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> most people install a blocker

This is exactly the point. People have to actively seek out and find an ad blocker. They experience the Internet with ads, then decide that it is not worth it. It doesn't just happen. So what is your argument? That people are idiots and cannot correctly assess how valuable something is to them?

Personally, I've whitelisted sites that are known to have useful and unobtrusive ads. I've also supported other sites and apps that I like directly, by giving money, buying a paid version, or buying branded merchandise. There are options other than ads.

I think it's quite possible to detect when someone is using an ad blocker. If publishers really think it's a problem, they can easily disable the site for anyone with an active ad blocker. So why don't they do it? I've seen a few sites take this approach. I happily left and never went back. Like I said before, there's no real reason I need to read one particular article rather than another one in any given moment. If I need the information for something specific, I'll pay for it.
I think actual deletion of accounts is not a functionality that is high on any startups list - disabling is probably the usual course of action? However, to lie about it is another matter entirely.
Things decreasing doesn't necessary tell anything worthy. IRC is less used, but it's still used, and used a lot, and guess what, one can find a lot and lot of very rare and interesting people and data there. All of this without heavy hardware nor software requirements, or even psychological, it's still the same old IRC system, no change required.
It would be really interesting to compare SIL to Rust's HIR/MIR and the graph-based IR Sebastian Hack's group published a paper on at CGO this year http://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/lkh15_cgo.pdf
I'm not sure what the hell this article is about, savings still have, and will continue to have, positive returns as long as someone can invest the money in the market at positive return. The interest of the central bank isn't really interesting from that perspective.
I think it's perfectly fine for FOSS projects to use non-FOSS. This article is a wee bit on the fanatical side for my taste, and I'm the guy who bought the lemote. ;)

A public FOSS project should be able to use whatever they want for bug management, issue management, support, and other things that do not affect the core project in any way if compromised or monitored.

Especially if the company behind said product even give out discounts or free usage accounts to such projects like Atlassian or github.
I've never seen or heard about anyone being refused to pay with cash if they wanted to.

The only place I would pay with cash though is in a bar, all other places I prefer to pay by card.

I do agree with you there could be problems in the future where digital payments start becoming the only option (which I'm hoping for) and their certainly is a market for future products. I bet they will be looked at in the same way as VPN services are looked at now though.
I'm in favor of a move from ad-based to paywalled content. It just feels more honest to sell your content than your readers (or viewers, visitors, etc).

There's also a mental hygeine aspect: I've noticed a pretty distinct correlation between my total exposure to online advertising and my ability to reach states of deep focus. For example, I've been finding it extremely difficult to finish books for the past few years. But since February or so, as my exposure to online ads has dropped to nearly zero, I've knocked half a dozen challenging non-fiction works off my hit list, and a few novels to boot. And it's not just mental stamina -- my moment to moment engagement and comprehension is also much higher.

This observation is anecdotal, and furthermore, poorly controlled, so establishing causality is pretty difficult. But I have noticed that when I DO browse facebook or other ad-heavy sites, I experience a significant drop in my level of mental energy, often for hours after I'm off the internet. It's as if viewing ads, which are designed to grab one's attention, forks a process in my brain whose task is to react to the ad content, thus depleting my brain-hardware resources. The social hooks make facebook a particularly bad culprit.

BUT, there's a big caveat. I don't want subscriptions -- at least, not on every site that sometimes puts out content that I like. That would cost me hundreds of buxx a month that I simply can't afford. There needs to be a decent micropayment solution so that people can buy the content that they actually want without the overhead of paying for a bunch of stuff they don't care about. I speculate that this would be a pure win for content companies. Right now, paywalls are more like "go-away-walls." If there were buttons on paywalls that said "Read this article for 50 cents," I would personally be paying for a lot more articles. There's probably even a good business opportunity in mediating these transactions to centralize signups and aggregate purchased content.
Yes, that's the point. ^_^ IE's "'width' sizes the border box" behavior was the better behavior. This was very early in the CSSWG's life, tho, and the group as a whole was less mature, so it didn't value back-compat and supporting actual pages as much. I wasn't around at the time, so I can't be sure of exactly why people preferred the content-box sizing model, but regardless, it was a wrong choice for compat at the time, and in hindsight, it was the wrong choice for the sizing default.

There are still reasons to size the content-box, but that's what box-sizing is for (or some equivalent mechanism).
Even if all data is encrypted at rest, you can still learn a huge amount from access patterns. You need some kind of Oblivious RAM (which could perhaps be better named Oblivious Disk) where the cloud server doesn't even know the metadata (e.g. which disk sector) it's serving, let alone the content. Cryptographers know how to do this in theory, but the overhead is pretty big.
> not being passed on to the banks' customers right now

So who is paying them now? And once they get passed on, the scenario will look like what i described, no?

