skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advertising model is, among other things, transforming the once vibrant internet media landscape into a cesspool of floundering and money losing companies chasing clicks and eyeballs in a desperate race to the bottom. Interesting and unique content is jettisoned for the most banal, formulaic click-baiting bullshit imaginable. The sooner the ad supported internet dies, the better.

I have no problem paying for access to quality content and am more than wiling to pay for more of it. But if my only is option consists of being inundated with annoying and intrusive ads at every turn, I will block them at every turn and feel not a pang of guilt and regret.

It's a bit rich for organizations that promote self-interest and free markets to harangue their customers with lectures on the immorality of ad blocking. I am acting out of self-interest when I choose to block ads and the market should have gotten the hint by now that the public (i.e., customers or potential customers) put with ads as a necessary evil - at the best of times. This is not the best of times: internet ads are intrusive, hog resources, are served by dodgy outfits, present security risks, are an eyesore, and often flog stuff that I will never ever buy. Therefore, I block ads q

Come on , is this pitiful whining about the evils of ad blocking really coming from the same is w tech industry that touts adaptability, innovation and the willingness to try new things as core strengths? The market has spoken and it has said loudly and clearly "ads suck, dude!" Therefor, I actively and with not even a pang of guilt, block ads. On both by mobile devices and big computer I use open source host file tweaks rather than a "commercial" plugins (Adblock, AdBlock Plus). Way less bloat, more robust and no backroom deals selling whitelist space to advertisers.

Jaron Lanier has been widely criticized, even ridiculed, for his, admittedly convoluted, micropayment system concepts but at least he's thinking about the possibilities. Because the ad serving model is doomed to a slow death by ever diminishing returns. Now is the time to innovate.

Last word goes to Lanier and his succinct take on the, heh, bad taste left by an ad driven world: “Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.”
I'm intensely looking forward to Swift for Linux. I'd love to contribute more to open source iOS targeted project but I'm really unwilling to learn languages that I can't use on Linux at all because I don't want to make a Mac my daily driver.
>...someone must pay to keep the lights on. Since nobody would pay for random points in theorem-space, it must have some way of figuring out what the human brains down at the breaker box actually want.

"pay"?

Imagine this: you produce a silicon cube embedded with logic circuits powered through the photovoltaic effect and then eject it into space.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613961 and marked it off-topic. Generic ideological tangents nearly always are.
If I provide my os with a list of domains not to make requests to (via a hosts file) is the OS provider doing something illegal?

After all, they knew it could be used to circumvent connections required by bits of software.

Another legal grey area with potential unintended consequences.
It's funny how often it's brought up even before marriage.

Also, men have a huge legal disincentive to have kids anymore. If the relationship doesn't work out, you're on the hook for ~18 years of child support payments, and that whole system is designed to make men out to be nothing but a paycheck.
Slack is down
$90 for the lead, not what it is worth overall. They're not closing 100% and the leads may be shared down the pingtree or as they age.
tl;dr: Here's why the FSF's opinion is wrong, and my opinion is right.

The FSF engages in some shenanigans, no doubt (off the top of my head: making GCC less interoperable on purpose so those evil proprietary people can't do something with it - what was that about freedom and choice again?)

..and I personally find the politics inscrutable, the principles under those politics unrealistic, the license impractical, and their figurehead unlikeable.

None of which is all that important at the end of the day. The FSF's influence on the world, for all its nits to pick, is still a net positive, and we're better off for having had their influence.
And if Fannie and Freddie no longer provide federally-subsidized loans, mortgage products would make a fine fixed income product for Google's cash reserves to help fund Alphabet and Calico.

The AdWords money train ain't gonna run forever. Time to diversify now!
>>When I substrate my friends, it’s no one that read that post....

If that's a representative example of how you mangle the English language, In not surprised.
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Sorry, maybe my previous comment wasn't very clear, let me try again;

I don't understand what problem this project solves and whom it solves it for. We can already manage multi-site WordPress installations and usually that's done by site admins, not the average content Joe, so does it really need a super fancy new UI?

And what exactly does it mean when you say "WordPress.com is open source"? Maybe I'm out of the loop but the way I understand it is that wordpress.com is a hosted (commercial) service of wordpress.org.

My experience with WordPress is not that the UI is a problem at all, neither multi site management, which I think is in the scheme of things quite niche. The problem with WordPress I hear other developers complain about is the out dated PHP system architecture.
All first world economies are highly planned.
That's a surprising amount. I'd imagine if its spammers or something, I would be highly suspicious of their payment being legit (stolen PayPal account or something).

