skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this. It doesn't come down to not wanting to look at ads (though that's a big part), it comes down to exploits being served through massive ad networks that no human has the time to vet.

I'll start unblocking ads the moment site creators start taking responsibility for what they display. My hourly rate for machine fixing is many times more than the few tenths of a penny you got for my ad impression.
Crazy! Good thing I'm using Whatsapp :)
More like demonstrate.
I think it's more of an incentive problem, after a disaster like say Hurricane Katrina it's really hard to stand up and publicly say everything is working just fine.

Ideally, you want to be able to say well "where it not for the other guy we would have implemented my solution!" Which creates huge pressure based on how bad things look vs. how they actually are.
You can't just say "Computers are not papers. Papers is a well defined term" following a suggestion that this definition may be wrong.

The whole point of being 'secure in your papers' is to enable diplomacy and discussion that has a reasonable expectation of being inaccessible to those in power. It's not a place to lawyer the law into irrelevance.
I think you mean "positive feedback loop." A negative feedback loop tends to restore an equilibrium.
I think there's a number of interpretations of the results:

1. Women suffer more "stress and anxiety", "difficult tradeoffs", "time constraints", "burden of responsibility" and "conflict with their life goals" (direct quotes from article) in the same jobs as men due to discrimination

2. Women suffer more of the above, but due to biological differences. IOW the same situations result in more stress for women than for men.

3. Women and men suffer the same amount of these but assign them higher weight in their decision-making process. IOW the same amount of stress is enough to dissuade a woman, but not a man, from taking a position, due to different life priorities.
My mother always warned me to maintain focus or I will walk in front of a bus. Yet she denies to this day I have ADHD (would make her look bad???). After a lifetime thus far of poor coordination, constantly losing things, awkward social interaction and rarely finishing projects, I've come to terms with it. ADHD is associated with risky driving, dangerous misuse of power tools, other 'short cut' behaviors that undermine safety of adhd people and those around them. It IS a public health issue for that reason yet awareness is low.
A mainframe application written in COBOL, running in some kind of Java-based emulator, running in Tomcat, presented over the web.

When browsing to it you were literally presented with a terminal and had to enter insanely obscure commands (all single letter or two letter if they got fancy e.g. A L 1 (applications, list, select option #1 which you knew happen to be stock), X (exit/terminate), J L (jobs, list), J L 1 X (jobs, list, option #1, terminate), etc).

Oh and nobody knows how the COBOL code works because there is almost no documentation, nobody who wrote it still works there (or is alive?), and they cannot hire a COBOL programmer.

This is still used by a multi-national for all of their ordering/inventory/stock/etc. Instead of updating it or replacing it, they're just built a bunch of cruft around it which convert the outputted formats into whatever they need (e.g. binary format into CSV, CSV to binary).

I won't name the company, but you'll find their products in the entertainment section at all major retailers.
> otherwise content creators will have to either quit or throw up paywalls

There are other categories of content creators who don't expect payment.

For example I contribute data to Flightradar24. In return they provide me with an ad-less experience because, like forum websites, their very existence depends on user contributions.

Other people just run websites for fun and education and pay for it willingly out of their pocket. I had to step-up to a 200GB package from my ISP for that reason. No-one paid towards my costs and I don't expect anyone to do so.
So you are expecting France to face England in the semi's and the All Blacks (of course) in the finals.

Tough lineup.
Your example is actually pretty easy to track. That's why sites drop cookies and have look back logs.

Harder to track is when someone clicks on a link on mobile, and then switches to desktop to complete the transaction. Unless everyone is logged in, you have no chance of tracking the funnel.
ads stopped being pay-per-impression around 2001 or so. For actual money to flow, people need to click on ads. For the advertisers to want to spend money, people need to not just click on the ads but also convert (aka, go to the site and order something).

Why does this matter? If the total ad space expands, and therefore the number of ad views increases, people will still buy about the same amount of products they bought before, which means the total advertising revenue of all the sites will also still be the same.

