skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I totally agree with the author that the tickets we're assigned are all puzzles that I could lose myself in and inevitably get some feeling of satisfaction when I figure it out. But in the grand scheme of things, most of us aren't working on problems of real significance (eg. curing cancer, creating a more efficient battery).

So what? Most people aren't curing cancer, or doing anything more of value than their paycheck reflects. And maybe the value of our paycheck is really inflated, even. In the end we are just floating on a giant ~ball through space and maybe someday we'll have a cataclysmic event that undoes all of our social and scientific progress. Stop thinking that you have to be some special snowflake, relax, and maybe you'll find that you can find pleasure in the little, mundane stuff. In the end, they're all we really have.
Ridiculous measure that destroys the fundamental atmosphere of football and reduces supporters to American style spectators.

Not surprised football haters and Americans (where active support has been removed from the equation anywhere but in college football) here love this.
Back to the future: I'm in the Moog again
In other words, not an anti pattern.
OK, how about Lynda.com?

In other words, people who think the information will pay for itself, or is valuable in some other way, are willing to pay for it. That's a far cry from absolutely nobody.
"Rather than focusing on education and knowledge they resorted to insults and mockery."

I just wanted to point how that comedy is as if not more effective than education.
Education through comedy is even more-so. This is likely a healthier outlet than what they
could be doing (given mockery was their first choice of action). Possibly the most peaceful option for this type of community... Is vandalism, assault or other crimes now
further up on the to-do list? I suppose we might find out now since censorship has created the opportunity.
But why is that a bad thing? The already bad, native-ad-infested content would get worse, and people will actually start paying for the good content. The state of publishing is already pretty bad as it is, and any void left behind will be and is being filled up by better alternatives.

It's like arguing for big music labels because otherwise music would disappear. It won't, and it didn't!
Startup idea: Invent a discovery tool that works better then ads.

Hacker news is a good example. But there must be even more clever ways.
It is very possible to develop all sorts of diseases from cognitive stress (especially chronic long term).

Cognitive processes have a lot of influence on a wide range of physiological processes, including a high potential in causing oxidative stress, depleting your anti-inflammatories, messing with your mitochondria; it's a long list [1]

That's why cognitive-behavioral therapies are thriving so much at the moment, getting to terms with your cognitive processes has a *huge influence on your physical well-being.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chronic+stress+dysfunct...
The argument that this is a move against Google is just dumb.

"The open web? Collateral damage." Also dumb.

Here's the thing. Actually using the web is getting more and more difficult from the phone. I have simply lost count of the number of content sites I visit that completely destroy the ability to actually read the content by placing ads.

There are ads popping in once the page loads. I can see the content, then its covered by some thing. Or there's a badly placed share bar or buttons covering something. God forbid you visit a local/regional news site. If you don't get hit with a "Click on the bottom to add us to your home page" button you're luckier than a Russian playing roulette.

Like many other readers, I also spend a lot of time on reddit. I've noticed in the last few weeks that Imgur is now hosting the extremely annoying ads that bounce you out of Safari and to some promoted app in the App Store. Imgur is the primary source of image hosting for reddit and they're beginning to do some shitty, spammy tactics. In many subreddits, and yes I'll cop to some of them being porn related, its a literal crapshoot to tap on a link and not have it do the same thing.

Apple's only responsibility is to its customers. This invasive ad stuff has gotten so bad that its negatively affecting the ability of Apple's customers to use their products in a good, user-friendly way. Its not Apple's responsibility to guarantee some marginally successful monetization tactic (advertising) that way too many companies try to use, poorly. Apple needs to make their platform good for the people that paid them money for their products, and those are the steps they're taking in this case.

Another point, Google has a dominant share of the mobile market with Android. Why isn't Android the dominant source of mobile web traffic? Because its a bad experience compared to mobile Safari. Google needs to improve their native experience, and in turn you'll find them eventually building in similar ad-control mechanisms with their browsers. You have to go to where your customers are leading. Period.

Last thing is about the "open web collateral damage" thing. Advertising in itself is fine. There's a huge need for people making and selling products and services to let people hear about them.

Again, its not the responsibility of browser makers to let 3rd parties do abusive things to their users, however. Advertising has gotten out of hand. This utter drive for cpm has been driven to the extreme and its at the point that companies have forgotten that their users and visitors are people, not aggregated dots in a plot chart in Google Analytics. Spam/scam advertising is not a viable industry long term, in the same way that patent trolls and record labels suing their customers hasn't been.
Pointing out that something doesn't solve anything is no argument against it. I don't think jogging will make me live forever, but I still do it.
I don't know if it's reasonable or not but it is not happening. Every time it is subreddit moderators removing stuff that violates their own rules. Then the second it goes down everybody blames Pao automatically. Just like today.

