's a big plus for me. I may not want to touch any code on the thing, but I would certainly want to do work on the templates.
Hitting 400M TPS between threads in Java using a lock free queue
I have written a short article on adds and 'peak advertising'.
Might be of interest.

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/blogg/2013/10/14/po...