skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a false comparison, because there's a huge difference between ads-as-information and ads-as-empty-noise.

If you buy a trade magazine it's a given the ads will be targeted to a specific area of interest. The bad ads are simply not very interesting, and the good ads add real value to the experience by giving you useful information and/or entertaining you.

But when you turn the page, they're gone. Print ads leave you with some agency.

Most ads on the web seem to be completely untargeted. And when they are targeted, they're not targeted very well. And even if they are targeted well, they're incredibly repetitive.

Web ads don't give you agency. They treat you as a passive consumer who needs to be forced to see the same stupid banners over and over. Most of the time the banners are simply annoying. Even when they're not, they have a much lower information content than a print ad.

So unlike a print ad, which will be some combination of irrelevant, beautiful, sparsely presented, and informative, they carpet bomb your browsing experience with noisy low-value distractions.

Instead of adding to the experience, they take away from it.

And from the seller's point of view, it's damn near impossible to work out the ROI. You can't assume that view-click-sale works, because often people will research a product before buying. So you don't know if they've seen the ad once, or fifty times, or been persuaded to buy in some other way.

There certainly is an arms race, but it's gone in a completely ineffective direction.

IMO there's a lot of money to be made by bringing some intelligence back into web marketing. Instead of just spurting banners everywhere or using not-so-bright algos to do poor targeting, the ad industry might want to consider going back to ads that add value, instead of treating customers like not very intelligent prey that has to be herded down a funnel.
In fact you could argue that if foreign investors have bought all your available housing then by building more housing you solve the problem of affordable housing and devalue the housing sold to others (but you got the income at the previous level).

Here in the UK we need a massive concerted national effort to replace both the sold housing stock and the demand from an increased population - not going to happen though as neither major party is looking to be responsible for a house price fall (however beneficial in a net sense that would be) as the newspapers/media will beat them over the head with it.

So we continue the wealth transfer from the poor/young to the rich/old.
When they released this a couple of months ago I was pretty excited to try it out. I think the barrier to installation is a bit high. First install Windows 10, then custom install of VS, install IoT Templates, then about 30 more steps before you get the image to flash on your SD. How about a link to the image I can blast on the SD and kick the tires without a couple hours of downloading and installing prerequisites?
> I buy magazines from the wholesaler. I rip out all the adverts. I then sell them to the public.

Why wouldn't this be legal or ethical? What you choose to do with the mass of paper you just purchased is totally fine.
> Just because there's some bad advertising on the internet, it doesn't mean all advertising is useless.

The problem is it's not just some. At first, there was bounds of worthless advertising. Classical random banner ads have about zero revenue, and have had for over a decade. Instead of good advertisements, we got pop-up ads, pop-under ads, flashing animated gif ads, autoplay video ads, autoplay audio ads, ads that pretended to be native OS dialogs, link ads, … just to grab the users' attention anyway, and trick a few into buying absolute crap they didn't want. Ad networks getting used as vectors to infect computers (cf. latest Firefox/pdfjs exploit) are just the final nail in the coffin.

Print magazine ads work well because they don't try to infect me with viruses, don't try to trick me, don't make my fan run at 100%, don't drain my monthly data plan in a day (or battery in an hour), and don't keep me from reading the rest of the magazine. Had web advertisement stayed that same, I doubt we would ever have seen adblockers gain a substantial marketshare – nobody would use them if installing them was more of a hassle than just ignoring adverts.
It would be great if the ad business model on the web died. Hopefully the new business models that would popup would be more upfront. People used to pay 25 cents to read a newspaper or a few bucks for a magazine.
That is just the point, you dont have to limit yourself to "Pythonic". your style can be language agnostic.
I don't think that aspect is intentionally ignored, it's just that most FOSS projects are seriously understaffed, and the UX/UI part is not a high priority item compared to getting it to work.
New John McAfee service claimed to disrupt SSL cert mkt
So my answer to that is below; just in closing the wikipedia article insinuates [1] that the reason that any of this was reported to the police was because the women involved wanted Assange tested for STDs, not because they wanted him prosecuted for rape. The Chief Public Prosecutor didn't think it was rape at the time.

This seems pretty reasonable, and to me says that rape in Sweden is potentially about as serious as a traffic violation - there was potential, if other things had gone wrong in a somewhat unusual conjunction of events, for someone to have been harmed. An unsavvy woman (potentially those involved) would have been completely unaware that she had been raped.

I'd need to see something new, but while Assange may have committed a crime in Sweden he shouldn't be stigmatised. The word rape, in this very specifc case, is being used in a very technical manner and is clearly a slightly arcane legal term. Maybe discipline is required, but it isn't clear-cut what sort of penalty is needed. Again, I think an apology and some time with a doctor seems in order. Maybe a fine. Possibly this could be handled outside the courts. An extradition is uncalled for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
Now we can start looking for a more precisely defined problem, that can be solved faster than in quadratic time.

