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I think it could be interesting to see if Google could arrange an "ad blocker subscription" pass for websites. The site would block people with ad blockers unless they were a subscriber.

Google would charge 10-15 bucks or whatever the average web user is worth in gooogle adsense.

I guess the hard part is actually effectively detecting ad blocking. I assume you could write an adblocker that downloads and then just never actually displays ads. Without total control over your browser, I'm not sure how ad blocking detection would ever be accurate.
I'll take "your broken business model is not my problem" for 200 points.

There are plenty of places that I can buy content that I'm interested in. I'd far rather pay for quality content than put up with ads all over the web. As a plus side, paid for content might fix the journalism crisis.

The death of content farms is not going to be a huge loss to the web ecosystem. Anything useful enough that people are willing to pay for it will survive.
Well-said.

As another commenter put it, Indexing != SEO. Google has for years been quite dedicated to sniffing out webspam and penalizing those who use black hat techniques.

You can't hack SEO. It may lead to some temporary gains - but inevitably the house of cards will crumble, and you'll find yourself having burned the domain you built with penalties.

TL;DR - If you hide something on a page, you may in fact be indexed. But in terms of rankings, your content will likely wind up on page 9,743 of the SERPs.

From the horse's mouth: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353

Thanks to the OP for the original article, though - I'm giving a talk on 'SEO for Developers' next month, and this is a great example of false conclusions and how NOT to approach SEO.
I'm in the same boat as you. But to play devil's advocate for a moment: it's clear that equity based comp is a better deal for the founders/principals than it is for the employees, especially later (post C and beyond) employees whose equity compensation is but a rounding error in the options pool.

Accessible educational content could help level the uneven negotiation plane that is later stage startup/employee compensation decisions. I don't know if this is the video that could reach the masses, but it's a good start... or, attempt, at least. Maybe?
I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10
This is a reasonable concern, and as the other response mentions, it has happened, even to well-respected projects. I will however say that there are some ways to combat this if you are in a situation where security is an absolute must. While it removes some of the performance benefits, a simple defense is to include a call to clear the state of the object before letting it out of the pool, or upon returning it to the pool.
> Concerning Haskel it still lacks some pragmatism to solve some pratical problems such as install and cabal hell.

I'd argue stack pretty much solves those:

https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack
> There are already a number of players doing exactly what GitHub does, for less money, and it's trivially easy to migrate a repository away from GitHub to those other providers.

What does "exactly" mean in this context? I've looked at competing code hosting sites and could find none that does exactly what GitHub does. For example GitHub very good search function which can quickly search through all commits, pull requests, tickets and wiki pages in a project in one go. It's a very useful feature no other code hosting site has. And that's just one of dozens of features (the repo branch visualization tool being another) that other sites doesn't have or doesn't do nearly as well as GitHub.

In a way, back then, Gmail did "exactly" what Hotmail did.. But not really.
How are you calculating the predictions? What do the Reigel and Cameron columns mean?

Also, it keeps refreshing the page. How long will it take to calculate a "final" prediction?
I accept this future as long as rat things (robotic, nuclear powered creatures matching the form of a canine) become a thing.

"As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy."
Conversely this has the potential to put a constant drain on your company's external link.

The lan part makes perfect sense, but the default is to send updates to everyone in the world, not just your lan.
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How much of this is HTML5 related optimization? Some of the worst performing sites like Forbes.com news are also some of the site that wack a video everywhere with an auto-play ad. Using HTML5, that video playback should be hardware assisted and gentle on the battery. Using flash it'll kill the battery.
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The only benefit I have ever seen with Bitbucket is it is priced per user instead of per repo which is only a benefit if you have smaller teams. The very first project I created for myself in my new role was to move everything out of Bitbucket to GitHub.

Github is so ubiquitous that it too has very good integration with Jira. It's popularity alone means that essentially anything that has version control integration has Github integration.

Here's the thing though: besides the many benefits of Github mentioned in this thread, such as the interface being MUCH nicer and more streamlined, 2 factor auth (which, yes, is VERY important) etc. the nail in the coffin for Bitbucket comes down to one very understandable feature:

After almost 4 YEARS, you STILL can't search through source code on Bitbucket. If there is any confirmation that Atlassian has no idea what developers actually want, that is it right there.

