skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a post on HN last week where the author provided a reasonable answer (or at least I think so) to this question.

The gist is that people who are willing to pay a subscription to disable ads are exactly the people that advertisers would like to target. When a service assembles a list of such people, the value of that list to the advertiser generally exceeds the sum of the individual payments provided by the subscribers.

You can increase the subscription fee, but then you'll have less subscribers and the ones who are left will be the most valuable to advertisers (i.e. they have the most disposable income). If you decrease the subscription fee, you will have more subscribers but not a lot more, because the primary obstacle for online subscription type services for most people is not the price but the idea of paying for something they are accustomed to getting for free.

So if you get 1000 people to pay $1.00 per month for your niche Swedish grunge music streaming service and double the price, a decent number of them will not like that and some of them will unsubscribe. But if you halve the price to $0.50 per month you won't see many new customers since many people aren't willing to pay even small amounts for music streaming. Advertisers, meanwhile, don't have these mental obstacles and just try to price things as objectively as possible. And they see a narrowly targeted list of people with a highly correlated list of interests and purchasing tendencies and value it appropriately.

This might explain why services like Hulu have gradually introduced more advertising into their paid subscription services. As long as two groups of people are are paying them (customers and advertisers) one will generally be willing to pay more. Economic forces on the internet seem to result in advertisers having more purchasing power here.
The app started as a simple prototype in our office of small startup studio. We discovered super fun nature of anonymous ephemeral messaging, so decided to give it a try.

We got about 10K organic installs in 1 week. So people sure miss something in anonymous messaging field. Actually we aim to acquire as more as possible Secret`s ex-users - we believe that there are at least 10M of people looking for a new tool to enjoy anonymous conversations with others in close proximity.
I expect the US population that cares about torrents is practially nil, though that is based personal bias.
Metal has 1000 genres, blah blah blah, blah blah. blah.

Bug criteria: is the band awesome? do they have a brutal logo? not a bug.
Agreed. And, of course the NSA only uses "lawful tools." Nope, never are they found unconstitutional.
I completely agree with this. I understand how you believe that by owning the code you must work extra hours and make things happen. First you have to take a detached look at things and understand how much of that is self pressure and how much is actually required from you (by the management).
A manager's job is to push developers and "make things happen" faster, better and cheaper. They really only care about tangible results. Understand that it's their job, and it is never personal.
I would suggest you take a step back, evaluate the expectations you REALLY have to meet and decide on two of these variables: Time, Quality and Cost.
Usually there are really small things you can do that have a huge splash result-wise. Start by doing that, and it will give you more time to understand the codebase and plan/execute big changes in the future.
I have used brokers here in Manhattan and find their services well worth the 15% cost. The occupancy rate is around 99%. Apartments come on the market and leave the market very, very quickly. I am very happy to pay someone to keep their eyes out for me and weed out the ones that sound good but aren't. I also had someone to go before the condo board on my behalf and explain why I would be a great tenant.

Do people who use a broker ever regret it? Or do the objections stem from other less competitive markets where such a thing would not be as beneficial?
"Laid-off because the company can't support junior developers at this time" is what I was planning on going with.
WebGL image/video/text slideshow engine with incredible effects
In ethereum, there is no reason a single contract (i.e. "program") ever needs to exist on a single computer for the lifetime of its execution, parts of it could run on different computers, and will actually run on many computers at once.

That's what I mean by running "as a protocol" and not on hardware... it's a higher level of abstraction.
What you're describing is very close to https://contributor.google.com/ where you can pay to replace ads with content of your choice. For the content publisher this is a completely transparent operation.
I still don't get this line of thinking. Most basic income levels are just above poverty level. And, so, if a web page is run by someone making a basic income and showing no ads, that person will only ever stay at that level. They would still need to show ads or something to make more money. They are already doing this.

I just don't see this as a valid argument for basic income. It is fodder for basic income opponents is what it is.
In some cases, I think you have to give credence to opinions from very reputable people. Stephen Hawking, for instance, is one of the greatest minds in the world; his word isn't gospel, but it's damn worth listening to.
Because they are OMNISCIENT and can foresee every possible unintended consequence right?
The kitchen sink approach is a Nash optimum strategy. Any browser that does not adopt it fails.
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Might get a kick out of comparing this software algo which works at Hz to KHz with DDS synthesis hardware which works at MHz to GHz.

Typical example, an AD9851, low performance, but simple, cheap, and runs up thru VHF frequencies.

http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-...

