skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want it to block first-party trackers? I am much more tolerant of trackers (and ads) if they are per-site rather than being run by a few huge data-gatherers, as there's much less privacy impact that way.
Getting paid to work on open-source?
I'm a freelance software developer and I've just had my first real experience getting paid by a client to work on an open-source project (some library we use heavily in our app that is lacking a few feature we need).

I know there are companies out there that pay employee to do a % of their time or sometimes even work exclusively on open-source projects.

I'm wondering how I could go about doing more of that type of work as a freelancer and if others have done the same.

I contribute as much as I can to open-source off-the-clock but I'm curious if there are people out there getting paid regularly to what I'm only just having an experience of.

Thanks for any thoughts, suggestions or leads!
Last time I check piwik is always blocked no matter the host.
They do have some competition. Cable co. v. Telecom. Nothing in these new regulations will do anything to increase it.

In fact, it probably decreased the chances of increased competition.

There is a meme on the internet that ISPs are insanely profitable. But even a cursory look at the facts shows differently. There is a reason why Verizon is selling off as much of its wireline network as it can. Why would they do that? If it is a monopoly that lays a golden egg?

And they aren't even talking the money they are getting for their spin offs and reinvesting in their network. They are giving it back to shareholders.

Clearly Verizon doesn't think wireline is profitable.

Cable companies have a major competitive advantage. They don't have to build a fiber network. Coax will bring us well passed 1Gbps. All that is needed is their equipment upgrades.

But even cable is facing an existential crisis. Cord cutting will destroy their business model.
The "article" is the video embedded in the page. Although it doesn't have much more information.
I believe Safari/Youtube/Flash won't block ads. But Safari/Youtube/HTML5 does.

Reference: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/706#issuecomment-73...
I don't but last time I checked ublock blocks all instances of piwik no matter where.
That's exactly what they did. Except it works in every browser and every producer doesn't have to build their own custom solution.
I think you're right.

The sentiment analysis trading bot explanation is more fun, but, I believe that investors had priced in much more restrictive regulation and were simply relieved to finally have clarity.
Only if your expectation is that mailing your thoughts on what amounts to a digital postcard that passes through dozens of hands before it arrives to the destination is private.
United States of Secrets (if you can't watch citizenfour yet)
I bought some shares at an IPO as a long term investment a few years ago and held onto them since. For shits and giggles I subscribed to the RSS feed for this ticker on Google Finance. This feed contains a lot of stock ratings and "buy/sell/hold" advice from various analysts. After comparing this to the actual stock value for a few years in a completely unscientific process with a far too small sample, I've come to the conclusion that either these guys don't have a fucking clue about where stocks are going to go next or are ineffectually trying to manipulate the market. I kept the RSS subscription to remind me of this.
Does this affect sites that use CDNs for hosting their frameworks (as in jquery/etc)?
The feature is available only to those enabling "I am an advanced user".
Ghostery breaks so much stuff, I don't know how people can bother. I've found that Privacy Badger does a great job of blocking third-party tools in a way that rarely breaks anything - in which case it's easy to turn off.

That and Ad Muncher for Windows.
A story about why America moved away from coffee after the World War
Just like healthcare.gov, the reality is you start with an absolutely trivial problem and turn it into a nightmare. CRUD is CRUD. The complexity is imposed by project managers and engineers that can't help themselves or simply don't know better. Seen it happen over and over, and often just the effort to stop the madness is more work than a fully working sane implementation.

More than once I've seen stealth mode side-projects run on a single engineer's own time out-deliver and out-perform the fully funded project because the standard approach is to take absolutely trivial problems and heap on absurd layers of complexity which of course are full of bugs and utterly fail in the field.

I wonder if taxpayers have ever tried to sue for damages, but I'm sure it's impossible.
This kind of story always makes me think I'll never really be out of work. I like to think that given this level of funding, I could do a much better job in a situation like this than the firm that was hired did.

I've been programming recreationally since I was a kid in the '70s, and I've started to do some professional work in the last few years. I started out in BASIC, and then became familiar with C, Fortran, and Pascal in college. I've since learned Java, and now my language of choice is Python. I have a basic competence in SQL, git, and any number of other tools we use in modern development approaches.

I know work like this isn't easy. I know the data is stored in esoteric structures on long-outdated hardware, running on OSes I've never touched. I know there are issues with security clearances and background checks. But I have to think - give me $28m, let me work on this full time for a couple years, and I'll have some meaningful work done and some usable end products. I'd give myself a modest salary, and hire people with way more experience than myself in the areas needed. I can even see a path into this line of work - complete a series of successively more complex and sensitive data-migration projects. I like to think that doing that work wouldn't turn me into someone running a firm like the one hired in this situation.

