skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone had to pay for the content they consumed:
1) People would be much more selective about their content chocies.
2) They'd likely become that much more productive, wasting less time on crap they don't really want.
3) Good content would then be at a premium (and good content producers paid accordingly).

The internet has been all about disrupting established channels of communication, making it possible for "anyone" to produce and distribute something meaningful. Advertising goes directly against this, by placing value on the "loudness" of the communication. Those with the most money, best equipment, and largest army will be the "loudest."
According to this page it's $5.000/mo for the first 12 months: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/plus/default.aspx

Also the front page says only startups who are members of designated startup-accelerator programs can apply, though it's entirely possible that could be waived by your BizSpark manager.
I'd put Alan Kay forward as a living polymath. It's a shame that research has become siloed -- so many great discoveries came about because someone had insights perpendicular to their field.
> Without them, you'll be paying a membership fee to every site you visit regularly.

I, for one, would be happy to. I'd honestly pay a monthly fee to watch Youtube. I don't use it only for cat videos, I also use it to find new music from artists I've never heard of, watch recordings of concerts I've been to just to relive the moments and so on.

If Youtube would let me pay to make those ads go away, I'd do so without thinking twice. In the absence of the said option, though, yes, I block their ads.
Run OSX on Surface Pro 1 and 2.
Just look at the screenshots of Xio's clone and Tetris. They are almost identical. Now compare Tetris with tetris-likes such as Dr. Mario, and the difference is immediately apparent.

Copying assets doesn't just mean verbatim copy-and-paste. It includes recreating other assets such that they are virtually identical to the source material, as the art assets you apparently created were.
iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
And that's when hosting was much more expensive.

Patreon is another good example of how to survive if there are a decent number of people who genuinely like what you do. See Cara Ellison and Zoe Quinn, for example. It won't make you rich, but that's very much the point.
Such a warm welcome. If you're so convinced the parent comment was a fabrication for attention and approval, why not just say so without the derisive tone and personal attack?

Edit: though it may have been an accidental misclick, I would appreciate an explanation from the user who downvoted my comment if it was not an accident. I consider googles99's comment to be unnecessarily harsh to a new HN user, and want to know why discouraging such incivility is worthy of a downvote, if indeed it was not accidental.
The nested hstore patch has replace(hstore,text[],hstore) which would do this but I see nothing similar in the jsonb patch. Perhaps it should be added.
I've never read a more poorly written piece in my life.

The first half is 5 variations of "he doesn't give us the full medical data for his diagnosis" [in a magazine article or a tv interview, no less].

The second part is some lame assumptioms on what Dr. Fallon did.

And the conclusion builds up on the first part: "I am arguing that the news articles covering his story do not provide enough details to support his claims.".

No shit Sherlock. It's a news article, not a paper.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in NYC Apartment
I'll raise this useless antidote with another. I was raised in a poor inner city school that had no playground. I went to an afterschool program that was heavily subsidized for poor kids that had a huge playground. There was no rules except the older kids and younger kids were segregated. There was pretty much no supervision. I was bullied tons. Hair pulled, harassed, excluded from the parts of the playground I wanted to go on.
This is not true, sites did just fine before the advent of ads, and were actually useful. Some kinds of advertising online aren't even obnoxious, and that's fine too.
For the obnoxious stuff? We can mostly do without. If we drive them to bankruptcy even faster with adblocking, all the better! ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZL5_TJs5U
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"That's what Bizspark effectively does, gives you free Visual Studio, other MS software, so when you are profitable, you pay them through the nose, because you are locked into proprietary anti-open-source bait."

Really? The author didn't use any of MS technology. What are you raging about?

"You weren't diligent, and didn't even reach out to Amazon. Instead you went with a shitty competitor and we're supposed to applaud that? What's the moral here?"

Like begging Amazon to wipe their bill because they are start up? MS gave them 3 years of hosting from the get go without begging. Again, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU RAGING ABOUT?

This here is why Hacker News is going down the toilet. Raging against something simply because hey it's Microsoft.
Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead
It's also possible that the scientists correctly infer that, even conditional on having the same resume, female applicants were overall of a lower quality.

The study doesn't prove whether this disadvantage comes from people discriminating against women merely because they are women, or people correctly identifying that the women on average perform worse, even given the same resumes. It is still possible that given full information about the candidate, (not just the resume), women would not be disadvantaged.
Can block, will block. I will advise people to block where possible as well. Why?

The Internet experience is universally shit when there are adverts. The 2% exception to the rule isn't a valid discussion point. Neither is the people delivering content and surrounding it with shit.