Or in other words, for certain classes of inputs, we can find a faster algorithm. We only need to find/define those classes.
Doesn't Uber solve the wandering empty cab problem? Uber cars don't need to drive around to find fares.
Why is Ghostery ad-network friendly?
Mirror: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZx6Bis0L9bZ-B4jDvma...
Except, uh, in plenty of countries, those anti-reverse engineering clauses are void as a matter of public policy.

And in any product that uses LGPL code, for example, it's actually a license violation to forbid customer modification and reverse engineering for the purpose of debugging those modifications.

(Though, admittedly, everyone always violates this term)
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So is 'Jew'. When people hate you, your name is a hateful slur even if its what you call yourself. You can't win this game. You also can't win the game of arguing that a word isn't hateful so I guess I shouldn't be commenting back.
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Yeah this struck me as well. I've always heard it described as Levenshtein edit distance.
Nowdays content is there for the sake of the ad.
Nowdays the content in many cases is an ad.
Block that...
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But this isn't the press. This is an investor hyping one of his own investments infomercial style and then a few days later, when it implodes, claiming he didn't have a clue. It's embarrassingly cringeworthy.

What this demonstrates is that many startup investors know little more than what they read in the press. Lots of people assume prominent startup investors are smart, diligent and informed but the reality is that many angels know little more about the companies they've invested in than the suckers who were eagerly buying toxic mortgage-backed securities in 2007.
You shouldn't expect anyone who wants to end private access to encryption to actually tell anyone that they _can_ get past the encryption with a bit of effort and more work than simply booting the phone.

The focus of this story is the government's desire to end private encryption and their push to make you believe that that encryption somehow renders them completely them helpless. This article falls in the same category as W. R. Hearst's rants about the Spanish in the 1890's and the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics's Reefer Madness dis-information campaign from the 30's.

All three of these PR campaigns are based in Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The Spanish-American War and America's war on marijuana were both generated for someone's self-interest and nothing more.

The anti-encryption movement is just another heaping helping of FUD bullshit. Except this time it shaking down into a situation where governments are afraid of your ability to have a truly private conversation with another individual.

Any government that feels it should fears its citizens has a good reason to be fearful. Guilt.
4x10G per node is not totally uncommon from what I've read. Easier to do in smaller clusters though.
You are wrong,

Believe it or not, sex by surprise is actually not an euphemism for rape. It is sex without a condom after a woman requests it — even if the sex is consensual — and it's fine-able in Sweden by 5,000 kronor (about $715).

Source http://www.popsugar.com/love/Sex-Surprise-12390242 or http://jezebel.com/5711600/how-aol-news-started-the-sex-by-s... or http://www.newser.com/story/106802/assange-not-actually-want...

Given that the CIA have their agenda in this, it's no surprise that Americans believe the main stream media.
It is totally fine to be frustrated by humans being stupid, but some humans really do have less cognitive abilities than others. In at least some of those cases it isn't their fault necessarily.

So, I'm just making the point that frustration makes sense, but hate probably doesn't. They certainly aren't intending to be stupid, but it is frustrating that we can't show them the error of their reasoning sometimes.
And just in case: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=fAh2fcfn
I don't think that is good advice. There is a lot of interesting science that suggests exactly the opposite. Being angry succeeds in only one thing: making you angrier.

Here is a good overview: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/jbickfor/bushman2002.pdf
It's even ok to hire someone to rip the ads out for you beforehand.
> "Relatively simple - at least on Ubuntu / Debian"

I realize we're all professionals here and technical know-how is expected, but nothing about this is "simple". Brings me PTSD of working w/ academics' alphabet soup of "open source" simulation code written in C, Perl and Makefiles.

Build tools have come along away, maybe not with vanilla Postgres installs, but I guess that's what DBAs are paid to know these days.
Digium Launches Android/iOS SDKs for Respoke WebRTC Platform
I crossed the Pacific on a cargo ship last year, 26 days from Japan to Peru, as part of a 3.5-year trip around the world without flying.

I made a video about my cargo ship experience here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj9yA7KjIuw

A few quick points:

1. Yes, it is very expensive to travel by cargo ship. It cost me about $4,500 total. I'm glad I did it as it was a cool experience, but given the cost I'd be hesitant to do it again.

2. Why is it so expensive? Best I can tell, because the cargo ship companies don't care. Taking passengers isn't their primary business. They're transporting multi-million dollar cargoes, so they probably figure that if they're going to take the odd passenger, they might as well charge a high price to make it worth their while.

