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>Personally I can't wait for the implosion of the advertising industry, sooner is better. Then we can go back to a web that 'just works' instead of this continuous barrage of commercial junk.

100% agree.

Also, pretty sure I'm not the only one who has started boycotting a product only because it's barrage of advertising is annoying.
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I too was extremely surprised by this assertion. It would make more sense if he replaced "traffic progression" by "subscriptions progression"...?
I believe this scenario is misleading because it does ignore the negative consequences of allowing torture. The way you describe it there seem to be two possible scenarios - 1. forbid torturing the terrorist and let innocent people die or 2. torture the terrorist and save innocent people. I believe this is not what happens in real life. The real decision is either 1. authorities are never allowed to torture anyone and some innocent people whose deaths could be prevented die and 2. authorities are allowed to torture terrorist suspects and they will abuse this power to achieve what they want by torturing people they know are innocent and claiming they were suspects. As someone who grew up in a totalitarian country I am inclined to believe that real 2 does more harm to society than real 1.
But editors can infer these settings anyway.
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I think the copyright notice at the bottom is just website boilerplate. it's also on the main Stanford library website. The about page says "For commercial use, contact: utilisation.commerciale@bnf.fr", so it is the Bibliothèque nationale de France that is claiming copyright. IANAL, but I think you'd be pretty safe using those images on servers hosted in the USA because then you'd be under the jurisdiction of U.S copyright law, but things can get messy as in this case where a British Museum threatened to take the Wikimedia Foundation to UK court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_and_....
I'm not sure the economic ladder idea works anymore. The idea was that there's a ladder for economic development starting with agriculture, then textiles then clothes, electronics. Asian countries got on the ladder on different points and followed it to certain extents.

But, I think this doesn't make much sense anymore. As the article mentions, "cheap labour" doesn't get you as far these days.
You could definitely call Standford part of the upper class.

The BnF comes from the Royal library, and the new building was announced by the President of France. It's one of the upper class organisations that has moved through various types of governments from Royalty to Napolean to modern Presidents. Now it is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. 3000 people daily go through the reading rooms, which is a very small percentage of the French public -- less than 1%, less than 0.1%.
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> They'll first block users that use ad-blockers then they will just do some sponsored article with brands or just paywall their news sites.

That requires a website publisher to act against their visitors. Now, some websites will no doubt do this but they're signing their own deathwarrant with a strategy like that. The advertising industry is relatively powerless when it comes to adblocking, the first ad network that blocks access to the pages of the sites it is running on for users of adblockers will surely see a pretty steep drop in the number of websites they're still allowed to serve.

So only publishers have that power (and I'm fine with that, if they wish to force me to consume their ads I'm perfectly ok with getting my content elsewhere, it's not as if there is a shortage of content on the internet).

Adblockers are forcing a whole class of websites into a variation of the freemium model where the base service is free but only a small percentage is paying because they are still consuming ads. The bigger the ratio between free:paid users the higher the pressure on the remainder to monetize. This will in turn drive some of the remainder towards installing an ad-blocker themselves and so on.

This won't end well for the advertising industry, but it is self inflicted wounds for the most part. If advertisers had not structurally overstepped the bounds of the reasonable then adblockers would have never existed in the first place. Sloppy oversight on what ads they allowed to be served up didn't help either.

If they really wanted to fix this situation they could simply stop digging the hole any deeper.

An actionable plan would look something like this:

- immediately stop tracking and profile building, announce this very loudly and stick to it also in the future.

- strict oversight on the kind of payloads they allow to be sent out

- get rid of the crazy layering of the industry, stick to a simple 3 party model, publisher, advertising agency, consumer (this is a very complex step, agencies do not have the in-house knowledge required to actually serve ads) and take responsibility towards publishers and consumers for the ads served.

Lots of people would lose their jobs, lots of websites would likely go under but the industry as a whole would survive. If they can't make a move like this they are in fact milking the cow until it dies and die it will, their actions to date have only accelerated the process.

One of the problems that is hard to address is that the advertising industry is in an arms race internally, if one party starts using a new and even more invasive technique to outperform its competitors it gets all the business and this then results in adoption of that technique across the board.