My children battling through adverts galore and pushing apps on them using dirty ad network tricks on their iPads is a fine example. Browsing on the devices is fucking horrible to the point they only want to use a desktop with an adblocker. Their school has adblockers. The local library has adblockers. Everyone I know has adblockers.

The model is over. No turd polish or new strategy will help. Advertisers ruined it.

I'd rather go back to gopher and dialups than saw a new paradigm appear.
Yeah, I bet you could add in a dial and control the resistance, but yeah... not in software.
I have an alias that I have created that prevents the branch you are currently on or master from being deleted.

alias gclean='git remote prune origin; git branch --merged | grep -v -E "(\*|master)" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d'
Even with top of line, new equipment, accuracy problems are quite significant for this application. This is sadly little more than a commercial for these companies.

You need a lot of pixels. Even if you have full HD 1080p, that still means FoV 20 foot wide or less, which is quite narrow for real world, outdoor applications.

You need good angles. Even if you can cover a wide area, if the person is at the edge of the shot or looking the other away or looking down (very common), accuracy plummets.

You need good lighting. Even with WDR/HDR capabilities, glare is an issue with sunlight. And forget about in low light, night time conditions, the noise from gain control is a major, major issue.

You are dealing with huge numbers of people. With tens or hundreds of thousands of people passing, a lot will simply look alike. It's hard for a person or a computer to make such a call, especially with bad angles, glare, etc.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky received fairly prominent coverage recently, as an example.
No available in my country.
It's more the implications of accepting TPM and thereby enabling future changes to it that make me uneasy.
Is there seriously a business right here which works thanks to ads ? I mean, do you really know people clicking on these ads ? For me, everything here is just working because people want to pay you so you put ads on your website... But this money, at the end, does not come from money generated from ads, but from... business angels and VCs money !
>Who's gonna pay to watch stupid videos online? Nobody.

what a great way to get rid of all that junk!

>Ads are important. Without them, you'll be paying a membership fee to every site you visit regularly.

And that's bad because?
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You do realize TOR is going to be unsafe for the average person and their every day browsing, right? Your traffic is going to be visible to any person running an exit node, so if you send any personal information or login credentials over a non-https connection, the person on the other end can read your information.

As someone else mentioned, if your mom is a journalist or political activist, and needs to access information anonymously, while at the same time is careful enough not to release any information over TOR that could be used to identify herself, than it might be in her advantage. If you're setting her up on TOR so she can browse her favorite social networks, cooking blogs, and e-mail, then she's most likely going to be less secure, entrusting personal information to strangers instead of her ISP, and waiting on the slow load times of the TOR network.

TOR isn't some magic bullet that makes browsing safe and anonymous. In short, I'd recommend your mom doesn't use TOR. Based on her profile, she's going to make the mistake of sending unencrypted personal information, and when that happens, I think she's better off trusting her ISP over a stranger with that data.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Justified or not, Microsoft's history makes it hard for me to trust them.

then don't use it. what the fuck does it got to do with embrace, extend, extinguish. Is Microsoft not allowed to offer something similar to what AWS offer?
Agreed. Since I'm given the option, I pay $5 a month to support a caster on Twitch sans ads, and I can certainly see paying some amount up to $10 a month to watch YouTube without ads.

However, I'm not given the choice, which just seems silly to me.
"Lackluster coverage" is just another word for blackout.

It's not like what's important makes the news -- or that media are free to play whatever they like.
> It's also easy to say that "No one clicks on ads" or "I never click on ads."

I would add that the majority of ads in the world are brand advertising -- driving awareness and consideration and not targeting a direct response. If you're planning to watch the Super Bowl today, the Olympics later today, or just about any pro/college sport, it's been largely paid for by ads. Not to mention just about any TV show, news program, newspaper, or magazine. No one immediately runs out to Target when they see a detergent ad, but next time they're in Target or shopping at Amazon (and after receiving many more impressions), the familiarity grants it extra consideration.

Most people are familiar with keyword ads, but not as much with brand ads. There's no need to click -- advertisers pay for impressions, and sites get paid for impressions. A little less than half of Internet ads is from brand/display advertising -- about $22bn in the US alone. But globally there are hundreds of billions more from TV, radio, print, and outdoor that could potentially shift online.

http://www.itamarnovick.com/why-facebook-would-be-worth-200b...
Low, steady inflation is better for an economy than the alternatives humanity has experienced thus far. However, if people had the choice between holding a currency they expected to slowly decrease in value like today's central bank currencies and a currency they expected to slowly increase in value like Bitcoin in a post-adoption world, why would anyone pick the former?