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/2874/ability-to-sea...
No, I mean what I wrote:

"In fact, they and just about every VC-backed portfolio company have made the situation far worse..."
I agree with that for a lot of things, but I would trade SQLite in a heartbeat for a Newton Soup[1] implementation.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple)
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I'd love a good cola that has no caffiene. (Although I also don't want it to have sugar either.)

There's a niche in the market for somethig that tastes nice, is cold, isn't full of sugar and is not caffeinated.
That's a good point. The ethical behavior of top athletes is disappointing.

On the other hand, if you're going to pay them so much to win, it will naturally be worth the risk to lie and cheat to do it.
hey! nice to get some coverage here. i'm with comingle, one of the companies being sued here. we're building a cache of prior art and are looking for all the help we can get!
So now other people have to sidestep a sidestep?
The old way to do that was to blow one of them up every so often. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty put a stop to that.
Thing about lynch mobs is there's a bit of distance between being downvoted on an internet discussion board and dangling neckwise from a poplar tree.
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I have only rarely submitted something I created myself. The point of submitting (from the site's perspective) is not to publicize one's own work but rather to expose interesting content to the attention of HN users. That is the purpose of those valuable "internet points".

[EDIT] As 'dang observes, I was somewhat unclear above. Just as it is fine to submit interesting stuff from other sources, it's just as fine to submit your own interesting stuff.
"Illness" usually meant to be interpreted as deviation from norm. However, while definition of norm in some subjects can be relatively easy - e.g. it is a norm for people to have two eyes, two hands with five fingers on each, one head, one nose, etc. - for things as complex and varied as mental processes I'm not sure how you define what the norm is. Even specialists' views on the matter - like those who compile the DSM - seem to be changing with time, and you are obviously pretty unhappy with that change. So what is your definition which you consider to be better?
Once it becomes economical, with GaN processes pick up where silicon nodes are right now, or will the whole drive have to start at a less dense node?
If the resulting table is large and opens up a less-like mode where I can scroll and pan around, but if I quit this mode, the terminal is cleared and there seems to be no way to take a second look at the data.
I've found that my luck with getting eyeballs on general interest tech topics is about 1 in 4. I've also submitted personal projects that I've worked years on, only to garner zero votes (including a second submission) [1], while a personal project I banged out in a weekend [2] or an hour [3] got way more.

It's all about timing, novelty, popular trends at the time and a whole lot of luck. Honestly, don't take it personally -- predicting what random people will like is near impossible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986837

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803139

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117238
Oh, I agree. I mentioned it because is the preferred style in Python -- probably because it is so readable. But my points still apply to the loop version.
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This doesn't surprise me much (I had long assumed this to be true) but it's also not going to stop me from using chrome on my MBP unless I'm really hurting for battery and even then... Power savings is not something I look for in a browser personally or rather it's so far down my list that it doesn't weigh into my decision. Also I do a lot of web development on my MBP and I GREATLY prefer chrome and it's devtools for that task.
How is the idea of a season-long storyline particularly new? Dexter had a season-long story line, that started almost a decade ago.
Yep. Here you go: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

Here's the full "Don't do this sh!t" article from Google:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769#quality_g...
We do take-home tests at deezer.

We try hard to provide good feedback on each submission (certainly not just a 10 minutes look, even for a truly awful entry).

I think that we should try harder to provide an exercise with a maximum time spent. We also try hard to overlook things that can be attributed to a lack of time but the openness of the exercises we use mean that somebody willing to could spend dozens of hours on it if he/she wanted a truly perfect solution (with unit tests everywhere, handling all API levels & devices in the wild, ...)

I personally thinks that our exercises are more objective than whiteboard tests & better reflect real life work. Actually, we take our inspiration from real problems we had to solve.
I needed financing for my startup based on this technology. After an initial financing search, it became clear it had to be patented to get financing.

To some degree, patents are a mechanism forcing early technology companies into expensive legal engagements, which drain resources from the company, triggering hefty financing requirements, and a dilution of the inventor's equity.

It is a carefully crafted system that benefits the 1% entirely, and the remaining 99% are merely the crop they farm.
So the first substantial action of the German government to the NSA scandal is to persecute journalists. Learned, never forgotten.

It is summer break without any upcoming news, so I hope this backfires really bad at them.
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Arguably, that one true, obvious metric is supposed to be the karma score. Bigger numbers are objectively better than smaller ones.
> Coding is a skill largely separate from other critical dev skills, e.g. design.