I have almost 500k plugin installs, I'd sell my plugin for that amount if I knew it was going to a legit company!
> Well, I do agree that having so many closed computer systems would suck, and open alternatives would be much more preferable. But, FFS, desire is no basis for something being a right, a "freedom".

Well, okay, on terminology. But desire is certainly a basis for taking collective action with others who share your desires, to make your desires so, is it not? And isn't that actually a true freedom, the freedom to take collective action through legal and voluntary means to make your desires so? Which is just what FSF/GNU is doing?

And I say this as someone who actually is NOT really a fan of FSF/GNU restrictive licensing. (Because that's really what it is, "viral" licenses like GNU are actually MORE restrictive than a do-what-you-like MIT-style license. A fact that is probably not controversial; GNU as a license is intentionally more confining towards developers, to try and accomplish FSF/GNU aims which they believe will be less confining for end-users).

I'm actually not a huge fan of FSF/GNU in practice... but the OP's arguments are still silly.
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I can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure!

GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico
503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
I think the wiki is specific to M-Pesa, not mobile money transfer services in general. Not sure what about it you consider misleading.

I wonder why they didn't standardize on a single interface. We had trouble integrating with Kenyan providers at a device level at my previous job, since they exclusively use SIM toolkit apps, and - at the time - didn't provide APIs. USSD would have been a godsend. Great work on USSD-GUI.
In other words, the importance of being T-shaped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
Why do we see colours differently?
>> "...random points in theorem-space..."

Question: Given an arbitrary powerful computer, is the nature of mathematics such that in principle we could exhaust the points in theorem space by brute force?

E.g. is there in principle a finite amount of math?
OpenSUSE build's best feature is you can build for other Distros. So build it for SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu even Arch and it works.

Fedora(Redhat) has picked out two of OpenSUSE's best features, zypper and obs (https://opensuse.org). OBS (Open Build Service) was considered instead of re-inventing the wheel that is copr https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-Septemb...
I don't follow you there, do you mean that the US is a developed country because slavery and the civil war?

Anyway, why not a Japanese or South Korean path forward? or Chinese?
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Interesting -- I honestly didn't know that about Christensen's disk drive study. (I read the book ages ago and haven't kept up with the debate...)

I'd be happy to update the article with a link to discussion about the disk drive studies being wrong.
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The paper: http://f1000research.com/articles/4-1188/v1
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Good point. It helps to be well-rounded in general, not just in technology.

To be fair, if you work for Netflix, entertainment is part of your business domain. One of the things the article highlights is the importance of knowing the business domain for your customers/clients.
There are two things here. WordPress.com has been rewritten as a SPA written in React, communicating with the back-end via REST-API. That codebase is now open source for anyone to review and hopefully learn some neat things about scaling a really big React application (or even better, teach us a few things). That codebase is here: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso

Secondly, Automattic has also launched a desktop app (osx for now, but linux and windows forthcoming) that makes use of this new codebase... which is possible now because everything is now going through our REST API.
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What is your comment about? Is it all volunteer work?
The ideas sound nice, but whenever I've seen actual code that says it's been based on hexagonal architecture.... it's been an over-engineered difficult-to-work-with mess.
This is the inevitable fate of all lead gen IMO - Google - between Adwords and analytics - has absolute visibility into the cost per lead metrics and, in many cases, backend close rates for every search category in the world.
I think his point was, that you can only go so far pleasing yourself. Eventually you want others to experience life's pleasures, having fulfilled yourself.
Google lets you compare US mortgages with it's new service
> They don't define trademarks, because it's a legal term that depends on the laws in your country, and not up to them to define.

It is up to the trademark holder to decide what they consider their trademark to be. That's why when defending a trademark you have to say "so-and-so is a registered trademark of so-and-so", and that's why when people defend trademarks they use a trademark symbol. People defending their trademark also have to decide what is or is not an acceptable use of their trademark. Furthermore, trademarks that are not defended are lost.

Copyright licenses also are completely irrelevant as regards to trademarks. These are different sets of laws. What is in effect here is what Canonical confusingly calls its "intellectual property policy", which is in effect only about trademarks, not any other law that people confusingly call "intellectual property".
There is also fast-ruby: https://github.com/JuanitoFatas/fast-ruby
It's hard to effectively communicate with a lot of people when their lives are driven around consumer (media and other) culture. There's just a fundamental disconnect. And (at least around here) that's a large percentage, if not the majority, of folks.
Of course you should use it when you think its appropriate. For example, if you left your boots on the ground, it would be appropriate to describe them as "boots on the ground". If you are talking about the historic center of a city, call it the "inner-city".

