skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your example, there are two possibilities: either you did want and need to buy the product before the advertisement or you didn't.

In the first case, the advertisement was wasteful: the company that sold you the product has unnecessarily spent money, which goes to the product price. And this is not a small amount: big consumer companies spend billions on advertisement space/time alone, an amount comparable to their R&D expenses. I'm talking about ads alone, not other marketing expenses, many of which are related to advertisement. In most companies, marketing budget dwarves R&D, by the way, and in some markets, this costs could very well be the biggest chunk of the price in a product.

In the second case, you would not buy the product without the ad. That may mean that you simply didn't know the product before and finding it was good for you, but most probably you didn't need it or would not want it if not because of the ad.

In this common case, you didn't win: you just spent money because of a need/want that you didn't have before seeing the ad. You were hacked and exploited for both the publisher and advertiser benefit.
Some of his ideas are great (particularly trying to take on gerrymandering), but I think on the money issue he's nearsighted.

> He launched Mayday PAC to much fanfare in the spring of 2014, billing it as the "super PAC to end super PACs." But it failed to play a decisive role in any race that year.

As Lessig found out, money by itself cannot buy power. Money is a means for magnifying the impact of forces that are already in play.

Consider, for example, climate change. During the last debate of the last Presidential election, Barak Obama was falling over himself to be more pro-coal than Mitt Romney. Was it because he hoped to court the coal-industry lobbyists and turn their firehose of political spending in his direction? There wasn't a chance in hell of that happening, and he knew it. He did it to court the voters in central and southern Illinois whose livelihoods are dependent on the coal industry there. We're a sprawling suburban nation addicted to cheap gasoline. Energy companies would have tremendous power even if they didn't spend a penny lobbying.

The same is true for banking and finance. People complain about fancy financial instruments, but at the end of the day main street businesses are utterly dependent on payroll loans, consumers are dependent on credit cards, and everyone wants to get a fat adjustable-rate mortgage so they can buy a big suburban house. Do you think banks need to spend any money lobbying to sway politicians in their favor?

And I'll also go out on a limb and suggest that money being a factor in politics isn't as bad as it seems. At least when money can influence politics, the noveau-riche can upset the old guard. Consider the auto industry. Traditional carmakers don't need to spend money to buy political power--the fact that they employ hundreds of thousands of middle-class workers guarantees that. But as traditional cars decline, and the Teslas and Googles of the world remake the industry, it's probably a good thing that those companies can use money to overcome the inertia and political mindshare of existing car companies.
While I admit that I didn't read the whole post (to me it was a wall of text full of complaints going around the same point, always saying the same without too much variation), I really don't get this obsession with reverse engineering. Yes, their license agreement states that it can't be done. But you deploy code, executable code, but still code. Code that people can understand, if they go through the process of analyzing it.

While I don't endorse breaking the agreement (which was properly signed and "celebrated", as lawyers say), I find it funny in the first place that they're selling a glass container and say "you can't look into it, just use it".

I prefer the honesty of free software/open source projects that sell customer support to this business model (which is also adopted by others, not just Oracle). However, if I were already bound to it, and couldn't pay the cost of migration, I understand I'd have to stick with it.

It's also amusing that people/organizations seriously believe they can reverse engineer something as complex as a database engine and "fix it" without acces to the diagramas, docs, tests, source code, build environment, etc.
http://matrix.org/docs/spec/#m-room-redaction is the current API for removing messages.

Matrix uses namespaces for extension to survive mutual parties extending it (http://matrix.org/docs/spec/#events), and we haven't seen any problems there yet.

That said, Matrix is still beta and we certainly do have a whole bunch of other problems :)
Fight Club.
Microsoft just came out with an Android Emulator this year too. It's faster than any other emulator that I've seen and it's really well integrated with Visual Studio.

If you've never really used Microsofts tools before and all that you've heard about Microsoft has originated from the crowd that hangs out at HN, you can be forgiven for not knowing that they make very fine quality tools.
There's also http://ecmendenhall.github.io/sicpclojure/pages/contents.htm... which is an actual translation of the book into Clojure, currently up to chapter 2.1.4.

And the ill-fated sicpinclojure.com site, which looked beautiful and had such great promise, but mysteriously stalled and died.

Looks like vqc below has done quite a few of the exercises. Nice.

Tommy Hall's SICP Distilled seems like the best shot at a complete book now. It's running a bit behind schedule but appears to be in the home stretch. We'll see!
He lost me at Sanders.
I'll go out on a limb here and assume that you agree just as vehemently with the ruling in Citizens United?
I am! I remember the incredible discovery of meeting people far away across large bulletin board systems, and IRC chat rooms. It led to lifelong in person friendships. I'm afraid that now because it's so easy to meet people and disengage from people at will, we have no reason to invest in long-term friendships.
This really isn't that hard. Do you refer to black people as "niggers", or gay men as "fags"? No? Okay. Now add "tranny" to that mental list.
Past performance does not guarantee future returns and all that.

