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The final paragraphs are really the most important, in my opinion. Why stop seal hunting and not mass slaughters of cows?
When I submit a search, I can also submit the key.

Spam filtering can be done as the email streams in. Email databases which power the spam filter can be de-anonymize do and reduced to statistics.

I guess sharing is harder but it can still be done. If I share content with you, I'm giving you permission to have a copy so it can be encrypted with your key as well as mine.
Your hosts file will not cover all cases. Many locally-operated ad systems, for example, can't be blocked with it.
Equally the user can't determine whether the site is of any value to them if they leave as soon as they see an advert. Some sites I go to are stores, who are trying to sell me stuff who also have auto playing adverts. Crazy but true.
I'm interested in this just for analytical purpose. I'd like to see how many of my users do block ads, but they probably block 3rd party analytics also.

My only question is: If users can block ads should content creators not be able to detect that and not serve the request?

It may be a horrible business decision but it only seems fair to me.
Seems like it's a matter of perspective and, like most things, not as black-and-white as "good guys vs. bad guys".
"Uber almost certainly can thrive even if it pays its drivers more, and even if it picks up their expenses and pays them benefits like a genuine employer. It won't make as much money per trip, but its service may become more reliable instead, which could expand its market."

Well, if that's the case then forcing the change need not happen. If there is a financial or competitive benefit (better service and more reliable) to the company, it will either make the change voluntarily or a competitor will figure that out and eventually grow larger. If not, then your assumption is wrong.

Oh - nobody forces anyone to work with uber. They know what they're signing up for. They're not entitled to anything from uber except for what they agreed upon in the contract to work.
It looks like you still just use delaunay triangulation on the points on the surface of the sphere. And then he is connecting the resulting vertices with lines along the surface of the sphere. The lines look straight from head on, but are curved in 3d space.
I'm a fan of AdBlock, but there's also an AdBlockPlus

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AdBlockPlus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdo...
Easter Island doesn't just have an airport on it, it's got an airport with a runway built long enough to accommodate the Space Shuttle.

It's an awesome place to visit - a town of a few thousand people, surprisingly good food, breathtaking moai, and due to its relative remoteness, not particularly crowded with tourists. I liked it enough to want to go back.
That's a claim that people have made since pretty much the dawn of advertising on the internet, but there has yet to be any research actually backing that statement.
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If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that.

Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that nobody will ever make heads or tails out of.
> But Chicago is just the opposite. It's been criticized for being too tied up in the mathematics of it all. Chicagoans love numbers.

Empiricism often uses numbers and math, to be sure, but love of numbers and math is not love of empiricism: you can use math to tease out implications of your abstract, first-principles, non-empirical model as well as you can use apply it to real world observation in an attempt to confirm or refute an empirical model.

A criticism I've seen of the Chicago school has certainly been that it is more concerned with the mathematical implications of idealized assumptions and less concerned with how well those implications reflect real-world results.
If you're seeing a demand for it in Word format, they're a recruiter and a lazy one at that.

Most in-house guys accept PDF. I explicitly tell recruiters that my resume is typset, so they have a choice: a PDF or a LaTeX file that nobody will ever make heads or tails out of. I do not even know if LaTeX has a .doc plugin.
That's really cool! Living in NYC, I didn't even know this.
Oddly enough, The Hunt for Red October is one of the items on the linked article's Suggested Reading list.
Oh yeah, I agree. Pretty sure the reason xsel or xclip isn't in x11-utils is that they are not part of the Xorg project. Obviously something with equivalent functionality should be there, but I guess the Xorg folks overlooked it and packagers don't want to stick in random stuff.
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Major part NOW, but are they intrinsic and inextricable? I don't think so. And I think on balance they are harmful, but I acknowledge that it'll take a long time to switch the economic dynamics, norms, etc. to a state where ads are rare. However, I think it's possible and I think it's overall preferable.

Edit: I'll followup really quick on how ads can be harmful with regard to content making. Ad revenue scales based on eyeballs alone, that's the primary metric. To maximize profit that means you need the most eyeballs and the cheapest to produce content. That causes a pressure towards tabloid-style content, especially in journalism, which has become a very noticeable trend. When there's a more direct route for revenue from content consumers to producers there's more reward for producing higher value content. Having correctly aligned incentives is hugely valuable, and something that has been sorely missing in regard to a lot of content that was produced in the 20th century.