But for the examples you gave upthread, it would be more accurate and useful to say "ruined credit" (and in that case, it's really only for some years) or "ruined marriage".

If someone spent their life in prison and lost their mind due to a wrongful conviction, I'd call that a "ruined life". And if you feel your life is ruined, you should say it.

But I read the phrase "ruined life" and I really don't think it communicates anything except for "bad thing". So why not just express the value judgment and say "That's bad and here's why" rather than trying to describe a life as "ruined"? It's another phrase that has lost whatever meaning it once had.
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half-serious: is there ever a 'non-controversial' critic of anything?
Or sometimes it wasn't a choice at all (/s), or rather the choice was disguised as the choice of whether or not to have safe sex when they weren't thinking of having children.
"Pesa" just means money in Kiswahili. No one uses the word to refer to "M-Pesa". Maybe you caught a snatch of conversation out of context.
According to the planet money episode, Coke never actually implemented it. They just discussed the merits of it and if it would actually work.
I said I don't consider it a bad thing. It's a good first-pass filter. If people can't talk about things beyond what was on TV last night (consistently), then there's probably little of importance that I can discuss with them. And when they can, we usually end up becoming really good friends.
The fact that we can't get to it means that it is, surely? :)
They've been constantly improving it. It'll depend on your build needs, but editing is much better already:

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/android-ndk-preview

It's not the same as Eclipse, in that you could just setup a ndk build script to run when you saved a file... it's supposed to be much better (since you're supposed to edit C files and have full autocompletion and all).

The only awkward part was building the .so files - as long as you could do that (and you could always do that separately with your make files) you were good to go. Building the final apk is fine as long as you have the jni files in the right locations.
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wow that is pretty nuts! do you think it would be possible to add a quasi quoter that could inline cython?
Slack went down? :(
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Having been a wild land firefighter. I can attest that the public perception also plays a factor into this. I live in a city that is close to many large national forests. We yearly get large amount of smoke were I live. Every time this happens there is a large public outcry about the quality of the air. The forest service is extremely sensitive to public discontent. So they attempt to put the fires out as quickly as possible.

This year we had a slow burning fire that was the perfect type of fire that you would let burn till the first rains come. It eats up the undergrowth but stays out of the canopy. But the amount of smoke in our valley caused such an uproar, that the forest service brought in massive amounts of resources to put the fire out quickly instead of letting in burn itself out.

As long as the public doesn't want to be bothered by the side effects of fire, then the forest service will continue to be forced to put fire out in ways that may not be the most beneficial for the forests.
So SoftBank is a "Japanese android firm" now?

Okay, fine. As long as they keep doing the Otousan commercials…
The important qualifier for "just driven by demand" and "People paying to have their needs satisfied" is that some demands/needs/desires are more profitable than others regardless of their long-term importance to a particular system. Just because people are willing to pay for something (e.g. a new gadget) doesn't make it more valuable than something they are not willing to pay for (e.g. clean drinking water for thousands of children). Just because the short-term-focused free market is producing economic activity that satisfies a demand doesn't mean that the system is either healthy or long-term sustainable, and that's the crux of the issue about the idealized Internet - its viability as a platform for human advancement (broadly defined) has been undermined by its corresponding suitability to support independent profit-making.
No no, sorry. Signature edition is buying the computer itself, not rebuying the OS. They're computers from Dell/Toshiba/Acer/etc. sold directly by Microsoft without any garbageware. Saves you the hassle of having to do a clean install after you buy it.
Very true; I just made that number up :) But I guess my original point was that it will almost never be cheaper for a consumer to 3D print something than it will be to buy the mass-produced version of that same thing. Unless that thing is covered by an IP license (i.e. a Mario statue or something) in which case there probably is or will be some law against it that just isn't realistic to enforce against individuals.
Reflection sucks in swift which makes many web patterns tedious to implement.
The financial services are offered by the telcos themselves, who run their own infrastructure. There's no intermediary. M-Pesa by Safaricom, Airtel Money by Airtel, and so forth.
About not needed treatment:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unneces...
We are using https://github.com/rapid7/github-connector to sync github org users with an internal AD.
> Now, you could say that Chomsky actually made the claim that /all/ humans have /the same/ innate language knowledge

I could say that because he has made that claim. You call it obviously false, he calls it obviously true.

Mentally impaired humans do not necessarily contradict Chomsky's view: I think he'd say that they have an internal language ("I-language") that they are not capable of expressing in the real world.