That's good in my book, I'm not a fan of the way they've been financialized. I'd rather see them auctioned off on a yearly basis to avoid institutional investors running the price up. So a big drop in medallion value is just fine with me.
Pass the -dpiAware command line argument into Fiddler to have it report that it is DPI aware.
Professors cannot lead though without walking through a landmine of political correctness that could lead to a title 9 inquisition. Students have reached a point where they are not interested in being intellectually challenged in any way that may upset them.
I asked the very same question and got downvoted for it.
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This is also called the euphemism treadmill. Over time almost any word assigned to a social stigma will become pejorative. The word retard used to be the only way to refer to the "differently abled" in polite society.
Why do ads need to track you anyway? Doesn't it make more sense to customize ads based on the specific page you're looking at? It seems like this is rarely done. At least it doesn't seem that way most of the time.
The average cost for displaying and ad is 0.005$. I am assuming that 30% of that goes to publisher. Would you pay 0.005*0.3 = 0.0015$ per page view? I would.
Two movies, Sneakers and Hackers led me to my career. They're still two of my favorite movies, each for different reasons.
My guess is that this is being taken out of context.

I don't want to put words in Rick's mouth, but I imagine that he means that SICP won't help you learn Clojure the language. Not that SICP won't make you a better programmer in Clojure (and all other languages).

Personally I found it helpful to work through the book in scheme (the language used in the book), porting some of the exercises to Clojure and other languages I'm interested in as a supplement.
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Hi. I'm Eva and I work for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password.

I wanted to reassure you that we are working with Mozilla on getting our Firefox extension signed. That will allow you to continue using Firefox as your default browser while still using the 1Password browser extension.
Meet me at the waffle house, I could buy three people a cup of coffee for two dollars :-S
Medieval Times: The Armored Combat League Makes Sport Out of Swords and Shields
Russian science is amazing why hasn't it taken over
My argument is obviously not meant to be taken literally. It's a _reductio ad absurdum_ argument. I should have said destroy instead of abolish, as that is already happening because students are refusing to learn because they're offended by words like 'violation,' and 'rape.' If students refuse to learn even the basic concept of 'violating the law', how can they possibly have hope of becoming lawyers? They can't. They're literally destroying the educational system because they also won't drop out and shovel garbage or whatever they're best at (obviously not much given their incredibly high stupidity). Do you even have universities anymore at that point? No.
Pursuit of Happyness is definitely one of my favorite.

Another one which I regularly watch is Shawshank Redemption. A choice quote from the movie:

Hope is a good thing, may be the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
I'd say it's some better, but not all better. The problem isn't just the finding fares part, it's the fact that they are on the roads all day. When you drive a private car to work you spend 8 hours parked, and the car is off the roads. Commercial vehicles like Uber drivers will do back-to-back runs for hours.

It's better than inching around the block all day though. And to their credit they are all driving using GPS guidance. That probably does help throughput somewhat vs Mark 1 Intuition by routing you away from congested routes, avoiding hesitation and missed turns, etc.
I think you can disagree with people and come into conflict with them, even violent conflict, while still treating them as fully autonomous advocates for themselves. The issue I took was with the mentality that you can ascribe childish, or sub-autonomous agency to another person in order to discredit them and justify dominating them. Slavery, actually, is an example of such pernicious ideas applied to the relation of slave and slave owner. This sort of reasoning is only legitimate in authoritarian philosophies that treat people as at best illegitimately autonomous, needing some sort of patriarchal figure to dictate their lives to them.

In your examples you are making the unspoken assumption, for example, that black slaves were part of the political body that kept them in slavery. Yes, if you look at it as an issue between North and South, it looks like the North telling the South what to do for itself, but that seems completely wrong because we are putting the lots of slaves and slave owners together as if they were one coherent entity.

In a world where freedom of association holds, I believe my statement would hold to the limit that many, many actions we take that seem only to affect us also affect others, and to the limit that freedom of association, like all freedoms, is incoherent in its absolute limit.
The Matrix and Miyazaki's movies. Maybe didn't change my life, but had a lasting impact.
But Lessig was quite emphatic about his intent to select his successor (the VP) based on Party principles - no discussion on Constitutional principles at all in his platform. Why would Sanders or Warren want to be his VP? If they knew they would become President as soon as Lessig enacted his own brand of mandates, and that those mandates were important enough to get him elected, then why wouldn't they take up the mantle of proposing those mandates in the first place?
Stalker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/
Smart Contracts to Establish Efficient Business
What if one likes the ideas (possibly?), but isn't a Democrat?

