skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubtful. Many websites across the Internet are ad-free when you pay for it, such as Ars Technica [1] and Slashdot [2]. Many apps do the same thing, offering In-App Purchases of "Disable Ads, $0.99". People wouldn't offer the option unless (1) they're inept and illogical or (2) it actually makes money. I'm willing to bet it's the latter.

And even then, people love getting rid of ads. Whether you're blocking them with AdBlock Plus [3] or blocking things in a hosts file or firewall [4], or even just pirating things outright [I'm not posting a link to TPB], people hate having their minds filled with garbage.

It's a waste of time, waste of space, and honestly will just disappear asymptotically. It will probably never leave us entirely, but it will effectively be gone (as far as I know).

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/

[2]: http://slashdot.org/faq/subscriptions.shtml

[3]: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-Internet-user...

[4]: http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Tutoria...
Building an airport always is. Often it takes more money and a few decades to appreciate it. D/FW airport was a nightmare when it was built but it's pretty nice today. Denver's airport had tons of issues as well.

Then again this seems on a much higher level of disaster, but should be familiar to anyone building large government software systems.
He did the same with Russian a while back.

http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/97607943779/learn-t...
Internet of Things APIs aim to speed development
The title specifies "reactor accident," which is intentionally narrow. There have been several other fatal accidents involving nuclear material but not involving reactors. For example, the Demon Core experiments.
Have a look at the Banana Pi or even the Banana Pro
What do the next 5 years hold for the arts and cultural industries?
> VC backed out at the 59th minute after term sheets had been exchanged and agreed to, paperwork signed.

I'm curious how this works, legally. If they make the offer and you sign the papers, doesn't that legally obligate them to follow through on their offer?
You can batch any number of signed transfers of digital assets in to a single hash that is embedded in the blockchain in a single transaction every 10 minutes.
> $9 per server

How does this affect containers?
Paperbacks used to have order forms in the back to order other books you might like as well. They still have excerpts of the next book in the series, and the front matter usually also has other books by the author (often only the ones from the same publisher).
just like in-app-purchases.
Show HN: Loopify – Combine Q&A and community to make journaling fun
Reducing the complexity of a large number of intersections (AKA closing & narrowing Broadway) can move traffic through them more quickly:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/broadway.shtml
'Travel speeds for northbound trips throughout West Midtown improved 17% from fall 2008-2009, compared with 8% in East Midtown.'
Sartre's Nausea and Hesse's Steppenwolf tackles this theme beautifully.
How Facebook Calculates Engagement Rate
There are adverts in books too. A friend told me to read a new Bond or a Bourne book (can't remember) and it was one long series of product placements.
Stop Learning How to Code for Your Business
For reference, here are the ESIs of some planets in our solar system: Mercury (0.596), Venus (0.444), Mars (0.697).
Ah, fantastic. You're telling me I get to pay in order to have my screen real estate chewed up by "thank you messages," get "fewer ads on some websites," and I get to have all of my browsing behavior tracked, too?!

What a steal!
The best developers: my personal list
> Anyone giving general advice should consider this and emphasize the "underrated" measures.

Funny enough, we did exactly that last month!

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/06/guide-securing-your-busin...

Unfortunately, Archive.org did not crawl us before this Google blog post came out, so I can't prove that I did not ninja edit the post. Google has a cache from July 8, though: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-ovweQ...
Originally part of the pitch for cable television was that it was ad free. The networks discovered they could make more money by adding the ads back in. People were already paying for cable so they continued.

There's no way to add ads to a book you physically have; you can't compare physical products to electronic products.

If you make money selling a product there is a price point where you will make more by adding ads. It really is just a matter of finding the pricing.
Nice work. Can we know what algo or mapping logic you using to do this?
Chrome isn't breaking the applications. The applications are breaking the applications
If you go back in time cable used to be something you paid for not to have ads. Now look at us dumb folk, paying for cable/satellite and paying to see ads. Books are also filled with ads - if they mention a product by name - most likely it is placed there - American Psycho wow could not get past a page mentioning some list of products...
>The book contains no advertisements.