For people who've worked on projects like this that turned out well, is this something any of us with reasonable competence could get into, if we build an appropriate portfolio?

Also, I live in Alaska so I find this story particularly frustrating. Not just because of the wasted money, but also because I want our law enforcement personnel to have a well-functioning system at their disposal.
An internet connection is not the crucial missing step towards delivering such a video. If you have the video produced in the right language and have the trust and attention of the people, you can use pretty much anything to show it.

One of things the Gates Foundation does is worry about effectiveness, I think where they are spending their malaria dollars, they have some idea of the effectiveness of spending a comparable amount of money on education. If you look at the purpose entries here:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Policy/Regi...

Many of them are policy initiatives and programs to increase access to information.
$80K per site. They are running six sites = $480K
" There's a good story behind it, but here's a big hint: the dollar sign isn't a dollar sign.

It's a peso sign."

So, no.
AI Video Competition Results Are Worth Seeing
Personally, I would think there's some kind of inheritance from the older Lira (later pound) sign "£". Remarkably, this one is also coming in two variants, both with a single and a (probably older) double stroke. (Unicode U+00A3 and U+00A4 respectively.) A letter with a horizontal or vertical stroke became somewhat of a universal signature of a currency symbol (think of cents, Yen, &c).

The stroke-signature actually goes back in history as far as to the antique Roman symbols for As and Denarius. (A nice overview of currency symbols may be found at http://www.signographie.de/cms/upload/pdf/SIGNA_GewWaehrZch_... [German].)

[Edit:] Also, consider the former predominance of the version featuring two distinctive vertical strokes, as lined out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018366 . A "P" with a doubled vertical stroke would just make a (mirrored) paragraph sign. But I confess not to know, what the original version would have been (single or double stroke).

[Edit:] Another hint on "$" not being derived from the letter "S" might be the significant smaller vertical extent of the "S"-like part than the ones of capital letters, both raised from the baseline and smaller than the X-height.
What a depressing business. Making money out of noise, and warm air ...
I think if those countries people started widespread revolt against the regime the willingness of the west to intervene might change, but as-is a) You can't tell people their way of government is "wrong", on the principle that if capitalism was a minority you wouldn't want to be suppressed either; b) Most countries don't care and would find it hard to come up with support for an invasion from population/congress/etc c) They're just two nations, not a growing part of the globe as in cold war. As far as starvation goes, I don't think either of those two have refused external food aid. As crazy as Kim Jong-un is he doesn't want his population to starve.
I used to wonder why people hated on Nickelback so much. I mean yeah, they suck. But there are lots of bands that are worse. Go to your local metal bar and you'll find two of them tonight. Or listen to the full albums of most one hit wonders.

And there are bands that are more successful than Nickelback too. They're not even on Wikipedia's list of the best selling music acts, though they're not too far off. They've never won a single Grammy.

But it's virtually impossible to find a band that is both. If you multiply suckiness by popularity, you get a number in Nickelback's case that's astronomical. And I think that's what makes them so fascinating to people. It's not that they suck, and it's not that they're so successful. It's that they suck AND they're successful.

The Nazis are similar in that they were quite evil and quite "successful" (for a very evil definition of the word success, at least). They were really the Nickelback of genocide.
Think what it does to Google's incentive to expand Google Fiber if the law prohibits Verizon et al from doing the things Google is most afraid of them doing. Imagine how much harder it would be to get voter support for a bond issue to fund municipal fiber if the incumbent ISP can't (and there for didn't) degrade performance of popular websites to favor their own competing alternatives.

People fix things that are broken. If network neutrality makes Verizon's network tolerable to everyone then support for expensive alternatives disappears.
Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564#issuecomment-70...
Seriously, why are Gawker links even allowed on here? Embarrassing.
When is dependency injection a bad thing?
Great thought, will fix this hours later.
It seems like Saudi-support for "groups destabilizing Syria" seems the most likely reason for "Saudi support of ISIS." It's not like supporting these groups has ever come back to bite the hand that supports it. Look at Pakistan. They are finally realizing the turning a blind eye to the Taliban (because they destabilize Afghanistan which acts as a buffer against India) might actually harm them too.
If you ever had the opportunity to look under the covers on a project like this, you would find that all the complexity is manufactured.