It's always easy to look at major business changes as hugely scare and potentially calamitous but in the end it's extraordinarily unlikely that the fire to create art can be easily extinguished and the hunger to consume it won't result in sufficient expenditures to enable creators to support themselves. Overall I'd say a lot of what I've seen in regards to how new creators emerge and get on their feet and how that's changed since the dawn of the web-era has been almost exclusively beneficial.
I recommend an LLC. I've had great success with them too. Also, I've had people purchase my LLC. Just my recommendation.
Ask HN: Is it typical to be required to supply a passport to be paid from China?
I have a client right now and I'm only about 90% sure of their legitimacy.

They showed me the product already - it's in a very early stage. But not vapor.

But they want me to do a ten-day contract with an NDA (which is not terribly invasive; I may be willing to sign it).

But they also want me to send over all my banking info for a wire transfer and a scan of my passport. They're claiming that the only way to pay anyone electronically in China is to have a copy of their passport.

I can't seem to verify this with a cursory search.

Anybody?
grumbles... you should be using uBlock Origin...

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faster, less memory footprint, just as many features
That seems ok to. If a site is solely using ads for revenue and you choose not to see the ads then the site should be able to choose not to show you anything.

The site will probably die eventually but it seems like that is fair. What doesn't seem fair to me is leaching add supported content.
If you're okay with being treated as a Sole Proprietor, then you can get a "Does Business As" name, and get a bank account in that name.
> My only question is: If users can block ads should content creators not be able to detect that and not serve the request?

Yes, of course, but how are you going to do that, and is the end result going to be what you want? It seems to me like if a website goes down that road, it ends up in an arms race with some of its users and the authors of adblockers.
I've always got Ghostery running on my computer, I use it to block everything, still see ads sometimes but it certainly enhances my web experience.
Eh, long live ad blocking! Its great being able to view clean, distraction-free webpages and I just move on if a site refuses to load otherwise. Since a lot of content I view online falls under entertainment, the worst case scenario is that such a page cuts my procrastination/break time short, which obviously isn't a bad thing.

Plus, ads are not the only way to make money online. So, if it isn't working for a company, then it's time to change the business model.
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Can't this just be my phone?
a hit has value no matter what they choose to see.
OT: Why do sites insist on hijacking scroll behavior? It annoys me to no end
This is why "content marketing" has grown so much in the past few years.
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False positives do happen, but the style of the article raises some "crank" red flags.

- Doesn't get to the point until about halfway through

- Repeatedly mentions Einstein

- Appeals to quantum mechanics out of nowhere

The style is particularly hard to parse (or I'm particularly dense, but I am generally comfortable reading papers on variational inference, neural networks, etc). At the same time, a lot of it rings true-ish... Does anyone get where they're going with this?
How so? Syntax is not the only thing that distinguishes ads. If you are willing to compromise on precision and recall, you could classify text/images/whatever using other methods (after appropriate segmentation).

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Sure, you can embed ads in regular text, but if humans can detect it then maybe computers can, too. Of course, it might be harder to detect product placement. You should read the chapter about that in my upcoming book. It's only $9.99.
They did not assure him they would underwrite the specific loss, they merely pointed out that domains were covered by a buyer protection policy which allowed Paypal to make a decision at their discretion.

Frankly, I can't recall ever seeing any complainant more deserving of being on the wrong side of Paypal's discretion than this one.
> Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept.

That's true. Privacy is anything you kept on your own person or in your own property.

Emails however, are stored on another person's computer and therefore have no expectation of privacy. (some 1980s case IIRC).

Constitutionally, privacy is a cut-and-dry concept for the 1800s when the Bill of Rights were written. The fact of the matter is, the people who wrote the Constitution had no concept of "Cloud Computing" or "Computing" in general.

So it is up to the job of today's Politicians and Judges to figure out what to do in these cases. And that isn't a very easy job to do.
Yah, so now we will get DRM on webpages, dont give them ideas.
Ask HN: How much wealth do I need to retire at 65?
Are there some rules of thumb that can reach a plurality of consensus here?

I'm hoping for some simple phrasing like "20x your current annual income".

Or do I need to be a legislative-prognosticating actuarial economist to even guess?
It's been a few years since my last C++ class, and I haven't done any compiled programming since. So I either completely forgot about static linking, or it just didn't get covered.

Why have I seen several go apps that use static linking, but every C or C++ app I see uses dynamic linking?

