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> As far as I can tell the only such acknowledgement he makes in this piece is in the opening nod to the symbiotic nature of markets and government.

He explicitly points to the two-way relationship between consolidation and government policy in paragraphs 2, 4, 5, and each of 9-19 of the 19 paragraph article.

So, unless the whole article is the "opening nod" you are referring to, I don't really see what you are talking about.
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Does this really need its own forum? The point the author tried, and failed, to make is that you only have value when you fight for it.

My brother comes to me several times a year with "ideas". He uses all the same lines "I just need someone to build it" "you should be able to whip it up over the weekend", etc.

Most of the ideas are crap, but he has had a few gems. I always ask for 51% ownership and then explain to him that I am inviting him to be a part of the product that I am building. He can leave with nothing, or i could do it myself and retain 100%, or we could work together, or he can get someone else to do it.
This is actually a good business idea.

Full disclosure: I hate ads. I also strongly believe in the right of a company to show ads on their website. I also strongly believe in the right of an individual to block the ads.

Let the cat-and-mouse game evolve!
Patreon isn't charity. It's "I spend my money to hire you to do something." You pay to keep the content you care about, or to push them over a milestone goal to a feature you want.
If the cars can't pass smog testing without cheating, then they also need to be forced to buy each and every one of them back. $18 billion sounds reasonable to me. This needs to hurt.
You can configure it to render transparent images, so you see the site's background. Hit the 'gear' in the upper right of the Contributor site, and the options are neutral-grey, transparent, cats, and 'soft focus'.
The author is nostalgic for the days when newspapers commanded high ad rates, something which never really existed in web-based news.

I agree with the idea that there are existing alternative business models, but I don't think a voluntary model will generate enough revenue to sustain current content standards.
If white promotes to a queen, black will have no legal moves because the king can't move into check, and the pawns can't move at all. If a player can't move, the game is a draw.
Not only was NPAPI developed by a rival company, it was specific to browsers. ActiveX allowed features from any (Windows) application to be embedded into any other (Windows) application, not just browsers. It was a strictly more general framework and thus a better option for Microsoft. What really screwed things up was, security was not one of the foremost considerations when designing ActiveX because it was conceived for the desktop world. So it was horribly insecure when applied to arbitrary content downloaded over the web.
Just like if 95% of my cable channels disappeared overnight, I'm actually pretty OK with a bunch of websites going out of business, and I end up paying for the few services I'm not already paying for but would wish to keep. It's sad that people lose their jobs, especially those that can no longer make a living doing what they love, but from a product standpoint: whatever.

I was around before the commercialization of the web exploded, and I might miss all the light entertainment that it provides, but going back wouldn't be the worst. The parts of the internet that are most special to me are some combination of not funded by ads in the first place, a labor of love, open source, or I already pay for anyway.

The increasingly desperate, increasingly gross business models that pop up as publishers go down with the ship is going to suck though.
It seems that in the Patreon model, the creator is the central element, and not the content itself. This seems a bit weird, because it is the content I'm after, not the artist. It may be nice for fans who will buy anything from a particular artist, even if it is worthless when considering just the content.

Also, this seems a lot like "branding & marketing" version 2.0. I don't like branding. And I don't want to like what people write just because of what they have written before. I want to read or listen to work, and then decide if I pay for it.

Do you have a better way of viewing this?
The Great Firewall would probably have copies of private keys issued by CNNIC, and there's a bunch of attacks to get private keys via heartbleed, and a bunch of Debian easily guessable private keys, but there's no general purpose 'penetrate SSL' attack that we know of right now.
Think of a hackathon as a musician's jam session.

You get together with some people you know, some you don't, play with some ideas, experiment and fail, come up with some cool things, drink some beer, and don't sleep enough.

The point is risk-free experimentation and a learning opportunity. The point of Startup Weekend is not to be the next big idea.

* I've organized 3-4 Startup Weekends, attended a few more, organized dozens of hackathons, and attended more than that.
Building android apps:

- kiosk app for employee survey

- groupon inspired app for niche market

- airbnb for dogs (thinking)

- building next version of niche appstore that i launched a year ago http://appsjhola.com

Fixing bugs on customer's website.

Looking to transition to a full time job in cool startup in San Francisco.
contractor / agency dev to => startup hacker (suggestions ?)

trying to finish reading Crossing The Chasm
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"If they could bang the thing out in a weekend then he can get somebody else to rebuild it."

