skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I obviously can't prove any of this since I don't have inside evidence, but my theory (explained below) is supported by a few ideas reported by the news:

1. When ISIS moves into a city they appropriate everything of value. During their initial expansion they built up quite a war chest, but their expansion has stopped for now so they are not adding funds that way.
2. ISIS makes most of its money by taxing civilians. The oil bombings are targeting the small piece of pie, not the big piece.

Here's my theory: ISIS ran into a classic problem seen by several startup companies. They saw initial success and had fast growth. They wanted to keep growing so they recruited heavily. To recruit a lot of soldiers they promised generous pay and benefits and even offered to support the families of soldiers so dads could go fight. Their burn rate was astronomical, but was okay because they were staying ahead of it through growth. But the growth ended up being unsustainable, because competition arrived and contained them. They kept it up for a long time because they had a lot of funding, but their burn rate finally caught up to them since they haven't been able to keep growing as before. Leadership did not/have not made the transition from wild startup CEOs that give pitch talks and sell to investors into the sensible, sustainable CEOs that manage a company in a saturated market with an eye toward creating a mature company. Remaining in the mode of a wild growth startup company is not an option for these guys. There is no viable strategy for a terrorist group that says "we'll grow like crazy and then sell out to Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft while we are popular and they'll handle the maturity stages. Terrorists have to make the maturity transition themselves because they can't be bought out.
> I'm not even sure if it helps, though I did ensure that the two APs are operating on the two least-noisy channels.

It may help in noisy neighborhood, though your post sounds like you may not be aware that WiFi channels partially overlap. Which they do, see Wikipedia or something for details if unsure.
For some time I thought money might be a reason for people to join ISIS , that they might be paying shit load of money . But it seems they are not paying much , 400$ per month is basically nothing !
Pet peeve: accounts with < 10 karma and 1 submission to their name that complain about what is news and is not news.
Everyone makes mistakes, and this one's more common than one might think :)
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This is not a measure of gun stores, this is a measure of licensed dealers. Many, many dealers do not operate a "store", so the title is totally misleading.
I read the article with interest, waiting with anticipation for them to announce the resulting hardware and software had all been open sourced. And then...nothing.

I'm surprised, I thought in the UK these kinds of taxpayer-funded projects were required to be open source.

In any case, it's too bad. I was not familiar with the NICAM codec up to now, but I'm sure that software and hardware plans would have been very useful to some developing countries, many of whom apparently also use NICAM in their state-owned broadcast companies.
Great, just letting you know it is a fight you cannot win in real life.

I understand that people on HN (and those who support Net Neutrality) have good intentions, unfortunately what they are trying to do is step between two private entities (network providers and data providers) whose business dealings are just (as much as UPS's priority shipping to those who want to pay for it is just).

The fact is, people need to stop and think. Things aren't what they seem to be. The whole Net Neutrality movement has become an echo chamber (to which you contribute by down voting). All this does is piss people off in real life when they see that they are on a losing side of things.

Right now the market thinks that profit can be made by getting rid of Net Neutrality. Once it starts to think that current Internet infrastructure cannot get rid of NN(Say some sort of law is passed), then that means more profitable venture would be a new network which can avoid the regulatory restriction of net neutrality.
And yet we have existence proofs that Kanban works, in the sense that it allows many teams to quickly deliver value to customers. So what don't you like about it? We shouldn't reject innovations out of hand just because they happen to originate in manufacturing.
Agreed. Also, you should have mentioned in the story title that it was by someone at Y Combinator :) .

I did sign up, I hope it's not too USA-centric.
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Randomized ad unit class names?
Its by the same guy who donated to causes doing their best to make sure two people in love can't get married due to their gender. Sociopathy has many forms and its obvious to me that Eich is just an untrustworthy guy with a lot of bad ideas. Low-rent projects like these is just further evidence that you need a founder/leader you can trust. Its clear he's exhausted his social capital and at age 54 is far away from his innovative days. This seems like a low-class cash-in now that ad blocking has gone mainstream, like a world-class athlete now a spokesperson for payday loans or basic car insurance.

Replacing ads with your own is something we fought against ISPs doing, yet somehow when Eich does it, everyone is enamored with it? Come the fuck on. This was a bad idea in the past and its a bad idea now.
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California also has among the most aggressive anti-gun laws in the country. Actively & wantonly making it difficult to sell (and own) a product does tend to discourage businesses.
How would you like ambitious projects to be funded instead?
So I am wondering if "this time it's different" when it comes to market entrenchment because these 5 companies have so much cash that they buy any potential competitor before they get out of hatchling phase.