I also do not understand why you bring up deflation.
Please elaborate. If an order makes it to an exchange and that exchange has a bunch of small orders at all times, how is the retail-ness of the order relevant at all?

I understand that at other parts of the order chain this might matter. But inside the matching engine there isn't "retail priority".
It's a devops world, nobody needs DBAs or Sysadmins anymore.
The type of value Uber provides is different from the value livecoding is trying to provide. People will continue to use Uber as long as it provides convenience because that's the value. As for livecoding, it's a different story.
As does Maya an several other packages

> Some Programs that support Python: Maya, Modo, Houdini, XSI, Massive, Blender, Photoshop (indirectly),3ds max (indirectly)

http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/resources/python-scripting-fo...
Hi drakonka, I have only just found out about this, and was until now not aware of what happened. I don't know why my cofounder Michael marked you as spam, and I will ask him to contact you. I can only apologise for the handling of your account deletion, it really is not acceptable that it took so long, so we will make it a priority to improve this.
Thanks for open sourcing it!
"It now has annual revenues in the $8bn range, which is bigger than Amazon’s entire retail operation and growing three times faster."

The math seems wrong there...
I think the meaning of "slightly technical" on hacker news should be a bit more than an enduser skillset.

Technology isn't easy. Pretending it should be causes problems.
Both, either. ^_^ Having wrapping behavior split the way it is today is wrong - either all of it should be in white-space, or none of it should be. (Moving it all out into a separate property is probably best, so white-space can keep just being about white-space itself.)
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If they are capturing enough to reproduce a transaction, then by definition that's enough information :). Non-deterministic commands (WHERE RANDOM() without a known seed) are the problem.\
I actually didn't think the issue in the OP was that bad but this just escalated it to insane levels.
Does YC not provide any kind of guidance or coaching around customer support and PR to founders during the program? Seems like that should be a really important topic, given how situations like this impact not only the reputation of the startup, but also YC itself.
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Do you want the guy who launches rockets that travel amazing distances to dock with a space station to make your car?

PayPal was a merger of two companies BTW.

Judging by the work Google put into WebKit before the fork, Apple didn't even have a rigorous testing coverage, fuzzing, etc IIRC.

I wouldn't even trust Google to do the kind of stuff automakers and defense contractors do with respect to verification and testing. Someone else was right, this could only come from their hardware groups like PA Semi and not from the guys who write the apps or OS front end.
I think you're being a little hard on Gassée. He held numerous high level positions at technology companies and worked on the Newton, BeOS, and other technology which while not market successes, were still influential. At one time BeOS was considered a contender as a replacement for MacOS.
Do you really think drakonka would want your cofounder to contact her after all this stalking?
Hi Jamie,

Thanks for getting in touch. I would love to just have my account deleted and move on. No need for Michael to contact me.
Yup, that's the problem with having a language that evolved slowly over 20 years, while its problem space changed enormously. CSS was originally intended as a simple way of styling text documents on the web.

We're trying to fix vertical centering, at least. The alignment properties from the Align spec <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-align/> do consistent centering (and other alignment) across layout modes. Currently they only work in Flex and Grid, but they're defined to work in Block and Abspos as well.
You seem purposely to miss some of the points of Steven Hill's very even-handed analysis which is that some AirBnB operators are turning residential zones into commercial hotel zones by having multiple listings and this causes conflicts for 1) residents who find commercial activity in and around their homes , 2) municipalities deprived of tax revenue, 3) guests who find themselves in units that do no have adequate safety protections let alone commercial insurance.

This is especially problematic given that in LA, SF, and NYC AirBnB makes a large fraction (~44%) of its revenue from commercial operators with multiple listings. That is, in these markets nearly half of AirBnB "hosts" are entrepreneurs who are flouting municipal law and obligations for their personal gain and to others' detriments.

Hill offers a few common sense (and in my opinion equitable) actions AirBnB might take to make amends. In a passage worth quoting in context, Hill writes

> Perhaps the biggest tragedy in all this is that at the core of Airbnb is a really good idea. It has cleverly used Web- and app-based technology to bust open a global market that connects tourists with financially strapped homeowners. After interviewing some of Airbnb’s “regular-people” hosts, I’m convinced that this service legitimately does help them make ends meet.

