skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not accurate. Using an ad blocker makes no demand whatsoever of people producing content, who are completely free to stop displaying it in public.

Imagine the following:

In a busy shopping mall, a busker starts to play music. A crowd starts to form enjoying the music.

Then, a strange thing happens - people with clipboards and cameras start to walk through the crowd taking photos of the shoppers and their children, making notes of their genders, heights and weights, clothing, and the shopping bags they are carrying, plus whether or not the women are pregnant.

A minute or two into the performance, more people walk through the crowd, holding placards with brand and product names on them. They walk up to each person, holding the placard in front of them and blocking their view, using a stopwatch to make sure they do so for at least 30 seconds.

One of the women says - 'hey, that's not cool - stop being so creepy'.

The clipboard and placard people remain silent, but the busker shouts - "hey - that's how I get paid! If you don't like it you are a criminal, stealing my performance".
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In the UK, and particularly England which is a lot more euro-sceptic than the rest of the UK, it's a standing joke that the UK or England isn't part of Europe, and "Europe" is often used to refer to Europe or the EU excluding the UK.
What has malware got to do with anything?
No. Can confirm they do in fact serve HTML5 video as I was able to watch the video in Chrome for Android.
Canadians are NOT alright with this practice. Corporations from Norway have industrial pens of Atlantic salmon in Pacific waters within Canada. This is not just a concern, the items you list are problems today, as well as pollution from the pens, and over-fishing of traditional stocks to provide feed for the farmed fish.

Without the public's knowledge because these deals and the details within these documents that are being signed are kept secret, and without the consent of most Canadians, politicians in Canada have signed off on foreign corporations extracting resources and exporting profits from Canada -- and if we try to stop you, you can sue our government and collect even more money.
Ie.to getting crazy traffic
I'd consider the SFBA startup scene in those same categories.
>one possible situation that would help convince me is if we had a "control" planet

So on this one issue it's impossible for you to be convinced.
pretty basic backstory: I read a biography every morning to inspire my day. My friends wanted me to create a newsletter about it. I don't know python or anything like that but managed to duct tape some plugins together on a static html page.

I used to run email marketing at Homejoy at one point so wanted to exercise those muscles before they atrophy (currently unemployed)
I noticed it's Linux only but I'm on Macbook.
http://toprightnews.com/uh-oh-this-is-what-happened-when-ahm...
You should try f.lux [1], it will drive you up a wall.

[1]: https://justgetflux.com/
Speaking of Newton, Apple released

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_%28platform%29

in August of 1993. The Palm Pilot came out in March of 1997. Of course, there were PDAs long before the Newton, too, but Apple's role in mobile goes back farther than you give them credit for. They were part of the "slog," not just the "breakthrough."

> at least the voyager was still a more usable phone than the "you're holding it wrong" days of the iPhone.

Again, you have your timeline wrong. The antenna issues didn't pop up until the 4rd generation iPhone.

> And people tend to forget Palm Pilots when worshiping the genius that is iPhone.

No, we remember Palm Pilots and the like which is why we worship the genius that is the iPhone design. There's a reason why all contemporary phones follow it. If you think "hype" is the only reason why people switched then you're selectively forgetting the issues with the older designs.
“We don’t do autism”
The EPA Opposes Rules That Could’ve Exposed VW’s Cheating
Separating out 'Desktop Chrome' from Android makes this a deliberate Apple's to Oranges comparison. They are both Google products.

You're free to run 'Desktop Chrome' or Firefox on Apple's 'Deskrop' computers. Nothing anticompetitive there.
Design of the Apollo LM Descent Guidance Software (1994)
> Why was iOS's inclusion of ad blocking capabilities the turning point in what seemed to be an already-unstoppable movement towards a return to sanity for the web?

Because iOS was the last major platform on which true adblocking was (AFAIK) completely impossible until this week.

Desktop browsers have had adblocking for ages, and even non-rooted Android devices can block ads in webpages (root is required only to block ads in native apps).
I just want to live in a clean, healthy, diverse and vibrant environment regardless of any climate science. It's unfortunate that your standards are so low when it comes to pollution, the mass extinction human activity creates and the general destruction of the planets ancient ecosystems but seeing as you don't really care it would be wise to get out of the way of the people who do.
No, i'm with you. Falsification is a huge deal.

As far as "complex" goes, i'm thinking of the old strange attractor. I don't know if it'll rain on sept 19 2016, but i think it's safe to say there will be 3 inches of rain next september. If we refine our understanding and language, there's a nice probability density function for quantity of rain over the month of sept 2016. Not much probability around 0, not much beyond 6, but a big lump right there at 3.

