skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I misunderstand. Although it's nice not to load and see ads, and it's really nice not to be tracked and correlated, it's really really nice for an advertiser not to be aware of me personally, at all, correlated or not.

So this thing poisons the stream, but it also says "there's a person here, put him in the database." It's like responding to spam; there's no future in it.

I don't mind advertising at all, and when I used to read physical magazines and papers, none of the ads bothered me, I'd either look at them, ignore them, or throw away a whole section if that's all it was.

It's tracking ads, and the ad networks more generally, that I object to.

If a site just sold and showed static ads, with no information about me personally sold to or detected by the ad buyer, I'd be among the first to whitelist such a site. Until then ... fuck off.

EDIT: Actually I guess there'd be no need for whitelisting, the ad would just show up with the editorial content. So, Wired, when you whine at me for using a blocker, why not instead just show me a picture of Suntory? http://whiskey.wikia.com/wiki/Bill_Murray_and_Suntory
Excepts adds are often sold on a cost-per-click basis so you are causing a transaction with the advertiser for which they got nothing (no visit to their website to at least consider their wares for a few seconds).
It would be 10 or 100 such subscriptions to various "networks" of sites, and in the end these micropayment-networks would live more from selling the visitors' behaviour patterns than from the fees themselves (just like ad networks are in the bulk information collection business).

The solution imho is a good micropayment system where I can choose to view a page for $.01 or view it for free with ads.
> as far as I know Kosher most Kosher meat in the US are not butchered exactly according to Jewish tradition

That's not true. Meat certified by all reputable Kosher agencies in the US is slaughtered according to Jewish tradition. That's part of why it's so expensive.
What a waste. If you can detect the ads and trackers, just block them instead.

Besides which, their claim that 'targeting and surveillance becomes futile' is untrue. You're still letting all the ad networks and trackers watch every web site you visit.
You'd think that would exist already: A service that costs, say, 8$ a month. It should remove ads and paywalls, and pay the publishers some amount relative to how much I've browsed their site.
I like the Knuth/Plass technique as well, it creates much more uniform and visually appeasing line margins. The reason something like it would be so difficult to implement is that it requires heavy geometric processing every time the content reflows, which would impact Hyphen's performance a lot. Another issue I see is that it would pollute an ePub's DOM more than I'd care for.
KDE/XFCE hybrid – the greatest DE of all time
Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan
Calling law enforcement officers "pigs" seriously reduces your statement's credibility. We all know that it's a logical fallacy to consider the personal details of an arguer, but as humans with limited amount of time to evaluate each other, we often take these shortcuts. Using that word handicaps your otherwise informative comment.

I'm not telling you this not because of an emotional connection to cops, I'm telling you this because your word choice harms your credibility.
I have used user agent switcher in the past. It sounds like the extension that rickycook was referring to.
Another Blabr dev here. This is a really nice blab. We'd targeted Blabr for scientific computing (and, in particular, for STEM and conceptual modelling), but you've demonstrated that it also works well for other kinds of online, interactive computation.

Based on your work, it occurs to us that we need to improve some things for non-scientific applications, e.g., number formatting (dollars/cents, thousands separators). Please let us know if there are any other features that would help you do this kind of financial modelling work. Or any feedback in general. Thanks!
Click fraud hasn't been a user choice thus far.
Bryan Cranston Reading Mommy and Daddy Want to F%#&
One of the nordic countries has done exactly that, if I recall right. I can't remember the name of it though?
What do you think dependency management would bring to slackware?

I remember, back in 2001 or so, how bad package management was.

yum didn't exist, apt-get was not widely deployed. You were stuck with rpm and dpkg. You should spend a few days forcing yourself to just use those two commands and see how much you hate life.

I used to install systems (up to Mandrake 6.1) via RPM, then give up on package management entirely, in order to compile Enlightenment and GNOME (and much of rawhide!) from source. Eventually, I gave up on installing binaries altogether on these systems, because it was easier to manage upgrades from source.

Now, as a lazy old man, I've switched to gentoo ebuilds, which are glorified scripts that bring just enough dependency management to not get in the way.
How would you know? How would people whose creative careers have been destroyed be visible to you?

I don't dislike their "position", I dislike the fact that they're essentially even more parasitic on musical creators than the old majors used to be.

