skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at this from the point of view of the user (where ads are not a big deal in exchange of consuming the content for free), but step for a moment in the content creators' shoes. While Ads can still be profitable, they grow less and less efective year after year; almost every other monetization model possible is superior for an internet product nowadays. You can easily run a blog with millions of hits per month and still not make enough to work on it full time. It's shitty if you are the content creator and can only monetize via ads.
Its really important to be talking about this - the fact that current revenue streams are almost all based around advertising in media creates a bit of a race to the bottom - the more clicks you get the more money you make, so the only intrinsic motivation is to get more clicks (especially if you're a public company). Everything else is secondary even if its not marketed as such.

If the primary goal of a site or project is to make money, then clearly advertising is the way to go. If the goal is something else, like providing a community service, then there are reasonable models. I could see bundled microsubscriptions being pretty popular - you set it once and forget it, they get funding to keep doing what they're doing and everyone is happy. Patreon for artists is a good example of this.

I hope the internet starts going in the opposite direction that MMO's have been going, switching towards subscriptions for higher quality content from fremium user maximizers. I'm certainly willing to pay for that - I'm much more likely to trust an organization that doesn't take advertising/"user as the product" money than one that does.
A pixel pattern appears where you would normally see an add

How about giving contributors the same benefits people using ad blockers already enjoy, set the whole thing to display:none and use the space for something useful?
I interpreted as you contribute to the websites that are part of the project that you visit (by splitting the your monthly contribution to the various sites you visit that month). However, it's definitely vague enough on the landing page where either interpretation could be true.
PhpStorm 9 will support Hack
Meet the first Apple Watch app for the workplace
Microsoft and Google Collaborate on Angular 2 Framework
I look forward to Google shutting this project down in 1-5 years.
Identity isn't what we're measuring here, it's "humanness" or "consciousness" -- things that are behaviorally distinguishable. Up to an abstract categorical similarity.

Thus they only need to be indistinguishable up to some feature of similarity that allows them to be classified in the same group. That's why, for example, we don't have to worry about "A is the same as B except that it is 2 meters to the left."
Management by goal-setting is making a comeback, its flaws supposedly fixed
Learning Android on the side so I read simple projects to see how activities or fragments are implemented, etc.
relevant: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/06/charge-your-phone-before-fl...
Wouldn't they be basically holding your sanity to ransom at this point, asking for an ever increasing amount of money?
> Do you believe that it would be possible, in principle, to build a robot that looked and acted extremely similar to a human being? It could carry on conversations, make decisions, defend itself against antagonists, etc. in a similar manner to a human being? In your view, would such a robot be necessarily a conscious entity?

I don't even know that other humans are conscious entities. At least not with the level of rigor you seem to be demanding I apply to this hypothetical robot. However, if you and I were to agree upon a series of test that, if passed by a human, we would assume for the sake of argument that that human was a conscious entity, and if we then subjected your robot to those same tests and it also passed, then I would also assume the robot was also conscious.

You might have noticed I made a hidden assumption in the tests though, which is that in establishing the consciousness or not-consciousness of a human they do not rely on the observable fact that the subject is a human. Is that reasonable?
Finland fined this driver $60,000 for going 14 mph over the limit
Then don't say "YC will not fund the company that will invent something new."

YC openly talks about how validating your idea and growing the business are big signals to them that you are worth the investment. But while that's the most common path, there are clearly alternatives. They are just giving advice on what might maximise your chances with them.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Franklin, Benjamin

By the way, the real cap'n crunch would be ashamed of the attitude you have expressed, as I'm sure you know.
>How hard is it for a site to setup a simple paywall linked to a low-cost payment processor?

Well, it depends on what the cut is -- I don't know and the linked page doesn't say. But news organizations that are good at reporting may not have much expertise in technology tasks like this. (By way of background, I've worked for a bunch of them before founding http://recent.io/ )

Also I don't believe Google Contributor is intended to be an implementation of a paywall. It's a way to avoid having to implement paywalls, and the problems those can cause for news organizations.
I know Central Americans and Canadians who prefer I call USA "the states" since they live in America.
I know what the leading ; is for. I was merely answering the points. Turns out my assumption was right yet again.
I feel like Meteor has been floating along for along time without significant traction beyond toy-projects. I remember seeing (I think?) Meteor at Djangocon and being impressed, but feeling like using it was an all or nothing decision given the pace of how quickly front end development was -- and still is -- changing.

A year or two later I looked at it for a small project but saw it was still exclusively tied to mongoDB.

Are there any major sites or businesses using meteor?
Good point. Then let's hope that they use a separate script than the advertising scripts I would not be happy about unblocking. Listening, Google?