I mean when you look at the range of capabilities, like the article states, they pretty much have a finger if not a whole hand in what any analyst predicts as future technology: Augmented Reality, Self Driving cars, Radical Life extension, AI, Advanced Logistics etc...

It's hard to see a future when they are unseated.
Are you aware of any existing, serious effort to build such a thing?

I love the idea - and it strongly appeals to me as a developer - but what would make the average user switch to it?
I don't see any reason I would prefer this over the native iOS ad blocking (with an appropriate blacklist).
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The truth is that 7 billion people didn't notice.

Why didn't they use that title?

BTW, I agree with your edit. An R&D blog shouldn't be held to the same standard of journalistic excellence as a reputable news source, even if it's the BBC's blog.
Buzzkill or a realist? Personally I prefer when someone more knowledgeable on the topic corrects me about a statement I've made.

If the OP is making analogies that aren't comparable, I'd rather know than not so I can dig in with a healthy bit of skepticism.
It's in the first sentence of the article.
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In retrospect I shouldn't have used the phrase 'QoS', I now realize that QoS means something very specific. By my argument is for differential pricing. The service provided to higher priced content is prioritization of data.
It does make me wonder if the gun industry secretly/financially supports the democrats in elections.
Please fix the links to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. These should always be the first documents working on your startup's website.

And can anyone find this 'roadmap' that Eich talks about in the post?
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Former CEO of Mozilla is launching a web browser that blocks all ads by default
We tried the "paid to browse" thing 15-20 years ago. Didn't go so well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf
I'm sorry... Literally your entire posting history is negative without adding any value. Why is that?

I personally enjoy seeing people voice their mistakes in a honest way so the rest of us can learn.

Edit *your
> Also, they just landed Larry Ellison of Oracle as a featured speaker.

Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Lawnmower's can't speak. Lawnmowers just mow the lawn.
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Is this the relevant XKCD comic?

https://xkcd.com/927/
Next step: IPO.
Because the other browsers don't include ad-blockers by default. You can get them as addons, but they're not included by default.

I'm sure for many people this makes a difference. Is that enough to switch? Ehhh...
I wonder how much they paid for the domain name.
I suspect it's the pricing model. Reportedly, the charge is "30% of your ad revenue". There's also no concrete definition of why some sites are whitelisted for free, and others have to pay.
Didn't know about Dokku, thanks!

Worth mentioning that there are many more solutions now than there were a year ago, when i was facing this challenge.
Not OP, I live in a different city, YMMV, etc

I hate taking taxis. Their CC machine is always "broken", they always try to take me in some funky route, cabs are always dirty, and there's no way for me to give feedback on crappy drivers. I don't know if the taxis at LGA have these same problems, but I'd rather wait 10 minutes for an Uber than get an immediate taxi
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For you. But even in some countries in Europe that's a normal monthly salary.
I might be speaking to a sparse audience here, but I don't come from a CS curriculum. I'm a violinist and a music theorist who happens to have learned enough to make a better living by writing code.

I don't know what gets taught in CS degree plans. But I will say that if I can learn how to model, query, and display data, then pretty much anyone can. Especially those with the benefit of a CS degree.

I don't use an ORM beyond certain limited functions. I use SQLAlchemy for a lightweight connection to the database and for migrations with Alembic. (apologies and accolades to zzzeek)

Beyond that I have a wrapper around database stored procedures that objectifies results from the proc. I wrote it once. It has worked really well many times.

It's not quite as easy as doing everything in your code. You have to support and maintain your SQL in addition to your web app code. But it is blazingly fast to do things this way, and in addition, you are going to have to do it this way eventually.

You must implement business rules in the database, or you will suffer at some point.

I disagree with you that Mongo will ever be sufficient, even if the Mongo team does manage the data loss problem (which, in my understanding, is that it's a feature--not a bug). I don't know of a method in the Mongo system that allows you to enforce business rules the way that SQL Server or PostgreSQL or Oracle does.

But I would happily be enlightened. This could be a case where I just don't know enough.
This could be viewed as a good thing, as guns sold via a gun store (Or just a licensed dealer) include a background check, unlike private party sales.

I'm by no means opposed to private party gun sales, and my own anecdotal private gun buying experience has been that sellers are taking more steps to ensure they're selling to legitimate parties, i.e. only to CCW holders, or requiring an in-state drivers license, etc.
Dude, ISIL is tiny. They only have about 40k fighters, of which the vast majority are Iraqi and Syrian. The majority of other supporters are either Arabic or Turkish speaking, and usually with Arabic as a second language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...