Makes it difficult when one doesn't like the VP.
Your tests may be slowed down by initdb more than anything. If you specify "initdb -N", it will skip the fsync at the end of initdb.

You can also turn off fsync in postgresql.conf to stop fsyncs for transactions/checkpoints.
Show HN: G is the new git
Depressing. The whole project basically ensures he won't be elected (who wants to vote for a President who will not rule?), he's just looking for some quick exposure.

It would have been more intellectually honest to do what Jeremy Corbyn has done in the UK: running wholeheartedly, albeit assuming he won't be elected, just to inject a range of ideas in the debate.
A good writeup, though I don't agree with the statement about web devs and browser makers -- we read the web too, perhaps more than anyone! :)

It's possible to want to make the platform more powerful and not like some of the ways the power is being used.
This may sadly pull some critical primary voters from Sanders, who stands in an ideologically similar area, assuming Lessig picks up any steam at all.
It's usable if you have a small amount of files. For anything serious (say 100k files or 500GB of data) is blows through CPU and RAM to the point of being unusable. I've been actively testing several and there is currently no actually good open-source solution in this space.
Silencing false positives when one runs static analysis tools is only enough for the purpose of a single bug-finding campaign, not for a sustainable effort.

To deal with false positive reports from customers, Oracle needs to archive what the false positives in each release of their software according to popular tools are. Not the tools they use to find bugs: all tools customers use. It's not like they cannot afford tool licenses or large databases.

Adopting a code style that reduces false positives (along with bugs) and fixing actual problems before release so that no customer sees them would also be good policies.

Even without improving their software development process, educating users about which static analysis tools are discredited and rigorously demanding working test cases in support tickets to weed out false positives are two things Oracle could do without alienating their customers.
> It will be interesting to see if the termination right ever affects free/open source software.

I wonder if this could be tested with code assigned to Oracle? I bet there are contributors to OpenSolaris under CDDL that wouldn't mind testing it out.
"I have been looking at https://input.mozilla.org/ now and then for a long time, and I am still astounded at how it's typically around 90% unhappy, 10% happy."

I've been reading Mozilla's bug system for 17 years and the bug numbers keep going up. That can't be a good sign.</sarcasm>
The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures
7 CTOs behind the hottest billion-dollar “unicorn” startups
Hahaha, you're welcome a lot of other people's comments tanked cause they mentioned that... I wonder why... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I don't want Lessig to accidentally split the vote. Lessig might want to run with Sanders instead of against him
the guy is hilarious at the stage: https://youtu.be/I14b-C67EXY?t=12s
Oh yeah (about it being a joke). Thanks for the other pointers.
It sounds to me like they're not interested in being in class at all, are causing disruptions in the education of the ones that are, and should be kicked out of university.
Instead of calling the treadmill pointless, mayhaps destroy the power source that keeps the treadmill going. People treat the mentally disabled with such contempt, disrespect, cruelty, and even hatred. That's why the treadmill runs. That's why people try to evade having their language pressed into the service of hatred and oppression. Language is the site of many battles.
> Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android

Is it?

> By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine

If everything is a moonshot, nothing is, etc.

AFAIK both projects were just 20% time projects scaled up to three or four people[1]. A "moonshot" is obviously a wishy-washy term, but opportunity for success doesn't seem to be sufficient to call something that.

[1] http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-bi...
Essentially, advertising is useful when you need to tell people about a new product or service. Beyond that, it's playing a game. Once people know a service exists and have been accurately informed as to its benefits, then for the most part, people will use it if they need it and spread it by word of mouth if its useful for other people (and/or they had a good experience).

Advertising beyond that mostly serves to solidify brand integrity and trust and ways to undercut competitors and is an ever growing conflagration of an arms race. It has little to do with the interests of the public.
One instruction is not being executed against multiple registers, it's that the same 128bit register range can used as q, d, or s registers depending on the which instructions you're executing
Addons get signed by an automated process that is independent from the public store review.
In my book, it's no longer a question of ethics, at least not directly. Way back when, we all agreed that if I look at some ads, a web site will let me view some content. Fair enough, it's a proven model and though I might not particularly like advertising, I'll trade some eyeballs for some content. Way back when, maybe it _was_ a question of ethics. But not anymore.

What "we" didn't agree to was being tracked all over the web, malware being shoved down the pipe via ads, ignoring "do not track", and all of the other nefarious things ad networks have been trying to get away with. Ethics have gone out the window, if ethics ever existed on the side of advertisers. So I run an ad blocker, and I make no apologies for doing so.

"What about the little guy who pays for hosting with ads?" You mean the "little guy" who has to scrape couch change to pay for the site that contains his latest post about artisanal mayonnaise and her latest gadget acquisition? Yeah, that $100/year for hosting is really going to break her, might not be able to get next year's Apple Watch on release day.

