skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy is extremely strong. Why shouldn't I be allowed to vandalize a billboard, please? It's just some paper on some scaffolding. It's a social construct that I can't vandalize it.

Now when we get down to the technical level with HTTP, yes, you can make requests and the server can answer them. The basic idea of ad-blocking must be OK, I think. I mean you can't force someone to ask for images from an ad server. running a hosts file and so forth must be fine, in my opinion.

But that's not what we're discusisng now. We are now talking about tampering with a server's software that it's trying to use to see if you block ads, in order to trick the server into serving you contents that, based on the fact that you are running an ad-blocker, the server has chosen not to serve you. I really do think this is too much.
Seriously? I just added the people important enough to congratulate outside of facebook to google calendar with a yearly returning reminder (oh, and birth year, not unimportant)
This is the opposite of what he wants as it furthers the effect of the tracking by centralising it to a single omnipotent vendor (as ads by Google currently are)
My first startup's CEO practiced "The Game" and used to bring the dev team out in SF to practice peacocking, negging and other ridiculous seduction techniques on unsuspecting women. I'm in an ltr and dreaded having to go, but didn't want to be left out so I would tag along. It was horrible.
This sounds like it'd run counter to the requirements of sellers to provide clear pictures of the products they're selling, and gives an opportunity for scammers to weasel around them by referring to this ridiculous law. What's next, illegal to describe something you own without license?
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Designing an organization? what language do you use?
Also, this from wsj ... similar footage but more modern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_8ucS3lMY
> vandalize

What a huge sense of self-entitlement. Your rights as a publisher do not extend to my computer and what I do with the data after you send it to me. You may request that I run some software with a <script> tag, or request that I download an image with an <img> tag, but if you want to guarantee any of those things you better get me to agree to a contract first.

It isn't vandalism when someone modifies something you gave them. Vandalism is a criminal charge - are you also going to claim I'm a criminal if I use some scissors to cut ads out of a magazine after receiving it in the mail?

> illegal

What law, exactly, are you claiming is being violated?

A script that detects if I don't download an ad is not DRM, and a TOS posted somewhere on the website is absolutely not a contract.
> tracking is done much more efficiently by very common utilities, like by Google Analytics, or the Facebook Like, Twitter's Tweet, or Google's +1 buttons

That's why Ghostery is blocking those for me.
I mean.....it already sort of happens in the US. Every single TV show censors out any brand names, car logos, restaurant names out of fear of I don't know what. Being sued I guess? It's ridiculous.
Not sure why this has been downvoted. It is entirely correct to point out that counting the number of leading zeros is not the same as a less-than comparison.

The less-than comparison is more fine-grained, while counting the number of leading zeros is just a nice approximation that is used for laymen explainations.

For example, if your threshold is 00001011, you will accept "00001010" but not "00001100", despite both having the same number of (four) leading zeros.
Same. Love the idea, but tried a few obviously positive/negative people and got "completely neutral" for all.
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Does the original have the same issues?
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You make lots of atrocious complicated code to browse the writing board. Seriously Tai, since the broken callstack makes the reading of the information happen but 1ms once the paste, you'll be able to simply browse it once the actual fact, set the worth to zilch, edit the worth and re-set it your self. I am working in http://buddycab.in and enjoyed lot
Thanks! I had a similar extension that used the tab.bz API called Tab Condensor. It only had around 1000 users so I took it down to focus on the main product.
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There's a subtle but critical mistake in the very first paragraph of that blog post. It doesn't create profitable opportunities for entrepreneurs to help consumers avoid being phished for phools, it creates profitable opportunities for entrepreneurs who can convince consumers that they're helping them avoid being phished for phools. This is an important distinction because consumers suffer from the same information asymmetries when deciding who to trust as they do when deciding what to buy.
Sure, but the PoW mechanism is more fine grained, and I think it is important to point that out. Otherwise, people might indeed think that the difficulty will always be a power of 2, which would mean that adjusting it would have been harder (and more inaccurate) than it really is.
How is iAd different from say, Facebook or Google, except for the vast amount of data collected across sites, platforms and services by these companies? Don't Facebook and Google also match the user profiles that they create/manage with their ad inventory and display targeted ads? They're not really selling your personally identifiable information to advertisers, but instead provide only aggregate data about the reach. The advertisers have to trust Facebook or Google too for the matching.

[I'm talking purely about what these companies do, and not about malicious sites and other ad networks or about how safe the personal profile information really is.]
And even then UK fair dealing is much more restrictive than US fair use.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728575
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As far as I'm concerned advertisers had their chance but they totally abused their chance turning the internet into an ad-laden hellhole and now I just block everything I possible can. If a site decides it doesn't like this then it's literally no use to me.