A quick google makes me think that the main downsides to static linking are resources and upstream bugs. Those issues would apply to go the same way they'd apply to C. Right? So why does it seem (from my limited experience) that go uses static linking more than other languages do?
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corollary: With no power comes no responsibility
The desktop experience of this site is pretty terrible. I have smooth scrolling off because I don't like the lag. The scroll wheel on my mouse won't work consistently when the mouse is over certain elements on the page. The scroll bar is only a few pixels wide, so hard to use.
And then you think you're clever and use "call my CP" (for cell phone) and the feds come confiscate all of your hard drives
There is nothing stopping you from just using RDS and then running your app frontend/backend on a VPS. This may be a good option if you dont feel like managing your own DB and keeping costs down in a "pay as you grow" fashion.
"In addition, astronauts now carry passports and other documents, including traveller's cheques, in case of emergency landings."
How else do you assess a potential employee?

This is a critical (and very fair) question. That said, I'm not sure that the options you listed are the only ones available. I'm not sure they're the best options, but I'm certainly not sure they're the worst, either.

How does it work in other knowledge-intensive fields? Physicians don't have to answer questions about organic chemistry at the whiteboard whenever they change jobs, but then again, physicians are subject to an extremely rigorous and standardized academic and apprenticeship path, which results in a a government backed exclusive right to practice. Actuaries don't have to pass exams on calculus or linear algebra every time they change job, and they don't strictly have to major in math, but they do have to take a long series of difficult exams that cover calculus and linear algebra, along with more advanced mathematics (and other more regulatory issues), and they must gain certain types of work experience. There are many other models out there.

I want to be sure I'm not coming off as endorsing any particular approach here. I do see some benefits to the current system - in theory, anyone who can study effectively and learn to do complex data structure and algorithm based problem solving at a whiteboard is welcome to take the google entrance exams. Or not. There's some good in that. However, I also believe that there may be more harm in it that our industry fully realizes.

Personally, I would be willing to take actuary-style exams, or some kind of board exam, if it meant that I could create a study path, truly devote myself to it, be assured a transparent, fair, and consistent evaluation. For me, the tough part is that I have to re-load all of this into exam ready memory every time I interview, which can be unpredictable, and happens over and over (I wouldn't object to "refresher" exams either).

I willingly acknowledge that what I described above is half-formed, and may have all kinds of problems I haven't anticipated. Personally, I do think that what we have is clearly driving some talented people away from our field, but it might also be attracting others. Hard to say.

What I am sure about is that we must consider any claim of a "shortage" in the context of what I consider to be almost a kind of hazing every time people change jobs. The links I provided below (the JOS one) was eye opening, we really do lose people to our industry because of this. I don't have an answer, but I really do think we need to see this as a problem.
> Doesn't economic theory say that you can't play the market?

That depends which theory; under most that can be taken as even semi-plausibly as models of the real world, no, unless you assert some simplifying assumptions (which then make them no longer semi-plausible models of the real world).

The simplifying assumptions are common in intro-level Econ classes, for the same reason that, e.g., assuming the absence of friction is common in many parts of intro-level Physics classes.

The thing is that we don't have as many people in the public media trying to sell policy using explanations of physics that leverage the fact that most people that know anything about the subject do so through hazily-remembered intro-level classes as we do for economics...
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I might add pierpoint.com to that list. A few hours ago, I got an email from them asking me if I was interested in a job with my immediate previous employer (which is kind of a mu question to ask, as I'm so interested in that idea that I've actually secured a start date there in less than 2 weeks--let's just say that I really liked it there and regret leaving).

If the guy there had done anything more than scrape LinkedIn for .NET stuff (which I can do and have done), he'd know that I would not need assistance in returning to $FORMER_EMPLOYER.
> "Tesla’s $35,000 Model 3 Sedan Goes into Production, Preorders Next March"

Yikes, very misleading title - the Model X is currently going into production, not the Model 3.
It does. I had to enable scripts on the site to see the message.
Hm, appears to be missing a lot of smaller airports in the USA. My home airport (E45) in particular. I'm guessing it's only using airports that have commercial air carrier service of some sort.
Why is distributed HTTP needed when you could just run a local (web)server that would act as a translator to the peer-based web which you could implement with other protocols? That way, you can continue to use existing browsers. Now you'd just need to implement that server...

