skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clicks are nice and a lot of people focus on them, but it's not a viable option for a lot of publishers/industries. Brand advertisers are about sending messages rather than driving traffic to pages and converting people there. Around 70% of display advertising is not direct response orientated.

The typical adnetworks give you ad tags which you put on your site and the ads are served from their ad servers. Then there are a few companies [1][2][3] that are marketplaces faciiliating transactions between publishers and advertisers, but they still use their own platform to serve the ads. And then larger buyers give them adtags, served by their own servers. Nobody in their right mind will just wire you money for ad inventory and just take your word for the traffic unless you are a very large name and have a proprietery self-serve platform (AOL/yahoo style). And even on these platfroms a lot of advertisers still use their own adtags (a recent java malware attack through yahoo's network comes to mind).

[1] buyads.com
[2] buysellads.com
[3] blogads.com

PS: sry for typos and formatting, on the phone atm.
As a user, sure. As a publisher, full article feeds are incompatible with web ads.
But Java is "enterprise"!!!1
Completely agree with you about the universities being akin to closed societies. I've lived in Boston most of my life and if you aren't currently attending said universities and are not a gushing alum constantly attending university sponsored events then you will find Boston and surrounding areas to be very sleepy indeed. The puritan spirit is still very much alive and kicking in the bay state.
Reminds me of Ring (Stephen Baxter), especially the AI construct Lieserl whose job was to get inside the sun to figure out why it was cooling down.
the article is correct. 'do what you love' is of course neoliberal propaganda created and propagated by capital as part of its war against labor.

but we must go further and realize that capital is our enemy.
That he could write this:

> after weeks of really having to watch them[Manning and Snowden], they’re both increasingly looking too weak, too stupid, and too easily manipulated to be conscious traitors. Rather, they seem to be narcissistic and naive pawns used by Wikileaks, and thus in turn by whoever is pulling Julian Assange’s strings these days. (Hint: It begins with “R” and ends with “ussia.”)

http://tomnichols.net/blog/2013/08/02/snowden-manning-and-sc...

Does really lead me to believe he is an incompetent buffoon who does not realize just how out of touch with reality he is. What upset people like him is that thanks to google instead of rolling over and taking whatever he says as gospel people can call him out for being wrong at the stroke of a few keys.

For example, did he know that Snowden has not released a single file through wikileaks?
I have seen special ads embedded into feeds. Sure, they are not dynamic, targeted and what not, but they are hand selected, probably relevant, and under total control of the content provider.
The only reason police need to fear a non-criminal gun owner is if the officer acts abusively. A criminal on the other hand could get a gun wether they are illegal in the area or not and might be more inclined to use it regardless of the police behavior. I doubt outlawing guns entirely makes a police officer's job safer it just allows free reign to harass law abiding citizens w/o serious risk.
It's not stupidity for everyone, it's just that every recourse outside of violence has been captured or gamed by those truly in power in the US.

As opposed to their elected officials telling and giving them what they want to hear? Circus and breads are not empty words, you know.

Plus the media has been captured 99.9999 percent.

As opposed to the media reflecting what the people want to hear?
another one http://sivers.org/zipit
i think the latest mbp's might have a different product id on the intel hda. does your sound disappear with the old driver?
I've rented for my entire adult like (I'm currently 31 living in Somerville/Boston). While my sister bought her first house in Pittsburgh when she was 23, and my parents had moved between several houses they purchased by my age... I've been happy renting.

I didn't want to buy a house until recently, but now I want to buy one around here. Why?

For one thing, in the major cities the rents keep going up at a rate faster than what the government reports national inflation to be. Your (fix rate) mortgage shouldn't change over 30 years, but your rent will likely triple or more in that time in a city like Boston.

But the biggest thing? Customization. I like building and changing things. I'm so tired of landlords that won't let me rip down walls, replace sinks, get a new fridge, repaint everything, etc... not that they should, but I still want to change things. Buying my own place will enable me to do this.

Another thing I can do around here, is buy a place that has 5 bedrooms, and rent out the other 4. I've had several friends that do this, and it essentially pays for their mortgage by having roommates. Not a bad deal.
Fact is, there is almost no accountability to the people any longer. And the powers that be know it.

So the voters are in fact, weaker than the lobbyists? Didn't the internet defeat SOPA through a large coordinated campaign?
Just like Ruby and Sinatra. Although Rails is more popular, I found Sinatra's barebones approach a little bit more approachable. Combined with an ORM solution it is very possible to create a lightweight web app. Then again I do not know how it performs under stress.
It might be different because I'm a graduate, but a suit definitely wasn't necessary to obtain my grad scheme in the UK. I just dressed smart. Moreover, for another interview I had, Amazon (Scotland) specifically state suits won't impress them.