What we'd need would be an ad blocker that allows us, at regular times, to go to a special page, get a list of all the ads, and click on some of them in a quiet moment where they don't interfere with site content. And of course all of these clicks would have to count as "organic" non-fraudulent clicks.
Back now.
It just loaded for me and says that everything is fine today. That also defeats the purpose.
Your plugins are copy and paste of several plugins used by Oh My Fish. Lucky for you Jorge has no ownership on those so he can't claim a DCMA Takedown.
I think there's a line that's often crossed. If there's no (or light) personalization, the ad shown will be relevant to the content it's next to, and maybe not relevant to me. If there's too much personalization, the ad shown will be relevant to me (or my browsing history), but not really relevant to the content it's next to. I would be less creeped out by personalization if the ads fit on the page; so when I view a news article about the Pope's visit, probably don't show me retargeting ads for a service provider whose API docs I was looking at yesterday; but if it's a technology site, then go ahead. Also take a lesson from Target; just because you can figure out I'm pregnant, don't make it obvious you know, put some deliberately mistargeted things in there too, so it looks more random.
Ask HN: My manager is asking me to violate MS licensing. What should I do?
The company I work for has a bunch of servers in colo running our websites. We've been a bit loose on Windows Server licenses in the past. We have some, but they are mostly OEM and a variety of versions. However, the big issue is around CALs and external connectors, of which we have none.

I had to research licensing in depth when putting together a proposal to replace all the servers. It turns out that we should have External Connector licenses, as well as about 35 CALs for internal users. We can no longer claim ignorance on this issue.

The company has decided to move fully to AWS in the next year, so the requirement has changed to keeping the colo going for 6 to 9 months. I supplied estimates to management of the cost of getting the licensing in order - around £7k. My manager has strongly suggested that his preference would be just to forget about it since it's only a few months and we've got away with is so far.

The management seem to think that MS can only request voluntary audits and that the worst case risk is that we'll be forced to buy what's required to become compliant.

My question is how I should respond to this, and what the law says. Bear in mind we're in the UK and the law may be different here compared the US.

(1) Is MS entitled to forcibly audit us?
(2) If we violate the licensing, what is the worst case? Can they enforce fines on the company?
(3) Is this a criminal matter, or a contractual/civil matter?
(4) What is the personal liability of individuals here? Are IT/Sysadmin people able to be held personally liable in law?

We actually received a voluntary Microsoft audit some time back (maybe 18 months ago), when we had a different IT manager and a dedicated sysadmin. The sysadmin did the audit work, but then he was made redundant. MS came back with a load of queries, but our IT manager at the time just ignored it until it went away. My concern is that this might flag us up for a more aggressive audit at some point.
Integrating Amazon Android/iOS Device Farm with Jenkins CI
Yes I do use goimports. Also very useful.
> To give you a personal experience: I was followed for a full block and cussed out by a homeless guy just the other day, a choice quote was "it's fuckin Ann Arbor man I know you got money!".

To give you a personal experience: The other day, I ran into five or six panhandlers on the walk between my apartment and the local Target. Without exception, each asked for change and each -without exception- either wordlessly accepted my refusal, or offered some variant of "Okay. Have a nice day.".

Panhandlers and homeless are people like any other. Some of them are obnoxious as shit, just like any other random slice of humanity. Some of them are gaming the system. Some of them are in temporary, but dire need. Some of them will always be in need due to some sort of serious, lasting damage.

I heartily agree that our country has failed a huge chunk of the poor who are in need of psychiatric services. Reinstating funding for effective, humane, state-run mental hospitals is probably about as important as setting up a self-sustaining colony on Mars. [0]

> My entire childhood growing up I never saw a single homeless person...

My parents also shielded me from all sorts of ugly and unfortunate things while I was growing up. I'm not sure that this decision was wise, but it's far too late to change it now. It wasn't until much, much later in life that I learned a little about how to look for the homeless, beggars, and squatters, and the measures that The State employs to try to keep them out of the public eye.

> If [the homeless] choose to [continue to live in homeless outreach programs]...

You missed an important sentence in the bit that you quoted:

>> But there are few opportunities for work once they get out, so the path often leads back to the streets and drink.

If you don't have a way to make enough money to get a place, it's very, very hard to get a place. If you get a dollar a day, and you spend a dollar a day, you're pretty much never going to be able to materially improve your situation on your own.

[0] That is to say, very, very important.
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Their Status page says "Facebook Platform is Healthy" but the page itself fails to load intermittently: https://developers.facebook.com/status/
It's had outages before. Facebook is more entrenched now than it was back in 2005. I think they'll survive.
And at the same time I make it even easier for google to build a high quality profile of my activities. I'm a bit paranoid, but that bothers me more than actually seeing the ads.
Of course, it happens only with developers who turn Gatekeeper off. As frustrated as some people are with Gatekeeper, this is exactly the kind of thing that it is designed to protect against. I've never turned Gatekeeper off on my macs (nor UAC off on Windows).
But transparency is a prerequisite for security. Free software isn't necessarily secure, but only if its free software can we check and verify or fix it and distribute modified versions.
If I want content from content creators, I pay for it.