The idea that language is just a probability distribution over ways we can learn to communicate is the contrary position to universal grammar. If you're saying that's what Chomsky actually meant, you're basically moving his goalposts to the other side of the field.
> all of its arguments seem to implicitly target some sort of weird strawman version of Chomskian theories.

Innateness of language is not a theory because it lacks what is the hallmark of any scientific theory: the ability to produce falsifiable predictions. People argue against ridiculous straw-men because there is nothing better that we could test. Chomsky proposed innateness to challenge the behaviourists who simply assumed that language is learned without even trying to proof it. Back in the day that was an honorable goal but half a century later we have to acknowledge that Chomsky and his followers have failed to offer something better, they just replaced one unfounded belief by another.
> I'll just paste previous comments

No, please don't. On HN we try to optimize for signal/noise ratio. Pasted comments are noise.

Ideological venting is also noise. Regardless of your views, if you're going to comment on a divisive issue (or any issue), please don't do it like this here.
I can connect to my Slack team, but then "Apologies, troubles connecting to Slack" :/.
I suspect the KDE/GNOME and GCC/LLVM splits would have still happened for technical reasons even if there weren't licensing/political concerns. There's nothing stopping most GCC developers from picking up and working on LLVM, but they're not, probably because of the massive inertia behind GCC.
Ha. if you refresh it comes back up. Looks like only some of the nodes are down
I understand the technical mumbo jumbo, my question is; what problem does this solve?
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Huh, Freenode is still working YEAH I WENT THERE.
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This kind of dismissive post deserves some sort of name, because it's not the first time on HN I've read about "the common person (mom) doesn't care about surveillance"... perhaps an "appeal to mom", as a subset of the "appeal to moderation" or "think of the children", is a useful categorization. Sure, it's useful to understand what the composite voter believes and stands for, but this post teeters on the brink of declaring surveillance ethically valid, and therefore worthy of continuance, merely because most people have other things dominating their political compass.
That is the exact concepts I was going for. I had never heard that terminology until I read your link. Thanks for the information. I still like the concept of a topo map because I believe that the skills nearest your specialty or more important than those that are further away. A T just indicates that you have a specialty and the your have broad knowledge.
Not implementing the JVM spec means it's not a JVM. It's that simple.
FB is trying really hard to spread the same kind of love with internet.org in developing countries, to "help" the underprivileged.
> It's funny how often it's brought up even before marriage.

What do you mean by this? Do you mean that the topic of children should not be brought up before marriage between two people in a relationship? Or do you mean that the topic gets brought up by family members before you're married?
> To be fair, if you work for Netflix, entertainment is part of your business domain.

That's true. But politics isn't really part of that, but came in handy (knowing when the President was making a big speech or another country was having an election or debate, for example).
It's pretty easy, on iOS we use swift, my Android team uses java, my web team uses ruby.

I switch fluidly between rails and swift, and I leave the java dev to those who enjoy it.
I... don't see a way to search by type of loan. You can't just say "I'm interested in a 30 year fixed" or whatever. That seems a bit crazy to me.
"The year 10000 is just around the corner, and it says in your files that you know COBOL."
(ref: http://haruth.com/Jokes/Jokes12.htm#COBOL )
In theory, you send one von Neumann machine and in a few years it has a planets worth of manufacturing to send you anything you want. Sure, shipping would be energy intensive, and you only get ~59% as much solar energy to work with. However, the equivalent of a 2 million meter x 2 million meter solar farm could produce a lot of energy.

Assuming space elevators, you could replace the vast majority of earth manufacturing. Though, with a long lag time before arrival.
Do local government solutions ever use long term thinking?
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This is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "neat".
Considering Google's friendly relationship with Jetbrains (Android Studio) I'm more likely to believe that they will just make Kotlin an official language.
I do full stack myself, from electronics design, part design, software, and qa. I have an associates degree for drafting/3d design along side a specialty in plastics. My hunch was that thermoplastics was going to take off after the expiration of the patent in '09. Lo and behold...

No, I would love a 3d printer that would only take seconds to make a part. However, with ABS, we're effectively limited to about a 200mm/s@.35mm is about the top end of printing. Obviously we can add in more hotends and other tricks, but the flow of ABS itself is the limiting factor.

And about the supports, I've usually approached them more from a metal casting way. Making a sprue network isn't difficult; the only weirdness is to design the 'infill' in the STL, rather than let the slicer handle it. Because usually, I want a 5% rectilinear infill for the sprues and something better (say, 30% honeycomb) for the part. Ideally, I'm working on a way to delineate areas that I want different infill on slic3r. That would be pretty spiffy.

Also, have you seen Antimony on the CAD front? http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/ Pretty neat idea, similar to the system in Blender.