skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this is by design for many ads. If I mis-tap I'll actually tap the ad itself and it'll take me to the ad location, usually a website but sometimes the google play store. These guys are seeing metrics and thinking they're convincing us to visit their sites and patting themselves on their high conversation rate, but the reality is that the tiny little 'x' to close just is impossible to hit with adult fingers on most screens.
What's considered a good CTR?
Currently working on a SaaS to help online furniture retailers (and eventually any retailer) increase customer engagement, conversions, and lower returns.

On the weekends, I'm working on a super easy photo-prints-on-demand service: https://keepsakemail.com/

Connect to Instagram - pick photos - enter payment and shipping details. One flat rate shipped anywhere. Reply to your email receipt and mention this HN comment and I'll refund half of your payment as a discount :)
At least in theory, in a democratic society, "the government" should only do things that we've decided to allow. In the US, these decisions are made by representatives we've elected. As far as I know, the USG doesn't sell people's private information to anyone willing to pay to blackmail them, and uses your tax money to enforce the values of our society and the social contract we've constructed more so than to simply further its own power.

Now, obviously, different governments fall are at different points on the "furthering institutional power" versus "supporting ideals" spectrum, as do other institutions who work in the security space, but equating the actions of anyone who's ever used or traded an exploit hardly seems accurate.
"And another strawman! I never claimed referral networks are bad for startups."

Perhaps you ought to be slower to fling about accusations about "strawmen" and actually read what I'm saying. I'm allowed to make points that are not necessarily direct responses to you. You're attempting to control the frame. Well, so am I. I see no reason to hide that.

"In one breath, the claim makes "no sense" to you, but in the next, that fact is a "huge advantage.""

Bollocks. Read more, assume less please.

"remarkably, you've argued against increasing the pool of qualified applicants, on principle."

Again, you're scorching the Earth to save your point. Your point logically explains that it would be perfectly ethical to create a recruiting service that both highly vets its candidates, and only accepts "the majority", because that would "increase the pool of qualified applicants" vs an unvetted population that requires wading through tons of people who barely even read the posting. Your defense is proving far more than you intend. It is perfectly reasonable, and indeed a real hiring company better be considering, the mechanics whereby the "applicant pool is being increased" if they don't want to be sued. You're nuking the ground Jopwell is standing on to defend it, which is precisely the idea that where the pool comes from does matter, beyond just "a big enough pool"!
> It's a DOM based editor

According to google, javascript will soon be able to go around the DOM for situations like this. An example was shown at codeconf recently.
> Only internal developers use it, so until we have external folks accessing it, it's kind of a matter of taste.

No, it's not a matter of taste. What will you do when there are external users? Rewrite your whole internal ecosystem to use the external one? Maintain two APIs? Throw a complicated, not semantic API out there and sacrifice goats hoping that someone will use it?
Will Link Summary Cards in Twitter Affect Your Tweeting?
Twitter is now going to provide a URL preview in mobile clients. Since most tweets contain URLs this will dramatically alter the look of the timeline. Will this affect how you use Twitter?
There is no talk of banning socialists, trade unionists, Jews, or any other thing that is not a subreddit or user devoted to hate. Further, no one is "coming for" redditors that spew hate...they're merely being shown the door.

The comparison of this quote, which is about people literally being thrown into jail for their beliefs, to racists being told they can't post hate speech on a privately owned website, is disingenuous, at best.
Why does it matter how much $1000 is to you if you can guarantee that you won't lose - which you did just a few comments up the tree? And remember, he said "up to", so perhaps you'd feel more comfortable at $100? Or $10?

"The usual touchstone, whether that which someone asserts is merely his persuasion -- or at least his subjective conviction, that is, his firm belief -- is betting. It often happens that someone propounds his views with such positive and uncompromising assurance that he seems to have entirely set aside all thought of possible error. A bet disconcerts him. Sometimes it turns out that he has a conviction which can be estimated at a value of one ducat, but not of ten. For he is very willing to venture one ducat, but when it is a question of ten he becomes aware, as he had not previously been, that it may very well be that he is in error. If, in a given case, we represent ourselves as staking the happiness of our whole life, the triumphant tone of our judgment is greatly abated; we become extremely diffident, and discover for the first time that our belief does not reach so far. Thus pragmatic belief always exists in some specific degree, which, according to differences in the interests at stake, may be large or may be small." - Immanuel Kant
Correlation isn't causation in either direction in this case. Among the many reasons for long hours for finance, productivity and profit are quite low on the list. "Face time" is a phrase for a reason.
The Cost of Bad Addresses
The difference more pronounced now as wages fall and debts increase.
That sounds like a job for phuby! https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby

No, not really.
Even easier when you're using RESTful URLs, not query parameters.
Show HN: Find your 1Bth-Second Birthday
That was confusing until I read your profile:

"I'm an open source lawyer who hacks on compilers."

