skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a measure of efficiency. A company that takes 100 people to produce $100 of profit isn't as efficient as a company that produces $100 of profit with one person.

How this ratio changes over time is a measure of scalability. If a one person company goes from $100 profit to $200 profit after doubling the number of people, that's more scalable than a 100 person company going from $100 profit to $200 after doubling the number of people.
Which makes me wonder why Box never sued to protect their trademark. It's probably too late for them now.
Ad blockers are the solution to an advertising industry that largely has zero respect for users. Ad blockers are the logical extension of pop-up blockers and spam filters.

If the Internet advertising industry could be trusted to behave itself nobody would install ad blockers. The fact that people are installing such software should be taken as an indication that today's ads are too intrusive and too disrespectful.
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Or speeding up, depending on how you look at it

$46m -> $116m (+$70m) -> $200m (+$84m)
I use a Hierarchical Triangular Mesh for indexing gamma ray events from the universe. The data is partitioned in the database according to it's HTM id.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0701164.pdf

Currently I use this for indexing ~11 billion gamma ray events. Researchers typically supply a region in the sky, a search radius, and some cuts (energy, event quality, etc...)
Just something I'd like to toss out for consideration. Can RICO be used against the NSA itself? A second approach: target NSA contractors for RICO violation?
The biggest "free to the company" perk a company could offer me is great package shipping/receiving during the day, and ideally, use of the company mailroom at cost to ship personal packages. But receiving inbound Amazon packages so I can collect them at the end of the day when I go home would be more than enough.

The other perk I care a lot about is parking. Even better, parking for 2+ cars, so I can leave a car at the office when I don't drive in (public transit or whatever), and stuff like leaving a car at the office if I'm out of town for a week. (company motor pool cars, even if it's just a couple old Suburbans or a Prius or something, would be fine for this too. Or a zipcar or bmwdrivenow site if they're close.)

(the other thing I want is an office, rather than open-plan, and either a secured enough space that I could leave $5k on the desk in cash without worry, or physical security in the form of a serious locking door or office safe; but those are to be productive, so they're not really perks)
To the author: I think you should 'Find and Replace' all (except a few) occurrences of 'Chrome' to 'Chromium' in your article.
If the only value your website offers is to bring eyeballs to ad's, then it's time for you to find a new vice.

If you want to serve up ads on you site, make sure they're relevant, they're absolutely 110% malware free, and respect my privacy. And unless you're willing to take responsible for when those conditions aren't met, then don't whine when I do everything technical to block out the useless malware laden offensive ads that you do serve.

The difference between net ads and tv ads are that tv ads cost enough money that people who buy tv ads spend time and energy in being very selective about their market demographics and the type of ads they run. Plus I've never had a tv ad infect my tv and stop it from going to any other channel but CMT.

If me and my eyeballs are going to be your product, then I want a little respect for my participation.
Ask HN: Is there an HN leaderboard for story sources?
I'm curious to know which news sites/sources hit the top 30 most frequently... sources ranked by front page presence over 30 day period or so.
"NSA affiliates like Palantir mucking about with firms like Hunton & Williams [teaming up to attack] anyone who opposes the persons who make up the facade that is US Chamber of Commerce" is brilliant. You're hitting some Robert Anton Wilson notes here. 23 Skidoo!
I make it a required purchase for family members now. On any new computer, the first thing I do is symlink the desktop and the documents folder to Dropbox.

That way, I never get support queries from family members wondering where they put something, and it's almost impossible for them to save something in a location that's not backed up. And the backup is immediate and automatic. It's pretty perfect.

If you've got two or more computers, everything's the same everywhere, and you can get to any file on your computer from the cloud.

I know some of this, cloud sync, cloud backup, and cloud access, is possible through combinations of other software, but Dropbox packages it all so well. I don't think it's just for geeks any more.
They don't actually release the product to the consumer until you actually buy it. They just move it closer to you.
I was going to say the same thing. Similarly, you can get around the NYT 10 articles per month simply by opening the link in an incognito/private browsing mode window.
s/IBM/Any big name company with name recognition/g

I worked for Panasonic for a few months, the job sucked ass, but my title of Test Engineer and a quick explanation of what my responsibilities were is solid gold.

I jumped at the chance to be able to put them on my resume and I'm glad I did.
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@AznHisoka, I did not mean to imply that hosting is free.

What I was driving at is that hosting was previously a multi-million dollar investment.

