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[iOS App] Glycerin – The Actual AdBlocker
Hello. I'm curently working on this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glycerin-only-ad-blocker-youll/id1053838804?l=ru&ls=1&mt=8

Just like ad blockers in your desktop browser this app downloads actual ad blocking lists from their actual locations and parses them right on your device. Currenly there are 21 predefined lists including main sources like EasyList, regional (non-english) lists and a couple of social blocking lists.

The app is free and you can upgrade it for $2.99. With free version you can use only EasyList, which may very well be the only list you ever need becuase this is kind of the default one for every adblocker. With upgraded version you can use any predefined list in any combination.

After updating the lists you may encounter "Can't reload Safari Extension" alert. Why this is happening is beyond me, sometimes Safari just can't handle the awesomeness of content blocking concept without any apparent reason. Looks like it depends on the device, so if you see this alert - just tap "Try Again" a couple of times, usually 3-5 is enough. In the next versions i'll try to make it less anoying. Also, all this "Content Blocking" thing if full of limitations, so you can't use more than some-unknown-amount of filters (probably also depends on the device). On my iPhone 6 i've been able to enable EasyList, EasyPrivacy, RU Adlist and Fanboy's Annoyance list just fine. More than that just resulted in "Can't reload ..." alert. But you don't really need too many filters, usual rule of "too much filters may slow down your browsing expirience" may apply here too, hence the limitation. Parsing mechanism is constantly improving so you'll be able squeeze more filters in the coming versions :)
Anything by Marcus du Sautoy is awesome :-)
I imagine in many cases this would be on a freelance/contract basis and in that case it would generally be the remote worker who is responsible for paying the appropriate taxes in their country
From above --
First, no, that data is only for full-time, year-round employees.
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/peopl...

Second, employees are working less hours now than before, so if you think that line of argumentation flies, it actually supports my position -- adding an additional 12.5% to per capita median income per hour.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRU...
How come the choice to keep my sauce secret is less than any other choice?

All trade secret laws do is if you make efforts to keep secret and some one steals it, you can punish them.
Warcraft – Official Trailer (HD)
The theory of ownership in the Washington area, as explained by a realtor at the end of the 1980s, but probably commonly held for 15 or 20 years before that, was that you bought, held for a few years to get back your closing costs and let the property appreciate some, then moved on to something more expensive. One can see why a realtor might think well of this idea.

The one thing I will say for modern houses is that the wiring will generally be better and with outlets better spaced. They might be better insulated. But my goodness, the quality of the workmanship and often materials. We watched a house going up next to us, and had to think that big is a lot cheaper than good.
I have audion engineer friend who has love/hate relationship with Behringer. Some years back they had quality problems. Good behringer is good, but you might get a bad specimen too.

I have experience with their cheap end mixer, and it was good until it started to slowly break down. One component at the time. Luckily it had some excess potential, so in terms of play hours/price it was still OK.
That's a lousy headline. It should be:

How good are the world's most expensive loudspeakers?

(To which the answer is: it varies, from very good to horrendously bad. You're paying for status, not performance.)
Its a neophillia thing. Plenty of interesting cultural exchange topics exist pre-600 AD. Ship them the complete works of the Greco Roman era, the Pāli Tipitaka, the bible... About 110 years ago Oxford Press published a 50 book series of English translations called "The sacred books of the east" off the top of my head I believe all the originals predate 600 AD? We certainly wouldn't lack for discussion topics.

Its interesting that no era thinks they're particularly dumb or ignorant. They didn't know many cool programming algorithms, we (in general, as a population) don't know as much euclidian geometry or stoic philosophy. I'm sure we'd have plenty to say about some topic even if the topic would change over 1400 or so years.

There's also a general insistence on culture shock, which I disbelieve in. I'm not that old, and something like Plutarch isn't that much closer in age to me than to a newly graduated kid. "We" would do just fine.
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They have been. The issue, as I understand it, is that when Ramanujan was doing mathematics paper was relatively expensive so he would do all his working on a slate, get to the end of the slate, flip it over, do more working, then flip over the slate and wipe off the working. When he came to his conclusion he wrote it in his notebook, with no working!

I believe in this regard he was unlike Euler, who used to go down wrong paths but explain why he was doing something and why he backed out to go down the right path (apparently Gauss looked down on this, but Gauss wasn't blind and doing it all in his head).
Why do you think house prices and rents are very correlated?

People buy houses as an investment which can very quickly raise the price while rents depend on housing demand which depends on different factors.

I did this analysis for where I live (Pune, India) where the house prices are ridiculous and, after adjusting for inflation, found that house prices have doubled in 10 years while rents have stayed flat.
Thank you, this looks fantastic!