These people somehow seem to miss the dozens of huge threads that aren't removed that she could delete with a couple clicks. She could search her name every night and delete everything in a few minutes. Yet instead she randomly deletes a thread here and there? Makes no logical sense.
sounds like picking-of-lesser-evil discussion to me, which is still a bit sad considering topic...

what a world we got ourselves into! :)
That comes pretty fast with time. I was surprised I could crouch like a baby, after 3 monthes, something I couldn't do anymore for decades. I believe your back will thank you too.
Doesn't this contradict an interview with Senior Vice President of People Operations

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
>The miners are users, so all users won't agree to anything adverse to that set of miners.

The miners aren't trading any goods or services for their bitcoin. If merchants and other major players in the bitcoin ecomony go along with the hard fork, the previous chain is dead.
Comparing 8chan to the KKK is pretty low
It's a cock and bull story
In practice, when someone refers to themselves as an SJW they mean they are the sort of person who's likely to be labeled that way. Similar to "bleeding heart liberal" a generation ago, I guess.
Then they should make them relevant to the context of the page, rather than me individually. How am I supposed to trust the opinion of an ad network that is selling my information for their profit? They aren't just using that information to serve me relevant ads. They are selling that data, making more money off my data than they are off of my non-existent purchases.

It is extremely rare that I ever see an ad that is actually relevant to me, with tracking or not. When I do see ads that are relevant to me they are completely useless (ex: showing me the exact product that I just looked at a few minutes ago and nothing new). Furthermore, I have been conditioned to completely ignore anything that might even look like an ad. I can't think of anytime that I have ever bought something because I saw an internet ad for it. I have purchased things that were recommended and/or reviewed by a trusted source online. Context and qualifications are much more convincing and influential than a box telling me to buy something.
Highlight: "With these monosynths you can get inhumanly fast (or slow) complex pulses that phase, bounce off each other and interlock in ways that no human ensemble could ever achieve, while retaining the live performance element in all the other areas".
To me, the example of one of the most thrilling potentialities of computers and informatics.
I think this is pretty insightful, especially since many web sites have already started to go down this road: one example is ultimate-guitar.com, usually the top Google result when searching "<song title> chords".

If you enter their site on iPad or iPhone, they display the chords but pop up an ad for their native app (which is limited as a free version) that is nearly impossible to click away and often automatically redirects to the App Store. It is infuriating to see the results I want underneath an ad but not be able to reach it.

I fear ad blocking will cause this effect to be all the more stronger rather than weaker: sites will entirely move away from displaying content to users on iOS and will force users to download their app.

The thing is that most users will become angry with the individual sites, but very few will put any blame on Apple themselves...so it really is a pretty brilliant evil plan on Apple's part.
yeah weechat is one of the rare C apps to actually preserve state on upgrade (passes fds, saves state, load in new process, kill old process)

its not that hard to do if the program is made for this, even in C, its pretty hard to add when it isnt tho since you need a compat. layer.

Sometimes the new program simply has import functions for the old memory layout.
> I never understood why reddit was so lenient with its community

> do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators.

Answered your own question. Because people can do that and not have to deal with that crap. reddit is many things to many people. Some people enjoy that stuff and reddit wants as many people as possible on the platform. The site was also founded with free speech and an open platform as something they believed in. And they've stayed true to that.
HOW JAVASCRIPT GRID WORKS WITH ODATA PROTOCOL
Google brings 4X faster browsing to Android devices in India
I think it's a pretty easy question. Pretty much all algorithms courses teach you enough to be able to solve this question.
I'm sure regular users care about their browsing experience and security, even if they don't know/want to express their feelings.
Adding more rules counts as a change.
Yes, it will happen. I just don't think it's decades away. At least not in the sense of truck drivers; most programmers will go (like most lawyers, doctors, etc will) but there will be some skills required the coming decades which are still too hard (IMHO ofcourse). But yes, it will eventually happen for sure.

And for simpler processes it is already there but people would not call that programming here on HN and companies are not taking advantage of it. You really do not need custom software to run most companies (even a lot of software companies; just repackaging), but (luckily for me) they still order custom software and yes, it is more efficient and nicer; that is because they want software to match their process while it should be the other way around usually.
They don't. At one particular tech company, I examined all 100+ VP's. Only one had a software engineering background and no longer works there. Merely talking about engineering will get you labelled as a serf in any big company.
> but I can trust my own coworkers

I'm sure that you trust them, but do you trust their computers? Do you trust all of them that they can keep their personal computers and their accounts secure?