I don't really do a lot to prevent tracking of my activities, because I'm so paranoid that I don't really believe blocking scripts will prevent it from happening (see the whole Verizon thing a little while back). But I don't want to have to let ads in from other sites just to be nice to ones I like.
The Stripe bindings (primarily Ruby, Node and PHP). The API docs don't show how to do anything so being able to see what is expected and the format from the function header is very helpful when helping out in IRC. Reading through the pull requests is also helpful in learning / speculating on some new features (this is pretty rare though)
> 2. Static compilation. This makes a massive difference over Python in terms of catching and correcting problems at compile time vs run time.

Correct. When comparing a static programming language to a dynamic one such as Go vs Python, this is a critical difference. It impacts system stability (production outage rate) and code maintainability a lot, the two characteristics a long-running product desperately needs.

But Go is not comparable to C. Go is garbage-collected, so unlike Rust, it is not a true system programming language (i.e. not low-level enough). On the other hand, it is not high-level enough. It lacks many advanced language constructs, and its type system is rather limited. Simplicity is a big merit of Go, but it's too limited IMO.

Go solves many software development problems for large engineering teams, so I think its ecosystem will keep growing for a while.
I suspect Julian Assange has a different opinion about Sweden, one of the usually-referenced "Nordic countries".

(I guess that sill gives your statement an 80% correct rating, making qualifier "in general" allow it to still be valid...)
I posted something similar a few months ago: http://nicolas.kruchten.com/content/2014/02/modest-proposal-...
Is it truly typesafe if the interface{} idiom is commonly used in lieu of real generics?
A fraction of $3/mo? From a company that abandons projects left and right? I'll stick to Patreon, thanks. I'm making about $800 on a productive month now despite there being a pretty small audience for comics about a lesbian robot with PKD problems. I set "no ads for anyone" as my goal for like $50/p, which was still making far more than I ever did from ad impressions. Most people only contribute a buck or so a page but the door is open for a few generous folks to give me more.
Will try to make it. Driving from Houston, 5PM is a bit early.
It's a quote from the story of the Tower of Babel, in the Bible. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011&ve... (Verse 7)
Here's a more aesthetic version http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers...
Shows like that are pure PR. Border guards aren't going to break the rules while they're on camera. And even if they did, the shows producers aren't likely to include it.

Random searches are not legal in Canada. Border guards take advantage of the fact that nobody wants to look guilty by refusing to be searched. They exploit the public's ignorance of the law and use intimidation.
I don't see what the trade-off is. You can just take the transpiling output and go home if you want. Out of all the languages that transpile to JavaScript, Typescript is probably the least risky because it is just JavaScript if you want it to be just JavaScript.
As Kyle says, we were helping our sister company Fog Creek keep their servers online (as well as other people in that facility like Squarespace) because we cared. Our traffic was not being served from that data center and in fact we shut down most of our servers during that to conserve generator fuel. Our traffic was flowing just fine from Oregon. A decision Kyle and I made the night before when concluding they would probably shut down power to lower manhattan in preparation for flooding.

When your neighbor's house is on fire you don't argue over the price of the hose. You help. Our remote people that couldn't come help in person also helped them replicate their entire network in AWS as a backup plan.

I don't usually post pissed off comments, but you're dead wrong here and intetionally or not demeaning a good company and good people whom, because they cared, came to help in a time of emergency. I take it you weren't in New York during Sandy; it looked like a post-apocalyptic war zone afterwards.

TL;DR - You don't know what you're talking about.
Wikipedia is a great resource in general, but it fails in places. For example, none of the 3 sources cited for that usage of America agree with that. One points out that America (singular) can mean any of N America, S America, or the USA (but not both N and S America). The second doesn't refer to America singular at all, instead clarifying usage of "American". The third gives us some historical context - America was used to mean N + S America, but only prior to the 18th century.

I will admit that if you are from the 17th century, your confusion is reasonable, but I question how you found HN.

More importantly, at least 95% of the English-speaking world disagrees with you, and that's the real test of language and definitions.

I'm curious - in what way is Germany not an appropriate name? My understanding is that it's a translation of Deutschland, and considered an exact synonym. I'll admit that hundreds of years ago Germany or Germania meant something different from modern-day Deutschland, but I fail to see how that's relevant.
You are 100% correct, in fact the margin keeps shrinking. A good example would be YouTube where content providers make $6 for every 1000 views. Your cut as a content provider will keep shrinking.
You can apply to get higher send limits. It just starts at 10000. They have limits to frustrate spammers.
If you scroll down a bit on https://www.meteor.com/ you can see some quite nice featured apps.
3D Video Converter for 3D TV
I would love it to be applied to YouTube content for myself, although I doubt it will be. The prevalence and duration of ads on YouTube has steadily increased over the years, up to the point where, just a few days ago, I finally got fed up and installed an ad blocker for that site only. I don't usually use ad blockers because I want to support content creators, and few of the sites I visit have intrusive ads anyway; but it got to a point where enough was enough. However, I would be happy to support video creators with my wallet, and they would probably make more money that way, since I never click ads (so they get CPM revenue only).