I recently bought Leonard Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum" [0] so I could better understand theoretical physics. The explanations are short and clear, but I'm starting to realize that I learn a lot better when I know the historical context in which these concepts developed (or why they were needed). Feynman does this in his lectures and it really helps.

I might really enjoy these podcasts.

[0]. http://theoreticalminimum.com/
Docker Platform Built to Maximize Developer Happiness
To address the question in the title of the article, here are some aspects not addressed:

/ R & D has a lot of time associated with it. Specifically, time not spent making finished products for sale. People working on the product still need to eat.

/ Anechoic chambers and other specialized equipment are expensive.

/ As the article details, solving for novel/unique problems can involve unique solutions. That will translate to new/ non-standard manufacturing techniques. And that means more costs.

/ The Wife Acceptance Factor. As pointed out in the article, getting small speaker systems to sound as big as the orchestra recorded for playback is a challenge. One approach is to use bigger drivers. Another approach is to use large arrays of drivers. Either way, you get cabinets that have the volume (size, not sound) of refrigerators. Anything that big has a noticeable visual presence. Looking good adds more to the price [If there is a question as to sources on this point, I refer to my ongoing experience as a Klipsch Cornwall owner].

Sidebar: As a BBC article, kinda surprised they didn't profile Tannoy for contrast.
Yes. See my comment below. The bug is trivially avoided by adhering to a coding standard that actually makes the code better. See my other comment below.
Minecraft world 'MolCraft' to teach children molecular chemistry
I don't think it has much to do with classes. Python, for example, has no pathname/string distinction that I know of.

Common Lisp is in the object-oriented world, and indeed some of the things mentioned are implemented as classes. I think the point was more about the standard library's attempt to do The Right Thing and how library implementors tend to follow that.

(Also, for better or for worse, CL's pathnames contain information like host, device, and version, that aren't so relevant on the major OSes in use these days; but try dealing with VMS filenames with Ruby's Pathname...)
Fermentation is indeed one of the most traditional and simple ways of preserving food, and has been practiced since millenia by almost all traditional and modern societies. There is also some scientific evidence that fermented foods are good for your health.

Unlike what most people think it is also very safe and easy to do at home. Making sauerkraut or Kimchi is a fun experience and the result can usually compete with most of the produce you can find in supermarkets.

If you're interested in home fermentation make sure to check out Sandor Katz's "The Art of Fermentation", which is a great reference:

https://www.google.de/search?q=sandor+katz&oq=sandor+katz&aq...
They found a tape of "Digitized Monkey Brains." I wonder if this is from the project that led to "always mount a scratch monkey." http://edp.org/monkey.htm
Add in "of the people" and it's the basis of representative democracy.
Writing is thinking
This Floating Contraption Could Scoop Out Absurd Amounts of Ocean Plastic
First, no, that data is only for full-time, year-round employees.
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/peopl...

Second, employees are working less hours now than before, so if you think that line of argumentation flies, it actually supports my position -- adding an additional 12.5% to per capita median income per hour. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRU...
I shared http://www.thatneedle.com/nlp-api.html, didn't get the kind of feedback I was expecting on HN. I guess the forum is not what it used to be.
4 Communication Hacks to Entice Customers
Leaked Comcast docs prove 300GB cap has nothing to do with network congestion
That's extremely encouraging :-)

My dream is still to do a University degree in Computer Science.

I'm currently swotting up on as much mathematics as possible. One of my biggest issues is not with computing so much as math. I just cannot work at the pace that a Uni course requires because I have to understand it.

For instance, it took me some time before I realised that the determinant of a matrix was really just the "size" of the matrix. And I couldn't get through trigonometry till I worked out why the trig functions were called what they were called - eventually with a bit of help from Dr Math (that guy is awesome) I realised that you just create triangles in a unit circle and work out the Latin meaning for each of the lines:

https://sherlockchrisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trigfu...

https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/trigonome...

I'm trying to put down my "discoveries" in a blog, but until now I didn't realise that Wordpress allowed for LaTeX and included the ams package.

My blog is here:

https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/

I guess I'm doing this because I was heavily involved in Wikipedia years ago, and I'd still like to contribute to society, even if I'm just rehashing material.

I intend to finish documenting what I know about trigonometry, then I'm going on to differential calculus and beyond. After that, I guess linear algebra and then as much discrete mathematics as possible! In particular I'm interested in Cantor's aleph numbers.
It wasn't deleted. Deletion in MediaWiki removes edit history from view, and the full edit history is still visible at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedows_OS?action=history .

