skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't the site just collect some data from the client and forward it to the ad networks on the backend? All of this stuff needs to happen out of band.
That certainly could be it - it's literally the only graph I could pull up at short notice. There are stats around but like browser usage etc they tend to come from this website or that. Based on some other numbers[0], trends seem to be more or less in line with what you'd expect: more blockers installed for visitors to tech-related sites; more installed on Firefox than IE, and Linux than Windows; etc. In that link, you're looking at nearly 10% of impressions blocked as of 3 years ago (which is obviously not the same thing as unique visitors, but I would be surprised if that was not higher than a few years before that).

I'm merely stating a hypothesis here, really - I have in mind how it was that people installed things like the google toolbar to block popups, and then browsers blocked popups by default, and then there were no more popups (OK, not quite, but still). The more irritating something is, the more likely a user will take steps to do something about it.

Time will tell.

[0] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user... - sorry for the hated Quora ink
Thank you for pointing this out. We will definitely take care of this issue.

Maybe "Analytics Panel for Excel" would be safier, as @BjoernKW suggests.
Wow that's so weird, I think I found a prototype of this software: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vxKCv9rScwm2sE3EKMeApuPkhdN... (I would have made it faster but Google Docs breaks badly on mobile.)

"what do you think of the CEO" is a question that only the CEO is interested in the answer to. That's a silly choice of question. Not a single person will be honest.

You can use Google docs. Or you can just walk up to people and ask how they're doing. This just feels passive-aggressive.
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Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story
“This Week in Data” – July 24, 2015 [Infographic]
How to Manipulate App Store Rankings? But Wait… Watch Out
You'd have to travel faster then light to outrun the light emmited from years ago.
I think that the advantage of Excel for non programmers is that it's less abstract and you can see all the intermediate results instead of having a mental model in your head. Also it makes some bugs show faster, because you see the immediate result.

Perhaps an alternative is to make something between Excel and "text" programming. Usually a big spreadsheet has many almost independent blocks. Make some mini-spreadsheets with names and clear title rows/columns. Allow the mini-spreadsheets to be positioned easily and connected by formulas.

(Disclaimer: I use a lot of Excel instead of small scripts, the main problem is that you cant's nest 3 for loops.)

[In a related way, I saw some physicist program small calculations in Mathematica because it's more interactive than Fortran and it's easier to make graphs and find the errors.]

[There are some similar attempts. For example in Racket you can use #lang frtime to get a "reactive" program thatauto updates the values. http://docs.racket-lang.org/frtime/ It's a pity that the docs don't have an easy example.]
Not the most reliable source, but I don't have much time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Median gross salary is €1714 monthly or €20568 yearly.

Then, looking up the income taxation (reliable):
http://www.belastingschijven.net/belastingschijven-2015/

It seems that median salary almost entirely fits in the first 'schijf' (english: disk) of taxation. This means that the total income tax is:

19822 * 0.365 + (20568 - 19822) * 0.42 = €7548 yearly.
The reality of every workplace I've been in is that it is never in your best interest to say you are unhappy.

If you are unhappy it is usually obvious and your manager usually knows about it -- if they haven't done anything to rectify the situation, they likely can't or won't do anything about it.

Saying you are unhappy just creates a more tense situation.

In my experience, the only option you have in these situations is changing your role or group within your organization or leaving your organization for another job.
He blames mobile browsers for at least half the article (I had to stop reading). Sure, mobile browsers may not be great, but web sites these days seem to be written by people who just don't give a shit. Their hipster attitude is ruining people's experience.
Why I Prefer Vim to RubyMine
> What if amphetamines (or some other stimulants) were to become a thing in the IT industry and that workers had no other choice to take some to meet standard performance or be unemployed?

That has pretty much happened already, for median skilled workers in IT. We call it coffee.
The tech dirt article about hacking team is also a gem.
Site's down.

Perhaps the Github?

https://github.com/mrmrs/tachyons/blob/master/css/tachyons.c...
But Nextbus data is not available everywhere - and installing beacons on bus stops to broadcast URL addresses is fairly easy and low cost.
Google, you can take 127.0.0.1 down, but please leave localhost alone.
FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" that searches for binaries based on keywords in their descriptions. My problem is when I need it I can never remember the name, just spent 10 minutes search on variations of "advogato".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_%28Unix%29 : "Often a wrapper for the "man -k" command, the apropos command is used to search all manual pages for the string specified. This is often useful if one knows the action that is desired, but does not remember the exact command or page name."

TBH learning now that "man -k" exists (I don't think I can have "man man"-ed in the last decade) is probably a lot more useful for me.
Because the trend is for the client to bear the burden.
Your Startup's Pitch Needs Only These 10 Slides
> All for the benefit of the employers?