I do not believe coding is largely separate from engineering. There are, of course, other skills that are necessary or desirable.

> Someone can legitimately have deep knowledge of, e.g., how to build a 3-tier service architecture without actually being able to code. This isn't "faking it". It's a different skill.

Absolutely. It is also a level of skill I would only expect or look for in a position that was not going to be doing daily coding, such as a systems engineer.

> You can ... learn about the latest and greatest frameworks for writing web pages and APIs without ever writing a single line of code.

Here I disagree. If you have never used a framework or API, you don't know it. I don't care that you can regurgitate the Javadocs; I care that you know things like its pitfalls, quirks, and runtime oddities.

> There's actually a decent chance that you'll end up probing for trivia which is not a very useful filter.

To be clear, I abhor trivia-based interviewing. What I am talking about is practical engineering tradeoffs between one course of action versus another, preferably supported by direct personal experience in the past.

> Even if you could probe deeply enough in conversation to expose that they can't code, you could do the same with a few minutes of actual coding. When someone can't code, it becomes clear pretty quickly when you ask them to code.

Exposing the level of competence a five-minute coding problem can is trivial to do in parallel with a deep engineering discussion. In fact, I think some sort of code should be part of that discussion. I just don't think it should be the "implement this" CLRS problem. It should be something two-way, more representative of what the job is like on a daily basis.
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That video is from 2012 and represents 100ms as typical at that time. I wonder if we have made any progress in the three years that have passed. Does anyone know what the touch latency of typical Android device/application would be?

I'd be curious to also know what sort of keyboard/mouse to display latency PCs typically have. I've heard some talk about display input latency, but I don't remember hearing anything about e.g. keyboard latency or OS latency (in this context)
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Has T-Mobile provided any evidence that their network is actually congested?

They made the claim in this draft that it is/was, but then failed to show or link to anything that would corroborate the claim.

At the same time, T-Mobile benefits by blocking traffic that may compete with T-Mobile's other offerings (p2p voice/video connections).
I think the ability to provide fresh ingredients is one of your strong points, the whole deal is you decide the menu. Just don't offer anything with tomatoes in December.
What happened to the video of the Thiel and Zittrain discussion?
The video link seems to be dead -
http://bigthink.com/articles/peter-thiel-debates-jonathan-zittrain-on-the-future-of-digital-monopolies-today-at-445-pm-on-big-think

I would really like to find this video but internet searches keep coming back empty. Makes me want it even more. Was referenced here on ycombinator a few years back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566942
Lol, these are 99% more likely in my experience:

- never hear back

- automated email 3 weeks later
The main thing is that they are stand-alone. Erlang is also stand-alone, so I would put that more in the application category. Initially, Tcl and Lua were designed to be attached to other programs, so they would be scripting languages.

Of course, this doesn't mean that a scripting language is necessarily missing certain things that an app language has in it, this just means that the design decisions were being driven by the intended use of the language. And in some cases (such as Tcl and Lua), they were designed with more functionality than typical scripting languages, so they can also function as a standalone application language.
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The 401k is tied to a Vanguard fund, which Lee says ultimately leads to higher performance than other funds. ...

So there's only one (1) fund to available? I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but, if that's the case, what's the reasoning behind this?
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(Yes, I know UK != Europe, but presume it's indicative)

This popped up on the BBC a couple days ago:
"Foreigners must not be able to buy UK homes with 'plundered or laundered cash' as part a global effort to defeat corruption, David Cameron has said."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-33684098

I assume the takeaway is that it's enough of a problem that it needs to be focused on. The article cites $1tn/year being taken out of poorer countries by corruption, and $190bn worth of property in England and Wales owned by offshore companies.
How do you know the caffeine in soda and energy drinks is synthetic? Why not just use the leftover caffeine from decaffeination of coffee?
Hawala [1] presents an interesting case study here. Through Hawala, individuals can transfer value without the use of promissory notes; it is a scheme based entirely upon trust, and it works well in the regions and cultures in which it has been established.

The CIA estimates that around $1.6bn is transferred yearly in Africa through this scheme.

The takeaway in my opinion, is that the barriers to entry are high and rising because we are promoting a culture of venomous distrust in the US. Honor is not a value that is rewarded by our current system. Thievery and manipulation of the justice system are. This increases the amount of regulation required around the fintech industry, ultimately hurting a large portion of the end users who simply want to get money from point A to point B.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
HN has a bit more diverse mix of users than r/programming, including a healthy amount of non-technical or semi-technical people, so my suggestion would be giving some context to the project in a blog post rather than only linking to the github page might help.