I think the blog post is poorly thought out and I understand your point. Nevertheless, many books have "ads" in the sense of "read more books by this author" on the inside dust jacket of a hardback, or placed in the last few pages of a paperback.
Sometimes when I buy a book directly from the publisher, they will include in the box some brochures/catalogs for similar books. The theme for all the situations is the same -- they already have your eyeballs tuned in to their wares to some extent -- so they try to take advantage of it.

It's just that the ads are not wedged in between the middle of the book to interrupt the reading experience.
Sexy football skill
1. They all do a great job! But there's this last mile problem with managing the information they do put out.

If you can handle the downtime, unattended-upgrades will work just dandy. If your postgres restarting in the middle of the night gives you pause, our service can help you choose how to roll out your security upgrades.

2. We cover app dependencies as well! For now just Ruby, but others as well pretty soon.

I'm one of the maintainers of the Ruby Advisory Database https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/ - and we know all about the effort involved.
You seem to only have two job postings in the whole world?
Hi Guys,
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With all the above happening, we were thinking of making an iOS app for icliniq. That's when we came across the fact that a normal person has 27 apps on his/her phone. But he/she would only 4-5 apps most of the time.And another 5-6 apps periodically. The most used apps would be IM apps or social network apps. So how do we make ourselves available on the most used app was our thought? We also wanted to be seamless. And that answer was icliniq on telegram with icliniq bot. Simply because telegram had wonderful API's to make it seamless. :)

We also got listed on product hunt --> http://www.producthunt.com/tech/icliniq-on-telegram
Given that both you and Chris are posting to this thread, I was kind of surprised to learn that you're planning to focus on a non-Truffle compiler/optimisation engine in future. Isn't Truffle meant to give huge speedups? It sounds like you might eventually get JRuby 9000 to be faster than MRI but that a rewrite of the current code didn't do it yet.

Is there some kind of vision or plan for how Graal/Truffle fits into the JRuby roadmap?
Assuming you're hoping to play more Kick Off 2 (plus a bit of Sensi perhaps ;-) ), it's highly recommended to replace the capacitors, as leaking capacitors have a nasty habit of ruining old computers. Also, regarding "Plastic had yellowed.", you may be interested in this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright
Jetson is nice, if a bit pricey. Looking forward to X1 boards from NVIDIA
Docker shall be addressed soon!

We'll probably end up sitting on your host and taking a peek inside your container filesystems.
The best way to drive revenue? Go rob a couple of banks and throw them in the corporate coffers.

Of course, there's a tradeoff. Just because your form of "driving revenue" includes annoying the living hell out of users while cleanly documenting all of their behavior for surveillance purposes (government or otherwise) doesn't mean someone else's does.
MIT Stealth Spinout, Pi, Charges Up Wireless Power Competition
As someone who has designed a few large-scale time-series databases, I read the entire patent. It was filed in December 2012, long after I last did a clean room design, so pretty much everything I've done could be viewed as prior art. I would have to imagine Splunk has something to say about this too.

The primary claim of novelty in this patent is storing index block metadata on a separate server than the storage blocks. To the extent that pretty much every distributed time-series platform ever designed separates index block metadata from storage blocks, it does not reflect positively on the competency of the software team at GE that they think this is novel. (I realize that this may not have been the choice of the software team.)

Furthermore, in properly designed systems, these functions are separated at the granularity of a process rather than a server because it is more flexible and efficient. They can be implemented on separate servers, and usually are, but it is not a requirement because requiring it would be stupid. But if GE did not make this a requirement, I doubt it would have withstood even the nominal prior art search; that limitation on scope was needed to get it through.

Overall, the architecture of the time-series database implied in the patent is consistent with someone that learned their poor distributed system habits from the Hadoop ecosystem and decided to reinvent the time-series database without knowing much about how those systems actually work. However, I am not surprised this made it through the US patent system.
what happens after 6 months? and who needs 0.1 EB anyway?
It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
Cable TV was supposed to be TV without ads because you were paying for it. Look how long that lasted.
Right now I m staring at twitter picture content on my Android notification area. Are they gonna be ads soon?

Most executives will carefully introduce ads by making A/B testing. So your scenario can only be made true by blind and dumb executives. And yes they are many.
Or he could just do what people do -- pay the taxes. Because corporations are people, my friend.
Really like PledgeSociety! It would be great to see an average $ amount per fan (earnings \ by no of supporters).