Can he? He incorporated 18 months before Startup Weekend, and had literally nothing to show for that time, except a business plan. Evidence strongly indicates he could not (easily) "get somebody else to rebuild it". Which is why he came to Startup Weekend and defrauded 8 developers out of their time and skill. He clearly couldn't (or wouldn't) pay market rates to get it done, or he would have done so in the 18 months preceding this.
As someone wrote above, weight doesn't matter that much, and since the most likely configuration would be one behind the other, the aerodynamics wouldn't suffer that much.
Edit : post below is right, nonces are only for inline scripts https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89577

original: IIRC CSP already has hashes for resources, which also would handle this purpose.

As a side note, there's at least one CDN already hosting fake copy of bootstrap - I've seen a mlicious extension loading it in my report-uri.io logs.
Really impressive program! I'm a beginner as well and I'd like to know about how you learned to program. Your code looks advanced to me:)
Thanks for pushing back on that point. I realized that part was a mistake a couple hours after posting it. HN would be a lot less interesting if we only had articles from famous people/companies/etc.

(BTW, I appreciate the transparency and openness your posts bring to HN. I know that can't always be easy, but you're doing an awesome job.)
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Sure, they could.

OTOH, this might not be good either for the sites or the advertising networks. I suspect a lot of the influencers whose consumption of and subsequent free promotion of content drives views are also people who use ad-blockers -- make their experience worse, and fewer of the non-adblocking masses will see your site, consumer your ads, and pay your bills.
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EDIT: Made a mistake with the numbers!

This is interesting; 1.2hp is about 895 watts. Assuming he's probably 65kg (total guess from the looks of him). That means he can do about 13.7 Watts/KG for 1-minute. According to the chart I posted above, looking at 1 minute power, that puts him as a Far to Moderate level cyclist. Even giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming 55kg, making the ratio a better 16.2 Watts/KG, that just moves him up to the "Good" category.

So perhaps a lot of improvement could be had moving to a professional cyclist.
Typical Canadians. Their country's flag is smaller than the GMC logo. I hope someone from UofT alumni relations gives them a call.

If you are going for a speed record, you need something more like this:
http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/olympics-sk...
ryandrake's point was probably that his car is cleaner than necessary, but failing because of stupid, arbitrary rules imposed by CARB for no reason other than bureaucratic intransigence.

It's similar to the feeling I got when I waited in line for an hour to have my Miata smog-checked at a busy urban test station, and then choked on diesel exhaust from a dump truck when I made the mistake of driving away with the top down. CARB is the poster child for "Doing something just to say we're doing something."
Wow, I hadn't considered it that way. Thank you for broadening my perspective on the matter. This puts services like Facebook in a much more positive light than the way I'd considered before.

I haven't seen "This is 40", but I personally know many poor people who drive very fancy new cars and spend on extravagant things, while simultaneously being overwhelmed by stress from lack of money. I haven't figured out how to understand that yet, but these are intelligent, rational people, who make monetary decisions that are impossible (so far) for me to understand.
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Mine has not been processed yet, but it has only been a few hours.
Thank you. I should have clicked the link before posting. I'd agree that a better option would have been to have an ad network whitelist option to reward those who strive for improving UX. Tough spot to be in.
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You are looking at maximal power output for 5 seconds (the left most column) while you should be looking at maximal power output for 1 minute (the 2nd column from left) :)
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> It is because when I'm in the middle of something I do not want to be told to pay someone else for goods I do not need.

That's probably the most common reason. I doubt people actually click on annoying ads in significant numbers these days. Perhaps publishers could settle for tracking only, preferably server-side without 3rd parties involved, thereby removing the most common motivation for ad blocking? Tracking data could then be sold to e-commerce sites for retargeting based on reading habits. Everyone wins, especially if privacy-conscious users can opt out of this kind of tracking.
Even with the app [temporary] pulled, it now showed there is money to be made from ad blockers, so it's only a matter of time before clones appear in the appstore.
Haha, and as a native English speaker, I also fall for these traps. English is a silly language, sometimes.
Max speed has very little to do with weight as long as you have sufficient room to accelerate. Additional drag would be small if you put one rider in front of the other and both inside of a fairing. The frontal area and shape could stay the same. This is the major source of drag. There would be small amounts of additional drag from the air running along a longer fairing, but doubling the power would more than make up for it.

However, the speed would nowhere near double. Power required to overcome drag force is related to velocity cubed. So if you double power, the velocity will increase by a factor of (2)^1/3 or the cube root of 2, 1.259.

