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I have hated ads from the time of dialup Internet when I was paying by the minute for access, ads increased my bills - I was paying for them.

The same now where o pay based on my internet usage, on mobile it is not cheap, and the cost of ad's is again on my shoulders.

So, I don't want ads. Simple.
IRCv3, which I linked, is what you want. It builds atop the IRC protocol to extend it. It is backed by various servers and clients alike.

http://ircv3.net/

They need help, go check them out.
What is your current side project?
Hi All HN,

1) What is your Current Side Project?

2) How you got the idea?

3) What you want to achieve with your current project? (Learn something new/ Want to do earn / just for fun)

I think it is very inspirational and motivational for others if you share your experience.

Thanks
Same age group: Which chat systems were similar to IRC, but not to Slack, outside of IRC clients?

And just because someone doesn't want to spend the time fiddling with IRC bouncers, IRC bots, getting clients to display things nicely doesn't mean that they are a bad developer. Just that they have different priorities for their time than you.

I'm not saying that Slack is perfect or frictionless, but neither is IRC. And especially if you don't do it all the time, getting people set up to work with Slack is way easier than IRC.

I really find these discussions half amusing and half depressing. 2 sides have something that is "good enough", both insist that nearly all you want can be solved with their solution, especially if you just do X1,X2,X3,Y1,Y5, and Z4 and you technically could build something that is perfect for both on top: but sadly (and understandably) no-one actually cares enough to do so. Because what they have is "good enough"(TM).
I use uBlock Origin. I don't block ads - I block 3rd party requests. People that complain about ad blocking are indeed missing the mark. I'm fine with ads - really. But if you want them seen, you are going to have to serve them yourself. There is no going backwards - for reasons spelled out by others in this thread. So if your business depends on ads, then you are in the ad business. Web sites are going to have to become like magazines. When I look at a magazine, I don't see a page with the message "please go get this other publication and look at the ad on page 3". I see the ad - in the publication I am viewing. Really, stop wining and just create quality content and engage with advertisers and ad firms that will create quality ads FOR YOU that will be place IN YOUR web page. Nothing exists that I know of that can block such ads.
But it's wrong.

As I recall, we had lawsuits based on the idea the radio waves were interfering with "my land." I wish I could find that article I read.

> It is not a physical object

That was another objection of mine. An EM wave is as physical as you and I. It's much more physical than, say, a copyright.

> my land

Yes, that's part of the libertarian world view. I live in Sweden, where "my land" has a different meaning. I have the right of public access to most land, and the joint responsibility to maintain it.

The libertarian world view, deriving as it does from the British context of serfdom, has a different interpretation of exactly the same term.

> you can buy it from the person who own that by paying his price

Yes, the libertarian view is that all things can be resolved by a market. However, you haven't told me what that process might be, only expressed a belief that it can be solve.

We have real-world equivalents based on observatories for visible radiation instead of radio. Consider the McDonald Observatory. There are laws in the 7 county area to prevent light from interfering with the observatory.

Do you propose that the better solution would have been to start a outside lighting market, and have the observatory purchase the sky illumination rights, instead of passing a law? That doesn't make sense, since it only takes a few stubborn people to ruin the telescope, but it's the logical conclusion from the argument presented in this essay.

The market for EM silence is far different than the market for
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Google App Engine != Google Compute Engine (GCE), of which presumably the parent is talking about.
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Example from Windows 10's EULA:

For software acquired from a retailer. Microsoft provides limited support
services for properly licensed software as described at (aka.ms/mssupport).
If you purchased the software from a retailer and are seeking a refund, and
you cannot obtain one where you acquired the software, contact Microsoft for
information about Microsoft’s refund policies. See (aka.ms/msoffices), or in
North America, call (800) MICROSOFT or see (aka.ms/nareturns).
I respectfully disagree. I write raw WebGL but I also have written 6 game engines. I'll never do that again. I just want to get shit done. That means for a game I'll start with Unity or Unreal.

Similarly for 3D most people just want to get shit done. In that case Three.js is a great way to to just get stuff done.

There's man years of work to do to a full 3d engine. You can easily spend a couple of man years just writing exporter/importers and trying to get every little piece of data out and into some meaningful way into your engine. People spend years making rendering systems and shader combiners and post processing system.

I'm not saying three.js is perfect but at least at some level much of that is already in there. Why should anyone skip all of that? Just to make years of extra work for themselves?