I wasn't really asking how hard it was. I know all about that. I'm one of the world's principal experts in what's involved in cloning OS/2 from the ground up. I was asking where they had got to, because I stopped keeping tabs some years ago and am wondering if I had missed anything in the period since. The OSFree roadmap doesn't appear to match its news announcements, so I doubt that it's accurate and up to date. (These things have a way of not being.)
And you think current lifestyle decisions aren't a function of social policy? Or rather, antisocial policy?
Even with clearly above average students, it is rare that they reach, e.g., med school before their peers no matter what and the difference is a year or two, which is insignificant. There's also more to maturation than education and some people never become fully mature adults, for instance.
It was a great article indeed, which made me deeply wonder and I will recommend it despite of the colouring.

I'm grateful to the author for discussing all these sad things in a very well reasoned way.

On the "yellow on purple" topic:

The Safari browser has a so called "Reader View".
That formats (most) pages main content into a simple, very readable style.

There is also https://readability.com which is a full-blown web service tackling this problem.

And as I understood there is an open-source library integrated into Google Chrome which deals with decluttering webpages (https://github.com/chromium/dom-distiller)
Is there any reason to expect such narrowband signals, or are they the only kind of signals they could hope to detect?
Yes, if the person or child is mentally disabled, then there is little that anyone can do once they've reached their maximum capacity. Then a babysitter is required and all that is really needed. However, there are other learning disabilities that can be treated by professionals and will help the child develop more normally.
My assessment of Behringer is much the same. Sometimes it's fine to use their stuff, sometimes it's worth paying more.

One problem though is that the existence of a company like Behringer making cheap products that are often good enough, is that it can tend to destroy the mid-market stuff that used to exist. Once that happens, your choice is either to buy something dirt cheap, or some ridiculously expensive "boutique" item, because there's nothing left in between any more.

(I'm not suggesting this is Behringer's fault, it just seems to be how things go when a mass market comes along.)
Approximating Mona Lisa using genetic algorithm
To add to what vlehto said :

Behringer was somehow the "China of the music & audio world" : cheap clones of more expensive pro gears. While usually visually decent, it could be hit or miss soundwise. Mic preamps, guitar pedals or cabinets were bad for example while monitors (like the one you linked) were OK for the price.

Recently they bought companies like Midas and TC Electronics and I think their products have been getting better. Not enough for me to consider them usually but still :)

About speakers the real problem will only be the room and the benefits of expensive speakers are usually wasted because of that. There is only so much you can do treat a living room without cluttering it. The WAF of bass traps is not high.
That's where the money is in software. Expensive middleware.
Uber is the cab industry's own fault
Yep. Not surprising the B-29 would be quickly outclassed.
I firmly believe that teams working in static languages do not easily transition to dynamic languages, and vise versa, yet when working with SQL that is what we're constantly asking people to do, because SQL is either less static than C# or Java or more static than Python or JavaScript. It's this weird, bastard of a language that sits halfway in between, with no good way of unit testing it because most operations are stateful [0].

Most SQL engines include a static verifier of some kind, but it ranges from nearly non-existent in MySQL's case to so-pedantic-it-hurts in Postgres' case. Even worse are the ones like MS-SQL that are static in some regards (you can't usually submit a stored procedure that references non-existent tables), but dynamic in other regards (but non-existent columns in those tables are fair game!).

Personally, I'd prefer a lot more static checking. This starts off ok, but I need more. This appears to be Postgres only right now. I think a static checker for vendor-specific SQL is a key component for getting people off of Oracle or MS-SQL. I've seen tons of database conversion projects die on the vine because of the issues with translating vendor-specific extensions. We need a "VM for SQL", some way to write-once-run-anywhere, and ANSI SQL is insufficient. I mean, have any vendors actually gone beyond SQL-92? There have been four newer versions since then.

[0] I mean, that's not a surprise, that's the entire point, it just makes good unit testing very hard.
Superhornet still doesn't have the range the F14 had, paired with the Phoenix missile that thing was incredible (and expensive).
>Sealed arrest records are also quite common in hacker investigations when law enforcement officials quietly arrest an individual, then flip him to work as a confidential informant with agents to capture others.

So I guess they'll be able to foresee when one of their crew gets turned al la lulzsec.
We should also be preparing the infrastructure for a global network that's asynchronous, anonymous, and encrypted. It doesn't seem all that unlikely that the whole notion of a real-time internet is going to collapse or become infeasible for anything but entertainment approved by the corporations and states. And of course that has already happened to some extent. We should maintain a relatively slow grassroots samizdat network. Even the remotest regions should be able to receive dispatches through couriers, and in regions where packet-switched internet is somewhat operational we can distribute the samizdat at net speeds. I suppose I'm thinking of an "interplanetary" network. A network fit for the Firefly universe, if you will.
"When that happens, it’ll be interesting to see what type of excuse Comcast trots out to defend its seemingly arbitrary data cap."