> But by taking such a hands-off, laissez-faire attitude toward the professionalization of hosting by greedy commercial landlords and multiproperty agents, Airbnb has become its own worst enemy. As the number of victims piles up, it undermines its own “sharing and trust” ethos because Airbnb could easily meet cities halfway:

> • With one stroke of the computer mouse, Airbnb could “evict the evictors” — de-list from its website any professional landlords or property managers operating multiple properties as tourist hotels. It has the data and knows who they are.

> • Cooperate with cities like San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Portland, which require hosts to register with local agencies, by de-listing any unregistered hosts.

> • Pay the same hotel occupancy taxes that hotels pay in all 34,000 cities in which Airbnb operates, or collect them from the hosts and turn them over to the cities.

> • Stop refusing to supply the data that cities need to enforce regulations and taxation, including the number of rental nights and rates charged by each host.

EDIT: Remove markup. Readability. Grammar.
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Restaurants and traditional taxis did it first with tipping.
In the span of a just a few days we have YC-backed companies being publically outed for engaging in behavior which most of us consider pretty egregious and would certainly warrant any rights as YC founders to be revoked. The tone of commenters (here and w.r.t the Homejoy) can be described as mild shock. This particular example is perhaps even worse than the Homejoy issue, as it seems the founders have taken to personally attacking an individual user for, as far as we can see, are pretty legitimate claims.

But I think probably the least shocked people are the YC partners. If you are Paul G./YC, what do you do about this? By far the biggest question that YC must confront as it expands into research, bigger and bigger classes, new types of involvement through fellows, etc., is how to retain their ability to suss out, deal with, or prevent things like these. I think they are fully aware that they can't.

If anyone hasn't figured it out already, YC is becoming the first 21st century university. In order to get there, they have to become significantly bigger, and just like the startups they fund, that's the metric that's on their radar.

I don't think these events are a sign of YC's negligence. Instead, I think YC is slowly transitioning to a new era in the company. Paul G and the gang are incredibly brilliant. They knew the odds when they decided to continue this incredibly rapid growth of batches and outreach. They aren't surprised by these events; they are just moving to a stage where things like this are unfortunately the cost of doing business. If Paul G is cooking dinner for you and your few buddies over the summer every night, you aren't getting away with this. If you are now one of thousands of people fighting for (or trying to avoid) their attention, you certainly can.

Go around to any top school, and you see the same. Out of your couple thousand bright-eyed, brilliant freshmen, there inevitably are a couple bad apples. But none of them would think that a solution to this is to shrink class sizes.
Idle curiosity: Are you aware that you have zero believability at the moment now unless you can demonstrate results or at least your commitment usefully?
AirBnB is a reputation-based but otherwise largely unregulated marketplace for nightly accommodation.

Simple as that, I don't know why so many people seem to be tearing their hair out over what it is and what that means.
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He committed a bad action. And this led to consequences with him getting fired and the show changing. Not sure why he needs to keep paying for it forever. If you don't agree with the punishment then that's certainly valid.

However just because you made a mistake doesn't preclude you from working for the rest of your life. And he's certainly worth the money for his following and trailblazing he's done in the industry, that doesn't go away because of a single incident.
You read the article and see the updated profile on your site, right? I think being slow to respond is the least of your worries.
Any response on the weird comments such as "DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV" that were put on the profile?
Indeed, there are some exceptions. In the book "La Colmena" (I guess it is called "The Hive" in English), by Camilo Jose Cela, there is a man who invents words. He meets with writers in a café, and all of them listen to him with much expectation: "did you invent any new word, master?" and he says something like "Bizcotur" and everybody acclaims him: "Wonderful!", "Sublime!".
BTW, the English word for abonnement is subscription.
It's the Clang IR, same stuff they are making you push to the app store. Realtime software updates passed as proof carrying byte code. That's where Apple will be king, the agility to safely update.
This is crazy. Can these people be any more unprofessional?
My usual friendly reminder -- the difference between faith and science (note this has nothing to do with what side of the debate you are on):

Faith: X is true! Because!
Science: Is X true? Are we certain? Lets try and find evidence counter to X.

I see a lot of people (from each side) trying to prove their point, rather than disprove it.* The former is faith, the latter is science.

* Not referring to people here, just the population in general
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> But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica’s growth to reverse, according to Zwally. “If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”

So while it's still increasing in mass, the current ∂∂m indicates it will start decreasing in 20-30 years.
At least in this scenario sites would be able to track how much of their poor performance is caused by ad networks. (hint: a bunch!)
Ask HN: How do you organize scientific literature?
I look for research papers frequently and it's becoming difficult to manage them all.