Language is not the problem. They coordinate in Arabic, and usually if there is a Turkish or non-Arabic cell, they usually have a single Arabic speaker.

Their primary problem that ISIL has is that they lack professionals (accountants, engineers, computer scientists).
Where do you see negativity? How is his comment adding any value? "We chose a stack we didn't fully understand after trying it for less than a week and it turns out we didn't know everything about it!"

Also it's "your", not "you're."
If you look at any massive company, in the history of business, they all grew and gained market dominance via acquisition.
It's interesting you classified it as click bait. Too many attempts to raise interest quickly, in a large number of people with low quality content, results in a small segment of those people "hitting" on the fact it's raising interest quickly and should be flagged. In your case, you "unflagged" it because we started talking about it, which implies some of us shouldn't (or won't) filter long term.
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It does, therefore:

- CPU usage is much higher than something using WKWebView

- OS Back/Forward shortcuts don't work

- No context menus

- CMD+Click opens in your regular browser

Which makes it a no-go for me, but YMMV.
Yes, you are also paying/being graded on the work. That's a whole lot of direct incentive that isn't present for a project like this.
The percentage of sociopathy does not match the percentage of homophobes opposed to marriage equality, a number which has changed a lot in living memory.
They've gone wrong that way for Python. I don't have enough experience with Mathematica to know how their history has gone.
It's definitely a common mistake. It is not a mistake I would tolerate with a CTO or someone leading a project.
Not according to: https://i.imgur.com/T2TqB9s.jpg

Although that excludes the data point for 2016 where there will be zero winners.
It is possible to wear the consumer version with glasses, or would you need contacts if you have vision problems?
I wonder what happens when you combiner AMP pages and something like uBlock Origin? Do you get fast page loads AND minimal tracking?
Perhaps they could grow to the point where they can make an alliance with the US (we would do it for strategic reasons, like in the case of Saudi Arabia). There would be a re-branding into the "Free Syrian Republic" or some such, and the buy out would be complete. Assad out of power, oil controlled by the US. It's what we wanted back when we gave ISIS (then known as the "Free Syrian Army") their initial startup capital and weaponry.
India uses something similar – IMPS. http://www.npci.org.in/aboutimps.aspx
Artificial intelligence can tell you if your startup idea is promising enough
Bad ideas like Javascript and Mozilla.
Hilary's talk on reproducibility[1] was very inspirational, thanks!

[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3n-5atLxM)
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Interesting. Are you saying it should moderate the process between business and the BI team and the automatically create the necessary reports to give business people access to the relevant data?
I used to run my customized build of OpenWRT on an old, passively-cooled Pentium II box. It ran completely from ramdisk and had all configuration baked into this ramdisk image so that the noisy HDD could be powered down immediately after bootup. This was before the era of cheap small SSDs.

The official builds support installation on disk partition just like any other Linux distribution.
according to documents leaked from inside ISIS territory.

No proof of these leaked docs.
I immediately close any site that hijacks my scrolling. Thanks for the warning, will not visit that site.
"We" didn't care. A few influential people did.

"We" don't need so many phones and tablets, replaced every year. Our parents got by without.
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Is the base for the Android version.

It sounds like the whole idea is to add bitcoin micropayments to the web and stop (via blockers) sites from using heavy intrusive ads.
That used to be the case, but now a "brick and mortar storefront" is a de-facto requirement, the Clinton Administration having aggressively ended "kitchen table gun dealers" and reduced the total number of dealers by some 75% nationally. The only practical exceptions are "gun show vendors".

ETA: other dealers do exist, yes, but nowhere close to the numbers of some years ago, and not to the point of making "the title totally misleading".
Paying to browse, a terrible idea that has been tried before.

Alladvantage.com raised about 200m on that idea. The wikipedia page isn't correct, they had a pyramid based payout system. Fraudulent users would create enormous numbers of fake users under them and simulate all of their browsing.
I used to think the BBC news was definitive 5-10 years ago. I'm not sure what has changed? Have the recent governments and their pressure on the license fee really made the difference or is it just my perception?

When I was young the BBC was always seen as pretty left wing (it certainly wasn't at it's inception though) it seems pretty conservative (and sensationalist) right now.
A day's worth of labour means a $2 pay in some third world countries. That's $60 a month, assuming you work everyday. Working for ISIS is a 6x raise, though admittedly with much higher risk.
The banks still have to process millions of payments between them.

But they also have to process the BoE payments - which is an added overhead.

The only real benefit is confidence, because the BoE effectively acts as escrow for all parties. So no one has to worry that settlement won't happen.

