skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more problem with per-article payments than transaction costs. E.g., how I know if I want to pay for particular article - maybe it's a useless crap that isn't even worth my time, let alone money? I could pay _after_ reading, but then the publisher has no guarantee I would bother to, after all I've already got what I wanted.

You'd say "well, NYT is so good you would want to pay for _any_ article published there!" - but then why wouldn't I subscribe if I value them so much?
You're right that I was off the mark when I talked about forcing them to "join" the internet-- whoops
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I don't think micropayments are the future. Flattr has been around since 2010 and I don't think even a single person has made a living wage from it.

The main problem when charging for content is justifying to the user why the price is "fair" before they've actually seen the content. If you can get around that problem, e.g. by using teasers or word of mouth to instill a need, then you can get away with charging much more than a few cents. And if you can't, very few people will be wililng to pay even one cent, because of the huge perceptual gap between zero and one cent.

This model works best for huge chunks of content like books, movies or video games, where you can create compelling teasers that don't give away the whole experience. It's much harder for stuff like music or NYT articles, where the consumable chunks of content are small and teasers don't make much sense. I don't know any good answer for those.
Except GitHub isn't selling Git hosting. Github is right now a central piece of infrastructure for a huge number of tech companies. Infrastructure-wise, so many pieces connect to GitHub. CI, deployment, bug tracking, releases, etc...

Yes git hosting is commodity, but if you switch away from GitHub you have to switch so many other things as well. That takes time (hence money) and can be very disruptive to your infrastructure.

So unless GitHub starts to suck while someone else comes up with a different awesome solution that solves most of it, GitHub it could be worth way more than $2B.
It's a revolution though! Apple finally enabled users of their gimped mobile OS to do something that they've been able to do for 20 years on desktop computers.
This is literally what's wrong with the patent system.

Discouraging people from exploring ideas and building things 'because its patented' is fundamentally wrong.

I bet there are a million patents out there for 'automated face replacement'. I just hope very very much, that somewhere there is some prior art that makes them all completely worthless and bankrupts whomever is making any money from them.
That's one reason for the question! Why would a patent owner want to prevent someone from divulging public information.

Another question being is the owner of record merely a front, and for what purpose?
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Costly and simply not possible with the current regulatory environment (Slide 31 - De Novo Charters)
They give you value for your $100.

You get two technical support incidents per year: an Apple engineer will assist with code issues. They handle all necessary tax withholding in countries which require it. This is something you had to do yourself with Google Play (unsure if this is still the case). You also get access to CloudKit and various other Apple-hosted services which can be used within your apps.

I don't doubt that they make a profit on your developer enrolment fee, but it's almost nothing in the scheme of things, and you are actually paying for something.
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Nicotine patch? I want a caffeine patch!

Honestly though, I'd be less upset about coffee going away as a source of caffeine than it going away as a drink. It's so wonderfully delicious that synthetic caffeine just wouldn't really cut it for me.
I'm not so much concerned about the media-side of the Internet access problem but rather that government services at the State level are becoming harder to find offline. Back in the 90s when I had to register a car, most grocery stores and any government buildings (libraries included) had the forms needed to expedite the process. Today, I'm sure those forms are there but in most cases they expect users to own a PC or at least access to one that has a printer. And some services are now being processed solely by web access which makes this problem even worse when you think of services for the elderly or disabled in this situation.

Part of the solution is building the infrastructure up to the same base standard everywhere. And the other part is trying to rebuild the previous physical distribution of the services (harder still since many Tea Party Republicans have taken over in rural governments which oppose welfare at any cost). So, it's not about making sure everyone is connected. It's making sure everyone has access to those services and goods we all consume.

And trust me, towns like Norton in Kansas aren't the exception but rather the norm in terms of how poorly serviced they are by their county and state governments.

I won't speak on the matter of private industries servicing the rural communities because I think that problem is far harder to solve because of local values and tastes (money exists out there, but not the demand).
Just to throw in my own (non-tech) idea, which originally led me to wonder what other people's capital-intensive ideas might be:

I would open up bookstores with a Netflix-like business model. You pay something like $5/month to use it, read any books you want without buying them and not feeling like a freeloader. There can be monthly family plans etc., and when someone does buy a book, their fee for that month can be waived.

