skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Affiliate marketing at its core is simply selling someone else's product for a cut of the profits.

Possibly the largest affiliate network would be Amazon Associates. You sign up for an AA account, and you share your affiliate link for products with other people. If you do it casually (e.g. just recommending to friends and family on FB), then you can get some extra pocket change. If you do it professionally (e.g. actually finding a niche, doing market research, building a website w/ a capture page, etc), then you really need to work on promoting the products, which can be a full-time job in itself.

Of course, Amazon doesn't rely on its affiliate program to be big, but that's also what's great about being an Amazon affiliate--you don't really need to "sell" since everyone knows Amazon.

I can't think of any legit affiliate websites off the top of my head, but just imagine a site about dog training (a very popular affiliate niche). It has some free content on how to effectively train your dog (which could be valid or invalid), and in the content are some affiliate links. If the content is actually valid, and it works, and it's actually good content, I don't see how putting affiliate links on the article is spammy. I always appreciate it when a blog post links to a product it mentions because it saves me from having to Google it (but I will anyway to get a best price).

Of course, you can have complete spammy people, who have fake websites with false content (or crappily outsourced content) and comment random people's blogs for link bait, and unfortunately that's a practice that some "mega affiliates" promote in their "how i became a rockstar affiliate" products, but it's not fair to judge affiliate marketing as an industry based on a few bad eggs, no matter how numerous they may be.
This seems to have only affected one region. Am I missing something?
This is true, but even if the NSA were not a problem we should move to that architecture anyway.
I think 4 is the most important one !! People start vouching for you then
Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply.
I'm still confused at the end how he managed to knock the offer down from 100% equity, 4% royalty to 35% equity, 4% royalty. What a crazy negotiating range from the "shark".
I agree; I think for a wearable to be successful it has to be passive and useful. Apple's watch seems too interactive to me but it does look nice and I think it'll have enough passive features to be good.
Good point! To stay on my angle, are there Chrome specific security bugs that are in the most recent builds that are exacerbated by 32bit builds?
Being spied on by your own country is worse than being spied on by other countries. Your own country doesn't have another country between you and it to protect you. Also, other countries will look at the USA and say 'we can do it because they do it', and that just leads to more problems. Eventually you have to say no to spying. It's morally and ethically unacceptable, and we should not tolerate anybody doing it.
Yeah, that's the main thing to take away from these events. I've never seen a system (cloud, local, co-located, or otherwise) with 100% uptime, despite every effort to the contrary. Even sites like Facebook and Google have downtime. In the last few years that I've been using it, Azure has been at least as stable as other cloud providers.

That doesn't help with the awful timing though. Ouch. I just Buffer-retweeted your BizSpark tweet above, scheduled for tomorrow. Maybe a little bump now that you're back up and running will help ease the pain...
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We're having issues.

But we're working on it...
Show HN: Dayhue.com – What color is this? New color every day
Can you explain how it suggests that?

The most plausible explanation here seems to be the simplest: If the methods were exposed, the prosecutors it would have probably been ruled a warrantless search.
Like PyPy?
Does anyone know what they mean by "remote"? I skimmed through the documentation, and it still is not clear. When I search for "remote assembler" the only results are 1) this project and 2) a kind of job in manufacturing (mostly with reference to mainframes).
Enchant: Bring your photos to life
It is in development. Started working on it last week. Still experimental. Thinking of changing the syntax a bit to be a little more intuitive. It's on github:

https://github.com/vpj/docscript

Will add a command line compiler and stuff soon. We are using it to generate documents at our startup. So it will be in active development for sometime.
Yeah, step functions really break this. I think I was in a game with you or some else with the same general idea, they won on the very first turn with the sine wave trick.
Barbie F*cks It Up Again
I assure you I have no delusions of grandeur. I believe that you are underestimating the halo effect of the negative attention that sovereign and corporate spying have received in the last few years. And I don't pay taxes to the US government.
Neural Networks Describe What They See
Thanks, that sounds plausible.
It's ironic that the same people who detest "big government" are for big government spying on them.
Modern fonts have been frequently thin before the invention of retina screens.

The overuse of thin fonts might look dated in the future, but I don't agree that this trend is totally inspired by retina screens. If anything, I think Serif fonts have seen the greatest resurgence on web due to Retina screens. High DPI screens will impact our perception of all fonts, just as sans serif grew in popularity on lower dpi screens causing their perception to be more modern and technological.