And society. Sports and jobs are different.
Your MAX has no respect for namespaces or scopes. A real world macro is probably going to be called MYLIBRARY_MAX to avoid this. Secondly the C++ lambda solution is just easier to read.

auto max = [](auto a, auto b) {
return (a > b) ? a : b;
};

max (3.1415, 42); // returns double
max (42ul, 78u); // returns unsigned long
max (17, 16); // returns int
A Case Study of Bad User Experience Design
> Socialism always results in tyranny.

Anarchist Catalonia? (Admittedly, it didn't last long, thanks chiefly to a different bunch of socialists, who were in turn defeated by fascists.)
A depressive procrastinator's guide to finding motivation for side projects
Please put up a copy of your letter, the semi-mythical "way to get off LinkedIn's mailing list"!
Already submitted and discussed yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931404

TLDR; there is a sharing program which installs web service on localhost:4001 that handles sort of magnet links
Neat! This is like a super-customizable version of this tool my company sues called Morale (https://moraleapp.com/).

Anonymity is key in these things or employees won't be able to answer truthfully. I can't tell if Vibe Catch is anonymous or not. Anyway, managers don't always know when something is wrong when they are dealing with multiple projects and a bunch of different employees. Trends over time are usually pretty interesting in these kinds of apps too.
> completely reliable

>paypal

So accepting risk of a chargeback counts as "completely reliable" to you. In that case, one can accept 0-conf.
That gtk3 maintainers position on backward-compatibility really puzzles me. May be I am wrong, but theming engine is a vital part of an UI toolkit - you need to represent all the fancy widgets somehow in a way appropriate to the user. Yet they keep on breaking things almost each minor, leading a lot of theme creators to quit. Might be the real underlying cause of our whines...

Nevertheless, I don't see any other way than point out to the problem again and again, when each important piece of software is going to switch to gtk3. World does not stop on gtk3, there is Qt, which can handle gtk2 theme engines pretty much seamlessly (at least, from my experience), without breaking things at each release.
Douglas Coupland: Greece and the Curse of Leisure
See Android Go
Hey there,

Wojtek from Estimote team here: actually, Google is approaching this very conciously when it comes to privacy and UX. You need to opt-in to see those URLs in notification center, then metadata is fetched so you know what you click, and still no tracking is possible until you actually click.

Also, they're iterating very fast with Physical Web, but it's still in experimentation phase. Physical Web for Chrome is big news, but keep in mind that Chrome on iOS has ~5% penetration.
10 simple ways to bring your website up-to-date
>Only the excellent minority is motivated. //

Surely a minority of the excellent minority that 1) get recognised as excellent and 2) are motivated by such recognition.
I wish there was a mainstream medium that discussed (and made accessible) the real risks and benefits of policy ideas. The biggest policy decisions our government makes are more or less discussed and debated through anecdotal stories shared in op-ed pages of major newspapers. (Note: I'm talking about policies pushed by both sides of the aisle, not just this particular op-ed.) This seems to be the biggest driver of polarization in the political sphere, as individuals tend to seek out op-eds that reinforce their own views in an exercise of confirmation bias, instead of thinking critically about what the positive and negative effects, plus potential risks, would be.

Personally, I tend to default to looking for free market/libertarian solutions to societal problems based on two major risks. First, if the government fails to deliver the good or service promised (like energy for your home, or healthcare), you normally have no other alternative to choose from. This can cause an entire population to suffer greatly, especially given the government is most often tasked to providing fundamental goods and services most necessary for human life (water, energy, healthcare). Second, choosing your government to provide a solution for you is fundamentally saying that 1 (non)elected government official can offer a better solution than ~330 million other individuals (in the US). Statistically this is highly unlikely, even considering the advantage of coercive power the government-provided solution possesses. I'm not opposed to government control over productive capital in some arenas, but any policy idea needs to mitigate and address these two fundamental risks. Very few policy proposals pass this test, and no mainstream media source exists to provide an objective risk analysis of the ideas and policies being debated by our elected officials.
I find that gtk3 themes are easy to tweak (and more so than gtk2 ones), have you tried to look at the (pseudo-)css and modify it to suit your taste?
Mine has been bad (nearsighted) since childhood and getting steadily worse ever since. Both my parents were nearsighted too, so in my case genetics probably played a significant role. But in general, I don't think it can be a matter of genetics alone; the rise in myopia among the general population has been too fast for that. Here is what looks like a more plausible explanation: http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
This is Apple's goal. They want people to write apps and show ads through Apple's own ad network.
Show HN: Interactive Coding Tutorial – HTML/jQuery Basics for a ToDo App
This too is my reason for looking forward to Gtk+3!
Scio Pocket Spectrometer for analysing the chemical makeup of anything
So one of my annoyances at work is the mandatory "training" I have to do for compliance/legal/CYA reasons, which amount to wasting 20 minutes of my life with "are you an idiot?" type questions on, say, bribing foreign government officials.