I outright reject the "no model is possible" argument. If nothing else, it's that way because god wills it. Some folks argue weather is related to frequency of gay sex. I'm confident the above paper outperforms that model.

The nice thing about the above model is it is testable. we know historical variation around the prediction. We can make a prediction based on increasing CO2, then increase it, and see how our prediction plays out. (edit and we did, and the model was pretty good, but earth actually got warmer faster than the paper predicted http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/04/evalua...)

So, anyway, weather works "somehow" and we can make forecasts. Although it's never been tested, i'm pretty sure Pat Robertson is wrong and it's not gay sex driven.

So, i still dont' get why it's not settled. The best models we have are refinements of the above paper. Is there some other model that gives better answerers?
I'm guessing this post only renders if I go disable Peace. Whoops!
Fascinating! Here's another, longer article about this phenomenon: http://www.nortrade.com/sectors/articles/norways-introductio...
All of which are a play on 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Science,' I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
University of Sydney Student Smashes NASA Record for Fuel Efficiency
Our incentives have changed. At the time, the US was afraid of Japan (and justifiably so). But US military presence in Japan for the last half-century has meant that the Japan doesn't have to invest any money in security: they have instead invested that money in becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. And that has happened, to a large extent, at the expense of US taxpayers. The interdependence of our economies makes the US less afraid of Japan trying to take over the world, and the US economy is no longer strong enough to be propping up the economies of other nations.
> I remain astonished that supposedly educated people could ever believe otherwise

Let me take a stab at this:

> thoroughly insufficient as proof of any long-term trend we can expect to continue in a non-linear system as complex as the global climate

Sometimes, non-linearity doesn't really matter. Human body is complex system, we don't fully understand it, but you wouldn't stand in front of a car that runs 100kph. Because then we just know what is going to happen, from perfectly linear Newton's law.

In the 1950s, Plass did some equilibrium calculations of climate sensitivity to CO2. I think he came with a value around 2 degrees. Modern consensus is 3. This all happened despite decades of research, involving all sorts of additional non-linearities. What does that tell you? He was right in the ballpark, and he actually had a decent model!

Just as we cannot say what injuries you end up with in the first example, we cannot easily say what will happen to the Earth. But we are very certain it will heat up (and roughly how much). Unless of course humans on the Earth react non-linearly and decide not to emit more CO2, just like person in front of a car can somewhat non-linearly jump to the side.
It seems like we agree on the general principles here, but I think you have to be pragmatic about applying them.

We all live together in the same society, so we can never have complete freedom and universal rights. If nothing else, sometimes the rights and freedoms we value come into conflict.

A classic example is that in general we might want to protect freedom of expression and we might also respect a right to privacy. However, at some point those competing interests are incompatible, and so we have to try to balance them as fairly as we can.

Finding that balance is particularly difficult in cases where the damage caused from a violation may be very high but such violations are rare in practice. This is probably true, at least in countries like mine, both of fighting real violent terrorism and of real damage from blanket government surveillance. In both cases, we're also concerned about the potential future harm, not just the actual risk of harm today.

Unfortunately, hardly anyone is in a position to realistically assess the risk and make an informed personal judgement about what they think a good balance should be in an ideal world, even before we consider legitimate differences of opinion or the complications of not living in an ideal world.
Nokia produced the first Communicator model in 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator

Compaq was making PocketPC based PDAs that could, via an external "jacket" make use of a PCCard mobile modem for connectivity somewhere around 2000-2001.

HTC was making phones running Windows Mobile as early as 2002-2003.
After graduating from a nanodegree program, Udacity now reimburses students half the cost. I'm in the full-stack program and this definitely motivated me to sign-up and motivates me to finish it, too.
The Spy Who Was Innocent
Social sharing widgets are ads.
Pattern Matching in Swift
That works well until you get to sites that randomize the id/class/whatever of the element or automatically reinsert it once you kill it. At that point i usually look for a different site. Urgh. I wouldn't mind ads if the weren't that fucking annoying.
My Range Rover Was Hacked/Stolen
I would take that a step higher in abstraction and say

"His mistake was to stop going above and beyond because someone told him it wasn't required"

The lesson we can all take from this is to give you absolute best - if your immediate manager(s) are not ready for it, don't stop just because they can't handle it.
> misanthropic environmentalist nonsense

You're confusing hating cancer cells with hating all cells. Not everybody takes and exploits and degrades everything as a matter of course. A bunch of people do, and a whole lot don't stand up to them. If we don't destroy our environment it's not because we cared or payed attention, but just because we're lucky, once again. This doesn't do for me. That's all. What other people of "my generation" think is not my concern either.
Zveno project
Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA (+ Go Implementation, Throttled)
(citation needed) Really, several citations at least considering how broad and blanketing that statement is.
With that technical and journalistic pedigree, I expect him to be able to explain the issue and investigative details
> But as an oldie, I can tell you that there is good music out there.