They had their chance, they abused it beyond all possible tolerance. I hate advertising on the internet now so much that if anything does manage to get past my blocks I make a conscious attempt to avoid buying anything from the scumbag organisation that thinks forcing their crap on my is anyway acceptable.
And Google using Toyota instead of an American car... It's almost as if mega corporations didn't care about this kind of stuff.
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The Act that that includes these changes also includes provisions to allow compulsory licensing of "orphaned" copyright works: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/24/section/77/enact...
It could be used in Project Adam: https://youtu.be/zOPIvC0MlA4
It could be used in Project Adam: https://youtube.com/zOPIvC0MlA4
I think what you're saying makes some amount of sense, but I still feel there's a lot of handwaving and hidden assumptions around the way such a system gets bootstrapped.

If you have links to more detailed ressources on that topic, I'd be interested in reading them.
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Right, and I'm saying that a huge amount of users wouldn't pass that initial barrier of training before dropping it.

This may be the case. But these people (myself included!) are getting older by the day, and will eventually die or move into management roles. The students in the audience of the talk may well end up working at Facebook using AST editors, and in 10 years that will simply be the new normal.
This claim confuses me. It's eager, not lazy. And judging from the video presentation, where an incorrect[1] binary search results in a stack overflow, it doesn't have proper tail calls either. This doesn't suggest to me that it derives from Haskell at all.

[1]: The lower bound wasn't updated correctly which should made it loop indefinitely.
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The value is in the gift suggestions.
While I agree that there should most definitely be general research in the area, and it is of course something worth exploring, what I don't agree with is the hype that is being built around this. Hollywood has played its part of course, but people who should really know better seem to be under the impression that as soon as we achieve AGI (which is a big /if/), we're doomed immediately. They ignore that all this is still academic and while industry practices follow sooner than is usual these days, it's not like one day a scientist creates AI and the next day, Skynet launches Nuclear Missiles.

So is it worth exploring? Sure. But I'm not going to be concerned about something for which there is zero evidence to support it.

There are no reasons to solve problems before there is foolproof evidence that they are indeed problems.
I was more interested without any add-ons.
Pretty good read, provides all the context needed and raises some important points about benchmarks. Thanks for sharing.
I'm trying to understand what problem this law is trying to solve. Without this law, would it be legal for me to buy a Damien Hirst painting, photograph it and sell the photographs? Or is it that I could run an unofficial information website (say, on Apple laptops) on which I list detailed photos, and the brand owners want to limit that?
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Looks really interesting, google trend shows `gift` query used a lot more than `uber`, `javascript` queries (just for comparison)

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=birthday%2C%20gift%2...
http://www.freecodecamp.com/ and http://www.theodinproject.com/ go from zero to employable. The first it's JavaScript and the second ruby
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> The analogy is extremely strong.

The analogy is either a serious misunderstanding of how the internet and web browsers work, or is a deliberate attempt to confuse these concepts.

> Why shouldn't I be allowed to vandalize a billboard

Because it's not your property. If you order a billboard and have it shipped to your house, you can do what you want to it.

> tampering with a server's software

What are you smoking? Do you not understand that a userscript runs on the client? The server isn't involved at all after it sends the HTML and JS files.

What makes you think you have a right to run software on my computer? You don't - I'll run whatever software I want on my computer. It's your business if you want to send me a page, of course. Just like it's my decision if I want to run some program.
OK, I wrote that comment and I'm not a Ghostery user, so I don't know what it does by default. I'm not a Ghostery user because I do not trust it. Don't know the latest state of affairs, but the company developing Ghostery seemed fishy. I can trust either projects developed by non-profits committed to my interests, such as EFF or Mozilla, or projects developed by enthusiasts on GitHub.

Depending on the device, I am using Privacy Badger from EFF, Mozilla's Focus for iOS, or uBlock with the EasyPrivacy list. Was using AdBlock Plus in Firefox for Android, but it lacks the option to subscribe to third-party filter lists, an almost 2 year old ticket that still hasn't been fixed.
Interesting :)

How about VC / Angel / funding scene? Is it pretty vibrant there?

PS. The only downside to your offer is the weather, I like my weather 20-30*C :) I've been to Auckland and Wellington before and I struggle with the cold even during summer.
Works even in IE on windowsphone. This stuff is even more compatible than most WebGL demos out there.
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In the case of paintings it is already illegal, this law just extends that to all other objects (well it only mentions designer chairs, but obviously it must apply to kids toys and anything else, they will claim they are artistic).