Heck if you did it this way, you could just have remote servers actually pull content from the regular web and serve it up through the peer web. It could be similar to a proxy.
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"When you call something an edge case, you’re really just defining the limits of what you care about."
Really interesting piece on increasing empathy during the design process to think about how someone might experience your product in the worst case scenario.
Ask HN: Are there software companies that don't “make” you work all day long?
Hi previously I was a developer in academia and the expected work hours were pretty reasonable (Also reading books and papers was considered work). I just started at my first job at a company and the expected work hours seem much longer. (Also, reading a book isn't considered work) Are all software companies like this?
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Yeah, >Model 3, our smaller and lower cost sedan will start production in about 2 years. -- Elon Musk
This title is horrendous. It's missing the most important piece of information, which is '...Production in 2 Years...'.
Of course. And JS is not a compiled language. And a language that was not created with performance in mind. I mean, I know this stuff, I can think of a lot of reason for it.

But the end result is just toooooooooo much for any reasons.
I agree, but my point is that it should be done conservatively. And you're ignoring the plight of people employed by these companies entirely (which could be you).
Here's Uber in the news just lately: http://fortune.com/2015/09/02/uber-lawsuit/

Uber's valuation is: http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-valued-at-more-than-50-bill...

One might disagree with this valuation, let's assume it's 1/10 th of it. Can they provide health insurance to their drivers? Absolutely yes, but they're solely interested in revenue and being profitable. I don't want to sound like an Uber basher, this is true for most companies; they operate in their own self interest which they arguably should. It's up to the govt. to act as a counter balance to blatantly unjust policies adopted by companies.
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Or another way to look at it: if you model the earth as a perfect sphere, there's a one-to-one monotonic relationship between geodesic distance and distance in a straight line through the earth. Points that are equidistant by one metric are also equidistant by the other.

So you could get exactly the same diagram by finding the 3D Voronoi diagram of the airports as a collection of points in space, and then taking the intersection of that with the geoid.
Perhaps greed is the wrong word here. (By the way I am definitely not the morality police that is for sure..I have no problem with people making money practically any way they can)

I think your good judgement was clouded by what you though was an opportunity to make a large sum of money. As such you let your guard down. And ignored common sense.

For example, let's say you are on assignment for the US Government and you have a bunch of secrets in your briefcase. (Or you work for Google, whatever). You go to a bar and a super attractive hot woman (or man) strikes up a conversation with you. You are nowhere near attractive or rich or smart enough to have this women she is a 12 and you can only score 5's and that's if the woman is drunk. (let's hypothesize). So your brain should be saying "danger Will Robinson" [1] but instead it thinks "wow she likes me I'm surprised but hey anything can happen!!!". And the next thing you know she has walked off with your suitcase of secrets. What do they call that? A Honey Pot? Whatever. My point is perhaps greed is the wrong word so what is the word to describe what I am talking about here? After all you knew this was to good to be true and almost certainly not true however you did it anyway.

By the way I don't buy into that whole "to good to be true probably is" line it all depends on the circumstances. However what you did here was clearly someone outsmarted you, they knew paypal better than you did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger,_Will_Robinson
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tl;dr -- because we've been inadvertently terraforming Earth for much of our history, the semantics of words like 'nature' are really dubious. The essay expends much energy proving this point, which I thought was a long-settled one.

I thought it was understood that words like 'nature' are a banner under which people and organizations with different values come together. The methods and consequences of maximizing these values are what's interesting. Values like:

- Earth's genetic history

- the wonder and romance of living on a planet with ancient and uncontrolled forces

- maintenance of the biosphere for continued human habitation
I've been letting you identify the problems because frankly I can't see any. California has so many prisoners it doesn't have enough prisons for them all. The solution is easy: imprison fewer people. Too many ESL students? That solves itself over time as they become ESL (or even non-English) teachers.
The scroll on this site is unusable - it kept scrolling too far or not enough. The performance is awful too (low framerate on an i7-4790K + NVidia 980 Ti, which should be able to handle some simple scrolling)
Just enough advance notice to help would-be buyers time their leasing and trade-in behavior.
> A nasty workaround for a problem which should not exist in the first place.

In Go I believe they use the term "idiomatic." ;-)
I very much prefer this over installing the python package, thanks! I think it'd be useful to additionally display the location of the server it chose.
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I agree that if users don't want something than it will have to die. I'm just not sure what we replace it with because I think economic drive behind the internet has been the major factor in the growth we've seen. Basically, if people weren't making money the internet wouldn't be anywhere near what we have today. I'm pretty sure we had a completely ad free internet at one point and it kind of sucked compared to the things we have today.

Full disclaimer: I made a decent amount of money from advertising in the past. That doesn't mean I don't sympathize with users/consumers. The ad industry pushed too far and users are pushing back.

Also I'd probably prefer ads on wikipedia versus the yearly begging but that's another topic.