skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their message is shamelessly misleading, but there is something to it: most people will find it requires far less willpower to put down the fork than to put on some running shorts and go out for a jog.
Umm, There is no CAPTCHA verification afaik, tried few seconds before.
Does the Right To Be Forgotten apply to those citizens (French in this case) that have done or had bad thing happen in other places, outside of their home country? What if that French citizen goes to e.g. Korea and, I don't know, bad mouths a local politician in a blog post that maybe ends up as a local scandal as well? The person is probably still "unremarkable." Citizens of other countries that haven't enacted such laws or agreed to the removal have a right to that knowledge, then.

My example isn't great but hopefully you get what I'm saying.
The traditional, non-vegan alternative would be lamb's intestines.
Perhaps people should be able to move on with their lives after they make mistakes.
I've found ublock to be the best for both chrome and firefox. Take up much less cpu than adblockplus.
Free soda refills in restaurants may make sense economically but it makes no sense from a diet point of view

Same thing with most crap people eat every day.

I'm not against processed foods per se, the increase in food safety and storage time makes sense.

Now, people make meal-sized (calory-wise) snacks by stuffing a bag of Doritos in between meals, eating a whole pack of Oreos, or just eating unbalanced (usually both micro and macronutrient unbalanced) meals etc
Is it possible to track someone without using cookies? Maybe. Do most of these advert sites make heavy use of cookies? Oh yes.
German federal prosecutor drops treason probe of Netzpolitik.org journalists
See this: http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/94/1520/CS-TR-9... (ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR SELF: RECONCILING HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH EXPLORATORY PROGRAMING)

Esp. section 5.3+ starting on physical pdf page 56.
I suppose "best" is subjective, but I'm using "uBlock Origin", "Flashcontrol", and "HTTPS Everywhere" together and am satisfied.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidm...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...
> what about not serving the main content for ad block users?

Some porn sites have started to do that. Well it's not like there is only 1 porn site on the planet... There lies the
issue with that method.

Unless every content provider does that it is not going to work. And it's also a cat and mouse game just like piracy. The technology will always be ahead of whatever scheme they use to block content.

As a musician, I get somehow a taste of revenge from all that crowd that is freaking out, the same crowd told us to "adapt or die" 10 years ago. Well they now need to adapt or die, because ad revenue will not be a viable business model 3 years from now...
It's the difference between quantum and quantum[tm] "as used in publishing[tm] to sell content[tm]".
I have a newspaper clipping from when a car hit me when I was 5 years old... the dark truth of the matter was I hit the car by bolting across the road and smacking my head into the passenger side door as it was trying to drive through an intersection. This little page 6c clipping is all that exists of that moment. No cameras, videos, blog or twitter posts.

If that happened today the driver's name might be permanently searchable and could even cause problems when looking for a job "They hit a 5 year old, that doesn't sound like the type of person we'd want to hire as a delivery driver."

Maybe we can't fix this problem, or maybe it isn't a problem at all but just something we should accept. One thing is certain, we've never been in a situation where everything was recorded so thoroughly before. Can we adapt?
Because they'd get as much, or more popular opposition as support. SOPA was seen as a corporations vs people issue; this isn't.

And even from those who don't particularly like the Right To Be Forgotten, many would not take kindly to an American company trying to teach us how we should organize our society. Anti-capitalism, and anti-American-imperialism are still strong ideas in Europe.
The EU already has laws regarding the correctness of information which protect against keeping and reporting inaccurate information. We also have laws which protect your right to a certain level of privacy.

The only valid reason for the right to be forgotten is because those existing laws are not enforced - news outlets can print falsehoods and leaked celebrity nudes, companies can publish data they know is outdated, and laws that exist to punish them for these things are not enacted.

If such laws were to be enforced, what need is there to be forgotten? Only factually true public scandals seem to remain, and we have laws to protect their existence (freedom of the press, etc.) for a reason.
Spotlight on Styliff, the virtual dressing room app
> edit:Having to click 'accept cookies on every site' is such EU nonsense too - does anyone really think you can't be tracked without cookies?

The actual text of the directive refers to "the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user". This includes, but is not limited to cookies.

I'll also add that the use of the annoying "implied consent" mechanic that many member states tolerate (probably in order to not scare away advertising money) is not generally sufficient to implement the "right to refuse" demanded by the directive.
You're right that accelerators are bound to fail, you're wrong to call YC an accelerator. That's what distinguishes YC, it's not an accelerator it's a company that funds lots of startups at once. Accelerator implies that you're going to artificially speed up growth, presumably in order to get the company an outside investment. YC doesn't accelerate growth and Sam in particular boasts (in a good way) about being a patient investor.