Before LinTel became the norm, servers ran on Sun, which was extremely expensive at their scale.
Sure advertising is the "business model of the Internet", but I have a hard time getting a hair across my ass about the fact people use blockers. Maybe because I don't work in an ad-supported industry means I don't have to rationale to myself it's not scummy.

You can say ad-blockers are "the problem", but they're really a negotiating tactic. Remember the bad old days? When advertisers and those selling ad space were arrogant to think they could get away with anything? They destroyed the user experience so badly people wrote software to get rid of them. Now advertisers have to balance the intrusiveness of their ads against driving more users to install blocking or remembering to reinstall adblock on their new computer. Yes, websites depend on advertising to stay afloat, but why should I care? Nobody is entitled to a business model.
Yeah I thought that was striking as well. I'm generally skeptical of stats like this but I'd love to see the paper and see the structure of those gigs (eg which industries, where geographically are they concentrated etc)
The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility
I'm pretty sure this was posted precisely to explain the great amount of confusion which that video has created.
There's a whole set of interesting data structures that are not very well known: succinct data structures[1]. The idea is simple: we want to store data in a compressed form, but also perform certain operations quickly without uncompressing.

These can be very useful for certain applications. The article on "Cramming 80,000 Words into a JavaScript File"[2] is a nice example. It shows you how you can store a compressed trie in memory but still use it. I also like this[3] series of blog posts leading up to wavelet trees.

These certainly count as obscure data structures, unlike many of the ones listed on SO. I had never even considered the idea of compressing data in memory like this, much less encountered actual examples of succinct data structures! I have to thank Edward Kmett for introducing me to the whole field.

These data structures are important not just because they're neat themselves, but because they got me to think a new way. In particular, I realized that using pointers all over the place--to represent things like trees--is not always efficient. Instead of parsing data, it might be better to store it as a blob of some sort with a binary index. Just starting to consider details like that is valuable all on its own.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure

[2]: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php/?id=120

[3]: http://alexbowe.com/rrr/ and http://alexbowe.com/wavelet-trees/
In that case, why not have the ad blocker download the content, and execute the tracking js, but simply not display the resulting ad to the user. It would register as an impression to the ad company, so the content publisher would get paid, and at the same time the user would not have to look at the ad.

If you raise the issue of the ad company paying for people who don't watch the ad, just consider the situation of the ad industry in any other media. TV ads? The viewer can easily turn off the TV during the ads, like I do, or change the channel to a channel not showing an ad. The same is true for radio ads. For ads at the start of a movie, you can come to the movie 10-15 minutes late, thus getting there right when the movie starts and skipping the ads, or just wait in the lobby until the ads are over. Magazine ads you can easily skip to the articles and never look at the ads.

Even in web ads, you can take my old father's "low-tech" add blocker, a paper cutout he hangs on his monitor that physically block ads in the margin on the side of the screen.
A Just-in-time Compiler In Rust
Well, just for a moment I think I would have smiled to myself if I had packaged it up as a jpg and 'shipped' it. You can't stop me... :-)
I wonder how Dropbox and the NSA get along?
I don't really consider tries and bloom filters all that poorly known. These commonly come up in interviews for fresh graduates at Google/Facebook. Zippers, skip lists, ropes, round-robin databases, etc. are more genuinely not known I think.
that video isn't about proving anything - it's a pop science channel (but for maths), meant for the laymen.
Agreed. Starting projects which you won't finish just consumes resources and therefore prevents other projects from getting finished. I have been very aware about this. Being highly selective on projects which you even start is simply being smart.
Obama outlines changes to spy programme
The PoR also had the most votes in the 2006 parliamentary elections when Yushchenko was in charge. It's not a far stretch to assume that they may have fairly won in 2012 as well.

The point is western observers are quite selective in 'endorsing' certain elections over others. In 2010 they kept quiet because it was plainly obvious that Yanukovych was the winner.

Now you have protests (which turned violent at several turns) protesting a democratically elected government, conveniently just before new elections. With tons of Western media coverage again, and again the Western media vilifying Yanukovych and Putin...

So convenient.
Ok, but here it seems like you're referring to "[my] users" as if they were consumers of the library -- that is, as if they were developers. That's still my first case in which I agree committing / bundling dependencies is a bad idea. I'm talking about the 2nd case, of locking down dependencies used to build an application whose "users" are not even aware of the presence of dependent libraries nor the structure nor configuration of the underlying software. In this second case, isn't [freezing/shrinkwrapping/committing/bundling] the dependencies generally considered the right thing to do?