I put those off as long as possible until the nag emails start escalating.

And now you want me to do a weekly survey on whether or not I'm happy?

Other posters have brought this up. What about privacy? How do I know my answers will be anonymous? The company is (assumedly) paying for this. They're the customer. Do I really think they're not going to get this information if they want it?

Annoyingly, if I have to do this, you've now made me think of all these issues. There is a cognitive cost with doing so.

What possible reward/benefit is there for being honest? No, no, "I love the Leader!"
Actually I find when I've gotten an excellent review it's encouraged a little complacency immediately after. Good feedback after a single assignment doesn't seem to do that.
There are such things as `professional league'.
>It's kind of how if everyone is allowed to cheat to pass an exam, the ones that don't want to cheat (even if the exam is so hard that they could fail) would be seen as fools (and arguably would be fools for taking the chance to lose the exam by not cheating).

This might be less true in any field that the exam (or knowledge tested, even) is useful after the fact.
Athletes who win due to doping generally have "a career" in chatshows, commentary, etc (Armstrong shows that this can happen even when caught).
Alternatively, you have the folk who cheat at exams for certifications and pad resumes with paper-thin experience. It might be foolish to take the time with the learning process, but the end-result is quite different.
I guess that can be reduced a lot if not only adverts, but all the tracking scripts are blocked.

I just tested this with uMatrix where I use pretty much the defaults, but allow the two CDNs for theverge.com.

Ended up with 600kB downloaded and 1.37s load time on an empty cache.
My eyesight was pretty bad even before I started staring at screens. But mine is due to genetics, probably.

I got a Lasik(actually PRK) procedure a couple of years ago and I am glasses-free since then with the occasional dry eye.

From what I understood, anything that causes eye strain is not a good thing. But it's not only screens(reading, bad lighting...). So things like taking frequent breaks and making sure that your eyes are hydrated will benefit you. Anything else is highly controversial at this point in time.
Staring at a screen does not impact your eyesight negatively. However it contributes to an eye "tiredness" (non native english speaker here, sorry), but that's all.
This is from a friend of mine who is orthoptist.

I also know by changing glasses recently that they have some technology they put in the lens to reduce this tiredness. At least they sell it, I have no idea if it's a real thing.
My eyesight is pretty bad too. I don't believe the computers are a direct culprit, but they might be indirectly and partially responsible. Staring to the screen usually causes nothing more than eye strain, which may indeed result in vision problems, but those are reversible - sufficient rest, frequent brakes, some exercises, and it should be back to normal. However, as it turns out, I have a rare genetic condition which makes my eyes unusually weak and incapable of repairing damage. The combination of staring at the screen combined with horrible air conditioners in the office caused my eyes to dry out and burn like hell, which in turn caused massive death of cells that couldn't repair themselves due to the above deficiency, damaging my eyesight. Hope that clarifies things a bit.
> What if amphetamines (or some other stimulants) were to become a thing in the IT industry and that workers had no other choice to take some to meet standard performance or be unemployed? All for the benefit of the employers?

There is a culture of amphetamine use in the IT industry. I haven't seen articles on it in a while, but I thought it relatively accepted that a lot of people who go find ADHD diagnoses don't actually have the disorder, and are just looking for a dextroamphetamine scrip.
> Malaria seems like it has the capacity to really ruin someone's life.

I contracted a unknown variant of malaria when I was a kid. It really wasn't a pleasant experience. There's sickness; then on a completely different level there's malaria.

It won't ruin your life - if you survive you'll be left as healthy as you were before. However, that's IF you survive.
I'm not sure what separates this from a Google Form doc, or a SurveyMonkey, or any of the 100 other "anonymous" survey devices on the market already.

Regardless, as an employee I've learned to either ignore these things outright, or at least give the most artificially bland non-feedback possible. On many of the occasions in the past when I've given meaningful feedback... despite the "anonymity", that feedback has been repeated to me verbatim by a manager in later conversations. Often in a passive-aggressively angry or intimidating way.

It's a problem of population size. For company survey data to be all that meaningful, you have to AT LEAST segment the "anonymous" responses by location, group, etc. So even if the text doesn't include your individual name... it still narrows your identity down to a couple dozen people in a HUGE company, and probably just 2 or 3 people in a small company.

With that small of a population, it's really not that hard for managers to piece together who said what. My experience is that when management receives feedback they'd rather not hear, often they REALLY do want to piece together who said what. So whatever your noble intentions are in creating an "anonymous" survey system, I believe that human nature works against you on this. You're really just creating a honeypot trap to help root out "negative influencers".