I think with that kind of filter I'd be able to find some really cool people with a small fan base, low earnings but that are bringing a lot of value to the fans they do have. Would help with early discovery!
Semiconductor startup with new processor scores Founders Fund investment
Hot korean girl dance (sexy girl)
I assume nobody cheats in a way that can be proven. :)
BuildZoom (YC W13 - www.buildzoom.com) is hiring!

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> This is not going to be a fun week for Chrome users

Disagreed! This is a great week to see which sites break because of this in order to avoid them in the future. (Yes, leading a life without Flash, PHP, Node and all the other horrible technologies that came out of the web is possible!)
1) NASA already has such procedures.

2) Some types of molecules involved with life have chirality so the chances are small that our biological components as a whole would be compatible. (Think of it as several different kinds of "endianess." There would be a coin-flip for each molecule type with chirality.) So at worst, if we ate each other, we'd give each other molecular "indigestion."

More complicated operations, like that of viruses hijacking our cells to replicate themselves are probably right out. Invading foreign cells couldn't get very far in our bodies if all of their enzymes malfunction and they find our material "indigestible."
Lost art: Amiga 1000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934948
Export: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qs-access/id920297614?mt=8

Import:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/health-importer/id930943780?...

Both use the HealthKit API.
This is an ingenious observation, but why doesn't the argument work for something Netflix which[1] doesn't have ads.

[1] unless I'm very much mistaken -- I'm not a Netflix subscriber
Garden shed inventor type thinks idea is goldmine; doesn't want anyone else to get there first.
What is the use case for clustering Raspberry PIs? Why not build a more powerful computer within that same footprint?
Many paperback books contain ads at the end for other books from the same publisher in the same genre. Sometimes they include short excerpts. Occasionally there are longer excerpts from the next book by the same author.

A few publishers tried inserting actual non-book advertising in paperbacks. That died out fairly quickly.

Hardcover books are likely to contain a microbibliography of the author, in the front matter.
I don't wanna derail the comments here, since as cbaleanu mentioned it's pretty off topic, so I'll try to stay brief here. If you would like some more input, my email is in my profile.

> But it doesn't seem like developers really wanted it.

I don't see why (most) developers would want a monitoring system. Why not target sysadmins / devops? In my experience developers really just want a trace of their app when it breaks, or maybe some performance profiling.

> The shift to cloud based services also makes a lot of basic monitoring tools unnecessary.

Even though on HN it might seem like everyone is using "the cloud" for everything, the reality is quite different. There's a pretty sizable market for server monitoring, even in the case of cloud services, someone is managing the metal.

> code profiling, custom metrics, and analyzing errors and log statements.

newrelic provides a lot of these, although I'm personally not a fan (it seems like their daemon is the main thing causing resource alerts), and has a free tier.

>So many IT teams ... aren't very proactive when it comes to monitoring application health and behavior.

Well if you're talking to IT teams, they may not be able to do anything proactive regarding health / behavior of applications. In many cases the team making sure the service stays up has no control over the code or inner working of the application. They're limited to configuring and changing supporting servers (database, lb, web server), and not the application itself, and the application state is treated as a binary "is it up or down", with "turn it off and back on again" being a common "fix".

Looking at the product, it does look quite nice, but collectd, icinga, nagios, zabbix (and now bosun which I'll likely be switching to) is free and open source server monitoring, and newrelic with all its in depth monitoring has a free tier. Assuming that virtual servers (xen) are considered a separate server, I definitely can't see paying $15/mo per server/instance. I'd be paying an order of magnitude more than the colo for my servers costs me. However with 5 physical servers, $75/mo is a lot more reasonable than (at minimum) $600 I'd be paying per instance. At work, our 4000+ servers would cost $60000 a month, more than enough that we could hire developers to write a custom system. With so many free and/or open options, it'd really have to blow me away to be worth it. Additionally a free trial for something like monitoring is a hard sell. The time and effort invested into the setup of a new monitoring system is definitely not free.

All that being said, I do like it, and it seems like a nice product. From what you say I feel like you just haven't found the right target market for it.
When people think of "copyrighted" material they usually think Songs, Movies etc. However if you stop and think about it most content on the web is copyrighted, from the news articles you search for to images and websites themselves. With that in mind Google also is used "mainly to locate copyrighted material"
The Grid vs. PageCloud
As HomeJoy Folds, PocketSuite Cleans Up
Currently, there is no straightforward way of checking Ubuntu package versions against CVEs. Debian provides this through debsecan[1], but this tool is pretty much broken on Ubuntu[2].