Of course, updating the dependencies (whether for patches or more consequential updates) in subsequent releases is fine... but within a given release cycle, one otherwise runs the risk of unexpected inconsistency, between e.g. a developer build and a CI build done a short time later.

I think this discussion illustrates the problem and might be more articulate than I'm being: https://github.com/bower/bower/pull/538

Thanks @hdevalence -- and anyone else who cares to comment. :)
No, he mean all social commentary. Almost all of the journalists and professors who preach the point of view you advocate (big bad corporations and fox news stealing from the poor) did not themselves experience poverty. And some right-wingers experienced it too. So "throw out stuff I don't like" does not follow from your claim that only people who have experienced poverty can speak about it.
You forgot the Disposition Matrix (newspeak) which is the Pentagon list of people to summarily execute.
We'll see. The only thing that actually looks new is "sharing audit log" and an audit log is a long way off from being able to effectively control sharing. Changing someone's password to log into their dropbox, delegate ownership of the folder to a shared account helpdesk controls, and then have helpdesk go through every shared folder to remove a terminated employee, then sending the original user a password reset, then requiring a helpdesk touch for every sharing change in the future isn't a valid business workflow. Furthermore, in the past Dropbox's audit logs have been paginated lists you click through online. Not the sort of thing you can automate. Here's hoping for a change.

Also, notice the phrasing: "With separate Dropboxes for personal and work, administrators can have the control necessary to secure company data, and you can still have your most important stuff at your fingertips." That sounds suspiciously like a sentence that says nothing at all, considering it's already easy to run two dropboxes, and all the problems I listed concern fully administered business accounts.

Remote wipe will be nice though.
I firmly believe that when Go introduces generics, the syntax should look like:

type T1 generic
type T2 generic

func Map(f func(T1) T2, s []T1) []T2
Windows 8 called the new Vista inside Microsoft
I'm seeing it too: http://imgur.com/puK8OiW
I found it. It's mentioned on page 5 in the executive summary. I don't have enough time to read through the whole report right now.

http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/media/files/pdf/TechReport.pdf
How about ads that don't do any of this:

* Require me to download megabytes of Javascript and Flash, particularly when I have to pay by the megabyte for my data plan.

* Consume excessive CPU time and reduce my battery life

* Use CSS to hover over the actual text I was trying to read

* Make noise

* Pop-ups

* Pop-unders

* Link to malware

* Link to scams

* Ignore me when I say "DO NOT TRACK"

In other words, show me a modicum of respect. Deliver ads that actually have value for me, rather than treating me like the product you are selling to someone else. Nobody complains about the ads they see on Amazon, largely because Amazon is doing this.

The absolute worst thing you can do is try to defeat the ad blocker I installed. That means you have become my adversary -- in which case I have zero reason to care about your revenue stream.
"It's just the structure of government that someone in the executive branch isn't going to be willing to use all of their political capital in a battle that weakens their own authority."

In other words, once you give government power, there's essentially no chance that they will relinquish it.
Here's a link to story without paywall: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
There are no rednecks in Washington unless they are mowing the lawns. Redneck implies doing some actual work.
I'm wondering if Dropbox could start using a slogan like "Add it to the box" or "Add it to your box"

Box is sufficiently generic that further commoditizing the word box as vernacular with respect to online storage would get people to use the word box (all lowercase) associated with Dropbox first.
Clearer images:

no rock http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3528/1P441385599EF...

rock http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3540/1P442453196EF...
It's funny to see everyone on here stating that they are leaving Dropbox as I'm just about to get on. I've been using Windows machines for years and finally bought a Mac. I need to start using my computers as simple terminals to some degree.

The only thing I've been wondering is if running a few things at once is a bad idea; Google Drive, Box, Dropbox.
You mean Snowden? When did he take this oath?
I don't believe that anybody is suggesting that the CIA or NSA should request search warrants for non-citizens located outside of the US. Even if you had probable cause the courts would just be perplexed that you were coming to them with something from outside of the country.

(Many people, myself included, think that there is something wrong with how we are currently handling those situations, but search warrants for non-citizens outside of the country are obviously not the answer we are looking for there.)

Domestic terrorists? Get a warrant.
I have a Reddit account but no subreddits. The result is a "Sorry, we couldn't find any products!". I'd recommend a fallback... it may be not personalized, but at least it gives me something.

