skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want vim-keybinds in your browser you can just use vimperator or pentadactyl, it's not the point here. Web without pictures/js on today's connection is almost as smooth as navigating your local file system, while "normal" browsing isn't, and you (well, me) don't even notice that before you eventually try that js-free browsing from lynx or something like that. That is, it would be if not for the fact that js-free web is a "Red Book animal" already.
Yes it is worse than that, the small biz owner can have the plug pulled on him at any time. Even if he is paying for the advertising - e.g. adwords ban!

What she should do now is get as many email addresses as possible from her existing customers and likers of her page, and have an e-zine or followup. This could be in conjunction with a blog. All stuff that is in her control and cannot so easily be pulled away.
Well, you might. Mafia wars, etc. You just run the risk of being cut off from your userbase at any time.
It's anecodotal based on many years of experience in the industry, but if you have real data or even many anecdotes that contradict my observations, I'm keen on hearing them. I'm more than happy to accept being wrong here if I am.
It's interesting to consider Facebook marketing as a game, where the players are brand owners and the goal is to generate revenue by pushing the various buttons Facebook provides.

Until now, Facebook has operated this game on a standard F2P/freemium model, where skilled players can win with enough time commitment, and others can pay for shortcuts. But it turns out it's very hard to make F2P profitable, so now they want to move to a subscription/recurring revenue model. Sounds pretty familiar.

Perhaps I'm being overly meta but once you start looking for this pattern it crops up everywhere.
Whilst I understand Facebook's position on this and can see that they are trying to clean up news feeds (whilst maximising revenue), it has always rubbed me the wrong way that they DECIDE what I see. If I like a page, I want to see the information from that page, if I didn't I would remove them from my feed.

It's this kind of mismanagement of information I am subscribing to that will surely have people looking elsewhere.

Will Facebook soon filter out friend requests from people they don't see as being suitable?
www.statuscake.com
The moral of this story is don't let your business become overly reliant on one source of users. Particularly when that source (Facebook) has goals (generate revenue/profit) that do not align with yours (free marketing).

I've also come to accept and even appreciate that access to users is something worth paying for. Getting users is hard. Damn hard. Sometimes that access is a rev share and sometimes it's an advertising fee. That's fine. A mere 15 years ago you couldn't pay that fee to access a user pool that large if you wanted to.
I found these downloads useful:

http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/medita...
I'm not well versed with reading research papers etc but I have one question. Could it be possible that by simply practicing mindfulness meditation the brain restructured itself via a placebo style effect rather that because of the meditation itself?

For anybody who has access to the paper what did the control group do during the eight weeks?
Depending on the nature of your business, you could get between 2-3.5k X (your annual profits + founders wages)

Highly reco. looking at this:

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-197-h...
That video complains that page likes often come from click farms instead of actual people. If that's the case then posts going to 70k so-called fans are seen by far fewer sets of eyes, whether they're paid or not. You can't have it both ways, and in either case the metrics are far more reliable than TV/radio/print.
Random anecdata, my coworker used to do a lot of work with OCaml.
How is it solving CSRF JSON problem? http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/06/x-www-form-urlencoded-vs...
Which brings up the question: What would it take to get users to leave FB for an alternative service?
There's only one thing you need to learn Haskell:

1. Forget everything you know and follow the types.

2. https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
Why the implied either/or? Why not do both meditation and exercise?
The most interesting language design I have seen is Noether. It is a language built on multiple layers. Inner layers guarantee more invariants (say, immutability) but forbids constructs you may want to use. Outer layers are more expressive but guarantee less invariants. Importantly, inner layers are not different languages but sublanguages of outer layers, and inner layers keep guaranteeing invariants even when used in outer layers.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/noether
I absolutely agree with your points. Except I still agree with the parent as well. It is a scam because FB built a platform and marketed it to businesses as a way to build their fan base and communicate with them. FB then turned around and changed the rules of the game. That's called a bait and switch.

Very few companies behave this way (offer something for free then turn around one day and charge for it--drug dealers come to mind as the only business that does this). Those companies that do treat their customers to bait and switch tactics usually don't stick around for long. FB rightly so has lost the trust of their business users, so I hope this turns out badly for FB as I don't want this behaviour to become the norm for business.
A disturbing thought is that Fukishima is an even more dire situation. The Pacific ocean will never be the same.

Which of the 507 other plants will be the next go into meltdown? I wonder how many of these disasters the planet can handle before it becomes inhabitable to all life.
I know of some academics who were involved in creating a "computer lab in a box" for developing countries. They implemented it in Micronesia, and also had a pretty interesting story about connecting up the island with the lab to the main island by wi-fi so it could get internet. The box itself became the computer desk, because even the desk is something you can't take for granted on the ground. Maybe you ought to think about doing some project like this for schools in a country you care about: http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/0002...
> Preventing buffer overflows requires runtime checks.