Admittedly certain businesses will expect suits, notably banks.
Oh really? Cisco Webex (Java) is IMHO still unbeaten by JS solutions like Google Hangouts[1] or JoinMe[2], despite its old-fashioned L&F. Also, what about banks in Norway?

[1] Fast refresh, but poor image quality.
[2] Terribly slow refresh, audio doesn't work on Linux, needs to use skype/phone.
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One of my favorite interactive pieces from the NYTimes is a Rent vs Buy calculator which is very configurable:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
We're a 28-person consultancy, and run into this a lot. One approach that we've found to work is to help the client bring on at least one in-house employee (contract or full-time) with enough technical expertise to conduct updates and improvements. We then shift into a "leadership" role, maintaining overall responsibility for the product's continued success, but guiding most of the low-leverage day-to-day work to their in-house guys. Management, by necessity, is much more amenable to "task-switching" than is hands-on technical work, and represents a harder-to-find skillset for many clients, so it's typically not too difficult to sell this kind of continued engagement.
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Does this use react from Facebook? React is supposed to be the last missing piece for clojurescript.
Gustavo Duarte : Lucky to be a Programmer http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/lucky-to-be-a-programme...
The Europeans care just as much or even less than the Americans. They're being told that there are no privacy protections in place for foreigners, yet, as far as I'm aware, there has been no significant decrease in Facebook or Google traffic.

If the tech giants were genuinely fearing loss of customers or users, Obama's NSA speech would have been drastically different.
This is pretty serious! It appears that Nagios did some very underhanded things to gain control of that project.

The bigger concern is that the new maintainers have no reputation and no proven track recording quality, commitment, skills or experience on this project. I would not be happy accepting updates from them.
Conversely, those mechanisms flourish with the existence of an engaged, informed citizenry.

Which is quite impossible to build if you have to struggle for your daily bread or pay your mortgage. Even when you're idle, you're most likely arguing against or for abortion and other bikeshedding issue instead of focusing on important issues.
+1 for meditation. The magical thing about meditation is that it fixes a lot of things all at once, and without you even trying... all you have to worry about is to meditate daily, to harvest the results. You will feel less stressed, more creative, compassionate and happier, not to mention smarter. No wonder it's a central tenet of Taoism and Buddhism. The world would be a better, happier place if more people meditated.
You might think this is just "they didn't bother implementing that", but in fact some people considered this a feature and browsers added "flash of invisible text" as a feature.

http://www.paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/

(There are also some interesting ramifications to these various techniques for the various "icon fonts" that seem to be all the rage these days.)

http://filamentgroup.com/lab/bulletproof_icon_fonts/
For me, the amount of shameless plugging you can get away with is directly related (with weighting) to ones karma score multiplied by thread relevance. I think such a comment in a thread on NSA snooping would have earned many downvotes, here it's just a yes we know :-) at best.

We are all here because we want profit from what we learn here (either improving our minds, or more rarely our bank balances) - and indeed most of us secretly or less secretly want to follow the freelancer / ebook / SaaS product route.

To be reminded of the existence of the route and that it is not an impassable journey is, infrequently, a good thing IMO
I'm just surprised he didn't say anything about making his subordinates work less. He said the company had a work life balance policy, then talked about how the engineers were always in on the weekends.

PS-- I'm on the road every Mon thru Thursday and pretty much live in a hotel. I didn't relate to this pierce. It's. Rey possible, then, I don't have the skills to be a CEO.
>>For all we will ever know both parties collude to keep the system in place.

There was an episode of Boondocks that did this. In the end, Ann Coulter turns out not to be a republican. She's just faking everything to cause controversy sell books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seThIG34R8 - Warning, lots & lots of bad language. Can't find the AdultSwim censored version.
I agree with your statement. He said the company had a great work life balance policy, but his descriptions of it contradicted that.
I thought specifying a fallback font does that. Of course, problem is that many websites try to avoid the dreaded FOUT, and end up hiding text, or even the whole site, until fonts are loaded.
Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
Emscripten is JavaScript. It doesn't really compare.
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That historically did not happen.

Fascism under Mussolini did create a law about guns. It did this many years after the PNF took power, and the law only states that you have to declare "substantial changes" in your ownership of weapons[0].

The same happened with nazi germany. There was a weapons law enacted in 1938, about five years after books had been burned, the gestapo had been installed and concentration camps for political opposition had been created.