My current system is a local directory synced between computers. There are subdirectories for fields of study, and each field has further subdirectories for topics of interest. Right now this is adequate. Problems it has:
1. Difficult to browse through topic directories
2. Need to manually rename papers to a common filename format (e.g. Author Year Title.pdf)
3. Can't annotate papers

I've tried PaperPile, a web-based literature manager, and it generally works pretty well. However I dislike that it requires Google Apps login, and it costs money which feels contrary to the principle that knowledge should be free and open.

Calibre is a software usually used for ebooks that also seems promising for research papers. It's licensed under GPL v3 and supports tags, search and metadata download (via plugin with some configuration). It doesn't seem to have good annotation support.

I'm interested in ways you manage your scientific literature. If you could share them I'd really appreciate it!
Do you have any explanation as to why you are running a page with her name, publicizing her employment and calling her a spammer? That requires both a deliberate effort to research her, and then the poor judgment to actually post the text, presumably in an effort to shame her.
Sorry I didn't understand what you wrote in the first part.

For the other part, the point was not to invent something new but to give a few examples of how to support websites financially without relying on ads.

I don't understand where you read that I said every website should/could be non-profit, everyone is welcome to try to make a profit out of a website but if this fails they should not point to their visitors exercising the ability given to them by the very nature of the web.

Neither did I say that every form of content can happily survive, actually if 9gag disappeared tomorrow this would not make me sad,
but I'll take the opportunity to go deeper here. Let's focus on the need to monetize website which raises from the cost of hosting and traffic, which in turn comes from issue in how we do internet.

When we move away from the peer to peer nature of internet to centralized servers, we create the very cost I was mentioning earlier. When for some reason we went from symmetrical dialup to asymmetrical broadband it prevented us from hosting our own content at no additional cost.

So maybe we'll see something new arise where there will be no place for ads, maybe something p2p taking advantage of blockchain technology. There are already experimentation in this direction such as http://zeronet.io/
SFINAE looks like a cheap way to sort of hack around lack of static duck typing. Otherwise these examples could be written in a positive way by saying a certain function only applies to a type containing certain members or constraints.
I had initially considered streaming on livecoding.tv for the same reasons as yours. Definitely won't do it now.
The installer would make you solve a captcha.
If this is how you usually "mark spammers" her account issue is the least of your problems. It makes it look like the site is run by a paranoid schizophrenic. Most unprofessional thing I've ever seen from a YC company, even if the allegations would be true.
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To point 1, what would falsify the theory that humans are causing global warming and this is a bad thing. I've heard "weather isn't climate" a million times when there are snow storms, how is increasing ice mass not a mark against the theory of AGW?
I am following it from afar. I don't see how it'll gain traction, ever, though. The marketing problem is one devs don't like to solve, but it has to be solved.
I'm thinking a huge part of the difference between Slack and IRC audiences has to do with the $340MM Slack has raised. If someone gave "IRC" a quarter of a billion dollars, the differences might not be so obvious.
> Update. And I would love to see a modern federated chat protocol to take off. Something like http://matrix.org/.

XMPP?
"Why should WebAssembly succeed where previous attempts (such as Adobe Flash and Google Portable Native Client) have failed?"

Failed????

Excuse me, I haven't even BEGUN to scratch the surface of the awesomeness that is pnacl in my own project!
I think this link was posted here a little while ago:

https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-fro...

The article is exactly what it says on the tin: You are charged more (roughly 16x) for the data inherent in the ad than the publisher makes for serving it.

In an ideal world with perfect coordination, we'd agree to just directly send the publisher a quarter of what the current ad data costs us, and everybody relevant wins.
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How many times in the past few years have we heard about "new battery technology" that was coming soon and would revolutionize the industry? Too many, and none of them ever seem to come to fruition.
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If they're talking to a central ad server they can tell it what cookies they're seeing.
It does, in fact, exist. The experience of ephemerality is all that's necessary, and the experience is that you take a photo, it exists for 10 seconds for all intents and purposes users care about, and then disappears. Disappears here means that I, my friends, and people I care about ever see it again. They don't, I don't, so I'm happy.

Remember, you are not their target market. Their target market is 2% people like you (nerds concerned about privacy and indirect/intangible principles) and 98% people who just want the experience.
I've never used AirBnB, but presumably the electrical safety problems are things that you can highlight in your review, and will inform future guests?

(I've stayed in hotels with very dodgy electrics, so I don't think this is necessarily an AirBnB-only problem)