Have you ever heard of a streaming service paying a talented band/singer an advance? Or taking out ads? Or setting up press interviews?
10% of transactions is enough to dramatically influence real estate prices. They become comps for subsequent sales.
> systemd only has extensive documentation if you count the source code itself

...and the manpages for every tool, every config file, built-in units, and every type of unit, plus the extensive documents linked from https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/ , including a 21-part series of articles targeted at system administrators, a dozen more pages targeted at users and administrators about specific topics, several dozen documents for developers, a dozen videos...

There are many criticisms you could reasonably throw at systemd, but "not well documented" certainly doesn't seem like one of them.
I have a friend who works for a commercial real estate development firm in Boston. They just finished a new apartment building in the BC/Fenway area and the lowest tier 1-bedroom studio (550 sq ft) is going for $3500/mo. He said they had the building fully let out within a month of opening, mostly to international students. He declined to specify nationality.
wiki says they're using superheated water for storage, lasting 30mins and the salts are under consideration - sounds like a serious improvement, do you have more info?
Most grid operators have displays like that. The California ISO has one.[1] PJM's is the most elaborate; search for "eData Guest view" to view it. It's too much information at first, but click on the "Big Picture" tab, then change one of the smaller panes to "Wind", and one to "Load", and you can see current load and how much wind power is contributing. Note the 5:1 variation in wind power over a day, across most of the northeastern US. "LMPs" shows the wholesale price of electricity at various points in the system. (It costs money to transmit power, so it's not the same everywhere.)

You can view the PJM's network issues by clicking on "Constraints" or "Emergencies". Typical message today: "As of 17:10 on 11.20.2015 a Post Contingency Local Load Relief Warning to maintain WARD 115 KV at 106 KV in the PN area has been issued for Transmission Contingency Control. Additional Comments: Pre-contingency voltage too high for caps at Mansfield and Niles Valley" Minor problem, already handled. If you really want to understand all this, PJM has lots of training materials. Start with "PJM 101".[2] Anyone running a big network or "cloud" may find it useful to see how a very large power grid is run. The main control room in Valley Forge, PA usually has less than 10 people.[3]

[1] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html
[2] http://pjm.com/Globals/Training/Courses/ol-pjm-101.aspx
[3] http://www.elliottlewis.com/pjm-mission-critical-site/
In particular, ElasticSearch offers the possibility to include snippets of scripts from a number of languages (e.g. Groovy) in your search. If you do so, the file-access capability of those languages remains available.

I'd be surprised if it's an issue these days, because:

1. It's disabled by default, and has been for a while.

2. If you do turn it on, the config options let you be more specific about where those scripts are allowed to come from.
There is! It's called Google Contributor - https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ - and people seem to like it. I'm not sure it's gained a lot of traction, but it's a good idea, and Google's the one to do it, given their domination of the ad market.
Why the Paleo Diet Works?
The value, in my opinion, comes from the fact that SearchEngineLand broke the story. The original Google post is extremely low key, as one might expect given that previous versions of the document were leaked not released with an accompanying announcement.

As best I could tell, no other outlet had covered the document release before SearchEngineLand nor had anyone submitted the original to HN.

As an aside, what else can one expect visually from a site devoted to SEO?

YMMV.
That's assuming humans would be performing the resuscitation, which I doubt. If general intelligence has been solved, it will probably be an AI doing the work.
This is cool but I have to disagree with this phrase from the article.... "Given the scale of farming today, treating weeds chemically is really the only practical way for humans to keep them under control".

It's the easiest way to keep weeds under control but not the only practical way. (Source: I worked for the weed science department (yes, they had one at my school) while at university.)

Here are some other methods for reducing weeds:

1) Before planting, till and water the field causing weeds to germinate. Then harrow the field killing all the weeds. Do this multiple times if needed.

2) Good old fashioned cultivation as was done before the herbicide period. (The article on the robot was posted a few days ago and in response I posted the below... it has a lot of pictured of weed control devices which may be interesting to someone working on robotic weed control....https://archive.org/stream/SteelInTheField/Steel%20in%20the%...)

3) Crop spacing. Space crops so they out-compete the weeds (this is already usually done).

4) Keep fields clean. Keep the ditch-rows clean. Don't let weeds go to seed. After a period of time the bank of weed seeds in the soil is reduced and there are less weeds to control

I know herbicides are faster and cheaper (if we don't consider externalized costs). But they aren't the only "practical" way to eliminate weeds. It does take good management and more effort to eliminate or reduce herbicide use though. I personally think it's very worth it. Oh, and I'm excited about robotics. I don't know about this device, but I do think field robotics is the future.
I would be very careful with this. It may constitute fraud.
This topic, though a different article, received a fair bit of discussion a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10385244
Very interesting, however it paints a misleading picture of the empire because it is missing the most important trade and shipping routes: over the sea.
> But because budgets have to balance, the current system has the advantage that it can have lower marginal tax rates on higher income earners.