Incorrect.

"By using theorem proving and strict type checking, the compiler can detect and prove that its implemented functions are not susceptible to bugs such as division by zero, memory leaks, buffer overflow, and other forms of memory corruption by verifying pointer arithmetic and reference counting before the program compiles."[0]

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_%28programming_language%29
F2P isn't hard to be monetize at all, its actually a fantastic model for profitability.

Any F2P game (that makes money) would make a fraction of what it actually does if they charged a flat retail price instead. Look at any F2P PC game like League of Legends, or mobile game like Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, etc. They are the top earners, but they earn even more than hit game franchises like Call of Duty.

Its the reason why F2P is becoming more prevalent.
I agree with your points, too. I think I wasn't clear, I feel that Facebook's behaviour is deplorable, I just don't find it surprising is all :)

Also, somewhat off-topic but

> drug dealers come to mind as the only business that does this

Drug dealers don't even do that themselves (product is too expensive and it takes while to become an addict, and even then it's not guaranteed revenue)!
Television, reinvented.
3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible
there's a way of course - what can be done with JS can also be done on server side. But it's not a legit way to use, yes.
Sounds like a good use for a .onion.
This climate change will lead to a much shittier world for humans to live on. What's wrong with trying to avoid that?
nice web site design
Under Pressure from Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting
Fortran is fastest for matrix manipulation and other maths stuff IIRC.
if we have 3 or less sites it is really cheap
I surfed through the links quite rapidly, but I haven't seen any description on what exactly exercises they used. "Meditation" is a term so easily abused, you know. There's quite a few schools calling "meditation" something completely different, some techniques almost opposites (quite literally) of each other. Hell, why to talk about different schools when even Zen has both very different zazen and other meditation practices, which all could be commonly referred to as "meditation" by western people!

So I would hope to see some more detailed explanation of what participants were told to do, which I couldn't see somehow. In other case it sounds only a little more meaningful than "Participating in an eight-week doing something program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory".
I don't see why people keep calling Go a better C. Most of the C programmers I know use it because they want manual memory management which Go doesn't have.
The planet is a big place.
I'm guessing you've never used Lisp/Slime?
Bah. This is complete nonsense.

EVFILT_VNODE is not complicated to use for the cases for which it was actually designed — monitoring a file descriptor. For more general file system monitoring, a new kqueue filter type would be ideal, but adding that does not require breaking or deprecating kqueue API; the whole point of kqueue is to provide a generic extensible event mechanism.

Adding a recursive path monitoring filter is as simple as:

- Defining a new `EVFILT_DIR` filter type.

- Accepting a file path or st_dev/ino_t pair via the generic `uinptr_t ident` kevent identifier.

- Providing extended data via the existing filter-controlled `intptr_t data` value.

Boom. Done. Using the nice, generic, well-designed kqueue() API that can also monitor file descriptors, processes, AIO events, signals, timers, and user-defined events.

I wish Linux — like Mac OS X, and all the BSDs — had adopted kqueue, or at least participated in the conversation. Instead, Linux went through 2-3 different mechanisms before finally settling on the odd-duck single-purpose inotify interface, despite kqueue's design having been published (http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf) and released as part of FreeBSD 5 years earlier.

While Jon Lemon published a detailed paper covering kqueue's design, implementation, and performance benchmarking, the inotify developer published a 30 line README with erudite gems such as "Rumor is that the "d" in "dnotify" does not stand for "directory" but for "suck.": https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/R...
I think this article is very well-written overall. However, there are still a point that could use clarification.

> During a routine test on April 26, 1986, reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant experienced a power surge that triggered an emergency shutdown. It did not work.

Calling the incident a routine test greatly mischaracterizes what they were doing. This wasn't some sort of daily safety checklist test nor a safety margin test, this was a full-blown experiment. Yes, like a science lab experiment, but with a fully fueled commercial RBMK reactor. This is important because the author falsely makes routine nuclear powerplant operation seem unsafe.

To properly characterize the experiment on fair grounds it is nice to mention that the experiment they wanted to test is started by carrying out a simulated emergency shutdown. This is huge. You don't call an emergency shutdown of a gigantic plutonium-making-machine "routine" (Note: RBMKs have a thermal power output on the high side). However, the bigger problem was that the authorities running this experiment treated it exactly the same way the author did.