3. For anyone interested in how to go about booking a trip on a cargo ship, I explain how I did it and provide a few links here: www.ndoherty.com/cargo-ship-2/

4. Perhaps the craziest thing for me was the lack of security on the ship. My bags were never checked at the port in Japan and the captain told me the door code for the bridge within an hour of boarding the vessel. The bag check when I got off the ship in Peru was also half-assed at best.
There's also Seafile, which I've been using for a quite a while now and really impressed by.
You can't get Super Bowl ads in Canada? That one's easy. Wait an hour after the game, and they're on YouTube.
As someone who uses ad-blockers, I am totally fine with sites blocking me for it. I will disable adblock for that site if I really value the content. Otherwise it makes it really easy for me to decide to never go back to a site again.
Similarly, I've wondered why advertisers don't just change how they do the ads: if the ads are non-standard size, are non animated, and link back to a legit landing page from non/shady domain, what adblocker covers that? Wouldn't that just look like ordinary site content? Or do they really update them that quickly and narrowly?
I have always suspected so since Google still does not open source its MapReduce, but I haven't found any actual evidence directly comparing Hadoop MapReduce and Google's. There could also be technical issues preventing Google from open sourcing its implementation, although I don't know any. Now that we are moving on to more sophisticated models and implementation I am hoping more details can emerge.
"The article in The Atlantic that inspired my blog post/rant suggests that this may ultimately be damaging for education and mental health care."

No shit. It's the universities' responsibility to teach children and prepare them for the "real world." They're failing because they're afraid of liability when they're charging 40-60k a year per head? That's insane. How about they take responsibility for their actions and start teaching our children. How about the universities (the adults) stand up in this case and the the students (the children) to shut up and sit down and listen. Do these kids feel offended? Oh, boo hoo. They'll get over it.

Otherwise, to put it bluntly, we're going to end up with a whole lot of useless pussies ruining our economy and way of life because they're too scared of some words to do anything even remotely useful.
I'm curious as to the mention of a "Web Control" and how long we have to wait until we can use DirectX for graphics, seeing as I've been trying to use Pis for digital signage[1] for a while with varying results (we've since started using cheap Android boxes with great results, but I wish I had more choices).

[1]: https://github.com/sapo/digital-signage-client
Electronic Sensors Stuck to the Skin Could One Day Control Your Mobile Devices
JS Header bid solution module
Is It Time to Embrace Unverified Theories?
So before the usage of golang.org/x/text/collate this was causing this problem. However, I got rid of it with PR https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/pull/331. That comment is a legacy one.
No, but it's my car so I can take off all the manufacturer and dealer badges.
newspapers and magazines have always had advertisements
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Why is everybody supposed to love the Mozilla Corporation? Just because you do?
Does it come with the same privacy issues as its older sister?
It's good to see Pushbullet release such an important feature as part of the standard product. I've seen many other products stuff encryption and other important security features into the premium/enterprise package under a "consumers don't care about this" mentality...
> Attitudes towards queers and trannies have changed so much in my lifetime.

"Tranny" is a vicious slur against trans people, on par with "faggot" for a gay person or "nigger" for a black person. Please edit your post.
The professor's attitude that you're talking about is perfectly valid - as is your own (opposite) attitude. The tension is a result of modern universities being dual-purpose.

On one hand, the university is supposed to be a crucible where difficult problems are confronted, hard work is accomplished by making sacrifices, and mature professionals are forged through years of dedicated effort. On the other hand, it's also the students' home and living space for several years, and it should provide the comfortable and low-stress lifestyle that most adults need to be mentally healthy.

Inflated tuition costs and degree commoditization have lead universities to adopt a "customer is always right" attitude, bringing the two purposes directly in contention in an attempt to please everyone.

The solution is probably somewhere in between. There's a place for puppy rooms, and a place for strict educational standards - but the two shouldn't mix.
At least now we have a url to send back in reply to such emails ;)
Who pays the costs in lost efficiency, lost productivity, lost time etc for readers to wade through ads to get to content?

Saying something "lowers costs" without considering ALL costs involved is lazy.

Most smart consumers are much less interested in what a company has to say about its own products (embellishment) than about what other people say.

So yeah, advertising is pretty terrible.
Yap, good catch.
" If you don't trust university students to act as adults with their own autonomy who can make the best decisions for themselves, which includes effecting the environment and social structures that benefit them most, then, congratulations, you're an authoritarian and have just discarded the basic tenets of liberalism, right libertarianism, left libertarianism (i.e. anarchism), communism, and socialism. After eradicating most post-enlightenment ideas of how to treat people as human beings, what are you left with?"

Not really, many horrible governments have been democratically elected, don't you think it's a good thing that the north told the south that they don't have the right to decide what's good for them? Do you not feel that it's good that the 'free world' told Russia & Germany what is good for them?