Also, don't underestimate HackerNews. How many other "accelerators" have a content hub that engages their customer base daily. You can't underestimate what that does for their brand.
Researcher develops living wage calculator
Perhaps inspired by Falk's performance in an Avro Vulcan prototype at the '55 Farnborough, which I think was in July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afj19PedlxE
Human milk is vegan if extracted consensualy...for some definition of consent that is left as an exercise to the reader.
Using Dharma to rediscover Node.js out-of-band write in UTF8 decoder
Ahh, the free market is great, until it totally isn't. I look forward to seeing what new revenue strategies the truly innovative companies will come up with. We've all been lulled into the complacency of cheap and easy ad dollars -- let's innovate instead.
>Yet nobody really believes that a cat can be simultaneously dead and alive.

Except, of course, all those physicists that do. http://www.hedweb.com/everett/everett.htm#believes
So I just started using ad blockers (uBlock Origin on Chrome, adblock + ghostery on Safari) because I was finally sick of the amount of extra bandwidth, CPU and just noise they are creating with this crap.

I've intentionally not used ad blockers for years, because I get that's how companies make money, but heaven's to betsy if they don't dig their own graves with the intrusive over-intensive crap these days.

My old tactic was to just not visit sites with offensive, intrusive or band-width heavy ads. These sites, bar some outliers, no longer exist. Every tech, current events and editorial site pulls down half the fucking internet to show me some words on a screen these days.
Show HN: Dumat – Request open source library migrations
Should innovation be driven by experiments or experience?
This Is My Jam Shuts Down
He has total control. Its his website, he has made the choice to work with scummy advertisers for a larger cut. Make no mistake: He could choose to run adverts that are not immoral and are not pushing malware, and in return he would earn slightly less money.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for him - he's directly benefiting from the same scummy industry he's complaining about.
Kind of. There's certainly an interest in finding precise models that are mutually supportive and self-consistent. So the "Why?" question can be answered with "Because that's the only way the whole thing can work."

Unfortunately it's just as likely that "Because randomness" is a valid answer.

Right now, no one knows. (Although IMO randomness isn't really an answer, because randomness can only happen as the result of a process. It isn't a thing in itself. So I'm always wary of anything that says "It's just random" without explaining how and why it got to be that way.)
What about https:\\ though?
Is there a reason for using flashcontrol over simply setting the plugin to click to play?
Sell House Fast: Need to Sell House Fast Newport
I don't get the whole anti-"processed food" thing. The whole change in weight in the U.S. can be explained by increased caloric intake since the 1970's. It's not like we didn't have Coke back then.

I think the real problem is capitalism. It makes good economic sense to sell your customers too much food. Consider Starbucks. Your parents' coffee and a donut was a 250-300 calorie breakfast. Today's latte and a scone is double that and yields a much nicer profit margin.
If it takes 2 weeks for Apple to approve your app, it doesn't mean they are looking into it for 14 consecutive days.
I've been thinking lately that websites should just do static ads. No ad networks, scripts, cookies, etc. Just the content of the ad (video, audio, text, images). Not only will they be harder to block and lead to a better experience for users they could possibly negotiate for higher rates since there would be no middle man.
> blinking warnings, fake browser UI and who don't tend to install stuff without meaning to.

The majority of online ads are bland and don't use dishonest or obnoxious tactics. People just tend to notice the dishonest/obnoxious ads more.
My point was that eventually the technique will fall out if use of newer generations don't benefit from it. So say today X does no good on brand new hardware, then we still do X because not all hardware is new, but the value of doing X will definitely diminish over time.

What is really annoying is when X is done to support an out-of-date CPU like a 386, to the detriment of CPUs that are actually currently in use. It does happen...
I can relate to the OP, and there's something about once you've lived and worked in the software industry in California, that leaves a void that can't by filled by working in any other country. There's a value for and energy for the work that is never quite reached in any other tech ecosystem. It's really hard to put into words. I grew up in the Middle East, and am an Indian citizen. After my 7 years of studying+working in software in the US, and then having to leave due to similar visa issues, I was never as satisfied with working on software from a variety of other countries (Singapore, Korea, Oman, India, etc).
I sincerely hope they've done their Dr. Whoopee research, e.g.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61RSODG4DbL._SY344_BO1...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/calling-dr-whoopee-a-doonesbu...

Know your elders!
Then no amount of (other) good things can make that app installable.
They may not have a consensus, but why do you think they're further away from consensus than they were in the past?
I didn't flag it, and I wasn't advocating that. I asked about tagging.