The big boys and girls like The Verge and what have you? Well, using The Verge as an example, they could go under tomorrow and IMO the world would be no poorer, given that they've kind of turned to poo in recent days. I blame the web advertising model for part of their deterioration, but that's a long digression. Specific examples aside, what about the sites I like? I pay money to the sites I like, specifically Ars Technica, NYT, and the Economist (and some others I'm sure I've forgotten about). Some, like Daring Fireball, use unobtrusive, single-image ads that I'll occasionally click on because they interest me, as well as a desire to reward a job well done.

But at the end of the day, the whole thing isn't my problem. If a few bad actors (or, in reality, a lot of bad actors) want to crawl into my machine and have their way, I'm blocking all of them. If there's collatoral damage because of some bad actors, it's not my job to fix it. I did my part and said, "no, you don't". Don't lay the onus on me to play nice, because you're berating the wrong party.
* Last Call The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
* The Information, a theory, a flood
* The Fruit Hunters
* The Third Chimpanzee

Off the top of my head were pretty information dense in the sense that I remember walking away from them knowing a good deal more about something I didn't previously
Charting the Slow Death of the Universe
Exactly. Now they're bowing down to the demands of children (who are likely to be over 18, but still children) and that's the problem.
Future Boy Conan and Grave of the Fireflies.
The Disconnect website says that the free version "[blocks] malware & tracking (Desktop only)".
Evidence for fractal structure in the pulsations of stars
See, I really like markets, and I have a problem with phrases like:

> I like reading techcrunch, but would never pay for it.

Sounds to me a lot like Mitt Romney talking about how his wife has the most important job in the world, but she's essentially his unpaid housewife. Sounds hollow.

You are paying for techcrunch, by buying products advertised on it. It would be good for the finances of everyone in society to know exactly how much. If the product company could slice prices in half because their arms-race marketing budget is soaring, maybe you'd change your mind and pay techcrunch directly, so that you, techcrunch, and the R&D department of the product benefit, while marketing stops soaking up a large chunk of the money exchanged.
Has anyone seen a list of what tools have been added in this release?
> If I had some time to dedicate to that, I might be able to grow the business.

Perhaps a good question to ask yourself as you think about this-- What do you really want? What are you trying to accomplish in life?

The answer might help you decide what is the highest and best use of your time. You've already proven you can be successful without a degree credential. Incidentally, if the credential piece is bothering you-- Arizona State has an online program and accepts transfer credits. >http://asuonline.asu.edu/become-student/undergraduate-transf...

Relative to growing your business, I wish I read read Jay Abrahams when I was working in my start-up > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89969.Getting_Everything_...
This is also what the much-maligned EU cookiewall was intended to address: you inform visitors about your tracking /before/ you start tracking them.

Though I don't know at which stage that incentive was bungled (other than: "doomed from the start, because people").
I don't think that they mean , one hundred and fifty times ten to the sixth factorial
It does not really matter how we are interpreting the term "reverse engineering". What matters is how it was used in the OP article, in the EULAs and the national laws. In the article it was clearly applied to a binary analysis part of pen testing efforts by the Oracle customers, so this is what we should be discussing here.
It's been a few months already, and Mozilla is still 'undecided' on what will happen to Enterprise add-ons.

The only two options you are giving us are:
1) Either remain on 'ESR' branch, which is always outdated, OR,
2) Reveal private Enterprise source code to you to get it signed (it might even be illegal for employees to do that).

Both of them could be unacceptable to many organizations.
# 3 Sounds great

# 2 Sounds like a move to a Parliamentary System which I'm for.

#1 Well, Unfortunately I'd be more in favor of ensuring voters actually know who and what they're about to cast a vote for. Our Nation was Founded as and is a Republic, The Average American Citizen is not informed enough for us to live in a true Democracy
> "and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols" ... "We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal"

This is circular and I think not very well thought out. Declaring something criminal is "answering arguments by the use of ... pistols", just as he is railing against in the same paragraph. Who defines tolerance and intolerance? Who gets to draw the line? I think being tolerant necessarily means tolerating the intolerant, and I think people arguing otherwise are being the very intolerant they are trying to defeat.

You can't be tolerant sometimes, intolerant others, and then hold an olive branch high above your head, claiming to be tolerant. It doesn't work that way, in the same way that you can't claim to be a pacifist if you support pacifism sometimes, and violence others. It just is a false statement.
A plugin API separate from the Web APIs is itself a large source of complexity and bloat.
Not a movie, but related to what you mention about sacrifice and love. This photo has always stuck with me.

http://nation.time.com/2011/09/28/no-idle-boast-a-soldiers-t...