(start reading around page 12)
To be fair, we're not haggling over 50 cents. We're haggling over 50 cents times however many songs the person plans to buy.
>they verified that each Amazon Aurora instance is able to deliver on our performance target of up to 100,000 writes and 500,000 reads per second

This bit caught my attention, does an "Amazon Aurora instance" means one computing instance? Or do they refer to something like your allocated share of the overall Aurora platform? Because if they are able to achieve that performance per-machine, I'm truly amazed.

Their larger instance appears to be "32 vCPUs and 244GiB Memory", that sounds credible to be able to sustain that throughput, particularly if your whole data fits in RAM, but barely. Would be nice to see R/W performance on the smaller instances.
Even if you're building brand new infrastructure from scratch right now many issues (discussed elsewhere in these comments and the article) are still unsolved.
I have deleted my Soundcloud account just yesterday.

I had some mashups (combinations of multiple songs into one) for years posted there and Soundcloud removed three of them in a single day. Although I don't have a written permission to use them, I think that this is a creative process that falls into fair use as long as I'm not trying to make any profit with it. Unfortunately, Soundcloud disagrees.

I deleted my Soundcloud profile and every track from it. It was kind of a rage response, but it had to be done.
You've got the magic word - experience. That first year of real-world experience opens more doors than you might expect.

Where are you? People here might be more able to point you at promising openings if we knew that.
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> When I see a complex build tool replaced with three lines of bash, that makes me happy

Amen to that! I think what I'm trying to say, and I suspect that we agree, is that there's the right tool for a job. Setting up a project to use 200mb of over-complicated npm modules and tools probably signifies the work of an inexperienced craftsman. Likewise, a non-trivial project built entirely from home-grown native Javascript may well run into complexity problems too as it re-implements features for which simple, well-tested and widely-used open source modules are available. Our desire for simplicity will lead us variously towards either of these extremes, and our experience tells us how to tread. We want our projects to be "simple", but that doesn't mean they're going to be "easy". The barrier to entry for frontend development is increasing in terms of developer capability, but that doesn't mean complexity is increasing, or that well architected projects that use modern tooling aren't simple.
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Agreed. There's still no easy way to get from physical to digital.
Be sure to focus on the problem you are solving. Show how many mediums can be used as well to solve the problem. (chalk, toothpicks, box of pencils, bricks etc.) Maybe even one page dedicated to each use case. (retailers, restaurants, street performers, celeb events, app unlock codes, etc)
some other thoughts:

How can I get someone walking by my restaurant/store who has a question or is looking for more info to interact with my website and get today's coupon?

Be sure to allow camera photos/screenshots to be used via app. If I can scan a tag i see in a video or on a page then that's one more use case.

Your tag is simple enough, can I draw it myself in your app if it doesn't scan, or correct it if its unrecognizable? Knowing I can sketch it manually in your app might avoid some frustration.

Maybe reach out to some snapchat star and brainstorm innovative use cases you can highlight (xyz was here etc?)
good luck!
"judged by a jury of his peers"

During the selection process for the Boston Bomber, a jury was selected of which only people willing to sentence him to death were allowed on.

Snowdon would get a similar filtration. They would filter away any techies, etc until all that's left are people who will take the governments word as gospel.

Ignoring the fact that the charges he's been charged with already don't allow for fairness, the trial process wouldn't make things any better.
That's not your internet. That soundcloud content isn't yours, and neither is Soundcloud. Reddit isn't yours. Tumblr isn't yours. Github, where that posting is hosted, isn't yours either. This site, where you linked to the discussion because you don't have a local comment facility, isn't yours. And it's not mine either, no matter how many comments I leave or votes I make or imaginary internet points I win or lose.

Your client, your internet connection, and a server you pay for, on a domain you own, with bandwidth you pay for. That's your internet. You can use that however you want.

Nobody's doing anything to your internet (well, notable exception for mobile carriers and anti-net-neutrality-campaigners). They're doing things to their own internet.
In tight markets like New York City the fee is very often paid by the tenant. It's relatively unique to New York, San Francisco, and a few other very dense places with high occupancy rates.

In other markets with more available inventory and less renters, the fee is usually paid by the landlord. I have been on both sides of this equation in different markets and paid both ways and in each case found the service worthwhile.
Find your favorite SoundCloud tracks by voice command
Thanks for that, it was interesting their coverage of the 'hoax' aspect of this escape (not that the escape was a hoax but that the events leading up to it were enabled by support from inside the Mexican government and prisons system.) I also hadn't realized that there hasn't been an independent confirmation of the full length of the tunnel. I would have thought that would be the first thing some news agency would do.
Crypto AG is still so rigged by foreign powers that not even their staff know who owns and control the company.

Source: current Crypto employee.