In general typography as a whole has become much more interesting on retina screens. So yes, fonts look better now than ever before so don't cheat by using superthin because its trendy.
The Urwerk UR-110 “Eastwood”: A Tailor-Made Farewell of Timber and Tweed
Grand Theft Auto is dangerous again
That can't possibly be the issue. Plugins like Flash run in a separate process, which can remain 32-bit if required to do so by the plugin while the browser itself goes 64-bit.
Introducing Office365 Video
Thanks!. It's written in Coffeescript. I didn't think much about the name when we started this. Didn't want to call it markdown because we didn't want to make it compatible with standard markdown, especially because of indentations. Will probably change the name in the future.
I think a lot of the points apply to jobs in general. Who doesn't want a helpful and highly productive worker, or a someone who can be relied upon to do something well. Being obsessed about writing really good software does make you stand out. But knowing the architecture well is an uncommon skill, and I think starts making you eligible for a senior/architect type of role. Helping others succeed will help you make more friends than enemies in any workplace. 'The right kind of ambition' I think starts playing a major role as you move up - it makes you look like a 'company man' in a positive way, and not just an individual contributor. Cool headedness and standing up for the team are basic leadership qualities. I wish more managers had them. Mine doesn't.
The security of this is a joke because this isn't a security move. It's not designed to make the users secure after the Heartbleed vulnerability. It's purely designed to make logging in annoying for the users, so they finally change the password they should have changed a while ago.

Seems a heck of a lot better than force-expiring passwords like I'd expect any other company to do.
A $20 WiFi microcontroller, programmable with Visual Studio. SmartHome 2.0?
Yah, sorry about that. It looked okay in my authoring tool, but it was wrong (fixed now).
I'm not sure either. My understanding is that they let you compile (part of) your program to a middle layer, a more abstract version of X86/64 instructions. And the binary then can be generated based on the actual machine using the instruction set that machine supports. So if some of the computation you do prefers a certain instruction, but you still what it to run without it, and you don't what the user to recompile from the source, then you can use this.
Ok, apparently he is an asshole. Is he wrong about uber though?
An important milestone in the area of image processing and Natural Language Generation. I am really looking forward to the details of your work as it is quite related to my research area.
You know, getting paid on commission is nothing new or invented by techies. Do you think cab drivers had steady salaries before Uber came about? No, they earned depending on the rides they made. And in places like NYC, they actually start the day underwater, after paying $100+ to lease a medallion for just one shift.
>If the NK regime was to fail, it won't be surprising if China pull a putin and annex NK.

If China were to annex NK Wouldn't that remove the buffer? Wouldn't China prefer the west/south to take over north korea and all the costs that comes with it? that way west/south would be too busy with rebuilding north and so deep in costs they would have less time threatening China.
I've always speculated that unethical managers will outperform ethical managers under non-life threatening conditions.

For example, being unethical at say a chemical company will lead to the end of your company in that area after a catastrophe. Being unethical at a payment processor and the worse that can happen is someone doesn't get paid on time or at all. So in that situation dumping the customer complaints saved a bunch of resources at little cost, since the customers would be back, PayPal was pretty good compared to their competition, leading to them out executing eBay and getting acquired.

I AM NOT saying that I agree with this. I'm just thinking about the why behind it.
Fantastic. Awesome game!

Few suggestions:

1. Show me a ghost path for the previously fired missile

2. Have a library of functions to choose from with an idea of what the curve looks like

3. Reduce the waiting time.

or add some documentation in your readme / some contribution notes and I'll be glad to send in PRs
There are any number of uptime, and ping services that you can google for. This can raise the alarm in a timely fashion when your site, or parts of your site go down, and then you decide how to handle those issues.

You may also want to google for DNS failover services, to help you automatically redirect traffic in more catastrophic failure cases. There are offerings from google[1], AWS[2], and others.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs

[2]: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
They have to operate in a policy grey area. They don't need to operate in an ethical grey area. Mixing the two is bad for business.
Congratulations! About time you started catching up to the likes of http://bower.io/ and http://rails-assets.org/.
Yes. It started as a failure in one region, and propagated to others as it overloaded the "control plane" -- the stuff that runs "the cloud", and EBS tried to replicate "failed" disks to the point that Amazon ran out of disk space in the cluster. At the time, I was paying for RDS Multi-AZ which runs your database in multiple availability zones at once with hot failover if the primary goes offline. It failed to fail over despite that. Many large sites went down for a very long time that day, and people couldn't spawn replacement instances even in other AZs than the one the failure started in.
And here's one more part of this: a great letter by a Southern pro-slavery philosopher, about 1830's, was written to a capitalist abolitionist Northern philosopher. And the pro-slavery owner said,

Look, we would be very happy to give up all our slaves if we had the same conditions you have up there. Because slave ownership is only the optimal economic choice under very specific land-ownership conditions.If you have not very many people on a lot of land, the only way you can get them to work for you is at the point of a gun. Because access to land means self-sufficiency. If, on the other hand, you have a lot of people, and you've got land title all tied up, they have no choice but to work for you for whatever pittance. So, frankly, I'd rather have it like you do, because you don't have to pay for them when they get sick. You don't have to pay for their food when they're infants. You don't have to pay for them in their old age. So, frankly, you can offer them whatever pittance you want, and if they don't take it, you'll hire somebody else.