This law deregulated the acquisition of firearms, which had been regulated since 1919[1].

[0] http://www.sanzioniamministrative.it/collegamenti/I%20Codici...
[1] http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=402...
Sometimes I feel like "do what you love" is a kind of psychic barrier-to-entry for certain fields. People say "you really have to love this field in order to be successful at it". Which implies that just being hardworking, disciplined, and determined to improve aren't enough. You have to love practicing the craft more than food, sleep, sex, or any other hobby or recreation imaginable. You have to feel like you were born to do it and when you aren't that's all you can think about. That the idea of a perfect day is 16 hours at the task with as little time as possible left over for anything else like food or sleep.

That's what comes to my mind when people tell me "make sure you love this stuff before you try to become a professional. You wont succeed otherwise."
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A lot of VNC Viewer for Chrome is just the standard RealVNC stuff compiled into NaCl, so you should find the performance to be pretty good. If you've used any of RealVNC's mobile apps you should have a good expectation of what you're getting (except better because you might be using a wired connection & a desktop computer has more power than a mobile device).
Chrome Canary has experimental support for DirectWrite which should make your fonts, and text in general look much nicer.

See the issue here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541

For details on how to enable DirectWrite in Chrome Canary. Might be worthwhile to see what your fonts look like using DirectWrite.
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I don't think that's valid. "Publishers" are those who publish content - that is, make it available to others in some form. The fact that this publishing is via RSS or a website doesn't change that.

You can bet that if you created a newspaper that was simply a selection of articles photocopied from other newspapers, you'd have IP issues. Same if you tried it with a book.
the complete guide to not giving a fuck

http://inoveryourhead.net/the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a...
Yes I know that it does because I own a Chromebook pixel that I run linux on.
Reading through the mailing list thread announcing this, it's clear that Nagios was never really an open project to begin with. As far as the plugins site goes - they transferred domain ownership a couple of years ago. The plugins hosted on the site are compatible with Nagios and all it's forks.

This outcome and the way it happened should surprise no one.
I don't think this is related to the issue this article talks about, but it may be relevant to Windows Chrome users whose fonts suddenly look bad...

I noticed in the past week that sites of mine that had imported a font from Google Web Fonts without explicitly specifying to import bold/italics versions too were looking odd (e.g. weird text-shadow for no reason on what used to appear bold). In past versions of Chrome (or perhaps it's Google Web Fonts that has changed, I'm not sure), I've been able to use [b] and [i] HTML tags around text and my Google fonts have responded accordingly (without my needing to explicitly import bold/italic versions) -- but that's no longer the case. The fix is (obviously) to explicitly import the versions of the fonts you bold/italicize, but it actually took me a little while to figure out that that (and not some weird CSS issue) was the problem.

Hopefully this saves a few other people 15 minutes of poring over their CSS trying in vain to figure out what isn't working!
The job might only require a suit one day a year when you're meeting fancy pants people, speaking externally, meeting clients etc. Wearing a suit to the interview allows you to show that you can dress up well if needed.
Hang on, 48% support it and 47% are against it, and that represents apathy?

There was an interview on Radio 4 a few days ago (can't find it right now, still looking) where the head of the UK committee which oversees GCHQ tried an interesting approach. He didn't defend GCHQ at all, but said that basically no one in the UK really cared about this issue so we should do nothing. The strategy seems to be to atomize the opposition (it "happens on the internet" therefore it's not real or quantifiable), ie. divide and conquer.
the main religion in china now is money,and children from little age trained for exam,the only thing your child will learn in a chinese school is competition,people are judge by their ability to achieve high point(grade/money), we don't have something called 'education' here,i don't think your children can find a good teacher grown up in such environment
Apparently it WAS until 5 days ago:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.ht...
yeah, I think that was why it was a big surprise to the organisation to learn most people did not care (it was obvious from usage rates but organisations don't learn what they don't measure-promote)
I can't read that exchange trail in the issue tracker without hearing this Life of Brian sketch in my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE (some NSFW language)
I want to run linux - retina displays don't work well with it. If I could make do with OSX I agree the MacBook Pro 15 would be nice (save for the location of the power button)
>Didn't the internet defeat SOPA through a large coordinated campaign?

No, a bunch of super wealthy individuals and corporations did because their financial interests were threatened.
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Oh boy. Anarchism on HN. Time for my flame-proof suit.