It's not even the 80/20 rule. It's more like 99/1 rule. As in, I see this requirements list, and I have two options for you. A) I can deliver 99% of what you want for 1% of your stated budget, or B) I can take 1000% of your budget and still fail to deliver 100%.
Arguably, the Nazis carried out fascism to the letter, while the USSR, North Korea et al have created a highly bastardised version of communism.
Live streaming not available in Germany due to rights issues. Background music, or what is the issue?
Sweden had an active eugenics program until 1975 and practiced compulsory sterilization until 2012. Eugenics was extremely fashionable across the Western world and only ended because of its association with the suddenly-unfashionable Nazis.

The U.S. had groups like the German-American Bund because the U.S. was and is a diverse country with freedom of speech. Other Allied countries had similar groups, such as the British Union of Fascists. Actual support for Hitler was a small, fringe minority.

On the other side of the scale, individual Americans had been traveling overseas to fight against the Axis powers for years, dating back to the Spanish Civil War when the 2,800 American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought to defend the Spanish Republic. Also, the US supplied the Allies with $50 billion worth of food and supplies (over $650 billion in today's dollars), contributed militarily to the war, and spent another $17 billion ($160 billion in today's dollars) on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe afterwards. So, maybe let's take a look at everything in context and consider that, yes, individual people in a free country will sometimes support the wrong foreign leaders but "the US population" was not behind Hitler and repeatedly reelected governments that went above and beyond to contribute the nation's wealth and manpower to Hitler's defeat.
Stop shitting in your pants
How is your health?
The argument at hand is that Firefox shouldn't support it, not that W3C shouldn't. (The argument is conditioned on it having been spec'd and adopted by the W3C, and concerns what Firefox's response should be.) Is it more wrong for Firefox to support an open interface to proprietary plugins, than a proprietary interface to proprietary plugins (the "N" in "NPAPI" literally means Netscape; this is something they deployed unilaterally and other people copied)?
This brought back a memory from the way back machine. Back in the early days of computers, many of them like the C64 or TRS80 (circa 1985-ish) had an option to use a TV as a monitor to save money. I recall that I had a Trash 80 and it was hooked up to the TV with a cable splitter in a spare bedroom. There were a number of relatives and friends visiting and myself someone that shared my love of computing were in the there programming away, and really programming, we are talking assembler here. And after a couple of hours we came down to the living room and everyone had the TV on channel 3 and everyone was watching us (I did not realize the splitter was broadcasting throughout the cable in our house). I guess there was nothing better on back them before cable had 100's of channels. It was interesting to hear the non-programmers questions and comments about what we were doing and really how much they had actually picked up on.
He abhorred mechanical industry, and only by consigning the type to the Thames, he wrote in his diary, could he guarantee it would never be used in “a press pulled otherwise than by the hand and arm of man”.

Well, that's sad.
I would be very interested in a crypocurrency run by the Federal Reserve (bitcoiner brains pop). The fed would be able to peg the bitBuck at 1:1 exchange rate with the USD$ but also have many of the benefits of cryptoprotocols.
Until keyboards were everywhere (which was a while ago, yes), I wasn't used to seeing the $ with a single vertical line in a money context. Myth or not, it made the interlocking U S very believable. It just makes me wonder which came first, and how the double line came about, if it wasn't there originally.
If the font is really that old, shouldn't it be out of copyright? Courts have held that faithful digital reproductions of public domain paintings are not copyrightable; could the same apply to fonts?
OH! I very much like this!
All Sorts – a linguistic experiment
Never heard of craftmanship.net. They have lots of other interesting articles!
What a naive comment...
I think it was the possibility of more restrictive regulations.
There's a tiny little + by the "Requests Blocked" label on the Button panel. Click that.

Then red the left side of the top five boxes (images and scripts and the like).

If I understand correctly, it's not really a mode, it's just several broad filters. 0.8.5.7 on Firefox doesn't have an 'all' that I can see.
Little People Pranks – Just for Laughs Gags – Prank Videos
Google has at least claimed net neutrality won't have any affect on their current or future plans for fiber rollout.

Also, I think their incentives go beyond the throttling net neutrality is meant to prevent. Google makes more money the faster our connections are.
I didn't mean to imply that anyone should intervene in DPRK, or Cuba, or anywhere else. Just that communism did not disappear in '89 and that our social norms around those ideologies are weirdly incongruent.
If said information did exist, how many people within IBM would actually have access to it? How would IBM top-brass not see this documentation as a potential liability when the Germans became the enemy or at least when the Germans lost the war?