Makes much more sense that way. And is also a much more enticing tease, incidentally.
Is Dive into Python still maintained by anyone? That's what I used when I learned Python about 10 years ago.
Mercado Pago is 11 years old and part of the 16 year old Mercado Libre, which is like eBay and the number 1 Latin American ecommerce site.
Former FireEye Intern Accused of Creating $65,000 Android Malware
Hiring Full-Time Node.js Neo4j API Developer (contract, Remote)
Codex is looking for a full-time remote API developer to join our team to help build and maintain our exciting new Backbone product for the film industry. The product includes a standalone Ember.js app (ember-cli) which talks to our restful json api built on express, neo4j, and redis.
The product is nearing an alpha release.

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Lucky indeed! I've been pushing for us to drop IE7 (and maybe 8) so we can move to more modern tooling and libraries as part of the development process. But customer requirements mean we've got to stick to IE7 for now.

EDIT: But this is an important factor for dev in general http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-con...
>As global events that highlight the restrictions of closed banking systems and insecure data security practices (e.g. the Greece debt crisis and recent United States Office of Personnel Management data breach) continue to occur, we believe that bitcoin is likely to be adopted by more people looking for digital money that is global, secure, and inclusive.

How would Bitcoin have prevented or mitigated the OPM hack?
I bet that it contains fewer bugs than a rewrite of the code will have!

That code represents years of tweaks, fixes and obscure workarounds. There are countless problems that you will re-introduce with a code rewrite, because the subtleties in aged, thoroughly-used code are not immediately obvious.
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Is "revealing" the right word, though? "Alleging" seems more neutral. It didn't look to me like there was enough information to tell whether the claim is true or not.

(I don't personally know anything about this and am just following it from the outside like everyone else.)
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Oh God. I've even seen those on e-commerce sites, which amazes me.

"Hey, you were probably about to give us some actual money, but would you mind stopping that and doing something else instead?"
I've been working on a service to help with developer interviews called FizzBuzzer http://fizzbuzzer.com/ Check it out and let me know what you think. It's Free!
Speaking of legacy platforms, anyone know of a vi/tinyvi/etc work-alike for CP/M?

I'm going to be doing some hacking on z80 assembly via Yaze, and it would be great if I could have the editor I'm used to, natively on the platform (rather than having to edit in OSX or whatever).
Thank you for the advice. I am quite new...just getting hang of it.
There are some really great points in here, though I don't know if I'd agree that having a fully finished product is always necessary before putting out a press release - in many cases you can generate a ton of content by sharing articles and updates pertaining to the development of the product as it happens after you've done a press release about it.

People find out about the project through the press release, and ideally will join your mailing list, follow you on social media, etc in order to keep up with the project/product as it develops.
I'd wager that if you look at Millenials who are thriving financially, you'd find a bigger correlation: those who majored in STEM and ended up with jobs in technical professions. Take a look at the math in the article:

"Imagine an individual who earns $50,000 and is shopping for a $200,000 home (the median U.S. income and house price). This person would like to put 20 percent down. If he or she follows the popular financial advice to save 10 percent of his or her annual pay, it’ll take him or her about eight years to have that down payment ready to go. If that same person has $26,000 of student debt, which means monthly payments of $280 based on a 10-year repayment plan, it’ll take this person closer to nine years."

Now imagine that the individual makes $80K instead of $50K, a not unreasonable technical wage even outside of SF or NYC. Even after taxes, he can save the down payment in 2 years.

The financial outcomes of my friends & acquaintances have largely followed their facility with technology. The best hackers are now billionaires; the good ones made a million or two, even if they took the safe path of working at a big company. Even ones who just know how to use Facebook, Word, and Excel do fine in digital marketing specialties. The English majors are struggling hard, often in service jobs.
I'm calling statistical shenanigans. While the data presented is likely correct, the narrative is completely misleading.

> While the price is down 9% YTD (as of July 13), it's up over 213% over a two year time frame.

So they are ignoring the price drop from $1,000?

> This has attracted more institutional investors to the market and volatility has decreased as a result.

Chart indicates a gradual decrease, it's hard to establish causality. Also, it ignores the fact that 50% volatility for a currency is absurd.

> As of June 30, there were 6,109 Github repositories referencing Bitcoin. By comparison, there were 2,352 Github repositories referencing Stripe and 2,318 repositories referencing Paypal.