Ads is the old print way of getting paid.

Now, just restrict access and require a subscription. Have trial periods.

Why are you so focused on ads when it 1. Doesn't make sense if users can just block it and 2. There are better options for me to pay content creators?

If you aren't interested in my 'preference' you lose out. The customer is just trying to have a normal relationship here... Abusive forced ads are not normal... IMHO.
Don't they have some number to call to drop a dime on this kind of thing?
The status page should probably be the link for the story now, since they're back up. At least until there's a better story about why they were down.
Cyber Sleuths cyberespionage cyberwarriors cyberspace cybersecurity cyberintrusions cybertheft cyberspying cyber operations
Status Page says they pushed new code at 9:28am PST, or right when these errors started.
> We hate shitty content creators (like Buzzfeed) who replicate content from other sources or even worse disguise ads with content (i.e. native advertising)

So why on earth are you going to those sites?

> We also hate paying for the whole site just to read a couple of articles every now and then. How about a pay-by-article model with widespread adoption from the industry?

That's literally what this is.
Brilliant. Thanks for that - will start having a read through this evening.
And here's a reference for hoopd's comment: https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/23/sexist-scientist-tim-...

edit// okay, here's another article that dives into the nuance and doesn't just try to plaster Tim Hunt. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-timothy-hunt...
Oh indeed, I don't trust them either. This is more a proposal of "if an even-handed compromise could be reached for allowing the pursuit of legitimate investigations only, here is what it might look like".

The point was to allow only access to "documents" that are (a) on a device physically in the possession of the police (ie NOT remote access) and (b) in a tamper-evident fashion. Making it impossible to do without your knowledge, and partially addressing both (1) and (3). (1) can be further addressed by keeping the key in a hardware module.

Computers have clearly replaced paper and are somewhat analogous. If we can change the construal of "marriage" we can change the construal of "papers".

The LEAF system was for intercepting communications in transit, which is different and I agree with preventing.
I like https://www.adieu.io/. You should try it
thanks for posting, really helpful guideline.
Indeed. This is a common fallacy among believers of bootstrapping, superintelligent AI: In order to understand and master the real world (and humans, for that matter), you first have to interact with the real world – i.e., you have to run experiments.
Thinking really, really hard about a physical problem will not solve that problem. Ancient philosophers tried it, without much success.[1]

[1] e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian_physics
That's not a fair claim. While some of the plugins come from OMF, proper attribution is given in the license.

Moreover, the majority of plugins in the repository do not, in fact, come from OMF.
Sure dude, I didn't proclaim my self public speaker of the HN community. It's just a way of saying. Jesus, some people in here are ready to dig up the hatchet first chance they get. Chill man, love and peace.
The USSR spent a ton of money making the Buran and had very little to show for their efforts other than a warehouse full of expensive, rusting junk.
Managing Hadoop Job Submission to Multiple Clusters
Looks like it's mostly back up, but a bit slow. Isn't this around the time they do their morning code push?

EDIT: Ads don't seem to be loading, and the sidebar doesn't load intermittently.
Review: Printrbot Crawlbot Changes Everything About Large CNC Routing
One of the hardest part with integrating former prisoners back into regular life is not only the lack of jobs but the restrictions on jobs they can take. Far too many states are regulated to the point the even trades many consider simple exclude felons. Even fire fighting in many states is not possible with convictions.

So besides giving them an opportunity to serve while incarcerated we need to make sure that incarceration does not keep them from rejoining society upon release simply because government rules tell them no.
I think the tvtropes forum used AdWords (? Not sure) and I certainly saw ads there which redirected to open the app store (on android).

I'm not certain, but I believe the ad network being used was associated with Google.

(Not that the ads were officially allowed, I think I read things on a Google support forum which indicated that they hadn't finished blocking those ads yet, or blocking them again when they were created again. Still, I think an ad agency has a responsibility to proactively(?) ensure that they do not serve any malicious (in the security sense) ads.)
Uh? Scala is not gradually typed, and in fact does not have these problems at all... :-?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10271527
No the emperor's clothes are fantastic!
But software patents are clearly a scam, too.
Is it in the best interest of AI not to kill us all?
"Port" could imply something like a JTAG port internal to the device which is very hard to selectively disable. Or a one-shot system involving antifuses in the processor.
You might want to add the LICENSE to the following plugins then: extract, grc, pip and python. (4 out of 7 plugins)
That test was very interesting. I got 13/14 and I'm certain I know which one I got wrong, as I was torn between two options for only a single question.