Why would they even have to come up with an excuse? They are in a position of monopoly almost everywhere, what do they care? "If you're not happy you can go to another internet company. Oh wait, there is none! Now suck my d*ck and pay up!"
>Free Palestine. The United States government funds Israel, and in Israel they kill innocent people. We're going to do it until they stop funding Israel or until we get raided.

>I'm below the age of 22 years old. I smoke pot. And I live in America

>I'm going to go to Russia and chill with Snowden because I know the government is pretty mad about this I'm probably going to get tortured. I'm actually a pretty fast runner.

>The government and the police. Like the White House people. They're losers.

Looks like they did it for the lulz to me.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/19/technology/cia-hack-john-bre...
In the bang-for-the-buck department, speakers made by Ontario companies like PSB, Paradigm and Axiom (some production may have been outsourced) usually do pretty well.

Speakers are the no. 1 source of distortion in sound reproduction, and so we haven't exhausted the technological solution space. However, at close range and (relatively) low volumes, you can do a pretty damn good speaker with just good construction techniques, proven designs, high quality components and some R&D. That's why you see a lot of companies concentrating on 2-3 way bookshelves and floorstanders with simple bass reflex subs.

Things get more interesting when you're trying to go really loud and cover a wide audience, or when you go all out.

Interesting speakers:

Danley Sound Labs [1] with their tapped horn subwoofer and their "synergy" horn speakers that have slot-loaded mid- and low- range speakers. They do insane stuff like the TH812, with 8 12-inch speakers, that weighs 584 lbs.

JTR speakers are best known for their "growler" [2], an 88-pound sub with huge output for its size.

Meyer Sound [3] speakers are very expensive, but they do some mad stuff like the X-10 with a servo-controller woofer.

Fulcrum Acoustic [4] uses DSP to correct problems with horn-loaded speakers.

[1]: http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/

[2]: http://jtrspeakers.com/portable/growler/

[3]: http://www.meyersound.com/product/x-10/

[4]: http://www.fulcrum-acoustic.com/technologies/whitepapers.htm...
lol. it wouldn't break the internet. it would just break european websites. I applaud Julia's euro-centric ego though.

I agree though, let them do it. Someone has to show everyone what nonsense this is. Cautionary tales serve a purpose.
Is fermentation invlved in this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew
I don't think the article is terrible.
If childcare businesses are struggling, there will be less and less of them. Which is why the article argues for some form of government intervention.
Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems
Consumers to Creators – Affecting Diversity in Tech – Aaron Saunders
Ask HN: Is the Atom good enough to use?
Hi HN.

I'm using the WebStorm(or IntelliJ) and the Sublime Text for JavaScript(Node.js, React...) development.

And I tried to use Atom when Atom started the closed beta test, but it was not good for use. Because it was too slow and unstable on my development environment.(OSX, MacBookPro Retina 15 2013) So I forgot about it.

Few months ago, I found out about the Nuclide from Facebook. But it was based on Atom. So I didn't interest about it. However, recently I have to develop many things with React, and I felt a little lacking with WebStorm's ES6 and React supports. So I installed Atom and Nuclide to my environments(El Capitan on same MacPook and Ubuntu 15.10 on Desktop) and tried to use it again. But it still sucks for me... It uses too many CPU resources, and interactions are too slow.

Does it happen only for me?

Many people tell about that it is good IDE. But for me not. I really want to use Atom because my favorite language is the JavaScript, and I'll use the React more and more. However, for now, WebStrom is the best tool for me, and ES6 supports also getting better.

I'm just wondering how peoples think about it.
Is it good for you?
There's some cool videos bootstrapping a 8800 via switches and then paper tape over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk
I'm so glad you mentioned kefir! Lots of people have no idea what it is. My roommate in college used to make it all the time - every morning he'd have more kefir, and for maybe 2 minutes of work a day.

Yogurt is also extremely easy to make - just put a spoonful of yogurt in a smallish container of milk, and wait. It's also pretty easy to add things to, just like kefir. Fresh yogurt often tastes way better than storebought, and you know the bacteria are active!
It really doesn't matter, I will make my own internet.
IPFS, anyone?

https://ipfs.io/
Mechanical counterweight-based convertible standing desk
I'm talking about a specific model of washer. My dad did his research, talked to a bunch of maintenance guys who repaired machines for a living, and ended up buying the best built machine that was being sold. Recently I bought a couple of used Snap-on hand tools that were made in the early 90's. I know how tough they are. They are just pretty damn well built. In 20 years if I remark how great they're still going, that's not actually survivorship bias. Some things are supposed to last this long.
There already are efforts to address this with projects like the IPFS. However, without mass adoption, it seems very unlikely that an alternative internet would emerge before the increasingly-likely collapse of the open internet.
I think so!!
I don't agree with you, but I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for contributing constructively to the conversation.