The government has just recently confirmed that digital reproductions to not create new copyright, so you already need to pay Damien to sell pictures of your Hirst.
Hey, no I'm not famous in any way - just a lowly undergrad looking to get some views and feedback on my blog posts (I only recently started).

Your points are definitely fair, and I agree that the post could be better thought out and structured to give a more coherent argument. Thanks for the feedback.
No, we're discussing software a user chooses to run on their web client. You can request that they run your software, but you do not have a right to force them to run anything without a contract.

If you decided to rely on such an unreliable platform for an important business decision, that's your problem.

edit:

If you want to actually enforce a transaction where content is delivered only if the ads are included, that's what contracts are for. Use them. This was a solved problem several hundred years ago.

This idea that you get to make up contract-like requirements without actually negotiating and agreeing to them is nonsense.
actual bookmarks are probably better.
Politics got in the way.

Plus, Labor should have done a better job communicating the value of (FTTH) NBN. The average people in Australia think NBN is just to watch YouTube in HD.
It might be, but the website does nothing to sell it to us, demonstrate its benefits etc. If this little care is put into the website, first impression says the interest in welcoming people into the community isn't there.
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There are plenty of applications for it outside of gaming. For example: a company I know of is using it to demo planned building improvements (or entirely new structures) to clients and investors. Being able to see and move through a virtual environment can really help sell an idea.
Ha, I read "Javascript" at first. I guess my brain has a pretty strong pattern for "New web framework for X" at this point
But... Sometimes you do.

Can you imagine how stupid it would feel if you had to abandon all your std::vector-using code the moment you need to deal with an array bigger than 2 billion elements?
but similarly you don't have the right to force them to serve you ad-free content.

If the offer is "this content, plus ads", and you don't want ads, your option is to say "I'll get the content somewhere else", or say "I'll get this content, but I don't want the ads". If they then say "no, sorry, we really mean it about the ads" why would you want to continue to get the content from them? They've shown that they don't care about you.
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Thanks. FWIW, "static" has a specific meaning in C# that doesn't refer to compile-time vs run-time. Similarly "dynamic".

Neither "static metaprogramming" nor "dynamic metaprogramming" give many relevant results on google, so perhaps other terms are more commonly used?

As I said in the other reply, it seems intriguing that some features of C#, e.g. extension methods, yield return, async .. await are essentially rewrite rules. Ways to get at the compiler features that add them to the C# language would be interesting, but the concept seems to be made much harder by the complex curly-brace syntax not being designed for that; it's rather the opposite of lisp.
I dunno, that seems like a pretty small nit to me. But I suppose reasonable people could disagree.
I wouldn't lie, but I would exaggerate my skills. I know plenty of very talented people who don't know how to sell themselves. The quicker you learn how to balance selling yourself without being unethical, the better your career will me.
I wouldn't lie, but I would exaggerate my skills. I know plenty of very talented people who don't know how to sell themselves. The quicker you learn how to balance selling yourself without being unethical, the better your career will be.
"Do you want servers to figure out that you're blocking ads at the network level,"

I don't want anything. The server has content, I GET content.

Scenario I: I don't block any content;

Scenario II: Same as Scenario I, but I don't click ads;

Scenario III: Same as Scenario II, but I don't look at the ads;

Scenario IV: Same as Scenario III, but an opaque overlay is placed above the ads;

Scenario V: Same as Scenario IV, but the ad content is furthermore moved outside of the viewport;

...
My scenario: I don't GET ad content. Or any content I decide not to GET.

"they have a lot more right to do it, if it's in their TOS" I am in a cybercafe in Matakana. What is this TOS you speak of?

The internet is an open medium. You want to trade our (edit: both mine and the server's) bandwidth (ads I would GET, but not pay attention to) for your content? Fine. I'll pipe it to /dev/null. Or save us both the effort, and not GET it at all.
it's quite bad from whatever angle you decide to look on it.
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In a sudden outbreak of common sense, Warner lost their claim to owning the copyright of the Happy Birthday song a few months ago.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-s...
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Why not modern side scrollers too? I guess broforce would be great on this. They should contact the developers and have them support a custom version with 8 rotating players and possibly true support for the trailing screen.
Is this some contrived plot to repel people from taking UK citizenship?
I had just joined Amazon at 21 and felt the same anxiety. I was with another new hire in the kitchen when our principal engineer came in. We both asked him for some advice, as newly minted engineers, on what we could do to become most effective. His reply, "Go find a woman, get married and build something that matters- a family. You have 30 more years to get better at software engineering, you'll be fine."
Nice, hadn't heard of Donner before.