I've always been great with faces - but I'll forget someone's name in a matter of seconds.

I'm not sociable at all and actively avoid all contact, going as far as to avoid dinner with my own mother. If that works as a data point against extrovert + facial recognition.

I'd lean more towards observant - and it's something I actively trained myself in. Always remember small details, as they can often be the most important and distinguishing ones.
Don't you feel a bit ripped off? Why does google get to keep the extra? How do we know they aren't still showing you SOME ads, just not all of them, and the price for that is $15?

The way I would be in 100% support of this would be if I could go and "top up" my ad-support-budget. Say I add $50.. and from then on every Google served ad gets swallowed up and my balance gets deducted whatever the bid price was, with the same % going to the contributor site.

When my $50 is up, ads return. I can choose to refill as I want, or set it up to auto-refill with $20 when it runs out, sending me an email or whatnot.

I really really really like this concept, but man, they need to be really honest with their implementation.
It's really nice, but lack specific feature of auto-importing packages while typing. Like, if you type `fmt.` and package is not imported yet, you'll not see any completions.

So, I've implemented it a while ago in separate coding-helping plugin, see the gif: https://github.com/reconquest/vim-pythonx#autoimport

UPD: also, some gifs, showing how coding routine I believe should be done (Golang taken as example): https://github.com/reconquest/snippets#let-me-show. Type less, get more.
> such that they can focus on higher value added work.

If the trend continues until nearly everything is free+open then there may be less and less work which is considered "value added".
33 Accelerators for Indie Game Developers
This is going to have such a bad knock-on effect on all apps that rely on the Facebook Graph API. I mean, I can't even use Tinder right now!
I think (and I am not lawyer and not your lawyer) that the onus is on you to prove that you don't have the encryption key (anymore) or have access to it. I don't know what case law exists on this.
Google ads used to be valuable because they were based on the content of the site you were currently watching. Doubleclick (later bought by Google) and others already did the tracking thing and didn't get mileage out of it. Retargeting (i.e. following you around with ads for something that you may buy with a more than 3% chance because you actually searched for it) is the opposite of that, purely tracking-based and mostly annoying.
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I'd be interested in reading these articles if you have them.
I think it's BS to cast "people who respond to GET requests" as mobsters. If you want them to leave you alone just stop asking them for things.
so that's why Tinder suddenly needed me to log in...
About three months ago I started a serious attempt to port my projects from Python v2 to v3. Although I do not deploy on OS X, I do a fair bit of development on OS X.

My setup:
1) never use the system Python for development.
2) install Python 2.7.10 and 3.4.3 from mac ports.
3) Always work in a virtual environment.
4) When developing generic scripts, use the port select method to switch between versions.
5) Have virtual environments built out for both versions.

What I've not yet done is write a script to build a binary 2.7 and 3.4 wheel.
In that case, I'd likely just refer to the 2.7 and 3.4 versions specifically instead of generically (ie. python2.7 and python3.4 vs. just python).
Yup. I consider SQLAlchemy heavy-duty. For light use, Peewee is extremely easy to use and quick to set up.
Not only that, but you can write your optimized queries, and still use the ORM. So you can get the best of both worlds.
Stop Preparing Your Defense for a Job Interview, Ask Questions Instead
Their mobile app (iOS) is working fine
This should make for a good postmortem.
/24 can easily be moved.
And if I have 65000 /24s with varying utilization (like Apple,) and could turn that into money by coalescing and adding NAT, that would drive change.
The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos
I love that way of summing it up: "oh it's totally possible for you to walk home at night. You might just endure much more pain and suffering for it."

Another thing worth pointing out: women are socialized to believe that conflict is unladylike. For them to avoid positions that they have an expectation of generating conflict is to fit with what the patriarchy teaches.
http://sitemeer.com works too
If you've reported your concerns in writing (email), keep a local copy in a pst and take it home. CYA.

I don't know how the situation is now (US or UK), but in past years the BSA could show up in the US with warrants and a US Marshal or two in tow to force an audit on their terms.
Check for the License.
reason.com follows the same naming convention as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
How to survive your cloud provider outage?
> much of the web I know and love will cease to exist

Which parts of the web are those exactly?

You'd be surprised at how creative people can get when their livelihoods are threatened by changing business models. Those who come up with a better solution for monetizing good content will survive. Those who don't, or who had poor content to begin with, will be forced out of the market.