I agree there is a ton of great music out there (I too am an "oldie", having reached 48 this year). You just need to know where to look.

I recommend listening to Stuart Maconie's Freak zone programmes on BBC Radio 6. He does a two hour "Freak Zone" [0] on a Sunday evening and an extra one hour "Freakier Zone" early Monday mornings [1], they're packed with all sorts of goodies.

Thanks for the tipoff about OPN (been on my list for a while) and Hecker (brand new to me).

If you prefer the more melodic sounds of BoC then you should check out the Ghostbox label [2]. Lots of good stuff there and with a nod towards hauntology [3] from a British perspective (see also works by Robin The Fog and Howlround [4] if that's an aural itch you need to scratch). I also particularly recommend King of Woolworths[5], an incarnation of Jon Brooks who also records as The Advisory Circle [6]. Ming Star is very bloody good.

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06chqml

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06chp7h

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Box_Music

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology

[4]: http://robinthefog.com/

[5]: http://www.discogs.com/artist/16510-King-Of-Woolworths

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Advisory_Circle
In this case, VW didn't game the regulation. They gamed the test conditions. They deliberately violated the regulation. Violations should be expected on occasion. Violators should expect to be punished when caught.
This is pretty much exactly the message of a talk I attended at CU Boulder. The Microsoft researcher spoke of how linear regression for the classification of whether a given medical patient will be re-admitted to the hospital offered much more valuable insight into the relationships different diseases had to the probability of re-admittance.

Moreover, not-so-obviously strange rules learned by more complex models were exposed as strange by the information-dense pictorial representation of linear regression.
Houston's Surge Accelerator Is Taking Time to Smell the Roses
HN is horroble on Android too, because the HN powers refuse to create a mobile layout.
At that time the iPod was hugely successful. Phones got more and more features very quickly: web/wap browsers, e-mail, cameras, installable games. The Motorola ROKR was the first try at combining an iPod with a phone. It failed.
Back then everybody was expecting an iPodPhone in the near future.
Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful
Billboards can't track you all over the country
Not at all, there could be plenty of other evidence, I just can't imagine what it would be. Other than some kind of control planet, or maybe a complete overturning of nonlinear dynamics and/or chaos theory maybe.

Of course, if the ocean was engulfing whole communities faster than people could run uphill, or people were choking on CO2, I'd probably be a whole lot less rational about it and say "let's throw things at the wall to see what sticks."

But so far, and after reading what I figure are among the strongest arguments out there, it still looks like your typical doomsday story dressed up as science.
Or the mother of all examples out of Spain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

What is interesting is that once you look into it, it is structured similarly to some of the conglomerates (keiretsus) of Japan. Basically they have their own bank etc, in part because external banks were not interested in doing business with them.
AI bots try to fool human judges
That doesn’t happen to me on my iPad Air running iOS 7. A big part of that might be because I have the iPad connect to a proxy server which blocks a huge swath of ad servers though.
> completely impossible

There were many 3rd party browsers on the App Store with ad blocking support since iOS 4 or earlier.
yeah, I used to fly London-San Francisco regularly. About 11 hour flight time. With hand luggage only, that came down to 16 hours door to door (based on hotel in Palo Alto or Menlo Park), of which 1h30 was travelling between home and London Heathrow.

The moment you need connecting flights is when you start racking up the extra time rapidly.
Saw this hit the mailing list this morning. Not sure why this thread happened when it's reposting the one the announcement listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240572 .

Regardless, this is a surprisingly diverse set of Erlang related articles that I was pleased to see brought together. A few I hadn't read before.
Thanks, [2] is a very nice paper with intuitive ideas and insights. To summarize it: When the common people agree and few disagree there are great expectations that a generalization is possible and effective.
Jumping in here, but I always suggest just packaging something pretty vanilla outside of a web app due to all the aforementioned specifics and impedence mismatches of deploying web apps.

Learning some of the innards of the package management system of your machines is surely a good idea in itself, if only because you are relying on them so much. Even if you just say "screw it" and use shell scripts to deploy anyway.
The quick answer: American tech journalists. Their audiences are the most likely to run iOS and know how to use an ad blocker.