If you want to do raw WebGL then go for, but don't push that on others. To me that's like someone saying "you should write in assembly language". No, I'll choose something that provides existing solutions so I can move on to my actual content instead of re-inventing the wheel.
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It's shorthand for "before the start of recorded history", i.e. the set of historical events that happened earlier than about 5000 years ago.
Really? What header does your browser send to my server informing me that you are blocking ads so that I know to deny you my content?
Interstingly, you can just hit "skip survey" to load the rest of the article.
So if your working in an industry where security is a real concern you don't use the cloud
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Most real world work is done in privately owned data centers. Hipster's love for AWS or the like isn't going to change that. Netflix rocks on AWS but that doesn't change the reality of data control concerns for most companies in or outside the US.
Are you saying that "nonpublic" by itself implies that I got the information from an insider?

If someone else deduces the same information, does my copy stop being nonpublic? Or was I mistaken in thinking it was nonpublic at all, since someone could deduce the same information?

If I'm watching a company's delivery road from across the street, is all that info public even though it's only available to me and five other people in the world?
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I work on Virtualmin. I'm glad it works well for you in this role. The mail stack is probably he single most complicated portion of the stuff Virtualmin manages (it certainly has a long dependency list). As the person that maintains some of it, I also wish there were a simpler way! The number of components we have to keep up in order to make it easy is mind blowing...

That said, I'm really surprised at how many mail sending services there are. Sending mail really shouldn't be hard (and it isn't if you understand all the components, but it's still time-consuming enough to be a challenge for many). I am not one of those folks who believes email should be replaced by a whole new thing, but I do think a simplification of the stack would be lovely. How we do that without introducing even more new mail related standards is the conundrum.
There is nothing wrong with IRC.
The IRC clients, you're talking about, are a bit tricky, indeed.

Someone should come up with an IRC client for the non technologically advanced instead of reinventing the wheel.
I think the key word there is desktop. The systemd folks are desktop folks first and foremost, server operations be damned. coredumpctl requires root access, which means one has to be much more diligent in scripting automatic actions to handle core dumps. Failed services again are something that any supervisor service can handle and report -- launchd can get all that information from launchctl. Rootless X is something OpenBSD has had for years, through better access control than linux devs seem to be able to be bothered with.

The biggest problem with systemd is its mediocrity. The journal is an interesting idea, but it's inflexible. Its insistence on json and internal formats mean that it doesn't work with the rest of the extant logging infrastructure tools that exist, so if you want to have a dedicated log server, you have to run essentially two syslogds. Its core dump misfeatures make it harder to use extant access control features to manage files. Its unit files don't allow for any sort of extensibility, so adding things like a configtest command for a unit are impossible. In short, its oversimplified itself to the point where it adds a huge management load just to keep servers where they were.
I've not written much for a while now, but here's my tech blog:

https://grepular.com/blog

This one was really popular for a while:

https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...
One of these websites:

"This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website."

instead of

"This website uses cookies to track your behaviour across this and other websites to better target and retarget you with ads. Identifying and segmenting you ensures higher advertising rates. Thanks."

Still waiting for the first website with an honest cookie warning.
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It's irony manifest that companies would consider moving away from vendor lockin in data centers they own to data centers they do not own yet still locked into one vendor's platform.
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"insider trading isn't about fairness, it's about theft"
What if I didn't have the foresight to put that bot into the channel in the first place?

Or what happens when the bot goes down? So now I really need to build some alerting into it so that someone can restart the thing when it dies, or the server is upgraded, or it's moved.. because I'm losing valuable history along the way.

Or I can just use Slack.

The snark about developer skill is an interesting one, as you failed to actually solve the problem in your hypothetical.
Never rule out stupidity.
Fair. My point is that you have a fairly unique set of requirements, such that there is a tradeoff in tooling to cater to part-time/open contributors vs. a core/extended team doing active engineering.

You bring up some reasonable points, even though I disagree with asking teams to not use Slack (as I vastly prefer it to IRC these days, but I am focused on open source collaboration with active engineering teams). I think a compromise would be for teams that want open contribution or a chat support channel to turn on Slack's IRC gateway.
The rules lawyer in me sees these two points, which
can be employed to immediately shut up anybody for fear
of expulsion:

* Harassment (either in public or private; if someone asks you to stop
speaking to/at them, you must stop immediately)
* If someone takes issue with something you said or did, resist the urge to
be defensive. Just stop doing what it was they complained about and
apologize.

As soon as anybody talks to you, just tell them you "take issue with it" and they have to shut up or be shunned.

Also, this is is clearly US-centric, with its puritan-christian view of sexuality as destructive:

This section states the values to which Go enthusiasts (“Gophers”) should
aspire, and the kinds of behaviors that are not acceptable in our community.