From the user's POV, it's not a bad system. It's vastly better than the situation ten years ago, when you literally had to wait a week for a cheque to clear - because the receiver had to validate it, and then post it back by snail mail to the originator.

However, some transactions still use that system. I recently closed a savings account and could only transfer the money by physically taking a cheque from one bank to another, and waiting a week.

Basic transaction processing should really be part of the national (international?) infrastructure. It would be hugely beneficial to all kinds of businesses to have a simple, secure publicly available service for moving money around, at all scales from microtransactions to many millions - ideally linked to a free no-credit-offered cash account for everyone.
Times have changed since then and it definitely would not be the first time that something that fell flat out of the gate the first time became a success the second time around. Lots of current successes are actually just warmed over past failures.

That's not proof in any way that this might succeed now but there is something to be said or giving that a shot with the number of eyeballs available today (and the harder to advertise to markets that have been unlocked by the web but where ad agencies are not yet capable of selling inventory).

If you could centralize that through the browser it would be a fairly powerful strategy if adoption would be large enough (that's the crux), which is why I wondered if it was on their roadmap.
You mean to say the lock in of a dictatorial military state is slightly more problematic than the lock in of downloading a different piece of software?
...it sounds like the endless argument of "stop using jQuery and go with raw Javascript instead".

I respectfully disagree.

Using jQuery is helpful because it makes things work reliably where raw JS sometimes runs into browser quirks, and because it makes the code for various common functionality cleaner and more concise.

The trouble with tools like Gulp in the current ecosystem is that while they were supposed to do something similar, in practice they often seem to have the opposite effect: they introduce quirks and instability even when the tools they are running work just fine, and they make things that should be simple one-liners take a bunch of boilerplate and actual thought to set up.

This argument of dropping Grunt/Gulp seems the same to me. "Don't use a pre-coded builder or task runner, just build it yourself".

But here your default assumption seems to be that this kind of tool is necessary, and that not using one is the active change.

Why do I need a task runner to automate running something like

browserify src/main.js -o dest/main.js

or

eslint --parser babel-eslint --plugin react src

at all? I used these exact examples a while back to argue for dropping Gulp from a project I work on, and at that point the Browserify logic in the Gulp file ran to nearly a dozen lines of boilerplate, which had been substantially changed at least twice since the start of the project, while the ESLint task had stopped working, for reasons that we never determined but which certainly didn't involve ESLint itself not working.
but ultimately people on the web prefer not to be tracked.

It's curious because most people on the web pay lip service to this preference but their actions typically indicate that they don't really care all that much. The folks on Hacker News are in the minority of users whose actions indicate they truly care.
> requiring an in-state drivers license

Such rigorous checks, how does anyone acquire a firearm in this country!
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So everything seems to go back to money in accounts at the bank of England. Where does that "money" come from? How are there non-zero balances there? What stops someone at BoE from just changing a balance?

I guess changing an account balance without a corresponding transaction would make automated checks (accounting verification) fail. But then we get back to the question of how any money got in the system in the first place.
So, Microsoft has forgotten the concept of technical debt? That's hilarious. Also sad. Wasn't it Joel Spolsky (a former Microsoft employee) who actually coined the term "technical debt"?
Have you seen git of desktop version? It seems it's completely written in JavaScript: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop

Could such thing be secure?
This is great advice and made me realize my biggest issue is mindfulness. I just want to dive in to the code right away, but I should be taking the time to be intentional about my goals and organization.

I'm going to use git and my school's enterprise github for this since it'll make it easy for me to share with my lab mates. Thanks for your thoughtful response.
> With Brave, you can choose whether to see ads that respect your privacy or pay sites directly. Either way, you can feel good about helping fund content creators.

How do they plan on doing that? Not like it hasn't been tried before. The problem is you can't collect money on someone's behalf without them opting in, and if it is opt-in only you get the chicken and the egg problem for adoption.
Peak Silicon Valley hubris
anyone else notice the market plunge 10% in just the two weeks following that Paul Graham wealth inequality article? I think we've reached peak Silicon Valley hubris. An economy of sharing and gigs is not a real economy.
According to this (http://ig.ft.com/sites/2015/isis-oil/) Financial Times article, oil is ISIS' single greatest source of revenue. It is supposed to bring in 1.1 million dollars a day.

A funny thing about the oil transports is that until not so long ago they were sort of a public secret. Because it was Turkey, USA's NATO ally, where most of those transports were going to, but Turkey was of course denying that.
It seems to be working well for Wow, which is effectively the same but for phone calls:

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/wowapp-sets-sail-for-voip-a...
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