Comparing a currency with a currency processor is blatantly comparing Apples and Oranges. How many GitHub repositories are there mentioning Coinbase?
British Gas: “We've chosen not to have the compatibility with password managers”
Design machines: How to survive the digital apocalypse
I agree, I just think your initial statement was a bit extreme.
So when will 16K be a standard resolution?
The 36 stings was a record because he survived ;)
Nothing guarantees that they weren't monitoring this from the start. Nothing guarantees they haven't set-up the successor to this board already themselves.

We know the FBI actually engages in systematic lying about how they gain information about criminals - see "parallel construction".

We know that in efforts to end drug cartels, the DEA will enter into long term alliances with one cartel to eliminate others.[1] We know the US tolerates the rule of the drug-track caste in Afghanistan for the pursuit of "higher ideals".

Just in general, the paradox of mafias, cartels and so-forth is that it easier to use state power to take over such operations than to root them out. Moreover, taking them over has many appealing aspects. The problem is that the more the state moves into simply managing rackets, the greater the temptation to corruption gets, for both the high policy makers and for the low level operatives (you remember the FBI agent engaging in his own embezzlement etc during the Silk Road investigation). But this problem has been around for a long, the state by now are probably at a "steady state" in their corruption.

So it seems very possible that the FBI already knows what comes next but can only tip it's hand when the next raid comes in another two years.

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sin...
Loved the Codecademy course. Was able to complete a project in Rhino that required phyton scripts after just two weeks.
I agree. I don't see any evidence he has attempted to solve any problem or made something with Python. This is the measure of proficiency.
The stock market is too important to leave to the vagaries of an actual market
Overly pedantic, maybe. And it's an awful analogy because he awkwardly abandons it halfway through. Nobody's ever arrested or tried a hornet in a court of law.
Great idea, and I have even seen protein bars made from cricket meal ... but still .... bleh no thanks!
We use a system like this in Belgium. You slide your card into the device (which is not connected to the internet), then input a challenge and (sometimes) the account number to transfer to and the amount to transfer, followed by your pin. The device then shows a response which you input into the online banking to sign your transaction. The account number and amount only have to be input for large transactions or new account numbers. They used to not require that, but then a set of viruses went around which would show an error page to the user but use the response token to perform a large transaction in the back-end.

It's inconvenient, but relatively secure. All in all a worthwhile trade-off I would say. It was shocking to me how casually credit card transactions were done when I went to the US the past few years. I didn't even know the magnetic strip on my card even had a purpose until I had it scanned into a register. I've never known a store in europe use the magnetic strip and signature, they always use the chip and pin method.
Anyone have questions about this? Paul and I are responsible for this tech at Google, and we use it extensively for speeding up low-level tricks up to and including userspace RCU without any memory barriers _anywhere_ on the read paths.
> While I think this is certainly accurate of some Austrian, it takes those who follow it out of the domain of economics-as-a-science and into the domain of a particular moral philosophy detached from science.

I believe many/most/all Austrians would agree that economics IS detached from science.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...
I submit that while what you and I now see thimble.io are doing is very worthwhile (I found it fun back in the '70s), Tron-Club is doing a fundamentally different and also worthwhile thing, teaching basic electronics, or as they say "Over 252 Circuits per year".

Although I sincerely hope they're going to do plenty of analog as well as the two digital ones in progression they showed on their page; that would be key to my signing up.
Yes I was just pointing out that not only the advice giving part is bad but also the practices that even banks follow today are harmful.
DCOS looks great from a marketing standpoint, but have you ever tried to use Mesos + Marathon? What a pain in the ass.
How Alan Stern’s tenacity, drive, and command got a NASA spacecraft to Pluto
Some would disagree, considering the system kept functioning exactly as intended under the circumstances imposed on it.

Yes, hence the GP stating, very clearly, that the results "[highlighted] key design problems".

The results of the stress test were not surprising to anyone who's been paying close attention, but it was a valuable demonstration that Bitcoin is it currently operates is misarchitected and will require some fundamental redesigns in order to operate at scale. These problems have been under discussion since at least 2011 and have been constantly disregarded, so perhaps this will help. It seems unlikely.
You guys just sent me like 100k invites lol
Do you have a github account Aoruz? If not, it's a must to show your work.

It can be difficult to grasp, I recommend checking out this resource to learn how to use it: https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
How much of it is just being able to use your brand and to be able to say they have you on board?

Or since you probably can't answer that, does it factor into the equation at all?
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Hydra Emerges from the Shadows
"Just shut up and take my money!" applies to so many situations. It boggles the mind how many companies put hurdles between themselves and your pocketbook.
Huh, I didn't realise salaries were that high in malware / RE. What kind of positions do you mean? Presumably consulting?
The best hackers are now billionaires

[citation needed]

This is a lie. Hell, even Torvalds is worth less than half a billion. Stallman is basically broke. Carmack is worth less than a hundred million.