Central banks have only had the ability to steer the economy because they controlled the best currencies available in the eyes of consumers. Dollars are much easier to deal with than gold, so people use them even though they know the dollars will be worth less than the equivalent gold in a year or two.

When Bitcoin is as easy to use for trade as dollars are, people won't choose dollars, nor will they chose inflationary altcoins.
If I may suggest a different approach - take a look at cordova. It is a good way to sink your teeth into non high performance apps using your current skill set. This is the road I am travelling right now.
> Ads are important. Without them, you'll be paying a membership fee to every site you visit regularly.

Hacker News, Github, Dribbble ...
I disagree
In 50 years, the Dogecoin-supply will be increasing at a rate of 1.4%.

In 2011, the gold supply increased at a rate of 1.6%.

Do you think gold is too inflationary to be used at a store of value?
So how do you load this into a VM?
Do you have a phone number tied to the Yahoo account?
The reason I posted the idea was to start with a system that is working and where you can forego the filesystem and other parts that are typically found on a full blown OS. It's not uncommon for an RTOS to dismiss the GC and leave it to the programmer.

For example, there are discussions in the RTOS world to take a closer look at Rust (Google embedded Rust) which is why the terms "new OS", "GC" and "experimental" triggered my response to look over there for a starting point.
Many universities no longer offer paper checks as an option, sometimes with exceptions for the first paycheck, and the final one. You must set up direct deposit with a bank or credit union.
I don't agree with the conclusion that adblocking is leading to Upworthy style pap articles... Those are engineered for a social media world, to cut through short timelines and attention spans. The ad content is largely unchanged from any other low quality media source. Just like all the low quality how-to pages that were/are churned out to catch long-tail searches when that was the easier meat.

In a few years trends will change, habits will change, and a new paradigm will emerge to attract eyeballs. But here's the thing: the content stratification feared in this post has long since happened. It's the reality of the web, has been for some time, and it's certainly not killing anything that hasn't had the bejeezes kicked out of it by other forces already.
With the way Google has been acting over the last, oh, 5 years or so? Yeah, I try to avoid google for the most part.

I'm firmly in the camp of "You (the server) provide the content. I (my computer) decide which pieces of that content to display. You get no say in what my computer does or does not do." So yes, I block ads. I block javascript. I block flash. I override your CSS. I pick and choose which elements to display. I'm perfectly fine with doing without your content if you make it too inconvenient, because 99% of the time, I don't really need that content anyway, and the other 1%, well, the same content can be found elsewhere.

The the thing that younger people do not understand: I've lived in a pre-internet, pre-cellphone, and for the most part, a pre-personal-computer, world. I know what it's like. I know it's not the end of the world to go back to that. As a result, there's a lot of stuff I'm not willing to put up with.
$30 for an accurate aircraft simulation seems like a better deal than $120 for speeding up digging of 56 tiles. Not sure if this is a good comparison :)
Why can't people just improve manpages so that they include a readable abstract and examples instead of coming up with projects with cute names?
Studies find new links between sleep duration and depression
No, but some parts of the underlying infrastructure have been merged. The only part of this work which is useful by itself is the replication slots which can be used instead of wal_keep_segments to make sure WAL is kept on the master until it has been received by the slaves.
Ad networks - if you have shown a heavy flash banner 10 times in a row and I haven't click on it, please get the hint and stop pushing it, I won't click it on the 11th time. Today I'm talking about a blue banner with a developer with his saliva dripping on his desk.
While this is all true and I agree in most respects. I think it behooves the ad sellers to make their ads less obnoxious so that people would be less interested in blocking them.

Or if someone were to start making a program that blocks known bad advertisers but not others. Perhaps blocking everything that isn't text based (all flash/etc ads) so I could still get advertisements but not have to worry about Punching the monkey/kim kardashian/bush/obama/etc.
Respect for others in class is shown by not disturbing or interrupting the class. While the decision to follow the class or not lies with the individual. Seems they were just on their of and not in any way disrupting the class for others. To force students to pay attention in class is a stupid idea because learning is a voluntary process.

Further making it into such a huge issue actually reflects on the immaturity of people involved.
The UK 'independent' nuclear deterrent isn't. Unlike the French one, it uses US missiles whose targets and strike pattern is set if North Carolina.
It's far more likely they're not running it because no one cares. Seriously, the general public really doesn't care. Why would they report on something that's going to make their viewers change the channel?
In a world with competing currencies, people will choose currencies they can understand. A dynamic currency fails this test.
TripleLift is hiring - we're a small (25-person) startup in NYC trying to disrupt online advertising. We're working on technologies that move away from annoying banner ads to beautiful, image-centric native ads. We focus on computer vision (and related technologies), real-time bidding, data analysis and more. We're looking for some awesome people that are awesome at one or more of: angular, node.js, java (high performance), PHP, and "big data" - reach out at careers@triplelift.com if you're interested (or check us out here http://triplelift.com/careers)!