...

* Romantic or sexual commentary, remarks, or questions.
So, if it is ok for you to view content while denying the content producers the ability to monetize that content, then would you also agree it is ok to take content from behind a paywall and display it for free on your site?

If not, what is it specifically that makes the first ok but not the other?
Julia has multithreading and channels. Better syntax than go, more like python. Better for numerics...why use anything else?
Just get hired for a team using Hadoop or Spark, and preferably doing some real-time processing (you might need to study these frameworks in your own time to be able to get such job).

On such team, you'll be exposed to all of the concepts you've listed.
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I bet on a big Hollywood movie a assistant producer screwing up an evening meal for a big star would be fired that day and probably black listed.

And he wasn't fired the BBC didn't take up a new contract at least in part due to lobbying by other media owners who don't like the BBC having a hit show.

Additionally is it fair that James may and Richard Hammond and the rest of the TG crew lost their jobs
That's quite the novel, you must really love AWS.
Profs Fischel and Easterbrook were working on the analytical framework (efficient continuous release of information, if i remember), starting in the 80's: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/node/514/publications
"
1) Building a talented and motivated team
2) Getting initial validation and traction
3) Executing fast
"

What else is there to do than that? These 3 things seem to be sufficiently generalized to encompass almost everything...
Sales and Marketing.

Close.io has been really useful.
I'm excited about Zulip as a Slack-style tool, especially for teams. (Separate from the discussion of whether FOSS project collaboration should be Slackish or IRCish.)

Are there any plans to support multiple teams / multiple servers from the native client? This is a particularly acute pain point on mobile; I'm reluctant to promote any tool that requires me to be logged in to only one project's instance of the tool at a time, because if it works well, it gets adopted for other projects, and then I'm having to juggle clients. I am unfortunately on two projects that use HipChat, and even there it's a huge pain that I can't be logged in to both simultaneously on my phone. (Some of their desktop apps finally support multiteam which is a huge help, but I still have to pick just one to participate in on mobile..)

Slack isn't perfect, but at least all the native clients will let me be logged in to 5 teams at the same time. (And no, opening multiple browser tabs is not an appropriate solution - it doesn't work at all on iOS, for example.) And obviously, this is something IRC does a great job of as well.
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It's exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet. And the people that use the most heavy-handed approaches with ad-blocking are going to be the same people that are screaming "NOT MY PROBLEM" while the ship goes down.

Their business model doesn't require changes to reality. Their business model requires the end-user to accept reality for what it is: you can't get a bunch of free stuff, ad infinitum, while simultaneously blocking the only feasible revenue model for said free stuff.

> It's not up to "reality", us, to change to support your business model.

Did you pat yourself on the back while you said that, or right after?

We are not reality. The reality is, ad-blocking will be the absolute death of currency-free content. This abuse of the word reality is truly odd to me.

You seem to think every choice we make as consumers is the current reality. What you call reality, I call a house of cards.
Yes. I'm not a lawyer and all that, but counting trucks on the street wouldn't be nonpublic information, even if it is more available to some group of outside people.

I think it is also clearly the case that concrete insider knowledge will be considered differently than deductions.

This goes on and on about the meaning of the term:

http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/ethics-st...
Just dynamically link to GSL, don't distribute GSL with your app, and you'll be fine. Most of your colleagues would have it installed on their computers anyway...
> There's a lot of hate for systemd and there's also a lot of people ignoring valid criticisms and going so far as labeling those making the criticisms as haters. This does not bode well for reasonable discussion. It has become very political.

I can't shake the suspicion that ever since gamergate, or perhaps even "for the lulz" anonymous, there have been people going around the net, latching onto anything vaguely controversial, and trying their best to stir up trouble by making threats and statements that are barely relevant to the topic.
I posted my latest, crazy idea here: http://foundrs.com/the-most-insane-idea-ever.

This startup idea will

a. Restore democracy

b. Provide jobs to thousands

It's a startup that's

c. Profitable from day one

d. Extremely viral

e. Easy to launch with very little technical development

f. Media coverage almost guaranteed
I do the opposite. I don't want to spend the time driving around looking at stuff, so I research online, and then find where it's sold locally. 'cause I want it the instant I pay for it, and returns are much easier and immediate at a store.