Talk to your people. I know that a lot of employees roll their eyes at regular "1-on-1's", and a lot of managers don't like doing them either (so they're often not done very well). However, I just can't comprehend how anyone could consider themselves an effective manager without having those with every direct report on at least a bi-weekly basis, preferably weekly. If you're doing those right, then you'll have a strong relationship within your team even if everyone doesn't always see eye to eye.

Of course, 1-on-1's and manager-employee communication at the team level is a separate matter from COMPANY WIDE feedback. Upper management can (and usually does) have blind spots due to information getting blocked by poor managers in between them and staff. If you have a solution for bad managers, or for bad organizational structures that leave employees with either multiple managers or none at all, then you'd be a messiah. Generally, that's the last thing in the world that upper management really wants to tackle, though.
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EU Starts Geo-Blocking Antitrust Case Against U.S Movie Studios
I'm not a regular Fedora users, but I was following this enough to notice that it was not default until version 22. There were builds for testing via copr (like PPAs for Fedora).
It seems wasn't problem with Samsung's SSDs after all.

The post where the story started:

https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-tha...
i run 127.0.0.1 can i sue these geniuses? this has caused trillions of dollars of economic loss to my business.
Sidechains don't need to be centralised. Lightning network hubs can refuse service to you, but I don't think they can outright take your money, which makes them better than Paypal.
While looking for an accessible copy of the paywalled Nature paper, "The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies," I spotted the following paper which might be useful to some:

"Dispersion and Line Formation in Artificial Swarm Intelligence"

http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0014
Socialism is a "bogeyman" in the US because it has contributed nothing to the success of our country and capitalism and private property, its antithesis, has been responsible for our rise as the greatest economic power the world has ever seen.

Half of the comments on here are extolling Elon Musk and this forum exists precisely because of the advancements of similar private tech pioneers. The Netherlands is a great place and I loved the time I spent there, but no one talks about replicating the inventiveness and penchant for the creation of world-changing technologies of the Netherlands. The US is the innovation capital of the world for a reason.
Tracing JITs and modern CPUs
Everybody is cooking their own soup and no-one wants to share their toys and sandbox with the other children.
> Everybody should be allowed to use any chemical substance for himself as he wish. He should be responsible for his own action.

I fully agree. He should then further demonstrate this responsibility by choosing not to compete in competitions that explicitly forbid this kind of enhancement.

Why should I expect to be free to do what I want and expect to be allowed to compete against people who agree to abide to certain restrictions?
What I'm seeing in all these comments is that there should be a better OSS ecosystem in the .NET community.
I think the problem here is that we're trying to compare the Java OSS ecosystem with the .NET Framework community. Essentially .NET isn't the language here.

I think that the main problem is that developers stick to what's given in the .NET framework, instead of building awesome things outside that.
A note under Ubuntu: you'll have to install links2 (instead of links), and you may have to change permissions on the fb device to allow your user to write to it, if you don't want to run a browser as root.
European Commission Charges Six US Studios for Antitrust Violations
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Love the many, Live for the few
>...bear the transaction costs.
> ...users wanting to transfer money so they have to pay for this service.

Wrong! ;-) You are misunderstanding and implying, once again, that transaction costs are somehow "adding value." Bitcoins, like all financial instruments, exists _because_ of the transactions. The transactions _are_ the thing that makes financial systems live. Only parasites live at and leech off the system at the transactional level.

Miners don't mine because of any arbitrary value in a product. They mine because the results of mining is going to be transacted. Putting all the costs, at the point of the miners means the "most fair" deal for everyone. (You can read that as Socialism if the word sticks in your craw. ;-) The costs go up-front at the point where the bitcoin goes into the system. It doesn't mean the miners get less overall so much as it mean everyone gets less but effectively only one time.

As time goes on and resources become scarce and mining costs go up, transaction "costs" are subsumed into mining to a vanishing small amount. Transactions are effectively free which means that the market is open to everyone, regardless of wealth, without siphoning off capital into the hands of the 0.1% and out of the pockets of the rest of the people.
What a few big name companies (e.g. Microsoft) are getting rid of is the "forced bell curve fit" rankings. The core issue supposedly that team members are loathe to help anyone else succeed as that may not benefit them in the appraisal.

Have heard that, in the new model, your manager gets a lot more liberty in deciding how to distribute the appraisal budget for the team instead of the hikes simply following a company-wide rule depending on the employee's rating tier.
Every time I read about reactive patterns, I hope that some data dependency or cells like behavior is included, and every time it's just some thin wrapper around basic pub/sub.