That isn't a very strong argument. Assuming the basic income and associated taxation is calculated to approximate the same level of redistribution of wealth as the existing welfare system, the amount a person making a given level of income would have to have their taxes increased by in order to balance the budget is only equal to the amount they themselves would receive from the basic income but would not have qualified for in a means tested welfare system. For high income earners that amount is negligible because the basic income constitutes such a small proportion of their total income, and even then it has no effect on their effective tax rate (i.e. net transfers with the government; taxes paid less basic income), only that small change to the marginal rate needed to keep the effective rate the same.

And in particular what is really happening is that the disincentive (which is created by any taxation for any purpose) is being spread more evenly throughout the population, which all else equal can be expected to have less effect on behaviour than concentrating the effect on a subgroup which will then be much more compelled to react to it.

Moreover, how the taxes are collected is separate from the basic income. If we find that it is for some strange reason better to charge a higher marginal rate to lower income people than higher income people then we can have a basic income and yet still do that.
I would bet good money those clicks are never counted. Each exchange should rapidly flag 100% clickers.
I'm using Roboto Mono and the Paper theme from http://samuelhewitt.com/paper; dark blue background, light grey text and green/cyan prompt.
Interesting terms, if you can't talk about it afterwards how do people know that any of these bounties were paid out? After all there is a pretty simple loophole here: mark any and all reports as duplicates, no need to pay out.
We have no investors and are funded by ad-hoc and long running projects that customers pay (at cost) licensing to have access to and support from us for. I believe this started out as a mix of 'in our spare time' development and then customer (perhaps local government?) that required a service to be built and hosted, at that time the organisation was just one or two people so it was able to move fast without costing much. Since then we've obviously grown a lot (120~ people and many external relationships) and we try to balance what customers want and we can provide so that the smaller customers can use systems that otherwise would need the kind of funding to developer that only he big players can afford to spend. We try to open source as much of our underlying systems as possible as we have benefited greatly from the open source communities over the years.
Uppercase letters are not permitted in Debian package names according to the policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.ht...
You would already need to run the weeder every few days to catch future weeds. Much of it would be about disrupting the weeds while crops get established.
But that's not what the GGP said, he said that "anything other that not visiting those sites is theft of services", that is definitely not limited to false clicking ads, but it also includes simple ad blocking.
Take My Money and Shut Up, Spotify
We have an Ember mobile app, with native wrapper. Loads in ~1 second on a modern phone, which feels reasonable.

If it would take 25ms in vanilla JS (40x quicker) I'd still consider it a small efficiency gain in our case (from a users perspective).

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(should mention that there is no network latency, since it's an installed app the JS-code is bundled, obviously)
I hear you. You click on an ad because you might be interested in a trip and now you're penalized all over the web because you actually showed some interest in an ad?!
Or the Jammers from The Prisoner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Your_Funeral
Pfizer, Allergan Said to Be Close to $150B Merger
> I've regretted that Octave hasn't done for Matlab what R did for S

R was much more programmable that the other systems (except S) in that time -- while the R language is not pretty, the scripting languages in SAS, Stata etc. were much worse. So R provided an improvement in people's workflow. Whereas Octave is just a free version of the same language as Matlab (with some small improvements).

So, switching from SAS, Stata, SPSS etc. to R provided an improvement in productivity, but switching from Matlab to Octave does not.
Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’
I totally disagree -- call a spade a spade (a pig a pig!)

The only people who will discount an argument because of that think Walter Scott had it coming. And they'll believe so right up until it's their family member, and maybe even afterwards.

Also, it's important to correctly convey they are no good cops (1), just pigs. That not one of them can be trusted unless on video from multiple angles. That even the supposedly good ones know and knew what their coworkers were up to and choose to look the other way, even when they don't actively help. That somewhere around our ten thousandth repetition of "just a bad apple" modestly intelligent people have to start considering that it's the whole bushel that's rotten.