When I think about watching TV when I was younger, the details of the shows themselves have faded, but the small but constant miseries of ad breaks are relatively vivid. Sure, the show was good enough to leave an overall positive impression, or else I wouldn't be watching it - although I am sure this is part of the reason I watched relatively little TV - but pleasure and annoyance don't just cancel out; they remain in the mind as parallel memories, each with its own effect. Today, I only watch TV on paid video services that lack ads, and it continues to surprise me just how enjoyable a 'clean high' without interruptions is. Instead of my interest level rollercoastering up as the show plays, sharply down as the ads start playing - ending just before it's gotten low enough for me to abandon ship - it just goes up at the beginning and stays there until the end of the episode.

YouTube videos are different from TV shows, of course - they're typically much shorter, and each viewed as only one element out of many in a session of Internet sensory overload, where no one piece of content lasts long enough to engender the level of concentration characteristic of most other types of activities. When there's constant context switching, an additional switch for an ad isn't nearly as bad. But that doesn't mean I'm okay with it, especially when there's an different possible compensation structure that in theory better rewards both me and the creator.
I re-visit my old code. Due to how I'm constantly thinking about how much better it could have been. Not that I doubt my abilities. Its just that I wish I knew back then what I know now. Not only my coding skills, but about the problem I was trying to solve.
"A return to"? You make it sound like the empires of old simply couldn't be oppressive, simply because they didn't have hi-tech surveillance.

Not to mention that industrial-scale slavery existed in quite a few places well before the modern era. "Returning to" the ways of the past is very much not guaranteed to reduce our oppression.
Not quite - line numbers were also the text editor.
Protection rackets aren't exactly a new way to make money. People don't like ads, and Google serves many of the ads, so they can shake people down, and use the extra money to make their competitors' lives harder. Meanwhile, their tracking business is unaffected.
I predict they will claim to be hunting for child pornography and similar contraband. Despite the argument being silly, as pointed out by yourself.
YouTube is experimenting with it. However the margin they pay at is still lower compared to say Vimeo for example where the revenue split is 90/10. YouTube is having their content talent being poached and move to other platforms as individual content providers wake up to this reality.
Ocaml: Error Handling
Your credit card gets lost if you drop it.

But I'll concede that battery life may be an issue for some people.
I'm personally more interested in the technical design of ESXi than the legal issues (this is fascinating stuff :), it would be interesting to see an accurate diagram showing where the machine architectural boundaries are when all these pieces are running.

At runtime, where is vmkernel actually executing on a modern x86-64 machine? Where are vmkLinux and the GPL'd drivers executing relative to vmkernel?
Time exist outside of the human brain and its rate can be modified.
Babel is a completely different transpirer than all the others. It's goal is readable, understandable transpiled code and Sebastian (sebmck) is a genius robot wunderkind. I check the repo everyday and see new updates, bug fixes, etc. It is heartening to see someone give a project so much dedication.

I have an affinity for Babel unlike any other JS project (except React). They team works really hard to keep it interesting.
Else even Objective-C apps, with the Obj-C messaging
system are not native, e.g. they delegate a lot to
C-based APIs...

For starters, that doesn't make any sense. Note the `C` part of Objective-C.

Secondly, native infers compiled to executable native code, not interpreted or JIT'd via an intermediary.
If you are trying to convince someone of something (customer to buy your product, YC to invest, etc), I think you have to offer a conciliatory approach. Keep the gripes to yourself. If you have to push back, do it incredibly politely.

Every question that YC asked (Eclipse after Xcode, for example) will be representative of what a potential customer thinks when they read the creator's web site.

All of the explanatory stuff was technical and waffly; the description is way too long. If it's "drag and drop app building", then say that and show examples of why this is the foray that will succeed where others failed.

A lot of the language in the write-up was heavily laced with attitude. Noting ages of the interviewees for example implies inexperience in my reading of it. "They must be wrong, not me."
Love this guy.

I spent nine months living in a van while traveling all over Japan. Flirted with excessive consumption for a few years in Tokyo but ended up coming back to frugality (although I live in an apartment now heh).

The good parts of living alone in a van are too many to list. The worst parts are 1) dating, and 2) all the fantastic views and vistas you don't get to share with someone.