Actually, I agree with basically everything written here. The definition of "work" is "instrumentally useful activities that don't match our final desires". Trying to force your career to be a final desire, by altering your career or altering your desires, sounds noble but simply can't work for the vast range of occupations that genuinely are instrumentally necessary to make the world run.

Anyone who demands that you have a life-changing passion for digging ditches, flipping burgers, or writing SQL joins is a jerk. Careerism is a subgoal stomp.
Excuses. Everyone has nothing but excuses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, i don't know the rules in the us, in Germany you're simply not allowed to work more than an average of eight hours per day. So you can not only not be forced to work more, you can't even be asked to.
Even if it seems to be voluntary, often it isn't.
To me it's odd to see an article talk about empathy as a skill or a thing you can do. I've always thought being empathy as something you are at a feeling level.

I did some looking a while ago and discovered that psychologists distinguish a couple of different kinds of empathy. One is when you intellectually try to figure out how someone feels - the other is when you just feel it.
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It would be great if they added the price of course material in there. Maybe with real time pricing from Amazon or something like that.
Workers should always follow their passions and do what they love...on nights and weekends:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-p...
Similar to GP, I also grew up in DC and would say the GP's description of DC's power complex is extremely accurate. The point is that even though the word 'politics' is used often, this structure is present in every industry. To thrive in DC, no matter what you're doing, you need the whole tripod.
Kinda ironic that you describe the problem as "military style of public order enforcement", since one of the hallmarks and necessities of the very reforms was the centralization of policing, and the imposition of various military-like organization on the police in an attempt to increase visibility, accountability, and legitimacy.

In fact, I don't think the question isn't so much how to design robust cultures that do not "deteriorate over time", but how to design systems that are amenable to reform despite "deterioration". Basically, I'm making the claim that that on the micro-level, that every day, or year to year life of an institution, negative effects will tend to out-weight positives. And I'm going to argue that from the standpoint of entropy. So in other words, sure, we want to create systems that are robust, as in they can maintain their culture at some set level, but it's even more important to ensure that we can "reset" the system at relatively low cost.
Oh yes. The elite that "love their physics and science" and so on. Who needs the technology that makes modern agriculture possible? What drives doctors and students through grueling training? Who builds world-spanning transportation and communication networks? If you enjoy your work, or you are damned good at it, then you must be exploiting someone?

Stratification exists. It's going to continue to exist. The "solutions" to it have historically been worse than the disease.

Can we do better? Sure. Can we make them worse than they are? This article certainly points in that direction.

I have a great job and a career that I love, and I give to charities that I think are worthwhile. I could do more, sure. But I'm not going to find work as a dishwasher [done that!] or on a farm just because other people are stuck in those jobs.
ShareThis widgets operate in a similar way.
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rent v. buy is a function of the specifics; not a generalization proposition.
Insecure networked Java means that (hypothetically, or with that floating point parse bug of ~2011), user input could cause a program to behave in ways not intended by the author. Insecure "local" Java would be something like an equivalent of XSRF , mixing data from multiple sources in unintended ways, or leaking data from your user account/ security context to a place visible by other accounts/roles on the system.
For me, DWYL has always not meant "forget about whatever else is going on in the world and do your own thing", like their example of forgoing finance & law to study Norse mythology.

I always figured it was a perhaps incomplete counter to a previous time where there was an expectation you should not enjoy what you do. Many people talk about hating their work, etc. Perhaps it goes too far in the opposite direction and implies a selfish view, but in my opinion we needed a little bit of that move in this direction. Maybe we went too far and it needs to be adapted to something else, such as "Do what you love, that also has value to society" or something.

I definitely agree with the digs against off the clock "well you should love what you do, so keep doing it for free!" stuff though.
This http://www.gamefounders.com/ could work.
But how do you teach anything without examples? Pedagogically, this stuff is invaluable.
The article doesn't cover MVC itself, but there are several links to MVC resources (most notably the "Essential JavaScript Design Patterns" book) and the author of the blog is a well known advocate of the "MVC everywhere" approach.

The article references a talk by Zakas who says that all modules should be completely decoupled and communication should be done via a global messaging bus ("the sandbox"). In most cases this approach is an overkill, it will lead to awkward situations where module fires events telling the mediator what should happen rather than what has happened.

I agree there should be as little coupling between modules as possible, but if there is some coupling needed, it should be explicit and clearly stated with direct function calls rather than hidden behind the mediator.

The "module with facade" pattern might make sense in code generated by a compiler, but I would never use this ugly hack in code that is going to be read by other developers. Instead of trying to hide stuff by misusing the return statement and closures I would just use underscore notation.
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