(1) yes yes, I'm sure there is at least one in America. Maybe two. The statement stands at 99.99%, ok?
Another weak point is that it does end up loading the ads which would slow down the connection and it confirms the pages you've seen to the networks increasing the amount of tracking done.
Pebble Time Round reviewed: You can judge this book by its cover
I think reading the full Quran is immaterial to this discussion (I haven't read the Holy Bible fully either... gasp!). I rely on the testimony of experts on Islam, which you fully disregard even though you are not an expert yourself. I also haven't read every issue of The Watchtower but I still have an opinion about Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't find reading holy books about religions whose beliefs I don't share all that interesting.

I understand there are Islamic extremist groups; I've never disputed that. I'm arguing here that it's the extremism and not the Islamic that's worrying. I've read about Islamic culture and its history, and much like Christendom, it has both admirable and reprehensible parts. It's simply not true that the majority of the Muslim world do or support violent terrorist acts. Your position simply doesn't stand a reality check.

Have you read the Quran back to back, fully, including the verses that preach tolerance and compassion?
>For music at least, I seem to recall hearing that most bands already get the bulk of their money from live shows?

Because they sold their copyright on their music to record companies in exchange for funding their studio recording and promotion.
Yes that's us. Android app will definitely come (I'm the Director of Software and I'm an Android user) but it's going to follow the iOS app which is what we're focusing on / nailing down currently.
Scientists implant electronic circuits inside plants
get a cryptostorm (or cryptofree) account.
Quite. What does it matter to an advertiser selling cars if I also indicate that I like holidays to El Salvador, Dove washing liquid, and videos about giraffes? They will still think that I want to buy a car.
Url changed from http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/11/testing-software-docker, which points to this.
Clinton to propose tax credit for family caregiving costs
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/can-you-think-yoursel..., which points to this.
It's pretty natural to argue that there are "no limits" to the number of refugees/asylum seekers we can accept. After all we are obliged by international conventions to process asylum applications for people on our doorstep. A country that argues that their borders are closed, or that only X thousand refugees will be allowed to seek asylum, are most likely breaching international conventions, or never signed them in the first place.

What the authorities are saying now is basically that we'll honor our obligations but if you come here now the queue for processing will be many months and you have to sleep outside and it's Sweden so you don't sleep outside in winter. Essentially they are trying to achieve two things: raise awareness in surrounding countries that they too need to help, and also signal to refugees that Sweden might not be the best idea this winter.

I'm not sure what "self inflicted" refers to, I think more countries than us have signed these conventions. What we have had is a pretty liberal non-refugee immigration. Naturally that has to be cut back now, to accomodate refugees.

I heard the US were debating 10k Syrian refugees. To put that in perspective, 10k came to Sweden this week.
LILO development ends next month
It is stated on its site but developer is offering adoption to anyone who wants to move forward with it. It has basic GPT and RAID (so more work there) and also needs BTRFS love.
University Professor Uses ‘N-Word’ in Class to Make a Point. Under Investigation
The only real bullet proof solution I can think of is to use Qubes (or VMPlayer / VirtualBox on a more common OS) to launch a new VM every browsing session.
You loose your browser preferences and bookmarks though.
You could organize your bookmarks in a local HTML file so your browser don't "broadcast" them.
These are no "asylum seekers". These are hoards of invaders, that are coming to Europe from the 9th century culture.
Apparently it matters a lot, because they pay for that information.
As someone who runs a number of blogs, I have been following the "adblocker wars" with interest. Here is my opinion on a not malicious alternative for publishers looking to monetize:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/surviving-an...
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...

I will suggest you promote that idea if you really want to see fewer ads and not have to debate (internally) the morality of whatever of poisoning the stream, etc. I think it is a payment model that can work. Your readers need to value what you offer, but, ideally, they should be there for that reason anyway.
Worse, you'll be penalized because your mom clicked an ad, and they know you are related, for example.
"If you are renting your car, you cannot do as you like with it, and if you stop paying, you lose transportation"

Actually I think most cars (at least in Europe) are already rented (or leased, or payed for by the company, or...) one way or another.

If I understand correctly then what will be added is shared usage. That will make the 'ownership' probably cheaper.
Interesting. Just the other day I read this article (http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/cool-stunts-creativity-1...) that bemoaned the overuse of the word.
The further away a country is from the Southern/Eastern border of the EU the better the whole 'refugees should stay in the country where they arrive' deal looked to them when they signed up for it.

The problem is that the 'edge' countries where refugees tend to arrive are in no way capable of dealing with the flood and at the same time don't have the funds, the manpower, the will or the organization in place to deliver on this promise. These countries also tend to have the most porous borders.

Germany is in much the same situation by the way.