Maybe it doesn't match your case perfectly, but in general trusting people and trusting people's accounts is not the same thing.
> I read a lot about that but I don't see how that will work this time. In the previous revolutions very specific jobs were replaced and you could kind of see there were still jobs to be done outside it.

This pattern of thought just keeps repeating itself whenever something disruptive comes about. The generations before us also couldn't see what new jobs would replace all of the displaced ones

> I really don't see how this will work for anyone with only a high school degree.

I think you just answered your own question below:

> But of course next generations managed to do other things unrelated to this line of work my family did for generations.

People in general are resilient when there's no choice. For example, before the advent of microcomputers and spreadsheets, most businesses had whole departments of people who spent all day just creating one or two spreadsheets. Before mechanical alarm and electronic clocks were widespread, they had people tap on windows to wake people up on time. Before the manufacturing process for computers became mechanized, most of the work was done by female workers 'stitching' wires for machine logic. People adapt. Humanity as a whole advances.

Well the good part is that most places have some form of social net that buys us time to figure it out. Maybe someone in HN or one of the major tech hubs can actively try to solve it?
I agree: my understanding is that Apple is releasing just an API, and allowing ad-blocking EXTENSIONS, basically putting Safari and their mobile web browsing (almost) on par with desktop browsers (including Chrome, as you say).

I don't see how the "most users" that are tolerant towards ads, which usually do not install adblocking extensions on their desktop browsers, although they have the possibility, have will feel the need of doing so in their iPhone/iPad.

About the users that ARE bothered by ads and before they didn't have a choice, and now they have.
That's true. However In Google defense, they tell you upfront what kind of interviews you're going to get and their process it's pretty well known anyway (with all its flaws).
I went through the same pain myself a few years ago and I'm not disagreeing that the chap should have just got the job there, but their process is well known and perhaps he just had the wrong expectations.
In an Apple Watch is space for very small microphone only. It can record only a small range of frequencies. A result could be some low quality podcasts recorded with a smartwatch.
Tarsnap GUI for the desktop
I used to forget about it and then I'd get a few chuckles.

Of course I'd never go and raise a bug for such behaviour, as I instantly remembered what it was whenever it struck.
It has the unfortunate problem that, like sidechains, it doesn't exist.

We already have altcoins. This might be an actually innovative altcoin. But it's not really going to be Bitcoin.
Thanks for the post, I'm one of the engineers.

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The EU have nothing to do with that.

Hell, I don't think even the foaming-at-the-mouth UKIP eurosceptics try to claim the UK turned into a surveillance society due to the EU. Neither did the EU ask the UK to lead the global surveillance efforts in Europe through GCHQ. Not to mention the fact that it is David Cameron himself who is trying to get out of the EU's human rights framework.
I don't think Apple would be that dumb. Is iAd even available for websites? I doubt it. Also I doubt they even care about iAd, I imagine it's such a tiny part of their revenue.
I don't know what counts as reliable, it works most of the time.

You can check for cosmetic filtering (CSS reapplied to your ad-divs) by checking their width or something like that. You can check for blocked domains by getting this information channeled back somehow.

There are only so much relevant filter lists (maybe 15?) out there. They are freely accessible & parsable, so generating an URL on the fly which should be blocked on your domain in one of those filterlists shouldn't be too hard.
Of course the investigation into the Belgacom hack was just 'rhetoric'. No real action was taken, the CEO of the company that lead the investigation did not explicitly attribute the hack, just rhetoric.



In all honesty, I still think that western security companies have less bias than those working in less free societies.
Scala development in Vim
Sundar Pinchai got promoted though.
The crucial difference is that this is not a child but more like a robot specifically designed to operate in a certain way for profit. Sadly this robot cannot swim, and its owners are scrambling to make swimming illegal, keeping their robot afloat with ugly floaters, or <insert other analogy>.

Meanwhile, if we were to let the robot sink to the bottom, the actual creators of the robot, who have a passion for robotics, will find ways to create a robot that swims, and will love doing it.

Might it hurt them in the short run? Yes, and I'm all for working hard at solutions to that problem (basic income perhaps? But that's a whole other issue). But in the long run these creators can and have found ways around these problems. We see some of this in music and gaming, and it's already happening in 'publishing' (individual journalists and writers finding ways to get profit/donations, blendle.com, certain paywalled publications, etc.)

But I for one am tired of working hard at a beautiful site for an 'owner' and then working even harder at turning the end result into a slow, ad-infested, privacy-invading mess. The sooner that solutions are 'forced' into existence, the more likely it will be that I can build profitable things that are not crap.