If the authorities did care, they would have properly trained the night shift personnel with the experiment (or delayed the experiment altogether). The fact that the experiment continued with the night shift that was poorly trained for the experiment operations points to a "this is routine and should not be a big deal" vibe of whoever was in charge. I dislike how nowadays others (such as the the author) looking into the reactor accident keep espousing this giant red flag.
Doesn't Forth compile incredibly fast?
I think the whole point of the EU is that they don't have to listen to the opinions of the peasants, no? I suggest working in your own country for independence from the EU.
True, I should have phrased that as "it is not a good idea to grow large if you rely entirely on another company"
Check out http://davidgow.net/handmadepenguin/default.html
With what purpose? What's the significance of this? node is also node with many of the key contributors.
Earplugs help. It makes it easier to listen to your own breath.
I imagine that most of these small businesses will end up with a better sense of a posts value and the net result could potentially be for a 100k a year business to become a half million dollar business. Its hard for small businesses to rationalize going from free to paid, especially if rhey neglect the cost of the time sink in dispersing the information for free.
Given how shitty the fb search is, I'd say that businesses that earn sales from their fb posts are just the ones based primarily on impulse buyings - like the cheap jewelry store in the article, but unlike the water pumps business.

The businesses that sell products that need careful research before buying (cars, phones, houses, wedding dresses, etc) benefit from Facebook strictly because of its high search engine rankings. It is much easier to make a fb page that ranks well in search engines than it is to make a website that is on the first page.

As an effect is the fact that business owners believe that their customers come from fb (because that's what they see in their analytics), when they actually come from Google, via Facebook.
40 minutes, 8 points, got to the front page, and... why? Is there a story behind this fork?
Can someone tl;dr me the gist of everyone's beef with joyent? I've been hearing about a fork but haven't understood / seen why people feel like the fork is necessary.
Would be saner to extend kqueue and hang a Linuxlator inotify compatibility shim off of that; that'd isolate the mess to sys/compat/
Can one of the 8 (so far) up-voters tell me whats interesting here?

The linked readme tells little.

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Now 25 pts with just as much explanation....

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As of 48 points, this (1) is the most relvant and informative explanation, but still has nothing to do directly with the linked OP.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669743
The United States of America has detonated over 1,000 nuclear weapons singlehandedly. I imagine it would take much more than 507 commercial nuclear powerplants to render the entire Earth inhospitable.
It's rule of thumb, so don't take it too literally,

Here's a guide that shows how a $150k/yr employee ends up costing a bit over $250k/yr.

http://research.unc.edu/offices/sponsored-research/policies-...

Here's WP's take on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_burden

Labor burden cost is important to compute and understand because it includes a variety of significant costs that are often viewed as company overhead, but are in fact, costs related to employment. Many businesses fail because they focus simply on payroll and payroll taxes, and neglect to consider the entire actual cost required to enable an employee to perform the work he or she was hired to do.
Fully burdened costs for individual employees can be expressed as a yearly total to provide an estimate of how much the company will spend that year on an employee. It can also be expressed as an hourly cost by dividing the total yearly cost by the number of hours the employee will work. This number is often 50% to 150% higher than the gross hourly wage. As costs are often used as the basis for pricing services or products, this is why it is so critical to obtain an in-depth understanding of the true cost of an employee.

And some more http://www.sleeter.com/supplemental/articles/Labor_Burden_Gi...

edit

Actually, I have an old "new employee, this is what you cost us" sheet a firm gave me a while ago when I worked for them. My salary then was ~$130k/yr

Here's their breakdown:

- 401(k) matching - (variable but the max was) $13k

- Medical - $17k

- Dental - $1k

- Life Insurance - $600

- Long Term Care Insurance - $200

- Social Security - $10k

- Leave - $10k

- Holidays - $5k

- Other benefits - $2700

total benefits: ~$60k

Add in administrative staff, facilities people, security, office space, gym, various other insurances, transit reimbursement, educational opportunities etc and that number easily hit $100k. So my personal burdened rate was about $230k/yr.

Some employees also simply cost more for various reasons and averaged even higher numbers across the board. I think one time I saw the figure and it was something like $260k/yr/employee and there was lots of distress over that being about $20k too high.

The flip side is that we charged out for around $300k-$600k/yr depending on the job.
org-capture
> The moral of this story is don't let your business become overly reliant on one source of users.

Having a higher-than-ideal concentration of referral channels is not in and of itself a bad thing if you truly understand those channels. For example, a business that derives the majority of its customer referrals from paid search doesn't necessarily have a valid reason to diversify if it has the ROI equation down and understands and manages the associated risks.