Clearly, despite having an entire bookstore in their pockets, people want a physical place to socialize and read, and this offers them a way to do that in the 21st century.
>Doing an end-run around ads is no different that sneaking into the backdoor of a venue without buying a ticket.

This is a curious statement.

Tickets are sold in limited quantities

Venues have limited available space

Those alone make the comparison completely moot.

A better comparison would be:

If I video tape (download) a tv show (website), and then watch it by fast-forwarding through commercials (ad-blocking) - have i done something akin to sneaking into a concert? Have i stolen something? I've certainly kept the content creators from gaining an additional ad impression, which is how they make money. What exactly was wrong here?

In what way is adblocking any different from using a DVR to skip commercials?
"50 told me, go 'head, switch the style up,
And if they hate then let 'em hate
And watch the money pile up"
- Kanye West (quoting 50 Cent)

Jokes aside, it's easy to say 'trolls will be trolls' and move on and some will even say that it's not even worth writing about hateful comments on the internet anymore, however, sharing experiences like these do help to empathize with others and act as reminders to everyone about their own biases when making comments (sexist, racist, or what not).

As for trolls and haters, I think there are many (both simple and complex) reasons why people try to lash out at others even if they're not of that personality in their offline lives. It's naive to think there's a single reason.

The episode of TAL does a good job of describing just one of these encounters: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/i...
Sounds like a good dichotomy to me. You are agreeing that autonomous <-> executive are two extremes of a spectrum, no?
Try CloudFlare? That should get the page weight down a bit while costing you nothing.
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N.B.: for better readability, you'll want a blank line (two CRLFs) between your "quoted text" and your reply.
Nucleosynthesis of heavier materials in supernova explosions and neutron star mergers are two cases of problems that I guess are used for "publicly" validating dark codes.

(I know a guy that Los Alamos is trying to recruit to do some dark work for them, and he does nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers.)
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Are you making a joke about libraries?
You know, some people drink coffee because they like the flavour, not because they need caffeine :P (As a matter of fact, I consider caffeine to be an undesirable side-effect of delicious coffee...)

Coffee isn't the only natural source of caffeine, and yes, it can also be made synthetically.
interesting, my dad has ADHD (AFAIK) and your grandeur part seems to match up seems to match up with your description.
Windows 8.1 probably makes more sense, I'm not sure how stale a 1 day old OS would be
Posted it to Product Hunt http://www.producthunt.com/upcoming hopefully it gets on the main feed!
That would probably get some regulators' attention pretty soon. And would create some serious reputation problems for those who have it - it's one thing reading WaPo article, another reading WaPo article where each paragraph could be an ad insert instead.
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I'm happy you noticed that :) Obviously this is a corrupted row in a data so you can try "exclude" feature of tooltip plugin to remove this record from the chart in one click
I think he means that YC literally has not helped: they haven't made things any worse, but neither have they tried to make things better.
I tried installing it via pip on CentOS 6.6, and I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/mycli", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2655, in <module>
working_set.require(__requires__)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 648, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 546, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: six>=1.8

Am I missing something obvious?
It's not violence that's the real issue with Clarkson, it's racism. Yes, he ultimately got fired for doing something violent, but not on TV. If you say something (that could be interpreted as) racist on a mainstream US TV show there is also a backlash. E.g.:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/13/univisio...
Those would be useful, but typically the validation codes use terms like "multiscale combustion physics" or "coupled neutron/radiation transport".

I think the folks simulating supernova and neutron stars have a lot of physics overlaps, but I don't think that data is used directly for stockpile stewardship.
Likely, this is a standard term in their inventor assignment contract. When bsenftner signed it, the patent applications were probably not public yet (there is an 18 month period between filing and publication in which the application remains "secret"), and during that period it makes sense to have a non-disclosure term.

As for the current owner being a front... if it is, it's not a very good one (real patent troll companies are much better at it, using shell corporations in various jurisdictions, each tied to a single or a small number of patent families).
The word nigger still has pretty heavy connotations in our society so I don't think it would be ok. As you said yourself - context matters.