I think that it's highly unlikely that such documentation was allowed to exist if it ever did exist in the first place. If it was allowed to exist past the 1940s, it was probably placed under lock-and-key. I doubt many of the rank-and-file IBMers would have access to it.
Yeah, I've had that thought in my head but I think it's mostly positive to call it Gadget Hunt now in the beginning. I asked a question about this on Quora and got some great answers: https://www.quora.com/I-created-GadgetHunt-club-like-a-subst...
> It was the latest party in Western world that launched a World War & proceeded to coldly, methodically and institutionally to exterminate groups of people based on their race, skin color, belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide
The pound in particular is very old, and the practice of using a crossbar on the ascender of a letter to mark an abbreviation dates back to medieval times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation#Suspension). In fact, given the proximity of the British pound's creation and the period during which these abbreviations were at their peak, it seems to me to be possible that the British pound was the first still-extant currency symbol that was a letter with a dash through it, nearly a thousand years earlier. I don't know if that would have formed a convention though.

The dollar is entirely different, and is essentially just a peso sign.
Stupid law in Germany(regarding broadcasting): https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/qLbjw...
Easy privacy is not included as the defaults in other tools like abp. Thus ublock does differ here in a big way.

By default ublock blocks piwik and abp doesn't. That is a major difference.

Edit: why is a factual response down voted?
Thanks for the info, looks like quite a few reliable launch vehicles out there. I was mostly just trying to counter the kneejerk comment higher up about insurance and Indian rockets.
Probably because their algorithms don't work in realtime to remove music during streams.
Good or Bad to Call My Site “Gadget Hunt” [Quora Discussion]
NetworkX: High-productivity software for complex networks
Part of the obsession with the Nazis is because so many people don't understand what they were about and why. For instance, this article implies that they were just racists. Racism is a consequence of their ideology, not the reason for it.

Worse, we even have used them to short circuit discussion and close off self criticism with the "Godwins Law" trope. (godwin never said that those who use nazis as an example are wrong, he merely said eventually they would come up.)

We've (the USA) become a nation of holocaust denying racists because we believe that only germans (genetically) can be fascist and thus what happened in germany could never happen here, and anyone who brings up parallels automatically loses the argument.

Just because some people do so poorly, does not mean there are not parallels. Many of the propaganda pieces you see against muslims in the USA are similar to the ones against the jews in Nazi germany. The ideology of "you tell people they are being attacked and then you get your war" rings true here as it did in Nazi Germany. Even the precursors to the rise of fascism in german have existed here and had some similar consequences - high monetary inflation, economic problems with a lack of jobs, a lack of self esteem combined with a "we're the best country' form of nationalism. etc.

The nazis were never really properly studied in my schooling and my understanding is that history teaching has gotten only more superficial since.

A lot of understanding of what's happening in the USA and the world at large came out of an initial early interest in german history (because I lived there) and the consequent study of economics (Ludwig von Mises, a jew, prominent among them, who was scoffed at when he told other jews that they would have to leave austria because the nazis were going to invade.)

Anyway, the superficial understanding of the nazis and nazi era germany expressed in this very article is why we need to actually study the subject, obsessed or not.
Lets assume you get 100 ms higher latency with wireless. And you make around 100 clicks per day. Over your lifetime, you would have lost one hour of your life because you used wireless! When you are on the death bed you will think about all the things you could have used that hour for instead!

Lets take it a step further and count everyone who is using wireless today, that would be millions of hours lost. Think about what those millions of hours could have been used for instead!

That hour might be nothing for you, but for the whole humanity, it's a lot!
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules
I use tee to save log files from long running programs. The chatter goes to stdout, and informs me about progress. But the tee also saves the chatter, so I can review it if something goes wrong.

You could get a similar effect in other ways (e.g., tail -f, or terminal scrollback), but I find tee is convenient.
Submission prompted by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011436 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8981236
A Case for Use Cases
> Sweden had an active eugenics program until 1975 and practiced compulsory sterilization until 2012.

The state of North Carolina's program lasted until 1977.
http://www.journalnow.com/specialreports/againsttheirwill/
Ha. For me it's because Nickelback was so overplayed in Canada, so if you didn't like them anymore you couldn't get away from them. Canada has regulations that radio etc has to play a certain amount of Canadian content so they were heavily used to fill that quota.
Bodyfuck: a gestural brainfuck interpreter
To be honest, I answered this post because of the headline which was a bit absurdistic or too general while the person really meant a software pain.
I did not expect the number of reactions of you all, first of all thanks for the reactions.
It tells me how deep this problem is for computer programmers.

B.T.W. I do have a back problem and I did found out what was causing it, too much physical stress on my back for much of the past year (having to do with fulfilling a business opportunity for myself while not being able to pay for construction workers and being one myself in the past).

The other problem was my bed, both problems are solved and with a lot of stretching exercises I am getting my back into healthier condition.
If that were the actual case, "digital durrency" would be horribly redundant. Just a typo IMO.
And processing transactions. And increasing security.