So if they added another rider of equal power and managed to keep drag the same (it would actually increase a little) they'd go around 25% faster or 107 mph. You may run into other problems like stability and bumpiness first though.
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Why is it illegal now? I think it would be more fun if is was legal for the very, very, few cases where it can actually help a player.
It's interesting to see somebody else working on a code review tool for GitHub, but I was trying to figure out how it compares to Reviewable.io and there's really not enough information in the blog post to tell. Any chance you could add some screenshots, or a running demo instance, so it would be easier to check out? Thanks.
After this (pulling the app after 2 days) I will be very hesitant to ever buy anything made by Marco again. Hopefully Apple processes my refund.
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I think—maybe?—his thesis is based on a flawed assumption: that for advertisements to be a "good user experience" they need to be native and served by the site themselves. I think—maybe?—that ad networks can exist in such a way that they continue to provide outsourced services to sites, without being obnoxious.

Is this impossible?
Actually m.reddit.com tends to have cleaner results than the desktop site when using lynx.
When the Queen is placed, it becomes Black's turn. Black is not in check, but is in a situation where there are no legal moves for Black to play (his pawns cannot advance, and the king has no legal squares to land on. Because of this, Black can claim a draw instead of a loss.
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I highly recommend uBlock in Firefox for Android. It works pretty much the same as on desktop, which is to say excellently.
I think that courts do take individual circumstances into account and must be allowed to do so. I don't deny at all that it can be unfair, but I don't think inflexible rules like three-strikes sort of laws or draconian minimum sentences that take away the judge's wiggle room are any fairer.

A prison sentence for a parent is not just hurting the kid more, it's also much harsher on the parent. You're not only taking away their freedom, you're also taking away their kid. In effect, that is differential treatment as well. But I will admit that I'm not comfortable with this line of argument either.

The case of auto makers breaching environmental rules is much simpler though as a large fine that does not cause factory and dealership closures or price hikes is better in every imaginable way.
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1.2 horsepower for a minute is a damn fine effort. A college friend of mine is a domestic pro. Last I heard his max power was 1100 watts and his 30 second power was 1050 watts.

One horsepower is 732 watts so 1.2 * 732 = 878 which is an entirely reasonable number for a 60 second power test.

Also remember that drag goes with the speed squared, so getting a cyclist who is 20% more powerful might cause less than a 10% increase in speed, especially considering that the power of the cyclist may not be the limiting factor but instead the ergonomics of the vehicle, getting the run exactly right (being at max speed over the right 200m rather than any 200m), or something else entirely.
Individual anecdotes don't mean much. You can find objective data on car reliability on TrueDelta and Long-Term Quality Index. Those aren't true random samples but still pretty useful.

http://www.truedelta.com/car-reliability

http://tradeinqualityindex.com/reports/Volkswagen.html
You are right. This happened to me couple months ago, round trip flight from A->B was $1500, while round trip price from A->B->C was $900. I bought A->B->C round trip for $900, and used only A->B. When I was coming back from B->A, I found out that my booking number is invalid, I spoke to Lufthansa's representative and she said ticket is not actually canceled, it is locked, to unlock it I need to pay extra $600 to make up for difference in price. I said that I did not get any notice of cancellation or locking, I said it does not make any sense and I do not think it is legal, since I have purchased a service and had a ticket in my hand. Rep did not argue that it is irrational, but she said they won't unlock my ticket unless I pay. Basically they forced me to pay. After I payed my original booking number worked and seats remained the same, which affirms, that ticket was locked not canceled.

I am wondering why airlines are allowed to cancel the ticket if you do not use one leg, why is it even legal?

Now I am in the process of disputing charges with my bank on basis that they made me pay twice for the same service and canceled it without notification.
I heard the 12k baud modem sound the moment I saw the GUI.

Do I have old programmer's PTSD?

:-)
I don't think regulations are the only solution to this problem. I think content creators have been too greedy/hopeful while there is so very much competition and a _very_ low barrier to entry. They are nostalgic for the days of large newspaper advertising margins and the domination of peoples' attention by a single newspaper/magazine during a reading session that they don't understand how people use their product now.

Content creators are desperate for more revenue so they throw on another tracking pixel, another web ad placement, another sponsorship. None of this helps the fact that content on the web is a commodity and people value their time and attention span.

Large lawsuits against the ad networks for allowing malware infections and drive-by downloads would have had an effect, but unless regulation has real teeth, it's just a hindrance or a "cost of business" with no value added to the consumer.
Wow you're absolutely right, my mistake! Todd must be a very, very fantastic cyclist!
The irony is that the biggest player here, Google, was also the most aggressive in placing ads. I had the pleasure of working with various AdSense and DFP Specialists. Basically it was all about how and where to place ads in the most eye-catching ways, and as many as possible, without breaking AdSense rules. Bigger ads = usually better (in particular those large rectangles, yuck). Higher up the fold = better (funny enough the Google Search team later penalitzed you when you replaced your up-the-fold content with non-content ad stuff - which shows that there are Chinese walls separating various Google teams).
you could just add a new public=true option to counter this. I think you can even already check that with an iframe (or js head inject & timing) anyway, no need for CSP for that.
If the ultimate and only resolution to this is that VW has to pay a fine, or other outgoing monies due to the recalls, in an amount that is not significant to the operation of their business, nobody should be surprised that this happened, nor question whether it can happen again.
Well, right now it's people.