The day and time of your post submission also has an enormous weight on what makes it to the front page. Great article about this from a few years back: http://silverman.svbtle.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-...
It's pretty much a not-quite-random lottery. If you got no up-votes or replies the first time around, you can try resubmitting at a different time of day.

Please don't engage in shady, SEO-like practices to try to game the system. Such practices represent an existential risk to the integrity of the community, and an undue burden upon the site operators and moderators.
I remember that even 'having' the technology is in breach of the patent if there is no license.

Could be wrong though.
See §94 of the German Criminal Code: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg...

"§94 Treason

(1) Whosoever

1. communicates a state secret to a foreign power or one of its intermediaries; or

2. otherwise allows a state secret to come to the attention of an unauthorised person or to become known to the public in order to prejudice the Federal Republic of Germany or benefit a foreign power and thereby creates a danger of serious prejudice to the external security of the Federal Republic of Germany, shall be liable to imprisonment of not less than one year.

(2) ..."
Am I missing something? 'charged' is mentioned in the HN headline, but not in the article.

> Germany's federal prosecutors are investigating whether a website has committed treason.
For a site that caters almost exclusively to white women, this wasn't the vector for diversity I was expecting.
> The fact that Brazil may have an exceptionally good year, only means that it is likely to have a less-exceptional year after that, due to regression to the mean.

Isn't that a Monte Carlo fallacy? One outcome in a sequence of tests does not mean that others are more likely in the future. If you flip a coin and get 10 heads in a row, your likelihood of getting a tails on the next flip (assuming a perfectly-balanced coin) is still 50%. Brazil's good year may be another case of climate change for all we know, and could very well persist for awhile; or, you might be right and next year things will balance out again. We don't know either way yet.

That isn't to say that we shouldn't be concerned regardless; you're correct in your observation that having all our figurative, coffee-flavored eggs in one basket - even if that basket is the size of Brazil - is rarely a good idea.
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For many people it will depend on the nature and quantity of ads and trackers they have. Reddit has a similar thing where they thank you for not using ad blockers or perhaps gently encourage you not to -- and since they only have a few unobtrusive ads, many people do turn off their blockers.
Note: Some may find the article VUFW (Vaguely Uncomfortable for Work).
I got that understanding given how performance improvements get postponed version after version. Apparently they will be coming on 1.8.
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The first thing they will do is to check whether the documents are actually that confidential. It is not like they released anything we were not quite sure about anyway. The government monitors social networks. Surprise!
If I may, python sqlite interface is pretty great too.

https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite-and-...
So we build deeper farm levels.

Even more conventional greenhouses, however, should help somewhat. I reckon the point of the parent commenter is less about the vertical nature of such farms and more about the climate controllability of such farms.
"Revealing that we're spying on our citizens" == "betraying the country" - at least in the mind of the powers that be, both in Germany and in the US.

And, in fact, it makes a certain kind of logic. Per dictionary.com, treason means acting to overthrow one's government or trying to harm or kill the sovereign, but it includes giving aid to the enemies of one's government. Revealing where the government is spying on people may in fact give aid to the enemies of the government.

Now, in a free country, that's balanced by the peoples' right to not be spied on by the government. The people have a right to know that the government is crossing that line. (And, in fact, the definition of a free country might be one where the people, rather than the government, are the real sovereign.)

But no, it wouldn't be espionage. Espionage would mean that they were themselves spying, which is not the case.
It doesn't even add another factor, really. If I can trick you into revealing your password, I can capture your typing pattern at the same time. Same goes for snooping or compromising other sites' auth DBs. At best this adds a bit of entropy that you don't need to remember, but it's probably not much, and you can't change it...
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So they've "accidentally invented" the extremely common 13-episode seasons of Japanese anime productions as their primary method of storytelling - typically taking about 8-10 hours to tell a story that is hopefully popular enough to fund a second season?

yawn

Season-based production isn't exactly new and there is an entire industry built around it that existed before Netflix was even an idea in someone's brain.
>What to do?

Stop caring about your internet popularity points? (And it don't mean that in a snarky way.)

While I realize many people view HN as an an advertising media for their personal "brand", I prefer to think of submissions as a gift to the community that doesn't require their validation or thank-you.