Go figure.
As a corollary I'd like to say: stop pushing JavaScript forward. There seems to be a lot of focus on providing syntactic sugar for things that already exist (like classes, decorators, etc) at the expense of flexibility and composability (executable class bodies, @foo vs normal function application, etc).

What JavaScript needs much more IMO is a (better) stdlib, with more datatypes and procedures than currently available (including big numbers, the various flavours of trees, better support for equality and comparison, etc).
The Ask-er asked a very straightforward question. Can we not derail it with a giant thread about the validity of a "help me generate a list of" question? "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer, if you're stuck.
Sadly, it looks like more thought went into the response for the petition about building a death star.

As far as the claim of "Hiding behind an authoritarian regime." I'm sure he would have loved to take refuge in a free country, but so far it looks like they are all run by cowards.

There seems to be a false idea in our country that civil disobedience demands martyrdom.
Manning was not whistleblower.
Taking a look at Alexa, the trend for Reddit has been and still after the "Pao debacle" is upwards. They are constantly getting new users, probably much more than what they lost. So from the viewpoint of the management all is well. These new users are also probably more susceptible to their monetizing efforts.

The fact that Reddit has in the last 6 months lost most of their high quality content creators does not seem to concern them.
the comments nailed it here too ;d

ill highlight the website is off by one... reading the website i have no idea how it works and what technical debt im adding to my teams stack by using it. "Build/Run/Ship", I'm doing that already. I have no idea if its using VMs or something else for containers. no idea if my hardware works on it. and no idea if the distros used for images are 1 year old or -nightly, so whos security issues am i inheriting?
> For example, in 1791 the North Carolina legislature made the willful killing of a slave murder, unless done in resisting or under moderate correction.

My God, but those last three words are creepy. I mean, of course the whole enterprise of slavery is beyond creepy, so much so that it's almost too big to take in; but the idea of 'moderate correction' in the first place, and the shrugging acknowledgement that it might lead to killing, is just 'human-scale' enough for me to experience a truly visceral reaction to it. Ugh.
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This is true if you're heating oil in a pan, but once there's food in the pan, the temperature stays close to the boiling point of water, and almost no oils will smoke at that temperature.
But thanks to recent rulings [1], APIs are still copyrightable and fall under the same license.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/google-oracle-jav...
Joanna Rutkowska is hardcore low-level Intel platform security, which in her case involves a tour of the guts of Intel chipsets: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/
Just last weekend, I saw the episode of "How It's Made" on Science Channel that covered vinyl pressed records.

Here's a comparison of the processes.

Vinyl:

- Manufacture lacquered master discs (50% QC rejection rate!)
- Ship lacquered discs to recording studio
- Put master in recording machine
- Cut test groove
- Inspect with built-in microscope
- Cut lead-in
- Cut audio tracks, in 2-channel stereo
- Cut lead-out, label master by hand
- Ship back to factory
- Use chemical process to create nickel-silver negative
- Peel metal negative off lacquered disc
- Manually find center with microscope
- Center-punch and trim metal master
- Use metal master to stamp out vinyl disc copies
- Ship heavy discs to distributors

Digital:

- Press "record", press "stop"
- Upload raw audio tracks to studio file server
- Sequence and mix raw audio into master song track
- Assemble album
- Add metadata
- Re-encode master tracks to consumer quality
- Upload to distributor's server

The capital requirements for digital recording are very low now, having benefited from Moore's Law. If you can buy just one high-quality microphone and one decent laptop, and invest a whole lot of your own time, you can single-handedly produce an album with quality comparable to the best studio recordings of the vinyl era.

While Bobby McFerrin is the first person that I am aware of who did this, some artists will record separate tracks of themselves performing every part of a song, and painstakingly assemble the result in the studio to make their album. Then they hire other people to play those parts at live performances, or just leave some parts out.

In the vinyl era, you needed session musicians on staff at the studio. If someone screwed up, you couldn't easily re-record just that track. You usually had to re-do the whole thing.

So there are good reasons why music was relatively more expensive back then. Those reasons no longer apply.
Tom Wheeler and Ajit Pai Testify at FCC Oversight Hearing
If you think I'm arguing against the idea of treating the vulnerability like it's in the wild, then you are mistaken. I'm simply stating the fact that no one has any evidence that this is being actively used in the wild.

Are you refuting that fact, or are you not refuting that fact?
containers provide a reasonable level of abstraction/isolation for applications, and have been used in production for some years now. Docker may be shiny, but containers not so much.
Interesting messaging about Russia; that's probably the most interesting thing about the whole note to me. Russia = authoritarian regime.