But I see no reason the NYT or some such site couldn't fund itself the same way.

[Edit, posted in reply to the wrong person]
If that's your idea of explicit then we can just agree to disagree. In an article that spends several paragraphs "explicitly" discussing the ominous tidings of growing corporate power (and with which I wholly agree) what you see as an "explicit" acknowledgement of the role of government regulation in the problem is a vague allusion at best. Imo, of course.
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My main point was that paywalls, and subscription services in general, are not really reviled. They are just annoying in some contexts, like linking.

But I also think it's futile to ask a mass audience that rightfully feels abused by ad tech to be ethical about what they do about ads. But even if they do consider ethics, ad blockers are a proportionate response to intrusive ad tech. A fancy way to say "trackers, Web bugs, and other icky tricks are getting what they deserve."

Lastly, it isn't up to the audience to fix this. It is entirely up to ad-funded publishers. Some will go to paywalls. I'm not that optimistic that ad tech developers can let go of their dark patterns. That's a business that might crash before it reforms, or at least retreats into balkanized walled gardens. Too many paychecks depend on not understanding that.
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Who are these 'grammarians', and why should anyone care what makes them bristle? They evidently have a complete lack of appreciation for the semantic content of sentences and can only see syntax. What a very poor view of language that would be.

Professional writers, editors, and teachers of language would be perfectly fine with those sentences, because they understand language as being made up of syntax AND semantics.
I think a lot of the recent pushback against adverts is driven by video and specifically autoplaying video ads.

As an advertiser I might well be tempted to stop displaying video ads if I was convinced that a big proportion of users were blocking video but not text ads.

Sadly most blockers are all or nothing. Most users are not going to go to the trouble of whitelisting individual sites so a better middle ground would be global AD blocker settings:

Off - Block nothing
Low - Block popups
Medium - Block popups and video
High - Block everything

If that was a common model it would encourage some reasonable behaviour on both sides.
I have misgivings about GPL. It's given me a lot, and I appreciate that, but while developing I won't use GPL libraries because I simply don't like being told what to do, and per the golden rule, I don't like telling people what to do, so I cannot with good moral standing release GPL code.
Ideally, you would use this knowledge to start a business
Sadly, it just ends up being a sad and inaccurate propaganda piece. I'll never understand why people have to spend so much time on what amounts to pure bullshit. Russia has an interesting and rich history that this just pisses all over.
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There's also Google Contributor.

https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

I'd be fine with websites requiring a Google Contributor login for unlimited access.
Chess problems are a whole field of puzzles. I don't often see ones that are quite as cool as that but there are absolutely tons of them out there.
I want syndication, where I pay a reasonable amount per month for ad-free access to a number of sites of my choice.

Someday I'll understand why nobody has put something like this together, but I'm not there yet.
That same audience is now 15 years older and more experienced.
>you can lobby your local city or state to pass laws against obnoxious billboards, but at some point it is someone else's property

Such bans are completely possible and within the rights of a local jurisdiction - they're just extremely rare and not something society generally seems to care about. In actuality, branding and advertising is engrained in our culture. I hear friends talk about their favorite ads all the time - instead of the TV show the ads interrupted. I know a very large number of people who watch the Superbowl "just for the ads". I can't convince anyone who visits me in NYC to skip Times Square, because they really want to see that pit of blinking ads for themselves. Many moviegoers love how the theater wastes 15 minutes of their time playing previews (i.e. ads). I could go on and on with my biased examples :)

My point is that we are a consumerist society; anyone who has worked in advertising lives off of this fact and knows it's true. The real problem is internet advertisers took it way too far.
> If it doesn't run from the shell, it's not a shell.

I think you are using "shell" in two different ways in the sentence, and I don't think the resulting construct is true (I think you may be saying if it doesn't run in a text terminal its not a shell, but shells don't have to be terminals -- GUI shells are a thing.)
You pay the NYT for a subscription, not tip after the fact for content.

If you don't like what they make, you stop subscribing.
While I know it would suck to wipe out, I'm hoping with this thing it may be more of a "slide for 1000ft and off the flat road" type of suck than a "life altering injury" type of suck.
By the way. I have an SRI tester to determine if your browser supports SRI. It's still very new and doesn't have a lot of support

https://ejj.io/sri/