And all this to (sarcasm mode on) 'improve your online experience and serve you more relevant content'.
Naming is a hard problem in computer science :)
Did not expect to read about novuss on HN today... or ever.
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I think that is the techie HN echo chamber effect.

I have spoken to lots of people (Yay! More anecdata) about the idea of lets encrypt (Business people with small websites) and the "automatic" bit was very much a plus point.
I hear this argument a lot. That situation is as unlikely as it gets. At least in my part of the world, torture is particularly discouraged as a means of gathering information during war.

Not only are prisoners likely to confess anything that will make the pain stop, but the ones inflicting it are themselves unlikely to be able to tell when the one being tortured is telling the truth.

Furthermore, even if he tells the truth (as in information that he honestly believes to be true), it's very difficult to tell if that information is of real value or just another smoke screen -- i.e. if the man you're holding was intentionally misinformed by an enemy who became aware of his imminent capture, or who simply believe the risk of capture to be very high. History is full of cases where important plans have been withheld even from unit commanders, having been shared only with the highest political and military commanders. In such cases, field units aren't left without orders -- they're given inconsequentially fake ones.

Saying "torture would be OK in situations where the information obtained could save many lives" is basically like saying "living in the Sahara would be OK during rainy days". It's theoretically possible and it's obviously hard to disagree that you can live for 24 hours in a desert where it rains, but there's a good reason why no one is rushing to live in the Sahara.
At the end of the article it seems they are saying that a shuttle is currently being worked on.
There's a lot of socioeconomic growth to be had as the many countries in the continent accelerate to compete and thrive on the global economy, but I hope we can understand reality on the ground isn't what all the infomercials (and apparently game server coverage) suggest.

The good news is that these 1.17 Billion people[1] are in the modern age. There's many innovations coming out of Africa that should engender hope and optimism, in banking, education, energy and agriculture to name a few sectors.

I hope we can be cautious about defining the continent by too narrow of a standard when it comes to advancement and entrepreneurship.

1: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/world_population.htm
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Like how we never notice air.

Oh wait...
This wouldn't work in eg German, where there's no way to cancel out pronunciation like that.
It's looking bad for me. In Australia we've got Netflix (with 1/10th the content), Stan and Presto. It's quite likely that your three favourite shows could cost you three subscriptions (~30AUD) instead of one. Pay TV is slowly declining, but if you want sport in HD (and you do, the MPEG2 bitrate on FTA is terrible), it's $50/month on a 12 month contract.

If I have to buy an Apple TV for some things, an XBox One for others and an Amazon TV (if they ever release it) for Unnamed New Top Gear Show I'm just gonna give up and use my extra time to learn Haskell.

(I did try IPTV, but my downstream speed is 8 megabit on a good day and it wasn't enough).
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This wouldn't happen with lojban ;)
In the music industry, technology and economy have worked hand in hand to 'let record companies die'. The result is that most projects nowadays are home-made, resulting in a generalized cacophony where it's so hard to find quality content that people are giving up. This is what's going to happen here as well. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Hopefully this will make people go back to real-world local structures, which are going to be profitable again.
This kind of behavior is already implemented in oh-my-zsh. It's really cool.
I think this is why you don't let linguists do maths.
That's interesting. I haven't seen the film, but that is prescient.
What they proved is that, for certain words, all letters can work as a multiplicative identity element (which if we were talking about numbers it would be 1)

Or, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
Yes, because German pronunciation is very close to the written form of words
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The attempt to turn public property into the property of the locals reminds me of a similar, non-tech-related case, also in LA - Malibu beaches.

According to the law of the state of California, all beaches are public property. Of course, this gets a bit complicated when an individual owns the land in front of the beach. The people who buy houses in Malibu would, of course, prefer to have a private beach section. So they put up gates and hire security guards (illegally), block public parking spots (either physically or by putting up counterfeit "no parking" signs), etc. They've historically gotten away with it because the enforcement agency is underfunded and the enforcement process is expensive (a separate civil lawsuit for each offender). That may change soon though:

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-coastal-penalties-20140...
There's something strange about this.

We're at a point where ad blockers are used by a majority of the first parts of the audiences. The article and the talks it references all seem to be about how to slow down or halt the adoption of ad blockers so it won't get that to that point.