Another feedback, the title is a bit misleading to me. I expected to find a list of products sorted à la Reddit, like [1], not really a personalization based on my subreddits.

[1] http://www.theneeds.com/shop/hot
You're arguing apples and oranges here. Yes, offering a smaller selection can increase conversion but that has nothing to do with how the curation process works on the backend to present the selection. Whether you do it by your method or by going full on AI, you can still present a limited selection. The only difference is how algorithmic the recommendations can be on an individual level
EC2Box: Web-based SSH console using WebSockets/JSch/Terms.js
We wouldn't see ad blockers as a solution if ads hadn't become a problem. As obvious as it seems for the users, advertisers don't seem to grasp it.

Anything flashy and/or moving is BAD.

Anything with actual javascript code is BAD. Especially, anything that tracks you is BAD.

Anything that temporarily prevents you from watching the content is BAD (I'm thinking about splash screens you have to close and unskippable videos).

Anything that modifies the behaviour of the web page you're visiting is BAD.

Until (at least) those are solved, ad blockers are most definitely a solution.
I don't particularly like ads, but I don't mind if they're small, unobtrusive, and clearly marked as ads. Also, all the usual caveats about respecting privacy apply. I find there are very few of these types of ads around these days. Google text ads used to be this way, but then they started injecting them into SERPs in such a way that they looked more like results than ads. Also, popunders and popups need not apply: they make my whole browser unusable, and that's unacceptable.

In addition to individual ads needing to be unobtrusive, the totality of the ads on the page needs to not make the page unusable. This is the thing that annoys me about Youtube ads, for the most part. I visit youtube to watch videos, and if I have to sit through an ad every time before I can do that, I start to get annoyed.

This isn't the same as how TV ads work, either. Sure, each ad is 30 seconds, and together they make an hour worth of programming equal to about 42 minutes of content, but each commercial break is a few minutes long, which makes them effectively skippable. Imagine if a commercial break were 1 minute long (so there were 18 of them per hour). Wouldn't that get annoying fast?
the newspapers were gatekeepers of public dissemination when Ellsberg did what he did

They are still in the Snowden case as well.

Also, to declare that history cannot help in the analysis of a problem in the present is to admit defeat. To fully understand the present, the only real tool you have is history.
On the linked to website I was hoping to see the text of the proposed amendment and whether it was going to be submitted to Congress or to a Constitutional Convention. Unfortunately, I saw neither, and the amendment was summarized using inflammatory language. Unless Sen. Franken is trying to gauge public support for his idea, I fear that signing his petition would be nothing but slacktivism.
You mean the moral ideological alternative would have been better even if it caused the economy to implode?

This is why I'll never vote libertarian.
Oculus Rifts for every employee! Virtual private office!
You're right adblockers are a problem, they're not addressing the cause but its expression.

But at the same time and like the article, you also failed to frame the problem properly, see, it starts by telling us about a website serving 2 millions page views then goes about people wanting content for free.

Content doesn't cost anything once put online, so it's not about content but rather that it is accessed 2 millions times a month which generates traffic, which has a cost.

Now if it cost the same for the content to be accessed 10 or 10 millions times, then the justification/needs for ads would go away (except for newspapers' websites maybe).
The problem is in fact dual, one is that the internet is designed to work as dumb pipes connected intelligence located in the network periphery not as centralized servers hosting content and the owner of the inner tubes ask money based on how much traffic goes through them.

The obvious solution of distributing the content in a p2p model which would move the bill of traffic from the content provider to the content receivers.

So yes adblockers are a problem because they're and additional layer of attempting to fix another problem ads and associated surveillance which is trying to fix the issue of relying on a centralized model on a network not thought for this usage imposed by a few giant companies exploiting their ownership of the architecture for profit, making a mess of layers attempting to fix each other but really attempting more problems requiring more fixing.
box.com?
You're extrapolating the rewrite of a poorly maintained C++ server to mean something about the overall C++ quality at Google?

I fully concur with haberman about the state of C++ at Google.
That's an opinion you share with all investors who were made whole by the heavy-handed official response to the "crisis". The rest of us, not so much.
Nice. It's a quote from "The Graduate" in case there's anyone puzzled by this. Career advice from a wise grey head to the young Dustin Hoffman character.
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I assume you mean Jeff Bezos (Amazon), not Jim Bidzos (early CEO of RSA, Verisign).