I've got a bunch of chinese pedals (by Mooer, Joyo, Moen) based on Boss etc classic pedals of yesteryear - they have been solid performers so far.

Wish the Chinese brands got into repro analog synths next :)
Dear someone who has never paid money for anything, you would be surprised that in some cases the performance boost you get ends up compensating (mine with IntelliJ did)
So if I posted a picture on Facebook of my son playing with a Fisher Price telephone, then Fisher Price could contact me and order me to take it down? I'm assuming they couldn't sue for 'loss of earnings'? And if I run an unofficial Apple blog on which I do teardowns of Apple equipment then they could order me to remove any photos?
I do not think this can pass. I think it would be incompatible with EU law, which has higher priority than local country law.
The UK is bringing some copyright law in line with the EU, eg they just ruled that reproductions of out of copyright pictures do not create a new copyright, unlike what some museums like to tell you. This might be related, certainly design is more protected in eg France than in the UK, not sure though.
Agreed. I really don't understand people who are against this sort of research. A light switch will still work as a light switch does now if you don't program it. There's another layer of complexity in the product design to go wrong, and add cost, but so long as when things break they still work in "dumb" mode and the cost added is minimal then a smart switch that you can program is a win for those people who want it and has practically no effect on those who don't.

Being anti-IoT seems like sour grapes; thinking "I don't want this in my life so no one should have it" is completely irrational.
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The world has varied people, so I wouldn't discount the possibility that you've met people who are more creative and productive during their manic episodes.
Just goes to show his honesty :-)
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Which bit of EU law? I figure if I can understand this in more detail, then I could write to my MP.

EDIT:
Seems this is actually to align EU and UK law:

> The repeal of s. 52 was brought in by statute - by section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. The rationale for the repeal was that UK law was incompatible with the EU following the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision in Flos v Semeraro (Case C-168/09). The purpose of the repeal was to align the period of copyright protection across all artistic works and to eradicate inconsistencies between the term of protection afforded by copyright in different Member States.

http://www.wragge-law.com/insights/commencement-of-repeal-of...
I've worked on a coin, and this kind of inexactitude are what make it really hard to understand how the implementation works (that, and the fact that the code was hell at the beginning). If the code uses a "less-than" operator, just tell it. It makes no sense to use a different terminology (in this particular case, the "number of leading zero" concept was probably used to make it easier to understand for business guys - it doesn't work quite well).
Smalltalk, Objective-C and Swift (from the languages I know) have a syntax similar to that. Only it doesn't need parenthesis, so it's more like:

[hit: ball with: bat]

The method is called 'hit:with:'.

Thought they don't go overboard with the "like english" thing, they mostly use the extra keys for disambiguating arguments. E.g.:

[fileWrapper writeToFile: path atomically: YES updateFilenames: YES];
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An excellent piece. The only problem is that it is now 2015, and everybody's moving to Websocket-based backends. Without WS support, new web frameworks are quite doomed.
That is exactly how it works now - users drag to select a sequence of contiguous characters. I haven't tried learning Chinese myself so I don't have a good handle on how pleasant this is to use.
How is this different from not being allowed to photograph the Eiffel tower at night, or having to abide by the terms of games, music or films you have purchased?
I might have down voted you by accident. Was trying to up vote you, little arrows/big thumbs/mobile. Sorry.
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That's probably true, but many of the people I read criticizing capitalism don't actually seem to be proposing abolishing all personal property and all privately owned businesses. In fact I've been downvoted in the past for challenging critics of capitalism and characterizing them in that way as using a straw man argument.

But if capitalism isn't private property and business ownership, what is it? That's certainly what Marxists* mean by it. If anti-capitalism isn't about abolishing those things, what do it's proponents advocate? A political or economic agenda characterised purely in terms of being anti-something with no proposed alternative is just nihilism. What are anti-capitalists for? What do they propose? What is their actual agenda? I've yet to see that coherently laid out. I can understand anti-corporatism for example because that still allows for alternatives. But other than actual honest to goodness communism, what is the alternative to capitalism that it's critics want to replace it with? Some pointers on that would be greatly appreciated.

*Of course it would help if Marx had actually given an account of how he thought a communist economy would function. Other than vague pronouncements that production would be regulated by 'society' and that individuals would have complete freedom as to what pursuits they engaged in from day to day, he never to my knowledge actually gave an account of how it would function either. But at least he gave a very clear and specific account of what he was against.
Were you responding to anything in particular in my comment or is this just something you wanted to get off your chest?