Thanks for the plan on the FAQ. I'm sure it is just something you osmose being here for a while. I'm sure if the article looked interesting enough I'd spend the time going through the standard workaround, but so far things haven't surpassed the 'does it look worth it' threshold, given how much interesting content there is that doesn't involve hoop-jumping. Which is why I think it might be a user-benefiting mandatory-tag, so people don't have to click through before finding that out, as [video], [pdf] and the year for old posts. At the very least people will know to copy the title into google rather than clicking through, hitting back, then copying it into search.

Thanks for the upkeep of the site generally, also. It's such a good and interesting resource.
Understanding the t-distribution and its normal approximation
Language is an extremely touchy subject in Flanders, not something exclusive for West Flanders. Not everybody in Flanders is like that, but it is certainly not a minority also. My father is (West-)Flemish and my mother is French so because of that I always looked at it in other view then most people who grew up in Flanders.

I'm West-Flemish myself and still live here, but I also get my share of snarky remarks of blogging in English or reading stuff primary in English. If you have a website with some text in Dutch and you make a spelling mistake then you will certainly get (angry) mails about it. Or when you use an English word instead of a Dutch, for some that is another capital offence.

If that sounds ridiculous keep in mind we have people proverbial running after busses and filling complaints when the bus company dares to advertise something with English words in it.

Ans seeing how many Dutch related contests Flemish participants win, I have sometimes the feeling that we are better in Dutch than our neighbours in the Netherlands. So yeah the Dutch language is really important in this part of the world.

For some things I can see the benefits of being able to promote (or even force) the local language. I'm personally convinced that from a social POV it helps when your neighbour understands you and speaks the same languages.

But on the other hand in the global age we are living we shouldn't overestimate the importance of it. It sometimes depresses me if I see how much energy gets lost in those kind of discussions.
If you feel up to it, I still personally recommend a hosts file. Extremely low overhead, and it blocks all forms of malicious content from ad endpoints.

I use: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Protocol in Objective C
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Software development requires continuous learning it may be new technology/language methodology or a complete new platform so Why only 4 Years , In my opinion as software developer you are a student always, you need to continuously increase your knowledge and its practical implementation; technology comes and goes so you need to be adaptive.Yes it always takes some practice experience to build something valuable but you can always start with something very little and working and then build as you improve your knowledge and skills. So be open minded learn something new every day and build valuable things.
Trust me, it's like nothing you may have thought of when you hear "rail shooter".
It's not about "public scandals", it's about small reports that got printed on page 34 twenty years ago on a regional newspaper, and that would have been history if Google didn't pull it out when you search for the person's name.

The landmark case for this issue was Costeja: in 1998, a guy had some debts to Social Security, which forced the sale of some of his property to get reimbursed. More than a decade later, what would have been a record in a library basement, now appears as one of the top results when you search for his name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Spain_v_AEPD_and_Mario_...
Well, that's 13M that you don't need to give back personally (unlike some bank loan). And .com is pretty important for a site like that. Fb.com is even better though.
> vegan-friendly natural latex, potentially reducing allergies associated with condom use for those with a latex allergy

Wait how does the former imply the latter? If a person is allergic to some compound in latex and the condoms are made of latex that has not been processed to remove that compound, how would that prevent the allergy?

Are latex allergies actually allergies to a chemical commonly used to process latex sap?
Keep an eye on this MQTT broker. It supports clustering, for me the "selling point".

https://verne.mq
So it looks like TC made a bigger deal about that than L. does in its own materials. It's not on the home page for example, which is mainly about "feel the difference" and testimonials and the donation aspect.
Interesting decision.

The architecture sounds a little unusual:

"The interpreter itself consists of a set of bytecode handler code snippets, each of which handles a specific bytecode and dispatches to the handler for the next bytecode. These bytecode handlers are written in a high level, machine architecture agnostic form of assembly code, as implemented by the RawMachineAssembler class and compiled by Turbofan"

It also seems as if all calls are mediated by code generated by the compiler, which has the advantage of avoiding the awkwardness of different calling conventions between native and bytecode functions (possibly at some cost to performance?).

Fascinating reading. Thanks V8 people for allowing such documents to be public!
That's not quite what he said:

Mr. Schmidt is surely right, though, that the questions go far beyond Google. "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.