But we have reached that point already.
That's a subtle hint to the extended corruption spayed by advertising. Publishers' jargon is centered around CTR, CPM, and traffic, because of their limited understanding of the technology powering their revenue. They grasp at whatever simplified concepts other non-technical persons showed down their throat (like "big data"), to keep their illusion of power and stability.

Hopefully it will be over very soon.
I've just looked it up (assuming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#File_format_support is an accurate reference here) and was surprised that it seems IE11 was the first to support other formats.

I have kept our icons in .ico format but I thought that was to support proper legacy IE (5 and below). Where I have used other formats I presumably didn't notice the icon not working in IE8/9/10 because I generally only care about Firefox & Chrome and worry about IE10/11 breaking when someone reports a problem [if someone reports a problem in IE prior to 10 outside of my day job (where I have to support IE8 for some rather backward clients) I consider that their problem because of their browser choice, and even 10 is rapidly dropping off my care radar].
I was with some friends travelling to central London recently, and we exited the tube system at Tottenham Court Road station. This station is currently undergoing refurbishment as part of the new Crossrail extension, and you now leave through a recently constructed exit.

On the way up the escalators, we all commented to each other how the station felt considerably different to other tube stations. It felt better, nicer, more pleasant. This was strange, as the fit and finish is no different to other new tube stations. Eventually one of my friends realised the difference: there was no advertising.

I think we underestimate the mental load that advertising clutter causes us, even when it's merely in the background. We're so used to it that it's not until it's gone that we realise how burdensome it actually is.
I was giving a couple of examples in reply to the "Why is this a topic of conversation?" question. It's not meant to be taken literally as a plan to save someone.

I'm just saying that it's worth having a conversation over.

PS: what's up with the downvotes in this thread ?
If you're able to gain traction and further your business, iOS is a great platform to start off on. I wouldn't worry about android until you're ready to grow more. You'll definitely reach a wider audience being on both, but that isn't necessarily your goal just yet.

Also just make a web version if you really want a big audience.
Not long before 9/11, a friend of mine went through SERE training. He said the main purpose of the torture techniques they used wasn't to gain information, but to make the captive say whatever the captors wished.

Then all this torture stuff came up and lo and behold, they used those same techniques from SERE (at least, what's publicly known about them), and the "information" they came up with said there were WMDs in Iraq.

(Of course, this wasn't necessarily an unintentional falsehood. It could just be that high command said "get us information on WMDs in Iraq," and special forces soldiers who'd been through SERE used the techniques they knew.)
is 'uberization' the new 'big data'?

can't take seriously any article using this word in its title
I wish I lived in this bizarre world of yours in which economics is a kind of frictionless, perfect implementation of a primary school level of economics. Sadly, I live in a world in which companies that do not have monopolies nonetheless don't make zero profit. Put down your happy-clappy-valley economic religion and look out of the window.
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No, just random migrants and rural residents with cars coming to the city to make a buck.
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Interesting... Didn't make it to Lithuania?
Stanford doesn't commercialize the images though.

The French National Library does, and actually Stanford makes freely available the highest resolutions[0] which are otherwise sold 25€ or 50€ by the BnF (which also sells, more legitimately in my opinion, high-quality physical prints for reasonable prices).

[0]https://stacks.stanford.edu/image/iiif/bv002kr2012%252FT0000...
> Also, pretty sure I'm not the only one who has started boycotting a product only because it's barrage of advertising is annoying.

You're not the only one. In my case, I for instance decided to never use Groupon because of a barrage of pink and yellow ads I got once (before someone asks again - I'm pretty pretty sure this was way before I've heard any controversy about Groupon).
Yeah at least the critic on the eacapist magazin had actual sources for their claims. Other outlets are just jumpin on the bandwagon
> immoral not to torture.

I don't know of single or any other data-point in which torture yielded useful information.

Even few cases that claimed torture yielded useful information, in the end turned out that were given without any torture and those that were given were so bad, that a routine check-up could invalidate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeF2rzsZSU
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Yes. If CIA would actually worry about the terrorist, then the terrorists still free would be 1. concern. They are really hard to catch, no matter how you try.

Now if you go torture route, you might get some information that is quickly getting dated. But you also validate the terrorist cause. And terrorists in hostage situations don't want to surrender, because they know they will be tortured.