Likewise, I'm not aware of asians being discriminated in our modern day. That's really the point - I don't have a problem with Clarkson's play on words because to me it's a meaningless sound. And the fact that an asian guy might be called slope/slopes (?) and that's a feature of the bridge is a pun - hence it's funny.

They probably make an average of one joke/pun for 30 seconds of the show. Some of them may be unfunny or crude - but unless you can actually demonstrate ill will (simply alluding to the naivette of your interlocutors isn't sufficient) - it's ok.
I have no idea, thanks for posting the links.
This isn't only about the FLOPS, the big trend of these countries* ordering new supercomputers by 2020/2025 is very focused on power. Current supercomputers consume a lot.

Also the FLOPS measurement is a bit broken: It focuses on dense linear algebra problem, for which GPU or other accelerators boost the results easily. If all you plan to do is running simulations that are easily parallelized on GPU it is fine, for other types of programs it is hard to tell which is the fastest supercomputer.

* France is also ordering a would -be top 10 supercomputer : http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/the-cea-agency-and-atos-...
I agree with you. But the patent system exists... A startup has to protect its work. Plus, when pitching for financing the first set of questions include "Is this patented?" If you answer no and don't have a valid reason why not, they tell you to get it patented and come back when that is done.
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You forgot to remove code from the app you copied this from.

Seriously?
In my experience google will find and index hidden text, but this may negatively affect your ranking.
And it prohibits disclosure even after the sale/reassignment was completed? I don't understand the purpose of that, at least not a legitimate purpose.
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You could still make the attempt to advertise on hundreds of sites simultaneously, it would just require the authors of those sites to approve your content and deem it suitable for their readers.

This is something that should be in your interest as an advertiser too, because if an author thinks your ad won't do well with her readers, then you are wasting your money by targeting them.
Yeah, yeah - stereotypes are all false. And twisted!
I once used sikuli to extract a table from a pdf. Pretty funny way of hacking a fast solution for a problem. It's a pretty powerful tool but not very stable. IDE is also not so exciting but gets the job done.
Pretty excited to see how far this project will go.
I preferred Erlang Programming [1] to LYSE.

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IANAL (but work around a lot of them)

Even if it was just an interpretation, chances are FB would have a strong case in court. Pretty much every artistic and expressive UI/UX element from the original site has been copied and placed on the nuggets site. There's not really anything being creatively added or remixed by the nuggets creator.

If insane shit like patents on rounded app icons and the iTunes "music note" logo gets regularly brought to court and settled[1], then copying the entire L&F of a site is definitely infringing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....
number one killer of my battery with last 2 phones? Wifi enabled. Doesn't matter that much if actually used. Turn it off completely, phone lasts 2-3x more.
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I've heard it from someone else as well. I couldn't reproduce it myself.

The suggested solution was to uninstall mycli and reinstall directly from github.

pip uninstall mycli six;
pip install https://github.com/dbcli/mycli/archive/master.zip
Another HN front page story compares Power usage of the worlds most popular websites calculated on different browsers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9974615

While the article isn't about mobile versions of these browsers, it speaks both to the importance of this issue as well adds to the debate about whether "User experience is what Apple puts above pretty much everything else."
finally someone who gets it!

you want a service that requires your data? you have to give your data. you don't want to? don't complain for the missing service!
I find it very curious indeed. In my browser on my hardware in my home, the marketing types are insisting that I MUST watch their ads or I am cheating.

This is of course a natural impulse, for them. They put a lot of effort into creating manipulative words and images, and there I go ignoring them. Must be frustrating. But to claim I'm in the wrong is a species of hubris I don't subscribe to.

When I buy the sunday newspaper, I dump the wad of ads in the trash before I leave the convenience store. Nobody jumps out of the bushes and claims I'm stealing.

In fact I make an effort to ignore ads all day long, whether its ignoring billboards, posters, spam email etc. None of that is 'stealing'.

I sympathize with folks who see their livelihood disappearing as the Internet evolves. But blamethrowing isn't going to move us forward. They'll just have to come up with something new.
Reading, still, is fundamental.
This sounded like an unusually cut-and-dry case, which is unusual for, like, the world we actually live in, so I dug in further and read this dude's tweet stream back through 2014. I'm surprised at how much nuance you left out, since you're someone I bucket as a "nuance junkie".