"I mean we really have to think about these things as a society," he adds. "I'm not even talking about the really terrible stuff, terrorism and access to evil things," he says.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487049011045754232...
Pls try again. The server had crashed due to "too many open files". I'm leaking file descriptors somewhere.
I've had more friends/family request ad-blockers. This has become an even bigger issue with auto-playing video ads on mobile which both suck up bandwidth and randomly begin playing loud audio on your phone when it's otherwise silent. We're talking mainstream sites like Slate, Salon.com, Daily Beast, Bust.com, etc, all of which automatically played loud video ads on my girlfriend's phone. On Android, this necessitates switching to Firefox and using something like AdBlock Plus or uBlock since Google Chrome on Android doesn't even support plugins. I'm unsure if these ads are intentional auto-playing video ads or AdSense's broken "hover to expand" ads which are always triggered accidentally and are, for all intents and purposes, auto-playing video ads.
It might be naive but wouldn't it be easier for the individuals to change their name ? It's like burned HN accounts, you don't keep the karma but a new account gives you a fresh start.
Given the problems with CAs, TLS is falling back to TOFU (public key pinning). (At least with pinning you can trust a subset of CAs,not just leaf nodes. If I could do that with SSH host keys it would be helpful.)
I just started using ad-blockers for similar reasons. I found an increasing number of sites (especially news sites) were becoming so obnoxious with the advertising that it was causing my browser to frequently freeze and/or crash.

I really don't mind a simple, static banner ad, but this crap has gotten out of control.
> I wonder how many executives and ad-network people use ad blockers personally

I can tell you ;)

Executives don't use ad blockers - they've usually drunk enough of the cool-aid to not be bothered by the ads.

Others, like the devs, for sure would have ad blockers installed (but disable when they need to do dev relating to ads)
Setting up a development environment for Mac OS X
Where I work, most of our development (includes building, testing and packaging) is done on remote machines to which we ssh to. Few people prefer gui ide's so most ssh and then run vim or emacs. Having tmux on the server hub is pretty convenient. Especially nice if you want to run a set of tests over night.
There is no right to be forgotten in the real world. If anything, damnatio memoriae[0] was a punishment, not a privilege. Just as well, you can't ask for world population to forget a nursery rhyme, or me to forget I saw you riding a Segway. The internet is part of the real world. Everything happens in the real world, 'IRL' has been deprecated.

People (and the sub class 'legislators') should accept that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
Online Lip Sync Battle
One thing with the beverages is that if you choose to not drink them, you will most likely be the weird one in most social situations. Especially if you cut on alcohol. I have nothing against drinks in general, but they should be an exception, not the rule. We should not drink beer or cola or any of this stuff on a daily or almost daily basis. Mainly because they introduce a truckload of useless calories that do no good to us and do not even fill our appetite.

Now, that's the logic, and it's a sound logic, go explain that to people every time you are drinking water in a pub and they go: "ehm, uh, you don't drink?". Which, by the way, if not explained properly can seem like you are a recovering alcoholic, if explained properly will make you sound like a food/diet nazy.
It really just comes down to greed. The publishers had a good thing. They were making some profit, and they were finding ways to innovate (better tech, better subscription penetration, etc.), and then they had to go and get greedy with all our personal data. That's what sparked the war. We simply aren't willing to pay that much for the content we consume.
It's not quite so black and white. Clearly you think obese people are stupid, but the fact is that there is a lot of conflicting nutritional information out there, and agribusiness companies control much of what the consumer can easily obtain.

A big culprit in recent obesity is the demonization of oils and fats (necessary for health and satiety) as well as the push by industry groups to increase consumption of refined carbs and sugars.

As an example, the food pyramid that many kids were raised on was released in 1992 by the US Department of Agriculture. Not surprisingly, the base of the pyramid is grains... please try to eat the allowed 11 servings a day and not gain weight.

Another example, Stevia (natural, no cal sugar substitute), which has been used for at least 1500 years in South America, was first imported into the states in the early 1900s but sugar lobbies prevented commercial use of it until recently.
I use adblock, ghostery, several JS blacklists etc., uninstalled all Flash from all computers years ago, and still I regularly catch "funny calls" to strange IPs I don't even visit in Little Snitch.

Highly recommend this little utility. The logs make for unexpectedly interesting reading.
uBlock Origin
Rather, the problem lies in the need to generate increasing returns without charging anyone for a service. Facebook's recovery model has been to acquire and monetize anything with a growing userbase, Google's has been to sprawl across as many verticals as possible in a wild goose chase for long term sustenance.

It's going to be a sad day for Silicon Valley when advertisers stop getting their money's worth – which seems inevitable at this point. Products reach their saturation point and you can either kill the user experience (and subsequently kill the userbase) or you can start charging (and subsequently kill the userbase).

We do still have a few more years left of pseudo-charitable "Internet-giving initiatives" to get the rest of the world's loyal consumer-to-be population online. That way we can shove ads for the local ebola clinic in front of people in need of real help. That should sustain SF housing prices for another decade or so.