I wonder when the US state department started approving messaging like that about Russia.
Especially considering that the NSA has proven itself willing to tell bold-faced lies directly to congress? I mean, how do you whistleblow about that kind of thing without stealing classified information and releasing it publicly?

This whitehouse response is a cruel joke.
This was the first I'd heard of "Navigation Transitions" (perhaps I don't read the right mailing lists), and ppk's right - this seems like an absolutely crazy feature to add.
I would be sold on Docker if that would be easy. I have e.g. this stack:

- 1 webserver/proxy, let's say nginx

- 1 simple Rest API server, let's say in flask

- 1 database, let's say PostgreSQL

and I want to connect all 3 things and I want to preserve logs for the whole time and preserve the state of the database (of course). Also not to forget make all bulletproof for the Internet.

And here all sorts of problems arise: What underlying OS, how to connect this containers, how to preserve state of my database and logs (it's not trivial as the article proofs again).
So overall Docker makes life not easier on this simple use-case, it makes life (of the sysadmin) more complicated.
LinkedIn, Notorious for Sending Too Many Emails, Cuts Back
Once you get past about the 6200#/3000kg MGTOW mark, it's very common to permit takeoff weight to exceed landing weight.

I suspect all GA turbojets and most GA turboprops are in this situation.

Even the Beech Baron (a light twin) has a 100# (~16 gallons) difference in max takeoff vs max landing weight.
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>but now I think that just about everyone believes that Ellsberg did a good thing for our country and society.

I think there are a lot of "security" hawks that would disagree.
So, to be clear, you are a self-described "music connoisseur" who is unwilling to support the artists you claim to love at any point while their content is freely available, yet you claim that you would be willing to pay for a subscription model. Yet when you feel that content is at risk you are also unwilling to pay if access to their music is not instant and the cost is marginally more than nothing.

You are a net-negative fan. Your support does nothing for the artists and, until recently, costs SoundCloud money. When SoundCloud adjusts their business to account for users like yourself, you complain publicly with a shakily-supported premise that I believe is actually more a complaint about digital things having a cost.

When I like a band or an artist, I buy their albums on CD or MP3. There's even an independent record store I like near my house, one of the last, and I frequently buy from there, because their existence enriches my life and the community. If an artist is on Bandcamp, I buy through Bandcamp and usually give more than the minimum because I know Bandcamp gets a cut and because I work in technology and have the money to do so.

If you don't like the ads, buy the music and listen whenever you want. Don't be a net-negative fan and then complain when you are treated as such.
Quite a valid comparison.

The damage caused by the lack of Navigation Transitions in web browsers has made the news repeatedly for decades. My great grandfather died in the hospital after he was crushed by a non-animated change to a different webpage.
It is my understanding that the Espionage Act does not allow for an affirmative defense -- so Snowden can't claim that he was justified in releasing the materials, rather he can only dispute the facts as presented by the prosecution. But since we all pretty much agree about the facts of the case, the outcome is predictable. It would be "fair and open" in some sense, I guess, but the game is rigged. (Not to say that he is innocent or guilty, just that "come face charges" is basically equivalent to "come serve jail time" in this case.)
>What JavaScript needs much more IMO is a (better) stdlib, with more datatypes and procedures than currently available (including big numbers, the various flavours of trees, etc).

Isn't that "pushing JavaScript forward?"
Too much info. Just say "laid off" unless someone specifically asks you for more information. Most people won't.
There's a very salient point here that "full stack" development isn't something you can start out doing. If you advertised yourself as a full stack developer with only a single year of professional development experience behind you, it's likely that you were let go precisely because you aren't a full stack developer. It takes years to develop the body of experience needed to truly work effectively as a "full stack" developer. Now, as mentioned by the insightful parent of this comment, that is more a reflection on the poor planning of the company (and lack of due diligence on their part) than on you, assuming you were forthright in your resume and interview about your history.
Yeah. Its sad how the political class resorts to disingenuous lies whenever they feel challenged.
Back when 8 bit micros were the "big" machines :-) Hal Chamberlin wrote a book called "The Musical Applications of Digital Microprocessors" which discusses this sort of frequency synthesis in detail. Recommended if you can find a used copy somewhere.
A couple years ago, I bought 1 week of Soylent with Bitcoin.

Last year, I bought another batch. No more Bitcoin, but at least they accepted Paypal.

Now I’m looking to buy another batch, but they are asking me to trust them with another copy of my debit card. No deal. Back to 100%FOOD.

I pay cash for everyday stuff. After the Monoprice hacks, and then the Target hacks, I’ve become extremely leery of giving my payment information away. I’m looking for a big payoff, like being able to pay at multiple vendors, and I’m looking for a well-defended infrastructure that will definitely let me know if it gets breached.