* Rosario wasn't criticizing the implementation of the block list but rather the policies it was based on; in particular, he was upset that he'd been added based on his use of the #gamergate tag.

* A reasonable person reading that tweet stream could easily come to the conclusion that Rosario was a GamerGate person; he used the tag consistently and, in every case I saw, positively. I take no position (here) on the implications of supporting GamerGate, but do object to the paragraph you wrote suggesting Rosario should have been surprised to see himself associated with them.

* In response to being added to the blocklist, he escalated, threatening to resign from IDGA unless they repudiated his inclusion on the blocklist. A reasonable person can argue that his response to the blocklist made this about his role at IDGA.

Not that it matters, but by way of bona fides: I'm not a fan of Harper and I think her block list, like every other block list created in the history of humanity, has stopped being about principle and become an instrument of factional politics. On the other hand, having a temper tantrum about being included on a Twitter blacklist seems to me like not a particularly good use of time and energy, and I think less of people who are vocally upset about Harper's blocklist.
By those criteria Winston Churchill would be deemed a fascist.
Ah, it made sense now.
Except when the story is about the economy, in which case we at HN don't want to hear a single bullshit-cutting Austrian word about it. We like our economics with misinterpretation and lies, like the Venezuelans and Greeks liked it until they suddenly didn't anymore.
I think they actually mean "depletion mode" vs "enhancement mode". It's not so much when the circuit is broken as when the gate is allowed to float.

(The article doesn't even say whether they're talking about FETs or BJTs, but I presume FETs with a super-low RdsOn)
> OSI is not about free software. It's not even very good about open source. They seemed happy if people had access to the source code regardless of the terms around it. They approved lots of licenses that had crap in them.

The last sentence isn't true unless the FSF has also done so; there aren't lots of OSI-approved Open Source licenses that aren't also blessed by the FSF as Free Software licenses (the same is true in reverse, as well.)
Agreed. Or "How We Took On the Impossible and What We Learned From It". I passed on attempting to create a niche credit card a several years ago.

The other posters on this page show the scars--and many possibilities as well.
Is there a method for determining if given SSID/MAC combination is in the database, and requesting an opt out? I'm assuming MAC addresses come into play, given that adding "_optout" to the end of the SSID works to opt out but can take some time to propagate.

It also seems to suggest that changing the SSID won't invalidate the wifi-sense credentials used for your access point.
>And it had to be fucking Miliband?!

Did you see what happened here the last time someone used Lena in their example?
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So, what is the reasoning behind that moral claim? I'm not busy chasing down someone who stole my great great great grandparents' precious statues; why worry about these artifacts that are well cared for in a museum?
Considering how ios is the last platform to gain ad blocking, something android, the majority platform has had for years, it's definitely stretching it.

I don't think anyone would be able to make that argument with a straight face.
Not "Mediocre," as it is now.
Did you try it with memsql? Just curious... I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.
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Regardless of whether they are ads or not, they

a) do not track you
b) do not take up disproportionate amount of network bandwidth and CPU/battery
c) do not interrupt your viewing after the initial scroll down

which is why I personally would be fine with not blocking those. That being said, I can understand why others might be annoyed by these 'reminders' and want to block them.
Then they just can just "order" another one. We're talking government here. Declaring faster computers by government fiat is already a dumb idea.
While in theory it is possible, in practice making it work smoothly over hundreds of content generation platforms and design templates would be much harder and marginal costs of adding ads to your site would increase significantly. It won't be "insert that piece of HTML code into your site" anymore.
What does Perl/Python/Ruby have that other scripting languages ike Tcl, Erlang and Lua don't? It seems a bit arbitrary to label those as "Application" languages.
Or, turning off Flash.
Coffee is much more than caffeine [1]

[1] http://www.ift.org/~/media/Knowledge%20Center/Publications/B...
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Great, that's what I wanted to see in the article.
That's exactly the approach I'm preaching. I've built entire layers of languages above Lisp using this kind of eDSLs: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase

So, yes, as long as you have a sufficiently powerful meta-language, eDSL is almost always better than a library. But yet, if your language is not powerful at all, DSLs (standalone) are still better then the libraries, they're just a bit more complicated to implement.
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