It made a lot of sense to me. Access to land is everything.

And, by the way, land ownership doesn't exist. I don't own this land here. What actually happens is, my mom owns a piece of paper that we all agree means that she owns this land. But she doesn't own any land, Warehauser doesn't any land. Sierra Pacific doesn't own any land, the US government doesn't own any land. They have pieces of paper that we all agree mean that they own the land. But what there is, is there's land, and there's starving people, and there's people who are paying money to live on land that other people have pieces of paper that say that they own, but it's all a shared hallucination.

http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth/interviews/jensen.htm
Remote in the sense that a local assembler would be on the developer's system, and remote assembler is on the end user's system. Using this lib, the developer uses C++ as if it were metacode or a macro system to then emit machine code instructions on demand. This will presumably then execute faster than plain C++ in certain applications.

I can think of several interesting applications for this, such as text search.
I run a site that monitors cloud service availability. Based on VMs and Blob storage containers I maintain and monitor, the outage affected every US Azure region with 1-2 hours of downtime: https://cloudharmony.com/status-for-azure
From [1] and vmem.cpp, I believe it refers to the capability of injecting code into other processes.

[1]: https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit/blob/9ead0cfb4cb5eb1bcf8...
This is the gateway drug to making a dynamic language like Ruby or Python.
Works really well on skin cancer too.

Vaporize then condense the resins. Apply resin to skin cancer spots sparingly.
Well from the Libre Office site: "The BSA is currently broken. Please use https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffi... instead. We are sorry for the inconvenience." And then "Bugzilla needs a legitimate login and password to continue." I already have way too many accounts to manage to create yet another one to submit the bug report.

But I took your advice and submitted the bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86456

edit: and a whopping 1 minute in somebody has linked an empty bug report as a duplicate to this one. nice.
OpenEmu: An Emulator Framework for Mac OS X
This looks great, in typesystem/tooling/presentation, and sounds perfect for facebook; but for mainstream adoption, it needs to meet (or be closer to) the ideal of free-benefits:

(1) zero-work: works instantly with existing code and esp third party libraries; and

(2) instant-benefit: provides some compelling benefit in that zero-work case above (of course, it's OK if it provides more benefit if you do more work, adding type annotations etc).
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Since SSL doesn't hide the length of the encrypted document, an attacker can make a good guess as to what public static content is being read.
For one optimistic moment there, I thought this was going to be about, you know, ethics. Like how Uber abuses its drivers, or how it demeans women, or how it threatens journalists. But no, "ethically challenged" means they don't break the rules successfully enough.
I'm looking forward to Brazil and Uruguay's unification.
One of the authors of Flow offered to answer questions, but their comment is greyed out as a dupe (and it isn't a dupe - something went wrong):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625406
It was one region, multiple availability zones. You're right Multi-AZ != Multi-region (for things like Sandy and natural disasters) BUT they have mostly separate infra which does make multi-az failures very unlikely. Due to its simplicity (with VPC and stuff) some people (perhaps wrongly) treat multi-az like multi-region.
What's the probability of a hash collision?
The captue of silicon valley by madison avenue never ceases to Amaze me. That's the difference between now. Amazingly, it has nothing to do with the NSA. But the privacy landgrab really stated with all of the VC backed companies desperately trying to become profitable in a stock bubble.
Horizontal Reuse: An Alternative to Inheritance (Moose vs. Java, Ruby, and PHP)
I would argue that `then` is better thought of as:

Promise A E -> (A -> Promise A') -> (E -> Promise E') -> Promise A' E'

, with implicit boxing of bare types and thrown exceptions, as well as flattening of superfluous Promise wrappers. The `flatMap`iness of it is what really makes it interesting, in my opinion.
Confirmed: Apple Watch Runs iOS
FWIW, Igor did code up nginx to support HTTPS, despite terrible SSL libraries :)

I don't really understand the problem you are having. If your sites are small personal/side projects, why worry about things like your web server? That stuff is so trivial, it's boring. If your sites are so large that the overhead that HTTPS has over HTTP makes that much of a difference (pretty sure that'd be Google, Facebook, Twitter, and nobody else), then why use your own server implementation which you must know contains more bugs than something like nginx which is already blazing fast. All of these things are a solved problem, there is no reason to solve them again unless you are explicitly developing a web server, an email relay, etc. If so, that's awesome, but in 2014 if you develop a web server that doesn't work with HTTPS, it's pretty much dead on arrival.

Having said that, check out http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/.... This sounds like exactly what you need.
good secrets, but doesn't really apply well in my country, especially when they don't appreciate software engineers since they just outsource most of the projects to other companies, in which those companies would just outsource to another contractor and this chain keeps on going until to other countries.