If you would treat captured terrorists incredibly nicely, that would cause huge moral decay and risk of snitching to the terrorists who are still free. This is in line with Sun Tzu from few thousand years back "always reward a traitor, never trust him". Also U.S. domestic terrorism called "mafia" was best fought with witness protection program.

CIA isn't stupid. They do torture for some reason.
Are saying that collateral damage is not justified under any circumstance? Otherwise your witty response does nothing to adress the point that I made. We already do not condone murder nor rape.
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Click-bait title much? I don't know about anyone else, but when I read that title I thought it would have something to do with syntax or semantics, not as a monoid word problem[1]. Also, why did they call it "semigroup with identity" instead of monoid?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_problem_for_groups
People give that much money because they want to feel "they are part of a special experience of making something special happen".I get it.

The game has a budget of roughly 100M now, which is a big budget. (Metal Gear Solid V was 80M , which also included the Fox Engine development).

I'm afraid that this episode might kill crowd funding for video games, if the result ends up being catastrophic.
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Playing the devil's advocate here but are ads really worse these days? If anything, I remember them being a lot worse in the early 2000s (e.g remember "you are the 1000000th visitor, claim your price" popups, the flashy gifs and the large header banners). These days, I feel they are more tasteful and better targeted. I personally would be sad to see ads go away completely as they form a system of price discrimination which allows poorer people (and kids) to have free access to content (the rich effectively subsidising their access).
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Yes, many of my worries about what my government get up to are based on the fact that they lose all moral standing when others do the same, see Russia bombing Syria for a recent example.
What is so absurd about that? Its good management of the natural resources of Australia, to protect them from invasive species ..
Yup, WordPress keeps on chugging along. And for most publishing needs it's good enough, regardless of what's inside: https://janit.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/does-the-technical-de...
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But there are at least 6 ways to write "f" in english (for, off, photon, enough, wife, mazeltov);
I don't think we can safely suggest a majority of media consumers on the internet are using ad blockers.

As the author states, we should be wary of most stated statistics on blocker usage. Neither the 25% nor 90% numbers he gives represent the global internet user base broadly enough for such an assertion.
The whole point is that they didn't immediately set all letters equal to one. The only relations they added (on top of cancellation) was that identically sounding words are equal within the monoid. From this, they were able to prove that the group must be the trivial group, no matter how you try to come up with a multiplication table.
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40% of US electricity is made out of coal. Tesla are not zero emission vehicles.
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Why are apps the future of TV?

Why should TVs have a future?

Why develop another ecosystem just for an larger output device?

The TV—or I would rather call it 'large screen' will have a future as a dumb device which will be employed by other devices just for outputting content (best example is Chromecast). Yes, there still will be TV apps from manufacturers, from Apple and from whoever who needs to push new 'marktes' but they won't be able to build relevant ecosystems. The TV with its limited remote-control based UI patterns is too inflexible compared to a touch interface like that from a smartphone. So why not just let the smartphone be the TV's brain—and again we talk about Chromecast.
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We must be on different world-wide-webs. I've had the distinct displeasure to use the web without an adblocker for a day or so recently and I couldn't wait to get back to my other browser. It's gotten much worse since the 2000's, the amount of screen real estate given over to ads and the number of animations dwarfed anything I remember from long ago. Ads left, right, above and in the middle of the content, and even in the footer.

One page I looked at (the homepage of a popular dutch news site) has no less than six adverts on it, two of them animated and one a 'rotator', taking up a very large fraction of the total available space. Compared to a 1980's newspaper or a 2001 website that's absolutely horrific, all this besides the tracking and other implications.

So yes, it's gotten really worse, and not just a little bit. The creatives look better and the 1000000th visitor ads (that were spread through 24x7 mostly) were dumb but there are other metrics than the 'level' at which an ad addresses the audience.
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I wish I could just directly pay web content creators the equivalent ad revenue that my pageviews would generate.
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This is merely a different version of the old linguist joke that "In English, all letters are silent". Leaving this here for the interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_English_alphabet
Always going to great lengths to teach your children important lessons like this is another form of putting them first (or at least up there).

I don't put loads of time into my kids to save them every inconvenience, but to give them a thirst for knowledge, etc.