There are many example through history of one people telling another that they don't know what's good for them and it being regarded later as a good thing.
Why it's so hard to find product/market fit?
Oh, almost forgot:

5. There was very limited internet access aboard the ship. We could just send and receive email once or twice per day. That was it. I brought a lot of books with me on the ship and did a lot of writing, so I didn't get bored, but I imagine most people would. I think a few days is plenty of time to spend on such a ship unless you have a plan to make use of all the down-time.
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The Universe Is Slowly Dying
They sell the metrics they collect back to the advertising networks. They're public about this, it's not a secret.
Study finds the origin of 'odd-even' effects
would love to see an example of your code style...github account?
User Friendly C++14 Concepts
I don't need to know there's a new Star Wars movie coming out.

Scarcity seems to breed innovation, so maybe cutting the cord and creating a financial incentive will have some brilliant people come up with better models than I can for free on my spare time.

Maybe after a period of downtime, we'll all reminisce about the good old days and vote in some kind of universal internet-real-estate tax, allowing people to pledge bandwidth to people whose content they enjoy to aid in its dissemination, on a "one-person-one-attention-unit" basis. Who even knows?
> AFAIK if you need a different room then the disability has to be documented to the university with a medical letter, but I can't find that requirement at the author's uni page so maybe that uni doesn't.

Just to add to this:

I'm a TA and have been a lecturer a few times for courses at my uni. There is a whole registration process that the student and professor must go through. I'd estimate (in my limited experience) it's usually only 1 in 30-50 students who request extra accommodation. I suppose there are some that use it to take advantage. However, there are social implications of having special accommodations that naturally work to off set those who might take advantage these allowances.
Does anyone know why they didn't open source it in the first place? Couldn't find anything in the article.
I graduated lawschool only 2 years ago, has it really changed to the point where people would cry in class? I did go to a school that required work experience, so the class was mostly above 24, maybe that made it different.
A contrary (and more accurate view) is that advertising suggests things that people don't really need.

Here's a "magical alternative": if you make something the least bit good/useful, people don'e need to be beat over the head with it - they'll find it.

Advertising is vapid, inaccurate, and a blight.
Precisely!

I've been bitten by the data-oriented design bug and it has made my experiences with programming so much better. It turns out Python is really good at this style of programming. There are powerful ideas in co-routines and sub-generators that make stream processing minimal and easier to grasp. Simple ideas like decision tables are so easy to implement that I cringe when I see giant state machines serialized across several classes. Implement backtracking with a stack? Why bother -- functions live on a stack and push/pop: yield-from/yield. We can serialize the state of a co-routine... boom, concurrency. Sometimes it's the little things in Python the surprise me the most and are the reason I keep using it.

Avoid classes where you can! Design your programs around your data. Python has plenty of built-in patterns for manipulating data and aggregates. It's sometimes surprising how simple your programs become when you resist the temptation to start modelling your problem as classes.

I would never discourage someone from pursuing Scheme or Lisps in general (Have you seen Hy? Homoiconic front-end to Python's AST). Scheme does encourage thinking about problems as recursive functions. If iteration is a special case of recursion than Python is breaking ground in the same direction just in different clothes.
Reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3gl2yj
It sounds like gadhra wants to learn things that will advance his/her career, rather than stimulate his/her intellect. With that in mind, I'm going to strongly disagree with you. Agda and TLA+ are not going to open many doors to jobs in the next five years.

Instead, I suggest learning Android. It's my "next five years" step.
> So is 'Jew'. When people hate you, your name is a hateful slur even if its what you call yourself.

This is utterly ignorant of context. There are names used exclusively in hatred against a group, and there are names a group is happy to be called.

By your logic, perhaps we should be going around referring to women as whores, black people as niggers, trans people as trannies, gay people as faggots, because "you can't win this game".

Yet civilised society does not. And with good reason.
I made this edit right after I posted it so perhaps you didn't see it, but I added:

"Note that even if there is a gain to efficiency because of lower prices, it may be completely offset by the cost of advertising itself (costs being the cost of consumers having to be irked by looking at them and the effort that went into crafting the advertisements)."

I think that speaks to your comment about the lost productivity of users of the web. I do think all costs should be considered, absolutely. Didn't quite follow your last two paragraphs. You seem to have a gut feeling that all the costs outweigh all the benefits? I have no such gut feeling.
Because actually stopping tracking requires premium (paid) version? Or because mobile version is not a browser plugin, but virtual vpn, so it doesn't work with your real vpn?
"sometimes a lot worse than murder and in the best cases"
Statements like this has tinge of judgement that a woman is less "pure" after being raped. This of course is ridiculous. Rape is a horrible crime. I doubt most rape survivors would rather have been murdered.