Also, we were recently named one of Forbes top 5 companies transforming advertising in 2013, were finalists for AdWeek's startup of the year (both editorial and readers choice) and won The NY Times / 212NYC ad tech startup of the year.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-de...
It's not Microsoft tech though. I run two python/django apps and a node.js app, back by a mongodb and two riak db's. They are running on CentOS5 and Ubuntu 13.04. How is any of that MS tech?
I've found the best approach is to make it task-oriented.

Download xCode.

Come up with a simple concept app (stopwatch or alarm clock, for instance), and search out on google examples and tutorials that already do these apps. Figure out how to download them and run them on the simulator.

99.99% of every question you'll ever have about specific things have already been asked and answered; when you develop these inevitable questions, search them out.

Once you get your first app out, try either adding bells and whistles or coming up with new apps.
I take a carrot and stick approach to encouraging online and mobile business to stop displaying ads in favor of charging viewers. I take the paid, ad-free option, if one is available (carrot). If not, then I'm running Adblock, so I use the site anyway (stick).
What the rise and fall of Guitar Hero teaches about gamification
Not really appropriate for HN, but RIP nonetheless.
You make an interesting point about the evolution of advertising online... It makes me think of the situation with the recording industry and record sales/pirating.

It seems to me the advertisers are just 'screaming and yelling' that their old business model isn't working anymore and trying as hard as they can not to innovate or 'keep up with the times'.
I use apt to install a wide variety of software on my home system as well as a couple of servers, and I rarely have problems with dependencies. So I chose it as an example because it has worked well for me for years.
Maybe, just maybe, they needed those rejections to become who they are today. Rejections are an important tool to test stability and force adaptability.
I think he's calling it Godwin's razor, if I read correctly?
well Ads are what keeping the internet alive in a very generic sense. The free services we enjoy like google, youtube, twitter, online new sites, are free because of the ads. Blocking them all is like discouraging people to actually produce good content, for eg youtube video creators get a share of money earned by youtube through ads on the video's page, what do you think happens when you watch the video by blocking all the ads? It doesnt affect youtube that much but it makes alot of difference for the creator.
Bitcoin, the new currency of Silicon Valley not a pioneer in San Francisco
That is a very good idea. So far I've only been able to figure out EFI booting basics.. Which is the least interesting part. Do you have any concrete suggestions?
Standing up for myself worked for me in grade school, after years of torment. A nuanced approach is required, but measured retaliation is appropriate in some cases.
Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency
Since several of the comments here revolve around what we know now and could possibly know now about brain differences related to behavior, I'll link to a book, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience,[1] that examines for a popular audience how much science is behind the latest "neuroscience" and how much of it is just hype. Just because brain scans are involved doesn't mean the explanation is any more valid. I think you will find this book interesting and helpful for understanding yourself and understanding the world.

I heard about the NIMH director's letter on research priorities[2] first from behavior-genetics-informed research and clinical psychologists whom I meet in a "journal club" weekly during the school year. The DSM framework involves a lot of log-rolling among various kinds of psychologists and psychiatrists, several of whom depend for their living on being known as "experts" on "disorders" that may not have any real existence. That said, there is an active research program all over the world based on a variety of different paradigms, with very widely followed journals, trying better to understand healthy human behavior and debilitating human behavior that results from brain abnormalities, diseases, psychological stress, and other causes. Straight-up psychology still has a lot to contribute to this study. The psychologists I know best are very aware of critiques of their own discipline[3] through the readings we discuss in the journal club, and more generally aware of the general critique of the current conduct of science,[4] so they redouble their efforts to do their science better, and to check their methodology as they try to tease out the complex web of causes of human behavior.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Seductive-Appeal-Mindless-...

[2] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

[3] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

[4] https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/john-ioannidis?tab=publica...
What? The comment has blatant falsehoods in it. Microsoft made some serious mistakes in the past but Azure really is a different product than they have ever offered. I don't care if people like it or not but at least be honest about it.
I am very shocked to hear this. He was one of the greatest actors of our time.
Because people want to see them. People (as in the general public) really don't care about yet-another Snowden interview, so news outlets aren't going to shell out the big bucks.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor, Dies at 46
Not to trivialize his death, but I wonder what this means for the final Hunger Games film? He really was one of my all time favorite actors, shame he passed.