Meanwhile, sociopaths and kids with Ivy connections seem to be the ones raking in the money you mention.
Microsoft Windows 10 for PCs Hits RTM
In lieu of details, I assumed this from the article details.

Are you saying that they also pretended to be Macedonians?
I am actually reading that book right now. Just started. It is quite informative but the version is from 2004.
oh is it when you signed in here: https://help.asknestor.me ?

(edit: I'm using the slackin app: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin and looking into what happened)
Her rap sheet? Obviously a scammer? Why is everything so dramatic?

Neither accusation had any bearing on her management of Reddit, and both are highly spurious. As far as I can tell, the entirety of the complaints against her are that her husbands hedge fund blew up and that she sued KPCB.. I'm glad that a mob of Internet trolls knows exactly what happened in both cases.

Have you actually read the Kleiner transcripts? She had better performance than many of her peers, faced actual harassment from senior partners but it didn't meet the threshold that the courts demand for her suit, so she lost. It was probably a good decision from the courts and she negotiated a settlement for not appealing -- this happens all the time.

I have no idea how any of this justifies literally thousands of people calling her racist and misogynist names.. And then having everyone of those comments upvoted to the hundreds or thousands of points. Talk about inane.
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> Do people actually sign up for newsletters from these things?

Yes. This is a very successful way to increase those numbers

> Does this actually work?

A more important question! The issue is that the numbers that the website owner is trying to get up are really low to begin with - usually <1% or so.

So you have to think like a Bayesian here. What are the chances of someone who isn't computer literate enough to know there's a way to dismiss the dialog and believes that giving their email address is the only way to continue?

Even if 99.8% of users are smart enough to x out of that dialog, then bam, you've increased your newsletter membership by 20%!!! (simply by confusing 0.2% of your visitors) Congratulations! Look at how effective you are! You're now giving a bunch of novice computer users email they don't want and shit they won't read!
There's "the critique", as it's called: http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-G...

The paper was written in response to the porting effort of the Hurd away from Mach to L4, and realizing the latter didn't pan out well for object-capability systems.

Same people later wrote an experimental microkernel specifically for the Hurd called Viengoos, but that too fizzled out.
Former Reddit CEO explains “what the racist-sexist neckbeards don't understand”
4450 requests per second seems like it would only be possible in an intranet setting where the requests resolve basically instantly. I believe browsers are restricted to 8 active XHR per domain which makes it seem even less likely you could achieve this kind of throughput on an actual website with any kind of latency at all.
I would add Google's Python Class to the author's list.

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
It's true but it's more of an evidence than graduating from college anyway.

(not to dismiss college education here but what you get there are good theoretical fundamentals not anywhere close to proficiency in programming or specific languages)
It's hard to believe otherwise from the details in the article.
This needs to exist. Congrats on building something awesome!
the worst has to be the popovers asking me to complete a survey about the page its preventing me from reading.
I have a Github Account actually where I post my codes.

Here is the link for my github: https://github.com/aysin
A.O., I am glad that you've become a programmer. Keep it up.

Does anybody else dislike non-free (both in $ and license) educational materials, particularly in the field of programming?

Full disclosure: I don't know anything about Udemy other than that they apparently charge money for educational materials related to programming.

Seems to me that knowledge is passed around from person to person via various mediums, but every given idea had to start somewhere. (Let's put simultaneous independent discovery aside!)

So... Let's say that Bob learned the syntax of python array literals from Jane who learned it from Mike who read the docs which were written by Fran who first learned the syntax by reading a post on a mailing list written by Sam who wrote the code that defines the darned syntax (though arguably he based it his experience with other languages).

Where the does an outfit like Udemy fit in that picture? How does somebody take public knowledge and charge for it? Should there be pushback against this practice? Is the license under which the documentation was released relevant?

[EDIT: Hmm. Ok, I accept these answers. There was a reason I asked. :) ]
Elon was asked about a replacement CEO in late 2014, he stated that there currently was no one in mind, and that the plan was to stay on as CEO till volume production of Model 3 and the Gigafactory, and then evaluate [1]. Of course, he may not have been at liberty to say the person in mind.

[1] https://youtu.be/FE4iFYqi4QU?t=7m25s
Funny that Hubot's homepage says they aim to "reduce employee efficiency" which sounds a bit counter-productive to me. ;)

Full quote: "Install him in your company to dramatically improve and reduce employee efficiency."
While what you say is true, there are also increasing good vibes because of news like this one...

http://www.businessinsider.com/bnp-paribas-bitcoin-blockchai...

These are the kind of "news" and media attention that matter. The big guys are starting to bet heavily on the technology.
Also be aware that (assuming you have investors) the deal might be structured so that the investors get their money back and your stock options are worthless. Getting a high salary in the acquihire job offer might be your best option.