In fact, rising is about boot licking and probably good soft skills
thanks, mostly agree.
China wouldn't annex North Korea, even in the event of a collapse. They are nothing like Putin.

OTOH, they wouldn't really want to see Korea unified, unless they think it would increase their influence over South Korea (which it may well).
https://sheetlabs.com/
I was careful not to specify US taxes. The US may have started the awareness of this issue, but they're far from the only government involved. I've underestimated very little so far, retrospective to my predictions. However I've argued with plenty that have overestimated as history now proves.

Again, my point was looking at the overall useful contributions the average hacker can make while focusing on the struggle of maintaining 98F, verses the hiring, monetizing and actionable efforts coming from the adversary. Making progress in this day and age largely depends on accurately understanding the actual adversary. If you think that's limited to the 'US Government'... well then...
"run on" - I suspect you're being fed a unicode pile of poo here.

More likely the have _something_ which runs on Azure. Fortune 500s are, pretty much by definition, quite large - and probably have tons of departments and sub departments. And at least one of those departments probably has a task of trying out new things, like Azure, by running something on it.

What surprises me is that nearly 20% of Fortune 500s _don't_ have something running on Azure.

(I wonder what percentage "run on" Amazon)
in certain instances and with certain managers, boot licking might work. but it's not a good strategy, and doesn't work with good people as much as competence does.

Yes soft skills matter. You do not want to be seen as someone who's more disruptive than productive. You do not want to be 'tolerated'. Being able to persuade is a very important skill in a tech company. It's to be learned, rather than scorned :)
'Good guy' virus kills bacteria
Meh, I think this somewhat misses the point of TeX, to be honest. Yes, the dream is you just give it content and it lays it all out. No, in reality that doesn't necessarily happen. In reality, TeX can cover many of the well defined choices for you, but you still have to iterate on the content and some commands to TeX to get what you really want.

That is, using this template is probably a fine tool to use in the process of creating documents. Just as I doubt that Tufte really arranged the kerning of every character. (Maybe he did... unfortunately my copies haven't traveled with me yet.)
FWIW, this is the route we are already going with HTTP/2: as implemented SPDY pretty much requires encryption.

Also, while mobile networks can authenticate my mobile phone and the hops from my phone to their edge router can be "trusted" (don't forget that the NSA is snooping here), I want end to end encryption. I want to know that the only two entities able to send/receive data are the site I'm trying to talk to and myself.

Let's think about it this way: in 2014 I propose a new protocol and implementation where you run a program on your device and I push arbitrary code to it. I also include code from advertisers, partners, third party affiliates, and my buddy Dave. All of this is done over clear text with no authentication, no authorization, no proof of identity or ownership, and over unsecured networks. Here's the link to the installer :) Yeah, I wouldn't sign up for that either.
I think the reason why the company wants it hosted in-house is primarily so the data never leaves their own hardware. Even if a completely new and private instance was brought up and hosted somewhere external of the company, it would still be hosting some of their data which could compromise business operations or infrastructure security should any of the data be ops critical.
Wrote a script which you can use to kill all your opponents in one turn.

http://pastebin.com/FYXcdmpi

:p

- Shariq
A big topic can be easily broken down to small chucks. It's just easier to consume that way. I don't think they really took time to condense the content to focus on the essentials.

I really want to enjoy the jokes/small talks, but they are really flat and not funny at all.
Netflix reason when we had our few phone conferences was more so because of data inaccuracy. A lot of developers were not updating Netflix data and thus it was reflecting poorly on them.

That was their reason for me wanting to close mine down, they felt I was reflecting inaccurate data.
Fundamentally, the whole NSA operates under an EO. The directive of the NSA is basically an EO. So, Every thing they do can be curtailed by POTUS.

The NSA only needs legislation to expand for the most part beyond existing laws. But here we are talking about limiting. That is simple fiat, not an issue for congress. (The nsa reports to the dod, headed by a civvy, who reports to potus.)

etc.
> I just question the extent to which people seem to vilify them.

The government needs software like Palantir. So I think they're on par with say Lockheed.
Technical Interviews Are Bullshit by Anonymous Author
I wouldn't be surprised to find that emotion is actually higher than 50%. Though, I like to gripe about how overblown the study of doors is in that work.
There's something terrifying about a web browser needing more than four gigabytes of memory.
You are a muppet. Stop trading before you lose everything. Seriously.
>russian tech

you must be kidding. Russia can't even build a modular space rocket (Angara, last 20 years) which Musk has pretty much built during last 12 years from scratch. All other areas of technology are pretty much non-existent. You are welcome to mention at least one area where "russian tech" does exist (programmers employed in the Russian offices of transnationals obviously don't count :)
At the moment, the only thing keeping 32 bit frameworks resident on my Mac is Dropbox. I'm sure there's plenty of legacy apps out there, but it looks to me like it's not that common anymore.