And I've spoken to many journalists and musicians who feel the same way.
An Indian eCommerce company wanted to test my mathematics while interviewing me for a VP of Marketing role. I had to tell them I won't fit into their company culture, let's not waste time further.
Actually, Max himself said that it "Felt like they would have preferred a fresh comp sci grad."[1]

Investment banks recruit bright young graduates, putting them through a tough selection process (c.f. all those hard-working interns we keep reading about), and select the ones who perform/conform the best. The rationale for bringing in young (as opposed to experienced) people is that they'll work their asses off, can be moulded to fit the culture (i.e. independent thinkers aren't necessarily sought), and (perhaps most importantly) are too junior to present a threat to the incumbents.

If Google's going down the same path, it may be a sign that their corporate culture is solidifying, which would be a bad sign, IMHO.

1: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608698037100244992
Ask HN: What project management software is your team using right now?
Under Snow Leopard (yes it was that long ago) it would frequently kernel panic so I stopped using it. I have never had VMware kernel panic on me; Parallels has crashed once or twice but never kernel panicked.

I did use VirtualBox for running Windows 95 the other month though. I am not complaining about VirtualBox or advising against its use, just I had some issues on OSX.

Under Windows and Linux it ran fine, just OSX was dodgy for me.
>I do see it as a moral issue.

The moral issue is on the other side as well: Most malware comes from hacked ad servers and the ad industry doesn't really seem to care.

Until that changes, ads stay blocked and I won't even bother evaluating the other reasons (invasiveness, bandwidth/battery usage).
But isn't it great that HN lets us know which articles are worth paying for?
Recreating the Birdman Opening Credits with HTML5 Web Audio APIs
They reached out to him - he mentioned it in a tweet, and they've skipped the phone interview . Also, he would not be the one writing the machine learning, search indexing, but rather the app itself. All of those would be handled by other non-ios developers.
you add "tracking ads" to this list, and I'm all for it.
Show HN: Beta test new hardware devices and give feedback
You are making it appear as Apple control over app store is about security when it is not. I would believe it when they blocked and removed only malicious applications but instead they are also removing applications that they think would compete with their own products or with their business strategy.
The fun thing about detecting ad blockers is that it works both ways http://kyledrake.neocities.org/adblockbar/
My student loans (UK, on whatever system we had round about the year 2000) were inflation minus some constant, which pushed it into negative territory. In the last year before I finally paid it off, I had the joy of watching the total owed go down by itself.
I recall the toilets at Birmingham New Street station being paid for, and also recall the chap getting off the train carrying a few cans (and having drank a few!), observing the fee required for a toilet, swearing and then urinating in the concourse area....

The toilets in my hometown (Warwick) were closed. There used to be some on the castle walls at the top of Smith Street (near the East Gate) but they were closed. Also I think the public toilets in the main square (by the Rose and Crown?? where Woolworths used to be) are shut too.

And I don't even know of any public toilets in the town I am living in now (perhaps because I always just go home)
Really? Being able to solve basic CS101 problems requires some sort of privileged upbringing? I grew up poor - my family lived off food stamps for a while. This stuff is easy. I find it disgusting the level of entitlement swept throughout this thread. Oh Google HAD to give you that job, it was yours and they stole it by testing basic skills.

You know, there is something to be said for someone who has a good product sense, but not good developer skills. They sound very valuable, so why are they applying to a developer position? Just because you are unqualified for one job, doesn't mean you deserved that job, or that you're worthless.

Go do what you're good at.
At my university it's common to call acyclic, connected graph a tree. We distinguish between rooted and unrooted trees. For example, minimal spanning tree doesn't really have to be rooted, it just has no cycles.
> Solution: If you have to tell me something really urgent, you can leave a message

If it's urgent, the caller needs (or maybe just wants) to have it passed
synchronously. Text message is asynchronous, so there's no indication of
when you have received the message. This is totally unsuitable for urgent
things. You got it backwards.

> Many phone calls I receive are for planning a meeting, or asking me to do something. But callers seem not to realize that [...]

It's your problem, not the caller's. Buy a tablet, or a bluetooth headset if
you resist device dedicated to planning. Or insist on asynchronous
communication to schedule things (this is actually mentioned in "solution"
section).
What do you mean by "does business in the US"?

Per their website:

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Moscow Citydel
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Open-Sourcing Pinot: Scaling the Wall of Real-Time Analytics
The "automatically leaves the webbrowser and opens the Appstore app" trick is already quite annoying at the moment indeed.