> He named it Shaggy after a character in "Scooby Doo." He sings it songs and writes it poems and gives it Valentine's Day cards. He takes it for hiking expeditions in the mountains of Tennessee and surfing trips along the Carolina coast.

I so get this!!
Just factory reset your phone before going through, and restore it after you've completed your TSA adventure. Though, do NOT brag about your tactic to them or they will likely try to force you to restore it on the spot.
I worked at VMware for over 11 years and was one of the first dozen or so people on the vmkernel team (which produced ESX and later ESXi), although I left several years ago.

If I recall correctly, the source tarball was created from a simple script which pulled in a bunch of open source files which were stuck into their own separate branch in the source repository.

To my knowledge, there wasn't any linux source in the vmkernel. We did use plenty of open source code, such as busybox, but my understanding was it was always in user space and the source was always published.

It's possible that Christoph's code was just pulled in and published with a bunch of other crap that wasn't actually in the product, but someone had checked it into the open source part of the source tree.
The cases you're describing either involve someone who spends some other portion of their time (probably "full-time") on money making activities, or someone who has an external means of support (trust fund, savings, fortune they earned earlier, family, whatever).

In the former case it's pretty much as I originally described. Sure, if they're dedicated and don't have any other time sinks like a family, you may still get some music from them, but significantly less or lower quality music than you'd get from them if they could spend full-time on it.

In the latter case.... it's true enough that people in this position have the privilege of studying and creating music full-time without any expectation of payment. They have all the money they need, they're free to spend their time as they wish. Of course, saying this is our economic model means that most of our music has to come from people in this position, mostly kids, retirees, and those with rich family or other benefactors.

And depending on your tolerance for how undemocratic that's likely to be, maybe that's OK. Though I think that if one accepts a picture of the world painted in the article where an increasing number of people aren't even needed by any of our market, civic, or social institutions, the prospect of having them also sidelined in music and other letters gets a little more troublesome.

(And as another tangent: while I enjoy video games myself -- even some very difficult ones that require big investments of skill -- I'd be very careful about drawing larger lessons about skills from them. One of the reasons we enjoy these games is that their practice-reward cycles are often significantly shorter than many comparable real-world skills.)
Meh. Enterprise is already terrified of GPL -- but they have to use it because there's simply too much good software written under the license. There's lots of emphasis these days to "pretty please avoid using GPL" but they simply put up with it in the end because it's counter-productive not to.

Also, most super-big cos are not in the business of selling software but using it, despite what they may think. VMWare on the other hand should know better.

Saying that they'll Y2K away from it cuz of this lawsuit sounds a little like FUD to me.
If I can get Flow to work in vim, I am sure it works in more than just Atom
skimming through the source is one thing, but reading with the intent to thoroughly understand it to a level that you can comfortably modify it is something else.
I don't think Contributor is intended to directly benefit sites at all.

If you use Contributor, the site receives $0.00136* and a blank ad is shown, paid for by you.

If you don't use Contributor, the sites receives $0.00136 and an Initech ad is shown, paid for by Initech.

It will make no direct difference in revenue for the site, but hopefully they can get indirect benefits from people being less inclined to use ad blockers.

* $2 CPM at 68% revenue share
I wasn't trying to be. I wasn't saying "yeah, but 'entire point' strictly means... fnar fnar".

I was responding to a point above that seemed to imply that code like this can't be considered great (or at least, no greater than a Rails website), because its not what computers are for. They are for calculating things humans can't. I disagree with that. And not on a pedantic, language level. It is a genuine confusion, i think, between why something was made and what it can do.

Though on re-reading, I may have misinterpreted the OP.
I'll have to think a bit more about this. Thanks for all those scenarios and making my brain do some work :).

So at this point I'm not sure if your example is, or is not an issue for a working definition of identity. To circle back to p-zombies, as far as I understand, they are not supposed to be distinguishable from non-p-zombies by any possible means, which includes testing everything against everything.

What if I define the identity test I(a,b) in this way: I(a,b) ↔ ∀i : i(a,b), where i(a,b) is an "indistinguishable" test? This should establish a useful definition of identity that works according to my scenario, and also your last example unless you limit the domain of X and Y to integers from 1 to 4. But in this last case there's absolutely no way to tell there's a difference between 2 and 3, so they may as well be just considered as one thing.

As I said, I need to think this through a bit more, but what my intuition is telling me right now is that the very point of having a thing called "identity" is to use it to distinguish between things - if two things are identical under any possible test, there's no point in not thinking about them as one thing.
Perhaps he's being more literal and he means (roughly) peak physical maturity. Although I've read different estimates - I seem to remember people mention somewhere in the 20s for when your body has completed it's full physical growth cycle.