I do buy from Amazon, but Amazon is also one of the best research tools for local buying.
I just looked at the guru3d site. The content is the ad - there's no need to add more ads. You just need to monetize the "ads" you already have. You are promoting these products. Negotiate with the vendor or reseller directly to get your fair share.
Rust, and base system call interfaces that Linux provides. Hoping to write up a simple composable user land someday.
@nwhitmore: No. I'm not proposing circumventing copyright measures. But I do not read ads a website presents.

I would not steal a magazine form a news stand or break a lock to get a magazine. But I throw away ad supplements before I read anything in a magazine.
Doing what I can to learn Java.
Is there a demo available ?
Response 1: whether this question already has a technical answer that you find satisfying does not affect whether using an ad blocker is theft.

Response 2: a few sites are already popping up messages asking you to turn off your ad blocker, which is at least a partial existence proof.

Response 3: if you want to know whether I got your ads, use cookies or make the request url unique to me, and then check that your ad servers served the appropriate requests before allowing your content servers to serve me content.

But seriously, I shouldn't be required to solve all these problems for you as a user in order to not be called a thief. If you want a more explicit contract, then require a log in. If that adds too much friction, invent a better a better solution.

*Edited to remove the inflammatory suggestion to go out of business if you refuse to negotiate.
For context, we've always promoted IRC for real time communication on React. I encouraged people to setup other mediums for communication and many people attempted but only one took off: Reactiflux on Slack. The official way is still IRC on the website but most people are using Reactiflux which is pretty incredible.

Now, we got the bad news a month ago that we've been kicked off of Slack :( So, I started looking at all the options and frankly, all the alternatives I tried had a really bad user experience. Sure, they had all the features of Slack but the polish was not there.

Until I randomly stumbled upon Discord, a chat app for gamers. It turns out that it does everything that we used Slack for, has better perf than Slack... Before we even made the switch officially, people were already using it organically in favor of Slack which is a testament of its qualities.

I highly recommend using Discord for your open source project!
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I remember using IRC in the early 90s here in Norway, there was basically a channel for every municipal, school, social group etc. Even my mother used it.

That anyone find it hard to use is flabbergasting to me as it is a matter of opening a client, entering a nick and selecting server.
With the web IRC clients it's even easier I guess.

I still hang out in several of the channels from my early days :)
I think you've mis-priced both sides of the market there.
You propose moving timezones east by one hour?
Not reading them is the same as blocking them. To gain moral high ground people who compare adblocking to theft are required to read every ad on every website they encounter. The moral distinction between "I do not read ads" and "I block ads" is an illusion.
Agreed again. I'm still dazzled that after all the fanfare and hoopla over instant runoff voting in the early 2000s that nothing changed. Note, dazzled !== surprised, but still.

As for parties, I change parties multiple times a year to get the best possible vote I can. Sometimes that means I'm voting for a particular candidate, or set of policies, but sometimes also simply against... and yes, it would completely disqualify us for any public position that couldn't be voted into as an Independent.

I wonder what it would take for the issue to get real traction though, as the more and more polarized American society becomes, the more entrenched the two party system feels. Any fracturing of the system is certain to benefit somebody disproportionally at first, and it seems like the timetable for actually making a real push towards it would take longer than the state of public opinion, so nobody moves towards it because nobody knows who will get the advantage by the time it happens.

If we accept that the two party system wishes to perpetuate itself, second only to a more monolithic one-party system, then the conclusion seems foregone, but perhaps I'm just being pessimistic. Either way, the parties themselves have shown resistance to warring factions within the party, despite how much they both claim to prefer a competition of ideas.
Thanks but I'm not looking for upvotes, I just wanted to signal that the dupe detector isn't working very well since it's the same title and url and have been posted only hours before this.
This may be a better place to start -- https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i... and https://jaymans.wordpress.com/about/. VDare tends to preach and agitate to the already converted, that is the peril of having to survive on donations. That said, while Steve Sailer is snarky, he is also reputable. He takes good care to not get things wrong. I've been following him for a while, and when some bit of news comes out, or some new policy gets announced, and the NY Times says one thing, and Sailer says another, Sailer almost always ends up getting proved right.

If you want a book length treatment, Michael Hart's Understanding Human History is the complete opposite of the typical, Jared Diamond, environmentalist accounts of human society. It is worth perusing - https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/har...
I don't think that's true. If you have a friend on the executive board of pharma company X, and he confides in you over the phone that the internal trials for the company's next big drug failed big time and they're going to announce the results to the public tomorrow, and you dump the stock... that's insider trading. It wasn't theft. The information was willingly given to you by an insider. And it's a crime because you made a trade based on non-public information, and the law has deemed that to be unfair and illegal.