The real problem with social media channels like Facebook is that many folks have been treating them (and investing in them) as if they were "owned media" when they never have been and never will be. These people are just figuring out that these channels fall under the categories of "earned media" and "paid media" now that Facebook et. al. are turning the screws. The true tragedy of this is that many of these unsophisticated marketers will have little to nothing to show for their social investments when all is said and done. They've been spending gobs of time and money building up their social profiles and will now have to pay even more in perpetuity to use them going forward.
Very, very interesting. This gave me some useful perspective, also the post about the Basketball player (interrupt-driven).
Check your browsers title bar right now.
I feel like I'm actually offloading lots of my cognitive overhead to the compiler compared to all the things I need to juggle mentally when working in C or C++. It's a relief rather than a burden. I still sometimes curse the borrow checker in the moment, but I know that the quality of the resulting code is worth it. Figuring out the puzzle up front is much more enjoyable than tracking down intermittent segfaults down the road.
Excellent point. I wasn't trying to discount your comment, but your statements here now are clear to me.

As I was implementing a dynamic array (vector) last night in C, I thought about the vector_get method that would implemented. It would first check the bounds that it receives as the second arguments (first is struct vector_t instance), and it would only return if that index is less than the current size of the vector. If the bounds is out of reach, the program aborts.

This was a great example of abstraction in C that I found really enjoyable to write.
Are you aware that our whole planet is warmed by the decay of thorium and other heavy elements below the crust? Geothermal energy is nuclear energy.

To respond to your question, Earth would get over it, and humanity would survive even 507 meltdowns. Fukushima was an exceptional case on a 40-year-old design, so we wouldn't have 507 Fukishimas (keep in mind how many people died from the giant tsunami that caused the Fukushima meltdown).
See this presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ-0mXFmk8
Slides, with quote about why quic is being worked on:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/d/13LSNCCvBijabnn1S...
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B1627ADAF657A2C

The scenery looks a bit odd ... he is sitting on a couch and the studends on the floor, kind of looking up to (admire) the master. But he is in his talks the opposite of a self-salesman.

Anyway, this is very systematic and in itself the best approach I've seen so far. There are practices that need to be done and learned in a specific order.

In this spirit it all starts with the basic step:

Regular time and place! If we fail this, it won't happen! Followed by the other practices (inner dialog, sitting, breathing ... inspecting thoughts later on ...) in the required order.

Really, the best I've seen so far.

Also, very recommended his podcast "Developing Determination for Enlightenment", where he's talking about the paradox of letting go while being determined to aim for enlightenment.
UCLA has some good guided exercises here http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22&oTopID=22
I am shocked at how all the focus in the article and in this thread are about getting the degree with little regards for doing good science.

Pushing yourself to publish every year creates noise in the scientific literature and often leads to data cherry picking and massaging which is not just "questionable" as the article claims but completely invalidates everything a researcher does and makes him or her a fraud. The fact that it is tolerated makes it really hard to trust the research coming out of universities nowadays.
Posted twice before:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/last_24h/prefix/0/yandex
Ask HN: What do you think of 'Linkell' as a startup name?
The product 'links' two entities, so we just played with the word a little bit. Do you think its a good name?
Well TBH when you deal with those types of cars you are actually tied to quite a bit of items if you want to keep the warranty on your car.
BMW cars can only be services at specific authorized service centers, and you can only use approve lubricants, tires, and parts...
And although the same goes for virtually any other car the luxury cars put a huge entry barrier for service providers and charge hefty fees for mechanic classes.
But forget BMW, the best monopoly example is Tesla the cars can only be serviced by Tesla, every part is made by Tesla, and can only be sold by Tesla.
One of the main reasons they actually released their patents to general use is that the US car companies were starting to build anti-trust cases against them...
"inhabitable - suitable to live in; habitable." [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=inhabitable&oq=inhabitable&a...
It's a personal choice. For me there is definitely an implied or because I struggle to make time for exercise as it is. I also prefer almost any form of exercise over meditation. :)
Absolutely. There are plenty of talented people who would leap at an opportunity like this to take over the day to day and grow the business. You'll still need to be involved but can scale way, way back once you get the right person up and running.

The challenge for you will be power sharing and letting this new leader take the reigns. But it can be done. I would recommend tapping the advice of other founders who have handed the reigns.

And yeah asking a current team member if they're interested is a great idea, provided you believe in them.
With the few forks and stances that everyone is taking now, I really hope that an amazing project like Node doesn't get f* up by becoming fragmented and multiple different "versions" appearing.
what is power full in this
> a testament to the potential dangers of nuclear power.

A list to remind us of the real dangers of coal power:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mining_accidents_i...
PanuKalliokoski's short-term predictions were pretty prescient if they are more than a couple of years old. I wonder when he wrote them. Is there a way to view edit history on c2?
Language of the future will be call by value quantum lambda calculus with a linear type checker... QCaml
Off-topic: What does the [noobtor] mark on the dead comment below mean?