They're terrified, they write a bunch of articles, and it spreads around a little. I'd be really interested to see some data over the next few weeks, so we can determine whether their fears were justified.
It is not just ironic, it's silly. The entire discussion about ad blocking is silly. Why should it be immoral to render a horrible way of monetization useless? Ad blockers are doing the world a favour by sending a strong signal "this far and no further". There are many ways to cleanly embed plain images into websites in a non-obstructive way. Appropriate images. The ad industry has to learn or die, this is evolution and its result is improvement.
> US military presence in Japan for the last half-century has meant that the Japan doesn't have to invest any money in security

Wikipedia seems to disagree with you [1]:

> In 1976, then Prime Minister Miki Takeo announced defense spending should be maintained within 1% of Japan's gross domestic product (GDP), a ceiling that was observed until 1986. As of 2005, Japan's military budget was maintained at about 3% of the national budget; about half is spent on personnel costs, while the rest is for weapons programs, maintenance and operating costs. As of 2013, Japan currently has the fifth largest defense budget in the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Budg...
I don't have Flash installed and was able to watch the video without issue in Firefox.
What I find ridiculous in this article is how bad and social focused Google hiring has become. Google regularly declines to hire people with pHds or decades of real dev experience for developer jobs, yet hires a person after one "full stack developer course?" Reading between the lines we can see how this really works: female: +1, ivy school: +1, young: +1, etc.

On the topic of udacity, I knew from the beginning these claims that they were going to replace traditional education were equally ridiculous. Their courses might get some people jobs they can't handle, and those organizations will subsequently fail at their attempts to develop products. I see stupid stuff all day long. My previous employer hired (IMO) unqualified engineers for (IMO) social reasons. Those people did not commit anything resembling code for months, but of course social politics of the workplace prevented them from being fired or anyone saying anything about their non-work.

Traditional education is traditional. This means everything else has been tried. Everything. MOOC's are not dissimilar to paper based correspondence work that has been around somewhere on the planet for probably hundreds of years. When it gets down to reality, the surviving companies are not going to say, "you watches some videos for a few months, welcome aboard." Those companies that do will slowly die off.
It wasn't impossible. There were basically two solution up until now: use an alternative browser with ad blocking included (e.g. iCab), or a VPN that filters ads for you.
The causation may work the other way. Go programmers may be Go programmers because problems caused by generics aren't common for them. Python programmers might be using Python because they're working in a domain where static typing causes more problems than it solves.

Similarly, many people may choose their political party because the issues the party ignores just aren't that important to them.

That's pretty much what making a values trade-off is: accepting some problems as normal and unfixable because the fix, in your eyes, isn't worth the trouble it causes.
Ionide – F# Dev Tools for the Atom Editor
The difference from then and now is patents.

Gates himself admitted that if the current patent system had been in place back when MS got started, it would never have gotten off the ground.
Did you read the page you linked?

The supreme court ruled that billboard bans based on location (for city and land planning purposes) would be appropriate, but billboard bans which determined which kinds of content were appropriate for public discourse were unconstitutional. A blanket ban across the state is constitutional, but a ban which targets certain kinds of content is not.
I'm down in Holland, thinking about visiting Norway soon, it's just across the little pond, after all. Maybe some of that implicit status will rub off on my during my visit. You have a recommendation for a good place for a Norway-newbie to visit?
That sort of missed the point, though. The songwriting is a tiny part of a song. Most of the popularity value is in the audio and video production and in the persona of the person who mouths the words and stars in the video, and those aren't credited.
The Seattle Desgign Festival 2015 – Design for Equity
Nvidia 's new GPU proves moon landing truthers wrong
HN is actually pretty great on the Android default browser on an older Samsung phone. My only complaint is the vote button placement and size.

Other browsers like Firefox and Chrome completely fail at reflowing HN.
Because numbers seem to point to iOS being the dominant device web browser (Android appears to be installed on many more devices, but people browse the web on their iPhones and iPads). The brouhaha is because the default browser now allows ad blocking. The FUD is about reach.

For the record as a guy who uses ad blockers religiously and has also worked in the web ad industry, I think it's completely overblown and not much will change.
She's 10. She has HIV. This is the moment she learns the truth
There was actually a very sensible rule followed in China and Japan about eating raw fish. You only ate sea fish raw, while freshwater fish were always cooked.

There's a good rationale behind this. Freshwater fish tend to carry parasites that can cross the species boundary between fish and human. Whereas, sea fish do not tend to carry such parasites. You can understand the reason for that based on natural selection. Its an exceedingly rare event for a sea fish to be eaten by a land mammal (at least it was on the scale of evolutionary time before modern times), so most parasites of sea fish have not evolved a mechanism to exist in land mammal bodies. Whereas fresh water fish are often eaten by land mammals, and so many strains of parasites have adapted to make a smooth transfer from fish to land mammal body.

Its very sensible NOT to eat raw Salmon. Although they end up in the sea, they have two phases of life in bodies of fresh water where they can pick up parasites that can transfer to a human host.