[1] http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/debsecan/
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debsecan/+bug/9592...
Fun fact: Comedian Dana Carvey's brother Brad Carvey built the first wire-wrapped Video Toaster -- arguably the Amiga's "Killer App", which spawned Lightwave3D and powered the visual effects of countless 90's science fiction shows (as well as some film work). In Wayne's World II you can spot Garth wearing a Video Toaster t-shirt to their music festival.
Bodyfuck: writing code with physical gestures
Netflix can be added to that list as well
Not arguing your larger point, but in American Psycho, the endless lists of brands and clothing labels illustrate the protagonist's obsession with surface appearance and the signals of wealth and status. It's one place where I think the brand barrage is well-placed and even subversive—because who wants to be like Patrick Bateman?
Spiegel Online traditionally had a whole different news desk. Nowadays they work closer together but Spiegel Online quality in reporting is much worse than the print articles (which are mostly also put on Spiegel Online).
Xerox+ColorQube+8570DN+Driver+Download+|+Printers+Driver
They are neither blind nor dumb. However, they can only see in green and have a single-minded focus on seeing more green.
This paper seems to be all about efficiency, but does not seem to address why people perceive tor to be slow, which is simply that the available bandwidth is less than demanded, i.e, network congestion.

As far as I know, "my tor node won't forward fast enough" is not a problem that anyone actually has. Probably because every existing tor exit node has <= 1Gbit bandwidth.
At Stack Exchange we use Bosun to monitor both system and application metrics. As an application developer I get pretty much everything I need on the system side out of the box with scollector. We spend a fair amount of time on projects now developing application-level metrics, which we use BosunReporter [0] to send to the same instance. It's quite useful to have application and system metrics on the same tool.

[0]: github.com/bretcope/BosunReporter.NET
Yes this!

Like many Indians, I was raised bilingual on completely different scripts (Latin alphabet and Malayalam) and learned the Hindi (Sanskrit) script when I was really young too. I learned to read Hangul in the first 2-3 days of wandering the streets of Seoul aimlessly when I stayed there for a month, just trying to read every neon sign, advert and train/bus stop I came across.

The thread works at slightly different paces for each of them because of how much I use each one, really feeling like it's all about cache hits and memory bus limitations. It's pretty interesting to meta-think about.
> Ads aren't bad by themselves

That is not something that everyone agrees with (although neither is what constitutes an "ad"). There are obviously grey areas and arbitrary lines get drawn, but I personally feel like the whole concept of intentionally trying to influence someone to buy/consume/want something that they don't already desire is a a little ethically dubious.
This is a web browser. Bug-for-bug compatibility with 2+ decade old content servers is a fundamental requirement.

Yes, standards are great. But you can't break sites.
Cinema attendance has been plummeting for 20 years. For, among other reasons, the value added by advertisements isn't realized by the cinema patrons who are paying their time and money to see them.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931404
Eh, I guess it's a matter of personal perspective. Anything in a hallucination is a hallucination. It's not constraint to conform to reality.

For something to be REAL and weird automatically puts it on another level.
Why does it matter if someone's site is running PHP or Node on the backend? Doesn't change anything about your client side experience.
It's basically impossible to upload this data in 6 months.

100 PB = 102400 TB = 104857600 GB = 107374182400 MB.

You have 365/2 * 24 * 3600 seconds in 6 months, that's 15768000 seconds.

So you need to upload ~7 GB/sec, that's 60 Gb/sec constant upload.
What do you consider great technologies?
Right, but the escape velocity is ~ radius * sqrt(density) anyway, and if you look at the equation for the Earth Similarity Index[0], each term has an associated weighting. So why include escape velocity explicitly, rather than just changing the weighting of radius and density? The weightings seem to be quite specific numbers too, so I imagine there's a methodology behind it, I was just curious as to the logic. (Also, e.g., why is the temperature weight 5.58? Wikipedia says the weighting is to 'equalise their meanings', but it's not clear to me what that means.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index#Formula...